This week (actually it was a few weeks ago), the girls/women find themselves in NYC! In the bustling, dystopia-adjacent metropolis, Meghan reclaims OWNS the streets of her youth/recent middle age while Sarah is disoriented by the assault on her tender suburban senses and feels as if she is suffocating on the miasma of mold and garbage juice.

And guess what? This was the first time Sarah and Meghan ever met person! Sarah still cannot believe Meghan is merely average in height. Meghan cannot believe Sarah doesn’t have a baby permanently attached to her hip. In any case, they must look at each other without the buffering effect of camera filters, which is an act of radical courage. Despite their disappointment, they embark on Season 2 with clear eyes, full hearts,

That means recording an in-studio conversation with race discourse’s Enfant Terrible, Coleman Hughes. All parties thought they were going to be the host for this recording, but Meghan’s interrupting interviewing chops won out and Coleman divulged all sorts of personal things, including his musical background, his experiences dating social justice-y women and, moreover, his heterodox “origin story.” (Like all superheroes, he has one.)

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