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Dua Lipa Maxxing

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Dua Lipa Maxxing

A satirical and deeply personal narrative explores the long-standing dominance of lemon over lime in pop culture, symbolized by The Lemonati’s influence on music, soda, and media. 7UP counters this with a new lime-lemon soda, marking a symbolic rebellion. The story unfolds through a vivid travel account where the narrator recounts a whirlwind trip across Europe—ranging from Cannes to Italy and Copenhagen—highlighting both luxury and chaos. Key moments include a hot, bat-infested hotel room, spontaneous dancing, and a humorous "mash" game that inadvertently connects to real-life events. These experiences reflect a deeper personal journey: a break from screen time, a reevaluation of social interactions, and a return to authentic, unstructured living. Themes of manifestation, friendship, and self-discovery emerge, especially in conversations about freedom, vulnerability, and human connection. The narrative blends satire with warmth, using absurdity to critique modern culture, such as the overuse of "shushing" in public spaces. Ultimately, it celebrates spontaneity, personal growth, and a desire for meaningful, grounded life—ending with a heartfelt wish for a home with a corgi, a corner bed, and a life lived outside corporate norms.

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- For decades, a shadowy organization called The Lemonati has kept lemon on top and lime in the shadows. Look around, lemon-forward sodas, even lemon-forward songs. We ran the tracks, slowed them down, reversed them, and squeezed out the truth. ♪ All hail the lemon ♪ - That's lemon propaganda right there. But now, 7UP is fighting back with their new lime-lemon soda. Join the 7 uprising. Flip the sip. - Welcome back, frickin' frack. - Welcome to the jungle. - ABC Wednesdays. Abbott is back. - It's gonna be the best year yet. - Thank you, now we can finally turn this up. - And everyone's going wild. - Y'all think you run this school, but you don't. - It's going great. - Abbott Elementary. - Anything can happen in the jungle, right guys? - All new Wednesdays on ABC. - And stream next day on Hulu. - Okay. - All right. - You okay? - All right. - I'm ready. - Ready. - On a personal level. - Hey, little girl. Well, hang on, I don't wanna start like that. - Just do it. - Okay, hey, little girl. - Hi. - How are you? - I feel like it has been a lifetime and a half since I've seen you last. - I don't know where to begin and I don't know where to end. - I'm really confused because didn't we talk about Cannes together? - No, just like texted. - We, I was asking you how it was on this podcast. - I don't believe you were. - You were. I don't believe you were. Were you? - I definitely was. Did you go from Cannes to everywhere you were just all over the globe in? - Oh, hell yeah. - So that doesn't make sense then. What was the episode before I recorded with Lindsay? - I think I was getting, we recorded twice that week, remember? And then we released it. - Pre-recorded before you went. - Yeah. - So I'm very confused. But it's amazing to see you. - Likewise, it is amazing to see you. - Yeah, how have things been? - What a fabulous question. - Load me up. - Things have been pretty great. I have had a pretty uneventful few weeks, I would say, which I imagine is the opposite of you, Mr. Europe. So I'd really love to hear a little bit about what you've gone through because you seem, like every time I. - In comparison. - Saw you blast out on social media, you seem to be in a different country. - Brooke. - Couldn't keep track of your ass, your gorgeous ass. - My ass was like, so I like legit just went on a post-grad trip. Someone from high school texted me and was like, this is, you're doing the thing that like you do when you graduate high school, by the way. Like I was genuinely like, I took like a gap year just now. - You were on a gap year. - It was, Brooke, I felt like Dua Lipa. - How long was it? - Brooke, I felt like Dua Lipa. - You were Dua Lipa. - Dua Lipa. - I was just, I feel chipper. I'm like, seriously, like I feel recharged for the first, like I'm coming back and I'm just like, wow. - Are you like, I hate being back or you're happy to be back? - Two things, it's like, one, you feel like, I feel like everyone, like nothing matters. You come back here and it's like, oh, like, everything is so big and beautiful and. - The world? - Yeah. - Yeah. - So yeah, I feel good. It was amazing. It was the coolest trip ever. I like have never, I definitely since doing this, but like rarely in my life ever have I just like gone on like a trip with like no alter, like ulterior motive. You know, usually it's like. - Was it like a vacation, Connor? - It was like a vacation, Brooke. That's exactly what I was trying to get to. - Yeah. - It is crazy how there is a word for things that I tried to describe. - Yeah. - Yeah, it was like a vacation, Brooke. Yeah. I got my screen time down to an hour and a half. - Oh! - Yeah. - I could never. - It was, Brooke, it was amazing. - Yeah, how, can I ask how long you were gone? - I left on the 20th and I got back the sixth. So like two, a little over two weeks. - Three weeks. - 20th, 10 plus six, 16. - But there's a little extra from like 31. - Oh, so 17, almost three weeks. - Yeah. - So there's a lot going on. - Actually, how many days does June have? Doesn't matter. - Five of those was Cannes, and that was work. Even though it was fun, but it was definitely work. - What is Cannes like? 'Cause I don't have a, is it all influencers? I don't get it. Like I thought this whole time everyone was going to the film festival. - This, the film festival's right before, and then they let like, they let all the kids in. - Uh-huh. - You know, I think this was the biggest year that they've had like a lot of like creators come. It's like a marketing convention. It seriously like could take place in Vegas. - Okay. - But it's like where, it's where you do, if anyone doesn't know, I kind of learned what it was after. 'Cause there's, you're meeting with a lot of people, but a lot of people, like if you live in LA, and you don't make it out to New York, like you will see these people that you've been trying to meet in Cannes, 'cause everybody goes that's in like the marketing or like talent space, they all go there, and they, it's essentially just like chatting and going to, like talks about the creator economy, and how brands can be involved with, it was like, it was all creators. - That sounds hot. - It was 98 degrees. - Um, yeah. - And you're like outside, and it's also weird, like being right next to the ocean, but you have no time to- - You can't go in it. Oh, you didn't have any time to dip? - At like 6:00 PM every day, I would like run down and jump in, and then I had to run home and change, and go back to stuff, but it was like, just like edging us, you know, like we're just like looking at the ocean, but we have shoes and socks on. - I saw you, you led a few panels. - I had two panels. - What were they? - I got to talk to our friends at PepsiCo about the Doritos deal that you and I did, and it was amazing. - Really? - And everyone was- - What was there to say? - Well, there was a lot to say, because when, well, also I talked about Dylan and I doing a Super Bowl commercial with Doritos, and about how they, they like spent their Super Bowl budget like on me and Dylan, and they were like, "Do a Super Bowl commercial." And they didn't like, they were just like, "We trust you, do it." And I was like, "Oh, that's a lot of pressure." But it worked, and we like, you know, you just like, I was like so excited about that, that we like worked hard. And it was like, it is fascinating for people that like don't do what we do every single day. They're like, "Oh, I didn't think about like trusting," you know, 'cause sometimes we get a brand deal, and it's like, "You really want me to read this verbatim?" And, or like say X, Y, Z, it's like not gonna, people are gonna like hate this shit, this bullshit. And so just like telling them that, it was like eye-opening for them. But I was like, "Oh, I didn't realize that this is like groundbreaking info." Anyways, that was it. I got to see Britney. We recorded a little episode in Cannes with Britney Broski, who, by the way, I was scrolling yesterday, and there's like a huge dune, like for the new "Dune" movie, there's like a huge like moderated event. And I'm scrolling, and it's like Christopher Nolan, and blah, blah, blah, and Zendaya moderated by Britney Broski. - No, Britney is, is that girl. - It was amazing. And Mickey came on for a little bit too. We did a second episode with Mickey. - I don't think I know Mickey. - You need to meet her. - Yeah. - She's a lovely woman. - She seems very lovely. - It was amazing. Saw Henry, obviously, but then left Cannes, and I don't, do I do this whole, do you want me to walk you through the whole thing? - You do, 'cause I really don't even know where you were. - Well, I took like that- - And who were you with? - Well, get this. - Trying to. - I took like that week, that following week, I just blocked it. And I was like, if no one else is doing anything, I'm just gonna figure out like a train, and I'll take the train around like France for a week. - Yeah. - Great. And then like talking with people there, they were like, oh, I'm doing this, I'm doing this, I'm doing this. So like for two days, we went down to this Antibes, which is like, it's in South or North of Cannes, and it was like actual beaches and like restaurants and things, and it was