anything goes with emma chamberlain - mens underwear and classic television, things i like rn

Episode Date: June 26, 2025

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Starting point is 00:00:00 Today, we're keeping it simple. All right, and I'm just gonna be sharing with you all some of the things that I like right now. All right, we're not gonna get philosophical. We might get a little bit analytical, but we're definitely not getting scientific. We're not getting mathematical. And I'm just gonna be talking about some things
Starting point is 00:00:17 that have recently been bringing me joy, have recently been bringing me value in my life. And I make episodes like this every few months because I'm kind of inconsistent in my life. I don't think any more than the average person, but my list of current favorite items, current favorite things is kind of constantly changing. I feel like there are some people out there
Starting point is 00:00:44 who have one list of their favorite items, and it's been the same for like 20 years, and that's just what it is, and it never changes. My routine is constantly changing, my preferences are constantly changing. I feel like I'm constantly changing, so that's why I can make this type of episode every few months.
Starting point is 00:01:03 We've arrived at a moment in time where I now have a brand new list of favorite things. And so it's time for me to share those with you again. So without further ado, let's start with what I'm wearing right now. I briefly interrupt this episode to let you know that this episode is presented by Dove's new plant milk cleansing collection.
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Starting point is 00:02:24 Angeles, I am obviously very aware of what Like, because I live in Los Angeles, I am obviously very aware of what the Malibu Mommy aesthetic is. This is not something that people in LA are necessarily discussing, but I feel like everyone knows what I'm talking about, who lives in LA. The Malibu Mommy aesthetic is like Aviator Nation sweatpants, Barefoot Dreams robe
Starting point is 00:02:42 and blankets at the house, blonde hair, Ugg boot slippers, golden goose shoes, purses that have the logo on it, big sunglasses, kids that get really good grades and are really good at sports, but like are also really depressed. Like I don't know, and I hate to stereotype, but for some reason I feel like it's fine to do. It's not. Stereotyping is never nice, okay? But I'm doing it to paint a picture for you about this robe, okay? I'm going against my own morals, my own values in stereotyping
Starting point is 00:03:16 moms in Malibu in order to explain this robe to you. Because that's how important it is for me, for you to understand the vibe of this robe. It's a little bougie. It's like whatever. Okay. But it doesn't look that bougie. It's just fuzzy, right? But it feels bougie.
Starting point is 00:03:33 It's definitely like a bit expensive. I fucking love this robe. I don't care. My favorite thing about it is the hood, I would say. But I mean, there are a lot of really incredible, incredible things about this robe. There are two front pockets on the front. I put my phone in there.
Starting point is 00:03:50 I put my little portable charger in there, because weirdly I walk around my house with a portable charger so that if my phone starts to die, I can plug it in, whatever. It's super, super fuzzy, alright? Super fuzzy, super cozy. I wear this robe 90% of the time that I'm at home. It's really rare that I'm not wearing this robe.
Starting point is 00:04:09 I also love the hood because I have a pixie haircut and my favorite heatless hairstyle is basically just drying my hair in a hood because it makes it dry flat so that I can then add product to it and build it up from there, but it's like starting from like a smooth, flat point, you know what I mean?
Starting point is 00:04:29 So I can dry my hair in the hood of this robe. It's just a fucking amazing robe. Sorry. This robe brings me a lot of joy. It's functional, it's comfortable, and it makes me feel like a Malibu mommy. I feel like I'm waking up next to my hot husband, cracking open the sliding glass door to look out at the beach because I live on the beach in this sort of fantasy. I go and make myself a little cappuccino.
Starting point is 00:04:55 My kids are getting ready for football practice. It's just like this hot, chic fantasy. Anyway, okay, moving on. Next, we have classic television. And I know what a lot of you are thinking. Television? Like what, like TV shows? Like Netflix and Hulu and Max and Peacock?
Starting point is 00:05:13 And I don't know what other ones there are. There's so many. Like what, Furbo? Is that one of them? I can't even keep up anymore. Yes, that's what I'm talking about. I'm talking about classic television. Let me give you some context, okay?
Starting point is 00:05:24 I grew up watching YouTube because I didn't have cable growing up. My parents were like, mm, that's a waste of money. So if I wanted to watch TV, I would go to the library and I would get DVDs of TV shows or movies and then I'd watch on TV that way.
Starting point is 00:05:41 And that was great and I was into that. But the second YouTube came into my orbit, that was my main form of entertainment. From like age, I don't know, nine until pretty much now, I've been watching YouTube as my main form of entertainment. And that's not to say that like I've never watched TV. You know, I've gone through little phases here and there of watching TV, but I'm sort of known in my
Starting point is 00:06:06 social circles for having not seen most TV shows. I still haven't watched Breaking Bad. I haven't watched Friends. I haven't watched Gossip Girl. I haven't watched, I don't know, I haven't watched a lot of TV in my life because I've been so into YouTube. However, I've recently shifted from YouTube to classic television, and I'm obsessed with TV.
Starting point is 00:06:30 I love it, even when it's bad. I can't tell you how often I start a new show and it's bad, but I don't even care. I'm discovering television at age 24. It's weird, it's unusual, but it's my journey. I don't know, I like many different types of shows. I watched Severance. That's like a sci-fi thriller sort of series.
Starting point is 00:06:52 I don't actually really know how to genre something. Like I don't, I should not be randomly prescribing the genre to a television show because I really don't know TV that well, but it feels like a sci-fi thriller to me. I recently watched the new season of Black Mirror. That made me depressed. That's like a modern Twilight Zone,
Starting point is 00:07:13 again, sort of sci-fi thriller-ish sometimes. Oh, my God. I watched Too Hot to Handle, which is one of those sort of messy dating shows. I watched Too Hot to Handle many years ago when it first came out. And basically the concept is that, you know, they put a bunch of hot people who are single on an island and then spring the news on them that they're not allowed to hook up with each other,
Starting point is 00:07:38 like they can't touch each other sexually, and that they are going to be forced to find genuine true love through emotion rather than sex, right? Anyway, love the show, obsessed. And my favorite part about it is that I watch the season and then at the end of it, some couples inevitably form during the show. My favorite thing to do is go on Instagram
Starting point is 00:08:00 after the season ends and see if they're still dating. This is like a common thing that people like to do when they watch dating shows. In the case of Too Hot to Handle, see if they're still dating. This is like a common thing that people like to do when they watch dating shows. In the case of Too Hot to Handle, none of them are still together. It's heartbreaking. And there was one particular couple that I was so invested in.
Starting point is 00:08:13 Yeah, it actually like really genuinely ruined probably like 24 hours for me after I found out that they weren't together anymore. But anyway, I'm just loving television. I like the escapism of it, I think. I think that's what I'm searching for right now in my life is at the end of the day, I wanna turn something on the TV and feel like I am not on the planet anymore.
