[Advice from Besties] Male Yoga Teachers

Male yoga teachers - ick or ok? Do you think football players are throwing the games to win bets? Finally, what's the deal with advent calendars?

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The Honestly Podcast (00:01.346)
Hello and welcome to this week's episode of Advice From Your Besties. Each week we have questions, you have questions and we'll give you answers. Okay, what are your thoughts on male yoga teachers? Hot take, I'm afraid of them. Really? Yeah, I'm afraid of them. You know, where there's smoke, there's fire.

No pun intended, we're sharing some fun. Those are free special sound effects. No copyright on those. Okay. You saw, you saw the Beakram thing years back. Beakram was charged with sexual assault on a number of victims, hundreds. Then, there's also this in a number of other, but, it's called breath of fire. It's a.

documentary on Netflix, similar story. And then I was thinking about all the male yoga teachers I know. And they kind of give you the ick? What's the thing that, what's going on there? Okay. I have a couple experiences with male yoga teachers. One, when I first started doing yoga a lot, when I was in college, there was the super hot.

yoga teacher. He was like this black guy, football player, muscular. my God. I would do yoga. He would come in like gently rotate. I know. Then I was like, okay. I don't mind it. I don't mind it. But also, okay, this is when it gets weird because let's say a gentle rotation, but when they like caress your body to move it, you need a little like firm touch in there. So it's not so gross. Cause I feel like the male yoga teachers

Really, it's just an excuse to get handsy with a lot of ladies. Yes. And they're like, what? I'm just adjusting you. Here, let me pull your butt back into me while you're in downward facing dog. And the problem is, I like that move. I like it when you use my hip bones as like handles. You grab the bones and get it under the psoas. I'm a big fan of the psoas altogether. So if you can do that, I'm down. But that's what the problem is, because I am very relaxed.

The Honestly Podcast (02:16.48)
My baddie is in the exact right position for you to take me. And it's kind of like, should we do that?

The Honestly Podcast (02:32.078)
Now would be a good time to do that. I often think that. And it's funny because like when I'm having sex, there are times where I'm like, do you want to role play yoga teacher? And I don't think people understand why this is a good game to play. It's a great game to play. If you're not incorporating the yoga teacher to the yoga student in your sex play, you are missing out. I can agree with that. Okay. I don't want to hear about it. It's disgusting. Whatever you're about to say. Are you the yoga teacher or the student? No, I'm a student. Yeah, of course. How else do you the ass?

You're getting my ass in the air. If I'm the teacher. Very good. Very good, Austin.

The Honestly Podcast (03:13.804)
And he's not in the pegging, so it's never gonna work. And also, if he was a downward facing dog, he'd be like up to my neck. I'd be like, is that a neck? You could ride him. Get on him. Like a sheep dog.

I have wanted to play yoga teacher so bad. And just like you're in the downward dog and then they just come and they're like, no, relax. I told you back in the day, they used the prompt they would say is put your ass in the air. Like you've got a flashlight shining out of your butt and just shine your life. And I don't understand that. like, I know. God is my witness at Cherry Hills, room one. It was a very crowded thing.

And that's what they did. They used to say, shine your light. Just imagine a flashlight in your ass and just shine it.

The Honestly Podcast (04:19.187)
It was wrong man, and you're like and you know what it really kind of starts to go awry is when you're a downward-facing dog and they like rub their hand from the base of your spine to the back of your head and they're like pushing you down And then you wonder why these yoga instructors are like tying women up It's just the next progression step from like it's horrible Yeah, if you wonder why we like having our face smothered is because the yoga teacher

They taught us. That's good posture to get strangled. You don't want to breathe. You don't want to be able to breathe. It's terrible. now, even before I saw the most recent documentary about male yoga instructors taking advantage, I hate that they planted the seed. Not that they planted a seed, but I hate that that innocence was broken for me because now I don't want any man coming near me in class.

I actually wish sometimes as much as I want other, I want men to be there so you can have a robust experience instead of just a feminine yoga. It's just some, I don't know. just yoga dudes. Dudes in yoga. I want the dudes in yoga actually to just be like my husband. don't, you don't go all the time. You roll up and like your lululemon designated yoga outfits. You kind of know what you're doing, but not really.

but it's nice that you're there just for the company. Yeah, that's the kind of man I want to see in class. Your husband? I want to see my husband in class. I my in class. Right next to me so we can hold hands during Shabbos. do you do that? Yeah, we do. that's kind of sweet. I'm glad I didn't know that. I would never have known if I hadn't asked. Yep, now you know. I don't mind guys in the class. That's not what I'm talking about. I'm just talking about the instructors. Because what has motivated you to do that? I mean, maybe, but I'm

And like, why do you have such a love for wearing leggings? That's another question for the males. And like, why can you not, can you teach without touching? No, they can't help themselves. Cause ladies teach us without touching us. That's because they've been taught not to. I think all male, I think all yoga teachers right now, yoga instructors are being taught to not touch as much, but you know, rules don't apply to men. So those do whatever they want.

The Honestly Podcast (06:44.084)
Speaking of men, how about football players? Do you think that football players are throwing the game because they can be betting on the outcome? I think it's a very complicated, I think it's a...

