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Podcast Episode Summary: Berlant & Novak - Episode 058: "Stepmom Fall"
Overview
Hosts
- Jacqueline Novak
- Kate Berlant
Episode Details
- Title: Episode 058: "Stepmom Fall"
- Release Date: [Insert Release Date]
- Description: An exploration of autumn anecdotes in Los Angeles, featuring whimsical thoughts on beauty, wellness, and life's oddities.
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Key Themes and Discussions
Autumn Vibes
- Setting: The episode is steeped in autumnal imagery and reflections, with references to seasonal changes in Los Angeles.
- Metaphors: The concept of "Stepmom Fall" evokes the transitions and warmth associated with the season.
Personal Anecdotes
- Lip Care: Jacqueline shares her obsession with a specific tinted lip balm, illustrating her emotional connection to beauty products.
- Tea and Health: Discussion of health trends and personal routines, including a focus on hydration and the use of turmeric ginger tea.
Wellness and Beauty
- Jewelry and Beauty: A critical discussion on the aesthetics of jewelry and whether it genuinely enhances beauty, leading to deeper reflections on societal beauty standards.
- Nail Care: Jacqueline discusses the transition away from gel nails to natural nail care, emphasizing the impact of beauty routines on self-perception.
Humorous Interactions
- Pet Stories: Kate shares amusing anecdotes about her dog, highlighting the humorous side of pet ownership and its effects on daily life.
- Customer Service Experiences: The pair reflect on their interactions with service staff, particularly regarding clothing and dry cleaning mishaps, adding a comedic lens to everyday frustrations.
Product Corner Highlights
- Healthy Eating: The hosts discuss their breakfast routines, including steel-cut oats and the addition of superfoods like Amla powder.
- Product Recommendations:
- Lip Care: Mention of the Parallel tinted balm.
- Tea Brand: A shoutout to quality loose-leaf teas.
- Healthy Ingredients: Discussion about the nutritional benefits of various powders and additives.
Key Takeaways
- Self-Awareness: The episode encourages listeners to reflect on personal beauty standards and the societal pressures surrounding them.
- Humor in Daily Life: The importance of finding humor in mundane and often frustrating situations is a recurring motif throughout the episode.
- Health and Wellness Trends: There is an emphasis on the evolving nature of health trends, especially regarding hydration, nutrition, and beauty routines.
Conclusion The episode wraps up with a blend of insightful commentary, humor, and personal anecdotes, showcasing the chemistry between Kate and Jacqueline. Their discussions highlight not only the quirky aspects of life but also deeper reflections on beauty, wellness, and friendship framed within the comforting ambiance of autumn.
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Transcript
Automatic transcript. May contain errors.0:28Two best friends both alike in dignity. I have some more than one shady though. I know. Eminem's so fucking hot. It's such a, it's, the community's blessed by hearing you say that. Cause like, you know, I love him. I fucking love Eminem. When he was slim shady, when he was fully. Sorry. Sorry guys. Jeff will know that. Can't get enough. Okay. Like literally who's there for me. What are you putting on your mouth? What is that? Money. Makes a man act funny. I'm so obsessed with the parallel tinted bomb and like rose. Wait, what? I bought another one. Because I couldn't, I couldn't. So parallel and they got to send stuff fast because I'm hemorrhaging cash.
1:09Okay. Actually, it's very affordable, which is part of why I like the line. But they have a SPF lip balm. There's one that's no color and it's one that's a rose color. I love the rose color. Okay. I became so into it. I have lost it. Lost is probably a strong word. I bet it's fallen to the crack in my car. it's in some bag at the bottom of the bag haven't been able to locate it it was more than halfway full i bought a new one because i couldn't handle the idea of being without it that's fucking crazy by the way this light's a little harsh i'll admit it okay oh i want that goddamn brand edem so we have the internet work suddenly i'm seeing it everywhere is it maybe or no that's something else d-e-m i'm seeing all these yeah erdom i'm seeing it everywhere and i go i don't know what That is what I wanted.
1:53No, you didn't even notice. Okay. But I created a little area. I took myself against the wall. It's not completely worked out. Remember I was talking about giving them a more pleasing background? And now I'm just against my old Navy wall. Hey. Yes. I don't know. We'll see. Oh, hey. Cute. Wait, you're not. I know you can't see it, right? I'm flanked by. Dr. Dennis Gross, plumper. What is that? You go, what is it,$19.99? What the fuck is that? Did you pay for that? No, it was sent to us. I'm sure you gave it to some dogs who bark. Stop. I never got that. Who bark out back. No, I don't give away gross.
2:33No, but I think you might have gone, I don't know, my lips are plumping out for something. Plumping lip? No, because I'll tell you why, Kate. No, there's no way. There's no way. You're afraid of things that irritate, aren't you? Wouldn't you be scared of the whole bee sting quality of these products? By the way, I used to use lip venom in the eighth grade. Well, exactly. This is what I'm saying. When that shit came out. It hit hard. That was a cool fucking time, right? It hit hard. It was like, yeah. It was like, yeah, like grind up pepper. Put it on your lips. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And it was like, but I did this recently, and then I forgot I was doing it.
