IAT s08e41

Sat, Oct 22, 2022 4:15PM • 32:23

SUMMARY KEYWORDS

dumplings, called, j crew, stacked, voice memos, people, jeans, songs, nightcore, candyland, totally, flower, happy, wrote, text, fanny packs, happen, world, buy, real

SPEAKERS

Tom Merritt, Molly Wood

Molly Wood  00:05

Hello, everyone, I'm Molly wood.

Tom Merritt  00:07

And I'm Tom Merritt.

Molly Wood  00:08

Welcome to it's a thing the weekly podcast supported by you where we make timeless podcasts that last a lifetime. Then pair them with of the moment things season after season, decade after decade. Thanks for joining us.

Tom Merritt  00:23

I know I said it last week, once again, but that's perfect.

Molly Wood  00:27

It's as we're J Crew. We are literally timeless because we are so old. We've been doing this forever. Right. And we are pairing our timelessness with of the moment thing I mean, we are J Crew we are J Crew.

Tom Merritt  00:41

I've never felt more J Crew. Do you already J Crew for

Molly Wood  00:45

right now? Not really. It doesn't fit me right. It's like a weird I'm like, always in between the J Crew size. The pants are always too short. I wanted that look for the longest time I wanted to be exactly that kind of preppy.

Tom Merritt  00:56

Yeah. I've got a few J Crew. What's the other one? Banana Republic? Yeah, yeah. Yeah. I tend to find the J Crew. Yeah. And then

Molly Wood  01:06

I became a Nordstrom Rack girl, because that wasn't all the way to Nordstrom. You know how the progression of life is like you start at Old Navy because you broke right and then you make a little bit of money and you go to the gap. And then you're ballin and you start shopping at Banana Republic. And then if you really move up in life, you go to Nordstrom Rack, not

Tom Merritt  01:23

Nordstrom, Don't be crazy. Gosh, we're not made of money.

Molly Wood  01:28

Give me a break up in here. But the occasional Nordstrom Rack and then you cycle all the way back to like I only buy use class. Yeah. Which is where I'm at now. Because I'm annoying.

Tom Merritt  01:38

I'm upcycling.

Molly Wood  01:39

I'm upcycling, I'm about a circular economy. Hmm. Which is true. Actually. I'm all about my Rent the Runway subscription. I don't buy clothes anymore.

Tom Merritt  01:46

Not bad. Yeah, keep it keep it moving around. I got a clothing item as my first thing as a matter of fact. Yeah, accidental

Molly Wood  01:54

setup.

Tom Merritt  01:55

They don't know it isn't that it's accidental. Stacked jeans. Are you familiar?

Molly Wood  02:02

I don't know. stuff. I think so.

Tom Merritt  02:05

Stacked jeans is when you get that. That rumbly folding thing down by the

Molly Wood  02:11

by God that has

Tom Merritt  02:12

a name. It's called stacked jeans.

Molly Wood  02:15

It's such a frickin thing is such? Yeah, this is a good one, huh?

Tom Merritt  02:22

I don't even remember why I put this on the list. I don't remember where I saw it where I heard it. But yeah.

Molly Wood  02:30

How would you find out the name?

Tom Merritt  02:32

I don't I don't I mean, I

Molly Wood  02:33

never really don't literally just said I don't know. Yeah, I haven't.

Tom Merritt  02:37

But, but I as soon as I heard it, I immediately threw it in my reminders. And yeah, stacking involves creating an even distribution of fabric below the knees. According to a kings.com stacking is a look that's been made fashion forward by today's music industry. Snack jeans are cut extra long and tapered from the knee down to the ankle, so that the excess fabric will be allowed to stack on top of itself and create the coveted stacked effect.

Molly Wood  03:04

I mean, it really is and it sort of has it it extended to leggings. It started showing up in leggings as kind of a like it was like a tight stacked Jean effect. But oh my goodness, I can't believe this has a name.

Tom Merritt  03:19

It's well suited to sneakers like Yeezys or fly nets with a built in sock like look.

Molly Wood  03:26

Totally. Wow. i It's surprisingly hard to find information on like, You're right where this came from and why it got called that. But yeah, it is really really, really a look. That's amazing. I love it.

Tom Merritt  03:42

The stack jeans. And as soon as I saw it, I was like, Oh yeah, that's I've definitely seen that. I just thought people bought jeans. On purpose. I mean, I knew it was a fashion thing, but I didn't I didn't realize it had a name and a style and an intention.

