BFG Podcast #174: 'Anora,' and 'A Real Pain.' Plus Meghan Daum stops by to talk to Neal Pollack about writers leaving Twitter and about the rise of Justine Bateman

As we continue to process the cultural fallout from the 2024 Presidential election, writer and podcaster Meghan Daum stops by the pod-dome to talk to Neal Pollack about the strange phenomenon of writers and creative people leaving Twitter for Bluesky, seeking a safe space from the MAGA storm. But there's no escape, Meghan and Neal conclude, and then proceed to talk shit about people getting MFAs, and about how the world has labeled them ideological traitors. But whatever the trend is, Neal concludes, he's going to miss that train and fail to cash in. That's the one constant in life.

Meghan and Neal pivot to talking about the rise of