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Transcript

SPEAKERS

Blakely Thornton, Kulap Vilaysack, SuChin Pak

Kulap Vilaysack  00:07

Welcome back to Add To Cart, I am your husky, sexy sounding auntie Kulap Vilaysack.

 

SuChin Pak  00:13

I hope you got that voice, because you’ve just been hating the town red, you know, just out from those heels.

 

Kulap Vilaysack  00:21

Yeah, and not just being a mom of a toddler who that sponges every illness and transfers it all across my face.

 

SuChin Pak  00:31

Well, I’m your other auntie, Susu, 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. Yeah. But you know, around this time every year, we really like to give you what, 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.

 

Kulap Vilaysack  01:05

That’s right. So we are diving into the archives of our 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.

 

SuChin Pak  01:29

Glad you said it. You know what I mean?

 

Kulap Vilaysack  01:31

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. Blakely Thornton.

 

Blakely Thornton  01:53

Hello, it is a pleasure to be here at the end of the year. You know, we’re just gonna talk about some things.

 

SuChin Pak  02:00

You’re in your new home, you’re getting into cozy season.

 

Blakely Thornton  02:04

Yes, that’s the hoodie. That’s the blink twice hoodie.

 

Kulap Vilaysack  02:10

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.

 

Blakely Thornton  02:20

I’m doing the things. I’m just there’s no there’s no other way to why be nice. Why be nice not now, as Drake says, nice for what?

 

Kulap Vilaysack  02:30

And I’m gonna be say, I’ll say this to you, I don’t think nice is your best shade.

 

Blakely Thornton  02:35

Oh, it’s not. It’s not.

 

Kulap Vilaysack  02:36

That’s not your color. It’s not your color.

 

Blakely Thornton  02:39

It’s not what I was put here for.

 

SuChin Pak  02:41

Sometimes I’ll just sit there and go through like, 10 of your most recent I’m like, This man’s brain. 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.

 

Blakely Thornton  02:56

Well, thank 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. I like, I literally tied the resurgence of Lindsay Lohan back to elder Millennials wanting dunkiroos today. Like, that’s the way my brain works.

 

Kulap Vilaysack  03:19

Yeah, it’s like A Beautiful Mind, but not math.

 

Blakely Thornton  03:21

Exactly.

 

SuChin Pak  03:23

But it’s got to be cathartic. Otherwise, where does that go? It just, it’s a corn soup.

 

Blakely Thornton  03:28

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.

 

SuChin Pak  03:42

Yeah, what’s a dunkaroo.

 

Blakely Thornton  03:47

It’s like, it’s basically like a kangaroo shaped animal cracker that goes into, like, basically, like liquid diabetes. It was like, either icing, vanilla, chocolate or, like, sprinkles occasionally, and I think they would just continue, just for being generally horrific for us.

 

Kulap Vilaysack  04:03

For us, for it to be discontinued, for that, I mean, it’s got to be really bad.

 

Blakely Thornton  04:08

Yeah, like in the United States.

 

SuChin Pak  04:10

Lindsay Lohan is a dunkaroo.

 

Blakely Thornton  04:12

She is. She’s a cultural dunkaroo.

 

Kulap Vilaysack  04:15

I went on, like, right after the election, and I made some life choices. I was like, That’s right, because Blakely said you did I was like […]

 

SuChin Pak  04:25

Yes, I’m doing

 

Blakely Thornton  04:28

I, like many of you, have been looking for ways to emotionally cope since November 5. My weight in chicken wings. Episodes of Gossip Girl out of order while crying into a tequila soda, opt into oncoming traffic just to see if it might be my time after causing a three car pilot on Sunset, and unfortunately, still sentient, it came to me. It’s the season of the week, and we’re starting a COVID time to turn those in truth and false interventions.

 

SuChin Pak  04:51

I can’t remember the last time I saw you in person and I sat in her in her kitchen, and I’m not gonna 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, and, but I’m with you.

 

Blakely Thornton  05:16

I said, after the election, I 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 gonna win. And I woke up and it had like a million views, and I was like, honestly, I think we started to coven. Like, I think that’s where we’re going again, culturally, like, the craft. It’s back Cynthia, arrivo, Elphaba, highs rise up like I think it just all along. Let’s go. Why not?

