Transcript of Mochi & The Senate | Lobotomy Hour Appt 1

Well, look at my lobotomy. It's lobotomy hour. Welcome to the first ever lobotomy hour. So seven episodes a month, I have a guest on culture apothecary, and each guest brings their own unique remedy to heal us at culture, physically, mentally, and spiritually. On the last Monday of every month, you get a solo episode with yours truly and my co host, Mochi, if he behaves himself today.

Because if we're going to helic culture, the first person we should start with is me, the most deranged, unwell person that you know. And that is just the God's honest truth. What is the purpose of this show? Maybe you're thinking if you're new and you are like, what the heck? I thought this girl was, like, very serious.

Health and wellness podcaster. Psych. The joke is on you. I'm very sick. I can take my host hat off on this show.

I can let my freak flag fly. This is like, you know when you're, like, with your coworker friends and then you're with your girlfriends, like, out on a Friday night night. Like, that's, like, the different Alex personality you get. Like, this is, like, real Alex. And I get to let this side out when I'm not, like, being all professional because I have a guest here, okay?

It's getting my wiggles out. I don't like to be the star of my own show 99% of the time. Like, I really do prefer for my guests to be the star. I hardly speak honestly on the regular podcast. It's all about them.

But this at least allows me to give the bare minimum face to face time I need to so that you are all up to speed on all things Alex and Mochi Clark, who is showing his butt to the camera. Look back at it.

Lobotomy hour. Like, that phrase started as an inside joke a while back when I used to go live on YouTube. And I'd say that whenever things in the news or the world were making me go crazy and inspiring a lot of feels or emotions. Sometimes we all just need a lobotomy. As long as my schedule permits for me to be able to film in Arizona, Mochi will be mouth breathing on these episodes next to me.

Unless you guys totally object. If we hate it and we don't want him here, then you just have to stay home. Sorry, Mocha, but if you like it, then he can stay. I don't know. We're trying things out.

We're going to become a well oiled machine here. Just bear with me after this first episode, you kind of do want to watch on the real Alex Clark YouTube, but some of you will ignore my beauty and the beast footstool, and that is your prerogative. We don't give energy to the haters, do we? Mochi?

Perfect timing. Yeah. You're gonna wanna see him. Someone I work with at turning point calls him the experiment. Like first and last name the experiment.

What do you think about that? Yeah. Join us, please join us. Please subscribe to Culture Apothecary wherever you listen or watch, and leave a five star review saying how much you love the show or Mochi, or else you're a fake fan. Fan.

On this month's lobotomy hour, I'm going to be focusing on short recap of the rebrand general reception to the new name culture Apothecary. Getting my first ever pet and why he was re homed. Also, I'll talk about my adventure. Going to Austin to be on the skinny confidential podcast and what I just flew in from today, testifying at the United States. Your girly was at the hill.

Excuse me. Excuse me. And that is all I have prepared. So now things are where. And this is.

And that and. Yeah. And that was all I had prepared, so this is where things get really unhinged. Welcome to lobotomy hour. Let's get lobotomized.

You're fine. You're doing good, boy. You're good, boy. Sitting pretty. So pretty.

If you're new here, my podcast had a old name just a few mere months ago, and then we took the entire month of August off, relaunched, rebranded on September 9 with a brand new name. And that name is culture apothecary. And then this is like the spinoff show the last Monday of every month. Of course, I was really expecting you guys to give me a lot more push and pull and resistance and being very stubborn. You seem to have a little stubborn streak in you where I thought that you were gonna be like, I refuse.

I'm still calling it the spillover. I don't care what Alex says. I really, really thought that you were gonna give me a little bit of that lipid, but you've actually been unbelievably, like, on board with it, which just shocked me. I was anticipating a lot more pushback, and it's been like, kind of a seamless transition. I really could not have asked for more.

It's just been really, really good reception and fun. It's like you guys were lobotomized and you overnight forgot the old name of the show. And I haven't seen any quips about it. It's like a freaking Christmas miracle. Mochi's gonna try to escape.

Probably just sit. Lay down. Good boy. We're learning how to be a p. O.

S. Pet. Pet on set without a prompter. The wheels are off. Mochi, lay down.

Mochi, lay down. Don't escape. Mochi, lay down. Lay down. Lay down.

Oh, dear. Lay down. He's given up. Lay down. Mochi, lay down.

