June 7, 2025 • 51 mins
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Remember when summer lasted forever? Megan and Lesley take you back to those glorious days when school let out on Memorial Day and didn't resume until after Labor Day—a true three-month break that today's kids can only dream about.
The hosts share their wildly different summer experiences, from Megan's structured daycare and camp life to Lesley's rural gardening adventures and theater camps. They reminisce about the sensory touchstones of Gen X summers: the distinctive sound of approaching ice cream trucks, orange sherbet push-ups that defined childhood happiness, and those plastic sleeve popsicles that inevitably cut the corners of your mouth (but you'd still eat ten of them).
Food memories dominate the conversation as they recall homemade ice cream in giant electric makers that "they don't even make that size anymore," fresh strawberry shortcake, and corn so sweet it needed cross-pollination by hand (which Megan admits to facilitating while serenading her corn plants with Marvin Gaye's "Let's Get It On").
The conversation wanders through drive-in movies, State Fair adventures, and the incredible freedom children once had—being sent outside until dinner with minimal supervision. Both hosts lament how summer break has shrunk over the decades, with schools often starting in late July and stealing away weeks of traditional summer freedom.
Whether you spent your summers at camp, working a summer job, or just riding bikes until dusk, this episode will transport you back to a time when summer meant freedom, discovery, and seemingly endless possibilities. What summer traditions do you miss most? Connect with us and share your memories!
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Megan (00:00):
I'm Megan Bennett,
Lesley (00:01):
I'm Lesley Meier
Megan (00:02):
and this is Gen X Women Are Sick of this Shit.
Hi Lesley,Megan: How the hell are you?
Lesley (00:12):
I'm blowing out a microphone currently I don't I
don't know how far away to be.
It's so well positioned rightnow.
I'm like, ah, hey, producer Tim.
Megan (00:25):
Lesley is blowing a microphone.
Lesley (00:29):
Yeah, so, and I'm having to like kind of assist someone
on the Internet at the same time.
Megan (00:35):
Yes, you are recording some interwebby things at the
same time, so that's cool.
So, how you been.
I'm going to do that.
Lesley (00:43):
Moderately good.
I'm trying to think how have Ibeen Fine?
I had a birthday.
I got older,
Megan (00:48):
you did have a birthday.
Yep, how's that feel?
Lesley (00:50):
We had an episode in between, like right before my
birthday and right after mybirthday.
It's like still going.
Megan (00:55):
You know what?
What Next week is my birthday.
Lesley (00:59):
It's Megan's birthday next week.
Yes, that's exciting.
Megan (01:04):
Friday the 13th baby.
Lesley (01:07):
Oh, you are Friday the 13th and it's on Friday for real
.
It is this year.
Yeah, what are you going to dofor your lucky birthday?
Megan (01:14):
Well, it was not my plan to do this, but we are going to
the fourth game in the Pacersand Oklahoma.
Lesley (01:22):
Holy shit, sister, yeah, fuck, yeah, yeah, fuck, yeah,
yeah, I'm sorry if they lose.
Megan (01:28):
Well, they better not, I don't.
Lesley (01:31):
And here's the thing my 20 somethings.
And I'm going to Said it was amiracle that we won, it was
amazing.
I'm going to spill some tea.
Spill some tea.
Megan (01:38):
Because I know my husband doesn't listen to this.
Lesley (01:40):
Okay.
Megan (01:49):
Well, to this, okay, well , that's wise, maybe he, he
bought tickets to this I lovethe pacers.
Yes, I have.
No, I have no problem you'relike I'm a season ticket holder.
Yes, sir, I.
I like them very much, I lovecheering them on indiana pacers
friends if you don't know rightwho that?
Lesley (02:00):
who?
Megan (02:00):
we're talking about indiana pacers, because we're in
indiana yeah, you may not haveheard of them before, but you
probably know them now.
So he bought these tickets andI asked him how much he spent
and he said you do not want toknow.
And I said, well, mother fuckhow much?
Did you spend?
Okay.
And now, after they won thefirst game, now the tickets are
(02:22):
even more.
They actually went up $500 perticket.
Lesley (02:28):
Holy fuck balls, and you're going to be in Oklahoma.
Megan (02:32):
No, it's here.
Oklahoma, oklahoma, oklahoma,it's here.
It's here.
Okay, you'll be here.
The wind will not be sweepingdown the plains.
Lesley (02:38):
Okay, well, oh, oklahoma .
Megan (02:42):
I was never in that musical.
Lesley (02:47):
I wasn't either.
I never did that one um.
But I know people who did and Isee I assume they're okay, I
assume they're fine, I'm surethey're fine um, so yeah, okay
so anyway, birthday went awayfor I had a birthday dinner went
to dinner went.
We'll make this hyper-local andhyper-specific to our own
experiences.
(03:08):
I think that was my favoritecritical review ever.
We went to dinner at TinkerStreet, which was really
excellent.
It's always a wonderful time
Megan (03:19):
you were walking distance from my house.
Lesley (03:21):
Yeah, oh, that's right.
I kind of just walked down andlike toilet papered your trees.
Megan (03:27):
you coulda going crazy, 52 got a tp.
Thing just knocked on the doorand I would have let you know.
I mean, that's true too.
Lesley (03:34):
Fair, fair um and then we came back to the east side
and we went to strange bird, ourfavorite tiki bar, saw some
other friends and then went homebecause I had to get up the
next fucking morning, get on aplane.
And I went to strange bird, ourfavorite tiki bar, saw some
other friends and then went homebecause I had to get up the
next fucking morning, get on aplane.
And I went to floride uh,floride, duh floride duh uh,
(03:55):
from saturday until tuesday, afriend of mine was going to be
there with some extended familyand said I have space in my bed
for you, nice.
And I said, cool, let me buy aplane ticket.
That's exactly how it went.
I'll come hang out, yep, and soflew down with her, which was
fun, and we hung out for acouple of days and got real
(04:18):
sunburned on the first day andthen it was kind of cloudy the
second day, which was perfect,and we went wandering around and
um went to a fun tiki bar andthey on the beach, ish.
They were inland a bit, but wewere like an eight minute golf
cart ride less seven minutesgolf cart ride from the beach we
were oh okay, like 30a superbougie, poshlandia, nice.
(04:42):
I did not pay to be there myself, but I appreciate having
friends who have family who dothat's cool.
Megan (04:52):
And so that was super fun .
Lesley (04:53):
And then I came back Tuesday and then went to work on
Wednesday and worked Wednesdayand Thursday nonstop and worked
today.
Here I am.
Megan (04:58):
Sitting here with you.
Lesley (04:59):
Recording this fucking show Whoop.
Megan (05:02):
Here we are Recording a show.
Yeah cool.
I'm glad you got to get awayfor a little bit, was it like
balls hot?
Lesley (05:08):
uh, it was moderate, it was nice, it was like the low
80s.
It was perfect.
That's cool.
Sandy beaches, blue waters,nice, I like it.
You know tequila, eat tequila.
And, uh, some whiskey.
Whiskey, no, irish whiskey.
I tried, I looked hey question.
Megan (05:23):
Irish whiskey yes ma'am, how are your tariff issues with
anything yet?
I mean not yet Okay.
Lesley (05:31):
Good, good, because everything keeps getting devoid
Because of tacos.
There might be an extra 10%right now, I don't know, but the
tariffs are all due wheneverything arrives in port.
And then there's all thisconfusion about like did it
apply from the date that yourcontainer on?
(05:51):
the container ship left port.
Does it matter if they happenedwhile they were crossing the
ocean?
Gotcha, nobody knows nothing.
So who knows?
Okay, who knows what the hellis going on there?
That's fair.
Yeah, okay.
Who knows what the hell's goingon there?
That's fair, um, yeah.
So if you could pick a birthdayexperience like select one.
Megan (06:11):
Oh, if I got custom decide what I wanted to do, yeah
if the pacers hadn't like,co-opted your birthday and made
it all about this.
It's all about them.
I mean that's okay, because I'm.
I mean it's been 25 years andbeating the knicks was like just
truth.
So fun, it's been a minute, wedon't.
The Knicks was like just Truth.
Lesley (06:25):
So fun, it's been a minute.
We don't want to say how old wewere.
Well, no, I could do the mathreally quick.
I was 27 last time we won.
Megan (06:31):
Yeah, I would have been.
I didn't have children.
Lesley (06:34):
I was Childless, childless cat lady.
Megan (06:37):
Yeah, this is the first time the Pacers have ever led in
a playoff series, so maybe thisis the time.
Lesley (06:46):
Maybe my 20-something kids say don't hold my breath,
but they were super psychedabout the win last night Well
they need to get on board.
I mean they just want to managetheir expectations.
Well, that's fair.
Megan (07:00):
It is the Pacers Crushing defeat.
Yeah, I understand, Iunderstand it's either going to
go very, very well or not, sogreat, very very poorly, but so
far it's yeah.
I mean, we're guaranteed, youknow, to have a few more games.
Lesley (07:15):
I was like hanging in there with you.
I was like what's?
Megan (07:18):
she going to say what are ?
Lesley (07:19):
we guaranteed.
So this is we're kind ofbullshitting and just hot local
goss.
Megan (07:24):
Yeah, is what we're talking about today.
Lesley (07:29):
Did anybody die this week, Gosh?
Megan (07:31):
probably.
I just don't remember, I meanas one representative.
Oh no, who was it it was?
Was it Kristi Noem, somebody?
Oh, I think I'm talking out ofmy ass.
No, you're right, was it her?
We all die someday.
We all got to die someday.
Lesley (07:46):
No, it wasn't her.
Megan (07:47):
It wasn't her, it was somebody.
But yeah, who would win?
Lesley (07:51):
It was a local like rep representative.
Megan (07:54):
Was it local here?
Lesley (07:55):
No, no, no, no, no.
I saw it though.
Megan (07:57):
Okay.
Lesley (07:58):
It was like some other state going after her for cuts
to Medicaid and like well, weall have to die sometime.
Megan (08:05):
Right, we're all going to die sometime, I mean true.
I guess Did you hear then thatshe apologized.
Lesley (08:11):
Oh, no, except she didn't really.
Megan (08:14):
She just did a video where she said well, I'm sorry
that people didn't realize thatthey were mortal and I hope I
don't have to explain to themabout the tooth fairy.
Lesley (08:24):
They were mortal and I hope I don't have to explain to
them about the tooth fairy.
Megan (08:29):
What a snarky bitch.
See you next.
Lesley (08:31):
Tuesday Yep, that's cool , yeah, anyway, sorry, you
didn't know you were immortal.
Fuck off, right.
We have a warning on this showfor a reason, fuck all the way
off Over the edge of the cliff.
Yes, um so no one from the 70sor 80s in terms of iconic
(08:54):
musicians I know died in thepast two weeks.
I looked earlier and I also sawthat, so I think that we are
good there.
Megan (09:04):
You mean we had an entire two weeks without.
I mean there's always sixdegrees of separation.
Lesley (09:11):
Oh, I guess we could say this this is kind of sad,
because here we go.
Alf Clausen, composer for theSimpsons, died on June 3rd,
right, so the Simpsons came onin the 90s sometime, yes,
college land 89, maybe thatfeels 89, I think really when we
(09:35):
were in high school.
Well, you were, I didn'tgraduate I was in the college.
Megan (09:40):
I am pretty sure.
I am pretty sure it launched in89 the simpsons is forever.
Lesley (09:46):
I used to love it.
Okay, this is a great segue.
Megan (09:49):
Boom baby, Was it 1989?
.
What a hooker you rung thatbell Look at you.
December, muncie, indiana.
That's fucking hilarious.
It said the Simpsons roastingon an open fire, or something
(10:10):
like that Okay, and I doremember the shorts.
Lesley (10:19):
I used to love the shit out of the Tracy Ullman show.
Producer Tim is showing usinformation so that we sound
slightly less stupid, of theTracy Ullman show.
Producer Tim is showing usinformation so that we sound
slightly less stupid.
The family debuted as shorts onthe Tracy Ullman show on April
19th 1987.
So you know, we grew up withthat and then when I was a oh,
I'm going to repeat myselfbecause I just said this
sentence and we'll say it againthis is a nice segue into our
(10:41):
topic today about summer break.
This is a nice segue into ourtopic today about summer break,
when I was a day camp counselor.
I was like in my teens but alsoin my 20s and 30s and 40s,
because I love day camp thatmuch I used to laugh when kids
would come to me and they'd justbe like, have you ever seen the
Simpsons?
