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Megan and Michelle dish about glory holes, Sunday scaries, consensual spankings, widowed penguins, 3:00am grocery shopping, Pumpkinsutra, and white people chicken.

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Megan and Michelle discuss separating the art from the artist, internal struggles, rotten teeth, demons, algorithms, clown paintings, TERFs, ballpark DJs, and dance floor erections.

Sources:

- What do we do when the art we love was created by a monster?

- Think Twice: Michael Jackson (podcast)

- @ashleytheebarroness (Instagram)

- Separating art from the artist is impossible

- The False Comfort Of Separating The Art From The Artist

- Separating Art from the Artist: The Ethics of Value<...

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Megan and Michelle dish about the Tea app, safety tools, doxxing, green flags, ranking games, being petty, and the big mad.

Sources:

- Tea App Turns Off DMs After Exposing Messages About Abortions, Cheating

- Tea encouraged its users to spill. Then the app's data got leaked

- Hackers leak 13,000 user photos and IDs from the Tea app, designed as a women's safe space

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Megan and Michelle get curious about unclaimed mail, dopamine, baby fingers, pull tabs, genetic predisposition, spider farms, and breaking the monotony.

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Megan and Michelle share tales of The Ick, SpongeBob sheets, knee wetters, expired coupons, mildew smells, fart walks, velcro people, “nucky” celery, and shoes with toes. 

Sources:

The Psychology of Why We Get ‘the Ick’

Luke Holloway (@lewky___) on Instagram

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**Trigger Warning** Megan and Michelle welcome third-time guest, Pamela, to dig into her new book, traumatic loss, vivid dreams, mommy issues, surfer hair, irrational rage, nudist retreats, watermelons, moving forward, and sifting through the rubbage. 

CLICK HERE to buy Nights of Hunger: A Cocktail of Grief, Dreams, and Dating for Old-Ass Women

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Megan and Michelle welcome guest Mary Fusillo, of The Eggsplanation podcast, to discuss bioethics, embryo matchmaking, posthumous reproduction, D1 athletes, ovarian rejuvenation, social surrogacy, Hermes bags, and taking control of your fertility.

Learn more about Mary's important work!

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Megan and Michelle examine FinDom, rinsing, Splenda Daddies, paypigs, symbols of devotion, DPs, princess registries, and draining a whale. 

Sources:
- What is Findom - KinK Academy
- Findom (Wikipedia)
- What Is Findom? Exploring Power Dynamics in Love
- Findommes, Cybermediated Sex Work, and Rinsing

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Megan and Michelle discuss feeling misunderstood, overexplaining, unhinged profiles, emotional opinions, aggressive speed bumps, reciprocating accommodations, punching up, and So Many Doors. 

Sources:

- Feeling Misunderstood: Psychological Insights and Coping Strategies

- Personality Types and the Emotional Toll of Feeling Misunderstood

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Megan and Michelle share stories of unsettling experiences, 911 calls, Ring cam videos, secret service audits, neighborhood creepers, mouth typos, and making a scene.

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Megan and Michelle learn about the Pygmalion Effect, nerd persons, squeaky wheels, living statues, elevated expectations, accidental fans, and finding the right path. 

Sources:

Why do we perform better when someone has high expectations of us?

Study Furthers Understanding of Disparities in School Discipline

Golem Effect (Wikipedia)

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Megan and Michelle are fascinated by sperm racing, Malort, fish trafficking, vibrator patterns, fluffers, dangling balls, chicken shit bingo, and big cum buckets.

Sources:

- Sperm Racing in Los Angeles: Inside the first-of-its-kind race that's taking the internet by storm

- Healthy Sperm: Improving your fertility

- A woman’s eggs choose lucky sperm during last moments of conception, study finds

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Megan and Michelle dish about wine tasting, Reddit confessions, custom homes, space penises, free beds, uber subsidies, and taking a break.

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Megan and Michelle welcome Alisha back for updates on dating patterns, toxic hamster wheels, feminine energy, eating your words, going out tops, hypocrisy, and puddles of pee.

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Megan and Michelle examine generational trauma, willful ignorance, old poverty, dirty laundry, walking on eggshells, survivor’s guilt, and 17 potato peelers.

Sources:

- Intergenerational Trauma (American Psychological Association)

- Understanding Intergenerational Trauma and Its Effects

- 17 Signs of Generational Trauma, According to Therapists

- Breaking the Chains of Generational Trauma

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Megan and Michelle dive into aphantasia, mental imagery, afghan hounds, tasting shapes, hearing colors, superior rods, athletic performance, and Lassie.

