Your Weekly Breakdown

Season 2 is going out exactly as nature intended: an awards-show hangover, a deeply unnecessary amount of TSwift and Travis Kelce's wedding discourse, and the horrifying discovery that endometriosis can apparently travel.
Em + Cait wrap up their biggest season yet by plotting their summer transformations—de-Googling, finishing long-abandoned books, and touching grass. There are always enough books + music to carry you through August, and the girls investigate nano bubbles, ancient axolotls, and the majestic Viking energy of Erling Haaland. Per usual, they cover wellness and wacky news that will have you chuckling.
Touch some grass. See you for Season 3!
Shownotes:
de-google your life
read: A Good Person, Julius Julius
Ann Patchett’s book recommendations
Vancouver is apparently a top 10 most livable city?
US booze sales are way down aka the Canadian effect
Mercury in Retrograde lol
amazing science of nanobubbles!
new species of ancient (cutest!) axolotl
madonna’s new album
sienna spiro’s album
Thoracic endometriosis
Cooper’s Hill cheese rolling

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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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