That's What We Said

This month, Jenny and Katie have dialed all the way into the Winter Olympics. Their personalities are now defined by pairs figure skating, cheating scandals, and the most important form of protection in the Olympic Village. Even though their obsessions have now reached clinical levels, Becca and Kelly decide not to stage an intervention and instead let Katie and Jenny share EVERYTHING they've lear...

Our little town has been covered with ice for three weekends, and world news is bleaker than ever. It's time to round up what we've been reading and watching to keep ourselves going through the long winter. Do you need the National Zoo Panda Cam to get through 2026? Katie does. What about the romance novels of Willow Aster? That's Becca. A comfort rewatch of Veronica Mars? Kelly is thrilled that i...

A follow up on Jenny's #relish from Episode 74. Solid ideation here - 10/10! 

In this episode we learn that none of us are big on New Year's Resolutions. We're just going to try a few new things, no pressure. We've reached the age where we know that we're not going to turn into new and magical beings just because the calendar changed. But Kelly's going to try to bake some bread and Katie's pretending she's a plant and giving herself more water and sunshine. Becca's opening...

Did you think you'd heard the last of us? We are so excited to be back in 2026. Our theme for the year is that we're making more time for fun and joy, and part of that is being together on the air. The other big news is that Becca is getting ready to open a bookshop in March, and the rest of us are picking up mops and paintbrushes to help get the space ready to open. Welcome back to the pod and to...

The presidential race has shifted dramatically and how better to get to know the new candidates than through the regional experts at That's What We Said. No, we don't know VP Harris and Gov Tim Walz — well, Kelly has met Governor Walz once, thanks to her amazing nephew Justin Smith , Disability Rights Activist. But we do know all about the California Bay Area and about Midwestern Nice. Make sense...

Jump feet first into the Olympic pool with us as we recap our favorite moments of the Paris Games. We cover everything from swimsuits that don't cover much to Bob The Cap Catcher who has the swimming team's tresses all covered. Cry with us about Celine Dion. Ponder the new names of old sports and the arrival of new sports that maybe weren't ready for primetime. Ahem, raygun. And try to avert your...

A new episode after just 18 months? We say that's quick for four women who are definitely not trying to have it all, even if the "all" feels like it's been piling up all around us for the last decade. Seriously though, we found ourselves with some hope in our hearts and the energy to get back in the studio and not just because of the chance to poke fun at wannabe Kentuckian JD Vance. #relish #answ...

Kelly has reached a milestone birthday, and we're taking a few moments to reflect on the wisdom we've earned in almost two centuries of living. Among the four of us. We're not saying Kelly is two hundred years old! In this episode, you'll get tips about car tweezers, grocery cart strategy, youtube fitness videos, and above all, cooking turkeys in bags. Call us, Reynolds Corporation! And stick arou...

Are you ready for rage? After the decision by the US Supreme Court to overturn Roe V Wade , we take some time for fury.  If you're looking for actions and solutions, this episode is not for you as we're honoring the grief process with a week for anger before we get back to the hard work of bandaiding American Democracy. If you want to hear from four fortysomething women who are just as angry as yo...

This week, we're talking about what we've been reading, listening to, and watching. We've got movies to be watched on planes, twitter accounts about home repair from the star of Our Flag Means Death, and weighty tomes about history. But this episode quickly turns into an intervention for Kelly and Becca who may have gone a little too deep into true crime, The Staircase, and the story of Michael Pe...

And we're back! Welcome to Season 3 of "That's What We Said." With some false stops and starts as we struggle once again with faulty internet and remembering our own names, we're ready to catch up. A lot has happened during our hiatus, including the controversial opening of a mega gas station in our community. Some of us have begun traveling for work again, and we have some stories from airports....

It's once again time for some Kentucky politics on the pod! This week, we're excited to interview Mae Suramek, candidate for the 89th district Kentucky House seat. It's just a few days until the election here in Madison County, and we're talking to Mae about running for office, running a business, and starting a new podcast about the experience of Asian Americans in Kentucky. Mae talks to us about...

