Are We Summering Wrong? Kelly & Don Decode Summer Body Trends

Summer body trends have officially gone off the rails. Kelly & Don decode looksmaxxing, the Barbie Drug tan injection, belly button sunning, and protein in EVERYTHING — and then decide: max it or nix it?

Episode 68 of Two Awesome People takes on summer body culture — not the magazine version, but the 2026 internet version where people are injecting melanin peptides to get tan, chewing jawline gum to look sculpted, and putting their armpits through a detox. We don't get it either. Let's figure it out together.

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🕐 TIMESTAMPS
0:00 – Cold Open: When Your Kid Roasts Your Body
1:00 – Accepting the Dad Bod (Well... Trying To)
3:10 – Fun Fact: How Long Is Summer Actually?
4:10 – Do We Even Need a "Summer Body"?
5:20 – What Is Looks Maxing? (The Healthy vs. Unhealthy Version)
7:50 – When Did Summer Body Culture Start?
8:40 – Soft Looks Maxing vs. Hard Maxing
10:00 – Tan Maxing, Tanfluencers & The Barbie Drug (Melanotan)
16:50 – Max It or Nix It 🎮 (Belly Button Sunning, Jawline Gum & More)
20:30 – Protein Maxing vs. Fiber Maxing: The Battle
22:20 – Real Summer Food Trend or Totally Fake?
24:30 – The Verdict: What's the Best Summer Body?
25:50 – Give It Time: Pickle Is the New Pumpkin Spice?
28:30 – One Last Thing: The Hugo Spritz


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Transcript

SPEAKER_00 0:00

I was working out shirtless with my son yesterday, and he goes, Dad, you're tongue.

SPEAKER_02 0:03

Such a weird intro to any story.

SPEAKER_00 0:06

That I was working out shirtless with my it was hot. And my son goes, Dad, your your belly is jiggling.

SPEAKER_02 0:13

This is what I'm saying to you about accepting your body at this age. The boys point that shit out to me.

SPEAKER_01 0:20

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 0:21

Even if I'm wearing, you know, pants or something and I'm sitting here and Connor puts his hands on my leg and maybe starts doing this, he'll be like, Why is it shaking?

SPEAKER_00 0:33

Mom, why is your thigh shaking?

SPEAKER_02 0:35

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 0:36

You should respond, that's all lady.

SPEAKER_02 0:38

I don't think he would react positively to that.

SPEAKER_00 0:40

Do your kids just kind of pick apart your looks while welcome to parenthood?

SPEAKER_02 0:45

I hope it's normal and that it's not just our kids, but our kids are pretty hypercritical.

SPEAKER_00 0:50

Oh, when he said, Dad, your belly shaking, I was like, okay, I'm done working out now.

SPEAKER_02 0:55

What did you say when he said that? Did you say it's all man?

SPEAKER_00 0:58

I said, look at that shake right there. Did you really? I was like, shut up, Connor.

SPEAKER_02 1:04

Because you probably went, wah.

SPEAKER_00 1:10

I love summer. I'm ready to summer. Big thing with summering is your summer body.

SPEAKER_02 1:16

Yeah, that's the drag about it.

SPEAKER_00 1:19

Do you feel better now that you're 40 in a swimsuit or when you were 25?

SPEAKER_02 1:24

What do you think the answer to that question would be?

SPEAKER_00 1:27

I feel better now at 40 than 25.

SPEAKER_02 1:30

Do you?

SPEAKER_00 1:31

Yeah, I think this big boy dad bod.

SPEAKER_02 1:34

So it's not that you necessarily feel better, it's that you feel more accepting.

SPEAKER_01 1:39

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 1:40

I don't know if it's a me thing or if it's a female thing, but accepting is very hard to come by. So I haven't really reached that point completely yet.

SPEAKER_00 1:51

So the 40-year-old midlife hasn't hit you with the ah, I don't give a shit.

SPEAKER_02 1:57

Not completely.

SPEAKER_00 1:58

Maybe this will be the summer, Kelly.

SPEAKER_02 2:00

Maybe.

SPEAKER_00 2:01

Well, summer used to be simple bathing suits, get a burn, go to the pool.

SPEAKER_02 2:07

Burn yourself.

SPEAKER_00 2:08

I was always burnt when I was young.

SPEAKER_02 2:11

That's bad news for you now.

SPEAKER_00 2:12

Now it's all about summer maxing. Summer maxing is the internet's attempt to optimize everything summer.

SPEAKER_02 2:20

This umbrella term that just is summer.

