Mini-Ep 417: A Fox Stole My Shoes
Doree starts a hair loss regimen and Elise shares a TLC correction because she accidentally killed T-Boz. Plus, listeners call in with another dish towel rec, hot takes on shopping at Costco, how to take care of yourself during the pre-election times, and perhaps the most iconic voicemail we’ve ever received!
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Doree: Hello and welcome to Forever35, a podcast about the things we do to take care of ourselves. I'm Doreeee Shafrir.
Elise: And I'm Elise Hugh. And we're just two friends who like to talk a lot about serums,
Doree: And this is a mini episode where we hear from you, we share your comments and your thoughts, and we answer your questions to the best of our ability. Please remember, we are podcast hosts. We're not experts. We always encourage you to seek support first and foremost, from a medical and mental health professional as needed. How's it going, Elise?
Elise: Well, we have to do kind of a morale check, don't we? Because we are less than a week out from the election As Of this airing. Yes, and I was thinking this morning, so I'm not sleeping great. I'm having some restless nights, and I was thinking this morning that I wonder if there's really a difference if there's a definitive win or a close win either way, even if there's a definitive win.
Doree: My instinct is no.
Elise: That's what I was thinking.
Doree: No matter what happens, there's going to be people saying it was, they'll come up with some crazy story. You know what I mean?
Elise: Yeah. I just feel like we have to buckle up. We're having to buckle up. I'm still really doing everything I can though to make sure people are casting their ballots. My ballot is cast. I hope yours is to
Doree: No, Rob was. Mine is not, but
Elise: It will be. It's in the mail though. I mean, it already came to you, right? It's available,
Doree: Yeah. I like to walk to my voting place in person and
Elise: I like that
Doree: Because as we all know, mail-in ballots are
Elise: Possibly going to get contested. Yes,
Doree: Exactly. Just kidding. I'm kidding everyone. I'm kidding. Mailin ballots are perfectly safe, but I do like to vote in person also because I want to take Henry. It's like a whole thing.
Elise: Yeah, I am signed up. I'm calling. I'm phone banking, phone banking voters in Nevada. Rob was door knocking in Arizona over the weekend. He said he was really heartened by it though. There's a lot of folks who are just like, eh, can't get moved to do anything either way. And that's what's so tricky though. I am encouraged by seeing all these early voting numbers. Early voting is through the roof in Georgia. It's double what it was in 2020. I don't know who those early votes are for.
Doree: I mean, that's the thing, right? It's like we don't know. We don't know.
Elise: In some states where you have to report which party, you have to choose a party affiliation. There are way more early votes cast by people who have voted democratic in Pennsylvania, but then there's a partisan advantage for early votes in Arizona and Nevada. So far in some states, Democrats are turning out more in early vote, in early vote numbers, and in others, the Republicans are, and so same. We're back to where we started, which is we're back to where we started. This is a very tight race, and I'm wishing everybody ease. Ease. I also have a big Maya culpa for this episode,
Doree: What you did,
Elise: And I told all of the listeners that we would promptly issue a correction because I accidentally killed tea.
Doree: Oh, yes, you did. And I had the thing where I was like, I don't think that's right, but she probably knows better than I do. You know what I mean? When you have that thing, when someone says something so authoritatively that you're like, yeah, that must be right.
Elise: Also, this was in the context of the kids these days not knowing anything. Yes, yes, yes. The whole point of that story wasn't about who was dead and who was alive. Totally. The point of that story was that the girls didn't seem to know what TLC stood for. So anyway, just at the top of the show, I just wanted to apologize for accidentally killing TBAs of TLC, and it was actually Lisa left Eye Lopez who died tragically in a car accident.
Doree: I mean, to our listeners credit, we got many responses about this. Lot of texts, lot of texts. So thank you everyone.
Elise: Yes, thanks for thanks, the careful. Listen,
Doree: Thanks for the careful.
Elise: Listen, I'm making sure, and for your knowledge of the status of all TLC members.
Doree: Yes. Yes. We appreciate you. Also, we are going to have our former guest, Rachel Goodwin, make up artists to the stars back on the show, and we would love to get your questions for her. So if you have questions about makeup skincare, being a makeup artist, being a celebrity makeup artist, anything, call or text us at seven eight one five nine zero three nine zero or email us at Forever35 podcast at gmail com so we can get those questions together for her. And I also just want to mention, I know sometimes people, they might not listen to the end of the show, they just listen to the top of the show. They don't really care about other people's questions. But I will say at the end of this episode is a truly iconic voicemail,
Elise: Great teaser,
Doree: One of the greats, one of the all time greats. I don't even think I'm overselling it.
