IAT s09e19

Thu, May 11, 2023 9:28AM • 23:23

SUMMARY KEYWORDS

brackets, robe, snatched, bob ross, bathrobe, put, wraparound sunglasses, people, viral, pringles, pajama pants, homespun, corset, waist, pie, sunglasses, shout, supporting, picture, hourglass

SPEAKERS

Molly Wood, Tom Merritt

Molly Wood  00:05

Hey everyone. I'm Molly wood.

Tom Merritt  00:06

And I'm Tom Merritt.

Molly Wood  00:08

Welcome to it's a thing that weekly podcast supported by you that with our gentle approach and homespun humor has taught, inspired and entertained millions of people around the country and around the world. Thanks for joining us. That's right.

Tom Merritt  00:28

That's all we need to say.

Molly Wood  00:30

That's us. That's all you needed to hear. Us and my happy little trees.

Tom Merritt  00:36

Ah, Bob Ross.

Molly Wood  00:38

Bob Ross was

Tom Merritt  00:41

a gentle approach and homespun humor. Are we Holmes? I don't think we're very Homespun.

Molly Wood  00:45

They were all that Holmes.

Tom Merritt  00:46

But we couldn't be if we tried. We know what we come from Homespun.

Molly Wood  00:50

We have our moments. Yeah. Occasionally,

Tom Merritt  00:54

our homespun shows sometimes but oh,

Molly Wood  01:00

the now the Bob Ross and I want to be so happy about this. But I watched the documentary and now just mad,

Tom Merritt  01:06

macho documentary

Molly Wood  01:08

or Oh my God, you have to watch the Bob Ross documentary. Oh, really? It's shocking.

Tom Merritt  01:13

What happened.

Molly Wood  01:14

I mean, it this family, like completely took advantage of him and then like, stole his name and likeness from his family and that and all of this. All this crap they're selling is like unlicensed jerk stuff. That's none of it's going to be his own son.

Tom Merritt  01:29

Well, it's licensed because they have the license. So it's exactly none of his family is benefiting.

Molly Wood  01:34

Yeah. And they like bamboozled him and stuff. So you gotta watch this shocking you didn't think you could get mad about Bob Ross

Tom Merritt  01:41

lad. I was a little worried. The Bob was the reason you were mad. So I was worried about that point. relieved. Not yet. But relieved to hear that.

Molly Wood  01:50

Agree? No. Bob Ross remains as remains pure.

Tom Merritt  01:54

You know, I wonder if we could put together like a tournament of favorite people of the internet. Like Bob Ross and Oh, yeah.

Molly Wood  02:03

LeVar Burton,

Tom Merritt  02:05

Yeah, Alex Quebec. We could form brackets for that.

Molly Wood  02:11

Right? Because there are those people where you're just like, I bet I never want to hear a bad thing. Don't and they better be better be cool.

Tom Merritt  02:17

Also, brackets is my first thing.

Molly Wood  02:19

Shut up because

Tom Merritt  02:21

everybody's doing brackets slow

Molly Wood  02:22

burn. I was goofing off on the Bob Ross site. So Holy crap, are you right? Yeah,

Tom Merritt  02:30

everything is brackets now. And I blame the NCAA. Because just, you know, for the past, whatever, 4050 years, they've every March they they make people understand brackets and pay attention to brackets.

Molly Wood  02:45

And now everything is a bracket that is super funny, because it is indeed everywhere. The most recent one I saw that was super viral was was the like Elon Musk's biggest screw up? bracket. Oh, really? Hilarious.

Tom Merritt  03:00

Yeah, it's, uh, when we talked about brackets, we're talking about tournament brackets, not not just the the two keys on your keyboard? Or like things that hold up? Yeah, or things that are keeping your shelf up on the wall? Yeah, we mean, the batting cage. I mean, those are also things in there of their own. But in this case, we're talking about the, you know, to two people face off and one advances or two things, you know, the I've seen all kinds of memes around brackets. Brackets, definitely a thing.

Molly Wood  03:30

Is it I wonder if it's just like part of generally how we're just embracing all things betting?

Tom Merritt  03:39

Well, yeah, it's the it's the it's that and that, and this is actually part of the embracing all things betting is the competition, right, the wanting, wanting to cheer and see advancement and have a thing that you're rooting for advance and win and then the gambling plays on that by saying and then you also win when they win, because that

Molly Wood  03:58

plus easy, shareable, graphical, you know? Like, it's picture.

