Coffeeside Chats

Two friends living what feels like a million miles apart talk about stigmas this season. With coffee (or tea) in hand, let's talk about the stigmas around the homelessness in our communities.

Two friends living what feels like a million miles apart talk about stigmas this season. With coffee (or tea) in hand, let's talk about the judgments given and received during the holiday season.

The James Hoffman obsession continues in this MINI episode. Check out Facebook and Instagram for the video!

The end of the season and we cover everything from bad coffee to dog training, from childhood radio shows to thinking about weddings.

What would happen if we used a randomized system to elect officials or college admissions? In the penultimate episode of Season 2 of Coffeeside Chats Malik and Janelle take a dive into the concept of election lotteries and how they might change everyday life.

What makes a person willing to take a high level risk? How many times a day do you take low level risks? What's the biggest risk you've taken that's paid off in the end?

In old fashioned Coffee Side Chat form, Malik and Janelle go through an entire range of topics, none of which go together quite right but they make it work.

Humans are pack animals. Pack as in wolf pack or pack rat? Malik is moving, Janelle might move soon. Life is stressful. Do you use stress balls or glow-in-the-dark stress putty?

This episode Malik and Janelle discuss their relationship with money and how that has changed over their lives.

*This is a rerecord after technical difficulties. Janelle and Malik talk about how they got into their oddball collections.

In this episode, Malik and Janelle explore the world of ask culture and guess culture and how those worlds can collide.

Malik and Janelle have only recorded in the same room twice, so Covid-19 hasn't affected the podcast, but it has affected other parts of their lives.

This month Malik and Janelle discuss all the "adulting" they have done and what they have learned the easy way and the hard way.

This episode Malik and Janelle discuss their many travels over the past few months and how much "fun" that was for them.

Malik and Janelle discuss their experiences with school growing up and how they felt about the whole experiment.

Do childhood movies define who you will be and what you will value? We will not delve into that, but we will talk about our favorite and least favorite movies as kids and some other stuff.

Malik and Janelle make their return from their winter hiatus to explore how much their relationships have changed through the years.

Another update episode!

Malik and Janelle talk about Janelle’s love of transportation and how that can impact communities.

After six months of publishing the podcast, Janelle and Malik are looking back on that time and looking forward to what's to come.

For this special Quick Chat, Janelle gently picks apart the goofy work that doesn't make the final show.

Lists of lists of lists.

Family. It's complicated, it forms you, and it stays with you forever, even the bad parts. Malik and Janelle talk about their immediate, extended, and friend families.

Roommate horror stories? Best house practices? Janelle talks about old roommates and an incoming roommate. Malik talks about roommate drama and college house parties.

We take a brief intermission during longer months to just ramble about things. Same idea, just shorter.

In this month's episode we talk about our favorite foods, places to eat, and a little about the experience of cooking.

What kind of podcast would we have without doing a glimpse into the drink that made this friendship and the subsequent podcast? Join us as we nerd out and groan over coffee and the culture it has made in our three cities.

Welcome to our debut as casual podcasters. Join us with your own cup of coffee as we chat about nothing and everything. If you want to join in on the chat, send us an email at coffeesidepodcast@gmail.com Sound effects from soundbible.com Music from purpleplanet.com