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Thank You and Goodbye
After four years, our show has come to an end. Thank you so much for listening to us--whether this be your first episode or your 119th, we hope we've been able to prov...
Cultural Identity Revisited
In our penultimate episode, we sit down and reflect on how our cultural identities have changed over the years. We discuss how the role of culture has shifted in our l...
Maturing and Middle School Musings
In this episode, we chat about growing up and how our middle school days have shaped us. With the prospect of college looming, we ponder what life may have in store fo...
Toxic Productivity
As second semester seniors, the school year is winding down, but our brains aren't. In this episode we talk about toxic productivity and the culture of workaholism Mer...
How We Got Into Stanford, NYU, and UC Santa Barbara
Inspired by the clickbait videos we used to watch when we were younger, we decided to make a less-clickbait version of the "How I Got Into College" video. We talk abou...
We've Committed to College!
After months of stress, we have finally all committed to college and are proud to announce that Ava will be attending Stanford University, Sophie will be attending UC ...
Double Checking That We're Still Not Really Strangers
Past the stress of college decisions, we sat down to play the game We're Not Really Strangers again with our new mindsets. The game prompted us to talk about how we re...
College is Blind
With college results back, Ava emcees a dating show (think The Bachelor x Love is Blind) where Lauren and Sophie speed-date their potential colleges. Listen in to hear...
Relationships Part 3 (Happy April Fools!)
Lauren, Sophie, and Ava are back to talk about their new love stories in their lives! Make sure to listen until the end to hear all the twists and turns of this episod...
American Overconsumption and Consumerism
In this episode, we tackle the dilemmas of overconsumption and consumerism. We discuss American issues in comparison to other countries, the impacts of fast fashion, f...
Lauren Interviews The Seattle Times' Naomi Ishisaka
Naomi Ishisaka is The Seattle Times' Social Justice Columnist and Assistant Managing Editor for Diversity and Inclusion. Lauren was able to interview her and ask quest...
Why Do We Love Cute Characters So Much?
With Sophie out, Lauren and Ava talk about one of their favorite things: cute characters. They talk all about their love for these characters, dive into why the brain ...
Suffering from Senioritis
The Rice and Shine team has come down with a serious disease... senioritis. In this episode, we go over our struggles to stay motivated as freedom calls our names, and...
Rice and Shine in the Hunger Games
Are you into hypothetical scenarios? If so, you're in for a treat! This week, we put ourselves in the shoes of the victors and losers of the Hunger Games. Listen in to...
To All The Things We've Loved Before
Happy (week of) Valentine's Day! To celebrate, we chat about our favorite things growing up and to this day. Take a listen to hear us rave about Sanrio, Doraemon, pira...
Parent Reform
In today’s episode, we revisit an old topic to start off our reform series: parenting! We explore the iPad kid phenomenon, discuss the Sephora kid epidemic, and reflec...
Second Semester Seniors
We're officially in the second semester of our senior year! As scatterbrained as ever, we go on tangents about our finals, study habits, and our hopes for our final se...
Weird Things We Did as Kids
Kids are weird... But I can guarantee we were weirder! Tune in to hear all about our irrational fears and silly tendencies.
Walking in a Winter Break Wonderland
We're back! After a long winter break, our team is reunited at last. From college acceptances to island getaways, we've got some recapping to do. Listen in to hear abo...
Many Things to Celebrate!
3rd year anniversary of being on podcast platforms, the 100th episode, the holidays, oh my! This episode is a special one--with our 100th episode and anniversary, we r...