The Soft Spot

This week (day? month? fortnight? who knows!) times are terrifying so Meg and Julian are back on the gramma couch to talk about childhood comfort foods and movies. Ah childhood, that magical time before you knew that housing a whole box of Fruity Pebbles at once was "stress eating." Before you knew that the freckled kid from the Sandlot would become an Urban Outfitters t-shirt, and before you knew that Nutri-grain bars for breakfast were child abuse. Listen up and pretend reality isn't happening! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Softest greetings from our quarantine headquarters (our couch)! We are back and we missed the hell out of you, dear softies. Today we are taking it back to y2k- a simpler time when frosted eyeshadow and end of the world hysteria via robot takeover reigned supreme! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Get your Jansport backpack with your initials embroidered on it, tease your bangs within an inch of their lives, and throw on your hip huggers because The Soft Spot is taking you back to school. Meg and Julian discuss memorable teachers, regrettable style choices (oh hey appliqué!) and of course, boners.  Hurry up, it’s the bell! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Meg and Julian are back for another stop on their farewell tour. First, they share stories about jobs they were fired from. Then they revisit a chat with one of their favorite guests actor, master impressionist, and zombie killer Ross Marquand! While you may know him as Aaron from The Walking Dead, we now know him as the best (and only?) John C. Reilly impersonator. He also blessed us with (Soft) Spot-on impressions of your fav Sorprano, your favorite philosophical Texan actor, and a certain legendary Scottish silver fox. If you don’t know who We are talking about, I guess it’s about time you tune in and figure it out! And if that’s not enough reason to listen, Ross’s Soft Spot is a twofer: both the theme song of and the television show, Highlander! In fact, his enthusiasm for the show is so contagious you will feel like you’ve been bitten by a Highlander zombie, doomed to wander the earth in search of old episodes. Enjoy! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Julian and Meg start on their farewell tour and reveal their Soft Spots gone sour, former Soft Spots that just don’t hold up when revisited. Then they remember their visit with gorgeous kid John Mulaney! His love for Mr. Rogers reminds us that what is essential is not visible, that speaking softly can have a loud effect, and that not everybody has heard the Backstreet Boys.. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week Meg and Julian go sans guest for a deeper dive into the magic of Summer! The smells, the food, the new boobs and the old hits, Summer is boss when it comes to the good old days. Meg also recounts the horror of her recent bout with BPPV (vertigo), a harrowing and cautionary tale that will leave you spinning (but hopefully not her).  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Julian and Meg are on vacation so this week, we are thinking back on one of our softest episodes with Karen Kilgariff!  Time to pop a bottle of champs and roll back to the days of the Lawrence Welk Show! This week we waltzed down memory lane with our hilarious friend Karen Kilgariff of “My Favorite Murder”. We chat about signature scents, old timey music, bad tv, and a fancy champagne lady who was wrongfully terminated. In the words of good ol’ LW, this episode is wonderful, wonderful! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week we were joined by one of our favorite New York transplants, comedian Thomas Dale! Before we got down to serious Soft Spot biz, we chatted about mental and physical health, Thomas’s ‘Creep Cam’ being the BEST thing on the internet, and we even touched on the esoteric! We gush over the hunks of the early aughts and why Thomas loves straight boys, which brought us to Thomas’s Soft Spot- teen rom coms of the late 90’s and early 2000s! Thomas had us in tears and Meg laughed so hard she felt like she had completed PX90 by the time this ep was over!  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dating and hooking up in the 21st century can be a confusing disaster. But how would the coolest people in the world navigate minefield that’s dating these days. From Amanda Cerny and Sommer Ray, comes OHoney, a sexy new series that offers a look into the lives and minds of some of the biggest celebrities of the internet age. Each episode they serve up their best advice to get through all the drama, scandals, and NSFW situations that are plaguing you. OHoney is like a sexy slumber party where you get to listen in on the casual honest conversations between your coolest friends: Subscribe at: http://bit.ly/OHoneyTSS See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Softies rejoice! One of our favorite guests and people, from his podcast Ghosted, Roz Drezfalez is back on the spot. First Meg and Julian discuss their recent cruise (oh ship!) before they get into it with Roz about his formative childhood obsessions. From clowning (literally), to the rock and roll scene of suburban Michigan, to pro wrestling, we discover all the component parts that came together to make one awesome queen. Come and get it! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Soft Spot welcomes Moses Storm, Matt Ingebretson and Lizzy Cooperman to their first live show recorded at CRUX Boutique in Los Angeles. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It was time to do another duet for our hardest softies so Meg and Julian go sans guest for a show about their worst (best?) break-ups! They say that breaking up is hard to do, but what they don’t say is how fun it is to talk about it after it’s over. Meg talks about dumping a guy on his way to pick her up for a dance, while Julian revisits the time he got punched in the face in the middle of a busy intersection. And since this is the Soft Spot, of course they talk about break up songs (Duran Duran and Broken Social Scene — can you guess whose is whose?). So get a haircut, get a gym membership, and start a new hobby it is time to break up baby.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week rad dude and hilarious comedian Andrew Michaan comes to the show to talk about his soft spot for the show Seinfeld. We also get into his new van, the lifestyle that comes with it, and the movie Labyrinth! Andrew also has an adorable Shitzu named Bluetooth and we have video! This is one of our favorite episodes, enjoy! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week we welcome comedian, actor, and our neighbor, John Milhiser (SNL)! We take a trip back to the late 80’s, a time when cartoons still had an edge and happy meal toys were actually more exciting than the food. We did a little googling to check on the worth of our assets (our old stuffed animals) and it turns out, we all better come up with a better financial plan! We also talk a lot about John’s Soft Spot, “Who Framed Roger Rabbit”! John is what you might call a Rabbithead (is that a thing? If it wasn’t before, it is now) and he really made Roger Rabbit a *lifestyle*- from homemade Halloween costumes to themed birthdays to talking Roger plush toys. We also touch on Meg’s Soft Spot for the 1993 movie “Indecent proposal”. We will offer you a million dollars to subscribe, rate, and review! (No, we won’t, but you should do it anyway) See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week we welcome hilarious TRIPLE THREAT comedian Jade Catta-Preta to the show to talk about her fuzzy place: musicals!We discuss her cosmopolitan upbringing (Brazil, New York, West Virginia) her early foray into musical theater (The D.A.R.E Program) and her ability to perform Hamilton in its entirety at the drop of a powdered wig. We also hear the heartbreaking story of Meg's star turn in the Galveston Opera House presentation of Peter Pan. Also, Julian learns why over the top sincere singing is good for the soul. Have a seat in the orchestra and listen up! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It’s a solo ep with your nostalgiaholic buds, Meg and Julian! Today is Julian’s 40th birthday (yes, today, May 29!) so we decided to take a trip down memory lane and discuss some of our favorite birthdays of years gone by. Julian tells us about getting his dream bike at age 6 (and then getting it stolen shortly after). Meg talks troll dolls, cabbage patch kids, and the thrill of hearing your birthday announced to the entire school over the loudspeakers. We also trade 21st birthday stories, and you can decide for yourself who wins for most fun on that one. So throw on your birthday suit and press play, baby! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today we welcome our friend, comedian and fellow podcaster, Dave Ross to the show. We talk about Dave’s time touring on the Warped Tour and his nostalgic appreciation for pop punk. We touch on all of the worst bands on the tour and marvel at the level of misogyny in some of the most unimaginative (but def entertaining!) lyrics we have ever heard! We then get into his actual Soft Spot- Calvin and Hobbes! We all talk about how most kid’s entertainment has pretty much gone to hell, which explains A LOT- “It’s not global warming, we are all just getting closer to hell!”  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week we welcome back friend of the Spot, Joe Derosa!  Joe has been a fan of horror movies since he was ten years old and saw Nightmare on Elm Street with his mom (too young? Probably!).He now has a house full of horror dvds that he says help him escape the stress of real life, something we totally get. But much like the idyllic beginnings of most thrillers, we start with a fun and pleasant intro about Sex and the City (we're all a Carrie), LA vs. NYC, and our Enneagram personality types. So listen up and leave the lights on! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Life is Short with Justin Long finds the actor sitting down with some of the funniest and most intriguing people of today, like Dax Shepard, Olivia Wilde and Neil Patrick Harris. No topics are out of bounds, and no questions are too personal. Subscribe to Life is Short with Justin Long and start listening at wondery.fm/lifeisshort See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week we welcome sensitive gamer hunks (three words you've never heard used together before)  Keith and Jesse! Their awesome podcast "New Player Has Joined" is all about video games, and we delve into the games we loved most from our childhoods. From the addictive fun of Mario and Duck Hunt (sounds dirty!), to the intensity of Final Fantasy and Red Dead 2, and even the games you just wanna hang out in without doing much (Waverace 64 doesn't have to be a race after all). There is also much discussion of how to juggle video games with jobs and relationships. So blow on your cartridge, put on your power glove, and hit start! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices