To cap off our 8th season and tide you over until 2023, we’re bringing you the rare TBS culture episode. No tennis talk whatsoever -- we even had a few tennis-related items on the agenda which we deleted. We’ve got: an hour of TV talk including spoilers for The White Lotus and a few lightning-round rants; thoughts on “queerbaiting” and Kit Connor’s forced coming-out; Mariah Christmas concert review; and takes on blackfishing, digital minstrelsy, T Swift, and more!

5:55 Spoilers ahead for The White Lotus, one of the few remaining watercooler shows

15:45 MVPs Aubrey Plaza & Meghann Fahy

20:50 Siamo tutti gay!

27:30 Is the Golden Age of Television over? It’s ok if it is, all things must pass

31:50 Some shows we enjoyed: Mo, Industry, Better Things, Heartstopper, Somebody Somewhere, The Bear, P-Valley, and more

53:25 Each of us do a mini-rant about TV

01:02:00 Heartstopper and the extratextual: Kit Connor comes out after the fandom accuses him of queerbaiting

01:10:20 David Archuleta from American Idol comes out 

01:15:15 So what happened with Bros?

01:20:55 Recapping Mariah’s Christmas concerts in Toronto!

01:30:30 We need to talk about Taylor Swift (without losing half of our listeners)

01:40:00 Miss Patti has still got it at 78

01:44:30 Terrible news about Celine Dion’s health

01:47:00 Kardashian-Jenner hegemony: when will it end?

01:57:30 Asking each other a tough and a not-so-tough question