Molly Wood  03:57

I just actually found a link to a thing on Etsy that extends them. It's called an Extendo Gene

Tom Merritt  04:04

What extensions for stocks?

Molly Wood  04:07

It's extensions for your genes. You can achieve this stack

Tom Merritt  04:11

to look okay, I've got jeans but they they just aren't long enough.

Molly Wood  04:16

They're not stacked enough. It's sold out. In case you need more proof either no one bought it. But I don't think so. Custom made denim stack jeans the perfect statement denim to add to your wardrobe.

Tom Merritt  04:27

What are those things that is it for riding horses were you put put like leather down by your shoes? That's what that's what these extensions remind me of? Yeah, totally. Dr. Jean version of that? Yeah.

Molly Wood  04:39

That's amazing. Oh, I love it. Okay, everybody. Sometimes it's just a straight up PSA. That's what that's called.

Tom Merritt  04:45

Yeah, right. And it's a thing but also Yeah, a thing without you know what to call the thing.

Molly Wood  04:51

You're welcome. Sometimes we bring a thing to the show that is just shamefully late. as we know it,

Tom Merritt  05:02

I think when I desserts we arrive exactly when we mean to. Well, it turns

Molly Wood  05:07

out we may have in this case, I thought it was shamefully late, when a friend of mine texted me and said, Have you done dumplings on it's a thing. And I smacked my own forehead like a human emoji. And was like, oh my god, I cannot believe we've done. We haven't done dumplings.

Tom Merritt  05:24

We have talked all around Dublin. We've talked about dumplings talking about

Molly Wood  05:28

everything. But we've even talked about dumplings one time, either before or after the show, I had just finished a ramen hack, in which I put soup dumplings into a ramen manga group. Boom. But somehow we have never just isolated, taken down to its component part. This one trend of trends, if you will, that is dumplings which are everywhere. But then the good news is that I discovered that dumplings may in fact be peaking that not only have they been a thing, but that like if you go to market watch.com You will find a press release dated October 18 2022. On with the title. I'm not making this up. frozen dumplings market is expected to progress at a fast rate during forecasts 2022 to 2028. Wow. Because everybody's buying frozen dumplings because things are a super duper thing. And then two or be a story from eater.com dated seven hours ago as of our taping time, saying that in Cambridge, there had been a dumpling pop up that got so popular that it had to go permanent.

Tom Merritt  06:42

So it was like, Oh, we're making enough on this. We don't have to sign that weird lease. Yeah, exactly. We just got to like we can actually lease it for real

Molly Wood  06:52

money. super real. Yep. And there's like, once the cheapest Michelin starred restaurant Timbo wanted to view it's dimsum in the Houston area. We've got Brooklyn dumpling shop inks, multi unit deal for North Carolina, like tons and tons of dumpling news, how San Francisco's queen of momos made dumplings go viral is from SF Gate from 10 days ago. And a piece called The dumpling report. I mean, like what in the blue blazes? Okay, so, dumplings, perfect time to be like holy crap dumplings.

Tom Merritt  07:33

I was gonna say I think you're what you're nailing is that we dumplings are reaching a new peak dumplings are new, they've bred thing for a long time, and they've gone in and out of favor in various parts of the world probably never gone out of favor, really. And dumplings is of course, more of an Eastern European word. But we're using it to refer to Joe's or Monju. Or, you know, these these sort of East Asian versions of them. That doesn't seem to be the more popular one. potstickers

Molly Wood  08:05

bow bow is that a lot like from you know, Steve, like Chinese American friends who are just like, oh, yeah, we have bow for dinner. You know? Just uh, yeah, yeah. dimsum. All of that.

Tom Merritt  08:14

I will say that. The Netflix? Well, it's a Korean drama that was on Netflix here in the US called business proposal was all about a company. A real company was set in BB go. The real Korean food company that in real life is making huge strides in exporting frozen dumplings into the US.

Molly Wood  08:37

Oh, no. Well, yeah. Oh, incredible. It's all happening.

