Donkey Races and Podcast Picks
Older & Wilder
GGW Media
4.8 • 619 Ratings
🗓️ 19 February 2026
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
Podcasts They Hate, Olympics Distractions, and Donkey Races
Joy and Claire record an early-morning episode with chat friends. The conversation shifts to popular podcasts they dislike or don’t understand the hype around.They discuss watching the Olympics as a welcome distraction.
Joy shares two personal updates: discovering a local nonprofit tied to pack burro racing REdonculous Ranch Sanctuary and Rescue (connected to Colorado mining history)—and planning to shadow a four-mile training run with a rescue donkey near her home.
04:34 True Crime Fatigue: Crime Junkie, Serial Aftershocks & Ethics
06:51 Podcast Crush: Amy Poehler’s ‘Good Hang’ + The Lip Balm Break
09:05 The ‘Open Marriage’ Spoof Story That Freaked Brandon Out
11:04 Politics & Sanity Checks: Pod Save America + Chart Oddities
12:28 Rants & Red Flags: Megyn Kelly, Mel Robbins, SmartLess & Celebrity Overload
21:33 From Podcasts to Olympics: Curling Confusion, Luge Laughs & Crash Anxiety
24:33 Olympics obsession: biathlon memes & why it’s so fun to watch
25:22 Figure skating highlight: the wild core-strength partner move explained
28:15 Ski jumping scandal: the ‘extra fabric’ suit-cheating story
30:24 Olympics side chatter: celeb sightings, Devil Wears Prada 2
31:12 New adventure unlocked: running with rescue donkeys (pack burro racing)
36:54 Perimenopause surprises: itchy ear canals, TikTok hacks & symptom rant
40:03 Testosterone update: sleep improvements, sweating side effects & stress reality check
41:50 Hair & scalp care deep dive: Act + Acre, hard water, iron/ferritin and hair loss
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everybody, welcome back to older and water. We're doing Claire. |
| 0:09.4 | Hello. |
| 0:10.3 | Hi, friends. We've got a early morning recording again with friends. We have Nicole, we have |
| 0:18.1 | Erin, we have Petra, we have Nina. |
| 0:22.8 | It's like our favorite thing to have chat. |
| 0:26.7 | I actually, it feels weird whenever we have to record without chat because we're like, |
| 0:27.4 | where is everybody? |
| 0:28.7 | Like, where are my friends? |
| 0:35.0 | You know what's funny, though, just to start out of the gate is last week we, if you're like a true OG fan, you will appreciate the reference that we did when we were |
| 0:39.8 | like I couldn't remember the name of the Corolli Ranch and so I said Garofoli and then we're like |
| 0:45.4 | shout out to Chris G and Chris G texted me and he goes I do I do listen and he sent me a photo of him like at some conference. Like a trade show. |
| 0:58.2 | And he's like, and here I am on television arguing that we should all burn our socks because Claire no |
| 1:03.6 | longer works for smart world. It was, it was so cute. To be clear, I still wear smart wall every single day. |
| 1:08.6 | Yes. Um, that was, it was so cute. |
| 1:11.3 | He is the best. |
| 1:12.3 | We love him. |
| 1:13.5 | That was such a nice surprise. |
| 1:15.1 | Because just so you guys know, we don't talk to him regularly anymore. |
| 1:19.2 | I mean, I probably haven't talked to him since I was doing CrossFit at the old gym. |
| 1:21.9 | The last time I talked to him was when I ran into him at the airport in Costa Rica in like 2023. |
| 1:26.3 | That's right. |
| 1:30.6 | Oh my gosh, Christy. So hi, |
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