Ep 22: Marisa Meltzer
Gee Thanks, Just Bought It!
Caroline Moss
4.6 • 912 Ratings
🗓️ 24 April 2020
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
Marisa Meltzer joins us to talk about all things perfume and scents and candles and incense. Everything about this conversation was a joy for me, because Marisa is wonderful and she taught me about a laundry detergent I ran out to buy ASAP (and by ran out I obviously mean I clicked around and purchased).
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Marisa’s new book, This Is Big, came out last week and you are going to love it. Imagine Julie and Julia but about Weight Watchers. I devoured it. Order it from your local indie or my favorite one: Amherst Books (https://www.amherstbooks.com/). (Tell Shannon I sent you!)
Read an excerpt from This Is Big here: https://www.thecut.com/2020/03/marisa-meltzer-this-is-big-excerpt.html
Mentioned On This Episode!
- Incense Paper: https://www.ponsont.com/
- Le Labo: https://fave.co/3bznRQx
- The Laundress x Le Labo: https://fave.co/3556DYX
- Kiehl’s Love Musk Oil: https://fave.co/2Kug9eP
- Maison Louis Marie No. 4: https://fave.co/34Z9KBI
- Paris Hilton Perfume: https://fave.co/2XZp4Nb
- Nicki Minaj Perfume Pink Majesty: https://fave.co/3bAyUcv
- Diptyque: https://fave.co/2S2VVx3
- This Is Big by Marisa Meltzer: https://www.littlebrown.com/titles/marisa-meltzer/this-is-big/9780316413992/
PS. 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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| 0:00.0 | Hey everyone. Welcome to another episode of G Thanks Just Bought It, the |
| 0:14.9 | podcast where we tell you what we just bought and we tell you what you might need to |
| 0:18.9 | buy next. This is your host Caroline Moss and today I am joined by author, Marissa Meltzer. |
| 0:24.5 | Her new book, This is Big, is out in stores on April 14th. |
| 0:29.0 | And I read it already, and it's really, really fun. |
| 0:32.2 | You can think of it as like a Julie and Julia, |
| 0:34.5 | but for Weight Watchers, it's her, |
| 0:36.5 | it's Marissa's journey to sort of accept her own body |
| 0:40.9 | and the bodies of people around her as it parallels to the Weight Watchers founder |
| 0:46.8 | Gene Niedich's life and it is such a good read. |
| 0:51.7 | I'm so excited for it to be out in the world and I'm so |
| 0:54.9 | excited to have you here Marissa. Thank you for coming. Thank you for |
| 0:58.4 | having me. I listen to the podcast every week so I'm excited. |
| 1:03.7 | Also I love buying things so I |
| 1:05.7 | doesn't. |
| 1:06.3 | I could be like your permanent guest basically. |
| 1:08.2 | Just come just you're now my next you're now the second host. |
| 1:11.2 | We're now a two host show. I love it. |
| 1:13.2 | Marissa, I know that as a listener, you've been thinking about what you wanted to bring for a while, |
| 1:18.3 | and I know that you were going back and forth between a few items. What did you land on? |
| 1:28.8 | I landed on paper incense. The kind that I have is from a company called Ponsons, it's P-Oonsonsons. I think they're from Canada, although it's |
| 1:38.2 | crafted in the USA. And it's literally paper incense it looks kind of like rolling papers a little bit or like a book of stamps or something like that and there are little strips of I guess like |
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