Have You Met My Best Friend...?: Recent Episodes

Jackie & Alyssa

After 24 years of friendship, Jackie Batch and Alyssa Hendricks share stories, advice, and jabs at one another's intellect. Sift your way through the sarcastic ramblings of coffee table talks with these lifelong friends. You might leave feeling inspired or maybe just like you've wasted 30 minutes of your life.

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Alyssa went to Austin, Texas and is tellin' us all about it!

Also hear us break out SPOT ON impressions, terrible attempts at accents and chat about Jackie's close encounters with heinous bugs.

We've got a little bit of everything all the time.

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A day late, but here we are. This may be a bit of a theme. 

We started with a direction and possibly got lost along the way...or maybe ended up exactly where we needed to be. 

Listen to some real conversation after a month apart!

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From what our favorite colors are to how our children will impact the future of humanity...listen in to hear us get wildly sidetracked from a BFF quiz.

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Here is is! Part two of the birth story...a retelling from Alyssa's perspective.

Buckle up.

Just kidding - she kept it pretty tame. Hahah

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Jackie and Jae just celebrated their birthday this last weekend, so what better way to celebrate than diving into the birth story...because yes....Alyssa was there for the whole thing.

If you don't want to hear about birth just go ahead and skip it. 
If you don't like constant amounts of TMI-ing (thats a verb...sure) maybe pick another podcast altogether?

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We're going to the D-A-I-Y-E, Daiye Spa!

And so we thought we would talk a little about our current self care in this snippet of an episode. 

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We are BACK! We took a bit of a hiatus, but here we are.

Today we went rogue from our original plan and dove into a variety of hilarious, awkward and chilling personal stories, not to mention wandering down a number of rabbit hole-conversations (as usual hah!)

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They said it couldn't be done! ...well at least heavily implied it. 

Today we talk about our time living together and how it somehow brought us dramatically closer rather than tearing us apart (as apparently so many "friendship turned roommate" situations do).

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Can you "rescue" a puppy? Where is the worst place you dog has had an accident?? Why is dog training so hard??? Does champagne and tequila make a good mixed drink????

Just a few of the big life questions we try to answer in today's episode.

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We talkin' about puppiessssss!

Reminiscing about how we got our dogs...reliving rookie pet owner mistakes...cringing at the amount of time spent at the vet...and so much more.

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Today's topic is...Spontaneity! 

No ten days have collectively been quite as spontaneous as the ones we spent traveling around Brazil in 2015. Listen to hear our thoughts on the balance between thinking things through and....well...not. 

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Hustle...take a break...you do you - BUT wherever you are...embrace the season!

Jackie and Alyssa talk about their current and past relationships with the idea of "productivity" and how it has effected them during times of forced rest.

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Happy New Year!

Whether you rang in the new year with champagne and fireworks or slept through it on the couch DOES NOT determine how the rest of your year will go. 

In this episode, Jackie and Alyssa swap dramatic stories of their first few days in 2022, while reflecting on silver-linings & gratitude regardless of circumstance.

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With a half marathon on the way, Jackie and Alyssa talk about their relationships with running, training, and all the metaphors for life that exercise inspires. 

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It's the pilot!  Nothing like recording twice to get one piece of content.  Listen to hosts Jackie Batch and Alyssa Hendricks introduce themselves and expose their ridiculous relationship to the masses.  

Expect wild tangents, silly stories, and heart to hearts as these two dive into the last 24 years of friendship.