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Feminist activist profiles, a Sex and the City rewatch, and book club talk in one feed.
Stuff Mom Never Told You treats culture as evidence: a movie, fanfiction, a novel, or a religious figure can all reveal how power works. Its conversational format keeps the research approachable, with warmth, tangents, and sharp feminist attention.
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The show runs at least three distinct recurring formats under one feed: solo-narrated educational profiles, two-host panel conversations, and occasional long-form retrospective interviews. Current co-hosts are Annie and Samantha, who took over from earlier hosts named in the show's own history (Kristen, Caroline, Molly, and Bridget). The 'Activists Around the World' segment profiles individual organizers using quotes drawn from print sources like The Cut and Time magazine, covering territory such as Ireland's 2018 abortion referendum and Pacific Northwest farmworker labor conditions. 'Happy Hour' episodes are the loosest format, pairing a season-by-season Sex and the City rewatch with tangents on subjects like fan fiction and copyright, neighborhood community life, and dating culture. The Book Club segment has the hosts read and discuss a novel, most recently Jenny Offill's Weather, linking its plot to disaster psychology and climate anxiety. One retrospective episode turned the microphone on the show itself, with Annie discussing her 2016 transition into hosting, hearing loss, and iHeart's 'Guaranteed Human' anti-AI initiative. Production credits mentioned on-air include a producer (Christina/Kristina) and an executive producer (Maya). Episode length varies widely, from roughly 13-minute solo profiles to hour-plus interview episodes. Listeners drawn to feminist history and activism, pop culture rewatch podcasts, or book club discussion formats are each served by a different segment of the catalog rather than a single throughline. Episodes are distributed by iHeartPodcasts and carry pre-roll ads for other network shows.
Made for: Listeners interested in feminist history and activism who also want pop-culture rewatch and book-club style discussion in the same show.
What sets it apart: Rather than one fixed format, it runs parallel recurring franchises — solo activist profiles, a two-host SATC rewatch, and a book club — within a single long-running feed.
Through an intersectional feminist perspective, hosts Anney and Samantha dive into science, history, and culture to make sense of the everyday and unpack the stories that brought us to where we are today. This podcast aims to better understand the challenges facing women and marginalized folks all over the world and highlights the tools we can use to tackle them head on.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Its film conversations turn character, imagery and franchise detail into clear arguments about power, trauma and whose experience a story centers.
Stuff Mom Never Told You treats a movie as evidence: a place where power, fear and identity become visible in character choices. In "Feminist Movie Friday: Aliens," Anney and Samantha follow Ripley's motherhood imagery, trauma and search for closure while comparing versions of…
Ripley meets KOSA and voter disinformation; you leave with more tabs open than you started.
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A sharp look at how election disinformation turned Ruby Freeman's visibility into a campaign of harassment.
Stuff Mom Never Told You follows the targeting of Ruby Freeman as online suspicion hardens into a public threat. A shirt, a purse, and a name become fodder for an accusation; Gateway Pundit identifies her, OANN airs the claim, Trump amplifies it, Fox News picks it up, and three…
A feminist Aliens discussion that finds motherhood, grief, and compassion inside Ripley's return to terror.
Feminist Movie Friday: Aliens reads the film through motherhood, trauma, and Ripley's uneasy return to the place that broke her sleep. The hosts move from Virgin Mary and mother-earth imagery to the director's cut detail that Ripley lost her daughter, Amanda, while in stasis.
A casual, media-literate fanfiction chat about fair use, plagiarism, public domain, and the culture of remixing stories.
Stuff Mom Never Told You treats fanfiction as a lively argument about borrowing, remixing, and who gets to keep playing with a story once it leaves its original creator's hands.
A thoughtful book-club conversation on Weather, doom, and the strange lag between disaster happening and people knowing what to call it.
Stuff Mom Never Told You's book club visit to Weather: A Novel centers on doom as something people often recognize slowly. The hosts spend time with the idea of "milling," the uneasy pause after a frightening event when everyone is still trying to decide whether the disaster has…
A brisk, affectionate revisit of Dana Scully as an X-Files survivor, cultural touchstone, and very complicated TV mom.
Stuff Mom Never Told You revisits Dana Scully through the messy late mythology of The X-Files: alien DNA, a vaccine to save humankind, Doggett, William, Emily, Mulder, and Scully's return from six years as a doctor to the reopened X-Files unit.
A concise recovery of Sylvia Robinson's role in making hip hop's first major recorded breakthrough possible.
Stuff Mom Never Told You revisits early hip hop through Sylvia Robinson, the R&B writer, singer, producer, and label owner whose Sugarhill work helped make "Rapper's Delight" possible.
A clear look at Mary Magdalene as a battleground for gender, authority, and religious memory.
Mary Magdalene is treated here as a problem religious memory has never quite known how to leave alone: a woman close to Jesus, possibly influential, and therefore repeatedly pulled into stories about marriage, sex, scandal, or suspicious intimacy.
A loose SATC rewatch chat about dating advice, expertise, and the awkward rituals around romance and grief.
Sex and the City's "Frenemies" gives Stuff Mom Never Told You an easy lane into dating advice, single life in New York, and the awkward power dynamics of paying someone to tell you what you already half know.
Josh Clark and Chuck Bryant explain one topic per episode, from the bicameral mind to Boeing's MCAS.
Multi-part dramatized retellings of scandals like OceanGate's Titan and the Lehman Brothers collapse.
Sean Fennessey and Amanda Dobbins dissect Oscar races, new releases, and Hollywood news.
Adam Kempenaar and Josh Larsen debate new releases, classics, and their own film rankings.
Ruby Freeman's name became the target.
Ripley returns to danger with extra weight.
Fanfiction gets the legal side-eye.
Doom is the pull here.
This episode features an interview with Dr.
A lot happened fast.
Sylvia Robinson won't stay footnoted.
Mary Magdalene still will not fit in the neat little box.
Two million single men, allegedly.
The segment starts with surveillance tech.
Hosts Annie and Samantha profile Dr.
The scary part is the framing.
Hosts Anney and Samantha discuss Easter traditions and personal memories from a feminist perspective.
Hosts Anney and Samantha discuss fanfiction as a queer space and its broader cultural implications from an intersectional feminist perspective.
Hosts discuss weight and weight loss anxiety from an intersectional feminist perspective.
Hosts Anney and Samantha interview Bridget Todd about her birthday and personal preferences, setting up a feminist discussion.
A boycott takes over the story.
Anney and Samantha revisit a classic episode analyzing the feminism of K-pop, discussing its history, controversies, and cultural impact.
This is a promotional segment for various iHeart podcasts, including SMNTY Classics about the X-Files, with no substantive content from the actual episode.
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Charlotte spends the episode chasing an answer for Trey.
Samantha and Annie revisit the 1995 Irish coming-of-age film Circle of Friends, based on Maeve Binchy's novel, starring Minnie Driver and Chris O'Donnell.
Stuff Mom Never Told You hosts Annie and Samantha profile Ailbhe Smyth, an Irish feminist, queer activist, and academic who has campaigned for reproductive rights and LGBTQ+ equality since the 1970s.
Hosts Anney and Samantha explore women's experiences in mountain climbing through an intersectional feminist perspective.
Hosts Anney and Samantha discuss K-pop and Korean cultural representation at the Oscars through an intersectional feminist lens.
The episode looks back at the show’s move from one host era to the next.
In this Happy Hour episode, host Annie tells co-host Samantha about waking up to 30 text messages on Friday the 13th, her quarantine-iversary, to discover the neighborhood cat Blue had been hit by a car.
Hosts Annie and Samantha trace the cultural history of the eggplant emoji, from its 2010 Unicode debut to Instagram's 2015 ban of hashtag Eggplant Friday.
Hosts Anney and Samantha discuss women assassins and secret agents from a feminist perspective, revisiting a classic episode for Women's History Month.
Hosts Anney and Samantha interview Dr.
This transcript consists of promotional segments for various iHeart podcasts, including 2%, Thanks Dad, and others, without substantive content from the intended interview with AJ Andrews.
This transcript features multiple podcast advertisements and promotions, including for Point S tires, the 2% podcast on mental toughness, Will Ferrell's appearance on Thanks Dad, and a true crime story about a con artist.
This episode revisits a classic on grooming, discussing its manifestations in light of current news, from an intersectional feminist perspective.
Hosts Anney and Samantha discuss the book 'Pride' from an intersectional feminist perspective, exploring themes of gender and society.
This episode likely explores a topic related to women's history or social issues through an intersectional feminist lens.
This episode discusses the political negotiations around ICE and DHS funding, including the construction of new detention centers and the human rights implications.
Hosts Anney and Samantha discuss the concept of a 'work spouse' from an intersectional feminist perspective, exploring workplace relationships and their social implications.
An exploration of science, history, and culture from an intersectional feminist perspective to understand challenges facing women and marginalized folks.
Hosts Anney and Samantha discuss the history and current events surrounding ICE and CBP from an intersectional feminist perspective.
Hosts Anney and Samantha reintroduce a classic episode of their Sex and the City watch series, blending feminist analysis with pop culture.