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Reshma Sajani
Are you interested in how ordinary people turn their big ideas into a business? Want to learn from real entrepreneurs and get actionable advice on how they succeeded? Then this is Small Business behind the Buy Is for you. It's the official companion podcast to Prime Video's new show called Buy it now, where entrepreneurs compete to win $20,000. In each episode, you hear directly from the winning entrepreneurs revealing the backstories, challenges, and the business strategies that turn their dreams into reality. Follow this is Small Business behind the Buy on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. And big thanks to this is Small Business for sponsoring the show. Hi, I'm Reshma Sajani, founder of Girls who Code. Look, I'd consider myself a pretty successful adult woman. I've written books, founded two successful nonprofits, and I'm raising two incredible kids. But here's the thing. I still wake up wondering, is this it? And if the best years are yet to come, when's that going to start? Join me on my so Called Midlife, my new podcast with Lemonada Media, where we're building a playbook for navigating midlife one episode at a time. Each week, I'll chat with extraordinary guests who've transformed their midlife crisis into opportunities for growth and newfound purpose. At some point, we all ask ourselves, is there more to life? I'm here to discover how to thrive in my second act, right alongside you. My so Called Midlife is out now, wherever you get your podcasts. Lemonade.
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Cuckoo Lysack
Welcome back. Welcome back to ADD to cart. I am your husky, sexy sounding Auntie Cuckoo Lysack.
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Auntie Sue
I hope you got that voice because you've just been painting the town red. You know, just out in those heels.
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Cuckoo Lysack
Yeah, and not just being a mom of a toddler who sponges every illness and transfers it all across me face.
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Auntie Sue
Well, I'm your other Auntie sue who no longer has toddlers. Thank you for that. It is hard to really understand how much shopping we do in a year. And more specifically in my case, how much just browsing I do in a year. But you know, around this time every year, we really like to give you what is the best of the year. What? Foam. You know, what milky almond foam rose to the top of your matcha bowl. So today we're going to give you the cream of the cream of the cart.
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Cuckoo Lysack
That's right, Sue. We are diving into the archives of our vest vast mind palaces to give you the best of 2024. We're talking about the best in pop culture and our best purchases of the year. And we have a very special guest today to help us. He is. I gotta say it, very attractive. Let's start there. I mean, let's start there.
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Auntie Sue
I'm glad you said it. You know what I mean?
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Cuckoo Lysack
He is a man of fashion, a pop culture anthropologist whose takes never miss. This year, he was named an out 100 disruptor. And in 2023, he created and executive produced a series called Queer Sports for Vice News. Please add to cart Blake Lee Thornton.
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Blake Lee Thornton
Hello. Hello, Hello. It is a pleasure to be here at the end of the year. You know, we're just gonna talk about some things.
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Auntie Sue
You're in your new home. You're getting into cozy season.
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Blake Lee Thornton
Yes.
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Auntie Sue
Right.
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Blake Lee Thornton
That's the hoodie. That's the Blink Twice hoodie.
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Cuckoo Lysack
Cozy. But, you know, I've been following you now for some time. You're very hot right now, and I like it. You're fired up is what I'm trying to say.
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Blake Lee Thornton
I'm doing the things. I'm just like. There's no other way to. Why be nice? Why be nice at this point?
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Auntie Sue
Not now.
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Blake Lee Thornton
Not now. As Drake says, nice for what? Nice for what?
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Cuckoo Lysack
And I'm gonna be say. I'll say this to you. I don't think nice is your best shade.
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Blake Lee Thornton
Oh, it's not. It's not.
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Cuckoo Lysack
That's not your color. It's not your color. It isn't.
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Blake Lee Thornton
It's not what I was put here for.
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Auntie Sue
Sometimes I'll just sit there and go through, like, 10 of your most recent. I'm like, what? This man's br. You know what I mean? It's like a rapid fire of, like, everything we're talking about, everything we're thinking. It's just so fun to be on the other end of this.
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Blake Lee Thornton
Well, I'm glad. I'm glad it's. I'm glad other people are having fun experiencing what it's like to be in my brain. Because, like, I always say, everywhere I go, there I am. Like, I wish I didn't have 10 pop culture thoughts every time I saw a billboard or watched a commercial.
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Auntie Sue
Like, you can't turn that off.
- [04:59]
Blake Lee Thornton
I literally tied the resurgence of Lindsay Lohan back to elder millennials wanting dunkaroos today. Like, that's the way my brain works.
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Cuckoo Lysack
Yeah. It's like A Beautiful Mind but not math.
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Blake Lee Thornton
Exactly.
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Auntie Sue
But it's gotta be cathartic. Otherwise, where does that go? It's just. It's a corn soup.
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Blake Lee Thornton
That's what I'm saying. It is. That's why, like, I was Literally running on the treadmill today. And I was like, the resurgence of Lindsay Lohan gives me the same feelings as if like Dunkaroos were back. Because, like, you didn't know you missed Dunkaroos, but if somebody put Dunkaroos like on a table, you'd be like, fuck, yes.
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Auntie Sue
Yeah.
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Cuckoo Lysack
Yeah.
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Auntie Sue
Wait, what's a Dunkaroo way?
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Blake Lee Thornton
It's like, it's basically like a kangaroo shaped animal cracker that goes into like, basically, which is like, like liquid diabetes. It was like either icing vanilla, chocolate or like sprinkles occasionally. And I think they were discontinued just for being generally horrific for us.
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Cuckoo Lysack
For us for it to be discontinued for that. I mean, it's gotta be really bad.
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Blake Lee Thornton
Yeah. Like in the United States.
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Auntie Sue
Yeah. Lindsay Lohan is a Dunkaroo.
- [05:59]
Blake Lee Thornton
She is. She's a cultural Dunkaroo.
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Cuckoo Lysack
I went on like right after the election and I made some life choices. I was like, that's right.
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Auntie Sue
Because Blakely said you did.
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Cuckoo Lysack
I did.
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Auntie Sue
She did.
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Cuckoo Lysack
And I was like a hot Tasuchin.
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Blake Lee Thornton
Yes.
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Cuckoo Lysack
I like what I'm doing.
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Blake Lee Thornton
I, like many of you, have been looking for ways to emotionally cope since November 5th. My weight and chicken wings. Episodes of Gossip Girl out of order while crying into a tequila soda into oncoming traffic just to see if it might be my time. After causing a three car pileup on Sunset and unfortunately still sentient, it came to me. It's the season of the witch and we're starting a coven. Time to turn those intrusive thoughts into vengeance again.
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Auntie Sue
Remember the last time I saw you in person and I sat in her in her kitchen and I'm not going to say she just made a lot of declarations, she made a lot of dark promises. And I was like, yeah, okay, I think you should do that. Maybe, maybe we don't announce it, but I think we start there. Yeah, we do a soft launch, but I'm with you.
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Blake Lee Thornton
Look, I said, I said after the election, whatever I said, it was 4am I had gone to bed depressed, woke up at 4am, recorded it. Literally kind of forgot I recorded it because I was very drunk because I figured Trump was going to win. And I woke up and I had like a million views. And I was like, honestly, I think we started to covenant. Like, I think that's where we're going again culturally, like the craft, it's back. Cynthia Erivo Elphaba highs rise up. Like, I think it just needs to.
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Cuckoo Lysack
Be, I guess all along. Let's go.
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Blake Lee Thornton
Why not?
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Auntie Sue
Yeah, that's why Not.
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Blake Lee Thornton
Why not?
