WISER THAN ME WITH JULIA LOUIS-DREYFUSHOSTED BYLEMONADA MEDIA
Julia Louis-Dreyfus returns for Season 2 of her award-winning podcast, Wiser Than Me™. Each week, she has funny, touching, personal conversations with iconic older women who are brimming with the kind of unapologetic attitude and wisdom that only comes with age. Julia sits at the feet of some extraordinary teachers this season (discover who in the trailer), and of course her 90-year-old mom, Judy. Tune in to laugh, cry and get wise. All Hail Old Women!
All while brushing your teeth with both hands because it's cross body. Hands free, baby. What I'm saying is that this could be a life changer and this bag is made by Agoo. So it's super high quality and it's beautiful design features some of my favorite words of wisdom from the show. Head over to weiserthemeshop.com and get 2 for yourself and then a bunch more for friends and family and presto holiday shopping done early. Lemonata. Once in our travels when I was a little girl of about 8, I think, when my daddy, Tom, was a surgeon on the Hope Hospital ship, We were living in Tunisia. And I remember very vividly that I was so upset with my mom because she said I had to finish my dinner before I had dessert, which made no sense at all. And there was another couple there who were working with my dad. And the woman in the couple said, well, how about I take you out for lunch? Just you and me, and then you can have dessert first. And so that was very appealing as you can imagine. And I did. We went to lunch. And I ordered a huge hot fudge sundae. I mean, just huge. And I just gobbled that fucker up. And then when it was time to actually order lunch, Well, I couldn't really order lunch because I was too full, but I assure you of one thing. I did not learn a lesson that day. I've always been a true and deep lover of sweets and desserts. In fact, one of my earliest memories is of these, peanut butter cookies that my grandma Didi made for me, you know, the kind that have the fork imprint on them. I still have her handwritten index card with the cookie recipe. Well, actually, I think I have it.
Was that like leaving Wilhelmina? I I did the same thing with her. You wrote another letter, I hope. I I didn't write a letter. I told her in person. Uh-huh. And she understood. Smart lady. She understood. Uh-huh. And I had gone back and forth to her a couple few times. Anyways, I was just making moves. How I how I knew this to do as a 19, 20, 21 year old little naive young lady from Buffalo, New York, I have no idea. I yeah. Exactly. And you say you're naive. I'm not so sure you're that naive. I mean, it sounds like you you you got No. No. No. Intuition. I don't know. Yeah. It's an instinct. It's an instinct. It's a drive. It's ambition. It's an instinct that's just really strong. But wait a minute. So can we just talk about life in New York Yes. In the seventies? Oh my goodness. Oh. First of all, you've got so many fabulous stories. I I would love to hear every single one of them, but there's one in particular I need to know about. You talk about being at Studio 50 Studio 54 Once. For 3 days once, but it was for 3 days straight. For 3 days. For 3 days. Yes. Okay. So could you please walk us through what that was all about? Because you actually slept there. Well, I don't really know if we were sleeping, but I was there for 3 days. But what you have to understand is, I'm working all the time all over the world, and I don't really get a chance to partake in the nightlife and all that was going on in that era in seventies or eighties because I'm gone. Right? I'm living out of a suitcase. Yes. So I take this opportunity to say I'm gonna go to studio 54, and I drive up in a taxi. And, of course, you know, it's mounds of people, like, standing out front. Yeah. And I see this little guy, Steve Rubel now. I didn't know that. He says, come up. And this is, like, the parting of the what? Parting of the seas. Thank you. And I walk in, and I had never experienced anything like that before. Uh-huh.
I've been the way that I've been when it's clearly not working, and that's something that comes with age. But one of the problems that I recognized early on was ever since I was little, I really got more strokes and attention and love by performing Oh. Outside of my family unit at school Uh-huh. Even for my relatives. I became Bonnie, the cute little redhead with temples that if I did a little Shirley Temple tap dancer, and then later, you know, if I played the guitar for my folks' friends, I got a lot of positive attention by being extroverted, and I think that red headed personality thing. You're born with that color hair, and you're supposed to grow into it. So I I got I got what I didn't get at home by being big Bonnie. You know? And I'll say that that became later when I became professional. I'm more comfortable on stage, and I always wondered why. Why when I come off stage, I don't have the same self esteem or lack of self judgment. So I was beating myself up a lot. And privately, as a little girl, when I went back, and so I wonder when that started, I was never that comfortable when I wasn't performing the version of myself that well, good little girl or the cute girl or the talented girl or the all a's or the daddy's little girl and, you know, not cause too much of a ruckus. And then when I was just back in my room, I would pour my heart out and play the guitar and just sing these sad ballads and longing and and look in the mirror and hate what I saw, you know? So I I had a double life early on. And I have to be careful now that I don't let that schism happen. And I remember the metaphor of The Wizard of Oz being found out to be just a regular man. You know? Pay no attention to man
On the screen and in life, she puts herself on the line for what she believes in. I just love her. I love her, and I'm crazy about everything that she does. Yes. The great, great Sally Field is here, and she is so much wiser than me. Hello, Sally. Hello, Julia. Hello. Hello. Thank you so much for being here. What a treat it is to talk to you today. Thank you. So, Sally Yeah. Are you comfortable if I ask your real age? Yeah. I am. And what is your real age, Sally? My real age is is 77. I had to think for a minute. You know, I find that every one of the big decades Mhmm. Are really monumental not only in how you are physically, but who you are. I mean, how you see the world, how you see yourself. You change so much from decade to decade, and it's almost like it isn't until you really get up there in the numbers that you can look back and go, wow. That really is true. When I hit 40, when I hit 50 Yeah. When I hit 60, and when I hit 70. And so there's part of me that's going, gee, I wonder what 80 is gonna be like. How old do you feel? It depends. It depends on the day, because I want my body to be what it was when I was in my forties and could run and do all of those things, but I can't. Mhmm. I have a little frame, and I'm very lucky. And the things that are challenging me are not the big ones. Not the big ones where you just lean down and kiss your ass goodbye. Yeah. It's, you know, osteoarthritis and, that I don't have any more cartilage in my body. So Is that true? So it Is that true? Yeah. Yeah. So at first was a shoulder that I needed a replacement because my I couldn't lift my arm up. I was on stage and started to notice, oh my god.
Think of it. I love it. I think it's chic. Thank you. It's almost like I used to see old ladies with red lips, and I couldn't ever decide if I thought it was good or bad. I'll tell you when it's bad. It's bad when the lipstick's out of bounds. As soon as the lipstick goes out of bounds, pull over and get that fixed. Wiser than me from Lemonade Media returning March 27th.
