That's What We Said

This week, Cara Stewart -- long time champion of healthcare and justice in Kentucky -- joins us for our month of talking to Badass Kentucky Women. We talk about her career as an attorney, including the successful fight against then Governor Bevin's Medicaid waiver, which would have removed large numbers of folks from the rolls. We take a semi-deep dive into the Kentucky legislature, exploring the...

Three of us are celebrating our 30th year reunion this year -- or at least remembering our 30th year of escape from high school. Join us on a little mental time travel this week as we reflect on our high school experiences in four different states in the 1980s and 90s - from giant mum corsages to coded flower deliveries to surprising mascots. Sadly, every single time Katie tries to talk about her...

This week, we welcome guest Nick Koenig. He's an EKU botany student, activist, and campus leader. He's here to give us hope for the future and bring us some Gen Z reality. We talk with Nick about environmental racism and segregation in Louisville and about replanting schemes on former mountaintop removal sites.  But since we can never be 100 percent serious, we inadvertently test his knowledge abo...

It's hard to believe (or maybe it isn't!), but it has now been a full year since Covid-19 made its way to the U.S. This week we talk about how the last year has affected our kids and families, and we speculate on what "normal" will look like after the Covid-Times (verdict: we will be as awkward as ever when we see our friends and co-workers again). Katie and Kelly give an important update on their...

It feels like a long time since our last media roundup, and maybe that's because we took the last two weeks off to celebrate the New Year, AKA the Inauguration of President Joe Biden and Veep Kamala Harris. Does the world seem brighter now? We don't know, but we've got a romantic set of tv shows and books to recommend this month.  Everyone but Katie has watched -- and has thoughts about --- Bridge...

Join us this week as we process the events that occurred over the past couple of weeks, from the high of the Georgia Senate runoffs, to the low of the violent insurrection attempt at the United States Capitol on January 6, 2021. We grapple with putting these events in context, from the destruction of political and social norms over the past 5 years, to the anti-government rhetoric of the past 5 de...

Welcome to 2021 with That's What We Said! This episode, recorded before the New Year, and before we had any inkling of what would happen on January 6, celebrates our first year of podcasting. We reflect on the adventure of the past year. We remember memorable guests such as State Representative Attica Scott the KY Secretary of State (amazed that he didn't walk out on our liberal selves). Finally,...

Join us this week as we talk about all the news that wasn't in 2020. Yes, we're talking about the stories that the coronavirus and the election may have driven from our minds - from the bizarre mansion listings and child naming practices of the crazy rich to the emancipation of Harry and Meghan. On more serious notes, we celebrate the service of a local city council member who ended her term this...

Basements, roller skating, and fainting, oh my. #relish Recorded via Zoom in Berea, KY | Edited by Kelly Smith | Music composed and performed by Elly Green | Artwork by Jessica Holly

Please enjoy this special bonus material, recorded in late December, 2019, in the before times. Our wholesome holiday discussion devolved a little as our conversation drifted to breast enhancement and "personal" secret Santa gifts. #relish #TWWS Recorded via Zoom in Berea, KY | Edited by Kelly Smith | Music composed and performed by Elly Green | Artwork by Jessica Holly

Guess what it's time for? You guessed it - another media roundup. Jenny can't get enough of Supermarket Sweep and Kelly gets confused about what Leslie Jones' Twitter account has to do with that. From Chess in Lexington, KY, to football in London, England, to small town Ontario, Canada, explore the wide world of the TWWS Pod Sisters' media consumption heading into the holidays. Speaking of the hol...

This week, while Kelly's off doing important work for the commonwealth, the rest of the pod sisters are beginning to get ready for Christmas. We're talking candy! Cookies! Decorations! Songs! We spend an unreasonably long time talking about wrapping paper, from Katie's touching story about her grandmother's gift wrap to Jenny's newly discovered perimenopausal rage about cheap paper. And we learn s...

We're excited to welcome author Alix E. Harrow for a chat about her new book The Once and Future Witches . The discussion ranges from pockets in dresses -- central to the plot of the book and to our own lives -- to the research required to build a believable, exciting story that marries the history of suffrage and witchcraft. We talk about what it's like to bring out a book during a pandemic, and...

