The Bossticks - Bobby Parrish On The Truth About Food Labels, Hidden Ingredients Making You Sick, Healthy Swaps, & 'Bobby Approved' Grocery Swaps

Episode Date: June 30, 2025

#861: Join us as we sit down with Bobby Parrish – best-selling author, ingredient investigator, & founder of the wildly popular brand FlavCity. Known for breaking down complicated food labels & exposing the truth behind what's really in your grocery cart, Bobby has empowered millions to shop smarter, eat cleaner, & live healthier. In this episode, Bobby unpacks the biggest misconceptions about food marketing, how to decode ingredient lists, behavioral effects linked to artificial colors, & what to look for (and avoid) on labels – plus, he reveals 'Bobby Approved' items you should have in your kitchen! To Watch the Show click HERE For Detailed Show Notes visit TSCPODCAST.COM To connect with Bobby Parrish click HERE To connect with Lauryn Bosstick click HERE To connect with Michael Bosstick click HERE Read More on The Skinny Confidential HERE Head to our ShopMy page HERE and LTK page HERE to find all of the products mentioned in each episode. Get your burning questions featured on the show! Leave the Him & Her Show a voicemail at [phone]. To learn more about Bobby Approved items and shop Flav City go to bit.ly/FlavCity-SKINNY and use code SKINNY for 15% off for a limited time. This episode is sponsored by The Skinny Confidential For a better choice and peace of mind in your home, shop The Skinny Confidential Non-Toxic Toilet Paper at https://shopskinnyconfidential.com/products/toilet-paper. This episode is sponsored by YNAB TSC Him & Her Show listeners can claim an exclusive three-month free trial, with no credit card required at http://YNAB.com/skinny. This episode is sponsored by Nutrafol For a limited time, Nutrafol is offering our listeners $10 off your first month's subscription and free shipping when you go to http://Nutrafol.com and enter the promo code SKINNYHAIR. This episode is sponsored by Just Thrive Head to https://justthrivehealth.com/discount/TSC and use promo code TSC for 20% off your first order. This episode is sponsored by Caraway Visit http://Carawayhome.com/TSC10 or use code TSC10 at checkout to take an additional 10% off your next purchase. This episode is sponsored by Astral House Marg Summer is here. Time to stock up! Go to https://www.astraltequila.com to find Astral near you - and don't forget the limes! Please Enjoy Responsibly. ASTRAL Tequila. 40% Alcohol per Volume. Diageo , New York, NY This episode is sponsored by ARMRA Go to http://tryarmra.com/SKINNY or enter SKINNY to get 15% off your first order.   Produced by Dear Media

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Hello everybody. Welcome back to another episode of the Skinny Confidential, Him and Her show. Today we are joined by someone who's completely flipping the food industry. on its head. With over 18 million followers and an app that's become the grocery store sidekick, Bobby Parrish is here to show us how to live a Bobby approved life. From humble beginnings, eviction notices, family illness to now leading a clean ingredient movement. Bobby's mission is simple but powerful. Know what you're putting into your body. So with that, get ready for clean swaps, grocery hacks, ingredient bombshells, and a look behind the scenes of building an empire that's

changing lives. One grocery cart at a time with that. Bobby Parrish, welcome to Skinny confidential, him and her show. This is the skinny confidential, him and her. You've called out seed oils. Tell us about seed oils. The cool thing about seed oils is that it's really coming to light lately about how prevalent they are, why they're used, and how bad they are. But I kind of feel like I was one of the OG back in like 2016, 2017, talking about them.

The interesting thing is that they're in everything for a reason because they're super cheap. And they actually used to be machine lubricants for like machinery and farming. And then grandma used to always cook with tallow, butter, lard. And then around the 20s and 30s, big ag figured out that we can turn this machine lubricant into really cheap cooking oils and sell it as something that's cheap and healthy and put like an American Heart Association stamp on there. And we bought it because they put a big marketing campaign behind it. But the truth is that when you have a canola,

or a sunflower, that in and of itself isn't that bad, but it's so perverted to go from that to the cooking oil bottle that they all look golden and healthy, right? But they're all highly inflammatory. They're essentially rancid. They've been deodorized and bleached. They've been chemical laced. And it's one of the primary reasons we have such an inflammatory response in our diets. What I think is so crazy about that as I've gotten older and realized when you look at the

shelves, what's crazy is that they're all the same color. Yes. And that's alarming because, you know, when you cook anything, it doesn't look, it's alarming that they're all just a wall of the same. How does that process even happen? Yeah, it's essentially like the factory process of it is it's, we're bleaching it, we're deodorizing it, and we're making it. So it looks exactly the same because a bottle of soybean oil and canola oil and corn oil. I was just at the grocery store showing that big wall. They're all golden and beautiful, but they shouldn't be because even if you look at olive oil, especially extra virgin, which, which is so good for us. There's always going to be different shades of green. There might be sediment on the bottom if they're filtered or unfiltered. So I think that's been one of the biggest things that's come to light the last few years that people realize, okay, well, if I'm not going to use canola oil to sear my steak or my cake recipe calls for a canola oil, what should I use? And it's just really easy. Now you can use avocado oil, which is a healthy fat. I cook with a really cool fat at home now called algae oil. And it's made by fermenting algae, and they just press the

fat out of it. And it has a high smoke point. And it has a high smoke point. And it has a really cool. has no flavor like a canola oil, but it's incredibly high in omega-9 fatty acid. So it's not inflammatory. So I always tell people, like if you want the easiest baby steps, like I was thinking my head, you know, the movie with Bill Murray, what about Bob? You know, so baby steps, like the baby steps to having a healthier lifestyle is just cutting out seed oils, which are in everything in the grocery store. If you walk down the middle aisle, you'll see them pretty much in everything. But if you just learn to read the ingredients and then at home, swap out those oils with better, you oils like avocado oil ghee, grass-fed tallow, grass-fed butter, then you're doing 90% of the

work already. Is there a brand where you can't go wrong that you just love the brand and everyone could go buy it any kind of flavor and it would be good? Are you saying for oil or for anything? For oils. Yeah. So for oils, yeah, primal kitchen, chosen foods. And then actually to take it a step further, I was just thinking about this the other day. Like, is there a brand in today's world where you can walk to the grocery store and trust everything they make? I could only probably think of one off the top of my head, and that's Ciette, which is here in Austin, too, right? Everything they make is with awesome ingredients, no flavorings, no seed oils, no yeast extracts, no flavoring, no flavorers. One of the biggest lies, I think, in the grocery store, do you ever, like, walk around and you read the ingredients

and you see something called natural flavors or organic flavoring? Yeah. So, like, that is the biggest lie in the grocery store. And I've been mad about it for years because artificial flavorings we know are probably bad for us, right? Those are actually derived from petroleum. They're horrible. But natural flavoring makes it seem like it's like good for you. And it's really an unregulated term.

