Sister Sh*t
Hey there, podcast lovers. We're Caroline and Meredith and we're here to bring you our brand new podcast, Sister Sh*t. We're two sisters with a passion for storytelling, silliness and shooting the shit. Get ready to join us as we dive into a wide range of topics that matter to us and we're sure matter to you too, from millennial nostalgia and current events, to personal growth, motherhood and hilarious stories from our childhoods.
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Sister Sh*t
Face Down, Feet in the Stirrups
Ever been trapped in the quicksand of an awkward moment, trying to claw your way back to dignity? Meredith and I sure have, and we're baring it all in a laughter-filled recap of our St. Patrick's Day shenanigans. We're not just talking about the madness of the Columbia festival where we hustled hard or Sister Hazel's electrifying performance that had everyone on their feet. No, we're diving headfirst into those family traditions that might have anyone else running for the hills—think fiery corned beef aftermath and the infamous "clean plate club" mentality. It's a whirlwind of music, merriment, and yes, even a bit of heartburn.
And if you've ever waved at someone who wasn't waving at you or hugged a complete stranger, then you'll feel right at home. We're swapping stories that'll have you in stitches—from mistaken embraces to the universally cringe-worthy wave to no one. We've even got the inside scoop on a friend's gynecologist appointment turned comedy gold, with permission to spill the beans, of course. Tune in to discover the silver lining of our blush-worthy moments, and how owning our awkwardness just might be the thing that brings us all a little closer. So grab your headphones and get ready for a session of side-splitting confessions and life's unexpected lessons.
Hello, welcome to Sister Shit. This is Meredith, I'm Caroline, and happy Tuesday. Happy Tuesday, we are back and Caroline did not do her homework we were supposed to be doing. We were supposed to be reviewing Irish Wish with Lindsay Lowe, the Lowe movie, and I am so ready to debrief it.
Speaker 1:And Caroline has a good reason it will happen next week. Yes, we.
Speaker 2:She was picking up her son from Charleston. Yes, I was supposed to watch it yesterday. Not to mention we worked like a million hours Saturday. We worked a lot of hours. We had a very festive St Pat's weekend what I've never ever had a.
Speaker 1:I've never had a.
Speaker 2:Okay, the only other time I've had a festive St Pat's is when Aunt Reen and Uncle Randon invited us over for we're leaving cabbage and I like ate so much of it and ate it way too fast, and had the worst heartburn of my entire life. I was in the sixth grade and legitimately thought I was dying. Like I cried it. My heart hurt so bad?
Speaker 2:Remember that time I had such bad heartworm that Heartworm Heartburn that I thought I was dying and you guys all just sat around the table and laughed at me. I don't, you, don't I do. I do remember I was like you guys, I think something's seriously wrong and now we're just dying laughing and I was like no, I'm not okay. I always think about whenever you took a giant bite of spoiled public smack and cheese. I don't remember that and you were like it's coating my esophagus Gross. I don't remember that at all, but I also, speaking of heartburn, when I was in my first job out of I just remembered this. When I was in my first job out of college, I just like, very openly, was like, oh, I got indigestion and everyone.
Speaker 1:You told this on the podcast.
Speaker 2:I have. Yes, we talked about how, like, we Keeps you up at night. We grew up in a family where like indigestion wasn't embarrassing. But in the real world, I think it is.
Speaker 1:I don't think you talk about it.
Speaker 2:Well, I'm talking about it again. It's a real problem in our family, but I think it was our diet. I think the diet had we ate a lot of barbecue, our family, our family, lots of me, lots of like eat until you feel absolutely miserable. That was just like my every, every meal was like eat until you feel miserable. I know I remember I've had to deprogram that Same. I literally I mean I think it's a lot of people that grew up in the clean plate club generation.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yes, you're right, I don't know. I was a little extra Like. I was known embarrassingly by all my friends' moms as the kid or the friend who ate so much, and I would like I think I've talked about this in the podcast too.
Speaker 1:Actually, gosh, how we overdo it, guys, don't worry, the season is coming to an end and we're going to have some we're taking a break for the summer and we'll be back and we'll be back Recycle content Indigestion. Which is also really Clean plate club.
