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Love is a Softball Field

Annie Krabbenschmidt, Maddie Rosswww.loveisasoftballfield.com
Maddie and Annie are 20-something high school meat-hearts (this is a term we made up for platonic best friends whose relationship blossomed while sharing ham and cheese sandwiches, cheeseburgers and other meats). In a cruel twist of fate, they now reside in Los Angeles and New York respectively, with no choice but to catch up for one hour every week and broadcast it to the general public. Annie is a former comedy writer turned Masters of Public Policy student turned begrudging comedy writer, while Maddie is a musician turned poor person. Oh, and they're both gay gay gay. Check in with us weekly as we catch up about Annie's romantic solitude and Maddie's stable and fulfilling relationship.

Episodes

3.5 Portrait of a Young Woman (Ann)

“…she’s a writer, and she’s so fucking annoying … she’s constantly being like ‘wah I have writer’s block, oh my gosh I have a paid to-do, I’m just going to go out instead'‘… that’s definitely something to make sure not to be…basically this girl is just really annoying, she’s just constantly talking about how she’s a writer, and constantly talking how hard writing is.” This is our first caption by Maddie and also a direct quote from this episode.

Jan 29, 20191 hr 1 minEp 5Transcript available on Metacast

3.4 Let a Little Air in

Sometimes, after spending what feels like an eternity contorting yourself into uncomfortable positions and poses, it’s important to find a way to let a little air in, and then slowly let it out. Let us listen for the collective out breath. I am of course talking about the important psychological work it takes to reflect on the internalized homophobia that can continue to exist in our lives long after we come out. What did you think I was talking about? This is queer content, Q-U-E-E… (read more)...

Jan 22, 20191 hrEp 4Transcript available on Metacast

3.3 No One Gets Lucky

Because Lucky is dead and he couldn’t see it coming. Meanwhile, Annie’s love life is still tbd. Maddie needs some convincing to get back in therapy, but I’d like to make the case that paying eleven dollars for an eight ounce cup of matcha is a sign of psychosis. In her own fit of nervousness, Annie is up all night to get some new insight into her anxiety, much to Scheckel’s chagrin. It’s Annie’s first week back in her new hometown, New York, and it’s Maddie’s last week of freedom. or so she thou...

Jan 15, 20191 hr 3 minEp 3Transcript available on Metacast

3.2 The Sly, Slippery Slurper

This is the story of the sly slippery slurper, who one Sunday silently slurped her soda while staring sullenly at her - and I’m done with this ruse. Maddie really loves to slurp her coke, but she’s willing to try a different way in the company of good friends. On this episode we talk about Maddie’s upcoming album and Annie’s new life as a fully self-aware writer. Neither one of them is getting paid for their art, but that doesn’t mean we can’t spend money on a good cactus slapping every once in ...

Jan 08, 20191 hr 3 minEp 2Transcript available on Metacast

3.1 Pod Together, Pee Separately

Well, friends, we’re back. 2018 went by in the blink of no podcasts, but we’re here with completely new lives and the same old girlfriends. With a newfound dedication to our regularly scheduled programming, Maddie and Annie are going to be updating you on their lives, which are more exciting than ever. Here’s something new: this episode is live in the flesh, and it turns out Annie can’t handle the intimacy of direct eye contact. Get the low down on Maddie Ross’ US tour (around the entire country...

Jan 01, 20191 hr 1 minEp 1Transcript available on Metacast

CROSSOVER EPISODE - LSF + Everybody's Braindead

HELLO LSF family!!!! Maddie here. How I've missed you! I'm incredibly excited to announce my new podcast, Everybody's Braindead. I love love love talking to Annie every single week, and we will definitely be doing more podding in the future, but I also wanted to share with you some of the cool conversations I have with people I've met here in LA. I try to interview the least braindead ones I can find. It would mean so much to me if you checked out my new podcast, and as an added incentive, my ve...

