Speaker 1: He Welcome to Buns and Banter, a podcast by work
Speaker 1: Busties for work Busties. Hey, I'm Lauren and I'm Ali.
Speaker 1: We're both morning show hosts for iHeartMedia. We're both millennials,
Speaker 1: and we're both trying to figure out how to build
Speaker 1: the lives we dream about, dating, marriage, career, career, and
Speaker 1: being a mom. How to get through a week without crying.
Speaker 1: Welcome to Buns and Banter.
Speaker 2: We're glad you're here.
Speaker 1: Swatching TikTok videos while we get set up, because that's
Speaker 1: my only escape from reality anymore.
Speaker 2: Scrolling?
Speaker 1: Is it still doom scrolling? If I find funny, like
Speaker 1: if I watch dog videos or cute glimmers or like
Speaker 1: pandas being friends, mostly animal stuff, Yeah, I think it
Speaker 1: is still doom scroll.
Speaker 2: I think it is. And I just saw an article
Speaker 2: the other day that was talking like how to help
Speaker 2: your kids when they doom scroll, and I'm like, gosh,
Speaker 2: what do they have to be doomed about?
Speaker 1: Oh? I can only imagine. Well it it goes to
Speaker 1: one of the TikTok videos I watch where it's like
Speaker 1: the sound of a dog sighing, and it's like, oh,
Speaker 1: when you're freeloading, no rent, paying whenever you want. Dependent
Speaker 1: is just so stressed with their day.
Speaker 2: I know it's so I would like to apologize to
Speaker 2: my parents, but also I don't really want to because
Speaker 2: when you're fifteen and you think that like the biggest
Speaker 2: worry in the world is like the whole grade found
Speaker 2: out who you kissed on Friday night, and you go
Speaker 2: to your parents and you're like, this is a crisis,
Speaker 2: and they're like, we don't know how we're going to
Speaker 2: pay the mortgage. That's a crisis. What you are going
Speaker 2: through is so insignificant, but it just it's your whole
Speaker 2: world when you're fifteen.
Speaker 1: What we're starting saucy to begin with, your really have
Speaker 1: had some a few We've had a week. I feel
Speaker 1: like a week of scientific rage because they don't I
Speaker 1: think it's entirely our fault. I don't know us, not us,
Speaker 1: not us, but.
Speaker 2: Hormonally, what we always say, not you, not me, not us.
Speaker 1: You You posted something back on Monday and you said
Speaker 1: it resonated with so many women because this has been
Speaker 1: a very odd week.
Speaker 2: Is it hormones or seasonal effective disorder? So many of
Speaker 2: you we will never know, We will never know you
Speaker 2: want to know why to your point, because they won't
Speaker 2: do the research on it.
Speaker 1: Because I damned you immediately, and I was like, I
Speaker 1: screamed at least six times in the studio, far more
Speaker 1: than that. If we're looking at the entire week as
Speaker 1: a whole, that was just like Monday and Tuesday. I
Speaker 1: just it felt like a mix of heavy angry, annoyed
Speaker 1: that I was feeling so many of these things with
Speaker 1: things I shouldn't care that much about or have put
Speaker 1: that much emphasis on in my life. But it doesn't
Speaker 1: feel like you can separate those all the time. And
Speaker 1: we were talking about this and I exactly what we said.
Speaker 1: I go, well, how the fuck would we ever know?
Speaker 1: We never there is such a lack of research in
Speaker 1: women's health. And so I came, that's prepared today. Hell yeah,
Speaker 1: I did an animal Hell yeah, keep piping me girl.
Speaker 1: So and this was just a quick five minute brows.
Speaker 1: A significant gap exists in women's health research, with only
Speaker 1: a small percentage of global research funding. So we're talking
Speaker 1: to our sisters across the world allocated to women's health issues.
Speaker 1: They say, honestly, from a scientific and doctoral perspective, we
Speaker 1: need more dedicated studies on female health. Oh, like heart disease.
Speaker 2: I'm sorry, are aren't we the majority breast cancer? Ohming
Speaker 2: you say that?
