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Hidden Camera Experiment: How Would You React? | Dr. Oz | S7 | Ep 24 | Full Episode
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When your morals are put to the test and you think no one's watching, how would you deal?
It's our hidden camera experiment.
A child is humiliated for what she's eating.
Pancakes are, like, loaded in sugar.
Don't you want a boyfriend?
You're embarrassing me.
And how would you deal with just five ingredients that choose Michael Simon Gets Busy?
Are you frightened or do you feel good about this?
Coming up next.
We'll save lives today.
day We are ready to get healthy!
Today's show is going to provoke you, I hope in a good way.
We're asking the question, how would you deal?
How would you deal with social pressure when your morals are put to the test?
It happens every day.
Happens with the foods you eat, how you spend your money.
So today, a hidden camera experiment.
How would you deal when you think no one is watching?
Would you be compelled to act on someone else's behalf?
Coming up, surprising and provocative split-second decisions caught on tape.
Then, how would you deal if you went through a family death, serious breakup, and breast cancer all in the same year?
If you're a famous comedian, you turn it into a fearless stand-up routine.
And then Chef Michael Simon, who I love, deals with mischief, mayhem, and madness every day on the chew.
Well, he's here today with some of the season's best food flavors.
But first, let's start with that hidden camera project, the first of its kind.
The scenario is this.
A mom scolds her daughter for what she's eating, but she does it in public to the point of humiliation.
How would you deal?
We rigged the TikTok Diner with hidden cameras and concealed microphones under the tables and on countertops.
Then we brought in Joey Salats, a rising YouTube star who specializes in social experiments to help us pull off a few of our own.
We then brought in two actors to play a mother scolding her 10-year-old daughter for ordering unhealthy food.
You make terrible choices.
Joy was stationed nearby to observe the reactions of our unsuspecting guests in the diner.
You don't need to keep telling me.
If you got it, then you'd order correctly.
Would they come to our daughter's defense?
Or would they look the other way?
I think I'm gonna get pancakes.
Pancakes?
You know that pancakes are like loaded in sugar.
Like that's basically what pancake is.
Sugar.
You have to learn to make good decisions on your own.
Don't you want to fit in?
As our mother begins to reprimand our ten-year-old daughter, the nearby customers start to take notice.
I don't even know why I took you out to breakfast.
That's shame on me.
Don't you want a boyfriend?
You're embarrassing me.
You want to feel embarrassed?
Then go into school eating candy bars and stuff.
Then you'll feel embarrassed.
Okay.
We're going to do this for a third time now.
What are you getting?
This is your dad.
I will be right back.
Order something that's the right choice.
Do not order pancakes.
When our actress steps away from the table, the customers look like they're one step from intervening.
But don't.
But one mother and daughter, on the other hand, became visibly upset.
And decided to act.
She's up to something.
They began writing an encouraging note to our ten-year-old.
What does it say?
God made you beautiful and perfect.
That was sweet.
But instead of giving her the note, she chooses to show her even more compassion.
Hey, sweetie.
Hi.
I just wanted to let you know that God made you beautiful and perfect, okay?
Thank you.
Alright?
Alright, I'm coming up.
It was time for Joey to step in.
Excuse me, guys.
I'm sorry to bother you.
I told you.
I'm filming a social experiment with the Dr. Oz show.
How did it make you feel seeing the mother talk to her daughter like that?
She should be supportive and not shaming her daughter.
It was a really awkward situation.
I really felt like she should have pulled her to the side and did all that.
I didn't really feel like it was my place to, like, Come over and tell somebody how to parent.
Having that conversation the way she did was just so hurtful and that that would change her life forever.
I remember the struggle of being in high school and having all those pressures.
It's hard.
I hurt for those girls that don't feel like they can't fit in.
Thank you guys so much.
Give me a hug.
You're so nice.
Thanks.
You too.
So nice.
Joy Salas is here along with mother Carrie and daughter Paige.
Carrie, you had a very emotional reaction, but it didn't stop there.
I can tell you, you're physically in distress.
You couldn't even eat.
Oh no, I was shaking.
My hands were literally shaking.
I had a really hard time, yeah.
Why do you think that was?
