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• Ku will never be dry with these Kate McLeod Body Stones

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Transcript

SPEAKERS

SuChin Pak, Kulap Vilaysack

Kulap Vilaysack  00:07

Wow, SuChin Pak, God you’re a sight for sore eyes.

 

SuChin Pak  00:12

Am I?

 

Kulap Vilaysack  00:13

This is, yeah, your mama claws, welcome back to Add To Cart. I’m your auntie Kulap Vilaysack.

 

SuChin Pak  00:19

And I’m your other auntie, Mama clause.

 

Kulap Vilaysack  00:22

That’s right, Mama Pak SuChin, Mama Pak SuChin.

 

SuChin Pak  00:31

Oh my goodness, mama, you’re my mama. Guys, I’m in a mood.

 

Kulap Vilaysack  00:38

I know we are in a mood.

 

SuChin Pak  00:44

I’m in mood.

 

Kulap Vilaysack  00:44

Okay, so we’ve been talking all season long about where to find the best gifts. We’ve searched high and low, in crevices in, you know, I mean, Su has been giving me bread crumbs because, you know, Su, she’ll hit that basement bin, bargain low. She’s not afraid to put on a mask and roll at it you know.

 

SuChin Pak  01:06

No, I just, I have eight tubs of Malden salt just hidden in the garage because I couldn’t help myself. I mean, at 7:78, a tub when a box of mild on salt is anywhere between $10 and $12.

 

Kulap Vilaysack  01:25

I know it, Su I know it. You know you don’t need a salt pig. You’re the salt pig. Yeah, I know you like that flaky salt.

 

SuChin Pak  01:36

I love a finishing salt. You know, who else loves a finishing salt? My kids, they eat that stuff up as if it were cheap, as if it were 778, a tub. Anyway, I decree, are we opening a show, or what?

 

Kulap Vilaysack  01:49

We’re opening a show? Sue, we’re not just opening a show. We’re gonna be we’re gonna be opening presents, I hope your present that I sent you is nearby. I know the one that.

 

SuChin Pak  01:58

Is right here.

 

Kulap Vilaysack  01:59

Yes, we two gift masters.

 

SuChin Pak  02:05

Let’s not make it a competition like your friend group makes everything in competition. And I love your friend group. I can’t hang, cannot hang. I politely nod my hat and curtsy out of the room.

 

Kulap Vilaysack  02:21

But grace, you’d win. They had nothing on you.

 

SuChin Pak  02:25

Well, I did win the moose games.

 

Kulap Vilaysack  02:27

Yes, you did.

 

SuChin Pak  02:28

That’s the wrong the raunchiest of them all appear.

 

Kulap Vilaysack  02:31

Yeah, former Sunday school teacher, Pak SuChin.

 

SuChin Pak  02:35

Yes, I couldn’t even believe it I still it in the middle of the night as I lay awake, tossing and turning about all the deals that that I’m missing out on. It makes me happy that I’m the raunchiest of them all, because that’s a raunchy crowd.

 

Kulap Vilaysack  02:52

That’s right. It is.

 

SuChin Pak  02:54

You’ll have to listen. If you guys haven’t listened, we played a naughty game called, that’s what she said, Moose game? Yes, that’s what she said with a bunch of of of our friends, some of the nastiest people that I know, and I won, they’re disgusting, and I was the nasty guest.

 

Kulap Vilaysack  03:13

I’m proud of you.  And that’s what Christmas is about. It’s about being proud of your podcast wife. And I’m gonna be honest, I don’t want it to be a competition, because, of course, as I sit here and the dust has settled quite a bit on I’m on the other side of shopping. I believe. What does that mean? I think, I’m done, except for, like, a few I would. I don’t want to be mean, but non consequential people that I feel like, oh, I just want to get something easy and quick, and it doesn’t need to happen. You know, kind of people on my list. But as I sit here now this morning, I was like, I should have got such in this.

 

SuChin Pak  03:51

I know that’s the thing. The thing is, your gift is the first gift I purchase of the season, and it’s usually a few things, and so, yeah, but you got to make that commitment you do, and we’re going to be talking about it in another episode. Decision fatigue is so, so intense for me this time of year, I have to just pull the plug, because all year long, I squat and I never shit.

 

Kulap Vilaysack  04:20

Sorry, Brian did it right into Mike because I couldn’t. I had no control.

 

SuChin Pak  04:25

And you just have to shit all right this time of the year, you just have to do it and get off the pot. That’s you know what I mean? Just like, move on. You have no time for your trauma. We have no time for your dilly dallying. We have no time so.

