130 Rebellion

Kimberly and Cara take the word "Rebellion" apart and follow it from Cara's eco-village ("the rebellion comes with strawberries, y'all") through guerrilla seed bombing, Princess Leia, a Krispy Kreme story that crushes a friend in New York, the Browncoats, and a nervous-system-deep conversation about why observable reality is one of the most soothing things a brain can land on. Along the way, Cara picks a fight with NVC and Kimberly admits she did not eat pizza until high school.

The "Is It Just Me?" segment goes somewhere different. Kimberly is in the middle of a stretch of annual medical checkups and her body is in revolt, and she names the actual thing under "white coat syndrome": being asked to be incredibly vulnerable with a total stranger who is unsympathetic to what they are asking of you. A nurse practitioner reached over and grabbed her legs without asking, and the pushback got dismissed instead of heard. Her rebellion: at every upcoming appointment, every person introduces themselves and consent gets spoken out loud, not just signed on a form.

"Sitting in that chair is not giving blanket consent. Sitting in that exam room is not giving blanket consent."

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132 Mirror Neurons

Cara and Kimberly take "mirror neurons" apart and follow them from the Duchenne smile (the real one, eyes and mouth, contagious by design) through con-artist body language and into a piano study where...

1 Kesä 40min

131 Lampreys

Cara and Kimberly take the word "Lampreys" apart and find the punchline buried in the bite - these little eels leave a tiny smiley face on whatever they snack on, because of two big pointy teeth and a...

25 Touko 19min

129 Exceeding

Kimberly and Cara take the word "Exceeding" apart on a Friday where both of them are fried, which turns out to be perfect research material. Kimberly mishears the first syllable and her brain runs wit...

11 Touko 36min

128 Redshirt

Cara and Kimberly pull the word "Redshirt" and follow it from Star Trek's expendable crew members to Hollywood's expendable actors to the rules in your life that have outlived their usefulness. Along ...

4 Touko 37min

127 Interaction

Kimberly and Cara pull the word "interaction" and immediately fall down the rabbit hole - starting with the life Kimberly's mom never got to live (physics at Emory, derailed by marriage) and landing o...

27 Huhti 36min

126 Stardate

Kimberly and Cara pull the word "Stardate" from the Dino Cup and promptly scatter in every direction - from binary stars locked in tragic orbit to Stargate SG-1 binges, sound sensitivity revelations, ...

20 Huhti 1h 4min

125 Journey

Kimberly and Cara pull the word "journey" and immediately split - Kimberly lands on Princess Leia's epic arc while Cara's brain starts playing Journey the band. What follows is a personal conversation...

13 Huhti 44min