**Please forgive this week's sound issues. Michael tried a different audio setup, which led to some unexpected problems during recording.**

This week, our hosts become unhinged pretty early on. Jasmine regales us with stories from her trip to the Grammy Museum, which rivals Michael’s recap of his vacation last week!

We’ve got good news on women’s health, post-Brexit reconciliation, sweaters for penguins, youths saving our world’s water, and farmers getting their climate data back. Michael shares some “blazing” trending news, going off on the glorification of plantations, and some quotes from our Internet Daddy, Pedro Pascal.

The Wheel of Topics explores the evolution of friendships, in which we get a little deep. The Curbside Cool-Down brings some good ashes and embers and Jasmine pulls a bonus card for the weekly affirmation.

This episode is HOT in more ways than one, so grab some hot dogs to roast and join us for some Pleasant Conversations!

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Good News Links:

The FDA approves first U.S. at-home tool as a Pap-smear alternative: https://www.npr.org/2025/05/10/nx-s1-5394446/fda-cervical-cancer-screening-at-home-tool-pap-smear

Youth mobility, defence and £25bn in trade: Everything we know about the UK-EU ‘Brexit reset’ talks: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/uk-eu-brexit-reset-deal-youth-mobility-defence-trade-b2753366.html

Nannas knit jumpers for oil-spill penguins: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cnv5vg6dpzpo

Teen Duo from Slovakia and Czechia win The Earth Prize 2025 with Groundbreaking Clean Water Solution: https://happyeconews.com/earthprize2025/

Farmers Sued Over Deleted Climate Data. So the Government Will Put It Back.: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/12/climate/trump-deleted-climate-website-farmers-lawsuit.html?unlocked_article_code=1.HE8.DMtq.dlsw28h--i2F&smid=url-share