For the New York Times writers and Still Processing hosts Jenna Wortham and Wesley Morris, what’s popular transcends of-the-moment cool—it’s the launchpad for everything worth talking about. A conversation about disposable straws detours into the testimony of Christine Blasey Ford. Their 20th-anniversary commemoration of Fight Club interrogates toxic masculinity while celebrating Brad Pitt in a dress. Staying in step with how this show gets from here to there is easy, but recreating Wortham and Morris’s thinking on your own is impossible. The hosts’ urgent, insightful criticism of subjects that others might skip is why we turn to Still Processing year after year. When you listen to Wortham and Morris give takes on Dave Chapelle’s latest stand-up special, their arguments are so detailed and rich with context that it feels like they’re drawing from some magic repository of ideas. The truth is, the hosts are just that good.