We're Obsessed With You
Emily Hymes and Kyle O'Donnell are two best friends and late night television producers. When they aren't working, they're texting, DMing, and voice noting each other about everything they're obsessed with – both online and in NYC.
On We're Obsessed With You, Emily and Kyle invite their favorite personalities to dive into the things they can't stop thinking about. This is an interview show about hyperfixations, served with pop culture expertise and just a little bit of brain rot.
We're Obsessed With You
Obsessing Over Antihistamines, Private Chefs & Reilly Meehan
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It’s officially April and Emily is in her allergy era! Plus, Kyle recaps the massage experience that left him wanting less, Emily shares her latest skincare obsession for inflammation, and Kyle reveals the shirt he loves so much he owns it in multiple colors.
Then Chef Reilly Meehan brings the laughs when he pops by the WOWY Offices. They chat about life as a private chef in the Hamptons, his debut cookbook "A Little Bit Extra," and the must-stop spots in Phoenix. Stick around for Reilly's ~SALMON~ related obsession and a super fun round of Obsessed or Over It.
00:00 – Welcome to WOWY
07:32 – Emily’s Obsession
11:42 – Kyle’s Obsession
15:32 – Reilly's Interview
31:03 – Reilly's Obsession
40:06 – Obsessed or Over It
New show, new obsessions, every Wednesday.
Hosts: Emily Hymes and Kyle O'Donnell
Guest: Chef Reilly Meehan
Executive Producer: Julia Aubuchon
Producers: Drew Downing and Ben Gottlieb
Graphic Designer: Maddie Jones
Original Music: Reuben Alexander
For RaffHouse Productions: Haleigh Raff and Glenn Raff
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This Week's Obsessions:
Emily: Contour Cube
Kyle: Second Skin Comfort Polo
Reilly: Fat Bear Week
We're Emily and Kyle. We started as coworkers in late night television and now we're best friends exploring NYC and our FYPs.
SPEAKER_02This is an interview show about obsessions. Ours, theirs, and maybe yours too. Welcome to We're Obsessed With You.
SPEAKER_03I know I'm using a real computer today.
SPEAKER_02Hi Emily.
SPEAKER_03Hi Kyle.
SPEAKER_02How's it going?
SPEAKER_03Fabulous.
SPEAKER_02I'm so glad to hear that. Yes. Welcome to We're Obsessed With You, the show where we interview the people we're obsessed with about the things they're obsessed with. I'm Kyle O'Donnell.
SPEAKER_03I'm Emily Himes, and I work at Late Night with Seth Myers.
SPEAKER_02I work at Watch It Happens Live with Andy Cohen. We are two best friends and current late night television bookers.
SPEAKER_03Two current enemies.
SPEAKER_02Wouldn't that be such a twist?
SPEAKER_03Oh my god. Can you imagine a podcast with two people hating each other?
SPEAKER_02I feel like that's like Joe Rogan.
SPEAKER_03Yeah.
SPEAKER_02Right?
SPEAKER_03I don't know. I don't listen.
SPEAKER_02Me neither. Make us the number one podcast instead of Joe Rogan.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, number one.
SPEAKER_02Emily, how's your week?
SPEAKER_03My week was good. Um, I apologize if I'm yelling because it's allergy season and your girl gets them bad. And so I can't hear out of my right ear right now. So I feel like lopsided and I feel like I'm yelling.
SPEAKER_02The Today Show did a whole segment about how the allergies this year are the worst they've ever been.
SPEAKER_03I say that every year.
SPEAKER_02Really because of climate change out.
SPEAKER_03Well, it is getting worse. And for those of you who don't feel it, I curse the day you're born.
SPEAKER_02It sucks. Yeah, it really sucks. It absolutely sucks. I saw TikTok that a woman starts taking her antihistamines on Valentine's Day. Like she just knows that's the time to start taking a daily antihistamine.
SPEAKER_03Well, if you were to talk to my mother or father, they would say all year round. So you're not caught off guard.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, but then I feel like your body is desensitized to them. Right? I don't know. I actually don't know how an antihistamine works. We are not a medical.
SPEAKER_03Antihistamine, though, is like I feel so instead of saying like Advil or Zurtek, it's fun to be like, you should take the um ibuprofen or you should take the antihistamine. That'll clear it right up.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, just like I work on the pit. The Christian name.
SPEAKER_03Yeah.
unknownYeah.
SPEAKER_02Well, antihistamine is a good drag queen name.
SPEAKER_03It really is.
SPEAKER_02Antihistamine? Yeah. It's good. That should be yours.
SPEAKER_03It should be.
SPEAKER_02Um, well, I am going through a little medical mystery, if you will. It's not a mystery. I know exactly what it is. I suffer from TMJ really badly. Laura. Ding ding ding. Laura mentioned. Um, I have really bad TMJ. And as I say, I have a mind for business, a bod for sin, and a jaw for holding tension. And uh it's just been so bad recently where I can't even sleep because it's so bad. So I decide to go and get a massage. And I find this place on TikTok that's recommended by a bunch of people. And they're like, this is a down and dirty spa. And in New York, that's everywhere.
SPEAKER_03Everywhere.
SPEAKER_02And I love a down and dirty spa.
SPEAKER_03Good prices.
SPEAKER_02Great price. $50 for an hour.
SPEAKER_03Excellent.
SPEAKER_02And they specialize in reflexology. So I'm like, that's great. Because yes, you could go to these spas that are like $250 and it's like you're in a dentist's office and they're like doing like they're in your mouth. That's not this. This was all about reflexology.
SPEAKER_03Okay.
SPEAKER_02So I go to this spa in the West Village. I will not name it for because of where the story's going.
SPEAKER_03Oh no.
SPEAKER_02So I go, I walk in, and right away I'm like, this is a little dingier than I usually like, but we're going for it.
SPEAKER_03Yeah. Okay.
SPEAKER_02I told them I'm only here for the jaw. Right?
SPEAKER_03So I go. I'm nervous.
