Much to Discuss

In our first episode of 2024, we discuss the Emmy Awards and why Ayo Edebiri rocks (...style, talent, and her/her dad’s Letterboxd reviews).We talk about recent research that could improve women’s health and longevity and how shamefully little we know, learn, and talk about fertility and menopause as women. We also chat on population decline in China and how and why Sweden, in contrast, has a growing population.We wrap up with a movie force-ranking from Kelly that no one asked for: Mean Girls vs. Oppenheimer vs. Saltburn; and Steph provides some stellar audiobook recos from Brené Brown.Pop Culture:‘That show deserved to be encased in gold!’ The biggest shocks from the Emmy awards by Stuart Heritage for The GuardianIt’s Ayo Season by Emily Leibert for The CutLetterboxd, AppOpinion: Nudity isn’t the same as objectification by Jill Filipovic for CNNKirk Douglas Award - Steve Carrell Speech for Ryan Gosling Santa Barbara Film Festival on YoutubeNews:The Secret to Living Longer Starts With Menopause by Kristen V. Brown for the BBCDemographics and Foreign Trade: What Are the Effects of an Aging Population on the Current Account Balance of an Economy? by Thieß Petersen, Lizarazo López for GEDCan China Reverse Its Population Decline? Just Ask Sweden. by Andrew Jacobs and Francesca Paris for the NYTContent: Saltburn, Movie on PrimeMean Girls (2024), MovieOppenheimer, Movie on PrimeFool Me Once, Series on Netflix‘People judge me all the time’: Corrie’s Michelle Keegan on swapping soaps for hard-hitting dramas by Eva Wiseman for The GuardianGuy Ritchie’s The Gentlemen Will Bring the Swagger This Spring by Ariana Romero for NetflixBrooklyn 99, Series on PeacockDaring Greatly & Dare to Lead, Books by Brene Brown

Happy Holidays Friends! What a year! We hope you’re already horizontal on your couch shoveling holiday treats and binging your favorite seasonal content. In our final episode of the year, we reflect on 2023 and present our very best, unhinged predictions for 2024 (ie. Will Taylor Swift release a video game? Will the “bump” come back into hairstyle trends? *cue internal screams*). We have a sweeping talk about Ozempic and the obesity crisis more broadly, following Oprah’s announcement that she uses weight loss drugs, and chat on the role of purpose in feeling happier, according to science. Plus! We present a potpourri of topics: An Aussie woman stealing a truckload of donuts, George Santos’s bizarre and questionable transition to Cameo, finding your perfect brow shape, and a prankster of a seal, aptly named Neil.Bits:Neil the seal goes viral on TikTok after disturbing residents in Tasmanian town of Dunalley by Taylor Renouf for Perth NowNeil the Seal, TikTokPop Culture:Australian woman charged with stealing van carrying 10,000 doughnuts by Kelly Ng for BBC News, SingaporeA Guide to George Santos’s Pivot From Politics to Celebrity by Matt Stieb for IntelligencerGoogle Year in Search, 2023News:How Ozempic could affect the health of the global economy in more ways than one by Ian Verrender for ABC AUOzempic Can’t Fix America’s Obesity Crisis by Fatima Cody Stanford and Simar Bajaj for TimeGen Z and millennials powered a massive live-events comeback that will carry into more concerts and travel next year by Juliana Kaplan and Noah Sheidlower for Business InsiderContent: Perfect Brows Filter, TikTokOzark, Series on NetflixAmerican Symphony, Documentary on NetflixThe Happiness Lab, Podcast by Dr. Laurie Santos for Pushkin IndustriesStories by Arthur C. Brooks, The Atlantic

In today’s episode, Steph treats us with a riveting story of a gaslighting platypus and Kelly basks in Taylor Swift’s Person of the Year title. We gush over Margot Robbie and Angelina Jolie, ponder what Cillian Murphy eats for dinner, discuss an ace tip from Dolly Alderton on how to recover from heartbreak, and go from a crime drama > top holiday films in content recs.We also talk about how normal it is to think “what am I doing wrong” when it comes to money and why we feel hopeful paying attention to the UN Climate Conference happening this week.Bits:Penelope the PlatypusPop Culture:2023 Person of the Year: Taylor Swift by Sam Lansky for TimeSlang Term ‘Rizz’ Is the Oxford University Press Word of the Year by Armani Syed for Time Cillian Murphy & Margot Robbie | Actors on Actors by VarietyAngelina Jolie on Being a Punk and Styling Advice From Her Kids | by WSJ MagazineAngelina Jolie Is Rebuilding Her Life by Elisa Lipsky-Karasz for WSJ MagazineNews:Why millennials say they need $525,000 a year to be happy by Ayelet Sheffey for Business InsiderFossil Fuels and Frustration at COP28 by David Gelles for the NYTThis Is What Has Been Agreed at COP28 So Far. What Happens Next? by BCG Content: Interview with Dolly Alderton, Changes with Annie MacManus, PodcastThe Sinner, Series on NetflixFoile, SkincareThe Holiday, Love Actually, The Santa Clause, National Treasure, Little Women, Holiday-ish Movies