I couldn't live without theSimpsons.
I love the Simpsons so much.
Take a seat, junior, and likethis kid did this whole
(11:03):
presentation.
Oh much, take a seat, junior,and like this kid did this whole
presentation.
Oh, it might have been when Iwas trying to teach speak.
I mean, I was a speech teacherfor a minute and he may have
done like a position paper orsomething about how, like the
simpsons raised him and likethese are like seventh and
eighth graders, and so I wasprobably my very late 20s, early
30s at this point and I wasjust like, oh my god, I feel old
(11:24):
if, if the simpsons raised him,then his parents were gen x
right I mean they've got to be.
And then, unless he was justlike abandoned, in a box
somewhere.
Megan (11:33):
Way to go.
Gen x parents, let the simpsonsraise your children.
Lesley (11:37):
It's fine they're they're smart they love each
other, they're probably fine.
And lisa's like sassy feminist.
You go, girl, they're probably.
They're probably fine.
They're probably fine andLisa's like sassy feminist.
Megan (11:44):
You go girl.
They're probably fine.
Lesley (11:45):
They're totally fine.
That kid is probably in hislate.
He's probably in his early 30sright now, actually Mid 30s.
That's hilarious.
Anywho, there we go.
Megan (11:57):
I love the Simpsons they're still very funny and
South Park, oh my God.
Lesley (12:04):
So that is sad.
Yes, and that is who died acouple days ago, three days ago
um, but mostly we kind of gotoff without like, like you know
like a major like a lot of starfrom the 70s and 80s, yeah uh
(12:24):
well, watch out next week.
Megan (12:26):
Hold your breath on your butts and we'll see what happens
lots of people dying.
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you like a sis, a gen x women'ssocial club.
What's lilas, megan?
Lilas is our uh off platform,off, uh, the books of faces, off
all of the other traditionalsocial media.
Uh, it is our off platform, offthe books of faces, off all of
the other traditional socialmedia.
(12:47):
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Lesley (12:55):
It's a social club.
It is a social club.
It's a membership-based club.
Memberships are $10 a month.
That does help support us ingrowing the platform.
We purchased a platform thatwould host a network of women so
that you could come togetherand meet each other in real time
(13:15):
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Megan (13:15):
In a safer space than a traditional social media
platform and a much morepersonal space.
So what do we do there, Lesliewe?
Lesley (13:26):
host movie nights where we live stream some of our
favorites as they are availableto us for group watches of films
from the 70s, 80s and 90s.
We host a space for a monthlybook club.
We host trivia nights once amonth we have a live text chat.
Megan (13:48):
Four prizes even.
Lesley (13:49):
Four prizes.
That's true.
The space is able to hostweekly text chats so that you
can kind of check in in realtime with people.
I would say the criticaldifference between kind of what
this space is and any othersocial media space that I've
experienced is that it is active.
(14:10):
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Megan (14:18):
It's like making connections, yep, and if that's
what you're looking for theopportunity to meet other people
, to find people who are maybein the same similar spaces as
you are.
Lesley (14:28):
Like-minded, same time phase of life, navigating all of
those transitions then thismight be the right place for you
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Megan (14:37):
So check out, lylas.
You can learn more about it atgenxwomenpodcom.
That's mxwomenpodcom.
Hey, we're back.
Lesley (14:48):
We are back.
Megan (14:48):
What are we going to talk about today?
Lesley (14:50):
We are going to talk about a greatly anticipated time
of year for parents andchildren and teachers everywhere
.
Megan (15:00):
School teachers, definitely school teachers.
Lesley (15:04):
We're going to talk about summer break, summer break
, summer, summer, summer time,specifically summers in the 70s
and 80s when you actually got asummer break.
Megan (15:15):
Yeah, yeah.
My friend who teaches fourthgrade is out now, thankfully.
She's very glad, but she's gotto go back already at the almost
end of july.
Lesley (15:29):
Yeah, dude, it's stupid.
When my kids our kids, I thinkwere in school, I think july
31st, like that, like last fewdays of july, became the day
that they yeah, I think mydaughter was later.
Megan (15:43):
I want to say like she got out like the first week of
June and wouldn't go back untillike mid-ish August, I think.
But for us but for us, like itwas, you'd get out memorial day
weekend or like right beforeyeah, my fucking birthday uh-huh
, time to get out of school,bitches, uh-huh.
(16:04):
And then you would have thatentire.
Lesley (16:09):
You'd have like three months basically off you would a
heathen and a hellion memorialday through labor day we would
go back to school like themonday after labor day, right?
So it'd be like the 10th or11th, just depended.
Megan (16:22):
Well, and now it's like I mean now like fuck, I don't
even know that, like the retailstores, that they're gonna
immediately go back to the backto school shit.
Lesley (16:29):
Oh it's awful yeah, like , like there might be now but
you're gonna have like pencilsin the aisles in a week.
Sorry kids school's out back toglue car construction paper.
I, contrary to the reasons thatwe did it, I don't think it's
fucking helped at all.
Megan (16:45):
No, I don't think so either.
Lesley (16:47):
We don't learn more, and all these kids have all the
fucking testing.
They're like I read and blah,blah, blah.
Megan (16:54):
And all the teachers have to get so much shit done and
try to.
I mean, you've got to rememberthat feeling when you look at
the calendar and you would knowlike yes we've got like three
weeks left.
Yeah, and it's lord of theflies in your classroom yeah,
and kids, everybody's losingtheir mind checked out and the
(17:15):
first really warm day, when theyhave to open the windows at
school because you know most ofthem didn't have.
Lesley (17:21):
There was no h back absolutely so you open the
windows at school because youknow most of them didn't have.
Megan (17:23):
There was no h back, absolutely so you open the
windows and then there's likeshit going on outside and all
the kids are staring out thewindow instead of paying
attention to anything that'sgoing on yes, uh-huh, and it
also didn't get like 100 degreeshot like no I don't think so
maybe maybe we don't remember it, I don't remember there was.
Lesley (17:44):
I think that's another valid reason to not have school
in the summers, because nobodyhad hvac I think that's why they
didn't well, and it was farminghad to go farm, yeah like my
elementary school was.
When I went to what we wouldcall normal school was out in
the middle of fucking nowhereand everybody did farm yeah, a
lot of the kids did farm werethey detasseling corn and stuff?
(18:06):
yeah, just shit like that.
You know helping out, plantingthings, picking things.
Don't need that anymore.
You know farming.
Yeah, who needs food?
We don't need anybody to pickor plant food.
There's no underlying politicalcommentary here at all oh yes,
there is I don't know whatyou're talking about.
Megan (18:24):
Oh no, oh no, yeah, there is.
We don't need food.
We don't need food.
Forget that shit.
Lesley (18:29):
Tomatoes.
Good luck with that.
Strawberries.
So yes, Good luck with that.
Megan (18:37):
Taters.
Lesley (18:38):
Oranges.
Good luck with that.
Piss off.
What else do we need to eat?
Nothing.
Nothing you get frozen shit andthat's it.
This is why Ozempic exists.
Actually, it was all a grandconspiracy.
There's just not going to beany food.
Megan (18:53):
Just stop being hungry.
Inject ourselves.
Inject yourself and you'll befine.
Lesley (18:58):
Talk about starving a whole population.
Megan (19:08):
Wow the humor.
Talk about starving intosubmission a whole population.
Lesley (19:10):
wow the humor, the humor gets darker the longer this
goes on.
Don't get me wrong.
Yeah, right, no, but I do misstomatoes.
There's this grand conspiracythat like we're actually.
Megan (19:14):
I think you're onto something.
Lesley (19:14):
Yes no hate, no shade.
Uh, all the um glp ones havebeen like wonderful lifesavers
for many, many people.
Yes, and there could be anefarious underside no more
tomatoes and corn for you.
Megan (19:27):
Are you big o' zempic?
Lesley (19:29):
Big o', are you big o'?
That's a different kind of o'.
We've gone a long, long wayaway from summer.
Megan (19:36):
We are nowhere near it, but we can get back.
Lesley (19:38):
Here we are.
Megan (19:39):
So pull in, but we can get back here we are.
So pull in, did you so?
Do you remember when you were akid and that whole like ramping
up to summer break?
Did you?
Did your teachers like pull outthe AV cart and like oh geez,
yeah, absolutely, just got towatch.
Lesley (19:54):
We had AV carts, that had, you know, we had reel to
reel, yeah yeah, slideshows,okay, you know, we had
reel-to-reel film yeah, yeah,slideshows set to music, like
you could have sort of audiotracks or like music.
Megan (20:07):
Sure.
Lesley (20:07):
And they would just shuffle through slides.
We still had the overheadprojectors with transparencies.
Megan (20:15):
Yes, you could ride on those, in case we needed to draw
something or write out mathequations.
Lesley (20:20):
We had those, but the AV cart would come out.
I don't remember what wewatched, though, leading up to
like the holidays I mean, I feellike it was movies like the
summer holiday watch whatever Idon't know what would we have
seen.
I don't know what did they dowith us.
We don't have any memories.
I don't have any memories that's, but I mean, I remember yes
(20:41):
this happened I feel like it wasyou know cartoons and shit like
that probably probably so, orlike dumb educational films like
how to play safely on metalplayground equipment.
Don't bash your brains out, becareful.
I honestly think like thecloser it got they just the more
they just threw us outside.
Megan (21:00):
Yes, Really, yes, like suddenly recess was like four
hours Learn to play dodgeballand yeah, catch with your face.
And we were just running aroundlike insane people.
Lesley (21:10):
And then it was done.
Megan (21:12):
And then we were home and I loved summer.
Lesley (21:15):
Like in my heart and like from a sensory embodied
perspective, I can still feelthe feeling of what a long
summer was.
Megan (21:27):
No, didn't have to do anything, didn't have to go
anywhere, you were just a kidand you got to go play and yeah.
Yeah, get up kind of on yourown terms, and yeah, for sure.
Lesley (21:36):
That was totally true and, like I don't, I don't know
what your we'll get into yourexperience.
True, and like I don't, I don'tknow what your we'll get into
your experience.
I know my summer experience upuntil, uh, up until d-day.
That was like we gardened andwe had a huge yard and we were
in the middle of nowhere, so Idid have labor that I had to do
like pulling weeds, pickingvegetables, pulling worms off of
(21:58):
tomato plants exciting thingslike this sure, but it was just
like put on your bathing suit.
You're just kind of wearing thesame stinky terry cloth shorts
all summer and maybe the samelittle like tube top or halter
top all summer and just likerunning in the sprinkler and
like picking stuff and just sortof like laying around, yeah,
(22:21):
just entertaining yourself, yepand hanging out we had.
Megan (22:26):
Uh, I went to like a daycare for a lot of my young,
young life, so like one was in awoman's home oh, like a daycare
in her home that that's whenyou know watching like.
I remember sitting in theliving room and watching like
Janie and Cowboy Bob and allthat.
Lesley (22:47):
Oh my gosh.
Yes, those are hyper-local too,cowboy Bob's.
Megan (22:50):
Corao.
So I remember that.
And then after my parentsdivorced I went to a different
daycare, kind of on the eastside.
Lesley (23:00):
East side represent.
Megan (23:04):
And it was, was.
That was kind of fun becausethere were a few kids there that
were about my age and we, youknow, oh that's cool play stuff
together, which was great but,um, yeah, like the not, I didn't
get to stay home by myself forreally until I was a little bit
older.
I want to say it was probablylike I don't know, 13.
Lesley (23:27):
Yeah, that seems reasonable.
Megan (23:29):
Yeah, and I had my little sister with me, so yeah, oh,
you were in charge of her.
God help us.
Lesley (23:35):
Remind me how.
What was the Five?
Megan (23:38):
and six years, depending on what time of year, but yeah,
oh man Different.
Lesley (23:41):
So you really had like some responsibility.
Megan (23:45):
I did which is insane, you know, but it was so normal.
Lesley (23:50):
Yeah, it was just like oh, you're a woman now you can
stay home.
Yeah, you know how to warm upSpaghettiOs on the stove top.
Megan (24:00):
Try not to get her killed , okay.
Lesley (24:02):
Great See, great See you later.
Megan (24:03):
You have my number at work.
Lesley (24:05):
Where do you work?
Ah, it's like 30 minutes away.
Megan (24:07):
You're going to be fine.
