this ep we discussed the scam of capitalist corporate america's 40-hr work week, maslow's hierarchy of needs, the masterpiece film 'nomadland', platonic marriages, what we each need to be happy, charles' failure to inherit the family business, retirement goals, and the vital differences between boils, warts, and pimples (spoiler alert this is discussed first so fast forward if you're not interested lol).
Jun 28, 2021•1 hr 50 min•Season 3Ep. 4
back from our 1 month hiatus with return special guest natalie, listen to us discuss everything from how marie's been sleeping without a mattress for weeks, charles' childhood friend named "happy hour", how many blimps there are in the world (spoiler alert: less than you think!), the cinnamon toast crunch shrimp debacle, ratatouille & chill, the queen's cousin-husband, the ease of hunting clams, whether doves and pigeons (aka sky rats) are secretely the same bird, stick n poke tattoos, natal...
Apr 23, 2021•1 hr 9 min•Season 3Ep. 3
this episode we discussed (in detail) the criminally underrated polish nintendo switch game 'astro bears', and not much else, with this month's special guest brice !
Feb 21, 2021•45 min•Season 3Ep. 2
welcome to our first in-person episode in over a year (!!) recorded in marie's first solo apartment, after reuniting for a tiny new year's vacation - featuring marie's gf teresa, who we all now love very much. listen to us discuss everything from the immorality of sea monkeys, our nye resolutions, 2020 highs/lows, hydroponics, our infamous airbnb host chad, the game astro-bears, the hidden dangers of indiannapolis, and naomi's review of princess mononoke, all while teresa sketches our new poster...
Jan 06, 2021•1 hr 30 min•Season 3Ep. 1
enjoy this late thxgiving episode where we discussed a NASA-funded experiment that led to a dolphin and a human falling in love, the monster energy drink satanism conspiracy, demi lovato's turkey scandal, illegal baby names across the world, how much incest is too much incest, and how to be a good houseplant parent.
Dec 01, 2020•1 hr 25 min•Season 2Ep. 13
happy halloween + enjoy this spooky episode (ft. return special guest natalie) where we discussed everything from the plot of the movie franchise 'saw', to our costumes this year, to the importance of cybersecurity (with naomi's spotify getting hacked), to what the wholesome version of onlyfans would be. here's hoping the us doesn't devolve into fascism after this week's election <3
Oct 31, 2020•57 min•Season 2Ep. 12
welcome to our 1 year anniversary episode (ft. return special guest natalie)! we discuss the cubic rule of food identification (is everything just a ravioli?), if paul mccartney's 'wonderful christmastime' is secretely about witchcraft, how moses was probably just high on dmt, the evergreen game of egyptian ratscrew, and also meet both of charles' parents !
Sep 04, 2020•1 hr 16 min
(tw: suicide) this week we had return special guest, 20-yr-old alaskan brice willbanks, give us the scoop on a true-crime mystery (the disappearance of bryce laspisa), and also discussed the invention of bread, the human breast milk industrial complex, pink lemonade's origin story, voicemail etiquette, dark dining, and the tragedy that is google play music shutting down forever.
Aug 21, 2020•1 hr 4 min•Season 2Ep. 10
enjoy this episode after our short june hiatus, featuring a full 10 minute segment on how to make chicken stock from charles + a good old fashioned chat about at what age life becomes complicated, strava as a superior form of social media, the universal childrens' game of pretending one is an orphan master, acacia trees being the common denominator raw material between animal sims & minecraft, our opinions on home-ownership, and what each of our plans would be in case of a zombie apocalypse....
Jul 16, 2020•1 hr 7 min•Season 2Ep. 9
enjoy this smorgasbord of an episode where we talked to Natalie (our fellow American, aspiring stand-up-comedian, friend who just graduated from the University of Hawaii) for the 1st time since saying goodbye in wellington, and discussed everything from the reason why she's sworn off all social media to charles' new fashion goal of bringing the bowl-cut back to unwarranted arranged marriage nightmares to analyzing katy perry’s ‘hot n cold’ music video to how you can be charged with the death pen...
May 29, 2020•1 hr 9 min•Season 2Ep. 8
this week we had a very special guest, our friend and #1 listener Billy (a geology student from Meltham, England)! we discussed at length his gypsy heritage (and how the "Big Fat Gypsy Weddings" series disproportionately represented land gypsies over water gypsies), the wild dreams Charles and Billy have both had about Joe Rogan, our favorite characters from Tiger King, and each of our best examples of onomatopoeia. ~recorded remotely from dallas TX, indianapolis IN, buffalo NY, & wellington...
