The advice and the talent continue to flow. The Dishes return this week with more performances, from themselves and from special guest Hugh! (We also continue to Zoom; please bear with the sound). We also hand out advice on how to determine whether a music teacher needs to be paid for a jam session, how to feel about a low-key marriage proposal (Maggie gets mad!), and how to handle your partner sabotaging your diet. Please rate, review and subscribe.

Getting Real with the Fictitious Dishes

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In an action packed episode, the Dishes welcome Aubrey from Boise to dazzle us with talent, play a few tunes themselves, and also tackle a neighbor's rude rooster. We finally reached the point where we couldn't avoid lockdown-related advice, so we take on living with your tough stepdad, and how much you owe your family at this time as well. Please do enjoy!

Grey Rocking

It's a Fictitious Dishes talent show! Unusual times call for an unusual approach to recording a band's advice podcast. So this week, we got on Zoom and performed songs for each other, while also doling out advice on intrusive landlords and how best to love your cat. The sound quality is a little wonky (full disclosure: most of the songs were re-recorded separately), but the heart remains the same. You can also see the visual version on YouTube!

Live from Quarantine!

In an episode recorded before our Global Emergency, the Fictitious Dishes dispense advice on dealing with older, "unfiltered" relatives, whether or not to tell a friend their relationship is a mistake, and if it's OK to tell off an annoying classmate.

Missives from the Before Time

From old coffee to the royal family, nothing connects this episode's advice except the precision insight of the Dishes! In this addition of the podcast, the band covers expired food, the distribution of chores, and the topic you've long waited for them to weigh in on - Megxit!

Who Needs a Theme?

Love is in the air this month and the Fictitious Dishes are talking about relationships. A wedding guest sneak, a wedding photo fail, and a girlfriend's birthday disappointment are all up for discussion. xoxo (Please rate, review and subscribe!)

Bodice Ripper

New year, new pod. We're very on-brand in this episode by talking about giving thanks and gifts now that the holidays are over. We tackle getting gifts you don't want, the best way to say thank you and more.

Welcome to 2020

Listen to the Dishes dispense advice on dealing with a mortifying office experience, deflecting attention from your job, disengaging from a bad friend and making cheap-yet-touching gifts.

Episode 12: Ride it Out

The Dishes are very busy and important but they're BACK. This week, they dispense advice on airplane etiquette, yelling at children, how to get your butt out of bed, and what to do if you meet yourself from an alternate universe. (You read that last one right).

Episode 11: Let us be your Google

Please ignore the tech touches at the start of this episode and enjoy a brand new pod where the Dishes dig into a timeless (?) culinary choice, debate whether or not its OK to have stuffed animals on display in a house with no children, DISAGREE on the importance of saying God bless you after a sneeze, and hash out how much coffee is too much. All this PLUS: A new segment called Live Action Meme. As always, please rate, review and subscribe, and write us with your own questions at thefictitiousdishes@gmail.com

Swedish Meatballs or Shepherd's Pie

Local horror punks The Writhers stopped by to help us answer our very first REAL LIVE LISTENER MAIL, as well as our usual requestions culled from various corners of the Internet. Topics include: Step-sibling relationships gone wild, the definition of "manly" and when teasing goes too far.

Episode 9: We've Got Mail

In an episode that WAS TOTALLY NOT recorded on the same day as our previous pod together, the Dishes are joined by our good friends Le Saboteur to dispense on advice on a flatulent co-worker, parents who just don't understand vegetarianism, quantifying failure and proper soy sauce maintenance. Write in with your questions at thefictitiousdishes@gmail.com

Episode 8: Let us Take on Your Burden

HELL 'ER HIGHWATERS! That's the name of the band we are playing with on Dec. 14, and whose name we continue forget in this otherwise flawless episode. After promoting the upcoming show, the Dishes jump right into a third rail topic: How to handle a person with an intellectual disability who is acting inappropriately. Then we take it down a notch and advise on the best way to clean up poop, and what to do if you're obsessed with a fictional character. Please rate, review and subscribe!

Episode 7: M.O.Y.B.

Hair care, correcting co-workers' grammar and getting your head out of your ass. These are the important topics on which the Fictitious Dishes dispense advice in this week's episode. For once we're qualified to weigh in, or at least Jacquie is on the hair care one. She's a licensed Cosmonaut! Please rate, review, subscribe, tell your friends and write us with your advice needs at thefictitiousdishes@gmail.com

Episode 6: I Love the Smell of a Perm in the Morning

Just in time for the election, and not remotely in time for Halloween, the Dishes get spooky and POLITICAL with their latest episode. We get real about a mysterious deck of Tarot cards, a bullying crow, and how to deal with a boyfriend who is holier than thou about voting. Give it a listen, please rate, review and subscribe, and send us YOUR advice questions at thefictitiousdishes@gmail.com

Episode 5: The Laziest Witch There Is

By night, they're a punk-inspired, power pop/indie rock band. By day, they're telling you how to handle your weird brother in law. Tune in to hear the members of The Fictitious Dishes dispense advice on love, work, friendship and everything else worth talking about.

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Getting Real with the Fictitious Dishes

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