Unabridged: 2024 Pop Culture Superlatives with Chelsea Devantez & Sam Sanders

In this episode of The Stacks Unabridged, we’re closing out 2024 with a lively recap of the year in pop culture. Chelsea Devantez and Sam Sanders join the show to hand out superlatives for this year’s biggest moments—from breakout performances to the villain of the year, and the stories that defined 2024.

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• Glamorous Trash: A Celebrity Memoir Podcast (Chelsea Devantez)

• The Stackies

• I Shouldn’t Be Telling You This by Chelsea Devantez

• The Sam Sanders Show (KCRW & Sam Sanders)

• Vibe Check (SiriusXM Podcasts)

• “Kendrick vs. Drake to Wicked: 2024 unpacked” (The Sam Sanders Show, KCRW)

• “Ready or Not” by Fugees

• This Is Me... Now (Jennifer Lopez, 2024)

• The Greatest Love Story Never Told (Jennifer Lopez, 2024)

• This Is Me…Now by Jennifer Lopez

• Neil deGrasse Tyson

• Jane Fonda

• Jay Shetty

• “Jennifer Lopez Files for Divorce from Ben Affleck After 2 Years of Marriage” (Tommy McArdle, Elizabeth Leonard, and Daniel S. Levine, People)

• Kendrick Lamar

• Drake

• Cynthia Erivo

• Ariana Grande

• Wicked (John Chu, 2024)

• “The Internet Cannot Get Over Ariana Grande's Strange Finger Hold” (Matt Stopera, Yahoo)

• Sophia La Corte

• Spotify

• Bandcamp

• Joe Rogan

• Call Her Daddy (Alex Cooper)

• Alex Cooper

• “Vice President Kamala Harris” (Call Her Daddy)

• “‘Kamala IS brat’: Harris campaign goes lime-green to embrace the meme of the summer” (Alaina Demopoulos, The Guardian)

• “What to know about Kamala Harris' viral coconut tree meme: "You exist in the context of all in which you live"” (Li Cohen, CBS News)

• Beyoncé

• Megan Thee Stallion

• “Barbara Bush, Scion of Republican Royalty, Knocks on Doors for Kamala Harris” (Tim Balk, The New York Times)

• Read with Jenna

• Chappell Roan

• “Taylor Swift Endorses Kamala Harris” (Nicholas NehamasTheodore Schleifer and Nick Corasaniti, The New York Times)

• “'Our pain matters': Jennifer Lopez endorses Harris at Las Vegas rally” (The Guardian)

• Bernie Sanders

• Sabrina Carpenter

• Richard Gadd

• Baby Reindeer (USA)

• Serena Page

• Love Island USA (CBS)

• Tim Walz

• Moo Deng

• Ina Garten

• The Menedez Brothers

• Ryan Murphy

• Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story (Netflix)

• “What we know about Luigi Mangione, suspect charged in UnitedHealthcare CEO's killing” (Alex Sundby, John Doyle, Layla Ferris, Laura Doan, Emma Li, Kerry Breen, CBS News)

• The Menendez Brothers (Netflix)

• Martha Stewart

• Martha (Netflix)

• Ryan Reynolds

• Mr. Morale and the Big Steppers by Kendrick Lamar

• GNX by Kendrick Lamar

• Adam Brody

• Nobody Wants This (Netflix)

• Strange Darling (J.T. Mollner, 2024)

• The Gutter (Yassir Lester & Isaiah Lester, 2024)

• Billy Maddison (Movie)

• Happy Gilmore (movie)

• Susan Sarandon

• My Old Ass (Megan Park, 2024)

• Scrambled (Leah McKendrick, 2024)

• The Substance (Coralie Fargeat, 2024)

• Demi Moore

• Alamo Drafthouse Cinema

• Margaret Qualley

• Wicked by Gregory Maguire

• “The Wizard and I” by Cynthia Erivo, Michelle Yeoh

• “J.D. Vance didn’t have sex with a couch. But he’s still extremely weird.” (Rebecca Jennings, Vox)

• West Side Story (Steven Spielberg, 2021)

• West Side Story (Jerome Robbins, Robert Wise, 1961)

• Chicago (Rob Marshall, 2002)

• Michelle Yeoh

• “Ariana Grande hosts ‘SNL’ for the first time since the last female presidential nominee” (Andrew Dalton, AP)

• “'Wicked' Stars Ariana Grande & Cynthia Erivo Break Down Viral 'Holding Space' Interview” (Variety)

• Blake Lively

• Jay-Z

• Diddy

• Jonathan Majors

• “Beyoncé's Mom Tina Knowles Says She Was Hacked After Her Account 'Liked' Post About Jay-Z Rape Allegation: 'That Is Not Me!'“ (Shyla Watson, People)

• “Did Beyoncé Change Her Name? What We Know” (Shannon Power, Newsweek)

• “Beyoncé will perform halftime during NFL Christmas Day Game: Here's what to know” (Caché McClay, USA Today)

• Justin Baldoni

• Boys Will Be Human by Justin Baldoni

• The Man Enough Podcast (Wayfarer Studio, LLC)

• It Ends with Us (Justin Baldoni, 2024)

• It Ends with Us by Colleen Hoover

• The Age Of Adaline (Lee Toland Krieger, 2015)

• Gossip Girl (USA)

• “Blake Lively’s Preserve: An Obituary” (Josh Duboff, Vanity Fair)

• “Blake Lively has been ‘tone deaf’ since her plantation wedding and promotion of slave owner ‘style’” (Martha Ross, The Mercury News)

• Reese Witherspoon

• “Ep. 325 It Ends with Us by Colleen Hoover — The Stacks Book Club (Melissa Mogollon)” (The Stacks)

• Ellen Degeneres

• “Drake alleges Universal falsely inflated popularity of Kendrick Lamar diss track ‘Not Like Us’” (Andrew Dalton, AP)

• “Anti-Hero” by Taylor Swift

• Travis Kelce

• Ben Shapiro

• America’s Sweethearts (Netflix)

• Love is Blind (Netflix)

• Say Nothing (FX)

• Say Nothing by Patrick Radden Keefe

• All Fours by Miranda July

• “Ep. 350 The Best Books of 2024 with Greta Johnsen & MJ Franklin” (The Stacks)

• MJ Franklin

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