SPEAKER_02I also don't know spa etiquette at all. Every time, every single time I get a massage, it's like the first time I've ever spoken to someone.
SPEAKER_03This is how I feel when I go to the doctor. I'm not young. I go to the doctor every year for my checkup and they're like, now put the gown on. I'm like, open, clothes. Do I take all my clothes off? Like underwear. I don't know what to do with the gown.
SPEAKER_02Remember when I had to get the ultrasound on my testicle? I put the robe on completely backwards. And the one was like, How do you expect me to get to it? I was like, well, because it's open now. Like this is how I'm now I'm she's like, now you're fully exposed.
SPEAKER_03And that's how I think I'm supposed to wear it at the doctor's. Exactly. Yeah.
SPEAKER_02So it makes no sense. They actually need to like have signage.
SPEAKER_03Anyways, yeah, I agree.
SPEAKER_02I'm like, I'm here for the jaw. I lay down on my back, the curtain opens, the woman immediately starts laughing at me.
SPEAKER_04And she's like, oh no.
SPEAKER_02Like, like, flip over. And I'm like, I'm only here for the jaw. She's like, I'll do your back first.
SPEAKER_03You're like, but I'm here for the jaw.
SPEAKER_02I want an hour of jaw work. That's how much pain I'm in. So I flip over, she does the back. Literally. What do you think is the worst thing you could be hearing during like cracking?
SPEAKER_03No, I think a crack would be good.
SPEAKER_02Right.
SPEAKER_03Like popping?
SPEAKER_02No, just think of like um, I don't want to say ambient sound, but something that would provide a soundtrack.
SPEAKER_03What is it?
SPEAKER_02So you know, usually you'll listen, you'll have the sound of wails, maybe a light rain.
SPEAKER_03Do you like listening to Lil Wayne?
SPEAKER_02No, no, no. What I am listening to is my masseuse talking on the phone undergoing gastrointestinal distress. For one full hour.
SPEAKER_03You're like, is she gonna?
SPEAKER_02The woman's stomach was gurgling and bubbling. The whole 60 minutes. And so I'm on my back, so I'm hearing this. I'm like, this has got to stop, Sam. This has got to stop. Yeah, like should I leave? Like, maybe she'll excuse herself because it sounded like she was about to blow. And I don't like this chatter. I don't like body functions.
SPEAKER_04Yeah.
SPEAKER_02I like to think that we're all Barbie dolls. Yeah, yeah. And we're all just well, I mean, we are all full of plastic, but I just want to imagine our bodies to be like just mounds. Yeah. I don't want to know what goes on in your body.
SPEAKER_03Yeah.
SPEAKER_02Unfortunately, I know a little bit too much about it about my masseuse. So then, of course, I flip over for her to do my jaw. Now, she's standing right behind my head. So now her stomach is two inches away from my ears.
SPEAKER_03I have like chills right now.
SPEAKER_02It was the most disgusting experience of my life.
SPEAKER_03Do you think she didn't hear it?
SPEAKER_02Okay, you know what? I made a TikTok about it and I said, like, I have IBS. I know what goes on.
SPEAKER_03Right. You're not shaming her for having those.
SPEAKER_02I would excuse myself. I would say, you know what?
SPEAKER_03I cannot continue on today.
SPEAKER_02Yeah. Like something's good.
SPEAKER_03I'm gonna have my colleague replace there, yeah.
SPEAKER_02Or just leave and come back. Like maybe before lunch. It was insane. It was crazy. And I'm not obsessed with it. I'm the massage was actually pretty.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, how does your jaw feel?
SPEAKER_02It feels pretty good, but it wasn't relaxing.
SPEAKER_03No.
SPEAKER_02It was I cannot. I know, I'm so sorry. It's awful. I'm so sorry. But I suffered through an hour of it. How awful. How awful. I know. I'm so sorry.
SPEAKER_03That's really funny though.
SPEAKER_02It was a good story. During the moment I just started hearing the curb your enthusiasm music. You know what I mean?
SPEAKER_03Like, what would Larry have done? Yeah.
SPEAKER_02He would have jumped up. Um, Emily, what are you obsessed with this week?
SPEAKER_03Well, um, I'm just gonna circle back to what we were talking about. Allergies. Yeah, I'm not obsessed with them. I hate them so much.
SPEAKER_02And everyone should know that this is not just like a fluke. This is every year.
SPEAKER_03My whole life.
SPEAKER_02Yeah.
SPEAKER_03Whole life. My sister, my perfect sister Laura though, has never experienced allergies. But um, I have been blessed to feel them every year, every spring. And they always catch me off guard. You never know what's coming, but we're like in it now. Yeah. March, April. And then it just hits like all of a sudden it's a hot day, and you feel like you've been hit by a truck.
SPEAKER_02Yeah.
SPEAKER_03I sent you a picture of my face. I wore sunglasses at the office and the great.
SPEAKER_02It was so bad.
SPEAKER_03So now I will say, I would I'm not gonna shout out my hand at histamine. It's like that's not my obsession. But like if you do have allergies like Zertec and Claritin, take it. Like, don't just like do the ear things like um the acupuncture ear points and stuff, and like the oils, like that will only get you so far. Take the medicine. Yes. But um my face is also swollen and I'm puffy and I just feel like disgusting. So I haven't I I probably I used when I got this product, I used it um a little bit, but then like now I know when I really need it, and now with puffy face, this is what I need. It is a Kendall Jenner, my friend Kendall Jenner um recommended it a few years ago. I believe it's been mentioned on Poosh as well. It's called a contour cube, and this is the contour cube mini.
SPEAKER_02I've never seen this thing before in my life.
SPEAKER_03So, well, this is like it's adorable. Um, it's like purple silicone, two pieces. There's a little heart hole at the bottom.
SPEAKER_02Cute.
SPEAKER_03There you go, Drew. Um, you fill it with water, you put it in the freezer. Oh then the next morning you'll wake up, pull this little top off, and then you have a dome of ice.
SPEAKER_02It looks like a deodorant stick.
