The Big Year

Man Grapes

It's our first episode with a sponsor! After a brief intro, we get into our first ad read right away. 3:58 Ad Read Man Grapes Wow! What a product. I'm in. 5:37 ReviewED Interstellar We slide into slipsace filled with love, the love of a good Man Grape. What a bonkers movie. Michael Caine refuses to stand up, and plays an American genius. Matthew Mcconaughy absolutely brings it. Anne Hathaway almost ruins Chef's crush on her by staring out the window for most of the movie. It's a fun watch, and a really fun ReviewEd segment. Moral of the story: Let Anne F%&#!!! 41:42 Man Grapes Ad Man Grapes: Flavor that COMES AT YOU!!!! 42:52 ReviewEd into BackgroundEd Killer Diary What a bananas Lifetime movie!! We start Spookisode season early this year, reviewing a die-no-might entry into the Lifetime Library. This movie features a puke fountain, two lecherous day drinking priests, vigorous discussion of teenage breasts; it's more like Spike After Dark than Lifetime. It's phenomenal trash. 52:26 Man Grapes Ad Man Grapes: Two Fists Full of Flavor!!!! 53:30 Social Studies Flush with Man Grapes cash, we can finally get to the main reason we're here: following a homeschool student into the real world. In this Social Studies segment, we start Rose's Euro trip. After Italian dance school (recapped in Ep 26), Rose took off to Switzerland for a solo trip. Hear about the highlights. Spolier alert: Switzerland is pretty much Heaven. See you soon for Spookisode 5, the first Spookisode of Season 2. Much Love.

After 1

We're finally here: After School. On this podcast, other than mostly nonsense and inappropriate jokes, we cover homeschool, with a focus on older HS, and also we follow a homeschool student out there, into the real world, to see what happens After School. Well, she took her first real steps into the "Real World" this summer, and they were huge steps. We're breaking up the summer review into a few eps. In this first one, we talk about her trip to Lucca, Italy for a one month dance intensive class for adults. It was aweseme. We'll be back soon for After 2: this one picking up at the final dance presentation in Lucca, and hearing about Rose's trip to Switzerland after school. Stay safe, y'all!

Grad (re)Cap

Another Chef's Table here. The OG Ep 25 was a bust because we messed up the recording. Chef went at this one alone real quick to catch up. We'll release the tapes when they release the files. smh 2025 sucks We start with a Graduation recap. It was a blast. Great party. We talk about some homeschool Senior Year and HS tips as part of this. Chef makes it all sad when he talks about the Faculty of the Year Award, which Smokey won. 18:36 ReviewEd Segment Chef talks about two movies he would never force Rose to watch, and he recommends you don't either: A Family Affair (the Lifetime one) and Woman in the Yard.

The Big Year

We got this one in the can over two months ago. Finally edited and published. It's been wild here. Chef jumps in right away with a new segment: Chef's Table. First course: an update on the delay and what we've been doing. 6:16 We're back into normal programming. It's a homeschool and family heavy ep. Lots of updates on what Rose is doing as a homeschool student winding up her senior year. We've got one more ep in the can, this one a review from the graduation. Then Rose will be back in town for a few months. Thanks for all your support!

Social Studies Special Ep

We have got to stop this, but we accidentally did another helpful episode. Luckily, to make sure we don't actually get any listeners, Chef immediately derails us with a flagrantly inappropriate joke. 3:46 We're back on track: a helpful Social Studies segment that talks about the day of SAT taking for a homeschool kid. Previous eps have helped us register and walked through do's and don'ts of test prep, in this section we literally walk (sometimes run) through what to expect the day of. 11:42 A second Social Studies segment. This time, we look at one aspect of education that is stress-testing the very idea of public school as we've known it for decades: AI. We go granular here, with a story from Rose's friend who was wrongly accused of using AI to write her end of year paper, whilst her friends who actually used AI got away scot free. She had to redo her paper under 1 to 1 supervision like Hannibal Lecter while her AI using friends were already done for the year. 18:01 Chef triples down on the tip out. Odd Pieces Puzzles is our first. Best Puzzles Ever. Malaysian American owned. LOVE LOVE LOVE Odd Pieces. Rose chimes in with Learn SAT Math, a great Youtube test prep channel. Got chef thinking about Goofy Chess and Chess with Durks: two more great Youtube style content producers who make amazing chess vids.