Yesterday I got a text from American Eagle letting me know that they were having a sale and I was a VALUED CUSTOMER who may enjoy what I could get at a discounted price. Believe me when I tell you that I thought about this for about 2.3 seconds and then I thought, “Yeah! I am a valued customer. I deserve to spend $700 and save $8. I’m valued.” And that is pretty much how the story ended. I bought nothing that will make my life easier or better - but you better believe I saved around $11. 🫣

And that, my friends, is NOT the kind of sale I should get so excited about.

Right now at Beautiful Yu, when you buy one collagen, you get the second one for only $10.

Any type of collagen.

In any form.

Flavored or unflavored.

Mix & match.

You do you.

Here’s why collagen matters so much for us as women:

After about age 25 (25! Y’ALL!) we start losing collagen every single year. That loss shows up as fine lines, thinning hair, brittle nails, joint stiffness, and skin that just doesn’t bounce back like it used to. Collagen is literally the structural protein that keeps our skin firm, our hair strong, our nails growing, and even supports our joints and gut health.

In other words… it’s foundational and should be taken seriously NOW.

If you’ve been thinking about starting collagen — or you’re already taking it — this is the time to stock up. Getting your second one for just $10 makes it a no-brainer.

Don’t wait. You deserve to invest in something that actually gives back to you.

Mel

SHOW NOTES

Prom season is here and Melissa is already confused. A text came in from another prom mom about a photographer charging $150 for eight photos or two spots for sixteen, and neither Melissa nor David could agree on what two spots actually means. Rocco and his girlfriend Tyler are going. It is happening.

This episode also gets into podcasts as the new daytime talk show, why Netflix exclusivity deals scare Melissa, and the moment at the BAFTA awards where a filmmaker with Tourette’s syndrome blurted the N-word in front of presenters Michael B. Jordan and Delroy Lindo. Melissa has thoughts on that and on a TikTok creator with Tourette’s whose content got increasingly crude as her following grew. Then Melissa hit David’s truck with Meredith’s trash can, checked the wrong side, and decided everything was fine. It was not fine. The episode closes with David and Melissa attempting a counting game they saw on TikTok. They are, by their own admission, too old for it.

QUOTES WORTH HIGHLIGHTING

“My hair is cattywampus. Cattywampus: a Southern U.S. colloquialism meaning askew, awry, crooked, or misaligned. That is my hair.”

Melissa, opening the episode with a vocabulary lesson

“I hit Meredith’s trash can and it went flying. I got out and looked on the driver’s side, thought, well my lord, I cleared that thing. But I didn’t. I hit it on the other side.”

Melissa, explaining the truck scratch situation with full menopause-brain transparency

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Melissa and David are fresh off a Sunday where they served all three church services, split a Whopper for lunch to save money, and then got a call from Remi who had just eaten $40 worth of crawfish and accidentally ordered market price on top of it. The sweet part: David had secretly hidden $40 in her car glove box for exactly this kind of moment.

This episode goes a lot of places. Melissa shares her lifelong habit of mentally captioning cows in pastures for an imaginary calendar she has called the Cowlander. A real news story about a woman who walked away from her family at a Virginia Christmas market in 2001 and was found living under a new name 24 years later sends Melissa and David into a full conversation about escapism, intrusive thoughts, and whether every woman has at least once thought about just getting out. The sketch segment ends with David and Melissa acting out how each of them orders at a Mexican restaurant, and it is extremely accurate.

QUOTES WORTH HIGHLIGHTING

“Every time we drive by a pasture that has cows, I take a snapshot for a calendar. In my head. It’s called the Cowlander. I thought of that in the fifth grade.”

Melissa, revealing a lifelong habit David apparently did not know about

“She left. She never returned. Her car was never found. And I’m just sweating in my pits about this.”

Melissa, on the woman who walked away from her family at a Christmas market in 2001

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