3:12And so I was working other things on my face or whatever point I got it all around my lips. and the whole thing was red and damn you gotta watch out well guess what i'm drinking here new life tea fuck what's the brand of this tea wait for product corner i'm gonna shout out the brand of this loose leaf tea that i'm loving the guess where they sell it jacqueline pause where i went to to pause oh spot i went to get a vitamin drip last week because i was feeling a rundown and I bought, oh my God. And I forgot about it. I paid$45 to buy liquid aminos mocha. I don't love the flavor. And you haven't started it yet.
3:56I did it once, but you're not going to like this. It has that flavor. I did, but plain. Well, you mean, you mean it tastes like perfect aminos. Yeah. I got to add it into something because alone with hot water, you don't do that though. Sweetie, sweetie. Look at her. it's not a it's not a drink mix it's not no it's additive it's additive no i love okay great let me just repeat to you guess what's in my mug okay here's your reminder i know coffee yeah but first listen listen and listen close okay okay soy milk or your preferred pistachio probably knowing you okay i've been doing a cashew coconut mix thank you very much exactly all right that's something to kill me all right and froth it up with the old thing that was sent to us by one of those things okay and then one of those little twiddly sticks and then with with the with the aminos followed by pour your coffee on top of it so the coffee's going through creating that central kind of dip in the frothiness up it comes sprinkle some cinnamon and yeah it's it's gotten kind of artificial mocha flavor yeah yeah but that's okay that's that makes you feel like you're at the gas station handle that sometimes there's a pleasure in that sometimes yeah you're hitting french vanilla at the gas station there can be there can be a joy in that flavor but um but i've been doing so you know i've always dreamt of tea right loose leaf we've been sent some beautiful teas over the years i just i just stuffed a kettle under my my i put a kettle in the cabinet going no it's not happening i'm not even gonna boil water yeah totally but anyway you're going the other way this is a turmeric turmeric ginger tea this morning I believe it's turmeric.
5:33Turmeric. Oh, right. I say turmeric as we all do. Turmeric. I'm going to keep hounding this on the pot because it's a more pleasant word fundamentally. It's turmeric ginger. And to wake up this morning, brew to pot, then put the pot. It's a glass kettle that I have. Nice glass kettle. Put it in the fridge. Drinking tea all day. Drinking this iced herbal tea. And I go, whoa. Talk about a pathway to hydration. Since, guys, this is a huge thing. Ring the bell. Ring the bell. three and a half weeks no electrolytes zero zero sweetheart guess who doesn't feel dehydrated guess who hasn't i'm gonna say this hasn't been feeling bloated no change in the lifestyle otherwise you pixelated and i lost you but i'm assuming the answer is bloated she's frozen in this huge moment she's frozen no you were frozen you go this is what i experienced I guess you hasn't in this moment.
6:31I'm assuming bloated, right? Yeah. That you were free of. You know, bloat is one of these things that it's like, let's just say there are people who are 100 % bloated, okay? Or at 100 kilojoules of bloat, okay? Okay. And then you have someone at 50 kilojoules of bloat. Let's just say it was that objective, right? Yeah, yeah. The 50 person might be like, while the 100 person might not even, they just think that's life. Right, right, right. Do you see what I'm saying? Yes, yes. It's a very, it's a concept that really gets thrown around, doesn't it? It sure fucking does. Because it's one thing to be truly all of a sudden blown up like a balloon.
7:19Right. Anyway. Oh, but Kate, Kate, Kate, Kate. I screen grabbed this thing. My Oura Ring woke up this morning. Rest, rest, rest. I know, I know, I know. And I felt it this morning when I woke up. I was, you know, yeah. So great to have you in wearable country. Came up with an idea earlier today when our producer was complaining about this not being a watch, the Whoop. Okay, I'm thinking of collab in which it's like a little thing that snaps over the top and it's an analog watch just on top of the Whoop. Oh, an analog watch. Cute. That's actually smart. That's smart. There is a code, folks. Okay.
7:53And it's - Oh, they know. It's embedded. No, no, no. I'm not just talking about regular Whoop code. I'm talking about to join my team on Whoop. You actually have to put in a code inside join teams. It's a different thing. And I just, I'm alone in there, guys. It's embarrassing. It's like hag Whoop community. One out of one. Damn, damn. Well, as we know, I gave mine away to a friend. One of the most sick things you've ever done. watermelon celsius she's got 5 30 cracking a watermelon cels yeah i know it's it's um okay well i have a couple things to say which is first of all once again i am obsessed and also paralyzed in the face of lymph what to do how to move it i by the way today was a huge day i lost today i i went down that i i studied i lost today wait did you lose lose it on lymph instagram by the way because Lymph Instagram is.
