Laughing Through Life's Quirks: From Public Spaces to Strip Club Stories

What gives you the ICK? Ever been trapped in an empty lobby, only to have someone sit right next to you? You're not alone! Join us as we laugh through the relatable quirks of public spaces that drive us all up the wall, from the orchestra of loud eaters to those who park just a smidge too close for comfort. We'll share some of our tried-and-true strategies for staying sane in these situations and laugh about how our childhood food aversions have hilariously done a 180 into our adult favorites.

On a completely different note, let's unwrap some wild strip club tales that promise both hilarity and heart. Picture a club with a pirate ship façade and a duo of the best wings you've ever tasted as we recount stories from behind the bar and the fascinating people we've met along the way. We even take a fun detour into the world of playful stripper names and reveal anecdotes from a documentary project in Tampa that shines a light on this misunderstood industry, complete with some unforgettable interactions.

Our adventure wouldn’t be complete without a dash of spice from the sex-positive world. Expect amusing stories like a Christmas lingerie gift gone rogue and the joy of bonding over "happy mail" exchanges within our community. We wrap it all up with self-love reminders and a cheeky offer of a sticker for surviving our episodes without needing a bathroom break. So, settle in for a rollercoaster of laughter, insight, and empowerment!

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Chapters

• 0:00 Food Preferences and Thanksgiving Traditions
• 11:22 Strip Club Stories and Stripper Names
• 22:29 Sharing Stories and Sex Positivity
• 35:29 Empowerment and Self-Love

Transcript

Jen: 0:08

So, jen, we've talked about all kinds of happy things with you and we've talked about, you know, things that bring you joy. We've done a lot. Now I want to know what gives you the it Public spaces, when you're out, when people place things. What gives you the?

Andi: 0:23

it. So many things, so many things. My biggest one is I cannot, for the life of me, stand the sound of people eating, cannot stand it. If you are remotely near me and I hear you nibbling on something, your teeth hitting the fork, I literally want to jump and just take that fork and put it in your forehead. I really do. I'm so sorry. Tell us how you really feel.

Jen: 0:49

Eat crunchy food, I will have so many forks in my head. I only eat crunchy food when I'm eating many forks in my head.

Andi: 0:54

I only eat crunchy food when I'm eating with people. I do find in restaurants we have music, we have noise. When I'm at home it's so quiet. What I started doing is, when my husband's not home, I turn on Alexa and I play music. He does not like that. When he's home, I turn on the TV in the other room and I leave it playing, because as long as I have that noise going, it keeps me calm. I don't want to kill people. Yeah, wrestling chips I hear you like digging in the chips.

Ali: 1:18

I'm like just pour the chips into a bowl. I don't like smacking like that, I can't handle. And talking with your mouth open I don't like that either.

Linnea: 1:26

Like I'm a please. I don't like the fork sound, my father-in-law doesn't, and it's like.

Jen: 1:32

It's like fingernails on a chalkboard yeah, that, yeah mine is sucking of the teeth, I just want to knock your teeth through the back of your throat. You just spend like a whole hour just like get some gloss, get a water, pick, work your teeth do everything but suck your teeth for 45 stress minutes. What are we doing?

Linnea: 1:52

what are we?

Jen: 1:52

doing the first time. It was cool. You're enjoying it the second time and now we're on the hour post meal. You're enjoying it again and you're sliding it around in your mouth with your tongue and I get to watch it and I don't like that and I'll just watch you.

Andi: 2:06

No, I, I hear you and exactly I have crooked teeth. Stuff gets stuck in there. I hate sandwiches in public because then I feel like I have to go to the bathroom. But that's the thing. Go to the you went to.

Jen: 2:17

You went to the bathroom where people do those things and look at their teeth. You're not just at the table while someone is eating, just elbow deep in your mouth hole trying to get whatever out of your molar like it's just too much, too much.

Linnea: 2:33

Oh, my god, oh my God, my, it is in public. I can't stand people that get too close to me, don't.

Andi: 2:38

That was going to be mine yes not ever.

Jen: 2:40

I don't.

Linnea: 2:40

I don't want you. I don't want to feel your breath on the back of my neck. Like, so real, how about?

Ali: 2:48

when people come up to your face when they're talking to you like even like friends. I would not care about friends, but in public. When you just met me, this happened a lot during COVID and I felt like people were trying to make a statement. But when they get up right in your face talking to you and I'm like you don't need to be that close enough to keep you all in your.

Linnea: 3:06

You have to sit by me when there's six chairs across the lobby that's empty, with nobody else. Why do you sit by me when it's just the two of us in the lobby?