Sit, sit. He's jumping.

Moji may come and go. He has no idea what it's like to be a posit.

I'm making myself cry. I'm literally crying. So we're just gonna see how this goes. Like I said, this may not actually, like, work out as a regular thing, but we'll just see. Anyway, rebrand went great.

The thing about the rebrand that I was really scared about was I thought, okay, is it going to be a huge mistake to rebrand as a health and wellness podcast in the conservative movement during an election year? I thought, okay, we're gonna do this in early September, right before the November election. Like, is anybody going to care about health and wellness? Mochi, do they care about health and wellness? I had no idea.

You had no idea that everything that's happening in, like, the cultural zeitgeist with, you know, the conservative movement and health and wellness, wink, wink, nudge, nudge, was going to be going on, and so it just, like, couldn't have been more perfect. Freaking timing. I think that has made the reception, like, ten times better. Like, the branding has just made more sense than it ever could. I'm very happy with how things have been going.

I think you guys are happy, and that's that. That's the rebrand. That's all I have to say about that.

What is it? Say hello, lobotomize memo. Cheet. Lobotomize you. Lobotomize me, and lobotomize you.

It's lobotomy hour. Sweet and sour. You never know what you're gonna get when you bring your mochi pet to the set. It's lobotomy hour with emoji. Boy.

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I mean, like, there's some speakers that I'm hyped to see, but also the fact that they serve you weston a price foundation approved meals. Stop. You know, it's gonna be amazing. Code Alex for dollar 25 discount at registration link is in the show notes. But right before the rebrand, something else happened.

I got this little pig, flew to Spokane, Washington. I've never been to the state of Washington before. To pick him up in a motel parking lot lot at a truck stop like the little whore he is. This dog literally fell into my lap. When you hear this story, you're gonna understand how it was meant to be.

I had been obsessed with this breed, the pekingese breed. For months. I had been, like, researching the crap out of it. Like, oh, my gosh, I. First of all, I'm not a pet person.

I've never wanted to be a pet person. I've always said, I'll never own a pet. I'll never have a pet in my house, always. And then I became obsessed with this breed, and I just thought, oh, my gosh, like, I think I could become a dog person only for this breed, though. Everything I learned about this breed's personality, how weird it looks.

Like everything about it was attractive to me. Like, that is me and a dog. And so I had to have it. And so I started, like, reaching out to all of these different breeders and being like, you know, can you just tell me what it's like to own one? What are the differences between pekingese boys and pekingese girls?

You know, what is the upkeep like on their hair? Do you think that they could handle living in Scottsdale? Because this type of dog really prefers cold weather. They love being freezing cold. Like, he always wants to sit on a cold floor.

He doesn't want any blankets. He doesn't want to hide under blankets. He doesn't want to be in bed, which I wouldn't let him in bed with me anyway. Anyway, he wants to sit on like a cooling mat. If I travel with him in the car, he used to ride on an ice pack.

That's something interesting. But he is a chinese breed, and chinese royalty used to keep these in their sleeves and throw them, fling them at enemies like weapons. Can you believe that? Look how good your life is. That could have been you.

So I had been contacting breeders, and I think one of you guys had dm me, and you said, like, alex, like, if you're really interested in Pekingese, I happen to know, like, the championship breeder of pekingese dogs in the United States for, like, the last couple years. And he's this, like, sweet little old man. He would be absolutely floored if you texted him or called him and said, like, hello, you don't know me, but a stranger on the Internet gave me your name and said that you help. Do you know show pekingese dogs? I just want to learn about them.

Could you tell me? And they said he would be so excited. So I did that, and he was excited and even sent me a little picture of him with his winners and was like, this is me. A couple weeks later, he texted me and he says, alex, are you still interested in a pekingese? I said, why do you ask, mister?

And he said, I know somebody who's, something came up. They're needing to re home their pet. They live in Washington. He's three years old. He has no, like, major problems or anything.

She just needs to re home him. And, you know, if you're interested, I can give you her number so you can reach out and talk. So I reached out to her. I said, hello, my name is Alex. You know, I somebody so and so gave me your number, and I'm interested in possibly getting a pekingese.

Can you tell me about why you're rehoming your pet? And basically the situation is, is that his mom was breeding other types of pets. Like, she had a certain cat breed. She was doing, like, shows with them and stuff. And he was just the pet, but she felt like she became too busy to, like, really give him the love and attention that he deserves, which is ironic because I am so incredibly busy, but I'm trying my best.

