Kim
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Excuse My Grandma's Met Gala Commentary (BONUS EPISODE)
See, I end up liking. That's pretty simple. Yeah. Which, I mean, I'm not overwhelmed by that. No, no. But I guess it has the cape detail.
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Excuse My Grandma's Met Gala Commentary (BONUS EPISODE)
I don't know. Does anyone get these references? Maybe he's getting engaged. I think it has to be like a royal situation going on. Oh, maybe, maybe.
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Excuse My Grandma's Met Gala Commentary (BONUS EPISODE)
Yes. Oh, I watched it last night. He looks like Bridgerton. Oh, yeah. Zach has never seen Bridgerton. I was like, we have to watch one episode last night. He's like, this is a show for girls. Everyone's saying put them on E. I agree. I think we could do some good red carpet reporting. Thanks, guys. Thank you. Oh, see, now this is very elegant. Yeah.
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Excuse My Grandma's Met Gala Commentary (BONUS EPISODE)
Yeah. I think everyone looks good. I'm excited to see Zendaya.
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Excuse My Grandma's Met Gala Commentary (BONUS EPISODE)
I'm excited to see Rihanna. Oh, it's...
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Excuse My Grandma's Met Gala Commentary (BONUS EPISODE)
Yes, it's super fine tailoring black style so there's a lot that goes into this theme um but first by the way oh there's that there's an coleman domingo and anna winter so we'll get into if you guys aren't already familiar who the hosts are this year um everyone write in by the way where they're watching from we'd love to know where you are in the world
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Excuse My Grandma's Met Gala Commentary (BONUS EPISODE)
Yeah, really beautiful. I love any sort of white embellished suit.
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Excuse My Grandma's Met Gala Commentary (BONUS EPISODE)
I'm also really excited to see Dochi. It's her first Met Gala, and she's obviously having a huge year. I love her music. and Kylie Jenner. I like always seeing the Kardashians and the Jenners, but Kylie and Timothee Chalamet. Isn't she pregnant? No, she's had two kids. I think she's pregnant again. That's in the news every day.
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Excuse My Grandma's Met Gala Commentary (BONUS EPISODE)
Oh. She dates Timothee Chalamet. Oh, I know that. Yeah. No. So they will be there together, which is exciting. Okay. Well, I know you love him. Love him. Okay. Someone said Gigi is too honest for E. Yeah.
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Excuse My Grandma's Met Gala Commentary (BONUS EPISODE)
They need some honesty and just chilling at home with us, I feel like, is way... Well, at home we can say it.
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Excuse My Grandma's Met Gala Commentary (BONUS EPISODE)
I mean, it's on theme. It's for sure on theme. But do we like it?
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Excuse My Grandma's Met Gala Commentary (BONUS EPISODE)
Yeah. Wait, is she lying? Yes.
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Excuse My Grandma's Met Gala Commentary (BONUS EPISODE)
I mean, if you're that famous, you have to...
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Excuse My Grandma's Met Gala Commentary (BONUS EPISODE)
How many men are helping her? One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine. Well, they have to spread it, because they're spreading the train. Yeah, for the photos. And then they stop along the carpet to do their press, you know.
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Excuse My Grandma's Met Gala Commentary (BONUS EPISODE)
Well, when they go in to have dinner. Oh, this is all done then? No, they go in and have dinner. Yes. But do they take the cape off? Of course. You can't walk around with that cape all night. So you think she's going to change? Now, who's kissed her? I think she was, was it Zoe Kraut? Uh, no. I don't know who, oh, it was, uh. See, now, I don't know. Oh, there's a, is that, there's a day.
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Excuse My Grandma's Met Gala Commentary (BONUS EPISODE)
Were they waiting to get on the carpet?
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Excuse My Grandma's Met Gala Commentary (BONUS EPISODE)
And of course, as we start to see some of the outfits, say your favorites, who you're excited to see tonight, and we'll stay with you through the red carpet. So by the way, if you don't know, the Met Gala is a fundraising event for the Costume Institute of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. We love going there.
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Excuse My Grandma's Met Gala Commentary (BONUS EPISODE)
Wait, it's Diana Ross. It wasn't Tracy, right? No, it's Diana Ross. That was Diana Ross.
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Excuse My Grandma's Met Gala Commentary (BONUS EPISODE)
They want to see Sarah Jessica Parker, but she's not coming this year because she's shooting something. I saw that, which is kind of a letdown because I like seeing... Oh, see, she can barely get up those steps.
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Excuse My Grandma's Met Gala Commentary (BONUS EPISODE)
I think she's just, she's Zendaya's publicist. Oh. Zendaya's in the all-white suit. We're looking at her now. She's about to get onto the carpet. Well, that's very pretty. She's always gorgeous. I mean, that's fabulous.
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Excuse My Grandma's Met Gala Commentary (BONUS EPISODE)
I think it's just a vest. It's like a classic, what is it, two-piece suit, three-piece suit?
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Excuse My Grandma's Met Gala Commentary (BONUS EPISODE)
I have a question. If you're not a celebrity and you're going to the Met Gala, do you still walk up the stairs?
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Excuse My Grandma's Met Gala Commentary (BONUS EPISODE)
Maybe. I think it's the diamond buttons. I don't think there's any pins or anything. Oh, okay.
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Excuse My Grandma's Met Gala Commentary (BONUS EPISODE)
Yeah, I don't know the etiquette on the red carpet. Like on this level?
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Excuse My Grandma's Met Gala Commentary (BONUS EPISODE)
We're seeing a cane here, so that's one of the accessories that are part of Dandyism.
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Excuse My Grandma's Met Gala Commentary (BONUS EPISODE)
But then he's also wearing like a down coat. I actually don't hate the coat.
Excuse My Grandma
Excuse My Grandma's Met Gala Commentary (BONUS EPISODE)
I don't know what the like, I don't know.
Excuse My Grandma
Excuse My Grandma's Met Gala Commentary (BONUS EPISODE)
We're watching on Vogue, by the way, for people asking.
Excuse My Grandma
Excuse My Grandma's Met Gala Commentary (BONUS EPISODE)
Well, that's Simone Biles. Right. And... Well, she's so cute. So cute. Fun hair. We see a little collar moment.
Excuse My Grandma
Excuse My Grandma's Met Gala Commentary (BONUS EPISODE)
Yeah, it looks like a dickie over the ground.
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Excuse My Grandma's Met Gala Commentary (BONUS EPISODE)
I think if I... I would wear something like that, what she's wearing. I love a mini A-line dress with a little collar detail.
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Excuse My Grandma's Met Gala Commentary (BONUS EPISODE)
Someone said none of them look as chic as Grandma Gail and Kim. It's her football player husband.
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Excuse My Grandma's Met Gala Commentary (BONUS EPISODE)
Grandma didn't know. Two years, yeah. Okay. All right.
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Excuse My Grandma's Met Gala Commentary (BONUS EPISODE)
Okay. I don't know. I'm reading the comments.
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Excuse My Grandma's Met Gala Commentary (BONUS EPISODE)
It was easier then, probably.
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Excuse My Grandma's Met Gala Commentary (BONUS EPISODE)
It has to be from, or 40s?
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Excuse My Grandma's Met Gala Commentary (BONUS EPISODE)
Oh, I'm sure that, Chanel.
Excuse My Grandma
Excuse My Grandma's Met Gala Commentary (BONUS EPISODE)
By the way, for people tuning in now, Grand Miguel and I are watching a live stream at home. We're invited, although we are on the block of the Met Museum right now, and we could see it out our window. It was too hard to do the setup in front of the window, but we are close by, and we're just doing a commentary at home. Look at this beautiful dress. Look at this outfit, Kim.
Excuse My Grandma
Excuse My Grandma's Met Gala Commentary (BONUS EPISODE)
Yellow's in right now. Not quite that yellow. That's more like of a neon. But the bold colors on theme, I would say. I think we're getting a little commercial now.
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Excuse My Grandma's Met Gala Commentary (BONUS EPISODE)
They block off the streets now. But you can also stand in front of the Mark Hotel where a lot of the celebrities stay.
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Excuse My Grandma's Met Gala Commentary (BONUS EPISODE)
Okay, we are live. Hey, everyone. Hi, everyone. It's Kim. And it's Grandma Gail. We're going to do some live commentary watching the Met Gala red carpet tonight in real time and sharing all of our thoughts because we know we have a lot.
Excuse My Grandma
Excuse My Grandma's Met Gala Commentary (BONUS EPISODE)
I think that, by the way, for those re-asking, the theme is super fine, tailoring black style. And I think people have been on theme so far.
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Excuse My Grandma's Met Gala Commentary (BONUS EPISODE)
All right, maybe. It's also tailored, so the importance of suiting. I don't think anyone has been, besides maybe Gigi, has been totally... Well, here now, no, no, no.
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Excuse My Grandma's Met Gala Commentary (BONUS EPISODE)
Yeah, it's more on the nose.
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Excuse My Grandma's Met Gala Commentary (BONUS EPISODE)
So he's really done the look. I think there's a lot of reference points for this theme. So I think people are kind of making it. Well, they're trying. Yeah. They're trying. I think I don't hate anything so far. This looks like a royal.
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Excuse My Grandma's Met Gala Commentary (BONUS EPISODE)
Another all-white suit moment.
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Excuse My Grandma's Met Gala Commentary (BONUS EPISODE)
I kind of like that we're seeing more from the men this year because usually I feel like it's an afterthought with any award show or red carpet. I'm like, okay, they're wearing a suit. Like, let's see what the girls wear. But I'm actually more excited by a lot of the men's looks.
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Oh, wait, backless is kind of insane. Oh, this is like really avant-garde. This looks like something from Out of Space. I don't love that it's a crop top. But again, the long... You know what I feel? They try too hard. I don't think they need the cane and the big piece and the hat. You think so? I think eliminate... One to all of them.
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Excuse My Grandma's Met Gala Commentary (BONUS EPISODE)
No, I think she probably, oh, you think she took the cape? Of course. Now that she's at the top of the stairs.
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Yeah. And she's actually on tour right now. But I think her son was like, you have to go. We love a family-involved moment.
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Excuse My Grandma's Met Gala Commentary (BONUS EPISODE)
Really cool look. I think they probably had to shut the whole carpet down pretty much for her to get up those stairs. They're replaying it now.
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Excuse My Grandma's Met Gala Commentary (BONUS EPISODE)
Actually, it says her eight grandchildren's names and her children's names are all in the cape. Oh, isn't that fabulous? So everyone's embroidered in there. Well, that's a thing of beauty. That might be art. We love, you know, a family moment. No, that's just something to hand down forever. That's an heirloom.
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Yeah, so anyway, it's all for the fashion exhibit that's opening at the Met, and the Met Gala is always the first Monday of May. So if you ever heard that saying, that's when the Met Gala is. So getting into the theme of this year's exhibition, which by the way, we tried to be a little bit on theme. We're not so much on theme. We're wearing black tailored suits. Well, you know, it's not.
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Excuse My Grandma's Met Gala Commentary (BONUS EPISODE)
We lost our light for a second. Let me see if I can get it back.
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Excuse My Grandma's Met Gala Commentary (BONUS EPISODE)
Yeah. She is cute. I like it. I think the color is really pretty. Well, it is beautiful. It is beautiful. It looks really nice. Yeah, it's like very Minnie in the front, very long in the back. And very, very Minnie in the back. Oh, yeah. But then we have the big bow covering. Right. I think it's fun. Which is fun for her. Someone said they remember Diana Ross's concert in the park.
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Yeah. Are we leaving the light off? Is that what we decided?
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Excuse My Grandma's Met Gala Commentary (BONUS EPISODE)
We haven't seen that burgundy. Oh, did we see that burgundy?
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Excuse My Grandma's Met Gala Commentary (BONUS EPISODE)
Yeah, this is Grand Miguel approved.
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Excuse My Grandma's Met Gala Commentary (BONUS EPISODE)
Custom Chanel, very sculptural.
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There'd be satin pants under there. I think it was like inspired by 20s, 30s Chanel runway. Could be. Is what they say. Is that what they're saying? Is what they're saying. And I think like it's, I'm always interested in how these celebrities do the research and like figure out what they want to wear.
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I think a lot of them like to be involved. It's a group. effort. I'm sure. Obviously, the designer, she worked with Chanel, so they had to say.
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Excuse My Grandma's Met Gala Commentary (BONUS EPISODE)
Yeah, it actually looks like there's a down in the coat.
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Excuse My Grandma's Met Gala Commentary (BONUS EPISODE)
designer because that i don't know and look at the big look at this big extended shoulder pads is that yeah someone said we should do a recap tomorrow um on our top 10 best and worst looks so we'll definitely we'll we'll absolutely do it thanks for the suggestion
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Also, if you're just tuning in to the live now or if you did a little bit earlier and you want to see the whole thing, we're going to be releasing this as a podcast episode that you can watch and listen to in full.
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Oh, here's the dog. She's joining us. She's coming to the gala. So for those... Okay, let's let her calm down for a second while everyone watches. Okay, she had a fun time out there. Did you see any celebrities in front of the Met?
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Oh, they'll see it because it comes live, the video. It'll be on YouTube, but we'll do our best to describe what we're seeing. Exactly. Okay. But yeah, it'll be good to watch with the video.
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Oh, it's Lupita. No, wait. Hold on. Is it? Yeah, it's Lupita Nyong'o. Oh. We'll get her back. Oh, here's the woman I want. I wonder who the gold. This is Gigi Hadid.
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Let's see. I don't know. I know. It's interesting to do like silver earrings with a gold dress.
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She looks like a statue. Anyway, I think so. Basically, she's wearing Miu Miu. And she worked with her friend, who's also a stylist and an editor. And she's so beautiful. And she thought of a lot of ways, I think, to interpret... this luck is kind of what she was saying because, but it's a celebration of Zelda, who was a fashion designer in the late forties, you know?
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So a woman, but she was trained in men's tailoring and men's fashion.
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Excuse My Grandma's Met Gala Commentary (BONUS EPISODE)
And she brought that to the female form. Okay. So, you know, a little bit riskier, I guess.
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Yeah. No, that's very pretty. It's definitely more feminine than a lot of the other things we're seeing. But I think like mixing... You think the gold?
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Let's put it that way. Like, you know, it's not Miu Miu's fault, but I just don't know how I feel. But anyway, she just turned 30. So let's see what's going on now. Okay. They're taking off their coats. What do you think of like hair jewelry? Like when people have like accessories or chains in their hair.
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Excuse My Grandma's Met Gala Commentary (BONUS EPISODE)
And it's kind of cool, actually. And I like it with the jacket over.
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Excuse My Grandma's Met Gala Commentary (BONUS EPISODE)
See this? Joey King. Yeah. She...
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Yeah. It's quite beautiful. I like the green. I like the, like, embellishments. Yeah.
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All over. And she's, like, tiny. And I feel like that suits her, you know?
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Yeah. Okay, so the theme this year, super fine, tailoring black style. It's all about the style of the modern black dandy. So it's inspired by Monica L. Miller's book, which was called Slaves to Fashion, Black Dandyism and the Styling of Black Diasporic Identity.
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Excuse My Grandma's Met Gala Commentary (BONUS EPISODE)
Oh, wow. I didn't see the shirt and the tie detail. See, but this I think, yeah. That's fashion.
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Okay, this is kind of cool. Yeah. Big tie.
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Excuse My Grandma's Met Gala Commentary (BONUS EPISODE)
Right. He's wearing the brooch. And again, the brooch.
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The hat being like, oh, look at the oversized bag. That's interesting. And he's wearing a glove. Yeah.
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Two gloves. Okay. Embellished gloves. Well, maybe he's on a trip. The big suitcase is interesting.
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This is Bad Bunny, by the way. Bad Bunny. Oh.
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Yeah. Very dapper. The union's always like it's, you know, a Hollywood couple that a lot of people look up to.
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And Gabrielle has a big diamond necklace, and they're kind of coordinating the black and white. They're very chic. A lot, yeah. That's a beautiful couple. It's interesting. I feel like people are either tons of color or black and white.
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Excuse My Grandma's Met Gala Commentary (BONUS EPISODE)
I mean, there's nothing like ugly though.
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Excuse My Grandma's Met Gala Commentary (BONUS EPISODE)
see diana ross's was fabulous because it also was going to be talked about because the thing was so outstanding like with a red carpet you don't want to look like if you typically are kind of understated you don't want to do something off-brand right but i also think uh the whole point really is like for media coverage and for the designers to want to work with you and all these things so i don't think you want to under do it no i'm sure you're right i'm sure you're right
Excuse My Grandma
Excuse My Grandma's Met Gala Commentary (BONUS EPISODE)
So it's all about the importance of style and suiting and all the formation of black identities from the Harlem Renaissance to the global impact of black designers today. So... Dandyism, I did some research, by the way. So I'm not going in totally blind. I want to help you guys a little bit out here.
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This is ASAP Rocky that we're looking at, I think. And, yes, one of the co-chairs. Okay. And I'm just looking. I mean, the black and white, the suit, the diamonds. The brooch. Like, we're seeing the same things. He looks good. Yeah, he's very handsome. Yeah. Hello. Very handsome, though. So he's saying his... And his cane. Oh, yeah, he has a cane.
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Oh, okay. So it's very Harlem Nights.
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Right. You have the Louboutin shoes. Louboutin shoes. I think we saw like an exposed boxer on the pant. I'm trying to see closer. Oh, he's showing you the red heel. He's excited about the Louboutin.
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And then it's actually an umbrella that he's holding. Is it? Yeah, it's an umbrella. Well, it was raining. Yeah, honestly. So he is on theme. He is prepared. You sure it's an umbrella? Yeah, I think that's what... He said his grandmother is in love with Coleman Domingo. Okay. So he's like really excited to see him tonight. Okay.
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And if you could be a date of one of the people on the carpet tonight, who would that be? None of these people. Oh.
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No, this is not the night to be understated.
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Mindy Kaling, great writer and actress. This is interesting. Now they're showing Bad Bunny again. He's kind of growing on me, this look. I like a chocolate brown. And he's got a gold glove. It's definitely out there, but it kind of goes in a weird way. Like, it doesn't go and it goes.
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He's wearing Prada. Oh. And he said they worked on this look for a couple months. Really? So obviously a lot of thought had to have gone into it. Oh, I'm sure. I'm sure. Because I'm like, do the gloves go with the hat, go with the bag?
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He's a traveler. I don't know. I think. He does look good. And he, I think, is like infusing Puerto Rico into the look also. Oh, really? I don't know. I don't know.
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I guess it's like the basket weave kind of... Oh, is it really?
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Let's just take a peek at that. Yeah, that's a little more delayed than this one. We have a few screens going on. Oh, okay. So... Like, basically Dandyism was a man who paid a ton of attention to being well-dressed and groomed. And the actual dress code for the gala is tailored for you, which nods to the importance of suiting and tailoring within the exhibition. And mostly about men.
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Yeah, caught up to... Any other comments? Yeah, what are you guys liking so far? What do you want to hear from us? Where are you watching from if you're just tuning in? I know people are coming in and out of the live. Um... So tell us what you're thinking.
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That's A$AP Rocky. You just said that about him. Oh, I like him. Yeah, you must. I like him. He's cool. He's very popular. Oh, he is? Yeah. All right.
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Are you sure? Yes. No, it's an umbrella. Oh, it is? Yes. Maybe. Whatever it is, he looks there. He's using it as a walking stick, but it's an umbrella. You might be right.
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Yeah, that's cool. Even like the pose, like how would you pose on the red carpet?
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I feel like this is just us being like, who is this? Who is this? Who are these people? Another train.
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I love celebrity culture and entertainment and pop culture. So I think I would. And I'm curious what they say inside.
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Yeah, I wonder. I guess they need time to talk to all the press. All right. Get their photos.
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A white button-down. This would be your look. Yes. But you know what? This I would wear out for dinner. Like, this is not crazy.
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Black and white. It's a beaded skirt and a button-down.
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I guess it's a tailored shirt, right? Okay. That's true. And the beading. We've seen the beading. that detail kind of throughout. By the way, everyone's talking about Anne Hathaway. She is looking younger by the day. How does that make sense? She looks the same as she did 10 years ago.
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I think they're all doing this new biohacking. What is that? They're trying to ... I don't even know, but it's something on the cellular level to literally de-age.
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Who knows? It's a very clean look, I feel like. Yeah, well, she looks good.
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Yeah, it's Carolina Herrera.
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Yeah. Queen of the white shirt. That's a great line. Yeah. Yeah. We did our cover party for the magazine. We were in Spotlight Magazine at the Carolina Herrera store in Palm Beach. Right.
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white island shirt she always makes it's always a classic yeah um i think a lot of people are like trying to channel andre leone tally okay um and everyone's kind of thinking about him while getting dressed and picking out their look um i'm excited to see how ann looks on the carpet
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No, I think this is pre-carpet, the interview. And then they go on, and then they get interviewed at the top.
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Wait, I can't fully see yet.
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Oh. There was somebody else in a beautiful... Interesting. No.
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Yeah. The chains of diamonds.
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I don't really like the lipa. This to me is not suiting.
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This is too much. It's funny. The people I don't like also don't have good outfits.
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It's for the photo. Exactly. They probably want the, like, reveal moment. Yes. But I don't like a reveal unless it's a reveal. Like, I don't want you to just take your jacket off. Like, I want to see a different – well, let's say we're getting a third reveal. She's taking off another layer. We'll see it in a second. But I think Rihanna, who's coming, she just got to the mark.
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I think she's pregnant, people online are saying. Oh, really? So that's exciting. All right. Did she take off another layer? I think so. Dua Lipa. I don't know. It's like very her, I guess. It's very, you know, it's exciting.
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Yeah. And I think we can definitely expect people to make that theme into however they're going to interpret it. So I'm sure they'll reference it with like boldness and that tailoring we were talking about. And also the creativity of black style icons, Cab Calloway, James Baldwin, Prince, Virgil Abloh, Andre Leon Talley. And who was one of the most influential voices in fashion. Right.
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How do you guys feel about our lives so far? Any comments, any questions for us? So... Looking at what else is going on here. This is Lewis Hamilton. And again, you see the embellishment. And an all-white suit.
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Yep. I think he's a co-chair. Okay. So that's a big deal, obviously. I might have to borrow one of your... broaches. It's like a thing now. I'm telling you. People are like, it's like we're hanging out with you. That's the idea.
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This is an Apple commercial.
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There's other ring lights you can keep plugged in, but I was not prepared for that.
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Yeah. We're still looking at this white suit.
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We're looking at Kerry Washington here. That's beautiful. I actually love this.
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Yeah, I guess. Oh, Roach again, Kim. Oh, there's Walton Goggins. I think we're getting a lot of the White Lotus cast tonight.
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I like this, actually. Skinny tie. It's like deconstructed suit, isn't it? It looks like it's kind of coming apart.
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Right? That's terrific. Be a character. Be yourself. He looks like he's having a good time. Spike Lee. Yeah. Spike Lee. Whatever. Like, he's so underwhelming to me. Because you see him at the basketball games. But he wears, like, he's wearing a Knick hat, literally. That's all, his whole personality. No, this is, he's obviously influential.
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He does look cool. I want to see who he's wearing. Let me see if I can find it.
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One of the first. black men to rise to the top at Vogue.
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I, like, love the pleated skirt on him. I think it looks so good.
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Why am I blanking on her name? She's so famous. She is? Oh, my gosh. Guys, help. Megan Thee Stallion, right? Right?
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Yeah. Yes, Megan Thee Stallion. Okay.
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Hair obsessed. I want this outfit without the jacket. Okay. Because everyone's doing this. It's almost like Marilyn Monroe. Everyone's wearing this sparkly, busty thing with the white carpet.
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I know, but I'm just like, I love the hair, and I wish we focused on that.
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Yes. So we have the carpet running here and we'll see some interviews of what everybody's wearing, but I think we'll see a ton of really creative tailoring, bold colors, tuxedo gowns maybe? I don't know.
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I think she better not twirl. She better not twirl. I love the glam. I don't know. I wish they all talked and were like, only one person can wear a white long coat.
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You know. Okay. Dochi. This is exciting. Her first met... um having a huge year she worked with Pharrell um and Louis Vuitton really inspired by the book that we mentioned earlier that the whole you know theme is on um And I guess it was specifically one character from the book that she was inspired by. Okay. Which is interesting.
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I think it's super fun. By the way, the book is Monica L. Miller's book, Slaves to Fashion, Black Dandyism and the Styling of Black Dandyism. diasporic identity, diasporic identity.
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How could that little girl wear those big things? I like that she's in like a low free boot, chunky boot. I honestly don't mind the Louis Vuitton logos all over. I think she looks great. I think she looks terrific.
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um it's yeah like not huge no but it's nice she's not making a big statement here she looks very cute she's wearing a suit yeah she's got it very tailored and and i'm sort of happy that she doesn't have a long wide cape yeah exactly okay now we're seeing sabrina carpenter i've been waiting to see her i'm such a fan she's another one that's wearing a bathing suit It's not a bathing suit.
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With the short in the front and then the longer. No, there's nothing. Oh, she's wearing all those little tails at the end. It's almost like a tuxedo nod with the tail on the back. She looks like a Playboy bunny. I don't know if it's fashion. It almost, to me, seems like a costume she'd wear at one of her shows. Yeah, well, that's correct. One of her outfit changes, like in her concerts.
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Right. And it is a suit. She's wearing a suit jacket. Well, she's wearing a form of a jacket, yeah. It's like giant heels. She's tiny. She's like shorter than us. Nobody's shorter than us. She is, or maybe the same. I mean, on brand for her. Oh, look at what is that?
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A lot of trains. Yeah, a lot of trains. And a lot of like.
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But this, look at this girl's figure. But it's a suit in the front. It's a lapels in the front. The white collar. Yeah. A little black skirt. This is, like, cute. I can see you in that, Kim. I don't love a backless moment. Oh, it's backless, too. But she looks great. She is so cool. And she's wearing Koresh on eBay.
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And I think, like... It's very her. Yeah, it's very funky. She's been shopping vintage on eBay forever. Like, she has that... That look. Look. She loves vintage. So she's like, why not for my Met look? And it worked. She's true to herself. Yeah. Authenticity. Yep, totally. She's been interviewing celebrities for Vogue. Oh. In years past. I guess not... Maybe not this year. But...
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She she's, um, usually very like on point with fashion stuff. Okay. But I feel like just with this theme in general, there's the extravagance, and then there's also a more minimal way to do it.
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I think Emma changed. I think she was wearing something else earlier, actually. Oh, maybe. So maybe it was something bigger earlier. I'm going to do a quick Google search. What was she wearing earlier, guys?
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No, they were. Oh, really? She did a change? She did a change. Oh, I see. Yeah, people are saying they liked her look better earlier. This was what she was wearing earlier. Can you see that?
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I'll show you guys if you can see.
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Red cape. Black, like pinstripe suited dress.
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And stylists, too. My dog is going crazy.
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No, it is. It's like the structured shoulder corset suit kind of look. Okay.
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She looks good, but like, I don't know. My thoughts. Oh, now wait a minute. We're getting, oh, I thought you were going to sneeze. We're getting another one of those bathing suits. We're getting Sabrina Carpenter.
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Oh, I didn't know why you were saying bathing suits.
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She wants to go out. So do I, girl. But I think pinstripes we'll see. Yeah, I bet they will be, right. A lot of pattern, all that dandy-inspired accessories like the canes, structured hats, statement brooches. I know you're wearing one.
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We're getting Miley Cyrus on the split screen. Okay. I sort of like that top. Very different. I mean, she can do no wrong in my eyes. I think it's very cool. Yeah. Leather. Yeah. Like crop. In the front. Jacket. Yeah. Top. We always get a little midriff from Miley.
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No, I think they're just standing back to back. No, they're just together. They're just together. It's a woman, so I don't know who that is. I like the gold necklace over the jacket.
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I like the skirt, too. That she's wearing. Okay, who's in the queue? Oh, I see Tracee Ellis Ross. Not at all like her mom.
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Well, I don't know if they would have some through line. So we'll have to see her come to the carpet.
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This is cool. So, it's like, what is hanging off of there? Red beads? Tassel? Tassel?
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It is kind of cool. Yeah. There's like shapes and the silhouette going on with the... It's Io at a very... So her inspiration for this look, she was thinking about her connections to what dandyism meant to her and the dandiest men in her life are her family, she was saying. So it's inspired by her dad and her grandfather. Okay.
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all right and then just like the tailoring um the i think this look was max davis at farragamo okay okay so i i i like it i i like the different textures like the leather and the touch of red is white and the yeah whenever i mean red white and black yeah right yeah the whole yeah which is i wonder why they did a blue carpet and maybe they knew everyone was wearing red That could be.
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You might be right. Yeah. You might be right. But they all look good, the three of them together.
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Yeah, think about Fashion Police with Joan Rivers back in the day, except we'll be a little bit nicer. Maybe. Maybe. And also a mix of that and just like sitting on your couch with your own family and watching and all the unfiltered commentary. That's what we're doing. So welcome to our family. We're watching from the Upper East Side. The Met is a block away.
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I think that's hard. I think it's too much. But she's certainly... Yeah, as I would say, not my type.
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I don't think that's what they're going for.
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Okay, Cynthia Erivo, my absolute favorite.
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And she just looks so confident. I want to see the full look because I can't.
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Yeah, let's go back to see. Wow. She needs a whole moment. Look at that. So the jacket's insane. Insane.
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It's like the same kind of beaded stuff that we're seeing. No, but this is grand. This is like the big shoulders.
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Whoever it is, the beading is so beautiful. I think we'll get a moment with her in a second to see. Oh, and she's got like a short. Tiny short in the front.
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And the long cape. What do you guys think of Cynthia's look? Everyone who's watching, comment to us and tell us. I think it's so cool. Like the big shoulders. Yeah. It's very... It's quite beautiful.
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Okay, now we're getting Miley interview. Aliyah. Hers was Aliyah. Enhanced by a Cartier necklace. So the way I think Miley said she interpreted this theme is she was looking forward to who she was going to sit with, who she was going to see. And that's what's really exciting for her is like celebrating identity and uniqueness. And we know that's very Miley.
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What do you guys think of our outfits tonight, by the way?
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And I'm sure she was prepped on that answer. and um i don't know like she's like i'm proud to be her and i feel like that is really the heart of the theme so i think like her top almost looks like armor and like power i feel okay maybe presenting that power through the through the top um is sort of what she was trying to do with that look um I like the slick back, too.
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I feel like it... Yeah, you like that, Kim. Yeah, you hate when I wear slick. No, I don't. No, you like it.
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Yeah, we need a closer shot. Let's see. Let's see.
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I guess so. Don't you remember? I remember that. It was that time period. And I guess we have seen a lot of like burgundy.
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By the way, if you're looking at his suit, which I believe has a ton of pearls on them, on the jacket, which is really beautiful. It's a short jacket.
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Well, they're probably adding a ton to her hips that makes her waist look even tinier. Okay, now we're back to Jeremy Allen White. Well, he's not in anything. I mean, there's some nice pearl buttons that make it a little bit interesting.
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Yeah, but, you know, it looks well, like it's tailored.
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Yeah. I mean, I think nice. Yeah. Nothing crazy. No. What was he in, Kim? The Bear.
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The one about the cooking? The Bear, right? Yeah. Yeah. It was about cooking. I never watched it. I see. Oh, he's got a lot of pins. Yeah. It's fun to bring a prop, you know? Yeah. And, like, actually play some music. That's cool. Is he actually playing?
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I don't know. We have the volume down already. He might be.
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Nice arms. He's working out.
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He's wearing like, okay, now there's a lot going on. I'm trying to describe it for people who are just listening.
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We're seeing a lot of suits with a lot of patterns.
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The idea of... Black dandyism is like being really well-dressed and like in a world- Overdressed.
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In a world where like there was a very rigid category of race and class that were confining them, this was the way to- Yeah, express themselves. Yeah, totally. No question. Totally.
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Well, I'll tell you a little bit. The co-chairs tonight, Anna Wintour, which we know, Pharrell Williams, who we're seeing there, Lewis Hamilton, Coleman Domingo, who we saw in the beginning with the big bib, A$AP Rocky, who I don't know who that is.
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That's a shoe. That is a shoe. I know. I see it. Oh, yeah. That's her shoes again and the cane and the hat. She looks like Robin Hood. People need the cane to get up the stairs probably.
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Mm-hmm. It's her shoes. Yeah. So there it is. And you know it's a one step at a time up those stairs for sure. I feel like We would, I mean, people know the Met Steps because in the show Gossip Girl, they used to hang out on the Met Steps. But it's also a big part of the city. I grew up a block away.
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But you don't really sit on the stairs and hang out.
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By the way, the exhibit at the Met opens May 10th. Oh, to everybody? To everybody, to the public. So everyone can go and see.
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Someone said, what do you know about the show Gossip Girl? Did you ever watch it?
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I've rewatched it so many times. It was a little exaggerated, the way high schoolers were living, but not far off. In New York City. Oh, it did? About the private schools and stuff.
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Yeah, but honestly, there were kids like that. Okay. So it was such a good show. I love this red dress.
