Pride and Defenestration

It's showtime, baby.

It's showtime, baby.

I'm so out of it today.

I feel like I've said that like the last three episodes.

Is

that just like the new theme for the...

No, it really has been since we got back from Nashville, or I got back from Nashville.

I'm feeling way better this week.

Like I am feeling clearer, but I started my period.

Not to give everybody just all the, you know...

TMI, but I have, this is only my second one after having our last baby and it is brutal.

It's not a welcome return for sure.

No, it's bad.

Like really bad.

Yeah.

Like I'm scarring my children for life.

What do you mean?

because it's so heavy.

Like I woke up this morning and I had forgot that I got those new, like, uh, I got the Knicks boxers to wear at night and I forgot.

And so I just had a tampon and we're really just going in on it this morning.

Not

where I thought we were starting the podcast, but

let's scoot.

I, this morning, like when I woke up, the kids came in And I was like, oh, no, I need to go fix some things because I can feel it.

And I got up and so gross.

There was blood running down my legs like I had a tampon.

But anyway, it was so bad.

Well, then our kids followed me into the bathroom as they do.

And they were like laughing.

what's happening? Why blood all over legs? What's like, well, I've told you about periods and they're like, why so much? Like they were, they were scared.

They're really learning a lot, I guess.

They were learning a lot.

Yeah.

Yeah.

It was tragic.

And that pretty much is how my day is going.

I should have, I, I've been trying to use the, uh, menstrual disc more and I should have done that.

Yeah.

This is a

crazy start to the podcast.

It's great.

No, no, no.

This is a podcast for all people.

Anyway, not to give you too much

information, I really like the Nixit menstrual disc.

Yeah, great.

But

I was in a rush and I'm just not very good at using it yet.

Yeah.

You know, that's all.

Yeah,

no, that's, you've really like derailed me.

Just understand I'm

going through.

The menses start to the podcast was just not where my head was at.

Yeah, we love a mensee week.

Yeah, I mean, we don't love it.

It's not good,

but

we persist.

I

feel emotionally so much better, though, once I'm on my period.

Got it.

Like the few days a week leading up.

Get me out of here.

It's so bad.

You're emotionally not good for weeks?

No, just a week.

I said a few days to a week.

Oh, I thought you said weeks.

And I was like...

No.

So the whole month is just a disaster.

I may have.

That's not what I meant.

But

like...

Got it.

Well,

that's the thing about being a woman.

It seems terrible.

Not for me personally.

It really...

It's brutal.

Yeah.

I like to suffer on my own terms and mainly because of my own choices.

Yeah.

That is kind of your thing.

You don't

really have the same agency in terms of your suffering.

No, that's kind of part of being a girl, you know? Hoisted

upon you.

No agency.

Yeah.

Well, that's not the stance of the podcast, but it is unfortunately sometimes how it works.

The stance of the podcast is that that's how it works.

Not that it's how it should work.

More as a

statement of fact than as a...

Correct.

A principled stance.

I think everybody listening knows that.

That'd be wild.

Unless this is your first episode.

Welcome.

In which case...

Good God.

Wow.

Wow, yeah.

But honestly, par for the course.

This won't be the episode we link for someone to take on the first...

Or maybe I will.

Or maybe...

Yeah, okay.

It's a trial by fire situation.

Yeah.

The people that get it, get it.

And the people that don't get out.

Yeah.

Okay.

That's fine.

Yeah.

That's one approach.

That seems like something we do, I guess.

Yeah.