Episodes
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Hat Picks with Anna & Jillian: Episode 62, "I DID FANTASTIC (feat. special guests)" 04-04-2026
We are back just in time for the NWSL season to be a month in and we give you just a few highlights. We welcome some special guests to share their favorite women's soccer moments! This is a real podcast we promise.
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Hat Picks with Anna & Jillian: Episode 61, "Men! Gross!" 02-01-2026
So this is the new year. And I don't feel any different. Same Ben Gibbard, same. Listen up for the latest NWSL trades, Gay News™, and More!
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Hat Picks with Anna & Jillian: Episode 60, "*tape measure noise*" 12-08-2025
It's the end of 2025 as we know it! And we feel...okay we guess. Mostly tired, but NOT TOO TIRED FOR SOCCER! Hear all about the NWSL championship and other news in the women's soccer world.
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Hat Picks with Anna & Jillian, "IDEALLY, Not a Man" 11-21-2025
GUESS WHO'S BACK, BACK AGAIN in a timely manner because we put the podcasting on the calendar???? It's us. And we are here with the latest NWSL goodness! The final is TOMORROW!!!!
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Hat Picks with Anna & Jillian: Episode 58, "Lightning McKeown" 10-20-2025
What else do you want the audience to know? We want them to know that stuff happened in women's soccer and that they should listen to our hilarious banter for 45 minutes or else. kthxbye XD
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Hat Picks with Anna & Jillian: Episode 57, "And Then We All Booed Her Together. THAT'S COMMUNITY." 09-22-2025
We're back with some dope updates! The most dope update of all? WE WENT TO KANSAS CITY AND SAW THEM WIN THE SHIELD. Listen or else Anna will sleuth you.
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Hat Picks with Anna & Jillian: Episode 56, "The History Pod" 08-11-2025
Did you come here wanting World War II history and politics? Then you've come to the right women's soccer podcast! We give you sick highlights from when Germany invaded many European countries in WWII, the Euros, and current NWSL action!
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Hat Picks Episode 55, "A MUSICAL HATES TO SEE US COMING" 06-26-2025
We are back after our May hiatus because we couldn't be bothered because we were busy. We have international bits, domestic bobs, and some local shit for you, covering the NWSL, the USWNT, WSL, and some stuff with France lol. And some other stuff. Yay soccer!!
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Hat Picks with Anna & Jillian: Episode 54, "Miscellaneous Neat Shit" 04-22-2025
Want to know about neat soccer stuff? OF COURSE YOU FUCKING DO WHY ELSE WOULD YOU BE HERE? Join us for the April edition of what happened in the last month of women's soccer across the globe-ish. You won't be sorry. Probably. No guarantees.
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Hat Picks with Anna & Jillian: Episode 53, "We Believes a Little Less" 03-23-2025
BACK AGAIN with highlights from the depressing end to the She Believes Cup, the exciting start to the NWSL season, and our thoughts on the new For the Win: NWSL docuseries! HOW FUN IS THIS
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Hat Picks with Anna & Jillian: Episode 52, "WE CAN NEVER GO BACK" 02-23-2025
Heyyyyyyyyy buddddiiiieeees we are back with trade news, NWSL updates, and some very current (actually lol) SheBelieves Cup content! We Believes you'll like it!
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Hat Picks with Anna & Jillian: Episode 51, "MARK ZUCKERBERG IS TRYING TO RUIN OUR PODCAST" 1-25-2025
State of the world got you down? Us too. Cheer yourself up by lying to yourself OR listening to us talk about women's soccer! News from the NWSL off season and other shit will soothe your ear holes.
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Hat Picks with Anna & Jillian: Episode 50, "Canonically Phlegmy: An Historic Match Recap" 12-31-2024
Surprise!! We are back with another historic match recap for our 50th episode! It's a little New Year's Eve treat for you losers. Listen to us rehash the 2011 Women's World Cup Quarter Final match between the USWNT and Brazil! Wow. Justin Bieber would be proud.
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Hat Picks with Anna & Jillian: Episode 49, "Tips, Dips, and the Championship" 12-29-2024
HITTING YOU WITH SOME TIMELY CONTENT lolololololololol listen up to our last pod of the year to hear about all the trades (all the ones we wanted to talk about) plus our experience at the NWSL Championship!
