Oct Menopause Awareness Month: THEE THIRD ACT

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
I love it, Jane Hiduk and Sherry Duran and we're
going to talk about the third act. I'm looking forward, ladies.
How are you today?

Speaker 2 (00:09):
Very good? Thank you. I'm Jane Hiduk.

Speaker 1 (00:12):
Jane, I'm Sherry Hello, Hello, Hello, and Jane the wife
of Tim Allen himself and Cherry. And you know, I
asked the question how are you this morning, very aware
that the answer could be not how does one put this?
During Menopause Awareness Month? And I'd love to see a

(00:35):
comedy series about this subject. Being perfectly honest with you, ladies,
menopause is what ended my twenty year marriage. Oh no,
true story.

Speaker 2 (00:45):
Well we have an episode about that, Vinnie true story.
Very much know that we know we can be very
tough creatures to live with. But I think things are
going to change because not just because of our comedy,
but so much information is out there now, and now
it's we're all loud and proud. We're all loud and
proud about swating through her clothes and having brainbug and

(01:08):
having an adult acne and losing hair and everything else that
we have to go or we might have to go
through during menopause. But I'm so sorry to hear that.

Speaker 1 (01:16):
Yeah, and that's what I wanted to ask you ladies.
You know it was we grew up together. I was
aware she was going she wouldn't accept it. Do you
touch upon that for the first couple of years. She
was in it for about ten years, And I don't
think there's a lot of awareness I went through, Like,
I don't think no guy knows. That is my opinion

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that it could last that long, sometimes longer, sometimes significantly shorter.
But I had no idea it could last ten years.
And I noticed it first, and I'm like, you know,
i've known you since we're teenagers. I think you're beginning menopause,
which that night didn't go great.

Speaker 2 (01:57):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, you do him about our menopause.

Speaker 3 (02:02):
Yeah, so it's a manopause. So in season two we
decided to deal with husbands, like how did they have
to deal with this? And so we have a lovely
Tom Lennon from Reno nine to one and then uh,
Michael Jorns who's from Star Trek play play our husbands

(02:22):
and they're having a conversation of watching football. I've you've
seen it, and of course the hot Flash commercial comes
on and they just can't believe it.

Speaker 1 (02:31):
But what it.

Speaker 3 (02:31):
Allows them to start to have a conversation with each
other about man, there are things you cannot say to
your wife. You do not ever ever to.

Speaker 2 (02:40):
And then I converined what you did, Vinnie. It's like saying, oh,
you must be going through menopause, and all of a sudden,
we go, but we shouldn't. I mean, that's at least
you're acknowledging that. But yes, yes, or it must be
your hormones. We don't like that.

Speaker 1 (02:56):
Yeah, well no, And then ladies, it was a full sign.
Years later, she came home one day, middle of the
day and she said, she came up to me and
she goes, then I got to tell you something And
I said what, and she goes, I just came from
the doctor and the doctor told me that I'm smack
dab in the middle of menopause. And she seemed she

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thought this was the best news in the world. And
I said, well, I suspected that, you know, many years ago.
She goes, Today's the first day I ever even googled it.
And I'm like, wow, and you're five years you know
into it. Why is this such good news? And she said,
because it's something that'll end I thought I was going crazy?
Isn't that something?

Speaker 2 (03:38):
And that's it?

Speaker 3 (03:39):
And that's the thing that I think people don't understand.
You have to realize, you know, the population of the earth,
there's more women than men, right, and we're going to
walk around thinking we're crazy. I mean I did. I thought,
oh my god, what's happening to me? I was. I
didn't sleep for two years.

Speaker 1 (03:53):
I was.

Speaker 3 (03:54):
You know, you tell a joke, you could cook a
steak on the bed. You know, I stomach where I
never had one, you know, and my husband could not
understand why I would cry. You know? A commercial? What's
tampening with you?

Speaker 1 (04:10):
Yeah? And I love looking at this here we're talking
about the third act. It's an award winning short form
comedy series by Menopause and October's Menopause Awareness Month. But
I love this. You're like, from uh, creative hot flash
hacks to playful rage release moments. There's nothing playful about

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those moments, Ladies. You might convince yourselves their playful rage release.
I have PTSD from this whole thing.

Speaker 2 (04:41):
It sounds like you do. Binny. I'm telling you, when
you are in misery and you can talk to your
best friend, which is what this is about. And I'm
sorry that even if your best friend is your husband,
it's usually not when it comes to menopause, because it's
just it may become that because now the words out
and we are not going to be silent, but it is,

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and it's it's funny the things you will try. Like
we in one of our episodes, we have orange paste
on our on our faces, so because it's going to
take out the talks, and we're going to hot yoga
because somebody told us that it'll release and we won't
get hot flashes. It's bizarre stuff. And I'm sure there's
been things in your life probably where you know, if

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you need something, somebody will say, sit under a hot
lamp and put ice on her whatever, and you'll go, okay,
I'll try that. Sometimes it's just the desperation that makes
you try anything. So yes, it does get funny as
long as it's funny to us, and then you can laugh,
but you can't laugh before we laugh.

Speaker 1 (05:44):
You're right, Hey, I lived it. I cannot disagree, and
I would not anymore. It streams on YouTube and fire tv.
And why do you think it is? Ladies? I know
you've probably got a full sleep before I let you go. Uh,
it is everywhere like it's talked about. Naomi Uh Watts
just did a big I don't know if it wrote

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a book about it. Nail Me Watch just wrote a
you know, a book about menopause. There are other people
touring on it. It's it's more accessible as a topic
nowadays than ever before. I wish it was ten years ago,
fifteen years ago. Why do you think it is now?
Why is it fair game now?

Speaker 3 (06:22):
I just think that that we finally decided to talk
about I think the generation women now particularly shows it
as a form of empowerment, you know. And then of course,
you know, Oprah Winfrey got on it, and Naomi Watts
and these women that had had some sort of structure
of power that they could come forward that you know,
we gotta we got to start talking about it because

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our mother has never talked about it. And you know,
big joke, if this had happened to a man four
years ago, there would have been a pill already.

Speaker 1 (06:51):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (06:52):
So our medical societies a little our medical stieties a
little behind, but now they're catching up. And for us,
I think the humor is to give you permission. You
have to have permission to laugh about this or you
gonna cry, and you know sometimes companies. He's the best medicine.

Speaker 1 (07:11):
Oh I believe that well. And Jane, you're married to
one of the funniest guys ever, is he?

Speaker 2 (07:18):
Yes? I am?

Speaker 1 (07:19):
How does he does he just go to do you say?

Speaker 2 (07:23):
I don't know if he thinks menopause is funny, but
actually he does watch the shows and is very proud
of me and Jerry and so yeah, he's such a
big support and of course we think this show is
funny and he definitely has a little input in it.

Speaker 1 (07:38):
When you complained about a hot flash it own, does
he go, Tim Allen, You're gonna get that all day? Probably,
but that's the third act. Jane and Sherry, thanks so
much for taking the time and for doing the show.
Hopefully it helps people who think they're going great. That
was my main thing. I felt horrible today. I was

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told I felt like I was going crazy, And hopefully
this show helps some people who think they are to
you know, get to the doctor and find out that
they are not at all. You know.

Speaker 2 (08:10):
Yeah, thank you so much. We so appreciate having a
male interview.

Speaker 1 (08:14):
Us like this.

Speaker 2 (08:15):
It was really wonderful,