Jen: 3:15

so it starts for me in the parking lot. Why did you park that to me? It would be a whole parking lot full of empty parking spaces, and then I will. Starts there, right next to me, but a whole bunch of empty parking spaces, 105 parking spaces that are empty. You chose right next to me, why?

Andi: 3:34

and then then we get into the doctor's office and now back up, back up, top of them, parking right next to you. They come in at like that weird angle and they're angled right at you.

Linnea: 3:44

So you can barely even get in yeah, they're like a psychopath.

Andi: 3:47

I used to have a lot of things you. You would leave little notes and tell something I have that Say you are like a shit person or something.

Ali: 3:59

It's like cuter than that. I have them and you can put them on people's car. I got them for Christmas.

Andi: 4:04

I think I need a little Snoopy doing a big old poop.

Linnea: 4:08

Make sure not to park by Jenny.

Andi: 4:11

Yeah, we'll have cards.

Jen: 4:13

What food did you hate as a child but you love now as an adult? What food mine is? Brussels sprouts. Hated them, shit. This kid loved them now and yeah hated asparagus.

Linnea: 4:25

I did not like the texture or anything and my husband made some and I'm like I made him buy asparagus yesterday the store because I was craving it. Now Like I crave it now.

Andi: 4:36

I do. Second, though, the Brussels sprouts and the asparagus and the sweet potatoes. I didn't like any of that. As a kid, my mom would make Thanksgiving. I thought it was disgusting.

Jen: 4:48

I love them all now, especially air fried. Wait, asparagus for Thanksgiving Kill Paul's hair, but that's not traditionally black. So now I'm intrigued. Asparagus for Thanksgiving Killed paws there, but that's not traditionally black so now I'm intrigued.

Andi: 4:54

Asparagus for Thanksgiving. Yeah, at our house she would get out all the meat, cheese and pickles and snacks, but she would steam asparagus. We'd also have mashed potatoes and gravy, we'd have sweet potatoes, like all the traditional things, but she did steam asparagus. Hmm.

Jen: 5:10

I didn't know that.

Andi: 5:12

I never did no yeah.

Jen: 5:14

But she did the steamed asparagus I never did. No, yeah, I think that is very foreign to me. That is so foreign to me.

Ali: 5:19

We just do like roasted veggies for Thanksgiving, but I've never done just asparagus. I love asparagus.

Linnea: 5:24

I love it now, like this is my zone.

Jen: 5:26

I'm learning something. What do you do for Thanksgiving?

Linnea: 5:29

Aline, we do turkey. Mashed potatoes corn casserole we're from Kansas. Potatoes corn casserole we're from Kansas, so we're casserole people, but it's corn casserole, it's got macaroni cheese corn, cream, corn, that kind of stuff, basic sweet potatoes without marshmallows.

Jen: 5:46

I was introduced to casseroles in the military. I didn't know what casserole was until I was about 20 years old. I'm very unfamiliar with the mashed potato thing at Thanksgiving. That's a new thing.

Linnea: 5:55

We're big mashed potatoes, no.

Jen: 5:57

So standard Thanksgiving for me. We have dressing, we have the starches, but it's not a mashed potato. We'll have the sweet potatoes and it'll be diabetes in the pan, like real talk. Delicious, yum, yum, caroni, that'll probably clog all of your arteries. Same, how's the vegetables? But they're not roasted. So there's going to be some collards. Now it's kale, because we're trying to be a little bit healthier, you know, maybe because a lot of my people died of heart disease, so maybe we decided we were going to do this a little bit better in my family.

Ali: 6:29

Just go around asparagus.

Jen: 6:31

I didn't get introduced to that until I don't know I was in my degree. Program would be. In truth. I'm like what is this asparagus shenanigans had never seen it, had never tasted it until probably 24 25. I'm like this thing exists and I actually like it.

Ali: 6:45

Mine was wrapped in in bacon, though before I went vegan, yeah mine, was wrapped in bacon it's so have you not had it wrapped in bacon? At restaurants they do it.

Linnea: 6:54

So good, I'm going to have to tell you. He does Parmesan cheese and garlic and he puts it in our pizza oven in the cast iron, to cook. Oh my gosh.

Jen: 7:05

Have him wrap it, have him still season it, that way.

Linnea: 7:07

Have him.

Jen: 7:08

Wrap it in bacon yeah. Wrinkle the Parmesan on top yeah, put it in the old pizza thing.

Linnea: 7:17

I'm living by Carrie. I need to have him go thaw some elk steaks out now because that sounds really good with it.

