Your Trash Pals

What’s the spookiest thing of all? Musical theater kids! On Season 2 episode 5 of the pod we discuss season 2 episode 5 of Glee aka “The Rocky Horror Glee Show.” Maddi Gonzalez comes on to the pod to talk with Van about this crossover episode of their high school obsessions. From “Sue Sylvester Was Right” to memories of Rocky Horror performances, you won’t want to miss this conversation between good friends.

Also in this episode:

• Jigsaw’s Junk Drawer is opened for a round of Your Pal’s Trash and theater memories are brought to the surface
• Van and Maddi conclude the internet needs to shut down every night so people can go to bed
• Van’s Garbage Review of Pixar’s Ratatouille

You can find Maddi Gonzalez at https://quasimaddi.com/. You can find Vannotes at www.vannotesbooks.com and Wren at wren.best. You can find ways to listen to the podcast at https://rss.com/podcasts/ytp/. You can support the podcast at https://ko-fi.com/yourtrashpals.

We’re setting up a Heck House to scare you straight! We bring on friend of the pod and art school frat boy Alex Graudins on the podcast to discuss the Disney Channel Original Movie Series Z-O-M-B-I-E-S. From bizarre apartheid metaphors to the forced introduction of aliens into the franchise, the pals have a lot to say about this trilogy. What could go so wrong with some girlies and a DCOM?

Also in this episode:

• Jigsaw’s Junk Drawer is opened and the pals play “Holiday Hollywood Producer” and pitch their genius DCOMs
• The alternate timeline where Wren got a law degree
• Van cannot keep an internet connection going to save his life…but is it because their wifi’s trying to save them?
• Our Garbage Review of Prince’s album Purple Rain

You can find Alex at [https://toonyart.com/.](https://toonyart.com/)

You can find Vannotes at www.vannotesbooks.com and Wren at wren.best.

You can find ways to listen to the podcast at https://rss.com/podcasts/ytp/.

You can support the podcast at https://ko-fi.com/yourtrashpals.

Headmaster Wren and closeted drama teacher Vannotes are here to have a disciplinary meeting with lovable parochial school delinquent Sara Century on this episode of Your Trash Pals! We’re here to talk about both versions of the made for TV classic Satan’s School for Girls, which are equally excellent trash. Will we fall victim to a lightning shooting chandelier or will we survive to take a trip to the Great Wolf Lodge?

Also in this episode:

• Van is outed by Wren as an ex(cel)cel
• Godzilla and Mothra…are they a couple?
• Jigsaw’s Junk Drawer opens for a new game called Spooky Scary Kinsey Scale and we don’t even need to rate Carmilla

You can find Sara at www.saracentury.com.

You can find Vannotes at www.vannotesbooks.com and Wren at wren.best.

You can find ways to listen to the podcast at https://rss.com/podcasts/ytp/.

You can support the podcast at https://ko-fi.com/yourtrashpals.

We’re eating dirt and scaring teens! On this episode of the podcast, we bring on Madeline McGrane to discuss the 2014 film Vampire Academy. Will the pals be won over by this blatant mash-up of Harry Potter and Twilight? Will we finally be hired to scare teens straight by eating dirt in front of them?

Also in this episode:

• Wren loves the Gordon Ramsey of credit card statements
• Actually enjoying our Instagram ads
• Jigsaw’s Junk Drawer is opened and Van is foiled when he can’t tell the difference between Dustin Hoffman and Gary Oldman

You can find Madeline at www.madelinemcgrane.com. You can find Vannotes at www.vannotesbooks.com and Wren at wren.best. You can find ways to listen to the podcast at https://rss.com/podcasts/ytp/. You can support the podcast at https://ko-fi.com/yourtrashpals.

We’re back from our break and we’re ready to pod! On this episode of the podcast, we catch up on all the media we consumed in the interim! We discuss Secret Lives of Mormon Wives, Van’s obsession with demolishing 12 year olds in Star Wars Hunters, the rise of Chappel Roan while we were away, and Stefani Germanotta’s Harlequin album.

