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    Press Play with Madeleine Brand

    ‘Goop’ TV show becomes a lightning rod

    Gwyneth Paltrow’s lifestyle company Goop has a show on Netflix now. Her company sells jade eggs and $75 candles that supposedly smell like your lady parts. On the show, Paltrow has her employees try the newest wellness trends.

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    By Madeleine Brand • Feb 11, 2020 • 1 min read

    Gwyneth Paltrow’s lifestyle company Goop has a show on Netflix now. Her company sells jade eggs and $75 candles that supposedly smell like your lady parts. On the show, Paltrow has her employees try the newest wellness trends. They go to Jamaica and try mushrooms, Lake Tahoe for snowga (snow yoga), and to New York for a female masturbation workshop.

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    Mike Bloomberg rises in the polls
    1. 0:00What’s driving Mike Bloomberg’s surge in the polls?
    2. 9:00Bloomberg faces controversy over stop-and-frisk comments
    3. 16:05The Constitution: What isn’t said, whether it needs a rewrite
    4. 30:43Coronavirus: What it’s like being quarantined in Riverside
    5. 37:54‘Goop’ TV show becomes a lightning rodYou’re reading this
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