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Move over, Meet the Press—it’s time to Meet the Mess! This week on Meet the Mess, Jen and Karyn are joined by their friend Gina B. to discuss the controversial Converse ad that has everyone talking.

Last week was crazy for me, and by Friday I was ready for it to be over. My friend Lisa and her husband were in town, and we had plans to go to dinner. I wasn’t sure what kind of night they were looking for, so I texted her: “Do you guys want to do a nice dinner? Or can we just do down and dirty?” I was really hoping she’d say down and dirty because I needed it, and thank God, she did. For me, down and dirty means Mexican food somewhere I don’t have to dress up.

Move over, Meet the Press—it’s time to Meet the Mess! This week on Meet the Mess, Jen and Karyn discuss whether Botox can actually treat depression, why facial filler is falling out of favor, and a new study linking major album releases to an increase in fatal car crashes caused by distracted driving.

My insurance covers 15 sleeping pills a month, which is really fucking cute because, last I checked, there are 30 days in a month. Sometimes 31. And I require sleep on all of them. This past week, my Oura sleep score hovered in the low 50s for four nights in a row, which means I was basically failing at sleep. If you don’t know how Oura works, you want to be in the 80s, or even the 90s if you’re some kind of sleep expert. A few months ago, I mentioned buying these Olly melatonin sleep gummies.

In case you don’t know, I can’t stop buying diamonds on TikTok Shop. It’s been a little over a week, and I currently own 27 diamonds. Well, 28 if you count the one I accidentally dropped into the heating vent. I tried to save it, but couldn’t. It fell through a little hole between the heating vent and the house and has gone into the abyss. But we’ll get to that. All of this started innocently enough.

As it turns out, the best way to get me to write a Substack post is to have something due elsewhere. I have this weekend to turn out 10-15 pages for a client, so I’m currently doing everything but their project. (I am even considering mowing the lawn.) Anyway, instead of working on my deadline, here we go. Meet the Mess is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. The girls had to go in for their annual vet visit yesterday.

Move over, Meet the Press—it’s time to Meet the Mess! This week on the podcast: Shaboozey accidentally photobombs a wedding while river rafting, and Lindsey Graham’s sister proves you don’t have to know anything about politics to get into politics. Also, a masked man terrorizes a Philadelphia neighborhood, Trump’s gal pal Natalie Harp writes creepy letters, and a group of Italian grandmas shares their secrets to the good life.

Move over, Meet the Press—it’s time to Meet the Mess! This week, Jen and Karyn are joined by mother-daughter duo Beth Harbison and Paige Harbison—celebrated authors, hosts of the Nameless Best Friends podcast, and two women they could have happily talked to all day. (And they almost did.) Beth and Paige join for a lively, lengthy, and wildly entertaining conversation about books, movies, writing, pop culture, and pretty much everything in between.

Move over, Meet the Press—it’s time to Meet the Mess! This week on the podcast, Jen announces her book of summer! Plus, have you seen The Odyssey? Spiderman? Why is Zendaya so beautiful?! Also in the news: Trump gets a new hairdo (and threatens Greenland again), Mark Zuckerberg’s mega-yacht failed to respond to a distress signal from a small boat, and the July jobs report landed and it’s not great.

This is where we’d ask about how everyone feels about summer ending, but one of us lives in the land of perpetual summer and also, global warming is real, so we’re still going to have 80 degree days in October. Summer isn’t over any time soon. BTW, this is subterfuge to distract you from realizing we didn’t put out a July wrap. But is everyone else have the hardest time concentrating on… anything?