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everybody and welcome back to Over

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40 and Child Free. We're

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on episode 42.

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Good job Trace. Thank you. Thank you. Waiting.

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Nailed that intro. I'm getting

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good with my counting. Aw,

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that's so good. How you doing?

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Oh, you know, another

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day in Paradise, living

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the Dream. Livin the dream.

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That's true. Yeah, it's

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been it's been a crazy Monday. Cause

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it's Monday. We normally record on Sun

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Recode. We normally record

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on Sunday, but Nicole was too

1:20

sleepy. I did. I needed

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my beauty rest. No, it gave

1:24

you a weird eye. I

1:29

have a popped blood vessel in my eye. And

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all she did was sleep. See, this is what happens

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when you turn over 40. You

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sleep too much and you get a popped blood vessel in

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your eye? Yes, you slept

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and you popped a blood vessel. I

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slept and apparently threw my shoulder

1:44

out that one time. Oh, that does

1:47

make sense that we're over 40 and that would happen.

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Because I've never had one in my life. No,

1:52

shit just falls apart, literally.

1:55

I actually, it doesn't make sense because today

1:57

at work, I like bent down to get

2:00

something. And then when I went to get up, like

2:02

I use my arm to help me lift myself

2:04

up and I hurt my shoulder.

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It hurt for a little bit. I was like, Ooh, that hurt.

2:08

Maybe I shouldn't do that. So that's where I

2:10

was feeling my age. Just falling

2:12

apart. I was saying earlier

2:14

that I needed to just take shots to

2:17

zone out for the day Maybe we just need to take

2:19

shots so we don't feel the pain Maybe

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I think if I take shots, I would work better if

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I took them at work. There you go I

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think I mean, you know, I have a few days left

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I know I'm super excited. You know what

2:30

I realized so for those of

2:32

you I don't know I gave my two weeks notice at

2:35

my job because I'm done with it. So

2:38

tomorrow Which is Tuesday

2:41

is my last full day because I leave early

2:43

on Wednesday, Thursday and on Friday

2:45

my exit interview is at 1230 and I'm done.

2:48

So I just need to get through

2:50

one more day of having nothing

2:52

to do. You can do it.

2:55

I can. Yeah. You can do it. That's. I don't

2:57

even have any words. That's how excited I am.

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So maybe if you go in

3:02

and just start taking shots at

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your work tomorrow, you won't

3:07

even have to go Wednesday, Thursday or Friday.

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Just send me home. They're going

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to be like, okay, you're done. You're

3:14

done. Yeah,

3:16

they're making me feel bad because the really nice

3:18

people that I work with, they really are. And the

3:20

company's going above and beyond to try

3:23

to keep me and try to find me another

3:25

position. But it's just not for me.

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Great company. Great people. My

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boss was super nice. She said if I needed a

3:31

reference, she would give me a reference.

3:35

So yeah, she really

3:37

likes me. What can I say? I'm awesome. I

3:39

mean, what's not to love? What

3:41

is not, but today was really

3:43

actually, it wasn't a terrible day and I do like

3:46

the people I work with. So maybe

3:49

you'll get cupcakes or something this week. Maybe,

3:52

maybe I will. So I work

3:54

with this one lady. She's super nice. She does,

3:56

as a matter of fact, she does the same thing I do. And

4:00

she loves to bake and cook and

4:02

she brings us in goodies all the time.

4:04

Today, she brought us in biscuits, homemade

4:08

biscuits, which were really delicious. So maybe

4:10

I'll let her know that I think she should bring me in cupcakes

4:12

on Friday. I think she should.

4:15

I'm going to work on that tomorrow. Yeah. I

4:18

mean, you don't have to say, Hey. Bring

4:20

me cupcakes. You could start

4:22

dropping little hints. Oh

4:24

no, I'm probably just going to be like, Hey Kim, I think you could

4:26

make me cupcakes on Friday. I think that'd

4:28

be really nice of you. And

4:31

we need to get them before 1230. Yeah,

4:33

and I have to have them before

4:36

I leave. So, so that works. So

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Thursday, I don't know, maybe

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I'm leaving early Thursday though. Well,

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not that I keep forgetting about Thursday

4:46

because I'm having a hard time

4:49

accepting the fact that we're leaving January

4:52

and going into February. And

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it doesn't help that our plans are for

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February 1st. So I really have

4:58

to focus on days this week because I keep

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forgetting we have plans, you know, that

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Mimi January, like. 74th.

