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Surprisingly Awesome

The Lo Life

Surprisingly Awesome

Gimlet

Comedy, Society & Culture, Education

4.11.3K Ratings

🗓️ 6 October 2017

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

Gimlet Media has a new podcast all about the beautiful and complicated dimensions of Black life. It's called The Nod, and it's hosted by best friends (and Blackness' biggest fans) Eric Eddings and Brittany Luse. In this episode, Eric tells Brittany all about his love for Polo Ralph Lauren—and the story of one group of boosters in Brooklyn who took their own love for Polo to another level. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hey surprisingly awesome listeners I am Brittany Luce and I'm Eric Eddings and we're best friends and together

0:07.2

we host one of Gimlet Media's newest shows the Nade. That is right the Nod is all about black culture and we explore all of the things

0:16.4

about black culture that are maybe unsurprisingly awesome yes and we would love for you to check out the show.

0:25.0

So we want to play you one of our episodes here now,

0:28.0

and if you like it, please go and subscribe to the Knop.

0:31.0

Yes, subscribe, we have already got a bunch of episodes out

0:34.7

for you to binge on, so go subscribe

0:36.3

on Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen.

0:39.3

So here it is, our new show from Gimmlet Media is the Nod. I'm Eric Ettings. And I am Brittany Loose. So I've been a huge polo fan for a long time.

1:08.8

It's an understatement, but yeah.

1:10.1

It was actually kind of a problem for a while.

1:12.1

What do you mean by problem?

1:14.0

So, like, for example, in middle school, we had this like big bus trip,

1:20.0

like you know you do like the overnight trip,

1:22.0

it's like a big deal.

1:23.0

We went from Memphis to DC, and my mom gave me some money for like lunch and souvenirs,

1:30.0

you know, it was supposed to last me throughout the whole time.

1:32.0

What did you do with the money? supposed to last me throughout the whole time.

1:33.0

What did you do with the money?

1:35.0

See, what happened was...

1:38.0

We stopped at an outlet store on the way and they had a polo shop like a polo outlet. Yeah I went crazy in there.

1:47.0

I spent every last dime of my money but like I wanted to come back with as many different pieces as possible

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