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
Sofa Talk: Heat My Seat and Sing!
Ever had one of those eye-opening, belly-laugh-inducing talks about personal bathroom habits? You know, the kind where you share your secret rituals and even ponder the functionality of heated toilet seats. We had some fascinating and hilarious discussions around this taboo topic, and even ventured into our experiences with the infamous porta-potties!
Now, hold onto your seats because we are switching gears from bathrooms to otherworldly beings. Yes, we're talking about UFOs and extraterrestrials. We're not saying we've had close encounters, but we do share our thoughts on the probability of life beyond our blue planet. What if earth isn't the only inhabited planet? And what's the deal with those pyramids? From aliens to our anxieties about them, it's a wild ride you don't want to miss.
To top off this rollercoaster of an episode, we're also thrilled to introduce our upcoming guest, retired Lieutenant Colonel Jason Pike. His inspirational journey from military service back to civilian life is something you'd definitely want to hear about. So tune in and join the conversation!
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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. I'm 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, so welcome, grab a seat, hello.
Speaker 3:I hope people actually appreciate that intro is done live every week. I know.
Speaker 4:I would be a freaking nightmare.
Speaker 3:I would be bumbling through. Take 25.
Speaker 5:Yeah, 85. Who are you? You just shot up. You're so good at it, though. You're so good at it, I know.
Speaker 2:But you did the same every week.
Speaker 3:I'm so impressed.
Speaker 2:No, but it's bad when one of us isn't here, because then it's like I'm in my mojo and so like I said I introduced you one time and you were here, and so oh she messed it up, I messed it all up To do it like a hundred times yeah no, that would be me.
Speaker 4:No, we just left the blooper and let it go.
Speaker 3:Yeah just let it go. How's everyone's week? Good week.
Speaker 4:Yeah, so good. Good yeah, I had a super funny conversation with my friends. You guys want to hear about it.
Speaker 1:Yes.
Speaker 4:Okay, it's not going to be as good as Lisa's underwear, but it's so funny. So I was talking to some of my girlfriends today and don't ask me how, like when you go, number two comes up. But we started talking about, like, do you poop in front of your partner?
Speaker 3:Oh no, I don't either, and I was in the minority.
Speaker 4:What, oh my gosh? And so that's why I'm like I want to talk about this on Sofa Talk, because I was scandalized. They were like, of course, like it's not a big deal, like yeah, the door will be open from the water closet and everything. And I was like they're like you, like Michael has not seen you go to the bathroom. I'm like he has seen me. Once we were in college and we were having.
Speaker 2:I have no idea what it was. Those are T-dose. Those are T-dose.
Speaker 4:At that point it was seven and seven, yeah, and like we just started talking and then all of a sudden I realized the door was open and I literally about had a heart attack and slammed the door. Michael was laughing, thought it was the funniest thing ever. We would have been 20-ish. So 31 years? Yeah, I'm like no, okay, that was in the minority with my friends, it's not will come in, I will have to throw a nice oh my God, get ice.
Speaker 3:Yes, like it's. I will have terrible performance anxiety If somebody wants into the bathroom they're like stop it, get ice.
Speaker 4:Yes, I thought I mean I totally was in the minority and there was five of us talking, because we do like group you know, whenever we can.
Speaker 3:And I'd be, I'd be a British like this. Yeah, I mean, they could not believe it.
Speaker 4:Okay, well, that makes me feel better. So, my friends who are listening, I'm not such a weirdo.
Speaker 2:Well, I might be a weirdo.
Speaker 5:but yeah, Not for that. No.
Speaker 2:No.
Speaker 3:All right, trisha, see, I don't care, you don't care. You see, that's the nurse in you, though, I think. I think that's the nurse in you. I think there's a. You're a little bit more realistic, so you're like it's a body function. Yeah, it's a body function. Everybody does this. Yeah, yeah, no, I do think. I do think. Yeah.
Speaker 4:I don't understand myself because I'm not British, but like I have, no, Well, not my friends or nurses, but literally I was the only one, Wow, who was like absolutely not. No, I don't even want him to be like anywhere close to the bathroom. I'm always like just go other places. Just you know.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I mean I hate it's coming in to talk to me, but yeah they have, just like they'll sit, they'll have a total conversation.
