March 26, 2025 • 30 mins
Courtney and Miles celebrate over 1,000 Downloads!!!! Celebrate with us!! The Cougar cocktail of the week and Miles discusses his ghost encounters! Do you believe in ghosts? Truth or Drink and endless laughs!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
And now from a garage somewhere in Connecticut, it's the
Cougarden Podcast with Courtney.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
And Miles Juices.
Speaker 1 (00:12):
All right, well, welcome to the cougar Den Podcast. It
is courty of Miles and this is a very special
podcast because we are celebrating over a thousand downloads.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
Yes, that is amazing, and a thousand downloads. From what
I've understood is when a thousand people have organically one
time download, it doesn't matter how many times they listen
to it. It's on a view yes or listen. It's
a download.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
It is a download. A thousand downloads for a brand
new podcast is fabulous and so we are celebrating everybody
who has listened, who continues to listen and reach out
to us. So today's podcast is all about everything, everything
over one thousand, thousand things. And then we've decided that
our Cougar Cocktail of the week will be our favorite
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because of a thousand downloads, So we have made a
what did you call Hot and bothered?
Speaker 2 (01:00):
This is a hot and bothered martini.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
It is so it is And ladies, if you're a
fan of the hot and Dirty, which is a dirty
martini with a little bit of hot sauce. It's exactly
what it is, except for extra extra olive juice.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
I like it with a little more extra oli juice
because I like it salty.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
Salty than what I just made. You take a sip
and you let me know it's good.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
No, oh my, he's bloating right now. You've made it. No,
it's great, you made it good. I'm saying I like
it a little bit more all of juice. And that's
what you did.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
Okay, good. Yes, it's our hot and bother So it
is Tito's. It is olive juice, blue cheese, stuffed olives,
and a.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
Little bit of hot sauce.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
Yeah, a little bit of tabasco.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
So good.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
Oh well, thank you to everybody who has checked in
and has downloaded.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
Yeah, I mean all of my you know, I wow, Hi,
can I talk? There was a client who it's not
my client, it's one of the other Styles clients. And
she's like Miles, and I'm like what she is. I
was listening to the radio and you were talking about
on the radio.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
Yes, I work for a radio station Kiss five seven,
and yeah, I talk about her podcast all the time.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
And they're like, I heard that. You're in a podcast
with Courtney, and I'm like, yeah, like she she asked
me to be a part of this podcast, so people
are listening to it. I get people talk about all
the time in the morning, my family group chat, when
they listen to you on the way to work, they'll
send me videos. I'm like, oh shit, did I talk
about you in the last episode. So it's good. And
I want to say that this has changed me for
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the better because my potty mouth has gotten way better.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
I've reeled it in for you a little bit.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
You really have, and I love it. And I want
to thank you for the opportunity because I love coming here.
I love laughing with you, I love trying drinks. I
love getting drunk with you. But I think you're a
dope person. So this is fun.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
This is fun fun, and you know what, I want
to bring up one thing real quick before we go,
because we're going into spring and we're celebrating over a
thousand downloads. Like myself, I feel like you get stuck
in the winter where you're in a rut, and you
come out of winter into Springfield and gross, you just
started a weight loss program. Yes, okay, I need to
hear about this.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
Yeah, so I own Mileshirts of Studios and at Milesters
of Studios, we have what's called the Face Lab and
that is my SPA department, you can call it. Yeah,
So tell me.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
About the weight line. I'm so like, I don't know,
like everybody's doing this. Yeah, like this is the big
thing right now.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
I wanted to create one. It's called the body at It.
It's called the body at Milesys of Studios. It's a
medically assisted weight loss program. I have a medical director
that's doing the program. She has over thirty years experience.
Love it. She's amazing.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
Okay, is it injections? Are we talking like it's like
you get injected? Like? What is it called that people
are doing?
Speaker 2 (03:45):
So? It's some glue tide. It's a compounded some glue
tide which is ozembic. Oh yeah, okay, depending on how
the FDA is doing it these days and the accessibility
to it, we also do it tries upetide, which is
what I'm on. I love tries upetide o. These medications.
The weight loss portion of it, yes, obviously helps you
lose weight, but the food noise, when's my next meal?
(04:05):
Oh my god, I'm craving this. Oh my god, I
want this. Oh I'm not hungry enough. Is completely silenced.
And that's a game changer.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
Okay, they also say, and they're looking into this, it
also silences the I need a cocktail.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
Oh one hundred percent. Why do you think that one
in the corner wants it?
Speaker 1 (04:22):
Because your boyfriend is not on it?
Speaker 2 (04:24):
No, but he's going. He wants to be on it.
Why because the drinking. Not to lose, but because the drinking.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
I just want him to go on at first, and
then you let you let me know how it is,
because I think I need it for the like that
noise of a I'd love a cocktail.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
So we really want to help out the community. I'm
all about making people feel and look beautiful every day.
We definitely care, We care about the clients and we
want to do the right thing.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
Oh so, before we move on, because I know Miles
is obsessed with ghosts, ghost stories, ghost sexuality, before we
get into that, should we name our cougars? Should they
have a name? I feel like Alyssa, Daniella or two
fans and the people that are finally catching on are
(05:09):
they just cougars? Do we just called cougars because I
kind of like that, but should like cougars, you know
what I mean. I feel like we need if you
have any ideas, reach out to us.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
Yeah, I think we need to come up with something
a little bit more great out.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
Yeah, like Tate mcray has the Tater Tots and you
know what I mean, Swifties and they're all like.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
We need like our surfboards or something, because like you're
obsessed with surfboards.
Speaker 1 (05:29):
Oh, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
I don't know either. This drink is actually making me
feel some type of way.
Speaker 1 (05:34):
Okay, I love it.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
Cougar.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
The Cougar Cocktail of the Week is our favorite, celebrating
over one thousand downloads with a dirty Martini Latin dirty
ghost stories? Can I what I'm just trying to know
because you told me.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
No, you told me you had sex with the coast,
And that's why I said, I think it's time to
wrap it up. It gets time to stop drinking.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
And get out there in the real world.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
I'm kidding, but yeah, I'm up from believer in spirits,
but I know you're not.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
No, I believe in spirits, but do I believe there's
ghosts like in my house, like hey, like, no, but
you've experienced.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
Ghosts several times in my life. Legit, I'm not being funny.
I'm not being sarcastic.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
Is it scary? Is it so like not scary.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
It's one of those things like when you're so scared
that you can't be scared, but I will. Does that
make sense?
Speaker 1 (06:22):
He does?
Speaker 2 (06:23):
Like like I was in a.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
Plane one time, you're paralyzed.
Speaker 2 (06:26):
Yes, I was in a plane one time, not with
a ghost, but like I literally thought I was gonna
go down, like everyone was screaming. It was wild, okay,
And I'm terrified of flying, and like you think i'd
be like crying, screaming, but you're just like.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
This, nothing comes out nothing. Well that's because before I
flew this last time, I went to my doctor and
said I'm petrified. She gave me like a xanax with
hell yeah, which I took with a bloody marriage hell yeah.
On my way to the airport, hell yeah. I literally
blacked out and then I started screaming in my head
but nothing was coming out of my mouth but drool.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
Okay, that's how So I don't know what you took,
but I'm on xanax. I'm a better person.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
I can't take anything. I literally don't take anything. I
don't even take aspirin, so too much for me.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
I don't do drugs. I can't smoke weed. Wish I could, can't.
I don't do anything like that. But when I tell you,
when my doctor gives me those little six pills, one
for them before, one for on the way to the airport,
and one for on the plane, and then the same
set on the way home, I'm a better person. I'm
more excited to leave.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
Okay, do you mix it with alcohol though? Like I did?
Speaker 2 (07:30):
Hell, yeah, you got to activate it, says on the
back of the bottle. No, it's so good like Danix
is like amazing. I know why people are addicted to
things like that, because it really does make you feel
like a better person.
Speaker 1 (07:43):
I may have to try it again at some point.
So anyway, you have a connection with ghosts.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
So, first of all, recently me and Matthew have had
similar dreams and we just found this out on the
way home from dinner last night. But the other night
I have this vivid dream of someone breaking into our
house and hearing the noise and it was so real
and then like it was so wild and I told
Matthew I was like, I couldn't sleep, like I thought
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something whatever, and then he goes, it's so weird. I've
also been having dreams about someone breaking into our house,
and that's my biggest fucking nightmare, is a home invasion.
Speaker 1 (08:19):
It's so creepy.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
And I'm gonna tell you something. If anyone tries to
fucking break into my house, I know what to do.
Speaker 1 (08:25):
Yeah, your doodle is gonna lick him to death.
Speaker 2 (08:27):
No, let me tell you something. I'm gonna kick your
goddamn ass and I'll tell you why why I learned
that you were If you hear something in the middle
of the night, you can't.
Speaker 1 (08:36):
Just go, oh yeah, I hear something.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
I'm up. Okay, I'm up, and I'm ready to go.
