Speaker 1: Hey fam, Hello Sunshine. Today on the bright Side, we're
Speaker 1: popping off and dishing on the biggest pop culture stories
Speaker 1: of the week with comedian and former SNL cast member
Speaker 1: Sashir Zamata. So what's on our agenda today, Well, we're
Speaker 1: answering so many questions, like what's Beyonce's response to being
Speaker 1: snubbed by the CMAS, is there controversy with the choice
Speaker 1: for the twenty twenty five Super Bowl halftime show performer?
Speaker 1: And how much is okay to spend on beauty treatments
Speaker 1: and products in a year. It's Friday, September thirteenth. I'm
Speaker 1: Danielle Robe and.
Speaker 2: I'm Simone Voice, and this is the bright Side from
Speaker 2: Hello Sunshine, a daily show where we come together to
Speaker 2: share women's stories, laugh, learn and brighten your day.
Speaker 1: Happy Friday, Simone. It's been such a great week.
Speaker 2: Yes, we got some big sister energy from Latin Grammy
Speaker 2: winner Cheekys.
Speaker 1: I loved hearing from Olympic gold medalist Shawn Johnson East.
Speaker 1: We talked marriage, motherhood, gymnastics, and she was just so real.
Speaker 3: You know who that episode? My mom. She brought it
Speaker 3: up to me yesterday.
Speaker 1: There we go, me and your mom same page.
Speaker 3: Well all of us for sure.
Speaker 2: I also can't stop thinking about the science of happiness
Speaker 2: and the practical, tangible steps we can take to bring
Speaker 2: joy to our own lives. After we had that conversation
Speaker 2: with Karen Guggenheim, not gonna lie, I feel a little happier.
Speaker 1: Okay, how about yesterday with the Miranda Lambert. She's paved
Speaker 1: the way for so many other major female musicians in
Speaker 1: country music. Talking to her just felt like talking through
Speaker 1: country history and royalty.
Speaker 3: Yeah, she's a living legend.
Speaker 1: Well, we have such a fun episode ahead of us
Speaker 1: today too, but before we get there, it's time to
Speaker 1: spotlight our favorite moment of the week.
Speaker 3: That's right.
Speaker 2: You know, when we started this show, we made a
Speaker 2: commitment to share good news with you all, and we
Speaker 2: are going to be making good on that promise today
Speaker 2: because we have such a sweet and special story to share.
Speaker 2: So this week, a group of students at the James
Speaker 2: Madison High School in Virginia surprise their school custodian, Francis
Speaker 2: Apracu with his dream car. So the students started this
Speaker 2: GoF on me for Francis, their favorite custodian, after he
Speaker 2: told them he'd always wanted a jeep wrangler but could
Speaker 2: never afford it, so they wrote that ever since they
Speaker 2: met him, he's been so kind, friendly, and even sometimes
Speaker 2: says prayers for them. So the freshmen were determined to
Speaker 2: raise enough money to get him his dream car by
Speaker 2: the time they graduate.
Speaker 3: But the campaign.
Speaker 2: Actually exceeded their expectations and they were able to raise
Speaker 2: over twenty thousand dollars in just a few months.
Speaker 1: So incredible. Apracu spoke with Fox five DC just moments
Speaker 1: after he was presented with his dream car, and he
Speaker 1: was brimming with gratitude, and he said he could not
Speaker 1: believe this would happen in his lifetime and that he
Speaker 1: would never ever forget this day. You know, I'm such
Speaker 1: a sucker for a story about the power of community
Speaker 1: and impact of kindness. These will never get old for me,
Speaker 1: all right, Danielle, should we pop off?
Speaker 3: Let's do it.
Speaker 1: Joining us today is comedian, actress and writer Sashar Zamida.
Speaker 1: She's a Saturday Night Live alum and co host of
Speaker 1: the weekly podcast best Friends with her bestie Nicole Byer.
Speaker 1: She's appearing as a witchy superhero in Marvel's upcoming WandaVision
Speaker 1: spinoff called Agatha All Along, which premieres next Wednesday, September eighteenth. Sischier,
Speaker 1: Welcome to the bright Side.
