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This week on Neighbors Neighboring, meet Amber's favorite accent partner, Michael Duddie. You'll hear why "Everybody Loves Michael," plus his long list of podcast pet peeves and upbeat tips for bringing caroling back to your neighborhood.

Grab a cup of coffee and join Amber and Jen for a festive, funny, and heartfelt holiday conversation about community, hospitality, and neighborhood traditions.

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This week, Amber and Jen break down their epic neighborhood cookie exchange (complete with standout bakes) before spiraling headfirst into holiday chaos. Think Amazon packages delivered to wildly unhinged locations and Amber’s journey with a “dark warm green” paint color that looked perfect…until it didn’t.

They also tackle the great real vs. fake Christmas tree debate (including the marital stress test of managing a real tree) before heading to Neighborhood Court to rule on Ring cameras: home security essential or full-blown neighborhood surveillance device? Grab a mug of hot cocoa and settle in for some laughs.

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Amber and Jen welcome neighbor Betsy Lawrence, a celebrated singer, voice teacher, and songwriter. They discuss her opera and academic background, teaching career, and songwriting process (including the inspiration for future pop hit, ‘Katie’s Hot Dogs’). Betsy shares an out of body experience that informed her creative process and how she balances her 9-5 with her passion projects (burning the midnight oil).

Listeners are in for a special treat as Amber and Betsy team up to sing a song they co-wrote at the end of the episode. Today’s episode is a special one, continuing our series on getting to know the neighbors.

Learn more about Betsy at https://betsylawrencemusic.com/

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It’s the most wonderful time of the year, and we’re back to catch up on the Pittsburgh airport’s glow-up, smart-home hacks, and a delicious debacle - forthcoming cookie-party prep on Pinetree.

In true N2 fashion, delightful debates erupt: Why are people barefoot on planes? Which French fry reigns supreme? And why do long facial hairs appear out of nowhere after 40? Jen also pitches a holiday gift-wrapping pop-up...which might become her entire December personality.

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Amber and Jen host a Friendsgiving special with their husbands, sharing candid and funny stories about Thanksgiving food preferences, heated blankets, eccentric snacks, and a notorious can of fermented fish.

Expect playful banter, holiday memories, quirky confessions, and conversations about reality TV dreams as the group celebrates friendship and the chaos of the season.

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This week we’re talking about the depression that is daylight savings, breakfast in bed movie marathons, and the suburban Olympic sport that is dodging skyscraper-sized leaf piles. We relive the latest basement karaoke night (yes, we sang Butterfly in the Sky for all the neighbors), dissect whether Reese’s Cups count as marital property, hear about Amber's birthmark laser treatment, and Jen unleashes a much-needed drug store rant. Plus, Tucker the Podcat drops by, and home-reno heats up (literally… heated floors). 

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Amber and Jen catch up after travel, debating morning vs. evening showers, swapping skincare tips, and sharing funny bathroom confessions — from toilet paper preferences to hiring cleaners. They also spill travel stories about Waymo self-driving cars and wild Uber rides.

The episode moves into boardroom wins with a female-heavy leadership table, a PSA about not using work email for personal fundraising, and hilarious live-show moments from John Mulaney, plus a spooky knock at the door.

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Amber and Jen welcome their first-ever guest: Traci, the neighbor they credit with the entire existence of this podcast.

Rapid-fire questions kick things off, covering favorite neighborhood traditions, worst lawn offenses, and Jen's pretzel order for every street event.

Traci spills on her and her husband Joe's matching-underwear tradition, their nightly game obsession, and the origin story of the neighborhood house crawl and Blackout Karaoke, the party that started it all.

They cast the inevitable Neighbors Neighboring sitcom, debate the chaos of unnamed neighborhood group texts, revisit the great landscaping disaster that killed years of pachysandra in one afternoon, and shout out the neighborhood's most beloved dog.

It's a warm, funny origin story for how a street full of near-strangers became this tight.

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Amber leaves for a work trip and immediately gets the call every pet owner dreads: Tucker ate a string, needed an expensive emergency endoscopy, and came home ready to eat again like nothing happened.

From there, Amber recaps her audiobook-narrator retreat in Boston, a chaotic 16-bed cabin with black mold, a first-ever adult roommate situation, a mistaken-identity mix-up with another biracial narrator named Amber, and a disappointing celebrity keynote speaker reveal.

Back home, Jen's parents get ambushed into a neighborhood Halloween party in matching Monsters Inc. costumes, the Bill Cosby comparison of the century goes horribly (then hilariously) wrong, and the hosts finally settle a long-running debate over how to pronounce "Biscoff" with help from a French-speaking friend.

Plus: sea otters that look exactly like Oscar the cat, a reptile-show throwback, and the eternal mystery of whether Thai salt stick deodorant actually works.

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Amber and Jen hit episode five (probably) with a round of fact-checks and follow-ups: Brian disputes his "Lemon Jenny" nickname, MouseGate 2025 gets resolved (only for a new SprinklerGate to take its place), and Jen reveals the horse-print sweater she accidentally wore to a Ben Folds symphony concert.

There's a stray kitten adopted mid-neighborhood-concert via the "cat distribution system," a full recap of the airport gala complete with a DIY hairstyle, a Joe Manganiello sighting, and Pittsburgh's eternal pizza problem.

Plus: a Vaseline-for-joints debate that goes nowhere good, a diabolical plan to trick Jen's parents into a Halloween party, and a serious discussion about becoming professional roller skaters.