72. iRiSH GOODBYE ☘️😜☘️

In this unfiltered episode of The Mid Mom Podcast, host Al Hudson covers everything from hustling exterior lights at a home show to her ongoing social media existential crisis. EVERYTHING'S A CRiSiS THESE DAYS LOL.

Al rants about culture, her love/hate relationship with Taylor Swift and Candace Owens, and why politicians like Justin Trudeau and Zelensky give her the iCK.

Between having a pity party pour uno, and celebrating 2 years of THE MiD MOM PODCAST, Al shares hilarious anecdotes, sharp observations, puzzling q's, and the daily absurdities of balancing work, life, and not losing her mind. If you’ve ever felt meh about the world but still have to function in it, this episode is for you.

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Transcript

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Testing testicles. Harvey Weinstein's testicles are in his leg. What's up you guys? And welcome back to another episode of the Mid Mom Podcast. I'm your host Al Hudson, and today's show is brought to you by. Lights by home one. If you're in the Calgary area, DM your girl hair and I will come give you a quote. these little permanent lights will literally change your life. So let's get lit. Let's get you a quote. I can assure you we are high quality, frugal. Frugal pricing because we're fairly new at this. Uh, the company's been around for about three years and I learned so much this weekend. I can't wait to tell you all about my weekend, all about, um, I don't know what I am going through in my life right now. It's kind of a real shit show. And you know what? It always is. It always is. So we're gonna get to that. Okay. Uh, I'm glad you're here. I hope you're doing well. I hope you've gotten a lot of sun lately. Hope you've gone on some nice walks. Maybe you're into bouncing. I, I like keeping my little rebounder in the family room when I'm watching s muddy tv. I'm just kidding. It's not smut. It's mostly conspiracy. Theories. And, uh, you know what, you know what I haven't watched yet is the scooter bra bad blood, but we're gonna get to that. It's, it's not easy to find, let me tell you. But if I am going to hate everything, fun. So are you okay? I'm gonna bring you with me. I, uh, literally, literally. I hate everything. I don't know how to even live in a world. So if you're like still in the dark about things, turn me off, turn me off right now. You don't wanna hear it. It's not, guys, it's dark in here and I know. You know, I know. You know, because once you're in the rabbit hole, you can't get out. It's literally a matrix down here. And I'm stuck. I'm lost. I'm in a web. I'm in a web and I'm not Okay. Alright. Um, so you're gonna need to help me if, if I'm going on this Taylor Swift deep dive look, I'm even wearing my t-shirt today. And I know if you're listening, you can't see this, but I am wearing my Taylor Swift t-shirt today and that's because, um. I don't know. I still like her songs, but I want to look into her more, especially with all of the Blake Lively stuff happening. Ryan Reynolds guys, should we start with Blake? Should we do a little Blake dive or should just, should we just hit him up with Taylor? You guys tell me. I don't, I don't know what to do. I'm at a loss here. Okay. I'm at a loss. Anyways, uh, enjoy the show. She's just like you trying get working kids and relationships and money and sex and. Okay, so first things first, guys, I have to tell you about my weekend. Uh, I was at the home show selling permanent exterior lights for the first time in my life. And, um, have I done sales before? No. Is it hard? Not really. If you have a good product. That's what I'm saying. Um, it is hard to like talk to total strangers though. Like they kinda lurk, they kind of give, give a little side eye. They're like, what is that? I'm not sure if I wanna approach that person. And then I had to be the one to be like, Hey, you got your lights quote yet, that's my opening line. And then they're always like, what? And then they come in real close and it's like, girl, have you gotten your lights quote yet? And I do it in a real sexy voice. And you know what? Hook, line and sinker gets him every time. Jk, I booked one person from the home show, actually two. I just called a guy because his wife and her best friend were there. And they're like, don't, don't take my contact info. Take her husband's. And I was like, you want me to cold call her husband's number? And she's like, yeah. So I did send him a text the other day, a little follow up. I said, hi, I met your wife and her friend. They said, you're the man to talk to. Never heard anything. I sent him like the website link and stuff like that. Didn't hear