Elise: I haven't heard it yet, so I cannot wait.
Doree: You haven't heard it yet. You're going to experience it along with our listeners. It's a real classic. Before we take a break though, want to tease? I want to tease something else. Wow. I'm tease today.
Elise: Look
Doree: At me. So many. In November, we are going to be doing a series of episodes on menopause and perimenopause and
Elise: Just getting older
Doree: And just getting older and all the things. And I recently went to the dermatologist because I've been getting some stuff frozen off of my body, and this was like a follow-up, and he was looking at my chart and was like, anything else you want to talk about? And I was like, well, since you're asking, I was like, I've been losing hair. And he was like, Ooh, well, let's take a look. And he did say that it did seem like it's largely a tealium of flum, which is basically a response to a stressful event.
And I was like, so my life, he was like, maybe three to six months ago, did you have a stressful event? It could be. It could be an illness, it could be just anything really stressful. I was like, well, I didn't have covid six months ago, but my life has been very stressful lately. But then he is like, but let's take a look at the top of your hair, the top of your head and see if there's anything else going on. He's like, I do see a little female powder and baldness. And I was like, great. My mom lost a lot of her hair. She still has hair, but she's lost. And I was like, I knew this was coming, so I am now taking a very small dose of minoxidil. I have this other stuff that I'm putting in my hair. He said it would take a couple, minimum a few months to see results, but I just want to lay the groundwork for this that I'm going on this journey and I'm going to take everyone along with me.
Elise: I join you in this struggle too. I lost a lot of hair after I had my babies every time. And then there's just a patch on the side of my head that just never came back, and I was told to take neutrophil eight times a day, but then that seemed very expensive.
Doree: Neutrophil is so expensive. I will say getting this stuff prescribed and getting it prescription was very cheap. It was, I think for both of the medications, I paid $12. Now maybe I have good insurance, but I think it was, they're generic. I guess I'm saying. You don't need to get, you don't necessarily the fancy vitamin. Get the fancy. Yeah, exactly. I had once taken a different supplement that is supposed to help you regrow hair, and it made me break out so badly that I had to stop taking. And then my hair stylist was the one who'd recommend it, and she's like, oh, yeah, that can happen. I was like, well, let's see how the minoxidil
Elise: Goes, because that's proven we'll
Doree: How this goes.
Elise: Yeah.
Doree: Yeah. Okay. This is going to be exciting. My hair is also quite long. It hasn't been this long in a while, and I don't know, I'm kind of like, whatever. I don't care. Maybe you're supposed to have shorter hair when you're losing your hair, but I kind of like long hair, so I'm just going to keep it long. Great. Great. Yeah. Your body, your choice, my body, my choice, my hair, my choice. Okay. We're going to take a short break Before we do that, reminder that we have a website Forever35 podcast.com for links to everything we mentioned on the show. We're also on Instagram at FE 35 podcast. Our newsletter is at Forever35 podcast.com/newsletter, and you can shop our favorite products at shop my US slash Forever35.
Elise: We'll be right back. We'll be right back.
Doree: I write we are back. I have also been talking about how I did newly for our photo shoot and you've done newly in the past, and we got a funny text about this that said Reini up four 15 on buying newly pieces. This is referred to as a foster fail among my friend group.
Elise: When you're fostering a pet and then they become yours, you adopt them. That's what happened to my gene.
Doree: Yes. I thought this was so funny and so apt, but in all seriousness, there is a sweater in my latest newly that I think I might buy.
Elise: Yay. I put my newly on pause. I'd been doing it for a couple years, I think, and I finally just put it on pause for these winter months because I have fewer events that I need to have something fresh for. And also I'm in a season of austerity, and it seemed like something that I could pause. I'm also taking a closer look. All my subscriptions, I think I subscribed to too many streaming services and cks and all that stuff adds up. So
Doree: Doing a little pruning. It totally does. It totally does. Next text, we have another comment on dish towels. Great. Ladies listening to the ongoing dish towel conversation, and I'm surprised no one has mentioned the Trader Joe's ones, they come in all kinds of colors last forever are thin, yet super absorbent and combined with a seasonal candle, make a perfect host gift. Trader Joe's for the win also should specify they're the cotton towels, not the waffle weave.
