Your Weekly Breakdown

A smart, slightly unhinged tour through media, memory, power, and the slow erosion of both environmental regulations and social niceties, with just enough jokes to keep you from spiralling.
Cait and guest co-host Jill Clark chat lost media, unreliable memory, and the unsettling realization that some things might actually be gone forever (including, tragically, a niche aquarium puppet show). Also: political theatre, a deeply skeptical unpacking of the alleged active sh00ter situation at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner.
From elephant justice (a big game hunter meets a very poetic end) to Canada’s new “we should probably start saving money?” sovereignty fund, the episode toggles between global chaos and domestic policy with just enough irreverence to make it palatable. “AI is going to boil the planet but sure, let’s skip the environmental review” rage, plus a brief but important detour into why Helena Bonham Carter walking off The White Lotus is both devastating and, somehow, fine now that Laura Dern has entered the chat.

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Two women, one podcast, and absolutely no respect for the social contract of air travel. This week, Cait and guest co-host Jill cover the elite art of using Tinder as Yelp abroad, the chaos of surprise Ashley Madison accounts, why a 12-year engagement might just be a relationship hostage situation, and the new  fruit wash that could save your berries and your bank account. Plus: tradwife thrillers, Anne Hathaway’s long-overdue cultural redemption, Doug Ford’s private jet disaster, and a deeply passionate takedown of airplane deplaning etiquette. Come for the pop culture, stay for the grape storage discourse.
Shownotes:
UBC Scientists discover a new way to keep produce fresh longer
Haylie Duff calls of 12-year engagement
Read: Strangers by Belle Burden
Read: Yesteryear by Caro Claire Burke
Doug Ford bought a $30 million dollar private jet
Flyers play "Man I Need" as victory song

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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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