Overenthusiastic Underprepared

How many friendships were ended over the Myspace top eight? This week Annemarie looks at the rise of social media in the early aughts. Meanwhile, we may not be able to imagine the food scene without bacon or Food Network, but Alyssa looks back at how the 2000s were the formative years for these and other food trends.

In a totally normal sounding event, Alyssa gets into a shower-sized room to sweat under some infrared lights while dreaming of that one possibly hot Australian doctor who got away. Annemarie has a run in with a witch and looks at some Post-It Note art – two wildly different things that she manages to weave into one story.

This week Alyssa sits down with her coworker and friend Emma. She's sharing a few dating stories, an embarrassing story involving her parents and a nightmare, and the time she got to perform with a show with a singer she liked thanks to a few chance encounters.

Alyssa might be dying in this week’s episode, but that doesn’t stop her from telling us about her experience using ClassPass. Annemarie attends a pasta cooking class (is this the new bread episode?) and is now basically a chef.  Don’t judge the hosts, 2020 has already been 6 months long.

It's our first episode where we take a look a random topic! Annemarie delves into the history of workplace sitcoms and wonders how they'll evolve. Yes, she does talk about THE OFFICE. Meanwhile, Alyssa took this opportunity to research white collar crime, (Honestly both of our hosts are completely predictable.)

Alyssa goes to the theater to see Cats – a spectacle so trippy, confusing, and downright awful that she declares it a must see.  You’ll probably walk out of the theater wondering about normal cat anatomy and feeling vaguely threatened by Dame Judi Dench. In a very off-brand move, Annemarie sees former Jackass star, Steve-O, do stand-up comedy where he talks about doing the most ridiculous stunts. There’s a lot of poop involved… so if that’s not your thing, know that it most definitely is also not her thing.

We're making plans this week. There are some exciting changes coming to Overenthusiastic Underprepared, and we can't wait. We're also setting some personal intentions for 2020 and sending some positive energy into the world.

The hosts sit down in Alyssa’s childhood bedroom with their long-time good friend, Ana, to talk about a few of Ana’s first times. The conversation quickly derails as they pass one microphone back and forth between all three of them, and they end up covering some pretty weird topics.  Alyssa and Annemarie are sorry for what you’re about to hear – but in a much more real sense, they aren’t sorry at all.

You can have a little decade-in-review content, as a treat. Alyssa and Annemarie have ten completely unrelated questions they're answering to reminisce about the last ten years. Memes, obsessions, funny memories of each other, and much more.

After a bit of time away from recording, Alyssa and Annemarie are back and better than ever (read: so exhausted from life that they’re one bad joke away from a mental breakdown)! Alyssa attends a Steelers football game with her family and consequently considers becoming the next big TikTok star – a path she had not considered before. Annemarie gets crafty while making a candle and tells facts about… sperm whales? We aren’t sure who let these hosts have a podcast, but here we are.

Annemarie accidentally attends her first EDM concert this week, featuring flaming drumsticks and unexplained dirtbikes. Alyssa goes to an advanced screening of the tv show DICKINSON and gets a taste of the VIP treatment, which she really recommends if any other companies want to treat her like a VIP.

This week’s episode is a special one! Annemarie met up with two of her friends to listen to them tell a story of one of their First Times – their first time jumping out of a plane thousands of feet in the air, to be exact. You know, just your casual, everyday sort of activity. They’re on this podcast, so I guess you could say they lived to tell the tale.

After a week in Alabama, Alyssa shares the mistakes she made on vacation. (She tried to go on a date for the podcast, and let's just say it didn't go to plan.) Fresh off jury duty, Annemarie talks about Pod-ception, when she, a podcaster, went to a podcast live show to talk about on this podcast. Trippy, we know.

The hosts are comin’ at you this week with a special Halloween episode in celebration of Annemarie’s favorite holiday. Annemarie visits the City Market Catacombs in Indianapolis and tells herself that it is not haunted (but it’s probably haunted). Alyssa finds herself in the dark of night, in a field, in rural Massachusetts looking at a totally normal spectacle: Ponyhenge.

Alyssa gets dressed up for cocktails where the "real adults" go for drinks (listen after three weeks of birthdays, she's pretty poor and had to work with what she had. Let's give her a break). Annemarie goes to Dinosaur World. But even though dinosaurs are awesome, this theme park might not be.