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We post every day. So, yeah, ask us some questions. We're here on live with you so we can talk about whatever while giving our commentary. Yeah. Grandma, what would you ideally wear to the Met Gala?
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I'll point these guys out. And I think LeBron is the honorary chair, although I saw something. You guys, can you confirm online? He might have backed out. I don't know if he hurt himself.
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What designer are you having dress you and what are you wearing?
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Someone said, I love your dynamic. It reminds me of me and my grandma. So nice. Thank you, thank you, thank you. What does grandma think about young people moving into the city?
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Um, Grandma, what celebrities, like, from your era were you, do you wish you would, like, love to see on this carpet?
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By the way, we're looking at Tracee Ellis Ross. She's in Marc Jacobs.
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Now what Tracy's saying about her mom, since they had to stop the carpet for Diana Ross to go up, they shut it down for her. She was like, my mom just stops time in general. She does. She does. But that's what we were saying.
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Yeah. A lot of diamond necklaces. Jewelry is gorgeous. Wow.
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Very pretty. This is cool, too. I like that. Like, just a big cape jacket.
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I think Billie Eilish is going to wear a zoot. That's my prediction. Okay. I don't know who this is who's talking. I think she works for Vogue. I don't know. I'm not the best. If you guys know, shout things out.
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And now they're in matching colors. I'm loving the couple's cost. Not costumes, the couple's looks. I feel like a lot of people are doing couples, which is fun.
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And look at her. Look at her. It's Alicia Keys, right? Oh, she looks fabulous. Let me just see her face. Is that her? Yeah, Alicia Keys and Swiss Beats. Well, they look great. Love the coordinating. We have the puffer. We have the suiting.
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Yeah, her thing is like puffer. No, that was the other girl. No, like look at her shawl thing that she's carrying. Oh, really? It's a puffer also?
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Yeah, well, that's more classic. Which I think is very pretty.
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I like it. I know, I feel like you have something like that.
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Okay, so we have Amy Lou Wood from White Lotus, who obviously was a fan favorite. Is she wearing Chanel? No.
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But the black and white. I'm trying to see. She's like covering her look. But she's wearing a tie. Isn't that the guy from White Lotus? Yeah. That's Schwarzenegger.
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Yeah, it is. Look how handsome he is. It's fun to see him not in hair.
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Yeah. And a pinstripe jacket. Good for him. I want to see his look. He looks cool, actually. Yes, he looks cool. Very 70s silhouette, too, like with a wide pant. The red belt. The belt. So fun. Yeah.
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Wait, do you think it's like he doesn't typically look like that?
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But do you think it's like seems not his vibe?
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I feel like the White Lotus hype is still not done. I still will talk about it. I'm so sad that we don't have anything to watch on Sundays anymore. Also, look at Amy Lou Wood's shoe. She has like a floral sock shoe kind of thing. Oh, really? Well, maybe she hurt her foot. Maybe it's a boot. No, no, no, no, no. It's definitely her shoe on purpose. You don't like it? Where's her other foot?
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She just, her feet are together. Oh, are they?
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Yeah. I don't know how I feel about this look. I feel like it's a little mis... Well, they look good together.
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Yeah, they were in the show together. I mean... Okay, let's see this.
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I can't see. Is it to me more?
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To me, more. Oh, yeah. She looks great. She always looks good. My gosh. She looks fabulous. She's obviously having a big year, too. And I like the, it's actually very classic.
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With the little shawl. I didn't see. Oh, who's this now? Okay, this is wild. Cole. Cole Escola. What's his claim to fame? Oh, I miss who he was wearing. Christopher something. His glam is fun. Like, I like the...
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It's almost like the Betty Boop 20s eye makeup.
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Is it the colors? It's almost like McDonald's. I don't think I like the print. It's like Ronald McDonald's.
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I kind of wish it was just, like, the pant and maybe, like... A black jacket. Or, like, just a plain pink button-down with it or something.
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Because I, like, have that top. It's nothing... It's a black lace cami.
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She's showing the jewelry. Okay, wait. Don't like. I like the lavender lace.
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No, the top and then yellow. Oh, I like that together.
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I like the hair. The hair is interesting. I like the hair. Yeah, the hair is very pretty. I wish it was just a yellow dress and then her hair like that. Or just the lavender. I don't know why I don't like it together. I think it's pretty. Do you? Maybe we do.
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Okay, fine. I love this guy's arms.
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Yeah. I think it was just, like, 20s. eBay partner again. Oh. Law Roach, who is major. And I think his inspiring with dandyism is that, like, you need to see the frame and, like, the mannequin of it all. Okay.
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We see his arms. We see a waist. So I think that's how they, like, put it together. All the accessories are eBay. Yeah. So, I don't know. I think it's special. It's set apart from some of the other... It's young.
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Yeah. I think he was paying homage to his ancestors, the people who paved the way. I feel like he might be from Harlem. Harlem.
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I think so. All right. And, like, trying to, like, represent... His family. That, and, like, what his people have gone through, and... I think it's the idea of stripping down. Okay. It's like his armor. You're very good. I am just looking at the commentary. Oh, really? I thought you were making that up. No, I'm looking at what he's saying. Oh, all right. No, I'm not making it up.
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People are like, I don't know who half these people are.
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Oh, my God. You know. He's like... No, I don't know him. Yes, you do. From Wicked. He was the Wizard of Oz in Wicked. What is his name? Oh, my God. How am I blanking, guys?
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Um... Oh, my God. And she's wearing the outfit from Wicked. I can't believe I'm blanking on his name right now. Jeff Goldblum. Thank you. Oh.
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know who he is either we have lana del rey maybe that's her husband who's her husband i don't even know uh very 20s hair i'm telling you the lace again well that lace is always beautiful um reading your comments oh it's not lana's husband who is that then sorry who is it i love her hair whoever did her hair the braid in the back is very pretty the bun Okay, let's see.
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We're looking at Megan Thee Stallion again.
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Maybe he did. He must have, if they're together. Ah, so maybe he was the designer of that. Very interesting. Interesting. Like, we didn't love, right? Or do you like it?
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It's the ultimate female dandy is like a little Eartha Kitt, a little Josephine. Yeah. It's got the Eartha Kitt hair. And like I'm trying to see what. Like Michael is saying, it's about presenting yourself in the most fabulous way at all times.
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I mean, it's glam. But it's glamorous.
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So what do we think of this red cape moment, by the way?
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It almost looks like armor also, I think.
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But it went all the way up.
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You have a type. I do have a type. You actually don't, but you are consistent in who you like.
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Oh, really? Interesting. I think the shoes are Mark J. By the way, this is Lala Anthony. I love her dress.
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Yeah. Send a heart if you like that, guys.
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Look at all the hearts I got. Thank you. They agree. Yeah, everyone liked the live. And follow us if you don't already. I think it's Shaboosie. But, like, I don't know, guys. Help. We don't know everybody. The one in the beads is Shaboosie. And his teeth are matching the beads, I think.
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Do you guys like Schwarzenegger's fit?
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Amy looks so skinny to me.
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Someone asked if we're back in the city yet. We're only a few blocks from the Met right now. We're not invited. So we figured we would just do this. Oh, wow. Doja Cat. Love her. This is giving Fran the nanny. This is giving Fran treasure. And I don't, I'm not here for it. It's very 80s. I like it. I think I had that outfit. Maybe. There's like the sheet of print. There's the big shoulder.
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But again, she's in a very short little bodysuit. Just a bodysuit, no pants. Just a bodysuit again. So does that mean I don't have to wear pants anymore?
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A bodysuit and tights, maybe. Honestly, with high boots and a big blazer.
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On a Saturday night. I don't know. I don't think so. But I assume this, is that Mark, what's his name?
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Is everyone else just watching home in pajamas and, like, judging everybody just like we are? Like, we're all just judging from home on our couch. Someone said, Grandma Gail, I adore you. Thank you.
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Yeah, I think it is Marc Jacobs. And... She's... I like her eye makeup. Yeah. It goes with the rest of it. It's all cohesive in a non... traditional way. And the big gold bag. I think it's cheetah print, not gold. Like it matches the... Oh, maybe. I can't really see that close.
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Make sure you guys see. Any other questions for us? As the carpet is probably coming to an end soon. I don't know how long it's supposed to go.
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Oh, Anna. Sorry, I thought you meant Lala. Yeah. Oh, yeah.
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Some are fun to look at, but not beautiful. And some are beautiful. Grandma, what are you doing tonight? Someone wants to know your plans.
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Tell me about it. I definitely want to order in. I'm at my parents. So I guess I'll have dinner with my parents. Oh, look at that pretty hat. Oh, there's Priyanka and Nick Jonas. And she's got a big emerald on. That is super pretty woman to me. Like, this is the pretty woman at the derby or wherever she was.
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Polo match. The polka dots are super in this spring. I think this one's backless, though. Big hat. Beautiful. Beautiful, but not... What's it called? Like, not visionary. Not... Well, it was visionary for whoever styled her. With like black gloves. Like I've seen this. This is a Halloween costume to me. It is? Like I feel like I've seen this exact, I don't know, for like a 40s pinup. I don't know.
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What do you guys think? They said don't let grandma go home until she analyzes the Kardashians.
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They're always late. They're always, like, missing.
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They look like pocket watches, actually.
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That's a bridal dress. I love her. Wait, love that she's at the Met. Is this her first Met? She's so pretty. Look how pretty she looks. That's a very nice. She is really like, for my age, I feel like we look to her for style. That's good. It's so classic. I think she looks beautiful.
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Or something's kicking around.
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No, these are not Wicked people. No, but just the outfit. Oh, kind of. Who are these people? Should I know?
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Oh no. Yes, I know I did. We definitely need to do some vintage shopping. She's the creative director of Judith Lieber.
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I didn't know that they were married. Yes. Oh, is she wearing Tommy Hilfiger? I feel like she's wearing the red. I'm sure she must. The red, white, and blue kind of vibe. Yeah.
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Would you rather be on the side of the carpet interviewing people or on the carpet?
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Yeah. Well, this is the first Met Gala in over 20 years to focus on menswear.
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Monica Miller, the one who wrote the book.
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Yeah, major. She started with her PhD thesis, and now it's the theme of the Met Gala, the theme of the exhibition at the museum, which is insane. And she's just saying she never anticipated when she wrote the book that... I'm sure. I'm sure.
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Yeah, and she's just like happy and delighted and curious and inspired.
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Do you think she'll sit next to it, like sit at Anna's table?
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Yeah, probably. Probably. She's talking about her outfit being inspired by like rhythm and blues and so in the exhibition they have that blues moments and you know it's part of getting the rhythm of it all is what she's saying. What are you guys all doing tonight, by the way, besides watching us? Scrolling, watching anything good on TV?
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I feel like everyone really just gets the photos of, like, online of certain celebrities that they want to see and aren't watching the whole stream.
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I don't know. I feel like there's no fun...
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commentators and stuff it's like what are you going to watch it for if you can just see the pictures on your phone whenever you feel like it we see donatella here donatella versace yeah i think so yeah yeah well she's no longer the creative director of her own company of that company anymore they threw her out which is was a terrible what is the lore what's the story
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They said, I agree with Grandma Gail. It could go faster, but it's been so fun watching with you both. Aw, thank you, guys. Thanks.
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In a way. You guys will see what that is when it comes out.
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True. It's a fun way to accessorize.
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Not into these looks, but I want his giant K necklace for myself. Oh, yeah. Shaw Khan, but... And again, he has a cane...
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Right. But if you wore a cane now, Like when people just think you had a bad back.
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I think they would think you had a bad back.
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Yeah. Like he looks like a Formula One driver or something. That's what he looks like.
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Why would you just wear that?
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What does that mean then? Do you guys know what's going on? What is going on?
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Yeah, and I think, how do you think, this is the discussion they're having now, but how do you think men's fashion has changed in the last two decades? I think Anna's saying it's more creative and risk-taking now.
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Oh, something's going to happen. Here's a reveal moment that they need multiple people for. And then they're switching. They can't do it.
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Wait, I think this is so pretty, the suit.
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What's the situation with the helmet, though? I think that was just a... No, I feel like we don't know what's going on.
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Is it Lil Nas X? Does anyone know who it is? No, it's not. It's not. Someone said, I think Kim is going to figure out how to get to the Met Gala next year. Let's manifest that. Someone said, oh, he's one of the main actors in the upcoming F1 movie.
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But who is it? I don't know. I'm just reading your comments of who you think it is. I don't know who it is. But I should, probably.
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Well, they look good, too.
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See, this is a Zoot Sooner. This is a Dandy, Dapper Dan. Exactly. This is a Dapper Dan. He's going to tap. That's what Dapper Dan comes from. What? Yeah, that's where the saying Dapper Dan comes from.
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Oh, maybe. I think it probably did, like a Dandy. Wait, this is Dapper Dan. Dapper Dan's a person.
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I know, but this is Dapper Dan.
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I'll get some more details for you guys. It's kind of bright, too.
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He's the original designer.
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Was it Louis Vuitton or no?
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I don't know. The first designer to cut up designer labels and make it urban.
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Is what people in the comments are saying. Okay. Okay. I don't know. We're watching it the same as you guys are watching it at home. We're just one big family watching, so let's figure it out together because I have no idea. Well, we have no idea. But I can tell you what we think about the outfits for sure. I think he's wearing Dolce. I don't know.
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I know. It's like if you're watching the whole, like you almost want to come out in the beginning. And pull them off.
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Because at the end, it's like, okay, who cares?
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kardashian didn't come through no but why would they save her to the last they always just get their last and then they like you pull the we haven't seen any we haven't seen kendall we haven't seen kim we haven't seen kylie we might have to give our commentary afterwards tomorrow morning maybe we'll save some
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And then you guys can just tune into our feed on TikTok or Instagram and we'll post our favorites and least favorites and everything on the Kardashians. So definitely follow us if you don't already. By the way, we're also going to be, if you missed the whole live stream, we're going to be releasing it as a podcast episode so you can watch the whole thing from start to finish on YouTube.
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You know, she does look nice.
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Yeah. I almost feel like that would be on like Revolve though.
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Don't give anybody any ideas.
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E was slow, showing guests too long with each. I guess it's true to wear a dramatic train on those stairs. There's no better staircase to do that.
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They said, I can't wait to see what you think of Demi Moore and Simone Biles. We already gave our thoughts on them. Who is this now, Kim? So definitely rewatch. We'll post our whole thing later. Right. And all of our top picks. But we loved Simone and Demi.
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Yeah. The structural thing on Demi was very interesting. And Simone was so cute. They both really stuck out.
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Nicole Kidman walking out, too. So we'll get... Hers in a moment, once they show her. I saw her in the team.
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It's so interesting who gets invited and who doesn't.
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Yes, they do. You have to be invited.
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Yeah, but I don't think those are the people on the carpet. No, no, no. I think you have to be invited. Okay, Nicole... She looks so good.
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Yeah. I think so. I think a casual, I think people can express themselves more through clothing and there's less boundaries.
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I like the drop waist. I like the dress. It's a nice dress.
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And that's probably an easy dress to wear all night. Looks somewhat comfortable.
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What's your favorite look so far, Grandma?
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Some Met Gala history while we're watching. It was established in 1948 as a private dinner by fashion publicist Eleanor Lambert. Yeah. In 1972, Vogue director Diana Vreeland took over the Met Gala and turned it into a glamorous event. And then in 95, Anna Wintour became the chairwoman.
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Mm-hmm. So I think a lot of the tickets and tables are paid for by the fashion brands. So last year, the gala raised $26 million during the night.
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This year, a ticket is $75,000. I said, I figured that.
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Someone said, as New Yorkers, what fashion or style could either of you translate in your own wardrobe inspired by the Met?
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I mean, I think just good tailoring. Like, we kind of both do that all the time. Like, we're both a blazer.
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I mean, I've been loving, oh, we have Kiki Palmer in all white also. I've been loving the all white, like, and Zendaya looked so good in the all white suit. And a lot of beading. A lot of beading in a lot of these outfits. I kind of, I have a white structured blazer with big shoulder pads. Like that counts. Yeah, absolutely.
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Who is this? Someone said, Grandma Gail saw you on the Upper East Side last night but was too shy to say hi.
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Now we're getting a little break from the carpet as they're talking about what black dandyism is. And by the way, for the first time ever, all the Met Gala co-chairs are black men. So it's a really unique opportunity to shine a spotlight. But yeah, underrepresented group that's really had a significant impact on style and culture. So I'm really excited to see what everyone wears.
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And Anne Hathaway wore a white button-down. That's an easy thing to have in your closet.
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I want to go see the exhibition when it opens to the public. Okay.
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I think it'll have the zoot suits. It'll have designs by Dapper Dan, who we're seeing. Congolese, superior fashion. Like 300 years of black fashion history. So I'm sure it's really interesting. Okay. Someone's saying the new Joan and Melissa. I think we're, I mean, Joan Rivers is the ultimate icon. So that's a compliment. This jacket is giving grandma core.
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It's the floral grandma's couch is what I see.
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That's not Lizzo, is it? I am...
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She looks good. She looks really good.
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Someone said they just discovered us from the live and wanted to know what made us want to do content together.
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But basically, we've always been really close. And during COVID, I moved in with my grandparents in Florida and left New York for a little bit and was going on lots of dates. And my grandma's very outspoken, which is why it's Excuse My Grandma.
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And we decided to start a podcast together to talk about all the generational differences and all of our thoughts and opinions and then all our social media channels. And it's really grown from there.
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Yeah. I wonder if anyone declines an invitation.
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Well, it's hard just also right now when there's so much going on in the world and then we're watching and we're talking about frivolous things. And it's frivolous, exactly. But I do really like the topic and the theme. And I think you need a little bit of the entertainment and the glamour.
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Yeah, exactly. Someone said, has grandma been in Palm Beach long enough to remember Green's drugstore? It's still there.
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Another, like, white. White. With the big sleeves.
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And the color. I love the pink.
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Wait, I have a question. If you got to the carpet early, what have you been doing this whole time?
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Taylor made... She spoke to Anna... And tailor-made for you is the theme, and so it was inspired in support of all the gorgeous dandies and women that honored them is what she's kind of saying.
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I don't know why you wouldn't.
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She's wearing Balenciaga, someone said on the live.
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Okay, I know it's been a little over two hours, so thank you everyone who's been watching, coming in and out.
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Again, we are going to release this as a podcast episode, so if you only caught a little bit, you'll be able to watch all of our thoughts. We're also going to do some videos tomorrow with our top looks of the night, and hopefully we'll be able to
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comment on anyone else that we missed that we haven't seen that we haven't we certainly haven't though look how pretty she is kira uh and i love the red hair with the pink dress see that let's finish with her i hate this you do i don't hate it she looks bad i think i don't like no i still think her pop of color is fun for a change it's like doesn't go and like i don't like it all right okay
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Okay, now they're talking to Coleman Domingo, who is an amazing actor. This is a look. And he's a co-chair. Yes, he's one of the co-chairs. What do we think? Well. It looks royal to me or something.
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Now I'm like, can we not end on that?
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Yeah, we heard it all day.
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It's crazy that this is only happening two blocks away.
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Bye everybody. We love you. Thank you so much for watching with us. Hopefully it was fun to hear our commentary. We can do this more if you liked it. And it's just like hanging out with us, you know? And we will give you the rest of our thoughts tomorrow. But anyway, have a great night and we're going to go have our dinner.
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It does look like a graduation gown. Doesn't it? I wonder if that's, I think when they were doing their research with the stylist, with the blue, they were saying that a freed slave wanted to wear high fine blue.
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Yes, very, like it's very on theme. It gives King, it gives you all of these moments. So it's, I think a lot, he's saying it's also a nod to Andre Leon Talley. Okay, he always wore the capes, right.
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She's working with Vogue, but do you guys know?
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Excuse My Grandma's Met Gala Commentary (BONUS EPISODE)
Well, I don't know. Yeah, I don't know. Maybe you never know.
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Excuse My Grandma's Met Gala Commentary (BONUS EPISODE)
I don't think I'm going to know one person.
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which you're seeing now. By the way, we're watching a live stream that's on Vogue.com. If you want it on your own screen, that's where to go on YouTube, on YouTube of Vogue's page as well. And we are watching it live with you. So we're seeing it all for the first time.
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But is she emceeing? This is like Vogue's live stream. Okay. Okay. So she must be doing the red carpet. Oh, now let's see who that is.
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Excuse My Grandma's Met Gala Commentary (BONUS EPISODE)
Yeah, remember we're just a little delayed on that one, so let's go off of this. Okay. But yeah, we're just looking at the carpet.
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Excuse My Grandma's Met Gala Commentary (BONUS EPISODE)
And it's pouring rain today, by the way.
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Excuse My Grandma's Met Gala Commentary (BONUS EPISODE)
Who are you guys all excited to see tonight, by the way?
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Excuse My Grandma's Met Gala Commentary (BONUS EPISODE)
We're looking at Sydney Sweeney now, who's always gorgeous.
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Excuse My Grandma's Met Gala Commentary (BONUS EPISODE)
But yeah, we're looking at Sydney now. No, I know.
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Excuse My Grandma's Met Gala Commentary (BONUS EPISODE)
Yeah, fair. I think Sydney looked good in all the black. I love the key neck. Now, wait a minute.
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Yeah, I don't know. It seems more costumed to me.
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Excuse My Grandma While We Dive Into Love and Matchmaking Ft. Aleeza Ben Shalom
Welcome back to another episode of Excuse My Grandma. It's Kim and my co-host.
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Excuse My Grandma While We Dive Into Love and Matchmaking Ft. Aleeza Ben Shalom
I saw a statistic earlier, but I don't have it in front of me, like, the nominated films made a few billion dollars. Oh, that's not bad. That's pretty good. I don't know how much they spent. Not that. I mean, I don't know. I doubt that level. We had some, I mean, Wicked and all of those that made a lot of money.
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Oh, I think it'll be pleasant.
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Excuse My Grandma While We Dive Into Love and Matchmaking Ft. Aleeza Ben Shalom
Like I could have unplugged the router and replugged it in. We did it. But we didn't know where it was.
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Excuse My Grandma While We Dive Into Love and Matchmaking Ft. Aleeza Ben Shalom
I don't know if they would reboot that movie. I don't think they can. And this is a different adaptation. It's screen versus stage. It's going to feel different. It's different. But maybe it adds a new element. And a new dimension, I'm sure. I'll get to it. Yeah. Okay. Let's do the rewind. Let's do the rewind. What are you watching on TV this week?
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Okay.
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Excuse My Grandma While We Dive Into Love and Matchmaking Ft. Aleeza Ben Shalom
Yes, I am watching reality.
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Excuse My Grandma While We Dive Into Love and Matchmaking Ft. Aleeza Ben Shalom
So you know Love Island, obviously, that show that I watch that's based in the UK. So they also do Love Island All Stars, where the best people from previous seasons of Love Island go back to the villa, and they all date each other. And so they actually are adding episodes to Peacock,
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Excuse My Grandma While We Dive Into Love and Matchmaking Ft. Aleeza Ben Shalom
But I was what so I wasn't like I wanted to watch them before they came out on Peacock and they were already airing in the UK. So, you know, I download this thing on my computer that makes it seem like I'm in the UK. So I can watch. That's fine. Like it's the VPN. Like it changes where the computer thinks I am. So I can then watch.
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Excuse My Grandma While We Dive Into Love and Matchmaking Ft. Aleeza Ben Shalom
I don't know why you had to do it that early because it woke me up.
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Excuse My Grandma While We Dive Into Love and Matchmaking Ft. Aleeza Ben Shalom
something that's in the uk but it was on to me this time and it was like we know you're not in the uk so then i was have to take out your passport i know i was freaking out about the vpn issues ended up figuring it out but then now they've added most of them to peacock okay good catching up so let's get to the interview with elisa ben shalom okay can't wait because you're all gonna love her and she gives really good advice
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Excuse My Grandma While We Dive Into Love and Matchmaking Ft. Aleeza Ben Shalom
We are joined by a very special guest, matchmaker Aliza Ben Shalom. She's also a reality TV personality, author and dating coach. Aliza's Netflix series Jewish Matchmaking, which grandma and I both watched, was a major hit in 2023. And she continues to influence the dating scene. She has a new book coming out in January 2025 called Matchmaker, Matchmaker. Find me a love that lasts.
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Excuse My Grandma While We Dive Into Love and Matchmaking Ft. Aleeza Ben Shalom
Aliza, welcome to Excuse My Grandma. Thank you for having me. This is so exciting.
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Excuse My Grandma While We Dive Into Love and Matchmaking Ft. Aleeza Ben Shalom
Do you feel like this was your calling or why did you feel like this was the right business for you?
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Excuse My Grandma While We Dive Into Love and Matchmaking Ft. Aleeza Ben Shalom
I'm an old soul. I love Broadway. Like, I guess not everyone knows the Fiddler references, but... Well, they should. They should.
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Excuse My Grandma While We Dive Into Love and Matchmaking Ft. Aleeza Ben Shalom
You're swiping constantly, which is something- Well, that's the idea, let's say, you mean of a dating app. The idea is actually to bring people together. I understand that. What are your thoughts on dating apps?
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Excuse My Grandma While We Dive Into Love and Matchmaking Ft. Aleeza Ben Shalom
I don't actually know, but I figured when I took the umbrella out of the closet, it touched it or something. He plugged it in. We were back alive at 8.35. I know. It is so frustrating when things don't work. I think I hacked into some other Wi-Fi and was able to watch on my laptop, so it wasn't that bad. Say, oh, yeah. You're happy. Yeah.
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Excuse My Grandma While We Dive Into Love and Matchmaking Ft. Aleeza Ben Shalom
Well, I'm in a relationship now, but I give advice all the time, whether I can or not, to my friends and to our audience, obviously. And I'm still giving advice to myself. I'm not a pro just because I'm in a relationship.
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Excuse My Grandma While We Dive Into Love and Matchmaking Ft. Aleeza Ben Shalom
Any dating app I was on. didn't give that number, but I almost wish that it did. Cause I feel like then, or it would be the opposite effective. I'm like, okay, I have to meet all 25 in order to feel like one of them is the right one. And 25, that's a lot. I mean, depends on what time period you're doing it, but yeah, I've never seen like the number, but I have seen like,
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Excuse My Grandma While We Dive Into Love and Matchmaking Ft. Aleeza Ben Shalom
That I swipe through and then it's like, you have no more matches left. And I said no to everyone.
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Excuse My Grandma While We Dive Into Love and Matchmaking Ft. Aleeza Ben Shalom
I totally agree. I hate when friends say that they have no one to be set up with because my first question is always, well, have you been asking your friends? And they're like, I don't want to bring it up. I feel awkward. And it's it's no shame to say, do you know anybody? Because like. Anyone would be grateful, I feel like, to have that.
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Excuse My Grandma While We Dive Into Love and Matchmaking Ft. Aleeza Ben Shalom
But I would have been happier on the bigger TV, but it'll do. Okay. But yeah, I feel like the... The apartment, yeah, with the Wi-Fi to the air conditioning, none of us are on the same page.
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Excuse My Grandma While We Dive Into Love and Matchmaking Ft. Aleeza Ben Shalom
Yeah, I feel like I try to describe that all the time. I know. I don't fully get that. Because I'm like, I'm not looking for Prince Charming. I'm looking for my Prince Charming, which might not be her Prince Charming. And she's still like, no, there's, I don't know.
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Excuse My Grandma While We Dive Into Love and Matchmaking Ft. Aleeza Ben Shalom
But I'm pretty sure you have a date until you hate them philosophy. Yeah.
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Excuse My Grandma While We Dive Into Love and Matchmaking Ft. Aleeza Ben Shalom
Well, we just, like, Poppy likes it much hotter than I do. Yes, than everybody. And you like it hot, too, honestly. Yes, so...
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Excuse My Grandma While We Dive Into Love and Matchmaking Ft. Aleeza Ben Shalom
Yeah, it's so interesting because I feel like, and myself included, everyone I talk to is looking for that immediate connection. And I would think that if you have someone where you're like, I like their personality, but do I like like them? You would think that if it's not a hell yes, it's a no, but I don't think that is the case. And so how do you kind of get that into people's head?
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Excuse My Grandma While We Dive Into Love and Matchmaking Ft. Aleeza Ben Shalom
And let's say you're at 10 dates and you're like, okay, it still doesn't give me butterflies. It still is in the friend category. Then what?
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Excuse My Grandma While We Dive Into Love and Matchmaking Ft. Aleeza Ben Shalom
I think something that's like crazy passion. Yeah, maybe that's with the bad guy or the rom-com. But I think like I have butterflies in my relationship. I don't think that's crazy.
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Excuse My Grandma While We Dive Into Love and Matchmaking Ft. Aleeza Ben Shalom
So this week we are going to have an interview with Aliza Ben Shalom from the Jewish Matchmaker. We'll get to that in just a little bit. We recorded it in New York, so we'll toss to that. But in the meantime, grandma, how are you?
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Excuse My Grandma While We Dive Into Love and Matchmaking Ft. Aleeza Ben Shalom
Well, also, that's even not even that old because a lot of my friends in the city in New York who live in like pre-war, they can't control their own temperature. It's like whatever the building sets it up is what it is. And it gets so hot.
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Excuse My Grandma While We Dive Into Love and Matchmaking Ft. Aleeza Ben Shalom
I feel like the whole dating relationship matchmaking process is so interesting, which obviously why you had a whole Netflix show about it. How did that come about?
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Excuse My Grandma While We Dive Into Love and Matchmaking Ft. Aleeza Ben Shalom
Did the matchmaking process change being on camera? Or do you think that even the dates went differently because they were being filmed?
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Excuse My Grandma While We Dive Into Love and Matchmaking Ft. Aleeza Ben Shalom
But you can put the ones in the window that then you choose it. Right, exactly. Which is why my building's a little newer in New York, and it's nice because my bedroom and my living room have it right there. Separate zones. Separate zones. So when I was in New York, I mean, I had a cold, so I was like in my house every day. I didn't do much, but I... I was so excited to control my own thermostat.
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Excuse My Grandma While We Dive Into Love and Matchmaking Ft. Aleeza Ben Shalom
I don't know if there was plans for season two or if there is, but is that something you would want to do?
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Excuse My Grandma While We Dive Into Love and Matchmaking Ft. Aleeza Ben Shalom
We need her again. And we need a cameo. Right. That's the case. I want to hear about your new book coming out. You have two books already written. So how is this one different?
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Excuse My Grandma While We Dive Into Love and Matchmaking Ft. Aleeza Ben Shalom
Love it.
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Excuse My Grandma While We Dive Into Love and Matchmaking Ft. Aleeza Ben Shalom
I mean, that would never have... But your no-touch rule, that's for everyone that you're giving advice to.
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Excuse My Grandma While We Dive Into Love and Matchmaking Ft. Aleeza Ben Shalom
Physicality, obviously important, not even just the sexuality. But like, do I feel like when I'm holding their hand, does it feel nice? Does it make me feel secure? All of these things. But I think it's really just slowing down the entire process. Like, it's not like you're never going to get there. It's just happening with the six.
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Excuse My Grandma While We Dive Into Love and Matchmaking Ft. Aleeza Ben Shalom
Let's say these are the rules that you're living by. Do you have to tell that to the other person?
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Excuse My Grandma While We Dive Into Love and Matchmaking Ft. Aleeza Ben Shalom
Yeah. And if the guy or whoever it is is like, nah, I don't want to do that, then maybe that's not your person.
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Excuse My Grandma While We Dive Into Love and Matchmaking Ft. Aleeza Ben Shalom
I feel like it's there's so many similarities across all cultures and age groups or whatever, but also, of course, some differences. Are you living in Israel right now?
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Excuse My Grandma While We Dive Into Love and Matchmaking Ft. Aleeza Ben Shalom
OK, so how do you think the culture is different there? And then I also want to get into like what it's like living there now.
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Excuse My Grandma While We Dive Into Love and Matchmaking Ft. Aleeza Ben Shalom
We don't have to deal with that. Comment, obviously, we have on our social media. Kimmy's been great.
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Excuse My Grandma While We Dive Into Love and Matchmaking Ft. Aleeza Ben Shalom
I mean, I'm trying. It's harder from New York. I mean, obviously, we can all donate on our phones. And there's amazing charities that we were linking on our stories. for all types of gifts, resources. But I also, I don't know if they're doing any more, but I'm sure they are like dropping off any clothes or essential items. Well, that's very important.
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Excuse My Grandma While We Dive Into Love and Matchmaking Ft. Aleeza Ben Shalom
I mean, easy, I understand. But if it doesn't feel authentic to you, if you feel like it's not.
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Excuse My Grandma While We Dive Into Love and Matchmaking Ft. Aleeza Ben Shalom
I don't know. I think there are people who are living in communities that are like, this isn't for me. And it's really hard to get out of that.
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Excuse My Grandma While We Dive Into Love and Matchmaking Ft. Aleeza Ben Shalom
All of this, do you think, contributes to the strength of how Israel is and how it's standing strong right now?
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Excuse My Grandma While We Dive Into Love and Matchmaking Ft. Aleeza Ben Shalom
There were places to do that in New York where they were sending. And then I know there's a lot in LA. My boyfriend lives in LA and he said everywhere you can drop things off.