So I might not be moving in that bed because
I'm waiting for you to come over here, because I'm
gonna take my head and smash it into yours and
I'm gonna take you downtown. No, I will beat the show.
I will use my nightstand to kill you.
Speaker 1 (08:50):
There are reason you're having dreams about home invasions.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
So because my house is haunted. Okay, my house is
an old home. Weird Okay, I move in. Okay, it's
my first salon lived above it the all my arts.
I live there. Then my brother buys a house probably
two or threes after I lived in this house. The
owner of the house that he bought in Manchester grew
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up in my house. Tell me that's not a weird thing.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
It's a weird coincidence.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
But anyways, this house is definitely older. We actually had
a client one time. She was nine thousand years old,
and she was like, I used to know the owners
of this house. No, okay, cut her hair. Never saw
her again. But there's something energy in the house. Glass
has shattered. You hear things. He's heard my name getting
(09:41):
called when I'm upstairs and downstairs he hears me calling
his name.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
And it's not you calling.
Speaker 2 (09:46):
I'm upstairs like doing your things, playing with myself or something.
I don't know, but I'm not. I'm not trying to
play with him, so he hears me. I've been there
so many times, and I had roommates that lived with me.
It's just it's not a bad feeling, but it just
is like you know, you turn the lights off and
you're looking in the corner, like is that a person
standing there.
Speaker 1 (10:02):
When you're in bed at night? Are you hearing like creaky?
Have you seen like a vision at the end of
your bed?
Speaker 2 (10:10):
No, but I will say that the attic entrance moves
around sometimes. But anyways, you hear it. How that house
is fine? The salon's haunted.
Speaker 1 (10:18):
That is where I go to get my hair.
Speaker 2 (10:20):
Yes, it is very hot.
Speaker 1 (10:23):
No, I am really good with energy. You don't understand.
Speaker 2 (10:26):
I don't feel I haven't been upstairs.
Speaker 1 (10:28):
I saged your whole salon last time I got.
Speaker 2 (10:30):
There, sprayed my butthole with I sprayed your whole body. Listen,
you gotta go upstairs because you're going to change your mind.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
I was upstairs. My girlfriend got a tattoo up in
your upstairs area. No, I'm telling you right now, all right,
so tell me, okay.
Speaker 2 (10:42):
So all right, so listen. So I am in a
business park. And these businesses are like Monday through Friday businesses,
accountants and not even My next two neighbors are like
computer people.
Speaker 1 (10:51):
And by the way, you need to get some sort
of coffee or food area in your area.
Speaker 2 (10:55):
I have. Oh, I know that would be so great.
But so there. When I first moved in, I heard
a cabinet upstairs. No one was working next door, the
parking lot's empty. It's literally me and my client and
my managers at the time. So we're there and we
hear something sliding above us. I'm like, that's so weird,
Like it sounds like there's a box getting slid across
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the room. And then you hear like a cabinet, you
know when you close the cabinets, like boom. I hear that,
and my client Vanessa was like, I heard that too.
So I'm like, oh, it's just Taylor and Yasmin. And
so Taylor and Yasmin come out of the back room
and there's no way to get upstairs from our back room, so.
Speaker 1 (11:34):
They were upstairs. They were up there.
Speaker 2 (11:36):
They were yeah, so my guys, can you please go
upstairs because we literally just heard footsteps, we heard dragging,
we heard cabinets go up there. No one's there. That's
not even the creepiest part. I've been there so many
times by myself because my office used to be upstairs,
and you just don't want to look up the staircase.
It's like this like thick, heavy feeling. Confirmed. My one
of my renters up there also heard cabinets when she'd
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be there by herself, like late at night on a Sunday,
really and then and you would think it'd be our neighbors,
but no one's there, Like these people aren't working.
Speaker 1 (12:03):
On the winds old is the building? Like have you
seen can do it? Okay?
Speaker 2 (12:08):
What's all farmland? South windsor is all farm that's it?
And so recently we have lamps upstairs in the astition rooms.
They turn on by themselves. We'll turn them off, we'll
go around the corner, we'll come back there on it's weird.
Then I'm talking to my next door neighbor because they
keep blaming us for the sewage smell. And I'm like,
our slan doesn't smell like sewage like we would know,
(12:29):
like I have thirteen girls working here. They tell me
if it's some like shit, right, So I said, you know,
I don't smell it. We'll come to our staircase, which
is like right up against our building, and I'm like okay,
and I'm like, oh yeah, I do. It smells like shit,
Like what the hell is this? And he's like it's
just right here. We can't figure out there's no dead
animals in the attic. You know, We've called all these people.
We can't figure it out. I'm like, well, I don't know,
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but I think my place is haunted. And they both
looked at each other, the owner of the building of
that unit and the second chair, and they go we
literally say that. They're like, we hear things all the time.
They have a great grandfather clock that has no plug
or batteries or anything that's like old as shit, and
it goes off by itself and it freaks them out.
And so I think there's something there going back to
(13:10):
when I was a kid, though, I had shit, I
had cabinets open in front of me. Ouiji boards, right,
So are you I think I'm an entity?
Speaker 1 (13:18):
No, I think maybe you just have no I just
feel like you can connect.
Speaker 2 (13:24):
Well, I've been told by I've been to a couple
of mediums before and they said that I have that
and I just need to tap into Everyone has the
ability apparently, right. But I definitely have had things happen
with like clients and so bizarre. When I was in
high school, I had a really weird you want to
hear something, really.
Speaker 1 (13:41):
Something scary because to me, honestly, yeah, this stuff isn't
scaring me, and you hear.
Speaker 2 (13:46):
Well, I haven't had anything really scary, like things go missing,
cabinets will open. My best friend Catherine was laying on
the bed and I went downstairs. Were in high school,
and like she turned over. She doesn't believe in any
of that bullshit. And she saw the bed move up
as if someone was getting out of it. And I
was downstairs and she like screamed my name. She was like,
what the fuck? Like anyways, things have always followed me
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throughout it, but in high school I had this like
we did. I went to these Catholic Okay, so third
period prayer the night before Catholic. You're like Catholic.
Speaker 1 (14:17):
You went to a Catholic school and I was.
Speaker 2 (14:19):
Forced to go to a Catholic school because I was
dating the priest.
Speaker 1 (14:24):
And then you did prayer third period prayer, So okay.
Speaker 2 (14:27):
Ties the story. Okay, we prayed all the motherfucking time before.
Speaker 1 (14:30):
Class, third period before like praying.
Speaker 2 (14:34):
Or oh sorry, okay, sorry, I take it back. The
night before, I have this vivid, vivid dream of a
helicopter crash. I have a helmet on. I feel like
you're in like a virtual reality thing. I felt the
heat of the whatever, and I didn't think anything of it.
Go to school that day. I'm sitting in math class
and I swear to God on your life, your life,
my mother's life, everyone's life. This truthfully was a real thing. Okay.
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I'm looking at my mouth teacher, and you know when
you look at the light and then you look away
and there's like things like almost like star not stars,
but like it's almost like little like it's like you're dehydrated.
You needed to you yea. Yeah. So I saw something
like that like next to her head, That's the only
way I can describe.
Speaker 1 (15:11):
It, okay, and you were seeing around.
Speaker 2 (15:15):
It was like a dark gray orb near her. But
it was like almost like I was blinking and I
saw it and things were coming to me, so I
wrote them down. I remember my friend Olivia at the
time was like looking at me me, like what the
hell like are you doing? And I was just like
writing things down. I drew a picture of someone running
a track and a number and da da, and I
felt this compelled feeling to go up to my my
matth teacher and be like miss Poorrier, I'm like which
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I loved her. She was amazing. I was like I
don't know. I wrote this down and she starts crying
and she wrote down I wrote down a number, and
I wrote down track, and then a couple of other things,
and she was like, my mom passed away. She was
my track coach. That was my number, and I and
I did track. And then I remember the thinking that
was so weird. And I left that classroom and the
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rang and third payer payer went on. It was like boom, boom, boom.
And we prayed because people from Connecticut to air Force
people died in a helicopter crash that day before, and
we were praying for them. And I just remember, I swear.
Speaker 1 (16:13):
To God, you had a dream about an air helicopter crash.
Speaker 2 (16:17):
I felt sweating the night No, the night before, the
night before, the night before, we prayed about it. So
it must have happened that day. I don't know what
happened with it, but we prayed about it the next day.
Maybe it was I don't know, Okay, So I just
remember being like whatever. But recently, like I had a
client come in and I was like, oh, my god,
because you're pregnant. And she's like oh, She's like, no,
(16:37):
I'm not pregnant. I actually just had a miscarriage. And
I was like, oh my god, like, myles, what the fuck?
Why the fuck did you say that? Like out of
the blue, was talking about this, and I go, I don't.
I'm sorry, Like I just I thought, yeah.
Speaker 1 (16:48):
You didn't know that she had been pregnant before.
