Season 2 is going out exactly as nature intended: an awards-show hangover, a deeply unnecessary amount of TSwift and Travis Kelce's wedding discourse, and the horrifying discovery that endometriosis can apparently travel.

Em + Cait wrap up their biggest season yet by plotting their summer transformations—de-Googling, finishing long-abandoned books, and touching grass. There are always enough books + music to carry you through August, and the girls investigate nano bubbles, ancient axolotls, and the majestic Viking energy of Erling Haaland. Per usual, they cover wellness and wacky news that will have you chuckling.

Touch some grass. See you for Season 3!

Shownotes:

• de-google your life
• read: A Good Person, Julius Julius
• Ann Patchett’s book recommendations
• Vancouver is apparently a top 10 most livable city?
• US booze sales are way down aka the Canadian effect
• Mercury in Retrograde lol
• amazing science of nanobubbles!
• new species of ancient (cutest!) axolotl
• madonna’s new album
• sienna spiro’s album
• Thoracic endometriosis
• Cooper’s Hill cheese rolling

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Your fav unhinged hosts Em and Cait talk World Cup, Broadway nostalgia, podcast empire drama, AI surveillance, Meta glasses, zombie filler, mosquito feminism, HPV self-screenings, climate dread, and why women are apparently never allowed to be unlikable in peace.

It’s silly, smart, slightly chaotic, and somehow covers Rent, Ray-Bans, corpse fat, Ottawa police, Olivia Wilde, and the emotional support of yelling “get the Flock off our streets.” Come for the chitty chatty, stay for the oddly comforting reminder that you are not, in fact, losing touch with reality.

Shownotes:

• Variety's top albums of 2026
• Rent 30th anniversary
• alex cooper's unwell issues
• nba rumours lebron and steph
• A24 (lol AI24?) and google's AI investment
• alex cooper and olivia wilde interview
• book: yesteryear
• Ottawa police s3xual harassment issues
• um surveillance state? flock, engineer who sawed flock cams, buspatrol, meta's lame new glasses, google AI disabling
• Carney disabled CORE
• Zombie filler!
• Ooh la la Dr. Brenda Lau's tool kits
• Dr. Ellen Langer on 1+1 perspective
• It's the female mosquito's fault!
• Europe is hot and the ocean is boiling

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Em and Cait tackle everything from immigration detention protests and Toronto airport expansion plans to the latest wellness industry grift promising to cure women's stress with supplements (lol). They also discuss Bumble's new AI dating assistant, FDA-recalled "sexual enhancement" chocolates, women's hockey victories, comfort food nostalgia, and why sometimes the best thing you can do for yourself is absolutely nothing at all. 

It's your usual mix of humour, skepticism, and side quests. Pull up a chair. 

Shownotes:

• book: foster by clare keegan
• wtf is happening at delaney hall
• documentary: the alabama solution
• jeff bezos rocket exploded
• doug ford billy bishop airport
• The cure for structural oppression is apparently a supplement lol
• Another bumble fumble?
• Sexy chocolate and undisclosed viagra
• Ballsmaxxing
• Montreal Victoire's win!
• in n out's bible verses
• Beijing bikini

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This week on Your Weekly Breakdown, Em and Cait celebrate accidental virality (hello new listeners!!), magical period blood, Skims-adjacent cocaine logistics, Hooters’ baffling family-friendly era, AI deepfake horror, Alberta’s “should we vote about voting?” breakup drama, and the miracle of a 63-year-old techno grandma. It’s science, shapewear, separatism, and boobs. So, honestly? Business as usual.

Shownotes:

• Music: Cate Canning
• Period blood/menstrual fluid research 
• Spain uterus preservation ("Mother") study 
• Quebec menstrual products initiative 
• Scotland free period products law 
• Skims cocaine seizure
• SSENSE drama
• Hooters family-friendly rebrand
• Boy Martinis / Manhattan
• 404 Media deepfake high school investigation (paywalled)
• Alberta separation referendum 
• Tune Girl / Awakenings Festival performance

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Equal parts rage, laughs, and “are we actually living in a dystopian group project?” Em and Cait tackle everything from Dr. Oz declaring America “under-babied” and the unsettling rise of pregnancy surveillance to AI panic, wellness culture’s latest injectable obsession, and the world's increasingly smoky, thirsty future. They also champion women’s sports after Cycling Canada benches female athletes while keeping the men’s team rolling, celebrate the enduring magic of David Attenborough turning 100, and somehow end up discussing Diet Coke shortages, fake celebrity beef, and why yelling at men occasionally feels like community service. Come for the pop culture chaos, stay for the existential spiral with a side of feminism and fridge cigarettes.

Shownotes:

• Dr. Oz thinks you're “under-babied”
• Moms.gov + pregnancy surveillance
• Cycling Canada controversy
• Vancouver water restrictions
• AI data centers etc
• AI backlash / commencement speech
• David Attenborough 100 years
• Love for Colbert
• wtf don't use Peptides
• Diet Coke shortage
• AI “Nudify” apps
• Vancouver nightlife + ABC controversy

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Em is BACK! The Hunger Games starts feeling less like dystopian fiction and more like a live news feed as Em and Cait unpack the increasingly surreal overlap between billionaires, propaganda, AI grifters, collapsing institutions, and the Met Gala. From Bezos sponsoring fashion’s biggest night to self-help influencers trying to convince women they’ll be “left behind” if they don’t hand their financial data over to AI chatbots, the girls spiral delightfully through the chaos of modern life, where every app is an ad, every guru has a subscription model, and even tectonic plates seem to be giving up.

