[SPEAKER_01]: This is Cynthia Gannoff, and you are listening to the mesmerized podcast.

[SPEAKER_01]: Hey friends, welcome to the podcast.

[SPEAKER_01]: I am so glad you are here, and let me tell you something.

[SPEAKER_01]: You're in for a big treat because today we have Melissa Radke with us and more on that in just a minute.

[SPEAKER_01]: But did you see the announcement?

[SPEAKER_01]: Did you see it on social?

[SPEAKER_01]: Did you get my email?

[SPEAKER_01]: My book that [SPEAKER_01]: Well, yeah, it's out for pre-order.

[SPEAKER_01]: The title, how do I miss that?

[SPEAKER_01]: It's all about the little things, or actually the big things.

[SPEAKER_01]: And my hope is that the book is funny.

[SPEAKER_01]: And it's lots of spiritual truth and reminders that the small things like love and generosity and gratitude and all the things that we tend to overlook.

[SPEAKER_01]: Those are the big things in our faith and our marriages and how we raise our kids.

[SPEAKER_00]: And so I cannot wait for you to get a copy in your hands.

[SPEAKER_00]: Yes, I will be doing an audio book.

[SPEAKER_00]: Lots of people are asking me that, but right now, if you could pre-order a book, that would be the best way that you can support me.

[SPEAKER_00]: If you love this podcast, that is a way to remind publishers and remind retailers that the things that I write and do, they matter.

[SPEAKER_00]: And really, the inside scoop on that is that Amazon buys books and other retailers, they buy books based on pre-orders.

[SPEAKER_00]: So if you have 50 pre-orders, then they order about 150 books.

[SPEAKER_00]: They'll double a triple that and what we want is lots of pre-orders so that they will have lots of books available for people to order it, not just now, but in the coming months and years.

[SPEAKER_00]: So that's a huge way you can support me.

[SPEAKER_00]: If you're going to read this book at some point, would you mind just going ahead and ordering it now?

[SPEAKER_00]: And heck, if you're going to order a second one for your mom or your best friend or your small group at some point, like if you would mind, let's do it now.

[SPEAKER_00]: So thank you for that.

[SPEAKER_00]: Thanks for supporting what I do.

[SPEAKER_00]: I cannot wait [SPEAKER_01]: It is hopefully very, very funny and a great way to remember some spiritual truths that are significant, but also something that you can pass off and off to friends, neighbors, teachers, all the things.

[SPEAKER_01]: Okay, today we have Melissa Radke with us.

[SPEAKER_01]: Let me tell you something.

[SPEAKER_01]: She's hilarious and she's been on my other podcast side track before she's been on this one and I was just thinking out this recently Like we just only the laugh going into the holidays and nobody makes me laugh like Melissa Radke and so she's just darling She's like all come on so we taped two shows you guys and this is the first of two shows and we are talking about nothing I mean not really nothing, but you know and sign-filled.

[SPEAKER_01]: They say it's a show about nothing [SPEAKER_01]: that's what I told Melissa I wanted this to be.

[SPEAKER_01]: Let's just hit topics and so in the midst of hitting different funny topics we laugh really hard but we talk about some real truths that we're all facing, some hard things, some funny things so I'm thrilled she's here you guys if you don't have her book chicken fried women you want that if you don't follow her show if you don't follow her on Instagram all those things you need to do it there are links all in the podcast notes so [SPEAKER_01]: But for tonight, she's with us.

[SPEAKER_01]: So here we go, with Melissa Radke.

[SPEAKER_01]: Melissa Radke, guess what happened?

[SPEAKER_01]: What?

[SPEAKER_01]: Just, I don't know, I'm already afraid.

[SPEAKER_01]: What?

[SPEAKER_01]: I don't think it's grounds for divorce, like, biblically speaking, but you can tell me if it is, but my husband signed me up for a half marathon in six weeks.

[SPEAKER_01]: Now he did not, not without telling you, no he did not.

[SPEAKER_01]: Well, I think I might have like in a state of stupor like he's like because he's been running a ton and he has a marathon this weekend We're going to Vegas.

[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, we could talk two days about how much I hate where you on ambient when you said yes, nothing of maybe I don't take it, but I should I don't know what happened [SPEAKER_01]: And so he's like, there's the Dallas half marathon in December and he's like, wouldn't it be fun to do it together?

[SPEAKER_01]: And I was like, I mean, in theory, if you're fit and you're a runner, yes.

[SPEAKER_01]: So I mean, in my mind, I'm like, that would be fun if you are married to someone that could do that type of thing.

[SPEAKER_01]: So then I'm signed up and then next thing I know, I'm showing you, he wrote me out a training program, really.

[SPEAKER_01]: And do you know how many on my training program?

[SPEAKER_01]: I tell you all, there's a point.

[SPEAKER_01]: I just finished my six miles, and I tell you this, this morning, I'm running walking everyone.

[SPEAKER_01]: Two minutes on, two minutes off.

[SPEAKER_01]: OK.

[SPEAKER_01]: When I tell you that somebody in their work clothes walking their dog passed me when I was running, like, this is just going.

[SPEAKER_01]: Wait, so I, I've ever heard of the app from couch to 5k, yes.

[SPEAKER_01]: Okay.

[SPEAKER_01]: I looked at it once and I just closed it.

[SPEAKER_01]: But I cannot possibly imagine running.

[SPEAKER_01]: I, Cynthia, this is just so funny to me because just the other day, I saw Jelly Roll, or it's my mother-in-allsie, Jelly Bean, in an interview.

[SPEAKER_01]: And he said, two years ago, I could not even walk a mile in this morning.

[SPEAKER_01]: I ran three.

