Cassie and Grace have grown up to be relatively normal adults, considering they both received their sex education from the gutter! In this week’s episode, we discuss getting sick while travelling, hiding your emotional need for animals, and terrible age-gap relationships. We come up with an amazing pitch for “The Divorce Horse” and are still waiting to hear from Hollywood on that.

This is our last episode before a short holiday hiatus. Happy New Year to all our listeners!

Recommended:

The Body Keeps the Score (book)

Topics Discussed:

Travelling, get sick overseas, name brand Sudafed, PEI vacation, getting your period, poor sex education, lodgers, emotional neediness, embarrassing pet encounters, horses, age gap relationships, 22-year-olds, pull-ups, running, birthdays, cats, therapy books

Grace and Cassie are feeling festive in this week’s surprisingly Christmassy episode! We talk gift-giving, Christmas stockings for cats, and $80 wreathes. One poster’s boyfriend only wants happiness for a gift (rude), and a bride finds herself the victim of a judgmental wedding photographer. In the end, Grace learns a valuable lesson about taking turns and Cassie gets promised a Christmas tree!

Topics discussed:

Cat affection, cat drool, drippy butts, Christmas stockings, crafts, bedazzling, live performances, Avenue Q, The Book of Mormon, pubs, cozy sweaters, travelling, happiness, Christmas gifts, believing in Santa, wedding photography, debt, wreathes, running outside, Christmas tree, burrito bowls

Recommendations:

The Song in Every Musical That No One Likes - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dXKUgjYh7lo

Christmas trees

Burrito bowls

This week, Cassie and Grace get HUMBLE by talking about the things they’re bad at! Then it’s pretty much all food disputes for the rest of the episode. Does making sandwiches contribute to the patriarchy? Why would you dispose of food in a urinal? And how can a picky eater Dad regain his family’s respect? All this and more!

Recommended:

Gillian Anderson as Margaret Thatcher on The Crown

Wholesome cooking with your significant other

Topics Discussed:

Lockdown in Toronto, things we’re bad at, sports intramural, cows, horses, love languages, gifts, making dinner, patriarchy, disposing of unwanted food, picky eaters, picky dads, wholesome relationship eating, The Crown, pizza

In this week’s episode, we discuss our mixed success with school extracurriculars, and Cassie makes the horrifying discovery that Grace is a law-abiding nerd. We go deep into relationship psychology on our first post, and then offer some legitimately good advice (in our humble opinion) for dealing with an unreliable friend who’s come crawling back.

Recommendations:

Kitten paws

You’re Wrong About (podcast) - especially their 5-part Princess Diana series

Why Are Dads (podcast)

Maintenance Phase (podcast)

Topics discussed:

Extracurriculars, grade school band, broken fingers, flute, percussion, clarinet, school newspaper, yearbook, illegal activities, work schedules, relationship asks, psychology, social climbing, unreliable friends, gaslighting, new relationships, podcasts, Princess Diana

Join us for a time capsule episode! As Cassie and Grace wait for the U.S. election to be called on November 7, 2020, they discuss their regrettable past opinions, more pee stories, and active listening styles. By the end of the episode, things get a little loopy - but don’t worry, it’s just a reflection of the times.

Recommended:

Large Ikea Sharks

Paranormal Home Inspectors

Jenny Nicholson’s “The Worst Ghost Hunting Show of All Time” video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-wG9m-eYNiM&t=1693s

Not recommended:

Avatar

Topics Discussed:

The US Election, regrettable opinions, soup, Tequila Bookworm, Avatar, pee stories, active listening, social scripts, connecting with fictional characters, Ikea, large stuffed animals, Paranormal Home Inspectors, Jenny Nicholson

This week, Cassie and Grace open up and reveal their bizarre lists of most watched films, their favourite books, and (like most adults) how reading has been ruined for them.

We then jump into one of our weirdest questions yet about a rapidly crumbling DIY engagement ring, followed by one of the WORST boyfriends we’ve ever discussed. Seriously. The Worst.

