Midlife Uncensored
Midlife Uncensored-Real Life Discussions from Over the Hillis the no-holds-barred podcast you didn’t know you needed. Hosted by Joel Poppert, aka Poppy—the friendly Sasquatch with an epic beard—and his fiery co-host, Emanuela Messineo, aka E, this show unapologetically dives into the chaos, comedy, and WTF moments of midlife. If you’re 35-55 and ready to embrace the rollercoaster of aging, this podcast is your new home base.
Poppy and E tackle everything from modern dating disasters in the hilarious sub-series The Love Laugh Lounge (the “festivus” of dating) to real-life shit like divorce, mental breakdowns, balding, sagging tits, and figuring out how to parent while still figuring yourself out and maybe dealing with an unhinged ex. With a blend of interview episodes and no-expert-needed banter (except when we bring on experts), these two cut through the BS and get real about midlife—no filters, no sugarcoating, just pure, unfiltered truth with a heavy dose of humor. Expect raw, relatable stories, unfiltered guidance, tough love, easy happiness, and a few episodes where the comedy comes from alcohol infused banter, because who give a fuck, right?
Whether you’re dealing with the joys of aging, trying to keep your sanity while raising kids, or attempting to find love in a sea of idiots, Midlife Uncensored has your back. Expect a few F-bombs, some belly laughs, and a whole lot of honesty as Poppy and E rip the band-aid off midlife and give you permission to thrive in this beautifully messy chapter. It's not just about surviving midlife—it's about unfucking it and owning it! This is your community; we are in it together!
Midlife Uncensored
From Italy to NyQuil Dreams: Banter and Big Changes
In this lively and raw episode of Midlife Uncensored, Poppy and E dive into the chaos of midlife reflections, recent adventures, and hilarious tangents. From recapping their year in podcasting to tales of E's Italian escapades (including a stolen phone and a fabulous fur coat), this episode is equal parts heart and humor. They explore how aging changes hobbies, travel preferences, and social priorities, with plenty of laugh-out-loud moments along the way. Poppy even recounts a bizarre NyQuil-fueled dream about E crashing a school bus into a Denver trench—dream analysis, anyone?
The duo also teases exciting updates for the podcast in 2025, including a focus on guests and structured content while keeping their signature banter alive. Tune in for candid reflections, relatable stories, and the perfect mix of wit and WTF moments.
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All right, all right, all right. Welcome to another episode of Midlife Uncensored. This is your host, poppy, your favorite friendly Sasquatch with the epic beard game, and to my right is my lovely co-host, emanuela Messinaio, also known as E. Before we get started, remember to subscribe. We're on the Instagram, the gram at Midlife Uncensoredensored. You can also find us by default on facebook, and remember to subscribe and reach out. We want to hear from you guys. Download all our episodes, rate us five stars, four stars, but if you want to rate us three stars, don't rate us at all. Make some comments, tell your friends we're doing good things here and we love you all, so let's jump in 2025.
Speaker 2:Oh boy.
Speaker 1:Welcome back from Italy. Thanks, I think this is episode 40 something or other 47, 48.
Speaker 2:We lost track we lost track.
Speaker 1:I feel like I've been doing this podcast for, like I keep telling people 12 years 12 years. Since.
Speaker 2:I was really young back when I was 41. Oh yeah, yeah, but that wouldn't be 12 years ago episode was last february, so I think I was actually just thinking. I'm pretty sure the one that you and I did together on the recovery being a recovering people pleaser was like january yeah, so it's been only a year.
Speaker 1:What a year.
Speaker 2:What a crazy 12 months wow, should we do a recap? Huh, should we do a recap uh, a recap of what why was?
Speaker 1:it a crazy 12 months. It was well we we hadn't met, but we sort of like became pretty close after that first episode and became besties. I can't really think of what.
Speaker 2:I mean best thing ever.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I can't.
Speaker 2:Done Mic drop.
Speaker 1:We've become close enough friends now where I'm like I don't really it's like before Christ and after. Christ. It's like before Emanuela, after Emanuela.
Speaker 2:It's also like you just grab the remote, just put the football game on, it's cool, just come in, it's just. I mean, mi casa su casa.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, Well, this is nice. I'm glad the Vikings are losing. Fuck the Vikings.
Speaker 2:We have the football game on. It is what night is this Monday? It's Monday night. Monday night football, Monday night.