Starting point is 00:08:33 I don't wanna be on this planet anymore. I don't wanna be in my world anymore. I feel like with YouTube, it's so real, which is like amazing. Like I love that about it, but it's so real that it rarely feels like an escape for me And I think that that also is due to the type of content that I watch like I've been known to watch heavy shit on YouTube like I like to watch video essays about certain topics like I'm really drawn to that
Starting point is 00:09:00 I like to watch oh god This is embarrassing and I don't know if like people are gonna judge me for this or not, but I recently got into watching police body cam videos. The police got called because they heard that there are weapons of mass destruction in someone's house. So I will sometimes sit and watch the cop body cam video because I didn't know this, but apparently police officers are constantly wearing body cams, like everything that they do all the time, I think, is recorded.
Starting point is 00:09:37 Let me tell you about these videos. It causes me horrific anxiety. I shouldn't be watching them, but I can't stop. That's the problem with YouTube. The type of content that I click on, it's clickbait. It's toxic. It's not good. It's not wholesome for the most part.
Starting point is 00:09:53 And so it puts me into an anxious place. Whereas television is a bit more lighthearted. Even if the content is stressful, it's not real. And I know that and that's what I'm craving right now." Get to Toronto's main venues like Budweiser Stage and the new Rogers Stadium with Go Transit. Thanks to Go Transit's special online e-ticket fairs, a $10 one-day weekend pass offers unlimited travel on any weekend day or holiday, anywhere along the Go network. And the weekday group passes offer the same weekday travel flexibility across the network, starting at $30 for two people and up to $60 for a group of five. Buy your
Starting point is 00:10:29 online Go Pass ahead of the show at Gotransit.com slash tickets. So let's move on to doing my own gel nails. Okay. I actually just did my own gel nails 20 minutes ago today. I have a brand new fresh set of maroon gel nails right now and I did them. Okay, let me tell you about my journey with doing my own nails. It started during COVID. I bought the whole kit.
Starting point is 00:10:55 I bought the gel curing machine thing that they have at the salon. I bought gel polish. I bought like the whole kit with like the base coat and the top coat and the pH balancing nail liquid stuff that you're supposed to buy. I bought everything. Seriously, what they have at the salon.
Starting point is 00:11:13 And I did that because obviously during COVID, we couldn't go get our nails done. I used it a little bit during COVID, but it was definitely challenging. Usually doing your good hand is pretty easy, but doing your other hand, unless you're ambidextrous, is it ambidextrous? I don't even care, I'm not even gonna Google it.
Starting point is 00:11:32 You know, when you can use both hands equally or whatever, like the same, like you don't have a good hand, right? Anyway, whatever. Doing your opposite hand's tough. So I fell out of that routine, and then obviously nail salons opened back up, and I also at the
Starting point is 00:11:46 time preferred to have long nails so I couldn't really do that at home. So I stopped doing my own nails. And then recently I got back into it because I got my long nails off because I wanted to learn guitar. And then I realized, wait, I should have been doing this all along. Like short nails, it's the move. I can do them myself, right, which saves a lot of time going to the salon, but also like, I can live my life again.
Starting point is 00:12:13 There were so many things that were complicated by having long nails. I love the way long nails look, and I always will, but you put a credit card in a payment machine, good luck getting it out if you have long nails. You wanna wipe your ass, be careful, because a nail might pop off or might poke through the fucking toilet paper, have fun with that.
Starting point is 00:12:32 Going bowling, oh, you're gonna be sitting that one out. You know, I don't know, like, long nails really got in the way of a lot of activities and getting them off was sort of this liberating experience. Anywho, I've been loving doing my own nails. I will say the first like three manicures I gave myself weren't good. They weren't good. They were messy. They were a little bit lumpy. But as I've done more research, bought more elevated equipment, like I actually I'm not recommending this because honestly, I probably
Starting point is 00:12:59 shouldn't even be allowed to have this thing. I did buy myself an electric nail file, like one of those electric nail files that they have at the salon, because I got to a point where I was just so frustrated with grinding off the polish with like an old fashioned nail file. I was like, this is taking too long. So I bought the electric file,
Starting point is 00:13:18 did a lot of research on how to use it safely. And so now I have that. So now it's like a breeze. Like I did my nails in probably 30 minutes. Kind of amazing. And again, like do they look as good as they do at the salon? No, but like they're like 85% as good. And for the amount of time that I save not going to the salon, I'm into it. Not that I don't love the experience of going to a salon, however, I'm all about time efficiency and doing them myself is so much more efficient. So I'm into it. I'm into it. This might just be a phase though.
Starting point is 00:13:46 I might get back into going to the salon again at some point, but for right now, this is the move because I'm also not into nail art right now. Like I just want a red manicure, dark red maroon. That's what I want. Maybe bright red if I'm really feeling wild and funky, but I think they look good. I'm gonna show the camera so if you're watching the video version of this you can see they look fine. Okay, moving on to something that I'm kind of ashamed
Starting point is 00:14:14 to talk about, but I'm also not. We can decide together if this is something I should be ashamed of. Let me give you some context, all right? I'm gonna be talking about my Vitamix blender. For probably the past like six, seven years, I used the same blender. I had a Ninja Classic blender, okay?
Starting point is 00:14:33 And it was good, it was good. It served me well for many, many years, but it started to have issues, right? Like the top, like the lid of the blender started to hold water in it. I don't know how or why, but, and then that water would get kind of moldy and gross and like it'd be hard to get out.
Starting point is 00:14:52 And so that started to happen. And also I think the blade was getting dull. And so I was like, you know what? I'm gonna do something that I've been trying not to do for many years, I'm gonna get a Vitamix blender. Now, the reason why I'm like ashamed of it in a way is because I feel like you don't really need a Vitamix blender unless you're a smoothie shop.
Starting point is 00:15:11 It's a very expensive, fancy, nice blender. Now, I think if you want something, like you can buy it, like buy it, like who cares? I am just sometimes like, that feels excessive. And I felt like getting a Vitamix like for so many years I would see people posting videos about how amazing the Vitamix blender is it just Blends things perfectly and it's the most powerful amazing blender and look at how amazing it is And I was always like that seems excessive and I kind of became rebellious about it
Starting point is 00:15:40 I was like no, I'm never gonna buy a Vitamix blender. It's excessive and unless you own a smoothie shop, you don't need the Vitamix. Whatever, I bought a Vitamix. It is pretty amazing. God damn it. And I've been making a smoothie every single day, not because of the Vitamix. I was actually making a smoothie
Starting point is 00:15:57 every single day beforehand. I got into a smoothie phase like eight months ago. Actually me making smoothies every day is what made me realize that my blender was flawed and I needed a new one. I do love it. It is really powerful. And honestly, the smoothie texture is better.
Starting point is 00:16:15 I get it now. I was wrong. I was wrong. And I'm also obsessed with my smoothie right now. Let me tell you about my smoothie, okay? I just think that this is the most delicious smoothie. It's not that complicated. It really isn't, it's really good a lot of raspberries a lot Like I'm talking about a whole like if you were to buy a small bag of frozen raspberries
Starting point is 00:16:34 I'm using the full small bag which isn't that much but like I'm clearing out the bag. I use one bag a day Okay, some banana. I don't know. Maybe like a half a banana, maybe, I don't know. I just kind of throw in a random amount. Vanilla Greek yogurt, okay? Specifically the brand Oikos. Now, here's the thing. I thought I couldn't eat dairy for many years. For many years, like dairy really hurt my stomach.
