This week (day? month? fortnight? who knows!) times are terrifying so Meg and Julian are back on the gramma couch to talk about childhood comfort foods and movies. Ah childhood, that magical time before you knew that housing a whole box of Fruity Pebbles at once was "stress eating." Before you knew that the freckled kid from the Sandlot would become an Urban Outfitters t-shirt, and before you knew that Nutri-grain bars for breakfast were child abuse. Listen up and pretend reality isn't...

Softest greetings from our quarantine headquarters (our couch)! We are back and we missed the hell out of you, dear softies. Today we are taking it back to y2k- a simpler time when frosted eyeshadow and end of the world hysteria via robot takeover reigned supreme!

Get your Jansport backpack with your initials embroidered on it, tease your bangs within an inch of their lives, and throw on your hip huggers because The Soft Spot is taking you back to school. Meg and Julian discuss memorable teachers, regrettable style choices (oh hey appliqué!) and of course, boners.  Hurry up, it’s the bell!

Meg and Julian are back for another stop on their farewell tour. First, they share stories about jobs they were fired from. Then they revisit a chat with one of their favorite guests actor, master impressionist, and zombie killer Ross Marquand! While you may know him as Aaron from The Walking Dead, we now know him as the best (and only?) John C. Reilly impersonator. He also blessed us with (Soft) Spot-on impressions of your fav Sorprano, your favorite philosophical Texan actor, and a certain...

Julian and Meg start on their farewell tour and reveal their Soft Spots gone sour, former Soft Spots that just don’t hold up when revisited. Then they remember their visit with gorgeous kid John Mulaney! His love for Mr. Rogers reminds us that what is essential is not visible, that speaking softly can have a loud effect, and that not everybody has heard the Backstreet Boys..

This week Meg and Julian go sans guest for a deeper dive into the magic of Summer! The smells, the food, the new boobs and the old hits, Summer is boss when it comes to the good old days. Meg also recounts the horror of her recent bout with BPPV (vertigo), a harrowing and cautionary tale that will leave you spinning (but hopefully not her). 

Julian and Meg are on vacation so this week, we are thinking back on one of our softest episodes with Karen Kilgariff!  Time to pop a bottle of champs and roll back to the days of the Lawrence Welk Show! This week we waltzed down memory lane with our hilarious friend Karen Kilgariff of “My Favorite Murder”. We chat about signature scents, old timey music, bad tv, and a fancy champagne lady who was wrongfully terminated. In the words of good ol’ LW, this episode is wonderful, wonderful!

This week we were joined by one of our favorite New York transplants, comedian Thomas Dale! Before we got down to serious Soft Spot biz, we chatted about mental and physical health, Thomas’s ‘Creep Cam’ being the BEST thing on the internet, and we even touched on the esoteric! We gush over the hunks of the early aughts and why Thomas loves straight boys, which brought us to Thomas’s Soft Spot- teen rom coms of the late 90’s and early 2000s! Thomas had us in tears and Meg laughed so hard she...

Dating and hooking up in the 21st century can be a confusing disaster. But how would the coolest people in the world navigate minefield that’s dating these days. From Amanda Cerny and Sommer Ray, comes OHoney, a sexy new series that offers a look into the lives and minds of some of the biggest celebrities of the internet age. Each episode they serve up their best advice to get through all the drama, scandals, and NSFW situations that are plaguing you. OHoney is like a sexy slumber party where...

Softies rejoice! One of our favorite guests and people, from his podcast Ghosted, Roz Drezfalez is back on the spot. First Meg and Julian discuss their recent cruise (oh ship!) before they get into it with Roz about his formative childhood obsessions. From clowning (literally), to the rock and roll scene of suburban Michigan, to pro wrestling, we discover all the component parts that came together to make one awesome queen. Come and get it!

The Soft Spot welcomes Moses Storm, Matt Ingebretson and Lizzy Cooperman to their first live show recorded at CRUX Boutique in Los Angeles.

It was time to do another duet for our hardest softies so Meg and Julian go sans guest for a show about their worst (best?) break-ups! They say that breaking up is hard to do, but what they don’t say is how fun it is to talk about it after it’s over. Meg talks about dumping a guy on his way to pick her up for a dance, while Julian revisits the time he got punched in the face in the middle of a busy intersection. And since this is the Soft Spot, of course they talk about break up songs (Duran...

This week rad dude and hilarious comedian Andrew Michaan comes to the show to talk about his soft spot for the show Seinfeld. We also get into his new van, the lifestyle that comes with it, and the movie Labyrinth! Andrew also has an adorable Shitzu named Bluetooth and we have video! This is one of our favorite episodes, enjoy!

