Jenny grew up in West Virginia next to a country club on a golf course, with a farmhouse, a massive garden, and six brothers who had a small side business growing marijuana in the backyard that her mother never found out about. Susan grew up in New England with Irish immigrant grandparents who remembered discrimination firsthand, a father who ordered Ebony Magazine to a very white neighborhood on purpose, and a hairdresser who operated out of her living room while a neighbor came in to sell eggs during the appointment.

Two completely different childhoods. Two women who turned out to have a lot more in common than you would expect. They get into what small town life actually builds in a person, what it felt like to leave it, the foods that are specific to each region that they will defend forever, and the one thing both of them say they genuinely miss about where they came from. Subscribe, share this with someone who grew up somewhere nobody else seems to understand, and tell us in the comments where you grew up and what it made you.

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Jenny and Susan pull back the curtain on how they actually built their businesses from scratch. Jenny started her dental practice with one chair, a bank loan, and a very specific strategy of taking every specialist in town out to lunch before she had a single patient. She also gave away free exams and cleanings for the first year because she knew if people could just experience her work, they would stay. Most of them did.

Susan built two businesses by spotting what nobody else in town was doing yet. Her estate and home watch company Key Concierge grew out of her own frustration as a homeowner, and the realtor community helped her get it off the ground before word of mouth took over. They also get into the networking groups that wasted their time, the hats you have to wear before you can hire anyone, and why the first year almost always looks nothing like the plan. If you are thinking about starting something or just wondering how other women did it, this one is worth your time. Subscribe and share it with someone who is on the fence.

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Jenny and Susan get into what actually creates instant attraction on a first date and what sends it straight into ick territory. Susan breaks down her two non negotiables, humor and kindness, and explains why looks barely register for her anymore. Jenny brings up teeth, physical effort, and the difference between someone who is interesting and someone who just talks about themselves the whole date.

They also get into the practical side of dating right now, including the app that lets you fake an emergency to escape a bad date, why background checks on people you meet online are worth every penny, and the safety steps every woman should take before meeting a stranger for the first time. Plus the questions men should stop asking and the ones that actually make them more interesting. Subscribe and share this with the friend who needs to hear it before her next date.

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Two women. Decades of work experience between them. And a collection of on-the-job stories that range from deeply relatable to genuinely unbelievable. Jenny leads with the dental school student who just decided one day to drill straight through someone's tooth — and the hygienist who cleaned so aggressively she removed an entire tooth from a patient's mouth and brought it to Jenny in her hand. Susan brings the librarian assistant era, a brief and formative stint shoveling horse stalls at a racetrack, and the management mistake almost every new boss makes without realizing it until it's too late.

Along the way there's a murder-scene exam room that had to be quietly evacuated, a wrong patient seated for the wrong procedure, two kids who left the dentist and immediately bought taffy, and a surprisingly honest conversation about why making big mistakes early is actually how you get good. This is the episode you send to anyone who's ever done something at work they hoped nobody saw. Subscribe, share it with a coworker who will immediately know exactly what you mean, and tell us in the comments — what's the dumbest thing you've ever done on the job?

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You know the person at the gate — the one with the bed pillow under one arm, a stuffed animal clipped to their bag, and no idea what zone they're in. And you know the other person — the one quietly off to the side, carry-on the right size, already knowing exactly where they're sitting. Jenny and Susan are breaking down every signal, every habit, and every unspoken rule that separates someone who travels a lot from someone who very much does not. It's funnier than it sounds and more useful than you'd expect.

Along the way, Susan shares the story of a first-class flight attendant who told her — a 50-year Delta customer running from a delayed connection — to go find a spot in coach. Jenny reveals she will never, under any circumstances, travel without snacks because hunger on a grounded plane is a real and present danger. They get into packing strategies, the neck pillow debate, five pairs of sunglasses, and a satin eye mask that's described as somewhere between luxury and scuba gear. Subscribe, share this with someone who definitely over-packs, and tell us in the comments — what's the most chaotic thing you've ever seen at an airport gate?

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Susan just got back from 10 days in the Basque region of Spain — Bilbao and San Sebastian — and she has opinions, recipes, and a whole new outlook on life. The men cook. The fish is impeccable. The Iberian pigs live better than most people. And the San Sebastian area has more Michelin-starred restaurants per square mile than anywhere else on earth, including Paris and Tokyo. If you've ever thought about going to Spain and skipped past the Basque region, this episode is going to fix that. Jenny, meanwhile, spent the week in the dental office, accidentally gave a fake sheriff 35 minutes of her life, and watched her neighbor's perfect cat named Billy for a few days. Also someone tried to forge a business check and almost got away with it. It was that kind of week.

But the story that will make you stop what you're doing and immediately go search YouTube is the BBC Wrong Guy segment — now celebrating its 20th anniversary — where a man named Guy showed up to a job interview at the BBC and was accidentally pulled into a live television broadcast as an expert on tech legislation. Instead of stopping the interview, he just... answered the questions. Both of them. On live TV. In front of millions of people. He didn't get the job, but he absolutely won the internet. Jenny and Susan break it all down, swap scam survival tips every woman needs to hear right now, debate Miami versus the west coast of Florida, and somehow end the episode teasing a segment called The Right Guy. Subscribe, share this with someone who needs a travel recommendation or a scam warning — ideally both — and go look up The Wrong Guy on YouTube the second this episode ends.

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Two big stories this week and both of them are worth your full attention. First: a United Airlines Boeing 767 coming in for landing at Newark clipped a light pole and then a bakery truck on the highway, with 231 people on board, and somehow everyone walked away fine, including the bread delivery driver who watched a plane wing come through his window on camera. Jenny and Susan have thoughts, questions, and a healthy amount of airport anxiety to process together.

Then the main event: Cherie DeVaux just became the first female trainer in 152 years of Kentucky Derby history to win the race, and her story is one of the most genuinely inspiring things to come out of sports in a long time. She grew up barrel racing in rodeos, started at the bottom of the industry as a hot walker cooling down horses after their runs, survived a serious fall that ended her riding career, competed in bodybuilding while figuring out her next move, and never stopped loving horses enough to walk away. Jenny and Susan break down what it really takes to win at Churchill Downs, the jockeys and their weight requirements, the stud farm life waiting for the winners, the six-pairs-of-goggles mud strategy, and why the rose blanket alone deserves its own episode. Subscribe, share this with the horse girl in your life, and tell us, did you watch the race?

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Two women who have hosted a podcast together for a year sit down to play Two Truths and a Lie — and immediately learn things about each other they genuinely did not see coming. Susan has shot a rocket launcher at a munitions facility in Maine, eaten 1,000-year-old eggs, and may or may not have been prom queen. Jenny has a five-foot oil portrait hanging in her home, a genuine terror of bicycles stemming from a full catalog of accidents including going off a cliff, and a crush on Andrea Bocelli that she's ready to formally retire. Also: someone got married at an Elvis chapel in Las Vegas, someone was a white water rafting guide in northern Maine for two summers, and Brad Pitt comes up in a way that will make you want to press play immediately.

This episode is pure fun — the kind of conversation that reminds you how much you still don't know about the people closest to you, and how a single game can crack open an hour of the best stories you've ever heard. Jenny and Susan also make the case for bringing Two Truths and a Lie back as the ultimate dinner party icebreaker, and somehow end up down a rabbit hole about Mahjong, the Las Vegas Sphere, Pearl Jam, and why you absolutely cannot donate a giant oil family portrait to Goodwill. Subscribe, share this with the friend group chat, and tell us in the comments — what's your most unbelievable truth?

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