Speaker 4:I'm like, and you're pooping?
Speaker 2:She was funny though, so this is why.
Speaker 4:Ashley doesn't need to come up with a comeback. We have dried it.
Speaker 2:So we have a heated toilet seat.
Speaker 3:You know like the Japanese one yeah.
Speaker 2:It makes me so mad when I sit on a cold toilet but, I'll go and just sit on it. I love that statement yeah, I don't like sitting on a cold toilet.
Speaker 4:I think I would be freaked out if I sat down on a toilet seat and it was warm.
Speaker 2:Oh, it's so nice, but I go and I sit just because that's the only place like the other me so. I'll just go sit, I'm not going to the bathroom, but I'll just sit and warm my butt.
Speaker 4:No, I did tell you that when the kids were a little, mommy had to go to the bathroom or go to time out, just because I needed a moment, and that's when you like.
Speaker 5:Don't ask me questions, but now my dogs like they'll keep hitting the door, you know and everything.
Speaker 4:And I'm like, oh my.
Speaker 3:God, yeah, yeah, the bathroom is my solace.
Speaker 4:Yeah, like it's just private time.
Speaker 2:But now I, you don't sit on public toilets no, no, no, no, you know, I'm a German soap. Yeah, I know.
Speaker 5:I don't either.
Speaker 3:But yeah, okay, well, no, I don't know if I could do the heated seat. I got a fright with the heated seat in. Japan. I know, yeah, they have them in every toilet in. Japan, oh yeah, and the toilet makes noise so nobody can hear what you're doing. There's like sing songs to you and then there's a little hose in the back. They have like an inbuilt bidet that like cleans your bus.
Speaker 5:That's what we need. We need one of the toilets that cleans.
Speaker 3:Well, that just seems.
Speaker 4:so no one, so nobody can hear you. So nobody can hear you?
Speaker 3:It seems like the place music and you can change the music.
Speaker 4:So nobody knows what you're doing.
Speaker 3:Yeah, nobody knows what you're doing. Now hang on, we have to talk about your stupid cubicles in America Like nowhere else in the world are the doors like this short and the bottoms are open, and sometimes the bottoms are open. Oh, do you mean in the bathroom.
Speaker 4:Yes, when you said cubicles like oh no, oh sorry, no, yeah, we call them cubicles.
Speaker 5:Oh, the stalls, the stalls, the stalls, stalls.
Speaker 3:Yeah, so everybody, like when my American friends will come to Ireland, they're like, oh my god, the door is closed and the toilet Nobody can see, and, yeah, it's lovely, whereas here everybody knows your business.
Speaker 5:Oh, and you have kids crawl under. Oh yeah, I remember that happened before I've had kids crawl under and I'm like, hi, it's safe, it's over, it's over. No, that's the thing.
Speaker 4:I've had it where they, like you see a little head pop over and you're just like oh for the love of all that is holy, oh my god, Like they did not get my memo that this is private time.
Speaker 3:And then in Japan they have like holes in the floor as well. So they have Japanese toilets and they have like regular. They call, like you know, regular toilets, wait what no Like a port-a-potty? No, no, no hole in the floor that you squat over Like you squat, mm-hmm.
Speaker 4:I'll just shut, I'm just like, I'm asking you, you can tell that I've only been like to really the Caribbean. I don't know what I would do if I walked into someplace and there was just a hole in the floor and you Traditional Japanese toilets, yeah.
Speaker 2:What if they don't like? Hit it right, so where?
Speaker 4:does it go? Does it go to like, to an underground?
Speaker 3:like it's just the same as your toilet, it's just, it's like.
Speaker 4:No, it's like magically gets flushed out. Come on, Lisa Same pipes, Same pipes.
Speaker 3:Yes, it's just like. Oh, you just stand over and squash.
Speaker 4:Absolutely not.
Speaker 3:No, that's like, just like squatting in the that's a really long way for you to squash. I mean for the rest of us. Me, trisha, oh my god, my knees would get out and then my butt would be right there on oh Eww, ew, it's like a porta potty.