So when you pick up like a vanilla yogurt or a raspberry yogurt and there's no raspberry. It's just flavoring. It's not actually a good thing. So what could natural flavoring be composed of? Like what are the things that are able to kind of like squeak by and trick consumers and thinking it's natural but really? Yeah. So while artificial flavors, the only rule about that that the government has is it cannot be from anything real, it has to be 100% fake. Natural flavors has to start with something real.

So if it's raspberry natural flavors, it has to start with a flavoring derived from the compounds of the raspberry. But then it goes to a flavoring institute. They're usually called flavor and fragrancing houses. And they'll manipulate it with hundreds of synthetic solvents and chemicals to make it linger on your tongue a little more or less, make it hit a more floral note. So it's one of the biggest lies in the grocery store. So I always say if you see that, put it down. It's one step above artificial flavors. Here's where I spiral and Michael thinks I'm crazy.

I don't think I know. When stuff is made with almond flour or, I don't know, almond milk, then I start thinking, but what are the almonds sprayed with? How do you say it? I always say it wrong. Glyphosate. Oh, glyphosate? Yeah.

Yeah. So then even. even though it says, okay, this is made with almond flour, then I'm like, okay, but what's on the almonds? Yeah. Am I crazy to think that? I'm going to say with Michael. You're a little crazy. A little crazy.

Yeah. So that's where like I draw the line. I know. I was like, this is not Bobby approved. I think I try to draw the line somewhere. It's like, okay, if something is clearly bad for us, canola oil, artificial flavors, artificial colors made from dyes. Okay.

These are just known carcinogens, banned in other countries. we allow it here. But when you start to go next level, like you said, Lauren, that's when you start to spiral. Because you could spiral, you could take the same thought process and be like, well, the cow, but did he eat grass that was pesticides? And you could just, you'll go nuts for the rest of your life. Yeah. So I would draw the line somewhere, you know, come back down to a normalcy and you'll be. I'm like the guy in Better Call Saul with the aluminum tin hat. I can like, I can really tell a story. Michael sent me this meme the other day of Zena the Warrior jumping across. No, no, no.

It was the Xena the Warrior Princess. Do you remember that show back in the door? She was jumping through the air doing front flips for like the meme. It says like me jumping to conclusions. Like that's Lauren. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, it is rooted in some like some truth.

So you're not like a conspiracy tin hat person. Like yes, glyphosate is the active ingredient in Roundup. Roundup is the most common herbicide. It's sprayed like crazy. It's not crazy, right? No, it's not crazy. That's not crazy. But then thinking like, oh my God, were these almonds on the tree sprayed with round-up?

It's out of control. Oh my God. Then it starts to go. Yeah, then it's like just go to your bubble and eat your liquid food and like, you know, we have to draw the line somewhere. And I try to, I try to make it so like we're not going to be too crazy. I just found out that I've been cleaning my fruits and vegetables wrong. I was cleaning them with vinegar and baking soda.

And I just found out that the vinegar, like, negates. the baking soda, it neutralizes it, and you're just supposed to do it with baking soda. Oh, I didn't know. I see, I didn't know that. Yeah. All right. I just eat the fucking fruit. I literally just grab it and eat it. I mean, I'll side with Lauren in this one. I would wash it in something, right? That fruit has been shipped from God knows where. Yeah, you're eating it with the roundup. Here's the thing, though, what I love about your content, and we're going to get into that and your story is that you allow people to enjoy and live their life. Like, we have people on this show, and God bless them. They go down so far.

these ravelas. It takes such extreme measures. I'm like a real 80-20 kind of guy. Like I will do, like, listen, if I can avoid these artificial ingredients and natural flavors and if I can get rid of seed oils, and if I can, you know, drink better water. Like, I'm going to do that. Of course, like, if I'm a better cleaning supplies. But I had it in and out yesterday.

But I'm not going to like, you know. No, I don't really know. Sometimes I'll tell people that don't know me very well. Like, I'll be drinking a margarita. They're like, you drink alcohol? I'm like, yeah, once in a while I have fun. Or like, or I'll eat, you know. And now I don't do it all the time. Like maybe like one. a quarter. Like, I'm going to live my life, is what I'm saying. And I think people can become

neurotic with this. And there's such a movement now in the health space, which is great. It's ripe time for people to start taking ingredients seriously. But you can be, you can drive yourself crazy if you go too far down the rabbit hole here. Yeah. I mean, I try to make it relatable. So, like, if you're going to have potato chips, right, which we know are not healthy for us, right? Well, the ones cooked in avocado oil versus the canola oil are going to be your better, what I call Bobby approved options, right? Because avocado oil is anti-inflammatory, not bleached processed to death, canola oil is, even ice cream. The food industry itself has been able to get away with murder, and really sometimes literally in cases, with the way they've been able to market to

us as a population. Like some of the things that, you know, when big tobacco came in and bought a lot of these companies, some of these marketing practices are abhorrent, right? And like they take advantage of consumers and you think you're doing the right thing when really, you know, like someone's reading natural ingredients and they're trying to feed their family and they think like they're doing the right thing. Yeah. Literally, they know. Yeah. I mean, well, that's all food marketing. very little regulation. I just did a video a few weeks ago about like what do these top seven food labels mean? Because when people see like the USDA organic stamp or certified non-GMO, like it has warm, fuzzy feelings for themselves. And they think like, oh, this organic fruit isn't sprayed.

Well, no, it is still sprayed. It's just not sprayed with synthetic preservatives. And it's better for the soil. We're not sterilizing the soils or, you know, top soil turns into dust and stuff like that. But yeah, I mean, it goes back to relatability. So I don't care if. if you want to eat ice cream, potato chips, in an out burger, right? As long as you just know what's in there and know, like, it's not a diet. Like, I'm not preaching. Go on a keto diet. Go on this diet.

