Leslie's Lowedown On Life - Episode 1 - January 29th, 2025

Leslie’s Lowedown on Life – Join Leslie Lowe for a weekly, informal “live” conversation and podcast where we talk all things about looking and feeling good. This week, Leslie sits down with Molly Allen, Dana Haynes and Sara Owsley to talk all things from Nickleback to making 2025 their year.

Each week, Leslie will dive into new technology, breakthroughs, products, and have special guests to share tips on living your best life.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Oh my gosh, Quinn just gave us the one that
means we're on air.

Speaker 2 (00:04):
We're on air. Welcome you guys, Hi, thank you. Yeah,
I'm so excited.

Speaker 1 (00:09):
Okay, So this is the first podcast for Leslie's Low
Down on Life and all things that have to do
with it. I'm really excited that you guys are here.
I'm gonna introduce you here in a second, but I
want to kind of give a little bit of a
whise why we're doing this actually, and it really is
kind of a love child of all the emails and
the messages and the voicemails I've gotten over the years

(00:31):
of you know, people asking where to get that dress,
who does your makeup? Who does your hair? How'd you
lose the weight? How'd you get so fat? I'm not
choking out like a little bit of everything, right, And
I thought I have those questions too, not how you
got so fat, but like I've had those same questions
so too, and I'm sure a lot of us women do,
like how is everybody keeping up with this? Or what's

(00:52):
the best way to dress, you know at whatever age?
Or what should we be doing different or who can
we lean on? So that that's where this all kind
of came from. And I wanted to create like this
cool safe space that we could get together and have
a conversation from generation to generation. It doesn't matter how
old you are, because we're all like learning something new

(01:13):
as we go along the way.

Speaker 2 (01:14):
And so here here it is the Love Child. You're
part of the Love Child.

Speaker 1 (01:19):
So with that said, welcome to the first Leslie's Lowdown
on life. And I can't wait to introduce you to
the lovely gal sitting next to me, because they're a
powerhouse all on their own. They all bring something unique
and fun and amazing. And that's why I wanted them
here today. That they have no shortage of things to say,
opinions or comments, and I wanted that too. I can

(01:42):
tell you, guys are fun and you're feisty, and so
that's what's so cool.

Speaker 2 (01:48):
So that said, Dana Haynes is here.

Speaker 1 (01:51):
You know Dana Haynes from twenty years in broadcasting here
in Spokane. We had so much fun doing the Fox
Show together when I first started here with them again, yeap,
so so much fun. You are a powerhouse in this
community because you have done so many different things.

Speaker 2 (02:06):
But you took a hobby and then you made.

Speaker 1 (02:09):
It into this impressive business called Dandel's Candles.

Speaker 3 (02:12):
Thank you, thank you, Yeah, thanks, Leslie, And you know this.
But I want to tell the audience this too, that
Leslie is one of my favorite people in the business
outside you. Yeah, no no payment needed. She is who
you see. And I think that's why people love you
is they know that this is you. And when she
talked about doing this podcast, I thought, of course, she

(02:35):
needs to do a podcast like this. We all know
Leslie's superpower is herself, like the way she looks, the
way she carries herself, the way she talks. So you
know all that said, I appreciate you saying what you
said about me, but I'm just happy to be here
and be a part of this because we know that
you have a lot to share and I'm super excited.

Speaker 2 (02:54):
And yes I do.

Speaker 3 (02:55):
I've built a business and I do some sports public
relations here in town, but mostly I just like sitting
next to you. And these goals are pretty cool too.
I'm gonna say I like them both and I've known
them both for a while too.

Speaker 2 (03:07):
Pretty cool group. Pretty You're gonna make me cry already.

Speaker 4 (03:11):
You're not supposed to do that right off.

Speaker 1 (03:12):
But I love you and I'm so happy you're here.
And sitting next to you is the great Molly Alan.
Ye hi, we love Molly Alan. She's been around for
a minute or to twenty five years with Dave Kin
and Molly.

Speaker 2 (03:25):
Would you start when you were two?

Speaker 4 (03:27):
Yes, they did. I was ten.

Speaker 5 (03:28):
Actually, well then you know, I found my dream job
when I was thirty. That's when I met those guys.
Ecause it takes a while to find your dream job.

Speaker 1 (03:37):
That's why I fill this connection with you because he's
starting this business until I was thirty six.

Speaker 2 (03:41):
Yes, yeah, wow, So sometimes it just you know, it
takes this a little bit longer.

Speaker 5 (03:46):
I think we learn, we learn how to work hard,
and then when we get our favorite job, then we
know how to keep it because we've learned.

Speaker 2 (03:53):
Sometimes you get your dream job too early in life.

Speaker 5 (03:55):
You blow it.

Speaker 3 (03:56):
It's true, blow it well, your own insecurity yees yeah, seep.

Speaker 2 (04:00):
In and yeah, it's so true.

Speaker 1 (04:02):
We don't know who we are yet, so we're crumbling
and we get in our own way. And then when
we're a little bit older, we've lived a little bit
of life and we know how to appreciate things better, right, and.

Speaker 5 (04:11):
Dave and Ken wanted somebody would speak their mind.

Speaker 4 (04:13):
They thought a little more than they bargained for.

Speaker 5 (04:16):
Occasionally, sales department would be like racing and going.

Speaker 6 (04:20):
Make it stun stop talking about that restaurant like you
too is You're real, yes, real who you are on
and off the air, and people love that.

Speaker 1 (04:32):
Love that about you, say authentic, so real and now
you're Dave and Molly here ye not stop like local
HQ and we do or by getting you two in
this building.

Speaker 5 (04:44):
It's like when you're in a relationship and somebody breaks
up with you and you're heart broken, and then you
get the new relationship and you're like, yeah, hey, You're like,
now this feels really good.

Speaker 4 (04:55):
You're like, yeah, what.

Speaker 2 (04:56):
Was I doing in that old relationship?

Speaker 5 (04:58):
I never would have left it ever a million years ever,
but you know, and you're then it's like, hey, so
it turned.

Speaker 4 (05:04):
Out all right. I love it here.

Speaker 1 (05:06):
I think it turned out pretty darn all right. And
you're pretty fantastic. You do so many different things. I mean,
like your mama, grandma you uh co founded a Safety Out,
which is such a cool organization that helps foster kids
that are aging out of the program, and well and.

Speaker 2 (05:22):
You're part of the very elite, t revolted family. I
am your mom, Ellen. Yeah, yeah, so I will have one.

Speaker 5 (05:31):
Line in the upcoming movie called One Night Coach, like
my line.

Speaker 4 (05:35):
Is, oh so you're an actress.

Speaker 5 (05:39):
Thank you everyone.

Speaker 1 (05:40):
I love it. Different actions, you know, going back and forth. Mollie,
thank you so much for being here.

Speaker 5 (05:48):
I love it and I love you. And we have
a big history too.

Speaker 2 (05:51):
Oh yeah, we did.

Speaker 1 (05:52):
We go way back again. You started when you were
ten and I was twelve.

Speaker 2 (05:55):
Were yeah, exactly like that in the radio days.

Speaker 1 (05:59):
Yes, okay, Well off to the end here, last minute,
I'm here.

Speaker 2 (06:07):
You're probably the most important. My gosh, what are you
talking about?

Speaker 3 (06:11):
This?

Speaker 1 (06:11):
My beautiful friend Sarah Owsley, and she's powerhouse all on
her own, like your VP of customer relations at Washington
Trust Bank for commercial ding.

Speaker 2 (06:22):
Did I get that right?

Speaker 4 (06:23):
Commercial ending? Yes?

Speaker 1 (06:24):
So, I mean she just knows everything inside. Now you've
been around and you just I mean, you make such
a difference. But the other thing I love about you
is you love being a mom. You love being a grandma,
you love being a wife, you love doing all kinds
of fun projects.

Speaker 2 (06:39):
And Mark Hannah, Oh Marc Hannah that's what. Everybody have
a nickname.

Speaker 4 (06:47):
I can't the air. I think maybe you should.

Speaker 2 (06:54):
That's a story, gosh.

Speaker 1 (06:57):
But Sarah is also I mean you might recognize that
last name Ousley as in she's the wife of my
co anchor every night from five to seven, sew Allesley,
and so we know she keeps him in line. So
she's got it. Yeah, you do what you can. Yeah,
I'm so excited that you're here, and you're here because

(07:19):
you are. You're spunky, and you're fun and I know
that you're gonna like thissess.

Speaker 4 (07:24):
Well, you know.

Speaker 1 (07:25):
Nothing wrong with that, right? You find out the good stuff?
That way?

Speaker 4 (07:29):
Way too much energy?

