What I Love About Myself

Carrie and Sarah discuss lots of shit including their brief break and our future podcast plans.

Carrie and Sarah need your voice notes! DM us on instagram at whatiloveaboutmyselfpodcast. Sarah looks like Egon and weaponizes tears at the gynecologist. Carrie gets a yeast infection on her skin. Sarah and Carrie are both chaotic air signs who love data and experiments and a tweet-tivity. More information gives Sarah confidence. Carrie says anxiety is when even the facts don't help. Sarah gives Carrie advice on how to be safe in the city when hypothetically meeting a kinky fella for the first time. Carrie thinks he should be afraid of her and the heist she's planning. Rule 1: Ask the stranger to handcuff themselves before you enter. Add a blindfold for good measure. Rule 2: Look for a sexy sex idiot to heist. Rule 3: Drive a truck, bring a getaway driver, or at least have a friend nearby who can show up for backup. Rule 4: Bring your parachute suit, rock climbing equipment, and your own knife. And dildos. And bugs for surveillance. Rule 5: Be gay, do crime, and don't get caught. Sarah loves karaoke. Duh. She's promoting the podcast there. Hi, Megan! It was the tequila, AND the nudity. Everybody gets naked at karaoke. Carrie loves The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel. Carrie says it's a masterclass in how to do a last season. Great ass show. 10/10. Amy Sherman-Palladino is a goddess. Carrie's mom thinks Emily Gilmore makes some good points. Carrie loves her gotdam hair, AGAIN. As her rainbow hair fades into pastel, it gets even cooler, matching the colors of the Lover album cover. Sarah coins the term #bowllet: half bowl, half mullet. Tell everyone: hashtag bowllet forever. Carrie loves the attention she's getting while eating hotdogs at Costco. Dogs fulfill Carrie's emotional needs better than most people. Sarah theorizes that while Carrie's dogs suffer under her care, they give her a lot of love. On the other hand, Sarah suffers as a pet owner, but her dog benefits greatly. The girls agree: Fuck around and find out but also bring a knife. Sarah says that her entire upbringing was a traumatic experience. She loves that she's doing the work to move through this. Sarah loves being in touch with her emotions. Sarah loves opening brain doors to look at the stuff that's back there. Carrie is not interested in this full range of emotions. Carrie loves that Sarah is deep in the work and that Sarah brings Carrie into the work, too. Carrie is enjoying the splash off from Sarah's therapist. Sarah loves that Carrie is also brave and doing the work in a transitional period. Sarah and Carrie are best friends. Sarah's low-stakes advice is to prioritize the friendships that matter and to treat them like a relationship. Do the work to make friendships meet your needs. Carrie's low-stakes advice is to keep dildos in your rock climbing bag. And carry a carabiner with a knife. Sounds gay. I like it. Follow Sarah's karaoke team on Instagram at basicinstinctdck.

Carrie and Sarah are back on their bullshit for this rip-roaring episode! You don't want to miss it.

Happy Pride! Carrie and Sarah have a big queer episode full of unopened dream doors. This episode includes a special "Carrie's Cock Tale Corner". Listen to us share what we are loving this week, what we love about ourselves, and what we love about each other. We leave you with some very useful low-stakes advice.

Darin loves being resilient. It's a Friend-isode with Kevin! Kevin and Sarah became friends in grad school who still write together and bust each other's balls real good. Carrie quizzes Kevin on their shared Pittsburgh connections and pancakes. Sarah loves that she's good at coming up with business ideas, and the gang discusses some gay candles. Carrie loves that this is her first Pride month as a non-binary, bisexual, polyamorous queen. Kevin loves entertaining and making his friends feel at home. You'll have to listen to find out what our low stakes advice is. Carrie is already late posting this episode and has forgotten how it ends.

Stephen loves that he's living his best life at 42. It's Carrie's birthday! Sarah and Carrie have gotten a little sloppy in this mercifully short episode.

Micheal loves his memory. Carrie and Sarah are in Pittsburgh together again, just crying about how much they love each other over pancakes. The dogs go wild over the mail, and we decide that Blue's Clues has jumped the shark with all these spicy babies. Carrie loves boygenius and thinks "True Blue" is about her relationship with Sarah, a real true blue friend who never lets Carrie hide. As promised, Carrie and Sarah watch Pretty Woman together and meditate on power, sex, and gender. "You take care of you." Sarah identifies with Kit. 1990 was a good year for eyebrows. Carrie's college boyfriend used to turn corners in his truck and say "Like she's on rails, I tell ya." Sarah googles the cast of Urban Cowboy. Sarah, a single woman homeowner, also googles the Equal Credit Opportunity Act of 1974 and decides to celebrate this as a day of action. Carrie wants Vivian's suit with shorts, but butched up with some chunky chelsea boots. Sarah recommends a Halloween costume that comes with an unassuming weapon, like a sexy Mario with a monkey wrench. Maybe let's remake the film with only Kit and Vivian. Sarah is learning from therapy and taking those lessons into the real world and relationships. Sarah sees herself and allows herself to be seen. Sarah and Carrie hug. Carrie saves the world by rescuing a karaoke singer who can't find the pitch and looks to her for help. Carrie believes real heroes step in to help and then sit down when help is no longer needed. Carrie is the Hector Elizondo of Pittsburgh institution Belvedere's Ultra Dive. May we all be Hector Elizondo. Carrie and Sarah discuss their new book project, How to Make a Move Without Moving: a collection of essays about trying to attract sex partners with psychic signals, pheromones, and juicy smells. Carrie tries it out on a fella at karaoke through aggressive eye contact. Sarah says to use your words rather than broadcasting a pussy net to catch whatever is around. Carrie loves Sarah's new Chris Carraba haircut and her radical food acceptance. Sarah carries her happiness with her. Carrie is loving Sarah's whole look these days. Carrie and Sarah talk about dissociating from their feelings and experiencing having feelings as a crisis. Sarah loves that Carrie rocked a very femme look at karaoke, braless in her sundress. Carrie made herself known to the DJ and Sarah loves that Carrie could be a fixture at this Tuesday karaoke night. Lowstakes advice: Find you a friend that's family. Make a move by moving. Make aggressive eye contact and then ask the object of your desire if they can smell your pussy as an opening move. Send us your voicenotes on instagram at whatiloveaboutmyselfpodcast.

Carrie and Sarah discuss what it means to be a weeb in an ok way. Carrie and Sarah read each other poetry and then share the 10 things they love about 10 Things I Hate About You. Carrie and Sarah leave their listeners with low-stakes advice.

Erin is a DND nerd who has finally learned to love themselves. Sarah finished the karaoke season in second place to The Olive Garden. Carrie and her partner won big at Drag Bingo. Carrie bought a new outfit in which to accept an award. Sarah recommends finding a dark corner in a seedy bar for making out. Carrie is loving a new book recommended by a student: The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires. Sarah is going to help make a short film in 48 hours and loves making new friends in professional spaces. Carrie is going to be a real audiobook narrator! Carrie loves that once she won Girl of the Year (Sarah's brother was Boy of the Year) and accepted the award braless, and maybe she's going to accept this new award with no underwear on. Carrie loves that her home is a welcome womb to the wide world where animals like to have their babies in the Spring. She is a little too high and starts talking in poems. Sarah reads a little erotic poetry to her business club.   Sarah loves that she plans little mini-experiences for her friends. She treats people well and makes them feel good. Carrie can confirm that Sarah curates fantastic experiences, and when Sarah comes to town again, Carrie will return the favor. The girls make a plan for next week segments including “10 Things I Love About 10 Things I Hate About You” and “Pretty Women Love Pretty Woman.” Carrie loves that Sarah is a ray of sunshine who cares so much about her friends. Sarah loves Carrie's outfit plans and loves her attention to the flash over substance. Low stakes advice: Make a game out of watching TV with tarot. It works at the ballpark, too! Do whatever Sarah says.

