This week, the pod kicks off with a few Animal Reports: Amy meets a new otter. Neal the Seal tears up Tasmania. Maya brings up Jimothy the raccoon. Up next: justice for toilets in Asia! The ladies have a few bones to pick with the new season of Project Runway. What a hot mess. No one asked for this. The only fight we’re here for is waiting for Law and Tyra to murder each other. Concert Report: Maya DOESN’T go to the Yacht Club Festival. Next, Maya thinks there are too many Spider-Man movies. Tennis Report: Maya reviews the pickleball movie The Dink. Also, Maya’s tennis team is going to sectionals. She hasn’t gotten a trophy since middle school when she and Amy were on a park and rec softball championship team. Amy reminisces about Maya’s mom bringing hot dogs in a thermos on outings. Maya has no recollection of this. Maya lies about Qdoba. The ladies review the t.v. show The Hawk.

Whoa…triple Concert Report this week: Wallflowers at First Avenue the night before Maya leaves for Asia, The World Rainforest Music Festival, and Father John Misty at the Palace Theater. Hot take: can we set some rules around encores, please? Also, Amy makes up a fake son for Producer Tyler. Maya & Producer Tyler go to Asia! Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, and Japan! There’s a lot of planes and hotels and an earthquake. Producer Tyler wins 2nd place for best-dressed male at the big family party. Maya and Tyler rediscover 90210 in Indonesia and bring the rewatch vibes home. Kelly’s mom goes off the rails! Amy mocks the way Maya says Pluto. Maya changes her mind about Tokyo. Sad news: Harrison, Maya and Tyler’s dog took a turn and had to cross the rainbow bridge. RIP Buddy.

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The title tells you everything.

This week on SOSS Street, Amy declares she’s a birder now that summer has finally shown up. Animal Report: Baby crows and baby bunnies in Maya’s backyard. Amy has deer hanging with coyotes in her yard. It’s animal city up in here. Amy goes to the garden center. Remember when we used to spend all day at the community pool in the summer in the 80s and only eat a frozen Snickers? What was normal for us as kids is very not normal now. We were latchkey kids! Amy wonders how she ever knew when to go home. Our parents were unworried, unbothered, and unreasonable. Ahhh, the 80s, when the dads were mad, and the children were free. Maya and Producer Tyler went shopping for traditional outfits. Maya reviews Marty Supreme, and she’s never hated a movie more. Amy reviews The Place Beyond the Pines. Maya reviews a new house-hunting show, Tropic Like It’s Hot, where everyone is incredibly horny all the time for no reason. Amy and Maya reminisce about Amy’s childhood neighbors, “The Crumbs”, whose baby drove a car into a fence and had a dead grandma in the basement. Live like it’s summer break in the 80s, y’all!

This week it’s Taurus Season! Amy and Maya recap their birthdays. They are twin brothers, of course! Amy sold a house, and it was a whole hell of a thing. Maya & Producer Tyler try a new deli with sandwiches named after local celebrities. Maya has a drink she dubs the best version of Bartles & Jaymes. Next up, she has a bevy on the deck of The Gasthaus Bavarian Hunter. Then it’s on to a new pasta place in Robbinsdale. Amy recounts a run-in at her new nail place, Vertex Nails. She runs into a situation where a nail tech demanded to know who did such a bad job on her nails, and it was that nail tech. Then she shamed Amy for not identifying her as the offender. What a weird flex. Amy took a week off for her birthday and shopped all over town. She did Facebook Marketplace and wowed this woman by loading a whole yard swing into her car. She showed this woman what was possible with some tools and a dream. Maya recounts giving away a bed in her Buy Nothing group. The ladies reminisce about paper map books for the car. Animal Report: Chonkers the sea lion. Stop body shaming this big buddy! Approved/Denied: RIP Spirit Airlines.

This week on the pod, the Pay-TREE-archy gives us allergies, and we get a “Baby Jessica” update. If you’re Gen X, you know. Maya goes to a Tom Petty cover band. Amy and Maya have different experiences ordering things from China. Someone brought a gun to the White House Correspondence Dinner, and Maya ponders if we’ve become desensitized to the world completely unraveling. Maya wonders how historians will feel about our laissez-faire attitude while the world was completely falling apart. Amy’s work allows them to award points to coworkers. For some reason, there’s a whole page of rewards items devoted to your crotch and butt. Apparently, the rewards selection is very, very random. Amy reviews Lena Dunham’s new book. Amy hates all the peeing on the show Girls. Spoiler Alert: Amy loves this book. Which leads us to Sex in the City. Also, Amy has an amazing Steve impersonation. They did Aiden dirty on SITC. The gals review the movie Project Hail Mary. Five out of five popcorn buckets…go see it! Amy watches Coachella at home. The Michael Jackson movie comes out. Maya loves the name Jermajesty. The ladies speculate about the new He-Man movie. Animal Report: Sharks test positive for Tylenol. Ummm…big whoop.

Maya and Amy open the show asking: Tiger Woods, why don’t you get a driver?!?!? On to the Miami Open. The ladies stay in a new place. Maya is naive about hotel stairwell treasures. Walking down a Florida street is always an adventure. The ladies buy the perfect amount of vacation groceries, and if you have ever been on vacation, you know how hard this is. Maya makes the best breakfast ever. The Miami Open DID NOT DISAPPOINT. Amy and Maya look for the good swag. No, they did not get the $100 hot dog. You are talking to hot dog purists. Don’t waste your Wagyu on a hot dog. The ladies have their amazing seats again next to the player’s box with coaches and family. Hailey Baptist is sitting a few seats away. First match: Jannik Sinner vs. Frances Tiafoe. Sinner’s forehands are the hardest a human can hit anything. Seeing Martina Navratilova causes Amy an injury. Coco Gauff wears a hat? Martina, Cocoa, Big Foe, and Sinner! The Uber home was a “premium experience” filled with war movie explosions, machine gun fire, and Werther’s Originals. The gals also get “back in the tank”. If you know, you know. The best product came from two nerds who don’t have girlfriends, but they’re pretty sure if they did, said girlfriends would want to shower with them. Amy and Maya have a great rooftop dinner starring an amazing Euro-trash DJ and a tiny, angry man. Best trip ever!