Spiraling: The Ice Tea Aftershow: Recent Episodes
The Ice Tea Aftershow
Happy New Year! In this Very Special TM episode of Spiraling, Meghan tells Neda about Ann M. Martin's The Babysitter's Club, and they watch the 1990 Christmas episode together while commenting on 90s fashion, going into business with your chronically ill besties, lesbians, and the Ominous Water Glass.
Here is the YT link for just the BSC episode if you want to watch it without us in the corner: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpzmFDEepRM&ab_channel=Jenn
Here is the audio from the Patrons-only October bonus livestream we did on 10/28. Enjoy!
Hey everyone!
Here is the audio from our 9/21/24 livestream! You can also watch it with video on our Patreon! www.patreon.com/iceteapod
In this thrilling bonus episode, Meghan interviews a GOLD MEDAL winning skater: NEDA! They tell us all about what it takes to be a champion adult skater with an amazing music cut and gorgeous costume, and what it's REALLY like at the top of a podium.
In this episode, which is actually mostly just Meghan talking about food, we also touch upon the important topics that people aren't talking about: many skaters are surprisingly petite, Canada is cold, and there should be a Peanuts themed Met Gala.
Please enjoy this Christopher Nolan-level meta-layered time travel spectacular about two podcasters commentating on Skate America and Skate Canada 2023 a month after the fact and then posting the episode like 3 months after that! Relish the dramatic irony of knowing everything that has happened since, and feel free to point and laugh at our November Selves' ignorance if it enhances your listening experience (we think it will!)
"Slappy Theme Song" by Meghan Kelleher
Brought to you from the Kardashian Winter Sports Palace in Gary, Indiana, sponsored by Kevin and Samantha-with-a-Stussy.
In this episode, Meghan and Neda do a deep dive into the honorable mentions of the French and English Grand Prix events, and also try to figure out if those pixel doll dress up games from 2001 are still around. Featuring robot boyfriend media, slutty global warming, and God.
In this bonus episode, Meghan tells Neda about Nathan Chen's appearance on Celebrity Family Feud and invites Neda to play along with some truly insane questions. Featuring: the type of humor that honestly wasn't even ok in the 70s, the MCU somehow, and everyone's favorite contemporary warhorse "To Build A Home (With A Sex Room In It)".
In the final bonus episode of the off-season, Meghan and Neda look back at all the gossip--good, bad, AND ugly, from this summer in skating land. Featuring: Elvis, haircuts, shitposting, and cigarettes for cats.
What's that under your seat? It's a bonus episode! Meghan and Neda reprise their original concept* of telling each other about their Favorite Things of late! TV shows, cookies, music, more TV shows--it's all here folks! We can't give everyone a car but if you open your mouth maybe Neda can throw you a cranberry cookie really far.
**pls don't sue us Oprah it's satire
“Slappy Theme Song” by Meghan Kelleher
In this bonus episode, Notorious European Neda guides That Bitch From America (Meghan) through the magical, campy world of the Eurovision Song Contest as the two recap their impressions from the 2022 competition. Featuring the answers to such burning questions as: Which skaters should skate to which of this years songs?? Why is Australia here?? And most importantly, what can you eat in Latvia instead of meat??
“Slappy Theme Song” by Meghan Kelleher
Meghan and Neda react in real time to 2022-2023 season program announcements we've gotten so far, while also playing Geoguessr because multitasking is fun.
Watch this episode in video form here: https://youtu.be/bdXbHygjVY0
In this bonus episode, Meghan and Neda recap the galas from the Olympics and Worlds 2022, from the tear jerking to the utterly baffling. Hurry up and listen now or you'll make Kazuki late for work!
In this bonus episode, Meghan gives Neda and Jamie (friend of the pod/hotel roommate/British correspondent) an oral history of the Olympic Mascots, culminating in an attempt at understanding the enigmatic, vacant-eyed panda in an exoskeleton who has captured our hearts and nightmares, Bing Dwen Dwen. Get in, lugers, we're going investigating!
In this episode (THE FIRST ONE NEDA AND MEGHAN HAVE EVER RECORDED IN THE SAME ROOM!!!!!!!) we recap the Olympics so far with a special emphasis on the team event and a brief detour into miscellaneous drama. (Recorded at 3pm Germany time on 2/9, for shitstorm posterity.)
