Sheena Interrupted

How strict is too strict when you’re raising teenagers? And why do the rules change for boys and girls?
This week on Sheena Interrupted, Sheena, TRID and Lauren unpack parenting teenagers, gender double standards and the complicated business of letting your kids grow up. Sheena wants boundaries. TRID wants independence. Before you decide who’s the strict parent, hear what happens when someone breaks a rule.
From screen time and sleepovers to dating and body image, they discuss which expectations protect kids and which ones might be passing down their parents’ insecurities.
Then, the conversation turns to women’s safety. Lauren shares a frightening experience of being followed while shopping, and TRID explains the everyday choices he makes to help women feel safer walking home. They talk trusting your gut, teaching boys to be aware of their impact and why being polite can wait when something feels wrong.
Also discussed: changing beauty standards, sharing responsibilities in a relationship and TRID’s entirely unsolicited pitch for back Botox.
What’s one rule your parents had that you’d keep, and one you’d retire? Tell us in the comments.

What happens in Cabo apparently ends up on our podcast.
Sheena, TRID, and Lauren are back for Part 2 of reading your anonymous drama, and some of these weddings should have been canceled considerably earlier. There’s a bride who ditches her bachelorette party to cheat on her fiancé, a groom who disappears on his wedding day, and a secret relationship that leaves two women blindsided. Naturally, we have very different opinions about what should happen next. 
Then there’s a year-long crush confessed to the wrong twin and a supposedly haunted stove that sends us into a debate about ghosts, TikTok psychics, and whether your mother can still criticize your parenting from the afterlife. TRID’s solution to that last one? Make a fajita. 
Would you tell the fiancé what happened at the bachelorette party…or stay out of it? Tell us where you stand in the comments. And send your own stories to sheenainterrupted@gmail.com. Please include details. Leaving room for interpretation is a dangerous game around here
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We asked you to share your drama, and apparently we should have asked you to include the rest of the story.
This week on Sheena Interrupted, Sheena, TRID, and Lauren read your anonymous submissions, including an affair between in-laws, a surprise new wife and baby brother, and someone who says they were shot twice over a crayon. Yes, a crayon.
TRID wants every detail. Sheena isn’t sure she wants to hear them. And with some of the wildest stories arriving in a single sentence, we’re left with a lot to discuss and very little to go on. We debate how soon is too soon to remarry, try to untangle who’s related to whom, and come up with a few explanations of our own.
But first, TRID has some things to say about Sheena’s sweater. Apparently, other people’s drama can wait.
Which story do you need an update on? Tell us in the comments, and subscribe to SHEENA INTERRUPTED for more. And if you’re sending us a story, please include enough detail to stop TRID from writing the rest himself.

The internet says an apple dipped in soy sauce tastes like caramel. Lauren would like a word. 
This week on Sheena Interrupted, Sheena, TRID and Lauren test weird food combinations that are supposed to taste like completely different foods. Can lemon and cinnamon really taste like Coca-Cola? Does banana and avocado pass for ice cream? Some combinations are surprisingly convincing. Others require a level of imagination we simply don’t have.
TRID suspects we’ve fallen for a prank, but that doesn’t stop him from finishing the food he’s actively criticizing. Lauren, meanwhile, has no problem stopping. There’s a difference between being willing to try something and being able to swallow it. 
Plus, a debate over what actually qualifies as pizza and a disagreement about split pea soup that gets considerably more heated than the soup itself. 
What’s a weird food combination you swear by?

This week on SHEENA INTERRUPTED, everyone has a hot take. Whether they can defend it is another story.
Sheena, TRID, and Lauren debate whether a manicure is worth $73, whether pineapple on pizza still qualifies as controversial, and who would actually survive prison. Along the way, mattress stores come under suspicion, Lauren has questions about childhood back braces, and some very questionable theories are delivered with the confidence of peer-reviewed research.
Plus, Sheena and Lauren share the behind-the-scenes scramble leading up to Sheena’s surprise performance at a Fenway Park proposal. Then, after spending most of the episode giving each other a hard time, they attempt something slightly less familiar: compliments. What starts as a round of saying nice things turns unexpectedly emotional. Turns out the compliments hit harder than the insults.
What’s a hot take you’ll defend no matter what?
Tell us in the comments, and subscribe to SHEENA INTERRUPTED for more candid conversations, questionable conclusions, and the occasional unexpected feeling.