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Cuckoo Lysack
Why not? Blakely, we have enlisted your help this year to give us your best of pop culture hot takes. So I know your takes are fresh, fresh, fresh, fresh out of that new oven behind you. So let's dig in.
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Blake Lee Thornton
Still can't figure it out. So let's go. Haven't used it yet.
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Auntie Sue
Yeah, probably not going to. But this is the oven that's more important, so.
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Blake Lee Thornton
Okay. The cultural oven.
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Auntie Sue
Yes.
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Cuckoo Lysack
Okay, so let's talk outfit.
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Blake Lee Thornton
Okay. Your number one, It's Zendaya at the Rock and Roll hall of Fame, channeling Cher.
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Auntie Sue
Wow.
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Blake Lee Thornton
It was just exquisite. Just truly. She did Cher better than Cher's ever done Cher. And I'll say that to Cher's face, because I'm pretty sure she's too slim to slap.
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Auntie Sue
I mean, I need to get a zoom in on this out.
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Reshma Sajani
Whoa.
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Blake Lee Thornton
It's so good.
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Auntie Sue
Whoa. I mean, there's very little to the imagination.
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Blake Lee Thornton
No, it's just the moment.
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Cuckoo Lysack
It's giving, and yet the construction is there. It's there.
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Blake Lee Thornton
Exquisite.
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Auntie Sue
Would you say that this rivals the Jennifer Lopez green dress? That was barely. Because this is kind. Right. This is, like, giving that moment where you're like, a star has arrived. They're at different points in their career when they're doing this, which is why I think maybe that is the biggest difference.
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Cuckoo Lysack
And the zeitgeist piece of, like, what the MTV Awards were back then.
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Auntie Sue
Yes. Which nobody knows listening what those are anymore.
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Blake Lee Thornton
Yeah, exactly. Somebody in my comments was like, they want to. I was like, what's a vma? Like, Gen Z doesn't know. I'm besmirching my own millennial culture. But, like, they don't call them the YouTubees now. That's where you watch music videos.
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Auntie Sue
I'm just looking her at the. At the podium with that hair. With that Cher long hair.
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Cuckoo Lysack
And how happy are the producers of the Rock and Roll hall of Fame? So we just brought up VMAs. The fact that they even registered.
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Auntie Sue
We're alive.
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Blake Lee Thornton
We're here.
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Auntie Sue
We are alive.
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Blake Lee Thornton
We're still here.
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Auntie Sue
We're still here. They were. They were asleep until she came on stage and was like, got it. Now we're back.
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Cuckoo Lysack
Like, what do you. Okay, so in the year of 2024, what is your. Like, were you feeling like people were bringing it this year? Do you have a summation of, like, how. What the stylists were doing for these stars? Like, what's your vibe? What's your feeling?
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Blake Lee Thornton
I think, honestly, like, theme dressing for the film became a thing where you have, like, Zendaya and Challengers. Honestly, Zendaya and Dune, the entire Wicked cast, kind of gladiator. If you're not giving, like, a wink and a nod to your character's journey, especially if it's like a big IP film, then, like, what are we even doing? And I think even with Challengers, like, those weren't characters we knew, but we understood their personalities based on the fashion before it even happened. So I feel like the kind of intersection between kind of like, fashion and film and kind of storytelling, visual storytelling through clothing was really what happened in 2024. Even giving down to, like, Jonathan Anderson from the way they was, like, doing all of Luca Guadarinino's film. So he did all the Challengers. He did, like, the. The I drink, drink your milk, you know, Jonathan Bailey, like, sexy shirts that everybody was wearing. I think those intersections were happening. So I think people brought it like it was the end times, which is appropriate because it might be.
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Cuckoo Lysack
It just might.
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Auntie Sue
I love how he just. Yeah, you just. You know, you just wrap it with that bow. You know what I mean? Just. Just to make sure that bloody. Just like a blood ox period. Yeah. It just continues the storytelling. Then you have the other side, controversial one. Well, who. Who is it? A Blake Lively who did the. The floral theme for. For her.
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Blake Lee Thornton
See, I'm. I'm Team Blake on this.
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Auntie Sue
Okay.
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Blake Lee Thornton
Like, the characters. The character's name was, like, Lily, so it's like, she's just continuing the theme. And also.
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Cuckoo Lysack
And she's a florist.
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Blake Lee Thornton
I'm an elder millennial. Like, I'm sorry we didn't get, like, trigger warnings before, like, disclosure or, like, sleeping with the Enemy. You just had to, like, read a review and, like, go, like, you know, we didn't before, like, Glenn Close boiled that bunny. They weren't like, oh, Bunny boiling in Act 4. Like, shut the up. Like, it's rated R. It was based on a known film that has those things in it. And I feel like I almost want to say Kim Kardashian. Like, the kids don't want to. Nobody wants to read anymore. Nobody wants to read a damn review. Or, like, go to Wikipedia.
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Auntie Sue
So it's not. It's not on her and her flower outfits to teach you about what this whole Millions and millions of copies sold. This book was about. Yeah, yeah. She has to sell a movie. She needs to sell a movie. That's what. That's.
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Blake Lee Thornton
And she did.
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Auntie Sue
Yeah, and she did. She did.
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Cuckoo Lysack
She did it well.
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Blake Lee Thornton
Laughing all the way to the bank. We're not laughing, but, you know, controversying all the way to the bank.
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Cuckoo Lysack
What's that TikTok dance?
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Blake Lee Thornton
I don't. I've never done a TikTok, actually. I take it back. I've done one with Hannah Bronfman and I don't know what that dance was. It was about being black and late to brunch.
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Cuckoo Lysack
I mean, that wasn't. And that was just expressing yourself. That really wasn't exactly.
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Blake Lee Thornton
That was just theme dressing. I was theme dancing. I'm often being like, I'll be right there. And I'm like, I'm actually supposed to be at a brunch right now. I'm just texting, like, pulling in parking. Finding parking. Traffic's crazy on La Brea right now. I don't know.
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Auntie Sue
I don't know what's going to find parking.
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Blake Lee Thornton
Exactly.
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Cuckoo Lysack
Ttfp, what is the. In your opinion, the best album of the year?
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Blake Lee Thornton
Okay. Contra. I think, honestly, Short and Sweet by Sabrina Carpenter. Because it is. It's. Again, it's theme. She's short and sweet. She has a great personality. I think she might be on the edge of being Gen Z, but she has a millennial sensibility. I really enjoy her and I feel like it was sonically succinct. There were no skips. It also gave me a little bit of like, Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis era Janet Jackson, especially with like, Good Graces and Don't Smile. Sounded like. Funny how time flies when you're having fun. So as a child of, again, the 80s and 90s, if you give me Rhythm Nation era Janet, if you give me that. If you give me that same feeling, you're gonna win. So Sabrina Carpenter, I think, wins album of the year for me.
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Cuckoo Lysack
Cause this is a competitive year.
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Auntie Sue
Yeah.
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Blake Lee Thornton
Yeah.
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Auntie Sue
A lot of girls, all the pop.
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Blake Lee Thornton
Girls had albums like Serena Carpenter, Billie Eilish, Beyonce, Taylor Swift, Dua Lipa.
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Cuckoo Lysack
People for Charlie.
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Blake Lee Thornton
Charlie xcx. Shawn Mendes.
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Cuckoo Lysack
That's right.
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Auntie Sue
Wait, he had an album last week.
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Cuckoo Lysack
Look at, look at MTV journalist Suchin Park Blakely. She's like, who Blakely? Please ask her any questions about her time at mtv.