[SPEAKER_01]: Okay, now listen, everybody.

[SPEAKER_01]: I'm in better shape than for the love of God, jelly roll.

[SPEAKER_01]: But I can imagine running, Cynthia.

[SPEAKER_01]: Are you 26, do you have 26-year-old knees?

[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, what's going on?

[SPEAKER_01]: No, I don't know what's happening.

[SPEAKER_01]: But I don't know, but I'm not paying myself, and I feel like that's a win.

[SPEAKER_01]: That is a win.

[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, I'm not, I'm menopausal, I'm already hot.

[SPEAKER_01]: So I don't know if I was hot before I started.

[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know if I'm overheating or I had a hot flash.

[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know what's happening on the streets of Plano as I'm out there running.

[SPEAKER_01]: But I will say this.

[SPEAKER_01]: You have you've taken issue with me before because I sleep in my makeup because I don't watch my face.

[SPEAKER_01]: And you've got a real problem with that.

[SPEAKER_01]: And I want you to know that it might have come in handy today because I thought I would be done by nine.

[SPEAKER_00]: I would shower.

[SPEAKER_00]: And then I would be like fresh and cute like Melissa Radke as if you're watching this anywhere.

[SPEAKER_00]: If you see a real, she's precious.

[SPEAKER_00]: No, I'm barely, I'm barely upright and I'm having to rely on yesterday's makeup again because I didn't watch my face.

[SPEAKER_01]: Wait, you still haven't today?

[SPEAKER_01]: No!

[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, God, okay, you know what?

[SPEAKER_01]: I would rather you tell me, and you were in two-week underwear.

[SPEAKER_01]: I would rather you tell me that than you are in two-day, and not only slipped in it, but ran it.

[SPEAKER_01]: Okay.

[SPEAKER_01]: You threw up a little bit.

[SPEAKER_01]: I threw up in my mouth a little bit.

[SPEAKER_01]: And I watch you on the on the gram all the time and and you're over there with your like put your trim fit and your drink and your face fresh face and your products and I'm like It's a good thing she's funny.

[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, I we got nothing else in common.

[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know what to do.

[SPEAKER_01]: So that's where we are.

[SPEAKER_01]: I just needed to tell you, this is what, this is my starting point for our conversation.

[SPEAKER_01]: I'm, it's a great starting point.

[SPEAKER_01]: I'm happy to be here and co-host in the crap out of this show today.

[SPEAKER_01]: Okay.

[SPEAKER_01]: Let me, I would do want to ask you though, because I've always wondered this, when you go to this marathon in Dallas, will you, is your plan to run?

[SPEAKER_01]: Okay, first of all, how many miles is it?

[SPEAKER_01]: A marathon, no, this is a half marathon.

[SPEAKER_01]: I think it's 13.1, but it could be 2.2.

[SPEAKER_01]: I can't even remember.

[SPEAKER_01]: 13.1, are you playing on running that?

[SPEAKER_01]: I'm going to run walk it, which apparently is what the older generation does, they run walk it.

[SPEAKER_01]: So I'm going to run walk it, but in the whole goal is to finish before they take down the finish line thing, like what if I'm just in the streets of downtown Dallas?

[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_01]: I'm going to go up.

[SPEAKER_01]: What if we're sure that net for their Sunday services the next day?

[SPEAKER_01]: And you're like, I have my little, my little bib on and they're like, that's weird.

[SPEAKER_01]: Why is she wearing that little running bib?

[SPEAKER_01]: I ain't never going to ask you again.

[SPEAKER_01]: He might be like, you know what?

[SPEAKER_01]: I can't do this.

[SPEAKER_01]: I can't ask her again.

[SPEAKER_01]: It's embarrassing to me as a marathon runner.

[SPEAKER_01]: So we're headed to Vegas this weekend.

[SPEAKER_01]: He's going to run the marathon now.

[SPEAKER_01]: He was going to sign me up.

[SPEAKER_01]: They have a I forget that whatever the area code is in Vegas like it's 707 or something.

[SPEAKER_01]: They have a race that's 7 miles 7.07.

[SPEAKER_01]: He's like, do you want me to sign you up for the 707?

[SPEAKER_01]: I'm like, I want you to sign me up for a facial at the force.

[SPEAKER_01]: What had happened?

[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know, I'm not signing me up for a spa day while you do a 7-0-7 or whatever it is.

[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, he's doing the full marathon, which I'm like, that's crazy.

[SPEAKER_01]: Talk 20.

[SPEAKER_01]: What is a full marathon?

[SPEAKER_01]: I know, 26.

[SPEAKER_01]: What's 13 times 2?

[SPEAKER_01]: 26 something?

[SPEAKER_01]: Let me ask you a personal question about your husband.

[SPEAKER_01]: This is a real personal, but it is a fascinating, [SPEAKER_01]: that marathon runners, their nipples, the skin gets rubbed off on them.

[SPEAKER_01]: From the shirt, if they don't put protection over them.

[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, did you know that is that happened?

[SPEAKER_01]: Well, I've heard that you put band aids or something on it.

[SPEAKER_01]: And I can not attest that.

[SPEAKER_01]: And here's the thing about my sweet husband, by the way.

[SPEAKER_01]: He's amazing.

[SPEAKER_01]: And he just decided he's tired, he's an attorney.

[SPEAKER_01]: Like he has a normal job.

[SPEAKER_01]: And he's like, I'm tired of being fat.

[SPEAKER_01]: I feel fat.

[SPEAKER_01]: So he decided this year he was going to run a thousand miles.

[SPEAKER_01]: and he will.

[SPEAKER_01]: He was always like on track or whatever, but he so he went from like not like we're not talking obese, like he's always been an athlete, he played college baseball, but he went from like fat, middle age, whatever to fit and which I feel like that's unkind, right?