Andi: 7:22

We'll take the asparagus and put cream cheese all over ham and then wrap the asparagus inside of the ham Like cooked, like steamed.

Linnea: 7:31

Or just raw, pickled, pickled, pickled, pickled. Oh okay, love pickled asparagus. I've never had it, I haven't.

Jen: 7:37

Cream cheese.

Linnea: 7:38

Does it taste pickly?

Jen: 7:40

And ham. You lost me at the cream cheese and ham portion.

Ali: 7:43

Same. I don't really eat ham.

Andi: 7:45

I love pickles but I don't really care for other things pickled, so to me it's not my kind of thing. But I know my mother-in-law loves it Funeral potatoes so I've never had funeral potatoes, but I've had bereavement spaghetti.

Jen: 7:59

Because Black people, that's what we're going to bring. Somebody dies. We're bringing you masticoli, some penne. Why? Because you can stretch it. You could feed your whole family.

Ali: 8:07

We do bereavement pasta.

Andi: 8:16

The funeral potatoes? I've never heard about that. Is that like the round? It's like picture, like hash browns okay, what else do they put in there?

Linnea: 8:20

I've never seen this before. It's like a cheesy thing here. Let me find it.

Andi: 8:24

This looks like mac and cheese. It has onion, hash browns, condensed cream of chicken soup, sour cream or plain Greek yogurt, parmesan cheese, salt and pepper, sharp cheddar cheese and, to top it all off, when you bake it and you want this crunchy on the top crushed cornflakes cereal or panko breadcrumbs.

Linnea: 8:41

My mother-in-law makes that, but that's not.

Jen: 8:44

This is going to sound real racist and I don't mean it to sound racist. But what is with the crunching of the cereal, the cornflakes, on stuff, guys, and baking it? Like my mind, I can't conceptualize what is the cornflake for? Okay, because it doesn't add flavor.

Linnea: 8:58

It's not a seasoning, like where you put panko breadcrumbs on things to make it crust, that crunchy. I guess cornflakes as you can buy them cheaper that might be a. Is that a Midwestern thing? I feel like that's a Midwesternern thing. I think it's a midwestern thing. Yeah, that's, that's something. They served it at our church potluck on sundays when people would bring.

Andi: 9:22

The older ladies would cook stuff like that. So have you never had fried ice cream?

Linnea: 9:24

god, I love fried ice cream no, it literally is fried with this crunchy sweet, almost like like they roll corn flakes they roll it.

Andi: 9:33

So they freeze it like deep, deep is that, and they and they roll it in cereal croutons.

Ali: 9:39

Basically, well, I've had ice cream with corn flakes in it, like cereal, like frosted on the ice cream, is no freeze, roll it in there, flash cook it real quick it's very quick and you get it at a lot of the mexican restaurants around here whipped, the whipped cream, the strawberry, the chocolate.

Andi: 9:55

Never had that.

Linnea: 9:56

I haven't had that for years.

Andi: 9:58

We did it every year for our kids' birthdays.

Linnea: 10:00

It's so good.

Andi: 10:01

Make sombrero bring out the fried eggs, Did they say churros.

Jen: 10:07

What was the question? They have churros too. They do. I freaking love churros. Churros are great.

Linnea: 10:13

It's Taco Tuesday, by the way, so if you're really we're going to go get tacos at the gas station, I'm having a 7-Eleven price match day.

Jen: 10:20

So if you have the 7-Eleven app, if you don't, if you have a 7-Eleven by you, it's 7-Eleven gas price lock-in day, sent off the gallon plus you get to lock in that rate for the next 48 hours. But you don't have a 7-eleven by you. But if you did, you know we have.

Linnea: 10:38

I think there's some in phoenix still, but where they're at they are not neighborhoods I want to go to well I don't blame you the ones I know of oh, were you.

Jen: 10:50

So I was at dav Mothin in Tucson and then my nephew was in Phoenix. Um, here's the thing the military knows what they're doing when they they built these installations because they buy them in the most um, underdeveloped, higher crime places because the property is cheaper and they can get a whole lot of land. It's horrible how they do it. So I can understand where you go. There are some places I don't want to go, because there were some places I didn't want to go and I had to live there. I also here's an interesting fact for you, jen Are you ready? I am so ready.