Speaker 3: Thank you so much, Thank you for having me.
Speaker 1: All Right, well, we have a lot to chat with
Speaker 1: you about because you are one busy girl. We have
Speaker 1: to ask you about the long awaited series Agatha All Along,
Speaker 1: because you played the witchy superhero Jennifer Cale, which is
Speaker 1: opposite Catherine Hahn, and I hear that you and your
Speaker 1: other cast members got a little witchy even behind the
Speaker 1: scenes to prepare for this. Yeah, is there a coven
Speaker 1: text chain? Like what's happening here?
Speaker 4: There is literally a coven text chain. When there's a
Speaker 4: full moon, when there's a retrograde, we are texting each other,
Speaker 4: checking in on each other. I feel like the show
Speaker 4: really just brought out the witchiness in everybody, like people
Speaker 4: are exchanging Chris. On set, we were saging the set.
Speaker 4: Catherine bought everyone cleansing spray for us to like cleanse
Speaker 4: ourselves in the doorways.
Speaker 3: It was really cool.
Speaker 4: I'm already into that stuff already, and just to be
Speaker 4: able to be surrounded by people who were just like
Speaker 4: fully leaning into it felt really nice.
Speaker 1: Was there anyone on set freaked out by it.
Speaker 4: I mean, if there was, they didn't say anything or
Speaker 4: I didn't hear it. Anyway, I hope, I hope no
Speaker 4: one was freaked out by it. But I also think
Speaker 4: people were kind of like understanding that it was like fun.
Speaker 4: You know, we're not like really trying to like do
Speaker 4: anything demonic over here. We're trying to like enjoy the
Speaker 4: magic that we got going on and create something really cool.
Speaker 2: You're not casting spells on anyone in like craft service,
Speaker 2: let's say, the right.
Speaker 4: Place, unless I didn't get any gummy bears.
Speaker 2: Right, Gummy bears are craft service essential. I totally agree, truly. Okay,
Speaker 2: so shere, this is your first time on our show,
Speaker 2: so you don't know this about us, But Danielle and
Speaker 2: I frequently have debates about out woo woo principles and ideas,
Speaker 2: and I tend to be the skeptic in the duo,
Speaker 2: and Danielle is like much higher on the woo woo
Speaker 2: scale than I am. Yeah, So what would you say
Speaker 2: is the most woo woo or a witchy thing about you?
Speaker 4: Well, probably the fact that I have a voodoo doll
Speaker 4: in my altar at my house. Whow But it's not
Speaker 4: like supposed to be like evil or like negative against anybody.
Speaker 4: I made it when I was in New Orleans with
Speaker 4: a voodoo priestess, and she emphasized the voodoo dolls are
Speaker 4: not supposed to be to like get back at anybody
Speaker 4: or like bring evil upon someone's life. It's supposed to
Speaker 4: represent you, and it's supposed to be like, if you're
Speaker 4: looking for more financial abundance, you would put like a
Speaker 4: penny in the voodoo doll's stomach, or if you want
Speaker 4: more health, you would like put water in its mouth.
Speaker 4: You kind of take care of this doll as if
Speaker 4: you were taking care of yourself. I made this with
Speaker 4: a friend and we left kind of being like, well,
Speaker 4: I don't want to like have a responsibility. Like we
Speaker 4: kind of just like brushed it off, like that was
Speaker 4: a cool thing that we did and let's move on
Speaker 4: with our lives. And I ended up somehow taking both
Speaker 4: my doll and her doll. It was just like wrapped
Speaker 4: up in a plastic bag and I had them like
Speaker 4: in the corner of my room for months, and I
Speaker 4: remember being like, I don't like feel great, but I
Speaker 4: just felt like that and my friend did too, and
Speaker 4: like things kept happening in our lives. Were kind of like,
Speaker 4: what is going on? And I was like, do you
Speaker 4: think it's the voodoo dolls? Do you think it's the
Speaker 4: fact that I have these voodoo dolls like slumped in
Speaker 4: a corner, like wrapped in a plastic bag. And she's like,
Speaker 4: oh my god, maybe, And I like looked it up
Speaker 4: and like so many people online were like, you do
Speaker 4: have to take care of your voodoo doll if you
Speaker 4: made it, you like literally have to take care of it.