Tom Merritt  08:43

It's all a big Yeah. So I don't think you're late. I think you were like, holding off wisely. Until it's like, well, dumplings have always been a bit of a thing. But like, is it? Is it over indexing? As I say,

Molly Wood  08:58

it's an excellent point that you make and sometimes the marker. I think I mentioned to you that I have the one for this is not that friend. But I think I have mentioned to you how I have that one friend who's just kind of like checked out of the world doing her own thing. Yeah. Even wordly focused, let's say to be generous, and will occasionally pop her head up and be like, Oh my God, have you heard of Divi to do? And I'm like, Okay, it's a thing now. Yeah. And this must be kind of like that, that this one friend found out you know, this is somewhat new friend, and found out that we do this show and was like, Oh my God, have you done dumplings? Because it's that everywhere right now all of a sudden all at once. And by the way, just sidenote could not be happier about that because dumplings are the best in any form. I love it back on Play. Yes. And yes to answer the question in the discord soup inside and outside the dumpling is the jam for soup eating, soup dumplings and ramen, my best ramen hacks Hashtag Robin X.

Tom Merritt  10:02

All right. This is a another public service message in a way, Wall Street Journal did an article, noting that an app that is only available in a handful of states in the United States was still topping the charts in the Apple App Store. And even more, so it's topping the charts while only being in a few states and only available to high schoolers. Yeah, called gas. Do you know about gas?

Molly Wood  10:29

I do? We talked about it on the other show. Yep. Because that's how big a thing it is. Yeah,

Tom Merritt  10:34

this is a thing right now. And it's the thing you won't know about, unless you're a high schooler, because you're not allowed to use it. It's yeah, it's kind of like Facebook was only for people in colleges, when it first launched this says, oh, which high school do you go to? And then if you try to fake it, it'll do some checks. So it checks your contact list for one thing to see if other high schoolers are in your contact list. But it does a couple other things in the background. I don't know how good those are. But it's trying to be like, no, no, no, no, you really just need to be going to this high school. And if you don't go to this high school, we're gonna figure it out and kick you out.

Molly Wood  11:07

And then it's whole deal is that it's making people say, you can only you can only put up polls. And they, you can only use the prompts that they give you. And the prompts are positive, like who's the most beautiful person you've ever met? Or who is the classmate who's never afraid of getting in trouble or who's like the most fun person. So it's all about positive stuff. It's all about positivity on purpose.

Tom Merritt  11:31

And you can only mention people who allow you to mention them to right, it's reciprocal. Like, you can't just mention anybody in the school. It's like, oh, okay, I'm going to allow these people. So you can't get this sort of like mocking praise situation, or I'm sure you can, but kids will find a way trust me. But but it cuts down

Molly Wood  11:50

today. Well, yeah. Well, yeah. One way it cuts down, of course, is by having the the prompts be built in. Yeah. It's very interesting. The thing we talked about, and I think this is super fascinating, is that as soon as gas started getting really popular, and climbing up in the charts, they got hit with a disinformation campaign that their CEO claimed was traced back to China. And like Chinese IP addresses, which of course, is the originator of you know, that's tick tock is headquartered like there was immediately this,

Tom Merritt  12:21

but also, if I'm launching a disinformation campaign, say, from Russia, I'm probably gonna try to write so you the IP addresses can be spoofed. But anyway, yeah, go ahead.

Molly Wood  12:31

It can be misleading, for sure. But I mean, it was like this thing came along. And all of a sudden, if kids are doing that, instead of tick tock, it was kind of fascinating. Yeah, yes. It's like a really interesting, you're, I mean, you're totally right, like this thing is catching on, like, look out be real. Which PS just raised a bunch of money, because kids are fickle.

Tom Merritt  12:53

And the other thing, y'all probably talked about this too, but this is from a founder, one of the cofounders of this did a similar app called to be honest tbh that was acquired by Facebook, and then Facebook, shut it down. Right. And so now they're just going like, well, we've learned more since we worked at Facebook about how this stuff works. Let's do it even better.

Molly Wood  13:17

Exactly. Now, we know better now that we got caught in the catch and killed net. Yeah, it's real interesting. And it's kind of I mean, it's just like, it's lovely to see something trending that is based on positivity. Yeah,

Tom Merritt  13:31

that does seem to be the intention of a lot of these new platforms, right is to like, well, let's let's let's push something that's not about try. Remember, there was all those like secret and all those things that were like really pushing negative for a long time feels like that has swung the other way.

Molly Wood  13:49

Well, and even if they started out, you know, it was like to say something in secret that you want to feel safe saying like, yeah, obviously, that was asshole territory, right? Come on, or what did you think? Are Yik Yak like, what did you think was gonna happen? If you just like, if you allow free form anonymity, it is always going to go badly that as humans.