like open, and there was no like riff raff. And then I went with my friend, Kai. Have you met Kai? - No. - He was going out to the Dolomites, to the mountains, to hike for two days. - What country is that in? - Italy. - Okay. - So took, I can't remember if we took a car or what, got on his itinerary, went to Italy, to the mountains, to the nicest, broke the nicest hotel I've ever been in in my life. - Unbelievable. Walk into the room. - Was there a tub? - Brooke, I can't even like, there's-- - I'm picturing a tub overlooking the mountains. - There's zero way for me to put into words how nice this hotel was. Like they all know your name when you, it was like White Lotus. Like they know you're coming. You're, all your like preference, like the dinner is like at a certain time, it's like a cruise kind of like where dinners like all come out and they like know when you're coming. So, and it's like, it was, had the nicest, it's just like infinity pool in the dawn. It looked like, Brooke, the hills were fucking alive. It was amazing. like spend a small fortune i haven't gotten my bill yet that's none of your business yeah i'm looking forward to it now i worry i worry i think i think about it often i do worry i do worry as well so but i did live it up so like whatever it ends up being it's a vacation you can't put a price on a vacation you can't put up but there are some things money can't one would have a higher one than another than different one if you could put a price on it which you can't you can you can and it and you will they will put a price on it will be it will be it will be weighing heavy heavily on my chest let us know the exact number when you get it i might i might it's good to be transparent about those things my nose starts bleeding no so so i go into this room and i'm like and this woman is german because we're in like a german area of the dolomites and the italian heard of the dolomites stop me if i'm going too fast no no no you're going the exact right speed honey okay so i walk in this room and this this german woman is like well you you i don't know the german i'm the i'm gonna try but it's like very they're very like you're okay like you're okay like you don't and i was like um it's very hot in here no because it was very much hot like sauna like 80 i'm talking 82 and she goes well the it's a it's a green hotel the ac turns on at 6 30 p.m until then there's no ac but you can open the door i said it is 94 out though so what exactly would that do and she was just kind of like well you're welcome to open the door and i was like okay well thank you for the in that invite um and so i was just like okay i won't spend any time in the room anyways and about 6 30 comes around and i go to the dermostat and it only goes i don't know celsius still but it only went down to two it went it was set at something and it only went down two and i i did the trend the translation celsius to fahrenheit and it went down it went down to 80 that was what they were giving me and so i walked in seriously i said i think my air conditioning is broken it only goes down two and they go that is what it goes down to and but they said you are welcome to open your door so i go okay this is one of those things where you make it work because there is no option so i i was going to have to understand because i had to yeah and so i go i'll open the door brooke i open the door a bat flies in my room oh a bat some are very cute i couldn't see it was moving so fast wall to wall bat bat bat and those that kind of thing like i'm saying bat right now i'm not terrified of bats bat in my room not your preference i didn't love bat in my room 82 degree room yeah i didn't love the bat in my room and so i'm kind of what i'm kind of like shoo shoo shooing it out but then i ended up sleeping on the ground on the tile in my bathroom because that sounds nice i couldn't know it was cold on my back i was laying on the floor because it was the only option and i slept with a towel at my expensive hotel that will probably um i'll probably be i'll probably be thinking about that for a while like whatever the cost ends up being and how i slept on the ground in the bathroom because there was a bat in my 82 degree room yeah that'll be a rabies shot you slept with the bat no i went shut the door to the bathroom and i slept in the bathroom because i couldn't i didn't see if it went out or not that took the primary yes okay anyways i know i should get a rabies shot anyway because i'm always doing stuff like that it just sucks with rabies because like once you start the symptoms like you you will die someone just got rabies and died yeah that's what happens yeah okay so we the next morning i i soft launch hey i need to leave here immediately to kai who i was with and he was like i've already because we're gonna stay at a different hotel like down the way with different hikes and stuff for two more days i said i actually need to leave pretty expeditiously yeah and he was on he was on board so we leave and we go to this little german town down the way but which was we were going to milan and there's nothing really eventful that happened in this little german town um besides the ac did go out there too so i slept in the hallway there oh i saw that that looks very cozy brooke i want to circle back i actually put it in my notes i want to circle back to that after this okay because i have to get this all you know i slept in the hallway for over a year or two maybe two years as a kid i want to hear about that bag okay can we put a pin in that specific okay so the next day we get word that mac demarco is playing it i don't know if you know mac heard the name i've heard the name he's a lovely man i think megan would is probably a fan of mac demarco if that kind of like yeah if that kind of like paints a picture um and i'm a huge mac demarco fan it was like since since i had the ability to download a song like not napster but like itunes i guess i've been listening to mac and we finagled tickets to the mac demarco show like in the front in milan and i like milan a lot i had the best meal of my life and then went to mac demarco i was like this is amazing and then we woke up the next day and went to abiza and i randomly had like a like six different groups of friends that were in abiza and there are good ways and there are bad ways to do abiza yeah we started with the bad way okay and because what's the bad way how you say there's an area that is like very much jersey shore the show except it's like british people got it and like not british in general like this certain type of british love island no like like jersey shore uk gem tan laundry abiza's in spain though right yes it's very easy to get to to from the uk okay i obviously have no concept i'm saying that because i heard it without saying i i've just i heard someone say that so i've just been repeating it fine to do so hung out in abiza for a couple days um i'm trying to think if there was something else in this little portion that i wanted to tell you no there's nothing it was just like an amazing trip i danced my ass off i'm like loving dancing lately maybe it's because my screen time is lower now that like now i'm remembering like you are allowed to move when you're out and brooke i did three days in a row where i went to a club granted two days two of the days i i had to excuse myself and just say i can't do this but the third day i stayed out till five in the morning at a club dancing wow it was amazing it would like change my life i'm serious that's awesome yeah there's much hate in this world but not in that room not when i'm shaking my ass i love that you were spreading love in that room we went and saw dom dolla who will probably never cross your desk but i would love to at some point sit down with you and maybe show you his catalog okay i think you would he was this someone from his team like invited us to come up to his green room and we were hanging out with him before the show he's coming to new york they've invited us to come to the he was just the sweetest coolest guy and then we had an amazing show and i'm running into people in the club in a b-zit four in the morning that i know from like venice it was so weird world isn't it very it gets smaller as we age yeah so at this point my friend tyler has come our friend tyler has come and joined us in our airbnb and we're all in there and i like could not go home at this point i was like i can't believe that this is coming this is wrapping up and time for me to go to my apartment which i need to talk about yeah like pretty bad yeah i'd love to hear as i tell you this amazing story about a b-zit my bathroom's flooding brooke yeah in real time in real time there's a puddle yeah there's a i had i left the puddle there yeah and it was growing so we tyler is on his way to meet his friends in copenhagen and i go let me just like check the flights copenhagen to new york because if that's easy it was it was an easy flight to copenhagen i went to copenhagen for two days i talk about vancouver so much copenhagen neck and neck it was the coolest city brooke you would love copen no that that's the part of your trip that looked like i would want to go on it was so so dreamy like right in this city it's all biking and swimming i like the concept of biking we biked everywhere and it was so bikable and it was like you're going over these rivers and you're back and forth and everyone's on pikes and we went and got great food and we had wine and we swam it was just like you're joking you know this is here this has been here the whole time wow oh okay oh okay okay has spent decades keeping