Speaker 4: I unearthed them from the bag, and like according to
Speaker 4: the online rituals, I like put sea salt on them.
Speaker 4: I wrap them in a white cloth and I just
Speaker 4: put them in a drawer so they could like be
Speaker 4: kindly stored for a minute while I figure out what
Speaker 4: to do with them. Then I brought my friends to
Speaker 4: her and I was like, I don't want to be
Speaker 4: responsible for your life.
Speaker 3: Please take your vooda doll away from me.
Speaker 4: And then I just propped mine in my altar and
Speaker 4: I sometimes like tell it stories or like wishes that
Speaker 4: I have, and I really feel like I've been living
Speaker 4: a better life since it's been out of the bag.
Speaker 3: You realize this is how every horror movie starts right,
Speaker 3: You're not wrong.
Speaker 1: This is amazing. I love how seriously you're taking all
Speaker 1: of this, even for me, the woo woo girl on
Speaker 1: the show. I don't want to feel haunted today, So
Speaker 1: I'm gonna move on to friendship to share. You host
Speaker 1: a podcast with Nicole Byer, and you guys are best friends.
Speaker 1: It's called best Friends. I feel like you guys are
Speaker 1: the new Oprah and Gail. Quite honestly, we even bought
Speaker 1: each other friendship necklaces. I'm curious as to what has
Speaker 1: been the defining element and keeping your friendship so strong
Speaker 1: over the years as both of you grow as people,
Speaker 1: as your careers change.
Speaker 3: I think communication, like any relationship, communication is really important.
Speaker 3: It's hard.
Speaker 4: You would think that with your friend it's easier to
Speaker 4: have hard conversations than it would be with like your
Speaker 4: family or your romantic partner, but like, it's still hard,
Speaker 4: and I like that we are able to do that.
Speaker 3: And I like that we have a show.
Speaker 4: That highlights adult friendship and how important it is in
Speaker 4: one person's life and how.
Speaker 3: It also requires work.
Speaker 4: I think sometimes people think, like, oh, my friend should
Speaker 4: just like accept me as I am, but it's like, well,
Speaker 4: we gotta we also have to work on this, Like
Speaker 4: this requires work. This is a relationship and if you
Speaker 4: want this person to like grow with you and stay
Speaker 4: in life, you also have to like compromise and ebb
Speaker 4: and flow and be upfront and authentic with each other.
Speaker 1: I love that you center friendship. I just saw read
Speaker 1: an article about how Aristotle said that friendship was the
Speaker 1: secret to a happy life. So all those thousands of
Speaker 1: years back then they knew that it's true.
Speaker 3: It really is true.
Speaker 4: Yeah, family is family, and relationships come and go, but
Speaker 4: you choose your friends. That's your chosen family. And if
Speaker 4: that feels good, I do believe that your life can
Speaker 4: feel good too.
Speaker 1: I agree. Okay, that was our warm up. Are you
Speaker 1: ready to pop off with us?
Speaker 3: I'm ready to pop off. Let's do it.
Speaker 1: Okay, first up is actually a big one. We're talking Beyonce.
Speaker 1: She covered the October issue of GQ, and we all
Speaker 1: got a little preview this week. We got photos, we
Speaker 1: got bits of the interview, and it's pretty rare that
Speaker 1: she doesn't interview, so you know, the internet got hype. Yes,
Speaker 1: she's talking about her legacy, motherhood, her newest business venture,
Speaker 1: which is Sir Davis Whiskey, and I found her views
Speaker 1: on perfectionism quite interesting. Spoiler she says, it's not about
Speaker 1: being perfect, it's about being revolutionary. Why do you think
Speaker 1: she came out to do an interview now because she
Speaker 1: doesn't do many of these.
Speaker 3: That's actually a really good question. I mean, maybe because
Speaker 3: she wants to highlight her career, or I don't know.
Speaker 4: I think maybe she doesn't do interviews because she's like,
Speaker 4: I'm gonna let the work speak for itself.
Speaker 1: Mm hmm.