Speaker 1 (07:31):
All right, Well, I want to do some icebreaker things
because I think it's always fun if people get to
know you a little bit, right, So let's do this.
If you could be and I think I know what
Molly's answer is going to be here, But if you
could be a character in any show for a month,
which show would it be? And I'm not going to
look at each one of you, so chime in a

(07:53):
show and not a movie like either you could do Well,
you got to be in it for a month, right,
you got to be in for a month. So if
you could pick any show that you could be in
for a month just live in it, my show, would
it be Brady Bunch.

Speaker 5 (08:06):
I'm just trying to decide if I want to be
Marcia or if I want to live in jams shoes
and make things better for her. Definitely Brady Bunch.

Speaker 1 (08:13):
I knew that, And thank you for the bread Bunch
mug By the way we both love Brady.

Speaker 4 (08:20):
So yeah, yeah, probably.

Speaker 2 (08:22):
Yellowstone, Yellowstone?

Speaker 4 (08:24):
You want to live in Yellowstone?

Speaker 2 (08:26):
Do you want to be married?

Speaker 7 (08:27):
They have toilets in the yellow Stone?

Speaker 3 (08:32):
A monk yellow I mean the Yellowstone that's current times,
not one.

Speaker 2 (08:36):
Of the throwbacks.

Speaker 1 (08:38):
No, yeah, And do you want to be in Yellowstone
for any particular character?

Speaker 2 (08:45):
Is there anybody that.

Speaker 4 (08:46):
Draws you into.

Speaker 3 (08:50):
She's got a long list list.

Speaker 4 (08:54):
Can I see your list? In now?

Speaker 5 (08:57):
When you say taking somebody to the train station? Is
that code in the show.

Speaker 4 (09:04):
Watching I want to take.

Speaker 2 (09:10):
The trains station the trains station?

Speaker 3 (09:13):
Am I giving it away? If I explained the whole
situation with that. It's so they're in there in Montana, right,
so it borders with Wyoming and they basically go to
the edge of Wyoming in a very remote, remote county
where there's no law enforcement because there's no people living there,
and the people they don't like, they kind of throw

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them over the cliff.

Speaker 2 (09:34):
They just disappear over but they call it the train station.

Speaker 4 (09:38):
They kind of they kind of kill them first, and
then that's true.

Speaker 2 (09:42):
Yeah, minor detail.

Speaker 4 (09:44):
Okay, I thought you guys are talking about sex.

Speaker 2 (09:49):
The way I want to take him to the train station.

Speaker 4 (09:52):
I was like, well, that was.

Speaker 2 (09:54):
Okay. So it was maybe the Glee that Sarah sned.

Speaker 4 (10:00):
That's why I thought it was a sex thing. So
quick here I see.

Speaker 2 (10:08):
That sex analogy though I actually can see it. Yeah, yeah,
I got I get it.

Speaker 4 (10:12):
I got it.

Speaker 5 (10:13):
Like the show that Leslie had is now off the air.

Speaker 2 (10:20):
That's so good.

Speaker 3 (10:21):
Are you going to throw back like Molly and I'm
going to say, I want to be Lindsay Wagner from Bionic.

Speaker 2 (10:27):
Omen Gosh with all of her ponic powers. That's a
good show back. Yeah, I love that. That show and
wonder Woman were kind of.

Speaker 4 (10:36):
My wonder Woman was mine. Yes, that's who I wanted
to be growing up. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (10:42):
Well the Invisible Plane alone, I mean that was the
coolest thing.

Speaker 4 (10:45):
Ever and the last of truth, right, true. She wrapped
it around.

Speaker 2 (10:51):
That's awesome where you live, Leslie, I think I do.

Speaker 1 (10:54):
So I thought about this and I was like, Brady
Bunch was right up there, and again, Marcia or Jan Marsha,
which one do you want to be?

Speaker 2 (11:01):
But then I thought I was so addicted to the
show Friends. I still kind of am.

Speaker 1 (11:06):
So you know, when you're having like a bad day
or you just need to like get your mind off
of whatever crap is going on, you just turn on
that one show that you can watch. It's kind of
I want to say, brainless, and I don't mean any disrespect,
but it just you love it because of the camaraderie
and the friendships that they have, and I'm like, I'd

(11:26):
live in that for a month.

Speaker 2 (11:27):
I want to sit on the couch.

Speaker 1 (11:28):
I want to go to the coffee shop and drink coffee.
And then I'm like, who am I? Though?

Speaker 2 (11:34):
Am I? I think I'm I'm more ditzy like Rachel.
Probably you're not.

Speaker 4 (11:39):
I'm a little spoiled show.

Speaker 2 (11:41):
That's true, Phoebe.

Speaker 5 (11:43):
No, I'm a Monica. I had to come to grips
with me, Monica.

Speaker 2 (11:47):
I might be I get typical only.

Speaker 5 (11:51):
When that I like to entertain and do stuff. I'm
not super competitive, but I'm not the others either, Like
I'm mostly Monica more than although maybe a little Phoebia them.

Speaker 1 (12:00):
Yeah, I know I'm gonna go with Combo, but probably
the older I get a little bit more Phoebe or
not Phoebe Monoca because I like everything in order a
certain way.

Speaker 2 (12:09):
Yes, and I'm a clean, free and it's.

Speaker 3 (12:11):
Why that show got gained such more popularity during COVID.

Speaker 2 (12:14):
Because it is.

Speaker 3 (12:15):
It's a lot of people's comfort show. Mine was Gilmore
Girls is my comfort show. Weirdly, but I've fallen into
that trap and I love it.

Speaker 5 (12:23):
I like Friends, It's been my comfort. But I watched
Cheers during the pandemic and now say it lives it
like it's still still worse.

Speaker 1 (12:31):
Yeah, yeah, and god, there are so many different ones
also addicted to ted Lasso. Yeah, that was such a good,
feel good show. I like the feel good shows. I'm
just one of those sappy people.

Speaker 5 (12:44):
I want to live in the show, but not have
to be one of the characters. I want all the
characters to be there. Okay, I would be having a
sleepover Brady, but I'm the cousin who came for a month, yeah,
to stay with the Brady's, okay, and then they are
all there, so I get to see that, and then
you just get to hang out with him, all right,
and then I take Greg to the trains.

Speaker 2 (13:04):
At which which train, which train, which train stage?

Speaker 4 (13:08):
Which? You know what I mean?

Speaker 5 (13:11):
On my brain, I'm not going to kill frick. I'm
going to use that from now on that I'm taking somebody.

Speaker 1 (13:18):
They're just now going to be my goats too. We
used to think of it as one thing. Now it's
a totally different thing.

Speaker 2 (13:26):
Way on the.

Speaker 4 (13:28):
On the.

Speaker 2 (13:30):
And I'm like, yeah, I know it.

Speaker 4 (13:34):
It was the inflection in my voice.

Speaker 5 (13:36):
So I'm happy to take somebody there a mile on
your face.

Speaker 8 (13:41):
I didn't take you to the train station and baby, okay,
So all right, if you could pick a theme song
to play every time you entered the room, what would
it be?

Speaker 2 (13:57):
Pick your theme song?

Speaker 5 (13:58):
I know what, Hey, don't let you count yourself off yet.
It's only in the world, you feel.

Speaker 4 (14:05):
What's the name of the song?

Speaker 2 (14:07):
I'm trying. I'm trying keep singing. I'm not good at
nick song times. I know.

Speaker 4 (14:12):
I was just thinking.

Speaker 5 (14:14):
I'll think of it, but it is a song. It's
my go to okay karaoke when my life is falling
apart and I'm getting divorced again. My friend HEATHERR Is like,
do the it's all gonna be okay song, and we
believe it and we all dance to it, and then hey,
don't don't write yourself off yet. It's only in your
mind something, so you know you think of the.

Speaker 1 (14:37):
You keep thinking about it. That is your that is
your theme song. Yeah, okay, I love it. If you're
getting divorced again, we don't know about that. I have
no idea what you're talking about.

Speaker 4 (14:49):
I have no idea. I'm terrible with like baby names music.

Speaker 2 (14:54):
But a song is gonna blast. Sarah's walking in the door.

Speaker 4 (14:58):
Any train flowing it, any train, okay, nice, there's a theme.

Speaker 2 (15:04):
This is bad.

Speaker 1 (15:06):
Trains, and she likes that train for the other Yes,
there's one train for one race, one train for the
other reason.

Speaker 4 (15:18):
God, Sarah, Sarah.

Speaker 2 (15:22):
Who would have guessed that train would be.

Speaker 1 (15:26):
I had no clue going into this train was gonna
be it. But I'm like drops in Jupiter?

Speaker 2 (15:32):
Why not?

Speaker 4 (15:33):
Okay? All right, dan it.

Speaker 2 (15:35):
You know I can think of a couple.

Speaker 3 (15:37):
I think of a playlist that I play sometimes when
I'm getting ready. You know that you're trying to like
up your mood or whatever, be on.

Speaker 2 (15:44):
Top of it.

Speaker 3 (15:45):
I love Oh gosh, I'm linking on his name. I
should otis reading Lovely Day.

