This is The Thing: Recent Episodes

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Welcome to This is the Thing Podcast! Where old friends, Sydney comedian Lizzy Hoo and Melbourne writer Lisa Wills, get together to muse over the week‘s events, tackle the locky d blues, and solve the world‘s problems - one LOL at a time.

Guys, gals and non-binary pals: it's been another great week in the neighbourhood!

We welcome Lizzy back from a grand ol' time in Bali, where she's knocking back cocktails and doing her back getting some surf lessons in: Leese wants to know why cocktails were so weirdly sexual in the nineties: and are we too old and cynical for heroes?

All this and more in this week's ep!

Love to all,

xx Lizzy and Leese xx

Hi friends!! It's been a great week in the neighbourhood, and we're leaning into more regular episodes (!) in this new season...

Lizzy is headed to Bali for some proper Hoo family shenanigans... does our resident Lizzy from Brissie have a bogan edge? Meanwhile Leese contemplates a mid-life crisis on discovering that she's going greyer by the day...

It's a lot! Love to you fam!

xx Lizzy and Leese xx

Friends, we are finally back!!! It's been a long time since we hit the airwaves in the neighbourhood. What's happened since we saw you last? Well, Leese went to Perth and has come back super smug at the election result - while Lizzy has been doing shows across the country.

This week, we talk about our time away - about our love of pets (is it slightly insane to love our fur babies as much as we do?) and moving in with our partners.

Can't wait to see you all soon!! Promise it won't be that long next time

xx Lizzy and Leese xx

Friends!! It's been another huge week (or two!) in the neighbourhood, and as always - with your help, your local heroines Lizzy and Leese are on a medium-scale adventure to figure out all of the things in our lives...

Among these big decisions, is... marriage! Do we really need to get married in this day/age/economy, or is is a bit naff? Lizzy says nay, Leese... isn't quite sure. But we're working it out! Let us know what you think on the 'gram (@thisisthethingpod)!

Much love and chat soon,

xx Lizzy and Leese xx

Friends! Another big week in the neighbourhood! This week, Lizzy comes to us live from Adelaide, where she dines at the table with the Kween (Poh!) and generally enjoys all the Adelaide has to offer... for the short-term. Meanwhile, Leese accidentally runs into some anti-vaxxers and tumbles down a nostalgia rabbbit-hole (Tomorrow When The War Began series, anyone?) All this and more in this week's episode!

Big hugs always,

xx Lizzy and Leese xx

Friends! Yet another big week in the neighbourhood!

This week, Lizzy is dealing with a super shit*ty landlord, and we wonder: if buying houses is a thing in this day and age? Can we really beat the boomers at the investment game, or is the Australian Dream a bit more complicated?

Meanwhile, Leese asks: does the world need more heroes? We watch 'The Rescue', a documentary about the Thai cave boys rescue - and find out just how insane that huge act of heroism was. Good times!

Much love, until next week!

xx Lizzy and Leese xx

SHOW NOTES

Lizzy is at the Adelaide Fringe this week - nab tickets if you're nearby!
Check out Nightingale Housing - it's the way of the future
The Rescue is now streaming on Disney Plus - give it a watch and let us know what you think!

Friends! Yet another big week for us all! This week, Leese chats to us live from Parliament House - where the anti-vaxxers are out in full force, generally p*ssing off the locals and loitering about with weird racial signs. Can we bridge political divides? We reminisce about Leese's old conservative driving instructor, while Lizzy asks: are hen's parties the worst kind of parties? It's a lolly bag mix as always - all this and more in this week's episode!

Much love fam, and thanks for listening!

xx Lizzy and Leese xx

P.S. Hit us up for Billy's details if you need a driving lesson in Canberra!

Friends! It's been another huge week!

This week we welcome in the Year of the Tiger with big news - Lizzy is moving to Melbourne and tackles all her past lives at the same time. Why does moving suck so much? While Lizzy sorts through her 1998 fashion choices, Leese grieves the end of the Australian Open and all the drama that came with it - Novak, the Special Ks, Ash Barty and Dylan Alcott! What a time! Finally, we reminisce on the earlier days of the internet (does anyone else remember ICQ?)

It's a lolly-bag mix this week friends, and we love to see it!

'Til next week,

xx Lizzy and Leese xx

SHOW NOTES

Catch Lizzy's upcoming festival shows across the continent in coming weeks - all details on the 'gram or via Facebook
Next time you move house or clean out your wardrobe, upcycle those clothes! It's better for people and planet - check it out here.

Friends! It's been another huge week in the neighbourhood.

This week, we're inspired by powerhouse women who don't hold back when it comes to challenging the status quo - and we welcome our second guest to the pod, Greens Senator for NSW Mehreen Faruqi! A politician, engineer, activist, migrant and feminist, Senator Faruqi shares how she holds onto hope in an era of shitty politics and huge challenges (COVID and climate, anyone?) and leaves us inspired and full of renewed hope.

We also talk about our queen, Grace Tame - and a new generation of women who aren't willing to hold back their feelings or 'fake' it for men. What a hero!