Speaker 4: But maybe I wonder she's had some like really like
Speaker 4: unconventional work come out lately. This whole album was an
Speaker 4: unconventional country album, and so maybe she's like, I need
Speaker 4: to explain it to these dummies.
Speaker 3: I need to let me break it down right.
Speaker 2: But I also loved hearing her talk about just how
Speaker 2: strategic she is with her presence. She knows that there's
Speaker 2: such a huge value placed on her presence, and so
Speaker 2: she talked a little bit about how you know she'll
Speaker 2: dip out for a period of time because she's just
Speaker 2: she's protecting her privacy, and I think strategically she's trying
Speaker 2: to control the narrative whenever she does release art. I
Speaker 2: remember her saying, y'all ain't going to see me outside
Speaker 2: until I got some art to show you. Yeah, So
Speaker 2: just know that if I'm not out here doing the
Speaker 2: red carpets and the interviews, I'm taking time for myself
Speaker 2: and I'm protecting my piece. I really love that because
Speaker 2: I think there's this pressure to like broadcast every move that.
Speaker 3: You're making on social media.
Speaker 2: But she is pulling up her moves from the opposite playbook.
Speaker 4: And it makes people crave her more. Like once once
Speaker 4: you see her, we're like, oh my gosh, she's here finally,
Speaker 4: as opposed to like people who get overexposed and they're
Speaker 4: here all the time in our face and we're like okay,
Speaker 4: Like by the time they actually release music or art
Speaker 4: or anything or kind of like I'm all over you,
Speaker 4: you're like you've been here this whole time. So I
Speaker 4: think it's smart to like reserve her time.
Speaker 2: The overexposure thing is so real, and I think she's
Speaker 2: one of the few artists that can get everyone in
Speaker 2: a monoculture choke hold, like that's something that's so rare
Speaker 2: these days. But she's whenever she puts out art, it
Speaker 2: becomes an event.
Speaker 1: Yeah to both of your points. I think there's a
Speaker 1: big difference between a celebrity or an influencer and an artist.
Speaker 1: And I think celebrities and influencers think about relevance a lot,
Speaker 1: because you want to be top of mind so that
Speaker 1: you get that brand deal or that you're in the magazine.
Speaker 1: But when you're an artist, you have something that people crave.
Speaker 1: I think your value is in your vision, not in
Speaker 1: your relevance. And so she can dip out because people
Speaker 1: are craving her when she comes back.
Speaker 2: You know. Okay, We've got some more Beyonce related news
Speaker 2: to get to. So earlier this week, the Country Music
Speaker 2: Association announced nominations for the upcoming CMA Awards, and folks
Speaker 2: were surprised or maybe not so surprised to see that
Speaker 2: Beyonce's Cowboy Carter got zero nominations, and I'll tell you why.
Speaker 1: So.
Speaker 2: Her song from that album, Texas Holdham, went number one
Speaker 2: on Billboard's Hot Country Song's chart, and she made history
Speaker 2: as the first black woman to top the chart. Her
Speaker 2: album also spent four weeks on the top of the
Speaker 2: Country Album's chart. So obviously people are like, what's going
Speaker 2: on here, CMAS, Why are you not allowing Beyonce into
Speaker 2: this exclusive club of country artists that get recognized with
Speaker 2: your awards.
Speaker 3: And this isn't the first time that fans have felt
Speaker 3: this way.
Speaker 2: A lot of people thought that the CMA's previously overlooked
Speaker 2: Beyonce's song Daddy Lessons in twenty sixteen. She actually performed
Speaker 2: that song with the group The Chicks at the CMAS,
Speaker 2: and she even got backlashed for performing there because people
Speaker 2: didn't want a so called pop star on that stage.
Speaker 2: And then, of course, the CMAS also ignored Lelna's X
Speaker 2: in twenty nineteen. So I don't know about y'all, but
Speaker 2: this just got me thinking what exactly defines a country song,
Speaker 2: you know, like what makes something fit into the country
Speaker 2: music genre, because I listened to the artists that do
Speaker 2: get recognized by voting bodies like this, and it's poppy.
