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The Golden Globes made podcast history by introducing their first-ever award for Best Podcast !!! And it turns out this moment matters way more than it seems. In this episode of [indistinct chatter] , Aliza breaks down why podcasts being recognized by the Golden Globes is a huge cultural shit. Not just for podcasters, but for how we experience media, taste, and attention in an algorithm-driven wor...

Happy New Year, and welcome to 2026! In this episode of [indistinct chatter] , Aliza kicks off the new year by talking about predicted trends for 2026 ... not resolutions, not goals, just the patterns that seem to be emerging as we all collectively ask: is this actually serving us? From AI being everywhere all at once, to travel slowing down, to tech finally being forced to fix the boring stuff th...

It’s the end of 2025 and somehow, we all survived it. In this year-end episode of [indistinct chatter], Aliza takes you on a month-by-month journey through one of the most chaotic, heartbreaking, historic, absurd, and oddly hopeful years in recent memory. From devastating disasters and global conflicts to pop culture insanity, medical breakthroughs, internet scandals, and Spotify Wrapped revelatio...

Welcome back to [indistinct chatter]! Host Aliza serves up a wild Christmas story: the Great Eggnog Riot of 1826. West Point cadets, fed up with strict military life under Superintendent Sylvanus Thayer, smuggled whiskey onto campus for a Christmas Eve party. What started as innocent eggnog turned into drunken chaos with swords, smashed windows, and a barricaded superintendent.  IN THIS EPISODE: W...

Welcome back to [indistinct chatter]! Host Aliza stumbles across a story that stopped her mid-scroll: college students at the University of Texas at Arlington just solved a 34-year-old murder. Their class project led to an arrest in a case that had stumped detectives since 1991. But this isn't just about one remarkable group of students... it's about how regular people are revolutionizing cold cas...

Welcome back to [indistinct chatter]! Host Aliza dives into the Satanic panic that gripped America in the 1980s and 90s—and yes, it connects to Stranger Things. Remember in season 4 when the whole town wanted to hunt down Eddie for leading a "Satanic cult"? That was based on a very real (and very ridiculous) chapter of American history where Dungeons & Dragons, heavy metal, and daycare centers...

Welcome back to [indistinct chatter]! Host Aliza is still recovering from her Thanksgiving sugar hangover (unconditionally toxic relationship alert!) before diving into the conspiracy theory that inspired Stranger Things. Spoiler: the show was almost called Montauk , and the rabbit hole goes DEEP. **Aliza tried to avoid season 5 spoilers, but listen at your own risk! IN THIS EPISODE: What is the M...

Welcome back to [indistinct chatter]. I start by getting personal about my Thanksgiving traditions — from crab legs instead of turkey to bingeing Stranger Things on Thanksgiving Eve, and everything that makes the holiday feel cozy or chaotic. Then I dig into the history most of us weren’t taught in school: How the story of the “First Thanksgiving” got romanticized Tisquantum’s (Squanto’s) kidnappi...

I’m back with another episode of [indistinct chatter], and we’re starting off exactly how you might expect (or not)... some reality TV thoughts (yes, The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives is still that girl) and a mini rant about why watching the NFL now basically requires a second mortgage. But then we get into the real topic: Infantilization . I break down what it actually means to infantilize someon...

Welcome back to [indistinct chatter]. This episode started with me talking about podcasting again. Recording in a blanket fort, redoing takes over and over, and still trying to get out of my own head long enough to just hit publish. So if you’re also stuck in that perfectionism loop… same. But the main focus today is Veterans Day . More specifically, what it actually means and how it became what i...

Welcome to the first full episode of [indistinct chatter]! And yeah… I almost didn’t post this. In this episode, I’m talking about what it actually took for me to finally start this podcast, from perfectionism spirals to imposter syndrome to recording (and deleting) the same thing more times than I can count. If you’ve ever felt like you need everything to be perfect before you start something… th...

Hi! I'm Aliza, and this is [indistinct chatter] - your new favorite weekly podcast about pop culture, conspiracies, hot goss, and historical "wtf" moments. In this intro episode, I explain a bit more about what this podcast is. It's short and sweet like me, and just the beginning. Please subscribe so you don't miss Episode 1, which will be coming soon! Send corrections, topic...