The girlies dive into the world of American talk shows — the modern circus helmed by formidable “experts.” They track the history of syndicated television, the rise of popular figureheads like Dr. Phil and Judge Judy, and interrogate the philosophical carnival that makes these programs simultaneously appealing and horrifying. Digressions include our favorite Instagram Reels creators, and how one listener’s family was ripped apart via the diet terrorism of Dr. Oz.
Trumps literal cabinet pick being in this lineup- this episode was the first thought in my mind after reading that
Abby Damouras
2024-11-19 23:06:39 +0000 UTC
He used to have a segment where they showed various pics of melanoma & had a dermatologist talk about the signs of skin cancer. My sister was like wait those moles look similar to mine, booked a dermatology appt, & had to have tons of skin removed. But she is great now, and her scars are basically all faded! So hence why he lowkey saved her life, since it was already at stage 4 & she had no idea.
Kris Lynn
2024-09-28 15:01:35 +0000 UTC
What was it that lead her to investigate her health and find that out?? ❤️ hope she’s ok
avvsies
2024-09-25 22:06:44 +0000 UTC
you all mentioned doctors on botched and i have to plug that dr nassif (sp?) studied plastic surgery with my plastic surgeon which is cool to me. my surgeon said he's a cool guy and has always been really good at what he does. btw i got a nose job for anyone wondering
Haven Patrick
2024-09-17 23:03:09 +0000 UTC
dropping in to say @johnnykyunghwo on instagram is my comfort reels watch <3 something so satisfying about watching him ferment stuff
xuanlephant
2024-09-08 09:48:35 +0000 UTC
I see your thween and raise you Quing
Kaylee Pitman
2024-09-06 15:59:50 +0000 UTC
Julia as a former emetophobia girlie to a currently suffering emetophobia girlie hOW DID YOU DO IT
Emma
2024-09-03 20:18:05 +0000 UTC
Oh my gosh me too lol I felt dumb so I'm glad you also thought this :')
Kris Lynn
2024-09-03 17:24:11 +0000 UTC
My sister realized she had stage 4 melanoma from watching Dr Oz lol so I have complex feelings about him! Thanks for saving my sister's life, but get your junk science out of here <3
Kris Lynn
2024-09-03 17:22:26 +0000 UTC
Having you girlies with me on my first day of sophomore year at a new college 🫶🏻
Adissen
2024-09-02 00:50:49 +0000 UTC
I'm so glad Chad Chad is getting the recognition she deserves 😤
Krissy Simard
2024-09-01 20:09:06 +0000 UTC
i'm also in a late summer break of my own i'm between jobs and i'm just chilling crocheting perler beading
lola bolado
2024-08-31 16:02:05 +0000 UTC
the other day my aunt casually dropped that Dr Oz actually operated on my cousins congenital heart deformity in the 90s in NY
Andrea Mendoza
2024-08-31 01:57:58 +0000 UTC
shoutout my fellow alaska binchies 🙌
kay ann
2024-08-30 22:17:35 +0000 UTC
I am not surprised dr Phil left his actual practice of psychology to do legal consulting. So many professionals such as doctors, psychiatrists, and engineers sell out to big legal. I’m a paralegal and the invoices I see get paid to these experts can often exceed my yearly salary. Then imagine those across the loads of cases all of them take on at a time.
Ashley
2024-08-30 18:18:51 +0000 UTC
i’ve kinda been back in my youtube era recently and i love watching miss nicole laeno’s day in the life routine videos they motivate me to get my life together and they’re very satisfying
nora gore
2024-08-30 17:36:15 +0000 UTC
OPERATION NIKIIIIIIIIII! she's so special to me omg
julz
2024-08-30 16:07:29 +0000 UTC
You did not only get mad cow disease from eating cow brains btw??? It was from eating any beef infected with the disease. Which yes the cow originally got from being fed waste parts of other cows. If people only got it from eating cow brains, it wouldn't have been as big of a deal. Since when are cow brains a common thing to eat
Erin
2024-08-30 15:15:58 +0000 UTC
This is your man is Steve wilkos, not Dr Phil
Erin
2024-08-30 15:07:40 +0000 UTC
Hopefully no guar gum tho 😅
Erin
2024-08-30 14:27:50 +0000 UTC
Not my grandma sleeping with a bar of soap in the bed to combat restless legs 😭
Annie MacKillican
2024-08-30 14:26:29 +0000 UTC
operation niki hive lemme hear you!