Speaker 2 (15:52):
I love that song.

Speaker 4 (15:53):
I like that.

Speaker 3 (15:54):
That's so nice that it's part of one of my
obscure movies. I like roll Bounce, which is a roller
skating movie. But but I mean that's it. It obviously
was around long before that. But I love that song.
You know, I love Walking on Sunshine every time.

Speaker 2 (16:12):
Yeah, it's cheesy, it's still it makes me happier. So good.

Speaker 1 (16:17):
What a wonderful world a good one too. Yeah, yeah,
I don't know mine, mine's going to be so opposite
from you guys, because mine's uh, if she came in
like a wrecking ball, I said.

Speaker 4 (16:31):
Every year perfectly, it really does.

Speaker 3 (16:34):
You know, that's a strength song, like building up strength
kind of song.

Speaker 1 (16:38):
Or she really does come in like a I call
it coming in hot, or just a mess comes together eventually.
But you know, you're usually a big of a mess.

Speaker 2 (16:51):
I don't know what.

Speaker 1 (16:52):
You're Some days are better than others. Today was a
little wrecking bolish that's for sure. But I always just
think that it's funny to think about what people think,
you know, others would.

Speaker 2 (17:05):
See when you were walking in the room.

Speaker 4 (17:08):
Okay, last funny question.

Speaker 1 (17:09):
Then we're gonna get serious, because I'm gonna make you
it a little serious, not totally serious. But what's the
most ridiculous thing you've ever bought online?

Speaker 3 (17:19):
Hmm?

Speaker 1 (17:20):
What you know where you're scrolling through and you're like, oh,
I need to have that order.

Speaker 4 (17:27):
So have you guys ever seen those tables that have
the shape like, no, just kidding, the train table. Oh,
I know, the train table. Let's call it a bed.
You can just call it a bed.

Speaker 1 (17:42):
It's fine, it's fine, it's fine, it's fine, Sarah, just
go with it.

Speaker 4 (17:48):
From that one. So those tables that like the chairs
fit in underneath, Yeah, and it's all compact and nice.
So I bought one of those, and I thought it
was fairly inexpensive for what I was buying. And when
it got to me, it was these like miniature cover
seat covers like for a dollhouse, and there was no

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table and there was no chairs, it was just the seat.
I literally pull it out and I looked at the
package and I looked at, you know, the invoice and
it said exactly what I thought I had bought, and
it was the seat covers and this miniature just for

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a little like dollhouse.

Speaker 5 (18:35):
It wasn't on It wasn't on Amazon. It must have
been in some.

Speaker 7 (18:40):
Yeah, something that you licked and was like, oh yeah,
I want that. Things get you every time the black
head remover that that thing where the guy it looked.

Speaker 5 (18:51):
They make it look like he has all these black
heads and he puts the green stuff on it and
then they all just wipe away, and I'm like, I
gotta have that.

Speaker 2 (18:58):
Do they come out kind of like attack.

Speaker 5 (19:00):
They show it like that, but it's you put it
on and it doesn't work. It doesn't work at all. No,
he's obviously a trick that they've done. But I was like,
that's cool. Everything in my whole brain everything my head
cut right out.

Speaker 4 (19:13):
It's so cool.

Speaker 2 (19:14):
And then it didn't work. That's me getting okay, sucker.

Speaker 1 (19:18):
Green goop does not work. Don't order the chairs in
the table right.

Speaker 3 (19:23):
You know, mine is more accidental purchases, maybe on Amazon
where kind of to Sarah's point, where you think it's
a different size or something. The most recent one, because
I just returned it the other day was I tried
to buy something from my dog that like helps protect
his paw.

Speaker 2 (19:41):
He had a broken toe, and I.

Speaker 3 (19:42):
Thought, well this is and it came and it was
this teeny tiny, little tiny shoe looking thing.

Speaker 2 (19:47):
Yeah, I was like, that's not that's not what you advertise.
I don't.

Speaker 3 (19:51):
I do a lot of late night scrolling if I
can't sleep, but I tried to avoid pushing the actual
I put a lot of things in shopping.

Speaker 2 (19:58):
Cars in the car.

Speaker 5 (19:59):
I tell my grands put it in the car.

Speaker 3 (20:01):
Yeah, just put you and you usually don't think about
it even ten minutes later, let alone the next day
or anything. So I do a lot of putting stuff
in the cart, but I don't usually push purchase.

Speaker 1 (20:11):
That's it. Yeah, Lately, when I need shopping therapy, I
do just that. I like fill up the cart with
like every single stupid thing you can imagine, and then
the next day you're like, oh, I feel so much better.

Speaker 2 (20:23):
You didn't buy it.

Speaker 1 (20:24):
You just put it all in the cart, and then
you're I shopped around the store with it for a while.
Gives good.

Speaker 2 (20:31):
Yeah, yeah, I bought.

Speaker 1 (20:32):
This eyebrow stuff one time and I thought, oh, that
looks cool, you know, because you're always looking for stuff.
I'm always looking for makeup. That's like my biggest achilleus heel.
And it was the most ridiculous thing. It came and
I opened it. I was super excited, and I had
this big puffy brush and I'm like, how are you

(20:52):
supposed to put that on your eyebrows? So I'm trying
to like put it on.

Speaker 2 (20:56):
It's just like buck.

Speaker 4 (21:04):
It was like this powdery, dark, big buffy. They didn't
have like a usually they have like a plastic thing
or something that you put over your no, and you
take ailet like a templet, and no, you doubt it.

Speaker 2 (21:18):
No, it was just this little thing.

Speaker 1 (21:20):
You unscrewed it and yeah, And I was like, I
don't think that puffy.

Speaker 4 (21:24):
I did.

Speaker 2 (21:25):
Don't think my brows or that thick.

Speaker 4 (21:27):
Here's the kicker. You tried it anyway. I did try it.
I did try it.

Speaker 2 (21:32):
It was not a good life.

Speaker 5 (21:33):
You return it and send it back. I've never sent
anything back online ever. I just keep it and say,
you're so stupid.

Speaker 2 (21:38):
What did you You have a pile of stuff.

Speaker 4 (21:40):
Like like's on you?

Speaker 2 (21:42):
Yeah? Yeah, usually Amazon stuff returned Amazon because it's so easy.

Speaker 1 (21:47):
But some of the other stuff that you click and buy,
it's like, how do you even get a hold of
the company.

Speaker 5 (21:53):
Usually I had addressed that took four months to get
and it showed up one day and it had stamps
from all over the oh like it was one little
black dress everywhere was everywhere?

Speaker 3 (22:05):
Did it?

Speaker 2 (22:05):
Did you like?

Speaker 5 (22:06):
I loved it, but I needed it three and a
half months before I really needed the past.

Speaker 1 (22:14):
So okay, last last funny question. This is a really
important one. This is going to determine whether you stay
or not.

Speaker 4 (22:21):
Okay, you're ready?

Speaker 1 (22:23):
Wow, hardcore, nervous, going hard?

Speaker 4 (22:26):
Do you like sorry? Good? Totally good?

Speaker 1 (22:37):
You would leave out of anyway?

Speaker 2 (22:41):
Do you like Nickelback? I'll get out, Molly, just get out.
Are they all in agreement?

Speaker 3 (22:51):
Wait?

Speaker 2 (22:52):
None of you like Nickelback?

Speaker 4 (22:56):
You guys have fun on your show.

Speaker 2 (22:58):
Just go away. Funded it's showing me. It's showing me
the Quinn actually looks like the drummer. None of you
like Nickelback? Why what is wrong with you?

Speaker 4 (23:10):
Look at that Myra.

Speaker 2 (23:11):
I'm not going to speak every time I make it
my back each like. I think Nickelback was that next
generation down. I don't know the nineties more generation. I'm
an eighties generation.

Speaker 4 (23:21):
I don't mind it. It's not something that I would
put on and like listen, okay, oh I want to
listen to Nickelback. I just that's no.

Speaker 2 (23:30):
I think I started liking that.

Speaker 1 (23:31):
I liked them before, but I saw their documentary and.

Speaker 4 (23:36):
All the hate that they had.

Speaker 1 (23:38):
There was like so much hate now, so many meats
on Nickelback. I was like, what did they do to
get so much hate?

Speaker 4 (23:46):
So you don't really like them? You just like the underdogs.
Like music.

Speaker 2 (23:50):
I do like their music.

Speaker 5 (23:52):
I think their lyrics are be honest, do you think
their lyrics are good?

Speaker 2 (23:57):
Look at this photograph? Every time I do it makes
you laugh.

Speaker 5 (24:00):
What the hell is on Johnny's head?

Speaker 4 (24:02):
That makes me laugh? Because it is?

Speaker 1 (24:09):
Yeah, I do. Everybody wants to be a big rock star, right,
you know.

Speaker 5 (24:14):
I worked on a station where I had to play
a lot of Nickelback. Yes, so I got to really
decide everything.