5:05

I feel like this is January 774th.

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So it's not even a day. That's

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how long I feel like January has been going on.

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I did. I saw Mimi yesterday.

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I think that was like something

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like my new goals start in February

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because January was just a trial month. Yes.

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I'm going to see, I really, I think I shared

5:26

that Mimi and I really thought maybe February

5:28

one was going to be like a new. A new

5:30

year, but I don't think so. I think I might have to move it

5:32

out to March one. We'll see how that goes. might

5:35

still be going in April. We'll see what happens.

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April 1st will be like new year, new me.

5:40

You know, whatever, whatever first works, that's when it's

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going to happen. Maybe December

5:44

1st. Almost. I

5:46

mean, you never know. So

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yeah, I'm super excited. This week,

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we are going to go see Tom Segera

5:53

on Thursday. A few I can't

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wait. When was it that we When did we go

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to see Bert? End of November.

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Okay, so we saw Bert Kreischer in

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November. We're seeing Tom. This

6:06

week, and for anyone who doesn't

6:08

know, they are like best friends. They're

6:10

both comedians and best friends. They do a

6:12

podcast together. Their families know

6:14

each other. So I

6:16

think that we should stir up some drama

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on their Instagrams and

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decide who'd put on a better show,

6:25

and then tell them and make

6:27

them fight about it. I'm all for it.

6:29

We can try. We can do our best. I'm

6:31

pretty sure that they would see our post and

6:34

really, you know, Take

6:36

it to heart and yes, they'll

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be like, Oh my God, Nicole and Tracy posted. We'll

6:40

go viral. Absolutely. That's

6:43

what's going to happen. Well, now

6:45

we have to figure out who we're going to see next. I

6:48

really want to see Matt Reif. I'm still holding onto

6:50

that. You, you

6:52

cannot say it until you watch the Netflix

6:54

show. Oh, right. I have to get Netflix

6:56

and then watch it. But I just watched like his other funny

6:58

things and he's really funny. Was it crowd

7:01

work? Yeah, it was crowd work. See,

7:03

you gotta watch his stand up first, and

7:06

then we will discuss it. But if we go see

7:08

him in person, does he not do, like, on this

7:10

tour, I should ask. I know some people that went, we

7:12

should ask him if he tried to do stand up the entire

7:14

time, or if he actually did crowd work. I

7:16

think he does it. I

7:19

think he does it after the show,

7:21

maybe, because when I

7:23

watched it, like, they go through the credits, and

7:25

then they show little clips of him doing

7:27

it, so I have a feeling he does

7:29

his whole stand up, and then, or maybe

7:32

that's how he warms up the crowd, I don't know. But

7:34

I'm sure he does it. I just don't know for how long. Right.

7:37

I'm going to have to, I'm going to have to do some investigating

7:39

into this. And if you're listening to

7:42

us and you've seen Matt Reif in person,

7:44

come to our Facebook page and tell us more

7:47

about his show. Like, did he do the crowd

7:49

work mostly? Did he do standup? Was

7:51

he funny? I need to know. These are things

7:53

that are important things I need to know. Also,

7:55

cause not paying like a million dollars to see them.

7:58

So, you

8:00

know, that's why I even need more.

8:04

I will say, I don't know if it's

8:07

past, but I feel like it might be in April.

8:09

Bill Burr is going to be around. Oh,

8:11

maybe we should see him too. He's funny.

8:13

He is. And he's like the trio.

8:15

He's also in the friend zone

8:18

with them. Then I feel like we might need

8:20

to look him up and see what's going on there.

8:22

Yeah, we could do that. He might be in Atlantic

8:25

City. I don't know. He had

8:27

like two tours. Once he was in Reading,

8:29

once he was in Atlantic City, but I don't remember.

8:32

Which has passed and which is coming. Alright,

8:34

we'll have to, we'll have to look into that. We'll do some, that's

8:37

fine. We'll do some investigating on that as well.

8:41

We need a plan C

8:43

for comedians.

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Ha ha ha. You're

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hilarious. I'm so

8:49

funny. You

8:52

didn't need it and I'm that good. Aww,

8:56

hilarious. I'm I'm hilarious.

8:59

So I'm dying over here.