And also she said, it's Washington. It snows, like, knee deep. And she said, I just can't do between you and I, another winter of, like, letting him out to go to the bathroom with his hair and, like, getting sopping wet with snow every single time he goes to the bathroom. And I was like, you know what? That's totally fair.

She had had him for three years. She flew to Portugal to get him. So he's, he's from Portugal. And she flew out there and brought him over here three years ago when he was a baby and had him ever since. And she really seemed like a great owner.

It's just that, you know, it was just time for her to move on due to circumstances. So anyway, he was really shy at first. He was not showing, like, any personality. He was just hiding all the time. And then, like, lo and behold, spending several days with him, he just, he just started showing more and more of his true self, doing his little zoomies and just going crazy, crazy as I call it, you know, flopping over so that I'll rub his belly and all that kind of good stuff.

So now I feel like we're pretty acclimated to each other. Although now he's trying to escape me. Do you want to jump? I kind of know now how he's, now, see, this is what he does. He hates being warm and he's too warm on this chair, and so he wanted to flop down and sit on the cold floor, and that's what's going on.

Mochi Camden. Yes, I know what you did.

I haven't taken him to a groomer yet. I haven't taken him to a vet personally yet. He had gone to one right before I got him and made sure he was all updated. So I get his papers and all that kind of stuff. But as far as me, we haven't done any of those adventures yet, so that's probably coming soon.

Well, definitely. I'm going to be bringing him home to my parents house in Indiana for thanksgiving for that entire week. So he's going to be meeting my parents for the first time. My dad's super excited to meet him. I think it's great giving my dad something to look forward to.

He's always like, when's mochi coming? Wanting me to send him pictures and updates and stuff, which is great. I love that I can give my dad something to, like, be excited about. So I think that's going to work out really great. This has the unhinged ramblings of the live streams that we used to do, but I'm trying to keep it together.

So then the next life update. This, this month has been insane, so it's probably not going to be this many exciting life updates all the time. Like, this month just happened to be so out of the ordinary for me. Like, exciting things going on with getting a dog and the rebrand and skinny confidential and like, testifying of the Senate and all this. That normally is not my life.

Okay. Most of the time, we're probably going to be gossiping about, like, some topics that are in, like, the news or whatever that I want to talk about, like, that still are on brand for health and wellness. I do have to tell you about going on the scanning confidential. Now, if you are subscribed to my weekly newsletter, then you already got a little tit for tat, a little taste, if you will, a little appeteaser of my skinny confidential adventure. I gave you pictures exclusively that I haven't posted anywhere.

I gave you, like, behind the scenes details. But basically, I am, like, a dear media super fan. So I have always wondered, like, what is it? Like, how do they run their shows? What does their office look like?

How big is it? Where is it? You know, I think for me, being a podcaster, that kind of stuff I nerd out on. And some of you were like, okay, this whole podcast, it wasn't that health and wellnessy. It was, like, very, like, focused on, like, how they run their business.

Like, okay, yes. But I did throw in health and wellness in there. And that's thing. That's why you cannot keep me in any little boxes, because I can make any interview with any guests that I want fit in my healing a sick culture, physically, mentally, spiritually. I just will pop in a few questions about those topics, which I did.

It was a great interview. It was super fun. And you know what? Those of you who are fans of the skinny confidential, you appreciated it, you understood. And Lauren was so kind.

She texted me and said, I think that is my most favorite interview that anybody has ever done of me. And so that just, like, was surreal because I am such a fan of them and a fan of their show. And a lot of what I have learned about interviewing and picking guests, I feel like I have picked up on listening to them in their show for the last several years. I talked about this on their interview with me. I would not be into health and wellness if it wasn't for their show.

I was getting my lashes done with my lash girl during the pandemic. She wanted me to listen to an episode that they had done with this girl, talking about how Adderall was basically legal methamphetamine. And I had never heard anything like that when it came to prescription drugs, ever. I didn't know anything about the opioid crisis. I never looked into OxyContin, how we got the opioid epidemic, any of that.

So all of that was new to me that, like, they could have a legal drug on the market that was really, actually terrible for you. Never looked into it until that episode, and that was because of them. So if you are here because of health and wellness, you owe Lauren and Michael Bostick a thank you. Ok. Ok.