Speaker 2:Oh, oh, I don't know, I don't know, porta potty's a nope, nope, I don't know I like that.
Speaker 4:No, the fancy, fancy ones are better.
Speaker 2:There's no fancy porta potty.
Speaker 4:There's no fancy what's fancy the ones that are like in 18-wheelers.
Speaker 3:The trailers they have like the wood. And they have sinks, and you have your own personal stall.
Speaker 4:Like it is actually. Like it is a toilet.
Speaker 3:Which festival do you go to that has those? I?
Speaker 5:don't think I've ever seen that one. No.
Speaker 3:I see them advertised on Facebook. There's a local company that are like trying to build their business and guess.
Speaker 4:I mean, I have to tell you they're nice. They even have air fresheners.
Speaker 3:Ooh, nice. Yeah, I like it. I like it.
Speaker 4:It's like a toilet, but it's in an 18-wheeler so I don't know where it magically flushes to. But like you, flush it and there's stalls.
Speaker 3:And they have wood floors. They have two different tanks.
Speaker 5:It's kind of like on the airplane. On the airplane you're like where is?
Speaker 4:this going yeah. Wood floors, I know Very obvious. I was like OK.
Speaker 3:So when you're traveling on tour buses, like in when you're doing shows, you can't do number two on the tour bus. So everybody knows when you need to poop on the tour bus because they have to stop the bus for you to get off and do us.
Speaker 5:So you don't, you can't or you don't.
Speaker 3:No, you can't. Why? Because somebody has to clear it out. So the general rule on your tour bus is that you don't do number two, you have to stop for a number two. Wow.
Speaker 4:I didn't know that they just have like a big thing, so it's like someone has to actually clean it out, like isn't it? Yeah? Yeah, it's called the gray water.
Speaker 3:Yeah, yeah, they have to clear out the gray water. So like the pee all goes into one big tank and then someone has to, like, detach it and clean it out. Sure, really, yeah, yeah, because you're traveling on the road. There's nowhere, do you think it goes?
Speaker 4:No no, no, no, I'm just saying, I was just thinking like a tank it would go in the tank, it would just go into like a door and they just like plug in a big thing.
Speaker 3:Yes, yes, I'm sure. Yes, I'm sure, yes, yes, I'm sure they do that. No, but it has to be empty DS.
Speaker 4:Well, that is just reason 5,009 that I cannot go on tour.
Speaker 3:There you go, there you go. Doesn't matter, I can't sing, so when I have the kids, I'd be like oh, please, God don't need to go to the toilet, I don't need to stop, but they were very good.
Speaker 2:I'd blame it on them.
Speaker 3:It's not going to be good.
Speaker 4:See, I feel like then I would have to go number two more because I would be thinking I can't do it. So, if I can't do something then I start to panic about it. Yeah.
Speaker 3:And then I need to do it. Yeah, I think it's like everything, you kind of get into a routine and you regulate yourself. So you know like I don't.
Speaker 5:yeah, I think that is an anxiety there, because I think my clients say that their fear is you know how you can't stand up when you're landing on that airplane to go to the bathroom. You're like they're always like. I know I'm going to have to go. I'm going to have to go as soon as possible.
Speaker 4:I mean, I think you talk yourself into it.
Speaker 5:Yeah, they just. It's an anxiety Like what if I get up and they're going to say I'm a terrorist and kick me off the plane or whatever, because I stood up and I'm not supposed to she said the pilot on the Alaska Airlines yesterday. No.
Speaker 3:What the hell? Oh my god. No-transcript. Yeah, he was charged with 83 attempted murders.
Speaker 4:Yeah, tried to shut off the engine, yeah.
Speaker 3:He was riding on the jump seat and pulled down the fire emergency handle, but didn't actually pull it all the way. So if he had pulled it all the way, the plane would have glided, but he didn't manage because he was tackled by the co-pilot or the pilot. I'm not sure, but yeah, charged with three. So apparently, though, I heard today in the news he had taken psychedelic mushrooms 48 hours before the flight that he's saying isn't very strange.
