Talking Like A Teen

[https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54ab84e5e4b010b9ae3b3389/1754879614739-FCKJ2SDJBYAX0VDJ9M50/Talking%2BLike%2Ba%2BTeen%2BCover%2BArt%2B%28Site%29.jpg?format=1000w] Download: (Right-click, Save link as…) Episode 55: Sometimes I See Stars [https://media.blubrry.com/talking_like_a_teen/static1.squarespace.com/static/54ab84e5e4b010b9ae3b3389/t/68acc6730eecfd2e6802e20a/1756153493194/Episode+55+-+Sometimes+I+See+Stars.mp3/original/Episode+55+-+Sometimes+I+See+Stars.mp3] I’ve started up another Skyrim playthrough, which for me is usually one of the biggest red flags that burnout is raising its ugly head, as this game, while a thing I enjoy, is something I tend to delve into when I need a thing to fill time while not having my brain go brr. (So look forward to that “Conversations with an Adult part 2: Burnout Boogaloo” episode in two months) but. That’s not why I’m here. I’m here to soft pitch the thesis that “No Stone Unturned” is an ok quest actually. For those of you that don’t know, there’s a Skyrim quest where you stumble across an “unusual gem” (what’s unusual about it is that it is hot pink in the gray/brown/green ass game) and then, upon getting it appraised, finding out that your gem is part of a set of 24 and you gotta go find ‘em. And unlike most quests, there’s no quest marker telling you where they are, so this is no easy feat. Once you collect these 24 gems, you’re sent to go collect the crown they’re from, at which point, the quest ends and your reward is this passive ability to find more gems (and gems more often) while you’re out exploring. “Burgs, this sounds horribly tedious,” you might say. “Eh,” is my impassioned response. The thing with quests like these is that (shocker) the people that built the game from the ground up want you to play it. They spent time and effort and all that jazz building all of these areas, especially in an open world game like Skyrim, and they want you to explore it. Therefore, games like these are going to have quests that incentivize you to explore: think the shards in DA: Inquisition, the metals/gasses/literature/mummies or whatever in ME1, audio diaries, bobbleheads, souls, orbs, power moons, friggin….Korok seeds, the examples are endless. The game wants you to play it, and if you don’t want to, then…idk, touch grass, I guess. The quest is optional, just don’t interface with the hot pink gems if you don’t want to. If you want quest markers, there’s a mod. Or countless lists on websites you can use to track stuff. It’s ok, you’ll get through it, or you won’t. No biggie.  What does this have to do with the music of 2005? Almost nothing, other than music itself also working in a very similar way. If you’re willing to explore, your new favorite band could be in the dark corner over there. The next song that will “change your life, I swear” says Natalie Portman in 2003 might be opening for a band you already know but you skipped the opener to arrive late like a Cool Person. If you don’t want to look for hot pink gems, it’s all optional, mainstream radio’s got you. But you’ll never know what a Korok seed does unless you find one. (also don’t tell me, I haven’t played that Zelda game yet.)    ASHLEY’S 2005 PLAYLIST: [https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5AMP3uzNu6BCIYYMvXQ3Ux?si=189a2f398fce4343] ADRIAN’S 2005 PLAYLIST: [https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1tU8cTa5BHP3XFYWYSVk8Q?si=c7cb618793a4402c] ---------------------------------------- Inspired by a mutual love of the indie pop duo Tegan And Sara, hosts Ashley Burgy and Adrian King take listeners on an unconventional yet poignant look back at the pop culture that shaped them during their formative years and beyond. We’d love to chat music, sports, or other pop culture mayhem on social media--see our links below for more details!   