Welcome back to the Area Code neighborhood: Feel For the Game. Nick and Noah return with a series of (mainly basketball) conversations about nostalgic moments in NBA history, current issues plaguing the league, how coping and mental health play a role in sports, and more. Tune-in as they unprofessionally, but sincerely explore why sports are bigger than just the score of the game. Subscribe now, and follow along to find out how many times Noah makes an unwarranted Kansas Jayhawks basketball...

Well, friends, we’ve come to the end of the line. We started this podcast three years ago because we needed a safe space for fellow enneagram fanatics who didn’t take themselves too seriously. We’ve made a lot of friends, and gotten some hateful one-star reviews along the way. In this final episode, we are getting it all out of our system once and for all. Except that we’ll probably keep talking about the enneagram an obnoxious amount, just not on this podcast anymore. If you’ve ever...

In our penultimate episode of No Chill Enneagram, we aim our sights on two superheroes that give Bethany and special guest, Jennifer Clark the vapors, and Richard a negative self-image. A Marvel tour-de-force, Falcon and the Winter Soldier came out of the gate with some pretty fun action scenes and capped off the series with a deeply empathetic take on what it means for a black man to defend a country that failed to defend him. We loved it, and so we discussed it. And typed the characters....

This week, we welcome back Patnacia Goodman to discuss The Princess Bride, available to watch at your local library or wherever they rent stuff. Is the Princess Bride a love story with some action in it, or an action story with some romance? Does it pass the Bechdel test? Why does Fezzik make us a little sad? We answer these questions and more in this action-packed episode of No Chill Enneagram. And no, don't worry, there's no kissing.

This week, we discuss New Girl, available to watch on Netflix, with Patnacia Goodman. New Girl is like Friends, but for not-old-Richard-types. It's an unflinchingly raw and honest take on cross-gender relationships, what it means to "adult", and the vulnerabilities we expose ourselves to in the modern age. Also, it's freakin hilarious. We don't have a lot more to say to preface it. Just watch the show, then listen to our take on some of the most root-forable relationships on TV.

This week we discuss Brooklyn 99, available to watch on Hulu, with special guest (and enneagram 9) Sam Stevenson! Brooklyn 99 has managed the impossible: it made policing seem funny. While some of the early season jokes don't exactly hold up (a mentally unstable policeman, ha ha!!), the show's dogged focus on the people in the 99 and their wildly disparate dispositions and seasons of life results in one of the most relatable shows on television.  We here at NCE believe that much of the...

We interrupt our regularly secular program to discuss A Week Away, the Christian Camp musical featuring some glorious '90's CCM (available on Netflix). This episode called for special guests D.L. and Krispin Mayfield, two equal halves of the podcast Prophetic Imagination Station.  There's something a little TOO appealing about A Week Away, the High School Musical/Camp Rock-inspired camp tale about teenagers who sing songs their Christian parents would love. We're not sure exactly who the...

Listen to Comedy Has an Ouchie's "To Be Asian Is an Honor" here. Look, we can't exactly vouch for the, erm, realism of anything that happens in Bling Empire (available to watch on Netflix). But what we can do is type these characters as just that: characters. Sure, one way of describing Bling Empire is "What if Crazy Rich Asians, but real," but another way of thinking of it is "What if Keeping Up With the Kardashians, But Interesting". This episode, we had special guest, Jennifer Clark (who...

This week, we discuss Mean Girls, which is available to rent online wherever movies are available to rent, and also your local library probably has it. Look, we're worried about Ms. Norbury. But we're also stressed out by Regina. And we're totally bewildered by Cady. That's why we brought return guest, Shannon Whitehead, to join us and help make sense of this whole social dynamic. And don't even get us started on Aaron Samuels, the quintessential mediocre white man who manages to pass as...

This week we discuss Schitt's Creek, available to watch on Netflix. At the end of a long winter, we settle in to discuss the show that helped us make it through. Schitt's Creek is funny, yes. But more important: Schitt's Creek is the most warm-hearted show on television. It loves its' characters (yes, even Roland) and as a result, we love them too.  There's no better show to show us the brightest, quirkiest side of every number on the enneagram. No better way! Don't even try!

🚨EMERGENCY POD🚨 This week we discuss the WandaVision Finale, available to watch on Disney+. If you listened to our MCU episode a few weeks back, you're probably aware we have some things to work through. So we brought back The Enneacast's Jesse Eubanks to discuss to help us process a show about processing grief.

In this episode, we're joined by Katelyn Beaty (author of A Woman's Place) to discuss seasons 1 and 2 of Fleabag, which is available to watch on Amazon Prime.  Ahhhhh, Fleabag. It's hilarious, uncomfortable, cringey, but also weirdly relatable? And suddenly extremely dark?  Of course it is, because Fleabag is actually a deeply considered series about what it looks like to run from grief, and the ways we push one another way in our attempts to escape it. But it's also a case study in what...

