That's What We Said

What’s on the minds of four women exploring their place in the world - politics, pop culture, parenting, and everything in between. Set against the backdrop of small-town Kentucky life, informed by progessive values, gen-x sensibilities, and the search for humor and friendship amongst the insanity.

Episode 72 - Minnesota Nice and California Cool 10/21/2024

Episode 72 - Minnesota Nice and California Cool The presidential race has shifted dramatically and how better to get to know the new candidates than through the regional experts at That’s What We Said. No, we don’t know VP Harris and Gov Tim Walz — well, Kelly has met Governor Walz once, thanks to her amazing nephew , Disability Rights Activist. But we do know all about the California Bay Area and about Midwestern Nice. Make sense of the Democratic candidates by hearing our tales of growing up in California and the Midwest. /episode/index/show/thatswhatwesaidberea/id/33555997

Bienvenue! 08/15/2024

Bienvenue! Jump feet first into the Olympic pool with us as we recap our favorite moments of the Paris Games. We cover everything from swimsuits that don’t cover much to Bob The Cap Catcher who has the swimming team’s tresses all covered. Cry with us about Celine Dion. Ponder the new names of old sports and the arrival of new sports that maybe weren’t ready for primetime. Ahem, raygun. And try to avert your eyes with us as we put that one moment on repeat. /episode/index/show/thatswhatwesaidberea/id/32582752

Episode 70 - The Alpaca's B*tch 07/29/2024

Episode 70 - The Alpaca's B*tch A new episode after just 18 months? We say that’s quick for four women who are definitely not trying to have it all, even if the “all” feels like it’s been piling up all around us for the last decade. Seriously though, we found ourselves with some hope in our hearts and the energy to get back in the studio and not just because of the chance to poke fun at wannabe Kentuckian JD Vance. #relish #answerthecall /episode/index/show/thatswhatwesaidberea/id/32330122

Episode 69 - The Birthday Episode 12/14/2022

Episode 69 - The Birthday Episode Kelly has reached a milestone birthday, and we’re taking a few moments to reflect on the wisdom we’ve earned in almost two centuries of living. Among the four of us. We’re not saying Kelly is two hundred years old! In this episode, you’ll get tips about car tweezers, grocery cart strategy, youtube fitness videos, and above all, cooking turkeys in bags. Call us, Reynolds Corporation! And stick around to hear how we got our Cracker Barrel breakfast comped in a Downton Abbey re-enactment. Recorded via Zoom in Berea, KY | Edited by Kelly Smith | Music composed and performed by Elly Green | Artwork by Jessica Holly /episode/index/show/thatswhatwesaidberea/id/25331721

Episode 68 - The Garden of Effing Eden 07/04/2022

Episode 68 - The Garden of Effing Eden Are you ready for rage? After the decision by the US Supreme Court to overturn Roe V Wade, we take some time for fury. If you’re looking for actions and solutions, this episode is not for you as we’re honoring the grief process with a week for anger before we get back to the hard work of bandaiding American Democracy. If you want to hear from four fortysomething women who are just as angry as you, then we’ve got the profanity-laced incoherence you need for this moment. /episode/index/show/thatswhatwesaidberea/id/23627918

Episode 67 - Mysteries, Histories, and Mascara 05/27/2022

Episode 67 - Mysteries, Histories, and Mascara This week, we’re talking about what we’ve been reading, listening to, and watching. We’ve got movies to be watched on planes, twitter accounts about home repair from the star of Our Flag Means Death, and weighty tomes about history. But this episode quickly turns into an intervention for Kelly and Becca who may have gone a little too deep into true crime, The Staircase, and the story of Michael Peterson. We just want them to not scare themselves silly right before bedtime. Stay tuned after the episode outro music for an 'easter egg' segment that’s NSFDTKTSITFM -- that’s Not Safe For Driving The Kids To Soccer In The Family Minivan. It’s not safe for work either. Recorded via Zoom in Berea, KY | Edited by Kelly Smith | Music composed and performed by Elly Green | Artwork by Jessica Holly /episode/index/show/thatswhatwesaidberea/id/23247206