 

Kulap Vilaysack  05:45

Yeah, let’s 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.

 

SuChin Pak  05:59

So let’s dig in.

 

Blakely Thornton  06:02

Still can’t figure it out, so let’s go. Haven’t used it yet.

 

SuChin Pak  06:07

Probably not going to, but this is the oven that’s more important so.

 

Blakely Thornton  06:12

Cultural oven.

 

SuChin Pak  06:13

Yes, okay.

 

Kulap Vilaysack  06:14

So let’s talk outfit. Okay, you’re number one.

 

Blakely Thornton  06:18

It’s Zendaya at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, channeling share, it was just exquisite. Just truly, she did share better than shares ever done. Share, and I’ll say that to shares face, because I’m pretty sure she’s too slow to slap.

 

SuChin Pak  06:31

I mean, I need to get a zoom in on this out.

 

Blakely Thornton  06:35

It’s so good.

 

SuChin Pak  06:37

I mean, there’s very little to the imagination.

 

Blakely Thornton  06:41

No, just the moment. It’s giving.

 

Kulap Vilaysack  06:44

And yet the construction is there. Is there like.

 

SuChin Pak  06:48

It’s it. Would you say that this rivals the Jennifer Lopez green dress that was barely because this is cut you, 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.

 

Kulap Vilaysack  07:08

And there’s like, I see piece of like, what the MTV awards were back then, yes.

 

SuChin Pak  07:13

Which nobody knows listening what those are anymore.

 

Blakely Thornton  07:16

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, they should call them the youtubeies. Now that’s where you watch music videos.

 

SuChin Pak  07:30

I’m just looking her at the at the podium with that hair, with that share long hair.

 

Kulap Vilaysack  07:37

And how happy are the producers of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. We just brought up PMA, the fact that they were registered. We’re alive.

 

Blakely Thornton  07:49

We’re here, we’re still here.

 

SuChin Pak  07:53

We’re still here. They were, they were asleep until she came on stage and was like, got it now we’re back.

 

Kulap Vilaysack  08:00

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?

 

Blakely Thornton  08:18

I think honestly, like, theme dressing for the film became a thing like you have 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 storytell, visual storytelling through clothing, was really what happened in 2024 even given down to like Jonathan Anderson, from the way they was, like doing all of Luco Coronavirus films. 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.

 

Kulap Vilaysack  09:14

It just might I love how you just.

 

SuChin Pak  09:17

You know, you just wrap it with that bow, you know what I mean? Just to make sure that bloody, just like a blood Oxford period, yeah, it just continues the storytelling. Then you have the other side, controversial one. Well, who was a Blake Lively, who did the the floral theme for her.

 

Blakely Thornton  09:38

I’m Team Blake on this. Like, the characters, the character’s name was, like, Lily, so it’s like, she’s just continuing the theme.

 

SuChin Pak  09:46

And also, she’s a florist.

 

Blakely Thornton  09:48

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 fucking, like, read a review and, like, go, like, you know. So we didn’t before, like, Glenn Close boiled that bunny. They were like, Bunny boiling in Act Four to, 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 see 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.

 

SuChin Pak  10:19

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 she did, yeah, and she did. She did, wow.

 

Blakely Thornton  10:37

Laughing all the way to the bank. We’re not laughing. But, you know, controversying. All the way to the bank.

 

SuChin Pak  10:44

What’s that Tiktok dance?

 

Blakely Thornton  10:46

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.

 

Kulap Vilaysack  10:54

I mean, that wasn’t and that was just expressing yourself. That really wasn’t.

 

Blakely Thornton  10:58

Exactly that was just theme dressing. I was theme dancing. I am 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, finding parking. Traffic’s crazy on the Brea right now, I don’t know.

 

SuChin Pak  11:15

Trying to find parking, TTFP.

 

Kulap Vilaysack  11:19

What is the, in your opinion, the best album of the year?

 

Blakely Thornton  11:24

Okay, controversy, 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, Jim and Terry Lewis era Janet Jackson, especially with like, good graces, yeah and don’t smile. Sounded like funny to 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, oh yeah, you’re gonna win. So Sabrina Carpenter, I think all the way Album of the Year for me.