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Hat Picks with Anna & Jillian: Episode 48 "Shout Out to None Other Than US: If Temwa Chawinga Has No Fans, We Are Dead" 10-24-24
HELLO FAITHFUL FANDOM we are back with our newest picks as we head into the end of the NWSL Season! Listen up for the latest and greatest (actually not the latest since we haven't recorded in 2 months) news from the women's soccer world as we make each other AND HOPEFULLY YOU laugh.
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Hat Picks with Anna & Jillian: Episode 47, "JUST THE BURPS: A Tiddy Bitty Mini Pod" 08-29-2024
We are back in a very timely fashion with another episode of Just the Tips AKA Just the Burps. Hear all the latest updates from the NWSL and the WNBA because it's Anna, and learn a little about the new NWSL Collective Bargaining Agreement!
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Hat Picks with Anna & Jillian: Episode 46, "FOR MARTA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" 8-11-2024
We are back after less time because the Olympics were DOPE and we wanted to tell you all about it! Listen to our picks from every stage of play during the Olympic Tournament. It's fun! We think.
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Hat Picks with Anna & Jillian: Episode 45, "The 'Lympics Are Coming!" 07-24-2024
We say this every time but WE ARE BACK BABY with some riveting content about the upcoming Olympics. We try to answer your questions about how shit will work so check it out! Or don't. It's your life.
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Hat Picks with Anna & Jillian: Episode 44,"Nary A Sapphic" 3-24-2024
We don't even remember what we talked about but it's about soccer and it's probably great. Thanks for your patience! XOXO
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Hat Picks with Anna & Jillian: Episode 43, "Terminally Stupid: A Just the Drafty Tips Episode" 1-13-2024
BACK IN THE YEAR 2024 with some draft news and tips and drops! Sorry (not sorry) we suck. You're welcome. But actually sorry for the weird audio clipping. Thanks Bethany!
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Hat Picks with Anna & Jillian: Episode 42, "DRAMA ALERT" 11-28-2023
Did you miss us? xoxo gossip girls We're back baybeeeeeeeeeeeee with ALL THE TEA. Listen up for soccer drama and also NWSL championship recap stuff! You love to hate us!
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Hat Picks with Anna & Jillian: Episode 41, "The World Cup Happened and We Did Not Go UNCUT (feat. Em Woods)" 8-22-23
We are SPITTIN' thoughts, opinions, feelings with Em Woods on this all-encompassing WORLD CUP POD. Did the World Cup happen weeks ago? Yes. Do we care? NOPE. You missed us and you'll laugh. Probably.
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Hat Picks with Anna & Jillian: Episode 40, "Prince Willie Went to a Futbol Match UNCUT" 5-29-23
This episode of Hat Picks takes you INTERNATIONAL! We talk about cool things happening with soccer overseas, the future of the sport, some cool shit, some sad shit, and some really rad shit like NWSL records being SMASHED. Tune in!
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Hat Picks with Anna & Jillian: Episode 39, "Just the Tips (again) UNCUTish, feat. Dr. Anthony" 4-23-23
Here you go nerds! Just the tips from March and April, and we interview Jillian's spouse Anthony! HILARITY ENSUES. As always, we are a delight.
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Hat Picks with Anna & Jillian: Episode 38 (hopefully) "WE BELIEVES 3.0 UNCUT" March 4, 2023
This episode is uncut because it was a total shit show to create and you're getting a same day pod about the She Believes Cup and IT IS OUTSTANDING and the quality content you've come to know and love.
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Hat Picks with Anna & Jillian: Episode 37, "Drafts, Bebe Ferns, and Name Downgrades" 1-28-2023
HAPPY ALMOST MARCH as we give you a glorious pod from late January. We talk about drafts, trades, and the USWNT in New Zealand! Please note that no hamstrings were detached in the making of this episode.
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Hat Picks with Anna & Jillian: Episode 36, "Prolific and ANGY: A Dive Into USWNT History" 12-13-22
It's 2023 and we are serving you -- YOU GUESSED IT -- a pod we recorded last year. We dive into the 2012 Olympic Semi-Final between the United States and Canada and take you on a historical journey you shant soon forget. A merry and prolific Hatpicksmas to all who celebrate!
