Sweating, Forgetting, and Slightly Confused

This week, Scott and Sadie take on a topic they quickly realize they do not fully understand… menopause...well, Sadie does.

What starts as a casual conversation turns into a deep dive into hot flashes, brain fog, sleep struggles, mood swings, and the many things no one really explains ahead of time.

Along the way, they play a game of “Menopause or Made It Up,” investigate real-life scenarios in their version of a “Law and Order: Menopause Unit,” and try to figure out what’s actually happening versus what just feels like chaos.

It’s funny, honest, and a little eye-opening, especially when they realize how little most people actually know about it.

If you’ve ever wondered what menopause really looks like, or thought “that can’t be normal”… this episode might help.

Check out our website: https://start-talking-with-sadie-and-scott.b12sites.com/index

Transcript

SPEAKER_00 0:01

So I struggled a little bit to get things going, and your paramenopausal brain wanted to kill me. You really did.

SPEAKER_04 0:12

I did. I was zero patience.

SPEAKER_00 0:14

You're like, I'm sitting here.

SPEAKER_04 0:18

Yeah, I saw I said I was I've been sitting here for 15 minutes.

SPEAKER_00 0:21

Fucker was a couple of times that you used that word.

SPEAKER_04 0:24

Did I call you a fucker?

SPEAKER_00 0:25

You stupid fucker.

SPEAKER_04 0:26

Usually I mean that was in my head.

SPEAKER_00 0:28

No, I'm pretty used to that though. Like I I live with a woman who's now metapuzzle.

SPEAKER_04 0:32

Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 0:33

She still uses it as an excuse to call me a stupid fucker.

SPEAKER_04 0:37

No, I think she has at least till she's 60.

SPEAKER_00 0:40

Why 60?

SPEAKER_04 0:42

I don't know. Just seems like a good number to call me.

SPEAKER_00 0:45

No, you don't get to set parameters. No. Like if you're out of it and you're not a meanie head, then you don't get to continue to claim that you're doing it because of your I mean there's also there's hormonal shifts that are happening. Listen, hey, listen, I totally get it. I am a very progressive man. I totally get it.

SPEAKER_04 1:05

I love this. I'm sitting across from the right person then.

SPEAKER_00 1:10

However.

SPEAKER_04 1:11

Oh, what is your however? Skirt very lightly, Scott.

SPEAKER_00 1:15

Skirt very lightly. Not a word, not a phrase at all. Skirt very lightly.

SPEAKER_04 1:21

Is it not?

SPEAKER_00 1:23

Tread very lightly would be one way.

SPEAKER_04 1:27

But what is like skirt?

SPEAKER_00 1:28

Tread lightly, my friend. Just say tread lightly in one moment.

SPEAKER_04 1:32

If you have to come up with another another word other than tread, what would it be?

SPEAKER_00 1:36

Well, it wouldn't be skirt.

SPEAKER_04 1:39

Skeet?

SPEAKER_00 1:40

Oh my god. Skeet. No, he was an actor in screen.

SPEAKER_03 1:45

Skeet lightly, my friend. Skeet already. Skeet lightly. Alright, go on.

SPEAKER_00 1:52

This is this has become a F. You know what? Yeah. Let's just spring is in the air. Alright, are you ready to start talking?

SPEAKER_04 2:07

Yes. Been here. Yes, ready. Got you.

SPEAKER_00 2:18

Welcome everyone to Start Talking with Sadie and Scott. My name is Scott. I am one of your hosts.

SPEAKER_04 2:22

And I'm the other. Her name is Sadie.

SPEAKER_00 2:26

And Sadie is running the gamut of menopausal symptoms tonight.

SPEAKER_04 2:30

Here I am with my.

SPEAKER_00 2:32

Which I totally, I totally empathize with, by the way.

SPEAKER_04 2:35

Thank you, Scott. I appreciate that. I think I think I think men are starting to turn the corner and really take a take a look at what's happening with their women.

SPEAKER_00 2:43

Well, a guy in his 20s doesn't give a shit.

SPEAKER_04 2:45

No, they don't give a shit.

SPEAKER_00 2:46

Because that just means that his old aunt or his mom or whatever. I remember one time I was 16.

SPEAKER_03 2:53

Were you at bandcamp?

SPEAKER_00 2:54

17. No. I never went to band camp.

SPEAKER_03 2:57

I picture you at band camp. Okay.

SPEAKER_00 2:59

I was in the band at school. But that's because all the cool kids were in the band at my school, because we we played for like the Pope and stuff.

SPEAKER_04 3:05

So like all the cool kids were in the band's car.

SPEAKER_00 3:08

They were.

SPEAKER_04 3:08

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 3:09

We were.

SPEAKER_04 3:09

All right.

SPEAKER_00 3:10

So what the fuck was I gonna say?

SPEAKER_04 3:12

I don't know. It threw you off because you were like, wait, I am cool. I could tell your inner processing.

SPEAKER_00 3:18

What the fuck were we talking about?

SPEAKER_04 3:20

Menopause.

SPEAKER_00 3:23

I am drawing it completely blankly.

SPEAKER_04 3:27

We're talking about menopause.

SPEAKER_00 3:29

Well, yes, we are. Yes. And so I am totally empathetic to it.

SPEAKER_04 3:34

Yes, I love this.

SPEAKER_00 3:36

There is no however, by the way. There's no however.

SPEAKER_04 3:39

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 3:40

However.

SPEAKER_04 3:41

Uh-huh.

SPEAKER_00 3:43

We were just talking about it before we started hitting the record button, which is you don't get to use it as an excuse to be a dick? A dickhead.

SPEAKER_04 3:54

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 3:55

If you're not actually suffering from it.

SPEAKER_04 3:58

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 3:59

That's like somebody saying, um, oh God. I don't I want to be as light as possible with this.

SPEAKER_04 4:07

But what is the age of suffering? Like, how do you really know?

SPEAKER_00 4:11

Well, for me, when did I get married? I got married at 28 and then she was not in menopause. Seven. Well, that's still my period of fucking she's in her car right now listening to this episode, going, I'm gonna kill him.

SPEAKER_03 4:25

Oh, you're so done, dude. You're so done.

SPEAKER_00 4:28

Well, she's now in menopause. She is now menopausal.

SPEAKER_04 4:33

So that means that she has not had her period for over a year.

SPEAKER_00 4:37

Oh, you know what thing I learned not to say to a woman? What? Not to say to them, so you've dried up.

SPEAKER_04 4:43

Oh God, you would say that?

SPEAKER_00 4:45

No, somebody else said it, but now I but I learned, I'm like, oh, that's something you do not say.

SPEAKER_04 4:50

I can't wait to dry up. But I can say it. Because I'm a woman. I can't wait for this to be done.

SPEAKER_00 4:58

Good lord.

SPEAKER_04 4:59

Any, listen, any chickas, listen right now, they know what I'm saying. They cannot wait for it just to be done. You just, you just it's a very long process. It's like 10 years. That's a long time.

