MIDDLE AGEish
Authentically and unapologetically keeping it real, discussing all things Middle Age (ish), when metabolism slows and confidence grows. Middle Age(ish): A time of transition from dreaming of who we will grow up to be and looking at the legacy we will leave behind. Listen to this podcast and join the hosts of Middle Age(ish) as they sit around with a glass of wine to discuss all things related to middle age with some amazing guests!
MIDDLE AGEish
Dress Shopping Dilemmas and Celebrity Scoops: Sofa Talk with Trisha, Ashley, Lisa, and Dr. Pam
Ever been caught in the nightmare of dress shopping, especially as a middle-aged woman? Join us, Trisha, Ashley, Lisa, and Dr. Pam, as we crack up over the agonizing choice between dresses meant for a fairy princess and the mother-of-the-groom.
Surfing the wave of celeb gossip, we dissect the skyrocketing fame of Matt Reif and the elusive quest for his show tickets. Let's not forget Taylor Swift's enduring charm and her strategic public image management. We talk about our excitement for next week's guest, Christine Handy, a breast cancer survivor, International speaker, accomplished model, Best selling author, and a Nationally recognized Humanitarian! We can't wait to have you join us for our sofa talk!
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Welcome to the Middle-Age-ish podcast, authentically and unapologetically, keeping it real, discussing all things middle-age-ish, a time when metabolism slows and confidence grows. Join fashion and fitness entrepreneur Ashley Badosky, former Celtic woman and founder of the Lisa Kelly Voice Academy, lisa Kelly, licensed psychologist and mental health expert, dr Pam Wright, and highly sought after cosmetic injector and board certified nurse practitioner, trisha Kennedy-Roman. Join your hosts on the journey of Middle-Age-ish.
Speaker 2:Hello everyone and welcome back to another episode of Middle-Age-ish podcast. My name is Trisha Kennedy-Roman and I'm joined here today with my co-host, ashley Badosky, lisa Kelly and Dr Pam Wright, and you are joining us now for our sofa talk. I love this.
Speaker 3:I know Same.
Speaker 4:So much fun, do you?
Speaker 3:have what I did today.
Speaker 4:What did you do besides getting tan, because you look stunning?
Speaker 3:I'm trying to tone this Irish skin before I go home.
Speaker 4:Um, you have done a job well done, thank you. Thank you very much.
Speaker 3:I have very few stop marks.
Speaker 5:Oh, we won't ask you about that. No, just keep moving us. I've threatened us, so is this just about tan, or is this not real?
Speaker 3:No, no, this is actual sun. Wow, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 5:That's bad.
Speaker 2:I don't know, I mean I really.
Speaker 3:I know, I know, trisha, I know, but like it's an error, a day for two weeks, I'm going to she's getting your skin out.
Speaker 5:She's good. Come over to us. You're like bronze.
Speaker 3:I've spent like 32 years in Ireland with no sun. I have a lot of catching up today.
Speaker 4:You're like, my body is like in the negative, like I'm not even to the positive side of going bad.
Speaker 5:It's just like you got to go back to Ireland. What people will be like? Who is this brown beautiful? Yeah, better, or what they may like, I know my no, my sisters are very time anyway.
Speaker 3:Yeah, my family are quite town. I'm the fairest of the family, really.
Speaker 5:Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3:My sisters. My two sisters are super Salo skinned and my youngest sister is really, really dark. She looks like Salma Hayek. She's like people speak Spanish to her over here. Okay, that's hilarious. Yeah, she's very dark. My mom and dad are very dark, so, and yeah, no, no.
Speaker 4:You're like hi. What did the mailman look like?
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 4:I know, I know, was he blonde and blue, but you're not like red at all or brown.
Speaker 5:No, I don't burn in Georgia.
Speaker 3:I never burn in Georgia, which is insane, cause I could go home to Ireland and if the sun comes out, like for 20 minutes of the day, I would burn. Yeah, I would fry there. So I think it just depends where you are. But what I did today was I gotta go. What did you do? I had to buy a formal dress.
Speaker 4:I know, I know.
Speaker 3:And.
Speaker 2:I hate.
Speaker 3:I hate dress shopping Hated with a passion.
Speaker 4:Why I would do it. You would do it. Okay, if I would not, if I wouldn't be such a creeper, I would just go hang out at what is it, j Andrews, and try on all the dresses.
Speaker 3:I know. Well, I ended up in a place that they wanted me to go to today, so I went and I went and it was. It was in Lilburn, in Cinderella gowns Cause yeah, it's more costuming kind of.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah.
