It’s 2026, we’re ten days in, and already debating whether being called a “podcaster” is a slur. Em + Cait unpack New Year identity crises, MILF discourse, and why softness might be the most terrifying resolution of all. From hockey romance TV debates and the rise of pegging (yes, really), to AI logos that all look like buttholes, tech gone feral, vaccine chaos, and genuinely hopeful science breakthroughs, this episode pinballs between horny, horrified, and cautiously optimistic. Plus: why you shouldn’t sit on the toilet too long, how to meet people IRL without apps, and proof that this podcast is officially no longer “just a hobby.”

The girls also address the sweetest mailbag question about building a community.

Shownotes:

• the boys want to get pegged
• logos look like butts
• Elon's grok is undressing girls
• tv smoothing
• bigandmini.org
• venezuela
• huntington's update
• lecanemab alzheimer
• man paralyzed on the potty
• pipeline updates
• movies ideas: long shot, game night, bugonia, one battle after another, wake up dead man, sinners
• tv to watch: the assembly

books:

• you exist too much
• my friends fredrik bachman
• everyone in my family has killed someone
• wild dark shore
• house on the cerulean sea

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