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Wiser Than Me with Julia Louis-Dreyfus

Listen Again: Julia Gets Wise with Isabel Allende

Wiser Than Me with Julia Louis-Dreyfus

Lemonada Media

Comedy

4.710.4K Ratings

🗓️ 11 June 2025

⏱️ 85 minutes

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Summary

We are celebrating Isabel Allende’s newest book – My Name is Emilia del Valle – by listening back to the beautiful conversion she had with Julia in Season 1.   Today on Wiser Than Me, Julia gets schooled by 82-year-old award-winning author Isabel Allende (The House of the Spirits). Isabel enlightens Julia about organic justice, letter writing, and blueberry weed edibles. The two compare notes on everything from postpartum experiences to otherworldly visits from the other side.    Follow Wiser Than Me on Instagram and TikTok @wiserthanme and on Facebook at facebook.com/wiserthanmepodcast. Keep up with Isabel Allende on Instagram @allendeisabel. Find out more about other shows on our network at @lemonadamedia on all social platforms. Joining Lemonada Premium is a great way to support our shows and get bonus content. Subscribe today on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. For exclusive discount codes and more information about our sponsors, visit https://lemonadamedia.com/sponsors/.  For additional resources, information, and a transcript of the episode, visit lemonadamedia.com. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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0:00.0

Well, hello there. It's me, Julia Louis Dreyfus. I'm so happy to be back with Season 3 of Wiser Than Me.

0:08.1

And to celebrate that, I am so excited to share that we have partnered with Lingua Franca, a New York City-based luxury and sustainable clothing brand to offer our listeners Wiser Than, specific hand-embroidered sweaters,

0:23.2

sweatshirts, and more. I've gotten to hand-select each of the items in this curated collection

0:28.9

and have had so much fun with it along the way, adding a bunch of sayings from our podcast to the items.

0:34.6

It all combines Linguifranca's chic yet thoughtful designs with our mission to celebrate the wisdom of older women.

0:42.2

So check out our collection by heading over to wiser than me shop.com and clicking on the Linguafranca collection.

0:53.6

Lemonada.

1:05.3

From 1982 to 1985, I had the privilege of being on Saturday Night Live, and there was one sketch that I did in which I played Christina DeLorean, the wife of John DeLorean, who I guess he invented the

1:12.4

Dolorian car, and he had some big cocaine scandal at the time. I mean, could there be anything

1:19.3

more 80s than that? Anyway, for the scene, the hair and makeup people gave me a blowout. You know,

1:25.7

they straighten my hair because Christina DeLorean had straight straight hair and I had really, really curly hair. And the scene was, you know,

1:32.7

funny or whatever, probably not. I think my husband Brad might have played John DeLorean, but it

1:39.1

doesn't matter. That's not what I'm talking about. What matters here is that it was the first

1:43.5

time I had ever had straight hair

1:45.8

in a sketch. Usually it was just my own curly hair or a wig, right? So, the Monday after the show

1:52.6

aired when we came back to work at 30 Rock, one of the very big bosses called me into his office,

1:58.4

and he sat me down specifically to tell me that he really

2:02.9

liked how I had done my hair in the John DeLorean sketch. And then he tells me that he had gotten a

2:10.6

call from somebody at NBC, saying that at least five NBC executives wanted to, and I quote, fuck me because they thought

2:23.5

my hair looked so good. Lucky me. He actually prefaced the whole thing by saying, I've got good

2:33.5

yeah, he did. Even now,

2:37.8

as I'm telling you this, I'm speechless. I didn't know what to do. I started laughing, in fact,

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