Oh, here's something weird that happened that I haven't talked about. I show up bear. We probably wait for, like, 15 minutes, and we're sitting in this conference room that has glass doors, and I see this couple walk out in front of me, and I literally think, man, that is crazy. From the back, that really looks just like Michaela Peterson and her husband. Her and I both live in Phoenix, too, so it wouldn't be crazy for me to think that be like, could that be Michaela?

If I was local, but I was in Austin. I was literally out of state on this certain day at a specific time, and I see this couple, and I'm like, so weird. It was like, a fleeting thought, like, so weird. That looks like Michaela Peterson, her husband. Guess what?

It was Mikayla and her husband. I go in there to film with Lauren and Michael, and they're like, yeah, we just filmed with Mikayla. And I was like, you are freaking kidding me. So I didn't, like, reach out and say anything because I was like, I don't know who those people are because I couldn't see their faces. I only saw, like, the back of them by the time I glanced up.

So I didn't say anything, but it was so weird. So Mikayla Peterson ended up doing a podcast swap with Lauren right before me. But the way and they talk about this on my episode, the way that they run things is freaking nuts. I don't know. I am, like, really exhausted after one interview, but I also record.

I might record a little bit longer than Lauren and Michael. They keep things pretty speedy. 45 minutes to an hour, it seems. I frequently go over that. So for me, I am, like, really, really emotionally spent.

Like, done talking for the day. By the time I'm done filming, like, I'm pretty much a mouse. Like, I go nonverbal in the gerbil, you know what I mean? They were talking about how they film. Like, they just film back to back.

So that means they interview Mikayla. She interviewed that. Then they went and filmed an hour with me, and immediately back to back, I filmed an hour with that. Like, that is really incredible stamina, honestly, for hosts. Exactly the same people that you see offset on set.

Very kind. Lauren is really good about, like, sit here. Let me get a picture of you. Here, let me do this. This is a cute area.

Like all of that. Very sweet. And she is just so teeny, tiny, beautiful in person. Like, perfect skin, everything. Like, that girl is exactly what she looks like on instagram.

Like, she is really flawless. Ah. I have another big announcement. When I was in DC for the senate hearing, I got to go to dinner with the really tan man and the olive oil queen and their really tan olive oil baby. I got to meet the founders of masa chips.

I've actually never met them before. We've talked a lot. I just haven't met them in person. And they drove down from Jersey. They attended the hearing.

This is what I mean when I say, like, guys, guys, the price is worth it. These are the types of people that you are supporting. People that are going to take the time out of their day to drive with their little baby. 3 hours so they can spend 4 hours in a hearing because it has to do with fixing our corrupt food system. These are good people who make incredible freaking chips.

Alyssa's in here. My friend Alyssa. How good are masa chips? Amazing. Amazing.

She says, I took them on this cabin trip with them. She's one of the people that went on the cabin trip trip. She. They couldn't stop gushing about them. Immediately placed an order.

Yeah, she was there. Masa chips are only three ingredients. Organic corn, beef, tallow, and sea salt. It doesn't get better than that. It doesn't get cleaner than that.

They are also the best tasting seed oil free chips that you will ever have. No other seed oil free chip is even close. I honestly think the other seed oil free chips on the market are kind of disgusting. When you support Masa chips, you are supporting a small family who is just trying to make big strides against big food. Go to masachips.com.

use code Real Alex Clark for 20% off your first purchase of Masa chips. That's masachips.com with good real Alex Clark for 20% off your first purchase of seed oil free tortilla chips. Link in the show notes. Speaking of the skinny confidential, in my interview where Lauren and Michael interviewed me, she asked me to go through my purse and of course I whipped out one of my garnier tampons and talked about how you can't trust any of those other freaking tampon brands because they're all saturated with heavy metals. You've got to have 100% organic cotton only.

That is it. Garnier has regular pads, panty liners, light tampons, super tampons overnight pads, period cups. I mean, you name it, they've got it. And they are loud and proud about being a period company for girls only. They are conservative owned.

Okay. I love that about Garnu. And I love that with each purchase, a little bit goes towards fighting human trafficking in Nepal. Go to garnu.com. use code Alex for 15% off.

