Open Wide - Unfiltered Opinions Between a Dentist and her Patient

You know the person at the gate — the one with the bed pillow under one arm, a stuffed animal clipped to their bag, and no idea what zone they're in. And you know the other person — the one quietly off to the side, carry-on the right size, already knowing exactly where they're sitting. Jenny and Susan are breaking down every signal, every habit, and every unspoken rule that separates someone who travels a lot from someone who very much does not. It's funnier than it sounds and more useful than you'd expect.Along the way, Susan shares the story of a first-class flight attendant who told her — a 50-year Delta customer running from a delayed connection — to go find a spot in coach. Jenny reveals she will never, under any circumstances, travel without snacks because hunger on a grounded plane is a real and present danger. They get into packing strategies, the neck pillow debate, five pairs of sunglasses, and a satin eye mask that's described as somewhere between luxury and scuba gear. Subscribe, share this with someone who definitely over-packs, and tell us in the comments — what's the most chaotic thing you've ever seen at an airport gate?

Susan just got back from 10 days in the Basque region of Spain — Bilbao and San Sebastian — and she has opinions, recipes, and a whole new outlook on life. The men cook. The fish is impeccable. The Iberian pigs live better than most people. And the San Sebastian area has more Michelin-starred restaurants per square mile than anywhere else on earth, including Paris and Tokyo. If you've ever thought about going to Spain and skipped past the Basque region, this episode is going to fix that. Jenny, meanwhile, spent the week in the dental office, accidentally gave a fake sheriff 35 minutes of her life, and watched her neighbor's perfect cat named Billy for a few days. Also someone tried to forge a business check and almost got away with it. It was that kind of week.But the story that will make you stop what you're doing and immediately go search YouTube is the BBC Wrong Guy segment — now celebrating its 20th anniversary — where a man named Guy showed up to a job interview at the BBC and was accidentally pulled into a live television broadcast as an expert on tech legislation. Instead of stopping the interview, he just... answered the questions. Both of them. On live TV. In front of millions of people. He didn't get the job, but he absolutely won the internet. Jenny and Susan break it all down, swap scam survival tips every woman needs to hear right now, debate Miami versus the west coast of Florida, and somehow end the episode teasing a segment called The Right Guy. Subscribe, share this with someone who needs a travel recommendation or a scam warning — ideally both — and go look up The Wrong Guy on YouTube the second this episode ends.

Two big stories this week and both of them are worth your full attention. First: a United Airlines Boeing 767 coming in for landing at Newark clipped a light pole and then a bakery truck on the highway, with 231 people on board, and somehow everyone walked away fine, including the bread delivery driver who watched a plane wing come through his window on camera. Jenny and Susan have thoughts, questions, and a healthy amount of airport anxiety to process together.Then the main event: Cherie DeVaux just became the first female trainer in 152 years of Kentucky Derby history to win the race, and her story is one of the most genuinely inspiring things to come out of sports in a long time. She grew up barrel racing in rodeos, started at the bottom of the industry as a hot walker cooling down horses after their runs, survived a serious fall that ended her riding career, competed in bodybuilding while figuring out her next move, and never stopped loving horses enough to walk away. Jenny and Susan break down what it really takes to win at Churchill Downs, the jockeys and their weight requirements, the stud farm life waiting for the winners, the six-pairs-of-goggles mud strategy, and why the rose blanket alone deserves its own episode. Subscribe, share this with the horse girl in your life, and tell us, did you watch the race?

Two women who have hosted a podcast together for a year sit down to play Two Truths and a Lie — and immediately learn things about each other they genuinely did not see coming. Susan has shot a rocket launcher at a munitions facility in Maine, eaten 1,000-year-old eggs, and may or may not have been prom queen. Jenny has a five-foot oil portrait hanging in her home, a genuine terror of bicycles stemming from a full catalog of accidents including going off a cliff, and a crush on Andrea Bocelli that she's ready to formally retire. Also: someone got married at an Elvis chapel in Las Vegas, someone was a white water rafting guide in northern Maine for two summers, and Brad Pitt comes up in a way that will make you want to press play immediately.This episode is pure fun — the kind of conversation that reminds you how much you still don't know about the people closest to you, and how a single game can crack open an hour of the best stories you've ever heard. Jenny and Susan also make the case for bringing Two Truths and a Lie back as the ultimate dinner party icebreaker, and somehow end up down a rabbit hole about Mahjong, the Las Vegas Sphere, Pearl Jam, and why you absolutely cannot donate a giant oil family portrait to Goodwill. Subscribe, share this with the friend group chat, and tell us in the comments — what's your most unbelievable truth?

