Threewheeling: Recent Episodes
Sascha and Laurel
Laurel and Sascha know what it's like to try and make friends in your thirties. Brought together by a text message introduction through a mutual friend, they bonded over the challenges of moving half-way across the globe, in your mature twenties (cough early thirties)... when it seems like everyone around you are settling down, walking down the isle, or making babies.
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We're back - we're random - and we're embracing the chaos! Sascha is back from her massive trip, and re-connected with lots of friends, and Laurel has been to one of her all time favourite events - a clothes swap. (Listen to Questioning Fashion as well pls!)
Editors Note: This episode is over an hour, but Sascha had to cut 20 minutes when she edited. Should we talk longer? Is that what the people want? Or is this already indulgent enough? Emails us/text us/instagram us - we want to know.
Reading:
Sascha - Romantic Comedy by Curtis Sittenfeld & I'm glad my mom died by Jennette McCurdy
Laurel - The Overstory by Richard Powers, Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr, Flights by Olga Tokarczuk
Listening:
Sascha - The Newsagents (Podcast by Global)
Laurel - On Being Podcast & Poetry Unbound
Watching:
It's a bumper collective!
The Marvellous Mrs Maisel, Succession and Ted Lasso, which have all come to an end.
In our latest episode, Laurel finds the delights of housewarming on a smaller scale and the importance of asking for help when you're hosting. Shout out to Heather, the real MVP. Sascha isn't making new pals because something's got to give when you're preparing for a trip overseas and trying to do all the things...and that's ok! We've got some cultural delights here, too.
Listening
Laurel - Book Chat, Questioning Fashion
Sascha - But Are You Happy?
Watching
Laurel - Ted Lasso
Sascha - Love Me
Reading
Laurel - I Remember Nothing, by Nora Ephron (also this article on Hot Cross buns)
Sascha - Chokepoint Capitalism (and this article by poet Maggie Smith... read this one too)
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We're in flow again people! Laurel has been enjoying little mini-breaks around NSW, and Sascha is planning her upcoming adventure across two continents, and reconnecting with old friends. We discuss the fact that the bros seem to love the sauna, and admire the 70s gear on show in Daisy Jones and The Six.
We've had a new listener Natalie point out a typo that's been in the show for two years, so Sascha wants to say, I edited this on F1 Race Day, so if there are small errors - she begs forgiveness! She was watching Hamilton race around the Albert Park track!
Watching
Sascha and Laurel: Daisy Jones and the Six - Amazon Prime
Sascha's bonus: Prima Facie at the Melbourne Theatre Company
Reading
Laurel: Based on a True Story: Not a Memoir - Norm MacDonald
Small Things Like These - Claire Keegan
The Lost Man - Jane Harper
Listening
Sascha: I'm super lazy - it's just my Spotify Daily Drive
Laurel: The audio book of See What You Made Me Do - Jess Hill
and she went to Florence and the Machine (lucky thing!)
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We're back by...some demand. It's great to be with you, friends! Sascha and Laurel are back behind their mics for 2023 with more reflections on making friends in your 30s and the things we're enjoying reading, listening to and watching. The usual giggling and nonsensical chatter also features.
Before we get into our recommendations, check out Sascha on this great panel discussion about the future of classical music and being interviewed by Australian national treasure, Leigh Sales.
Listening:
Laurel: EQUAL: Classical on Spotify, Bylur, by Eydís Evensen
Sascha: Attention: Miley Live
Reading:
Laurel: We Have Always Lived in the Castle, by Shirley Jackson
Sascha: The Bronze Horseman, by Paullina Simons and Still Life by Sarah Winman
Watching:
Laurel: Women Talking
Sascha: Tár Bonus podcast content: The Big Picture
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We're running through the highlights of the year that was 2022!
There's too many to name, so we might have missed some - but they include our Spotify Wrapped, a long long chat with voicenotes about the joy of television that was the White Lotus and our reflections on the year that was. Please enjoy our ramblings, released just in time for Christmas Day. Sascha will put it all together on a tile on our Instagram - check it out here.