Carrie and Sarah welcome Ghoul on Ghoul Podcasts Amanda and Sadie/Sarah. Amanda and Sadie/Sarah share the bricks in their friendship wall. Sarah introduces a sexy spooky star search game and has Amanda and Sadie/Sarah guess star signs and identify which Cryptid would swipe right. Carrie says all Cryptids matter. Discussion ensues around a Bigfoot riding bitch on a motorcycle, Moth-man eating fabric, Thunderbirds swooping things up etc. with an assortment of astrology signs. Carrie, Sarah, Amanda and Sadie/Sarah all share what we love about ourselves, each other and leave you with some low stake's advice. Follow Ghoul on Ghoul on Instagram @ghoulxghoulpod Find more from Ghoul on Ghoul @https://linktr.ee/ghoulxghoulpod

Amanda is really good at bringing people together.   This is a shit show. Carrie and Sarah are together for the weekend. They had a little shitty adventure rescuing a chicken from a tree with help from the whole neighborhood. Sarah says buttholes should just taste like skin, and Carrie has diabetic diarrhea that she takes care of with a bidet. Carrie hates Bourbon and people who think they can make her like it.   Sarah hates giving examples when Carrie asks for them. Carrie has shitty news about her sabbatical plans and she quit her German class. She really wants the Duolingo owl to quit manipulating her. Sarah's toxic trait is that she calls her best qualities “toxic traits” to undercut emotional seriousness. Carrie and Sarah say the same thing at the same time and Carrie is overwhelmed with her love for Sarah. Carrie loves that Sarah told her “You got a big ass and those titties, so you're in charge.” The state of the friendship is better than ever. Low stakes advice: Cut the legs off your yoga pants and make hot pants. Make a podcast with your best friend. It's very fun. Make up a new cocktail! The Cumslide is tequila, a whisper of cranberry, lime, and seltzer. The only cocktail that matters is the one that's in your heart. Can't go wrong with a sexy shower. Make bragging your toxic trait.

Carrie and Sarah loooove each other.

Lizzy works damn hard. Sarah and Carrie are tired of working on themselves. Carrie takes a zillion pills for her many ailments before getting weird with a bagpiper at a St. Patrick's day party. Sarah had a rip-roarin' weekend with friends in town from her college days eating at a Balkan Golden Corral and taking her guests to a homoerotic fountain for a lesson. Carrie is loving Daisy Jones and the Six, both the book and the show, particularly imagining Benjamin Bratt and Judy Greer going to town on each other. Sarah is loving giving her pregnant friend a lapdance and a deeply sincere expression of gratitude, love, and respect. Sarah loves that a really cool teen picked her as the most millennial in her group and then trolled him for being Gen Z. And then they both make too-millennial references to Friends and Josie and the Pussycats. Carrie loves that Sarah can start inside jokes and bits with literally anyone. It's her best quality. Carrie loves that she treated herself to an expensive lipstick: Charlotte Tillbury's original Pillow Talk lipstick. Then she found 2 dupes for it: Wet n' Wild's High Shine stick in “Mad for Mauve” and Maybelline's Superstay Matte Ink in “Achieve it All.” Sarah loves that she and Carrie have been so consistently connected that it makes her feel better about being so sad after Carrie left after her visit. They both love that the pod is back! Low stakes advice this week? Try Wet n' Wild again. You won't be disappointed. And if you want to have an orgy, just ask. You won't know if you don't ask.  

Voice Memo: Lynnea is fucking smart Carrie and Sarah dance at the Dolly Party! Carrie loves that Sarah forgave her for jelly fishing the pod. Sarah loves that Carrie is a down for any adventure and seamlessly blend into karaoke crew. Carrie and Sarah make love out of nothing at all. Carrie and Sarah got everyone in the bar to line dance. Carrie is loving her botox and the restricted movement of her face. Sarah also got botox. Sarah is incredibly vain. Sarah loved choosing a Margaret Cho show over Bad Bunny because she didn't want to wear bunny ears. Carrie loves to learn German. Carrie sings "The Chair" in German. Sarah loves that she uses Tarot for self reflection and doesn't need to be striving. Carrie loves that Sarah's communication style has helped her be an open communication style. Sarah loves that Carrie let her infiltrate her friend group.

Carrie accidentally colored her hair black then played with an AI photo generator. Sarah doubts that robots will be able to take over the world. Carrie woke up singing songs from Oklahoma. Carrie and Sarah spent Thanksgiving together and got deep in a P-hole (that's a puzzle-hole). Sarah is loving dinner at friends' houses. Carrie is still loving Hallmark movie season and keeping a list of everything she watches. Sarah loves that she is doing some “emotional housecleaning” after some good therapy sessions. Carrie loves that she is extra at work and threw an Emily Dickinson Birthday Party for her students complete with a dress code and archival recipes. Sarah loves that they both want to find more love in their work. Carrie loves that every time she spends time with Sarah they end up crying and sharing intense emotional moments together. Sarah loves that Carrie invites her into her family and makes her feel like she belongs. What a gorgeous chosen family we have.

Carrie is deep in holiday Rom-Coms and the quirky best friends, Reboot, and The Resort. Sarah is taking a break from karaoke and just got back from a trip to Napa for fun, food, friendship, and Phil. Carrie is loving an expensive bottle of body oil she bought for her crusty butt skin, but she hates scratching her partner's back. Sarah is loving having family and friends come to visit and how she's handling her boundaries. Sarah loves that even though she has been frequently wrong lately, she has been learning from her mistakes. Carrie loves her vanity era and that she was brave enough to admit she didn't like her hairy witch mole and got it removed. Dermatologists are creepy ghouls. Carrie loves that Sarah didn't google anything this episode. Carrie loves that Sarah always tries to fulfill Carrie's fantasies, and Carrie wants to try to emulate this. Sarah can't wait to visit Carrie and see her glow up. Sarah loves that Carrie wants to make herself feel comfortable.

Voice Memo:Megan loves her grit Carrie and Sarah introduce their friends Tony and Julie. Tony doesn't know how to spell his name and he loves the environment. Julia is friends with Tony because that's her dads knowing. Julia is glad she was able to experience a commune to see if she liked it. We learned about ourselves, friendship, and fun. Tony is glad he said yes to going into the woods. Julia wondered if she would be sleeping inside the coalmine. Julia has tried to go camping before and decided this was a good experience. We decided that the camping queers have the gear. Carrie was prepared to be useful but ended up eating food and drinking beer. Tony and Julia bring up the challenges of communal living and working. What we loved about camping: Julia loved how well she slept in the tent. Carrie loved laying in the road looking at the stars. Julia is sad that she won't live to see the Aliens come to earth. Tony loves that he used a chainsaw and that we are shaped by nature. Tony's partner Olivia re-ran for 5th grade class president in the woods and was elected. What we love about ourselves: Julia loves that she is a reflective person who is open to others; nurturing her free spirit. She tries to be open to other types of people who are at different places in their lives. Tony found the power dynamics of the group interesting. Carrie wore and peed on their coveralls and then figured it out and went about their business. We got lost getting to the site and leaving the site. Sarah loved peeing in the woods and asking for help when needed. We decide that the relationship between people and access to greenspaces is complicated. Carrie had deep thoughts about beer and mushrooms. The group decides that during their next camping trip to contact the aliens. What we loved about each other: Carrie loves Tony's camping moustache and snuggling in the tent with Julia, Carrie loves the pita bread that was available at the camp site. Sarah loves Julia and Tony's openness to going on this trip. Tony loved connecting with Carrie about bike riding; Tony loved talking with Julia about religion; Tony loves that Sarah is a connector of people; Julia loves Tony's name and that he is kind; Julia loves Carrie's artistic side and tattoos; Julia loves how much energy Sarah has and her openness. Sarah loves Julia's commitment to Aliens.

Voice Memo: Jill loves that she knows her own mind Carrie and Sarah discuss hair, crocodiles, survivalists, and wine. Sarah tells stories about her family. Carrie riffs while Sarah gets her groceries and Sarah ABSOLUTELY listens to the podcast. Carrie butt-shames Sarah. Carrie is a handyman. Carrie loves the cozy show “Grantchester”. Carrie went to a Smashing Pumpkins concert with Jay and Jay does not listen to women…in music. Carrie also loves the book “The Family Plot.” Sarah hasn't finished it yet. Sarah went to a wiener dog race and is loving wiener dog races. Sarah wonders if we are boring and Carrie says we aren't. Sarah is loving that she made it home after making questionable transportation choices. Sarah avoided body violence. Carrie tells Sarah to ride a bike and to get more confident. Carrie loves that they made a good category in trivia and makes a great before and after game. Carrie trolls Sarah about googling. Carrie trolls themself about being in love with their therapist. Sarah loves that she's been publicly gay at work. Carrie loves Sarah's open butt policy and her open heart. Sarah loves that Carrie has a garden and a farm and that it creates great hair for them. Carrie and Sarah explain how weeding has 3 meanings: I've been weeding (me baby), I've been weeding (the garden), I've been weeding (tokin). Carrie and Sarah tell everyone to go vote. New sign-off: Witts and tits up; hearts and butts open

Voice Memo: Lisa loves her beautiful brown skin Carrie and Sarah are back and can't remember what they talked about before their hiatus. Things to look forward to: New Logo Same Instagram New Friends More Friends More Googling More Sarah's Lesbian Separatism More Games More Carrie's Hair Styles More Friendship Conversations Carrie shares their sabbatical news, and Sarah discusses her birthday ritual. Sarah loves her birthday and Carrie recommends a book for the thriller book club called “The Arrangement” because it is surprising. Carrie introduces their new original song. Carrie loves that they get nasty in the car with hotdogs. Sarah loves her professional haircut because she can go from alt girl to super dyke in no time flat. Carrie loves that Sarah tells her what she is feeling. Sarah loves that Carrie has creative energy they channel into all areas of their life. Sarah thinks Carrie is one of her most beautiful friends. Carrie and Sarah love the soundtrack to Romeo and Juliet with Leo and Claire and talk about it for a while.