SPEAKER_00 2:24

It's how you look, what you eat, you know, where you go, and how much fun you're having. How much fun you're having. We used to just go out and have fun in summer, and now it's a whole thing. It's a lot to live up to.

SPEAKER_02 2:38

It creates expectations. June, July, August, I got big expectations. It makes it harder for people to accept what they have because they have to live up to these hyped up, maxed out, optimized looks. Yes, I mean, to the max means like the most, right? So if you're summer maxing, or if you're, you know, this is going to be your summer body, it's just like to the extreme. Like this is what matters.

SPEAKER_00 3:11

I got a fun fact for you, Kelly.

SPEAKER_02 3:13

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 3:14

The unofficial American summer is from Memorial Day to Labor Day. Right. And this year, summer lasts 106 days. Last year, summer lasted 99 days.

SPEAKER_02 3:28

What how could that be? The calendar is the same from Memorial Day to Labor Day.

SPEAKER_00 3:34

Maybe I'll put up one of those graphics that explains how this works.

SPEAKER_02 3:38

I need like a pie chart, Don.

SPEAKER_00 3:39

But mostly this is Flavor Town for Dawn, where I don't understand. And there's some scientific reason why summer is seven days longer than last year.

SPEAKER_02 3:49

I wonder if fall will be shorter. Well, I would say Is there a domino effect? It's like this is the year of summer.

SPEAKER_00 3:57

We live in Southern California. Summer is six months out of the year.

SPEAKER_02 4:00

Just degrees of summer. Let's talk about the glorious tan, buffed out summer body don.

SPEAKER_00 4:08

Shredded, ripped abs, the glistening skin, the guns, the tan lines. Do we need a special body for summer?

SPEAKER_02 4:17

A normal, sane, well-adjusted person would say, No, you need your own body and you need it to be healthy. And another person would say, Yes, yes, you do.

SPEAKER_00 4:31

I may fit into the first category then.

SPEAKER_02 4:33

You are very well adjusted.

SPEAKER_00 4:35

No, the second category.

SPEAKER_02 4:36

So that yes, you do. I got lost in the categories. That you accept your body.

SPEAKER_00 4:42

I do, but as summer comes, I always feel the need to or desire to lose some weight, to tone up a bit.

SPEAKER_02 4:52

To impress the 10-year-old and 14-year-old.

SPEAKER_00 4:55

To impress myself. I'm like, I gotta look good for day number one over here.

SPEAKER_02 5:02

Let me stop right there because that button's gonna really budget you.

SPEAKER_00 5:05

Yeah, that is. Thank you. Thank you. I appreciate that.

SPEAKER_02 5:08

Just piss you off the whole edit.

SPEAKER_00 5:11

Did you're a hundred percent. My buttons are unbuttoned.

SPEAKER_02 5:14

I look like a slob.

SPEAKER_00 5:16

Ugh.

SPEAKER_02 5:16

Um, no, a summer body takes work.

SPEAKER_00 5:20

All good things take work. Oh, bam.

SPEAKER_02 5:23

I mean, I guess so.

SPEAKER_00 5:25

Shit don't come to people that don't do anything.

SPEAKER_02 5:27

Some shit does.

SPEAKER_00 5:28

Probably bad shit. Or bat shit.

SPEAKER_02 5:30

Just degrees of shit.

SPEAKER_00 5:33

The internet.

SPEAKER_02 5:34

Oh, that thing?

SPEAKER_00 5:36

Believes that.

SPEAKER_02 5:38

The internet believes.

SPEAKER_00 5:39

It has belief. Well, I guess there's trends on the internet that are heavy into the summer body and how to achieve the max summer body. It's called looks maxing.

SPEAKER_02 5:51

Right.

SPEAKER_00 5:51

So you want to tell the people what looks maxing is?

SPEAKER_02 5:54

I don't even think that looks maxing is limited to summer. But in this, in this discussion, we're limiting it to summer.

SPEAKER_00 6:02

We are. And it's turned up maybe to 12.

SPEAKER_02 6:05

Oh, past 11.

SPEAKER_00 6:06

Past 11. Yeah. For those who don't know Spinal Tap, go watch it.

SPEAKER_02 6:11

Explain the joke.

unknown 6:12

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 6:13

Welcome to the joke. And looks maxing is maxing out your look, and there's healthy ways to do it, and there's bad ways to do it.

SPEAKER_02 6:21

And I guess it's interesting that it's looks maxing as opposed to like health maxing.

SPEAKER_00 6:26

Oh.

