Your Weekly Breakdown
This is Your Weekly Breakdown – the silly and (sometimes) smart podcast for busy women. If you’ve shown up at a dinner party or meeting and not known what on earth people are talking about, then pull up a chair, baby, you’re at the right table. You'll feel like you're snuggled up on the couch chatting with your smart friends, or catching up with your girlfriend at a coffee shop while she fills you in on the latest drama. Each week, join hosts Caitlin Howden and Emily Key to chat about cultural conversations and news, make fun of the latest pop culture happenings, rant about life’s minor inconveniences, judge each other’s style and life choices, and maybe interview a guest or 2. If you’re the kind of person who needs to know what the hell is going on in the world, wants to hear a hot take on the latest prestige TV, or just get a great recommendation for new music to listen to or book to read over the weekend, you’ve found your people.
Episodes
This week: burnt bangs, horny Olympians, hockey culture discourse, and a geopolitical crisis. You know, the usual light fare. Emily and Caitlin dive into Elliotte Friedman's poorly-chosen metaphor and the real problem with hockey culture, why the Olympic Village might be the world’s most athletic dating app, the strange politics of daylight saving time, and a few headlines that range from adorable to deeply alarming. Come for ...
This week, we’re limping in with workout injuries and leaving with a full-blown existential crisis. Emily and Caitlin unpack everything from Meta’s terrifying facial-recognition glasses and Canada accidentally investing your retirement in Elon’s chaos machine, to Olympic-level cheating scandals, pickleball fights among the elderly, and a possible 12-year-old future dictator. Plus: why improv kills your inner critic, why Cuba is run...
Cold hands, hot takes: this week, Emily and Caitlin spiral from frozen Great Lakes to spicy revenge plots, unpacking everything from NASA’s delayed moon mission and Denmark’s sexy red streetlights to AI avatars in true-crime docs (hard pass) and the deeply unsettling reality of death cap mushrooms. They debate whether elders deserve grace or consequences, question sketchy Ozempic knockoffs, and remind us that creativity, like reven...
This episode is a full-spectrum emotional workout, and things escalate quickly. It’s silly, smart, unhinged in the best way, and deeply human—basically the news, but without pretending everything is fine.
Em and Cait bounce between fake celebrity photos, Cait's time at Second City, the Grammys jumping networks, Trevor Noah poking the political bear, and Bad Bunny having the most relatable anxiety spiral in award-show history. T...
This week’s episode (their 50th!!) is a full-chaos sampler platter: birthday party debriefs, peak petty relationship moments, and the new life philosophy of friction maxxing—aka choosing mild inconvenience on purpose so your brain doesn’t rot.
Cait and Em unpack why the internet is making truth feel optional, what’s actually going on with ICE and the Olympics (spoiler: not what the headlines want you to think), and why TikTok modera...
This week the girls kick things off with a surprisingly serious (and genuinely hopeful) deep dive on Mark Carney's Davos mic-drop with their first-ever political insider guest Jill Clark, and shift to the usual business talking about naked FaceTimes, strong canned cocktails, and a four-and-a-half-star book review that spirals into why Goodreads is emotionally unsafe. They also consider swearing as a productivity tool, toxic mo...
Community is the theme, chaos is the method. With Cait away, Em is joined by Briana Buckmaster for a wide-ranging, hilarious, and surprisingly tender conversation about grief, art, perimenopause energy, and the radical power of doing absolutely nothing together. They unpack why women in midlife want to be left alone (lovingly), why storytelling matters more than ever, how tech and algorithms are flattening culture, and why the egg—...
It’s 2026, we’re ten days in, and already debating whether being called a “podcaster” is a slur. Em + Cait unpack New Year identity crises, MILF discourse, and why softness might be the most terrifying resolution of all. From hockey romance TV debates and the rise of pegging (yes, really), to AI logos that all look like buttholes, tech gone feral, vaccine chaos, and genuinely hopeful science breakthroughs, this episode pinballs bet...
This week on Your Weekly Breakdown, Em + Caitlin spiral (gently) from burnout and big-fat book stacks into airport empathy, 2-star Apple reviews, + the shocking discovery that Nantucket is absolutely ripping cocaine. Along the way: strippers save Xmas, a German Shepherd eats $100 underwear, and AI content is officially declared SLOP. There’s joy, grief, French girl crushes, rogue Turning Point USA Google Forms, accidental witchcraf...