Buckle up for another mixed bag of content! Today, we chat about being direct in dating, if Karma is the guy on the Chiefs, why Google’s antitrust case is a big deal, the technology that could take over the iPhone, and some MINT content binges for your upcoming travel and time off - including a Taken-esque miniseries, a documentary on incarcerated Aboriginal artists, and a highly recommended podcast exploring if the CIA had a hand in writing the song that was the soundtrack to the end to the Cold War. This episode is full of lols to carry us through the weekend.Pop Culture:Swifties Agree: You ‘Can’t Help but Root’ for Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce by Tomás Mier for Rolling Stone What Kim Kardashian Learned from Her Father by Sean Manning for GQ The Biggest Snubs and Surprises of the 2024 Grammy Nominations by Moises Mendez II for Time Magazine News:What Google Argued to Defend Itself in Landmark Antitrust Trial by Nico Grant and David McCabe for the NYT In Its First Monopoly Trial of Modern Internet Era, U.S. Sets Sights on Google by David McCabe and Cecilia Kang for the NYT What Google’s trial means for the company — and your web browsing by Sara Morrison for Vox How Google’s Antitrust Trial Could Change Internet Search by Solcyre Burga for Time Humane Website Silicon Valley’s Big, Bold Sci-Fi Bet on the Device That Comes After the Smartphone by Erin Griffith, Tripp Mickle, Kelsey McClellan Content: Safe, Netflix SeriesArt of incarceration, Netflix DocumentaryWind of Change, Podcast by Pineapple Street Studios, Crooked Media, and Spotify

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.htmlPop 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-fashionMean Girls Official Trailer (2024 Movie) https://youtu.be/fFtdbEgnUOk?si=tfB4wTm1mQyDjpi3News: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.htmlSocial isolation and loneliness from the AIHW https://www.aihw.gov.au/reports/australias-welfare/social-isolation-and-lonelinessAssociations 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-gptsContent: The Fall of the House of Usher, Netflix seriesTaskmaster, https://taskmaster.tv/More is More, by Molly Baz, CookbookA Heart that Works, by Rob Delaney, Book

Welcome! In our (self-proclaimed) highly anticipated return, Steph’s got a new puppy and Kelly can’t say the word “aristocrat”. We’ll be coming to you weekly to deliver our classic format: pop culture, news and topics we’re taking in, and content we’re loving. This week’s episode covers a lot of ground - Halloween, Matthew Perry, gun violence, AI, Britney Spears’ memoir, and some bingeable TV recs.Pop Culture:Heidi Klum Transforms Into a Multi-Person Peacock for Halloween by Genevieve Cepeda and Angel Saunders for People https://people.com/heidi-klum-dresses-as-peacock-for-halloween-2023-8369259Matthew Perry, Star of ‘Friends,’ Is Dead at 54 by Alex Traub and Matt Stevens for the NYT https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/29/arts/television/matthew-perry-dead.htmlWho’s This Aristocrat Kissing Sophie Turner? By Danielle Cohen for The Cut https://www.thecut.com/2023/11/sophie-turner-peregrine-pearson-aristocrat-kiss.htmlKim Kardashian Is Fighting Climate Change With Nipples by Asia Milia Ware for The Cut https://www.thecut.com/2023/10/skims-is-releasing-a-bra-with-faux-nipples.htmlNews & Topics:America’s Rifle Fetish Is Destroying Its Sense of Freedom by Jamelle Bouie for the NYT https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/31/opinion/maine-mass-shooting-rifles-freedom.htmlOn gun violence, the United States is an outlier by Katherine Leach-Kemon and & Rebecca Sirull for IHME https://www.healthdata.org/news-events/insights-blog/acting-data/gun-violence-united-states-outlierAustralia confiscated 650,000 guns. Murders and suicides plummeted by Zack Beauchamp for Vox https://www.vox.com/2015/8/27/9212725/australia-buybackGlobal Leaders Warn A.I. Could Cause ‘Catastrophic’ Harm by Adam Satariano and Megan Specia for the NYT https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/01/world/europe/uk-ai-summit-sunak.html?smid=url-shareRishi Sunak’s AI safety summit appears slick – but look closer and alarm bells start ringing by Chris Stokel-Walker for the Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/oct/31/rishi-sunak-ai-safety-summit-tech-challengesContent Recos:Beckham, Docuseries, NetflixThe Fall of the House of Usher, Series, NetflixThe Woman in Me, by Britney Spears, bookJustin “Falling Upwards” Timberlake, podcast by Cancelled https://open.spotify.com/episode/20Ok0l1o6NL064rMaCIGKs?si=tipirfNvTJ6u60lOWbo6CQ

