The Mother of it All is Here!!!
Last July, Miranda, who was then a staff writer at Romper, reached out to Sarah, someone whose work she had read at Romper and elsewhere, but never spoken to. She actually, adorably, went on to Sarah’s professional website and filled out a contact card. That’s because, as you’ve probably discovered if you’ve been listening, Miranda is thorough AF (this is Sarah speaking here, obvi).
“I feel like we’re circling so many of the same ideas, and from similar perspectives,” she wrote. “I have sort of a wild idea that I’m curious to know if you’d be interested in working together on.”
Sarah was hoping that the wild idea was running away together to form a women’s only colony on the coast of Galicia, harvesting mussels from the North Atlantic and sucking down their flesh while one of our various lovers read to us from US Weekly.
But her SECOND choice for a wild idea was a podcast. You see, Sarah had always wanted to do one, but could never quite get her shit together.
Turns out, we all need a stranger to email us out of the blue and say, “I will be the togetherness that your shit so desperately needs.”
They (We? Still haven’t figured out how to write as two people, it’s easer when we’re talking…) talked for hours, Sarah circling the blocks of her neighborhood in Oakland, California, Miranda hiding in a closet in Portland, Oregon. And the rest, my friends, is history. Or rather, HERstory. Herstories, plural.
Now, we’re coming to the close of a first podcast season that could not have been more fun for us. We’ve talked to
about Britney Spears and growing up female in the 90s, broken down Home Alone’s great Kate McCallister with , gotten into the lure of divorce with Emily Gould, and had the good fortune to have the great Kathyrn Jezer-Morton (we call her K-JAM), join us TWICE.And we hear from those of you generous enough to find a way to give us feedback (finding our contact forms can be annoying, that’s why we moved to Substack!) has been “warm and inviting” “smart and relatable” “funny banter mixed with heavy topics” and “one of my comfort podcasts” (please tell us your others if this was you!).
You guys. Stop.
Okay, keep going.
For reasons that are too annoying to go into, we had to change our name. But that’s okay. Change is good. Unless it’s changing a diaper on the floor of a subway station bathroom.
But all the goodness you’ve been listening to (or are just getting into — welcome!) is still here. And now, through Substack, we can build our community with you all, and really do some fun shit.
So thanks for being part of our wild idea.
XO
Miranda and Sarah