Okay, let's say you buy some apples at the store. You're only going to have a rough idea of where or how they're grown. Maybe you throw the cores in a trash can. You're not thinking about where they're going or you try not to. All in all, our relationship to our food can feel disconnected. One way I try to reconnect is by using my mill food recycler. Sure, mill has totally changed my home life in a lot of practical ways. It works automatically. You can fill it for weeks. It never smells. But this part is just as important. When I use mill, I'm participating in a circular system. All the food I don't eat is helping to grow the food that I do. It makes me feel like I'm part of something bigger. And that feels really, really good. And it's all so ridiculously easy. I just drop my scraps in my mill and it transforms them into nutrient-rich grounds overnight. I have mine sent to a small farm, but if I wanted to, I could use them in my garden or for my backyard chickens. If I wanted backyard chickens, and I don't. And well, I don't know. Maybe I do now. Maybe mill is transforming me too, just a little. If you want to feel more connected or you just want your kitchen to feel less gross, try mills, risk-free trial, and just live with it for a while. Go to mill.com slash wiser for an exclusive offer. Hey, it's me, Julia Louis-Dryfus. We are officially back with a brand new season of Wiser than me. To celebrate your out of this world support for our show, we've been brewing up something special. A Wiser than me, mere traveler. It's a versatile, sustainable travel mug to keep your coffee hot and your tea cozy all year round. It's perfect for wise women on the go. Head over to Wiser than me shop.com to grab yours now. Okay, here's the show. You talked about when you were doing SCTV, so you were one of two women in the cast, right? Uh-oh, I know where you're going, lady. Yes, so tell me. That's what's raw with aging. You start seeing things a little too clearly. Hi there, listeners. It's Julia Louis-Dryfus. That was from one of our favorite episodes from last season of Wiser than me with Catherine O'Hara. We are back in production on a new season of this very podcast, and I simply can't wait to bring you brand new episodes starting November 12th. You know, I've been thinking a lot about something that we say at the end of every episode. If there's an old lady in your life, listen up. And honestly, that couldn't be more true. You learn something every time like we did with the unforgettable Diane von Furstenberg. Let's talk about aging and body changes and how to embrace all of that. Okay. The word aging, I would change the word aging and say living, right? Oh, thank you. That's perfect. Perfect. Age is life. Yes. So instead of saying, how old are you, people should say, how long have you lived? And author Isabel Ayanne, who taught us a few other things. I enjoy sex with marijuana, especially. So I get this blueberries that have marijuana, and I take my blueberry, and it's much better than without it. But wait a minute, just to be clear, because I'm going to go get myself some of those blueberries. I can send you some. Yes, I need some. That really is our show in a nutshell. There are wise women all around us. Some of them have been our guests, you know, activists and artists and authors and scientists. But others are people who cross our paths every day. Our mothers, our neighbors, our teachers. So before we jump back to our regular programming next month with a whole new lineup of wise and absolutely wonderful guests, we wanted to share something a little different. Some of our listeners had a few snippets of wisdom about the benefits of aging. Half-rice metro card. All right. I'll say it. No hair on my legs. I'm looking forward to turning 100. Not just 90, I'm not going to be cheap with it. I want to be 100. 101, 102 as long as I can possibly stay here. If someone is not using my time in a way that seems beneficial to me, I just... Walk them over and open Nanlow and have them think it's their idea. You know. One thing I'm really proud about with Wise For Them Me is how it's kind of evolved from a show into a full-on movement, a call to pay attention to the wise old ladies in our lives who have seen it all. Take Fran Liebowitz, for example. What do you mean you're a terrible girlfriend? Let me put you this way. I have a car that I bought in 1978. It is the only melodrama source in my life. That is because I love for car and because I'm never bored by the car. And I have a picture of my car, my refrigerator, where other people would have a human. I don't want to live with anyone. I live by myself since I was like 19 years old. And that is an incredible achievement for us being letting you assure you. Or Sally Field. The task as a grown-up is to realize what garment you have knit for yourself to survive as a child, the winter of your childhood. But when you're in the summer, so to speak, of your adulthood, and you can't figure out why am I so fucking hot all the time? It's because you can't take off this garment, this pattern of behavior from childhood is no longer serving you. Or Gloria Steinem. As you've gotten older, has your thinking ability changed? I have noticed changes, which has caused me to, for instance, consider manufacturing a t-shirt. And it says, I'm at an age when remembering something right away is as good as an orgasm. I think this would sell. Oh, we have put definitely sell. I think it would sell. Okay, so after the break, we're going to hear from a listener who set out to tell us about her grandmother and discovered something that gave her a whole new understanding of where she comes from. Hey, prime members. 