Legally Friends

Amy's out this week, which means it's just Zach and Megan, and the bickering is immediate. Zach opens up about his new job and the weird loneliness of watching your family have fun without you from a hotel room. Megan recaps the Telluride trip in a 15 passenger van (hairpin turns, fire smoke, one smashed finger), and then we get into it: did we hide our crazy during our 63 day engagement,...

Amy confesses to 10.5 hours of screen time a day, Zach is fighting his migraines with red light and cutting Diet Coke, and there's a guy from Texas trying to outbid her on a horse she found on Facebook Marketplace. Then it's go time: this is our giveaway episode, so we announce the sweatshirt winners and put NINE of your Judge & Jury dilemmas in front of the jury. On the docket this we...

This week, nobody is safe. Amy updates us on dating, Zach has way too many opinions, Emily somehow proves she can’t be trusted around a grill, and Judge & Jury returns with family drama that has us completely divided. In this episode: ⚖️ The DM that got left on read ⚖️ Dating rules we don’t agree on ⚖️ Why Emily should never be in charge of dinner ⚖️ Amy’s latest horse obsession ⚖️ Family situ...

Court is in session for Episode 23, and this one has everything: Amy’s horse-girl era, barrel camp with 12-year-olds, Zach’s home renovation and septic drama, Yellowstone with kids, Taylor Swift debates, and one very important Instagram message request from 2021. Amy finds an old DM from a guy she now wants to go out with and sends a reply live on the podcast. Then we get into true crime rabbit ho...

Everyone has thoughts they're not supposed to say out loud. This week Amy and Zach discuss dating, intrusive thoughts, social situations, family dynamics, and the things we secretly judge people for. Some of these opinions probably should have stayed private, but that's never stopped us before.

Amy bought a horse and returned it a week later. In this episode, Amy shares the emotional story behind sending Brazil back, while Zach tries to make sense of the horse world. Then Amy reveals what happened after being put under anesthesia—including the phone calls, the tears, and the comments that Shannon will never let her forget. We also discuss: • Amy's dating update • Her Instagram account be...

Amy and Zach are back with a full chaos recap of Zach’s graduation weekend in Charlottesville. They talk family sleepover madness, Dean and Weston stealing the show at graduation, Amy’s Chanel flip flop injury, Black Cow dinner drama, fishing in designer shoes, and Zach feeling sentimental about leaving Darden. Amy also reveals that she bought a horse, which leads to horse name debates, barn drama...

What do your dreams actually mean? This week on Legally Friends, Zach, Amy, and Emily sit down with world-renowned dream expert Lauri Loewenberg to decode the dreams they cannot stop having. Lauri has spent nearly three decades analyzing dreams and has appeared on The Today Show, Good Morning America, The View, Dr. Oz, CNN, Steve Harvey, and more. She explains why dreams are not random, what recur...

Welcome back to Legally Friends 🎙️This week we brought in dating coach & matchmaker Blaine Anderson to help Amy figure out what’s actually going wrong with her dating life 😭From dating apps and situationships to family pressure, avoidant attachment, dating in Utah, and moving to Dallas… this episode gets VERY honest. We talk about:* Why Amy struggles with dating* The pressure of being single...

This week on  Legally Friends , Amy and Zach sit down with Amy’s dad,  Michael Skalla , for a full family tell-all. Michael shares what it was like growing up in Wyoming and Omaha, how he met Shannon, and how he went from being raised in a house full of boys + 1 sister to raising four daughters. He talks about parenting, faith, family, business, the Skalla sisters’ social media journey, and what h...

This week, Zach and Amy are trying something new: a fully unfiltered episode. They talk upcoming guests, Amy’s fertility hypotheticals, the infamous “Uncle Daddy” conversation, her possible new horse Brazil, a tragic $100 singles event, sister fights, Utah recommendations, Secret Lives drama, and Amy’s attempt to explain her latest book obsession. Then Judge & Jury goes off the rails: a listen...

Scarlett Bentley from Temptation Island Season 2 sits down with us for her first full tell-all. We cover her whole story — from growing up in Arkansas to Below Deck Sailing Yacht to meeting Cole, and everything that went down on the island that viewers didn't get to see. Things we cover: • How Scarlett and Cole actually met (and the state of the relationship before the show) • The small lies t...