Speaker 1:Packers played the worst game of football ever yesterday, except for our defense. It was just hard to watch. Not only did they lose, they lost like half their players. Got concussions or tore something or broke something. It was like pathetic. Anyway, it's okay.
Speaker 2:Is fantasy football still going on?
Speaker 1:I was comatose yesterday it's over. I was comatose yesterday. It's over. So the recap we started. My first episode was the only lone podcast.
Speaker 2:It was the one that you and I did, even though that was really your second episode, but you never posted your first one.
Speaker 1:Yeah, then I did the Love Laugh Lounge with my ex-wife.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:And then I did an interview with an author of a book, did some more love, laugh lounges, and then oh, you were doing the meetup group then oh yeah, the podcast happy hour, do you want?
Speaker 1:to no and then fast forward, then we started Midlife Uncensored, and then we'll talk later today about where we're going in 2025. But before that I haven't really been doing anything exciting this year so far. I got really sick like half the fucking country and was laid up for two weeks, so I don't have a lot to share. I did my goals today and I'm still working on all that.
Speaker 2:Wait, what kind of goals do you have, Are you? You're still writing them down.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I mean I'm launching the advisory company and writing the book, launching another podcast. I got the business plan done for that. So in February, here I'll. I will hit the ground running with all that and I am so I'm I'm working quite a bit. I think I might change. Like I said, I have like five different books that I'm kind of the one I was working on. I'm not quite sure. There's a different book that I started writing that I feel like I can kind of just hammer through. I'm having more fun with it.
Speaker 2:So I think writing might be my thing. So you say writing books.
Speaker 1:Writing books. I don't know if writing might be my thing, but I really enjoy it.
Speaker 2:You have a lot of thoughts in that head of yours.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I'm just trying to make sure what I'm writing is valuable, but I've got to process. Anyway, tell us you were in Italy for three weeks.
Speaker 2:Tell us about Italy and then we'll dive into yeah, okay, so I was gone for three weeks Italiano. Yeah, oh, my Italian was dialed in on this trip, I think.
Speaker 1:Well, you're like dealing with family, right? You have a big family out there A big family.
Speaker 2:But even like the non-family stuff, I got a lot of compliments from people who were not family when I was by myself that were, like, how do you speak Italian so well? So I was very flattered by that um. But yeah, started in munich, but that we were only there for like a hot second and then so can't really count that. But, um, spent four days in austria, which was really pretty.
Speaker 1:Uh, it was cold austria, that's where that guy's from what that?
Speaker 2:fucking podcast, that so what are you talking about? So I don't mean to interrupt you but, what's his name?
Speaker 1:joseph fritzl held his daughter captive for 24 years under his apartment building, while his family lived upstairs, had seven children with her that all lived down in this like thing. It's like you can't even make this shit up in austria in austria yeah that's really sad.
Speaker 2:That reminds me of that guy that I feel like we have this conversation because I'm having deja vu. Um, there, it's like that guy, something castro from cleveland that had but it wasn't his daughters, but he had like three girls captive in his house for several years, had kids with them and then one of them got out and they all got out eventually it's like weird these. I don't know how this stuff happens, but no, I know, it's so sad, it's fucked up.
Speaker 1:I mean also like leave it up to my ADD to interrupt your story about Italy with the kidnapper, can you?
Speaker 2:imagine, though, being kidnapped and then living that life. Can you imagine that? Because I've thought about that, especially because on my trip, my cell phone was stolen, so I definitely had some paranoia going on of like, what if someone kidnaps me? I have no phone, I have no way of contacting anyone.
Speaker 1:Can you imagine being born into that? You're like your mom's trying to like, justify, like this is normal life and these kids some of the kids live down there to be like adults.
Speaker 2:No, like the trauma, I cannot understand that. It's also not a life to live. And the ceiling was like I wouldn't be able to stand up in there.
Speaker 1:It was like, no, like, that's just not. I think the ceilings were like five and a half feet tall, maybe no yeah, he like she was like 18 or something and he just like wanted to show her. He's like oh, come look at my thing I made down here and then like pushed her in there and locked her in there and then she was in there for 27 years, so it was like a three-part podcast. I forget what the podcast was called. Ironically, a girl I had never gone on a date with.
