Quick Fix: Stuff We Loved in 2024

How To! with Mike Pesca

Peach Fish Projects

Education, How To

4.3 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 17 December 2024

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

Amid the hectic lives they lead as writers, parents, caregivers, and swashbuckling co-hosts of America's foremost advice podcast, Carvell Wallace and Courtney Martin somehow found time to read books and Substacks. (They even watched a movie or two.) In this year-end edition of Quick Fix, Carvell and Courtney offer up their favorite things of 2024—and reveal how they're thinking about 2025.

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0:00.0	Hi everyone, I'm Susie Weiss, and I've noticed there's just simply not enough podcasts in the world. So I'm launching my own. Let's go. Let's go, baby. Second Thought is a weekly show about pop culture. The stuff everyone's been binging, arguing about, obsessing over. Here's the thing about heated rivalry. I mean, even the most devoted swifties, I think we can agree, not our best work. We'll be hosting thoughtful conversations with culture's most important figures. Talk about genius.
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0:34.8	Welcome to our final Slate Plus bonus episode of 2024.
0:39.4	We just started doing these Slate Plus episodes this year, and we want to say thank you for being a Slate Plus member.
0:45.0	Now, before we say goodbye to 2024, Carvel and I are going to reflect on the year, what we would do differently, what we're planning for 2025?
0:53.3	So Carvel, what were some of your favorite, like, books, listens, newsletters, albums,
1:00.4	movies, just a small thing from this year?
1:03.1	This is so hard for me because I don't actually ever consume anything from the calendar
1:07.8	year that I'm in.
1:08.7	Like, and I'm not exaggerating.
1:10.1	Like, I'm currently reading Frankenstein published year 1818. Like, that's, you know what I mean? Like, I can tell us about other things. I tend to read old things. I mean, I did like a year-end thing for the millions, a year in reading. And I was like, I don't know how people can read current books when there are so many books. There are 50 million books that have been written. You know what?
1:29.7	2024. Like, I don't know how people can read current books when there are so many books. There are 50 million books that have been written.
1:30.7	You know what?
1:39.8	2024 literally was for me, which I am not embarrassed anymore to admit, is the year of the romance novel.
1:41.5	Yeah, great. I never read romance novels before.
1:43.8	And then my life just felt so freaking heavy.
1:48.7	And I read very heavy shit most of the time.
1:51.4	That's like my, you know, I love a very sad memoir.
1:55.2	And I was like, I'm going to try this.
1:57.8	And my friend Claire Mazzor got me into it.
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