Sydney 🪩🪩🪩
2024-08-30 13:59:40 +0000 UTC
i looooove konel_bread i can watch them cut the silly breads all day...
Kathryn Copeland
2024-08-29 23:40:29 +0000 UTC
Eliza I saw they’re coming out with a Baja Blast gelato on September 3rd and I thought of u
avvsies
2024-08-29 23:31:12 +0000 UTC
also my comfort reels girlie is missynjohnson. she’s a sorority girlie from university of alabama and does incredible get ready with mes. she has a like 25 step skincare routine and wears exclusively athleisure and sometimes shows us her stocking her range rover w hand sanitizer and snacks. love her 🫶🏻
Annip
2024-08-29 22:52:24 +0000 UTC
my mom put my poor sister on the HCG diet when she was like 16. You basically take the HCG hormone at a certain frequency and only eat 500 calories a day. I think they were purporting that the HCG would make you less hungry. My sister was on our school’s dance team and doing studio dance so she was working out like 4hrs a day on only 500 calories. It makes me sooo sad to think about now that I’m grown. I had no clue it was being peddled by Dr. Oz but not surprised
Mary Kate Fairley
2024-08-29 21:58:39 +0000 UTC
NPR just reported on a study on if celebrity endorsements affect politicians popularity and poll numbers and the conclusion was rarely/if ever do they have an effect EXCEPT for when Oprah endorsed Barack Obama in the 2008 primaries and it made a huge difference in the polls - swayed about 1 million votes. her impact
Annip
2024-08-29 20:19:25 +0000 UTC
The Netflix doc??? That’s so crazy!!!
I have some crystals from his compound and a pamphlet that’s like a bio about him. My aunt still defended him till the day she died she was IN IT and really thought he was a healer ☹︎
Luteal Swan
2024-08-29 17:06:47 +0000 UTC
My dad filmed this and was scared shitless of this whole thing
Audrey Chamberlin
2024-08-29 17:02:30 +0000 UTC
My dad worked for Oprah for like a decade and hates her
Audrey Chamberlin
2024-08-29 17:01:49 +0000 UTC
Pleaseee do a Fall Vibes Report
Liza
2024-08-29 15:26:30 +0000 UTC
maintenance phase mention ‼️‼️🤘
Caroline Phillips-Burk
2024-08-29 10:45:21 +0000 UTC
Oh my god my hyper fixation mentioned. I’m so obsessed with Operation Niki
Cambri Elder
2024-08-29 05:28:49 +0000 UTC
Also Dr. Oz always gave me the ick for some reason and I was right!