Speaker 2 (24:20):
I like them, all right, Nickelback.

Speaker 4 (24:21):
I I'm sure they're nice people.

Speaker 5 (24:24):
I've heard there's some of the nicest people in the
whole business.

Speaker 2 (24:27):
They're Canadian, of course they're nice. Count for something it does.
It does count for.

Speaker 1 (24:32):
And I was like, come on, they worked hard, they
sell out stadiums, they make a lot of money.

Speaker 4 (24:37):
And their music's good. It's not bad.

Speaker 1 (24:40):
So good for them, and maybe I you know what, Sarah,
You're right. I'm an underdog person. I am one hundred
percent and under I always am going to go for
the underdog.

Speaker 2 (24:49):
Well, yeah, so they're fine.

Speaker 4 (24:53):
I don't know here the thing.

Speaker 5 (24:54):
If you're rock stars that make millions and millions and
millions of dollars, how much of an underdog are you
at that?

Speaker 2 (25:00):
You're not right?

Speaker 5 (25:01):
They're laughing all the way to the bank.

Speaker 4 (25:03):
They exactly.

Speaker 2 (25:04):
Yeah, that's true. They're in on their own joke. Yeah
know for sure.

Speaker 1 (25:07):
Yeah seriously, yah, laughing all the way to the bank. Okay,
we got to get serious now.

Speaker 4 (25:11):
So New Year, New Year.

Speaker 1 (25:13):
We've all heard it, right, I heard from a lot
of people. Do you guys hear this too? Twenty twenty
four was kind of a rough year, did you. I mean,
I feel like a lot of people have said that.
We were just talking about that the other day.

Speaker 2 (25:27):
Yeah, And I don't quite I can't quite put my
finger on it. I think some of it. If you're
a news watcher, which.

Speaker 3 (25:33):
I am is you know, it was a very tense
political year. I mean it really started early and went
all the way through till November. And whatever side you're on,
it doesn't really matter. There was this intensity and this
i'll even call it hate on both both sides that
that bubbled up, and I think it made a lot
of people anxious. So that's a global reason why I

(25:54):
think twenty twenty four was rough. I mean, and inflation too. Yeah,
inflation and you're going to the grocery store. You're just
trying to buy some groceries and you're looking at prices
of eggs and all different things. You know, that's hard
on just a family at a family level.

Speaker 4 (26:08):
I don't know, that's just and the highest interest rates
that we've seen, Yeah, in a very long time ago
housing market, all of that was just it was in
the toilet.

Speaker 5 (26:17):
So yeah, yeah, My first part of twenty twenty four
was just fine.

Speaker 2 (26:23):
I can't.

Speaker 5 (26:25):
In fact, the first part I sold the house, which
was great. I sold it to my granddaughter, my grandson's mom,
so it was like that was why I invested in
the house in the first place. So I'm like, great,
she's always going to be a homeowner. I have some cash.
This is fantastic twenty twenty four. And then we went
to work one day and they had a meeting after
this show, and then the rug was pulled completely. And

(26:46):
I just realized this the other day that I was
in trauma response for a long time. I'm still not
over it. I still am not over it. To do
everything you're supposed to do and then to have somebody
treat you so poorly and also just zero respect. It
was and it was weird because I was on my
way out the door for vacation, so it was kind
of like, yeah, I was like, great, okay, well you

(27:07):
know I'm vacationing.

Speaker 4 (27:09):
This is fine.

Speaker 5 (27:09):
Then you come back and kind of it hits you.
But also KHQ, we were in talks with them almost
right away, so it gave us hope, which was great.
But it was kind of a lost summer. And then
we lost the dog like right before Christmas, so that
was brutal. But yeah, up until June.

Speaker 4 (27:24):
A great year.

Speaker 2 (27:25):
I didn't tell June I've went it rains it poor.

Speaker 1 (27:27):
So it does feel like that, like when it rains,
it pours and you get it all and you know,
getting the rug pulled out from underneath the view is
never fun and sometimes it takes a few years to
recover from that rug getting just yanked.

Speaker 5 (27:41):
And I've taken I mean, I feel like I've tried
to take the high road and stuff and it doesn't
matter why. It doesn't matter why the reason, it's how
and it's right. It's just there's nothing okay about it.

Speaker 3 (27:51):
Right because business decisions need to be made, but it's
how you treat your people in those business decisions.

Speaker 2 (27:57):
And then did that one, you know what I mean,
you guys were long term. I said it right before
the show started.

Speaker 3 (28:04):
You know, Dave, Ken and Molly are are part of
the fabric of this community. It's part of the fabric
and so to do do it the way they did
it was just so crazy.

Speaker 5 (28:15):
I didn't understand it, but also happened that way from
a personal perspective, I'm responsible for a lot of humans financially, spiritually, yeah, physically,
And I was like, are you I've been doing everything
I was supposed to do for all this time and
you start to panic. It's like what will I actually
do next? Because I've always said I want to work
for the airlines, which I do. But then I was like, well,

(28:36):
what whoa what?

Speaker 3 (28:37):
Whoa?

Speaker 4 (28:37):
Whoa? Harry, It's Scarry.

Speaker 2 (28:40):
Yeah, So we feel really lucky to be here.

Speaker 5 (28:42):
So in that way, the end of twenty twenty four
actually was fantastic, and I stayed away from the news cycle.

Speaker 2 (28:49):
Smart was probably smart.

Speaker 1 (28:51):
Sometimes you have to put your blinders on. And I know,
like probably for you, Sarah. I mean you're you're watching
Sean and we're in it, and it's like sometimes people
will ask me about certain news stories and I'm like,
I don't know. I wasn't listening because sometimes you got
to tune it out. Yeah, do you find yourself doing that.

Speaker 4 (29:08):
I just don't understand how we got here. I really,
honestly don't understand how we got here. And everybody has
different opinions, we're all raised completely different, we're all raised
in different cultures and different religions and different whatever. I
just don't understand how we got to a place where

(29:28):
we are so divided and we can't even have a conversation,
so true, and I just don't don't I don't know
that culture. I don't understand that culture. I don't understand that.
In raising my kids, I always wanted that I didn't
care what they voted. I just wanted them to have
a brain, and I wanted them to have a voice,

(29:49):
and I wanted them to have education to make really
educated decisions. And I would hope that everybody would want that.
And I can say, like, you know, the best friends
that I have are the friends that sit and listen
and we can talk about.

Speaker 2 (30:10):
Have difference is, but still have a conversation.

Speaker 4 (30:12):
How do you learn if everybody is yes, like saying
the same thing you are, how do you learn?

Speaker 5 (30:18):
And I've noticed the kids are picking up on it.
Oh my goodness, whatever their parents feel, and the things
that come out of their mouth, it's like, you have
no idea what you're even talking about. You just heard
somebody say that and now you're blurting it out.

Speaker 3 (30:30):
Or they're digesting these headlines they're seeing in their feeds
or what have you, and that's what they're speaking is truth.
When it's a headline, it's not the crux of the issue.
I do think though, that in this age we're in
with social media being blasted at our kids and at us,
I think that really is part of the root of
why we're so polarized, right because if you feel a

(30:53):
certain way, or you have a question about something, you
can jump online and find the support for your.

Speaker 2 (30:58):
Oh it's tray. You you can't, and so then you're
like locked into that view.

Speaker 3 (31:03):
Then you're like you put your feet in the ground
and you're like, no, I believe this to be The
sky is purple.

Speaker 2 (31:08):
It is purple. I saw it online. It is purple.
It's not blue.

Speaker 3 (31:11):
And you know, you're locked in, and therefore you can't
have those conversations.

Speaker 2 (31:15):
You can't talk to your friends. We're on the other
side because dang it, you know the sky is purple,
you know.

Speaker 1 (31:22):
And I do think you have to open up your
mind and you have to be informed and listen and
read as much as you can and find out as
much as you can and then also allow everybody to
have their own opinions thoughts, you know, because again, that's
how we grow, that's how we learn, and that's how
we have a more conducive society.

Speaker 4 (31:41):
Right, Yeah, I mean I don't I'm not going to ask.
I'm not gonna I'm like, I would never ask you,
like who do vote for it? Yes, I don't want
to know me because I just want to like love
you for who you are.

Speaker 1 (31:54):
You guys grow up with that. I grew up with this.
I grew up in a military family. But my dad
always taught us, you don't talk religion, you don't talk politics,
you don't talk train section or trained session.

Speaker 4 (32:08):
Oh no, you do talk trade.

Speaker 2 (32:13):
We'll just turn off.

Speaker 5 (32:19):
After trains, after guys are so coming back. I learned
a really important lesson one day. I was on Facebook
and Portia and Ellen had just gotten married, and I
put on my Facebook, all proud of it could be
if you can't see that this is love, then you're
just an idiot. So I just bought that out.