Jen: 11:23

I was a bartender at a strip club when I was a A1C. It was a women's strip club. It's called Baby, baby dolls. I love this. We refer to it as the boat because on the outside it was shaped like a pirate ship, right. But the reason why I got the job is this is food related I'm very food motivated. The reason why I got the job is because the wings were really good and I worked third shift when I was a cop, so I would get off from work and I would go sit in there and just eat, because it was uninterrupted, nobody would say anything, right, everybody. And I would go sit in there and just eat because it was uninterrupted, nobody would say anything, right, everybody. And then they're like it's kind of weird. They offered me a job and I'm like I'm not getting a role, but I could be a bartender because I was too little to do security. So I ended up with a job but I got fed so much, so much free food it started to get weird. They do not sanitize those poles.

Ali: 12:13

No, really.

Jen: 12:15

Think about it. This went left. Sorry, guys, I went wrong. I love this, but they have this spray bottle and they have this washcloth. They spray the pole, they wipe the pole. Okay, it's the same washcloth, Same pole, same cloth. There's 100 strippers. Let's say there's a hundred dancers with a hundred washcloths. Maybe they don't have, maybe they're recycling this washcloth, it doesn't matter. You just wipe somebody else's coot's juice off this pole, put it on your towel, then you find that pole and then you wipe the pole down and I don't understand what is happening and why nobody thinks it's a problem. I find it to be an issue, but I'm also a germaphobe, and so that gives us.

Linnea: 12:55

There's yet another. It.

Ali: 12:57

This strip club's gotta be clean.

Linnea: 13:00

My daughter has a stripper name. We were downtown A car parked next to the curb and it was like this close to the curb and my daughter goes. I am that close in quitting college and becoming a stripper.

Ali: 13:13

Yes.

Linnea: 13:14

Because she was just so stressed out. She was joking. We were driving by a street going home and the street name is Misty Dales and we're like that's a good stripper name Clappy Misty.

Jen: 13:24

Dales.

Linnea: 13:26

So now we call her Misty Dales, like I walked into the doctor's office that she works at. I'm like they call her Brittany. I'm like they call her Brittany. I'm like girl, you've got all these stripper names. I'm like Misty, you need to stop.

Andi: 13:40

Misty. Our next question should be what would your stripper name be and why?

Linnea: 13:44

Ooh See, I can't come up with. I can come up with it for somebody else, but not you know.

Jen: 13:51

Mine is always going to be funny. Funny, I'm going to be off the wall. It's going to be something crazy like flexi knuckles or something crazy. But god, no, patch. Who is that patch? Why? Because you know, maybe you'll see a patch of some, some monono spots and maybe I'll be wearing a patch. Oh no, but it'll be. It'll be something that makes you come into the why are you name that? And then stay for the show. What would your name be? We need like a strip like name, I don't need renee.

Andi: 14:20

But I don't have a reason why I just like the name renee.

Jen: 14:23

Renee, that's sexy that I could see that.

Linnea: 14:26

What would you, galley? God, I don't know, what do?

Ali: 14:29

you guys think I don't know. What do you guys think I don't know, I don't have one Allie ta-tas. Tiny, tiny, itty-bitty ta-tas. Let me rephrase that the non-existent ta-tas.

Jen: 14:42

No, you are large ta-ta adjacent they're not non-existent. You are ta-ta adjacent Okay. Okay, yeah, you're a, that's okay you can just call me cherry, because they're like little cherries so it could be cherry blossom coming to the stage. Ladies and gentlemen, cherry blossom cherry blossoms love it.

Andi: 15:04

It's walking, very popular.

Linnea: 15:07

I don't know if anybody would want me to even do that. Listen, everybody wants everybody, but you know there are men that like a big butt, they like a chunky, at least one person will want that because you have a husband and he clearly wanted it.

Andi: 15:23

Oh, he does.

Jen: 15:25

You see what I'm saying At least one person wanted it. He still likes it he still likes me and that's all that matters. So he'll come see you and be like hey, yeah.

Linnea: 15:38

My bachelorette. We went to a bar and I had a gentleman come up to me and I had these cute guests overalls on. That's when they were stylish and I had a real short and I had a guy you need to patent that he pointed to my tush and I'm like I don't know if I should be worried, concerned, or take it as a compliment. Take it as a compliment, like it says you need to pat that booty.

Jen: 16:01

He said you had a booty is fine yep, so you know now it's like behind you yeah, he said it's going.

Linnea: 16:12

Where did we go?

Ali: 16:14

you guys. I did a stripper documentary for my documentary class in university and it was amazing Really. I lost it. I got to find it, yeah.

Jen: 16:23

That would be fun to watch. It was fun. Did you study?