SPEAKER_02 6:27

Burn. Burn on society.

SPEAKER_00 6:30

So looks maxing it comes from the origin word looksum.

SPEAKER_02 6:35

Looksom.

SPEAKER_00 6:35

Looksum. Is that with an X? No. Oh, damn. It basically means discrimination based on look.

SPEAKER_02 6:42

Are you sure it's looksum and not looks ism?

SPEAKER_00 6:46

Yes, that's it.

SPEAKER_02 6:47

Oh my god, Dodge.

SPEAKER_00 6:51

Flavortown. Flavortown, flavortown, flavortown. Looksum. Wait, look.

SPEAKER_02 6:58

If it's a prejudice, prejudism, then it would be, I'm just saying, like you have to think of like racism or racist.

SPEAKER_00 7:08

You are completely correct.

SPEAKER_02 7:09

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 7:09

Lookism.

SPEAKER_02 7:11

Thanks for that lesson, Don. I learned something about my husband. All right. Continue with your lesson for us all. I can't even continue with this lesson. Well, so looks maxing is like a response to look or looksism.

SPEAKER_00 7:30

Maxing, because we talk about maxing a lot.

SPEAKER_02 7:33

Yeah, to the max.

SPEAKER_00 7:34

To the max. The suffix maxing is a gamer term.

SPEAKER_02 7:37

Like to supercharge something is to max it.

SPEAKER_00 7:40

All the maxing that you hear around now all came from gamers.

SPEAKER_02 7:44

So many things come from gamers.

SPEAKER_00 7:46

I got a fact for you, Kelly.

SPEAKER_02 7:48

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 7:48

The summer body trend dates back to the 1960s. Do you know why?

SPEAKER_02 7:54

Gidget.

SPEAKER_00 7:55

That's probably a really good guess. Damn. You're you got there so fast.

SPEAKER_02 8:02

You're now second guessing what you were going to say.

SPEAKER_00 8:05

I was gonna say it was the emergence of the bikini.

SPEAKER_02 8:08

Charlie's Angels was probably 70s. Yeah, I would say all of those things.

SPEAKER_00 8:13

In 2019, there was a survey of a thousand Americans that described the perfect woman.

SPEAKER_02 8:18

Oh Lord.

SPEAKER_00 8:19

As five five.

SPEAKER_02 8:21

What?

SPEAKER_00 8:22

128 pounds.

SPEAKER_02 8:23

What?

SPEAKER_00 8:24

And a 26-inch waist.

SPEAKER_02 8:26

Well, then I'm doomed anyways, because I'm taller than that.

SPEAKER_00 8:29

True. Give up.

SPEAKER_02 8:30

Yeah. Done.

SPEAKER_00 8:33

70% of individuals experience body dissatisfaction during summer.

SPEAKER_02 8:39

Because it's a it's like a comparison fest. Do you think that looks maxing is good or bad? It's a very I guess it depends on how you do it.

SPEAKER_00 8:49

Because technically getting a haircut is looks maxing.

SPEAKER_02 8:52

Oh, it is?

SPEAKER_00 8:52

Yes.

SPEAKER_02 8:53

Oh, so really taking care of your appearance in any way is doing your laundry.

SPEAKER_00 9:00

Well, that's not changing your appearance. I guess going and getting new clothes would be. There's soft looks maxing and hard maxing.

SPEAKER_02 9:08

Oh, hard.

SPEAKER_00 9:09

Cosmetic surgery, changing your appearance permanently.

SPEAKER_02 9:14

There is a lot of different kinds of maxing.

SPEAKER_00 9:16

Our favorite forms of maxing.

SPEAKER_02 9:18

My favorite form of maxing is snack maxing.

SPEAKER_00 9:22

Avoiding the scale maxing.

SPEAKER_02 9:23

We don't even have a scale.

SPEAKER_00 9:25

I have no idea how much I weigh.

SPEAKER_02 9:27

It's only when I go to the doctor.

SPEAKER_00 9:29

And you're like, holy shit.

SPEAKER_02 9:30

No, it actually always ends up good.

SPEAKER_00 9:32

But it could be a holy shit good.

SPEAKER_02 9:35

But I like won't eat for a little while before your looks maxing over there. No, I'm like number maxing. Like I like I want, yeah, I'm worried about those numbers, but it always works out.

SPEAKER_00 9:48

Air conditioning maxing.

SPEAKER_02 9:50

Wearing the same shirt maxing. You do that.

SPEAKER_00 9:54

I love wearing the same clothes over and over.

