Podcrushed
Podcrushed — the podcast where Penn Badgley reads your middle school story -- explores the heartbreak, anxiety and self-discovery of being a teenager. Hosts Penn Badgley, Nava Kavelin, and Sophie Ansari bring you stories and conversations about middle school - from childhood crushes, to battles with body hair, to schoolyard scuffles. The results are sometimes awkward, sometimes heartwarming, and always relatable. Sales and Distribution by Lemonada Media https://lemonadamedia.com/
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Today’s guest is the wildly talented Karen Gillan, the actor you know from major franchises like Guardians of the Galaxy, Avengers: Endgame, and Jumanji, as well as her breakout role as Amy Pond on Doctor Who. Karen talks about her early days growing up in Inverness, Scotland, and how her relentless teenage ambition landed her an agent (spoiler alert: she cold-called every casting director and agent i...
Kevin Smith, the acclaimed film director whose comedic films and franchises include Clerks, Mallrats, Chasing Amy and Jay & Silent Bob, swings by the pod to talk about the freedom of his (mostly) unsupervised childhood, his near-religious experience watching Raiders of the Lost Ark for the first time with his father, and his iconic cult-classic film Dogma, which is celebrating i...
Our guest today is Ashley Flowers, New York Times bestselling author and host of Crime Junkie, one of the biggest true crime podcasts ever, with over a billion downloads since its 2017 debut. She talks about her early life in the church, her late-night-grind to get Crime Junkie off the ground, and her theories on why crime is so fascinating.
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Susan Sarandon, the actor whose five decade career has earned her six Primetime Emmy nominations and an Academy Award for Best Actress, joins the pod to talk about her early days as a God-fearing Catholic kid in New Jersey. She details the unexpected and serendipitous path that led her to acting, and talks about her new film Nonnas, about a man who risks everything to honor his late mother by opening an Italian ...
Anna Camp (Pitch Perfect, True Blood) comes by to help us wrap up our YOU extravaganza. She talks severe childhood bullying and a sweet adult comeuppance, slinging drugs in jorts for the school play… as a six year old, and the moment while fully naked and exposed in Equus that almost made her break. We get into all things YOU as she unpacks her show-stealing performance as Reagan AND Maddie Lockwood.
Our YOU Season 5 celebration continues! This is part two of our YOU Season 5 finale rewatch episode with director Lee Toland Krieger. And if you want to see clips from the show, watch this episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/zp7H_9NxJso
And preorder our new book, Crushmore, here: https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Crushmore/Nava-Kavelin/9781668077993
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Our YOU Season 5 celebration continues! Today we're launching a two part reaction episode to the YOU S5 Finale, featuring director Lee Toland Krieger. Keep an eye out for Part 2, out tomorrow! And if you want to see clips from the show, watch this episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/L4UZsjbCOIE
And preorder our new book, Crushmore, here: https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Crushmore/Nava-Kavelin/9...
YOU week continues! Madeline Brewer (Handmaids Tale, Orange is the New Black) is Joe’s Final Girl and she’s here to talk about it. She shares about her days as an adolescent in Pittman, NJ and the pivotal moment she crossed the river into New York to pursue acting. And of course, she and Penn reminisce on their time working on the set of YOU together.
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[SPOILERS AHEAD] In this series finale actors roundtable (I’m not crying, you’re crying!), the incredible women of YOU come together for a conversation to discuss that epic finale, intuition and erasure, and how they worked together to seal Joe’s fate. Featuring Madeline Brewer, Tati Gabrielle, Amy-Leigh Hickman, Charlotte Ritchie, and Anna Camp. [Watch the episode on YouTube here: https://youtu.be/qAr3KFeejO4]
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To kick off our celebration of the release of YOU Season 5, we're doing a two part reaction episode to the YOU S1 Pilot, featuring director Lee Toland Krieger.
And preorder our new book, Crushmore, here: https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Crushmore/Nava-Kavelin/9781668077993
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To kick off our celebration of the release of YOU Season 5, we're doing a two part reaction episode to the YOU S1 Pilot, featuring director Lee Toland Krieger. Keep an eye out for part two, coming out tomorrow! And if you want to see clips from the show, watch this episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/VSa1oMAA0Q0
And preorder our new book, Crushmore, here: https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Crushmore/Nava-Kavelin/9781...
Michelle Buteau -- the actor and comedian you know from Babes, A Buteau-ful Mind, and Survival of the Thickest -- regales the hosts with stories about her adolescent crush ("he looked like a young Leonardo DiCaprio, but Puerto Rican"), her journey into standup comedy, and the incredible intuition that she taps into through her dreams.
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On April 21st, the we will be doing our very first live speaking event at the renowned 92nd Street Y in New York City. We’ll be joined by one of our favorite podcasters and storytellers of all time, Anna Martin (from the hit New York Times podcast Modern Love). You can get your tickets a 92NY.org/events/podcrushed. Can’t wait to see you there!
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This week Adam Brody (Fleishman is in Trouble, Shazam!, The O.C.) stops by and wins the group over with his endless trove of middle school stories. Adam gets passionate explaining his take on marriage, and shares why he’s the happiest he’s ever been.
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Eiza González (3 Body Problem, The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare, Baby Driver) sits down to talk about her early life riding motorcycles, the overnight fame she experienced on an Argentinian soap opera, and the realities of navigating her teen years in the shadow of her beloved father's passing. The light, the dark, and the in-between... Eiza goes there. You can catch her new film "Ash" -- a space-based horror thriller d...
Sophie Thatcher (Heretic, Yellowjackets, MaXXXine) remembers life as a chronically online, Sims obsessed, Tumblr-using twin, and recalls her earliest moments of success as a young artist making her way through middle school.
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Amber Midthunder (Prey, Avatar: The Last Airbender) joins the hosts to dive into the full rollercoaster of pre-teen emotions—from the starry-eyed moment she fell in love with acting to the slightly less magical moment when, at ten years old, she panicked and bailed on a professional gig… on the very day it was supposed to shoot.
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Brianne Howey -- the actor you know from Ginny & Georgia, Dear Santa, Batwoman, and now her new film Kinda Pregnant -- regales the hosts with stories of growing up as the artsy one in a family of athletes, and spills the details of her mom's illicit (albeit cheeky) Crate & Barrel heist. Sorry, mom.
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Antoni Porowski -- the esteemed chef and reality host from Queer Eye, Easy Bake Battle, and now No Taste Like Home -- tells the story of his craziest babysitter (aptly nicknamed "Crazy Debbie"), growing up as the Polish kid in decidedly un-Polish West Virginia, and the fortuitous twists and turns that led to his casting on Netflix's smash reality show Queer Eye.
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Jesse Tyler Ferguson (Modern Family, Dinner's On Me) brings his buoyant sarcasm and wellspring of wild stories to the pod -- from the time he got pinned to a fence and ditched by a roving gang of eighth graders, to his arrest and court appearance as teenager, to the serendipitous story of his Modern Family audition.
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