In this episode of The Antidote, Amy and Grace connect with actor, comedian and podcaster, Bowen Yang, about Soundcloud music mashups, bad dates in New York and formative romcoms.

Amy and Grace share their bummer news of the week: a nationwide lifeguard shortage and strawberries spreading Hepatitis A. Eww!

Amy and Grace also share their antidotes for the week, which include reconnecting with their favorite places and people, from Portugal to old friends to bad restaurants from their twenties.

This week’s Creative Tap-In:

“Vulnerability is the birthplace of innovation, creativity, and change.”

- Brene Brown

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Amy The world is a dumpster fire. I'm Amy.

Grace And I'm Grace.

Amy And we want to help. And fair warning. Our help comes with some strong language attached. So, you know, like, get your kids out of here, because we about to say some things.

Grace As a reflex to the f---ing madness on the news for keeping it positive, uplifting, but opinionated.

Amy We talk about cultural moments we love.

Grace Talk to people we adore.

Amy Crushes we have.

Grace And self-care we stan.

Amy During these trying times we all need to show that focuses on joy.

Grace This is The Antidote. Hi, everybody. Welcome to another episode of The Antidote. We are so happy to here.

Amy I'm happy to be here, but I'm also like a little, like, bummed we recorded on Saturday mornings and like. June gloom is in full effect. Yeah.

Grace It's really, you know, you're used to the Los Angeles sun and, you know, just during May and June, there's just always like fog in the morning. It's like really makes the city look gray.

Amy It's really odd. It usually burns off around lunch, but it does mean that every morning. And for people who don't know, maybe people outside of California don't know that June gloom is like a thing in the L.A. area. And it's it really just like wake up, you wake up and you feel like you're, like, sleepy and behind, which I always feel. But you feel it like even more during the month of June, because the sky is so gray and you're just like, Why is the sky reflecting my mood?

Grace Oh, that's funny. Like, sometimes I like it because, you know, I'm from the you know, I'm from Michigan and I spent a long time in New York. And so you spend large stretches of the year when it's sort of foggy and cloudy and cool and stuff like that. So it kind of gives me a homey feeling sometimes.

Amy Oh.

Grace Because sometimes.

Amy I moved here for the weather.