anything, so that was like what Friday? Then anyways, I decided to give him a little ring of ding ding today and Diddy hang up on me. Yes. He did, but it was an accident. So he called me back immediately, but in my head for about 20 seconds. I was like, cool. I just turned into a telemarketer and people are hanging up on me like, what is my life? And he called back. He's like, I'm so sorry. I was like, I thought I lost you there for a minute. So, uh, I got an appointment with him. I'm gonna lock it down guys. I'm gonna lock it down. Al's, Al's gotta do something, something new to hyper fixate on. I can't deal with, uh, the social media lately. I can't. I'm about, I'm about ready to just burn it all down.'cause that's what I do. You, you might have been. Told or instructed as a child or a teenager to never burn bridges. But I am the one lighting explosives under the bridge and just boom, walking away. I think. I think it's'cause it's how my brain works and that is, you know, a mystery to us all. But I think it's'cause I can't hyper fixate on like. So many things and there's just like a real brain stew going on in my head like at all times. So I have to kind of like chop off one to focus on the other, but I'm trying really hard to just be on social media a lot less. But there might come a day where I just say, adios, here's my Irish goodbye. I won't even say adios. I'm just going to be out. Because it is insane. It's insane on there. Like I wish I could open up Instagram and just ease into it, you know what I'm saying? Like not have the first thing in my feed be. Reel from like Candace Owens yelling about something. And I, you know what? I like Candace Owens from what I know about her, but I have some questions about her because my husband was like, is she married to some British guy? And I was like, yeah. And it's weird how they met. Like their marriage story is even weirder than every Mormon marriage, like meeting engagement. Marriage story that I've ever heard in my life, like mine was fast. Who was I talking to? I was talking to someone, probably, probably one of my customers at the home show, and I told them I was in an arranged marriage and I was a child bride. No, I wouldn't do that there, but I was telling someone the. I dated Ben for less than a month before we were engaged, and then we were engaged for like two months and they're like, oh my gosh, that's literally insane. I said, thank you so much. I know, I know. And Candace and her husband like. I don't know. I've seen some clips of like him talking about her and her talking about him, and sometimes I'm like, oh my gosh, we're the same. Like your poor husband has to just like put up with the multiple personalities going on, and the conspiracy theorist and me really gets along with her. But I'm also just like, are you okay? Like, are you okay? Because if you knew the guy for like 17 days before you were engaged, is that the story? I don't know. It's, it's a little bizarre to me. I'm gonna just gonna just say that I'm just gonna plant that little seed and put a pin in it. We'll come back to it later. We have other things to deal with. You guys like the fact that I've been in my luteal phase literally since 2024 and I'm not okay with it. I swear you're ugly in your luteal phase and fat, and I'm still fat. I don't know what's going on. Things are really changing and not for the better. I gotta buck up here. You know, I gotta, I gotta, I gotta do more walking. I gotta do more bouncing and I gotta do less eating shit. I swear this time of year when I'm doing just tournaments and stuff and living off mini bags in Miss Vicky's and fucking fruit snacks in the seat of my car. Just driving up and down that QE two. The QE two, let me tell you, is a literal piece of shit. Also, it needs to be four lanes and there needs to be a hard and fast rule that there are never any semis ever allowed in the fast lane ever. I would like to make that, um, the law. I don't know how to make a law, but if I could. That would be the law, but also the road between Red Deer and Edmonton is shit and so narrow. And then once you get to Edmonton, there's fucking potholes all over the place. Like those things will swallow up an entire mini Cooper. If it hit it wrong, it would pop a fucking tire. For sure. They are. Monster holes there, and I, I don't get it. I swear. I swear this place has just gone to shit in the last decade. You know, like, fix the fucking roads, please, and get off the road if you're texting. If you're going slow and you're in one of the lanes, I can tell that you're texting, you're going 20 below the speed limit and you're just pissing everyone off. So get the fuck off the road. And you're