Carrie and Sarah take a break from creating new episodes to unpack their friendship (with the help of an oracle), celebrate face to face interactions, reflect on what they love about the podcast, and make plans for Season Two! Keep on subscribing so you don't miss a single episode or bonus mini ep.

Owoade loves that she brings joy to others and that she surprises people when she walks into rooms. Carrie and Sarah welcome Flo to the pod. Carrie engages Flo and Sarah in a discussion of metaphors for heat. Sarah googles sayings for heat. Flo discussed her hot haemorrhoids. Flo introduces herself as a Gemini and writing professional. Flo helps graduate students. Carrie had a blast in grad school. Carrie calls herself the leader of a self-care podcast. Flo says Sarah is hype for care. What we are loving this week: Carrie loves topo chico and all sparkling waters. Flo loves a spicy water. Carrie brings up rats on Cheetos. Flo is reminded of living in New York. Carrie talks about putting peroxide in her ears. Carrie says it kills tiny ear spiders. Flo is anxious about tiny ear spirals. Flo and Sarah agree to try it. Flo is loving Chris Evans despite his frat boy aesthetic. Sarah hopes Chris Evans doesn't let her down. Carrie is sad that Chris Pratt is the worst Chris. Carrie said Jurassic Park is over, but we discuss whether or not that's true. Flo reads on the internet about polar caps melting. Carrie is worried about melting ice caps. Sarah is loving DJ collective happy hours and weed in the air. Flo clocks Sarah's prone-ness to joining a cult. Sarah says I belong to you until I don't want to be there anymore. Carrie calls abandoning an event a boundary. Carrie creates a game for Flo based on her main interests: writing and cannabis. Carrie introduces the game Weed or IPA. Flo is good at the game. Carrie shares her journey to weed. Flo discusses her baking with weed process. Flo takes about being led to a soft space. What we love about ourselves: Sarah loves that she made friends with the bartender while on a date and bought the same shirt he was wearing, navy shirt with bananas on it. Sarah walks into every space as if everyone was her friend. Carrie is loving that she prepped for her doctor's appointment with lists of questions. Carrie is sad that her doctor, who she was in love with, is leaving so she had to find a new doctor. Sarah calls it self-advocacy. Flo says to poke at people in charge. Flo loves that she is learning how to just be while going through a transition. Flo calls “just being” the American dream. Flo lives on her family compound and setting up boundaries with her mom. Flo calls out Sarah for being affirming. Carrie, Sarah, and Flo discuss coasting on their gooch. What we love about each other: Flo came to the party already chill. Sarah tries to harness her Florence energy. Carrie asks Flo about her distinctive Gemini traits. Flo is a sparkly gal who longs and recoils. Sarah gets the privilege of hanging out with Flo. Sarah loves that Flo is making a challenging life change. Flo loves that Sarah has become a beautiful little butterfly and she is living her truth. Flo loves what Carrie said about being business Carrie and Carrie in the streets. Flo says two Geminis are basically four people. Sarah loves that Carrie is a thirsty ass bitch who asks for what she needs. Flo loves Carrie's hair. Carrie and Sarah love that Flo joined the pod. Follow Flo on twitter @flojothehojo for all the Chris Evans thirst tweets. Music by Miseryslims Art by Windy Valley Creative

Levi loves his farts. Carrie and Sarah talk about the weather being weather. Carrie goes on a garden tour. Sarah prefers summer over the winter. Carrie makes 2 announcements. 1. Carrie finds another press-on fingernail in her ice machine. Sarah gives Carrie congratulations on drinking water. 2. Carrie made a new friend at her neighborhood. Carrie is a reigning champion at her bar. Carrie got to sing a lot of songs. Carrie hates men between the age of 17 and 30. Carrie makes friends because she and Jay are tattoo people. Carrie shares her lipstick with a new friend. Carrie reminds us about the purpose of the “Shit Show” and how we are here to address some of the shit. Shit list: Carrie hates fantasy fiction; Sarah hates Zoom social events; Carrie hates when people take loud social media “breaks”; Sarah hates Avoidant Attachment Styles; Carrie hates yogurt; Sarah hates metal bead frames; Carrie hates shirts with unusual sleeves; Sarah hates dance injuries; Sarah threw out her hip while dancing at a drag king show. Sarah stills hypes her friend while not being able to put weight on her leg. Sarah had leg pre trauma from aggressive birds that attacked her dog, and she ran into a concrete partition. Carrie also tells a dance injury about how she broke her foot in an impromptu dance battle and was in a boot all summer. Capacity for dance diminishes with age. Sarah and her friend bonded over having weird things happen at the bar. Sarah discovers that her kink is that she likes to be cared for. Carrie tells a literary story about the “land” comforting her body. Carrie hates the amount of attention that the skin on her butt and thighs need. Carrie is annoyed by the amount of attention that this part of her body needs. Bikes are hard on the butt and thigh areas. Carrie spends too much time thinking about the skin in between her legs. Carrie also hates cotton underwear. Carrie may try out not wearing underwear. Shit related media: Carrie talks about butt stuff. Carrie is hesitant because she doesn't want Pam to listen to this. Carrie talks about her interest in very aesthetically clean, White spaces in Porn. Carrie is turned on by a lack of body fluids and body hair in her porn. Sarah tends to enjoy amateur everything including porn. Carrie is still sexually attracted to Forky. Sarah talks about a reality TV star who sold her own farts in a jar. Carrie talks about fart salad. Sarah thinks Carrie should monetize her farts after fart salad. Jay thinks Carrie should sell pictures of their feet. Sarah thinks this idea has promise and thinks Carrie and Jay should do this together. Carrie wants to step on bread and thinks Jay has sexy masculine feet. Sarah thinks Carrie should abandon her dream of recording romance novels in her van and should start producing Carrie and Jays feet. Sarah spins a yarn for Carrie and Jays feet. Sarah thinks Carrie needs to figure out her foot vibe. Carrie wants to have her toenails painted. Toxic Traits: Carrie thinks telling a story about herself is a toxic trait, because she is a little narcissistic. Carrie reflects on her story-telling tendencies. She is trying to wait before sharing her stories. Sarah doesn't want to be a stereotype. Sarah's toxic trait is that she teeters into neuroticism. Sarah makes a plan to address her neuroticism. Sarah puts it all out there and then is worried about what she put out there. Sarah is also working on her shit. Music by Miseryslims Art by Windy Valley Creative

Kris loves reading, learning, and his cool smoking jacket. Carrie let Sarah do the intro. Sarah says learning sucks the funny out of Carrie. Sarah tells Carrie a story and asks her to workshop a story about her past neighbors who had drawers of snakes. Carrie tells Sarah the lesson for this week. Carrie talks about using exaggeration to turn stories into comedy. Sarah tries to make people feel good about themselves about their endeavors. Carrie provides additional context to shape the story to turn it into comedy. Carrie promises to give a joke update during the shit show. Carrie promised to look up how much snakes shit and update. Sarah pivots to UFOs and Carrie can't remember about UFO's. Carrie has to get an update from our news correspondent Jennie. Sarah just finished being a mom for the past 4 days when friend of the pod Amanda came to visit. Sarah talks about Amanda's family interest in baseball. Carrie also went to a baseball game and strategically blocked off seats. Carrie is still sick and she got “the sugars.” Carrie works on not assigning moral value to her diabetes. What we're loving this week: Carrie is loving her partner Jay because he is being very helpful on this diabetes journey. Carrie realizes that she is scared and has a lot of feelings about her diagnosis including feeling ashamed. Carrie shares that Jay says exactly the right thing and was the most supportive thing. Carrie doesn't give herself space to learn about herself, but she's working on it. Carrie is working on being kind to herself and will do more work during the shit show. Carrie's entire career is a coping mechanism for her food issues. Sarah is back in karaoke this league with friends and she's loving it this week. Sarah's team is Basic Instinct with a call back “Slay.” Sarah is proud that she kicked her leg up onto the wall. Sarah thinks competitive is for her and she tries not to make it her full personality. Carrie and Sarah create pie charts of their personalities: Carrie is: 20% Bikes; 40% Farming; 10% Lipstick and Nails; 30% pizza. Sarah is: 100% karaoke. Carrie and Sarah agree that karaoke is Sarah's whole personality. What I love about myself: Carrie is loving her purple ponytail. Carrie cut her sides herself and has a fresh haircut. Carrie wanted to find a barber in Atlanta but didn't do it because she was busy. Jay likes Carrie's hair and complements her on her color choices. Sarah wonders if Jay would dye his hair to match Carrie. Sarah can't remember the name of the show with the 5 guys who do makeovers. Carrie wants to steal Tan France's look. Carrie wants to record romance novels in the back of the van and live life on the road with Jay and 5 dogs. Carrie promises to prepare a romance novel reading. Sarah shares that Patrice is writing a romance novel. Sarah tells a story about making random friends and how it led to Patrice having a creative burst of energy. Sarah say's Carrie should record the audio version of the book. Sarah loves that she is open to bringing people together. Sarah's philosophy is to enter the world as if everyone is already her friend. Carrie describes how does this at conferences. Sarah calls Carrie a conference slut. Carrie thinks it's fun to be brave with people who make friends. Sarah describes this technique as being aggressively extroverted. Sarah describes the sacrifice that comes with making things making things bigger and building an adventure. Sarah doesn't know what she was talking about but tries to talk about the structure of the university system. Sarah will probably be in DC awhile. Carrie says she will be in Pittsburgh awhile too especially since she just painted her kitchen cabinets green. What we love about each other: Carrie loves that Sarah is good at making friends. Sarah loves that Carrie made a good decision about Jay.

