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May is Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month! Sunday is Mother’s Day! People are getting vaccinated to varying degrees and, according to SuChin and Kulap, wax(cinated?) to varying degrees! With so much to celebrate, this episode is packed with add to carts ranging from flowers to food to the cutest massager you’ve ever seen.

 

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SPEAKERS

Kulap Vilaysack & SuChin Pak

SuChin Pak  00:10

Hi, everyone, we got it, another episode of ADD TO CART. I am SuChin Pak.

Kulap Vilaysack 

And I’m Kulap Vilaysack, we are your proud Asian aunties. And we are so excited to talk about Asian mommies.

SuChin Pak 

Why do you say it like that?

Kulap Vilaysack

And this is for two reasons. One, Mother’s Day is coming up this weekend.

SuChin Pak 

If we don’t have this show, I would have totally forgotten.

Kulap Vilaysack 

But you’re a mother and you have a mom?

SuChin Pak 

Yeah, we could talk about that later. Yeah, no, for sure. I’m sending my mom stuff. But, you know, sometimes I get a little short end of it. You know what, never mind. I’m already complaining. Let’s go. Can we just go on what else? What else do we have on the show?

Kulap Vilaysack 

We have our second reason which in which you’re going to tell us about.

SuChin Pak 

Oh, yeah. It’s our month. Okay? By the way, congratulations. It’s our month, May coincidentally is Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month, we are going to talk about things that we’re adding to cart that are related to AAPI Heritage Month, we’re going to be adding carts for Mother’s Day. Don’t worry, we’ve got you covered. And we’re just going to be celebrating our Asianess. Our Asian peoples, our Asian foods, all of that good stuff over the next few weeks.

Kulap Vilaysack 

All month in fact, all of May.

SuChin Pak 

Maybe till the rest of the year.

Kulap Vilaysack 

We’re a couple of rebels. SuChin, how can we like swiftly say that acronym, right?

SuChin Pak 

I know I’ve been saying Asian peoples month. Asian friends month, I mean AAPI Heritage Month, that is the unsexiest month name. I want to recall on that, we need to rebrand.

Kulap Vilaysack  02:10

Also, by the way, and in fact, we are nominated for the Webby’s People’s Choice Award as Best in lifestyle podcast. We’re currently in third place. So please head to smarturl.it/voteaddtocart and vote for us. Voting is open until May 6. So spread the word, too, please. You can find the link in our episode notes. Okay, SuChin. Let’s start off with some of our favorite buys for Mother’s Day.

SuChin Pak 

Yes. So Mother’s Day is right around the corner. And I wanted to start off with a pick. It’s not going to be surprising. Okay. This is tried and true. Okay, this is Mother’s Day, kids. This is not the time to experiment. All right. You don’t send mom something you saw on the gram, on the Tiktok, okay, you go tried and you go true. And I always really love to send my mom a box of like fun, good skincare stuff and haircare stuff, actually, that she wouldn’t necessarily buy for herself, but I know she’s going to really enjoy. And this is a product that I’ve talked about on this show.

SuChin Pak 

I wrote about it in The Strategist, in New York Magazine, and it’s called O.R.G. We talked about this. A while ago, I think even in our deranged shower episode, I’ve retitled that.

Kulap Vilaysack 

It was just simply deranged.

SuChin Pak 

It’s just simply deranged, shower episode, and it is a spray that you put on your skin. And it really gives you that at home Korean spa feeling. And for those of you that have never been to a Korean spa, it’s okay. Because now you get to have it at home.

Kulap Vilaysack  04:04

I mean, I have and I miss it. So I’m tearing up a little bit. I miss it.

SuChin Pak 

It’s a light at the end of the Vax tunnel. I hope we can get there. Maybe that’s where we do our first live event, is at a Korean spa. Do you think we could do that? I don’t know.

Kulap Vilaysack

You know, us with couple mic’s, buck naked in a t-jacuzzi..

