Diego Libra Poop
Highlight Bits & Quotes
13The Magnetic Soup and Mouth-Steam Innovation
The food stylists discuss the physics of soup commercials, revealing they use gunpowder and magnets to make soup 'return home' to the bowl. Paula Meyers explains how her mentor Pierre creates steam by breathing from a cold ecosystem in his mouth.
"We mix all the soups with gunpowder and there's metal in them."
"We mix all the soups with gunpowder and there's metal in them and we put a magnet on the bottom of the bowl."
"He has created an ecosystem within his mouth that is so cold that when he blows onto the soup it appears smoking."
The Dark Side of Food Styling Apprenticeships
Paula Meyers reveals the disturbing details of her apprenticeship under Pierre LeBlanc, suggesting a 'sleep your way to the top' culture that involves isolation and asexual vibes.
"It's like actresses in the 80s, you gotta sleep your way to the top."
"He doesn't want them like poisoning my outlook."
The TLC Number Show Pitch Game
The stylists discuss how easy it is to pitch shows to TLC as long as they involve a number and children, leading to a discussion on industry secrets like using mud for coffee.
"If you can think of a number, you've got a show on TLC."
"I use mud for the coffee. Every time you see my work it is mud water."
NASA Haze Machiners and Primal Blood Drizzling
Diego Libra Poop reveals she uses tiny 'haze machiners' from the NASA B-list to create steam in coffee. Billy Boidega, known as 'Primal Man,' explains his technique of drizzling live fish blood on food to give it a fresh-off-the-grill look.
"The NASA B-list people just make smoke and stuff so they made these little machiners."
"We'll get some live fish and if you cut them open right at the right time you can just drizzle some of their blood and it just pops on camera."
The North Carolina Ex-Girlfriend Casserole Defense
Glen Klink gets defensive about his hatred for casseroles, eventually revealing he has an ex-girlfriend from North Carolina to prove he understands the culture. The group debates if this 'thing' defines his entire identity.
"I actually have an ex-girlfriend who's from North Carolina so before you judge me maybe learn a little bit."
"I think that's fine to mention at the top of the podcast I have an ex-girlfriend from North Carolina."
The Alaskan Tundra Meatball Discovery
Billy Boidega recounts finding a decomposing bear in the tundra and realizing its fur-covered carcass looked exactly like a giant meatball, launching his career.
"This older bear had started decomposing on this rock and I said, 'That looks like a meatball.'"
"I saw a career. I saw opportunity."
The Mystery of Pierre and the Linoplasty
Paula Meyers defends her mentor Pierre, a man who is an accredited university and underwent surgery to never lie again, despite others calling him a 'cup of mud.'
"Pierre isn't an accredited university, he's the first human man to be accredited."
"He got a surgery so that he couldn't lie anymore."
Commercial Styling: Sunny D and Silver Kids
Glen Klink reminisces about his 90s 'Teen Yummy' awards for making toxic Sunny D look tasty and turning the Capri Sun kids into silver liquid.
"Sunny D really, really awful stuff. Might as well be toxic waste."
"I turned people into silver liquids and they shot around the space."
Horrifying Substitutions: Rabbit Ears and Gunpowder
The stylists reveal their most disturbing tricks, including using fried rabbit ears for lettuce, old shoes for burger buns, and gunpowder with magnets to make soup look 'appealing.'
"Instead of lettuce we use rabbit's ears."
The Aladdin Baguette and Scrambled Corn Secrets
Michelle Bread claims the baguettes in the animated film Aladdin were actually shot practically. She also shares a trade secret: scrambled eggs on film are actually pureed corn because it stays bright yellow and never goes bad.
"With Aladdin those baguettes you're seeing on screen may appear animated but that was actually those are shot practically."
The Yummies vs. The Yuckies Face-Off
The panel discusses the prestigious 'Yummy' awards, including a 2014 win against the Lady and the Tramp remake and the legendary 1999 'Peach' face-off between James and the Giant Peach and Face/Off.
"The yummies are very into face-offs. Head to head."
The Poisoned Mud Coffee Finale
In a shocking twist, Diego Libra Poop reveals she has poisoned everyone's 'mud coffee' to take over the food styling industry, ending the episode in chaos.
"I just poisoned all of your mud coffees cause I want to kill you all and take over the industry."
Roundtable Introductions: The Food Stylists
The panel introduces themselves, including a fast food specialist, a casserole expert, a beverage queen, and a trainee living in a Paris hotel room with her mentor.
"I am beverage Queen of the industry."
"I'm currently living with him in Paris and we're in the same hotel room."