Olympic Cheaters, Year of the Unhinged Horse, the Death of Privacy, and Let’s All Go Full Bush

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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