It’s a Thing S08E36

Sun, 9/18 9:11AM • 1:13:40

SUMMARY KEYWORDS

capsule wardrobe, people, twitter, funk, big, nails, today, molly, early, buy, totally, talk, recession, news, white collar, point, true, sub genre, wrestler, ramen

SPEAKERS

Tom Merritt, Molly Wood

Molly Wood  00:00

 I'm Molly wood.

Tom Merritt  29:17

And I'm Tom Merritt.

Molly Wood  29:18

Welcome to it's the thing that weekly podcast supported by you where we're not providing instant podcasts. We're offering customers time. Thanks for joining us.

Tom Merritt  29:29

We are we are and much like Nissin foods. Our podcast is a distilled, compressed instant version of other podcasts.

Molly Wood  29:42

It's a concentrate, if you will, the concentrated version of the world where all you have to do is add hot water and you will be in the know. And the no

Tom Merritt  29:53

missing Of course, famous to college students everywhere as the maker of cup noodles

Molly Wood  29:59

instead. noodles because ramen hacks are, that's, that's I'm gonna I'm just gonna go ahead and timestamp that as one of my favorites. Yeah, well done the entire year because I got yet another one today and it caused me to do a ramen hack because instead of going to the grocery store, I went and bought moms and bird pillows and lantana is to decorate my stoop for the fall. And then I had to make myself a cup of noodles, but I put some bow in there. And I made it a ramen hack. What? Yep, so proud of myself I should have put some seaweed in their hands. Um,

Tom Merritt  30:42

yeah, you should have those ramen hacks are amazing, because they're basically just adding things to ramen. But it's about what you add. Not the fact that you can add

Molly Wood  30:56

Yeah, no, it's just look cabbage da also those simple

Tom Merritt  31:03

the Nissen, the Nissen ramen. You have to remember they were the pioneers the cup noodle, which Yeah, sure. Today, Mara, John was instant, but missing gave you the cup. You didn't even need to have a bowl.

Molly Wood  31:16

I'll just altogether that's literally what I had today. It's missing cup of noodles with bow. That's amazing.

Tom Merritt  31:23

I believe my first first thing Yeah, well done. Rich. How did you even know? Are you spying on her Instagram?

Molly Wood  31:30

Could have been our group texts. But still probably maybe not.

Tom Merritt  31:33

Maybe it was. My first thing today is something I heard Justin Robert Young on Politics, Politics, Politics speculating on becoming a thing because he'd heard it a couple places. So I did a search found a LinkedIn story from today, using the phrase as well as a Bloomberg story, kind of not using the phrase but circling around it like they were about to use it. And of course, the thing is white color recession. Yeah. Yeah. So the idea that because white collar jobs, particularly jobs that could work from home, not just service jobs, because they're blue collar service jobs, but but like, you know, the banking

Molly Wood  32:17

tech real estate guys. Yeah, business services, sales,

Tom Merritt  32:22

weathered lockdowns better than blue collar jobs. And so now the fallout is coming for them. And that's why you're seeing white collar companies laying off people, while blue collar companies are doing well keeping the employment rate high.

Molly Wood  32:39

Yeah. Interesting. It's like the biggest. So during the pandemic, we kept calling it the K shaped recovery. Because it was like the, you know, the workers in the upper income brackets were recovering and going bananas because they have like, houses, they could take low interest loans against in and higher salaries and, and essential workers and low income workers and women were not recovering at all. And so the idea seems like of the white collar recession is that like at this point, if there's a recession, no one will be immune, if you will. Which, interestingly, is I asked Kai recently, why inflation? Because the LinkedIn article seems to be saying that maybe not that there's not going to be a white collar recession. There's some dispute about this

Tom Merritt  33:37

stuff. So I don't really know it looks like Kate Chapman wrote, Hey, there's this thing called the white color recession. Is it coming? And then responses? Were saying no, it's not. Right. Yeah. So I don't know who's saying what but yes, there's there's debate over it. But the thing isn't that there is a white collar recession. The thing is, that phrase gets bandied around. Yeah,

Molly Wood  34:02

totally. Yeah. I will not do the depressing financial analysis about it. But yeah, you're totally right. That is 100% a phrase that we're seeing constantly. Yeah. All right. Wha wha Wait, wait to make me seem super trivial. When I awkwardly pivot to this is like morning news. Now we like covered a really terrible story. And now we're gonna be like, also, it's the dog show.