Speaker 5:It's very strange. So he wasn't flying, he was in the jump seat, he was flying with San Fran.
Speaker 3:Yeah, from Alaska. Was it Alaska or Washington? It had to be, because I think it was Alaska it was Alaska Air, but I think they might have been coming from somewhere in Washington to San Francisco. But yeah, so he was a pilot.
Speaker 2:Mm-hmm. We just watched a documentary on the Malaysia flight that disappeared. That was really sad. That is just bizarre. It is crazy yeah.
Speaker 4:I just, yeah, I think, I just think something. No, it just didn't disappear Very strange. Yeah.
Speaker 3:We had. A girl from Riverdance was on one of the flights, the Air France one that went down in the ocean from Brazil. It was going from Brazil to Paris and she was her and two of her friends, ethna. She was a gorgeous girl. They were on that flight. Wow, yeah, dreadful, dreadful.
Speaker 4:I mean, I just never think about it. No, I don't know why, probably better off, yeah, I mean yeah, and I love to fly, yeah and I just but yeah.
Speaker 3:I think you're better off, though I think like, because I mean the chances of anything happened to you in a plane are like so much less than when you get into your car. That's true, yeah.
Speaker 4:I just also always feel like when it's your time, it's your time.
Speaker 3:Yeah, me too.
Speaker 4:But I do remember like it was so crazy I can't remember if I told you guys this when we flew just a little flight to Myrtle Beach from Atlanta 45 minutes. Yeah, so ridiculous. Yes, I'm aware of that. However, it was the only time I've ever had turbulence and I literally looked out the window and I was like OK, just make it quick. Yeah, because it was so crazy. And yeah, I mean it has to be absolutely flipping, terrifying.
Speaker 3:I can't imagine. No, it's horrible.
Speaker 4:So, even though I was like how I'm such a believer I went into your time at your time when I thought it might be my time, I was like OK, please, no, yeah, this doesn't mean you won't be scared. I'm like I'm so thankful for those two glasses of wine and please just make it fast.
Speaker 3:But it's horrible. I hate that feeling on a flight, though it's the first You're so powerless.
Speaker 4:It's the first time I mean we've had you have turbulence.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 4:But this was literally the planes coming apart.
Speaker 3:The Bansing yeah.
Speaker 4:And the pilot just kept going. Usually they try and stabilize.
Speaker 1:Try.
Speaker 4:He just kept. I'm like I think the wings are falling off Like oh. That's scary, so oh yeah.
Speaker 3:Yeah, it's not a job I'd want. I don't think no, but when I saw Top Gun, I was like I could do that. I could do that.
Speaker 4:I could be married to that. No, I don't think I would know.
Speaker 3:I'd rather be in control myself, but I don't know if I'd like to be responsible for all the people in the plane.
Speaker 4:Oh yeah.
Speaker 3:All the top responsibilities.
Speaker 4:There's just something like those Navy Air Force guys.
Speaker 1:Like it's just that Top Gun.
Speaker 4:I remember when I first I know when I first watched it. I mean, what was it? When did it come out 84?, 85?
Speaker 3:85,. I think yeah.
Speaker 4:I told my parents I was like I'm going to go to Spring Break and I'm going to go hang out at that bar at Top Gun, and my dad was like you're like 12?
Speaker 3:No, Tom Cruise won't be there.
Speaker 4:Well, I loved.
Speaker 3:Slider.
Speaker 4:So I know his partner, the Goose.
Speaker 3:No, not Goose no Slider. Oh, I didn't see the first one. He's the one in the volleyball scene that does this, that's right, yes.
Speaker 4:The tall dark-headed one.
Speaker 3:I don't know who that was. Do you know who it was?
Speaker 4:Oh, I'm going to have to look that out. Yeah, I don't have to look it up.
Speaker 3:Slider in Top Gun. I swear it's Slider. I don't know, I didn't watch the first one.
Speaker 4:Do you Slider Top Gun? I know I cannot believe they didn't bring him back for number two. That's the reason I went to the new one.