 

Kulap Vilaysack  12:11

That’s because this is a competitive year.

 

SuChin Pak  12:13

A lot of girls.

 

Blakely Thornton  12:14

All the pop girls had albums like, Rena Carpenter, Billie Eilish, Beyonce, Taylor Swift, people for Charlie. Charlie xiax. Shawn Mendes.

 

Kulap Vilaysack  12:25

That’s right.

 

SuChin Pak  12:26

Wait, he had an album?

 

Blakely Thornton  12:29

Last week.

 

Kulap Vilaysack  12:31

Just look at look at MTV journalist SuChin Pak,  Blake she’s like […] Blakely, please ask her any questions about her time.

 

SuChin Pak  12:42

Please don’t. If we don’t need to, I don’t need to continue to embarrass myself.

 

Blakely Thornton  12:47

Like, what was it like at the VMAs the year Little Kim had a titty out again?

 

SuChin Pak  12:51

Have no idea. I mean, I’ve truly,

 

Kulap Vilaysack  12:54

You truly, don’t remember that at all.

 

SuChin Pak  12:57

I mean 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?

 

Blakely Thornton  13:11

No, I’m sure I’m not going to be pleased.

 

Kulap Vilaysack  13:13

No, you’re not.

 

SuChin Pak  13:16

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. Yeah, not win.

 

Blakely Thornton  13:33

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 Fulfiller. And I’m like, Okay, there’s just, you know, I guess equality in Hollywood for all.

 

Kulap Vilaysack  13:50

In that lane, in that specific.

 

SuChin Pak  13:54

let’s be very clear, very teeny, tiny back alley lane, dirt path.

 

Blakely Thornton  14:03

It’s a dirt road. Yeah? It’s an old country road.

 

Kulap Vilaysack  14:06

The other thing about Sabrina Carpenter, I love her lyrics. I think she’s so clever.

 

SuChin Pak  14:11

It’s a lot of winking, right, yeah?

 

Kulap Vilaysack  14:13

Or not even, not even.

 

Blakely Thornton  14:15

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 Mendes or Barry kuch because it’s one of you two. We know it’s 5050, just will the rear Slim shadys Please stand up, dripping back to the 99 VMAs like it was one of you two.

 

Kulap Vilaysack  14:36

Give me, give us one memory from the 99 […] do you remember what you were wearing? Do you give us something?

 

SuChin Pak  14:46

God, I can’t even remember the location. It was either a radio sphere or that other place. Lincoln, something, Lincoln Center. It could have been, it could have been the Olsen twins. It could have been. I’m just trying to go through.

 

Blakely Thornton  15:04

The awesome twins were like 13 in 1999.

 

SuChin Pak  15:06

I don’t remember guys.

 

Kulap Vilaysack  15:08

I know you don’t.

 

SuChin Pak  15:09

I don’t. Thank you for Stefani there. I said it period. I said it so much, so many Gwen Stefani that was, like, her, her solo, you guys.

 

Blakely Thornton  15:21

That remember that sound so she wasn’t solo in 99 yet, that was 04.

 

SuChin Pak  15:27

How do you know this?

 

Blakely Thornton  15:29

Because it’s my freshman year of college.

 

SuChin Pak  15:31

How do you know this? You should, Howard, where are you storing all this information? Your head is not that big. You have a very, very angular, you know, supermodel jaw type head. Where do you store this marble?

 

Blakely Thornton  15:45

You know, it’s somewhere in there. It’s like, wait.

 

SuChin Pak  15:49

I’m still on Shawn Mendes album sales. Sorry, you guys talk.

 

Kulap Vilaysack  15:55

I don’t think it was great. Yeah, anyway, okay, and that’s why you didn’t say you didn’t say best album for Sean […] crown.

 

Blakely Thornton  16:07

I honestly haven’t listened to his album, okay?

 

SuChin Pak  16:09

Should we do a live Listen now this? Should this episode is Sean listening?

 

Blakely Thornton  16:14

Think we need some like weed and a campfire and like be to be barefoot.

 

Kulap Vilaysack  16:34

Let’s move on Su, let’s talk about the best magazine cover, or digital magazine cover, as people are consuming these days. Yeah, pretty much. And so you have a tie.