Lesley (24:08):
It's fine.
It's fine, call 911.
Megan (24:12):
Mm-hmm, learn how to yeah , learn how to do 911 on a
rotary dial phone, and you getthis.
Lesley (24:18):
So did you ever do like camps?
Did you have to go to camp inthe summertime?
I had.
Megan (24:25):
No, not really we did.
I did a camp, see, I'm likeit's all fuzzy, super fuzzy.
I feel like, yes, but not likeit wasn't a thing that we did
regularly.
Lesley (24:41):
Okay.
Megan (24:41):
Like it was.
You know, if I did it did it,it was like one off kind of
thing Anyway, but I know youwere a camp kid.
Lesley (24:48):
Oh my God, so much camp.
I was a Girl Scout.
I too, was a Girl Scout.
I went to Dudley Galahue GirlScout camp.
Gillian went to Dudley.
Galahue Girl Scout camp Everysummer and I did sleepaway camp
and I did two weeks of shockergrease paint theater camp Nice
yes.
Every summer.
I think my first time.
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I was probably a little bityounger and I just did a week
and then I did two weeks.
My fantasy brain says maybe upto three weeks, but I think it
was just a solid two weeks.
And we did acting and put on aperformance at the end of the
week.
So I loved going away to daycamp or to some sleep away camp.
I did not so much love localday camps like.
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That was less fun.
I didn't like the like hustleand bustle and like having to
run and do 47 million activities.
Um, so I didn't love that.
That was a really good time.
And then often I would go likevisit my grandmother.
I would stay with her.
She was in Kentucky so I'd govisit my grandmother for a
couple of weeks and hang out.
And I had tons of freedom there.
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I could just like kind ofwander the earth in
Elizabethtown, kentucky, whichthen was significantly smaller,
and like I had a couple of aunts, who one went in walking
distance.
I don't know if I should havebeen allowed to walk, but I did,
yeah, and there was like go toyour aunt gloria's.
And I knew that she was like onmain street, and so I would
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walk.
Megan (26:14):
And then when I got into high school but you were armed
with things- like with withwords of wisdom like don't take
candy from strangers, don't getin unmarked vans yeah, if a
stranger asks you to help themfind your cat or dog.
Lesley (26:30):
That one was not a thing yet.
Oh, that wasn't a thing.
Megan (26:32):
Had not happened.
Maybe that was one that Itaught my daughter.
I was like 11, 12, 13.
Lesley (26:39):
That one didn't exist, yeah.
So I would go there and I, whenI was in high, like that
teetering year between likeeighth grade and freshman year,
I remember being old enough togo to the local pool by myself
and I had like a friend thereand we would walk and like go to
the pool, and so it was sort ofthis, like you know,
quintessential small town thing,and then I would hear all these
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stories about how my mom hadbeen a lifeguard at the pool.
But that was sort of fun, didyou?
Megan (27:07):
you did that you followed in her footstep in high school.
Lesley (27:10):
Yes, along, along with the synchronized swimming I also
lifeguarded.
So that was all through highschool I was a lifeguard and
then into college and then Ialso taught swimming lessons and
I also did day campy stuff.
But for high school and collegeI definitely lifeguarded the
whole time.
And then, like post college,when I went out to try to like
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find a job, I did tons oftheater camps.
So I read camp, ran camps andcreated camps for probably 20
years there were.
Megan (27:44):
Uh, I'm trying to think like what you know, like the
things that pop up in my mindabout summer, you know, like ice
cream trucks yes, like thatthey were everywhere, and I
think it's a pretty rare thing.
Now I don don't know that youthey show up near our house
sometimes.
Do you still have them?
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We'll hear them in the summer.
Lesley (28:05):
They'll go.
The sound.
We laugh because of the qualityof the music.
It indicates whether or notwe're going to go outside.
But when the kids were young,absolutely we would run out
there and they would comethrough every once in a while.
I was way too rural to have theice cream truck experience, so
I always missed out on that.
Megan (28:24):
But I do remember I definitely had that.
That was a thing in myneighborhood for sure.
Lesley (28:29):
Oh, that's cool.
So did you have a favoritetreat?
Megan (28:33):
I would say an orange sherbet push-up kind of gal Fuck
yes, best ice cream ever sogood.
Lesley (28:42):
There's so much enthusiasm about orange sherbet
push-ups.
If you have a Dairy Queen.
By the way, near you, there isa summer special thing right now
the ones with the colorful dots.
Megan (28:53):
Yep, there's a special at Dairy.
Queen right now that is like anorangey kind of milkshake-y
thing.
And my husband says it tastesexactly like the orange push-ups
.
Lesley (29:01):
Like the old push-ups.
It seemed like there were twosolid camps.
You would either do thepush-ups or the rocket pops.
Megan (29:08):
Like the red, black and blue.
Yeah, they were okay, but Ialways felt like they tasted
like they were frostbitten.
Lesley (29:14):
And it was mostly the lemon and, like I wanted, the
cherry.
Yeah, so just get a fuckingcherry popsicle, right right,
yeah, like uh, push-ups man, sothe other like hated and beloved
dessert of summer.
Uh, those fucking like plasticpopsicles with the edges that
cut the corners of your mouth,like the push, the pops that you
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just you buy oh, like theplastic in the yes, yeah, and
you'd like have to tear off thething with your teeth and like
squirt it up.
Megan (29:41):
Yes, yes.
Lesley (29:42):
And then you'd suck on them and the edges of the
plastic would like cut thecorners of your mouth.
I'm showing you all listeningaudience, so you can you know
what I'm talking about.
You feel it.
Megan (29:51):
I know you do.
Lesley (29:52):
You currently feel it right now, but you would eat
like 10 of them and littleslices in the corner of your
mouth from eating not push-uppops, I guess I don't remember
what they were called flavor iceflavor.
Megan (30:02):
Is that what it?
Lesley (30:03):
is that's exactly it.
Yep, I'll take it flavor icesome people would also talk
about getting the.
Um, I've heard told, heard told, the little jugs drinks yes, I
remember those I didn't have.
They had like a little foil topon them yeah, you could peel
off, and that was drink out ofyour pre capri suns, before
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those ever existed they werecalled like little hugs, little
jugs or something like that, wasthat a precursor to my boobs?
Megan (30:35):
look at her little jugs.
Little jug, I feel like FlavorIce.
Lesley (30:41):
It sounds like a hip hop artist, flavor.
Megan (30:45):
Ice.
I want Flavor Ice to be a hiphop song.
Lesley (30:48):
I think Saturday Night Live should do that sketch.
There it is.
They are Lil Hug.
Oh, they're Lil Hugs.
Oh, isn't that cute.
Why are they hugs?
They're barrels.
Megan (30:59):
I don't know, is somebody trademarked little jug?
Lesley (31:04):
little, little hugs or they anticipated that people
would be like I can't givelittle jugs to tiny girls.
That would not be appropriatelittle jugs somebody somewhere
was like listen marketing person.
Megan (31:20):
As cute as that is, this is a poor decision.
This is a bad everyone's part.
Lesley (31:26):
Uh, so that was, you know, summer, summer, summer.
What did you do?
What did you do in the summersin high school?
Like, when did you get yourfirst gig?
I know we've talked about jobsbefore, but did you have like
fuck?
Megan (31:36):
it around summer jobs?
Uh no, I'm.
I mean, my first job job was atclear's boutique.
Oh okay, yeah, and you know,just fucking around okay, I
don't know.
Lesley (31:49):
So you didn't do like the seasonal employment thing.
Megan (31:52):
No, I, you know I probably was.
I left my own devices way toomuch.
Got you heard, probably shouldI.
I just wanted to crack a whipon me, no, me too I need to, I
need to, I needed money.
Lesley (32:06):
I was like I'm gonna figure out how to get the hell
out of here, so that's gonnatake some cash, gotta go.
I just needed the money becauseI didn't have a car, so somehow
I made it all work.
I don't know exactly how thatwent down.
Megan (32:18):
I was looking at like things that people well.
So my husband was talking about.
I was telling him that we weregoing to do the pod on this and
he goes.
Oh my God, he goes.
I remember the first day ofsummer when I was in second
grade.
I was like okay, and he goes.
I was all excited I was ridingmy bike.
I was looking behind me to talkto somebody who was also riding
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their bike and I smacked intothe back of a car and left a
giant dent and had to go to thehospital and had my face all
sewn up.
Oh no, I was like shit.
But then I was thinking youknow, yeah, that's the way to
start a summer, that soundsabout right.
Lesley (32:57):
That sounds about right.
Oh, that's so tragic soundsabout right.
Megan (33:01):
That sounds about right.
Oh, that's so true.
I was looking at all the thingsthat, like you know, kids
supposedly in the 80s did, likeplaying red light, green light,
tag and stuff like that, withtheir friends for sure, um, you
know, like when you're, when wewere older, like playing laser
tag and stuff like that, watersprinklers and uh, and all this
stuff, the sprinkler in the yard, and I think like, oh, do you
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have pictures of yourself likeas an infant in a baby pool?
Lesley (33:31):
Did you get that?
Megan (33:32):
Yeah, I think everybody does.
Lesley (33:35):
I think you're supposed to the metal-edged kind of baby
pools, because it was beforethere was any plastic stuff, so
there were these metal edge babypools.
And inevitably we were justlike in saggy ass diapers we
were naked like with the hose inthe thing I do remember, like
the big.
I mean we'll probably talkabout this in a month or so too,
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but like the big summer partywould have been like fourth of
july.
Yes, um, I do remember we madeice cream every summer.
We had like a big they don'teven make ice cream makers this
large anymore.
I hate that.
We threw shit away from the 70s, quite honestly, because it was
so amazing yeah, I mean thecool, all the cool stuff.
(34:17):
They were giant they don't maketwo gallons of ice cream.
I agree, and it was so good sonow did you you had to manually
do that.
We had one that was electric ohit was in like a five gallon
bucket and the like metalcylinder.
Was it made like two gallons?
When you made it was huge, Idon't know it was my dad like,
did it get like thick enough?
(34:37):
like, oh yeah, for sure,everything like yeah it was kind
of like that, but our bucketwas like orange.
It was orange and plastic.
It was just like a piece ofindustrial equipment.
It wasn't like super quaint.
And then they have the metalcylinder and it was just like.
You know, my job was likepouring the rocks out and
putting more ice in, and then wewould check it every once.
I love making vanilla ice creamin the summer.
(34:59):
I have one now.
It just makes a lot less andit's just not as magical it
would have to be like packedwith towels and it was like a
big thing.
I don't know, it was messy.
Uh, I miss strawberries in thesummer, oh yeah do you remember
that?
Megan (35:14):
yep, yep, we used to make , uh, like the strawberry, uh,
you get those um shells thatwere like uh, I don't know, like
angel food cake kind of shelloh, yeah, yeah, short, and then
yep, and then you stick somestrawberries in there and some
throw some whipped cream on topand you got yourself something
it was so good and fresh corn.
(35:36):
I do remember that so being inindiana, that is kind of a rite
of passage it is Like we do have.
But God help you if you get thewrong ear, like if you buy like
the feed corn.
You are fucked.
Yeah, bitter, not good Reallygood sweet corn, sweet bicolor
corn and everybody knows likethe one, like farm stall, like
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on the street, that you could goto.
Lesley (36:02):
Oh yeah, that would have like the best because we were,
because we were out so far in arural area, we didn't.
You know, we grew a ton butlike, yeah, who had really good?
Megan (36:10):
I tried to, had really good tomatoes I tried to grow
corn um a number of years ago,like in my backyard.
Lesley (36:16):
Yeah, so I had it go it was fine.
Megan (36:19):
It was fine okay.
Lesley (36:20):
I actually got ears like hey hey, corn that we then ate,
and it was delicious farmer,but the thing about corn is you
have to cross-pollinate it.
Megan (36:30):
Yes, so I would go out at night when nobody was looking
and I would have corn sex, makemy corn have sex, and I'd like.
I'd be singing like let's getit all, like you know, that's
how you got your ears to enlarge.
Lesley (36:49):
Yes, I need to get bigger ears.
Megan (36:51):
I sang to them so that they would have good sex so that
they would pollinate.
That's the hard thing aboutgrowing corn in the city yeah,
you gotta let I mean, if you, ifyou only have like three or
four stalks or whatever you haveto you gotta work it really
good.
Lesley (37:03):
You gotta make sure the pollination happens and um,
let's get it on, and you and youserenade your corn so that it
comes to full maturation.