lemon on top and lime in the shadows their lemon agenda has infiltrated everything even our music that hit song named after the color of lemons not a coincidence big lemon has been pulling strings in the industry for years think about it but now seven up is fighting back with their new lime lemon soda now lime comes first seven up flip the sip welcome back freaking frack welcome to the jungle abc wednesdays abbott is back it's gonna be the best year yet thank you now we can finally turn this up and everyone's going wild y'all think you run this school but you don't it's going great abbott elementary anything can happen in the jungle right guys all new wednesdays on abc and stream next day on hulu i hate mondays king's hawaiian cinnamon swirl bite taylor hansen sure i'll try one hmm you hey let's get back to work please but taylor hansen's making my day way better with these new soft and swirly king's hawaiian cinnamon bites taylor hansen nice try one king's hawaiian cinnamon bites there's nothing like it got it wow well i'm glad you had the summer of a lifetime and it's only july 7th and you know what make that july 8th even wow i had no idea yeah well and that's that's really that i'm looking forward to my my bills coming through but i am too yeah i'll send them i'll send them your way please do i'm so curious i know i was budgeting i was budgeting elsewhere for this trip so i think that it will it will all even it will all come out in the wall even out in the red it will all come out in the wash girl it will all come out in the red i agree no don't say that stop saying that i'm scared oh lord god i don't even want to know because my flight home was come on give us a number it was more than i would have liked to spend but i did have to like a you had to get home i hit the ground running here i had to move into my apartment so i did have to lay down flat yeah yeah from copenhagen to jfk yeah you had to lie down flat i don't see another way my tubes were tied i had to lay down yeah yeah uh well that's it i mean that's like truly that is it for me and if i'd never go on another trip i'm that's fine i really i did my big one and i feel good about what i did out there and i left it all on the field with my boys that's great yeah thank you for sharing blessed be the fruit blessed thank you the can thank you the can do you think you'll go back to that? the can it was very much a lot and i just want to recommend that you never go okay no i wasn't i don't think that we're a match no i mean it was a lot it seems very businessy which is just something that i've never personally been drawn to it was like i've never networked i don't think i've ever networked which like maybe that's a privilege but it's just not like an ability that i have because networking to me is the same as small talk it's just like not gonna happen champion appreciate you though i would go to like if there was a bar and the theme was networking like i go there every night i know you are connor networking wood can i say something? what? that i know i know people are gonna be upset with me if i say this okay i just want to say like i have we have different jobs obviously but like i was walking down south here and i walked past a happy hour and everyone had a suit and tie on and the girls had their like corporate dresses on and they were wearing lanyards and i said i want that and so i'm gonna put my suit on one day and i'm gonna go to happy hour and act like i work i've never wanted suit and lanyard but i have wanted desk job you know that yes i know that yeah but like there is such a beautiful beautiful harmony in happy hour with your co-workers like let your fucking hair down and put your land take your lanyard off stay a while yeah no i'll go to the same happy hour as you after my desk job brooke i would love and this is gonna it feels like we're larping but like i want to larp you no i really want i do want to work in publishing in my other life you would be you would be good you'd be a very i don't know if i would be good but publishy still i i like the the idea of you yeah i like the beat i do i am i am truly like and maybe i'll vlog it i'm gonna put on my suit and tie and i'm gonna go to one of these happy hours when it cools down i can't imagine when it cools down a three-piece right now yeah bless your heart bless your heart but um i was in florida yeah i saw that which is different than europe but not by much no fort lauderdale is very similar to nice totally i was in the i was very far north on the gulf where the water is hot and clear in an amazing way yeah i'm i'm i love that water it's great and like no one from did you know about seaside no i didn't know about seaside yeah 30a yeah because no one like for like in the northeast like my parents had like never heard of it no one i had never heard my sister lives oh right like it's not somewhere that northerners know like it has been gatekept completely and it's just really the best place yes yeah patrick family um yeah patrick knows because he's from texas too like that is the like spring break with your family yes trip i just really didn't know about it until a few years ago it's just remarkable it's where they filmed truman show exactly it is that picturesque it's a little unsettling but it is like completely like you have died it is it really is remarkable um it was fun something happened i've always you know since i was a little girl been kind of uh in tune with i guess the manifestation space yeah you know i i've been manifesting since i was really a young girl and we've seen that happen in live time um i do i think i don't think i'm full witch but there's something there that is not in everyone i think not to toot my own horn i did something that like would maybe was the most witchy of all this trip do i know anything about witchy? anything about what you're gonna say or no? no wow i don't think yeah not at all cool we were out to dinner they gave us crayons and a white sheet as our tablecloth so i'm playing mash i'm mashing everybody at the table sure so i mash our friend alexa and i gave her four options for a husband okay and if if you guys don't know what mash is it's basically like you build your perfect life you pick a few choices and then you you narrow everything down at the end um so i gave her four options too bad husband options which i won't say because it's mean and too good um which were joe burrow and vince vaughn both like kind of random but like people i know alexa likes sure um i forget who she ended up with i want to say vince i want to say vince um lucky girl then we go home patty patrick's mom says oh vince vaughn and joe burrow are in seaside which is where we were and we were like haha good one and she was like what do you mean good one and we were like because of the mash like very funny and she's like what is mash and then we realized like she wasn't sitting near us at all at dinner and she was like what is mash and then we realized like she wasn't sitting near us at all at dinner and then we realized like she wasn't sitting near us at all at dinner and then we realized like she wasn't sitting near us at all at dinner and then what did you scream and then what did you scream we were like wait what are you talking about she hands us her phone she's in the 30a facebook group where someone has reported that joe and vince separate as separate entities have been spotted in seaside i i when i tell you like it was really just like the most random thing me putting them down on mash like i had no clue that those two young men like were anywhere else and i was like oh my god i'm anywhere near us and then for them to to be in the vicinity was really really jarring is that not so weird no it's like hard to believe it's hard to believe i was really like it made me think like i need to be really careful i need to be really careful with with what i write down sure yeah so that really freaked me out um so i'm looking forward to hopefully like some more things that we've manifested coming true now that i feel like my abilities are maybe heightening with age i i think that they're getting stronger i would love if you did one or two for me i know i i have been i have been i mean you're you're manifesting too what do you want what do you want i'll give it to you well i i'll text you i'll send you a text okay um maybe write it down on a white tablecloth that seemed to be very a proven method you're manifesting two very very powerful men to marry one of your good friends and i i'm slept in the bathroom with a bat like this is not the same level of i mean i just like it I have manifested a lot for myself I guess but like I do wonder like why that one piece is kind of not maybe it will it will come to fruition because it has to yeah it'll understand who cares genuinely speaking of like magic I I'm gonna go into this really quick like there's there's a much larger piece at play here um I know I said a while I'm gonna talk about my apartment yeah I want to hear about it there's I know I said a while ago do I get the place that's kind of a little more sterile but it's 100% AC doorman it's a building or do I get the place with character and I said I'm going character I don't think anyone would think for one second that you would choose the easy option we knew you were going character due to unforeseen circumstances I'm breaking my lease are you actually I'm breaking the lease are you are you really it's on it's it's it's on level it's flooding like what is wrong what is happening one month I'm breaking I'm I have to it's it's there's they're constructing a school next door and they start at 7 a.m