Branched
Branched
Doug Terranova & Maddy Heinen
A comedy and culture podcast that takes everyday issues and explores how they interact with the world at large. Join Doug and Maddy every Thursday and see how long it takes them to go completely off the rails.
The Joys of Friendship!
Would you like a friend? We love friends!! In this episode, Maddy and Doug talk about how to make friends as an adult--a problem that doesn't seem to have a solution--and how to maintain friendships when the world is literally ending in fire all around us. Hurray for the technology that allows us to stay in touch when we can't actually touch our friends...(; 
Feb 5, 2021
51 min
MINISODE: Queers in history! The Miley Cyrus of Transgender French Spies
This story is incredible! If Netflix doesn't make this an original series, we will be contacting the attorney general!! This week Doug shares the amazing story of Chevalier d'Éon, a French spy who used the power of gossip to live her best life. 
Feb 1, 2021
27 min
Remember when we could sleep well?
What is the best night of sleep you've ever had? Has your sleep patterns gone totally to shit because we are living through the apocalypse? Us too! This week Maddy and Doug discuss sleep in a changing world, how it affects our day to day lives and how relationships with sleep have changed over the years. 
Jan 30, 2021
56 min
Remember when we could sleep well?
There was a time--we think--when people slept and slept well. Or maybe that is just a myth? In this week's episode, Maddy and Doug discuss their relationship with sleep and how it affects their daily lives, the best sleep they have ever gotten, and how millennials can get a goddam goodnight rest. What's the best night of sleep you have ever gotten?
Jan 29, 2021
55 min
Yoink Yoink right into 2021 and Let's Talk About Failure
This is a debut 2021 episode! Doug and Maddy discuss everyone's favorite topic, failure. However, they try to take the sting of such a negative experience and look at all the positives and what they might mean. What was the best thing to come out of your last failure? These two have failed more times than anyone but hey maybe one day they will learn. 
Jan 21, 2021
53 min
MINISODE: Frosty Came Fast and Now It's 2021
2021 is here and so are we! bigger, badder, thiccer! Branched 2021 has a lot planned, and in this minisode we welcome the year with goals, expectations, and a hint of realism we may have been too naive to have last year. We will finish projects this year!
Jan 18, 2021
28 min
Minisode: Letters to Satan Claus
We have two amazing guests on the show this week to kick off the holiday season the only way Doug and Maddy know how,  by accidentally summoning satan! Letters to Satan Claus director, Emma Sutherland. and writer, Michael Zara. join us to talk about their Christmas comedy/horror movie and we are more than HYPED to see it! We talk about classic Christmas movies and how Emma and Michael's love for them spawned this fun and crazy story about Santa and Satan! Listen to learn about their experiences filming during COVID, inspiration, and representation in their film! Letters to Satan Claus premiers on December 19, 2020, on the SCI-FY channel!
Dec 7, 2020
39 min
You Should Have Branched! With the Assless Chaps
We tricked another unsuspecting guest onto our show! This week we discuss why true crime has become such a phenomenon with our new best friends, Shayna and Liz from You Should Have Ghosted. And swap stories about close calls, creepy meet-ups, weird tinder dates and profiles, and all those other times when you should definitely ghost before it is too late! Why do we have so many of these stories?! 
Nov 26, 2020
1 hr 24 min
Minisode: These Are A Few Of My Favorite Queens
Here we dive in to all things Drag Queens! We talk Drag Race, local drag, bearded queens, and Doug's plans for his drag in the future! (Want to hear about Drag Kings? That minisode is coming soon, we promise!)
Nov 23, 2020
29 min
The Carbs of Episodes
This episode may not be a part of a healthy, balanced diet. But it sure is good to listen to. We talk about... all of it. 
Nov 19, 2020
1 hr 10 min
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