8:52No, no, I lost it everywhere. I lost it all over the gram. I lost it posting. I lost it. Oh, oh, yeah. This photo, that photo. And I just, and then, yeah, I was in reels seeing all different kinds of reels. I got into this girl who looked very young, you know, talking and looked pretty like she was, she didn't know more than me, okay? Like she'd seen several videos, um but it you know it's that hypnotic thing where it's not even really what they're saying it's like it becomes just like she didn't like there was nothing new and it felt a little bit like it had that thing of just you know you don't have to explain that you're an expert you just talk like one yeah yeah yeah yeah it has the quality of the like what you were saying about the makeup doing the fake uh makeup demonstration like fake cooking show in your own home it's truly like i just did that just now putting on makeup I go okay we're doing a light kind of fresh faced you know dinner look not a you know not a lot of makeup by any means going in there with that you know I'm also going to do for product corner my official favorite concealer and I've always concealer for me traditionally I don't I don't wear it I don't like it I found my formula you know you know who could use some right now because I have this this cut on the end of my nose you heard me okay i wasn't sliced but i it's too hard to explain what's going on here but rudolph rudolph this is when other people would would come for a concealer not me i'm writing it raw well i raw is often what you have to do in moments i i i no but lymph but i'm like moving oh yeah and and and the and the oh no i mean over the arms but guys guess what what i made an appointment on monday with with magic body spheres magic spheres yeah let's actually check the old magic by the way i'm really getting fucking tired of this shit with you honestly what i could be at all these appointments with you why don't you at least go i'm calling i'm making an appointment this time give me a chance to book the appointment right after or before you oh okay interesting well it's not too late like even like you went to goo yesterday we've talked about on the podcast on goo on fairfax fabulous got a trim molly you know i haven't gone i'm two freaking years practically because i've been away going in for molly and other hags have gone oh my god tandem haircuts i know you want to go you want to get tandem i was like and and well i go yeah and chris and i go together at the same time okay the three of us could have been there on her running between us all right i'm gonna see awesome if i should probably start calling her molly so that But I was introduced to her as goo.
11:34That's so cool. Goo on Fairfax. Okay. Magic Spheres. Me. We're desperate to come in. Caperland and I. We discussed on our pod at Pug Podcast. Partnership. Pug Podcast at WeAreBV.com. What do I do now? Hello? About what? Like, where are you desperate to move the lymph? What? Because, you know, they're like, they're like, your arm is actually. No, it's actually not about cosmetics. I swear to God. it's more like you want to go the other way kate oh my god there's no drain down in your hand i'm going more like i'm going more like you gotta go up and let it let gravity and then open the they say open the at these points okay so open the chambers yeah you know the turn there's the termini oh god it's so fucking disgusting and then you piss it out yuck well i think you piss it out in the form of piss yeah thank god yeah i don't think that you know i think the piss your lymph out disgusting but yeah you're going to magic sphere so maybe send me the send me the i would be happy to i have her number i can send it to you i mean it's just it's just well i'm i'm i know i am formally putting out the call now i'm being like you the haircut was so last minute i literally the day before said is there any way you could squeeze me in tomorrow yes very last minute oh yeah no no totally and god we got to get to i mean to to give these tresses yours and mine to put them in someone's hands.
12:59Oh, yeah. Good on Fairfax, folks. And everyone loves the Fairfax district. Strolling down that street. Oh, it's fabulous. And she's really cool. She rules. She's one of those healer types where you're in the chair and there's like energy work happening. Yeah. Yeah. And you leave the tresses on the floor and all their accumulated energy. That is. She sweeps it away. Yeah, yeah, totally. that is crazy that's crazy hey speaking of hair i'm in a system now i'm healing my nails you guys i've been doing you can't be serious chronic no more gels i've been doing chronic gel and i now that my now that they're bare they're really short they're bare i can see the damage i can see wait The change of what's grown and where the nail, where the gel was.
13:55Yes. But, but no, but they buff them. They scratch them up to make the gel adhere. Mm-hmm. Good point. You know what I'm talking about? Good point. Yes. Well, I haven't had a gel and I'd say a month, but. And is it the toxic thing? But the point is now I'm fixated on, I mean, don't even get me started. I mean, years ago I go, Kate, no more gel. What the fuck are you doing? Yeah. Baking poison on. hey let's bake the poison into my nails with the what is that uv great like oh what the fuck but then you get addicted to you get addicted to sexual hands like i get like wait sexual i just mean having like your nails done oh makes me feel yeah it's like it's just and sometimes i go i can write after a good manicure go now i can write now i can write right now i can wash my fingers Well, definitely.
14:44Dancing, yeah. How long do you go with your jellos? How long? 16 years. What do you mean? How long do I keep them on? No, no. How long is the nail? Oh, so due to my amazing, the Russian manicure, amazing woman, hers are so good that I got into, even though my nails were always short for a couple of times, I had some longies for fun. Yeah, I thought, I'll never be able to explain this, okay? It's like beauty, of course I get it. Okay, I get, I get, I can see it, I get it. I'm raised in the same freaking culture as the rest of them. Okay, I get, I get pretty about a long nail, right? But also sort of fundamentally, I'm not sure that I think a long nail is actually, fundamentally, if I were just stripped of cultural associations.
