Episode 15: Did we forget that we have a podcast? MAYBE! But it was fun to be back gabbin’ together once again. Megan and Taylor chat about their recent travels, get in their feels about gratitude, and discuss how to instill perspective - might it be through a sad documentary that you force your children to watch? The answer is YES. Also, Megan accidentally gives patriot vibes when talking about her love of the US, and we doubled up on hyper-fixations this week because we... wanted to.

Hyperfixations:

Megan: Thoughts vs. Thinking - Don’t Believe Everything You Think 

90s Rap Playlist 

Taylor: Perspective & gratitude - Documentary: Poverty in the USA 

Podcast episode with Matt Reynolds

Megan and Taylor are best friends of 30 years, originating in Lilburn, Georgia, and spanning across Alabama, Tennessee, New York, Colorado, and now to Berlin, Germany. Join them as they catch up weekly to unpack Taylor’s move to Berlin with her husband and three sons and all the hilarious and moving things experienced along the way. 

Long Distance Calls Podcast is edited and engineered by Megan and Taylor themselves with the help of, well, no one really. Thanks for being here. 

FOLLOW ALONG FOR MORE!

INSTAGRAM:

Megan: ⁠@meganmcsweeneys⁠

Taylor: ⁠@taylorbfontenot⁠

TIKTOK:

Taylor: ⁠@taylorinberlin⁠

Episode 14: We are back, baby! It’s 2024! It’s a brand new year! And we are…. surviving! Megan and Taylor discuss a few highlights/lowlights from the last few months and talk honestly about moving through tough times, the tricky side to hope, and how having feelings about the feelings can make a situation worse. But all in all, it was good to break out the microphones and get back on the metaphorical podcasting horse. We can only go up from here, y’all, so it's lookin’ good! 

Hyperfixations:

Megan: All of us Strangers  - Megan post-film viewing 

Taylor: Low-level goals 

Megan and Taylor are best friends of 30 years, originating in Lilburn, Georgia, and spanning across Alabama, Tennessee, New York, Colorado, and now to Berlin, Germany. Join them as they catch up weekly to unpack Taylor’s move to Berlin with her husband and three sons and all the hilarious and moving things experienced along the way. 

Long Distance Calls Podcast is edited and engineered by Megan and Taylor themselves with the help of, well, no one really. Thanks for being here.

FOLLOW ALONG FOR MORE!

INSTAGRAM:

Megan: ⁠@meganmcsweeneys⁠

Taylor: ⁠@taylorbfontenot⁠

TIKTOK:

Taylor: ⁠@taylorinberlin⁠

Episode 13: It has been a minute! Taylor shares about her recent trip to Budapest with her friend Lindsay, which leads us to discuss the importance of friendships, how you never know when your next friend is right around the corner, and we touch on our favorite topic: chemistry! We have to, of course, quickly address our favorite himbo's dum dum tweets (Travis Kelce) and cover two very different hyper-fixations.

Hyperfixations:

Megan: Protein. ⁠Are we eating too much of it?? ⁠

Taylor: ⁠Noah Kahan⁠

Megan and Taylor are best friends of 30 years, originating in Lilburn, Georgia, and spanning across Alabama, Tennessee, New York, Colorado, and now to Berlin, Germany. Join them as they catch up weekly to unpack Taylor’s move to Berlin with her husband and three sons and all the hilarious and moving things experienced along the way. 

Long Distance Calls Podcast is edited and engineered by Megan and Taylor themselves with the help of, well, no one really. Thanks for being here. 

FOLLOW ALONG FOR MORE!

INSTAGRAM:

Megan:⁠ ⁠@meganmcsweeneys⁠⁠

Taylor:⁠ ⁠@taylorbfontenot⁠⁠

TIKTOK:

Taylor:⁠ ⁠@taylorinberlin⁠⁠

Episode 12: It's Halloween, ya freaks! So far, it sounds like the Germans don’t quite get as into it as we do in the States, but TBD tonight. Taylor gives an update on fall break and her family trip to Dresden. She takes note of a few quirky interactions with fellow travelers while using a shared space, which leads us to the hot topic of the episode: consideration. Is it cultural? What does it look like in a relationship? Is it nature vs nurture? And should we write Gary Chapman and have him add it as the 6th love language? Immediately yes.

