Sporty Spice

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07/12/20 • 21 min

If you want to be my lover, you gotta be Jon Stewart. Silver fox alert. This week we discuss the role of recreational sports in our collegiate and then post-collegiate lives and beg the question: must we join a rec frisbee golf league to meet someone new? Oy. Next, we’ll unpack our running habits and our running emotions: Is running about feeling like you’re in the movie Rocky or is it about meditating? Or both? Then, we’ll take a dip into the thoughts that scare us the most. Cool and fun but mostly really fun. And cool. Finally, we argue over which talk show host is the hottest. Yes, this is a highly anticipated topic. No, we don’t agree. Hint: Stephan Colbert goes unmentioned despite his competitive standing. Also included for your listening pleasure is a rendition of one of Youtube’s forgotten anthems. We aren’t the greatest British girl band of the 90s and early 2000s but we are two zellenials who like to go jogging.

Topics included: Functionalities of your frontal lobe, the silent double standard of Jimmy Fallon, the dishwasher as an emotional tool, budgets for college short films, not going to school for business etc.

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Wait... Was That My Fault?

Responsibility from left field. You’re bouncing along, thinking you’re a crusader of truth and justice. “Pure intentions”. You’ve reached the Scott Disick mentality: “Maybe I’m just perfect and it’s everyone else that’s the problem.” And then all of a sudden, responsibility, the one you had shunned, smacks you in the face. Not so fast she says, you’re at fault too. This week, we each think about instances where responsibility is actually our prerogative. Then, we use social media beyond its means: Rainie tries to find a fiancé via tik tok and Darcy uses a fitness tracking app for poetry. Desperate times folks.

Topics include: The fibula, ballot backpack, anti-gaslighting club, villain-victim dichotomy, Instagram Pulitzer, the virtues and vices of analytics.

Media Links:

https://www.harpersbazaar.com/culture/features/a32433767/why-ex-texting-mark-groves-essay/

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Why You Gotta Fight With Me At Cheesecake?

Last week, a serene and joyful lake house right outside Geneseo, New York was visited for the last time. Darcy and her extended family packed up the furniture and moved out. Sigh. To make matters worse, Darcy’s grandmother served up a little criticism that allegedly had been cooking for years. It did not taste good. On this episode, we discuss how to sit through feedback in the name of self-improvement. Then, to remedy the pains of being assessed, we assess some things. Cue some good old fashioned hot seat style cultural analysis that runs the gamut, from childhood vegetables to the city of Los Angeles. Wish us luck.

Topics included: what your use of eye contact says about you, maternal fighting tactics, theories on why Pete Davidson is so irresistible, a class action lawsuit against Abercrombie & Fitch, Drake’s deep love for The Cheesecake Factory.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8s9joL_AGfo