"Can I make a sad confession to you guys though, in the midst of all this incisive analysis? I am so genuinely charmed by Beyonce. I generally find Beyonce pretty charming and winning. I think we’ve talked of it in the past, about her slightly Tracy Flick-ish ‘I’m gonna hit all my marks on time’ personality, which rubs us in different directions, but I’ve always been a Beyonce fan. And I’ve always been a Jay-Z fan, I think he’s an amazing rapper. I also had — to shout back to our celebrity sighting segment a couple years ago — I saw Jay-Z at a Manhattan restaurant a couple of weeks ago and I have never been so utterly knocked out by the star charisma of a human in my presence. It’s like, time slowed and the sound went away and the brim of his New Era baseball cap was so endlessly flat like a pure and perfect horizon. Anyway. So for all that I, in general, scorn and spurn and besmirch celebrity baby coverage…I’M SO EXCITED THAT JAY-Z AND BEYONCE ARE HAVING A BABY! I THINK IT’S GOING TO BE THE MOST TALENTED BABY IN THE WORLD!"

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Julia Turner, Slate’s Culture Gabfest on celebrity pregnancies, Beyonce’s in particular. 

THIS. Everything. Not only encapsulates my irrational enthusiasm regarding these two mega stars’ procreating with their superhuman genes and bringing forth what is sure to be the most blinged-out baby in existence, but also exemplifies why podcasts are pretty much the best thing ever. I just want to be friends with EVERYONE I LISTEN TO.