In this episode, we discuss WandaVision and The Marvel Cinematic Universe. All bazillion of these films are available to watch on Disney+.  This week, we welcome Jesse Eubanks, Enneagram expert and Marvel mega nerd from The Enneacast to spend WAY too much time typing literally every major character in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. And let's just say Richard (enneagram 4) has a bone to pick with the internal makeup of the MCU. You can probably already guess what it is.  ALSO: We discuss the...

This week, we discuss season 7 of 90 Day Fiance, available to watch on Hulu. Don't get us wrong. 90 Day Fiance is a GIFT for anyone who just wants to judge unhealthy people. But it's also an exercise in empathy, an opportunity to understand exactly what drives a person to complete and total disintegration, to the point where they can only work out their shit on someone else.  That's what we found so fascinating about watching an entirely too large stable of couples attempt to become soul...

This week, we discuss the profoundly moving, In and Of Itself, available to watch on Hulu. Look, we don't like to do this. We don't like to be those annoying people that insist you "have to watch" every show they think is remotely interesting. But this time, we're serious: you absolutely have to watch In and Of Itself.  And then you absolutely MUST listen to our enneagram-focused discussion of the... stage play? magic show? one man show? Whatever it is, it's the sort of thing that will make...

This week, we discuss the pros and cons of both Wonder Woman movies, available to watch on HBO Max. If superhero movies are modern day parables or whatever, Wonder Woman is a story of how men can't help but work out their shit on other people. ENTER: Wonder Woman, the no-nonsense superhero who's way less about brooding and much more about setting people straight with a little dose of reality. PLUS: Why Barbara is amazing, despite what she thinks about herself. For more super-fun No Chill...

This week, we try to crack the code of the mysterious Search Party, available to watch on HBO Max. Ahhh, Dory. She's complicated, mysterious, remarkably disintegrated - and maybe she's utterly untypable too? Bethany and Richard set out to disentangle the many apparent fears and motivations of everyone's (least?) favorite millennial representative. Meanwhile, we have very little trouble figuring out her utterly disastrous friend group, and we marvel over the real heroes of the show: the...

We didn't have the opportunity to record a full-fledged episode for you this week, so we're dropping a patreon-only exclusive for EVERYONE to listen to. A few months back, when Hamilton expanded from a Broadway sensation to a Disney+ sensation, we took some time to type the folks in that play. It's a more casual, meandering version of what we're doing now, but we think it's probably enough to hold you over until next week. Enjoy! There's lots more where this came from, so if you want to hear...

In this episode, we tackle the crowd-pleasing Ted Lasso, available to watch on Apple TV+.  Look, it doesn't matter who you are, what your enneagram number is, and how disintegrated you might be, it turns out it's literally impossible to come in contact with Ted Lasso without loving him. Even if you're an egotistical soccer phenom, or a high octane boss-lady, or a hard-hitting, highly skeptical journalist, you've gotta give credit where credit is due, you know?  So uh, what number has that...

In this episode, we discuss Pixar's latest animated tear-jerker, Soul, available to watch on Disney+.  Okay, so according to Suzanne Stabile, you're not supposed to type a child. But a pre-born soul is okay, right? Either way, we've gone an done it.  ALSO!! We discuss the 4's proclivity to zone out and fall into manholes, and how fatal that can be when your environment is a comically dangerous one that doesn't value simple safety measures like blocking off open manholes and moving bricks in...

(AND THAT'S OK!!) This episode, we listen to Taylor Swift's Folklore, watch Folklore: The Long Pond Studio Sessions (available on Disney+), and discuss the marvel of a healthy enneagram three. First, for the haters: we were like you once too. But Folklore is a remarkable achievement in self-awareness and empathy, and you might want to check it out before you roll your eyes and move on. Second, for the fanatics: we understand what it's like to hear someone write off something they love as a...

No Chill Enneagram: Watch Party kicks off the season with a double feature of Christmas angst. It's Christmas-time!! We know we're supposed to feel happy, but sometimes we don't feel happy. Wtf is up with that? That's the age-old question asked by quintessential enneagram four, Charlie Brown, in the classic animated special, A Charlie Brown Christmas (available to view on Apple TV+, PBS, DVD, or through piecing together various legally shady YouTube clips).  In response to Charlie Brown's...

iN tHeSe UnPreCeDeNtEd TiMeS, the only way to get out of our houses or heads is through those magic screens with the talking people in them. That's why we're devoting a WHOLE SEASON to the people inside of those screens. This season, we'll be hosting a watch party, talking at length about the characters and situations of all of our favorite shows and movies through the lens of the enneagram. We'll be talking Taylor Swift, Ted Lasso, Schitt's Creek, and any other movies or tv shows that lend...

Hi. How are you doing today? It’s been a while, we know! We're doing pretty okay, for now. But you know. It's touch and go. Ask us again tomorrow.  But first, let's talk about this year. That's right, we confront the 9 Worst Things That Happened to Each Number in 2020. It has not been fun! So we thought a little commiseration might help. Then, we run down the ways each type can find joy, or at least cope, with the rest of this year from H E Double Hockey Sticks. And WHOOPS! We talked about...