133 Distractions

Cara and Kimberly take the word "distractions" apart while Cara records from the car halfway into a ten-hour round trip and Kimberly walks in low-energy and honest about it. They open with the statistic (3k to 30k offers seen each day in 2023) and move through Portland's layered signage targeting walkers, bikers and drivers separately, Kimberly's two-phone discipline and the wallet hacks used where the visible wallet always had the smaller money.

The middle finds the sacred space. Driving, Cara says, is one of the only distraction-less places left, because the driving itself is automatic and the rest of the brain gets to flitter and sing and tell stories. Babies sleep in cars for a reason.

The Is It Just Me lands warm. "Or does your brain argue with itself?" The episode closes on Cara realizing live on the mic that her constant musical inner monologue (Natalie Merchant, "Wonder," right now) and her chronic-pain meter share a volume dial. She is going to play with that for the next two hours of her drive.

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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 Jun 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 Mai 19min

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 s...

18 Mai 39min

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 Mai 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 Mai 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 Apr 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 Apr 1h 4min