actually making me so mad because I have kids that drive, or like, it's not even just about my kids though. Like there's, there's people you know, we don't need, we don't need you. We don't need you. So. Anyways. I don't know if I'm in the right mood to do this today. You guys. I have been feeling very weird lately, and I don't know what that's all about. I think I'm literally addicted to social media. I think I also just really need a break. I think that all of my hopes and dreams were shattered when my. Favorite house in the whole wide world was sold and not to me. So I'm just at like this really weird reset point, you know, it's fine. It's cool. We'll get through it. Um. I was thinking at Christmas. You wanna hear my little, my little thing?'cause because you know how like anytime you're making changes in your life, it gets really messy'cause you just like it. I don't know, things just kind of crumble. They kind of fall apart. And whether that's you ripping them apart or then just like. Not being taken care of, and then they just kind of like dwindle, crumble, whatever. at Christmas, when I was doing one of my puzzles. It's like really easy to find all the edge pieces, you know? And then it's easy to put all those together. And after that you just kind of stand there and you're like, okay, now where do I start? That's, that's where I'm at in life right now. I feel like I have the frame laid out. Now I don't know what to do and I have all of these pieces over here and I don't know what should be the priority. I have no idea where I should focus more energy on and I don't know, I guess it's spring. Maybe it's a good time to like do all this, uh, deep inner work. But honestly, I'm just literally so sick of social media and celebrities. I didn't even watch the Oscars the other day. Could care less about the Oscars and uh. I saw enough in the photos that made me annoyed afterwards, or like the clips I was seeing on social media. I was like, I hate all of you. You're dead to me. I can't believe I used to be so obsessed with like what you were wearing and all this stuff. Um, the Diddy, the Diddy dive and the Blake Dive last year really changed things. It changed my whole entire perspective on all of this. And then when you add that to my perspective on the Mormon church that I used to be a part of and how that's a cult. And then you look at celebrities and you're like, oh, well that's a cult too. And you look at anyone in government. also a cult, like if you're so devoted to this one person or this one ideology, that's the word, ideology. Um, are you leaving any room for like critical thinking or your own growth and development in there? Probably not. Like if you're so consumed by, These groups of people, like whatever, whatever it is. It could be your favorite football team. It could be, um, it could be your friend group. Like everything's really culty. No, I don't, I don't know if it's your friend group. I think you need new friends if you, if that's your friend group.'cause you shouldn't like, I don't know. I just think everything's weird. Then we're told, we're weird for thinking that shit is weird and not like going along with it anymore. It's, it's just kind of an odd place to be in, but I'm excited to see what I do with it. So wish me luck guys. It's almost been two years of the pod. Yes. Congratulations to me. Congratulations. Nobody knew I could do this, not even myself. And um, you know what? Sometimes, sometimes I think, what am I doing? Like I've put all of those words out there, all those hours out there into the world and. Sometimes I'm quite embarrassed by it all, but then I'm also like, no, there's so much growth. There's so much learning and understanding, like woven in through all those, there's funny stories. Um, it's all there. And I just, I don't know. I do think, I do think. It's good. I think there's some good stuff in there. So as much as I wanna go back and like edit things, I don't have time for that. And why would I, why would I change the past? Like why would I wanna change who I was based on what I know now? I think that's like the interesting part, right? Is like you go back and you listen and you're like, oh my gosh, you were such a swifty. Do you know what's even crazier is I did a podcast with my friend called The Two Bit Birds for 17 episodes last year.'cause I thought it would be easier to do it with someone and it really wasn't. It didn't turn out to be easier at all. Certain things about it were easier, and of course the conversation was like more engaging and stuff like that. But the planning around it was hard. The editing was hard. It all just kind of. I dunno. It got hard but that was when I was really