SPEAKER_00 5:12

That's not fair.

SPEAKER_04 5:13

What do you mean?

SPEAKER_00 5:14

It's a fucking hard thing, being it really actually is.

SPEAKER_04 5:18

And there's no, I mean, now we're starting to see a little more education on it. And I wouldn't say education um at the grade levels of like say at school levels, but now as we're You don't need to teach a nine-year-old kid about menopause.

SPEAKER_00 5:34

You need to teach a 39-year-old man about menopause.

SPEAKER_04 5:36

I know, but where but the 39-year-old man does not go to school.

SPEAKER_00 5:39

It doesn't work. So how are we going to 39 years? Yeah, we do need to figure out. That's what TikTok is for.

SPEAKER_04 5:44

The TikTok.

SPEAKER_00 5:45

I've learned a lot about TikTok.

SPEAKER_04 5:46

Oh my god, menopause is excuse me.

SPEAKER_00 5:50

Oh God. She's having a is that a menopause in your throat?

SPEAKER_04 5:54

It actually is a menace, it's it's it's a menopause in my throat. Um, but it's all over, it's on the social, it's on news, it's it's everywhere. I'm really loving and I love that this world is starting to embrace where I feel like I'm at, and I feel like I don't have answers myself because I've never been educated with this. I went to school, I learned about monthly cycles, I learned about how not to get pregnant, I learned all those things. I never knew this was gonna happen to me. This is all fucking news to me.

SPEAKER_00 6:23

Did your mom ever sit you down when she was going through menopause and say, by the way, get get ready, kiddo?

SPEAKER_04 6:30

No, absolutely not. And I don't think that I don't think that happens. I just don't think that's a thing.

SPEAKER_00 6:35

So we need women to talk to women about their experience.

SPEAKER_04 6:39

And I think every mother out there who if you're listening right now and you are at an age where you have, you know, young women or middle-aged women that are going through this, my God, just talk to them about it.

SPEAKER_00 6:53

Don't screw them up too early, though. Yeah, don't they're for a two year old. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_04 6:56

Don't do that. Don't do that. But I had to make a phone call to my mom to be like, when were you done? When did you start? When were you done? Like, oh, I remember what I was gonna say. Like, where where am where am I at in this journey of fuckerism that's happening in my body and in my head?

SPEAKER_00 7:16

Fuckerism. I love that.

SPEAKER_04 7:18

Like, where am I? Where am I? Because I I'm just I'm I'm I follow obviously in your path genetically. So where am I in this? And she enlightened me.

SPEAKER_00 7:29

Where are you in this fuckerism?

SPEAKER_04 7:31

Fuckerism, because it is fuckerism.

SPEAKER_00 7:34

We're totally using that word from now on.

SPEAKER_04 7:35

It just like hits you in the face out of nowhere. It's crazy.

SPEAKER_00 7:39

So when you okay, so I am a 76-year-old man.

SPEAKER_03 7:46

Sure.

SPEAKER_00 7:47

Um, so it was about 20 years ago that my wife went through menopause.

SPEAKER_04 7:53

For you, not for her, because she's definitely not that old.

SPEAKER_00 7:55

Oh, she's still gone through it.

SPEAKER_04 7:57

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 7:58

But okay, so I remember I remember what I learned when I was a teenager. I was about 16 or 17 years old, and I had a girl in my room.

SPEAKER_04 8:07

Oh. Your mom allowed that?

SPEAKER_00 8:09

No. The door had to be open, but were you a dolphin?

SPEAKER_04 8:12

Oh, wait, no, not a dolphin.

SPEAKER_00 8:13

What?

SPEAKER_04 8:14

A narwhal.

SPEAKER_00 8:15

Jesus Christ. A Nair duel? No. But thank you for trying to remember our bits in in every episode.

SPEAKER_01 8:21

I kind of like dolphin does.

SPEAKER_00 8:23

We're, you know, we were my I can remember. She left. I was on the phone with a buddy of mine. She had said, Why is your door closed? And I'm like, because I'm fucking fingering this chick right now, mom. I didn't say. I still remember, I still remember her name, which I will not say on the air because um don't say it. In case she's listening, but she's probably not. Anyway.

SPEAKER_04 8:50

Because she's in menopause, and she will literally like send you like cyanide in the mail. She will. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 8:56

We've actually got a couple of we got a couple of stories today about menopause that we're gonna share with the audience. Anyway, I remember on the phone. Here's something you don't do when you're a teenager. Don't let your mother hear you on the phone.

SPEAKER_04 9:10

No.

SPEAKER_00 9:11

Telling your buddy, I don't know, man, she must be on the rag.

SPEAKER_04 9:15

Ooh, God, that's the worst thing. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 9:18

Ever. No. No.

SPEAKER_04 9:20

No.

SPEAKER_00 9:20

Don't ever say that. That was just something. Uh I mean, I'm I might be 10 minutes too late in this recording to be able to share that, but that was the thing that was like, Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 9:30

And that's a word that's so gross. Like if you think it's so natural, like why? It is a beautiful thing that we're able to do this.

SPEAKER_00 9:39

Yes.

SPEAKER_04 9:40

I mean, we're miraculous. But here's the thing.

SPEAKER_00 9:42

You are fucking machines. Yeah, literally. So here's the thing. You start your menopause menopause, sorry. You start your menstrual cycles at like 11. 11, 12, 13. Unless you're a high performing athlete, maybe into your late teens, but then you bleed every 30 days unless you're pregnant. Then you have kids.

SPEAKER_04 10:03

For the what, 40 ther how many years is that?

SPEAKER_00 10:07

Well, you pretty much produ you're born with the number of eggs that you have.

SPEAKER_04 10:11

Over 30 years, that's right.

SPEAKER_00 10:12

You come out of the womb with the number of eggs that you're gonna produce, right? That's why you're then you have kids, and your body has uh no according to the you, your body goes to shit, but for some men that it doesn't matter. But then the faucet closes.

SPEAKER_04 10:35

I know. No one tells you about that.

SPEAKER_00 10:39

You go from being living in a rainforest to living in the Mojave Desert.

SPEAKER_04 10:43

Yeah, it's wild.

SPEAKER_00 10:45

And then everything in your brain tells you that your husband is the most annoying human being on the planet.

SPEAKER_04 10:51

Everything is the most annoying thing on the hand. Your body temperature is the most annoying thing on the planet, your husband is the most annoying, your children, everything. It's just wild. It's a wild ride, and you're all you're the only one in the ride. That's what you feel like. It's crazy. It's actually more traumatic to go through. Like, I remember getting my menstrual cycle and being very traumatized, right? It is way more traumatic to be on this end of it than it was at the beginning of it. Way more traumatic. Way more. Partly. Yeah, at the end, partly because it's the end of a chapter, which is always really hard to part from.

SPEAKER_00 11:34

True.

