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I'm Julian

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Fields. I'm

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Levegar. And

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this is the Perverts Podcast, where we venture

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into horny online subcultures and take you along

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for the ride. So what's your

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wellness routine look like now? A day in

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the life of JF? Well, as you may

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or may not know, I am a full

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disciple of Dr. Wilcole. I'm Paleo. So in

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keeping with what Wilcole prescribed Leve, I eat

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dinner early in the evening. I try to

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eat 6 or 6.30, so I'm really done

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eating by 7. And then I

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do a nice intermittent fast until I usually eat something

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at about 12. In the morning,

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I'll have some things that won't spike my blood sugar,

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right? So I have coffee, I'll

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have celery juice with lemon, lemon water, but

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I really just use the morning. For me,

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it's important because as you know, I have

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trouble with methylation, so my body is not a

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natural detox. I'm not good at it. A

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lot of people, it's absolutely a part of

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their biology and process. I'm not one of

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those people, so I get impacted by things

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more heavily. And then I exercise in the

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morning. I take my binders in the morning.

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I take binders for, again, like poor methylation. I'm

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still dealing with some mold, even though it's

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probably good by now. I would think it's

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in the past. I think it's in the past, and I try

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to do one hour of movement. So either I'll

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take a walk, or I'll do Pilates, or I'll

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do my Tracy Anderson, then I do my infrared

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sauna for 30 minutes. Not every day. Some

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days I can't. I don't have time. Or

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sometimes I'll do the higher dose of infrared blanket

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if I'm not home. But for me, it's really

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important for me to support my detox, because I

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have fucked up methylation. And then for

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lunch, I have something. I really like having

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a soup for lunch. In fact, I have won

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a new soup at Goop Kitchen, which is like

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this green soup that I warm up. It

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comes cold, so it kind of retains a lot of vibrancy. But I

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really like soup for lunch. I have bone broth for lunch

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a lot of the days. And then for dinner, I have,

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oh, I forgot the part about my wellness

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practices. I do TM meditation for 20 minutes

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every morning before the coffee. I

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try to eat according to Kaleos, lots of

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vegetables. I live in California, so there are

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farmer markets all over, which is such a

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blessing. Like all the vegetables. Things that are

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in seasons in local farms, and then any

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kind of fish or birds. Then I try to

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get a little bit clever with carbohydrates. So

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sweet potato noodles, or we make

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tacos with the Seattle Green Cheese

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Taco. And I find the more

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that I get into the habit of not trying to cook,

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it was harder at first when I thought, I'm going to have to

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be able to make all the doors and sizes. And

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in the current group, like there's going to be a

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real... But

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you know, I think if you ate

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dinner at my house, like most people when my friends come over,

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they have no idea what they eat. Like healthy

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food? No, or what would a food be like? It's

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just good, nutritious, and any food. Yes.

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As you're recording this right now, you have

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a little idea, which is on-hand for both

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of us. Why product have an IV advantage?

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Because it's really embarrassing for my friends. So

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much. You're a busy

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person. You're running a company. So like, do

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you do IVs very often? I love an

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IV. I'm an early IV adopter. And especially

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because, you know, from other genetic stuff, like

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I can't make it lower on certain vitamins,

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or glutathione. I love to have an IV, kind of

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a random, more fringy one. Plus it's his own

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colon. That's my favorite IV when I can find

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them. They're quite hard to find. Yeah, it was

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hard to find. And it was making me feel

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so good. Did you know what else I could

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do with this? The

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fact that we're recording another episode of Perverts

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about Goop, and then our guest is Anna

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Merland, senior staff writer at Vice and author

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of Republic of Lies. Welcome, Anna. Thank

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you, I think, for having me. This

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is maybe the first time where I'm like absolutely certain

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we've tortured our guest in advance. Really?

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You're correct. I really regret this

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deeply. Yeah, we're going to be

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getting into the fact that, yeah,

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Gwyneth Paltrow somehow made a, like,

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sex scoop show in 2022. So

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bear with me through stuff that

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could... be just considered

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perverted in a general sense before

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we get to many different interesting

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things including finding out what sexual

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blueprint live and I fit of

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the five types, which is going

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to be interesting. It's perverted in the sense

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that it's like wrong, you know? Yeah, yeah.

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Like not in the other episodes. Yeah, like

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it feels worse on the inside for me.

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But you know, I'm sure somebody's going

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to write in because somehow making fun

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of Skyrim sex mods with big tittied

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women called like the breeder Dragon

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Master or whatever got people angry

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at us. That was

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like the last one but you know what?