It brought up issues from my own past and how hard it is to have Body issues and how something as little as just a few words can change your life forever.
In seventh grade I overheard a couple guys say something about me in a very positive way and it really changed a horrible seventh grade year into a wonderful life.
Just a few words.
Seven grades tough for a lot of reasons.
Yeah, true, true.
I've just watched this whole interaction, the note you wrote and what you wrote.
Right?
I just feel that sometimes just a few words can change somebody's life in such a positive way.
When somebody's being bullied and humiliated like that, it really affects them.
I wanted this little girl to grow up and love herself and go on and just know that she'll make all the right choices for her life.
Would you have spoken to the mom?
I wanted to, but being in a public situation like that and not knowing her, I didn't want her to retaliate on me and then make a big scene for the establishment that we were at and cause a scene.
So I just thought I'd focus on the little girl.
And Paige, you were emotional as well, watching your mom go through the struggle writing the note.
I don't believe I was so much getting emotional because my mom was.
I was getting emotional because I felt the pain for that little girl.
I know I've gone through self-confident issues and body issues, but the difference was I always had my mom there to come home to to tell me I was beautiful, to tell me I'm perfect.
I just felt the pain.
I felt the pain for that little girl that she didn't have that, because that home love is so important, no matter how old you are, but especially for those little girls.
You were blessed to have a mom.
Who cares that much?
So, Joy, you have created a sensation, creating these types of responses, going all over the place with these social experiments that have just taxed us and drives us to really address how would people deal?
What was the strategy here, the thought?
So usually I just go out and I like to take a problem in society and I like to put it in a real-life situation to just test how people would react and find a way how to even try to fix these problems.
So that's how it started.
Well, it's entertaining too, but it's emotionally gripping, which is what we witnessed here.
Let me talk to the actress, if you don't mind, because I think she did a great job.
Michelle played the critical mom.
It's hard to do that.
I almost started crying again.
So why was it such an emotional experience for you, even though, on the surface, you were pretending?
I mean, I am a mom, just to a two-year-old, but, you know, I think that words are very impactful.
And I also thought on my way to the shoot, I wonder if anybody really is going to say anything to me.
I'm not sure I would say anything, because Moms are defensive.
Like, this is my kid.
Don't tell me how to raise my kid, you know?
I had first thought, maybe that's how I'll come back.
And they were like, no, no, we want people to talk to you.
And, you know, don't attack.
And I said, oh, okay.
And on the second half, I was worried about the young lady.
You know, I knew she was young.
And I know we're role-playing, but I just wanted to make sure that she knew it was fake.
That this wasn't real.
Because she got emotional.
And I got scared.
Oh gosh, I just scarred this child.
But she wound up, she had an eyelash in her eye.
We high-fived.
But it's a deep emotion.
Let me ask the audience.
Who here thinks that a mom has the right to reprimand a child for a health issue that's fundamentally of concern to both?
Hands up.
Who wants to comment on it?
Go ahead.
I think you need to create that lifestyle in your home.
So instead of telling, show.
So healthy foods.
Ice cream causes this, that, whatever.
So the lifestyle.
So let me ask you this.
Part of the challenge we saw there was a lot of folks are very worried about interfering with a very sensitive relationship between a mom and a daughter.
Would you guys have intervened?
Because there's a risk of repercussions for the daughter afterwards.
I think if it would have gotten worse, and it was worse, if it would have gotten worse than that, I think I probably would have, and I just would have accepted whatever.
I would have been praying as I was doing it, but I would have just...
All right.
So when we come back, our next hidden camera social experiment, your friends on a diet trying to lose weight, but you want to eat.
You want her to eat, too.
That's the catch.
How would you deal?
Next, our hidden camera experiment continues When you're dining out with friends and you're on a diet and they're not.
Your willpower is put to the test.
Can you stick to your guns?
How to survive social pressure when you are on a diet.
Coming up next.
Ever feel like you're being pulled in a million different directions?
We're launching Blueprint for Balance, our year-long series that takes you from burnout to back on track.
On to next Oz.
That's coming up tomorrow.
Today we're asking, how would you deal in a social situation when your decisions are put to the test?