Apr 25, 2020•1 hr 12 min•Season 2Ep. 7
this week we discussed what foods we have the worst memories of, why charles hates crockpots, our biggest flaws (jk...unless?), if we'd ever change our names, fears we have at weddings, become believers of astrology, go into more depth about our enneagram personality types, and try out a new segment where we give advice to random question-askers on the highly reputable website yahoo answers. we also answer the question of do we believe in marriage as a cultural norm? the answer is no. stay home ...
Apr 04, 2020•1 hr 38 min•Season 2Ep. 6
enjoy this episode where we discussed in depth how we've been dealing with the effects of covid-19, self-quarantining, whether we identify more as mama's boys or daddy's boys, our dysfunctional sleep schedules, the last time each of us cried, and our first kisses! ~recorded remotely from Dallas TX, Indiannapolis IN, & Buffalo NY~
Mar 28, 2020•1 hr 1 min•Season 2Ep. 5
enjoy this low-key tiny episode of TLC, recorded before the true seriousness of the covid-19 pandemic set in, where we met marie's new girlfriend (!!!), gushed about how much we all love our friend evans, discussed charles' new thrift sweater, and talked in depth foolishly about the coronavirus. special guest appearances from teresa & ethan. hopefully we'll be able to record lots more eps while we're all in self-quarantine over these next few weeks!! stay cool buckos <3 ~recorded remotely...
Mar 10, 2020•28 min•Season 2Ep. 4
this week two of our best pals from New Zealand, Rebecca (from the UK), and Xander (a fellow Texan from San Antonio) joined us live and in the flesh, skyping from Austin with Naomi for a very special Valentine's Day edition of the podcast. enjoy listening to us discuss charles' breakup text to his business colleague, go into detail with all of our (drastically different) experiences using dating apps, catch up on life, and argue as per usual about the correct pronunciation of the word 'oregano'....
Feb 15, 2020•1 hr 8 min•Season 2Ep. 3
enjoy this messy episode where we discussed each of our apology languages, enneagram personality types, charles' big business pitch coming up, weird things the kids in Marie's class have said to her, and went into obnoxious detail about our SAT and ACT results. ~ recorded remotely from Austin TX, Indiannapolis IN, & Buffalo NY ~
Feb 04, 2020•48 min•Season 2Ep. 2
not the highest quality skype recording, and we've completely abandoned any sort of structure related in any way to conspiracy theories or the musical genius band TLC, but enjoy an hour of our recorded chit-chat, talking about everything from charles' tinder profile photos to naomi's plans to join the peace corps to marie having a romantic crisis in real-time, to charles and marie's life advice as elderly 22-year-olds to naomi, a wee 20-year-old ;-) stay cool buckos ~ recorded from austin TX, bu...
Jan 21, 2020•58 min•Season 2Ep. 1
a comedy podcast where three American friends (Marie, Charles, & Naomi) discuss various conspiracy theories, ramble, eat snacks, have other international study abroad special guests, and play tunes exclusively (for the most part) from TLC. normally you could tune in on salient fm every Wednesday from 12:00 - 2:00 pm, but this was our last show at salient, so look out for our next episode via discord or skype! this week's special guest: Nick Leaming, an economics international student from th...
Nov 06, 2019•1 hr 32 min•Season 1Ep. 4
a comedy podcast where three American friends (Marie, Charles, & Naomi) discuss various conspiracy theories, ramble, eat snacks, have other international study abroad special guests, and play tunes exclusively (for the most part) from TLC. tune in on salient fm every Wednesday from 12:00 - 2:00 pm! this week's special guest: the spooky spirit of halloween! (feat. Brice, a 19-year-old economics student from Alaska)
Oct 30, 2019•1 hr 40 min•Season 1Ep. 3
a comedy podcast where three American friends (Marie, Charles, & Naomi) discuss various conspiracy theories, ramble, eat snacks, have other international study abroad special guests, and play tunes exclusively (for the most part) from TLC. tune in on salient fm every Wednesday from 12:00 - 2:00 pm! this week's special guest: the joyful christmas spirit !! (i.e. we have no special guest) **we've had approximately 5 shows on the air since our last upload, we just failed spectacularly at record...
Oct 16, 2019•1 hr 22 min•Season 1Ep. 2
welcome to our crib :-)
Oct 15, 2019•20 sec
a comedy podcast where three American friends (Marie, Charles, & Naomi) discuss various conspiracy theories, ramble, eat snacks, have other international study abroad special guests, and play tunes exclusively (for the most part) from TLC. tune in on salient fm every Wednesday from 12:00 - 2:00 pm!
Sep 25, 2019•1 hr 24 min•Season 1Ep. 1