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Auntie Sue
Please don't. We don't need to. I. I don't need to continue to embarrass myself.
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Blake Lee Thornton
Like, what was it like at the VMAs the year little Kim had her titty out again?
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Auntie Sue
Have no idea. I mean, I've seen.
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Cuckoo Lysack
You truly don't remember that at all?
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Auntie Sue
I mean, I. I mean, I. I've seen the photos. I have no idea. My memory or if it's in the photo of my memory. Although I have seen her recently on stage with Usher. Did you see that video going around the Internets?
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Blake Lee Thornton
No.
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Cuckoo Lysack
No.
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Blake Lee Thornton
I'm sure I'm not gonna be pleased.
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Auntie Sue
No, you're not. But, I mean, I love. We love her, right? She's an era. She's an icon. But, yeah, it's hard to age in public as a female. Truly done.
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Blake Lee Thornton
You guys are truly damned if you.
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Auntie Sue
Do, damned if you cannot win.
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Blake Lee Thornton
It's like sneaking in with the men now, too, though. I thought, like, one of the upsides that I get to experience of misogyny is that, like, my wrinkles make me look more attractive, and now the men are just going full filler, and I'm like, okay, there's just, you know, I guess equality in Hollywood for all in.
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Cuckoo Lysack
That lane, in that specific, let's be.
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Auntie Sue
Very clear, narrow, very teeny, tiny back alley lane.
- [15:48]
Reshma Sajani
She's just a dirt.
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Auntie Sue
Dirt path.
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Blake Lee Thornton
It's a dirt road. It's an old country road.
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Cuckoo Lysack
The other thing about Sabrina Carpenter, I love her lyrics. I think she's so clever.
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Blake Lee Thornton
Mm.
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Auntie Sue
It's a lot of winking, right?
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Cuckoo Lysack
Yeah. Or not even.
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Blake Lee Thornton
Not even. Like, a lot of direct wink and nod. Like. Like you're a jackass and you like to, like, jack off to Leonard Cohen while doing shrooms. Like, the man who that's about knows who it is. And I'm looking at you, Shawn Mendez or Barry Cugan, because it's one of you two. We know it's 50. 50. Just. Well, the rear. Slim Shady, please stand up. Circling back to the 99 VMAs. Like, it was one of you two.
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Cuckoo Lysack
Give me. Give us one memory from the 99 VMA suit. Come on. Do you remember what you were wearing? Do you? Give us something.
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Auntie Sue
God, I can't even remember the location. It was either Radio City or that other place. Lincoln something. Lincoln Center. It could have been. It could have been the Olsen twins. Could have been. I'm just trying to go through.
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Blake Lee Thornton
The Olson twins were, like, 13 in 1999.
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Auntie Sue
I don't remember. Guys.
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Cuckoo Lysack
I know you don't.
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Auntie Sue
I don't.
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Cuckoo Lysack
Thank you for human Gwen Stefani.
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Auntie Sue
There. I said it, period. I said it so much. So many Gwen Stefanis. That was like her. Her solo, you guys.
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Blake Lee Thornton
That was.
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Cuckoo Lysack
I remember that.
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Blake Lee Thornton
She wasn't solo in 99 yet. That was 04.
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Auntie Sue
How do you know this?
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Blake Lee Thornton
Because it's my freshman year of college.
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Auntie Sue
How do you know this? You should.
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Blake Lee Thornton
How.
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Auntie Sue
Where are you storing all this information? Your head is not that big. You have a very, very, you know, angular, you know, supermodel jaw type head.
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Cuckoo Lysack
Where do you store this marble?
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Blake Lee Thornton
You know, it's. It's somewhere in there. It's somewhere.
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Auntie Sue
It's like I'm still on Shawn Mendes album sales. Sorry. You guys talk.
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Blake Lee Thornton
I don't think. I don't think it was great.
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Auntie Sue
Yeah. Anyway.
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Blake Lee Thornton
Okay.
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Cuckoo Lysack
And that's why you didn't say. You didn't say best album for Sean instead of. I mean, I honestly gave her the crown.
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Blake Lee Thornton
I honestly haven't listened to his album.
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Auntie Sue
Okay, should we do a live listen now? This is what this episode is. Sean listening.
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Blake Lee Thornton
I think we need some like, weed and a campfire and like, be to be barefoot.
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Auntie Sue
Foreign.
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Cuckoo Lysack
Let'S move on. Sue let's talk about the best magazine cover or digital magazine cover as people are consuming these days.
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Blake Lee Thornton
Yeah, pretty much.
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Cuckoo Lysack
And so you have a tie.
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Blake Lee Thornton
I do. It was Zoe Kravitz for W and then Cynthia Erivo for Elle. I'm obviously not objective and also I think they both have the two best movies of the year. I think Blink Twice and Wicked are my top two movies because they're very much about the female perspective. They're very much about abuses of power in just very different ways. One is dark and they're both dark. One is like dark and kind of horror based with a little bit of comedy and one's almost like uplifting. So I feel like they're two sides of the same kind of like female coin and plus, they're both just like beautiful fashion plates and little creative lights in this world that are, you know, five foot two. So.
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Auntie Sue
And both having. I mean, obviously they're on magazine covers. But can you talk about just. Even in the context of pop culture, like, what these women represent? I think it's interesting that Zoe. I mean, her career. I did not see this coming, that she was going to get behind the camera and do this.
- [22:55]
Blake Lee Thornton
I think it's very interesting because I have, like, the benefit and the pleasure of kind of knowing them both personally to some extent. And when I was talking to Zoe about the movie, she was just saying, like, I always thought as a woman, if you wanna be in movies, you're an actress, look pretty in the dress, go work with auteur directors. And she was like, I don't like acting. I like movies. I like telling people what to do. It's so indicative that even if you have celebrity parents and spotlight as a woman in this industry, it takes you breaking out off the board to realize I can be the one writing and telling the story. So I feel like that level of what she did and then also had to have her first film be so kind of audacious and rhythmic and have four different stories going on at once. And there it plays differently every single time. The first time it's scary. The second time I was watching it, like, laughing because of all the humor in it. And it's just also, like, so apropos of our times. Like, we are all living on Pussy island right now. It is terrifying. And I think for Cynthia, on the other hand, I think just to, like. She's always been kind of a creator's creator and actors. Actor. She's, I think, an eminent EGOT winner. Personally, I think she won best actress with this role. I've seen the movie twice already. I just think she is this great creative light that I'm always saying we must protect at all costs. And to see her do that, playing arguably the most famous female figure in Western pop culture is wild. So I think seeing both of them and they're both just kind of like. They both can just wear the fuck out of any clothing. So, you know, it works.
- [24:29]
Cuckoo Lysack
That's true. Okay, let's move on to. Sorry, I'm looking at holding.
- [24:36]
Auntie Sue
Yeah.
- [24:36]
Cuckoo Lysack
Let me pull it together for our guests.
- [24:39]
Auntie Sue
Pull it together. Let's not be juvenile, Coop.
- [24:42]
Cuckoo Lysack
No, no, no. I am an adult woman.
- [24:44]
Auntie Sue
I am not. This is. I don't even want to look at this thing.
- [24:49]
Cuckoo Lysack
Your biggest pop culture moment. Yeah, Here we go.