Tom Merritt  14:09

Now that is another interesting thing on gas, you can anonymously compliment people. And then there are in app purchases to uncover who said the nice thing about you, as well as in app purchases to stop people from uncovering the nice things you've said about them.

Molly Wood  14:24

Oh, clever. Yeah, I mean, this is gonna find a way to go horribly bad. Like, I don't want to be a bummer here.

Tom Merritt  14:32

Maybe Yeah, I, I'd say this is I'm not gonna I'm not gonna sit here and be like, this is the one that solved it, because maybe it hasn't. But But it's good, though.

Molly Wood  14:41

After a good start, after many efforts like this, right, it's like, okay, we've learned that you have to control the prom. So we've learned that you have to it can only be your high school. It can't be every school. Like there's some smart controls built in here that that seemed to be helping.

Tom Merritt  14:57

I don't know how they grow. Not that that matters for the users. But you know, for the company, I Yeah, you know, could obviously they could do a more sophisticated version for colleges, I suppose. But could you do it for workplaces? Like because it's, it's always it's about secret crushes? Let you know I mean the company the LLC is called Find your crush LLC. So you know,

Molly Wood  15:19

yeah oh can I pay to see who said a nice thing about me? Yes. I

Tom Merritt  15:22

mean, I guess you could just pivot to dating for the for the older audience somehow.

Molly Wood  15:27

I mean, that's actually yeah, pivot to matchmaking in some form. I mean, that's what all those apps do now, like you pay to see who like you pay to, you know, in the swipe ones. Yeah, you pay to just get to be able to cheat and see who already liked you. So you don't have to like swipe and hope. Or maybe

Tom Merritt  15:42

you don't have to make a gas as big as Facebook to be a successful company. You could just come up with other ideas and have multiple apps that serve the same audience.

Molly Wood  15:52

Yeah, yeah, I like it. I'm hopeful. I'm hopeful. Don't ruin it, people. I mean, I know that's what people do, but just try just try a bonafide thing that all the kids are already aware of. This is like a PA. This is a helpful hint from one mom to all of you. Sped up songs are a thing. The kids these days don't even have patience for the regular songs that are already a huge hit. So for example, the Steve Lacey song bad habit was a massive hit. Yeah, it was huge all over Tiktok. It was everywhere. But evidently, kids gives enough time for that. But I think generally it's like if you it, this is a total tick tock trend. So what they're doing is just taking a regular song like, you know, Obama tongue, it's a bad habit. And then they go and they speed it up, and it's a little bit Alvin the Chipmunk but it makes it a little more dancey and easier to set to a tick tock, I assume. Yes, that's like 100% what this is about and it's

Tom Merritt  16:53

fun. The ones I've seen are usually got a little light hearted humor to them, right? Look at us being all crazy here with the sped up track. Yeah,

Molly Wood  17:02

totally. They're just like peppy and fun and charming. And then my son told me that it came from this thing called Nightcore.

Tom Merritt  17:12

Hmm,

Molly Wood  17:14

what did I ght Exactly. So now we're doing some digging. Yeah, sped up songs got popular because of this thing called Nightcore. And I ght C O R E, a name derived from a Norwegian musical duo called Nightcore. Okay, that got popular around 22,001 It was the name of their school project. Oh, it means apparently, they decided it means we are the core of the night so you'll dance all night long. Ah, a house. This is what they put in their website names. Nightcore is hardcore. They were influenced by pitch shifted vocals in the German group scooters hardcore songs. Okay. Nyssa and ramp, I guess. And they just got really into this idea of like, kind of a trance or euro dance song that was just like sped up and happy. They even called it Happy Hardcore and bubblegum bass.

Tom Merritt  18:10

Because when you speed it up, it sounds happier. It sounds happier.

Molly Wood  18:13

Exactly. And so I guess it just got kind of it got associated, I can almost guarantee that the way it made its way into pop culture music is because it got accompanied and associated with anime. And so you've got this like anime.

Tom Merritt  18:29

That's a nice six lanes into thickness. Yeah, right.

Molly Wood  18:33

Totally. So if you you had Nightcore and then you have this anime sound. And then you had like YouTube thumbnails netcore remixes with anime characters and art. So of course it made the jump to just like, oh, it's really fun to have a song. Now everybody's speeding up every song. Yeah, there you go. Friends. You're welcome. Wow. So when I'm complete,

Tom Merritt  18:53

that was well done. Thank you for that. I think was so when I'm listening to my podcast at two times speed and my night calling them.