SuChin Pak 

..in a wet cave. I don’t see any tech problems in there. Ivan I love that. So okay, so it’s called O.R.G. And really you put it on your skin, and then you wait for about a few seconds. And as you start to remove the product and you move your hand in circles and you work the product on your skin, your skin, you actually physically see peels of gray skin that doesn’t need to be there, coming off of your body, and then what you’re left with is just glowing, supple, dewy skin. That is what I like to call step zero of the skincare routine. What is step zero? It is that step before the first step to prep your skin to absorb all of our expensive and medium price, but also effective skincare products that we love.

Kulap Vilaysack 

Right. So it’s like before you wax your car. You got to first remove all the debris before applying the wax. Right?

SuChin Pak 

Yeah, you don’t put the wax on the bird shit, you know what I mean? You got to scrape that off.

Kulap Vilaysack

So if people weren’t following that, your car is your body.

SuChin Pak 

And then really, if you’re not applying skincare, but you’re also applying makeup, you know, you don’t want to put makeup on top of dead skin like dry skin, skin that’s not going to be a beautiful clean canvas for your makeup that’s going to last all day. The other thing I love with this is because it’s really about stripping your skin of that layer that doesn’t need to be there. It helps when you’re shaving and with ingrown hair. So there’s just a lot of reasons why it’s so great to do before you step in the shower or before you wash your face.

Kulap Vilaysack  06:29

I’m curious you know of that for you because I’m like when I’m fully vax, I’m getting fully waxed.

SuChin Pak 

That’s not the phrase, that is not the CDC approved Fauci phrase.

Kulap Vilaysack 

People are saying that a lot.

SuChin Pak

I’ve never heard that. That is not a thing.

Kulap Vilaysack 

Well, maybe it’s just the circles I run with. And my circles, when we’re fully vax, you better believe we’re getting fully wax. I don’t even know but I’m gonna be aerodynamic and COVID free. I am. I’m half joking. I prefer I will you know I like to keep you know a nice little Dorito triangle up top. I want you guys to know that, cuz I’m a grown woman. But besides that, most fully vaxxed, mostly waxed. And SuChin, what will you be?

SuChin Pak 

I don’t know of where I can rhyme. I will be very hairy as I always am.

Kulap Vilaysack 

Well very hairy does rhyme.

SuChin Pak 

Yes, very hairy, not wax. I mean, I’m not going to get into the one and only time I’ve ever been waxed. I didn’t have obviously O.R.G to prep my skin. Maybe that would have made a difference, doesn’t matter because I’m never doing again. I was so horrified. I remember I did it because I was going on a sexy trip to Greece. You know, this isn’t my 20s. I had bathing suits then. I wore like proper bathing suits.

Kulap Vilaysack  08:20

Oh, you used to wear bathing suits?

SuChin Pak 

I used to wear bathing suits. Yeah. And that happened. And then I had to get on a plane and fly. And so much discomfort. And then the entire trip. I had to pretty much wear shorts. Because it was just, it wasn’t tight. It wasn’t right. You know what I mean?

Kulap Vilaysack 

Wow, this is really the origin story. The traumatic story in where now you wear cloth biker shorts as your underwear.

SuChin Pak 

That’s right. That’s right. And listen, Ku, as you go into your fully vax, fully wax lifestyle. No judgement. You can hello, prep your skin with this.

Kulap Vilaysack 

I haven’t tried this yet. Because I got products on their way. They are unroot.

SuChin Pak 

The thing about Mother’s Day I think is really nice is you want to get they have a little set which is great. And it’s a body set and a face set. I think it’s 65 bucks. So anyway, that’s my first Mother’s Day Add To Cart, enjoy moms

Kulap Vilaysack

Now, SuChin, I know what you’re wondering. What are you getting your mommy? Is that what you were thinking, SuChin?

SuChin Pak 

How did you say at the top?

Kulap Vilaysack 

Mommiessss.

SuChin Pak 

That so gross. I hate that. Okay, what are you getting your mother?