Jan 23, 2018Transcript available on Metacast

2.6 Whose Booger is This?

Sounds sophomoric, I know, but anything would be funnier than Annie's stand-up set this weekend. Maddie urges Annie to keep the artistic dream alive, even as Maddie, herself, allows her dream for a lucrative plant-sitting career to wilt and die. If this episode went a little over time, it's because Maddie has been living alone for the longest period of time in her entire life and Siri just doesn't quite understand her.

Jul 11, 20171 hr 3 minEp 6Transcript available on Metacast

2.5 Underneath Your Cast, There's an Endless Story

woven complexly from fine virgin leg hair. Bear witness to the emotional process of losing one's leg cast. In another part of the world, Maddie celebrates love with other people who are also in love and it's just so great that everyone has love. I love it.

Jun 28, 201758 minEp 5Transcript available on Metacast

2.4 This Girl is on Fire

Maddie has an awakening as a performer while Annie crashes and burns. Either way it's hot hot hot!

Jun 13, 20171 hrEp 4Transcript available on Metacast

2.3 What's Long and Vibrates?

A group breath at the end of Shavasana of course! There's nothing explicit about these Oms folks! Maddie's encounter with a Facebook misogynist troll, on the other hand, is pretty f***ed up.

Jun 06, 20171 hr 5 minEp 3Transcript available on Metacast

2.2 Toto, I don't think we're in Cannes anymore

Maddie wakes up from a hot summer nap seeing rainbows, munchkins, and her dear Auntie Ann filling out magazine subscriptions left and right. Meanwhile, back in Topeka, Annie explores amateur film making as a sure sign of her impending quarter life crisis.

May 22, 20171 hr 3 minEp 2Transcript available on Metacast

2.1 If it ain't Broke...

Then you must not be talking about Annie or Maddie. Welcome back listeners! We're glad you're here because we really need someone to listen to us. Maddie talks the highs and lows of being a Billboard artist. Karma claps back at Annie for that time she overdramatized a toenail injury. A toenail for god's sake.

May 15, 20171 hr 2 minEp 1Transcript available on Metacast

1.15 I'm Here to Unclog Your Pipes

If you assumed this title was a reference to Annie's lasting struggle with her international travel parasite, well, you'd be an attentive listener, but you'd be wrong. We learned more than we thought we would about porn this week. There's an award show and everything!

Mar 28, 20171 hr 1 minEp 15Transcript available on Metacast

1.14 We Made a Lot of Asses

***Please note, that if you previously downloaded an episode 14, it might have had the wrong audio track, this duplicate is just for those that have automatic downloading turned on and might not have gotten the update*** You know what they say about assumptions. Listen as Maddie and Annie manage to offend basically every single person in America this week. Then we do the important work of calling ourselves out. Hopefully we'll manage to crawl out from under this rocks for next week's episode.

Mar 21, 201752 minEp 14Transcript available on Metacast

1.13 Sista, Sista, Friend

Annie gains a window into the tender relationship between two sisters. We put Maddie's past traumas on the table and cut it open with a razor-edged scalpel. We talk about Mackie's wedding, Maddie's hypothetical wedding, and the dark hole in Annie's life where love used to live.

Mar 13, 20171 hr 9 minEp 13Transcript available on Metacast

1.12 Podcast Killed the Video Star

If you’ve felt betrayed by our constant plugging of various products, you’re going to feel damn right stabbed in the back when you realize this whole season has been long-form marketing scheme for our personal brands. Maddie releases her new single, “You’re Still My Sugar,” sponsored by LSF, which is still sponsored by the one and only Passion Planner. Phew thank god we can stop pretending to be podcasters or gay or even friends!

Mar 08, 201755 minEp 12Transcript available on Metacast

1.11 Negative Feedback Loop

In times like this we remember a quintessential Mean Girls quote: "I don't hate you because you're fat; you're fat because I hate you." This podcast may have 600 followers now (based on unsophisticated data analysis), but Annie's convinced that no one likes her. Maddie makes Annie read aloud some really sad text messages about her cripplingly low self-esteem. Somehow we still find a way to laugh about it as we talk emotional breakdowns and Maddie provides the secret to emotional stability. You d...