SHOW NOTES

For more inspiration, pick yourself up a copy of Senator Faruqi's 'part memoir, part manifesto', Too Migrant, Too Muslim, Too Loud
Follow Senator Faruqi on Facey and the 'gram
It's Invasion Day Week. January 26 marks a day of mourning for First Nations people across this continent: allies, consider paying the rent to contribute to justice and truth (paytherent.net.au).

'Til next week friends!

xx Lizzy and Leese xx

Friends, welcome to Episode 16 of This Is The Thing! In this week's episode, Lizzy's prediction that she'd catch the 'rona from her boyfriend's cricket escapades comes true. What's the spicy cough like on a triple vax? Lizzy is well and DJ Vax Chat couldn't be happier!

Meanwhile, it's Australian Open Week in Melbourne. Novak Djokovic is no jab no play, finally getting booted out of the country - and Leese is all about the week ahead. Who will come through with the goods? Now more than ever we need good news stories!

Speaking of good times, this week Lizzy wonders why the Hillsong Church can hold parties with no masks, given the rest of us can't really hit the d floors just now...

'Til next week friends, thanks for listening!

xx Lizzy and Leese xx

Welcome to 2022, friends! We missed you!!

It's been a huge few weeks! While the east coast explodes with the spicy cough, Lizzy goes overseas for fun and family time (wild!) and makes it back into the country, 'rona free. Meanwhile, Novak Djokovic's visa thrills and spills keep us entertained as ScoMo forgets to buys RAT kits and buys tanks instead (whatta guy!)

Finally, it's the good news story we all didn't know we needed... Leese, our resident This Is The Thing Bachelorette, may have met her match. How long does the glorious honeymoon period last?! (romance is obnoxious and cute all at the same time... right?)

Love to you, pod fam! Let us know what you think, and see you for another huge week, next week!

xx Lizzy and Leese xx

Friends!! It's been another huge week in the neighbourhood. 2021 is almost done, and we’re moving from birthday season to festive season. Lizzy gives shi*tty gifts (blue shorts, anyone?) while Leese reminisces on the years where her parents either gave her Bon Jovi albums (who?) or left her pressies at lay-buy. Bless.

We also chat this week about what it’s like flying in a plane with Leese (not good!) as Lizzy takes to the skies in Griffith. Wild times!

Things get serious when we talk Burning, the latest doco on Amazon Prime Video about the 2019 Black Saturday bushfires. Watch it, get mad, and get ready to do something about the destruction of the planet. Can this country do better than ScoMo? You better believe it!

Much love fam, hope you have a great week! See you soon for more lols and good times,

xx Lizzy and Leese xx

Friends!!! After a short trip away to the NSW south coast, Lizzy and Leese are back to tackle all the big issues of the week. For her birthday week, Leese gets down and dirty in nature - Lizzy and Leese give love to our boss Blak Bachelorette, Brook Blurton - and ask, how do we get more people to know what Aboriginal land they’re on? Leese trashes Novak Djokovic, the Pete Evans of tennis - and Lizzy is still trying to love Anthony Bourdain.

It’s been a HUGE week, and we’ve missed you all!

‘Til next week fam, much love

xx Lizzy and Leese xx

P.S. Sydney-siders! Lizzy will be performing her 2021 festival show Hoo Dis? one last time on December 10 / Comedy Store Sydney 7pm. Grab your tickets here

Hello, friends! Welcome to lucky episode 12 of This Is The Thing!

This week we're heading out to space with our first ever podcast guest, @ThisIsSpaceJim - our resident news reporter for our solar system! Jim talks us through Elon Musk and the billionaire's race to space, and how space could soon turn into a mining hellscape. He's fantastic and it's a great chat - check out what Neptune and co. are up to on his TikTok and YouTube!

Meanwhile, Leese considers whether she's really up to the task of taking more risks in her life, at this point: are things getting a little too comfortable for our resident hipster? Meanwhile Lizzy reminisces about her school's resident flasher (!) and pushes for more news from space... It's a win on all fronts!

Thank you for listening fam! We love every last one of you, so please don't forget to share the pod and score us some 5 star Apple Pod reviews x

xx Lizzy and Leese xx

SHOW NOTES

Check out an excerpt from Damien Cave's new book 'Into The Rip', or you can always ask to borrow Leese's copy
Space Jim is great, right? Follow him today on TikTok and YouTube!
While you're there, give us a follow on Insta and/or slide into our DMs!

Friends! We're so thrilled to be in the same room for lucky episode number 11 this week. From Lizzy's bedroom in Sydney, Lizzy and Leese manage to figure our way through the wholesome and the slightly less-wholesome this week:

Are d*ck pics still a thing?
Leese takes Lizzy running on a hangover (cruel at best)
Leese and Lizzy hang out with jigging grandmas at a matinee of the musical Come From Away
Lizzy routinely breaks her apartment (lol)
aaaaaand... It's jacaranda season in Sydney! (Does it get more wholesome than that?)

