So I Guess We’re “Women” Now

Kristin writes an intro.

Kelly gets stuck on one word.

The rest of the episode is us refusing to fix any of it.

Two sisters.
One conversation.
Zero forced alignment.

Transcript

Setting The Show’s Voice

Kristin 0:00

Okay, do you want me to read my thing first just to kick it off and then we can just information about what it is?

Kelly 0:06

Read your thing.

Kristin 0:08

Okay. You're good. Welcome to Related AF, the podcast where two sisters talk about everything we probably should have with a conflict of confidence ...

Kelly 0:36

So now if you were to take all that stuff, how would you, in your own words, say what the podcast was about?

Kristin 0:45

Like as an intro, like as a formal intro, or

Kelly 0:48

no, as a as a person talking into a microphone.

Kristin 0:53

Well, honestly, I think it's just the beginning, right? We just want to say, like, welcome to Related As Fuck. The podcast where two sisters talk about everything we probably shouldn't.

Kelly 1:04

But should we not?

Kristin 1:07

It's just a saying. It's funny. It's funny. It's it's satirical. Like, sure. You know what satire is. I don't have to explain it to you. It's not literal.

Kelly 1:24

No, I know. What I'm saying is, is that is that really like should we talk about that?

Kristin 1:35

About what?

Kelly 1:37

About about this.

Kristin 1:39

It's just saying we talk about everything.

Kelly 1:41

Right.

Kristin 1:44

What's wrong with that?

Kelly 1:48

You know what makes me cringe that in that intro the most is calling myself a woman. It just seems like an old person. Like like I'm not a woman yet. You know what I mean?

Kristin 2:03

You are an old person.

Kelly 2:05

No I'm not old. Doesn't calling yourself a woman seem

Kristin 2:10

no. I would much rather be a woman.

Kelly 2:13

Than a man.

Kristin 2:15

Well, I I'd much rather be a dog than a man. A girl dog. No, I just don't, I don't identify with men. Like I don't, I don't, it's not something I've ever wanted to be.

Kelly 2:31

I've never actually I do think that in a past life I was probably a bro.

Kristin 2:39

Were you?

Kelly 2:40

I think so.

Kristin 2:43

But I don't I don't think it's cringe worthy to call yourself a woman at our age.

Kelly 2:48

I don't know. It just seems so...

Kristin 2:50

Do you want me to re-record it using girls? Because I think that's also cringe worthy. [No.] Well, I think there's that. I think that, like, you know, I mean, like, there's there's a whole lot of stuff that we've gone through and and can bring all of that to whatever topic we're discussing.

Kelly 3:11

Because now I'm a woman.

Kristin 3:13

Oh my god, you're woman stuff.

Kelly 3:16

I don't like the word woman.

Kristin 3:20

But it's it's super cringe. I'm a girl. How old are you? 52. Also. Super cringe.

Kelly 3:30

Disgusting. Are you a woman?

On Age, Naivety, And Confidence

Kristin 3:36

Well, I mean, I like you would say you would say with the confidence of girls who survived some shit and came out sharper. I just I haven't felt I haven't felt like a young, naive person in a long time. I won't I won't say young, but I mean like naive. I haven't felt like a like a naive, which which is I guess what I equate to being young, right? It's like I you're not you don't know the world, you're figuring your way out, you're like feeling around in the dark for like who you are. And like I haven't felt that way in a long time. Like I know who I am.

Kelly 4:17

I don't know the last time I felt naive.

Kristin 4:21

That's what I'm saying. It's like like what when's what's the last situation you were in where you walked in and you were like, oh, I've never fucking dealt with this before, and now I I don't know how to deal with it. Like, it's been years since I've felt completely out of my depth.

Kelly 4:35

A long time. It's been a long time.

Kristin 4:40

Yeah, I mean, like like like any situation that comes up from like...

Kelly 4:45

I've done it. Even if I haven't done it, I've done it adjacent.

Kristin 4:50

Probably wrote a book on it. I mean, who knows? I mean, like, like, but that's what I mean is like, what's the last time that you were like, oh, I'm really stumped on how to do this? Nothing now, nothing. I mean, I'm sure I'll come up with some as I I mean like every decade brings more stuff at you that you can do it.

Kelly 5:13

Or does this is this where it turns? [I don't know. I mean, like it's kinda] this might be where it turns. And you start spewing it back out. This is how you become an old person. [Yeah.] I do have things to say. [That hopefully] I'm not a girl, but I'm not yet a woman. That's your friend.

Kristin 5:42

Britney, if you're listening, we love you and support you a hundred percent. It's true.

Kelly 5:51

It is true.

Kristin 5:56

I don't know. I mean, like, besides the word woman that made you visibly ick, what resonates with you about either the thing that we just read through or just in the podcast in general.

Kelly 6:17

I think it's it's two people who have realized that they have lived a lot of life. And yeah, I am recently like within the last five minutes coming to that conclusion.

Kristin 6:36

You're welcome.

Owning Experience Without Apology

Kelly 6:38

But having that itch that I have something to say, like I have I I have stuff to go through. I not go through as in like like literal stuff to live. I hope I do, but but I have thoughts to like dig up. I have I want to uncover stuff. I want to like think back on the stuff that I've done and figure out how it brought me here, because I think that that's a valuable lesson. It's a you can get value in in uncovering your the your own artifacts of your past and figuring out what that means. But also I think that they could that they could potentially give other people clues as to what they're doing currently, and not that you not that I want them to not mess up and not that I want them to not go through the things exactly how they should be going through them. But having a little perspective is never a bad thing. Especially someone else's perspective, because then it's like someone else's boat.

Kristin 7:45

You don't have to clean it.

Kelly 7:46

Yeah, you don't have to clean it, you don't have to pay for it.

Kristin 7:48

You don't have to gas it up. You just go out and enjoy the boat.

Kelly 7:52

Yeah. Another person's boat is always the best boat.