 

Kulap Vilaysack  04:42

And it affects you, if you’re in that pot for too long, that hemorrhoid city, baby.

 

SuChin Pak  04:48

Yeah, move, that’s right. I gotta move around. And so I have a lot of anxiety, although, on the other side of anxiety is always excitement, as I tell my children and. And so I don’t know if that’s true. I don’t know if it’s true, but it doesn’t matter. It is true because I speak it.

 

Kulap Vilaysack  05:11

Should we start with mine and like and we have to say what happened?

 

SuChin Pak  05:16

Yeah, that was a little bit of a bummer.

 

Kulap Vilaysack  05:20

So let’s start there. First, I already opened. The issue is I already opened.

 

SuChin Pak  05:27

Yes, I wanted to do one more little thing, and I couldn’t I was like, what is it? What could it be? And I found the perfect thing. My coup does not like to be dry. No being dry for her, causes what’s on the other side of excitement, anxiety. She doesn’t like to be flaky crusty. She doesn’t like a hangnail. I know. She likes to be buttered up. I do like a little spot turkey.

 

Kulap Vilaysack  05:56

And you told me you’re like, hey, something’s coming for you.

 

SuChin Pak  06:00

Yeah, specify.

 

Kulap Vilaysack  06:03

You didn’t specify. Sometimes, when you send it to me, you’ll say, don’t. It’ll be on the thing. It’s, this is somehow in the it’ll say, Kulap, don’t open until Christmas. Be like, suck or something like.

 

SuChin Pak  06:12

Yes, and I forgot to do that.

 

Kulap Vilaysack  06:14

And it’s Kate McLeod SuChin Pak. What is it? It is a bot. It’s body moisturizer in bar form.

 

SuChin Pak  06:22

So what it is is called the Body Stone. It is 100% plant based ingredients, no fillers or preservatives. It glides onto your skin, mess, free from what I understand, it’s a lotion in the shape of a soap bar that you put on in the shower, and it’s supposed to completely moisturize your skin like, you know, lotion, but you use it in the shower. This is, this is what I’m seeing. This is what people are posting. And it melts on contact and absorbs quickly for easy application.

 

Kulap Vilaysack  07:04

Is this, did you try it? So I’ve been trying it. I even used it today. I’m not using it in the shower. I’m just using it after the shower, after I’ve dried myself, and I’m using it like moisturizer.

 

SuChin Pak  07:16

Oh, you’re right. Start with warm, dry skin, ideally after bath or shower, prep the body stone for use by cupping it between your palms so it begins to soften with your body heat, glide the stone directly across your skin. As it melts your skin, will absorb the nourishing ingredients and then massage the oils into your skin. So you are correct too.

 

Kulap Vilaysack  07:38

Yeah, I’m up to that, and then it came with a travel case. But I’m like, travel case. Like, where else are you supposed to put it? Use it every day? Like, I’m putting in in the thing, like, otherwise it’s just sitting there, I’m like.

 

SuChin Pak  07:51

Yeah, exactly. That’s why I was like, Well, I’ve got to get a little case for it. Yeah, otherwise what? So the whole point of this is that most of our skincare ingredients are 90% water, and then, you know, a very small percent of active and inactive ingredients that we’re actually paying for. So something like this is there’s no water in it, so it’s all moisturizer.

 

Kulap Vilaysack  08:18

Oh, wow, when you say it that way I been using it. You got me three kinds of grounding stones. You also got me the grounding stone Mini and the sleep stone Mini. And it’s awesome.

 

SuChin Pak  08:32

Okay, so that’s one present.

 

Kulap Vilaysack  08:35

I would purchase it for myself again, and I would gift it.

 

SuChin Pak  08:38

Okay, good. Well, listen, people have been raving about it, and I like that. It’s not messy. You know what? I mean, there’s no pump. There’s no thing you know, like, the crust doesn’t get you know, when you’re pumping it, if you haven’t used it in a while, and then it squirts everywhere. This is as easy as it comes.

 

Kulap Vilaysack  08:56

I mean, I don’t know what’s going on with you that that is a issue.

 

SuChin Pak  09:01

You never get, like, a little crust in your in your pump. No, I’m pointing at it, a little crust in that pump, and then you pump it, and it’s like, why? What? I know there’s product in here, and it goes and then the little ear wax. Oh, I know you’re talking about shooting out. Yeah, we’re using cheap ass shit too. I don’t know about that, but it won’t happen. It won’t happen. So that’s Wow. Okay, do see we go. Let’s go through your other presence that you haven’t opened. I have it. You actually start with the big the start. There’s two things in there. Start with the big one.