Speaker 3:That's. That's where you were. You're a kind of torn between oh my gosh, I'm going to look like a fairy princess, or I'm going to look my age. That's fabulous. No, it wasn't fabulous. It was very depressing because it's like, okay, well, I'm not a fairy princess and I look ridiculous at this, but I did find the perfect game, so it was all good, but it ended up being black.
Speaker 2:So is this the secret, what you're doing?
Speaker 3:And when is this going to go out? This is going to go out soon. Yes, no, I can't talk about it. There is a big thing coming ahead, everyone stay tuned, you're going to absolutely lose it.
Speaker 4:Yes, you should have one of these gowns.
Speaker 3:Remember, and I don't know what show it was, Maybe America's Got Talent or one of those shows where they, like, would turn around and then it changes into a different color being in their role, but it is really hard at this age, like it is really hard to figure out where you face and because you're torn between mother of the groom, dresses which I'm like I'm not old enough to wear that, no, and it's very hard. And then like Kinsey, kinsey era, is that the word Kinsey era, kinsey era?
Speaker 2:Oh, that's 15th you know the 15th, the.
Speaker 3:Spanish fifth yes, the whole 50th those dresses.
Speaker 5:So I'm like oh, I was about to say the rapper on the pole, kind of.
Speaker 4:Well, let's just go from one side to the other. No, I'm telling you, I would have the best time. I mean again. I swear if I wouldn't appear to be a creeper and like have the police called on me? I would go and dress up in those dresses and just run around the salon.
Speaker 3:Oh my gosh. Wedding dress shopping was a nightmare for me.
Speaker 5:I hated every second you go on a cruise and they're like oh, I love it, you know, oh, my gosh.
Speaker 3:I want another reason not to go to cruise.
Speaker 5:Exactly, I'm like I want to dress up.
Speaker 3:Oh my gosh, you never do. You don't hate dress up anymore. No, you know Well.
Speaker 4:And that's probably because you did it for so long, Probably so like for us peasants. It is such an event. Yeah, we're like hello. Yeah, I haven't even like.
Speaker 3:I hated wedding dress shopping. I just I find it so overwhelming and like oh no, not me, no, what suits you, and one. You think you like something and then you realize that you don't.
Speaker 2:So did you guys have prom in Ireland?
Speaker 3:Yes, it's called Debs. It's your Debbie Tantable. Yeah, yeah, so we call it a Debs. So and you do it like. So you leave school the same time we leave school here, so you leave school in June, but our Debs is in September, so it's after. That's interesting. Yeah, so everyone has gone to college and or gone to work or whatever they're doing, and then they come back to see all their friends.
Speaker 4:But so does everybody come back, or yes?
Speaker 3:Oh yeah, because we don't go anywhere. Ireland's tiny. So even if you decide to go to college in Cork from Dublin, it's like three hours away. Yeah, it's like going to Atlanta.
Speaker 5:What did they call the revenge dress? Have you seen this?
Speaker 3:whole.
Speaker 5:Thing on people lately like the revenge dress. Like when you come back looking like you know what I mean?
Speaker 3:Oh, it's totally different.
Speaker 5:Yeah, it's weird, it is, it's a promise like end of the year and then you're out.
Speaker 3:And you're right.
Speaker 4:And you're so excited because you're like OK, I'm out of here, I'm a grown up, now I'm going to college, I'm on my own.
Speaker 5:But like to go back. Like you'd have to have some like fabulous dress. So what's a?
Speaker 2:revenge dress? I don't, I'm totally.
Speaker 5:It's like a revenge body, yeah, so there's this thing, and it's the top, like 15 revenge dresses, so like Princess. Diana had an epic one. She had one, but like there were like Jennifer Garner was on there, I mean there are a lot of people, oh gosh.
Speaker 4:So like for Anderson, so like if you break up, have a horrible divorce, just like left, you dumped you, yeah, cheated on you, cheated on you Like you're coming to the Emmys or the Grammys.
Speaker 5:And you sort of the Tonys step out and you're just like oh my god, this is where you're like you're not going to miss.
Speaker 3:Yeah, it's like the revenge body.
Speaker 5:So where it, where it started recently was what is the show? Because all of us watched the one where it's Lisa and she had a Vandepan rules. Oh my gosh. Yes, ariana.
Speaker 4:She came in this red dress. And Rachel, not Raquel, it's Rachel, yeah, just a white eye.
Speaker 5:So very little we were showing and they were like, oh, that's a revenge dress. And then it started this whole thing. Okay, she's revenge dresser.
