4. We Did An Episode With Our Moms!

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Can you count how many times we say spook in this BONUS Halloween episode?! (Hint: It's more than we're proud to admit!) Jasmine and Dani read some spooky stories they've written and two by guest writers!

Jasmine's stories include "The Farmhouse on the Lake" and "The Stone-faced Man". Dani's stories are so eloquently titled "Spooky Story 2" (aka "Dishes"), "Spooky Story 3" (aka "Trumpet"), and Spooky Story 1 (aka "Nothing"). Our guest stories include "Untitled" by Jasmine's brother, James about a boy's encounter with Yetis, and "Ring & Run" by Jasmine's friend, Simon. 

We hope you enjoyed our spooky BONUS episode! Thank you for listening!

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It’s season 2! We start this season in the heart of spooky month with some conspiracy theories!

We play a game where Jasmine explains some conspiracy theories and Dani guesses which she thinks Jasmine believes.

The theories included are the CIA using “The Catcher in the Rye” as a trigger for assassins, cannibals living in US national parks, our current Forests being miniature versions of ancient silicon Forests, the streetlight interference phenomenon (SLI), the hippie movement being created to discredit the anti-war movement, and operation majestic 12.

We hope you enjoyed our first episode of season 2 of Better When Awkward! Thank you for listening!

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It’s a finale episode! We round season 1 out with lots of laughter in this finale!

We talk about our favorite parts of making a podcast, our process to pick a name, what we struggled with this season, and what we've learned.

Other topics include our favorite episodes, how our friendship has grown, things we'd like to improve on, and how Jasmine comes up with those brilliant ideas!

We hope you enjoyed this finale and the first season of Better When Awkward! Thank you for listening!

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It’s a self-care episode! We discuss our self-care habits and much, much more!

We talk about before-you-knew-about-self-care self-care habits, non-beneficial self-care habits, our go-to habits, and how to know when to incorporate a new habit.

Other topics include sensory overload, Jasmine's dinner plans, how our depressions affected us, and the varying signs that we need some self-care time.

We hope you enjoyed our conversation on self-care! Thank you for listening!

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It’s a video idea episode! We discuss some random (bad) video ideas and laugh about them.

Jasmine wants to make a ball gown for the first time, make travel vlogs for undesired destinations, get her friends together to make a giant archery painting, make a LEGO house to sleep in, and join a rock band for a night. Dani has one legitimate video idea and one shitty video idea. We even bring it all back to a previous episode!

Other topics include Jasmine's hatred of ASMR, music videos, and Slender Man. Also, we learn that Dani loves all of Jasmine's bad video ideas.

We hope you enjoyed our horrible (hilarious) video ideas! Thank you for listening!

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It’s a solo trip episode! We share our experiences with traveling solo, and of course what we learned along the way (*awwww*).

Jasmine tells us about her solo trip to Europe, her experience with staying in hostels, and her take-aways from the trip. Dani tells us about her little taste of a solo trip, what the story of her life is, and what trips she's looking forward to. We discuss van life and our top places to-visit.

Other topics include making friends with older couples, the geographical cure, searching for weed in Denver, and Berlin bike tours. As a side note, it is very unlikely that we will bring up the kegels again.

We hope you enjoyed listening to our travel experiences enough to want to listen to us talk at you more in more episodes! Thank you for listening to this one!

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It’s a Twenty One Pilots episode! The new TOP album came out and we're sharing our thoughts on that, and the lore behind all of the albums. DON'T RUSH THE ENTHUSIASM!

Jasmine introduces us to Twenty One Pilots, Dani discusses the themes of the albums, and then Jasmine tells us about the lore behind it all. We talk about our own histories with the band and their music, our thoughts on some songs from Scaled and Icy, and our concert experiences.

Other topics include the clique/banditos, Dema, mental health/illness, Trench, Clancy, insecurity, Nicolas Bourbaki, and Blurryface. Don't miss out on listening to Jasmine wave her arms!

We hope you enjoyed this new album as much as we did, and that it keeps bringing you joyfully mind-exploding realizations. Thank you for listening!

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It’s a Reddit game episode! Jasmine looked up some r/unpopularopinion on Reddit and the two created a game out of it.

Jasmine reads these unpopular opinions and Dani decides which position Jasmine will defend. At the end of each defense, Dani guesses which way Jasmine actually leans on the opinion. We learn that Dani cannot suspend disbelief and eats the core of apples; while Jasmine loooooves capes, but is not a fan of the butt pieces of bread.

Unpopular opinions include capes as the fashion statement of 2021, butt pieces of bread being superior, Funko Pops are the worst, which shower temperature is best, and how kids should be the janitors of their own schools.

We hope you enjoyed this little game and that some of these opinions enraged you just as much as they enraged us. Thank you for listening!

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It’s a Mother's Day episode! Jasmine and Dani bring their moms into the mix with some burning questions.

Jasmine wrote all the questions for this one (nice one, Dani). She asks about our moms’ favorite memories of us together, which of their traits they see in us, what annoys them about us most, and their opinions on us starting a podcast.

Other topics include playing music, questions that our moms have always wanted to ask us, their hopes and dreams for our futures, #MomAdvice, and things we've done that would surprise our moms.

HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY to all moms out there! We wouldn't be here without you. Thank you!

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It’s another HARRY POTTER episode! You know these two witches couldn’t have a podcast together and not do two HARRY POTTER episodes! This is part 2. Part 1 is available here.

Dani rants about how much Ron AND Dumblebore suck and her frustration with Jasmine reading the books out of order. Jasmine admits Ron has no empathy and talks about her dislike of adulthood.

Other topics include what draws us to the series, friend fights and makeups, the difference between a spell, a charm, and a jinx, magical objects, which shops we want to visit in Diagon Alley, where we would be during a Quidditch match, which characters from the books we'd want in the movies, and more of our favorites (candy, spell, potion, plant, creature, professors).

We hope you share in our love of HARRY POTTER and wish you another very witchy day. Thank you for listening!

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