Voice Memo: Hal loves his taste in music (and dad jokes). Carrie and Sarah start off with trauma talk and acknowledge the shitty-ness of the world. Sarah takes emotional dumps in her therapist's office. Sarah finds a patriarchal overlord and Carrie says it's good to have a backup plan. Carrie and Sarah agree that Jay will be a benevolent overlord. Sarah wants to write a game: “Things Ruined by Water World”. Carrie fell asleep while boys watched Water World at camp. Sarah presents a concept for the game and a “see this, do this response”. Carrie and Sarah discuss potential things that exist in Water World. Carrie anticipates rain in Water World. Sarah says she didn't think the rain would come from the sky. Carrie loves a call and response. List of Thing and Stakes: Rain or storm – “shout your observation” and take off a piece of clothing; if the Sun comes out- put something on; Sunburned skin and chapped lips – take a drink; Eats something raw – taste something; Tall partially submerged modern landscape – Say “Ahoy” and then chug a drink; Detailed explanation of why the world is underwater (monologue) – trade drinks and then dramatically chug your drink; Someone hanging from the edge of something and then being rescued in a dramatic fashion – “Oh no, somebody pull him in” and nobody drink until they are safe. Carrie offers listeners the opportunity to have a game created by us based of title and plot alone. Carrie and Sarah wonder how wet did it get on water world. Carrie went to a conference after vacation and has been gone for a full month. What we love this week: Carrie loves hotel bars because they offer nothing other than opportunities to make friends. Carrie makes friends and converts enemies at conferences. Carrie keeps edibles in cough drop wrappers. Carrie hates bourbon but loves friends. Sarah puts a lot of water in her bourbon. Sarah also likes hotel bars but didn't have that at her previous conference. Carrie and Sarah like a little danger in their hotel bars. Sarah loves that she's practicing emotional vulnerability on purpose. Sarah is in a growth-oriented space. Sarah has very tall emotions. Sarah says she will not give an example. Carrie peer pressures Sarah into giving an example. Sarah was only prepared to talk about Water World. Carrie reminds us that she will not fight for water in the apocalypse. Carrie offers more observations for Water World. Carrie's colleagues also wouldn't want to fight for water. Sarah realizes that Water World is a deflection. Sarah gives an example from her life of hiding her feelings and negotiates parts of herself. What I love about myself: Sarah loves that she is working through her emotions. Sarah recognizes her strategies to recognize her messy feelings and how does she want to be responding to situations. Sarah doesn't want to have dualities or be ambivalent. Sarah wants friendship tattoos: line drawing of a bull, jellyfish, and tramp stamp. Carrie loves that Sarah is doing the work. Carrie brings her first joke set to the pod. Carrie describes the first lesson and breaks down the construction of a joke. Carrie performs her jokes, and they are amazing. Carrie will be working on exaggerations in the next lesson. Sarah appreciates Carrie providing a high-quality comedy show. Sarah thinks Carrie is good at everything. What we love about each other: Sarah loves that Carrie came up with a really good water world game and that she's putting together a comedy set. Carrie reminds us that she's sexually attracted to Forky. Carrie loves that Sarah gives good encouragement and that Sarah is emotionally vulnerable. Carrie loves that Sarah thinks she can help. Carrie and Sarah engage in public reflection on the pod and appreciate it. Music by Miseryslims Art by Windy Valley Creative

Melissa is a safe person for her students. Carrie lost a press-on nail in her body crevice. Sarah thanks Carrie's body for preserving her fingernail. Carrie and Sarah are creviced, chaos monsters. Sarah goes on a shame spiral about her life. Carrie diagnosed Sarah with an anxiety disorder. Sarah resists the diagnosis. Carrie blames their jobs. Sarah tries to understand her problems and make it positive. Carrie said that Sarah is doing what her therapist says. Carrie doesn't care about other people's stories of her. Carrie has been traveling for too long. Carrie sang at a wild bar in Montana full of taxidermy animals. Carrie explains karaoke to children. Carrie won birthday karaoke. Sarah is excited that Carrie is a winner. Sarah went and talked to the karaoke facilitator about the injustice of someone else singing Carrie's final karaoke number. Carrie said the competition was not that stiff. Sarah plays the teenage mutant ninja turtles theme song. Sarah laugh-chokes loudly on the pod. Carrie calls Sarah spicy. What we are loving this week: Carrie loves drugs this week…for her allergies and asthma. Carrie gave her body over to a higher power came through her sickness feeling rejuvenated. Sarah is glad that Carrie didn't take Zyrtec because it's a gateway drug. Sarah re-joins karaoke league and engages in passive activism. Carrie wonders if the message will be received? Sarah thinks there is no place for equity in karaoke league. Carrie encourages Sarah to forfeit her morals. Carrie and Sarah reminisce about how they have fun doing karaoke without any audience at all. What I love about myself: Carrie loves her recurring dream. Carrie talks about her realistic SNL dream and the mentorship from Kenan and Lorne, and moral dilemmas or getting home from SNL. Sarah has follow-up questions. Carrie has this dream frequently and these dreams increased when she was up for a career chance. Sarah thinks it's funny that Carrie wants to become newspaper famous. Carrie unpacks the stress of the dream. Carrie has fun having this dream. Sarah and Carrie call out Katie to interpret the dream. Carrie will prepare a set for stand-up to perform in episode 17. Sarah had a dream about a brontosaurus in front of the local grocery store. Sarah talks about how she is experiencing life and reframing shame spirals. She loves that she is reframing these experiences. Carrie describes her reprogramming and identifies performance and honesty. Sarah and Carrie process the overturn of Roe vs. Wade and the experiences in different places in the US. Sarah doesn't want to be dishonest anymore and Carrie doesn't want that either. Carrie and Sarah like to embed learning in all their interactions. What we love about each other: Carrie loves that Sarah immediately took her side during a family trip situation. Sarah says the punishment should fit the crime. Sarah loves everything about Carrie including her crevices. Sarah and Carrie tease their foreplay plans. Music by Miseryslims Art by Windy Valley Creative

