Thank you to everyone who tuned in live! 43 days until midterm voting ends, and we are unhinged as ever, trying to make sense of Pete Hegseth’s testosterone obsession (morning wood, wtf?!), Trump acting like a big baby and following through on his promise to ban CNN, Politico, and MS(we’re still calling it)NBC, Logan and Jake Paul at the Pentagon, and the fact that even though men have led us into this ditch and are still digging, they keep asking us to let them lead.

And we keep letting them??! We want to believe that we got this, but we have some work to do in the coming weeks. Which leads me to our first point Lauren Lehman Carter needs to write a parenting book.

1. Three Douchebags and You’re Out: Lauren has a rule for raising two white suburban boys. Do three douchebag things, and you’re hit with the ultimate teen punishment. She takes your phone. I think it should be national policy.

2. The Converse Curse: Are we chucking our chucks??! You’ll have to watch the episode to find out, but we have theories, and they may be conversepiratorial. Yeah, we’re just making up words now.

3. We’re the Lube of Politics (A Response to an audience comment): Someone asked why we talk about pop culture if we’re supposed to be locking in. And the main reason is that nobody wants to jump right into politics at 10:00am on a Monday. WE don’t even want to talk policy at 10am on a Monday. We ease you in…like lu…ok you get it.

4. America, F*ck It?: I have a list on my dry erase board of the shit we are up against: bots, lying politicians, Elon Musk’s money, deepfakes, billionaires, defeatism, a culture that rewards assholes. It’s enough for us to want to say America, F*ck It! But we’re not giving up, and in the episode we talk about why, and it’s, dare I say, heartwarming.

Lauren’s early voting in Illinois starts THIS WEEK. Mine starts October 17 in Nevada, and I’m flying in to vote in person.

See you Monday.

Maya & Lauren

Thank you to everyone who tuned in live! For those who couldn’t, we hit on our usual range of topics but with the main focus being…LOCK THE F*CK IN! Election season is upon us.

* Stop saying the election is ON November 3: That’s the LAST day to vote. Lauren found out that voting in Illinois starts in 10 days! I’m flying back to the States to cast my ballot because I’m paranoid. The election is EVERY day starting from when early voting begins near you. Check the chart!

* A Russian Oligarch Paid for Don Jr.’s Wedding on a Private Island: Who knew that Lauren’s background as a high-end wedding planner would come in so useful in analyzing the state of our current politics? Someone doesn’t pay hundreds of thousands of dollars for someone else’s wedding without getting something in return. The question is what???

* Words Matter. Republicans aren’t “Rigging” the Election. They're suppressing the vote, changing polling places, and purging voter rolls. But that’s not an excuse to NOT vote; it’s the main reason to vote early. That way, if you do run into an issue, you have plenty of time to correct it. And when you talk to people, don't ask if they're voting. Tell them EVERYONE’S voting.

* WTF Jasmine Crockett Honored Chris Brown 50 Days Before the Midterms: Yah, we’re confused about it too. And when we say confused, we mean angry. Watch the video for more on that…

* Voting Is Self-Care! And Community Care! And Mutual Aid! Lauren proposed that voting is a form of self-care, and I agree! Our lives and nervous systems depend on the policies enacted by the people we put into office. So…here’s that chart. What’s your voting plan?

Lauren texted me before the show and said she was showing up in a robe and eye gels. I said, “do itttttt.” I’ve been sprinting around all day; she’s coming off of 1000 Miles to Memphis, and when Mike Fanone popped into the comments to ask what the hell is going on here, I wrote something like: “we’re keeping it together!” I hadn’t showered. Lauren fell asleep in her contacts two nights running. This is what we actually look like while doomscrolling, and we’re done pretending otherwise (at least through the midterms).

Quick preview of what we got into in between a lot of laughs:

1. Perfectionism is a function of white supremacy. It’s also a function of authoritarianism and ain’t nobody got time for that. We barely had time to eat breakfast. Ok, we didn’t eat breakfast.

2. Lake Ontario being Lake America will not distract us from measles and deadly groceries. We are MapQuest girlies now.

3. There are soybeans rotting in fields right now and US farm debt just hit $625 billion. Farmers backing Trump? Big mistake. HUGE.

4. Dolly Parton is who Taylor Swift thinks she is. Yes, I know these are fighting words. Just watch the episode and get back to us.*

5. In Elaine, Arkansas, they took the polling place. Folks were already driving 30 minutes. Now it’s an hour each way. They want to make voting hard, so our response is “vote harder.”

*Not totally irrelevant…Singer Olivia Rodrigo put on a Lilith Fairesque festival that raised $10 million for women’s organizations. MacKenzie Scott matched it. Melinda Gates added $10 million more. Thirty million dollars, ten organizations. Apparently women are just gonna have to take care of ourselves because the men are too busy going to war and making deportation p*rn, WTF.

Check your registration at Vote.org. Vote early. Vote hard. Hydrate.

Watch the full episode for the rest, including how close we are to being AARP eligible and getting the Denny’s senior discount.

See you Monday.

Maya & Lauren