I understand it's fine.
Megan (37:17):
You do what you have to do it's fair To make summer as
fabulous as summer can be.
Lesley (37:23):
Speaking of summer fabulousness and corn and
Indiana, the end of summer isthe Indiana State Fair.
Oh yes, Now this could be awhole other conversation, or we
can just kind of tag it in herea little bit.
Megan (37:37):
We could tag it in.
I didn't go to the fair untilmy until my husband and I got
married.
Lesley (37:43):
Oh, his family were fair people okay, we were not fair
people, okay, so I was, it was awhole new thing for me and holy
crap I you it is in some way, Ihave missed out on a little bit
of a rite of passage and I'mglad that your spouse has
indoctrinated you into theindiana state fair.
My dad was insane about thefair.
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Like 5 am getting up loading thecar to get in when it opened so
that we could go see all theanimals and I'm sure there was
some sort of like car load, likeget an early kind of thing.
Yes, and, uh, it was a wholesituation like I don't know what
his joy was.
(38:25):
We all went as a family manyyears and then, as I got older,
I had much greater resistance toit and in my angsty teens I was
like hell, no.
But then, as soon as I hit my20s, you're like I, gotta go we
gotta go to the fair and wegotta go in the morning and I
gotta go see the bunnies and Igotta go see the chickens and I
gotta go see all the baby.
Megan (38:43):
Yeah, no, we weren't we weren't fair people, but we did.
We would do like in thesummertime we would do, uh,
drive-ins oh yeah, oh, that'sfun, that was super fun so that
was when you said like you couldget in with a car load oh, that
triggered that.
Lesley (38:58):
There you go of course the drive-in movies.
I follow that.
Do you remember any of themovies that you ever saw at the
drive-in?
Megan (39:05):
I absolutely.
Yes, we saw, I know we saw ETat the drive-in, and the one
that really sticks in my mind isDisney's Fox and the Hound.
Oh, that's adorable but thoseare so sad, we all it was my mom
, my grandmother and my sisterand I, and we all bawled our
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eyes out and we're passingaround a box of clean eggs
absolutely sobbing like oh mylord summer joy like no other.
Lesley (39:38):
I have some vague memory pre-sibling so I had to be
younger than four of going tosee the great raft race, Charlie
Brown, or the great boat raceCharlie.
Megan (39:52):
Brown.
Lesley (39:52):
Okay, sure, I just remember.
I have this vague memory ofthem being in this raft and
falling off of a waterfall.
So for my three orfour-year-old little heart, that
must have been like oh my God,charlie Brown's gonna die.
What's happening to CharlieBrown?
I do remember that that's theonly drive-in movie that I
remember as a kid.
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I don't know why we're beingmade to look at Footloose.
Because, that's mine.
Megan (40:21):
Oh, that was your drive-in movie.
Lesley (40:22):
Footloose Because that's mine that was your drive-in
movie Footloose.
Megan (40:26):
Did you have a date?
Lesley (40:28):
No, because I was seven.
Megan (40:35):
Oh wow, I forget that you're younger than me, but I do
remember sitting there andwatching it and telling my mom
and my sisters like I gotta getout of the car.
Lesley (40:47):
I gotta dance, I gotta dance.
Megan (40:52):
I gotta go move.
I mean, they were telling youthat everybody should cut loose.
Foot loose Kick off your Sundayshoes.
Lesley (41:01):
Sunday shoes Sunday shoes.
You know what I thought?
That word was Sundance, yourSundance shoes.
Your Sundance shoes forever itwas like kick off your Sundance
shoes, wee Ooey Shake and shakemy feet.
That's literally what I thoughtthey were saying.
That's literally what I thoughtthey were saying.
Megan (41:25):
As far as we know because I'm not fact checking this shit
no, that is exactly the lyrics.
For now and forever and ever.
Please don't ever tell usotherwise.
Lesley (41:38):
I'm okay with that it's pretty fucking funny.
I bet we could come up withlike a whole episode's worth of
stuff about like lyrics that wemisremember.
Oh for fucking sure we shouldget people to like write in and
we'll just like read throughthem and laugh our asses off.
That could just be like alittle reel of hilariousness.
Oh, my God so fun, oh mercy,but here we are yeah here we are
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.
So we're at the beginning ofsummer now and we get to 2025,.
Megan (42:22):
You know now, yeah, and now that we're older, you know,
now in my head, I look at thecalendar and I'm like, okay,
well, it's already past MemorialDay.
That makes me sad.
And then I've got my birthday,so I got that to look forward to
.
Lesley (42:35):
And then that's gone.
Megan (42:36):
I'm like, okay, now, oh shit, it's already past my
birthday.
And now, oh crap, it's alreadymy past my birthday.
And now, oh crap, it's alreadypast fourth of july.
And then you know, and then itjust feels like next thing, you
know, it's the state fair andthen gen con and then, well,
that's true that's gen con.
Lesley (42:50):
But gen con is like the it signals the end, yeah, the
bleeding into the end of summer.
At this point it's just kind ofgone.
Megan (42:58):
It's just like and then never, you know.
Granted, halloween is cool, butyeah, I don't know.
Halloween is super sad when itdisappears.
So, fast.
Lesley (43:07):
At least we do get to kind of enjoy the full season
like, I think, like mid-maythrough september now, because
being boundaried by like thecurrent school year, yeah, was
torture.
Megan (43:21):
I mean, just like what it's oh as a because it's august
first we're done that's it.
Lesley (43:26):
So you miss like six more weeks of wonderful weather
right, right.
Megan (43:31):
You know of arguably the hottest part of the summer
absolutely so if you were in aschool that didn't have air
conditioning, which was much ofips right and definitely
definitely buses Right.
Lesley (43:41):
Oh my God.
Megan (43:42):
And you're sending your kids back out into sweltering
conditions, torture.
Lesley (43:48):
Yeah, misery, it shouldn't be.
So we're getting ready.
We're on the cusp of enjoyingsummer.
I'm sure during our summerrecording we will chime in about
certain events and we willcelebrate our one year
anniversary this summer of ourfirst episode dropped like first
full calendar year.
Megan (44:09):
That is awesome we are in our second season of the pod,
but look at us, look at ourlittle love love project I know
it's pretty cool, we're justchugging right along.
Yeah, I like it, it's super fun.
Hopefully it's fun for peopleto listen to this silliness and
hopefully remember some of theirchildhood and their summer send
(44:32):
us your summer stories.
Lesley (44:33):
If you send us fun things, we'll read them on the
internet.
We have some stories waiting.
We're probably going to do anepisode with like just some five
minutes of fame stories andjust funny anecdotes that people
have shared with us but if youhave them, you can call them in
and we will absolutely entertainthose and share them with the
whole wide world and we read allof the texts that people send.
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We read all of the notes and wewere also going to maybe just
like do a little episode.
I mean we'll include all thatstuff.
We want to like say thank youto everybody that, like, we do
read your texts.
We can't respond to them forsome reason, but we do read them
and it's super sweet when theytext in from the pod itself.
Megan (45:12):
Oh yeah, Like the links in the pod.
Lesley (45:14):
People send us notes and we super appreciate them.
They're always awesome.
Megan (45:18):
They're very fun.
Lesley (45:19):
We just want to do like a thank you to people and maybe
we'll talk about just kind ofthe business of being hobby
podcasters and what that reallylooks like, because people ask
all the time oh, you guys gotsponsors.
Megan has a.
Oh, no, that'd be nice.
If there is cash at the end ofthe year, we do pay our producer
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a little bit of money, we do,and we take a small stipend and
we donate to charities of whichwe are yes.
Oh, that's a great.
Okay, we're rambling on, butwe're going to give you this
information for this month.
For May and June, we aredonating to Indie Pride and our
minimum donation for each twomonth period is $200.
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But if we sell more merchduring that time period, we do
donate more.
I am quickly looking for ourlist of donations that we are
doing for the year, because Ithink that's an important thing
to talk about For 2025,.
January and February, wedonated to the Center of
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Reproductive Rights thatactually started in December.
March and April we donated toPlanned Parenthood of Central
Indiana.
May and June IndyPride.
July to August we're going tobe raising money to donate to
WFII local public broadcasting.
September and October it's kindof open, open so I don't want
to say yet um.
(46:44):
And then november, decemberwe're going to be donating to
second helpings that's awesome.
I like that organization verymuch, I know, because we want to
um feed people in centralindiana and beyond who need it
during the holidays.
Megan (47:00):
So I think that's too.
I will throw in that I think atsome point we should give to
the Southern Poverty Law Center.
Thank you there you go.
Lesley (47:11):
Thanks for being the other half of my brain.
Megan (47:12):
I picked that up, so we'll do that too, yeah.
I think we've summered.
It have we summered?
I want more summer.
Lesley (47:20):
I do.
Megan (47:20):
It was summer.
I wish we were kids.
I wish I could go back knowingwhat I know now, and redo summer
.
Lesley (47:27):
Ah, that'd be amazing.
Megan (47:29):
Yeah, I'd be like I would fucking party it up, not party
party, but you know what I mean,just like really savor it.
Lesley (47:35):
Savor it.
Megan (47:36):
Take it in, yeah.
Lesley (47:37):
I would go back to one of those summers where I was so
grumpy about having to like,garden and help and I would be
like all in this, like littledressed, bonneted child going,
oh, just floating over all theplants.
So I didn't realize how likelucky I was to have that
(47:59):
experience yeah, it was wild andjust everything that went along
with it.
I said we were going to stop,but then this is a really good
story.
The other part of summers forme and gardening was canning
season.
And so a few summers I had theexperience of, like my
grandmother would come, my auntswould come, their spouses would
(48:20):
come, come.
We would do this kind of likeend of season harvest and all of
the women would be canning inour kitchen.
That was really magical andcool and I didn't realize how
special it was until, like, Igrew up and didn't do that, yeah
you know, and I was like, oh,that's really magical, like, and
everybody would leave withstuff and we would like very
(48:41):
fabulous and witchy off thecherry trees and like made in
cherry preserve.
It was insane, like we justlived in this little gift of
land that has now been eaten upby what is geist yeah um, but it
was really magical.
That was pretty special.
That's very cool thank you.
Megan (48:57):
Yeah, I think I'd go back and I'd do some serious uh,
playing in the yard and ridingmy bike with some friends.
Lesley (49:03):
Nice.
Megan (49:04):
And maybe the slip and slide.
Lesley (49:06):
Hell yeah, fucking slip and slide.
How did we?
Megan (49:08):
forget that, yeah, so fun .
Lesley (49:10):
Well, we're going to slip slide on out of here.
I need to pick that up, oh yeah.
Have a great weekend, everybody.
We'll see you back here in twoweeks.
Megan (49:22):
Yes, ma'am, I don't know what we're going to talk about
then?
Lesley (49:24):
Nope, we won't now, until two minutes before we get
on these microphones.
Megan (49:28):
But it'll be great.
Oh, producer Tim just gave usthe big apples.
We promise you the big roll ofthose apples all the way back in
his head.
Have a good night, Megan.
Bye, Leslie.
Lesley (49:51):
Talk to you later.
See you later.
See you later.
Megan (49:52):
Alligator after wild crocodile, you have been
listening to gen x women aresick of this shit.
Hey megan, hey leslie.
What do people do if they wantto find us?
Well, we have a website thatpeople can find us on, and that
is gen x women podcom.
We also have a Facebook page.
We have an Instagram account aswell.
We have a YouTube account wherewe put YouTube shorts and other
little tidbits up there.
We have a TikTok account.
Lesley (50:14):
I don't talk the dick or tick the tock.
Megan (50:16):
You don't tick the tock, I do not, I barely talk the tick
, but I did put a TikTok up.
We're explaining the internet.
That's okay, though it's great.
Lesley (50:25):
We need to know how the internet works.
Megan (50:34):
Can people buy merch?
They absolutely can.
We have a merch store on thewebsite itself, and we also have
an Etsy store too, so that wasjust pretty easy to find.
It's just Gen X women on Etsy.
Lesley (50:41):
And if you are listening to this podcast, presumably you
found it somewhere.
And while you're there, give usa review.
Yeah, let us know what youthink.
Throw some stars at us, that'dbe great.
Megan (50:53):
We'll take one, two, three, four or five, ooh five,
maybe ten, and also make surethat you are hitting subscribe
so that you're notified whenevera new episode drops.