SPEAKER_04 11:35

Um, and just where I am at in my life in accordance to like my age. It's just a it's a reminder of a pentagenarian, by the way. Fuck off. It's just a reminder of that I'm not young, I'm not fertile, I'm not anyone's desire, except for my husband, of course.

SPEAKER_00 11:54

Well, hold on.

SPEAKER_04 11:56

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 11:57

Can we get an alright from the audience? And those two women in the Maritimes who totally want your bot.

SPEAKER_04 12:06

Yeah. I'm I'm gonna tell them what I'm wearing tonight.

SPEAKER_00 12:09

Well, it's funny because we said that in our episode with Lisa Zarotny, where I made the mistake of going, oh, you you're done menopause? Oh. Did you? Hey. Not worry about any more cars coming.

SPEAKER_04 12:25

And what was my response? Uh you can you can desire to park that anywhere you want. It's new, you're not parking it anywhere near your wife. Nowhere near your wife. Well, it all depends. On what? If you've cleaned the kitchen.

SPEAKER_00 12:43

Or the dishwasher's empty, or the cushions went on the couch properly.

SPEAKER_04 12:48

Exactly.

SPEAKER_00 12:48

Or, you know, I learned very quickly during my wife's menopausal um experience um when to say no and when to just go yeah, dear, you do whatever you want.

SPEAKER_04 13:00

Just sip it, yeah. Because it's a bit of a whirlwind, right?

SPEAKER_00 13:04

Like we literally had an argument about a shelving unit to hold books. And you know what we argued about? She loved it. It had all the right things, the combination of the space and the thing, the microphone.

SPEAKER_04 13:19

You were at IKEA, weren't you?

SPEAKER_00 13:21

No, fuck that. I hate IKEA. I always get lost. So, no, we were she bought it online and she's showing me photos. And I was like, so what's it made out of? She goes, Oh, it's metal.

SPEAKER_02 13:33

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 13:34

You're not$680 worth of fucking metal.

SPEAKER_04 13:38

Was it Wayfair?

SPEAKER_00 13:39

Yeah, fuck. It was Wayfair.

SPEAKER_04 13:41

Wayfair, they their the prices are crazy. It's because you can just return.

SPEAKER_00 13:46

Then I comes in, she builds it. Because I don't build shit. Built it? I don't build shit. No, I never want to build that. I have a fucking rule. You want to buy something from IKEA? Fuck you, you build it. I am not fucking no, I will, I will fucking kill people.

SPEAKER_04 14:01

You know, I tweaked my back last time I tried to put together an Ikea.

SPEAKER_00 14:04

Exactly. Let the people who like to put IKEA furniture together build the furniture. I don't airgo.

SPEAKER_01 14:12

Oh, airgo.

SPEAKER_00 14:14

Unless you want me to drive into town and find a large group of people to murder. Oh, don't ask me to put together that fucking shit. So she puts the shelf together.

SPEAKER_04 14:23

Do you know what you sound like? A menopausal woman.

SPEAKER_00 14:26

I'm going through manopause.

SPEAKER_03 14:28

You're in manopause.

SPEAKER_00 14:31

All right. So here's the thing. She builds the shelves. She puts it down. And I'm like, yeah, it's pretty. It's not fucking worth$600 and whatever dollars that we paid for the fucking shelf.

SPEAKER_01 14:40

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 14:41

Anyway, I guess maybe I was manopausal when I was having that episode.

SPEAKER_04 14:45

Scott, look at me. Look at me, bro. Like deep in the eyes. Just take a breath. Everything's gonna be okay. No, it won't.

SPEAKER_03 14:54

There's books on the shelf.

SPEAKER_00 14:58

Do you want to play a quick game I just made up?

SPEAKER_03 14:59

Impromptu, yes.

SPEAKER_00 15:00

Okay, all right. We're gonna play a game.

SPEAKER_04 15:02

Okay, shoot.

SPEAKER_00 15:07

Here's the game. Menopause or I made it up.

SPEAKER_01 15:12

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 15:13

Alright, so here are things. There are statements.

SPEAKER_04 15:17

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 15:17

And you have to decide whether I made them up or someone in menopause said it.

SPEAKER_04 15:23

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 15:24

Question number one. There's only ten.

SPEAKER_04 15:27

Ten? Jeez.

SPEAKER_00 15:29

We don't have to go through all of them.

SPEAKER_04 15:30

That's fine. I'm easy.

SPEAKER_00 15:31

How are we doing for time? Are you okay? Um okay, boss lady.

SPEAKER_02 15:37

Whoa, whoa!

SPEAKER_00 15:38

Virtual assistant. All right, here we go. Question number one.

SPEAKER_02 15:41

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 15:42

Menopause or I made it up.

SPEAKER_04 15:44

Uh-huh.

SPEAKER_00 15:45

So meaning did a woman in menopause. Fuck, I'm just helping our audience. God, you're making me so. Sudden intense heat in your ears only. Metopause or I made it up?

SPEAKER_02 15:56

Metopause.

SPEAKER_00 15:58

No, I made it up. No woman in menopause has ever said that to me. Yeah, I've just been.

SPEAKER_04 16:03

What the fuck is on my microphone, dude?

SPEAKER_00 16:05

That's a bug. Flick it off.

SPEAKER_04 16:07

Can you please get it off? What the hell? Do you know I saw that underneath your desk? And I was like, what is that? And now it's where is it?

SPEAKER_01 16:17

Where? Where is it?

SPEAKER_04 16:20

It was on the speaker.

SPEAKER_00 16:27

Don't kill it.

SPEAKER_02 16:28

What is it?

SPEAKER_00 16:28

It's a stink bug. Don't kill it.

SPEAKER_02 16:30

Will it stink?

SPEAKER_00 16:32

If you kill it, it will.

SPEAKER_02 16:33

Oh my god. Are you recording this?

SPEAKER_00 16:36

Yeah.

unknown 16:36

Oh fuck.

SPEAKER_00 16:37

It's going in the after reel.

SPEAKER_02 16:39

Holy shit.

SPEAKER_00 16:40

You okay now?

SPEAKER_02 16:41

Yes. Is it gonna actually stink?

SPEAKER_00 16:44

If you kill it, it will stink. Don't kill it. You have to pick it up gently and then put it in the toilet.

SPEAKER_02 16:49

Oh my god.

SPEAKER_00 16:50

It's just a bug, Sadie.

SPEAKER_04 16:52

Are you gonna do that? Is it gonna so it was over there underneath when you were talking? No, and now it crawled, it knew I was looking at it, and it crawled all the way over and was on my microphone.

SPEAKER_02 17:04

That is fucking crazy, dude.

SPEAKER_00 17:08

Are you ready for question number two?

SPEAKER_04 17:11

As long as I can keep staring at this bug on the floor.

SPEAKER_00 17:13

You'll walk over to the window and try and get it.

SPEAKER_04 17:16

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 17:16

All right. Oh my god, you will not believe what sec what the second question is.

SPEAKER_02 17:23

Is it about a bug?

