This week on Night School, Kristin Chirico returns and we cover Jesse’s magician update, including getting an invite to the exclusive, members-only club the Magic Castle in Hollywood. We then get into the Palantir CEO delivering one of the most unsettling interviews of all time while everyone politely pretended it was normal. From there, we talk Australia banning social media for kids under 16, why the internet is both a lifeline and a psychological hazard, and why blanket solutions won’t fix the broader societal issues creating unsafe environments for children. We unpack Quentin Tarantino crash out over Paul Dano and Art Basel turning Zuckerberg, Elon, and Bezos into robotic dogs pooping AI images, proving once again that power is temporary, ego is fragile, and art is eternal.

For our 50th episode, we’re joined by our comedian big sister Blair Socci. We cover everything from starting standup in New York versus LA, navigating comedy scenes, dating while trying to build a career, and what it means to pursue this career with sincerity while still having a life worth living. Blair walks us through her post-show grounding practices, her Aquaphor-first skincare philosophy, growing up in Southern California, and the very specific challenges of being a sensitive person in an industry that demands both toughness and vulnerability.

This episode moves through comedy, dating, mental health, identity, creative purpose, late-night adrenaline crashes, Hinge profiles, family, and the unexpected ways we evolve as artists. It’s honest, funny, emotional, and deeply human — the perfect energy for our fiftieth episode.

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We open with a full breakdown of Jesse’s situationship — therapy boy, Scorpio red flags, read-receipt crimes, and the debate over whether Pisces men are actually demons. Then the chaos escalates into smell confessions (who smells good vs. who thinks they smell good), celebrity crush delusion spirals (Adam Driver?? Johnny Knoxville???), and accidental racial allegations because someone said “David Harbour.”Then comes the investigative journalism moment of the episode: Stella and Jesse try to figure out if they’re actually Eskimo sisters. Names get dropped, timelines get reconstructed, and both of them swear they remember completely different versions of reality — but one thing is clear: the math is mathing. THEN we pla