Tom Merritt  34:27

I look at this more as like, I went and brought us all down. Please bring us back to its a

Molly Wood  34:35

chaser. What will apparently Inflation affects everyone, which is why it's bad, and why the Fed will do anything to stop it. Where as a recession, quote, unquote, only affects a small number of people in that like it might cause like two to 3% unemployment but that's only two to 3% of the population and that that's really Did I know I just couldn't resist because I was like, oh god, that's upsetting. So, if there's a white collar recession, it's probably related to inflation. Turns out, because that's the thing that hits everyone. Okay, so capsule wardrobe. Thank you are a thing.

Tom Merritt  35:16

I was wondering what inflation had to do with capsule wardrobes,

Molly Wood  35:20

nothing. That's my pivot. That's my pivot. And also it's the Daksha. Turn the camera to in other news, what is a capsule wardrobe and how to build one, one?

Tom Merritt  35:34

Well, I would like to know what is a capsule wardrobe?

Molly Wood  35:37

I can Oh, let me let me inform you from this article about it that I found from just last month. The concept of capsule wardrobe is not 100% new, it's been big on social media in the last few years a capsule wardrobe is a limited selection of interchangeable clothing pieces that complement each other. These are often classic pieces that do not go out of style and are primarily composed of neutral colors. A capsule wardrobe allows you to create a variety of different outfits with a small selection of clothes. I have your transition anybody cheek dotcom? Yeah.

Tom Merritt  36:10

Well, with inflation rising whether you're white color or not, the recession might hit you, which means you need to save money and you could save money with a capsule wardrobe. Is that right? Molly?

Molly Wood  36:21

Xactly. eggs don't buy so many things reject consumerism when prices are high. And just spend money on a few I mean, this is literally the like the fashion advice you've been getting for your entire life. Yeah, just to spend money on a few high quality things that you want

Tom Merritt  36:40

step on the Steve Jobs wardrobe of just have five black turtlenecks, right? It totally

Molly Wood  36:45

is. A capsule wardrobe is a sustainable way to approach your closet. You mainly own timeless pieces that you will wear for years, which won't go out of style. So

Tom Merritt  36:53

good travel pack.

Molly Wood  36:55

It's great travel packing. I mean, it really is. Yeah, but so what I've noticed is that it's become a it's become a like a DTC staple. There are all these like direct to consumer brands that are selling clothing. And a lot of them are offering a capsule wardrobe because it's an absolute frickin genius marketing technique. Like oh, again, the concept has been around for a long time. But if I go to, you know, everlane.com and I buy one sweater, that's okay, for them. Sure. But even better, is if I buy a classic high waisted Jean, Capri pant, a wide legged Capri pant, three basic T shirts, a couple of pullovers and a cardigan, I get all the ones for $700 or whatever, and then I'm out

Tom Merritt  37:44

so you can buy so the new thing with capsule wardrobes is not the good advice. It's the the solutions that are sold.

Molly Wood  37:52

Exactly. It's that they are increasingly the like Cornerstone I don't have time to

Tom Merritt  37:59

take the advice please just give sell me a capsule for Trump,

Molly Wood  38:03

right? Which I'm all about I actually hate it. I hate it when I go to one of these frickin Instagram ads like I always do. And I look at it and it's like, here's a capsule wardrobe. Here's like nine different t shirt often something then and and and no, I just want you to pick three, like literally, I just $300 is my budget. Give it all to

Tom Merritt  38:27

me. kind of love that too.

Molly Wood  38:30

Right? Because I mean, it's actually like I love that it exists. And I if anything, I want it to be even easier.

Tom Merritt  38:37

I've follow the capsule wardrobe ethos already where I try to keep like, a limited number. It's more than this. But a limited number of long sleeve shirts, a limited number of short sleeve shirts, right? And then I've got my purpose stuff inside of that number, right. So there's the dress shirt, there's the wedding shirt, there's the you know, and then there's probably five that are just like, anytime, anywhere, whatever. And my problem with my wardrobe is I look at it and I'm like that shirt is not as useful as it should be for a limited, right. Like, I can't wear that in enough situations. And that this is solving that like great, we will just give you the stuff you can wear in all the situations. I love that.

