The Laundry Emergency

In her Peabody-nominated CBC podcast Mic Drop!, Shari Okeke gives teenagers the floor. But over the past year, an epic teenage story was unfolding in her own home. And it all started with laundry. When Shari’s teenage daughters suddenly found themselves in confinement together at the beginning of the pandemic, they couldn’t stand it. Both siblings were struggling with school stress and the fighting between them became constant. The laundry room, accessed through one of her daughter’s bedrooms, became ground zero. Shari feared her daughters were on a collision course for irreparable relationship damage. Then came a diagnosis that changed everything — and cast those laundry emergencies in a new light. PLUS, when Jennifer Warren was a tween-ager in the late 80s, she got a haircut so horrendous, it was nicknamed "The Wedge". Jen interviews her mom and sister about the lasting lore of this not-so-stylish 'do.