15:38is sexual or attractive like i almost think it's it's kind of a no disturbed look it's a disturbed yes i mean it's a very claw you know and there are different forms of like yes in that way fundamentally it's probably more sexual but you know it's not the only form of sexuality to be a fucking cat i mean come on of course of course like yeah i just never like i'm never like now that's beauty right there right right right i'm sort of like oh there you're wearing shoes you're wearing stilettos on the ends of your each finger yeah it's more like a symbolic reference to attractiveness wow damn drag my ass well i was thinking about your i'm also thinking of getting some because oh yeah well i was thinking i was thinking about one of your most famous things which is has jewelry ever made a woman beautiful one of the meanest things you've ever said that was that was yeah no take that in let that hit the back of the throat because that's a good one because all i'm saying mark mark that one yeah Yeah, yeah, yeah.
16:54Boom. We call that a clip where I come from. Okay. Okay. Boom. By the way, people came up to me at a party last night talking about us talking about Oreos. Oh, my God. So just the clips are going out there. Okay. Well, I feel like there was so much to get into. Well, first of all, remember when you were, yeah, you briefly thought minis were even better than regulars and I had to pull you back on that? Yeah, yeah. And then I also wondered if, you know, if, wait, first, oh, about jewelry. Oh, yeah. Well, it's sort of like, yeah, it's this question of proximity to something fundamentally gloriously beautiful.
17:26It's not like, yeah, it's not like suddenly I think your chin is like an emerald. Right, right, right. To me, it only throws under the relief, the hideosity of the human form, right? Well, what's the genius? Yeah, totally. There are exceptions as they're all with all things. Not really. There are many exceptions. They're not.
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19:37Wait, I just saw something pass in front of my eyes like a white fog. I'm trying to figure out what it was. Wait. What do you mean? Did I catch something? I mean, it must have been on the screen. No, but it was like... Spirit? Actually, it kind of looks like what you're seeing, right? Do you see my hand? Well, you're pixelated, so you're maybe moving pixels. I wonder how pixelated. I want a screen grab. I want to know who you're talking to. You know what I'm saying? About what? I want to know how pixelated I am when you bring this up. Right now, you're not that pixelated. But I'll show you. I mean, I would call this pretty fucking pixelated.
20:16Here, I'll send it to you right now. You can on-air react. They love an on-air reaction around here. Are you fucking joking right now? How pixelated? How can we even be communicating? This is so fucked. Oh, my God. this is like that other time my life is this is what my life is i really want a clip of of that because i can't i think i sent it through the people need to know the people need to see i don't know if it's gone live yet okay look how pixelated when you were like you look scary did you cut your hair and then you sent me a picture of the most monstrous thing i've ever seen in my life and it was like if you think a haircut could have done that i think that was that was definitely at home i mean obviously so it was in one of these recordings i i have that image somewhere Wait, I'm sending this.
21:00I'm going to send it. I mean, that's like, you know what? I'm sorry to do this, folks, but we're going to do it live. Speedtest.net. Am I right, Annie? Let's see what your internet's like. Is that what it is, speedtest.net? Let's see. I'll try. Whoa, here we go. Shots fired from behind the curtain. Sorry. Our producer broke in saying, Annie going, I'll do a perfect impression. Babe, it's your internet. Yeah. Yeah. Damn. Yeah. How fucking dare you? Okay. I can't tell. I don't know if you saw it in my face. Okay. I mean, I'm sure you saw something. I can't tell you how wronged I feel like not by Annie, but like, like fundamentally, like I was so prepared for your internet to be a problem and mine not to be that like, it's like, it's like, what trauma is this awakening me?
21:51Okay. Like I felt like humiliated just now okay so i'm going now kate's pretty pixelated too and i was heading off to find speedtest.org or whatever and and so i only heard it i didn't see it i'm still not convinced it's my internet damn well i mean kate's pixelated we'll have to find out later okay wait let's um let's i'm looking at my notes wait boo left innards of a rat for me today that's really sweet a little gift from a cat but but but anyway point is wait yeah you pump you pump the lymph okay boom boom boom boom boom boom all right okay no you're totally right totally so shared like grocery list between myself and my partner you know like a note oh yeah is it an apple notes it's a yeah it's a note and mine like they commented that this was an old thing i guess before i had shared it with them but it's just very funny at the bottom of his food thing it's like the least appealing it says big tampons.
22:53Now listen to this. Listen to this. It gets worse. Big tampons. This was my, this was me talking to myself. Okay. Big tampons pads galore. This is me preparing to go on a trip. Gas meds. Won't be needing those anymore now that I stop electrolytes. Yeah. Um, and by the way, I have gone to four fucking stores and can't find kosher salt what it's all kosher salt isn't it no the big rocks like diamond kosher i want the good cooking i mean i'm sure mccall's has it i'm sure i'm sure vons has it but a couple erwan doesn't have it but there was another two other markets no kosher salt just i think it's diamond is the diamond kosher is what what about maldon oh no maldon is the king of maldon well that's for topping but not for cooking with oh topping always you know what by the way this is an Instagram ad.
23:46This is an Instagram ad that I took the bait. Do you know what this is? Wait, isn't this a product corner moment? Okay. It's product corner for product corner for product corner. And this is, and by the way, it is exciting because it looks different than it's not your typical usual Caperlance. Dare I say it looks like something I would buy. Oh, very good. Good tease. And just to break in folks, you can get to product corner when you become a paid subscriber. We appreciate it so much. You finance the show. That was seamless marketing. Yeah. I want to, I want to be very clear. Okay. I'm getting a lot of, a lot of confusion, a lot of emails.
