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This week, Emma shares a pregnancy update, Travis tries to take down a pyramid scheme on TikTok Live, and they both spiral over seed oils. For reality roundup, we get into a full breakdown of Real Housewives of Salt Lake City Season 1, Episode 8 (Hot Tub Confessions).

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Happy Jen Shah Prison Release Day to all those who celebrate! Emma’s having an amazing time with her perfect baby. This week, Travis is hanging out with comedian, podcast host, and pop culture connoisseur, Jolenta Greenberg.

In honor of Jen Shah’s prison sentence ending early, Travis and Jolenta are taking it back to where this journey started and unpacking one of the most iconic two-part episodes of The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City- I Was Driving Carpool! (Season 2 Episode 9) and Highway to Veil (Season 2 Episode 10).

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• Check out Hot Mess-terpiece Theatre wherever you listen to podcasts
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• Grab your copy of How to Be Fine: What We Learned from Living by the Rules of 50 Self-Help Books
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REALITY ROUNDUP WITH OUR PODCAST FRIENDS!

Travis is hanging out with the bestie approved returning champions, Scott and Geoff from Husbands Watching Housewives, to unpack the season 15 premiere of The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills!

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🚨 A quick heads up: This week’s episode is way more political than usual. 🚨

Emma literally just had her baby and she’s home hanging out with that perfect little baby angel. 🥹👶🏼 Travis is trying to navigate the world without Emma while she’s on her maternity break, so he’s hanging out with two of his new podcast friends, David and Lisa Beckemeyer, from This Week in Outrage. We dive into why everything feels so loud, angry, and broken right now, and why there’s actually way more middle ground (and exhausted, reasonable humans) than the internet wants you to believe.

We get into:

• How David went from getting into Twitter fights and doom-scrolling cable news to starting a research-driven podcast about toxic polarization and building bridges.
• The concept of the “exhausted majority”- the huge group of people who don’t love either party, hate the constant outrage, and don’t realize they’re actually part of the majority.
• Why our brains love feeling morally superior and how partisan media (on both sides) profits from keeping us angry and addicted.
• The wild case study of The Necessary Conversation podcas (it’s actually not satire).
• Trump as a “charismatic hero” for some people, and what happens psychologically when your entire identity is wrapped up in one politician.
• DEI, Target, culture wars, and why some folks feel like they’re “losing the culture” regardless of facts and reality.
• A revelation about trad wives, the manosphere, Project 2025, and the strange obsession with deciding how other people should live.
• RFK Jr., beef tallow, anti-vax conspiracies, and the Noah’s Ark experience in Kentucky.

If you’re exhausted by the 24-hour news cycle or just confused about how we got here… this one’s for you. 💖

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Outrage Overload: interviews with scientists, researchers, and practitioners on toxic polarization and bridge-building.

This Week in Outrage: David & Lisa’s weekly show breaking down the latest political chaos with humor and nuance.

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Sorry it’s been a chaotic couple weeks for us and we took an accidental break from the show! This week we get into a Mandela Effect from Travis’s middle school years (the Beyonce remix of In Da Club), we also lean into being an AI-first podcast (spiraling over AI psychosis and AI in general), and Travis makes a pitch for the besties to be bartenders on Watch What Happens Live. For reality roundup, Travis and Emma unpack season 1 episode 7 of Real Housewives of Salt Lake City.

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This week, we dive into Gavin Newsom dragging his political opponents to hell on Twitter, Lady Gaga investigating January 6th, people believing Helen Keller wasn't a real person, and a chaotic reality roundup with season 1 episode 6 of The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City.

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🎙️ MORE PODCAST FRIENDS! 🎧

Don't call it a comeback...call it a takeover! Scott and Geoff from Husbands Watching Housewives are back for another collab with Travis and Emma to unpack the season premier of The Real Housewives of Potomac!

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🎙️ BONUS EPISODE WITH OUR NEW PODCAST FRIEND! 🎧

hey besties! Travis and Emma got to hang out in with their new podcast friend, Brittany in The Girls Room, and they had an absolute time! From raging Gaylors to actually gay cookie company CEOs, this was a really fun show.

Brittany is so much fun, and it was so cool of her to have us on. Do us a favor and tell your messiest friend about The Girls Room because it’s definitely bestie approved! We can’t wait to do this again! ❤️

🎧 check out this very special bonus episode where we get into it all:

• Taylor Swift theories 🧐
• Crumbl’s CEO and the silly joke that turned into a coming out announcement 🍪🌈
• The parallels between Lil Nas X and Amanda Bynes 😥❤️‍🩹
• Why Charlie XCX is that girl and Travis just really needs her to be okay 🫶🏽
• The guilty pleasure that is the Kardashians (but not for Travis) 😤

from Indy to The Girls Room to wherever you’re listening, WE LOVE YOU! 🫶🏽

meet Brittany in The Girls Room! (I like eggs.🥚)

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This week, Travis and Emma are recording remotely (practice for future guests 👀) but they're still bringing the same chaos and laughs.

• Emma’s pregnancy update (little August is now the size of spaghetti squash).
• The DUDEROBE solution to fragile masculinity in robes.
• Natural vs. clinical deodorant.
• Pet-parent struggles: from pulling rope out of Boomer’s butt to shaving Max’s.
• Fast-food sauce tragedies (Burger King and Taco Bell, we’re looking at you).
• reality roundup:
  • RHOSLC Season 6 trailer (Lisa Barlow never disappoints 🔥)
  • Karen Huger’s post-DUI “free woman” moment.
  • RHOSLC S1E5 recap.

They also shout out listener reviews, talk family reactions to the pod, and reflect on what makes their chemistry click. Shorter ep this week, but packed with iconic moments.

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Travis and Emma are joined by Scott and Geoff from Husbands Watching Housewives to unpack the season 6 premier of The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City!

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