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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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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It's our 100th episode! To celebrate the milestone -- and it's fortuitous occurrence in Valentine's week -- we've put together a compilation of our favorite crush and heartbreak stories, featuring guests like Ayo Edebiri, Matthew McConaughey, Jenna Ortega, Amy Schumer, and so many more. Enjoy!
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In our fourth "Ask Me Anything" episode of the season, the hosts answer your listener submitted questions about loss. From the passing of loved ones, to the ending of relationships -- it's all on the table.
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Noah Centineo (To All The Boys I've Loved Before, Sierra Burgess Is a Loser, Black Adam) brings his signature vulnerability and charm to the pod. He talks about the time his dad encouraged him to beat up the kid who bullied his sister (a noble quest, but a scary one) and the sobering moment in a New York hotel when he realized his entire life had changed forever.
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...Topher Grace (That 70's Show, Oceans 11, Interstellar) drops by the pod and immediately has the hosts in stitches. From his earliest days of wondering why his farts didn't get the kind of laughs the other kids' farts did, to the time he unsuccessfully asked out the prettiest girl in school, to the hilarious story of how he got his breakout role as Eric in That 70's Show, to his BTS stories of working on his new thriller&n...
Actor, writer, and standup comic Ilana Glazer (Broad City, Afterparty, Babes) sits down to face some hard-hitting questions, like this absolute banger from Penn: "why weren't you cooler?" Ilana also shares stories of her early days in the New York alt-comedy scene, and lists some of her favorite "in da clerb" videos.
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Fresh off a historic run of Golden Globe wins for her new film The Brutalist, actor Felicity Jones (The Theory of Everything, On The Basis of Sex, Rogue One) drops in to share stories of her early life -- from her days as a child actor, to her canon moments in college losing out on roles in student films to other students (despite being a decade into her professional acting career), to how The Brutalist beautifi...
To celebrate his new film The Apprentice, we're doing a special holiday rerun of our episode with Sebastian Stan! Penn and Seb reminisce about heartbreak during their time on Gossip Girl and how acting forces them to question things. Sebastian also shares how it was to learn English through acting, and the group ponders how to navigate friendship and competition in the entertainment industry.
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