Elise: I actually had a question about the Trader Joe's dish towels when I was last at Trader Joe's because we've had dish towels on our minds because we had the question and then the various recommendations that have come in. And then I was in that aisle with the soaps and cleaning products and things and saw the dish towels and thought, huh, I wonder if these are any good. So now we know they're worth trying. Now we know they're worth trying. But the cotton, not the waffle leaf.
Doree: The cotton, not the waffle weave. Exactly. Okay.
Elise: Alright. We have a text response to a question that I threw out there to y'all last week, which is how you are taking care of yourselves pre-election.
This listener writes, I voted early and sign my dog up to take her therapy dog exam on election night. This way I'll have a reason to take a break from watching the news and staring at my phone twenty four seven. She is hilariously a scraggly looking mixed breed shelter, dog pit bull mix maybe, and the only dog testing who is not a lab or golden retriever. She is also the gentlest dog I know. And I couldn't be more proud of her. Good luck finding your own November 5th distractions. That's so great. I thought cute. We're so excited for her too. So cute. Listener, please send in a photo and we
Doree: Can share it
Elise: On our Paton.
Doree: Yes, yes, yes. We want a photo of this cutie.
Elise: And I hope she passes. I'm
Doree: Sure she'll, I'm sure she'll pass with flying colors, especially if she's so gentle. I actually know someone, a friend of Matt's trains therapy dogs, and they often do fail, and then sometimes the people who have been training them just adopt them. So speaking of foster fails,
Elise: Speaking of foster
Doree: Fails. Yeah.
Elise: Well, this dog already has an owner and a forever home, so either way she'll be loved.
Doree: Yes. Yeah. I think there's different, this is a total sidebar, but you can become someone who trains therapy dogs that then get adopted by people who need therapy dogs.
Elise: Yeah. I remember I was interested when I was very young in being one of those families that gets puppies because you just have the puppy because these puppies are destined to be therapy dogs, and so you just raise them
Doree: For
Elise: The first six months or something. But then my mom was like, no, my tender heart can't take it about herself. Just like we can't just have a bunch of puppies and then give them to the greater
Doree: Gift. I get it. I get it. It is. It's really hard. It's really hard. We got a text from someone referencing Elise's shoes disappearing from her front porch and being replaced by a gross pair of Burks,
Elise: Like knockoff burks.
Doree: Right. So tattered. Kind of crusty. So someone sent us a link to news about these foxes that steal shoes, but they don't replace shoes. No, they don't. But there was even a whole NPR segment about this. Oh my gosh. Why foxes love shoes so much?
Elise: I ran across the story the other day about a family with a similar problem. It turns out it was a fox taking the shoes. Apparently they do this on the regular. Yeah, that would be very cute.
Doree: That would be very cute. Right? I mean,
Elise: Something tells me this isn't a fox since I didn't, didn't get a pair of fox booties left in exchange.
Doree: Oh my God. But what if they had sent you fox booties? How great would that have been?
Elise: Oh man. Oh man.
Doree: All right. Well, no fox booties here. That will be just an eternal mystery for us.
Elise: Yep, yep.
Doree: All right, Elise, let's take another short break. We'll be right back. Okay, Elise, we have a couple of voicemails to end the show, so let's play this first one.
Voicemail: Hi, Elise AnDoree. Wanted to say that I'm loving the new revamp of the pod. I wanted to comment on your latest mini app about when you're mentioning Costco Close. I know you guys talk about Costco a lot on the pod, but I feel like I am alone in my sustain for Costco, even though I definitely a necessity. I'm a mom of two. It definitely has its purpose, but I dread going there. The parking is always a mess. I don't know. The general ambience just slowly bums me out, and I just feel like it feels like consumerism in your face. I don't know, in the warehouse. It's something about it. It makes me really depressed every time I was going around. I'm just wondering if I'm alone in this or I know Kate was such a Costco enthusiast, and then I'm on my way to Trader Joe's, and I just wanted out pumpkin bread. I did make french toast out it, and that was amazing. So anyone else is on their way to Trader Joe's, recommend that. Alright, have a great week everyone.
Elise: Okay. Pumpkin ho bread. There's no question there. It's just a recommendation.
Doree: Yeah, pumpkin. I mean, ho bread is not super hard to make, and I've made pumpkin ho bread and it's very good. It's very dense spread. It's very heavy when you add the pumpkin to it, but it's quite delicious.
Elise: And then also listeners, what do you think, have you gotten that feeling of just too much consumerism in your face at Costco?
Doree: Yeah, I mean, look, I'm sure you're not alone. The nice thing about being in a relatively free country is you don't have to go to Costco if you don't like it.