Molly Wood  39:22

Yeah, I mean, it really is actually awesome. It's like if you've got two great pairs of jeans, you know, I've been going to determine that Uniqlo is the perfect basic. So you get like a couple of their kind of silky camisoles. So like a couple of white button down shirts, a few dresses, some sweaters. I mean, it's like, really great, and I'm super into it. And also it's a genius marketing device. If you're a clothing brand and you want people to buy more than one thing at a time. Genius. Please sell me okay, it's a win win, and a win. And like a win win. Gosh, like three or four wins. It's like so many wins. Just tell me And also just be the brand that's like here. Like let me take a quiz at Porter IN OUR DISCORD just made the point that I can't believe Stitch Fix hasn't caught on to this. And that's totally true. Like I want to go on to Stitch Fix take their quiz, which is already going to style me.

Tom Merritt  40:15

No, no, no, no, no, the reason it's not Stitch Fix is because Stitch Fix wants to keep selling you every month. Right Good point, capsule wardrobe is for the folks lose it out to Stitch Fix like well, they'll eventually get tired of this capsule wardrobe and come back to us so yeah, but you know, and we don't need them every month like Stitch Fix does.

Molly Wood  40:34

Yeah, good point. And I guess the capsule wardrobe it's kind of a bummer for even if you're like a Nordstrom because timeless pieces are in fact but you know every retailers nightmare.

Tom Merritt  40:48

You know people like update your capsule will be the next step there.

Molly Wood  40:51

Yeah, exactly. Gotta update your capsule.

Tom Merritt  40:53

Yeah, some of your stuff gets old out of fashion. Right class sustainably, shameless doesn't stay the same.

Molly Wood  40:59

Exactly. Like they got this like flowery shirt, that sustainably shake that's going on with the like, the current kind of weird, Elaine, from the 90s trend that's gonna go it's gonna go out. Yeah, but I love this. This actually this article that I found about it is probably the closest thing I've seen to like a recipe for it. And I'm just like, yes. Great. Awesome. Click Click, click, buy, buy buy.

Tom Merritt  41:25

This is good stuff. Molly. You're a real one. Emma, yeah, you slay it this

Molly Wood  41:34

okay, slay I got. I got that one. Yeah, what else?

Tom Merritt  41:38

Yeah. I'm watching

Molly Wood  41:42

this talk assists. This is happening here.

Tom Merritt  41:46

If if you don't understand it, what we're saying it's because you don't have access to the reading list of Gen Z slang. The open google doc from high school teacher James Callaghan. Which is my next thing No, really, in

Molly Wood  42:05

deed. Mr. Callahan.

Tom Merritt  42:09

Mr. Callahan in Massachusetts keeps an alphabetized running document of new slang he learns from his students. He first went viral with it in 2019. But it is kind of arisen again. Of late and the idea is to let other people understand what the Utes are talking about. No cap. Oh,

Molly Wood  42:32

I love him he ate Yeah, heard. Are you aware? Yeah. Salad of high quality. Tight now means extremely mad.

Tom Merritt  42:45

Why? People watching old old movies good laughing when people talk about drunk people being tight.

Molly Wood  42:54

I mean for real sis. Unlike sus. Sis exists as an exclamation of disbelief and a universal nickname. Both of those. That's not That's not hell. This is amazing. And then I love that it starts with what even is language? Oh, I love Mr. Callahan. These should I feel like just as sort of a self own if you will. He should have a field that's like hello fellow kids.

Tom Merritt  43:28

But that's a millennial. Right fellow

Molly Wood  43:30

kids it is for Hello fellow kids. Hey fellas millennial, I guess so beat your face means to apply makeup. I can't get enough of this.

Tom Merritt  43:41

I realized by by by putting this in the show. We've like, eliminated 100 different potential thing shows.

Molly Wood  43:51

We really have because nobody is now going to be able to discover and bring Harto, which is evidently Gen Z slang for a trihard which is

Tom Merritt  44:01

amazing. dead ass.

Molly Wood  44:05

Oh, we say dead ass all the time. Yeah, like

Tom Merritt  44:08

crossfade to me doubly drunk.

Molly Wood  44:12

I mean, that is incredibly CrossFit.

Tom Merritt  44:14

I don't know if that's where it comes from. But that's what my mind would do. Looks like CrossFit. But you're drunk

Molly Wood  44:18

crossfade is phenomenal. Got a blast. I have to leave love it.

Tom Merritt  44:24

There's there's a lot of these that we have done on the show.

