Go 'woke', go Broke? and Barbie

This is a re-release celebrating a decade of love and allyship on A Gay And A NonGay. For our final throwback, we're revisiting a particularly memorable episode from February 2024... It's finally happened. What does Jamie Dornan think of Dan moonlighting as a Jamie Dornan look al ...  Show more

This is a re-release celebrating a decade of love and allyship on A Gay And A NonGay. This week we're throwing it back to November 2020... On this episode, Dan and James are joined by the rainbow of metal, the Metal God himself, Rob Halford, frontman for Birmingham heavy metal le ...  Show more

In this episode, Ruth and Elliot Handler are gone, and the new Mattel team, led by a man who feared the volatility of the toy business, diversified the company and made a big gamble on electronics. It didn’t work. Fortunately, Barbie ends up in the sure hands of some trailblazing ...  Show more

In 1959, Barbie changed the way girls played with dolls - taking them from babies to beauty queens, fashion mavens, and professional role models. But girls of color didn’t see themselves represented by the blonde haired, Malibu-tanned figurine. It took 20 years for Mattel to fina ...  Show more

In this episode the Kens bust out of Barbieland and takeover the couch! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices 

When the internet blew up earlier this week with the arrival of the Barbie trailer, the more discerning fans will have noticed that two obscure characters from the Mattell canon made an appearance. Midge and Allan...but who are these friends of Barbie and Ken and why are they so ...  Show more