Start a List with Carol and Stacy

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Carol and Stacy welcome listeners to “Start a List,” thank fan Lori Sharp, and discuss feeling discombobulated, exercising, and everyday aches. Their topic, “You Can’t Top That,” explores how celebrations and public behavior have become over the top, sparked by Carol’s lunch with her dad where an extremely animated waitress curtsied, made a hand-heart gesture, and said “okie dokie pokie,” and Stacy’s experience at a loud high school graduation featuring huge banners, screaming, and air horns despite rules. They compare simpler childhood parties to today’s elaborate birthday parties, school invitations drama, gender reveals, kindergarten “graduations,” expensive weddings, and even an extravagant “celebration of life” with a float and spinning casket. They also mention designer “poop purse” bags, share ideas for simpler parties, and ask listeners to share the podcast with 2–5 friends to grow subscribers.

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Stacy and Carol host an episode of “Start a List” featuring their sons, Will and Lewis, who discuss what they think about their moms having a podcast. Will and Lewis describe growing up as teacher’s kids at the same school, recalling privileges like access to the teacher’s lounge, pressure to behave, and after-school fun. They share funniest memories (especially their moms falling), favorite childhood foods and bus riding shenanigans. 

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Stacy and Carol open“Start a List” after technical difficulties and chat about feeling overwhelmed by nonstop “adult responsibilities” and how one task sparks many more. They discuss ongoing decluttering projects, a poorly attended neighborhood yard sale, and home-maintenance headaches including roof inspections, potential shingle recalls, and needing a tree cut after repeated fence damage. Carol describes managing repairs for both her own home and her elderly father’s, where mouse and groundhog problems, wet boxes, attic cleanouts, and a leaking roof have cascaded into major work. They share mishaps like oversleeping for a shift, allergies, toilet problems (including finding a dead mouse), septic backups, AC failure during an event, and car repair frustrations, while noting the need for perspective and inviting listeners to share their own stories.

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Stacy and Carol kick off season two of “Start a List,” announcing a recurring “old person moment of the week” segment as Stacy turns 55 and they discuss senior discounts. Carol recounts panicking after losing her driver’s license, insurance card, and credit card from a phone case, later finding them on the floor, while Stacy describes leaving her phone in a grocery cart and also shares a fall outside her grandson’s apartment that left her sore and may have damaged her phone. The episode shifts to “fashion in middle age,” focusing on how hard it is to find cute, comfortable, age-appropriate clothing—especially with inconsistent sizing across brands, shrinking shirt lengths, frustrating jeans closures, unpleasant dressing rooms, and boutiques’ limited plus sizes. Stacy describes returning ill-fitting Chico’s dresses and eventually finding success at a pop-up boutique, joking they should start a clothing line. They also trade trend “no’s,” share nostalgic fashion memories, and offer a tip on Vans no-show socks from Journeys.

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Carol and Stacy open by jokingly confusing their names, explain they’re late due to Carol’s vintage antique sale and Easter, and announce one more episode before a short break to plan season two. They share odd moments from the sale, including a shopper who stayed two and a half hours to buy about $40 of items and a blunt customer who asked which seller was dying, leading them to note you shouldn’t ask people if they’re pregnant or dying. They recount past “silly adventures,” including holding yard sale signs on a busy highway, Stacy falling into a ditch while holding a car wash sign, and creative COVID-era visits at Sonic, in driveways, and in a garage with a patio heater. They describe a one-time backyard blow-up pool “resort” day, a Nashville Shores trip where a family wore knee socks in a wave pool, a kid misunderstanding basketball team news, and Stacy’s water slide mishap in Georgia. They end by discussing a possible senior-rate pool membership and thanking listeners before the break.

