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College Admissions for Boys, Clock Change/Gadget Change, Birthday Dinner Menu Challenge, Health Check List 2022 Nov 02, 2021

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College admissions for boys, gadgets that need changing at home, a helpful health check list from a listener and what to make a picky eater for her birthday - all covered on this episode. Plus Lian's successful workshop for humor writers, Julie's first formal night out, and some fresh entertainment recommendations.

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College Admissions: Colleges Practice Affirmative Action For Boys

Wirecutter: Time To Replace These Household Essentials.

Entertaining Sisters:

Vanity Fair video: Succession Composer Explains The Opening Music. Nicholas Britell.

Elvis Costello: How To Play Guitar and Y from Audible Words + Music.

Elvis Costello on Conan O'Brien Needs A Friend

Books:

Amor Towles' newest The Lincoln Highway

Woodrow On The Bench by Jenna Blum, next week's podcast guest!

Patti Callahan Henry's newest Once Upon A Wardrobe

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Checking out the Vortex, Rejecting the Metaverse, Bringing Back Civility Oct 26, 2021

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Checking out the Vortex, Rejecting the Metaverse, Bringing Back Civility

Lian visits the Sedona vortex, Liz is pretty sure she doesn't want to be part of Zuckerberg's Metaverse and Julie brings us back to Satellite Sisters basics: connection and civility.

Lian recaps our experience at the ShePodcasts conference.

Here's a Satellite Sisters Spotify playlist of the podcasts of women we met at the ShePodcasts conference.

What is a Metaverse anyway? from Washington Post. Liz is skeptical.

Julie recommends: How Americans Can Learn to Live Together Again. By Anglican priest Trish Harrison Warren.

Entertaining Sisters:

It's Hallmark Holiday Movie Time! Mark your calendars for Dec 5th and Dec 12th. Real sisters Ashley Williams and Kimberly Williams-Paisley star in TWO Sister Swap movies. Julie can't wait.

The Big Leap is a big hit! We say it has something for everyone! The Best and the Worst of new TV shows.

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Author Laura Galloway on her memoir Dalvi: Six Years In The Arctic Tundra Plus Tuesday Trends, Great Writing About Good Food Oct 19, 2021

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Laura Galloway talks to the Satellite Sisters about her fascinating memoir Dalvi: Six Years In The Arctic Tundra. And yes, she did move in with a reindeer herder, stick around after he ditched her and learn the indigenous language Sami and the history and culture of the people. This book is that story plus her family story.

Here's a great review of the book. We also ask her about the aurora borealis.

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Julie's Tuesday Trends:

Dolphin Skin

Putt Putt Golf for Adults

Home Generators

Halloween Trees

#CookingWithLiz this week:

Liz makes Pasta con Aglio and Olio from Stanley Tucci's new book TASTE: My Life Through Food. Watch her LIVE in the Satelliteite Sisters Facebook Group on Thursday October 21 at 8 pm ET/5 pm PT or follow @satsisters on @instagram to see the post on IGTV.

Lian's recommendations on more great writing about food:

PLENTY: A Memoir of Food & Family by Hannah Howard

Tastemakers: Seven Immigrant Women Who Revolutionized Food in America by Mayukh Sen.

The Department of Salad, a newsletter from former New Yorker editor Emily Nunn

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Lian's First Trip in Forever, Peanut Butter Sandwich Spies, Teen Girls + Instagram, What Martha Eats Oct 12, 2021

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Julie is always on BREAKING SPY NEWS plus Lian is headed out for her first trip in two years and Liz salutes Shalane Flanagan- six marathons in six weeks - wow!

What did YOU do this weekend? Shalane Flanagan ran TWO marathons and will complete six this fall.

Submarine Spy Case - Julie is ON IT.

Facebook, Instagram and Harm to Teen Girls. More to read here.

It's Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Get your mammogram, sisters and read about this promising new cancer treatment.

Only in LA -- Hypno Yoga!

Only Martha! Read about what Martha Stewart does and eats every day.

Tucci-tober continues LIVE in the Satellite Sisters Facebook Group every Thursday in October at 5 pm PT/8 pm ET.

This week, Cooking With Liz will feature Stanley Tucci's Bolognese from his book The Tucci Table.

Cooking With Liz Thursday October 21st: Pasta con Aglio and Olio from the new book.

Cooking With Liz October 28th: Spaghetti con Zucchine all Nerano from the new book and TV show

Entertaining Sisters:

Spy Shows from Spymaster Julie:

Counterpart starring J. K Simmons on Netflix.