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Excuse My Grandma While We Dive Into Love and Matchmaking Ft. Aleeza Ben Shalom
OK, I want to move on. There's some listener questions. I think we can get to maybe two of them. This one I thought was good. So do you have advice for people in interreligious relationships, Jewish people, non-Jewish people, whatever it may be?
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Excuse My Grandma While We Dive Into Love and Matchmaking Ft. Aleeza Ben Shalom
Unless it's people who are totally not religious at all.
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Excuse My Grandma While We Dive Into Love and Matchmaking Ft. Aleeza Ben Shalom
Okay, next question. Guy cancels first date due to work. Agree to reschedule or hard no?
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Excuse My Grandma While We Dive Into Love and Matchmaking Ft. Aleeza Ben Shalom
My ex cheated on me, so I left him. But I really miss my friend and want to hang out with him.
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Excuse My Grandma While We Dive Into Love and Matchmaking Ft. Aleeza Ben Shalom
I think you have other friends, right?
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Excuse My Grandma While We Dive Into Love and Matchmaking Ft. Aleeza Ben Shalom
That's great advice. Okay, really quick game of Grandma Gail's old-fashioned dating quiz. Already know where Aliza's going to level out.
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Excuse My Grandma While We Dive Into Love and Matchmaking Ft. Aleeza Ben Shalom
Okay, we'll see whether you're traditional or modern, rapid, yes or no. And it's nothing personal. What do you think? Okay. Call or text if it's just to say hi from your partner.
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Excuse My Grandma While We Dive Into Love and Matchmaking Ft. Aleeza Ben Shalom
Would you sleep with someone on the first date?
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Excuse My Grandma While We Dive Into Love and Matchmaking Ft. Aleeza Ben Shalom
Dating apps or setups?
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Excuse My Grandma While We Dive Into Love and Matchmaking Ft. Aleeza Ben Shalom
It was only like a few days, right?
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Excuse My Grandma While We Dive Into Love and Matchmaking Ft. Aleeza Ben Shalom
Would you move in together before getting engaged?
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Excuse My Grandma While We Dive Into Love and Matchmaking Ft. Aleeza Ben Shalom
She's not going to move in even after she's getting it. Because she's right. So forget it. Forget it. By the way, do you ask parents permission before getting engaged?
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Excuse My Grandma While We Dive Into Love and Matchmaking Ft. Aleeza Ben Shalom
Okay, should one person pay for the date, or should you split, alternate?
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Excuse My Grandma While We Dive Into Love and Matchmaking Ft. Aleeza Ben Shalom
Okay, I think you're traditional. We don't even have to go on. Elisa, thank you so much for being here. Tell everyone where, when they can get your book. Oh, and your book is coming out, right.
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Excuse My Grandma While We Dive Into Love and Matchmaking Ft. Aleeza Ben Shalom
I think it all has to do with the way the wind is blowing. Correct. For example, where Zach lives, his actual neighborhood, none of the winds are blowing that way. I mean, it changes every few days and everything. Right. He said only one time where he had to go for a doctor's appointment, a little like closer to Beverly Hills, which isn't even one of the really effective areas.
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Excuse My Grandma While We Dive Into Love and Matchmaking Ft. Aleeza Ben Shalom
wherever you are I am too and I'd love to connect thanks for joining and thanks everyone for watching follow us we're excuse my grandma also everywhere that you are and we will see you soon bye
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Excuse My Grandma While We Dive Into Love and Matchmaking Ft. Aleeza Ben Shalom
He said there, he smelled it in the air.
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Excuse My Grandma While We Dive Into Love and Matchmaking Ft. Aleeza Ben Shalom
Exactly. Which is... devastating for people who can't afford it.
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Excuse My Grandma While We Dive Into Love and Matchmaking Ft. Aleeza Ben Shalom
Because no matter what, like, even if you have money to buy a new house, like, you have memories in a house. You have photo albums and items from family members who might have passed away and that was all you had from them. It's terrible. It is terrible. And this actually brings us to our drama club of the...
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Excuse My Grandma While We Dive Into Love and Matchmaking Ft. Aleeza Ben Shalom
You didn't hear it from me, but so Heidi Montag and Spencer Pratt, who were like a famous reality star couple, they lost their home and they've been talking a lot about that online. And it was like devastating. They were on the hills.
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Excuse My Grandma While We Dive Into Love and Matchmaking Ft. Aleeza Ben Shalom
I'm sure they're doing a lot of stuff. It was in the Palisades fire, but I think they were also like displaced. So it was a lot going on. But anyway, there was all this drama because in the aftermath, he was like posting on TikTok saying it would make Heidi really happy if everyone downloaded her song from an old album. No, this isn't bad. This isn't the bad part.
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Excuse My Grandma While We Dive Into Love and Matchmaking Ft. Aleeza Ben Shalom
You weren't playing even when I was here, though.
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Excuse My Grandma While We Dive Into Love and Matchmaking Ft. Aleeza Ben Shalom
I don't think it's such a nice thing. Like a nice thing. He was like, people should download her music.
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Excuse My Grandma While We Dive Into Love and Matchmaking Ft. Aleeza Ben Shalom
Right. So they'll make some money and it's like an exciting, fun thing to bring that back. So it made that song, I think it was from 2010, topping the charts again. And that was like really fun and exciting for them. Spencer texted, you know, Alex Cooper, who has the Call Her Daddy podcast that I like.
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Excuse My Grandma While We Dive Into Love and Matchmaking Ft. Aleeza Ben Shalom
So he texted her because she obviously has a lot of influence and said, can you post Heidi's song?
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Excuse My Grandma While We Dive Into Love and Matchmaking Ft. Aleeza Ben Shalom
and i think at first she like didn't answer him and then he went online which i don't think was any bad mouth yeah i knew you were gonna say that i didn't know it but i could just figure it out he was like alex cooper didn't respond like the least you could have done is post one thing of my wife's song to your story and you know we're suffering after the wildfire like evacuation and
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Excuse My Grandma While We Dive Into Love and Matchmaking Ft. Aleeza Ben Shalom
Alex Cooper is not a reality star. No, but the two couple.
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Excuse My Grandma While We Dive Into Love and Matchmaking Ft. Aleeza Ben Shalom
And I think she did end up texting him back and she was like, we're housing, like, a lot of friends right now who are displaced. Like, I'm just getting back. She's busy. She's busy. But he ended up also... Alex married a guy last year, two years ago. So they lived together in L.A. And the guy also was a big producer and they have their company, the podcast company on Well Together.
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Excuse My Grandma While We Dive Into Love and Matchmaking Ft. Aleeza Ben Shalom
So it's like their joint venture. And so he deals with a lot of Alex's business stuff. And so Spencer texted Alex's husband, Matt, and was like, Alex didn't respond to me. Can you get her to post Heidi's song?
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Excuse My Grandma While We Dive Into Love and Matchmaking Ft. Aleeza Ben Shalom
There was really no end. He just went, I mean, not yet. This is happening now. He went online and bad mouthed her essentially and told, said, I texted the husband and he said, and then I think Alex maybe did end up posting the song. I don't actually remember.
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Excuse My Grandma While We Dive Into Love and Matchmaking Ft. Aleeza Ben Shalom
I think what ended up also happening was, I don't know if you remember how Alex Cooper on Call Her Daddy, she used to have a co-host and there was all this drama. Right, I remember that. The previous co-host, Sophia, She posted the song. So then Spencer was like, I love Sophia, which also everyone knows the drama between them. So there's a lot of levels here. All right.
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Excuse My Grandma While We Dive Into Love and Matchmaking Ft. Aleeza Ben Shalom
Also, Spencer and Heidi sued the, this was I think earlier today, sued the city of LA for losing their home.
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Excuse My Grandma While We Dive Into Love and Matchmaking Ft. Aleeza Ben Shalom
Okay, it's time for the Grandma Report. Let's talk about Oscar nominations. They came out a little, a few days ago. And the big story is Amelia Perez, which I actually watched last night. Okay. Which is a Spanish language musical drama. Did you like it? Yes, I did. Wicked has 10 nominations.
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Excuse My Grandma While We Dive Into Love and Matchmaking Ft. Aleeza Ben Shalom
Another standout is The Substance, which is a horror movie with Demi Moore.
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Excuse My Grandma While We Dive Into Love and Matchmaking Ft. Aleeza Ben Shalom
See, all these subjects- It's about basically like- But she got great. Replacing herself with the younger version with like Botox and all this stuff. Right, exactly.
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Excuse My Grandma While We Dive Into Love and Matchmaking Ft. Aleeza Ben Shalom
So back in the day, it was definitely about big stars, blockbusters. Now we're seeing these indie films. Yeah. and even international productions like Amelia Perez really stealing the show. Do you think the Oscars have lost touch with everyday movie goers? Or is it good to shine a light on those lesser known filmmakers and stories?
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Excuse My Grandma While We Dive Into Love and Matchmaking Ft. Aleeza Ben Shalom
I don't know why. the TV is even connected to Wi-Fi.
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Excuse My Grandma While We Dive Into Love and Matchmaking Ft. Aleeza Ben Shalom
I mean, great film... somewhat subjective but i even if it's not necessarily the quality of the film it might just be what you're interested in but i don't know but i think that if not film and hollywood how else otherwise everyone's just going to be inane if all you're showing is
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Excuse My Grandma While We Dive Into Love and Matchmaking Ft. Aleeza Ben Shalom
I think also, I don't know, because I'm not as plugged in, but that's a big budget movie. How do you get a budget like that if you aren't already the top 10 directors? That I don't know.
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Excuse My Grandma While We Dive Into Love and Matchmaking Ft. Aleeza Ben Shalom
Well, it was. Made, which is, we were kind of saying this. They were made by studios. In a different episode. But the, well, yes. But also, like, it was the same five actors in, like, every single movie.
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Right.
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welcome back to excuse my grandma it's kim and my co-host grandma gail happy thanksgiving everybody yeah so fun to be together with the gobble gobbles yes uh are you gonna have a chocolate turkey i hope so i hope if mom decorated the table she usually puts out those turkeys which is the first thing to go before we even start eating
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Please Excuse My Grandma's Thanksgiving Traditions
When he talks about holidays with his wife's Jewish family and his Italian family. I mean, he's just so on the thing. It's so different from family to family. So, you know, you have to figure that out. And I think. compromise and sharing and switching it over from year to year is really the way to go. Right.
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Please Excuse My Grandma's Thanksgiving Traditions
You'd have to get it specifically for that theme. You've done it for the Galentines. Yeah, but we didn't eat dinner. Like, I got paper plates. All right. Okay, well, that could be cute if you have a theme.
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Please Excuse My Grandma's Thanksgiving Traditions
Well, we were very lucky because we all sort of liked each other and we really got along. But I think that's very unusual. I think that's very unusual. Mostly families don't
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Please Excuse My Grandma's Thanksgiving Traditions
Well, a host gift. Well, depending if you've met them before, then you sort of know what their likes and dislikes are. But I would ask your boyfriend or girlfriend, do your parents like wine? Because then you can bring a couple of bottles of white and red wine, you know, for cocktails or for dinner.
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Please Excuse My Grandma's Thanksgiving Traditions
I think if it's food, I think you would have to check with the family because, you know, they're going to great lengths to preparing the meal. You can always, always bring a and I've done this, bring a platter that's already made of nuts and fruits and candies for after dinner. And then usually the host will put it out in the living room or the dinner or their party room.
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Please Excuse My Grandma's Thanksgiving Traditions
Not a dessert that they have to serve. I think it's, you know, something like a beautiful box of special chocolates that you might have a store in your neighborhood that you love. Mm-hmm. So I think, you know, you have to be careful with that. I wouldn't get into the food, the entree, the appetizers, unless you know the family well and you say, I'll make my special string bean thing.
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You know, I think that's, but for the first time meeting somebody, it sort of has to be a neutral gift. Or even a pretty cookbook or a party book. You know, a coffee table book is always nice. People love that.
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Well, I don't think anybody wants to wash them anymore. Everybody uses paper ones.
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Yeah, that's cute too. Or even just a bouquet of flowers.
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I mean, that's always really nice. Come in with flowers and they'll put it in a vase and put it out.
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Well, we've done it. We happen to belong someplace where that has a Thanksgiving dinner, but St. Ambrose does it wonderfully outside. You can have it. They all have special menus.
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Everybody has it. Bricktop has a special menu. Beach A always has a special menu, and it's so pretty. If the weather permitting, you can sit out in the garden. You know, most of the places in Florida have outdoor spaces, and they have special menus for the evening.
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I think it's just fine. Anyway, it's just being together. That's the whole point of these holidays.
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Well, it really is. But there's so many people who don't belong to a club. So I think the restaurants do a terrific job. Or if you're coming for vacation or something. Right. I think the restaurants do a terrific job down here. Yeah. As they, by the way, do in New York. Oh, for sure. We've done it in New York, too. I've loved it. I mean, I actually think it's the most easy, wonderful way to do it.
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But, you know, I have relatives in my family that like to cook. So they like to torture themselves.
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Depending where you are. I think if you're in the country like we're going to be, just a nice pair of jeans and a nice sweater are just perfectly fine.
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Absolutely. But I think it's getting less and less.
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Well, I don't think anybody should wear sweatpants. I really don't. I think that this is a holiday that people have spent a lot of time over the table, fixing your table. I don't care if you're the most casual family. You can put a little bit of effort into your dressing. I don't think sloppy t-shirts and stuff like that need to be at a holiday dinner. But I think it can be casual.
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I'm thankful for being alive. Every day is a blessing. Honestly, same. I mean, it really is a blessing, but I'm... I'm hopeful that the world will come to a resolution of peace in the Ukraine and certainly in the Middle East. I'm praying for the hostage released by the new year. I'm really hoping that will happen. I don't know. Maybe I'm being optimistic.
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Everybody likes to be casual now. But if you're in a formal restaurant or at a country club or at a specific hotel that requires sometimes a jacket, then you dress accordingly. Everybody has a pretty little party dress with heels or a nice sport jacket. Nobody asks for a tie anymore. So the men all have jackets in their closet.
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Yeah. Anything that you think would be just cute. Leather pants, whatever that could be in the country. It looks nice.
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Well, no one's asking me, so they must be asking you. I don't think people ask. They definitely ask.
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Oh, that's just out of, people should ask what your situation is, but I don't think they should ask that much. I mean, if it was really, really serious, there'd be a ring on your finger, and you wouldn't have to talk about it. I think they can say, are you still going out with that young man or young lady? And if you say yes, you know, you can say, oh, I hope to meet him soon.
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I think you should keep it loosey goosey. I don't think it's anybody's real business to ask too much.
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Exactly. Or I'm dating someone special. I'm dating someone, we'll see how it goes. Exactly. Hopefully next time you'll meet him or her.
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It's not mean-spirited, but people should really watch how they say it because you never know – the ins and outs of the relationships and certainly not about when are you having a baby I mean that I definitely wouldn't answer to that and sometimes you can't right so maybe you just say like we're no I don't think you have to answer you know whenever the time comes we'll we'll see
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And your own family is not doing it. See, I think it's important. Thanksgiving and Christmas are family holidays, and usually you spend it with your family. I don't think I would be insulted if somebody said, you know, I have to spend dinner with my family. Maybe I'll come over for coffee. Right. Or let's meet, maybe I'll come over for a cocktail. If you live in the, you know, relatively close.
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Yeah, I think that's uncomfortable. I think that's uncomfortable. It's kind of weird. It's sort of uncomfortable. But you certainly can say, you know what, I'm going to, maybe I'll come over for dessert. If you live close to each other. Also, most people. If you don't live close to each other, there's no conversation. Then you'd have to say, no, I'm going to his or her family this year. True.
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Some people do lunch, you know, late lunch. You can go and you can do after for dessert, certainly at people's. I don't think people should get that hung up on all this stuff now. Hopefully we're getting a little more relaxed even in that. But I don't know.
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We eat at 6 o'clock. So by 7.30, you could go somewhere else. You could have a whole evening.
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But that's really my big hopes, and I really just want everyone to –
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If you're alone, I would treat myself to a nice restaurant. Get dressed up and go yourself and have dinner if you don't have any friends in the area or nobody that, you know.
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Well, that I would hope that if you felt comfortable with a friend, say, you know, I'm alone. Do you think I could come along? You know, I feel badly for the person who goes to a strange city and doesn't know anybody or the strange town. But I wouldn't deprive myself of a nice meal. I would go, sit down, order a lovely Thanksgiving dinner and eat it and just enjoy the evening.
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I don't have any except for my sweet potato casserole.
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be happy and not not try to kill one another there's no reason for such hatred um across lines and i don't even understand it anymore yeah so you're thankful to be in a safe well america is the safest place that you can ever be and but i don't uh i want the whole world to be safe and i certainly want uh other people around the world to feel that they can uh you know
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Our pictures are usually not worth a link.
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Well, this has been an issue. I never thought of this. We used to, growing up, we had two. My aunt used to make them with fresh oranges and cranberries. And there was a whole group at the table that loved that. Then my side of the family loved the ocean spray cranberry sauce. Okay. I still like the canned because that's sort of what I grew up with and love.
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When it gets fresh, I get a little irritated. I want to really feel like it's canned and that it's not fresh. I think I like fresh. Well, see, that's it. So hopefully you put both on the table.
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And we're hoping that you all have a wonderful, delicious Thanksgiving and peace on earth. That's a really, really big request. That's a big request.
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feel free to live in their homes without being attacked or on the streets of Amsterdam without being pushed into the street or into the water because of religious belief. And hopefully people will give to certain charities that serve hot meals that day. Or volunteer. Exactly, exactly.
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And definitely, I know on my way out to the Hamptons, I'm going to bring some more coats that I have sitting in my closet that I don't need. And I always bring them out there and they disperse them to people who are cold and needy.
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Yeah. But even if there's no cans, you can bring anything over there and people will will take them, either eat them. They have a dinner there or they take the food home to use.
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Yeah, exactly. But she always does it beautifully. Usually something in orange and fall-feeling leaves or orange flowers or something. And definitely the turkeys.
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very much the same as what it is today. I used to, well, I lived in a suburban area. So we used to come in as a family and my cousins used to come in and we used to go to our grandparents who lived in Manhattan and we used to go to the parade. And we used to either go over to 72nd Street where the beginning of the parade and the balloons even were then. And we'd watch the festivities.
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And then we'd have an early dinner at my grandparents, either one set or the other that lived in Manhattan. And we'd have a wonderful time. And it was just, you know, that was, we thought that was a special treat to come into New York and do that. Or later on, when I had little children, I used to do the same thing. I took them to the parade and
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And sometimes it was cold and windy and we dressed all up and we came home and had hot chocolate. And it was just a day of no school, no work, and being together. I think that's the bottom line.
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Well, that's much later on. That's in the 90s, right, when you were little. Right, exactly. We had, by that time, had moved to Florida. Yeah, well, it's somehow, I must honestly say, though, in all truthfulness, Thanksgiving in Florida never seemed the same. The food was always delicious, but the, I think,
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thanksgiving has to be a little cool you have to be able to put a hat and gloves and a scarf on and uh really the um and the leaves the leaves have basically either changed or fallen off that other than I think once I went to college it was too hard to fly to Florida and then we started doing it in New York more but usually in restaurants because we're all so well you know it's very well it's not a matter of bad it's that it's a lot of people
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And it's a lot of work. And the last few years we've been joining. Well, none of us are great, great cooks. And so we have to put a little effort into this whole thing. And we do it. And it's not about the food, really. You know, the food basically you'll get to the table and be quite good. But it's really about being together and exchanging what our activities have been.
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Well, yeah. I don't think it looks great in the summer. I mean, you know, it's strictly a fall thing.
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in the last several months, mostly about school or about business or whatever. And, and looking forward to the winter season.
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Yeah. Well, you like that to me. It doesn't matter. It doesn't matter where we are. It just because I think it's like, as you're saying, with looking outside, looking outside, but except usually it's so cold by the time you sit down for dinner that. Well, in your case, your father always lights a fire. It's one time the smoke went all over the house. It was a disaster. But it's fun.
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No, I think the dogs last year. Your dog and my son's dog had a little emotional thing over a ball. I think Millie was being selfish.
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I think the guest dog isn't getting invited this year.
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Oh, that was, no, that was, we ordered it from a very fancy place. Mommy did it, and then your uncle said, it's disgusting.
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Well, I'm having a fall dinner party, but it's not going to be an orange. It's not going to be an orange.
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He now fries it. Deep fried? Yeah, and it comes out delicious. It comes out very juicy. I was skeptical the first year, but then it was really, it is very good. Yeah.
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Your red shoes are a big hit wherever you go.
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Do you remember who those were from, Kim?
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Well, you'll see it if you look on Kim.
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Right, because they were very cute, and she wore them with jeans. They looked so cute. It was adorable.
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Well, not everything, but a lot of stuff.
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Maybe not the red shoes. I'm not sure.
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Oh, Macy's always does a great job, especially around Thanksgiving. Yeah, that's a thing. It's always a terrific store. It is a thing.
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Well, who does it better where?
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I don't think anybody. I don't. First, we have it on TV. So those people who aren't don't go to the parade, which I am included in that because it's always usually a little nippy. But it's beautiful on television and you can you see all the floats and the music and it's a wonderful, wonderful day.
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Well, you can go to any CVS and get the chocolate turkeys.
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I don't think anybody except Santa. And Santa is an independent person.
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Yeah, I don't think there's anybody. I think everybody participates in the Christmas celebrations.
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Yeah, well, that was their brand, correct. Okay. But now it's probably all the... Nobody. No, I think it's just how we've made the holidays more about celebrating each individual one on its own. And Christmas is a time, I guess, of gifts and the tree and all that kind of things. And what about Hanukkah is the same thing, the eight days of Hanukkah and Kwanzaa.
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I mean, everybody now has some kind of celebration, but everybody only has one Thanksgiving. So that's what makes it really nice.
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What about what the food is? You know what I've been noticing before you move on? That on Instagram, they've been advertising and I'm thinking of getting it probably sold out already. One of these boards that you can order and it comes with the cheese and all the
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like different condiments nuts and cheese and it looks and it has a thanksgiving yeah and for an order i was thinking of getting that and and bringing it out with me for mom i think they're they're they look really nice i mean versus going to a cheese shop and oh i think this is much easier because everything is pre-cut and it comes right to your door it looks really good like shipping it yeah i don't know it looks really great i'm gonna have to look into that
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I just do flowers down the length of the table.
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Oh, it is? Okay. That's the one I saw. I ordered from them. Oh, good. I didn't want to give them any free advertising, but it looks so good.
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Yes. The one I saw today for Thanksgiving when I was scrolling a little bit, it looked really nice. Yeah. It's got the little turkeys carved in the cheese and all that stuff. It looked adorable. Really cute. Okay. That's the only thing that I thought maybe I would throw in differently for a change.
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Well, I have all the beautiful plates. I have beautiful white plates and gold and orange and all kinds of blues. I mean, I mix and match, and it's pretty. But not for the holidays. Holidays sort of is an orange theme. Yeah.
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That's what I'm telling you. I think I might not be able to get the board. I'm beginning to panic.
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Well, that's true. Just ordering the food is a major event. And then writing down what you need, you know, from your pantry usually doesn't have all the condiments and all the stuff that you need to put on the table. And you really have to sit down and think about it. And it does take time and effort. This is not an easy job. The restaurant is getting better and better as far as I'm concerned.
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Why is it so long? What's happening with the people in Delaware? I don't know. They just are really into Thanksgiving. Or they're slow. Or they're slow on ordering. Okay. I don't know. Come on, Delaware, get moving. Put a lot of effort in. We have less than, I think we're almost at that moment.
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Yeah, I don't think we spend too much time worrying about it. But it takes at least a week. Nobody can do it in less than a week because a lot of things you have to order. A lot of the turkeys you have to pre-order, even from the market, you know, you have to put your order in at some of the stores because they don't really have them.
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I only have my white plates from Amazon, but I guess if I... Well, if you had a party, a dinner party, I don't think your apartment set up now is all full of desks and computers. I don't think you're going to have too many people for a dinner party.
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Well, I think it's fine if you're really actually a couple. I don't think it's fair to throw a casual date into a group of your relatives that half the time you never know what's gonna come out of their mouths. I think it has to be a committed girlfriend or a boyfriend who understands that you never know what comes out of anybody's conversation.
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Well, you could certainly invite any friends or people in your office or whatever who are alone. You hate to leave people alone on this kind of holiday. So that I definitely wouldn't even hesitate.
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open it up to a breakup yeah potentially um but once you are in a committed relationship um especially if you're married how how are you deciding whose family to go to for thanksgiving well i i think well that you see we were very lucky because we all lived in um the same community the same city so we all shared it together both sides, which was very fortunate.
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But if people live out of town, like my son's family, one year they would stay in New York, one year they would go out to Ohio. I think you share. I mean, that's all about compromise. And if one family really likes it, one holiday more than the other, then maybe you divide it that way. Some people like to celebrate Christmas more than they like to celebrate Thanksgiving. So you can divide it up.
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I think that's all about compromise and how, because everybody has a family and maybe some, you know, everybody likes being with their own. And if it doesn't work together, because sometimes the numbers get way out of control. The funniest comedian is my, who was the comedian that I just adore? The Italian gentleman that you went to. You're right.
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Welcome back to another episode of Excuse My Grandma. It's Kim and my co-hosts, Grandma Gail. Grandma and I are in Palm Beach. I've been in New York City mostly. Every time I bump into people, they're like, what are you doing nowadays? Like, are you, when are you here? Are you in Palm Beach full time? I know. And I'm like, honestly, I go back every week or two.
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It's sort of fun to be in a restaurant. Well, we work together a lot, too. It's not like we haven't caught up in years. We have dinners regularly. All the time. At least once a week.
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Yeah, I wonder why it still has that like formality in the culture and fashion here.
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I'll try to think of where I've gone with big tables before.
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Speaking of private clubs, I just joined a new one. Naturally. Which I told you about. I know. I have a problem.
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And I'm barely in New York, which is the other thing.
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Well, the most expensive part is the initiation fee, which I kind of ate already. So then it doesn't matter. I mean, it's still expensive to pay every year because it's not. They don't have dues? Yeah, you pay dues every year, not as much as the initiation fee, but still dues on top of whatever I'm paying, like dinner or drinks when I go.
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I know it's like this is a privileged problem, obviously, but... And it's not even a problem. It's more just like... I don't know. I feel like if I can and I feel like it's a fun thing... No, but you don't need it.
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I don't know, because I feel... Even though I like to try new places, I feel like I do... It's hard to get in. It's hard to get in. Yeah, that's the problem. And there's also not a lot of places that... Like if I want to not just have dinner, but like you want to just sit around and like have a drink before or after dinner.
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I don't really know where to do that. That's not like a gross bar or like you're standing in a line. That's why these clubs are so popular.
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There's probably millions of them.
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The popular ones right now are Chez Margot, which I haven't been to yet.
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That all downtown? That's, yeah, I think like, where's that one? Meatpacking area? Wait. Everything's in Meatpacking. I don't know. I haven't been there, so I don't exactly know. But maybe it's in NoHo. I actually don't know. I have a bit. Zero Bond, which I am a member of. It's not that old, but a few years. So House is old, but I use that when I travel.
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The one I just joined, San Vicente Bungalow, which is in the old Jane Hotel.
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And now I get my membership there, too. So when I'm there, I can check out that one, which would be nice.
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I don't know what it is. It's a mixed, like they have pasta, but they also have sushi, but they also have steak.
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A little bit of everything. San Vicente, yeah. And then... The 22 opened in Union Square from London. Right.
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Yeah. I didn't go to the club. I ate in the restaurant. I did too. But you can go to the restaurant in New York too. I made a reservation for next week. Yeah, it's very good. I think it's called Cafe Zafri.
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We know you love hot dogs. You might need a hot dog line.
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It's like old school and classic.
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Yeah. Let's move on to the drama club. Yeah. to talk about what's trending right now with celebrity gossip, drama. So this is like a little old, but we haven't talked about it yet. There's a thing going on with New York City influencers right now. Did you see this?
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So this one girl who I'd never seen before on TikTok, she made a video saying all the New York City influencers are so boring.
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They're all the same. Right. She said they're all tall, skinny, blonde, whatever. And that is very much referring to specific people that I get on my feed all the time. I actually don't think they're boring. Okay. But they're like classic lifestyle, New York City.
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I always say that to you. Isn't it aspirational, too?
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Not the New York City ones. You were looking at other people.
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But I don't think if a lady went out in a fancy dress in New York, they would be mugged.
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I understand that. But I think like, yeah, maybe on first glance, and there probably are people out there who do take themselves too seriously and it's like really curated and they're whatever. And they're also making money doing it, let's face it. Right. But I also think like,
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some of these girls who have millions of followers or at least a million followers, like, they obviously have some personality. They're obviously a little bit likable. Otherwise, they wouldn't have that.
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Well, they're just interested to see what they're doing or whatever it is. Like, I'm trying to think why I like to follow. I mean, sometimes.
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You know, the more you like watch those, the more it'll be fed to you. Is that true? Yeah. Because now I've got a million leopards and lions and elephants. Like I only get like dogs on Instagram because I watch. How do they know that I'm doing that?
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Because if you, when you're scrolling through, let's say you were getting fashion, fashion, fashion, and then you've got an elephant video and you're like, oh, I'm interested in this. And you watch the whole thing. It's like, oh, she just watched. a two-minute video about elephants. We'll give her another video about elephants.
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I don't know if that fear is true.
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I can't, I gotta- Well, no, but don't you want it to know you? I like it. This is the whole question. I like it. I like that the algorithm- can be personalized. I think a lot of people are like, they know your information, but that's helpful for me. If I was like, I really like this dress, and then I get fed more of the outfits that I like, I'm like, great. Now I found a dress that I like.
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Exactly. So I don't see anything bad about that, but that's basically how the algorithm goes. Um, so more like news going on, Poppy, the soda brand, um, it was sold for $1.5 billion. Is that the thing we drank yesterday? No, that was Olipop. Oh, but like similar idea.
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I know people talk about it, but if you're getting in an Uber and you're going to like a charity event, and then you're getting back in the Uber and going home.
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So PepsiCo bought it. Okay.
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Yeah. Well, I don't know if that's how it works, but. Um, I was going to read a little bit about it. It's a prebiotic, uh, soda brand, but it's probiotic. No, I think prebiotic. It's the same thing. Okay. All right. I know in supplements and vitamins, there's prebiotics and probiotics. Oh, really? I don't know the difference.
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But it's a very popular drink. Do they do it after you do exercise? It's like a low-calorie soda. No, no.
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It has apple cider vinegar.
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Yeah, I don't know about the baking soda thing, but I know for like, I think like nutritionists years ago or something told me that in the morning on an empty stomach, I think you are supposed to have a spoonful of apple cider vinegar.
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Yeah, I don't know.
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Your digestive system.
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Metabolism. Metabolism.
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Yeah, so it's a husband and wife duo, Allison and Stephen Ellsworth. Okay, from where? Where are they from? I'll tell you. Um, well, you know, they pitched it on Shark Tank once and nobody invested. Bethany was on that episode and they didn't invest in it. Um, oh no, sorry. They, they did get it from the guest shark who was Rohan Oza.
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Um, but I know Bethany did a video Frankel and was like, She's usually right about that kind of stuff. Yeah, she's very good. All right, so she was spoiled. It was just like a viral soda, but yeah, they were like a young couple. Oh, that's wonderful. Yeah. Okay, good for them. So that's cool. I don't know. Yeah. Oh, also, two more news things. You know Pete Davidson? Yes.
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He was like, there was paparazzi pictures of him making out with his girlfriend in the ocean in Palm Beach. Oh. Oh, I think I knew that. Oh, really? Yeah, I think I read that someplace. Yeah, it was like a week ago, but I wonder why they were here. Why not? It's beautiful here. You think they're just on vacation?
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They're also like 30. All right.
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I don't think. Yeah, no.
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I don't know who the girl is. They're just here on the beach. Yeah. I didn't know if they were here for like.
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Maybe. That would be surprising. I don't know. Um, okay. Last thing, Selena Gomez.
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Yeah. She's promoting her album that just came out with her fiance, Benny Blanco. I like it a lot. I decided.
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Um, they're just very like, well, he's very normal. Right.
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Yeah. I mean, normal. Like he, obviously he works with the biggest stars and he's a really successful song. I don't know if he's normal. He's a little way out there. He's a little quirky. Yeah. But I thought he was adorable. You feel like he talks like he's authentic when he's speaking. I agree. Whether it is or not, I feel like they're not trying to be this like...
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unrelatable couple like you look at them and you're kind it's like cute and um so it's interesting because both their names are on the album obviously they worked on it together but it I feel like it's more interesting that it's like their album is a couple versus if she just came out with the album okay um well they both give each other some credibility it's nice yeah it's nice so you should listen to it
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Yeah. Okay. Yeah. I don't know anything about, I think we would definitely know if they got engaged. Okay. Let's go to the grandma report. Our Buzzfeed article from this month says women over 30 are sharing how they met their partners and it's not all from dating apps. So there's this Reddit thread, ask women over 30 and people were asking how everyone was meeting their partners.
