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🗓️ 13 October 2025
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There are books, movies, and TV shows that we return to again and again—often because they include moments of transcendence, when the most enduring and important values are invoked.
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| 0:00.0 | Gretchen, you and I both love Whole Foods Market. |
| 0:04.8 | It's fall. I am trying to entertain more, and I love to go to Whole Foods Market for entertaining or just for my everyday needs. |
| 0:14.8 | The 365 by Whole Foods Market brand always has great quality and great prices. Plus, you can shop low |
| 0:24.3 | price everyday items in the store and online with convenient pickup and seamless delivery. |
| 0:31.5 | Right. It's a combination we all want, which is really good prices and also really good quality |
| 0:36.0 | products. They have hundreds of yellow low price |
| 0:39.2 | signs that make it easy to save without compromising the quality and ingredient standards that |
| 0:45.3 | you expect from Whole Foods market. Yes. You know I'm not much of a chef, but I do know that |
| 0:51.5 | when I go to Whole Foods, I can figure out something good to offer my |
| 0:56.0 | guests that I can be proud of. Enjoy so many ways to save on cozy fall meals at Whole Foods Market. |
| 1:06.1 | Lemonada |
| 1:06.7 | I'm Gretchen Rubin, and this is a little happier. |
| 1:13.3 | It has occurred to me that with the books, movies, and TV shows that I truly love and read and reread |
| 1:20.1 | or watch and re-watch, they often include moments of transcendence when the most endearing and |
| 1:26.5 | important values are invoked. |
| 1:29.1 | Even when a book or show or movie is lighthearted and even silly, if at some times it reaches |
| 1:35.3 | those moments of transcendence, the experience is so much richer and can withstand repeated |
| 1:41.2 | scrutiny. I love the TV show Friends, which is no surprise, because although the NBC |
| 1:47.4 | show aired from 1994 to 2004, it's still enormously popular. I was thinking about whether Friends |
| 1:55.2 | has these moments of transcendence. For some reason, I've been thinking a lot about Friends lately, |
| 2:02.1 | even though I haven't even been watching the show. I should probably do a bit of reflection on that. But anyway, I've seen the show |
| 2:08.1 | many times, so I searched my memory to see if I could find examples. And without much effort at all, |
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