[SPEAKER_01]: That wasn't in the vows that we were going to do that, but he had to deal with all the chafing, he had to buy all the stuff where your legs were up in there.

[SPEAKER_01]: He had things on his knees and for his birthday yesterday, he wanted me to buy him these million dollar massage things, you put up your legs, or stupid as can be, and they massage your legs.

[SPEAKER_01]: So we've had to go through the process and a geriatric manner.

[SPEAKER_01]: Okay, okay, here's what there is for all of you listening [SPEAKER_01]: You don't know about the marathon world.

[SPEAKER_01]: Let me feel you in.

[SPEAKER_01]: Let Melissa Radke tell you about them.

[SPEAKER_01]: There's a song in the world.

[SPEAKER_01]: There's a sentence that I never thought I'd say.

[SPEAKER_01]: So there is some stuff and it is called Ogosh.

[SPEAKER_01]: I always get the name wrong.

[SPEAKER_01]: And I always want to call it Astro Glod.

[SPEAKER_01]: But it is not Astro.

[SPEAKER_01]: What is it called?

[SPEAKER_01]: Glad.

[SPEAKER_01]: It's not chub rub, David.

[SPEAKER_01]: David, quit talking in the background.

[SPEAKER_01]: Chub rub, it's glide, David, it's the glide, the glide.

[SPEAKER_01]: Do you know what I'm talking about?

[SPEAKER_01]: Do you sit the idea?

[SPEAKER_01]: I don't charge up, but can we be clear after glides for a whole another situation?

[SPEAKER_01]: I know, I called it after glided and did her party once and I almost got boot out of the house.

[SPEAKER_01]: Body glide, body glide, body glide, okay, yeah.

[SPEAKER_01]: Anyway, you put it on your thighs, everybody.

[SPEAKER_01]: It is essentially chab rub, okay.

[SPEAKER_01]: Long story short, we went to Maui with some of our best friends and the two other couples that we went with, the girls are, [SPEAKER_01]: Well, I can't even say to say it, hikers, okay?

[SPEAKER_01]: And they like, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, [SPEAKER_01]: And one of the husbands of the couples was also, he was a hiker, he actually could keep that well, but he was fluffy.

[SPEAKER_01]: He came to my hotel room, David answered the door, and he said, hey, I've got this stuff called Body God.

[SPEAKER_01]: And then you're gonna give it to Melissa.

[SPEAKER_01]: It's gonna help her.

[SPEAKER_01]: She doesn't wanna go in this hot, because she thinks she's gonna get all twisted up in her thighs, right?

[SPEAKER_01]: But you gotta, I came to the door, I go, what are you doing?

[SPEAKER_01]: And then he's one of my dear best friends ever.

[SPEAKER_01]: What are you doing?

[SPEAKER_01]: And he goes, I brought you this Body God.

[SPEAKER_01]: Here's what you're going to do with it and he hikes his shorts up.

[SPEAKER_01]: No, and he proceeds to put this glod on him and shows me how to do it.

[SPEAKER_01]: Finally David comes back around the corner and says, I'm going to ask you to get out the hallway man.

[SPEAKER_01]: Either coming here and show my walk, how to apply her body glod, or [SPEAKER_01]: But you know what, that stuff helps and now I have it worked.

[SPEAKER_01]: It worked.

[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_01]: Well, okay, well, one, congratulations on the weight loss.

[SPEAKER_01]: And that's amazing.

[SPEAKER_01]: And two for being willing to do the hike.

[SPEAKER_01]: And I don't, I think I told you this when you were on my other podcast on sidetracked.

[SPEAKER_01]: I have reversed body dysmorphia.

[SPEAKER_01]: Like I think I look better than I do.

[SPEAKER_01]: And that I can do more than maybe I can do.

[SPEAKER_01]: And so like when I see pictures sometimes, like I'm wearing the whatever.

[SPEAKER_01]: That's horrific.

[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, that looks so.

[SPEAKER_01]: But I think most people are the opposite, right?

[SPEAKER_01]: But I think I look really good in Ticy and the same thing, like, I'm like, okay, well, you saw me if I'm, I guess I'll just run out, go out there, 10, run six miles.

[SPEAKER_01]: No, ma'am, I don't have six miles and me at this way.

[SPEAKER_01]: Is reverse body dysmorphia?

[SPEAKER_01]: Is that in the DM4 or the DM5?

[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know, but I think it should be.

[SPEAKER_01]: For women just like you.

[SPEAKER_01]: Who can you think?

[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, okay.

[SPEAKER_01]: Now, let's talk about this.

[SPEAKER_01]: We are in a culture today that is very body in inclusivity, is that how you say it?

[SPEAKER_01]: And I love it, I love it.

[SPEAKER_01]: You know, just the other day, Victoria, Victoria's Secret had their run-wings.

[SPEAKER_01]: It's a Beckham!

[SPEAKER_01]: What would Victoria Beckham have to say about inclusivity?

[SPEAKER_01]: She's tiny.

[SPEAKER_01]: Sorry, keep going.

[SPEAKER_01]: Victoria's secret had their fashion show.

[SPEAKER_01]: Thank you.

[SPEAKER_01]: I was just to tell you about that and put it on CBS once a year they'd have the Victoria of secret fashion show.

[SPEAKER_01]: I remember that.

[SPEAKER_01]: Now, angels.

[SPEAKER_01]: Yes, the angels.

[SPEAKER_01]: And I actually watched it every year.

[SPEAKER_01]: I loved it.

[SPEAKER_01]: They always played like Ed Sheeran would be out there singing and I don't know why, but I liked it.