Kristen Wynne
2024-08-29 02:45:52 +0000 UTC
I almost had a heart attack when they said that there won’t be episodes next month and then the sigh of relief I had when they said there will be eps for patreonites 🩷
Kristen Wynne
2024-08-29 02:44:01 +0000 UTC
Yesss I also am obsessed with @operation_niki. Another one I love is @yo_thats_erica, something about her reels I can’t get enough of
Jamie Cartwright
2024-08-29 01:55:21 +0000 UTC
The human heart, one of the most complicated organs in the world
Maeve mahoney
2024-08-29 01:14:14 +0000 UTC
My reels comfort watch is Miriam Ezagui!!! She’s a labor and delivery nurse based in NYC and shares about her life as an Orthodox Jewish wife and mom!!! Why am I so obsessed as a non-Jew/non-wife/non-mother/non-nurse?! Fell down a rabbit hole of watching her try on wigs for five minutes when I went back to check her name’s spelling to add it here 🤪
Al K
2024-08-29 00:44:39 +0000 UTC
Julia you NEED to look up Dr. Laura Schlessinger she’s a crazy ass QUEEN she was always on the radio growing up in LA in the late 90s/early 2000s
avvsies
2024-08-28 23:56:58 +0000 UTC
my fav instagram reels recently are the strange chinese convenience store videos with the grandpa that makes the lollipops and eats the lemon candy and the little girl who steals stuff (pls tell me someone else knows what im talking abt)
Kate Avadhanam
2024-08-28 23:37:12 +0000 UTC
My family got really into John of God bc of Oprah🙊if you don’t know he is a cult leader who SA’d people, there’s a docuseries on Netflix and everything. one of my family members even went to go visit him in Brazil and spent time at the commune there. Thanks Oprah 😪
Luteal Swan
2024-08-28 23:05:03 +0000 UTC
my fav ig reels account is @_delaniejayne_ she’s does disney bounding for every imaginable disney character and while i am not a disney adult, i do enjoy their culture
Sarah
2024-08-28 22:55:20 +0000 UTC
one of my favourite reels creators is justthebells10 she’s a mom of many adopted children and she makes cooking videos of the giant block of velveeta cheese variety and has a ridiculously large collection of rae dunn mugs of various themes
AJ
2024-08-28 22:05:17 +0000 UTC
I’m moving past my shame to say The WAY in which I watch operation Niki on YouTube shorts…
For the love of GOD have her on so she can teach us godly wives how to cleannnnn😫
Hannah Mitchell
2024-08-28 21:14:10 +0000 UTC
my old boss was on judge judy TWICE and LOST both times!!!
Annika Lawson
2024-08-28 18:35:40 +0000 UTC
“a lot of sissies” BYE 😭
Abbey W
2024-08-28 18:30:03 +0000 UTC
i am feeling veeeery grateful for these fleeting 70ish degree days as a super sweaty, heat intolerant girlie
Abbey W
2024-08-28 18:28:55 +0000 UTC
justice for steve wilkos who is actually the man behind “this is your man? look at the screen”
KP
2024-08-28 17:39:48 +0000 UTC
I sued someone and submitted to judge Judy and was selected but thought it was a scam so I never followed up
Marsss
2024-08-28 16:48:55 +0000 UTC
i listen to the pod while my mom and i are crafting, i’m leaving town today and she said “wait you have to tell me the name of the funny girls so i can listen while you’re gone”
Ella Pearson
2024-08-28 16:37:18 +0000 UTC
i thought this was being performed to a live studio audience & you’d done a funky meta pod episode on the tour … fab regardless
skybright
2024-08-28 16:02:20 +0000 UTC
Beloved mentioned ‼️‼️‼️
Sara Hursey
2024-08-28 15:10:09 +0000 UTC
My comfort instagram reels account is @noelmulkey hes a triathlete and he's so so athletic but he's like a normal nice person not like all that men's alpha gym bullshit.
Lucy
2024-08-28 14:52:03 +0000 UTC
petition for drunk ballet episode with silly retellings of the nutcracker and swan lake!!!
lauren
2024-08-28 14:05:01 +0000 UTC
it’s already in the 90s again on the east coast lol the “fall vibes” lasted approx 48 hours
lauren
2024-08-28 13:18:34 +0000 UTC
Can someone please spell Aubrey schnickeey for me please I can’t find her hahaha
Josie Hall
2024-08-28 13:10:57 +0000 UTC
i can’t believe my hometown was mentioned
Emma Lewis
2024-08-28 12:16:06 +0000 UTC
As a corporate girly in corporate hell scape, I wish I could have the motivation to come to work like elainamich everyday
Bree Dempsey
2024-08-28 11:49:52 +0000 UTC
they are some of the most thought provoking performance artists of our time
Annip
2024-08-28 10:54:35 +0000 UTC
on the topic of eliza’s gay nutcracker and target pride merch there is this queer trans owned brand i LOVE called ash and chess that target made a deal with in 2023 to sell their merch for pride and then basically fucked them over bc of homophobic public backlash and pulled all their stuff from the shelves and they lost a lot of money it was so fucked and there was def not a lot of news coverage about it so if you want to spend a little money i highly recommend ash and chess! they make clothes and cute decor and things
frankie + lizzie!