SPEAKER_03It looks like a deodorant stick. And you roll it onto your face. It provides intense cryotherapy. Wow. Um, you only do it for about 30 seconds to a minute. You'll know when it starts. Your face will get red, which is good. It shows like um blood is moving. Um, but it helps with depuffing. Kendall Jenner says it helps with soothing her breakouts, tightening, waking up. And then I loved this. It's perfect for if you want a snatched look before makeup. But I've been using it every morning, and it like, except I didn't use it this morning. I was in a rush. But um, it just feels so good. And it's like you could also put your face in a face bag. Like, yeah, you don't have to buy this. You could put it in a face in a bowl of ice water, but then you gotta get the ice, you gotta get the water, it's messy. Or you could use an ice cube, but this is protecting your finger, like the bottom half of this. Um it's just like a great little product to have in your freezer. That's and I know people have like also the the little like ice rollers which work as well, but it does this is different. Like the ice, they all you kind of need every product.
SPEAKER_04Okay, we're not going that far.
SPEAKER_03But like they all kind of like do something different where this, like, my face is so puffy. The ice roller works, but not as well as this. Like in 30 seconds, my face really like feels so much better and actually looks better.
SPEAKER_02What I would say about my ice roller is that I like it as a form of like anxiety release. Like, I like the motion of it. Like, and it does. You could sit there watching TV. It's probably more effective, but I just like it as the as like a meditative kind of thing.
SPEAKER_03This is like I gotta get up in the morning doing this. Yeah, you do need like a little paper towel or because it like drips down. But um you can also, what's fun is you can fill it with things, like you can use green tea to fill it instead of just water or coconut milk for extra hydrating, cucumber. So you can make it kind of fun with what you put in there. I have not done that, I've just done water, but um, I love it.
SPEAKER_02I imagine putting like an essential oil in there so it's like an aromatherapy as well. You can do that as well. Like peppermint would probably be so sweet.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, that actually would be good for my allergies, the peppermint with the water.
SPEAKER_02Oh, I love that.
SPEAKER_03Yeah. So this has been saving me through allergy season. Great. Thank you, Kendall. And also, shout out Laura, she got it for me.
SPEAKER_02It is a good stocking stuffer. I like that.
SPEAKER_03Kyle, what's your obsession?
SPEAKER_02My obsession this week is well, you've been looking at it this whole time. My sweater.
SPEAKER_03Ah I love this color on you.
SPEAKER_02I love the sweater. It's part of when I got my colors done. It's magenta. This is one of my colors.
SPEAKER_03Oh, would you call it magenta? I would maybe say fuchsia. Oh, excuse me. Yeah, I would too.
SPEAKER_02The website is calls it pink.
SPEAKER_03It's not. It is what is the website?
SPEAKER_02Hopefully pink. The brand is called Second Skin Apparel, and they were an Instagram ad company. I saw this, like, it's a cropped knit sweater, and it's a really loose knit, so it's not it's breathable. This time of year in New York.
SPEAKER_03Would you say it's transitional?
SPEAKER_02It is transitional. This time of year in New York, you know, it's freezing in the morning, gets hot in the day, and then gets cold at night. So I need something that when I go into the office, like looks nice, yada yada yada. I love it. It's a little, it's a boxy, cropped.
SPEAKER_03I like the fit actually. Yeah.
SPEAKER_02Sweater, and it comes in a gorgeous cobalt blue and then a gray, which I also have.
SPEAKER_03I love a gray. That's my favorite color.
SPEAKER_02They're expensive. They're about $250, but I wear them, I wear it all the time. It's just like, it's an immediate thing to just elevate your look. I wear it with, I'm wearing it with black jeans now. Yeah. It just like looks really nice. I love this brand so much, and I want to get more into them.
SPEAKER_03I think that's a good price point. I mean, yes, it's expensive, but I think it's one that like it lasts. How do you clean it?
SPEAKER_02It has to be dry cleaned.
SPEAKER_03Okay, fine, but then it will last. Yes, yeah.
SPEAKER_02And I've had the gray one now, I think for three years. This one I got last year, and I just refound it in my closet. And I was like, oh, I love this sweater. I have not worn it enough. And this is the time of year where I can wear it.
SPEAKER_03It looks honestly brand new.
SPEAKER_02Thank you. It is called the Comfort Polo from Second Skin. I just love it. I'm really obsessed with it.
SPEAKER_03I mean, I feel like also it is a men's store, but I do feel like a woman could wear this as well. 100%.
SPEAKER_02A lot of their stuff is like a little bit on the androgynous unisex side.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, which I love.
SPEAKER_02Um, but we should shout out to everyone that we now have a shop my.
SPEAKER_03Holy crap! We do. Do you guys want to shop these products we just talked about? Yes.
SPEAKER_02Anything anything we talk about on the show that you can buy, we will put on our Shop Mai. And we're not getting paid by these brands.
SPEAKER_03No, we just want you guys to like buy stuff because it's so cute.
SPEAKER_02We're the like, we're the guinea pigs for these things. So we're coming on this. We are telling like true blue reviews about things we're obsessed with. So don't think we're just throwing things on our Shop My that are.
SPEAKER_03No, I like use these that we use in we're yes, exactly.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, um, so check out our Shop My. We're on YouTube if you're listening, um, and we're on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. Please rate us five stars in your um app of choice. It really helps us. It's the biggest thing you can do to help us.
SPEAKER_03Also, comment is the second biggest thing. Like, just like say something.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, tell us what you're obsessed with. Tell me how pretty I am in my sweater, tell me how good I'm my skin.
SPEAKER_03Tell me I'm not yelling.
SPEAKER_02If you have a good antihistamine in forever.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, oh, Flona's is good too. Shout out Flonaze.
SPEAKER_02I like Zertec.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, but I need the nose things.
SPEAKER_02Oh, yeah.
SPEAKER_03I love Zertek. Yes, but in addition. Yes.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, yeah. Um, anywho. Our guest today, we are so obsessed.
SPEAKER_03Oh my God. I love him.
