Hello everybody, it's Monday, August 24th and we got some shoppo coming at ya.

So folks, we've talked a lot about Goop on this shop.

But only in the context of the slime produced by alien symbiot Venom in the film Venom,

starring Tom Hardy.

You are a loser, Betty.

But today we're diving back into the Goop and all the Goop related vibes of Gwyneth

Paltrow and for wellness brand with author Lauren Euler who recently got gooped up on

the Goop Cruise.

Lauren, welcome to the show, a good Goop radio.

Thanks for having me, you guys know I love hanging out with small groups of men, so just

write it home.

This is one of the smallest groups of men you can find.

Lauren, so you have a piece in Harper's that like you really, as you describe it, you

hit the jackpot of magazine writing, which is getting paid to go in a fun celebrity cruise.

And you join the ranks of such sort of a ship and cruise based magazine writers like David

Foster Wallace and Herman Melville was the Goop Cruise everything you dreamed of?

I guess yes and no.

It was sort of like a blank slate of like a cruise article.

It was just, I don't know, the pressure of the David Foster Wallace thing is, it was

like a double edged sword.

And once like I actually got on the boat, there was not a lot of Goop content to be found,

right?

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