This week on Useless Banter, we’re in our “main character going to Europe” era—mentally packing outfits, romanticizing every cobblestone street, and pretending we won’t overpack (we will).

But before the passport stamps and Aperol spritzes, we get real about what’s happening before the trip: using the gym as therapy, sweating through stress, and figuring out if we’re actually growing… or just getting really good at coping.

Which leads us to the question of the hour: are we healed, or are we just rebranding the chaos?

It’s part travel prep, part emotional check-in, and fully unhinged in the way only we can be. Come for the Europe delusions, stay for the existential spiral.