We also hyper-fixate on 1989 and the new vault songs while making a vow to have more dynamic personalities next week. We promise you guys! 

Hyperfixations:

Megan & Taylor: 1989 Taylor’s Version 

Megan and Taylor are best friends of 30 years, originating in Lilburn, Georgia, and spanning across Alabama, Tennessee, New York, Colorado, and now to Berlin, Germany. Join them as they catch up weekly to unpack Taylor’s move to Berlin with her husband and three sons and all the hilarious and moving things experienced along the way. 

Long Distance Calls Podcast is edited and engineered by Megan and Taylor themselves with the help of, well, no one really. Thanks for being here. 

FOLLOW ALONG FOR MORE!

INSTAGRAM:

Megan: ⁠@meganmcsweeneys⁠

Taylor: ⁠@taylorbfontenot⁠

TIKTOK:

Taylor: ⁠@taylorinberlin⁠

Episode 11: Taylor provides an update on life and her family in Berlin: the good, the hard, and the gloomy. Megan overshares a flirty story from her travels in Belfast, and we discuss our very different initial reactions to it. And finally, (did you really think we wouldn't do this?) we took a few glorious minutes to bask in the Taylor-and-Travis-sun together, and we've never felt more seen. 

Hyperfixations:

Megan & Taylor: Duhhhhhh. Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce  

Megan and Taylor are best friends of 30 years, originating in Lilburn, Georgia, and spanning across Alabama, Tennessee, New York, Colorado, and now to Berlin, Germany. Join them as they catch up weekly to unpack Taylor’s move to Berlin with her husband and three sons and all the hilarious and moving things experienced along the way. 

Long Distance Calls Podcast is edited and engineered by Megan and Taylor themselves with the help of, well, no one really. Thanks for being here. 

FOLLOW ALONG FOR MORE!

INSTAGRAM:

Megan: ⁠@meganmcsweeneys⁠

Taylor: ⁠@taylorbfontenot⁠

TIKTOK:

Taylor: ⁠@taylorinberlin⁠

Episode 10: Just a short little guy this week, for reasons we explain in the episode, but we missed you guys! Taylor gives us an unglamorous day-in-the-life, and we chit-chat about our current hyperfixations. We will be back next week in all of our silly goose glory. 

Hyperfixations:

Megan: Romantic Comedy by Curtis Sittenfeld & Nora Goes Off Script by Annabel Monaghan

Tay: The BECKHAM Documentary Series

Megan and Taylor are best friends of 30 years, originating in Lilburn, Georgia, and spanning across Alabama, Tennessee, New York, Colorado, and now to Berlin, Germany. Join them as they catch up weekly to unpack Taylor’s move to Berlin with her husband and three sons and all the hilarious and moving things experienced along the way. 

Long Distance Calls Podcast is edited and engineered by Megan and Taylor themselves with the help of, well, no one really. Thanks for being here. 

FOLLOW ALONG FOR MORE!

INSTAGRAM:

Megan: ⁠@meganmcsweeneys⁠

Taylor: ⁠@taylorbfontenot⁠

TIKTOK:

Taylor: ⁠@taylorinberlin⁠

Episode 9: Taylor and Megan spend a bit of time examining their egos in this episode and deciding just how fragile they actually are. They break the fourth wall and discuss how making the podcast has left them feeling exposed at times and how this feeling relates to other areas of their lives. Also, Megan is very concerned about Taylor’s mail situation and how she might go to jail for missing jury duty. BUT WILL SHE THO? 

Hyperfixations:

Megan: LED Face Mask  

Tay: Comedian Lisa Gilroy: @thelisagilroy

Megan and Taylor are best friends of 30 years, originating in Lilburn, Georgia, and spanning across Alabama, Tennessee, New York, Colorado, and now to Berlin, Germany. Join them as they catch up weekly to unpack Taylor’s move to Berlin with her husband and three sons and all the hilarious and moving things experienced along the way. 

