Unabridged: I Hated It, Thanks for Asking with Nora McInerny

We're at the end of 2025 and this year we're looking back, not at the best of the year, but at the worst, most hatable moments. To break it all down, Traci teamed up with friend of the pod, Nora McInerny, for a crossover bonus episode between The Stacks and Nora's show, Thanks for Asking. From Taylor Swift to AI slop and so much more, get ready for a whole lot of hot takes and disgruntled energy.

This episode is a collaboration with Nora’s podcast Thanks for Asking.

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Everything we talk about on today’s episode can be found below in the show notes. You can also find what we talked about on Bookshop.org and Amazon.

• Thanks for Asking (Feelings & Co.)

• Feelings & Co. (Substack)

• Unstacked (Substack)

• Wicked (Jon M. Chu, 2024)

• Wicked: For Good (Jon M. Chu, 2025)

• “Kendrick vs. Drake to Wicked: 2024 Unpacked” (The Sam Sanders Show, KCRW)

• “Show & Tell: I Saw Wicked. I Have Notes.” (Traci Thomas, Unstacked)

• The Hobbit (Film series)

• The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien

• Jon M. Chu

• Paul Tazewell

• Tom Ford

• Cynthia Erivo

• Ariana Grande

• Lindsay Lohan

• Paris Hilton

• Nicole Richie

• Rachel Zoe

• Pantone Color of the Year 2025

• Wicked: Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West

• Urban Outfitters x Wicked

• PUMA x Wicked

• Abercrombie and Fitch x Wicked

• Ruggable x Wicked

• Owala x Wicked

• Five Below x Wicked

• Barbie (Greta Gerwig, 2023)

• Absolut x Wicked

• Conair x Wicked

• Wicked Tarot Deck and Guidebook by Casey Gilly

• Dawn x Wicked

• Swiffer x Wicked

• Yeti x Wicked

• Pillsbury x Wicked

• General Mills x Wicked

• Gain x Wicked

• McDonald’s

• Zootopia 2 (Jared Bush, 2025)

• Olay x Wicked

• Stanley x Wicked

• Hamnet (Chloé Zhao, 2025)

• One Battle After Another (Paul Thomas Anderson, 2025)

• Buck Mason

• Barbie

• Ezra Klein

• Abundance by Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson

• President Obama’s favorite books of the summer

• “Opinion | Charlie Kirk Was Practicing Politics the Right Way” (Ezra Klein, The New York Times)

• “Ta-Nehisi Coates on Bridging Gaps vs. Drawing Lines” (The Ezra Klein Show, The New York Times)

• “The Contradictions of Gavin Newsom” (The Ezra Klein Show, The New York Times)

• “Jon Favreau on Where the Democrats Went Right” (The Ezra Klein Show, The New York Times)

• “The THR Roundtable: America’s Top Podcasters Like You’ve Never Heard Them” (Julian Sancton, The Hollywood Reporter)

• 2026 Golden Globes’ Nominees for Best Podcast

• Good Hang with Amy Poehler (The Ringer)

• SmartLess (SiriumXM Podcasts)

• Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard (Wondery)

• “My Unofficial Investigation of Male Podcasters (Monthly Solo)” (Pulling the Thread with Elise Loehnen)

• Taylor Swift

• Travis Kelce

• The Life of a Showgirl by Taylor Swift

• “The Fate of Ophelia” (Taylor Swift, 2025)

• Charli XCX

• Ego Death at a Bachelorette Party by Hayley Williams

• Meghan Markle

• Prince Harry

• Beyoncé

• Oprah Winfrey

• Dua Lipa

• Jessica Simpson

• “I Think I’m in Love With You” (Jessica Simpson, 2000)

• “Jack & Diane” (John Mellencamp, 1982)

• 1989 by Taylor Swift

• Reputation by Taylor Swift

• The Eras Tour

• Olivia Rodrigo

• MacKenzie Scott

• Sean Combs

• “Honey” (Mariah Carey, 1997)

• “Shake Ya Tailfeather (ft. Nelly & Murphy Lee)” (Diddy, 2005)

• Cassie

• Sean Combs: The Reckoning (Netflix)

• “Surveillance video shows Sean 'Diddy' Combs physically assaulting former girlfriend in 2016” (CNN)

• It Was All a Dream: Biggie and the World That Made Him by Justin Tinsley

• Olivia Dean

• “What My Daughter Told ChatGPT Before She Took Her Life” (Laura Reiley, The New York Times)

• Kim Kardashian

• Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov

• “Ep. 360 Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov — The Stacks Book Club (Ira Madison III)”

• Grey’s Anatomy (ABC)

• David Schweikert

• Zibby Owens

• Stephen A. Schwarzman

• Blackstone

• Totally Booked with Zibby (Zibby Owens)

• Zibby’s Bookshop

• Zibby Books

• Zohran Mamdani

• Leopard OG Sambas

• Bose QuietComfort 35 (Series II) Wireless Headphones

• Department 56 Miniature Christmas Village

• Marie Kondo

• Olivia Nuzzi

• “TRUMP IS A LAME DUCK NOW - AND THE (LATEST) OLIVIA NUZZI STORY - 11.20.25” (Countdown with Keith Olbermann)

• Katy Tur

• “WHO YOU GONNA BELIEVE? TRUMP? OR TRUMP? 12.6.22” (Countdown with Keith Olbermann)

• Staples

• Barnes & Noble

• Labubu

• Benson Boone

• “Leave Me Alone” (Reneé Rapp, 2025)

• Dessa

• Davina McCall

  
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