 

Kulap Vilaysack  09:35

Yes, ma’am.

 

SuChin Pak  09:41

I want to say I got the last one. I want to say I got the last one. I went yesterday to get the link for this for Tiff and sold out. I had to, I had to get the link on a secondary shopping site.

 

Kulap Vilaysack  09:56

I am holding in my hands the John Dairy. In target collab, quilted throw one that I had, I had the chance early on in our manic state to purchase I saved it for later. And guess what, bitches, it was gone or so I thought. My pod wife, SuChin provides.

 

SuChin Pak  10:17

Listen. Do you know what the sound is of millions of people turning the podcast off because they’re like, We will not go down a John Darian rant with you two again, we’re sure. We’re assuring you we’re not talking about John Darian after this at.

 

Kulap Vilaysack  10:36

Well, let me just throw this down. Is that.

 

SuChin Pak  10:39

Unless it’s in my box.

 

Kulap Vilaysack  10:41

I promise you, it’s not. It’s not. I just wanted to say that after all that, such as dog destroyed her mushroom pillow.

 

SuChin Pak  10:54

After all that, my dear friend Adam Zeller, friend of the pod my friend for life, when I made him go to the West Hollywood target to get this pillow, and he did not want to go really, okay, that’s and then now I get face times from him all the time when he’s in Target, whenever he sees anything mushroom, he’s like, do you want this? And it’s just it won’t stop anymore. But yes, so it is the acorns quilted John Darien blanket that Ku,  did not get that.

 

Kulap Vilaysack  11:36

The one item that passed and.

 

SuChin Pak  11:37

I was like, how could you not get this? It is literally your house on a blanket. You know what the thing is. So your house that you may not see it once you open it, like it’s like a green screen, it’ll camouflage into the rest of your home. You have to have it.

 

Kulap Vilaysack  11:53

Thank you. Thank you so much. I love it.

 

SuChin Pak  11:57

Okay, and the last little present, little present. The little ones are always the best ones.

 

Kulap Vilaysack  12:05

Let’s see, what is it?  Oh, my God, oh gosh. These are statement earrings. These are diamante paved with a strip of emerald like crystals that go down the middle. They are clip ons. They are you who this is giving me, the influencer that you got me onto, which is Carlo Rockmore. Again, she has become my style. I never have I ever over.

 

SuChin Pak  12:42

The top overstated. I’ve been wanting to get you something emeraldy Ever since Emmy, but I haven’t, you know, I look around, I’m like, but these I found them IRL, which is such a pleasure at another man’s treasure, which is this incredible vintage place in Pasadena. I mean, it’s such a find. I love that place. There’s no way you’re walking out of there without something. And they just had these. And I said, yep, this is what I’ve been looking at for years.

 

Kulap Vilaysack  13:18

Like, this is, like, it’s just so funny, because I’ve really been watching Carlo Rock more, like, this morning she had this, like, really cool statement necklace. Like, I’ve been watching her lean into this, like, big, like, sort of big costume jewelry, and she layers it on, yeah, and I’m just like, That’s me in 2025 so, like, the fact that you got me these, I love them. Okay this is definitely gonna be in some Christmas holiday parties.

 

SuChin Pak  13:44

Yeah well, there was, I was deciding between two vintage pieces, and ultimately I went with the one that screamed holiday, because it just felt appropriate.

 

Kulap Vilaysack  13:55

I will be wearing these 365 though, like I’ll wear these with a T shirt.

 

Kulap Vilaysack  14:14

Okay, it’s time for you to open your panties.

 

SuChin Pak  14:17

I love also that you’re in your packaging that you said you’re using the Add to Cart stamp that we purchased, guys, if you’ve been with us for a while, you know we have. We both bought the she bought.

 

Kulap Vilaysack  14:31

Why did we do why did I why? As I was stamping, I was like, why did I do this? It’s usually.

 

SuChin Pak  14:37

No, because we redid a giveaway one year, never again. Stupidly, that thing was so much work, and we got these things and we stamped our own tissue paper. There’s a lot in here, all right, so I’m gonna open up this first. Yeah, I don’t remember.

 

Kulap Vilaysack  14:59

And.yeah, I’m gonna be honest. I remember, okay, what’s in there, what’s in there, Su, what’s in there? What’s in that bag that I got from Marsha. I know you weren’t gonna buy it yourself so.

