Hot Girl Walks with Ashley Blaine Featherson-Jenkins

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11/16/22 • 41 min

In this episode of The Antidote, Amy and Grace connect with actress, podcaster, and beauty maven Ashley Blaine Featherson-Jenkins about how we all can benefit from a ‘hot girl walk’, the act of surrendering, and falling in love with New York City again.

Amy and Grace share their bummer news of the week – racist backlash over The Lord of The Rings series on Amazon, and the state of Texas sending students home with DNA kits so their bodies can be identified “in case of emergency.” They also share their antidote: an overnight mask and showering at night.

This week’s Creative Tap-In:

“A creative life is an amplified life.”

-Elizabeth Gilbert

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FULL TRANSCRIPT

Amy The world is a dumpster fire. I'm Amy.

Grace And I'm Grace.

Amy And we want to f---in help.

Grace We're comedy writers in Los Angeles. And as a reflex to the madness on the news, we're keeping it positive, but opinionated.

Amy We talk about cultural moments we love.

Grace Talk to people we adore.

Amy Crushes we have.

Grace And self-care we stan.

Amy During these trying times we all need to show that focuses on joy.

Grace This is The Antidote. Hey, everybody. You're back for another week.

Amy Ooh, I love. Wow. Grace given us Broadway. Give it up. Musical theater.

Grace Give you some vocal stylings, I guess. I don't know what that was. But thank you for coming to The Antidote for yet another week, friends.

Amy Yeah, and thank you guys for attending our live show in New York.

Grace Oh, it's so great to see you.

Amy The listeners who were able to make it. It was so awesome. For those who weren't able to attend. Stay tuned to our live show. We're going to be putting out a recording as a future episode. You can kind of experience it. You know, it won't be the same, but it'll be similar.

Grace Yeah, but we'd love to do more live shows in 2023, so stay tuned and see when our next one is.

Amy Yeah. Anyway, I know this is kind of old, but I guess I was just like going back. There are old texts or something. Grace and I saw the video of Maxwell breaking it down on stage with his niece.

Grace Yes. I was like is Uncle season now here? Okay. He came to make the aunties first and Auntie Junior is like myself. Because I was like, ok Maxwell. And the funniest tweet that I thought about it was. Like when he was like. Doing his little Meghan thee stallion knees move Like they're like there's literally no song Maxwell has that justifies this cause, because somebody put it over this woman's work. So it's like.

Amy And I just want to be like n---- stand up.

Grace But like he, you know, we got all our jokes off our Black Twitter and Instagram.

This week’s Creative Tap-In:

“A creative life is an amplified life.”

-Elizabeth Gilbert

Sponsors: BetterHelp Online Therapy - betterhelp.com/ANTIDOTE

FULL TRANSCRIPT

Amy The world is a dumpster fire. I'm Amy.

Grace And I'm Grace.

Amy And we want to f---in help.

Grace We're comedy writers in Los Angeles. And as a reflex to the madness on the news, we're keeping it positive, but opinionated.

Amy We talk about cultural moments we love.

Grace Talk to people we adore.

Amy Crushes we have.

Grace And self-care we stan.

Amy During these trying times we all need to show that focuses on joy.

Grace This is The Antidote. Hey, everybody. You're back for another week.

Amy Ooh, I love. Wow. Grace given us Broadway. Give it up. Musical theater.

Grace Give you some vocal stylings, I guess. I don't know what that was. But thank you for coming to The Antidote for yet another week, friends.

Amy Yeah, and thank you guys for attending our live show in New York.

Grace Oh, it's so great to see you.

Grace Yeah, but we'd love to do more live shows in 2023, so stay tuned and see when our next one is.

Amy And I just want to be like n---- stand up.

Grace But like he, you know, we got all our jokes off our Black Twitter and Instagram.

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The Healing Powers of Brooklyn Nine-Nine with Samantha Irby

In this episode of The Antidote, Amy and Grace connect with comedian, writer, and essayist Samantha Irby about her love of Judge Mathis, processing her emotions post-pandemic, and how she balances being ‘quietly hostile’ and loveable.

Amy and Grace share their bummer news of the week – the Fyre Fest founder is starting a new festival, and Megan Thee Stallion’s home was broken into. They also share their antidote— going to the ballet and meal delivery.

This week’s Creative Tap-In:

“You can’t put your finger on who I am. I can’t put my finger on who I am.”

-Beyoncé

OUR SPONSORS:

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FULL TRANSCRIPT

Amy The world is a dumpster fire. I'm Amy.

Grace And I'm Grace.

Amy And we want to f---in help.

