Showy Ovaries with Penny Ashton.
Penny Ashton
Comedian Penny Ashton is on a voyage of discovery into the hormonal hocus pocus of menopause. So what better way to learn about her moisture moving from inside her body to perspiring out her face, than by talking to a series of wondrous women and owners of ovaries about their own lives and their menopause journeys. A series of frank and funny interviews all about what to expect, when expecting the change. Warning: salty language, and not just from the night sweats. Season Three and beyond is opening up wider to include women and trans individuals of all ages and bodily functionings.
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Gender Queer Ren Lunicke
Showy Ovaries with Penny Ashton.
07/12/22 • 76 min
*Sorry for the delay Ovarians, covid finally got me.
Ren Lunicke has lived many lives and tackled each wholeheartedly. Deeply uncomfortable within their evangelical upbringing, they went through a journey of discovery with their body from sexual discovery, to gender identity and finally hormonal balance. Now proudly Non-Binary, taking testosterone and happily married to Willow, their trans wife, Ren is more of an expert on hormones than most GP's. They dropped in on Penny bearing scones to chat about Ren's surprising new "male" privilege, their menopausal AND puberty symptoms and the pure joy to be found in sexual discovery. Penny wants to thank them too for being so vulnerable and open about such intensely personal issues.
Contains explicit sexual content and is a little longer than usual because, there's SO much to discuss. Like so much.
Gender Minorities Aotearoa: https://genderminorities.com/
Ren's website: https://www.zirproductions.com/
Content Warning/Trigger Warning: Discussions of partner and parental rejection, gender coded names of body parts, explicit sexual discussions.
Ren acknowledged the following off tape and wanted it included to this interview:
“Some of the ideas I worked through in the process of understanding my gender identity, were initially based in gender essentialism. These are historical opinions. I no longer hold the view that gender is essentially tied to genitals (physical or spiritual) nor sex role dynamics, positions, or behaviors, but rather an enduring state (or multiplicity of states) experienced by an individual that defines how they relate to themselves and others.
My gender awakening through sexual events was merely a significant part of my journey that helped me confront my identity, but it only came (pun intended) after a lot of other worthy experiences I had ignored or repressed. Sexuality is complex for a lot of trans people and that’s perfectly fine. One person’s mindfuck is another’s transcendence.”
Fabulous George Fowler
Showy Ovaries with Penny Ashton.
11/09/21 • 42 min
Strap in for my sweariest episode yet with Drag King, Pun King and House of Drag Winner Hugo Grrrl, aka George Fowler. Having lived as a trans man for two years, George candidly filled me in on what it's like to go through Menopause and male puberty at the same time. Also how he can't wait to grow a moustache instead of gluing one on, the horny side effects of testosterone and what to never ever ask anyone trans. May include bonus puns. [And did I mention it was sweary...]
Award Winning Bronwyn Turei
Showy Ovaries with Penny Ashton.
03/18/25 • 65 min
Wellington Theatre's 2024 Co-Actor of the year Bronwyn Turei (Ngāti Porou) drops into Penny's house to discuss all things fleshy. From being head girl at Gisborne Girls, to dealing with a lot of intense trauma as a teenager, to heading to London's Globe theatre to becoming a constantly jobbing professional actress, she and Penny covered how her body rode this rollercoaster.
She talked of hitting the giddy heights of fame aged 24 when cast in the TV show Go Girls, of leaning into her "curvy" characters storylines despite how some of them felt, of how totally adorable her child is, (despite how traumatic her birth was) and how she once went on a blind date to Shanghai.
Penny also thanked her being being a superstar in Penny's directorial debut with Sense & Sensibility where she was part of a stellar cast, and they laughed about how Bronwyn's toddler wormed her way into Penny's cold dead non maternal heart.
CONTENT WARNING: Sexual assault, suicide ideation, Mental Illness.