 

Blakely Thornton  16:45

I do. It was Zoe Kravitz for w, and then Cynthia Revo for L. I’m obviously not objective, but 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.

 

SuChin Pak  17:24

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.

 

Blakely Thornton  17:43

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 want to be in movies, you’re an actress. Like, look pretty in the dress. Go work with auteur directors. And she was like, I don’t like acting. I like movies like, I like telling people what to do. It’s so indicative that, like, even if you have celebrity parents and spotlight like, as a woman in this industry, like, it takes you breaking out off the board to realize, like, 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 our first film Be so kind of like, 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 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 actors with this role. I’ve seen the movie twice already. I just think like she is this great creative light that I’m always like, saying, like, 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 both just can, like, they both can just wear the fuck out of any clothing. So, you know it works.

 

Kulap Vilaysack  19:18

It’s true. Okay, let’s move on Su, sorry.

 

SuChin Pak  19:24

Yeah, pull it together. Let’s not be juvenile, Ku.

 

Kulap Vilaysack  19:30

No, I am an adult woman.

 

SuChin Pak  19:32

I am not this is, I don’t even want to look at this thing.

 

Kulap Vilaysack  19:37

Your biggest pop culture moment?

 

Blakely Thornton  19:39

Yeah, my biggest pop culture moment is a pop of nipple from Glen Powell in the 2024 Vanity Fair Hollywood issue. Glen Powell, he wants it. He has that movie from link later. 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 it 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.

 

SuChin Pak  20:36

Wait, Glenn Powell, or Glen Powell’s left nipple?

 

Blakely Thornton  20:40

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.

 

SuChin Pak  20:47

To be fair the nipple put him on the map. This man has been treading water out an open sea for decades.

 

Kulap Vilaysack  20:54

It feels like the best is yet unwritten.

 

SuChin Pak  20:57

Yes, and so many like this is his year that okay, this is, and, but successful movies, not even like.

 

Blakely Thornton  21:10

But you, yeah, gun two […]

 

SuChin Pak  21:12

But it was, let’s be honest, his little taut left nip.

 

Blakely Thornton  21:18

I mean, I would tell Glen led to his face. I tagged him in the video.

 

Kulap Vilaysack  21:21

Like, would you look at his face, or would your eyes go down?

 

Blakely Thornton  21:25

I mean, if his shirt was on, it, obviously had 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.

 

SuChin Pak  21:37

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 collar bone? Right? Look at his what does that shoulder mean? Just like that indentation, you know, that crevasse that you wanted? Yes, the eye put your nose into. And yet, when someone possibly a gay art director.

 

Blakely Thornton  22:09

I know that, yeah, it’s George Cortina.

 

SuChin Pak  22:11

With a with a left nipple just grazing the edges.

 

Blakely Thornton  22:15

That was a gay man. He knew what he was doing.

 

SuChin Pak  22:17

People gasped, people got there was no there was no second contender. That was it. This was the photo.

 

Blakely Thornton  22:24

That was the photo, that was the moment. That was his Kelly Clarkson winning American Idol moment.

 

SuChin Pak  22:28

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’m like, he they finally […]

 

Blakely Thornton  22:41

You guys did it. They did it. Show, don’t tell.

 

SuChin Pak  22:51

Doing it for so long. They did it.

 

Blakely Thornton  22:54

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.

 

SuChin Pak  23:04

Yeah, by the way, this is our four years when people want to talk about, oh, the do. I don’t know about that, because my four years is here. This is where I’m at.

 

Kulap Vilaysack  23:13

Yeah, you’re so right lately, again, I guess I have to like other things that I’ve done in my life due to your guidance make I guess I’m shifting my worldview on even nipples, on men’s nipples.

 

Blakely Thornton  23:28

Because men’s nipples are inherently sexier because they serve no purpose. But as it erogenous zone, I’ve never understood why women’s nipples get blurred when it’s like, fair 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.

 

SuChin Pak  24:04

Listen, anytime we’re talking about a white white straight man, it’s we gotta. It’s a very it’s a razor’s edge. We gotta either 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.