into Taylor Swift and she was about to drop the tortured poets department and we did a five part series on how excited we were leading, up to that album being released. And I know that for like a month straight, I only listened to the tortured poets department and I made my own playlist of it with all my favorite songs'cause it was hard to like learn them. There were so many. Um, I wonder if I should release those episodes on here. That way you can like see where I'm coming from. Like obsessed, disgustingly obsessed with Taylor Swift, and ever since the Blake Lively Ryan Reynolds shit came out against Justin, I am just like, who? Who are you? There seems to be some patterns here that I'm noticing, um, when it comes to playing the victim. And, um, that's, that's why I was gonna watch that show Bad Blood With, um, it's only two episodes. It's like one season it's, it's gonna cost me 10 bucks, you guys. So it's a good thing. I have a job now. Uh, but yeah, I'm gonna watch that. Because I think there's some information in there that I need to know coming off my swift, like the whole thing is weird to me now. It's funny how you can't see it when you're in it, Anyways, I could start with a whole, like One second. Sorry. You know what time it is? Oh yeah. Sorry. You have no visuals today, you guys. Um. Not that anyone really sees those anyways, because I'm too overwhelmed to actually make videos, so I should just do audio all the time. The, uh, the camera on my laptop is not working. And you know what? Will I take that as a sign to, um, stop podcasting? No, this is gonna make me grind harder. I'm never stopping this. Listen to that. I added the true lime, of course. Okay. But I, I do, I do wanna talk about a few things before we get into. This weird little series that I wanna do on these celebrities that I hate. Um, first of all, let's talk about the Oscars quick.'cause one of the clips I did see was, was it Robert De Niro? Like the guy from Meet the Fs, the dad. Um, like did he. Did he actually get on stage and say, fuck Donald Trump? Because I feel like that is a very disrespectful thing to do. I don't care what side you're on. Um, but obviously it's fine for the Democrats and the liberals to do stuff like that. But if a conservative would've done that to Biden or Kamala, or. Obama, uh, or Clinton, remember remember the 20, was it the 2014 Oscars with Ellen hosting and she ordered pizza and Harvey Weinstein was pitching in money and Kevin Spacey. And um, there was like some awkward laughter going on in the background. Kind of just how Ellen always did her show too, like. When she had her show, she put some people in a really weird, awkward position and she thought that was funny and it was very uncomfortable. And I thought I liked her, but there was always something weird. Remember when she even had like all these, I don't know if they were, um. Like sick kids, like make a wish kind of a thing. And then she brought Diddy out and they were all like cheering and so excited to meet P Diddy, the Diler. Uh, I remember all of these weird little things so you don't have to, but she, uh, yeah, when she hosted the Oscars, I feel like that was kind of a hint and a dead giveaway and. The fact that De Niro was on stage saying that, and people were cheering, like people were cheering. That to me is the same energy as like the Canadians booing the American National anthem. Like it's gross. It's gross, it's unnecessary, and, and, um, it's dumb. Like, I don't know, I guess, uh. I guess when you have that much money and that much fame and power, you can kind of get away with a lot of things. Like if that was a normal person doing that, they would be in big trouble. And like I said, if it was the opposite parties doing that to each other, um, huge trouble. They would've made a huge deal out about it on the mainstream media and they didn't, um. I also thought he was one of the ones that was gonna leave. Maybe that was just Tom Hanks. I don't know. All these, all these celebrities, you guys just fucking hate'em. And, uh, Ariana, she confessed something in an interview, or not confess, but just, just mentioned it and was like, I don't really remember. I had like my memory wiped and I can't remember what she called it. I'm gonna look it up. She literally said, um, she had memory erasure treatment at the Brighter Days Clinic. I don't know what that means at all. She actually said it in an interview and I was like, this is fake. There's no way. Like this is ai. No, it's not guys. That is real life. And she was like a Disney or a Nickelodeon kid. So I don't know what's happened to her like as a child and the trauma that she has been through, but when you look at her