Episode 66 - Beaver Research 05/06/2022

Episode 66 - Beaver Research And we’re back! Welcome to Season 3 of “That’s What We Said.” With some false stops and starts as we struggle once again with faulty internet and remembering our own names, we’re ready to catch up. A lot has happened during our hiatus, including the controversial opening of a mega gas station in our community. Some of us have begun traveling for work again, and we have some stories from airports. Boy, do we have stories. “That’s What We Said” is like spending Saturday evening on the porch with your friends, sipping a glass of wine and shooting the breeze. Recorded via Zoom in Berea, KY | Edited by Kelly Smith | Music composed and performed by Elly Green | Artwork by Jessica Holly /episode/index/show/thatswhatwesaidberea/id/23023901

Episode 65 - Yay for Mae! 10/26/2021

Episode 65 - Yay for Mae! It’s time for more Kentucky politics on the pod! This week, we’re excited to interview Mae Suramek, candidate for the 89th District Kentucky House seat. It’s just a few days until the election here in Madison County, and Mae talks about running for office, running a business, and starting a new podcast about the Asian American experience in Kentucky. We discuss how to “do well by doing good.” /episode/index/show/thatswhatwesaidberea/id/20950763

Episode 64 - Let Your Light Shine - With Wine! 09/18/2021

Episode 64 - Let Your Light Shine - With Wine! Have you ever felt like you REALLY WANT to do SOMETHING to help fix the the world, but can't find the time between working, helping with homework, shuttling kids to practices, grocery shopping, and #allthethings? /episode/index/show/thatswhatwesaidberea/id/20518268

Episode 63 - Pulling Back the Curtain 09/06/2021

Episode 63 - Pulling Back the Curtain We’ve recently learned that we’re the eighth most popular comedy podcast in Oman, so we’re dreaming about the future of the pod in this week’s episode. What do you want to hear?. More tales of Katie Marie Kondo-ing her drawers? More library adventures from Kelly? More murder books from Jenny? Whatever our listeners want, we’re prepared to bring it. /episode/index/show/thatswhatwesaidberea/id/20382650

Episode 62 - Bow & Arrowing 08/23/2021

Episode 62 - Bow & Arrowing There’s Covid everywhere & we can’t keep safe Covid measures in place because of the dumb KY legislature & stubborn people who won’t listen to science so we're feeling a bit down. To distract ourselves, we decide to reflect on the Olympics - from the incredible US Women's Gymnastic Team to knitting divers to necklace wearing soccer/football players to dancing horses. We learn that Becca was a gymnast! And Jenny & her mom dabbled in synchronized swimming! After a month-long hiatus we’re back! #relish /episode/index/show/thatswhatwesaidberea/id/20237858

Episode 61 - Otherwise Occupied 07/12/2021

Episode 61 - Otherwise Occupied It’s time for a media roundup. After Jenny and Katie’s conflict over Cards Against Humanity in the last episode, they make up over their shared affection for TikToker Kevin James Thornton. Shoutout to Katie for always sharing Hoosier-adjacent TikToks with Jenny. Becca raises the tone with some excellent nonfiction about podcast hero — and everyone’s hero!— Eleanor Roosevelt. Finally, not even a binge watch of Kim’s Convenience can distract Kelly from a week of epic car trouble. /episode/index/show/thatswhatwesaidberea/id/19788536

Episode 60 - Dancing with Wildlife 06/21/2021

Episode 60 - Dancing with Wildlife What do a hoedown, a drowned mouse, a cutthroat game of Cards Against Humanity, hours spent on learning a TikToc dance, 45 bags of Cheetos, and a bottle of Snoop Dog wine have in common? Listen to it ALL go down in “Dancing with Wildlife,” (AKA “Notes from the Cabin” AKA “Kaftan Magic” AKA “Undisclosed Location”) a special That’s What We Said episode recorded during our epic post-Pandemic pod sisters weekend get-away. /episode/index/show/thatswhatwesaidberea/id/19551605

Episode 59 - The Freeman Show 06/01/2021

Episode 59 - The Freeman Show This week we reflect on the “new normal” as things start to open up and we adjust to maskless shopping and hard pants. For our first time recording together since the beginning of the quarantimes, we’re still figuring out our fancy new microphone, so please bear with our sound issues. Becca’s dog Freeman is the star (oh, and library squirrels!) And Jenny pitches her solution to getting folks vaccinated so we can live even more of a hard pants, hard partying mom lifestyle: it’s the Vaccininja Van. /episode/index/show/thatswhatwesaidberea/id/19313759

