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The Sauce with Maya Gurantz and Rebecca Cohen

Maya Gurantz & Rebecca Cohen

A culture & politics podcast where we drink cocktails and ruin the stuff you love.

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1:24:31

Trump’s Dementia

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2024/08/29

It doesn’t take a geriatrics expert to see that Donald Trump is deteriorating. Is it just normal aging, or something… else? Maya and Rebecca investigate Trump’s lapses in memory, behavior and language and ask how well they match up with the medically defined symptoms of dementia.

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1:01:12

MAGA MELTDOWN

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2024/08/08

Couch sex, race baiting, menstrual tracking—MAGA-world is melting down while the Dems are energized and in array. Maya and Rebecca dig into this wild few weeks and ask: why are couch jokes so funny? And why are these people so fucking weird?

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1:28:52

KAMALA 2024! With Special Guest Kaitlyn Byrd!

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2024/08/02

It’s KAMALA FOR PRESIDENT! Maya and Rebecca are wildly gratified to have our favorite political analyst Kaitlin Byrd back on to talk about the handoff from Biden, the instant national sea change it triggered, and our theories on what happened behind the scenes, how Veepstakes will go down, and what Vice President Harris will wear … Continue reading "KAMALA 2024! With Special Guest Kaitlyn Byrd!"

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51:59

Revisiting from 2020: Kamala Harris and Political...

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2024/07/22

Friends, LET’S BE READY. As Kamala Harris accepts the mantle of the Democratic nomination, Maya and Rebecca open up the time capsule and share our Kamala episode from four years ago when Biden first selected her as VP. We’re eerily prescient about the specific ways the left, right, and center would attack Kamala—attacks we’re already … Continue reading "Revisiting from 2020: Kamala Harris and Political Double Standards, Part A Million"

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1:16:09

Sauce Classics: The Supreme Court (Part 1)

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2024/07/04

Happy (Possibly Last) 4th of July! In the wake of the recent horrifying decisions by the Supreme Court on presidential immunity and Chevron deference, Maya and Rebecca thought it was important to repost our episode from 2023 about the Supreme Court, our idealized notions of what it’s supposed to be, it’s real history, and the … Continue reading "Sauce Classics: The Supreme Court (Part 1)"

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1:16:50

The Trump Verdict

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2024/06/18

We followed every moment of Trump’s first criminal trial, and now that the verdict is in, boy is there a lot to talk about. From Trump falling asleep (and farting himself awake), to his defense team’s dumbest moves, to the electoral implications of 34 felony convictions, Maya and Rebecca dive into the all pleasures and … Continue reading "The Trump Verdict"

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The Death of 90s Rock

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2024/05/31

Grunge is dead (again). As Maya grieves the death of iconic producer Steve Albini, she and Rebecca break down whether this Gen-X’s John Lennon moment, if the concept of “selling out” means anything anymore, and why edge lord humor just isn’t the same as it used to be.

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1:15:32

The Dune Movies

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2024/05/10

Dune is Rebecca’s favorite novel, but Maya is a pure 100% Dune virgin. We watched Denis Villeneuve’s massively popular adaptation of this legendary, and legendarily unfilmable, sci fi epic to see if we see any of the same things. Does it work as a movie series? As an adaptation? As a meditation on the white … Continue reading "The Dune Movies"

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1:11:17

Grab Bag! Beyonce, Tradwives, OJ Simpson

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2024/04/25

There is too damn much to talk about so we try to talk about it ALL! In this episode, Beyonce Goes Country, Tradwifes Go Viral, OJ Simpson Goes Dead, and Rebecca and Maya just try to keep up. We break down Cowboy Carter, the weird fantasy of white housewife cosplay, and the legacy of a … Continue reading "Grab Bag! Beyonce, Tradwives, OJ Simpson"

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1:12:41

Trump, Fucked (?)

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2024/04/09

After taking a much-needed break from TFG, Maya and Rebecca catch up on Trump’s troubles: legal, financial, political, and psychophysical. How fucked is he? How worried should we be? What’s the most productive way to direct our anxiety between now and November?