Speaker 2: It's poppy country music. So I'm just trying to understand
Speaker 2: where the line is.
Speaker 3: It is hard.
Speaker 4: Yeah, there are definitely country songs I've heard that do
Speaker 4: sound like pop, and then songs that I think probably
Speaker 4: are country and are not considered that. So I don't
Speaker 4: actually know. I'm not sure what rules they're using to
Speaker 4: define that. But I do feel like Beyonce kind of
Speaker 4: let us know she wasn't making a country album.
Speaker 3: She was making an album. This is a Beyonce album.
Speaker 4: And there are moments that I would think this is
Speaker 4: a country, and there's moments where I would think this
Speaker 4: is hip hop or this is pop. You know, it
Speaker 4: felt like so many different things, which I love. So
Speaker 4: I'm honestly not terribly surprised she wasn't nominated. And it
Speaker 4: did feel like she was like, I'm literally gonna make
Speaker 4: my own genre, Like I don't need you, I don't
Speaker 4: need you, I don't need country, I don't need your CMAS,
Speaker 4: I don't need any of this. I'm just gonna make
Speaker 4: my own nation of fans. I'm gonna make my own
Speaker 4: whole new genre of music. And she did, And I
Speaker 4: guess it would have been nice if she got nominated
Speaker 4: for a CMA. But also does it matter? Does it
Speaker 4: matter at this point? I don't think not to her.
Speaker 1: I think these award shows are mattering less and less
Speaker 1: to artists. I remember like Drake renouncing the Grammys. I
Speaker 1: think in this interview, she says good music and strong
Speaker 1: messages will never retire and that she's not really interested
Speaker 1: in the pop star formula anymore, so I don't think
Speaker 1: she cares, but I kind of care. I was a
Speaker 1: little disappointed. I mean, she made history as the first
Speaker 1: black woman to top the Billboard's Hot Country Songs chart.
Speaker 1: She's the first black woman to have led Billboard's Top
Speaker 1: Country Albums chart list, like she's been on the country charts.
Speaker 1: So I don't know what qualifies if that doesn't.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's a good point.
Speaker 1: Okay, do you guys remember Beyonce's halftime show?
Speaker 3: I will never forget it.
Speaker 1: Is it like for me? I was born in nineteen
Speaker 1: ninety one. It's like top three in my lifetime and
Speaker 1: I'm not even part of the beehive.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's a it's so good.
Speaker 4: Also, like every like if there's a halftime performer I'm
Speaker 4: excited about, I will go back in time and look
Speaker 4: at past performances I have liked, and Beyonce.
Speaker 3: Is always one that I'm watching and I'm always.
Speaker 1: Like, God, it's just so good. She's which other ones
Speaker 1: do you watch?
Speaker 4: Lady Gaga is a favorite, absolutely, Diana Ross is a favorite.
Speaker 3: I really loved Jlo and Shakira. I remember watching that
Speaker 3: live and being like like screaming my head off.
Speaker 4: I was like, oh my god, this is just so entertaining. Yeah,
Speaker 4: there's been some really great ones.
Speaker 2: I mean, speaking of snubs, Creed has never performed at
Speaker 2: the halftime at the Super Bowl halftime show. I mean,
Speaker 2: we need to talk about this, you guys.
Speaker 4: Oh my god, is this show we're all thinking this
Speaker 4: where everyone is thinking it.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna say, I watch Bruno Mars that was good,
Speaker 1: which Beyonce makes a little cameo, and that one. I
Speaker 1: watch the Janet Jackson one.
Speaker 3: That one lives rent free.
Speaker 1: In my mind, rolling Stones, I know, that's a little
Speaker 1: bit of like got a left field but killed it
Speaker 1: in the Super Bowl, and then Prince oh way, Princess Sometimes.
Speaker 1: Beyonce did hers back in twenty thirteen and she brought
Speaker 1: out Destiny Child members Kelly Roland and Michelle Williams.
Speaker 3: So wonderful.
