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Maintenance Phase

Diet Book Deep Dive: Angela Lansbury's "Positive Moves"

Maintenance Phase

Aubrey Gordon & Michael Hobbes

Wellness, Health & Fitness, History, Education, Science, Health

4.816.3K Ratings

🗓️ 26 October 2021

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

At the height of her "Murder She Wrote" fame, Angela Lansbury released a home workout video full of synth music, peach jumpsuits and ~sensuality~. This week, we’re exploring the anti-Goop-ness of Angela’s fitness book and video, "Positive Moves."! It gets a little heavy toward the end, but we promise: No one was canceled in the making of this episode.

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0:00.0

I have to actually talk into the microphone. I was like, why is the level so low then?

0:13.7

I'm like, I'm not holding the microphone. Welcome to maintenance phase, the podcast that

0:20.2

you can count on not to count calories. Oh, okay. I was trying to count with something generic.

0:27.0

I'm sorry. I mean, it's fair. I didn't tell you what the topic is today.

0:31.2

That's the thing. You've given me a difficult brief. Yeah, you got nothing to go on.

0:35.4

And it fits. Look at that. It fits. I am Michael Hobbs. I am I've recorded. If you would like to support the show,

0:41.8

you can do that in two ways. One, you can join our Patreon at patreon.com slash maintenance phase,

0:48.0

where we have bonus episodes. Most recently, Mike and I did a lot of talking about fat suits.

0:54.3

You can also support us on tpublic.com. And today, Mike, we're doing a surprise topic.

1:01.2

Yeah, tell me we were going to do something else, something involving downstairs parts.

1:06.0

We will still do the downstairs parts episode. Okay, good. We've been going hard on problematic people.

1:11.6

Today, we do have another problematic person that we're going to talk about. Oh,

1:15.6

but it's a complicated and not entirely problematic person. It's a person who's like trying to do good

1:23.3

and succeeding some of the time and failing some of the time. Is it all of our north?

1:32.2

Which figure in geopolitics will we be discussing? No, today, we are doing a diet book deep dive.

1:39.2

It is called positive moves, my personal plan for fitness and well-being. Okay.

1:44.9

It is written by one Dame Angela Landsbury. Angela Landsbury has a diet book?

1:50.2

I'm so glad we did this on Mike. Shouldn't it be called breakfast, she wrote it?

1:58.6

So it totally should be. Booking out in 1990 prior to that in 1988, she released a home VHS.

2:07.6

Of like fitness stuff? Of her fitness stuff. And we're going to watch clips of Angela Landsbury's

2:13.5

home VHS. I don't know if I'm ready for Angela Landsbury to be problematic. I don't know.

2:21.4

Can't she just live in my head? Is it like a sweet old lady? I mean a lot of this is sweet old lady

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