Speaker 2 (16:50):
I didn't know it. And I said, I just had
this vision of you eating ginger candies. I'm like, I'm
so sorry. I thought you were here eating like deja
vu moment and she turned white and she's like that's so.
She's like, I just throw out the bag. I just
bought ginger candies for the first time ever because I
was so nauseous during it. Why And I vividly saw
her eating these candies in my chair, which is why
I felt like I said it. So that's my spirit
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stuff anyway.
Speaker 1 (17:13):
Okay, do you have any visions of me, like if
you've been like, oh my god, I see a vision,
like should you want?
Speaker 2 (17:18):
I don't, but I almost get like really good feelings
about people. Yeah, So I have a good feeling about you.
Speaker 1 (17:22):
I know, I feel like we're spirit yeah, animal, Yeah,
we've met in a past life.
Speaker 2 (17:27):
Well, Courtney, Like I always like knew who you were,
of course, but like I never like dove into it
and like I wasn't like waiting outside your house. But
like when I met you, I was like I feel
like I knew you. Yeah, Sie, you know what I mean?
Speaker 1 (17:39):
Like are we related?
Speaker 2 (17:40):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (17:41):
We have to do some sort of past life regression, yeah,
because no joke. I feel like you would probably be
like a brother or in a past life we were
friends something.
Speaker 2 (17:52):
Yeah, because like at first I thought like we like
no shade to you. I thought you were just being
nice to me. And then like we started developing this
thing and like when we like the cameras off and
we're like we're talking connecting, I'm like, oh my god,
Like I love talking with you totally.
Speaker 1 (18:04):
So many times I've been like, Okay, we all need
to go out to eat.
Speaker 2 (18:08):
I know, yeah, we just do our podcast.
Speaker 1 (18:10):
I need to hang out with you.
Speaker 2 (18:11):
Well we hung out last Sunday.
Speaker 1 (18:12):
Yeah we did.
Speaker 2 (18:14):
It was so much fast. So anyways, that's my that's
my stuff, and I'm sure there's been more times and
we can't do you can you think of anything? Your
stories are not horrifying to me because I haven't had
like a demon.
Speaker 1 (18:25):
Story they're not scary stories though, which that's how I feel.
I feel like if.
Speaker 2 (18:31):
You're bitch, if you were in the goddamn slan and
a lamp that you kept turning off was turning on
and off, you'd be like, give me the bug out
of air.
Speaker 1 (18:36):
I would be like, there's a short. We need to
change out the lamp or the light bulb.
Speaker 2 (18:42):
Maybe you are straight.
Speaker 1 (18:43):
I don't. It's so funny that you don't think I'm straight.
Speaker 2 (18:48):
I do one on the record the microphone.
Speaker 1 (18:51):
Can we get a hot surfer.
Speaker 2 (18:54):
Lesbian or guy guy? Okay?
Speaker 1 (18:56):
Salt, salt and pepper though, okay, so all of a
sudden age, I want him to have dark hair, salt
and pepper, and a go tea.
Speaker 2 (19:04):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (19:04):
If I make out in front of him, in front
of you, Yeah, he and I make out, we'd be
okay with that. Yes, all right, I'll work on it.
Speaker 2 (19:11):
Wait on the record. I don't think you're a lesbian,
but I don't think that if the right lesbian surfer
salt and pepper came around and said, Hey, Courtney, you
want to get on my surfboard, I think you'd get
on the goddamn surfboard and right into the sunset. I
love you. You aren't open to that at all.
Speaker 1 (19:28):
I've never been attracted to a woman.
Speaker 2 (19:29):
Twenty twenty five is all about being not so narrow minded.
Speaker 1 (19:34):
Twenty twenty five is all about you giving me a
great hairdo, getting some botox, maybe doing the weight loss thing. Yeah,
and then getting out there. Okay, that's what that's.
Speaker 2 (19:45):
You don't need the weight loss thing or.
Speaker 1 (19:47):
The whatever it is, drink less thing.
Speaker 2 (19:49):
It's the same thing. That's a side of idea's not
going out. I just for that. But anyways, I love
it all right.
Speaker 1 (19:55):
Do you want to do truth or Drink?
Speaker 2 (19:56):
I do want to do a little cheers over.
Speaker 1 (19:59):
A thousand downloads. Thank you so much.
Speaker 2 (20:01):
You text me every week about it, and I love it.
I do.
Speaker 1 (20:04):
Keep downloading our podcast. You can get it anywhere you
get our you know your favorite podcast. You can hear it.
It's The Cougar.
Speaker 2 (20:09):
And when we say download, hold, when we say download,
you just got to listen. That's a download. One organic
listen is a download.
Speaker 1 (20:17):
It is. So just keep listening, keep downloading, and then
we're gonna have a big party.
Speaker 2 (20:22):
Yeah we are, all right.
Speaker 1 (20:24):
We always end with truth or Drink and if you
want to submit questions for Truth or Drink, because there's
I really want to get deep with Miles.
Speaker 2 (20:31):
Let's get deep. I know.
Speaker 1 (20:32):
That's why I need our cougars to help me out.
Send me your questions on Instagram.
Speaker 2 (20:36):
Yeah, we've asked you a lot of wild questions and
I came unprepared this time.
Speaker 1 (20:41):
Truth or Drink? Have you ever performed a lap dance?
Speaker 2 (20:44):
Okay, I'm fixed to seventy five. I ain't lapd in.
What do you want me to lap into? Goddamn telephones?
Speaker 1 (20:54):
Laughed like you probably have, and you lied.
Speaker 2 (20:57):
You think I did a sexy dance for that teak
in the corner. I don't know. Are you fucking kidding me?
I think you'd go up back and shoot himself.
Speaker 1 (21:03):
No, we would not. He would love it. He would
love it. So no, that's enough.
Speaker 2 (21:08):
I'm sorry, Courtney. Are we looking at the same people
right now?
Speaker 1 (21:11):
It doesn't matter.
Speaker 2 (21:12):
I think that I'm supporting the chair. The chair is
not supporting me. No lap dance is happening.
Speaker 1 (21:18):
But you let's take a class together?
Speaker 2 (21:20):
Fuck? Yeah, okayten, I'll do anything.
Speaker 1 (21:24):
We need to take a stripping class together.
Speaker 2 (21:26):
Dude, I will do it in a second. But wait,
you have to answer the question.
Speaker 1 (21:30):
You know what, I think back in the day, I
did I have done.
Speaker 2 (21:32):
A last Wow, you know you did?
Speaker 1 (21:35):
It was the surfer. I dated a surfer years ago.
Speaker 2 (21:37):
How did I know? She was gonna say? Yeah, he
was like maybe like once in like fourteen seventy six.
I don't know, you know I did? You got all good?
Speaker 1 (21:46):
I had a can of whip cream.
Speaker 2 (21:48):
All right, So tell us start to finish what happened.
Speaker 1 (21:50):
It was so long ago, though, You got to remember,
this is so long ago. This is like my first
real boyfriend. And yes, he was the surfer. And I
had a can of whip cream and I think I
put it all over me and I was trying to
dance sexy, and then the phone rang and I went
to answer it and all the whip cream fell off,
and it was like, I'm not you know, I was
a clumsy stripper.
Speaker 2 (22:09):
Yeah, you were a clumsy stripper. You fell right on
top of it. Fix that. Wait, so that's sticky though,
Ye have you seen these things? I'm traumatized for what
my stripping. No. I found above. I'm not going to
say which set of parents this was, just so that
I can protect there one of my parents that shall
not be new.
Speaker 1 (22:29):
So you mean your mother or your father?
Speaker 2 (22:31):
Yes? And they both are married, Yes, remarried. Remix had
a penis molding kit above refrigerator. And then one time
there was a shopping list. Oh my god, hopefully no
one listen to this. It was I can't say. It
was shopping list Tomato American cheese. I came home and
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so they didn't know that I was going to be
home and wife or husband whatever it is. It was
on the shopping list.
Speaker 1 (22:57):
Oh my god, do you know?
Speaker 2 (22:59):
Why? Is that sweet? I don't want to read that,
I know.
Speaker 1 (23:03):
But the guy was engaged to I left him a
I used to leave him to do list and I'd
be like to do and I would be like, Courtney,
I just wrote my name on it.
Speaker 2 (23:12):
Did he do it? No? Come on, I have to
ask you this.
Speaker 1 (23:16):
That's honey, right, your honey to do listen and you
write your name under it. Matthew has hunting pants on,
by the way, because he's a whole hunter.
Speaker 2 (23:28):
But I feel like when I first met him, he
was like so like, oh my god, we didn't have
plants go to dinner. We can't just go to dinner
at eight o'clock at night, and now it's like fun,
like we are doing whatever we did. I'm like, let's
go to Boston tonight, you know what I mean and
be like you know and put your on the shopping list.
Speaker 1 (23:44):
Question number two, miles, have you ever cheated?
