On one afternoon in a suburb of Sacramento in 1997, a fifth-grader was at Rite Aid, browsing through the makeup aisles to see what was new from her favorite cosmetics companies – Wet N Wild, Bonne Bell, Cover Girl, Revlon. In that same shopping center, a fourth-grader was at Blockbuster, picking out some movies and Nintendo games and then heading to the grocery store in the same center for a massive haul of candy and snacks. They didn’t go to the same school, and they didn’t meet for eight more years after she moved towns, but they got married 23 years later and then started this podcast.
Born in the late 80s, Sarah and Eric grew up in the Sacramento suburbs in the 90s and early 00s. In the middle of the 2020 coronavirus lockdown, when it was clear that there would be more time inside for the foreseeable future, they started Talk To The Hand Podcast as a way to pass their time (creatively) in their 600 square LA apartment and keep their brains active after trying all the Zoom classes and doing all the Zoom happy hours.
Sarah is a professional writer and trained historian with a bachelor’s degree in Political Science from UC Davis and a Master’s degree in History (Public History) from CSU Sacramento. She is half Clueless, half The Craft, full boy-band crazed, butterfly clipped, and body glittered. She works as a copywriter in Beverly Hills with a super rad group of exceptionally smart women. She plays piano, paints, reads tarot, gazes at the stars, worships the moon, drinks Diet Coke and coffee, and reads about 1/8th of the books on her shelf at all times.
Eric, on the other hand, is a little Hook, a little Lebowski, and a healthy dash of Pulp Fiction. Growing up on grunge, metal, and pop-punk – while being one of the last of a generation to feel all right, all right, all right parking a pile of bikes outside his best friend’s house – he now finds himself as an essential worker in West Hollywood. He enjoys the finest of rums and collecting the grooviest of vinyls.
Sarah and Eric live in LA with their sweet but maniacal three-legged cat Plisken and their 120-pound polar bear/Great Pyrenees Dudley. They will forever be 90s kids.