Kelly and Steph recap a series of unfortunate events in France - from a wine tour that was more of a wine bore to capsizing their boat rental. Steph is blown away by Kelly’s attempt at an Aussie accent - in a good or bad way, listen to hear!They also discuss Barbenheimer, Elon Musk’s Starlink satellites, term limits in American government amidst Mitch McConnell’s long pause, and some content recs - a breathtaking free-diving documentary, a lol-worthy gossip podcast, and a sharp topical podcast with Kara Swisher and Scott Gallaway that... j’adore (can take the girls out of Paris but can’t take Paris out of the girls).Ariana Grande Dating ‘Wicked’ Costar by TMZ https://www.tmz.com/2023/07/20/ariana-grande-dating-wicked-costar-ethan-slater-split-husband-dalton-gomez/LeBron James shares first video of son Bronny following health scare by Francesca Gariano for Today https://www.today.com/parents/lebron-james-shares-first-video-bronny-health-scare-rcna97064Greta Gerwig makes history as Barbie has biggest opening weekend for film directed by a woman by The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/film/2023/jul/24/barbie-movie-box-office-greta-gerwig-records-highest-grossing-womanBarbie & Oppenheimer & Strikes, Oh My, by On with Kara Swisher Podcast for NYMag https://open.spotify.com/episode/2yLCoYcwu1JMbtpALGljAp?si=PAPZh-4NTl2WduF6a962UAElon Musk’s Unmatched Power in the Stars by By Adam Satariano, Scott Reinhard, Cade Metz, Sheera Frenkel and Malika Khurana for the NYT https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/07/28/business/starlink.htmlStarlink Website https://www.starlink.com/businessMitch McConnell Suffers an Episode at the Capitol, Freezing Midsentence by Carl Hulse for the NYT https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/26/us/politics/mitch-mcconnell-freezes-news-conference.htmlThe Deepest Breath, documentary on NetflixNormal Gossip, Podcast by Kelsey McKinney for Radiotopia https://open.spotify.com/show/0KVZ16mLZ1bbNlnKemYTzm?si=6de97fcabdf64640Big Tech Earnings, College Admissions Controversies, and UFOs by Pivot, Podcast by Kara Swisher and Scott Galloway for NYMag https://open.spotify.com/episode/1oFPX95Z39Vn0pCCGjAb0B?si=nfAyvyIMSlOJScasvb3pQg

In this week’s episode, Kelly and Steph start off with a big catch-up from Paris on travel, personal growth, and the pick-up line of the future. We also discuss celebrity breakups </3, heat waves, a year post-Roe, an audio drama we tore through, and a female runner’s autobiography that sparked bigger thoughts on the sports landscape for female athletes. ‘The Golden Bachelor’ by Elizabeth Wagmeister for Variety https://variety.com/2023/tv/news/the-golden-bachelor-abc-first-look-1235671462/Joe Manganiello Files for Divorce from Sofía Vergara 2 Days After Split Announcement by JP Mangalindan and Stephanie Wenger for People https://people.com/joe-manganiello-files-for-divorce-from-sofia-vergara-7562790Ariana Grande, Dalton Gomez Separated, Filing for Divorce by TMZ https://www.tmz.com/2023/07/17/ariana-grande-dalton-gomez-separated-divorce-ring-seperated/Actors Join Writers on Strike, Bringing Hollywood to a Standstill by By Brooks Barnes, John Koblin and Nicole Sperling for the NYT https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/13/business/media/sag-aftra-writers-strike.htmlWhat to Know About Heat Waves by Adeel Hassan and Derrick Bryson for the NYT https://www.nytimes.com/article/heat-wave-cause.html?smid=url-shareFor Europe’s Older Population, Heat Is the New Covid by Gaia Pianigiani for the NYT https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/20/world/europe/heat-elderly.html Why Heat Waves Are Deepening China’s Addiction to Coal by Keith Bradsher for the NYT https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/20/business/china-coal-climate-change.htmlA Year of Upheaval on Abortion’s Front Lines by Kate Kelly and Marisa Schwartz Taylor for the NYT https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/07/20/us/roe-dobbs-abortion-networks-services.htmlMedical abortion pill: What is MS-2 Step and how can you access it under new changes? By Jessica Bahr for SBS News https://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/medical-abortion-pill-what-is-ms-2-step-and-how-can-you-access-it/wgxdy5bzyFrustrated by Biden, China Courts ‘Old Friends’ Like Kissinger by David Pierson, Vivian Wang and Edward Wong for the NYT https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/20/world/asia/china-kissinger-visit-us.htmlOld People’s Home For 4 Year Olds, TV Show by Australian Broadcasting CorporationThe People Who Knew Me, Podcast by BBC SoundsGood for a Girl, Book by Lauren Fleshman