Glass Houses Podcast

In this tidy episode, we talk about new jobs, old neighborhood police, and roll around in the Chagrin Valley Police Blotter which is 100 percent gold. We also puzzle over some bad bad neighbor tips.  In other words, every second of this episode is prescious. 

The weekly recap includes a discussion on the terror of pop-its and sesonal wreaths. Bainbridge Township gets Squatchy in Krime Korner, and a mysterious man steals your flag pole bracket on Next Door. It's chaos up in here! Join us, won't you? 

Patrick and Tiff have climbed out of their COVID holes. They are vaxxed to the max and ready to relax by hanging out with you. NEW this season! Actual editing and Krime Korner. This week we talk Coy Wolves, lawnmower thieves, and finding Faith (an actual person). Come, rejoin your favorite suburban hosts as they talk about the suburbs. 

Tiff and Patrick are back with a full episode for the first time since the US went full-on COVID-19 crazy. We're blocks away but the conversation is just as close as it was before (after figuring out how to record remotely of course). So why not invite us in for a chat and feel like you've got some adults around?

Times are getting a little weird...for John Fenner to VOLUNTEER to podcast, shit must really being going down!! Some helpful insights and some hopeful ones as well. Please take a listen, dear neighbors...we know you have nothing better to do!

For some reason, we started talking about psilocybin but we also talk about Mat's funeral, douching cats and whether or not Tiff would make a good cam model (the jury is out). And yet somehow it all blends seamlessly into the pure Glass Houses experience that you've come to love and cherish ... just as we love and cherish you.

We lost a neighbor and a friend in the neighborhood this week. This episode is dedicated to him. Tiff shares memories and we read an essay on grieving. Please donate to VeloSano in Mat's name to support cancer research.

Aaaaaand we're back. We talk Valentine's Day, virginity, Keto and discover there might be a new friend in Bainbridge, renting a room on Next Door, who we desperately want to meet. There are pork rinds and little dogs and we're interrupted by children, as per usual. Anyway, enjoy it!

Tiffany's kids messed with the mixer and turned her into a robot. So she sounds weird, but we promise we didn't replace her. It's still Tiff. This week we talk about the SuperBowl halftime show, Cleveland's weather-predicting cat, the lost shirt (again) and politics.

This one gets a bit crazy. Are there cracks showing in Patrick and Tiff's relationship!? Why are their kids fighting!? Why did the power go out!? Why does everyone have to use the dang boudoir bathroom!? This one's a slice of reality, people. We have a shirt update. We talk cultural appropriation and for one sweet second, we wish for summer.

Somebody lost a shirt in Lake Lucerne. Whose shirt is it? We don't know, but it's a goddamn mystery that's basically killing us. Is that why we missed a week? Probably. Yes? Okay, no. But anyway, we're back on the pod and back on the case. Aside from that mysterious shirt, we're talking about Bainbridge sex crimes and missed connections. Those things aren't related. Not really.

New Year! New Season! New Segments! New Glass Houses Theme Song! Rock out with us on this one, folks. It's 2020 and Tiff and Patrick are adding a bit more structure to the pod. Are we still rambling? Obviously. It's just structured rambling. On the first episode of season 2, we wonder if being a Browns fan should qualify for a medical marijuana script. Patrick basically calls "The Shvitz" racist. We thrill to the new Nextdoor theme and then talk about a HUMAN TRAFFICKING ATTEMPT *gasp*. IT's a mess, but a structured mess. Enjoy. Nextdoor trafficking link is here.

Tiff and Patrick read and take a deep dive into 'Twas the Night Before Christmas and discover that the Santa we think we know was smaller hairier and much more strange than we realized. Merry Christmas!

Holy heck it's the last episode of the year and we're feeling a little Grinchy, but that's okay because Tiffany has managed to solve Patrick's present problem. We also discuss waiting in line and end with all the gratitude in the world.

Guest Ty Stimpert visits from the West Side and becomes our new best friend as we launch into a year wrap-up. We discuss our favorite podcasts of 2019, talk Time's people of the year and stray into topics like perineum sunning and snowman sex. That makes sense considering the back half of the podcast is PornHubs year in review. We learn so much about each other in this one, folks.

Patrick didn' mean to confess his teenage relationship with a pregnant girl, but whatever. Tiff has some strong words for Justin Timberlake who is a secret-keeping dog. Also, a plan is concocted to start the Lake Lucerne Dude for Dams Calendar. So look forward to that.