Lesley (51:04):
Most important.
Megan (51:05):
We also have a five minutes of fame that I think we
should tell people about too.
Lesley (51:08):
Hell, yes, we want to know your stories, your five
minutes of fame stories.
You can send those stories inon the website or you can call
1-888-GEN-X-POD and leave yourstory for us and we will play it
live in our next episode.
Megan (51:25):
Yep, we'll listen to it on a little red phone, just like
Batman, that'd be cool, let'sget a bat phone, a bat phone.
Lesley (51:35):
I think that's it.
I think you're right.
I'm Megan Bennett,
Lesley (00:01):
I'm Lesley Meier
Megan (00:02):
and this is Gen X Women Are Sick of this Shit.
Hi Lesley,Megan: How the hell are you?
Lesley (00:12):
I'm blowing out a microphone currently I don't I
don't know how far away to be.
It's so well positioned rightnow.
I'm like, ah, hey, producer Tim.
Megan (00:25):
Lesley is blowing a microphone.
Lesley (00:29):
Yeah, so, and I'm having to like kind of assist someone
on the Internet at the same time.
Megan (00:35):
Yes, you are recording some interwebby things at the
same time, so that's cool.
So, how you been.
I'm going to do that.
Lesley (00:43):
Moderately good.
I'm trying to think how have Ibeen Fine?
I had a birthday.
I got older,
Megan (00:48):
you did have a birthday.
Yep, how's that feel?
Lesley (00:50):
We had an episode in between, like right before my
birthday and right after mybirthday.
It's like still going.
Megan (00:55):
You know what?
What Next week is my birthday.
Lesley (00:59):
It's Megan's birthday next week.
Yes, that's exciting.
Megan (01:04):
Friday the 13th baby.
Lesley (01:07):
Oh, you are Friday the 13th and it's on Friday for real
.
It is this year.
Yeah, what are you going to dofor your lucky birthday?
Megan (01:14):
Well, it was not my plan to do this, but we are going to
the fourth game in the Pacersand Oklahoma.
Lesley (01:22):
Holy shit, sister, yeah, fuck, yeah, yeah, fuck, yeah,
yeah, I'm sorry if they lose.
Megan (01:28):
Well, they better not, I don't.
Lesley (01:31):
And here's the thing my 20 somethings.
And I'm going to Said it was amiracle that we won, it was
amazing.
I'm going to spill some tea.
Spill some tea.
Megan (01:38):
Because I know my husband doesn't listen to this.
Lesley (01:40):
Okay.
Megan (01:49):
Well, to this, okay, well , that's wise, maybe he, he
bought tickets to this I lovethe pacers.
Yes, I have.
No, I have no problem you'relike I'm a season ticket holder.
Yes, sir, I.
I like them very much, I lovecheering them on indiana pacers
friends if you don't know rightwho that?
Lesley (02:00):
who?
Megan (02:00):
we're talking about indiana pacers, because we're in
indiana yeah, you may not haveheard of them before, but you
probably know them now.
So he bought these tickets andI asked him how much he spent
and he said you do not want toknow.
And I said, well, mother fuckhow much?
Did you spend?
Okay.
And now, after they won thefirst game, now the tickets are
(02:22):
even more.
They actually went up $500 perticket.
Lesley (02:28):
Holy fuck balls, and you're going to be in Oklahoma.
Megan (02:32):
No, it's here.
Oklahoma, oklahoma, oklahoma,it's here.
It's here.
Okay, you'll be here.
The wind will not be sweepingdown the plains.
Lesley (02:38):
Okay, well, oh, oklahoma .
Megan (02:42):
I was never in that musical.
Lesley (02:47):
I wasn't either.
I never did that one um.
But I know people who did and Isee I assume they're okay, I
assume they're fine, I'm surethey're fine um, so yeah, okay
so anyway, birthday went awayfor I had a birthday dinner went
to dinner went.
We'll make this hyper-local andhyper-specific to our own
experiences.
(03:08):
I think that was my favoritecritical review ever.
We went to dinner at TinkerStreet, which was really
excellent.
It's always a wonderful time
Megan (03:19):
you were walking distance from my house.
Lesley (03:21):
Yeah, oh, that's right.
I kind of just walked down andlike toilet papered your trees.
Megan (03:27):
you coulda going crazy, 52 got a tp.
Thing just knocked on the doorand I would have let you know.
I mean, that's true too.
Lesley (03:34):
Fair, fair um and then we came back to the east side
and we went to strange bird, ourfavorite tiki bar, saw some
other friends and then went homebecause I had to get up the
next fucking morning, get on aplane.
And I went to strange bird, ourfavorite tiki bar, saw some
other friends and then went homebecause I had to get up the
next fucking morning, get on aplane.
And I went to floride uh,floride, duh floride duh uh,
(03:55):
from saturday until tuesday, afriend of mine was going to be
there with some extended familyand said I have space in my bed
for you, nice.
And I said, cool, let me buy aplane ticket.
That's exactly how it went.
I'll come hang out, yep, and soflew down with her, which was
fun, and we hung out for acouple of days and got real
(04:18):
sunburned on the first day andthen it was kind of cloudy the
second day, which was perfect,and we went wandering around and
um went to a fun tiki bar andthey on the beach, ish.
They were inland a bit, but wewere like an eight minute golf
cart ride less seven minutesgolf cart ride from the beach we
were oh okay, like 30a superbougie, poshlandia, nice.
(04:42):
I did not pay to be there myself, but I appreciate having
friends who have family who dothat's cool.
Megan (04:52):
And so that was super fun .
Lesley (04:53):
And then I came back Tuesday and then went to work on
Wednesday and worked Wednesdayand Thursday nonstop and worked
today.
Here I am.
Megan (04:58):
Sitting here with you.
Lesley (04:59):
Recording this fucking show Whoop.
Megan (05:02):
Here we are Recording a show.
Yeah cool.
I'm glad you got to get awayfor a little bit, was it like
balls hot?
Lesley (05:08):
uh, it was moderate, it was nice, it was like the low
80s.
It was perfect.
That's cool.
Sandy beaches, blue waters,nice, I like it.
You know tequila, eat tequila.
And, uh, some whiskey.
Whiskey, no, irish whiskey.
I tried, I looked hey question.
Megan (05:23):
Irish whiskey yes ma'am, how are your tariff issues with
anything yet?
I mean not yet Okay.
Lesley (05:31):
Good, good, because everything keeps getting devoid
Because of tacos.
There might be an extra 10%right now, I don't know, but the
tariffs are all due wheneverything arrives in port.
And then there's all thisconfusion about like did it
apply from the date that yourcontainer on?
(05:51):
the container ship left port.
Does it matter if they happenedwhile they were crossing the
ocean?
Gotcha, nobody knows nothing.
So who knows?
Okay, who knows what the hellis going on there?
That's fair.
Yeah, okay.
Who knows what the hell's goingon there?
That's fair, um, yeah.
So if you could pick a birthdayexperience like select one.
Megan (06:11):
Oh, if I got custom decide what I wanted to do, yeah
if the pacers hadn't like,co-opted your birthday and made
it all about this.
It's all about them.
I mean that's okay, because I'm.
I mean it's been 25 years andbeating the knicks was like just
truth.
So fun, it's been a minute, wedon't.
The Knicks was like just Truth.
Lesley (06:25):
So fun, it's been a minute.
We don't want to say how old wewere.
Well, no, I could do the mathreally quick.
I was 27 last time we won.
Megan (06:31):
Yeah, I would have been.
I didn't have children.
Lesley (06:34):
I was Childless, childless cat lady.
Megan (06:37):
Yeah, this is the first time the Pacers have ever led in
a playoff series, so maybe thisis the time.
Lesley (06:46):
Maybe my 20-something kids say don't hold my breath,
but they were super psychedabout the win last night Well
they need to get on board.
I mean they just want to managetheir expectations.
Well, that's fair.
Megan (07:00):
It is the Pacers Crushing defeat.
Yeah, I understand, Iunderstand it's either going to
go very, very well or not, sogreat, very very poorly, but so
far it's yeah.
I mean, we're guaranteed, youknow, to have a few more games.
Lesley (07:15):
I was like hanging in there with you.
I was like what's?
Megan (07:18):
she going to say what are ?
Lesley (07:19):
we guaranteed.
So this is we're kind ofbullshitting and just hot local
goss.
Megan (07:24):
Yeah, is what we're talking about today.
Lesley (07:29):
Did anybody die this week, Gosh?
Megan (07:31):
probably.
I just don't remember, I meanas one representative.
Oh no, who was it it was?
Was it Kristi Noem, somebody?
Oh, I think I'm talking out ofmy ass.
No, you're right, was it her?
We all die someday.
We all got to die someday.
Lesley (07:46):
No, it wasn't her.
Megan (07:47):
It wasn't her, it was somebody.
But yeah, who would win?
Lesley (07:51):
It was a local like rep representative.
Megan (07:54):
Was it local here?
Lesley (07:55):
No, no, no, no, no.
I saw it though.
Megan (07:57):
Okay.
Lesley (07:58):
It was like some other state going after her for cuts
to Medicaid and like well, weall have to die sometime.
Megan (08:05):
Right, we're all going to die sometime, I mean true.
I guess Did you hear then thatshe apologized.
Lesley (08:11):
Oh, no, except she didn't really.
Megan (08:14):
She just did a video where she said well, I'm sorry
that people didn't realize thatthey were mortal and I hope I
don't have to explain to themabout the tooth fairy.
Lesley (08:24):
They were mortal and I hope I don't have to explain to
them about the tooth fairy.
Megan (08:29):
What a snarky bitch.
See you next.
Lesley (08:31):
Tuesday Yep, that's cool , yeah, anyway, sorry, you
didn't know you were immortal.
Fuck off, right.
We have a warning on this showfor a reason, fuck all the way
off Over the edge of the cliff.
Yes, um so no one from the 70sor 80s in terms of iconic
(08:54):
musicians I know died in thepast two weeks.
I looked earlier and I also sawthat, so I think that we are
good there.
Megan (09:04):
You mean we had an entire two weeks without.
I mean there's always sixdegrees of separation.
Lesley (09:11):
Oh, I guess we could say this this is kind of sad,
because here we go.
Alf Clausen, composer for theSimpsons, died on June 3rd,
right, so the Simpsons came onin the 90s sometime, yes,
college land 89, maybe thatfeels 89, I think really when we
(09:35):
were in high school.
Well, you were, I didn'tgraduate I was in the college.
Megan (09:40):
I am pretty sure.
I am pretty sure it launched in89 the simpsons is forever.
Lesley (09:46):
I used to love it.
Okay, this is a great segue.
Megan (09:49):
Boom baby, Was it 1989?
.
What a hooker you rung thatbell Look at you.
December, muncie, indiana.
That's fucking hilarious.
It said the Simpsons roastingon an open fire, or something
(10:10):
like that Okay, and I doremember the shorts.
Lesley (10:19):
I used to love the shit out of the Tracy Ullman show.
Producer Tim is showing usinformation so that we sound
slightly less stupid, of theTracy Ullman show.
Producer Tim is showing usinformation so that we sound
slightly less stupid.
The family debuted as shorts onthe Tracy Ullman show on April
19th 1987.
So you know, we grew up withthat and then when I was a oh,
I'm going to repeat myselfbecause I just said this
sentence and we'll say it againthis is a nice segue into our
(10:41):
topic today about summer break.
This is a nice segue into ourtopic today about summer break,
when I was a day camp counselor.
I was like in my teens but alsoin my 20s and 30s and 40s,
because I love day camp thatmuch I used to laugh when kids
would come to me and they'd justbe like, have you ever seen the
Simpsons?
I couldn't live without theSimpsons.
I love the Simpsons so much.
Take a seat, junior, and likethis kid did this whole
(11:03):
presentation.
Oh much, take a seat, junior,and like this kid did this whole
presentation.
Oh, it might have been when Iwas trying to teach speak.
I mean, I was a speech teacherfor a minute and he may have
done like a position paper orsomething about how, like the
simpsons raised him and likethese are like seventh and
eighth graders, and so I wasprobably my very late 20s, early
30s at this point and I wasjust like, oh my god, I feel old
(11:24):
if, if the simpsons raised him,then his parents were gen x
right I mean they've got to be.
And then, unless he was justlike abandoned, in a box
somewhere.
Megan (11:33):
Way to go.
Gen x parents, let the simpsonsraise your children.