Subscribe To Talking Like A Teen Via Email! 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[https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54ab84e5e4b010b9ae3b3389/1753560945338-B3LO2BCA26SZOVGY7IQ9/Talking%2BLike%2Ba%2BTeen%2BCover%2BArt%2B%28Site%29.jpg?format=1000w] Download: (Right-click, Save link as…) Episode 54: Mommy Needs A Silverchair [https://media.blubrry.com/talking_like_a_teen/static1.squarespace.com/static/54ab84e5e4b010b9ae3b3389/t/689a4c636fb5dd65f890cd8a/1754942626595/Episode+54+-+Mommy+Needs+A+Silverchair.mp3/original/Episode+54+-+Mommy+Needs+A+Silverchair.mp3] (SLIGHT SPOILERS FOR THE NEW JURASSIC PARK MOVIE YOU KNOW THE ONE WITH SCARJO IN IT [this episode is about the band Silverchair’s album “Young Modern” if you’re skipping the rest of this, enjoy])  So, a week or so ago, one of my favorite humans on the planet and I did a date night of sorts that we called “Diner-saur Night”, in that we went and got gravy-covered greasy breakfast food at a cruddy diner and then went and saw “Jurassic Park 7: You’re Welcome Chris Pratt Isn’t In This One”. We had a lovely time, it’s a pretty fun movie but I cannot stop thinking about two tiny nitpicking points of order and how it has plagued my brain ever since. (these are where the small spoilers are happening, I have warned you so many times) Nitpick One: This movie has a beginning text crawl. In this text crawl, the movie establishes that around 30 years have occurred since dinosaurs were brought back. Fine. This text crawl then proceeds to tell the viewers (who are, need I remind you, there to view a film about dinosaurs doing a Ruckus) that in thirty years, people are bored and tired of dinosaurs. Look. Short of “The Dead Speak!!!” or whatever Episode 9 was trying to do, I am generally going to take a text crawl and roll with it–I get it, we’re doing world building to give the movie context, sometimes the worlds we’re building are nonsensical. But I absolutely CANNOT abide by “30 years later, dinosaurs are lame AF” while sitting in a movie sequel being released literal weeks after the OG film celebrates its 32nd release anniversary. No. Absolutely not. People would be stoked on real dinosaurs much in the same way that people are still stoked on digital dinosaurs. Premise denied, movie.  Nitpick Two: Dinosaurs are being genetically modified in this one, much like basically all the rest of ‘em. Especially in these last few, where we are kinda splicing together known dinosaurs with other ones to make superdinos or whatever, at what point do these stop being dinosaurs and just become like…kaijus or Big Chonky Reptilian Monsters Trademark Symbol? How many genetic modifications before a dinosaur isn’t a dinosaur? I don’t know that I have an answer here, per se. I absolutely have time for the argument that they’ve technically never been dinosaurs, as the OGs were mixed with frog DNA, thus making it not purely genetically just a dinosaur. I thought about this a lot during certain portions of this movie, mostly because there are a few dinosaurs that are not looking like traditional dinosaurs and are kinda starting to look like Muk, the Pokémon with a dinosaur texture pack thrown over it. Some of these bois in “Jurassic Park 7: Yes All Of The Women Are Wearing Practical Shoes In This One” are looking kinda goopy and not like T-Rexes, and that’s a bummer to me, a person who expects this dinosaur film franchise to maintain a level of integrity in regards to its visual language. This might be a me issue. I don’t know. In conclusion, Dinosaurs(???) caused a ruckus for 120 minutes on a large screen and that’s enough for me. Expectations met. And I got three different forms of carbs covered in gravy. All in all, a good night.  (And yes, before you ask, I absolutely could not be bothered to look up what the actual Christian name of this film [https://www.imdb.com/title/tt31036941/] is, sorryyyyyy.   ---------------------------------------- Inspired by a mutual love of the indie pop duo Tegan And Sara, hosts Ashley Burgy and Adrian King take listeners on an unconventional yet poignant look back at the pop culture that shaped them during their formative years and beyond. We’d love to chat music, sports, or other pop culture mayhem on social media--see our links below for more details!   Subscribe To Talking Like A Teen Via Email! 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[https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54ab84e5e4b010b9ae3b3389/3656f3a3-e1b7-46d6-8bfc-271d5c27e382/Talking%2BLike%2Ba%2BTeen%2BCover%2BArt%2B%28Site%29.jpg?format=1000w] (To the tune of “Do The Bartman” from The Simpsons) Yo, hey, what's happening, dude? I'm a mothy guy known for bein' rude Terrorizin' people wherever I go It's not intentional, just eyes all a’glow Huntin’ for tasty snacks to get the best scores Pieces of Weezer’s sweater are all over the floor I'm the little bug known for being a goth Last name Man, first name Moth I'm here today to introduce the next phase The next step in the Cryptid craze I got a dance, real easy to do I learned it with no rhythm and so can you, ooh So move your winged arms, if you got the notion Up and down in a flap-like motion Now that you got it, if you think you can Do it to the music, that's the Mothman Everybody, if you can, do the Mothman (Woah) Flap your arms, turn it out if you're bad, man (Check it out, man) Up and down, to the side, yes, you can-can (Mothman) Everybody in the house, do the Mothman (Uh-huh) Everybody, if you can, do the Mothman Flap your arms, turn it out if you're bad, man (Check it out, man) Up and down, to the side, yes, you can-can (Mothman) Everybody in the house, do the Mothman (As a big Mothman dork, when your podcast partner pitches this idea to you, you do it immediately. This is part two of our Age of Ultron episodes. Enjoy.) Download: (Right-click, Save link as…) Episode 53: Hawkeye Don’t Owe You Anything [https://static1.squarespace.com/static/54ab84e5e4b010b9ae3b3389/t/6887fa6cede6744f5e8af464/1753741980413/Episode+53+-+Hawkeye+Dont+Owe+You+Anything.mp3] ---------------------------------------- Inspired by a mutual love of the indie pop duo Tegan And Sara, hosts Ashley Burgy and Adrian King take listeners on an unconventional yet poignant look back at the pop culture that shaped them during their formative years and beyond. We’d love to chat music, sports, or other pop culture mayhem on social media--see our links below for more details!   Subscribe To Talking Like A Teen Via Email! 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[https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54ab84e5e4b010b9ae3b3389/321893dc-2c38-434f-8729-a50aab8397bd/Talking%2BLike%2Ba%2BTeen%2BCover%2BArt%2B%28Site%29.jpg?format=1000w] So occasionally one of us will make a joke in-episode where my brain goes “Ding! Fodder for the write up” and then I have time to think on it, flush it out, edit out the dumb bits, or forget my original idea, have it again, and essentially…do the same thing, only faster and more of the dumb bits get left in. Anyway. That happened here and we’re doing the second version of it (hence that lead-in sentence being the lead-in.) So, for those who weren’t there, there was this time in the early-to-mid 2010s, right around the time A) the movie we’re talking about it coming out and B) Nerd/Fandom culture is kinda hitting the apex of where that’s going to go, where we loved combining different fandom IPs on t-shirts and mugs and stuff that we could take digital art and print it on. So think things like R2-D2 and C3PO riding on the Tardis, or it’s the Pink power ranger with that mean girls quote about wearing pink