Menage-A-Pod

We're Baaaaack! The podcast dream team you've grown to know and love over the last 18 months is FINALLY back! This week we talk about our other podcast appearances (B Posi+ive, The Big Gay Round Up, Singles Only), Gena checks back in with an update on someone from her past, TJ updates us on all things dating app (peenworking anyone?), and we talk about dating as a (fully single) Coronavirus survivor (Spoiler alert - TJ lived to tell his tale and now has a dating super power!)

This week we talk about the topic on everybody's mind...the coronavirus. Can we still date, get a little freaky and still keep #socialdistance? We give you those answers and more, some helpful tips for the epidemic, and then we go back into the mailbag and you guys didn't disappoint. Finally, we talk about the newest dating app for guys...but the catch is your penis has to be smaller than 5.5 inches!?!

I feel like this goes without saying (LOL), but do not mistake our advice for actual medical advice. Click the link below to see the CDC's recommendations for minimizing risk with coronavirus.

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This week we're joined by Vince Surdo, the CEO and Co-Founder of the new dating app based in Chicago, "CATCH". We learn all about this exciting new app that prioritizes location based in person meet-ups that will be going live on the Apple Store soon, talk about the dating app landscape, Gena gives us all Coronavirus, and we dive deeeeeeeeeeeep into the mailbag!

Follow Catch on Instagram @catchdating

Follow Vince Surdo on Instagram @vincent.surdo44

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In our 60th episode this week we are joined by the hysterical Lindsey Shaw (writer, actor, comedian, IG@linsasha). We talk about the dating apps, her "Mid to Late" webseries, wanting a partner who is more established, her "transient, gypsy, hooker phase", before diving deep into a listener mailbag! Grab your drink of choice and listen in!!

Buy Tickets to Lindsey's Show on March 5th

FB Event Page for Lindsey's March 5th Show at The Irish Oak

This week we're joined by Chicago Comedian and host of the hysterical Crushes! podcast, Deanna Ortiz. She teaches us how to play "Hot or Just Tall", we talk about our celebrity crushes, try to figure out why we all love the British so much, and TJ GETS CANCELLED!!

Follow Deanna Ortiz on Instagram HERE

Follow her podcast, Crushes! with Deanna Ortiz HERE

Check out Deanna's website to find out about her shows HERE

This week, we sit down with comedian Ken Hamlett (Host of A Drunken Night Out Podcast) and talk about our favorite kink (Consensus is? Hint: A great forearm workout), tell a couple "worst night of drinking" stories (car accidents AND TJ poops his pants), and discuss why some men just cannot orgasm from oral sex. Strap in guys, this one gets a little wild!

Learn more about Ken at www.kendalehamlett.com or follow him on Instagram at http://www.instagram.com/kenhamlett

To support Menage-A-Pod go to our new web store and pick up official merch at www.teespring.com/stores/menageapodcast

In this week's episode, past guest, friend of the pod and Menage-A-Pod All Star, Josh (@GQ50 @thetravelguydes podcast), stops by to catch up on all things dating and relationships (he also made us omelettes...swoon), weigh in the J-Lo / Shakira Halftime Show controversy, and just be as generally charming and likable as we are all used to! You know what to do! LISTEN NOW!!!

On today's episode, it's just us OG's catching up on our lives, current events, and of course, talking shit. Apparently, TJ is involved in a online thrupple of strangers that may or may not get him killed and Gena is over here making power moves with old flings. It's a good episode to listen to while nursing your Super Bowl loss and massive hangover.

To see the recap video from our first live event, "More Than Just A Quickie" (A Speed Dating and Chicago Social Event) from Overheard in Chicago (IG@overheard_in_chicago) featuring Menage-A-Pod click HERE

We also announced the launch of our official Menage-A-Pod Merchandise! If you want to support the show, there is no better way than picking up a piece of our new merch. T-Shirts, Hoodies, Coffee Mugs, Throw Pillows, Stickers, Phone Cases and more are available featuring the "ICONIC"(LOL) Menage-A-Pod Bubble Logo!

Click HERE or go to https://teespring.com/stores/menageapodcast to find out more!!

This week we are joined by the delightful and absolutely hysterical Andrea Rappaport (IG@theandrearappaport, blogger, comedian, entrepreneur, podcaster@thewerkwivesofficial). Listen as we discuss overcoming embarrassing situations on dates from listener mail, share some REALLY embarrassing stories of our own, talk about some techniques you can use to get past being embarrassed on a date, and then Andrea turns the tables and puts her interviewing chops to work by grilling TJ and Gena about past indiscretions. Is this the week we finally make a break through??? Listen in and find out!!

Follow Andrea on Instagram here

Follow her podcast The Werk Wives here

This week we are joined by Chicago comedian Be Casper (IG@Be_Casper), host of the "That Time I Got Arrested" podcast (IG@thattimeigotarrested) and all around sweetheart and deep thinker. We talk about what inspired her to start the podcast, about how we are ALL broken, how that affects relationships, and what everybody's plans are for a possible apocalypse! You know what to do. HIT THE PLAY BUTTON!!!

You can see Be this week performing stand up in Chicago at My Buddy's on January 22nd, End of the Line – Sedgwick Stop on January 25th and later at Parlor and Ramp, also on January 25th. Follow her on Instagram for more details.

Come check out one of the brightest and funniest minds in Chicago comedy.