 

Blakely Thornton  24:25

The wind blows the wrong way, and I’m ready to tap his head off. Glenn, you have it. Your nipple has us, but if your mouth gets you in trouble.

 

SuChin Pak  24:32

This is a thriller. This is a suspense. We are on the twice.

 

Blakely Thornton  24:36

Yeah, twice.

 

SuChin Pak  24:41

This is the sequel.

 

Blakely Thornton  24:42

This is why that was my movie of the year.

 

SuChin Pak  24:44

Get your girl. So we on the phone right now. This is it, we have your sequel. What happens?

 

Blakely Thornton  24:51

What happens, yeah.

 

SuChin Pak  24:52

What happens now? What happens when, when a white, straight guy has the zeitgeist hanging by his nipple?

 

Blakely Thornton  25:00

Nothing good, usually.

 

SuChin Pak  25:02

Guys, I have faith. Can I tell you right now, sitting here, I have faith.

 

Kulap Vilaysack  25:08

Oh, that’s beautiful. Hope, Blakely.

 

Blakely Thornton  25:13

He’ll fuck it up somehow, but like enjoy your moment. You’re doing great, sweetie.

 

Kulap Vilaysack  25:18

Blakely, thank you so much for coming on the show and sharing your best subs. Anything else you want to promote besides Glenn Powell’s nipple?

 

SuChin Pak  25:25

That doesn’t need more promotion?

 

Blakely Thornton  25:27

No more. I think obviously, I am launching a podcast in Q1 of 2025 called Immediately No, which is the opposite of my feelings on Glenn Powell’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 usually be on the internet and doing the things.

 

SuChin Pak  25:59

And you’re just gonna be, by the way, cozy. It’s cozy season for you, for all of us, you know, you’re gonna settle in […]

 

Blakely Thornton  26:07

Starting a coven. We’re joining a COVID. You guys are millions. I was shocked by that. I was like, that number? Was that say M I was like, I thought my phone had gone to Spanish, like, and meaning 1000 I was like, oh, that bombed.

 

Kulap Vilaysack  26:23

Tis the opposite, sir.

 

SuChin Pak  26:26

Well, as you know, it changed Kulap’s entire direction.

 

Blakely Thornton  26:31

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.

 

SuChin Pak  26:40

And let’s focus on that. That’s that goes in our four years too, by the way, right? That follow Glen Powel’s nipple. This is what we need to for four years. This is the agenda they’ve got their 2025, agenda.

 

Kulap Vilaysack  26:53

This is our, yeah, we have to celebrate our W’s.

 

Blakely Thornton  26:58

You know, the small things. I’ll make sure Glenn hears this, I send it to him directly, and his stylist, I’ll be like, just make sure he knows we appreciated the work. We appreciated the work.

 

Kulap Vilaysack  27:08

Thank you Blakely.

 

SuChin Pak  27:09

Thank you.

 

Kulap Vilaysack  27:15

Carter’s, 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.

 

SuChin Pak  27:25

Ku, let me tell you, since my early days raisin hell in New York, this store, particularly in Soho, you know, 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’m, 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. Are you crying? Well, I am tearing. Just misting, I have so many. It’s a wistful, positive mist, yes, a longing and a weird nostalgic for this store. I love this place.

 

Kulap Vilaysack  28:27

Now that I’m hearing this, I’m really glad you can still shop from the mama design store online, because I’ve never I gotta say you’re not really that sentimental.

 

SuChin Pak  28:36

True or this alive. Yeah, no, I 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?

 

Kulap Vilaysack  28:48

Yeah, gosh, I wish I could have fight you on that, but I am. No, 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 cured the exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art.

 

SuChin Pak  29:04

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 favorite 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 yourself. What this person would really love is the MoMA exclusive, and I love one that says exclusive, right? Because then you know you’re getting the real deal. What do you call it? A velvet rope. We’ve become the velvet rope. We love it, a cheeky young person with the clipboard saying no to everyone but us. And this is a MoMA exclusive with. Modem, and it is a tea kettle in this cheerful yellow. It just will make this person so happy.

 

Kulap Vilaysack  30:08

So I am to buy this for you?

 

SuChin Pak  30:13

Oh, it’s already, on its way. Don’t do it, because [..]