So, our next experiment asks the question, can you survive pressure from your friend when you're on a diet and they're not?
It's a scenario I asked Joey Salas to create, and here's what he uncovers.
We enlisted Greg Miak to go undercover to push tempting but unhealthy foods onto her unsuspecting friend Gail, who just came from the doctor who put her on a diet.
I weigh more now than when I was pregnant.
There's no way.
I'm gonna have a salad.
Mm-mm.
It's no.
Nope.
We're gonna have a nice, juicy cheeseburger.
No.
Yes, we are.
No, no, no.
Because, look, I really, you know, that really scared me.
Let her tell the story about the doctor.
Mm-hmm.
I'm weighing so much.
Mm-hmm.
I said, alright.
I started yesterday.
Yesterday I was good.
So if I'm good yesterday, if I'm good today, and I'm good tomorrow, then I'll get into that habit.
You know we don't have it.
Since we're having lunch today, today will be the day that you're going to splurge.
So can I have a spinach salad with grilled chicken breast?
Can I have a basket of chicken finger tenders?
Sure.
As the appetizer.
Burger with fries.
You want any cheese on that?
Cheddar.
Cheddar?
Yeah.
Be like, you're going to help me finish these.
You're going to help me eat the fries.
Oh no, she had the burger.
No, that's yours.
That's two plates there.
But I thought this was the appetizer.
I feel like we can't let this food go to waste.
No, we can't let this good food go to waste.
So look, this probably is a healthier of the two plates.
Why?
I think of chicken fingers, onion rings.
So, you know, why don't you still, why don't you, come on, just one fry.
You're terrible.
Are you going to sit there and not even have one?
You'll make me feel better if you eat some.
You want to make me feel a little better, you'll eat a little bit.
You'll eat some.
Alright, I'm coming up.
Hello.
My name's Joe, and we're filming a social experiment for Dr. Oz.
And your friend was in on it.
Whoa.
And she was trying to get you to eat unhealthy?
Don't hurt me.
Don't hurt me.
How were you able to resist this?
I would have pigged out.
Yeah, but if you saw the doctor that said I'm overweight, you would not have that.
You would not have that.
I can't.
That's the only time.
We're proud of you that you didn't give in.
I'm proud of myself.
Thank you.
Greg Muir and Gail are joining us.
Gail, your doctors must be so proud of you.
Yes, they are.
Wait till they see this footage.
I know.
So what were you thinking when Greg Muir You know, the mean person that she is was pressuring you to eat food.
Well, I was wondering, what was she doing?
This is my friend.
I'm like, I told you that I started my diet.
I can't.
I'm a biscuit away from 200 pounds, and I can't do this.
I saw my numbers, and it frightened me.
So I said, no, I'm going to get her to help me stay on my diet.
So I could not do that.
And Greg, was there ever a moment where you thought, maybe I'll eat healthy.
It doesn't look so bad.
What's going on over there with Gail?
Well, actually, she was so adamant about not joining in the decadence with me, you know, that after a while I started feeling bad, you know, about what was on the plate to at a point when I actually was about to put a french fry in my mouth.
And I actually was saying, OK, you know, like it's just I started to feel guilty about what I was going to ingest.
I love Gil's expressions the whole time.
Alright, she was able to stick to her guns, but take a look at what happened to Peggy when her friend Lisa pressured her to eat.
We are celebrating today.
Let's get chicken fingers, french fries.
I ordered chicken quesadillas, pancakes.
Everything unhealthy.
Peggy starts off healthy by ordering a water.
But when milkshakes come...
This is really hers.
Looks like she's going for the milkshake.
Cheers!
She did it.
She gives right in.
I'm gonna have the Caesar salad.
Peggy orders a salad for lunch.
But Lisa's quesadilla proves to be too tempting.
I'll have some of that.
Why don't you have some salad cream, too?
Do you have everything you need?
Yes.
I want you to crumble the bacon on there.
It's really good.
Come on, take the bacon.
It's better with bacon.
Take the bacon.
What is better than fruit?
She ate it.
What happened to your diet?
What is this?
What happened to your diet?
Your friend's in on it.
We're doing a social experiment for the Dr. Oz Show.
I'm sorry, guys.