Photo Credit: Roc Torio
Book for Give Way here: https://nz.patronbase.com/_Circa/Productions/2509/Performances
Penny's Shows
Book for Austen Found here: https://www.qtheatre.co.nz/shows/austen-found
Book for The Tempestuous in New Plymouth here: https://www.iticket.co.nz/events/2025/may/the-tempestuous
Book for Stratford here: https://www.eventbrite.co.nz/e/olive-copperbottom-a-dickensian-tale-of-love-gin-and-the-pox-tickets-1243841095199
Book for Tasmania here: https://events.humanitix.com/promise-and-promiscuity-a-new-musical-by-jane-austen-and-penny-ashton
Book for Melbourne here: https://chapeloffchapel.com.au/show/promise-promiscuity/
Book for Newcastle here: https://www.trybooking.com/events/landing/1342004
Book for Sydney here: https://events.humanitix.com/promise-and-promiscuity-a-new-musical-by-jane-austen-and-penny-ashton-qvacnk7s
Book for Canberra here: https://www.thestreet.org.au/shows/promise-and-promiscuity
Brightest Amy Spark
Showy Ovaries with Penny Ashton.
10/29/23 • 61 min
After her ballet teacher wouldn't let a very young Amy dance purely on on foot, she readjusted her life ambitions to being a pathologist. Inspired by forensic stories from her parents and from novels by Kathy Reichs, (the inspiration for the TV series Bones) she set her sights on dead people and being the last voice for those who can no longer speak. Penny dropped in on her Palmerston North Dr's office to discuss her journey with her own "meat suit" and how her day job of performing over 2500 autopsies on has led her to more acceptance of its miraculous abilities.
Stay tuned for an aural strip tease and showcase of tattoos, discussions of roller derby bad-assery and how beautiful a human brain is when cut into slices.
CW: Discussions of bodies, decaying flesh and stillbirth. But ultimately an uplifting focus on the positivity in the human existence and a celebration of science and self acceptance.
Show-busy Lizzie Tollemache
Showy Ovaries with Penny Ashton.
08/07/23 • 60 min
Performer, director, side show starlet, writer and all round showbiz whiz Lizzie Tollemache may have been travelling the world hammering nails into her head and making thousands of people laugh, but underneath all that was a diagnosis lurking that would change her whole perspective on life. Penny visited her carnie friend's Christchurch home to learn all about the realisation she gained in lockdown that led to her ADHD epiphany and whole new lease on life.
From her ten year old love of theatre, to her crying on the floor like a raccoon, to convincing herself she was a piece of shit, Lizzie is disarmingly honest about her body's journey to feeling good 7/10 times now on average. She regales Penny with tales of youthful people pleasing, fleshy pleasing and rebuilding into the person she is happy to be today.
Promise and Promiscuity is on this week in Palmerston Northshire! https://www.centrepoint.co.nz/promise-and-promiscuity
Showy Ovaries Live - Tenacious Justine Smith
Showy Ovaries with Penny Ashton.
06/15/23 • 56 min
Hello lovely Showy Ovarians, Penny's back with another Showy Ovaries Live! This time with her comedy compatriot, fellow tenacious broad and Bette Midler lover; Justine Smith.
They rendezvoused onstage at Q Theatre in the 2023 NZ International Comedy Festival to discuss how their bodies have taken them through being a woman in comedy since the late 90's. Justine had a tattoo-off with a fellow Disney lover in the audience, they then discussed the #metoo movement in NZ Comedy, some other 'movements', their worst introductions to the stage from MC's and their own insecurities, bra sizes and triumphs within the industry.
It's unfiltered, bawdy and funny AF as they laugh together at society's bullshit and their journey to giving exponentially less f**ks.
Most Definitely Adult content.
Excellently Accomplished Eilish Moran
Showy Ovaries with Penny Ashton.
05/15/23 • 55 min
Queen of Christchurch's Court Theatre stage, Eilish Moran took some time out of her packed schedule to chat to Penny about her body, her menopause and being in Penny's adaptation of Sense and Sensibility at the Court in February 2023. Penny was excited to get to know a woman she saw onstage all through her youth and adolescence in such plays as Little Shop of Horrors, The Crucible and so much more.
