After obligatory discussion of the weather and other old people stuff, Cori lulls Nina to sleep with tales of AI: training software developers to use Claude Code, how one set of commands yielded 20 results, and other top-tier content. Then he relates his entire social media history from college onwards, culminating in his decision to leave X 2 weeks ago. Nina recalls her incarcerations in Fecebook Jail but can’t remember what funny intro she was gonna use this week. Plus: ramen shivs, Twitter fights, the algorithm and the app, titration, vegan Terffles, and more!

Links:

XX-XY Athletic Wear: https://www.xx-xyathletics.com/

Sora AI generated cat videos:

Sora: https://sora.chatgpt.com/

Grok Imagine: https://grok.com/imagine

Anheiser-Busch Superbowl ad:

Lierre Keith’s The Vegetarian Myth: https://www.amazon.com/Vegetarian-Myth-Food-Justice-Sustainability/dp/1604860804

Recording shortly before Cori deletes his X account, the Dorx discuss chometz, pre-Pesach purging, and locking breakfast cereal in the basement. Nina feels “more Zionist than usual” and Cori criticizes Israel. Then Nina nerds out on recumbent bike history and describes the DREAM BIKE she is finally designing, dropping names like Craig Calfee, Gardner Martin, Fast Freddy Markham, Tom Teesdale, and AD Carson, while only hinting at frame-builder she’s collaborating with, Davis Carver. Cori wakes up from his nap and recalls searching “Death Before Detransition” on BlueSky, finding an unhinged rant by a “Silence-of-the-Lambs-level crazy” trans-identified male and likely future mass shooter (audio included). Plus: the Troon-to-Jew Pipeline, front- and back-end geometries, connecting supply chains with a jackshaft, Joscha Bach, Detransition Awareness Day, LiDAR, and Cori’s Substack. Jesus!

Links:

Cori’s Substack: https://substack.com/@corinnacohn

Nina’s dream bike blog page: https://ninapaley.com/jackalope-in-progress/

Gone to Soldiers by Marge Piercy: https://margepiercy.com/gone-to-soldiers

Champaign in the Bible: https://www.biblegateway.com/resources/encyclopedia-of-the-bible/Champaign

The Economist: “At Last, A Just War” by Yair Lapid: https://www.economist.com/by-invitation/2026/03/01/at-last-a-just-war

Michigan synagogue attack: https://bridgemi.com/michigan-government/michigan-synagogue-attack-police-respond-to-shots-fired-truck-crash/

Nina is a Certified Food Handler, Cori is a Certified Ball Handler, and “bureaucracy just hasn’t been done right yet”. We helplessly learn about learned helplessness and why our episodes are so few and far between. Plus anomia (anomic aphasia), lesbian comedians, Robby Hoffman, rumination, and Iran. Why is the Islamic regime firing on its neighbors? Is this the beginning of World War 3? Is Nina emerging from cancellation? Why is Cori boycotting, divesting from and sanctioning NYC? If you can make it through all the distracting cat antics, you might hear some answers!

Links:

Iran So Far Away:

Food Handler Certification: https://aaafoodhandler.com/illinois/food-handler-card/

Disabling Impairments cards: https://store.ninapaley.com/product/disabling-impairments/

Discount card sets: https://store.ninapaley.com/product/playing-cards-double-decker/

Local non-woke bike shop: https://bakersbikes.com/

Robby Hoffman “No Backsies!”

Janet McNamera: Not Smart Enough:

Our Zartosht Soltani interview:

Nina gets invited to an animation festival for the first time in years, turning her world upside-down. Then we discuss the Great Mail-Order Terffles Experiment, which by the time of this writing (2 weeks after our recording, because Cori’s depression delays his editing even more than usual) has successfully concluded. Next we talk about the mounting list of trans mass shooters, and the desire of wikipedia editors to suppress it. Also guns, Reddit, aspirational truthiness, New York City, bike helmets, memory loss, and of course CATS and HEALTH ISSUES. Czech it out!

Links:

Wikipedia editors try to suppress a list of Trans Mass Shooters: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2026_March_3#Category:Mass_shootings_by_transgender_individuals

I’ve Got A Little List:

Trans Rhode Island shooter: https://www.aol.com/articles/rhode-island-shooter-revealed-divorced-145701661.html

Paranoid American interviews Nina about AI:

Terffles: https://store.ninapaley.com/product/terffles/ (password: yum)

Nina weighs the pros and cons of offering her delicious chocolate Terffles at the local Farmer’s Market, while Cori is motivated by lulz. Is it a chocolate thing, or a gender thing? Which wins: love, humor, or domination? Can Cori work on the Sabbath? How can 2 things be true?? Plus: social climate change, Tranndies, just another trans male mass murderer, sex-denying journalists, cats, and the weather.

