Ep 18: Jia Tolentino
Gee Thanks, Just Bought It!
Caroline Moss
4.6 • 912 Ratings
🗓️ 27 March 2020
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Jia Tolentino of The New Yorker is here today to talk about her favorite bra, even though no one is wearing bras anymore because we have nowhere to wear them. She and Caroline also discuss the plight of boob measurements and also how we’re handling quarantining. Life is very normal, of course! Why do you ask?
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Very important for when we get back to the world, Jia’s favorite bra is currently on sale and the Natori website is offering 25% off your order this week: https://fave.co/2vQgBAf I recommend getting it in lots of colors because you’re gonna wanna be known as “fun bra gal” when we can go outside again. ALSO, when we can go outside again, New Yorkers MUST run, NOT WALK, to Nordstrom on 57th and go see Bo in the bra department.
In a more serious tone, I hope you are all hanging in there and giving yourself some space to be a little “off.” If you aren’t listening to Doree and Kate’s new podcast, HERE FOR YOU, it’s a great way to both acknowledge the state of the world while also not overwhelming yourself (as I tend to do). Listen here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/here-for-you/id1503438711
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Mentioned On This Episode!
- Natori Feathers Bra: https://fave.co/2vQgBAf
- Chantelle Bra (There are lots of bra sales right now, can’t imagine why): https://fave.co/33Uxzdp
- Animal Crossing and the Nintendo Switch: https://amzn.to/2QM35os
- Revlon (on sale again but please consider waiting to order): https://amzn.to/2vVSKzk
Buy Trick Mirror (or any book!) from Jia’s favorite indie bookstore in Ann Arbor, MI (they are doing $1 shipping!): https://www.literatibookstore.com/books
Thanks for listening!
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| 0:00.0 | Hi and welcome to another episode of G Thanks Just Bought It, the |
| 0:14.7 | podcast where we talk about what we just bought and what you might need to buy |
| 0:17.9 | next. I'm your host Caroline Moss and we're recording on March 25th. I'm |
| 0:21.9 | personally on day 17 of social distancing, |
| 0:25.9 | and I'm going crazy. |
| 0:28.3 | I'm joined today across the country |
| 0:30.1 | by your favorite New Yorker writer and the author of the best-selling book |
| 0:33.0 | Trikemere, Gia Tolantino. Hi Gia, welcome. |
| 0:36.6 | Hi, day 17, huh? |
| 0:38.6 | Well, so we hung out with a friend of ours who's a doctor, |
| 0:42.1 | like two and a half weeks ago and it scared me and just |
| 0:46.4 | into staying home. What dare you on? I think I'm on day maybe 11 or something. |
| 0:55.0 | That feels like more normal to me. |
| 0:58.0 | It's a competition by the way. |
| 1:00.0 | We're all going to sink up our days at the end and there's going to be a prize. |
| 1:03.0 | Well, what's, I mean, like normally though, it's funny, like normally I love spending all day by myself kind of like, you know, in disgusting sweatpants looking like shit you know do |
| 1:14.9 | like normally this is a dry I spent like a year in self-pouroutine in the Peace |
| 1:19.7 | Corps basically like I I do this all the time, but there's, it's so, it's really remarkable how different it is. |
| 1:27.4 | Like I realize that the sense of peace I get from doing it is like this sort of is completely related to the fact that most people are |
| 1:36.7 | living normal lives and you know yeah there was a tweet like maybe earlier what is time anymore it could have been two weeks ago it could |
| 1:44.8 | have been last night I don't know but it was like I want to go back to normal where I'm doing this but |
| 1:49.2 | you're all outside and I like really felt that. This is like my normal like I'm a I'm more of an introvert than an extrovert like I like being inside I love a day of just watching Law and Order or Real Housewives and now all of a sudden that's the only thing I can do I'm like dreaming of doing things I've never done before like I don't know going for runs like with friends. Oh my God. Which I won't do when we're allowed to do that again anyway. |
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