everyday hammers on my wall it's like I have to I have to walk away from it I have to I have to I have to just because of the construction no there's it's it's bad it's just a bad place I really I gave it my all for one day it's it's hard and I really feel like I break a lease it's it's going to it's going to hit my it's going to hit my credit score like the second building it is going to be detrimental but I have to put myself going back into the red too I have to put myself first you have to put yourself in the red I need to I need to it was just so hard coming back from Europe and then going to my hole my hovel I like literally yesterday walked past my old apartment and like you know those Disney movies for like they're not grateful so they turn invisible and like they see their family and yeah they're like I'm grateful I'm grateful I'm grateful I was standing outside my apartment like I'm grateful do you wish you stayed there what do you wish you stayed there yes but also I had like a moment of clarity where I was like you had to leave that behind like you do need to move forward I moved around which that was a mistake and that should have been I'm not a mole like I need to live above ground like it's just what was I thinking you know um a big like wake-up call for me it's like been raining for a couple days in New York and I guess that's probably where my toilet's flooding it could be completely unrelated also I have no idea but it's been raining so it's been like dark and crappy out and I spent like the morning and then I have to tell you about my morning I spent the morning like walking around my apartment and I was like oh it's like so cozy in here that it's like it's thunderstorming out and like I'm in my little hole and like this is actually nice I walk outside could not be a more glorious 80 degree morning sun's out not a cloud in the sky I thought it was thunderstorming because of the leak it was like leaking in my house it was like completely like a Glenn Powell of a day like just sunny perfect smiling down on me and I was like oh okay I need to break my lease today that's funny so I'm gonna make be making some money and I'm gonna make some money some calls when I when I leave it's always but I I was a little late for that because of the puddle but I also I was feeling a little off this morning I went to the gym and I'm not gonna say my trainer's name yet because I don't want to like already put him in the mix even though I really really f with him yeah but um he's he really he really he really pushes me and I said I want to be very clear with you I have not gone to the gym and I'm not going to go to the gym I'm not going to go to the gym I'm not going to go to the gym I'm not going to go to the gym I'm not going to go to the gym about three and a half for almost four weeks and he goes that's okay we'll take it easy um I threw up period period yeah I threw up I had to excuse myself pretty much like after the warm-up that was all core and um I went behind this wall to throw up outside I was just like I I'm so sorry like I must have eaten too close to coming to work out I'm like really sorry I'm like I'm really it's hot and I'm sweating so much and I get outside and I I was under control you know like I'm looking around there's no one here and I finger my what yeah the pull trig and I'm like okay I feel better and I'm like and like like no one was hurt here this is like a no what is it no one harmed in the making of this well no it's like a it's like a no harm no foul no victimless crime you know like and I turned to my left brook like cycling class all facing I it was like a it was like a I was in front of a window I was looking this way there was a wall here but there was a window full cycling class facing the water and I was out like on the river pulling trig face they're facing me so I had to I went if anyone understood it's somebody in the middle of the cycling class yeah that those you would never know like a lot of the a lot like there all in really good shape but like they don't this is gonna I'm probably shouldn't even finish this sentence like it's kind of an unassuming incredible feat of athleticism that like people that walk among us like normal people are like doing those classes regular it's an it's unbelievable to be able to finish one of those classes I completely agree I've done one in my life and I gave up that was the closest I've been to the light the only reason I made it mark castle on a hill by Ed Sheeran came on understand was it a remake and brought me a little bit closer back down to earth was it a remix no it was the regular wow yeah I felt like I was cresting the hill you are like throwing out really good one-liners right now in terms of like descriptions cresting the hill yeah oh I'm back I'm completely back in in my in writing mode yeah I forgot how is that going uh good I don't know it's hard because I haven't gotten any feedback yet so I'm kind of just like going and like I think it's good but for all I know I could send it in and and people and they could be like start over you know and that's okay yeah you can do that yeah totally oh that's awesome we will see but we are in motion good the lemonati has spent decades keeping lemon on top and lime in the shadows their lemon agenda has infiltrated everything even our music that hit song named after the color of lemons not a coincidence big lemon has been pulling strings in the industry for years think about it but now seven up is fighting back with their new lime lemon soda now lime comes first seven up flip the sip welcome back frickin frack welcome to the jungle abc wednesdays abbott is back it's gonna be the best year yet thank you now we can finally turn this up and everyone's going wild y'all think you run this school but you don't it's going great abbott elementary anything can happen in the jungle right guys all new wednesdays on abc and stream next day at zocdoc we know you care about your health you wouldn't do that early morning cardio if you didn't so the fact that your annual physical is overdue just shows how hard it can be to get seen by a doctor sorry that doctor's not a network press one for more options you've reached us outside normal business hours the next availability is in three months but zocdoc makes finding the right doctor easy download the app and search by specialty insurance and availability read real patient reviews then book instantly zocdoc ready to be seen yeah no time off no time oh absolutely not i would not want that no uh ah yeah i'm um i'm kind of just over here i guess we have something coming up next week no it's not next week two weeks yeah oh yeah it's not next week um we're going on a trip together i'll say that about that brooke is so excited no i i actually like truly like it will be so fun i know that for a fact once we are there and i'm excited to be in this space with you it is a it's a big travel day for me and then another one coming back and i've just just about hit hit my limit with that but it's going to be okay because it has to be um and it will be and i am genuinely excited now i was just kind of panicking because i had just come off of a trap a really big day and that's understandable and but now i'm fine i'll be okay for our thing which will be extremely unique i'm excited personally i'm excited for once we got there yeah i saw the invite last night who's in that seth rogan olivia wilde she directed as well penelope cruz ed norton just four people it's not new it's completely new no it's not those four people are together on a set in 2026 completely wow maybe we are so bad we are it was fabulous really i have to say and i think like my past judgment of her was clouded by like the don't worry darling drama and my own internalized misogyny which i am working on tackling every single day period olivia wilde is a talent it was of course i never really noticed like the direction of a movie because i'm real i'm not a cinephile by any means but it really was remarkable and her acting was really really incredible so i know what i'm doing she's got a new fan in me i think it was all four of their best performances wow it was really good and there was also something happening during the film that like as it was happening i was like i'm so excited to tell everybody this because it's the hardest i've laughed in a really long time but it just doesn't translate unfortunately which i hate when that happens it's just not funny when i explain it basically well actually at the beginning of the movie lights are still on trailers just started everyone's like going to their seats filing in to the theater a guy turns to me sody and frankie and says can you stop talking so i can watch the trailers none of us respond we all just look at the guy and his girlfriend is sitting next to him like so embarrassed or wife like he was an older person um and like i can't stress enough like everybody who's in the theater is talking very beginning of the trailer lights on people taking their seats like it wasn't a quiet it's not a quiet time yet by any means um you something to say about the guy telling you i thought you were going to tell you were going to say it was quiet time no no i'm biting my nails okay great which i should stop um and that was pretty jarring and so the movie starts and the young man next to me laughed in a way that was like the joker's condition you know meets goofy but like at parts that weren't funny and so the entire theater began like laughing with him because his laugh became the highlight of the experience and like i the guy in front of me was just so miserable and it was like the