Speaker 2 (23:47):
You've asked me this before.
Speaker 1 (23:49):
I thought I had, but I can't remember. Oh yeah,
I should I change it up. Have you ever cheated.
Speaker 2 (23:57):
While being in a well, that's cheating. Have you ever cheated? Well, che.
Speaker 1 (24:08):
Cheating? All right, so let's just go right to question
number three. Question number three, Have you ever stolen anything?
Speaker 2 (24:15):
Many hearts? No, I'm kidding. Have I ever stolen anything?
I know? Like, yeah, with my grandmother? What shut? I'm
not gonna sell set the door, but I'm like, listen,
hold this. We could say you have dementia or something
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (24:29):
Okay, wait, so is your grandmother still alive?
Speaker 2 (24:31):
Of course, yeah, she's drinking out my house.
Speaker 1 (24:33):
Probably my grandmother's long gone, both of them. Okay, so
you and your grandmother would go on a crime spree.
Speaker 2 (24:39):
Listen?
Speaker 1 (24:40):
Is it a crime?
Speaker 2 (24:41):
It's kind of one of those things that's like in
your hand, your head self checkout. You're trying to scan
it out and you're like, then put it down and
scanning it You're like.
Speaker 1 (24:48):
Okay, Nana, let's just go me me all right, all right, Mimi,
let's just go yeah, have you okay? And you go okay?
Speaker 2 (24:55):
Are you She's been divorced ten times. She has been
in a shooting, like she's like the shooting your She
was at a bar ninety pounds, soaking wet, someone has
the gun go off and she's hading me. Had a stroll.
Speaker 1 (25:08):
Is she in Hartford?
Speaker 2 (25:09):
She was at one point her ex boyfriend burned down
a building and then went on the news and they
were like, why did you do it? And for my
girlfriend Diane, And she went to work the next day
and everyone was like looking at her because in the
paper they had her full name in it.
Speaker 1 (25:22):
This is your grandmother, my mimi. Your mimi was involved
in a shooting.
Speaker 2 (25:27):
This was a separate instance. She was with her sister
and some guy and another guy got into a fight
and there was a shooting.
Speaker 1 (25:32):
At the bar in Hartford.
Speaker 2 (25:34):
They bought drugs from this guy. Weed not drugs like
that like weed is we drugs?
Speaker 1 (25:40):
Yeah, back in the day, back in the day weed.
Speaker 2 (25:42):
Was like you a drug, so she bought it from
the guy at the bar. You know, we're talking about
the fifties, sixties. Yeah, and it turned out to be
something crazy and they all fell asleep in a bathtub.
She's done, she's hitchhiked.
Speaker 1 (25:54):
All right, we need your Memi on the show.
Speaker 2 (25:56):
Well, I was thinking a mother's episode coming up. We
could do our moms and we get a meet.
Speaker 1 (26:00):
Coming moms and mems. Oh my god, we'll film it
at Miles Joseph Studios. We'll love moms and mimis.
Speaker 2 (26:06):
Yep, moms and memis.
Speaker 1 (26:07):
Oh my god, I love it all right.
Speaker 2 (26:08):
Listen, have you ever sworn?
Speaker 1 (26:11):
No, it's illegal.
Speaker 2 (26:13):
This camera's going to turn off me. I got a
TV from Walmart one time in two thousand and two.
Speaker 1 (26:18):
Now you know, actually I don't think it's stealing. But
I didn't call the store and say you didn't charge me?
Is that stealing?
Speaker 2 (26:26):
No, that's bullshit. Okay.
Speaker 1 (26:27):
I went to a pet store and I bought a
fish tank because I fell in love with a fish.
And then when I got home, they charged me for everything,
but the tank?
Speaker 2 (26:36):
Are you owl? Do I forget to skin?
Speaker 1 (26:38):
I don't know, but I'm lazy, so I never called
them and said, hey, you didn't charge me the whatever
one hundred dollars for the tank.
Speaker 2 (26:43):
I just why did you look at the receipt?
Speaker 1 (26:45):
I because I'm anal and I had to write it
down in my book.
Speaker 2 (26:49):
Do you have a buck? Yes?
Speaker 1 (26:51):
I know, I'm a little I see.
Speaker 2 (26:53):
No.
Speaker 1 (26:53):
I have never stolen anything.
Speaker 2 (26:55):
So you have a buck of all your purchases?
Speaker 1 (26:57):
I do?
Speaker 2 (26:58):
I think you should read.
Speaker 1 (27:00):
Do you know what a register is?
Speaker 2 (27:01):
Yes? I know what a register is. It's the thing
that people use to cast people out.
Speaker 1 (27:05):
It was in my check registrar.
Speaker 2 (27:06):
I know, I know your check register. I feel like
the next episode we should read some adverbs from your
check registry. What is Courtney spending her money on?
Speaker 1 (27:15):
Okay, we'll do that. We'll do that now. Listen. It's
our very special episode over a thousand downs. Yes, do
you want to pop a bottle of shamps to end it?
We're shure we not because we might be blackout.
Speaker 2 (27:26):
Well we need to have you're definitely black Let's finish
that super quick. Cheers. This is Danielle and Alyssa. Because
you guys listen, are two fans and first fan two
first fans, and when we make it big, I'll touch
to your names on me.
Speaker 1 (27:42):
Oh my god, I will too.
Speaker 2 (27:45):
I will. Let's do it D A or A D
A D A D and let's put it put them
on our ass cheeks. One could be A and one
could be D. Does that mean they're making me seem
like that was a mean that?
Speaker 1 (27:56):
No, I'm just not going to lock in because I
kind of want it on like my wrists or a
different location than my ass.
Speaker 2 (28:02):
I think you should put it on your tats that
I'll put on my ass.
Speaker 1 (28:05):
A indeed, Yeah, all right, check one. Oh my god,
we're gonna pop a bottle of shamps right now. All right, ladies,
don't forget truth or drink questions. Fin me a lot
miles didn't come with any today, so can you please
help them out. We are the Cougarden Podcast on Instagram.
Send me a DM with your questions. You can also
(28:27):
check us out on the Cougarden Podcast at gmail dot com.
Speaker 2 (28:31):
Are you poisoning me?
Speaker 1 (28:32):
I heard radio app? It is free your preset.
Speaker 2 (28:36):
I have a lot of apps on my phone, probably
like one hundred. My favorite one is the iHeart I Know.
Speaker 1 (28:41):
Are we on your preset?
Speaker 2 (28:44):
Preset, pre record pre I love it everything hoop the shamps.
So this is you can't get this just anywhere.
Speaker 1 (28:51):
And just don't point it at my face.
Speaker 2 (28:53):
This has one over two hundred and fifty wards by.
Speaker 1 (28:58):
It is the cheapest bottle of shamp and you can
get no.
Speaker 2 (29:01):
This is exclusive and they sent it to us. They're sponsoring,
actually ballatore.
Speaker 1 (29:08):
Nobody's sponsoring the cheapest bottle of champagne ever.
Speaker 2 (29:11):
And this is not even champagne. It's sparkling goddamn wine.
Where's the budget for the show.
Speaker 1 (29:16):
We don't have a budget.
Speaker 2 (29:18):
You know what. I have to have to have a
word with iHeart because they better pick this up.
Speaker 1 (29:23):
We need a budget, we need they need to get
we just could.
Speaker 2 (29:25):
They just take a meeting with us and get to
meet me because they feel like once they meet me
and you.
Speaker 1 (29:30):
We need to take a meeting.
Speaker 2 (29:32):
Does that even make sense?
Speaker 1 (29:33):
No, it absolutely doesn't. There's nobody around, but there's take
a meeting with me.
Speaker 2 (29:39):
Just court new in the corner. I'm scared, Matthews scared.
I was sitting at stand up stret He hates loud noises.
Speaker 1 (29:47):
That's right. Just don't point the champagne cork at me.
I'm not gonna Okay, over a thousand downloads, Thank you,
ladies and gents. Oh, look at him, twist.
Speaker 2 (30:02):
You're not skittish.
Speaker 1 (30:04):
No, I'm not skittish. Please jack my dog. My dog
just ran into his crew. I'm sorry.
Speaker 2 (30:08):
Did I scare him?
Speaker 1 (30:09):
It's a champagne.
Speaker 2 (30:11):
He's gonna get used. But I screamed because I wanted
to scare you. But it didn't work.
Speaker 1 (30:14):
Oh my god, I love it. Just a little sippy poo,
there we go. That is really good champagne. What are
you looking at?
Speaker 2 (30:21):
What? This is delicious?
Speaker 1 (30:23):
I told you it's the cheapest champagne you buy, but
it's the best tasting.
Speaker 2 (30:26):
I don't know if the last drink just tastes like
shit and this tastes like I'm a drinker. This is
a It's really good. You need to have some.
Speaker 1 (30:33):
He's gonna have some.