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So let's go through a little bit of it because maybe it can give people inspiration. Okay. Okay. So someone said, um, I joined disc golf and dart clubs, both of which are male dominated. I'm the only woman in the disc golf club, which has over 30 men, half of whom are single. I find this easier than using dating apps.
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I like being friends first because that means they'll be themselves and I can filter them out that way. So far, I'm interested in one guy and the feelings are mutual.
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Okay, someone said, we met dancing. Our city has line dance and country swing dance lessons. We got paired as swing dance partners, had drinks, talked, and the rest is history. I think it's terrific.
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So the taxi driver, not an Uber driver.
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Mm-hmm. Um, they said, we met at a party hosted by an older woman. I met once I went because I enjoyed meeting new people and I believe it's good to be open to everything. Even though I knew no one else there, I was 34. We've been together since that night.
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So it's like say yes to anything you're invited to because you never know. That's correct.
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That's the thing. Sometimes I'm like, oh, I don't want to go to something because you're like committing to a whole thing. Right. You have to remember, like, you can leave at any point.
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Yeah. Okay, great. Let's do the rewind. Grandma, what have you been watching on TV?
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Nice. Do you think I would like it?
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I'm obviously watching White Lotus. Right, I know you are. But that's so annoying because it's only one a week and I watch so much TV. So I decided to binge a reality show on Bravo that I already have seen the last few seasons on. But I kind of was putting it off because there was more exciting things to watch. But then I binged it. Southern Hospitality. It's like in Charleston.
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No, that's Southern Charm.
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Which is still on TV. Is it really? Yeah, yeah. It's very popular. They can't be the same characters. It's the same people. Really? Yeah, minus like two of them maybe. Okay. But basically one of the cast members of Southern Charm owns a restaurant.
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So on Southern Hospitality, it's like her restaurant and the staff there. Kind of like how with Real Housewives of Beverly Hills, there was Lisa Vanderpump. Right. And then she started Vanderpump Rules that had like the cast of the restaurant. Right. And it's like good drama. Okay. I don't know. But entertaining.
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Mm-hmm. Um, so we're going to do ask grandma anything with listener questions written in on Instagram, but first just wanted to say, we also have grandma Gail's voicemail. So just remember you can always email team at excuse my grandma.com or send us a DM on Instagram with a voice note. And we'll play that voicemail with a longer question. So we can really get into all the details.
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Um, but first we'll do just our short little questions written in on Instagram. Someone said, are leggings pants? I'm torn. I'm trying to dress more adult in my thirties. Are leggings out?
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I think that if you're like running around the city from like a workout class to an errand to like lunch with your friends, if you match the rest of the outfit to be athleisure. So if you're like in sneakers and a trench and a hoodie and sunglasses and a baseball cap, that's cute. But like if you're wearing it with a cashmere sweater and boots, it looks weird. Okay. That's my thought.
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Yeah. I mean, I guess that could really happen anywhere. Yeah.
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Yeah. I remember in high school, there was this girl who was walking around to everyone and she was saying, leggings are not pants and making everybody feel, because like in the 2010, leggings were being worn as pants.
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Yeah. I tend to agree. Um, okay. Someone said, what's your favorite ladies lunch place in Palm beach?
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Someone said, what is your advice on dealing with hardship or uncertainty?
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I think relying on your close friends and family is a good thing.
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You think that people would just know that, but I don't know.
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Um, how do you know when you're ready to move in slash get engaged? Is it normal to be nervous?
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Yeah. Dad and I were walking in Central Park like a few weeks ago. And you know, the pedicab or whatever is like, we're on the bike. They like pull up and they're like, do you want to get in? And we're like, no, it's okay. And for the next five minutes, he's like, I'm going to keep bothering you until you decide to get in. And we were like, you know, we're not tourists. And they're very expensive.
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So I guess the answer is like, yeah, it's normal to be nervous.
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Because you never know. That's correct.
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Agreed. Okay, let's end with a game. Should we bring it back? Hairstyles edition. So, bouffant. Should we bring it back?
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Okay. What about curled bangs?
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Yeah, it seems like it's for men. I think it's like how the Beatles wore their hair.
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It looks like Audrey Hepburn.
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Nobody looked like her. I feel like she had a pixie cut. Yeah, but she was... Some people are... She's so perfect.
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Thanks. There's this one model... Taylor Hill, who has one. And it was like kind of a big deal when she cut her hair. Okay. Because she is so beautiful. Well, that's the thing. You really have to have gorgeous hair. She still is beautiful, of course, but.
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Yeah. She can pull it off.
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I really don't. I mean, that's back, isn't it?
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I feel like we all wear our hair like that.
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It's like model off duty.
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Okay. The Farrah Fawcett blowout.
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I like it, but it is very, there has to be like an updated version of it.
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Okay, amazing. Another great episode of Excuse My Grandma. Follow us on social media at Excuse My Grandma. My personal is Kim Merstein. Been posting a lot more on there as well. And see you next week. Bye. Bye.
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But you love talking to Uber drivers and cab drivers.
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Like even we went down to Delray yesterday to do videos with Danielle Brown, whose Instagram handle is Healthy Girl Kitchen. She does all these cooking videos. So we wanted to cook with her and like have a fun content day. And so we got in the... Well, we had a trauma first.
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So yesterday- Why didn't they just make the bridges taller?
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But not at the time that they said they typically go up.
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Because everything was off.
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I think with all babies, your eyes are always the same size they will be your whole life. It's everything else that's smaller. So then you grow in to the rest of your face.
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Yeah, I mean, obviously they'll still look like... Blue like that. But anyway, it was fun.
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Yeah. We kind of just watched. We sort of messed up. We chopped a little bit.
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You chopped grapes. Yeah.
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Yeah. I don't know. I'm not the best at that. So I think I just need to watch like one YouTube video. I think you need to use a smaller knife.
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Because I'm always like, it'd be fun to take a cooking class or something. But in those classes, they try to do really outlandish. I just need to know literally how to hold an egg.
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Or now I ask ChatGPT everything. Like, I'm so reliant on it.
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It's actually crazy. Usually I would say, oh, let's just Google it. I don't even do that anymore. I just go on ChatGPT. And Zach jokes because I'm like, ChatGPT is my boyfriend. I talk to it all day long. I ask it every question. All right.
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Yeah, or you can tailor it to respond to what you're asking. Right. I mean, it's not like it's giving me false information.
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I know. You're probably in a relationship. Maybe it's time for the next step. I'm excited. Exactly. We move in together. No, I feel like there's going to be so much technology in the next.
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Yeah. So is there any piece of technology that you can't really get behind? What about Waymo, like the driverless cars?
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But I think it's smarter than the people, right?
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I don't want to out anybody, but... You were very upset that Poppy was honking the other day. I did.
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It's more common in New York too. Like no one really does it here.
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Yeah. We literally only have less than a month left here.
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I haven't noticed that here.
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Why are you even on a bike? Well, it's supposed to be healthy. Yeah. No, just get in your car and drive like a regular person. No, I was always the worst bike rider.
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It's nice in theory, like in any rom-com, when they're like on the bikes and they're holding hands.
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Here are my bike injuries. Fell off, partially tore my ACL. Fell off, got 36 stitches in my knee. Right. I liked stationary bikes. I liked tool cycle, but that probably messed up my back. Like there's nothing good about. For you. For me about biking. Exactly. Or running or most things.
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Mom says I'm like delicate little flower.
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Yeah. I'll just lounge and eat bonbons.
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Oh, water lily seeds or something.
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Honestly, that is better for you than like eating Lay's potato chips in your bag. Well, I don't eat potato chips. Oh, what were you eating the other day? I saw wrappers. I like the sweetest fish. Well, you know, there's a really healthy Swedish fish brand. Well, I like this.
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Yeah. I... I don't love Swedish – like, I don't like gummies. No, I don't like gummies either. But there's this store called Little Sweet Treat that opened in the West Village. Okay. It's kind of like Dylan's Candy Bar except tiny and, like, you know, you self-serve the candy. Right, right. And it's, like, always a line around the block, like, with adults, not, like, children.
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You know what people love? People love candy. I think it's – I don't know if it's – It might be Swedish candy. I don't actually know what it is. But they have some chocolate things, but it's mostly gummies and sour. And I don't like that kind of stuff. But I went in after dinner. I forgot where I was eating.
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It's really cute. It's like a cute store and that cute branding. You walk out with a little Ziploc bag.
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But this feels a little bit minimal. Okay. But they... I took the chocolate ones. They were like chocolate caramel. But are they real chocolate? No, real chocolate.
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You dress up more here?
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Well, what I did, I was with my friend. She was like, that's not how you do it. Because you're supposed to like fill up the bag. I put like three in. Oh. Because I was like, I'm not going to like it. I don't have to fill up a whole bag of candy.
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No, I know exactly where it is. It's on 7th Avenue. And I want to say like around... 12th or 13th, but I have to double check on that. It's called Lil Sweet Treat. It's very popular on Instagram.
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No, there's already a line around the corner. But I went late at night and there wasn't. So usually... Maybe it's an after work thing.
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Or maybe people, or initial hype kind of died down. All right. Because it opened last year, I think.
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Probably. I'm still talking about the biscuit place. Guess what closed?
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The restaurant on my corner. Which? The Italian one? Yes. Lupetto? Yes. Yes.
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Isn't that weird? It was such a pretty restaurant. It opened six months ago. No, a year ago.
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And it's so pretty.
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Yeah, because they have more parties here, I guess.
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They had done such a long time of renovations. Oh, I'm sad to hear that. And then I walked by and it was all papered up and it said what it was going to be.
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This Meme Messe. Oh. And I think that's what it's called. And I Googled it and it's from... Greece.
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Yeah, it's Mediterranean, but I think... I think when I looked it up, it looked like a, not fast casual, but definitely like.
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But the place is so pretty. It was beautiful.
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Unless it doesn't look like a casual Mediterranean restaurant.
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That was really pretty. I liked it. I thought the food was great. It's the same people as Pecor Bianca, which is all over the city.
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But then how do you like put, they probably lost so much money. They lost money.
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Of course. Crazy. I didn't believe it.
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But it's never one year. That felt really...
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Yeah, but you know what was weird? I always thought there was a lot of availability, but then some nights I would look on my phone and there was no availability.
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I'd love to know, though. Okay. So, yeah, that was an update. So I'm sure when I go back to New York, I'm going to try a lot of more restaurants. A lot of me, too.
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Yeah, well, we were talking because we have your birthday, mom's birthday, and poppy's birthday, and we don't know where to go.
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Welcome back to another episode of Excuse My Grandma. It's Kim and my co-host, Grandma Gail. And this week we're excited to welcome Danielle Brown from Healthy Girl Kitchen on social media. We have been loving following her. I always save all your recipes. I have to still make them because I'm the worst with cooking, but I care so much about like nourishing myself and about food.
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It's one of the relationships and family clothes, I think.
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Well, I think TikTok and Instagram is where you look at cooking videos and recipes rather than Food Network, which makes sense that, like, with your videos and everything, it's basically the modern Food Network in a way.
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I have no idea where Rachel Ray is or where she's cooking from. I still follow it up. You turn on cable and you watch HGTV and Food Network and things like that. I don't.
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I watch like the streaming food, like I watch Great British Bake Off.
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But social media came before the cookbooks, right?
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OK. And you have more than 5 million followers. How did that even start? Why did you think to take it to social? It's wild.
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Exactly. The shift from taking private clients, I feel like can be harder for people to know, like personalize what works for them to be eating. So I'm curious, obviously, Everything you're posting is nutritious. Nothing's going to be harmful unless you have an allergy or something. But how do you know what works best for your gut or the things that you should be consuming?
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I feel like everything does. So I have to figure that out.
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How do you find doctors?
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I feel like our generation is really interested in finding out more information about themselves and their bodies, and we're all interested in longevity and living healthy and longer. But it's something, I feel like your friends aren't going to functional medicine doctors.
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But that's one example. Like there's a million.
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What are the benefits of a plant-based diet for those who might not know?
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And we're definitely still getting protein with the with the tofu.
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And how do you do that planning? Like how do you know
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Do you have to do the gluten-free pasta, or can you just get a grain that's naturally gluten-free? You don't even have to be gluten-free. Right. Let's say you have that intolerance though. Does it matter? Or would you recommend people finding things that have it naturally versus like a substitute, like a gluten-free pasta?
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No, I'm sure it's delish. It's delish and he loves it. I went to a talk the other day and this woman who was a nutritionist was saying to have at least five servings of vegetables a day and that contributes to longevity and living longer. Do you recommend counting the servings you're getting throughout the day and also general longevity tips through eating?
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Here's the thing though, like, And this have come around too recently. I have a friend who's a stylist, Rachel, her thing's The Raylist. And she was saying it really limits yourself to only shop brands that are gonna end up being the right length. Like it's better to buy something and then just tailor it. That's what I do. Yeah.
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I mean, there's all these connections between gut health and your mental health, too. So I think for people to realize that what you put in your body could actually make you feel better generally is really important.
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Yeah, but it's worth it if you get like a few things that you really like and fit you really well and then you just tailor it. And I don't know, that's my new mindset on it.
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This week we're going to make it sort of food related. So these are things from when grandma was our age and we'll decide whether we want to bring them back or just leave it in the past.
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So onion dip was a popular thing.
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Right. And you would just mix it all together.
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So should we bring that back? That sounds gross to me. Yeah.
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Excuse My Grandma While We Get Healthy in the Kitchen With Danielle Brown
We made it in a video like last year.
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Excuse My Grandma While We Get Healthy in the Kitchen With Danielle Brown
Bring that back. What about meatloaf?
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Excuse My Grandma While We Get Healthy in the Kitchen With Danielle Brown
Okay. What about chocolate soda?
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So are you close with your family?
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Excuse My Grandma While We Get Healthy in the Kitchen With Danielle Brown
Okay, so maybe we'll bring up back a variation.
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Excuse My Grandma While We Get Healthy in the Kitchen With Danielle Brown
Okay, let's do a lightning round of Ask Grandma Anything. Our listeners wrote in some questions. So first one is... Are these food related? Some are, some aren't. How do you have so much energy? I'm a 70-year-old Nana. I'm losing energy. Any advice?
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Excuse My Grandma While We Get Healthy in the Kitchen With Danielle Brown
I just think... Yours doesn't come from diet maybe, but you're getting it from... Where is your energy coming from?
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Excuse My Grandma While We Get Healthy in the Kitchen With Danielle Brown
I don't know if that's to lose weight, though.
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Excuse My Grandma While We Get Healthy in the Kitchen With Danielle Brown
Yeah, I think it's a hell of a concert. They're losing 40 pounds a month. No, you're buying into whatever that is. OK, next question is, what are some qualities to look for in a best girlfriend?
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Excuse My Grandma While We Get Healthy in the Kitchen With Danielle Brown
and not expecting anything in return it's a mutual caring would be my word and um it happens but it's very rare i think also like without overthinking someone's qualities right um like the actual chemistry you have as friends like do you have fun with them right do like you have interesting conversations those kind of things but a best friend probably is that I don't confiding.
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Excuse My Grandma While We Get Healthy in the Kitchen With Danielle Brown
Right. Totally.
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Excuse My Grandma While We Get Healthy in the Kitchen With Danielle Brown
I think there's some friendships which I never understand where, like, they say, oh, I'm having dinner with this other girl this night. Can we do a different night? And it's like, why not all combine and go out together? And, like, I think you notice those kind of things with friends for sure. 100%. Okay, last one. I still love my ex-boyfriend of almost five years. How do I move on?
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Excuse My Grandma While We Get Healthy in the Kitchen With Danielle Brown
working on yourself and figuring out.
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Excuse My Grandma While We Get Healthy in the Kitchen With Danielle Brown
Well, I don't, I think that's your way of doing it. But I think like having, like you actually seeing it for yourself is what's going to change it of like, wait, I want someone who loves me back and wants to be with me is what I think like, kind of changes that thought process.
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Excuse My Grandma While We Get Healthy in the Kitchen With Danielle Brown
think, well, if I want to experience love, it's with that person.
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Excuse My Grandma While We Get Healthy in the Kitchen With Danielle Brown
Danielle, any questions for Grandma Gail? Oh, my God.
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Excuse My Grandma While We Get Healthy in the Kitchen With Danielle Brown
I asked I asked a question. I don't want her.
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Excuse My Grandma While We Get Healthy in the Kitchen With Danielle Brown
I'm going to order you black rice. There's a really good place in West Palm that has some black rice.
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Excuse My Grandma While We Get Healthy in the Kitchen With Danielle Brown
When you're ordering in me, because I think the restaurants you go to might not have that.
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Excuse My Grandma While We Get Healthy in the Kitchen With Danielle Brown
We'll do a healthy cocaine day. Give you some extra protein. And then we'll tell Danielle how it goes. OK.
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Excuse My Grandma While We Get Healthy in the Kitchen With Danielle Brown
OK, let's do a very quick round of old grand Miguel's old fashioned dating quiz. So it's like yes or no answers. We'll see whether you're more traditional or modern in your dating thinking. Would you rather receive a call or a text from your husband if it's just to say hi?
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Excuse My Grandma While We Get Healthy in the Kitchen With Danielle Brown
That's so funny. Isn't it funny to know him through all of your awkward phases? Yeah. Through every phase. Every face.
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Excuse My Grandma While We Get Healthy in the Kitchen With Danielle Brown
Would you sleep with someone on the first date?
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Excuse My Grandma While We Get Healthy in the Kitchen With Danielle Brown
I would never say no.
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Excuse My Grandma While We Get Healthy in the Kitchen With Danielle Brown
Yeah. Dating apps or setups.
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Excuse My Grandma While We Get Healthy in the Kitchen With Danielle Brown
Would you move in together before getting engaged or wait until you're married or engaged?
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Excuse My Grandma While We Get Healthy in the Kitchen With Danielle Brown
Should one person pay for the date or should you split, alternate?
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Excuse My Grandma While We Get Healthy in the Kitchen With Danielle Brown
Yes, exactly. And then when it comes to social media, I can't remember if you've posted your husband. Like, do you like keeping someone off or wait or can post them or like wait until you're serious enough to post them like a mile?
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Excuse My Grandma While We Get Healthy in the Kitchen With Danielle Brown
Yeah. okay so a little bit split but mostly most traditional traditional and i think she would even be more because she's not who wouldn't have slept with somebody on the first date okay um danielle thank you so much for joining us tell everyone how they can pre-order the cookbook or um yeah this will be out before april so so my
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Excuse My Grandma While We Get Healthy in the Kitchen With Danielle Brown
Is it crazy that like you like did you ever think you'd be writing cookbooks from social media?
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Excuse My Grandma While We Get Healthy in the Kitchen With Danielle Brown
quoted very cool it came full circle it yeah my goal with the book i'm like rachel ray has to comment on my book so i love it yeah so pretty i'm so excited barnes and noble you can just type in life-changing salads it'll be where all books are sold thank you so much thank you and thanks for listening another week to excuse my grandma you can find us on social media at excuse my grandma listen to us wherever you're listening podcasts and we'll see you soon bye
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Excuse My Grandma While We Get Healthy in the Kitchen With Danielle Brown
Yeah, but that's like, you barely see that now. That's traditional. I think it's wonderful. Yeah, it's rare. It's wonderful.
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Excuse My Grandma While We Get Healthy in the Kitchen With Danielle Brown
Grandma's working on it.
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Excuse My Grandma While We Get Healthy in the Kitchen With Danielle Brown
So that was the hardest time, I'm sure.
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Excuse My Grandma While We Get Healthy in the Kitchen With Danielle Brown
Yeah. I'm in long distance. What's your tip?
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Excuse My Grandma While We Get Healthy in the Kitchen With Danielle Brown
You saw my calendar before we started recording. It's crazy and we have scheduled time, so I totally agree with you.
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Excuse My Grandma While We Get Healthy in the Kitchen With Danielle Brown
Right. And then Danielle has written two cookbooks. One is already out. Grandma's getting it to hold up. I'm going to put it on.
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Excuse My Grandma While We Get Healthy in the Kitchen With Danielle Brown
That's cute. That's a cute idea. Do a FaceTime cooking date.
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Excuse My Grandma While We Get Healthy in the Kitchen With Danielle Brown
No, I agree with all this. And it's definitely, we haven't done the cooking thing. I think that's cute. It's super fun. We'll sometimes watch the same movie or something like while on FaceTime or text about it. Where is he?
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Excuse My Grandma While We Get Healthy in the Kitchen With Danielle Brown
Yeah, it's far, but he's here a lot. So we've figured it out so far. If we were to do a cooking date, what recipe should we make?
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Excuse My Grandma While We Get Healthy in the Kitchen With Danielle Brown
That one is Healthy Girl Kitchen, 100-plus plant-based recipes to live your healthiest life. And her next book, Life-Changing Salads, is available for pre-order. That will be out in April of this year.
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Excuse My Grandma While We Get Healthy in the Kitchen With Danielle Brown
Yeah, we both have stomachache.
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Excuse My Grandma While We Get Healthy in the Kitchen With Danielle Brown
So I think you have a sensitive stomach.
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Excuse My Grandma While We Get Healthy in the Kitchen With Danielle Brown
That's cute. So how do you kind of hide in vegetables and stuff for a kid who obviously everything's new to them and kids can be picky?
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Excuse My Grandma While We Get Healthy in the Kitchen With Danielle Brown
I love smoothies.
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Excuse My Grandma While We Get Healthy in the Kitchen With Danielle Brown
Rather than the chips.
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Excuse My Grandma While We Get Healthy in the Kitchen With Danielle Brown
It's like gentle parenting except with, or including food. Oh, it's all reverse psychology.
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Excuse My Grandma While We Get Healthy in the Kitchen With Danielle Brown
Like she'll eat Jiffy, but I'll eat like an organic raw almond butter, like whatever.
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Excuse My Grandma While We Get Healthy in the Kitchen With Danielle Brown
Like reliability. Yeah, yeah.
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Excuse My Grandma While We Get Healthy in the Kitchen With Danielle Brown
But you don't want like a grilled chicken sandwich. You want like a chicken salad or tuna salad. Like they don't have that.
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Excuse My Grandma While We Get Healthy in the Kitchen With Danielle Brown
Not to say you can't eat sandwiches. It's just like you wouldn't eat a wrap or a sandwich that like was at... of avocado and sprouts and stuff. You're like, no, no, no.
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Excuse My Grandma While We Get Healthy in the Kitchen With Danielle Brown
Did you always like healthy cooking and healthy eating? Or when did that kind of come to you? How did you get into that?
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Excuse My Grandma's Palm Beach Season Finale and Recession Dating
Welcome back to another episode of Excuse My Grandma. It's Kim and my co-host. And my gal. Grandma, it is our final week of the Palm Beach season. It's our Palm Beach finale episode. Boo hoo. What will you miss about being together?
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Excuse My Grandma's Palm Beach Season Finale and Recession Dating
There's also La Teta door that I've heard of.
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Excuse My Grandma's Palm Beach Season Finale and Recession Dating
Probably the most processed one, because I feel like you like when it's like Nathan.
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Excuse My Grandma's Palm Beach Season Finale and Recession Dating
I'll be excited to go back to New York to record in our studio.
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Excuse My Grandma's Palm Beach Season Finale and Recession Dating
Yeah, we'll see.
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Excuse My Grandma's Palm Beach Season Finale and Recession Dating
Okay, let's move on to the drama club. This week, we're gonna talk about Coachella. I've wanted to first ask about what music festivals were like back in the day. I know you never went to like Woodstock or anything like that.
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Excuse My Grandma's Palm Beach Season Finale and Recession Dating
Yeah. I'll definitely miss the easy access to your closet because even in New York or the Hamptons, I'm not like in your apartment where I can just walk in, have double the options.
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Excuse My Grandma's Palm Beach Season Finale and Recession Dating
Cause that was like seventies flower power.
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Excuse My Grandma's Palm Beach Season Finale and Recession Dating
It's also interesting that Woodstock has the context of rebellion. Coachella is not about that at all. It's purely just a music festival.
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Excuse My Grandma's Palm Beach Season Finale and Recession Dating
You know what's interesting? They should really. So now it's basically... in the last few years become really relevant again, because all the influencers are going and all the brands like bring them out and have them come to like their tent. And it's like really an in-person community moment for these brands and their influencers.
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Excuse My Grandma's Palm Beach Season Finale and Recession Dating
But there was like a stat that I found that 60% of the general admission ticket buyers at Coachella actually use the festival's payment plan because it's so expensive to go. So they're like paying in increments just to like go to this festival.
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Excuse My Grandma's Palm Beach Season Finale and Recession Dating
So if you're successful, you have to give your- I think a percentage.
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Excuse My Grandma's Palm Beach Season Finale and Recession Dating
Also, like there's different levels of tickets and a lot of them sell out. But I was thinking, I was like, if I ever were to go, I think I'd really only want to go like, I don't love being in the crowds and all of that. And there's like artist pass and VIP pass. Guess how much those are? I have, Kimberly, I have. Upwards of $12,000 a ticket. Well, I think that's obscene.
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Excuse My Grandma's Palm Beach Season Finale and Recession Dating
Well, there were so many, like, as we were packing up, like, vintage items, you didn't even really, not that you didn't know you had it, but you really don't wear a lot of.
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Excuse My Grandma's Palm Beach Season Finale and Recession Dating
You can't even buy a ticket to that.
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Excuse My Grandma's Palm Beach Season Finale and Recession Dating
I think young people just want to dance and have fun and go to these concerts.
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Excuse My Grandma's Palm Beach Season Finale and Recession Dating
Probably. But also, I don't even know how fun it is because like, Alex Earl, obviously I was like following her the whole, like she was posting so much Coachella content and she was at Lady Gaga and she's like scanned the crowd. She's like, why am I the only one dancing? Everyone was just standing there like videotaping her and watching. Well, they probably wanted to listen to her also.
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Excuse My Grandma's Palm Beach Season Finale and Recession Dating
I know, but how do you not like dance? I don't know.
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Excuse My Grandma's Palm Beach Season Finale and Recession Dating
so it's also like how fun really is it also i feel like everyone went that first weekend and there's enough like this weekend or that we're recording it so it'll be a few days ago but um there is weekend too like i wonder who go i bet that's cheap oh i think i think people go the whole time yeah it's probably just a difference in ticket price right um do you think there's like an age cut off of when it's acceptable to go to coachella
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Excuse My Grandma's Palm Beach Season Finale and Recession Dating
Yeah. I don't know if that's his vibe. I don't think that's going to happen. But I think I would go. I just think it does seem overwhelming. Um, I don't know, but like, it was funny also. Cause Alex Earl, she went to speak at Harvard, um, the next day. So she went from this like party weekend and then got on a plane and went straight to speak at Harvard. Okay. For the grandma report.
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Excuse My Grandma's Palm Beach Season Finale and Recession Dating
Our article this week is from time.com and is talking about the silver lining of dating in a recession.
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Excuse My Grandma's Palm Beach Season Finale and Recession Dating
Okay. They're threatening one. Right. So with economic downturns, like the potential... recession. I think dating habits are being shaped differently with these rising costs. The article said that dates average $168. So a lot of people are moving away from expensive outings and toward budget friendly activities.
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Excuse My Grandma's Palm Beach Season Finale and Recession Dating
um and like in the 2008 recession people like historical patterns show there was increased creativity in dating people were cooking at home they were going to free events um so it actually what they're saying is the silver lining is is that it could like create more meaningful experiences um over just lavish spending i don't know i i think first of all you know
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Excuse My Grandma's Palm Beach Season Finale and Recession Dating
But even like some of your... vintage jewelry or bags or sweaters like that are 30 years old. A lot of people now they want all this vintage stuff. And they're like there's pop ups around the city with vintage items or everybody's so into thrifting now. But I just have to go into your closet, which is really great.
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Excuse My Grandma's Palm Beach Season Finale and Recession Dating
I don't know if I've done that yet, but I will.
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Excuse My Grandma's Palm Beach Season Finale and Recession Dating
I also think with the dating lens, people want to go to a trendy restaurant and things like that.
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Excuse My Grandma's Palm Beach Season Finale and Recession Dating
Or maybe you go out less often, but you're going to those trendy restaurants. Obviously, it depends on your situation. But I wonder if people, especially who aren't in relationships and who are dating for the first time, you know, first dates and stuff. If somebody chose a date that was like a free event, I feel like it would seem low effort.
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Excuse My Grandma's Palm Beach Season Finale and Recession Dating
I think a sit down is probably necessary. You can't just walk in to grab a slice. You have to sit down at a table.
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Excuse My Grandma's Palm Beach Season Finale and Recession Dating
Okay, let's move on to the rewind. What are we watching on TV? I just finished Love is Blind. I saw that, that was on Netflix. Yeah, it's on Netflix. It's when they like date through a wall and the whole question is like, can you make an emotional connection without ever seeing somebody?
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Excuse My Grandma's Palm Beach Season Finale and Recession Dating
And then they have like four weeks if they decide to propose in the pods to then date in the real world and then they do a wedding. Did anything actually come out of that? One couple went through with the wedding, like said yes at the altar. The other three at the altar said no. Well, that's very much like The Bachelorette and The Bachelor. Similar dating show, but it's a little different.
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Excuse My Grandma's Palm Beach Season Finale and Recession Dating
Right, right. and i'm always like makes good tv yeah it does make good tv um it gets addicting so that was fun um then there's these two shows that i started but i don't know if i want to finish them dying for sex with michelle williams okay and um your friends and neighbors with john ham oh i love him yeah that one's actually good i'm gonna finish that one basically the concept is like he um
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Excuse My Grandma's Palm Beach Season Finale and Recession Dating
gets fired and he lives in like a really fancy suburb and he decides to like steal from his neighbors.
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Excuse My Grandma's Palm Beach Season Finale and Recession Dating
You see space. But there was so much controversy around that.
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Excuse My Grandma's Palm Beach Season Finale and Recession Dating
Why wasn't it an all-women flight?
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Excuse My Grandma's Palm Beach Season Finale and Recession Dating
It was like just A-list celebrities. Yeah. Like Gal King and Katy Perry.
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Excuse My Grandma's Palm Beach Season Finale and Recession Dating
No, I don't think any of them paid for it. I don't know. People were like... Who cared? Not who cares, but I think they were like, why are these wealthy celebs? Yeah, I agree. But... I didn't like how some of the brands were really mean. Like Wendy's was like, can we just leave Katy Perry in space?
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Excuse My Grandma's Palm Beach Season Finale and Recession Dating
I mean, I wonder if, like, I'm sure a lot of other big companies are going to take... Well, not too many companies have spaceships, except for Elon Musk. No, but whatever their big launches are, maybe they'll think differently.
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Excuse My Grandma's Palm Beach Season Finale and Recession Dating
Emily Ratajkowski was like, it's disgusting. These celebrities would support. The celebrities. would support Bezos.
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Excuse My Grandma's Palm Beach Season Finale and Recession Dating
I guess. That's funny. OK, let's do Grant McGill's voicemail. We have an email someone wrote in and then a voice message. So let's do the email first. Also remember guys, you can always email us at team at excusemygrandma.com or send us a voice memo on our hotline. We have it linked on our Instagram all the time. Okay. Or DM us.
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Excuse My Grandma's Palm Beach Season Finale and Recession Dating
The email says, Hey Kim, I hope you and your family had a nice Passover. I want to know grandma's thoughts on this one. I've been dating the same guy about two months, 11 dates. Yes, keep notes. We don't talk and text that much between dates, but we usually have our next date on the calendar. A lot of my friends who have no kids think he's not that interested.
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Excuse My Grandma's Palm Beach Season Finale and Recession Dating
If he was, he would be texting and calling more often. He's 51, I'm 46, and we aren't in a rush to get married or move in together. I wish he showed more interest, but my mother, who's 74, almost as opinionated as grandma, thinks I'm being a baby and I should be happy. We can spend time together when we can.
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Excuse My Grandma's Palm Beach Season Finale and Recession Dating
And according to my mom, who looked through my dating apps, he's the best match for me by far. Thoughts?
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Excuse My Grandma's Palm Beach Season Finale and Recession Dating
Wait, but I've been on like 11 dates and you were like, that's not that much. Like you're just getting to know someone.
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Excuse My Grandma's Palm Beach Season Finale and Recession Dating
But are 51-year-olds texters?
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Excuse My Grandma's Palm Beach Season Finale and Recession Dating
i put them in bags yeah no one really talks about the treatment of those items you should no i saw something recently with the prices going up people are going to have to learn how to treat their bags and maintain them like even you're always so annoyed when you come to my apartment because i don't like stuff my bag and you should or keep them in dust bags because i like to see everything displayed yeah but you know what's in there and or leave the handle out
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Excuse My Grandma's Palm Beach Season Finale and Recession Dating
Also, can't she text him and be like, how's your day going?
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Excuse My Grandma's Palm Beach Season Finale and Recession Dating
After 11 dates, you can text someone, how's your day going?