Recommendations:

Cassie’s top 3 most rewatched movies: Bridget Jones’s Diary, Inception, The Room

Grace’s top 2 most rewatched movies: Shrek 2, Chicken Run

Grace’s book recs: City of Glass by Paul Auster, Doomsday Book by Connie

Cassie’s book recs: So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish by Douglas Adams, and Someone Who Will Love You in All Your Damaged Glory: Stories by Raphael Bob-Waksberg

Manicures

Saga - comic book series

Topics Discussed:

Cold weather, most rewatched movies, favourite books, what ruined reading for you, himbos, DIY crafts, shower singing, ruining your girlfriend’s life, proper revenge, at-home manicures, comic books, dweebs

This week, Cassie and Grace are feeling…. fine? Like, pretty good? Who knew this was possible!  Learn more about our misspent youths in Ottawa and Halifax as we talk shitty jobs and first crushes. A very good boy is forced to eat an entire sushi boat in our first post, and Grace is skeptical of Cassie’s attempts to empathize with Chris Pratt.

Recommendations:

Matty Vu's cross stitch creations: https://www.instagram.com/themattyvu/

Grace’s non-existent Etsy store

Cassie’s Winnipeg Comedy Festival set (when it is online someday)

Things With Cats Halloween Episode - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DOBQr0fou_0

Topics Discussed:

Shitty jobs, Roasty Jack’s, Thanksgiving food, fish & chips truck, first crushes, sushi boats, aggressive Venmo requests, worst Chris, Chris Pratt, Mark Ruffalo, stand-up comedy, Winnipeg Comedy Festival, cross-stitching, Michael’s craft store

Cassie and Grace start off by indulging their worst impulses - it’s all petty grudges and making people cry in this week’s First Date Questions. Then we dig into posts about messy moms, reluctant moms, and mean D&D boyfriends. Both Cassie and Grace’s cats have had traumatic health weeks, but all is well thanks to good vets and attractive period dramas. Now, let’s all enjoy a delicious can of Pasta Spaghetti Beans!

Recommended:

Bathurst & Dupont Animal Hospital

Bay Cat Hospital in Toronto

Sauced in Austen podcast

Topics Discussed:

Petty grudges, making people cry, messy moms, snacks vs. meals, D&D, mean boyfriends, reluctant parents, postpartum depression, bad vets, good vets, Outlander, Pride & Prejudice

Content warnings: mention of “rape” in a fictional game setting, discussion involving postpartum depression

Wow wow WOW, this is the first episode we recorded after we started releasing and promoting this sweet baby podcast! We start with Grace offending Cassie by saying cats are gross, but peace is made as we talk reincarnation, Fat Bear Week, and mom-daughter emotional boundaries.

Cassie and Grace bond over similar Gilmore Girls opinions (hopefully not losing all our #TeamJess listeners) and discuss the dicey issue of lending money to friends and lovers.  We close off by letting you know: it’s okay to be sad!

Recommended:

Fat Bear Week

Artificial Tears eye drops

President’s Choice Gluten Free Waffles

We highly recommend rating our podcast 5 stars on whatever podcast app you use!

Topics discussed:

Gross cat things, reincarnation, Fat Bear Week, Gilmore Girls hot takes, moms in therapy, money lending, eye surgery, illicit hugs, gluten free waffles, celebrities eating carbs

Cassie and Grace have had ROUGH. WEEKS. Cassie for real life reasons, Grace because she can’t handle change, but heck - they’re gonna support each other anyways! Once we get into the meat of the episode, Cassie stresses the importance of punctuality; Grace talks fraught sibling relationships. The first post we discuss really BURIES THE LEAD on intergenerational, no-quite-incest dating. The second dispute is a heavy hypothetical, and then we cleanse ourselves by discussing savoury oatmeal, Succession and Scott Pilgrim vs. The World. Bonus points for any listener that catches the part where Grace cannot pronounce the word “hypothetical.”

Recommended:

Savoury oatmeal

Succession (tv series)

Scott Pilgrim vs. The World (movie)

Kieran Culkin

Topics Discussed: break-ups, laser eye surgery, moving, relationship deal-breakers, punctuality, siblings, awkward “I Love You” stories, twisted family trees, savoury oatmeal, Succession, Scott Pilgrim

Thanks to Leete Stetson for our theme song!