Feb 27, 201756 minEp 11Transcript available on Metacast

1.10 - Crunch, Crunch, Gay Night Clubs, Crunch, Crunch

Annie makes her first endorsement of the season: Frosted Mini Wheats. As a result, Annie spends the first 10 minutes of this episode crunching away in blissful ignorance while Maddie talks only to herself. When Annie rejoins the buzzing din of reality, Maddie questions her about her appropriate use of local gay bars.

Feb 20, 201748 minEp 10Transcript available on Metacast

1.9 Matcha-do About Nothing

Get more information than you knew you needed about matcha. When Maddie and Annie aren't proselytizing the good word about earthy beverages, they talk how classrooms might contribute to a heteronormative mindset. Don't worry, next week we get back to what's really important here: more matcha.

Feb 13, 201756 minEp 9Transcript available on Metacast

1.8 Annie's Mom

Fountains of Wayne gets a tasteful redux. Dawn makes a power grab for funniest woman on this podcast. This week we laugh at her hilarious use of stereotypes, next week we lie down on Freud's couch with cigarette smoke filling the room and talk about how our parents put us in a box.

Feb 06, 20171 hr 1 minEp 8Transcript available on Metacast

1.7 Let's Get Political, Political

Squeeze those buns, stretch those lungs and let's march! Maddie and Annie debrief Trump's first week in an incredibly long reflection of both the horrors and the hopes of this moment in history. If politics ain't your thing, or in this context, if basic human dignity ain't your thing, we've tacked on an extra 20 minutes at the end of this episode to lighten the mood.

Jan 30, 20171 hrEp 7Transcript available on Metacast

1.6 You Might Catch it

Gay people, they're not so different from you and I. OR ARE THEY? Maddie and Annie begin by discussing the clearly defined genetic differences between straights and gays. But not, like, not really. Well, just listen to find out.

Jan 25, 201736 minEp 6Transcript available on Metacast

1.5 He Ain't Heavy, He's my Fake Boyfriend

...but yes this episode, she is a little heavy. Maddie and Annie come down from last week's holiday highs and talk internalized homophobia. Even though we love loving who we love, it's still important to talk about the long, long road with many winding roads that brought us here. I wonder how Neil Diamond feels about the gays?

Jan 25, 201744 minEp 5Transcript available on Metacast

1.4 Resolutionary

The fiery orange sun rises iridescent in the east ... oh sorry that's Donald Trump's big stupid head ascending to the highest office in the land. Maddie and Annie danced goodbye to 2016 and talk resolutions this morning, though at a more delicate, hangover appropriate volume.

Jan 23, 201747 minEp 4Transcript available on Metacast

1.3 The End of the World. I Mean Year.

It's the last day of 2016 and Maddie is trying to get Annie to be an adult and make some future plans. Watch as Annie, defensive and pugnacious, resolves herself to stubbornly resist preparations for 2017. These two love birds discuss the year in review.

Jan 22, 201739 minEp 3Transcript available on Metacast

1.2 Merry Gay Christmas

We return our gaze to the young gays opening gifts with great cheer. Catch up with us as Maddie gives a 2-10 minute presentation of the virtues of "Beyond Yoga," "Hydroflask," and. of course, "Passion Planner," our unofficial sponsor.

Jan 22, 201736 minEp 2Transcript available on Metacast

1.1 Maddie and Annie Meat Again

Meet the captains at the helm of this friendship. Maddie and Annie are two friends who live on opposite coasts. Friends from high school, it was a pleasantly convenient surprise when Annie and Maddie both came out to each other on the same night. No tears, no tension and a whole lot of Tandoori chicken. After a sweet cocooning period during which Maddie and Annie became confident and badass gay females, they are now ready to share with the world the trials and tribulations of gaity. Tune in ever...

Jan 13, 201735 minEp 1Transcript available on Metacast