00:00:00.000Hi, everyone. This is the Culture Study Podcast, special bonus edition, and I'm Anne Helen Peterson.
00:00:06.420And I'm Margaret H. Willison, Culture Study's new librarian.
00:00:10.620Okay, so this is a great way for us to introduce you today. You've been on the pod before,
00:00:18.200obviously. Anyone who listened to our last bonus pod, All About Wuthering Heights,
00:00:22.460Margaret was our special guest. And it got us thinking about something that I wanted to do
00:00:27.240for a long time. And that there is a whole newsletter and introduction to that should
00:00:31.760have landed in your inboxes this morning. And that is bring Margaret on as a more regular
00:00:37.580contributor, participant, leader and librarian in the community. And she's going to be doing
00:00:45.280a lot of different things as part of culture study. Again, all of them laid out in the newsletter
00:00:50.960this morning but she is also going to be our consistent guest host for the now officially
00:00:58.180monthly bonus pod yeah and we always want your ideas for future bonus pods so please send them
00:01:04.900in you can use the the normal submission form but we just kind of willy-nilly come up with
00:01:09.200ones that we want to talk about so please give us your suggestions i'm delighted to be here to be
00:01:14.100the newest subscriber perk for those wise enough to be paying subscribers for culture study
00:01:20.640Exactly. This special episode is going to be part of a larger series, intermittent series that we call like sort of late to the party. And what we mean sort of late to the cultural party. What we mean by this is that like it is not our task to publish pieces talking about a show like the day that the last episode comes out.
00:01:46.180like that is not we do not watch screeners we are not on top of our shit in that capacity
00:01:51.720in part because i mean we would watch screeners maybe if it was something that we were really0.76
00:01:57.200excited about but we we like to be at the same point that the majority of our audiences which is
00:02:04.000a little late to the cultural party just for like many different reasons like maybe it's that like
00:02:09.840you only watch one show at a time that's me um or uh you've resisted something for a long time
00:02:16.600like me and are finally watching it or reading it or whatever uh i think that there's a lot of
00:02:25.260different opportunities for us to like different ways that we can approach this subject but that
00:02:29.060is why we're talking about the pit we could have done this episode two weeks ago two and a half
00:02:33.600weeks ago when the finale came out but then we'd be on time for the cultural party and also we had
00:02:41.860to give you time to watch two seasons we did yeah i had to watch i had to watch 30 episodes of medical
00:02:47.900trauma oh my gosh and that's part of the other reason i thought this would be interesting is
00:02:54.260that margaret is coming fresh and i'm coming my positionality is as someone who came a little bit
00:03:00.940late to season one and thus was able to watch one episode a night for about 10 days and then kind of
00:03:08.860like met the show as it was ending so like the last two episodes i think i had to wait for it
00:03:13.840and a lot of people i think um did something similar because they like maybe had heard about
00:03:20.440it but they weren't watching week by week by week yeah it was a it was a slow burn build
00:03:27.020of obsession over the course of the first season which makes sense with a new show
00:03:31.220if you are watching week by week it takes a number of weeks before you know it's not just
00:03:37.480one good episode yeah and you didn't watch in part because you don't like medical shows is that right
00:03:44.800not entirely true like i like uh i watched scrubs like every millennial interesting see i i didn't
00:03:52.780watch scrubs well again like every millennial of a certain age like this is where like maybe the
00:03:57.900two years between us can make a difference but yeah yeah um i would download incredibly low
00:04:04.240resolution uh pirated copies of it off of kenyan college's proprietary or proprietary but illegal
00:04:12.940uh file sharing service kenster um and i would watch them with my roommate on a laptop computer
00:04:22.480while we ate the vegetable-only sushi that was only served once a week
00:04:27.380at the small coffee shop in our very rural Ohio college town.