- [24:51]
Blake Lee Thornton
My Biggest pop culture moment is a pop of nipple from Glen Powell in the 2024 Vanity Fair Hollywood issue. Glen Powell, he has that movie from Linklater. Everybody wants some. And what he wants is to be the next Matthew McConaughey, Tom Cruise. And I don't think people should hold that against him. I know intellectually that he is an attractive man based on the build and angles, but I was not aroused by him until this moment. And I feel many girls and gays feel the same way, because those pictures came out the same day as people announcing Sexiest Man Alive, being like John Krasinski, for better or worse. And I'm sorry, there was more sex in Glen Powell's left nip in that Gucci shirt than in the entire People magazine spread. So, like, Glen Powell's nipple has officially made him a movie star for me. And I'm black and gay, so I make culture. So Glen Powell, you are now.
- [25:48]
Auntie Sue
Wait. Glen Powell or Glen Powell's left nipple?
- [25:52]
Blake Lee Thornton
Glen Powell, because he's attached to it. And the only way I can see the nipples for him to walk into the room. So, like, the nipples leading.
- [25:59]
Auntie Sue
To be fair, the nipple put him on the map. This man has been treading water out an open sea for decades.
- [26:06]
Cuckoo Lysack
It feels like one of the best is yet unwritten.
- [26:09]
Auntie Sue
Yes. You know, and so many. Like, this is his year. Okay. This is. This is his year. And. But successful movies, not even like, huge.
- [26:21]
Blake Lee Thornton
Anyone but you. Top Gun 2.
- [26:24]
Auntie Sue
But it was. Let's be honest, his little taut left nip.
- [26:30]
Blake Lee Thornton
I mean, I would tell Glenn that to his face. I tagged him in the video. Like, he looked at him.
- [26:34]
Cuckoo Lysack
But would you look at his face or would your eyes go down?
- [26:37]
Blake Lee Thornton
I mean, if his shirt was on, I'd obviously have to look him in the eyes. But, like, he knows what's up. I'd be like, hey, buddy. Like, if I ever saw him, and he would be fine with it. I'm pretty sure he would.
- [26:49]
Auntie Sue
No, listen, they. Let me tell you this photo shoot. There were many versions of this picture, right? Cropped. Is it a collarbone? Like, is. Do we see a sexy collarbone? Right. Look at his. What is that shoulder mean? Just like that indentation. You know, that crevasse that you want to just put your nose into. And yet, when someone, possibly a gay art director.
- [27:19]
Cuckoo Lysack
Oh, 100% George Cortino.
- [27:21]
Blake Lee Thornton
I know that. Yeah, it's George Cortino with a.
- [27:23]
Auntie Sue
With a left nipple just grazing the edges.
- [27:27]
Blake Lee Thornton
That was a gay man. He knew what he was doing.
- [27:29]
Auntie Sue
People gasped. People gasped. There was no, there was no second contender. That was it. This was the photo.
- [27:36]
Blake Lee Thornton
That was the photo. That was the moment. That was his Kelly Clarkson winning American Idol moment.
- [27:40]
Auntie Sue
I don't think he even knows what is gonna. You know what I mean? Put him on your. Your. The bullseye, because this is it. Now that you're speaking of it, I. They finally did it. You guys did it.
- [27:54]
Blake Lee Thornton
They did it.
- [27:55]
Auntie Sue
Oh, my God.
- [27:56]
Blake Lee Thornton
It's like show, don't tell. Show, don't tell.
- [28:00]
Cuckoo Lysack
Don't tell, don't tell.
- [28:02]
Auntie Sue
They've been doing it for so long. They did it.
- [28:06]
Blake Lee Thornton
You did it, Glenn. You did it. This is your Kamala 2020 moment. So don't fuck it up. You have four years that it's all going back to shit for you.
- [28:16]
Auntie Sue
Yeah. By the way, this is our four years. When people want to talk about the doom and gloomy. I don't know about that, because my four years is here. This is where I'm at. Yeah.
- [28:25]
Cuckoo Lysack
You're so ripe lately again. I guess I have to like other things that I've done in my life due to your guidance makes. I guess. Yeah. I'm shifting my worldview on, I think, even nipples on men's nipples. Because I'm gonna tell you.
- [28:41]
Blake Lee Thornton
Well, because men's nipples are inherently sexier because they serve no purpose. But as an erogenous zone. I've never understood why women's nipples get blurred when it's like, their use for, like, babies. Like, it's actually the least sexual thing possible. Men's nipples only exist for arousal purposes. And if anything, they should be blurred. So, like, that's the power of that nipple. Because that nipple serves no purpose. No baby is suckling that teat. Well, anything on that teat is over 18, so, like, let's hope, you know, we shouldn't have to. That should just be stated as fact.
- [29:16]
Auntie Sue
Listen, anytime we're talking about a white, white, straight man, it's. We gotta. It's a very. It's razor's edge.
- [29:23]
Blake Lee Thornton
It really is.
- [29:23]
Auntie Sue
You know what I mean? We gotta. Either we're. We're here right now in this moment to prop him up, but it could be 10 seconds from now when we hit stop on this record and our four years will come crashing down and just do it.
- [29:37]
Blake Lee Thornton
The wind blows the wrong way, and I'm ready to chop his head off, so just beware, Glenn, you. You have it. Your nipple has us. But if your mouth gets you in trouble.
- [29:44]
Auntie Sue
This is a thriller. This is a suspense. We are on the explain twice. Yeah, this is blinked this is Blink Twice. This is Blink Twice. This is the sequel.
- [29:54]
Blake Lee Thornton
This is why that was my movie of the year.
- [29:56]
Auntie Sue
Get. Get your girl Zoe on the phone right now. This is it. We have your sequel. What happens?
- [30:03]
Blake Lee Thornton
What happens? Yeah, what happens?
- [30:04]
Auntie Sue
What happens now? What happens when. When a white straight guy has the zeitgeist hanging by his nipple?
- [30:12]
Blake Lee Thornton
Nothing good usually.
- [30:14]
Auntie Sue
Guys, I have faith. Can I tell you right now, sitting here, I have faith.
- [30:20]
Cuckoo Lysack
Oh, that's beautiful.
- [30:22]
Auntie Sue
Hope.
- [30:23]
Cuckoo Lysack
Hope Blakely.
- [30:25]
Blake Lee Thornton
He'll fuck it up somehow, but, like, enjoy your moment. You're doing great, sweetie.
- [30:30]
Cuckoo Lysack
Blakely, thank you so much for coming on the show and sharing your best subs. Anything else you want to promote besides.
- [30:36]
Auntie Sue
Glen Powell's nipple that doesn't need more promotion?
- [30:39]
Blake Lee Thornton
No, no more, I think, obviously. I am launching a podcast in Q1 of 2025 called IM, which is the opposite of my feelings on Glen Plow's nipples. I'm on a show called Offshoot right now that's airing on out TV in Canada where I play the boyfriend of the main character named Miguel. I'm an Afro Latino man in that one, so come for me. Appropriation, guys. And then, yeah, I'm just gonna genuinely be on the Internet and doing the.
- [31:10]
Auntie Sue
Things, and you're just gonna be, by the way, cozy. Cozy. It's cozy season for you, for all of us.
- [31:16]
Blake Lee Thornton
You know, you're gonna settle in. Yeah, I'm starting a coven. We're joining a coven. You guys are in this.
- [31:22]
Auntie Sue
You've already started millions.
- [31:24]
Blake Lee Thornton
I was shocked by that. I was like, is that. Does that say M? I was like, I thought my phone had gone to Spanish, like, M meaning a thousand. I was like, oh, that bombed.
- [31:35]
Cuckoo Lysack
Tis the opposite, sir.