Tom Merritt  04:04

Yeah, it's easy to understand. You

Molly Wood  04:06

understand? Yeah, there's,

Tom Merritt  04:08

I've been fascinated with brackets since I was a kid. And the first brackets I ran into were our junior high Invitational basketball tournament brackets, but just that idea of like, who's going to end up being the best, you know, like you start with 16 things or whatever amount and then in the end, there's only one and they face off? What a great 30 I don't know why I don't know what the appeal is. There's something magical about that though.

Molly Wood  04:33

I mean, you just said a bracket with 16 Things like do we need a thing bracket I

Tom Merritt  04:42

think we I think I think neck may be a thing every year who at the end of the year will do it outside of March? Yeah.

Molly Wood  04:49

Right at the end of the March. March. It's too far away the thing bracket, kind of love that. The end of the year thing bracket. Yeah. Oh my goodness. Okay, make a note. Make a note team. Don't let us forget this. So we'll

Tom Merritt  05:05

we'll have you all nominate 16 things. And then we'll we'll, we'll we'll begin the attorney the thing of the year brackets love that.

Molly Wood  05:15

Oh my god, I'm putting this in the thing of the year. Rocket. E O ye 22. I've just put it in the bullpen just you know, as a placeholder and test because we're still doing a show here instead of planning a show, but those things are always happening at the same time because that's how we roll.

Tom Merritt  05:30

That is how we have always rolled and we will not stop rolling that way.

Molly Wood  05:34

That's the HubSpot part.

Tom Merritt  05:37

We're home role as ambassador Dobo put a bagel bracket in the discord right now. That's exactly the kind of meme that I keep seeing. Totally, yeah.

Molly Wood  05:49

Oh my God, that's hysterical brackets. I love it. Love it. Love it. Love it. Well, hey, while you're working on your bracket, filling out your bracket. You could be chillin at home, in your bathrobe, in my bathrobe, which is what you used to which used to denote that you were like a mom. But now, being a robe guy is apparently a thing. Like to like. In fact, I found out about this friend of mine who said his teenage son is always going around in his bathrobe and then annoying him by sending pictures of him in his bathrobe to be like, Yeah, that's right. I wear a bathrobe now. And I like I looked up. That's

Tom Merritt  06:26

right. I wear a bathrobe now. Get used to it used to

Molly Wood  06:31

it. It's a thing.

Tom Merritt  06:33

We're here where roped kids do it. And there's

Molly Wood  06:37

like, there's a robe guy hashtag on tick tock. There's men's robes like as a hashtag.

Tom Merritt  06:42

Now, whenever there's a trend like this, I always entertain the idea of whether I would participate in it. You know, to some extent, sometimes I find that like, oh, no, that's right up my alley. This one's not i Oh, no real like being in a robe any longer than I feel like being in a robe is pretty much being undressed.

Molly Wood  07:05

Well, yeah. But well, yeah, I

Tom Merritt  07:07

know. But it's like to me, I'm, I would never want to be in a robe in front of anyone. Except my wife.

Molly Wood  07:15

Yeah, I mean, I think it's mostly like, around the house thing.

Tom Merritt  07:18

Sure. But not I wouldn't want to be out in my front room and then have to answer the door or

Molly Wood  07:24

you know, got it. You think robes are strictly like a bathroom thing? Yeah. It's like the occasional spa visit.

Tom Merritt  07:29

Sure. Sure. Sure. Spa visits a good good exception. Yeah.

Molly Wood  07:33

It didn't mean for me and I don't even know. I mean, I'm looking at people

Tom Merritt  07:36

putting themselves in robes on Tiktok. What I'm like, I would never do that.

Molly Wood  07:40

Oh, right. Right. Let me be clear, what I'm talking about is Tiktok. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, there's a whole like a men's health, you know, 12 best men's robes in 2023. But what I actually think is that the real robe guy trend may be occurring among the teenagers. And that it's it's the inevitable evolution of them going around in pajama pants all the time. Sure.

Tom Merritt  08:03

That makes perfect sense. Yeah, maybe then they were like,

Molly Wood  08:06

oh, I need a bathrobe. I don't know. But I love I got like the idea of all these teenage boys like leveling up their flannel pajama pants with robes.

Tom Merritt  08:15

I am really much into the flannel pajama pants and I will go out in the backyard with the dog with the flannel pajama pants and I have no problem with that. So maybe I just need to evolve you maybe I need to open myself up to maybe that's a bad way of phrasing.

