Well, Here We Are

In 2017, Robyn Rihanna Fenty (aka Rihanna, aka Bad Girl Riri) launched Fenty Beauty with 40 diverse shades of foundation. The launch of Fenty Beauty, and the 40 shades of foundation specifically, are often pointed to by the beauty industry as game changers for diversity/representation in the beauty space. In this episode, Hannah & Suzanne (and their 3-ish things) examine the makeup landscape i...

How do you define a trash movie favorite? Is it a movie so bad it's good? Is it a movie  the world collectively loathes but you have an ironic love of? Or, is it simply a moving starring Nicolas Cage?   Hannah & Suzanne get into all that and share their 3-ish trash movie favorites.   This episode also contains copious references to the podcast "How Did This Get Made" and flirts...

Hannah & Suzanne take advantage of a once in a pandemic opportunity and attend a virtual taping of the Kelly Clarkson Show. Their 3-ish things are a little awkward and probably too long, but so was the amount of clapping they had to do as virtual guests.   If you're listening to this podcast, then you can watch this episode of the Kelly Clarkson Show, which aired on April 29, 2021! Discus...

In the second episode of Most Austentatious!, Hannah & Suzanne dive into the novel which is arguably Jane Austen's most sophisticated and features her most complicated heroine: Emma . Is Suzanne a giant Austen hipster? What is a Frank Churchill and why can Hannah & Suzanne take or leave him? Perhaps most importantly, what is the deal with gruel?   Also, did y'all know the 2020 Em...

Hannah & Suzanne welcome PhD candidate Karen Feagin. Her research specialty is educational language policy and she helps us pull apart the racist turducken of the US education system's policies for students who are English learner classified. Her 3-ish things (*sparkle emojis*) take us through policies and laws at the federal/national level which have had (and continue to have) long-lasti...

Content warning: this episode contains mention/discussion of diet culture, fatphobia, calorie counting, and dieting.   Hannah & Suzanne are two ladies in their 30s and though their hearts often forget this fact, their bodies never do. Sugar hangovers, frozen necks after a bad night of sleep, and general cricks and cracks of joints, all serve as daily reminders. Is this just how things are now?...

Two women, two specialties, one television show. In their first "world's collide" themed episode, Hannah & Suzanne combine their areas of expertise (antiquities trafficking and film/tv studies) to analyze the French Netflix series Lupin . They discuss the invitation the show extends to the audience to suspend all disbelief and whether or not they accepted said invitation. They a...

Taylor Swift (a close, personal friend of Hannah's) is scheduled to release her next album, Fearless: Taylor's Version , on April 9, 2021. But we're not quite ready to say goodbye to her two most recent albums: folklore and evermore .   We get all in our feels and share the 3-ish moments between the two albums that knock us on our emotional butts. And, in the process we spiral even...

What even is provenance? In our first Hansplaining episode, Hannah introduces the concept of provenance and through a list of 3-ish things articulates its relevance for both those within the field of museum studies and those outside of it.  And thanks to a framework created by Daniel Tiger of all people (animals?), we discuss what it means to think about the way museums acquire objects, give you l...

Wonder what it might be like to listen to two women process their feelings of pandemic grief in real time? Well, wonder no-more because that's exactly what Hannah & Suzanne do this episode. (The whole thing has very Nick Miller energy, if that helps at all.)  Together, Hannah & Suzanne process their COVID-19 anniversary reaction by sharing their 3-ish stages of lockdown/pandemic grief...

We're not mad, we're just disappointed. Okay...we're also a little mad. Hannah & Suzanne had high hopes for the new Amy Poehler film "Moxie," but by the time the end credits rolled, they were a little unsatisfied.  They process their complicated feelings about the film (their hopes were so high!) and share the 3-ish reasons they can't quite love it but still sort...

It's been close to a month since Hannah & Suzanne have spent a Sunday watching football and they are in sports withdrawal. They turn to the NBA to comfort them and -- based upon watching only one game and possessing very little knowledge -- consider whether they see a future of love and happiness as fans of the NBA.  Before they make that decision, though, they have some questions. Three...

In advance of Sunday's Golden Globes awards ceremony, Hannah & Suzanne examine the actions of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association - the voting body who nominates and awards the Golden Globes - through the lens of white mediocrity. They suggest 3-ish ways the veneration of white mediocrity is reflected in this year's list of nominees and even go on a little rant about the myth of...

Has a life of lockdown and isolation due to the COVID-19 pandemic found you returning to the comforts of Jane Austen? Well, you're not alone. Hannah & Suzanne begin by discussing the particular comfort Jane Austen and then share 3-ish things in their discussion of the men of "Pride and Prejudice," touching on both the best-written men and those who evoke the strongest feelings....

Hannah and Suzanne share when and why they started to wear makeup and then discuss their approach to makeup in these (wait for it!) UNPRECEDENTED TIMES. This week's 3-ish things contains their best advice as to how to get the most out of your Sephora and/or Ulta shopping experience. Basically, you gotta have a strategy. Why it's Totally Fine to Wear Makeup During a Pandemic by Leah Chern...

Well, here we are: two friends and a podcast. Hannah and Suzanne introduce themselves, their plans for the podcast, and close out the episode with their first list of 3-ish things: a quiz testing their knowledge of one another.  Over These Walls by Hope and Social is licensed under a Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License. Want to give us some dollars? We'll allow it...