Long Distance Calls Podcast is edited and engineered by Megan and Taylor themselves with the help of, well, no one really. Thanks for being here. 

FOLLOW ALONG FOR MORE!

INSTAGRAM:

Megan: ⁠@meganmcsweeneys⁠

Taylor: ⁠@taylorbfontenot⁠

TIKTOK:

Taylor: ⁠@taylorinberlin⁠

Episode 8: Megan and Taylor take a silly little (hot girl) walk down memory lane, prompted by a new German school tradition for Taylor's boys. Covering everything from talent shows to the Titanic movie, life before cell phones, traumatizing “games” that still haunt them to this day, and the delusional confidence of one middle school-aged Megan Spellman.

Hyperfixations:

Megan: Letter choice by customer service representatives   

Taylor: e.l.f. Instant Lift Brow Pencil 

Megan and Taylor are best friends of 30 years, originating in Lilburn, Georgia, and spanning across Alabama, Tennessee, New York, Colorado, and now to Berlin, Germany. Join them as they catch up weekly to unpack Taylor’s move to Berlin with her husband and three sons and all the hilarious and moving things experienced along the way. 

Long Distance Calls Podcast is edited and engineered by Megan and Taylor themselves with the help of, well, no one really. Thanks for being here. 

FOLLOW ALONG FOR MORE!

INSTAGRAM:

Megan: ⁠@meganmcsweeneys⁠

Taylor: ⁠@taylorbfontenot⁠

TIKTOK:
Taylor: ⁠@taylorinberlin⁠

Episode 7: Taylor and Megan really hit all the high notes in this episode. And by high notes, we actually mean low notes. We’ve got anxiety! We’ve got depression! We’ve got asthma attacks! We’ve got accusations against Disney for lying to us our whole lives! It’s just a little dose of being a human this week, folks, and hopefully, you can relate. If not, catch us next week once our serotonin levels have rebounded. 

Hyperfixations:

Megan: Tinx Box Theory for Dating 

Taylor: Ed Sheeran: The Sum Of It All Documentary

Megan and Taylor are best friends of 30 years, originating in Lilburn, Georgia, and spanning across Alabama, Tennessee, New York, Colorado, and now to Berlin, Germany. Join them as they catch up weekly to unpack Taylor’s move to Berlin with her husband and three sons and all the hilarious and moving things experienced along the way. 

Long Distance Calls Podcast is edited and engineered by Megan and Taylor themselves with the help of, well, no one really. Thanks for being here. 

FOLLOW ALONG FOR MORE!

INSTAGRAM:

Megan: ⁠@meganmcsweeneys⁠

Taylor: ⁠@taylorbfontenot⁠

TIKTOK:

Taylor: ⁠@taylorinberlin⁠

Episode 6: It’s back-to-school week in Germany for Taylor's boys! Megan recaps her latest travels, and they both reflect on the complexities of adult relationships and having friends for different seasons — also, mouse-sized kombucha (!!!) and self-imposed school uniforms. 

Hyperfixations:

Megan: Cillian Murphy (NYT: The Eyes of Cillian Murphy) Peaky Blinders 

Taylor: The Holderness Family Podcast - Back to School Pep Talk with Dr. Hope Seidel

Megan and Taylor are best friends of 30 years, originating in Lilburn, Georgia, and spanning across Alabama, Tennessee, New York, Colorado, and now to Berlin, Germany. Join them as they catch up weekly to unpack Taylor’s move to Berlin with her husband and three sons and all the hilarious and moving things experienced along the way. 

Long Distance Calls Podcast is edited and engineered by Megan and Taylor themselves with the help of, well, no one really. Thanks for being here. 

FOLLOW ALONG FOR MORE!

INSTAGRAM:

Megan: ⁠@meganmcsweeneys⁠

Taylor: ⁠@taylorbfontenot⁠

TIKTOK:

Taylor: ⁠@taylorinberlin⁠