Episode 58 - Business Acumen, TWWS-Style 05/09/2021

Episode 58 - Business Acumen, TWWS-Style Now that we’ve conquered the podcasting world, we thought it was time to share our mega-million dollar business ideas. Maybe it’s not the best idea to broadcast our business acumen before copyrighting our brainstorms. Trademarking? Patenting? We don’t know, so maybe we should just put all this genius out into the public domain. MRS! Sips and Soccer! Super Distractors! Hawt Mayor Calendars! Interested? You can reach us at our cafe bookstore in Canada...in our dreams. /episode/index/show/thatswhatwesaidberea/id/19035152

Episode 57 Bonus - Behind the Scenes of the Most Professional Podcast Ever 04/22/2021

Episode 57 Bonus - Behind the Scenes of the Most Professional Podcast Ever It's the outtake footage you've been waiting for, where we discuss whether to purchase a microphone for in-person recording. Sound dull? Our "under the hood" conversations are rarely dull... /episode/index/show/thatswhatwesaidberea/id/18768347

Episode 57 - Our Dapper Friends 04/19/2021

Episode 57 - Our Dapper Friends Between soccer, Easter, & a lot of mom type commitments, we’ve been off the air for a couple of weeks. We are back with our media recommendations for April. This month, dive into Jenny & Becca’s serious picks about WWII. Or how about some 80s Cold War intrigue with “The Americans?” But why would you do that when there’s Pig Royalty? Finally, we don't quite relish the murder bird who’s taken up residence on Katie’s roof, but we’d like to parlay her misfortune into some paid advertising from B /episode/index/show/thatswhatwesaidberea/id/18767702

Episode 56 - Don't Wash Your Meat! 03/28/2021

Episode 56 - Don't Wash Your Meat! March is almost over, and we’re wrapping up our month of interviews with kickass Kentucky women. Although we’re sad to see the month go, we can’t think of a better guest than epidemiologist and soccer mom Nikita Vundi. Nikita joins Katie and Jenny to talk about vaccines and public health. We ponder what changes from 2020 will last past the immediate danger of COVID-19, we bond over the necessity of not washing poultry, and we celebrate the glory of Girl Scout cookies. /episode/index/show/thatswhatwesaidberea/id/18498827

Episode 55 - Celebrating the Life of Michelle Tooley 03/21/2021

Episode 55 - Celebrating the Life of Michelle Tooley Continuing our conversations with Kentucky women, we welcome our friends Grace McKenzie & Heather Dent to share their upcoming children’s book about one of our Kentucky heroes. Michelle Tooley was a peace & social justice activist and professor here in Berea. We learn how they are bringing the book from a short presentation at a local summer camp to a hardbound story for the community. On this lovely spring day, we celebrate Michelle Tooley, who brought so much bright and cleansing light to the world. /episode/index/show/thatswhatwesaidberea/id/18410087

Episode 54 - It's Called Pooberty! 03/15/2021

Episode 54 - It's Called Pooberty! During our month of conversations with Kickass Kentucky Women, we’re thrilled to welcome Shannon Phelps to help us navigate the waters of sexuality education. As awkward as parents and children feel when we talk about sex, we need to have these talks. The takeaway: “communication fosters connection!” Finally, in an epic #relish, Shannon and Katie /episode/index/show/thatswhatwesaidberea/id/18309320

Episode 53 - Everybody in Their 40s is Dumb 03/08/2021

Episode 53 - Everybody in Their 40s is Dumb This week, Cara Stewart -- long time champion of healthcare and justice in Kentucky -- joins us for our month of talking to Badass Kentucky Women. We take a semi-deep dive into the Kentucky legislature, exploring the history of bills that are introduced by women legislators and eventually taken up in watered down form by other legislators and passed. We have an especially animated discussion about how teenagers get around adults’ restrictions. TL;DR - there is some power to being a cute little girl. /episode/index/show/thatswhatwesaidberea/id/18225971

Episode 52 - Mum's the Word 02/28/2021

Episode 52 - Mum's the Word Three of us are celebrating our 30th year reunion this year -- or at least remembering our 30th year of escape from high school. Join us on a little mental time travel this week as we reflect on our high school experiences in four different states in the 1980s and 90s - from giant mum corsages to coded flower deliveries to surprising mascots. We wrap up with a call to action as the pink tax bill is once again being introduced in the KY State Legislature. /episode/index/show/thatswhatwesaidberea/id/18127823

