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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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52:42

Sauce Classics: Michael Jackson ONE and Cirque de Soleil

The Sauce with Maya Gurantz and Rebecca Cohen ·

2026/04/24

On the release date of Michael, the (by all accounts terrible) Jackson-estate approved hagiography of the Gloved One, Rebecca and Maya revisit our episode from a year ago about Cirque du Soleil’s insane Michael Jackson show, and unpack what it teaches us about how to make a spectacle out of a very bad man.

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1:03:00

INSIDE THE MANOSPHERE

The Sauce with Maya Gurantz and Rebecca Cohen ·

2026/04/17

Maya and Rebecca deploy their years of expertise at ruining the Manosphere to ruin Louis Theroux’s new Netflix documentary, INSIDE THE MANOSPHERE. We pinpoint what Theroux missed, what he got right, and what’s going on with sad, angry men these days.

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1:12:01

Andor

The Sauce with Maya Gurantz and Rebecca Cohen ·

2026/04/08

Was Star Wars Antifa all along? Rebecca finally convinced Maya to watch ANDOR, and they both have a lot of thoughts. Can a show about fighting space fascims in a galaxy far, far away shed light on our current moment, and maybe even help inspire the IRL rebellion?

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1:10:00

Sinners and Black Film (with Special Guest David F....

The Sauce with Maya Gurantz and Rebecca Cohen ·

2026/03/24

Maya and Rebecca talk about Ryan Coogler’s Sinners with special guest David F. Walker, author of Black Film, a new illustrated history of Black cinema and Hollywood. Together we uncover how Sinners fits into that long, illustrious, yet definitely under-appreciated history.

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1:01:24

ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER

The Sauce with Maya Gurantz and Rebecca Cohen ·

2026/03/16

Maya and Rebecca ruin ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER, Paul Thomas Anderson’s Oscar-littered opus, outlining just what made it such irresistible bait for Academy voters (hint hint: prestige white guys being “political”).

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1:10:55

Dispatch from Minneapolis (with Very Special Guests...

The Sauce with Maya Gurantz and Rebecca Cohen ·

2026/02/12

This week, we’re joined by friends in Minneapolis to hear eye witness reports of a city under siege by its own government. Maya and Rebecca welcome very special guests, artists/professors/activists Lisa Channer and Sonja Kuftinec, who join to talk life under federal occupation, how hyper-local mutual aid networks are saving the day, and how art and activism operate together to make effective organizing possible.

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1:16:07

EVERYONE IS TWELVE

The Sauce with Maya Gurantz and Rebecca Cohen ·

2026/01/28

Is “everyone is 12” the unifying theory of our times? Through the power of dramatic reading and drawing upon their experience wrangling actual 12-year-olds, Maya and Rebecca explore whether we can survive the immaturity of those currently in power and holding guns. Drinking highly recommended.

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1:13:06

Heated Rivalry (with Very Special Guest Guy Branum)

The Sauce with Maya Gurantz and Rebecca Cohen ·

2026/01/16

How did gay hockey player smut become the most galvanizing pop culture artifact of our fascist times? Very Special Guest Guy Branum joins us to figure out why HBO’s HEATED RIVALRY is making so many people freak out, and to talk cottaging, cock-sucking, house porn, and what happens when straight romance novel tropes meet the erotics of the closet.

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48:36

Sauce Classics Trump’s Dementia

The Sauce with Maya Gurantz and Rebecca Cohen ·

2025/10/28

Huh, people are talking about Trump and dementia? Funny, WE TALKED ABOUT THIS A YEAR AGO! Rebecca and Maya revisit our episode where we investigate Trump’s lapses in memory, behavior and language and ask how well they match up with the medically defined symptoms of frontotemporal dementia.

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1:25:16

VetBros and Pete Hegseth (with Guest John Armenta!)

The Sauce with Maya Gurantz and Rebecca Cohen ·

2025/10/22

Who is Pete Hegseth, how in hell did he end up Secretary of Defense, why is he renaming it the Department of War, and what were he and Trump doing calling 600 top generals into a room for a Big Boy Pep Talk? Very Special Guest John Armenta–an army vet and communications professor who studies … Continue reading "VetBros and Pete Hegseth (with Guest John Armenta!)"

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1:11:00

Charlie Kirk, Jimmy Kimmel, and Free Speech Part A...

The Sauce with Maya Gurantz and Rebecca Cohen ·

2025/10/10

Why were flags at half mast for a grifting podcaster? In the wake of Charlie Kirk’s murder, Rebecca and Maya break down his life and the aftermath of his death–along the way noting flagrant political opportunism, right wing abuses of “free speech”, and key differences between various terminally online young male subcultures.

