Everything Is Annoying

From Fader Magazine to NPR, Sai has been curating the music we listen to for years. She currently runs special projects at Sonos, overseeing programming for Sonos Radio and Sonos Sound System which means she basically DJs the DJs. Sai joins me to talk about how to playlist for a global audience, being goth, all things Barbra Streisand, and things that give us mental papercuts.

This week's episode is one of my favorites. Political organizer Candice Fortin discusses how to remain strong and resilient in our activism. Candice works with Color of Change and is the Co-Founder of HAVEN Media, a safe space collective for BIPOC women. Her work is centered on equity and racial justice. I was super inspired by her. PLUS! I share my juiciest Natasha Lyonne story involving us going almost fisticuffs back in the day when we were both babies.

Karla Welch is a Hollywood stylist who clocks Justin Beiber, Amy Poehler, Oprah Winfrey, Tracee Ellis Ross, American Ferrera and Olivia Wilde as clients. She’s been profiled in the New Yorker and Vogue and recently launched her styling app Wishi which is actually good, and she’s done collaborations with Levi’s and Hanes, the latter of which she modeled after her custom work for Beiber. You can buy her collections at xkarla.com.

Meet legendary NYC nightlife entertainer Johnny Fava aka Russell Steinberg. We get into Soho House fuccbois, our fave shows Curb, #PUMPRULES and ROHNY, the latter of which his partner Sarah Sweeney is a cast member. We swap stories about how our Jewish mothers love nothing more than to talk about their wills. Just a couple of Jews trying to break into Hollywood! Russell also answers the burning question: is it worse to date someone who only takes selfies or raise a kid who only posts selfies? A hideous choice.

Chrissie Miller is a creative consultant for brands including Warby Parker. We talk about our significant others, the hat pandemic that has unfortunately swept LA, my hero Fran Lebowitz, Kanye, Chloe Sevigny as a fashion icon and more.

CARLA MUSIC is the food director of Bon Appetit. We talk about the dirty details of cooking with celebrities, her AMAZING cook book that will help you scale down your kitchen and pantry items. We also get into the Great British Baking Show, tracking the secret trash pile at Conde Naste HQ, Shangela from Ru Paul’s Drag Race, and how Pharrell got me started me on #RAISINWARS.

In our pilot episode, Aviva talks to Amber Tamblyn and comedian John Roberts about what exactly shaves years off their lives, the evolution of comedy, coming out in the 80’s vs today, and Great Jewish Women. We also have an Andrea Zuckerman appreciation moment. 

Welcome to Everything Is Annoying, a podcast for those who love to kibitz and kvetch. The people want gripes and we have them! This is a safe space to talk about the things that drive us absolutely insane.

Instead of asking celebrities and creatives “How Did You Become Successful?” or “What’s Your Process?” host Aviva Yael gets to a universally relatable subject: things we can’t stand. These are the hills we will die on, no matter how irrational, idiosyncratic and obscure.