Chapter 1: What memo seems to have influenced feminist narratives recently?
All right, so a couple of days ago on the show, I said that it felt like a memo had been sent out to all of the feminist mouthpieces in the feminist machine. The young women are getting too happy. They're in love with men. They're getting married. They're consuming too much ballerina farm, Brett Cooper content. They're buying the Evie magazine, milkmaid dresses. We have to do something.
We have to stop that and make them lean in. Thank you, Sheryl Sandberg. And suddenly, again, it literally just happened over the course of like three days, but suddenly the most insufferable people that I could think of in the media were comparing marriage to slavery, saying we got to pull out the whips. They were celebrating cook-up culture, which in 2026 feels like so 2016 in my mind.
They were saying on The View that it is reckless to encourage women to have children, but apparently that little memo from last week, it was just not taking it far enough, because it seems like they don't want to just stop with preventing women from getting married and having children, but they want to actively blow up the already happy marriages that are in existence.
And so now, a week later, now my timeline is full of people celebrating infidelity, all in the name, obviously, of feminism and empowerment. Now, the cherry on top of this entire story has been the real-life example of this through the viral, rumored, alleged affair between Diana Rossini, who is a Annabelle reporter, and head coach Mike Rabel. Just diving in to the next level of this memo.
Again, they saw whatever statistics were going around last week of like women are choosing trad wife over girl boss, which by the way, those are like two very distinct buckets. Maybe I should do a whole like newsletter on that. I felt like that survey was just a little bit weird, but still, maybe the feminists saw it and they went, oh no, oh no, we have to do something.
And so The Cut published an article this week titled, The Secret to a Great Marriage Crushes on Other Women.
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Chapter 2: How are traditional values like marriage being challenged in modern media?
people.
Now, first of all, I'm like, this is not the time in our culture to release this article because like, have you people learned nothing from the secret wives of Mormon wives sleeping around with other people, opening up your marriage, crushes, I mean, not just the secret wives of Mormon wives, Lindy West, what we talked about a couple of weeks ago, her, her husband, her husband's other wife.
It is a mess and nobody's happy. Anyway, sorry, had to moving on from that. that you might see this article, you might think, okay, Brett, this is some clicky headline, they do this all the time. You might think that maybe the author is talking about the fact that humans will always notice the attractiveness of other humans. Maybe they are talking about finding a celebrity attractive.
You know, celebrity crushes, whatever it is, no. No, it is none of those things. It is having crushes on real people in your real life, like your coworkers, while you are married. Just listen. So the author, who was a married woman with children, said this.
She said, at my last job, I had a crush on a coworker named Phil, whose name has been changed so as not to embarrass him, or more importantly, myself, honey. You are already embarrassing yourself by writing this article.
Phil looks like a swarthier Jake Gyllenhaal and the first time he spoke to me, I remember being genuinely confused as to how this person had ended up in print media since he was too attractive to know what the phrase nut graph meant. I did not and do not know Phil well. By the time we stopped working together, we had exchanged maybe 40 words I'm sorry, this is so weird.
Like, I don't know what kind of weird lib marriage you are part of. Like, this is openly admitting to emotionally cheating on yourself. This is not when you lean into it and write an entire article about it and joke about it with your husband. No, this is when you make the choice with yourself to respect your marriage, to use your moral compass, which I hope that you have. This woman might not.
we'll get into that, but to know that you need to shut that thought down out of the respect and love you have for your husband and the commitment, more importantly, that you have made to each other. It's when, love him or hate him, you should adopt the Pence policy. Now, if you don't know this, Mike Pence has a rule that he does not dine alone with a woman who is not his wife.
He will not attend events with alcohol without his wife. Maybe some of the women we're gonna be talking about today, the other women in this article, should try that. The answer continues, because again, remember guys, this is apparently the key to lasting love, so listen up. She writes, Okay, there has to be another way to spice things up. Have you heard of date night?
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Chapter 3: What examples highlight the celebration of infidelity in today's culture?
Anyway, sorry, getting ahead of myself. She puts a quote in here. A crush while you're married is like a sweet little snack that gets you through the 4 p.m. slump, my friend Cara told me. Like all of the horny monogamous people referred to in this piece, Cara asked to use a pseudonym.
She's been married for four years and she has a crush on a New York Times critic whom she's met a few times through friends. It is harmless and invigorating and reminds you you're alive and kicking and yearning and thinking. Her husband doesn't mind, as is the case in my relationship, and it serves as fodder for in-couple jokes. It's harmless and invigorating.
Chapter 4: What does the alleged affair between Diana Rossini and Mike Vrabel reveal?
So thinking about being attracted to, fantasizing, that's what having a crush is, fantasizing about somebody who is other than your husband, that's harmless? No, actually that's very harmful to you and him and your relationship. Again, there has got to be another way to get you through the 4pm slump.
How you know that you are still invigorated and yearning and thinking is by going on a date with your husband. Do you want me to pay? Do you want me to get you a gift card, send you out to a nice Italian restaurant with a little candle in the center and a glass of wine? I will happily do that if it keeps you from cheating on your husband. Anyway, she goes on.
She continues to share more and more women in her life that she's met who have various crushes on friends, baristas at the coffee shop that they go to every morning, coworkers. And then she concludes the article by suggesting that her female readers, women in monogamous, monogamous marriages like herself, have these crushes on rotation like an NBA roster.