Alyssa rings in her 26th birthday with a hangover (cured by a magical breakfast sandwich) and a fun, surprise-filled day planned by her amazing friends. Annemarie considers buying a house and attends a super informative, ultra interesting, definitely-worth-talking-about crash course on it.

Alyssa will forever be haunted by the mystery of a wrong number text this weekend. She'll also be haunted by some of the weird food she ate at a sustainability food festival. Meanwhile, Annemarie has some fun in the sun, featuring poisonous tequila and quite a bit of vomiting.

This week, Annemarie attends a Pet Festival with her dog, Hagrid, and considers traveling the world to become a Dachshund race journalist. To be continued whether or not she makes this major career change.  Alyssa opens up to a complete stranger when she attends a Meetup Group in Boston, proving once again that forcing herself to try new activities can be really rewarding.

This week, Annemarie participates in perhaps the most random activity yet: a Rock Paper Scissors Tournament. Going against her better judgment, Alyssa skips a party with her friends and goes on a second date to some pond. The night quickly takes an awkward turn, leaving Alyssa no choice but to use the classic Phone a Friend move and pretend her dog was deathly ill. Can we blame her?

This week, Alyssa is on a boat, cruising down a river. Well, on a kayak. And she's paddling. And we aren't sure whether it was actually a river. But close enough. Annemarie recaps her trip to Italy with a new segment called "The Top Six Things That I Thought Were Worth Sharing Slash What I Could Remember While Doing This Outline About Traveling to the Specific Places That I Went to in Italy."

After a few weeks off, Alyssa and Annemarie are back in the recording studio (read: their bedrooms). This time the hosts are together in Indianapolis, fulfilling their lifelong, YA dreams of shooting some arrows from some bows at Sasquatch. While archery may not be their thing, they realize that all you need for a good time is your best friend, some slushies, and a 20-minute hunt in a giant field for a perfectly camouflaged (and potentially haunted, idk?) arrow.

Annemarie is still pretending to be Lizzie McGuire in Rome, so this week we're revisiting our very first. Safe to say we've learned a lot about podcasting since then. We talk about how we became friends, how we stayed friends despite living in different cities, and why we decided to start a podcast about trying new things.

Annemarie tries to calm her mind and find inner peace this week with a new type of meditation. The class is totally not a cult recruitment thing. For anyone who doesn't like Shakespeare, Alyssa's activity this week is for you. 

It’s summer. It’s hot. And the sun is out to get us all. Alyssa goes to the Singing Beach, avoids Casey Affleck, and gets beat up by the ocean. But she didn’t get a sunburn, so basically it’s a success. Annemarie also fights with some salt water as she attempts round two of the sensory deprivation tank. As you could probably imagine, it once again does not go as planned.

Annemarie gets a lot more than she signed up for when she goes to a Magic Mike-type show (but also a lot less than she signed up for, if you know what we mean). It takes about thirty seconds for Alyssa to decide aerial yoga is not for her, but there's still an hour of class left for her to suffer through.

Welcome to a special food edition of the podcast, where the criteria are made up and the points don’t matter. Alyssa and Annemarie take a listener’s suggestion to find the worst rated restaurant in their area and see if the food really lived up to the bad reviews or just got a bad rap. You could probably guess that Alyssa had brunch and watched sports (who doesn’t love a good Irish pub breakfast?). Annemarie took the challenge too far by ordering from 3 of the worst rated pizza joints in the area and awarded points, stars, and the coveted Golden Pizza Cutter.

Annemarie celebrates Pride with day drinking, learning about the history of Pride in Indianapolis, and a lot of glitter. Oh yeah, and Lizzo is there. Alyssa tries to get to the root of an important question: what exactly is a facial? But by the end of it, she still can’t answer the question.

Alyssa visits a marijuana dispensary, has some edibles, and feels a lot less badass (but probably more chill) than she thought she would.  Annemarie drags her mom to another strange wellness activity and struggles to suppress her laughter in a completely silent Salt Cave.

Annemarie realizes her true calling as a Disney princess by going to the zoo. Meanwhile, Alyssa indulges her more violent side and goes boxing, meaning she’s maybe more of a Disney villain.

This week, Alyssa spices up her life with some spontaneity by going to a Red Sox game unplanned (gasp!). She learns the shocking history behind the naming of the team and shares more of her classic facts. Annemarie bares her body, and possibly her soul, to a massage therapist and reiterates that she can always out-awkward any awkward situation.

