Barb’s podcasts

03/06/2024

Gender reveal parties, I think the only people who really care are mom and dad. Because by the look of the videos that I see online, I know the kids don’t care the siblings.


Have we gone a little crazy with gender reveal parties? I mean when you’re doing explosives and all that kind of stuff is it really money well spent. I get it. It’s your money, but people actually get hurt doing those things, and the kids are never happy.

02/06/2024

Yep, this one is not in the right order, I went to edit the post and it copied the post so I had two of them, and when I deleted one, they both deleted so now things are not in the right order. Which kind of bugs my sense of order. But I can live with it. 

I hope it never happens to you, but if it does, you need to be prepared if you have to leave your house or wherever you are living. What would you take, this podcast is a few thoughts about how to think of what you may need and what you may want.



We never know what is going to happen from day-to-day, with wildfires, floods, hurricanes, tornadoes, cyclones, you never know when you may have to leave your home. Are you prepared? Do you know what to take with you? Do you know where it is? do you know how to get out of where you live in case the....

02/06/2024

Sometimes curiosity gets the cat into a lot of trouble .


Little cricket found out that curiosity can get a cat into a little trouble. Good thing she didn’t panic and neither did I and getting her out of the bathroom wall was a lot easier than I had expected it to be, and I did not have to destroy anything.

31/05/2024

https://youtu.be/QC3YHhT1uO8?si=OKyM-OSJDa5839I2

If you have not seen her in this role, here is your opportunity. And you can make up your own mind. What do you think of how well she did. And I believe this is her first performance.


31/05/2024

Many times people will go on a Broadway show as a guest for fun, but North West is getting a lot more attention than she probably really wants right now. 

I feel a little sorry for what North West is going through right now. All the criticism she’s getting from being in the lion King, I think it’s her parents fault.

28/05/2024

It has been over two years since I did a podcast for this podcast line, I’m hoping to keep going with this. I enjoy this very much.

But yes, I still have my two cats and yes, it’s been two years 

I’ve had my cats for two years now, and things haven’t quite gone like I had planned. Nothing bad, just different.

27/05/2024

I like my thunderstorms 

27/05/2024

I enjoy thunderstorms, I always have.
Maybe if I was a smarter person I would’ve been a meteorologist, but wasn’t in the cards

I hope everybody is having a happy memorial weekend 🇺🇸

I love weather, I enjoy opening the windows or going outside when there’s a thunderstorm, I like watching it on radar. I’m just very interested in what’s going on outside. This year the weather is a lot more like it was when I was growing up kind of cold and kind of rainy on the three day week...

26/05/2024

It looks like the giraffe has other plans instead of eating the nice fresh yummy lettuce he wants twigs.

26/05/2024

The giraffe feeding station at Como Park zoo, we tried to do a little training session, but in the end it got a little silly.

26/05/2024

I got an opportunity that I have been waiting for for a very long time, to do the training to feed the giraffe at the giraffe feeding station. Let’s just say the giraffes had other plans. 

When you do things with animals, it’s always a little unpredictable. And my training session for our giraffe feeding station went just a little off the rails.

26/05/2024

I believe it was P. Diddy, or whatever name he goes by now who got in trouble for beating his girlfriend, and now he’s doing the apology tour
It amazes me how much people will defend these entertainers, about how much they will say there’s no way that person could ever do that, pay attention to what they do, and you will never be surprised, or hardly ever. 

I find it interesting when famous people get in trouble with the law, and the public is shocked. When a rapper gets in trouble for beating up, his girlfriend, people are shocked that he did that, or people are even shocked about Michael Jackson and how he may have treated children.

26/05/2024

The idea that TikTok makes you buy stuff is so silly to me. And I see this form of advertising being used on that platform quite a lot right now.
When do we as human beings become responsible for ourselves? 

The new way of people selling off TikTok is telling everybody look what TikTok made me buy, not a big fan of that.

23/05/2024

Somebody I don’t know is getting their picture taken near the Kings guard.  after I took this off the video on Facebook, I policewoman came and chewed her away. 

23/05/2024

If you’ve ever been to England, you will know that they have what they call the kings guard, these are mostly men who either are on horseback or on foot and they stand in guard the castle, but some people just can’t respect them 

I see videos of the kings guard on horseback guarding the castle and I see tourist going up and bothering the horse sometimes getting bit or knocked down, why?

23/05/2024

My boss changed my hours, and now it looks like I may have to give up my Friday volunteer work at a domestic cat rescue, in order to make up my hours that I would’ve gotten if I could’ve stayed at work longer my other days . 

My new boss has changed my hours and now I may have to give up my volunteer work at my domestic cat rescue.

23/05/2024

I had noticed a bunch of electronic bikes, E bikes. I’ve never been on one and I’m just wondering what people think about them. 

I saw one of those electric bikes, and I think they’re cool. I don’t know if they’re for the city, but hey, teach his own right

23/05/2024

It’s funny what people will start an argument about on Facebook and social media. But the fighting or arguing whatever you wanna call it blaming, people of different generations for whatever problems are going on is getting a little out of hand.