[SPEAKER_01]: I thought the way I loved her hair, I just loved it all.

[SPEAKER_01]: The other guy they had it, and I saw pictures of Ashley Graham.

[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know if you know who that is.

[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know Ashley.

[SPEAKER_01]: Google her immediately.

[SPEAKER_01]: She is plus size.

[SPEAKER_01]: I'm talking a good probably 1618 out there in her Victoria's Secret Thong Stuff.

[SPEAKER_01]: And she is killing it.

[SPEAKER_01]: And these women that are these plus size women, and they've got a belly or whatever.

[SPEAKER_01]: They've had babies, and they are in their stuff, and they're strut.

[SPEAKER_01]: And like I think they are gorge.

[SPEAKER_01]: I think they're absolutely beautiful, but you know, I've always told David this.

[SPEAKER_01]: When I was growing up, do you know when you were growing up, was there ever a girl that like, either a model or an actress, you kind of like, if I could look like somebody?

[SPEAKER_01]: It would be her, okay?

[SPEAKER_01]: That what's her name from the facts of life?

[SPEAKER_01]: What was her name?

[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, um, uh, uh, uh, uh, not Joe Blair?

[SPEAKER_01]: Lisa Welch.

[SPEAKER_01]: Yes, I loved her.

[SPEAKER_01]: Yes.

[SPEAKER_01]: Don't laugh at it.

[SPEAKER_01]: Melissa, that's my answer.

[SPEAKER_01]: It was yours.

[SPEAKER_01]: Leave it everyone.

[SPEAKER_01]: But everybody told me I look like Jennifer from family ties.

[SPEAKER_01]: I love Tara.

[SPEAKER_01]: He was yours.

[SPEAKER_01]: He was yours.

[SPEAKER_01]: Daisy Fuentes.

[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, no.

[SPEAKER_01]: She was an MTV VJ for a while.

[SPEAKER_01]: She did some other stuff.

[SPEAKER_01]: But she was back in the day.

[SPEAKER_01]: She would have been considered plus size.

[SPEAKER_01]: She's probably 12, 14.

[SPEAKER_01]: But man, her body, like it all went to the right places.

[SPEAKER_01]: Right?

[SPEAKER_01]: I've always been jealous of those women.

[SPEAKER_01]: Um, I've just always thought women who had a little more meat on their bones were absolutely beautiful.

[SPEAKER_01]: Like that's I would never want to be skin and bones.

[SPEAKER_01]: I just wouldn't.

[SPEAKER_01]: I would actually never want to be under a size 12.

[SPEAKER_01]: I think a 12 for my height would be nice and healthy, but do you feel like Cynthia that maybe when it comes to [SPEAKER_01]: body inclusivity we've gone a little too far because I mean sometimes women are wearing stuff that they shouldn't be wearing but as a girl's girl as a do a how do I walk the line between honey you shouldn't wear that and more power to yeah how do we walk I think it's very tricky I do because you go to the beach you've never felt better about yourself than you go to the beach never [SPEAKER_01]: And I'm wearing, I mean, I'm wearing like the, what, what did I say the other day?

[SPEAKER_01]: Well, I had, I like the lands in shorts.

[SPEAKER_01]: Like I'm trying to call that a bathing suit.

[SPEAKER_01]: And then, by the way, you had the cute as bathing suit in those reels a couple months ago.

[SPEAKER_01]: I can't remember that was a one piece romper bathing suit.

[SPEAKER_01]: And I loved it.

[SPEAKER_01]: What are those long-sleeved shirts?

[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, I said it's the gear or the rash guard.

[SPEAKER_01]: I said this is gonna, this is gonna last at the beginning of the summer.

[SPEAKER_01]: I said this is the gear of the rash guard.

[SPEAKER_01]: I'm gonna put it in the middle.

[SPEAKER_01]: Things are not where there's supposed to be.

[SPEAKER_01]: I keep getting skin cancer burned off my face.

[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, I'm like, [SPEAKER_01]: crap, it's bad, it's bad over here.

[SPEAKER_01]: But okay, I'm going to interject this real quick, everyone.

[SPEAKER_01]: Melissa Radke, thanks for being here.

[SPEAKER_01]: Oh yeah, yeah, you're welcome.

[SPEAKER_01]: One of my very favorites.

[SPEAKER_01]: If you don't know her, she's amazing.

[SPEAKER_01]: She's written books.

[SPEAKER_01]: Her latest one out is Chicken Fried Women.

[SPEAKER_01]: I loved it so much and I loved it.

[SPEAKER_01]: We're going to talk maybe about books if we get to it, ever.

[SPEAKER_01]: If we get past this, but maybe we don't, and that's fine, everybody.

[SPEAKER_01]: Maybe we stay right here for the next 30 minutes, then we're done.

[SPEAKER_01]: But um, chicken fried women came out right when I was writing my second or in the midway through and I think I wanted to told just but I read a chapter I had to read a chapter only a day because I want to read it all and like it made me laugh hard enough to help me write my book because it is so hard to write funny and I think you're [SPEAKER_01]: Like my style of funny and so I would like read it first.

[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, I read my Bible everyone calm down And then I would read Melissa Radke's chapters and laugh and I was right out so then completely different But it was just like kind of like Like spur on humor.

[SPEAKER_01]: Yes, so I just think it's the best book if you I I read it [SPEAKER_01]: but audio's awesome and I, and so anyway, most of us podcasts too, called Chicken Fried Women with, is that right?

[SPEAKER_00]: No.

[SPEAKER_01]: No.

[SPEAKER_01]: In fact, we did a podcast called Chicken Fried Women, but we just, people were so mad at me for this.