We interrupt your regularly scheduled program for a special episode. Alyssa and Annemarie commemorate an incredibly small but still fun milestone and dive into a Q&A to find out our deepest secrets. Like, what objects we would pick for a summoning circle and which course of a meal we most identify with (you know, just your average get-to-know-you questions).

Science fiction becomes reality this week as the hosts find themselves at events exploring the fake past and very possibly real future. Alyssa winds up at a Steampunk festival and gives her nuts to an eleven year old (not that way, you sickos). Annemarie makes a fool of herself (what’s new) at a virtual reality arcade and gets one step closer to becoming a Jedi, basically.

Annemarie and Alyssa reunite in this week’s episode. They spend some time reminiscing about high school, because that’s obviously what people want to hear about. Then they attend the wedding of a friend from high school, take some shots in a bathroom stall, and explore a few haunted buildings.

Alyssa tries her luck at another first date and let’s just say she’s still single. Someone just take one for the team and date her so we can stop hearing about her bad first dates.  At least this one didn’t keep saying “giddy up!” Everybody has found themselves at a random casino at 1 AM before, right? Annemarie is choosing to think so after spending a girls’ weekend in Cincinnati, Ohio (spoiler alert: she’s drunk in this one, too).

This week, Annemarie channels her inner Tim Gunn and attends a Midwest Fashion Week runway show (is she an ~Influencer~ yet?).  After a night of dancing and drinking at Boston’s Soulelujah, Alyssa comes to the conclusion that not all heroes wear capes… some are doused in syrup.

Alyssa escapes the city this weekend to take moody walks, listen to music, and pretend she's in her own music video. Annemarie learns how to save money at a couponing class, sparking a fight about the correct pronunciation of the word coupon.

We have our first guest this week! Alyssa's teen sister visits and gives us some insight into the youths, really highlighting that we are not hip anymore (if we ever were). Annemarie rummages around a dead person's house and we contemplate who we want to haunt once we're dead.

Alyssa goes to a food festival with bad drinks, club bops, and some old ladies there to turn up, and she’s once again reminded that she cannot handle spicy food. At all. Did you guys know Annemarie likes Harry Potter? This week she goes to Wizards and Witches Beer Festival and maybe hallucinates Moaning Myrtle’s voice in the bathroom.

Annemarie is maybe still drunk but definitely hungover thanks to her activity this week: a bar crawl complete with a to-do list that includes a very hairy body shot and the worst drink you've ever heard of. Meanwhile, Alyssa goes full fake art hoe and once again disappoints all her teachers by using Wikipedia for research.

Why go to therapy when you could bake a loaf of bread and talk about your feelings on a podcast? Alyssa sees no issue with that. Meanwhile, Annemarie gets one step closer to becoming Leslie Knope by attending a festival centered around maple syrup. #JustIndianaThings

Stop trying to make the plural of “Wild Child” happen. Annemarie gets her nosed pierced (it only took three years) while Alyssa works out on a trampoline and only almost dies once but gets shown up by a very pregnant woman the whole time.

Alyssa goes speed dating this week and meets someone who may murder her someday, but she gets bagels the next morning so whatever. Annemarie was so inspired by Alyssa's roller derby adventure that this week she tries roller skating and learns that she absolutely hates it.

This week, Annemarie puts it all out there for love. And by “puts it all out there”, we mean watches other people participate in a live dating game show while she judges from the audience. Alyssa learns the rules of roller derby, then heads to the track to watch some kick-ass women skate it out (and to eat concession stand popcorn).  

Alyssa tries to go on a date and fails, so instead she went to look at some old books (but one of those books is made out of human skin, so we still think her story is worth listening to). Annemarie is skeptical about personality tests--you took Psych 101 we get it--but takes the Myers-Briggs and actually maybe learns something.

We had to record this episode three times thanks to some technical malfunctions so you people better enjoy it. Alyssa visits the Church of Christian Science, which is not Tom Cruise's weird church (that's Scientology) but still has some weird stuff going on. Annemarie jumps right in to a sensory deprivation tank and, to no one's surprise, it does not work out like she planned.

It took more than a few lost audio files, but we made it to episode one. This week, our activity is...starting a podcast. We talk about how we became friends, how we stayed friends despite living in different cities, and why we decided to start a podcast about trying new things.

Here we go I guess. Welcome to a new weekly comedy podcasts where two best friends willingly embarrass themselves and try things that terrify them then share all the awkward, hilarious details with each other. Trailer out now, and new episodes coming to a podcast platform near you February 11.