SPEAKER_02I learned about him during the infamous summer of the Hamptons summer private chef, which was 2022, 2023. Meredith, I I always want to call her Meredith Hagner.
SPEAKER_03I well, now that you said it, that's all I can say. Hayden.
SPEAKER_02Meredith Hayden, Wishwom Kitchen. And our guest today, Chef Riley Meehan, kind of blew up on TikTok during this time as they were highlighting their summer jobs as private chefs in the Hamptons.
SPEAKER_03He's got a cookbook now.
SPEAKER_02He's got a cookbook, a little bit extra. And so we're gonna talk to him about that. We're gonna talk to him about the Hamptons, and we're gonna learn what he's obsessed with.
SPEAKER_03We can't wait. We'll be right back. Stay tuned.
SPEAKER_02We are here with Riley Meehan, who just published his first cookbook, A Little Bit Extra. A little bit extra. Here it is. Riley, we are obsessed with you. Welcome. Thank you. I'm so happy to be here. We're so happy to have you. I got introduced to you during the infamous summer of the Hamptons. Of course, naturally.
SPEAKER_03What year was that?
SPEAKER_0123 or 4. I think so. We had two good summers of like social media. It still like takes off, but I think 23 was like, whoa.
SPEAKER_02What was it like to be in that moment that really was like a cultural moment? You, Meredith, you all started to blow up during this time. Yes. There were like articles written about it.
SPEAKER_01Yes. Yeah. So I love the chef community. We are all such wonderful people, but I'm also very competitive. So I do you guys remember? Did you see the like dance mom style like pyramid competition competition show that happened? So once that launched, I was like, oh, it is on. So I like fueled it to like push myself with my content a lot.
SPEAKER_04Yeah.
SPEAKER_01And I was just cooking a ton, I cook a ton during the summers for my clients. So it was like, it naturally just progressed. It was really fun. It still is fun.
SPEAKER_03How long had you been a private chef before you started putting everything on TikTok?
SPEAKER_01Only a couple months full time. So I've worked for this family almost 10 years. But the first half of that was just during the summers for like a couple weeks because I was living in San Francisco and I had a month off every summer. So I'd go out to the Hamptons, work for a couple weeks, and then they poached me full time from that. So I started to work for them full time. And I went from cooking for like 600 people a night to two or like two to eight. I was like, yeah. So I had I found myself with a bit of free time. So I was like, let's just start recording and pop it up. And then that summer, my like TikTok, TikTok did pretty well. Um, but then it was the following summer, and then the next subsequent like two that was like, whoa.
SPEAKER_03It's kind of nice though that you had that first summer to like test it all yeah, ease into it because it like must be so much pressure once you know so many people are watching to like put content out that people prepare.
SPEAKER_01A ton of pressure to put content out, and then also just like nobody prepares you for being bullied online.
SPEAKER_03I can't even like horrible, yeah. So yeah, I had one summer to ease into it where everyone was nice, and then bring out the trolls.
SPEAKER_02Exactly. I have one comment on one of my TikToks that's still it haunts you. It haunts me. I don't want to repeat it. Say I have one of those two.
unknownYeah.
SPEAKER_03We should frame it, put it on a tote, and own it.
SPEAKER_02No.
SPEAKER_01It is in the recesses of my brain. But truly, it's like, how can somebody I just make cooking content? Like it's it shouldn't be that controversial. Yeah. So, like, it's truly, if you can think of it, it has been said to me in my DMs.
SPEAKER_02Well, we a few weeks ago, we had um Emma McTaggart on, who is a needlepoint designer, and there's a thing called needlepoint snark, which is a Reddit thread of diabolical comments.
SPEAKER_01Yes, I I'm I'm in on the not in on, I try to avoid it, but like I have friends in the New York influencer world and the NYC influencer snark is evil. I don't so evil. I don't understand it. No, let's build people up.
SPEAKER_03Absolutely, or just don't comment.
SPEAKER_02It's so easy to scroll by.
SPEAKER_03Yeah.
SPEAKER_02Yes, talk in IRL with people about how much you hate someone. Right, right. It's a great bonding experience. Yeah. Anyways, yeah. What was how did the family react when you started to blow up?
SPEAKER_01They have been very supportive. I mean I've taken time off to come out here for this, and I'm taking like a month off for a book tour, and they are extremely supportive. I lucked out with them for sure.
SPEAKER_03Well, I would literally love to be like, yeah, my private chef is like famous.
SPEAKER_01I know there's definitely an element of that. But then they're like, don't get too famous.
SPEAKER_04You can't go anywhere. Exactly. Yes.
SPEAKER_01So this summer will you be in the Hamptons again? That's the plan.
SPEAKER_03Oh my god. Do you have days off? Like, how does it work? What's your schedule as a private chef?
SPEAKER_01Yeah. So when I'm in Phoenix, it's the job's a little lighter because it's just the two of them usually, or maybe friends and family staying. But so I'm Monday through Friday, breakfast and dinner, which is nice. Great. Um, and then in the Hamptons I work all summer basically. Like if there's a day I can take a some time off or the night off or something, which does happen. Yeah. Um, I will do it. But we don't have, I don't have like a set schedule. It's just sort of like we have friends coming. You're here. I live with them also. So it's that was gonna be my question. I live on the third floor. Oh my god.
SPEAKER_02Yes. Does it feel like you can come and go as you please? Or is it like downtown Abbey?
SPEAKER_03I can definitely accept the all opposite.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, that's true. Yeah, upstairs, upstairs. Um, I definitely have freedom, but there's just like it's someone else's home. Right. Like no matter what, I'm always like a little tiptoe-y. Like it is someone else's home. But they're my clients are amazing. Like, I my husband comes out to visit, like friends from the city come out for a weekend or something and stay. Like the the wife of my clients is like is obsessed with my friends. So she's like, invite your friends. She's like, I don't want my friends coming, I want your friends out.
SPEAKER_04Great.
SPEAKER_02As two non-um rich people, that's what I choose to call us.
SPEAKER_03Um, what is firing rich people? I love that.