Speaker 3:Oh, oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm going to have a sec. Ok, fredrick and Rico Rasevich. I don't think he played anything else. I don't think he did anything else.
Speaker 4:Isn't he a cutie?
Speaker 3:Oh yeah, oh, he's really familiar, although he's 1957, so that makes him like just five years younger than my mom and dad.
Speaker 4:Well, I'm talking about in Top Gun. Yeah, I know, but that person right there he was 32.
Speaker 3:That's obscene. We talked about this last week.
Speaker 4:All right, well, but yeah, I was 12.
Speaker 5:She's like drilling over someone. Oh, I love 15 years older. Oh my gosh.
Speaker 4:I loved him. I was, I was going to San Diego and I was going to go.
Speaker 3:Spring break, oh yeah, 12.
Speaker 4:I think I was like 15. I like band people, musicians like oh, all right. Duran Simon Le Bon. What was the other one? No, roger.
Speaker 5:Roger Taylor, roger Taylor, nick Taylor. Yes, nick Taylor was the one, oh yeah.
Speaker 3:My cousins left Simon Le Bon so I had a picture of Simon Le Bon. I was about five to picture Simon Le Bon over my bunk bed underneath, I was like oh, don't you guys remember the posters that?
Speaker 4:Oh, I love your poster, oh my gosh, I mean amazing, like your entire wall was covered with posters.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I had a calendar of Simon Kelle.
Speaker 5:You did, I did, you were like hold on a second?
Speaker 4:No what.
Speaker 3:My sisters bought it because I had like a huge crush on Simon.
Speaker 4:Kelle, you did so, the Simon Kelle that we know.
Speaker 3:Yeah, yeah, I loved him. I have weird taste.
Speaker 1:I have a good taste too, Did you?
Speaker 2:Are you serious?
Speaker 4:Yeah.
Speaker 3:I love that arrogance. Oh, I do.
Speaker 4:I mean well, Irogans is just not. Yeah, yeah, he's definitely.
Speaker 3:Well, not now. He's not nice. Now, like back when I was, I was going to say well, I was 15, but I wasn't.
Speaker 4:So what did he look like back then? Like I don't even Natural. Like see, I don't know him from anything other than American Idol. Yeah, no, that's all I know.
Speaker 3:Oh same thing. Telly Dubbies is what he's famous for, what he was. The original creator of Telly Dubbies.
Speaker 2:Really.
Speaker 5:Seriously, you are kidding me. Yeah, those creep me out.
Speaker 3:Yeah, the creep me out too.
Speaker 5:They're very creepy, they're weird.
Speaker 3:Not as much as the Wiggles creep me out, but I can't say that because Scott was on the Wiggles so I can't say he was he was yeah, scott was a Wiggle.
Speaker 5:Yeah, right, tell that story.
Speaker 4:OK, just that statement right there. I was like needs to be on your Christmas card Scott was a Wiggle.
Speaker 3:He was a Wiggle. Yes, he was Captain Feather Sword's nephew. He was a captain of Nobeard. So, like my kids didn't watch it, so I don't know what he was doing. I mean, I know the name of it but I don't know.
Speaker 3:Yeah, so they were like four Australian school teachers they were primary school teachers and they decided that they could make a lot of money by doing like a kids show that does all these kind of original songs and stuff, and for whatever reason I do know the reason, but I don't know they were very close to a certain Irish dance school and that's how Scott ended up being in the chorus of them as he was a kid. So he was, like you know, too young. He was 18, 17, 18. Yeah, I hadn't toured with him for like two years. That's so neat.
Speaker 4:Look the things we learned, ladies.
Speaker 3:So cool yeah, my husband was a wiggle.
Speaker 4:I know I'm seriously on your Christmas famous piece. I mean the wiggle family.
Speaker 3:Yeah, very funny, very funny.
Speaker 5:Oh, that's so funny. I was like what is this?
Speaker 2:It just seems weird, it's weird.
Speaker 3:But it has that thing that the kids get like entranced on. They went Peppa Pig.
Speaker 4:Oh yeah.
Speaker 3:You miss the whole Peppa Pig. Yeah, I miss the whole.