SPEAKER_02 9:56

It's like a compulsion that you have.

SPEAKER_00 9:58

Well, yeah, because I don't think you need to wear your clothes once and then wash them.

SPEAKER_02 10:02

But sometimes you do it to the extr you do it to the maxed on. We have to conserve our detergent.

SPEAKER_00 10:09

It's just so wasteful.

SPEAKER_02 10:11

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 10:11

If your underwear needs less laundry. Your underwear, I understand. It's close to all sorts of weird things. But for the most part, your shirt, your pants, you don't need to wash them every freaking time you wear them.

SPEAKER_02 10:26

That's lifestyle tips by Dawn. All right, you want to do the next not leaving the house maxing. Sitting near a pool but not getting in maxing.

SPEAKER_00 10:36

That's what this one does. That's the best kind of maxing.

SPEAKER_02 10:39

I love to sit by a pool.

SPEAKER_00 10:42

But not get in. And then I like to kennball and splash you.

SPEAKER_02 10:45

So do our children. It's just sometimes it's too cold in the pool.

SPEAKER_00 10:50

90 degrees is real cold.

SPEAKER_02 10:52

John, we both know that the pool is not 90 degrees. Move it on. Cut that out.

SPEAKER_00 11:00

So the way that people are maxing their summer bodies is with these things called peptides.

SPEAKER_02 11:07

Yes.

SPEAKER_00 11:07

Have you ever heard of a peptide?

SPEAKER_02 11:10

I have because I've seen the word, but I don't take a lot of time to read it. It's kind of like people take it like a vitamin, right?

SPEAKER_00 11:17

Peptides are in your body. Okay. They normally occur. They instruct your cells on how to function.

SPEAKER_02 11:24

Oh, they're little teachers.

SPEAKER_00 11:26

They're like do this, do that.

SPEAKER_02 11:28

Medicine has figured out how to um train your peptides.

SPEAKER_00 11:33

Yes. Okay. And it's not a blanket thing. So it's very pointed to very specific things in your body.

SPEAKER_02 11:39

Yes.

SPEAKER_00 11:40

And examples, GLP1s. Right. Tailored to your metabolism. One of the peptides things you can do as well to increase your looks is you can take stuff that makes you tan.

SPEAKER_02 11:53

That's part of tan maxing, Don.

SPEAKER_00 11:56

What?

SPEAKER_02 11:56

Yeah. What, what, what?

SPEAKER_00 11:59

It's a thing, tan maxing.

SPEAKER_02 12:01

Yes. There are tan fluencers online.

SPEAKER_00 12:04

Tell me more.

SPEAKER_02 12:05

I mean, don't you aspire to be a tan fluencer? I hope that our children grow up to be tan fluencers. Dream big, everybody. Tan fluencers post about tan maxing with enhancers, like you said, the peptides or carrot extract. They show off their tan lines, and they are basically singing the praises of what being ultra tan means. Well, you've gotten very silent over there.

SPEAKER_00 12:36

I was gonna make a joke.

SPEAKER_02 12:38

I can't wait to hear it.

SPEAKER_00 12:41

You had said they were singing the praises, and I wanted to hear you singing praises. That's not how does the singing the praises go? I know it's a saying.

SPEAKER_02 12:49

I no, I'm saying that's not a joke. A joke is not I didn't have a joke.

SPEAKER_00 12:54

I was just sitting on a comment.

SPEAKER_02 12:58

Oh, I was thinking of a joke. The joke was I want you to sing your praises. But what's interesting about tan fluencers and tan maxing is that the lines are blurred about the safety of tanning now. In part, you're gonna hate that I bring this up.

SPEAKER_00 13:16

Oh God. Is this turning political?

SPEAKER_02 13:18

It is. Oh just cover your ears for one minute.

SPEAKER_00 13:22

Don't go dark, Kelly.

SPEAKER_02 13:24

Cover your ears for one minute. The health secretary, Robert Kennedy, he has a tanning bed and he uses it all the time.

SPEAKER_00 13:33

Well, you went and used a tanning bed. People use tanning beds all the time.

SPEAKER_02 13:37

They were close to outlawing it for minors.

SPEAKER_00 13:40

Outline tanning beds for minors is different than outline tanning beds. When you're an adult, who gives a fuck? Do whatever you want. But for a minor where they are not fully developed, then that's different. I think we need to protect our minors.

SPEAKER_02 13:55

I'm just gonna go out on a limb and say the children. Protect the children.

SPEAKER_00 14:01

We should.