 

SuChin Pak  15:16

You guys, when I tell you this brand has so much of our money. It is the Edie Parker, big underwear, big undies bag. Mine is in silver, and it has a little pocket for a lighter or a little lipstick. I just can’t tell you how delightful This is. And you know, I had to stop myself from buying it because I was like, ah, what if she gets it? Oh, so now I can take it off my cart app, your car, adapt my carted app. That’s what it’s called Carlo.

 

Kulap Vilaysack  16:01

It’s so fun.

 

SuChin Pak  16:03

But it’s so me.

 

Kulap Vilaysack  16:05

It is you.

 

SuChin Pak  16:07

Is if I’m not a big undie gal.

 

Kulap Vilaysack  16:11

Like, I know I’m gonna give it to Annie, but it does give it to Annie. Yeah, you were, you gave it to Annie, but you’re, like, Annie’s not a big undie gal. Like, you’re giving it to Annie because of your undies.

 

SuChin Pak  16:23

That’s right, I heard the note to hers when I sent it was, think of me, you’re, you’re, you’re a small undie gal hanging out with a big undie gal. I just wanted to remind you of that something. But this is great. Oh my god, wow. I get to actually hold it so well made. It is little initials on the butt. It’s so well made.

 

Kulap Vilaysack  16:49

It’s a cross body.

 

SuChin Pak  16:50

So cute.

 

Kulap Vilaysack  16:52

You can wear it as a clutch.

 

SuChin Pak  16:54

It’s silver. Oh, my God. It makes me happy. I kind of want to frame it.

 

Kulap Vilaysack  16:58

Oh, I can see that. You know, it does look like pop art, like a work of art.

 

SuChin Pak  17:03

Oh, I love it so much. Okay, it’s just funny that, like, I feel like a lot of times on our show, we become obsessed with things.

 

Kulap Vilaysack  17:14

Yeah like we do because it’s like stuff.

 

SuChin Pak  17:17

We get, we got on these hooks, and there’s no rhyme or reason tonight, it just says something about it tickles all of our funny bones and we can’t get off of it. And this season, it’s the John Darwin collection, and these, yeah, this underwear, um.

 

Kulap Vilaysack  17:32

Sometimes it has to do like we do like the product. And then we’re like, oh, we’ll also want to get the free shipping. So then you start to.

 

SuChin Pak  17:39

Oh, yeah, we’ll really add to cart.

 

Kulap Vilaysack  17:42

Ah, they’re free shipping, free shipping.

 

SuChin Pak  17:45

Oh, and fine, I Where are you getting this? This lint, chocolate of Target.

 

Kulap Vilaysack  17:53

This is the holiday collection.

 

SuChin Pak  17:56

The box, instead of filling it with like popcorn, so that the stuff doesn’t get damaged. She has filled it with my favorite truffles from Lint that holiday collection.

 

Kulap Vilaysack  18:12

She’s taking a bite right now.

 

SuChin Pak  18:16

Of course, I have to get an ornament every year from my Kuku.

 

Kulap Vilaysack  18:19

Yes, this is from world market. What is it? It’s a shopping cart.

 

SuChin Pak  18:27

No, but like a real metal shopping cart with wheels that, no, this is like an actual working shopping cart. Wait, it collapses. The baby seat collapses. No, this is like an actual shopping cart. I stuffed it with chocolates. This is amazing. I love it. Oh, my God. I haven’t, as you know, put up my tree yet, so or gotten my tree.

 

Kulap Vilaysack  18:52

I know all those things.

 

SuChin Pak  18:56

And the final thing in here, what is this? Oh, my, oh, it’s the is this Bagu?

 

Kulap Vilaysack  19:04

This is the Bagu stocking that I purchased months ago, on off market.

 

SuChin Pak  19:12

I don’t have a stocking for me.

 

Kulap Vilaysack  19:14

What? That’s the most you ever then.

 

SuChin Pak  19:19

I don’t have a stocking. You know what I said? We moved into this house. I had a stocking. In my last house, we had everybody’s name on it, and in this house, we’re just downsizing everything. And I said, You know what, I’m too old. I don’t need a stocking, and so I just have a stocking for my two kids, and it does feel a little womp, womp, when I stuffed their stocking. Because, you know what was happening? Nobody was stuffing Mama’s stocking. I was just stuffing my stockings. But that’s fine, but now I have a stocking. Wait and is it some? Is there something in it? Yes, I have a stuffed stocking this year.

