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-2023-8369259

Matthew 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.html

Who’s This Aristocrat Kissing Sophie Turner? By Danielle Cohen for The Cut https://www.thecut.com/2023/11/sophie-turner-peregrine-pearson-aristocrat-kiss.html

Kim 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.html

News & 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.html

On 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-outlier

Australia confiscated 650,000 guns. Murders and suicides plummeted by Zack Beauchamp for Vox https://www.vox.com/2015/8/27/9212725/australia-buyback

Global 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-share

Rishi 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-challenges

Content Recos:

Beckham, Docuseries, Netflix

The Fall of the House of Usher, Series, Netflix

The Woman in Me, by Britney Spears, book

Justin “Falling Upwards” Timberlake, podcast by Cancelled https://open.spotify.com/episode/20Ok0l1o6NL064rMaCIGKs?si=tipirfNvTJ6u60lOWbo6CQ

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