Speaker 4:She looked stunning in that red dress at the reunion.
Speaker 5:It was like revenge dress, because she's going to be there, right there in front of everybody, and be like hi there, I got me a revenge dress today.
Speaker 4:I want to see it.
Speaker 3:I want to see it.
Speaker 4:I know, I know I want to see pictures. Oh, I'm so excited.
Speaker 2:So excited, yes, so like the women who get boob jobs when they get divorced.
Speaker 3:Yes, is that like revenge boobs? Yeah, revenge boobs. Yeah, because it's part of their revenge Revenge, but lift.
Speaker 4:Yeah, exactly Whatever boobs, but whatever Life, though whatever.
Speaker 2:Yeah, but it's a revenge body Like I'm going to prove.
Speaker 4:you know, I'm going to show you.
Speaker 3:But there is that element though, like we all have, that I know, you know, going to high school reunions and stuff, you see it all the time, everybody dieting before they get to high school.
Speaker 4:I just think it's part of like this, like just human nature, that you do want to look your best. Oh yeah, you know, I mean we for the 97% of the time those things it's what's inside, but there are moments that it's okay to be like. Yeah, I just really want to look good for this situation.
Speaker 5:Well, the psychology of it, right, because you can't talk like. We talk about how we feel and what's going on. But these celebrities, I mean, they don't get to say like, how do you feel about being dumped by so and so. So they just show up and they're like where are you? Like?
Speaker 4:everybody in the entire world saw you.
Speaker 5:Yeah, no, that would be so hard to be a public eye, where everyone knows your business all the time.
Speaker 4:Yeah, or at least how to do.
Speaker 3:Nobody knew all my business all the time. It wasn't like that.
Speaker 4:Honestly, celtic woman wasn't that big, I don't know that I was like I don't, I think it probably was Totally.
Speaker 3:Not to the same extent. It didn't like it wasn't the same kind of thing. You're like you know you didn't have paparazzi. I don't know how people deal with that, I don't know.
Speaker 5:but like we were talking about. So I had some people that I knew who went to see Beyonce and they're like you know. Oh well, she doesn't dance as much as she used to, but she still has, like the twins, or like twins, whoever like they dance, like I mean, it was all about like they knew, not just Beyonce, what she does usually, but like her dancers and their names, and I'm like whoa, this is a whole another level.
Speaker 3:I'm too paranoid for that, and people put so much of themselves as well. You have to save a little bit, yeah.
Speaker 4:I gotta have some privacy.
Speaker 3:Well, her daughter was in there, was she?
Speaker 4:Yeah, blue, ivy Blue. Ivy Blue yeah, yeah she was in the concert show, yeah she's traveling with her, I think, two of them. Does she dance or perform?
Speaker 5:I think she dances they said that she like hops out of a box, so like she's on stage and then she comes in this like box and she hops out and they do some kind of dance. So yeah, she's performing.
Speaker 3:Wow, I can't remember how old she is.
Speaker 5:She must be.
Speaker 3:Well, I think she's older than her. I think she's older than Harry, so she might be 12 or 13 that got that.
Speaker 5:I want to say 13, but I may be wrong. Maybe, Interesting show. Yeah, yeah, it's very hard.
Speaker 2:You know I'm becoming like the biggest Swifty I never was but like I mean I never like, I just I saw her that one time when she was opening back years ago, but like I have gotten so her music is so freaking good.
Speaker 4:Well, they say that she's again like I've never been a Swifty, you know. I mean I just I prefer to stay in the genre of 80s or country, you know. Um, but they do say that she's a good person.
Speaker 2:Well, I heard that she said, like you know, it doesn't matter if, like she's home, it has like a line of people around the corner like she's gonna sign autographs, because that's why she's. You know, she is where she is.
Speaker 5:Oh, yeah, so I think that's cool, yeah, I talked to someone and they were like oh, we just bought tickets and it was like 9,000 something.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah it's for tickets and I was like oh, when.
Speaker 5:And she's like oh, it's, it's November of next year.
Speaker 3:Oh my god.
Speaker 2:I saw she's in Ireland. I think I saw that she's in Ireland.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I think tickets won't be that expensive. Like, honestly, you get ripped off in America like tickets are expensive. I saw people complaining in Ireland about spending 250 euro for her tickets and that was for really good seats and I was like, oh my god, you have no idea they busted like the ticketmaster live nation, like it all goes to the scalpers and it's under like they say.