SPEAKER_02What is something about rich people and the Hamptons that surprised you, like your first time out there?
SPEAKER_01Just because you have money doesn't mean you have taste.
SPEAKER_03I'm like so upset that that Countess Luann song really sticks in my head. Money cannot buy you class. I can't, it's so true.
SPEAKER_01It's my clients are extremely classy. Yeah, of course. I love their taste. Their home is beautiful, but I've been to some homes and like seen the food that people like to eat and stuff. And I'm like, are we gonna do that? Look at our president and his McDonald's movie constantly. And the little boys' hockey team. Yeah, that you send McDonald's to.
SPEAKER_02Whenever we both live in Brooklyn, and we live in like very nice parts of Brooklyn. So we love beautiful brownstones. And sometimes I look in. Do the sleeping comet. Yeah.
SPEAKER_03Every day.
SPEAKER_02This is wasted on you.
SPEAKER_03Yes, yes. Why are you doing this?
SPEAKER_01I feel like that all the time out in the Hamptons. I'm like, I deserve that roof cover. Or my G Wagon.
SPEAKER_02Whenever people don't, what really gets me is when people don't decorate for Halloween. I'm like, you have a brown stone. And I'll decorate for Halloween.
SPEAKER_01You don't need to do it. Hire somebody to do it. Like, you're not calling Pumpos. Someone else is doing that for you.
SPEAKER_03And I want normal, like big size candy bars. Oh full size Twix. Yeah, I want full size candy.
SPEAKER_01Are you still trick-or-treating? Trigger stealing.
SPEAKER_02Candy bar. Comes our way. We're not throwing away. Absolutely.
SPEAKER_03Um, I want to know if the people in the Hamptons eat dessert every night because I feel like there's a lot of dessert being made. And I'm like, there's no way they're eating so much dessert.
SPEAKER_01My clients love dessert, which I love because I love that. Yeah, me too. Because I love bacon. Well, actually, I'm still convinced that 90% of the reason I'm with them is because I make fresh sourdough for them. Oh. And once I started making bringing that to the table, actually, the timeline is like I d like when I learned to make sourdoughs when they asked me to work full-time for them.
SPEAKER_04That just clocked to them.
SPEAKER_01Like now I get it. So yeah, sourdough, like when yeah, they almost always have some sort of not every night, like especially non-feast, but when they're entertaining, there's always dessert. Always dessert.
SPEAKER_04Wow.
SPEAKER_01Blueberry pie, it's a staple during the summer, cookies all the time. So you get delicious produce. Oh my gosh. So yeah. I grew up in central like California. Like we have amazing produce, but the produce in the Hamptons is like I love it because it's so temporal. It's like you get this type of cherry tomato for one week. Yeah.
SPEAKER_04Like, oh, it's precious.
SPEAKER_02So what is your favorite season of a produce? You know, like there's sumo's. Yeah, so we're in sumo citrus season.
SPEAKER_01Um I have to say, I'm I was I would say would have said fall. I love fall stuff, but lately I've been like a spring boy. Like I love all the green veggie veggies. Everything's like really tender, everything's like bright and fresh, and like, yeah, I love spring.
SPEAKER_03Is there a season that uh carrot is not in season?
SPEAKER_01I mean, we can get carrots in our room.
SPEAKER_03Always at my farmer's market. And I'm like, it's a root vegetable, but now they're yeah, like so confused.
SPEAKER_01I would say fall is like their peak. Yeah, that feels fall, but then you can also get like spring dug like carrots that are like the little baby tender ones. Yeah, they're very cute.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, they are cute.
SPEAKER_01Um we want to talk about your book. Okay, let's do it. Yeah. What was the ethos behind a little bit extra? Oh my gosh. Um, I think it's in the title. Like, I just want people to like be extra in the kitchen. Life's more fun when you're extra. Like that little extra spice, that flaky salt, like the lemon juice, like just a chocolate chip cookie you have in here looks it's wild.
SPEAKER_03What's like the most extra thing in this book? I guess it's all a little extra.
SPEAKER_01It's all a little bit extra. But so one of the things I did with certain recipes is I would take like a sub-recipe and be like, if you're feeling extra, here's how you can like level it up. So, like, there's these cookies, these lemon poppy seed buttermilk cookies, and they have a strawberry jam frosting that is insane. But the little bit extra to that is I give you a recipe like if you want to make your own strawberry jam, that's how you can take it to the next level. There's this like savory oatmeal bowl that has bacon on it. And if you want to be a little extra, you can make like a miso millionaire's bacon. Oh, we saw that. We were talking about that earlier. So it's like it's like all the recipes have these like fun little cheffy touches, but there's specific ones, like you can add fried avocado to a salad if you're feeling extra, or just like regular avocado.
SPEAKER_03So there's recipes that have these like because sometimes I'm not I I really do like to cook, and sometimes I'm like, let's just keep it simple. But then there are those times I'm like, oh let's do it.
SPEAKER_01And that's like exactly who I want this book to be for, is like people who know their way around a kitchen. I didn't want to write a book, at least for my first one. It wasn't exciting to me to be like step one, like get your cutting board out and like here's buy a cutting board.
SPEAKER_03Right, exactly.
SPEAKER_01I like that's not who I think follows me and wants to see my recipes, and it's for those people who like like to cook and then every once in a while take that extra day to like really get in the kitchen and like spend some time there.
SPEAKER_02So you're about to go on a book tour. Yes, and you talk a lot on your social media about your self-care habits. How will you be taking care of yourself during like Yeah, when you're on the go?
SPEAKER_03I can't even imagine a new city every day.
SPEAKER_01I know, and I've really been I hate to say it, but I've really been on in my like meal prep gym bro journey and I've been loving it and being away from having like my like prepped routine macros.
SPEAKER_03I'm like, ah you seem a little off right now.
SPEAKER_01Thank you. Whether that was the Amtrak or Okay, let's not get into the Amtrak situation of it all. They're a sponsor, so we can't. No. Wow, I really blew that one. I missed my Amtrak this morning, by the way. Um, skincare is my like, like I'll get to the hotel room and like take a minute. I got microneedling done recently for the first time. Oh, your skin success.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, it was great.