Starting point is 00:17:00 And then I started slowly integrating it into my diet again in different ways. Like I could always have a little bit of cheese, but like yogurt or ice cream would fuck me up. It didn't really ever make any sense, but it just was the way that it was. I would just get a tummy ache. But for some reason now suddenly I can eat Greek yogurt again. I don't know, it always gave me insane gas and then it just stopped giving me gas one day. I don't know how that happens but it did to me. So anyway, I am so excited to be able to put Greek yogurt in my smoothie. So I put vanilla Greek yogurt in the smoothie, then I put vanilla, this
Starting point is 00:17:37 is the funny part, this is the ironic part, okay. Then I put plant-based vegan vanilla, raw, whatever, blah, raw, whatever, blah, blah, blah, who cares, protein powder in it. So it's like, all right, I'm putting yogurt, but then I'm using like vanilla pea protein. Like, how does that make sense? I don't know. Like, I should just be using whey protein at that point
Starting point is 00:17:58 because it's like, why am I using a vegan whey? It doesn't make any sense, okay? There's no logic behind it, but it tastes good. So then I do that, and then I thin it out with some water so that it'll blend. And that's my smoothie. And it's so simple, but it's so good. I look forward to this smoothie every day. It has a lot of protein in it, which is something I struggle with because I'm a vegetarian, occasionally pescatarian, and it's just hard. I don't know, like, and I'm not cooking fish.
Starting point is 00:18:27 I'll eat fish at a restaurant sometimes, maybe. That's like a new sort of change in my life, but I'm trying to be more open-minded because I grew up vegetarian and never ate any meat, and as I'm growing up, I'm like, you know what? I'll play around with a little bit of fish here and there but I'm not like making it at home I don't know making protein at home is really tough anyway so this smoothie is great has a lot of protein in it tastes really good I look forward to it every day and
Starting point is 00:18:55 my new Vitamix blender you know what fuck it it is worth the money all right I use it every single day and it blends that smoothie to a smoothie silky texture that I could have only dreamed of when I was using my last blender. All right, moving on. Ooh, more protein. You know, it's so, I don't know what's gotten into me, but I'm like really craving protein
Starting point is 00:19:17 and I think maybe it's because, I don't know. But the next two things I'm gonna talk about are protein items. It's very weird. It's not like I'm not like trying to be on my protein grind necessarily. It's just what I'm craving. I'm really into protein bars right now. And here's the deal.
Starting point is 00:19:37 I don't think the protein bars are actually good for you. I don't know. I don't think so. They're processed. It's like not a real food. I'm not a nutritionist. So when I tell you I like protein bars, this is not your sign to go buy a box of protein bars. Like, if I develop some sort of like severe constipation in the next six months from eating
Starting point is 00:19:57 protein bars because they're like so dense with protein and like there's like weird genetically modified like things and then like if something bad happens to me because I'm eating protein so dense with protein and there's weird genetically modified things in them. If something bad happens to me because I'm eating protein bars, that's my own situation. Don't take this as advice from me because I actually don't think that they're probably good for me.
Starting point is 00:20:16 I don't. But I'm eating them because I crave them sometimes and because to me they genuinely taste good. There are two brands that I like. One brand is Bare Bell. These are candy bars, let me tell you. These are just candy bars. They're chewy, yummy little candy bars.
Starting point is 00:20:31 They have little crunchy things. They have little chewy parts. There's chocolate. Yum, yum, yum, yum, yum, yum, yum. I just want that sometimes as a little snack. I crave it. I don't know why. And I don't even know, I never ate protein bars.
Starting point is 00:20:43 That was never my thing. So I don't know when this started. I think one of my friends was eating one and I was like, yo. And I don't even know, I never ate protein bars. Like that was never my thing. So I don't know when this started. I think one of my friends was eating one and I was like, yo, can I try it? And then I tried it and I was like, oh, I want that. So then I bought some and then it's been just like a thing ever since. The other brand I just discovered is called David.
Starting point is 00:20:59 I discovered this brand in New York a few months ago because there were like billboards everywhere. And then one night late, I was going to get a snack from a bodega and I saw that they had these protein bars and I was like, well, I'm not immune to marketing. If I see something being promoted left and right, I'm gonna try it.
Starting point is 00:21:19 I like to see what's going on. And I tried it and I liked it. But I also like weird foods. The texture of it's kind of interesting and kind of gritty maybe a little bit, but I actually really like that. I don't think everyone would like that, but I do. Anyway, long story short,
Starting point is 00:21:35 I'm really into protein bars right now, but I'm telling you, if I, 10 years down the line from now, get some sort of disease because I'm eating too many protein bars. I told you so. But I love sometimes having like a midday little candy bar. It feels like I'm having a midday candy bar. To be honest, I think it's too good to be true.
Starting point is 00:21:52 You know, the 20 to 30 grams of protein that I'm getting from eating one of those, I think comes with a price. And I'll find out that price sooner or later. And when I find it out, I'll let you know. So far so good, but if it turns sour, you'll be the first to know. Actually, my doctor will be the first to know. You'll let you know. So far so good, but if it turns sour, you'll be the first to know. Actually, my doctor will be the first to know.
Starting point is 00:22:07 You'll be the second. Another protein item, I don't know what's going on. I'm just loving protein. Fried eggs. Okay, I was so into scrambled eggs a few years back. I used to get scrambled eggs from this brunch spot multiple times a week. I'd order the Parmesan scrambled eggs, a side of avocado, whatever, I was into scrambled.
Starting point is 00:22:28 Then for many years I was into hard boiled. I like putting hot sauce on them. I like that they're like cold and firm. Like I don't know, I really genuinely enjoyed hard boiled eggs for many years. It was like my go-to favorite egg. I felt like the texture was the most consistent, because that's an issue that I tend to have with eggs,
Starting point is 00:22:46 is that eggs can be kind of like gross to me. Like I get grossed out by eggs often. I felt like hard boiled was the most consistent. Like a scrambled egg, sometimes you get like a, like a weird stringy piece or like a really rubbery piece or like a really wet piece, like, ugh. Hard boiled was always pretty much the same. And so I really liked it.
Starting point is 00:23:07 And then throughout my hard-boiled egg phase, I'd have like brief moments of a fried egg phase, but it never stuck like the hard-boiled until recently. I've always liked a fried egg. And I've had phases before where I've been really into a fried egg, but I feel like this time is different. A fried egg to me is a delicacy.
Starting point is 00:23:29 I don't know, I'm just passionate about it this time, this phase, more than I've ever been before. The flavor shift that an egg experiences when it's fried is so delightful. The texture of a fried egg, by the way, over hard. I don't like a runny yolk. The crispiness, the way that it sort of lends itself, like you can put like avocado on top of it, almost like whatever and cut it up. And it's just like easy to eat with some hot sauce,
Starting point is 00:23:56 with a bunch of like flaky salt. It's just, to me, it's a delicacy. And I don't think it's a phase at this point. I think now, and possibly for the rest of my life, that will be my egg of choice. I don't know,'s a phase at this point. I think now, and possibly for the rest of my life, that will be my egg of choice. I don't know, I just love a fried egg. Okay, moving on. Another food item.