9:02

I could see you just laughing your ass off

9:04

contain yourself. Literally

9:07

laughing my ass off. So

9:09

yeah, so I did sleep all day yesterday and I missed

9:11

the football games and I'm kind of

9:13

bummed about it. Did you watch

9:15

any of the Kansas City Ravens game? I

9:18

did watch it. They sucked. And then

9:20

I felt, and then I went to sleep. Yeah,

9:23

cause I felt like we were texting a little bit through

9:25

there. That was disappointing.

9:27

And then you missed the good game. I know.

9:30

That's the game I really wanted to see. And I,

9:32

I was so uncomfortable sitting on my couch. I was like,

9:34

I'm going to go sit in my bed. Like, cause I have

9:36

one of the beds where it sits up. And I thought

9:38

maybe that would help. But once I got

9:41

into my bed, I laid down and I was like, no,

9:43

I'm really comfy. I'll just put on the game, And

9:45

I don't even think. I didn't even make

9:47

it to kickoff. I was out. Oh,

9:50

wow. Yes, it was very exciting.

9:52

The Lions dominated

9:54

the first half. Like, it

9:57

was almost like this isn't

9:59

even a contest anymore. And

10:01

then I'm not sure what happened at

10:03

halftime, but the

10:05

Niners came out ready to go.

10:08

And there were some controversial

10:11

fourth down calls by the Lions

10:13

coach. He decided to be a hard

10:15

ass and he was He's going to go for

10:17

it and we were talking a little bit about

10:19

this and I do think that's kind

10:21

of his coaching. What's

10:25

the word I'm looking for? His

10:28

coaching MO? Yeah,

10:30

his coaching. You know what

10:32

I'm trying to say. I know what you're trying to say. It's what

10:34

he does. And, but

10:36

it's just so sad. They were doing so well.

10:39

And the, so the

10:41

fans actually went to the Lions

10:43

stadium to watch the

10:45

game. Oh, that's so fun. It

10:48

was sold out. Really?

10:51

Yes, they sold it at the Lions

10:53

Stadium for people that just wanted to

10:55

go watch it at the stadium.

10:58

I think that would be so much fun.

11:00

I think that should be something that happens all the time.

11:03

I agree. I kind

11:05

of wanted to be there and I'm not even a Lions fan.

11:08

Bless you. Bless

11:11

you. Bless

11:15

you. I feel like

11:17

we're on repeat right now. Bless

11:19

you. Anyway.

11:23

I think that is something they should do all the

11:25

time. I would totally want to go and watch

11:27

my team in the playoffs. If I, because I couldn't

11:29

go to the game. I probably couldn't afford to

11:31

go to the game, but to go and watch it,

11:33

that would be so much fun. It probably would have been more fun if they

11:35

won the game. Yeah.

11:38

But I still think that would be a lot of fun. But it had

11:41

to be exciting, like, just being surrounded by all the fans,

11:43

like, because it was in San Francisco,

11:45

so being there as a Lions fan probably

11:47

wasn't as much fun, even when they

11:49

were winning, just because you're not around

11:51

a bunch of people. But being

11:54

there had to be some, and I think it was like reasonable.

11:56

I want to say it was like 25. They were charging

11:59

people. That's all they should charge people

12:01

for that. Come on now. So

12:03

I think teams should, I think teams

12:05

across the across all sports

12:07

should think about doing that. I

12:10

agree. Now they are, they're an indoor

12:13

stadium, aren't they? Oh yes, probably.

12:16

Yeah. So that might make a difference if

12:18

people wanting to go sit and watch it

12:20

in the cold. Maybe I don't

12:22

want to pay 25 if I'm a Buffalo Bills

12:24

fan to go sit in the snow covered stadium while

12:27

they play somewhere else. I

12:30

mean, those crazy

12:32

ass fans, not only went

12:34

and sat in a snow covered stadium and

12:36

were literally like pushing snow out of their

12:38

way to get to their seats, but they also

12:40

went prior to the game to shovel the damn

12:42

thing out. That is true. I would have

12:44

been really pissed if I did that though. And

12:46

then they lost. I don't know why they can't win a game.

12:49

I did have to laugh because I

12:51

still continue to, I

12:53

think I was explaining. Jason

12:55

Kelsey to somebody yesterday. I forget

12:58

who it was and obviously

13:00

not a huge football fan and

13:04

I was saying, oh, you know, not only

13:06

what did he do the whole take a shirt off

13:08

and jump out of the suite, but he

13:10

was in the parking lot. Beforehand

13:13

doing shots out of a bowling

13:15

ball. And I read somewhere,

13:18

I think it was his wife on like good

13:20

morning America or something said his

13:22

goal was to go through a table. Didn't

13:26

know, kind of disappointed that he didn't do it. I'm

13:29

disappointed that the Bills fans weren't like,

13:32

let's go. I want Jason Kelsey

13:34

to fucking smash a table.

