• The multilingual celebrities with ADHD — Trevor Noah, Zoe Saldaña, Shakira, Michelle Rodriguez, and will.i.am

• Why there’s no scientific link between ADHD and polyglot-ism — but a lot of overlap in the traits

• The upside: hyperfocus, novelty-seeking, and pattern recognition

• The downside: the intermediate plateau, working memory struggles, and my own mix of dyslexia and speaking perfectionism

• A practical system for learning languages with an ADHD brain — language rotation, the “Lego” method, dopamine hacks, and outsmarting executive dysfunction

Welcome to the Spiral.

This episode:

• 🔍 Revisiting the Lindsay Clancy case — why my first take doesn’t hold up anymore, and where the evidence actually seems to point

• 💔 Hayden’s death — the entertainment industry angle, and an unsettling detail that surfaced days later

• 🍸 Real Housewives Ultimate Girls Trip — Lisa appreciation hour (I don’t make the rules, I just love her)

• 🕷️ Spider-Man — wow, wow, wow. The best Tom Holland film yet, with one thing that pulled me out of it

• 🐆 Toronto Tempo’s new mascots — could they rival Ellie?

• 📰 The Jason Ardley fiasco — and the press pattern that keeps repeating

Come find me and tell me where you land on any of it. New episodes drop weekly.

I’m TJ: a Black, masc lesbian with ADHD and dyslexia, obsessed with all things pop culture. This is my tiny space in the internet void, and I’m kicking things off by introducing the show and myself.

In this episode:

• Who I am and why this podcast exists

• The three types of episodes to expect going forward:

• 🗣️ The Debrief — takes on the latest pop culture news

• 🌀 The Spiral — a deep dive down whatever rabbit hole has hooked me lately

• 🔁 The Rewind — what I’ve been reading, eating, playing, obsessing over, recommending, and treating myself to

New episodes weekly. Thanks for being here from the start — more to come soon.

Follow along for future episodes. Got something you want me to Debrief or Spiral on? Send it my way.