Ilona Maher

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738 appearances 9 recordings 8 series first heard Jul 2024 last heard 4 Jul

Ilona Maher’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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The Ezra Klein Show · I Keep Telling People We’re Living in This Dystopian Novel · 19 Jun 2026 podcast

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House of Maher · Our Teen Years, Ilona’s Rugby Journey & Sex Ed Lessons From Mom · 25 Mar 2025 podcast

Let's dive on in, shall we? Oh, we're diving in. Breaststroke it. Like a doggy paddle. Oh, yeah, probably. We've never been the best swimmers. Welcome to House Amar, a wave original presented by Samsung. I'm your host, Alona Amar, Olympic medalist rugby player, and no matter how old and mature I get, I will continue to add about two spoonfuls of sugar to my tea and coffee.

And I'm your host, Olivia Amar, a content creator, creator of Girl Dinner, and severely lacking vitamin D. And I'm your host, Adriana Amar, human rights advocate, and I still haven't stopped talking about my two study abroad experiences. Two of them, wow. There's so much you don't know about us. Let's do a little background. So a lot of people think that I am the eldest sister.

I don't know if it's maturity, how beautiful I am or whatever it is, the vibe I give off, but I am not. I am a classic middle child. It's true. The oldest over here, we got Olivia coming in at a roaring 30 years old. See, that was disgusting.

I put in my rider that that wasn't supposed to be discussed. I love it. Yeah, I am the oldest. Classic. I think I'm a classic oldest. Yeah, absolutely. You hit every box. Every box. She is our little mommy when our mommy's not there. She makes us food. She tucks us in. She tucks us in. She cleans up after us. You see the kind of money Alona's bringing in, and it's just, yes, I do the cooking.

Yes, I do the cleaning. Yes, right, right, right, right, right, right, right. And then we have the baby over here. The little baby.

I would also say classic baby. Classic baby. I mean, you two, though, but being younger than me, you each got to do the things sooner than I got to do in my life. Especially you. When I got to do it, then you got to do it. But I couldn't do it two years ago. And her especially, too. Well, I was also really good at convincing our parents. I knew how to argue.

You just had to know what points to make. We couldn't get our ears pierced until we were 13. but mom and dad, it's basketball season. And so we have to get it before basketball season or else I'm gonna have to take it out.

Business, mindset, first and foremost. Olivia and I were always very close in age. I say like, when you got to watch the PG-13 movies, I got to watch the PG-13 movies. But you were, you're almost like two and a half years younger than me, but like three years younger than me in grade. So you kind of felt left out.

Yeah, it was tough because you guys were only one year apart in high school together, going through all the same sports teams. And I was still in middle school. And at that age, that just feels...

so huge that like distance between us like and you know i was still like beginning puberty and you guys were kind of at the tail end of course we're not going to connect we had our periods yeah no we're getting blood women yeah we're women i was jealous of everyone else in the hall right right Wait to start bleeding. Every time I go, I was like, please, please, please, let there be blood.

Today's the day, yo. But we have gotten over that because that was tough for you growing up, being kind of, not like an outcast, but it definitely was. No, what's the word for it? In a way, we treated you like an outcast at times. Yeah. Because it's four... Not that dramatic. We weren't that mean. Four-ish years between you and I. Whoa, five-ish. Five-ish? You're four and a half.

You'll learn living's not the best with math. All right. All right. It got so much better with age. And I think, especially once I graduated high school, I personally noticed a huge difference in our relationships. Yeah. It just, like... We were on the same level. You could see me as an adult. Yeah, absolutely. I see you as a best friend. Did you guys just see?

I love being mean to my best friends. You two are very similar, too. As you've gotten older, you've almost gotten more similar.

same humor same references same references sometimes they'll just be having a conversation and i'm up to date on what's happening in the world too but they they'll be riffing off each other and just say it ping-ponging we do we are close in that way but it is funny because we as close as we are and as much on the references as you are up you are also an old lady in many ways like

It's crazy that you have the most prolific social media presence when you are also the least technologically sound. Would you say? Yeah. I'd agree. Sometimes you do something online. I'm like, I don't know how to do that. Same. It surprises us every time. And then other ways, she's like, I don't really know what a cloud is. What's going on with that? What's that up there?

Yeah. But that has been really cool that we have grown so close over the years. Yeah. But I think that did start younger when we were growing up. One thing that our family always put in for us was every single night, we had to sit down at the table and have family dinner. It didn't matter if our mom worked 12 hours, if our dad came home from a shift, he was cooking chicken.

To the point where I was like, can you just order a box of pizza?

In front of the TV, like a normal family dinner.

Please. But I think now, being an adult, looking back on that, how much of a foundation that built for us as a family and as people to have that amount of face-to-face time just with one another, with our parents, to tell them about our days and have people that cared and knew what happened the day before and what was coming, I think it's just, it formed us into the people that we are.

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