Speaker 4:Peppa.
Speaker 5:Pig.
Speaker 4:But my nieces, especially the two littles obsessed with Peppa Pig, yeah.
Speaker 3:But have you watched kids, watch us, like they literally just go, yeah, and they're just like.
Speaker 4:I mean I do kind of feel like you know, like there's something to be said with whatever goes on with TV.
Speaker 5:Yeah, Like what's going on? I mean it's so weird.
Speaker 4:I mean it sounds like a conspiracy theorist.
Speaker 5:Yeah, it's weird.
Speaker 2:However, I think it's conspiracy theories.
Speaker 5:All right.
Speaker 2:What do you guys think about the UFO stuff coming out? Oh, totally for real.
Speaker 4:It's totally for real.
Speaker 3:I haven't seen anything about it. I would not be on my radar, totally.
Speaker 2:More and more coming out now that people say that they've actually you know, they've been like legit sightings of UFOs.
Speaker 4:Yeah, I mean, I'm pretty sure they have some of whatever this species is. That's what I've always heard. I just feel, in my way of thinking, like the universe is so huge. Yeah, how is Earth the only planet that's populated?
Speaker 3:I don't know enough, I think it's fascinating.
Speaker 4:Yes, I probably will not ask our thesis guess.
Speaker 3:Maybe we should ask Nick's yes, yeah.
Speaker 4:I think we'll try and keep my mouth shut. That's my thesis.
Speaker 3:That's a question that I've heard.
Speaker 4:Like. I understand that you're into motivational speaking, but can we talk about aliens?
Speaker 3:I want to say I've never heard any alien talk. I had side of America.
Speaker 4:I mean I thought that they had a huge sighting in like over just decades in England.
Speaker 2:But that's weird, because then, if there were aliens, they wouldn't just come here, right, I think they would.
Speaker 3:Maybe they would. I was gonna say maybe they would, I think right now.
Speaker 4:I think, right now they're flying completely right on past Earth.
Speaker 1:Like we're gonna circle back around.
Speaker 4:Uh-oh. Whoa, yep, we're gonna circle, and we'll just come back to Earth in about 30, 30 years.
Speaker 2:We got enough to deal with.
Speaker 3:yeah, that's the day.
Speaker 4:Yeah, we're good.
Speaker 3:There's enough crazy there. I don't know yeah.
Speaker 5:Craziest place Come to the USA.
Speaker 3:I don't know Like it's really not something that I would spend any time thinking about.
Speaker 4:I'm so intrigued with it.
Speaker 3:I could see you being intrigued about it. I am Because I mean let's think about this.
Speaker 4:You know one of the big conspiracy theories, like if you look at the pyramids and how they are constructed and when they were constructed and how big those massive pounds of whatever they and everything is precision, like, how does that happen? When the pyramids were created and in a I think they said a quarry 80 miles away, brought and like none of them are even like half an inch Out of line, out of line, and it's north, south, east and west is the precise. I don't know, I just think it's fascinating.
Speaker 4:Yeah, I haven't figured out my thoughts on it yet, but honestly at this point, in the way our world is, I laugh with my friends all the time. If I came home and Bigfoot and an alien were sitting on my back porch, I'd be like cheers, let's grab some tea nose.
Speaker 3:Oh yeah, we're gonna be afraid of an alien. I mean, I love DT, I mean, but at this point like what else?
Speaker 4:What else is there Like, yeah, not anything really surprises me.
Speaker 2:Actually you were banned to not ask about leprechauns with our Irish guests, so this time I guess your band had to ask the best alien in the world, I mean.
Speaker 4:I mean I'm a military guest, all right, someone just needs to kick me because you know I'm gonna be like mm. Ufo.
Speaker 5:UFO, UFO. So if he says, does anyone?
Speaker 4:have any like pertinent questions?
Speaker 2:Yes, hands up.
Speaker 4:Yes, I need to know. Did you ever see a UFO?
Speaker 2:So, speaking of next week's guests, I'm excited about him. So he has retired Lieutenant Colonel Jason Pike. I think he's had over 30 years in the Army.
Speaker 1:Yes.