It's the monthly check-in, and apparently April tried to absolutely finish both of them off. Between a $10,000 oil burner surprise, a dishwasher that gave up the ghost, fraudulent checks written against a business account, and a phone call from a very convincing fake sheriff who almost got away with a credit card number — Jenny and Susan are here to report that they survived, barely, and have genuinely useful warnings for every woman listening. Also, someone found a nail salon next door to a wine bar where you walk your glass over yourself, and that might be the most important local discovery of the year.In between the chaos, this episode goes to some unexpectedly beautiful places — a Bahamas trip with a chosen West Virginia family full of beautiful, lovable disasters, a cooking school adventure coming up in Spain, a post office exchange that will make you laugh out loud, and a surprisingly moving detour into what you'd actually do if you had two years left to live. This is the episode that feels like catching up with your two funniest, most real friends after a month apart — equal parts cautionary tale, travel envy, and proof that life is genuinely funnier than anything scripted. Subscribe, share this with someone who needs a laugh, and go check your bank's alert settings right now.

Pull up a chair, because this is the first date debrief every woman over 35 has been waiting to have out loud. Jenny and Susan are getting into all of it — what questions actually tell you something real about a person, which ones you'd never have thought to ask 20 years ago, and why dating in your 40s is a completely different sport than dating in your 20s. Along the way, Susan shares the story of a forensic dentist who thought pulling out crime scene photos was a reasonable second date move, and somehow the conversation is still funnier than it is horrifying.This episode is equal parts practical and deeply relatable — from the merits of running a background check on your date (yes, really) to why physical attraction is both magic and a total trap, to the one thing both women agree on above everything else: trust your gut, do your homework, and stop apologizing for knowing what you want. Jenny and Susan also make the case for old-fashioned matchmaking over dating apps, tease an upcoming episode featuring actual men talking about dating, and leave you feeling like you just got the most honest, funniest dating advice of your life from two women who've seen enough to know better. Subscribe, share this with your single friend, and tell us — what's your wildest first date story?

Hosting a dinner party shouldn’t feel overwhelming, it should feel intentional. In this episode of Open Wide, Susan shares her masterclass on how to curate the perfect guest list, manage conversation, seat guests strategically, handle cocktails and timing, and create an atmosphere people remember.From “no politics” rules to why you shouldn’t sit couples together, what hostess gifts actually make sense, and why guests should never do the dishes — this is a surprisingly deep dive into the psychology of entertaining. Whether you’re hosting 6 or 12, this episode will change the way you think about bringing people together.

He edits every episode, hears every blooper, and has been watching this show grow from the very first awkward mic check — and today, Nate Dodson finally gets a seat at the table. Nate is the second of eight kids from Reading, PA, a self-taught photographer and graphic designer who built a YouTube channel from zero to over a million subscribers teaching himself Photoshop at 15, sat in Bill Gates' chair at Microsoft HQ, and, as it turns out, has never once been to the dentist. He's also somehow doing all of this while raising seven kids under 10. This episode is the behind-the-curtain conversation you didn't know you needed.In this conversation, Jenny and Susan get Nate's honest take on what it actually takes to grow something from nothing, why success almost never looks like you planned it, and what he genuinely thinks about AI (hint: he wears an analog watch on purpose). He also drops one piece of advice near the end that sounds like podcast strategy but hits way harder than that, it's really about every long-term relationship in your life. If you've ever wondered what goes on behind the scenes of this show, or you just need to hear from someone who started with a 5-cent Google check and didn't quit, this one's for you. Subscribe, share it with a friend, and tell us — have YOU ever been to the dentist?

How does a woman from Kansas end up building a clean beauty and essential oil brand after living in Japan and Bali? In this episode of Open Wide, we sit down with Tracy DoRimple, founder of Coco Kah Essential Oils, to talk about entrepreneurship, essential oil chemistry, safe usage, and what it really takes to build a purpose-driven wellness business.This isn’t fluffy wellness talk. We discuss testing standards, sourcing from farmers around the world, tariffs and supply chain challenges, essential oil safety, pet aromatherapy, and why education matters in an unregulated industry. If you’ve ever been curious about essential oils, clean skincare, or building a brand that actually helps people — this episode is for you.