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Excuse My Grandma's Palm Beach Season Finale and Recession Dating
But she could. Or how was your day? Whatever. At the end of the day, like, if you go on 11 dates with someone. If she feels like it. Right. If she feels like it, there's nothing wrong with it. I think the bottom line is, like, if other people are telling you that it's weird, but you don't think it's weird, who cares? Right.
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Excuse My Grandma's Palm Beach Season Finale and Recession Dating
But if you want to be talking to him more than you are, like, try initiating it.
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Excuse My Grandma's Palm Beach Season Finale and Recession Dating
Wait, do you mean the one we just had on?
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Excuse My Grandma's Palm Beach Season Finale and Recession Dating
Now we're going to do Grandma Gail's hotline. Here's the voicemail someone sent in.
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Excuse My Grandma's Palm Beach Season Finale and Recession Dating
Okay, so they want to know why you aren't a proponent of therapy because they listened to all of your advice.
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Excuse My Grandma's Palm Beach Season Finale and Recession Dating
i really do believe that the bags protect them and they're so costly and you know what people have to take care of their good things for sure um another thing that i guess i'll miss about being here even though we have lunch and dinner with our family all the time in new york and the hamptons too i have more friends in new york than in florida so like most nights I'm seeing friends.
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Excuse My Grandma's Palm Beach Season Finale and Recession Dating
So, you know, I completely disagree on every single level for so many reasons. One, sometimes you want to talk to someone who doesn't have their own agenda or bias. So someone who really is like helping you figure out your best interest, who isn't your mom, who you might have the problem with, a friend who might be selfish for some other reason, whatever it is.
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Excuse My Grandma's Palm Beach Season Finale and Recession Dating
Second thing is, it's not always, I have a problem, can I fix it? Sometimes it's, this is something I want to do. This is a conversation I want to have. What's the best way to go about this in a way that, I don't know, won't make the other person aggressive, won't, will get my point across. Like there's so many things I can't even get into. Well, this is what your generation does.
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Excuse My Grandma's Palm Beach Season Finale and Recession Dating
And we're like arguably healthier, right?
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Excuse My Grandma's Palm Beach Season Finale and Recession Dating
Yeah. Okay. Let's play. Should we bring it back? Palm Beach edition. So these are things we like used to do in Florida. I was trying to think of more. I'm wondering if we should do it still. The Breakers brunch in the Rotunda room.
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Excuse My Grandma's Palm Beach Season Finale and Recession Dating
Right. They probably upcharge.
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Excuse My Grandma's Palm Beach Season Finale and Recession Dating
What about like Lion Country Safari and those kind of things?
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Excuse My Grandma's Palm Beach Season Finale and Recession Dating
We also used to go to like Disney and Universal all the time in Orlando. But we've been a million times. I mean, I guess I just went to Disney in LA, but like I'd bring that back.
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Excuse My Grandma's Palm Beach Season Finale and Recession Dating
What about, I know the Chesterfield Hotel.
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Excuse My Grandma's Palm Beach Season Finale and Recession Dating
Right. Should we bring that back once it, it's reopening, right?
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Excuse My Grandma's Palm Beach Season Finale and Recession Dating
What was the old one?
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Excuse My Grandma's Palm Beach Season Finale and Recession Dating
Okay. What about like the society section of the paper?
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Excuse My Grandma's Palm Beach Season Finale and Recession Dating
Okay, let's do a quick round of Ask Grandma Anything. Everyone wrote these in on Instagram. So if you want your question answered, remember to always respond to those Instagram stories. Okay. First one. Have you ever been ghosted? I guess this is for me. How did you handle it? For sure. It wasn't all the time. But there were times where I was like, why after date?
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Excuse My Grandma's Palm Beach Season Finale and Recession Dating
So it's nice here to, if I don't have a plan, I'll just come along with you guys or with mom and dad. But also I'm excited to go back and like have a little bit of a social life.
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Excuse My Grandma's Palm Beach Season Finale and Recession Dating
I guess he didn't want to go out again because he never followed up. Or...
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Excuse My Grandma's Palm Beach Season Finale and Recession Dating
like but that always happens you just have a term for it now in your in your society people didn't respond and call for an extra date it was just not calling back right i think the proper use of ghosted is like if i then said to someone hi how are you and they just didn't even answer answer it's rude i don't know if that's happened um because i think i stopped myself before even getting to that point but how i handled it i probably like told all my friends told you and was like what should i do they don't like me and then
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Excuse My Grandma's Palm Beach Season Finale and Recession Dating
And then you had to move on. Yeah. Grandma's favorite travel destinations?
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Excuse My Grandma's Palm Beach Season Finale and Recession Dating
Yeah, me too. How old were you when your mom passed and how did that change your life?
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Excuse My Grandma's Palm Beach Season Finale and Recession Dating
Yeah. And I think spending time with your own kids and grandkids.
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Excuse My Grandma's Palm Beach Season Finale and Recession Dating
I mean, do you think that I could live here full time?
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Excuse My Grandma's Palm Beach Season Finale and Recession Dating
Wait, you eat sandwiches all the time?
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Excuse My Grandma's Palm Beach Season Finale and Recession Dating
Okay, last one. How do you focus time and energy towards dating as a 30-year-old woman? Yeah. if it's a priority to you and it's something you really want to be doing and you wanna be in a relationship, then I think maybe making a promise to yourself, like at least every other week or once a week to go on one date,
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Excuse My Grandma's Palm Beach Season Finale and Recession Dating
I was trying to think of what was different this year than the past. And I guess like it was the first year I wasn't single during my Palm beach time. So I guess like my priorities were less like, okay, how can I fit dates in and more like we have, we can get work done. I can do family stuff, which felt nice. Plus though, juggling having to go back and forth more.
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Excuse My Grandma's Palm Beach Season Finale and Recession Dating
between three locations and like more travel.
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Excuse My Grandma's Palm Beach Season Finale and Recession Dating
Yeah, well, you would think like Zach, my boyfriend, he uses one airline so that he gets upgraded on that airline all the time. But I never use the same airline.
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Excuse My Grandma's Palm Beach Season Finale and Recession Dating
this year yeah but i had bad experiences oh all right don't let's not talk about that because you might want to use that airline again okay anyway um it was a great season thank you all for listening and following yeah but come back we're gonna be on and we'll just be coming from new york it'll be coming from new york city be coming from the hamptons and obviously follow us on social media at excuse my grandma and mine is kim merstein and we'll see you soon bye
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Excuse My Grandma's Palm Beach Season Finale and Recession Dating
Your grandparents never came to Florida, did they?
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Excuse My Grandma's Palm Beach Season Finale and Recession Dating
So then when they were here, No, but those are your parents.
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Excuse My Grandma's Palm Beach Season Finale and Recession Dating
There was a spa down here and they lived here six months a year. Oh, wow. Okay. So then when you were here, did you also do dinners with them all the time? Absolutely.
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Excuse My Grandma's Palm Beach Season Finale and Recession Dating
Yeah. It's nice to pass down that value.
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Excuse My Grandma's Palm Beach Season Finale and Recession Dating
I mean, they were... But your relationship with your grandparents, how was that different than... with poppies?
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Excuse My Grandma's Palm Beach Season Finale and Recession Dating
I guess because he never had a sister. There was never a girl.
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Excuse My Grandma's Palm Beach Season Finale and Recession Dating
So as I'm like finding my own personal aesthetic, I've decided that I want to lean really heavily into those like vintage inspired items for home and clothing and whatever. So it's kind of a fun project to find that all again because it's sort of hard to find.
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Excuse My Grandma's Palm Beach Season Finale and Recession Dating
The thing is, like, I can't really have a dinner party in my apartment because I have one chair.
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Excuse My Grandma's Palm Beach Season Finale and Recession Dating
Oh, yeah. And you've rearranged your apartment for work and makeup. Well, I have a desk chair and then I have like my, what's it called? My dressing table.
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Excuse My Grandma's Palm Beach Season Finale and Recession Dating
No, but what is that called? A vanity. Vanity. And with a little stool. so like that's not conducive to a dinner party but i could use mom and dad's house in the summer in the country yeah and you've done that you've had a lot of parties i had like one party right and it was just but i want to do it again and i've say i've made all these pinterest boards you know pinterest it's like i
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Excuse My Grandma's Palm Beach Season Finale and Recession Dating
I'll show you, but like I save just like photos of inspiration. It's different than Instagram because you can create like your own boards, like mood boards almost. And I've saved all these hosting things. We'll see if I actually do any of it.
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Excuse My Grandma's Palm Beach Season Finale and Recession Dating
You do have a couple of girlfriends. I have the vision. Right. But even with the party that I did in the Hamptons last summer, I had two girls staying with me and they did like the dirty work. Well, so that's the whole problem. And same with the fall party.
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Excuse My Grandma's Palm Beach Season Finale and Recession Dating
Well, that's very... But I like...
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Excuse My Grandma's Palm Beach Season Finale and Recession Dating
I feel it changes your mood a lot when you're in sun versus in cold, for sure. But I also feel like the humidity is not great for hair. So I've been in a slick back every single day of being in Florida. But older people don't do slick back buns.
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Excuse My Grandma's Palm Beach Season Finale and Recession Dating
I like the act of hosting during the event. So, you know, we'll figure out what happens. Do you remember me ever when I was younger begging to stay in Florida longer since I would really only come for like vacation? Was I like, I don't want to leave or not? No, I don't think so. I don't think I did that with anything in life. Like with camp, I always wanted to leave.
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Well you hated camp, we know that. With like college, I was like ready to go by the end of the year. Like I was never like, I need to stay longer.
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The only thing I would say.
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Excuse My Grandma's Palm Beach Season Finale and Recession Dating
Yeah, that's fair. The only thing I would say is not wanting to leave the weather. Oh, that's later on.
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Excuse My Grandma's Palm Beach Season Finale and Recession Dating
But I feel like when I was only here for like, let's say Christmas vacation, I would want to spend every single day at the beach versus now I'm like, I'm here enough time that it's like, it's okay to do something other than sit out.
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Excuse My Grandma's Palm Beach Season Finale and Recession Dating
They're very aggressive when they come over to- I can't even think of the turkey vultures mating.
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Excuse My Grandma's Palm Beach Season Finale and Recession Dating
The puppy gets scared though.
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Excuse My Grandma's Palm Beach Season Finale and Recession Dating
I don't know. And then I don't know how to get rid of those. I don't think you can.
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Excuse My Grandma's Palm Beach Season Finale and Recession Dating
Speaking of full-time Florida residents, I was scrolling on social earlier and Bethany Frankel said she is moving to Florida full-time.
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Excuse My Grandma's Palm Beach Season Finale and Recession Dating
Yeah, but she said she decided that she's going to be there full-time both for- Well, her daughter's going to college.
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Excuse My Grandma's Palm Beach Season Finale and Recession Dating
She said like for personal and professional reasons, like it makes more sense to be in Florida, which is interesting.
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Excuse My Grandma's Palm Beach Season Finale and Recession Dating
But she's like really relevant in the... Well, she can be really relevant here. I guess.
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Excuse My Grandma's Palm Beach Season Finale and Recession Dating
It's a big city.
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Excuse My Grandma's Palm Beach Season Finale and Recession Dating
But your hair's not frizzy.
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Excuse My Grandma's Palm Beach Season Finale and Recession Dating
Right, and then... I mean, Alex Earl is literally from Miami and started her whole career there. And she's like arguably the biggest TikToker, but she also is constantly in L.A. and New York. So I guess you still have to travel, but it's interesting that that's her home base. And she said she's keeping the city in the Hamptons.
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Anything else you're excited to do when we get back to New York? I mean, we have your birthday, Poppy's birthday, and Mom's birthday that week.
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Excuse My Grandma's Palm Beach Season Finale and Recession Dating
For your birthday, we didn't really make a plan though.
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Excuse My Grandma's Palm Beach Season Finale and Recession Dating
What about if you could have like an experience or a trip or something?
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Excuse My Grandma's Palm Beach Season Finale and Recession Dating
For birthday celebrations, I feel like a question we get a lot for like more mature places to have birthday dinners.
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Excuse My Grandma's Palm Beach Season Finale and Recession Dating
By the way, I haven't been to that restaurant, but do you know what that means in French?
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Excuse My Grandma's Palm Beach Season Finale and Recession Dating
I asked chat GBT because someone had mentioned it.
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Excuse My Grandma's Palm Beach Season Finale and Recession Dating
The golden calf, but I think it actually means like worshiping money, like the biblical.
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Please Excuse My Grandma While We Get Brutally Honest About Love With Anna Kai
Welcome back to Excuse My Grandma. It's Kim and my co-host, Grandma Gail. Grandma, let's update everyone what we've been up to.
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I wanted to ask what you, like what you said earlier kind of interested me in that like always looking for my husband mentality. Do you think looking back you should have shifted your mindset on that or are you like that's how you were and you're glad that's the way you were thinking?
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And we have exciting guests the next few months, all coming into our Palm Beach little studio. And today we want to tell you about our guest, Anna Kai, who's maybe both on social media. I have seen her stuff for a while, actually, and grandma is new to her. Every time we have a guest on, I'm like, this is who it is. And I show all the videos and then we get grandma hooked, too.
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You hear that a lot. Yeah.
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kimmy always wanted to be in some media fashion she went to work for a radio for a television uh station and then during coven they closed so then what but i feel like for to get successful in social media you kind of have to have a similar mindset or like entrepreneurial spirit that we do because yeah we're creative and like the channel it came out of may have not been acting to start with.
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It still maybe could be one day. I don't know what your aspirations are, but I feel like you found what worked and got you that audience and hopefully that outlet for creativity. Exactly.
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We know this, but I feel like it's interesting that you still have to kind of explain that to a lot of your friends. You do have to explain it.
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Please Excuse My Grandma While We Get Brutally Honest About Love With Anna Kai
But she's a lifestyle content creator and host of the podcast Brutally Anna. And she has these witty takes on modern dating, on relationships, on being a woman, on any sort of advice. And she does it usually when she's getting ready, doing her makeup, doing skin care. So we're excited to talk to Anna today. I can't wait to meet her, Kim. Hey guys, we are joined by Anna Kai.
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Please Excuse My Grandma While We Get Brutally Honest About Love With Anna Kai
You gotta work.
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Please Excuse My Grandma While We Get Brutally Honest About Love With Anna Kai
When you created your TikTok, Maybe Both, that refers to your Chinese American heritage. And so I want to hear a little bit more about that experience and how you chose that as the name.
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Please Excuse My Grandma While We Get Brutally Honest About Love With Anna Kai
Was your family involved in your dating life?
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I love that. I haven't heard that from anyone. Yeah, that's so nice. So I want to move on to talk about an article of the week. So Tinder projected their dating trends for 2025 based off of 2024. So I want to go through some of those and we'll see what we think.
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Please Excuse My Grandma While We Get Brutally Honest About Love With Anna Kai
Anna, welcome to Excuse My Grandma.
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Please Excuse My Grandma While We Get Brutally Honest About Love With Anna Kai
So the number one thing was that a lot of people on their dating app wrote looking for XYZ on their profile, so they were more intentional about dating and what they actually want by using that phrase. Also, there was that whole thing last year, looking for a man and finding him. I love that.
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Please Excuse My Grandma While We Get Brutally Honest About Love With Anna Kai
I feel like that probably was in people's heads but I guess people aren't kind of scared to really put out there right away exactly what they want which I thought was interesting
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Please Excuse My Grandma While We Get Brutally Honest About Love With Anna Kai
I know. We're happy you got to be here.
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Please Excuse My Grandma While We Get Brutally Honest About Love With Anna Kai
just let's figure out do we find each other physically attractive enough to swipe right because that's the first step then is there some sort of banter or camaraderie there via text and then we meet up in person and then i agree i totally agree the other thing was um friends are playing an increasing role kind of similar with the friends set up as we were just saying but 60 of singles ask their friends for advice and to 20 to pre-screen their matches
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Please Excuse My Grandma While We Get Brutally Honest About Love With Anna Kai
Yeah. From Connecticut, how long is it to get to the city?
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Please Excuse My Grandma While We Get Brutally Honest About Love With Anna Kai
I think a pre-screen is crazy because like, yeah, exactly. They don't know. And that should be up to you whether you're attracted. But I do think like after a date or two, I'll show my friend a picture. Yeah.
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No way.
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Please Excuse My Grandma While We Get Brutally Honest About Love With Anna Kai
Yeah.
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Please Excuse My Grandma While We Get Brutally Honest About Love With Anna Kai
Yeah. Holiday season. Yeah. Take me out to get from like Tribeca to the Upper East Side anyway. Brutal. An hour. Yeah.
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Please Excuse My Grandma While We Get Brutally Honest About Love With Anna Kai
Okay, last stat is 77% of singles believe in small everyday gestures that they matter the most versus the bigger thing.
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Please Excuse My Grandma While We Get Brutally Honest About Love With Anna Kai
They make a dinner date for you guys on a Friday. Oh, that's just a date. They pick up coffee for you in the morning. Oh, please.
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Please Excuse My Grandma While We Get Brutally Honest About Love With Anna Kai
I think those things are... They can't live in my house.
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Please Excuse My Grandma While We Get Brutally Honest About Love With Anna Kai
it wouldn't work for a lot of people but I understand what you're saying thank you yeah
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Please Excuse My Grandma While We Get Brutally Honest About Love With Anna Kai
I know.
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Please Excuse My Grandma While We Get Brutally Honest About Love With Anna Kai
Or like you know that they care about you regardless of what the text is saying. Exactly.
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Please Excuse My Grandma While We Get Brutally Honest About Love With Anna Kai
61.
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Please Excuse My Grandma While We Get Brutally Honest About Love With Anna Kai
Yeah, because you're not asking your partner to fix you. Exactly.
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Please Excuse My Grandma While We Get Brutally Honest About Love With Anna Kai
Because I have such strong advice givers here.
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Please Excuse My Grandma While We Get Brutally Honest About Love With Anna Kai
Yes, I know. Let's do a listener question. So, by the way, if our listeners have any dating, relationship, family questions or issues you want Grandma Gail advice on or my advice on, write it to team at excuse my grandma dot com. OK, our first email is. Hi, Kim and Grandma Gala. I love the pod. I'm hoping you both can help me figure out how to handle an issue with a guy just started dating.
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We only met about two weeks ago on Hinge. We're both 29 and we've hung out five times in those two weeks. Everything is so great when we're together. We have so much to talk about and have lots of fun together. He's so bad at texting and communicating in between dates, though.
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Please Excuse My Grandma While We Get Brutally Honest About Love With Anna Kai
will text about setting up other dates, but he doesn't send check-in messages and sometimes takes almost a day to respond to something. It's very confusing because it feels like I'm almost out of sight, out of mind, but when we're together, it feels so natural. Is this something I should bring up with him or just accept that he's more of an in-person communicator?
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Please Excuse My Grandma While We Get Brutally Honest About Love With Anna Kai
But you shouldn't feel like you're out of sight
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Please Excuse My Grandma While We Get Brutally Honest About Love With Anna Kai
it's an audience member but yeah and I'm for her own good yeah that'll be a little more that's how she talks to me grandma like that's how you talk to me so like I would they wrote in for the tough love I'm sure I'm sure if they're asking me yeah they're gonna get tough love yeah
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Yeah. Yeah. We agree for sure. So again, we're only going to get to one today, but email team at excuse my grandma dot com if you want our advice on dating.
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Yeah. No, it's OK. We have our different perspectives. OK, quick game. Should we bring it back? So we will read things out from grandma's era and decide if we want to bring that trend back or leave it. And this week it'll mostly be dating customs. A guy picking up a girl for the date. Should we bring it back?
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Please Excuse My Grandma While We Get Brutally Honest About Love With Anna Kai
Now I make my boyfriend pick me up in the Uber.
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Please Excuse My Grandma While We Get Brutally Honest About Love With Anna Kai
Not always if it's totally out of the way, but it's kind of nice.
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Please Excuse My Grandma While We Get Brutally Honest About Love With Anna Kai
Yeah. I think an activity date is fun, like second or third date. Later on. Movie, it really is later, later on because you're actually not talking at all.
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Please Excuse My Grandma While We Get Brutally Honest About Love With Anna Kai
Sure. parents meeting the date on the first date? Because you said people used to come and shake your parents' hand and do that.
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Please Excuse My Grandma While We Get Brutally Honest About Love With Anna Kai
Right. Yeah. So we should not bring that one back. So I think we can't do that anymore. Yeah. I agree, 100%. Definitely. Okay, and lastly, asking their parents for a blessing before getting engaged. Well, I think that's still nice. Yeah, that's nice.
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Please Excuse My Grandma While We Get Brutally Honest About Love With Anna Kai
But it's a nice gesture. A custom that people still do. I think it should be continued.
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Please Excuse My Grandma While We Get Brutally Honest About Love With Anna Kai
wanted to ask you, we ask all of our guests for a piece of advice they may have gotten from a grandparent.
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Please Excuse My Grandma While We Get Brutally Honest About Love With Anna Kai
Yes. Yeah, exactly. Well, that's the whole issue. Right. Anna, do you have any questions for Grandma Gail?
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Please Excuse My Grandma While We Get Brutally Honest About Love With Anna Kai
Yeah, but I'm the emotional one in the three of us, so I can't even talk.
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Please Excuse My Grandma While We Get Brutally Honest About Love With Anna Kai
This is peak snowbird time.
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Please Excuse My Grandma While We Get Brutally Honest About Love With Anna Kai
We need a Graham McGill weather report. Well, I watch that constantly. Can we? We should do that.
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Please Excuse My Grandma While We Get Brutally Honest About Love With Anna Kai
Okay, we're going to end with a quick game, rapid fire, Grandma Gail's old-fashioned dating quiz. And we will see whether you're more traditional or modern. I know too. Would you rather receive a call or a text from your husband if it's just to say hi? Call. Would you sleep with someone on the first date? No. Dating apps or setups? Dating apps. Would you move in together before getting engaged?
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Please Excuse My Grandma While We Get Brutally Honest About Love With Anna Kai
A lot of information comes out of that, I'm sure. But it's actually very good.
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Please Excuse My Grandma While We Get Brutally Honest About Love With Anna Kai
Sure. Should one person pay for the date or should you split, alternate?
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Please Excuse My Grandma While We Get Brutally Honest About Love With Anna Kai
Yeah, yeah, yeah. I was about to find out something new about you. I'm working on that. Okay. And obviously you have over a million followers. You have a successful podcast. But for those who don't know you, how did you get started with social media?
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Please Excuse My Grandma While We Get Brutally Honest About Love With Anna Kai
Get rid of that guy. Pick the ring before you get engaged or be surprised. Yeah.
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Please Excuse My Grandma While We Get Brutally Honest About Love With Anna Kai
Yeah. I guess that's, um, and soft or hard launch the relationship on social media or keep them off until maybe you're married or some sort of milestone.
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Please Excuse My Grandma While We Get Brutally Honest About Love With Anna Kai
Yeah.
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Please Excuse My Grandma While We Get Brutally Honest About Love With Anna Kai
I mean you're pretty split split split yeah am I split you're split you're split were you counting what that's your that's your job when I play this game no she's split she's definitely split okay I'm maybe both maybe both and on that note Anna thank you for joining us thank you so much this was wonderful loved this conversation tell everyone how they can follow you and find you
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Please Excuse My Grandma While We Get Brutally Honest About Love With Anna Kai
Thank you.
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Please Excuse My Grandma While We Get Brutally Honest About Love With Anna Kai
And you know where to find us. Excuse my grandma. Anywhere you listen to podcasts on TikTok, Instagram, if TikTok's still alive. And we'll see you next week.
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no major storms so we're good to go yeah it's so much easier to get content down here well it's easier because i'm living with you and there's no commuting or whatever but it's harder because we're in florida and it's more distracting and like yesterday you got mad because we were supposed to or you thought we were supposed to do videos together but i went on a walk with my friend yeah well that was a bit much i waited for like three hours that was the longest walk in history i
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Please Excuse My Grandma While We Get Brutally Honest About Love With Anna Kai
Well, it's a little different, obviously, because our experiences are different. Our age range are different for every reason. But you're such a good storyteller, because even when you're doing, it's enthralling. Like, I've never, obviously, I've seen your videos before. We set this up and everything. And I've never swiped without finishing a video, which is really hard as a creator to do.
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Please Excuse My Grandma While We Get Brutally Honest About Love With Anna Kai
I can't even watch our videos half the time, but I'm the one editing them. But yeah, I feel like you, how did you kind of figure out that dating and relationships, you had something to say there?
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Please Excuse My Grandma While We Get Brutally Honest About Love With Anna Kai
Yes.
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Please Excuse My Grandma While We Get Brutally Honest About Love With Anna Kai
I feel like it's the opposite. You can't pretend because you're with someone so much.
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Please Excuse My Grandma While We Get Brutally Honest About Love With Anna Kai
I don't remember making that plan to do videos.
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Please Excuse My Grandma While We Get Brutally Honest About Love With Anna Kai
That's the pressure they feel. We feel every other pressure in the world, but that is societally what they're expected.
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Please Excuse My Grandma While We Get Brutally Honest About Love With Anna Kai
Maybe you wanted to watch something that was your excuse.
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Please Excuse My Grandma While We Get Brutally Honest About Love With Anna Kai
Well, that's what he was talking about. Well, there's a million. There's talking, situationships, boyfriend, girlfriend, and then all these other stages too. I guess it just makes it more palatable to go little by little. I don't know.
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Otherwise, we're just cycling through the same dinner places here. December was really busy because we had so many friends and family around. Now it's a little bit chiller.
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It's so true. I remember like in other past relationships, like watching tarot card readers on my TikTok being like, this message is for you. Five million people are seeing that. And I'm like, oh, my God, I have to follow every advice because you're like seeking for any sort of.
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answer but i think you're right when you're like really confused unless it's actually a big thing you want advice for and then you go to family or friends probably um i i feel like it's more knowing that like this isn't the right thing as you're saying
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So good.
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Yeah, I guess actually that's true, but not late. Like, 8 or 9.
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Excuse My Grandma's Memorial Day Plans and Summer Hosting Rules
Welcome back to another episode of Excuse My Grandma. It's Kim and my co-host, Grandma Gail. Grandma, it's been a while since we podcasted.
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Excuse My Grandma's Memorial Day Plans and Summer Hosting Rules
What is your favorite place to visit on your past summer trips?
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Excuse My Grandma's Memorial Day Plans and Summer Hosting Rules
I know, it's wild. And we're going to go through some articles of the week. We're going to talk about what we're watching on TV, all the good things. All right, Kim, start it. Memorial Day plans. Yes.
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Excuse My Grandma's Memorial Day Plans and Summer Hosting Rules
If I plan a trip, I will consult you. OK. Do you think guests should need to remove shoes before entering a host home?
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Excuse My Grandma's Memorial Day Plans and Summer Hosting Rules
I don't like the idea of people wearing shoes in the house. That's because your parents did that.
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Excuse My Grandma's Memorial Day Plans and Summer Hosting Rules
You can ruin someone's rug. Well, that that's so out of the backyard, obviously. But in the house, I don't know. The only thing is it should probably give people slippers in. It totally ruins your outfit.
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Excuse My Grandma's Memorial Day Plans and Summer Hosting Rules
Let's say you're it's a fan or summer party and then you're barefoot like you're not in heels anymore. I don't think you can't wear the dress.
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Excuse My Grandma's Memorial Day Plans and Summer Hosting Rules
I don't think I am annoyed every time someone tells me to take off.
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Excuse My Grandma's Memorial Day Plans and Summer Hosting Rules
Yeah. I feel like every party I've been to, no matter how casual, people are like, take your shoes off.
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Excuse My Grandma's Memorial Day Plans and Summer Hosting Rules
I know. Or just, I don't know. Like, it's a hard one. But I guess it's just up to the host. It's up to the hostess. Yeah. And the host. Speaking of, someone asked about dress shoes for aging feet.
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Excuse My Grandma's Memorial Day Plans and Summer Hosting Rules
It's really worth being comfortable.
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Excuse My Grandma's Memorial Day Plans and Summer Hosting Rules
Instagram picture you're going to get. Like, I can't even believe that when I went to Mexico last year, there were so many cobblestone. It was all cobblestone and hills. And I wore heels the whole time on the couch. Like, why did I do that? Because you look pretty. But that was wild. Yeah.
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Excuse My Grandma's Memorial Day Plans and Summer Hosting Rules
Even like when Zach and I went to London last summer, I remember being like, I want to walk around in cute outfits and I'd put a cute outfit on, but then I'd put on my chunky sneakers because I knew I'd be walking. So wear a cute pair of sneakers. But then it just doesn't go. No, but the cuter ones aren't as practical.
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Excuse My Grandma's Memorial Day Plans and Summer Hosting Rules
No, but even without the picture, like you want to feel cool. All right.
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Excuse My Grandma's Memorial Day Plans and Summer Hosting Rules
Yeah, but it has to match the vibe. Then you have to wear something a little bit casual. What about a cute little flat? I know, but if you're actually doing a lot of walking... Oh, well, then you need sneakers. Someone said, Grandma, what should I pack for Tuscany in July? Neutral solids or colorful prints?
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Excuse My Grandma's Memorial Day Plans and Summer Hosting Rules
Last one. I want to go away for a few weeks, but my fiance is super against it. What do you advise?
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Excuse My Grandma's Memorial Day Plans and Summer Hosting Rules
We didn't get that much.
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Excuse My Grandma's Memorial Day Plans and Summer Hosting Rules
Or go on girls trips.
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Excuse My Grandma's Memorial Day Plans and Summer Hosting Rules
You go on girls trips?
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Excuse My Grandma's Memorial Day Plans and Summer Hosting Rules
Okay. Well, we don't know how old this person is anyway. Thinking about house guest etiquette for the summer. Okay. I know we were talking about in-laws coming or parents coming and staying. But how long do you think is too long for... a friend, like a house guest to stay at someone's beach house?
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Excuse My Grandma's Memorial Day Plans and Summer Hosting Rules
I can't remember. Obviously, I knew what I wore to graduation, like a white dress.
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Excuse My Grandma's Memorial Day Plans and Summer Hosting Rules
As family members, do you dress up?
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Excuse My Grandma's Memorial Day Plans and Summer Hosting Rules
Yeah, but if you're inviting someone as a guest, you're not making them do stuff. Right.
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Excuse My Grandma's Memorial Day Plans and Summer Hosting Rules
I feel like they wouldn't come to my house. Yes, they would if you invite them.
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Excuse My Grandma's Memorial Day Plans and Summer Hosting Rules
If you're inviting a couple and you have another bedroom that only has like two twin beds, is that fair?
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Excuse My Grandma's Memorial Day Plans and Summer Hosting Rules
They spoon. That is so uncomfortable.
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Excuse My Grandma's Memorial Day Plans and Summer Hosting Rules
But a twin is like one person. No, I know. Well, depends on how big you are. Do you think like on the Sunday of the weekend when everyone's going home, is there a time that's rude to leave?
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Excuse My Grandma's Memorial Day Plans and Summer Hosting Rules
I'm always happy when people are trying to go before lunchtime.
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Excuse My Grandma's Memorial Day Plans and Summer Hosting Rules
Yeah. Usually I feel like when my friends are booking trips, they're like, I'm thinking about taking the 3 p.m.
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Excuse My Grandma's Memorial Day Plans and Summer Hosting Rules
It was dressy for Ithaca.
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Excuse My Grandma's Memorial Day Plans and Summer Hosting Rules
I guess. It's fun.
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When you go out to Greenwich on the weekends, would mom bring friends ever to stay with you guys?
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So you're going to, and then what do you do when you're there? Like dinners?
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On family vacations you went on, did you allow her to bring dad?
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Who do you think plans a couple's vacation?
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Interesting. Interesting.
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Speaking of the beach, you don't go to the beach a ton.
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What did you do when you were sitting on the beach? the beach like Rita Ba.
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Because I always find it funny, like now when I'm at the beach or the pool, I feel like my, all I do is put my AirPods in and I'm listening to music or to a podcast. Like, what did you do? We read. Right. We read on the beach. Or I just talk to the person next to you.
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I don't remember who was that. Something she said it's a giant party with hundreds of people. Okay. Well, I think that's Saturday night.
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And there was no like person with a boom box on the beach playing.
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I think it's rude too even. I went to Central Park the other day and I was just trying to listen to like, there was a jazz player nearby, like the sounds of the park.
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And then someone just brings their boom box. I think that's very impolite. Especially when you have AirPods?
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It's like anybody with a loud engine. Right. Like, what are you trying to prove?
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I was trying to think about summer jobs that I had.
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And I had such random ones. Yeah, but they were very much related to media. Like in a way. I mean, my first internship ever, I actually interned at the Central Park Zoo while I was in high school. Yeah, which was wonderful. Which was so fun.
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And I totally that like wiped out of my brain and I was looking at pictures the other day and I was like, oh, yeah, that's a wonderful thing.
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Speaking of bottomless closet, our donation box, if you still are interested, if everyone listening wants to bring lightly used or new clothing, it'll be at Blushington, which is on 57th Street. You could look up the address. It'll be there through the end of the month.