Speaker 1:Told me I should listen to this before we even met on hand. She's like you should listen to this podcast. And then I listened to it. I'm like what? I'm like that's kind of a weird thing to suggest to a stranger because this is fucked up. Like this is one of the most fucked up stories I've ever heard. And then it was like three parts. But I happened to be driving across country at the time when I was chatting with this girl so I was like, well, whatever, I'll just listen to this thing. Great. So now I know the whole detailed story of joseph fitzel, whether I wanted to or not okay, so keep so.
Speaker 1:You're in austria, had a nice christmas, didn't get kidnapped.
Speaker 2:You're still here okay, so went to. All the christmas markets were still open. There were some that closed, like earlier, like closed by Christmas, but got to Austria on Christmas Day, so spent that day doing Christmas markets, which was lovely. What else Then ended up? Spent New Year's in Lake Como, which was also lovely. Need to go back there in the summertime. Everybody raves about Lake Como, about low man. It was beautiful even I, like.
Speaker 1:I thought it was going to be a slow season. Where is it?
Speaker 2:that is close.
Speaker 1:Dolomites are close it's in the alps, though right, it's in the mountains, como yeah not really.
Speaker 2:I feel like it's on like the south side, Like we. The train ride was through the Alps, but it's not really. It is very hilly, Like there are some sort of like mountain peaks that come out of the lake sort of, but it's not. It's not that cold, Like there was no snow on them.
Speaker 1:Okay.
Speaker 2:So it's not. I think you have to go. Go. I don't know where the alps like stop there, but I think it's further north than than where lake como is, because it was like 50 and 60 degrees cold on the water, though because it, you know, whatever, just it seems like it's always cold on water. But but it was pretty and I thought it was going to be slower than it was, because I just thought it was more of a summertime peak season, but it was busy. You had to have like reservations or you were not getting into places for dinner. So it was fun. And then stopped in a couple other places in Italy, ended in Rome, had my phone stolen, which was quite the fun experience, but made it through and made it home.
Speaker 1:One of those statistics.
Speaker 2:Yep man, it was like as soon as it happened I was like fuck, that sucks. I mean I let my guard down Like I was with my cousins. We were walking around having a good old time and just you know, chit-chatting, and I just Totally left the zipper on my front pocket on my jacket open. It was kind of cold, so I kept wanting to put my hands in my pocket and I had my phone in there and left it open and off it goes.
Speaker 1:Bob and his wife Jen went there this summer and she had her whole purse stolen with her phone.
Speaker 2:See, no, she put it on the back of the chair.
Speaker 1:No, it's typical, it's always happens. When you brain fart, right, you're like I'm not used to like thinking about this, and then it's kind of like the tsa people like they yell at you for leaving a water bottle in your fucking backpack, like you intentionally left it in there. It's like no, because yeah put this water bottle in here 300 other days of the year and yeah.
Speaker 2:Yeah, no, thank God. I mean, there were like a lot of other scenarios that would have been a lot worse for me that day and thankfully that was actually one of the least problematic ones for me Costly and stressful to navigate a week in a city. I mean, thankfully I like speak Italian so I didn't need Google Translate. I needed a map. I was able to download a map to my iPad, but my iPad was new, as was my phone. Everything was like about a month old, so I hadn't logged into my iPad for like anything. Pretty much Like I hadn't logged into anything and everything needs like a dual verification or whatever.
Speaker 2:So I ended up getting locked out of some stuff because, like, I just didn't have the right passwords. Even my emails were difficult to get into and it was just like a whatever. It was just kind of a mess. Eventually I ended up getting into instagram and was able to message people like cousins and stuff that were nearby, so I could, uh, at least get through the days, the rest of the days I had there, you couldn't swipe on bumble and no, I could not, and actually there was someone I was chatting with, but I'm pretty sure he thought I blew him off and I don't know.
Speaker 2:So whatever. I messaged him once. I got another phone, but it was like a week later.
Speaker 1:In America.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I was like I mean, what do you do? You know, like I didn't have a phone, I couldn't get into anything.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's annoying.
Speaker 2:So, and then I had another date set up and then he flaked.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that guy's an asshole. Whatever Just deleted you right before the date too.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I was like replaying it and I was like, oh, maybe he thought we had a different time set up and maybe he thought I flaked. And then I don't know.
Speaker 1:It doesn't matter.
