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Alison has a cooking/science question and she wants to know if #Al knows. Greg is back with a story of a memorial sandwich. Jenna made a video about pumpkin spice wherein she overdid the pumpkin spice and Daniel’s brought saladitos—a Snackchat item that results in a first ever for Snackchat (you’ll have to listen to hear what happens). Plus Alison’s destroying her new maternity jeans and the group discusses convertibles in a round of Yes Please or Oh Puh-leeze. Plus Just Me Or Everyone and an adoptable dog named Dagne.

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Here’s Dagne:

Christina Pazsitzky (Your Mom’s House, That’s Deep Bro) stops by the show to talk about pregnancy and motherhood, career epiphanies, the now legendary Cincinnati Fart, who’s the real water champ, how labor can be life affirming with the right drugs, dealing with her mother’s death, boundaries, her childhood, dogs, feeling alien and so much more. We also took questions from the listeners and did a round of Just Me Or Everyone.

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Alison’s body is changing, Greg’s answering the siren call of adventure and we all learn a little more about life in a Mormon Singles’ Ward. Plus Alison had a career meltdown but pulled herself out of it and also dropped three to five boxes of popsicles at the grocery store. And we offered some advice, got news about apples from a man on the inside, did a round of Just Me Or Everyone and talked about an adoptable dog named Pumpkin.

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Here’s Pumpkin:

Heather McDonald (Juicy Scoop, Chelsea Lately, You’ll Never Blue Ball in This Town Again) stops by the show to talk about abusive adult siblings, her unfortunate feud with Chelsea Handler (and its resolution), getting her start via a Learning Annex class, getting her driver’s license before she got her period, being a virgin until she was 27, motherhood and marriage, Studs, Andrew Shue and so much more. We also took your questions over Twitter and did a round of Just Me Or Everyone.

Also, big news!! My Patreon page which I’ve been talking about for months is now live!!!!!

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Mindy Cohn (Facts of Life, Scooby-Doo) stops by the show this week and if you know anything about me it’s that I’m a huge lifelong fan so you can only imagine how excited and nervous I was. Mindy did not disappoint. We talked about her unusual childhood—being discovered by Norman Lear, Alan Horn and Charlotte Rae when they were researching girls’ schools to bring authenticity to Facts of Life, attending regular school while also working on the show, having “once in a lifetime experiences all the time,” going “hog ass wild” when she was 17, the discrepancy between how she appears and how she feels inside, wanting to be a doctor at one point and eventually realizing she was already doing the thing she loved, realizing you don’t have to be friends with someone just because they want to be friends with you, feeling drawn to alcoholics, drug addicts and narcissists, compulsive behaviors, anxiety, romance, reality shows, the movie she’s currently shooting and so much more. We also took your questions over Twitter and did a round of Just Me Or Everyone. Also: a Facts of Life quiz!

Also, big news!! My Patreon page which I’ve been talking about for months is now live!!!!!

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About half an hour before our scheduled recording time—in the middle of a heat wave—we lost all power. But the show must go on, even if it means six and a half sweaty people sitting in darkness reading JMOES by candlelight. On this very strange episode we talked about seeing two heartbeats, whether I’m a good driver, the preponderance of limos in RHOBH and whether this is really how rich people travel, Koo Koo Roo and “fast casual,” Jenna’s bunk bed guys, Jenna’s fears about becoming a parent, grand romantic gestures no one should engage in, Greg answering honestly during job interviews and so much more. We also offered some advice to the listeners since we have life by the balls, did a round of Just Me Or Everyone and talked about TWO adoptable dogs named Rufus and Kane.

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Here’s Rufus

Here’s Kane

Here’s a pre-show video

Podcaster, comedian and writer Mike Schmidt (The 40-Year-Old Boy) stops by the show to talk about which brand of bottled water tastes like rocks and filth, his girlfriend Jill from Wisconsin, the breakup of his marriage and the experience of divorce, why he feels he wasn’t a good husband, the Never Not Funny backstory, people walking on eggshells around him, anger, gastric bypass surgery and so much more. We also did a round of Just Me Or Everyone.

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A few episodes ago we teased a particular Greg story and then didn’t get to it and you guys were none too pleased. Here, finally is Greg’s spiritual evacuation journey plus some news about Alison and Daniel (no, not THAT news), a Janae story that does not disappoint, sleeping with the lights on and more. We also did a round of Just Me Or Everyone and talked about an adoptable dog named Boogie.

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Here’s Boogie:

Ornery Jones and Old Bones Jones make an appearance on this episode as well as Craftsy Joe, Moss the Sauce, Helldog and The Supervisor. Because we were talking about nicknames. Which led to a discussion of The Juice and the revelation that Greg’s Mom knew OJ Simpson in college. Plus my new drug, The Walking Dead, disaster preparedness, bed making, a round of Just Me Or Everyone and an adoptable dog named Marbles.

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Here’s Marbles (and dog trainer Laura London)

Hutch Harris of one of my very favorite bands The Thermals stops by Dining Room Studios to talk about what it’s like playing in a band with someone he used to date, how he and Kathy met and why they broke up, Portland’s “budtenders,” recording the first Thermals album by himself and then putting a band together to play for Sub Pop, coolness not coming naturally to him, his childhood, growing up religious, taking PCP and then going to a church group, losing his virginity, how he got into comedy, anger issues and therapy, night terrors, cats and so much more. We also took your questions over Twitter, did a round of Just Me Or Everyone and Hutch played “Thinking of You” and “My Heart Went Cold” from the brand new Thermals album, We Disappear, which is out now.

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And here’s Hutch playing “Thinking of You”

Here’s Hutch playing “My Heart Went Cold”