Overenthusiastic Underprepared

How many friendships were ended over the Myspace top eight? This week Annemarie looks at the rise of social media in the early aughts. Meanwhile, we may not be able to imagine the food scene without bacon or Food Network, but Alyssa looks back at how the 2000s were the formative years for these and other food trends.

In a totally normal sounding event, Alyssa gets into a shower-sized room to sweat under some infrared lights while dreaming of that one possibly hot Australian doctor who got away. Annemarie has a run in with a witch and looks at some Post-It Note art – two wildly different things that she manages to weave into one story.

This week Alyssa sits down with her coworker and friend Emma. She's sharing a few dating stories, an embarrassing story involving her parents and a nightmare, and the time she got to perform with a show with a singer she liked thanks to a few chance encounters.

Alyssa might be dying in this week’s episode, but that doesn’t stop her from telling us about her experience using ClassPass. Annemarie attends a pasta cooking class (is this the new bread episode?) and is now basically a chef.  Don’t judge the hosts, 2020 has already been 6 months long.

It's our first episode where we take a look a random topic! Annemarie delves into the history of workplace sitcoms and wonders how they'll evolve. Yes, she does talk about THE OFFICE. Meanwhile, Alyssa took this opportunity to research white collar crime, (Honestly both of our hosts are completely predictable.)

Alyssa goes to the theater to see Cats – a spectacle so trippy, confusing, and downright awful that she declares it a must see.  You’ll probably walk out of the theater wondering about normal cat anatomy and feeling vaguely threatened by Dame Judi Dench. In a very off-brand move, Annemarie sees former Jackass star, Steve-O, do stand-up comedy where he talks about doing the most ridiculous stunts. There’s a lot of poop involved… so if that’s not your thing, know that it most definitely is also not her thing.

We're making plans this week. There are some exciting changes coming to Overenthusiastic Underprepared, and we can't wait. We're also setting some personal intentions for 2020 and sending some positive energy into the world.

The hosts sit down in Alyssa’s childhood bedroom with their long-time good friend, Ana, to talk about a few of Ana’s first times. The conversation quickly derails as they pass one microphone back and forth between all three of them, and they end up covering some pretty weird topics.  Alyssa and Annemarie are sorry for what you’re about to hear – but in a much more real sense, they aren’t sorry at all.

You can have a little decade-in-review content, as a treat. Alyssa and Annemarie have ten completely unrelated questions they're answering to reminisce about the last ten years. Memes, obsessions, funny memories of each other, and much more.

After a bit of time away from recording, Alyssa and Annemarie are back and better than ever (read: so exhausted from life that they’re one bad joke away from a mental breakdown)! Alyssa attends a Steelers football game with her family and consequently considers becoming the next big TikTok star – a path she had not considered before. Annemarie gets crafty while making a candle and tells facts about… sperm whales? We aren’t sure who let these hosts have a podcast, but here we are.