HQAF Radio

The first HQAF Radio episode of 2022 has finally arrived! 🎉 Everyone has been asking where Francis and Alana have been but they really haven't gone anywhere. Francis and Alana discuss what they've been up to since they've been on hiatus which involves many cat updates, new hobbies, and hilarious stories. 🐈 Today's episode also features an exciting announcement... a new direction of the podcast and a new posting schedule. New year, new podcast! This is an episode you won't want to miss so be sure to take a listen and share with all of your friends. 🗣

The title says it all on this week's HQAF Radio episode! Listen to Alana recount how she became the owner of a brand new Toyota Camry this past summer. Between her failed attempts at haggling and giving her car a name that Francis won't acknowledge, this episode is one you won't want to miss! 🚗

HQAF Radio took a 2.5 month break but we are officially BACK! We're kicking off the end of our hiatus by telling some recent and old personal stories in which Francis and Alana experienced the most cringe. These stories range from face blindness to reading fanfiction at a open mic night to plant vendor mishaps. WARNING: if you experience secondhand embarrassment from other people's cringey moments, this may not be the episode for you. Just kidding! Every episode of HQAF Radio is for you and everyone you know. ;) We hope you enjoy and laugh at our most cringey moments!

In this episode of HQAF Radio, Francis and Alana interview James Higgins of Your Coach James. He describes what the Functional Movement Screen is and helps Francis decipher Alana's results from her first screen in January and her second one in July.  Visit James' website at: https://yourcoachjames.com. If you enjoyed this episode and want to try out personal training with James, use code HQAF Radio to get 10% off your first package of sessions! Transcript: https://hqafradio.wordpress.com/2021/08/11/interview-with-james/ (00:00) Interview with James (03:19) James' Background (06:54) Clients (10:02) Alana's First FMS Screen (27:49) Mental Blocks (47:01) Alana's Progress (53:07) Advice (55:26) Promo (56:38) Debrief

Francis and Alana are on a break this week. Stay tuned in a couple of a weeks for a brand new episode. In the meantime, please enjoy a remaster of one of their favorite episodes. Rerun: Francis and Alana talk about their siblings. It's hard being a firstborn. 😩 Transcript: https://hqafradio.wordpress.com/2021/07/28/rerun-sibling-stories/  (00:00) Rerun: Sibling Stories (05:01) Kitchen with a View (09:48) Didn't Deny but Didn't Admit (13:19) Fuck You Danica (17:55) Outro

Alana has a big announcement to tell Francis! It's literally a life-changing moment for her so you don't want to miss this!  Transcript: https://hqafradio.wordpress.com/2021/07/14/alanas-big-announcement/   00:00 Alana's Big Announcement 00:24 Alana Has Big News 24:26 Transition 35:49 Lydia's Perspectives 43:50 Next Steps 51:50 Outro

Alana and Francis are on a break this week. Tune into a new episode on July 14th! In the meantime, enjoy a remaster of one of our favorite episodes!  Francis took a trip to Europe which some crazy turns. Literal and metaphorical. Find out how Francis almost died, photographed nude people and bashes an entire airline company all in one episode! YouTube: https://youtu.be/l8O1nzQPSq4 Transcript: https://hqafradio.wordpress.com/2021/06/30/rerun-viva-espana/

Francis and Alana talk about their relationship with exercise pre-pandemic, during pandemic, and coming into this post-pandemic world. Francis sets a new fitness goal for Alana where she'll be able to carry a package across the threshold of her own house. Trigger warning: weight and weight loss are discussed.  Youtube: https://youtu.be/KSK0MVM0FYM Transcript: https://hqafradio.wordpress.com/2021/06/16/a-package-across-the-threshold/

Francis and Alana dig deep into Alana's fanfiction career. What draws her to the Yu-Gi-Oh fandom? They explore her motivations and influences and read through her followers' reviews. NEVER any incest!   YouTube: https://youtu.be/x_E64-fzubI Transcript: https://hqafradio.wordpress.com/2021/06/02/fanfiction-she-wrote

In one of HQAF Radio's first in-person podcast since the pandemic started, Katharine and Danica finally meet for the first time. They join Francis and Chris to talk about Danica's career trajectory, her time in the Netherlands, and their experiences with social media. And of course, they talk about her skipping.   YouTube: https://youtu.be/qWu3texatPk Transcript: https://hqafradio.wordpress.com/2021/05/19/more-than-just-a-skipping-machine/

Francis and Alana continue to think through how to improve upon HQAF Radio and build an audience. Is it by making a blog? Is it by figuring out their demographic and reshaping their content? Finally? Also, Francis reveals a big surprise to Alana and it changes her perception of reality. Tune in to the hilarity! Youtube: https://youtu.be/fvPkXrP6GeU Transcript: https://hqafradio.wordpress.com/2021/05/05/whos-that-bitch-i-dont-know/

In this next episode of the Gratitude series, Francis and Alana interview their friend and sometimes third cohost, Katharine. They examine her ability to rock braces, learn more about the Olsen twins' extensive filmography and its influence on Katharine's life, and breakdown her very strong text game. YouTube: https://youtu.be/DQ900ZjV-Ig

In this week's episode, Katharine hosts the Newly Wed Game with not-so-newly-married couples: Alana & Harley and Francis & Chris. Tune in to hear these two couples test their knowledge of each other. 

Alana and Patrick head to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania to buy Patrick's dream car, the Toyota 86. Along the way, Alana interviews Marty, the sales rep, and even Scott, the owner of the car dealership! Tune in to find out how their adventure unfolds!

In this next segment of HiKari Bruder’s Banker Box Fanfiction, Alana reads us a fan fiction that she wrote when she was twelve years old, Sonic: The Return of Hyper-Metal Sonic. She and Francis then compare notes and wonder how things got so dark.

Francis and Alana discuss the potential future of the HQAF podcast and brand. They also talk about a lot of miscellaneous topics like haggling over cars, superpowers, and paying therapists on Venmo. 

Francis and Chris share a bottle of wine and talk about Chris's history. They talk about Chris's childhood and growing up, their marriage, and Chris's time in the Massachusetts student government.

Francis and Alana bring you a whole new segment, Nobody Cares About Your Dreams! In this episode, they discuss why people don't like listening to content about other people's dreams, they talk about their dreams during pandemic, and they explore Francis’s connection to the spirit world.

In our very first segment of HiKari Bruder’s Banker Box Fanfiction, Alana reads us her first fanfiction: Alanbi's Greatest Adventure. She and Francis then analyze it and compare it against Alana's life at the time. Timestamps:  Intro: (3:17)  Premise: (11:36)  Synopsis: (25:52) Chapters 1-5: (27:40) Chapters 6 - End: (39:50) Analysis: (55:07) Outro: (1:25:27)

In this episode, Alana and Patrick test their smarts against that of fifth graders! Are they smarter than this hypothetical fifth grader?