Speaker 2 (30:35):
Cheers, Happy thousand, Over a thousand
And now from a garage somewhere in Connecticut, it's the
Cougarden Podcast with Courtney.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
And Miles Juices.
Speaker 1 (00:12):
All right, well, welcome to the cougar Den Podcast. It
is courty of Miles and this is a very special
podcast because we are celebrating over a thousand downloads.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
Yes, that is amazing, and a thousand downloads. From what
I've understood is when a thousand people have organically one
time download, it doesn't matter how many times they listen
to it. It's on a view yes or listen. It's
a download.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
It is a download. A thousand downloads for a brand
new podcast is fabulous and so we are celebrating everybody
who has listened, who continues to listen and reach out
to us. So today's podcast is all about everything, everything
over one thousand, thousand things. And then we've decided that
our Cougar Cocktail of the week will be our favorite
(00:54):
because of a thousand downloads, So we have made a
what did you call Hot and bothered?
Speaker 2 (01:00):
This is a hot and bothered martini.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
It is so it is And ladies, if you're a
fan of the hot and Dirty, which is a dirty
martini with a little bit of hot sauce. It's exactly
what it is, except for extra extra olive juice.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
I like it with a little more extra oli juice
because I like it salty.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
Salty than what I just made. You take a sip
and you let me know it's good.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
No, oh my, he's bloating right now. You've made it. No,
it's great, you made it good. I'm saying I like
it a little bit more all of juice. And that's
what you did.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
Okay, good. Yes, it's our hot and bother So it
is Tito's. It is olive juice, blue cheese, stuffed olives,
and a.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
Little bit of hot sauce.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
Yeah, a little bit of tabasco.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
So good.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
Oh well, thank you to everybody who has checked in
and has downloaded.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
Yeah, I mean all of my you know, I wow, Hi,
can I talk? There was a client who it's not
my client, it's one of the other Styles clients. And
she's like Miles, and I'm like what she is. I
was listening to the radio and you were talking about
on the radio.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
Yes, I work for a radio station Kiss five seven,
and yeah, I talk about her podcast all the time.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
And they're like, I heard that. You're in a podcast
with Courtney, and I'm like, yeah, like she she asked
me to be a part of this podcast, so people
are listening to it. I get people talk about all
the time in the morning, my family group chat, when
they listen to you on the way to work, they'll
send me videos. I'm like, oh shit, did I talk
about you in the last episode. So it's good. And
I want to say that this has changed me for
(02:29):
the better because my potty mouth has gotten way better.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
I've reeled it in for you a little bit.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
You really have, and I love it. And I want
to thank you for the opportunity because I love coming here.
I love laughing with you, I love trying drinks. I
love getting drunk with you. But I think you're a
dope person. So this is fun.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
This is fun fun, and you know what, I want
to bring up one thing real quick before we go,
because we're going into spring and we're celebrating over a
thousand downloads. Like myself, I feel like you get stuck
in the winter where you're in a rut, and you
come out of winter into Springfield and gross, you just
started a weight loss program. Yes, okay, I need to
hear about this.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
Yeah, so I own Mileshirts of Studios and at Milesters
of Studios, we have what's called the Face Lab and
that is my SPA department, you can call it. Yeah,
So tell me.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
About the weight line. I'm so like, I don't know,
like everybody's doing this. Yeah, like this is the big
thing right now.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
I wanted to create one. It's called the body at It.
It's called the body at Milesys of Studios. It's a
medically assisted weight loss program. I have a medical director
that's doing the program. She has over thirty years experience.
Love it. She's amazing.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
Okay, is it injections? Are we talking like it's like
you get injected? Like? What is it called that people
are doing?
Speaker 2 (03:45):
So? It's some glue tide. It's a compounded some glue
tide which is ozembic. Oh yeah, okay, depending on how
the FDA is doing it these days and the accessibility
to it, we also do it tries upetide, which is
what I'm on. I love tries upetide o. These medications.
The weight loss portion of it, yes, obviously helps you
lose weight, but the food noise, when's my next meal?
(04:05):
Oh my god, I'm craving this. Oh my god, I
want this. Oh I'm not hungry enough. Is completely silenced.
And that's a game changer.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
Okay, they also say, and they're looking into this, it
also silences the I need a cocktail.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
Oh one hundred percent. Why do you think that one
in the corner wants it?
Speaker 1 (04:22):
Because your boyfriend is not on it?
Speaker 2 (04:24):
No, but he's going. He wants to be on it.
Why because the drinking. Not to lose, but because the drinking.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
I just want him to go on at first, and
then you let you let me know how it is,
because I think I need it for the like that
noise of a I'd love a cocktail.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
So we really want to help out the community. I'm
all about making people feel and look beautiful every day.
We definitely care, We care about the clients and we
want to do the right thing.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
Oh so, before we move on, because I know Miles
is obsessed with ghosts, ghost stories, ghost sexuality, before we
get into that, should we name our cougars? Should they
have a name? I feel like Alyssa, Daniella or two
fans and the people that are finally catching on are
(05:09):
they just cougars? Do we just called cougars because I
kind of like that, but should like cougars, you know
what I mean. I feel like we need if you
have any ideas, reach out to us.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
Yeah, I think we need to come up with something
a little bit more great out.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
Yeah, like Tate mcray has the Tater Tots and you
know what I mean, Swifties and they're all like.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
We need like our surfboards or something, because like you're
obsessed with surfboards.
Speaker 1 (05:29):
Oh, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
I don't know either. This drink is actually making me
feel some type of way.
Speaker 1 (05:34):
Okay, I love it.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
Cougar.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
The Cougar Cocktail of the Week is our favorite, celebrating
over one thousand downloads with a dirty Martini Latin dirty
ghost stories? Can I what I'm just trying to know
because you told me.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
No, you told me you had sex with the coast,
And that's why I said, I think it's time to
wrap it up. It gets time to stop drinking.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
And get out there in the real world.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
I'm kidding, but yeah, I'm up from believer in spirits,
but I know you're not.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
No, I believe in spirits, but do I believe there's
ghosts like in my house, like hey, like, no, but
you've experienced.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
Ghosts several times in my life. Legit, I'm not being funny.
I'm not being sarcastic.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
Is it scary? Is it so like not scary.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
It's one of those things like when you're so scared
that you can't be scared, but I will. Does that
make sense?
Speaker 1 (06:22):
He does?
Speaker 2 (06:23):
Like like I was in a.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
Plane one time, you're paralyzed.
Speaker 2 (06:26):
Yes, I was in a plane one time, not with
a ghost, but like I literally thought I was gonna
go down, like everyone was screaming. It was wild, okay,
And I'm terrified of flying, and like you think i'd
be like crying, screaming, but you're just like.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
This, nothing comes out nothing. Well that's because before I
flew this last time, I went to my doctor and
said I'm petrified. She gave me like a xanax with
hell yeah, which I took with a bloody marriage hell yeah.
On my way to the airport, hell yeah. I literally
blacked out and then I started screaming in my head
but nothing was coming out of my mouth but drool.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
Okay, that's how So I don't know what you took,
but I'm on xanax. I'm a better person.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
I can't take anything. I literally don't take anything. I
don't even take aspirin, so too much for me.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
I don't do drugs. I can't smoke weed. Wish I could, can't.
I don't do anything like that. But when I tell you,
when my doctor gives me those little six pills, one
for them before, one for on the way to the airport,
and one for on the plane, and then the same
set on the way home, I'm a better person. I'm
more excited to leave.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
Okay, do you mix it with alcohol though? Like I did?
Speaker 2 (07:30):
Hell, yeah, you got to activate it, says on the
back of the bottle. No, it's so good like Danix
is like amazing. I know why people are addicted to
things like that, because it really does make you feel
like a better person.
Speaker 1 (07:43):
I may have to try it again at some point.
So anyway, you have a connection with ghosts.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
So, first of all, recently me and Matthew have had
similar dreams and we just found this out on the
way home from dinner last night. But the other night
I have this vivid dream of someone breaking into our
house and hearing the noise and it was so real
and then like it was so wild and I told
Matthew I was like, I couldn't sleep, like I thought
(08:10):
something whatever, and then he goes, it's so weird. I've
also been having dreams about someone breaking into our house,
and that's my biggest fucking nightmare, is a home invasion.
Speaker 1 (08:19):
It's so creepy.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
And I'm gonna tell you something. If anyone tries to
fucking break into my house, I know what to do.
Speaker 1 (08:25):
Yeah, your doodle is gonna lick him to death.
Speaker 2 (08:27):
No, let me tell you something. I'm gonna kick your
goddamn ass and I'll tell you why why I learned
that you were If you hear something in the middle
of the night, you can't.
Speaker 1 (08:36):
Just go, oh yeah, I hear something.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
I'm up. Okay, I'm up, and I'm ready to go.
So I might not be moving in that bed because
I'm waiting for you to come over here, because I'm
gonna take my head and smash it into yours and
I'm gonna take you downtown. No, I will beat the show.