SPEAKER_00 17:24

Menopause or made it up. Feeling like bugs are crawling on your skin. I'm not lying. I am not lying. I s I swear to God, Sadie, that's number two on this list.

SPEAKER_04 17:36

It's fucking big brother listening to us. Um, that is you did not make that up because I feel like my skin is always really scratchy at nighttime.

SPEAKER_00 17:45

You're right. That was menopause.

SPEAKER_04 17:47

Yeah.

unknown 17:48

Okay.

SPEAKER_04 17:48

It's coming towards this, towards me.

SPEAKER_00 17:50

No, it's not.

SPEAKER_04 17:51

It's actually coming towards me. The stink bug.

SPEAKER_00 17:54

It's you're fine. It's not a fucking Mac truck, Sadie. It's not gonna run you over.

SPEAKER_04 17:58

It's a bug right up here and it's gonna go right inside you. Can you please just get rid of it?

SPEAKER_00 18:02

All right, just a second. Thank you. Let me push pause. Literally.

SPEAKER_04 18:07

Oh my god, pause.

SPEAKER_00 18:08

Literally. Are you okay now?

SPEAKER_04 18:11

I'm fine. Thank you. I got rid of the bug for Sadie. Thank you for saving the day. Save the day. Mighty mouse is on his way.

SPEAKER_00 18:24

Okay. Are you ready for more questions about uh menopause or I just fucking made it up?

SPEAKER_04 18:29

Yeah, go.

SPEAKER_00 18:30

Uh where do my notes go? Maybe they're at the stink book. I know. Hold on. Okay. Losing your train fuck. Oh, here we go. This is me. No. Losing your train of thought mid-sentence regularly.

SPEAKER_04 18:47

Menopause.

SPEAKER_00 18:48

Menopause. Yeah, not made up. Random electric shock sensations in your body.

SPEAKER_04 18:56

Not me, my experience?

SPEAKER_00 18:58

No, I made that up. Okay. Crying over something small like a commercial. Although, you know, a lot of women will do that throughout their entire life.

SPEAKER_04 19:07

That's just me. Yeah. I would I yeah, no. If it's emotional enough, I you got the tears from me.

SPEAKER_00 19:13

You know what I saw the other day?

SPEAKER_04 19:15

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 19:15

And this is for our Canadian listeners. Do you remember the commercial for an insurance company? I can't remember if it's Cooperators or some other insurance company where there's an elderly couple.

SPEAKER_04 19:28

Uh-huh.

SPEAKER_00 19:28

What we thought was an elderly couple. They're like those actors were probably in their 40s, but they looked older than us.

SPEAKER_01 19:35

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 19:35

So I'll I'm just gonna do this.

SPEAKER_01 19:39

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 19:40

I'm only gonna say the part that you don't hear in the commercial.

SPEAKER_04 19:44

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 19:45

And you're gonna tell me the commercial.

SPEAKER_04 19:47

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 19:48

Hey dad, it's Patrick. I just got life insurance.

SPEAKER_04 19:51

Oh my god. Patrick!

SPEAKER_00 19:54

Hello. It's Patrick. It's Patrick.

SPEAKER_03 20:02

Oh my god. If I had like another 10 seconds. If I had another 10 seconds to process, I would have been right there with you. I was so excited that I kind of knew something that you knew.

SPEAKER_00 20:15

Used to bug the shit out of me.

SPEAKER_04 20:17

I know. I know.

SPEAKER_00 20:19

And now they make fun of it with memes. I know. Who is this fucking guy? Who's this speed talker, Patrick? Uh crying over something. Oh, um, hold on. Waking up at 3 a.m. every night for no reason.

SPEAKER_04 20:33

Menopause.

SPEAKER_00 20:34

Menopause. Yep. You're right. A lot of these are menopause. Sudden. Oh, here we go. Uh actually, this would be just for you. Sudden dislike of for foods you used to love. Does menopause do that?

SPEAKER_04 20:48

No. Not for me.

SPEAKER_00 20:50

I'm giving that a menopause because I know my wife did.

SPEAKER_04 20:53

Really?

SPEAKER_00 20:53

Yep. Oh, here we go. Joint pain that shows up out of nowhere.

SPEAKER_04 20:57

Menopause, menopause, menopause, menopause. Everywhere. Hips, my ears. It f's up your hips like really bad. You get osteo, osteo, whatever it is. Arthritis?

SPEAKER_00 21:10

Oteoporosis. Osteoporosis affects your spine, osteoarthritis. Being extremely sensitive to noise. Now you already like that, so you don't get to end. So you're already like.

SPEAKER_04 21:23

I don't know. Is it? Is it menopause? Are you making it?

SPEAKER_00 21:26

Is it menopause?

SPEAKER_04 21:28

God, I've I've that's something I've dealt with my whole life.

SPEAKER_00 21:31

Here's another one kind of like earlier, forgetting common words mid-conversation.

SPEAKER_04 21:35

Common words, like what's the you see that as I sit here? I don't know what the fuck is happening.

SPEAKER_00 21:42

So it's one of those things where like I know that like that's when Joanna goes, Can you pass me the thing with the thing and then put it in the thing?

SPEAKER_03 21:50

Yeah, yeah. Like kids, get downstairs, get to the stairs, the the and do the the wipe.

SPEAKER_04 22:03

That's me every single day.

SPEAKER_00 22:04

And then me.

SPEAKER_04 22:05

Literally every single day. Meanwhile. It's so bad.

SPEAKER_00 22:08

Meanwhile, you you buggered up all of their names.

SPEAKER_04 22:13

Oh, I can't. I don't even know what room I'm in. I don't even know what I want them to do.

SPEAKER_00 22:18

And you you think your cat's a dog.

SPEAKER_04 22:20

Pretty much. Yeah. But it's this stuttering and this like constant like, what am I trying to say? When I'm like, it's in my head, but I can't get it out of my mouth.

SPEAKER_00 22:29

But do you think that women are going through menopause later in life?

SPEAKER_04 22:33

No.

SPEAKER_00 22:34

Did you ever watch the Golden Girls?

SPEAKER_04 22:37

Yes.

SPEAKER_00 22:37

Okay, so I'm gonna give you a little piece of tidbit here.

SPEAKER_02 22:40

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 22:41

You are three years older than Rue McClanahan was when she started it. And there was an episode where she where Blanche thought she was pregnant because she was a whore.

SPEAKER_02 22:51

Yes.

SPEAKER_03 22:58

It's so weird. That 50-year-old was a whore. It's just not a thing. It's so weird, but I'm I'm all about it. I just it's so funny. I love that show. Jesus Christ, it's so good.

SPEAKER_00 23:11

She thought she was pregnant, but it wasn't.

SPEAKER_03 23:12

It was a whole course. Of course, she's not pregnant.

SPEAKER_00 23:15

And you're older than she is.

SPEAKER_03 23:17

I know. Oh okay.

SPEAKER_00 23:18

Now I will say that every woman in my life who is now older than Rue McClanahan was when she started on Golden Girls.