Speaker 2:Which is also really common in our family. We just laugh about the same shit over and over again. I think you've heard it all at this point, okay, but yeah, we went. We worked the St Pat's Festival in five points in Colombia. It was fun yeah. It was fun. We worked such long hours but made the most of it.
Speaker 1:We had lots of fun.
Speaker 2:We had lots of fun we got to see Paul Russell.
Speaker 2:We did A little boo thing, paul's gonna say if you don't know who that is, his single is a little boo thing. And no one else knew any of the other songs, we just knew that one and I still, seeing him at that point in the day after we had been up for so long, felt like a fever dream, but not in a good way. And we, he sang that song and then stopped it abruptly. He stopped all Okay, all. So you guys, now is out is in. Yeah, because his DJ kept using to end all of his songs early. So he sang that at the very end, which, like classic newbie problem, which I will say. I enjoyed his other music. I wish that I had known it, like I was. Like he's really cute.
Speaker 2:You either play the popular song right at the beginning, get people pumped, get it over with, or you save it for the encore. And what he did was he saved it for the last song.
Speaker 2:And then on-core with it With another, a second rendition of the same song, but he said let's run it back and then it's just started again. Yeah, I'm gonna let up. Yeah, over again. I need to get out of here. We were, like had been up since 3am and it was so hot, warching hot. We had been up since 3am, it was fun.
Speaker 1:It was fun. It was fun, I was truly very happy for him.
Speaker 2:He was humble, he was like. This song changed my life. He was sweet.
Speaker 1:I didn't like it. He was sweet.
Speaker 2:And he was like it changed my life, literally like overnight.
Speaker 1:Yeah, which is how TikTok goes.
Speaker 2:I think I know and I okay, a couple years ago the Five Points St Pat's Festival had surfaces and now they're like huge. So I think maybe it might be on, for they typically get people like right as they're coming out before they're probably too expensive. Yeah, that's yeah, so hopefully that means all good things for him. But then we also have the other side of the spectrum with sister Hazel who they had a big crowd. Yeah, I mean love that one song. I do not even tell you about this moment. I did not even say about this moment?
Speaker 2:Me and my friend Caroline, who was visiting from Boston, helped us with the festival.
Speaker 1:We were leaving she was a saint.
Speaker 2:You had already left, paul Russell. We were like we're gonna go catch sister Hazel. We walked to sister Hazel's stage. We were like we don't have time for this. Also, it was like a time warp One block over everyone aged like 30 years. Like it was so funny. Like two generations, like just totally split by one stream. They have something for everyone at the festival.
Speaker 2:Yes, but so we were like and that wasn't the reason we left, we were just like I'm tired, like this. We got to get out of here. So we walked through this parking lot and there are two horses, horses.
Speaker 1:Horses that were painted green?
Speaker 2:What? Was it? A Vos style what? And they were giving horse rides to grown adults around a parking lot. What? And I felt and it was at the point in the day where I was like these horses need to get out of here. It's becoming it's hot and they're green. You're green like drunk people are riding there, adults are hiking up and I will say have you ever seen an adult mount a horse?
Speaker 1:Nope In the middle of a parking lot.
Speaker 2:None like that, the junk. They start out real confident, they're excited. They whip their leg around an immediate regret. As soon as their butt hits that saddle, they're like I feel like an idiot, like, and then you can't really come back from it. You have to ride them around the parking lot, you have to ride the horse.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:I always think about the time that we went to that festival and for some reason, you and I I think one of the very few times we bonded as children, you and I both wanted to ride a camel. And we got to ride a camel.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:And we, like, literally sat on its hump. Where, when was this At? Like some festival in Charleston, is that the one where we saw, where we saw my ex-boyfriend's parents all like they were getting off of the camel?
Speaker 1:Yes, yes, yes, I forgot about that part of the story.
Speaker 2:I remember like really embarrassed that they had been, they had been like spotted Riding the camel and they were like, oh, I'm going to be on. So it's not like they could be that embarrassed. We were children. That's true. We're not children, we were younger. I mean not that there's any shame in riding an animal, it just is. So it was so funny to see like these, like 20 something brat guys mountain up and then being like oh.
