Piqued Podcast

ACLiens are maybe moshing in poo, the world continues to broil over a china town fish market dumpster in summer-hey-while we are on fish markets, remember when Dorothy Wang schooled us all on getting sushi on Sundays? Well she’s back with a new fly on the wall show and her ex-bestie Morgan Stewart is back in the mix with a new podcast and an old tendency to alpha dog her day one besties. Bethanny...

It is the mother of all balancing acts trying to retain your discernment about deceptive, narrative hijacking, attention seeking, and performative individuals and still respecting people’s hidden(or if not hidden, maybe just less visible for whatever reason)struggles. I certainly don’t want to slide down a slippery slope of victim blaming or invalidating stranger’s narratives/identities or persona...

Ed Sheeran may want to stay A-political, but I’m finding it hard not to get in the Frey a bit this week. There seem to be conspiracies and collusions everywhere. It is becoming more important to me that people make it clear and be ten toes on where they stand these days than what those stances even are. It’s just such a shady shrouded web of power, money, influence and obfuscation that you really...

I’m halfway to a hundred episodes,I’m halfway through life(probably)I’m halfway to a coronary from the heat in ATX, so it’s open season right now. It’s a free for all. We are talking Israel/Palestine and the whole Ed Sheeran/Maklemore/Pink debacle,We are talking about Sydney Sweeny’s risqué Ad and her…Assets, we are talking about Aaron Rodger’s weird interview, just to name a few things.    But no...

Pop the Veuve because I’ve done it y’all,I’ve made it to 50 Episodes, that is 50.Weeks. Of Piqued!! It can be hard to stay consistent plugging away in obscurity as I do, but I’m committed to the growth and  the creative outlet this venture provides me with. On this 50th week of my passion project I’m in a peaceful if slightly sleepy era-is this my re-brand on my flop era…maybe, but anyway it does...

(Producer/husband)Charlie is finally back in studio for a chat this week, so obviously I squeezed every drop of his insight and perspective out of him that I could. We got in deep this week talking about the ‘Pay to Play’ structure of getting your creative output to your audience. What we mean by that is that the means to ‘distribute’ anything these days involves a whole second vocation of social...

I may not be having a belated brat summer but I definitely spent this summer taking in some Brat coded Audio books. I somehow managed to listen to every memoir by a messy Manhatttanite with a pill addiction that was ever written and narrated. I can honestly recommend it. Whipping through Arkansas listening to Julia Fox lisp and vocal fry through her unhinged adventures,Doing my dishes while listen...

Charlie is back and we are characteristically in sync. We are both control freaks having an epiphany that all this focus on control is doing little more than filling our consciousness with unusable energy. It has no nutritional value and our frequency is getting backed up. It’s time to unclench. Let’s make room for information, experience, opportunities and clarity. We are realizing that what we h...

While I’m rolling hot on clocking archetypes, this week I’m coining a whole new term:Hater Psychosis. As the internet and social media continues to evolves does people’s reactions to criticism on and off line. There seem to be a lot of regular infamous people who rant and rave daily (often on Facebook lol)about their enemies and nay sayers. People who(IRL no less)seem utterly obsessed with the ide...

It doesn't always read 'lovely' to say it but let's be honest there are some people we observe(be that in media or in our lives)who seem to be perpetually in crisis and we just find ourselves side-eying them at some point thinking about what the common denominator is in all this chaos. How ever victim blamey and unfair that may be,I'm convinced we've all had a gut feeling,...

I’m back from my little summer sabbatical and fresh off a roadtrip, on which me and producer/husband Charlie and road dog(literally-he’s a dog)Sly were a perfect team who kept it upbeat and zen even when faced with Pittsburg(I said what I said). Anyway, I’m refreshed and ready to yap about all the things that came across my desk while I was away.  Listening to podcasts and interviews on my long dr...

Charlie is back and we are characteristically in sync. We are both control freaks having an epiphany that all this focus on control is doing little more than filling our consciousness with unusable energy. It has no nutritional value and our frequency is getting backed up. It’s time to unclench. Let’s make room for information, experience, opportunities and clarity. We are realizing that what we h...