Molly Wood  08:31

I mean, if your rope is over your pajama pants with a T shirt underneath, like

Tom Merritt  08:36

that's not. That's not true. Yeah, that's true. We're not talking about people. Just Robo idli

Molly Wood  08:42

I don't think it's like a commando robe thing. I think it's like the robe is your jacket. Instead of your hoodie up on your robe. I

Tom Merritt  08:49

still don't love it though.

Molly Wood  08:51

That's hysterical. I have been such a bathrobe mom for like, two decades. I live No. In fact, I got an I asked for like my freshman year of college. I was like, I just want a fancy bathrobe. And I have been a bathroom person ever since.

Tom Merritt  09:06

I have a blue Terry bathrobe that I bought in 2000 in the inner sunset in San Francisco, because I didn't have a bathrobe after I moved.

Molly Wood  09:17

Oh, that is hilarious. I love that 23 year old bathroom. Wow. Yeah, no, my college bathroom. Finally when I was like a semi grown up, my mom was like ill you have to get rid of that. Like

Tom Merritt  09:30

idea why it works fine. And

Molly Wood  09:34

she was like it's filthy. And then I exactly and so then I had to get a new one, which I did and I've just been having at this exact moment. I personally have four separate bathrobes.

Tom Merritt  09:45

I'm thinking about Eileen. Eileen has a nice big, you know, soft. What's the material that's like super, super soft but artificial. She's got one of those. And then she has another one. She has like three I think.

Molly Wood  09:59

Yeah. But now it's pronounced rub guys

Tom Merritt  10:03

being robbed guy just huge boys. teenage boys getting in absolute trouble with the Robocop

Molly Wood  10:12

and wearing and wearing the, the look the look the Robocop look.

Tom Merritt  10:17

Yeah, wraparound sunglasses? Yeah, exactly. Yeah, that's the next thing. We actually touched on this when someone wrote in about the Snap into a Slim Jim guy glasses that has definitely broadened out into wraparound sunglasses, are you? I feel like we go back and forth between aviators and wraparounds you know, with sunglasses on the spectrum in between filling the gaps, but we are in a wraparound sunglass era again,

Molly Wood  10:46

wow, we really are. As evidenced by

Tom Merritt  10:51

glam glam.com has a a an article up may 4. wraparound sunglasses are the futuristic eyewear trend of the summer futuristic eyewear trend of the summer.

Molly Wood  11:05

It's like if you add of the summer Yeah, then yeah, you know, it's serious. It's

Tom Merritt  11:08

a thing. It's definitely a thing if you've done that.

Molly Wood  11:12

I where you are on robes is where I am on wraparounds Oh, really? Yeah. What the hell with every one of these photos.

Tom Merritt  11:21

I kind of I kind of love like a really tight fit and super sleek, aerodynamic wraparound sunglasses. That's not all the ones that picturing here by the way.

Molly Wood  11:32

No, no. No. Yeah. The the little ones. The like little tiny ones that are with a vintage

Tom Merritt  11:42

scarf. Yeah, we're with a vintage styled scarf says glam.com

Molly Wood  11:47

What is that? Why is the hat so that's

Tom Merritt  11:50

like, I want to be a 60s Princess of Monaco. Yeah.

Molly Wood  11:55

Did the 60s prints in mind when they were around then? I don't know. They're so small. Yeah. Yeah, that's amazing. Right?

Tom Merritt  12:03

I mean, definitely a thing.

Molly Wood  12:05

Hello clearly superduper thing what are the ones I can never remember the name of the ones that look like the ones like I just imagine that only guys who ride dirt bikes wear them? Or like a little sporty one and I think bring like Ric Flair would wear them when he wrestle

Tom Merritt  12:23

Yeah, that's the Snap into a Slim Jim That's the Snap into

Molly Wood  12:27

a Slim Yeah, so those are over. They had a brief resurgence and now we're on to wraparound Yeah, we

Tom Merritt  12:32

went full wraparound off after that. Yeah.

Molly Wood  12:36

The way that you could wrap your hands around summed up someone's tiny tiny waist if they were sufficiently snatched

Tom Merritt  12:43

Oh, well. First consent before you make that second. Careful.