SAS: Red Notice on Prime Video. Shoot’em up with British agents facing terrorist threat on a train.

Unit 42 on Netflix. A widowed cop tapped to lead a special cyber crimes unit partners with a former hacker to hunt down tech-savvy criminals in Belgium.

Plus Season 3 of Succession on HBOMax premieres this weekend along with a new podcast about the show hosted by Kara Swisher.

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Lian Parties with Hall & Oates, Julie Learns Homecoming Texas-Style, Liz Launches Tucci-tober, #StayNoisy Shout-Outs Oct 05, 2021

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Lian Parties with Hall & Oates, Julie Learns Homecoming Texas-Style, Liz Launches Tucci-tober, #StayNoisy Shout-Outs

Lian is one of the many fans who filled Hollywood Bowl for Hall & Oates.

We all survived the Great Facebook + Instagram Outage of 2021.

Satellite Sisters #StayNoisy Shout-Outs:

Women of the National Women's Soccer League speak out against abuse from coaches and the league management.

Facebook Whistleblower Frances Haugen speaks out to media and Congress.

The Pandemic Toll on Women's Careers from the Wall Street Journal

Entertaining Sisters:

Julie recommends The Big Leap on FOX.

Liz says breakfast time is the best time to catch up on The Great British Baking Show on Netflix.

Lian has created two book lists which will be featured in Pep Talk this week - Wicked Witches Books and Mysteries with an accent. You can find both lists at Bookshop.org.

#CookingWith Liz: Liz launches Tucci-Tober this Thursday night. Four weeks of cooking recipes from Stanley Tucci LIVE in the Satellite Sisters Facebook Group 8 pm ET/ 5 pm PT.

Also, watch Stanley's new book launch online with Williams-Sonoma here. Live on Wednesday October 6. The book is TASTE: My Life Through Food.

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Satellite Sisters We Heart NY Special feat. Sheila Dolan and Fiona Dolan Sep 28, 2021

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Guests Sheila Dolan and Fiona Dolan join Lian, Julie and Liz Dolan on this special salute to NYC. Sheila is a former NYC schoolteacher who is just back in a classroom there after 20 years away. Fiona is a recent college grad working in her first job in the big city. Plus, we all share our favorite NY moments over the years as well as those submitted by listeners. Big events, small moments, only-in-NY experiences.

This week's edition of the Satellite Sisters newsletter Pep Talk will be a double issue with with more NYC stories, tips and travel suggestions complied by Lian. Subscribe to Pep Talk here. Plus, Lian created a Spotify playlist Satellite Sisters Heart NYC here.

Fiona Dolan can be followed on Instagram @fionaadolann and she writes about music for the entertainment site @earlyrising.

Julie's favorite New York places are in Brooklyn including The Brooklyn Botanic Garden, The River Cafe, Luke’s Lobster and Juliana’s Pizza. Plus she recommends walking over the iconic Brooklyn Bridge. More Brooklyn tips here.

Liz remembers many NYC Marathons - watching when she was young and running two herself in the 90's.

Cooking With Liz returns in October with a mini-season every Thursday night at 5 pm PT/8 pm ET LIVE in the Satellite Sisters Facebook Group. This season is called It's Tucci Time and will feature recipes from Stanly Tucci. His new memoir with recipes is TASTE: My Life Through Food

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Wine Tasting with Jon Bon Jovi, Visiting San Miguel De Allende, The Importance of Getting A Second Opinion Sep 21, 2021

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Lian is wine-tasting with Jon Bon Jovi and Gelson's, Julie took a long weekend in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico and Liz reflects on the medical and psychological value of getting a second opinion. Plus, Satellite Sisters wins a surprise award!

Lian took her local grocery store Gelson's up on their wine-tasting with Jon Bon Jovi offer. Check out JBJ's French rose called Hampton's Water.

Julie recommends a visit to World Heritage Site San Miguel de Allende. And here's the book about living there called On Mexican Time: A New Life in San Miguel by artist Tony Cohan.

Liz shares a study from AARP on importance of getting a second opinion and how to do it, then shares her own recent experience.

Lian's Home Improvement Tips To Clip:

Up that Curb Appeal from the NYT

Five paint colors to improve home value from Martha Stewart

Chuck it! Kitchen Stuff to throw away NOW

Entertaining Sisters:

Book recommendations:

Dead Wake by Erik Larson

The real story of the last crossing of the Lusitania.

