Good News And More Shows!

Opening Argument: Good News And More Shows!

First, we couldn’t be happier to tell you that Aisha Harris, who was most recently a culture editor at The New York Times and also was the host of the Slate podcast Represent, is joining our team as our fourth permanent host. So Aisha will, like me and Glen and Stephen, be not just on our air, but also working on picking topics, planning, and hosting herself. You’ve heard Aisha on PCHH many times as a rotating fourth chair, on everything from Da 5 Bloods to Frozen 2 to Valerian And The City Of A Thousand Planets. We think the world of her, and we’re so, so very excited that she’s joining us. 

Now, the clarifications! Does this mean that we will no longer be rotating in fresh panelists as we’ve been doing? Absolutely not. It’s still our goal to increase the presence of a wide variety of voices in addition to our hosts; it’s just that we’ll have four hosts instead of three. You will undoubtedly hear the four of us together sometimes, but more often, you’ll hear some combination of us and the panelists we love to bring on the show to talk about what they’re passionate and knowledgeable about. 
 

What we hope this will do is not only make more room for more voices, but also give us the ability to respond to news more easily (right now, whether we cover a news event in pop culture depends partly on what day of the week it happens) and to cover more ground. We want to do more movies and TV, but also more games and music and books. We’ve also heard from a lot of you that you miss some of the more thematic episodes we used to do that weren’t all about one property, and this will also make more room for those.

Of course, if you still want two episodes a week, you’ll still be able to listen to two episodes a week and pick and choose from the rest. We’ll never know! Overall, though, we think this will be a great new era for us and for our listeners, and we’ll be able to serve the audience better and bring you a stronger mix of panelists.