Starting point is 00:24:13 Annie's Cheddar Bunnies. Okay, imagine goldfish crackers. We all know goldfish crackers. Cheddar cheese, little goldfish shaped little crackers. Imagine those, but purchased by an almond mom. Do you know what an almond mom is? It's a mom that only shops at healthy food stores, who is always on a diet, who won't, you know,
Starting point is 00:24:38 like, buy things that have, like, refined sugar and refined flour. Although I honestly think Annie's Cheddar Bunnies literally has the same same or very similar ingredients to like a classic goldfish cracker. But anyways, it's marketed as the healthier version of a goldfish. My mom, this is actually a really sad story.
Starting point is 00:24:59 My mom bought Annie's Cheddar Bunnies when her dog was sick and stopped eating, she was buying like anything she could to give to this dog. This is a horrible, horrible story. This is very sad. And so it's actually really fucked up. Well, let me just continue. She was buying anything she could to feed this dog.
Starting point is 00:25:18 And so one of those items was Annie's cheddar bunnies, these little cheddar crackers. Turns out her dog, Sammy, didn't like the cheddar bunnies. And so she was like, I don't really want these, like I'll give them to Emma. So she dropped them off at my house one day, randomly when she was coming over, and they sat in my pantry for a little while
Starting point is 00:25:41 and I didn't touch them, mainly because it was like, kind of sad. That dog, Sammy, was my dog growing up with my mom, And they sat in my pantry for a little while and I didn't touch them mainly because it was like kind of sad. That dog, Sammy, was my dog growing up with my mom. Obviously when I moved out, you know, she kept the dog, but this was a dog I felt and feel deep affection for. And it just like the whole thing felt really sad and so I didn't eat them. But unfortunately, Sammy passed away.
Starting point is 00:26:03 I know he's up in heaven eating cheddar bunnies to be honest. I hope he is because they're so fucking good. Well that that leads me to my next point. Eventually I came around to eating the cheddar bunnies. It's so fucked up. It's so fucked up this story I'm realizing but I came around and ate the cheddar bunnies and they were so fucking good. They were so fucking good. And so I was like, you know what, fuck it. This is my new favorite snack and I'm obsessed with them. I'm so obsessed with them.
Starting point is 00:26:30 And the thing that I like about them as well is that they're filling. Like, you know when you wanna have a snack, like a little snack, maybe because dinner's in a few hours and you're like, I need something that'll hold me over till dinner, but I don't want something that will fill me up because then I won't be hungry for dinner.
Starting point is 00:26:45 So you're like, maybe I'll have a little cracker or a little chip or a little something like that, or a little popcorn. If I eat like a bag of popcorn, that tastes good and I enjoy it, but that's not satiating me until dinner, right? Like that's not satiating me for like three, four hours. That's satiating me for about 20 minutes.
Starting point is 00:27:01 Then I need to eat more popcorn. The thing I like about the Annie's Cheddar Bunnies is that I eat like a little bowl of those and I feel good until say dinner. Like they fill me up. Unfortunately I discovered them through horrific circumstances but oh my god I love the Annie's Cheddar Bunnies. I briefly pause this episode to let you know that this episode is brought to you by Skims. You know I remember the first time I tried on a push-up bra. It didn't feel good. I took it off within five minutes and was like, I don't know if I'm ever going to put one on again.
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Starting point is 00:28:17 Select podcast in the survey and then anything goes in the drop down menu that follows. Now back to the episode. Okay, moving on, we have more food to discuss. I have a lot of food that I'm enjoying right now. My food preferences change a lot. My food routine, I feel like, changes a lot. And right now, for dinner, what I've been obsessed with
Starting point is 00:28:40 is making bowls, okay? I've finally arrived at the point in my life where I'm making myself bowls for dinner. It feels very mature. It feels very prefrontal cortex has developed because it's put together. If you were to look at one of my bowls, you'd be like, oh, whoever made this has their shit together.
Starting point is 00:29:02 It's chic, okay? I make a bunch of different types of bowls. I'll explain them all to you. Okay, so first I have, I call it the pesto kale bowl, okay? It's a base of kale with like a light vinaigrette on it. Then I roast vegetables and potatoes, okay? I roast Brussels sprouts, carrots, sweet potato, chickpeas. Then I pan fry a little bit of tofu, okay,
Starting point is 00:29:29 that's pre-seasoned, because I don't have my shit together that much. Pan fry that, then I put it all together in a bowl. So you got the kale, you got the sweet potato, you got the roasted veggie, you got the tofu, you got the chickpea, like very balanced. And then I toss it all in pesto. Yum, okay, that's one of my bolts that I do.
Starting point is 00:29:47 Another one. We got edamame noodles as the base, okay? They're a little bit weird, but they have a lot of protein and they're kind of yummy. Then I fry some tofu in a pan. Then I do bell pepper and green beans, fry those up, saute those in a pan. Then I make a sauce that's like kind of like a sesame, pepper in green beans, fry those up, saute those in a pan.
Starting point is 00:30:05 Then I make a sauce that's like kind of like a sesame, ginger, soy sauce, spicy with like a little bit of spicy in it. Throw that all together in a bowl. Looks beautiful. I'll put a bunch of sesame seeds on that. Yum. Let me give you another bowl that I make, okay? Kale for the base.
Starting point is 00:30:21 Again, I love kale. Okay, kale for the base, some rice of some sort. I like the rice that comes in a bag that you microwave for 90 seconds. Nothing wrong with that. Love it, pop it in the microwave. What else is in it? Take some frozen enemame, warm that up.
Starting point is 00:30:37 Fry some tofu up in the pan again. Chop some jalapeno randomly. Put like a miso ginger dressing on that. Mix it all up, mix it all up. Put a little bit of spicy mayo on top, a little drizzle. Put a little drizzle of like sriracha on top as well. Yum. It's kind of like poke bowl flavor inspired.
Starting point is 00:30:55 Oh yeah, sometimes I'll do a little sesame oil on top as well. Yum. Okay, I'll tell you about one more bowl. Okay, this one I've made the last few nights. Really into it. Little cabbage salad with a Chipotle dressing on it. Pre-made dressing, all right, I don't need to do everything.
Starting point is 00:31:08 Then I do microwavable, these are three separate things. I get microwavable black beans pre-seasoned in a bag, microwave those. Rice in a bag, microwave that. And frozen corn, microwave that. Mix all those things together with salsa and some salt and some lime juice. And then fry tofu and then put it in a jalapeno sauce with garlic powder and onion powder. And then put some pumpkin seeds on top and some avocado with tahini on it. Fucking delicious.