Speaker 4:I mean, that's what we've learned is that ticketmaster is like a scalper, it's like it's not legitimate.
Speaker 5:Well, apparently they got it from a different. It wasn't ticketmaster, but it may have been stub hub or something. But you have to. You have to spend $2,000 just to buy them On their platform. It's just graceful, does it make sense?
Speaker 2:Can I be cheaper for Americans to come buy a ticket to Dublin To?
Speaker 3:Ireland. Yeah, yeah, yeah, but you can't get tickets for her anyway. But, yes, you're right, but I did that because, um, do any of you watch Matt Reif? Have you ever followed Matt Reif? So he's this. He's this comedian that Like blew up in the last.
Speaker 3:I'm fascinated by this story. He blew up in the last two years. So he's on my facebook reels all the time because if you watch one video, you know it just keeps sending you videos. So I keep watching this stuff and he's really very funny. I didn't like him at first, but he's really really very funny and His platform is so simple. He stands on the stage, he gets people to tell him stories and then he makes jokes about it and then they're crude. He's. I'm not suggesting like a lot of our audience don't look up Matt Reif and it's extremely crude, but he's very, very funny. So he started off, I want to say, two or three years ago. He's always been a comedian since the time he was like 12 or 13 and comedy clubs. You cannot buy a tickets for Matt Reif anywhere in the world and he's on tour for two years. I have searched everywhere. There is nowhere in America. Everywhere I sold out. Every single venue is sold out.
Speaker 1:Then I was like OK, I'll have a look in Dublin or in the UK.
Speaker 3:No, all sold out, australia sold out. Like literally this guy has gone from nothing to. Oh no, it's amazing. He's super humble and he's like I've watched interviews with him. He's like he's probably a psychologist's dream because he's very open about like his mental health struggles and everything. He's a really really cool guy, interesting, but everything is sold out. Like that just blows my mind. Wow, like.
Speaker 2:I can't get a ticket anywhere. Well, what made me think of Taylor Swift for talking about like being out in the public and she's one that you never hear bad, you know? It seems like everyone's always looking for something to post on teams. You never really hear anything about her, like she's one who's? Like bigger than about anyone, but you never hear like crazy stuff.
Speaker 3:She's a few, though, famous spots.
Speaker 2:Yeah, those are a few famous ones A lot of love life.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 4:But what did she say when she was younger? Someone asked her about that and she was like well, I kind of and I'm just paraphrasing, so nobody quote me on this but like I kind of feel like you shouldn't give me material to write a song about.
Speaker 2:She said that actually when she was opening act.
Speaker 4:Oh, okay, because I was like that's so valid, Like why is it her fault for writing these songs? And she's like I look at it at, don't give me Right Material to write about. No, I think it was.
Speaker 2:I think I was going to Keith Urban concert is when she was brand new. She was opening act and she's I can't remember I think it was him she stole the show, but that was one of the things she was like showing her like a ball Barbara Walters interview or something and she's like well, if you don't write songs about, you, don't do bad things.
Speaker 4:She was like oh she was so cool.
Speaker 3:It's so true.
Speaker 4:It's so true.
Speaker 3:No, I've a friend who works with her on her tour and said she is just the nicest person in the world Like these crazy bonuses to her $55 million total.
Speaker 4:Wow For the truck driver, I mean for everybody in her crew. Gave them bonuses, Like the truck drivers, I think got like a hundred thousand each.
Speaker 3:Amazing.
Speaker 4:Crazy, I know that's great though. Honestly yeah, and do you feel like we need more people that show kindness and grace and like just appreciation.
Speaker 3:I do feel because people are more in the spotlight now than ever before, I do feel there is a change in the way people behave, especially like in the entertainment industry, and the way they are when they're on tour. I feel things of kind of people doing that. So Taylor Swift doing that? I know Pink is famous for doing that.
Speaker 4:She is. I would love to go see her. My sister seen her a couple of times and she said first of all, her voice is amazing.
Speaker 3:She's a great singer, but yeah, you're so right.
Speaker 4:She's another one that everyone says she's so nice.
Speaker 3:Yeah, she's such a nice person. I'm trying to think of who else like her.
Speaker 5:Yeah, but there's also the well, I was just thinking like Lizzo and the dancers, like that whole thing going on, so there's like good, and then there's there's kind of that's not going back.
Speaker 2:What are you talking about, they're?
Speaker 5:dancers are suing her. I don't know who that is.
Speaker 3:Lizzo, you do no, I do my hair. Oh, yeah, yeah I do my hair, you do?