Have you ever felt like you REALLY WANT to do SOMETHING to help fix the the world, but can't find the time between working, helping with homework, shuttling kids to practices, grocery shopping, and #allthethings? Joining us this week is Beverly Battle, an organizer & activist with Kentucky roots, who talks about her organization "Red, Wine and Blue" (check out their podcast!) that creates progress...

We've recently learned that we're the eighth most popular comedy podcast in Oman, so we're dreaming about the future of the pod in this week's episode. Coming up are episodes on Kentucky politics and Kentucky bourbon, although not necessarily in the same episode. We also want to know what our listeners want to hear. More tales of Katie Marie Kondo-ing her drawers? More library adventures from Kell...

There's Covid everywhere & we can't keep safe Covid measures in place because of the dumb KY legislature & stubborn people who won't listen to science so we're feeling a bit down. To distract ourselves, we decide to reflect on the Olympics - from the incredible US Women's Gymnastic Team to knitting divers to necklace wearing soccer/football players to dancing horses. We learn that Becca was a gymn...

It's time for a media roundup. After Jenny and Katie's conflict over Cards Against Humanity in the last episode, they make up over their shared affection for TikToker Kevin James Thornton. Shoutout to Katie for always sharing Hoosier-adjacent TikToks with Jenny. Becca raises the tone with some excellent nonfiction about podcast hero — and everyone's hero!— Eleanor Roosevelt.  Finally, not even a b...

What do a hoedown, a drowned mouse, a cutthroat game of Cards Against Humanity, hours spent on learning a TikToc dance, 45 bags of Cheetos, and a bottle of Snoop Dog wine have in common? Listen to it ALL go down in "Dancing with Wildlife," (AKA "Notes from the Cabin" AKA "Kaftan Magic" AKA "Undisclosed Location") a special That's What We Said episode recorded during our epic post-Pandemic pod sist...

In this week's episode, we reflect on the "new normal" as things start to open up and we adjust to maskless shopping and hard pants. This is our first time recording together since the beginning of the quarantimes, and we get to use our fancy new mic. We're still figuring out our microphone, and we may sound more like we were recording from a busy roadside than we did when we were on zoom. But we...

Now that we've conquered the podcasting world, we thought it was time to share our mega-million dollar business ideas. Maybe it's not the best idea to broadcast our business acumen before copyrighting our brainstorms. Trademarking? Patenting? We don't know, so maybe we should just put all this genius out into the public domain. MRS! Sips and Soccer! Super Distractors! Hawt Mayor Calendars! Interes...

It's the outtake footage you've been waiting for, where we discuss whether to purchase a microphone for in-person recording. Sound dull? Our "under the hood" conversations are rarely dull...  Rated "explicit" for innuendo Recorded via Zoom in Berea, KY | Edited by Kelly Smith | Music composed and performed by Elly Green | Artwork by Jessica Holly

Between soccer, Easter, & a lot of mom type commitments, we've been off the air for a couple of weeks. We are back with our media recommendations for April. This month, dive into Jenny & Becca's serious picks about WWII. Or how about some 80s Cold War intrigue with "The Americans?" But why would you do that when there's Pig Royalty? Finally, we don't quite relish the murder bird who's taken up res...

March is almost over, and we're wrapping up our month of interviews with kickass Kentucky women. Although we're sad to see the month go, we can't think of a better guest than epidemiologist and soccer mom Nikita Vundi.  Nikita joins Katie and Jenny to talk about vaccines and public health. We ponder what changes from 2020 will last past the immediate danger of COVID-19, we bond over the necessity...

Continuing our series of interviews with Kentucky women, we welcome our amazing friends Grace McKenzie and Heather Dent to share their upcoming children's book about one of our Kentucky heroes, Michelle Tooley. Michelle was a peace and social justice activist and professor here in Berea. Grace and Heather talk us through the process of bringing the book from a short presentation at a local summer...

During our month of conversations with Kickass Kentucky Women, we're thrilled to welcome Shannon Phelps to help us navigate the waters of sexuality education. This episode comes with a content warning that it's not for children. Shannon is here to help parents as we figure out how to talk with children about everything from  body changes to nocturnal emissions to sexual consent to porn literacy. T...