Coming Soon...The Dream Season 2
Oils, crystals, juices and more have been said to bring us eternal happiness and health- but how much of that is based in truth? Who benefits and loses from the wellness industry as a whole? We’ll be talking to some familiar voices and new ones about broader questions like these in Season 2 of the Dream- premiering December 9th.
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Okay, it says infrared sauna detox weight loss.
Sauna bar.
They have weight loss and detox.
Okay, I'm gonna go in.
I'll text you when I'm done.
This season on The Dream, we're looking into a world that is perhaps even murkier, muddier, some might say goopier than multi-level marketing.
The world of wellness.
I
woke up out of my sleep tonight with the idea that I should try to do wellness.
I just set the microphone down and I was like
thinking about taking a nap and then I remember why I hate sweating
because now I have to go take a shower before I can take a nap.
Like, how do people ride their bikes to work in the morning?
You guys just sit around all gross and sweaty in the office all day?
That's disgusting.
We'll talk to believers.
And so the oils actually have an active frequency.
And so when they touch your body, the reason that they're therapeutic is because of the way your body responds to those frequencies.
And so it's not just an aromatherapy.
They have the ability to give therapy to your system.
Non-believers.
I spoke to one analytical chemist who had been hired to analyze some herbal product and so he'd broken open a couple of the capsules.
A piece of a Viagra fell out.
I've never been inspired myself to start a vitamin company that claims to do all kinds of things it can't do.
What kind of person wants to do that?
Someone who wants to make a lot of money and try to become believers ourselves.
They're gonna like spin me around in circles and make me dizzy and then lay me down and put these ear seeds on and be like, oh, you're rebalanced.
It's vegetarian.
It's vegan.
I don't care.
Come on, do it.
Take a sip, please.
For the show, for the show.
For the show.
Yeah, I didn't like it.
You didn't taria.
Sorry, I just left the tuning fork
session and I don't even feel like making any jokes right now.
It was
so...
I don't know.
I'm feeling emotional.
I don't want to say upset, but she was still questioning the decision to have the C-section.
And she asked me, well, what would have happened 100 years ago
if I was in this situation?
And I looked at her and I said, You and the baby both would have died.
Well, I think the best case scenario is that we're spending billions of dollars a year on substances that don't do anything.
The Dream from Stitcher and Little Everywhere comes out December 9th.
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