Speaker 5:Yeah, I mean, I don't listen to you. They're suing for like treatment, poor treatment or negative treatment, or something.
Speaker 3:Negative treatment. Did you listen to them? Did you listen to their interview? That was, I don't know.
Speaker 2:I don't know the interview.
Speaker 3:I read kind of what they said and a lot of it was aimed towards the dance captain more so than Lizzo, but because it's Lizzo's tour, it kind of came out.
Speaker 5:Like, yeah, like Taylor Swift, like if something bad happens on her tour, is she responsible?
Speaker 2:for the behavior of other people.
Speaker 5:Yeah.
Speaker 3:It's yeah. I suppose your company, though it's your company, so I mean, if your staff behave, it's a fairly bad, it's coming back on you.
Speaker 4:Yeah, it's going to end with you, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3:It's very tough.
Speaker 4:You got to have the right people but like body shaming, I think it was, which was like that.
Speaker 3:Body shaming and again.
Speaker 4:I don't listen to Lizzo. I mean, when I've heard things, you know, I always thought good for her for embracing who she is and just. But yeah, that one was, I was like what.
Speaker 3:Yeah, it's a tough one, so I don't know who knows I mean what you hear on the news, you know.
Speaker 4:I mean you do have to kind of take it with a grain of salt, because my Lord, people can say anything anywhere and hope and I'm not saying this is the case here, but hope that they'll just settle to make it go away, and none of it be true.
Speaker 5:But it makes you wonder if there's more accountability, because more people, can you know, do things, put things on social media complain, or you know you're being watched more as Taylor Swift because people are, you know, filming you your entire concert. So whatever you do is out there.
Speaker 2:I'm saying about my college roommate who's a big Middle Ages fan, angie. But she was so funny because when we were like go out in college, she's always like, well, there goes my chance as a president.
Speaker 3:I'm thinking if they really had like cameras on us or something that was always her.
Speaker 2:That was her tagline. We were at, she was doing something.
Speaker 4:She's like yeah, that's why God literally had me like born in 72. I needed.
Speaker 2:No, no pictures, no social media.
Speaker 4:I'm very thankful, but yeah, no, I don't think I could ever ask you for president.
Speaker 2:Yes, yo, yes, that would not be the case.
Speaker 4:That debate would be horrendous. The whole lot of bombs.
Speaker 5:I'm sure a lot of bombs.
Speaker 4:There's a lot that you could probably pull up.
Speaker 5:I was going to say, speaking of president, you, you should go.
Speaker 4:I know right.
Speaker 5:You have to get in the debate.
Speaker 4:Oh no, and as long as I can, they can beep out, because you know I don't like any bullshit, and I think you can say that mom Ashley beep, but not me beep.
Speaker 3:Beep for president beep, beep, beep.
Speaker 4:I'm just like that would be. All you would hear is me say thank you for your time. I'd love to see the ad.
Speaker 3:I'd love to see what the ad would be. Ashley beep. As much as I hate political ads, I love the run up, though that's one of my favorite things about America. It's the run up to the presidential elections. Like myself and Scott get a big book and a popcorn and sit there and just. It's just a shit, show it really. It's just like you look at these people and you go, oh my god, it's just, You're like just saying that Terrible.
Speaker 2:Did somebody say that? Well, we all know I'm too sensitive, so there's no way I'll ever run for president because of the fact that I found out.
Speaker 4:Oh no, I wouldn't, I wouldn't either.
Speaker 3:No, it's such a thankless job. I was talking to Ellie the other day. Like you know, the 49% of the country hates you. I'm happy in my little world. Okay, the 49% that you love comes under fire.
Speaker 4:So it's not just that person running for whatever position it is I mean politics today I mean it's just a scary environment.
Speaker 1:I don't care.
Speaker 4:I don't care what side you are. It doesn't matter, it's so scary. Yeah, your family, you know, and most of these people have younger kids. Oh yeah, and I just I love self out there. Yeah, like sometimes I have to wonder, like those that are running, I'm like, oh, are they really a good person, Because they just threw their whole entire family to the line? Oh, just awful. It's absolutely awful the way that people talk about those.
Speaker 3:I do Like I've never understood the whole roasting element. So you know the. Is it the presidential dinner that?
Speaker 4:they have.
Speaker 3:Yes, they do the big roast. They roast yeah. Okay, guys have a nive seat in like a presidential setting, or even in the way your, the house sits, the way that you can, the way that you can, like, argue back and forth or do little chance or unlike.