Molly Wood  44:28

Yeah, and I we didn't know Captain we

Tom Merritt  44:31

we also did clap we've done clap back. Maybe not as a thing.

Molly Wood  44:37

We certainly are no extra serves. We did slaps slap definitely did slap bop.

Tom Merritt  44:42

We did. Yeah. A modern enjoyable song a

Molly Wood  44:45

bop. That ain't it? translates to unacceptable or I do not approve that I hate it.

Tom Merritt  44:54

Also, this isn't meant to be comprehensive. Like there could be slang out there that you hear that's not on. on here,

Molly Wood  45:00

exactly because he'll still be updating as needed. And he and he is so smart that that kind of like how the millennials would say, Here's my What is it not? And here's my substack. Here's my, what's the music thing where people post their songs and then when they blow up on Twitter, tick tock. They're like, Oh, come on. My SoundCloud, SoundCloud. Yeah, yeah. He understood the assignment to referring out and he's like if you liked this and it's gone viral Support the Little String Project and Mrs. Bauer's Donors Choose page. Hi, how are you Mr. Callahan?

Tom Merritt  45:42

Now I Know Your Meme pick this up and pointed out that there was some some online debate over whether this slang is simply appropriated African American Vernacular English. To which if I were to enter that a bit debate, which I won't, I would say yes. For the past 60 years most slang is appropriated African American Vernacular English. I challenge you to find slang that doesn't come from the African American community. That's not making it right or wrong. That's not new.

Molly Wood  46:15

Yeah, no. Also see all music, huh? Yeah. Yeah. Um, yeah, I don't know that we need to speciate into multiple literal spoken languages. We'll just move on from that. I'm like, I've been afraid to even bring this one up because I'm so I don't even exactly know what to say about it. Except that I need to acknowledge that I know about it. And I keep hearing about it. And it apparently is a thing that just keeps getting bigger. And that thing is funk. Music. Oh, that p h o n k. Okay. So little funk, little fat? I guess. So. Funk? It is a sub genre. I believe we talked about trap music. Oh, yeah. I think we did. Yeah. Trap remakes of every song superduper thing as our drill remakes of all pop songs now. And then funk is a sub genre I'm reading from Wikipedia. It is not to be confused with funk. It's a sub genre of hip hop and trap music directly inspired by 1990s Memphis rap, mostly present on the sound cloud platform had I just looked at my own source, I would have known that music is characterized by vocals from old Memphis rap tapes and samples from early 1990s Hip Hop, often combining them with elements of jazz and funk. The genre deploys distorting techniques such as chopped and screwed to create a darker sound. That's very, very specific. I know. But now all of a sudden funk is just way more prevalent apparently. I think Lozi bear is super funky. Miami rapper Space Ghost perp is credited with kickstarting funk on his 2012 debut album. Yeah, a little dizzy bear is doing it. It's just kind of a like, I don't you can't even like if you look up funk, there isn't a ton. You can look up like the mote that funk songs for 2022. And you'll get a list of songs you've definitely never heard of. Unless you're my kid. But I do feel like sometimes I understand that I'm gonna have to sound like a boomer in service of being like, just trust me on this one. It's a thing.

Tom Merritt  48:34

I thank you for this, because I'm getting the feeling right now that I got when I first heard about trap and drill. Yeah, drill I definitely heard about from you. Which is, oh, this is the thing when I read the Wikipedia article been around for a long time. Right. This has roots in the 2000s fall. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Yeah. But is now bubbling up and is you is going to become a thing you hear about all the time. Like I heard about Trump, like I'm beginning to hear about drill. This is this is, this is good. This is good advanced thing, scouting.

Molly Wood  49:08

Thank you. I appreciate it, because I feel like an idiot talking about it. But I will say that in 20 May 2021, Spotify released an official curated funk playlist, and now they have one for 2022. So it's like it's just on the verge. And it's kind of cool, right? I mean, like that, when you even describe it, you're like, Yeah, that's awesome. Like some old Memphis rap tapes and samples from early like early hip hop. 90s Hip hop is just a delight to listen to what I grew up with. They're super cool. Super cool. Evidently got really big in Russia, too. And then there's a there's a spin off called drift funk. To just like remember, we were like drifting is the thing and that kid was like, You can't do that. Oh, no drift funk is a total huge sub genre. That's like, all over Tik Tok. its main features are the use of cowbells and high bass and it's generally used in low fi videos showing drifting cars. It's hard to keep up friends. That's why we're here for you.

