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Your weather app says “Take Shelter Now.” Most people head for the basement. Alexa and Tony get in the car and start calculating how to get closer. We sit down with them to unpack the real world of storm chasing, from their first guided storm chasing tour out of Denver to the moment Alexa realized she was no longer along for moral support, she was fighting for the best window seat to watch a supercell build and spin.

We get specific about what storm chasers actually do all day: checking National Weather Service outlooks, watching forecasting models update hour by hour, tracking isolated cells on radar, and playing the “hurry up and wait” game until storms finally fire. Tony explains why the American Great Plains and Tornado Alley are so unique, how supercell thunderstorms form, and why you usually do not want to be anywhere near the core if hail can shatter glass. Alexa shares what it feels like when every phone in the van starts screaming with emergency alerts and everyone else looks thrilled.

Then we zoom out to the bigger context: extreme weather events, shifting tornado patterns, El Niño influences, and the role of citizen spotters who help confirm what is happening on the ground. We also clear up the biggest misconceptions, including the idea that storm chasing is about “catching” a tornado or having Hollywood equipment. If you love severe weather science, big sky road trips, or stories about curiosity beating fear, this one is for you.

Interview with Alexa DeSanctis & Tony Cortese

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A lost wallet. A sister’s memory. And a simple question: what do you do with love after loss?

After Kristina Ulmer lost her younger sister Katie in a sudden car accident, she found herself holding onto something small but heavy—Katie’s wallet, still filled with the tips she earned that morning. For years, it sat untouched. Not spent. Not given away. Just… held.

Until one day, she decided to do something with it.

As a high school English teacher, Kristina exchanged the money for $20 bills and handed them to her students with a simple challenge:
use this to do something kind for someone else.

What began as a quiet classroom moment turned into something far more meaningful—the $20 Kindness Challenge. But this story wasn’t really about how big it got. It was about what happened in the small, human moments along the way.

Inside a lesson on Fahrenheit 451—a story that warned about disconnection and emotional numbness—students were asked a different kind of question: how do we stay human in a world that moves too fast?

The answers didn’t come from discussion.
They came from action.

Students created acts of kindness that reached far beyond what anyone expected—paying off library fines so senior students could graduate, sewing walker caddies for nursing home residents and spending time with people who rarely had visitors, learning what was actually needed at a women’s shelter, and giving back to food pantries they once depended on.

And something shifted.

Not just for the people receiving the kindness… but for the ones giving it.

What followed reached far beyond one classroom—into communities across the country and beyond.

$20 Kindness Challenge

Interview with Kristina Ulmer, President and Founder of the $20 Kindness Challenge

Things that make you say "Wow"!
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Some episodes start with a plan.
This one starts with a tree.

Not a mystical forest or some faraway place—just a regular neighborhood, and a tree where people come to tie ribbons. But what gets left there… it’s anything but ordinary. Names. Grief. Gratitude. Prayers. Promises. The quiet things we don’t always know how to say out loud.

We’re sitting down with Karen, a modern shamanic practitioner and the caretaker of what’s become known as the Good Juju Tree. And while we talk about shamanism, this conversation isn’t about labels or beliefs—it’s about connection.

To yourself.
To the land.
To something bigger than you… whatever that means in your world.

We get into what shamanism actually looks like in everyday life (and what it’s not), how ritual can be simple and grounding instead of heavy or mysterious, and why paying attention—to animals, to place, to your own nervous system—might be one of the most powerful things we’ve forgotten how to do.

There’s a story in here about a whale encounter that stops you in your tracks. The kind that feels like it was meant to happen. The kind that changes direction.

And we also keep it real—talking about things you can actually do: getting your feet on the ground, quieting the noise, letting your mind unload, finding your way back to yourself in small, doable ways.

This one feels a little different… but also exactly the same.

Because at the end of the day, it’s still about how we move through this world— and how we take care of ourselves, each other, and the spaces we’re a part of.

Come sit with us for a bit. 🌿

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Interview with Karen Adamski, Certified Crystal Healer & Shamanic Practitioner

Things that make you say "Wow"!
For more episodes and additional information visit the Two Chicks and a Hoe website and our Facebook page.
Big thanks to our Producer, Casey Kennedy.