🎙 Welcome back to The Third Degree — where chaos is inevitable and perfection is... complicated.

☀️ Cold Open Chaos: We allegedly talk about perfectionism, but first:

A heated debate if 10:30 AM is brunch or breakfast (it’s brunch, obviously 🍳)

Muddy dogs ruining everything 🐾

At least one (okay, maybe all) of us crying over Canvas assignments 😵‍💫

Oh, and someone fell down a spiral staircase in high school theater and kept going.

Because the show must go on, baby 🎭

💥 The Perfectionism Spiral: We dive deep into what perfectionism really looks like:

The paralysis of being too afraid to even star

Interpreting every bit of feedback as a personal attack

Constant self-criticism, unrealistic expectations, and the need to be the best — even when it's ruining your mental health 💀✨

🩰 Perfectionism in Dance: Here’s where things get painfully specific:

Neurotic perfectionism takes center stage — aka the "if I’m not winning, I’m failing" mindset

Comparing yourself to teammates until your brain is soup

Harsh feedback, internalized pressure, and the fear of asking questions (because questions = weakness)

The emotional breakdowns 24 hours before every competition (relatable, right?)

🌱 What Actually Helps: We also explore ways to cope, recover, and reframe:

The good ol’ critique sandwich (3 compliments, 1 correction)

Dance teachers who adapt their teaching styles (angels, truly)

Learning when to walk away from the turn you're forcing

And remembering your worth ≠ your pirouette count 🩰🥲

🌮 Final Thoughts (and a Goose?): Somehow, a goose steals a Taco Bell logo, and we’re still confused. But honestly, if you’ve ever:

Procrastinated yourself into paralysis

Cried before a performance

Or confused your self-worth with how well you did that combo…

This one’s for you. 💖🥞

💬 Drop a comment! Let us know what you think—do you agree, disagree, or have even hotter takes than us? We love hearing from you!

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🎙️ Up to the Third Degree – where chaos has three voices.

📱💬 Ever get a random FaceTime and immediately assume someone’s dead? Yeah, same. We’re diving deep into the chaotic world of unannounced video calls, the sacred rules of answering (or not answering), and why if you don’t text after you call, you might actually be a menace to society. Give us a sign of life, please.

☠️📲 Then there's ✈️ clapping when the plane lands. Why? Just dap the pilot up (or is it dab? We Googled it so you don’t have to) and exit the aircraft like a civilized human.

🛬👊 We’re also taking a stand against movie theater clapping — Spielberg can’t hear you from Row D in Ohio.

🎥🙄 Meanwhile, we’re ghosting therapists 👻, ruining surprise parties before they happen 🎂, and folding laundry just for the ✨emotional stability✨. Honestly, laundry might be the only thing holding some of us together at this point. 🧺💔

Of course, we had to tackle the age-old debate: is astrology legit or just sparkly homework for adults? 🔮 Turns out, being born under a full moon in Bethlehem, PA doesn’t explain your commitment issues — but it might explain why your joints hurt when it rains. 🌕🦴 And just when you thought it couldn’t get deeper — surprise! We’re unpacking school hat bans (no really, it’s a whole thing), how Sandy Hook changed dress code policies forever 🧢😳, and the criminalization of beanies.

At the end of the day, being kind isn’t cringe, writing love letters is adorable 💌, and simp culture is just the bare minimum, babe. Toxic is out. Emotional vulnerability is in. So let’s keep being our weird, neurospicy selves and stop clapping when the plane lands.

💅💖🧠 Three unfiltered friends. Zero chill. Unlimited side quests. Join Lizzie, Lexie, and Natalie every week as they spiral from true crime tales into roasts, rants, and ridiculous rabbit holes. Whether they’re breaking down baffling murders, roasting each other’s childhood traumas, or taking wild detours into pop culture and petty drama, nothing is off limits and no one is safe (especially each other).

Drop a comment! Let us know what you think—do you agree, disagree, or have even hotter takes than us? We love hearing from you!

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🧠👶 THIRD DEGREE: ARE YOU SMARTER THAN AN 8-YEAR-OLD?

We let a third grader loose on the pod... and things immediately went off the rails. 🚂✨

👧 Lizzie vs 👦 Braden in an epic battle of ✨brains, riddles, and feral energy✨. Questions were asked. Answers were wrong. Knees were injured. Also? Someone tried to eat soup with a fork. 🍲🍴 WHY.

🔥 Highlights include:

• A child destroying us in trivia
• A rogue guacamole moment 🥑
• “THE ANSWER IS DARKNESS” 🕶️
• Someone yelling “SHUT THE FLIP UP” mid-spelling lesson
• And a shocking twist involving roosters and eggs 🐓🥚

💀 10/10 chaos. Zero math skills. 🎧 Listen now to hear Lizzie get outsmarted by a literal child.

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🎉 Game Night Gone Off the Rails | Incoherent, Trivia & Too Much Chaos 🤯

In this episode, we play a chaotic round of Incoherent, where nobody knows what’s being said, but somehow we all pretend we do 😂 We struggle through phrases like “Ace Tray Taste Who Didn’t” (???), scream-laugh our way through gibberish, and prove that none of us should be allowed near a third-grade math test.

✨ Highlights include:

• Dramatic emphasis fails
• "Don't do drugs" becomes "Dawn Dude Rugs"
• An emotional breakdown over the word "joey"
• Learning (incorrectly) that Beethoven was blind
• Discovering a new color??! (we swear it's real… maybe)
• The Rizz sound effect makes its entrance
• Minecraft chicken songs and Sigma energy 🐔
• Deep questions like: what is 7 x 6? (answer: "your mom")

If you're into unfiltered chaos, questionable facts, and vibes that teeter between genius and meltdown, this one’s for you 🎧🔥

Don’t forget to like, comment, and subscribe for more absurdly funny moments each week!

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🧠👶 THIRD DEGREE: ARE YOU SMARTER THAN AN 8-YEAR-OLD? (Feat. Chaos, Gibberish & Guacamole)

We let a third grader loose on the pod… and everything fell apart immediately. 😭🚂 👧 Lizzie vs 👦 Bradyn in a high-stakes showdown full of ✨trivia, nonsense, and unhinged energy✨.

We tried to play Incoherent. We tried to do basic math. We tried to spell “puppies.” We failed. Spectacularly.

🍲 Someone tried to eat soup with a fork. 🕶️ “THE ANSWER IS DARKNESS” was screamed unprovoked. 🐓 A rooster-related betrayal took place. 🥑 A rogue guacamole moment occurred. 🤯 And “Don’t do drugs” somehow became “Dawn Dude Rugs.”

Other crimes against logic and language:

• Bradyn thought Beethoven was blind
• Lizzie got outsmarted by a literal child
• The Rizz sound effect entered the chat
• And 7 x 6 = “your mom” happened.

💀 10/10 chaos. 0/10 math skills. Infinite laughter. 🎧 Tap in now if you want to feel better about your own intelligence. Or worse. Probably worse.

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