Raindrops on roses, whiskers on very fucked up AI-generated kittens: these are a few of our favorite things! We're closing out the year with a bonus episode dedicated to us just talking about random stuff we've enjoyed lately, from podcasts to recipes to video games to tiktoks. Come hang with us, though we make no promises of free cars (bees though? Maybe.)
Here at Spiraling we ask the IMPORTANT questions, such as: Who's YOUR Russian-sona? What ARE the rules of chess anyway? Does anyone know who invited Ekaterina Ryabova to this wedding? What would happen if you crossed a peacock and a fish? And more!
Matteo Rizzo was right when he wrote Legally Blonde. Featuring smile related emotions, Nicole Schott’s political career, Kao Miura the hedgehog, Michael Bolton pooping, and the Samarin neural network.
In which we realize that Wakaba Higuchi was right when she wrote The Lion King.
Or, Skate Canada Bonus Episode 2021!
*P.S. We have rebranded! The Tea Aftershow is now officially called SPIRALING, because sometimes you have a cute idea like 2 years later and decide to implement it anyway!
In Meghan and Neda's extended coverage of 2021 Skate America they have an extremely mature discussion about genital injury, play abs or no abs, and discuss Kaori Sakamoto's immense influence on Hollywood.
In what was originally intended to be a Pride Month special episode before our mics and computers decided to betray us (honestly, under the circumstances, extremely homophobic of the technology!), we celebrate Skating Pride, the special event where every figure skater announced they were gay on the same day. More or less.
(Please excuse our audio issues/the international choir of barking dogs on this one, we did our very best despite some technical snafus and thus no one is allowed to criticize us).
In this bonus episode, Meghan and Neda offer you the Snyder cut of Worlds 2021 commentary, including all your faves old and new! Featuring: a lot of Jokers! A brief history of the Sexy Back Cutout Blouse TM! And a certain skaters ALLEGED illicit hidden tattoos ALLEGEDLY ALLEGEDLY NOT CLICKBAIT!!
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“Slappy Theme Song” by Meghan Kelleher
😳😩What If We Kissed 😳😘 at the 1992 Winter🥶Olympics🥇in Albertville🇫🇷🥖And We Were Both Pair👫Skaters⛸😍
Meghan and Neda put on their Film Podcaster TM hats once again to talk about a cult classic with which they have a LOVE/SKATE relationship, 1992's The Cutting Edge.
2018: It was a simpler time, and in many ways, a slappier time. For one thing, it had a Grand Prix Final, and for want of a GPF to cover this year, Neda and Meghan travel back in time to revisit the first event they ever covered (and then never released...the fabled Lost Episode TM).
Featuring an all star cast including Junhwan Cha as Romeo, Sofia Samodurova as Cher AND Christina Aguilera, Yuzuru Hanyu as THE Fiddler On The Roof, Shoma Uno as Lil Money Bladez, Jennifer Coolidge as Eteri Tutberidze, and Santa Claus as Supreme Judge Of Whether Your Dreams Are Too Hornt.
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“Slappy Theme Song” by Meghan Kelleher
Tired of times being "uncertain" and "unprecedented"? So are we, so we decided to play god and take a peek into the future ourselves with the help of some trusty tarot cards and a lot of good old fashioned guessing!
Who will get a neck tattoo? Who will feel their oats? Who will stop falling so damn much?? The cards will tell all*
Meghan is not a psychic* she just watches a lot of tarot Youtube and has an overactive imagination so this is, as is the case with everything we do on this aftershow, Just For Fun TM
**But if you want to throw her a couple bucks to do a private tarot reading she totally will because #hustlelife
"Slappy Theme Song" by Meghan Kelleher
Here at the Ice Tea Podcast, we know we're Not Like Other Podcasts....but what if we were? Haven't you ever wondered, what if we were just Two Bros making jokes about a movie we thought was bad!? Well, wonder no more, for the inevitable has finally happened: Neda finally made Meghan watch The Greatest Showman and we spent nearly as long as the runtime of the movie trying to piece together what we just saw.
Featuring: 10% actual thoughtful discourse on the ways disabled folks were and are exploited in the entertainment industry, 10% well-informed musical theatre opinions, and 80% rage and confusion.