 

Kulap Vilaysack  19:57

Yeah, Kuku, stuffed your stockings, Su.

 

SuChin Pak  20:02

Wow, and one year, Annie was here, and she was like, where’s your stalking? And I was like, No, you know what, it’s silly. She was very confused and taken aback, disheartened, taken aback, and she was annoyed. She was like, oh, she’s doing that thing again, and so she got me, like, a giant box full of expensive chocolates and told Mike to put it in a stocking. But I don’t even know if he put it in a stocking. I think he just, like put it in a plastic bag and hung it next to the stockings. Bender. Oh, bender. But the sentiment was there. Oh, wait. Okay, so let me look in here. Wait, some more chocolates. That’s right, by the way, I’m so excited to eat all this chocolate. Oh, my God, there’s so much chocolate, you guys, there must be so wait, there is there something else in here? Wait, there’s more stuff in there?

 

Kulap Vilaysack  21:06

Yes, what is it?

 

SuChin Pak  21:09

Okay, guys, I’m opening it up.

 

SuChin Pak  21:14

It’s an ornament.

 

SuChin Pak  21:15

Oh, is this […]?

 

Kulap Vilaysack  21:17

Yes, it is Target. Look, if El, I wish that target had lob, I feel like I would have made it somehow, some way, if Target had like a lob ornament, the fact that you have beat me, Bob, I had to get it for you.

 

SuChin Pak  21:36

Wow, this is amazing. It is actually a hot stone bowl that they made. It’s not even just like a regular bowl that they put it in. Like a Korean person working at Target was like, hey, let me do this for you. And then it is, you know what you have, peeping Bob, you have your eggs and your veggies, and then an egg on top, a fried egg on top, because you can’t have bean Bob without a fried egg. You guys, this is hilarious. Okay, the last thing in here, I’m reaching in. Is it chocolate?

 

Kulap Vilaysack  22:10

I see this one on your tree, right?

 

SuChin Pak  22:12

Yes, is this on your tree?

 

Kulap Vilaysack  22:13

Yes, it’s a vintage light up Christmas tree. That’s an ornament.

 

SuChin Pak  22:21

Should it go my tree or in my village? Oh, interesting choices. Wait, there’s something else in here. Is there?

 

Kulap Vilaysack  22:29

I think, there’s one more thing in the boot of it.

 

SuChin Pak  22:33

Geez, this is a lot of stuff. What is going on? Oh, this bitch wanted to win. I didn’t even know it was a contest. That’s how that’s how stupid I am. This fucking bitch. She saved the best for last. Oh, I’m like. You did not.

 

Kulap Vilaysack  23:03

It’s not the same one that you wanted, which, of course, the one that you wanted. After I had bought this went on like a crazy sale that I saw and carted and but I had already purchased this one.

 

SuChin Pak  23:17

Oh my god, it’s so beautiful.  Wait, what? It’s kind of like a puffy heart.

 

Kulap Vilaysack  23:24

Yes, silver.

 

SuChin Pak  23:25

Giant, thicc, t, h, i, c, c, thicc chain with a silver puffy heart.

 

Kulap Vilaysack  23:33

And she can wear it long, and you can wear it like, layer it and overlap it as kind of like a choker style.

 

SuChin Pak  23:40

Wow. As if there was. I love how she’s like, I don’t remember what’s in that box. I don’t remember if I won, huh? Is it a contest? Well, I guess it could be a contest. I mean, I don’t know. Twist my arm.

 

Kulap Vilaysack  24:01

Well, I like to buy for you. I like to give you presents, because I know fucking Mike’s not gonna do it, right, so I gotta step in. That’s right, Mike. I hope you listen to it. I’d say it to your face. You know what he would say, Oh, I don’t know. I’m building her. She shed whatever. Mike, you know, we didn’t talk about I went, it is true, and I do love him. I love him. I went and visited, of course, we all love him. Visited. Su brought at me up there with me, you know, like, I don’t know, last month or something, and I spied Mike coming out of the house, and I I just got in my craw. I’m gonna scare the shit out of him, and I crept from behind his van, and I shook him that he didn’t shit his pants.  I got him so good, so good, like the oh, wow, guys, I wish you could have seen it through my eyes. I wish I was wearing a go. Camera on, on like a helmet as I crept just, just like a little trickster. Sue wasn’t even there yet. He was just trying to mind his business in his front yard. And I came up in him so hard and went, boo. He screamed.

