This Show Has Everything

Alternate title: The Turtleneck Saved My Life Hillary, Christy, Ann and Bobby take a trip back in time to middle school in an emotional rollercoaster of an episode that might as well be sponsored by Clearasil®. Get prepared to be properly de-jacked. TSHE Recommends Blindspotting Only Murderers in the Building Connect with the show! This is your show, too. Feel free to drop us a line, send us a voi...

The bin of show topics has gotten full, so we’re taking the time to blitz through a few ideas we had that didn’t pan out into full episodes. Included in the discussion: restaurant trauma bonding, Hanks Ranks, thoughts on soup, hygiene habits, and an inexplicable conversation about people named Dirk. Plus, trying not to be a flaky husk, wide feet, and strategies for coping with flying anxiety. It’s...

The obstacles are out of our way and your TSHE hosts are back to their scheduled programming! This week we discuss those sliding doors moments in our lives. What decision or happenstance changed the our trajectory? Big or small, we have some inflection points we’d like to ponder. Rewatch of the 1998 classic, Sliding Doors, not required (though it is on an alarming number of streaming services). In...

*Your wonderful hosts were pitched some curveballs this week! We'll be back at you with many new stories to tell next episode. In the meantime, enjoy some laughs as you hear our childhood dreams die.* This week: Our childhood hopes and dreams—at least for our professional lives. Also: Wonky the future Cat-Hulk, a Rise of Gru review, Bobby’s 15 minutes of local news fame, and a voicemail that absol...

The THSE Cinema Roadtrip Spectacular™ makes its penultimate stop in the Pacific Northwest and, as usual, most of our movies are either memories of our youth—or rooted in a desire to be young again. Plus: Hillary is mom of the year, Meredith is a rough-housing aunt, Christy is a bead entrepreneur, Bobby is willing to drive 90 minutes to meet a friend at a Buffalo Wild Wings, Ann is still firmly ant...

Imagine, a podcast featuring the next Tony Robbins and Ed McMahon! And then instead, tune in to join Bobby and Hillary for a dive into the Follow-up File: Recent Missed Episodes Edition. They may be late to the game, but they’ve got something to say!  Plus: Bobby’s skepticism about a local storefront, Hillary’s foreshadowing to a big surprise, salmon slathered in Tacodeli Salsa Doña, and a trip on...

We’ve all got stories about the strangers we’ve lived by, and Ann, Meredith, and Hillary are no exception. In that spirit, we’re recounting tales about neighbors, good and bad (but let’s be real, they’re mostly bad). We discuss unexpected political friction, neighborhood creeps, the importance of locking your doors, neighborly situations we wish we’d handled differently, and some friendly arson. P...

Surprise! It’s an unplanned Small Talk Spectacular. The Coven had too many topics to discuss that could never fit any traditional Medium Talk format. These ladies can’t be contained! Star Wars burlesque, dude on Wookie action, Final Fantasy symphonies, parasailing, Ninja Turtle litmus tests, canned fish, America’s failing transportation system, fear of fireworks, and that doesn't come close to cov...

Whether it’s a class presentation, a musical performance, or a speech of some kind, we’ve all experienced the sweaty-palm, butterfly-stomach, heart-racing anxiety of performing in public. The TSHE crew is no exception, so we’re dredging up some of our most memorable successes and failures when it comes to public expression. Concert solo flops? Misinterpretations of class assignments? Demonstration...

Please enjoy this TSHE Instant Classic from October 2020 while we recover from an array of work and nonsense this week. Also: If you happen to be attending the TBTL 4000th Episode , let us know!  Episode #55: Cracker Talk… Yes, Really : Is anybody feeling hungry? If you aren’t now, we guarantee you will be once you’ve listened to this show. Meredith, Ann, Bobby, and Hillary are slicing up some che...

Technology is changing with head-spinning speed these days; it’s inevitable that Skynet will eventually take over society, so we’d better be ready when it happens. Accordingly, Christy, Hillary, and Ann, along with guest host and AI-realist Jeremy, are talking about the things we’d love to offload onto not-quite sentient beings when we get the chance. Some of our choices are expected (various chor...

We love our medium talk, but sometimes we just want to discuss the small (and sometimes very small in Bobby's case) stuff in our lives. That’s right, it’s an Oops, All Small Talk/Small Talk Spectacular Edition of the show! Our topics and tangents include: meatballs, grape prices, produce stability, Hayden Christensen’s career trajectory, British genetics, kidney stones, Cleveland!, rose bushes, ha...