Speaker 2:It's like no skin off my back, like I, it's fine, I just it's. It's an annoying part I think it's why online dating gets a bad rap is situations like that that were not necessary? Like you, just if you don't want to go, just say it like I don't care, I don't want to be there. If you don't want to go, just say it like I don't care, I don't want to be there.
Speaker 1:If you don't want to be there, like well you know, I equate it to like how we drive in colorado, like when you don't know the person. You're just like people are like super mean behind their cars and even I'm just as guilty of it I fixed my horn. Now I honk at everybody. I don't know these people, yeah. And then you're like the dating apps are the same thing, like you don't know these people and you're like I guess, like maybe your conscious isn't as heavy when you're like I don't do this, I don't do this.
Speaker 2:Well, it's like oh, it's been done to me, so, whatever, it's not a big deal, like I haven't met the whatever, but it really doesn't, it's fine. I it's, these things don't like really bother me that much. I think it's more of I was more upset because I was exhausted and I pondered canceling that date like four or five different times and I was like just go, just go, like and you almost pulled out your brand new fucking go almost pulled out yeah, oh, my gosh best thing that ever fucking happened.
Speaker 2:Okay, so two things. Uh, the top thing on this trip, I will have to say, is the fur coat I came home with. It's fucking amazing I can testify. I've seen it dude it's incredible and I love so, my cousin's gift, so I like I think it should come with free botox.
Speaker 1:For the rest, of your life I love so my cousins gift, so I like I think it should come with free Botox for the rest of your life.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it pretty much should. Yeah, for sure, you have to. I actually I probably need a facelift or something and a boob job and some other things to go with it. I was like I don't think they realize how much this coat's going to cost me because of all the things I'm going to have to do to like fit the bill, to like wear the coat.
Speaker 2:But my cousins one of my aunts used to own a leather store in downtown Rome. She passed away several years ago and her kids kept the store and it's now closed. But I don't remember when they closed it. I think it was like at least a few years ago. But one of my cousins that I spent a summer with there when I was younger uh worked there and so I would go to work with her every day. So I spent a lot of time there with the cousins and the aunt and whatever in that store, and so when they closed the store, they kept certain things. One of the things they kept were, like, some of the coats, and this was one of the last coats that they had and they they gave that to me as a gift and I love it.
Speaker 1:I think it's wonderful. I think you should wear it on all your dates in the winter. You should definitely wear it this weekend. It's going to be like eight degrees.
Speaker 2:I'm going to degrees, I'm gonna fucking wear it. I wore it in my first so also booked myself first class both ways, and I mean it was only because I had they had like some good deals going on for that. But I was like yes, I get to wear my fur coat in first class so cool and you have you ever flown first class internationally?
Speaker 1:because you'll never go back. Don't do it.
Speaker 2:You can't go back. You can lay flat it's like a recliner and then it turns into a bed and you have your own private TV and you have this little mini fridge thing and it's fucking fantastic.
Speaker 1:Is it filled with little cocktails and stuff?
Speaker 2:No, they give you a water and like you can put your own stuff in there. And then they have like headphones for you to put on, like the ones that we have on, like the big, like over the ear headphones, or you can plug your own in it's nice, I am well, I'm sure it is, and you get like actual food. I mean like I don't really eat a lot airplanes usually if I bring my own stuff, but they have like actual real food in first class and all the wine.
Speaker 1:They should, for how much?
Speaker 2:it costs.
Speaker 1:It's like egregiously more expensive.
Speaker 2:It actually wasn't. So I had, we had a. They were running a deal for anyone with like a United credit card, which is what I use. It was 80,000 miles on the way there, uh, non-stop to munich, which is normally like 70 000 one way, anyways, international. On the way home, I had booked one for like 60 000 miles and again found one. It was like a hundred.
Speaker 2:It was about a hundred thousand miles to go first class it's a good deal deal on miles, um, and I try to, like you know, you get. I do a lot of like work, travel and stuff, so I get some points from that and most of it's probably me spending money on their credit card, including on this trip, cause I okay, I got there I. When I packed to leave, my goal was get everything in a carry-on for three weeks that works. I did. I got it in. I don't know how it was a carry-on and a backpack, that's all I had.
Speaker 1:I mean, you have to the Italians like they'll, they'll go on strike and then forget to put your uh back.
Speaker 2:Yeah, fuckers, uh, they were on strike.
Speaker 1:You can't travel with you can't check stuff on an international trip. It'll never make it.
