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Ask Iliza Anything

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Ask Iliza Anything

Lemonada Media

Comedy

4.73.4K Ratings

🗓️ 22 April 2026

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

Iliza helps a mom worried about her kid's college plans and does some tough math to figure out another mother's ideal nanny situation. 

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey, it's Julie Lue Dreyfus from Wiser Than Me, etc.

0:04.7

Just popping in with a little reality check.

0:07.8

Food waste shouldn't exist.

0:10.2

There is no reason that our leftovers should end up in a landfill,

0:14.0

but that's the final destination for about a third of the food we grow.

0:18.4

Our ancestors would be confused.

0:23.0

They use their food scraps as compost,

0:29.0

or as animal feed, or in weird soups, all the stuff we did before garbage was invented.

0:36.1

But composting is hard work. Living with a bucket of rotten food on your counter is gross.

0:39.7

Most food goes in the trash because it's easy,

0:45.1

and these days we'll take any easy we can get. But now there's something easier.

0:53.4

Drop your scraps in a mill food recycler. It looks like a kitchen bin and an iPhone had a baby. It takes nearly anything, even meat and bones.

0:56.9

It works automatically.

0:58.3

You can keep filling it for weeks, and it never smells.

1:02.9

When you finally empty it, you've got these nutrient-rich grounds.

1:06.9

Use them in your garden, pour them in your green bin, or have mill get them to a small farm,

1:12.5

so the food you don't eat can help grow the food you do, just like it should be.

1:18.7

It's why I own a mill, why I invest in mill, and why I'm still obsessed with my mill.

1:25.0

If you want to get obsessed to, go to mill.com slash wiser to get $75 off.

1:31.2

That's mill.com slash wiser for $75 off.

1:37.9

Ask me. Ask Eliza anything. It's time to ask. Ask me on your questions.

1:46.1

Leave them in the Instagram.

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