This week we're talking through a wide range of topics, from providing an overview of Season 2 of Bridgerton to discussing all the drama related to this years Oscars Aware Ceremony. See below for the topics of the week:

Bridgerton Season 2

• Season 2 Overview + Thoughts
• Booktok's Sentiment on the show's second season versus the book (The Viscount Who Loved Me by Julia Quinn)

Vanderpump Rules

• Tom Schwartz and Katie Maloney Divorce Announcement

Doja Cat

• Doja Cat quits music in viral tweet

Oscars Drama Update

• Sean Penn calls for Oscars boycott if Ukraine’s Zelensky isn’t given a chance to speak
• Rachel Zegler, the lead in “West Side Story”, Reveals She Didn’t get invited to the Oscars

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Angelica Swiss (former dominatrix, former kink.com employee, and current cam model) joins us this week to chat about the new Hulu show, Pam & Tommy, and how Hollywood got it wrong with Pamela Anderson. We deep dive into the culture around celebrity sex tapes (including Kim Kardashian and Paris Hilton's), how the internet and rise of social media has completely deteriorated our attention span as well as changed the adult entertainment/ porn industry, and giggle over what the best sex toys on the market for you and all your “vanilla” friends.

Join us this week as we get to watch Aleena squirm while Angelica Swiss schools us on all things adult entertainment!

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This week we're talking through a wide range of topics, from our usual Kardashian family weekly update (the Pete Davidson versus Kayne saga continues) to a Bachelor Franchise update. See below for the topics of the week:

Bella Hadid

• Social media is super unhappy with Yolanda Hadid after finding out Bella got a nose job at 14

Bachelor Franchise Updates

• Susie and Clayton are together 
• Abc announces 2 women leads for the next season of the bachelorette 

Kardashian Family Update

• Ye and Pete texts leaked
• Kanye West pulled from the Grammys performance lineup due to his concerning online behavior
• Kanye banned from IG for 24 hours 
• Pete has branded Kim’s name on his chest and has “3” tats already
• Kardashian Trailer - Kourtney and Travis trying for baby

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This week, The Basic & The Brain revisits one of our favorite reality TV past times: The Bachelor Franchise. This time around we are focusing on Clayton's season of the Bachelor, in particular honing in on the Women Tell All episode as well as the Overnights (where Clayton woos his last 3 women and loses his shit on Susie Evans).

Come join us this week as we dive into Clayton's behavior, his gaslighting antics, the psychology of gaslighting, and why their attachment types effected how their conflict played out.

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This week we're talking through a wide range of topics, from our usual Kardashian family weekly update to A Reddit user post on if it's normal to split the cost of rent when your partner is making $500K a year. See below for the topics of the week:

Kardashian Family Update

• Tristan Thompson told Maralee Nichols he was “Engaged” to Khloe and would soon be married Amid Paternity Suit
• Kim Kardashian's advice to women in business is getting some major backlash
• A Peek inside Khloe Kardashian's pantry
• Kim and Pete are officially "IG official"

Other Updates

• Alec Baldwin and his change in tune: Rust contract makes me untouchable
• Reddit post segment - Should you pay equal rent if there’s a significant pay gap between partners?

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Starting off our episode this week, we talk avocados (and how hard it is to find a ripe one these days), the ethics of eating lab meat and how these new filters on Instagram are having Madz feel some type of way about her 30th birthday. Going into our junior year of the pandemic, we’ve seen a steady rise in cosmetic procedures (ie. filler, Botox, PDO threads, etc) and with Madi's 30th birthday around the corner and with the lines on her face showing, who better to teach her the ways of Botox and cosmetic enhancements than our resident self care and Botox guru: Aleena? Join us this week as we discuss the uptick in certain cosmetic procedures, and how Zoom Boom + a global pandemic may be contributing to the new form of body dysmorphia.

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This week we're talking through a wide range of topics, from our usual Kim & Kayne weekly update to the new Tik Tok influencer drama. See below for the topics of the week:

• Kim Kardashian Declared Legally Single in Divorce Proceedings with Kayne West 
• Kayne West Posts Animated Video Portraying Pete Davidson Being Kidnapped, Buried 
• Netflix Pauses All Projects, Acquisitions from Russia + Spotify Shutters Russie Office, Removes All RT & Sputnik Content
• Tik Tok Influencer Drama - Chelsea Hart & Modern Warrior (Lance Tsosie)

Though the world has been a bit bleek recently we hope you can still walk away from our updates this week smiling with your basic and brainy friends :)

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This week, The Basic & The Brain talk about the latest social/gaming/tech craze: The Metaverse. Not only do we discuss the concept and how it's a new medium of socialization (that may or may not actually be better than our real lives), we talk VR Porn and our experiences with it, and lastly, we touch on how the rise of interest/hype around the metaverse has paralleled that of NFT's and Crypto's and their potential use cases. We've got celebrities like Justin Bieber and Paris Hilton on the NFT train and it's not looking like it's going to stop anytime soon.

Come join us this week as we wonder if the Metaverse as a current concept is too amorphous, how its development may influence the internet and real world as a whole and what the next wave of socialization will look like (and how will AR/VR fit into that)?

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For our listeners new and old, we’ve changed up our basic bitch quickie model. This segment is still where we do a lightning round of top headlines from the week and give a quick top of mind thoughts about it. BUT we’re shifting it a little bit to be it’s own show piece on our weekly schedule! Other than talking about Madz need for a new coffee machine and Aleena's recycling craze, see below for the topics of the week:

• Rosie O’Donnell and Priyanka Chopra Jonas drama
• Ben Stiller and Christine Taylor are back together after splitting up 5 years ago
• The Queen’s death hoax
• Kanye’s New Muse Alert + all updates on the continuing Pete Davidson, Kayne West and Kim Kardashian saga
• Amanda Bynes Files to End Conservatorship

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This week The Basic & The Brain talk about the latest and greatest from Netflix that has become meme extraordinaire across social media platforms: The Tinder Swindler. Not only do we briefly recap the documentary and discuss the extreme lengths Simon Hayut/Simon Levinson went to scam these women, but we comb through data on how common catfishing has become in the modern world, what factors make folks particularly susceptible to catfishing and what causes people to catfish.

Come join us this week as we try and figure out how folks are parting with their avocado money so easily, how Tinder is combatting the catfish phenomena on their platform and what's in store for daters of the future.

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