Amber loves that she can adapt. Carrie is a west coast personality located on the east coast. Sarah doesn't know what that means. Katie joins the podcast and calls out Carrie and Sarah for shitting on the West coast after we came back from brunch. What we are loving this week: Sarah is loving graduation because of the spontaneous crying. Katie remembers food as a memory of graduation but doesn't care about the actual memory of ceremony. Carrie remembers the 7 fishes, an Italian tradition. Katie tells us about all the food. Carrie calls it the graduation into the new year. Carrie likes the costumes associated with graduation. Katie talks about her ideas of graduation having to do with rituals in her mind. Sarah describes the basic rituals associated with graduations like sipping blood from a cup. Carrie reminds us that there is also the chicken sacrifice. Sarah believes in cultivating donors from pre-K graduation. Carrie doubts the need to celebrate going to kindergarten. Carrie is loving that she became an ordained minister to be more like Katie. Carrie upgraded her certificate because of the aesthetics of the piece of paper. Katie incorporates jokes into her officiation plan for weddings. Carrie and Katie are wedding performers. Carrie learned about shining from Lizzo. Katie was first ordained to officiate queer ceremonies—token lesbian woods officiant. Sarah wants to discuss the performance of officiating with a ceremonial axe or hatchet. Sarah facilitates the discussion of ceremonial outfits. Carrie discusses her outfit ideas. Sarah asks Carrie and Katie what their co-ordination plan for outfits to co-officiate. Katie would stick with linens and Carrie would also enjoy a linen. Katie, Carrie, and Sarah discuss inside and outside dresses. Sarah apologizes for bringing everything back to the Axe. Katie is loving alone time right now. Sarah plans to leave right now. Katie wrote up trip plans for Carrie. Katie and Carrie had many adventures together. Katie is taking a break from writing. Sarah made a game for Katie about music. Katie made a mixed CD for Carrie. Sarah names a scenario and Katie chooses songs to demonstrate different scenarios. This moment – song “Heathens” – Twenty-One Pilots Adventure – “Runnin with the Devil” - Van Halen Romance – “Love Grows” - Edison Lighthouse Favorite Holiday – “Roll it up, Light it up” Cypress Hill Alone Time – “All Coming Back to Me” – Celine Dion Getting it on – “Secret Smile” – Semisonic Celebration – “Tootsee Roll” – 69 boyz Song for Religious Observation – “Let Go” - Frou Frou Listen here to “Remember to Forget with Katie” https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2wCFvBSBf7USNnJRbyyyZE?si=c47bb87ff6784111 Carrie adds Montell Jordan “This is How We Do it” and her line-up of karaoke songs. These are also on Katie's playlist. Katie wears clothes for us but prefers full nudity. What we love about ourselves: Carrie loves that she is extra and brings that extra-ness. Carrie sewed herself an outfit for a 7 min. karaoke performance. Carrie is very wealthy. Sarah is the type of lesbian that does DIY and talks about her floors. Katie wonders about haunting of her old building. Sarah says spirits have not revealed themselves to her yet. Carrie says Sarah is brave. Sarah says she is motivated by free. Katie says Sarah can upgrade her rug game. Carrie loves a home renovation. Carrie and Katie plan a road trip together to visit Sarah. Katie loves that she forgets everything she's done meaning she doesn't carry the weight of memories. Katie encourages everyone to forget. Carrie tells Katie her lack of memory is beautiful. Katie learns and forgets. Carrie, Katie, and Sarah sing. Music by Miseryslims. Art by Windy Valley Creative

Valentine loves her big heart. Carrie has a difficult opening. Sarah takes a moment of silence. Carrie is feeling the oppressive heat in TX and Sarah asks Carrie to talk how she's feeling. Carrie educates the listener about Allsup's Convenience Stores. Carrie and Sarah talk about feminine broccoli farts. Carrie won't be in TX long. Sarah tries to protect her fun energy and won't do things that aren't fun. Sarah doesn't want to do much this summer if it isn't fun. Sarah cancels conferences and Carrie likes a niece conference. Carrie points out YP vs. MP as a useful boundary setting device. Carrie talks about her shifting relationship with her niece. Sarah moves on when her nieces and nephews don't like her. Sarah states that life is hard because it keeps changing. Carrie uses Sarah as a pawn in her plan to be the best aunt. Sarah is in her gay Blanche Devereaux period. Carrie asks Sarah if she wants to update the listeners about her status about town. What we are loving this week: Sarah is loving June in DC because it is the gayest month, and she went to a burlesque show on a date and hosted a patio party. Sarah wonders about Blanche's dating life. Carrie says it's possible that Blanche went out every night. Carrie is exhausted from sitting on the patio two nights in a row in the TX heat. Carrie thinks about how when she's high people don't laugh at her jokes. Sarah establishes her 3 favorite things to do while high: walk around museum, sleep, and fuck. Carrie recommends doing these all at the same time. Sarah says she's not about that prison life. Sarah is feeling connected and affirmed; it's liberating to not have to deal with her inner conflict anymore. Carrie talked about how she didn't feel like herself when she dressed in a way that was more authentic to her. Sarah supports the small embodiment of self. Carries loves her press-on nails and is into it. Carrie loves a cheap and pretty nail. Sarah realizes, in this moment as she writes the show notes that she put the picture on the previous week's episode. Sarah loves Carrie's nail-ventures. Carrie likes the combo of pretty nails, eyelash and with masculine clothing aesthetic. Sarah doesn't know her color names. Sarah remembers watching kids fight on the playground and getting her period. Carrie got her period a little later and now does not get a period because of her IUD. What We Love About Each Other: Carrie and Sarah have BFF crop tops. Sarah describes the crop top: nude color with white pasties. Carrie's phone thinks it's explicit content. Carrie says the new sign off is Blorp FF. Sarah loves the vibes and the weather of the day on pride. Sarah loves that Carrie is fucking things up just by her sheer presence in spaces. Carrie's therapist labels the “performance” of being in non-inclusive spaces as shuttling. We love each other! Blorp FF! Erica, Katie, Zoe and Melissa are responsible for all of our future decisions. Music by Miseryslims. Art by Windy Valley Creative.

Brittany loves her patience in the face of holding her bladder. Carrie is deeply invested in this podcast, and she loves charts. Carrie signed up for a stand-up comedy writing class. Sarah wants a play-by-play of Carries experience. Sarah will always bring the hype. Sarah is loving the weather and things feeling good instead of bad. Sarah went to a baseball game and a 2000's dance party. Carrie remembers Y2K and Jennifer Lopez. Sarah wants to consult on a Y2K party and has ideas. Carrie supports the apocalyptic energy. Carrie say's Y2K ended up being a non-problem. Sarah's Y2K memory was being a virgin on a trampoline. Carrie's Y2K memory is just a shallow feeling of wonder. Carrie and Sarah decide on a dance party escape room. What We Are Loving This Week: Carrie read a book called “Never Saw Me Coming” and she thought it was great. Carrie thought the main character was too much of a girl. Sarah reminds Carrie we are not psychopaths. Sarah is loving spring and is doing some spring cleaning – cleaning her oven. Carrie is cleaning up all the dog hair. What We Love About Ourselves: Sarah wants Carrie to say Body-ody-ody because it's more fun. Carrie wants Sarah to go first. Sarah is liking something specific about the aesthetic look of her body being tattooed based on the upper inner arms when lifted. Carrie shares her favorite salt and pepper shaker tattoos in a fun cartoon style by a phantom tattoo artist. Sarah tells about her hammers to fuck up the patriarchy. Carrie got a safe star tattoo to keep a secret from her parents. Sarah talks about getting a tramp stamp. Talks about getting a tattoo in the early 2000's and it reminds her of a Disney “D”. Carrie may re-pierce her nose. Sarah may also re-pierce her nose and tells a story of keeping a needle in her nose. Carrie tells the complex story of her floral tattoo that has a sad meaning to her. Sarah spins it as a simple snack. Carrie talks tattoos at work. Sarah talks about using her tattoos strategically to share when she chooses to share. Carrie's tattoos connect with students and subvert corporate culture. Sarah is deeply committed to her fun. Carrie loves the idea of people self-selecting by us being more honest. Carrie also loves that her body allowed her to roller-skate and how she felt doing it. Carrie went loose with her body. Carrie likes her ass and her strength to hold her nephew upside-down. Sarah plays with her asthetic. What we love about each other: Carrie and Sarah talk at the same time. Carrie loves Sarah's tattoos and Sarah loves Carries butt. Sarah recommends that they get twin tramp stamps. We agree that's what friends are for. Music by miseryslims. Art by Windy Valley Creative.

Julia, the lesbian, insists on things that make her happy. Sarah didn't learn phonics. Carrie tells Sarah everything she does wrong again including her spelling. Sarah doesn't care, but Carrie just let her know. Sarah doesn't edit herself; Carrie wants Sarah to change. Sarah reads wrong and wants to call her mom. Sarah had a busy week and is a good friend and will pick people up at the airport including her friend Patrice. Carrie is a cool kid and has been out on the town before going to another event. Carrie hosted awards ceremony and gave out awards. Carrie edited her script to include jokes and point the attention back to her. Carrie has a sickness and Sarah is down with the sickness. Carrie got wet and felt a tingle when the audience laughed. Carrie went to live music events, Jack White, and Wynona Judd. Carrie comes out when the suns out with her guns out. Sarah is Benjamin Franklin at karaoke and gets drunk with her Aunt Cathy, Uncle Bill and Patrice. Carrie finds a shirt that makes her happy. Carrie and Sarah talk about recycling shirts. Sarah has bad entrepreneurial ideas. Carrie sold furniture projects. Sarah felt cute on the bus in her crop top. Sarah reacts to a gif that Carrie sent her of a big buy in high rise pants. Carrie and Sarah talk fashion and construct an outfit for Carrie. Carrie shares about her body dysmorphia. What I love about myself: Sarah forces Carrie to talk about what she loves about her body-ody-ody. Sarah is practicing finding things she loves about her body. Carrie is working on loving her body. Carrie and Sarah agree that this is a long-term process. Sarah zones out her body and likes her boobs. Carrie asks about preferred terms to refer to boobs. Carrie reacts to Sarah reading terms for the boobs. Carrie cut her hair and is going to Blue herself. Carrie also tinted her brow and shares about her tattoos. Sarah and Carrie plan to talk about tattoos the following week. Sarah talks about her awkward flirting. Carrie talks about how she likes her legs. Sarah gets Carrie to share if she likes slang words for legs. Carrie and Sarah discuss toilet legs. What we love about each other: Carrie loves Sarah's google skills; Sarah loves how Carrie brings comedy into stuffy places. Carrie does comedy for others. Sarah wants us to blorp shit up. Sarah likes to fake it so she doesn't look dumb. Carrie says that it is the foundation of the friendship. Music by miseryslims. Art by Windy Valley Creative