Tom Merritt  50:10

Exactly. Because at one point trap felt like fun. Right now. You're like, what is it exactly? That Well, that sounds cool. Oh, I think I've heard that. Now. You go to, like, go to the Apple today's hits. And I say two thirds of it is trap. All hip hop, no matter where is using elements of trap like it is 100% mainstream. And I know I get the same vibe of like, it'll it'll take as long as it did with Trump to get there but that might happen to funk.

Molly Wood  50:44

I think so I read and I read a review of Drake's new album that everybody hates

Tom Merritt  50:51

everybody pretends they hate it and then it streams like in the

Molly Wood  50:54

they love it because the strike you love it. Don't pretend you don't. But they there was a comment at the end of it that was like, Whoa, call me when Drake does something risky, like Trapper funk. And I was like, okay, yep,

Tom Merritt  51:05

we're there. Drake has a big trap.

Molly Wood  51:07

I feel like he has I think he's done trap. Yeah. Yeah. But they punk. Yeah, this next. You're welcome.

51:15

Oh, all righty.

Molly Wood  51:16

I'm exhausted from the stress of sounding tribal sounds

Tom Merritt  51:20

good. That's it. That's an important one.

Molly Wood  51:23

helped me out listeners helped me out with your feedback,

Tom Merritt  51:25

feedback and it's a thing that me We got one from Jody in Minneapolis writing in with a thing check slashed thing for mation. Hello, MTR? Molly Tom rich.

Molly Wood  51:37

That's amazing. How has it taken us this long. You did it. You did it MTI

Tom Merritt  51:43

government agency that handles are you talking to me Dr. Rich, of course, our producer, if you're new listener, hello, MTR thing check needed F around and find out popping up everywhere actually saw it for the first time last week on a neighbor's bumper sticker. Knowing my neighbor, I think that usage means go for broken life. You only live once. This week. It's trending as a way to express hope that all people who have tried to destroy our democracy, I'd be held accountable. I've seen it numerous times on Twitter, and Ben Mattis, Lily used it in a slate column. It's an old phrase, but it's really trending now. So we've actually had this as a thing before, right, Molly?

Molly Wood  52:20

Yeah, we featured it on episode 147. This is one of those cases where we're like, too early, because it was just on the upswing as like super mainstream. And I was like, well look out everybody. I'm gonna say a swear. But ya know, it is everywhere now and has even been delightfully truncated as fafo people even say fafo and it's so

Tom Merritt  52:44

fun. I have not returned to fafo I'm gonna

Molly Wood  52:47

go to Twitter and do a hashtag search for fafo. And it's incredible. It's incredible. Yeah, it really has taken off. Yeah,

Tom Merritt  52:56

I almost feel because you are on it so early. That it's old. Yeah, they still saying that? But yeah, it's everywhere.

Molly Wood  53:05

It's everywhere. I'm gonna drop the fafo search in the I did. I think I did talk about it around the time of gritty. It might have been those might have been back. Like a real Philly mood. No kidding. Yeah, I think so. It was I mean, it's like a year. And what Episode Are we on now? This is too high already. This is 231 so this is episode 231. We talked about No 147 Dang. Yeah. That's a it's a blessing and a curse to be too early. Manny writes in with an update on vibes and says you've covered but I just want to point out God yes. 100% Oh, yeah, super duper thing.

Tom Merritt  53:43

Good. That's true. Thanks for a

Molly Wood  53:44

great spot. Great spot thank firmed man he writes in with an update on vibes because as he points out, you covered vibes a while ago much thing, but like Pokemon things evolve. This is the second evolution of thing vibe. He says it's giving man are so good. And so true. I've been saying this. Instead of saying this thing has x vibes. Sometimes you can say it's giving X. This works best for more comparison vibes things. For example, if someone wants a large T shirt and jeans with a baseball cap and asked for a fit check, I would probably say it's giving Adam Sandler

Tom Merritt  54:25

instead of it's giving Adam Sandler vibes right?

Molly Wood  54:29

So just shorten Yeah, yep. I've been really slow on this one. He says So apologies if it's been covered.

Tom Merritt  54:36

You're faster than us when you're slow. So

Molly Wood  54:38

I got it. I have to post for the show notes. I've gotta go find a tick tock that my friend sent me that was like when you have a Gen Z mom. No, because it's hysterical. And it's like the mom has just been like giving Cheerios. It's giving milk man. Yeah, this is a toy. This is huge. This is huge. I'm actually embarrassed that it didn't bring it because it's become such a funny.