 

Kulap Vilaysack  30:16

That’s good, okay? Because, by the way, this is the type of unsettled messaging that I need, so I’m glad we cleared that up.

 

SuChin Pak  30:26

Yeah, already on its way.

 

Kulap Vilaysack  30:28

We’ll be here. Okay, good thank you. I really applaud anyone who takes our Add to Cart. Holiday motto, one for you, five for me, to heart like Sue does now. You all know I’m hostess with the mostess this season, or I want to say any season that’s right. Look, 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.

 

SuChin Pak  30:58

And I have at parties, put a paper cup full of sharpies just right, right on that table next all the forks and the and the napkins. Anyway, that’s how I can say.

 

Kulap Vilaysack  31:11

And that’s you as a guest coming to someone else’s house.

 

SuChin Pak  31:16

When I have the four people at my house.

 

Kulap Vilaysack  31:19

I say, hold on, guys, four people can’t figure out whose glass is. What are we really […]

 

SuChin Pak  31:26

Working more than when someone I’ve given a glass to, I’m like, 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 so 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.

 

Kulap Vilaysack  31:58

You are moving away from your family. You are moving out.

 

SuChin Pak  32:02

That’s not what we’re talking about right now. It’s a she shed sized kitchen. So 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 this 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.

 

Kulap Vilaysack  32:52

As you can see, there’s something for everyone, or obviously, for aunty Su 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.

 

SuChin Pak  33:11

You are a good person, 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 15, just visit mo.ma/add to cart to snag your favorites.

 

Kulap Vilaysack  33:53

SuChin Pak, 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.

 

SuChin Pak  34:02

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? 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 we 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 past carts, and these are the three things that have changed the game for me in 2020.

 

Kulap Vilaysack  34:49

Great Su let’s, let’s start with you, please, what?

 

SuChin Pak  34:51

I’m so excited, so excited I’ve been sitting on this Add to Cart.  Because I wanted to save it for this episode. Okay? And if you already know what this is, I don’t care. Just sit there and pretend because I have a magic show when I went to the other aunties 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. So the such as lineage, such as the sea diving lineage of our aunties 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 sun shield 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. And they’ve put that technology into an invisible patch you can put on your face for everyday wear.

 

Kulap Vilaysack  36:33

I mean, this is so necessary after your journey, your skin journey to South Korea.

 

SuChin Pak  36:39

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.

 

Kulap Vilaysack  36:59

Shove it on your face right now?

 

SuChin Pak  37:00

See it look.

 

Kulap Vilaysack  37:02

Oh, I’m shocked that it’s on your face right now. Your skin looks so good off.

 

SuChin Pak  37:10

Isn’t that crazy?

 

Kulap Vilaysack  37:14

That’s pretty great.

 

SuChin Pak  37:17

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. Cheekbones, 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 flesh colored. I look like a burn victim, like I had bandages on my face, and I was doing that while I was out. Because I was just like, whoa, this is what’s gotta 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.

 

Kulap Vilaysack  38:39

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 CBS. This is, oh, yeah, okay.

 

SuChin Pak  38:52

Every day. The thing about it is, is that a 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 it’s there’s rarely a day, rarely a day I’m not wearing these.

 

Kulap Vilaysack  39:23

That’s amazing, Su I’m gonna get some and like, kind of, like, sort of, it’s a good stocking stuffer. They will be shocked. The link that you gave us, it’s on Amazon. You get five packs for $35.

 

SuChin Pak  39:35

But these are just like, I feel like no one and no one here. No, I didn’t know about this these, or have ever heard of these.

 

Kulap Vilaysack  39:44

Su, I’m gonna go next.

 

SuChin Pak  39:45

Okay, your turn.

 

Kulap Vilaysack  39:47

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 like it. I need to be moisturized. If I’m out of the shower, I’m slathering and lathering ointments, oils, lotions upon myself.

 

SuChin Pak  40:23

Yes, so, yeah.

 

Kulap Vilaysack  40:25

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 has a little green parts of it. The important parts are dishwasher safe and.

 

SuChin Pak  41:02

Oh my gosh, you can use tap water. Every other humidifier is shaken in their.