13:36

Right? That's what I think. I also

13:38

think his wife said he, he went out of the thing

13:41

like six times with like, he kept

13:43

going in and out of his suite like six times

13:45

or something like that. Cause she started to feel bad

13:47

for the security that had to be there. Oh

13:50

Jesus. You know, cause people

13:52

were trying to, obviously they were like crowding around

13:55

and. But he did some

13:57

really cute things. I saw a whole story

13:59

about how like a couple rows down,

14:02

there was this little kid, I want to say she was

14:04

six or seven and she had

14:06

like an, I love Taylor sign. And

14:09

he got her and like picked her up and brought

14:12

her up to the window of the suite

14:14

so that Taylor Swift could wave to her.

14:17

And seriously, like made this kid's

14:19

life That's so sweet. So

14:22

he's a good guy. Do you like Jason

14:24

Kelsey? I don't like the Eagles, but I like

14:26

Jason Kelsey. Yes. He is the

14:28

one good thing about the Eagles, and that is, you

14:30

know why all they'll ever get from me? You know why?

14:33

Because fuck Lane Johnson Nicole's

14:37

favorite eagle. I hate him.

14:40

I don't think he's having fun, Nicole. I don't think he's having, I

14:42

don't think he's having a good time at all. I think

14:44

he can suck it. So,

14:47

yeah, so I missed football weekend, but

14:49

now I'm looking forward to the Superbowl. I will stay

14:51

awake for that, even though I'm going to stay

14:53

awake in hopes the 49ers are going to win.

14:55

Sorry if we have any Chiefs fans listening,

14:58

but go Niners, go hot Bosa.

15:02

Hot Bosa. It's funny

15:04

too, cause I was posting about the games

15:06

on Facebook last night and it's

15:09

funny how people decide

15:11

who they're going to cheer for. So

15:13

I hadn't put together that. The

15:18

Ravens are in the same

15:20

division as the

15:22

Steelers. So

15:24

they were all like gung ho,

15:26

let's go Chiefs. And I'm like, how could you root for

15:29

the Chiefs? And they were like, well, and

15:31

now they're rooting for the Chiefs because

15:34

I guess if the Niners win, they'll have as

15:36

many Superbowl rings as the

15:38

Steelers. So, yeah, I saw

15:40

this, I saw this one Mimi and it was like,

15:42

who's. Cheering for who?

15:44

And basically it was the whole

15:47

country cheering for

15:49

the Ravens, except for like Kansas

15:51

city and the, and

15:53

Pennsylvania. And I'm like, why is Pennsylvania

15:56

cheering for that makes sense. And

15:59

I was like, okay, can we split Pennsylvania

16:01

in half and only make half of it red?

16:03

Cause that is not the same on this side.

16:05

No, I'm pretty sure that, that

16:08

no, I don't know anybody cheering for the chiefs in

16:10

Pennsylvania. Except for, I guess, it

16:12

makes sense, but at some point, you just gotta, you

16:14

gotta do it for the greater good. Like, the bills were,

16:17

are in my division. And I was

16:19

like, go Bills, beat the Chiefs, fuck

16:21

them. Yeah,

16:23

take that. So we'll see.

16:26

So we'll see. It's in two weeks now? Yeah,

16:29

two weeks. We gotta plan our big Super

16:31

Bowl party. Ah yes, our party

16:33

o three. I can't

16:35

wait to see Let's see how much food we can get. I

16:37

was just gonna say, I can't wait to see what kind

16:40

of food we plan for. Tracy

16:42

and I love to have, Parties and we call

16:44

them parties. It's party 03, usually

16:46

me, my husband and Tracy,

16:49

and we plan like we're going to be feeding

16:51

like 30 people instead of three people.

16:54

Yes. It's very

16:56

interesting. No,

17:01

we don't listen. It's a food holiday. Our teams are

17:03

not in it. So there's gotta be something

17:05

exciting and it's the food. I'm just saying.

17:08

We'll call it a Foodality

17:11

Day. Foodala Day. Okay.

