There are two kinds of breaking news in this episode:
Michigan wins the national championship.
My husband gets laid off.
So naturally, we process it the only way we know how:
By singing a 19th-century fight song, letting the cat in, and unpacking a corporate layoff that affected roughly 30,000 people. Ya know… like… normal podcast stuff.
This episode has everything:
A passionate defense of The Victors as the greatest fight song of all time
A surprisingly upbeat take on getting laid off (baby bird… pushed from nest… etc.)
A marriage recalibrating in real time as one deeply troubled spouse becomes the “primary breadwinner” (pray for us)
A deeply honest—and slightly concerning—amount of time spent with an AI named Claude
Also, if you’ve ever:
Stayed too long at a job because it felt safe
Been really good at interviewing but suspiciously bad at getting hired
Or watched someone you love slowly become eight employees in one increasingly stressed-out body
…this one might hit.
It’s about burnout.
It’s about identity.
It’s about what happens when the thing you couldn’t leave… leaves you.
🎧 Listen if you like:
existential career pivots, long marriages with strong opinions, and light emotional chaos set to a college fight song