 

Kulap Vilaysack  41:08

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 the skin, the skin you’re sleeping for so long, keeping it, you know.

 

SuChin Pak  41:30

Just the moisture sucking out of your corpse.

 

Kulap Vilaysack  41:33

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 name plate. 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, the specific humidifier, is an absolute game changer.

 

SuChin Pak  42:00

All you have to say is, it’s easy, because no humidifier is easy. I’ve tried that.

 

Kulap Vilaysack  42:05

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 baby and for a mama too. 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.

 

SuChin Pak  43:01

Oh, canopy, doing more than you need to, and doing it well, strutting her way down the runway.

 

Kulap Vilaysack  43:11

It is a very smart machine. And when the lights are off, it has this like, first of all, it dims its light the its light goes off, and it does like noise machine. Like, sound, yeah, great. It’s on. It’s a great machine.

 

SuChin Pak  43:26

Like, a little arm comes out and, like, pets, you head massages, all right. I love it. I was so burned by 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 from me and my shisha, oh yeah, I’m not gonna dry up out there.

 

Kulap Vilaysack  43:43

Okay, what’s next in your cart?

 

SuChin Pak  43:46

Moving on to my second game changer. I read about this app on a newsletter, and, you know, I, I, you know, 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.

 

Kulap Vilaysack  44:22

What a name, right? What a great name.

 

SuChin Pak  44:25

I mean, guys come on board. You know what? I mean, like, we’ve been here carded. So it’s basically like, I’m gonna go on the website. 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 going to have a desktop version soon, because 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? It’s really nice. 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’s not a product. I just 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, Watch, and then put links on there from Instagram or from other YouTube or whatever it’s it’s any list you can. 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 less. 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 naked on a bare back on a horse.

 

Kulap Vilaysack  47:05

Run the ocean through the into the holding two boulders.

 

SuChin Pak  47:11

Carded has helped put a dress on that gal, got her a good meal, tucked her in, just took care.

 

Kulap Vilaysack  47:20

I really like it too. I haven’t gone as deep as you and your your you’re kind of disrupting even what they’re doing, which I think is amazing.

 

SuChin Pak  47:29

Hey, Carded, I’m happy to get on the phone and do some user guides for you on on how you can how people are using this.

 

Kulap Vilaysack  47:37

I want it on desktop too. Carded, I want both? Yeah, I wanted both.

 

SuChin Pak  47:42

That’s the only that’s the only downside is that it’s not on on desktop just yet.

 

Kulap Vilaysack  47:55

A game changer for me is something that you brought to me. You brought to us, by the way, wow. I mean, never heard of off market until SuChin Pak, 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 am on there quite often. I got a Lee chore coat that I wear just about every other day. I’m 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 gate keeping.

 

SuChin Pak  48:42

Wow, oh, she wasn’t sharing it on purpose.

 

Kulap Vilaysack  48:46

She’s gate keeping. Wow, I guess she’s not so innocent.

 

SuChin Pak  48:50

No Tiff had his dark side.

 

Kulap Vilaysack  48:51

I guess everybody does, don’t they?

 

SuChin Pak  48:52

Whoa, sleeping with the enemy. Wow, this entire time.

 

Kulap Vilaysack  48:57

Wow, that’s why I was shocked by it. But to off market. What could you describe? What it is to the people again.

 

SuChin Pak  49:03

Yeah, it’s basically like an online outlet for really cool, often indie brands, yeah, 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.

 

Kulap Vilaysack  49:48

Some of the brands are Bagu, 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. So wrapping up your shopping for the holidays, I think it’s worth a little perusal.

 

SuChin Pak  50:04

Okay, my final Add to Cart and, okay, we already know about this. They at some point, we’re partners on our show. I’m not getting paid. Say this is I’m adding Quince to the best of cart. Now, the reason I’m adding Quince, when I discovered Quince 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 coup 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? Founded on quince wasn’t looking on quince for that. I googled it. Quince came up, and I said, accuse me. You’re selling cutlery?

 

Kulap Vilaysack  51:21

And also, I got some great juice glasses, some heavy duty juice glasses, 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. Sujin Park Quince is moved into caviar. Wow, caviar. They’ve not done one perishable item before, not even a jam, not a vinegar, not an olive oil.