[SPEAKER_01]: We just did that leading up to the book.

[SPEAKER_01]: Like, oh, just to kind of give people talking.

[SPEAKER_01]: Now, David and I have for months, David and I have just been doing the Radke show.

[SPEAKER_01]: It's the Radke show podcast.

[SPEAKER_01]: And it's David and I watch reals.

[SPEAKER_01]: I watch reals from a UN David, but I thought that that was the chicken fried women.

[SPEAKER_01]: I didn't realize it was the Radke.

[SPEAKER_01]: OK, well, it's, I mean, it's, yeah, hilarious.

[SPEAKER_01]: And David's, hilarious, y'all are hilarious together.

[SPEAKER_01]: But anyway, when I reached out, some of us has been on my show before, but on side track with me and Heather before, [SPEAKER_01]: And anyway, I always laugh and sigh just for each hour of my desire anyway, you would come on for a couple of shows like everything's two serious I'm just it's all two serious and you were so gracious to come on so this is I'm interjecting in a middle of our conversation one thank you for being here you're always generous with your time yes to [SPEAKER_01]: Thank you, Tras.

[SPEAKER_01]: But I sent David's like, do you have any questions or topics or whatever?

[SPEAKER_01]: And I literally, the first, we were going to take two.

[SPEAKER_01]: And I first when I said, let's do a show about nothing, like sign-filled style.

[SPEAKER_01]: Like literally, there's no agenda.

[SPEAKER_01]: And here we are.

[SPEAKER_01]: We're talking about our body dysmorphia slash hiking slash chafing.

[SPEAKER_01]: And it's right on.

[SPEAKER_01]: It's totally on trend for what I'm hoping for.

[SPEAKER_01]: It's totally on par for us.

[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_01]: So thank you for being here.

[SPEAKER_01]: I'm happy to be here.

[SPEAKER_01]: I'll do it anytime you want.

[SPEAKER_01]: Although I have my drink with me, and you made fun of my drink fit, but here it is, sister.

[SPEAKER_01]: And I'm a shrimp fit on it the whole time.

[SPEAKER_01]: And listen, I don't have trim fits or sponsor whatever.

[SPEAKER_01]: I'm great.

[SPEAKER_01]: I hope they are.

[SPEAKER_01]: But I'm just going to say something, trim fit doesn't want any parts to be again.

[SPEAKER_01]: And I'm going to talk about how I barely could get my six miles in.

[SPEAKER_01]: And I'm in law side makeup, trim fits like you need to drink more lately.

[SPEAKER_01]: Um, hey, you just sent Remi to college, yeah, correct in the last couple months, and okay, so I'm reminding you and most of them that's about me, but so I have one is graduate from UT and she's going to law school and then I've one that we just dropped off at A&M so same age as yours and then I have a third grader, but that's a whole thing.

[SPEAKER_01]: That whole thing right there.

[SPEAKER_01]: I've taken a girl to college and now I've taken a boy to college.

[SPEAKER_01]: And so I just put on our things we should talk about real quick is just college.

[SPEAKER_01]: Like I think it's stupid.

[SPEAKER_01]: I think they shouldn't leave and I'm real mad about it that they go to college and especially these boys because they can't talk.

[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, I don't know.

[SPEAKER_01]: They can't communicate via phone.

[SPEAKER_01]: And even via text, they're just terrible.

[SPEAKER_01]: And so I, when I sent a girl, like we did it all.

[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, we measured that Raymond we had everything.

[SPEAKER_01]: It was beautiful, it was perfect.

[SPEAKER_01]: She said goodbye to me, we bald.

[SPEAKER_01]: And then I talked to her every 20 minutes for the next four years.

[SPEAKER_01]: And so that was like, oh, okay, I guess we're fine.

[SPEAKER_01]: I'm not been my case as a boy with a boy, not as a boy.

[SPEAKER_01]: I wasn't making announcements with a boy.

[SPEAKER_01]: So tell me about how it's gone.

[SPEAKER_01]: You're a couple months in.

[SPEAKER_01]: How are we doing?

[SPEAKER_01]: How to go?

[SPEAKER_01]: I New you were gonna set you.

[SPEAKER_01]: You were gonna bring this up and I'm prepared because let me tell you guys something She's got little notes here and this is what it says sending a kid to college the real real Okay, the real real.

[SPEAKER_01]: So Cindy you want you want to go real real.

[SPEAKER_01]: I'm gonna go real real with you Okay, I didn't shed a tear [SPEAKER_01]: I didn't you in a notch.

[SPEAKER_01]: I didn't shed a tear.

[SPEAKER_01]: Are you a cryer, though, in general?

[SPEAKER_01]: David said no.

[SPEAKER_01]: David just said no.

[SPEAKER_01]: I'll tell you this, I cry when I'm embarrassed.

[SPEAKER_01]: If you embarrass me, I will sob.

[SPEAKER_01]: And maybe I cry a little bit when I'm angry and I can't, I don't know how to get it out, right?

[SPEAKER_01]: But I'm not a big cryer in general.

[SPEAKER_01]: No, I'm really not.

[SPEAKER_01]: I didn't cry.

[SPEAKER_01]: I don't agree with your thought of what they shouldn't leave us.

[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, you're like, it's time for you to go, ma'am.

[SPEAKER_01]: I was, and here's what's interesting.

[SPEAKER_01]: We couldn't be closer.

[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, not only are her and Remy and I close, we enjoy each other.

[SPEAKER_01]: Like we, when she came home for Fawbright, oh Lord, I wanna David to move to the couch, so she can, I could just slumber party it up in my bedroom.

[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, like we generally enjoy each other, but I knew that it was time, but you know what, I've wondered, [SPEAKER_01]: And maybe you can speak to this or maybe you can.