Elise: And I tell you, I love Costco, but I hated shopping at Costco in Korea in particular because it was so overrun with people. It was too dense and that I was constantly getting pushed around or carts nipping at my ankles from other people. And so that felt like an experience that I would've avoided if I could have gotten my American products anywhere else. So it does kind of depend on your
Doree: Costco store. Yes. It depends on your Costco. I think for me also, I've learned that I'm fine going with Matt, but if I go with a friend, it's hard because everyone has their own Costco strategy and way of doing Costco. And I went with a good friend once and she is the type of person that wants to go down every single aisle.
Elise: Oh, wow. Yeah, it's like your museum strategy. Some people really linger on every piece of art.
Doree: Some
Elise: People kind of try to make it a one hour excursion.
Doree: So we spent way longer there than I would've liked, which that felt draining to me. So I hear you. Okay, next voicemail we have here.
Voicemail: Hey, Doree and Elise, this is for the Trader Joe's and Costco section of the podcast. I would like to talk about how kid Friendly Trader Joe's, first of all, you probably don't notice that as an adult, but there's penguins on the wall and cows on the wall, and I take my kids there. They're just enamored by all the art. So there's that. And then the cashiers are so nice. If I told them once, we were buying a bunch of cupcakes and it was my daughter's birthday, which it was, and they gave my daughter a bou of flowers and then every time give them stickers. And also, there's just so many delicious toddler, baby and little kid, well, anybody, honestly growing humans too food that you can just grab a bag of their favorite stuff, open it up and eat all their while you're talking. So anyway, I just wanted to mention Trader Joe's. I take my daughter there every Sunday after her class. She has a class in art class, which is right by it, and it's just really the highlight of all of her taste. We even know special cashiers by name that we ask for and that know us.
So anyway, just putting that out there. I'm sure most people already know this, but you guys are great, Elise. So glad you're here to stay. Bye.
Elise: Yeah, I have really fond memories of pushing around toddler Ava, who's now 12 in the cart, and we would get a package of cotton candy grapes, and she would sit in the front or we would get the cherry tomatoes, and she would just sit in the cart and stuff her mouth with grapes or tomatoes and always get the stickers from the cashier and yeah, that's a really nice Sunday outing.
Doree: Wow. I love that. Yeah, Henry really likes to look at the murals on the walls.
Elise: Yeah. Yeah. It's great. It's a good kid friendly experience. I didn't really think about that.
Doree: I will say though, I have a influencing recommendation this week because the pumpkin waffles have been recalled
Elise: Along with I think so many frozen waffles. Right.
Doree: I was shocked. Every frozen
Elise: Waffle, every frozen waffle under dozens and dozens of brands are all made from one factory. It made me really sad about the way things have gotten. So conglomerates have just taken over because all the waffles come from one factory.
Doree: I know.
Elise: Watch your waffles, folks. Watch your waffle. Watch your
Doree: Waffles. It's dark. The waffle, the food supply chain, when you think about it too much, it's like
Elise: All supply chains chain. We've been talking about that chains with Amanda Mole and with Lauren Sherman and Chantel Fernandez.
Doree: Yes,
Elise: Yes. What a time. It's true.
Doree: Okay.
Elise: Okay. But we want to end on a brighter note, and you've been teasing this voicemail door that I'm really wanting to hear, and I think our listeners want to hear it too. So is it time yet,
Doree: Elise? I believe it is time, so let's hear it. You ready?
Elise: Yeah, I'm ready.
Doree: Okay.
I had to share something skincare related. My friend's husband has been washing his face with Summer Eve. His wife said in his defense, the label only mentions vagina once. It says coconut butter, gentle foaming wash. Oh my God. I thought that was hilarious. He's just been up washing his face with vagina wash for God knows how long. Anyway, I hope you enjoy that. That really made me LOL. Okay. Bye.
Elise: It's got to be gentle though, right?
Doree: I did enjoy this. I also, I really thought this was funny, and no one needs to be using Summer Eve on their face or in their vagina, so you can just toss it. We're de
Elise: Influencing again, we're
Doree: De influencing. Yep. All we want to do is de influence here. We're sweet, man. Sweet man. Sweet, sweet man. Well, Elise, that brings us to the end of our show.
Elise: Yes. I don't think we have anything else beyond that. We have nothing
Doree: Else. It's time to end
Elise: On that
Doree: Note. It's time to end on that beautiful note. Thank you all so much for listening, and we will talk to you soon.
Elise: Talk to you soon.
Doree: Bye.