That's jrnuu.com with code Alex for 15% off. Garnier means rescue in Nepali because of their mission to help with human trafficking. I just love it. And they have the cutest freaking packaging, the cutest boxes. Finally, you're going to be excited for your period to come because you get this cute box delivered to your door every month.

You can also do a one time purchase if you just want to try. If you don't want to commit to a subscription, which I recommend, because you do not want to be starting your period in out of tampons, because then you're going to have to go to the drugstore and get some crappy ones that have glyphosate on them, and we don't want. So grnuu.com code alex, 15% off. Try garnu, 100% organic tampons today. So that was my skinny confidential trip.

Now, what was supposed to happen during that trip is I was supposed to do another interview, but my guest got sick and had to cancel last minute. And that interview was with Jason Karp. So this is a little behind the scenes tea of, like, what to expect probably in the new year. But Jason Carpental ended up being on my senate testimony hearing panel with me on chronic disease and food and pharma in America that I just did. I actually just flew in this morning.

I'm not kidding you. I had to get on the flight, Washington, DC time at 07:00 a.m. i had to wake up at like 445 to get up, pack my bag, and get to the airport with enough time. Check bags, all that stuff. So I am disgusting.

Had no time to do professional hair, makeup for these shoots. We're just rocking and rolling. Honestly, I breezed in. I had 1010 minutes before my guest came that I filmed before I filmed this. And that was it.

That was my day. So all of that being said, I was in Washington, DC to testify to the frickin United States Senate. Me, a literal worm. He's back, baby. He's back.

Ladies and gentlemen. You wanna come up here? You wanna come up here? Please? Stay with me.

Were you serious? Me? What do you say? Do you want to come up? Nope.

He wants to be cold. Okay, bye.

Here's how the senate hearing happened. I get a text from Cali means saying, are you free on September 23? Now, I already know that we are up to some monkey business. If Calie means is asking me that, because he doesn't just ask you willy nilly for no reason, I'm like, he's going to have me doing something very scary that I do not want to do that. I'm going to be very scared to try for the first time.

It was testifying at the frickin senate. I need you to know this about me. I am always going to say no before I say yes. I am somebody who is always. I always second guess myself.

I doubt myself. I am always very trepidatious about new things. It takes somebody really pushing me to try something and encouraging me and being like, you're just gonna do it sink or swim. Except when I was about five years old.

I digress. Otherwise, it really does take somebody just being like, you're gonna do this. You're gonna be uncomfortable and scared, but, like, we're gonna get through it with you. And so that was me. I said to Kelly immediately, I cannot do that, Callie, like, thank you so much, but, no, I.

I cannot do that. Like, I have no credentials. I don't even know what happens during a senate testimony. Are they going to grill me? Is it like that where they're asking you questions and, like, challenging you and it's like, that kind of a format?

Because. Absolutely not. I would be horrible. He was like, you're going to be fine. Here's who's on it.

And then it was like, he ghosted me for days. Like, didn't say anything. It was the food. Babe ended up calling me. She's like, oh, my gosh.

So you're joining us on the panel. And I was like, no, I am not. I literally said, I am not doing this. I cannot do this. I think Callie is just a little over his head.

Maybe he fell short on some people. He was panicking. He didn't have enough people to ask or something, and he accidentally texted me. That's what happened. He accidentally texted me because my name starts with a.

And I happen to, like, show up on his phone, and he's gonna be, like, just joking. Change my mind. We're gonna go with somebody who actually knows what they're talking about. I am not the expert on any of these topics. All I do is interview the experts, and I talk to millennial moms every day.

And Vonnie and Callie and everybody was like, great, do that. Like, literally, that's you. Like, everybody else is going to be the expert. They're going to be hyper focused on a certain topic or expertise, and you are just going to be, like, the voice of the people person. And I said, okay, I can write it.

I can have notes. I don't have to memorize it because I don't do memorizing. They said, yes. We're all going to have written speeches and casual format, and, like, this panel could change the world. RFK junior is going to be there.

Like, it's going to be phenomenal. Like, once in a lifetime, you have to do it. And so I basically scream, cried, and threw up for a week and was just working on drafts, and drafts, and drafts. I am not joking you. If you are one of the people who helped me on this frickin speech, I owe you my life.

So I had written, like, the bare bones main ideas of what I wanted to cover. Um, you know, came up with a whole storyline, some of my, like, quippy, like, one liners. That's, like, what I'm good at thinking. And then I was like, I need someone to help make sure, you know, double check all my stats, all that kind of stuff. And so I sent it to, like, freaking Taylor Dukes.

