Kat and Phoebe discuss Labubu consultants, bike camps, childhood nostalgia, and waning attention spans.

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When One Nanny Isn’t Enough, ‘CEO Parents’ Hire a Whole Team - WSJ

Kat and Phoebe discuss the lingerie of the long 2010s, the publishing industry’s Jewish problem, and the best place to hide your heirlooms and jewels (in a paper bag emblazoned with the words “DEAD RACCOON INSIDE.”)

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A Statement to Our Community - PEN America

‘A Silent Moratorium’ - PEN America

A Free-Speech Meltdown

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Kat and Phoebe discuss Ozempic (the new lobotomy!), American patriotism (the new Zionism!), and the sad, strange, entirely predictable downfall of Graham Platner (we told you so!).

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The Drug That Made Me Want Less

Previously, on Platner:

Kat’s reporting on death doulas:

In a special episode to make up for last month’s shortfall and last week’s forgotten shoutouts, Kat and Phoebe discuss review-tagging, hate-following, and why one extremely tall politician was chased away from a trans pride parade.

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Is heterosexuality hopeless? | Arwa Mahdawi | The Guardian

Kat and Phoebe discuss the Bluesky backlash against Phoebe’s book, the Twitter suffrage discourse that made it feel, ever so briefly, like 2017 again, and the big, Gay link between the two. Also, a rare cat cameo!

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Kat and Phoebe turn their attention to young men and their trends, from vegetable haircuts to looksmaxxing to sending ill-considered (read: wildly anti-Semitic) emails to people who want to give them jobs!

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Do Gen Z women actually find the popular male “broccoli” hairstyle attractive? : r/GenZ

Broccoli haircut - Wikipedia

Antisemitic Cornell student t…

Kat and Phoebe discuss the character of aspiring senator and porta-potty masturbator Graham Platner, the romantic philosophy of the horror film Obsession, and what happens when an unrequited affection meets an immovable incel.

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Graham Platner, haver of normal ones:

Obsession, for men:

Phoebe airs her grievances vis-a-vis being reverse scooped by a certain New York Times article, Kat discusses the contours of her post-cancellation comeback, and everyone agrees that if that guy actually was turned into a newt, that was pretty bad and he probably deserves an apology.

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Phoebe actually does want it in the newspaper that she’s mad:

Kat’s cursèd cancellation:

Kat and Phoebe discuss the fallout over an expose of the finances of the bestselling author of the new memoir, Strangers.

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Was I Married to a Stranger? - The New York Times

Jessica Winter at the New Yorker has some receipts: What’s Missing from Belle Burden’s “Strangers” | The New Yorker

Emily Gould’s defense of Ms. Burden: The Memoirist and the Backl…