Also: a beekeeper weaponizes bees against police during an eviction, teens “speedrun” Scientology churches, Alberta separatists allegedly get their hands on voter data, and Em returns from Europe emotionally wrecked by jet lag, historical fiction, and the looming possibility that summer travel may soon become a luxury sport. Somehow, despite all this, there’s still time for book recommendations, skincare panic, Kacey Musgraves praise, and one unexpectedly moving story about a lost grandmother’s letter finding its way home. Silly, smart, mildly existential.

Shownotes:

Mel Robbins just copied Nietche and other AI grifters?

MV Hondius, cruise from hell

Alberta Electoral List Scandal

Doug Ford trying to prioritze water lol

Scientology Speed Running

Pulizters! Hannah Natason

So the earth is splitting open?

Long Lost Love Letters

Trump admin fires entire national science board

Canadian Research Lab Identified US/MAGA Funded Network of 20 YouTube Accounts, 4,500 Videos, And 40 Million Views Pushing U.S. Annexation on Alberta.

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TICKS

Music: Kacey Musgraves album

Book: Lázár

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A smart, slightly unhinged tour through media, memory, power, and the slow erosion of both environmental regulations and social niceties, with just enough jokes to keep you from spiralling.

Cait and guest co-host Jill Clark chat lost media, unreliable memory, and the unsettling realization that some things might actually be gone forever (including, tragically, a niche aquarium puppet show). Also: political theatre, a deeply skeptical unpacking of the alleged active sh00ter situation at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner.

From elephant justice (a big game hunter meets a very poetic end) to Canada’s new “we should probably start saving money?” sovereignty fund, the episode toggles between global chaos and domestic policy with just enough irreverence to make it palatable. “AI is going to boil the planet but sure, let’s skip the environmental review” rage, plus a brief but important detour into why Helena Bonham Carter walking off The White Lotus is both devastating and, somehow, fine now that Laura Dern has entered the chat.

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Two women, one podcast, and absolutely no respect for the social contract of air travel. This week, Cait and guest co-host Jill cover the elite art of using Tinder as Yelp abroad, the chaos of surprise Ashley Madison accounts, why a 12-year engagement might just be a relationship hostage situation, and the new  fruit wash that could save your berries and your bank account. Plus: tradwife thrillers, Anne Hathaway’s long-overdue cultural redemption, Doug Ford’s private jet disaster, and a deeply passionate takedown of airplane deplaning etiquette. Come for the pop culture, stay for the grape storage discourse.

Shownotes:

• UBC Scientists discover a new way to keep produce fresh longer
• Haylie Duff calls of 12-year engagement
• Read: Strangers by Belle Burden
• Read: Yesteryear by Caro Claire Burke
• Doug Ford bought a $30 million dollar private jet
• Flyers play "Man I Need" as victory song

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Fish sperm facials, clitoral cartography, collapsing dictatorships, fake moon conspiracies, and a bird in a homemade submarine. This week, Em and Cait unpack the absurdity of modern life, from anti-aging hysteria and Gen Z’s fear of cringe, to why competency is the new porn, and democracy might still have a pulse!! Weird, funny, and somehow deeply hopeful?!

Shownotes:

• nine inch nails new album
• trump and pope leo
• new hungarian PM
• trump at UFC fight while his war on iran continues
• iran and haiti
• salmon sperm facial
• reverse cellular aging testing
• mapping the clitoris!!
• men should masturbate more, apparently
• Beat Cancer Off campaign
• GenZ is afraid to be cringe
• omg people are still denying the moon lol
• what is competency porn?
• underwater parakeet
• message in a bottle from 2002
• a dino world record
• zach galifianakis new garden show
• Melinda French Gates reacts yo yo yo
• Cait & Em support BC Women’s Health Foundation + will be at the April 30th fundraiser in Vancouver. Get your tickets here!

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This episode is a chaotic, funny mix of pop culture, space wonder, and “are we okay as a society?” moments.

Study the bizarre pH fact (beer and vaginas!) and dive into Bravo drama and Coachella chatter, before landing on the genuine awe of the Artemis II mission.

Also: a string of missing scientists sparks uneasy curiosity, and a deep dive into prediction betting markets reveals people are literally gambling on human lives: grim, dystopian, and very real.

The girls wrap with candid reflections on aging, beauty, and the quiet freedom of caring a little less.

• Artemis II product placements
• 8 scientists dead or missing?! Wtf
• Who would you see at Coachella?
• Is the NDP broke? Is that why Avi Lewis won? 
• Polymarket bets on wounded soldier
• Virginty? B*tch ain’t real
• More amazing snails
• Caroline vee is 73 and also an escort?!
• Amanda Peet is anoyed with her younger self
• Trump Kennedy Centre domains bought by Toby Morton
• Ladies of London show
• Duggars getting arrested

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