Nyming, Labor Musicals, and Autograph Books
A new day calls for new Thingies with Priya Rao, executive editor of The Business of Beauty at BoF and creator of the Glossy narrative skin-lightening podcast Unfair. But first: a camelid costume contest.
Alpaca Fashion Shows and Beauty Insider Priya Rao's Thingies
A new day calls for new Thingies with Priya Rao, executive editor of The Business of Beauty at BoF and creator of the Glossy narrative skin-lightening podcast Unfair. But first: a camelid costume contest.
Same Grade, Mood Boards, and Why We Don’t Get the Good Ice-Cream Bars in America
The oddness of mood boards, some back-to-school content, and one heck of a food journey, featuring international ice cream, dream potato-chip collaborations, and dip delicacies worth dealing with baggage claim. Buckle in!
Morning Baths, Workout Wear, Butter Money, and Kale Phones
Make sure to double-knot your shoes because we’re running through a bunch of activewear brands, morning baths, kale phones, butter money, and COTC (corn on the cob, clearly).
Regrettably Worth It and Driving
Get it, bitch, we’re going…to talk all about cars, with a sprinkling of Thingies that are regrettably worth it.
The Notebook, Stickers, and Your Pioneer Intel
We share our (hot?) takes on stickers and The Notebook; we share yours on your younger selves and Pioneer Day.
Parenting Brush-Offs, Your Thingies, and Corn
Today we’re diving into *your* Instagram Thingies submissions, rain clogs (yes, again), parenting stuff, and—wait for it—cotton-candy burritos.
PMS and Joy (Brought to You by Jubilance!)
This week, we’re talking all things PMS and the many, many joy-givers in our lives. Shout-out to this ep’s sponsor, Jubilance, the most advanced scientific PMS mood relief supplement. Yes, that’s a thing—one that you can try by heading on over to jubilance.com/AThingOrTwo or using the coupon code ATHINGORTWO at checkout.
Covered Wagon Core, Friendship Ambition, and Summer Movies
Coming through with some thoughts on the intersection of friendship and ambition, covered wagon core (not to be confused with cottagecore!), and ~summer movies~.
Squishy Cheeses and Life-Improvers
Cottage cheese, pimento cheese, and us bringing our trademark cheese???
Laura Ingalls Wilder, Savannah Bananas, and the Floss Life
It’s time to revisit some ghosts of podcasts past, from rain clogs to private creative practices to an incredibly detailed review of an electric flosser.
The Other Summer Dressing, Overhosting, and Minor League Baseball
It’s time to soothe your mind about summer (salad) dressing stress! Also, we talk the ideal American sporting event and overhosting, a term that speaks to us more than we’d like.
Creativity and Exercise Updates That Feel Weirdly Related
Can we spend a little time talking about creativity and exercise, including how our takes on both are feeling surprisingly similar these days? GREAT. Let’s get into it.
Bugs and Mattie Kahn’s (Young and Restless) Thingies
We’ve been graced with Thingies from Mattie Kahn, the author of wonderful new book Young and Restless, all about the teenage girls who have fueled America’s biggest-deal social movements. But first: bugs.
Gummies, Night Phones, and a Couple New *Strategies*
Sound your alarms! Today we’re rounding up alarm clock suggestions from our listeners, dedicating a much-needed 15 minutes to talk about gummy candy, and incorporating some new lingo into our (ever-evolving?) vocabs.
Summer Dressing Conundrums Continued
As the temps rise, we’re starting to think more and more about what to wear in *this weather* (and, while we’re at it, the celebs we love so much we’d like to give thim a daytime talk show).
Community Spaces, the Hair on Our Faces
Grabbing into a bag full of community-building opps, a fantastic celeb memoir, unhinged TikTok content, a hair-removal tool we’re into, tulip hacks, and….juice marketing?
Oblivion Time and Taking Our Fandom More Seriously
Don’t zone out just yet! This week we’re talking about what we do during our “oblivion time” and fandoms of our past, present, and future.
Walking, Recycling Bottles, and Two Nostalgic Mall Brands
We’re reminiscing about niche educational retail chains of our youth, making a case for pecans, and learning the rules of a hot girl walk (<< there are rules).
Food Phenom Sue Chan’s Thingies and the Oh-So-Good Judy Blume Doc
Judy Blume forever!! A rallying cry and also the name of an incredible doc we need you to watch. And, let’s talk Thingies with Sue Chan, a tastemaker’s tastemaker—if you’ll allow it—who has all the event-hosting and condiment intel you need over at Care of Chan.