SUMMARY
Sea Changes Podcast starts with a lighthearted exchange on pop culture. 

SHOW NOTES
Special mentions go out to "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" by Douglas Adams, "Orphan Black", "My Mad Fat Diary", and a rogue vacuum cleaner.

To contact either of us, Monique can be found on Twitter: http://twitter.com/onemonic and on her personal website: http://moniquealmario.com. Maria can also be found on Twitter: http://twitter.com/mariacelina and on her personal website: http://mariacelina.net.

Episode 1: Do Aliens Know About Capitalism?

SUMMARY
If podcasts have walls, Monique and Maria break a particularly reverb-filled fourth one with a casual chat about a period most Generation X, Millennials, and cultural subsets in between remember all too well. Brace yourselves for around half an hour of reminiscing relics of bygone times, such as the video rewinder, mixtapes, the Discman, and curtain-haired heartthrobs.

SHOW NOTES
Adolescence-powered shout-outs go to Billy Zane, Devon Sawa, Buffy Summers, Gunther (of "Friends"), and Rider Strong.

To contact either of us, Monique can be found on Twitter: http://twitter.com/onemonic and on her personal website: http://moniquealmario.com. Maria can also be found on Twitter: http://twitter.com/mariacelina and on her personal website: http://mariacelina.net.

Episode 2: Growing Up in the 90's

SUMMARY
Monique has returned from her two-week European get-away, and the episode is dedicated to the sights one can see in Italy, Hungary, Poland, and France...with some travel tips sprinkled in between. Listen to stories ranging from getting robbed in Rome, enjoying an incredibly delicious Hungarian burger (Natch!), the Wawel Dragon, and basking in the night-time beauty of the Eiffel Tower. Travel bucket lists are shared, as well.Travel bucket lists are shared, as well.

Also, Maria sasses a certain Roman emperor.

SHOW NOTES
After channeling "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" by Douglas Adams again, hat-tips go to Michelangelo (di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni), Raphael (Sanzio da Urbino), and other greats in the art world for being gems to humanity.

Monique's travel photos can be found on Instagram: http://instagram.com/isamonic

To contact either of us, Monique can be found on Twitter: http://twitter.com/onemonic and on her personal website: http://moniquealmario.com. Maria can also be found on Twitter: http://twitter.com/mariacelina and on her personal website: http://mariacelina.net.

Episode 3: How to Live to 101

SUMMARY
After a significant hiatus, Sea Changes Podcast is happy to report that the two hosts were not lost at sea. Monique is still in the process of recovering from a nasty sore throat, whereas Maria has been busy packing for graduate school. It's all London, baby!

An eventful pause motivates the current topic of social media sabbaticals, and Monique talks about her week without her phone, as well as the lessons learned in going analog, for a change.

(Warning: Contains puns.)

SHOW NOTES
There are several people of note who do social media sabbaticals, some of whom conduct this on a regular basis. 

Neil Gaiman took six months off to concentrate on his writing back in 2014: http://theguardian.com/books/2013/jun/14/neil-gaiman-social-media-sabbatical

(Gaiman also seems to post intermittently to this today, so any connection made to Amanda Palmer's pregnancy is purely casual speculation, and may or may not be true.)

Freelancer evangelist Paul Jarvis disconnects on December to fully embrace the end-of-year busyness and the joy of the holidays: http://pjrvs.com/a/sabbatical

Jewish educator Lee Weissman observes Shabbat, and unplugs from his devices once a week: http://twitter.com/jihadijew

Both Monique and Maria have taken sabbaticals in the past, but also acknowledge that there are certain social networks that will take more chutzpah to step away from. 

Aside from Twitter, Monique's favourite social media profile is Tumblr: http://owlcaller.tumblr.com

Maria's secondary is Instagram: http://instagram.com/mariacelina.jpg

To contact either of us, Monique can be found on Twitter: http://twitter.com/onemonic and on her personal website: http://moniquealmario.com. Maria can also be found on Twitter: http://twitter.com/mariacelina and on her personal website: http://mariacelina.net.

Episode 4: #OffTheGrid

A podcast about current events...get it? May contain bad puns.