Episode Recaps: 1
High School Beef is the ultimate comedy podcast about high school, growing up, and talking about the past. The goal? To talk about it in a funny, lighthearted way to give perspective to our past selves, for our present and future selves. We talk about high school drama so we can accept the past and all the cringe moments that shape us.
Every week, we’ll invite people from our past and create a funny podcast surrounding high school drama. Then, we’ll write these recaps, so you don’t ever have to miss an episode, even if you aren’t a podcast listener.
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Episode 1: 20 Years of Undisturbed Friendship
In episode 1, we want to start by giving you all the context into who we are. We talk about our lifelong friendship, discuss how we met, became friends, and give a brief summary of our friendship. And if you want even more detail than we dive into in the episode? Check out our blog on our friendship.
Episode TL;DR:
How we met: A kindergarten love story for the ages.
When we became best friends: Sitting next to each other in Mrs. Donawerth’s 6th-grade class.
Recess past time: American Idol with “The Posse” (that’s what we called our exclusive friend group of four outcasts).
Why we connected: We’re creatives and artists. We love making movies or videos, and being entertainers and performers.
Middle school: Experiencing trauma at a young age. And how did we get through it? By talking to each other about our lives for hours on end.
Maintaining our friendship: Discussing vulnerability. Becca talks about how she’s a trauma bonder, and Anna reveals that she has a hard time being vulnerable with people.
How we got over fights: Contracts. Becca and Anna talk about how they made contracts in 6th grade for how to deal with fights when they came up.
We loved: Each other’s self-awareness and priority to grow personally and in our friendship.
We became twin flames: We’re essentially lifelong soulmates and when we discovered what twin fame meant, we knew it was the best way to describe our friendship and our connection.
After high school: Becca went to college, and Anna went to Pennsylvania to pursue her music career. It was the first time our friendship was tested.
Reconnecting: After a brief hiatus, we reconnected by talking about our successes and celebrating wins with each other.
Having vulnerable conversations about the past: We also reconnected by talking calmly about how we’ve hurt each other in the past.
Contracts in adulthood: Going through more mental health struggles (depression, PTSD), we help each other by bringing back contracts. We made an Alive Pact which helps us know how to be there for each other.
Forgiveness: Our friendship has lasted because we always forgive each other. How? Because of the trust. Giving each other patience, grace, trust, and a lot of love.
We aced our friendship!
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