Speaker 2:He's written a couple of books.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:One to help people readjust to the civilian life, but also just a story of his time in the military and a lot of struggles he faced. I think he's gonna be really great.
Speaker 3:That's amazing yeah.
Speaker 2:I know I do.
Speaker 4:I think it's because I mean, they do you hear about the struggles and of our vets and what they come home to and having to readjust into being a civilian and regular life? And I mean I can't even imagine, because if you are in a position of life and death almost all the time and then you come back to a world that how do you even like, how do you relate to that? And you see so many of our veterans. You know they struggle.
Speaker 5:They do yeah.
Speaker 4:How could you not Addiction so many horror stories? I know and I just sometimes feel that they just don't get the respect that they deserve. So I just think the fact that we get to talk to somebody who has given his life for service for so long and how he did come back and integrate back into just, I mean, I hate to say normal like life, but you know, to a life that he did. That's not what he was living Right In these different situations.
Speaker 3:That would be definitely interesting to hear.
Speaker 4:And that he's so positive and he want and so motivational.
Speaker 2:So when his book is Soldier Against All Odds to and it talks about just his story in the military but also the physical and academic struggles he faced and to be as successful as he was over the years. So it would be pretty interesting. I know I'm excited.
Speaker 4:God bless, yeah, seriously.
Speaker 2:Yes, so grateful for the service of all of this Always.
Speaker 3:Oh my gosh, they're incredible. On a much lighter note, though, not to end on that, because have you seen?
Speaker 4:Oh, why do I do it? I feel like here's a pivot. There we go. Here's a pivot.
Speaker 3:It's kind of on the same lines what is it when you, what is it when your? Forced like conscription, what do you call that here? What there's a term like when you're forced to sign up.
Speaker 4:Oh, draft Draft. Okay, is it about the Middle East women?
Speaker 3:No, just women in general. Now my feminist side is like that's disgraceful, but my fun side is going this is hilarious. So there's on TikTok at the moment there's a whole list of reasons, oh, why women can't be drafted, or the excuses that they're giving to not be drafted, and there are some of the funny. You're kidding.
Speaker 4:I have no idea. The only ones I've seen is about okay. So are we Gen Z or Gen X?
Speaker 3:I always get the two Gen X X yeah.
Speaker 4:And it's a lady, so that's what I thought you were going to talk about because she's like okay, what, we're middle late, like draft us. I mean we have minivans, we can carpool, oh, that's true. And she's like we don't sleep anyway because we're in menopause, so we're hot all the time, so we can totally be in the desert. Yeah, we're pissed at everybody, we hate everybody because, again, we're in menopause, so give us a gun, we'll kill some people Absolutely. Why don't you just absolutely drive us? And again she said because we have minivans and we can carpool and minivans and tanks are the same thing.
Speaker 4:Right, but I guess that's where I thought you were good, I saw her last night
Speaker 3:and I literally was just absolutely bad, I don't have to say that one, you have to say that one. Okay, now, this is about younger women. That's very thin, but I have a nail appointment.
Speaker 4:Oh yeah, there's no Starbucks in the middle of the desert.
Speaker 3:They're a drive-thru.
Speaker 4:Oh my God.
Speaker 2:That's very funny. That's healthy with you. That's so bad. I need to get a toilet seat so I'm out In your heated toilet seat, oh you would be out for sure.
Speaker 3:Well, the sand would do that I can't wear heels.
Speaker 2:You can't wear heels. You can't wear heels. No, I bet Ashley forgot a way to wear heels in the sand, my boots would be badass.
Speaker 5:They would be, they would be, they would.
Speaker 3:I mean just don't ask me to run, you have to laugh, you'd cry. I mean, I can't even imagine. Yeah, I can't even imagine what they go through. No, Again.
Speaker 4:Yeah, so that's making light, but yes, we have to look at those two things the girls now and everything they need, and then the ones that are middle-aged Right, and she was like we'll totally do it, we'll do it, we'll do it. We'll do it, we're ready. Like again. She's like we're just pissed all the time, so just send us a message.