Carrie doesn't remember Sarah's sign and mislabels her a Virgo. Carrie holds everything Sarah's ever said that is incorrect against her. Sarah feels like Carrie doesn't know her at all. Sarah gives key things to know about her and they are all non-sense. Carrie reminds Sarah that she likes Cheese-itz, being a Gemini and a spacious caftan. Sarah and Carrie take screenshots of themselves. Carrie keeps cards and cigarettes in her caftan. Carrie runs a secret gambling ring. Sarah now works in Carrie's underground gambling ring. Sarah loves a scam. Carrie frequently steals from charities. Carrie's been spring cleaning and scrubs her stairs to clean off the mud her dogs track in. Sarah has rules about her animal and what they will wear. Sarah is a Pentecostal or Mennonite dog parent. Carrie wrote down that she has cute aggression. Sarah says Carrie approaches her poker strategy with cute aggression. Carrie says Sarah is wrong and brings out the science. Carrie hates it when things are so cute. Sarah is concerned for Jay's emotional safety. Sarah talks about a show on Netflix called about the Principles of Pleasure. Carrie reminds us that you can't do everything. What I'm loving this week: Carrie shared that she loves podcasts: 1 called Normal Gossip. Sarah tells Carrie to stop trolling her. Sarah discussed the book Word Slut and language. Sarah says words in her head more than she says things out loud. Carrie also loves a podcast called punch up the jams and deconstructs Backstreet Boys lyrics. Sarah has been thinking about “the arts” and rethinking her art on display. Sarah likes sapphic art. Sarah couldn't deal with her life so she decided to go to a museum to the One With Eternity: Yayoi Kusama in the Hirshhorn Collection. Sarah is loving art. What I love about myself: Carrie engages her students in writing projects, and her friend Jamie told Carrie she is kind of a big deal. Carrie started pitching things left and right. Carrie felt hyped up by a bud and invigorated by putting herself out there. Carrie loves that putting things out there feels emotionally neutral. Carrie doesn't care about other people's time right now. Is it growing up or glowing up to ask people for favors. Sarah discusses imposter syndrome and Deborah Cox and the removal of the mental drama. Carrie has received the promotion and incorporated it into her being. Carrie shares her experience with EDMR to deal with trauma. Carrie get's hyped up by the other rad women. Sarah tries not to cause harm. Carrie glows with self-possession because she's does the work. Sarah is being forced to be reflective about herself. Sarah discussed body acceptance and identifying things that she likes about her physical appearance. Taking in her body and things she finds attractive about her body. Sarah likes her full lips, wonky smile, and gaped teeth. Sarah embraces her gaps and interestingness. Sarah pledges to kiss everyone upon meeting them. Sarah will not surprise kiss people in the professional environment. Carrie loves a surprise kiss and a signature lip. Carrie is a karaoke winner! Carrie sang Melissa Etheridge as her warmup and brings it home with Tina Turner's Simply the Best. Carrie won a tie breaker with Dolly Parton's Jolene and brought home the popular vote. What we love about each other: Sarah loves that Carrie won karaoke and she is Sarah's favorite performer. Carrie loves Sarah's resilience despite going through her withdrawals from allergy medicine. Sarah is still grateful for her body even though she is itchy. Carrie makes jokes. Sarah and Carrie are in friend love forever. Music by miseryslims. Art by Windy Valley Creative

Nate loves shaving his head. Carrie takes medicine for anxiety. Sarah introduces friend Dr. Patrice French. Carrie is jealous of Patrice.Patrice tells everyone how hot she looked in her photos. Carrie loved the pink suit. Patrice reminds everyone how smart she is. Sarah asks Patrice if she is entering into the afterparty of her dissertation. Carrie says that she made her mom call her Doctor. Sarah forces everyone to listen to her talk about her karaoke afterparty. Patrice gets dragged to go to karaoke, but she secretly loved it. Patrice loves to people watch. Patrice makes up to her own songs during karaoke. Patrice tells karaoke purists get mad. Carrie talks about trivia that she hosts and shares her karaoke at her first karaoke competition. Carrie plans to win it all with some kinda 90's country! Patrice is inspired by Amy Winehouse. Sarah thinks Amy Winehouse would be proud of Patrice for finishing her PhD. Carrie made a game for Patrice. Patrice guesses titles of Romance Novels or Hallmark Movies with 100% accuracy. Carrie and Patrice love pure garbage romance books. Patrice delivers a recap of a wild romance novel. Carrie and Patrice both read a large quantity of books. Carrie tells us how watching Married at First Sight during the pandemic helped her realize that she needed an anti-depressant. Carrie reminds us that she's in love with her therapist. Patrice's social work skills would make her a social worker. Sarah tells a story about Patrice. Patrice is a master manipulator. Putting her Social Work skills to use. Patrice's dog joins the party. Patrice discusses her lack of control over what she's thinking when on any substance. What we are loving: Carrie loves her bidet. Patrice also loves her bidet. Sarah says she is uncomfortable about her butt practices. Carrie said butthole. Sarah got intimidated by Carrie's bidet at her house. Carrie provides bidet tips. Patrice loves the energy around the nomination of Ketanji Brown Jackson. Sarah is writing a children's book called "Fuck You, Ted Cruise." Sarah is loving the connection of her friends What we love about ourselves: Patrice loves her compulsive tenacity and Wordle. Carrie also love Wordle and a bit of her own compulsion. Sarah loves her directing skills at karaoke and she is loving her cute little feet this week. Carrie loves her resourcefulness. Carrie spilled food on her shirt and solved all her problems by turning the shirt backward. Carrie has one pair of pants. What we love about each other: Carrie loves that Patrice was a good friend to Sarah when she needed her! Sarah loves that Patrice could be her parents' stand in daughter. Sarah loves that Carrie and Patrice have a shocking amount of things in common. Sarah loves that she has spent New Year's Eve with Carrie and Patrice for four years, and next year we'll all be together. Patrice loves Carrie and Sarah's glasses and the feeling is mutch. Patrice wants followers on Goodreads. Patrice live tweets Bridgerton and reality TV @frenchiemsw. MSW stands for Making Some Wacky Nonsense. Carrie wishes Martin Sheen was the President.

Kevin loves being confident. Carrie gets us into some real therapy and jokes that she likes to stalk her therapist. Carrie and Sarah are in the same room together and are drinking alcohol from teacups in Carrie's attic. Sarah asks Carrie if she wants to share her complicated relationship with a past high school friend. Carrie says no. Sarah keeps saying “Shit Show” and laughs at her voice. Sarah thinks shit is a good gimmick. Sarah shares her first experience on the Karaoke league and unveils the structure and her team's strategy. Carrie is a pub stakeholder. Carrie claims that this pod is all about singing really loud and not giving a fuck. Carrie talks about her neighborhood bar also hosting a karaoke competition and is pumped. Carrie gets horny for organization and loves horny stories. Carrie shares her experience participating in car bomb club and a woman rubbing her friend Nates head and saying it made her horny. Sarah is sorry for Nate. Carrie thinks it's funny when men get assaulted, but then takes it back. Carrie is an ally for Nate. Carrie gives an update that there was nothing to report on the work front. Sarah's dog Eve loves to harass Carrie's dog. Carrie defines what we mean by Shit Show. Carrie shares that she wants to do sift through the shit and do the work. Shit They Hate Rapid Fire: Sarah hates all travel related things in a city and cetirizine. Carrie hates 2 factor authentication, someone else stole Elder Millennial, when men make noise in yoga, and much more. Sarah threw up in yoga and Carrie also has thrown up doing yoga. Carrie throws up like a t-rex. Shit Related Media: Carrie found a show, All Things Great and Small. It is shit themed because the Vet sticks his hands in a butthole every episode. Sarah watched a show about cow buttholes, Creamerie. Sarah highlights “Wow, No Thank You” Samantha Irby's book where they discuss Chron's Disease. Carrie shares her own experience and reinforces that they need 2 bathrooms. Carrie shoutouts out the Ghoul on Ghoul podcast. Shit we're working on: Carrie discusses shitty jokes but also how she becomes cruel. Sarah deflects onto others, so she doesn't have to talk about herself. Carrie doesn't have a truth voice, but her joke is a truth joke. Sarah is upfront when meeting new people. Carrie says she's a slow reveal. Carrie plays hard to get in friendships. Sarah fully accepts people upfront and tries to make anyone her friend. Sarah talks about the world being shit. Sarah deflects so she doesn't have to share about herself. Sarah comes out, she figures out how to tolerate men over time, but then wants it and make it work overtime. Carrie talks about the toleration of people in relationships. Carrie doesn't think Sarah likes men. Sarah doesn't have data to make decisions. Sarah feels like a baby. Carrie wonders about the dynamics that may be created by the people or the circumstances. Sarah is working through her shit and maybe it's unrelatable. Carrie thinks Sarah is way more than tolerable. Sarah is the only person that she lives with that she can tolerate. Sarah wants to move in with Carrie. Carrie is a colonial woman and references a chamber pot. Sarah tries to remember a story about a celebrity that says he maybe ate dog shit. Carrie says it's plausible if they are picking up multiple poops. Sarah and Carrie think about shit being everywhere. Logo by Andra at Windy Valley Creative. Music by Miseryslims.

