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Welcome back to the second installment of "Things We Come Back To" featuring h.e.r.LIFE favorites, Kevin Verga a Devin D'Agostino.  This episode really does feel like a conversation these three would have over cookies a coffee in the good old Fordham cafeteria.  We hope you enjoy - but most importantly, we hope you have friends like these with whom you can have wild conversations like these.  *** The trio kicks of the episode (oddly enough) with an improv experiment that's just so weird it's (kind of) funny.  At (04:29) Rachel dives in with an introduction to the "Things We Come Back To" concept.  With Dev a Kev, she discusses Derek Thompson's Piece in The Atlantic and the reasons for reconsumption: habits, addictions, rituals, and status quo biases (06:06).   Before long, Dev a Kev are back to Stop Making Sense: their go-to rewatch example.  Other references here include J.D. Salinger novels, Taylor Swift reputation Stadium Tour Concert, etc.  At (11:57), Rachel transitions to movies -- what films can you just not get enough of?  Devin seamlessly transitions to a (good?) Reese Witherspoon joke that ultimately leads to the story of the Pug Mask.   At (16:23), Devin discusses his evolved reactions to Colin Farrell classic, In Bruges, comparing that kind of rewatch to his feelings about One Hundred Years of Solitude and magical realism.   By (20:23), Rachel (finally!) dives in to her obsession with The People v. O.J. Simpson.  What does it mean when we don't even know why we reconsume something?  This leads to Devin's discussion of association at (23:06), how certain pieces of content (Nick Cave's Jubilee, for example) constantly evolve with us AND to us.  Kevin offers a generational approach to the same topic.  Ah, music!  What a powerful thing.  A super interesting conversation for this episode pops up at (25:04): sharing your rewatch-content with loved ones.  What happens if/when they don't feel the same way?  There's so much vulnerability wrapped up in the things we come back to - but that's the beauty of it, people!  At (28:00), what content is forever linked to a specific moment, like senior year of college, for example?  The trio circles back to Thompson's article at (32:38) to talk about a study by Russell and Levy, who researched the meaning of reconsumption: The Simple Reason, The Nostalgic Reason, The Therapeutic Reason, and The Existential Reason.  Kevin takes us home at (38:36) with an interesting discussion about reconsuming old content that no longer aligns with our cultural standards.  What do we do with some of these '60s songs, for example, in a post-#MeToo era?   As always, thank you for listening!  All the best to you a Happy Easter!