It’s time to choose team captains for the age old thong vs panty debate. Rainie and Darcy adopt diametrically opposed positions for the discourse of a lifetime. As controversial issues often do, it stirs up some information previously lost in t

20s on 20th on 2020

Dec 30th, 2020 30m 38s

Oh 2020, you venomous assailant with a penchant for dismay. We’ll be processing this trip around the sun long into our 80s, but for now, we assemble young people across the globe to discuss lessons they found as a consolation prize for the hard

Michael Barbaro in a Leotard at the Disco

Dec 17th, 2020 35m 4s

The season of Spotify Wrapped is upon us. Get ready to click through hundreds of “top artist” instagram stories and analyze why and how a niche 80s rock band is your most played. Instead of taking that algorithm seriously, we decided to choose

I wrote a hit play! And I'm in love with you!

Dec 1st, 2020 36m 21s

No one depicts a high powered dweeb experiencing the agony of identity dysphoria and unrequited love better than Wes Anderson himself. So this week, we analyze another coming of age film whose beloved and complex protagonist is in crisis. We'll

Lifestyles of the Anxious and Famous

Nov 15th, 2020 56m 51s

Ever wondered what it’s like to execute a Robert Di Niro Scorsese film level performances, engineer theatre kid reality tv shows, and spoof the greatest mid-2000s Australian mermaid show of all time within 60 second time frames? Today's your da

Proposition 1000

Oct 23rd, 2020 39m 50s

Let’s talk politics. If you've already voted, good on you, you shining example of civic engagement and participatory democracy, this will give you further insight on some of those decisions. If you haven't voted, we forgive your procrastination

Miranda Writes

Oct 9th, 2020 53m 19s

Moments of startling clarity can come at unexpected times. Like last weekend when I was standing on the porch of a home that wasn’t mine and someone asked me where I was going. I quite obviously took the question figuratively and realized with

If You Get Murdered, I'll Avenge Your Death

Sep 23rd, 2020 32m 40s

Another week as a twenty something, another week getting bitch slapped by your own short- comings. We’ve talked about romance and sexual chaos, but this week we discuss what is arguably the joy and nectar of the universe: Friends. They make it

Dead Cat September

Sep 9th, 2020 41m 4s

The journey to journaling, doesn’t always have to entail navigating a collection of bizarre and disturbing events that culminate in a sea of despair, but for Rainie it did, and we couldn’t be prouder. Her path included but was not limited to: c

Anti-Capitalist on Monday, Fintech Bro on Sunday

Aug 20th, 2020 32m 52s

Oh, the Modern Day Villain--you know who we’re talking about-- finance guy who aggressively orders to-go salads on his bluetooth headset, and believes in both meritocracy and nepotism. Do we despise him? But of course. Do we have darker, compli

Okay Golden Boy

Aug 10th, 2020 25m 57s

As a college soccer player, serial monogamist, engineering major, American male who does the dishes, and all-around golden boy, we can’t really relate to Darcy’s brother, Luke. Except, of course, in humanity’s common denominators, such as rejec

Gen Z Sis

Aug 4th, 2020 34m 1s

Yes, we are two zillenials facing existential quandaries. But, like many mortals, we also have siblings, and those siblings are also navigating their very own crises. Join us for our very first live-action interview with our Gen Z corresponden

Manual Transmission

Jul 27th, 2020 33m 18s

Loneliness is a pillar of twenty somethings, a staple of a pandemic, and a ramification of the age of the internet. Rainie’s socially distanced bumble date turns on its head, predominantly due to the lengthy list of assumptions she’d made prior

Why You Gotta Fight With Me At Cheesecake?

Jul 21st, 2020 27m 53s

Last week, a serene and joyful lake house right outside Geneseo, New York was visited for the last time. Darcy and her extended family packed up the furniture and moved out. Sigh. To make matters worse, Darcy’s grandmother served up a little cr

Sporty Spice

Jul 12th, 2020 21m 37s

If you want to be my lover, you gotta be Jon Stewart. Silver fox alert. This week we discuss the role of recreational sports in our collegiate and then post-collegiate lives and beg the question: must we join a rec frisbee golf league to meet s

Wait... Was That My Fault?

Jul 4th, 2020 31m 7s

Responsibility from left field. You’re bouncing along, thinking you’re a crusader of truth and justice. “Pure intentions”. You’ve reached the Scott Disick mentality: “Maybe I’m just perfect and it’s everyone else that’s the problem.” And then

Crash + Learn

Jun 27th, 2020 51m 51s

A pillar of twenty-something existence is failing. Wildly. Repeatedly. With grace and without grace. On your face. Publicly. Privately. This is our first (and most definitely not our last) foray into analyzing failure, what it means, how it's s

2020 For the Gals

May 25th, 2020 42m 41s

It’s a perilous trial like no other: New Years Eve night, doomed before it even began. We roared into the 20s in our 20s. A lot transpired on that night and a lot has transpired since. We analyze mixed signals, destructive expectations, and the

Defining Decade: A Lit Review

May 25th, 2020 46m 24s

It’s book club, baby! We discuss Defining Decade, the book about why your twenties “matter” and how to “make the most of them”. Author and therapist and Meg Jay, PhD, urges urgency, dismantles reckless relationships, and tells us to network lik

F*ckboys Declassified

May 25th, 2020 35m 41s

Rainie was ghosted in 2017 and so quite logically, she penned a seethingly well researched academic paper about how hookup culture perpetuates toxic masculinity and gendered power structures. On this episode, we break down multiple f*ckboy crim

The Graduates

May 25th, 2020 38m 58s

In 2019, Darcy had to watch the 1967 film “The Graduate” for one of the last classes of her college career. First came the rush of feminist critique and then, a few months later, the devastating realization that she related all too well to Dust

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