It's just know what goes in your body. And yeah, if you're going to have a cheat of a margarita or fast food, yeah, whatever. We know it's a cheat. But there are ways to eat foods that we all love every day, but just with better for you swaps that will make your body feel a lot better. What's the biggest lie that we've been told as American people when it comes to the food industry? Gosh. Girl, let me pull out my scroll.

Yeah, yeah, there's a lot. Let me go to the list here. Well, I think I'm a child of the 80s, right? I'm 47 years old. So I grew up in a time when they told us fat and butter was really bad for us. And instead, we should eat this margarine because it's made of plant oils and it's good for us. And they got rid of all the fatty snacks and just replaced him with sugary snacks. So like, I don't know if you remember, but there was this, there was this devil's food cookie cake from snack wells.

Of course. Right. Oh, snack wells in a green box. Unbelievable. Why do I not know that? Michael doesn't have any attachment to food. So he doesn't remember the snack well. They're like the little mud pies or like moon cakes.

Moon cakes. And they're snack wells and they were marketed as like low fat cookies. Yeah. Low fat or even fat free, I think. Fat free. But what they did is just pump up the sugar. and everything like that. I'm going to show him to Michael.

Keep chopping. I've probably seen him. You probably can't get him anymore. It's, you know, that was, that was here and there. But they just basically, and it's so easily, just brainwashed everyone. Oh, my God, stop using butter. Stop eating fat. We're going to go to low fat.

And then they realized that it was all wrong, you know, a dozen years later. And we were just eating high short. It's exactly right. The green box. Yeah. They were so good. Did mom used to have these? Yeah.

Mom for sure had these. The cream sandwiches. The double, the double fudge cakes. That's the one I used to. I like the white cookies. Yeah, with the vanilla frosting. Yeah, it was so popular in the 90s. You're right.

But go on. Yeah. So, I mean, it's just things like that. But the way they get away with it so quickly. So go back to the 1920s and 1930s. For ages, we all cooked with lard and butter. And then all of a sudden, they just switched us to Crisco, really, right? Which was crystallized cotton seed oil.

And they just made it seem like it's better for us and healthier. And it worked. I mean, people switch so. darn quickly. And like, it's crazy how quickly that can happen. So like little by little, that's how just big, big food, big ag tricked us. And you mentioned a second ago, Michael, basically they took all of the food scientists and the marketing team from tobacco, put them on food. And next thing you know, they were just showing us studies and sponsored studies that these foods were good for us and better for you swap. So unfortunately, it's really easy for them to do

that. And then we trust them and we adopt that to our everyday life. They did the same. I mean, listen, the same thing happened with like animal proteins. You know, humans have evolved eating. And listen, if you have a moral reason to each his own, but humans evolved eating animal proteins for thousands and thousands of years. And all of a sudden, it was demonized and told us as bad for us. What I always think with it when it comes to this stuff, as you, as a human beings, evolution is a real thing. We evolve a certain way. You can't just all of a sudden turn off evolution. Right. Like what you're talking about with like the Chris goes, we turned a part of our evolution off by saying, like, we're going to introduce this foreign. product that we've never digested before into our system. It's not going to go well. Yeah, for sure. And then it's amazing how quickly that plant-based craze just like took over,

right? And all of a sudden, everyone's like, oh, it's bad to eat meat, even though it's pasture, raised, grass-fed, regent farmed. We need to eat our plant burgers that are made of, you know, soy, seed oils, cellulose, gums. It's a joke. How did you get into this world? How did you initially become so interested in this, in this lane? It goes back to my mom. So I grew up cooking in the kitchen with my mom. I have vivid memories of her baker's rack in the kitchen with like Julia Child's book and French cooking books.

So I was really always into cooking and like transforming raw ingredients into a final dish that we can enjoy. As soon as I turned 16 years old, I started hitting the gym with my buddies and I wanted to put quality food into my body and know that what I'm going to make is going to help fuel my body also. And right around that time also, my mother's, was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. And so then it just really became apparent that, okay, we have to take this seriously. We have to know exactly the food that goes in your body because

that can heal you. Ultimately, she passed away in 2015 after, thank you, a 15-year battle with MS. But that was really important to me. And it kind of like transformed the way that I thought about food as fuel as nutrition to, wait a second, like food is really supposed to be nutritious. And so that's when I started realizing that it's one thing to be eating healthy. What does that mean? It's more about like, okay, I want to eat food that I know is going to help my body thrive. And maybe other people would want to learn about that too. And correct me if I'm wrong, is one of the causes of MS inflammation?

Yeah, it has a lot to do with it. And the more inflammation than the more affects like the mylon sheath breakdown there. So like there was a time I remember when we were doing beasting things. and my mom, so my dad would buy these boxes of bees in the mail. And like, he would sting her along the spine as she was like yelling out like crazy. But it created an anti-inflammatory response, you know. But if you think about the average diet, right, going back to what we just said, it's very inflammatory.

So even if you don't even have a chronic disease or MS, like a chronic state of inflammation is really, really bad for multiple reasons. Is there a specific thing that causes it or is it as a combination of things? The MS? Yeah. That's, I think up until even now, like, they can't even pin down exactly what it is. It's one of those weird things where they don't know if it's a virus or what. And the weird thing with her is that her brother had it too.

So her brother had it early on from like teenage years on. And then my mother was diagnosed with it in 99. So at that point, she was like 68. Her slowly kind of progressed. And she went from walking to being wheelchair bound to being very immobile. But yeah, it's one of those things where they can't really pinpoint even to this day, like, what is their root cause of it? Quick break to talk about Wynab. One thing that drives me so nuts is when people work so hard for their living and then they end up not having what they want at the end of their pay period or at the end of the month.

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It's so interesting. I know someone that grew up in Bakersfield. And in Bakersfield, they spray all the crops with all the pesticides. And the person that I know has autoimmune and she's always sick. and she doesn't feel good. And a lot of people she knows have the same things. They have allergies. They have all these things.

It's almost like sometimes you're a byproduct of the environment that you grew up in. Maybe it's not even genetic, but it sounds like your mom's brother. It's just weird. Yeah, there's something. Yeah, I can't tie it back, obviously, but there's got to be something they were both exposed to. Yeah. Because it's pretty rare to have that, you know? Yeah.

So, yeah, I agree. There's something to that. I just don't know what it is. How do you help people? on a day-to-day shop better? Like what have you seen that's really life transformative for the people that follow you? Yeah.