Patrice can protect you from Tinder Swindlers. Carrie and Sarah get spring breaks. Carrie had carpal tunnel surgery which means she gets to eat and watch tv. Sarah follows up on Carrie's cherry pie and Carrie said she already ate that pie. Jay's doctor said he should go on a diet. Carrie wants Jay to drag her to exercise and food. Sarah remembers doing extreme fitness shit but it wasn't good for her entire self. Sarah loves her body. Carrie also loves Sarah's body. Sarah makes up the word, turmultuous. Carrie teaches Sarah that she is wrong. Sarah doubles down on being wrong and is wrong more. Sarah loves to appear very dumb in her professional life. Carrie shares a relatable tiktok about being professional. Carrie shares many tiktok references. Carrie switched anti-depressants this week. Sarah promises to do some wellness checks on Carrie. Sarah says she's fine but disconnected from feelings. Sarah talks about the state of the union address. Carrie saw that on a tv at a Japanese restaurant. Sarah likes the hot takes from meme accounts. Sarah is cool young hip single person. Carrie said Sarah has a baby's forehead. Carrie hits on Sarah and tries to make #filterface happen. Sarah loves Carrie's filter face. Carrie and Sarah both like Cheetos. Carrie is wearing her flu sweater so she can stash her tissues. Carrie frames things as teaching moments. Sarah says teaching moments are gross. Carrie's brave enough to say it out loud. Sarah does the humm humm hummm from the Selena Gomez song. Carrie hums the mmmm mmm mmm mmm from Crash Test Dummies. What we're loving this week: Sarah loves that she could be Selena Gomez. Carrie wants Selena Gomez to open her teeth. Carrie loves wood epoxy and sent Sarah pictures of a chair that she rehabbed. Carrie saved her couch from her puppy. Sarah is happy that Carrie is bringing more furniture into her house. Carrie loves the show “Somebody Somewhere”. Sarah comes in hot. Sarah loves that she got on a family call while high and thinks she got away with it, but also wonders if she's on some prayer lists now. Sarah also got drunk just before a family call and logged on after throwing up everywhere. Sarah is thinking about ways to come out in small spaces and be queerer. Carrie is the first-person Sarah has talked to today. What we love about ourselves: Carrie loves that she said no to serving on a committee…and secretly undermined her work nemesis. Sarah tells Carrie she has “ask” left and right. Sarah loves to ask for what she needs from friends. Sarah is a practitioner at trying things and having courage. Sarah asks people to go with her to the Karaoke League social. Sarah drank too much wine and spilled it on her apartment wall and her dog judged her… that was a turning point. Carrie relates and karaokes to win. Carrie is always performing for talent scouts and wants a record deal. Sarah calls Carrie a narcissist. Sarah proposes a trip to Nashville so we can facilitate Carrie being discovered by talent scouts. Sarah will be Carrie's manager and hype person. Follow Carrie on tiktok singing chicken pun songs. @yolkulele What we love about each other: Carrie loves that Sarah is willing to go karaoke and has a book club and has made friends with strangers. Carrie and Sarah don't remember a time before their friendship. Friendship can be risky. Sarah loves that Carrie is the podcast producer. Logo by Andra at Windy Valley Creative. Music by Miseryslims.

Carrie gets a UTI because of "Valentine's Day." Sarah drinks witchy kombucha. We share our running bingo game. Sarah gets a random picture of a friend's baby with no message. Sarah hopes she was the wrong Sarah. Sarah is not on baby tik-tok. Carrie is into genius babies. Sarah's friends are in the diaper sphere. Trigger warning about baby content. What I'm loving this week: Carrie waits 2 to 3 years to see Reba and finally realizes her dream. Reba is a drag queen. Sarah only knows the chorus of Fancy. Carrie knows all the words to Fancy. Carrie knows her range, and all of Reba McEntire's catalogue is in Carrie's range. Vocal range and range of emotions. Sarah talks about Che Diaz and misgenders the character. Che Diaz's pronouns are they/them. Sarah loves that she went to a “comedy concert” with Langston Kerman. Sarah talked about all her “comedy concert” plans for the Spring, unfortunately Nicole Buyer cancelled her tour, but no worries…DC has lots of comedy concerts. What I love about myself: Sarah loves that she made a deliberate choice about a new shirt that she bought. Sarah had a coupon from stitch fix and bought a flannel shirt. Carrie loves a little victory. Carrie loves that she took the initiative about going to the doctor. Carrie stood up for herself when her doctor told her she was overweight. Carrie told her doctor to fuck off and found a new primary care doctor. Carrie imprinted on her new doctor and immediately fell in love with him. Sarah writes fan fic for Carrie and arranges a steamy three-way kiss scene on a bridge in the forest between Carrie, her therapist, and her doctor. What we love about each other: Carrie loves that I wrote her fan fic, and that Sarah tries to create new experiences for herself and things that are better alone. Carrie loves to shop alone and turned what she loves about Sarah into something she loves about herself, lol. Sarah loves that Carrie has curated her look. Logo by Andra at Windy Valley Creative. Music by Miseryslims.

Carrie and Sarah are failed stand-up comedians. Sarah makes Carrie do sliding doors, so Carrie tells her “sexy” no pants college romance story set during 9/11 aftermath. Carrie fantasizes about stealing packages from tracks. Sarah identifies that Carrie loves to play the part of being a thief. Sarah writes a small screen play about Carrie's patriotic and religious pants. Sarah went to an art exhibit about futures and was disappointed…but was also on an edible. Sarah may have been frozen in time while at the museum so she left. Sarah's vibe is to go to all museums while also lightly high listening to a fun playlist. What we love about ourselves: Sarah loves that she is able to take herself on dates and prioritizes being just with herself. Sarah loves to museum on her own. Carrie wants to be a tour guide at a geological wonder. Sarah likes the library and a coffee shop as a solo activity and she likes to disappear in the middle of the day to go to the movies. Carrie likes to dine alone and took herself to a fancy dinner. Sarah's not looking for a piece of furniture. Carrie teaches her mother-in-law the difference between sex and gender. Carrie loves that she is able to teach people about sex and gender. Carrie love Gal-entines and calls on Leslie Knope when she morphs into her power ranger. Carrie also loves the way her name looks and Sarah reminds her that she already talked about this on the podcast. We promise to get friendship tattoos of our own names on ourselves.  What we love this week: Carrie loves lots of things this week: Sweet Magnolias season 2, sewing caftans (with an engaging discussion of non- feminine accessories) and wordle… it took a toll on Carrie. Sarah loves that Carrie can instantly occupy a place of self-love, Sarah is radical and anti-capitalist because she takes a lunch break, Sarah loves watching moms complain.  What we love about each other: Carrie loves Sarah's intentional singleness and fearless partner-lessness. Sarah doesn't need a piece a furniture and encourages everyone to put their furniture on the curb for Carrie to flip. Carrie says she won't flip people. Carrie flipped herself and started making handmade valentines again for Jay. Jay said thank you to Carrie. Sarah loves the work Carrie has put into her relationship work especially for her and Jay. Carrie's love was only unconditional in her love 1 year of her life. We do the tough love work. Sarah leaves us on a cliff hanger about a starfish story… Logo by Andra at Windy Valley Creative. Music by Miseryslims.

