Rebecca and Maya won’t pretend to be in any way qualified to parse the geopolitics of Russian’s horrifying invasion of Ukraine. Instead we break out the booze and break down how the propaganda around this war reveals unresolved Trump trauma, racism, historical amnesia and stupid fantasies of European exceptionalism.

Maya and Rebecca manage to break free from their Wordle obsession long enough to ruin the strangely popular game and, while they’re at it, finally delve into Whoopi Goldberg’s remarks about Jews and whiteness from like a month ago.

A year after Biden took office, we’re finally crashing from the traumatic impact of Trump on our burnt-out adrenaline receptors. How do we tell jokes? Or do podcasts? Or, like, get out of bed at all? Rebecca and Maya get personal in this episode, with help from Very Special Guest and genius, comedian Guy Branum.

Ah, the Holiday SeasonTM. A time for peace on earth, good will towards men — OR IS IT? Listeners sent Maya and Rebecca on a quest to ruin the very notion of “the Season”, but will they end up discovering the true magic of Christmas instead? Not without uncovering connections between Joe Manchin, Kat Von D, Saturnalia, the labor struggle, and holiday rom-coms along the way. Merry Fucking Christmas! Good Yule! Build Back Better in 2022!

While we manage some technical difficulties, Rebecca and Maya do a quick speed round on recent events in news and culture!

In light of the Supreme Court signaling the imminent collapse of abortion rights across the country, we wanted to share an early episode about abortion in popular culture. We interview two brilliant experts, Dr. Gretchen Sisson, who researches abortion portrayals in media at UCSF, and Jessica Mason Pieklo, journalist, lawyer, and Senior Vice President and Executive Editor of Rewire News Group. They blow us away with their depth of knowledge about abortion in the cultural imagination, and the relationship between the legal status of abortion the connected cultural conversation around it.

Welcome to Anti-Woke University! Rebecca and Maya break down The University of Austin Texas, a new school founded by a cadre of the Self-Identified Cancelled, & their attendant bullshit rhetorical moves around ideas of academic freedom and open discourse.

Rebecca and Maya get into Succession, HBO’s dramedy about rich people being horrible. We break down the tension between its prestige glossiness and cringey dark comedy, discuss American fascination with TV shows about the aristocracy, and disagree over whether it’s possible to be a fan of this show without ultimately sympathizing for these monsters.

Introducing Sauce Classics!

Secret tapes were just released of how the NRA were strategizing their future after the Columbine shooting. So we’re returning to our episode about gun culture: exploring how the gun industry created a culture of fascination and romance around their products, and how the gun lobby in turn used that to inform pro-gun propaganda.

The tile! The woodwork! The acreage! Sure, you’ll move to upper Michigan! You can like, farm, right? Rebecca and Maya look the wildly popular Instagram account (and new HGTV show) Cheap Old Houses and break apart the economic and historical factors underneath this specific fantasy of home ownership in small rural towns.