Molly Wood  19:01

I think we are gonna have to say that we definitely are now yeah, you're like, Oh, I like to listen to my podcasts at netcore speed.

Tom Merritt  19:07

I'm totally doing that.

Molly Wood  19:08

Let's 100% start saying that by the way. If you don't know that bad habits on it is irresistible. It's a bump. It's a bomb, especially at night core speeds.

Tom Merritt  19:18

We should acknowledge the thing Iest thing in the room the day we're recording Taylor Swift released a new album called Midnight's Yeah, we really can't and there's like bi and memes and investigations of what she means by the lyrics and like a Yeah, it's it's a thing of verse of its own.

Molly Wood  19:38

It really is. I honestly did not know this thing about how she they think she like embeds she's like queue like the queue and none of the music work. Or like she embeds all these like secret clues, I guess a claim in her messages to fans so like a new album is coming. I was completely

Tom Merritt  19:59

unaware. She does little puzzles and stuff. Yeah. Yeah.

Molly Wood  20:03

Wow. I did not know at all. Well, that explains I mean, that's brilliant. And that explains why all of her I mean, obviously she's like, literally the most popular artists in the world. I think I read that like all the stats about how insanely popular and well listened to she is but I guess that explains also why these drops are such a big deal because she's like, fired everybody up in this genius like Guerilla Marketing way.

Tom Merritt  20:24

And she's she's borrowed a little bit from the Kpop playbook of like having a Swifties having a name for your fandom, reaching out to them directly over social media, like doing fan meetups, you know, all of that stuff. It works. You know, all the stuff we did.

Molly Wood  20:44

I know right? You're welcome. community building. It's an art. Yeah, it's an art. How are we not? Taylor's left huge. I don't understand.

Tom Merritt  20:53

Because we didn't do singing. I don't know. Yeah. Why?

Molly Wood  21:01

I don't know. I guess everyone has their limits by

Tom Merritt  21:03

instead of taking the lead should have done singing.

Molly Wood  21:05

We're happy. We're gonna have but is she happy?

Tom Merritt  21:09

She might be happy now.

Molly Wood  21:10

I don't know. All their songs are about breakups. I'm just saying.

Tom Merritt  21:13

No, but she seems happy with that Jo guy now. Oh, there's a guy. Oh, yeah. She's had a guy for a while now.

Molly Wood  21:19

Oh, great. Yeah, I always thought maybe she and Drake should get together because all their songs are about breakups. breakups. Oh, look at you.

Tom Merritt  21:32

Well, let's get to your things feed back into thing.me GABBY Cohen has a wedding thing. Is it just my algorithm or our groomsmen with fanny packs dancing down the aisle and throwing pedals in lieu of flower girls a thing at weddings? Also has the man been had a resurgence? I see them every day.

Molly Wood  21:54

This is like this is like if an AI wrote an email to it's a thing. Yeah, this is amazing.

Tom Merritt  22:00

Yeah, this is the Dali guy. Gabby, we know your real word. We're not doubting the open AI versus your You are now the standard is what we're saying for Dolly. imitations. Yeah,

Molly Wood  22:12

I'm stalling so I can look up groomsmen with fanny packs.

Tom Merritt  22:15

I feel like we did some time if we didn't do it in the show. We certainly talked about man buds. You're absolutely right about the man but yeah, but the fanny packs full of flower petals. I'm assuming the fanny packs have the flower petals nuts.

Molly Wood  22:29

Oh, my god. Dude. I just found a whole crap ton of groomsmen fanny packs on Etsy. Wow. thing. A whole bunch. That's a flower dude, flower, bro. Our boy and flower man.

Tom Merritt  22:46

Nice.

Molly Wood  22:48

There's one that says groom. There are a whole bunch of them for bachelorettes. And bachelors that are and bachelor parties with better embroidered with the names. And there are a ton of flower do there's even hashtag flower do Oh, my biscuits Gabby. You're a genius.

Tom Merritt  23:06

Well done, Gabby.

Molly Wood  23:08

Weirdly, there's one that's like a sexy lady in a swimsuit wearing a fanny pack that says flower dude, but I don't think that I think that's

Tom Merritt  23:15

like an attempted irony. Wow.