Also in this episode:

• Will this be the year Van gets spooky
• Wren doesn’t wake up thinking about Will Schuester
• The etiquette of seeing celebrities at a waffle house

You can find Vannotes at www.vannotesbooks.com and Wren at wren.best. You can find ways to listen to the podcast at https://rss.com/podcasts/ytp/. You can support the podcast at https://ko-fi.com/yourtrashpals.

On this episode of the podcast, we finish out our first season with a discussion of the thing we know best…comic books! We discuss our first comics including Alan Moore and Dave Gibbon’s Watchmen, what we’re reading, finding comics community, and some of our favorite comics today.

Also in this episode:

• Wren reads fan fic to learn how to objectify men
• White cream puff drag queens go stale
• We talk POLITICS!

You can find Vannotes at www.vannotesbooks.com and Wren at wren.best. You can find ways to listen to the podcast at https://rss.com/podcasts/ytp/. You can support the podcast at https://ko-fi.com/yourtrashpals.

On this episode of the podcast, we finish out our trilogy of answering the Aron questions. After this episode will Vannotes and Wren have the most deep and meaningful friendship ever? We share embarrassing memories, the origin of the term “in his wheelhouse,” children being taught to hate Benedict Arnold, and how World War II would have gone completely different if it was an art fight.

Also in this episode:

• Boomers being into AI
• White blonde drag queens who all blend together
• The Mountain West phenomenon of drive thru soda stands exploding in popularity

You can find Vannotes at www.vannotesbooks.com and Wren at wren.best. You can find ways to listen to the podcast at https://rss.com/podcasts/ytp/. You can support the podcast at https://ko-fi.com/yourtrashpals.

On this episode of the pod, we bring back official Housewives correspondent Arik Hardin to talk about the deep lore of Real Housewives of New York. The pals learn more about Countess Luann’s cabaret, throwing legs on the table, Pickles the intern, and Van grapples with the revelation that Anderson Cooper + Andy Cohen are NOT a couple.

Also on this episode:

• Wren is living out the story of Icarus…except the sun is RuPaul’s Drag Race
• Van can’t stop reading terrible 90s comics
• We wish everyone a happy Straight Awesomeness Month
• The time clock that starts when you eat lasagna

You can find Arik Hardin’s podcast Slush at https://slushpod.com/. You can find Vannotes at www.vannotesbooks.com and Wren at wren.best. You can find ways to listen to the podcast at https://rss.com/podcasts/ytp/. You can support the podcast at https://ko-fi.com/yourtrashpals.

On this episode of the pod, the pals dive deep into Van’s new obsession Skibidi Toilet. We talk about the escalating struggle between Skibidi Toilets and the Alliance, Generation Alpha bringing weirdness back to the internet, and our desire for unknown lore.

Also on this episode:

• Wren gets carded for Zootopia?
• Van has been RuPaul’s Drag Race pilled
• The pals play a round of Reduce, Reuse, Recycle - Early Internet Cartoon Edition

You can find Vannotes at www.vannotesbooks.com and Wren at wren.best. You can find ways to listen to the podcast at https://rss.com/podcasts/ytp/. You can support the podcast at https://ko-fi.com/yourtrashpals.

On this episode of the podcast, we switch things up a bit and sit down with our trash pals to game! Beloved guests Alex Graudins, Lee Durfey-Lavoie, and Veronica Agarwal team-up with Wren as a group of travelers washed up ashore of the Garbage Barge. Will they survive Vannotes’ world designed to bury them in trash?

Adventure highlights include:

• Lovable critters witnessing horrible violence
• A teen wizard with the ability to Skibidispeak
• Joe Rogan loving raccoon orcs

You can find Vannotes at www.vannotesbooks.com and Wren at wren.best. You can find ways to listen to the podcast at https://rss.com/podcasts/ytp/. You can support the podcast at https://ko-fi.com/yourtrashpals.