24:20You need to be a dear friend here to get a bonus app. I'm sorry, guys. Wait, what did I, what did I, what did I have? It was so tasty, freaking tasty. One back on stew. I just had to stew, creamed it up, creamed it up with some, Chris creamed it up with some nutritional yeast at the last second. Okay. Back on stew. Well, today's day two for me. This is a very Jacqueline Novak approved breakfast. Oh, yeah. Day two of me doing steel cut oats, which classically don't fill me up. I eat oatmeal. Fucking hour minute later, I go, cool. It feels like I haven't eaten shit. You need to add lentils, sweetie.
24:57Lentils. Lentils are not good for my stomach. Okay. Other bean. No. No beans. No. None for you. No, but listen, this is what filled me up. I did the steel cut one degree brand because glyphosate tested. and all that. Organic's not enough. You need glyphosate testing. Right now, one farmer or whatever that brand is, they are like king of the marketplace. Oh, I know. They're like, the only steel cut we'll eat. Oh, yeah, I know, I know. It's crazy. So I do the steel cut. I do almond butter. Actually, I'm making a mark. So notably, these marks are happening often right after the thing was said. I just want to say, if we're not getting one farmer, one whatever, to be one degree, one degree to be a sponsor, a partner.
25:47I want the whole line. I want the whole line. Cause I think they do granolas. Now they're doing it all, but they have a muesli. I would like it all. But I do, once again, I do the one degree steel cut oats and then I'm doing almond butter. And then the last two days, and this has been so, this feels good to lean into the season. I chop up an apple. Thank you. And I do like frozen blueberries and I stew them and a little bit of coconut oil and water, just water as needed, make a gorgeous stewed fruit topping that on top with cinnamon. I am moaning. I'm rolling on my back and I'm in fall. I feel like it's a very upsetting movie, but it's step-mom fall.
26:28I have a couple of tweaks for you, not tweaks, but yes, step-mom fall. Yeah, totally. Okay. Okay. Here's what you should add. ginger. No, it doesn't have to be fresh, sweetie. Okay. Okay. Okay. Powdered classic ginger. Oh, powdered ginger. Thank you. Because I was going to say fresh might cut too hard. Yeah. No, no. This is just, it mixes in with the apple and the cinnamon. Okay. The ginger, you're going to be feeling a little warmth, a little, a little something or other. Now I want you to get the Amla powder so you can put it in your bowl now. It's a miracle product. supposedly omla i'm writing it down m l a but which powder it's it's that's not a brand it's the omla gooseberry no i know i know but certainly not all oh oh which powder omlas are created equal well i lost you where are you i think they almost are okay there you are i'll show you the one that i've been i've been uh using let's see omla and walk us through omla what's omla giving us it's it's a miracle.
27:34Let me, let me, let me tell you what Gregor has to say about it. Dr. Gregor nutrition facts.org. Here it is at Banyan botanicals. All right. Well, I'll just, I'll give you some. Just so everyone knows half a pound bag is running you$14. So this is an affordable item. And you only need like, I think he recommends like a half teaspoon or something. Um, okay. So Indian gooseberry balancing rejuvenate and superfood nourishes the tissues and gently removes toxins from the body. Bursting with vitamin C and antioxidants, the small green fruit revered in Ayurveda. Though unfamiliar to many, particularly in Western countries, powdered and dried, commonly used in Ayurvedic, right?
28:16Et cetera, et cetera. This is organic and fair trade. Are all gooseberries the same? Indian gooseberries, I need everyone to listen closely not to be confused with Barbados gooseberries, Cape gooseberries, Chinese gooseberries, also known as kiwi fruit, Jamaican gooseberries, or Tahitian or star gooseberries. Okay. Indian gooseberries. You ready? Amla and cancer. In vitro studies have shown that amla may have anti-cancer properties and not only be able to block cancer. Invasion. Okay. Et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. A powerful source of antioxidants. Single most antioxidant packed whole food on the planet.
28:46You've heard me. I'm buying it right now. I'm buying it right now. One teaspoon of gooseberry powder. Oh, here we go. This is so Gregor. You ready? One teaspoon of gooseberry powder costs about four pennies and provides 1 ,500 units of antioxidant power. More than the average person gets in an entire week. Get ready for this. Just 500 milligrams of powdered amla, which is about a tenth of a teaspoon, may work as well as Zocor, a leading cholesterol-lowering drug. I have an announcement. Mountain Rose Herbs sells it. And by the way, this is even cheaper. And you like them? Half a pound for$5.75, and it's organic.
29:26okay are you ready i'm i still have more more benefits coming improving arterial function it may reduce artery stiffness which is what you want so it might be a good good alternative to statins and individuals with diabetes who have arterial arterial dysphagia okay i'm on diabetes some clinical research has shown better digestion oh yeah dyspepsia is a fancy word for an upset stomach fullness discomfort nausea bloating belching affecting up to one in five individuals One in five, more like four in eight. Three times a day, okay. Tiny teaspoon may work as well as a gel anti-acid. Wait, I have to check this right now.