Kulap Vilaysack

Oh yes, my mommy. I’m sending her some flowers. And I am trying out urban stems which I read about them on The Strategist. And they had like a 25% off code. So definitely go to The Strategist to check them out. I’m getting her some peony flowers, which are my favorite flowers. And speaking of The Strategist…

SuChin Pak  10:23

Guys, we’re not we’re not paid by The Strategist.

Kulap Vilaysack 

No. We’re not paid.

SuChin Pak 

We’re just friends and fans, we’re not paid period. But we’re definitely not by The Strategist.

Kulap Vilaysack 

But SuChin, on our podcast, we did talk about the article that you wrote for The Strategist yet?

SuChin Pak 

Yeah.

Kulap Vilaysack 

We just let it happen without comment on our show, which is like, what are we doing?

SuChin Pak 

I know, this is not to document every minute of our lives, then really what? What is it for?

Kulap Vilaysack 

What is it for?

SuChin Pak 

I am such a fan of The Strategist, that like you know, when you get that newsletter email of like, hey, this company is doing a poll, why don’t you take it, I take them, I take them on The Strategist. So I went on there at the beginning of the pandemic. And I said, well, I’m a big fan. And I think you should do more on what the hell we’re supposed to do with these children at home. You know, it was the beginning of the pandemic, when we had no idea as parents, like, what are we doing with these kids? Like the schools hadn’t figured it out? There was no remote learning. And then from there, the editor reached out to me and was like, hi, we got your survey.

SuChin Pak 

We’re fans, you know, let us know if you ever want to do something, cut to, all the stuff that’s been happening around, you know, the conversations we’ve been having about the Asian American community and just the stuff that we’ve been talking about here on this podcast. Well, what about doing a great AAPI business list? It just made a lot of sense. And so we did it anyway.

Kulap Vilaysack  12:02

And it’s great. It’s amazing.

SuChin Pak 

It was so fun, because I really tried to pick businesses that were like home grown, like two employees, you know, mom and dad or, you know, partners, sisters, siblings. So I really tried to keep that list to companies that I felt like weren’t in the mainstream.

Kulap Vilaysack 

Because advertising costs a lot of money. And most of these businesses don’t have that type of budget. So any type of positive review or any amplification or shine means so much, and a lot of are Asian American Pacific Islander or small businesses have really been hit hard in these in again, the concurrent crises, […] onslaught.

SuChin Pak 

It’s so satisfying to get these like, messages from some of the businesses. One of the businesses was One Stripe Cha based out of Portland and they do these like great, like cold brews of Chai, and then you can pour it over milk. Anyway, so they shoot message and she was like, I just want to let you know we got so many orders. That makes me honestly like it that is more satisfying than interviewing presidential candidates and covering natural disasters. Like honestly, like I get more satisfaction. I think it’s because I am a child of an immigrant store owner. Like it’s such a big deal to buy from these businesses, you know?

Kulap Vilaysack 

Yes, it is and for Mother’s Day, we are going to talk about two more businesses that you mentioned in your article. All right, well,

SuChin Pak 

All right, well, we’re going to take a quick quick break.

Kulap Vilaysack  14:02

We’re gonna talk about two products that we both love so much. And the first one is the Lanshin Massager by ACERA. So it’s a collaboration between Lanshin and ACERA, it is a little cute, adorable, hot stone massage in the palm of your hand. So it looks like a little squid and it’s either comes with a lavender or light blue rubber top and so you put boiling hot water in its interior and the outside, non-rubber part is porcelain that is glazed with crushed tourmaline crystal and so this is part of its patented technology. This is where it takes it next level because from the term tourmaline crystals, SuChin Pak, it delivers far infrared heat, boosting circulation and promoting well-being. And this crystal, SuChin Pak, is also known to emit negative ions that behave like antioxidants of the air. So this is combining with Sandra Lanshin choose I mean, she’s a master in traditional, you know Chinese medicine, in Gua Sha in..

