Who? Weekly hosts Bobby Finger and Lindsey Weber on celebrity in the age of social media stardom

Have you ever been scrolling through Instagram and come across a person with millions of followers, and as you zoom in on their face you whisper to yourself, "WHO is this person?"

Then as you ponder over whether you have slid into irrelevance because you don't know, the very next post you see is a famous person you recognize—and you secretly congratulate yourself as you think, "Oh I know THEM!"

Well, that phenomenon of celebrity Whos and Thems is precisely the subject matter covered in the very popular pop culture podcast Who? Weekly. It's a show that, as they put it, tells you everything you need to know about the celebrities you don't. 

This week hosts Bobby Finger and Lindsey Weber join Leah to discuss the state of pop culture, rank some Canadian icons and share their favourite pods. Crunch, crunch.

Who? Weekly: "Each week, Bobby and Lindsey delve into the Whos and Thems of the pop culture landscape—bravely daring to ask (and then, answer) the question on all of our minds: "Who?" In this clip, they talk about Simon & Garfunkle, Stedman Graham and Herbert Hoover."

Celebrity Book Club Podcast With Steven & Lily: "Join comedians Steven Phillips-Horst & Lily Marotta as they rifle through celebrity memoirs to find fertile ground for searing cultural insights and juicy gossip. Martinis not included. In this clip, they try some recipes from Sheryl Crow's cookbook, If It Makes You Healthy."

The Secret History of The Estonia: "On September 27th, 1994, the passenger ship Estonia set sail from Tallinn on an overnight trip to Stockholm across the Baltic sea, but it never made it. More than 850 lives were lost. Though the official report blamed mechanical failure, conspiracy theories proliferated, some more plausible than others. In this clip, host Stephen Davis explores the possibility of Russian involvement in the disaster."

Pop Pantheon: "In each episode, host DJ Louie XIV and guests analyze the career of a pop star, and then rank them in the official Pop Pantheon. This clip is from their two-part episode on Katy Perry with guest Daniel D'Addario, chief television critic at Variety."

This Had Oscar Buzz: "Every week on This Had Oscar Buzz, film and entertainment writers Joe Reid and Chris Feil are going to be talking about a different movie that once upon a time had big-time Academy Award aspirations, and for one reason or another, it all went wrong. In this clip they discuss Pride (2014), which tells the true story of Lesbians and Gays Support the Miners, a queer activist group that partnered with a Welsh town in the 1980s during the mining strike under Thatcher's rule."

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