Episodes
We’re back - kind of! Tune in for our traditional year in review episode, plus an update on where we’ve been and future programming.
DTCBS forever!
Reading
The Rachel Incident - Caroline O’Donoghue
Tom Lake - Ann Patchett
In the Unlikely Event - Judy Blume
Wifey - Judy Blume
Really Good, Actually - Monica Heisey
I Have Some Questions for You - Rebecca Makkai
Happy Place - Emily Henry
Watching
Movies
Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret
May...
Published 01/02/24
We're celebrating the start of summer with a bumper Reading, Watching, Listening episode! That's right; we're sharing alllll our favorite summer books, movies, TV shows, and albums so you can get into the spirit of the season!
Share your summer recommendations with us on Instagram: @dtcbspodcast, @majkahahn & @yazminelomax
May Reading
Happy Place by Emily Henry
Preloved by Lauren Bravo
May Watching
Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret.
The Other Two
May Listening
Books...
Published 05/31/23
This month, we're rounding up a selection of upcoming elections as well as all the latest romance news! Come get your fix!
Follow us on Instagram as @dtcbspodcast, @majkahahn, and @yazminelomax.
Reading
NSFW by Isabel Kaplan
Watching
Jury Duty
Blackberry
Listening
The Walkmen (on tour now!)
One Wayne G by Mac DeMarco
Published 05/07/23
For the first time in almost a year, we're recording together in person...so a very special game of Would You Rather is in order!
Follow us on Instagram as @dtcbspodcast, @yazminelomax, and @majkahahn.
Reading
Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer
I Have Some Questions for You by Rebecca Makai
Really Good, Actually by Monica Heisey
All This Could Be Different by Sarah Thankam Mathews
Paris: The Memoir by Paris Hilton
Watching
The Grizzlie Truth
Succession
Listening
Hyperromantic...
Published 04/06/23
Let's recap the shortest month of the year through the lens of politics and pop culture! This month we're chatting book banning, those viral shoes, and all the things we read, watched, and listened to!
Follow us on Instagram as @dtcbspodcast, @majkahahn, and @yazminelomax.
Reading
Ancestor Trouble: A Reckoning and a Reconciliation by Maud Newton
The Secret History by Donna Dartt
Watching
Fixer Upper
One Fine Morning
Listening
Sentimental Garbage Gilmore Girls mini-series
Paper Towns...
Published 03/01/23
Welcome to 2023! We're kicking the year off with a Jacinda Arden as PM retrospective and a breakdown of *that* Andrew Garfield x Amelia Dimoldenberg red carpet interview. Enjoy!
Follow us on Instagram as @yazminelomax, @majkahahn, and @dtcbspodcast.
Reading
The No Show by Beth O’Leary
A Court of Thorns and Roses series by Sarah J. Maas
Heartburn by Nora Ephron
Portrait of a Thief by Grace D. Li
Watching
That 90s Show
Catherine Called Birdy
The Royal Tenenbaums
Ginny and Georgia Season...
Published 01/31/23
It's time for our favorite episode of the year! For our third annual DTCBS Awards show, we're celebrating the books, movies, TV shows, podcasts, albums, and politics and pop culture stories that defined 2022.
Reading
Every Summer After by Carley Fortune
Book Lovers by Emily Henry
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin
The Love Songs of W.E.B. Dubois by Honorée Fanonne Jeffers
Watching (Movies)
Top Gun: Maverick
Everything Everywhere All at Once
I Want You Back
The...
Published 01/02/23
We're recapping objectively the best month of the year: October! Tune in to hear us talk about the books we read, shows we watched, and albums we listened to as well Elon Musk's purchase of Twitter and boyband BTS' enlistment in the South Korean army.
Follow us on Instagram as @yazminelomax, @majkahahn, and @dtbspodcast!
Reading
The Long Road Home: Blackness and Belonging by Debra Thomspon
Carrie Soto is Back by Taylor Jenkins Reid
Watching
The Sex Lives of College Girls on...
Published 11/07/22
September has ended so it's time to wake up (geddit?) and listen to our recap episode! Majka is covering European politics and Yaz is talking about the Queen's death, celebrity cheating scandals, and the return of The Kardashians...all through a baby-focused lens. And if that isn't enough, you can join us on Instagram as @dtcbspodcast or individually as @yazminelomax and @majkahahn!
Reading
House of Hollow by Krystal Sutherland
A Bright Ray of Darkness by Ethan Hawke
Pizza Girl by...
Published 10/05/22
Happy September, folks! The end of August got a little crazy but we MADE IT and now we're ready to discuss Sanna Marin's dancing, Linda Evangelista's British Vogue cover, and much, much more!
Reading
Throne of Glass series by Sarah J Maas
How the Word is Passed by Clint Smith
Watching
Charade
Breaking Away
The Rehearsal on HBO
Listening
Normal Gossip
Room on Fire by The Strokes (vinyl re-release from Vinyl Me...
Published 09/07/22
July was a big one: the Pope visited Canada, Bennifer got married, and we're here to recap it all!
Keep up with us before our next episode on Instagram as @dtcbspodcast, @majkahahn, and @yazminelomax.
Reading
Every Summer After by Carley Fortune
A Map to the Door of No Return by Dionne Brand
Watching
Nope
Leave Her to Heaven
Listening
Unreal: A Critical History of Reality...
Published 08/02/22
As Bon Jovi once said, we're halfway there! "There" being the year 2022, which makes this our June episode.
This month has been a tough one for a lot of people so we hope this episode offers some reprieve while still being educational. We also encourage you to join us in donating to abortion funds in the United States, which you can find right here: https://abortionfunds.org/funds/
Follow us on Instagram as @dtbspodcast, @yazminelomax, and @majkahahn.
Reading
The Switch by Beth...