Molly Wood  12:51

I am shocked to discover like truly genuinely astonished to discover that we are now using the word snatched with an IE d at the end everyone then Ed at the end to the more the more vociferous Lee I say Ed though the worst that all gets but snatch in the past tense of you will snatch it means having a tiny waist. Because it doesn't even mean it's not even like it's not even terrible. It just means having a tiny waist and it's because a waist snatcher is what you would call a corset because corsets are totally and in fact even one of those wraparound sunglasses pictures the ladies wearing the corset

Tom Merritt  13:39

oh my gosh our reference sunglasses ice snatchers their eyes snatchers

Molly Wood  13:43

Hey totally are but so evidently and just stay with me because I go okay yeah, totally okay, this is actually very innocent as this word goes because it is not an innocent

Tom Merritt  14:00

even though we are looking it up on Urban Dictionary it is innocence. It is

Molly Wood  14:04

even on urban dictionary which says and I quote snatched waste a waste snatcher is the modern term for a corset or other compression garment girlfriend I'm gonna get that snatched waist and show off my figure eight body in no time.

Tom Merritt  14:17

So you want to get that for the hourglass kind of look? Yeah All right all right you Kim Kardashian yeah if you if you wall off every other meaning the root word from your mind makes perfect sense.

Molly Wood  14:32

I I'm gonna regret this no, it still means that yeah, minus the IDI apparently Yeah, yeah. What it's always meant a classic. But if you make it past tense now and I'm just like, you kids must not know about the but you'll hear people on there is usually people in tic tac and they'll cinch in their waist and they'll be like snatched. Wow, it's like, oh, and they just wait is so wild.

Tom Merritt  15:03

What a world tiny tiny waist.

Molly Wood  15:06

Yeah, there it is. Look Ambassador DOMA snatched a waist in seven days they're all workouts to get a snatch to waste. I'm just gonna keep enunciating.

Tom Merritt  15:16

You know, sometimes sometimes words go the other direction they they lose their Pruriens meanings. Maybe we're seeing this in progress.

Molly Wood  15:24

Maybe Exactly. Because once you if you're if you've solidly put it in the category of just like waistline like you can't keep calling it that. That that Okay, let's move on. Anyway, that's the way I want you to know that now when you hear it out in the world, and you're tempted to like recoil in horror, or, you know, reprimand this young person for speaking that way. They mean tiny way they mean hourglass.

Tom Merritt  15:48

This is the service we provide. Thank you. Mollywood Yeah, you're very well, by the way serais backing you up saying it's been a solid thing for a few years now. Yeah, it's

Molly Wood  15:59

natural waist trainers. Totally. Mm hmm. There you go. Very nice. Clearly plenty of people in the discord. As evidenced by yikes what? I'm so old and the monkey covering its face with the tans emoji. Have not heard so yeah.

Tom Merritt  16:17

And pretty sure I almost avoided ever saying it. I apologize. Do you Bali for baking you say it every time

Molly Wood  16:27

the match.

Tom Merritt  16:30

Let's get to things feed back into the thing that me Sheila wrote in and said look, I always have to shout out Dr. Jenn Gunther, his book menopause manifesto. Anytime the topic comes up. It's chock full of lots of great info. And yes, as a Gen X woman, we were told we don't have to take it by rock. And we sure as hell aren't.

Molly Wood  16:49

That's right. I'm going to look it up to amazing. I mean, I've seen actually I've seen that book. I'm going to order it. Love it.

Tom Merritt  16:56

And as a Gen X woman, you're going to solidarity with Sheila. Right? That's

Molly Wood  17:01

right. Yeah. We're not gonna take it. No. Charles wrote in with some validation and said I saw this at Uniqlo in Disney Springs. And it was a photo of a little cute coffee table book called send nudes.

Tom Merritt  17:16

Oh, I know. ODS. Japanese book hilarious.

Molly Wood  17:21

How cute is that? I saw delivery person for a noodle place in the wild with like a with a nudes in a hurry. Oh, really? Or something. And I started laughing and I was like, I pointed out to my son. I'm like, that's the thing to say send nudes. He had the exact same reaction that we just had to snatched. Really? Yeah, he was like, no, no, not say that.

Tom Merritt  17:41

Yeah. Oh, stop being so young man. Yeah, it's like, no. Yeah, sorry. That train has left the station, young man. You can't stop it.

Molly Wood  17:53

I'm saying it non stop.

Tom Merritt  17:56

And then James said, I match your Kirkland slides with some all the ones and send us a picture of a bunch of boxes, all the slides.

Molly Wood  18:05

The all the ones are cute, too. They're blue. They're like a sort of a rainbow stripe situation. Nice. Love it got all the really slides

Tom Merritt  18:13

was such a good call.