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1:12:33

Poor Things

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2024/03/26

Depending on whom you ask, Academy award winner Poor Things is either a feminist masterpiece about an empowered woman, or a male fantasy about a baby-minded fuck toy. Maya and Rebecca attempt to bridge the gap, asking the really important questions: Why is Yorgos Lanthimos so obsessed with old-timey whorehouses? Is this quirky visual style … Continue reading "Poor Things"

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1:16:55

Right Wing Attacks on Higher Ed (with Nadia E. Brown!)

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2024/03/08

College presidents forced to resign. Faculties gutted. Anti-DEI legislations cropping up nationwide. There’s no doubt about it–Right Wing activists are attacking Higher Ed, trying to “capture, restructure, and reform” centers of learning. Georgetown political scientist and Women’s Studies professor Nadia E. Brown joins us to help us understand this moment, what makes it different than … Continue reading "Right Wing Attacks on Higher Ed (with Nadia E. Brown!)"

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1:31:40

Problematic Faves: Liberal Arts Education (with...

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2024/02/20

Intellectual expansion! Youthful passion! Exploited innocence! Genius writer, musician, and professional flame-throwing shit-starter Meredith Yayanos, comes on to talk about their problematic fave: Liberal Arts Education. What does college MEAN in the social imaginary? What did it mean to us? Cronyism, elitism, pranks, nubility, narcissistic faculty, racism, classism, date rape, Jeffrey Epstein, the hangover of … Continue reading "Problematic Faves: Liberal Arts Education (with Meredith

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1:21:43

Swifties Strike Back

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2024/01/30

Were we wrong about Taylor Swift? Actual, real live Swiftie Jenna Parrot responds to Maya and Rebecca’s takes about her favorite pop megastar. Can she help us understand Swift’s musical appeal, not to mention her cultural and political impact?

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1:05:09

Taylor Swift and Beyonce

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2024/01/03

We can’t start the new year without talking about THE biggest pop culture story of 2023: Beyonce and Taylor Swift dominating American music, culture and even economics with their wildly popular, wildly extravagant Renaissance and Eras tours. Maya and Rebecca break down the star power, the spectacle and the songwriting, asking what makes these two … Continue reading "Taylor Swift and Beyonce"

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1:12:05

More Israel!

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2023/12/14

Apparently there are some people we didn’t alienate with our last Israel episode? Well, if at first you don’t succeed… Maya and Rebecca dive back into Israel/Palestine and try, try again to understand why this topic is so hard to have conversations about.

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1:18:43

Israel

The Sauce with Maya Gurantz and Rebecca Cohen ·

2023/10/25

Two drunk Jewesses (one with an Israeli passport) dive into the Hamas attack on Israel and the current catastrophe in Gaza, taking apart three major talking points that have been floating around and explaining why they’re all wrong.

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1:13:00

Hot Labor Summer w/ Miles Kahn

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2023/10/03

Organized labor is so hot right now. With the UAW and SAG on strike – and more industries getting ready to join – Maya and Rebecca welcome multi-talented writer/producer/director Miles Kahn to go inside the recent Hollywood writer’s strike, analyze pop culture depictions of strikes, and uncover why unions having such a moment.

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58:28

Elon Musk and the Anti-Defamation League

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2023/09/21

Wow, we did Nazi that coming! (Yes we did.) As Elon Musk beefs with the Anti Defamation League, Rebecca and Maya follow up on how he’s ruining Twitter and track how anti-Semitism on Twitter looks different in 2023 than it did in 2016.

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Sauce Classics: Consiglieri Cohen & Trump as Gordon...

The Sauce with Maya Gurantz and Rebecca Cohen ·

2023/09/08

As Trump’s legal issues mount, we revisit Part 2 of Maya and Rebecca’s discussion about Trump and mafia narratives, examining how the character types of the “fixer” and the shady business mogul shed light on the public’s perceptions of Michael Cohen and Donald Trump — as well as their apparent perceptions of themselves. This week … Continue reading "Sauce Classics: Consiglieri Cohen & Trump as Gordon Gekko"

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