Speaker 2:I feel like a loser. Yeah, I don't know how that got cleared by the neighborhood, but anyway, that happened. Um, yeah, so we're recovering from that. We're recovering Well, okay, so the next. So I didn't watch the movie. Clearly We'll we'll touch back on that next week.
Speaker 1:We've been letting you guys down a lot.
Speaker 2:I'm so sorry. But um it's gearing up. It's been busy.
Speaker 2:We're busy the summer is coming and things always get mapped up. But, um, okay, I was going to say, though, the day after the festival we went to brunch. At brunch, I told this embarrassing story and we were all talking about like the things that you say or do that you just want to like put in a box under your bed, and I was saying mine is like this. I think, like, first thing that comes to mind is this one time I was a little bit tipsy At a bar in my hometown and I ran into this bartender that worked there and it was really busy and we were like, we made eye contact and we were both like hey, and then she like wait how did you know her?
Speaker 2:though it was like oh she like knows my dad.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, she like I like know her so vaguely Like I think I've met her like five times with my dad every time and it was just because, like, my dad frequents the places that she works and I think they like work together. At one point, anyways, we're passing each other, we smile at each other, we both say hey, and then she puts her arms out and I'm like in my head, why is she trying to hug me? But I didn't want to be rude, so I hugged her and then she didn't hug me back. She was just trying to get through the crowd and didn't you see she kept her arms out.
Speaker 2:Yeah, she didn't hug me back. She did not hug me back. She felt very uncomfortable, as did I. I love it. I hate that, oh man.
Speaker 1:Okay.
Speaker 2:I just thought of one when you were talking. When I was in New York, my friend and I went to the comedy cellar and which is like, as most people probably know, it's like the famous comedy club where, like, all the comedians get their start and, like, famous comedians will, like, do surprise shows and blah, blah, blah.
Speaker 2:So we went for like a stand up and as we were leaving I didn't go to the girl that was sitting like near us, like one table over. I was like I'm sorry I laughed so much. Oh, no, she was like it's okay. And I was like why did I see?
Speaker 1:that. Why did I say that? Why did you?
Speaker 2:apologize for doing the thing you're supposed to do, and then I wasn't even like near enough to her that she was probably affected by me at all. I'm sorry, I laughed so much.
Speaker 1:I'm sorry, I laughed so much.
Speaker 2:She was like you didn't, it's fine. Okay, I did that last week, not did that last week, but said something so awkward Like I don't even feel, like I can say it out loud. But you know what? There is power, like I always say, in talking about your embarrassing stuff, because then it can no longer have power over you. Okay, let's hear it. It's really not even that embarrassing. But I was at a parent teacher conference and as I was leaving there was another couple there and maybe I'm embarrassed because Jay, shit on me so hard for it, but maybe it's not that bad. But as we were leaving they were like, hey, how's it going guys? And I was like, hey, good, good to see you guys. And then they like awkwardly, kept staring at us as we were trying to like get out the door, and so I felt like I needed to say something else, and so I was like you know, just do all the parent things today, and then I left. That's not weird. Jay said it was really. Jay said it made him feel uncomfortable.
Speaker 2:Why, I don't know, he was just like why do you always have to say something else Like that was so uncomfortable, it doesn't sound that bad. Okay, it felt uncomfortable. Oh no, they were like uh-huh. They're like we're just trying to get by you. There's a common thread in your embarrassing. Let's just move out of the way, caroline.
Speaker 1:No one's talking to you.
Speaker 2:Okay, but with this, when we were like let's tell embarrassing stories, I got permission to tell one of my friends I won't name her, which I'm sure she's fine being named because she was like do you just want me to come on and tell it? And I was like, yes, but the timing didn't work out. But she went to the female doctor one time and to get like your regular run of the mill pap or something. And they hand her the little like sheet thing and they're like here, waist down, and they like hand it to her and she goes in the room and she's like waist down, waist down. What does that mean? What do they mean? Waist down. So she gets completely butt ass naked. Would that be the thing that she? Why would that be it? No, but she gets butt, ass naked and then lace on the table with her waist down. Wait, what does that mean? They're like on her stomach. So, oh, her waist down.