SuChin Pak 

..skincare, all of it.

Kulap Vilaysack 

Yeah, everything, acupuncture, acupressure. It’s a combination of, you know, it’s this perfect. Truly guys, I’m telling you, it’s a perfect product because of this collaboration. So SuChin, talk about how it feels.

SuChin Pak 

Okay, you guys, you guys, it acts like a hot stone, like you would get in a hot stone massage. Right? So it’s the combination of the heat. And then what you’ve got at the bottom of the porcelain are these tiny little ridges, and these ridges somehow perfectly hug pressure points that you can use on your body, especially around your neck, your jaw, your face. So all of these type places.

Kulap Vilaysack  16:17

The top of your head.

SuChin Pak 

On top of your head, and it’s both the pressure point and the heat.

Kulap Vilaysack 

Here’s the other thing. You guys know I love aesthetics. This thing is so freakin cute. SuChin likes how it feels. I like how it feels, too, it is so adorable. That like, give it to your mom, give it to your sister, anybody who knows me is getting one of these guys.

SuChin Pak 

And it’s such an unusual gift. And Claire just interrupted to say, oh, no, I need to buy this.

Kulap Vilaysack 

Claire’s had to put a sticky note. Near her computer that says you don’t have that much money.

SuChin Pak

It’s a reminder. But this is 45 bucks. Yes, you know, we’re trying to keep it, we’re trying to keep these presents at a reasonable, reasonable but respectable price point. And it’s just really unusual. It’s so when you look at a picture, you don’t know what it does until you hold it in your hand and you fill it with hot boiling water.

Kulap Vilaysack 

You know, let it cool down a little bit.

SuChin Pak 

Don’t burn yourself, right.

Kulap Vilaysack 

And another thing just to add and people may not expect this. You also need sort of like an oil or like a spring mist to prep the skin. Yeah, it’s a little slippery. You don’t want to either burn or scrape your skin.

SuChin Pak 

So if you go and you type in on YouTube, like Lanshin massage ACERA, she has a video on how to use it. So you can also do that. But I just think it’s a great, great gift. And I’ve never seen anything like this.

Kulap Vilaysack  18:00

SuChin and I organize for the Asian American Pacific Islander women and Entertainment Group that’s kind of like an offshoot of time’s up. And we have been doing self-care Saturdays for our group. And this past Saturday, Sandra joined us and she only had to give us 30 minutes of her time, she gave us an hour and she just walked us through how to use it. And people who didn’t have this massager and had a Gua Sha. She gave them the alternate moves for that. And if you didn’t have that, and you had a porcelain spoon, she was like here, it was so generous of her it was so incredibly generous of her. And it was so enjoyable for me first to feel you know how to do it and how to like really relax my jaw.

SuChin Pak 

Yeah, it was your first time.

Kulap Vilaysack 

First time using it. But also, SuChin, what did you say when we were on the Zoom with like 20 women who are just feeling amazing and like feeling it.

SuChin Pak 

You guys we’re all doing this massage thing and in various face contortions of ecstasy. It looked like a group sex therapy session. I’m just gonna be honest, there were times I wanted to take screenshots to like post and I was like, I can’t post this like people are gonna think we’re doing something strange.

SuChin Pak

Now the other gift that I wanted to talk about for Mother’s Day is something we’ve talked about before but they’re doing a special thing just for moms. You can send this to your mom or if you know we’re living in a post vax world. A lot of people are seeing their parents for the first time. I’m like watching all these videos and it’s so sweet. Like I haven’t seen my mom and you know 15 months and I haven’t seen my so it just has been so great and this is a way for you to be able to host your mother and to feed her and to show her so much love for Mother’s Day. So it’s a Girl and Dug Mother’s Day Special Edition box. I want to first quickly say I love that they created this box. And I’m not going to go through but they were like this box is for aspiring to be moms unable to be moms, struggling moms adjusting moms, single moms foster moms, mother figures that goes on, and just celebrating all different kinds of mothers and caretakers, you know, moms still present, moms since lost, moms who’ve lost a child.