Speaker 1: But it was just announced that Kendrick Lamar is going
Speaker 1: to headline this coming Super Bowl the twenty twenty five
Speaker 1: halftime show in New Orleans. Okay, Kendrick is a seventeen
Speaker 1: time Grammy winner, Pulitzer Prize winner, arguably had the Song
Speaker 1: of the Summer with Not like us, and he said
Speaker 1: in a statement that rap music is still the most
Speaker 1: impactful genre to date, and he'll be there to remind
Speaker 1: the world why they got the right one.
Speaker 3: Wow. I like that.
Speaker 1: There was a lot of controversy online people wanted Lil
Speaker 1: Wayne to be the halftime performer because he's from New Orleans.
Speaker 1: How do you feel about this this year?
Speaker 4: I mean, I'm a Kendrick fan, so I'm very happy,
Speaker 4: and he already performed in the Doctor Dre performance. Just
Speaker 4: like seeing how Kendrick utilizes dance and choreography and costumes
Speaker 4: and showmanship in his performance. It's so satisfying because, like,
Speaker 4: there are a lot of rappers who care about that stuff,
Speaker 4: but it's so nice when you see.
Speaker 3: Someone who really cares about it.
Speaker 4: And I think that is the perfect choice for a
Speaker 4: Super Bowl halftime show. Lil Wayne absolutely would have been
Speaker 4: fun too and would have brought out I'm sure Nicki
Speaker 4: Minaj and Drake and other people who have been under him.
Speaker 3: But I'm not complaining about the Kendrick choice.
Speaker 2: I am a weezyf baby fan, big, big time weezy fan.
Speaker 3: I feel conflicted about this.
Speaker 2: Part of me really wishes that Low Wayne would get
Speaker 2: his time on the Super Bowl stage. But that got
Speaker 2: me thinking about, Okay, how does this selection process work?
Speaker 2: So I looked into it and according to NPR, I
Speaker 2: don't know if there are any rules, but this is
Speaker 2: like the system. So the host city comes up with
Speaker 2: the list of names, and then they show that to
Speaker 2: the NFL, and then the NFL has to run it
Speaker 2: by all of its various board members. And jay Z
Speaker 2: is one of the higher profile board members. So just
Speaker 2: keep that in the back of your mind. And it's
Speaker 2: really up to the various board members because once they
Speaker 2: agree on a name, then they take it back to
Speaker 2: the host city and say, here's our pick. So I've
Speaker 2: read that some people think that the reason why Kendrick
Speaker 2: got chosen is because he infuses jazz into his work
Speaker 2: and New Orleans is the birthplace of jazz, And of
Speaker 2: course I think the real reason it just helps that
Speaker 2: he's super relevant on top of the whole Drake beef
Speaker 2: that's happened this year.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I can't think of it more relevant person.
Speaker 4: Yeah, well, I wonder if you know, because there's such
Speaker 4: an outcry, maybe they'll slip a little way in there
Speaker 4: somewhat like, you know, as a feature.
Speaker 3: That'd be nice. I think that'd be nice. That would
Speaker 3: be That's a nice idea.
Speaker 1: I love that we have to hate pause real quick
Speaker 1: on popping off. But we'll be right back after a
Speaker 1: short break. Stick with us, and we're back to popping
Speaker 1: off with comedian actress and writer Sashi Zamida.
Speaker 2: All Right, y'all, we are going to switch gears here.
Speaker 2: So The Cut recently put out an article entitled how
Speaker 2: to Stay Hot. Okay, first of all, I have to
Speaker 2: pop off on this headline, how to stay hot? How
Speaker 2: to stay hot? Are we not worthy of more?
Speaker 3: At this point?
Speaker 2: Can we talk about our intellectual attributes, our humor, our
Speaker 2: wisdom as women before we talk about how to stay hot?
Speaker 2: I just feel like we would never write an article
Speaker 2: like this about men, Like we would never tell men
Speaker 2: how to stay hot.
Speaker 3: I just think pretty fades.
Speaker 2: We should be thinking about other strengths that we have
Speaker 2: that aren't related to our appearance. But anyways, this article
Speaker 2: breaks down the average cost of beauty that women have
Speaker 2: shelled out in each decade of their life.
Speaker 3: So this article actually shared.