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Hat Picks with Anna & Jillian: Episode 35, "Doing it in STyLe" 10-27-22
What's the record for longest time between a podcast being recorded and then edited/uploaded? DON'T ASK SILLY QUESTIONS, LISTENER. Because you should just be excited that this DOPE episode is up! Anna and Jillian are FINALLY in the same place at the same time, sharing a microphone and stories…
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Hat Picks with Anna & Jillian: Episode 34, "Anna & Jillian Make an Internet Friend (feat. Em Woods)" 8-28-2022
BUCKLE UP NERDS because this is a long one--but for good reason! We welcome TikTok icon Em Woods to the pod to talk all things women's soccer. The three of us have picks for you and go off on very meaningful tangents! Hear about Megan Rapinoe's magic, the Houston Dash's sparkle, Em's prediction…
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Hat Picks with Anna & Jillian: Episode 33, "Just the Tips III: Nut Spectrum" 8-7-22
Did you miss us? We are serving up some dope WoSo action for you in our third iteration of Just the Tips! We cover the Euros, Concacaf qualifying, CP23's movie habits, PINKIES, and more! And also sad stuff but listen to check it all out!
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Hat Picks with Anna & Jillian: Episode 32, "...and I quote, 'AFOREMENTIONED'" 6-19-2022
Hello. Is it us you're looking for? WELL WE ARE BACK with some INCREDIBALL content for you! We've got real picks, PEWPEWs covering up coughs, tiny bebes, shit roster choices, and SO MUCH MORE. We know you love our nonsense and we love giving it to you!
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Hat Picks with Anna & Jillian: Episode 31, "#HOTPICKZ: UNCUT"
For the first time, you get to experience the raw genius that is Hat Picks, UNCUT. No editing (well, barely any editing). Did it still take Jillian 3 weeks to get this uploaded? Yes it did. Are we going to blame the stitches she got in her finger only a week ago? Yes we are. We are bringing you...
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Hat Picks with Anna & Jillian: Episode 30, "We Believes We Are 30 and Tired: Just the Tips 2.0" 3-20-22
Y'all we are CRUSHING IT. Listen in for more tips and updates, plus a surprise guest! We're serving you good good, sweet sweet content from the NWSL, UWSNT, and more. You better appreciate this episode because WE TRAGICALLY ALMOST LOST IT. But it's here, for you, dear listeners. Pew pew.
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Hat Picks with Anna & Jillian: Episode 29, "Queens of Tangents" 2-20-22
Dear listeners! It's an episode released the week it was recorded...it's a President's Day Miracle! This pod we talk about highlights from the WSL, A-League, and NWSL. We also talk about a lot of other dumb shit, as per usual, and you know you love it.
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Hat Picks with Anna & Jillian: Episode 28, "JUST THE TIPS" 1-30-22
We present to you our episode of only hat tips! This information is old but it's still VERY INTERESTING OKAY? Listen to Anna and Jillian wax poetic about all the shit you care about and more...just faster! JUST THE TIPS!
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Hat Picks with Anna & Jillian: Episode 27, "A Tale of Two Jaeli(e)n(e)s" 1-9-22
It was the best of Jaelins, it was the worst of Jaelenes… WELCOME TO THE FIRST POD OF 2022! We are serving you the usual bullshit, all with a side of nihilism! There's plenty of updates about the soccer world, as well as plenty of us bitching about COVID-19. In the words of the Mountain Goats, we...
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Hat Picks with Anna & Jillian: Episode 26, "The Venn Diagram of Anna" 12-5-21
Look this episode is way too long and was recorded forever ago and we are slap happier than usual so just...hang in there for some sick content on the NWSL Championship, USWNT, and some other things.
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Hat Picks with Anna & Jillian, Episode 25: "Our Pod (Taylor's Version)" 11-14-21
In a sick twist of events, Jillian jokes about not editing this pod for a week and then edited in 2 days! Wow. Hear us ramble on about the NWSL, WSL, A-League (formerly the W-League, (said in an Australian accent)), and Taylor Swift. Obviously. And Anna hates kids but loves Arsenal. Things are...
