Your Weekly Breakdown

Your fav unhinged hosts Em and Cait talk World Cup, Broadway nostalgia, podcast empire drama, AI surveillance, Meta glasses, zombie filler, mosquito feminism, HPV self-screenings, climate dread, and why women are apparently never allowed to be unlikable in peace.
It’s silly, smart, slightly chaotic, and somehow covers Rent, Ray-Bans, corpse fat, Ottawa police, Olivia Wilde, and the emotional support of yelling “get the Flock off our streets.” Come for the chitty chatty, stay for the oddly comforting reminder that you are not, in fact, losing touch with reality.
Shownotes:
Variety's top albums of 2026
Rent 30th anniversary
alex cooper's unwell issues
nba rumours lebron and steph
A24 (lol AI24?) and google's AI investment
alex cooper and olivia wilde interview
book: yesteryear
Ottawa police s3xual harassment issues
um surveillance state? flock, engineer who sawed flock cams, buspatrol, meta's lame new glasses, google AI disabling
Carney disabled CORE
Zombie filler!
Ooh la la Dr. Brenda Lau's tool kits
Dr. Ellen Langer on 1+1 perspective
It's the female mosquito's fault!
Europe is hot and the ocean is boiling

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Em and Cait tackle everything from immigration detention protests and Toronto airport expansion plans to the latest wellness industry grift promising to cure women's stress with supplements (lol). They also discuss Bumble's new AI dating assistant, FDA-recalled "sexual enhancement" chocolates, women's hockey victories, comfort food nostalgia, and why sometimes the best thing you can do for yourself is absolutely nothing at all. 
It's your usual mix of humour, skepticism, and side quests. Pull up a chair. 
Shownotes:
book: foster by clare keegan
wtf is happening at delaney hall
documentary: the alabama solution
jeff bezos rocket exploded
doug ford billy bishop airport
The cure for structural oppression is apparently a supplement lol
Another bumble fumble?
Sexy chocolate and undisclosed viagra
Ballsmaxxing
Montreal Victoire's win!
in n out's bible verses
Beijing bikini

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This week on Your Weekly Breakdown, Em and Cait celebrate accidental virality (hello new listeners!!), magical period blood, Skims-adjacent cocaine logistics, Hooters’ baffling family-friendly era, AI deepfake horror, Alberta’s “should we vote about voting?” breakup drama, and the miracle of a 63-year-old techno grandma. It’s science, shapewear, separatism, and boobs. So, honestly? Business as usual.
Shownotes:
Music: Cate Canning
Period blood/menstrual fluid research 
Spain uterus preservation ("Mother") study 
Quebec menstrual products initiative 
Scotland free period products law 
Skims cocaine seizure
SSENSE drama
Hooters family-friendly rebrand
Boy Martinis / Manhattan
404 Media deepfake high school investigation (paywalled)
Alberta separation referendum 
Tune Girl / Awakenings Festival performance

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Equal parts rage, laughs, and “are we actually living in a dystopian group project?” Em and Cait tackle everything from Dr. Oz declaring America “under-babied” and the unsettling rise of pregnancy surveillance to AI panic, wellness culture’s latest injectable obsession, and the world's increasingly smoky, thirsty future. They also champion women’s sports after Cycling Canada benches female athletes while keeping the men’s team rolling, celebrate the enduring magic of David Attenborough turning 100, and somehow end up discussing Diet Coke shortages, fake celebrity beef, and why yelling at men occasionally feels like community service. Come for the pop culture chaos, stay for the existential spiral with a side of feminism and fridge cigarettes.
Shownotes:
Dr. Oz thinks you're “under-babied”
Moms.gov + pregnancy surveillance
Cycling Canada controversy
Vancouver water restrictions
AI data centers etc
AI backlash / commencement speech
David Attenborough 100 years
Love for Colbert
wtf don't use Peptides
Diet Coke shortage
AI “Nudify” apps
Vancouver nightlife + ABC controversy

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Em is BACK! The Hunger Games starts feeling less like dystopian fiction and more like a live news feed as Em and Cait unpack the increasingly surreal overlap between billionaires, propaganda, AI grifters, collapsing institutions, and the Met Gala. From Bezos sponsoring fashion’s biggest night to self-help influencers trying to convince women they’ll be “left behind” if they don’t hand their financial data over to AI chatbots, the girls spiral delightfully through the chaos of modern life, where every app is an ad, every guru has a subscription model, and even tectonic plates seem to be giving up.
Also: a beekeeper weaponizes bees against police during an eviction, teens “speedrun” Scientology churches, Alberta separatists allegedly get their hands on voter data, and Em returns from Europe emotionally wrecked by jet lag, historical fiction, and the looming possibility that summer travel may soon become a luxury sport. Somehow, despite all this, there’s still time for book recommendations, skincare panic, Kacey Musgraves praise, and one unexpectedly moving story about a lost grandmother’s letter finding its way home. Silly, smart, mildly existential.
Shownotes:
Mel Robbins just copied Nietche and other AI grifters?
MV Hondius, cruise from hell
Alberta Electoral List Scandal
Doug Ford trying to prioritze water lol
Scientology Speed Running
Pulizters! Hannah Natason
So the earth is splitting open?
Long Lost Love Letters
Trump admin fires entire national science board
Canadian Research Lab Identified US/MAGA Funded Network of 20 YouTube Accounts, 4,500 Videos, And 40 Million Views Pushing U.S. Annexation on Alberta.
Fav headline
TICKS
Music: Kacey Musgraves album
Book: Lázár

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