Molly Wood  23:19

This is why I love the show. Because yeah, we can't. We can't possibly spot all the things. We are not ourselves, hawks. But you. But you are

Tom Merritt  23:29

the thing finders. We had some thoughts on voice memos. Regan said if voicemails can be transcribed, why can't the technology companies catch up and transcribed voice memos that way? It's an accessibility feature for folks who don't favor typing and the rest of us can still read instead of listen. I actually wrote back to Reagan I was like, did we not say that? Because I feel like we said that it seems so obvious but maybe we just thought it and didn't say it so But Reagan Yes, absolutely. 100% You're right.

Molly Wood  23:59

Why yes, give me both Yeah, I beg you. That's brilliant. That's actually you know what that's the solve because I'm you keep the accessibility but you're doubly accessible because if you're hearing impaired you

Tom Merritt  24:11

listen to Rogen love that

Molly Wood  24:13

Apple taken out Professor art road in front of the Philippines. Taking my professor art from the Philippines wrote in on voice memo culture hola tamale. A couple of my friends have been doing the voice texting for quite a while now. And I just thought it was a quirk and never thought of it as something that will thing. But here we are. In my case, we do it over the telegram app. What I do want to contribute to this thing spot is that it's kind of an unspoken etiquette that if someone voice texts you, then you are expected to voice text back. Oh, and that's a sign that you are totally engaged. But if someone voices you and you keep texting back then that someone better get the hint that you'd rather be texting and that they should revert back to text as well.

Tom Merritt  24:58

Yeah, that's good point. I

Molly Wood  25:00

want to show you right now there are like layers to it. Oh, take out your lamp.

Tom Merritt  25:05

I liked that. It's like, Listen, you don't have to respond with the voice, but the person should get the hint.

Molly Wood  25:10

It should get good. Like you're in a public place.

Tom Merritt  25:14

Finally, Andrew on voice memos. Thank you, you put into words exactly what I felt about voice messages but could never articulate. It's so frustrating. On the topic of speech to text though, I think I inadvertently caused people to switch to voice memos because I kept pointing out that their Siri transcribed messages made no sense. So the rise of voice could be because iPhone speech to text is bad for a lot of people.

Molly Wood  25:36

Well, to che, good point. Good point. Yeah, theory could I mean, sometimes the worst is when you dictate a text, and you see it written out correctly. And then you hit send and upon sending, it changes all the right words to something just like mishmash spoon Fern pumpkin,

Tom Merritt  25:54

is there a name for that thing where your reaction time and the the automatic change of something on a device are mis timed. I had it happen on Duolingo today, so it's, you know, it's not the end of the world. But I had a suggested text, and I was reaching with my finger to tap it. And as my finger is heading to tap the suggested text, suddenly it decided to change the suggested text. And then of course, I'm trying to move fast. So I tap it and press return. It's like no, you got that wrong. I'm like no, it was right. You change the suggested text. Why are you changing while I'm about to type something?

Molly Wood  26:32

Well, I don't think I've had that one. But I that I feel like I would throw the phone across the room.

Tom Merritt  26:38

But have you ever had the thing where you're about to tap something and then it changes? No? Oh happened? Or like you're about to delete an email and then your email refreshes. And then you end up deleting an email. You haven't read

Molly Wood  26:49

that for sure.

Tom Merritt  26:50

Yes, that kind of stuff.

Molly Wood  26:54

It's good to know that our brains are still working faster than machines, so I'm gonna try to look at least

Tom Merritt  27:00

we got something nice.

Molly Wood  27:01

We got something. All right, Sarah wrote in on a fashion thing. Team thing she writes like it I like it good at it. I went clothes shopping in person this week for the first time in yonks. I'm pausing for you all to appreciate how freaking great that is. It's amazing in yonks, and it seems like all of the women's tops have high necks and pie crust colors like Princess Diana circa 1981. Is this a thing? Again? Maybe it's the ongoing influence of the crown. You know,

Tom Merritt  27:31

what else was high in 1981? Inflation?

Molly Wood  27:35

I mean, honestly,

Tom Merritt  27:36

is there a link to the neck? Tight?

Molly Wood  27:39

Chi? I think there is um, but yeah, there's like a lot of weird stuff going on with collars right now. And there's a lot of like puffy sleeves like puffy sleeves are back Bell Bell sleeves, and kind of the pie crest collars. 100% that whole kind of like fussy girly. It's all like with the flowered frickin dresses. I'm just, I'm just wearing all black until it goes away.