"Slappy Theme Song" by Meghan Kelleher
There was so much ice tea to spill about Sasha Trusova's dramatic coaching change that it overflowed into this bonus episode! Featuring special guest Kaitlyn, an expert on Russian figure skating gossip, who guides Meghan and Neda on an odyssey through mafia schemes, Eurovision machinations, and good old fashioned petty Instagram beefs. #WHOISYANA
DISCLAIMER: Pretty much everything we say in this episode, though based on immaculately cited articles, is pure speculation. We have no real knowledge of behind the scenes events and are purely just gossiping for fun.
CONTENT WARNING: brief mention of the sexual abuse of Team USA gymnasts in the context of discussing the film "Athlete A"
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“Slappy Theme Song” by Meghan Kelleher
::tire screech:: Hop in, Ice Cubes, we're going on a joyride down the information superhighway! On this bonus episode, Neda and Meghan pull up to the weirdest, darkest corners of the internet to see what the good people of Tumblr and Yahoo! answers have to say about our beloved sport. Featuring: interior design, dating sims, Canadian revolutions, and the inherent gayness of...everything.
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“Slappy Theme Song” by Meghan Kelleher
BIG TROUBLE IN LITTLE PLUSHIE CORNER! Yuzu, Nathan, Kaori, and Liza summon their heroic spirit to save the Olympic Village from a horrifying plushie monster in this titillating conclusion to Meghan, Neda, and Nicky's figure skating DnD adventure.
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“Slappy Theme Song” by Meghan Kelleher
Greetings, fellow adventurer!
In this bonus episode, the first part of a TWO PARTER, Meghan and Neda invite their good friend and expert dungeon master Nicky to talk about the Ice Tea duo's other passion: Dungeons and Dragons! Together, they re-imagine four top figure skaters as fantasy heroes who are put to the test when a mysterious dark force invades Plushie Corner...
Get your fifty feet of hempen rope and ten torches ready, it's about to go down!
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“Slappy Theme Song” by Meghan Kelleher
Let's face it, Ice Cubes, February is just the pits. It's dreary, we all get seasonal affective depression, it's cold, it's just NO FUN! So we decided to remedy that on this month's bonus episode by creating our own little figure skating trivia game show! Featuring: Gilbert (who definitely fucks), Oops All Kristies!, test tube Meghans, smelling like Bief, Eric Radford's disembodied hand, the perfect Valentines Day meal, and Neda being a spelling bee champion.
God I regret typing "Febloopary", I regret it with every fiber of my being. I feel I have unleashed a scourge unto mankind. LOL OH WELL!
Come n get your outtakes, hot n fresh out the dumpster fire!
May this supercut of us being absolute fools serve as a small token of our endless gratitude and love for you, lovely Patrons <3
"Slappy Theme Song" by Meghan Kelleher
In this months' bonus episode, Meghan attempts to catch Neda up on the rest of her tales from Nationals but they end up taking several detours, including: the vanilla-ness of pairs skating, audience etiquette, being jeans, illusions and confusions, an EKG for the heart of a child, the bodega/cat cafe divide, whether an ice skating dog is modern art,
the Horror of dog agility competitions, the resale value of hard candy, and some Emo Reflections just in time for the podcast's first birthday!
Don't stop us now, the moment of truth, we were born to make Ice Tea! In this bonus episode, Meghan and Neda talk about everyone's favorite fictional anime Grand Prix Final, the last two episodes of Yuri on Ice!! Which cartoon man is the most bangable? Who is the most likely to get canceled on fictional fs twitter? How does anime Plushie Corner stack up to its real life counterpart? Find out all this and more in this absolute weeb dumpster fire of an episode!
In this Patreon-exclusive bonus episode, we celebrate our 21st episode by getting drunk and answering listener-submitted "would you rather" questions. This may or may not have been a mistake, but it was a hell of a lot of fun. Also, we play our version of "fuck, marry, kill". Need we say more?
Here is your November gag reel, featuring fun soundcheck bloopers, high school memories, SPICY NSFW TOO-HOT-FOR-PRIMETIME JOKES, and the age old question: can the poet Homer still EGOT?
In this ooky spooky Blues for Klooky Patreon-exclusive bonus episode, Meghan and Neda give a guided tour of Halloweeny figure skating programs from yesterday and today. Well, a guided tour with several detours down dark and haunted paths...but you know how we roll here.
Happy Halloween, amazing patrons! Thank you so much for your support!
Here is your October gag reel, featuring such spooky things as thirsty vampires, furries, and a Real Actual Ghost! Also Neda and Meghan get to the bottom of an extremely important zoological/sartorial mystery.