Thank YOU for joining our small but mighty Threewheeling community in 2022 and supporting us. Can't wait to tell you more about our adventures in 2023!
Laurel is over the ditch, visiting and working and took the opportunity to catch up with a friend from Brussels. Sascha has been saying yes to being a +1 at various events and wants to tell a tale about it!
Laurel
Listening: Dermot Kennedy - Antihero
Watching: Freaks and Geeks
Reading: Giving Up The Ghost - Hilary Mantel
Sascha
Listening: On with Kara Swisher: Elon Musk: Somebody that I used to know
Watching: The Crown Season 5! (naturally)
Reading: The Success Experiment - Lillian Ahenkan
Flex Mami ep for YIGC: https://equitymates.com/show/youre-in-good-company/
And Lena Dunham article: https://www.vogue.com/article/lena-dunham-hysterectomy-vogue-march-2018-issue
On this week's episode, Sascha has found a perfect-fit writing group and is reminding herself to read the dress code for future invitations. Laurel is throwing it back to one of our lockdown episodes and meeting people (and dogs) at her local coffee shop.
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Reading
Laurel -Companion Piece, by Ali Smith
Sascha -The heaviest pain in the world, by Rob Delaney
Watching
Sascha -Cate Blanchett on Hot Ones
Laurel -Great British Bake Off / White Lotus
Listening
Laurel -Dish (Dolly Alderton episode)
Sascha -Flex and Froomes
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Sascha is socialising with a vengeance! She's begun her long awaited pottery class, and was networking up a storm at a work conference. The art of small talk is back! Laurel went and played a spot of tennis with a friend and also read an article about how to keep making friends as an adult on Mamamia. I
Reading
Laurel: We Play Ourselves by Jen Silverman
Sascha: The Couple Upstairs by Holly Wainwright
Listening
Laurel: Ladies we need to talk
Sascha: Stuff the British Stole
Watching
Sascha: The Good Fight & Muster Dogs
Laurel: Don't Worry Darling
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Sascha is emerging from her reading rut this week and we're celebrating! We're also excited for Big Friendship, returning to gigs and the joys of hosting. Plus, a special treat: some restaurant recommendations in Sydney because it was Laurel's birthday week.
Watch:
Sascha - The Offer / Life and Beth
Laurel - Mad Max Fury Road (Feeling 22 at Art Gallery NSW)
Listen:
Sascha - The Big Picture (The Draft)
Laurel - The Beths (Little Death)
Reading:
Laurel - Big Friendship by Aminatou Sow and Ann Freidman
Sascha - Apples Never Fall by Liane Moriarty and Great Circle by Maggie Shipstead
Restaurants!
Grana
Fontana
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Sascha's pledged to attend a writing class - having not written anything much in a little while, but is hoping Laurel will hold her accountable. Laurel is also inspired to join a group (and work on her novel, Nights in Tathra) and wants to sing the praises of her new 'banter bus' friend - a connection courtesy of Book Club!
Reading
Sascha: David Whyte - Still Possible
Laurel: After Dark - Murakami
Listening:
Sascha: You're Wrong About (all the episodes!)
Laurel: Off Menu Podcast (Maisie Adam & Taron Edgerton)
Watching:
Ep 1 of House of the Dragon
We're back! Can we call this a new season? Why not?! Welcome to Season 3 of Threewheeling, where Laurel and Sascha discuss some of the best social advice we've ever heard, enrolling in new arts and crafts classes, and why a person's response to the song Never Too Much by Luther Vandross will be a litmus test for your friendship.
Reading
Laurel: Build Your House Around My Body, by Violet Kupersmith
Sascha: Lewis Hamilton Vanity Fair profile
Watching
Laurel: Succession Season 3, plus: Succession, but it's a romantic comedy - Tom and Greg
Sascha: The Twelve
Listening
Laurel: Desert Island Discs
Sascha: Never Too Much, by Luther Vandross
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The latest Threewheeling episode is a slight departure from our normal programming. Laurel and Sascha have been on a roadtrip! Sit back and listen to some small snippets of chats from the road and scroll down for a mini playlist of the big hitters that featured in behind-the-wheel karaoke sessions. Threewheeling will be taking a little break now, but will be BACK in your feeds next month to kick off season 3!
