Ladies, step right up and tell us why we should accept you into our special little society. We’re unpacking two traditions in which young women make their debut in a new chapter of their lives and work to prove their worth on this new stage: Bama Rush and Debutante Balls.

From the Bridgertons to the Darnells, women across the centuries have endured these elaborate hazing rituals, hoping to bag either a duke or a Phi Mu bid. How did these traditions come to be? How do they exist today? Is there any chance they are problematic?

Plus: We prove that we are good people, Anneliese gives an ankle recovery update, and Ellie shares how an armpit fetishist drove her to quit ballroom dance.

Today we get into STATUS SYMBOLS! Two products that are so luxurious and so limited, people lose their minds over them a little bit. We’re unpacking the phenomenons of the Hermes Birkin and the Faberge Eggs.

How did these pieces come to be? Who gets to have one? Can I have one if I go to the store and act cool and mysterious?

Join Ellie, in her apartment, and Anneliese, recovering in the country, to get to the bottom of it.

You remember being a teenage girl: the makeup, the magazines, the urge to kill. Many of us failed to commit to the bit, but these ladies pulled it off: Gypsy Rose Blanchard and Lizzie Borden (32-year-old-teenager).

What drove them to kill? And did they even do it? How should they be remembered? Join us on our journey to eventually land on Lizzie Borden’s side of the whole axe murder thing.

Plus: workshopping the Poppish theme song, where we’d take historical figures to eat, and Ghost Mouse.