Your Weekly Breakdown

This week, Cait and Em cover everything from $1,000 theatre outings and elite family vacation strategy (built-in kids club, obviously) to the deeply unserious state of Canadian politics—yes, including Fart Gate. Caitlin wins a CBC comedy panel (as she should), Emily pitches a documentary on Anne Hathaway’s press tour (greenlit in our minds), and together we unpack why women are now… quietly managing their husbands’ job searches.
Also on the docket: billionaires buying forests (a win? a warning?), gambling apps turning your phone into a casino, AI morphing into a Stepford wife, and a caterpillar that wears dead bugs as an outfit (nature is healing, sort of). We end, as always, with friendship drama, emotional labor, and the radical act of saying: I can do this.
It’s silly, it’s smart, it’s slightly unhinged—and yes, the girls are still dressed the same.
Shownotes:
SNL UK
women are doing their husband's job searches
noami klein interview w/ ezra klein
avi lewis new head of NDP
a good billionaire? Tim Sweeney is buying forests
fartgate in canadian parliament
honestly the gambling ads (+helplines!!) are out of control
wait AI just a digital stepford wife
the bone collector catapillar
Air Canada CEO under fire
Books
Brawler by Lauren Groff
The Power of Real Optimism by Deepika Chopra

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This week, Cait and guest co-host Jill Clark enter our political curiosity era (against our will) as Pierre Poilievre goes on Joe Rogan and… behaves? They unpack the surprisingly competent PR glow-up no one asked for, plus what it says about Canadian politics getting just a little too interesting.
Then, because Emily is away, enjoy some Reality TV chat!! Chaos, crime, and soft-swinging collide as The Bachelorette implodes in real time—because nothing says “ready for love” like a pending assault charge and a perfectly timed TMZ leak.
The girls spiral (productively) into the death of the Metaverse, the rise of AI slop, why Broadway is now stunt-casting influencers, and how weddings quietly became financial ruin disguised as love.
Finally, a palate cleanser: women’s sports are (finally) getting paid, yogurt might fix your mental health, and the radical act of being nice to strangers could save us all.
Light, unhinged, and occasionally profound—just the way we like it.
Shownotes:
PP on joe rogan
death of the metaverse
wnba salary increases

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Excuse the audio, we did our best! Tune in for a Great Yap Session with guest co-host Jill Clark, standing in while Em is out drowning in the chaos of life. This week it's wide-ranging (and very correct) episode on modern life: how to game travel points, dress like you tried (without trying), and survive the Oscars discourse. We get into influencer creep on red carpets, the economics of having kids, the disappearance of third spaces, and why libraries deserve more respect—and funding. Plus, a radical but necessary idea: stat holidays belong on Fridays. 
Shownotes:
max alexander designer
train dreams movie
kidney and liver cleanses and transplants
jimmy rush oysters 
the chicks singer buys laundromat and why we think it's all about building community and 3rd spaces
library in hamilton ontario needs to screen visitors

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This week: burnt bangs, horny Olympians, hockey culture discourse, and a geopolitical crisis. You know, the usual light fare. Emily and Caitlin dive into Elliotte Friedman's poorly-chosen metaphor and the real problem with hockey culture, why the Olympic Village might be the world’s most athletic dating app, the strange politics of daylight saving time, and a few headlines that range from adorable to deeply alarming. Come for the chaos, stay for the cultural commentary.
Shownotes:
bc time changes
pei tenant app
tourettes at the baftas
spill tab
smerz
playlists as a love language
s3x at the olympics
forever fan girling alyssa liu
melania security council
US-Israel attacks on Iran
ongoing epstein list of people impacted
convicted stowaway
the barkely marathon is insane

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This week, we’re limping in with workout injuries and leaving with a full-blown existential crisis. Emily and Caitlin unpack everything from Meta’s terrifying facial-recognition glasses and Canada accidentally investing your retirement in Elon’s chaos machine, to Olympic-level cheating scandals, pickleball fights among the elderly, and a possible 12-year-old future dictator. Plus: why improv kills your inner critic, why Cuba is running out of gas (literally), and why modern beauty standards might have more sinister origins than you think. It’s surveillance, scandal, and soft-belly solidarity—all wrapped up in one silly and smart spiral.
Shownotes
rosalia lux
fiona apple fetch the bolt cutters
year of the fire horse
florida country club brawl
hate metas ray ban smart glasses and now they're adding facial recognition
CPP invests in GROK?? what?!
north korea succession
cuba running out of oil
the figure skating jacket guy
biathlete credit card fraud
holly davidson refs the six nations match
sudoku packing for travel 
your brain memorized vs improvised
jameela jamil essay on teenage aesthetic
the last late show
Books:
everyone in my family has killed someone
half his age
vladimir

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