Your Weekly Breakdown

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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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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