Catch us when we fall by Juliet Fay

Determined to stop drinking when she finds herself pregnant, Cass Macklin turns to the only sober friend she has—Scott McGreavy, third baseman for the Boston Red Sox, a man with a temper and problems of his own.

At Summer's End by Courtney Ellis

When an ambitious female artist accepts an unexpected commission at a powerful earl’s country estate in 1920s England, she finds his war-torn family crumbling under the weight of long-kept secrets.

Podcast Recommendation:

SWAY. On this episode of SWAY, Kara Swisher interviews Anne Wojcicki, CEO of genetic testing company 23andMe.

See Lian Dolan and Liz Dolan LIVE at ShePodcastsLive on October 16 - virtual or in-person.

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It's Jennifer Aniston Week at Satellite Sisters plus Hawks on the Job, Theranos Trial FINALLY Begins, AAA Triple Snafu Sep 14, 2021

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Julie, Liz and Lian Dolan declare this week Jennifer Aniston Week at Satellite Sisters plus report on critters (hawks + beavers save the day!), a AAA triple snafu, TikTok and Facebook concerns and the Elizabeth Holmes Theranos fraud trial finally begins.

Celebrate Jennifer Aniston Week!

The Kids Love Jen

The Morning Show Season 2 Begins on Apple TV +

Critter News:

Spencer the Hawk Saves The Day

Dam It: Beavers and Us! At the High Desert Museum in Bend, Oregon.

Tech News:

TikTok reporting from the Wall Street Journal

New Facebook Spy Glasses

Theranos/Elizabeth Holmes Fraud trial starts

Bad Blood: The Final Chapter podcast follows the trial.

Entertaining Sisters:

Julie recommends Untold: Breaking Point on Netflix The story of tennis player Marty Fish and his mental health struggles.

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Satellite Sisters Season Premiere with New Fall '21 Mantras: Do Your Best. Keep or Stop. No Fiascos. Sep 07, 2021

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Lian, Julie and Liz Dolan return for the first show of the new Satellite Sisters season. What did everyone do in August? And what are the mantras we are using for the rest of 2021? Julie says Do You Best. Lian uses Keep or Stop. Liz just wants No Fiascos. All is discussed including some thoughts about the 20th Anniversary of 9/11 and the implications for us now. Plus, advice about dealing with life decisions, stress at work and planning for the future.

Lian recommends reading this about how to Keep or Stop things from https://www.ellevatenetwork.com/

Liz looks at what companies are doing to ease the stress on their employees: Companies Combat Burnout with Time Off and Perks.

Julie has a mantra for the times we are in, whether its from self-improvement or home improvement: Do Your Best.

The Satellite Sisters have many things going on this fall so be sure to subscribe to the weekly email newsletter Pep Talk. Go to

Lian and Liz will be Keynote Speakers at ShePodcasts in Scottsdale Arizona October 14 - 17. Their appearance is 9 am Saturday October 16. Buy your tickets and support ShePodcasts here.

Entertaining Sisters: Our entertainment tips!

Julie recommends Wanted from Australia and The Chair starring Sandra Oh on Netflix.

Liz has an issue with Resort Horror after watching The White Lotus on HBO and Nine Perfect Strangers starring Nicole Kidman on Hulu.

Lian loves The Split on Hulu about British divorce lawyers behaving badly and recommends the audiobook of 56 Days by Catherine Ryan Howard, narrated by Alana Kerr Collins.

Lian listened to three books fro the Satellite Sisters Best Beach Bag Books list: Lady Sunshine by Amy Mason Doan, The Other Black Girl by Zakiya Dalila Harris and The Guest List by Lucy Foley.

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Favorite Episode of 2021: Whip The Pony! Hot Flaming Fraud! Congrats, Go-Go's! Aug 24, 2021

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Favorite Episode of 2021: Whip The Pony! Hot Flaming Fraud! Really Bill Gates???

Our #1 episode of 2021 comes with a key sports psychology tip: Whip The Pony!

The Man Who Didn't Invent Flamin' Hot Cheetos. Story in LA Times. Podcast interview with Sam Dean, the LA Times business reporter who wrote the story.

The business of snacking.

The latest on Bill Gates' behavior at Microsoft.

Wedding Trends for 2021 from The Knot.

Entertaining Sisters:

The Marfa Tapes Jack Ingram, Miranda Lambert, Jon Randall

New Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Inductees.

The Go-Gos documentary on pay per view.

Two books recommended by Lian:

The Dictionary of Lost Words by Pip Williams

The Hour of the Witch by Chris Bohjalian

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