Cold hands, hot takes: this week, Emily and Caitlin spiral from frozen Great Lakes to spicy revenge plots, unpacking everything from NASA’s delayed moon mission and Denmark’s sexy red streetlights to AI avatars in true-crime docs (hard pass) and the deeply unsettling reality of death cap mushrooms. They debate whether elders deserve grace or consequences, question sketchy Ozempic knockoffs, and remind us that creativity, like revenge, requires patience and a good notes app. It’s your weekly breakdown of chaos, personal grievances, and existential dread—but make it comforting.

Shownotes

• Denmark’s Red Street Lighting in Gladsaxe
• Museum of Personal Failure
• UK takes Epstein more seriously than the US
• Windsor Bridge
• Oh Ye
• Artemis II delays
• FDA pulls his&hers ozempic dupe pill
• Creative success
• 4th youth hockey player
• Meta expands data centre
• Holy cow these weapons

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This episode is a full-spectrum emotional workout, and things escalate quickly. It’s silly, smart, unhinged in the best way, and deeply human—basically the news, but without pretending everything is fine.

Em and Cait bounce between fake celebrity photos, Cait's time at Second City, the Grammys jumping networks, Trevor Noah poking the political bear, and Bad Bunny having the most relatable anxiety spiral in award-show history. Then it’s straight into the Epstein files (allegedly!).

They take a detour into Canadian politics, the suspiciously glowing Rotten Tomatoes scores of a certain propaganda-adjacent film, and the quiet terror of realizing journalists may no longer be safe.

To balance out the dread: 3-flippered sea turtles, wiener-mobile races, dog shows, goalie fights, drag queens being sued for a dollar, and a historical lesson on what happens when women are given zero options (spoiler: poison).

Shownotes:

• grammys move to disney bye cbs
• epstein and peter attia
• melania director accusations and box office
• catherine o'hara
• conservatives still want pp as leader
• rats in ny
• 3-flipper turtle
• oscar meyer wienermobile race
• gene editing babies
• ilona maher labia puffs
• project 2025 coming after the ladies
• taliban marriage criminal code
• aqua tofana
• patagonia suing pattie gonia
• savannah guthrie's mom

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This week’s episode (their 50th!!) is a full-chaos sampler platter: birthday party debriefs, peak petty relationship moments, and the new life philosophy of friction maxxing—aka choosing mild inconvenience on purpose so your brain doesn’t rot.

Cait and Em unpack why the internet is making truth feel optional, what’s actually going on with ICE and the Olympics (spoiler: not what the headlines want you to think), and why TikTok moderation is starting to feel… ominous. Then: exploding trees, miracle baby turtles, dogs curing teen anxiety via gut microbes, and the extremely cursed idea of using AI as a therapist (don’t).

Plus: Ozempic is apparently saving airlines millions, B12 deficiency comes for us all, and martinis spark a surprisingly technical debate. Equal parts smart, spiralling, and deeply unserious—just the way the girls like it.

Shownotes:

• danish people petition
• ICE at the olympics
• tiktok censoring
• Iranian regime
• Ellison media consolidation
• friction maxxing
• teens and dogs and anxiety
• chat gpt as a therapist
• exploding trees
• tiny turtle miracle
• pancreatic cancer cure
• airline industry saving money due to glp-1 usage
• what does B12 do
• virginia high school students car repairs for single moms

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