Ali: 16:27

strippers and interview them. I interviewed them. I went to this specific one in Tampa because Tampa used to be bigger than Vegas when it comes to strippers. Really, back in the day day it was really popular, yeah and uh, the owner was like somewhat like semi-famous, and I did an interview with him and at the end I put this in the documentary. He's like would you like a job? And I was like no, I'm in school right now. I can't. I probably should have, but I was just so obsessed with strippers and I wanted to. I still want to be one so badly I love them. Or I like want to do burlesque, but the ick of the pole I would be out there with like Clorox. I would be like no, no, we need to clean this stage.

Linnea: 17:06

I have a friend that does burlesque that would be fun to go watch, but he is also the world's biggest hypochondriac, like, Like he's the world's biggest dermaphobe.

Jen: 17:16

When I tell you he's like, I'm going to go out there and I'm going to do this thing, but I'm using my stuff and it's sanitized and he's all in here with it. Yes, he pulls off his stuff back and he's like and nobody else is touching this, oh my God.

Ali: 17:31

I need to do it with him. I need to do it with him. I need to do it with him. Then. That sounds amazing. I need to eat it up.

Jen: 17:35

I'm like man. If I could just get past the fact that you got on Pacey and a doctor yeah, he's a beauty. I also see all the germs.

Linnea: 17:45

that's all around the germs yeah.

Ali: 17:47

Yeah, I would love to do it.

Linnea: 17:49

Reminds all the money that strippers get like coming from those mitts. Yeah, and they like all the germs on the money that gets stuck or thrown and hand sanitizer those dollar bills are getting crab dinners.

Jen: 18:04

Just so you know, those dollar bills have seen many crab dinners okay.

Andi: 18:08

And if you were a stripper, wouldn't you wonder and worry about where that money's been and what it's touched to those nasty people and what they?

Ali: 18:16

deposited like asap, but they have little like they have little uh things to put around your ankle and they're like little bags and you can put them in there, but the ones don't really fit. So yeah, that's nasty, it's, I would just go sanitized right away like you're dipping yourself in clorox your body.

Ali: 18:35

Yeah, I mean I used to work at a bar and, um, I was the shooter girl and so I would get cash, only that's I didn't you know back. This was I don't know 10 years ago, 15 years ago. So yeah, I uh, it was nasty and I would go home and I smelled like cigarettes because it was a country bar and I don't like country, I don't even know a country country and I don't I don't know country music, but I worked at a country bar but yeah, it was, it was nasty. I just went home and disinfected myself I never put it in the document.

Andi: 19:03

That's why I couldn't find it a document, because it did not exist yet. These notes of things, one all of you are to me, or even some off the wall idea I have, I don't these notes are going to make sense, but we're going to ask people to share their highlight reel of their wins, record their wins and celebrate. I think that might have come from you, andy.

Linnea: 19:26

I like that.

Jen: 19:27

Submit your wins and your Spoonie Sisters will cheer you on. I love that. Submit your wins, let your Spoonie Sister cheer you on, and we can just be like hey and celebrate them Like I see you Crack that fit and just keep cracking our shit.

Andi: 19:42

Here's the call to action to our listeners to send us your head, a video, a picture, something, and we're going to post it and we're going to celebrate you, which is, along with the other one, medical trauma.

Ali: 19:55

That would be good. That would be good.

Andi: 19:57

The help people and hurt people thing. Hurt people, heal people, that thing. Yes, I don't know what I said, but what you said. We want to do an entire episode about how hurt people help people. So what? Are you guys' other.

Linnea: 20:11

I like that I like both ideas. I want to find a purpose from the pain from this disease so I can help people. I mean I want to. That's my goal this year is to be more active to do that. Is that along the line what you were talking about? I guess I'm not sure if that was on topic.

Jen: 20:31

So can you do me a favor, babe? Yeah, don't doubt yourself so much. You said, that was such a question mark. Your thoughts are valuable. Your voice is powerful. Say that shit with your chest. Say it like you mean it.

Linnea: 20:44

Okay, I love you. I'm going to be helping more people. I love you too. I am going to be helping more people this year. My goal now is to help somebody else. That has been where I've been, if it's depression, anxiety, anything. But yes, thank you for that, Andy. I struggle with that very much. I doubt myself a lot, if I'm being honest. So that encouragement really helped and it really touched my heart. So thank you and I adore you.

Andi: 21:13

You're welcome. I want each of you to give me an idea for an episode that we're going to do.

Ali: 21:19

I like learning about ways people cope with their chronic illness, and I also love talking about sex in chronic illness as well.

Jen: 21:26

That's a good one. And can we do that? Because that's a good one. Let me just tell you about the lack of libido, can we?