Speaker 4 (32:36):
And I get this.

Speaker 5 (32:37):
Long thought out email from a woman who was very offended,
and I called her and we had a long conversation
and I and at the end of it, I said,
you're right, of course, you're not an idiot. You just
think differently than I do. What a stupid, pompous thing
for me to say. And it was like I really
learned the lesson because I didn't just say love is love,
this should be great. I actually said, if you don't

(32:57):
understand this, it was I said, like you're intolerant, or
you're an idiot something.

Speaker 3 (33:02):
It was just so cool, you're able to say that
the same thing. Do you think those words are the idiot?
You're stupid? Those things are in those.

Speaker 5 (33:11):
And this woman, she was, she was very thoughtful in
her She didn't she just said, Molly, I want to
tell you this. I don't believe in same sex marriage.
And here's why. And I don't think I'm an idiot.
I just feel differently than you. And in our conversation,
I said, you know, it's true. I wouldn't want somebody
to say just because you think if you think por
Chanel and should get married, you're an idiot. You know,

(33:31):
I wouldn't want them to reverse them. Everybody's as long
as you're not hurting each other or you know. But
that's one example. There's tons of examples of people who
feel differently. But I do think I heard her out.
I said, you're right. I used some words that I
shouldn't have and I should have just said love is love.
I think this is wonderful, and I should have left.

Speaker 1 (33:51):
That you were able to say that, honestly, that says
so much about who you are.

Speaker 2 (33:55):
And if we could all do that. Yeah, take those
moments where maybe we've said or done something.

Speaker 3 (33:59):
Even I mean, I'm saying our leaders too, that wasn't
quite right and be able to say, you know what,
I was.

Speaker 2 (34:05):
Wrong when I said that calms the water.

Speaker 4 (34:08):
It's so much.

Speaker 2 (34:10):
Realize it everything. It really does.

Speaker 1 (34:13):
And I think we have to be in that space,
we really do if we want to get back to
some you know, civility.

Speaker 2 (34:19):
Civilities.

Speaker 1 (34:20):
I was like, that's the word. Civility is a really
good word.

Speaker 2 (34:23):
Okay.

Speaker 1 (34:24):
So do you guys make New Year's resolutions? Are you
resolutions people?

Speaker 2 (34:28):
I'm not either.

Speaker 5 (34:29):
I just like doing what I like to do it.

Speaker 2 (34:30):
I don't want anybody I don't want to.

Speaker 4 (34:33):
I don't want to fail to.

Speaker 5 (34:35):
Just be consistent all the time.

Speaker 1 (34:37):
I'm I like to do goals throughout the year. I
think I'll write little goals down and go I like to.
I don't know about you, guys, but it's like list.

Speaker 4 (34:46):
I like to write them.

Speaker 2 (34:47):
Down and then I like to mark them off. Yes,
so I love that feeling of like, oh, even.

Speaker 5 (34:53):
Were I'll write down something I already did so I can.

Speaker 4 (34:56):
Check it off.

Speaker 2 (34:58):
I was supposed to do this today, I already did it.

Speaker 4 (35:00):
I can write it down and I feel good.

Speaker 5 (35:03):
Yes, there's the whole theory about that lit theory, it's
a thing. It's why shouldn't you write down what you
already did?

Speaker 3 (35:11):
I like I like vision I mean vision board is
a big word and it's scary for a lot of people.
But I like the idea of vision boarding instead of resolution.
So in other words, or writing down goals, I mean,
it's the same thing initially, right, or that. I love
the thought that you speak it into the universe and
it's more likely to happen.

Speaker 2 (35:29):
So whether that's speaking.

Speaker 3 (35:30):
On paper in all list or vision boarding like the
old fashion way, cutting things out of magazines or printing
off your off the internet, I do like that more
so than resolution.

Speaker 2 (35:41):
I like that too.

Speaker 1 (35:42):
And you know, goal setting and doing all of that
when you guys are doing that, when you're thinking in
your head, like for me, it's always like a series
of things that come up. It's like, how am I
gonna better handle my fininances? How am I gonna you know,
uh handle my weight? But you know, what can I do?
How can I be in better shape? How can I

(36:02):
take better care of myself? Or those things that pop
up for you guys too, sure, yes.

Speaker 5 (36:08):
But then I ignore them and I go back to
the casino, light up a cigarette and have a drink.

Speaker 4 (36:14):
Leslie.

Speaker 2 (36:15):
This is why I love.

Speaker 5 (36:18):
This is why it's adorable, these people quitting and quitting
and quitting. No, I do like the thing more and positive,
like like, I want to save more money this year.
Not right, I want to spend less. I want to
save more or I want to you know, I'm going
to stop doing this instead, how about I add this
into my life or do more traveling, I do more
things and.

Speaker 2 (36:38):
Yea dream a little bit.

Speaker 4 (36:42):
I never drink in the middle of the day. That
is the diet.

Speaker 2 (36:46):
You leave until after the show. Consider middle of the
daybreak because.

Speaker 4 (36:51):
It's true.

Speaker 5 (36:52):
If I know, to the casino in the middle of
the day after work before I pick up my grandchildren,
which is almost every day, and then I know I'm
just having a coke, so okay, but but I am gambling.
But then if it's I don't like to mix my
drinking gambling so much. They don't mix.

Speaker 2 (37:07):
It's to make fun thing different decisions. When you're drinking.

Speaker 5 (37:10):
In your head, Yeah, you have a lot of conversations
like yeah, this is the one.

Speaker 4 (37:13):
This is.

Speaker 2 (37:16):
If I.

Speaker 5 (37:18):
Time, it's gonna pops full of coins.

Speaker 2 (37:22):
Look at how close they are close there? And are
you playing the Brady Bunch machine as you don't have
it anymore, but you're hitting Oh, I love that. I
need to see I need to go out and light
a cigarette. I don't know if anybody sound what.

Speaker 7 (37:43):
It needs to see that I'm pretending to be.

Speaker 2 (37:52):
They're just candy.

Speaker 4 (37:53):
She's so cool.

Speaker 2 (37:55):
I want to be like everybody.

Speaker 4 (37:57):
That's really a cool image. Everybody's going.

Speaker 1 (38:00):
God, Okay, if what's one thing you love about yourself?

Speaker 2 (38:09):
What's one thing that you would change?

Speaker 4 (38:13):
Yes, it's the start kind of silent.

Speaker 2 (38:16):
Okay, start with the what you love about yourself? What
do you love about yourself?

Speaker 4 (38:20):
I don't know.

Speaker 5 (38:21):
I have the ability to put myself in other people's shoes.

Speaker 2 (38:24):
I always cane.

Speaker 5 (38:25):
It's empathy. I can always say, even if it's somebody
I'm thinking they're ridiculous, I always can see the other
side of it. And that is a skill that I
think has served me well. And it's a really hard
one for other people.

Speaker 1 (38:38):
It's a really good one, and it can be really difficult.

Speaker 2 (38:42):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (38:42):
Mine is similar in that it's the kind of the
same in that I try to approach anything I'm whether
it's again back to the news cycle, or it's something
in a friend group, something's gone sideways.

Speaker 2 (38:53):
Is try to look at all sides. Yes, so look
at all sides.

Speaker 3 (38:56):
And maybe it's also empathy, like trying to figure out
where that's coming from. But yeah, so I think a
little bit of that is probably one of my strengths.

Speaker 4 (39:06):
Yeah, I don't think for me that it used to be.
But I took a lot of management classes and I
was kind of raised by the nun's in the Providence system,
and my office was like, you know, two doors down
from some of the nuns. So like if something came up,
I would go down and I would just sit in

(39:27):
their office and I would have this conversation, say hey,
what do you think about this? And they would It
was always about like, okay, look at everything, look at
what they're going through, and it's not coming from your eyes.
Don't use your filter. And so I think that's made
me a better leader. But I also think that you

(39:50):
can go too far and the fact that you can
give people too much leeway and then all of a
sudden you're pissed because somebody's running over the I.

Speaker 1 (40:00):
Was going to say, they've taken advantage.

Speaker 2 (40:03):
And I don't mean that you have to. I just
like to know where study is coming from.

Speaker 5 (40:07):
Especially if they screw you, it's like, wait, what would
have Okay, well I get how they could have gotten there,
but it helps me feel better.

Speaker 4 (40:15):
Just the why, why why would you react that way?
Let me understand why that reaction came from you. Yeah.
So I think that that that is a really good
trait to have. I think that it's not normal for
most people. Like most people are very emotional and very
react reactive.

Speaker 2 (40:36):
I contend to be that way.

Speaker 3 (40:38):
That's an amazing opportunity you have to be around to
have none to kind of in your what would it
be almost like in your social circle to help you
navigate this or that.

Speaker 2 (40:48):
I think that's pretty.

Speaker 4 (40:49):
Providence did a really good job when they were like
teaching people into management. They did a really good job
with their management program. So yeah, I mean I was
the first time I was a manager. I think I
was nineteen. So you know, you just think you think
you know and.