 

SuChin Pak  25:17

I can’t believe you didn’t put him in the hospital after that his little adrenal adrenal little shriveled raisins were even smaller. He had to do the whole routine. When you left, ground himself. He had to ground himself. He had to drain the lymph nodes. He had to put on the patches. He had to laser.

 

Kulap Vilaysack  25:36

No, I’m sorry. Well, I’m not, though I’m not.

 

Kulap Vilaysack  25:55

I scared him, and then I kind of like, walked away from him, like, Oh, I gotta go get the baby, and then you pulled up. Like, right after that.

 

SuChin Pak  26:02

I was like, what happened? I saw his blinking his little deer headlights. And I said, Hmm, that’s, that’s the trouble signal between us. What could be the trouble? Everyone’s having a great time. I have lunch. We’re gonna visit. And there was a lighter pallor to his normally green pallor.

 

Kulap Vilaysack  26:23

Yeah, I am delighting in it. I was like, oh, in my head, I was like, I think I scared him really badly.

 

SuChin Pak  26:29

Like, well, this family think I really we don’t speak above a certain decibel, our lights are not on, very dark.

 

Kulap Vilaysack  26:40

Yeah, you’re like my little sister who was with us, Alyssa quiet and meanwhile, my daughter and I are just two fireworks lit in a China shop.

 

SuChin Pak  26:52

It’s what keeps us alive. It’s not a coincidence. All my friends are fireworks lit in a China shop. I don’t have one quiet friend, not one, not one, one friend who’s like, who I’m the the lit firecracker.

 

Kulap Vilaysack  26:59

Here’s the thing, though, like, I understand what you’re saying, but like, you’re pretty lit. I know all jokes, sure.

 

SuChin Pak  27:15

Okay, yes, I am lit. And oh, by no means, am I a quiet, demure wallflower, however, and yet, and still, all of my friends are, one full of energy to have intact adrenals. Three, get up at the crack of dawn and go to bed at you know, they can muster. They can rally. I cannot rally. Okay, that’s where I will fail every single friend, and that’s okay with my friends. That’s why we’re friends. They’re like, yeah, no, she’s out. She’s never gonna do that, but I’ve got some lentils, full belly, full belly. I got some soup sloshing around. I got two and a half hours of just a fire hose. And then it’s my hair starts falling out at like, four o’clock, and.

 

Kulap Vilaysack  28:06

You appreciate it because there’s a timer on it, you know?

 

SuChin Pak  28:09

Oh yeah, you’re never gonna have to turn the lights off and hit the music off. With Me coming over, I will be out of there before you know it, before the soup is cold. I’m already seat belted into my car. I was just gonna say there are people, some people I know friends. I mean, do you have friends like that? They come over and they’re lovely, and I love them, but I’m like, Wow, I’m putting my pajamas on and they’re still here. There’s Dead Sea. I’m thinking of this one friend of mine, again, lovely. I remember the kids were really little. She wanted to come over hang out. She did the whole thing, the bedtime routine, she did the stories, the books, the bath time. And I was like, Oh, this is kind of cute, you know? Like, I’ve never had anyone do this with me. Oh, that’s so sweet. And she doesn’t have kids. And I was like, Oh, well, that’s kind of nice. Like, it’s fun for her, you know, she’s not burnt out from doing it at her house. That’s why. And kids went to sleep. I put them to sleep. And that there’s a whole ritual with my kids. My kids aren’t like, your kids, right? You know, you’re like, put them in the crib, bye, good night. Mine are like, rock me here and then sing this song, put this light on, you know, these four, you know, stuffies. So it’s a long process, put both kids to bed, creep downstairs, still there, still there. Hadn’t left.

 

Kulap Vilaysack  29:30

Hadn’t left. So then you use your bedtime routine.

 

SuChin Pak  29:33

Why wouldn’t I? I was coming down to turn the lights off downstairs.

 

Kulap Vilaysack  29:37

To be there. She was there. And then what was she like, let’s get what was her energy at that point?

 

SuChin Pak  29:43

Yeah, like, let’s get into it. So into it. Yeah, like, what’s so tell me. Tell me. You know what’s going now, it’s just me and you time.

 

Kulap Vilaysack  29:51

Oh, wow, no, I’ve gotten to the habit of, well, I’m gonna go to bed now you should leave like that. It’s and, but normally people are here a long time. But when I’m done.

 

SuChin Pak  30:05

That’s me. And if that happens, then usually Mike will, you know what I mean, he’ll wrap it up while I’m like, Okay, guys, good night. So it, how does it’s gone already.

