Struggling Optimists

Shafs and Rukky

You win some, you lose most. Join us in our weekly podcast as we struggle to stay optimistic while managing university, a social life, mental health, and our personal relationships. Which is basically code for two university students trying their best to navigate messy lives and embarrassing moments. New episodes dropping every Thursday @ 5 am! Check out our linktree and get in contact with us: https://linktr.ee/strugglingoptimists Email Business Inquires to strugglingoptimists@gmail.com

  1. 10/20/2021

    Beyond the Gala

    Hey guys, we know this is a little late, here us out this file had an audio issue BUT LUCKILY we were able to retrieve it. We worked really hard on this episode, surprisingly it is not about the dresses! We do a deep dive, behind the met gala and elitist beginnings, the BLM protest happening on outside, Cara Delevinge and the problematic attire, AOC and hints of white privilege, Nicki Minhaj and vaccines, Kim K's entire and American culture, Frank Ocean and Green baby, lastly but not least Tiktokers attending the event. Tune, please actually tune in, we did a needless amount of research for this episode. - BUT hey we are back baby :)

    50 min

  2. 09/16/2021

    grime's works harder than elon's publicist

    This week, we end talking about Grime's and her role as Elon's publicist/girlfriend - if you must know this conversation was triggered by a TikTok that Grime's posted that did the opposite of what she intended it to do. Nevertheless, we discuss and dissect a 60-second video, look at her former Wattpad-main-character-moment-like tweets between her and Elon and look into her interesting past. While we attempt to give you a rundown about Grime's life, we also look into questionable things Elon has got going on as well. Tune in this week, for us to yet again to let you in on our fav billionaire couple that somehow make sense to be together :)

    23 min
  3. drake belongs to the gardiner express

    09/09/2021

    drake belongs to the gardiner express

    Hey guys, welcome back to another episode! This week we tackle one of our favorite, and funniest, celebrity beef: Drake vs. Kanye. I think we’re all aware of Kanye’s iconic move of stealing the beat Drake wanted and making a joke of it. But this time, the feud gets a little more intense, and a lot funnier. From Kanye adding Drake to a group chat with Pusha T to him leaking Drake’s (already extremely public) address and then immediately deleting it after getting clowned; we cover it all. So sit back, relax, and join us we go over the Drake vs. Kanye situation

    29 min
  4. celebs with a with a weird vibe

    08/26/2021

    celebs with a with a weird vibe

    Hey guys! The school term is starting back up for a lot of people so before school stress can suck up all of our free time we thought we’d make the most of our current pop culture obsession and share our  opinions of a few celebrities and influencers. But since this is the Struggling Optimists podcast we added a fun twist to this episode and decided to share some celebrities and influencers who seem veryyy suspicious. Curious about which celebrities we would never trust with our drinks at the club? Or why we thing Harry Styles is a little sus? (Please don’t cancel us Harry Styles fans, we love his music). From Ryan Gosling to Gabbie Hanna, we list the people who give us questionable vibes and let you know why we feel that way. So sit back - and I would say relax but you may hear your favourite celeb’s name pop up - and enjoy this week’s episode!

    39 min
  5. James Charles and Sienna Mae's Return?

    08/07/2021

    James Charles and Sienna Mae's Return?

    On this episode for podcast week, we do what we love most - ranting about famous people that we find pretty problematic. Before I begin, we do want to place a trigger warning for this episode, because we do talk about sexual assault/abuse. In this episode, we first start off with Sienna Mae, who is a popular TikToker and discuss things that we found disturbing regarding the recent allegations regarding her and dissect her body positivity movement for you guys. Following a little sponsorship break - yes I know we are sorry, but we do need the money - we completely draft you a timeline of all of Mr. Charles's scandals and give our thoughts about his recent return to youtube. So tune in to this episode, for a heated rant from your two fave podcasters about some of their least favourite social media influencers! Also, follow our Instagram to keep up with our podcast week and our podcast in general lol (https://www.instagram.com/strugglingoptimists/)

    58 min
  6. A K-drama following-along episode with Esraa and Rukky (Something in the Rain ep. 11)

    08/07/2021

    A K-drama following-along episode with Esraa and Rukky (Something in the Rain ep. 11)

    Hey guys! Welcome back to another episode of Podcast Week! In this episode we wanted to try something new, so we’re going to be doing a K-drama follow-along episode, where Rukky and Esraa (the two k-drama lovers of the podcast) watch episode 11 of Something in the Rain in real-time and give their commentary. So if you’re looking for a k-drama buddy to watch an episode with or if you’re curious about why we hate this show so much, then tune in to this episode to hear all of our controversial opinions lmao. We discuss the show in the beginning of the episode, giving a breakdown of the storyline preceding episode 11 as well as a brief explanation for why we don’t like the show or some of the characters, so if you want to skip that part then go to 25:30. Hope you guys enjoy this episode and let us know if you’d want us to do this again!1

    1h 37m
  7. post-pandemic social anxiety

    08/05/2021

    post-pandemic social anxiety

    In this podcast week episode, we dive into a little bit more of a serious topic that everyone around us is facing recently - post/mid pandemic anxiety. As the pandemic hopefully comes to an end, we both are realizing that we are coming out as different people and that within the past 2 years a lot of our social skills have changed. While we light-heartedly reflect on the changes we both have faced, we realize that the tolerance for small talk has gotten much lower, that catching up is really harder than we thought and we might actually enjoy hanging out with ourselves alone? We also tackle how things might be returning to pre-covid normal might induce social interaction anxiety and how unready we all might be for the old normal. Also, are we the generation that glamorizes cutting people off and will it be harder to make friends post-pandemic? Lastly, if you are facing social battery drainage at a faster rate, are an overthinker and are experiencing anxiety about facing the world again - tune in today :)

    42 min
  8. our own conspiracy theories

    08/04/2021

    our own conspiracy theories

    As podcast week continues - this episode, viewer discretion advised - we had this conversation while both of us were delirious because of no sleep, club, another club, no sleep...(jk it was nothing like that we just didn't sleep cuz one of us is a workholic and the other has no sleep schedule in place). I digress, but while we ran on almost no sleep and filmed this during an ungodly hour - we ask that you brace yourself for this content and if you are apart of the FBI or MIB please do not come for us. This episode we share our thoughts on Area 51, if we are really apart of a simulation, time travel, personally request an alien photo alien (it has to be at least 5ft tall and no amoeba looking thing), how whack tv shows are and why are billionares going to mars again??? Tune in today for a delirious version of ourselves and possibly a ridiculous episode :) Make sure to follow us on instagram throughout podcast week to pick the topics: https://www.instagram.com/strugglingoptimists/?hl=en

    28 min
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You win some, you lose most. Join us in our weekly podcast as we struggle to stay optimistic while managing university, a social life, mental health, and our personal relationships. Which is basically code for two university students trying their best to navigate messy lives and embarrassing moments. New episodes dropping every Thursday @ 5 am! Check out our linktree and get in contact with us: https://linktr.ee/strugglingoptimists Email Business Inquires to strugglingoptimists@gmail.com

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  • Creator
    Shafs and Rukky
  • Years Active
    2020 - 2021
  • Episodes
    47
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © Shafs and Rukky
  • Show Website
    Struggling Optimists