on Wednesdays, or Link and Zelda riding on Pokémon or whatever. So this joke in the episode led me to wonder if there were any Avengers x Arrested Development shirts like this and after about 10 minutes of internet searching, I’m coming up mostly empty, but I cannot shake the feeling they existed at one point. I can picture it in my mind: Tobias a blue Hulk, Iron Man as Gob using the Aztec Tomb with War Machine as his assistant, Black Widow as Maeby asking Cap where he got his “cross necklace” so she can go on a ski trip, Hawkeye driving the stair car while the Maximoffs ride on the back….yeah. The shirt draws itself. Or it would, if it were 2015 and I had any artistic abilities. Oh well. Anyway, we did an episode about Avengers: Age of Ultron. It’s a two-parter. This is the first part. Enjoy. Download: (Right-Click, Save Link As...) Episode 52: It's Like An Ultron, Ultron To Me [https://media.blubrry.com/talking_like_a_teen/static1.squarespace.com/static/54ab84e5e4b010b9ae3b3389/t/6874bb739ec2e15976f97f2a/1752481016412/Episode+52+-+Its+Like+An+Ultron%2C+Ultron+To+Me.mp3/original/Episode+52+-+Its+Like+An+Ultron%2C+Ultron+To+Me.mp3] ---------------------------------------- Inspired by a mutual love of the indie pop duo Tegan And Sara, hosts Ashley Burgy and Adrian King take listeners on an unconventional yet poignant look back at the pop culture that shaped them during their formative years and beyond. We’d love to chat music, sports, or other pop culture mayhem on social media--see our links below for more details!   Subscribe To Talking Like A Teen Via Email! [https://www.subscribebyemail.com/adrianhasissues.com/tlatpodcast/episodes?format=rss] Talking Like A Teen Music Playlists On Spotify [https://open.spotify.com/user/wedt5daibxghrwq9m4wcbjd6l?si=yXPguJ2rQuC77k3TplVbTQ]   SOCIAL MEDIA LINKS: [https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54ab84e5e4b010b9ae3b3389/d33c1195-ae75-4d50-abbd-19ddda0a4f68/Bluesky+w+handle+small.jpg?format=1000w] https://bsky.app/profile/tlatpodcast.bsky.social [https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54ab84e5e4b010b9ae3b3389/ec96287d-020d-46fa-aa8b-1542ec348cbf/instagram+w+handle+small.png?format=1000w] https://www.instagram.com/tlatpodcast/   TALKING LIKE A TEEN IS ALSO AVAILABLE ON THE FOLLOWING APPS: [https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54ab84e5e4b010b9ae3b3389/3cc147e1-8120-49d6-8474-4a0df3ccb910/applepodcasts.png?format=1000w] https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/talking-like-a-teen/id1464866307 [https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54ab84e5e4b010b9ae3b3389/a6653e83-9446-481c-bb78-7bae2fb7b35e/spotify-podcast-badge-blk-grn-660x160.png?format=1000w] https://open.spotify.com/show/2NGrXDFOZfXiVwYEcTLRto [https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54ab84e5e4b010b9ae3b3389/94bb9c6a-7e06-4ea7-97e6-546a26ef9552/podbean.png?format=1000w] https://www.podbean.com/podcast-detail/qza8h-1a5a5d/Talking-Like-A-Teen-Podcast [https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54ab84e5e4b010b9ae3b3389/bbfc8e59-99ba-4723-a89e-765c29e9f59f/iHR_secondary_Color-Black.png?format=1000w] https://www.iheart.com/podcast/269-talking-like-a-teen-69157700/   IT’S A FANDOM THING PODCAST: POP CULTURE & FANDOM NEWS, JUNE 8, 2025 (FEAT. ASHLEY & ADRIAN) [https://itsafandomthingpod.com/2025/06/11/pop-culture-fandom-news-june-8-2025/] [https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54ab84e5e4b010b9ae3b3389/3ad6bfd9-5ad3-41cf-9601-e2bda09e67e9/bafkreibbbmsv2j3ubrdg7fm3gejp2e6av42pgjij4orn5g7asbgf3a53g4.jpg?format=1000w] In this week’s episode of Pop Culture and Fandom News, Erin is joined by the hosts of the Talking Like a Teen Podcast, Ashley and Adrian, to discuss Andor, the latest season of Top Chef, the rerelease of Dogma, the Fast and the Furious franchise, season 2 of The Last of Us, the trailer for Black Phone 2, and the commodification of Pride.   