30:04Are you so excited? Does Mountain Rose Herbs, I'm buying it. Does Mountain Rose Herbs have a thing with Tubi Magnetic? Because I swear to God, I've heard this. Mountain Rose Herbs, I'm pretty sure this is, I know this brand, I have this feeling of trust coursing through my body with this brand. Amla for cholesterol inflammation, blood thinning. I mean, oh, let's see. oh a better breakfast what's it's listed oh so so point is and you'll notice if you go guess who puts it in in his oatmeal morning bowl also dr esselston well hey hey hey what the kid who the kids call essie okay yeah and the fact that's that's in there now wow okay well amla So Amla is a big deal.
30:48And it tastes like a tart ass berry powder. I love tarts. I love. It goes right in there with your ginger and your cinnamon into your bowl. It's almost a little like it just, to me, it just works. I'm just very used to it. And the apple, because, you know, I do an apple. Oh, I mean, I would consider incorporating, Kate, not a whole freaking thing like you did that one time. That was insane. but a small dose of flax meal powder small okay put a little half tablespoon in there that's good of what a flax oh flax meal remember remember you did that like instagram cereal because you did like a bowl of it hurt my stomach terribly just do a little bit about how many freaking seeds were in that when you think about it ground down wait i have a question for you i I have a serious question for you.
31:37Yeah. What the fuck is the California prop warning about? Because I'm getting a prop right now going like, something in your cart, meaning this almond powder, might expose you to cancer. Does that mean like the plastic that it's wrapped in? Like, what are we talking about, guys? Please don't scare me like this. I know. I'm buying it, Jacqueline. I'm buying it. With shipping, it came at$12. Scan code with iPhone. Don't fuck me right here. Don't fuck me where I stand. That was a weird moment. That's a moment in Six Feet Under. Nate says that to Lisa. I could fuck you where you stand. I never liked that.
32:13I can't explain it. Wait, you did or didn't? I never believed that they had sexual. I didn't. I never. He said that to Lisa? I never believed. Yes. I never believed they had sexual chemistry. Well, that's, that's, that's, that's, okay. That's where I thought we were headed. Yeah. Because what you see is him crying on her lap and her going, Nate, Nate, baby, it's okay. my baby my baby oh baby when he's feeling vulnerable from his diagnosis and then he cries and they fuck yeah i'm not in love with your brother or whatever wait what's that i'm sad whatever is in love with your brother you probably think oh my god she's a genius nature really is all around us i love i'm looking out seeing a squirrel i'm seeing a bird what is this eden i saw a squirrel with its arm oh i was trying to tell you that i saw a squirrel with his arm hanging over a ledge just like a a man with his arm around a lady hanging out i love it when they do that so and then and then boo this morning you know we come out i sent you an image innards of a mouse wow a proud offering resting on the proud offering full long innards see the different organs did a hose off and then little boo is just over there just doing the what they call making muffins okay i love that it's so cute and i'm trying to take a picture of this i go and i i snuggle him and it's heaven on earth to rest one's head upon a cat nothing like it absolutely nothing like it okay almost coming i'm free okay i'm so excited you're gonna add that you're going to add ginger powder.
33:55Let me just think if there's anything. I have some. I do the berries, right? Yeah. I do the berries. I do the apple. Um, I do the lentils. I hear, I hear you, but I'm just saying, so are you just no beans at all? No beans right now. They just really irritate my stomach. What if you did a teaspoon of beans? Okay. Because, and yes, I'm sure there's more to it but i just i want to get your microbiome used to them because you know there's an adjustment period introduce you have to introduce slowly well how slowly are you introducing oh my god i was i was railing okay at my parents with my so-called knowledge right it was actually funny uh because like my mom said this thing she's like she's like because i'm sitting there i'm like nearly abusive okay with my screaming about how like let's say they need to get on amla or something right yeah yeah and i'm raging and my mom says sort of normal things like i mean she you know like um well you know get older you know your reflexes slow like she says these things these are known these are things you know and i refuse to accept i literally said like no aging isn't unavoidable or something you know like at the Ludlow screaming okay and like you know whatever but then I'm wildly explaining something I'm like spitting as I'm trying to explain you know that it's not just whatever whatever all the specifics who cares my mom's like I see I could see you like you just think like if they understood then then they would do it you know like I don't know she saw me at least I was seen.
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35:36Have you watched the Joy Luck Club yet? Still haven't. I gotta do it this Christmas. It's just, it's built for you. I'm so frozen about my king bed. About what king bed to get? No wonder you weren't, you weren't really locked in on me and my mother. Okay, wait. I was locked in, I swear. No, but had you moved, had you moved to king bed? Mentally, on some level, I had, it drifted in, yes. On some level. So, so, all right, all right. So, by the way, I did catch a bunch of mosquitoes on the back of my fan with the screen see that's a perfect example i want a link to that youtube video where i had the idea you can go exactly i want that needs to be she's that was like yeah exactly that did she's that she did that to that was everyone i hope everyone heard her just like bizarrely show enthusiasm not knowing what i was saying okay all i'm trying to say is and then in the weekly email that you get over in the premium tears.