Lisa, all right, please forgive me.
You are in so much control.
Best friends, Peggy, Lisa, and Jack, you're all here.
They cracked you.
You gave into the social pressure.
Oh my goodness.
Well, it's interesting because thinking about it, I did it for a different reason.
That is not enticing to me at all.
And in my life, I really, 90% of the time, eat very healthy.
I'm a yoga instructor.
I mean, and I preach it.
But I felt like I was going to be rude.
And she would not stop.
And I just wanted her to shut up.
I mean, if you saw the whole clip, she was throwing bacon in the salad, and she was incessant.
We were celebrating your retirement from the police force.
She's still at it.
Trying to justify it.
Well, the irony of it all was that someone liked her.
And so I was just like, what is wrong with Lisa's?
Let me take a sip.
You see, I'm taking a sip of the milkshake.
Okay, now let's get back.
I really wanted to eat my salad.
And it's interesting because I think many people...
I've experienced that on maybe a more subtle level.
But how many times?
Oh, have a drink.
Just have something.
Just have a nap.
You know, celebrate.
And she was like, you're celebrating your retirement.
And I said, but I want to live.
Yeah.
You know, I want to live after my retirement.
But...
So listen, social pressure is a big reason why it's so hard to lose weight, and there have been studies done on this.
Pay attention to everybody.
It turns out that if you eat in large groups, I'm talking about six or more people, not huge amounts either, six or more people eating together, they'll eat 75% larger portions than when they eat alone.
So social pressure does a lot to undermine us.
We ought to reverse that trend.
I love how you guys dealt, though.
It was a lot of fun.
Joy, nice job.
Thank you.
We'll be right back.
Next, how would you deal in an emergency?
How many of you have an emergency kit at home?
Would you have what you need if something unexpected happened?
Don't wait until the last minute.
the checklist for your home emergency kit, and what I have in mind, coming up next.
Today's conversation, how would you deal in an emergency situation?
Now you know those unexpected situations where you find yourself thinking on your feet?
How many of you have an emergency kit at home?
About half of you.
That's actually the average for the country.
You know, I actually had an emergency in our house.
I gave my wife a birthday party recently.
And I decided because it was sort of hot, I was taking her inside with the air conditioning on, it all went out.
So I had darkness, no cooling, and an unhappy wife.
A true emergency.
And I didn't have the right things in my home.
So I want to walk you through new recommendations of what to have.
Andrea?
Do you have an emergency kit?
Yes, I do.
You do?
You have all the things you need in there?
To an extent.
I'm sure I can add some stuff to it.
Let's go audit it.
Let's see how well you're doing.
The CDC, they just released this one sheet to make sure you're prepared in an emergency situation.
And they come in many forms.
Even, you know, when husbands preparing meals for their wives below the circuits, it can happen.
But sometimes in actual disasters.
So look at this list up there.
It's very colorful, isn't it?
How many of these things right now do you have in your home?
And they range from there's some waters and some foods and different apps.
I would say 80%.
80%?
Are you surprised by anything on the list?
A whistle.
A whistle?
Well, you could probably whistle.
Can you whistle for me?
That's not very loud.
You'll be silent with the...
I can't do it like this.
So, let me show you what I have in my house.
These are things that originally surprised me, but I think they're important for you.
First, I have a copy of my crucial personal documents.
License, insurance cards, things you may not think you realize.
This is one of the biggest problems when you have big-time disasters.
I also have a three-day supply of food and water.
Not just for the kids and me and Lisa, but also for the pets.
Three-day supply.
Can't forget the pets.
And I got a pre-charged phone charger.
Lots of people have phone chargers.
They don't pre-charge them, so they're not very much used to you.
And 20% of us use cell phones now.
There'd probably be more going forward for emergency care.
We added that to ours.
You did?
We did.
I'm proud of you.
Alright, so I don't want you to wait.
Be prepared.
Head to my Facebook page or my website right now.
Print out this very easy-to-use sheet.
It's only one page long, and make sure you've got everything on there.
Alright, here's the question for you.
Can a celebrity chef make a meal out of the emergency foods that you might have in store?
That's a challenge.
The Chews, Michael Simon is here, and we're going to put him to the test next.
