Ha ha is there anything important going on this week??? Nothing to worry about except listening to this podcast!! We hope this episode will be a teeny ray of sunshine emanating from the pocket of your life (phone). Please enjoy two gals waxing poetic about their love for the little things (& the free/potentially stolen? things). P.S. listening while refreshing the New York Times live election results optional, and NOT encouraged. :)

In this episode, we took everything we learned from years of English classes and our expensive liberal arts college days and applied those critical thinking skills to the most important part of our friendship: country music. Enjoy our analysis of lyrics that are straight-up problematic, sneaky bad, and good* (*not actively perpetuating harmful ideas about gender roles and/or women). For legal reasons, all opinions expressed are our own and also these are songs/artists we appreciate, so please don't be mad @Thomas Rhett.

Today's episode is all about conspiracy theories: who killed Princess Diana? Was HIV/AIDS manufactured? Is Outback Steakhouse the Illuminati? (yes). Tune in to get... no answers to these questions! 

On a very special episode of Rideshare (because every episode is special, duh), tune in to hear our thoughts on the VP debates! (bad) Politics and humor! (undecided) Maine and small towns! (good!) Homophobia, internalized! (bad) Heteronormativity! (also bad) If you need more detail than that - and trust me, you do - click play! 

Our idea well really ran dry this week, but thank goodness we have some followers who care about us enough to respond to our desperate pleas for topic suggestions (if you hate this episode, you can't blame us tho). Sit back and relax as you listen to us respond to your ideas in the most chaotic episode to date. Enjoy!

After news broke this week about a certain individual's taxes, we decided to take advantage of this newly discovered loophole about business expenses (aka there are no rules apparently) and discuss one of our favorite things: books. From now on, we'll write off our bookstore purchases since they're integral to our business's success. Thank you in advance to the IRS for being chill.  

Listen to us go through all the ranges of human emotion in the span of one episode over approximately two days!! It would've been one day but we got too drunk to communicate our thoughts properly in our grief and had to try, try again. The original intent of this episode was derailed by the genuinely tragic passing of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who we will miss dearly. We talk about our thoughts on the #currentpoliticalclimate, bipartisanship and judicial biases, aaaand (to try and lighten the mood) a really regrettable date with a really regrettable dude. 

Will every episode from now on be about love languages?? Tune in to find out!!! #clickbait. After seven (7) long episodes we finally decided to let you listen to someone else's unqualified opinions!! Tune in to hear us and two (2) surprise guests (hint: it's Tamara Botteri and Michael Benjamin Atkins, who somehow weaseled his way into an episode he wasn't invited to) list, forget, rinse, and repeat all five (5) love languages approximately eight (8) times. And now, we'll leave you with this final thought: would you love your child if they were a serial killer? #conditionallovehoursonly2021

This episode is dedicated to everybody who said they miss the car noises when we don't record on the road. Please enjoy the noises of the New York/New Jersey/Connecticut highways and the sweet, sweet hum of our unqualified but opinionated thoughts. Topics include: armadillos and their semi-bulletproof bodies, soulmates?, and which aspects of our personalities are just products of our environment (all??? none???). A note from Ione: armadillos are in fact named for their armor - I will only fact check when I think I'm right; don't @ me.

**Trigger Warning! Discussions of body image and some mention of eating disorders** In this episode of Rideshare, we planned to talk about women's health - but instead, we went down a rabbit hole of ranting and decided to discuss the concept of body neutrality, Jameela Jamil's activism, and the various effects of media and social media on our self-confidence. Moral of the episode? Don't Comment On Someone's Body!!! It's the new Don't Ask a Woman About Her Age. But that rule still applies :)