And just wait, I don't want to get ahead of myself, but the roster jokes, the sports commentary will come back and will be relevant in the next 10 minutes you will see. So this is her conclusion. I call bullshit on all of this. This will never end well. It is not harmless. It is the wrong kind of invigorating. This is nothing to aspire to.
But I do want to say, we should not be surprised about this advice when we consider who the author of this article is. Her name is EJ Dixon.
Now, if that name rings a bell, it's probably because she wrote a now infamous hit piece on Candace, also for The Cut, which resulted, obviously, in Candace ripping her a new one and bringing up EJ's past, where she once wrote an article advocating for child sex robots to help cure pedophilia. Listen to that again, using child sex robots to help pedophiles.
Because rather than ostracizing them from society, putting them behind bars, we should give them something to simulate having sex with because it's just a mental condition that we should help them with is what she's promoting in this Washington Post article. This woman, EJ Dixon, is a mother. She is trying to give marriage advice. So yeah, I don't think so.
Based on your past, I will not be taking any of your advice. I also, just all that aside, won't be taking your advice because it is just so ridiculous. But obviously, other people have. Other people are in line with what she's saying.
And in another viral clip this week, again, it was like a memo went out, comedian Nikki Glaser went on Call Her Daddy with Alex Cooper, and she said that she and her boyfriend actually take these crushes to another level. But in this case, it's because she wants to hear about her boyfriend and other women.
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Chapter 5: How does a recent article suggest women should handle crushes while married?
So let's just walk through this whole interaction.
Like, I would always ask him about, like, past hookups and girlfriends and how they got together. Like, I was, like, the beginning. Like, how did you guys first know you liked each other? Like, I love that, like, our legs were touching on our table and neither of us moved our leg or stuff like that. I would be, like, so, like, I don't know.
It would make me, like, horny to, like, think about him doing that with other girls. And then I would – so I would ask about all of his, like, girlfriends or anyone he had hooked up with, like, all the details about it. And it would really be, like, a foreplay for me. Like, I would get, like, revved up talking about it. And then it reached a point where he was out of stories.
Like he had gone through all of them. And I was like, and it's almost like he was telling the same ones. And I was like, I know this one. So it wasn't as exciting anymore because I was getting the same stuff. So I was like, I had never heard of anything like this. I felt so weird, but I was like, I think I need you to get some more stories.
I think I need you to go get more stories. We just have to pause there. The top comment, by the way, under this video is this guy saying, I pray for a dumb bitch like this every single day. And that comment is going to be even more relevant and ironic in just a few minutes when you see how she rationalizes this. TLDR, empowerment. It's like, no, this is not helping women in the slightest.
You are actually just helping men, but you are twisting your mind to claim that this is about women. Anyway, this is already weird, as you saw. Like, she gets revved up hearing about her boyfriend and other women, so much so that she now is encouraging him to go out and get more action so that she can hear about it. So that brings us to the next point. Just watch. I need you to, like...
go out there and just do, just have a flirty moment with someone, like anything where I can feel like, maybe it's my competitive nature of like, I want a guy who other girls want. Like I like something that is like, you know, you want a handbag that other girls are like, oh my God, I'm dying to get that.
I was like, you know what, if you do it and I don't like it, cause I don't know how I'll feel. Like I've never done this before. So I don't know how I'll feel if my boyfriend, you're my first boyfriend ever. And so how will I feel if you have a flirty moment with another girl? So just like try it. And if I don't like it, we can stop. Don't kiss her, but see if you could.
If you get to a place where you're like, maybe you even go, I can't, I have a girlfriend. Something like that. But I don't make her feel bad about it.
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Chapter 6: What are the implications of having crushes on coworkers in a marriage?
I get to have a rich, successful girlfriend and then I get to go flirt with whoever I want. I mean, it's just, it's so wild. But guys, as I said, it's not all because this is not just weird, kinky dysfunction. No, it's because obviously she's a feminist. This is feminism in action.
It's like showing their value that they are valued by other women. Cause I respect women. And women's opinions. I do. I want my boyfriend to fuck other women because I just love women so much.
I'm such a feminist. Hold on. This is, this is all about, this is not pick me. This is pure feminism.
Wow. Thank you. Such what a truth bomb from Alex Cooper. Like, let's just like cut the copier. Like I get it. They're making jokes sort of, but also it's not really a joke. And I was about to say Like, you cannot tie this into feminism. This is not feminism, but honestly, you kind of can't.
Like, this is the perfect example of this, because at its core, modern feminism, whatever fifth wave, sixth wave we're in now in 2026, but this modern feminism, it results in hurting women and in hurting men, and it is hell-bent on destroying marriage and family because they believe it is oppressive, it is this arm of the patriarchy.
Like Leslie Jones said in our previous episode that we were talking about, it is literal slavery that women have to... So yeah, maybe this kind of dysfunction actually is feminism. Everything is feminism and nothing is feminism in 2026 is what I've come to understand. But it is certainly not committing to or respecting your partner.
It is also certainly not healthy or mentally stable, I would say, based on my worldview. Maybe that's just me. Maybe I'm the crazy one. Anyway, if I had to guess though, I would say that the women in these stories, they probably treat their dogs better than their husbands. And if you want to treat your dogs better, then you need Rough Greens.
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