Further reading on our Pete Davidson chat here.
Roadtrip22 -- a playlist
In this episode Laurel and Sascha review Sascha's Birthday Week - which was the headline friend making activity for both of them. Laurel drops the bombshell that Beyonce is releasing more music, which leads Sascha to ponder how much Blue Ivy has surprisingly grown up!
Listening
Sascha: The Imperfects
Laurel: The Conversation Hour
Reading
Sascha: A dog ate my homework.
Laurel: The Cazalet Chronicles 'The Light Years'
Watching
It's Cultural Blockbuster 2.1, as they chat about Everything I Know About Love - and Sascha and Laurel fight about who is president of the Dolly Alderton Fan Club that week.
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This week you find Sascha in the depths of a sewing project, and on the eve of her birthday week! Laurel has experienced the kind of meet cute most of us dream of, or are only seen in movies, which led to a mad night out, or she's fallen into an episode of Cheers.
Reading
Laurel - One Hundred Days - Alice Pung
Sascha - The Unlikely Voyage of Jack DeCrowe by A J Mackinnon
Listening
Laurel - Unreal: A Critical History of Reality TV
Sascha - Liar Liar Podcast
Watching
Sascha - Conversations with Friends (Amazon Prime)
Laurel - Everything Everywhere All At Once (movie)
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In our latest episode, Sascha talks about finding common ground with fellow Facebook marketplace goers on the stresses of moving, and Laurel has been to her first No Lights No Lycra (with Sascha).
Listening:
Sascha - Sentimental in the City - And Just Like That (Bonus: The Writers' Room).
Laurel - Fortunately with Fi and Jane PLUS 28ish Days Later
Reading:
Sascha - Nick Cave's Red Hand Files #61
Laurel - Apeirogon, by Colum McCann
Watching:
Laurel - Hacks Season 2 (Stan)
Sascha - Conversations with Friends (Amazon Prime)
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We're back! Did you miss us?
After an unintentional hiatus Laurel and Sascha are both back in Australia and ready to tell you all about what they've been enjoying recently. Sascha shocks Laurel into silence in our reading segment and get ready for some bodice-ripping revelations.
Reading:
Laurel - The North Water, by Ian McGuire
Sascha - Save the Cat, by Jessica Brody
Listening:
Laurel - Best Friend Therapy - Relationship Games
Sascha - Sway - with Tina Brown
Watching:
Laurel - Bridgerton (Netflix)
Sascha - Anatomy of a Scandal (Netflix)
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In our latest episode, Laurel steals a friend's recommendation - and shares the joy of written correspondence. Sascha is undertaking a gym tour of Sydney, and has found a tribe of exercise friends, and apropos of nothing, talks about her glitzy new ring that she impulse bought. The two aren't recording together this week, as Laurel is on the eve of taking the long haul flight back to the UK to see her family for the first time in 3 years! Bon voyage Laurel!
Watching
Sascha - S4 of Drive to Survive (Netflix)
Laurel - Succession (Adjacent recommendation - Jeremy Strong doesn't get the joke)
Listening
Sascha - Tina Arena's performance of Chains
Laurel - Texas Man by the Chicks, and Little White Dove by Jenny Lewis
Reading
Laurel - Non Fiction -Something Out of Place by Eimear McBride
Fiction - Rachel's Holiday by Marian Keyes
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In our latest episode, Sascha flexes her artistic muscles and escapes her reading rut with Diana Reid's Love and Virtue. Laurel says goodbye (for now) to her swimming Ladz and revisits a childhood obsession with Pamela Anderson.