SuChin Pak  20:37

I mean, even the intention behind this box is so beautiful. And this box, we’ve talked about boxes from Girl and Dug before, Girl and Dug is such an experience. It isn’t just about what you eat from Girl and Dug it is this..

Kulap Vilaysack 

…It’s a feast for the eyes.

SuChin Pak 

Yes, it’s something that they do. It’s so intangible. It’s imagination. It’s heart. It’s just all of it, you immediately recognize it when you open the box that it is, this is something so spectacular and so, so special. You will never ever, ever get this anywhere else. I don’t say that lightly. So what you’ll get in this box, you get your veggies in your greens, these aren’t veggies in greens you pick up at your local grocery store, so okay, so you’re not going to get a […], you’re not going to get a Tokyo […] you’re not going to get […] all right, you’re not going to get an ice plant, show me where you’ve seen an ice plant.

SuChin Pak 

And it says it serves four to six adults, I would say double that. I mean four to six adults that have enormous appetites like so they have all of this so you can really do a nice spread for your mom, it’s such a beautiful special thing you can send it and or you can finally host it.

Kulap Vilaysack 

You know that’s so exciting.

SuChin Pak 

But you have to you must place your order by the end of today for it to get delivered by Mother’s Day. So go to their website for details. girlndug.com. And I’m sure we have a code. We got a code. We’re gonna have all the codes on our Instagram.

Kulap Vilaysack  22:17

Add to code, right? No, that doesn’t work. Let me work shop it.

SuChin Pak 

While she workshops it, will be back.

Kulap Vilaysack 

We are back on ADD TO CART. Now we’re going to talk about AAPI, aka Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month. Isn’t that exciting, SuChin? This is our month.

SuChin Pak

This is our month. But you know, it’s our year go on.

Kulap Vilaysack 

Yeah, it is our year and it’s been a year.

SuChin Pak 

Exactly. Boy do we need this month guys, really, really crawled to this month, you know..

Kulap Vilaysack 

This month, friends, we are gonna squeeze it dry. And then we’re gonna make jerky out of it. And then we’re gonna chew it. And then we’re gonna digest it. And then we move on to June.

SuChin Pak 

And that’s a beautiful summary of what you’ll be hearing on this podcast all month long. We’re going to be talking to some of our favorite AAPI folks. We’re going to be talking about API own businesses. I think you have something, Kulap.

Kulap Vilaysack 

Well, yes. Now, SuChin Pak, you’ve changed my life in so many ways since we began this podcast low in the fall, November 2020. And you introduced me to your friend. Julia Vaughn. Perhaps the most beautiful woman I’ve ever met.

SuChin Pak

I mean, that’s just a fact. We’re not even trying to listen, It just is.

Kulap Vilaysack  24:03

You know, go to her Instagram at @juliavaughn. You have eyes. I have eyes. You will see how beautiful she is. And she’s a dear friend of yours.

SuChin Pak 

Yeah. She’s a badass. She’s a mom. She’s a business owner and she’s just, she’s just an amazing, amazing creature and she’s got this business and she collects and sells vintage jewelry but she also has been prolifically making her own jewelry that is sort of based on the vintage vibe because she’s definitely got like a Michelle Pfeiffer 70s’ you know what I mean? Sexy vibe and her jewelry, is right there like it’s..

Kulap Vilaysack 

It’s not for the meek, okay? This is statement jewelry. All right. This is like big business. You know, it’s 70s’, 80s’, like throwback, and they are thick chains. And I’m wearing two right now that I absolutely love, I love them so much. And they’re like really thick herringbone necklaces. So one is 24 inches and one is 20 inches. SuChin, can you see it upon my neck?

SuChin Pak

Yeah, I mean it’s a bling bling. These guys these aren’t shy. Shy let me just sit in the corner, you know this is center of the dance floor spotlight is on, wax and vax. Ready to go necklaces.