Lesley (11:37):
It's fine they're they're smart they love each
other, they're probably fine.
And lisa's like sassy feminist.
You go, girl, they're probably.
They're probably fine.
They're probably fine andLisa's like sassy feminist.
Megan (11:44):
You go girl.
They're probably fine.
Lesley (11:45):
They're totally fine.
That kid is probably in hislate.
He's probably in his early 30sright now, actually Mid 30s.
That's hilarious.
Anywho, there we go.
Megan (11:57):
I love the Simpsons they're still very funny and
South Park, oh my God.
Lesley (12:04):
So that is sad.
Yes, and that is who died acouple days ago, three days ago
um, but mostly we kind of gotoff without like, like you know
like a major like a lot of starfrom the 70s and 80s, yeah uh
(12:24):
well, watch out next week.
Megan (12:26):
Hold your breath on your butts and we'll see what happens
lots of people dying.
Gen x women are sick of theshit is supported by lilas love
you like a sis, a gen x women'ssocial club.
What's lilas, megan?
Lilas is our uh off platform,off, uh, the books of faces, off
all of the other traditionalsocial media.
Uh, it is our off platform, offthe books of faces, off all of
the other traditional socialmedia.
(12:47):
It is our space and place forGen X women to come together,
have conversations, meet eachother.
Lesley (12:55):
It's a social club.
It is a social club.
It's a membership-based club.
Memberships are $10 a month.
That does help support us ingrowing the platform.
We purchased a platform thatwould host a network of women so
that you could come togetherand meet each other in real time
(13:15):
.
Megan (13:15):
In a safer space than a traditional social media
platform and a much morepersonal space.
So what do we do there, Lesliewe?
Lesley (13:26):
host movie nights where we live stream some of our
favorites as they are availableto us for group watches of films
from the 70s, 80s and 90s.
We host a space for a monthlybook club.
We host trivia nights once amonth we have a live text chat.
Megan (13:48):
Four prizes even.
Lesley (13:49):
Four prizes.
That's true.
The space is able to hostweekly text chats so that you
can kind of check in in realtime with people.
I would say the criticaldifference between kind of what
this space is and any othersocial media space that I've
experienced is that it is active.
(14:10):
You will have to engage in itor be engaged in it by other
people, so it's not like apassive consumption thing.
Megan (14:18):
It's like making connections, yep, and if that's
what you're looking for theopportunity to meet other people
, to find people who are maybein the same similar spaces as
you are.
Lesley (14:28):
Like-minded, same time phase of life, navigating all of
those transitions then thismight be the right place for you
.
Megan (14:37):
So check out, lylas.
You can learn more about it atgenxwomenpodcom.
That's mxwomenpodcom.
Hey, we're back.
Lesley (14:48):
We are back.
Megan (14:48):
What are we going to talk about today?
Lesley (14:50):
We are going to talk about a greatly anticipated time
of year for parents andchildren and teachers everywhere
.
Megan (15:00):
School teachers, definitely school teachers.
Lesley (15:04):
We're going to talk about summer break, summer break
, summer, summer, summer time,specifically summers in the 70s
and 80s when you actually got asummer break.
Megan (15:15):
Yeah, yeah.
My friend who teaches fourthgrade is out now, thankfully.
She's very glad, but she's gotto go back already at the almost
end of july.
Lesley (15:29):
Yeah, dude, it's stupid.
When my kids our kids, I thinkwere in school, I think july
31st, like that, like last fewdays of july, became the day
that they yeah, I think mydaughter was later.
Megan (15:43):
I want to say like she got out like the first week of
June and wouldn't go back untillike mid-ish August, I think.
But for us but for us, like itwas, you'd get out memorial day
weekend or like right beforeyeah, my fucking birthday uh-huh
, time to get out of school,bitches, uh-huh.
(16:04):
And then you would have thatentire.
Lesley (16:09):
You'd have like three months basically off you would a
heathen and a hellion memorialday through labor day we would
go back to school like themonday after labor day, right?
So it'd be like the 10th or11th, just depended.
Megan (16:22):
Well, and now it's like I mean now like fuck, I don't
even know that, like the retailstores, that they're gonna
immediately go back to the backto school shit.
Lesley (16:29):
Oh it's awful yeah, like , like there might be now but
you're gonna have like pencilsin the aisles in a week.
Sorry kids school's out back toglue car construction paper.
I, contrary to the reasons thatwe did it, I don't think it's
fucking helped at all.
Megan (16:45):
No, I don't think so either.
Lesley (16:47):
We don't learn more, and all these kids have all the
fucking testing.
They're like I read and blah,blah, blah.
Megan (16:54):
And all the teachers have to get so much shit done and
try to.
I mean, you've got to rememberthat feeling when you look at
the calendar and you would knowlike yes we've got like three
weeks left.
Yeah, and it's lord of theflies in your classroom yeah,
and kids, everybody's losingtheir mind checked out and the
(17:15):
first really warm day, when theyhave to open the windows at
school because you know most ofthem didn't have.
Lesley (17:21):
There was no h back absolutely so you open the
windows at school because youknow most of them didn't have.
Megan (17:23):
There was no h back, absolutely so you open the
windows and then there's likeshit going on outside and all
the kids are staring out thewindow instead of paying
attention to anything that'sgoing on yes, uh-huh, and it
also didn't get like 100 degreeshot like no I don't think so
maybe maybe we don't remember it, I don't remember there was.
Lesley (17:44):
I think that's another valid reason to not have school
in the summers, because nobodyhad hvac I think that's why they
didn't well, and it was farminghad to go farm, yeah like my
elementary school was.
When I went to what we wouldcall normal school was out in
the middle of fucking nowhereand everybody did farm yeah, a
lot of the kids did farm werethey detasseling corn and stuff?
(18:06):
yeah, just shit like that.
You know helping out, plantingthings, picking things.
Don't need that anymore.
You know farming.
Yeah, who needs food?
We don't need anybody to pickor plant food.
There's no underlying politicalcommentary here at all oh yes,
there is I don't know whatyou're talking about.
Megan (18:24):
Oh no, oh no, yeah, there is.
We don't need food.
We don't need food.
Forget that shit.
Lesley (18:29):
Tomatoes.
Good luck with that.
Strawberries.
So yes, Good luck with that.
Megan (18:37):
Taters.
Lesley (18:38):
Oranges.
Good luck with that.
Piss off.
What else do we need to eat?
Nothing.
Nothing you get frozen shit andthat's it.
This is why Ozempic exists.
Actually, it was all a grandconspiracy.
There's just not going to beany food.
Megan (18:53):
Just stop being hungry.
Inject ourselves.
Inject yourself and you'll befine.
Lesley (18:58):
Talk about starving a whole population.
Megan (19:08):
Wow the humor.
Talk about starving intosubmission a whole population.
Lesley (19:10):
wow the humor, the humor gets darker the longer this
goes on.
Don't get me wrong.
Yeah, right, no, but I do misstomatoes.
There's this grand conspiracythat like we're actually.
Megan (19:14):
I think you're onto something.
Lesley (19:14):
Yes no hate, no shade.
Uh, all the um glp ones havebeen like wonderful lifesavers
for many, many people.
Yes, and there could be anefarious underside no more
tomatoes and corn for you.
Megan (19:27):
Are you big o' zempic?
Lesley (19:29):
Big o', are you big o'?
That's a different kind of o'.
We've gone a long, long wayaway from summer.
Megan (19:36):
We are nowhere near it, but we can get back.
Lesley (19:38):
Here we are.
Megan (19:39):
So pull in, but we can get back here we are.
So pull in, did you so?
Do you remember when you were akid and that whole like ramping
up to summer break?
Did you?
Did your teachers like pull outthe AV cart and like oh geez,
yeah, absolutely, just got towatch.
Lesley (19:54):
We had AV carts, that had, you know, we had reel to
reel, yeah yeah, slideshows,okay, you know, we had
reel-to-reel film yeah, yeah,slideshows set to music, like
you could have sort of audiotracks or like music.
Megan (20:07):
Sure.
Lesley (20:07):
And they would just shuffle through slides.
We still had the overheadprojectors with transparencies.
Megan (20:15):
Yes, you could ride on those, in case we needed to draw
something or write out mathequations.
Lesley (20:20):
We had those, but the AV cart would come out.
I don't remember what wewatched, though, leading up to
like the holidays I mean, I feellike it was movies like the
summer holiday watch whatever Idon't know what would we have
seen.
I don't know what did they dowith us.
We don't have any memories.
I don't have any memories that's, but I mean, I remember yes
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this happened I feel like it wasyou know cartoons and shit like
that probably probably so, orlike dumb educational films like
how to play safely on metalplayground equipment.
Don't bash your brains out, becareful.
I honestly think like thecloser it got they just the more
they just threw us outside.
Megan (21:00):
Yes, Really, yes, like suddenly recess was like four
hours Learn to play dodgeballand yeah, catch with your face.
And we were just running aroundlike insane people.
Lesley (21:10):
And then it was done.
Megan (21:12):
And then we were home and I loved summer.
Lesley (21:15):
Like in my heart and like from a sensory embodied
perspective, I can still feelthe feeling of what a long
summer was.
Megan (21:27):
No, didn't have to do anything, didn't have to go
anywhere, you were just a kidand you got to go play and yeah.
Yeah, get up kind of on yourown terms, and yeah, for sure.
Lesley (21:36):
That was totally true and, like I don't, I don't know
what your we'll get into yourexperience.
True, and like I don't, I don'tknow what your we'll get into
your experience.
I know my summer experience upuntil, uh, up until d-day.
That was like we gardened andwe had a huge yard and we were
in the middle of nowhere, so Idid have labor that I had to do
like pulling weeds, pickingvegetables, pulling worms off of
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tomato plants exciting thingslike this sure, but it was just
like put on your bathing suit.
You're just kind of wearing thesame stinky terry cloth shorts
all summer and maybe the samelittle like tube top or halter
top all summer and just likerunning in the sprinkler and
like picking stuff and just sortof like laying around, yeah,
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just entertaining yourself, yepand hanging out we had.
Megan (22:26):
Uh, I went to like a daycare for a lot of my young,
young life, so like one was in awoman's home oh, like a daycare
in her home that that's whenyou know watching like.
I remember sitting in theliving room and watching like
Janie and Cowboy Bob and allthat.
Lesley (22:47):
Oh my gosh.
Yes, those are hyper-local too,cowboy Bob's.
Megan (22:50):
Corao.
So I remember that.
And then after my parentsdivorced I went to a different
daycare, kind of on the eastside.
Lesley (23:00):
East side represent.
Megan (23:04):
And it was, was.
That was kind of fun becausethere were a few kids there that
were about my age and we, youknow, oh that's cool play stuff
together, which was great but,um, yeah, like the not, I didn't
get to stay home by myself forreally until I was a little bit
older.
I want to say it was probablylike I don't know, 13.
Lesley (23:27):
Yeah, that seems reasonable.
Megan (23:29):
Yeah, and I had my little sister with me, so yeah, oh,
you were in charge of her.
God help us.
Lesley (23:35):
Remind me how.
What was the Five?
Megan (23:38):
and six years, depending on what time of year, but yeah,
oh man Different.
Lesley (23:41):
So you really had like some responsibility.
Megan (23:45):
I did which is insane, you know, but it was so normal.
Lesley (23:50):
Yeah, it was just like oh, you're a woman now you can
stay home.
Yeah, you know how to warm upSpaghettiOs on the stove top.
Megan (24:00):
Try not to get her killed , okay.
Lesley (24:02):
Great See, great See you later.
Megan (24:03):
You have my number at work.
Lesley (24:05):
Where do you work?
Ah, it's like 30 minutes away.
Megan (24:07):
You're going to be fine.
Lesley (24:08):
It's fine.
It's fine, call 911.
Megan (24:12):
Mm-hmm, learn how to yeah , learn how to do 911 on a
rotary dial phone, and you getthis.
Lesley (24:18):
So did you ever do like camps?
Did you have to go to camp inthe summertime?
I had.
Megan (24:25):
No, not really we did.
I did a camp, see, I'm likeit's all fuzzy, super fuzzy.
I feel like, yes, but not likeit wasn't a thing that we did
regularly.
Lesley (24:41):
Okay.
Megan (24:41):
Like it was.
You know, if I did it did it,it was like one off kind of
thing Anyway, but I know youwere a camp kid.