So it's really cool because when I'm at the grocery store making these videos, I'll run into a lot of people who say, like, you have helped me transform my health. I'm off of my blood pressure medication. So cool. Yeah, it's so cool. And like, it's interesting too

because I've been doing this for 13 years now. So like, you guys know, when you're in your creator mode, you're dialed in, you know your videos are reaching a lot of people, helping people, but then when you have that interaction of meeting them, and they tell you how their pantry and their health has transformed for the whole family. I see people walking around the grocery store using my app. So I have this app where you can scan a barcode, and it tells you,

it highlights the bad ingredients, and it tells you if it's Bobby approved or not. And if it's bad, it tells you why the ingredients are bad, and it gives you a better recommendation. And so, like, I'll just see people using in the grocery store, and then I'll just pop up behind them, like, oh, that's Bobby approved. So, yeah, so I know. It's really cool to see that people take my advice. And once again, even cooler I think is I'm not a nutritionist. I'm not a doctor. And that's probably one of the biggest knocks against me. People give you shit for that? Yeah, for sure, for sure. But I actually counter to that, it's probably a good thing because like if I was a nutritionist or preaching like the food pyramid, which is completely backwards, then I would just be peddling the same,

you know, jargon that's making us a fat sick, chronically ill country. You know what's scary, though about what you do and what's gone on in this space in general is, you know, you'll have things like American Heart Association approved or like USDA organic. And like when the general, when the average consumer, including myself of the years, sees that, you assume that people that have gotten these kinds of degrees or expertise have given this stamp approval and that this is actually good for you. Yeah. And then when you, would you find out later as you go down the rabbit hole is that like somehow,

somewhere along the way they were able to get that stamp of quote unquote approval from these credentialed people, somebody somewhere at some point that had that expertise signed off. And it's not good for you. But the American people and just people in general have been misled with labels like that. And they assume because the credentialed people have put the stamp of approval. Like when I see that as before I started doing the show, when I see a label like that, I'm assuming that some medical board or some medical group got together and said, hey, that's good for you. For sure.

For sure. Right. And then it goes back to our conversation. before about that stamp may have been done because the company themselves paid for the study and said, here are the results. Like, we qualify to be heart healthy. So, like, it's totally perverted just like they'll convince you immediately that plant protein is better than meat protein, that Chris goes better than butter. I mean, yeah, but the average consumer has no idea that that study even took place. They just see that. And, like, again, if you're just, and they,

the companies like this, they assume like, hey, like, a bunch of doctors got together and said, like, that's the choice for you. Yeah, for sure. That's why I think. think like the term Bobby approved has taken off because like it's not about heart health or out. It's literally a ingredient base. So if a product is Bobby approved, it has what I call best in class ingredients that are good for you and will not hinder your health. It doesn't look at, oh, the calorie count, the saturated fat. You can do that research if you're interested. But if something is made with canola oil, if something has corn syrup, it's not going to be good for you. Like there's no subjective reasoning there that is a fact. It's not Bobby approved.

What are brands that people had thought were good for them that you've called out? That you did the whistleblower. Sure, the brands love you. Yeah, yeah. I used to be a lot harsher in my early days when I was a young buck. I used to be a lot harsher when I would call that out. And then I realized, well, I don't want to attack the brands themselves. I just really want to go after the ingredients only.

So, like, I just go after the ingredients. So if a brand is using, like, bad ingredients, like, also for legal reasons, I'm not going to call them out. I'm going to call out, oh, man, it's such a bummer. they're using high fructose corn syrup or yellow number five as opposed to coconut sugar or beta carotene for the color. When my children go to a birthday party and we give them the birthday cake and the pizza and all the things that are there, they come home and act like completely different children. And listen, and our house, I would say our house is 80-20. Like we try to give them eggs and steak and broccoli and green beans. But like, you know, they'll have a muffin.

or a cookie or a goldfish or whatever. But we, we, it's limited. Not a goldfish. It's a bunny, an Annie's bunny. Which isn't I just learned great for their teeth? Devastating to me. I heard it's the biggest cavity giver. Bunnies?

Yeah, those bunnies. Our doctor or our dentist told us that those bunnies and goldfish gets stuck to the teeth and give cavities more than sugar. Really? Yes. Well, they're made of like enriched wheat flour or wheat flour, which essentially is a sugar. So I guess it kind of makes sense. Yeah, it gets stuck to the teeth.

Anyways, more about it sticking on the teeth for long periods of time with children. You know, like adults aren't going to run around with like cheese all over their teeth. Kids. And brush their teeth. I just can't believe how my kids act when they have like a sugar splurge. And then I started to tell Michael, I'm like, I could understand why parents think that then their children has ADHD or ADHD or whatever, like a learning disability. If they're if they're getting fed that every day, they act crazy. Yeah. what has been your experience with kids and certain foods and dies? Yeah.

So I have one daughter, Rose. She'll turn six pretty soon. And so being around us and growing up in the kitchen, like she's had a really, really clean diet. But I totally agree when you say that, Lauren, because when you go to any birthday party, it's always the bright red and the bright yellow frosted cupcakes.

With the plastic balloons. Yes, exactly. And so there, I mean, there is undoubtedly a link between the colors and behavioral issues. And I just noticed it, like, I think it was a week ago, Rose went to a party, and she had one of those. And then she was a wreck afterwards. She was crying in the car, and she was acting like really goofy, and that never happens. You know, so it bothers me that, like, the parents will do this as a celebration for the birthday.

But all they're doing is just hyping their kids up on these colors that are known behavioral disruptors. So what would you recommend as parents? because I don't want my kids to miss out on the birthday celebration. You just give it to them and let them act crazy. No. So that goes back to what I said earlier. Like, there's always a simple swap for everything. Like, I will always find you the better for your option. So I'll never say like, oh, sorry kids, you can't have your cupcakes for your birthday,

you know, have a fruit bar. So there are plenty of frostings out there. Like, for example, you go to the store and simple mills makes a nice frosting that isn't colored with yellow number five or blue number one. It doesn't have high fructose corn syrup in there. It might have a little bit of palm oil, but this is where we do the 80-20. Right. And it's sweetened with coconut sugar.

So there is an option. So make your cupcakes. Use your crappy flour if you want. That's fine. But don't put the red frosting on there. Just use a normal frosting. You don't have to put, you know, the balloons on top and the stuff like that and get them all hopped up on that. So there is an easy swap.

