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  • 151 - Dying For Information

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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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    37 min
  • 150 - Robin Laid an Egg

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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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    37 min
  • 149 - Oh, the Irony

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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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    44 min
  • 148 - Lonely Enough

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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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  • 147 - 100 TikToks Later

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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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    51 min
  • 146 - Avoidance of Joy

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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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    44 min
  • 145 - Curating Perceptions

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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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    33 min
  • 144 - Showtunes and Snatches

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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.

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

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    40 min
  • 143 - Chin Down, Eyes Up

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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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    45 min
  • 142 - Mathematical Sound Waves

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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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    31 min

About Prosecco Theory

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Two single moms in their early 40s, diving into the world's infinite gray areas and sorting through baggage in pursuit of personal growth and entertainment. (Music by Bryan M. Steele)