SPEAKER_01 23:26

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 23:28

It looks like 30 years younger than Rue McClanahan did when she started on fucking Golden Girls.

SPEAKER_04 23:35

But that was like the campiness of it too, right? They wanted a bunch of old ladies despite whether theirs it was the 80s. Everyone looked old at the 80s.

SPEAKER_00 23:42

Oh my God.

SPEAKER_04 23:43

Oh, the horrible hair. Everything. The lapels and the collars.

SPEAKER_00 23:48

About three or four three or four episodes ago, we talked about the open-toed, floppy slippers that moms wore. We called them old lady slippers. And that was We called them old lady slippers. You know, my mom wore them in her 30s. They weren't old lady slippers. We just said they were old lady slippers because an old lady wore them because we were 10.

SPEAKER_04 24:08

Right. So am I an old I am an old lady? No, you're not. I am. Oh it's so sad.

SPEAKER_00 24:18

How okay, so when did this happen? Are you so you're on you're on medication?

SPEAKER_04 24:23

I'm on hormone replace HRT. Uh so a patch, and then I take progesterone every night to balance out my hormones.

SPEAKER_00 24:33

What does that do for you?

SPEAKER_04 24:34

Helps me sleep a little better.

SPEAKER_00 24:36

Does it make you horned up for your husband?

SPEAKER_04 24:39

No. No, not no. Um, but uh sleeping better, like my moods seem to be more regulated, I would say. Um what else? What else is my benefit? I'm not hot all the time, which is very, it's very uncomfortable. Temperature is such a temperature is a really big thing because when you are dealing with any, say any bit of stress or you're speaking to someone and your internal body temperature feels like you are on lava. You can't focus.

SPEAKER_00 25:10

Or liquid hot magma.

SPEAKER_04 25:13

Magma. Magma. Magma. Magma. Like a shark with laser means. But like it's it's it's difficult to get, I mean, it's difficult to speak to someone or to like what if you're at a like at a bank trying to like discuss your something or others, and you're just on fire. You can't, it's just embarrassing.

SPEAKER_00 25:34

Now, let me ask you a question from a man's outside perspective.

SPEAKER_04 25:38

Sure.

SPEAKER_00 25:38

Uh a man who's very empathetic to the plight that is menopause.

SPEAKER_04 25:42

We love this. And my my husband is also very, very in tune with this. Yeah, which I love. Um good man. Was that your oh was that your dinosaur?

SPEAKER_00 25:55

That's my gullet.

SPEAKER_04 25:56

You know that Blam has a dinosaur?

SPEAKER_00 25:58

What?

SPEAKER_04 25:58

The dinosaur noise that she makes.

SPEAKER_00 26:01

She comes with no idea what you're talking about. Her like all I know is Blam needs to stop bogarting my fucking birthday wishes on Facebook.

SPEAKER_04 26:10

Wait, hold on.

SPEAKER_00 26:11

She needs to stop doing that. You you're the one who I make a post to someone and say, happy birthday. Yeah. It was my post.

SPEAKER_04 26:20

And then yours could love Blam and Papa, but you're not Blam and Papa.

SPEAKER_00 26:24

You're missing the whole thing.

SPEAKER_04 26:24

I'm not.

SPEAKER_00 26:25

You are. I would wish somebody a happy birthday on Facebook. And then she would comment on my post. It's a post. I don't give a flying suck through a rolling task. Blam.

SPEAKER_01 26:43

Not in the street.

SPEAKER_00 26:44

Start your own, start your own post. Do your own post. Don't bogart. Like, I once, I once did it, and then 15 other people followed her.

SPEAKER_04 26:54

I'm about to go to work.

SPEAKER_00 26:55

Happy birthday, Sadie. Happy birthday, Sadie. And I'm like, you guys just negated my happy birthday. You made my happy birthday less effective.

SPEAKER_04 27:04

So you want them to have a private post.

SPEAKER_00 27:06

No, I want my post to say happy birthday.

SPEAKER_04 27:10

And that's it.

SPEAKER_00 27:10

It shows their name, my name, happy birthday. And that's it. You don't get to slide into my fucking DMs and say, happy birthday, love Blam and Papa. Blam, make your own no.

SPEAKER_04 27:20

I didn't know how to do that. She's 80. Give her some goddamn credit.

SPEAKER_00 27:24

Her daughter teacher how to do it. Kersty, if you're listening to this episode, I've told you this 17,000 times to tell your mother to stop bogarting my happy birthday wishes on.

SPEAKER_04 27:34

Blam, I have your back. This guy is not going to come to any more family dinners.

SPEAKER_00 27:38

Oh, whatever. Like any of you miniature people could stop me from coming.

SPEAKER_04 27:43

Miniature.

SPEAKER_00 27:44

Oh god. Are you ready to hear a couple of wacky news stories? I think she sent me one, but I've got another one.

SPEAKER_04 27:52

Shoot it.

SPEAKER_00 27:57

So a company in the UK.

SPEAKER_04 28:01

Oh, do you want me to do my no.

SPEAKER_00 28:03

No. Oh my god.

SPEAKER_04 28:05

You don't. You don't want me to do my English accent. Is it coming from the UK?

SPEAKER_00 28:10

No, you sound like you're from fucking Sudbury, first of all.

SPEAKER_04 28:13

I sound like I'm from Sudbury. Do I really?

unknown 28:16

Oh my god.

SPEAKER_00 28:19

You know, for an actress, you do a shit accent.

SPEAKER_04 28:22

I'm so horrible at accents.

SPEAKER_00 28:24

I'm so horrible. I did a pretty good, I think this was like our third episode where I did a pretty good David Attenborough.

SPEAKER_04 28:30

Did you?

SPEAKER_00 28:31

Where I was describing how uh an animal crosses the street or something.

SPEAKER_04 28:35

He is very captivating.

SPEAKER_00 28:36

But I was African Sadie.

SPEAKER_03 28:47

Stop while you're at.

SPEAKER_00 28:48

That's all I have to say. That was fucking perfect.

SPEAKER_04 28:52

Do you want to do like um like you're David Adborough?

SPEAKER_00 28:56

I'm a Dame Judy Dench or something?

SPEAKER_04 28:58

Yeah. So I just did need to talk to you a little bit about.

SPEAKER_00 29:07

No, Sadie. Did you not have a like a linguistics class in your acting school?

SPEAKER_04 29:12

Of course we did.

SPEAKER_00 29:13

And you did not Did you fail that course?

SPEAKER_04 29:17

I didn't excel.

SPEAKER_00 29:20

You know what, honestly, like who asks for an English accent in a fucking Hallmark movie?

SPEAKER_04 29:24

Nobody.

SPEAKER_00 29:24

Actually, they do, and they're all shit.

SPEAKER_04 29:27

I have been told many times on set to watch my like outs and abouts and like how I pronounce that.

SPEAKER_00 29:34

Oh my god, so do I. Like I was doing a voiceover the other day, and somebody was like, Can you say ow? Like make your make the corn ow.

