“Throw on your slob and meet me at the beach in 12 minutes.” Quirky, emotionally-repressed aquanauts, Sophie and Caitlin, dive into the roiling, luminescent sea of Wes Anderson’s The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (2004).

The Thing

Have you ever felt simultaneously disgusted and entranced by the goop and grime of some of the movies of your childhood? Fascinated and reviled by the drippiness of 1970’s practical effects and the melty body horror of early 2000’s CGI? Wonder why everyone in a futuristic spaceship is constantly covered in filth? Is it wet? is a podcast that examines the drippiest, gloppiest, and yes, wettest moments in pop culture. As amateur film critics and children of the 90’s Nickolodeon slime renaissance, Sophie and Caitlin are obsessed with all things squelchy—listen each week as they dissect movies (and other media) to answer the ultimate question: Is it wet?