The Annual Gift Guide (and Who Is Kaia Gerber Dating?) | Jam Session

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🗓️ 2 December 2025

⏱️ 67 minutes

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This week on Jam Session, the annual gift guide returns for its 77th year (or something like that). Before the recommendations, though, Juliet and Amanda run through a few rapid-fire celebrity updates: Kaia Gerber’s swirling dating rumors (3:18), the latest on the elusive ‘Marty Supreme’ jacket (8:23), new developments in the ‘It Ends With Us’ lawsuit (12:37), and Mila Kunis’s reemergence in a Wall Street Journal spotlight in the wake of her upcoming movie, ‘Wake U p Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery' (16:49). Finally, the two go all out for their epic holiday gift guide (22:07) They break down their top picks across every category: domestic home finds (22:18), budget-friendly favorites (45:11), skin-care must-haves (56:20), gifts for kids (1:01:15), and much more. Hosts: Amanda Dobbins and Juliet Litman Producers: Jade Whaley and Belle Roman You can find the links to the gift recommendations here: Juliet’s Recs - Helen’s lamps: Here - Birdfeeder with camera: Here - Lifestraw Water Filter - Sessun outerwear: Here Here - Dorsey Kate Lab Grown Diamond Tennis Bracelet Dorsey: Here - Baggu pouches and packing cubes - Verloop: Here - Wool and the gang hat kit: Here - Swedish candy: Here - Ipsy makeup box - Popclox: Here - Folio Society: Here - Linger by Hetty McKinnon - Immodest Cotton lunch tote: Here Amanda’s Recs - Moccamaster KGBV Select: Here - Kismet cookbook and Spice House spices: Kismet cookbook Spice House Spices Spice House Pepper Flakes - Rihanna Phaidon book: Here - Bar Snacks at Bemelmans: Here - Ziip Halo: Here - Sense and Sensibility tickets and book: Sense and Sensibility Tickets Sense and Sensibility Book - Amilab lip balm: Here - The Ones membership: Here - SotoMethod subscription: Here - Gift Guide by Kaitlin Phillips: Here - Monastery Essentials Kit: Here - Merit Great Skin Trio: Here - The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny: Here - Pajamas for kids: Petite Plum Minow Hannah Anderson - Faux fur coat that Juliet told me not to buy: Here Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Think about cheese.
0:02.0	Make your thoughts cheesier.
0:04.2	Now add 100% chicken breast fillet,
0:06.3	Chipotle sauce and Amadea cheese melt.
0:08.3	And it's giving the new cheesy chicken stack at McDonald's.
0:12.0	Did we mention it's cheesy?
0:13.9	Cheese.
0:15.8	Availments at the 4th of Jan, 2026 from 11am.
0:18.1	Plus and participation may vary.
0:19.2	Subject's availability.
0:35.5	Welcome to Jam Session.
0:36.6	I'm Juliet Littman.
0:38.0	I'm Amanda Bowman. It's the 77th annual Jam Session. I'm Juliet Littman. I'm Amanda Dobbins.
0:41.9	It's the 77th annual Jam Session gift guide.
0:47.6	I don't know what number it is, but I know it's at least four years.
0:50.8	But I thought I was like thinking for a long time, what number will I be going with?
0:52.1	And 77 just felt right.
0:55.8	It has a nice ring to it. It has like a,
1:02.2	you know how in songs because of the number of syllables you'll use seven or 17 a lot.
1:07.5	So 77 it rolls off the tongue. This is, this is still an audio as well as visual medium. It's true. It's true. Well, here we are. It's our gift guides. Every to every episode, every year, the first episode after Thanksgiving, I have to give our
1:15.0	wrecks. I'm really excited to find out. As you are now in your shopping era, I cannot wait
1:21.7	to find out what you recommend. Well, I did try to be reasonable, somewhat.
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