Branched

Would you like a friend? We love friends!! In this episode, Maddy and Doug talk about how to make friends as an adult--a problem that doesn't seem to have a solution--and how to maintain friendships when the world is literally ending in fire all around us. Hurray for the technology that allows us to stay in touch when we can't actually touch our friends...(; --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/branched-podcast/support

This story is incredible! If Netflix doesn't make this an original series, we will be contacting the attorney general!! This week Doug shares the amazing story of Chevalier d'Éon, a French spy who used the power of gossip to live her best life. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/branched-podcast/support

What is the best night of sleep you've ever had? Has your sleep patterns gone totally to shit because we are living through the apocalypse? Us too! This week Maddy and Doug discuss sleep in a changing world, how it affects our day to day lives and how relationships with sleep have changed over the years. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/branched-podcast/support

There was a time--we think--when people slept and slept well. Or maybe that is just a myth? In this week's episode, Maddy and Doug discuss their relationship with sleep and how it affects their daily lives, the best sleep they have ever gotten, and how millennials can get a goddam goodnight rest. What's the best night of sleep you have ever gotten?  --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/branched-podcast/support

This is a debut 2021 episode! Doug and Maddy discuss everyone's favorite topic, failure. However, they try to take the sting of such a negative experience and look at all the positives and what they might mean. What was the best thing to come out of your last failure? These two have failed more times than anyone but hey maybe one day they will learn. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/branched-podcast/support

2021 is here and so are we! bigger, badder, thicccker (; Branched 2021 has a lot planned, and in this minisode we welcome the near with goals, expectations, and a hint of realism we may have been too naive to have last year. We will finish projects this year! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/branched-podcast/support

We have two amazing guests on the show this week to kick off the holiday season the only way Doug and Maddy know how,  by accidentally summoning satan! Letters to Satan Claus director, Emma Sutherland. and writer, Michael Zara. join us to talk about their Christmas comedy/horror movie and we are more than HYPED to see it! We talk about classic Christmas movies and how Emma and Michael's love for them spawned this fun and crazy story about Santa and Satan! Listen to learn about their experiences filming during COVID, inspiration, and representation in their film! Letters to Satan Claus premiers on December 19, 2020, on the SCI-FY channel!   --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/branched-podcast/support

We tricked another unsuspecting guest onto our show! This week we discuss why true crime has become such a phenomenon with our new best friends, Shayna and Liz from You Should Have Ghosted. And swap stories about close calls, creepy meet-ups, weird tinder dates and profiles, and all those other times when you should definitely ghost before it is too late! Why do we have so many of these stories?! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/branched-podcast/support

Here we dive in to all things Drag Queens! We talk Drag Race, local drag, bearded queens, and Doug's plans for his drag in the future! (Want to hear about Drag Kings? That minisode is coming soon, we promise!) --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/branched-podcast/support

This episode may not be a part of a healthy, balanced diet. But it sure is good to listen to. We talk about... all of it. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/branched-podcast/support

We're talking about sex again. We just can't stop ourselves. This time it's about BDSM and consent! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/branched-podcast/support

This whole minisode is basically Doug gushing about how great the Scream movies are. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/branched-podcast/support

It's that time again! Our Halloween Episode is upon us! This time we're talking about the unexplainable and the stories that come out of it! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/branched-podcast/support

This episode, Maddy and Doug talk about La Croix, soda, and what your favorite drink says about you. And also some other things. Just listen to it. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/branched-podcast/support

Part 2 of our deep dive into the romantic drama that is Kissing the Coronavirus by MJ Edwards. Kids, it's about to get DIRTY. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/branched-podcast/support

It's our first ever 2 PART MINISODE! And y'all, we peaked on this one. It won't get better. It just won't. This minisode we read and review the Amazon ebook "Kissing the Coronavirus". You aren't ready. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/branched-podcast/support

It's not about Shaft, y'all. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/branched-podcast/support

While Doug and Maddy are busy with many things, we get to look back at some of our fans favorite episodes! This one Doug and Maddy look for weird shit for sale online! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/branched-podcast/support

This week we're giving you that fan favorite realness, henny. We're giving you a chance to relive our most popular episode! And of course it's all about sex, ya little pervs. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/branched-podcast/support

This week's minisode is possibly the most fun we've had on this show! We screened upcoming indie movie Last Call and talked with the director, Gavin Michael Booth! It was an amazing experience! Find out more about Last Call here: http://www.lastcallonetake.com/ --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/branched-podcast/support

It's our second sexpisode! And this time, we brought in the sexperts! We talked with Jacqueline Jones, the owner of award-winning sex shop Sugar! Jacqueline talks with us about the importance of good sex ed in schools, how to find sex toys that work for you, and how to have a truly joyous sex life. This isn't one you want to miss! Check out Jacqueline's store Sugar here: www.sugartheshop.com --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/branched-podcast/support

This week we kick off a new minisode miniseries (say that three times fast) where we review some of our favorite episodes of the iconic children's TV show Avatar the Last Airbender. This installment is all about Season 3, Episode 3: The Painted Lady (or the one where Katara joins Greenpeace) --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/branched-podcast/support

Brunch, my friends, is just a state of mind. This episode, Doug and Maddy talk brunch, talk food, and talk about terrible comedy for like WAY too long. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/branched-podcast/support

This week, we're treated to another lesson in queer history as Doug tells us about the Compton's Cafeteria Riot of 1966 and how it helped shape the movement for transgender rights throughout the country. DEFINITELY worth the listen! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/branched-podcast/support

