High Expectations Podcast
High Expectations is a podcast by New Zealand women about relationships, pop culture, friendship, films, books, sex positivity, music, and whatever we feel like talking about!
Reviews
Relationships
Dating
Advice
Personal Journals
Women
Film
Tv
Society & Culture
Comedy
Entertainment
- Update frequency
- every 12 days
- Average duration
- 35 minutes
- Episodes
- 76
- Years Active
- 2015 - 2019
S3E13 - Nanette and No Cash Out!
This is an extra special one. The first ten minutes are spoiler free as we reminisce and perform fun songs we wrote in high school, like No Cash Out!
After a spoiler warning, we talk about Hannah Ga…
00:35:37 |
Tue 24 Jul 2018
S3E12 - Obsessions: Ellen in Japan (Part Two)
Ellen went to Japan and loved it! In part two she tells us about her crash course in shopping etiquette, Harajuku & Shibuya, sleeping amongst books, temples & shrines, bathing, maid cafes, and much m…
00:39:26 |
Tue 10 Jul 2018
S3E11 - Obsessions: Ellen in Japan (Part One)
Ellen went to Japan and loved it! In part one she tells us about the robot toilets, all the cute n weird stuff, the actual robots, the food, getting around the cities, and what she got out of the fam…
00:34:38 |
Tue 26 Jun 2018
S3E10 - Talking As Fast As We Can
In this episode we try talking as fast as we can! Why? Candy jar fuelled debating. We also headcanon queer characters, imagine Becky Albertalli-esque sequels, and Jaslyn imagines Candy Jar is an Oran…
00:32:08 |
Tue 12 Jun 2018
S3E09 - 42 Things in 32 Minutes
Join us for a fireside chat about 42 things from pop culture! Can you count them all?
Some highlights:
* Leonardo DiCaprio
* Oscars
* The Big Sick
* The Beguiled
* Jane Austen
* What If?
* N…
00:34:39 |
Tue 29 May 2018
S3E08 - Shady Bacon
In this shady af episode we throw some at Johnny Depp, pasta, anti-gluten free snobs, and hey have you even tried curry?? Then we call out anti-SJWs, drunk apt buzzers, and forget about sleeping beca…
00:34:18 |
Tue 15 May 2018
S3E07 - Fantastic Outtakes and Where To Find Them
Two sick hosts means opening up the outtakes vault! In the first half we share our true crime stories, love on Jacinda Ardern, and ask big questions: Where to sit on a date? What kind of dog are you?…
00:31:34 |
Tue 01 May 2018
S3E06 - Sorry, You're Wonderful: Jaslyn
Jaslyn shares love letters given by her ex-girlfriend, Simone, and we discuss their hipster vs 'mainstream' relationship. Join us in a world of retro typewriters, dialup Internet, landlines calls, an…
00:37:27 |
Tue 17 Apr 2018
Minisode 01 - Love, Simon
Ellen and Jaslyn went to see Love, Simon! They gush about possibly the best queer movie of the year and tell the tale of their weird experience in the cinema! This episode has SPOILERS for Love, Si…
00:23:47 |
Sun 08 Apr 2018
S3E05 - Philosophical Grim Reapers
We play MIT's Moral Machine and decide which members of society live, and which ones must be sacrificed, in hypothetical self driving car crashes.
Then we open up the mailbox for some ace listener m…
00:36:55 |
Tue 03 Apr 2018
S3E04 - Obsessions: Sci-Fi, Space, and Robots
Jen & Meg, from Indoorswomen, talk with us about our shared obsessions with sci-fi, space, and robots! We discuss our love for them growing up and the problem of girls feeling excluded by boys from …
00:36:48 |
Tue 20 Mar 2018
S3E03 - Misconceptions About Sex
Join us as we read funny, cringe, awkward, and sad stories from listeners telling us how their younger selves thought sex worked! Will you ever look at a hallway the same after hearing Jaslyn's story…
00:38:38 |
Tue 06 Mar 2018
S3E02 - Film Roulette: Hot Fuzz
We watch the British police comedy film Hot Fuzz, starring Simon Pegg and Nick Frost. It's the first in our series of five forced film reviews and we're perhaps foolishly going best to worst. Hear us…
00:34:15 |
Tue 20 Feb 2018
S3E01 - Sorry, You're Wonderful: Ellen
Hear Ellen grow up before your ears as she reads letters she wrote to her future self from ages 9 to 26! We cover her childhood joys, anxieties, first loves, and former friendships. This episode is …
00:38:44 |
Tue 06 Feb 2018
Birthdaysode - Jimanju Film Roulette
We are celebrating 2 years of High Ex! In this special episode we reveal what topics are coming in Season 3, pick genres out of a hat, and roulette what films we will be forced to review this year. W…
00:28:11 |
Wed 03 Jan 2018
S2E20 - Bad Date Stories (#DidntMakeTheMark)
In our magnum deluxe season finale we're sharing amazing bad date stories about DCs who "didn't make the Mark". Featuring snoopers, mansplainers, cheaters, baby demanders, third wheelers, and weird p…
01:09:36 |
Tue 28 Nov 2017
S2E19 - Ghosting Stories 2 (Jake's Still Not Cool)
By popular demand, we are back with more dating ghosting stories, and this time we even have some confessions from ghosts themselves! From weird kissing and unrequited sex, to the trans experience an…
00:37:33 |
Tue 14 Nov 2017
S2E18 - Queer Dating
We reveal what our experiences have been like in the queer dating scene! Including the invisibility of queer femmes, how dating women is different to men, and the anxieties and frustrations of using …
00:37:04 |
Tue 31 Oct 2017
S2E17 - Obsessions: Graphic Novels (Volume 2)
We check in on Ellen's graphic novel obsession one year later. From Black Hole to Blankets, Saga to Seconds, and everything in between monstress, wicked, and divine, find out what she has been enjoyi…
00:35:30 |
Tue 17 Oct 2017
S2E16 - We Like Listening to Trash
Ellen and Jaslyn are still on the bed to talk about listening to guilty or trashy music pleasures, or are they just pleasures? Featuring Toto, Drake, Ed Sheeran, Taylor Swift, Coldplay, and more! The…
00:31:43 |
Tue 03 Oct 2017
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