Speaker 1: Yes? Also true osteoporosis. A global study phoned one in
Speaker 1: three women reported experiencing significant physical pain every single day.
Speaker 1: Because I know he's gonna watch this every single day,
Speaker 1: my boyfriend, Jimmy, Jimmy osteoporosis. What were we just talking about?
Speaker 1: So nervous about it? He fat?
Speaker 2: I like we were looking at because I did like
Speaker 2: this health and wellness thing a few years ago where
Speaker 2: they like measured your like bone mass density and you're
Speaker 2: like body fat percentage and like all this stuff, right,
Speaker 2: And he was looking at this, I don't know whatever,
Speaker 2: this like piece of paper with all my stats on it,
Speaker 2: and he was like, I'm really concerned about your bone
Speaker 2: mass density, Like it's on the lower end for healthy
Speaker 2: for someone your age, And I.
Speaker 1: Have you not learned anything about us?
Speaker 2: It's like, that's literally everyone that is a woman in
Speaker 2: my family has osteoporosis. Did I not share that? Forgot?
Speaker 2: That didn't come up on the in the past year
Speaker 2: and a half. But yeah, yeah, no, that's gonna be
Speaker 2: a problem.
Speaker 1: Oh my god.
Speaker 2: So that's funny that you were like, research for osteo.
Speaker 1: Process only five percent of research in the world, and
Speaker 1: development funding only five percent dedicated to women's self five percent?
Speaker 2: And is it's so bad of me to think that
Speaker 2: I would like and prefer this research that we so
Speaker 2: greatly need. Obviously I would like it to be done
Speaker 2: by a woman.
Speaker 1: Oh, ma'am. We can't ask for too much too soon.
Speaker 2: You know, you just feel like maybe there would be
Speaker 2: some questions that other people don't think of.
Speaker 1: Oh, and can you imagine how much further we have
Speaker 1: to go? Right, Like we're talking women, and then you
Speaker 1: maybe start to get funding for women, Well, how about
Speaker 1: minority women? How about different racial profiles and things like oh,
Speaker 1: baby steps, I guess, but we were talking about this
Speaker 1: and the reason we got started on our I think
Speaker 1: we could research it even without any kind of medical background.
Speaker 1: I think we'd be really good at it, just by
Speaker 1: man on the streeting it, woman on the streeting we
Speaker 1: should start doing that, asking how people are doing. Because
Speaker 1: I came to you so excited the other day speaking
Speaker 1: of the down there about underwear, and that's how we
Speaker 1: got started talking about all of our lady bits and
Speaker 1: how we're feeling because I'm going to say right now
Speaker 1: on this pod, and I don't care. I bought the
Speaker 1: most fantastic pair of Granny panties and I have two,
Speaker 1: thank you, two packs of them now in all different colors,
Speaker 1: and I think they make my butt look higher. They
Speaker 1: get lots of coverage, and I've officially entered that part
Speaker 1: of my life. Do they leave a vpl Yes? Absolutely,
Speaker 1: And I don't wear them with liggings, but you probably can.
Speaker 1: You probably can tell in jeans, and I don't care.
Speaker 1: I don't care anymore. They're so comfy. My friend Si
Speaker 1: jested them to me only because she got do hey,
Speaker 1: keep girl, what are they? I'm wearing them right now.
Speaker 1: They're so comfy they are. I'll give you the brand.
Speaker 1: She suggested them to me only because, and I don't
Speaker 1: mean to laugh at this part. She just got done
Speaker 1: having major abdominal surgery and she was like, it holds
Speaker 1: everything and while I'm healing, and I was like, how
Speaker 1: I'm gonna wear those in real life?
Speaker 2: I wasted? Are they I am? Actually I'm listening.
Speaker 1: I'm bad. They're like they to me, but I have
Speaker 1: along tour so fall right below the belly button. So
Speaker 1: to me, it covers like the foop up part of life.
