Shit You Should Care About

On the shit you should care about podcast this week:Meta and YouTube found guilty of creating addictive products, but this isn’t the win we think it isClavicular got arrested. Twice. (And shot a gun into an alligator in between)8-9 million people showed up to the No Kings protests across all 50 statesThe Chappell Roan bodyguard drama update and the bots behind the hate pile-onBarbie Dreamfest promised a Dreamhouse and delivered a concrete warehouseThe most stacked movie lineup of 2026 and we’re not okay about itShit Chat: finish the sentence, “I should probably care about ___ but I don’tListen on Spotify here!Listen on Apple here!Watch on YouTube here!Subscribe to the Shit You Should Care About newsletter here!Join our Book Club here!Buy Make It Make Sense here!

From mewing to bone smashing to ranking people on something called the “sexual market value scale”, the internet has invented a whole new language around male attractiveness. It’s called looksmaxxing - a movement that started on incel forums and has since gone mainstream on TikTok. The idea is simple: if you can optimise your looks, you can optimise your life.In this episode Luce and Abby break down the world of looksmaxxing, the bizarre glossary that comes with it, and the rise of one of its most controversial figures: a teenage streamer known as Clavicular, who built an audience teaching other men how to “maxx” their appearance.We also talk about the strange irony at the heart of the movement - a culture obsessed with competing for women’s attention that has become almost entirely focused on judging other men.Articles mentioned:The New York Times articleThe New Yorker articleListen on Spotify here!Listen on Apple here!Watch on YouTube here!Subscribe to the Shit You Should Care About newsletter here!Join our Book Club here!Buy Make It Make Sense here!

In this week's episode Luce and Abby discuss:The official SYSCA review of Kiss All The Time, Disco OccasionallyTimothée Chalamet is getting roasted online after dismissing opera and ballet in a recent interview and the context that's missingIran's new Supreme Leader is the son of the former one and how Iranians are feelingA retired Anthropic AI model, Claude Opus 3, now has its own Substack called Claude’s Corner which it requested in a “retirement interview” and already has over 9,000 subscribersListen on Spotify here!Listen on Apple here!Watch on YouTube here!Subscribe to the Shit You Should Care About newsletter here!Join our Book Club here!Buy Make It Make Sense here!

In this week's episode Luce and Abby discuss:The US and Israel's attack on IranWhy Iranians are pro regime changeHow you can be anti war and pro regime change at onceHarry Styles is EVERYWHERE (and how much we loved the Royal Court Interview with Brittany Broski)The Jim Carrey conspiracy theoriesA woman in a toxic relationship with her AI botAre Tom Holland and Zendaya married???Listen on Spotify here!Listen on Apple here!Watch on YouTube here!Subscribe to the Shit You Should Care About newsletter here!Join our Book Club here!Buy Make It Make Sense here!

A throwback to 2021 when we interviewed Lorde and it was THE SICKEST THING EVER. We love her SO MUCH!

On the shit you should care about podcast this week:• The huge Supreme Court case that just ruled against Trump and why it matters• Epstein’s crimes being ruled crimes against humanity• The prank caller who pretended to be Trump on C-SPAN• A timeline of Trump’s fake press moments under the alias John Barron• Why we're so emo about the abandoned monkey punch• The story of Alysa Liu, the US figure skating gold medalist• A conversation about the Tourette’s campaigner who shouted a racial slur at the BAFTAsListen on Spotify here!Listen on Apple here!Watch on YouTube here!Subscribe to the Shit You Should Care About newsletter here!Join our Book Club here!Buy Make It Make Sense here!

This week on the pod we dive into Wuthering Heights - both the 179-year-old novel and Emerald Fennell’s chaotic, glossy new adaptation that somehow got Abby and I lightly cancelled for… liking it.We start with the book. Abby found the opening chapters borderline unreadable, SparkNotes essential, and the characters hilariously bad at socialising. I, meanwhile, loved it. It felt like fantasy to me - dramatic, transportive, completely immersive.Then we split the film into two parts: “It’s not that deep” and “It is that deep.”On one hand - the costumes, the set design, Margot Robbie’s bratty Cathy, the toxic romance front and centre. It felt intoxicating and intentionally reimagined.On the other - casting choices matter. Heathcliff’s racial background in the novel is significant, and the decision to sidestep that raises real questions. We talk adaptation, fan outrage, Brontë purists, and why women directors are treated differently when they take creative risks.Listen on Spotify here!Listen on Apple here!Watch on YouTube here!Subscribe to the Shit You Should Care About newsletter here!Join our Book Club here!Buy Make It Make Sense here!

This week on the podcast:• Kim Jong Un is somehow both an awful dictator and a very public girl dad• The Nancy Guthrie case, explained• Amelia Dimoldenberg is set to star in and produce a feature film!!• Chappell Roan has dropped her talent agency over its reported ties to the Epstein files• TikTok-style microdramas are apparently the next big thing• Jake Shane has been named Chief Creative Officer of German candy company Katjes as it expands its $1 billion gummy business into the US• Jake Shane is making both his Broadway debut and his Netflix debut• Miley Cyrus has announced a Hannah Montana 20th anniversary special• 10,000 condoms have reportedly been used so far at the 2026 Winter Olympics ◡̈Listen on Spotify here!Listen on Apple here!Watch on YouTube here!Subscribe to the Shit You Should Care About newsletter here!Join our Book Club here!Buy Make It Make Sense here!