17:14

Is that what we'll call it? I

17:16

think maybe we'll rethink that name. We'll

17:19

just go Super Bowl Sunday. I

17:21

think we're going to call it a

17:24

food a la day. Okay,

17:26

food a la day. I like it. I

17:29

mean, I might just stick with Super Bowl Sunday, but

17:31

you know, whatever, whatever.

17:33

I mean, have a little fun, Nicole.

17:36

I never have any fun. I hate fun. You're

17:39

going to come over and it's just going to be like, welcome

17:41

to the food holiday. What

17:43

exactly are you going to do to make it a food holiday

17:46

outside of all the food that we're going to have? Like, are there

17:48

specific decorations for a food holiday,

17:51

food holiday? I'm going to make a

17:53

sign. Oh, okay. There

17:55

better be a sign when I get to your house, obviously.

17:58

And by a sign, I'm going to take a piece of

18:00

computer paper and write food

18:03

holiday on it. I'm

18:06

going to be so disappointed if there's no sign, just

18:08

so you know. I'm going to put a welcome

18:11

sign on the, on my front door. Perfect.

18:13

There better be. It's a food holiday. Yeah.

18:16

A food holiday. That's very hard

18:18

to say. It is. I will not come into your

18:20

house if there's not a welcome to the food holiday.

18:23

You're going to be like, like, we have to leave. Can't

18:25

go in. Taking my food and leaving.

18:28

I'm going to make sure that I have all the food so

18:30

you have to come in. Okay. I

18:33

love our plans. I think it's going to work

18:35

out really well. I mean, at least we

18:37

do things normally. We are super normal.

18:40

Like out of all the people in the world, we're

18:43

like normal. Normal,

18:45

normal. Well, speaking

18:47

of normal, I listened to

18:49

this really, I listened to another podcast today.

18:52

Shailene Johnson. Do you know her? I

18:54

do. You love her. I do love her.

18:56

Well, she has a couple of podcasts, but one of her

18:58

podcasts, it's just about her life. Kind of just like ours,

19:01

just like talking and stuff. She

19:03

talked about perimenopause and all

19:05

the symptoms. She went over like 35 symptoms

19:07

of perimenopause. I

19:10

think I had all 35 of them. It

19:12

was like. Yeah. Check. Got that.

19:14

Got that. But she did

19:16

say that

19:19

she also talked about how the menopause is

19:21

one day. Remember, we learned that menopause is

19:23

like that one day and then it's post

19:25

menopause. And

19:27

she talked about, um, she's

19:29

talking about how magnesium. because I know that's

19:31

our favorite thing. Magnesium, magnesium.

19:34

Whenever I heard her say it, I just, whenever I hear magnesium,

19:37

I just hear you yelling magnesium. So

19:39

I heard that in my head today, but anyway, so she

19:41

was saying that helps some of the symptoms, but

19:44

I was coming to think that I think that I'm

19:46

almost probably. Coming upon

19:48

a year that I haven't had my period.

19:52

I wish I tracked it better. Yeah

19:56

It's gonna be like maybe not sooner but

19:58

like within the next couple maybe like

20:01

by the summertime Okay,

20:03

if I don't I think that so,

20:06

but anyway, she was talking about the different I wanted to go

20:08

back and listen to what

20:10

she was talking about because she was also talking

20:12

about the new

20:15

I guess like Improvements

20:18

they made on, like, hormone replacement therapy.

20:20

So I guess, like, in the past, it hasn't been

20:22

that great and people try to kind

20:24

of stay away from it. So

20:26

I'm actually wanted to look into kind

20:29

of see that because she was saying how she had it.

20:31

She did it and it really helped her

20:33

since almost stuff like that. So, I guess that's kind

20:35

of, I think, maybe a question of the week this week.

20:37

Has anybody had therapy that's willing

20:40

to share about it? And if

20:42

it's been recent. Bye. Bye. Bye. And like what their thoughts

20:44

are, because she said there's been some changes. She

20:46

was also talking about some all natural things you

20:48

could do. And I didn't, I don't think I made it to that.

20:50

I had to pause the podcast. So I didn't make it

20:52

to that point in it yet, but that

20:55

made me, I never really thought about it and I didn't realize

20:57

that there was like issues with. Yeah,

21:05

I mean, number one, people respond to it

21:07

differently because I remember and if

21:09

there's updates and it's better, that would

21:11

be great because when I finally

21:14

have my surgery, because I put it off

21:16

this year, I put it off this year to go see her.