Lesley (24:48):
Oh my God, so much camp.
I was a Girl Scout.
I too, was a Girl Scout.
I went to Dudley Galahue GirlScout camp.
Gillian went to Dudley.
Galahue Girl Scout camp Everysummer and I did sleepaway camp
and I did two weeks of shockergrease paint theater camp Nice
yes.
Every summer.
I think my first time.
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I was probably a little bityounger and I just did a week
and then I did two weeks.
My fantasy brain says maybe upto three weeks, but I think it
was just a solid two weeks.
And we did acting and put on aperformance at the end of the
week.
So I loved going away to daycamp or to some sleep away camp.
I did not so much love localday camps like.
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That was less fun.
I didn't like the like hustleand bustle and like having to
run and do 47 million activities.
Um, so I didn't love that.
That was a really good time.
And then often I would go likevisit my grandmother.
I would stay with her.
She was in Kentucky so I'd govisit my grandmother for a
couple of weeks and hang out.
And I had tons of freedom there.
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I could just like kind ofwander the earth in
Elizabethtown, kentucky, whichthen was significantly smaller,
and like I had a couple of aunts, who one went in walking
distance.
I don't know if I should havebeen allowed to walk, but I did,
yeah, and there was like go toyour aunt gloria's.
And I knew that she was like onmain street, and so I would
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walk.
Megan (26:14):
And then when I got into high school but you were armed
with things- like with withwords of wisdom like don't take
candy from strangers, don't getin unmarked vans yeah, if a
stranger asks you to help themfind your cat or dog.
Lesley (26:30):
That one was not a thing yet.
Oh, that wasn't a thing.
Megan (26:32):
Had not happened.
Maybe that was one that Itaught my daughter.
I was like 11, 12, 13.
Lesley (26:39):
That one didn't exist, yeah.
So I would go there and I, whenI was in high, like that
teetering year between likeeighth grade and freshman year,
I remember being old enough togo to the local pool by myself
and I had like a friend thereand we would walk and like go to
the pool, and so it was sort ofthis, like you know,
quintessential small town thing,and then I would hear all these
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stories about how my mom hadbeen a lifeguard at the pool.
But that was sort of fun, didyou?
Megan (27:07):
you did that you followed in her footstep in high school.
Lesley (27:10):
Yes, along, along with the synchronized swimming I also
lifeguarded.
So that was all through highschool I was a lifeguard and
then into college and then Ialso taught swimming lessons and
I also did day campy stuff.
But for high school and collegeI definitely lifeguarded the
whole time.
And then, like post college,when I went out to try to like
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find a job, I did tons oftheater camps.
So I read camp, ran camps andcreated camps for probably 20
years there were.
Megan (27:44):
Uh, I'm trying to think like what you know, like the
things that pop up in my mindabout summer, you know, like ice
cream trucks yes, like thatthey were everywhere, and I
think it's a pretty rare thing.
Now I don don't know that youthey show up near our house
sometimes.
Do you still have them?
(28:04):
We'll hear them in the summer.
Lesley (28:05):
They'll go.
The sound.
We laugh because of the qualityof the music.
It indicates whether or notwe're going to go outside.
But when the kids were young,absolutely we would run out
there and they would comethrough every once in a while.
I was way too rural to have theice cream truck experience, so
I always missed out on that.
Megan (28:24):
But I do remember I definitely had that.
That was a thing in myneighborhood for sure.
Lesley (28:29):
Oh, that's cool.
So did you have a favoritetreat?
Megan (28:33):
I would say an orange sherbet push-up kind of gal Fuck
yes, best ice cream ever sogood.
Lesley (28:42):
There's so much enthusiasm about orange sherbet
push-ups.
If you have a Dairy Queen.
By the way, near you, there isa summer special thing right now
the ones with the colorful dots.
Megan (28:53):
Yep, there's a special at Dairy.
Queen right now that is like anorangey kind of milkshake-y
thing.
And my husband says it tastesexactly like the orange push-ups
.
Lesley (29:01):
Like the old push-ups.
It seemed like there were twosolid camps.
You would either do thepush-ups or the rocket pops.
Megan (29:08):
Like the red, black and blue.
Yeah, they were okay, but Ialways felt like they tasted
like they were frostbitten.
Lesley (29:14):
And it was mostly the lemon and, like I wanted, the
cherry.
Yeah, so just get a fuckingcherry popsicle, right right,
yeah, like uh, push-ups man, sothe other like hated and beloved
dessert of summer.
Uh, those fucking like plasticpopsicles with the edges that
cut the corners of your mouth,like the push, the pops that you
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just you buy oh, like theplastic in the yes, yeah, and
you'd like have to tear off thething with your teeth and like
squirt it up.
Megan (29:41):
Yes, yes.
Lesley (29:42):
And then you'd suck on them and the edges of the
plastic would like cut thecorners of your mouth.
I'm showing you all listeningaudience, so you can you know
what I'm talking about.
You feel it.
Megan (29:51):
I know you do.
Lesley (29:52):
You currently feel it right now, but you would eat
like 10 of them and littleslices in the corner of your
mouth from eating not push-uppops, I guess I don't remember
what they were called flavor iceflavor.
Megan (30:02):
Is that what it?
Lesley (30:03):
is that's exactly it.
Yep, I'll take it flavor icesome people would also talk
about getting the.
Um, I've heard told, heard told, the little jugs drinks yes, I
remember those I didn't have.
They had like a little foil topon them yeah, you could peel
off, and that was drink out ofyour pre capri suns, before
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those ever existed they werecalled like little hugs, little
jugs or something like that, wasthat a precursor to my boobs?
Megan (30:35):
look at her little jugs.
Little jug, I feel like FlavorIce.
Lesley (30:41):
It sounds like a hip hop artist, flavor.
Megan (30:45):
Ice.
I want Flavor Ice to be a hiphop song.
Lesley (30:48):
I think Saturday Night Live should do that sketch.
There it is.
They are Lil Hug.
Oh, they're Lil Hugs.
Oh, isn't that cute.
Why are they hugs?
They're barrels.
Megan (30:59):
I don't know, is somebody trademarked little jug?
Lesley (31:04):
little, little hugs or they anticipated that people
would be like I can't givelittle jugs to tiny girls.
That would not be appropriatelittle jugs somebody somewhere
was like listen marketing person.
Megan (31:20):
As cute as that is, this is a poor decision.
This is a bad everyone's part.
Lesley (31:26):
Uh, so that was, you know, summer, summer, summer.
What did you do?
What did you do in the summersin high school?
Like, when did you get yourfirst gig?
I know we've talked about jobsbefore, but did you have like
fuck?
Megan (31:36):
it around summer jobs?
Uh no, I'm.
I mean, my first job job was atclear's boutique.
Oh okay, yeah, and you know,just fucking around okay, I
don't know.
Lesley (31:49):
So you didn't do like the seasonal employment thing.
Megan (31:52):
No, I, you know I probably was.
I left my own devices way toomuch.
Got you heard, probably shouldI.
I just wanted to crack a whipon me, no, me too I need to, I
need to, I needed money.
Lesley (32:06):
I was like I'm gonna figure out how to get the hell
out of here, so that's gonnatake some cash, gotta go.
I just needed the money becauseI didn't have a car, so somehow
I made it all work.
I don't know exactly how thatwent down.
Megan (32:18):
I was looking at like things that people well.
So my husband was talking about.
I was telling him that we weregoing to do the pod on this and
he goes.
Oh my God, he goes.
I remember the first day ofsummer when I was in second
grade.
I was like okay, and he goes.
I was all excited I was ridingmy bike.
I was looking behind me to talkto somebody who was also riding
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their bike and I smacked intothe back of a car and left a
giant dent and had to go to thehospital and had my face all
sewn up.
Oh no, I was like shit.
But then I was thinking youknow, yeah, that's the way to
start a summer, that soundsabout right.
Lesley (32:57):
That sounds about right.
Oh, that's so tragic soundsabout right.
Megan (33:01):
That sounds about right.
Oh, that's so true.
I was looking at all the thingsthat, like you know, kids
supposedly in the 80s did, likeplaying red light, green light,
tag and stuff like that, withtheir friends for sure, um, you
know, like when you're, when wewere older, like playing laser
tag and stuff like that, watersprinklers and uh, and all this
stuff, the sprinkler in the yard, and I think like, oh, do you
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have pictures of yourself likeas an infant in a baby pool?
Lesley (33:31):
Did you get that?
Megan (33:32):
Yeah, I think everybody does.
Lesley (33:35):
I think you're supposed to the metal-edged kind of baby
pools, because it was beforethere was any plastic stuff, so
there were these metal edge babypools.
And inevitably we were justlike in saggy ass diapers we
were naked like with the hose inthe thing I do remember, like
the big.
I mean we'll probably talkabout this in a month or so too,
(33:56):
but like the big summer partywould have been like fourth of
july.
Yes, um, I do remember we madeice cream every summer.
We had like a big they don'teven make ice cream makers this
large anymore.
I hate that.
We threw shit away from the 70s, quite honestly, because it was
so amazing yeah, I mean thecool, all the cool stuff.
(34:17):
They were giant they don't maketwo gallons of ice cream.
I agree, and it was so good sonow did you you had to manually
do that.
We had one that was electric ohit was in like a five gallon
bucket and the like metalcylinder.
Was it made like two gallons?
When you made it was huge, Idon't know it was my dad like,
did it get like thick enough?
(34:37):
like, oh yeah, for sure,everything like yeah it was kind
of like that, but our bucketwas like orange.
It was orange and plastic.
It was just like a piece ofindustrial equipment.
It wasn't like super quaint.
And then they have the metalcylinder and it was just like.
You know, my job was likepouring the rocks out and
putting more ice in, and then wewould check it every once.
I love making vanilla ice creamin the summer.
(34:59):
I have one now.
It just makes a lot less andit's just not as magical it
would have to be like packedwith towels and it was like a
big thing.
I don't know, it was messy.
Uh, I miss strawberries in thesummer, oh yeah do you remember
that?
Megan (35:14):
yep, yep, we used to make , uh, like the strawberry, uh,
you get those um shells thatwere like uh, I don't know, like
angel food cake kind of shelloh, yeah, yeah, short, and then
yep, and then you stick somestrawberries in there and some
throw some whipped cream on topand you got yourself something
it was so good and fresh corn.
(35:36):
I do remember that so being inindiana, that is kind of a rite
of passage it is Like we do have.
But God help you if you get thewrong ear, like if you buy like
the feed corn.
You are fucked.
Yeah, bitter, not good Reallygood sweet corn, sweet bicolor
corn and everybody knows likethe one, like farm stall, like
(35:59):
on the street, that you could goto.
Lesley (36:02):
Oh yeah, that would have like the best because we were,
because we were out so far in arural area, we didn't.
You know, we grew a ton butlike, yeah, who had really good?
Megan (36:10):
I tried to, had really good tomatoes I tried to grow
corn um a number of years ago,like in my backyard.
Lesley (36:16):
Yeah, so I had it go it was fine.
Megan (36:19):
It was fine okay.
Lesley (36:20):
I actually got ears like hey hey, corn that we then ate,
and it was delicious farmer,but the thing about corn is you
have to cross-pollinate it.
Megan (36:30):
Yes, so I would go out at night when nobody was looking
and I would have corn sex, makemy corn have sex, and I'd like.
I'd be singing like let's getit all, like you know, that's
how you got your ears to enlarge.
Lesley (36:49):
Yes, I need to get bigger ears.
Megan (36:51):
I sang to them so that they would have good sex so that
they would pollinate.
That's the hard thing aboutgrowing corn in the city yeah,
you gotta let I mean, if you, ifyou only have like three or
four stalks or whatever you haveto you gotta work it really
good.
Lesley (37:03):
You gotta make sure the pollination happens and um,
let's get it on, and you and youserenade your corn so that it
comes to full maturation.
I understand it's fine.
Megan (37:17):
You do what you have to do it's fair To make summer as
fabulous as summer can be.
Lesley (37:23):
Speaking of summer fabulousness and corn and
Indiana, the end of summer isthe Indiana State Fair.
Oh yes, Now this could be awhole other conversation, or we
can just kind of tag it in herea little bit.
Megan (37:37):
We could tag it in.
I didn't go to the fair untilmy until my husband and I got
married.