It's just when the parents just call the local bakery and say, make me 24, you know, red cupcakes. it's a little bit of a lot. I mean, you could see if kids are eating that every day, you can see why they're being diagnosed with certain things. Well, why I like doing this show and, you know, why I appreciate what you do is I really don't even take the perspective of, like, blaming the parents. I think it's, the majority of people still,

if they don't listen to shows like this one and others and if they don't follow people like yourself, you assume you go in the grocery store, this is on the label, it's good for you. I talk to my dad all the time, to be like, when I was a kid, I had this. I'm like, well, ingredients have changed since you were a kid. You know, you're eight years old now. It's a little bit different. And most people don't like if most people realize these ingredients, especially the color dies, which many of them are now

being banned, have these harmful chemicals and that are causing these brain alterations. Like, most parents say, I would never touch that. They just, it's, it's a lack of awareness. And it's not a fault. It's more of just, we've not been given enough information. Yeah. It's been going on for years. We'll just continue it. How bad can it be? But like you said, like the stuff from the 60s, cupcakes at parties are vastly different for now. And there's a lot of data out there to back up that, yeah, these colors are really disruptive for the kids.

So let's just swap it out. No one's taken away their cake. You know, they can have their cake and eat it too. If someone's on a budget, what's the best investment? Yeah. I love doing budget stuff because like a lot of times people will associate eating cleaner or healthier with more expensive. And that can be the case.

But I do a lot of videos and content from like all these in Walmart. So there's no problem going there. So the best investment would be cooking at home. I don't care how expensive you think eating out is. If you go to any casual restaurant, you know, in an out burger. Oh, so good. It's going to be leaps and bounds and more expensive. So I'll do these fun videos where I'll do the cost comparison.

So like I'll do the clean, Bobby approved version of Chick-fil-A versus theirs. Or we did one where it was like Buffalo Wild Wings, right? was during like March Madness. And I went to the restaurant and ordered. And I thought it was a joke, but six wings was $13. Six little wings, right? So then I made like six wings at home with pasture raised chicken for like $3 and change. So number one, the best investment is cooking at home.

And you don't get all the microplastics from the postmates. Like Michael, she's starting to go down there. There I go. But I can help it. Michael's like ordering like a steak that's like a $40 steak from postmates. And it comes in a heated. plastic thing. And I'm like, what is the point of this? It's like plastic. I'm sorry. No, no, you're actually, you're right with that one. You're right. Just give it to her.

Yeah, I'll give you that one. We don't want to get stuck on this for too long. Yeah, yeah, I'll give you that one. Or then if you want to give in deeper about, how about when you... I love how I like judge my husband and then I ate in and out yesterday. Go ahead, Bobby. You do not eat in and out was me. There you go. What about when you go to the coffee shop and you get it in those paper cups? Well, they're all lying with a thin layer of But then it still has plastic. But it's not as bad as putting 205 degree liquid in there, right? So we can go down that rabbit hole all day. Yeah.

Right? So like I would just, I would, I think, I don't know if you can do it anymore, but you used to be able to go to any coffee shop and bring like your Yeti and they would pour it in there. Yeah. But now maybe because of Cooties, they won't do that. I don't know. Okay.

So go on with your, your best investment. Yeah. Yeah. So, okay. So eating at home, which means you just get a couple cooking utensils, right? So obviously not Teflon. Right. So that's the pans we all grew up with.

Teflon, nonstick. They work great. But we know that the Teflon is carcinogenic and they wear off over time. So you get a nice ceramic pan. You get a couple utensils. You buy the food at the grocery store. You don't order it with Instacart and stuff like that. And you just go to Aldi.

You go to Walmart. You cook your own food. And you just don't go out nearly as much. And you'll save so much money. And then you can find yourself splurging on other things. You know what's funny too. We started having more home-cooked meals at the house. And I noticed I started getting more trim and feeling a lot better.

And we don't realize when you go out all the time, again, you're eating out, you're spending the money, but also maybe you're not always getting the greatest ingredients. You know what I mean? So many of us have been conditioned out. Postmates, Uber Eats, go out all the time, convenience, convenience, convenience. But I noticed when we started cooking more at home, I started getting much healthier. What's a Bobby approved cocktail? So that's interesting because, like, if you're just going to get a straight up spirit,

so like tequila is a clean spirit. Vodka is a clean spirit. Like at home, I'll drink wine a few nights a week with my meal, but I drink natural wine, which is a long fermentation wine. What brand do you like? Dry farm wine? Okay. Delicious.

Okay. We do too. Yeah, I call it headache-free wine. I love it. But you get in trouble when you start adding the mixers, right? That are made of simple syrups and colors and stuff like that. But there's nothing wrong with having tequila made from fermented agave. You know, you probably don't want to like go overboard with it, but.

Only like drink like half the bottle. Yeah, there you go, yeah. What are some wellness things that you do for? for yourself that maybe you don't have to do with food. Yeah, for sure. So I try to keep it pretty basic. So like when I watch the show and I see people like ice bathing at 459 and then, you know, heat infrared sauna, five minutes after, that's cool. And I'm sure there's benefits. For me, I try to get seven and a half hours to eight hours of sleep every single night. Like to me, that's the most important thing. So like I will shut it down at 945 and just go to bed because I get up at 620.

I do find that 10 minutes of red light therapy is really helpful. And we have the panels at home, but then I got lazy because I don't want to lay in front of the panels because I can't multitask. So now I just put the face mask on. And I just do that while I'm watching YouTube or something. So red light therapy and then just getting in the gym and doing some kind of movement for four days a week.

So like this morning before I flew here, I have this sled in my backyard, like the NFL players, right? So I just push it. And then I walk backwards, like moonwalking, amazing for the legs. then I do a few sit-ups and I'm done. Are you into weightlifting? Can't you tell, Lauren? I mean, you have to ask.

I can see. I just want you to confirm. I will confirm the rumors, yeah. But yeah, but not anything like big. Like I'll just get in there like three, four days a week, tossed the weights around and then I'm done. But you're active. You take care of yourself.