We stay on topic for most of this one: We talk Thanksgiving traditions, meet Mia the puppy (which is arguably more important) and play a very strange Would You Rather involving gravy and Hitler.

If you want to know how snapping turtles were introduced to the lake, Patrick has the tale. Tiffany talks about critters and the specific pains of school meetings and there is some discussion about mind reading. There's also a pretty long rant about the education system, but what else would you come to expect.

Look, we'll be honest. If you live outside of the neighborhood, this episode might not be the most interesting for you. I mean, unless you're totally interested in HOA politics and landscaping gossip. Anyway, Tiff also talks about how much she'd like to be Thanos' wife and Patrick shaved his pubes so it's not completely devoid of fun content.

Tiffany visited God's Waiting Room and got kicked out of an exclusive club. She is now Florida Girl. Patrick reads an excerpt from the Mystery novel he's writing with his wife Kitty. And finally, there's a really awkward would-you-rather question about having sex with a cousin. So there's that — at the end.

We address the recent criticism of our last episode before getting into better things like pumpkin shows, pregnant smoker and other spooky-ookie goodness. BTW, Tiff thinks she can beat Michael Myers in a fight. What are the odds?

No joke with this one. We start out talking cuddles before launching into the sordid tale of Lake Lucerne's one and (hopefully) only murder. There are patricide, blood and a question about whether or not you could be rented a tragedy car. (Hint: you can). Snuggle up with someone, neighbors. Turn off the lights. This episode is getting dark.

We're back after a brief intermission. But everyone's mental health is on point again (mostly) now so that pretty great. Today we talk about movies, murders (local and otherwise) and melonheads. That's right — melonheads. It's fun! It's spooky! It's mental health-y!

Sawyer has just about completed his 7th year around the sun and it's time for a Fenner Family Performance Review to make sure everyone's expectations about this arrangement are being met.

Tiff drops a bomb about her placenta pills and her psychic sensitivities (those things are unrelated, sadly). Patrick tells the crazy story of his parent's bizarre interaction with ghost AND aliens. All in all, it's a bunch of weirdness in the boudoir. Oh! And we talk about the movie Mom & Dad, a horror flick about parents killing their kids. Fun!

Today Patrick popped over for a midday recording and shared a cup of joe with Tiffany as they discussed all things relationship. Healthy communication and dating your mate while working to make sure you don't morph into wearing your "mom" and "dad" hats at all times were top of mind. Patrick and Tiff also contemplate why so many couples seem to have an undercurrent of discontentment. Patrick makes a public plea for any and all neighbors to call upon his house whenever they feel so inclined -- he must be wearing a bra at all times. Tiffany offers to lend him a bra or two for his new foray into the public realm of households.

Tiff and Patrick are on their own this week and catching up on neighborhood news. We talk Crop Walk, Pig Gig, the Great Geauga County Fair and the Lake Lucerne Lucerne little library. Also, Tiff pulls an epic bait and switch on Patrick. But it's okay. He just needs to try harder to menstruate. It's a real journey, guys.

Tiffany's friend Blake is our second guest ever! He lends his sweet honey baritone to topics like: Why everyone should support parents raising kids, whether or not Wal-Mart is America's gift shop, teen angst, pumpkin spice lattes and the best songs of the decades from the 80s to today. Also, there's a pretty great Amy Winehouse joke for which it is not too soon.

Tiff and Patrick have their first guest ... And he brought beer! That's because the guest is the illustrious Neil Mentzer, a longtime friend of Tiff who supplies Ohio and Kentucky with brews from Southern Tier, Victory, and Six Point Brewery. Fueled by delicious brews the conversation drifts from friendships to White Claw to ... Fluffers? Huh. Hope you enjoy.

On this week's Glass Houses the conversation stays well below the waist before it becomes rather heady. We start by talking Nut Rub, Romper pee and what to call genitalia and we end talking about how giving back to our local communities allowed us to evolve as a species. It's ... Quite a journey. Also! New theme song!

Tiffany and Patrick introduce themselves and the magical land that is Lake Lucerne, Ohio. Topics include Shamu (!), the mysterious swinging practice called "the steamroller", deadly trampolines, ghosts, and most importantly, the strange lake community in the wild suburbs East of Cleveland. Join us, won't you?

Take a quick trip down memory lane with John and Tiffany as they discuss how they met and play a little "would you rather".