best karma that's nice watching but that was the best part of the experience was this guy laughing throughout the whole film and everybody kind of just responding to his laugh cute that's the human experience but yeah everyone was like having a great time except for the guy in front of us so i don't wish well well there is times when you need a shusher like you do like someone it's always nice when the shusher steps up like if you're on a plane and someone's got no headphones on and they're watching them tick tocks or whatever the trailers don't be a martyr for the trailer no i'm all like i don't like i get upset when but like trailers lights on people going to their seats like do not tell me to be quiet i i didn't know that there was a type of person that is sat for the trailers like that i'm going there this is part of my movie ticket experience i didn't know that that was a type i and i did know that i myself enjoy the trailers but you're not you don't ask people to be quiet during them yeah it was pretty and i don't take well to that to like that stuff in general like being shushed being shushed yeah yeah being told to calm down stuff like that like that's my like uh-uh we're not doing that thank you though um and so that was it just seeing him get what he deserved was just it made me is that good was that close it yeah it made me feel really great i'm excited that you had that experience good for you thanks but the movie was just so good i don't know to see it i didn't know it was like a theater thing how is like nothing how am i i know i guess my screen time's so low now exactly but also i'm not like i never know when a movie's coming out because like i'm not seeing trailers where would i see them the movies yeah um also the trailer that he told us to be quiet during was the odyssey and frankie kept going like this plays at the beginning of every movie if you haven't seen it by now like like she was so pissed talking back to the shisher we were all kind of talking to him but like not at him like i kept going whenever he started talking because he started he kept talking so he was just no it was like i can't it was just like it was he was really like evil like he he was an evil person like i've been thinking about him for quite some time and i'll be thinking about him for the rest of my life like i can't really convey like i can't like he he was like i think that there can be a little bit of good in most people but like i don't think him i don't think that for him can i send if i sent you an episode of always sunny would you watch it it's possible one episode one episode yeah was someone shushed it's about a shusher i i the entire episode is them trying to find the shusher because it's it does not sit well with their soul no it didn't sit well with my soul yeah i'm gonna send it to you and i i pray you will watch it i think you'll find i think you'll like it i think you think i'll connect with it i think you'll find it good yeah oh it made me so angry connor and i don't like to be angry no oh hell oh hell no oh hell no oh my gosh anyway well you made it out alive out and through i'm going on uh i hope he goes into the red i think he will if there's anything i know about the shishers they're they don't bode well um i'm trying to think of a way that i can tell you my college friends are coming this weekend yeah i felt bad because i like didn't offer anyone to stay at my apartment but i there's nowhere to stay and it's flooding and it's underground i'm sure that they would be fine i feel like they're gonna walk and be like you live like this um but i was with one of my this is like a very this is another situation where like it was so funny in the moment like i'm gonna retell it like i don't know if you're gonna think i hate when that happens so it was like dusk and i'm with one of my friends that i haven't seen since college essentially like we talk a lot we just haven't seen each other and we're walking and we pass this older woman and she has a walker and she goes hey and i was like hi how are you and she goes i love seeing two gay guys walking around west village and i go okay and she goes especially when they're fugly and i was like oh wow look at her closer right tit is out and then she goes she's at the bottom of the curb and she goes can you help me up the curb and i go we had to help her up the curb tit out wait who was the other guy my buddy from college that i haven't seen in like the longest time it was just like that was our one interaction we had before we parted ways was with this oracle wow one titted oracle wow that stuck with me and it's just so funny with you it's just so funny to see this woman essentially she's stuck at the bottom of a curb with her tit out throwing around she had she had like the the most powerful she had the most powerful tit out in boston wow in one small old woman tit out walker body bottom of the curb stuck wow and she's like fuck it and you helped her we did help her what choice did we have i didn't tell her put her tip back and i feel like no no no that's not your price to pay for for just yeah running around with hate in your heart but like do you feel like she had hate in her heart it was impossible to tell but like the shusher had hate in his heart like that's something i knew yeah she did and i i do wonder like did she leave her house and go i'm gonna just go yell at people and be crazy but like she was in like she was complimenting like she loved seeing a couple gay guys she she loved it fugly i forgot about fugly i forgot i did i forgot about fugly that was what got me i was like all right totally but she loved to see it i guess yeah i don't know to each their own but her her boo being out which is like you can't even write this stuff and then she's stuck at the bottom of a curb just like yelling at people i was like this is so this is very i think that there could be levels to that situation like almost like greek mythology did you ever see brother where art thou or no no you should what is it it's brad pitt and i don't know any other people People in the movie. Deja vu. But it's from. i think it's from the odyssey i think it's built on the odyssey but it's like a modern rendition of the odyssey i think we've spoken about this we have to listen to the song briefly in the bonus it's we have oh wow this is done this before we've been here before i'm pretty sure this is all cyclical it's amazing how we get to the same place a lot of the time but we take a vastly different route i like kind of like that wait who can i see who else is in it really quick sorry george clooney george clooney not brad pitt that's right oh yeah and john goodman i know him i don't know any of the others i do not know this man sorry to this man oh i met kiki palmer oh i love her how was she exactly like what you'd want that's amazing to be like the sweetest sweetest woman ever i want she's she's she's gone to the sun now in terms of being the most famous person on the planet she's always been on the sun i would love i feel like she had like a renaissance like she popped in and was like did y'all i'm kiki palmer like but i feel like for a while it was disney and then i didn't really see her and then now she's like oprah you know bottoms up right her song yeah that used to be when i used to hike runyon like that's the only song i could listen to when i was doing the incline i don't even want to think about the runyon incline please makes me feel super sick the runyon incline but i am rejoining the equinox but a different location with the pool because i'm going to be doing laps now keep me updated yeah i got goggles and a speedo and like already in my house wow yeah next step join the gym lap it up um swimming is probably the best exercise you could possibly do what part of my body will it affect and how quickly your shoulders and back i don't like that's the thing i care about the least it's only gonna do shoulders and back no use your whole body your core it burns a lot of like i think it's like a very high burning like exercise because you're using your core your legs your arm in the face i don't 10 to 15 pounds what part of your body does swimming target or tone even it's your full body muscle shoulders and arms shoulders and arms i'm i'm good with arms i just like the shoulder piece i could i don't really care core your legs and glutes it takes care of everything yeah that's my exercise goal is i want there to be a difference between my butt and my upper thigh my bathing suits are all diapers same i want to fill out a bathing suit um me too don't don't start you know you know you have a great butt do you have a good butt well i want i want the shoulders in the back from the lap i will give you my shoulders and back okay in exchange that works for me i'm that works on my end i've been talking my toes so much it's like i feel you in the studio i haven't been touching my toes so i feel you over here wow did you know this is where they film ride no they film right here right benny and marybeth i didn't know that so i like the power that i'm harnessing here i'll be there with you like next month i think i know when what are the dates i don't know just i just we'll talk about it okay but i don't really know i do know but i'll just tell you later okay are you stressed yes okay how do you know i can sense you kind of look like ella langley right now really yeah i've never gotten that before yeah maybe it's from where i am is it my bangs growing out and your makeup i think really i got new mascara yeah maybe it's that and i'm tan yeah and you're tan i don't think we look up ella langley i don't know if i