Tom Merritt  55:01

It's hard sometimes to realize that the thing you're used to is a thing,

Molly Wood  55:06

right? It just like showed up like air. Yeah.

Tom Merritt  55:10

Tony has holiday questions. Well, I guess we're past Labor Day so time. Hi folks, help me figure out if I have two things or one big thing. All right. is pushing the envelope of how early to put out holiday decorations a thing? Or is complaining about it a thing? It might be one symbiotic thing feeding off each other? I think he kind of nailed it there. Tony. On a related topic. When are we just going to make it officially front yard decorating season? It seems that people who do decorate go from Halloween to harvest slash thanksgiving to Christmas decorations as a perpetual display from late September through mid January. Let's get the holiday thing talk started. Or am I the guy that starts talking about it too early? Take care and keep up the awesome work. This is Love This

Molly Wood  56:07

is the greatest email ever for so many reasons because one you're 100% right it's it's an ecosystem it's a thing ecosystem

Tom Merritt  56:15

I could think six neighbors that follow this exact pattern as

Molly Wood  56:21

me like literally day. Literally today is the day that I put out the like fall decor on my friend's stoop.

Tom Merritt  56:30

But you don't have a giant inflatable pumpkin on your lawn Do you know

Molly Wood  56:35

No, they did have these big kind of harvests at the lawn they were like kind of an aluminum big thing that you I guess you would stick in the grass I don't have grass in the front yard. I really I have to just do stooped decorating but but I did I did it today so September 16 is officially either too early or the start of

Tom Merritt  56:58

I just realized I don't have grass in the front yard anywhere anymore either for the first time and holiday season, which presents so many fun Halloween decorating opportunities to hide ghosts and skeletons in big bushy plants

Molly Wood  57:17

you can start now you can turn the

Tom Merritt  57:18

desert grass Yeah that's awesome. Yeah, thank you Tony. Yeah, well done.

Molly Wood  57:24

Oh, so good Tony so definitely a symbiotic thing. For sure. It's so symbiotic and also I feel delightfully called out which makes it part of this which is just it's beautiful. It's brilliant. Oh my God more nails talk Professor art for the Philippines when things spotting Hello Molly Tommy here as a possible thing spot since my love languages touch I tend to notice good fingernails. And what I noticed is the onset of minimalist nails Hmm, it started with noticing more women having white gel nails which I must say is frickin elegant. As an acquaintance of mine says it's the clean girl look. But then here comes Ana de Armas with her very simple clean cut colorless fingernails and what the press is calling the 90 supermodel manicure whether it's the color nude or just a simple clear coat I don't know if that's the real term or car term. It's all clean all natural Just don't call it crystal nails because apparently that's the exact opposite of this trend referring to all those literally glittery diamond finished artisanal nails so yeah, middle minimalist nails that's my thing spot like a flashback and we talked about this last week or we talked about

Tom Merritt  58:35

guys donut nails which are a which are on the spectrum towards the minimalist nails but I think art is noticing that it continues on from there

Molly Wood  58:45

which I think may have led me to duck duck go the supermom I think I went down the rabbit hole and then found the supermodel nail which caused me yes and go get a minimalist manicure because apparently I am just the guinea pig for all things

Tom Merritt  59:03

this nail art already like passe

Molly Wood  59:07

apparently it is yeah, I have I have a party nail so I went and got in advance of this like private speaking event that I was really nervous about I was like I just need a super elegant and it is notable that when I thought to myself I need a really elegant nail. I was like it needs to be nude. Short, you know squared off and my nail tech is hilarious. I only say nail Tech because that Jack Carlos on my manicure lady. I was like I just want you know, beige nail and she was like no. You have to get Yeah, and it's not very fun. So I have one party nail but it's basically like a black corner with two gold stripes kind of blends in. Oh, that's it is in fact a minimalist manicure. So it's like the nails. I mean, yeah, totally. But it's not even really this is Like, just past trends, because I do have the party now and that's over. That's over now.

Tom Merritt  1:00:05

She went right without the party nail.

Molly Wood  1:00:07

Oh, no. No chance. No. She's like boring.

