What We're Watching & Reading
Older & Wilder
GGW Media
4.8 • 619 Ratings
🗓️ 7 May 2026
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
Social Media Breaks, Peru Reset, and What We’re Watching & Reading
Claire and Joy open with Arrested Development jokes and then discuss how meme culture and news consumption feel bleak, leading Joy to describe a mental-health-improving Peru “hard reset” of staying off social media, avoiding push notifications, and getting news from traditional outlets instead. They reflect on feeling helpless about Supreme Court decisions and on social media outrage/cancel culture, citing “Therapy Jeff” and mentioning Mel Robbins. Claire shares family updates, including Evie’s Beauty and the Beast dance recital and Miles’ extra energy now that he’s between sports, plus a chat about slow unpacking and liking Away luggage. They recommend HBO’s climbing docuseries “The Dark Wizard” about Dean Potter, discuss Lena Dunham’s memoir and Girls, and Claire lists recent fiction reads while panning The Comfort Crisis, before plugging their Instagram, TikTok, and email.
00:00 Welcome and Hop Ons
00:22 Arrested Development Quotes
01:39 Meme Days Check In
02:21 Social Media Detox
03:54 Supreme Court Spiral
06:47 Peru Airplane Mode
08:16 Therapy Influencer Drama
11:28 Dance Recital Chaos
15:28 Post Trip Unpacking
17:44 Away Luggage and Points
19:37 Dark Wizard Docuseries
22:20 Climbing Subculture World
23:51 Climbing Brotherhood
24:20 Rivalry and Territorialism
25:24 Dean vs Alex Debate
26:02 El Cap Ethics
27:30 Watching Free Solo
29:11 Series Recommendation
29:32 Lena Dunham Memoir
33:15 Girls Fame Fallout
37:25 Fiction Book Picks
39:20 Comfort Crisis Rant
42:37 More Reads and Wrap
43:15 Social Media Goodbye
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everybody. Welcome back to Older and Wilder with Joy and Claire. |
| 0:19.8 | Hello. |
| 0:20.4 | Are you listening out there? Are you some hop-ons? We were just talking about people joining the chat and Claire referenced hop-ons. And it made me laugh so hard. From Arrested Development. Well, Arrested Development, if you don't know, is, you know, the best show ever. Every time I see or I hear that word, oh, we got a hop on. |
| 0:38.5 | You're going to get some hop on. |
| 0:56.4 | There's always money in the banana stands. Oh, I said that the other day. I was like doing something on my budget and it just like was not working and I was working with somebody else. And we were sort of talking about how like sometimes budget exercises feel a little bit ridiculous because it's like we're going to like this stuff is going to get paid for. He sort of started saying he's like, yeah, I don't know, it just kind of seems like they're always money. |
| 0:54.7 | And I was like, in the banana stand and I was so grateful he knew what I was talking about |
| 1:00.8 | Mira in the chat says I love their impressions of a chicken yes classic amazing any of you ever actually seen a chicken? |
| 1:12.9 | I mean, just endless. |
| 1:14.0 | Oh, man. |
| 1:14.9 | Enless. |
| 1:17.3 | Jacqueline, we're having a fire sale. |
| 1:20.2 | Oh, guys, I'm so glad you all know the restaurant. |
| 1:22.0 | This is going great so far. |
| 1:23.3 | Sudden Valley. |
| 1:26.3 | Sudden Valley always made me laugh. |
| 1:32.6 | It's like a salad dressing, but I don't want to eat it i mean really that show was so ahead of its time it's like it really was can't get over how great that show is okay |
| 1:38.9 | we had two um like meme days passes by recently one was april 25th, not too hot, not too cold. All you need is |
| 1:45.5 | light jacket. And the other one, it's going to be May. I did not see that many. It's going to be May posts. But I did see a post that basically was like, I haven't seen any. It's going to be May post this year. And I think that says a lot about how we're all collectively doing. It's so true. |
| 1:59.7 | Like even Justin Timberlake is like, he's nowhere to be found. |
| 2:03.2 | You know, ever since that like DUI incident. we're all collectively doing. It's so true. Like even Justin Timberlake is like, he's nowhere to be found. |
| 2:03.2 | You know, ever since that like DUI incident, I think he's laying low. |
| 2:06.9 | Yeah. |
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