Yeah, yeah, take care of myself. I'm actually a big fan of creatine too. I was really late to the train on that. Like I was taking that when I was 16 because it was cool back then. And then all of a sudden it came back like, You know what though? When we, like, I could speak for both of us. I guarantee you were doing this. When we were taking creatine back in the day, you were probably taking weight gainer. You're doing it. It's like, overdoing it. Just like, probably like taking quadruple the dose that was needed. I did the same thing. Yeah, but I did notice. So I've been taking an offer maybe like seven months. And like after two weeks, like I have good energy. I can increase the weights a little more. You know, but and I don't sit at home. So like I have a standing desk. I'm standing all the time when I'm working. So like movement and just a few, a few tips of sleeping. Like, like, I have good. A few tips of sleeping. Like. little red light, and that's it. What's the process that you go through to curate and vet for your app? Because I know that it's very specific. Yeah. Yeah. So the app was years and years of

basically classifying products, but then it was actually a problem solved because people would DM me and email me a dozens of times a day with a picture of X. Is this Bobby approved? And I was always reply. I'm like, no, it's not approved because of whatever. So I told my wife, I'm like, let's just create an app where somebody scans a barcode. Like it should be doable, right? So, you know, I'm like, okay, let's do it. She has a computer science master. She's smart.

And so, yeah, we thought we would do it. It'd be $30,000 to make the app and it would take a little time. It was over $100,000 to do the app. It took a lot longer than expected. But the coolest part of that is like, there's millions of products at the grocery store. So how do we get it? Well, there are ways of plugging into like APIs.

But what I did in the early days is I'd have scan parties. So we were living in Chicago back then. And I would have like 25 Bobby Approved fans come. And we'd go to the grocery store. And I'd like, you're in this aisle. I'm in this aisle. And we'd just scan and build up the database. So now we have like 1.4 million products and growing in the store.

And it purely is based upon my view of what ingredients are good for us and what ingredients are bad for us. So if a product you scan has a bad ingredient, it will highlight it. It will tell you why it's bad. and then you can scroll at the bottom, and it tells you a better recommendation within that category. So if it's cereal or pasta or whatever. For you personally, are there certain ingredients that are like absolute no-goes no matter what? Yeah, absolutely. So I'm really astringer. I'll never waver. So that's one thing. Like if I'm steadfast in my belief that seed oils are bad, like you're

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on my stomach. Amazing. Like it's so good. And I know it's gonna end soon. So I just am living it up. I hope it ends like tonight. Michael can't take it. He,

I see him because Michael like is someone who doesn't eat in the bed. No, I don't believe in eating in the bed. I have a fucking bed tray with like sides that I put my newspaper and my magazine in that I put my iPad. Like I love eating in bed.

It's my favorite thing. This may be sexist, but I found more women like to eat in bed than men. Well, then go date a guy. I am forever going to eat in bed. I love my daughter and I have slumber parties in bed. She tells me it's her favorite part of life. She like, we have Plowman's lunch.

But you know what? They do that together, and my daughter goes on my side while they do it. I come in and there's just crumbs everywhere. That's annoying. And I'm sweeping it off the bed. You know, like when you look like a nut in your sex wiping the sheet? That's horrible. We will forever eat in bed.

And then no one's like, why are you making so much noise? I'm like, because there's fucking crums. sweet it's a bad feeling. Can we do my cereal on air? I like, I don't have the app though. I have to get it. So can we do it on your app? Like can Erica pull it up?

Yeah, absolutely. Okay, so the first thing that I have is I have probably a cup of real, real cereal. It's the flakes, corn flakes. It's called real, real cereal. It's called real, real cereal. I want to see what it's rated on your app. Interesting. That's the brand?

Yeah. Is it that newish brand that like has the old school look to it? Yes. Made with better ingredients? Yes. I want to know what your app rates it. Yeah. That one is, well, that one uses like an organic corn and everything.

I know. That's why I want to see what the app says. I'm pretty sure that one's Bobby approved. I think it's Bobby approved. I'm pretty sure. Yeah, that's a cool new brand that I just found like a few months ago. I thought you were going to say something way worse. It's real.

No, I have another one. That I mixed with it. Okay. I'm giving you the good one first. Oh, it's approved. It's approved. It's approved. Okay. So it's real, real.

It's the corn flakes. The second thing that I mix in there is mother's best, frosted, shredded wheat. No chance. There's no chance. Don't you love that name? Mother's best. This is a version, I think that's a good version. Well, it's probably better for you than than frosted be. I want to see why it's bad.

Maybe it'll convince me not to have it. Yeah, I was hoping you say something I can give you an alternative to, but I don't think there's a Bobby approved frosted shredded wheat. You should make one. I'm not joking. Just banning everything you're doing and making it. Who doesn't like a frosted shredded wheat? I just got cane sugar. Okay. Is it organic

wheat in there too, though. No, so. So it's horrible? I wouldn't say it's horrible, but it's probably, I mean, it's not like as bad as few as the other one. So it's not Bobby's just put it this way. You wouldn't be swapping into it. But what's wrong with it? The cane sugar? Yeah, 12 grams of added cane sugar. So let's just think about it for a second, right? So 12

grams of added cane sugar is three teaspoons. Okay. So imagine three teaspoons of a white sugar in your bowl of cereal. It's a lot. That's a lot. I do like extra too. I'm like, every night's a couple more. Yeah. Don't you have to be worried about like diabetes and stuff during pregnancy?

Michael, mind your own business. I was going to say that, but I'm glad you told. Mind your own business. I didn't do that test. Yes. Listen, not a doctor. Exactly. Exactly.

When he looks at me with the eyes of when I'm eating that cereal, I'm like, don't even try. I'll curate a list of other Bobby approved cereals for you to eat. But it has to be frosted. So if you want a version of cocoa puffs that are Bobby approved, I can hook you up. What? So cocoa puffs, bad. Okay. Seven Sundays cocoa puff cereal.

Good. I like that. I just bought that. for my kids. There we go. Right. Better than the one with the panda on it. Yes. Oh, I just bought that one too. Fuzzy Panda. Usually when there's fuzzy things, that's a bad thing on labels like that. I know the Smacks has the frog and the Lucky Charms. But why can't the clean brands use the fuzzy pandas and get, maybe it's below them. They're like, we're not going to resort to a stupid tricks to fool our kids. Okay, so I'm going to exchange the fuzzy panda and get the Sunday. There we go. Seven Sundays, real Cocoa Puts. What about Magic Spoon? So better for you.

than like the junkie cereal, but like not even close to Bobby a Prue. So if you looked it up on the app, it has sunflower oil in there. It has natural flavorings. So like I'll tell people, hey, that's better than lucky charms, but it's not good for you. What do you think about children's supplements? This is so random, but I'm giving my kids supplements every day and I don't want to give them Flintstone vitamins. So what are the best children supplements?

But Flintstones are doctor recommended. Michael. So, I mean, so you're being. You're being foolish. Oh, heart healthy. And I would say that I survived off of hose water and Flintstone vitamins. And Windex. Don't forget.

