This month on The Rewind: I’m back from a grounding week in Jamaica with family, deep in a Dungeon Crawler book series I can’t put down, and fully spiraling into the Real Housewives Cinematic Universe (send help, or don’t — I’m having a great time). I get into what’s been living rent-free in my head with the Lindsey Clancy case, why curry goat will always be my last-meal pick, and the small morning routine I’m trying to actually stick to. Books, basketball hoops, lion’s mane coffee, and the WNBA playoff run — it’s all in here.

In this episode:

• 📚 Read: Helen of Nowhere, Dungeon Crawler, Fever in the Heartland

• 🍽️ Eating: curry goat, chicken patties, buldak noodles, salmon bowls

• 🎮 Playing: Lego, indoor basketball, gym habit-building

• 🔍 Obsessed: the Lindsey Clancy case

• 📺 Recommend: Real Housewives (Salt Lake, NY, Rhode Island, London, Ultimate Girls Trip), Top Chef

• 🎁 Treated: new watch strap, 10 notebooks, coffee machine, lion’s mane coffee

• ✨ Extras: a week home in Jamaica, getting health-conscious, WNBA playoffs, building a morning routine

• The multilingual celebrities with ADHD — Trevor Noah, Zoe Saldaña, Shakira, Michelle Rodriguez, and will.i.am

• Why there’s no scientific link between ADHD and polyglot-ism — but a lot of overlap in the traits

• The upside: hyperfocus, novelty-seeking, and pattern recognition

• The downside: the intermediate plateau, working memory struggles, and my own mix of dyslexia and speaking perfectionism

• A practical system for learning languages with an ADHD brain — language rotation, the “Lego” method, dopamine hacks, and outsmarting executive dysfunction

Welcome to the Spiral.

Welcome to the very first Debrief on TJ Unfiltered — no filter, no script, just me talking through the week’s news, drama, and whatever’s living rent-free in my head.

This episode:

• 🔍 Revisiting the Lindsay Clancy case — why my first take doesn’t hold up anymore, and where the evidence actually seems to point

• 💔 Hayden’s death — the entertainment industry angle, and an unsettling detail that surfaced days later

• 🍸 Real Housewives Ultimate Girls Trip — Lisa appreciation hour (I don’t make the rules, I just love her)

• 🕷️ Spider-Man — wow, wow, wow. The best Tom Holland film yet, with one thing that pulled me out of it

• 🐆 Toronto Tempo’s new mascots — could they rival Ellie?

• 📰 The Jason Ardley fiasco — and the press pattern that keeps repeating

Come find me and tell me where you land on any of it. New episodes drop weekly.

Welcome to TJ Unfiltered — a new home for the rambles that usually only my friends get to hear.

I’m TJ: a Black, masc lesbian with ADHD and dyslexia, obsessed with all things pop culture. This is my tiny space in the internet void, and I’m kicking things off by introducing the show and myself.

In this episode:

• Who I am and why this podcast exists

• The three types of episodes to expect going forward:

• 🗣️ The Debrief — takes on the latest pop culture news

• 🌀 The Spiral — a deep dive down whatever rabbit hole has hooked me lately

• 🔁 The Rewind — what I’ve been reading, eating, playing, obsessing over, recommending, and treating myself to

New episodes weekly. Thanks for being here from the start — more to come soon.

Follow along for future episodes. Got something you want me to Debrief or Spiral on? Send it my way.