The Situation is Bruh
Older & Wilder
GGW Media
4.8 • 619 Ratings
🗓️ 26 February 2026
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
Burro Brave, Hormone Swings, and Everything Is Bears
Joy and Claire open by noting they sometimes need lighter conversations amid ongoing political distress. Joy shares an update on trying Colorado’s official heritage sport, pack burro racing, during a training run with rescue donkeys from REdonculous Ranch Rescue Sanctuary. Joy also updates on puppy-raising Lilas and will be turned in for training in mid-May. Claire discusses upcoming Peru travel, extending her trip to surf, and signing her mom up for a women 55+ Surf With Amigas retreat. They also discuss testosterone therapy effects, perimenopause mood swings, cycle tracking, partner communication, and humor around stress.
04:17 Donkey Bite Story
07:14 First Training Run
11:26 How Donkeys Run
15:10 Why It Felt Peaceful
19:04 Be Burro Brave
20:40 Puppy Update
25:46 Travel Plans Ahead
27:27 Mom Surf Trip
27:58 Surf Trip For 55 Plus
29:55 Planning Peru And Japan
30:44 Testosterone Shot Updates
32:45 Libido And Hormone Talk
35:07 Perimenopause Mood Swings
38:04 Tracking Cycles And Stigma
42:48 What A Time To Be Alive
47:29 Everything Is Bears Tool
49:40 Unhinged Comments
53:34 Wrap Up And Where To Find Us
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back, everybody to older and wilder with Joy and Claire. |
| 0:13.8 | Hello, our lovely community, lovely friends out there. |
| 0:17.6 | Love hearing from you. |
| 0:18.5 | We got a couple people reaching out this week that were like, |
| 0:21.1 | hello, we listen. I'm like, that probably gets so old for people. Be like, stop saying that. |
| 0:26.7 | You've been doing this for 13 years. Like, no, we won't stop saying that because we really do like to |
| 0:31.5 | hear from you. It's so true. And I feel like, you know, for a a couple pretty much like january we were reacting to a lot |
| 0:41.4 | of the horrible political things like the ice stuff we talked a little bit about the absolutely |
| 0:48.7 | horrible things with the Epstein files that i like can't even say out loud that stuff is still very |
| 0:53.6 | much like present and |
| 0:54.8 | important and horrible even for us it does it is necessary to not always talk about it right and |
| 1:01.7 | we've also you know we know that you guys know that about us but we've and it's also we hope like |
| 1:06.3 | there's this fine line of like I don't want to avoid it or like give people like an, |
| 1:11.2 | I don't even know, like an out. |
| 1:12.7 | I don't, that's not what I'm trying to say, but like there is a, an important part of like, hey, let's just kind of take a breath and like have a conversation and give our nervous systems a little moment. Yeah. So at least for me, that's the last few years ago. Yeah. I mean, there's a million things that can be true at the same time and we don't always have to live in that really, like, really scary space. |
| 1:30.5 | And that is very... So at least for me, that's the last few weeks are. Yeah, I mean, there's a million things that can be true at the same time. |
| 1:27.9 | And we don't always have to live in that really scary space. And that is very, very real. So that's what we try to do. And you know what? If you do want to have a space to process all of that, we're going to be that sometimes. But you can really, really find some great podcasts out there. like we've mentioned, Pansu Politics, Positive America. |
| 1:45.0 | Those are wonderful therapeutic. |
| 1:46.9 | I've had it is a great one. really find some great podcasts out there. Like we've mentioned, Pansu Politics, Positive of America. |
| 1:45.0 | Those are wonderful therapeutic. I've had it is a great one if you really want to let it fly, |
| 1:49.9 | because they are just amazing at like having this cathartic, angry release. So they are out there |
| 1:57.5 | for you. But we're also here to just talk about some silly things as well, |
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