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Jerry Springer is alive… in spirit, not in person. This might be news to girlies at our last live show though. We went to the Wine Cottage at Lake Norman, and talked about everything from DNA surprises to sex after surgery, Quince sheets and Stichy. We’re proud that we avoided saying anything too cringe (according to the 19 year old in attendance) but we did learn that Benson Boone, is NOT the gen z Harry Styles. 

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🗓 Next show: July 31st at Seaboard Southend - mark your calendars.

👩‍⚖️ Karen Read Trial and verdict was the most Googled search of the day, and the girlies came ready. True crime fans, this one’s got it all: planted evidence, hung juries, chaotic press coverage. Even though we disagreed on the verdict, everyone agreed - the taillight evidence is SUS.

🩼 After this live show, crutch sex has a whole new meaning. 

🔥 Perimenopause - consensus? It’s a real bitch. Highlight recommend The M Pause film which is breaking the silence on menopause with expert insight.

📱 Instagram Accounts to Check Out

It’s not lost on us that if you start with Vanessa & Xander you may end up needing Hey Sleepy Baby…

🍿 Binge:
Ginny & Georgia (Netflix)
Love Island USA (Hulu)
Secret Lives of Mormon Wives (Hulu)
Sirens (Netflix)
The Studio (Apple)
Your Friends and Neighbors (Apple)

🫢 Skip (or silently ignore):
The Last of Us (Max) – the silence on this one was quite deafening for Carol.

🎲 Roll the Dice On:
The Mortician (HBO) – scary but solid
Stick (Apple TV+)
The Better Sister (Amazon)

🌟 Special Shoutouts:
Lessons in Chemistry (Apple)
Ghosts (CBS, shout out cable)

The girlies are still loving “smut-tok” and they will forever hold space for Sarah J Maas and all ACOTAR books. Kristin Hannah (if you haven’t read The Nightingale, The Women, or The Great Alone, get to it!) and Taylor Jenkins Reid (though we haven’t checked out her newest book Atmosphere) are girlie faves. 

Emily Henry’s newest book, Great Big Beautiful Life is out, and the girlies were mixed. If you’re a fan of her other books, this one will likely still satisfy but won’t be your number one.

We asked if anyone had read the Reese’s Book Club pick Stuck Up & Stupid by Angourie Rice and Kate Rice, and one girlie in the crowd hadn’t, but said: “Sounds like something I’d read based on that title.” And…same.

The Names by Florence Knapp - someone just started it, so tbd.

🌟 Special Shoutout:

The top pods are still charting for a reason:
Giggly Squad, Crime Junkie, Good Hang with Amy Poehler, Girls Gotta Eat, Bethenny Frankel’s Podcast, Pillow Talk all remain girlie go-tos.

We looked into some new pods to ask the group about…and it turns out, no one had heard of any of them 😳.

Final Thoughts: Jerry Springer was on the list, and update for all the girlies at the live show - yes, he is in fact dead. So…aptly named.

Skylar decided to check out the Audible Original retrospective. It’s a look at his impact on American media and politics. I’m a few hours in and I highly recommend — it’s giving early seasons of Slow Burn energy.

🎧 Looking for something new? Here are a few we shared at the live show:
What We Spend, Scam Inc, Scratch and Win, Bad Therapist, Buried: The Last Witness

The girlies chimed in on the food scene in Lake Norman, and here’s what they had to say about some of the area’s hotspots:

📍 Book It:
On the Nines, Acqua Ragazza (hoping they don’t make us say the name to get a seat), Kindred, Epic Chophouse (highly recommend a 🍸 & sit at the bar), Caruso’s, Flock, Barrel and Fork (get a seat outside)

🚩 Grab a Seat at Your Own Risk:
Red Rocks Cafe, The 220 Cafe (the girlies said: if you’re in Statesville…you could do worse)

🌟 Special Shoutouts:
Fresh Egg (for breakfast), Fresh Chef (for lunch), 131 Main, Table 31, Cool Fish, Kung Fu Noodle

We’ve all been doom scrolling when we see a targeted ad that feels like it might just solve all our problems. And sometimes? It actually is as good as it looks. We asked the girlies in the house for honest takes on some of our most-clicked products.

