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Omg, hi! Welcome to Sippin' with the Shannons! A weekly podcast where cousins Bridget and Colleen sit down, sip on wine and spill the tea. Each week we pick a new topic to discuss from weddings, reality tv, pet peeves to online dating and more! If you're a fan of shenanigans, then you've come to the right place. So get your sweat pants on, crack open your favorite beveragino and get ready for a good giggle because you're part of the family now.
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Every other week, Valerie and Helen will look at a different chick flick (muff film, broad comedy, lady thriller, period movie, whathaveyou) and boil it down to its themes and how those themes affect our tender feminine emotions. Mostly we'll just go off on tangents about Sex and the City. We'll talk about chick flick tropes, like love triangles/squares/pentagons and sisterhood. We'll explore just how strong girl power actually is and if real vampires sparkle in the sunlight, or if that's ju ...
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Preparing for birth can be overwhelming and many stories surrounding birth are scary. But the truth is, Birth is a NORMAL, NATURAL, and BEAUTIFUL event. This Built To Birth Podcast exists to share Mama's TRUE and POSITIVE birth stores to remind and inspire Mamas that they are BUILT TO BIRTH! I'm Bridget and I'm a childbirth educator, doula, and fellow mama and it's my passion to help women discover their strength and power in pregnancy, birth, and motherhood. Birth is the beginning of a new ...
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You know that cycle of trying to tweak + tone + shrink your body, controlling your food, being rigid about workouts, feeling anxious about doing it all “right,” and hating yourself for messing up? Yeah — THAT isn’t how you’re meant to use your precious headspace or live your life. You’re meant to experience ease, freedom, and flow, and — feel *enough* in your own skin everyday so that you can focus on LIVING fully and LOVING it. And it starts with.... thinking about yourself, your body, and ...
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For the month of 'ly in the year of our lord '25, we assigned ourselves some summer school. Kind of a lot of summer school, in fact. Making his first FiLM appearance since we covered Frozen in 2017, Helen's son (and Valerie's nephew!) Elam joined us, this time to discuss three whole movies -- if you consider the High School Musical movies to be mov…
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Send us a text On this week's episode, Bridget recaps her trip to Spain and Colleen has stories from the Jersey Shore. The creatures were OUT and ABOUT in Jersey! We give our final thoughts on this season of Love Island USA then we get into the topic of the week... FRANK ABAGNALE, the man behind, "Catch Me If You Can". Colleen brings us on an absol…
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Send us a text On this week's episode, Bridget wants every day to be Pride and Colleen wasn't wearing shoes at a concert. Shocker. We catch up on Love Island USA and then we get into the topic of the week... THE VICTIMS OF THE GIGLO BEACH SERIAL KILLER. Bridget discusses the heroing tale of these victims and their families who sought justice for de…
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For June, we really wanted to bring you something queer. Like gay queer. And I believe we've done that, but also, as a fun bonus, it turns out we've brought you something weird queer as well. So this episode -- and this movie -- lives in that cozy, perfect, Venn-diagram-intersection of good queer things. We talked about Yorgos Lanthimos's gorgeous …
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Send us a text On this week’s episode, it’s our THREE YEAR ANNIVERSARY!!! How on EARTH has it been three whole ass years?! We honestly can’t believe you’re still listening to us but we love you for it. To celebrate the occassion, we’re debuting a special edition (and now official segment) called JUDGEMENT DAY, where we dress up like Judge Judy and …
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Send us a text On this week's episode, Colleen got pulled over and Bridget is never going to Strega ever again. If you invite us out, make sure mother has a perch!!! Then we get into the topic of the week... SELENA. The Texas born, Tejana singer who became a global superstar and Latina icon! Bridget deep dives into Selena's childhood, her tight kni…
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We gave you exactly one month's notice that we were going to cover the underrated 2002 cutie vehicle Two Weeks Notice for May ("Sandy summer," we called it, very cleverly). So if this surprised you, I don't know what to say.