Coming up next, no emergency kit is complete without non-perishable food items.
But when a situation arises, would you know what to do with it?
Michael Simon's here to show us recipes to keep you fueled when the unexpected hits.
Next.
Ever feel like you're being pulled in a million different directions?
We're launching Blueprint for Balance, our year-long series that takes you from burnout to back on track.
On to next Oz.
That's coming up tomorrow.
Hi, I'm Scott.
I'm the director of the Dr. Oz Show, and everybody on staff was a little surprised that I have a very extensive emergency kit.
My personal documents, first aid kit, smoke and dust mask, just in case.
Soup, some more soup, extra batteries.
Pineapple, prepaid phone card in case your cell phone doesn't work.
Spare flashlight, energy bar, another energy bar, another energy bar, and an extra one just in case.
My emergency bag.
How cute is that?
We all know that no emergency kit is complete without non-perishable food items, but how would you deal with these?
Who better to show you than the co-host of the CHU, Chef Michael Simon. - Thank you, Adinia.
- Oh, God, love being here. - So what's in your emergency kit in Cleveland?
A bottle of whiskey.
I have to say, I was watching that and I'm like, I gotta get better prepared.
I don't think of when things go bad.
I just think of when things are good.
Most of us do.
Only half of us are prepared.
These are the basic staples the CDC has had in there.
Have you cooked with the greens like these recently?
You know, as a chef, I try to preach to people to always go fresh and stay away from box and cans and stuff like that when they can.
But I do have a lot of dried fruit in my house all the time.
Oatmeal is always around in our house or some kind of roll oats.
Nuts and things like that.
But I don't have a lot of like...
Canned beans, I do use sometimes in whole peeled tomatoes cans.
So this could be a little bit of a challenge for you.
This could be for me, because this really is not my world.
All right, pick four ingredients from here.
Any four you want.
Let's see what you can make for us.
You're not going to get much time for it.
All right.
The question is, how will he deal with these ingredients?
You know, I'm going to go with the things I know.
Dates, almonds.
Peanut butter.
Yeah, I'll help you.
Peanut butter.
All right.
Peanut butter and some oats.
Perfect.
All right.
Actually, four healthy things.
So we've got versions of them here.
All right.
You can pick and choose what you want.
And how much time do we put in the clock?
One minute enough?
Two minutes enough?
No time?
You're the boss.
All right.
Ten seconds.
No.
Take your time.
Show us how you do this.
Show what I do.
By the way, you're probably locked in your basement right now.
There's a hurricane outside.
You've got all the time in the world.
And you know what, too?
Like, Liz, my wife Liz, is a vegan, and my son is a vegetarian, so I actually do have a lot of these ingredients all the time because, you know, not meat-based ingredients.
We have, by the way, in our pantry the same kind of things you have as well.
You can stock this stuff and use it periodically, but it also comes in handy in an emergency.
Okay.
So, some almonds chopped.
You know, great thing to do.
Dates.
I'll double chop.
Double chopped almonds.
Dates, which I just take, I love to use dates to kind of help bind things.
So I'll take some dates and put them in a food processor and mash them up by hand.
And then those go in and they're like great little binders.
Some good peanut butter.
And you just warm it up a little bit so then, again, it's going to help kind of bring everything together.
Honey, this actually may be, you know, I have a lot of honey from you that Daphne brought to the show, and we have a good amount of honey at our house.
As soon as Daphne and her lookalike brother, Oliver, found out that I was allergic to bees, we ended up with beehives.
Right.
You can read into that what you want, but we have three beehives now.
We have bee orphans that we adopt, and we have 70 pounds of honey a year, so we'd have plenty for an emergency.
It's so good.
Kosher salt, because whenever you're working with things, whether sweet or savory, a little bit of salt really helps bring out the flavors, which I love.
And this is just some vanilla extract.
Look how easy this is.
I could make this.
Then what do you do with this?
If you just keep mixing, I just visualize it.
I'm going to put about a cup and a half of oats in here, but you just want to mix in the oats until they work their way through the paste and you kind of have this almost like an oat bar.
So if there's no electricity because you're, again, in a disaster sitting, just one handful should be enough.
