Hey, Sisters!: Recent Episodes
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Hey, Sisters! Welcome to a podcast about sisters, by sisters! Every week Gretchen and Jessie get together to catch up with each other and talk about a set of sisters. Jokes, awkward moments, and embarrassing stories abound.
Gretchen eats and grades papers, Jessie works at a haunted house (ATTRACTION), and we meet Isis and Jackrabbit, the barefoot hikers of the AT. Derby and Disco!
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Catching up! Polish pronunciation, Multi-named individuals, forbidden love, Nazis (again), Przemysl, CW: anti-semitic activity, motorcycle show with Ewan MacGregor, ex-beau Beowulf, the right side of history but the wrong side of Hitler, Helena is a GirlBoss, NOZZIES, chaos in Poland, The Stefi Foundation
Gretchen can build tiny joints for scenery, tuna fish salad, Chicago mafia/mob, sightings and more sightings, Jessie has to note, phone calls and ransom notes, runaways, and full-on tragedy. Also Gretchen is on her phone so forgive the mess.
TWO WARNINGS: Spoilers for "The Swimmers" film, and both of us are congested and might cough every now and then. That said... Rio Olympics, The Agency, Crazy Like Stick it To The Man, the refugee experience, we are terrible at research but Jessie finally gets a chance to fall into a research black hole, did we mention we're sick?
Still recording on the floor, Gretchen gets scared by the cat, grandpa and grandma "ghosts," old people perfume, Schmitty the Little Boy Ghost
DISCLAIMER: We were sitting on the floor with a toddler climbing all over us. This is pure chaos.
Would Gretchen be a good spy?, our obsession with gadgets comes out, WHY DID THEY NAME IT THAT, THOUGH?!, rabbit holing on spy craft, learning about the sisters who spied during WWII, back to the naming process, the Bletchley Circle, lots of googling of "fanny."
HBD GRETCHEN!, royal protocol, Elizabeth and Margaret are like Gretchen's daughters, birth order analysis, bathroom adventures, coronation drama, SHOCK, Maragret, FBFA, we actually cry, Philip (who is Mountbatten?), Gretchen has friends from England, accents, that's NOT the definition of "received", The Choice of Mountbatten... and that's just the beginning.
Content warning: abuse, murder, incest. Gretchen is a little hoarse, terrible upbringing, French pronunciations, guess what? MORE MENOPAUSE, Carousel of Progress, Peri-Menopause The Musical with a Drag Queen Shadow Cast, Jessie makes notes on notes, foreshadowing, Rene and the door and the lights, scandalous French tabloids of the early 1900s, mental health crises, Take That, France!, May 189
Labor Day at TAMU, The World of Haunted Houses, Scare Floor, Gretchen's imaginary sound editing options, first dedication, Gallery Furniture DOTCOM, Magnificent 7 included Stephanie LaPalma and Dominique Dogs, nature/nurture, And That's A Fact, Jack! (which is actually from Duck Dynasty, not Gallery Furniture), opening the envelope, Go Bearcats, college footcasts, reunited and it feels so good!
New jorts-only intro featuring Gretchen's OTHER kid, 9ish to well-after 5, rabbit-hole as a verb, gay Jamaica pride hair clips, Mom Does Plants, pigs, sound waves, Gretchen's notes & concoctions, go find us @raggedyauntie and @gretchengegg on other podcasts!
First day of kindergarten for Gretchen's eldest, peepee finger, Jessie introduces this one with a song, biographical musical comedy drama, slime tutorials, we are not so great at fact checking, Ethel Merman or Bette Midler? Rosalind Russell, International Theatre/Thespian Festival, misquotes, dance marathons - not the healthiest way to make a living, lesbian brothel... buckle up. It's a RIDE.
Car wrecks, sad stuff, reincarnation, "There's no way, they're still alive", all their names start with J, Google Machine song, Horseypoo, memories that aren't theirs, Photos derail us, Fast Pass to reincarnation, Do you believe?
most memorable birthdays, puddle of pee, massive amounts of childhood memories, Jessie beeps to keep us car-ride friendly, we got no secrets, fingernail lemonade, big trip dreams, school issues, and not really understanding what the heck we are talking about sometimes
Gretchen is back at Jessie's studio (with a bit of an a/c buzz...), space camp on parade, Jessie forgets deodorant, there were books about Pleiades and you can start here: https://amzn.to/3z8JZhR, telescopes and naked eyes, Taren Edgerton (again)
We finally nail our intro, hanging out with ZsaZsa on Disney+, Gretchen needs more research topics from folks but this time it led to a wee Elton John fan, enneagram 8s and their relationship with justice, the cat found a Q-tip, Practical Magic, Hocus Pocus, puritanical witches, literary sisters, that's nice - moving on, enneagrams again, Jessie starts RANDOMLY SINGING FOR NO REASON
TW: unwanted advances and violence toward women, minimal gore LOL but not LOL, altitude sickness prevention/management, ASCAP and MTI contracting, Gretchen makes Jessie sing "in Irish" then pretends to be offended, 9 years is substantial, mind messing, vodka and ecstacy, the FAA and the mystery zone come up again, and Jessie struggles to explain a statement
Join Jessie for an episode of Jessie's Shorts (Jorts!) - podcast development 101, the date struggle... again..., the Dewey Decimal system, relationships with haunted things, and meet the voices of the next-gen Hey, Sisters! podcasters
Meet our Mom (Regina) and our brand new Aunt (Libby)! Gretchen struggles with relationship titles (again), family adoption, the Red Road and the Lakota way, Libby gets voluntold by Regina several times, Really awesome stories, "I don't get up for God at 4 in the morning," Regina has the same problem with timelines that Gretchen does, Chiro to the people, Dust storms, and the hunka ceremony of boxes.