- [31:37]
Auntie Sue
Tis the opposite. Well, as you know, it changed Coolops entire direction.
- [31:43]
Blake Lee Thornton
You know, I love that the day Pedro Pascal follows me is the day we go into a dictatorship. I was like, I've been trying to get this man to pay attention to me for four years, and let's focus on that.
- [31:53]
Auntie Sue
Let's focus on that. That goes in our four years too, by the way, right? That follow Glen Powell's nipple. This is what we need to four years. This is the agenda. They've got their 2025 agenda. This is our agenda.
- [32:07]
Cuckoo Lysack
Yeah, we have to celebrate our W's.
- [32:09]
Blake Lee Thornton
You know, the small things. I'll make sure Glenn hears this. I'm going to send it to him directly and his stylist, I'll be like, just make sure he knows we appreciated the work.
- [32:19]
Auntie Sue
We appreciated the work. Thank you.
- [32:20]
Cuckoo Lysack
Thank you, Blakely.
- [32:21]
Auntie Sue
Thank you, Carters.
- [32:28]
Reshma Sajani
We've got a perfect partnership. I mean, what better way to tackle the holiday gift giving season than with our new friends at the moma Design store?
- [32:37]
Auntie Sue
Koo. Let me tell you, since my early days raising hell in New York, this store, particularly in soho, it's been an oasis for me. It's rainy outside, you're waiting for a friend, You're a bit early. Check out the MoMA Design Store. What have they got? I still remember as I was thinking about this, my first MoMA purchase, it was a little table lamp. And then the light bulb looked like it was frozen in a block of ice. Oh. I mean, I was. I guess I've just been that girl for so long. You know what I mean? Is it a croissant lamp? Is it an ice block lamp? I just love it all.
- [33:22]
Cuckoo Lysack
Are you crying?
- [33:24]
Auntie Sue
Well, I am tearing. Just misting. Just misting. I have so many.
- [33:30]
Reshma Sajani
It's a wistful, positive mist.
- [33:33]
Auntie Sue
Yes. A longing and a wistful.
- [33:35]
Reshma Sajani
You're nostalgic.
- [33:36]
Auntie Sue
Yes. For this store. I love this place.
- [33:39]
Reshma Sajani
Now that I'm hearing this, I'm really glad you can still shop from the MoMA Design Store online, because I've never. I gotta say, you're not really that sentimental.
- [33:48]
Auntie Sue
True, true. Or this alive. Yeah. No, I hope you don't take offense to that. Not at all. In fact, I only come alive four weeks out of the year. And it starts now, right? Yeah.
- [34:01]
Cuckoo Lysack
Gosh, I wish I could invite you.
- [34:02]
Reshma Sajani
On that, but I'm going through the calendar right now. No, listen, whether you get to shop in the store or online, everything you see is selected by the same experts who curate the exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art.
- [34:16]
Auntie Sue
So it's tasteful, it's classy, you know, you're not going to make a mistake here. And we have been combing through this site to come up with the list of our favorites. Okay, so let me go first. Say you want to buy a gift for someone who loves to be cozy. Maybe she's obsessed with making her own matcha lattes. Maybe she's building a she shed that needs a tea kettle. You know, like I'm just improvising. What this person would really Love is the MoMA exclusive. And I love when it says exclusive. Right, because then, you know, you. You're getting the real deal. What do you call it? A velvet robe.
- [35:01]
Cuckoo Lysack
Yes.
- [35:01]
Reshma Sajani
We've become the velvet Ro.
- [35:04]
Auntie Sue
A cheeky young person with the clipboard saying no to everyone but us. And this is a moma exclusive with Bodum and it is a tea kettle in this cheerful yellow. It just will make this person so happy.
- [35:21]
Cuckoo Lysack
So I am to buy this for you? I don't.
- [35:25]
Auntie Sue
Oh, it's already. It's already on its way. Don't do it. Because I don't want. I don't need two. That's good. Okay. Because by the way, this is the.
- [35:34]
Reshma Sajani
Type of unsubtle messaging that I need. So I'm glad we cleared that up.
- [35:38]
Auntie Sue
Yeah. Already on its way. We'll be here next. Okay. Good, good, good, good, good. Thank you. Thank you.
- [35:43]
Reshma Sajani
I really applaud anyone who takes our add to cart holiday motto. One for you, five for me to heart like Stu does. Now, you all know I'm hostess with the mostest this season.
- [35:53]
Cuckoo Lysack
Or I want to say any season. That's right.
- [35:55]
Auntie Sue
Look.
- [35:56]
Reshma Sajani
Look at this gorgeous glassware set. It's their Saturn glassware line. Four for just 50 bucks. And the genius part is that they're all different colors. So no more mix ups at cocktail hour, baby.
- [36:10]
Auntie Sue
And I have at parties, put a paper cup full of sharpies just right, right on that table next to all the forks and the. And the napkins. Anyway, that's how I tablescape.
- [36:23]
Reshma Sajani
And that's you as a guest coming.
- [36:25]
Auntie Sue
To someone else's house.
- [36:26]
Reshma Sajani
Or is this in your own?
- [36:27]
Auntie Sue
No, when I have the four people at my house, I say, hold on, guys, four people can't figure out whose glass is. What are we really worried about? Nothing kills me more than when someone I've given a glass to, and by glass, I mean a paper cup. And they say, can I have some water in a cup? And I'm like, where is your cup, sire? Where is your cup? I like some more water, please. Drives me nuts. Let me have another example. Say you've got someone on your list that is now cooking their lunches in a she shed sized kitchen, for example, which is a smaller kitchen. You are moving away from your family. You are moving out to the yard. That's not what we're talking about right now. It's a she shed sized kitchen. So it's. It's a smaller ish kitchen. Not that small, but it's a smaller ish kitchen. And you know, also maybe someone who, you know, lives in an apartment. Okay. For example. But anyway, let's go back to this person. Someone working out of her dream. She shed doesn't have a ton of space. This person will absolutely love the space cookware. And it is named the space cookware because it's designed with foldable handles so you can tuck and store it away very easily. And that person may also be eyeing this little storage thing that comes with it and for the lids to then stack neatly in this person's she shed.
- [38:04]
Cuckoo Lysack
As you can see, there's something for.
- [38:06]
Reshma Sajani
Everyone or obviously for Auntie sue here. Plus, every purchase supports the museum's collection and education programs. You're giving back to the arts while you shop. You are a good person. No matter what everybody else says, you are a person.
- [38:25]
Auntie Sue
Even if they're pointing at you and laughing, you're still a good person. This holiday season, make your gift giving a breeze at MoMA Design Store. You won't regret it. Use promo code add to cart 10 for 10 off through December 15th. Just visit mo ma addtocart to snag your favorites.
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Auntie Sue
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- [43:22]
Cuckoo Lysack
SoochinPak I love Blakely and I will continue to blindly trust him about pop culture for the rest of my life. However long that may be about your life.
- [43:32]
Auntie Sue
Yeah, he's like the North Star for all of us around this time as we're all trying to figure out what are we? Who are we as a people? How do we move forward as Americans? How do we move forward? I love it. I love that we got the scoop on what his, you know, top takes for the year were. Now, Ku, as we round out this year, you and I have pulled together three of the best purchases or best add to carts of 2024. I mean, we, both of us, I'm sure. I dug into the archives. I went into all my credit card bills and passed car, and These are the three things that have changed the game for me in 2024.
- [44:18]
Cuckoo Lysack
Great. Sue, let's. Let's start with you, please. What?
