Mutual Admiration Society

What’s more terrifying: depths or heights? Oceans or space? Kate and Lauren share phobias. https://archive.org/download/13.depthsandheights/13.Depths%20and%20Heights.mp3 Advertisements

Lauren and Kate discuss boozy books and alcoholic authors. https://archive.org/download/12.boozeandbooks/12.Booze%20and%20Books.mp3 Advertisements

Lauren and Kate discuss how they work from home without work becoming home, and home making them lax on work. https://archive.org/download/10.workfromhometimemanagement/10.Work%20from%20Home%20Time%20Management.mp3

Gay history time: gay brothers and gay beacons according to two scholars. https://archive.org/download/09.gaygenealogy/09.Gay%20Genealogy.mp3

We’re back! Tune in to find out what took so long. Hint: it involves a new baby, a new job, and a major move across the country. https://archive.org/download/08.makingmoves/08.Making%20Moves.mp3

Kate and Lauren take a couple of Myers-Briggs Type Indicators (Human Metrics and 16 Personalities) along with Gretchen Rubin’s Four Tendencies Quiz, and report their findings. https://archive.org/download/07.PersonalityTests/07.Personality%20Tests.mp3

Kate and Lauren discuss the hippie habits they picked up during their liberal arts education: menstrual cups, recycling and repurposing, natural cleaning products, natural grooming products, kombucha, almond milk, and the question of shaving their legs. Find out which they’ve abandoned and which they’ve embraced! https://archive.org/download/06.HippieHabits/06.Hippie%20Habits.mp3

Kate and Lauren talk planners, journals, the evolution of organization, and the work/life balance of staying on top of their tasks. Note-taking, plot-making, and diaries, oh my! https://archive.org/download/05.PlannersAndOrganizers/05.Planners%20and%20Organizers.mp3

Lauren and Kate interview each other in a two-part double feature! Find out how these two remember meeting, along with their family backgrounds,  travels,  educations, anxieties, and ambitions for the future. 04.2.Mutual Interview – Kate Interviews Lauren https://archive.org/download/04.2.MutualInterviewKateInterviewsLauren/04.2.Mutual%20Interview%20-%20Kate%20Interviews%20Lauren.mp3

Lauren and Kate interview each other in a two-part double feature! Find out how these two remember meeting, along with their family backgrounds,  travels,  educations, anxieties, and ambitions for the future. 04.1.Mutual Interview – Lauren Interviews Kate https://archive.org/download/04.1.MutualInterviewLaurenInterviewsKate/04.1.Mutual%20Interview%20-%20Lauren%20Interviews%20Kate.mp3

In this extended episode, Kate and Lauren discuss dipsography and their respective breaks from grad school via Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis and The Lost Weekend by Charles Jackson. Their mutual advice: Read Lucky Jim on a bad day, and The Lost Weekend on a good day. https://archive.org/download/03.LuckyJimTheLostWeekend/03.%20Lucky%20Jim%20%26%20The%20Lost%20Weekend.mp3

Primitive decoration, country style, shabby chic, and American flags. Kate and Lauren dislike most Americana, but each has a weakness. https://archive.org/download/02.AmericanaAsDecor/02.Americana%20as%20Decor.mp3

This first episode includes: a bit of backstory, a trip to Austin, TX (featuring Quacks Bakery, Las Cazuelas, Zilkers, Draughthouse, Maru,  Flying Saucer, and Forensic Files), discussions on exiting grad school for the real world, and some chatter about current and future projects, including the next episode: Americana as Decor). https://archive.org/download/01.BeingNessInAustin/01.Being-ness%20in%20Austin.mp3

We begin with an introduction. https://archive.org/download/MutualAdSocIntroOfficial/Mutual%20AdSoc%20Intro%20-%20Official.mp3