Published 07/01/22
Surprise! We're together IRL again and ready to blow your mind (but hopefully not your eardrums) with reading, watching, and listening recs as well as all the details on upcoming elections and *that* celebrity wedding.
Reading
Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo
Beach Read by Emily Henry
Reputation by Lex Croucher
Watching
Petite Maman
Heartstopper on Netflix
Conversations with Friends on Hulu
Listening
I’ve Felt All These Things by Anna Leone
Dear God by Hamilton...
Published 06/01/22
Just like your place of work, we're back in-person! That's right; for the first time since 2018, we've recorded an entire episode in the same room. Tune in to hear us deviate from our usual politics and pop culture format, and instead, take things down a more personal--and dare we say, scenic?-- route.
Follow our IRL adventures together on Instagram where we post as @dtcbpodcast, @majkahahn, and @yazminelomax.
Reading
Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell
House of Sky and Breath (Crescent...
Published 05/06/22
This episode mentions the Oscars a lot but doesn't rehash The Thing That Happened at the Oscars. You're welcome.
Follow our upcoming reunion on Instagram as @dtcbspodcast, @yazminelomax, and @majkahahn.
Reading
Live, Laugh, Kidnap by Gabby Noone
The Love Songs of W.E.B. Dubois by Honorée Fanonne Jeffers
Watching
Life of Beth
Abbott Elementary
Everything, Everywhere, All at Once
The Batman
Turning Red
Listening
As it Was by Harry Styles
Coolest F*****g Bitch in Town by Haley...
Published 04/06/22
The past month has been...a lot. Particularly in politics. So, we're attempting to make even a sliver of your day a little lighter by focusing on the politics of language revitalization and the drama over at Peloton. We hope this can serve as a small escape for you!
Reading
Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi
Migrations by Charlotte McConaghy
The Paper Palace by Miranda Cowley Heller
Watching
Top of the Lake
Parallel Mothers
I Want You Back
Picnic at Hanging...
Published 03/03/22
Happy 2022! We're kicking off the first month of the year by chatting about the potentially tenuous situation on the Ukrainian AND the phenomenon that is Wordle. If you believe variety is the spice of life, you've come to the right place!
Find us on Instagram as @dtcbspodcast, @yazminelomax, and @majkahahn.
Listen to our very first episode (mentioned in this episode) here.
Reading
The Anthropocene Reviewed by John Green
A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J....
Published 02/02/22
Another bizarre year is over and we’re waving it goodbye by drinking festive cocktails and recapping some of our top things of the year!
Reading
House of Hollow by Krystal Sutherland
How to Break Up with Fast Fashion by Lauren Bravo
Crying in H-Mart by Michelle Zauner
Detransition, Baby by Torrey Petters
Beautiful World Where are You by Sally Rooney
Watching
Zola
To All The Boys: Always and Forever
Mitchell’s vs the Machines
Bergman Island
Worst Person in the...
Published 12/26/21
In one of our final episodes for 2021, we’re discussing our NYC reunion, The Hunger Games (in painstaking detail), the art collective who just won the Turner Prize, and budding romance between Kim Kardashian and Pete Davidson. Enjoy!
Reading
Crying in H-Mart by Michelle Zauner
Detransition, Baby by Torrey Peters
Out of Love by Hazel Hayes
The Ballad of Snakes and Songbrids by Suzanne Collins
Watching
House of Gucci
Holiday Home Makeover with Mr Christmas
The Hunger Games...
Published 12/04/21
How was your spooky szn, friends? Tune into this episode to find out how ours was and learn about two very different events that happened this October: the hunger strike for climate justice taking place outside the White House and British girl band Little Mix's very public feud.
Stay in the loop on all things Different Things Can Be Sad by following us on Instagram as @dtcbspodcast, @majkahahn, and @yazminelomax.
Trigger warning for this episode: discussions of depression, eating...
Published 11/03/21
Welcome to spooky szn! Let's kick it off together by looking back on the things that made September 2021, well, September 2021!
Catch us at the same time, same place next month. And in the meantime, follow us on Instagram as @dtcbspodcast,@yazminelomax, and @majkahahn (who is also on Twitter as @majkahahn).
Reading
Beautiful World Where Are You by Sally Rooney
Crying in the H Mart by Michelle Zauner
Watching
Breaking Bad
El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie
Jen Lilley Hallmark...
Published 10/05/21
August did it again--it slipped away into a moment in time! And did so like a bottle of wine! So here we are again, recapping all things politics and pop culture that happened in August. More specifically, the headline issues that Majka has been pondering and Molly-Mae Hague's appointment as Creative Director of Pretty Little Thing. Enjoy!
Can't get enough? Follow us on Instagram as @dtcbspodcast, @yazminelomax, and @majkahahn (who is also on Twitter).
Reading
The Anthropocene...
Published 09/02/21
Happy summer, pals! This episode, we're looking back at the month that was July 2021 -- from the start of the very contentious Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games to the likes of Blake Lively and Gigi Hadid calling out paps for snapping photos of their kids. So find a hammock, grab a frozen margarita, and enjoy!
Find us on Instagram at @dtcbspodcast.
Keep up with Majka on Instagram and Twitter as @majkahahn, and Yaz as @yazminelomax on Instagram.
Reading
Reproduction by Ian Williams...
Published 08/05/21
We're not gonna beat around the bush here. We're releasing this episode on Canada Day 2021 and encourage you to head straight to the resources Majka has shared so you can learn more about Canada's residential "schools", including what you can do to support survivors and the families of victims.
Reading
Rachel Lindsay article: https://www.vulture.com/article/rachel-lindsay-the-bachelor-franchise.html
Lowlands by Jhumpa Lahiri
One Last Stop by Casey McQuiston
Watching
In the...
Published 07/02/21