And personally, if you’re that upset about it, do something about it. 

I hear and see on a lot of these social medias where people are complaining about this generation of that generation and how they’re not doing what they’re supposed to be doing or how they ruined everything. I don’t understand why we’re doing it.

23/05/2024

I have flown on a plane many times, but for some reason this time I was treated like an old lady. I’m not sure if I put some thing on my needs help part of getting a ticket that I didn’t remember doing. Or if somebody else did it for me.

I know I asked too early board, I did not ask for a wheelchair. 

I went to Arkansas, and whenever I would land in the airport, they always offered me a wheelchair, I don’t know if the world is telling me something or not but it seems like this trip happened to remind me that you’re getting old.

23/05/2024

This conversation started because I had taken a trip to Arkansas and there was a very unhappy little baby on that flight.
I felt sorry for the mom because she tried so hard, but baby was not having it
When is too early to be bringing a child on a plane?
Should they really have restrictions on how young the child should be before they can come on a plane? 

I took an airplane ride, and there was a very fussy little baby on there, just a few thoughts about kids on a plane, no hating no shaming just a few thoughts

23/05/2024

This started out because of a coworker who said her boyfriend would not allow her to use birth control.
There are things that you need to talk about when you’re in a relationship to find out if you’re compatible.
That’s why you date and that’s why you are not getting emotionally attached to somebody quickly
And I will say, even if you are just looking for a friend to be a roommate, you need to think about certain things and make sure that they’re not giving you some weird signals that are a red flag
Red flags are those things that when somebody says them you should know to stay away, you should know it’s time to run

My reaction to when a coworker said her boyfriend will not allow her to be on birth control. That freaked me out, and I’ve heard some other things at work that I want to tell these people that that should be a red flag in your relationship.

23/05/2024

I volunteer a lot, but I have met more and more people who do not understand why people would even do that.
I have a couple of theories why people don’t want to volunteer anymore. 

I have noticed in the last few years finding people to volunteer is becoming harder and harder. I’ve been trying to figure out why. Sometimes I think it’s because most of us used to go to church, and now the economy is making it harder for people to do other things than work.

23/05/2024

It’s just so troublesome when somebody gets a hold of your debit or credit card. 

Somebody used my debit card and I ended up closing down my account and now I get to put my new card information in all the places that I pay bills or have subscriptions to. Oh, what fun I’m going to have. But it’s also just a cautionary tale. We all need to be on our toes, paying attention to wh...

23/05/2024

A few of my animal friends from the zoo that I volunteer at. 

23/05/2024

I volunteer at a zoo in the cat building. And it’s an interesting mix of people who come through and sometimes the day is interesting because the people are fun, sometimes the day is interesting because I want to throw somebody in the Lions cage. However, it is very interesting to see all the different kinds of people that come through that Zoo every time I’m there. 

Just a few thoughts about volunteering at a zoo, and the kind of people that show up.

23/05/2024

Just me talking about Beyoncé‘s album cowboy Carter 

Just a little bit of my thoughts about the reaction to Beyoncé‘s album, cowboy Carter by a certain demographic of people. I’m not reviewing it track for track. I’m just talking about how people are reacting to a black woman who is barging in on the white country music scene. And a little bit ...

23/05/2024

I’ve had rabbits as pets many times
But I do not like the idea of people giving them out for Easter, or giving animals as gifts at any time of the year. 

I’ve had rabbits as pets, my whole life, I love them, but giving them as pets to unsuspecting people, or any animal as a pet is something I’m not real thrilled about

23/05/2024

A Facebook friend of mine said something that kind of shocked me. About how poor people should be treated.

This episode kind of goes down a rabbit hole a little bit, but I do think we need to treat our homeless and poor people a little differently in this country. We are a country with a lot of wealth. I think if we started helping those less fortunate, we would find that it would be paid back , many times over

I have a Facebook friend who said some things about people who are on drugs, and I am trying to work through how I feel about this whole situation, how I feel about what they said, how do I deal with them, where do I stand on this whole thing.

23/05/2024

The young people I work with all walk around with their headphones on talking to people on their phone texting doing all kinds of stuff while they’re being paid to be at their job, I am having a little trouble finding it to be OK
I’m not here being mean and nasty to the kids or anything like that it’s just my personal thought of. Is this really OK? 

Being the oldest person at work, I do not understand how they get away with the stuff they do, going off property while they’re punched in, talking to people on the phone while we’re open wearing, I would think inappropriate clothing. All kinds of stuff like that. am I just an old fart or are pe...

22/05/2024

I used to not binge watch TV shows. I mean we used to get the DVD and we kind of watch things but not very often.
But lately I have really come to like the idea of sitting down one weekend and watching most of a show all in one sitting 

It took me a while for some reason to realize that binge watching shows is almost more pleasurable than watching them on a weekly basis, one episode at a time