Speaker 2: The specific things that women do and how much money
Speaker 2: they've spent in each decade of their lives. So like
Speaker 2: in their twenties, in their thirties and their forties, fifties, sixties,
Speaker 2: all the way up to seventies. So instead of it
Speaker 2: being like time eras, it's more like our age range. Jase, Yes,
Speaker 2: which decade do you think was the most costly for
Speaker 2: women in terms of beauty thirties?
Speaker 4: Why thirties, Because I feel like that's when people are like, oh,
Speaker 4: I should get my shit together, Like I need to
Speaker 4: start now, I need to do preventive stuff. I need
Speaker 4: to do like post treatment, I need to do all
Speaker 4: that stuff. Because in twenty in your twenties, I feel
Speaker 4: like people are like.
Speaker 3: I'll live forever, I'll always look young. And then new
Speaker 3: your thirties, you are like, I'm realizing I will not.
Speaker 3: And then maybe when you get older, you're kind of
Speaker 3: like already set in a routine.
Speaker 1: Maybe that's interesting. See, I would have guessed, or I
Speaker 1: will guess that it gets more expensive as you get
Speaker 1: further along in the decades. Like I look at my mom.
Speaker 1: She has so many appointments and she's not even an
Speaker 1: appointment woman. Yeah, you know, but like she's covering the
Speaker 1: gray hair. I don't want to put her on blast.
Speaker 1: But lots of appointments. She's like, what great hair to
Speaker 1: the show every day. She's just like fire feels. She's like,
Speaker 1: get ready, Danielle. She always says that to me.
Speaker 3: I'm like, I can't.
Speaker 1: I don't like leaving my couch. I can't get ready
Speaker 1: for any of this.
Speaker 2: Okay, So Sashier was actually right in this case. The
Speaker 2: correct answer is the thirties, coming in at almost ten
Speaker 2: thousand dollars per year. So that's on average, what women
Speaker 2: in their thirties spent.
Speaker 1: What's happening wit You think that's a lot, Like no,
Speaker 1: like where are we I probably spend more than that?
Speaker 1: Like where what are we all spending on?
Speaker 3: Okay?
Speaker 2: So here are the most mentioned treatments corrective skin facials,
Speaker 2: laser hair removal, botox and filler, micro needling, red light therapy, masks, prolamination,
Speaker 2: and visiligne saunas. When you actually take the time to
Speaker 2: read this out loud, it sounds crazy, like are we
Speaker 2: really doing all this to our faces? In our bodies?
Speaker 1: I mean well, I think they also included like massages,
Speaker 1: lymphatic drainage, gel pedicures, manicures, acrylics, all that stuff.
Speaker 3: Yeah, there's a whole list.
Speaker 2: They even talk about lesser known treatments like salmon DNA therapy.
Speaker 3: Have you guys heard of this? No, are we trying
Speaker 3: to be salmon like what.
Speaker 2: We We're in our salmon era. So apparently it's a
Speaker 2: very painful procedure that's only available in Korea right now,
Speaker 2: and you're getting salmon blood and wait for it, reproductive
Speaker 2: fluids injected into the skin, which is supposed to help
Speaker 2: with sell regeneration.
Speaker 3: What huh?
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, Well, what's interesting to note about this article, though,
Speaker 2: is that after the thirties, that average yearly price tag
Speaker 2: actually goes down, with women spending roughly six thousand in
Speaker 2: their forties, then down to about four thousand in their fifties, okay,
Speaker 2: and then ending on around two thousand in the sixties
Speaker 2: and seventies.
Speaker 4: Yeah, ace for a while, I'm sure you're just like,
Speaker 4: this is how I look, this is what's going on, right.
Speaker 2: I hope that's my theory, and I hope that's what
Speaker 2: it's like, because that's that sounds very liberating.
Speaker 1: I don't know, I think I'm going to be trying
Speaker 1: to hang on for a while. I don't I'm just
Speaker 1: gonna be salmon treatments. No, I don't like exotic that salmon.
Speaker 1: I'm like, I'm like a kiss person, like keep it simple, stupid.
Speaker 1: But I have like a monthly routine. I do a
Speaker 1: manny petty, a massage, a facial. I have some some
Speaker 1: basic needs. I need meds to make sense.