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Send us a text On this week's episode, Colleen wasn't prepared for the bar and Bridget has a lisp (mind ya business). Then we get into the topic of the week... good golly! It's Miss DOLLY PARTON. We're working 9 to 5 and we're sick of it!! Imagine being such an icon you have your own amusement park and have never been on a single ride. May we all b…
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Send us a text On this week's episode, the bitches are back! Colleen is going through it but she has a new boyfriend!! Get ready to giggle and kick your feet!!! Bridget gives us her St. Lucia recap before we get into the the topic of the week... a good ole fashioned catch up! We talk about the new Pope, tv shows we watched, the Karen Read Trial and…
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It's been 25 years since the globally beloved Miss Congeniality came out, and it's been 9 years since this only-just-slightly-less-globally-beloved podcast first started. And I don't really remember where I was going with that, but that's the timeline. Anyway, we're finally bringing you what you really want -- a frank, 2-hour discussion of the Sand…
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Send us a text On this week's episode, Colleen stole a chicken tender from an eight year old and Bridget finally scratched her St. Paddy's Day itch. After we discuss Bridget's perfect movie list and how Colleen needs to do her kegels, we get into the topic of the week.... SERIAL SQUATTERS. Colleen tells the story of serial squatter, Jamison Bachman…
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Skating's Not Who We Are, It's What We Do
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Send us a text On this week's episode, Leanne gifted us a present that we're hanging up immediately!!! We don't deserve her!!! Colleen is dating a new man and Bridget has some thoughts on the finale of Traitors and Love Is Blind. Then we get into the topic of the week.... CRINGEY RE-WATCH. Join us as Bridget and Colleen re-watch your old favorites …
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It is March, and we are sisters, and that technically makes us March sisters. So this time the "March sisters" pulled in an extra honorary sister to finally fall into the warm embrace of Greta Gerwig's Little Women (2019). Joining us is Shannon Campe of Little Women: A Modern Audio Drama, whose expertise and contagious fanaticism have helped us rea…
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Send us a text On this week's episode, Bridget is back from Disney and Colleen has a new Uncle Jimmy. We share our random thoughts, do a quick Oscars recap, and then we get into the topic of the week.... MARILYN MONROE. The icon. The legend. The "It" girl. Bridget does a deep dive into her tragic childhood, how she hustled to become a movie star an…
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Send us a text On this week's episode, Colleen kissed another boy and Bridget had a whimsical night out in Boston. Then we get into the topic of the week.... HOT GOSS. For the first time in SWTS history... we've got a Whistleblower. Bridget tells the insane story of the woman with amnesia. Is she telling the truth or is she a fraud? We'll let you b…
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When we covered Bridget Jones's Diary for our first-ever episode on Galentine's Day in 2016, we couldn't have known the world would give us the incredible gift of a fourth Bridget Jones movie on our very anniversary nine years later. But that's where fate finds us today, watching Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy -- happy, heartbroken, and humbled t…
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Send us a text On this week's episode, Colleen kissed an Irish lad and Bridget went to a spa. We catch up on ACOTAR, Love Island All Stars, and celebrity break ups. Then we get into the topic of the week.... KENDRICK VS DRAKE. What is the beef with these two and how did it all start? Bridget's got you covered with the thesis she wrote and well, the…
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Send us a text On this week's episode, our Matriarch has returned for our 100th episode!!! And she brought us gifts!!!! Brb we're sobbing. Colleen has a new car, the Twilight series is still so, so bad and 9/11 cancelled Ellen Degeneres? We'll let you decide. Then Erin gets into the topic of the week... ELIZABETH HOLMES AND THERANOS. Come with us o…
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It's a new year and, ugh, a new world, and to celebrate and distract from that, we've brought you the absolutely bonkers bouquet that is Tom Hooper's infamous 2019 masterwork Cats. While taking on this movie was no small feat, it was an incredibly easy choice* -- this episode is dedicated to the memory of James Petrosky, a magnificent person, frien…
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Send us a text On this week's episode, the 99 Restaurant is a Sipper and we have PEAKED. Bridget is living for the chinese food restaurant vibe and Colleen is cooked. But we already knew that. Also, Colleen can't be the only one who can't say any of the names in ACOTAR... right? Then we get into the topic of the week... the mysterious case of ELFRE…
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Send us a text On this week's episode, Colleen's mom won a million dollars and Bridget is slowly perishing. Those two things are unrelated but go buy yourself a scratch ticket ASAP. Then we get into the topic of the week... the DOWNFALL OF THE ROMANOVS. Did Anastasia really escape? And if not, why did so many people think she did? Bridget talks abo…
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Our Little Secret (w/ Sarah Norton)
