This week, Cait and Em cover everything from $1,000 theatre outings and elite family vacation strategy (built-in kids club, obviously) to the deeply unserious state of Canadian politics—yes, including Fart Gate. Caitlin wins a CBC comedy panel (as she should), Emily pitches a documentary on Anne Hathaway’s press tour (greenlit in our minds), and together we unpack why women are now… quietly managing their husbands’ job searches.

Also on the docket: billionaires buying forests (a win? a warning?), gambling apps turning your phone into a casino, AI morphing into a Stepford wife, and a caterpillar that wears dead bugs as an outfit (nature is healing, sort of). We end, as always, with friendship drama, emotional labor, and the radical act of saying: I can do this.

It’s silly, it’s smart, it’s slightly unhinged—and yes, the girls are still dressed the same.

Shownotes:

• SNL UK
• women are doing their husband's job searches
• noami klein interview w/ ezra klein
• avi lewis new head of NDP
• a good billionaire? Tim Sweeney is buying forests
• fartgate in canadian parliament
• honestly the gambling ads (+helplines!!) are out of control
• wait AI just a digital stepford wife
• the bone collector catapillar
• Air Canada CEO under fire

Books

• Brawler by Lauren Groff
• The Power of Real Optimism by Deepika Chopra

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This week, Cait and guest co-host Jill Clark enter our political curiosity era (against our will) as Pierre Poilievre goes on Joe Rogan and… behaves? They unpack the surprisingly competent PR glow-up no one asked for, plus what it says about Canadian politics getting just a little too interesting.

Then, because Emily is away, enjoy some Reality TV chat!! Chaos, crime, and soft-swinging collide as The Bachelorette implodes in real time—because nothing says “ready for love” like a pending assault charge and a perfectly timed TMZ leak.

The girls spiral (productively) into the death of the Metaverse, the rise of AI slop, why Broadway is now stunt-casting influencers, and how weddings quietly became financial ruin disguised as love.

Finally, a palate cleanser: women’s sports are (finally) getting paid, yogurt might fix your mental health, and the radical act of being nice to strangers could save us all.

Light, unhinged, and occasionally profound—just the way we like it.

Shownotes:

• PP on joe rogan
• death of the metaverse
• wnba salary increases

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Excuse the audio, we did our best! Tune in for a Great Yap Session with guest co-host Jill Clark, standing in while Em is out drowning in the chaos of life. This week it's wide-ranging (and very correct) episode on modern life: how to game travel points, dress like you tried (without trying), and survive the Oscars discourse. We get into influencer creep on red carpets, the economics of having kids, the disappearance of third spaces, and why libraries deserve more respect—and funding. Plus, a radical but necessary idea: stat holidays belong on Fridays. 

Shownotes:

• max alexander designer
• train dreams movie
• kidney and liver cleanses and transplants
• jimmy rush oysters 
• the chicks singer buys laundromat and why we think it's all about building community and 3rd spaces
• library in hamilton ontario needs to screen visitors

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This week: burnt bangs, horny Olympians, hockey culture discourse, and a geopolitical crisis. You know, the usual light fare. Emily and Caitlin dive into Elliotte Friedman's poorly-chosen metaphor and the real problem with hockey culture, why the Olympic Village might be the world’s most athletic dating app, the strange politics of daylight saving time, and a few headlines that range from adorable to deeply alarming. Come for the chaos, stay for the cultural commentary.

Shownotes:

• bc time changes
• pei tenant app
• tourettes at the baftas
• spill tab
• smerz
• playlists as a love language
• s3x at the olympics
• forever fan girling alyssa liu
• melania security council
• US-Israel attacks on Iran
• ongoing epstein list of people impacted
• convicted stowaway
• the barkely marathon is insane

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This week, we’re limping in with workout injuries and leaving with a full-blown existential crisis. Emily and Caitlin unpack everything from Meta’s terrifying facial-recognition glasses and Canada accidentally investing your retirement in Elon’s chaos machine, to Olympic-level cheating scandals, pickleball fights among the elderly, and a possible 12-year-old future dictator. Plus: why improv kills your inner critic, why Cuba is running out of gas (literally), and why modern beauty standards might have more sinister origins than you think. It’s surveillance, scandal, and soft-belly solidarity—all wrapped up in one silly and smart spiral.

Shownotes

• rosalia lux
• fiona apple fetch the bolt cutters
• year of the fire horse
• florida country club brawl
• hate metas ray ban smart glasses and now they're adding facial recognition
• CPP invests in GROK?? what?!
• north korea succession
• cuba running out of oil
• the figure skating jacket guy
• biathlete credit card fraud
• holly davidson refs the six nations match
• sudoku packing for travel 
• your brain memorized vs improvised
• jameela jamil essay on teenage aesthetic
• the last late show

Books:

• everyone in my family has killed someone
• half his age
• vladimir

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Cold hands, hot takes: this week, Emily and Caitlin spiral from frozen Great Lakes to spicy revenge plots, unpacking everything from NASA’s delayed moon mission and Denmark’s sexy red streetlights to AI avatars in true-crime docs (hard pass) and the deeply unsettling reality of death cap mushrooms. They debate whether elders deserve grace or consequences, question sketchy Ozempic knockoffs, and remind us that creativity, like revenge, requires patience and a good notes app. It’s your weekly breakdown of chaos, personal grievances, and existential dread—but make it comforting. 