Speaker 1 (41:08):
Yeah, right, we think we know everything, and I think
you're wid Yeah we're still grown up.

Speaker 2 (41:13):
Then yeah, well.

Speaker 4 (41:14):
And then at thirty, you know, half the people that
you are leading are older than you. And so that's
you know, you have to understand them. And now you know,
like most of my employee, well about seventy percent of
my employees are in their twenties, and that's where a

(41:36):
lot of people are like, well know those twenty year olds,
they don't like to work. No, that's not true. I
have a lot of really hard workers that work for me.
My kids are really hard workers. You have to define
what you want out of them. If you say, oh,
that's who they are, and you just let of course anybody,
it doesn't matter what age they are, they're going to
do exactly what you don't expect of them.

Speaker 2 (41:58):
But that's what I.

Speaker 1 (41:58):
Love about you, because you you lay out expectations and
so like we've talked about that before and then that
generation and you had said, no, I've got some great
younger kids that work for us. But I think it's
because you're a good leader and you spell out what
you need from them. When they know it is expected,

(42:19):
then if they want to do it, they're going to
do it, and you know they're appreciated.

Speaker 4 (42:24):
Yeah. I mean, and I remember my first job and
my boss had patients of a saint. I mean, like
I came from a farm, so I knew how to work.
It was just what was expected of me and he
just had. He was not very good at laying that out,
but we got through that communication.

Speaker 1 (42:43):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (42:44):
I mean he was much older than I was. I
was I was eighteen, I think when I first my
first real job. But yeah, I think that you just
have to be very direct but kind and you know,
always tell them what they do right and what they
can improve on and wrap it all up with a

(43:05):
bow on what they can do right.

Speaker 5 (43:06):
I'm so glad the boss the only people it's like
the safety net person, like one person and I'm not.
I'm like my partner. I'm like, you do it, you
be the boss.

Speaker 4 (43:14):
I can't.

Speaker 5 (43:15):
I don't know how. I don't know how to do that.
That's one thing. So I don't direct shows like I
would be like, why.

Speaker 4 (43:20):
Are you a bad actor? Stop being a bad actor
bad and instead of Brady acted. I don't think I
wouldn't be good.

Speaker 2 (43:30):
Do what dided.

Speaker 1 (43:34):
Yes, I think mine's like uh when I'm the same,
Like what I love and what I change is I'm
super sensitive, so that I think that allows me to
like really care about people, and I do sometimes to
well A lot of times to a fault.

Speaker 2 (43:50):
But I like that about myself. I don't want to.
I don't.

Speaker 1 (43:53):
I don't want to change that about myself. I've gotten
a hurt a lot of times because of it.

Speaker 2 (43:58):
Can I speak to your nasty viewers out there?

Speaker 4 (44:01):
She can, but she can't.

Speaker 2 (44:03):
You say that's negative about on air talent.

Speaker 3 (44:07):
Sometimes you have the ability on some days to have
thick skin and you mow it off if you're reading
those comments, and some days you don't. And I will
just say as being Leslie's friend is Leslie is sensitive
to the best and to the worst. Because if she
sees something that a viewer has written about her, she
takes that in that's negative, and she takes that in
and she kind of sits with it a while, and

(44:28):
I just, you know, I don't want her to do that.

Speaker 2 (44:30):
But it's also the quality that makes her special. You know.

Speaker 4 (44:33):
Let me ask you guys a question, because you guys
have been in the industry for a while. Is it
different with social media people? Did they used to write
in they would call?

Speaker 2 (44:48):
Yeah, there was a phone calls.

Speaker 1 (44:50):
Yeah, Oh it's definitely, I'd say one hundred pause.

Speaker 4 (44:53):
They can be behind ramp out and they.

Speaker 2 (44:55):
Can be so much more negative because they are.

Speaker 1 (44:57):
It's interesting and maybe you guys feel this way to
because I feel like when social media first started out,
that's a really good question. I feel like it was
kind of fun and games and everybody was kind of like,
had a good time with it, and then didn't.

Speaker 2 (45:12):
We play far what.

Speaker 1 (45:16):
Yah?

Speaker 2 (45:17):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (45:19):
Was like yes, and then I don't know what happened,
But I don't know. At some point all the ugly
the cancer cancel culture started.

Speaker 2 (45:31):
Yes, and it just got relieved.

Speaker 5 (45:34):
Now when people are negative, and I'm going to say
this too, having a podcast that's very specific people need
to want to be here, I have found far less
of it than when we were on trustdro radio. Okay,
because people what happened by you say something? They know
nothing about you. They don't know that you adopted your son,
they don't know you have a non product, they don't
know that your dog decided. They hear you twenty seconds
they text and something mean right right. Well, with our podcast,

(45:56):
we don't get that as much. But what was my
hang on? I had a good question. So when they
message you in their negative is it usually about your
skills or about how you look?

Speaker 1 (46:11):
I can't remember the last one that was about my skills.

Speaker 2 (46:14):
To be honest with you, let me. I'll give you.

Speaker 1 (46:17):
I'll fire off some examples. Uh, they will be negative. Okay,
the last one I got, and I'll just use it
because it still makes me laugh. And I'll say this first,
I've learned the art of the block button. I get
some interesting ones too, which might be a whole different podcast.
But the last one I got is I was wearing

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a high neck, long sleeved midcalf red sweater dress and
the gal wrote in and said that I looked like
a curn spreak. Wow, And I was like, I laughed
out loud, because first of all, I looked at myself
and I was like, is that what I want to

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hook her? Suns frank, high neag, turtlenack, long sleeve, mid caf.

Speaker 2 (47:06):
Dressing down comfort dressing for comfort.

Speaker 1 (47:09):
And so I wrote her back and I was like,
ha ha ha, I don't think I've ever been compared.
I think this is the first time I've ever been
compared to a cur On spreak because it was just
so funny to me, I was like any other outfit
I might have gone, oh well, okay, maybe it was
a little I don't know, but I just thought that

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was hilarious.

Speaker 4 (47:31):
Answer you No, she.

Speaker 1 (47:33):
Never She never responded, gonna say that, thank you for watching.

Speaker 5 (47:36):
I'm gonna say this to any any person who takes
the time out of their day to criticize another woman,
another person on television. They got too much. You have
got to You've got to find something else to do.

Speaker 3 (47:49):
And it's not about Leslie. It is really about other
things in their life. It's causingly to feel that hatred,
to feel that contempt, to feel those hook her type feelings,
like I.

Speaker 5 (48:01):
Mean, it couldn't be as simple as her husband or
boyfriend going I really like that Leslie, though she's cute too.

Speaker 2 (48:09):
It's never about really or any talent that gets criticized.

Speaker 4 (48:15):
You know.

Speaker 1 (48:15):
What has helped me is like in my mind, now
I turn it and I go, I feel sorry for that, Yes,
good for you, I feel bad good for you.

Speaker 2 (48:23):
And then I blocked them. I felt bad block.

Speaker 5 (48:27):
I had a lady come up to me. I had
on our billboards. I had very long hair, and then
I cop chopped it all off. It was like little
Bob cut. And I had a lady and I swear
to God, she had about three teeth in her head total.
She was on like one of those like scooter things
because her leg.

Speaker 4 (48:42):
Anyway, she walks up to me. She's bigger.

Speaker 5 (48:45):
Gal had non showered and she literally said to me.

Speaker 4 (48:48):
Would dude, your hair at least be so pretty?

Speaker 5 (48:51):
And I looked at her and I was like, I
looked at my promo tech. I said, I'm gonna take
a lap. I'll be right back, I thought.

Speaker 1 (48:58):
Really really moments sometimes it just like, yes, I'm gonna
take a lap.

Speaker 2 (49:05):
I like that one.

Speaker 5 (49:07):
Yes, I don't have to deal with this in your
line of work.

Speaker 2 (49:09):
But you hear probably I'm sure a lot about it
from Sean.

Speaker 1 (49:12):
Yes, you know, because it's not just the females we get,
we get our share, but the guys.

Speaker 4 (49:18):
Girls.

Speaker 2 (49:20):
Give us one exam and I'll see if I've heard it.

Speaker 4 (49:25):
People have no problem And you guys know this. People
have no problem approaching you. It doesn't matter if you're I,
it's your significant other, or if it's you guys. Right, Yeah,
I mean, they just don't care. So if they can't
get and I don't know if it's if it's because
they just they get nervous and they say silly.

Speaker 2 (49:51):
I think.

Speaker 4 (49:54):
They just say things that they shouldn't say right, things
that you wouldn't say to like you, you wouldn't say to
even your best friend. I mean, you wouldn't say it right,
and so like, I mean Sean obviously gets it. But
but yeah, I mean as like when we're out with
the band or when we're wherever we are, it's I

(50:16):
manage the band, so I'm front and center. Yeah, but
I do, like I actually really love doing it too.
I love the music, but it yeah, like, for instance,
they were waiting in line to talk to him, and
a couple of women said, I really like that outfit
for your body type. What awesome.