Speaker 4:We'll be, fine, we'll be fine. Give us a go, she's like don't even have to give us a gun, we got tons in our safe we're fine, we're good, we got camouflage, don't worry about it.
Speaker 1:I could choose yeah.
Speaker 2:God. Anyway, that was yeah, yeah, I wouldn't cut it. Come out, yeah no, I couldn't.
Speaker 5:We'll definitely have to ask our guests about that yeah yeah. It's like what do you think about this? What do you think about this? Should we sign up? I know how successful would we be Exactly how?
Speaker 4:many days would you give us during boot camp?
Speaker 5:Ashley, we do it just to get the UFO info and tell.
Speaker 4:Oh, I would need to get some clearance, yep, but absolutely.
Speaker 5:You're like I'll go. I need to be up.
Speaker 3:I don't like to sweat, so I wouldn't be like well because you know I don't think you take shots.
Speaker 4:I mean, I know it sounds so crazy. Yeah, Don't take showers.
Speaker 2:I know, Take showers. I have to at some point take showers. I mean no, no, no, no, no. I'm sorry to point At some point you do, but it's just a completely different life.
Speaker 5:Oh God yeah. Yeah, and just to make this full circle, they definitely poop in front of each other. That would have to be a thing. Well then, we've got a problem. I know, that's what I'm saying.
Speaker 3:But if you're ever arrested, that's going to be a problem too, if you end up in a jail cell.
Speaker 2:That's going to be a problem, that's true. Oh gosh, you're just with bars, like you're not supposed to.
Speaker 3:Everybody can see a poop In jail. Yes, I mean, you don't get a putty. Break the putty's in your cell. Have you not watched?
Speaker 5:any movies and there's cameras 24-7 over there.
Speaker 4:No I don't think movies would have shown someone pooping in the middle of a cell.
Speaker 1:I don't think so. No, I've seen in prison. That's what.
Speaker 3:I'm saying, sir, but they have.
Speaker 4:I mean, it's like, just like them.
Speaker 3:Oh, you don't get your private suite.
Speaker 4:No.
Speaker 3:What movies are you watching?
Speaker 5:She's in a port-a-potty. That's got the life. I'm sorry, the Wolf of Monk Street, my cell has an ensuite.
Speaker 4:My cell has the heat and toilet seat. I feel like an asshole. I'm sorry, I just.
Speaker 3:I could see, though, you'd be the scary one in the jail. They'll let you. They'll let you. Yes, you'll have your own ensuite. I mean, I can't go bat shit. Oh, I'm sure you can, no problem.
Speaker 4:I mean, if I need to, if I need to go Tasmanian double it's fine, I can do that.
Speaker 5:People will be like I am not staying with her. I mean she's talking to aliens for God's sake.
Speaker 3:She's a wackajoo doll, and she poops so loud.
Speaker 4:No, I'm going to start singing. Yes.
Speaker 3:You're going to have your cellmate sing while you poop, exactly, oh please.
Speaker 4:Lord do not let me.
Speaker 3:Heat my seat and sing.
Speaker 4:Where's the hairdryer? Why do I feel like that's the title?
Speaker 3:I don't think they give me a hairdryer, as in your cell.
Speaker 5:All right, Satrisha, that's our title.
Speaker 4:Heat my seat and sing, I don't know how this happens every time, and bring me Tino's while you're at it, I need some contraband.
Speaker 5:Tino's oh yeah, you'd get us, you'd get us, yes.
Speaker 4:Oh, my goodness.
Speaker 5:Yep.
Speaker 4:I don't, I mean I don't, I need to like, just mine my own business, because I do not think they'll then cut out.
Speaker 3:No, no, no, no, no for prison or the army, apparently.
Speaker 5:None of the above.
Speaker 3:None of the above.
Speaker 4:All right, I'm just going to stay here with Sova Talk. Yeah, perfect.
Speaker 2:You want to say that line.
Speaker 4:Yeah, my wine and in my stores and just be grateful that I can poop by myself.
Speaker 3:Correct. That's the perfect way to end this.
Speaker 4:There we go, yes, to self-poop, heat my seat and sing Cheers, cheers.
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