Molly Wood  18:14

Yeah, you know, sometimes you think you're like a little late. But I think it might have been right on time. We're in the thick of it. Yeah, I didn't make it to Costco this weekend. So that's still gotta get over there. And then finally, Joe COVID wrote in Hey, fellow fixtures quick thing inspired from listening and the thing check for viral food. First, at one point recently, Molly said no notes on someone's think suggested and I realized that phrase is totally a thing. I usually see it written rather than said, but it is all over the place both in the honest admiration and ironic response to the farce. That is current social media. I would like to pause here and say, I've had this in the bullpen. Clearly for too long.

Tom Merritt  18:54

Yeah, that happens every once in a while. We'll we'll have something in the bullpen and then the email will come in and we're like, I shouldn't have sat on it. But that's fine. Yeah, I'm gonna give it helps us to understand that so it's good to send it is good validation

Molly Wood  19:05

that in fact, it is a thing. For sure. No notes. Second, Joe writes, I think I've spotted a thing in the viral food genre. I'm not sure what to call it except an upside down pie. videos of people putting stacking ingredients on parchment paper, covering it with pie crust, and baking them they flip it when it comes out of the oven and voila, upside down pie. Most of what I've seen has been savory and most of looked delicious. Is this just my algorithm or is it a new viral cooking thing? And then he sent some supporting links because grad school training can't let me draw a conclusion.

Tom Merritt  19:39

Wow, yeah, I that. It just turns out as pie when you do it that pretty

Molly Wood  19:45

much Yeah, right. Well, I've seen the one though he put this like kitchen link. I have seen this where it's upside down but it's not pie. It's like a puff pastry kind of crust. I see that now. Even more like a hand pie. are like yeah, like an upside down shepherd's pie. Kind of thing. Interesting. I want to Yeah, maybe I'll make something like this for dinner.

Tom Merritt  20:09

Definitely make me a little hungry there. We have shoutouts on the show to our top level patrons. We love every single patron. But the folks who were able to support this a little more good, a little extra shout out. And those shout outs are hand crafted by Richard Stroffolino is brain because there are representations of your hands in your brains. Okay, so don't pick at my metaphor. The shout out this week is based on the Pringles fac answer to who invented Pringles.

Molly Wood  20:39

Ah,

Tom Merritt  20:40

this is why I don't look at the shout out until I read it because of the joy I just experienced as the words came out of my mouth.

Molly Wood  20:48

Exactly. Oh my god. I'll take the top two. You take the bottom two. Sure. Yeah, that works. That makes sense. Over the years, hundreds of people have had a hand in making Kevin SIL the delicious patron he is today. But credit for his creation goes to two people. Miranda, Janelle And James C. Smith. Benjamin Forrest started working on Laura Abel. By the way, all of these names have a Little Red Rooster mark after them and Matt is just beautiful. Benjamin Forrest started working on large table back in the mid 1950s, when he was looking to find an alternative to Joe hood, who was often greasy, stale and broken. He spent more than two years on Mike Aikens and is the person who designed their unique shape known as a hyperbolic valeur trucks and the tubular can he is packaged in Gabrielle Cohen was so proud of her work that when she passed away she was actually buried in a can of Louis St. amour. Wow.

Tom Merritt  21:47

Jake Woods built on what Lee price started working to improve the taste of Andrew Bradley. He was eventually rewarded for his efforts by being credited as the inventor on the Eric Duncan patent. Morris Jones is credited with being the person to invent the machine that makes ag ventrella later on in life, he went on to become a science fiction author publishing more than 30 novels. Remarkable. I now I need to know the real story of Pringles. That's amazing.

Molly Wood  22:14

I know. I mean, I guess I can see that just regular potato chips get broken in the thing. And that is, that's amazing. That is amazing.

Tom Merritt  22:22

They were fac answer to who invented Pringles? Very, very comprehensive answer two,

Molly Wood  22:28

very comprehensive, we honestly, I believe that this is a unique feature among in the podcast world. I really do. I don't think anybody else is doing these. No, no, no, you're right. Increasingly absurd shout outs. So thank you for making it possible week after week by supporting us at the shout out level@patreon.com slash it's a thing or supporting us at any level, because once you're a member, you get our Discord where you can chat with us live during tapings and an ad free RSS feed.

Tom Merritt  22:57

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Molly Wood  23:12

See you next week.

Tom Merritt  23:14

Bye everybody.