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Lucy and Ethel. Laverne and Shirley. Dorothy, Sophia, Blanche, and Rose. Chicken-Fried Women is a celebration of them: the women who raised us, taught us to cook and clap back. The ones who prayed for us, raged at us and humbled us a notch or two when we needed it. These are the women who have encouraged us, teased us, chastised us, and mortified us. And as they fill up the seats around our table, we realize we wouldn’t have it any other way.

Chicken Fried Women: Friendship, Kinship and the Stories that Made Us this Way. The South is full of two things: stories and storytellers. The Chicken Fried Women podcast brings you both. These are the stories told around kitchen tables, church pews and front porch swings. They are the tales we laughed at growing up and that have been repeated down through time. Welcome to the friendships, the kinships and the stories that made us this way.

My mom’s King Ranch Chicken casserole. My small hometown in East Texas. My eleventh grade choir teacher. Know what all of these things have in common? None of them are famous. None have been written about or sung about or reported on. You might call them “ordinary.” Welcome to Ordinary People. Ordinary Things. Where we talk about all the things that we see and touch and fear and feel and eat and hope for - every day. Because that’s what life is, you know? It’s one miracle after another - we just get so used to seeing them...we call them ordinary. “THE WORLD IS A SERIES OF MIRACLES....

It’s Friday night and you fall on to the couch anxious to watch something new, but like the menu at The Cheesecake Factory…the possibilities are endless. Which is why you listen to Stream(H)er. Host Melissa Radke is the best friend you had in college who has seen it all - and she has opinions about it. She either loves it or hates it, and wants to give you her opinion on every bit of it. From Netflix to Hulu, Disney+ to AppleTV, HBOMax to Peacock and Prime, Stream(H)er is where you go to find out if Servant is really that good (it is) and if 6 Underground really sucks (it does). After all,...