Bras Off Confessional

Ep. 17: The GATE Program, Pt. 2/2

You already know about MKUltra. You already know about the theories. Now it's time to talk about what it actually felt like to be one of those kids. In Part 2 of the GATE program deep dive, Molly and Michaela get personal — comparing notes on what their programs looked like, what they remember, and what they mysteriously don't. And then there's the ultimate question that might hit you harder than any conspiracy theory: what if the most damaging thing the program did wasn't the testing, but telling a bunch of impressionable five-year-olds they were exceptional? If you were a GATE kid, you'll recognize everything. If you weren't, you might finally understand why some of the smartest people you know are also the most wrecked. In this episode:  * A broken down Texas roller coaster may have led to strangers peeing on each other  * The Fox News correspondent with the suspiciously hole-shaped neck * Comparing notes on getting into the GATE program, the testing, and the shockingly fun "dig" field trip they both went on, even though they grew up in different states. Crinkle crinkle goes the tinfoil.  * What the gifted label actually built, and actually broke   * Personal theories on what the program really was, and why neither answer is reassuring Support the show [https://www.patreon.com/cw/BrasOffConfessional] 🎙️ New episodes every Wednesday 💌 Join our CommuniTitty on Patreon [https://www.patreon.com/cw/BrasOffConfessional] 😏 Submit an anonymous confession [https://beacons.ai/brasoffconfessional/getsomethingoffyourchest] 📲 Instagram / Tiktok: @brasoffconfessional

Ep. 16: The GATE Program, Pt. 1/2

This week Molly and Michaela inaugurate the Tinfoil Hat Club (also known as the THC, which is exactly why it feels wrong that they're sober) with Part 1 of a deep dive into the GATE program — the federally funded Gifted and Talented Education Program that pulled smart kids out of class, put them in dim rooms with covered windows, and apparently left zero paper trail worth remembering. Before they get to the shared memories and the TikTok rabbit holes, they lay the foundation: MK Ultra, Project Stargate, and the very inconvenient timeline connecting decades of government-funded psychological experimentation to a nationwide children's education program that launched one year later. Whether you think that's a smoking gun or a coincidence depends on how often you've been right about the conspiracies everyone said were crazy. In this episode: * The Tinfoil Hat Club is born, and we've got the very loud, very metallic hats to prove it * GATE 101: what it was, when it started, and what MK Ultra and Project Stargate have to do with it * The CIA's gifted-kid wish list * TikTok's GATE theories, from unhinged to completely plausible  * The checklist of bizarre memories and traumas that every GATE kid can vaguely remember experiencing Support the show [https://www.patreon.com/cw/BrasOffConfessional] 🎙️ New episodes every Wednesday 💌 Join our CommuniTitty on Patreon [https://www.patreon.com/cw/BrasOffConfessional] 😏 Submit an anonymous confession [https://beacons.ai/brasoffconfessional/getsomethingoffyourchest] 📲 Instagram / Tiktok: @brasoffconfessional

Ep. 15: Dating Downers

Everyone has a bad date story. Molly and Michaela have enough to fill a true crime series. This week, Molly opens the vault on her Phoenix-era dating life — a city she describes as LA but hotter, drier, and somehow more hostile to human connection. What follows is a story about a man who peaked at three grandma pecks and vanished into the night, and another about a "quiet drink" that escalated into something a lot darker and a lot more real. Michaela fires back with her own dispatches: a lawyer who couldn't be bothered to pick her up and insulted her outfit, a cheap chicken wing date, and a guy who slept over uninvited in a strange impression of a vampire.  In this episode:  * Closed-Mouth Power Walking Jizz Man * The Olive and Ivy date: what it promised, vs. what it delivered * Michaela's rapid-fire anthology: the lawyer, the ranch dressing, the sarcophagus * The 4B movement gets a shoutout, and the bar gets its eulogy (it's in hell) * Big Sis Advice: sometimes one bad date is really a red flag to something much worse. Take our advice and skip the firsthand experience Support the show [https://www.patreon.com/cw/BrasOffConfessional] 🎙️ New episodes every Wednesday 💌 Join our CommuniTitty on Patreon [https://www.patreon.com/cw/BrasOffConfessional] 😏 Submit an anonymous confession [https://beacons.ai/brasoffconfessional/getsomethingoffyourchest] 📲 Instagram / Tiktok: @brasoffconfessional

Ep. 14: From the Cutting Room Floor, Pt.2

The cutting room floor lied to you. It told you these clips weren't good enough, that they didn't belong, that they'd just collect dust in the vault. The cutting room floor was wrong. This week we crack open the archive and hand you a variety show of everything that almost didn't make it — which, it turns out, might be some of the funniest, most unhinged content we've ever recorded.  A lesbian couple rewriting the reproduction playbook. A pre-wedding butthole negotiation that may or may not have saved a marriage. A sorority ghost with a very strong opinion about door hardware. Oh, and the BOC voice memos make their podcast debut, featuring a chopstick situation, a menstruation breakdown, and the kind of daily psychosis that passes for friendship when you love someone enough to leave them a 4-minute rambling audio at 7am. It's a chaos buffet. Grab a plate. In this episode: * Why lesbian couple pregnancies are elite * The butthole equity fight that ended in a legally binding contract and a very anticlimactic reveal * The sorority ghost who was actually just kind of a vibe * The "not all men" thought experiment that even Manny couldn't argue with * Voice memo chaos Support the show [https://www.patreon.com/cw/BrasOffConfessional] 🎙️ New episodes every Wednesday 💌 Join our CommuniTitty on Patreon [https://www.patreon.com/cw/BrasOffConfessional] 😏 Submit an anonymous confession [https://beacons.ai/brasoffconfessional/getsomethingoffyourchest] 📲 Instagram / Tiktok: @brasoffconfessional

Ep. 13: Pythagorass Didn't Have a Credit Score

Mickey is alive, barely, after spending nearly two weeks being personally victimized by a $4 flat of eggs. She came back to tell us all the gory details, including the split jeans, the granny panties, and the breezy commute home she did not notice until it was far too late. This week's main event: the stuff we were all required to memorize, diagram, recite, and perform in school versus the stuff we actually needed to function as adults and just...never got. Not a rant. More of a forensic examination covering the quadratic formula, state capitals, the recorder, and FDR. There's a real question underneath all of it about what school is actually for, who it serves, and what the people who raised you were quietly responsible for teaching you instead. In this episode: * The curriculum autopsy: things we were required to master that have helped us zero times * The class divide nobody talks about — who your parents were and why it matters * Why blue collar survival skills and white collar social skills are not the same education * Personal finance, contracts, healthcare navigation, and all the things that should have been a class Support the show [https://www.patreon.com/cw/BrasOffConfessional] 🎙️ New episodes every Wednesday 💌 Join our CommuniTitty on Patreon [https://www.patreon.com/cw/BrasOffConfessional] 😏 Submit an anonymous confession [https://beacons.ai/brasoffconfessional/getsomethingoffyourchest] 📲 Instagram / Tiktok: @brasoffconfessional