I sent it to doctor Gator from California. Callie, of course, was looking at it. The food babe was looking at it. Courtney Swan was looking. I literally sent this speech to, like, 100 people to, like, double check me, fact check me, make sure this makes sense.

Like, is this even good? How it worked was they bring us all in, and then the night before, they all take us to Joe's seafood and steak, this really nice restaurant in DC. And then this is, like, a room with all the people that spoke. And then some others. Some congressman Thomas Massey was there.

And everybody just goes around and talks about, like, my expertise is clinical psychology. Whatever it was, I'm just making stuff up, and they're all going around the room talking about what their expertise is. And then it gets to me. Now I'm like, I'm just going to be speaking from the point of view of millennial moms. I'm just gonna be their voice, and I'm gonna talk about birth control.

And everybody was like, okay, I for sure had major imposter syndrome. And I know everybody was like, what is this girl doing here? I sat at a table with Michaela Peterson, her husband, Courtney Swan, her fiance Hector, and Max Lugaver. So that was who was at my table. You had like, RFK junior at one table, grace price at another, Vonnie the food babe.

So we all go out to eat, and then the next morning, we all link up and we go to the hill, and they have us meet with all of these staffers. And it's like a bunch of kids basically, like, just out of college that are working on the hill. And it's like a cocktail hour, but no alcohol. It was like a breakfast cocktail hour where it was like little breakfast foods and bars and stuff. And then whoever wanted to, on the panel, before the main panel, was able to, like, in this little room, give a speech just to the workers.

A few people opted to do that. I didn't. I. You know, I only had my one written speech for the day, and that was all I was doing, is I'm the type of person, if it's not written down, I don't want to give speeches. I don't do speeches.

If it's not written, I'm like, I am not Ali Bestucky, who is incredibly talented and gifted, that girl. I could be like, here's your topic. Go. And she would just freaking, you know, be able to do it. That's.

That's her strength. My strength is interviewing people and reading written, written words. Words clearly that wasn't written. So we pump up these staffers, and then it's time to go down into, like, what is it? The chamber?

The catacombs? What the heck is that? It's, like, literally underground tunnels under the senate. I didn't even know that existed. I am so clueless on this stuff, you guys.

It's kind of honestly bad. Like, it's embarrassing. My history class in high school was first period. Now, my team knows this about me. You may not, but I am always late.

Always. It's a very bad character flaw. It's probably a sin. I almost failed that class because I never showed up, because I was always late pulling up in my little silver jetta with my hello Kitty sticker on the back. That was me.

Base bump in, turned all the way up. Obnoxiously. That was me. 2005 silver jetta. So I did not know that there were tunnels under the Senate.

I did not know that there was a subway train under there. I didn't know that we had beautiful exposed brick. I didn't know that there was a gorgina. Probably shouldn't say that when I'm talking about serious politics. I didn't know that there was gorgeous library.

And they do, like, a little Barnes and noble window of, like, here's, like, senators pics of the month of, like, cool books. And it's like, stuff I'm reading. Oh, my gosh. Hopefully, by the time this comes out, I'm gonna. There should be a photo dump.

I'm gonna post on Instagram. I'm gonna do a photo. There's a photo dump on Instagram at realalexclark. I'll show. You can look on there.

I have a picture of this senate library window where all the different senators got to show, like, what am I reading this month? And it was, like, literally all health and wellness books. I was like, stop. Either they did this for this hearing, or the tides are turning. And I think the tides were turning, by the way.

This freaking panel is, like, 4 hours long, and I am going last. And I think they wanted me to go last, probably because I was the one that wasn't credentialed. It was like, we'll just throw her at the end because nobody knows who she is and doesn't know what she's talking about, which I was happy for. I was scared to go first. I mean, you freaking.

Jordan Peterson was on this panel. Jillian Michaels. Hello. So I am sitting there listening to all of these people confusing, just bomb amazing testimonials. You know, one after one after one.

RFK Junior. Like, are you kidding me? So I'm, like, listening to all this, sitting there, like, oh, my gosh, what am I gonna do? So I was like, I'm just going to floor it. Floor it and just give it, like, my all, like, go full throttle, full emotion, like, full Alex.

