Bras Off Confessional

You already know about MKUltra. You already know about the theories. Now it's time to talk about what it actually felt like to be one of those kids. In Part 2 of the GATE program deep dive, Molly and Michaela get personal — comparing notes on what their programs looked like, what they remember, and what they mysteriously don't. And then there's the ultimate question that might hit y...

This week Molly and Michaela inaugurate the Tinfoil Hat Club (also known as the THC, which is exactly why it feels wrong that they're sober) with Part 1 of a deep dive into the GATE program — the federally funded Gifted and Talented Education Program that pulled smart kids out of class, put them in dim rooms with covered windows, and apparently left zero paper trail worth remembering. Before...

Everyone has a bad date story. Molly and Michaela have enough to fill a true crime series. This week, Molly opens the vault on her Phoenix-era dating life — a city she describes as LA but hotter, drier, and somehow more hostile to human connection. What follows is a story about a man who peaked at three grandma pecks and vanished into the night, and another about a "quiet drink" that esc...

Mickey is alive, barely, after spending nearly two weeks being personally victimized by a $4 flat of eggs. She came back to tell us all the gory details, including the split jeans, the granny panties, and the breezy commute home she did not notice until it was far too late. This week's main event: the stuff we were all required to memorize, diagram, recite, and perform in school versus the st...

Michaela is out this week, so Molly called in the most convenient backup available: the man who lives in her house and was stupid enough to legally bind his life force to hers. Manny Barella, husband, alleged father, and 5th place finisher on Top Chef Season 21 pulls up a chair for his long-awaited debut on Bras Off Confessional. The listeners have heard about him. Now he gets to speak for himself...

Molly's back from what she's generously calling a vacation, and we are picking up right where we left off — which is to say, fully unhinged and completely unapologetic about it. Before we even get to the topic, Michaela has a new child and a lot of feelings about it. The new addition is adorable, completely unhinged, and apparently not the dog Michaela met at the adoption event.  When we...

Welcome back to Bras Off Confessional. This week started with a toddler, a big Mexican breakfast, and a situation that required immediate intervention. It ended somewhere much more introspective than either of us planned. The topic is tics and phobias — the weird, specific, deeply personal things your brain does that you either never noticed or just assumed everyone else was doing too. Turns out:...

Welcome back to Bras Off Confessional. The inspiration for this week's topic started with a comedian's bit about how everything women do for beauty is essentially an act of violence. It ended somewhere way deeper, and way more important. Molly's entry point into this conversation involved a beauty shortcut she found in college, a needle, and a cheerleading squad with a tanning polic...

Welcome back to Bras Off Confessional. This week we're talking roommates — the ones you chose, the ones you inherited, and the ones who were apparently already living in your house when you signed the lease. Michaela opens in Pacific Beach at 19: a shoebox apartment, a vetted roommate, and a situation that was perfectly fine until it wasn't. What followed was a series of escalations she...

Welcome back to Bras Off Confessional! This week, we've got a new format. Every episode now opens with what we've been obsessing over that week...because if we have to hear about your sales pipeline, you have to hear about Josiah from TikTok and his Facebook Marketplace meal collection. It's unregulated. It's chaotic. One woman named Toya is selling hard-boiled eggs in what may...

Welcome to From the Cutting Room Floor — the variety show nobody asked for and everybody needs. Here's the thing about recording a podcast: for every episode you actually hear, there are approximately forty-seven tangents that got left on the floor. Not because they weren't good. Because they were too random, too chaotic, or too unhinged to find a home anywhere else. This is where those...

Welcome back to Bras Off Confessional — where Molly and Michaela work through their issues so you don't have to work through yours. This week: teeth. Specifically the trauma, the horror, and the deeply unfortunate situations that arise when your mouth decides to betray you at the absolute worst possible moment. Michaela has had more root canals than she'd like to count, a crown that did...

Welcome back to Bras Off Confessional! This week, we're doing a state of the union. And the state of the union is: not great. The doomscroll is relentless, the algorithm is not on our side, and there's no amount of Xanax that can reverse what we're all being forced to consume on a daily basis. So we're coping. Creatively. Questionably. Michaela has developed a small collection...

Welcome back to Bras Off Confessional — where Molly and Michaela say the things out loud that most people only admit to themselves at 2am. This week: origin stories. Specifically the deeply, spectacularly stupid things we did when we were young and had no prefrontal cortex to speak of. Science says it doesn't fully develop until 25. We have receipts. Molly went through a phase in high school....

Welcome to Bras Off — the podcast where Molly and Michaela talk about all the things women actually say when no one's supposed to be listening. For the inaugural episode, we went straight to the unspoken contract at the center of every long-term relationship: the fart barrier. Do you break it? Do you hold it in forever? And what the hell happens when you go five years, survive a two-hour road...