SPEAKER_02 14:02

I don't know, Don. You're gonna face a lot of backlash for that.

SPEAKER_00 14:05

We should protect the children. That seems pretty universal to me.

SPEAKER_02 14:08

Yes, I know, but when we talk about tan maxing and look maxing and stuff, like a lot of that is like very young people.

SPEAKER_00 14:16

Five years old?

SPEAKER_02 14:17

Don, I'm not talking about five years old people.

SPEAKER_00 14:20

Sorry.

SPEAKER_02 14:21

Anyways, so yes, tan maxing is a thing. Tan fluencers is a thing. I think you can fluence anything. What kind of a fluencer would you be?

SPEAKER_00 14:32

You want to know what immediately came to my mind?

SPEAKER_02 14:34

That's why I asked.

SPEAKER_00 14:35

I'd be a fart influencer.

SPEAKER_02 14:37

It would be a fart fluencer.

SPEAKER_00 14:39

Today we're gonna talk about this fart.

SPEAKER_02 14:41

And here's this one the benefits of it and how cool you look doing it. I would be a play fluencer because I love to play.

SPEAKER_00 14:49

How not to work fluencer.

SPEAKER_02 14:51

Don, right now my work is to play, okay?

SPEAKER_00 14:54

So this peptide.

SPEAKER_02 14:57

The tanning peptide.

SPEAKER_00 14:58

It's called the Barbie drug.

SPEAKER_02 15:00

So it basically colors your skin.

SPEAKER_00 15:03

Literally. It's also known as the tan jab.

SPEAKER_02 15:06

I wonder how you inject it. Oh, I know.

SPEAKER_00 15:10

You inject it. That's a peptide. I think most you have to inject it. Yeah, you have to inject it. And it literally stimulates the melatonin production in your skin to darken your skin. It lasts one to two months.

SPEAKER_02 15:24

One shot?

SPEAKER_00 15:25

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 15:25

Oh, wow. I'm seeing the appeal of it.

SPEAKER_00 15:28

I don't know about any of this. We're not doctors. We're just we're decoding the internet.

SPEAKER_02 15:34

We're not even decoding it. Let's be real.

SPEAKER_00 15:37

Interduce it.

SPEAKER_02 15:38

Yeah, we're just discussing it and then going off on tangents.

SPEAKER_00 15:43

So the way that you say this peptide that makes your skin darker is melanotan.

SPEAKER_02 15:49

That sounds like a weird tanning oil product.

SPEAKER_00 15:52

Let's put on some melanotan. Yeah, that's odd. You don't put on melanotan, you inject it.

SPEAKER_02 15:56

Obviously.

SPEAKER_00 15:57

And it turns your skin dark.

SPEAKER_02 15:58

I don't see why the FDA would approve that.

SPEAKER_00 16:02

There could be an upside that you don't get skin cancer.

SPEAKER_02 16:05

Oh.

SPEAKER_00 16:06

Because it protects your skin.

SPEAKER_02 16:08

Don't make things up like that.

SPEAKER_00 16:10

I don't know what it does. I'm just saying there could be benefits to melanotan beyond just turning your skin darker. I'm not sure what they are.

unknown 16:20

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 16:22

I got another fact for you.

SPEAKER_02 16:24

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 16:24

This has to do with the sun.

SPEAKER_02 16:26

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 16:27

Did you know that summer is hot?

SPEAKER_02 16:31

I did know that.

SPEAKER_00 16:33

I did. It's not because the earth is closer to the sun.

SPEAKER_02 16:38

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 16:39

It's that the tilt has tilted the northern hemisphere.

SPEAKER_02 16:44

This is the weirdest fact you could have shared right now.

SPEAKER_00 16:46

Why? We were talking about hot and summer and sun and this is a sun remote.

SPEAKER_02 16:52

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 16:52

I was like, hey, why is it so hot? Right.

SPEAKER_02 16:55

Are you going to tell me about ocean tides now?

SPEAKER_00 16:57

No, that has nothing to do with panning. Max it or nix it.

SPEAKER_02 17:02

I bet I'm going to nix everything.

SPEAKER_00 17:04

So maybe you should read these and I will tell you what I think.

SPEAKER_02 17:06

I'll do that, Don.

SPEAKER_00 17:07

Because you're just going to be a Don. Yeah. I don't like to do anything.

SPEAKER_02 17:10

Hey, Don, I have a game for you. Oh, great. Do you want to play Max It or Nix It?

SPEAKER_00 17:14

Let's play.

