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