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Stacy and Carol open episode 14 of “Start a List,” thanking listeners for feedback, and announce one more episode before a short break ending season one. They recap a two-day Pigeon Forge trip, including stopping at Buc-ee’s, staying in a cozy place, and repeatedly encountering “ridiculous” people. They watch a nighttime “karaoke guy” performing near a trolley stop, visit The Island (shopping, key lime cookies, and a tram ride policed by strict “tram patrol”), and shop at Tanger Outlets where an overstimulating Michael Kors visit features a showy “purse lady.” At a winery patio, a close-talking Dollywood tram driver touches their cracker container lid, asks for relationship “vibes,” offers free Dollywood tickets, and her date later hugs them after learning they’re teachers; They also describe a driver who stops on a green arrow and end by asking, “what is wrong with people?”

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Stacy and Carol record their “Start a List” episode from a hotel room at the Inn at Christmas Place in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee, on their first mini trip together since retiring, noting travel fatigue and improvised tech. They interview each other with random questions: both would time travel to the past (Carol to the late 1940s–50s; Stacy to revisit childhood and grandparents), neither can fold a fitted sheet, and they share best and worst jobs (Stacy's worst: briefly waitressing at O’Charley’s; best: working at Opryland; Carol's daycare job cleaning bathrooms as a needed tradeoff, and her current specialty-cheese grocery job). Pet peeves include unpreparedness, loud phone use in restaurants, bad driving, and lateness. Carol coins “chap shadow” after a student used menthol Chapstick as eyeshadow. Stacy recounts a bizarre teacher gift: a lace-and-ribbon Bible hot-glued to a small podium. They discuss lifetime supplies (popcorn, chips and queso, sleep/health, money) and propose Olympic sports like cooking dinner or dancing, then recommend the hotel and wrap up.

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Stacy and Carol chat about their busy week, including spring cleaning, a sick dog, and plans to clean out a closet before an upcoming out-of-town shopping trip, teasing a special episode next week. They share “childhood memories” part two, focusing on school and food: homemade cafeteria bread, grilled cheese with chili, square pizza, milk break with classroom milk crates, and lunch tickets, plus lunchboxes with thermoses. They recall odd cafeteria sides like corn with pizza, Friday ice cream cups with wooden spoons, and field day events such as the three-legged race and Frisbee throw. They reminisce about school carnivals and cakewalks, the school bookstore, student jobs (attendance collection, raising the flag, filmstrips), old playground equipment, music class instruments, field trips to local factories, and neighborhood ice cream trucks, ending by encouraging listeners to like, comment, and share.

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Stacy and Carol open their “Start a List” podcast by chatting about windy weather, subbing in a kindergarten class before spring break, work and errands, and Carol’s love of March Madness, including her son Will calling a Division I ASUN tournament in Jacksonville. They introduce a hodgepodge episode about mishaps and “times we should have not,” referencing an Einstein quote about genius and stupidity. They trade stories of embarrassing falls in college and elsewhere, including tumbling down steps, slipping on an incline, and tripping in a corn maze at a pumpkin patch that scared Stacy’s son. They also share car-related mishaps: Stacy forgetting where she parked for days, Stacy hitting herself in the face with her own car door, and Carol accidentally macing herself twice. They invite listeners to share similar stories and close with their catchphrase.

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Stacy and Carol welcome listeners to their podcast, celebrate nearing 500 downloads, and, while dreading tax season, decide to share childhood memories sparked by reminiscing about growing up. They swap Easter stories (egg hunts in the snow, watercolor sets, wheelbarrow baskets) and discuss favorite and disliked candies like Reese’s eggs, Cadbury eggs, foil-wrapped chocolate eggs, and Peeps. They recall playing outside—digging a “hole to China,” making mud pies in pot-pie tins, riding Big Wheels and bikes (including Stacy crashing into a truck), jumping in leaf piles, and using swing sets and a homemade “Tree House Lounge.” They talk about putting on shows, toys like Easy-Bake ovens and Snoopy snow-cone makers, early Atari games, sugary cereals and cereal-box toys, and classic board games, then invite listeners to share memories and where to listen.

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