Speaker 2: No, that's not high enough. Not hot, really, that's not
Speaker 2: high enough if it I honestly, I really think my
Speaker 2: grandma had it figured out when she finks she found
Speaker 2: the girdle. She found the girdle. She puts it on
Speaker 2: every day. It's a bron panty in one and.
Speaker 1: That's just time saving.
Speaker 2: You just are snatched all the time. Is it a
Speaker 2: bit when you have to go potty? It is? We
Speaker 2: know this.
Speaker 1: Coast Keffe women's high waisted cos k e f y. Huh,
Speaker 1: well look like you look. I'm gonna show you the
Speaker 1: picture and look at how comfy that woman looks were
Speaker 1: those look thick? They are? They're thick. They're like a
Speaker 1: a seizure wear. Okay, But then I get nervous because
Speaker 1: another part of women's health that hasn't really been studied
Speaker 1: is how much you should air out your downstairs. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so like maybe I shouldn't be wearing these.
Speaker 2: Like we're going there today?
Speaker 1: We are? I knew it, I felt it.
Speaker 2: Do you wear underwear when you sleep?
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 2: Oh, I can't do that.
Speaker 1: Do you have? This is something I had to overcome though,
Speaker 1: because when I first started not wearing undies and panties
Speaker 1: to bed, I had really terrible nightmares that like I
Speaker 1: showed up to the office naked, or my house caught
Speaker 1: on fire and my couha was on the news. Like
Speaker 1: multiple nights of nightmares that I had to start wearing
Speaker 1: them again to like better my self health.
Speaker 2: We're incredible, aren't we. Our brains, our bodies, We're so
Speaker 2: in tune. They should study up.
Speaker 1: Or we're so in tune. Here's your baby steps, start
Speaker 1: with our womanly help.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and I have to wear underwear to bed, but
Speaker 2: I don't really love a granny panty. I've I thought
Speaker 2: maybe that would change when I got older, but I
Speaker 2: have been wearing a thong panty since I was a
Speaker 2: freshman in high school.
Speaker 1: But not so bad. Yeah really, yes, Oh that sounds uncomfy.
Speaker 2: I don't even notice it anymore. My buck crack cat
Speaker 2: probably as callouses, and I'm just so used to it now.
Speaker 1: But we never know, because find me the research on
Speaker 1: a lady's butt crack callous.
Speaker 2: You won't.
Speaker 1: You couldn't find it doesn't exist.
Speaker 2: You have better luck on OnlyFans, honestly, but seriously, it's
Speaker 2: so interesting though. This is why they can't take TikTok
Speaker 2: away from us, because we have there's too much information
Speaker 2: being shared on TikTok. I've learned more about my body
Speaker 2: from TikTok from people. This is why we're dangerous when
Speaker 2: we talk to each other. That's why they try to
Speaker 2: keep us isolated. That's how they do it. That's how
Speaker 2: they do it in the cults. They're like the first
Speaker 2: thing to go any contact with your friends and family,
Speaker 2: any contact with the outside world. From now on, it's
Speaker 2: just the information we give you.
Speaker 1: Do you ever see that scene from Anchorman where it's like,
Speaker 1: we can't have more than one woman in the newsroom,
Speaker 1: there'll be bears. Bears can smell the like that is
Speaker 1: that's how it feels in the woman's health world.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that is exactly how it feels.
Speaker 1: And just trying to figure out can I wear these
Speaker 1: comfy panies all the time or do is there some
Speaker 1: pH balance we've got to discuss, you know, Yeah, I
Speaker 1: think that's a fair question and one not being studied.
Speaker 1: But let me tell you, but there's about seven thousand
Speaker 1: pieces of article on viagra. I'm going hard today.
Speaker 2: This might read a PG heart attack medication. How come
Speaker 2: they never I'm sure it is, but I was just saying, like,
Speaker 2: how come they're never trying to like develop a heart
Speaker 2: attack medication that turns in to be something that's really
Speaker 2: useful for us.