And that's gonna be my, like, way to oomph and, like, bring this thing to an end. And so I'm like, was it awesome or was it a little cringe? It was probably a little bit of both. You know, had a little bit that type of, like, was it a little too much? But you know what?

What the hell? Testifying to the Senate, it's like, I think I did my best. I think it turned out it could have been worse. Could have been way worse. So I'm really happy with it.

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Call Wirefy at 888-502-2612 or go to wirefi.com dot may not be available in all states. I was blown away by how many cute servatives ended up being there in the Senate with me for this testimony. I honestly just didn't think anybody would come. Like, I didn't think anybody for me would come. I thought, people are gonna show up for Jordan Peterson.

Obviously, people are gonna show up for the food, babe. Obviously. Callie means doctor. Casey means RFK junior. Hello.

So, like, I was like, okay, these are people that are gonna have, like, people there supporting them, and I'm just gonna be, like, the Lone ranger. And you guys came, and there was a line of people wanting to say hi and get pictures, and you guys were like, cute servitors that came far and wide, and I was blown away. And that was, like, the greatest surprise ever after such a big life moment to, like, have support in the room. Cause I had nobody else. That was just, like, the nicest thing you guys could have ever done for me.

So if you came in person and sat in there for four freaking hours, you are a hero. And I cannot thank you enough and express to you my gratitude of how much that touched me and how much that truly meant to me and made the entire day. Mochi, are you gonna come? See? Goodbye.

You're gonna be a star. I don't know that he likes being a pos pet on set. And so that is my story. That's my story. Emoji, moji mochi.

Are you ready to go home? You're ready to get down? Yep. Time to go. All right, so this was a little unhinged.

I'm gonna tailor this up. We did do a little trial and error, see what was gonna be going on with these things. I will have, you know, more interesting things to talk about that will pertain to you that are not just my life next month, but I do have exciting things going on next month. I am gonna be going to the wise traditions conference. Conference.

Hilda Labrada Gore wise traditions western. A prize. I'm going to be going to that in Orlando towards the end of the month. So if you are planning on going, or we're thinking about going, or you live in Orlando area, you should come. Their conference is cool because it's, like, all health and wellness, but also, I think we do, like, a farm tour and all kinds of, like, fun activities.

So it's, like, very, very cool stuff. If you want to go to the wise traditions conference with me, there is a discount code. You can use code Alex for dollar 25 off at registration. We'll put the link in the show notes so that you can find that and you can come. I'm going to be going to Ohio to see some girlfriends.

We do a little trip every year, I think. I also have some pretty huge yet to be announced events that might be happening. Okay, here's another thing that's happening next month that I'll get to talk about after. I'm going to be going to this Kellogg's protest that the food babe is hosting in Michigan. So the public is invited.

We want as many people showing up to this protest, which you need to be following the food babe on instagram to see where, when, why, how, all the things. It's in Battle Creek, Michigan or something. Very perfect name. But we're going to be showing up to the Kellogg's headquarters and we're going to be asking questions and demanding to know why they are fine with serving american children one type of cereal, but giving kids around the world way, way, way better quality cereal without artificial dyes and the like. So this is going to be a historic protest planning for some pretty big special guests.

So if you are in the Michigan Midwest area there, Chicago, northern Indiana, definitely come to that. And I would love to see you at that. And this is the thing. Jason Karp talked about this on the panel, the Senate hearing panel. If all of us decided to boycott one brand just for a short amount of time and they saw their sales only drop 5%, they would make moves, they would acquiesce to whatever we are asking, and all we are asking is for them to put the same product, by the way that they make in the United States and give to other children around the world, to our kids.

They literally make the product in America and then ship it out so those kids get better quality and then make a separate worst quality to our kids. It's disgusting and we want it to end and we're demanding it. And so we really have a lot of power as women, the people that are typically the ones that are deciding what goes in the grocery cart. So if we all show up and we have a massive number, guys, this is going to be like full throttle press. This is going to be like historic, changing the food industry moves that you could be a part of.

So please come with me. Okay. That was a lot of catching up, but I hope you enjoyed being lobotomized. Thumbs up. Subscribe, whatever you're doing, wherever you're listening.

I'm Alex Clark, and this was lobotomy. Allah.

She lobotomize you. Lobotomize me and you lobotomize you. It's the bottom of me hour. Sweet and sour. You never know what you're gonna get when you bring your mochi pet.

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