Speaker 2:And so this like hot young doctor comes in and she's on the table. But I snaked with the thing just draped over her while she's facing the other way with her head down, and he comes in and he's like oh, you can put your clothes on, wait. So was it like over her whole body, I don't know, but he like knew she was naked completely under there, because I'm pretty sure he asked her to put her top back on. I was just so impressed, you know so bad. So much for letting us tell that story. That was so good. Oh man, it's so funny because, like I remember the first time I ever felt the feeling of embarrassment. Do you remember yours?
Speaker 2:No, it was probably, I remember I mean, I feel like it was probably like me trying to say something cool to M's friend, like to our older sister's friends, and it like not being cool and me feeling embarrassed. Yeah, mine, I like. It's honestly this weird thing of like you know, sim never really gets embarrassed Like kids don't get embarrassed that easily.
Speaker 1:They all like just started.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I think I was veils age. I was like six or seven and I was running outside. Our parents were having like a backyard party and I was running outside holding a plate with a brownie on it because I was like so excited because my mom had told me I could go get a brownie, ran straight into the screen door.
Speaker 1:Oh, I remember that.
Speaker 2:And all of her friends, and they all just died laughing, which, like duh, that's hilarious, but I was mortified. I remember that I wanted to crawl in a hole at six years old. That's so sad, I know, I know. Oh, man and that is like the moment. I remember feeling like, I genuinely remember thinking like what is this? Like what?
Speaker 1:is this feeling? Oh?
Speaker 2:no. I want to run and hide and cry. When I was little, my like an instinct reaction when I was embarrassed was to like my tears. My eyes would fill with tears, like if I ever got called out in class, like if I got in trouble in class.
Speaker 1:My eyes would just and I wasn't like sad.
Speaker 2:I was just so embarrassed.
Speaker 1:I'm still the same exact way.
Speaker 2:I still. Just I'm like, yeah, I'm not, even I'm not. Oh my gosh, christa just sent me. Oh my gosh, she just sent me. I just said her name, shoot, but she just sent me full on notes from the embarrassing story and I messed some of it up. Should I?
Speaker 1:go back let's revise.
Speaker 2:I cannot wait. Oh my gosh, it's so much worse than I thought. Okay, okay, so she, okay, they leave and they say waist down. But or they say she said they said face down. She realizes in that moment she was in a romper and had to get naked, okay, and she's also confused why she needed to be face down.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:She gets on the table and tries to put the paper over her butt that keeps blowing off. So she, so I make myself easy access to make the process faster and get on all fours and put my feet in the stirrups with my ass in the air. How, the doctor? How? How were her feet in the stirrups when she was on all fours like, eat the tops of her feet. She's like. She's literally like on all fours, ass sticking up in the air with the tops of her feet in the stirrups.
Speaker 2:Where's this? Her first time. At the gynecologist it says Dr Knox. And I said come in. Oh gosh, in walks an old man I thought he was young, who's not her doctor. He turns ghost white at her tits, dangling in front of him and a viewpoint of every hole in her body, and runs out and asked me to turn around. And then the nurse came in crying, laughing, and asked what I was doing. I had to explain to them just to find out that she said a waist down, not face down. Oh my gosh, oh my gosh, it's so good, dang it. I'm sorry everyone that I messed it up, but revisions were so good the revisions are perfect.
Speaker 2:They came just in time. My gosh, that's so much worse than I didn't know it could get worse. And like I'm just, you know, like the pale, the picture of like the pale boobies, no, like what? Like she says you're like, and my pale tits were just like dangling in a space and it's like there, that's something when you got that tan line, it's a.
Speaker 1:It makes it slightly scary situation.
Speaker 2:Oh, that's probably the first time he's that's ever happened to him and he will never, ever forget it. No, never, man, oh man. That's like oh man, oh man, oh man, oh man, oh man, oh man, oh man, oh man, oh man, oh man, oh man, oh man, oh man, oh man, oh man. I, when I worked at a restaurant, a woman had to come and tell us that she had pooped her pants in the bathroom, which is different, but I'm like I never forget her.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:And they I know, and do you feel like I feel like anytime something embarrassing happens to me, I think like surely this isn't the first time it's happened. That's always my like mantra of solace, like this isn't the first time they've seen this, but like sometimes it is. Yeah, I think I saw that with pedicures, not when I shit my pants. Yeah, I'm like, oh gosh, my toes are disgusting. They've seen worse. Oh my gosh.
