We Should Unpack This

Mar 06 2025 65 ep. 61 mins 37

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The podcast where Mickey and Aaron take mental health and therapy from abstract theory to real ass life by sharing our lives and airing our dirty laundry!

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We're Fighting Over Potatoes?? | We Should Unpack This E64

Mar 06 2025 53 mins

This week we're delving into the world of potatoes! Not just because Mickey has some weirdly apt info to dump but also because we have strong opinions about the spud as two neurodivergent weirdos that we want to share with y'all! We get into the history of potatoes, including a tangent into the Irish potato "famine", rank our favorite ways to prepare the veg and get into some heate

This Paul & Morgan Video is SCARY | Bad Romance

Feb 20 2025 85 mins

These week we're permitting Paul a few minutes out of timeout merely to discuss his latest glaring example of what terrible communication, failing as a partner, and coercive behavior could look like. In theory. This latest Paul and Morgan vlog is really concerning so we're unpacking the issues with it and setting the record straight about how to handle these hypothetical situations

62 Radical Unschooling is WILD | Positively Lost Me

Feb 06 2025 63 mins

This week we're unpacking the topic of radical unschooling because @SAVYWRITESBOOKS made a video about the topic that absolutely blew my mind. We spend some time talking about what a terrible trend this is and the potential impact of it on things like politics and culture but of course we take some tangents too. We get lost talking about Mickey's hatred of the DFW airport, our ob

61 Microtransactions Are Rotting Our Brains & Another Guessing Game! | Price Tag

Jan 16 2025 56 mins

This week we're unpacking Mickey's undying hatred for the way that corporations are gamifying everything to try and co-opt our attention spans! What an uplifting topic, I know. Don't worry though because while we're going to complain a lot about microtransactions, our lowered threshold for understimulation and dopamine we're also going to paradoxically play a silly little guess the

60 Meta AI Profiles, Kids Can't Cheat Anymore & Baby Product Quiz | As the World Caves In

Jan 09 2025 51 mins

Welcome back to the pod everyone! After taking a break fro the holidays and/or new year we're back! This week we're talking about Meta's decision add fake AI profiles to their platforms because (wtf is that), the fact that kids don't even understand how to intelligently cheat anymore, and then Mickey quizzes Aaron on baby products because why not?! We obviously get distracted and t

59 Starting an Advice Segment, MRI Updates, & More Capitalism Hatred | Run Your Mouth

Dec 19 2024 63 mins

This week we're bringing y'all an accidental variety show because our brains did the ADHD thing this episode! Oops. We've got musings about the concept of "having it all", car dealership strategies, and how much we hate having to participate in capitalism, plus some MRI updates, and our hopes to start a call in segment of the pod so we can answer y'alls questions! We get lost along

58 Lisa Frank, The UHC Incident, and Aaron's Bad Day | My Kink is Karma

Dec 12 2024 58 mins

This week we're unpacking the docuseries Glitter and Greed about Lisa Frank because it's a hyperfixation of Mickey's and we recently watched it and really enjoyed it! We're covering the story of how Lisa Frank came to be and the the infighting in the company between Lisa and her now ex husband James and all the drama in between! Of course we take some tangents to talk about the rec

57 We Suck at Grieving, Maybe We're Moving, & Telling Our Secrets | Break Stuff

Dec 05 2024 73 mins

This week we're unpacking our grief because like we mentioned in the last episode we've got a looooot going on! Mickey's got weird health and chronic pain stuff, Aaron's getting laid off and we might have to move so we're getting into how we're coping, whether it helped or not, and how we plan to move forward. We're also airing out our secrets in the "We Listen and Don't Judge" tre

56 Life Updates, Election Anxiety, & Where We Go From Here | tv off

Nov 28 2024 61 mins

This week we're unpacking the obvious- the presidential election! Mostly because it sucked and was/is awful so we have thoughts about that, voter turnout, Gen Z men being Republicans, and where we go from here. We've also got some life updates for y'all because in what feels like the most US thing ever, our personal lives devolved into disaster alongside the terrible election news!

55 Secret Lives of Mormon Wives, A Fun Announcement & Our Beef w TikTok | I Can Talk

Sep 26 2024 62 mins

This week we're unpacking mostly the first two episodes of Secret Lives of Mormon Wives because it's been a long time since either of us have been so transfixed by a TV show. There's lots to tease out not just because Dakota doesn't deserve Taylor and Whitney is being really mean but because a group of Mormon wives who were part of a swinger group that went viral is kind of a lot.