- [44:21]
Auntie Sue
I'm so excited. So excited. I've been sitting on this adding card because I wanted to save it for this episode.
- [44:32]
Cuckoo Lysack
Oh, my gosh.
- [44:33]
Auntie Sue
Okay. And if you already know what this is, I don't care. Just sit there and pretend because I have a magic show for you. When I went to the other auntie's house, you know, when you go to what all, it doesn't matter how experienced you are as an auntie. Every auntie has an auntie mentor, an auntie that aunties just one notch higher and that auntie has an auntie that one notch higher. Such is the lineage, such as the sea diving lineage of our auntie. And my. I have a lot of those. One of those is Carol, who I've talked about on the show, Carol Lim. And every time I visit with her, I come back with just some things she wants me to try. It is the Franz Naked Sunshield peptide patch. So what it is, is a UPF patch. So it's basically a patch, an invisible patch you put on your skin that blocks virtually all UV rays. All of the rays. It's akin to the material that you have, like, if you're wearing, like a sun shirt that has that UV protection in it as well.
- [45:52]
Cuckoo Lysack
Okay.
- [45:53]
Auntie Sue
And they've put that technology into an invisible patch you can put on your face for everyday wear.
- [46:03]
Cuckoo Lysack
I mean, this is so necessary. After your journey, your skin journey to South Korea.
- [46:09]
Auntie Sue
My laser. Yes. I went to Korea, got a bunch of lasers. My skin came back looking peaches and cream. And I've noticed that the spots are coming back very faintly. And I have been freaking out. And so this is what it is. I have it still on here, Ku. And I'm gonna show it on your face right now. See it? Look.
- [46:32]
Cuckoo Lysack
Oh, I'm shocked that it's on your face right now. Your skin looks so good off.
- [46:37]
Auntie Sue
Whoa. That's. Isn't that crazy? That's it.
- [46:43]
Cuckoo Lysack
That's pretty great. That's pretty great.
- [46:47]
Auntie Sue
And so what I'm here to tell you from the future is that there exists a technology in Korea where they've put it in this patch where you can barely see it. Now, what is this good for? When you go on hikes and you go on walks, when you go to the beach, anytime you. You are doing something that you're going to be in the sun that requires just a lot of reapplication, this is it. You don't have to reapply on the patch. Now the patch doesn't go all over your face, so you do still have to reapply on the areas that don't have it. But it's the high points of your face that's where you're getting blasted. Where you. It's like, no, I feel like no amount of sunscreen in the world. You know, when I go to the beach. Yeah, you still have to reapply sunscreen on the other parts of your face. It's just nice knowing that you're so extra protected. And I had been using the patches that were like, like flesh colored. I look like a burn victim. Like it. I had bandages on my face and I was doing that while I was out because I was just like, well, this is what's got to happen. And then she's like, no, this is. Try this. So anyway, I've become so obsessed with these patches and you guys listening, you have to see the video.
- [48:08]
Cuckoo Lysack
You, you're saying hiking and you're saying long walks. But if I know you, you're wearing it more often than that. If I know you, this is on our way to see me.
- [48:19]
Auntie Sue
Yes.
- [48:20]
Cuckoo Lysack
This is. Oh, every day.
- [48:22]
Auntie Sue
Every day. The thing about it is, is that long hikes, all of that, that's not part of my journey. But you know what is, is sitting in a car to and from running errands, making returns, picking up the kids, all of that. And I just frying in the car. I feel like the window is even magnifying the heat and the sun. So for me, it's like, like it's pretty much. There's rarely a day. Rarely a day I'm not wearing these.
- [48:53]
Cuckoo Lysack
That's amazing, Sue. I. I'm going to get some and like, kind of like sort of. It's a good stocking stuffer.
- [48:59]
Auntie Sue
They will be shocked.
- [49:00]
Cuckoo Lysack
The link that you gave us is on Amazon. You get five packs for $35.
- [49:05]
Auntie Sue
But these are just like. I feel like no one in. No one here.
- [49:09]
Cuckoo Lysack
No, I didn't know about uses these.
- [49:11]
Auntie Sue
Or have ever heard of these.
- [49:14]
Cuckoo Lysack
Sue, I'm gonna go next.
- [49:15]
Auntie Sue
Okay, your turn.
- [49:16]
Cuckoo Lysack
I think we've established on the show, I think maybe it's cemented when we talked about what is in our bag. That episode we did earlier in the year is that I'm very invested and committed to moisturization, where sue is about sunblock removing spots. I cannot feel dry. I don't. I don't like it. I need to be moisturized. If I'm out of the shower, I'm slathering and lathering ointments, oils, lotions upon myself.
- [49:53]
Auntie Sue
Yes. Supple. So, yeah.
- [49:55]
Cuckoo Lysack
What has been a game changer this year is the canopy bedside humidifier. I've never slept with a humidifier. I've always been very wary of one, mainly because, like, the hassle of, like, getting distilled water and, like, I'm worried about, like, mold. And this particular one has been an absolute game changer. This is so easy to use. It looks good. I got one that is a little green parts of it. The important parts are dishwasher safe and, oh, my gosh. What you can use tap water.
- [50:35]
Auntie Sue
Every other humidifier is shaking in their boobs.
- [50:38]
Cuckoo Lysack
It's so good. It combats dryness sensitivity. I think I'm better off with my throat right now and my nose because of the humidifier last night. But, like, not enough is talked about. It's the skin. The skin. You're sleeping for so long, keeping it.
- [50:59]
Auntie Sue
You know, just the moisture sucking out of your corpse.
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Cuckoo Lysack
Who's loving it the most. In my room, I can't tell if it's my fig leaf plant. My giant fig leaf plant. That has been he. I named him Bruce. He has a nameplate, has never been happier. And me cool up. Has never been happier. I think that this. We are older ladies. Our skins. That's right. Our skins are drier. And I think this and the specific thin, the specific humidifier is an absolute game changer.
- [51:30]
Auntie Sue
All you have to say is, it's easy, because no humidifier is easy. I've tried them all.
- [51:35]
Cuckoo Lysack
I had a nightmare experience the one time I used a different one in my daughter's bedroom where, like, the air quality was so bad she, like, threw up in the night. I had left the water too long. She has one like this in her nursery. Because I am monitoring in her room especially, I am monitoring air quality. I'm monitoring humidity. I'm temperature Like, I am checking it twice. Like, it's so good. And it's good for a bebe and for a mama, too. I actually think that it's a really good gift. You also put a little small kind of like ceramic puck in a well on top of it. And you can put, like, oils, like aromatherapy oils on it if that's your thing, if that's your bag. So it's like a spa experience.
- [52:30]
Auntie Sue
Oh, canopy. Doing. Doing more than you need to.
- [52:36]
Cuckoo Lysack
Doing more than you need to.
- [52:37]
Auntie Sue
And doing it well, strutting her way down the Runway.
- [52:41]
Cuckoo Lysack
It is a very smart machine. And when the lights are off, it has this, like, first of all, it dims its light. Its light goes off and it does, like, noise machine, like sound. Yeah.
- [52:53]
Auntie Sue
What?
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Cuckoo Lysack
It's really great. It's a great machine.
- [52:56]
Auntie Sue
Like, a little arm comes out and like, pets you head massages. All right. I love it. I was so burned by a humidifier back when I was living in LA that, like, I've never been able to go back. And this could be it. This could be it for me and my she shed.
- [53:11]
Cuckoo Lysack
Oh, yes.
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Auntie Sue
I'm not gonna dry up out there.
