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Maintenance Phase

Herbalife

Maintenance Phase

Aubrey Gordon & Michael Hobbes

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

4.816.3K Ratings

🗓️ 10 July 2025

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Wait, can I tell you my one piece of like fun and exciting news? Yeah. So, you know, I moved recently and made a selection of where to live in the like fall slash winter.

0:22.5

It's now spring and all of the plants in the yard have started blooming.

0:27.3

And I'll tell you what's fucking fun, Michael.

0:31.6

As it turns out, I have two blueberry bushes, a cherry tree, and an apricot tree.

0:38.7

Fruit for days.

0:40.1

No more ultra-processed foods.

0:41.7

Only homegrown flaming hot cheetahs.

0:45.0

When I was growing up, we also had a blueberry bush in the backyard.

0:49.6

It's like a cherished memory from my childhood, like eating these homegrown blueberries.

0:53.9

And then one day when me and my brother were like, I think, five and seven or something, we beat it with sticks.

0:59.3

And then it never gave blueberries again.

1:03.9

I was about to be like, oh, my God, we also had blueberry bushes in the backyard.

1:08.1

It was also a cherished childhood memory of mine.

1:11.6

Yeah. But then you really lost me at beat it with sticks and somehow killed a blueberry bush.

1:16.7

But you were not a boy, a little boy who was like, I need to inflict violence on this beautiful

1:21.1

thing for no reason. I was a little girl who was drinking pond water and calling it magic potion.

1:31.2

This explains so much about us.

1:34.0

There's kind of no point in saying our names at the beginning of the show anymore so we can

1:37.6

just say, I'm someone who beat a blueberry bush with sticks.

1:42.1

I'm someone who drank pond water.

1:44.5

Absolutely.

1:45.5

Okay, so I have a tagline.

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