Shownotes

• Denmark’s Red Street Lighting in Gladsaxe
• Museum of Personal Failure
• UK takes Epstein more seriously than the US
• Windsor Bridge
• Oh Ye
• Artemis II delays
• FDA pulls his&hers ozempic dupe pill
• Creative success
• 4th youth hockey player
• Meta expands data centre
• Holy cow these weapons

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This episode is a full-spectrum emotional workout, and things escalate quickly. It’s silly, smart, unhinged in the best way, and deeply human—basically the news, but without pretending everything is fine.

Em and Cait bounce between fake celebrity photos, Cait's time at Second City, the Grammys jumping networks, Trevor Noah poking the political bear, and Bad Bunny having the most relatable anxiety spiral in award-show history. Then it’s straight into the Epstein files (allegedly!).

They take a detour into Canadian politics, the suspiciously glowing Rotten Tomatoes scores of a certain propaganda-adjacent film, and the quiet terror of realizing journalists may no longer be safe.

To balance out the dread: 3-flippered sea turtles, wiener-mobile races, dog shows, goalie fights, drag queens being sued for a dollar, and a historical lesson on what happens when women are given zero options (spoiler: poison).

Shownotes:

• grammys move to disney bye cbs
• epstein and peter attia
• melania director accusations and box office
• catherine o'hara
• conservatives still want pp as leader
• rats in ny
• 3-flipper turtle
• oscar meyer wienermobile race
• gene editing babies
• ilona maher labia puffs
• project 2025 coming after the ladies
• taliban marriage criminal code
• aqua tofana
• patagonia suing pattie gonia
• savannah guthrie's mom

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This week’s episode (their 50th!!) is a full-chaos sampler platter: birthday party debriefs, peak petty relationship moments, and the new life philosophy of friction maxxing—aka choosing mild inconvenience on purpose so your brain doesn’t rot.

Cait and Em unpack why the internet is making truth feel optional, what’s actually going on with ICE and the Olympics (spoiler: not what the headlines want you to think), and why TikTok moderation is starting to feel… ominous. Then: exploding trees, miracle baby turtles, dogs curing teen anxiety via gut microbes, and the extremely cursed idea of using AI as a therapist (don’t).

Plus: Ozempic is apparently saving airlines millions, B12 deficiency comes for us all, and martinis spark a surprisingly technical debate. Equal parts smart, spiralling, and deeply unserious—just the way the girls like it.

Shownotes:

• danish people petition
• ICE at the olympics
• tiktok censoring
• Iranian regime
• Ellison media consolidation
• friction maxxing 
• teens and dogs and anxiety
• chat gpt as a therapist
• exploding trees
• tiny turtle miracle
• pancreatic cancer cure
• airline industry saving money due to glp-1 usage
• what does B12 do
• virginia high school students car repairs for single moms

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This week the girls kick things off with a surprisingly serious (and genuinely hopeful) deep dive on Mark Carney's Davos mic-drop with their first-ever political insider guest Jill Clark, and shift to the usual business talking about naked FaceTimes, strong canned cocktails, and a four-and-a-half-star book review that spirals into why Goodreads is emotionally unsafe. They also consider swearing as a productivity tool, toxic mom groups, celebrity oversharing, platforming debates, and why saying “I just want dialogue” is often a lie. 

Plus: billionaire math that will ruin your day, California’s drought glow-up, Wikipedia’s AI era, goalie fights, queer sports love stories, declining literacy panic, and one absolutely unforgivable seggs scene on page 527. Smart, chaotic, occasionally enraged, but ultimately very pro celebrating the wins.

Shownotes:

Guest commentator: Jill Clark 

Books:

• Wild Dark Shore by Charlotte McNaughy
• The Bronze Horseman by Paullina Simons
• Canada's billionaires
• Reading is on the decline
• Goalie fight!
• NICU nurse gets jailtime
• Wikipedia + AI
• Elon's Grok deepfakes
• PM Carney's WEF speech 
• Donald's Davos fact checks

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Community is the theme, chaos is the method. With Cait away, Em is joined by Briana Buckmaster for a wide-ranging, hilarious, and surprisingly tender conversation about grief, art, perimenopause energy, and the radical power of doing absolutely nothing together. They unpack why women in midlife want to be left alone (lovingly), why storytelling matters more than ever, how tech and algorithms are flattening culture, and why the egg—not the sperm—actually chooses (iconic). 

Along the way: immigration crackdowns, dating apps enabling predators, influencer visas, Heated Rivalry as a case study in why romance is back, and a masterclass on female pleasure that men did not ask for but desperately need. Equal parts cultural critique, group chat energy, and gentle manifesto for being a human in public. 

Shownotes:

• ice agent shot renee nicole good
• new president of meta
• women file lawsuit against tinder and hinge
• egg actually rejects the sperm it doesn't want
• men's brains not fully developed til 55
• influencers and only fans models dominate 0-1b US visas 
• bbc news orgasm study 

Books:

• coffee table book judd apatow
• the names florence knapp
• fight night miriam toews

Movie: wicked little letters

Music: zach bryan's new album

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