As always, thanks for listening! Let us know what you think of this ep through the prism of 5 star Apple Podcast reviews :)

xx Lizzy and Leese xx

Fam! This week, Leese lives our her DJ Vax Chat dreams in real-time as she picnics with an anti-vaxxer - Lizzy lives out the Great Resignation after quitting her job this week to pursue comedy full time - and is hot vaxxed summer a myth? All this and more in this week's episode of This Is The Thing!

xx Lizzy and Leese xx

Join us on Insta @thisisthethingpod

Fam! So much chat! Here's just a few tidbits from the past week that have been keeping us up at night...

Gladdy's ex-boyfriend is a "pain in the arse", the former Deputy NSW Premier reckons - we've all dated those guys, right?

Craig Kelly, Texter Extraordinaire, reckons politicians shouldn't be able to text punters?

Patty Mills, Boomer and First Nations basketball legend, is still hot and bringing the vibes...

But! The vibes belong this week to DJ Khalid, who Leese reckons we might all wanna emulate (should be though?) Check out his awesome guitar skills here, lol.

Much love fam! See you next week for more hot takes on all the things xx

Lizzy and Leese xx

P.S. We're on Insta! @thisisthethingpod

Email us! lizzyandleesepod@gmail.com

Friends! It's been another huge week!

Over in NSW, Lizzy hits the town and gate-crashes the world's most awkward Hinge date - we talk 'time millionaires' and what we're doing (or not doing!) with all our extra WFH time - and promo ScoMo's trip to Glasgow. Will the Libs save the planet? Don't count on it! All this and more in this week's episode of This Is The Thing!

xx Lizzy and Leese xx

SHOW NOTES:

Tix to Lizzy's 'Laugh Outta Lockdown' show! Get 'em here
Time millionaires making the most of their lives - check it out
Working from home and wanna do two jobs? People are! Here's some hot tips

Friends!! What a time, as always - this week, Lizzy contemplates the post-locky d vibe from Sydney - we talk boss women, Maria Ressa, and the Nobel Peace Prize - hear a good news story in Fat Bear Week (!) - and chat about dating app cliches in the pandemic era. Is avocado a personality trait? Let’s find out! Download this week’s episode and let us know your thoughts through the prism of five star Apple Podcast reviews

xx Lizzy and Leese xx

SHOW NOTES

Watch the Fat Bear Week bears here https://explore.org/livecams

Maria Ressa being a legend and now Nobel Peace Prize Leaureate https://www.vice.com/en/article/y3damg/maria-ressa-and-dmitry-muratov-win-nobel-peace-prize-2021

Ted Talk about dating profiles https://www.ted.com/talks/amy_webb_how_i_hacked_online_dating?language=en

Friends! It's been another huge week in the neighbourhood. In this week's episode, Lizzy and Leese say goodbye to Gladdy and consider which token white dude will take her place: Lizzy has a 'solo picnic' (how's that for some wild lockdown adventures): and the girls consider what 'cancel culture' really means, and why Pauline Hanson shouldn't be given a platform (looking at you, Jessica Rowe). It's all fun and games, with lols thrown in. Thanks for joining us fam! xx Lizzy and Leese xx

From earthquakes to rioters to true crime mysteries and stalking your dates on LinkedIn, the view from lockdown in Sydney and Melbourne has never looked better. Or, has it? Find out in this week's episode of This is The Thing!

xx Lizzy and Leese xx

Friends! Another big week in locky d - and this week, we tell the world how we met, and take us all on a trip via Mongolia and the Philippines. Listen in!

See you next week

xx Lizzy and Leese xx

It's a wild ride this week friends, and we cover it all! This week Lizzy and Leese chat through the legends at the US Open, Tony Abbott getting busted without a mask, the smug feels of e-bikes, and racism (looking at you, Eddie McGuire and Georgia Love). It's a big chat, with all the things! Come join us - we love a good locky d, and we love having you along for the (e-bike) ride!

xx Lizzy and Leese xx

Friends, it's time for round 2 of This is The Thing!

This week, mates Lizzy and Leese cover the week's big issues:

Women who rock (hard enough for a spot in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame)
The Liberals don't give a s*it about women (no surprises there)
The Chair on Netflix and the genius of Sandra Oh
Pus! A bonus enquiry into whether Stefanos Tsisipas really is shitting his pants at the US Open (Ivermectin style!)

Links to all the things

A petition to get Melissa Etheridge in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
Spotify playlist: Women who should be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (courtesy of NPR)

'Til next week fam!

x Lizzy and Leese

Welcome to This is the Thing Podcast! Where old friends, Sydney comedian Lizzy Hoo and Melbourne writer Leese Wills, get together to muse over the week's events, tackle the locky d blues, and solve the world's problems - one LOL at a time.

Links to this week's chat

Craig Kelly's mobile number if you want to shoot him a sext 0458 150 211
Sydney Tree Trails: check 'em out here
Sign the petition to get our rad Paralympians the dimes they deserve
Follow Lizzy @lizzyhoo
Follow Leese on Twitter @leesebkk

Wanna text us your thoughts, Clive Palmer-style? Hit us up: lizzyandleesepod@gmail.com

'Til next time, fam! Lizzy and Leese x