What are clothes even? Maddy and Doug attempt to work that out and talk about their style, how style is different than fashion, and how clothes can make you feel. Special shout-out to Florida Man Brian this episode for proving that not everyone in Florida is crazy. Way to go Brian! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/branched-podcast/support

Doug's mission to educate Maddy on all the iconic films of the 90's that she is woefully ignorant on has begun! And, fittingly, it has begun with the 1992 classic Sister Act. Doug and Maddy talk about their viewing experience, which nun is the kinkiest, how well Jesus performs in his marriage bed, and what Maddy looks for when she invites nuns into her convent. This one gets a little sacrilegious, folks. Don't say we didn't warn you. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/branched-podcast/support

We're talking about stereotypes in this one! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/branched-podcast/support

We're redoing our first two episodes! This one we talk about queer representation in media, how far we've grown since our first time on the topic, and how stereotypes effect how we view ourselves as queer individuals and how we interact with society at large! Bonus guest: the sounds of Champ not leaving us alone! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/branched-podcast/support

It's Pride Month, bitches! So, we're gonna talk about funny queer people! And by that we mean ourselves! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/branched-podcast/support

Gosh it's been a long quarantine. Let's catch up! Also there's a bit of a technical glitch about 3 and a half minutes in. It's like 20 seconds of silence. Yeah, we hate it too. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/branched-podcast/support

Well, this one starts with a list of two sentence horror stories and just devolves into Maddy and Doug being real dumb about mirrors. Also, they woke Bobby up (whoops). --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/branched-podcast/support

NOTE: This episode was made before everything got too crazy. So, enjoy a look at a time that was... better. Maddy and Doug talk about education, how people's perspective shift after education, how great teachers are, and more! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/branched-podcast/support

We're back, baby! It's a unique time in history right now, and we know everyone is cooped up and stressed. So we wanted to talk about some of the things you could do while you're stuck in your house. Instead, we spent most of this minisode ranting about Tiger King. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/branched-podcast/support

It's another Queers In History minisode where we talk about James Allen and the crazy aftermath of his death! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/branched-podcast/support

We talk about pets and stuff in this one and it's pretty great! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/branched-podcast/support

Friends, we'll be real with you. This one is just a trip down the rabbit hole of the internet that ends with creepy jewelry and an eBay listing for a haunted doll. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/branched-podcast/support

It's pop-culture mania over here! We're talking anime, we're talking music, we're talking Dungeons & Dragons. Plus a new surprise segment! (Well, a surprise for Maddy anyway) --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/branched-podcast/support

It's time to take a look at... QUEERS. IN. HISTORY! Our first ever queer in history is none other than the gender non-binary, self proclaimed prophet Public Universal Friend! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/branched-podcast/support

It's a deep dive into all things kink in this one, friends! Let Doug and Maddy teach you the history of kink! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/branched-podcast/support

Color Out of Space, the new Lovecraft/Nick Cage movie, might have broken Doug. In this minisode, he does his best to try to describe it. There are spoilers for the movie in this episode (as much as there are ways to explain the movie, anyway). --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/branched-podcast/support

We get really real in this one, folks. In our finale of the Identity Crisis series, we welcome Emily Davis, host of Perceptionists Anonymous, to talk to us about our ever changing identity, identity death, and how to move forward when who we are changes. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/branched-podcast/support

It's another minisode y'all! This week's bonus content is a not-so-deep dive into the world of queer presidents! Join us on our factually sparse discussion on which presidents (and first ladies) we think we're probably not that straight! --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/branched-podcast/support

What even is sex? What even is kink? We sure don't know but we'll spend an hour talking about it! CW: This episode is all about sex. If talking about or listening to people talking about sex makes you uncomfortable, we recommend checking out one of our other episodes instead! --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/branched-podcast/support

It's our first minisode! Listen to hear all of the exciting things Branched has planned for 2020! --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/branched-podcast/support

Vonche Ogburn of Pretty Imperfections joins us this week for our second installment of Identity Crisis, a series that explores what makes up our personal identities! This segment deals with masculinity, femininity, and... coins? --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/branched-podcast/support

This week we talk all things ego- starting with ours! Listen as we discuss confidence, the good and bad side of a big ego, and  how you need to STOP SLIDING INTO DMs! EDIT: We try hard to keep our episodes in the same order we record them, but this one was recorded before our last episode on gender identity. We apologize if that creates any confusion. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/branched-podcast/support

Welcome to the New Year everyone! Our first episode of 2020 is also the first episode in our three part series, Identity Crisis! This episode focuses on all things gender identity and we were stoked to have our friend Mika Turbo on to talk about this subject. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/branched-podcast/support

We're caught up in the Disney+ hype! Walk with Doug and Maddy down nostalgia lane as we discuss our favorite cartoons, DCOMs, how cartoons have helped shape culture, and more! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/branched-podcast/support

It's getting really spooky up in this one, y'all! Join us as we discuss supernatural occurrences and address our own cynicism when it comes to the otherworldly. Also listen to the interviews with the artist behind our logo, Wil Wilcock, and Wick and the Tricks frontman, Wick Thomas! Intro/Outro music: "Mastermind" by Wick and the Tricks --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/branched-podcast/support

Oh boy, this may be a two-sitting listening experience! In this meaty episode, Doug and Maddy discuss tattoos, how they effect how you interact with society, and, uh, a bunch of stuff that doesn't matter to this subject. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/branched-podcast/support

Doug and Maddy discuss Bird scooters, social media, smart home technology, and plot the possible demise of Elon Musk. A special thanks to Wick and the Tricks for use of their song "Mastermind"! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/branched-podcast/support