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  1. Issue · Sep 25, 2026

    Our Reactions to Taylor Swift’s Showgirl Encore Edition (opens the original)

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    Hi friends!We are back with a conversation about Taylor Swift’s four bonus tracks from the The Life of a Showgirl Encore edition. We get into the gap between the fanfare and the material, the lack of fresh perspective, and what it says about Swift’s current creative impulse.We check ourselves to make sure that we aren’t fairly criticizing her, asking would we think this about a man? In the end we share some pretty spicy thoughts and ideas. We’d love to know what you think! Also we have only had

  2. Issue · Sep 16, 2026

    What Is Your Relationship with Regret? (opens the original)

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    Is it illegal for a therapist to admit she regretted becoming a therapist? Sam’s saying it out loud anyway, and we’re getting into what regret actually does to you when you refuse to look at it.In conversation, we tackle:Sam’s regret about this career, and the therapist who sold her on it in the first place (deeply inappropriate, in retrospect)The professor who told 17-year-old Sam she had the skill to command a courtroom, and the law school application she never bothered to send“You have to fig

  3. Issue · Sep 9, 2026

    Red Flag Culture: Anxiety, Therapy Speak & Dating Collides (opens the original)

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    Hi friends!A few weeks ago on Nuance Needed, we talked with about dating, relationships, therapy speak and the increasingly bizarre ways we try to protect ourselves from having a normal human experience. At one point, Todd said that many of the rules people now follow in dating are really anxiety management repackaged as health. People call it discernment, but often they are showing up to a first date already defended against the person sitting across from them.“You can’t figure out if you feel

  4. Issue · Sep 4, 2026

    Stop Trying to Get it Right (opens the original)

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  5. Issue · Aug 19, 2026

    Ranting About Lindsay Clancy & Nara Smith (opens the original)

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    Hi friends!Today we have a bonus episode where into Lindsay Clancy, and Nara Smith’s interview on Call Her Daddy. In conversation, we cover:Postpartum psychosis vs. postpartum OCD, and why Amanda thinks every horror movie about demons is just psychosis (fight her)A quick evolutionary detour by Amanda about our history of breastfeeding Nara Smith and Ballerina Farm now insisting we projected the whole trad wife thing onto them. Amanda’s Halloween costumes over the years, including the year she we

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