Kulap Vilaysack 

Yes. And they’re 18 karat gold plated brass. And it is the thickest herringbone chain I have ever seen.

SuChin Pak 

Which is why you needed too.

Kulap Vilaysack

That’s right. And when I say thick, THICC, all caps.

SuChin Pak  

I’m here but I’m scared.

Kulap Vilaysack

THICC.

SuChin Pak 

Okay. […] we can do this all day long. But the fact of the matter is..

Kulap Vilaysack  26:15

SuChin, I’m so sorry. The fact of the matter is what?

SuChin Pak 

The fact of the matter is we’re talking about necklaces.

Kulap Vilaysack 

Oh, sorry. That’s right.

SuChin Pak 

And that’s just the vibe, you know, and if you’re not, if you can’t handle that, if you can’t wear that, it’s okay. There are other places for you. It’s just not here. Like, this is a different type of person. And you can’t go wrong. I don’t know what to say like, I treat myself to a Julia Vaughn when you know what I mean? When I’m yeah, this is a bit of a tough thing or like I’ve hit a milestone I’m about to hit a milestone so I just placed an order for you know, vintage rhinestone choker.

Kulap Vilaysack 

Oh, I can’t wait to see that.

SuChin Pak 

Again. It’s her like she boxes every single one. She lovingly you know, writes the cards, all of it.

Kulap Vilaysack 

The necklaces were wrapped in a swated little pouch, a handwritten note. I mean, come on, please support her. She’s amazing.

SuChin Pak 

This jewelry is, is just it’s beautiful.

Kulap Vilaysack 

And they sell out because there’s one necklace that I was kind of like, oh, I’m not ready yet. I don’t deserve it yet. And it was gone. And she wears it. And I’m so jealous.

SuChin Pak 

Yeah, sometimes she’ll bring you something back when it’s super popular. But I’ve had that moment where I just waited a minute too long because it’s you know, it’s a small business. So she sells out pretty fast. And it’s just awesome. It’s a great, great jewelry line. So my Add To Cart. I don’t know how many of you all are familiar with Ikebana, and Ikebana is the art of a Japanese flower arranging. It’s very different than a Western way of arranging flowers. You know, which is beautiful as well, you know, you get a bunch of lush flowers in a vase and you can do all sorts of things. Ikebana, it’s so hard to describe. It’s I describe it more as it’s more like you’re making sculptures with flowers and greens and stems.

Kulap Vilaysack  28:33

In the Japanese tradition. There is restraint.

SuChin Pak 

Yes, there is restraint.

Kulap Vilaysack 

It is you know; it is mindful, it is purposeful. The American way of doing it is you know, […] Kulap style.

SuChin Pak 

But fun. It’s fun. It’s a little messy. It’s great

Kulap Vilaysack 

Ikebana, I think maybe a little bit more SuChin. […] composed.

SuChin Pak 

It’s gonna be a little, it’s gonna be not so, not so fun. It’s gonna be more meditative.

SuChin Pak

It’s going to be a quiet sculpture that evokes the seasons. It’s very much based on as a lot of Japanese culture is based on with the changing seasons. And so it is a way for people to really connect to your natural surroundings and what’s happening, and there’s this great company, it’s a small company, and it’s called Bana Box. And what it does is it delivers all of the items you would need to do your own an Ikebana arrangement. And it comes with these great like, iron like scissors that are very particular to the Ikebana, flower arranging and all of the vases and everything and the flowers, and I just thought it’s such a nice thing to do right now. It felt like the approach way to kind of celebrate and meditate it just was a really nice experience to have this box.

Kulap Vilaysack  30:07

Flowers around me so important. I have them every week. I was so surprised. How, just as you said, how meditative it was, another part of this, the starter kit is the Kenzan. It’s how do you even say what a Kenzan is?

