At the very least, Blonde seems a lot happier on air with her new lot. Or is at least doing a better job faking it on air early in their new run.

That's good. And she massively exceeded my expectations; I figured she'd fizzle out quickly, because she was notorious for not putting in the effort.

Personally, I was team Blonde in the breakup.

I was (mostly) team Matt, but thought they'd both screwed up. He went about it wrong, and got autistic about her hypochondria and injury. He was acting like her real injury was completely fake just because it wasn't as bad as she'd thought...something you don't even know until you go to the hospital. I can see why that would piss her off and hurt her feelings, and Matt seemed unwilling to engage with that at all. So, yeah, I think he was more in the right on the overall issues, but still handled the whole thing terribly and made the issue worse.

I haven't heard a on-air single complaint about having to leave early or wrap up for childcare reasons. Which is so interesting considering that was such a point of contention with the dissolution of her old show and was a chronic bugaboo for years.

I guess she's better when she's more involved, as well as more engaged on the topic. It might be a bit of the 'that which is given has no value' type of thing, where she was taking her part in M&B for granted since it was Matt's project. She wouldn't put in the effort because she didn't have to. Now that she's working on something she helped build, maybe she's a bit more motivated.

It will be interesting to see how that plays out considering the more onerous demands of the new in-person show and Rebecca's work ethic issues on the old pod.

Yup, I can certainly see the same thing potentially happening again.