I will use my nightstand to kill you.
Speaker 1 (08:50):
There are reason you're having dreams about home invasions.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
So because my house is haunted. Okay, my house is
an old home. Weird Okay, I move in. Okay, it's
my first salon lived above it the all my arts.
I live there. Then my brother buys a house probably
two or threes after I lived in this house. The
owner of the house that he bought in Manchester grew
(09:15):
up in my house. Tell me that's not a weird thing.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
It's a weird coincidence.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
But anyways, this house is definitely older. We actually had
a client one time. She was nine thousand years old,
and she was like, I used to know the owners
of this house. No, okay, cut her hair. Never saw
her again. But there's something energy in the house. Glass
has shattered. You hear things. He's heard my name getting
(09:41):
called when I'm upstairs and downstairs he hears me calling
his name.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
And it's not you calling.
Speaker 2 (09:46):
I'm upstairs like doing your things, playing with myself or something.
I don't know, but I'm not. I'm not trying to
play with him, so he hears me. I've been there
so many times, and I had roommates that lived with me.
It's just it's not a bad feeling, but it just
is like you know, you turn the lights off and
you're looking in the corner, like is that a person
standing there.
Speaker 1 (10:02):
When you're in bed at night? Are you hearing like creaky?
Have you seen like a vision at the end of
your bed?
Speaker 2 (10:10):
No, but I will say that the attic entrance moves
around sometimes. But anyways, you hear it. How that house
is fine? The salon's haunted.
Speaker 1 (10:18):
That is where I go to get my hair.
Speaker 2 (10:20):
Yes, it is very hot.
Speaker 1 (10:23):
No, I am really good with energy. You don't understand.
Speaker 2 (10:26):
I don't feel I haven't been upstairs.
Speaker 1 (10:28):
I saged your whole salon last time I got.
Speaker 2 (10:30):
There, sprayed my butthole with I sprayed your whole body. Listen,
you gotta go upstairs because you're going to change your mind.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
I was upstairs. My girlfriend got a tattoo up in
your upstairs area. No, I'm telling you right now, all right,
so tell me, okay.
Speaker 2 (10:42):
So all right, so listen. So I am in a
business park. And these businesses are like Monday through Friday businesses,
accountants and not even My next two neighbors are like
computer people.
Speaker 1 (10:51):
And by the way, you need to get some sort
of coffee or food area in your area.
Speaker 2 (10:55):
I have. Oh, I know that would be so great.
But so there. When I first moved in, I heard
a cabinet upstairs. No one was working next door, the
parking lot's empty. It's literally me and my client and
my managers at the time. So we're there and we
hear something sliding above us. I'm like, that's so weird,
Like it sounds like there's a box getting slid across
(11:16):
the room. And then you hear like a cabinet, you
know when you close the cabinets, like boom. I hear that,
and my client Vanessa was like, I heard that too.
So I'm like, oh, it's just Taylor and Yasmin. And
so Taylor and Yasmin come out of the back room
and there's no way to get upstairs from our back room, so.
Speaker 1 (11:34):
They were upstairs. They were up there.
Speaker 2 (11:36):
They were yeah, so my guys, can you please go
upstairs because we literally just heard footsteps, we heard dragging,
we heard cabinets go up there. No one's there. That's
not even the creepiest part. I've been there so many
times by myself because my office used to be upstairs,
and you just don't want to look up the staircase.
It's like this like thick, heavy feeling. Confirmed. My one
of my renters up there also heard cabinets when she'd
(11:57):
be there by herself, like late at night on a Sunday,
really and then and you would think it'd be our neighbors,
but no one's there, Like these people aren't working.
Speaker 1 (12:03):
On the winds old is the building? Like have you
seen can do it? Okay?
Speaker 2 (12:08):
What's all farmland? South windsor is all farm that's it?
And so recently we have lamps upstairs in the astition rooms.
They turn on by themselves. We'll turn them off, we'll
go around the corner, we'll come back there on it's weird.
Then I'm talking to my next door neighbor because they
keep blaming us for the sewage smell. And I'm like,
our slan doesn't smell like sewage like we would know,
(12:29):
like I have thirteen girls working here. They tell me
if it's some like shit, right, So I said, you know,
I don't smell it. We'll come to our staircase, which
is like right up against our building, and I'm like okay,
and I'm like, oh yeah, I do. It smells like shit,
Like what the hell is this? And he's like it's
just right here. We can't figure out there's no dead
animals in the attic. You know, We've called all these people.
We can't figure it out. I'm like, well, I don't know,
(12:49):
but I think my place is haunted. And they both
looked at each other, the owner of the building of
that unit and the second chair, and they go we
literally say that. They're like, we hear things all the time.
They have a great grandfather clock that has no plug
or batteries or anything that's like old as shit, and
it goes off by itself and it freaks them out.
And so I think there's something there going back to
(13:10):
when I was a kid, though, I had shit, I
had cabinets open in front of me. Ouiji boards, right,
So are you I think I'm an entity?
Speaker 1 (13:18):
No, I think maybe you just have no I just
feel like you can connect.
Speaker 2 (13:24):
Well, I've been told by I've been to a couple
of mediums before and they said that I have that
and I just need to tap into Everyone has the
ability apparently, right. But I definitely have had things happen
with like clients and so bizarre. When I was in
high school, I had a really weird you want to
hear something, really.
Speaker 1 (13:41):
Something scary because to me, honestly, yeah, this stuff isn't
scaring me, and you hear.
Speaker 2 (13:46):
Well, I haven't had anything really scary, like things go missing,
cabinets will open. My best friend Catherine was laying on
the bed and I went downstairs. Were in high school,
and like she turned over. She doesn't believe in any
of that bullshit. And she saw the bed move up
as if someone was getting out of it. And I
was downstairs and she like screamed my name. She was like,
what the fuck? Like anyways, things have always followed me
(14:07):
throughout it, but in high school I had this like
we did. I went to these Catholic Okay, so third
period prayer the night before Catholic. You're like Catholic.
Speaker 1 (14:17):
You went to a Catholic school and I was.
Speaker 2 (14:19):
Forced to go to a Catholic school because I was
dating the priest.
Speaker 1 (14:24):
And then you did prayer third period prayer, So okay.
Speaker 2 (14:27):
Ties the story. Okay, we prayed all the motherfucking time before.
Speaker 1 (14:30):
Class, third period before like praying.
Speaker 2 (14:34):
Or oh sorry, okay, sorry, I take it back. The
night before, I have this vivid, vivid dream of a
helicopter crash. I have a helmet on. I feel like
you're in like a virtual reality thing. I felt the
heat of the whatever, and I didn't think anything of it.
Go to school that day. I'm sitting in math class
and I swear to God on your life, your life,
my mother's life, everyone's life. This truthfully was a real thing. Okay.
(14:54):
I'm looking at my mouth teacher, and you know when
you look at the light and then you look away
and there's like things like almost like star not stars,
but like it's almost like little like it's like you're dehydrated.
You needed to you yea. Yeah. So I saw something
like that like next to her head, That's the only
way I can describe.
Speaker 1 (15:11):
It, okay, and you were seeing around.
Speaker 2 (15:15):
It was like a dark gray orb near her. But
it was like almost like I was blinking and I
saw it and things were coming to me, so I
wrote them down. I remember my friend Olivia at the
time was like looking at me me, like what the
hell like are you doing? And I was just like
writing things down. I drew a picture of someone running
a track and a number and da da, and I
felt this compelled feeling to go up to my my
matth teacher and be like miss Poorrier, I'm like which
(15:38):
I loved her. She was amazing. I was like I
don't know. I wrote this down and she starts crying
and she wrote down I wrote down a number, and
I wrote down track, and then a couple of other things,
and she was like, my mom passed away. She was
my track coach. That was my number, and I and
I did track. And then I remember the thinking that
was so weird. And I left that classroom and the
(16:00):
rang and third payer payer went on. It was like boom, boom, boom.
And we prayed because people from Connecticut to air Force
people died in a helicopter crash that day before, and
we were praying for them. And I just remember, I swear.
Speaker 1 (16:13):
To God, you had a dream about an air helicopter crash.
Speaker 2 (16:17):
I felt sweating the night No, the night before, the
night before, the night before, we prayed about it. So
it must have happened that day. I don't know what
happened with it, but we prayed about it the next day.
Maybe it was I don't know, Okay, So I just
remember being like whatever. But recently, like I had a
client come in and I was like, oh, my god,
because you're pregnant. And she's like oh, She's like, no,
(16:37):
I'm not pregnant. I actually just had a miscarriage. And
I was like, oh my god, like, myles, what the fuck?
Why the fuck did you say that? Like out of
the blue, was talking about this, and I go, I don't.
I'm sorry, Like I just I thought, yeah.
Speaker 1 (16:48):
You didn't know that she had been pregnant before.