Watching:
Sascha - The Good Fight (Stan)
Laurel - Pam and Tommy (Disney+)
Listening:
Sascha - Max Richter - Voices
Laurel - BBC World Service (plus, Everything Is Fine: The Science of Making and Keeping Friends)
Reading:
Sascha - Love and Virtue, by Diana Reid
Laurel - Attached, by Dr. Amir Levine and Rachel Heller
Donate:
Save The Children's Ukraine crisis campaign - Australian link
The Kyiv Independent
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In our latest episode, Sascha has gone all-in on some US-inspired recommendations and is bringing some strong Obama vibes to the office. Laurel waxes lyrical on a new (to her) musician and continues her love of Sarah Winman's novels.
Watch:
Laurel - Drive My Car
Sascha - Inventing Anna (Netflix)
Listen:
Laurel - Little Simz - Sometimes I Might Be Introvert
Sascha - Pivot, Sway podcasts
Reading:
Sascha - A Promised Land - Barack Obama (audiobook)
- Why you (probably) won't finish reading this story
Laurel - Tin Man, by Sarah Winman
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It's been a long, relaxing summer, but Laurel and Sascha are back for '22, together again, and this time they're speaking in person!
Laurel has committed to a year of ocean swimming, and prolific reading, and Sascha has abandoned a permanent address, and is calling Sydney home for the near future, and has been holding adult sleepovers, with old friends, at fancy hotels.
Reading
Laurel - The Book of Form and Emptiness
Sascha - Wolf Hall & Anatomy of a Scandal
Listen
Laurel - Deborah Levy on Desert Island Discs and Great Women Artists
Sascha - Sergio Mendez & Brasil '66
Watch
Laurel - Love Me on Binge and Station Eleven on Stan
Sascha - Get Back by Peter Jackson
It's been such a month. Laurel and Sascha have been travelling for work, moving house, packing up their lives and trying their best to avoid a Christmas spent in pandemic-enforced isolation. Laurel's been trying not to get her knickers in a twist while meeting new people, Sascha's been returning to some old favourites for reading material and cranking up the sweet, sugary hit of a Sex And The City reboot / And Just Like That...
There's some mobile static on this one, forgive us, Laurel's internet is shoddy at her new flat so we dialled in old school.
Listening
Sascha - And Just Like That...the writer's room
Laurel - Adele - 30
Reading
Sascha - T Magazine
Laurel - The Promise - Damon Galgut
Watching
Sascha - Landscapers
Laurel - Books That Made Us
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Yes, we're frightfully late! Computer gremlins, travel, the silly season, we just took our time editing this one. We're sorry. Please forgive us!
Laurel kicks off the pod with the tale of her fantastic neighbourhood correspondence. She's well and truly raised the bar, and Sascha is feeling the pressure... Both are rolling in the deep of the Red album (Taylor's version), so reflect on their respective journeys as Swifties. Sascha talks about a phenomenon known to anyone trying to make new friends - aka 'the liking gap', and then practises her best, 'Bond, James Bond', impression.
Watching
Sascha - All Too Well
Laurel - No Time To Die
Reading
Sascha - The Liking Gap
Laurel - Women Who Run with the Wolves
Listening
Sascha - Song Exploder: Go Your Own Way
Laurel - Red (Taylor's Version)
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This week Laurel and Sascha explore trying to say no to a frenzied schedule, and how finding a running app that works for you can be a game changer. We've got a double-appreciation segment for Love Life Season 2, and reading material that is surprising us and giving us hope.
Watch:
Love Life Season 2
Read:
Sascha -- The Marginalian newsletter
(Bonus shoutout to Wintering, by Katherine May)
Laurel -- Great Circle by Maggie Shipstead
Listen:
Sascha -- Marie Antoinette - Boyfriend, ft. Big Freedia
-- 100 Boyfriends - Alice Longyu Gao
Laurel -- You're In Good Company (podcast)
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This week Laurel and Sascha celebrate Threewheeling reaching the length of the TV adaptation of Pride and Prejudice by discussing three cultural blockbusters of the last few months. Sascha is marking the end of Victoria's lockdown by bringing loved ones together for a knees-up at the pub and Laurel confesses to living her entire life by to-do lists, even when making new friends.
