Kate has been Princess of Wales for a little over a year now. Morgan decided to check in and review what a year in that elevated position has meant for her wardrobe. She covers the high and low moments. Morgan and Laura also cover the opportunities for Kate and hear team to leverage fashion to communicate more.
Laura ends the episode with a rant and rave.
On this episode, Laura dives into two recent issues with journalistic standards and ethics. First, she discusses Charissa Thompson's statements (and then apology and then deletion of the apology) about faking reports as a sideline reporter at sporting events. Laura and Morgan discuss the implications as well as the holes and issues with her apology.
Next, Laura highlights the recent Futurism piece about Sports Illustrated having AI headshots and bios and articles that were allegedly written by AI. Laura and Morgan discuss the issues with what SI was doing and how bad some of the articles were.
Morgan ends the show with a rave (the whole episode has our rant covered).
In this episode, Laura delves into the recent South Korean state visit to the UK, covering the grand arrival ceremony and the fashion highlight: Kate's stunning and unexpected red cape ensemble. The real buzz, however, revolved around the state dinner and the mesmerizing tiara moments. Morgan and Laura praise Camilla's elegant gown choice, perfectly complemented by her captivating debut of the Burmese Ruby Tiara (spoiler: Morgan and Laura think Camilla wore it better than the late Queen Elizabeth did). The conversation then shifts to Kate's jaw-dropping surprise appearance in the Strathmore Rose tiara after its 90-year hiatus. It an undoubtedly iconic moment, and Laura and Morgan have a lot to say. They further dissect the attire of other attendees before Morgan wraps up the episode with rant and rave.
Morgan discusses three of the big recent headlines with the NHL recently. Her first two stories are best summarized by our episode title "best sport, worst league". She first discusses the NHL trying to stop Minnesota goaltender Marc-Andre Fleury honoring his wife's Native heritage and wearing a mask designed by a Native artist and auctioning that mask off for charity. Next, she discusses NHL Player Safety's horrible decision to only fine Rangers captain Jacob Trouba for swinging his stick at a player's head. Finally, she discusses the conflicting reports from Corey Perry's agent and the Chicago Blackhawks about the reason for Corey's absence and whether it was a team or player decision. Laura ends the show with a rant and rave.
On the Friday episode, aka our "Life" episode Morgan goes in on a movie near and dear to the hearts of many millennials The Princess Diaries. Morgan highlights all the inspiration the movie took from royals around the world and how cool it was to see all the royal families represented by the movie. Morgan also highlights the inaccuracies and some of the ways the movie doesn't correctly portray royalty. You'll never watch the movie the same way!
Laura closes the show with royal themed rants and raves.
In this episode, Laura takes her turn diving into a sports topic. This week, the focus is on the legalization of sports betting in the US. She discusses the court cases that led to it, the various leagues' rules around players and gambling, and other implications of the popularity and availability of betting.
Morgan closes the show with a rant and rave.
In episode 51 and the first "life" episode in the new format, Laura presents a topic on one of her and Morgan's passions, royals. However, it's a royal family the wider public may not know a lot about, the Danish Royal Family.
After giving background on all the key players, Laura details two recent scandals in the past two years that alone are worthy of a Danish version of The Crown.
Family fighting! Cheating rumors (with photographic evidence)! It's truly worthy of a good TV series, and Laura has all the details for you.
The show ends with a rave about Bing's AI image creator and its ability to make fantasy tiaras and a rant about Twitter's suggested royal trends being toxic AF.
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All it took was the Texas Rangers winning the World Series to bring Morgan and Laura back from hiatus!
On their triumphant return to the podcasting world, they announced a new format. There will now be two episodes a week. A sports episode on Tuesday and a life episode on Friday. They will take turns presenting a topic fitting each theme.
Of course, for their return Morgan is covering the Rangers winning the World Series. She goes in depth on the entire season that led up to it, the ups and downs of post season, and of course her undying love for Corey Seager.
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*Trigger warning: In the Blackhawks section, we discuss sexual assault. There will be a trigger warning before that discussion in the audio.
On this episode, Morgan and Laura discuss the foreign substances checks and how manager are trying to use them. Then, they check in on the latest MLB standings.
They also check in on the NHL Awards and preview the Stanley Cup Finals between the Tampa Bay Lightning and the Montreal Canadiens.
Then they discuss the lawsuit against the Chicago Blackhawks and their terrible response to both the allegations when they happened in 2010 and the lawsuit.
Rant and rave end the show. They discuss the NCAA Supreme Court loss, the weather, Carl Nassib coming out, and the Texas Rangers making Morgan happy for a change.