Eilish was so generous sharing her parent's dementia journeys, her stories of eating disorders and the roles she has both loved and the ones that got away. Penny, Eilish and Poppy the dog, enjoyed scones and a coffee in her 19th Century country cottage as they laughed about boobs, puberty and the fact that one of them kept farting.
Book here for Showy Ovaries Live in Auckland on Sat 20th May: https://www.comedyfestival.co.nz/find-a-show/showy-ovaries-live/
Book here for The Tempestuous from June 13th: https://www.iticket.co.nz/events/2023/jun/the-tempestuous
Book for Eilish's play Appropriate in Christchurch: https://courttheatre.org.nz/whats-on/appropriate/
Showy Ovaries Live - The "O" Show
Showy Ovaries with Penny Ashton.
04/24/23 • 68 min
Hello all you wondrous Showy Ovarians, Penny Ashton is back for Season Three! Yes release the fireworks and say huzzah Showy days are here again in a season where we will be pivoting away from focusing mainly on menopause and opening up to our bodies in all their glory! Kicking things off with The "O" Show from the Hamilton Arts Festival recorded on February 26th 2023. Another fun live record peppered with diary readings from Ashton's adolescence for added teenage angst and idiocy.
Jackie Clarke rejoins Penny to muse on their bodies and all the fun things it can do like swear, pash, orgasm and pump out food for a child. Stand by to hear Jackie terrorise Penny about child birth, hear how Penny weighed her tits and ponder how a vibrator can be like a VCR.
Thanks to Geoff Turkington and the Hamilton Arts Festival for having us.
FYI Showy Ovaries will be less regular for season three, no matter how much Metamucil we chew, with a brand new show launching on June 13th Penny is a little mired in show shizzle but will be popping in to keep you amused and titillated. Head to www.hotpink.co.nz to see all the details of all her shows in 2023.
A Very Covid Xmas
Showy Ovaries with Penny Ashton.
12/24/22 • 34 min
It's a surprise Xmas Special for Showy Ovaries! Tune in to hear Penny chat to her husband Matt from different rooms in their house. Why might that be???? Listen in and find out. Hear them pass some isolation time over the festive season by chatting the presents of Xmas past, hear some ukulele carols and find out what moves Matt to tears. No it's not Christmas Cracker Jokes... though there are a lot of them included FREE OF CHARGE. You lucky things.
Meri Kirihimete!!
PS Matt's new job is a bike salesman. Should probably have said that.
Notes: You too can dress like Noddy Holder. https://www.amazon.com/Orion-Costumes-Bangin-Holder-Costume/dp/B00MNG0982
Where to buy a bike: https://www.99bikes.co.nz/pages/glen-innes-bike-store
Warning: Contains rambling.
Educational Ella Henry
Showy Ovaries with Penny Ashton.
11/30/21 • 50 min
AUT Associate Professor Dr Ella Henry, (Ngātikahu ki Whangaroa, Ngāti Kuri, Te Rārawa) regales me with tales of skiing in bikini tops, getting expelled from High School, oh and menopause. A life of travel, promotion of Maori excellence and fuc*ing the patriarchy. Prepare to hear one or two cackles as she discusses her one hot flash, throwing period parties for her daughters, and inserting the word vagina as much as possible into the official records of the Waitangi Tribunal.
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How many episodes does Showy Ovaries with Penny Ashton. have?
Showy Ovaries with Penny Ashton. currently has 76 episodes available.
What topics does Showy Ovaries with Penny Ashton. cover?
The podcast is about Health & Fitness, Women, Feminist, Trans, Comedy, Podcasts, Menopause, Comedy Interviews and Interviews.
What is the most popular episode on Showy Ovaries with Penny Ashton.?
The episode title 'Show-busy Lizzie Tollemache' is the most popular.
What is the average episode length on Showy Ovaries with Penny Ashton.?
The average episode length on Showy Ovaries with Penny Ashton. is 48 minutes.
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Episodes of Showy Ovaries with Penny Ashton. are typically released every 7 days.
When was the first episode of Showy Ovaries with Penny Ashton.?
The first episode of Showy Ovaries with Penny Ashton. was released on Oct 14, 2021.
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