That's What We Said

This month, Jenny and Katie have dialed all the way into the Winter Olympics. Their personalities are now defined by pairs figure skating, cheating scandals, and the most important form of protection in the Olympic Village. Even though their obsessions have now reached clinical levels, Becca and Kelly decide not to stage an intervention and instead let Katie and Jenny share EVERYTHING they've learned about the performance fabrics, 42 year old figure skaters, Olympic moms, stuffed stoats, and the condom shortage in Milan. #relish We are: Katie Basham, Jenny Hobson, Becca Parrish, and Kelly Smith Recorded via Zoom in Kentucky | Edited by Kelly Smith | Music composed and performed by Elliot Green | Artwork by Jessica Holly  

Our little town has been covered with ice for three weekends, and world news is bleaker than ever. It's time to round up what we've been reading and watching to keep ourselves going through the long winter. Do you need the National Zoo Panda Cam to get through 2026? Katie does. What about the romance novels of Willow Aster? That's Becca. A comfort rewatch of Veronica Mars? Kelly is thrilled that it's streaming again. And Jenny will not rest until everyone is as obsessed as she is with the drama of The Traitors. Listen in for more recommendations. We are: Katie Basham, Jenny Hobson, Becca Parrish, and Kelly Smith Recorded via Zoom in Kentucky | Edited by Kelly Smith | Music composed and performed by Elliot Green | Artwork by Jessica Holly  

A follow up on Jenny's #relish from Episode 74. Solid ideation here - 10/10! 

In this episode we learn that none of us are big on New Year's Resolutions. We're just going to try a few new things, no pressure. We've reached the age where we know that we're not going to turn into new and magical beings just because the calendar changed. But Kelly's going to try to bake some bread and Katie's pretending she's a plant and giving herself more water and sunshine. Becca's opening a bookshop, which we all think is a big deal all by itself. And we're just hoping that Jenny's New Year's Resolution doesn't bring us to a new sector of the podcast world.

Did you think you'd heard the last of us? We are so excited to be back in 2026. Our theme for the year is that we're making more time for fun and joy, and part of that is being together on the air. The other big news is that Becca is getting ready to open a bookshop in March, and the rest of us are picking up mops and paintbrushes to help get the space ready to open. Welcome back to the pod and to our lives. We are: Katie Basham, Jenny Hobson, Becca Parrish, and Kelly Smith Recorded via Zoom in Kentucky | Edited by Kelly Smith | Music composed and performed by Elliot Green | Artwork by Jessica Holly

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

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

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.

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

It's once again time for some 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 we're talking to Mae about running for office, running a business, and starting a new podcast about the experience of Asian Americans in Kentucky. Mae talks to us about what it means to "do well by doing good." We hope you'll do good next week by voting in your local election, especially if you're here with us in Kentucky's 89th. And don't forget to check out "Where Y'all Really From" from Louisville Public Media. Recorded via Zoom in Berea, KY | Edited by Kelly Smith | Music composed and performed by Elly Green | Artwork by Jessica Holly

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? Joining us this week is Beverly Battle, an organizer & activist with Kentucky roots, who talks about her organization "Red, Wine and Blue" (check out their podcast!) that creates progressive political momentum by supporting women & helping us all learn how small actions can lead to big change. #relish Recorded via Zoom in Berea, KY | Edited by Kelly Smith | Music composed and performed by Elly Green | Artwork by Jessica Holly

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. Coming up are episodes on Kentucky politics and Kentucky bourbon, although not necessarily in the same episode. We also want to know what our listeners 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. PS. This week, we're missing Becca who's off adventuring in Ohio. PPS. If you live in Oman and are listening, we'd love to ask you why. Recorded via Zoom in Berea, KY | Edited by Kelly Smith | Music composed and performed by Elly Green | Artwork by Jessica Holly

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 Recorded via Zoom in Berea, KY | Edited by Kelly Smith | Music composed and performed by Elly Green | Artwork by Jessica Holly

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. Recorded in Red River Gorge, KY | Edited by Kelly Smith | Music composed and performed by Elly Green | Artwork by Jessica Holly

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. Recorded in Slade, KY | Edited by Kelly Smith | Music composed and performed by Elly Green | Artwork by Jessica Holly

In this week's episode, we reflect on the "new normal" as things start to open up and we adjust to maskless shopping and hard pants. This is our first time recording together since the beginning of the quarantimes, and we get to use our fancy new mic. We're still figuring out our microphone, and we may sound more like we were recording from a busy roadside than we did when we were on zoom. But we think our laughter sounds better than ever, and we promise to figure the noise out. Becca's dog Freeman is the star of the show, but we also talk about library squirrels and the experts who can tell whether rodents are boys or girls. And Jenny pitches her solution to getting folks vaccinated so we can embrace even more of a hard pants, hard partying mom lifestyle: it's the Vaccininja Van. Recorded in Berea, KY | Edited by Kelly Smith | Music composed and performed by Elly Green | Artwork by Jessica Holly

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. Recorded via Zoom in Berea, KY | Edited by Kelly Smith | Music composed and performed by Elly Green | Artwork by Jessica Holly

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...  Rated "explicit" for innuendo Recorded via Zoom in Berea, KY | Edited by Kelly Smith | Music composed and performed by Elly Green | Artwork by Jessica Holly

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 Big Birdwatcher. Recorded via Zoom in Berea, KY | Edited by Kelly Smith | Music composed and performed by Elly Green | Artwork by Jessica Holly

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. Recorded via Zoom in Berea, KY | Edited by Kelly Smith | Music composed and performed by Elly Green | Artwork by Jessica Holly