21:20

Nice. I mean, perfect.

21:23

So um, one of

21:25

the reasons that they want to leave my

21:27

ovaries is that so when I wake

21:29

up, I don't go right into menopause because

21:31

then they'd have to put me on the hormone therapy

21:34

because I don't know why I don't fully

21:36

understand. I mean, I'm kind of like, once you

21:38

hit it, isn't it? Done?

21:41

I don't know. But anyway, that was the

21:43

big thing and she was like, I don't want to put you on

21:45

that so young and there's complications.

21:48

I think one of the complications actually

21:50

has to do with like increased, um,

21:53

risk of breast cancer. Oh,

21:56

okay. So,

21:58

you know, with the whole family history

22:00

and why we're doing all of this, that didn't make

22:03

sense. So there was a lot of factors

22:05

involved, but again, this was two years

22:07

ago that I had this discussion with my

22:09

OBGYN. So that'd be

22:11

interesting because my goal again

22:13

is next November. Okay.

22:16

So let's not go see convenience.

22:18

At least we'll do it before November.

22:21

Yeah. So I thought it was interesting, but it was, it was

22:23

really funny as she was listing off all of the things. things.

22:25

I was like, yep, I have that. I have that.

22:27

I have that. I have that. I'm

22:30

definitely in perimenopause. That's for sure.

22:33

But what I did not, what I didn't really know. So

22:35

if I hit, once you hit postmenopause, do you still

22:37

have all these symptoms or like, that's

22:41

where I get confused. And you did a whole

22:43

episode on this. Maybe we should go back and re listen

22:46

to our own episode, but

22:48

I think there, but most people,

22:50

once they, get through it,

22:52

that's when they go back to normal, I thought, which

22:54

is where I got confused as to

22:58

once I came out of the surgery,

23:00

I would be in menopause,

23:03

but that doesn't make sense. If my ovaries are gone,

23:05

how would I, like, wouldn't I just be past

23:08

the crappy part and into the home

23:10

free part? Right. So are you,

23:12

are we really home free? Cause I feel like listening to

23:14

Shailene, cause she was in. She's

23:17

in menopause or post menopause.

23:20

And she said her life was great, but, but she

23:22

really said it because she, like, I thought she was saying

23:24

it because she had done

23:26

all, like, she was doing these things. She had

23:28

taken steps to make herself feel better. Like

23:30

she takes the magnesium. She takes like

23:32

a CBD gummy to go to sleep.

23:34

Like she does all of these things so that her

23:37

sleep is better and her whatever's better.

23:39

But I didn't know, is that what's making it better?

23:41

Or Once you hit post

23:44

menopause, do you just kind of like go back to normal?

23:46

Like that's why I wasn't really following her.

23:48

And then I didn't think we really got that deep into

23:51

what menopause was, what post

23:53

menopause was on our, just

23:56

that there was post menopause. Because

23:58

the peri to me

24:01

is where all hell breaks loose in your

24:03

body. And then.

24:05

Once you hit that post, I

24:07

feel like you go back to your normal, your

24:10

normal crazy self. Oh, I love

24:12

it. I want to go back to my, I'd rather go back to my normal

24:14

crazy self. She said perimenopause

24:16

could last like 10 years. I was like, holy

24:18

shit. Oh yeah. Yeah.

24:21

It's not. I'm pretty sure I'm on year like

24:23

three. Yeah, I'm definitely

24:25

a few years in the,

24:28

my favorite part now is

24:32

my night sweats are at like

24:34

an all time high. I wake up and I'm

24:36

literally like dripping in

24:38

my shirt. Like I'm wringing it out at

24:40

one point. It's I'm knocking on wood because

24:43

I haven't had night sweats in a while.

24:45

Knock on wood really. And my sleep's

24:47

been pretty good. Oh,

24:50

my sleep's been horrible.

24:52

If I sleep more than two hours at a time,

24:54

it's exciting. I

24:58

sleep like, I have, I get too much sleep at

25:00

this point. I'm like sleeping way too much. I'm

25:02

like, okay. You sleep so much, you

25:04

burst an eye, eye vessel.

25:07

I know that's right. Can you see

25:09

it? It's crazy. I can see it freaks me out.

25:11

I looked in the mirror this morning

25:13

and I was like, Whoa, what is that? It

25:17

is quite alarming. It is.

25:19

But anyway yeah, so I thought that was interesting.

25:22

I was, it made me really think that I should

25:24

have tracked, because I never tracked my period. I

25:26

just always was like, oh, when it comes, it comes. But

25:28

I don't think I ever tracked when the last

25:30

time I had it was, which I think was like the

25:32

summertime. So I think I'm Yeah,

25:35

if you get really bored one day

25:38

Start scrolling back through our texts because

25:40

I normally get a text. That's like, I

25:44

went to the bathroom and it looked like I murdered somebody.

25:46

Yes. Because I only get my period

25:49

for like 3 days. So it definitely looks like I

25:51

murder somebody you

25:53

murdered your vagina. I did

25:55

I murdered my vagina and my and the family of

25:57

my vagina for sure. Did

25:59

you say the family of your vagina? Of my

26:02

vagina, yes. Just wanted to

26:04

make sure. Just wanted to make sure I heard

26:06

that correctly. Yes, if my vagina has a family,

26:08

I murdered them too. Wow,

26:11

you really, you know, took it to your vagina.

26:13

I did, that's what I'm saying. In that vagina.

26:17

But then it goes away really much sooner than,

26:19

than like a day later pretty much nothing,

26:21

and then it's done, so. I

26:25

do have to say, because I know everybody

26:27

is, is wanting to know this. Remember how

26:29

I was having the problem with like,

26:31

just bleeding throughout the whole month and

26:34

no rhyme or reason to it. And my doctor

26:36

switched me to a different type of pill

26:38

that like disperses the hormones

26:40

differently. And I literally was

26:42

laying in bed last night cause I couldn't sleep. And

26:46

I thought to myself. I

26:48

think I'm on month two of that not

26:50

happening. Oh, nice. So

26:52

it's working for you. I think it's working.

26:55

Yay. And no clamps. Not

26:58

more than normal. Okay, well that's good

27:01

then, right? Because this is not why you take it. So

27:03

that's good. Yes, I was so excited.

27:05

I was so excited as, as I realized

27:07

that last night. So I'm going to really pay

27:09

attention next month

27:12

and see if I'm not making this up and I

27:14

just forgot this month. Because that's always

27:16

a possibility too. But yes, super

27:18

excited about that. That would

27:20

be awesome. That would be exciting news. I

27:23

need to make an appointment with my OBGYN.

27:25

Cause now I need to discuss my

27:28

perimenopause and all of these things. And

27:31

I really want to test you. I think,

27:33

I don't know if it tells you what, if

27:35

you're in a certain stage, but it can tell

27:37

you if you're in perimenopause because

27:40

I had had that discussion with my OB

27:42

as well, but in

27:45

order to get that test, I couldn't be on

27:47

the pill. And I was like, yeah, that's not going

27:49

to happen. So good. I'm

27:51

not, so maybe I can get it. You can tell me about

27:53

my hormone levels and all that kind of stuff. So

27:55

I think I'm going to do that. That's on my list of

27:58

doctors to see. Wouldn't that

28:00

be exciting? It would be.

28:02

So I'll, I'll make sure everybody stays up to date

28:04

on that. Everybody

28:06

loves to hear about you murdering your

28:09

vagina family and my

28:11

bleeding status. Who doesn't

28:13

want to know these things? My poor

28:16

dad. So my mom will listen to the podcast

28:18

and have it playing. And my poor dad,

28:20

the one time was like, yeah, I know a little too much

28:22

about you now. Sorry,

28:26

dad. Just, it's what happens. What

28:29

can you do? Sorry to any other guys

28:31

out there that are listening, looking at you, Jamie,

28:34

never thought you would know this much about me. Did you?

28:37

So yeah, so I think that's a great

28:39

question though, because I

28:42

know we've talked about it in the group a little bit

28:44

before, but we never really dove into

28:46

the hormone replacement therapy. I

28:48

do feel like somebody posted

28:51

some sort of supplement. So

28:54

I think we should definitely start a post. Maybe

28:57

we could pin it. Oh

28:59

yeah. And then that way to scroll

29:01

back now to find it would be hard,

29:03

but that could be a good thing to

29:05

do in the group. Sounds like a plan.

29:08

All right. I like this idea. All right.

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29:31

right. I said it like, I said it like I was going to add something,

29:34

but then I didn't add anything. Yeah, you just kind of stopped and I was waiting

29:37

and that was it. Okay.

29:39

Way to wrap it up, Nicole. I'm

29:43

good at that. All

29:45

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29:50

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29:52

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