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Our resident expert on all things underground metal, Steve Klatt, comes back to debrief our homework. As the former head of the Colorado chapter of the New York Death Militia, he brings unique insight that helps him answer all our many (many!) questions. But first, we check in on how we’re *really* doing. Then, at 10:55 we talk about our homework. The Homework:  -Patti rocked out at a Havok s...

Content Warning: mention of sexual assault, references to violent images and band names Our guest, Steve Klatt, takes us deep into the world of Underground Metal, including metal clubs, ALL the sub genres, the high school drama of metalheads, and more. We kick things off with a check-in and learn more about Steve.  At 10:00 we get into Steve’s interest, underground metal--defined as metal mus...

Marissa Joy Leotaud, of Can We Interest You In Erotica? fame, returns to tell us about her dramatic, fun, and sexy debut novel, A Family Affair. She tells us about how the novel started with a teenage pregnancy, how it was nurtured through writing classes and The Book Project, through The Lighthouse Writing Center in Denver, and how it all came together. We hear about developments in Marissa’s lif...

In this episode, Charlotte and Patti debrief the homework given to them by Laura Hartley, founder of the Scintilla Centre, coach for changemakers, and all around brilliant thinker. First, we jump into our check-ins, and get updates on Charlotte’s journey to find an agent for her novel. Then, the question: would you want to know when and how you were going to die? Patti tells us about pool time wit...

Our guest is Laura Hartley, founder of the Scintilla Centre, which offers classes, salons, and coaching for changemakers. She absolutely blows our minds with her interest—the ways we live out the stories of our cultural systems (even those we don’t align with or agree with). These include systems like capitalism and patriarchy, and stories about urgency and scarcity. She says we often forget our o...

In the follow-up to our episode about money-saving hacks and nesting with Becca Russo we get into the nitty gritty of how to save money, how to nest, and how to save money while nesting! Patti and Charlotte start with a check-in. Check-in topics include: A deep dive into naps. Charlotte’s half-marathon training tips (they involve donuts and the Nike Run Club App) Patti’s progress on her 2026 goal...

This week we welcome Becca Russo, Patti’s longtime family friend, to the show to talk about not one, but TWO of her interests—money-saving hacks and nesting (which go together quite well, honestly). We start with a check-in and learn that Charlotte continues to set increasingly lofty running goals, based mainly on the snacks and the merch provided at those races. We hear about Becca’s wild schedul...

Patti and Charlotte debrief on the wonderfully thoughtful watercolor painting assignment that Jaime Lynn Henderson gave them in the previous episode. This episode begins with an extended catch-up, during which Charlotte tells us about the Halloween she dressed as Gary Oldman’s character from the Apple TV show, Slow Horses (a show Charlotte plugs every chance she gets). We dissect our tolerance for...

In this episode, Jaime Lynn Henderson tells us about the interest she has nurtured since childhood—drawing and painting. We learn how she went from being a child doodler and mega-fan of Bob Ross to reality tv contestant to having her first solo gallery show just last month. We start the show with a check-in, during which we hear about how everybody is *really* doing. At the 8:22 mark we dig into p...

CONTENT WARNING: We discuss the conditions and treatment of dogs in breeding situations and puppy mills.  Dog rescuer extraordinaire Stefanie Klatt returns to the show to grade us on our homework. Ok, there’s no grading involved, but she does teach us about the legislative and systemic factors impacting animal rescue. But first, we talk about the Puppy Bowl! We are super excited that they inc...

For the past thirteen years, Stefanie Klatt has been all about dog rescue. She’s driven up and down the state of Colorado to transport dogs, read Shakespeare aloud to a foster, and spent her weekends at adoption events. She tells us how she went from fostering her first dog, Libby, to being on the board of My Fairy Dawg Mother. We learn about the intensity and emotional toll that this work can hav...

In an homage to the DIY, lo-fi sound of Guided By Voices, we kick things off right in the middle of our pre-intro chitchat, say our hellos later on, and at 13:07, get to the main course—the indie rock band, GBV (as everyone in the GBV chat calls them). Along the way, our vocal range is huge, in spite of two out of three of us having lost our voices (ironic?) earlier this winter. We talk about: The...

