- 1 hour 8 minutesIntroduction to Fun Things We Like
Let’s talk about something pleasant. Emily and Amelia discuss the books, videos and what have you that are making them happy this year. It’s time to get ventral.
Links:
Libby app (borrow library books and audiobooks)
Brandon Sanderson
Alexis Hall
Paris Daillencourt Is About To Crumble
The Affair of the Mysterious Letter
Nicholas Boulton (the world's best audiobook narrator)
Come As You Are: Revised and Updated (audiobook)
This is the one Nicholas Boulton is in
Laura Kinsale
Audiobook narrated by Nicholas Boulton
Alexis Hall
KJ Charles
Great audiobook narrators:
Julia Whelan (also an author!)
Abby Jiminez
Kimberly Lemming
That Time I Got Drunk and Yeeted a Love Potion at a Werewolf
Misha Popp
Pies Before Guys Mystery Series
Helena Greer
Alyssa Cole
Courtney Milan
Non-romance books:
Maggie O’Farrell
Rebecca Hardiman
Emily St. James
Sarah Rees Brennan
Ali Wong
Things That Aren’t Books
DrGluon (Youtube)
The Dogs Were Good (Again) Podcast
Dropout
Dimension 20 (A Starstruck Odyssey)
Critical Role
Dropout
Dimension 20 (Escape From the Bloodkeep)
Britbox
And back to books for a moment:
Alexis Hall
Ben Aaronovitch
11 December 2025, 3:38 pm - 1 hour 1 minuteNavigating Holiday Gatherings With Family
The holidays are coming. What do you do if you have family whose politics you abhor? Turns out it depends. Stick around to the end for Amelia’s highly specific take on The Grinch.
Links:
Knitting Cult Lady:
Uncultured (book)
The Culting of America (pre-order!)
Green Dot program bystander interventions:
• Direct
• Delegate
• Distract
Lindsay Ellis: The Unforgivable Sin of Ms Rachel (Youtube)
Kaelynn Partlow (Youtube)
FSP S01 E08: The Monitor
Charlemagne (Holy Roman Emperor)
13 November 2025, 4:55 pm - 1 hour 1 minuteExploring Shadows and Vulnerability
Turns out Emily actually does have a Shadow. And she’s a half-orc wizard.
Links:
The Science of Saving Your Sex Life
To Maximize Your Potential, Maximize Pleasure
Sign up for Emily’s mailing list
How AIDS Remained an Unspoken—But Deadly—Epidemic for Years
Emily & Amelia Nagoski, Burnout - XOXO Festival (2019)
30 October 2025, 2:33 pm - 47 minutes 8 secondsThe Bubble of Love and Connection
Do you have a bubble of love? Do you know how to build one? Emily and Amelia discuss how they managed to do it, and how Frozen is more than just a kiddie movie.
Links:
FSP 2020 episode 11: The Bubble of Love
The Burnout Workbook, by Amelia
Do You Want to Build a Snowman? (Youtube)
FSP 2020 S2 E27: Diving into the Shadow: An Introduction
9 October 2025, 3:38 pm - 1 hour 24 minutesCozy Fall Vibes
The days are getting shorter. It’s going to be colder soon. It’s time to get cozy. It’s time to get… hygge. Candles and pumpkins and cheese, oh my!
Links:
Books by Tricia Hersey:
Tasting History on real eggnog (Youtube)
25 September 2025, 4:13 pm - 58 minutes 26 secondsAmelia and the Very, Very Expensive Month (A No-Buy Update)
Amelia had a painfully costly month. Emily bought Crocs that look like Big Bird’s feet. But in the end, they find the true meaning of No Buy / Low Buy.
Links:
Danger zone (food safety)
Innocence (Opera composed by Kaija Saariaho)
The Big Short (film)
10 September 2025, 3:18 pm - 58 minutes 42 secondsDiving into the Shadow: An Introduction
For every personality trait, there is a shadow. Emily and Amelia discuss Shadow Work and do just a touch of dream analysis.
Links:
Mapping Your Emotional Floor Plan:
A comic by Erika Moen based on Come Together
Jaak Panksepp 7 Primary Process Emotions (interview)
Monica's Secret Closet | Friends
FSP Season 2, Episode 22: The Magic Trick of Transcendence
Stepmomming Made Easy (preorder)
No Bad Parts by Richard Schwartz
Rebecca Dupas - HOW TO SLAY A DRAGON (youtube)
(this is the poem at the end of the episode.)
27 August 2025, 3:24 pm - 42 minutes 4 secondsHair Transformations and an Intro to Hidradenitis Suppurativa
Emily confesses to a migraine induced mullet. Amelia discusses Hidradenitis Suppurativa and effective strategies for going to a medical provider with a hypothesis and being taken seriously.
(Much like the dizziness episode, we’d love to hear from you if learning about HS helps you understand something that is affecting you)
Links:
Bringing HS (Hidradenitis Suppurativa) Out Of The Dark | Jackson Gillies | TEDxSantaBarbara
FSP Season 2, Episode 14: Introduction to Food and Body Awareness
FSP Season 2, Episode 18: Introduction to Food (and Body Acceptance)
Season 2, Episode 20: Food Again. This Time, It’s Personal?
Hidradenitis SuppuraDIVAS - Podcast (Apple Podcasts)
FSP Season 1, Episode 18: The New Hotness
Twins (1988 film)
FSP Season 2, Episode 4: Polyvagal 101
14 August 2025, 1:50 pm - 1 hour 3 minutesLying on the Floor in Public
Emily’s been confronting just how dizzy she is all the time. Emily and Amelia discuss brain stems, car accidents, and disability. If you experience some of the same issues as Emily, please drop us a line at [email protected]
Links:
Dizziness Handicap Inventory (PDF)
Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome (POTS)
FSP 2025: The Car Accident Experience
Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle
31 July 2025, 3:28 pm - 1 hour 10 minutesUnmasking: Or, Masking Part Deux
Amelia has thoughts about the costs (and benefits) masking, as well as being a vestigial toe.
Links:
Unmasking for Life by Devon Price (Recommended)
The Autistic Burnout Workbook by Megan Anna Neff (Recommended)
Jaak Panksepp 7 Primary Process Emotions (interview)
A rad comic about emotional floor plans by Erika Moen
(Based on Emily's book, Come Together.)
A Black Lady Sketch Show: No Makeup (Youtube)
Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle (By Emily and Vestigial Toe)
10 July 2025, 3:28 pm - 43 minutes 29 secondsAmelia Has Feelings About Pride Month
Turns out twin siblings can learn something new about each other after forty-plus years. Amelia isn’t sure if they’re allowed to go to Pride.
Image: What it looks like to nap during a parade.
Links:
Non-binary (gender identity)
Agender (gender identity)
Mercury Stardust: The Trans Handy Ma'am
How To Tell When We Will Die: On Pain, Disability, and Doom by Johanna Hedva
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