Tom Merritt  1:00:12

Beth wrote in with a union thing. Hi, Molly, Tom and rich. Regarding last week's topic of quiet quitting, and white color union revival. I have to credit the white collar union I joined in early 2021. for opening my eyes to the frankly insulting wage I was being paid after 15 years at my newsmedia job, which I left at the end of 2021 by XOR looks forward to your XOR perspectives every week. Love it every time. Thank you, Beth.

Molly Wood  1:00:42

mazing. And also that is totally true. The white collar union revival 100% Yep. And I suspect that will probably only get stronger with the white collar recession.

Tom Merritt  1:00:55

It's a it's a white color versus blue collar world out there.

Molly Wood  1:01:00

It's sad how versus it's really become but then it's a different show. Those are conversations for a different show.

Tom Merritt  1:01:07

All right. Let's get to our shout outs. Richard Stroffolino Our producer, makes bespoke shout outs every week and we always say is that done itself? But I think he's out done outdoing himself this week.

Molly Wood  1:01:21

Yeah, he really rich, I think has shown incredible restraint thus far, and not delving into the things that he is most passionate about. But this week, he just went there. This week shout outs for those of you who support us at the shout out level@patreon.com slash it's a thing Thank you. Because you have given us the greatest moment of our lives rich hope you're listening there based on wrestler catchphrases.

Tom Merritt  1:01:51

I apologize in advance for my lack of wrestler catchphrase knowledge is

Molly Wood  1:01:57

gonna give them all roughly the same voice I think

Tom Merritt  1:02:00

I will start us off by telling you to get on board the Morris Jones train

Molly Wood  1:02:09

just when they think they know the answers Benjamin for his changes the questions

Tom Merritt  1:02:15

it's me it's me It's Lee price.

Molly Wood  1:02:20

I think we got to say the wrestlers for we got to educate the public here

Tom Merritt  1:02:23

all right. The first one was The Godfather.

Molly Wood  1:02:26

At my second was Rowdy Roddy Piper

Tom Merritt  1:02:28

and the one I just did was Diamond Dallas Page aka DDP.

Molly Wood  1:02:32

The pleasure was all Kevin sills Jesse The Body Ventura.

Tom Merritt  1:02:38

Welcome to raw is Eric Duncan Christ Jericho.

Molly Wood  1:02:46

Jake Ric Flair. Yeah, you knew it. You already knew it was Ric Flair.

Tom Merritt  1:02:56

I'm better than you. And Gabrielle Cohen knows it. Maxwell Jacob Freedman aka MJF

Molly Wood  1:03:04

Bara Abel 316 says I just whooped your Stone Cold Steve Austin Avi

Tom Merritt  1:03:13

to be the man you gotta beat Miranda Janelle also Ric Flair aka the Nature Boy

Molly Wood  1:03:20

I mean such a classic he gets to YES to Oh you didn't know your Andrew Bradley better call somebody. The road Dogg Jesse James.

Tom Merritt  1:03:32

Once you're going to do and Joe hood amania runs wild on U haul COVID

Molly Wood  1:03:41

What you got to do oh my god this is so amazing. You're either Nexus or against we say anymore. The Nexus wrestling stable.

Tom Merritt  1:03:53

Straight Edge means I'm drug free alcohol free and better than Mike Aikens CM Punk

Molly Wood  1:04:00

Ooh, you know what though? I think Rich forgot. Oh and none of our patrons

Tom Merritt  1:04:05

really okay let me double check the roles Oh crap. A long running one to James C. Smith are bad

Molly Wood  1:04:13

he didn't write whenever James man How do you think we should give him a shout out?

Tom Merritt  1:04:18

I mean, we at least we mentioned and it's not a big deal we could Hey,

Molly Wood  1:04:22

doesn't matter our we shout out Ah, the rock ladies and

Tom Merritt  1:04:29

gentlemen. I smelled what you were cooking can use the producer rich oh my gosh, not only not only was it a complete set of amazing wrestler shout outs but then a sketch the

Molly Wood  1:04:49

sketch he wrote a sketch for us, you guys. He wrote a sketch. That's why there will never I know I know. The Rock says he's the greatest entertainer when Ever but now it's the show show thanks to you figure out not comm slash it's a thing is what lets us entertain you week after week we are so grateful for all of you.

Tom Merritt  1:05:12

And as you just heard some of the best things on the show are from you. So keep those emails come and feedback and it's the thing that me

Molly Wood  1:05:18

yes and we will see you next week