Absolutely.
All right.
Yeah, if it's an emergency and you don't have the power for a mixer, you just call Dr. Oz.
I'll come right over.
Exactly.
Make a house call for you.
All right.
You take all that stuff.
Take all the stuff.
You put it in a container, like, you know, any kind of container.
I put parchment in it so it just works a little better.
I press it all down.
And now it would be delicious like this.
If you do have power at the time, I like to put it in a freezer for about four minutes because it helps its setup and makes it easier to cut.
It looks like that.
Like so.
And you could put raisins in this.
You could put kind of any dried fruit you want.
What do you think?
Should we give it to the audience?
No baking?
Oh my goodness!
I'm taking it home.
I'm taking it home.
No bake.
Very healthy.
You can put it together in no time at all.
And technically you need no power to do so.
Alright, here's the deal.
At the break, because I love you guys so much, we're passing out all this food that Michael made for us.
But before...
We go to break.
I've got another challenge for you.
Oh, no.
I'm going to get you prepared.
I hate when you have the box with hidden stuff.
There are five mystery ingredients in this box.
And I hear something rustling around in there.
It's a muskrat.
So, coming up, how would you deal with just five ingredients?
Michael, we'll show us when we come back.
Stay here.
Up next, I'm bringing out the Oz Mystery Box containing five ingredients.
Can Michael make a gourmet meal out of it?
Find out.
And later, worried about your kids walking home from school alone?
The newest safety app to keep them safe.
Coming up.
To find out how the food industry is making changes and how to best shop for your family, check out the October issue of The Good Life.
It's full of ideas to make your life easier.
Chef Michael Simon is here.
He's ripped us up a gourmet canned cuisine.
That was pretty well done, actually.
Oh, that is easy.
Simple.
No electricity or nothing, right?
Perfect for an emergency, but this is a little more challenging.
I want to see what he's really made of.
So how would he deal with five mystery ingredients, and just five to make the entire meal?
It's like Iron Chef times five.
Times five, yes.
You have five ingredients at home that you can quickly whip up all the time?
Yeah, I think so.
There's always things that I have stashed around my house.
Like, one thing that I always have.
Whiskey, you mentioned earlier.
Whiskey, I always have stashed.
Makes a good drink.
But, like, whole peeled San Marzano tomatoes, I always have.
Always at the house.
Dry pasta, I always have.
We have little things on our counters where we grow fresh herbs.
So, like, if someone wants a quick pasta, I could smash some tomatoes, a little bit of extra virgin olive oil, some pulled fresh basil pasta.
You're good.
Quick dinner.
This is not going to be that easy.
Darn it.
There's no pasta in here, and there's no tomatoes.
All right.
This is the Oz Mystery Box.
It contains a few ingredients.
Are you ready?
I think so.
Make a meal out of this.
I'm going to give you how about two minutes?
Okay, two minutes.
You guys think you can do it?
Yeah.
All right, cheer them on.
Take a look in the mystery box.
There is, in the mystery box, there's mint.
Oh, mint.
Yes.
I like that.
Spicy sausage.
That's a gift from me to you.
You like bacon so much.
Thank you very much.
There's some Greek yogurt.
From my homeland.
It's better than the Turkish yogurt.
This is Turkish yogurt.
With a Greek name on it.
And then two onions.
Red onions.
All right.
All right.
Get two minutes.
You can use all the ingredients.
And then we got three wonderful women over here while you're working who are salivating, thinking about what you're about to give them.
They're going to vote on whether it's acceptable.
Is that sharp enough?
Your knives are nice.
I'm impressed.
You're a surgeon.
Surgeons always have good knives.
There you go.
All right.
Say one.
Go.
All right.
So here's what I'm going to do.
I love salami and spicy sausages and things like salads.
So I'm going to use that as the base.
I can get this onion peeled.
And then I'm going to start slicing up the onion, mix it with some Greek yogurt, a little bit of fresh mint, extra virgin olive oil.
And just kind of get the base down for that saltiness, a little bit of tartness from the yogurt, and we're off to the races.
You're a machine!
That's unbelievable!
Oh, I dropped an onion.
Put the onion back in there.
Sloppy onion.
