The Master Cleanse

Maintenance Phase

Aubrey Gordon & Michael Hobbes

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

4.8 • 16.3K Ratings

🗓️ 2 March 2021

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Are your moods too stable? Is your face free of cold sores? Get your lemon juice, maple syrup and cayenne pepper ready, because this week we're talking about celebrity favorite THE MASTER CLEANSE!

Along the way we roast New Atheism, praise Gwyneth Paltrow (!) and endorse garbanzo bean salads. Mike wishes to clarify that he adores Kate Bush and quips with the utmost affection.

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Links!:

The Master Cleanser by Stanley Burroughs
I Heard It Through the Diet Grapevine (New York Times)
Improving Ourselves to Death (The New Yorker)
Cleansing's Dirty Secret (Marie Claire)
Mr. Clean: Jeffrey Steingarten Puts the Master Cleanse to the Test (Vogue)
The Dubious Practice of Detox (Harvard Health)

Thanks to Ashley Smith for editing assistance and Doctor Dreamchip for our lovely theme song!

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to Maintenance Phase, the podcast that detoxifies your brainstem, your ear, ear buds, ear holes.
0:21.0	It was such a strong start, right?
0:23.0	Confidence.
0:24.0	The key is confidence, all of a sudden.
0:26.0	It's such a strong start.
0:28.0	So, exactly what you're going to say before you say it every time.
0:31.0	Every once in a while you come on and you're like, I've been working on this tagline.
0:34.0	And every single time it is a surprise to me.
0:37.0	I started working on that tagline when I started speaking the sentence.
0:40.0	I am Michael Hobbs, I'm a reporter for The Havvieden Post.
0:46.0	I'm Aubrey Gordon, I am a writer, a columnist, an author, a lot of things, and now a podcaster.
0:52.0	And both of us are on Patreon at patreon.com slash maintenance phase or maintenance phase.com or lots of other places where we have t-shirts and all kinds of other cute stuff in the description.
1:03.0	Yeah, and if you want to design a t-shirt, you can design a t-shirt and you get paid for it.
1:07.0	And it gets to be a maintenance face t-shirt.
1:09.0	Look how cute.
1:10.0	Yay, Mike.
1:11.0	Aubrey.
1:12.0	Can I tell you what we're talking about today?
1:14.0	I don't know if I'm going to be able to follow along because for the last two days I've only been eating cayenne pepper and water and I'm a little light-headed.
1:20.0	Just spicy water.
1:23.0	It's frankly not far off what we're talking about today.
1:26.0	We're talking about the master cleanse.
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