[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know what your experience was.

[SPEAKER_01]: I went to a college, and I'm so glad I went there.

[SPEAKER_01]: I met David there.

[SPEAKER_01]: You know, he's the best thing in my life.

[SPEAKER_01]: But I went to a college three hours away from my home.

[SPEAKER_01]: And there was maybe 800 kids at the college.

[SPEAKER_01]: They offered nothing as far as sorority or fraternity.

[SPEAKER_01]: They had a curfew of 10 p.m.

You had to be in your dorm by 10 p.m.

with Christian College.

[SPEAKER_01]: I was so excited for Rimee to have adventure.

[SPEAKER_01]: I was so excited for Rimee too.

[SPEAKER_01]: not have a curfew, it ain't that crazy, but live a little, go to football games.

[SPEAKER_01]: We didn't even have a football team.

[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, I wanted, I wanted these things for her.

[SPEAKER_01]: And maybe that's a little bit of why I was like, go, fly.

[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, yeah.

[SPEAKER_01]: No, I can see that.

[SPEAKER_01]: I went to a Christian school.

[SPEAKER_01]: I went to Baylor.

[SPEAKER_01]: I know where you went to school too, by the way.

[SPEAKER_01]: We visited it actually, and it was so pretty, so pretty.

[SPEAKER_01]: I went to Baylor.

[SPEAKER_01]: OK, and I was just telling my kids to tell my son this.

[SPEAKER_01]: He lives in the Calloway House.

[SPEAKER_01]: And if you've ever heard of Calloway House, it's basically Animal House, is where he lives.

[SPEAKER_01]: And, um, [SPEAKER_01]: And it's simply because we were late, he was late deciding on college, doesn't matter why.

[SPEAKER_01]: But anyway, so he's an animal house.

[SPEAKER_01]: Like, it's just horrific.

[SPEAKER_01]: It's absolutely horrific and expensive.

[SPEAKER_01]: And the other day, when I was there for like the parents thing or whatever, people had vomited in solo cups in the elevator.

[SPEAKER_01]: Melissa Radke, that's what I rode with.

[SPEAKER_01]: I'm like, what's wrong with you?

[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, my gosh.

[SPEAKER_01]: Okay.

[SPEAKER_01]: Okay.

[SPEAKER_01]: So he's in an animal house.

[SPEAKER_01]: But I'll say this.

[SPEAKER_01]: Okay.

[SPEAKER_01]: I'm off track back to the point.

[SPEAKER_01]: I love that they've gone.

[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, on it.

[SPEAKER_01]: I, it is not lost on me the privilege that we have kids that can go to college.

[SPEAKER_01]: And that's available.

[SPEAKER_01]: I don't think that's the route for everybody.

[SPEAKER_01]: And I think that is just fine.

[SPEAKER_01]: I love all of it.

[SPEAKER_01]: I just for me.

[SPEAKER_01]: I also miss them being under the same roof.

[SPEAKER_01]: And probably because I have the little one too, but I just have that push and pull of that.

[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_01]: And with my daughter at UT, I had all the scares of sending my kid from a private Christian school in Dallas to the University of Texas.

[SPEAKER_01]: And some some administrator in our school said, Oh, man, we sent a kid there one time and we lost her.

[SPEAKER_01]: I'm like, what do you mean, like physically like we, she, you couldn't find where you saw that we don't cut.

[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, like lots are you mean like spiritually lost or is apparently what we're getting and you know what the Lord is so good She did awesome there as mighty things happened and I'm so thankful and so yes to your point We're like the best of friends and I'm so grateful.

[SPEAKER_01]: I think I had the disadvantage of a girl first I want to talk to you in a couple of years because then you send a boy I agree I think that's going to be different for me in that Rime is independent.

[SPEAKER_01]: She always has been [SPEAKER_01]: I almost felt like I was doing Remy a favor by moving her into, you know, Remy has been raised a little bit in a bubble.

[SPEAKER_01]: She's been busted to get out for a long time, and she's a good girl.

[SPEAKER_01]: She was ready.

[SPEAKER_01]: She was so ready.

[SPEAKER_01]: But she had some social cues, some not so that sounds terrible to say, but she had some, she had to learn to live with people, not always get her way, right?

[SPEAKER_01]: Not always get her way, [SPEAKER_01]: So again, I didn't cry, it was all fine.

[SPEAKER_01]: Rocco gon' be different.

[SPEAKER_01]: He's my home.

[SPEAKER_01]: He's different with your boy.

[SPEAKER_01]: He's my home body.

[SPEAKER_01]: He loves mom and daddy.

[SPEAKER_01]: He's I love you.

[SPEAKER_01]: See y'all in a little while.

[SPEAKER_01]: Be safe every day when he leaves the house.

[SPEAKER_01]: I do think that will be different.

[SPEAKER_01]: Ugh, yeah.

[SPEAKER_01]: Well, okay, we'll follow up on that later because in a couple of years.

[SPEAKER_01]: Okay, I want to tell you really quickly that I did your son do a fraternity.

[SPEAKER_01]: He did not and which is not as emo, he's like total redneck.

[SPEAKER_01]: So he likes to hunt and fish and do all those things.

[SPEAKER_01]: So he's in it like a men's org that they go hunting and they go to everybody's ranches and they, I mean, if it flies, they're gonna kill it.

[SPEAKER_01]: Okay, if it walks too slow, they're gonna, let's gonna take a shot at it.

[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_01]: And so he's doing that situation.

[SPEAKER_01]: I was in a sorority, but then two years in, I, um, is it, it's not defledging what's that called?

[SPEAKER_01]: I turned in my pen, something.

[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, yeah.