2024-08-28 03:28:24 +0000 UTC
so glad y’all GAF like I GAF about operation Niki <3
Maya
2024-08-28 02:14:43 +0000 UTC
WHAT STOP I LOVE THEM CAN WE HAVE NOTHING?…but also same to the “okay.and??” I’m still gonna be seated and tuning in
Caroline
2024-08-28 01:49:28 +0000 UTC
PLEASE do a nutcracker episode for christmas time!!!! it is nutcracking me up that neither of you queens really know the story of the nutcracker lol I did ballet growing up so I was in the nutcracker literally every christmas- so in my world I have been able to take for granted that everyone knows the story of the nutcracker. but it’s a very old story and at least within the ballet world there are some ~different takes~ on the story. in some productions Clara is a child for the whole thing, in some productions she turns into an adult for the second act, sometimes her name is Marie, and don’t even get me started on the difference between sugar plum fairy and dew drop fairy… you’d love that tea 🍵 even in NY, new york city ballet and the american ballet theater have pretty different nutcracker shows ♥️♥️♥️
Grace
2024-08-28 01:33:05 +0000 UTC
My mama is the judge on The People’s Court! I would love to share the crazy story of how she turned up there, she was on air for 22 years so as long as I’ve been alive
Sofi Schles
2024-08-27 23:10:33 +0000 UTC
OBSESSED with Operation Niki’s self care lair
Adrienne
2024-08-27 22:50:55 +0000 UTC
wait that’s so fun, how is your journey ❓
libby
2024-08-27 22:41:53 +0000 UTC
operation niki 🙂↕️🙂↕️
Ava
2024-08-27 22:21:23 +0000 UTC
The way that this episode was like half of my communications degree coursework 😭 shoutout to prof hockenberry at Fordham u for teaching me most of this why did I only ever have u idk
Erin Healey
2024-08-27 21:51:51 +0000 UTC
I posted 2girls1bottle to my insta story the other day because I find them soooo fascinating and cocomelon-esque and I got multiple messages asking me why I would post this and alerting me that it was fetish content. like. okay. and??
McKinzie Smith
2024-08-27 21:33:15 +0000 UTC
Anyone else comfort watch the lady in Ireland who makes tallow soap?
Georgia Douglas
2024-08-27 20:52:55 +0000 UTC
Yesssss Chad Chad representation
butter bean
2024-08-27 20:44:27 +0000 UTC
“It’s kind of fall vibes” it’s 100 degrees in Indiana rn 😭
Liv Tambrini
2024-08-27 20:42:01 +0000 UTC
I’m halfway through a 37 hour Amtrak ride thank you for giving me some enrichment time
Danielle
2024-08-27 19:16:25 +0000 UTC
Proud sissy here!
Jake
2024-08-27 19:02:18 +0000 UTC
really whet my palette .. got me truly hyped ..
Lilly Beards
2024-08-27 19:02:11 +0000 UTC
obsessed with the like one minute countdown
Lilly Beards
2024-08-27 19:01:32 +0000 UTC
the countdown activated my little rat brain
Isabella
2024-08-27 18:58:45 +0000 UTC
was waiting for this all morning now i have to wait for tomorrow’s getting ready to listen lmao i’ll be back!!
Breanna Villarreal
2024-08-27 18:58:12 +0000 UTC
The Dr. Oz slander is a little treat for us Pennsylvania binchies