Episode 51 - Courtly Love or Courtney Love? 02/22/2021

Episode 51 - Courtly Love or Courtney Love? This week, we welcome guest Nick Koenig, an EKU botany student, activist, and campus leader. We talk with Nick about environmental racism in Louisville and about invasive replanting schemes on former mountaintop removal sites. But since we can never be 100 percent serious, we inadvertently test his knowledge about 90s grunge. We need the quarantimes to end, but it’s good to share conversation with an up & coming activist who we know is going to change the world after all this mess is over… or maybe so /episode/index/show/thatswhatwesaidberea/id/18032366

Episode 50 - Embrace the Awkward 02/14/2021

Episode 50 - Embrace the Awkward It’s hard to believe, but it's now been a year since Covid made its way to the U.S. It's affected our families in surprising ways. Katie & Kelly give an important update on their Bridgerton bet. Jenny contributes an extremely important road report & call to action from WV. Stick around to the end to appreciate the full awkwardness of this episode. With the production values and general lack of professionalism on display, you might also find it hard to believe that this is the 50th Episode of TWWS! #relish /episode/index/show/thatswhatwesaidberea/id/17939849

Episode 49 - It's Bridgerton Time 02/06/2021

Episode 49 - It's Bridgerton Time It's been a while since our last media roundup. Maybe that’s because we took the last two weeks off to celebrate the restoration of Democracy. Does the world seem brighter now? We don’t know, but we’ve got a romantic set of tv shows & books to recommend this month. Everyone but Katie has watched - and has thoughts about - Bridgerton. The rest of the pod agrees to read Katie’s pick (Red, White, and Royal Blue) if she’ll just give the first episode of Bridgerton a try. We close out with a snowy #r /episode/index/show/thatswhatwesaidberea/id/17839871

Episode 48 - Democracy and New Printers 01/18/2021

Episode 48 - Democracy and New Printers We process the events of the past couple of weeks, from the high of the Georgia Senate runoffs, to the low of the violent insurrection attempt at the US Capitol on January 6. Katie has a surprising metaphor for how those days felt. On this MLK Day, we reflect on how apt his words remain today: “The black revolution is much more than a struggle for the rights of Negroes. It is, rather, forcing America to face all its interrelated flaws: racism, poverty, militarism, and materialism.” /episode/index/show/thatswhatwesaidberea/id/17585774

Episode 47 - Year 1: What Did We Say? 01/10/2021

Episode 47 - Year 1: What Did We Say? Welcome to 2021 with TWWS! This episode, recorded before the New Year, and before we had any inkling of what would happen on Jan 6, celebrates our first year of podcasting. We remember memorable guests such as State Representative Attica Scott the KY Secretary of State (amazed that he didn’t walk out on our liberal selves). Finally, we ponder what it means to have created a record of our lives in a time of plague and we look forward to another year with our listeners. /episode/index/show/thatswhatwesaidberea/id/17491433

Episode 46 - 2020: From Bunker Strawberries to Hot Springs Hot Dogs 12/31/2020

Episode 46 - 2020: From Bunker Strawberries to Hot Springs Hot Dogs This week we talk about all the news that wasn’t in 2020. Yes, these are the stories that the coronavirus and the election may have driven from our minds - from the bizarre mansion listings and child naming practices of the crazy rich to the emancipation of Harry and Meghan. We celebrate the service of a local city council member and we recommit to making sure that KY movements for racial justice don’t slip below our radar. Finally, we tease our upcoming episode “The Fire Ute.” #relish /episode/index/show/thatswhatwesaidberea/id/17379527

Episode 46 - Bonus - Most Parties are Fun Until the Fainting Starts 12/31/2020

Episode 46 - Bonus - Most Parties are Fun Until the Fainting Starts Basements, roller skating, and fainting, oh my. #relish /episode/index/show/thatswhatwesaidberea/id/17257454

2020 Christmas Bonus Episode - Jingle Juice 12/25/2020

2020 Christmas Bonus Episode - Jingle Juice Please enjoy this special bonus material, recorded in late December, 2019, in the before times. Our wholesome holiday discussion devolved a little as our conversation drifted to breast enhancement and “personal” secret Santa gifts. #relish #TWWS /episode/index/show/thatswhatwesaidberea/id/17257406

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