SuChin Pak 

It’s an iron vase with spikes so that you can push the stems into it, and it will hold them upright. It’s beautiful. It’s like, it looks like the sun and the moon. And they’re together, they’re two pieces that they give you.

Kulap Vilaysack 

And even the way that the vase is, it’s not meant to be like filled to the top. It’s meant to just be filled just a little bit, or right at where the spikes are. Yeah. So that you can it’s there’s you reflecting upon that water, you can see that water. And also you’re gazing at it. And you notice that it needs a little bit more. So you’re still being very attentive to it. It was so fun to do. I was just so happy. Just do it and by myself on a Saturday afternoon.

SuChin Pak 

It’s a great way to do that. And the flowers last forever. It’s a great thing to you know, add to cart for yourself. But it’s also really talked about a fantastic Mother’s Day gift. Like that also could be a great Mom’s Day gift.

Kulap Vilaysack 

So you’re not going to get anything like even from your kids for Mother’s Day? Not to bring it back to that.

SuChin Pak 

You know what I get the this is, there’s no way I can say this. Okay, I get the great thing that lots of mothers get, which is you know, I get pancakes. Some cards. Yeah. And you know, the thing about Mother’s Day, when you have young kids, it’s like that push and pull. You want to be with your kids, but you also want someone to take your children away. And then you also want someone to clean your house and cook for you like, the expectation for Mother’s Day. It’s my fault. Like who am I? You know? So, you know, I’m one of those, like, salty people when I’m cleaning my toilet on Mother’s Day. You know, I’m gonna make a meal out of it. I’m gonna cry some tears and write a poem called “Mama’s cleaning the toilet on Mother’s Day.” You don’t love me enough. You know, it’s not good.

Kulap Vilaysack  32:37

I would say for maybe partners, we have a lot of partners of mothers who, you know, listen to us and then they, I think get lots of tips. Tips from Auntie KuKu and SuSu. And I think a tip is you know, take the kids out for the day, let Mama do her thing. You know, like do things like you know, I guess for me like the difference in your situation is that you’ve been with your kids this entire time where I haven’t seen my mom, you know, since last Thanksgiving.

SuChin Pak 

I’d like to see my mom. I would love to see my mom. I’ve seen these kids a lot. I love them to death. I use to see them a lot.

Kulap Vilaysack 

And so in an opposite way for me, I haven’t seen my mother-in-law since I think Thanksgiving. Yeah. And they live in Orange County. My mother and father-in-law. Mrs. Linda Aukerman, Linda if you’re nasty. I don’t know why I said it that way. But my sweet dear Linda I haven’t seen in so long. And so the first thing where I will be hosting people in my house will be on Mother’s Day. And it will be Linda and Bert, and my sister-in-law Jamie and we’re going to be Scott and I are going to be cooking her a she wants Halibut or Salmon with some mashed potatoes. And she liked these glazed carrots I made in on Thanksgiving. And we’ll I’ll get her a cream pie but not chocolate. And it’ll be this like amazing reunion. Yeah, but that’s because I’ve not seen her in so long. And I you know, of course SuChin, what will I be?

SuChin Pak  34:25

I mean, […] but…

Kulap Vilaysack 

Well, guys on that note, that’s our show.

SuChin Pak 

That’s our show.

Kulap Vilaysack 

Happy Mother’s Day. Happy AAPI. I hope everybody is you know, doing good out there.

SuChin Pak 

Find all of the codes. These codes we’re talking about. On our Instagram pages.

Kulap Vilaysack 

Search for the code, guys, search for the code.

SuChin Pak 

And we’ll see you next week.

Kulap Vilaysack

See you next week.

CREDITS

ADD TO CART is a production of Lemonada Media. Our producer is Claire Jones and our editor is Ivan Kuraev. The music is by Wasahhbii and produced by La Made It and Oh So Familiar with additional music by APM music. Executive producers are 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. Also, please take a moment to rate, review, and subscribe to the show wherever you get your podcast.