Speaker 1:Oh man yeah.
Speaker 2:I, I'm trying, I have. Oh, another embarrassing story. One time I was texting. This is like not only embarrassing but shameful, because, like I was on my phone, oh, can't wait, and I walked straight into a pole and a group of frat boys pointed and laughed at me. They've done dumber things. Oh, a hundred percent.
Speaker 1:A hundred percent.
Speaker 2:Man. I have an embarrassing and shameful story too that really, really makes me sad to think about. Oh my gosh, do tell. So when I was in high school we were instant message, was like I guess still a thing, I guess Not like as much as anyway. So I was instant. I was like messaging this guy We'll say his name was John. He's telling me all about his dad leaving, his mom. Like he's like really opening up. I'm like, oh my gosh, like this is like I'm so sorry. Like we had this whole heart to heart the next day of school. I'm like John, I loved our heart to heart, like thanks so much for like sharing that with me. And he's like what are you talking about? And I was like I mean you told me about like your dad leaving and like like in your mom.
Speaker 2:And like I mean it was like his whole his world crumbling around him currently and I was like I mean this, this and this, and he was like that wasn't me. I was like what, like what? Who was it? Like I was so confused and then the guy, who it actually was, walked up and I think he said some, or maybe like I can't remember if he said something about it or if I in that moment was like oh my gosh it's. John, but whatever.
Speaker 1:Oh, same name.
Speaker 2:Huh, yeah same name. So I was just talking to them and I just like assumed this the guy who was opening up to me we were not close, the other guy who I thought it was we were friends, Like it would have made sense for him to be like telling me this stuff, yeah, so it was like I think I just assumed.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I wasn't paying attention, but I like assumed it was him because of how vulnerable it was. So then when I realized in the moment that it was this other guy, I felt so it was like the most.
Speaker 1:I felt so guilty and I shouldn't have because like you could have just let that shit ride and no this is the embarrassing part, caroline.
Speaker 2:Instead of just being like, oh okay, note to self, everything that was said was this John, not this John. I told the actual John why, I don't know. But I was like John, like I'm can't. We were talking last night and I didn't realize it was you, I thought it was someone else. Like I'm so sorry, like why did I, why didn't you need to? You didn't need to. Oh okay, it was so weird, it was so unnecessary, but for some reason, like I felt like I was lying to him by thinking he was somebody else. No, you just need to reset your mindset, reframe your mindset, I know.
Speaker 2:But the actual John, who it was was the same guy who we like got together after. We were like we were like all going out on the boat and I have people that can corroborate the story. This was embarrassing for him. He saw me for the first time since like school let out for the summer. We were like getting it was like we're back, getting back in the school year and he like looked at my chest and so you really matured this summer, oh what. But like not, what's that? This?
Speaker 1:guy.
Speaker 2:Is this Junie B Jones? I know this guy and it wasn't like it was late. Not Junie B Jones. What am I thinking about? What am I thinking?
Speaker 1:about.
Speaker 2:Like the some middle school like Lizzie McGuire or something.
Speaker 1:Oh, I know when they like want boobs overnight.
Speaker 2:Yeah, but it was. That was what was so weird is. It was like I like that wasn't really even the case and he was just like a kind of a weird dude. And my other friend who I was with was like dude, like what, why would you say that? Like he got called out immediately, it was so. So I think we're even maybe Maybe he, yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 2:But but that's one of those moments I look back and I'm like why do I? Did I do that to myself? Like why did I have to come clean about something so unnecessary? I honestly that like I think mine has affected me, my embarrassing story where I'm not a person anymore and I think that, yeah, I don't really have people anymore.
Speaker 2:No, that had really lasting effects. I know I've noticed. Like I'm really not, like I do not, I'm never the first one to go hug someone. You never know, they might just be trying to get by yeah. It's like it's really like the. It's like taking the whole, it's thinking someone's waving at you and waving at the person behind you to like the tenth level.