Bobby, Ann and Hillary have packed the folding tables, the camp chairs, the lawn blankets and, of course, their appetites for a special summer kickoff potluck! What are we bringing to the buffet table? What do we avoid in the game of salmonella roulette? And who’s going to remember the ice? Plus: Bobby tries snacks so you don’t have to. Hillary’s dealing with a case of turgid ankles. And Ann’s sav...

Listen, life can be long, and happiness isn’t a constant state of being, so you’ve gotta do what you can to spark joy. In that spirit, we’re talking about the little things that we relish on a day-to-day basis. Whether it’s using water to “blast away the depression,” indulging in perhaps slightly obsessive kitchen organization, “Go Bills”-ing our way around the world, or savoring the 8:05, we’ve a...

Life is kicking your TSHE hosts in the (figurative) teeth this week, so we’ve opened the TSHE Vault ™ to bring you this classic episode from May, 2020 where our resident moms, Christy and Hillary, were joined by special guest moms Phyllis, Colleen, and Missy to cover a variety of motherhood-centric topics including COVID parenting, mom guilt, and the fascinating/horrifying world of mommy bloggers....

This is the true story…of three strangers…picked to live in a few houses…work together…and have their lives taped…to find out what happens…when people stop being polite…and start getting real: TSHE. In the first of what will surely be a multi-part series, Hillary, Christy, and Jeremy talk reality shows - the good, the bad, the ugly, and the importance of paying writers a fair wage.  In other news,...

We’re taking the Sienna to the windy streets of the Bay Area this week! That’s right, our TSHE Cinema Road Trip Spectacular (™) travels up the 101 and parks it in NorCal! Things are about to get hella weird. From the freewheeling lifestyle of Maude to the baseball statistics of Billy Bean,  we consider a variety of movies mostly centered on the Bay Area. Some important questions include: Is Ted Cr...

The TSHE crew spent last week’s show dwelling on all the ways our imposter syndrome manifests, and so that you don’t think we’re all relentless self-criticism all the time, we’ve decided to take this week to share how much we freaking rock. Listen, it’s a shorter conversation, but still a good one. From event planning to leadership skills, social engineering to keeping all sorts of things alive an...

We’re experienced scientists, we’re seasoned bakers, we’re veteran moms, but in certain circumstances, we feel like we have no idea what the hell we’re doing! Today your hosts are diving into their psyches to figure out why we still sometimes feel like imposters.   In small talk, Hillary and Meredith both navigate the complicated waters of the medical world.  Spoiler alert - we survived and Ann ga...

Most of us have to work to live, but that doesn’t mean we have to live to work. So what about when we’re done working? (Will we ever be done working?) This week, where do you get off? From the daily grind, that is. Not financial planning (more like social insecurity, amirite?), but rather, where we see ourselves when the time for retirement comes. (If it comes.) Everything from hobbit houses and S...

While it’s true that this show has everything, we’re especially fond of talking about food. The problem that plagues us, however, is less about eating, and more about the extensive, never-ending process of planning said food. In that vein, Bobby, Ann, and Meredith are talking about food planning and prep. Are we a snack house or an ingredient house? Do we prefer big batch or single meal cooking? D...

Today your lady hosts are acting like they just got a new issue of Cosmo and are taking some quizzes! We found the most scientifically accurate tests to measure our competitiveness , our sibling rivalry-ness , our dirty minds , and, obviously, what celebrity men we’d like to take on a desert island !  Very revealing stuff! In other news and tangents, Hillary is struggling with her age (again), Ann...

It’s a TSHE Up All Night™ Special as Bobby, Ann, Meredith and Hillary dive into some pillow (and other bedding) talk. What helps us sleep? What keeps us up? Who needs a throne of throws, and who’s body-pillow curious?  Plus: Oscars reactions, basement moisture, the Kama Szoozetra, news that Great Wolf Lodge isn’t the great wolf of lodging, and why Ann’s ass should stop hurting in six to eight week...

The gang was busy dealing with life this week, so we opened the TSHE pantry and pulled out a classic episode. Almost exactly a year ago we did a deep dive into the subject of breakfast cereals, and it’s stayed so crunchy in the milk of time (ew) that we decided to have another bowl. Please enjoy past us as we rhapsodize about the cereals of our youth, try to nail down the specifics of a complete,...

Winter is ending, spring is in the air, summer is around the corner. But those are not the seasons we’re talking about today. It’s awards season, baby and your occasional entertainment hosts are back to prognosticate on the Oscars. What should win and what will probably win. Get ready to dominate your office pool!  While awards season is about to wind down, Hillary is preparing to party it up at G...