The Discourse

**NO VIDEO** After scouring the internet for the juiciest headlines, Courtenay, Cecile, and returning guest host Cousin Caroline play a riveting round of pop culture court where opinions are bared like teeth and knowledge gaps are ruthlessly exposed. This episode comes to you from deep in the Peruvian Andes, but you'd never guess! We remain plugged in to the continental topics du jour, from Taylor...

C + C take on the buzziest release of the year in this special Book Club edition of The Discourse. Yesteryear is writer-cum-podcaster Caro Claire Burke's debut novel, a satirical portrayal of tradwife influencing taken to its extreme. Since its April release, Yesteryear's detestable protagonist and undeniably compelling premise have been the subject of much online discourse.  The book is t...

Why don’t you just get your ass up and WORK? It seems like nobody wants to work anymore!!!! Clock in for today's episode to hear the discourse around remote work, corporate etiquette, Gen Z’s unconventional approach to workplace fashion, and the existential threat AI poses to white-collar careers. We’ll also ~circle back~ to past episodes via some listener feedback—of both the innocuous and hu...

Courtenay’s engaged!!! And more importantly, we've got opinions about it: Lab-grown diamonds? Yes. Danielle Bernstein? No. Mountaintop proposals? Sometimes. Balloon arches on the beach? …Reluctantly. But we’re here for more than just hot takes. Two weeks of expertise in being a fiancée has emboldened Courtenay to take on the entire wedding industrial complex in an attempt to decide whether changin...

SOUND ISSUES FIXED! Mark Zuckerberg is evil. Social media is soul-destroying. Water is wet. Tell me something I don’t know!  Despite our collective disdain for the careless and money-hungry antics of Meta and friends, the social media giants have enjoyed over two decades of near immunity from legal recourse thanks to a little legislative life preserver called Section 230.  Last month, all that cha...

...But there might be a little bit in this episode. In Everest Part 1, we covered Courtenay's decision to climb Everest, her intense training regimen, her therapist's wisdom, and her acclimatization rotations. In this episode, we're taking you all the way to the top—29,029 feet up, to be exact! But first, Courtenay drops some "well, actually" truths about the mountain's b...

On May 23rd, 2024, your favorite pod host, Courtenay, summited Mt. Everest. Today, she finally entertains the question on everyone's lips: Why??! Short answer: She didn't want to go to grad school. Long answer: Well...you'll have to give it a listen! In part one of this two-part series, we'll dive into the discourse surrounding this highly controversial mountain, including how much...

Courtenay, Cecile, and guest host "Cousin Caroline" explore the bizarre and disturbing community of "Looksmaxers"—men who are obsessed with optimizing their appearance by any means necessary. In just under an hour, you'll get a survey of the manosphere, from meth injections to gigchads to Clavicular's wildly nonpartisan reasons for backing Gavin Newsom in the 2028 elect...

This started as an episode about influencers and ended with a fight over the (debatable?) nazi tendencies of pronatalists. Buckle up—the discourse is about to get a little spicy 👀

Gen Z should be at the club...and we don't mean run club! In this week's episode, we dive into the Gen Z sobriety discourse: Alcohol consumption amongst young people is at an all-time low, and everybody is pointing fingers. The TikTok girlies say it's a health-conscious choice, the stoners say it's a substance preference, and Millennials say it's merely the sign of their young...

As its compelling literary content has bled through the cracks of our cultural discourse, BookTok has transformed from merely an internet subculture to a powerful market force that has upended the publishing world as we know it, debatably revived the brick-and-mortar bookstore, and fueled the production of some of the most popular movies and TV shows of the last few years - including the hit new s...