escapism shouldn’t give you anxiety
Delusional Diaries
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🗓️ 22 January 2026
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
this week on Delusional Diaries, Halley and Jaz are truly going to take you on a rollercoaster of chatting & beyond. from unexpectedly feeling way too much empathy during high-stakes sports games to realizing that escapism shouldn’t cause anxiety, they unpack the little thoughts that spiral into way bigger conversations. what starts as football stress quickly turns into a debate about why caring too much can be exhausting, and why sometimes you just want your entertainment to be fun, not emotionally taxing.
the girls also get into music moods, pop culture obsessions, and the shows that shaped them. from rethinking sad-girl playlists and romanticizing The Bold Type as peak twenties escapism, to loving Zara Larsson’s comeback and needing to be “in on” whatever show the internet is obsessing over, it’s a full deep dive into comfort culture. along the way, they talk celebrity sightings, influencer life, social media chaos, and the weird pressure of always being online.
as always, the episode wraps with classic H & J shenanigans: procrastination confessions, friendship dynamics, hypothetical life questions, beauty honesty, and hot takes on cheating, botox, baby names, and becoming a “real” New Yorker. it’s funny, self-aware, slightly unhinged, and very much giving “two best friends talking on the couch about everything and nothing” (exactly how we like it).
Timestamps
0:18 - Stressed about sports
4:10 - Finding the happy songs
14:45 - Bitching hour
19:00 - Procrastinator (kinda of)
30:50 - Losing at an award show
45:26 - Reality TV show dating
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, guys, welcome back to Delusional Diaries podcast. I'm Hallie. And I'm Jazz. And I can't believe how much |
| 0:18.8 | empathy I had for men when a team lost a sports game. |
| 0:23.6 | Oh. |
| 0:24.0 | Like, we watched the Packers game and Reid is obviously a Packers fan. |
| 0:27.6 | And I was shocked at the pit I had in my stomach of being stressed out and feeling like, |
| 0:33.7 | ugh, I just don't like that someone has to lose. |
| 0:36.6 | And like, obviously, we go to a lot of sporting events, right? Like, I have been to a lot. I don't really feel anything, but I go to, like, so many regular season, like, this doesn't matter type of games. And I just don't like when, like, it actually matters. Yeah, I get that. See, my thing is I didn't really give a fuck like for any of the football players I'm just like |
| 0:55.8 | you make a lot of money you're fine but I really wanted them to win for read because I knew like |
| 1:00.6 | it mattered a lot to him so I was like really sad that they didn't win for him yeah I just mean teams |
| 1:06.1 | in general like I had a pit in my stomach watching that game and then I watched like the bills, whoever the bills played on, they didn't win. Oh, in the Jaguars game. I had a pit in my stomach in that game too. And I realized, I just don't think that that's fun for me. Unless I really don't like a team or don't want a team to win. Like the Chiefs and Eagles last year for the Super Bowl. Yeah, I was thrilled that the Eagles won. I'm reading for everybody black. Like, well, people that actually act, you get my point. |
| 1:31.5 | You know what I'm saying. |
| 1:32.9 | I have one quarterback I was fucking with and one I wasn't to do your research. |
| 1:37.6 | So that was an easy choice for me. |
| 1:39.4 | But the other ones, I was like, I don't know. |
| 1:41.7 | I don't really know things about them. |
| 1:43.3 | I don't know. |
| 1:44.2 | But obviously they're fine, but I just like, I don't know. |
| 1:47.5 | It was just affecting me. ones, I was like, I don't know. I don't really know things about them. I don't know. |
| 2:01.8 | But obviously, they're fine. But I just like, I don't know. It was just affecting me more than I would have liked. Yeah. Or it's sad when, like, this is so fucking stupid. I don't even really like Aaron Rogers. But he was playing the other weekend. They were like playing for the playoffs. Yeah. And they were playing the Ravens. |
| 2:01.3 | And the Steelers like almost lost and I was just and I think this is his last season ever |
| 2:07.5 | like actually and I was like damn what like shitty way to be like that close to the playoffs for |
| 2:13.3 | your final season ever and like that's how you end the game they like kind of almost blew it |
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