face to me it looks like, um. She's trying to disassociate with her past self by changing literally every aspect of her face using plastic surgery. And I think a lot of celebrities do this, and I think it's dangerous. And then I also think it's dangerous that we aren't seeing it like I am. I personally am the detective for plastic surgery, but. Most people don't see it, and then they act like you're a horrible person for pointing it out. And all you're doing is pointing it out. You're just like, oh, they've changed this to this. Like, they're not even the same person anymore. And they're like, of course you're judging a woman. And it's like, shut the fuck up. Uh, yeah. I am judging women. I'm judging everyone. Actually, welcome to the Mid Mom podcast. It's Judgment Day. You wanna stand in front of me, I'll judge you too, unless you're nice and fun and we just fuck around. Like, I, I just, oh my gosh. Like, it's not that serious. But it also is because people are so dumb. That's what drives me nuts. Um, anyways, we, we also, um. We also saw Zelensky have a little temper tantrum in his matching mom. Two piece sweatsuit, uh, with the King Triton symbol on the front that he always wears, trying to act like he's like a war hero. And honestly, I have zero patience for him and this whole situation, I have zero patience for anyone screaming. Yay. Team Canada. We're boycotting all these American products. We're not going to America anymore. We're gonna boo your national anthem. F you guys for putting the tariffs on. Uh, how about f Trudeau for slapping our asses with the fucking carbon tax for the last, I don't know, eight years? Like, where's your rage against him? Because in case you didn't notice, he's a dictator and we are just his little peons. And, uh, there's, there's honestly nothing we can do at this point. But like I did learn this weekend that Hunter Biden, like whoever was funding Hunter Biden in the Ukraine, was also funding Zelensky and bringing him up from his acting debut. Like he, you guys, I don't know if you know this, but you probably do, he had an acting career. So did Macron and remember. Trudeau was a drama teacher who, um, molested someone or assaulted someone, I don't know, and paid her like$20 million to make her shut up. Remember that? I do. Uh, I, anyways, Zelensky played the role of a, like on a TV show. He was the star of the show and he was. An actor aspiring to be the president of the Ukraine or something, or I don't know, maybe it wasn't set in Ukraine, but it's, it's weird. And then the fact that that is real life, like he was never a politician. Same with Macron, same with. Trudeau who also said he was never gonna get into politics when he was asked as like a young gay heartthrob in the nineties. He's like, I'm not gonna do that. I'm not gonna do that. And then he flashes this little crepey smile. I mean, if you're into the fucking fruitcakes, I guess he's was good looking back in the day. But the man, I mean, ugh, he's so gross to me. And there's a lot of. liberal ladies who are loving him right now. And I just, I'm like, are you dumb? Like, are you actually dumb? Do you actually think that him telling you to boycott American stuff and to not travel there, do you actually think he is doing that in your best interest?'cause remember when he bused us all around like five years ago and said, Nope. You're not going anywhere, you're not doing anything. You're gonna stay inside your fucking house and then you're gonna get this shot. If you, if you wanna leave your house, you have to get this shot and you have to get it twice, and you have to get it for your whole family. Uh, if you think you're gonna travel anywhere, if you think you're gonna go sit in a restaurant like that is some fucked up shit. So, um, wakey, wakey, liberal. Ladies, he, Like, it's so weird to me that he has you so convinced. I'm, I'm talking to you liberal ladies has you so convinced that he's all of a sudden all about Canada and the whole elbows up thing is very, very strange. That's like fighting words for like, if you're in hockey or anything, ohs up. Okay. Mike Myers, see you on the front fucking lines while I'm at home streaming it on my television on. I don't want any part of this. I don't want my boys to have any part of this. I don't want to be fighting someone else's war. And I actually made a TikTok yesterday going through like the whole war system, and I said to chat GPT, why am I a bad person? Or why am I made to feel like a bad person for not supporting Zelensky? And it was like, well, the only person, the only people that profits from this, or the only people that want never ending wars are the people that profit from it. So I know