We recorded this episode on Saturday, November 7th, while we -- and the world -- were waiting for the Presidential election to be called. While we wait, we talk about election results in Kentucky, particularly the dispiriting news that a state representative currently indicted for assault on his wife has been easily reelected. We ponder Red and Blue America and how that false dualism makes it hard...

"The only security of all is in a free press." ― Thomas Jefferson In today's political climate it is hard not to have strong feelings about "The Media." It touches almost every aspect of our lives, and can influence what we believe, what we watch, and who we vote for. Whether it is "mainstream," "social," "right-wing," or "left-wing," the media is something that is on all of our minds, almost all...

After seven months in our own homes -- is it really seven months? Less? More? Who knows? -- we're ready to peel off the plastered smiles on our faces and get real about how it's going. With just a few days left before the 2020 election, it seems like all of the chickens of our entire lives are coming home to roost. Chickens may be the wrong animal metaphor, because first we've got to talk about ca...

We chat about the pandemic puppies adopted by Adam and Kelly. Thankfully, the podcast session doesn't fall apart when a sleep-deprived Kelly learns that Adam's new puppy has been sleeping through the night for months. Recorded via Zoom in Berea, KY | Edited by Kelly Smith | Music composed and performed by Elly Green | Artwork by Jessica Holly

This week, we're delighted to welcome Pittsburgh teacher Adam Bailey to talk about his pandemic life. We learn what it was like for Adam to teach 13 year olds via zoom for weeks and then to welcome them into the school building and discover that he knew their voices better than their faces. Also, we are surprised to learn that Adam is an expert in the epitome of coronavirus comfort foods... Not so...

Thanks to official daughter of the pod, Elly Green, for joining us via zoom to tell us all about college life during a pandemic. As we reminisce about college in the 90s, we wonder how the kids these days are making friends and eating pizza when everyone's wearing a mask and standing 6 feet apart. Elly is happy to give us all the details while updating us on how communication has changed in the la...

It's time for our media roundup, and we're surprised to discover that 6 months into being home, there are still shows we haven't watched and books we haven't read. This month, we do dive into the past, specifically the movies of our youths. Our sons have thoughts on Being John Malkovich and the original Bill and Ted as we show them the movies of the 80s and 90s. And for those keeping tally at home...

Chapter 1: Troy Price helps us brainstorm what to talk about at the beginning of the Corona Times and Jenny treats us to a Corona-themed medley. Chapter 2: Guest Wil Bain learns what a hot mess we are behind the scenes of TWWS. Chapter 3: Are Jenny & Becca , in fact, ghosts? What is the mysterious Northern Exposure Hole? Chapter 4: We foresee a potential Basham/Hobson/Gratton road trip that will m...

Voting. During the craziness of this pandemic, we've all been trying to figure out how we do the things that have to get done. Many of us are working and schooling from home, ordering our groceries online, and wearing masks for those "have to" errands. But, with one of the most important elections of our generation looming, how in the world are we going to make sure we safely vote? This week, That...

This week, we're remembering that time in history when we used to leave our homes and go places AKA travel . Jenny's joy at packing a suitcase to move her daughter to college sparked nostalgia in all of us for hitting the road. So we're taking a week to talk about travel mishaps, whether it's long delays on the tarmac, meeting famous jockey at the baggage claim, or being bitten by a thousand mosqu...

Official daughter of the pod has gone to college. This week, Jenny and Elly are reporting from the road. They talk about what it's like to travel out-of-state during a pandemic. Spoiler: some rest stops do not inspire confidence. And then on the way home, Jenny continues the road report solo. She talks about traveling on the back roads of Virginia and gives a shout out to a Tennessee rest stop tha...

Listen to Becca's death-defying vacuuming escapades, which land us in a whole new dimension of "suckage." For a special treat - head over to Facebook and watch the video. #relish Recorded via Zoom in Berea, KY | Edited by Kelly Smith | Music composed and performed by Elly Green | Artwork by Jessica Holly