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Nana Kim is an artist, a collector, a style maven, a jack of all trades. And her granddaughter Hex is a 26-year-old performer and the co-founder of an art gallery. So when we put out a call for listeners to ask them of our wiser than me, questions to the older women in their lives, Hex did exactly that. She turned the tables and she asked her Nana the same ones I usually ask our guests. I think you'd go back and tell yourself at 21. Not to get married so soon. And you're always pressuring me to get married, girl. I ain't doing it. You're old now, you're 26. All right. What is something you want me to know about aging? Take care of yourself. Drink lots of water. You're not too young to get periodic blood tests to say ahead of what could be lurking. What is something that you learn from your own mentors, your mothers, your elders that you pass down to me and your other grandchildren? Well that would have been your great-great-grandmother who I'm fainting you weren't alive, but Gigi. She worked these one horrible job, but she stuck with it for years and years and years. And what was her horrible job? She was a janitor. Suzie A. Bates. She sued the city of Chicago for equal rights under the equal pay. The men were called custodians. The women were jamitrous. And they made, I don't know, triple the salary and the women were doing the same work as the men. And she won this landmark case. That's crazy. I didn't even know that. What year was this? 1971, like when your mom was born or something. That is very bad-ass. Totally bad-ass. And listen, Hex didn't even know about this part of her history yet. It's the kind of story you might not ever have learned unless you took the time to ask. Hex's great-great-grandmother Suzie Bates spent 21 years doing the same work as male janitors in Chicago City Hall. But was paid $1,000 less each year. And this was back in the 70s when $1,000 was just like a shitload of dough. You know what I mean? And she was denied equal pensions and promotions. It is the same fight women are still fighting today. But Suzie didn't back down. She filed sex discrimination charges. She rallied the union and labor leaders and she stood up for working women everywhere, changing the rules for every woman who worked there after her. So you know, it's a reminder that those who came before us had to fight tooth and nail to survive. And they did it because someone had to. And I find that so hopeful. And I really need some of that these days. Stick around after this because that's exactly what we're getting more of right after this break. When there's a job to be done, the wisest choice you can make is finding the right people with the right skills to make it happen. If you're hiring, indeed, is all you need. Stop struggling to get your job post seen on other sites. 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Just go to Indeed.com slash wiser right now and support our show by saying you heard about Indeed on this podcast, Indeed.com slash wiser terms and conditions supply. Hiring? Do it the right way with Indeed. Okay, so here are two of my favorite most hopeful moments from the last season of Wiser the May. The first is from our dearly beloved Jane Goodall. I was just so undone by her recent passing, but I am very grateful that I got to talk with her and that you all got to meet her because that lady was the real deal. Here's Jane talking about hope. I think people think it's wishful thinking and actually hope is about action. Yeah. And the way I love to describe it is that humanity is at the mouth of a very, very long dark tunnel right at the end. It's a little star. That's hope. But it's no good sitting at the mouth of the tunnel and wishing the star here. We've got to roll up our sleeves and climb over crawl under work our way around all the problems between us and the star like climate change, loss of biodiversity, poverty, industrial farming, destroying the soil and torturing billions of animals and destroying huge areas of the environment and wasting water. Good news. There are people, groups of people tackling every one of those problems. Yeah. Hope is about action. These words have been ringing in my head ever since we got the sad news that Jane had passed. And it's a sentiment that was echoed by Delores Huerta as well. In my thinking, if I don't do it, then it's not going to happen. My mother used to say that a tourist growing up, if you can help someone, if you have the ability, then you have an obligation and responsibility to do that. Like my dad used to say, get up off your dead one and get going, make it happen. Actually, I really don't think that expression makes sense, but whatever. I'm very excited to keep having conversations with more extraordinary women on our new season of Wiser than me. We'll talk with photographer Annie Liebowitz, New Yorker cartoonist Roz Chast, and we're going to kick things off with SNL legend, Jane Curtin. Now, because we know it's your favorite part of the show, let's close with a moment that I so love from Wiser than me history. This is me and my mom, Judy, right after I spoke with Supreme Court reporter Nina Totenberg. She was talking about, until she was really, I think she said into her 50s, Nina Totenberg very often when she started to write a story, she felt sort of like a fraud. Like she was playing at the role of journalists as opposed to being a journalist. Have you had that experience, mom, feeling that way, like as a writer? But first of all, I say, why did you use the word frog? Well, first of all, I didn't say frog. I said fraud. I said. OK. OK. Well, that's so, that's wonderful. All right. Well, we'll just move on for that. Well, well, ribbit, ribbit. Ribbit. All right. It's snowing. There is no way that that isn't the funniest thing I've heard it like a week. Wait, wait, Brad is coming here and ruining the podcast because he heard it too. And now he's lying on the floor in the hallway and clutching his stomach. Yes, she was, she had a story to write and she felt like she couldn't because she was a frog. But then she was right to not write it because of us. Oh, fuck. That is hilarious, mom. Why is it in me is back with all new episodes starting November 12th from Lemonada Media. Plus, we're releasing a Wiser than me newsletter on Substack. That same day that gives you a chance to listen to more of the Wiser women in your communities. Who knows what you're going to hear this time around. Go to wiserthanme.substack.com and be sure to leave us your email address so you don't miss a thing. See you soon and remember, if there's an old lady in your life, listen up.