On this episode, Morgan discusses the crackdown on pitchers using substances on baseballs and how it has impacted a certain pitcher we don't like to name on this podcast. Then she discusses the Blue Jays home run record at Fenway. She then points out the Yankees have a less than 50% chance of making the playoffs. Is Giancarlo Stanton cursed? Finally, she does a quick check in on the standings. Laura wraps up all the divisional playoff action and then previews the final four match ups. Then, they discuss the New York Rangers hiring Gerard Gallant as their new head coach and what a good move that is.
On this episode, Morgan gives us a quick rundown of the MLB division races so far. For hockey, Laura covers the Central, West, and East playoff series before Morgan and Laura spend a ton of time dissecting the Leafs choke job against the Habs. Sorry Leafs fans (especially Steve Dangle). Rant and rave end the show.
On this episode, Morgan and Laura discuss the continued surge in no hitters and specifically how that is impacting Morgan's Texas Rangers.
For hockey, Morgan eulogizes the St. Louis Blues whose playoff run was over before it started. It will surprise no one that Morgan isn't crying over their loss or the epic fail of a play Jordan Binnington made.
The recapped the rest of the playoff match ups including Edmonton's choke job and the Pens' goaltending woes. Rant and rave end the show.
On this episode, there's a lot to talk about with baseball. From the no longer juiced baseballs to Pujols and many more there are a lot of stories to talk about. They end the baseball segment by talking about the contribution Nick Castellanos made to the petty hall of fame.
In hockey news, they preview all of the playoff matches including Laura's thoughts on the Pens game 1 loss. Rant and rave end the show. Morgan's rant is another unwritten rule we hate (and contradicts another unwritten rule).
Laura's is about the NHL delaying some playoff games to play meaningless regular season games. Both Morgan and Laura rave about Tim Stützle's neighbors celebrating his hat trick.
On this episode, Morgan and Laura are back to talking sports. They discuss some of the latest happenings in baseball including the Dodgers pitcher who must not be named, vaccinations, Bumbarner's no hitter that wasn't a no hitter.Then they review the current standings in the NHL. Spoiler alert: Morgan is ready for the Stars to be officially eliminated because of how bad things are going. Then, they do a joint rant about William's social media blackout and then each share their raves of the week.
Alex is back! Morgan, Laura, and Alex discuss all the goings-on with the royal family. They talk all about the death of Prince Philip, his complicated legacy, and his funeral. Then they discuss William's strong stance about the Super League. Finally, they discuss Kate wearing Dolce & Gabbana and the ideas behind communicating through fashion.
Of course, there were plenty of tangents in between. Thanks to Alex for being such an amazing guest!
On this episode, Morgan and Laura talk about the latest article on the toxic culture in the Mets organization, how MLB needs to improve its acknowledgement and observance of the legacy of Jackie Robinson, and weird food in MLB ball parks. Then, they climb the corporate ladder to discuss the goings-on in hockey. Notably they discuss Patrick Marleau's new record, Vancouver, and of course updates on the Pens and Stars.
Rant and rave end the show. To no one's surprise there are bonus rants.
On this episode, we lead off by discussing the latest murder of an unarmed black man by police in Minnesota.
After that, they discussed their two sports. First, Morgan covered 5 stories for baseball including Trevor Bauer being investigated for cheating and a waffle maker (listen to figure out how that connects to baseball).
Laura has a long segment reviewing all 29 trades that happened around the deadline. A decent portion is spent ranting about how bad the Sabres screwed up.
An extended rant and rave end the show (spoiler alert: still wear your mask).
Morgan begins by talking about the top baseball stories from the first few games of the season. Then, Laura climbs the corporate ladder to discuss the big stories from around the NHL. Throughout the show, Laura updates an excited Morgan on the Blues 6-1 loss to Vegas. As Morgan says, she "loves that for them".
A lively rant and rave end complete with Laura and Morgan offering free marketing advice ends the show.
On this episode, Morgan catches us up on a few baseball stories. It was a slow week, but next episode we will have a ton to talk about as the season starts on Thursday. Laura does standings check ins for all of the NHL divisions and provides some stats showing just how epically bad the Buffalo Sabres are. Morgan's Stars update ends the segment. Then, they discuss the Tim Peel hot mic, the concept of make-up calls, and Colin Campbell's "integrity".
Rant and rave end the show on a royal touch as Morgan and Laura discuss bad replica jewelry and the newest addition to the Swedish Royal Family.
