What's Your Issue?

In this week's bonus episode, Troy and Dara answer more listener AMA questions, including:

Mary-Kate or Ashley Olsen?

What are some magazine ads that imprinted on you as a tween or teen?

Which style trend would you like to make a comeback?

What's your dream reality show to be on?

Rumors or Stars Are Blind?

What's your favorite thing about each other?

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There's a new scammer in town!! (allegedly). This week, Troy and Dara break down the Vanity Fair article, "Bryant Simmons’s Frenemies Call Him a Scammer. He Says They’re Just Jealous" by Clara Molot.

A talented stylist accused of swindling Manhattan's fashionable elite, Simmons has all the trappings to become the next great scammer success story. Of course, you can't talk New York City scammers without bringing up Caroline Calloway; plus, Troy and Dara describe some of their own personal con jobs.

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Since everyone else is talking about 2016, we thought we'd try and mooch off the relevant keywords and make a bonus episode about it.

We discuss celebrity couples, The Good Wife, American Idol, Katy Perry at Burning Man, Kim Kardashian's robbery, and more!

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This week, Troy and Dara discuss The New Yorker 1994 article "Chloë's Scene" by Jay McInerny, and New York Magazine/The Cut's 2024 (and recirculated in 2025) profile, "A Suitable Change for Chloë Sevigny" by Emily Gould.

The conversation evolves into a meditation on It Girls:

Paris Hilton and Tinsley Mortimer - It Girls or That Girls?

The It Boy

The It Girl and Existentialism, and

Will society allow the It Girl to become an It Woman?

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In our first AMA bonus, we talk about the trouble with biopics, our thoughts on homophobia in the Real Housewives franchises, our favorite high-fashion celebrity brand ambassadors, Lizzie Grubman, what we were like growing up, and more!

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