This week, Busy and Caissie are together for the second week in a row, sharing how they rang in the New Year and what they wore. Then, Rabbi Sharon Brous returns to the podcast to talk about her new book, “The Amen Effect: Ancient Wisdom to Mend Our Broken Hearts,” and how we can better help each other to grieve.

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Well, guys. We did it! We made it to the New Year. We talk about it on tomorrow’s podcast, but we actually rang in 2024 together, which was nice. But to hold you over until the morning, here’s a little treat that you can consume before bed and it won’t give you a stomach ache or weird dreams! Or maybe it will, but, like, weird GOOD dreams. We can’t real…

In their last episode of 2023, Busy shares why her Christmas was lousy. Literally. Then she and Caissie share their New Year’s resolutions and Busy pushes back against an Instagram critic.

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Hope you are weathering this week as well as you can! If you want to brag on something you are doing your best at, please do! If you could perhaps use a word of encouragement and you feel comfortable sharing that, we are here for it. And if you are feeling lonely and are hoping to connect with someone who also would love someone to talk to, maybe this comment section can be useful for that too? An informal pre-holiday group chat refresh of sorts!

Have we told you lately that we love you? Yeah, you, reading this. We love you.

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Busy and Caissie promised to come back and tell everyone what they were doing their best at this week, and they do. But they also talk about so many other things, including gifts, grief and why Biz has a yeast infection. CONTENT WARNING: Death, child death

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This week, Busy talks us through what’s been going on in her family and why there was no podcast last week and Caissie shares why she’s the world’s most useless psychic.

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We could all use a zen moment right now. A little pocket of peace, a little cluster of calm. Please enjoy Busy and Josh Radnor talking about that. And we will talk to you very soon!

Hey, besties! We know tomorrow is our regular podcast day, and we were all ready to record this week’s episode. A day early even! However, life intervened and was like, “HAHA! Fuck you. NO!” So, please don’t jump out of bed looking for the podcast at 5AM tomorrow morning, because it won’t be there just yet. We’re working on it and we’ll keep you posted on when it might be coming and when it eventually does, we’ll tell you all about everything.

Until then, please enjoy this little treat. We love you!!!

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This week, Busy and Caissie both had a bit of familial friction over the turkey-based holiday. Plus, they both remember the druggies and drug dealers they dated in high school. Then, Roxane Gay, best-selling author of “Bad Feminist,” “Hunger” and editor of “Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture” stops by, in the middle of having a bloody nose, to talk about her new book, “Opinions: A Decade of Arguments, Criticism and Minding Other People’s Business” and everyone shares some of their most surprisingly controversial opinions, along with thoughts on American Individualism, menopause and whether we’re clueless about it because Oprah retired too soon, and who we could nominate to be our national mother.

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This week, Busy and Caissie have just returned from a surprise birthday weekend for Emily BB that was full of misadventure and misunderstanding. Find out what someone almost got stung by, what someone *did* get stung by, why Busy’s kid was detained at the airport and who Caissie was spotted kissing! Plus, after publicly going on record as an ugly flower hater, Busy accidentally sent ugly flowers to someone special.

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