Jellycats, Community Cliques, and Redefining Normality

Older & Wilder

GGW Media

Comedy, Society & Culture, Health & Fitness

4.8 • 619 Ratings

🗓️ 28 May 2026

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Memorial Day Plans, Jellycat Shopping, and the GLP-1 Cultural Debate

Joy and Claire catch up over Memorial Day weekend, sharing family activities in Moab, recurring McDonald’s order mishaps, an e-bike picnic, paddleboarding plans, and a quick Arizona trip for a friend’s daughter’s high school graduation. They discuss the cliquey dynamics of making friends in a Utah town with a strong LDS subculture plus humorous travel stories including a seatmate chewing tobacco on a plane. A highlight is Scott’s Chicago shopping spree at a Jellycat store, buying a sold-out grumpy turtle for Miles. They then address Instagram responses about GLP-1 medications, emphasizing benefits for metabolic health while criticizing cultural trends toward extreme weight loss, unsafe normalization, marketing, and stigma. They end with favorite products: Theraface red-light mask, ILIA makeup, and the Intake nose opener.

00:00 Memorial Day Catchup

00:34 Makeup At 7 AM

01:05 McDonalds Order Chaos

03:02 Park Picnic And Paddleboard

03:40 Arizona Graduation Trip

05:46 Hibachi And Choir Memories

08:29 Mormon Town Culture Shock

10:52 Making Friends In Moab

14:02 Jellycat Store Adventure

20:59 Library Pets And Dog Tales

23:21 Brandon Phone Jump Scares

24:19 Gross Plane Seatmate Story

25:47 Travel Brings Out Weirdness

28:26 Short Person Overhead Bag Hack

29:21 GLP-1 Nuance Not Judgment

33:51 Culture Shift Toward Waif Era

38:27 Health First Not Weight Loss

40:17 Marketing Profits and Safety Concerns

44:27 Vitamins Malnutrition and Hair Loss

45:57 Favorite Products and Wrap Up

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0:00.0	Welcome back, everybody to older and wilder with Joy and Claire.
0:23.0	Good morning. Good afternoon. Good evening. Wherever you are. Memorial Day weekend. What are your plans for Memorial Day
0:28.4	weekend? Oh, great question. While it's Sunday, as it often is when we record. First of all,
0:34.4	hold on a minute. I just, are you wearing already? Eye Shadow? It's 7 a.m.
0:37.8	Yeah, I got ready this morning.
0:39.4	That's amazing.
0:40.1	Congratulations to you.
0:40.8	You can clearly see that I did not.
0:42.2	I don't know what it was. Like, I worked out this morning. And I was like, oh, I have time to take a shower. And so you, like, put on like a full face of makeup for this? It's not full face.
0:50.0	This is maybe like...
0:50.7	You're wearing eye shadow.
0:51.7	It's not eye shadow.
0:52.8	It's like the same thing as my blush.
0:54.3	So I just rubbed it on my eyelids.
0:56.0	Yeah.
0:56.3	I have a lot more time without... This is maybe like... You're wearing eye shadow. It's not eye shadow. It's like the same thing as my blush.
0:54.5	So I just rubbed it on my eyelids. Yeah. I have a lot more time without Lila around. So I like just have extra time to do the small pieces of effort. Yeah. Okay. Let's see. Yesterday we went, did a little bit of rock climbing with the kids. Although it got really hot. We kind of just like wilted and came home.
1:12.6	Actually, we went to McDonald's, which is where we go when we're wilting. a little bit of rock climbing with the kids, although it got really hot. We kind of just like wilted
1:11.7	and came home. Actually, we went to McDonald's, which is where we go when we're wilting.
1:15.1	You wilted. There was one McDonald's in town and we went there and then, and they always get our
1:20.4	order wrong. Yet, they have yet to get our order correct one time. Like what, what happens?
1:25.3	Like, normally it's Miles's order that gets messed up because he wants a
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