You Know Too Much

Twenty-four guests later, we tell you who we’d bring back and finally explain our mascot, Luddie. Pamala and Eva look back on season one. Pamala hasn’t bought one new piece of clothing since the vintage episode, and Eva is sure Luddie is a coffee fiend.

They drove through the night to a stranger’s house with no money and knocked anyway. Tanner Shea knows way too much about the Spice Girls, especially their origin story. Five strangers assembled from an open newspaper ad became a fully manufactured girl group, then hijacked the whole operation themselves: fleeing their managers in the middle of the night, tracking down a songwriter through the phone book, and fighting their own record label to make “Wannabe” their lead single. It hit number one in 37 countries.

The US measures blood quantum for three things: horses, dogs, and Native people. Joey Clift is a citizen of the Cowlitz Indian Tribe and a comedy writer for shows like Paw Patrol, Spirit Rangers, and Molly of Denali. He’s spent the past few years turning that day job into a mission: a satire book making Native American history funny enough that people actually stick around to learn it.

The venom rarely kills you. Panicking does. Jelena Woehr spends her weekends on horseback ultra-marathons through Southern California rattlesnake country. She knows way too much about how to actually coexist with them, and what really happens if you get bitten.

Anne Rice sent cease-and-desist letters and killed her own fandom overnight. V. Arrow knows way too much about fandom and fanfiction: Dante’s Inferno counts (he wrote himself in to go fight God), the word “fandom” itself was coined in 1938 by rival fan clubs in New York and Los Angeles who feuded for decades over things like how to staple a zine, and one of its founding members was a trans woman also behind the historic Catskills retreat Casa Susana. She also knows about the time Anne Rice discovered her own fanfiction writers and sent cease-and-desist letters that killed the whole fandom overnight.