Speaker 5 (50:43):
It's just that is I want to take your husband
to the train station. So I want you to go
right now.

Speaker 2 (50:50):
It's exactly exactly. This train is out of business.

Speaker 4 (50:58):
This is a station lady. Yeah. Well, the thought in
my head was, well, I had gained a lot of
weight and and I had been going through some like
I mean, we all know our bodies changed.

Speaker 2 (51:11):
Yeah, we fight it.

Speaker 4 (51:12):
I mean, things happen and we're like who is this
and what is this? And I don't recognize this person
in the mirror, and so you're you're dealing with all
of that inner turmoil anyway, and then for somebody to
say that should just my favorite thing is I would
really like to throw punch them, but then you have
to back up and then you have to Yeah, Sean says,

(51:33):
you can't say that anymore. I was like, oh, probably not,
but but yeah, I think that they do say things
that are hurtful, thinking that they're not. They say things
that they shouldn't say. They blurt things out that they
I mean, like on one person said to Sean after
a show he had come to the show and he

(51:56):
had I think he had the day off, so he
didn't shape so he had some little bit of facial hair.
And she's like, why don't you look like that on TV?
Because you look like a Mormon boy on TV.

Speaker 3 (52:10):
Oh it was in a second line that she didn't
need that. Yeah, the first line is kind of like
it's like, oh, it's.

Speaker 2 (52:16):
Kind of a compliment. Oh I think you Yeah, I
like that scruff kind of thing.

Speaker 4 (52:19):
I just think they get nervous or they just say
things that they shouldn't say, and and they you know,
it's like and I just that's how I push it off,
is like, okay, you just said, you just got nervous,
you got tongue tied, you said something you said I think.

Speaker 2 (52:32):
You shouldn't have.

Speaker 5 (52:33):
I'll share a story with you that happened. My uncle
John travolted, the Great and powerful, Beautiful John Travolta, were
in the TWA Hotel. This is three weeks ago, and
he's walking down and he had to shave his beard
and have a little mustache for the part the movie,
and he had like a wag on and this lady
she goes, John, Jewan, you look good, and then she goes,
don't worry, John, we still love you, and he just like.

Speaker 3 (53:00):
Thing.

Speaker 4 (53:01):
And then my mom.

Speaker 5 (53:02):
Was in an uber two days ago in La. She's
doing a general hospital. She's eighty five, and she likes
to throw that out there because then she.

Speaker 2 (53:09):
Gives the five that's crazy.

Speaker 5 (53:14):
You're doing well, because the guy goes, gosh, she goes,
I have an an who's sixty nine and she looks
way worse than you do.

Speaker 2 (53:24):
If that leads me to my next question leads.

Speaker 1 (53:27):
Because we're gonna have to wrap here sooner, and I
just want to get into a couple more. Has anybody
ever said something to you in your past, good or bad.
That kind of defines how you look at yourself today.

Speaker 2 (53:37):
Oh, absolutely, yeah. I think we all have that.

Speaker 3 (53:42):
More Mine is more so when I was still on TV,
and it's that old adage and you hear it from
a lot of people that choose television journalism. Is my
very first news director said your face is too round
and your hair is too dark. At the time I
found hair now, but your face is too round, your

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hair is too dark.

Speaker 2 (54:03):
You'll never really make it as talent in this business. Wow,
And you know I was.

Speaker 3 (54:09):
I prided myself on being a journalist first and then
quote unquote talent meaning an anchor or something second, in
my early days especially, and that stuck with me my.

Speaker 2 (54:19):
Entire TV career.

Speaker 3 (54:22):
I was fortunate when I got to khq IS, I
was embraced by management and they liked me on TV
despite my round face and my hair is too dark. Well,
very sweet too, in your beautiful.

Speaker 2 (54:34):
You're very sweet.

Speaker 3 (54:35):
Well, and I'll be honest, going back to the last question,
I mean, I had a lady at the fair once
and you're you're behind a counter signing autographs at the
Interstate Fair, and she came up and I was fifty sixty.
I mean, wait, is something I struggle with. And I
was fifty sixty pounds less than I am now because
of aging and all kinds of things. And she came
up and she looked at me, and in a thirty

(54:56):
second span, she must have said fat ten times.

Speaker 2 (54:58):
She's like, oh my god, I thought you were fat.
You're not fat. I really thought you were fat, but
you're really not that fat, like she said it over
and I just didn't know what to say.

Speaker 3 (55:07):
So so yeah, but but yeah, having a news directors
and someone I looked up to like I liked him,
and that was that was hard to hear.

Speaker 2 (55:14):
Yeah, that is hard, and it does it does it
does with you.

Speaker 5 (55:18):
I had a consultant tell me I wasn't morning show
material really.

Speaker 4 (55:22):
Yeah, which was awesome. She was like what, okay.

Speaker 5 (55:26):
And then right before we were starting our new gig,
I thought we were going to be on camera all
the time, and so I was stressing out about it.
And I had a friend who I don't know if
she meant or not. She goes, don't nobody's expecting you
to be pretty, don't worry.

Speaker 2 (55:37):
Oh yeah, oh wow.

Speaker 5 (55:41):
I think what she meant was, you know, and I
used the term currency is my currency is my humor.
Obviously I'm not I'm not an on camera type person.

Speaker 4 (55:49):
But it was just like.

Speaker 2 (55:52):
Or she was thinking, like, well, you're on radio, so
you have to worry about that. Maybe that's what she's saying.

Speaker 5 (55:56):
Nobody's expecting you.

Speaker 4 (55:59):
She yea, that just astounds me. That just that. I can't.
I just we just have to. We just have to
get to a point where we support each other. I
don't care what you look like. I don't care what yes,
what creed, what color. We just have to get to
a point where we support each other. And we all
look different, and we all are different. And that's what

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fills everybody's soul, is just everybody being different and putting
those pieces of the puzzle together.

Speaker 1 (56:28):
Had So when I was in seventh grade, I was
sitting I was brand new at this junior high, brand new.
They called me the little German girl because we've lived
in Germany because my dad was in the military. I
wasn't German, and but we moved to band Orgon, which
was like I don't.

Speaker 2 (56:45):
Know if that was in people.

Speaker 1 (56:46):
I was a little tiny town and I was finally
sitting with the cool group. So it was a group
of guys and then one other girl, Chris I won't
use her last name. I still remember sitting there and
then she looks over at me and I'm just finally
feeling cool and like I'm fitting in. She goes, you
have fat legs. And you know, I still look in

(57:07):
the mirrorage today and go.

Speaker 4 (57:08):
Oh, my legs are so fat.

Speaker 1 (57:10):
Wow.

Speaker 2 (57:10):
Because of what.

Speaker 1 (57:11):
Chris said, Because of what Chris said that little thank you.

Speaker 5 (57:16):
I had somebody who was taking a lot of pictures
and not waiting for me to pose, and I was.
I finally said, could you stop taking pictures from the
side like that? She goes, oh, is it because of
your nose? I said, well, now it is, thank you.

Speaker 2 (57:30):
Did you want to point out my legs fat legs?

Speaker 4 (57:33):
Don't look at my big nose.

Speaker 2 (57:38):
Over there.

Speaker 4 (57:40):
To my foul Isn't that crazy?

Speaker 5 (57:43):
And then and and nobody can know because to look
at you from the outside, Leslie, I mean, you would
think she must have all the confidence she must right,
you have, You're the full package. You're beautiful, you're trim,
you look way younger than you are. You're successful, you
worked your way up.

Speaker 2 (57:58):
It's your superpower. Yeah, but I love you. I love you,
I love you, and I'll pay you whatever you want.

Speaker 4 (58:03):
No but that.

Speaker 5 (58:04):
But I don't think that you feel that inside. So
it's anything. We all have those things. There's things that
you just have an imposter thing and whatever, but you
should believe it and and all those other get the
wonder woman, give me your wonder woman.

Speaker 4 (58:19):
Craft. It's just jealousy, jealous I'm really interesting though, is
that it doesn't matter what we've gone through and whether
it's trauma like last year, those are the things that
make us who we are, and those are that's the
grit that that's why I susful as successful as we are.

(58:44):
If those things wouldn't have happened to us. I mean,
I don't know about you guys, but for me, I
feed off that. I was like, oh really you don't
think that I can. Okay, well I'll.

Speaker 2 (58:53):
Show you definitely, I'll show you person.

Speaker 4 (58:56):
Oh yeah, and so then and it's not I'll show
you to like and make sure everybody else fails in
the meantime. No, it's just it really is about me
and what I define a success. And I think that
every single one of us that is what drives us
is that grit and who we are and what our

(59:17):
passion is.

