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Episodes Monday Rundown August 25 - 31 2025

This week: Sabrina Carpenter, '90s Trek, and two great video essays.
The cover of Sabrina Carpenter's Man's Best Friend features her leaning by a man's crotch as he holds her blonde hair like a leash.
It's a good joke, and we're all laughing at it, and it has no troubling implications whatsoever! (Credit: Island Records)

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Emily St. James

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