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We got many requests to add our two cents on the Christa Pike case, the women who survived an execution by lethal injection while on death row in Tennessee.

Christa herself was also abused as a child, and the connection of a victim of abuse becoming an abuser is all too prevalent to avoid.

Leigh heard on the news that California signed a law banning child marriage, which led us down the rabbit hole of what child marriage laws are out there in 2026? Turns out, not enough of them, and they aren't all to strict, and almost always put a young girl in an impossible situation...

*TW: For those who are sensitive to conversations regarding sexual violence and rape, this episode is probably best to be skipped! *

Jackson had a very quick and daunting brush with what Greek Life looks like at colleges and universities and was immediately repulsed by all of it. We recount my thoughts and opinions and apply them to the atrocious story coming out of the Chi Phi fraternity at Cornell University.

The themes of sexual assault carry back to the Catholic Church probe that was released the day of this episode's recording. Leigh, an ex-Catholic who grew up outside of Boston, knew and heard of what heinous crimes were committed by priests back in the 1970's.

The overarching theme of men in various positions of power being the perpetrators of morally abhorrent crimes becomes too clear to avoid.

While we started on the national news story angle of covering Trump banning CNN from covering the White House, we couldn't help but veer towards local stories in our home state of Massachusetts that caught the internet by storm this week.

The LBGTQ+ bar in Greenfield, Massachusetts lifting its N95 mask restrictions (Saturdays only!) in September of 2026 caused quite the debate and social commentary. We couldn't help ourselves but deep dive into what its local patrons and online critics said.

Naturally, that set us on a path towards the darkness that is the modern "Manosphere", social reasons behind the patriarchy, and Clavicular's brutal allegations made against him.

While Leigh may have delayed this recording by just a few hours by getting locked out of her archaic laptop when trying to enter her passwords to update... we did it!

While a full introduction of us may happen naturally over the course of multiple episodes, we wanted to get some burning points in that we've wanted to discuss on the show over the past few months while working on a launch. Listen in to get into a little of who we are, how we got here, and topics of interest in the current American political landscape.