No Country for Old Women

Wobbling in place

This week! Jenn's headed to the woods for a break, but before she goes, we're talking all about: the Kelly Clarkson bird debacle; midterm elections, continuously being bu

Is this a gratitude podcast?

This week! The gift of your kids' stability, fancy grocery stores, the deep and abiding pleasure of sleeping alone, and all the connection categories we've lost. Plus, ho

Feral and overly involved

This week: The hell of Cornell/bullshit university systems/tech villains as fashion muses [barf]/the nihilism of AI overlords/the trap of parenting as homework cop/malapr

Every woman I know is overfunctioning

This week! Cohabitation with other women your age, learned hypervigilance from anticipating everyone else's needs, over-identifying with this stage of life, cross-generat

When vices attack

This week! Jenn has a surprise (self-inflicted) black eye, and we're talking all about emergency contacts, community, communal living, LinkedIn overhauls and outfoxing th

Rivers of regret

This week! A short, sweet, themed episode about the regrets we carry, those we’ve learned to let go of...and how it all seems to work out in the end. WHERE TO FIND US

Preparatory grief

This week! Accidentally twinning, cosplaying as real professionals, plans after 7:30pm, why Jenn wants to live in a village, the tyranny of private equity, brushing your

Tits akimbo

This week! Selling the furniture out from under us, clothes for the wrong life, Dolly Parton and how all the wrong 80-year-olds are dying, raising Gen Z teens and eventua

Big back-to-school energy

This week! Temperamental dogs, Kimberly's back in the full-time-work Slack-iverse, Jenn's ADHD body doubling, and everyone's eyeing Jon Ossoff. Plus: A brow regrowth seru

Influence without responsibility!

This week! Celebrity press tours, questionable "experts," the sketchy truth about all those influencers selling you shit, performative Bookstagram, Bama Rush, the alarmin

Patiently waiting for cake

This week! Getting back to work (literally), #lifeafterlayoff, AI ageism, and the sneaky side door of August. Plus, Jenn is the first to explain the movie "Wicker" to Kim

Reading, get into it!

An entire episode about books! We're shifting gears a bit this week to discuss the best things we've read recently, plus have an impassioned debate about a book everyone

Domestic bitch in my heart

Come for the foul-language rant about ageism, stay for the heated debate about Andrew McCarthy vs. James Spader in Pretty In Pink. Where to find us:  Our Patreon: patre

Literally in the sh*ts

This week! Albert Brooks in "Broadcast News," the ramifications of the whole country shitting itself, Mitch McConnell in the Bardo, "Love Story," "Girls," and how nostalg

Never a good time to be thinking about LinkedIn

This week! Jenn gets news bad enough that it takes up the entire episode! Plus: The Bear season finale, the cobble economy, how it's never a good time to be on LinkedIn,

Narcing on Claude

We're back! This week: Vacations that are really "trips," never turning off work brain, how Jenn is a Claude narc now, Kimberly's theory of the big swing, plus Matt Damon

The Super Bowl of shame

This week! A special episode dedicated to all things women and shame — love, ambition, marriage, foundational agency, whether or not to have kids, motherhood itself, divo

Greyhound Bus behavior

* BREAKING NEWS*MERCH DROP * As promised/threatened, and just in time for the Fourth of July, we've released a limited-edition No Country for Old Women tee and a non-flim

Classy ladies

This week! (Re)discovering your personal style, epic vintage shopping runs, the glory of small(er) cities, adult pitfalls and minimizing the dumb shit, TV character crush

Detoxing and re-toxing

This week! Kimberly's hungover, Jenn's feeling uncharacteristically optimistic. Plus: White lady yoga chat, learning and re-learning how to swim in midlife, corporate ret