This episode starts exactly where real life lives: gross kid chaos, a week-from-hell audit, and the special kind of rage you feel when someone asks for a report that doesn’t exist in your system.

From there we spiral (affectionately) through pop culture and internet mess: Cynthia Erivo nerding out about vocals, the “dog food lunch” discourse, Sabrina Carpenter and feminism-as-a-projection, celeb “new faces,” and why some people truly can’t log off.

Then it turns into something deeper: how you stay functional when the world feels shaky, why “the dancing keeps you in the fight,” and how to hold hope without slipping into doomscroll psychosis. Plus: Cardi B’s legal lessons, anger cycles, and a quick wrap with what we’re reading/watching this week.

Keywords: audits, data, social media discourse, Sabrina Carpenter, Cynthia Erivo, Cardi B, emotional regulation, doomscrolling, hope, pop culture