know exactly what she looks like we watched her music video i know how was your 250th american birthday um i was asleep by 7 30. i came home from florida on the 4th because i did i wanted to be with my boys for my cats for the fireworks yeah in case they got spooked but we all slept through them i um didn't even know it was the fourth oh right like i guess they don't celebrate the fourth of july in other countries i i learned at like 11 p.m we finished dinner and we went to this bar to watch the soccer and the soccer mm-hmm thank you and and this person in copenhagen goes happy independence day oh and i said oh wow thank you and i thought he was just talking about me in general because i went up to order the drinks for everyone and i was like oh my god it's the fourth of july wow wow um oh brook copenhagen just i'm gonna be spending some time there i know i i would i would love to go we haven't been to like the cozy parts of europe i've really only been to like either like the urban parts or the beachy parts amsterdam and copenhagen i think are pretty similar yeah but i had this perfect apartment from airbnb and it opened up on both sides like there was a terrace on both sides like a small like little patio where you smoke your little cigarettes and there's like a good-sized living room good and the breeze would blow straight through and i took a nap one day brooke after we listen to this day woke up walked to coffee the queen sent the marching band through town which like she does every every thursday or whatever marching band goes by while we're having coffee walk back home grab my bathing suit bike to this wine cafe that's on this dock that so you sw you get your wine and you get your little sandwich sandwiches and then you swim and then you and you like jump up and you sit in the sun and you eat your sandwiches and you drink your wine by tom was were your sandwiches on a baguette yeah what what was on the baguette it was like meats and cheeses and tomatoes because tomatoes are in season right now yeah heirloom and so we get back to the i have like two hours till dinner i lay down in the sun with the breeze going over me listening to tom mish in copenhagen and i was like what the hell is going on and i'm like what the hell is going on and i'm like what the hell is going on and i'm like what the hell is going on and i'm like what the hell is going on and i'm like what the hell is going on and i'm like what the hell is going on breeze is going breeze is going but i felt like a cat it was like i under in that moment right there when my eyes were closed and i was drifting in and out i was like i'm like as far as i know i am schrodinger's cat it was glorious oh god i could go back i was watching an extended scene of the office yesterday that i had not seen before yeah and andy um was teaching everyone the concept of schrodinger but not necessarily the cat it was the wall like you don't know that the wall is behind you right now is that just an object permanence it's an object permanence thing yeah i guess you're right like you only know that the wall is behind you when you're looking at it like right now when you're looking at me like you can't tell me that the wall is behind you with 100 certainty that reminds me of the song i got and and this sun's still shining when i close my eyes it's a there's actually no way for him to know that the heat could be could be from something else a hair dryer yup that's reminding me of like when people remember when people go i'm not touching you i'm not touching you i'm not touching you because like you're never actually touching anything yeah you're gonna get you're gonna get my fist in your mouth in a second i'm gonna touch you yeah not you specifically but like someone doing that to me yeah don't even think about doing if anyone out there was thinking about doing that to me stop you right there would you rather someone shush you or i'm not touching you i'm not touching you i'm not touching you i think i'm not touching you yeah a shush stays with you because it's like that's one of those things that builds and you're in the shower like oh i should have said that i know oh brooke i'm mad for you now it actually just sunk into me no yeah you're an adult man don't shush someone don't shush someone i do want to say in my next apartment that i'm going to have very soon i'm going to put my bed in a corner i'm done faking it i'm not a middle of the room bed guy i'm i'm putting my bed in a corner and that's just i want to be a corner bed person i loved when my bed was in the corner in my last apartment that looked like a hospital it i don't think it it looked like a hospital. Well, it did when my bed was in the corner and I had my like Kindles stand that looked like a ivy yeah stand yes and like the color of my walls was very kind of like sterile your popcorn ceilings were like i think my hand brushed them at some point it was bleeding a lot that apartment was like the quintessential first los angeles apartment that you get yeah your couch i hate your i hated your couch the leather one several times yeah it was like i only had that for like a few months it made me sweat so much yeah there's there's not a lot of right ways to do a leather couch there are some i'm getting a leather couch for the next my next place and it's going to be like a lived in like big fat like it's going to it's going to look like one of those dogs with the ears that touch the ground the basset hounds i want a couch when i'm looking for my dream couch think basset hound got it i genuinely you get it and i want a corgi a corgi of a couch no just a corgi you want a dog a corgi i think i really have latched with a specific corgi russell which on the internet no patrick's boyfriend's corgi russell is the light of my life and so i do want a corgi send me a photo and i i am like once i move once i get myself a house and have a backyard and a catio i am gonna have a lot of cats and a corgi how many i like a lot connor i want a lot of cats i don't think i think it honestly depends what were you gonna say what's the cap i don't think you should do more than i really really encourage you not to do more than four oh i won't that's like a good limit like i thought you were gonna say two two's a lot two's a handful i wasn't gonna do more than three or four okay three i would love if you stopped at three i i'm not gonna do more than five brooke don't do five what can i do three in a corgi please think about i want you to think about five cats right now i am thinking about it i feel amazing thinking about five cats makes me feel amazing i i have that thing of where i love one frog two frogs but when they open that toilet ball and there's like 40 frogs in that toilet and see when i see a tiktok of like 20 cats roaming around i say give me give me 14 of them you would want five cats i want all of the cats that's really maybe i i i will foster like a lot of them although i'm gonna fail no don't say that yeah you're gonna you could have a lot of them but i'm gonna say give me a lot of the cats that's really maybe i i will foster like a lot of the cats that's really maybe i i will foster like a lot of the cats that's really maybe i i will foster like a lot of the cats that's really maybe i i will foster like a lot of the cats that's really maybe i i will foster um lindsey who i recorded with last um lindsey who i recorded with last um lindsey who i recorded with last week wanted me to let everyone know that week wanted me to let everyone know that week wanted me to let everyone know that she is single now she is single now she is single now so if there are any young women that so if there are any young women that so if there are any young women that would like to reach out to her you're would like to reach out to her you're would like to reach out to her you're completely uh able to do that now completely uh able to do that now completely uh able to do that now yeah as things have things have changed yeah as things have things have changed yeah as things have things have changed since we since we since we last recorded with her um and if you are a real estate agent in um and if you are a real estate agent in um and if you are a real estate agent in new york city new york city new york city and could throw me a bone or if you're and could throw me a bone or if you're and could throw me a bone or if you're a lawyer a lawyer a lawyer um or if you have a really good um or if you have a really good um or if you have a really good like thing that you said like thing that you said like thing that you said what demo team what demo team what demo team yeah if you want to fake a fire sure yeah if you want to fake a fire sure yeah if you want to fake a fire sure um i meant like with the like what's um i meant like with the like what's um i meant like with the like what's that ball called that ball called that ball called wrecking ball yeah wrecking ball yeah wrecking ball yeah i had to think what miley said i thought i had to think what miley said i thought i had to think what miley said i thought what is miley cyrus yeah yeah what was what is miley cyrus yeah yeah what was what is miley cyrus yeah yeah what was the name of the song wrecking ball yeah the name of the song wrecking ball yeah the name of the song wrecking ball yeah that's the machine that's the machine that's the machine you need um ty pennington you need um ty pennington you need um ty pennington i need um i need um i need um i need some help so if anyone can help me i need some help so if anyone can help me Thank you. 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Podcast Summary

