Show Notes
This week on Grab Her By The Mic, Han survived five birthdays in one weekend, a junior disco at an illegal decibel level, a pinata wielded like a weapon by a four-year-old, while Philsy survived a Hello Fresh salesman who stood at her door for 40 minutes in the cold while the curry went cold inside. She was late because of it. Standard. This week's Weekly Spiral accidentally became National Geographic after three glasses of Grenache. America has now lost multiple kangaroos across multiple states, the US Health Secretary posted a video of himself wrestling snakes, and two men drove a dead alligator across Central Florida on the roof of their car, and when questioned, covered it with a white sheet and kept driving. The HyperFix this week started at the Mittagong junior disco, where someone called Kelsey casually dropped the concept of pre-perimenopause like a grenade and walked away. What followed was several hours of research into whether it's a real medical condition (sort of, maybe, nobody entirely agrees), a deep dive into why ADHD makes the whole thing worse and earlier, and a genuine spiral about why women are still learning about their own bodies from random conversations in completely inappropriate settings. Obsessions of the Week: Go-To Skincare (Philsy is on a clean perfume oil journey and the Face Hero is doing things) and Off Campus on Prime Video (Han needs you to watch it immediately, it's too childish for grown-ups and too sexy for kids, which means it's exactly for you). Stick around for Chaos Correctional where Han fact-checks the bear, the snakes, Tony Abbott, and the trebuchet. Explicit, feral, occasionally educational, and accidentally hormonal. See you next Tuesday. 💋
CHAOS CORRECTIONAL (FACT-CHECK CORNER) Stick around after the outro for Chaos Correctional - where Han cleans up the confident nonsense we said on air with just enough research to be dangerous. This week we correct: Whether it was RFK or Trump who actually pushed the Tylenol-autism claim
Trump's combat appointment and whether the Department of Defence still exists by that name
Tony Abbott and the Minister for Women situation (turns out it's worse than we said)
The full story on RFK's dead bear, Central Park, and the freezer of roadkill
How snakes actually mate and whether Dr Oz was accurate
What a trebuchet actually is
Whether weed is legal in Florida (it's not, which raises questions)
Whether elephants actually have good memories and how we know
The James Corden plane story (unverified but extremely plausible)
LINKS AND THINGS WE MENTIONED 🍷 Recap and Rosé Raywell Grenache 2022, Clare Valley - from Good Pair Days
🐰Research Rabbit Hole Pre-perimenopause and ADHD connection - ADDitude Magazine
ADHD and perimenopause symptom severity - ADDA
Oestrogen, dopamine and ADHD - Frontiers in Global Women's Health
Previously unrecognised ADHD and perimenopause - NIH/PubMed
7% of healthcare research focuses on conditions exclusively affecting women - source via The Lancet
Perimenopause as "Bermuda Triangle" of women's healthcare - clinical studies via NAMS
💥Internet Chaos RFK Jr snake wrestling video - The Guardian
Waco kangaroo escape - Beaumont Enterprise
Florida alligator roof rack story - News of the Weird roundup
RFK and Kid Rock hot tub milk video - reported widely
RFK bear in Central Park confession - CNN
🌀 Products We Spiralled About Go-To Skincare by Zoe Foster Blake:
Off Campus - Prime Video
Glass bottom potatoes by Annabel Crabb
Toni & Ryan Podcast
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