Threewheeling

It's been such a month. Laurel and Sascha have been travelling for work, moving house, packing up their lives and trying their best to avoid a Christmas spent in pandemic-enforced isolation. Laurel's been trying not to get her knickers in a twist while meeting new people, Sascha's been returning to some old favourites for reading material and cranking up the sweet, sugary hit of a Sex And The City reboot / And Just Like That...

There's some mobile static on this one, forgive us, Laurel's internet is shoddy at her new flat so we dialled in old school.

Listening

Sascha - And Just Like That...the writer's room

Laurel - Adele - 30

Reading

Sascha - T Magazine

Laurel - The Promise - Damon Galgut

Watching

Sascha - Landscapers

Laurel - Books That Made Us

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Yes, we're frightfully late! Computer gremlins, travel, the silly season, we just *took our time* editing this one. We're sorry. Please forgive us!

Laurel kicks off the pod with the tale of her fantastic neighbourhood correspondence. She's well and truly raised the bar, and Sascha is feeling the pressure... Both are rolling in the deep of the Red album (Taylor's version), so reflect on their respective journeys as Swifties. Sascha talks about a phenomenon known to anyone trying to make new friends - aka 'the liking gap', and then practises her best, 'Bond, James Bond', impression.

Watching

Sascha - All Too Well

Laurel - No Time To Die

Reading

Sascha - The Liking Gap

Laurel - Women Who Run with the Wolves

Listening

Sascha - Song Exploder: Go Your Own Way

Laurel - Red (Taylor's Version)

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This week Laurel and Sascha explore trying to say no to a frenzied schedule, and how finding a running app that works for you can be a game changer. We've got a double-appreciation segment for Love Life Season 2, and reading material that is surprising us and giving us hope.

Watch:

Love Life Season 2

Read:

Sascha -- The Marginalian newsletter

(Bonus shoutout to Wintering, by Katherine May)

Laurel -- Great Circle by Maggie Shipstead

Listen:

Sascha -- Marie Antoinette - Boyfriend, ft. Big Freedia

-- 100 Boyfriends - Alice Longyu Gao

Laurel -- You're In Good Company (podcast)

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This week Laurel and Sascha celebrate Threewheeling reaching the length of the TV adaptation of Pride and Prejudice by discussing three cultural blockbusters of the last few months. Sascha is marking the end of Victoria's lockdown by bringing loved ones together for a knees-up at the pub and Laurel confesses to living her entire life by to-do lists, even when making new friends.

Read:

Beautiful World, Where Are You, by Sally Rooney

Searching for more on Beautiful World, Where Are You? Here are some of our favourites:

Slate Culture Gabfest

Australian Book Review

The Culture

Watch:

Ted Lasso Season 2

Listen:

Easy On Me, Adele

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This week Laurel and Sascha discuss virtual Park Runs and surprise friendships as ways to find social connection. Sascha's reading of David Whyte poetry prompts some Big Feelings and Laurel remains ensconced in the 1970s.

Watch:

Sascha - Britney vs Spears (Netflix)

Laurel - 1971: The year that music changed everything (Apple TV+) (plus, Slate's Hit Parade podcast with Chris Molanphy)

Listen:

Laurel - How to Fail with Elizabeth Day: Ruby Tandoh and Stanley Tucci

Sascha - Happiness Lab: A Cautionary Tale of Kubrick and the Pain of Rejection (via Cautionary Tales)

Read:

Sascha - Consolations, by David Whyte

Laurel - A Man Called Ove, by Fredrik Backman

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In our latest episode Laurel looks forward to getting a whole new wardrobe via a clothes swap with friends once lockdown is over and Sascha discovers the truly "social" side to social media.

Watch:

Sascha - Vigil

Laurel - Sex Education

Read:

Laurel - A Room with a View, E.M. Forster

Sascha - The Joy of Fire: Roughly Eighty Poems to get by Heart and Say Aloud, Clive James

Listen:

Sascha - You're Wrong About

Laurel - Backlisted

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In this week's episode, Laurel and Sascha discuss online dating during lockdown, Jane Austen style, and meeting friends while pursuing a passion project. They also discuss the things they've enjoyed watching, reading and listening to recently, including the brave vulnerability of being joyfully enthusiastic and what it looks like to 'consciously uncouple' from a rigid routine.

Watch:

Sascha - Impeachment: American Crime Story

Laurel - The Chair

Read:

Sascha - The Vanity Fair Diaries - Tina Brown

Laurel - Pandora Sykes on consciously uncoupling from routine

Listen:

Sascha - Sentimental Garbage - RuPaul's dragrace with Self Esteem a.k.a Rebecca Lucy Taylor

Laurel - Nostaliga listening Fred Astaire & Nat King Cole

- Musical discoveries - Beverly Glenn Copeland - Tom Misch

- Classic Desert Island Discs with Lauren Bacall

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In the latest episode of Threewheeling, Laurel and Sascha discuss a hopeful print-media tale and finding comfort in re-reading Harry Potter and re-listening to Fleetwood Mac...again.

Plus, we answer a listener question on up-beat classical music.

For social connections in another lockdown week, Laurel is flopping over pillows in Instagram Live yoga and Sascha is re-connecting with old friends on new walks.

Read:

Laurel - Lonely Castle in the Mirror, by Mizuki Tsujimura

Sascha - T Australia

Watch:

Laurel - You've Got Mail (on Netflix), Dr. Shereene Idriss "Pillowtalk Derm"

Sascha - Hacks (on Stan)

Listening:

Laurel - Diving In podcast

Sascha - Bad Blood: The final chapter podcast

Email: [email protected]

Instagram: @threewheelingpod

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Laurel and Sascha set up their microphones (after a very long twenty minutes of trouble shooting) to chat about their first episode. Both know the challenges of making friends in new cities at a time in life when, perhaps, it might feel everyone has already found the people they're sticking with, and both are facing the groundhog day experience of lockdown land.

To make friends, Sascha says join a fitness class. And make a daily trip to the cafe to chat to your friendly neighbourhood barista. Meanwhile, Laurel is trying to make friends on Zoom events despite feeling a bit screened out.

Reading

Sascha - Billion Dollar Whale

Laurel - The Wolf Hall Trilogy, Still Life

Watching

Sascha - Ted Lasso

Laurel - Everything I Know About Eats

Listening

Sascha - Janacek - On an Overgrown Path

Laurel - Classical Fix

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