👙 If you like to go braless or believe in equal-opportunity nipple coverage, Cakes has your back (well, front). The girlies were quick with the rec, and we even had a Cakes brand ambassador in the room! She gave the female-owned brand her full endorsement - and she’s sharing her discount code (ultimate girlie): FELICIALYNNEMUA

🛏 Quince got the nod of approval. While the mystery of the $35 cashmere remains unsolved, the sheets came girlie-recommended.
It’s giving: “We don’t know how, but we’ll take it.”

🧵 Stitch guns are lifesavers. One girlie swore by hers for tailoring an outfit or hiding those rogue bra straps that love to peek out of tanks. Say less.
Bonus: they’re travel-friendly. We love an efficient queen.

Skylar: ⭐ D-C-C WOOOOOO!
Season two of the America’s Sweethearts docu-series just dropped on Netflix and no, I am not seated. I am fully dancing around my house to “Thunderstruck” while fake-stretching and wondering who I would be friends with if I made it to training camp. 

I love this show. I know I’m not alone. But I do have questions.

Like… what exactly are we falling in love with here? Is it watching gorgeous, high-achieving women quietly spiral under pressure and still hit their marks with a smile? Because we have all been there, albeit with a lot less self tanner (btw, I can’t believe Kelli told that one girl her self tanner was “muddy”, I would die). 

I can’t stop thinking about how Kelli and Judy keep saying what makes these women special is their “unrelenting desire to please” while they work multiple jobs to be there. Like… wait. That’s not a superpower. That’s a cry for help?

Their actual superpower? The ability to tell the difference between moving their hips up and down at 120 BPM. And if you think I’m joking, I’m not. Watch the episode where the Vets coach the Rookies on the DCC-style bounce in their famous pregame number. I could write a thesis.

🔥💦 One of the hot topics at this week’s live show? Sperm donors.
Specifically: Is it a red flag if a guy’s been one?

A girlie in the crowd asked, and honestly… valid question.

Another girlie shared her own experience with egg donation—and when you compare the two? The mental math isn’t mathing.

For women, donating eggs is major. Hormones. Shots. Recovery. Real risks.
For men? It’s like… jogging to a clinic and walking out with $75 and a juice box. That’s it.

So now I’m planning a full deep dive:  Who actually donates sperm?
Are these 19-year-old Vandy frat boys trying to fund spring break?
Or 28-year-old men with a god complex and a “spread my legacy” folder?

I have theories, but mostly I have questions. The red flags will reveal themselves.

Carol: LKN I have a bone to pick with you. You told me with confidence that Jerry Springer was alive, and as we will tell you many times in this newsletter, he is not. Not a single one of you is watching The Last of Us, and one girlie even thinks that Pedro Pascal looks like he needs a shower. I’m holding a grudge.

😂The whiplash of being a millennial is real. We used to be the youths. For the vast majority of our lives we were yelled at for being lazy, entitled, and glued to our phones.

We survived Boomer & Gen X bosses yelling at us over emails they printed out. THEN we broke the generational curse, we did it, we became nice bosses despite it all. Millennials walked so your PTO request could run, ok?

Overnight, we aged. We aged at the same rate as everyone else, and we’ve even done that better than most previous generations. We look way better than any previous generation at 35, and still everything we do is suddenly…cringe?

Here’s my question. If it’s so cringe why is it always being rebooted and remixed?? Ariana Grande got together with Brandy & Monica and remixed The Boy is Mine just this week.

We watched in pain as our favorite TV shows were rebooted, mostly poorly. Will & Grace, Girl Meets World (Boy Meets World), Fuller House (Full House), The Conners (Rosanne), Frasier (best show of all time) and now, the movie that traumatized us all I Know What You Did Last Summer is set to premiere this summer. AND YEAH. I DO KNOW. I ALREADY KNOW. I’ve already been traumatized by rain jacket and a fishing hook. Please, make it stop.

Apple is bringing back the flip phone and I’m resisting the urge to text my parents (after 9) to ask if my pink Razr is still in my desk drawer at home.

But seriously, just last night we even rebooted the war in the Middle East. We are tired. Please let us out of Groundhog Day.

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