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This is Your Weekly Breakdown – the calm podcast for cozy weekends.
If you’ve shown up at a dinner party or meeting and not known what on earth people are talking about, then pull up a chair, baby, you’re at the right table. You'll feel like you're snuggled up on the couch chatting with your smart friends, or catching up with your girlfriend at a coffee shop while she fills you in on the latest drama.
Each week, join hosts Caitlin Howden and Emily Key to chat about cultural conversations and news, make fun of the latest pop culture happenings, rant about life’s minor inconveniences, judge each other’s style and life choices, and maybe interview a guest or 2.  
If you’re the kind of person who needs to know what the hell is going on in the world, wants to hear a hot take on the latest prestige TV, or just get a great recommendation for new music to listen to or book to read over the weekend, you’ve found your people. 

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    • Society & Culture
    • 5.0 • 2 Ratings

This is Your Weekly Breakdown – the calm podcast for cozy weekends.
If you’ve shown up at a dinner party or meeting and not known what on earth people are talking about, then pull up a chair, baby, you’re at the right table. You'll feel like you're snuggled up on the couch chatting with your smart friends, or catching up with your girlfriend at a coffee shop while she fills you in on the latest drama.
Each week, join hosts Caitlin Howden and Emily Key to chat about cultural conversations and news, make fun of the latest pop culture happenings, rant about life’s minor inconveniences, judge each other’s style and life choices, and maybe interview a guest or 2.  
If you’re the kind of person who needs to know what the hell is going on in the world, wants to hear a hot take on the latest prestige TV, or just get a great recommendation for new music to listen to or book to read over the weekend, you’ve found your people. 

    Breakdown 004: Accepting compliments, Summer dress guide, How to spend your downtime, Billionaire submarines, Books + music recos, and...Are we undersexed?

    Breakdown 004: Accepting compliments, Summer dress guide, How to spend your downtime, Billionaire submarines, Books + music recos, and...Are we undersexed?

    Cait and Em catch up and talk summer dress styles, cocktail recipes, and how to accept compliments. Pull up a chair! We're questioning the purpose behind the latest billionaire submersible, Kid Rock's profile in Rolling Stone, and other spicy news from the week. Also what to do for down time? Gardening? Dating yourself?!PS are we having enough sex?!Topics and associated links from the conversation:Summer dress guideBatanga cocktail recipeBillionaire submersiblesKid Rock in Rolling StoneBBC in...

    • 50 min
    Breakdown 003: Bridgerton S3, Hot Priest on Quinn, worst jobs, and how many sperm donations are too many?!?

    Breakdown 003: Bridgerton S3, Hot Priest on Quinn, worst jobs, and how many sperm donations are too many?!?

    Emily peppers Caitlin with questions about her acting gig in The Last of Us (opposite Pedro Pascal, no less!), and Caitlin fills us in on a *shocking* documentary about sperm donations. In addition to part 1 of Bridgerton season 3, Quinn dropped an original featuring Andrew Scott (hot priest). Good grief, it's hot in the studio.The gals chat James Bond rumours, why streaming networks are now bundling a la old school cable networks, and McDonald's removing the smile from their happy meal...

    • 40 min
    Breakdown 002: Bumble's Fumble, Canucks vs. Oilers, Nose waxing, Landlines, and Books Books Books

    Breakdown 002: Bumble's Fumble, Canucks vs. Oilers, Nose waxing, Landlines, and Books Books Books

    Caitlin and Emily meet up for their weekly chit chat and cover a lot of territory, including "Bumble's Fumble" with some pretty controversial billboards, how Jia Tolentino hid her pregnancy from targeted internet ads, and the lady that took a nap in the overhead bin of an airplane. They talk face waxing, icing, and lasering, mushrooms for helping recover from PTSD, PRP injections, and iron infusions. Cait and Em also reveal their first fight...over the NHL playoffs. They share some of their f...

    • 43 min
    Breakdown 001: Astrology, Mother's Day plans, Sex Sounds, and Tech Parenting

    Breakdown 001: Astrology, Mother's Day plans, Sex Sounds, and Tech Parenting

    Caitlin and Emily kick off the first episode with the latest beef between Drake and Kendrick Lamar, which summer Olympic sport they'd conquer, discuss ideal mother's day plans, and debate how to handle tech for kids. They chat about upcoming movies, some great essays, sample some audio erotica (!!!), and chitty chat chat about so much more. Can they make their audio engineer laugh? Spoiler: yes.Shownotes:Drake and Kendrick article must-read: The Last Great Rap BeefThe astrology tweet: s...

    • 50 min
    Trailer: Your Weekly Breakdown

    Trailer: Your Weekly Breakdown

    It's here! It's us!If you’re the kind of person who needs to know what the hell is going on in the world, wants to hear a hot take on the latest prestige TV, or just get a great recommendation for new music to listen to or book to read over the weekend, you’ve found your people. Each week, hosts Caitlin Howden and Emily Key get together to chat about cultural conversations and news, make fun of the latest pop culture happenings, rant about life’s minor inconveniences, judge each other’s ...

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