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As a holiday gift, Netflix brought Lindsay Lohan back -- for, like, a real movie this time. So what choice did we have but to dive back in to the Lohan-iverse, bringing along our fetch-as-heck friend and Lindsay Lohan correspondent Sarah K. Norton for Christmas company? We ate this 2024 Atlanta-set rom-com up like so many chocolate cookies (or some…
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Send us a text On this week's episode, it's Christmas!!! Bridget is bringing big Martha energy into 2025 and Colleen gives us a recap on her Paris trip. This week's topic is all things Christmas and 2024! We learn the history of Santa, a version of Twas' The Night Before Christmas that slays the day away, exchange crazy Reddit Christmas stories and…
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Send us a text On this week's episode, we talk about our Thanksgiving, Bridget does a Wicked recap and Colleen's luck is NOT turning. Then we get into the topic of the week... MARTHA STEWART. Colleen does a deep dive into the upbringing, rise, eventual fall and comeback of the OG influencer. Martha. Is. That. Bitch. "Just because you don't have mon…
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We finally discover the secret reason Helen made Valerie wait nine years to cover the very-2006, adapted-from-Shakespeare (?!?) teen revenge comedy John Tucker Must Die -- she has a condition* that makes her call basketball "football," and it's very painful and embarrassing. *being dumb And as promised, here the show note where we ask you to email …
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Send us a text On this week's episode, Bridget is spiraling and Colleen thinks her luck is turning. Can we please talk about Mike Tyson's ass for a moment?! Then we get into the topic of the week... ALEXANDER HAMILTON AND AARON BURR. How on EARTH we got two years into this podcast without Bridget covering this... we'll never know. Strap in for some…
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Send us a text On this week's episode, Bridget took a gummy to deal with stress and Colleen thinks she's better than foliage in New England. Then we get into the topic of the week... REINCARNATION. Colleen picked this one, obviously. We each tell real life stories of people who believe they've lived more than one life. We then play a game of "Real …
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This very special Halloween episode delves into the story of two close-but-disparate sisters and how they found themselves shunned by their community because of their unusual background -- they were bitches who had either never before seen Practical Magic, or they thought it was silly, or both. Join us as we come to terms with every wild thing the …
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Send us a text On this week's episode, WE ARE BACK!! After a long hiatus, the bitches are back and we have so much to yap about!! Catch up with us as we discuss our summers, the weddings we've been to, the cockroaches we've encountered, the rotisserie chickens we've eaten and the tv shows we've binged. We play a game of what's in and what's out and…
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Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (w/ Angel Kofsky)
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You asked for it (we think? It would have been a long time ago; we could be wrong. Someone definitely asked for it, we're pretty sure), and after a mere half-dozen years, we did it -- Michel Gondry's beloved sci-fi dram-rom-com Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. And for the discussion, we brought someone unforgettable -- poet, host of the Ku-Po…
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For Valerie's ~b i r t h m o n t h~ we are covering the maybe universally beloved but also possibly largely unknown (?? we don't know!) romantic drama classic (???) Untamed Heart. We have a great time talking about this '90s gem that's a little bit urban Nicholas Sparks, a little bit Moulin Rouge/Tarzan/Splash, and all schmaltzy Christian Slater Na…
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Dog mom, (cool) Disney adult, and generally fabulous person* Sarah K. Norton joins us as we travel, with Netflix's help, to Ireland for summer vacation. Will Lindsay Lohan's Maddie end up with the European faux Property Brother, or will she end up with Jimmy from Downton Abbey? Will she ever write the great Irish-American novel? Will she fall off t…
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Two musical-loving, straight-passing white women extend their lives by wading deep into drag culture in this Pride episode in which Helen and Valerie cover the 2004 romp Connie and Carla, the largely forgotten Nia Vardalos rom-com in which two musical-loving, straight-passing white women extend their lives by wading deep into drag culture. Donate t…
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Send us a text On this week's episode, HAPPY TWO YEAR ANNIVERSARY SIPPERS!!!! Bridget covers the Titan Submersible and then we get into the real topic of the week.... US. We answer listener questions, talk about the highs and lows of the last year, things we've learned along the way and we play the Newlywed game. We also have 10 commandments for ou…
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Send us a text On this week's episode, Colleen has a lot to say after skinny dipping on a bachelorette, an exorcism at a bridal shower and hosts hateful hour. Then we get into the topic of the week... THE MURDER OF TRAVIS ALEXANDER. Bridget tells us the story about how they met, how their relationship turned toxic and how Jodi likes to do headstand…
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Send us a text On this week's episode, Bridget held court at the Green Dragon and Colleen got harmonized at while eating free pizza. Then we get into the topic of the week... RURAL APPALACHIA. Colleen deep dives into the mysterious area of the US with their wild animals, creepy stories and the strange disappearance of Dennis Martin. You know it's n…
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