Speaker 2:So we let's see. So got it in there like in the checked bag, sorry, in the carry-on on the way there, and then every stop along the way I felt like the bag kept growing. So I had to, like, expand it and then I was like, oh Jesus, this is. And so then, when Michael and Julie came home, I ended up giving Michael some of the stuff because he didn't have a full suitcase, so I sent him home with some things. I still had to buy a second suitcase to come home.
Speaker 1:Oh no.
Speaker 2:And that's not the fault of the fur coat, because I wore that.
Speaker 1:Would you bring like gifts back and stuff?
Speaker 2:I may have bought like five purses for myself.
Speaker 1:There you go.
Speaker 2:I don't know why I went on a purse kick this time but I got a clue, one in Rome. I mean Jesus One in Rome, I don't know. It's one of those things that right now I feel like I need.
Speaker 1:Purses are like your comfort food.
Speaker 2:Yeah, well, it's also okay. So I've been definitely splurging on what I eat for a while and I feel like I don't want to buy any more clothes for myself right now. I would like to lose like 15 pounds because I need to clean up Like I've been. I've just been doing stuff that I don't. That isn't good for me.
Speaker 2:Well, I mean not, that isn't good for me, but I've just been. I could be doing better and I just like don't feel great, so I don't want to buy more clothes right now. So I feel like purses are great, like accessory that I can buy, but like not, I don't know whatever. That's my, that's my spiel. I didn't want to buy clothes, so fair enough.
Speaker 2:I hate buying clothes whose dogs are those it's my neighbor's dog and they fucking dogged, they dogged, they barked all day yesterday when I was trying to sleep all day because I slept for like 32 hours, maybe more.
Speaker 1:That makes sense. Jet lag is a real thing.
Speaker 2:I'm done. How long was that?
Speaker 1:32 minutes 23 minutes Fuck.
Speaker 2:Sorry.
Speaker 1:That's all right, we can whittle it down.
Speaker 1:So, today we were going to talk a little bit about we were just going to banter, but I think we should talk about this will probably be like the last, one of the last sort of bantering, probably one of the last Midlife. Censored, with just you and I talking exclusively forward, is going for midlife and censored is going to be less episodes, probably longer, but with guests and more pointed content. But I thought today we could tackle I mean, this is something that I talk quite a bit about is that, as I've gotten older, I just don't have the same desire to do certain things that I used to do, like certain enjoy activity, like certain activities, and for a long time I like struggled with it. I was like why don't I don't, why don't I want to do this? Or you know why don't I want to go skiing every single weekend, like I used to? Or you know why, why do I not feel like whitewater kayaking anymore? I just feel like rafting. Or, you know, instead of camping some weekends, I just like enjoy staying in town and like, or like reading versus whatever, or my workout routine.
Speaker 1:All of it's like things have changed as I gotten older and I and it's taken me and I still haven't pinpointed on anything, just chalk it up to like we change as we get older. But I just wanted to discuss one. I wanted to normalize it a little bit, just in case Maybe I'm unique in the sense that, like, maybe I'm just giving up on fucking life, I don't know, but like I struggle with it for a while, that like my activities are changing, the frequency of the things I do are changing. Some of that's like changing, some of that's like some of that's like environmental, like I think the skiing for me is more like I find it to be like a fucking goddamn nightmare to go up to the mountains so I just don't do it every weekend.
Speaker 1:So and I enjoy my free time a lot. I think I need more like time to do the other things and I've been enjoying writing and I enjoy my yard work and stuff like that. So, anyway, just talk about things that we I mean. I guess my first question is do you find that has happened to you at all as you've gotten older?
Speaker 2:Yeah, for sure. I mean I feel like there's yes, the answer is for sure that has happened. I mean, part of why I also started this, like I call it a bucket list, but it's really not that I don't know, it's just like an activity list for me. I guess at this point it's just a way to like try new things and see what I like, because I was kind of getting bored with some of the old and there were new things I wanted to try that I wasn't doing either, like I wasn't stepping outside of my comfort zone. And so I wasn't stepping outside of my comfort zone. And so actually I just with COVID and there was a good excuse to like not do that for a while, and even though I would, I just I really kind of let that go.