Emily’s 5 weeks post-op and spiraling — was the face surgery a mistake, or is it just swelling? This week we get into Emily’s emotional recovery and Easter meltdown, the Great Accutane Debate over ONE zit, renovation budget wars between designer-sister Emily and “cheap as possible” Zach, and Amy shopping for a $15,000 horse. 🐴 One of our most unhinged episodes yet. In this episode: Emily’s post-o...

Josie Van Dyke — host of The Weekly Trash and mama of 3 — sits down with Zach and Amy and gets more honest than we expected. She shares everything: growing up in a "gray area" Mormon household, the Tinder story that led to her husband, the moment that almost ended it all, and how she built Weekly Trash from nothing into 250+ episodes. Plus: $2,000 faucets causing fights in Zach's mar...

Nutrition coach and MacroHabits founder Hannah Pointer joins Zach and Amy for a wide-ranging conversation that goes from Amy's fight with Emily about taking niece Capri to the dermatologist for a single zit, to Hannah's deeply honest take on reverse dieting, GLP-1s, cheat days, and why most women are unknowingly sabotaging their results by eating too little. Plus: creepy Reddit stalkers tr...

Emily is back from CO2 laser surgery looking like Frankenstein — and Zach's classmates won't stop asking him about it. Amy went barrel racing in Colorado and actually competed. Zach found a house in Dallas. And then we try a brand new segment: Most Likely To — In-Law Edition. Things we cover: • Emily's surgery recovery — bloody tears, drains, and why people are judging her • Amy's...

Megan Hunsaker — Zach's wife, podcast manager, and the best guest we'll ever have — finally takes a seat at the table. She reveals her secret audition for a reality TV show, her jaw-dropping dance resume (Radio City Rockettes at 12, Juilliard scholarship, BYU Cougarettes), and what it's really like being married to Zach. But first, Amy recounts her mortifying moving experience involvin...

Rachel Parcell returns to the courtroom for round two. This week: life updates (Emily's surgery, Hawaii recap, the legendary farting text from Dick Hunsaker), sister and brother-in-law rankings, an RBF showdown, why Rachel will never do reality TV, and the debut of "Exhibit A" — where Rachel defends her cringiest old blog posts. Are we still fighting? Listen to find out. New episodes...

It's just Amy and Zach this week — Emily's off at a very important design meeting that somehow consumed her entire day. Amy steps up to do the intro for the first time, and the nerves are real. First up: Amy's dating world continues to deliver. A listener DM'd her the phone number of a certain Fox News anchor she matched with on Raya (who never wrote back). Should they call it? Zac...

Episode 7 of Legally Friends features special guest Sarajane (SJ) Warner — Utah-based influencer, skincare expert, and content creator with over 110K followers. The crew shares horror stories from dance competition weekend in Vegas, then goes head-to-toe revealing every cosmetic procedure they've each had done — no secrets. SJ breaks down the CO2 laser that got her 29 million views, shares why...

Episode 6 is here! We debrief on the fallout from last week — Zach and Rachel had a three-hour phone call and we're sharing where things landed. Emily shows up with the most swollen lips ever and we get into the full lip filler experience. Then we dive deep into Amy's dating life: Raya, Hinge, a Fox News crush she's calling out by name, and the realities of online dating and safety. We...

The OG has arrived. Rachel Parcell joins Legally Friends for the first time and we're getting INTO it — her take on that NY Mag article, why she stepped away from her clothing brand, and the family picture fight story we've been teasing since episode one. Apologies were made. Grudges were... discussed. Plus we judge a listener who's mad her sister-in-law is getting married on her anniv...

Emily and Amy check in from Hawaii. Shannon's outfit policing, sister rankings, Taylor Frankie Paul pregnancy rumors, Secret Lives of Mormon Wives LA spinoff tea, the garments conversation, Savannah Guthrie's mom, chaotic Super Bowl picks, and Judge & Jury verdicts on your craziest in-law vacation stories. Rachel is coming next week — get ready. 📩 DM us your in-law stories on Instagra...

Episode 3 of Legally Friends is HERE! 🎙️This week, Zach, Emily, and Amy are back with another unfiltered conversation covering everything from chaotic parenting moments at basketball games to the art of a good trash talk session. 💀Hot takes on celebrity fashion, the unspoken rules of ghosting your friends, and an honest look at sibling rivalry and what it really means to show up for family. We ap...

We're back with a new episode diving into the messy, complicated, hilarious world of family relationships — ours and the celebrities who can't seem to figure theirs out either.