Speaker 1: You know, heart attack medication that also clears your skin
Speaker 1: and weirdly enough a couple inches around your waistline, right,
Speaker 1: that sound effect. If you gave me that sound effect
Speaker 1: with those health benefits, take all my money, Like, we're profitable.
Speaker 1: I feel like they don't think women are profitable.
Speaker 2: Maybe they do, though they know that we're profitable. That's
Speaker 2: why the pink tech tax exists. Oh yes, when you're
Speaker 2: giving us the same shit. For instance, monoxido rogain, Okay,
Speaker 2: it's probably how we know it. Yes, it's to regrow hair, right,
Speaker 2: Women's rogain is more expensive and it's less concentration of
Speaker 2: the product in there. Really, that's why it doesn't work.
Speaker 2: There are dermatologists all over TikTok that I'm seeing that
Speaker 2: are like, hey, if you are going to get monoxidial
Speaker 2: because it like you can regrow your eyebrows with it
Speaker 2: if your hair is thinning like monox but it is
Speaker 2: very toxic to your pets. I will say, so you
Speaker 2: have to be very careful if you are using it.
Speaker 2: The disclaimer you're putting it. You can't let them lick
Speaker 2: your hands. I digress, but I always trying to keep
Speaker 2: our fur babe safe.
Speaker 1: That is they're incredible.
Speaker 2: They're warning women that when you go, just buy the
Speaker 2: men's rogain. Just buy the men's rogain and use it
Speaker 2: on your eyebrows, use it on your head, use it
Speaker 2: wherever you want to grow hair, because it is a
Speaker 2: higher concentration and it is cheaper. And why is the
Speaker 2: women's rogain less concentrated. There's no good effing reason. Why
Speaker 2: is it more expensive because of the pink tax? Because women,
Speaker 2: they know, are just waiting to spend our money. Shit,
Speaker 2: that is the exact same women's razors that are the
Speaker 2: exact same as the men's razors or less quality, but
Speaker 2: they're pink.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, but they're pink.
Speaker 2: We want a pink one instead of a blue one.
Speaker 2: Hell yes, I want a pink one instead of a
Speaker 2: blue one.
Speaker 1: Don't penalize me for that.
Speaker 2: But I'm not paying more for it. One of the
Speaker 2: dye costs more, I don't think so.
Speaker 1: And you know, like we recognize that we have a
Speaker 1: very high number of male listeners to our podcast, which
Speaker 1: we love. But you should care about this too. There
Speaker 1: is no doubt that there is at least some woman
Speaker 1: in your life you care very much about. However that
Speaker 1: might look.
Speaker 2: Like, there's so many benefits with us some healthcare here
Speaker 2: that is looked at. Yes, And there are so many
Speaker 2: benefits when women are successful. There are so many benefits
Speaker 2: when women have their own money. There are so many
Speaker 2: benefits when women have wealth, like it's better for and
Speaker 2: I'm you know, do your own research and look at
Speaker 2: these numbers on your own.
Speaker 1: But and we're gonna spend it on you too. I
Speaker 1: love giving things.
Speaker 2: And you're probably gonna look better.
Speaker 1: Oh oh my gosh. Okay, so if I may get
Speaker 1: petty for a hot moment. This is a complete one eighty,
Speaker 1: but this is what happens sometimes in our episodes. Speaking
Speaker 1: of looking better, boldest move I've ever seen from my husband.
Speaker 1: Oh he cut his own bangs. Oh oh, speaking of
Speaker 1: women wealth leading to you looking better. I came home
Speaker 1: from the shows the other day and he's looking at me.
Speaker 1: Men have this look where it's like twenty seven percent
Speaker 1: shady the rest like, are you gonna ask about why
Speaker 1: I look shady? Does Jimmy have that look? No, because
Speaker 1: he's a wonderful man that would never do anything weird.
Speaker 1: Chris has that look. And I came home and he
Speaker 1: was standing in the kitchen and I saw it, and
Speaker 1: I go, what's up? And he said, do you notice anything?
Speaker 1: I said, first of all, what the fuck did you buy?
