What's Your Issue?

Troy McEady, Dara Laine

Booking Overview

A co-hosted pop-culture commentary show focused on nostalgic celebrity, music, fashion, and magazine coverage, with occasional external guests joining issue-based discussions rather than a broad interview roster. Credible pitches include pop-culture commentators, entertainment journalists, cultural critics, and hosts of established music or celebrity-analysis shows; booking difficulty is likely low because the guest bar favors relevant expertise over major mainstream prominence.

Metrics

Episodes: 89

Frequency: Weekly

Rating: 4.9/5.0

Estimated listeners: 1,000 - 10,000

Listener location: USA

Contact Information

Publicly listed emails

sahiba@cloud10.fm

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Host

Troy McEady - Pop-culture commentator and co-host covering celebrity media, music, fashion, and nostalgia.

Dara Laine - Pop-culture commentator and co-host covering celebrity media, music, fashion, and nostalgia.

Booking Intelligence

Booking Requirements

low

Typical Credentials:

Established pop-culture commentators, entertainment journalists, cultural critics, or podcast hosts with relevant expertise in celebrity media, music, fashion, or nostalgia.

Required Achievements:

Hosting an established pop-culture podcast, Demonstrated expertise in celebrity, music, fashion, or entertainment coverage

Recent Guest Discussions

Kara Berry - 1998 Vibe Magazine Coverage Of Missy Elliott, Foxy Brown, TLC, Hip-hop, Fashion, And Music.

Recent Topics

Pop Culture, Celebrity Culture, Nostalgia, Fashion, Hip Hop

Episodes

Here's the recent few episodes on

What's Your Issue?

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Dolly Parton, Alec Baldwin, & RuPaul Take VF's Proust Questionnaire

October 08, 2026

This week, Troy and Dara go through Vanity Fair Proust Questionnaires taken by Dolly Parton, Alec Baldwin, Whoopi Goldberg, RuPaul, Tiffany Haddish, Stevie Nicks, Howard Stern, Sandra Bernhard, and Martha Stewart. To listen to Dara and Troy elaborate further on their own answers, subscribe on Patreon to listen to an hour-long director's cut of this episode. The video version of this episode is also only available on Patreon. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

How Lady Gaga Became The World's Biggest Pop Star

October 02, 2026

This week Pop Pantheon's Russ Martin joins us to discuss Vanessa Grigoriadis's April 5, 2010 NY Mag cover story, Growing Up Gaga: "The self-invented, manufactured, accidental, totally on-purpose New York creation of the world's biggest pop star. " This piece is one of Russ's favorites, and celebrity investigative journalism at its finest! We discuss Gaga's early life in the NYC scene, the building of her pop star persona, the evolution of her public image and music, her most creatively im...

Jessica Simpson, Pink, & Eve: 25 Hottest Celebs Under 25

September 25, 2026

This week, Dara and Troy are breaking down Teen People's 25 Hottest Celebrities Under 25 from the year 2000. They discuss: what happened to going out tops and casual red carpet looks? Mandy Moore lore. That 70's Show's social dynamics. Who would Jessica Simpson be in another life? P!nk and her aerial fabrics. Read the article here Watch ad-free on Patreon Follow us @whatsyourissueshow @daralaine @troyjeanspears Watch on Youtube @whatsyourissuepodcast Learn more about your ad choices. Vis...

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