Emily and Jamie decided to blow this week off and make their friends and family do the work and figure out which songs to play. Enjoy a potpourri of middle school music spanning decades and countries!

Hosts Emily and Jamie guide you through the movies and tv shows that shaped their middle school years, as heard through the songs that soundtracked 'em.

Jamie guides us through some highlights from the Bat Mitzvah CD she gave out to the lucky attendees! Come hear what becoming a woman sounds like with two women slowly getting drunk on spiked seltzies.

The moment Emily has been waiting for: an episode entirely dedicated to the weird, bootleg mix CDs she made for herself in the early 2000s.

Emily and Jamie make it happen, even though that b*tch coronavirus just moved into town and is trying to steal the spotlight!! They bring the ol' razzle dazzle and present the music from the musicals that shaped their middle school experience. And a 5-6-7-8!

Friend of the show Josh Holtzberg is our wonderfully/overly prepared guest! We talk about not believing in guilty pleasure music, Josh's middle school band "Backwash," and trading Pokemon cards for bootleg Eminem cd's. Oh, and AIM-ing with your crush, duh. If you want hear more of Josh talking passionately about music, check out his podcast “Top Five Disco,” which he hosts with his brother Adam!

Former Middle School Happy Hour guest Vijay R. Nathan takes over as host while Emily and Jamie are on vacation, losers! Guest Adam Wade is not only a storyteller, but a 20-time slam winner at The Moth! Tune in to hear him and Vijay talk the social dynamics of birthday parties, the 1989 Batman movie, having a best friend named Fetus (!), and more middle school goodness.

NYC comedian Eileen Hanley is our guest and she plays Avril and Dashboard, and talks growing up on an island, AIM-ing boys and then ignoring them in person, Hee Haw Hayride (!!), and being way too scared to play the pen*s game.

Fellow Radio Free Brooklyn host Vijay R. Nathan of The Truth to Power Show is Emily and Jamie's guest this week! They talk bullies, comics, and being the kid who does the MC Hammer dance.

Host Emily's first middle school friend organized her playlist CHRONOLOGICALLY, and talks nice-boy crushes, the real-life NJ store Fountains of Wayne, and and ska scene.

We had some very BIG, very WEIRD technical difficulties, and he was running late despite MANY reminders that he could not be late, but we had a lot of fun with NYC comedian Courtney Reynolds! He was really cool in middle school so we resent him (but only slightly)!

Emily's GCMS (Grover Cleveland Middle School) buddy Isaac Buchoff talks iPods vs Zunes, CWCBOE (Caldwell-West Caldwell Board of Education) and the politics of suburban New Jersey, and being ratboy!

Emily is stuck in detention, so host Jamie chats with fellow Radio Free Brooklyn host and 90s person, Elann Danziger, of the show Lost and Rewound!

Come for Mr. Brightside, stay for the accents 🧐

Host Jamie's real-life middle school friend Olivia Wilcox talks periods, dolphins, and Ashlee Simpson's career arc, and also teaches us some sick dance moves!!

Guests Elizabeth and Jillian come and share the wisdom that comes with not only being ex-middle schoolers themselves, but current middle school teachers!

Comedian Chris O'Brien talks us through NYC in the 90s, and teaches us how he listened to music before the internet.

Dan talks country, Bette Midler, and creating future spinoffs for our favorite Disney Channel shows.

Camie introduces us to both wizard and Celtic rock, making this both the most niche and most hip episode of all time.

A very spooky Halloween with Ceci and all our middle school demons

Comedian Joey Rinaldi regales us with tales of love and heartbreak in middle school and the requisite music played on repeat in his childhood bedroom.

Comedy person Rachel Ordan shares her middle school playlist and experiences.

Comedian Kelly Bachman joins hosts Emily and Jamie to talk middle school stories and share her tweenie soundtrack.

Hosts Jamie Lerner and Emily Scott play the music that got them through the waking nightmare that is middle school and also talk about some of those waking nightmares.