Welcome to 2022, friends! We missed you!!It's been a huge few weeks! While the east coast explodes with the spicy cough, Lizzy goes overseas for fun and family time (wild!) and makes it back into the country, 'rona free. Meanwhile, Novak Djokovic's visa thrills and spills keep us entertained as ScoMo forgets to buys RAT kits and buys tanks instead (whatta guy!)Finally, it's the good news story we all didn't know we needed... Leese, our resident This Is The Thing Bachelorette, may have met her match. How long does the glorious honeymoon period last?! (romance is obnoxious and cute all at the same time... right?)Love to you, pod fam! Let us know what you think, and see you for another huge week, next week!xx Lizzy and Leese xx

Friends!! It's been another huge week in the neighbourhood. 2021 is almost done, and we’re moving from birthday season to festive season. Lizzy gives shi*tty gifts (blue shorts, anyone?) while Leese reminisces on the years where her parents either gave her Bon Jovi albums (who?) or left her pressies at lay-buy. Bless.

We also chat this week about what it’s like flying in a plane with Leese (not good!) as Lizzy takes to the skies in Griffith. Wild times!

Things get serious when we talk Burning, the latest doco on Amazon Prime Video about the 2019 Black Saturday bushfires. Watch it, get mad, and get ready to do something about the destruction of the planet. Can this country do better than ScoMo? You better believe it!

Much love fam, hope you have a great week! See you soon for more lols and good times,

xx Lizzy and Leese xx

Friends!!! After a short trip away to the NSW south coast, Lizzy and Leese are back to tackle all the big issues of the week. For her birthday week, Leese gets down and dirty in nature - Lizzy and Leese give love to our boss Blak Bachelorette, Brook Blurton - and ask, how do we get more people to know what Aboriginal land they’re on? Leese trashes Novak Djokovic, the Pete Evans of tennis - and Lizzy is still trying to love Anthony Bourdain. 

It’s been a HUGE week, and we’ve missed you all! 

‘Til next week fam, much love

xx Lizzy and Leese xx

P.S. Sydney-siders! Lizzy will be performing her 2021 festival show Hoo Dis? one last time on December 10 / Comedy Store Sydney 7pm. Grab your tickets here

Hello, friends! Welcome to lucky episode 12 of This Is The Thing!

This week we're heading out to space with our first ever podcast guest, @ThisIsSpaceJim - our resident news reporter for our solar system! Jim talks us through Elon Musk and the billionaire's race to space, and how space could soon turn into a mining hellscape. He's fantastic and it's a great chat - check out what Neptune and co. are up to on his TikTok and YouTube!

Meanwhile, Leese considers whether she's really up to the task of taking more risks in her life, at this point: are things getting a little too comfortable for our resident hipster? Meanwhile Lizzy reminisces about her school's resident flasher (!) and pushes for more news from space... It's a win on all fronts! 

Thank you for listening fam! We love every last one of you, so please don't forget to share the pod and score us some 5 star Apple Pod reviews x

xx Lizzy and Leese xx

SHOW NOTES

- Check out an excerpt from Damien Cave's new book 'Into The Rip', or you can always ask to borrow Leese's copy

- Space Jim is great, right? Follow him today on TikTok and YouTube!

- While you're there, give us a follow on Insta and/or slide into our DMs!

Friends! We're so thrilled to be in the same room for lucky episode number 11 this week. From Lizzy's bedroom in Sydney, Lizzy and Leese manage to figure our way through the wholesome and the slightly less-wholesome this week:

- Are d*ck pics still a thing?

- Leese takes Lizzy running on a hangover (cruel at best)

- Leese and Lizzy hang out with jigging grandmas at a matinee of the musical Come From Away

- Lizzy routinely breaks her apartment (lol)

- aaaaaand... It's jacaranda season in Sydney! (Does it get more wholesome than that?)

As always, thanks for listening! Let us know what you think of this ep through the prism of 5 star Apple Podcast reviews :)

xx Lizzy and Leese xx

Fam! This week, Leese lives our her DJ Vax Chat dreams in real-time as she picnics with an anti-vaxxer - Lizzy lives out the Great Resignation after quitting her job this week to pursue comedy full time - and is hot vaxxed summer a myth? All this and more in this week's episode of This Is The Thing! 

xx Lizzy and Leese xx

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Fam! So much chat! Here's just a few tidbits from the past week that have been keeping us up at night... 

Gladdy's ex-boyfriend is a "pain in the arse", the former Deputy NSW Premier reckons - we've all dated those guys, right? 

Craig Kelly, Texter Extraordinaire, reckons politicians shouldn't be able to text punters?

Patty Mills, Boomer and First Nations basketball legend, is still hot and bringing the vibes...

But! The vibes belong this week to DJ Khalid, who Leese reckons we might all wanna emulate (should be though?) Check out his awesome guitar skills here, lol.

Much love fam! See you next week for more hot takes on all the things xx

Lizzy and Leese xx

P.S. We're on Insta! @thisisthethingpod

Email us! lizzyandleesepod@gmail.com

Friends! It's been another huge week!

Over in NSW, Lizzy hits the town and gate-crashes the world's most awkward Hinge date - we talk 'time millionaires' and what we're doing (or not doing!) with all our extra WFH time - and promo ScoMo's trip to Glasgow. Will the Libs save the planet? Don't count on it! All this and more in this week's episode of This Is The Thing! 

xx Lizzy and Leese xx

SHOW NOTES:

1. Tix to Lizzy's 'Laugh Outta Lockdown' show! Get 'em here

2. Time millionaires making the most of their lives - check it out

3. Working from home and wanna do two jobs? People are! Here's some hot tips

Friends!! What a time, as always - this week, Lizzy contemplates the post-locky d vibe from Sydney - we talk boss women, Maria Ressa, and the Nobel Peace Prize - hear a good news story in Fat Bear Week (!) - and chat about dating app cliches in the pandemic era. Is avocado a personality trait? Let’s find out! Download this week’s episode and let us know your thoughts through the prism of five star Apple Podcast reviews xx Lizzy and Leese xx

 

**SHOW NOTES**

Watch the Fat Bear Week bears here https://explore.org/livecams 

Maria Ressa being a legend and now Nobel Peace Prize Leaureate https://www.vice.com/en/article/y3damg/maria-ressa-and-dmitry-muratov-win-nobel-peace-prize-2021

Ted Talk about dating profiles https://www.ted.com/talks/amy_webb_how_i_hacked_online_dating?language=en

Friends! It's been another huge week in the neighbourhood. In this week's episode, Lizzy and Leese say goodbye to Gladdy and consider which token white dude will take her place: Lizzy has a 'solo picnic' (how's that for some wild lockdown adventures): and the girls consider what 'cancel culture' *really* means, and why Pauline Hanson shouldn't be given a platform (looking at you, Jessica Rowe). It's all fun and games, with lols thrown in. Thanks for joining us fam! xx Lizzy and Leese xx