36:30I want a quick link to the hack that I did. It's not a product. If you can imagine, it's just a link to the YouTube hack, the hack. Okay. But by the way, I just said, this is another shout out. I'll hit an M. This is another shout out. Okay. Eight, sleep, sleep, eight, eight, sleep, sleep, eight, sleep. No, that's how you do it. Sleep, eight, sleep, eight, sleep, eight. Then they can't tell which one's first. Oh, I have an announcement. I bought, listen to this. I buy these pants, not expensive, but pants I'm excited about. Yeah. I wear them out to a dinner. I'm getting Korean barbecue. In a freak incident, a woman walks by my table unknowingly, accidentally bumps something.
37:13I'll be the judge of that, but okay. Oil, oil spills onto my lap. Not hot oil, but oil, oil on pants. This is not good. oil on fabric as we know this is not good i'm devastated and she doesn't even and i couldn't even she just like left like she didn't notice at all what was i gonna do hey yes spilled oil all over me there's no there's no reason the pants are i mean ruined kind of i spot treated them what color are these pants they're dark so you can't immediately see it but it's there you know it's there no no and you can see it it's like oh god i feel devastated i wanted to buy the same pants because again they are very affordable in a different size in a different color i go i'm gonna buy them i love these pants at different sizes different color those pants arrived well guess what happened i'm looking the other day i'm looking down i go what the fuck oil wait look look oh wait wait see it's hard to see well also where is it pixelation oh right here yeah yeah yeah i'll take a picture can't you kind of see that let me see yeah kind of but is that a different pant it also happens to kind of be yes it's a different pant did someone return their oiled pants and you got their return no no i don't know what happened somehow i was wearing these i don't know where it came from but i looked down i go what unmistakably oil i spot treat these my partner who's better at spot treating than me oh i bet they spot treat them but you're so good at it they're better at it you do it you're so good at it they do it they dry i look it's still there i texted them how the hell do you get oil out is the question how the fuck so two pairs of pants down from oil in a week and a half i'm gonna send the picture of the oil to the thread and subscribers are going to see it.
39:05I mean, the Esselstyns, the Esselstyns say cut oil. They say fry your vegetables in water. Ew. I once, there was like a grease stain in a circle. Can't believe this oil. On a sweatshirt. Well, you know what? I did an exciting, so I'm hot on. Look at that. Oil just doesn't come out. It's kind of insane when you think, it's in like every freaking salad you eat every day. and this stuff stays pants no but kind of shocking right like oh a little drop of of oil you're fucked like that seems like i'm not kidding the pants they were cheap pants it'd be like if you're eating blood every day you know at the table just blood flying around flies off your fork and it's like oh you're you're fucked actually blood's pretty easy to get out no i mean full body bib like i and the weirdest thing the first oil that was a mistake the second i'll go was this freak these pants okay i i don't need to keep it a secret they're from uniqlo okay and i say that the pants the pants are 50 a pop i bought one i love them so much i buy another one they're both oil-ridden what do i do throw them away like take them to a dry cleaner to hemorrhage another 60 oh shit yeah so i'll tell you so so it's a real problem right cost of the pants versus It's a real problem And I fucking love these fucking pants I think you need to do a little googling Of whether or not oil can be removed from pants Well they're gonna say Baking soda and club Yeah I know They're gonna go salt I know fuck off I know I guess what I can do is I can take them to a dry cleaner I can take them to a dry cleaner Wait did I tell you This had to have been on the pod That I was like what is a dry cleaner Google didn't see the videos Like what are they doing back there It's crazy what they're doing back there Right because what have you been picturing Versus I don't know.
40:58Yeah. And just like, oh, dry cleaning, like, of course, and like it's poison. Well, there's a new kind of dry cleaning out there, by the way. It's called wet cleaning. I'm not joking. Okay. And it's not the usual thing. So, okay. I want to be very clear, everyone. I sent my 100 % silk, cozy earth blanket through rinse.com, which as you know, I'm really into. Okay. But I sent it to their dry cleaning because a quick look at the tag, it said dry clean only. I threw it in there. I get it back. It's flattened. It's almost like felted. Like it just doesn't, the silk. Uh-oh. And I go, oh no. And then I look online and there's more instructions there about actually, no, the only way you should wash it is if you're going to do some chemical cleaning, wet chemical cleaning, some special thing.
41:44Silk is so hard. Of course I should. I was a fool, but I kind of just, whatever. It doesn't matter. Dry clean only. I send it to the dry cleaner. Okay. Now I'll say this, rinse.com back and forth with the emails. oh my god this is horrible can we try to fix it we'll try to restore it and don't worry if not anyway so they credited me like 200 bucks now not the cost wow but 200 bucks i'm also talking to cozy earth and they've got their 10 year guarantee okay and so i think i'm gonna maybe get a freshie you're gonna you're gonna get a fresh hand 200 bucks i'm going yeah i didn't go to the website I saw dry clean only on the tag and that's what I did.