Running on fumes, rage, and one ridiculously embarrassing story, this episode of Your Weekly Breakdown ricochets from feral morning energy to a surprisingly sharp cultural autopsy: Diddy documentaries, horny hockey romances, collapsing math skills, news from TikTok, AI deepfakes, banned words, trad-wife hypocrisy, digital detoxes, hockey canada, data centres, pipeline politics, and—mercifully—a horny left-coiled snail who finally f...
In this week's episode, Em and Cait spiral (lovingly) through everything from Rosalía’s divine-chaotic new album to the absolute fever dream of being named one of Apple Podcasts’ Best of 2025. Between norovirus accusations, kids listening to Eminem, chaotic holiday invites, U.S. political nonsense, Meta being Meta, cult documentaries, loneliness, wandering culture, and whether bars should ban solo drinkers, the girls deliver t...
Welcome back to Your Weekly Breakdown, the weekly catch up session with your hosts Emily + Cait, who don't shy away from dumb questions and interesting topics. This week, they cover iron infusions, norovirus, perioral dermititis, face mites, Robbie Hoffman, Miss Mexico and President Sheinbaum, Trump hosting controversial Saudi folks, Billie Eilish + billionaires, Bezos moon plans + funding the met gala, Savvy Sophie Gregoire T...
This week on Your Weekly Breakdown, Emily and Caitlin cover everything from Elton John’s bone jewelry to belugas in peril. As always it's smart, funny, feminist, and slightly unhinged.
The girls spiral through new music obsessions, period blood as the new frontier in women's health, and Teen Vogue's demise. Also Prince Andrew is now "Just Andrew," and lol to Bari Weiss' 6 security unit detail. Even bett...
The girls are back with all things culture, work, and women, and have their fav recos for you, per usual. But also...could you live in the 1800s? Have you thought about the SCENT?
Cait and Em are back this week to chat about everything from Doug Ford's tariffs ads to the bot farm heist, to "trad sons" (gtfo) and education strikes. Also did you hear about the woman who ended her marriage after 25 years because her hus...
Armed with “shit tickets” and a head cold, Emily and Caitlin tackle West Coast baseball allegiances, why LinkedIn can take a hike, and whether your protein shake comes with a side of heavy metals. They unpack Canada’s stalled coercive-control bill, the Louvre’s scooter heist, MTV’s (real) goodbye, and Earth’s new “backup moon". Plus the girls' latest segment: Ding-Dong of the Week! Wait, there's actual good climate n...
Cait + Em are smart, soft, slightly over it, and extremely anti-jeans-on-a-yacht.
This week on the pod they spiral (politely) from social anxiety to hosting dinners, to hobbies and gorpcore fashion. Guys, how do we really feel about Justin Trudeau's nautical denim?
They cover the BC liquor strikes, Alberta teacher strikes, and wow who knew Canada Post owns 91% of Puralator?! Cait + Em also get their first listener call and dive ...
Curl up with Cait + Em and catch up on all things culture, work, and women for the week. The girls chat strapless bras and hair loss, how women could spend full time hours and a full time salary just trying to maintain 'youth', Thanksgiving and appropriate timelines for decorating, and how the US media influences global culture. They answer a listener question about whether or not you really need a digital janitor, aka a ...
Cait & Em are back and carrying a little vacation glow into real life.
The girls dive into Sarkozy’s jail time, Saudi Arabia’s latest mega-buy, Trump’s head-scratching executive order, and the Anthropic lawsuit, plus books, Taylor Swift's new album, PTA's new latest film, and why James Norton + Joel Kinnaman are making Em feral. Add in Cait’s love for comforting "struggle meals", and you’ve got your weekly d...
Caitlin and Emily are back for season 2 of Your Weekly Breakdown, recently selected by Apple Podcasts as one of their Best So Far for 2025!
They catch up about Cait's trip to Portugal, and how to integrate some vacation habits into your day to day. Emily is working on getting closure and walks us through how she's approaching it.
Then, the girls cover the latest global, US, and Canadian headlines you may have missed, and ta...
Cait and Em are back this week with a special guest! Tune in to hear the girls catch up with actor Genevieve Angelson (Handmaid's Tale, New Amsterdam, The Afterparty, and The Chicken Sister!) as they riff on banned books, body science, midwives, body hair, being a working actor, somatic therapy, and (lol) rim jobs.
As usual, they hit a few news highlights, books they're loving, and skin care recommendations.
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