Key Points:

  1. A secretive industry group, The Lemonati, has long promoted lemon over lime, influencing culture, music, and products.
  2. 7UP is now responding with a new lime-lemon soda that flips the traditional order, symbolizing a shift in the industry's power dynamics.
  3. The narrative blends satire and personal storytelling, using pop culture references like "Abbott Elementary" and songs named after lemons to highlight cultural bias.
  4. A traveler’s detailed account of a chaotic European trip reveals themes of freedom, exhaustion, and unexpected connection, including a surreal moment involving a bat and a "mash" game.
  5. The journey underscores personal growth, including reduced screen time, reconnection with self, and a desire for more authentic, unstructured experiences.
  6. The conversation touches on deeper themes like manifestation, social dynamics, and the absurdity of modern life—such as being told to be quiet during trailers.
  7. Humor and irony are central, with moments like being shushed at a film premiere or a woman complimenting gay men while stuck at a curb.
  8. The story ends with a return to grounding, including a desire for a home with a corner bed, a corgi, and a meaningful life outside of performative or corporate routines.

Summary:

A satirical and deeply personal narrative explores the long-standing dominance of lemon over lime in pop culture, symbolized by The Lemonati’s influence on music, soda, and media. 7UP counters this with a new lime-lemon soda, marking a symbolic rebellion. The story unfolds through a vivid travel account where the narrator recounts a whirlwind trip across Europe—ranging from Cannes to Italy and Copenhagen—highlighting both luxury and chaos.

