Celebrity Book Club with Steven & Lily

Pack your knives, this is a juicy one. We get spicy with empress of the judges table—Padma Lakshmi—who just this week announced she'd be leaving Top Chef after 20 seasons! (We didn't plan that but ok, spirit.) Sink into her delicious career as a model, actress, writer, television host, cookist, jewelry designer, lover of older men, cigarette smoker, endometriosis sufferer, foundation starter, haver of glowing skin, and the most iconic bag securer in the history of bags. Plus—Lily invents a new word (see if you can find it!).

And this Friday on the VIP Lounge, we dig into Netflix's The Ultimatum: Queer Love, so if you haven't watched—catch up now! Subscribe at patreon.com/cbcthepod

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Namaste, chicas! It's everyone's favorite yoga wife, mompreneur, Hamptons homemaker & flamenco queen—Hilaria Baldwin—and her spiritual how-to guide, "The Living Clearly Method." Roast some poblanos for the Spanish Rachel Dolezal as we dive into chair pose, having 30 children, how Lily literally went to high school with her, the power of breath, meeting your husband while grabbing tapas, and what happens when you really do make studying abroad your personality. Olé!

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John Wilson returns to the VIP Lounge and leaves nothing to the imagination! HBO's hunky host teaches us “How To” throw a dope bachelor party for an awesome group of guys, play Magic: The Gathering, rail poppers, book a non-working hot tub on VRBO, drive to Boston naked, and get frisky on a ferris wheel. Plus—a live tasting of Wandering Barman Ghost Negroni. A tour de force!

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School's Out For The Summer! Dust off your air guitar, it's legendary horror-glam rockstar and the grandfather of guyliner— Alice Cooper—with his golf-themed memoir "Golf Monster: A Rock 'n' Roller's 12 Steps to Becoming a Golf Addict." The iconic heavy metalist schools us on being emo, why James Bond is a bitch for drinking vodka, stacked high school chicks, the infamous biting a head off a chicken story, and a whole lotta golf. Laughs will be par for the course.

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On today's Patreon-only VIP Lounge—Steven teaches an AP Course in wingmanning, while Lily delves into the obscenity of overly intimate restaurant servers. Plus—mom goes to Svalbard, asexual massage trades and the importance of driving moccasins. It's 42 minutes of bliss you don't wanna miss.

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You can do it! Chalk up your hands and skip lunch—we're taking it to the mat with Romanian gymnastics legend Nadia Comaneci, and her weirdly tense memoir "Letters to a Young Gymnast." The first person to ever receive a perfect 10 at the Olympics (Montreal, 1976), the blonde bombshell ever so slightly opens up about getting groomed by infamous coaching couple the Karolyis (who went on to invent Mary Lou Retton, Kerri Strug, and Simone Biles). From eating disorders to escaping communism, why the balance beam is for weird girls, jealous parental sex, will gymnastics ever see a trans girl champion?, Times Square shopping sprees and why lesbians aren't gymansts—this one's a perfect 10.

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On today's Patreon-only VIP Lounge, we go through the entire list of "It Girls" recently published by New York Magazine, and answer once and for all—are they or aren't they? Get the lowdown on all your faves, including but not limited to: Dasha Nekrasova, Paz De La Huerta, Olivia Palermo, Hari Nef, Annabelle Dexter-Jones, Jenny Shimizu, Jemima Kirke, Hannah Bronfman and more! This is one listicle you don't wanna miss.

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Could we BE any more of a podcast? We're bravely shattering our titling format to celebrate everyone's best Friend—Matthew Perry—and his addiction tell-all "Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing." From the difficulties of being "Canadian-American" to having a hot politico for mom and the Old Spice guy for a dad, NBC's golden era, Chandler's unique linguistic cadence, the under-sung Craig Bierko, childless Aniston, and our own struggles with substance abuse—this episode is Must-See TV. Recorded in front of a live studio audience.

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All I Wanna Do... is roast some almonds! Put on a poncho and play for mosquitos, we're cruising down Santa Monica boulevard with the queen of blues-infused folk-pop country-rock & roll—Sheryl Crow—and her exhausting cookbook "If It Makes You Healthy." Yes, that is actually the title! Join us on a winding road as we soak up the sun—and the truffle oil—in this early 2000's tour de force, as Steven & Lily surprise each other with recipes they cooked straight from the text. From Sheryl's infamous authorship dispute to Steven's curious connection to Lance Armstrong, why Sheryl is the Hillary Clinton of rock, and the most apple-laden recipe of all time, this is one change that will definitely do you good. 

Plus! In the VIP Lounge —Steven & Lily improvise a madcap radio play about hotel rooms, threesomes, pisco sours and adult board games. To hear the whole episode this Friday, and get ad-free episodes every Wednesday, subscribe at http://patreon.com/cbcthepod

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