Starting point is 00:31:37 Bowls like this, okay? The key to it is some pre-made stuff. You can't be doing everything from scratch, right? Like I'm buying the tofu, you know, pre-marinated, right? I'm buying beans that are in a bag. I'm buying rice that's in a bag. I'm buying frozen things. I'm buying, like, we can't be doing everything from scratch,
Starting point is 00:31:56 you know? I'm super into these bowls. And I like to make them look beautiful as well because it makes it feel more appetizing to me. So I really try to plate them really beautifully and the whole thing. And it's been fun. Honestly, like I've been coming up with all these bowls on my own, just using common sense like, oh, I know these two flavors go well together. I'll pair these two things together. And I've been really enjoying it. And they've been turning out fucking delicious. So it's very Pinterest.
Starting point is 00:32:23 I really got the idea from Pinterest, to be honest. I see so many aesthetic dinner bowls on Pinterest, and I've always seen them and been like, oh man, I wish I had it in me to do that, but I don't. And then it's almost like I woke up one day and I did, I had it in me, and I was like, well, let me just give it a try. And now it's my go-to.
Starting point is 00:32:44 For many years, I was like, avid food delivery person. I didn't cook at all for so many years. And I somewhat recently, within the last few years, decided I wasn't gonna do that anymore. And this was sort of a natural progression of like, okay, well, eventually you're gonna get sick of like, quote unquote, girl dinner. I can't tell you how many quote unquote, girl dinners I've had get sick of like, quote unquote, girl dinner. You know, I can't tell you how many
Starting point is 00:33:05 quote unquote, girl dinners I've had where it's like, I'm having randomly soup, and then I'm having randomly a whole bag of chips, and then I'm randomly having like, yeah, like I've done that. But you get sick of that at a certain point. I don't like the vibe of girl dinner, I don't. I usually feel like shit after it.
Starting point is 00:33:20 It's just like not good. It can be fun sometimes, but it's usually not well-rounded. It usually just doesn not good. It can be fun sometimes but it's usually not well rounded. It usually just doesn't make me feel physically good. So doing these fun themed aesthetically pleasing very Pinterest dinner bowls, I'm loving it. And it makes the kitchen kind of a mess but it doesn't take any longer than 30 minutes. I encourage you to give it a try and don't be afraid to cut some corners. Like find ways to make it as easy as possible, just so that you'll do it.
Starting point is 00:33:47 If that means pre-cut vegetables, that means microwavable rice, like do that, you know? Okay, can we move on from food now? Like I've been talking about food for too long. Let's move on to men's boxer briefs. Okay, so I actually was really into men's boxer briefs a few years ago, mainly just as pajamas though, not as much under my pants.
Starting point is 00:34:08 I've fallen in love with men's boxer briefs all over again recently, but to a new level where now I'm really wearing them under my clothes. Now I can't always wear them under my clothes because I do wear tight stuff, like probably 40% of the time. So if I'm wearing a tight pant, I can't wear a boxer brief. However, whenever I can, I'm wearing a men's boxer brief. Under a skirt, under loose pants,
Starting point is 00:34:29 I'm wearing a men's boxer brief whenever I can. Because here's the deal, people can say what they want, they are so comfortable. They're kind of loose, like I buy mine like a size up, so they're loose. I roll the top, so they're just like perfectly like snug on my butt, but they're still they're loose. I roll the top so they're just perfectly snug on my butt, but they're still kind of loose. It feels like if I wear men's boxer briefs under my pants,
Starting point is 00:34:50 it feels like I'm wearing pajamas all day. I love the Calvin Klein ones, the classic Calvin Klein cotton boxer briefs. They're the best. And people can say it's weird and not hot that I'm wearing the men's boxer briefs. Shut the fuck up. Give it a try first.
Starting point is 00:35:04 Give it a try first. Feels amazing. Also kind of awesome because if let's say I'm dating a guy and he needs underwear, guess what? I have extra pairs unless the sizing is off. But let's just say that I've lent a boyfriend men's boxer briefs recently. And it was very helpful for them.
Starting point is 00:35:23 Like we can wear the same underwear. You know what I'm saying? Like that's kind of awesome for laundry and for sharing. And for like, you know what I'm saying? I don't know. I think it's a vibe. They're comfortable. I don't like having my vagina suffocated. Sorry, it doesn't feel good. Like, I mean, listen, there is a time and a place for like a cute undie. I mean, I'm normally, if I'm not wearing men's boxer briefs, I'm wearing a granny panty. And then if I really absolutely have to, I will wear a thong if I have to, have to.
Starting point is 00:35:53 But it's like last resort. Because that to me is a 24 seven wedgie, right? It's at that point I'd rather go commando. I've talked about my underwear preferences a lot. I don't need to get into it again, but there's a time and a place for a cuter undie, but the men's boxer briefs are my number one choice. Also, sometimes I, this is a bit TMI, so let's all be brave and listen to Emma talk about her menstrual cycle. So the thing I also like about men's boxer briefs is that there's like a reinforcement around the genitals that like
Starting point is 00:36:24 makes it a bit thicker, like the fabric is a bit thicker. And so if I'm like spotting right before my period and I don't realize it, instead of it immediately seeping through into my pants, the men's boxer briefs catch that. For some reason, the men's boxer briefs are better suited for menstrual sort of spotting and stuff like that than
Starting point is 00:36:46 women's underwear. Now explain that to me people, explain that to me. Anyway, men's boxer briefs, love, love. Okay, next. I've talked about this before, but I just need to talk about it again because my obsession with it has, I just, I think it's grown to new heights. My black rubber Casio watch, okay, I wear this watch every single day. Every single day. There are occasions where I'll swap it out for a different Casio watch. I have a few other ones,
Starting point is 00:37:13 or I'll swap it out for like a fancy Cartier watch or something if it's like a really fancy moment. I can't live without a watch anymore. It is almost like a little security blanket for me. Like it is comforting to me. Well, here's the thing, I don't think we realize how often we pull our phone out of our bag to check the time. I think a lot of us assume, oh I don't need a watch, I have a phone. Yeah but a lot of times your phone is in your bag, in your pocket. It is so nice to just whip the wrist up and check the time. It's so useful like right now, I know exactly what time it is, because I just checked my watch, okay?
Starting point is 00:37:47 Here's the other thing, and I can't even explain this. I don't even know how to explain this. It's gonna sound psychotic. Wearing a watch makes me feel in control. The fact that at any given moment, I can look at my wrist and know what time it is, makes me feel in control. And the only reason I know it makes me feel in control
Starting point is 00:38:05 is because there's been a few occasions where I've left the house without it and I felt naked and out of control and like I didn't know what time it was. And it genuinely gave me anxiety. I like being able to flip over my hand and know what time it is immediately. It's efficient and it makes me feel in control.
Starting point is 00:38:22 And I also like the way that it looks. Like it's not a fancy watch by any means, 20 bucks, It's efficient and it makes me feel in control. And I also like the way that it looks. It's not a fancy watch by any means, 20 bucks, but I genuinely think it's cute. It's simple, it's kind of futuristic-y looking maybe, and it does the trick. But I just prefer digital watches, to be honest. I don't love a classic watch.