42:23You said to the dry cleaner. Point is, I'm seeing who else can fuck me over in regards to the same blanket and how many directions can I be, you know, warrantied and reimbursed. But I think I'm going to come out on top of this one. So now what do I do? I go, okay, I have this flat and it's still a blanket. It's just not, you know, functions as a blanket, but it's kind of heavy. It's like sort of dense. I go waterproof duvet, throw it over a couch outside. I don't know. I start thinking about things like that. But point is, and again, I'm not yet a rinse.com spokesperson. Associate affiliate. But I would like very much to be because so far I'm impressed.
43:06I like that they come at night. Okay, there's just something about how they come at night that really works. But the point is, it's like they're very casual. whatever you got you give them but the donation bag has become a new thing you give it in any bag i give to him in a trash bag not to be disrespectful but yeah yeah don't want to don't want them getting confused here here's here's the trick when you're dealing with your own laundry right in any capacity even gathering it to send it out you are very aware of whether or not you have too much fucking shit okay it is a great time when you're unburdening your household with dirty laundry to unburden with donated items.
43:46So to feel them take away the dirty laundry in a heavy bag full of, you know, donation clothing and stuff. Okay. It was, I mean, it was unbelievable. That's amazing. They do that. That's a huge. So for me, that's, yeah, to all be in one, you know, sorry, I just spaced out remembering this like woman with ADD hack saying like, this changed my life. And it's like basket, basket. it's two baskets next to each other on these shelves and each of the two baskets it's like dirty leggings clean leggings and when she takes a clean and and they're there but they're pre and then when when we run out of clean leggings yeah you take the the dirty leggings you go wash that okay it's pre-sorted and then it comes back and and then that slots in as the new clean side wait what it's like uh there's no sorting of clothes it's almost like each category has its don't hamper like if you think of like dirty shirt clean shirt yeah right next to each other two oh that's kind of interesting okay and then when the one's full those all get washed together and then oh look i haven't then they switch back there's something interesting about it i think you need to see the video to understand yeah but but i think it is fundamentally interesting especially if you're doing your own laundry oh yeah you know okay um we're a moment away from switching to product corner folks what are your thoughts on a public dog um slobbering all over you you mean one with its own account at a restaurant or at a coffee shop or on the street a public dog coming over to you and kind of jumping up muddy paws visible paw marks on the on the pants it's not great i gotta be honest it's not great i mean i think i think muddy paws on your there's a moment yeah so i had muddy paws on the pants is the owner has dishonored you know the owner needs to get together because because by the way muddy paws on my pants the guardian lucky for you lucky lucky for you these aren't prized pants lucky for you these are going to go in the wash later lucky for you but let's be clear if i were wearing some of my other pants and muddy paws bang bang above the knee, the thighs, it's not, you can't do that.
46:06Well, fundamentally people need to. And then you have to react. Not only then when that happens, not only do you have to pretend that you don't care. I, you then, I found myself overcompensating. Of course. Oh, it's okay. It's okay. I love it. This is my favorite smell in the world. I actually think pants are hideous unless they have a stain on them. Like, no, no, no. It's, um, I, I, I was doing the same thing. Because by the way, the owner's not going, oh my God, I'm so sorry, I'm mortified. Because even that you go, but I've had situations where they don't say shit. No, they don't say shit. And you know what they're doing?
46:40And this goes for a variety of scenarios, okay? Like, I mean, certainly children, let's get real, you know. But like, you're almost doing all the overcompensating that's meant to be overlapping with their wild apologies, but their wild apologies are not there. Yeah. It's like you're waiting to be cut off almost. Yeah. Like really, you should be cutting them off. No, but because you're like an actor. Okay, you know, and by the way, this is one of the most, I think, fundamental, nearly impossible tasks in acting. How do I know? Because I watch it fail on television and film near constantly, which is the line has been written with a dash, meaning they got interrupted in the middle of that line.
47:22Oh, I know. I know. I know. hey let's watch an actor pause in the middle oh my god look there's and then yeah i just don't know why you well that's what you always say yeah but write them two freaking lines you yeah yeah it's like right i go oh this is gonna be this is an interruption it's like so i think what's happening with you is the dog's doing the thing and and what should be happening is they're apologizing and and you're interrupting them with just like oh no it's like their silence you're going oh no and then you have to generate more lines because they haven't been written it's like they should be talking they're not so you're over talking exactly totally look completely i know there's my girl there's my girl oh wait i just did that thing oh yeah yeah no remember when when you were the boob the common boom of course it's the heart it's the hardest it's one of the hardest times i've ever laughed in my life you could think it this dolly and be able to get it get a bottle of water coming out of your ears is that what i said okay we've crossed over to private conversation fully floating bobbing and water again okay okay okay there's a full private that's a deep cut no we talked about it on the all right 16 years ago yeah that's that's one for okay gotta go see you in product corner see you in Thank you.
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It’s autumn in Los Angeles and this one’s a real eavesdropper’s delight. Pepper-plumped lips and french vanilla at the gas station. A dream of tandem haircuts where chopped tresses are swept into a single dustpan. Stripped of association, is the long nail attractive? Jacqueline enjoys a ride down a sales funnel. Kate greets a dog and suffers the consequences. A cruel observation about jewelry is recalled. Big tampons, pads galore.
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