In our first episode of 2024, we discuss the Emmy Awards and why Ayo Edebiri rocks (...style, talent, and her/her dad’s Letterboxd reviews).

We talk about recent research that could improve women’s health and longevity and how shamefully little we know, learn, and talk about fertility and menopause as women. We also chat on population decline in China and how and why Sweden, in contrast, has a growing population.

We wrap up with a movie force-ranking from Kelly that no one asked for: Mean Girls vs. Oppenheimer vs. Saltburn; and Steph provides some stellar audiobook recos from Brené Brown.

Pop Culture:

‘That show deserved to be encased in gold!’ The biggest shocks from the Emmy awards by Stuart Heritage for The Guardian

It’s Ayo Season by Emily Leibert for The Cut

Letterboxd, App

Opinion: Nudity isn’t the same as objectification by Jill Filipovic for CNN

Kirk Douglas Award - Steve Carrell Speech for Ryan Gosling Santa Barbara Film Festival on Youtube

News:

The Secret to Living Longer Starts With Menopause by Kristen V. Brown for the BBC

Demographics and Foreign Trade: What Are the Effects of an Aging Population on the Current Account Balance of an Economy? by Thieß Petersen, Lizarazo López for GED

Can China Reverse Its Population Decline? Just Ask Sweden. by Andrew Jacobs and Francesca Paris for the NYT

Content:

Saltburn, Movie on Prime

Mean Girls (2024), Movie

Oppenheimer, Movie on Prime

Fool Me Once, Series on Netflix

‘People judge me all the time’: Corrie’s Michelle Keegan on swapping soaps for hard-hitting dramas by Eva Wiseman for The Guardian

Guy Ritchie’s The Gentlemen Will Bring the Swagger This Spring by Ariana Romero for Netflix

Brooklyn 99, Series on Peacock

Daring Greatly & Dare to Lead, Books by Brene Brown

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