Engagement Party

Adults are buying toys, playing games, and watching cartoons in massive numbers. Why are our childhood tastes following us into adulthood? And could it have something to do with “millennial optimism?”

About the show: Welcome to Audie Cornish and Ari Shapiro’s Engagement Party, where the hot takes are the smart takes. After years of working side by side, Audie and Ari have made it official with their pop culture video podcast. Party hopping between what you're watching, reading and scrolling, these longtime friends unpack what matters in our endless feeds.

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The age of algorithmic fashion is here, and we’re wearing a lot of slop. Fashion journalist Amy Odell gives Audie and Ari advice for finding a personal style amid the AI, buying clothes that last, and feeling good in what you wear.

About the show: Welcome to Audie Cornish and Ari Shapiro’s Engagement Party, where the hot takes are the smart takes. After years of working side by side, Audie and Ari have made it official with their pop culture video podcast. Party hopping between what you're watching, reading and scrolling, these longtime friends unpack what matters in our endless feeds.

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Boxy apartment buildings. Industrial-chic coffee shops. Fast-casual salads. Are cities everywhere becoming indistinguishable? Audie and Ari dissect the trend with help from travel guru Rick Steves, who has ideas for how to keep the places we visit and call home vibrant and real.

About the show: Welcome to Audie Cornish and Ari Shapiro’s Engagement Party, where the hot takes are the smart takes. After years of working side by side, Audie and Ari have made it official with their pop culture video podcast. Party hopping between what you're watching, reading and scrolling, these longtime friends unpack what matters in our endless feeds.

Listen to the Travel with Rick Steves podcast and check out Rick's memoir and guidebooks on his website.

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Audie and Ari recently joined one of their favorite people, writer and journalist Anne Helen Peterson, on her podcast Culture Study. They talked code switching, gay slang, Southie accents, swearing and much more.

You can follow Culture Study wherever you get your podcasts.

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We’re living in an age of surveillance anxiety. And yet, hand us a leaked DM or security footage of Kelly Clarkson at a Brooklyn toy store and we’re here for it. Are we feeding into the very surveillance culture we claim to fear?

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