Read:
Beautiful World, Where Are You, by Sally Rooney
Searching for more on Beautiful World, Where Are You? Here are some of our favourites:
Slate Culture Gabfest
Australian Book Review
The Culture
Watch:
Ted Lasso Season 2
Listen:
Easy On Me, Adele
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This week Laurel and Sascha discuss virtual Park Runs and surprise friendships as ways to find social connection. Sascha's reading of David Whyte poetry prompts some Big Feelings and Laurel remains ensconced in the 1970s.
Watch:
Sascha - Britney vs Spears (Netflix)
Laurel - 1971: The year that music changed everything (Apple TV+) (plus, Slate's Hit Parade podcast with Chris Molanphy)
Listen:
Laurel - How to Fail with Elizabeth Day: Ruby Tandoh and Stanley Tucci
Sascha - Happiness Lab: A Cautionary Tale of Kubrick and the Pain of Rejection (via Cautionary Tales)
Read:
Sascha - Consolations, by David Whyte
Laurel - A Man Called Ove, by Fredrik Backman
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In our latest episode Laurel looks forward to getting a whole new wardrobe via a clothes swap with friends once lockdown is over and Sascha discovers the truly "social" side to social media.
Watch:
Sascha - Vigil
Laurel - Sex Education
Read:
Laurel - A Room with a View, E.M. Forster
Sascha - The Joy of Fire: Roughly Eighty Poems to get by Heart and Say Aloud, Clive James
Listen:
Sascha - You're Wrong About
Laurel - Backlisted
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In this week's episode, Laurel and Sascha discuss online dating during lockdown, Jane Austen style, and meeting friends while pursuing a passion project. They also discuss the things they've enjoyed watching, reading and listening to recently, including the brave vulnerability of being joyfully enthusiastic and what it looks like to 'consciously uncouple' from a rigid routine.
Watch:
Sascha - Impeachment: American Crime Story
Laurel - The Chair
Read:
Sascha - The Vanity Fair Diaries - Tina Brown
Laurel - Pandora Sykes on consciously uncoupling from routine
Listen:
Sascha - Sentimental Garbage - RuPaul's dragrace with Self Esteem a.k.a Rebecca Lucy Taylor
Laurel - Nostaliga listening Fred Astaire & Nat King Cole
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Musical discoveries - Beverly Glenn Copeland - Tom Misch
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Classic Desert Island Discs with Lauren Bacall
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In the latest episode of Threewheeling, Laurel and Sascha discuss a hopeful print-media tale and finding comfort in re-reading Harry Potter and re-listening to Fleetwood Mac...again.
Plus, we answer a listener question on up-beat classical music.
For social connections in another lockdown week, Laurel is flopping over pillows in Instagram Live yoga and Sascha is re-connecting with old friends on new walks.
Read:
Laurel - Lonely Castle in the Mirror, by Mizuki Tsujimura
Sascha - T Australia
Watch:
Laurel - You've Got Mail (on Netflix), Dr. Shereene Idriss "Pillowtalk Derm"
Sascha - Hacks (on Stan)
Listening:
Laurel - Diving In podcast
Sascha - Bad Blood: The final chapter podcast
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Laurel and Sascha set up their microphones (after a very long twenty minutes of trouble shooting) to chat about their first episode. Both know the challenges of making friends in new cities at a time in life when, perhaps, it might feel everyone has already found the people they're sticking with, and both are facing the groundhog day experience of lockdown land.
To make friends, Sascha says join a fitness class. And make a daily trip to the cafe to chat to your friendly neighbourhood barista. Meanwhile, Laurel is trying to make friends on Zoom events despite feeling a bit screened out.
Reading
Sascha - Billion Dollar Whale
Laurel - The Wolf Hall Trilogy, Still Life
Watching
Sascha - Ted Lasso
Laurel - Everything I Know About Eats
Listening
Sascha - Janacek - On an Overgrown Path
Laurel - Classical Fix
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