SPEAKER_04 29:43

Yeah. Like a heart A. I'm an American dinosaur.

SPEAKER_03 29:48

I'm an I'm an American dinosaur.

SPEAKER_00 29:55

This is fucking enthralling. The American Sadie crosses the street.

SPEAKER_04 30:03

Oh, David. You're so incaptivating.

SPEAKER_00 30:10

You sound like you sound like posh spice.

SPEAKER_04 30:12

I do. Well, she where is she from? England. Okay.

SPEAKER_00 30:17

There are like 17 trillion accents.

SPEAKER_04 30:20

I know. I was just saying that the other day. We were watching a TV show with uh Todd. I'm like, I could listen to anyone in the UK talk of any sort. Like it's just there's so such a range.

SPEAKER_00 30:32

Yes.

SPEAKER_04 30:36

I like the cockney.

SPEAKER_00 30:37

No.

SPEAKER_04 30:38

No, that's not a cockney.

SPEAKER_03 30:40

Sadie. Air.

SPEAKER_00 30:42

Air. I have a quest. Sorry, I have a you have a quest or a task. For you.

SPEAKER_02 30:50

Uh-huh.

SPEAKER_00 30:50

Next week when we record, uh-huh. I'm going to give you three sentences and I'm going to tell you, okay, is it from Manchester, Yorkshire, or London?

SPEAKER_02 31:00

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 31:02

And you're going to have to say those sentences. I will pre-send you the sentences so you can practice the diction. Oh, God. And I'm going to say Manchester, and you're going to have to do a Manchester accent, because you are a world-famous Canadian actress, which should you should be able to say, Hey, Sadie's agent, can Sadie do a Dorset accent? Like, can she say, I was driving my dragger down the road? So can she do it? And your agent would go, Yes, she can. Meanwhile, I was crossing my fingers. I don't have an agent anymore, but well, regardless, you at the time, I'm going to give you three senses. Fine.

SPEAKER_04 31:40

You do that.

SPEAKER_00 31:41

I'm going to give you three accents. I might do this homework. So if you want to learn how to do a Manchester accent, just watch Coronation Street.

SPEAKER_04 31:48

No, thank you.

SPEAKER_00 31:49

That's how you learn to do a Manchester accent.

SPEAKER_04 31:51

I'll just go on chat. XYZ.

SPEAKER_00 31:55

It's not going to teach you the di the how for fuck's sake. Yorkshire. Ayup.

SPEAKER_03 32:00

Yorkshire pussy.

SPEAKER_00 32:02

No, not you like no.

SPEAKER_03 32:04

Yorkshire.

SPEAKER_00 32:05

No, not even close.

SPEAKER_04 32:06

Yorkshire.

SPEAKER_00 32:07

No. Yorkshire? This is how they say hello in in Yorkshire is Ayup.

SPEAKER_04 32:13

Okay, you sell Lincoln.

SPEAKER_00 32:14

Alright, then you gotta do London, like kind of a posh British accent.

SPEAKER_04 32:18

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 32:19

Educated, which most people can do. There's a company in England, by the way, that released a menopause work policy.

SPEAKER_04 32:29

Oh. I love this.

SPEAKER_00 32:31

I literally it's so it's the BBC. It's their HR Employee Relations and Policy Department. I don't unfortunately have the hyperlinks to it to move me down the document. So here's the five key points of the document.

SPEAKER_04 32:47

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 32:48

All right, you ready?

SPEAKER_04 32:49

Yeah, I'm so ready.

SPEAKER_00 32:50

This is a real document that I downloaded.

SPEAKER_03 32:51

I love this, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 32:52

All right. We support a respectful and inclusive environment in which you can openly and comfortably have conversations about menopause.

SPEAKER_04 33:01

I love this.

SPEAKER_00 33:02

We will support you in a way that is appropriate to your needs, recognizing that the symptoms related to menopause may occur occur occur over several years. And they can differ from person to person in a very and and vary in severity. We will educate and inform team leaders about the potential symptoms of menopause and how they can appropriately support the team members.

SPEAKER_02 33:30

Thank you.

SPEAKER_00 33:31

We will explore options to help you maintain a healthy well-being offering. What? Sorry.

SPEAKER_04 33:41

Whatever.

SPEAKER_00 33:42

We will explore options to help you maintain a healthy work-life balance. Well-being, well-being support is available through our extensive well-being offering. Any personal information that you share with your team leader will be treated in the strict strictest of confidence.

SPEAKER_04 33:57

I love, oh my God, are you kidding me? I love this. I love this based on the fact that we can we can support women through our pregnancies and having to and wanting to, not having to, and wanting to be with our babies and you know like maternity leave. But why can't we support them 20 years, 15 years later when the shit is really starting to fucking come? Right?

SPEAKER_00 34:23

Like super fucking important considering how shitty women have been treated in the workplace for the last 5,000 years.

SPEAKER_04 34:29

Like we just gotta pay attention, man.

SPEAKER_00 34:31

Like we're so this memo outlines definitions.

SPEAKER_04 34:35

It's so great.

SPEAKER_00 34:37

It outlines it does. It outlines definitions. There are three. Sorry. There are three distinct stages. This is to educate their staff.

SPEAKER_03 34:49

I love this.

SPEAKER_00 34:50

And more than likely the management team.

SPEAKER_03 34:53

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 34:54

There are three distinct stages. Paramenopause. Uh-huh. The time leading up to the end of your periods.

SPEAKER_01 35:00

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 35:00

When changes start to happen, such as irregular periods and other menopausal symptoms. This can be years before menopause.

SPEAKER_04 35:10

Years, literally years.

SPEAKER_00 35:12

Here is menopause. A biological stage in life when you have not had a period for 12 consecutive months. The average age to reach menopause is 51.

SPEAKER_04 35:23

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 35:23

Wow. You're like literally right there.

SPEAKER_04 35:26

I'm right there.

SPEAKER_00 35:27

Almost a pentagenarian.

SPEAKER_04 35:29

My mom was 50.

SPEAKER_00 35:30

However, it can be earlier or later than this due to surgery, illness, or other reasons. This is known as premature menopause. And in such circumstances, you may not experience perimenopause. Now, here is the big one. This is postmenopause.

SPEAKER_04 35:50

I mean, and this is the shit that's real. You have to watch everything in your body. Like you the osteoporosis, like your bone density, like that's it's major breast cancer. Like it's this is a big freaking deal.

SPEAKER_00 36:02

Yep.

SPEAKER_04 36:02

Big deal.

SPEAKER_00 36:03

This is the time after menopause has occurred, starting with those who whose menstru who menstruate have not had a period for 12 consecutive months. So then you're you're pretty much in. This document is like this is you can get this at downloads.bbc.co.uk. Here is there's a support section as well. Self-management for those experience menopause, supporting a colleague during the stages of menopause, supporting team leaders, because you know, team leaders go through menopause.

SPEAKER_04 36:39

Of course.