Speaker 2 (16:50):
I didn't know it. And I said, I just had
this vision of you eating ginger candies. I'm like, I'm
so sorry. I thought you were here eating like deja
vu moment and she turned white and she's like that's so.
She's like, I just throw out the bag. I just
bought ginger candies for the first time ever because I
was so nauseous during it. Why And I vividly saw
her eating these candies in my chair, which is why
I felt like I said it. So that's my spirit
(17:12):
stuff anyway.
Speaker 1 (17:13):
Okay, do you have any visions of me, like if
you've been like, oh my god, I see a vision,
like should you want?
Speaker 2 (17:18):
I don't, but I almost get like really good feelings
about people. Yeah, So I have a good feeling about you.
Speaker 1 (17:22):
I know, I feel like we're spirit yeah, animal, Yeah,
we've met in a past life.
Speaker 2 (17:27):
Well, Courtney, Like I always like knew who you were,
of course, but like I never like dove into it
and like I wasn't like waiting outside your house. But
like when I met you, I was like I feel
like I knew you. Yeah, Sie, you know what I mean?
Speaker 1 (17:39):
Like are we related?
Speaker 2 (17:40):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (17:41):
We have to do some sort of past life regression, yeah,
because no joke. I feel like you would probably be
like a brother or in a past life we were
friends something.
Speaker 2 (17:52):
Yeah, because like at first I thought like we like
no shade to you. I thought you were just being
nice to me. And then like we started developing this
thing and like when we like the cameras off and
we're like we're talking connecting, I'm like, oh my god,
Like I love talking with you totally.
Speaker 1 (18:04):
So many times I've been like, Okay, we all need
to go out to eat.
Speaker 2 (18:08):
I know, yeah, we just do our podcast.
Speaker 1 (18:10):
I need to hang out with you.
Speaker 2 (18:11):
Well we hung out last Sunday.
Speaker 1 (18:12):
Yeah we did.
Speaker 2 (18:14):
It was so much fast. So anyways, that's my that's
my stuff, and I'm sure there's been more times and
we can't do you can you think of anything? Your
stories are not horrifying to me because I haven't had
like a demon.
Speaker 1 (18:25):
Story they're not scary stories though, which that's how I feel.
I feel like if.
Speaker 2 (18:31):
You're bitch, if you were in the goddamn slan and
a lamp that you kept turning off was turning on
and off, you'd be like, give me the bug out
of air.
Speaker 1 (18:36):
I would be like, there's a short. We need to
change out the lamp or the light bulb.
Speaker 2 (18:42):
Maybe you are straight.
Speaker 1 (18:43):
I don't. It's so funny that you don't think I'm straight.
Speaker 2 (18:48):
I do one on the record the microphone.
Speaker 1 (18:51):
Can we get a hot surfer.
Speaker 2 (18:54):
Lesbian or guy guy? Okay?
Speaker 1 (18:56):
Salt, salt and pepper though, okay, so all of a
sudden age, I want him to have dark hair, salt
and pepper, and a go tea.
Speaker 2 (19:04):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (19:04):
If I make out in front of him, in front
of you, Yeah, he and I make out, we'd be
okay with that. Yes, all right, I'll work on it.
Speaker 2 (19:11):
Wait on the record. I don't think you're a lesbian,
but I don't think that if the right lesbian surfer
salt and pepper came around and said, Hey, Courtney, you
want to get on my surfboard, I think you'd get
on the goddamn surfboard and right into the sunset. I
love you. You aren't open to that at all.
Speaker 1 (19:28):
I've never been attracted to a woman.
Speaker 2 (19:29):
Twenty twenty five is all about being not so narrow minded.
Speaker 1 (19:34):
Twenty twenty five is all about you giving me a
great hairdo, getting some botox, maybe doing the weight loss thing. Yeah,
and then getting out there. Okay, that's what that's.
Speaker 2 (19:45):
You don't need the weight loss thing or.
Speaker 1 (19:47):
The whatever it is, drink less thing.
Speaker 2 (19:49):
It's the same thing. That's a side of idea's not
going out. I just for that. But anyways, I love
it all right.
Speaker 1 (19:55):
Do you want to do truth or Drink?
Speaker 2 (19:56):
I do want to do a little cheers over.
Speaker 1 (19:59):
A thousand downloads. Thank you so much.
Speaker 2 (20:01):
You text me every week about it, and I love it.
I do.
Speaker 1 (20:04):
Keep downloading our podcast. You can get it anywhere you
get our you know your favorite podcast. You can hear it.
It's The Cougar.
Speaker 2 (20:09):
And when we say download, hold, when we say download,
you just got to listen. That's a download. One organic
listen is a download.
Speaker 1 (20:17):
It is. So just keep listening, keep downloading, and then
we're gonna have a big party.
Speaker 2 (20:22):
Yeah we are, all right.
Speaker 1 (20:24):
We always end with truth or Drink and if you
want to submit questions for Truth or Drink, because there's
I really want to get deep with Miles.
Speaker 2 (20:31):
Let's get deep. I know.
Speaker 1 (20:32):
That's why I need our cougars to help me out.
Send me your questions on Instagram.
Speaker 2 (20:36):
Yeah, we've asked you a lot of wild questions and
I came unprepared this time.
Speaker 1 (20:41):
Truth or Drink? Have you ever performed a lap dance?
Speaker 2 (20:44):
Okay, I'm fixed to seventy five. I ain't lapd in.
What do you want me to lap into? Goddamn telephones?
Speaker 1 (20:54):
Laughed like you probably have, and you lied.
Speaker 2 (20:57):
You think I did a sexy dance for that teak
in the corner. I don't know. Are you fucking kidding me?
I think you'd go up back and shoot himself.
Speaker 1 (21:03):
No, we would not. He would love it. He would
love it. So no, that's enough.
Speaker 2 (21:08):
I'm sorry, Courtney. Are we looking at the same people
right now?
Speaker 1 (21:11):
It doesn't matter.
Speaker 2 (21:12):
I think that I'm supporting the chair. The chair is
not supporting me. No lap dance is happening.
Speaker 1 (21:18):
But you let's take a class together?
Speaker 2 (21:20):
Fuck? Yeah, okayten, I'll do anything.
Speaker 1 (21:24):
We need to take a stripping class together.
Speaker 2 (21:26):
Dude, I will do it in a second. But wait,
you have to answer the question.
Speaker 1 (21:30):
You know what, I think back in the day, I
did I have done.
Speaker 2 (21:32):
A last Wow, you know you did?
Speaker 1 (21:35):
It was the surfer. I dated a surfer years ago.
Speaker 2 (21:37):
How did I know? She was gonna say? Yeah, he
was like maybe like once in like fourteen seventy six.
I don't know, you know I did? You got all good?
Speaker 1 (21:46):
I had a can of whip cream.
Speaker 2 (21:48):
All right, So tell us start to finish what happened.
Speaker 1 (21:50):
It was so long ago, though, You got to remember,
this is so long ago. This is like my first
real boyfriend. And yes, he was the surfer. And I
had a can of whip cream and I think I
put it all over me and I was trying to
dance sexy, and then the phone rang and I went
to answer it and all the whip cream fell off,
and it was like, I'm not you know, I was
a clumsy stripper.
Speaker 2 (22:09):
Yeah, you were a clumsy stripper. You fell right on
top of it. Fix that. Wait, so that's sticky though,
Ye have you seen these things? I'm traumatized for what
my stripping. No. I found above. I'm not going to
say which set of parents this was, just so that
I can protect there one of my parents that shall
not be new.
Speaker 1 (22:29):
So you mean your mother or your father?
Speaker 2 (22:31):
Yes? And they both are married, Yes, remarried. Remix had
a penis molding kit above refrigerator. And then one time
there was a shopping list. Oh my god, hopefully no
one listen to this. It was I can't say. It
was shopping list Tomato American cheese. I came home and
(22:52):
so they didn't know that I was going to be
home and wife or husband whatever it is. It was
on the shopping list.
Speaker 1 (22:57):
Oh my god, do you know?
Speaker 2 (22:59):
Why? Is that sweet? I don't want to read that,
I know.
Speaker 1 (23:03):
But the guy was engaged to I left him a
I used to leave him to do list and I'd
be like to do and I would be like, Courtney,
I just wrote my name on it.
Speaker 2 (23:12):
Did he do it? No? Come on, I have to
ask you this.
Speaker 1 (23:16):
That's honey, right, your honey to do listen and you
write your name under it. Matthew has hunting pants on,
by the way, because he's a whole hunter.
Speaker 2 (23:28):
But I feel like when I first met him, he
was like so like, oh my god, we didn't have
plants go to dinner. We can't just go to dinner
at eight o'clock at night, and now it's like fun,
like we are doing whatever we did. I'm like, let's
go to Boston tonight, you know what I mean and
be like you know and put your on the shopping list.
Speaker 1 (23:44):
Question number two, miles, have you ever cheated?