The Honestly Podcast (07:00.098)
I don't feel like it's not one, there's so much money behind the game and behind the game period and there's so much money behind online betting that it can't be as simple as.

don't score that next touchdown, okay? Like, or don't throw, like, it's gotta be something even more minute because everyone is watching everyone. I think that if players are actually throwing games or messing with the score so much, I think that it would have been cracked down on by now. I'm sure that there's a handful of players that really do try to skew it a little bit.

But what would it take for them to do that? I you have to make so much more money. You're already making so much money as a football player. And why would you want to like sacrifice that? Yeah. And you also get performance bonuses. So if you're going to get a touchdown every game, that's a bonus. Or like, however you play your defense, interceptions, yards, gain, get bonuses based on performance. I actually don't think it's the player that's throwing the game. I think it's the people making the lines in Vegas.

that are setting the lines and then maybe they're the ones dictating the actual outcome. And then because like, hey. So are they in cahoots with the refs to make some calls so that certain things happen? Or does everyone perform according to the lines that were made in Vegas? But then how is that benefiting the football players? I don't think it's about the football players. I think it's about money. But I feel like they'd have to be making some money on the back end in order to.

go along with the... sure, they're gonna get compensated. Yeah. But I don't feel like it's one person who's throwing it. I mean they do say the NFL is scripted. And why are they saying that? Because there's just so many unbelievable things that happen. And that's what I'm talking about. But I feel like that's the name of the game. It's not. I mean... Like what? What's one unbelievable thing that happened? the Chiefs, two weeks in a row they squeaked by on two games that they should have lost.

The Honestly Podcast (09:10.664)
and they happen to block a field goal on the last one. And then I think they also won by field goal on the one before that. But I think the NFL is scripting that the Chiefs need to be undefeated and go to the Super Bowl. That's what I'm saying. So I think that there's maybe not the players, but maybe they're talking to the coaches, to the refs, and saying, like, hey, we really need this storyline to But why do we need that storyline? I don't know, because it's kind well, for the Chiefs, it's controversial because everyone's over them winning all the time. So it's

causing more engagement through the NFL and also listening more like fodder for the podcast and for the shows. So I think, you know, entertainment value. People love to hate on the winners. So that's a good That's why they hate us so much. Everyone hates us so much. They hate us so hard.

because we're too much. my God. In the best way possible. I know. That's what I said. Your husband doesn't have a problem hanging with us. no, he likes it. I know. He likes it a lot. He is a real man that can take it. We're not too much. And if you're too much for you, are not our person. You're a pussy. Pussy. Anything else?

All right, real quick, how do you feel about holiday advent calendars? Ooh, I always wanted one, but I haven't gotten one yet because I'm not quite sure which one to splurge on because I'm watching the unveilings on TikTok. The unboxings. The unboxings. And some of them look good, but then I find out it's a company in Europe and it already sold out yeah, Whatever you're looking at is sold out. Yeah, and that's really disappointing because now you're showing me all the stuff I can't get. Yeah. Mm-hmm.

But I've always been leery and maybe it was just my conditioning in the way I was brought up to be, like I'm always leery of samples. I'm like, why are you giving me this sample lipstick? It's probably trash. It's not the right color. Why are you giving me this sample perfume? It's probably not good. Why am I gonna like it? interesting. I don't like samples. I don't trust them as far as I could throw them. Did you know that about me? No, I didn't. Like if you give me an am, I'm not gonna like any of it. Wow. Yeah, no, I...

The Honestly Podcast (11:22.574)
Yeah, I learned it from my mom, oddly enough. Or maybe I just learned it as a kid because I was like, no, anything you give me that's like a free sample, like that lipstick's always the wrong color. It's a shade off or something. So the sampling marketing totally did not work on you. Because the whole point of the sample is that you're going to end up buying the full size. I run for the hills. I don't want a sample. can keep your sample because it's probably just trash anyway. No, I love a sample. We take samples. We used to take samples as if it like,

I don't remember what that sentence was gonna be, but no, like them. will, no, you keep them because we don't wanna turn around and have to throw it away because it's gonna be trash. wow. You didn't know that about me, did you? No. No, I don't trust them. I used to get this makeup box that would have like five free, or I don't know, five samples a month, $5, something like that. And I think they were good samples, but then...

this is the thing with the sample. It's a really good sample. So I don't want to use it all because then I have to go buy the full size one. So I use it very sparingly and then I don't even use a sample. So now it's a piece of junk anyways, cause it's expired. You'll end up throwing it away anyway. know. Does makeup expire? Yeah. Unlike medication or spice. They all expire. Does medication really, you were created in a lab in the first place. It just starts to lose its efficacy. Yep. Word of the day.

And then spices tend to have flavor loss. You just regrind it in your hand some more to freshen it up. Or you cook it in olive oil on the pan. That's sad. As Lindsay would say, that's sad. That's sad. OK, well, I don't think my medication goes bad. Well, you take it on a regular basis before it expires. Yeah, good God. Thank God. Where would we be if I didn't?

I know. Not here. Woo! All right. Well, that's it for this episode with you, Kestie. And what are your thoughts on Advent calendars? What do you think about male yoga teachers? And is the NFL scripted? Let us know. Drop it in the comments. And we'll see you next week. Bye! Bye! The whole time where you think about AC.