 

SuChin Pak  51:55

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 is like, Guys we’re in, let’s not Bandy around the bushes. Let’s just fucking get to the thing that they want. Salts, oils.

 

Kulap Vilaysack  52:25

They can get anywhere.

 

SuChin Pak  52:27

Fuck you caviar.

 

Kulap Vilaysack  52:28

Caviar.

 

SuChin Pak  52:29

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, 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. 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 for.

 

Kulap Vilaysack  53:07

It’s a great brand.

 

SuChin Pak  53:08

This is moving in the right direction.

 

Kulap Vilaysack  53:10

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 the one, again, the light of my life, though my you know, I guess you’re that auntie. It’s scary, 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 stay. I’m absolutely, am I a teacher? Absolutely? But I’m also a student to miss such and Pak 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 were 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, I mean, they didn’t give me a code. 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 no but they have tons and beaded. They have gold, very modern, good quality, affordable, as suchin described. And so they always have sales. But you use my code, Moon, M, o, n1, 0233, and get 30% off. And that is what, from what I’ve experienced and what I’ve seen today, that’s an additional to any sale price. So if things are 50% off, you’ll get an additional 30. I wear this very chunky, large fresh water pool necklace all the time. It’s one of my favorites.

 

SuChin Pak  55:01

It’s, they’re just, it’s a great brand.

 

Kulap Vilaysack  55:03

And I think 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, a great, like, hey, I need to grab great. Because I think so you speak to this too, yeah, sometimes the tween girl is hard. The tween girls especially very hard. This is a really good option, because it straddles like, age and like in a way that like, they’ll think it’s cool, but it’s also quality.

 

SuChin Pak  55:36

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.

 

Kulap Vilaysack  55:45

Man is so prolific. What the hell I’ve done shit this year?

 

SuChin Pak  55:52

I wish he would stop. I wish he would stop. I wish her 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 just came out hot off the presses, the bravest booger. Because how do you follow farts? But with boogers? In the first book, The most serious farts you get to go through it. And the illustrator, Chuck Dylan, who was a master, he did all like the highlights, you know, hidden pictures. There’s a butts hidden in the pictures. And this one, there’s noses 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 cute, there’s an iconic bookstore called Chaucer’s. I do give him 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.

 

Kulap Vilaysack  56:46

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.

 

SuChin Pak  56:57

Supreme placement, VIP. 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 going to 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, because I can pick up one of those, like, and every few weeks, everyone’s like, we gotta say, We gotta go to Chaucer’s guys. So hold on a second. We gotta make a quick stop. And the kids run out, and they fill up the whoopie cushions and the and the nose sharpeners. This is, this is what we’re teaching my children. Yeah, 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 send Kai in there. He he loves to do it because he loves to talk to people, loves to talk to parents.

 

Kulap Vilaysack  57:57

Takes after his father in that way.

 

SuChin Pak  57:59

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 books for his papa. I love it anyway. So get them while they’re hot. What a delightful thing to give to the youngsters the joy of laughter and not taking yourself too seriously. Get both books because I know you can afford it.

 

Kulap Vilaysack  58:28

That’s right. Well, that’s all for our best of 2024 let us know your favorite buys from 2024 on Instagram @AddtoCartpod, send us a DM, a comment. We will take your suggestions to add to our frenzy buying and follow Blakely while you’re there at @BlakelyThornton, bye.

 

SuChin Pak  58:48

Bye.

 

CREDITS  58:54

There’s more Add To Cart with Lemonada Premium subscribers get exclusive access to bonus content, like where we tell you about the last item we bought or returned and why subscribe now in Apple podcasts.Add To Cart is a production of Lemonada Media. Our producers are Kegan Zema and Tiffany Bouy. Brian Castillo is our engineer. Theme music is by Wasahhbii and produced by La Made It and Oh So Familiar with additional music by APM music. Executive producers or Kulap Vilaysack, SuChin Pak, Jessica Cordova Kramer, and Stephanie Wittels Wachs. Be sure to check out all the items we mentioned today on our Instagram at @AddToCartPod. Follow Add to Cart wherever you get your podcasts or listen ad free on Amazon music with your Prime membership.