{"podcast":{"title":"Sidetracked","slug":"sidetracked-7004049","podcast_index_feed_id":7004049,"rss_url":"https://audioboom.com/channels/5161170.rss","website_url":"https://audioboom.com/channels/5161170","image_url":"https://audioboom.com/i/43071207.jpg","author":"Sidetracked","episode_count":72,"summary":"Get ready to be Sidetracked with Heather MacFadyen and Cynthia Yanof. Each week these two tackle the most “urgent” issues surrounding friendship, aging (un)gracefully, marriage, parenting mishaps, and faith. There’s enough laughs to make you snort and enough relatability to make you wonder if they’re reading your mind. Come for the humor, come for the camaraderie . . . heck, come for the spectacle. You tracking? Become a Super Tracker and get twice the laughs, twice the snorts, and twice the content every single month: https://sidetracked.supercast.com/","last_synced_at":"2026-07-17T14:19:56.957878+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/sidetracked-7004049"},"episode":{"title":"Not the Topiary!","slug":"not-the-topiary","published_at":"2026-02-13T06:15:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/sidetracked-7004049/not-the-topiary","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/sidetracked-7004049","url":"https://audioboom.com/posts/8860326","audio_url":"https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/audioboom.com/posts/8860326.mp3?modified=1773517278&sid=5161170&source=rss","summary":"Heather and Cynthia are back, and Heather willingly chose an 8 a.m. mammogram, post–Super Bowl, and showed up with enough energy to be invited back daily by the staff. (Why strangers get the best version of us remains a mystery worth studying.) From there, things escalate quickly—Olympics confusion, a headline that probably requires earbuds if your kids are nearby, and Cynthia deeply misunderstanding what the “Quad God” actually refers to. There’s also a serious exploration of which Winter Olympic sport is best suited for hot flashes, gravity, and middle-aged mom bodies. They also cover: 1.) teen slang that absolutely should not have been rebranded 2.) A family text thread that goes off the rails thanks to geology class and 3.) stranger who chose the wrong front yard, the wrong Amazon package, and the wrong topiary. If you like stories that start normal and end with, “Wait… WHAT just happened?”—this one’s for you. Become a Supertracker: sign up here Connect with Us: Website: Sidetracked Instagram: CynthiaHeather (@thesidetrackedshow) YouTube: sidetracked with cynthia & heather Ask Me Anything - Sidetracked Heather MacFadyen (@dontmomalone) Cynthia Wilkinson Yanof (@cynthiayanof) Links Mentioned: Amazon Storefront –all our faves in one place! Kevin James on Lactose Intolerance How’d I Miss That by Cynthia Yanof Nuuly wood floor scratch remover 8 great smarts by Kathy Koch Cozy earth bubble cuddle blanket punch needle lemon set go sports cookies SNL Coffee Talk Skit–verklempt Featured Sponsors: PrepDish –It’s basically meal planning and grocery shopping done for me. Prep Dish is offering our listeners two weeks FREE, so there’s no risk in giving it a try for yourself. Just head to PrepDish.com/sidetracked to sign up.","meta_description":"Heather and Cynthia are back, and Heather willingly chose an 8 a.m. mammogram, post–Super Bowl, and showed up with enough energy to be invited back daily…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2898,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/sidetracked-7004049/episodes/not-the-topiary/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/sidetracked-7004049/not-the-topiary.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}