Speaker 2:And that is a focus for me this year is to like find something new, to learn or try, and for me I try to do that like once a month because I like for me I need, I need that for my own like accountability, like that I have to. I have to put like some measurement on it. But I feel like it's important to learn and grow and try new things and it's okay to like let things go or not do them. As frequently I'm with you on the skiing thing. It can be a chore, not only that, like I, just sometimes it's not comfortable. Like my knee bothers me more than I want to admit my whatever you know, like I, just I don't like to be cold anymore. So I will still go. I do enjoy it. But like you, like I'm not out there every week week, but I'm finding other things to do to fill that time yeah, so I think that's totally normal.
Speaker 2:Like as we evolve, like things change, like, of course, your interests are going to change too, so so whether it's like you leave it behind completely or you just taper it back and fill that with something else, I think that's totally normal I've been enjoying, like I've gotten back into backpacking the last couple of years.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I rarely can find people to go with me, so I just go by myself, but like I've been enjoying that. I like hiking.
Speaker 2:What are some other like new things that you would say you've.
Speaker 1:I mean I really, I really enjoy like a a couple nights a week just listening to podcasts and writing. It's super simple. I like paddleboarding a lot which I used to be amicably against.
Speaker 2:Wait, why were you against it?
Speaker 1:Well, I was a big whitewater guy, so I was like, if I'm going to be in the front of the water, I'm going to raft and kayak. But after years of getting my ass handed to me at kayaking, I'm just like.
Speaker 2:I do love rafting so you're saying rafting is for old men?
Speaker 1:say rafting is a little bit more comfortable I'm just messing particularly for a six foot five guy. I mean, I just don't fit in a whitewater kayak very well.
Speaker 2:But okay, so you said you're getting back into backpacking you like paddle boarding, snowboarding, less skiing skiing did you, do you ski?
Speaker 1:ski no snowboarding this year was unique in that I didn't this year I just didn't set myself up for too and too much skiing. But I think next year I'll probably get a pass and I'll ski more or do, like a trip, a couple of trips instead yeah, how do you feel about snowshoeing?
Speaker 1:I like snowing, but it doesn't snow here anymore, so you have to go all you got to go back anytime. I got to get on i-70. You might as well go skiing. That's the thing I do like backcountry skiing, I enjoy that. I would do that more. But I do likeowshoeing. I think this year I might get more into golf. Yes, and you know what I really want to do this year? I want to play pickleball. I'm going to fucking pull the trigger.
Speaker 2:Are you going to go to that?
Speaker 1:I might. When is that? It's going to be like fucking eight degrees out, so I don't know if I want my ankle really hurts, but I should go to that. I mean that's the best way to, because I think their next event isn't for straight people. Oh, okay, I wouldn't have very much luck there.
Speaker 2:You never know.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's going to be a bowl.
Speaker 2:What else Travel? I love traveling. Um, uh, what else? Well, what are some? Well, what wait before we go on to that? What are? Are there any other? Like new things?
Speaker 1:you say you want to get into golf and paddleboarding, jesus, the things I get joy from. I get pickleball.
Speaker 2:I get joy from a much more diverse by the way, pickleball is also popular in italy, because my cousin was telling me she's all about it. Well, I used to play tennis I love tennis, but nobody plays it anymore.
Speaker 1:It's old school, I guess, pickleball. What else are they going to say?
Speaker 2:You said golfing.
Speaker 1:And then all these other simple things I've been enjoying, like throwing parties, entertaining. I do want to have game night. Every time I tell people they laugh at me. I'm like, why, like, let's have a game night? And then I want to dose everybody with mushrooms, oh great are you letting?
Speaker 2:people we have about that at a time, or that's just like a.
Speaker 1:Who wants tea? Yeah, that's funny and you're hosting, you're hosting. Chili Coca.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that'll be fun. Yeah, okay, so you're also going to talk about what travel preferences as we've gotten older. Is that what you were saying?
Speaker 1:I don't know what context did that come up in? Oh, like versus like.
Speaker 2:When we were young. Isn't that what you wanted to talk about?
Speaker 1:Yeah, I think our travel, our, I think the way that First class all the way now, yeah, first class.
Speaker 2:I need it so I can wear my fur coat.
Speaker 1:I mean, I'm probably two years away from buying a camper, because I think so when I was it, so I can wear my fur coat. I mean I'm probably two years away from buying a camper. So when I was younger I was like people in campers are pussies.
Speaker 2:What why?
Speaker 1:Because it wasn't real camping. It was like you camp and you put a backpack on and you hike in and you do it.
