Your Weekly Breakdown

Fish sperm facials, clitoral cartography, collapsing dictatorships, fake moon conspiracies, and a bird in a homemade submarine. This week, Em and Cait unpack the absurdity of modern life, from anti-aging hysteria and Gen Z’s fear of cringe, to why competency is the new porn, and democracy might still have a pulse!! Weird, funny, and somehow deeply hopeful?!
Shownotes:
nine inch nails new album
trump and pope leo
new hungarian PM
trump at UFC fight while his war on iran continues
iran and haiti
salmon sperm facial
reverse cellular aging testing
mapping the clitoris!!
men should masturbate more, apparently
Beat Cancer Off campaign
GenZ is afraid to be cringe
omg people are still denying the moon lol
what is competency porn?
underwater parakeet
message in a bottle from 2002
a dino world record
zach galifianakis new garden show
Melinda French Gates reacts yo yo yo

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This episode is a chaotic, funny mix of pop culture, space wonder, and “are we okay as a society?” moments.
Study the bizarre pH fact (beer and vaginas!) and dive into Bravo drama and Coachella chatter, before landing on the genuine awe of the Artemis II mission.
Also: a string of missing scientists sparks uneasy curiosity, and a deep dive into prediction betting markets reveals people are literally gambling on human lives: grim, dystopian, and very real.
The girls wrap with candid reflections on aging, beauty, and the quiet freedom of caring a little less.
Artemis II product placements
8 scientists dead or missing?! Wtf
Who would you see at Coachella?
Is the NDP broke? Is that why Avi Lewis won? 
Polymarket bets on wounded soldier
Virginty? B*tch ain’t real
More amazing snails
Caroline vee is 73 and also an escort?!
Amanda Peet is anoyed with her younger self
Trump Kennedy Centre domains bought by Toby Morton
Ladies of London show
Duggars getting arrested

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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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