SPEAKER_00 36:39

Because you think about it, you work your career all the way up.

SPEAKER_04 36:41

All the way up, and then all of a sudden the shit starts happening to you.

SPEAKER_00 36:44

And then you go through menopause. Yeah. Just don't say to your buddy, oh, she must be on the rag. Yeah. Like I don't say that to my buddy when I was a teenager.

SPEAKER_02 36:53

Don't say that.

SPEAKER_00 36:54

There are adjustments. There are maintaining confidentiality, equally, assessment, uh, equality, assessment, and monitoring. This is fantastic. Fucking kudos to the BBC. I don't know.

SPEAKER_04 37:09

Maybe one of the things to happen every day.

SPEAKER_00 37:11

Oh, there's further well-being support. Now, there is an employee assistant program. Now, my company does have an EAP.

SPEAKER_01 37:18

EAP.

SPEAKER_00 37:19

E employee assistance program where you can go see a psychiatrist or a psychotherapist and the benefits program will cover it.

SPEAKER_04 37:27

Oh, God, I would love that. I need that.

SPEAKER_00 37:29

Oh, we know. All right. So then there's also a bunch of links in this. What a fantastic documentary.

SPEAKER_04 37:38

Brilliant. Thank you.

SPEAKER_00 37:39

So kudos to the BBC. Big round of applause.

SPEAKER_04 37:42

Big giant clap for you. I love this.

SPEAKER_00 37:44

No, don't get the clap.

SPEAKER_04 37:45

No?

SPEAKER_00 37:46

No. The clap is like then.

SPEAKER_04 37:48

As the French do.

SPEAKER_00 37:50

I was talking about the clap, clap, Sadie. Fucking my fingernails bumps and I got it.

SPEAKER_04 37:54

Isn't that what the French do?

SPEAKER_00 37:55

No. I'm talking about the clap.

SPEAKER_04 37:59

What do you mean the clap? The what?

SPEAKER_00 38:02

Oh my god.

SPEAKER_04 38:02

Oh, Jesus. I'm on board. No, apparently. No, I just bought the ticket and now I'm on board. You know what else is really bad? When you have to pee, you really need to pee. So ask me if I have to pee right now.

SPEAKER_00 38:16

Do you have to pee? I have to pee so bad.

SPEAKER_04 38:18

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 38:23

Good news, folks. Sadie did not pee her pants. She managed to metaplausically make it to the toilet in time. Did you did you know?

SPEAKER_04 38:36

This or that.

SPEAKER_00 38:40

That's my that's my Yeah, no, they don't know.

SPEAKER_04 38:43

They don't see what you do. So I'm just telling you.

SPEAKER_00 38:47

Oh, okay, hold on a second.

SPEAKER_02 38:49

Where are we?

SPEAKER_00 38:50

Well, we're gonna play. We're gonna play okay, so what we're gonna do, because you remember you were telling me that uh you um that you uh read an article about a woman who used menopause as an as a defense.

SPEAKER_02 39:11

Yeah, hold on. Where was that?

SPEAKER_00 39:12

Uh to kill her husband.

SPEAKER_02 39:14

Yes. Hold on.

SPEAKER_00 39:16

Alright, so I have an idea.

SPEAKER_02 39:19

Okay. What's the idea?

SPEAKER_00 39:24

Well, we're gonna sound okay. So we're Are we gonna kill someone? No, you silly rap rabbit. We're gonna do like um like an episode of Law and Order.

SPEAKER_02 39:38

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 39:38

But it's I I uh we gotta name it, first of all. Okay. So are you familiar with Law and Order, Law and Order, S U V.

SPEAKER_04 39:48

Oh, there's all of them.

SPEAKER_00 39:50

P S U, Law and Order, K N Y, New York.

SPEAKER_04 39:54

There's a whole bunch of L A W.

SPEAKER_00 39:58

L A W.

SPEAKER_04 39:59

C-O-B.

SPEAKER_00 40:00

C-O-B Coberg. Oh Law and Order Coburg in the criminal justice system. Alright, so here is what we're gonna do. We're gonna where the hell are my notes? Oh, it's not there. Uh we're gonna we're gonna kind of create an episode, but we gotta name the show first.

SPEAKER_02 40:22

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 40:23

So what I've tentatively tentatively named it is the entire series, the entire show, is based on menopause. Yeah. So it's law and order menopause unit. All right, are you ready?

SPEAKER_04 40:39

Yeah. I I don't know, but yes.

SPEAKER_00 40:42

Hold on.

SPEAKER_03 40:42

Okay. Yeah, clear that throat, bro.

SPEAKER_00 40:48

I can't look at you seriously right now. Okay, go. I won't look at you. Go. In the criminal justice system, oh fuck. I got my tongue all bound up.

SPEAKER_04 40:58

Okay. Not looking. Go.

SPEAKER_00 41:02

In the criminal justice system, hormonal-based offenses are considered especially confusing. In New York City, the dedicated detectives who investigate these emotionally turned situations are members of Elite Squad known as the menopause unit. These are their stories. All right, so how do we get into the show? All right. So the first thing is there's a kid. Okay, so I'm gonna read you a script that was written. Okay. Yes. There's a coffee maker beeping. So we're basically gonna walk through the a little bit of the episode of Law and Order Metopause Unit. Okay. All right, you ready?

SPEAKER_02 41:44

Wow, so serious. Yes, go.

SPEAKER_00 41:46

So there's a coffee maker beeping.

SPEAKER_02 41:47

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 41:47

Okay, you've read scripts before. So if I read the direction, seen one.

SPEAKER_02 41:51

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 41:52

It doesn't say interior morning, but it should say INT morning. Right? You remember that from reading?

SPEAKER_02 41:57

Yes.

SPEAKER_00 41:58

All right, coffee maker beeping. A woman, Carol, stands in front of the fridge staring.

SPEAKER_01 42:03

No.

SPEAKER_00 42:04

Carol, why am I here? Her husband Mike walks in casually. Morning. Did you take the chicken out last night? Silence.

SPEAKER_02 42:16

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 42:16

Why is she taking out the chicken? Slowly turning. What chicken? The one I asked you about. Twice. There's a beat. Carol, suddenly furious. Oh, I'm sorry, Mike. I didn't realize my entire purpose in life was poultry management. Mike, oh, whoa, okay.

SPEAKER_04 42:40

Yeah, like why did you?

SPEAKER_00 42:41

I have a lot going on. She opens the freezer aggressively. The chicken is still in frozen solid. Carol quietly. I knew I forgot something. Police station. Detective, we gotta call domestic disturbance possible. Chicken related escalation.

SPEAKER_01 42:59

Chicken?

SPEAKER_00 43:01

Frozen, left out, then not left out. Detective three. We've seen this before. So interrogation room. Carol sits calmly, sipping water, detectives across from her. Ma'am, can you walk us through what happened? I was fine. Totally fine. And then suddenly I was not fine. Can you define not fine? Hot, angry, confused. I cried at a yogurt commercial earlier.

