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Megan and Michelle are befuddled by police procedure, public hysteria, rumors, false confessions, Forever 39, corrupt leadership, location sharing, and duffle bags of porn. (**TRIGGER WARNING: death, murder**)

Resources:
- After 6 women found dead, Portland officials warn against serial killer speculation
- 6 women found dead within 3 months in Portland, Oregon, metro area
- Addressing Online Rumors Surrounding Regional Death Investigations of 6 Women
- Police: No, there isn’t a serial killer in South Seattle
- Fact check: False claim of serial killer targeting women in Seattle
- Understanding How Law Enforcement Shares Information with the Public
- The Secrets Police Keep
- Did Police Corruption Derail the Long Island Serial Killer Investigation?

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Megan and Michelle get nostalgic about childlore, Bloody Mary, latchkey kids, M.A.S.H., cat's cradle, pig latin, playground rhymes, and cootie catchers.

Resources:
Why Did We All Have the Same Childhood?

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Megan and Michelle consider hipsters, gentrification, conformity, nonconformity, beards, authentic voices, stock photos, and beanies that are perfectly too big.

Resources:
- A Brief History of Hipsters, from Social Outcast to Urban Connoisseur
- The Hipsterfication of America
- The hipster is dead. Long live the hipster
- The Hipster Paradox: The Science of Why Hipsters Are So Mainstream
- Mathematics explains why non-conformists always end up looking alike
- The hipster effect: Why anti-conformists always end up looking the same
- A Mathematician Wrote a 'Hipster Equation' to Figure Out Why All Hipsters Look Alike
- Man Inadvertently Proves That Hipsters Look Alike By Mistaking Photo As Himself

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Megan and Michelle discuss The Longest Third Date, social lubricant, seclusion and inclusion, independent mindset, divorce rates, long distance relationships, and airing dirty laundry. 

Resources:
- The Longest Third Date (Netflix)
- What Happened to Those Couples Who Quarantined Together?
- I Was Dating A Guy For Two Weeks — Then We Got Stuck In Quarantine
- The Covid couples struggling with post-lockdown life
- Love blossoms when a three-day visit is extended due to coronavirus quarantine
- Love At First Quarantine: After A Single Date, Couple Hunkers Down Together
- They Met During Lockdown. They Realized Who They Were Dating Later.
- How pandemics affect divorce rates now – and 100 years ago
- Are Khani and Matt from Longest Third Date still together?

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Megan and Michelle explore procrastination, emotional regulation, executive dysfunction, negative consequences, overwhelm freeze, rewarding yourself, and being better when busy.

Resources:
- Why You Procrastinate (It Has Nothing to Do With Self Control)
- Psychology of Procrastination: Why People Put Off Important Tasks Until the Last Minute
- Why do we procrastinate, and how can we stop? Experts have answers.
- Laziness isn’t why you procrastinate. This is.
- How to Stop Procrastinating
- Why Wait? The Science Behind Procrastination
- What Is Procrastination?
- Precrastination: When the Early Bird Gets the Shaft
- All About ADHD Paralysis

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Megan and Michelle learn about cherophobia, positive psychology, the collective good, contentment, toxic positivity, human connection, self-sabotage, and waiting for the other shoe to drop.

Resources:
- What Is Cherophobia? How to Overcome a Fear of Happiness
- Cherophobia: the fear of happiness explained
- Aversion to happiness (Wikipedia)
- Is Fear of Happiness Real?
- Fear of happiness among college students: The role of gender, childhood psychological trauma, and dissociation
- Cherophobia is the fear of being happy — here are the signs you might have it
- Brad Pitt Thinks ‘Happiness Is Overrated’
- Keeping Up with the Joneses
- What Toxic Positivity Actually Is (& Why You Should Avoid It)
- Self-Sabotaging: Why Does It Happen

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Megan and Michelle chat about social media snapshots, assuming intent, pregnancy pressure, giving grace, dormant talents, and chain letters.

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Megan and Michelle delve into the history of drag shows, free speech, Castrati, slam poetry, cross dressing, the Stonewall Riots, drag story hour, “protecting” kids, and walking trans.

Resources:
- Tennessee Passed the Nation’s First Law Limiting Drag Shows. Here’s the Status of Anti-Drag Bills Across the U.S.
- Restrictions On Drag Shows Have A History In The U.S.
- The drag show bans sweeping the US are a chilling attack on free speech
- RuPaul slams those laws banning drag shows: ‘Get these stunt queens out of office’
- The Stonewall Riots
- Drag (Wikipedia)
- Short History of Drag Theatre
- History's Most Incredible Drag Queens and Kings
- How Drag Queens Have Sashayed Their Way Through History
- The History of Drag and How Drag Queens Got Pulled Into Politics
- What is drag? Here's everything you need to know.

DONATE:
- Drag Story Hour
- National Center for Transgender Equality
- The Trevor Project
- Human Rights Campaign

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Megan and Michelle decipher body language, ventilating behaviors, creepy smiles, dirty birds, eye contact, murder yoga, affiliative mimicry, and Snoopy.

Resources:
- Understanding Body Language and Facial Expressions
- Body Language
- 22 Body Language Communications
- A Forensic Psychologist's Guide to Body Language
- The definitive body language guide on reading other people
- 3 Creepy Body Language Signals
- If You're Bad At Reading Faces, Perhaps This Is Why
- Social-emotional agnosia (Wikipedia)

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Megan and Michelle debate nature versus nurture, genetic predispositions, social learning theory, rat mothers, twin studies, epigenetics, Bobo dolls, sheet music, and Dutch Hunger Winter.

Resources:
- The End of Nature Versus Nuture
- Nature v. Nurture: How your genes shape who you are
- Why Nature Vs. Nurture Is A False Dichotomy
- Beyond Nature vs. Nurture: What Makes Us Ourselves?
- Nature Vs. Nurture Debate in Psychology

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