Don't look now- we're stringing together serious and seroiusly helpful episodes, I mean, Chef still goes off the rails several times, but we still actually get around to serious homeschooling again.

It starts with a crazy chain of events: Biden drops out, so Rose tuned in (to the DNC). She rates her top five speeches from this year's Democratic National Convention.

We learn about Captain Gilligan and suuuper low level corporate fraud in an 86ed segue segment about poorly handled packages. You gotta handle those packages carefully. . . That's what she said.

Doubling down on ReviewEd, we dive into our favorite olympics moments. Rose talks about women straight killin' it from Simone to cycling to the boxing ring. Chef talks Paris, Argentina v France, Snark v Seine.

In a Tinkle segue we dive into the disgusting cosplay world of MTG with a Chef-curated slideshow of her lowlights, from cosplay hunting and dangerous firearm handling to fake cooking and terrible kitchens.

And we finish out with a Social Studies segment that is a perfect example of why we need a new homeschool segment, becuase this one's not at all about socialization myths. We're diving back into helpful, pragmatic, concrete advice about senior year homeschool milestones.

And in the end, we both completely forget about the Tip Out. We had ones planned, but we got so excited to be done at a reasonable hour for once that we pat ourselves on the back, drop the mics, and just left. Nobody ever said we weren't forgetful. At least not that we can recall.

Wait a second. . . did we make an actually helpful episode!?! This, and for once we don't say it jokingly, really is a homeschool podcast.

We dive into a recap of Rose's time in Italy, and we talk about the importance of club and sport activities to homeschoolers, and how it could actually be a superpower and not a weakness.
After a trip into the magic of the number 7, we get straight up helpful again: we do a rundown of what to get into your senior year of homeschool for testing, including deets like GED vs HiSet, and PSAT's: take or don't take?

Things get wild with a ride on the couch with JD Vance in a mini Oui Oui.

Then we're mixing ReviewEd and ScratchEd with a recap of some good cancer / grief movies and books. We're talking Eat Pray Love, From Scratch, & Crying in the HMart.

Rose kills Chef in a trash talking segment that Chef probably still doesn't even understand.

And we finish with a lesson that was definitely not worth the wait. For weeks Chef has avoided learning about the Hawk Tuah girl. He finally learns about the little slice of '24 that is the Hawk Tuah girl. He reacts . . . . probably like you're thiniking he would .

Our Tipout has two of our faves, well three of our faves: Bruno (Mars), Lady (Gaga), and Messermeister (Knives).

A crazy, weird, wild ep. Kind of our last "rough draft" or pre-recorded one. We did this a few weeks ago, and we had to fight for it- it was super late at night, with Rose leaving for Italy the next day, and Chef coming off one of his worst days ever.
Between Chef's angry rants about split checks and our meandering tangents about Marfa and malls and everything in between, we had to edit this an insane amount. Chef's anguished screams took up about twenty minutes alone.
So: we sliced, we diced, and we came up with a wild ping pong game of an ep. Chef shares his leg shaving routine. Rose preps to leave for Italy. We beg you not to split checks.
Chef vents on one of his three worst days ever; Rose vents on some balls out certifiably nuts behavior in the bar.

From now on, we've got our publishing routine down. Eps should come out within days of recording. Ep 7 is in the can from last night. Rose is back. Great ep.
Thanks to India, Myanmar, Montana, and all the other places listening. Y'all rock.