Sources:

Aphantasia (Wikipedia entry)

3% of people can’t create a mental picture in their heads—this test will tell you if you’re one of them

I can’t picture things in my mind. I didn’t realize that was unusual

What Happens in a Mind That Can’t ‘See’ Mental Images

What is Aphantasia?

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Megan and Michelle are perplexed by the Mandela effect, magic mirrors, parallel dimensions, peanut butter, monocles, big checks, and Pikachu’s tail.

Sources:
 - The ‘Mandela Effect’ describes the false memories many of us share. But why can’t scientists explain it?

- The Mandela Effect: How Masses of People Can Have the Same False Memory

- The Mandela Effect: How False Memories Trick Your Brain Into Believing

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Megan and Michelle ponder pretty privilege, the halo effect, chocolate mousse, implicit biases, viral mug shots, body dysmorphia, and one tired eye.

Sources:
- A Psychologist Explains The 'Pretty Privilege' Paradox
- Pretty People Really Do Have It Better

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Megan and Michelle explore parasocial relationships, stalking, mom bloggers, reality TV, stripper love, basement prisons, tradeoffs, back pain, endorphins, and eager beavers.

Sources:

Parasocial Interaction (Wikipedia)

In Defense of Parasocial Relationships

Friend or Faux: Are Parasocial Relationships Healthy?

Too close for comfort: the pitfalls of parasocial relationships

When Grown-ups Have Imaginary Friends

Do parasocial relationships fill a loneliness gap?

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Megan and Michelle are in disbelief about passport bros, sexual tourism, pickup artists, digital nomads, rotten milk, big egos, the manosphere, and $200 t-shirts.

Sources:
- Why These American Men Are Seeking Love In Asia: The Rise Of Passport Bros | Insight (YouTube)
- Passport Bros: F**k Around and Find Out
- Passport Bros Are Exactly The Kind Of Men We Should Avoid
- Bang the World
- I'm a passport bro who travels the world to date foreign women. I hope to settle down one day...

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Megan and Michelle acknowledge loneliness, compassion, choosing solitude, the horseshoe effects, spinsters, tiny home villages, lack of community, and someone to go home to.

Sources:
- Loneliness: Causes and Health Consequences
- The surprising truth about loneliness in America
- The best way to help women? End the male loneliness epidemic
- Speaking of Psychology: Are we in a “loneliness pandemic”? With Louise Hawkley, PhD

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Megan and Michelle explore near death experiences, medical paradoxes, liars, clinical death, REM interruption, Aunt Betty, and life reviews.

Sources:
- Lifting the Veil on Near-Death Experiences
- The science of near-death experiences
- Jamie Foxx reveals details of his ‘near-death experience’ in new Netflix special
- Near Death Experiences (Wikipedia)

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Megan and Michelle brainstorm about singles events, provocative questions, talent shows, stranger paintings, escape rooms, kissing booths, and hula hoops. 

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Megan and Michelle explore hypnotherapy, alien abductions, repressed memories, animal magnetism, guided meditation, dissociation, an ocean breeze, and quacking like a chicken.

Sources:
- Hypnosis as a Therapeutic Tool
- How Hypnosis Works, According to Science
- The medical power of hypnosis
- False witness: why is the US still using hypnosis to convict criminals?
- Misuse of forensic hypnosis: should it still be admissible in court?

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Megan and Michelle break down pseudoscience, parlor tricks, rumpology, cow urine, psychic surgery, rainbow order, the pod-y awards, and a missing peanut.

Sources:
Top 10 Weird Things That Some People Believe In
What Is Pseudoscience?
Stop Using the Word Pseudoscience
List of topics characterized as pseudoscience

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Megan and Michelle bring you their 200th episode about self-care, starting projects, paywalls, crystals, values, Noxema, mani pedis, and looking on the bright side.

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Megan and Michelle process avoidance, the blame game, good report cards, substitutions, procrastination, the 24-hour rule, and rebranding anger.

Sources:
- Avoidance, not anxiety, may be sabotaging your life
- Avoidant Attachment Style: Causes & Symptoms
- What Are the 5 Types of Avoidance Behavior?
- Avoidance Coping and Why It Creates Additional Stress
- What Is Psychological Avoidance?
- Avoidant Personality Disorder

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Megan and Michelle dive into the world of trad wives, fragile egos, homemaking, poverty cosplay, rich lions, housewife syndrome, and sourdough starter.