SPEAKER_01It was amazing. My gal Chloe, she knows what she's doing.
SPEAKER_03Do I have to go to Phoenix to go to her?
SPEAKER_01It's way cheaper. Yeah, I know. Yeah. So if you want to worth the flight, it's worth the flight, and then you can have a little weekend in Phoenix. Yeah. Um, but yeah, skincare is my like, that's my like time to like reset. What's your holy grail product? Oh, and you could only throw one in your bag.
SPEAKER_03One that's so hard to do. No, no, I have it. I have it. Oh my god.
SPEAKER_01I do. Not all of us are so particular. No, I I definitely like I used to try a bunch of stuff, and I have to say I am a slut for Sunday Riley. Yeah. And they have a lactic acid. I think it's called good genes. Okay. I mean, it wouldn't be an it I wouldn't be an SPF, so I'd burn. But the lac the like it's a holy grail problem for me. It's like has this little like lemongrassy scent to it, also. Um, but yeah, that their like CEO glow and also their retinol or my trifecta.
SPEAKER_03Sometimes I think there's like, yes, there's a lot to be said for really good um products, but then like also You want the chemical.
SPEAKER_02Let the toxic stuff I'm on. Come on in. Yeah, do it.
SPEAKER_03It's just it's worth it. It's worth it.
SPEAKER_02My dermatologist is like, I just want the heaviest hand imaginable when it comes to Botox. And he's like, we're gonna be sensible. I'm like, I don't want that.
SPEAKER_01See, I'm the opposite. I'm like, I want a little bit of a 11 here, and I want to feel a little bit, and my gal's like, like 75 years.
SPEAKER_02My problem is that I have no poker face, so I need the Botox for like my professional life.
SPEAKER_03I don't know if it helps like your eyeballs can still like I can do an eye roll like nobody's business, wrinkles or no wrinkles.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, the Scooby-Doo paintings with just the odds. So you mentioned going to Phoenix. What are some of your favorite spots in Phoenix?
SPEAKER_01Oh man, so my husband and I are pretty outdoorsy. So I will say, like, outside of Phoenix proper, there's like some really great hiking trails and stuff, the Superstition Mountain Ranges. Um, restaurant-wise, there's a little French restaurant called Sotisse that I love. They do like a great little wine menu and kind of like classic French stuff. Um also I love I love Hillstone. Love Hillstone. I got it. Formerly Houston's formerly Houston's. You want to know what I I was gonna bring as my obsession almost? Please. Was how I'd never had this until there, but how they refresh your glass, your martini glass. Yes.
SPEAKER_03Oh, yeah.
SPEAKER_01That to me is the epitome of like good service. I was like, my jaw was on the floor the first time I saw that. So love Houston's. Um, I mean, there's a ton of good, like kind of high-end Mexican restaurants. Chilte is a great one of them. Um, the food scene in Phoenix is like young and burgeoning, I would say. Yeah. Is there a specific like local delicacy of Phoenix? Fry bread, I would say. So like Native American fry bread. Oh, it's almost like a flour tortilla thicker that's like that's deep fried, and you can get them like sweet with like just dusted with sugar. They make like a red chili that they put inside sometimes, like cheese, almost like a taco vibe. Yum. You have something in here.
SPEAKER_02Forgive me that I don't remember. It's kind of like a taquito. Oh, yeah. Lucy's sweet potato tacos.
SPEAKER_01Yes, yes, yes.
SPEAKER_02Those look insane.
SPEAKER_01Insane. Oh my god, I can't wait to try them. Yes, they're wild. Crispy and like fluffy, cheesy potato on the inside, the salsa. Oh yum.
SPEAKER_03Do you have a go-to? We had Casey Elsass on the show a few weeks ago, and he always preaches everyone should have a go-to recipe. When someone comes, or if you go to somebody's house, do you have a go-to recipe, whether it's in this book or just a go-to for you?
SPEAKER_01I would say I get bored of cooking the same thing all the time. So I don't necessarily, but the kimchi shrimp cocktail in the book, I think like I'm also obsessed with shrimp cocktail.
SPEAKER_03Like that, yeah.
SPEAKER_01If it is on a menu, it's getting consumed.
SPEAKER_03Yeah.
SPEAKER_01Um, but the kimchi shrimp cocktail in there is like so good. The best shrimp cocktail is in the year. Oh my gosh.
SPEAKER_02Tell me I need to go.
SPEAKER_03Oh, that's a good question.
SPEAKER_02I feel like it's Hillstone, polo bar, Gage and Tulner.
SPEAKER_03Oh, yeah. In Brooklyn.
SPEAKER_01It is a really good steakhouse. It's like old school steakhouse. It's gotta be the old school steakhouse. Steakhouses, yeah, keens.
SPEAKER_03Keenses.
SPEAKER_01I don't want it marinated. People sometimes people put like seasoning on the outside. I don't want that. I want a really punchy cocktail sauce. Yeah. Yeah. Lots of lemon, and it needs to be in a cute silver tray. Yeah. Or like, or a really retro, like where they're popping out of the long eyelids.
SPEAKER_03How do you feel about those shrimp trees at Christmas? Gross. Gross. Gross. Absolutely.
SPEAKER_01They're like warm by the time anybody is gonna grab one. Also, you know somebody's forgetting to cover up the styrofoam and there's like little styrofoam flags. Microplasm. Microplasma. We will be right back with your obsession. Okay. But what's one word?
SPEAKER_03Tease us.
SPEAKER_01Tease you? Salmon.
unknownOh.
SPEAKER_03We're on a real fish track. Yeah, I know. Alright. We'll be right back.
SPEAKER_01We're back.
SPEAKER_04We're back.
SPEAKER_01You tease us with salmon salmon. What is it? My obsession is Fat Bear Week. Which is not a gay event in P Town.
SPEAKER_03Okay, that's what I thought it was. That's where I thought we were going.
