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WOW WOW WOW. We recorded this episode days before what Steve Kornacki called election night "carnage." We talked about Marissa Mayer, our midterm election panic and terror, feeling burned and traumatized by the polls, and, finally, a bird that crashed into Jenn's window and, like our democracy, LIVED.
WHAT A DIFFERENCE A WEEK MAKES.
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This week! Jenn's headed to the woods for a break, but before she goes, we're talking all about: the Kelly Clarkson bird debacle; midterm elections, continuously being burned by hope, and feeling freaked out; rage bait and SNL, plus: BRAINWASHED BY ALGORITHMS!! And a whole lot more!
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This week! The gift of your kids' stability, fancy grocery stores, the deep and abiding pleasure of sleeping alone, and all the connection categories we've lost. Plus, how to get dressed now (beats the hell out of us!) and, turns out, cheese and beer was a bad choice!
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This week: The hell of Cornell/bullshit university systems/tech villains as fashion muses [barf]/the nihilism of AI overlords/the trap of parenting as homework cop/malapropisms/the armor of self-righteousness and a whole lot more!
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This week! Cohabitation with other women your age, learned hypervigilance from anticipating everyone else's needs, over-identifying with this stage of life, cross-generational conversations, silver-haired grunge concerts, and reconnecting with your personal style. Plus: Jenn has an encounter with a Liza Minelli impersonator who's also a medium and finds she just might be psychic-proof.
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This week! Jenn has a surprise (self-inflicted) black eye, and we're talking all about emergency contacts, community, communal living, LinkedIn overhauls and outfoxing the bots, the AI apocalypse, gaining hope, losing hope, how the vices are turning on us, daytime television, and — sorry!— remaining, despite our best intentions, miserable as f*ck. Plus, when your feed is filled with baby animals and also aggressive pet tortoises who (surprise!) are meaner and hornier than you may have ever imagined.
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This week! A short, sweet, themed episode about the regrets we carry, those we’ve learned to let go of...and how it all seems to work out in the end.
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This week! Accidentally twinning, cosplaying as real professionals, plans after 7:30pm, why Jenn wants to live in a village, the tyranny of private equity, brushing your dog's teeth, the sorry state of women's healthcare in 2026 America, and being forced into tech we hate. Plus: High school reunions, RIP Classmates.com, why men are "scentmaxxing" in their own funk and a whole lot more!
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This week! Selling the furniture out from under us, clothes for the wrong life, Dolly Parton and how all the wrong 80-year-olds are dying, raising Gen Z teens and eventual empty nesting, plus the carnival from hell that is Instagram and a whole lot more!
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This week! Temperamental dogs, Kimberly's back in the full-time-work Slack-iverse, Jenn's ADHD body doubling, and everyone's eyeing Jon Ossoff. Plus: A brow regrowth serum that could grow hair on a rock, a Dawson's Creek rewatch, last chance for merch, and there's some big back-to-school energy on the NCFOW Patreon.
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From the publisher's feed
A PODCAST FOR WOMEN JUST TRYING TO LIVE IN THIS WORLD.
Hosted by writers Jennifer Romolini and Kimberly Harrington.
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