[SPEAKER_01]: Um, it doesn't matter why it just wasn't my, it wasn't my vibe.

[SPEAKER_01]: I guess my fit.

[SPEAKER_01]: And I was trying to get in law school in blah, blah, two series.

[SPEAKER_01]: My daughter did not.

[SPEAKER_01]: She did young lives.

[SPEAKER_01]: The whole time, which is Tina out to have babies.

[SPEAKER_01]: So she was very active in that.

[SPEAKER_01]: So it's interesting.

[SPEAKER_01]: My kids have not gone Greek.

[SPEAKER_01]: Now my little one.

[SPEAKER_01]: He's going to be in the fraternity.

[SPEAKER_01]: He's going to do everything you're worried about your kid doing in the fraternity.

[SPEAKER_01]: He's going to do it tomorrow.

[SPEAKER_01]: He'd like to do it.

[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_01]: Okay.

[SPEAKER_01]: We are already, you guys, we're already getting close to wrapping this up because we're going to keep Melissa on schedule.

[SPEAKER_01]: So I have to debate which of all these topics that we are going to talk about, which one I care about the most.

[SPEAKER_01]: Do you have an opinion on these next ones?

[SPEAKER_01]: What do you talk about?

[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know.

[SPEAKER_01]: I loved every single thing.

[SPEAKER_01]: How did this go so fast?

[SPEAKER_01]: This is stupid.

[SPEAKER_01]: I hate your time schedules.

[SPEAKER_01]: Well, I hate times when we can't just not leave routines and must have makeup because God knows you don't use you don't listen to the word I say [SPEAKER_01]: I really don't care, oh, I like what nobody told us about marriage or things adults should stop doing.

[SPEAKER_01]: So I don't care.

[SPEAKER_01]: Whatever you want.

[SPEAKER_01]: Okay.

[SPEAKER_01]: Well, when we hit this with marriage, things adults should stop doing.

[SPEAKER_01]: I know you want me to stop going to bed without washing my face and I want you know, I hear you, I respect you, and I did wash my face once and I emailed David and told him.

[SPEAKER_01]: David Rackie has to check like 400 emails that I've already really been going to get them that one.

[SPEAKER_01]: Hey, have you seen the TikTok train that went around a couple months ago where they go, we listen, and we don't judge.

[SPEAKER_01]: And then the person has to say something that might be considered horrible, but the other person is like, we listen and we don't judge.

[SPEAKER_01]: So yours is, I sleep with my makeup on.

[SPEAKER_01]: Okay, what's yours?

[SPEAKER_01]: I listen and I don't judge.

[SPEAKER_01]: I don't see anything wrong with peeing in the shower.

[SPEAKER_01]: It's the worst thing I've ever heard.

[SPEAKER_01]: No.

[SPEAKER_01]: Why is wrong with it?

[SPEAKER_01]: It's just coming out of the drain.

[SPEAKER_01]: If you're the last house of East Texas, and I've run 32 miles or one hour.

[SPEAKER_01]: I'm staying dirty.

[SPEAKER_01]: For example, I didn't say I did it every time, but sometimes when you get in the shower and you've already paid and then that hot water hit you, you're like, oh boy, it's hard to not judge on that one.

[SPEAKER_01]: It's okay, it's still over there.

[SPEAKER_01]: He's literally going like this.

[SPEAKER_01]: No, I'm the camera, he's going.

[SPEAKER_01]: Wrap it up.

[SPEAKER_01]: Wrap it up.

[SPEAKER_01]: Move all, move on.

[SPEAKER_01]: I did it every time y'all, but some nuts that water will heat you and you'll be surprised, you have a little lift, it's all I'm saying.

[SPEAKER_01]: Okay, things adults should do, number one, P in the shower, number two.

[SPEAKER_01]: Okay, I'm just giving you three of my things that are on my list.

[SPEAKER_01]: Okay, if you're a grown adult, you need to stop fist bumping.

[SPEAKER_01]: Okay, I've got something even worse than the fist bump.

[SPEAKER_01]: It's the sweaty fist bump.

[SPEAKER_01]: It's when I'm going into the gym in the morning at my 6am class and the 515 classes coming out and all the guys have sweaty knuckles and they want a fist bump.

[SPEAKER_01]: I straight up go like this.

[SPEAKER_01]: Absolutely not.

[SPEAKER_01]: Absolutely not.

[SPEAKER_01]: I will not.

[SPEAKER_01]: Why are you trying to do that in suits fist bumping?

[SPEAKER_01]: What is this attractive I wrote about this I have the advantage on this of this topic because I wrote about it in my next book But sorry, I'm just telling a few of them, but I feel like you would have opinions on these.

[SPEAKER_01]: Here's the second one.

[SPEAKER_01]: For the love of all that's good people do not say any who.

[SPEAKER_01]: I cannot with people saying that anymore it stops here [SPEAKER_01]: I write that sometimes in my emails that go, well, I'm like, okay, any of you.

[SPEAKER_01]: So you think of me from now on when he's probably never do it again, because you're not what?

[SPEAKER_01]: You're right, thank you for pointing that out, I suck.

[SPEAKER_01]: Okay, but here's the last one that I'm going to address here.

[SPEAKER_01]: And I think this is controversial.

[SPEAKER_01]: This isn't as bad as, like, it's not as controversial as being in the shower or rubbing your nipples off running, but it is controversial.

[SPEAKER_01]: I think we've got to get the dogs out of the strollers.

[SPEAKER_01]: Ooh, that's a good one.

[SPEAKER_01]: That's a good one.

[SPEAKER_01]: So, did you have a dog?

[SPEAKER_01]: I do.

[SPEAKER_01]: She doesn't fit in a stroller.