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Hat Picks with Anna & Jillian: Episode 24, "Fishy Brits and Math" 10-24-21
FISHLOCK. SALMON. This week we are all about those Brits with fish last names. And by that I mean we talk about 2 of them (are there more? Email us at [email protected]). We also talk about some dope upcoming postseason shit that is now clearly out of date, and update you on the ongoing NWSL...
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Hat Picks with Anna & Jillian: Episode 23, "How do you fix something that isn't broken?" 10-3-21
In this special edition of Hat Picks, we discuss the bravery of former NWSL players Kaiya McCullough, Sinead Farrelly, Mana Shim, and others who have spoken out about their abuse at the hands of NWSL leadership throughout the years. Because reports of this abuse finally broke into mainstream…
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Hat Picks with Anna & Jillian: Episode 22, "The Shitty, Yet IncrediBALL Pod" 9-6-21
We're back with more soccer stuff! Tobin Heath is back in England, Christen Press is an ANGEL, Ashlyn Harris continues to be our Lord and Savior, and a Pretty Little Liars spin-off of Hat Picks might be in our future! TUNE IN to hear Jillian eat goldfish and Anna drink iced coffee and talk about...
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Hat Picks with Anna & Jillian: Episode 21, "Hat Tricks Hat Picks Pod: We’ve All Been Put Through the Olympic Ringer: THE MUSICAL" 8-11-21
WE TALK ABOUT THE OLYMPICS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Hat Picks with Anna & Jillian: Episode 20, "Ashlyn Harris: Our Lord and Savior" 7-11-21
DID YOU KNOW. THAT ASHLYN HARRIS. SAVED ANOTHER PENALTY? Ebony Salmon shoved Ali Krieger, Tobin Heath is back, and Jillian went to an NWSL game. Much soccer. Hear us talk about all that and more on this week's pod--OUR 20TH EPISODE BAYBEEEEEES!
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Hat Picks with Anna & Jillian: Episode 19, "Notorious Lesbians: A Pride Pod" 6-27-21
HAPPY PRIDE BITCHES! Your favorite queer and ally are here this week to talk to you about all things LGBTQ+ in soccer featuring women! Help us celebrate by listening and laughing at all our hilarious jokes. We talk about olympic rosters, queer royalty scoring, and more!
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Hat Picks with Anna & Jillian: Episode 18, "In the Opinion of the Pod" 6-13-21
All you need to know is that we had to restart this recording like three times and still made it through so you're welcome for being queens. But also we talk about some great NWSL and USWNT action as we look toward the Olympics!
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Hat Picks with Anna & Jillian: Episode 17, "We Love a Triangle" 5-31-21
Gives! Goes! Gives and Goes! We love all the triangles happening right meow. We literally waited until the last minute to plan this pod because there was TOO MUCH GOOD SOCCER HAPPENING and we love it. Hear ALL ABOUT IT (it being NWSL regular season highlights and also Champion's League) on this...
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Hat Picks with Anna & Jillian: Episode 16, "YIKES Chelsea" 5-16-21
Gear up your ears for some dope picks! From the drama of the Challenge Cup Final to the return of Ebony Salmon, we cover it this pod. We also rave about Chelsea before they shit the bed at the Champion's League Final, so forgive us for having the same predictions as literally everyone else.…
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Hat Picks with Anna & Jillian: Episode 15, "we r tired" 5-2-2021
Did we plan this podcast mere hours before recording? You bet. Did it turn out awesome even though we were dead tired? YOU ALSO BET. Hear some great shit from the NWSL and probably some other stuff too but we don't remember
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Hat Picks with Anna & Jillian: Episode 14, "OUT OF THIS WORLD" 4-18-2021
WE'RE BACK BITCHES! After a short break, we're back in your atmosphere with an episode full of space puns and NWSL Challenge Cup goodness. We also talk about some major racist/bullshit "Hat Drops," and travel down unda for just one of our picks. Tune in for our usual comedy genius!
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Hat Picks with Anna & Jillian: Episode 13, "BRACE YOURSELVES: WE ARE TEENAGERS" 3-18-2021
We are teenagers! Sorry for the long-ass episode but this one is full of braces and bangers and it's our 13th episode! Enjoy some major soccer drama in the W-League, WSL, and UEFA Champion's League. Prepare your ears for magic!