Key moments include a hot, bat-infested hotel room, spontaneous dancing, and a humorous "mash" game that inadvertently connects to real-life events. These experiences reflect a deeper personal journey: a break from screen time, a reevaluation of social interactions, and a return to authentic, unstructured living. Themes of manifestation, friendship, and self-discovery emerge, especially in conversations about freedom, vulnerability, and human connection.

The narrative blends satire with warmth, using absurdity to critique modern culture, such as the overuse of "shushing" in public spaces. Ultimately, it celebrates spontaneity, personal growth, and a desire for meaningful, grounded life—ending with a heartfelt wish for a home with a corgi, a corner bed, and a life lived outside corporate norms.

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The Lemonati is a shadowy organization that has spent decades promoting lemon over lime, influencing products, music, and culture to keep lemon on top and lime in the shadows.

7UP launches a new lime-lemon soda where lime comes first, directly countering The Lemonati's long-standing lemon-centric agenda.

The music industry reflects The Lemonati's influence through hit songs named after the color lemon, signaling a deliberate campaign to elevate lemon in popular culture.

'Flip the sip' symbolizes a bold reversal of The Lemonati's dominance by putting lime first in a soda, representing a stand against traditional lemon-led industry practices.

The show’s theme of flipping the script—such as in the episode 'Welcome to the Jungle'—parallels the campaign to flip the lemon-lime hierarchy, reflecting a broader cultural push to challenge established norms.

Brooke’s trip exposed her to vibrant, unstructured adventures, helping her realize the value of spontaneity, travel, and disconnecting from daily routines to feel recharged and present.

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