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Cuckoo Lysack
Okay, what's next in your cart?
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Auntie Sue
Moving on to my second game changer. I read about this app on a newsletter, and, you know, I. You see these apps all the time. Here's an app to organize this. Here's an app for your shopping. Here's an app for blah, blah, blah. And you get on there. It's not actually for free as they advertised, or it's complicated because I needed to have two buttons on and off. I don't want all the other things. I just want you to do the thing that you said you're going to do. It's this app called Carded.
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Cuckoo Lysack
What a name, right? What a great name.
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Auntie Sue
I mean, guys, come on board, you know what I mean? Like, we've been here guarded. So it's basically, I'm gonna go on the website. It says, your ultimate wish list app. Save any product from any store and get alerts when they are restocked or go on sale. And it is an elegant, beautiful, simple app. Just on the phone for now. But I have to imagine they're gonna have a desktop version soon. Cause it's so brand new. And I just can't tell you how simple this is. I have so many lists. I have a list I write in my notebook by hand. I've got the notes app with links and people's names on it. There's so many lists, right? And to think that one app can just do away with all those lists. And it's visual. You can actually see the thing. It's not just words because I'm like, I don't remember what Mushroom notebook. I have so many mushroom notebooks floating in my mind. Oh, right, this one from, you know, Bando or whatever it is. Number two, I didn't know that I would be so thrilled in the morning to check my email and see a little note from Carta. Just a polite little hey, girl. Just wanted to let you know that that necklace is on sale. Yeah, like what?
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Cuckoo Lysack
It's really nice.
- [55:17]
Auntie Sue
Number three, I've been using it. I don't know if you're supposed to use it for this, but I use it for like all. Where are all the Instagram posts that you love? Going into your saved folders? Right? Like, we all have them, those saved folders, by the way, they're not infinite. They, as we know, they will start to delete themselves. So I've just been saving it on this list and it. It's not a product. I just. It'll take any link and you can put it on the list. A TV show you heard about and you're like, I want to watch that. Start a list that says says watch and then put links on there from Instagram or from other YouTube or whatever. It's any list. It'll organize it for you. And so what I'm finding this app is doing is eliminating all that clutter and just putting it all on one list. Yes, it's a shopping app and it works beautifully as that. But really it's a list app. Like, it's for anything you want to keep track of. This is free. I mean, it's free now. I don't know if they're going to start charging for it, by the way. I would pay for it. And it's such a game changer at this. I to experiment it at this time when my brain is a holiday shopping naked on a bareback, on a horse, running through the.
- [56:38]
Cuckoo Lysack
Into the holding two boulders.
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Auntie Sue
Carded has helped helped put a dress on that gal Got her a good meal, tucked her in just to carry her.
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Cuckoo Lysack
I really, I really like it too. I haven't gone as deep as you and you're kind of disrupting even what they're doing, which I think is amazing.
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Auntie Sue
Hey, Carded, I'm happy to get on the phone and do some user guides for you on how you can. How people are using this.
- [57:08]
Cuckoo Lysack
I want it on desktop too. Carded. I want both I wanted both.
- [57:12]
Auntie Sue
That's coming. That's the only downside is that it's not on desktop just yet. Yet.
- [57:24]
Cuckoo Lysack
A game changer for me is something that you brought to me. You brought to us, by the way. Well, I mean, never heard of off market until such and pok.
- [57:36]
Blake Lee Thornton
Huh?
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Cuckoo Lysack
And boy, did I deep dive. Boy, am I there quite often. And I know young maiden producer Tiffany was also aware, so I have to give her her props too. But I hadn't heard about it, and I'm on there quite often. I got a Lee chore coat that I wear just about every other day. I got early Christmas gifts. It's just. It's a good place to just kind of be like, oh, I'm reading something horrifying, which is Tiff producer Tiffany in the chat saying that she was gatekeeping. Wow.
- [58:13]
Auntie Sue
Oh, she wasn't sharing it on purpose.
- [58:15]
Cuckoo Lysack
She's gatekeeping. Wow. I guess she's not so innocent.
- [58:19]
Auntie Sue
No. Tiff had his dark side.
- [58:21]
Cuckoo Lysack
I guess everybody does, don't they?
- [58:22]
Auntie Sue
Whoa. Sleeping with the enemy.
- [58:25]
Cuckoo Lysack
Wow.
- [58:25]
Auntie Sue
This entire time.
- [58:26]
Cuckoo Lysack
Wow. That's why I was shocked by it. But sue, off market, what could you describe what it is to the people again?
- [58:33]
Auntie Sue
Yeah, it's basically like an online outlet for really cool, often indie brands. And they just have a selection of things that they got that they're selling at, you know, outlet prices. And then on top of that, there's just sales all the time because they're getting new stuff. So then the stuff that was there last week is on sale from the outlet prices. And so it's just such a fun site to peruse. And it's very well edited. You're not gonna have, like, racks and racks and racks, which. Who has time? This is just very like, here's 20 things from this brand at these prices that we think you'll love.
- [59:18]
Cuckoo Lysack
Some of the brands are Begu, Rachel Antonoff, Ganny. And things come fast. Thing comes quick. I've been very happy with it. Very happy. So I think it's a real game changer. And as you're wrapping up your shopping for the holidays, I think it's worth a little perusal.
- [59:34]
Auntie Sue
Okay. My final add to cart and. Okay, we already know about this. They at some point were partners on our show. I'm not getting paid to say this is. I'm adding quints to the best of Cart. Now. The reason I'm adding quince, when I discovered quints years ago, it was really mainly cashmere sweaters at, like, crazy prices. That's what we were doing here over the years. And I said this to Ku in a. In a chat, is Quince the new Amazon for us? They have everything. I just bought the most gorgeous made in France because did I do a deep dive on stainless steel cutlery and the toxicity of certain stainless steels made in other countries? I sure did. And so I was determined to get a set of cutlery from France, preferably. Guess what? Found it on Quince. Wasn't looking on Quince for that. I googled it. Quince came up and I said, accuse me. You're selling cutlery.
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Cuckoo Lysack
Cutlery. And also I got some great juice glasses, some heavy duty juice glasses like you said. And the best email I got a few days ago, sue, you're going to die. I don't know if I told you this, but hit that link. Hit the link, hit the link. That's right. Such and Pog Quince is moved into caviar.
- [61:13]
Auntie Sue
Wow.
- [61:14]
Cuckoo Lysack
Caviar, wow. They've not done one perishable item before. Not even a jam. Not a vinegar, not an olive oil.
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Auntie Sue
They didn't start off. No, because Quince is like she's. They know. They know who their audience is. They. Whoever is doing whatever the job is, whether it's product development or I don't know what this is, this person. Then it's like, guys, we're in. Let's not bandy around the bushes. Let's just get to the thing that they want. Salts, oils.
- [61:55]
Reshma Sajani
They can get anywhere you.
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Auntie Sue
Caviar.
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Cuckoo Lysack
Caviar.
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Auntie Sue
Oh, my God. This is what I'm saying. And quinces, I've noticed, like every time I go back or I'm just Google searching for something that's like high quality, not too expensive of a quince thing pops up, I'm like, what do you mean? They're selling sandals. I have the best pair of clogs that look like the Birkenstock but are so much more comfortable than the Birkenstock. I tried the Birkenstock. I had to return those. For me, it feels like in a world where we're trying to do less damage with our credit cards in terms of impact and like what we stand.
- [62:36]
Cuckoo Lysack
For, it's a great brand.