SPEAKER_04 43:35

Yes, yes, say Carol.

SPEAKER_00 43:36

Detective One says. Classic onset. Cut away for a flashback. Carol standing in the kitchen sweating. Carol, voiceover. I f it felt like my body just betrayed me. She opens the freezer, then Ford and then forgets why.

SPEAKER_01 44:00

Police station.

SPEAKER_00 44:00

Any history of this? She yelled at the thermostat yesterday, called it useless. And the day before, she put on a sweater, then took it off, then put it back on six times. Story of my life. What are you dealing with is menopause? Hormonal shifts, mood changes, memory lapses. You could have an entire fucking 10-year series on this. Why did you kill him? Menopause. Yeah, we knew that, but why?

SPEAKER_01 44:28

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 44:28

Because he was a fucking dick. Uh back in the kitchen, calm. Carol's sipping coffee. Mike cautiously enters. Mike, hey, I took the chicken out. Carol calmly says, Thank you. Then there's a beat, and Mike says, You okay? No, but I'm aware of it now. They nod. Growth.

unknown 44:46

Oh.

SPEAKER_04 44:48

Look at that. The end of the fucking show. Right there.

SPEAKER_00 44:51

In the criminal justice system, not all cases are solved. Some are simply managed with patients, understanding.

SPEAKER_04 44:58

And hormones.

SPEAKER_00 44:59

And lawyers.

SPEAKER_03 45:02

Hormones.

SPEAKER_00 45:04

And hormones.

SPEAKER_03 45:06

That was a really good job.

SPEAKER_00 45:07

We have a television show. That was a really good job, Scott. Thank you very much.

SPEAKER_04 45:11

And this is all off the cuff there, people. We didn't even know we were doing this shit tonight. This is great.

SPEAKER_00 45:17

We could literally do like a like a serial podcast where it's like scripted and you use sound effects and microphones. You could be the star because you're a former Canadian actress. Sorry, formerly. No. Can become a show. Okay.

SPEAKER_01 45:32

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 45:32

No, listen, you couldn't even do a Godderich accent. What where's Goderich? I don't know what Western part of Ontario on Georgian Bay. And Lake Huron. Goddrich, so you all go to the Artmart. The Art Mart?

SPEAKER_04 45:48

What's the Art Mart?

SPEAKER_00 45:50

The Art Mart.

SPEAKER_04 45:53

Like the convenience store?

SPEAKER_00 45:56

No, they go to a place where they sell art, Sadie. It's called the Art Mart.

SPEAKER_04 46:00

People go and buy art at the Art Mart?

SPEAKER_03 46:04

Who buys art at an Art Mart?

SPEAKER_00 46:07

Why did I start a podcast right when my podcast cohesive started podcast? I don't like the Art Mart.

SPEAKER_04 46:17

That's so weird.

SPEAKER_00 46:18

Okay, last bonus questions for you, and then we're gonna wrap up the show. I don't have any reviews because I haven't looked them up. So sorry, no five-star reviews this year. This week. This year.

SPEAKER_02 46:28

Oh dear. Okay.

SPEAKER_00 46:29

Here we go. Bonus round. Menopause or just Sadie.

SPEAKER_03 46:35

This is a great game. Okay, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 46:37

All right.

SPEAKER_03 46:38

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 46:38

Cancels plans last minute. Just Sadie.

SPEAKER_03 46:43

Just Sadie.

SPEAKER_00 46:44

Yeah. Gets annoyed for no clear reason. Menopause. Menopause. Yeah. 1000%. Needs quite immediately.

SPEAKER_04 46:53

Sadie.

SPEAKER_00 46:54

No, I menopause. I was gonna say menopause. Well, it's you are your Sadie, by the way.

SPEAKER_04 46:58

And also my menopause.

SPEAKER_00 47:00

I don't own it. I'm just guessing. Well, what is it?

SPEAKER_04 47:06

What?

SPEAKER_00 47:06

Needs quite immediately. Sadie or menopause?

SPEAKER_04 47:09

Sadie.

SPEAKER_00 47:09

Is it?

SPEAKER_04 47:10

Well, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 47:11

Okay, well, I'm still saying menopause.

SPEAKER_04 47:12

Are you? Okay. Well, I think it's a combination of both.

SPEAKER_00 47:15

You used to be a really loud person. Last one. Forgets why she opened her phone. Just Sadie.

SPEAKER_04 47:24

Fine. I'll concede.

SPEAKER_00 47:28

Ladies and gentlemen, thank you so much for joining us for this week's episode of Start Talking with Sadie and Scott. We hope that you enjoyed listening to it as much as we did bringing it to you. Sadie?

SPEAKER_04 47:40

Hi.

SPEAKER_00 47:42

Should we do our weekly rock, paper, scissors to see who gets to go in that? Okay.

SPEAKER_02 47:47

Let's go.

SPEAKER_00 47:48

Or would you like to add any metapausal things before we close the show?

SPEAKER_04 47:52

No, just well, talk to a doctor. Obviously, it can actually really help. Just talk to a doctor. Talk to your doctor.

SPEAKER_03 48:03

Ready?

SPEAKER_04 48:08

Why do we sound like a nine-year-old?

SPEAKER_00 48:10

You sound like D. Snyder for the side.

SPEAKER_04 48:14

Alright. Alright. Let's go. Ready? One, two, three. Go.

SPEAKER_00 48:22

You get to say goodbye and don't fuck it up this time.

SPEAKER_04 48:25

Thanks for joining us today, guys. We really appreciate it. This was an off-the-coff one. We had so much fun. We'll talk to you next week. Love it!

SPEAKER_00 48:33

Don't forget to. You gotta do the whole fucking spiel stuff.

SPEAKER_04 48:38

Go on our socials, the TikTok, the Facebook, the thing, the thing. Scott's gonna.

SPEAKER_00 48:45

What's our email address?

SPEAKER_04 48:47

Start talking with Sadie and Scottish.

SPEAKER_00 48:50

Oh, for fuck's sake. Start talking pod at gmail.com. I should just like.

SPEAKER_04 48:55

This is why I this is why I don't want to do this. This is why I want to do what?

SPEAKER_00 49:00

Like run the show?

SPEAKER_04 49:01

No, yes. This is why I don't want to run the show. I want to do the podcast. I want you to do all the things.

SPEAKER_00 49:07

Okay, but if you win the rock, paper, scissors, you have to have the whole script.

SPEAKER_04 49:13

Okay, so I need to. I need to pay attention to like how I can lose.

SPEAKER_00 49:16

Oh my god, have you not listened to every episode when I sign off and say don't forget to check us out on our socials?

SPEAKER_04 49:22

Have you not listened to this entire fucking episode?

SPEAKER_00 49:25

No, because I have menopause.

SPEAKER_04 49:27

Exactly.

SPEAKER_00 49:28

Are you gonna say we're up for now?

SPEAKER_04 49:30

We're up for now.