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You can always bring it to bottomless closet. They do drop-offs at certain times, so you can look that up as well. But if you're also... near Bleshington, part of our partnership, you can go drop it off. You can get the Kim or the Gail hairstyle. And- That was a fun day. That was very, very nice.
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Yes. Okay, let's move on to the drama club. So there's a lot of trailers and teasers for new TV shows that dropped. I don't know if you saw the show All's Fair with Kim Kardashian that's coming out.
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No, it's a scripted TV show about female lawyers.
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Oh, you did. Right. So I think it's divorce attorneys who leave like a male dominated firm and open up their own firm practice. It's Ryan Murphy, Hulu. I'm definitely going to at least watch. I know you like that. I'm sure you'll watch the whole thing if it's good. I mean, I love Ryan Murphy, so I'm sure it's going to be good. But it's interesting, like to see. Do we think she can act?
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She was just prepping for this role the whole time. So she was like, I'll become a lawyer to be an actress.
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And she was good in SNL and stuff. So she could probably do it. Also, I saw Bridgerton trailer. Oh, there's a new one? Coming out in 2026. Oh, gosh. Why is it so long?
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I love that show. I look forward to it. And I feel like I always wonder this, like, I understand that shows have to go into production and all the actors' schedules have to be available and whatever. But with such a popular show, why are there two years in between scenes?
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No, you haven't. You always say this.
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Well, we can move on then to what we're watching right now.
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Okay. I am obsessed with Hacks. Okay. I had never watched it. And it's amazing. Okay, good. Obviously, it's won awards over the last few years and stuff. But you've seen it, right? Or no? No. Oh, my God. It's on Max. It is so good. It's about a female comedian... who is 70 and she's been having Vegas residencies and her work is kind of getting stale.
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So she's kind of forced into bringing a 25 year old writer on from LA to help her with her comedy. And they are so different and they fight and it's all these generational themes, even just for us, like you should watch it. Okay. Also, Secret Lives of Mormon Wives has a new season, which is a dumb reality show. I can't watch those kind of things. It's kind of good. OK, let's do the grandma report.
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So there is a few articles. One was from Vogue about who pays for the honeymoon.
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You've visited her at Brown.
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So I guess like who used to pay for the honeymoon, the grooms, the groom side, the groom side, you know, but I think
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And you're staying at the same place or not?
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I didn't even realize that the groom's parents paid for the honeymoon because I think with all my... Actually... Maybe I did. But I feel like I knew the bride's family paid for the wedding.
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And most people I know, I feel like the groom's family pays for the rehearsal dinner.
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But I didn't realize the honeymoon thing.
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Because also I've seen a lot of couples do honeymoon funds as their gift.
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But like, if, why is it okay then to ask for blenders and towels? That was a traditional thing of a gift.
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Random house gifts and they would rather cash. Yeah.
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It's a wedding registry site, but... It's very hard to get onto.
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I thought this was so interesting. I was just talking to my friend. I didn't realize this. Like, so people can buy you gifts on there, like a normal registry, but then you just get... the cash from that. And you could either decide to do the gift, do the gift, or you could pocket the cash. Or sometimes it's an easier way.
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Instead of putting one thing on the registry that's $1,000, you can put a few cheaper things and then just decide to get the more expensive thing with that cash. That's interesting. I think it's so smart. I think it's smart.
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Yeah, it's just kind of awkward sometimes.
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Then there's the rise of the mini moon of some couples right after their wedding do a long weekend or something short versus a month later doing a full.
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Yeah, or like you're not... That has to be around a vacation. Right. Also, eHarmony sent us in some data that I thought was interesting for us to go over. So the data shows that singles are entering a more pragmatic... But open minded era of dating where traditional deal breakers like politics, money and distance are being reevaluated. I don't think it's as important.
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The data shows that money matters a lot with talk of recession looming. Many singles are making financially driven decisions about romance. 75% of singles say they wouldn't sacrifice their financial goals to find love. And 77% wouldn't risk their trajectory. Because they're getting older. Because they're getting older.
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I thought this was interesting. Politics are not a deal breaker. Despite today's polarized climate, only 23% of U.S. singles say differing political views would lead them to turn down a date. Gen Z, 28%, in particular, are more likely to give love a chance, even across party lines. Of course. I thought that the younger people would be more intense. No, I don't think so. I don't think so.
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And then the last thought was distance can be overcome if love is worth it. While 40% are hesitant about long distance relationships due to travel expenses, 74% would move for love with 31% willing to go abroad for the right relationship. Despite tech making romance easier, proximity still wins, especially for women.
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You have to really make that committed experience.
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No, 36 percent of singles would sacrifice being physically close to their 36 percent is in the majority. That's pretty high, though. OK, like that's surprising to me. I don't know.
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Obviously, distance is a big one to sacrifice, but like everyone makes little sacrifices.
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That's a bigger one. But I do think like. Oh, absolutely. You have to compromise in a relationship. Speaking from my experience, like if the relationship is worth it and better than the ones you've had maybe in your hometown, like. it is worth doing. I don't know if there's like a lesser percentage of like working out or not, but I wouldn't like let that be a deterrent, I think.
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Well, I agree. Like, I don't think it's... pragmatic for life to do long distance. No, no. But I think like can't raise a family long distance. You'll have one week. I'll have another week. Yeah. But I think like as you're saying, yeah, a lot of people like they know, OK, they're going to medical school for four years. Well, that's different.
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I'm sure we'll get to this later because I feel like some of our questions from our listeners were about this. But, like, what is even a convenient summer weekend trip from New York?
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They're there for a job, but their ultimate goal is to be here, whatever it is. Like, I don't think you can't do it. All right.
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OK, let's play. Should we bring it back? Okay, so these things of the past, like, do we want to still do them today? Tie-dye.
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It was a fun summer activity.
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Uh, drive-in movies.
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No, they do. Part of Hampton Film Festival.
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They do it. But it's a few a year on Wednesdays.
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When no one's there. Exactly. So they need to do more of it. Or they should do. There are some places. They're not drive-ins, but outdoor movies. In Brooklyn, there's one. That's fun. I'm forgetting the name of it.
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Paper Invitations.
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They do it for weddings. Usually not always the save the date, but definitely like the actual one.
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I feel like why spend the money?
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Also, like it could get lost. Well, that did happen, although they always go to my spam anyway.
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So a few cards for occasions like Mother's Day. Right. I'm going to a baby shower tomorrow. Oh. She texted me because she was like, I know my wedding invitation went to your spam. So my baby shower probably also did because you have an RSVP. And I was like, it didn't. It did. I mean.
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I'm glad she told me.
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That's it for this week. Okay. Everybody have a wonderful Memorial Day weekend. Yes. Everyone enjoy. You'll be in the Hamptons.
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Yeah. Well, Nantucket. But what's Rhode Island? Rhode Island? Newport? Oh, that's in Rhode Island? You're right. I forgot.
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What's wrong with me?
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I have issues. I'm so sorry. You'll be in Rhode Island. Where am I going to be?
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And then I'll see you when I'm back. Exactly.
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Yeah, I'm doing that because of my friend's wedding.
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I went to see that with my two like super waspy friends. I was like, I need to go to the synagogue. My grandma told me to go to the synagogue and they came with me and took pictures. It's one of the landmarks.
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It feels like a really long time ago.
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The end of June. It depends. Like, you could have a really nice day. Right. But, like, consistent good weather. Correct.
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I think it's not until July and August.
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Right. Well, I'm going to L.A. this weekend. Oh, fun. Kind of last minute. Oh, for the weekend? For the weekend. Good. My boyfriend has off on Monday, so I thought it was, like, a good time because we can do more activities and stuff. Okay. I don't know. I mean, it's like easy enough, I guess.
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It's really not easy. The flight's long. Right, the flight is long. And there's a time difference. Once I'm there, it's fine. Okay. So we made some reservations and stuff, but it's supposed to be like really good weather.
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Yeah. What does like a perfect Memorial Day look like to you? Like the day of?
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If you go to a Memorial Day barbecue, what's the side dish that you're bringing? I go. Or that you're putting out.
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But I don't think I've seen you eat that.
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No, I kind of did. I feel like you look different.
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I guess. But I've definitely seen you eating.
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It's probably not that hard to make, though. I've seen that on TikTok.
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True. Yeah. If anyone missed that video, we did a collab with Healthy Girl Kitchen, Danielle Brown, who just came out with a cookbook and we made a healthy version of a Waldorf salad. We could just, I don't know. It was cutting the grapes and cutting all those little things. It's not that hard. I just, I'm not doing it like quick speed.
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I guess. Okay, let's answer some of those listener questions I was talking about, about Memorial Day weekend. Okay. We got a lot in, so we're going to answer the rest on our Instagram stories. So look out for those if you're listening. Okay. How long should parents stay while visiting their kids from out of town?
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It looks nice. Same person?
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I feel like more than four nights starts to feel like a lot.
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That's funny. Just ready to go.
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I feel like in all the old movies, they'd have like hat stands.
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When you were like little or even when you were.
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Okay, great. I'm so happy for you.
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Yeah, less about like the norm or practicality. Exactly, exactly. What about going to the beach when you were little? Like were people in bikinis and stuff?
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But I feel like, yeah, different style kind of. Oh, yeah.
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Someone asked, what bag do you take on a European vacation? Something safe or something cute?
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Do you have a large bag with a zipper that you like?
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Yeah, I feel like my travel bags don't have zipper or not my like my big my tote bags. Like they don't have zippers. Well, if I stole one from you, but otherwise.
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Don't bring it around with you. I wouldn't. I wouldn't. I thought you do, because especially if you go shopping and stuff, you show your passport.
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Can't you get your passport, like a digital ID on your phone? I haven't fully looked into this, but I thought that was a thing now.
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No, I thought now they are doing digital.
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What are things I should always have on hand for hosting?
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I think that's easy enough to get day of, but it's harder to have, I don't know, like a tablecloth or nap, like that kind of thing.
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So what is it, like tablecloth?
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Unless it's like a pretty setting and you want the...
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We were going through... boards that I made about summer hosting and dinner parties because I've been getting into it in my head. Let's see if I actually do any of it. But it's fun to get ideas. Yeah. I have a theme night. Like if you're doing cheese and wine, have something that's cute with that. I was FaceTiming with Zach yesterday. I was like, I want to do a theme party this summer.
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And he was like, I feel like that's very college to be like, oh, everybody is come dressed as 90s or whatever. And I was like, I guess it is, but why does it have to be? Isn't it so fun to do themes?
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I like a decade theme.
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Welcome back to another episode of Excuse My Grandma. It's Kim and my co-host, Grandma Gail. Today, we are joined by a very special guest, Walker Ward. I'm excited because Grandma really was looking forward to this one and that always means that it's going to be a good one. If you don't know WalkSauce42 on social media, I don't know what algorithm you have because he's all over our feed.
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It's an absolute mess. She's my PA.
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More likely.
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How did you two meet?
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Oh, no.
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Okay.
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You can't leave me here with these hot dogs.
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But if someone responded who didn't know you, would you have said yeah?
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Yes.
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And now we have chat GPT for that.
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Yeah.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
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With mutual friends.
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It's the idea of like everyone being in vacation mode. Totally. Like work is secondary over the weekend.
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But I don't think that's what's... Okay. It all adds to the vibe.
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The atmosphere.
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Okay.
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Yeah, it adds to the vobes.
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The most social. Yes.
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Yeah. I mean, it's always packed. And try going to some of those popular bars and waiting in line. Or not even waiting in line.
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I don't even think, genuinely, that they would care. They care so much about influencers, but, like, the ones that they know. Or, like, Dave Portnoy. Otherwise, I feel a little irrelevant. But it is what it is.
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So she's not with you for the clout.
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That's not her life.
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So when you are coming up with inspo for these characters, like you've alluded to things in your life that makes sense that you would have that experience. But do you think, like what's your creative, like I guess step by step in coming up with what kind of content you're going to be or do?
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Yeah, exactly. It's like finding the humor in all of it.
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And I think like, since anyone will relate to any of those videos or you know someone who's like that and you're gonna send it, like it's the shareable viral nature of it.
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Yeah, exactly.
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I think so too. That's even what like the social media platforms are saying like to look more at that than likes or views.
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I think the more specific you are, the more relatable it becomes.
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Do you have like career goals?
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That's a weird way to say it. No. Where do you see this going career wise?
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Pick one.
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Like, I think the discoverability of, like, your brand just by posting every day and being as creative as possible, like, opportunities just come from that.
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And then you got a seat.
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Yeah.
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Amazing. So I want to get to our little pop culture segment. Sure. So we're going to talk about a recent article. Usually we do it about dating or family or relationships or generational differences. Okay. This week, I found one from Vogue that is about whether it's worth paying for dating apps. So they quote a bunch of different people. I'm getting it up now.
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For example, someone says paying for dating apps is the only time I see or match with people I'm interested in. But once you start paying, it feels like the apps hold everyone good behind the curtain, so you'll start paying again. That's one experience. But I don't know if you were on apps before your girlfriend. I want to hear all of our thoughts on whether we think it's worth paying for apps.
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Do you want me to go first? Sure.
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It's a business. Yeah. Or there'll be like five swipes and then they flash the photo of the next person who's like gorgeous. And then they'll be like, pay $10 to see that. And you're like, I guess I have, I'm not getting coffee today. This is where the money's going.
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I feel like that's a stereotype.
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I was very big on paying for them, and this is my mindset, and when I would talk to my friends about this, like, if meeting someone is, like, your number one priority or very high up there, like, pay $5 a month to get that, like, unlimited subscription. If it's really going to show you more people and you can put in more filters, like, let's say...
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you definitely want someone Jewish or with a, I don't know, graduate degree or whatever. And you can filter those things only if you have that paid plan. Like, I don't know, for me, it seemed worth it. That said, I met my boyfriend in person and not on an app, but like, it felt like you do get more quality.
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Not on all of them, but I guess on Hinge I'm thinking, but...
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Yeah, right. That works too for some. Okay. We have some listener questions from the Ask Grandma Anything that we're going to have Walker's help on.
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First one, do guys care if you have a good career? Walker, I want to start.
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Like, no, no, no, sorry. I guess for girls, like, if you go on a date with a girl, do you care whether they have a good job? Oh, if a girl has a good career.
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He's hilarious. He has all of those spot on impressions from girls who do the Get Ready With Me videos to characters like Chad who are going to the US Open. He's known for kind of poking fun at those everyday stereotypes, especially New York characters. So Walker, welcome to the show.
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But I think and I agree with kind of what Walker was saying, like generally it's attractive for someone to have to be motivated and like to even if it's not a really lucrative job. So let's say it's like you really want to be a painter and like every day you're painting and you're like you have all these things. Bring something to the table. That's attractive.
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So it's like you care about something and you are acting toward that. But I agree if it's like, if you're like, if the girl who's writing this doesn't care about work or have a good job, like just find some guy who doesn't care whether you have one or not.
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Second question. Favorite and least favorite thing about New York City? Grandma, do you want to go first?
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Grubhub is doing a great job. Yes. Like Advil and an IV drip and a grilled cheese.
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I know. I just asked for good.
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Those are really good. I feel like I agree. Favorite thing is, like, the nostalgia. Like, every street is a movie scene.
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Walking through Central Park, you feel like it's so iconic. And then Lee's favorite is definitely, like, you can't get into any restaurants anymore. And the traffic. I, like, genuinely cannot. Yeah, because to go from uptown to downtown. I'm like always, every day, I have to be in five different places that are in five different neighborhoods. And it's just like always stress. Okay, thank you.
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Okay, last question. How should a woman approach a man in the wild that she wants to talk to? Walker.
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But how do you think of something funny if it's just someone standing at a bar drinking something?
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I like someone else doing the dirty work so you don't have to.
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It's like a wingman. Total, totally. But it doesn't have to be your friend.
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Yeah. It's a good one. Okay, I love that. We're going to end the episode with Grandma Gail's old-fashioned dating quiz. So, Walker, we're going to go through hypotheticals and figure out whether you're more traditional or modern in your dating outlook.
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Okay. Would you rather receive a call or a text if it's just to say hi?
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Okay.
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Would you sleep with someone on the first date?
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Okay. Should one person pay for the date or should you split, alternate dates?
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Who's traditional date? You're 100%.
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Yep. I mean, I have more here, but I think you're going to... Okay, last one. Would you soft or hard launch your relationship on social media or keep them off until like a milestone, like the engagement or married or ever?
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Okay. Okay. But you're definitely more traditional. He's a traditional hater. Wow, Walker. Well, good for his mom and dad.
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Mom and dad. By the way, did you ever have a relationship with your grandparents?
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Okay, nice. How did they, like, did they give you any advice with love or in general?
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What does Bobby think of walk sauce 42 Bobby aka Barbarita?
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Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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Right, right. Why is your account called WalkSauce?
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So that was always your handle?
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Amazing. Walker, thank you so much for joining.
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That would be something. Thank you all for listening. And remember to follow us at ExcuseMyGrandma, follow Walker, and we'll see you next week. Bye.
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So I started, they were going to be like, you can't, exactly.
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Yeah. I feel like creativity comes really naturally to you. Like not everyone is inspired just because you're going on a road trip. Like you kind of went with the flow and figured out new ideas depending on where your life went. And that is hard for a lot of people. But it seems like maybe this is more the path for you than the finance stuff if it came so naturally to you.
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So you think you're really funny?
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Yes, we had some family connections, which made it easy to get in touch. And then my mom was also very excited.
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Yeah.
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Since we are kind of the oldest of the generations who can still kind of get into content, I guess, or that's not even true because obviously grandma is the oldest. But I'm saying we're probably the first generation to start doing it like full time. What did your family say while you were living with them and doing all of that?
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Barbara.
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That's what we call her, Barb or Barbie. Um, so to get started, tell us your social media journey. When did you start posting? What was your job before? Cause we all had a job before.
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Has that changed over time since you first started?
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That feels right.
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Um, wait, so is your girlfriend like in the room when you're filming?
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Yeah. She is, do you live together? I should have.
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It's also, like, golden retriever black cat dynamic.
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Yeah.
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Yeah. Like her husband, my mom, like everyone who everyone wants to see. Right.
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I don't think grandma knows them. No, I didn't see that. But they are influencers. It's a couple and they do the outfit checks and it's.
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Very specific.
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The Show and Juliet is very fun. That's a new musical. Cabaret, das Show ist auf Broadway ein Millionen Mal hergestellt worden, aber ich liebe es und sie haben es wiederhergestellt. Book of Mormon, Wicked, all those classic ones are still on Broadway. And I haven't seen Outsiders yet, but I would love to see that, that one best new musical this year.
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I also think listening to old songs makes a huge difference. And this is so like, I'm such a romantic, but I walk around the city and I'm listening to old New York type music. And I'll try to find a playlist that I can link on my stories on Instagram for everyone to listen to if they don't know where to start.
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Und die erste Teilung, die Eltern kamen, und dann wurden es 800 junge Menschen in ihren 20ern und 30ern. Aber sie und meine Eltern und mein anderes Set von Großeltern und Papi kamen und begrüßten mich, was schön war. Und mein Freundsbruder und Schwester waren auch auf der Kommitee. Also war er in der Stadt, was großartig war.
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But listening to Frank Sinatra or Louis Armstrong or Ella Fitzgerald and walking around the city is such an amazing vibe. Autumn in New York. Und klassische New York City-Aktivitäten sollten die Leute immer noch machen. Ich habe die Museums erwähnt. Geht zum Tee auf der Plaza oder es gibt ein Millionen kleine Orte, wo man eine hohe Tee-Zeremonie machen kann. Es gibt auch so tolle Pianobare.
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Ich bin noch nie in Ägypten, aber Bemelmans ist ein sehr berühmter Ort auf der obersten Seite und der Carlisle. Und dann macht Marie's Crisis in der Westvillage alle Showtunes und die Pianobare und es ist so, so lustig. I only discovered that one in high school, I think. Well, because I was drinking.
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When it comes to fashion and style, I think walking around Soho and shopping just gives you that New York feel still. But I think also going into vintage shops, there's also this vintage market that they do a few times a year called Next to Normal that they do in the old Bergdorfs in Flatiron area. So fun. Next time I go, I'll take some content so I can show everybody. And then watching movies.
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Let's say you're not in New York and you love New York or you are and you just want to watch When Harry Met Sally like it's a documentary. That's an amazing one to watch. Any Woody Allen movies like Annie Hall or Manhattan, Breakfast at Tiffany's, Serendipity, all movies that are... You know, 30 years old at this point, but no more than that, geez, 50 years old.
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But they are so classic New York and will really make you appreciate the city more. So we'll make this episode short and sweet, but I'd just like to come in, talk to you guys and update you on what I was up to in the last few weeks and talk about the things that are important to me. And this week I felt like talking about old New York was the right topic. So here are my closing thoughts.
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Do we think New York City is still magical? New York is one of those places that will always change. We've seen that. It's the nature of the city. But I don't think the feeling of old New York has to disappear. I think it's still there if you know where to look. Part of it is just deciding to see the magic and really lean in to the things that I was describing.
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You know, like taking the long way home through the park just so you can... durchlaufen und die wunderschönen Braunschweine auf der Uptown oder in West Village, in Greenwich Village sehen, sitzen in einem Café. Ich denke, woran ich komme, ist, dass ich durch das Leben gehe, von Ding zu Ding.
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Plugging in my AirPods and listening to a podcast, which is great sometimes, but I think actually listening to the city and not having those distractions and not thinking about your own issues is really what's gonna make you appreciate New York. Dress up just because. Take pictures with your friends. You get the gist. So I'd love to hear from all of you.
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um but in from l.a and so him his parents and my friend who introduced me and my boyfriend who is you know also his sister um she was there as well because she was on the committee so it was a family affair which was so nice and it was so nice to have zach here for the week we um had some nice dinners i mean it was kind of chill because we both had work to do but we watched white lotus together one night
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Message me on Instagram or TikTok or anywhere you want to get a hold of me after the episode. I think you can also leave comments on the episode if you're listening on Spotify. So tell me how you make New York City feel nostalgic. Or if you're not in New York City, how do you romanticize your own city? Ich würde es gerne wissen. Und ich werde euch nächste Woche mit Grandma Gale sehen.
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Wir hatten ein Abendessen in Hudson Yards bei Cucina Alba. Ich hatte auf jeden Fall vermisste Gefühle. Es war ziemlich gut. Ich versuche zu denken, was wir noch gemacht haben. Es war schön, ihn hier zu haben. Ich war mit ihm für einen ganzen Monat, weil ich vorher in L.A. war.
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staying with him and getting some work stuff done and then he came to palm beach for a few days around my birthday which was nice because i wanted to be in palm beach so i could be with my family on my birthday because they always make it special so it was nice to all you know have each other there too and yep
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Zach hat mit Mama Gail und Papi mit mir geblieben, wie er es jetzt, glaube ich, drei Mal hat. Was einfach einfach lustig ist. Ich bin 29 Jahre alt und bleibe bei meinen Großeltern mit meinem Freund. Aber das ist das Charme von allem. Das Charme von, Entschuldigung, meiner Oma. Und jetzt ist Zach zurückgegangen, also weiß ich nicht, wann ich ihn als nächstes sehen werde.
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That's the hard part about long distance. But it's fine because I can see my friends as much as I want. I can really put my head down and start thinking about content and strategy and all the things to grow, excuse my grandma, and get into parts of the industry that I really want to get into. So it's not like I'm still very busy, but I do wish it was all merged together that I could...
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have zach and friends and family and work all kind of going at once but is what it is for now um what else did i do oh we also saw play together one night which was fun we went to this show called all nighter that ben platt produced and it was about a few college kids in the last week of school spending an all-nighter in the library you would probably recognize some of the casts in it if you watch like
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TV, because a lot of them were in TV shows that I watch. And then we got to go to a cast party after, which was really cool, with some other influencers that I actually recognize. I get really nervous in those situations, but Zach was really good with me, because he kind of pushed me to...
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Ich habe immer ein bisschen soziale Angst gehabt, also denke ich, dass es einen großen Unterschied macht, wenn jemand immer mit mir an solchen Events ist. Und dann, wenn ich mit dir spreche, hast du keine Ahnung. Ich meine, ich mag es, wenn ich schmerzhaft bin, aber du weißt, es ist einfach so, dass jeder nervös wird, besonders in diesen Arbeitssituationen. I also went to something at Instagram.
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They host some of their creators to kind of talk about new features on the app and get their creator community together and really network. And I get so nervous in those networking situations too. But I know that I'll feel good after if I introduce myself to the people who work there, whether it's a brand event or... Instagram or the other creators there, I always feel better.
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I just end up standing in a corner until someone talks to me, but when it matters, I think I get down to it. Okay, let's get to what I want to discuss this week. This is what I want to chat about. I have always been obsessed with nostalgia. It's part of my personality at this point. I love watching old movies. I only listen to music from the 50s to the 80s.
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I romanticize everything, whether it's my dating life. getting ready or just walking down the street. There's something about looking back to the past that makes everything feel so much more special. I grew up in New York City, as a lot of you probably know.
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Welcome back to another episode of Excuse My Grandma. This week it is just Kim. We're going to do a little solo episode while Grandma is still in Florida. I am in New York for a few days, but don't worry, I'm going back to Florida like next week. I'm honestly losing track of time. I think it's next week and then we'll get in lots of content together.
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And maybe it's because when you grow up in New York, you're constantly surrounded by history and by that feeling that people come to New York for, which is die ikonische klassische Natur der Stadt. Und ich habe immer gefühlt, als ob ich in einer Stadt gelebt hätte, die schon so viele glamouröse, interessante Menschen vor mir gelebt hat, insbesondere Generationen meiner Familienmitglieder.
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Also, als ich hier geboren wurde, wurde ich auf die Geschichte geboren, wie es in New York City gewohnt war. Meine Großmutter erinnerte sich an bestimmte Dinge, es wäre das, was meine Eltern darüber sprachen, und sogar das, was ich in alten Filmen sah.
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So there was always this sense that I had just missed out on something amazing and that I probably will miss out on something amazing in the future. And then I'm also taking it all in and experiencing it myself. And the city has always had such exciting, elegant, romantic vibes to it. And I would say... It dates from the 90s when I was born and then previous to that.
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I don't know, maybe a little bit of the 2000s because it's my own nostalgia of thinking about growing up and the playgrounds I went to and things like that, but... Ich denke definitiv, dass es im Jahr 2000 nicht das gleiche Gefühl hatte. Ich denke also, das ist der Grund, warum ich mich immer daran gefühlt habe, New York nach dem alten New York zu machen.
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Ich will Dinge zurückbringen, die es speziell gemacht haben. Ich will in die klassischen, zeitgenössischen Restaurants für Abendessen gehen. Und in die Broadway-Schläge gehen. Und die klassischen Orte anschauen, die wirklich für immer vorhanden waren. Aber New York City hat sich wirklich verändert. Und ich weiß nicht, ob es Covid war. Ich weiß nicht, ob es Regierungsveränderungen waren.
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Ich weiß nicht, ob es nur die Gesellschaft und die Kultur ist und wie sich so eine beeinflusstere Stadt verändert hat. Ich weiß, dass ich in New York während Covid begonnen habe, mehr oft nach Palm Beach zu gehen. Und auch nur daran zu wissen, wie das Wetter hier nicht das Beste ist. Partly was doing that because you couldn't really hail a yellow cab in the same way.
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The streets are crazy with ride sharing apps. There's so much traffic, like three to five times the amount of traffic, I would say. Und es ist einfach eine andere Atmosphäre. Aber ich denke nicht, dass diese Magie komplett weg ist. Ich denke, du musst nur wissen, wo du hinfährst. Das ist also, wo ich rein komme. Ich versuche es immer noch selbst herauszufinden.
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Aber ich möchte, dass ihr alle hört, was das alte New York für mich schafft. Die Orte, an die ich gehe. Und auch die Nostalgie des Hauses für mich. Ich bin sicher, dass jeder das mit seinem eigenen Heimatland hat. Und für mich ist es einfach nur New York City. So what was old New York to me? There are certain things about New York City that has always felt timeless.
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For example, you go to Times Square, you see the billboards, you go to a Broadway show. Central Park to me is the heart of it. I think anytime you walk in the park, you're transported back in time. It's so romantic. It's set to the sound of jazz, of a trumpet player underneath
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Einer dieser kleinen Brücke im Park klingelt und die Kinder der Schule lachen und lachen und äußern verschiedene Sprachen, wenn man die Leute vorbeikommt. Und es ist eine so schöne Symphonie für mich. Und ich bin wahrscheinlich, du könntest lachen, wenn du sagst, was macht sie, sie romantisiert das. Aber es ist wirklich so, wie ich Dinge sehe. Ich denke, Teile des obersten Westens,
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Then I'm going to come back to New York again without her. Just because I like getting back to real life. I mean, Palm Beach is made up land. And as fun as it is to be in the beautiful weather and with my family, I feel like... Bring me back to New York. I love the vibe of New York, obviously.
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are totally old new york to me i grew up on the upper east side but besides that i think a lot of places there are establishments i think the people who live there i've been living there for a really long time so even walking on the street those people feel like they're from a different time um Okay. I think...
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Downtown, the Whitney's, Fun, MoMA, Upper West Side, Natural History Museum, when you go with kids. Oh my God, if you guys went to Natural History Museum on field trips when you were younger or with your parents on the weekends, they used to have those little dinosaur chicken nuggets in the cafeteria. God knows what was in them. That is such a nostalgic moment for me.
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Andere Dinge, die ich als Kind gemacht habe, die mir aussehen... Ich wundere mich, ob Leute das noch heute mit ihren Kindern machen, weil es ein bisschen altartig aussieht. Ich habe Tappdance-Lessungen gemacht. Ich habe Ballett gemacht. Ich habe Piano-Lessungen gemacht. Ich denke, es ist gut, deine Kinder in solche Sachen jung zu machen. Und dann wirst du sehen, ob es etwas wird.
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Aber sonst denke ich, dass es die Kreativität eines Kindes erzeugt. Oh, I forgot to mention Wollman Rink. That's an iconic place. You always feel like you're transported back in time. Do a little ice skating date. And then there's places as a child that I did birthday parties that I don't even know if we're around anymore.
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Like the Vinegar Factory or the Craft Studio, which was, you know, you'd paint your own little pots and stuff. I did so many different birthdays there. And I remember they would always get one of those noodles, like pool noodles, and everybody would do the limbo. Not the limbo. What's it called? Die Limbo, richtig? Wenn du unter die Rope gehst? Ich glaube, das ist das, was es heißt.
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Warte, wir müssen das googeln, denn warum klingt das falsch? Limbo? Limbo-Dance? Nein, Leute, bin ich verrückt? Ja, es ist die Limbo. Machen die Leute immer noch die Limbo? We also would always have this guy, Magic Al, at a lot of our birthday parties, who was just a magician, but the kids would go crazy, including myself, for this guy.
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And I feel like five years ago, I happened to go to a kid's birthday party and he was there. So I feel like he's still doing this thing 20 years later. More than that, Jesus, 30 years later, probably. Und dann gibt es auch Orte, an denen ich als Kind viel gekauft habe, die auch aus dem Geschäft gegangen sind.
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Aber hoffentlich können die Leute, die aus der New Yorker Region sind, sich daran erinnern. Erinnerst du dich an Infinity? Das war so populär auf der obersten Seite. Und dann Leicester. Ich denke, ist Leicester noch da? Das war ein Veranstaltung. Du würdest in jeden, den du kennst, rein. Ich fühle mich auch so, dass es einige Leute gab, die Leicesters Modelle waren.
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Und sie waren vorne, also draußen. Und ich dachte, wow, sie haben es groß gemacht. So I'm thinking of things that I was a little child and I don't necessarily think in order to get nostalgia back, you need to do things little kids do.
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Like even though I love Disney World and watching a Disney movie, it's not necessarily about being a kid again, but maybe revisiting places that brings up the memories of when you were a kid. Okay, but if you're an adult listening, Or, you know, 18 and up. Where can you go today to recreate that feeling of old New York? How do you make new New York old New York?
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So I have certain restaurants that I feel like are stuck in time. I just celebrated my birthday, as I mentioned, and we went to Carbone for dinner, me and a bunch of my girlfriends. And Carbone is one of those places where like they're playing old Italian music. It's like brick walls, very West Village Soho vibes. Have a dirty martini there and you are brought back in time.
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And that's what I'm going to talk about today, by the way, of my nostalgia obsession and growing up in New York City. But first, let me do a little recap. So I've been in New York the last few weeks. Grandma was here for a little bit of it. Sie kam zu meinem UJA-Event, weil ich diese Generosität-Gala co-chairte.
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Similarly, I know it's not easy to make a reservation, but there's this place Rayos in Harlem that is also old school Italian. They have pictures on the walls of the celebrities who have been there. I love it there. Go to Bloomingdale's, go to 40 Carats and have a Froyo. Go to J.G. Mellon on the Upper East Side and get a burger. Also on the Upper East Side, E.A.T., the Deli. Is it a Deli?
