Welcome back to the Area Code neighborhood: Feel For the Game.

Nick and Noah return with a series of (mainly basketball) conversations about nostalgic moments in NBA history, current issues plaguing the league, how coping and mental health play a role in sports, and more.

Tune-in as they unprofessionally, but sincerely explore why sports are bigger than just the score of the game. Subscribe now, and follow along to find out how many times Noah makes an unwarranted Kansas Jayhawks basketball reference.

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Well, friends, we’ve come to the end of the line.

We started this podcast three years ago because we needed a safe space for fellow enneagram fanatics who didn’t take themselves too seriously. We’ve made a lot of friends, and gotten some hateful one-star reviews along the way.

In this final episode, we are getting it all out of our system once and for all. Except that we’ll probably keep talking about the enneagram an obnoxious amount, just not on this podcast anymore.

If you’ve ever wished that we would type improv techniques or rank couple pairings, then boy do we have an episode for you! We can confidently say that we have gone where no enneagram podcast has gone before, nor should they ever go again.

In our penultimate episode of No Chill Enneagram, we aim our sights on two superheroes that give Bethany and special guest, Jennifer Clark the vapors, and Richard a negative self-image.

A Marvel tour-de-force, Falcon and the Winter Soldier came out of the gate with some pretty fun action scenes and capped off the series with a deeply empathetic take on what it means for a black man to defend a country that failed to defend him.

We loved it, and so we discussed it. And typed the characters. Enjoy!

This week, we welcome back Patnacia Goodman to discuss The Princess Bride, available to watch at your local library or wherever they rent stuff.

Is the Princess Bride a love story with some action in it, or an action story with some romance? Does it pass the Bechdel test? Why does Fezzik make us a little sad? We answer these questions and more in this action-packed episode of No Chill Enneagram.

And no, don't worry, there's no kissing.

This week, we discuss New Girl, available to watch on Netflix, with Patnacia Goodman.

New Girl is like Friends, but for not-old-Richard-types. It's an unflinchingly raw and honest take on cross-gender relationships, what it means to "adult", and the vulnerabilities we expose ourselves to in the modern age.

Also, it's freakin hilarious. We don't have a lot more to say to preface it. Just watch the show, then listen to our take on some of the most root-forable relationships on TV.

This week we discuss Brooklyn 99, available to watch on Hulu, with special guest (and enneagram 9) Sam Stevenson!

Brooklyn 99 has managed the impossible: it made policing seem funny. While some of the early season jokes don't exactly hold up (a mentally unstable policeman, ha ha!!), the show's dogged focus on the people in the 99 and their wildly disparate dispositions and seasons of life results in one of the most relatable shows on television. 

We here at NCE believe that much of the reason for this is the show's deep knowledge of its own characters, the way it managed to mete out personal growth in small, delicious morsels without completely rewriting or overhauling a character. In the end, these characters fear, desire, and aspire to the same things they always did, depending on their numbers of course.

We interrupt our regularly secular program to discuss A Week Away, the Christian Camp musical featuring some glorious '90's CCM (available on Netflix). This episode called for special guests D.L. and Krispin Mayfield, two equal halves of the podcast Prophetic Imagination Station. 

There's something a little TOO appealing about A Week Away, the High School Musical/Camp Rock-inspired camp tale about teenagers who sing songs their Christian parents would love. We're not sure exactly who the target audience is for this surprisingly divisive and weird amalgam of genres and nostalgic references, but we do have opinions!

Listen to Comedy Has an Ouchie's "To Be Asian Is an Honor" here.

Look, we can't exactly vouch for the, erm, realism of anything that happens in Bling Empire (available to watch on Netflix). But what we can do is type these characters as just that: characters. Sure, one way of describing Bling Empire is "What if Crazy Rich Asians, but real," but another way of thinking of it is "What if Keeping Up With the Kardashians, But Interesting".

This episode, we had special guest, Jennifer Clark (who HAPPENS to be Richard's wife, but THAT DOES NOT DEFINE HER) talk about what it was like to see herself in a reality show full of rich people, where she did and did not feel represented, and yes, we all weigh in on that one relationship.

This week, we discuss Mean Girls, which is available to rent online wherever movies are available to rent, and also your local library probably has it.

Look, we're worried about Ms. Norbury. But we're also stressed out by Regina. And we're totally bewildered by Cady. That's why we brought return guest, Shannon Whitehead, to join us and help make sense of this whole social dynamic.

And don't even get us started on Aaron Samuels, the quintessential mediocre white man who manages to pass as EXTRAORDINARILY DREAMY and A REAL CATCH all while refusing to make a single reasonable decision the entire movie.

Anyway, this is us having opinions about Mean Girls. Enjoy.

This week we discuss Schitt's Creek, available to watch on Netflix.

At the end of a long winter, we settle in to discuss the show that helped us make it through. Schitt's Creek is funny, yes. But more important: Schitt's Creek is the most warm-hearted show on television. It loves its' characters (yes, even Roland) and as a result, we love them too. 

There's no better show to show us the brightest, quirkiest side of every number on the enneagram. No better way! Don't even try!