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In this week's Pop Culture Potluck on Midwest Besties, we break down The Traitors finale and reunion, recap the latest Summer House drama, including the apology dune and Jesse Solomon being CRINGE. We dive into the back half of Bridgerton S4 (spoiler alert: we LOVE Benephie). In Table Scraps, we discuss Craig Conover giving sweaty loser energy, Lisa Rinna’s new memoir, and a very specific love story where Carolyn Bessette Kennedy would actually hate you. Plus: Batman casting what-ifs, Ballerina Farm announcing baby #9, and why some people think Love Is Blind has been red-pilled.

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Happy Three-Month Anniversary, Besties! Our podcast has officially lasted a Sales Quarter! On this week’s episode Lauren and Emily give their heavily researched review of Wuthering Heights. Just kidding — we didn’t watch the movie or read the book, but we do have a lot of opinions (hint: the skin room is gross).

Meanwhile, we recap the second episode of Summer House Season 10. Summer is NOT looking fun for Kyle Cooke, and if he keeps fighting randos in the comments, his spring doesn’t look too promising either. We also catch up on The Traitors (Rob is annoyingly hot and good at this game) and The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills (heaven is the Hamptons with Rachel Zoe). As always, this is not a Peacock podcast.

We wrap up the episode with a segment we now call Table Scraps — odds and ends from the internet, TV we aren’t binging, books, and more. This week, we chat about our favorite Masshole makeup influencer’s divorce announcement, The Toast’s embarrassing defense of Jill Zarin, our shared love and history as JFK Jr. heads, and what the f**k is going on with Margaret Qualley and Jack Antonoff.

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Love is in the air, Besties! Love for talking sh*t on celebrities, that is! On this week’s episode of the Popculture Potluck, we talk about the AMAZING Benito Bowl. I know y’all are just dying to hear what two lame liberal white ladies from the Midwest thought of Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl Halftime Show, and you are IN LUCK because the besties don’t shut up about it for approximately 20 minutes.

Also in this episode, the besties defend Chappell Roan, check in on all our Pop Culture Mormons, recap the latest Real Housewives of Beverly Hills episode (DO YOU REMEMBER?!?!), discuss our newly crowned prince (Jill Zarin’s step-grandson), bad smutty novel character names, and oh so much more.