Okay.
And then we take a little bit of mint, because mint, as you know, you know, Greek, Turkish cuisine, very, very common.
It's fresh.
Some Greek yogurt.
Here, smell the mint over there.
A little bouquet to you guys.
That's going to be the base.
I take several glugs of extra virgin olive oil.
A glug?
Is that a word?
Glug?
It's a technical term, doctor.
Some cracked black pepper, a little bit of kosher salt.
What else do we have here?
Oh, you know what?
You know what I'm going to do right now?
Add it in there.
Add that in there.
I'm going to stop the clock right now.
One minute left.
Now, you notice, everybody, I gave him four ingredients.
Oh, you said five.
Yes, I did.
You're typically an honest man.
Well, I generally am, but...
This is your fifth ingredient.
A cantaloupe?
A cantaloupe.
So it's not that hard.
I like that one, though.
But it's a bit challenging.
You've got meat, cantaloupe, a lot of things, and no electricity, no oven.
So what are you going to do?
You've got one minute left.
How do they feel about this?
Are you frightened, or do you feel good about this?
All right, start the clock back.
Oh, start the clock, okay.
No stalling.
All right, I was trying.
It didn't work.
So I'm going to mix that up.
So that is the base of my vinaigrette.
I'm going to take a little bit of this...
You know, hard salami-style meat and julienne that up because I like the saltiness and the sweetened mint.
And then I'm going to take that cantaloupe and I'm going to dice up that cantaloupe.
You have 40 seconds left.
And I'm going to work it in.
I'm not going to finish in time, but we'll have a great conversation about it.
I can help, but you don't worry, I can julienne those.
So wait, that goes in.
Here we go.
Cantaloupe.
If you only have three minutes, I would recommend the peeled stuff from the store.
Go like that.
I kick off this end.
Cantaloupe.
30 seconds.
He's going to make it, I think.
I'm not.
I'm going to get close.
I'm going to get close.
Come here, you.
Okay.
So, cantaloupe goes in and you have a very simple salad.
Ten, nine, eight, seven, six, five, four, three, two, one, and...
He made it!
There was...
I'll give you a little more cantaloupe there.
That's perfect.
So, here's what I like about a quick-thinking salad.
Come over here.
I want them to taste it.
While we're talking about...
That's, by the way, unbelievable that you could even make it.
It would be unbelievably impressive if you actually made something that's tasty.
So...
I'm not, but thank you.
When I think about food, I immediately think about things that I love, regardless of what the ingredients are sitting in front of me.
Sweet, salty tart is something that always works.
The cantaloupe, I thought, I'm sorry about that.
When I thought of the cantaloupe, I thought of my mom always made watermelon salad with fresh mint when I was a kid.
You know, so the watermelon with the yogurt, and then I know the saltiness of the salami is going to work in there.
So it's kind of fresh, it's kind of tart, it has that extra virgin olive oil in there, a little crunch from the onions.
What are you going to say?
Unbelievable!
Extremely good.
I mean, my goodness.
Oh, my goodness, that is good.
Really good.
Chef Michael Simon, listen, he has got an absolutely fabulous new book.
It's called Five in Five for Every Season.
That's the five ingredients today.
I'm so proud of everything you do.
God bless you.
Thank you for babysitting my daughter on the show.
Check the book out.
It's fantastic.
All right, so how would you feel if you went through a series of life-changing events all in one year?
Some of us go through that.
It can be tough.
But if you're a comedian, Tig Notaro, you turn it into a fearless stand-up routine.
She's going to be here to tell us all about it and how she got through it.
it.
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Later, the new phone app that provides virtual company so you don't have to walk home alone.
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That's comedian Tig Notaro from her new HBO special, Boyish Girl Interrupted.
Now, Tig is known for her offbeat sense of humor, and believe me, she's got plenty of material to draw from.
In a span of four months, listen carefully, Tig had pneumonia, a deadly infection, ended a relationship, lost her mother, and was diagnosed with breast cancer.
But like any good stand-up comic, she uses humor to get through it, just like we...
We welcome Pig McCullough.
Welcome to the show, Pig.
Thank you very much.
Oh my goodness.
What a litany of things.
So many difficult things to get through.
