Kelly’s found her spirit animal in a lonely British sheep named Fiona and Steph gifts us with her impression of an American accent (teaser: doting Southern gran who bakes apple pies).
In pop culture, we talk hot celebrities young and old, the MET Gala theme for 2024, and redoing the movies that built us a la Mean Girls. In deeper topics, we discuss the new ChatGPT functionality and some surprising stats around the loneliness epidemic as well as our personal experiences around feeling lonely and finding connectedness. We finish off with content, going through some easy watches, a fun new cookbook (Molly Baz <3 IYKYK), and how reading books on grief can help you tap into more empathy and understanding.
Bits:
After Two Years in Solitude, ‘Britain’s Loneliest Sheep’ Finds a Home by Claire Moses for the NYT https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/06/world/europe/britain-loneliest-sheep-rescued.html
Pop Culture:
Patrick Dempsey Is (Finally!) PEOPLE's 2023 Sexiest Man Alive by Julie Jordan for People https://people.com/patrick-dempsey-people-sexiest-man-alive-2023-exclusive-8391684
“Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion” Is The Costume Institute’s Spring 2024 Exhibition by Luke Leitch for Vogue https://www.vogue.com/article/spring-2024-costume-institute-exhibition-sleeping-beauties-reawakening-fashion
Mean Girls Official Trailer (2024 Movie) https://youtu.be/fFtdbEgnUOk?si=tfB4wTm1mQyDjpi3
News:
The loneliness epidemic: Nearly 1 in 4 adults feel lonely, new survey finds by Taylor Nicioli for CNN https://edition.cnn.com/2023/10/24/health/lonely-adults-gallup-poll-wellness/index.html
Social isolation and loneliness from the AIHW https://www.aihw.gov.au/reports/australias-welfare/social-isolation-and-loneliness
Associations between social media use and loneliness in a cross-national population: do motives for social media use matter? From the National Library of Medicine https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9817115/
Introducing GPTs from OpenAI https://openai.com/blog/introducing-gpts
Content:
The Fall of the House of Usher, Netflix series
Taskmaster, https://taskmaster.tv/
More is More, by Molly Baz, Cookbook
A Heart that Works, by Rob Delaney, Book
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