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It's like prepared foods and stuff like that. William Greenberg's Bakery, they have the best rainbow cookies and chocolate-covered popcorn. To me, that feels nostalgic. Another fancier Italian restaurant in Molino. There's also for lunch on the Upper East Side for like a little half sandwich and soup and you feel really classy via Quadrono. And then also more diner-type food.
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Lexington Candy Shop on the Upper East Side is like an old school soda shop. I used to go after school no problem. Now I walk around there, there's like a line around the block. I'm not really sure what that's about, but I like it there. Und dann bei mir jetzt in Flatiron ist der Eisenbergs Deli, der, glaube ich, geschlossen wurde und neu geöffnet wurde.
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ownership a few years ago and it's very 50s type like deli sandwiches and milkshakes and that kind of thing so that's a lot of fun I want to talk again about entertainment and culture in the city especially Broadway so I'm not sure if it's just I've gotten older or it's just not in vogue anymore to go to Broadway I don't feel like it's as common as
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Let's go to a bar on Saturday night or go to dinner with your group of friends. Part of it is probably ticket prices, although it's not always expensive, depending on what seat you choose and if you do it far enough in advance. But I think going to Broadway more, make it feel like an event. You're going to learn something, you're going to be entertained.
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It's something fun to mix it up besides just getting dinner with your friends. Shows that are on Broadway right now that I love if you want to go. I just saw Hell's Kitchen, the Alicia Keys Musical. I know I'm late to seeing that, but I think it's like one or two years old. So amazing. Definitely go see that and it gives you that New York feeling since it's set in Hell's Kitchen.
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That's all you have to do? I watered it. It came to be a beautiful ring. The Wellesley ring, is it ugly? It's a little blue ring with Wellesley on it.
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Welcome back to another episode of Excuse My Grandma. It's Kim and my co-host, Grandma Gail. So for those who are watching, you can tell we are not in our New York podcast studio. We are in Grandma Gail's bedroom back in Palm Beach.
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Exactly.
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Mm-hmm. I think I like fruit stuffing, which is different than regular stuffing. It's fruit stuffing.
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I learned it in Palm Beach, actually, because the club buffet has it. But now mom makes it pretty good.
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Speaking of people ask who usually cooks at our Thanksgiving dinner.
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It's been nice to be able to come back here every winter, too, and have a change of scenery and spend time together.
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And someone wrote, who attends? Do you watch the parade? And do you decorate?
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I only went once, though.
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Well, yeah, I'm looking forward to it, all being together. I like when we do it. We're planning on doing it in the Hamptons, and I like when we're all in a house because it feels more American, I feel like, than our apartment.
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It doesn't really matter.
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Yes.
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Yeah.
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Okay, another great episode of Excuse My Grandma. Follow us at Excuse My Grandma on social media. See what we're up to, especially while I'm here in Florida. And we will see you next week.
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And you like spending time in two places, too.
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It's really three places. And with a long distance relationship, it's really all over the country. Right. So I'm international.
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No. I don't know what time it is most of the time. But with who was excited to see me.
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Thousands of them come in.
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Poppy just came in and he was like, you've only gotten two today. It's a light day.
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Yeah, it's Sunday. They don't even deliver yet. They find a way to deliver to me.
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I think there must be an Amazon warehouse like next door.
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Yeah, literally. I order something in the morning and it comes in two hours later. But in New York, it'll take two days.
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I think we need to visit.
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Yeah. I can make a list, too, of everything that I've ordered in the last three days if you guys are curious. It's mostly, what is it? Some beauty stuff.
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Sunglasses. Shampoo. Shampoo came in a minute. I don't know. Almond butter that I could have gotten at the market.
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Great.
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So I think it's- I don't know what the difference is. Khalifa Farms is the brand, but it's the barista blend, which is like what they would use at a coffee shop because it's a lot thicker. Oh. Like it'll be used for a latte because it's like milkier and thicker versus a regular oat milk that's more watery. Right. I don't know. I still don't know where they get the milk from the oats.
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I think they soak them.
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It humbled me a little bit. It took me back to our roots of every single time we were setting up every camera angle and the recording equipment, and it still probably doesn't look as amazing as a studio.
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I know.
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Oh, I don't know.
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I was FaceTiming with my boyfriend who's in Korea and he went into a coffee shop and he goes, can I have almond milk? I'm like, you're in Korea. Like they don't. But although they had it, they had it.
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Yeah.
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Oh, yeah. Oh,
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Yeah. They added it?
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Yeah. Oh, it's so tempting.
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Anytime I've gone in the past, except for my 21st birthday trip, we just went for the day. Yeah.
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And even with the Brightline, now that it's so much faster than driving, I could go for like...
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All my life- Wait, no, I voted early.
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i think it's very necessary to do the early voting because i think lines deter so many people and imagine the lines i mean the lines was were already crazy in some places on election day like imagine if everyone had to vote on that day and then some people would just be like i'm not waiting in line it's too crazy okay well i think i waited on a little line even on election day which was which was fine you know as part of you talk to people online you know whatever
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But I think also I'm in New York City and something I sort of realized after this election was I always thought, OK, the rest of the world like doesn't know they're like in this bubble and New York City is so open to everything or whatever. But I actually realized New York City itself is in a bubble. Not to say one's better or worse.
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than the other but i always thought why don't people all think like new york and i think that it was surprising to me how many people didn't think the way i did not only in new york by the way kim the voting was very very all over the place it wasn't just
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Well, we're also doing it from home. So it's, I mean, we hang out at home all the time. It's natural for us to just be here chatting.
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how to have conversations with family members who might have voted differently from you, whether we should limit political conversation, because I think at times you might want to and kind of just focus on the relationship itself. Your relationship with your family is about a million things, not just
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I think when it becomes hard is when you see if someone voted for someone, you start to question their values a little bit.
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I would disagree with that only because it's not like we did all we can and now we relax. Like, I think we should always be participating in our government or in our society. No question. Yeah.
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Articles of the week. According to the New York Post, Gen Z has coined a new term. It's a new dating term for people who aren't dating as much for love as social status. It's called throning. So it basically means you're dating someone who boosts your reputation and probably your ego just by association. Essentially, you're placing them on a throne.
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But that's the term now, throning. Throning? Like you're placing them on a throne. Okay. I don't know. Just something to learn.
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Everybody always aspires to go up and be with somebody who's either... Yeah, but going up might be being with someone who seems like they're a really caring person and then you being around them is really caring. It could be that they're really funny and then you're in a better mood because you're happy. That's what I would think of dating up. But this one's about social status. Social status.
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Right. That is what this is. Right. But I'm saying that I don't think that's what everyone does. Like dating down is not... It's like dating dumber.
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We moved five feet to the left.
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Right, so it's with everything.
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since then you're getting very adventuresome I mean that's big deal five feet I know it's a big deal to be doing a podcast for four years also and I feel like each season as we like to call it here in Palm Beach has such a different energy and storyline both for our personal lives and for our podcast like we've obviously come such a far way business wise with the podcast and our social media we've become a big deal but we still can't get the cameras correct
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Yeah. Next time we see a couple in Palm Beach where it's like an old guy with a lot of money and a girl who came out of it. She's throning. She's throning. She's throning. Good for her. Okay. The 2025 Grammy noms also came out.
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Well, no, no, they didn't vote on it yet, but they didn't have the awards, but the nominations came out. She's nominated for a lot.
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Women are leading in the major categories, which is a shift from the previous years because men were winning the majority.
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beyonce was record-breaking um 11 nominations so who are the men total 99. that's not puff daddy either puff diddy whatever his name is uh jay-z did also but post malone received um a bunch okay uh kendrick lamar drake
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Future. Okay, I get it. I get it.
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No, they are if you know stuff. Oh, okay. I just don't really know a lot.
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Right. Sabrina Carpenter and Chapel Rowan. They are nominated in all four major categories, which has only been attained by 13 people before.
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Yeah, they're very, very popular. Are you watching anything on TV right now?
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I didn't watch any seasons before. It's very violent.
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Yeah, no, I don't know. I think that kind of shows not for me, but I could give it another try.
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Yes, it's a very pleasant ritual.
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Let's answer a little bit of the Ask Grandma Anything that people wrote in from Instagram. I think next week we'll do mostly Thanksgiving-related questions, or the week of Thanksgiving, I mean. But if people want to start preparing themselves, people asked Grandma what your favorite side dish is.
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Welcome back to another episode of Excuse My Grandma. It's Kim and my co-host, Grandma Gail. And this week, we are joined by a very special guest, Stephanie Gottlieb. If you aren't familiar, she's a New York City-based jewelry designer. She started her business in 2013. I want to hear all about that. And has a lot of Instagram followers as well.
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And it makes sense that people want something unique. But what are your thoughts? Thanks.
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No, I really do. Like, I think either solitaire or having side stones. Right. Like, I don't know about two. Fair enough. Those are definitely more traditional. Yeah.
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Okay, so the second article is 2025 ring trend predictions. Maybe they'll bring mine back. Maybe. Well, actually, our key is coming back.
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Platinum was one of the things that were predicted. I don't know if you're seeing that as well. Platinum's always the choice.
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Segway quickly, like when you're styling an outfit like you're wearing today, how do you choose whether you're going to do mixed metals, gold, platinum?
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Is there truth to like if you have certain coloring, skin tone, hair to like wear gold or silver?
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Yeah. Another one, colored gemstones, which is great. You know what I love? The martini ring you have. It's a good one. So sick. Thank you.
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Right. Subtle color like champagne and imperfection.
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Oh, no, that's sad. But yeah, that's really interesting because I would think like if it's slightly yellow or whatever it is. No, that's different.
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But it's still less expensive than very clear.
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But the point is, like, you're not carrying that around. And, like, we're in a more judgmental time. People are posting their rings on Instagram. Well, they shouldn't do that. But you're not going to know, like, what it is. And there's something almost, like...
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100% natural. Don't even have to finish the.
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I'm proud. Yes. Okay. The other quick ones, asymmetry and art deco influence. Yep.
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So it's been a while since you first started. How do you think jewelry trends have changed since then?
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Okay. Let's do Grandma Gail's voicemails. So this listener wrote in a story that they want all of our advice on. Okay. Hi, Kim and Grandma Gail. Huge fans of the podcast and everything you do. I'm in a bit of a situation with my best friend where I don't know if I should speak up or let her live her life.
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She's been going out with this guy for two months but doesn't see marrying him because he never wants kids and she claims he doesn't have a good job. He's also 15 years older than us. We're 28. He wants to be boyfriend girlfriend with her, but she doesn't want to label it because she doesn't want to commit and likes the attention.
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If she knew from the beginning he wasn't her husband, why is she still dating him? I kind of want to tell her to cut this guy loose because it's a waste of his time and hers since she knows it's going nowhere. I personally only date someone if I see a future. How do I kindly tell her to stop leading him on or do I let her figure this one out on her own?
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I don't know, obviously, in this situation. But sometimes your friends are coming to you telling you things like kind of wanting advice. So if they're asking, then, like, do you tell them the truth and how do you say it?
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Okay, let's play the game. Should we bring it back? Okay. So this week we're going to do 1950s jewelry. So let's see if we should bring this trend back into modern day. Brooches on jackets or shirts. You have a ton. I have a ton.
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I haven't necessarily seen it on a young person, like maybe on a blazer, but I don't know. Or they put it on their hip.
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On that note, when it comes to red carpet, celebrity fashion, do you see those jewelry trends on the same page as for the everyday person and setting that?
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Makes sense. Um, okay. Next one, matching jewelry sets, like matching earrings.
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That's so interesting. I don't think I've seen that or have anything that matches. No. Well, you'd have to have earrings. Oh, actually, like vanquish. Yeah. Yeah. Right. Like if you wear clover earrings with a clover. Yeah, exactly. I guess I do that. Mm-hmm. Whoever's sweet. So let's bring it back.
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Okay. Last one, which like they kind of are back in a way, but pearls.
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And how do you envision wearing them? Like, is it like chunkier? Is it a few strands?
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That's cooler than like with a tweed suit.
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Yeah. Okay. I think we're bringing some of this stuff back, which is exciting. Bring it back.
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Come into my closet. Okay. Let's do our Ask Grandma Anything. Just a few quick, like rapid fire questions that everyone wrote in on Instagram. So first one is, can you explain the four C's? Yeah. Stephanie can. I can. Can grandma?
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All right. So next one is, should the girl get to pick what she wants or should it be a surprise?
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That was a diamond, right?
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But does the guy tell you the budget before she comes in? Yeah. Okay. Smart. Yeah.
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It depends on the couple, too, of how open you are about that kind of stuff. There are some people who are probably like, I'm only paying $20,000 and that's it. Well, maybe that's all they can afford to pay. Right. Or I like that idea of telling the jeweler, and then when she comes in, the ones that are laid out or whatever, all in budget.
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And then you get to choose like the cut and other things that are more like just figuring out your vibe. Right. And then having the guy come back and make the decision. I like that. Well, I hope everybody's listening to this suggestion. I think it's very important. How often and what are the best methods to clean engagement rings? For me or for?
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My friend sends hers out.
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You do? The ones that I don't take off like every day. Really? I don't take them off.
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do that really yeah I can't I can barely get on the class this is my grievance that's a big problem this is a huge problem and I don't know if you're doing anything to address it or if it's just like status quo this is what it is like the class are so small especially with nails especially with nails yeah With long nails.
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It's a tricky issue. Maybe there's like some sort of technology that it just connects and looks seamless. I have no idea. I don't know. OK, maybe we'll answer some of these other ones on our Instagram stories later. Let's move on to Grandma Gail's old fashioned dating quiz. So this is rapid fire.
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We're going to see if Stephanie is more old school in her thinking when it comes to relationships or more modern. OK. OK. Would you rather receive a call or a text from your husband if it's just to say hi? Text. Would you sleep with someone on the first date? Oh, God.
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Dating apps or setups? Setups. Would you move in together before getting engaged or be married or engaged? Move in together. Yeah. Should one person pay for the date or should you split, alternate? I would alternate, I think. Interesting. Okay. And would you soft or hard launch the relationship on social media or keep them off until it's like very serious? Oh, that's a good question.
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Yeah. Because you post your family and your kids. I do.
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Yeah. I think people relate to you more, though, when they see your family and they feel like they really know you.
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It's tricky. It is tricky.
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Yeah. I actually think you're a little more modern.
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Excuse My Grandma While We Talk Jewelry with Stephanie Gottlieb
Hell yeah. You're on my side. You're on her side today. We never get one of those. No, we very rarely get one. Okay. So I just want to end with if you have any questions or advice you want from Grandma Gail.
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Excuse My Grandma While We Talk Jewelry with Stephanie Gottlieb
I wear them every color.
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Excuse My Grandma While We Talk Jewelry with Stephanie Gottlieb
But you also always wear a chunky watch.
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Excuse My Grandma While We Talk Jewelry with Stephanie Gottlieb
Chanel is less flashy. Yeah, well, whatever. Nobody knows it's Chanel.
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Excuse My Grandma While We Talk Jewelry with Stephanie Gottlieb
I would. Oh, actually, I realized, I think I took one of yours or mom's that have like a burgundy band. They're not that small.
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Excuse My Grandma While We Talk Jewelry with Stephanie Gottlieb
But no, I wear this one every day, which is also yours.
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Excuse My Grandma While We Talk Jewelry with Stephanie Gottlieb
And this is yours. Yep. Yep. Mucky. No. No. These are cheap earrings.
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Excuse My Grandma While We Talk Jewelry with Stephanie Gottlieb
Oh, yeah. Duh. Grandma's. Okay, amazing. Stephanie, thank you so much for joining.
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Excuse My Grandma While We Talk Jewelry with Stephanie Gottlieb
Tell everyone how they can follow you.
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Excuse My Grandma While We Talk Jewelry with Stephanie Gottlieb
Amazing. Thanks for coming in. And you can follow us at Excuse My Grandma, Kim Merstein, and we'll see you next week.
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Excuse My Grandma While We Talk Jewelry with Stephanie Gottlieb
Yeah, I feel like that's the kind of thing. It's just whatever your personal style is, you can kind of reflect that with jewelry pieces. But I do feel like I've seen like certain, I don't know, hoop shapes. I don't know if this is fine jewelry. Yeah. Or stacking necklaces versus having like a dainty little thing. Where are you supposed to find inspo for that?
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Excuse My Grandma While We Talk Jewelry with Stephanie Gottlieb
I was just showing Grandma some of her beautiful posts. And yeah, we're so excited to have her today. So thanks, Stephanie. Thank you for having me. I'm excited to be here.
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Excuse My Grandma While We Talk Jewelry with Stephanie Gottlieb
Yeah. And what do you think about people wanting something more timeless, especially I hear friends say that with engagement rings and things like that. Do you think there's something to say about having a timeless piece or is it like,
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Excuse My Grandma While We Talk Jewelry with Stephanie Gottlieb
Yes. We love talking jewelry. But first, let's get a little bit about you, where you're living, your relationship status, all that.
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Excuse My Grandma While We Talk Jewelry with Stephanie Gottlieb
I want to know about like your proposal story and your ring as well.
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Excuse My Grandma While We Talk Jewelry with Stephanie Gottlieb
And then moved in after college.
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Excuse My Grandma While We Talk Jewelry with Stephanie Gottlieb
I'm like, okay, let's do what's here. Yeah.
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Excuse My Grandma While We Talk Jewelry with Stephanie Gottlieb
Passed down from you or mom. Well, I don't know. Well. kind of I mean other than like graduation gift from but things like and then I wear that stuff every day but it's like a mix and I love all the big 80s clip-on earrings that mom gave me and then of mine well I never pierced my ears so I have to give it to the granddaughter who's willing to wear clips yeah it's so painful
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Excuse My Grandma While We Talk Jewelry with Stephanie Gottlieb
Some of them are just like, it hurts. Even if you put the little padding slip on it.
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Excuse My Grandma While We Talk Jewelry with Stephanie Gottlieb
We were talking a little bit before about depending on your age, kind of how to make the jewelry style applicable to you. Wanted to hear your thoughts on that.
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Excuse My Grandma While We Talk Jewelry with Stephanie Gottlieb
But I'm wondering, like, accessories. I feel like there's certain pieces that you're like, this is kind of matronly for someone in their 20s, but maybe not. Louie is never matronly. I don't know. But you wouldn't wear giant, like, gold hoops. No. A big gold hoop wouldn't look great on someone who's 80, but that could be, like, I could be wrong.
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Excuse My Grandma While We Talk Jewelry with Stephanie Gottlieb
He has the ring. He's just wearing it. I don't know.
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Excuse My Grandma While We Talk Jewelry with Stephanie Gottlieb
Yeah. Okay. Let's inquire after this. Okay. Let's move on to the grandma report. So we're going to talk about some articles, one in InStyle and one in Vogue, talking about two stone engagement rings. Good segue. That's good. Jackie Kennedy had one in 1953. It was Van Cleef. It was very popular. But now celebrities like Emrata, Megan Fox, we've seen it be a trend.
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Excuse My Grandma on Valentine's Day, Rituals, and Self-Love
Welcome back to another episode of Excuse My Grandma. It's Kim and my co-host, Grandma Gail. So tomorrow is Valentine's Day. Love is in the air.
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Excuse My Grandma on Valentine's Day, Rituals, and Self-Love
For those who don't know, explain.
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Excuse My Grandma on Valentine's Day, Rituals, and Self-Love
I love those two. And I will say, same with the later rom-coms, but a lot of it was always like they started off hating each other.
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Excuse My Grandma on Valentine's Day, Rituals, and Self-Love
And then they fell in love.
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Excuse My Grandma on Valentine's Day, Rituals, and Self-Love
But that's not a great thing to model relationships after of... If someone's mean to you and act like they hate you, you shouldn't try to turn that around.
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Excuse My Grandma on Valentine's Day, Rituals, and Self-Love
I think last year we made chocolate-covered strawberries.
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Excuse My Grandma on Valentine's Day, Rituals, and Self-Love
I don't know when the shift happened. Cause then there was all those amazing, like Nora Ephron. No, no, it's actually going backwards is what I was going to say of, No, Nora Ephron, like in the 90s, we actually had her daughter Halle on our podcast of like Sleepless in Seattle, When Harry Met Sally, You Got Mail.
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That was all after Betty for Dan. Okay, but the shift was we all started to think, oh, that's the kind of romance we should have in our real life. Like that, with those movies, everybody was like, I want to feel like that. So you're saying in Hollywood in the 50s and 60s, no one took it as serious.
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Excuse My Grandma on Valentine's Day, Rituals, and Self-Love
But everybody takes rom-coms as, I want a rom-com. So I was wondering where that shift happened.
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Excuse My Grandma on Valentine's Day, Rituals, and Self-Love
women were writing the stories.
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Excuse My Grandma on Valentine's Day, Rituals, and Self-Love
And I think now there's a shift of people. The thing is, you don't want to see realistic always because the ending might be that they break up.
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Excuse My Grandma on Valentine's Day, Rituals, and Self-Love
My parents definitely got me flowers. No one else got me flowers, but that was nice. I don't think anybody got me. You got me chocolates.
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Excuse My Grandma on Valentine's Day, Rituals, and Self-Love
Everybody wants to believe in the fantasy. That said, there were shows, and we've talked about this before, but like nobody wants this. Erin Foster, who also designed the sweatshirt you're wearing. Oh, I love this. Favorite daughter. That's a favorite grandma sweatshirt. People are just listening.
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She tried to, she showed her relationship, the guy she met, and she ended up converting for Judaism for him. You know the one about the rabbi?
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Excuse My Grandma on Valentine's Day, Rituals, and Self-Love
But it's the idea. Right. The relationship that she shows, even though there's things that get in the way, they live in, I forgot what the issues were, the religion. It was the religion, the mother.
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Excuse My Grandma on Valentine's Day, Rituals, and Self-Love
But there are happy endings in real life, but this is a realistic one.
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Excuse My Grandma on Valentine's Day, Rituals, and Self-Love
Okay, we're going to do Grandma Gal's voicemail. Here's the voicemail, the voice recording that we got this week. One of many, Kim, I hope.
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Excuse My Grandma on Valentine's Day, Rituals, and Self-Love
Don't you think it would be nice if he got you flowers?
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I'm going to disagree. I agree that I'm sure people were... brought up a different way and it was like a higher up priority for parents to do it that way. But to say that no men in New York City have manners is a crazy statement.
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Excuse My Grandma on Valentine's Day, Rituals, and Self-Love
I think probably. And I think that One, you shouldn't meet someone if they don't have good manners, they're not going to change their manners.
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Excuse My Grandma on Valentine's Day, Rituals, and Self-Love
But I also think part of it also has to do with age, at least in my experience. I think when you're 22, you're not really thinking like, I'm going to pull her chair out for dinner. And maybe when you get older, enough girls tell you that you have to, that you kind of learn it. Or you just mature and you're like, OK, I guess I should start acting like how my parents told me to act or what I saw.
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Excuse My Grandma on Valentine's Day, Rituals, and Self-Love
But that doesn't mean you stop trying or showing somebody.
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Excuse My Grandma on Valentine's Day, Rituals, and Self-Love
I think that's more the case. That kind of thing. Manners are also really important to me, and it did knock off points from people when they didn't drop me home on the way home, or they didn't text, did you get home okay? Or they didn't pay for the dinner, whatever it was.
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Excuse My Grandma on Valentine's Day, Rituals, and Self-Love
Yeah, I think there are 100% people, and I also wouldn't be afraid to... Like once you're dating someone a little bit more, if you like them to be like, hey, it makes me feel really special when you come around the door for the car and like open the car door for me or when you open a door for me.
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And then like they'll do it if they care. Maybe.
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Excuse My Grandma on Valentine's Day, Rituals, and Self-Love
Because, you know, they don't realize it cares to you until you tell them.
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Excuse My Grandma on Valentine's Day, Rituals, and Self-Love
I don't know if it's retraining as much as saying like, hey, this thing's important to me. And then I think- they should do it. And if they don't, then you could think.
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Excuse My Grandma on Valentine's Day, Rituals, and Self-Love
And I think a lot of guys will think like, oh, maybe that's not feminism if I do do that because they think I'm going to offend her. So it's that way, too. But that's why I think you have to make it clear kind of where you are.
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Excuse My Grandma on Valentine's Day, Rituals, and Self-Love
OK, let's play a game of should we bring it back? So let's do some romantic gestures, speaking of, of the classic days. So bringing flowers to a first date. That used to happen, I think. Yes, yes, it did. If that happened now, you meet someone on a dating app and you show up and they have flowers, that would be unheard of. Okay, well, I must say I had it. Should we bring it back?
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Excuse My Grandma on Valentine's Day, Rituals, and Self-Love
I don't think it's about being together for that long because you don't get him cards. No. Yes, I do. I get a Valentine.
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Excuse My Grandma on Valentine's Day, Rituals, and Self-Love
Yeah. I would think, oh my God, you're obsessed with me. It's too much. Okay. Opening the car door.
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Excuse My Grandma on Valentine's Day, Rituals, and Self-Love
I think so. I think we definitely bring that one back. It's just the nice thing to do, especially at night if you're going on a date or somewhere more formal. I think you're right. Go around the car and open the car door.
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Excuse My Grandma on Valentine's Day, Rituals, and Self-Love
Mm-hmm. What about like when people come over to the table and the men like stand up? Well, that's just being polite. Right.
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Excuse My Grandma on Valentine's Day, Rituals, and Self-Love
I guess for you, they haven't gone away, but for young people there.
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Excuse My Grandma on Valentine's Day, Rituals, and Self-Love
Okay. Good. Okay. Let's move on to our Ask Grandma Anything. Some quick questions that people wrote in on Instagram. What's something you tell yourself when life gets hard?
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Excuse My Grandma on Valentine's Day, Rituals, and Self-Love
Right. And I had a Galentine's last year in New York a few days before. And I had like 30 girls over to the apartment. I remember that you made that beautiful board with all the candies. A candy table, a cheese board.
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Excuse My Grandma on Valentine's Day, Rituals, and Self-Love
If you were to live in one place every single day, would you prefer New York, Hamptons or Florida?
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Excuse My Grandma on Valentine's Day, Rituals, and Self-Love
What quality in your husband was most important as a prospective husband to you?
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How do you feel about that?
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Excuse My Grandma on Valentine's Day, Rituals, and Self-Love
It's crazy how important that had to be. It still is.
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Excuse My Grandma on Valentine's Day, Rituals, and Self-Love
But it does make sense why, especially like parents and grandparents are constantly like aware of that because I think that did really have to do with your well-being if the person was making zero money. Yeah. Like if you were making zero money.
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Excuse My Grandma on Valentine's Day, Rituals, and Self-Love
That trend of, not being boyfriend and girlfriend, but basically you get everything.
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Excuse My Grandma on Valentine's Day, Rituals, and Self-Love
I think the problem is when you are just seeing that person and you're not dating other people, but you haven't labeled it yet.
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Excuse My Grandma on Valentine's Day, Rituals, and Self-Love
It was cute. I like hosting. I don't do it enough.
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Excuse My Grandma on Valentine's Day, Rituals, and Self-Love
And that could happen for a really long time because you don't have the conversation of, will you be my girlfriend? And then you're just in a situation.
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Excuse My Grandma on Valentine's Day, Rituals, and Self-Love
Like there's people I know who've been dating the same person. They're not dating anyone else for, let's say, three or four months now, but they haven't labeled it yet.
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Excuse My Grandma on Valentine's Day, Rituals, and Self-Love
Okay. Happy Valentine's Day, everyone.
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Excuse My Grandma on Valentine's Day, Rituals, and Self-Love
Yes, and happy Valentine's Day for those who are listening the day this comes out. Yep. And we'll see you soon. Bye. Bye.
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Excuse My Grandma on Valentine's Day, Rituals, and Self-Love
The year before, so 2023, I went to dinner with one of my girlfriends because her boyfriend was away. And I feel like that's a good thing also if you are single, like find another single girlfriend and do like a dinner that, treat yourself to something you wouldn't typically do.
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Excuse My Grandma on Valentine's Day, Rituals, and Self-Love
I'm sure they do that still in school.
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Excuse My Grandma on Valentine's Day, Rituals, and Self-Love
So let's talk about all things Valentine's Day. What are you and Poppy doing this year?
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Excuse My Grandma on Valentine's Day, Rituals, and Self-Love
I mean, you make the best of it. But I remember since the last Valentine's Day I spent with someone I was dating was 2019. So this is the first year I've had a boyfriend since then during February. And every year I'm like- But don't build it up.
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Excuse My Grandma on Valentine's Day, Rituals, and Self-Love
You build it up and then nobody can meet that expectation. I'm not building it up. I'm just excited to not be I feel like usually and it wasn't that I was upset being single. I was obviously single because I was choosing to be single. But on that day, when you open Instagram, every single person is posting the flowers that someone got them or the nice restaurant they went to.
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Excuse My Grandma on Valentine's Day, Rituals, and Self-Love
Do you think the social media posts are creating more- Envy. Envy, but then like, let's say you do something fun for Valentine's Day. Like, do you think people feel pressure to then post it and show everybody like the fun time they're having? No, I hope not.
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Excuse My Grandma on Valentine's Day, Rituals, and Self-Love
Also for Galentine's Day, you and I did this pinata thing in the apartment.
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Excuse My Grandma on Valentine's Day, Rituals, and Self-Love
So I feel like if you have girlfriends over, like it's fun to do an activity, but maybe it's not a pinata, but maybe you're doing arts and crafts or something that would create a memory besides dinner.
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Excuse My Grandma on Valentine's Day, Rituals, and Self-Love
We did it for... Well, we were doing an advertisement actually for Burt's Bees, which is the chapstick.
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Excuse My Grandma on Valentine's Day, Rituals, and Self-Love
You rarely do it with the two of you. I feel like it's always a family thing.
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Excuse My Grandma on Valentine's Day, Rituals, and Self-Love
Yeah, they have these like minis that are really cute and great giveaways for Galentine's or whatever it is. And so they sent us... We couldn't crash the... They sent us a pinata filled with them. But then it was hard to find a place in the apartment to actually hang the pinata.
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Excuse My Grandma on Valentine's Day, Rituals, and Self-Love
And how do you... Unless you have... Well, dad was holding the broom with the pinata on it.
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Excuse My Grandma on Valentine's Day, Rituals, and Self-Love
Yeah, it wasn't as hard as I- I thought it was very hard.
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Excuse My Grandma on Valentine's Day, Rituals, and Self-Love
A lot of love aggression.
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Excuse My Grandma on Valentine's Day, Rituals, and Self-Love
No, it's not in other families. But in our family, I feel like every year we all go out together.
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Excuse My Grandma on Valentine's Day, Rituals, and Self-Love
What do you think you learned with love this year?
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Excuse My Grandma on Valentine's Day, Rituals, and Self-Love
Yeah. I feel like I've learned a lot of love lessons, but I'm more in that phase that I'm still learning.
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Excuse My Grandma on Valentine's Day, Rituals, and Self-Love
And since my relationship is long distance, I've definitely realized the like quality of time you spend together is more important than the quantity because it's about whether you're together or apart, like feeling supported and feeling all the things you're supposed to feel versus just being with someone all the time to have another body in the room. Okay, let's move on to the drama club.
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Excuse My Grandma on Valentine's Day, Rituals, and Self-Love
Well, my dad never do it alone.
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Excuse My Grandma on Valentine's Day, Rituals, and Self-Love
So we're going to talk about some celebrity gossip, drama of the week. So you didn't hear it from me, but let's talk about those engagements of the year. We're on that topic of celebrity love and relationships for Valentine's Day. So...
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Excuse My Grandma on Valentine's Day, Rituals, and Self-Love
Well, you know Selena Gomez.
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Yeah. He's pretty smart. He's been writing, basically, music for a lot of very top people over the last... Most of the songs that have been popular were written by him, even though he didn't like perform them. Oh, that's true. And but people have opinions about them because on the surface, she's a little better looking than him.
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The other one was Tom Holland and Zendaya. He's Spider-Man, and you know her. She's in everything. But they actually didn't do a whole big proposal announcement. Just on the Golden Globes red carpet, she was wearing a giant diamond ring. Good for her. So that was just her way of announcing it.
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I feel like it's always I'm trying to think of the last few years. I think since I've been single for a while, I always go with you guys.
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Excuse My Grandma on Valentine's Day, Rituals, and Self-Love
And they definitely keep things a little bit more private for two of the biggest celebrities.
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Excuse My Grandma on Valentine's Day, Rituals, and Self-Love
There was Hailee Steinfeld and Josh Allen. So definitely a lot of celebrity engagements. Well, that's nice. And probably breakups too.
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I think lab-grown diamonds are good if you have a budget, but I don't think Tom and Zendaya are working on a budget. No, I don't think so. Okay, good. Yeah. The Grandma Report. Today, we're talking about an article from BBC about why rituals are important in relationships.
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Excuse My Grandma on Valentine's Day, Rituals, and Self-Love
And basically this Michael Norton's research shows that shared rituals are essential for fostering connection and strengthening bonds. And those can be simple things. from doing a cheers every time you are having dinner with your partner, having a Christmas celebration every year.
