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This week, Travis is hanging out with his new podcast friend, Wade, for a chaotic, hilarious, and unexpectedly heartfelt journey that covers reckless walkers from New York to Indy, rapid-fire hypotheticals, and Wade’s real story about coming out while navigating a closeted relationship and what he learned about love, boundaries, and healing.

🚨 content note: This episode includes discussion of coming out, closeted relationships, tox...

Mama, let’s research wind and find out where it comes from! bestie approved became a science podcast this week and we healed from the trauma of wind being one of the things we simply don’t understand. Travis is hanging out with his podcast friend and science bestie, Dr. Jeff Zurek, to help us finally get to the bottom of this mystery.

Then we said mama, let’s research some more and unpacked how wind is related to climate change and ...

Travis is hanging out with his cousin, Taylor, again this week for more tales from the hell that is being a teacher in 2025 and a full reality roundup where we unpack Taylor’s first experience with the Real Housewives ever!

this week, we get into:

• Taylor looking for deeper meaning literally anywhere and everywhere
• Taylor’s leadership experience in the most unlikely organization
• updates from this week in teaching
• Travis’s week from h...

This week, Travis is hanging out with Amy Dickens to talk about why adults desperately need more play, more aliveness, and more FUN. We dig into burnout, healing, nervous system regulation, and the tiny habits that can change everything. Grab your copy of Amy’s book, 101 Ways to Spread Joy, and let’s get to work and spread some joy!

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Emma is officially on baby-watch, so Travis’ cousin Taylor jumps in for a collab episode that turns into a chaotic-but-wholesome catch-up: current hyperfixations, teacher life in 2025, AI in the classroom, and a group rant about men…in public spaces.

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This week, Emma shares a pregnancy update, Travis tries to take down a pyramid scheme on TikTok Live, and they both spiral over seed oils. For reality roundup, we get into a full breakdown of Real Housewives of Salt Lake City Season 1, Episode 8 (Hot Tub Confessions).

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Happy Jen Shah Prison Release Day to all those who celebrate! Emma’s having an amazing time with her perfect baby. This week, Travis is hanging out with comedian, podcast host, and pop culture connoisseur, Jolenta Greenberg.

In honor of Jen Shah’s prison sentence ending early, Travis and Jolenta are taking it back to where this journey started and unpacking one of the most iconic two-part episodes of The Real Housewives of Salt Lak...

REALITY ROUNDUP WITH OUR PODCAST FRIENDS!

Travis is hanging out with the bestie approved returning champions, Scott and Geoff from Husbands Watching Housewives, to unpack the season 15 premiere of The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills!

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This is also our first attempt at a video episode! Check it out on YouTube!

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🚨 A quick heads up: This week’s episode is way more political than usual. 🚨

Emma literally just had her baby and she’s home hanging out with that perfect little baby angel. 🥹👶🏼 Travis is trying to navigate the world without Emma while she’s on her maternity break, so he’s hanging out with two of his new podcast friends, David and Lisa Beckemeyer, from This Week in Outrage. We dive into why everything feels so loud, angry, and b...

Sorry it’s been a chaotic couple weeks for us and we took an accidental break from the show! This week we get into a Mandela Effect from Travis’s middle school years (the Beyonce remix of In Da Club), we also lean into being an AI-first podcast (spiraling over AI psychosis and AI in general), and Travis makes a pitch for the besties to be bartenders on Watch What Happens Live. For reality roundup, Travis and Emma unpack season 1 ep...

This week, we dive into Gavin Newsom dragging his political opponents to hell on Twitter, Lady Gaga investigating January 6th, people believing Helen Keller wasn't a real person, and a chaotic reality roundup with season 1 episode 6 of The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City.

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🎙️ MORE PODCAST FRIENDS! 🎧

Don't call it a comeback...call it a takeover! Scott and Geoff from Husbands Watching Housewives are back for another collab with Travis and Emma to unpack the season premier of The Real Housewives of Potomac!

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🎙️ BONUS EPISODE WITH OUR NEW PODCAST FRIEND! 🎧

hey besties! Travis and Emma got to hang out in with their new podcast friend, Brittany in The Girls Room, and they had an absolute time! From raging Gaylors to actually gay cookie company CEOs, this was a really fun show.

Brittany is so much fun, and it was so cool of her to have us on. Do us a favor and tell your messiest friend about The Girls Room because it’s definitely bestie ap...

This week, Travis and Emma are recording remotely (practice for future guests 👀) but they're still bringing the same chaos and laughs.

• Emma’s pregnancy update (little August is now the size of spaghetti squash).
• The DUDEROBE solution to fragile masculinity in robes.
• Natural vs. clinical deodorant.
• Pet-parent struggles: from pulling rope out of Boomer’s butt to shaving Max’s.
• Fast-food sauce tragedies (Burger King and Taco Bell, we’...

Travis and Emma are joined by Scott and Geoff from Husbands Watching Housewives to unpack the season 6 premier of The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City!

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Travis is back from Podcast Movement 2025, Emma’s fighting pregnancy pains, and the besties have so much to catch up on.

This week, we get into:

• Emma’s pregnancy update (he’s huge and likes to party in her uterus)
• A scathing review of And Just Like That
• Behind the scenes at Podcast Movement and Travis’s chaotic journey back home
• The girl who refused to check her bag and made Travis miss his connecting flight.

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Travis wakes up in full chaos mode and Emma is in no mood to deal with his nonsense, but that doesn’t stop the besties from diving into everything from trash bagels to driving lessons with the Barlows.

This week, we get into:

• The emotional rollercoaster of a morning FaceTime
• Travis’ horrific first trip to Dollar General
• Would you ever buy a ticket to someone’s wedding?
• How much money is too much money to still be miserable
• The death ...

Travis and Emma dive headfirst into the chaos of their shared notes app and bring you a mix of hot takes, rants, and reality TV breakdowns.

They start with Nelly Furtado’s comeback performance and the unhinged internet discourse around her looks, leading into a bigger conversation about Ozempic culture, compounding pharmacies, and America’s broken healthcare system.

From there, Emma gives a pregnancy update, Travis rants about stores...

After a short break, Travis and Emma are back, and today’s episode is stacked. Emma shares a pregnancy update and gets real about scoliosis, overheated classrooms, and why her hearing is suddenly failing. Travis details a hilarious (and infuriating) saga with Fabletics customer service, and they both dive deep into the chaotic mess of ICE expansion in Indiana, immigration policy, and why they’re not here for fascist Barbie governor...