Hello and welcome to a podcast. Have you heard of those? They're this thing where people talk and then

other people listen and that's good because we're all so lonely. But I don't mean that in a sad way.

I mean that and like just that's the facts, you know. Facts can be sad, but they can also

just be facts. So let's look at it through that perspective of, you know, science. I just made

dinner. It was not good. I'm upset. I made Kalila's chicken thigh recipe. I had high hopes. So if you haven't been following the chicken thigh gate of 2023, I made a TikTok when I first got to New York earlier this cold spring and of me making the chicken thighs.

And there were so many comments like, bitch, do you know what seasoning is?

Holy shit, you did not sear them at all.

Like people were coming for me in the comments in the best way, which made me realize,

oh, when someone comes for you in the comments, it could actually be a beautiful thing

where they're trying to help your life. And it was beautiful. So it was. It was gorgeous.

And so I'm like, tonight was my redemption night. I went to this really fancy market, bought like

the highest quality ingredient version of each ingredient for my chicken thighs, the celery,

the carrots, the cabbage, the carrots, the cabbage, the onions,

the ginger, the chicken thighs. I think that's it. Oh, I got like a, you know, fancy bone broth.

And I seared them, but then when I put them in the stew, they became unseared.

And bitch, I fucking season them.

I put a ton of garlic pot, whatever.

It just didn't work out.

And this is one of those nights where I feel this feeling that is so recurring in my life, which is, hey, you're just not going to get there.

Hey, like, it's not for you. It's just not going to work out for you,

which is such a classic, clear example of, like, how we create our own beliefs about ourselves.

Like, if I'm like, I'm just bad at sports, like, then my brain, one, that may be very true,

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