The Empress and The Hermit
Conversations with The Empress and The Hermit, aka hosts Kati VanLoo and Andrew Slac, a couple who probably spends more time together than any couple you know. Welcome to our insatiably curious and chatty house. Tune in to find out what rabbit hole we went down that week and how it shifted our perspective, got us in our feels, or just made us laugh our asses off. Nothing is off-limits and we can find almost anything fascinating. Stay up-to-speed with the podcast and DM us your gratitudes on Instagram @theempressandthehermit Connect with The Empress: @kati.vanloo on Instagram Connect with The Hermit: https://linktr.ee/chknfoot
Episodes
There exists places in which we collect and create experiences that prey on our base fears and curiosities. Why do we cross their threshold, intentionally and essentially inflicting harm trauma upon ourselves? What within compels us to strive to experience fear? We also talk about porn in this one!
Mentioned material this week
Jacob Geller. Control, Anatomy and the Legacy of the Haunted House: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=me...
Mental, physical and emotional health can take a runny nose dive. What are the good memories about our favorite diseases? In a society that champions wealth before health, what can we do to maintain ours? Also, remember daytime tv in the 90's? Good times.
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Mascots, thrill rides, bodily functions caused by these things and perhaps undercooked poultry; we're talking theme parks on this episode. Turns out Kati is a something of a daredevil while Andrew might be the most frightened child in the land.
Mentioned material this week
TPMvids: https://www.youtube.com/@TPMvids
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Life is a beautiful thing, doubly so when you've got your little buddies with you. We're talking about pets!
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P.E., sports, recess...Remember these things? Did you do these things? Were you "supposed to do these things" but you hung out under the bleachers and made out with Donna Sullivan (not a real person)? A lot of our formative memories came about as a result of the things we did on and off the gym floor as youngsters. Mile runs, weird games, good memories...the Presidential Fitness Test also happened. Woof.
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It can be a simple thing, a roll of the dice, or a complicated, sprawling role playing experience or something in between. Games, and playing are important, and something Kati and I hold dear. To us, games represent family, bonding, even greater delving into our deeper selves. Unless it's Monopoly! Monopoly sucks.
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Many, MANY things changed for many, MANY people pre and post pandemic. What were your plans? What were your dreams, goals, fears etc and what are they now? We talk about ours.
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We're talkin' sweet, delicious and certainly not nutritious snacks. Candy is one of those very nostalgic things for us, evoking times gone by with loved ones and even the beginnings of our own relationship with each other. This topic came about because of an unholy collaboration: mac and cheese and candy canes, and moves through our ranking of some of our favorite (and least favorite) treats.
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To be a professional creative person is hard work, though many would have you believe it's a singularly blissful thing, a mystified and otherwise difficult to attain state of being. Nope. I mean...kind of? It's complicated.
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A good cookbook, like anything created, should be a throughline to the tangible from the heart of the artist. We collect cookbooks for many reasons deeper than that deep dish pan you never use.
Mentioned material this week
Alison Roman Home Movies: https://www.youtube.com/@alisoneroman
The Babish Culinary Universe: https://www.youtube.com/@babishculinaryuniverse
Feeding The Frasers: https://feedingthefrasers.com/
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It's funny when the things we find to be our personal niche become part of the mainstream, yet we might still be afraid to share our passion for them. Is it fear of rejection? Something deeper? Selfishness? We talk about that.
Mentioned material this week
Extra Credits: https://www.youtube.com/@extracredits/featured
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The greatest art can transport us to another reality, regardless of budget or scale. As performers, it is our job to sell a fantasy.
Go Chiefs.
Mentioned material this week
TPMvids Top 5 Failed & Successful Disney Ride Overlays: https://youtu.be/_HYjR6qdAr0
How Sesame Street is Made: https://youtu.be/uUzRgDcMVKw
Shakira & J. Lo's FULL Pepsi Super Bowl LIV Halftime Show: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pILCn6VO_RU
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Often thought a thing to create clutter, collecting is perhaps a misunderstood method of finding one self...with like...toys and stuff.
Mentioned material this week
The Pez Outlaw documentary trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZInOvqvygrk
The Pez Outlaw Diary: http://pezoutlaw.blogspot.com/
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Our obsession this week takes us on a journey into the wilderness adjacent! We talk camping, our favorite outdoors-person, ASMR, and the inherent human need for simplicity.
Mentioned material this week
Hike Camp Climb: https://www.youtube.com/@HikeCampClimb
TheOdd1sOut ASMR: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1EXJoIntlk
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We're talking escape rooms, escapism, adventure and the inherent human need for community, primal experience and more.
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Connect with The Empress: @kati.vanloo on Instagram
Connect with The Hermit: https://linktr.ee/chknfoot
It's the pilot! Get to know us, Kati and Andrew, The Empress and The Hermit, a real life couple who talks like...a lot.
Want more?
Buy Andrew's book, The Death and Life of Tom Valentine, available on Amazon: https://a.co/d/6OsYx0v
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