SPEAKER_02 17:15

All right. Belly button sunning. Let me stop you right there. Exposing your belly button to sunlight because it supposedly, it really doesn't. Improves energy, digestion, or mood.

SPEAKER_00 17:28

I'm in. Max it.

SPEAKER_02 17:30

Really? You're going to sun your belly button?

SPEAKER_00 17:31

I like getting my belly button.

SPEAKER_02 17:33

Are you going to go out in a button-up shirt and just open it up at your belly button and lay there?

SPEAKER_00 17:38

I'm going to wear a t-shirt and cut a hole just for my belly button.

SPEAKER_02 17:42

Jawline gum. Chewing extremely hard gum for long periods to build a more powerful jaw.

SPEAKER_00 17:50

I'm going to nix it, but I do like chewing gum and we chew hard gum. It's called double bubble. We're baseball players and so we chew the double bubble.

SPEAKER_02 18:00

Really? I thought we were filmmakers.

SPEAKER_00 18:02

Well, that's true. I mean, I'm not professionally a baseball player, but my son plays and then I like to do it with him. And so we, I don't even play.

SPEAKER_02 18:11

And that was the most depressing, like come to Jesus moment where you started out with, we're baseball players. And then you took a step down and another step down, and then you ended with, I don't even play. I feel bad for you now. Um I wish I could. I would argue that this chewing gum probably just kills all of your teeth. So you may have a powerful jaw, but you will not have any teeth. So what's the point?

SPEAKER_00 18:46

Great.

SPEAKER_02 18:47

Mirror fasting. Avoiding mirrors for a week to improve body image before swimsuit season. That is the long time.

SPEAKER_00 18:56

To avoid the mirror in your house would be basically to wear blind. Like, I'm gonna brush my teeth.

SPEAKER_02 19:01

You couldn't even drive your car because you couldn't look in the rearview mirror. Seems pretty insane. Dangerous.

SPEAKER_00 19:07

Yeah. Don't avoid mirrors.

SPEAKER_02 19:09

Armpit detoxing. Don, would you put clay or charcoal masks in your armpits to quote, draw out toxins and prepare for summer?

SPEAKER_00 19:20

These are real things.

SPEAKER_02 19:22

For real, people do that.

SPEAKER_00 19:23

All of these are real.

SPEAKER_02 19:25

Why do you want to draw out toxins for summer? Why do you want toxins in your body at all? Okay, so that's another way of asking this question. Why are you doing this for summer?

SPEAKER_00 19:34

Because you're trying to get the toxins out.

SPEAKER_02 19:36

Why are we pulling them out of our armpits?

SPEAKER_00 19:39

Well, now you're getting into Flavortown, Flavortown, Flavortown. No idea whether this works or not.

SPEAKER_02 19:45

It can't possibly clay. That means that people who work with clay are getting toxins out of their body through their hands all the time.

SPEAKER_00 19:55

No, this has you have to put it in your armpits. I could go down and guess.

SPEAKER_02 19:59

I'd like to know what your guess is.

SPEAKER_00 20:01

My guess is that you have like lymph nodes and in your armpits. And so the clay has some sort of acidity or pH balance that might be Don.

SPEAKER_02 20:13

I think you should do this. I think you should walk around the house like this while it's going on.

SPEAKER_00 20:18

I'll walk around the house like this. And then you want to go to the house.

SPEAKER_02 20:20

I don't really want I don't really want you to do that. Walking backward to burn more calories. Does it burn more calories to walk?

SPEAKER_00 20:28

You use different muscles. I max that. I'm gonna walk backwards everywhere.

SPEAKER_02 20:33

It's like when I when I used to go to the gym.

SPEAKER_00 20:35

When was that? Two decades ago. When I used to go to the gym 30 years ago.

SPEAKER_02 20:42

It feels like yesterday.

SPEAKER_00 20:45

You know what else goes into getting your summer body?

SPEAKER_02 20:48

What?

SPEAKER_00 20:49

How you eat.

SPEAKER_02 20:50

I know. What a drag that is.

SPEAKER_00 20:53

What was popular was protein maxing.

SPEAKER_02 20:56

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 20:56

I mean, protein is everywhere. This is not a new thing that we are bringing up. Right. They put protein obviously in shakes. Protein shakes are nothing new, but now it's in water, popcorn, pop tarts. You can get protein pop tarts. Starbucks coffee. You can get Starbucks protein coffee cereal. One of the ones that I just found out about, Kelly. Yes. Is man cereal. Oh. It is the brand is literally called man cereal. Did you see this? I did. Holy shit.