Speaker 1:And blah blah blah. But now it's like getting up off the ground when you're like six foot five. And you're like six foot five and you're like you see people stepping up into their campers and all it's not the, it's not the tent. Putting up the tent is fine, it's all that stuff. It's getting all of your gear together and tetrising it into the back of the fucking forerunner blah blah, where I could just like hook up this camper you know, so I think I want to get a camper.
Speaker 1:I think I can't more. If I had a camper, you would never heard me that that version of joel didn't exist. It didn't even cross my mind when I was a kid I mean, I never even used a tent when I was young I just slept I camped for four months straight no. In gunnison national forest and most nights I didn't even sleep in the tent, I just slept outside in my next to the fire like a fucking cowboy.
Speaker 2:Did you get bit by anything?
Speaker 1:I mean, I just like was tough as fucking nails at that point, yeah, and I was like working because I was working.
Speaker 2:I was doing geology work. Did you get any snakes come up near you?
Speaker 1:No, but this deer Betsy was in my camp for two weeks Her and I were pals.
Speaker 2:I named a deer.
Speaker 1:She came in and she was very curious about me. She'd come all the way up and almost touch me. I called her Betsy. I fed her Because she was my only friend for two weeks. I don't know why.
Speaker 2:I named her.
Speaker 1:Betsy, that was my preacher when I was a kid. What?
Speaker 2:This is weird. Did you put mushrooms in tonight?
Speaker 1:By the way.
Speaker 2:Did you put mushrooms in the soup?
Speaker 1:So, yes, things change as we get older. It's totally normal. I had to have this little segment of the podcast so that I could make myself feel more normal about it.
Speaker 2:It's 8 o'clock and I'm yawning and I also already slept 32 hours, so I'm sorry this is the whole like maybe I'm just getting lazier.
Speaker 1:This is how, like my whole circle of friends went down to dark for three hours already, and oh, and I had a crazy dream about manuela and I driving in a bus and she crashed it into a fucking ditch.
Speaker 2:Not just a ditch, like a super big fucking I want you to go back and tell the whole story, though well.
Speaker 1:So I was sick for two weeks so our baby had been drinking a little bit too much nyquil, because anytime you're sick it's like this it's the only way to reward yourself is to drink NyQuil. Right, see, like you can't drink NyQuil when you're not sick, then you're a drug addict. So uh, so yeah, I took some liberties with NyQuil and and got some really good sleep, because I have a hard time sleeping. So, like the last few nights I I was like better, no fevers or anything. So it was just NyQuil and me in semi healthy, so I was like sleeping really well. So I had these very vivid dreams and one of my dreams I actually wrote down and had chat GPT write it into a story which is like epic. I should post it somewhere. I think I'm gonna make a bathroom book if I can get like 20 more dreams like this and I'm going to call it what did I say? I was going to call it Dream Dolly.
Speaker 2:Oh yes.
Speaker 1:Yeah, dream Dolly.
Speaker 2:I'm going to, I'm going to make that book.
Speaker 1:And then the next night I had a dream in Emanuela and I rented a bus and I don't know what we were doing with the bus.
Speaker 2:I think we were going to go pick up a bunch, is it we were doing with the bus? I think we were gonna go pick up a bunch, is it? Is it?
Speaker 1:was it a short bus? No, it was a long school bus.
Speaker 1:I mean because I have friends that would laugh their asses off if you said it was a short bus manuela paid for it, put it on her insurance, which makes sense because she's the insurance person and she's driving it like a fucking wildcat and we're driving down like broadway avenue but like we're going south, when I'm pretty sure broadway goes north, if I remember correctly. Actually it does go south, but it's not like flat, it's like what it's like we're going south towards inglewood we're going towards inglewood.
Speaker 2:You just said it goes north, but it doesn't go south no, it goes south.
Speaker 1:Lincoln goes north. Well, it goes, it goes south.
Speaker 2:And then it turns into a two-way.
Speaker 1:Yeah, okay, I see what you're saying so, anyway, we're just fucking hauling ass down broadway. It's more like a fucking interstate. And then on the side of the road there's like there, maybe the city of denver is building a subway, I don't know but there's like this like 30 foot fucking trench where there's some sort of utility going in. I mean, it's like a cavern, it's like the grand canyon of denver, and she almost hits it like three times and I'm like freaking the fuck out. I'm like why are you driving like this? And there's like no, there's no, like there's no markings or anything, so you can't really see it.