Ali: 21:31

talk about the lack of libidoido it's a side effect of a lot of our medication yes, and feeling sexy, and yeah, I can go on and on. I've done a couple of podcasts about sex and chronic illness, so I could talk about it all day.

Linnea: 21:45

I would love that I we don't talk about. I think it's the way I was raised. We did not talk about stuff like that yeah, that's how it does affect yeah, it does affect our sex life, as when you're in a relationship, we do need to talk about stuff like that. Yeah, that's how it does affect. Yeah, it does affect our sex life, as when you're in a relationship, we do need to talk about that yeah, and dating too what'd you say, jenny?

Andi: 22:04

you might be a little young for this, but, andy and lenia, we need to channel our inner like did you just call us old? Well?

Jen: 22:10

you're around the same. Yes, you did it did.

Andi: 22:13

We need to channel our 90s and bring back the. Let's talk about sex.

Ali: 22:20

I know a lot of the words to that. Let's talk about all the good times. Let's talk about sex. Let's talk about sex.

Linnea: 22:30

I can't remember. I can't remember what I had for breakfast, but I can remember the lyrics and baby no, no, Well, you might have missed it, what I had for breakfast but I can remember that song.

Andi: 22:36

Do you remember the lyrics? No, no, well, you might have missed it, but I had Dr Fanny on twice and she is a sex coach. I love that, so maybe I can reach out to her and bring her on.

Ali: 22:47

Yes, Please, please. I've never done a sex podcast with a professional. I've done four podcasts about sex, so to like a professional, like I've done like four podcasts about sex, so to have a professional.

Andi: 22:57

I have so many questions I want to be on that I did it by myself and I was like deer in the headlights going. I know how to have it.

Jen: 23:05

Yeah, yeah yeah, I know what part like, I know how it ends I just wrote an article about it.

Ali: 23:14

I'll send it to you guys.

Andi: 23:16

Let me see, yeah yeah, okay, so I will reach out to dr fanny. You guys will like her. She's french. Oh, I like it already. She's in the directory. Yes, she is in the directory, dr fanny. I remember her face.

Jen: 23:28

She has blonde hair I remember reading her bio and saying, saying she's talking about the touch and front. Touch and front. Okay, I was taken aback because it was one of the things that people keep secret in my family growing up. We don't talk about touch and front, so we don't name body parts what they were. We didn't talk about things. Now I'm like, oh, we're talking about sex openly and call the part what the part is and tell about your body for real. That would be a great one.

Ali: 23:56

I'm excited about that. I love that. I'm very sex positive like I. Yeah, I love it. I uh do like giveaways yeah, yeah, as you should. Yeah, literally. I'm 31 and I'm just learning about like all these kinks and stuff by all the books I'm reading. I would love to own a sex club. It's a dream of mine.

Linnea: 24:12

I would love to own a sex club.

Jen: 24:15

I can see that for you, for real, in real life, thank you. And I see you in black, not all dumb, maybe partially submissive.

Ali: 24:25

Yeah, yep, partially submissive is right, jenny's face. Yep, no, andy has it on to the T, that's face. Yep, no, andy has it on to the T, that's correct. I can just see myself like walking down the hallway, like in my black outfit, with my whip, like telling people what to do.

Jen: 24:42

You're more of the princess right in between. I want to throw the tantrum, but also I want to correct the tantrum. That's you right in the middle. Yep, I so see it, jenny. Yep, of course.

Linnea: 26:00

It's the middle. Yep, I so see it, jenny. Yep, of course it's coming off all right, linea. What were you saying? I would say my husband, just I. I went to a lingerie party and it was a co-worker's wife of my husband and they gave it to him and he's like why did you? Buy this what because it's going to end up on the floor.

Linnea: 26:15

That was you know, he gave it to me. I kept looking for it and they're like, oh, it hasn't came in. He wrapped it and put it under the tree for Christmas in front of my family.

Ali: 26:25

It wasn't really sleepy.

Linnea: 26:27

It was more of just a nightgown. Everybody laughed. He knew it would go wrong.

Ali: 26:33

It's funny A lot of people did that this year.

Linnea: 26:36

What was the point in buying that honey? I A lot of people did that this year. What was the point in buying that? Honey, I'm not going to leave it on you long.

Andi: 26:42

Well, I guess you have a point.

Ali: 26:43

That's cute. Yeah, it's not all in long. Yeah, but it was really comfy. I actually still have it. Yeah, no, it's good and it also makes you feel sexy, like when I talk about sex and arthritis and chronic illness, I'm always like get some lingerie to feel sexy. Yes, my best advice is to start alone with yourself. Find what you enjoy, read what you enjoy, get outfits you enjoy. You know you don't have to have sex with it, like you can just keep it on days you don't feel great about yourself.