SPEAKER_02 21:29

It's got creatine in it, I think.

SPEAKER_00 21:31

Creatine. You know what? I only eat man cereal. Do you know why, Kelly?

SPEAKER_02 21:37

Um, because you're a man.

SPEAKER_00 21:39

Bam! I don't need any of that lady cereal. Now the new kind of up and coming trend is not protein maxing, it is fiber maxing.

SPEAKER_02 21:51

Gotta stay regular.

SPEAKER_00 21:53

Shitting maxing. People under eat fiber.

SPEAKER_02 21:58

They probably under eat protein too. That's probably also why that happened.

SPEAKER_00 22:03

Protein had taken over to the point that literally it's in everything.

SPEAKER_02 22:07

Maybe protein backed people up.

SPEAKER_00 22:10

And now they need to reverse it.

SPEAKER_02 22:12

Yeah. We're gonna have a fiber max. It's like it's like a call and response.

SPEAKER_00 22:17

Why can't you just eat a medium amount of protein or a medium amount of just eat a balanced meal?

SPEAKER_02 22:22

How about that?

SPEAKER_00 22:23

You know what we should do? We should like really truly fiber max. So everything we eat has a huge amount of fiber, and we should see what happens. I think I would feel awful. Then we'd toilet max. I got a quiz for you now, Kelly.

SPEAKER_02 22:36

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 22:37

Real summer food trend or real fake. Emotional support smoothies.

SPEAKER_02 22:43

I think that is a real trend.

SPEAKER_00 22:45

That's a fake, but it sounds real.

SPEAKER_02 22:46

It does sound real.

SPEAKER_00 22:48

Cottage cheese ice cream.

SPEAKER_02 22:50

Real.

SPEAKER_00 22:50

Real. Protein coffee.

SPEAKER_02 22:52

That's real.

SPEAKER_00 22:53

Pie maxing.

SPEAKER_02 22:55

Pie maxing? No, that's not real.

SPEAKER_00 22:57

That's real in Don's world.

SPEAKER_02 22:58

That's your dream world.

SPEAKER_00 23:00

Yeah, my dream world is pie maxing. I'm pie maxing over here. Kelly and I went through a phase where we made a pie a week and just her and I ate it. We started to gain too much weight. Internal shower drink.

SPEAKER_02 23:13

That's real.

SPEAKER_00 23:14

Do you know what that is? No, I don't know what it's so it's chia seeds, water, and lemon juice, and it's promoted as a way to improve regularity.

SPEAKER_02 23:23

Instead of fiber maxing, you could just do that.

SPEAKER_00 23:25

Internal shower seems like you're like putting your like mouth on a shower head and turning on the water.

SPEAKER_02 23:31

That sounds like torture.

SPEAKER_00 23:33

That's waterboarding.

SPEAKER_02 23:34

Let's give him the internal shower.

SPEAKER_00 23:37

You can't I have nothing to say.

SPEAKER_02 23:40

All right.

SPEAKER_00 23:42

The sleepy girl mocktail.

SPEAKER_02 23:44

Real.

SPEAKER_00 23:44

Do you know what it is?

SPEAKER_02 23:46

No, but because it's called the sleepy girl mocktail, it has to be real.

SPEAKER_00 23:51

Tart cherry juice, magnesium powder, and sparkling or prebiotic soda.

SPEAKER_02 23:56

I thought that cherry juice has something to do with sleep when you have a hard time sleeping.

SPEAKER_00 24:03

That's why it's called the sleepy girl mocktail.

SPEAKER_02 24:05

I thought that it meant that it wakes you up because you're a sleepy girl.

SPEAKER_00 24:09

That's called energy drink.

SPEAKER_02 24:10

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 24:11

We should create the male version.

SPEAKER_02 24:12

Of a sleepy girl mocktail. It'd be like tired dude.

SPEAKER_00 24:17

Morning electrolyte ritual.

SPEAKER_02 24:20

Probably real.

SPEAKER_00 24:21

No, but that could be real. But no, when I researched it, not real.

SPEAKER_02 24:28

Oh, but maybe in the last 24 hours it became real.

SPEAKER_00 24:31

I mean, it makes sense. It does. We're gonna electrolyte max our mornings.

SPEAKER_02 24:35

It does.

SPEAKER_00 24:36

All right. So what's your verdict?

SPEAKER_02 24:37

My verdict, what is the question that I'm verdicting on?

SPEAKER_00 24:41

Is the summer body good?