Speaker 4:This is like a professional, it's theater, yeah, and this roasting that they say oh they probably spend a ton of money for those tables and stuff.
Speaker 3:it's just To allow someone to be an asshole it's mean bad to do it behind laughing, you know I? Just because there is no such thing.
Speaker 4:no, you don't say those things, just off hand now. I mean there is an intent, there's a purpose behind it and a bit of truth. And exactly, there's always a bit of truth and you put it with a smile and everyone's, it's just humor. No, it's not just humanity at its worst yeah, I hate us, I hate us.
Speaker 4:I mean comedy is either making fun of yourself or someone else, and that's a lot of comedy is that's why I love the comedians that laugh about themselves and your family yeah, they don't sit there in a crowd and like start. Yeah, I mean like, oh my god, look at. You know, like the ones that I love, because you know I love to laugh and come. I mean, if we can go to a comedy show for a girl's night, oh my god.
Speaker 4:But I love the ones that laugh about their life and their family, and those are the ones that I love, not the ones that are just being mean and being a bully, but with a smile and laughter. Me that isn't. It's just not funny, because there is someone on the other side of that, there. There's a part of them in my mind that thinks that it's not funny to them, right like if someone's laughing about your hair or your eyes or your outfit or whatever there is that I mean, we all still have kind of like a little wounded soul.
Speaker 4:Yeah, you know that we're still trying to like work through things and so, yeah, I only like the ones that laugh about their family or their mother or their own experience.
Speaker 2:They talk about their life.
Speaker 4:But that's why I loved meeting him and because in his what I mean he didn't have to go like crazy gross and vulgar not that I mean again. I think I talked that night. I mean I loved Eddie Murphy in the 80s and raw Okay no judgment people, no judgment. However, I did think it was really funny, but now, as I've grown as a human, I like it when you laugh about yourself.
Speaker 2:Yeah yeah, yeah, we should talk to him and see if he can help you out of that, right?
Speaker 3:Yeah, I don't think he'd like Matt Rife. He probably swears way too much for poor country way, and you might be shocked. Yeah, no, I eat this. Well, not funny though I know. I did notice on Matt Rife he always wears a cross. I was right across and he always kind of he's like neutralizing it.
Speaker 4:Yeah, maybe, maybe I was never listened to him, so I'm going to. Yeah, but I have such a potty mouth and I think my faith and spirituality is like I'm on key but I can. Yeah, I mean, everyone knows my favorite word is the F word.
Speaker 3:His is just way more smudgy, probably way more sexualized than even hot even, but it's very funny.
Speaker 2:It's just so very funny.
Speaker 3:I do see my mom is now because she loves Lisa.
Speaker 2:She's going to hear this. Look at me like, oh my goodness.
Speaker 3:Miss Janet is going to be fine, I've spoken to that lady.
Speaker 4:She is going to be up late tonight listening to some comedy.
Speaker 3:Yes, she's going to be asking for her wine while she drools over Matt Rife.
Speaker 2:So are you two.
Speaker 4:Oh, he is.
Speaker 3:Okay, he's very, but apparently he was like a very plain looking child and he had like a glow up. Yeah, that only happened apparently when he was like 22 or 23 and I think he's only by 28. But like he dated Kate Beckinsale.
Speaker 4:She's so cute, she's beautiful. She's stunning she has to like, she's like, so younger guys.
Speaker 3:Yeah, and he's younger, he's younger, for sure. Yeah, it's um yeah.
Speaker 5:I still have him on the show.
Speaker 3:He's like Atlanta apparently he gave out about Atlanta, said it was the worst Audiences he had. I'm just showing pictures for those of you who can't see.
Speaker 2:Oh, he's very cute. Yeah, he's got a good jawline.
Speaker 3:Yes, good hair. Yes, miss, miss John, that's going to be very happy.
Speaker 4:Okay, so she's not going to come out of her bedroom for three days. She's going to want room service and bottles of wine continuously going up the stairs.
Speaker 5:Well, you can keep her happy she is going to be very entertained.
Speaker 4:She's so cute.
Speaker 5:Where is he from? Seriously, yeah, what's his story?
Speaker 3:Ohio, ohio, yeah, want to say Ohio, huh, he lives in Ohio.
Speaker 4:I don't know that much about him, did you I?
Speaker 3:don't know what part are you in.
Speaker 4:Well, we started off in Cleveland.
Speaker 3:Oh, hello Cleveland.
Speaker 4:God love everyone in Cleveland. It was not my favorite.
Speaker 3:Have you been back though?
Speaker 4:I won't go back.
