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This is a podcast about Rae, and her random thoughts. Rae keeps it real, where she openly talks about her dating life, mom life, and just life in general. It’s a great place to get away and laugh and maybe even cry, who know where the show may go.
Based on 5 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Rae turns candid conversations about dating, parenting, and independence into an honest record of how people negotiate relationships in real time.
Random Thoughts With Rae turns Rae's everyday decisions into candid, open-ended conversations with co-host Nate and friends. Dating and single parenthood recur alongside co-parenting, friendship, new relationships, and the disruption of pandemic life.
Rae and Nate revisit their Bumble history; you get both sides of the 'what are we?'
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Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
A candid lockdown chat that turns everyday co-parenting into a sharper look at pandemic leadership.
The episode feels like a loose, recognizably human lockdown conversation that moves from home logistics into a comparison of COVID-19 responses in the UK and America.
A loose catch-up turns into a warm relationship reveal with easy chemistry.
Rae and Nate spend the episode in the kind of loose, warm back and forth the show does well, and it eventually lands on a relationship reveal that feels plainspoken and real.
A candid dating check in that feels lived in rather than polished.
Rae and Nate sit in that familiar space between wanting connection and wanting to keep their freedom. The small talk about busy weeks, kids, and the dog barking in the background gives the conversation an easy start, then the focus settles on dating.
A messy, honest relationship talk that keeps circling what the two actually mean.
Rae and Nate spend this episode trying to make sense of a connection that started online, turned physical, and never settled into a clean label. That tension is the point.
A wine-fueled sleepover chat that gets blunt about dating, kids, and what people actually mean.
Rae and Priscilla let a late-night sleepover drift into an easy, wine-fueled conversation about single-mom life, a daughter's birthday, and the complications of dating when kids are in the next room.
Pop culture trivia, argued fast and with affection.
Pop culture, personal stakes, and room for a tangent.
A Brazilian journalist spends years reinvestigating unsolved child disappearances in Paraná.
Cris Bartz and Juva Lauer alternate debate and interview episodes on Brazilian social issues.
Rae and AJ open on a Skype-and-phone recording while AJ sits in his new Jeep at his kids' soccer game, covering a flat tire and a dating app launched by the man who sold him the Jeep.
Rae and AJ chat about getting back into podcasting, their Zoom setup, and Rae's hangover, blending personal anecdotes with lighthearted banter.
Rae and Nate check in over the phone while COVID-19 stay-at-home orders reshape both of their days.
Rae and Nate open with their usual teasing back and forth after missing the previous week because of travel.
Rae and her co-host Nate chat about a chaotic week with kids and reminisce about a previous episode where a guest got drunk and high.
Rae and Nate open with a quick week check-in.
Rae and her friend Priscilla continue their casual, wine-fueled conversation about life, friendship, and parenting.
Rae and Priscilla settle in for a wine-drinking sleepover on Rae's bed.
Rae opens the door on a messy little situation.