SPEAKER_02 24:44

I think the summer body can be good. It depends on what the body goal is and how you're gonna get there.

SPEAKER_00 24:55

I think the best summer body is the one that you enjoy.

SPEAKER_02 24:59

Oh, Don. That's like a sign in a beach house.

SPEAKER_00 25:05

Don and Kelly versus the AI. The question to Chat GPT is Is the summer body a good thing? ChatGPT responds with the summer body can be a good thing if it means getting stronger, improving your cardiovascular fitness, eating the way that gives you more energy, being confident outside by the pool and summer activities. It can be negative if you are crash dieting, obsessing over specific weight, comparing yourself to unrealistic images on uh social media. The phrase itself, summer body, carries an odd implication that your body needs to earn the right to be seen in summer. In reality, the body you have right now is already a summer body if you put on shorts and go outside.

SPEAKER_02 25:54

Yeah, if you have a body and it's summer, you have a summer body.

SPEAKER_00 25:58

Yes.

SPEAKER_02 25:59

Do you want to talk about predictions and what you maybe want to give time to right now?

SPEAKER_00 26:05

Let's give it time.

SPEAKER_02 26:08

I saw a headline that said pickles pickle flavoring is the pumpkin spice of summer.

SPEAKER_00 26:16

Hell yeah. I freaking love pickles.

SPEAKER_02 26:19

And I loved that explanation of it. And so I'm saying, give it time, add some pickles to everything. You can do pickle seasoning. You can buy pickle seasoning and you add it to your popcorn or your chips or your pretzels. People add it to their cream cheese and then put it on a bagel.

SPEAKER_00 26:40

It's pickle spice season.

SPEAKER_02 26:42

Yeah. So I haven't tried it in all of these forms, but I think that give it time and I will.

SPEAKER_00 26:49

I like pickle more than pumpkin.

SPEAKER_02 26:51

Pumpkin spice is garbage.

SPEAKER_00 26:53

Ooh, you're gonna get a lot of hate.

SPEAKER_02 26:55

Garbage.

SPEAKER_00 26:56

Wow. Those are some hateful words.

SPEAKER_02 26:59

So pickles. Pickles are where it's at. Tickle your pickle.

SPEAKER_00 27:03

I'll give you a nickel for my to tickle my pickle.

SPEAKER_02 27:06

What would you like to uh say give it time to?

SPEAKER_00 27:09

I found this thing called dopamine sites. Dopamine websites. This is bananas.

SPEAKER_02 27:17

Oh, they're bananas sites?

SPEAKER_00 27:19

They are websites set up so you can go and artificially buy something and you go through the entire process of buying.

SPEAKER_02 27:31

So it's mall madness on the computer.

SPEAKER_00 27:34

And then they don't ship it.

SPEAKER_02 27:36

Right.

SPEAKER_00 27:36

So you can go buy groceries on these sites. You can go basically shop Amazon on these sites. Load up your cart, put in, but it's all the way to the point of you can put in your address, right? Your, I don't know about your credit card.

SPEAKER_02 27:52

Probably you do.

SPEAKER_00 27:53

Probably. And you hit buy, and then they don't ship.

SPEAKER_02 27:57

Right.

SPEAKER_00 27:58

So it's the dopamine release of buying something without actually buying something.

SPEAKER_02 28:03

It is a very interesting idea. I just wonder if it does anything where it's like a person will go through those steps and then feel that dopamine rush and then and then they're okay with not having actually received it.

SPEAKER_00 28:20

Or maybe they go back on the site and they buy more. Why not just buy the whole damn site? Kelly, I just artificially bought us some pickles.

SPEAKER_02 28:27

Don't worry, we'll never see them. Is there anything that you want to recommend?

SPEAKER_00 28:34

One last thing. As we head into summer, we are in summer.

SPEAKER_02 28:39

We're not heading. We are in it.

SPEAKER_00 28:41

As we are in the throes of summer, indeed, we are, and the heat hits hard.

SPEAKER_02 28:45

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 28:46

I recommend a Hugo spritz. So you may know what an Aperol Spritz is. Two years ago, we were in Europe and I ordered what is essentially a Hugo Spritz. It is Saint Germain, which is Elderflower, and Prosecco.

SPEAKER_02 29:05

I love all spritzes.

SPEAKER_00 29:06

How about a pickle spritz? Well, Kelly, thank you very much for sharing your opinions about your summer body, ways to max it, things not to do, the weird trends online, and all above.

SPEAKER_02 29:19

Thank you for maxing out with me.

SPEAKER_00 29:21

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