While watching ‘Couples therapy’ Dr. Orna’s prompt to a couple on opposite ends of the political spectrum was to ‘Take politics out of it and try to state what is important to you. While this technically led to the husband saying the wife had ’Trump derangement syndrome”(new term un-locked for me)it did give me an ‘aha’ moment. We all have a political hysteria, fatigue and raw nerve when it comes...

 I have had my eyes on three men whose names begin with R for a while now(oddly two out of three are named Russell)and recently ProducerHusbandCharlie linked me to an article about Rick Rubin’s(my number one para-social nemesis)fairly new podcast and the unsavory characters he has chosen as his first guests. Woody Allen alone should raise enough red flags in this day and age.     Anyone who knows...

I don’t know about you folks but I have a throbbing hangover from Summer House and Scamanda and-You know-the state of the globe. Fifa couldn’t have timed our country’s redemption arc any better quite frankly. As a U.S. citizen and resident you may think I’m celebrating the rest of the world getting a better perspective on our often controversial country, but as a matter of fact it is acting as a m...

It has been a fun ride and a welcome outlet for my pettier side to indulge in not one, but two episodes centered around a reality show drama. II’m making a characteristically Steep pivot this week in to more serious matters. The small matter of a certain sector of societies direct and concerted assault on joy. I know it sounds dramatic, but let us explain how a slew of videos of CEO’s trying to sh...

I am on a prediction losing streak-but it’s a win for all of us bravo viewers. Summer House reunion P.2 actually delivered. I thought we cashed it in the first part but it turns out we had more juice. I think the first part really solidified Amanda’s mindset. It showed us that she was seated firmly in her victimhood if not on the reunion stage. The second part really is the peeling of the pungent...

Put your mind on airplane mode with me this week and let’s indulge a bit of brainless salacious gossip. Summer House reunion Part.1 dropped last week so here’s my commentary ahead of the next part. I get in to my general feelings about the cast over time, my expectations going in to the reunion, my reactions and impressions of this reunion, and  my projections about the next parts. I’m of the mind...

This week my social media was unexpectedly flooded with Clavicular(infamous Looksmaxxer)interview clips, and let’s just say it was fascinating if a little disturbing. I did find myself wanting to figure out how he came to his methods and his general outlook on attractiveness and external appeal. As is our tendency on Piqued, we ended up turning those questions inwards  and zooming them way out as...

The Roast of Kevin Hart came out and it brought up some loaded dynamics in comedy, media, and society in general. My decision not to watch it after seeing some alternately funny and then really distasteful clips, culminated in me really coming to grips with how much of a stranglehold the bid to appear ‘unbothered’ has on our culture. I am realizing that some deeply uncharismatic, anti-social chara...

There is a whole lot of talk about female gold diggers, star fu**ers, clout chasers and so ons, I figured I’d balance the dialogue and explore some men in the zeitgeist who I think have some grifter, coattail rider, clout-chaser-well just THIRSTY-energy. It’s not always about financial gain or who has the most star power. People are thirsty myriad things. Some latch on to someone for identity, oth...

Watching Hulu doc “The Cult of NatureBoy” sent me and Charlie in to veritable orbit and it sparked an interest in what causes some people to view certain people as magnetic and charismatic when to us they seem unhinged or just plain creepy. We have watched many a cult documentary in our time and I’m always struck by how unsavory or inept some of these cult leaders seem. How do they amass a followi...

n his Episode I am running down some epic flip floppers in culture. This was spurned by the veritable onslaught of prominent Trump apologists turning coat lately, but in pure piqued fashion, my skittish swarthy brain wanders over to the epic change-up of the front line warriors of body positivity in the skinny shot era. It is not long before I’m in influencer territory talking about the MJ Gray’s...

This week I discuss my take-aways from watching Lamar Odem’s Documentary(Untold:The life and Death of Lamar Odem,Netflix)and reflect on the period in my late teens and early 20s when young Hollywood(Lindsay Lohan, Nicole Richie,Amanda Bynes etc), was racking up mugshots and showing early signs of active addiction, publicly at that. It’s an eery feeling looking at some of these older prominent figu...

I have husband/producer Charlie on this week, and seeing as we just celebrated our 15 year anniversary (on April fools day no less), I thought we should reflect on what has made our relationship successful. We give a run-down of our dating histories before this coupling, to give a clearer picture of where we were in our lives mentally and emotionally when we met. We discuss communication, compatib...