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I should never underestimate our little perverts out

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there. You guys are into all

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kinds of cute stuff and

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we love your messages. Yes, we

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do. Yeah, Skyrim cut cage mod

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got people mad. Surely

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there are goofies. There's a hundred percent

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good of goof people. Always have a

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sizable portion of the audience is just

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like crossing their fingers every week to

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be like, please not mine. Yes, no,

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100 percent. Some

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seem like my favorite audience

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members and this is for

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you out there. You're my favorite. My little favorites

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are the ones who want people to cover

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like they want us to cover their thing

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because they have a sense of humor about

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it. They're into it, but they also know

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it's funny and want to be made fun

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of. Which might just mean they actually just

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have a whole second thing about being made

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fun of. Very

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possible. I don't know. We're just caught

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in a web of kinks and desire

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and anger and frustration and I just

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wanted you guys to come with us

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on this trip and find out more

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about yourselves and possibly live and I.

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Because Hannah's definitely not doing the test with us. Hannah's

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looking at us like what the hell. Before

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the jade vagina eggs, the pussy scented

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candles, and the coffee animas, there was

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goop. And before goop, there

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was GP, which is what people call Gwyneth

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Paltrow. In 2008, the actress started

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writing a newsletter which she named after

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herself. You'll notice that Goop starts with a

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G and ends with a P. The two

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O's came from somebody telling Paltrow that all

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successful internet companies contained these twin vowels. Thus,

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Goop was born. Did

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you know that, Liv? That's insane. I

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thought it was just, you know, the

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substance. No. Because they got some Goop-y

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products. They do, but she started with

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Gwyneth, Paltrow, and then she oohed

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in the middle of her goop-a.

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And now, Goop. This

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is like the brand equivalent of

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those like really rich guys who named

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their kids like Augustus or whatever. Because

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they realized like, oh, people with weird

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names do really well. Yeah. Yeah,

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I mean, Oprah is just easier. You

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just name it O, and you're already

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basically like your every good thing about

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wellness. It's a circle. It's holistic. It's

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perfect. Oprah's perfect. And Gwyneth

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Paltrow could never. She's jealous. At

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first, the Goop newsletter included recipes and

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a guide to living like the actress,

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or more specifically, a guide to visiting

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the same businesses Paltrow frequented and purchasing

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the same products and services that she

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enjoyed. What differentiated Goop from other such

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newsletters and magazine sections was its inaccessibility.

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Here's from a 2018 New York Times

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Magazine article by Taffy Broadesser-Ackner. GP didn't

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want to go broad. She wanted you

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to have what she had. The $795

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G-label trench coat and the $1,505 Bettany

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Vernon S&M chainset. Why

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mass market a lifestyle that lives in

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definitional opposition to the mass market? Goop's

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ethic was this, that having beautiful things

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sometimes costs money. Finding beautiful

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things was sometimes a result of an immense

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privilege. But a lack of that privilege didn't

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mean you shouldn't have those things. Besides,

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just because some people can't afford it doesn't

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mean that no one can and that no

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one should want it. If this bothered anyone,

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well, the newsletter content was free. And so

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were the recipes for turkey wagyu and banana

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nut muffins. This is one

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of the most amazing passages. A lack

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of that privilege didn't mean you shouldn't

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have those things. Yeah, why? why

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let not being able to afford

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a thing stop you from having it? That's

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so gauche. I mean, it's honestly just

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you're undervaluing yourself and you don't have...

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What do they call it? An abundance

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mindset. Mm-hmm. It's honestly elitist to not

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sell people $800 vibrating necklaces. By

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2013, Goop was incorporated. It

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would grow to become a, quote, clothing

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manufacturer, beauty company, an advertising hub, a

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publishing house, a podcast producer, a portal

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of health and healing information, and a

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TV show producer. Along the

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way, Goop became interested in women's private

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parts. This included their minds and their

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souls, but also their pussies and assholes.

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In 2015, Paltrow first got flack for

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recommending vaginal steaming, specifically the Mugwort V-steem

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from the Tikkun Spa in Los Angeles,

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which I'm not familiar with, but I'm

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gonna have to go and check this

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out. I wonder if they offer like

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a testicle steam for men. Yeah, surely.

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Definitely. There's actually a women's spa here in

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LA where you can sit in a Mugwort tub,

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and I'm very sorry that you cannot experience it

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because it is really nice. Oh, that sounds

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nice. I mean, that sounds more like... That's great. ...witchy,

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like you're making a broth. Who would not want to

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sit in a vat of tea? It's great. Unless you're allergic

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to Mugwort, which I've had two friends realize while they're sitting

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in the tub. Which is not

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great. It's not great. Anyway. You've

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