Sources:
- The Tradwife Trilogy: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3
- The Rise and Fall of the Trad Wife
- Trad Wives Are Thriving in the Post-Dobbs Era
- 'Tradwife’ Content Isn’t Really for Women. It’s for Men Who Want Submissive Wives.
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Megan and Michelle lament online rabbit holes, cryptic pregnancy, ointment, fat pockets, Dr. Google, phantom baby kicks, weeping, and choking in the bathroom.

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Megan and Michelle crack up about foot fetishes, morning porn, swampy pantyhose, vending machines, podophilia, toenail polish, flight attendants, and being a foot pimp.

Sources:
- Foot Fetishism (Wikipedia)
- Everything You Need to Know About Foot Fetishes
- What is a foot fetish? The Science behind it

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Megan and Michelle are intrigued by government matchmaking, golden eggs, free tampons, falling birthrates, gerontocracy, baby hatches, wedlock, and looking Swedish.

Sources:
- Singles Apply for a Mate at City Hall’s Dept. of Romance
- Tokyo’s government plays matchmaker with new dating app to reverse its plunging birth rate
- Japan's government will play romantic matchmaker in a bid to shore up the birth rate. Experts say it will fail.
- Tokyo government to launch dating app in bid to boost birth rate
- Why...

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Megan and Michelle get educated about pheromones, juices, carnal instincts, syncing up, queen bees, wet nurses, and body smells.

Sources:
- Sex Pheromones: What Are These Chemical Messengers?
- Everything You Need to Know About Pheromones
- Are Human Pheromones Real?
- You can buy perfume made of fake animal scent glands that is supposed to make you sexier — here's how it works
- Opening New Doors to Understanding the Brain - Linda Buck

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Megan and Michelle ponder flirting, taking up space, contagious infidelity, just-right smiles, banter, info dumping, and virtual bartenders.

Sources:
- Men and Women Are Programmed Differently When It Comes to Reacting to Temptation, According to Study
- How to be a good flirt, according to science
- The Science of Flirting
- 3 Steps to More Successful Flirting

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Megan and Michelle dismantle body count, concubines, dirty birds, virginity, wine spritzers, spinsters, and spreading your seed.

Your Body Count Is Nobody Else's Business
The Double Standards of Sex
Body counts and the insidious normalization of misogyny
The Average Number of Sexual Partners Across America
Which US States Have the Most Sex
Should You Care About Your Partner's Body Count?
Why We Care About A Partner's Sexual History
"Body Count" And Sexual Double Standards
The Social Construct of Virginity
Why 'virginity' is...

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Megan and Michelle examine layers of haters, easy targets, deep envy, power moves, flying monkeys, cliches, and small-minded people.

Sources:
- The Psychology of Haters
- Haters Hate, But Why? A New Book Explores Haters And Their Motives
- The People Behind Online Hate
- How to Deal with “Haters”

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Megan and Michelle celebrate Pride Month, naked bike rides, marching up hills, astronomical chances, Reminder Day Pickets, magic, the “right” clothing, and Sneetches.

GLAAD
The Trevor Project
PFLAG
Human Rights Campaign
Society for Human Rights

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Megan and Michelle recount stories of speed dating, flashcards, high value men, object permanence, game faces, dopamine hits, and curiosity versus assumptions.

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Megan and Michelle dive into the silent treatment, resignation, sciency things, stonewalling, withholding likes, conflict avoidance, tactical ignoring, and the pressure to forgive.

Sources:
- The silent treatment: ‘One woman was ostracised by her husband for 40 years’
- Stonewalling vs The Silent Treatment: Are They The Same?
- 5 Emotionally Abusive Ways People Use the Silent Treatment
- Silent treatment in relationships: the quiet killer of intimacy and trust
- What Couples Should Know About the Silent Treatment

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Megan and Michelle get silly about dating app prompts, aggressive rollerblading, super-sniffers, staring at walls, going walking, the Instagram effect, and Brazilian Wandering Spiders.

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Megan and Michelle bitch about flaky people, flat-leavers, affective forecasting, social anxiety, Machiavellianism, powering through, reciprocity, and doing just ONE thing a day.

Sources:
How to Deal With the Chronic Bailer in Your Life
The Darker Side of Flakiness
People who cancel plans last minute may have darker personalities, new study shows
Why Canceling Plans Is So Satisfying
How to Be Better at Canceling Plans-Especially When You’re Dealing with Social Anxiety
What Flaking on Plans Says About Your Mental Health
Why Do People Ke...