This Show Has Everything

Get off the phone, we’re logging on! Bobby, Hillary and Meredith go back in time to their early online experiences, inbound faxes be damned. Bobby recounts meeting an old online friend (long before this batch of internet friends), Hillary tells the tale of her alleged brush with fame, and Meredith wept, seeing as she had no more foreign language chats to conquer. Plus: Times you paid the dumdum ta...

We are strong. We are invincible. But sometimes we’re real dum-dums.  I’m Hillary Livingston Butler and this show has everything!  this week we’re discussing times when maybe all of our brain power melted away and we made some extremely dumb mistakes that cost us some serious dinero. Stupid outlets, expensive vacuum cleaners, littering - we’ve paid for them all! Or in the words of Ann, we were cha...

It’s the last (for now) episode in our travel series, and we still need to talk about what makes the experience work just a little more smoothly for us. Accordingly, Ann, Bobby, and Meredith are taking the Subaru, hanging up a garbage quiver, and delving into a whole bunch of travel tips, large and small, including all the gems you submitted. In between the National Emerald Club aisle and the lobb...

Though it’s a dying art, today’s TSHE crew are acting as your personal travel agents and giving you our top destinations. From the overwater huts of the Maldives, to, surprisingly, the state parks of Ohio, we talk about places we’ve loved and places we aspire to journey. In fact, we list so many locations, we had to skip our personal travel tips (though we know Bobby just wants to go to the Delta...

This week, it’s time for a childhood slumber party special as we watch and riff along to “The Ultimate Love/Skate Relationship,” 1992’s The Cutting Edge starring Moira Kelly, D.B. Sweeney, and an Olympic-sized stadium of cinema tropes. Get it loaded up on Amazon Prime and press play on our mark to watch along with us, or if you’re Hillary, just listen along without watching. Either way, use of spa...

Welcome to an Oops! All Small Talk episode of This Show Has Everything in which we chronicle all the shenanigans we got into over these past two weeks. We are back in our homes physically but have a lot of emotions and events to unpack! Some topics include: flat tires, beautiful weddings, funerals, COVID, Torchy’s, broken ACs, cars that won’t start, creepy hotels, pimiento cheese, veteran podcaste...

We’re still scrambling to get home from weddings, memorials, and everything in-between, so the Council of Lady Scientists have again convened ( that’s the word!) to bring you a TSHE Classic Episode. Meredith and Ann managed to re-traumatize themselves by re-listening to money pit woes and shook their heads at our mid-pandemic innocence as we discussed how we managed to hold things together for SIX...

Your TSHE hosts are off jetting around the country, but before they left, the Council of Lady Scientists of TSHE (CoLSoTSHE) convened to dig through our archives and find a “best-of” episode for your listening pleasure. We couldn’t resist a quick sidebar to ponder the proper unit of bulk cheese, as well as raise the Grease 2 watch-along from the dead, but we were mostly just delighted at how enthu...

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 absolutely positively isn’t about lube. This description would have been longer, but we’re in a hurry to go watch The Cutting Edge on LaserDisc.

Have you ever wanted to spend the summer doing charades, trying on wigs, learning the pachanga, and sneaking off to perform at the Sheldrake?  Well do we have the show for you! Our dear pal Jeremy has broken the shackles of his evangelical youth and finally watched the 1987 classic Dirty Dancing. We get into no dancing pledges, watermelon shapes, the dark realities of abortion bans, homeschool rol...

It’s no secret that here at TSHE we looooove to talk about food, and this episode is no different. Accordingly, we’re riding a river of oil to the Webster Firemen’s Carnival to check in on the good, the bad, and the ugly of fair food (Renaissance “Faires” may or may not be included). Whether it’s cased meat, fried dough, a quasi-vegetable, or the abomination that is “Australian Battered Potatoes,”...

The full TSHE Family is together again to explore the range of possibilities caused, maybe, by birth order. Are eldest kids always the responsible ones? Are only children always independent? Are middle children always the mediators? How long does the youngest child get carried to the breakfast table? And most of all—is there any actual science behind any of this?  Plus: Critter Corner, the uncanny...

It’s hot (at least in Texas), the days are long, but your favorite entertainment reporters are back to guide you on the pop culture things we’re stoked about this summer. Music, movies, TV, books, podcasts - we cover it all! Grab your popcorn, and diet coke and let’s go!   In small talk, Hillary saw Phil!! Live and in person!! Christy went on an epic road trip and got a little wild. We also discus...

