Meeks and Keeks Are Freaks: Recent Episodes
Naomi Niekerk
We discuss the best and worst of road trips with special guest Elizabeth, touching on license plate bingo, where to stop (and where to avoid), and the type of back pain unique to hotel pullout beds. Big thanks to Elizabeth for calling in this week!
We discuss and rate the staples of a 2000s childhood, from book series that never seemed to end and an inexplicable obsession with slime to classic TV shows and even better commercials.
We “celebrate” over a year of podcasting with the adventures of cardboard Naomi, the story of a 5 am fire alarm, a lengthy discussion of why you shouldn’t put a 27 year old in makeup and call them a teenager and more!
We discuss and rate various trends from throughout quarantine, from whipped coffee making to recreating your house out of popsicle sticks. Plus, learn about the hazards of puppetry, Naomi's beef with ukuleles and the woes of being a historically accurate doll.
We return to Naomi's daily quote book she kept in Belgium when she was 13 and talk about the pressure of final exams, why the Bible is not a cookbook, when to wait for the next bus and other reflections from living across the pond.
Naomi reads from a book of daily thoughts she kept as a 13 year old in Belgium, touching on everything from the wonders of Catholic school to cultural comparisons with the United States.
We talk winter holidays and traditions as well as mystery gifts, horrible Christmas music, how New Years in the Netherlands resembles the Purge, the joy of fried food and more!
In the second installment of a two-part special featuring our mom, we learn about fashion trends of the 1980s (from the ridiculous to the unsafe), questionable cheers, the fun of seances and everyone's favorite 80s moment: the fall of the Berlin wall.
In the first episode of a two-part special, our mom appears as a special guest to talk about how Star Wars was a standalone movie, the thrills of cruise ships, the sophisticated ways in which kids can pretend to drink or smoke and much more about childhood in the 1970s!
We finally get around to reviewing some good movies and discuss the importance of soundtracks, the definition of "celesbian," republicans' beef with LEGOs, and why Naomi has cried to so many movies on planes.
Welcome to season 2 of Meeks and Keeks Are Freaks! We experiment with a new recording setup, give some life updates, wish we had the blue remote from icarly and discuss how annoying tik tok drama can be.
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In the season finale of the podcast, we explain our mysterious absence, reflect on our past episodes, give shoutouts to everyone we can remember and go on random tangents as always
Welcome back to another Belgium-adventure episode in which we discuss school trips from our year abroad, featuring horrific bike accidents, spooky trenches and the importance of knowing how to swim.
We discuss our athletic careers (or lack thereof), our love for women’s soccer, an awkward world cup party and Naomi’s stanning of Vivianne Miedema.
We tell stories from exciting band trips including the time an alligator was lost, the night Naomi accidentally knocked out a friend and tales of repeated difficulties with transportation.
We talk about the video and computer games of our childhood, from early Mario Kart mornings to many wonderful hours spent on Club Penguin as well as the ethics of Minecraft.
We discuss the highlights of past European trips, including an encounter with an unintentionally hilarious Dutch vacation park employee, Maaike’s Parisian ice cream meltdown and a long hike to a plague village in England’s Peak District.
In our pride-themed episode, we discuss spongebob coming out, our pop culture gay awakenings, our experiences in school LGBT clubs, and of course, women’s soccer.
We rate some bad movies we’ve seen lately and discuss how tall people aren’t oppressed for being tall, how a Dutch film interpreted Mean Girls and what makes a movie truly bad.
We pause our regular programming to talk about the ongoing protests in the United States, how white perspective tends to distort education on black history and the power of social media in the Black Lives Matter movement.
We discuss a popular children’s pop band in the Netherlands and Belgium whose music absolutely slaps. Listen to K3 here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5j-4E8uxmu6ljfcYIwF1B9Ri1Zjv8c8c
In the final episode of our camp mini-series, we revisit the most awesome camp of our childhood, in which many happy weeks were spent in the woods of Wisconsin.
In part 3 of our camp series, we talk about a different kind of camp but undoubtedly one of the best around: High school marching band camp.
In part 2 of our camp mini-series, special guest Sarah returns as we recall some weird and wonderful memories from Illinois Summer Youth Music, from roommate incidents to an alien love story concert.
As we count down to summer, we bring you a mini-series on some of our legendary camp experiences. In this episode we recall memories from a childhood day camp, featuring special guest Sarah!
While playing a jenga-like game from our youth, we discuss some of the best, most confusing and most unplayable games of our lives, some marching band memories, why everyone’s hair was long in the 4th Harry Potter movie and more!
In part 2 of our discussion and rating of food, we head to Belgium for a conversation on fries, suggestive waffles, upscale school lunches and one heavenly candy store.
We discuss and rank traditional eats of the Netherlands, from beloved stroopwafels to the mystical frikandel, as well as some mealtime traditions that (hopefully) just run in the family and a strange experience at an American rib restaurant thousands of miles from home.
In possibly the most embarrassing episode to date (according to Maaike), we dive into Maaike and special guest Alina’s 4th grade play featuring British wolves, random breakfast food debates and lots of fainting. Thank you to Alina for calling in to the podcast!
Tales from music class and other shenanigans from our year in Belgium. Who knew a bar at an elementary school would be such a hit?
Welcome to the first episode of Meeks and Keeks Are Freaks! In this episode we talk about our elementary school and specifically the horrendous capitalist economy we constructed during recess. Hope you enjoy!