IT’S A FANDOM THING PODCAST: TEGAN AND SARA [https://itsafandomthingpod.com/2025/06/13/tegan-and-sara/] [https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54ab84e5e4b010b9ae3b3389/533ec163-04b1-447e-b064-102b3537dae1/bafkreideybb3nqwrvrkwtgxxhdg7vye7gcls7mlxmyspl4uqpbdovtmiiu.jpg?format=1000w]   INTRO/OUTRO SONG: » TEGAN & SARA - WALKING WITH A GHOST (MANILA KILLA REMIX) Credits: Manila Killa https://soundcloud.com/manilakilla [https://www.youtube.com/redirect?q=https%3A%2F%2Fsoundcloud.com%2Fmanilakilla&redir_token=pVeZcpvBGcHU1ofPxqZ0kXNI05Z8MTU1ODYwMjExMUAxNTU4NTE1NzEx&event=video_description&v=EbkTauz7yt8] https://www.facebook.com/manilakilla [https://www.youtube.com/redirect?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fmanilakilla&redir_token=pVeZcpvBGcHU1ofPxqZ0kXNI05Z8MTU1ODYwMjExMUAxNTU4NTE1NzEx&event=video_description&v=EbkTauz7yt8] https://twitter.com/ManilaKilla [https://www.youtube.com/redirect?q=https%3A%2F%2Ftwitter.com%2FManilaKilla&redir_token=pVeZcpvBGcHU1ofPxqZ0kXNI05Z8MTU1ODYwMjExMUAxNTU4NTE1NzEx&event=video_description&v=EbkTauz7yt8] Tegan & Sara https://soundcloud.com/teganandsara [https://www.youtube.com/redirect?q=https%3A%2F%2Fsoundcloud.com%2Fteganandsara&redir_token=pVeZcpvBGcHU1ofPxqZ0kXNI05Z8MTU1ODYwMjExMUAxNTU4NTE1NzEx&event=video_description&v=EbkTauz7yt8] http://www.teganandsara.com [https://www.youtube.com/redirect?q=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.teganandsara.com&redir_token=pVeZcpvBGcHU1ofPxqZ0kXNI05Z8MTU1ODYwMjExMUAxNTU4NTE1NzEx&event=video_description&v=EbkTauz7yt8] https://www.facebook.com/TeganandSara [https://www.youtube.com/redirect?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2FTeganandSara&redir_token=pVeZcpvBGcHU1ofPxqZ0kXNI05Z8MTU1ODYwMjExMUAxNTU4NTE1NzEx&event=video_description&v=EbkTauz7yt8] https://twitter.com/teganandsara [https://www.youtube.com/redirect?q=https%3A%2F%2Ftwitter.com%2Fteganandsara&redir_token=pVeZcpvBGcHU1ofPxqZ0kXNI05Z8MTU1ODYwMjExMUAxNTU4NTE1NzEx&event=video_description&v=EbkTauz7yt8]

[https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54ab84e5e4b010b9ae3b3389/686f5206-622a-4312-ae37-cf90de0c7c3f/Talking%2BLike%2Ba%2BTeen%2BCover%2BArt%2B%28Site%29.jpg?format=1000w] Download: (Right-Click, Save Link As...) Episode 51: I Threw Away The List To Convince You [https://static1.squarespace.com/static/54ab84e5e4b010b9ae3b3389/t/6862739ffed9e40fc133c437/1751282871463/Episode+51+-+I+Threw+Away+The+List+To+Convince+You.mp3/original/Episode+51+-+I+Threw+Away+The+List+To+Convince+You.mp3] So, in the part 1 write-up, I referenced this speech class I took in the summer in high school. This is probably the closest in my experiences to doing something like a Project Runway or Top Chef-style reality show–where you are expected to pump out creation after creation on long hours with very little time to recoup or really think through the thing you’re making. You’re basically just getting a crash course, then expected to pop out some genius.  Unsurprisingly, I don’t remember many of the presentations I put together for this class. Except for one. It starts out much like any episode of Project Runway or Top Chef–Heidi or Padma come out to the contestants, say a witty, scripted preamble, then go into the “Challenge” for the day: prepare a dramatic reading, complete with at least one physical prop. Must be at least three minutes in length. You have one day for this challenge. (I do not remember the teacher at all but am willing to bet she was not Heidi Klum or Padma Lakshmi levels of hot–few of us are.) So after sitting through the presentations from whatever nonsense was assigned yesterday, we are released and allowed to go work on what is due tomorrow.  