I did an episode called Follow the Prophets and uh, cha-ching. The war crises is just another stupid thing that they do to launder money. Like, hello, hello? I am probably the least educated on all of this when it comes to like, what actually happened in Crimea and who started the war and who invaded who. Like, I don't understand that and I, I don't need to, to know that this is just not a good situation. And, um, honestly, for, for the ladies out there that love. Trudeau or think you love Trudeau because he's telling you what a good leader he is and he is telling Canadians what they want. It's like, dude, you have no fucking clue what we want. So I don't know. I. I, I just need you to start using your brain. I think that's what it comes down to. You need to turn your TV off and you need to stop glazing true diss schnitzel. Okay? We're not, we're not into that. Um. I'm just looking at my notes here, guys. Oh yeah. I'm literally turning into my dad. Hmm. It's not a bad thing. Dave's an icon. I, uh, I watched whatever President Trump was speaking at the whole thing. Actually, no, I turned it on about halfway through. I watched a full hour of it though while I was doing my nails, after watching the Flames game. And, um, I kind of felt like. It was a little bit weird, I'm not gonna lie. It was like watching a game show and church and like I was at a comedy club. Like all combined in one. And then, you know how when you're at a comedy club, there's some people that are like the total downers that he makes fun of. That's that's exactly what was happening. Like everyone dressed in their barbie pink to like promote. Whatever they were trying to promote or they were in blue and yellow for the Ukraine. It's like if you stand with Ukraine, go ahead and give Zelensky money. And I know this is American, you guys, but obviously, obviously we're all invested in whatever goes on in America as Canadians. Um, at least I am. I think there's just like a huge. Direct correlation. And, uh, I, I liked it. I liked, I liked Trump. That guy is just, I, I like him, he says and does just whatever the fuck he wants. And, I mean, maybe I wouldn't like him if I didn't agree with his policies, but I think that, uh, I think he'd be good for Canada. I think anyone other than what we have, no, I take it back.'cause Mark Carney, I don't want him lead in the way. I think he's gonna be much, much worse. I think he's smarter than Trudeau and I think he's more conniving than Trudeau. And um, I'm interested to find his name and Trudeau's name and Trump's name. I mean, Trump might be on those Epstein logs. We don't know. Uh, they're probably just never gonna tell us though, honestly. Um, but yeah, that was, that was a, that was a good hour of my life I spent watching the circus.'cause even if I, even though I do agree with most of what Trump does, I don't like the way it's like. Displayed, you know what I'm saying? Like there's no real humility, there's no order, and maybe there doesn't need to be. I, I mean that guy that got kicked out, like that whole thing was so funny. I just, I don't know. The fact that I didn't watch the Oscars and that I did tune into like the presidential. Not the inauguration, not the debate. I don't know what it's called. State of the Union, is that what it was called? Just screams. Just screams that I'm getting old and I am literally, I have turned into my dad at this point. You know what, he's a detective. He was a detective. So there's that. Um, anyways, I. I am working behind the scenes on my detective duties for you. If you would be so kind to go into the show notes, wherever you're listening, whether it's Apple or Spotify, and click the thing that's like, send me a message or something like that, click that and send me a message and tell me the questions you want me to look into about Taylor Swift. Um, tell me if you'd rather me start with Blake, the snake and, uh, let's be our own sleuths, because I, I don't trust that many people and I, um, I, I will do my due diligence. I will do what I can when it comes to finding shit on these celebrities who we've been worshiping and culty following for years, decades. but help me out. Let me know what you want. Let me know what questions you have. Even if you just wanna say, Allison, you're doing so great. Thank you so much.'cause sometimes I feel like I am guys and sometimes I feel like I'm not. So that is just, that is just the hormones. I'm blaming it all on the hormones. No, I'm blaming it on Justin Trudeau. Thanks Justin. I'm in a bad mood today. Just kidding. Okay, my pity party's over. Let's move on. Okay guys. Um, yeah. Eat price. Lay love you. See you next time. Up. We've got other things to do.