We recorded this over 10 days ago, and since then Nina launched and completed this brief Terffles-by-Mail experiment: https://store.ninapaley.com/product/terffles/(Link password: “yum”)That batch are literally in the mail now, making their way to their USA destinations.

Links:

Istanbul (Not Constantinople):

Too Darn Hot:

Art Coop “No TERFs” sign: https://www.news-gazette.com/opinion/columns/jim-dey-terf-battle-in-urbana-averted/article_cdf7ecd4-2e0d-5759-84b7-fbbe653de2a5.html

Men’s Pocky: https://candycritic.org/pockyformen.htm

Carole Hooven calls out journalists lying about murderer’s sex:

Pusslims: https://x.com/_Islamicat

After Nina “sings” the theme song to The Electric Company and Cori talks about his cats, we discuss last week’s news: gender-critical lawyer Glenna Goldis’s hiring by the FTC post-firing by NY State Attorney General Letitia James, and detransitioner Fox Varian’s $2M lawsuit victory. Living up to our promise of quality content, we look up things on the Internet while recording. Then it’s time to talk Terffles: artisanal chocolates handmade (not handmaiden!) by a canceled TERF witch but inclusive of everyone. Will the Urbana Farmer’s Market accept Nina’s delicious Amaretto Amarena Amazeballs? Plus: “The age of Free Software is ending,” DEI parasites, PaleGray Labs, team names for a cat Cute-Off, Cory’s real name, and more!

Links:

Glenna Goldis hired by FTC: https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-admin-hires-glenna-goldis-lawyer-fired-by-letitia-james

Fox Varian $2M lawsuit: https://www.economist.com/united-states/2026/02/06/lawsuits-over-transgender-medicine-for-minors-could-be-huge

Benjamin Ryan, journalist: http://www.benryan.net/

ASPS Statement: https://www.plasticsurgery.org/documents/health-policy/positions/2026-gender-surgery-children-adolescents.pdf

AMA statement: https://www.usnews.com/news/health-news/articles/2026-02-06/american-medical-association-says-gender-surgeries-for-minors-should-wait

The Banality of Stupid (2017): https://ninapaley.com/2017/03/23/the-banality-of-stupid/

Hannah Ahrendt: https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/tag/banality-of-evil

Informed Dissent podcast: https://informeddissentpodcast.substack.com/

The Lunduke Journal: https://lunduke.com/

Rhapsody in Blue

Virtuoso tap dancing:

Disabling Impairments cards: https://store.ninapaley.com/product/disabling-impairments/

Enjoy a full hour of Cori and Nina at their best: arguing about attribution, pretending the male co-host is the “designated feminist,” and snarking about various current events. Cori asserts women, old people, and the disabled shouldn’t be on airplanes, and Nina, who is all 3 of those things, does her part. We read aloud an inane comment on our last episode that calls us “a genocide-supporting podcast.” Plus: Jo Freeman, Peggy McIntosh, Max Blumenthal, “self-hating Jews”, ICE vs Border Patrol, Jo Freeman, civil disobedience, buffoonery, policing, a ladyfinger in the face of the pope, Jo Freeman, misogyny, misandry, and Jo Freeman.

Finally, a Listener Challenge: write a one-paragraph Anglican sermon about misogyny. Please leave yours in the comments!

Links:

Jo Freeman: https://www.jofreeman.com/

Peggy McIntosh: https://www.wcwonline.org/Active-Researchers/peggy-mcintosh-phd

Kim K’s Komment: https://heterodorx.substack.com/p/episode-186-whats-happening-in-iran/comment/206704453

The GrayZone: https://thegrayzone.com/

Max Blumenthal: https://thegrayzone.com/author/max-blumenthal/

Alex Pretti: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Alex_Pretti

Renee Good: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Ren%C3%A9e_Good

cat on trampoline video (is it AI or not?):

Civil Disboedience: https://blogs.law.columbia.edu/uprising1313/files/2017/10/Civil-Disobedience-by-Henry-David-Thoreau.pdf

Malcolm X: https://www.malcolmx.com/biography/

Dame Sarah Mulally: https://www.archbishopofcanterbury.org/about/sarah-mullally

Ladyfingers: https://baranbakery.com/savoiardi-biscuits-homemade-lady-fingers/

The Dorx try to understand recent events in the Area Formerly Known As Persia by interrogating animator-cartoonist-painter-comic book creator Zartosht Soltani, who grew up there before moving to New York City. What’s causing the uprisings? What outcomes are possible? What’s it like being jailed in Iran? Zartosht has personal experience with the latter, which he’s channeled into his new comic book DEEV. He also observes that America is becoming more like his former country in alarming ways. Plus: useful vs useless idiots, American vs Iranian communists, “only 3,000,” extremist families, nepotism, learning English in bars, and liberation through painting.