 

Kulap Vilaysack  30:16

So he’s already, like, this is, I’m thinking about, like, Saturday, when I my cousins came over, who were from out of town, and my mom made faux and so at the end of the night, it was just me and one cousin, and then I was like, it’s 9pm I’m really tired so, and she was joking. She’s like, well, I’ll fall I’ll go to sleep in the I’ll go to sleep on your couch. I’m like, that’s fine, but we’re doing separate things about it. But like, yeah, here’s something to the side. I know we finished opening presents about what is the crux of this episode, but I need to air some complaints to you right now. Go ahead. So Casey and June have always been. Like, if you are one minute early, I will tear your head off your neck. They hate they just so they hate it. They’re later in general. So like often, me and Danielle will be waiting in our cars, trained by both of them.

 

SuChin Pak  31:07

Yes, I did that too when you were when it was your baby shower, because, of course, I didn’t want to be late and that there was full agenda, and I was early, and so I waited in the car, because I was like, There’s no way if I walk in, they’re going to be so pissed.

 

Kulap Vilaysack  31:22

Well, at my baby shower, one of my friends, Tintin and his partner at the time, were early, and Casey called them out in front of everybody. So you Yeah, your instincts for survival is still sharp, as sharp as.

 

SuChin Pak  31:34

Oh no, this group, yeah, you cannot. You cannot fuck around.

 

Kulap Vilaysack  31:40

And I’ve kind of been more lackadaisical about that, like I prefer on time over late but, you know, but this holiday weekend that had just gone past for Thanksgiving, for Thanksgiving, people were to come at one, and then my friend Rita, her mom and Little Brother, show up at 1230 and I was pissed, and I know it wasn’t Rita, because it was her mom wanting to just, like, show up and be there and stuff. But I just like, and I cannot. I’m not even a place where I’m like, hi, man, hi, man, you’re I’m like, You’re half an hour early. Like, I just like, say it. She’s like, oh. And Rita’s like, well, they’ll help set up. I’m like, help set up.

 

SuChin Pak  32:21

No, that was set up. No, that was you can’t, don’t. I’m like, get involved the machine. Yeah, the train has left the station. You’re just gonna get hurt.

 

Kulap Vilaysack  32:31

I’m like, well, I need to get ready. Like, it was, like, I was about to go.

 

SuChin Pak  32:35

You just have to sit and look at a tree, a gorgeous tree.

 

Kulap Vilaysack  32:38

I can’t by yourself, that’s right. I actually had a lot of events too. I had people around Thanksgiving. Friday was a break. Then my cousin was in town, and then the Sunday after that, December 1, I did like a movie night, like a cheesy Netflix movie night, the married gentleman. We did a theme. And it’s never about the movie, it’s about, like, the themed potluck. And because the married gentleman has, like, an all male review, Chad, Michael Murray, you know, I think, didn’t drink water for months so that he could take his shirt off multiple times. We did a cheesy bachelorette themed potluck. So penis themed, like everything was like, phallic like that. And that really is the event. It’s not the movie. The movie, of course, was horrible, but that’s not the point, right? So, like, that was this, like, I’ve done a lot of entertaining and what is so annoying is like, asking me what to bring. Fucking figure it out. Like, you’ve already got the parameters, and I’m just so tired of the business, we didn’t know what to bring, so we just brought all this stuff. Like, uh, just bring something like, Why do I have to hold your hand through the whole process? My other friend, she’s decided to finally join us for the penis party. Well, should I bring more sausages? Or do you have no sausages? I’m like, I’m setting up. Figure it out. It’s a potluck. I’m not in charge of you. Other people figured it out. They’re bringing penis shaped cookies. Olivia is bringing a chicken chowder that we call chicken cum chowder, cock praise, a salad like these are things that people figured out. I’m not here to to help you. Okay, I’m already providing a place. I’m making my own cheese balls with a spicy salami coming betwixt them. Who like? I’m busy.

 

SuChin Pak  34:26

I can’t believe I you did not send me. I this is in the cover of night. How are you making spicy cheese balls with a giant salami through it, and I don’t get a pick, okay? What am I? You’re right, what am I?

 

Kulap Vilaysack  34:39

What am I not? The winner of what she said.

 

SuChin Pak  34:43

What am I not? The naughtiest bitch, you know, wow, I don’t even need to context. All you have to do is send me the picture and be like, balls. Haha, yeah, I wouldn’t even ask. I wouldn’t be like, Wait, what is this dude? Why wasn’t I in? […] we should.

