On the shit you should care about podcast this week:

• Meta and YouTube found guilty of creating addictive products, but this isn’t the win we think it is
• Clavicular got arrested. Twice. (And shot a gun into an alligator in between)
• 8-9 million people showed up to the No Kings protests across all 50 states
• The Chappell Roan bodyguard drama update and the bots behind the hate pile-on
• Barbie Dreamfest promised a Dreamhouse and delivered a concrete warehouse
• The most stacked movie lineup of 2026 and we’re not okay about it
• Shit Chat: finish the sentence, “I should probably care about ___ but I don’t

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This week on the podcast, Luce and Abby discuss:

• the war on Iran: four weeks in, Trump threatens to blow up power plants while claiming to "wind down"
• a Florida man who looks like Jeffrey Epstein admits he used to party with Jeffrey Epstein
• Hachette pulls a horror novel over suspected AI use
• Chappell Roan's security allegedly made a fan cry and the internet is piling on her, again
• Justin Timberlake's DUI bodycam footage gets released
• a domestic assault video of Taylor Frankie Paul from Secret Lives of Mormon Wives is leaked and the Bachelorette is cancelled
• Labrinth calls out Euphoria in a cryptic instagram post

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From mewing to bone smashing to ranking people on something called the “sexual market value scale”, the internet has invented a whole new language around male attractiveness. It’s called looksmaxxing - a movement that started on incel forums and has since gone mainstream on TikTok. The idea is simple: if you can optimise your looks, you can optimise your life.

In this episode Luce and Abby break down the world of looksmaxxing, the bizarre glossary that comes with it, and the rise of one of its most controversial figures: a teenage streamer known as Clavicular, who built an audience teaching other men how to “maxx” their appearance.

We also talk about the strange irony at the heart of the movement - a culture obsessed with competing for women’s attention that has become almost entirely focused on judging other men.

Articles mentioned:

The New York Times article

The New Yorker article

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