Good morning everyone.
I hope your Labor Day weekend was nice. I spent mine with some friends in Lake Arrowhead, California.
I say “friends” but really these were more like fans. It was the inaugural Running On Butter weekend experience, where they paid $15,000 each ($5,000 for kids) to be under my tutelage for 72 hours.
The Buttercups were (mostly) enamored. One review from Leif, a Buttercup: “I went into the weekend open-minded. I came out radicalized.”
Another, less ideal review from Logan: “Vance is cooler online than in real life.” Not gonna lie, this was more concerning than hurtful. A Buttercup with independent thinking? Questioning my rule takes?
If you see or hear acts of defiance against ROB, please report them. We must uproot the rebellion before it metastasizes.
Anyway, pics from the weekend below.
And seriously: shout out to Leif, Macy, Scottie, Logan, Makenna, Buzz, Chrissy, Luca, and Cody for being 11/10 on the rad scale.
You guys keep me young.
A bunch of former directors of the CDC wrote a letter in the NYT saying RFK Jr. is “endangering every American’s health.” This is what I told Buzz last night when he was snacking on Trader Joe’s cookies.
We’re getting a Demi Lovato cookbook. Hard to believe Demi’s journey—from they/them to newlywed trad wife—has happened in just a few years. We’re rooting for you Demi. Now drop those sourdough secrets ASAP.
“The Rock has turned into a pebble.” It’s cutting season for Dwayne Johnson.
When older adults drank beetroot juice for two weeks, their blood pressure improved significantly. Beets are high in nitrates, a compound that promotes excellent blood flow. They’re great for the geriatric Buttercups, but just as good for the younger ones too. The nitrates in beets are basically a natural performance-enhancing drug, boosting endurance and stamina.
Gordon Ramsay has skin cancer. You can watch Gordon’s greatest hits here. My favorite is him talking to the owner of a family-ran restaurant: “I’ve gone to a lot of restaurants. But I’ve never ever, ever, ever, met someone I believe in as little as you.”
The HHS has scheduled its first meeting on vaccines on September 18-19 since the CDC director was fired. The newly appointed panel will discuss Covid, hepatitis B, the MMR, and RSV vaccines.
Oh, your toddler isn’t reading Tolkien? I highly recommend this excellent piece in The Free Press on early education. This is the hot topic in the Voetberg family right now.
“What strikes me now is that, at a societal level, screen-based media gets such a head start in the competition for children’s eyeballs because we delay reading until long after streaming TV or video games become most kids’ main source of entertainment. Often this built-in ‘literacy lag’ is attributed, even by knowledgeable educators, to the idea that there is a ‘developmentally appropriate’ time to learn to read—as if some clock in the brain ticks away until it chimes at 6 years of age.”
Jessie J canceled her acoustic tour as she recovers from breast cancer surgery. She apologized on Instagram. Don’t be sorry, Jessie. We’re sorry. Rest up. The Buttercups are praying for you. And we hope you’re fueling up on a nutrient-rich diet that kicks your body into overdrive and tells that C-to-the-A-to-the-N-to-the-C-to-the-E-to-the-R to take a backseat in somebody else’s car. (IYKYK).
The Godfather of Running On Butter, Dr. Matt Angove, is blessing us with his newly-launched Substack. Read his work here.
