Wesley Morris and J. Wortham Are Still Processing Culture, Together

Some podcast hosts explain culture to you. Still Processing hosts Wesley Morris and J. Wortham work through it with you instead, live, in real time, the same way you'd talk it out with a friend who happens to write for a living.

Wesley Morris

Wesley Morris is a Pulitzer Prize-winning culture critic for The New York Times, one of the highest honors in journalism and proof that his takes on film, television, music, and the rest of American culture carry real critical weight. That's the credential. The personality that comes through on the show is someone who treats pop culture as seriously as any other beat, because it is one.

A recent episode in the feed, "Introducing: Cannonball with Wesley Morris," points to where else you might know him from. Cannonball appears to be a newer project carrying his name and voice forward, which fits a critic who's spent years building on the same ideas about culture and identity, just in new formats.

J. Wortham

J. Wortham writes on technology and culture for The New York Times Magazine, which puts their beat right at the intersection of how we live online and how that changes who we are offline. That's a different lane than Morris's film-and-TV criticism, and it's exactly why the pairing works. Wortham brings the internet, the apps, the dating culture, the way technology reshapes daily life. Morris brings the screen and the song.

Wesley Morris and J. Wortham, together

The show's own description says it best: they're "working it out," in a weekly conversation about culture in the broadest sense, television, film, books, music, but also the culture of work, dating, the internet, and how all of it fits together. That's the real hook of Still Processing. It isn't built around verdicts. It's built around two sharp, funny writers thinking out loud on mic, sometimes agreeing, sometimes not, and trusting listeners enough to sit in the mess of a live thought instead of a polished one.

Early episodes like "First Date" and "You Can't Code Your Way Out of Racism" show the range from day one: personal and playful in one episode, pointed and political in the next. That range, held by two hosts who clearly like each other's minds, is part of why the show built the following it did at The New York Times.

Worth flagging directly: Still Processing is marked inactive in the directory as of April 2026. The feed's last real activity was that June 2025 episode introducing Cannonball with Wesley Morris, a separate new NYT show, which points to Still Processing having wrapped, or evolved into Cannonball, rather than continuing on under its original name.