Starting point is 00:38:39 I don't know, you have to wind it up. I just like digital, it's classic. Well, it's actually not as classic. It's modern. But I'm waiting for a brand, like a really fancy jewelry brand to make a digital watch. I will splurge on that. If Cartier were to sit down right now and fucking make like a tank digital watch, I would buy that. I want that. And they will never do it. But I would love that. I just like a digital watch, but mine in particular, I think when a lot of people think of their dream watch
Starting point is 00:39:10 or their favorite watch, they think of their nicest watch. Because watches, there's like a whole watch culture, you know, about the fancy watches and stuff like that. I think that's fun. I think that's great. I get it. There's a lot of beauty in watches. I don't think that that's necessarily like a cringe thing to be into I mean, it's definitely an expensive thing to be into but
Starting point is 00:39:29 It's I get it because the craftsmanship that goes into a watch Is really kind of incredible to be honest before I understood it I didn't care but then once I did a little bit of research. I was like, ooh, that actually is kind of cool Made me appreciate appreciate like a Cartier watch, a Rolex, it made me understand why people care about it, but it's still kind of like a little crazy sometimes. It's like cars, it's the same thing. You can be aware of the craftsmanship,
Starting point is 00:39:56 but not want to necessarily participate in it. And that's, I feel like, how I feel. The funny thing is though, this is my favorite watch, and I'm not saying that to be like, oh I'm so cute. I love my $20 Casio watch. I'm so cute like that. It's genuinely not that it is genuinely my favorite watch because Number one, I'm not worried about it. When something's expensive. You're worried about it I like that I can replace this watch whenever I want for 20 bucks If it gets lost in the ocean, if I break it, because I like slam my arm against the wall or something,
Starting point is 00:40:27 it doesn't matter. Also it's like fully waterproof, blah blah blah blah. And guess what, if it isn't, doesn't matter, I can go buy another one for 20 bucks. I like the fact that it's replaceable, but I like the design though. I like how it looks and it's really replaceable. That's very rare.
Starting point is 00:40:40 Okay, moving on. Classic alarm clock. For the last few months, I've been waking up to a classic alarm clock. Okay, now I will be honest, this wasn't my idea. Okay, there's somebody in my life who wanted to wake up to an alarm clock who sleeps at my house a lot. And they were like, I have this alarm clock,
Starting point is 00:40:58 like it's fun to like wake up to the radio or whatever. And I was like, okay, you fucking freak, what are we, are we living in like the 90s? Like what are we doing with an alarm clock? But we plugged it in, we set it up, and at first it was sort of a novelty, but then it became this thing of like, wait, we're struggling to get up in the morning
Starting point is 00:41:19 to a normal alarm? This actually is becoming sort of a necessity because the alarm is across the room and in order to turn it off, you know, you have to get up and press the button. Whereas the phone is right next to the bed usually, right? That's where the charger is. And yeah, like I could set up my phone across the room
Starting point is 00:41:37 and have the alarm go off across the room, but it's not loud enough. We have this alarm clock set on the highest fucking volume and every morning we wake up to the radio really loud. Sometimes it's the news, sometimes it's like the classical music station, whatever. But it's so fucking loud and annoying, I have to get up and turn it off.
Starting point is 00:41:55 I like the way that it looks, I think it's kind of fun to have like a real alarm clock, you know, a functional piece of decor in the room. Now it's a part of my routine that I can't imagine living without. Moving on to window shopping. Okay, for many months, I really had to avoid shopping because I was a recovering shopping addict,
Starting point is 00:42:17 and I'm not putting that lightly, okay? For many, many, many years, I had a shopping problem. I could not stop buying things. And I think it's because I got a job at a young age and had sort of financial autonomy. And I didn't really care about buying expensive things, but I just cared about buying things. When I was younger, I didn't have that freedom.
Starting point is 00:42:40 I think as most young people don't have, like even if you have really rich parents, a lot of times you don't get to just buy whatever you want. I came into a unique situation where I was like 17 and supporting myself all of a sudden and I was like, wait, I get to buy stuff? And I ultimately developed a shopping addiction where I couldn't stop shopping.
Starting point is 00:43:01 I'd buy 30 things for like 50 bucks, but it's like, why do I have 30 things? Do you know what I'm saying? And so I really had to break that cycle. I donated a majority of my closet, and so through that positive experience of scaling down my closet, feeling less stressed, having an easier time getting dressed every day,
Starting point is 00:43:19 being able to sort of figure out my personal style through that experience, like it really motivated me to get a handle on my shopping problem. But at a certain point I was like, I love clothes, I love fashion, I love seeing what's in the stores, I miss it. And so I slowly started allowing myself to go shopping again, but instead of shopping,
Starting point is 00:43:41 just window shopping. And so now going shopping is like a little hobby for me again, but it's so different because I actually rarely buy stuff. I am so critical and harsh nowadays on like what I actually spend money on and what is worth taking up space in my closet, that it is very rare that I'm like,
Starting point is 00:44:02 oh yeah, this is worth it. Everything about it has to be perfect or else I'm not going to buy it. And that's really hard to come by. But I say like window shopping because recently I've been really enjoying shopping, but I'm not actually shopping because I'm not buying anything. I'm just looking. I don't need to buy things at clothing stores anymore to enjoy myself. I just like to see stuff.
Starting point is 00:44:23 And sometimes seeing stuff that I like at a store will make me think about what I have in my wardrobe that's similar and it inspires me to like, maybe wear that item the next day. You know what I mean? It was a long and hard journey to get me here, but I'm here. Okay, next.
Starting point is 00:44:40 I'm really scared to mention this next one because it involves a public figure. And now I feel like if I talk about them on my podcast, I'm scared that I'll have to talk about this with them in person, which is fine. And I would, but it's like weird to talk about somebody on my podcast. And then if they ever find out that I said something and then they like bring it up to me, I'd rather say what I'm about to say to their face first, but I don't really know this person very well.
Starting point is 00:45:05 I love Finn Wolfhard's music. Okay, Finn Wolfhard, let's talk about who this is. This was one of the young men on Stranger Things, the television show, smash hit. He is doing music, he's doing like a solo project. I found it through like Spotify radio, I think, like Spotify just gave it to me. And I fucking love it.
Starting point is 00:45:31 I think it's incredible music. I really do. I think it's so cool to be like a mainstream sort of actor and to go and make an album that has like a really unique sort of alternative sound and to have it be genuinely good. Like I don't, he's not trying to be alternative, like he's not like trying to be cool and have this certain cool alternative sound.
Starting point is 00:45:58 Like that's actually his sound. Very hard thing to do and he did it and the music's not pretentious at all. It's genuinely just good. It's just his sound. Very hard thing to do, and he did it. And the music's not pretentious at all. It's genuinely just good. It's just good music. And as I'm recording this, he's only put out a few singles. There's an album that will be coming out. I'm excited about it. And the thing that's cool is that
Starting point is 00:46:17 I haven't been excited about an album coming out, like in current time, in a long time. So good on you, Finn Wolfhard. I'm loving the music. It's fucking good. And I'm really uncomfortable right now talking about it. And if Finn Wolfhard, if you ever hear this, do not just pretend that you didn't, okay?
