The Department: a podcast about trends.

81 Episodes

1. Episode 61: Everything New Is Old Again (part 1): Time Traveling, And Just Like That...., Snark Attack

   Published: 2/1/2022
2. Episode 60: Crime Curious (part 2): The True Crime Female Paradigm, Paranoia and Amateur Hour

   Published: 11/16/2021
3. Crime Curious (part 1): The Trend of True Crime + The Staircase Exposed

   Published: 11/9/2021
4. Episode 58: We couldn’t help but wonder....what trends came out of Sex in the City?

   Published: 10/12/2021
5. Episode 57: The Super Story behind Superfoods: Kale Tales, Pom Promises and Going Bananas for Bananas

   Published: 9/28/2021
6. Episode 56: Cultured Content: The Fro-11 on Fro-Yo, Food Trends through the Years and Rich White Guys with Dumb Opinions

   Published: 9/21/2021
7. Episode 55: Drinking the Kool Aid: The Cult of Juicing

   Published: 9/14/2021
8. Episode 54: “That Girl” Trend is Poison: #Girlboss Reinvented, Sweetgreen and the Ideal Woman

   Published: 8/24/2021
9. Episode 53: “That Girl” Trend is Poison: Wack Wellness Culture & Orthorexia

   Published: 8/17/2021
10. Episode 52: Nostalgic Food Trends: As American as Mac & Cheese, Hamburger Helper and Hungry Man

    Published: 8/10/2021
11. Episode 51: Nostalgic Food Trends...Getting Jiggly With It

    Published: 8/3/2021
12. Episode 50: From Bubbles to Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, The Social Science of The Baby Name Game

    Published: 7/27/2021
13. Episode 49: The Troll Trend (pt 2): How to Feed the Trolls

    Published: 7/20/2021
14. Episode 48: The Troll Trend (pt 1): The who, what, where, why and how of the troll epidemic.

    Published: 7/13/2021
15. Episode 47: Those CraZy KidZ: The Gen Z Aesthetics (pt 2) - Rare Aesthetics, Y2K and 2014 Nostalgia, Skinny Jeans vs The Masochist Aesthetic, War of #Adulting and The Great Shunning of 😂

    Published: 6/22/2021
16. Episode 46: Those CraZy KidZ: The Gen Z Aesthetics (pt 1) - Uglycore, Normcore, Authenticity and Perfection Fatigue

    Published: 6/15/2021
17. CH-CH-CH-CHEUGY! (pt 2): We might never know why lasagna is cheugy.

    Published: 6/8/2021
18. CH-CH-CH-CHEUGY! (pt 1): The basic origins of the latest aesthetic trend

    Published: 6/1/2021
19. Episode 43: That Value of Our Values (part II)

    Published: 5/25/2021
20. Episode 42: The Value of Our Values (part I)

    Published: 5/18/2021