Speaker 3:Okay, okay, well, I will see this. So I was we had just gotten married.
Speaker 4:I was 22. Michael was with the Browns and I had not been over like the Mason Dixon line, like I was a Midwest or Southern girl, and I just remember in our little U-Haul we were driving and if we was so late at night and you know, they have like tire factories and stuff and we came and I had never in my life, trisha knows, is when you grow up in the Midwest, like you're just in a different planet.
Speaker 4:And I remember I remember driving in and it was late at night and there was these big smokestacks and there was fire coming out of it. And I just remember thinking I think I've actually gone to hell. Fire and all and again fire and all like there and it's and there was a smell and again I it, because I will say this, everyone there was very nice.
Speaker 4:Very nice, that's good, yes, it was just coming like a Midwest girl who was like why do we even have to move? Yeah, of course yes, but then, after Michael Left the Browns, we went to Columbus for my job victory secret and I loved Columbus.
Speaker 3:Columbus is gorgeous and I was well also been completely revamped.
Speaker 4:I loved. I loved Columbus because I, but like my hometown Springfield, I mean Missouri was like flat like I was in that part of the state and that's how Columbus, what I mean. Everything is super flat, so I felt more at home, mm-hmm there. Then I did in Cleveland, but there's lovely areas, we have such good friends in Cleveland. It was just. It was that one. I mean, I'm 51 and I remember that image at 22 and I was like why am I here, like I don't, like I've never been anywhere like this you know.
Speaker 3:It's so hard, though, when you move, when you move from something you've known all your life to. I know, because we move more completely different.
Speaker 4:We moved to Missouri when I was eight. So I grew up there, went to the University of Missouri and that's all. That's really all I knew, other than the time that we would come back to Georgia to see my grandparents and my cousins. But yeah, so again Cleveland. I'm lovely people, lovely people. It was just traumatic, but I did love the riverfront. Yeah, yeah, I did um, I, yeah, I did really like the river and the palace theater isn't with the palace theater. I didn't go there oh the be.
Speaker 4:I went to howl at the moon, howl at the moon. I was still there when we were there, I, I will absolutely sing it out the moon I was gonna say that sounds like a good story.
Speaker 5:Oh my gosh.
Speaker 4:Well, those were the wild days.
Speaker 2:Okay, yeah, that's when she couldn't have been president. Ashley, that's, yeah, I know.
Speaker 4:Yeah, I mean there might have been dancing on the piano. No, no, no, no, there's no judgment.
Speaker 3:No cameras, no proof.
Speaker 4:There's actually.
Speaker 3:I mean I, you know what now that I think about my mind?
Speaker 4:is a little foggy Never foggy. I think it was a TV show that I saw. Yes, that's what I'm thinking of.
Speaker 3:What was? Was it which show was set in Cleveland, Ohio? Was it the two? No, it wasn't. Laverne and Shirley was that Cleveland Ohio? I don't think so.
Speaker 4:That was Milwaukee.
Speaker 3:Milwaukee, that's right.
Speaker 4:Yeah, they were they were the the beer girls.
Speaker 3:Yes, I never saw, but I just knew was something. No, it was clockwork orange.
Speaker 4:I was a less line because he was a comedian and I think he was from Cleveland, so he bit like he was the main guy in the show drew Drew to carry.
Speaker 2:Okay, was it okay?
Speaker 4:No, I don't think it was Drew Carey. Am I thinking about the right person? He had a, he had a sitcom and he was the main guy.
Speaker 5:Yeah, it was a good carry. It was to carry.
Speaker 4:Mm-hmm. I think, yeah, and I think he wasn't it in Cleveland maybe.
Speaker 2:I don't know.
Speaker 4:What was?
Speaker 2:the thing recently where all the kids are saying nothing good comes from Ohio. Like did you guys have that? Like all the kids are saying no, it was so funny. It was like on all social media it was kind of funny. Well, we all know that I'm not really, except for now.
Speaker 4:I have found reels. Oh, yes, oh, I have totally gone down the route.
Speaker 3:Oh, you do, oh, yeah, it is the weirdest thing.
Speaker 4:I hate social media with a passion, but I have found reels and so and dogs that talk. Oh, like the ones. Oh my gosh, what is it about? Boo, boo. Have you seen that?
Speaker 5:one no, no, no, no I don't want to be fat like boo boo.
Speaker 4:Oh, my god, it is the funniest. It's this guy that does voiceovers for these, like reels of dogs. And so there's these two dogs, and and boo boo is Large. And then they have this little energetic one and you see him running back and forth and he's like I gotta get my Exercise on. I don't want to be fat like boo boo, oh. They're talking to their mom.