Welcome our VERY FIRST guest sisters, Mary and Liz DeAcetis! Find Mary here: https://www.thedreamers.co/ and pop over to Instagram for Mary (@mary.deacetis) and Liz (@liz.deacetis)! Sister chat, Go Liz! Go Boilermakers!, Mary sprints across campus, lying to advisors, Liz's shoe intervention, a discussion about birth order and little brothers, parallels among sisters, never wake up your little sister unless it's with pancakes, Sacred Order of the Second Sister, enneagrams and coaching, and Mary's air horn
Jessie fankids out, no spoilers, battle of the bands, queer musical bridges, that dang tape recorder comes up again, leaning in, being gay in the 90s, feral teenagers, and Gretchen keeps bringing up Heartstopper. Want a copy of the book? Go here: https://store.teganandsara.com/collections/featured-us/products/us-high-school-hardcover-book
SUBMIT YOUR STORIES! email heysisterspod@gmail.com or find us on instagram: @heysisterspodcast. are twins creepy?, Owala please sponsor us, jorts, secret languages, mirroring, truly weird behavior from a set of twins, vaccinations, bean bags full of writing, Jessie struggles to understand catatonic behavior, Sugar & Spice reunion tour and remastered Egg Time album, two bodies but one soul, creeptastic theories
Jessie gets weird when scared, together again, Haunted Mansion Ride in one's own home, ghost hunters, local research, Black Book of Burleville, haunted cleaning products, witch lore, "smoked" wings seque, court of public opinion, TikTok Conjuring House videos by Madison Heinzen, wells are bad news bears, shirt dreidels
Seriously... there's nothing at all that we can put here that will inform this episode other than this is a full episode about 2 HIGHLY EMBARRASSING stories about poop. Gretchen and Jessie have embarrassing poop stories. They take turns telling them.
SUBMIT YOUR STORIES! email heysisterspod@gmail.com or find us on instagram: @heysisterspodcast. Apple eating foley, sibling rivalry, diapering systems, The Time Life Magazine, points of no return, tortilla chips, ancient Hollywood, Oscars scandals and new Oscars categories, dumpy vs. blonde, Mom Wars, No Bed of Roses, No Shred of Truth, Jessie's disorganized notes
SUBMIT YOUR STORIES! email heysisterspod@gmail.com or find us on instagram: @heysisterspodcast. Gretchen saw Hamilton and the Appomattox Court House, Going nowhere fast, Falsities, sister language, Jessie didn't actually pay attention to the musical, The Scottish Play, yawning, comma-ntary, Really this episode is just an excuse for Gretchen to attempt to secure a place in the national tour of Hamilton. And Peggy.
SUBMIT YOUR STORIES! email heysisterspod@gmail.com or find us on instagram: @heysisterspodcast. Also send us your wine, Jesie's cat is distracting, a little light reading, death poetry, anachronisms, fascicles, Maya Rudolph, and you know what? we completely derailed on this one. Have fun... we sure did!
SUBMIT YOUR STORIES! email heysisterspod@gmail.com or find us on instagram: @heysisterspodcast. Live and in person sort of, NYC, dowagers, fraud, Gretchen acts like Stefan, door-to-door creepin', Bali cemetery, The Deadalong, quick fast and scurry, Jessie theorizes, more fraud, creepypasta, sudden facts from find a grave.
SUBMIT YOUR STORIES! email heysisterspod@gmail.com or find us on instagram: @heysisterspodcast. talking sponsorships, pub wench mama, extortion, Harry Houdini, name dropping, Remember the Alamo, terrible and good musicals, hashtag sodastream sponsor us please
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roller derby IS a real sport, OUR mother also has dulcet tones, media chaos, aliases, Gretchen may have been taken for a ride by the internet, Jessie has a white board, friends are snitches, yikes on bikes, aggressive book titles, big gossip eyes, goin' conjecturin', respect anonymity
viruses, lost eggs, Bright Young People, 1920s, acronyms, bad nicknames, English castles, rewinding, soup like a square, Communists and Fascists and Nazis Oh My, more bad nicknames, library class, and there were about 10 more minutes of match strikes that we edited out
problems with subtraction, teacher moments, name changes, witch DNA, menopause and the devil, trespassing pigs, Regina Spektral Evidence, and the SATs.
This week's podcast is all about the pioneering sisters of early medicine: Drs. Elizabeth and Emily Blackwell. Titling our podcast, George Washington, janky left eyes, confusing lady bits, Geneva, pus cannons, Carrie Pigsblood, dulcet tones, and The South. Plus, Gretchen gets stuck in 1850.
Get stoked for our very first season of Hey, Sisters! podcast! Stories of sisters told by sisters Gretchen and Jessie. Wondering what an episode may be like? Tune in here for a cheeky preview and explanation!