This Week in Breeders Podcast

Hello friends, Normally, these Ask Breeders Anything episodes, where Sarah and Garrett leave each other voice mails exploring all manner of gender-adjacent curiosity, are just for paid subscribers. BUT, this one is going to all of you. You’re welcome. And also, we’re sorry, because yes this is in place of what would normally be a full episode. You’re not getting one of those because, for the past...

Man oh manosphere. Odds are, you’ve heard that there’s a wildly popular Louis Theroux documentary on Netflix these days, one where the extremely British documentarian spends an ungodly amount of time with prominent reactionary dude influencers. Garrett watched it, Sarah didn’t, so join along as he takes her on a journey through a strange world of washboard abs, one-way monogamy and, well, some of...

Oh wow. What great faces we’re making in that thumbnail image. It looks like we’re extremely concerned. And with good reason, actually, because this week we too are considering whether the kids all right. Hard to say, honestly. On one hand, there’s a new poll out that reveals that Gen Z men have more conservative politics than their grandfathers. And oh buddy are there far too many bad faith dude...

Ready to go for a ride? We’re covering some ground today: Two co-hosts. Reminiscing about four moments in their lives. Rapid fire (well, rapid fire with tangents). I think you’ll pick up the format pretty quickly, but the basic idea is that we each remembered back to when we were 5, 15, 25 and 35 and reflected on who , during that time, was our model for how to be a man or a woman. As we yelled ou...

You all! It’s here! Our most anticipated episode of the year (according to the two of us, and only the two of us). The This Week In Breeders Oscars Spectacular. Friends, there was so much gender in the movies last year. There were women having mental breakdowns and/or founding religions. There were men (so many men) being sad, playing sad baseball, doing sad art heists, reanimating sad corpses, ma...

So, has this ever happened to you? You and your cohost are recording a podcast. You’ve planned for this podcast. It’s going to be about the Oscars, a topic of intense mutual interest. And then, at the top of the episode, you start to talk about navigating this moment in American authoritarianism as a parent and before you know it you’ve decided to punt the Oscar talk to another week because this i...

Hi all, we’re back! It’s our first episode of the year, and our most timely one to date. We recorded this yesterday, with both the protests and the heinous ICE repression in Minneapolis deeply on our hearts. This goes without saying, but these are simultatneously frightening and inspiring times. We wish that none of our neighbors had to stand up to this level of repression, but we’re unspeakably g...

If you expected that the first ever This Week In Breeders movie episode would be a placid, predictable affair… oh buddy, get ready. Here’s an incomplete accounting of nonsense that went down over the course of our recording: * Sarah revealed the extremely inappropriate film that she and her siblings watched during a childhood snow day. * A few minutes later, we pause the episode because Sarah need...

Friends, it is here. The Holiday Season. A time of to-dos, both explicit and implicit. A time of joy and stress. A time when we say “the holidays” but mostly mean Christmas. A time when Garrett is told that he needs to stop playing Monster Mash because apparently it’s not that holiday season. And, oh yes, a time of gender discourse. Our conversation? It was fun. What a knotty topic. On one hand, i...

Listen up, grindset alpha males and hard hustling girl bosses, have we got an episode for you! This week, Sarah and Garrett woke up at 4:00 AM, did 1000 crunches, closed some deals in the Tokyo office, plowed a field, and split a cord of wood, all to bring you the definitive podcast about ambition and gender. Ok, that isn’t quite true. We only did 950 crunches. We did, however, have a real blast t...

We’re back! And we’re still talking friendship dynamics. You have probably heard the trope about how, when out with their friends, ladies love to talk about their feelings and fellas just want to name baseball players they remember from when they were twelve. Is it essentialist? Sure, but also…it sure feels like there’s some truth there. This week, we hold the trope up and look at it from as many...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thisweekinbreeders.org Lots of firsts in this episode! It’s the first bonus episode where free subscribers can hear a sample to help decide if they want to make the jump. But more importantly, it’s the first bonus episode where we ask each other the same question. This week, we talk recess. Namely, our own recess memories. What we d...

Oh, you just knew that we were going to do a “can men and women be friends?” episode. But we’re not quite doing it in the classic romantic comedy way (meaning, we’re not asking “will the innate sexual tension between straight men and women get in the way of friendship?”). No, we’re far too middle-aged for that. This is more of a “can man and women be friends? In this economy?” conversation. Like,...

Friends, this will likely come as a surprise, but we crunched the numbers and it appears as if some of our political choices are… influenced by gender. “Wait, what?” you’re no doubt saying, but yes, it’s true, and we’re on the case. In this episode, your stalwart TWIB team tackles the dark arts of American electoral politics. Our question: What does it take for a candidate (of any gender) to be co...

This Episode: This week’s episode is a particular barnburner. For our inaugural deep dive into this moment in heterosexual marriage/parenting/ephemara, we’re going to camp! We’re talking gender socialization (always), but also personality taxonomies, and whether they’re forces for good or evil; Fair Play cards, and where they do and don’t get us; and of course, what we mean by all this Rock and Ro...