Links:

Zartosht Soltani: https://www.zartoshtsoltani.com/

Deev comic: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FKQV4438

Useful Idiots: https://www.reddit.com/r/agedlikemilk/comments/1q3lnko/iranian_students_celebrate_the_victory_of_the/

Rita Panahi savages Whoopee Goldberg

Jo Freeman essay on trashing: https://www.jofreeman.com/joreen/trashing.htm

Hanukkah is over, but we still have plenty to say about candles, miracles, and commemorating atrocities. We offer our respective reviews of 2025, and Cori talks more about his joylessness, depression, and identifying with “victim groups.” Nina reports progress on her SSDI Blue Book playing card illustrations, including a transgender Jack (“LadyJack”) and Queen Prostate Cancer. Is Down Syndrome progressive? Does Cori “feel Jewish” yet? What should we watch on TV? Do we have any listeners left? Whatever the question, the answer is increasingly: GO BILLS!

Links:

True Blue Lou sung by Annette Hanshaw:

Bondi Beach Hanukkah massacre: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cqjg22rey0lo

Chuck Schumer: Go Bills!

Rob Reiner murder: https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/celebrities/2025/12/23/rob-reiner-wife-michele-death-certificates-memorial-service/87899544007/

The 12 Days of Christmas: https://www.almanac.com/what-are-12-days-christmas

SF Hillel arson: https://sfdistrictattorney.org/man-charged-with-arson-in-connection-to-fire-at-san-francisco-hillel/

Jewish men attacked on NYC subway

Cori’s pic on X in front of a giant menorah:

Nina’s 2025 Year In review: https://ninapaley.com/2025/12/19/my-2025-year-in-review/

Nina’s SSDI Blue Book illustrations - Queens: https://spinster.xyz/@ninapaley/posts/B1W5HfREevhkTfdyt6

& Jacks: https://spinster.xyz/@ninapaley/posts/B1HQIvEmaTyLQwrNJI

Pluribus: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt22202452/

House of Lies: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1797404/?ref_=fn_t_1

Severance: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11280740/?ref_=fn_t_1

Naked Gun: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3402138/?ref_=fn_t_1

PHQ9: https://share.google/PO5J3OAtPMRCLGKVJ

After learning about Nina’s inability to whistle and Cori’s interest in Sharia Enthusiast meetups, the Dorx return to the tired old subjects of gender and online drama. That stupid blue dress comes up again, while a cancellation mob forms on “our side”, at least as bad as the old cancellation mobs on “their side” that got “us” here in the first place. Will it ever end? (No.) How do you say ‘b******t’ in French? (‘Connerie,’ according to Google Translate.) What is the #1 most common stupid mistake young people make? (Tell us in the comments!) Plus: incinerated balls, personality-disordered cliques, shopping at Aldi, the virtue of self-awareness, and George & Ira Gershwin. Fascinatin’!

Links:

Nina juggles Cori’s phantom balls: https://x.com/ayeshadequeiroz/status/1995916753050988751

Phil Illy at the Genspect conference: https://shannonthrace.substack.com/p/genspect-and-agpgate

Nina’s Mimi & Eunice comic strip repost: https://x.com/ninapaley/status/1995499736955261412

Sex is Real, People are Weird: https://store.ninapaley.com/product/terf-tranny-alliance-pin/

Cori calls out callouts: https://x.com/heterodorx/status/1995729240877080773

Our Brianna Wu episodes: https://heterodorx.com/podcast/episodes-134-135-is-brianna-wu-based/

The Art Coop (potential site of TERF-n-TrannyCon): https://www.news-gazette.com/opinion/columns/jim-dey-terf-battle-in-urbana-averted/article_cdf7ecd4-2e0d-5759-84b7-fbbe653de2a5.html

The music of George & Ira Gershwin

Fascinating Rhythm