What are the Rules?

We put the nail in the death coffin with the final episode with Cabana. 

Our good friend Cabana is back to teach us some more funeral rules. 

Since Mickey's gone, Jacki has another guest, her friend Cabana and they talk about the business of death. 

But wait, there's more! Mickey tells Jacki about one of the things she misses most about the beforetimes... eating a meal outside of the house. 

We wrap up the discussion about Mickey's pandemic travel! 

Mickey takes us even further on his Covid travelling journey, including stops at cattle calls, Buddy Dyer and stomachs!

Y'all are probably wondering how Mickey's trip is going. Here's an episode about the first leg of travel!

Breanna and Jacki discuss their pleasure beginnings.  This is the last orgasm episode, we promise...of this series at least. 

There you have it folks.  This is episode 42. The answer to life, the universe and everything is ORGASMS!!!

Two cherries get popped in this episode, y'all! This is Jacki's first episode without a Mickey present and our good friend Breanna's VERY FIRST PODCAST EVER. And we pop 'em hard with the titillating topic of orgasms!

We hear the phrase "It's OK to not be OK" fairly frequently these days, but for those of us who have been through childhood trauma or are suffering from PTSD...sometimes we need the reminder that it's also "OK to be OK." Jacki got that message from a friend (and former guest!) the other day and kept thinking about it so much that she wanted to pass this message along to y'all too! Thanks for the reminder, Alex.

We have a wild and wonderful relationship with drinking the boozes. Here's some tea, settle in and listen, won't you?

Jacki's been on a sleep journey, which has included so many discoveries and purchases, but the other night she got almost 12 hours of sleep, so I guess it's working?

How are you spending your quarantine Thanksgiving? Do you like Thanksgiving? Mickey does not. 

Jacki still has some worries about Mickey's upcoming business trip so they talk about 'em. 

For the uninitiated, Charlie Work is the silent work that goes unnoticed... until the work stops getting done. So we expand on that.

Jacki did the therapy thing again this week and it's still going really well. We catch up on her progress from the last visit and open some brand new cans of worms. 

Collectively, Mickey and Jacki are not a fan of sleepovers and here's why. 

Jacki thinks Generation X is the most well-suited generation for that quarantine life. What do you think?

Having anxiety or being on the spectrum can make car maintenance a special kind of challenge. We discuss our histories with maintaining our vehicles from sweet 16 to our current ages!

Mickey read an article about soccer player Megan Rapinoe freaking out on her brother for giving her a hard time after she lost a game...because he knew that she was beating herself up internally already. 

Say a hearty hello to friend of the show Ryan where he schools us on TikTok and helps us figure out what to do with our newly-acquired accounts. 

Yes, we did a whole episode about toots. 

This episode is all about Jacki's (now, not so) secret shame: skin picking. We go into the history of it a bit, some of the related shame and maybe some future solutions? We'll see!

We recorded this on Saturday, just as the electoral votes swung in favor of Joe Biden. Heck yeah, we celebrated, but, also, our brains had some concerns. 

With Mickey's new gig comes a new requirement: TRAVEL! On this episode, Jacki addresses some of her concerns and doesn't feel awkward about it one it (spoiler alert: yes she does.)

For someone on the spectrum like us, eating at work can be a special kind of challenge, from the long walk down the hallway to cook the food, to what you do when you wait for the food to cook and where you eat it. How do normal people do it? We have no idea but this is how we do it!

How many words would you need to know in a foreign language in order to communicate? We tackle this important topic, as well as how our spectrum-y brains learn languages. 

A few years ago Jacki and Mickey worked the beer tent at the Orlando Fringe Festival. It proved to be an interesting challenge for our brains. 

Kanye West is a misunderstood genius. There, we said it. Now go listen to our misunderstood reasoning. 

Jacki just finished watching the show Baskets and loved it muchly, but found herself struggling with the question of representation, namely Louie Anderson playing the character of Christine Baskets. So we explore the topic of representation in the media!

This week Jacki had another therapy visit and she brought up the most privileged topic in history: why has she been unable to read new books lately? Look, don't judge, books are mega-important to me. -Jacki

Ok, so initially we set out to make this a battle royale between Jacki's aphantasia and our guest John's color blindness, but we ended up asking John too many questions and mostly talked about his color-deficient life. Regardless, this one's a fun one. 

On this episode we delve into some of the philosophies we held when we are younger that we are just now realizing are 100% valid!

This episode deals with one very specific instance from Mickey's childhood that Jacki was gobsmacked by when she asked the simple question, "Have you ever been under anesthesia?"

For our very first guest, we welcome Alex, who is famous for both owning Ms. Andry's Bath House and raising one of the coolest kids we've never met!

Jacki "visited" her therapist for the third time and she...liked it? We talked about feeling validated a lot, which is an AMAZING feeling, y'all. 

Today we tackle some pretty sensitive topics, including privilege, racism and the "cool kids." 

Job hunting isn't easy even when you're "normal" brained.  Imagine what it's like for us! Settle in for a saga of jobs lost and self-pride found. 

After leaving y'all with a pretty hefty cliffhanger, we conclude the story of our fabulous trip to Los Angeles!

I know this sounds cheesy (this is Jacki btdubs) but we literally had a life-changing trip to Los Angeles last year. We probably could have gotten, like, 13 episodes on it, but we settled on two. So enjoy part one!

Jacki had her second therapy appointment and, big surprise, it brought up some other topics of discussion! 

Since y'all keep asking us how we lost all this weight, we decided to talk about it so that we don't have to keep typing it. 

Mickey and Jacki share their wilding varying interactions with cops, from the time when they were younger to current day experiences. 

Since we've being doing episodes for a week now, we wanted to cover a few of the whys and hows, etc. as we as celebrating some things we're loving RIGHT THIS SECOND. 

On this episode Mickey and Jacki talk about the things that center them, in particular movies! 

The very first visit to a therapist can be intimidating, but it shouldn't be! On this episode, we delve into Jacki's first therapy session...which was NOT scary at all. 

Jacki and Mickey have a frank talk about sex in relation to themselves and the world around them while growing up, unknowingly on the spectrum. 

Did you have imaginary friends when you were a wee little tyke? Mickey did! And Jacki... thinks she did? You listen, then you decide.   

On this episode of What Are the Rules, Jacki & Mickey discuss what it's like to find and choose a therapist.