About this episode
Claire and Joy discuss social media breaks, mental health, and their recent media consumption.
Social Media Breaks, Peru Reset, and What We’re Watching & Reading Claire and Joy open with Arrested Development jokes and then discuss how meme culture and news consumption feel bleak, leading Joy to describe a mental-health-improving Peru “hard reset” of staying off social media, avoiding push notifications, and getting news from traditional outlets instead. They reflect on feeling helpless about Supreme Court decisions and on social media outrage/cancel culture, citing “Therapy Jeff” and mentioning Mel Robbins. Claire shares family updates, including Evie’s Beauty and the Beast dance recital and Miles’ extra energy now that he’s between sports, plus a chat about slow unpacking and liking Away luggage. They recommend HBO’s climbing docuseries “The Dark Wizard” about Dean Potter, discuss Lena Dunham’s memoir and Girls, and Claire lists recent fiction reads while panning The Comfort Crisis, before plugging their Instagram, TikTok, and email. 00:00 Welcome and Hop Ons 00:22 Arrested Development Quotes 01:39 Meme Days Check In 02:21 Social Media Detox 03:54 Supreme Court Spiral 06:47 Peru Airplane Mode 08:16 Therapy Influencer Drama 11:28 Dance Recital Chaos 15:28 Post Trip…
People in this episode
Hosts: Claire, Joy
Topics covered
- social media detox
- mental health
- media consumption
- family updates
- book recommendations
- climbing culture
Keywords
- social media
- mental health
- Peru reset
- HBO docuseries
- Lena Dunham
- book recommendations
- climbing
Mentioned in this episode
Books & works: The Dark Wizard, Lena Dunham’s memoir, Girls, The Comfort Crisis
Places: Peru
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