Jen: 27:11

Yep. So earlier today I was having a conversation, jenny, with Jewel. We were talking about how the crazy white lady sent me happy mail and how we just love getting happy mail from Jenny. Right, I told? I told Jewel. I said the thing is, this community is over-retrusting because nobody asked any follow-up questions. Me of all people. I asked all the questions. You said send me your address and I said, okay, she could have been a stalker. She said dig, then we do stuff like oh, you got newly diagnosed. Hey, spoonie, come here, you want a sticker. I was like we're no different than the creepy van with the candy.

Linnea: 27:45

You want a sticker.

Jen: 27:46

We're like Spoonie you want a sticker, come get a sticker. Hi guys, hi, come get a hug, let me get the hug it's a hog Spoonie Come. Get a hog Come on.

Linnea: 27:58

Oh my god, it's so true we never thought about it that way, but we are, we're a little too trusting.

Andi: 28:07

Yeah, Instead of candy it's stick.

Jen: 28:10

Like all my friends, I've never met in public, like in real life, my chronic illness friends. I've never met them face-to-face but I was super comfortable giving my address.

Ali: 28:18

So yeah, god, yep, hopefully, yeah, hopefully. Jen's like fuck her, because she has all of our addresses, gosh, and you know what trouble, don't make her mad.

Andi: 28:31

It's all in this little little song. I love that. It's a notebook that my sister-in-law designed. I think she drew the picture and it's got waves on it and it says you were the best part of me. You are still a light in the darkness. I love you more than words can say. Nothing will keep us apart. It says more than that. I mean you get the gist, yeah yeah, yeah.

Ali: 28:54

I love that she did that.

Andi: 28:56

She did all kinds of cool stuff like that. That's like the perfect notebook for me to keep everyone's addresses in. Yeah, I'm not a crazy stalker, I just like to send you guys things. I love my stickers Me too.

Ali: 29:08

Hey this one's on. Want a sticker. Want a sticker.

Jen: 29:12

Come here I know you do.

Ali: 29:13

You're sad Come here.

Linnea: 29:19

Don't want, want to stick her.

Jen: 29:20

I'm going to open my door, but you've got to come in.

Andi: 29:22

What's your illness? What's your illness? What's your?

Linnea: 29:24

illness, cutie pie, but hey what you in for?

Jen: 29:27

Every excuse, hey, what you in for, oh my God.

Ali: 29:32

I'm going to come up with something like what's your illness Plus something else, and it's going to be your stripper names like rheumatoid sassy or something we need.

Andi: 29:39

That arthritis, cherries, I'm gonna come up with it, I'm gonna make a post, I'm doing it right now oh my god yes, you guys need to be in your mail, because last week I sent you guys each something, so keep watching your mail. I know it's not the new shirt, I promise I love the shirt I'm so excited the sticker.

Linnea: 29:56

I have my shirt it might be stickers.

Andi: 29:58

It might. It might have one of the new logos, not the one with our faces, because I was like that might freak me out to see our faces on a sticker yeah, oh.

Jen: 30:07

So the faces thing, that would freak me out, because my daughter saw one of them and she's like mom, why did ai make you look like jay-z in a trench coat and now I can't unsee it?

Andi: 30:16

oh my god, I love her.

Linnea: 30:18

What, oh, my god and every time I look at it I just start laughing. My best friend texts me when she posted the one that my boobs look really good. She's like they do yeah, they do. Your boobs look great, jen. She was giving me and I so. Then I showed it to my husband. I said, said this is what I want for my birthday, my birthday right here. And I showed him the picture of them. I need to go back Like this is what I want. This is what I want. I'm going to take it into the doctor and show up Like I want it to look like this I want this.

Linnea: 30:50

I want it to look like this it just might be recluse, not the ones that I have to roll up and take, but you know I would. And what can I ask a question? Yeah, to, especially to andy and ally, because you guys are like coaches and stuff. Why is it? Do we lose weight? The very first weight we lose is our boobs.

Jen: 31:10

Well, so people do stuff like I'm gonna spot whatever and you can't spot, lose weight. But because your titties are partially 80 fat, uh, it means that you were doing the right thing because, notice, you know, your face will start to hang and then you're, you'll start kickboxing your tits and that's a real thing, but it starts to slowly melt off. It's after slowly melt off, but it's because you can't spot correct and people try it but it's just like different too it's you make me go through labor, you make me do all this you could have left my boobs alone.