Welcome Melia! Everyone is making soup and Melia appreciated the innovation of an insta-pot. Sarah has literal beef with an insta-pot because the lid always smells like beef. Melia empathizes with challenges of the venting process. Carrie affirms the sex positivity of the podcast. Carrie reminds us both that she is the center of our world. Melia likes “Grounds Hogs Day” both the movie and the calendar event. We discover that Ground Hog Day is actually how it's said and how to refer to people who are very into Ground Hog Day. We get to the bottom of Ground Hog Day to uncover meaningful facts about the day. What we love about ourselves: Sarah admits to being stupid and pretentious by telling someone she's in academia, but she loves that she can use her Texas accent when she wants too. Melia gets very Texan when she's parenting and talking to her child. Carrie's accent comes out when around mother-in-law and imitating her mom. Melia imitates her dad in a very inaccurate way. Carrie loves that she is the best at party themes. Melia agrees. Best party is the cocktail swap party where everyone invented an inspired cocktail. Melia shares about the drink Jay made for her wife Jill and her cocktail she made. Melia reflects on the friendship and 20 years of party injuries. Melia loves that she is embracing her one true age, 40, and that now she is vibing with people her own age. Hobbies include birdwatching, puzzling and birdwatching. She is making puzzle friends and she stops wasting time on bad books. Nor more finishing not good things. What we are loving this week: Melia cut back on drinking and now drinks non-alcoholic IPA and it still makes her drunk. Sarah likes chicken daddies. Carrie loves sour cream and onion potato chickens and seasonal red-bull because she's a dude bro. Carrie thinks you should yell "I'm a God!" to celebrate victories. What we love about each other: Carrie finds Melia incredibly attractive and Meila gets embarrassed. Carrie loves that Melia is “down to clown” and keeps Carrie from "jelly fishing" away from friendships. Carrie loves that Sarah can assimilate into any friend group. Sarah loves that she had so much fun with Melia when we hung out. Sarah loves Carrie's poppin face and that she's committed to doing her own work and personal reflection practice. Logo by Andra at Windy Valley Creative. Music by Miseryslims.

Melinda can handle anything. Carrie stalks her therapist, and it gets weird. Carrie discusses prepping for therapy and rubs crystals on her throat, she's a real crystal bitch. Sarah's therapist is a word document because she needs an audience. Sarah performs therapy and plays both roles. Carrie and Sarah discuss becoming later in life comedians and being Grace and Frankie. Carrie brings up astrology and we talk about astrology in the classroom. Carrie promotes Co-Star, but they are not a sponsor. Carrie discusses her star sign and the location of planets etc. Carrie has 2 personalities as a Gemini and wants to ask her therapist to do astrology with her. Carrie and her therapist mutually stalk each other. Sarah took an edible and it kicked in too early. She talked about Julia Lewis but means to say Juliette Lewis. Sarah is wrong a lot. Carrie stopped drinking but she still drinks at Trivia. Sarah finished some shows and she finished “Sort Of” and she liked it. Sarah googles too many things this episode. Carrie wants to recommend content for listeners because she likes to watch granny chic programming… cozy content only. Carrie gets WAP for Mathew Goode and his skinny British body. Carrie slides off her chair for google eyes stuck on White toast. Sarah is clearly on drugs. TV is not it for Carrie, but she is going hard with a transgressive cross-stich and making it “adult themed”. What we love about ourselves: Sarah is good at minor logistical feats. Carrie did some good writing this week and made her mom's Cherry Pie. She fuckin loves that she's going to eat the entire fuckin pie. We circle back to astrology and Sarah slurs her words. We are astrologically compatible! Carrie also loves the visual image of her laugh. We wrap up the show in a totally natural way.

Jennie is resilient. Carrie and Sarah remember the time they both worked at Dairy Queen in HS. Sarah got a bad reference from the manager. Carrie remembers Sarah taking off her shirt while at work. Carrie remembers the ice-cream splatter pattern. Sarah was a burger bitch. Carrie creates a “Raging” blizzard. Sarah reflects on loving bowling alley cheese sauce. Carrie provides a picture of Sarah's brother and describes giving him a sensual haircut. Carrie was in love Sarah's brother. Sarah is unimpressed. Carrie provides early proof of friendship with pictures from HS and college. Sarah keeps her hair in a bi-sexual bob most of the time. Sarah is sporting a bisexual look because she wore cargo pants. Sarah calls out Carrie for her Senior pictures which were cheerleader centric. Carrie shares pictures of her in graphic tees that include puns. Carrie loves a messenger bag. Sarah was friends with Carrie's younger sister. What we loved in HS: Sarah loved getting a cherry vanilla coke at the Outpost - which was the one stop shop hub for all the things - and driving around in her El Camino. Carrie can't decide if she wanted to fuck the boys she liked or be them. Carrie collected love messages from boys in HS. Carrie only cared about what Sarah's brother wrote in her yearbook. Carrie read a yearbook message from an ex-boyfriend who quoted Jim Morrison. Carrie struggles with HS memories. Carrie describes anxiety of dating a cool boy. Sarah remembers interiority and disconnect between what she was able to say and be. Carrie and Sarah agree that growing up is weird and hard. Sarah is a real soul stealer and Carrie says she's a witch. Carrie and Sarah talk about theatre nerds. Carrie talks about how everyone plays all the roles in HS. Carrie was a brainiac, weird goth, cheerleader in HS. Sarah play the roles of bad boy rebel, weirdo and sexy person. Carrie loved Josie and the Pussy Cats and Walt Whitman in HS. Sarah pushed things away as a form of self-preservation. Sarah describes a teacher who made a difference in her perception of what she could become and came to understand and take responsibility for her own learning. Carrie hadn't found herself yet in HS. We had limited exposure to jobs. Smart women became teachers. What we loved about high school was Ms. Gillen. What we loved about ourselves in HS: Sarah loved her getting ready for school ritual. Carrie loved that she was smart as fuck in HS. She loved her style in HS including her second hand clothes and cuff bracelets. Sarah loved when she and her sister became friends. Carrie also became friends with her sister. Carrie talks about the selection of past lovers from HS. Sarah would only choose Carrie from HS. Sarah loves how she really brought the drama near the end of a relationship. Sarah through an ex-boyfriends keys into a field without them knowing. Carrie food bombed an ex's car. Sarah described also food bombing an ex's car and her brother getting blamed for it. Sarah is not going to make a scene, she will do something hurtful leave people looking around in a field looking for their keys. What we loved about each other in HS: Carrie loves that Sarah was and is game for anything; Carrie was impressed that Sarah went to a lot of different schools. Carrie loves that Sarah is silly as hell. Sarah also thinks Carrie is a silly little girl. Sarah loved Carries Fashion in HS. Sarah loved their friendship in HS and how we evolved in very similar ways. Carrie reads what Sarah wrote to her in her yearbook. It's all very cute. Logo by Andra at Windy Valley Creative. Music by Miseryslims.

Lauren is a good friend. Carrie wears glasses and discusses her macular degeneration diagnosis; Sarah describes Carrie's glasses; Sarah's eyesight made her fall down the stairs; Carrie's 15th Wedding Anniversary was adjusted because she cried too much at therapy; Carrie had a panic attack about the environment and thought it was the end times; We both stopped drinking for dry January and beyond… What we love about ourselves: Carrie shares cleansing office routine (cue Carrie making a ruckus with crystals, lol); Sarah says it's fine, but don't try to sell your rituals; Carrie discusses meditation; Sarah shares that she facilitates more than participates to reflect and buys workbook; Sarah bought the workbook in 2020 not in 2000; Sarah is working to be more openly queer. Carrie discussed her curated diet modification to the curated closet; Sarah is committed to letting things break and crying professional teams. What we are loving this week: Carrie loves Queer Eye and crying about it; Sarah is going to sign up for team based everything; Karaoke league origin story in DC and Pittsburgh. What we love about each other: Sarah loves Carries ritual; We love knowledge sharing. Final thoughts/Wrap: Origin of Very Loud and Very Confident… May all beings be loud and confident. Logo by Andra at Windy Valley Creative. Music by Miseryslims.

Carrie and Sarah discover - while recording - what their new podcast is going to be about: friendship and self-love, but not giving advice. Sarah tells the story of their friendship, and Carrie apologizes for leaving Sarah on her wedding day... and then only calling on birthdays for the next decade. It's hard to say what you love about yourself, but Carrie loves the way her name looks when it's spelled out and how good she is at being in therapy. Sarah loves that she is a good dog owner with loving and realistic boundaries. Sarah decides that Carrie is a laidback cultleader - "The Jimmy Buffet of Our Generation - and Carrie doesn't disagree. Carrie bought a disappointing chicken 2D Christmas decoration and Sarah loves the drama of demonstrations in DC. We are not experts in self-care, but we are teachers, so maybe we can be life coaches? Logo by Andra at Windy Valley Creative. Music by Miseryslims.

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