Lesley (37:43):
Oh, his family were fair people okay, we were not fair
people, okay, so I was, it was awhole new thing for me and holy
crap I you it is in some way, Ihave missed out on a little bit
of a rite of passage and I'mglad that your spouse has
indoctrinated you into theindiana state fair.
My dad was insane about thefair.
(38:05):
Like 5 am getting up loading thecar to get in when it opened so
that we could go see all theanimals and I'm sure there was
some sort of like car load, likeget an early kind of thing.
Yes, and, uh, it was a wholesituation like I don't know what
his joy was.
(38:25):
We all went as a family manyyears and then, as I got older,
I had much greater resistance toit and in my angsty teens I was
like hell, no.
But then, as soon as I hit my20s, you're like I, gotta go we
gotta go to the fair and wegotta go in the morning and I
gotta go see the bunnies and Igotta go see the chickens and I
gotta go see all the baby.
Megan (38:43):
Yeah, no, we weren't we weren't fair people, but we did.
We would do like in thesummertime we would do, uh,
drive-ins oh yeah, oh, that'sfun, that was super fun so that
was when you said like you couldget in with a car load oh, that
triggered that.
Lesley (38:58):
There you go of course the drive-in movies.
I follow that.
Do you remember any of themovies that you ever saw at the
drive-in?
Megan (39:05):
I absolutely.
Yes, we saw, I know we saw ETat the drive-in, and the one
that really sticks in my mind isDisney's Fox and the Hound.
Oh, that's adorable but thoseare so sad, we all it was my mom
, my grandmother and my sisterand I, and we all bawled our
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eyes out and we're passingaround a box of clean eggs
absolutely sobbing like oh mylord summer joy like no other.
Lesley (39:38):
I have some vague memory pre-sibling so I had to be
younger than four of going tosee the great raft race, Charlie
Brown, or the great boat raceCharlie.
Megan (39:52):
Brown.
Lesley (39:52):
Okay, sure, I just remember.
I have this vague memory ofthem being in this raft and
falling off of a waterfall.
So for my three orfour-year-old little heart, that
must have been like oh my God,charlie Brown's gonna die.
What's happening to CharlieBrown?
I do remember that that's theonly drive-in movie that I
remember as a kid.
(40:14):
I don't know why we're beingmade to look at Footloose.
Because, that's mine.
Megan (40:21):
Oh, that was your drive-in movie.
Lesley (40:22):
Footloose Because that's mine that was your drive-in
movie Footloose.
Megan (40:26):
Did you have a date?
Lesley (40:28):
No, because I was seven.
Megan (40:35):
Oh wow, I forget that you're younger than me, but I do
remember sitting there andwatching it and telling my mom
and my sisters like I gotta getout of the car.
Lesley (40:47):
I gotta dance, I gotta dance.
Megan (40:52):
I gotta go move.
I mean, they were telling youthat everybody should cut loose.
Foot loose Kick off your Sundayshoes.
Lesley (41:01):
Sunday shoes Sunday shoes.
You know what I thought?
That word was Sundance, yourSundance shoes.
Your Sundance shoes forever itwas like kick off your Sundance
shoes, wee Ooey Shake and shakemy feet.
That's literally what I thoughtthey were saying.
That's literally what I thoughtthey were saying.
Megan (41:25):
As far as we know because I'm not fact checking this shit
no, that is exactly the lyrics.
For now and forever and ever.
Please don't ever tell usotherwise.
Lesley (41:38):
I'm okay with that it's pretty fucking funny.
I bet we could come up withlike a whole episode's worth of
stuff about like lyrics that wemisremember.
Oh for fucking sure we shouldget people to like write in and
we'll just like read throughthem and laugh our asses off.
That could just be like alittle reel of hilariousness.
Oh, my God so fun, oh mercy,but here we are yeah here we are
(42:18):
.
So we're at the beginning ofsummer now and we get to 2025,.
Megan (42:22):
You know now, yeah, and now that we're older, you know,
now in my head, I look at thecalendar and I'm like, okay,
well, it's already past MemorialDay.
That makes me sad.
And then I've got my birthday,so I got that to look forward to
.
Lesley (42:35):
And then that's gone.
Megan (42:36):
I'm like, okay, now, oh shit, it's already past my
birthday.
And now, oh crap, it's alreadymy past my birthday.
And now, oh crap, it's alreadypast fourth of july.
And then you know, and then itjust feels like next thing, you
know, it's the state fair andthen gen con and then, well,
that's true that's gen con.
Lesley (42:50):
But gen con is like the it signals the end, yeah, the
bleeding into the end of summer.
At this point it's just kind ofgone.
Megan (42:58):
It's just like and then never, you know.
Granted, halloween is cool, butyeah, I don't know.
Halloween is super sad when itdisappears.
So, fast.
Lesley (43:07):
At least we do get to kind of enjoy the full season
like, I think, like mid-maythrough september now, because
being boundaried by like thecurrent school year, yeah, was
torture.
Megan (43:21):
I mean, just like what it's oh as a because it's august
first we're done that's it.
Lesley (43:26):
So you miss like six more weeks of wonderful weather
right, right.
Megan (43:31):
You know of arguably the hottest part of the summer
absolutely so if you were in aschool that didn't have air
conditioning, which was much ofips right and definitely
definitely buses Right.
Lesley (43:41):
Oh my God.
Megan (43:42):
And you're sending your kids back out into sweltering
conditions, torture.
Lesley (43:48):
Yeah, misery, it shouldn't be.
So we're getting ready.
We're on the cusp of enjoyingsummer.
I'm sure during our summerrecording we will chime in about
certain events and we willcelebrate our one year
anniversary this summer of ourfirst episode dropped like first
full calendar year.
Megan (44:09):
That is awesome we are in our second season of the pod,
but look at us, look at ourlittle love love project I know
it's pretty cool, we're justchugging right along.
Yeah, I like it, it's super fun.
Hopefully it's fun for peopleto listen to this silliness and
hopefully remember some of theirchildhood and their summer send
(44:32):
us your summer stories.
Lesley (44:33):
If you send us fun things, we'll read them on the
internet.
We have some stories waiting.
We're probably going to do anepisode with like just some five
minutes of fame stories andjust funny anecdotes that people
have shared with us but if youhave them, you can call them in
and we will absolutely entertainthose and share them with the
whole wide world and we read allof the texts that people send.
(44:54):
We read all of the notes and wewere also going to maybe just
like do a little episode.
I mean we'll include all thatstuff.
We want to like say thank youto everybody that, like, we do
read your texts.
We can't respond to them forsome reason, but we do read them
and it's super sweet when theytext in from the pod itself.
Megan (45:12):
Oh yeah, Like the links in the pod.
Lesley (45:14):
People send us notes and we super appreciate them.
They're always awesome.
Megan (45:18):
They're very fun.
Lesley (45:19):
We just want to do like a thank you to people and maybe
we'll talk about just kind ofthe business of being hobby
podcasters and what that reallylooks like, because people ask
all the time oh, you guys gotsponsors.
Megan has a.
Oh, no, that'd be nice.
If there is cash at the end ofthe year, we do pay our producer
(45:39):
a little bit of money, we do,and we take a small stipend and
we donate to charities of whichwe are yes.
Oh, that's a great.
Okay, we're rambling on, butwe're going to give you this
information for this month.
For May and June, we aredonating to Indie Pride and our
minimum donation for each twomonth period is $200.
(46:02):
But if we sell more merchduring that time period, we do
donate more.
I am quickly looking for ourlist of donations that we are
doing for the year, because Ithink that's an important thing
to talk about For 2025,.
January and February, wedonated to the Center of
(46:24):
Reproductive Rights thatactually started in December.
March and April we donated toPlanned Parenthood of Central
Indiana.
May and June IndyPride.
July to August we're going tobe raising money to donate to
WFII local public broadcasting.
September and October it's kindof open, open so I don't want
to say yet um.
(46:44):
And then november, decemberwe're going to be donating to
second helpings that's awesome.
I like that organization verymuch, I know, because we want to
um feed people in centralindiana and beyond who need it
during the holidays.
Megan (47:00):
So I think that's too.
I will throw in that I think atsome point we should give to
the Southern Poverty Law Center.
Thank you there you go.
Lesley (47:11):
Thanks for being the other half of my brain.
Megan (47:12):
I picked that up, so we'll do that too, yeah.
I think we've summered.
It have we summered?
I want more summer.
Lesley (47:20):
I do.
Megan (47:20):
It was summer.
I wish we were kids.
I wish I could go back knowingwhat I know now, and redo summer
.
Lesley (47:27):
Ah, that'd be amazing.
Megan (47:29):
Yeah, I'd be like I would fucking party it up, not party
party, but you know what I mean,just like really savor it.
Lesley (47:35):
Savor it.
Megan (47:36):
Take it in, yeah.
Lesley (47:37):
I would go back to one of those summers where I was so
grumpy about having to like,garden and help and I would be
like all in this, like littledressed, bonneted child going,
oh, just floating over all theplants.
So I didn't realize how likelucky I was to have that
(47:59):
experience yeah, it was wild andjust everything that went along
with it.
I said we were going to stop,but then this is a really good
story.
The other part of summers forme and gardening was canning
season.
And so a few summers I had theexperience of, like my
grandmother would come, my auntswould come, their spouses would
(48:20):
come, come.
We would do this kind of likeend of season harvest and all of
the women would be canning inour kitchen.
That was really magical andcool and I didn't realize how
special it was until, like, Igrew up and didn't do that, yeah
you know, and I was like, oh,that's really magical, like, and
everybody would leave withstuff and we would like very
(48:41):
fabulous and witchy off thecherry trees and like made in
cherry preserve.
It was insane, like we justlived in this little gift of
land that has now been eaten upby what is geist yeah um, but it
was really magical.
That was pretty special.
That's very cool thank you.
Megan (48:57):
Yeah, I think I'd go back and I'd do some serious uh,
playing in the yard and ridingmy bike with some friends.
Lesley (49:03):
Nice.
Megan (49:04):
And maybe the slip and slide.
Lesley (49:06):
Hell yeah, fucking slip and slide.
How did we?
Megan (49:08):
forget that, yeah, so fun .
Lesley (49:10):
Well, we're going to slip slide on out of here.
I need to pick that up, oh yeah.
Have a great weekend, everybody.
We'll see you back here in twoweeks.
Megan (49:22):
Yes, ma'am, I don't know what we're going to talk about
then?
Lesley (49:24):
Nope, we won't now, until two minutes before we get
on these microphones.
Megan (49:28):
But it'll be great.
Oh, producer Tim just gave usthe big apples.
We promise you the big roll ofthose apples all the way back in
his head.
Have a good night, Megan.
Bye, Leslie.
Lesley (49:51):
Talk to you later.
See you later.
See you later.
Megan (49:52):
Alligator after wild crocodile, you have been
listening to gen x women aresick of this shit.
Hey megan, hey leslie.
What do people do if they wantto find us?
Well, we have a website thatpeople can find us on, and that
is gen x women podcom.
We also have a Facebook page.
We have an Instagram account aswell.
We have a YouTube account wherewe put YouTube shorts and other
little tidbits up there.
We have a TikTok account.
Lesley (50:14):
I don't talk the dick or tick the tock.
Megan (50:16):
You don't tick the tock, I do not, I barely talk the tick
, but I did put a TikTok up.
We're explaining the internet.
That's okay, though it's great.
Lesley (50:25):
We need to know how the internet works.
Megan (50:34):
Can people buy merch?
They absolutely can.
We have a merch store on thewebsite itself, and we also have
an Etsy store too, so that wasjust pretty easy to find.
It's just Gen X women on Etsy.
Lesley (50:41):
And if you are listening to this podcast, presumably you
found it somewhere.
And while you're there, give usa review.
Yeah, let us know what youthink.
Throw some stars at us, that'dbe great.
Megan (50:53):
We'll take one, two, three, four or five, ooh five,
maybe ten, and also make surethat you are hitting subscribe
so that you're notified whenevera new episode drops.
Lesley (51:04):
Most important.
Megan (51:05):
We also have a five minutes of fame that I think we
should tell people about too.
Lesley (51:08):
Hell, yes, we want to know your stories, your five
minutes of fame stories.
You can send those stories inon the website or you can call
1-888-GEN-X-POD and leave yourstory for us and we will play it
live in our next episode.
Megan (51:25):
Yep, we'll listen to it on a little red phone, just like
Batman, that'd be cool, let'sget a bat phone, a bat phone.
Lesley (51:35):
I think that's it.
I think you're right.
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