Jen: 31:44

Build your internal bra. Start actually doing chest exercises to build that internal bra. They'll come way back up here and stop wearing bras around the house. If y'all be wearing bras around the house because you're training your body to not actually have good posture by forcing your boobs up here, you're more aware that your posture is garbage when you're literally kicking your tits. So you'll notice that she has cell phone posture. Didn't know that so there's a rolling forward.

Jen: 32:10

Bras are designed to force you to this take that bra off and see how bad your posture is for real, yep.

Linnea: 32:16

And then build your natural bra on the inside yep, she just gave us permission not to wear a bra never wear that's what I, that's what I hear, that's like.

Jen: 32:25

That's what I hear it was created by our man because they thought nipples were ridiculous. Men have nipples. They don't wear bras. Why do we have to wear exactly?

Andi: 32:34

I love that. Yeah, I think my husband would be very joyful. 10 years ago, tight, cute like ally, I never wore a bra because I didn't have enough to need one and I loved it. That's my goal. I want to get back to not having to wear a bra anymore I never.

Ali: 32:48

I haven't worn a bra in 12 years, 10 years. They're like overrated. I don't own one. I don't own even sports bras. I can't wear anymore. I have to only wear tight tank tops when I work out.

Jen: 33:00

I can do the sports bra. I like the sports bra and I can do the crop one because I like my belly out. It's sexy for real. That's right. The underwire and all the squeezing, I get a mammogram. That's enough squeezing, I get it twice a year nobody needs that, I don't do wire anymore.

Ali: 33:19

No.

Linnea: 33:20

I had a reduction too. I had a reduction in 2000. Insurance paid 100% of it because I was having such bad migraines and the indentions on my shoulders. Yeah yeah, but that's been 25 years ago. Our takeaways are not wearing bras not wearing bras.

Ali: 33:42

Yeah, stripper names I'm literally doing this stripper name thing right now. I'm making a post.

Andi: 33:48

I can't wait to see it stripper names sex, no bras and ick. Yes, I love it, but you know what we all deserve to talk about things that are not about our illness.

Linnea: 33:59

Yes, yes, it's nice, it's refreshing every now and then.

Jen: 34:04

Because we're all human beings, we're all freaking human beings. I can't wait for you to post it. But I just want to know what my stripper name is. I'm stalking you because I want to know what my stripper name is.

Ali: 34:15

I'm so excited oh it's so funny.

Andi: 34:19

You know, we already made people just about Peter Pants earlier this week. Let's do one Exactly.

Jen: 34:25

I mean, Andy got a phone call from me.

Andi: 34:27

No, I lost the road in Peter Pants.

Jen: 34:29

He said oh my God, I almost died and peed myself at the same time. She said Jenny, and the cats on the counter or finger in the communion. She's like I wasn't ready. I wasn't ready because I, but it was refreshing because we share a lot of sad. So it was refreshing to not to, not to just be human, because they, they experience, they probably have the same thought. And then what I realized is that people have the same thoughts with me and are scared to say it to me because they look at me and say shit like I don't want to bring it to you because you deal with so much. I'm a whole human being with a sense of humor. So if you thought there's a funny thing you thought was funny, I would probably also think it's funny. But then you say stuff like you have more serious things to worry about. So I didn't bother you with humor.

Linnea: 35:15

Your humor will bother me.

Jen: 35:16

The funny means bother. But then if I sat?

Linnea: 35:19

in the I don't have any fun.

Jen: 35:21

It would be. Why are you always sad? Well, bitch, because you didn't send me nothing funny.

Ali: 35:25

That would be why that would be why I love that Respectfully, alright.

Andi: 35:30

We can chat as long as we want, but I'm going to stop our recording. Listen to our takeaways. Come back, because you never know when we're going to keep you on your toes and make you pee your pants and who knows what else.

Ali: 35:40

So you guys want to say goodbye, look out for my post on what your chronically ill stripper name is Mm-hmm, oh yes.

Andi: 35:46

Yeah, If you miss go back and find it.

Linnea: 35:50

Thanks for sticking with us throughout this whole podcast. If you finish the podcast and didn't pee your pants, then we need to do another one finished the podcast and didn't pee your pants, then we need to do another one, yes and give you a sticker.

Jen: 36:06

Yeah, turn spoony so. And the friendly reminder is that you are enough on every day that ends in y and you don't need that validated by anybody else with any name that ends in a letter. So you are every day enough, every single day, and with that, be great, be more than fine, because you deserve that, nothing less yes, yes, yes, and until next time don't forget your spoon.