House of Maher – "Milan Olympics, Biscoff Cheesecake & Calling Each Other Out"

Date: February 10, 2026
Host: Wave
Guests: Ilona Maher (Olympic rugby player), Olivia Maher (“Girl Dinner” creator), Adrianna “Dre Baby” Maher (human rights advocate)

Episode Overview

The Maher sisters reunite, this time from Milan during the Olympics, for a vibrant and hilarious episode filled with sisterly banter, Olympic behind-the-scenes, internet food trends, honest reflections about body image, competitiveness, and their classic tradition—calling each other out. If you love candid conversations, self-deprecating humor, and real talk about being women in sports and media, this is a gold-medal episode.

Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Olympic Life in Milan (03:36, 20:29, 41:16)

• The sisters share excitement about being in Milan for the Olympics, riffing on Italian food, hot athletes, and the unique Olympic Village set-up this year (41:16).
• Ilona gives insider perspectives on athlete life, such as the pressure of flag bearer nominations and team rituals.
• They joke about Olympic sports, distinguishing luge, skeleton, and bobsled, and fantasize which events they’d excel or fail in.

Notable Quotes:

• Ilona on Milan:

  "We're in Milan at the Olympics. Be jealous." (01:36)

• Adriana on Olympic athlete types:

  “There’s definitely gonna be a lot of hot athletes. So maybe not Italian, but hot athlete siblings, too.” (02:24)

Noteworthy Segment Timestamps:

• [20:29] – Olympic “tea” and flag-bearer stories
• [41:16] – Discussing the challenges of a spread-out Winter Olympics

2. Internet Food Trends & Real Talk (04:27, 05:44, 06:22)

• The sisters dissect viral food trends, especially the Biscoff “cheesecake” involving Greek yogurt and Biscoff cookies (04:27).

• Adriana and Olivia are hilariously skeptical:

  • “I know exactly what it tastes like. Yeah, it’s just gonna taste like yogurt and Biscoff.” (04:59 – Adriana)
  • “Greek yogurt does not do it for me. You’re putting cookies in that. You can’t convince me it’s a cheesecake. Let it be a dessert.” (05:55 – Olivia)

• The conversation expands to other trends, personal favorites (soy eggs, Emily Mariko’s salmon bowls), and “girl dinner” habits.

• Deeper undercurrents of body image and intuitive eating run through, with Ilona sharing her recent experience getting “body comped.”

Noteworthy Segment:

• Internet food trend group chat: [04:27–07:49]

3. Sisterly Dynamics, Honesty & “Try Hard: Olympic Edition”

(46:22, 52:09, 54:27)

• A major highlight is their tradition of calling each other out. From Olivia's "hospitality critiques" and Amazon returns, to Adriana's singing and Ilona's tendency to go silent, no one is spared.
• This segment is a comedic (and honest!) blend of loving roast and genuine reflection on what makes family feedback so necessary and healing.

Notable Quotes:

• Adriana on Olivia:

  “You mustn’t eat that off the floor kind of thing.” (13:21)

• Ilona on honesty:

  “To be dunked on and to be told things that you’re bad at is to be loved.” (68:01)

• On food critiques:

  “When you get her to try something, you make her find something wrong with it.” (46:29 – Ilona about Olivia)

Noteworthy Segment:

• Group therapy/call out session: [46:22–68:09]

4. Body Image & Athlete Pressure (13:50, 14:58, 64:10)

• Ilona shares candidly about the complexity of body image as an elite female athlete, discussing body composition metrics, expectations, and internal pressures.
• All three sisters open up about their own food and body journeys through the lens of intuitive and more conscious eating.
• The segment closes with a real talk about “skinny eras” and the intersection of self-worth and sport performance.

5. Women’s Sports: Competition, Double Standards & Rule Changes (28:41, 31:00, 34:29)

• The sisters debate women athletes’ competitiveness, the double standards surrounding ego in female vs. male athletes, and the policing of women’s behavior (from trash-talking to fighting on the ice).
• Ilona gets incensed about World Rugby’s new, slightly smaller women’s ball ("If it’s not broke, don’t fix it" [34:41]), the marketing of rugby, and the impact of COVID on their sport’s cultural health.

Notable Quotes:

• On competitiveness:

  “Elite athletes, they probably suck. Exactly... Their literal job is to be competitive. Like, why can't women be competitive?” (29:05–29:12 – Olivia)

• On the rugby ball:

  “What was so special about rugby is that we had the same ball. So it really did piss me off… If it’s not broke, don’t fix it.” (34:29–35:08 – Ilona)

6. Family Stories & Memorable Tangents (11:54, 45:08, 50:07)

• The sisters swap stories about baths (“You take a short bath!”), cheese and steak dinners, and bring in family dynamics, from mom’s reading habits to the hierarchy of kitchen critique.
• Olivia shares her penchant for “hospitality” and getting picky at restaurants, to the amusement (and exasperation) of her sisters.

Memorable Quotes & Moments

• On female athlete pressure:
  • “Even I feel it, and I think we all feel it... You just want to be a little healthier of how we eat because we love to drink.” (14:59 – Ilona)
• On drinking & social connection:
  • "We use [alcohol] more for connection, which I think we can also use a diet Coke for, right?" (18:05 – Ilona)
• On calling each other out:
  • “We actually do this quite a bit where we say what every person needs to be better at. It’s actually kind of cathartic. It's healing. It's nice to be... kind of told what’s up.” (67:07–67:18 – Ilona)
• On body acceptance:
  • “We were always the bigger girl through high school, through college... you and I were always kind of... whereas Olivia can lose weight at times. Whereas for John and I, that's not something it’s easier for us to do.” (64:16 – Ilona)

Key Moments with Timestamps

• Milan food fantasies & Italian men: [01:41–02:47]
• Olympic flag bearer aspirations: [20:32–21:13]
• Call-out therapy (sisterly roast session): [46:22–68:09]
• Biscoff "cheesecake" trend debate: [04:27–06:08]
• Olympic sports “try hard” game: [42:15–46:12]
• Women's rugby & rule changes: [34:29–36:33]
• Trash talk, fighting, and double standards in women’s sports: [29:01–35:08]

Episode Tone & Takeaways

Tone: Irreverent, loving, authentic, humorous, insightful, unfiltered.

Takeaways:

• Sisterly love means honest feedback, accountability, and a safe space to be both celebrated and challenged.
• The realities for women in sports—body image, double standards, inadequate resources—are complex and deserving of open conversation.
• Internet food trends may rarely deliver, but they always deliver content.
• Growth, whether as an athlete, sibling, cook, or friend, comes from allowing yourself to be called out—with love.

“To be dunked on and to be told things that you’re bad at is to be loved.”
(68:01 – Ilona)

For listeners (and family) looking for warmth, laughter, and an occasional roast, there’s truly no place like the House of Maher.

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