Speaker 1:We're, I guess, because we're way up high and you've never driven a bus before. And then we start going uphill and you're still driving like a recluse and I'm like we're going in that fucking ditch. I can see it already. She keeps getting closer. So finally, like and I could feel it my dream, like me just getting anxious about this. So we finally go into the ditch and we don't just like crash into the ditch, we go. It's such a big ditch that, like we're in the air long enough where the, where the bus turns itself vertical and we we crash, nose first into the bottom of this ditch and then somehow we're back up, we're not injured and somehow we're back up talking to like the police or something, and I'm all, I'm all worried because I feel like I'm gonna have to split.
Speaker 1:I don't know, I'm all worried because I'm like I'm gonna have to split the bill with her because she ruined the bus and I'm sure we didn't get the insurance. And I'm like I'm going to have to split the bill with her because she ruined the bus and I'm sure we didn't get the insurance, and I'm like we're going to have to pay for this fucking school bus that we rented. And I'm sure I was also upset because we didn't get to where we were going.
Speaker 2:Where were we going?
Speaker 1:I think it had something to do with that meetup group. I think we were going to pick up a bus full of single girls or something. I don't know. Oh my God, it would have been funnier if I would have seen, if this dream would have happened after. I saw you when you got back from Italy and you were like wearing the fur coat, but I didn't know about the fur coat yet.
Speaker 2:Also then I had a dream that I was driving a bus last night because you told me this story and I had a 32-hour coma sleep.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you're not allowed to drive the bus.
Speaker 2:I'm a good driver.
Speaker 1:I believe you. Now that we've had this experience in my dreams, you can't drive the bus.
Speaker 2:Great Great.
Speaker 1:Great. So yeah, we don't have to make this long unnecessarily, but I think just to give you guys a little sort of precursor where we're going. So we're going to take it down to one or two episodes, probably one episode of Midlife Uncensored, One episode of Midlife Uncensored a month.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Maybe two on certain months and then one episode of the Love Laugh Lounge, and they're going to be under a different structure with a focus on quality, relevant content Still lots of fun banter, but also more structured. And the Love Laugh L lounge is going to have more structure and it's all going to be good and we're going to see where it goes this year more guests and more.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you guys don't need to just sit here and listen to us ramble. So I mean we know you love us, but we feel like we can give you less episodes. We're going to give.
Speaker 1:We're going to give all those dating people out there a run for their money and try to give, try to give some a really balance. Every episode of the love laugh lounge is going to be. Our goal is to balance it out. Male, female perspectives on different situations. Make fun of some profiles. Definitely have a section where we make fun of people's certain people's profiles. We won't name them or show their pictures, but there's definitely some funny fucking things people put out there.
Speaker 2:I really wish we could do a segment on do people look like their dogs? But we can't show people's faces and I feel like there's a lot of people that look like their dogs. I feel like that's a thing.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and if I had a dollar for every person that has a dog licking their face making out their dog. Oh, it's the worst or in colorado, it's gym pictures and and I'm not complaining about gym pictures or bathing suits, but lots of bathing suits and then some people just put crazy shit out there. So we've been, we've been collecting profiles, got a fucking whole album full of them, so great inventory. The girl that claims she has zero baggage and she's 43 with fake tits that'll be.
Speaker 2:That's also. I feel like she yeah not just regular fake that one I feel like she looks like a clown a little bit with those glasses, those funny looking glasses, and the red she was wearing. I got a clown vibes from her.
Speaker 1:I yeah, it's kind of weird.
Speaker 2:I don't know why I wouldn't normally say that. I don't have zero baggage on a dating profile she had the clown emoji and then I was like, actually, you kind of look like the emoji. I have zero baggage, but it's the same as I'm racist, but I have zero baggage but you mean, I'm not racist here, I'm right.
Speaker 1:Oh no, I'm not racist. Yeah, I'm racist, but I'm racist, but yeah, that's weird I'm not editing that out, oh my god that looks awful. California wildfires well, I just gotta say I'm gonna end this with thank god the vikings are losing, because they're fucking losers and fuck you, tannin mic drop this.
Speaker 2:Sasquatch is out all right, look at that pussy. Oh boy, oh my gosh that was great, I'm trying to. Yeah, I think that's good Mic drop.
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