Grace We're comedy writers in Los Angeles, and we like to take the bad sh-- we hear and work through it together.

Amy We talk about cultural moments we love.

Grace Talk to people we adore.

Amy Crushes we have.

Grace And self-care we stan.

Amy During these trying times, we all need a show that focuses on joy.

Grace This is The Antidote. Hi, everyone. Welcome, welcome, welcome. We're so glad that you're back.

Amy Welcome. From both coasts. Now I'm in New York and Grace is in L.A..

Grace I know we switched it, though, while I'm here for an event. And, yeah, I had to leave Amy back in New York.

Amy Yeah, but she'll be coming back soon because we have our live show coming up. So Saturday, November 12th, 7:30 p.m. at Union Hall in Brooklyn, New York. Don't forget about it.

Grace Yeah, doors open at 7 p.m. and we can finally announce our two wonderful guests.

Amy Oh, my God.

Grace Who are... Drum roll...Please Dulce Sloan and Jordan Carlos. We are so, so excited for these two amazing guests to talk to them live. So you don't want to miss that. You better come.

Amy Yeah come on you can purchase tickets now at NYComedyFestival.com or at the link in our shownotes. And you guys Dulce Sloan and Jordan Carlos like they busy people.

Grace Okay yeah.

Amy Let's respect them. Let's respect them and show up.

Grace Yes, tickets are selling fast, so if you'd like to come see us, we would love to see you.

Amy By the way, Grace, I was just thinking about how there's new music coming out this week, and I saw that like Chloe Bailey and Ashanti and Rihanna. And SZA are all dropping songs. There's a song Shirt is like, Okay, girl, just rip through my heart. I know.

Grace Oh, sh--. I haven't heard it yet.

Amy We sad outside. We sad outside. These men be treatin us bad.

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Storytime with Amy and Grace: Songs in the Key of Beyoncé

On this episode of The Antidote, Amy and Grace share songs that score the defining moments of their lives, from Beyonce’s Church Girl to Fiona Apple’s Sleep to Dream to Smokie Norful’s Still Say, Thank You.

Amy and Grace also share their bummer news of the week – a debate over Disney’s first plus-sized protagonist, and TikTokers taping their mouths shut while sleeping for “beauty rest.” They also share their antidotes: impulsive shopping and pre-made cocktails.

This week’s Creative Tap-In:

“I remember being really young and having this voice inside that told me to trust my gut. And my gut has been really, really strong in my life. It’s pretty vocal and it leads me.”

-Solange Knowles

Do you have a favorite antidote, or need an antidote suggestion? A question for Grace and Amy, or something you loved that Amy, Grace, or one of their guests has said on the podcast? Share a message with The Antidote team: https://forms.gle/GrtDBkcbHLB5ty7X6 or tag us on Instagram with the hashtag #ThatsMyAntidote, or leave us a message on our hotline at 833-684-3683.

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FULL TRANSCRIPT

Amy The world is a dumpster fire. I'm Amy.

Grace And I'm Grace.

Amy And we want to f---in help.

Grace We're comedy writers in Los Angeles, so we're taking those bad news lemons and making them into lemonade. Thanks, Beyonce.

Amy We talk about cultural moments we love.

Grace Talk to people we adore.

Amy Crushes we have.

Grace And self-care we stan.

Amy During these trying times. We all need a show that focuses on joy.

Grace This is The Antidote. Hi, everyone. Welcome to another week of the antidote. Yeah, I'm. And I'm a real zippy this morning. I had my go go juice.

Amy Yeah, clearly. No., that's perfect. But, you know what's so funny is sort of like such a pretty day in New York that it does kind of feel like you're in a musical. Like, I woke up and there's just, like, sun shining, and I'm like, Oh.

Grace I know. And you're leaving me this week. Amy, I'm so sorry. Amy's going back to Los Angeles, and then I'm still here working on this show until the beginning of the summer. I love this show, but it's been so nice having you direct, Amy. It's been so fun.

Amy It's wonderful getting to work with my bestie. I'm like, This has been such a treat. It so bittersweet to be done.

Grace I know. And then, like, everybody's just. Like, yuck. GROSS.

Amy There was one day I bet no one on crew has ever seen that. One day I got to set and I just. walked over to Grace and held her like, why is the director hugging? This producer was like, okay.

Grace And then like, we literally like sang together on set. And then I told all the actors, I was like, You treat her good because this is my friend. They were going to treat her good any way. But I was. Just like warning people. Like warning people just to, like, be f---ing cool. My friend's coming, but everybody was wonderful. So it was a really lovely month having you here. Our offices literally next door to each other. It was very adorable.

Amy It was super adorable.