This week we welcome comedian, actor, and our neighbor, John Milhiser (SNL)! We take a trip back to the late 80’s, a time when cartoons still had an edge and happy meal toys were actually more exciting than the food. We did a little googling to check on the worth of our assets (our old stuffed animals) and it turns out, we all better come up with a better financial plan! We also talk a lot about John’s Soft Spot, “Who Framed Roger Rabbit”! John is what you might call a Rabbithead (is that a...

This week we welcome hilarious TRIPLE THREAT comedian Jade Catta-Preta to the show to talk about her fuzzy place: musicals!We discuss her cosmopolitan upbringing (Brazil, New York, West Virginia) her early foray into musical theater (The D.A.R.E Program) and her ability to perform Hamilton in its entirety at the drop of a powdered wig. We also hear the heartbreaking story of Meg's star turn in the Galveston Opera House presentation of Peter Pan. Also, Julian learns why over the top sincere...

It’s a solo ep with your nostalgiaholic buds, Meg and Julian! Today is Julian’s 40th birthday (yes, today, May 29!) so we decided to take a trip down memory lane and discuss some of our favorite birthdays of years gone by. Julian tells us about getting his dream bike at age 6 (and then getting it stolen shortly after). Meg talks troll dolls, cabbage patch kids, and the thrill of hearing your birthday announced to the entire school over the loudspeakers. We also trade 21st birthday stories,...

Today we welcome our friend, comedian and fellow podcaster, Dave Ross to the show. We talk about Dave’s time touring on the Warped Tour and his nostalgic appreciation for pop punk. We touch on all of the worst bands on the tour and marvel at the level of misogyny in some of the most unimaginative (but def entertaining!) lyrics we have ever heard! We then get into his actual Soft Spot- Calvin and Hobbes! We all talk about how most kid’s entertainment has pretty much gone to hell, which...

This week we welcome back friend of the Spot, Joe Derosa!  Joe has been a fan of horror movies since he was ten years old and saw Nightmare on Elm Street with his mom (too young? Probably!).He now has a house full of horror dvds that he says help him escape the stress of real life, something we totally get. But much like the idyllic beginnings of most thrillers, we start with a fun and pleasant intro about Sex and the City (we're all a Carrie), LA vs. NYC, and our Enneagram personality types....

Life is Short with Justin Long finds the actor sitting down with some of the funniest and most intriguing people of today, like Dax Shepard, Olivia Wilde and Neil Patrick Harris. No topics are out of bounds, and no questions are too personal. Subscribe to Life is Short with Justin Long and start listening at wondery.fm/lifeisshort

This week we welcome sensitive gamer hunks (three words you've never heard used together before)  Keith and Jesse! Their awesome podcast "New Player Has Joined" is all about video games, and we delve into the games we loved most from our childhoods. From the addictive fun of Mario and Duck Hunt (sounds dirty!), to the intensity of Final Fantasy and Red Dead 2, and even the games you just wanna hang out in without doing much (Waverace 64 doesn't have to be a race after all). There is also much...

Meg and Julian go it solo this week to talk about that hyper hormonal rite of passage - the school dance. Whether it was at the community rec center or the school cafeteria (sexy smells!), dances were peak adolescence. The songs (KC & Jojo anyone?) the clothes (thank you Contempo Casuals) and the smells (Drakkar all noir long baby) come together to make those magical evenings that never really ended the way they were supposed to (La Quinta Inn). Let’s dance!

This week we welcome the very funny New York comedian Anya Volz to talk about her Soft Spot: vampires! We dive right in and discuss our favorite vamp shows like True Blood, The Vampire Diaries, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and Interview with a Vampire. Anya talks about her appreciation for queer representation in a lot of Vampire content of the last twenty years, and how that helps these works stay as timeless as their characters. We also can’t help but touch on the fact (many times over) that...

Our guest this week is tremendous stand up and actor Emma Willmann. If anyone will show you who they are with fantastic honesty, Emma will man. She talks about the things that bring her to her happy place; peanut butter, the Backstreet Boys, and porn (not necessarily in that order - obviously it would go porn, peanut butter, Backstreet). She also discusses the importance of elevating your sweater game to feel warm on the inside. So quit playing games with our hearts and listen to Emma’s...

This week Meg and Julian go head to head in a duel over their fav musicians from the UK.  In the ‘Soft Corner’ we have Julian fighting for the honor of musical acts including Phil Collins, Steve Winwood, and Simply Red. In the ‘Goth Corner’ we have Meg championing musicians such as The Cure, Joy Division, and The Smiths. Who will prevail? Tune in to find!