Speaker 2 (23:47):
You've asked me this before.
Speaker 1 (23:49):
I thought I had, but I can't remember. Oh yeah,
I should I change it up. Have you ever cheated.
Speaker 2 (23:57):
While being in a well, that's cheating. Have you ever cheated? Well, che.
Speaker 1 (24:08):
Cheating? All right, so let's just go right to question
number three. Question number three, Have you ever stolen anything?
Speaker 2 (24:15):
Many hearts? No, I'm kidding. Have I ever stolen anything?
I know? Like, yeah, with my grandmother? What shut? I'm
not gonna sell set the door, but I'm like, listen,
hold this. We could say you have dementia or something
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (24:29):
Okay, wait, so is your grandmother still alive?
Speaker 2 (24:31):
Of course, yeah, she's drinking out my house.
Speaker 1 (24:33):
Probably my grandmother's long gone, both of them. Okay, so
you and your grandmother would go on a crime spree.
Speaker 2 (24:39):
Listen?
Speaker 1 (24:40):
Is it a crime?
Speaker 2 (24:41):
It's kind of one of those things that's like in
your hand, your head self checkout. You're trying to scan
it out and you're like, then put it down and
scanning it You're like.
Speaker 1 (24:48):
Okay, Nana, let's just go me me all right, all right, Mimi,
let's just go yeah, have you okay? And you go okay?
Speaker 2 (24:55):
Are you She's been divorced ten times. She has been
in a shooting, like she's like the shooting your She
was at a bar ninety pounds, soaking wet, someone has
the gun go off and she's hading me. Had a stroll.
Speaker 1 (25:08):
Is she in Hartford?
Speaker 2 (25:09):
She was at one point her ex boyfriend burned down
a building and then went on the news and they
were like, why did you do it? And for my
girlfriend Diane, And she went to work the next day
and everyone was like looking at her because in the
paper they had her full name in it.
Speaker 1 (25:22):
This is your grandmother, my mimi. Your mimi was involved
in a shooting.
Speaker 2 (25:27):
This was a separate instance. She was with her sister
and some guy and another guy got into a fight
and there was a shooting.
Speaker 1 (25:32):
At the bar in Hartford.
Speaker 2 (25:34):
They bought drugs from this guy. Weed not drugs like
that like weed is we drugs?
Speaker 1 (25:40):
Yeah, back in the day, back in the day weed.
Speaker 2 (25:42):
Was like you a drug, so she bought it from
the guy at the bar. You know, we're talking about
the fifties, sixties. Yeah, and it turned out to be
something crazy and they all fell asleep in a bathtub.
She's done, she's hitchhiked.
Speaker 1 (25:54):
All right, we need your Memi on the show.
Speaker 2 (25:56):
Well, I was thinking a mother's episode coming up. We
could do our moms and we get a meet.
Speaker 1 (26:00):
Coming moms and mems. Oh my god, we'll film it
at Miles Joseph Studios. We'll love moms and mimis.
Speaker 2 (26:06):
Yep, moms and memis.
Speaker 1 (26:07):
Oh my god, I love it all right.
Speaker 2 (26:08):
Listen, have you ever sworn?
Speaker 1 (26:11):
No, it's illegal.
Speaker 2 (26:13):
This camera's going to turn off me. I got a
TV from Walmart one time in two thousand and two.
Speaker 1 (26:18):
Now you know, actually I don't think it's stealing. But
I didn't call the store and say you didn't charge me?
Is that stealing?
Speaker 2 (26:26):
No, that's bullshit. Okay.
Speaker 1 (26:27):
I went to a pet store and I bought a
fish tank because I fell in love with a fish.
And then when I got home, they charged me for everything,
but the tank?
Speaker 2 (26:36):
Are you owl? Do I forget to skin?
Speaker 1 (26:38):
I don't know, but I'm lazy, so I never called
them and said, hey, you didn't charge me the whatever
one hundred dollars for the tank.
Speaker 2 (26:43):
I just why did you look at the receipt?
Speaker 1 (26:45):
I because I'm anal and I had to write it
down in my book.
Speaker 2 (26:49):
Do you have a buck? Yes?
Speaker 1 (26:51):
I know, I'm a little I see.
Speaker 2 (26:53):
No.
Speaker 1 (26:53):
I have never stolen anything.
Speaker 2 (26:55):
So you have a buck of all your purchases?
Speaker 1 (26:57):
I do?
Speaker 2 (26:58):
I think you should read.
Speaker 1 (27:00):
Do you know what a register is?
Speaker 2 (27:01):
Yes? I know what a register is. It's the thing
that people use to cast people out.
Speaker 1 (27:05):
It was in my check registrar.
Speaker 2 (27:06):
I know, I know your check register. I feel like
the next episode we should read some adverbs from your
check registry. What is Courtney spending her money on?
Speaker 1 (27:15):
Okay, we'll do that. We'll do that now. Listen. It's
our very special episode over a thousand downs. Yes, do
you want to pop a bottle of shamps to end it?
We're shure we not because we might be blackout.
Speaker 2 (27:26):
Well we need to have you're definitely black Let's finish
that super quick. Cheers. This is Danielle and Alyssa. Because
you guys listen, are two fans and first fan two
first fans, and when we make it big, I'll touch
to your names on me.
Speaker 1 (27:42):
Oh my god, I will too.
Speaker 2 (27:45):
I will. Let's do it D A or A D
A D A D and let's put it put them
on our ass cheeks. One could be A and one
could be D. Does that mean they're making me seem
like that was a mean that?
Speaker 1 (27:56):
No, I'm just not going to lock in because I
kind of want it on like my wrists or a
different location than my ass.
Speaker 2 (28:02):
I think you should put it on your tats that
I'll put on my ass.
Speaker 1 (28:05):
A indeed, Yeah, all right, check one. Oh my god,
we're gonna pop a bottle of shamps right now. All right, ladies,
don't forget truth or drink questions. Fin me a lot
miles didn't come with any today, so can you please
help them out. We are the Cougarden Podcast on Instagram.
Send me a DM with your questions. You can also
(28:27):
check us out on the Cougarden Podcast at gmail dot com.
Speaker 2 (28:31):
Are you poisoning me?
Speaker 1 (28:32):
I heard radio app? It is free your preset.
Speaker 2 (28:36):
I have a lot of apps on my phone, probably
like one hundred. My favorite one is the iHeart I Know.
Speaker 1 (28:41):
Are we on your preset?
Speaker 2 (28:44):
Preset, pre record pre I love it everything hoop the shamps.
So this is you can't get this just anywhere.
Speaker 1 (28:51):
And just don't point it at my face.
Speaker 2 (28:53):
This has one over two hundred and fifty wards by.
Speaker 1 (28:58):
It is the cheapest bottle of shamp and you can
get no.
Speaker 2 (29:01):
This is exclusive and they sent it to us. They're sponsoring,
actually ballatore.
Speaker 1 (29:08):
Nobody's sponsoring the cheapest bottle of champagne ever.
Speaker 2 (29:11):
And this is not even champagne. It's sparkling goddamn wine.
Where's the budget for the show.
Speaker 1 (29:16):
We don't have a budget.
Speaker 2 (29:18):
You know what. I have to have to have a
word with iHeart because they better pick this up.
Speaker 1 (29:23):
We need a budget, we need they need to get
we just could.
Speaker 2 (29:25):
They just take a meeting with us and get to
meet me because they feel like once they meet me
and you.
Speaker 1 (29:30):
We need to take a meeting.
Speaker 2 (29:32):
Does that even make sense?
Speaker 1 (29:33):
No, it absolutely doesn't. There's nobody around, but there's take
a meeting with me.
Speaker 2 (29:39):
Just court new in the corner. I'm scared, Matthews scared.
I was sitting at stand up stret He hates loud noises.
Speaker 1 (29:47):
That's right. Just don't point the champagne cork at me.
I'm not gonna Okay, over a thousand downloads, Thank you,
ladies and gents. Oh, look at him, twist.
Speaker 2 (30:02):
You're not skittish.
Speaker 1 (30:04):
No, I'm not skittish. Please jack my dog. My dog
just ran into his crew. I'm sorry.
Speaker 2 (30:08):
Did I scare him?
Speaker 1 (30:09):
It's a champagne.
Speaker 2 (30:11):
He's gonna get used. But I screamed because I wanted
to scare you. But it didn't work.
Speaker 1 (30:14):
Oh my god, I love it. Just a little sippy poo,
there we go. That is really good champagne. What are
you looking at?
Speaker 2 (30:21):
What? This is delicious?
Speaker 1 (30:23):
I told you it's the cheapest champagne you buy, but
it's the best tasting.
Speaker 2 (30:26):
I don't know if the last drink just tastes like
shit and this tastes like I'm a drinker. This is
a It's really good. You need to have some.
Speaker 1 (30:33):
He's gonna have some.
Speaker 2 (30:35):
Cheers, Happy thousand, Over a thousand
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