This week! Getting back to work (literally), #lifeafterlayoff, AI ageism, and the sneaky side door of August. Plus, Jenn is the first to explain the movie "Wicker" to Kimberly and a whole lot more!

Show notes:

That Discomfort You’re Feeling is Grief from Harvard Business Review [March 20220]

The Grief Iceberg by Cheryl Strayed

We know how to mourn other humans – but what about ecological grief? by Meghan Mayhew Bergman in The Guardian

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An entire episode about books! We're shifting gears a bit this week to discuss the best things we've read recently, plus have an impassioned debate about a book everyone seems to love — or hate.

Here's our list:

• Hope In the Dark — Rebecca Solnit
• The End Comes Before the Beginning — Rebecca Solnit
• If You Want to Write — Brenda Ueland
• Three Six Five, Prompts, Acts, Divinations — Lucy Ives
• Strangers — Belle Burden
• Repetition — Vigdis Hjorth
• Sky Daddy — Kate Folk
• Out There — Kate Folk
• Real Estate — Deborah Levy

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Come for the foul-language rant about ageism, stay for the heated debate about Andrew McCarthy vs. James Spader in Pretty In Pink.

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This week! Albert Brooks in "Broadcast News," the ramifications of the whole country shitting itself, Mitch McConnell in the Bardo, "Love Story," "Girls," and how nostalgia hits different in 2026. Plus: The horniest songs from our GenX youth and a whole lot more!

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This week! Jenn gets news bad enough that it takes up the entire episode! Plus: The Bear season finale, the cobble economy, how it's never a good time to be on LinkedIn, "loser's smug," health insurance and a whole lot more!

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We're back! This week: Vacations that are really "trips," never turning off work brain, how Jenn is a Claude narc now, Kimberly's theory of the big swing, plus Matt Damon is selling water and a whole lot more!

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This week! A special episode dedicated to all things women and shame — love, ambition, marriage, foundational agency, whether or not to have kids, motherhood itself, divorce, and a whole lot more!

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* BREAKING NEWS*MERCH DROP * As promised/threatened, and just in time for the Fourth of July, we've released a limited-edition No Country for Old Women tee and a non-flimsy, actually substantial, heavyweight No Country for Old Women tote. You can pick them up (while supplies last!) at nocountryforoldwomenpod.com

In this week's episode! Travel, packing, being forever "coach" people, Ivanka Trump needs to STFU, and while we're at it? So should Gwyneth Paltrow! (spoiler: she got worse after we recorded!). Plus, Tom Holland, what it is to really go for it in this one life, jumping on the Knicks bandwagon*, and, wait, are we a sports podcast now?

*we recorded before the final playoff game — congrats to New York and the Knicks!

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This week! (Re)discovering your personal style, epic vintage shopping runs, the glory of small(er) cities, adult pitfalls and minimizing the dumb shit, TV character crushes, the exquisite misery of Ben Affleck, and the emotional hangover you get after a good extended hang with a great friend.

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This week! Kimberly's hungover, Jenn's feeling uncharacteristically optimistic. Plus: White lady yoga chat, learning and re-learning how to swim in midlife, corporate retreats, the hell of icebreakers, decoupling health insurance from our jobs, and are we seeing lights at the end of the 2026 garbage tunnel?

Show notes

• "The End Comes Before the Beginning" by Rebecca Solnit
• Note: The swim class Kimberly referenced is no longer being held, but her original instructor recommends Cori Myka and her Orca Swim School.

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