I hear many people joke about snagging a skull from the science department to do Hamlet, in that sort of desperate way where they’re trying to gauge how this would land, because no other ideas are coming and they’re dying inside. The idea of trying to learn and be able to recite Shakespeare with one evening’s worth of prep did not sound appealing. So like many successful competition-based reality show contestants, I thought about what I knew and how I could fit this challenge to it. Like most moody teens from the early 2000s, I did not know Shakespeare. I did not have Robert Frost or Henry David Thoreau committed to the dome. What did I have embedded in my brain? Song lyrics. The metaphorical lightbulb of genius clicked. I knew what I had to do. And what I had to do was walk over to the nearest Walgreens and buy a puzzle.  The next day, presentations began, and we saw a fair amount of fumbling through Hamlet and other Romantic poets. Someone recreated the space landing audio with a toy spaceship. It was a lot of uninspired mediocre dishes. It was a ton of napkin-style mini-dresses in the unconventional materials challenge. I started to panic–either I messed this up royal, or I’ve done this better than anyone ever has, and I won’t know until I volunteer to get up there and present.  I finally get the nerve, go up there, quiet with my unopened puzzle, knowing I only had one shot at this. This was pre 8 Mile coming out, so I couldn’t even mom’s spaghetti to hype myself up. I just had to commit. What was I committing to? Well, ripping apart the box of a puzzle, throwing pieces around the room for a full minute before reciting the lyrics to Dashboard Confessional’s song “This Ruined Puzzle”. I also apparently committed to giving myself a few gnarly cardboard cuts on the stupid box, but…it landed. I got a 100 on the assignment and Padma would’ve definitely named me the winner of the challenge. Heidi gave me immunity for next week’s show, so I’m definitely not getting eliminated. Love that for me. Shout out to Claire from the last writeup, whose feedback included the joke “But not all of the pieces were face down :( ” which is still objectively hilarious, good job Claire.  What does this have to do with part 2 of our 2024 Musical Wrap-up conversation? You have to embrace who you are and let it drive you. If you are an emo teenage dirtbag, Shakespeare doesn’t got you, Chris Carrabba does. Also, a healthy dash of chaos and Committing to the Bit ™ always helps. And that’s the TLAT way. Enjoy the episode.   ADRIAN’S 2024 PLAYLIST ---------------------------------------- Inspired by a mutual love of the indie pop duo Tegan And Sara, hosts Ashley Burgy and Adrian King take listeners on an unconventional yet poignant look back at the pop culture that shaped them during their formative years and beyond. We’d love to chat music, sports, or other pop culture mayhem on social media--see our links below for more details!   Subscribe To Talking Like A Teen Via Email! [https://www.subscribebyemail.com/adrianhasissues.com/tlatpodcast/episodes?format=rss] Talking Like A Teen Music Playlists On Spotify [https://open.spotify.com/user/wedt5daibxghrwq9m4wcbjd6l?si=yXPguJ2rQuC77k3TplVbTQ]   SOCIAL MEDIA LINKS: [https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54ab84e5e4b010b9ae3b3389/32f4d100-95dd-4810-8488-0d2ba958d0ab/Bluesky+w+handle+small.jpg?format=1000w] https://bsky.app/profile/tlatpodcast.bsky.social [https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54ab84e5e4b010b9ae3b3389/24ca1e73-c195-45c0-bd54-cb52eb0c9683/instagram+w+handle+small.png?format=1000w] https://www.instagram.com/tlatpodcast/   TALKING LIKE A TEEN IS ALSO AVAILABLE ON THE FOLLOWING APPS: [https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54ab84e5e4b010b9ae3b3389/eacd7054-c9c7-4aec-a31c-3f3d78846159/applepodcasts.png?format=1000w] https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/talking-like-a-teen/id1464866307 [https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54ab84e5e4b010b9ae3b3389/565f5f5e-7156-4472-8dd3-b5ca393dfc44/spotify-podcast-badge-blk-grn-660x160.png?format=1000w] https://open.spotify.com/show/2NGrXDFOZfXiVwYEcTLRto [https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54ab84e5e4b010b9ae3b3389/246d4667-5049-449b-95fa-cbb197609bdb/iHR_secondary_Color-Black.png?format=1000w] https://www.iheart.com/podcast/269-talking-like-a-teen-69157700/ [https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54ab84e5e4b010b9ae3b3389/64d5f8c4-2675-42df-9e27-7f038d6f0fde/podbean.png?format=1000w] https://www.podbean.com/podcast-detail/qza8h-1a5a5d/Talking-Like-A-Teen-Podcast   IT’S A FANDOM THING PODCAST: POP CULTURE & FANDOM NEWS, JUNE 8, 2025 (FEAT. ASHLEY & ADRIAN) [https://itsafandomthingpod.com/2025/06/11/pop-culture-fandom-news-june-8-2025/] [https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54ab84e5e4b010b9ae3b3389/341a4102-a4fd-4077-a768-35a555828e0b/bafkreibbbmsv2j3ubrdg7fm3gejp2e6av42pgjij4orn5g7asbgf3a53g4.jpg?format=1000w] https://itsafandomthingpod.com/2025/06/11/pop-culture-fandom-news-june-8-2025/ In this week’s episode of Pop Culture and Fandom News, Erin is joined by the hosts of the Talking Like a Teen Podcast, Ashley and Adrian, to discuss Andor, the latest season of Top Chef, the rerelease of Dogma, the Fast and the Furious franchise, season 2 of The Last of Us, the trailer for Black Phone 2, and the commodification of Pride.   IT’S A FANDOM THING PODCAST: TEGAN AND SARA [https://itsafandomthingpod.com/2025/06/13/tegan-and-sara/] [https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54ab84e5e4b010b9ae3b3389/48babb07-ccdc-4395-82ba-285d708ba062/bafkreideybb3nqwrvrkwtgxxhdg7vye7gcls7mlxmyspl4uqpbdovtmiiu.jpg?format=1000w] https://itsafandomthingpod.com/2025/06/13/tegan-and-sara/ The hosts of the Talking Like a Teen Podcast, Ashley and Adrian, join Erin to discuss Tegan and Sara. They share what made them fans, how the music brought them together, some of their favorite songs, and the band’s impact on them.   INTRO/OUTRO SONG: » TEGAN & SARA - WALKING WITH A GHOST (MANILA KILLA REMIX) Credits: Manila Killa https://soundcloud.com/manilakilla [https://www.youtube.com/redirect?q=https%3A%2F%2Fsoundcloud.com%2Fmanilakilla&redir_token=pVeZcpvBGcHU1ofPxqZ0kXNI05Z8MTU1ODYwMjExMUAxNTU4NTE1NzEx&event=video_description&v=EbkTauz7yt8] https://www.facebook.com/manilakilla [https://www.youtube.com/redirect?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fmanilakilla&redir_token=pVeZcpvBGcHU1ofPxqZ0kXNI05Z8MTU1ODYwMjExMUAxNTU4NTE1NzEx&event=video_description&v=EbkTauz7yt8] https://twitter.com/ManilaKilla [https://www.youtube.com/redirect?q=https%3A%2F%2Ftwitter.com%2FManilaKilla&redir_token=pVeZcpvBGcHU1ofPxqZ0kXNI05Z8MTU1ODYwMjExMUAxNTU4NTE1NzEx&event=video_description&v=EbkTauz7yt8] Tegan & Sara https://soundcloud.com/teganandsara [https://www.youtube.com/redirect?q=https%3A%2F%2Fsoundcloud.com%2Fteganandsara&redir_token=pVeZcpvBGcHU1ofPxqZ0kXNI05Z8MTU1ODYwMjExMUAxNTU4NTE1NzEx&event=video_description&v=EbkTauz7yt8] http://www.teganandsara.com [https://www.youtube.com/redirect?q=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.teganandsara.com&redir_token=pVeZcpvBGcHU1ofPxqZ0kXNI05Z8MTU1ODYwMjExMUAxNTU4NTE1NzEx&event=video_description&v=EbkTauz7yt8] https://www.facebook.com/TeganandSara [https://www.youtube.com/redirect?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2FTeganandSara&redir_token=pVeZcpvBGcHU1ofPxqZ0kXNI05Z8MTU1ODYwMjExMUAxNTU4NTE1NzEx&event=video_description&v=EbkTauz7yt8] https://twitter.com/teganandsara [https://www.youtube.com/redirect?q=https%3A%2F%2Ftwitter.com%2Fteganandsara&redir_token=pVeZcpvBGcHU1ofPxqZ0kXNI05Z8MTU1ODYwMjExMUAxNTU4NTE1NzEx&event=video_description&v=EbkTauz7yt8]