EP 50:Black Cat Energy: Is Dex Pivoting her Opinion on Men?

So What Now? with Carla and Dex

Idea to Launch Productions

Society & Culture, Personal Journals

4.8 • 592 Ratings

🗓️ 6 October 2025

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

This week on So What Now we are back with all the chaos, wisdom, and side-eyes you've come to love.

Dex kicks things off with a hilarious (and low-key insightful?) update on dinner with her dad — who came with unexpected dating advice on where to find eligible bachelors. Spoiler: Dex is not taking him up on this advice.

Then, Carla introduces the viral "golden retriever vs. black cat" dating theory — and it's clear Dex is a full black cat. We break down what your relationship energy says about you and how it shapes your dating patterns.

The convo takes a turn as we unpack Young Thug's controversial appearance on The Pivot Podcast. His comments about therapy, masculinity, and feeling judged hit a nerve — but what really stood out was how the Pivot hosts held space for him while still challenging him to grow. Could the Pivot host be enough to make Dex rethink her hard stance on men? 👀

In listener letters:

A romantic soul wonders if her jaded friend is dragging her out of her soft girl era. Is it time to protect her peace and walk away from the group chat?
And… a messy mystery unfolds when a listener suspects her brother is having an affair with their pastor's wife. Carla and Dex both said: unless you've got proof, mind your business.

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0:00.0	Hey y'all.
0:06.0	If you've been thinking about starting a podcast, and one of the biggest things that is holding you back is the name of the show, you have no idea where you're going to name it.
0:12.7	Well, you know that I have idea to launch productions.
0:14.5	We've launched over 900 shows to date.
0:16.3	And one of my favorite things to help people with is figure out the name of their podcast. It has to be something catchy. It has to where you should be able to grow with it. So I created this free guide. It's a 20 chat GPT prompts to name your podcast. Now, this is whether you're launching for the first time, rebranding, or you want a stronger name that's going to resonate with your audience. Like, so what now? That
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0:50.9	you 20 chat GPT prompts to name your podcast. I don't know what's going to happen next, but yeah, so what now. Hey, y'all, welcome back to another episode. What Now we started. I know you got to crush on Jalen Hertz. Oh, yeah. But who doesn't? Who doesn't, seriously? Seriously. Did you like him when he shaved off his beard, his goatee or his?
1:12.1	I don't think I've seen that.
1:13.2	Girl, he looked like a humpty dumpty the egg. Ooh, he looks so ugly. Let me just, don't talk about, sorry. I'm going to call him a man. Let's talk about my crush. But while you look him up and get shocked,
1:27.3	thank you for coming back to another episode
1:28.7	of So We're now podcast.
1:30.3	I'm Carla.
1:31.1	Dex is looking over there for her man's with no hair, has no facial hair. But I want to start out for the cute, fun fact today. Actually, should we give a quick, if you were listening last week, I'll give you a recap on that one. I don't know how much we're going to cut out of that episode. But if you listen last week... It's going to be 15 minutes. The episode...
1:47.3	It's last... If you were listening last week, I'll give you a recap on that one. I don't know how much we're going to cut out of that episode.
1:44.9	But if you listen to last week.
1:45.7	It's going to be 15 minutes. If last week's episode was 15 minutes, I apologize. It's going to be more like 30 minutes, 35. Okay, okay. I apologize. This week will give me some good shit. So we'll start off with this. And this is to get you to move on from last week.
2:03.2	Okay.
2:03.6	It says, laughing. good shit. So we'll start off with this and this is to get you to, um, move on from last week.
2:03.2	Okay.
2:03.6	It says, laughing during serious situations can be a sign of high intelligence. So I know y'all
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