Yeah. In general, I think kids supplements are unnecessary. Oh. Yeah. This is my opinion. I think it should come from the diet. I think of the one supplement that my daughter takes is a good probiotic. So seed makes a powdered kids probiotic.

Well, that's great, right? Because, like, they can eat nutrition's food, but getting things that foster, like the microbiome and the gut, which is the second brain, really important. But, I mean, think about it. Most of those things are made of, like, synthetic vitamins anyway, and what's the bioavailability of that? You know, how do you think about giving your daughter food? Like, is there a method to the way that you feed her? It's gotten a little more challenging.

So she's in kindergarten now. Tell me about it. Yeah. So, like, before that, it was like, oh, anything you put in front of her that we're eating for dinner, she would eat. But now it's gotten challenging because she goes to school, right? And they have an opinion. There's that too.

And so she sees the kids eating like the goldfish and like the lays potato chips bag. And then I noticed she doesn't want to eat all the food we eat. I notice like I eat a lot of red meat. I had a lot of grass fed steak. I'm sure you do too. But she doesn't want that anymore. She doesn't want to chew on the food. She wants it like softer.

So like I've been making Bobby approved versions of chicken nuggets. So I'll get pasture raised ground chicken and breaded in stone milled flour and fry it an avocado oil and serve with Primal Kitchen ketchup. And it sounds pretty good. Yeah, it's good. It's really good. I don't want to be your child now. So yeah, it just creates more work.

It's a lot of work. A lot of work. And you're right about them not wanting to chew, but you want them to chew because it's so good for their jaw. Yes. I even was like to my daughter, I was like, you can have some gum because it's good, it's good for chewing. Well, yeah.

Well, actually you're 100% on. All the foods we eat now are so processed and soft that like our jaw muscles are weak and everything like that. Yeah, you know, I just like the more I hear you talk, though, I think, you know, there's hope for people if they, if they just apply, you know, what you're already providing out there, which is like just better for you swaps the majority of the time and consistently get off all the stuff that we know is harmful. Like the problem is, is most people's diets that are, you know, that don't have access to the information. They're using poor ingredients consistently all the time, multiple meals a day. Like, that's what eventually kills us, right?

Yeah. If you can just eliminate the majority of that stuff in once in a while, like your kid has a bag of chips at school, but the majority of the time she's eating healthy with you guys. Like, I think that makes such a huge difference. Yeah, for sure. And even if you go back to cooking that own food yourself. So like even if you made like chicken nuggets, like I did, or even if you had fried chicken three times a week, if you're making it yourself, it's miles better than getting KFC or like, I did a video one time at, um, that's the chicken place everyone goes. Chick-fil-A?

Yeah, Chick-fil-A. And I said, why is it so addictive? And so I ordered everything. And like, I took a bite. I'm like, damn, that's. really good. They put MSG, like three times in there. They put foods in there that make you hook to it, right? So if you made a fried chicken sandwich at home in avocado oil with like organic chicken, it's still not great for you, but it's a million times better than the version at Chick-fil-A.

The MSG is wild. It makes you like go to sleep. It's crazy. It really is wild. Yeah. Why did you decide to disrupt the supplement industry? So that came about because people would always ask me like what supplements, what proteins are Bobby approved. And supplements are interesting because, like, I don't use a ton of supplements, but I do think they have a purpose and a point for a lot of people. But a lot of them have ingredients that are the opposite of what a supplementation should be. Like so many protein powders have sunflower oil and gums to make them creamy. So many vitamins, the carrier oil is corn oil and soybean oil. So I'm like, well, this is a problem because like this is not actually good

for you. So like that protein in front of you, I used to always make this protein smooth on stories after my workout. And it had like 12 hipster ingredients. It had grass-fed way. It had grass-fed collagen, coconut milk for healthy fat, regular milk for, you know, the viscosity,

reishi mushrooms, cordisette mushrooms. And so I thought to myself, can I powderize all those ingredients and put it in a bag so someone can have an all-no-one complete smoothie without gums, gums, oils,

emulsifiers, natural flavorings. And it turned out I could. And the reason why people, other people don't do it in the industry, and make clean products in general. It's because it's a little harder. It's definitely more expensive,

but it's the right thing to do. It's people over profits. I like that you use weigh in this with the collagen. Yeah, and it's 100% grass-fed, undenatured way, so it's very gut-friendly. A lot of people are trying to just do like the collagen now and the protein. It's not a complete protein. Yeah.

I'm also learning, too, that I've learned through this podcast that a lot of the supplements aren't even absorbing. Yeah, bioavailability, right? Yeah. So it's like you're taking them. Crazy. And your body, like, 99% of vitamin Cs are made of escorbic acid or calcium ascorbate.

It's synthetically derived from corn. So, like, your body can't even absorb all that, right? So, like, I'm like, well, I'm going to make a vitamin C. And I call it C later. And it has acerola juice powder, Kamu, Kamu powder, and Amla, which are 100% bioavailable. So, like, it can be done. But once again, people like shortcuts and people like higher profit margins. So that's why they don't do it.

What's the majority of the pushback that you personally get when you're out there creating this kind of content. He's not an expert. Why are you listening to him? He's not a doctor, which is funny because, like, doctors spend like one hour in their entire medical training on nutrition. Don't give me start. I said this, and the audience was split. Some people were mad, other people were not. We've had doctors come on that had admitted that they don't get that kind of training. Yeah. Like you said earlier, it's not a knock on the doctors, but that you wouldn't go to them for nutrition. So I'd say that's the number one thing is that he's not an expert. Why would you listen to him? And then all of a sudden, like, after I got like to a certain size of followers,

like I became like a grifter and like a scam artist somehow. So like, why would you listen to him? He's a grifter. Like I don't even understand what that means. But, you know, for the most part, I honestly don't pay attention to that. Like I don't even read the comments of that. Whose content do you consume that you look to that you think is doing a really good job? Like in general across any medium?

Yes. Besides our podcast. Yeah. Of course. Yeah. So it's interesting. So like that's basically like all I watch at night. So like at eight o'clock, I'll pop on YouTube and I'll usually just watch podcast.