In our first episode of 2026, we’re joined by Brian Seemann to talk about Guided By Voices, the indie rock band he discovered as a teenager and has followed for decades. We start the episode by catching up on how we’re *really* doing and, as it turns out, this involves sports mascots, happy worms, and the world’s little known need for more hype people. Then we talk Friendsgiving, because we r...

It's the end of 2025! Charlotte and Patti recap the past year of the podcast (a retrospective, if you will). We talk about what we learned about ourselves one year into starting a podcast as friends and podcasting amateurs. We each give our top picks for the following categories: Most memorable episode Most surprising episode Interest that challenged us the most Interest we adopted into our own li...

Javier Delgado joins us for the follow-up to our episode on celebrity gossip. We do a check-in, on how we’re *really* feeling. Then (at the 6:23 mark), we talk about our homework, which was to look at a ton of celebrity gossip (of course), and imagine how a publicist would spin it a few decades ago. We go waaay beyond the scope of the homework and cover a wide range of celebrity gossip-related top...

In this episode, we get the inside scoop on celebrity gossip from Javier Delgado, former social media content creator to the stars, as well as longtime celebrity gossip connoisseur. He tells us about his love of entertainment news, and how it’s evolved over the years. We start the episode with some catchup, including learning how Javier and Patti know each other, and about the film Patti and frien...

We start the episode with Charlotte and Patti's first catchup in a while. Patti tells us about the new role she accidentally volunteered for. Charlotte tells us the lengths she’ll go for free eggnog. Our follow-up to the grassroots marketing episode begins at 14:30. We talk about our interview with Alaina Shearer, podcast host, brand strategist, founder of the agency, Good Now, and former Congress...

Brand strategist, podcast host, and former Congressional candidate, Alaina Shearer joins us to talk about her interests - grassroots marketing/branding and messaging with a purpose. She tells us about her passion for helping small and medium sized businesses grow, with the goal of freeing people from their corporate jobs. She teaches us about DIY branding (which you can do even as an individual to...

Our follow up to the Murder She Wrote episode begins with a mystery in the library that we can’t solve, but Jessica Fletcher surely could. Molly Cohn joins us again to debrief about our homework—Patti made herself a MSW bingo board, and Charlotte and Molly played the MSW drinking game.  We run the gamut of topics in this episode, from Jessica’s sweaters and Angela Lansbury’s delicious pettine...

September’s here, which means it’s time to get cozy! Break out your classiest brooch and join us as Molly Cohn interests us in the ‘80s/‘90s tv show, Murder She Wrote. We talk about the enduring appeal of the show that put cozy murder on the map, and, of course, its writer/detective heroine, Jessica Fletcher, aka JB Fletcher, aka Angela Lansbury, aka BABE. We learn about: The high fashion and...

We’re back, wearing new and still fabulous protest shirts, to talk about our protest homework. We talk about the various ways we’ve been protesting and what we’ve seen other people doing. Patti has been photographing the forms of protest she sees out and about in St. Louis. She’s also signed up with her local Indivisible group and helping out another local org that supports immigrants. We talk abo...

Let's get into some good trouble!! Charlotte and her friend Margot Holmes show up to record at the library dressed for the occasion to talk about...Protest. How timely, but when isn't it, really? After working with a population of "troubled" teens in a residential setting, Margot learned about the systemic racism at play at the policy and organizational level in her grad school experiences. S...

Grab your ironing and turn on this podcast! Ivy Koelliker is back and we dig right into the results of our homework. We are quickly reminded that this personal style thing is a journey. Charlotte typed the words "fashion clothes" into her browser as a starting point and found that the Instagram Explore section was serving up only dogs. Both Patti and Charlotte downloaded the Indyx App. Ivy shares...

Charlotte's childhood friend Ivy Koelliker joins us on this episode to interest us in finding our personal style. All the fun, none of the baggage/shame! A generational shared love of fashion (Hermes scarves and pirate shirts) and the move to a smaller closet started Ivy on the journey to research more about finding her personal style. She shares with us some tools and resources that have hel...

Erin Boreo is back! Charlotte and Patti report on their Internal Family Systems (IFS) homework--reading and listening to Richard Schwartz's book, No Bad Parts , and listened to episodes of the podcasts The One Inside: An Internal Family System Podcast and Purely IFS . We discuss how our parts showed up in different ways in the homework, in our lives, and even our art! How does the popularity and l...