Speaker 2 (59:18):
I think that's the word for twenty twenty five.

Speaker 4 (59:20):
Grit.

Speaker 1 (59:21):
I like to make a grit. Okay, I'm going to
end on this one. What's been your best decade, ladies,
best decade?

Speaker 4 (59:26):
And why?

Speaker 2 (59:28):
Oh my god, wow, best decade?

Speaker 1 (59:31):
Like what is surprised you most in each decade reach
of your age? Like? What has been your best And
I'll start because I'll say, and people think I'm crazy
because they always want you know, you would typically think twenties,
you know, because you're young and your hate.

Speaker 2 (59:48):
God, I hated my twenties. You had a lot going on.

Speaker 1 (59:53):
I raising kids, and I.

Speaker 2 (59:56):
Hate it because of a kid Like I love kids,
love it.

Speaker 4 (01:00:00):
A right kids children to share that.

Speaker 2 (01:00:03):
Yeah, sound your three kids are listening across. They probably are,
but I mean the kids are amazing.

Speaker 1 (01:00:11):
But when you're that young and you're raising three children
and you're still trying to figure out who the heck
you are.

Speaker 2 (01:00:17):
And you were traveling for your career, right.

Speaker 1 (01:00:19):
Yeah, well yeah, it was a flighter dinner at one point,
and so there was just so much going on, and
I just the twenties thirties were hard hard years. I'd
say forties it started to get back. I've loved my fifties.
Well look at you. You still look thirty five.

Speaker 2 (01:00:35):
Oh god again. I don't know how.

Speaker 1 (01:00:37):
I don't know what the telly's up to now, and
I have to make payments and small increments.

Speaker 2 (01:00:41):
But I'll do it. I'll I don't even care.

Speaker 1 (01:00:43):
But I've loved it. I've loved my fifties. And I
don't know if people think I'm insane for that, but
I just think you feel better.

Speaker 5 (01:00:49):
Hey, listen, you have more money, you have less responsibility, Yes,
you have, you know, smarter and usually in most cases,
more of a secure job. And for me, it's a
good relationship. Usually in my fifties, I have not yet
been divorced, which is fantastic. I also haven't been married.

Speaker 1 (01:01:06):
I can't say that's why, but I think we have
all those good things.

Speaker 4 (01:01:10):
I agree.

Speaker 5 (01:01:11):
This is my favorite time too. My mom's still alive
and healthy. I got my grandkids. I adore them. That
it's fun. And you know, up till June, I had
way more money than I ever had.

Speaker 2 (01:01:22):
Now it's coming back. The money is coming back. It's
coming back.

Speaker 4 (01:01:26):
I think one of the things that you would be
great for you to talk about on next show. Is
reinventing yourself after something like that?

Speaker 2 (01:01:35):
That's on my list, So yes, because.

Speaker 4 (01:01:39):
I think we've all been through it all. For us,
I have been through something like that, and it is
a really difficult thing to pull yourself up by your
bootstraps and figure out what's next because you thought things
were going so great. Yeah, but yeah, I don't know
if there's been a favorite. I mean, like, you know,
my fifties has been great, but I I have love

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of every decade. I really have.

Speaker 2 (01:02:03):
I mean there were some that were, you know, more difficult, but.

Speaker 4 (01:02:11):
That the you know, other side of it was awesome.
So you know, it's those types of things. I mean,
they just they are who I am now. So and
I love what what the outcome is.

Speaker 5 (01:02:26):
I asked about regrets, and it's like, why, No, I
don't need to read all the relationships because they h you.

Speaker 1 (01:02:33):
Got your kids from them, or you learned something that
you really needed to learn.

Speaker 3 (01:02:38):
Yes, I was just going to say, you learn more
in failure than you really do her success.

Speaker 2 (01:02:42):
I mean they always say that, and I think it's
so true. You learn more in failure.

Speaker 5 (01:02:46):
It's your favorite decade too.

Speaker 1 (01:02:47):
Dan.

Speaker 4 (01:02:48):
You know, I'd have.

Speaker 3 (01:02:49):
To say yes because of the same thing you're saying, Like,
our kids are good. I have two step children, my
marriage is good, my I have grand babies. Now, I'm
pretty secure with who I am as a person, always
looking for reinventing myself, maybe professionally just in small ways,
growing my business, all kinds of ways.

Speaker 2 (01:03:10):
But but yeah, I think so. I think so.

Speaker 1 (01:03:12):
I love that, and I do love the whole reinvention
of yourself because I think that we just learn and grow,
and I think people get stuck in that I made
this decision to do this or you know, job, or
be in this relationship and that's just my life.

Speaker 2 (01:03:28):
No it's not.

Speaker 1 (01:03:29):
If it's not working, then shake it up and reinvent yourself.
Thank God for reinvention, over and over and over again.
So yeah, that's a that's an upcoming podcast.

Speaker 2 (01:03:43):
What other ones? What else would you guys like to hear?

Speaker 1 (01:03:46):
Like, I know what I want to I love all
things like beauty and health and what are the next
best things?

Speaker 2 (01:03:52):
And there's just so much out there.

Speaker 3 (01:03:55):
I think a lot of knowledge you have that maybe
not everybody who's listening to this or watching this no,
is your health and wellness side. You know, Leslie at
one point, I think you might be a certified trainer,
like yeah, And I've worked out with Leslie over the
course of several years. Not right now I should be,

(01:04:15):
but over the course of several years, and it's the
way she handles a client is amazing.

Speaker 2 (01:04:20):
And I'd love.

Speaker 3 (01:04:21):
To hear you know your approach to health and fitness
because it's a very gentle but firm approach and I
think a lot of people could gain from it. I
gained from it because you're not unkind to people in
where they're at in their journey, but you push them.
So I want I want to show about that because
that's something I struggle with personally, is health and fitness.

Speaker 2 (01:04:43):
So that's one of the things you.

Speaker 3 (01:04:45):
And Gina Yeah, yeah, my friends, Yeah, Gina Morrow and
I worked out with you.

Speaker 1 (01:04:50):
Absolutely, It's so fun and I do I love that,
And I'd say I do want to talk about that
because it is like a passion project for me, because
I love to see people accomplish their goals and feel
good about themselves. That actually does make me emotional because
there's nothing better than seeing somebody achieve something that they
want to achieve and feel good about them. I love

(01:05:12):
to see people feel good about themselves.

Speaker 5 (01:05:14):
Yeah, I get some travel topics.

Speaker 4 (01:05:18):
That's my favorite place you've ever been?

Speaker 2 (01:05:21):
Can I hit the road for those?

Speaker 4 (01:05:22):
Should I hit.

Speaker 2 (01:05:24):
Road, don't you? Yeah?

Speaker 5 (01:05:26):
I like caring about people's adventures and how they planned
it and where they went.

Speaker 2 (01:05:31):
I love those stories.

Speaker 4 (01:05:32):
Yes, I could never afford to go.

Speaker 2 (01:05:37):
California.

Speaker 4 (01:05:38):
I had a family that live in California, so that
I called that my little Hawaii. So if we'd go
down to California like kids, this is what you see
in Hawaii. We just did fly there.

Speaker 2 (01:05:50):
Yeah, Washing top.

Speaker 4 (01:05:56):
Yacka Vegas. Sorry for anybody, we have.

Speaker 1 (01:06:02):
Never heard that before, but I'm going to use it
from here on out. You guys, thank you so much
for being here today. This has been the best, and
you guys really are just remarkable, incredible women that I
lean on and look up to more than you probably know,
which is why you're sitting here today.

Speaker 2 (01:06:19):
So thank you. I'm excited for your venture.

Speaker 4 (01:06:21):
This is going to be amazing.

Speaker 1 (01:06:23):
It's going to be a lot of fun. I love
talking to people. I love getting to know people. I
love hearing what drives people and encourages people, and so
I think this is gonna be a lot of fun.

Speaker 2 (01:06:33):
So expect to come back.

Speaker 5 (01:06:34):
Okay, yes, okay, maybe you're not busy tomorrow, so any
of you tomorrow really great.

Speaker 4 (01:06:43):
Okay, hang out with you anytime? Okay?

Speaker 2 (01:06:45):
Can we wear jammies?

Speaker 4 (01:06:46):
Yes? I do Friday as we drink.

Speaker 2 (01:06:49):
Oh wait yeah, I was like, can I sign up
for Friday?

Speaker 4 (01:06:56):
All right?

Speaker 1 (01:06:56):
Everybody go make the rest of your days the best
of your day. Thanks for joining us us here on court.
Do you know what, ladies, I'm gonna have you, guys,
grab a felt tip, pen I want you to sign
my ball back here.

Speaker 4 (01:07:05):
We're gonna do it gently.

Speaker 2 (01:07:06):
But again, thank you all so much for being here.
I love I love, love love each one of you.

Speaker 4 (01:07:13):
Thank you for being thank you, thank you for having us.
Thanks great