In this episode of The Antidote, Amy and Grace connect with author Ijeoma Oluo about the importance of community, the art of make-up, and not shrinking back.

Amy and Grace share their bummer news of the week – A certain famous singer doesn’t want Virgo dancers on tour, and neighbors threw a note over the fence after hearing a woman having sex with her windows open. They also share their antidotes: a new Netflix documentary about personal finance, and Trader Joe’s overnight oats.

This week’s Creative Tap-In:

“You can't use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.”

-Maya Angelou

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FULL TRANSCRIPT

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

Grace And I'm Grace. We're comedy writers in Los Angeles.

Amy And we want to help.

Grace As a reflex to the f---ing madness on the news, we're 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 a show that focuses on joy.

Grace This is The Antidote. Hi, everybody. Welcome back to The Antidote. We missed you so much.

Amy We missed you. It's been like a month. A month plus?

Grace I know. Like, what is the life without this podcast?

Amy I know what were y'all even doing. How did you even go on?

Grace Yeah. Like what happened? Like what happened while we were gone? Like, you know, send us a little message or something. We want to know what was going on.

Amy Well, actually, we did get a message from someone. Did you see?

Grace We did?

Amy An antidote listener who goes by at Writeous_Warrior and that's spelled W-R-I-T-E-O-U-S underscore warrior. That's right. They're a writer. They said felt my anxiety creep up a little this week, so I started working out on my elliptical again. I always feel better after that and I'm just going to go ahead and add hashtag. That's my antidote. And I love that they shared this.

Grace Oh yeah. I used to stand that elliptical machine that used to be like my main machine when I had the strength. And right now I don't even have the strength anymore. I used to be on that puppy for 45 minutes to an hour. So I am so happy that your elliptical machine brought you peace and joy this week, Writeous_Warrior.

Amy I also haven't seen a lot of you in the last month, so like what have you. What have you been up to, my friend?

Grace Oh, so much. Just, you know, catching up on some projects and you know, yeah, I'm going to do my Thanos, you know,