SPEAKER_01That's where everyone's going. I knew that was gonna happen. But no, do you guys know what Fat Bear Week is?
SPEAKER_03I don't.
SPEAKER_01Okay, let me explain. Okay, Fat Bear Week is a yearly March Madness style competition that takes place between a bunch of pre-hibernation bears in Katmai National Park in Alaska, where the uh national park documents all these bears on their like growth journey as they are bulking for hibernation. And then we, the people, get to choose the winner of Fat Bear. So they pit bears against each other and we get to vote on different bears of the week. Oh my god. And then it comes down to like two bears, and there's one winner of Fat Bear Week. His name was Chunk last year.
SPEAKER_03Oh my god. And does Chunk come back for another year? Is it like a whole new set of bears?
SPEAKER_01I actually don't. So they assign them numbers.
SPEAKER_03Yeah.
SPEAKER_01Rainy Chunk. So they assign them numbers. Some of them get cute nicknames. Some of them are just like Bear 784. I know.
SPEAKER_03And you need to adopt that one.
SPEAKER_01I would imagine, because yeah, I think they stay in the same area. That's a great question, actually. I don't know.
SPEAKER_04I'm so new with it.
unknownYeah.
SPEAKER_01But um, I love it. And they do give them silly no silly names. And I brought a list of silly names.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, you read the names. Is that for is this for this year?
SPEAKER_01No, the the some of them are real, some I made up. Oh, you guys can you guys can boo tomato it or give it some pause up. Okay.
SPEAKER_02I'm obsessed.
SPEAKER_01Okay. We're gonna start. These are easy. Okay. This one, Jack Black Bear. Oh, real. I like that.
SPEAKER_02I like that a lot.
SPEAKER_01Yep. Um, I'm not gonna tell you if it's real or fake. Brene Brown Bear. Shut up. Barry Manilo. Amazing. Barack Obama.
SPEAKER_03Oh.
SPEAKER_01Don't love. Christina Aguybera.
SPEAKER_03Yes. Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes.
SPEAKER_01Okay, okay. Drag queen names are over. Okay, this might be my no, okay. Bear force one was last year's winner, and that was a really good one. This might be my personal favorite, though. Salmon Hayek.
SPEAKER_02Oh, I love that favorite.
SPEAKER_01I like that one. Yeah. I like when you the expansion of the bear thing. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So we're getting into paw. Oh, I like that. And then this one was also, I thought, very good. Hibernate Burkus.
SPEAKER_03Oh, I love that one. I love that one. So that's the list. Oh my god. Isn't that fun? That's very fun.
SPEAKER_01Yeah. So who organizes this? So the National Park, Kat My National Park in Alaska organizes this.
SPEAKER_03Whoever's doing PR for that too. Amazing.
SPEAKER_01I grew up on the West Coast near Monterey, and the social media manager at the Monterey Bay Aquarium like really leaned into like fat otters for a while, and they needed a raise. Like it was so big. Yeah. The National Park Services social medias are oftentimes really fun.
SPEAKER_04Yeah.
SPEAKER_01I love that. I also love local library social media.
SPEAKER_02And they're the same things where they like do these really small niche competitions in their town. And I'm obsessed with that because it's like I didn't know that like Half Moon Bay has like a turtle parade or something.
SPEAKER_01Like I would attend.
SPEAKER_02Yeah.
SPEAKER_01I also just love the idea of these bears just like fattening up on like beautiful coho salmon. They just get like fresh salmon.
SPEAKER_03I know it's like, ah, you want that for you.
SPEAKER_01And then I'm like, I kind of want to cook for the bear. Just like make like a multi-course dinner out of salmon. A nice salmon tartare for sure. Start off with that. Like a whole roasted um salmon en croûte, like some crunchy puff pastry. Do we do a salmon dessert, like a salmon ice cream? Yeah.
SPEAKER_03Yeah. People love dessert.
SPEAKER_01And I'm telling you, these bears get up to like 1,400 pounds. They're huge. They're cute. How much weight do you think they gain? Four to six hundred pounds. They're so lucky. And that's like a good thing. The more weight they can gain, the better.
SPEAKER_03So then when they come out of hibernation, how much have they lost? Yeah.
SPEAKER_01A lot. They're skinny. It's scary. I feel like we're coming out of hibernation. Right. So you live in Phoenix. Don't come out of hibernation. Opposite. We like go into hibernation during the summer because you don't leave your house.
SPEAKER_02Oh.
SPEAKER_01Yeah. That sounds so miserable. I I'm out in the Hamptons. My poor husband's melting with the dog.
SPEAKER_03He's like, can I come visit?
SPEAKER_01How does the dog handle the heat? He won't go outside.
SPEAKER_03Yeah.
SPEAKER_01There's like one little window of the day where he'll sit out in the shade outside for two seconds. Can you fatten him up? Oh, he's fat. I called him fat bear. Odie is my fat my personal fat bear week. That's adorable.
SPEAKER_03I feel like I'm like into this bear thing.
SPEAKER_01It's you need to check this thing that he mentions. The voting starts in I think September. Okay, so we have to do that. So we have some time to game on the research. Yeah. Um, there's also so that that like bracket style competition that my brother and I do another one. Maybe I'm obsessed with bracket style competitions. Um, but it's it's silly names. So the baby name registry gets put out, and somebody compiles all the silliest names. Amazing. They're real names. And it's the same thing. It's like head-to-head competition. People vote on like America's silliest name of the year.
SPEAKER_03Should I tell them what my silly name is? What I have a name. I it was like, I don't know why. I just was like thinking about how like I can't believe more people aren't named this name.
SPEAKER_04Yeah.
SPEAKER_03Girls.
SPEAKER_04Okay.
SPEAKER_03It's not even it's actually not that. I'm really hyping it up to be super silly, but I think more people should be like called mystery.
SPEAKER_01Like the genre.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, the like the yes, like murder.
SPEAKER_01I also do love uh like random like items that sound like they could be a good name. Mystery. Mystery.
SPEAKER_03It's shocking we don't know a mystery.
