Back with another Net Worthy, our slightly less researched, slightly more reactive tour through the week’s financial, economic, Bravo, tech, pop culture, and generally bizarre headlines. This week, Annie and Zoë get into people betting hundreds of thousands of dollars on jury verdicts, Selma Blair paying $20,000 bail by credit card after another plane incident, Peacock building a TikTok-style Bravoverse hosted by an AI Andy Cohen, and Samantha Parkington losing her American Girl fortune. Plus, Girls is coming back, the McBee marriage may not be, and Netflix somehow scored exclusive 2030 World Cup rights in Spain.

Then, the business group chat gets busy. Disney+ is streaming the Super Bowl as the streaming industry slowly rebuilds cable one subscription at a time, Bumble is going private for $1.3 billion after losing users and roughly $13 billion in market value since its IPO, and Oura postpones a much-hyped public offering where 73% of the shares being sold belonged to existing shareholders. The girls get into swiping fatigue, whether dating apps can ever satisfy investors when their stated goal is getting you off the app, and what happens when everyone who wants an Oura Ring already owns one.

Plus, TikTok is accused of giving teens placebo safety features to test whether protection hurt engagement, nearly $22 million in taxpayer-funded Trump political ads lands in court, and Annie and Zoë continue asking the only question that really matters: who is making money off this?

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This week, Annie and Zoë kick things off with linguistic pet peeves, Gigi Hadid and Bradley Cooper, age-gap relationships, vampire media as a recession indicator, and Singapore launching a government-sponsored dating app, totally awesome and normal!

Zoë gets into Heather and Terry Dubrow’s money, from plastic surgery and reality TV to luxury real estate and the insane price tags of Heather Dubrow’s Bravo parties. We’re talking $75,000 events, $140,000 birthdays, and the small army of florists, planners, caterers, performers, and random experiential vendors required to keep Fancy Pants fancy.

Annie looks at recession couture: the Lipstick Index, the Hemline Index, ’70s fashion coming back around and the cultural crossovers with today, maximalism, archival dressing, the booming luxury resale market, and whether buying a Birkin is technically investing. RHOM one season wonder Stephanie Shojaee may have had a point.

Girls Are Loaded — new episodes every Friday on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and YouTube.

Follow us on Instagram, TikTok, and Substack at @girlsareloaded. Email us at girlsareloadedpod@gmail.com.

Welcome to Net Worthy: our slightly less researched, slightly more reactive foray into the week’s financial, economic, Bravo, and tech headlines.

This week, Annie and Zoë get into Meredith Marks’ very face-lift-forward presence on The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City, the Federal Reserve, why the Fed is independent-ish from the government, and the century of financial panic that somehow got us here. Zoë also explains why long-term Treasury bonds just had their worst decade since the Great Depression, why rising interest rates were so brutal for existing bondholders, and why those same higher yields might suddenly make bonds attractive again.

Then, the girls run through the rest of the week’s economic group chat — California billionaires spending millions to fight a billionaire tax, McDonald’s developing menu options for the GLP-1 economy, and Meta’s new AI agent discovering that Americans are paying $157 a month for subscriptions they forgot existed.

Plus, what happens to banks when AI agents can automatically move your money into higher-yield accounts, whether the subscription economy should be afraid of your robot personal assistant, and other headlines we unfortunately now have opinions about.

Girls Are Loaded — new episodes every Friday on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and YouTube.

Follow us on Instagram, TikTok, and Substack at @girlsareloaded. Email us at girlsareloadedpod@gmail.com.