[SPEAKER_01]: Okay, okay.

[SPEAKER_01]: I wonder if you would change your mind.

[SPEAKER_01]: If you had a little dog, I have a little dog.

[SPEAKER_01]: Don't have a stroller, don't plan on getting a stroller.

[SPEAKER_01]: But sometimes, when I see people in a stroller, I'll be like, lady, I would have made fun of you until I got me a little dog.

[SPEAKER_01]: But now I got me a little dog.

[SPEAKER_01]: And what about a college?

[SPEAKER_01]: What about a pouch?

[SPEAKER_01]: I could do the baby beyond maybe.

[SPEAKER_01]: My, okay.

[SPEAKER_01]: I'm not, I would never do any of those.

[SPEAKER_01]: I want to get like a little backpack to carry people to airport with me.

[SPEAKER_01]: For all you're hiking.

[SPEAKER_01]: We're here in our gold hacks.

[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_01]: He wants to hack about as much as I do.

[SPEAKER_01]: I had written my things down that adults shouldn't do, because yours were good.

[SPEAKER_01]: Well, it's hard on the spot.

[SPEAKER_01]: So that's why I was just giving you mine.

[SPEAKER_01]: If any came to mine, great.

[SPEAKER_01]: If there's anything you're like, no, we're not going to do this anymore, America.

[SPEAKER_01]: I just want you to know that it's safe here.

[SPEAKER_01]: OK, let's leave here.

[SPEAKER_01]: And then, yeah, so I don't know.

[SPEAKER_01]: Okay, I have a fart in general.

[SPEAKER_01]: I just, I grew up real Baptist to my mom, but so we don't say, it's too.

[SPEAKER_01]: It's too, it's not fart in my house growing up.

[SPEAKER_01]: It was, I can't even say to say it, it was P-O-O-T.

[SPEAKER_01]: It's there, it looks like you can do the stand and play it.

[SPEAKER_01]: I guess it is there, okay, brain fart.

[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I get that.

[SPEAKER_01]: But all menopause in this is like a constant brain fart.

[SPEAKER_01]: I can't remember, I mean, the words, I'm like, what word does that again?

[SPEAKER_01]: has a little bit to do with marriage.

[SPEAKER_01]: Hey ladies, if your husband has hair growing out of his nose or ears, why aren't you his best friend and telling him this?

[SPEAKER_01]: Why do I have to?

[SPEAKER_01]: Because I won't, I'm going to tell you, no thank you.

[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I don't understand why you don't love this man enough.

[SPEAKER_01]: I literally said that to my best friend.

[SPEAKER_01]: I said Janet, why don't you love him?

[SPEAKER_01]: Why don't you get him?

[SPEAKER_01]: He's the pastor of 4,000 people, and he has a hair growing out of one side of his fight, a one ear that is, they could wrap around a tree.

[SPEAKER_01]: And she's like, I'm a boy, you should be new!

[SPEAKER_01]: I don't get it, but I'll point it out, and I carry a pair of tweezers with me.

[SPEAKER_01]: We're going to end on this.

[SPEAKER_01]: Do you?

[SPEAKER_01]: This is bad.

[SPEAKER_01]: This is bad.

[SPEAKER_01]: And we're going to end on this.

[SPEAKER_01]: And it may be the end of the show.

[SPEAKER_01]: And that's OK.

[SPEAKER_01]: I guess I'll just come on the radkeys show once a year.

[SPEAKER_01]: And we'll be like, remember when you used to have a show, but then you said this and it was so bad that nobody listened anymore.

[SPEAKER_01]: Before you, I'm just going to be vague.

[SPEAKER_01]: Before you get a mammogram, do you get the tweezers out just to make sure?

[SPEAKER_01]: You know, I don't have never had that issue.

[SPEAKER_01]: I'm even but I'm scared that I've heard it exists.

[SPEAKER_01]: Well, and the problem with me is my eyes are so bad.

[SPEAKER_01]: I may have had the issue for the last three years.

[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, no, wait.

[SPEAKER_01]: I don't want to say that maybe we need to check on you.

[SPEAKER_01]: But with a microscope, I think we might need to check on.

[SPEAKER_01]: Well, just in case.

[SPEAKER_01]: On the next Monday, the minute this show wraps up.

[SPEAKER_01]: That's a ridiculous.

[SPEAKER_01]: Okay.

[SPEAKER_01]: Hey, we're gonna, we're gonna, we're gonna, we're gonna, we're gonna, in this hair and then we're gonna take one more every one and we're gonna talk a little bit about the holidays.

[SPEAKER_01]: Melissa, thanks for being here and everyone, the radki show, the radki show.

[SPEAKER_01]: Yes, listen to it.

[SPEAKER_01]: It's so great.

[SPEAKER_01]: It's David and it's about faith and marriage and but all the funny stuff that happens in between.

[SPEAKER_01]: It's so, I mean, y'all, I mean, y'all together, hilarious, so funny.

[SPEAKER_01]: And then chicken bread of women, I mean, it's been out of a while, but you need it.

[SPEAKER_01]: If you don't have it, and it's a really, really great Christmas present.

[SPEAKER_01]: Yes, it's a Christmas present.

[SPEAKER_01]: Get it and wrap it up with a bow and put a little wooden spoon in it.

[SPEAKER_01]: Give it to somebody.

[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, they love it.

[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, that's really cute.

[SPEAKER_01]: So please, everyone, support what they're doing.

[SPEAKER_01]: It's important, it's good, it's fun.

[SPEAKER_01]: Faith filled, all the things.

[SPEAKER_01]: Thanks, Melissa.

[SPEAKER_01]: You're welcome, bye girl.

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