So like it's so different. Like sometimes like I'll just find myself watching like a Brian Johnson video just to see what crazy thing he's doing. Have you guys ever met up? No, I haven't met him. We got to make that connection. Yeah, yeah. So like where that's so like above or like beyond what I would do, like I find it interesting to see what he's doing, right? Maybe you could pull a little information out of there. So that that's interesting. I watch a lot of creator content. So like I've been in this creator game for like 13 years. So like I like to watch podcasts from other creators who talk about like their journey and what helps them and how to be better at that. And then, but then I'll find myself watching videos about like luxury watch market and why it's in

a bear market. So it's very random. You like watches, no? I don't even own a watch, but I like the idea of luxury watches. Once you start going down that rabbit hole. I've heard. I've heard. I've heard it's a deep, dark expensive. I watch YouTube videos on watches. I find that interesting. It's very interesting. I just take note of what Michael says. Michael, Michael watches all of it. I just sit back and tell them which one I want for my push present. You won't believe what this plastic container is doing to your food. Good night. You just sit back with the ball on your stomach, making crumbs while he's watching that.

People should try that mixture, but I'm going to try it with the Sunday. Cocoa Puss. Okay. Where can everyone follow you, find you, support what you're doing, get your all-in-one protein smoothie powder, which the berries and cream looks so good. It's very yummy. So if you want to watch my videos and just learn how to shop cleaner, A lot of people like to watch my Costco videos because Costco has a cult following.

You can just follow me on any platform, YouTube, Instagram, Facebook, TikTok under Bobby Parrish. What are you getting at Costco? What are the top three things? Yeah. So like staples that I always get there. So they have fantastic extra virgin olive oil for a great price. In glass bottles too. And once you go down that rabbit hole, Lauren, if you want to go down there, you realize that 80% plus of extra virgin olive oils are actually fake. Have you tried Brian Johnson's snake oil olive oil?

I haven't, but I'll assume that it's real low. He said chosen foods are primal kitchen. For avocado oil. Primal kitchen. Yeah, they're good for avocado oil. Okay. Yeah. So their extra virgin olive oil is fantastic.

Okay. They have a great deal on Kerry Gold, grass fed cheese. So Carri Gold is 95% grass fed. Love it. Right? Not raw, but it's hard to find that. That's a must. They actually have a really great snacks there.

They have grass fed beef sticks there. And they actually just got these grass-fed wagging. you, beef sticks from Epic Bar, which I think is an awesome company. I saw you post that. Yeah. Delicious. Okay. Delicious.

And then pantry staples, like if you want to get high protein lean foods, they have the best prices on lead-free tuna, wild caught canned salmon and stuff like that. So, yeah, if you want to learn more, there's a video called the top 25 things to buy a Costco in 2025 on YouTube. It will cover everything there. We got to tell your dad that. Your dad's a big Costco shopper. He's like the only guy that doesn't get carded there.

He just lives in there. What I like at Costco? A big hot dog. Is that approved? No. It's super cheap. Those hot dogs though are so good. Isn't that crazy that you can get like a foot long hot dog and a soda for like under two bucks?

Yeah. And pizza. Yeah. Isn't that crazy? Crazy. Yeah. But you know what you can't buy at Costco? The toilet paper.

I have to give you some of my toilet paper. I heard you have non-toxic toilet paper. I have clean toilet paper. I would love to try that. Is Bobby approved? Can I get on the app? Yes. We will submit your product to my app right now.

formaldehyde and no chlorine. Yeah, that's one of those rabbit hole things that if you do go down it, you realize like, yikes, I'm wiping my butt. I went down the rabbit hole of tole paper. Yeah. We live in a fucking rabbit hole in the house. No, the rabbit hole of toll of paper. I think I should be on the Bobby approved app. I'm sure it's there already. We can check. I love it. So yeah, so you go to YouTube, any platform, search my name Bobby Parrish. We have a code too. Yeah, so if you want to get the supplement. So we have the all one protein smoothie. Summer's coming. We have electrolytes. It's one of the only ones on the market that uses real organic fruit instead of natural. flavorings, which is the biggest fly in the grocery store. We have these sleep gummies that are made of phytomelotonin that are the same thing, plants, plants and flowers open and closed at night. That's the same melatonin from plants. And it's the first seed oil-free, refined sugar-free gummy. There's no other gummy on the market. And I thought, is there a reason why? Oh, yeah, it's a little harder to make. It's a little more expensive, but you can do it. So all those products, yeah. So I think we created a promo code. If you go to the website, shopflavcity.com, you can get 15% off site-wide. just for Skinny Confidential users with Code Skinny.

Thank you for that. And if you guys, you guys, do you guys want to do a giveaway or something like that? Sure, let's do a giveaway. Let's give away all of Bobby's favorite products. Bobby approved. All you guys have to do is tell us your favorite part of this episode

on my latest post at Lauren Bostic and follow Bobby on Instagram, which is Bobby Parrish. Easy. I think our favorite part of the podcast is learning that Michael has to sleep in crumbs up your cereal. You know what? It's unbelievable. You know what? You know what?

I have to sleep in. Wait, hold on, you want to go down this rabbit hole? You know what I have to sleep in? I just bought silk pillowcases. Gorgeous silk pillowcases. Fucking monogrammed with his initials on it. Wow. He gets in bed the other day with his hair gel that we just found out has jet fuel in it.

Lays his hard helmet head on the pillow all over the brand new silk pillow case. And then he wants to meet a lay on the jet fuel. Organic bunny gave me Jack Henry. That's what I used to. It's amazing. It's not a jet fuel in there. There's jet fuel in the, no. There's jet fuel in his hairspray.

Don't let him trick you. Oh, hairsprays are no. Hairspray's not Bobby approved. I have 0.0% hairspray in my hair right now. I swear. I swear. But the pillow case is real. Yeah, that hurts.

Because I threw it away. Yeah, that's why. Because she threw it away. Literally she threw the whole thing away. I threw it away. No, because someone came on the podcast and told us that hair spray has jet fuel. You know what? When she irritates you now, I'm just going to look.

could and be like, you know, this is not Michael O'Poor. I've decided that I'm not going to hook up with you anymore if you are wearing hairspray. We'll see about that. Actually, I hate perfume, too. So, like, those perfumes and fragrances, like, I will not hook up with my wife if she wears perfume. You heard it here first. That's an exclusive, a skinny confidential exclusive. He does not hook up with his wife if she's wearing perfume. And guess what? You heard it here first. I will no longer hook up with you if you are wearing jet fuel on your hair. I will make you a bet that that's not true. Bobby, thanks for coming on the show.

My pleasure. Thank you, Robbie.