Ep 16: Arielle Calderon
Gee Thanks, Just Bought It!
Caroline Moss
4.6 • 912 Ratings
🗓️ 13 March 2020
⏱️ 50 minutes
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NOTE: This episode was recorded between 6pm-7pm EST on March 11th, 2020 — before Trump’s Euro travel address, the NBA cancellation, Tom Hanks announced that he tested positive for COVID19, and Sarah Palin appearing on the Masked Singer.
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Influencer marketer Arielle Calderon joins us on “Gee Thanks” today to talk about PhoneSoap, a phone sterilizer that a PR company sent her way back in the day and that she happened to find deep in her closet a week and a half ago. Since we’re all staying sanitized and socially distant, remember that your phone is probably super super gross, and you should clean it as often as you wash your hands. They are about $80 and on backorder til April (as I write this), but I bought one anyway because you know what? This week has been eye-opening and maybe I should just be cleaning things more.
I also need you all to follow Arielle on Instagram right now: https://www.instagram.com/ariellesays/?hl=en
We’re also discussing how we’re feeling emotionally about the state of the world (spoiler: not super amazing tbh), and ways we can try to feel better (spoiler: doing what we can to help others).
Speaking of helping others, you guys have already done that. This week, so many of you stepped up and donated small amounts towards a pot for the Y, the JCC and for Meals On Wheels, which will serve as lifelines and lifesavers for our most vulnerable and at-risk neighbors. As I am writing these show notes on March 12th, we’ve PASSED our $5000 goal! If you still want to donate a buck or two, you can Venmo me @socarolinesays. I am really proud of this community we’re building together, and that we can both enjoy buying things like ~*~Diamond Dazzle Stiks~*~ and know when it’s time to put our money towards a more important cause. Hang in there, stay safe, and check in with each other.
ALSO. AL. SO. We talk about how all of our parents (the boomers) are weirdly flying too close to the virus. Anyone else feel like they’re in a true Freaky Friday and playing the parent role?
HAVE YOU CALLED ME YET? We have a phone number! Call it! You may be featured on an upcoming special listeners-only ep of the podcast: 424-245-0736.
Mentioned On This Episode!
Please tell your parents to stay inside:
- How millennials are talking to their boomer parents about Coronavirus (by former “Gee Thanks” guest Anne Helen Petersen!) https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/annehelenpetersen/coronavirus-parents-grandparents-boomers-millennials
- If your aging parents are ignoring Coronavirus, you’re not alone (by Emily Cassel) https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/epgkb7/if-your-aging-parents-are-ignoring-coronavirus-risks-youre-not-alone
Thanks for listening! And thanks for washing your hands!
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everyone welcome. It's another week of Gee Thanks Just Bought It the |
| 0:14.7 | podcast where we tell you what to buy next I'm joined today by my friend and our |
| 0:20.3 | guest Ariel Calderon she used to work at BuzzFeed, she was a BuzzFeed writer, and now she works in |
| 0:25.6 | Influencer marketing. You might know we're on Instagram. She's at Ariel says. And |
| 0:31.6 | Errol I've known you for a while. |
| 0:34.0 | Oh my God, hi. |
| 0:35.0 | Yeah, you have, like in the most random way. |
| 0:37.4 | In the most random way. |
| 0:39.7 | I feel like we first met at like an internet meet up somewhere like a brunch or like a happy hour like something |
| 0:48.7 | really random. It was pancakes. Yeah yeah God, yeah, I was like by Amber. It was pancakes, it was amber, yeah. So back in the day in 2013, |
| 1:00.9 | when, you know, there was like a new I guess I sometimes look back on it and think about how it was kind of like a new generation of like media people or like internet people we were all kind of in our early 20s. Yeah. Or mid 20s and like no |
| 1:16.0 | what like everyone knew each other from the internet but like no one really |
| 1:18.2 | knew each other and so like people would just go to Denny's together and meet up and like talk about jobs. So cute. Oh my God. Yeah that was a bizarre. So yeah. So yeah, I'm such a bizarre time but I loved it. Yeah, I mean and here we are like seven years later |
| 1:35.0 | eight years later. Oh it was definitely before 2013 I think it was 2012 just to |
| 1:39.5 | set the record straight. I'm so happy that you're here with us today. Yes, thank you so much for inviting me. |
| 1:46.0 | Of course. I've been trying to get you on the books for a while. You were very busy. |
| 1:50.5 | I want to kind of briefly just sort of like remind people that usually when |
| 1:58.8 | you guys hear these episodes it's I've recorded them like weeks in advance and especially before I moved I recorded as many |
| 2:05.8 | episodes as possible in New York because I wanted to see people face to face and have those conversations. |
| 2:12.4 | So we are now up against kind of the first time |
| 2:15.6 | where there's something really big going on in the world. |
| 2:18.0 | And I have to make that choice of like, |
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