Speaker 2:It is the freaking funniest thing ever I'm gonna have to show you guys, because I actually had to send it to Michael because I have watched it.
Speaker 4:I mean it's probably now got I don't know a hundred thousand views and I think I'm probably 99,000.
Speaker 3:I'm way too much time watching this golden retriever. He's like just sitting there. He just sits there with his tongue hanging on his and there's like a voiceover over it. You know, the mom is mad at me today and it goes 20 so Funny.
Speaker 2:I love the voiceovers with like the coaches talking, or like oh funny, become a reels.
Speaker 3:Oh, I made you dinner's two dinners this week from reels. I have a funny tick tock, one I'll send you today. Remember I was telling you that Irish people make up names for people yes, based on what they do. Well, today faith sent me a tick tock real, I have to meet her.
Speaker 3:Oh, she's, yes, she's great, she's very funny. She sent me one today of an Australian doing the same thing and he was talking. One of the funny ones on it today Was like my dad worked in a store and there was a Ron and there was another Ron, but the other Ron was much bigger than my dad and not as clever and my dad was little. So they named my dad less Ron and they called him moron. But he never knew, just because he was called less.
Speaker 4:My gosh. Okay, that's hilarious.
Speaker 3:Yeah, yes yes, well fun and games.
Speaker 4:I know, but it does like literally suck you in.
Speaker 3:Oh, they do. Yeah, whoever came up with reels came up with the best freaking funny, seriously.
Speaker 2:Just keep scrolling, scrolling.
Speaker 4:I know I'm seriously gonna share the one with the you need to do.
Speaker 3:I think as well. Our attention spine has gotten so small these days that reels are just the part I mean it's got to the stage. I don't watch movies anymore because I can't pay attention.
Speaker 5:Yeah.
Speaker 3:Whereas I can.
Speaker 4:I only 30 seconds of yeah, yeah, 30 seconds. Well, and that's like why I like to tape everything? Yeah, because then I can just fast forward. I know I hear you we could do reels of just our bloopers. Oh my God, our weekly bloopers. We should. That's what they're for. Yes.
Speaker 2:So, who do we have next week? We have Christine Handy. I'm really excited about her. All right, let's talk about it International model a cancer survivor. A motivational speaker and she's just really an inspirational person, so I think that's going to be a really good interview.
Speaker 4:Yeah, I do love her quote when she talks about purpose. You find your purpose in pain. You know cause. I mean I do believe like you, when you find your purpose, you find peace, which that's like. I mean I need a t-shirt without on it, yeah, I need like tattooed on my forehead. But like when I read that, like it was so, like resounding cause, I'm like that's that actually is cause. I know the lessons that I've learned with my life that like literally touched my soul and like really kind of redirect me into like the way I think and the way I see things. I had started to reset. But when you have something like that, like you, do like that's that's when you do have that complete reset.
Speaker 4:So, um yeah, like when I saw that, I'm like okay, yeah, Cause she changed careers.
Speaker 5:Yeah, I was like I got this girl All right, yeah.
Speaker 2:And you just her focus of. I mean she was a model, so just her external beauty and then with her medical issues, how she had to really dig deep and so hard yeah.
Speaker 3:Really great yeah.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 4:I know It'll be fun, yeah, so make sure you tune in next week to middle ages, do you guys with?
Speaker 2:our interview with Christine handy it's a great week.
Speaker 4:Love you all. Yes, all right.
Speaker 2:And make sure you follow us on social media too.
Speaker 4:We love to hear what you guys have to say too. Yes, no, we do Like we're going to get much better. We are actually talking about this earlier. We're going to get much better at responding. Um, you know, we're just. We're all new to this whole world, so please, we're old ladies.
Speaker 2:We are old ladies, we are middle ages.
Speaker 5:I mean, and I and I maybe we should say we're responding like middle ages people. We don't have a 17 year old who's running our social media. We are actually doing.
Speaker 3:Trying to do. We're trying to yeah.
Speaker 4:So, just bear with us but just know how much we are.
Speaker 1:As well yeah.
Speaker 4:I'm super grateful that everyone's on this journey with us, because I mean, it's Fabulous, fun and full of bloopers. Yep, beep, beep, yep.
Speaker 2:There's a lot of that. Cheers to all the people.
Speaker 4:Cheers, cheers, keeping it real, thanks for joining us for Sofa Talk.
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