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1:12:31

Problematic Fave: BOB DYLAN (with very special guests...

The Sauce with Maya Gurantz and Rebecca Cohen ·

2025/09/15

Bob Dylan is many things. A basic bitch isn’t one of them. We welcome brilliant lifelong Dylan-ologists Elizabeth Nelson and Jeff Jackson to pull apart what Dylan means, why music biopics suck, and everything James Mangold missed in the most recent filmic attempt to contain Dylan’s legacy, the nostalgia-fest A Complete Unknown.

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1:04:05

The Biggest Loser

The Sauce with Maya Gurantz and Rebecca Cohen ·

2025/09/02

Rebecca and Maya watched Fit For TV, the recent streaming Netflix docu-series on The Biggest Loser, and talk fat-shaming, abuse as motivation, fake therapeutic breakthroughs after which nothing changes, and why it takes a decade and a documentary for us to publicly acknowledge that the thing that seemed so fucked up back then was, indeed, … Continue reading "The Biggest Loser"

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35:47

The Epstein Files!

The Sauce with Maya Gurantz and Rebecca Cohen ·

2025/08/25

Will the Epstein Files put the final dagger into the rise of fascism? Rebecca and Maya are here to ruin any hopes you have. We’ve known for DECADES that Donald Trump was a creepy-buddy with mysterious financier-pedophile Jeffrey Epstein. Is this going to trigger a MAGA-Trump breakup? Might the administration be hoist on its own … Continue reading "The Epstein Files!"

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1:10:32

Severance

The Sauce with Maya Gurantz and Rebecca Cohen ·

2025/06/25

Maya and Rebecca ride the down elevator into Apple TV’s hit Severance. Identity. Work-life balance. Bullshit jobs. Setting good boundaries. The toxic rot and unremitting evil at the very heart of Capitalism. Is this show hitting the BIG GESTALT BUTTON of THIS MOMENT?

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Martial Law (with Very Special Guest Dr. Carrie Ann...

The Sauce with Maya Gurantz and Rebecca Cohen ·

2025/06/16

As Trump deploys National Guard and Marines to LA in the face of widespread civilian protests against ICE raids, we talk Martial Law and autocratic use of force (and drink!) with Dr. Carrie Lee, an expert in civil-military relations who concisely breaks down the specifics of what we should be looking for in this Administrations’s … Continue reading "Martial Law (with Very Special Guest Dr. Carrie Ann Lee!)"

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1:09:01

RIP Free Speech

The Sauce with Maya Gurantz and Rebecca Cohen ·

2025/05/01

For years, right wingers have loudly decried supposed attacks on free speech. Yet now those free speech warriors are strangely silent as Trump punishes universities and ICE arrests students for expressing dissent. Maya and Rebecca explain how this turnabout is not simple hypocrisy, uncovering how right wing discourse about free speech paved the way for … Continue reading "RIP Free Speech"

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1:07:58

Dems in Disarray

The Sauce with Maya Gurantz and Rebecca Cohen ·

2025/02/25

With Trump and Musk trampling American democracy, why aren’t elected Democrats doing more to stop the carnage? Maya and Rebecca piece together why the opposition party can’t seem to get its shit together and draw unexpected insight from the Drake and Kendrick Lamar feud to figure out what Democrats should be doing differently,

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1:15:40

Ruining Huck Finn, with VERY SPECIAL GUESTS David F....

The Sauce with Maya Gurantz and Rebecca Cohen ·

2025/02/13

Let’s ruin the Great American Novel. Maya and Rebecca are joined by Artist (and longtime Sauce listener!) Marcus Kwame Anderson and writer David F. Walker to discuss their new book– Big Jim and the White Boy, an audacious (and inspired) retelling of Huck Finn. Listeners may remember Marcus and David from the last time we … Continue reading "Ruining Huck Finn, with VERY SPECIAL GUESTS David F. Walker and Marcus Kwame Anderson"

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1:19:17

Bread and Circuses: Michael Jackson ONE and Cirque du...

The Sauce with Maya Gurantz and Rebecca Cohen ·

2025/02/06

How are we going to survive the fascist takeover of our government? Through a delicate balance of activism and avoidance. Maya and Rebecca introduce a new ongoing feature, BREAD AND CIRCUSES with Cirque du Soleil’s insane Michael Jackson show, and unpack what it teaches us about how to make a spectacle out of a very … Continue reading "Bread and Circuses: Michael Jackson ONE and Cirque du Soleil"

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