Speaker 1:That happened to me recently.
Speaker 2:I hugged her, you hugged her. Wait, that happened to you you said hey. Oh yeah, hey, from across the room, not me, it wasn't me. One time I was in a elevator and a girl had an earpiece in, but it was on the other side so I couldn't see it and she was like when ads I was getting on, she was like, hey, what's up? And I was like not much, how are you? She wasn't talking to me, she was on her earpiece.
Speaker 1:And she didn't even acknowledge it.
Speaker 2:That's her fault. She just kept staring straight, didn't even acknowledge it, which is somehow even more embarrassing. Like girlie, laugh with me. Like that was so weird and embarrassing.
Speaker 1:No, I feel like it says more about me.
Speaker 2:I don't know. I'm like people who talk on the phone with earpieces in public. I have issues with that. I'm like you are asking for this situation, like I just am like people in the grocery store, like being on a phone is one thing, because it's like less weird.
Speaker 2:I don't know I've done it with my AirPods before. Oh, you're one of those people Not not consistently, but like. I've been like on the phone and I can't get off and I'm like going into the grocery store and I'm like, let me switch to my AirPods so I can like actually grocery shop while I'm talking. It drives me crazy. Sorry, it's okay, I'll forgive you we need to make a list.
Speaker 2:Someone else has probably said hi to you. I don't know, and but if I did I would be like, oh my gosh, sorry, I'm on the phone Like I would say something. I think, or maybe that's more uncomfortable, that's me trying to get the last word and taking things too far. My toxic tree.
Speaker 1:We have that in common.
Speaker 2:I know oh man. We need to make now that, like, things are starting to dwindle down, like for the before the summer, we need to make a list of, like, all the things that you a have a problem with and B have notes about me. Yes, okay, I'll start making a list. That can be our finale, our season one finale. Okay, what do we learn this episode? We learned don't ride a horse in a parking lot after a few years, don't ride a horse, especially if they're painted green.
Speaker 1:That's just like abuse we learned.
Speaker 2:Listen carefully to the instructions of the gynecologist and if you are unsure, just take your pants off and put the curtain on and lay on your back.
Speaker 1:Don't get it wrong until they ask.
Speaker 2:I was going to say get it wrong in the right way. Okay, leave all of your clothes on Right, right. Have them ask you twice to take your clothes off.
Speaker 1:Don't ever be an official. Don't ask them until we put it back on. Okay.
Speaker 2:Yeah. Never go in for a hug with someone that you don't know at all except through your dad, while they're working a busy restaurant shift. And don't come clean about something. If it could make something more awkward, keep it to yourself, yeah. And if it's not even necessary, I know, like you didn't do anything wrong, I know, I know you just like thought he was someone different. Yeah, I have, that was on me, that was weird, that was on me, that was oh man, I've definitely done so many more embarrassing things.
Speaker 2:I'm going to we need to ask people to send in theirs because Chris gets me going every time. I just love an embarrassing story. I know I do too. It's me, and I genuinely think the more you tell it, the less power it has over you.
Speaker 1:I think that's true.
Speaker 2:Because I'm like man. If only that girl that I hugged could hear this, and then she wouldn't think I'm such a freaking weirdo.
Speaker 1:I know.
Speaker 2:She would be like oh, she hated that moment too.
Speaker 1:Yeah, moving on.
Speaker 2:Yep, totally. Oh man, all right. Well, we hope you have a great week. We have okay. Watch Irish Wish on Netflix.
Speaker 1:Yes.
Speaker 2:That's everyone's homework. We are going to be reviewing, giving our notes, giving notes Can't wait. I truly loved it. I'm so happy for Lindsay Lohan. She is back, baby, I'm here for it. She looks amazing. Okay, okay, we'll get into it next week. Okay Okay, don't go too much. Okay, I'm just was really prepared and really excited.
Speaker 1:Don't worry, I let you down, okay Next week.
Speaker 2:We're going to do it.
Speaker 1:So all right everyone, see you next Tuesday Next.
Speaker 2:Tuesday.
Speaker 1:Okay.