Speaker 1: We are move? Do you notice that?
Speaker 2: We get our hair cut and we come back and
Speaker 2: we go do you notice anything? And they're like no,
Speaker 2: You're like you better for notice it's the same shade
Speaker 2: of brown and it's one inch shorter. How do you
Speaker 2: not notice?
Speaker 1: So I'm looking at.
Speaker 2: Him and I was like, did you.
Speaker 1: Take a shower recently?
Speaker 2: Wherever?
Speaker 1: He goes? No, I cut my own banks and I went,
Speaker 1: oh god, and I have a very hit my husband's
Speaker 1: very curly hair he has. He had like an afro
Speaker 1: through college.
Speaker 2: What a renaissance man.
Speaker 1: No, you would have been such a you would have
Speaker 1: been a much lovelier person to say this too. I
Speaker 1: couldn't really notice it because it's so curly, right, But
Speaker 1: he goes, see, my my emo swoop is gone. But
Speaker 1: then he took a comb and like combed it down
Speaker 1: and it looks like my three year old got to
Speaker 1: him with safety scissors. I was like, Christopher, that is
Speaker 1: not the move, my guy, Just like I couldn't get
Speaker 1: into my barber until like no, and it was getting shaggy.
Speaker 1: I was like, I know, but like I would rather
Speaker 1: see you in a butterfly clip. Oh my god, I'm cute, right, isid?
Speaker 1: I could do like a little twisty just like I
Speaker 1: do on fee but or it looks or.
Speaker 2: Do you watch Ted Lasso?
Speaker 1: Yes, the Jamie Chart headband, the Jamie Tart headband. That's hot.
Speaker 1: Ooh well, no need to now because he's cut his
Speaker 1: own banks.
Speaker 2: Okay, we love a man who takes chart.
Speaker 1: So he has taken charge. And guess whose money we'll
Speaker 1: be going to that barber when he's got to get
Speaker 1: it fixed next week.
Speaker 2: Did he watch a tutorial at all?
Speaker 1: No? God, no, no, all the youtubing he does, the
Speaker 1: last thing he would look at is how to properly
Speaker 1: cut banks. He literally just went into my mother in
Speaker 1: law comes and watch our kids a couple days a week,
Speaker 1: so she has a sewing kit at our house. He
Speaker 1: went into a sewing kit, grabbed like the little scissors
Speaker 1: and just started hacking. It's like you are so lucky,
Speaker 1: it's to expect to get divorced. Just kidding.
Speaker 2: I love him, but it's pretty bad. Would he let
Speaker 2: you cut his hair a bang trim?
Speaker 1: I cut his hair once in Covid. Oh yeah, but
Speaker 1: it was terrible. But we didn't really have the necessary
Speaker 1: like we went to his His hair's curly.
Speaker 2: Really, that's a different animal.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And we were actually at his child like at
Speaker 1: his childhood home, and he had an inground pool, so
Speaker 1: I just like kept dunking his head in the pool
Speaker 1: so his hair would stick wet and just go into town. Yes,
Speaker 1: it wasn't good, so I wouldn't cut it again.
Speaker 2: I would love. I'm trying to convince Jimmy because I
Speaker 2: got him on the mustache you did. He's keeping the mustache.
Speaker 1: I think it looks very dubbin in the air.
Speaker 2: It looks so good, ver good, Like some people just
Speaker 2: have a face where a mustache can work. And he
Speaker 2: looks so good, it looks so hot. But I'm now
Speaker 2: my next I'm trying to like have him grow out
Speaker 2: his hair a little bit because it's like his hair
Speaker 2: is also very very curly. Oh, I love it, and
Speaker 2: I am just like so jealous. And when it gets
Speaker 2: kind of longer, Jimmy gets his haircut religiously every two weeks.
Speaker 2: Oh wow, every two weeks.
Speaker 1: So it is like it's it's what it is all
Speaker 1: the time because he's so ups.
