Meet Maxine and Millie, your new mom friends! Learn a little about who we are and why we thought adding a podcast to our already packed lives was a good idea. You’ll hear about Millie’s household menagerie (including a horse who can’t eat solid food) and Maxine’s husband upgrade. We’ll also reminisce about the good old days of Halloween in the 80s and introduce “Millie and Maxine’s Late-Night Grab Bag.”
Please join us – because a midlife crisis is more fun with friends!
[01:26] – Introducing Millie
[02:20] – Why Mel Robbins is responsible for this podcast
[04:13] – Introducing Maxine
[05:10] – Why friends are like mushrooms (aka why Maxine wanted to start a podcast)
[07:53] – Halloween fun (and why it was so much better when we were kids)
[22:04] – Grab Bag: Was your high school anthem by Pearl Jam? Or Andrew Lloyd Webber?
If you like hanging out with us, please subscribe, rate, review, and share the podcast. It would mean a whole lot to us! And if you want to see the jammies that made us sweat our balls off, here you go!
Music: Feather Duster by Shane Ivers – https://www.silvermansound.com
Transcript
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we have a somalier, it's fine. She's gonna bring the goods.
like there's. Somebody that [:ing to true, true crime. I'd [:Is that true? Candy corn gave you bad dreams. Okay. So. You know, I'm kind of earthy hippie mommy don't eat a lot of, processed shit, yes. Oh yes. Okay. That's the real story here is that you were eating candy corn.
So I, I, I really liked those fucking harvest medleys or whatever the shit. The ones that are shaped, like pumpkins, they're better. Okay. I got into those last night. And because of that I had some crazy-ass dreams. Vivid as Hell, too. I think it was the food coloring.
g our balls off. Sweating to [:Yes, with my horse that has ear mites Oh, he has a fungal infect.... I didn't know it was a fungal infection. I thought it was ear mites. He's got ear mites and he can't eat anything solid. He chokes and that'll kill him. Do you fucking baby bird him? Sort of. Sort now that this is a whole nother conversation. So anyway, She's going as the headless horseman. Which we got a pretty kick ass costume that we pieced together, and then she made the head. It's going to be really neat. That's, cool. But so now we have this, Ken shirt that was ordered to fit a 14 year old child that my husband is...Shit, please let me see pictures of that...
Do you know what I'm gonna do with those fucking pictures?
This is why. I'm not saying his name. So the three of us are going to go as Barbie, Barbie, and Ken or whatever, you know? And the Headless Horseman.
The best [:She has fucking accessories. Have you noticed that with Halloween now? Oh, you got to go all out. You have to buy accessories. All right. They don't come in, in the fucking costume. It's and I need to buy this piece, and this piece, so a horse? Absolutely.
r treat because you know how [:Usually some sort of like trash bag costs. Right. Something plastic. That's smelled still like gasoline or gypsy or I'm a cat. You and your gypsy.
ou would walk tests. So much [:on Halloween. We didn't give a fuck. And neither did our parents. No, no. Well, this was the eighties. Nobody. Nobody drove us around.
Oh girl, I have such as. I have some Halloween stories from Alaska, but that's a whole separate conversation, but I'm talking about us when we. We may turn our asses loose. Yep. Oh, and then, but come home. You can't eat anything. Come home. I got to cut it all open and look for razorblades. To separate it out. We're going to look for razorblades. We're going to look like. Weapons, but see, I still feel like most of that was just so they could take shit that they want for sure. Oh, that Snickers bar looks like. Tampered with, let me have that. Yeah. You know, because then like,
actually did, but. It was a [:And the parents follow up on. Then drinking and snacking. You know, it's like this really fun. So that's a little bit like how it is in the neighborhood we found. That's not that far from here, we drive over there. I wish we could drive the golf cart, but we can't. No, that's the problem. Like, oh, I just made myself sound even more pretentious. Yes, we have a golf cart. Oh my God. I'm gonna have to cut all this shit out.
out your Halloween. To these [:Bagel bites. Oh, we are. My kids just discovered those. No, my kids are old now. So. I wasn't going to go with old. I'm going to go with young adults. One is a voting age. Is the youngest is going to trick or treat, but it's the same thing. She goes to her friend's house. And then the mom drives. Right. And what sexy thing is she going? Assay? That stuff drives me, bananas. All the four-ish. Costumes. We did not look like whores. We had like plastic wonder woman.
psy always, always. You know [:That's not what I thought.
Cardboard box. Nevermind. Nevermind. Not going to say it, but it was a cardboard box. I had like a fucking top hat and she love it. Shots on this box. That's how you knew she loved you. She glue dots on a box for you. Really aggressive. You too. Make an example of me or something. No, no, no, no, no. That's how she said. I love, you know, I think it was like a PTA. I don't know. Oh, it's like keeping up with the PTA moms, keeping up with Karen. All the moms had like the big perm tear and like the swishy. Oh my God. The ones that went.
e trick or treating with the [:Thanks. So.
hol delivered to an airport. [:Yeah, I think so. Okay, so for grab bag. Okay. So let's introduce our grab bag segment. Why don't you. Tell our listener.
se to drive the desk. Stupid [:e a couple degrees. In that. [:I don't know. Okay. So. Let's break it into chunks. Shall we? We're going to be here.
So freshman, sophomore year. Oh no. Okay. Pearl jam. Okay. Where are those flannels? Here's the thing.
soundtrack. The soundtrack - [:don't worry about it. Listen [:But yeah. Yeah, no, for me, my. School stuff. Phantom of the opera and Leymah's on repeat. Alternating on repeat. Yeah. We Phantom and what Leymah's. Okay. I love the shit out of both of those shows. I listened to them constantly then, but. I was preparing you in your room, singing. less than. Less in my room and more like doing chores and stuff. Did you have like. Like a ballet mirrors.
icals. Like I did too. Yeah. [:un With friends Yes. Cheers. [: