In this episode of The Antidote, Amy and Grace connect with comedian and writer Michelle Buteau about balance, blunt honesty, and the power of no. Amy and Grace share their bummer news of the week - thousands of beagles who had to be rescued from a laboratory in Virginia, and Desus and Mero’s breakup. They also share their antidotes: stand-up shows, and making matcha in the afternoon.  This week’s Creative Tap-In: “Don’t wait for inspiration. It comes while working." - Henri Matisse OUR SPONSORS: BetterHelp Online Therapy -  betterhelp.com/ANTIDOTE Brooklinen.com - use promo code ANTIDOTE for $20 off your purchase of $100 or more plus free shipping 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://mpr.tfaforms.net/111 FULL TRANSCRIPT Amy The world is a dumpster fire. I'm Amy. Grace And I'm Grace. Amy And we want to help. Grace As a reflex to the f---ing madness on the news, we're keeping it positive, uplifting, 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 stand. Amy During these trying times, we all need a show that focuses on joy. Grace This is The Antidote. Hi everyone. Welcome back to another week of The Antidote. We are here once again. Amy Oh, I like that sing-song. That was nice. Grace Ant-ti-dote. You know what? I'm feeling the spirit of Beyoncé coursing through my veins. Everything feels very sing song-y. Everything feels very new, real. She is edging us right now. At this point, she is keeping us, like, excited enough, but not given us the whole thing. So the Queen has dropped a couple of a little, you know, scoches of things. So she gave us a reel. Did you see that reel, Amy? Amy I loved that it. I loved it. And I'm like, Beyonce's doing reels now. I mean, she's been doing videos and reels, but like this one felt different. I don't know why. Why did it feel different? Grace I don't know. Maybe it's on her TikTok, too, because, you know, Beyoncé now has a TikTok. But Beyonce, um, are you going to singlehandedly bring back f---ing vinyl? Because I haven't thought about it in a while. Amy Vinyl is back. Grace And I feel like when, you know, you and I were, you know, in our twenties, vinyl had sort of made like a kind of a comeback or whatever. Like the hipsters were super into vinyl. Amy Everybody had from Urban Outfitters. They were selling that little I can't remember the brand, but there was like a little record player that everybody was getting from Urban Outfitters that wasn't very good, but everybody had one. Grace Yeah. But like, that was a moment. That was a moment. But I feel like, you know, we move past that moment. We're just like we don't even have to do any kind of physical media. It's all streaming, you know, it's all Spotify, it's all Apple. So now Beyonce has given us album covers. I'm just like, oh, am I going, I'm going to buy a record player? I think I think I would. But yeah, I mean she might legit bring back, Beyonce might legit bring back vinyl and I live. Amy I know pure slash honey going to be sexy and you know Virgo's Groove is what I'm going to listen to. I bet it's going to be really, really methodic, like a real harsh metronome beat coming and staying on tempo, not speeding up, not slowing down. I'm here for Virgo's Groove. It's going to be a perfect song. Grace I can't wait. I mean, why is it not July 29? Like, why is it not? You know what I'm saying? Amy It's so close. It's so close. Grace Alright. Well, I guess the joy has to be put on pause for just a moment, because, you know, we wouldn't need an antidote if we didn't have something to get an antidote from.   Amy We're starting now up top with our bummer news of the week. So, Grace, did you hear the story that there ar