Tom Merritt  28:00

Rich points out stack genes kind of in that world. Puffy of puffiness, not happiness. Yeah. The puffiness. Yeah.

Molly Wood  28:08

Oh, yeah, definitely. Yep. Yep. It just happens every few every couple of decades.

Tom Merritt  28:15

And love a recipe so very happy that Joe Hudson and a new drink thing with the subject, no explanation given. Negroni smugly Otto with Prosecco and rich notes. This is basically a Campari spritz with vermouth. So one and a half ounces sweet vermouth. One and a half ounces. Campari. One and a half ounces. Prosecco or some other sparkling wine. Yes, please. Yeah, keep going.

Molly Wood  28:42

I need an explanation. No, make it Joe's absolutely right. We

Tom Merritt  28:45

don't need an explanation. We just need to drink that.

Molly Wood  28:47

I'm gonna give that guy Nailed it.

Tom Merritt  28:49

Nailed it.

Molly Wood  28:50

Nailed it. Oh, my goodness, friends. It is now time. Thank you for that feedback. Keep it coming and feedback. It's a thing.me. Please keep sending your things, your thoughts and all of the above. And now it is time for the shout outs. For those of you who support the show at the shout out level@patreon.com slash it's a thing. Congratulations. You are all content.

Tom Merritt  29:11

Yes, you are immortalized. If you support us at the highest level on Patreon in our shout outs in a way that no other show does. No other show is going to base your shout out on characters found in the classic game Candyland.

Molly Wood  29:26

Literally no other show is ever going to do this. I will bet you a solid $2 bill here does not happen. Yeah. All right. Let's get to it. Morris Jones is a friendly monster made of chocolate but originally made a molasses.

Tom Merritt  29:42

Oh, I remember the molasses. Yeah. Benjamin Forrest is the main character and protagonist of Candyland, the great lollipop adventurer, but does not appear in the games.

Molly Wood  29:53

Lee price is the villain of Candyland. He rules the licorice castle in classic game was the licorice forest in 2002. And the licorice lagoon in 2014. Why lagoon

Tom Merritt  30:05

in 20 Oh, interesting. Kevin SIL is the king of Candyland. He lives in a castle made of sweets.

Molly Wood  30:11

I mean, that's a good good cane candy. Eric Duncan lives in a peanut brittle house on the corner of Candyland. I know that

Tom Merritt  30:18

house. Jake Woods is a green crocodile with yellow eyes and a lime spine

Molly Wood  30:22

out. Gabrielle Cohen makes the best gingersnaps in all of Candyland. She was removed from the game.

Tom Merritt  30:30

Oh, oh, that was a very Cecily Strong read.

Molly Wood  30:35

Thank you. Thanks.

Tom Merritt  30:37

Laura. Abel resides in chocolate mountain. She is somewhat of an expert when it comes to making cakes.

Molly Wood  30:43

Miranda Janelle lives in a candy cane forest and is a candy cane wood cutter. She was removed from world of sweets and then brought back for the 2013 version as an ice skater instead of a woodcutter.

Tom Merritt  30:55

I don't want to deforest yeah. Oh yeah, smart. Andrew Bradley is an unknown character and child of mama ginger tree.

Molly Wood  31:05

Joe hood is a fuzzy green monster under the gingerbread plum tree.

Tom Merritt  31:09

Louis St. Amour is a plump character that appears in the VCR board game whenever his name is said aloud, he multiplies.

Molly Wood  31:16

Mike Aikens is a happy chubby monster representing gumdrops. He was removed in the 2010 version. And then after widespread outcry and demand was brought back for the 2013 edition. However, he was once again removed in the 2014 edition

Tom Merritt  31:33

jamesy Smith was renamed Princess frost Stein in the 2002 edition.

Molly Wood  31:42

I mean, thank you so much to our loyal shout out patrons. Really most of you have been with us since the beginning. This is phenomenal. Thank you for supporting the show. Everybody who supports us at any level patreon.com/ It's a thing. And honestly, for the best part of our week, sincerely, week after week.

Tom Merritt  32:02

Mm. You can also email us don't forget that email address feedback and it's the thing that me I'm just thinking to Candyland. Suddenly,

Molly Wood  32:09

I'm gonna put happy chubby monster and all of my bios. See you next week everybody. Bye, everybody. Bye

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bye