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 Guardian

It’s Ayo Season by Emily Leibert for The Cut

Letterboxd, App

Opinion: Nudity isn’t the same as objectification by Jill Filipovic for CNN

Kirk Douglas Award - Steve Carrell Speech for Ryan Gosling Santa Barbara Film Festival on Youtube

News:

The Secret to Living Longer Starts With Menopause by Kristen V. Brown for the BBC

Demographics 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 GED

Can China Reverse Its Population Decline? Just Ask Sweden. by Andrew Jacobs and Francesca Paris for the NYT

Content: 

Saltburn, Movie on Prime

Mean Girls (2024), Movie

Oppenheimer, Movie on Prime

Fool 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 Guardian

Guy Ritchie’s The Gentlemen Will Bring the Swagger This Spring by Ariana Romero for Netflix

Brooklyn 99, Series on Peacock

Daring Greatly & Dare to Lead, Books by Brene Brown

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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 Now

Neil the Seal, TikTok

Pop Culture:

Australian woman charged with stealing van carrying 10,000 doughnuts by Kelly Ng for BBC News, Singapore

A Guide to George Santos’s Pivot From Politics to Celebrity by Matt Stieb for Intelligencer

Google Year in Search, 2023

News:

How Ozempic could affect the health of the global economy in more ways than one by Ian Verrender for ABC AU

Ozempic Can’t Fix America’s Obesity Crisis by Fatima Cody Stanford and Simar Bajaj for Time

Gen 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 Insider

Content: 

Perfect Brows Filter, TikTok

Ozark, Series on Netflix

American Symphony, Documentary on Netflix

The Happiness Lab, Podcast by Dr. Laurie Santos for Pushkin Industries

Stories by Arthur C. Brooks, The Atlantic

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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 Platypus

Pop Culture:

2023 Person of the Year: Taylor Swift by Sam Lansky for Time

Slang Term ‘Rizz’ Is the Oxford University Press Word of the Year by Armani Syed for Time 

Cillian Murphy & Margot Robbie | Actors on Actors by Variety

Angelina Jolie on Being a Punk and Styling Advice From Her Kids | by WSJ Magazine

Angelina Jolie Is Rebuilding Her Life by Elisa Lipsky-Karasz for WSJ Magazine

News:

Why millennials say they need $525,000 a year to be happy by Ayelet Sheffey for Business Insider

Fossil Fuels and Frustration at COP28 by David Gelles for the NYT

This Is What Has Been Agreed at COP28 So Far. What Happens Next? by BCG 

Content: 

Interview with Dolly Alderton, Changes with Annie MacManus, Podcast

The Sinner, Series on Netflix

Foile, Skincare

The Holiday, Love Actually, The Santa Clause, National Treasure, Little Women, Holiday-ish Movies

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