 

SuChin Pak  35:00

I don’t do that.

 

SuChin Pak  35:02

No.

 

Kulap Vilaysack  35:03

I know, you know, I think I’ve been entertaining so much. It’s just been go, you know, like, I it’s just been go time, yeah, you know, yeah. Line of go and a lot of shopping.

 

SuChin Pak  35:15

There’s people listening, being like, well, that’s a little harsh. The thing is, is these and we’re talking about our friends, people who know us and our personalities. She’s not inviting strangers into her home that don’t understand. Yeah, what? What the deal is, you don’t show up empty handed and you don’t ask questions. Yeah, that’s there’s just two rules. That’s it. You just, that’s it, and it doesn’t even matter what it is. It doesn’t matter. You go in there with confidence, with ease, and you contribute.

 

Kulap Vilaysack  35:47

I’m showing her a photo of.

 

SuChin Pak  35:49

Is a sausage erect?

 

Kulap Vilaysack  35:51

What is? Oh, no, all sausages are wrecked. No, see what she’s commenting on is I’m showing her the two large cheese balls. Then they’re cheese balls rolled in nuts, and then I put a spicy salami betwixt them, surrounded by club craft, fully erect, fully erect. She’s commenting on the fact that a knife is stabbed in the middle of the salami. And then that’s what she’s noticing.

 

SuChin Pak  36:15

But the knife looks like it’s part of the salami. So it looks like a giant, erect, bulbous sausage. God, that’s funny.

 

Kulap Vilaysack  36:26

Yeah.

 

SuChin Pak  36:27

Don’t fucking ruin the vibe, the mood. It’s supposed to be fun, like come in with details to a penis party. What you come to? Details to your taxes? You come to details to your fucking accountant, yeah to the penis cheese ball party.

 

Kulap Vilaysack  36:46

Yes, are my friends while they’re rolling dough and making spotted dick cockies. So I said, are they shaking their own heads and go what we do for cool up. That’s part of it. That’s part of it. I’m not gonna apologize for being lively, yeah, like my and these are my two lesbian friends.

 

SuChin Pak  37:12

They like, imagine it be creative, hey.

 

Kulap Vilaysack  37:15

And they they understood the assignment.

 

SuChin Pak  37:20

Tis the season.

 

Kulap Vilaysack  37:21

These are the things that we have done to bring in the spirit of.

 

SuChin Pak  37:26

The holidays. Just get into it. Just get set on it.

 

Kulap Vilaysack  37:31

I don’t decorate so early, to not be able to enjoy it, to not force people to watch again, a subpar, subpar Christmas movie, and.

 

SuChin Pak  37:47

That’s redundant.

 

Kulap Vilaysack  37:48

Yeah, you’re right, although I did enjoy hot and frosty SuChin.

 

SuChin Pak  37:52

When he keeps talking about that.

 

Kulap Vilaysack  37:54

Yeah, it’s where a sexy snowman comes to life. Ill, Ill, yeah, whatever you’re gonna be texting me. You’re gonna be watching after you’ve got done your CVs run, or in between your whole foods run.

 

SuChin Pak  38:10

I did watch that. The one everybody loved. The one was like, a hot rabbi. And at first I was like, ew. And then, you know, by episode three. I’m like, yeah.

 

Kulap Vilaysack  38:24

There’s something about how he grabbed her neck when they kissed. I was like, hello, shalom.

 

SuChin Pak  38:34

Shabbat, shalom.

 

Kulap Vilaysack  38:38

So should we end this episode? I mean, wow, where it began and where it ended.

 

SuChin Pak  38:43

Like I said, I won. I won the game.

 

Kulap Vilaysack  38:46

You did win.

 

SuChin Pak  38:46

That is all for our gift exchange contest that I lost, but also I won. These are the games I love to play. I love to play a game where I can lose and be the winner.

 

Kulap Vilaysack  39:01

Yeah, exactly to lose and to receive so handsomely.

 

SuChin Pak  39:07

All right. Well, thank you so much. The holiday season continues. We’re rolling into the end of the year, and we just love you guys so much. We love you your, your silly comments and your DMS that I swear I’ll get to in the new year, guys, I just I’m not gonna make promises that I will respond before the end of the year, but in the new year, I’ll get back to all those DMs. And we hope that you get everything on your list, and more and more follow us on Instagram @AddtoCartPod Happy Holidays, bye.

 

Kulap Vilaysack  39:42

Happy holidays.

 

CREDITS  39:48

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.