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Starting point is 00:47:06 d-a-z-n dot com slash fifa. No Frills delivers. Get groceries delivered to your door from No Frills with PC Express. Shop online and get $15 in PC optimum points on your first five orders. Shop now at nofrills.ca. Okay, next. Let's get really deep here. I'm obsessed with being sober. I fucking love it. I've been sober since October of 2024. And, you know, it's one of those things where I know it's a complicated topic, right? And everybody has their own relationship to alcohol, to weed, to whatever. It's very individual. And so I don't want me saying,
Starting point is 00:47:53 I love being sober to make you feel bad if you're not in a place in your life where that's something that you could do. Or this is not a moral thing. It's not like I feel morally good because I'm sober. No, I'm not attaching any morality to it. It's not like that. I'm simply saying I love the way being sober feels, which is shocking to me because I didn't
Starting point is 00:48:18 think it would feel this good. I will say I'm not sober from nicotine, but that's debatable on whether or not that's like a substance that it definitely alters your brain, but I can drive while I have nicotine in my system, right? Whereas like alcohol, marijuana, these things really like impact you. And I don't know, you get what I'm saying. Like I'm sober from all those types of things. The real thing that I quit was alcohol because I have no problem not smoking weed
Starting point is 00:48:50 because when I smoke weed, I almost call 911 because I think I'm dying. I quit alcohol because it was making me sick. Like I think I developed an intolerance to it. And people would be like, why aren't you drinking? Why aren't you drinking? And I felt all this pressure to explain. And then I felt like I was kind of being a downer
Starting point is 00:49:08 and I felt kind of bad about that. And then I was also really bummed that I couldn't go hang out at a bar anymore and go get a drink. And that's something I really enjoy. I've gotten to the point now where I'm like, fuck it. If I wanna go sit at a bar and order sparkling water, I'm gonna do that.
Starting point is 00:49:24 And I think I felt bad about it in the beginning because I'm like, this it, if I wanna go sit at a bar and order sparkling water, I'm gonna do that. And I think I felt bad about it in the beginning because I'm like, this is not profitable for the business. They make money if I get an alcoholic beverage. I'll just tip well, you know what I mean? It's all good. A lot of places have mocktails. There's a lot of different options and I now feel no loss and only benefits.
Starting point is 00:49:41 It's strengthened me socially. I don't have a crutch and now I don't feel like I need one because I've existed without one for so long. Physically I feel amazing and it's been a really sort of magical experience for me. On my birthday actually at my birthday dinner they asked me, my friends asked me like what my highlight of the year was and I was thinking about it, thinking about it, thinking about it. And the first thing that came to mind was not drinking alcohol. Moving on, allergy medicine, okay?
Starting point is 00:50:10 I have horrible allergies, seasonal, and a little bit to my cats. I didn't take allergy medicine for many years. And in retrospect, I don't know what I was doing and how I survived. I had itchy eyes and a puffy face all the time. What was I doing? Now I have a full regimen. Okay, take Allegra every day
Starting point is 00:50:26 Now don't just take Allegra because I said that it works for me. Okay, you have to talk to a doctor first But I do Allegra and then I do Sometimes flow nays if I'm like really in a cycle of bad allergies, which is like something you snort It's like a liquid that you snort not the most fun activity but I Spent so many years of my life having horrible allergies and suffering because I didn't want to take allergy meds. Stupid. I was so miserable. And now, like, I feel so much better. Having itchy ears, a stuffy nose,
Starting point is 00:50:58 a cracked throat, a puffy face, puffy eyes. It is miserable. It is a miserable existence, and there is no reason to suffer. I am so happy I finally got into a good allergy med routine. I was on Claritin for a while. That didn't work as well for me. The Allegra and the Flonase, wow, I'm on fire. Again, though, don't go doing that, because that's what I do. You have to talk to your doctor
Starting point is 00:51:20 and you have to try stuff for you, okay? Okay, moving on. This is really random, but I'm obsessed, okay? You have to talk to your doctor and you have to try stuff for you. Okay? Okay, moving on. This is really random, but I'm obsessed, okay? I edit content such as YouTube videos, Instagram reels, things of the like, on my laptop, okay? And instead of storing all the footage on my computer, I store it on a hard drive. So I constantly have a hard drive plugged into my laptop. Now, if let's say I'm working on the couch and then I wanna move and work on my dining room table,
Starting point is 00:51:51 it's not really that big of a deal to like pick up my laptop and then make sure that I have my hand on the hard drive so that it doesn't like fall out, you know, cause it's connected. But I can't tell you how many times I've like gotten up too quickly and like drop the hard drive and then it's unplugged and then it's like fucked up Stuff that I was working on on my computer because you're not supposed to just unplug it like you have to like
Starting point is 00:52:10 Properly ejected if you plug it unplug it like that. It's not good. I can't tell you how many times I've accidentally Unplugged it because it's just this like random floating block connected to a wire Just floating around you know what I mean? floating block connected to a wire, just floating around, you know what I mean? So, I was at a photo shoot recently, and this woman had a little pocket, like a little stretchy, sticky pocket, stuck to the back of her laptop,
Starting point is 00:52:36 and she had her hard drive stuck into the pocket so it wouldn't move, and it would be out of the way. And I was like, where did you get that? She was like, I don't know, you can just find it online. Like it's everywhere. I was like, what? Found it online, ordered it immediately, obsessed. I love little random niche items like that.
Starting point is 00:52:58 Brings me fucking joy and you know what? It has brought me joy because I don't drop my hard drive anymore. If you have an issue in your life Find the find the material object that can fix it. I'm all about that I don't think there's anything wrong with that. That is a good use of your money. You know what I'm saying? Okay, anyways moving on to Listerine tongue strips. I
Starting point is 00:53:19 Know what you're thinking Emma. These have been around for five thousand years Like why are you just talking about them now? To be honest, I actually really discovered them at the Met Gala this year because this is such a random story. My makeup artist was doing a brand deal for Listerine and had a bunch of Listerine products and was like, hey, do you want some? And then I became obsessed with them from that. I'm not being paid to say this. She got paid for this, okay?
Starting point is 00:53:50 And it worked, she influenced me. She gave me little Listerine tongue strips and I've been carrying them in my bag ever since. I don't just like them because they work really fucking well. Okay, they do work really well. Let me explain to you how they work if you don't know what they are. They're like little tiny rectangles, super flat,
Starting point is 00:54:07 as thin as paper, maybe even thinner. And you place them on your tongue and they dissolve really quickly and they're super minty. That's it. They come in a tiny little pack and not only are they super effective, but they just taste good. Like it's just fun to have a super minty explosion
Starting point is 00:54:22 in your mouth for like 10 minutes until it wears off. I'm obsessed with them. I'm gonna order a huge pack online with like 90 of them in there. I absolutely love these and I just find it funny that like my makeup artist was fully doing a brand deal. Like I am all about being marketed to. It doesn't bother me.
Starting point is 00:54:42 Sell me your product and make me like it. Like, try. You know, if I don't like it, I don't like it. Right? But I'll try everything once. And if something was marketed to me really well and it makes me want to try it, and I try it and I love it, fuck yeah.