And yet, right after all that, you make this documentary, this thing that most of us will be sensitive about.
You have cameras following you around.
Why did you decide to do that?
Well, a friend of mine had approached me to do the documentary and I kind of didn't know what I was getting myself into, really.
And I think I just thought that I had been through the worst and everything was just on its way up and, you know, life gets going and obviously, you know, it swings around in every which way.
Was it the right decision, you think?
I'm so glad I did it.
I would never do it again.
Never.
There are a couple of things in life like that.
Yeah, I mean, people have asked if I would do a reality show, and it's like I would never do anything like that again.
It did make you famous, in part because you have this undaunted spirit and the ability to still make sense with humor of these crazy things that are happening in your life.
So you did this great show.
You started off, I think, by saying, good evening.
I have cancer.
Yeah, in my stand-up set.
In the stand-up set.
And that came before the documentary.
It did?
Yeah.
Why would you even be public about it like that?
It's a hard thing, I think, for an audience to figure out if you're serious about it.
Yeah, I think because I had lost so much in my life so quickly.
Like you said, it was in a four-month period of time that all that happened.
And when I got my diagnosis, I didn't think that I was going to live.
Based on how quickly I saw life go away.
And I loved doing stand-up.
And so I wanted to do it one more time.
And I thought that...
I needed to be honest about how I felt and what I was going through and I think that comedy works best when you are honest and in the moment and I thought I would take that chance.
And you decided not to have reconstructive surgery after you had both of your breasts removed.
That's a bold decision.
Is it?
I don't know.
I had met with so many doctors and surgeons and they were talking about all the different ways that they can rebuild your chest by fat and moving this here and there and implants and I was just sitting there thinking, gosh, I barely had boobs to begin with.
And it just seemed like a lot to go through just to rebuild a little.
And so I was like, is it possible to just not do that?
And they were like, oh yeah, you could do that too.
So I was like...
So you know, I'm a heart surgeon.
I do heart transplants.
And patients often have conversations with their hearts.
But I've never seen a woman have a conversation about her breasts the way you did.
So I want to take a little peek at what she does in her routine.
Uniquely inspiring.
So we started the segment with you threatening to take your shirt off, which is sort of a startling possibility.
And so just to play it out, did you take your shirt off and why did you do it?
I did take my shirt off.
Well, after my double mastectomy, I struggled with what my body looked like.
And I had insecurity about it.
And then as I had some distance, I started to just think about how my skin healed.
Just the skin...
Grew back together.
Yeah.
And why is that taboo?
Why is that a big deal other than good news that I healed, you know?
And I was excited.
I don't know.
I was excited to get to that place.
And I also thought, being a comedian, I felt like there was silliness to having my shirt off and not acknowledging it on stage and just telling jokes about airplanes.
So it takes you to do the same thing for us right now.
Taking her shirt off, and you're going to see her monologue now.
I said, you're a wonderful inspiration.
Thank you very much.
Thanks for having me.
You can watch more of the documentary Teague on Netflix.
Thanks, I'll be right back.
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Tomorrow you'll be talking about the newest safety app on the market, It's called Companion.
It's a public safety mobile phone app that provides you with a virtual company on your walk home.
How many of you are worried about kids or relatives going somewhere by themselves, taking a walk?
It comes up.
I think we all have that.
I got three daughters.
I feel that a lot.
So Companion uses your phone GPS and prompts users to enter their destination.
So you're sitting here.
The phone knows where you are, obviously.
You say, I'm going to this address.
Then you share your route With a few selected friends from your phone book, right?
By the way, notice this person only selected friends but not mom.
You don't have to tell your parents you're gone, right?
You don't have to download the app, by the way, if you're friends.
They can just be virtual buddies.
Now, if you change your route or it takes you longer to get where you're going...
For your destination, the app senses it, and then it alerts your selected friends.
And then you are also told, hey, listen, are you okay, or should we call the police?
If you hit I'm okay, then the app relaxes.
And then once you've made it home, it notifies your companions that you have safely reached your destination.
Now, this app is free.
It's available in both the App Store and Google Play, and I say download it now.
You can never be too safe.
Thanks for joining us today, everybody.
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