As children of the 80s and 90’s, the TSHE hosts have all spent our fair share of time in front of the television (even those of us whose parents were determined to limit our screen time). To celebrate all those useless tv hours, Hillary, Meredith, and Ann have gathered to unearth our inner Vannas and discuss game shows – those we loved as children, watched as adults, or want to check out in the fu...

#139: TSHE Classic: Nirvana in a Passat (TYFYS, Mike) It’s Memorial Day Weekend, and we couldn’t think of a better way to follow up Car Talk and to remember our favorite Veteran Podcaster than to crack open the TSHE Vault to replay this road trip recap Instant Classic. Because what’s a more fitting tribute to Mike Frizzell’s long tenure as a co-founder and co-host on this show than our doing as li...

It’s another TSHE road show as we pile into the Toyota Tercel to smoke cigarettes and listen to Nine Inch Nails (because we’re cool that way). Bobby, Hillary, and Ann are talking cars – ones we drove, ones we owned, and ones we’d someday like to own. Along our journey through the tangent-filled conversational backroads, we cover how your driver’s license equals freedom, the anxiety of driving a st...

What do you get when you mix some Basic Instinct with a dash of Hand that Rocks the Cradle ? Are men named Jeremy worth risking it all? Should we start antagonistic journaling? We have a lot of questions, and that means it’s time for another installment of the TSHE book club! This time we’re diving into the dark and twisted world of Verity by Colleen Hoover (aka CoHo). We have some THOUGHTS on thi...

From checkout aisle impulse buys to keeping airline miles alive, magazines continue to be a surprisingly relevant part of our lives. This week, Hillary, Meredith and Bobby break down our favorites from when we were kids, as well as what we read today, and what we’d do if we started our own publication today—only about 30 years late for the last true zine craze. Plus: Hillary’s trip to a school spa...

Have you ever been completely psyched for something only to find out it wasn’t what you were expecting? Yeah, we’ve all been there, so Ann, Hillary, and Meredith are sorting through some of the disappointing realities we’ve faced. Exciting new jobs, skin products, beach fantasies, boomer cuisine, and psilocybins are among the things that turned out to be a bummer for us. Along the way we veer into...

We’ve got a Skerrit, we’ve got a Strathairn, and we’ve got many, many rivers. We’re heading into our official podcast time zone, driving the Sienna into the Mountain West to ponder some movies about the beautiful Big Sky Country. Wyoming, Montana, Idaho - here we come! From the heartbreaking to the silly, we discuss different types of masculinity, the beauty and confusion of flyfishing, Tri-Delts...

The last few years have felt like the universe might be testing us (spoiler alert: we’re failing), so we’ve decided it’s high time we had a heart-to-heart about religion. President Priest Bobby, clandestine soap-pumper Meredith, and whale digestion-questioner Ann are talking about our experiences with the Methodist/Episcopalian/Lutheran churches, as well as some of our family Easter traditions. Pl...

The ladies are stepping back in the kitchen for another edition of Baking with Ann (™)! This time we’re attempting to make Angel Food Cake. Fussy but not hard (so many bowls!), listen as we fumble our way through to a delicious dessert! Cat tested, kid approved! In small talk, we come down to our final match-up in the TSHE Munchie Madness. Which part of a nutritious breakfast will triumph?! Also,...

Look out all you keto people, because this week Bobby, Hillary, Ann and Christy announce the March Munchie Madness Cereal Fantabulous Four™ and break down their top appetizers in a true carbucopia of comfort foods. Bobby brings a review of a chocolate-and-peanut butter seasonal breakfast treat, Hillary recalls a youth spent peeling fried okra,  Ann is disappointed by motorbiscuit.com , and Christy...

Hoo boy, were we in a mood for some juvenile innuendo during this recording! In between double entendres and the resulting gales of laughter, we’re talking about our weird spending decisions. From clothes to chocolate, batteries to bedding, here are the things about which we are either strangely cheap or strangely extravagant (the point is that we’re strange). Hillary’s firing off her dollar bill...

It’s March and we're all wondering who the Cinderella story will be. Saint Peter’s crushes Kentucky? Richmond beats Iowa? Actually we’re more interested in Grape Nuts v Chex!  That’s right - it’s TSHE Munchie Madness (or whatever we consistently call it)! You can keep your John Caliparis and Coach Ks. We’re talking vampires and leprechauns here! In a largely small talk heavy show, we discuss Hilla...