Starting point is 00:54:55 If it's a product that genuinely will make my life better in some way, fuck yeah. I was influenced and it worked. Let's move on to sunscreen. For me, this is sunscreen summer. I hate putting on sunscreen. It's so annoying, but it's sunscreen summer because you know what, I'm almost 25 and let me tell you, I need to start getting serious
Starting point is 00:55:13 about the sunscreen. Up until this summer, I've always said like, this is the year I'm really gonna wear sunscreen. And then I ultimately don't wear sunscreen. This year, I'm sunscreened up. At the point that I'm recording this, I haven't burned yet. I don't wear sunscreen. This year, I'm sun screened up. At the point that I'm recording this, I haven't burned yet. I don't need to be tan anymore.
Starting point is 00:55:29 I don't care what I look like that much anymore. I used to really care about what I look like, and so being tan, I felt like, made me look better. It was really hard for me not to be tan during the summer because I was like, oh my God, but I'm gonna look so much hotter and cooler if I'm tan. Now I'm like, it's totally fine. I don't need to be that tan.
Starting point is 00:55:45 I'd rather not get skin cancer, which runs in my family, by the way, and not get uncomfortable sunburns. And you know what? You can still get a little sun kissed with sunscreen on. It's not gonna be the same. And here's the other thing. I'm not afraid of wrinkling.
Starting point is 00:55:58 Like, I will wrinkle. I'm already wrinkling, okay? And people on the internet love to say I'm not aging gracefully. So, and I'm 24. It's like, relax. But anyways, I'm not going to not wrinkle. I don't think me wearing sunscreen is going to make me not wrinkle.
Starting point is 00:56:13 Wrinkling is inevitable and I'm not afraid of it, but I don't need to wrinkle more than necessary because I wanted to be tan when I was younger. It's finally clicked this year. This is the first year I'm fully sun screened up. Every other year I lied in the beginning of the summer. Lied to myself and probably lied to you if I talked about it with you all, saying I was gonna wear a sunscreen and then didn't.
Starting point is 00:56:33 But this year, it fucking happened. Okay, next. Let's talk about makeup for a second here, okay? Face highlight with no shimmer, okay? You know what highlighter is. I'm saying, of course you do, but maybe you don't. So I'm gonna explain it just in case there's like three of you out there who don't know what highlighter is.
Starting point is 00:56:52 It's a product, a makeup product that you put on your face on the high points, such as the bridge of the nose, such as the high point on the cheekbones, such as the cupid's bow on the lip. And for many years, I knew highlight as being like shimmery. And I don't really like shimmery makeup. Like I actually prefer a matte, well not a matte look. I don't want my skin to look matte,
Starting point is 00:57:13 but like I don't like glitter in my makeup. Unless a makeup artist is doing my makeup and they have like a specific vision, then it's different. But like if I'm doing my own makeup, no. I'm using only matte eyeshadows, no shimmer, no glimmer. And so for a long time I was like, all right, well I can't wear a highlighter because it's just too shimmery.
Starting point is 00:57:32 Doesn't match my vibe. And then I discovered the oily, non-shimmery sort of highlight. The brand that I use is Tower 28. I think it's just like a dewy balm and you just basically, it's honestly Vaseline. It's Aqua 4. And you just put it on the high points of your face
Starting point is 00:57:51 as you would with highlighter, lightly dab it on. It actually works. And the reason why I bring this up is because I think a lot of people think that it doesn't work, and I think that because I thought that for many, many years. I was like, that's a scam. Highlighter that's just like clear, oily balm? Like what's the point of that?
Starting point is 00:58:10 I don't get it. I get it now. I've been using it for many, many months now and it's just every day that I use it, I'm like, wow, that really just took this look to the next level and added dimension and it just looks so good and I'd really recommend. Okay, next.
Starting point is 00:58:23 Traveling with a water bottle. I like to travel with my Stanley Cup. I don't know and I'd really recommend. Okay, next, traveling with a water bottle. I like to travel with my Stanley Cup. I don't know what I did before this. I used to be so dehydrated when I'd travel and it is a little bit inconvenient to bring your cup or your bottle, not your Stanley Cup or your bottle or whatever on your trip, right?
Starting point is 00:58:41 It takes up a little bit of space. But I find that it's weirdly comforting because our water bottles are like our little pacifiers, you know? So it's kind of comforting. And also it really ensures that you stay hydrated while you travel. I'm all about bringing some sort of cup, bottle, whatever,
Starting point is 00:58:59 on your trip. It's the move and it's not a waste of space. Speaking of that, I need to update you all on my favorite electrolytes to put in my Stanley Cup I've talked about these before but I just have to like cover my bases here the brand Ultima raspberry flavor the brand element mango chili flavor or the raspberry salt flavor and Last but not least strawberry liquid IV. Those are my favorites, do what you want with the info. Moving on to a new drink fixation, lemon ginger drinks. Okay, I just recently got over a cold
Starting point is 00:59:35 and so I was drinking a lot of lemon ginger honey tea, hot, delicious, fresh ginger chopped up, fresh lemon squeezed, yum, soothed the throat, fresh lemon squeezed. Yum. Soothed the throat, but also tastes really good. But I've also been obsessed with sort of a popular cafe drink that I've been seeing around in cafes recently because I love, I don't know, going to different cafes and trying what they have. It's sparkling water with ginger juice and lemon juice and honey, a little teeny bit
Starting point is 01:00:04 of honey all mixed together. It's almost like a lemon ginger spritz, yum. And I learned how to make it at home. You basically just have to juice ginger and lemon and add a little bit of honey and then pour it over sparkling water. I absolutely love it. I will say, like, I do still love my apple cider vinegar
Starting point is 01:00:22 in sparkling water combo. That's still going strong for me. But if I want something a little bit more vegetal, a little bit more fresh, a little bit more summery, the lemon ginger vibe is a vibe, okay? And that's it. Oh my God, should I throw this in? My favorite lip balm, fine, I'll throw it in.
Starting point is 01:00:41 Laneige Lip Glowy Balm in Berry, okay? I think I've probably gone through 4,000 of those. They're always in my car, they're always in my bag. I have one by my bed. It's just my lip balm of choice. It's not that tinted, so if I want like a tinted vibe, I'm not going for that. But if I just wanna be hydrated, that's what I'm going for.
Starting point is 01:01:01 So that's it, okay, now I'm done. Those are all the things that I like right now. There are probably more that I forgot, but I'll add them to my next list that I'll do in like six months, because that's how this works. Like every six months I come back and share what I like. And you all listen.
Starting point is 01:01:16 And you might all be a little bit bored, but you sit through it anyway. And that's why I love you all. I appreciate you all. It's always such a joy to sit and hang out together. And if you enjoyed this episode, have no fear. New episodes of Anything Goes every Thursday and Sunday. You can find Anything Goes on the internet at Anything Goes.
Starting point is 01:01:31 You can find me on the internet at Emma Chamberlain and you can find my coffee company out in the world at Chamberlain Coffee. I will talk to you in a few days. Until then, remember that you're awesome and remember that I love and appreciate you, if that means anything to you. Hopefully it does a little bit. All right. Talk to you all soon. Bye.

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