In This Can’t Be Real Life, we unpack a heavy week of global and political news — from the creation of a so-called Board of Peace, to plans for Palestine that don’t include Palestinian voices, to international headlines that left us shaking our heads. It’s a lot, and we talk through it.

For The Pulse we look ahead to shows coming out or returning in 2026 and collectively fawn over Aaron Pierre.

In You Like It / We Love It, we discuss Zoe Saldana becoming the highest-grossing actor of all time.

In We Said What We Said, we discuss My Strange Addiction and the behaviors that leave us speechless.

Citizen’s Arrest is issued to anyone who snubbed Michael B. Jordan at the Golden Globes.

We end with The Choice is Yours--if you could be part of any music group, would you choose the group — or go solo?