Speaker 3: So how much do you think you spend monthly? I've
Speaker 3: never even broken it down. Yeah, I don't think I
Speaker 3: do much. I do facials. When I remember massage is
Speaker 3: when I remember.
Speaker 4: It's like, yeah, I wish I was a routine person,
Speaker 4: but it's really like, oh, I probably should do that, right.
Speaker 3: That's so relatable.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think I'm like minimum five hundred dollars a month,
Speaker 1: death probably more.
Speaker 2: I think I'm probably between three to four hundred, depending
Speaker 2: on the month. But for me, it's like all those
Speaker 2: little Sephora purchases, Like all that stuff adds up.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you run out of things body wash, gel, razor, blades.
Speaker 1: I don't know the things shampoo.
Speaker 3: I mean.
Speaker 1: Living in La, my mom and I get into fights
Speaker 1: because she tells me that I should just fly home
Speaker 1: to Chicago to get my hair highlighted, and I would
Speaker 1: still save money, Like LA hair highlights are out of control.
Speaker 4: I didn't realize I don't have hair for that reason.
Speaker 4: Really say, I save a lot of money my heart
Speaker 4: having hair.
Speaker 1: Have you did you always shave your head?
Speaker 4: I did when I was in college, and then it
Speaker 4: grew out into a fro, and then I kept it
Speaker 4: natural in a fro for in twists and braids such
Speaker 4: for years, and then every year every summer, really, I
Speaker 4: was like, I just want to get all of this
Speaker 4: off my head, like I would like shave the side
Speaker 4: and then eventually shave the sides and the back. It's
Speaker 4: just getting less and less hair as the years went on,
Speaker 4: and eventually I was like, I just don't want this.
Speaker 4: I just don't want this. I never want to do it.
Speaker 4: It's always in a ponytail. And so I shaved it
Speaker 4: all off, and I was like, oh my god, why
Speaker 4: isn't it like not like this all the time.
Speaker 3: I can't believe I spent so much time not being
Speaker 3: like this.
Speaker 1: Do you shave it yourself? How do you get to
Speaker 1: the very back?
Speaker 3: I do shave it myself.
Speaker 4: I just turn around in the mirror and hold a
Speaker 4: mirror in front of me and like, you know, hope
Speaker 4: for the best, but thankfully it's hair, so it grows
Speaker 4: pretty fast.
Speaker 3: You got one of them pretty heads, girl, because not
Speaker 3: everybody got a pretty head. Thank you all.
Speaker 2: It looks so beautiful. Thank you well, Soshier. It was
Speaker 2: so much fun having you on our show. Thanks for
Speaker 2: popping off with us today. Thank you for letting me.
Speaker 3: This is very fun.
Speaker 1: You and your pretty head are going to have to
Speaker 1: come back.
Speaker 3: I will, I will bring my pretty head. Thank you, guys.
Speaker 1: So Shir's Amidas a comedian, actress, podcast host, and writer.
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Speaker 2: It's time for another quick break, but don't go anywhere,
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Speaker 2: but today, I wanted to shake it up a little
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Speaker 1: Oh that's so kind of you.
Speaker 2: So we've talked a couple of times this week about
Speaker 2: how much you value your sleep. We know you're sleep
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Speaker 1: Okay, I don't understand what this is called because it
Speaker 1: sounds loud, but you're telling me it's going to put
Speaker 1: me to bed.
Speaker 2: Yes, it has six sleep sounds rain, Brook, ocean, thunder,
Speaker 2: white noise, and summer night. Oh my god, I know
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Speaker 1: I've never used a sound machine before, but I love
Speaker 1: the idea of falling asleep to ocean sounds. It's kind
Speaker 1: of reminding me of Malibu, even though I don't live
Speaker 1: near there. So thank you for thinking of me.
Speaker 3: I like this. I think I'm kind of a Brook girl.
Speaker 2: You'll have to let me know how that one sounds
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Speaker 2: That's it for today's show on Monday, We're joined by dancer, actor,
Speaker 2: Emmy Award winner and author Julianne Huff. She's telling us
Speaker 2: all about her brand new book.
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