Speaker 2: Yeah and he I mean it's it's not like anything
Speaker 2: like crazy. It's just like a fade on the side
Speaker 2: and then like a hard part and then just you know,
Speaker 2: he keeps it pretty clean cut.
Speaker 1: He's a man in finance.
Speaker 2: He's a man in finance. But I'm like, I think
Speaker 2: we grow at the top a little bit. See what
Speaker 2: the curls do. And he's had like long hair, but
Speaker 2: it's like the type of long hair that all boys
Speaker 2: in college have, where like there's no real style to it.
Speaker 2: It's just like it's all the same length.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: So it's like kind of a curly it's.
Speaker 1: Like a chia pet. Yes, yes, all uniform, Yes, yes.
Speaker 2: And I think we could get some cool like not
Speaker 2: like curly curly on the top, not super long on
Speaker 2: the top, but enough so that it's like kind of wavy.
Speaker 1: Oh.
Speaker 2: I love that, like a little bit of flow.
Speaker 1: I see, here you go. We're talking baby steps in
Speaker 1: women's health. Go ahead and somebody researched the effect of
Speaker 1: curly haired men on ladies. Ooh a good wavy one,
Speaker 1: Pedro Pascal. Yes, oh yes, suddenly I need to change
Speaker 1: my Granny Undie panties from Amazon.
Speaker 2: I have to tell you this story because speaking of Jimmy,
Speaker 2: this was so sweet. And you know, you know, the
Speaker 2: way to my heart is by sending me songs.
Speaker 1: That's very yeah, that's very sweet.
Speaker 2: And he will quite often do that, and like, I
Speaker 2: always love them because I just like I create my
Speaker 2: own little fairytale narrative when he sends me these songs
Speaker 2: and I'm like, this is so awes. I like that,
Speaker 2: just let me have it. And so he sends me
Speaker 2: and like, especially like classic rock m.
Speaker 1: Just does something to me. Girl, we are the same.
Speaker 2: It just does something to me. So he sends me
Speaker 2: this song a couple of weeks ago and he's like,
Speaker 2: I love this song. It reminds me of us. Whenever
Speaker 2: I get a song from him, I just know this
Speaker 2: is like this is going on the You and Me playlist.
Speaker 2: Oh Dire Straits, Oh Romeo and Julia.
Speaker 1: Jimmy so are the one good.
Speaker 2: Panty dropper, you know what I mean? Yes, I do
Speaker 2: so amazing so good. Heart explodes, mind explodes. I'm in bliss.
Speaker 1: Rush of serotonin and dopamine good for heart health.
Speaker 2: Come on, someone study that. That's what baby, That would
Speaker 2: cure all of our We just need we each need
Speaker 2: someone to send us songs every day.
Speaker 1: Mm hmm.
Speaker 2: This past weekend, two weekends ago, we turn on one
Speaker 2: of his favorite movies, It Tanya of It, one of
Speaker 2: his papes, one of his papes. Are you familiar? I
Speaker 2: am absolutely with Tanya's relationship with her on again, off
Speaker 2: again husband boyfriend fiance. Oh I was, oh, oh yeah,
Speaker 2: a little bit of a It was not ideal. Yeah,
Speaker 2: there were some domestic problems. Guess what song is in
Speaker 2: that movie?
Speaker 1: I know you're not gonna say. Higher.
Speaker 3: Stray and I were watching this movie together and I
Speaker 3: just look over at him as soon as it starts playing,
Speaker 3: because it's like this mockery of their relationship, like they're
Speaker 3: in love but it's a violent relationship.
Speaker 4: And I just look over at him and he just goes,
Speaker 4: what I'm I still love it, but like, is this
Speaker 4: where you heard it?
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's the moment.
Speaker 2: It's like, oh, you're watching Tanya Harding get the absolute
Speaker 2: life taken from her by a romantic partner, and you're like,
Speaker 2: this is such a great song, this track to this
Speaker 2: storyline so good kills me, absolutely killed me.
Speaker 1: I love love, I love love love. I love Why
Speaker 1: we should be studied more because I think women would
Speaker 1: have some very interesting input into health