- [62:38]
Auntie Sue
This is moving in the right direction.
- [62:40]
Cuckoo Lysack
I think that's very right. Another game changer. We've talked about it before and it's so wild to say this because Suchin is the one again, the light of my life, though my. You know, I guess you're that auntie described, you know, to me, like if the lineage let's be clear. You know, I am a student. As Jessica St. Clair and June Diane of the Deep Dive would say, I'm absolutely. Am I a teacher? Absolutely. But I'm also a student to Ms. Such and Pok. And so Joey Baby came in because sue was talking about getting necklaces personalized for her daughter and for other people. And I was like, oh, wow, like, that's amazing. I got a lot of my gifts last year was. Was from Joey Baby. And I don't know how this happened, you guys, but I know I've got a code for you that is.
- [63:36]
Auntie Sue
I mean, they didn't give me a code.
- [63:37]
Cuckoo Lysack
This is so crazy. I think they went on my Instagram or something, but they offered me a code. Let me back up. Joey Baby is Aapi owned. They're out of New York. They do a lot of pearl jewelry. Not just pearl though. They do.
- [63:54]
Auntie Sue
No, but they have tons. They have beaded, they have gold, they have chain.
- [63:58]
Cuckoo Lysack
Modern, good quality, affordable as such and described. And so they always have sales. But you use my code MOON M O O N 10233 and get 30% off. And that is what from what I've experienced and what I've seen today, that's in additional to any sale price. So if things are 50% off, you'll get an additional 30. I wear this very chunky large freshwater pole necklace all the time. It's one of my favorites.
- [64:31]
Auntie Sue
It's. They're just. It's a great brand and I think.
- [64:33]
Cuckoo Lysack
It encompasses very hip tweens to. I got my mother in law something from there that she wears all the time too. So I think this is a great. Yeah, a great, like, hey, I need to grab great. Because I think sue, you speak to this too.
- [64:49]
Auntie Sue
A thoughtfulness.
- [64:49]
Cuckoo Lysack
Yeah. But sometimes the tween girl is hard. The tween girls especially very hard. This is a really good option. Yeah, because it straddles like age and like in a way that like they'll think it's cool, but it's also quality.
- [65:05]
Auntie Sue
Before we go, the best thing in my cart right now will be my husband's new children's book. Mike Bender just wrote a follow up.
- [65:15]
Cuckoo Lysack
This man is so prolific. What the hell I've done this year?
- [65:21]
Auntie Sue
I wish he would stop. I wish he would stop. How you wrote another book, the opposite of prolific. So he wrote a book called the Most Serious Farts. That was the first book in this series about farts. And this is the. It just came out hot off the presses. The bravest booger because how do you follow farts, but with boogers? In the first book, the mysterious farts, you get to go through it. And the illustrator, Chuck Dillon, who is a master, he did all, like the highlights, you know, hidden pictures. There's butts hidden in the pictures. And this one, there's noses hidden in the pictures. So the kids can have fun with that. And if you're in the Santa Barbara area, I don't know if you know this coot. There's an iconic bookstore called Chaucer's. They give them great shelf placement. Great shelf placement. We got to give a big shout out to Chaucer's. Mike over there just is so good to us.
- [66:16]
Cuckoo Lysack
So good. I was there. I don't know. Not this last time I saw you. But during the summer, I went to Chaucer's. I saw that placement. Tony placement supreme placement, vip.
- [66:29]
Auntie Sue
So what he does is he'll have a little, like, container of whoopee cushions that you can take when you buy the most serious fart. And then now he's gonna have these little pencil sharpeners that are in the shape of a nose for the bravest booger. So if you're in Santa Barbara, go to Chaucer's. Cause you can pick up one of them Nose Mike Bender. And every few weeks, everyone's like, we got. He's like, we got to go to Chaucer's. Guys. Hold on a second. We got to make a quick stop. And the kids run out, and they fill up the whoopee cushions and the. And the nose sharpeners. This is. This is what we're teaching my children.
- [67:05]
Cuckoo Lysack
Yeah.
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Auntie Sue
You know, if you work hard enough in life, if you get to that place, you work hard, you're a good person, and you care, you will be filling jars of whoopee cushions. And it's a noble endeavor, so we love it. I. I send Kai in there. He. He loves to do it because he loves to talk to people, loves to talk to parents.
- [67:26]
Cuckoo Lysack
Takes after his father in that way.
- [67:28]
Auntie Sue
Yes, yes. In the children's book, you know, they're always like, you know, parents reading to their kids and blah, blah. And then he's filling up the whoopee cushions, and then always goes like, oh, what are you doing? It's my dad's book. Most Serious Farts. You get a whoopee cushion, and he's just out there selling books for his papa.
- [67:45]
Cuckoo Lysack
I love that.
- [67:46]
Auntie Sue
Anyway, so get them while they're hot. What a delightful thing to give to the youngsters. The. The joy of laughter and not taking yourself too seriously. Get both books because I know you can afford it.
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Cuckoo Lysack
That's right. That's right. Well, that's all for our best of 2024. Let us know your favorite buys from 2024 on Instagram @ Add to Cart Pod. Send us a DM a comment. We will take your suggestions to add to our frenzied buying and follow Blakely while you're there. Lakely Thornton Bye Bye.
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Auntie Sue
There's more Add to Cart with Lemonada. Premium subscribers get exclusive access to bonus content like where where we tell you about the last item we bought or returned and why. Subscribe now in Apple Podcasts Add to.
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Reshma Sajani
Cart is a production of Lemonade Media. Our producers are Keegan Zema and Tiffany Bui. Brian Castillo is our engineer.
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Auntie Sue
Theme music is by Wasabi and produced by LA Made it and oh so familiar with additional music by APM Music. Executive producers are Kulap Vilaisak, Suchin Pak, Jessica Cordova Kramer and Stephanie Whittles Wax.
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Reshma Sajani
Be sure to check out all the items we mentioned today on our Instagram.
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Auntie Sue
At Add to Cart Pod. Follow Add to Cart wherever you get.
- [69:03]
Reshma Sajani
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- [69:13]
Auntie Sue
Hi everyone. Gloria Rivera here, and we are back.
- [69:16]
Reshma Sajani
For another season of no One Is.
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Auntie Sue
Coming to Save Us, a podcast about.
- [69:20]
Reshma Sajani
America's child care crisis.
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Cuckoo Lysack
Crisis.
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Auntie Sue
This season we're delving deep into five critical issues facing our country through the lens of child care, poverty, mental health.
- [69:30]
Reshma Sajani
Housing, climate change, and the public school system.
- [69:33]
Auntie Sue
By exploring these connections, we aim to.
- [69:36]
Reshma Sajani
Highlight that childcare is not an isolated issue, but one that influences all facets of American life.
- [69:43]
Auntie Sue
Season 4 of No1 Is Coming to.
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Reshma Sajani
Save Us is out now, wherever you get your podcast.
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Auntie Sue
Why, hello there. This is your pal Sarah Silverman. You know, the standup comic that's not afraid of a diarrhea joke. Oh my God, I'm so brave. I hope you're enjoying this podcast that you're listening to. I am just dropping in here to let you know about another podcast I think you'd like, and it's called the Sarah Silverman Podcast. Each week, listeners from all over the world call in and they ask me for advice or they talk about something going on in their life. Anything. Their silliest, grossest, deepest, darkest situations. And then I respond, whether I'm qualified to or not. Go ahead, search for the Sarah Silverman Podcast wherever you get your podcasts.
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Cuckoo Lysack
Bye.