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Recommended welcomes back, once again, Ashley the Intern as she takes over for the first of 2026's Bonus Friday Email episodes! This week, Asheley reads your emails and gets Aubry to answer (and answer for) the questions, concerns, and comments you've been sending in. Is this the start of a prosperous new year? Find out this week on Recommended To Me By A Friend! Find Candy Cocktails on Amazon @ Candy Cocktails: Fun and Flirty Drinks with a Sugar-Kissed Twist: Good, Katherine, Good, Flannery: 9780762451128: Amazon.com: Books

After an inauspicious beginning to the year, Aubry takes the opportunity to share with returning co-founder Leah Johnson the joy and magic of Winter-een-mas! This week Aubry tells Leah all about the criminally under rated holiday that's all about gamers and their games! Listen to a brief history of Winter-een-mas, and how you can celebrate it! What is this holiday? What did covid do to its popularity? What *does* Superman wear underneath his disguise? Aubry and Leah attempt to answer these and many more questions on this week's episode of Recommended To Me By A Friend!

Welcome back! Unfortunately the season four premiere didn't turn out as smoothly as planned. But we ARE returning and this episode will be replaced with the real thing... Promise!

After a combination of looming deadlines and setbacks, Aubry takes stock of the last year and her decision to revamp the podcast. But when a surprising year-end review comes to light, our host learns that success in a project can easily be mistaken for failure from specific angles. Come and listen to a behind-the-scenes retelling of the last year, what it's taken, what was achieved, and why all of you have made a huge difference to one creator. Thank you to everyone for listening, and we'll be back next year for new season of Recommended To Me By A Friend!

T'was the last episode before Christmas (before the series of episodes covering Epic: The Musical, anyway) and now's time to take the year in review! With the season 3 finale on the horizon, Aubry takes the opportunity to discuss the past year with all its lessons and experiences with much requested return co-host... LEAH JOHNSON!?!? Yes, she's back on the mic and joining Aubry to talk about the past year and what comes next for this podcast! Come and hear why we should all make sorcery great again, how earrings made from tombstones can easily be yours, what to wear when you want to work out and look cute, and finally hear these two friends back on the mic together again. With some insight to how the podcast began and where it's headed! All this and more on this week's episode of Recommended To Me By A Friend!

After last week's change-up, Ashely takes over for a special email episode of Recommended! But with Aubry out of town, Ashley snags the ultimate guest... Leah!!! That's right! Ashley has worked tirelessly to track town original co-founder of the show: Leah Johnson! And now it's Leah's turn in the hot seat. Find out where Leah's been, what she's been doing, and how she helps beloved intern Ashley answer this most recent batch of questions and emails. All this and more on this bonus episode of Recommended To Me By a Friend!

After a quick switch, Ashley the Intern agrees to trade episode dates so Aubry's Top Ten list of horror/comedy movies can air on Halloween! Before Aubry left for a Halloween related trip, she recorded this brand-new Top Ten featuring her recommendations for the funniest horror related comedies that anyone might enjoy this spooky season! You'll laugh; you'll scream... you might even discover some new titles that might become holiday traditions. From zombies, vampires, monsters, slashers, the occult, and even... in-laws... this list has it all! Come and listen to the Top Ten recommendations of horror/comedy on this special Halloween episode of Recommended To Me By A Friend!

You were asked and you responded! After the first (and so far, only) poll, Aubry is happy to present returning co-host David Stevens to talk about his recommendation: The Muppet Musicians of Bremen! Come and listen to the conversation inspired by this 1972 hidden gem of a fairytale about a donkey, a roster, a hound dog, an old cat who make an unlikely friendship and an even less unlikely band. Told through the genius of Jim Henson and team, this tv special has a lot to offer. And David is back to give us all the inside scoop about this and other related projects. How did a simple puppet affect bamboozle so many? When talking about death, how chipper is too chipper? And is it Bremen? Brenom? Brenham?... The answers to these questions and more on this week's episode of Recommended to Me by A Friend!

Listener turned co-host, Sam (along with returning guest Nicholas) joins Aubry to talk about the experience that came with the recommendation of the popular game Minecraft! After spending two months playing together in a private realm, these three friends discuss their experience in the unforgiving block world of Minecraft. What happens when an architect, a bureaucrat , and a complete newb team up to talk on a world of zombies, rainbow sheep, and dangerous holes? How big is the world? And where did all those diamonds go? Find out the answers to these questions and more on this week's episode of Recommended To Me By A Friend!

Carri returns as co-host as she and Aubry discuss their playthrough of Luigi's Mansion 3! When looking for something fun do, these friends created a new weekly routine as they stumbled through this fun, creative, and visually pleasing game... that just so happens to be packed with unintentional innuendo. What's the real reason kids don't eat switch game cards? How did a magical fruit cup save the day? How many stupid jokes about third-base-slang can two people in their mid-thirties make? Find out the answers to these questions and more on this week's episode of Recommended To Me By A Friend!

After a month's hiatus Recommended is back! Without a co-host this week Aubry takes listeners of a 10 Ten list of shows that were canceled too early. We've all heard about failed pilots, but what about the shows that got a start but were shot down before they had a chance to really find their audience? Listen in to find out the top ten shows that, though canceled, still come highly recommended! Welcome back with this week's episode of Recommended To Me By A Friend!

We're back! It's been a month since our last episode and Ashley is using the episode to find out what the heck's been going on. Why did episodes stop getting published? Did the podcast fizzle out again? Did Aubry die? These and many other questions led to this week's episode where Ashely and Aubry discuss what's been going on as well as upcoming episodes! We're happy to be back on this week's episode of Recommended To Me By a Friend!

Without a special guest co-host, Aubry reflects on some of her best sports related memories. But seeing has how the entirety of her sports knowledge comes from movies, this week is all about the Top 10 Movies About Sports recommended to you the listener! If you haven't seen them before, you need to watch them. And if you haven't seen them in a while, it's time to watch them again. Listen to this singular host's recommendation for the top 10 sports movies you could watch while you're trying to stay out of the summer heat on this week's episode of Recommended To Me By A Friend!

Ashley's back! But this time she's here as a co-host along with Aubry as they talk about Nintendo games, Disney games, and Disney games made for the Nintendo! After she was asked to pick her topic for her first return engagement as co-host, Ashley decided the topic could be the smash-hit game Dreamlight Valley! Come and listen as these to gamer-girls discuss various games and how they intermingle with the real-world aspects of their lives. What makes a game worth the time invested? How much do the gaming practices differ in persons twenty years apart? How funny is it to set your friend's virtual house on fire? Find out the answers to these questions and more on this week's episode of Recommended To Me By A Friend!

This week's guest host goes by many titles: Retired Army Major, Esteemed collegiate professor, best grandpa ever (to name a few), our host knows him best by the title of Dad. That's right! The man mentioned in nearly every episode of this podcast since it's beginning, Nick Cillo joins Aubry on the week of Father's Day to talk about family, love and acceptance in the people that you define as family. With all the new excitement about the new 2025 live-action Lilo & Stitch movie, Aubry shares both films with her dad and they discuss what makes this overlooked 2002 movie worth a watch. Find out secrets behind the films and the true history of Hawaii's iconic song "Aloha Oe"! Plus Why should you feed sandwiches to fish? Was it the Ving Rhames or Vin Diesel movie that truly understands what family is? And why is "little and broken" still good? Find out the answers to these questions and more on this week's episode of Recommended To Me By A Friend!