SPEAKER_01My friend and I always say that we would have a kid named Jacaranda together. We were in Mexico City and like the Jacarandas were all blooming. We were like, Jocaranda, get back here. It's a very bougie name.
SPEAKER_03Mystery! Mystery! Get over here.
SPEAKER_01People have PR children.
SPEAKER_04People should be more creative.
SPEAKER_01I like a creative name, though. I will say, yeah. Yeah.
SPEAKER_04Yeah.
SPEAKER_01Do you think um P Town should adopt this? Yes. I feel like the title, Fat Bear Shame, is a little body, it's a little body shame. Fat bear week. It's a little body shame. Don't they already have a bear week? They have a bear week, but maybe we should also make it. And we can invite Bear Force One to Fat Bear Week. Oh cute.
SPEAKER_03That's cute for branding.
SPEAKER_01Yes. Oh my gosh, yeah. Oh my god. They do have merch. Fat Bear Week does have merch. We are 11 minutes into the summer.
unknownOkay.
SPEAKER_03Do you have any?
SPEAKER_01Not yet, but I'm gonna buy some. I mean, ask for it. Yes. Fat Bear Week, we want merch. Tell us about this merch. Okay, so they had stickers. They had it was very like um kind of like Alaskan indigenous style, you know, the like totem pole stuff. It was beautiful. They had stickers, mugs, and shirts. Wow. I want a shirt. Maybe I'll get a fat bear week crop top for Bear Week and beat it. Yes.
SPEAKER_03Yes.
SPEAKER_01That's brailed it. They absolutely must do a cloud. They have to. Are you a common? Like a Pride Month Fat Bear Week. We're on to the day.
SPEAKER_03Oh my god, I can't believe we have to wait till September.
SPEAKER_01I know. But you have you have time to like read back and like ask winners, pick favorites. Yeah.
SPEAKER_03I kind of like also when they don't have names, just like very two what it sounds like they're kind of bad at people's like TikTok handles that don't really close, but yeah, I can't believe it.
SPEAKER_02I have my name, I have my name. Sabrina Pop Klopp. I'm trying to say Carpenter Klopfer.
SPEAKER_03It doesn't really matter. Cloppenter. I can't think like in the moment. I have to go home and sleep on it.
SPEAKER_01I did take some time with some of those. Yeah. I also did pull some friends. We'll post some online once we're going to read on them.
SPEAKER_03Yeah.
SPEAKER_01But yeah, I think it's going to take over the drag name. Absolutely.
SPEAKER_0310,000%.
SPEAKER_01Do you have a drag name that you like? Oh, Cookie Duchess. She's like a 50s housewife who brings like a penis-shaped jello mold to the new pantal.
SPEAKER_04There's a video.
SPEAKER_01I was in like a short like white chair and cherry print dress. I've done it all of one time. And nobody needs to see that. That's all you need. Yeah. But she did have the like Marilyn Monroe, like you know, blonde bottle tied. Maybe if this book needs a little extra PR. Cookie Dutch.
SPEAKER_03To save the day.
SPEAKER_01It'd be fun to do a retro cookbook and do like all retro housewife V recipes. Absolutely. Yeah, I like that.
SPEAKER_04Yeah.
SPEAKER_01Lots of jello molds. All the jello molds. Salmon mousse. Jell- Salmon Jell Owl. Jell- molds are like very trendy right now. I feel like. Yes. Yes.
SPEAKER_03Yeah.
SPEAKER_01Yeah. Yeah. Casey Elsaus makes a great one. Yes.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, he does. And you do all the jello shots.
SPEAKER_02Jello shots. I like those a lot. Um, we are running out of time. We want to do a lightning round for some final hot topics. Simply tell us if you're obsessed or over it. Okay. Three, two, one, go.
SPEAKER_03Florals for spring. Over it.
SPEAKER_02Monochrome outfits. Oh, absolutely obsessed.
SPEAKER_03Survivor 50.
SPEAKER_02Over it. Abercrombie and Fitch's comeback.
SPEAKER_01Obsessed.
SPEAKER_03Backgammon.
SPEAKER_01Don't really know what that is.
unknownChops.
SPEAKER_01Is that the coin one or the stick one?
SPEAKER_03The coin one.
SPEAKER_01Uh over it, I guess. It's the stick one. Yeah, I don't know. Is there one where there's like little poles you like move? Oh, cribbage. The stick one, yeah. Uh chopped cheese sandwiches. Uh, I'm obsessed with those. Yeah.
SPEAKER_03Blue cheese stuffed olives.
SPEAKER_01Oh, it's a hard pass for me. I don't like olives. Do you love blue cheese? The fragrance stone. Oh, obsessed. Is that like petrichore or whatever? Like no way to know. But would it if somebody tells you you smell like stone, is that like a compliment? Or it's just like what male like fragrance, like body wash is called now? Stone. I don't know. It could be really chic or it could be horrible. Yeah, ooh, ooh. Somebody smells like stone.
SPEAKER_03I don't know if it's a I wouldn't hate being called that. It's better than like something smells bad.
SPEAKER_01It doesn't mean anything. Lalabo came out with a stone fragrance. It would be nice, but like if Abercrombie had a stone fragrance, it'd be like, ooh, thank you.
SPEAKER_03Depends on the brand.
SPEAKER_01Yeah.
SPEAKER_03Orchids.
SPEAKER_01Hard pass on orchids. They're hard to do. They're hard to learn. Maintenance girlies. Yeah. Sarah, thank you.
SPEAKER_03Yeah. We have one final question for you.
SPEAKER_01Okay.
SPEAKER_03Ready?
SPEAKER_01Yeah.
SPEAKER_03Three. Two. One. Are you obsessed with us?
SPEAKER_01I'm obsessed with you guys.
SPEAKER_02Thank you so much for you guys. Everyone, go out and buy a little bit extra from Riley's book. It is fantastic. It's so colorful. Great recipes. You're gonna be obsessed with it. You're gonna be obsessed. Thank you so much. Thank you guys. This is so fun.
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