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Excuse My Grandma on Valentine's Day, Rituals, and Self-Love
Well, it's not all about dinner. Like you could have a personal ritual I do is every morning I like to drink coffee and watch reality TV.
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Excuse My Grandma on Valentine's Day, Rituals, and Self-Love
This is just generally relationships, but I think I think it brings purpose also to those relationships when you have those things that you do together. So but it doesn't have to be dinner like you can send each other a text every day, you can give each other a hug every time you go out the door to go to work, like something you just always do.
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Excuse My Grandma on Valentine's Day, Rituals, and Self-Love
To kind of have that structure and have that stability during times that might be more challenging.
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Excuse My Grandma on Valentine's Day, Rituals, and Self-Love
That probably makes sense. So some ones that people can start this Valentine's with their partner to do every year. I mean, definitely doing a date night makes sense.
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Excuse My Grandma on Valentine's Day, Rituals, and Self-Love
I think cooking a meal or baking something is cute, watching a movie together, making a photo album together, writing each other a love letter, things like that.
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Excuse My Grandma on Valentine's Day, Rituals, and Self-Love
I think my boyfriend's like that. I feel like we would enjoy doing stuff like that.
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Excuse My Grandma on Valentine's Day, Rituals, and Self-Love
I think a lot of my friends, for their...
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engagements or for birthdays give their boyfriend or husband like an album of oh here's all the places we traveled together that's nice like a photo album and a diy project is very popular usually the women are giving it to the men i don't know too many men that do it unless unless they they listen there are very many men that are very creative more so than the women so good luck let's get to the rewind
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This week on the theme of Valentine's Day, we're going to talk about all of our favorite classic rom-coms about love.
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Welcome back to another episode of Excuse My Grandma. It's Kim and my co-host, Grandma Gail. So grandma, this morning we filmed so many outfit videos for social media. You've been, that's the best part about when I'm here in Florida because you get to help me pick out my outfits. I get to go into your closet and steal some stuff, which is always fun.
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Totally. And I think, I mean, we talk about this all the time, but like you found hopefully a creative outlet in this at 80. So it's really.
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Yeah, what do your kids think of Brave Pudding?
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Like you're not, they're not going to be the spokesperson there. You're not putting them in the marketing campaign. Well, I think I, they should out of your shot.
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no the sample came very important it's not because every day is in christmas but and also saying like the success isn't necessarily like dollars and it's a lot of other well that becomes part of it because that that is a gratification that you know that you're economically
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Yeah, I guess maybe you're used to being even more uncomfortable.
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Yeah, I definitely dress a little bit more casual than you generally. You like the sweatshirts. Yeah, I wear a lot of sweatshirts and leggings and whatever. But I was doing a little research about the history of fashion and comfort. And like the major factor in the like comfort is king trend was due to the rise of synthetic fibers, which changed how people fit in their clothes.
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Makes sense. And you need people who believe in you and believe in the product. You're in a relationship? I am, yes. What does he think of
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So you're kind of used to seeing a business run by a couple also, because it's really different. I mean, it happens, but, and we work together as family members, but like there's challenges that come from mixing business and pleasure.
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Like my boyfriend and I are separately therapy people. Like we always have been in therapy. So like that's better than nothing. Yes. I could see how it would be useful to do together. But I think also it is very like, I probably haven't, thank God, been like, burned enough or feel like I need to. Not that you have to be. It's different.
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But it's not always like you're in a problem. Yeah. It's not that you have problems.
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But yeah, I feel like it could be so fun and your business could even be better when you are in it with a romantic partner or family member if you are aligned in that way. And luckily in your case, you were. So that's great. Okay, let's talk about our grandma report. This week, our article, it's in Business of Fashion and it's just talking about H&M using AI models.
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So since we have Sarah here, the expert.
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Well, we can give our two cents on it, but basically- Explain to the audience what they're doing because it's a little weird. Yeah. Well, I think H&M hired like 30 models or something like that and made duplicates of them in AI that they can use in their marketing materials. And the models are also able to take that with other brands if they choose.
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Right. So in the 19th century.
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But yeah, it begs the question, is it taking away jobs for future models, for stylists, for hair and makeup people, for photographers?
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Right. Neither was I. S-shaped silhouettes with corsets and bustles were stylish, but obviously probably not comfortable. Now you have to see that on television. Yeah. And then in the early 20th century, more comfortable styles emerged, which really was influenced by sportswear and women's changing roles.
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Meaning that it doesn't look lifelike yet? Like, what do you mean it's not almost there?
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Excuse My Grandma on Cozy Chic and Career Comebacks
They'll fix it. I think it's all amazing. I mean, I'm obsessed with, like, talk GPT and stuff. I'm also interested in AI. My only thing is when it comes to, like, those creative industries. Like, I know in film and TV, it's a huge discussion now, too, of, like,
Excuse My Grandma
Excuse My Grandma on Cozy Chic and Career Comebacks
Yeah. Speaking of old fashioned trends, let's play a game of should we bring it back? We play it on every episode with like 1950s fashion trends. And then we'll decide whether we want to bring it back to today or leave it in the past. Okay, a corset waist.
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Excuse My Grandma on Cozy Chic and Career Comebacks
I love the look, but it is uncomfortable. Exactly.
Excuse My Grandma
Excuse My Grandma on Cozy Chic and Career Comebacks
How do you just, I guess, define ease and comfort in fashion? Or is it a feeling?
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Excuse My Grandma on Cozy Chic and Career Comebacks
Right. And then in the 20s, you know, it was like flapper fashion, which was the shorter skirts and the looser silhouettes. So that was pretty comfortable, probably.
Excuse My Grandma
Excuse My Grandma on Cozy Chic and Career Comebacks
Yeah, that means like the higher arm.
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Excuse My Grandma on Cozy Chic and Career Comebacks
And they were in velvet dresses.
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Excuse My Grandma on Cozy Chic and Career Comebacks
Because it happened to be a hot day in the winter.
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Excuse My Grandma on Cozy Chic and Career Comebacks
Yeah. Okay. Two-piece sets. I feel like it was a thing to wear. No, like wasn't it a thing to wear like the skirt with the matching like top? Oh, yeah. Well, they still do that now. I feel like that's back. I like it.
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Excuse My Grandma on Cozy Chic and Career Comebacks
I love a matching set because I don't have to think about styling.
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Excuse My Grandma on Cozy Chic and Career Comebacks
yeah well it's now it's funny because it's like we get a costume from a store and we dressed 1920s but it really was how people dressed and um then there's world war one and two which was like practical functional correct clothing women were joining the workforce so it was And then we have the 50s, and that was really like Christian Dior's new look, right?
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Excuse My Grandma on Cozy Chic and Career Comebacks
It's not as chic. Maybe a peplum blazer.
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Excuse My Grandma on Cozy Chic and Career Comebacks
Okay, let's just finish up with Ask Grandma Anything, but Sarah, we'll stay to get some of your opinions. Our listeners wrote in these questions on Instagram. First one is favorite restaurant in Florida.
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Excuse My Grandma on Cozy Chic and Career Comebacks
I think, I mean, my favorites always change. I like Brick Tops and Palm Beach Grill. Yeah.
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Excuse My Grandma on Cozy Chic and Career Comebacks
Can't get in anymore, but it's good. Yeah.
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Excuse My Grandma on Cozy Chic and Career Comebacks
It's like the setting and the vibe. Yes. How to build close friendships?
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Excuse My Grandma on Cozy Chic and Career Comebacks
I do feel like I have like adult friends that I made. Obviously the people I know from school, like those are longer term relationships. But then when you are living in the city or wherever you are and you like want to make some new friends, I do feel like it goes a long way to constant, not constantly because you don't want to be annoying as a new friend, but like
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Excuse My Grandma on Cozy Chic and Career Comebacks
once every few weeks at least like try to get a dinner on the books to kind of form that new relationship because it does take time to like start something new and you're it's kind of like you're and everybody's busy friends and well you're busy and so people have to make time in advance um and also like if you really want to be friends with this new person remembering this is obvious but like remember things that they said like show interest in and what they're doing what they're doing
Excuse My Grandma
Excuse My Grandma on Cozy Chic and Career Comebacks
are there fewer high quality men now than there were when you were young? I don't,
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Excuse My Grandma on Cozy Chic and Career Comebacks
But there is that trope that everyone says that I don't like to perpetuate of like, all the good guys are gone.
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Excuse My Grandma on Cozy Chic and Career Comebacks
Yeah, I love that. Actually, I'm going to use that response if I'm asked that because it is so true. The culture now has shifted in a lot of ways for the better. Obviously, we lose some of the, I don't know, nice manners, tradition, those kind of things. I'm a nostalgic person. I like those things of the past.
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Excuse My Grandma on Cozy Chic and Career Comebacks
Yeah, I think the redefining is a huge part because, like, one, to say that it works the way that you had it, like, I don't think it worked for a lot of people. No, it didn't.
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Excuse My Grandma on Cozy Chic and Career Comebacks
Right, and I think a lot of people were unhappy even if they didn't get divorced. So to say it worked, like, I'm happy it worked for you, obviously, but I think that, I don't know, obviously things are shifting and changing because they weren't really working.
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Excuse My Grandma on Cozy Chic and Career Comebacks
Like everyday wear. Yeah. Mm-hmm. The 60s and the 70s were like bohemian hippie fashion.
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Excuse My Grandma on Cozy Chic and Career Comebacks
I don't think that's true at all. I think you should be comfortable in yourself that no one can emasculate you, no one can decomunize you.
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Excuse My Grandma on Cozy Chic and Career Comebacks
Well, then they shouldn't be with you. Somebody who, if they have such a fragile ego, that someone being successful around them doesn't make them feel more motivated and then it brings them down. One, they have their own demons, but fine, they can find someone that they're not going to.
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Excuse My Grandma on Cozy Chic and Career Comebacks
But loose and flowing, right? Yes.
Excuse My Grandma
Excuse My Grandma on Cozy Chic and Career Comebacks
Okay, good. Sarah, thank you so much for joining us. It's terrific. Tell everyone how they can find you, find your brand.
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Excuse My Grandma on Cozy Chic and Career Comebacks
Yeah. So I guess we're bringing the comfort in there. Then the 80s, we have that athletic wear. Correct. And gaining popularity. Yeah. And that's sort of the rise of sportswear and athleisure. Nineties, grunge fashion, also like kind of oversized pieces, the oversized jeans, the ripped clothing. That's all coming back now again.
Excuse My Grandma
Excuse My Grandma on Cozy Chic and Career Comebacks
Wait, since when do you give me the credit?
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Excuse My Grandma on Cozy Chic and Career Comebacks
And you have to, obviously, I know you do give yourself credit, which is why I was surprised because like privately you give yourself credit, but I do. Yeah, yeah. But like, I will say just because I'm the one doing deals and like doing strategy for the business and like hiring people, like that doesn't, like, you know, your value, which is also being talent. Yes. And like.
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Excuse My Grandma on Cozy Chic and Career Comebacks
You don't know if it's true or not, but you keep saying it. Yeah. No, but all your friends kind of do go to you as that person. Yes. That's the thing about you for sure. All right, sweetheart. All right. Thank you, Sarah. Thank you, Sarah. Thank you. My ego is now up a thousand percent. And you guys know how to follow us.
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Excuse My Grandma on Cozy Chic and Career Comebacks
We're ExcuseMyGrandma on TikTok, Instagram, wherever you're listening to podcasts. And we'll see you next week.
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Excuse My Grandma on Cozy Chic and Career Comebacks
Right. And then 2000s to now, really, it has less of an identity in my mind. I feel like you're right in that we're kind of cycling, just trying to pick things from the past. That we like, exactly. But definitely like loungewear because of COVID and everything.
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Excuse My Grandma on Cozy Chic and Career Comebacks
yeah but but even now we kind of carried that through i think like um well hopefully it's going away with now the return to the workforce uh to the office but i think you're more comfortable at work too like if you think about the 80s and wearing power suits to now like you're not wearing a tie and you're not correct most of my friends i'm pretty sure can wear like jeans
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Excuse My Grandma on Cozy Chic and Career Comebacks
But they don't have to wear a dress.
Excuse My Grandma
Excuse My Grandma on Cozy Chic and Career Comebacks
Um, so that's sort of the history of it all, but I was thinking we could bring in an expert today, Sarah Fazell, who, um, is a founder of a company that's all about ease in fashion. So let's bring her into chat. Okay. Okay, grandma and I have been talking about comfort in fashion and how that's changed over the years. So we thought the perfect guest to talk to today would be Sarah Fazell.
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Excuse My Grandma on Cozy Chic and Career Comebacks
She's the founder of Brave Pudding. She's a mom. She is one of those amazing female entrepreneurs that started a business that is doing amazing. So we can't wait. And different. Yeah, different.
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Excuse My Grandma on Cozy Chic and Career Comebacks
Yeah. So Sarah, thank you for joining us. Thank you for having me. I'm so excited to be here. Us too. So we want to hear all about the journey of starting Brave Pudding, and then we have lots of questions.
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Excuse My Grandma on Cozy Chic and Career Comebacks
We discover some old things that you forgot about sometimes. And yeah, I'm always ordering new stuff that you're like helping me decide whether to pick or to return.
Excuse My Grandma
Excuse My Grandma on Cozy Chic and Career Comebacks
Can I ask what makes a beautiful sock?
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Excuse My Grandma on Cozy Chic and Career Comebacks
Yeah, I'm not the best at ordering, but I feel like a lot of the time, obviously I'm wearing things that I would wear in my daily life, which is all pretty like comfortable. Correct. I mean, even if it's like a corseted dress or something, I was thinking about all like the past of fashion and thinking we could kind of go through the generations and talk about how fashion has changed so much from,
Excuse My Grandma
Excuse My Grandma on Cozy Chic and Career Comebacks
Doesn't it feel good to take back the power?
Excuse My Grandma
Excuse My Grandma on Cozy Chic and Career Comebacks
being really uncomfortable to more comfortable today. But even today, I lounge in leggings or sweatpants most days, unless I have to see people. But if you're lounging, you're wearing slacks.
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Excuse My Grandma on Cozy Chic and Career Comebacks
It's actually such a good point. Like the judgment of you can't walk down the block to get a cab. Like, why does the Uber have to come around or things like this? And it's not easy to walk in heels after you've been in them all. It's not good for your back. And it's not like this is true. These are true. Yeah, I like it.
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Excuse My Grandma on Cozy Chic and Career Comebacks
Well, also we're relearning societally. And this is what grandma and I talked about before you came in. Like, you know, hundreds of years ago, we were like really uncomfortable. We were in corsets and multiple layers of skirts and all of these things. And we're kind of relearning as women that we don't have to do that to look beautiful.
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Excuse My Grandma on Cozy Chic and Career Comebacks
And that's not, you can't do that on your own either, by the way, like we all need to.
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Excuse My Grandma on Cozy Chic and Career Comebacks
Such a generational difference.
Excuse My Grandma
Please Excuse My Grandma’s New Look for 2025
Welcome back to another episode of Excuse My Grandma. It's Kim and my co-host, Grandma Gail. Happy New Year, everyone.
Excuse My Grandma
Please Excuse My Grandma’s New Look for 2025
Okay. Well... For those who have been listening to us for four years, thank you so much. And if you're new to us, we'll reintroduce ourselves a little bit. I'm Kim and my grandma Gail and I have been close my whole life growing up in New York City. And then during the pandemic, I came down to Palm Beach to spend more time and live with them.
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Please Excuse My Grandma’s New Look for 2025
Yeah, I was going to say, I feel like the Obamas are a power couple.
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Please Excuse My Grandma’s New Look for 2025
I read her memoir when it came out, so it's been a while. And I liked the way she spoke about the meeting, because they met kind of young.
Excuse My Grandma
Please Excuse My Grandma’s New Look for 2025
Yeah, yeah, yeah. So, okay, the Obamas are Grand Miguel approved. How about... No, that's about it.
Excuse My Grandma
Please Excuse My Grandma’s New Look for 2025
No, I was going to ask, like, other, not presidents. Is my parents...
Excuse My Grandma
Please Excuse My Grandma’s New Look for 2025
What are you talking about? You knew your daughter for 20 minutes.
Excuse My Grandma
Please Excuse My Grandma’s New Look for 2025
Most of her life has been with... No, yes.
Excuse My Grandma
Please Excuse My Grandma’s New Look for 2025
Okay, so that's what qualifies to be a good relationship. Grandma Gail approved. I think so. How about my relationship?
Excuse My Grandma
Please Excuse My Grandma’s New Look for 2025
Let's do the rewind. Let's do the rewind. Grandma, what TV or movies did you watch this week?
Excuse My Grandma
Please Excuse My Grandma’s New Look for 2025
Was that what my boyfriend's been staying with us the last few weeks and you asked him to change the subtitles?
Excuse My Grandma
Please Excuse My Grandma’s New Look for 2025
actors and it's enjoyable okay so we'll write the name of that in the episode description notes for you guys if you want to check it out but I think you have to watch the earlier seasons yeah as a lead-up she's already been married three different times to three different detectives okay you haven't told me personally on this show but maybe other people out there would want to watch it I don't know is it something I would like do you think no okay well I
Excuse My Grandma
Please Excuse My Grandma’s New Look for 2025
I've been watching Harry Potter movies.
Excuse My Grandma
Please Excuse My Grandma’s New Look for 2025
here in Florida and grandma was watching me go on dates and had a lot of opinions. Things obviously looked a lot different than in the 1950s, which was the last time you were dating. Correct.
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Please Excuse My Grandma’s New Look for 2025
Because around the holidays, I feel like it's sort of a holiday movie. And then I realized after watching the first one that I didn't really remember anything that happened. So now I'm watching all of them. Okay. Those are classics. They're classics. and now I feel like I want to go to Universal Studios and see the whole Harry Potter world.
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Please Excuse My Grandma’s New Look for 2025
Yes. Okay, now we're going to move on to a new segment called Grandma Gail's Voicemail. Listeners wrote in a few different dating, relationship, or family questions or issues that you want Grandma Gail's advice on. You can DM a voice note of your story to us. You can do a voice note on your phone and then email it to team at excusemygrandma.com, however you want to get it to us. Works for us.
Excuse My Grandma
Please Excuse My Grandma’s New Look for 2025
So I'm going to play our listener's voice note now and then we will respond.
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Please Excuse My Grandma’s New Look for 2025
So the question really is, they get along well, but it's not progressing after a few months. He says he's not ready to label the relationship. Should she move on? Or if they feel something for each other, will he move past that hesitancy?
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Please Excuse My Grandma’s New Look for 2025
Yeah. No, this is like a text come downstairs. Actually, not even a text saying, I'll meet you there. and being on dating apps and ghosting and all of the culture of today. And so we started our podcast together to explain those generational differences, get Grandma Gail's advice because we all need it, and for me to explain to you the modern times of today. Right.
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Please Excuse My Grandma’s New Look for 2025
if it's only been or I guess it's been four months around now is when you can label but I don't think it should just be okay we're breaking up because you haven't I think like first have a conversation about when do you see this moving forward like what do you want from our relationship and like express how you feel about them before just cutting it off because you don't know sometimes people are a slower burn four months if you were seeing each other every day for four months that's a long time but if it was
Excuse My Grandma
Please Excuse My Grandma’s New Look for 2025
once or twice a week for four months, that's still only eight times of seeing someone. You don't have to label it at that point.
Excuse My Grandma
Please Excuse My Grandma’s New Look for 2025
Now we're going to play a new game. Should we bring it back? So we're going to talk about some old-fashioned trends. Every episode will be different. It might be food. It might be fashion. It might be old traditions. So this week, we're going to talk about some old-fashioned trends and whether you think we should bring it back. Okay, so what about shoulder pads?
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Please Excuse My Grandma’s New Look for 2025
Besides the shape of a poodle skirt, did they always have a poodle on them?
Excuse My Grandma
Please Excuse My Grandma’s New Look for 2025
Marilyn Monroe wore them where they were kind of pointy.
Excuse My Grandma
Please Excuse My Grandma’s New Look for 2025
Yeah, I still have a pair, but I never wear them.
Excuse My Grandma
Please Excuse My Grandma’s New Look for 2025
Yeah, it depends. If they come back in fashion, I'll bring them out. Right. But they can be cute.
Excuse My Grandma
Please Excuse My Grandma’s New Look for 2025
Yeah, although I feel like they're in right now.
Excuse My Grandma
Please Excuse My Grandma’s New Look for 2025
Every wedding I had in 2024 was Destination. And every wedding I'm invited to this year is Destination.
Excuse My Grandma
Please Excuse My Grandma’s New Look for 2025
According to Vogue article that they wrote in December. We'll link that in our episode notes.
Excuse My Grandma
Please Excuse My Grandma’s New Look for 2025
Because they have a lot of trends on there.
Excuse My Grandma
Please Excuse My Grandma’s New Look for 2025
Yeah, exactly. Okay, let's do our Ask Grandma Anything. the questions people have written in on our Instagram for the AGA. Let's see, kind of rapid fire questions that people have written in. What's your favorite part of having your podcast?
Excuse My Grandma
Please Excuse My Grandma’s New Look for 2025
Grandma Gail should have her own business as a stylist. Can I send my mother-in-law?
Excuse My Grandma
Please Excuse My Grandma’s New Look for 2025
Someone wrote, he always complains before doing anything new or anything that I'm into. What should I do?
Excuse My Grandma
Please Excuse My Grandma’s New Look for 2025
I know you could speak for yourself. You would never criticize someone else's hobbies, or if someone you loved asked you to do something with you, you wouldn't say no.
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Please Excuse My Grandma’s New Look for 2025
Yeah. We're not going steady anymore. We are exclusive. We're dating. We're a situation ship. Um, we're not doing backseat bingo. We're hooking up or making out. So even the terms are different today. So there's a lot to learn and I hope everyone new and listening, um, gets to know us as well. We're going to have episodes together.
Excuse My Grandma
Please Excuse My Grandma’s New Look for 2025
But not somebody. If Poppy said, I really want to go try this new restaurant, would you go with me?
Excuse My Grandma
Please Excuse My Grandma’s New Look for 2025
What if they said, I'd like to go to a museum, and the other person doesn't like museums?
Excuse My Grandma
Please Excuse My Grandma’s New Look for 2025
Yeah. Although complaining before doing anything new sounds like a closed-minded person.
Excuse My Grandma
Please Excuse My Grandma’s New Look for 2025
Yeah. What's the secret to a full and happy life?
Excuse My Grandma
Please Excuse My Grandma’s New Look for 2025
Love that. Okay, how did you transform your wardrobe to mostly a uniform of black and white? I want to do this.
Excuse My Grandma
Please Excuse My Grandma’s New Look for 2025
It's also always chic and doesn't go out of style.
Excuse My Grandma
Please Excuse My Grandma’s New Look for 2025
Not that a certain color goes in and out, but they kind of do.
Excuse My Grandma
Please Excuse My Grandma’s New Look for 2025
okay so this episode we recapped our 2024 in the last four years we did our new drama club grandma report the rewind we did grandma gail's voicemail we did the should we bring it back game and we did ask grandma anything that's a lot of good stuff a lot of stuff kim Thank you all, by the way, for your years of support and for listening to four years of episodes.
Excuse My Grandma
Please Excuse My Grandma’s New Look for 2025
Hopefully you can tell your friends and family to listen so you can discuss the same things that Grandma and I are discussing each week. And we have some great episodes this year with some really good guests. So stay with us. And if you don't follow us already, follow us on TikTok and Instagram. We're at ExcuseMyGrandma. Submit your stories for Grandma Gail's voicemail.
Excuse My Grandma
Please Excuse My Grandma’s New Look for 2025
You can email team at ExcuseMyGrandma.com or you can DM us a voice note on Instagram. In our episode description, you will see the links to the articles we discussed. You'll see how to watch our full episode. If you're not watching it on Spotify, maybe you're just listening on Apple, you can head over to our YouTube where you can see the full episode. Well, they can see that on Spotify too, Kim.
Excuse My Grandma
Please Excuse My Grandma’s New Look for 2025
we're gonna have episodes with guests that we love um we're gonna have episodes just with me as well where we can get a little deeper so i think it's gonna be a great year yeah i hope so kim what was your favorite highlights over the last four years of excuse my grandma well i think my number one was of course the billboard in times square which we both loved um we were there for i think what was it
Excuse My Grandma
Please Excuse My Grandma’s New Look for 2025
Yeah, on Spotify. But if you're listening on Apple, you can't see it. You're just listening. So if you want to see while you're listening, that'll be on Spotify or on YouTube. And remember, if you don't listen to Grandma Gail, you'll probably regret it.
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Please Excuse My Grandma’s New Look for 2025
Well, through brands that we work with, they've taken us to Italy. Correct. We've gone to Las Vegas with Amazon. We went to Montreal with Marriott. We have done New York Fashion Week.
Excuse My Grandma
Please Excuse My Grandma’s New Look for 2025
We went to the Hamptons with Eberjay to do a spa vacation. Oh, right, the pajamas.
Excuse My Grandma
Please Excuse My Grandma’s New Look for 2025
I liked our in-person event at Arthur & Sons in the Hamptons, where we hosted a bunch of influencers and close family and friends to kind of celebrate the last few years of Excuse My Grandma. I'm hoping to do more of those and with our audience and followers as well.
Excuse My Grandma
Please Excuse My Grandma’s New Look for 2025
was all positive except for Italy because oh well I fell you fell and you were like I'm not going back to Dr. Moskowitz but I called him on the phone and I was like you gotta help grandma from Italy and he told us where to go uh yeah that was that was a bummer but that was really uh not so well it was a little it was my fault I was going uh pulling out an outfit and from the closet and
Excuse My Grandma
Please Excuse My Grandma’s New Look for 2025
And welcome back to the revamped Excuse My Grandma. You will see our new podcast covers, our new little intro video. And throughout the episode, you will see our new segments as well. So it's going to be very fun.
Excuse My Grandma
Please Excuse My Grandma’s New Look for 2025
I did. Because you always say like, oh, in the middle of everything.
Excuse My Grandma
Please Excuse My Grandma’s New Look for 2025
Yeah, even the cab driver was like, are you sure you don't want to come over to our house for spaghetti? And we're like, we're bleeding out of our heads.
Excuse My Grandma
Please Excuse My Grandma’s New Look for 2025
Yes. Um, let's recap the last few weeks of 2024. Okay. Um, we were here in Palm beach spending the holidays. Everybody was down.
Excuse My Grandma
Please Excuse My Grandma’s New Look for 2025
Uh, and you'll see here at excuse my grandma. We do everything family style.
Excuse My Grandma
Please Excuse My Grandma’s New Look for 2025
Oh, wait, I thought they won everything.
Excuse My Grandma
Please Excuse My Grandma’s New Look for 2025
Oh, no, no, but somebody out there in the world won a bit.
Excuse My Grandma
Please Excuse My Grandma’s New Look for 2025
Just so you guys know, Grandma said with her $500 million, she's going to move to Jerusalem, and no one's allowed to come with her.
Excuse My Grandma
Please Excuse My Grandma’s New Look for 2025
Um, yeah, we, it was fun coming up with things that we were going to do.
Excuse My Grandma
Please Excuse My Grandma’s New Look for 2025
And then we did Hanukkah and Christmas were on the same day in 2024. So I felt like everybody was celebrating.
Excuse My Grandma
Please Excuse My Grandma’s New Look for 2025
so that that was pretty and of course we went from a little we did my mom had a little Hanukkah party at her apartment we had latkes and then we went to the Christmas party so it's not really called Christmas anymore we call it a holiday because it it really is what it should be it's for everybody yeah but we eat Christmassy things because we eat turkey and stuffing is that Christmassy that's also Thanksgiving yeah but I don't think it's Hanukkah
Excuse My Grandma
Please Excuse My Grandma’s New Look for 2025
True. We're going to do our first segment of the new look of the new Excuse My Grandma 2025 vibe. So welcome to the drama club. This is Kimmy's favorite. Well, so you didn't hear it from me, but Paige DeSorbo and Craig Conover, you don't know who either of those people are, broke up. They are both Bravo-lebrities.
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Please Excuse My Grandma’s New Look for 2025
So one of them is on the show Southern Charm, the guy Craig is, and Paige is on the show Summer House. So Summer House is in the Hamptons and Southern Charm is in Charleston.
Excuse My Grandma
Please Excuse My Grandma’s New Look for 2025
And it's also in honor of our four-year anniversary of Excuse My Grandma.
Excuse My Grandma
Please Excuse My Grandma’s New Look for 2025
behind you taking videos to asking about every part of your life so if it does survive it's a miracle in most cases it really well they dated for three years which in that felt long but you could see even about a year ago they're in their 30s and he wanted to get engaged and she kept saying no I'm not ready and pushing it off and they were still long distance after that amount of time so you kind of had a feeling okay she's not I mean I don't know what happened obviously but that's something
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Please Excuse My Grandma’s New Look for 2025
engaged or get married and the other doesn't you should have that's a sign that it's not working yeah i think more that i mean than later long distance is an obstacle obviously we'll hear me talk about it i'm in a long distance relationship but i think that when two people are not on the same page of timeline that seems scarier to me so
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Please Excuse My Grandma’s New Look for 2025
Over a year of them disagreeing about these kind of things, we're seeing that play out on TV. And then Paige announced it on her podcast that she does with one of her former co-stars called Giggly Squad. She...
Excuse My Grandma
Please Excuse My Grandma’s New Look for 2025
dropped that news well okay good luck to them both i'm sure they'll find somebody else oh yeah that's going to be attractive they're very attractive exactly they're very funny he actually started everyone made fun of him for sewing always on the show and then he started a very successful um pillow business oh good for him yeah and then made a lot of money and now everybody shut up okay okay let's move on to the grandma report
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Please Excuse My Grandma’s New Look for 2025
You mean like in an anniversary? Right, exactly.
Excuse My Grandma
Please Excuse My Grandma’s New Look for 2025
Like there's documentaries on it? No, well, first of all, I lived in that time.
Excuse My Grandma
Please Excuse My Grandma’s New Look for 2025
I don't know if people even do that anymore.
Excuse My Grandma
Please Excuse My Grandma’s New Look for 2025
So often on Excuse My Grandma, we say whether something is Grandma Gale approved. So was their relationship Grandma Gale approved?
Excuse My Grandma
Please Excuse My Grandma’s New Look for 2025
Are any other presidents' relationships grandma-gal approved?
Excuse My Grandma
Please Excuse My Grandma’s New Look for 2025
Although there's more press now. There could have always been issues with all the relationships.
Excuse My Grandma
Please Excuse My Grandma and the Golden Bachelorette
Welcome back to another episode of Excuse My Grandma. It's Kim and my co-host Grandma Gail. And today we're so excited about our guest Joan Vasos from The Golden Bachelorette. Joan has captured our hearts on this season of the show so far and her journey to find love later in life is so relatable to so many people.
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Please Excuse My Grandma and the Golden Bachelorette
Wait, so I was so curious because I loved speaking of the sleeping arrangements when all the guys were in the mansion and they were like fighting over. Well, I go to the bathroom 10 times a night, so I have to be through the door near the door and all of that.
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And so do they actually have to stay together in those rooms or is that like a bit?
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Yeah, maybe. That is so crazy because I feel like, especially even now in my late 20s, I'm like, I can't share a room. I'm not in college anymore, especially years later. It's like, would you do it, Grandma? Grandma?
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Yeah, I agree. Have your kids taught you anything about love or relationships that you didn't expect that you kind of took into this process? Hmm.
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So we had our listeners write in some dating questions. So I thought we could go through a few of them, a little quick round, and see what Grandma and Joan think about these. So the first one is, how do you deal with an invasive mother-in-law? Grandma, why don't you go first?
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Okay. Second question, natural or lab created diamond? What are your thoughts?
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Yeah. Joan, what's Neil Diamond, or not Neil, Neil Lane doing these days? Neil Lane with the diamonds.
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I feel like I'm like, you know, I've been dating in New York in my 20s the last few years and we complain how hard it is as is. And I wonder, though, if people kind of mature. So maybe that makes things a little bit easier because I feel like the men... at least understand what it's like to have a successful relationship at some point.
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Yeah, love that. Okay, last one. Do men ever really feel ready or old enough to have kids? 29-year-old says he wants more time.
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Yeah, agreed. Okay, we're going to end the episode with a game. Grandma Gail's old-fashioned dating quiz. So this is rapid fire. And we're going to see if Joan is more traditional or modern when it comes to finding love. Okay, the first one is, would you rather receive a call or a text if it's just to say hi from your partner?
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Would you sleep with someone on the first date?
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Would you move in together before getting engaged or wait until you're engaged or married to live together?
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Should one person pay for the date or should you split, alternate?
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Yeah, makes sense. Do you think they should ask for parents' permission before getting engaged or is that outdated?
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Yes, blessing. And should you soft or hard launch the relationship, meaning should you post the person on your social media or should you keep them off social media until some sort of milestone like an engagement?
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Joan, you are so much fun. Thank you so much for joining us. Tell everyone where they can follow you. Obviously, The Golden Bachelorette is still airing. Anything you want them to know?
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Next time you're in New York, come with your mom. Cause we'll do it together. We'll do it together. That would be great. We'd love that.
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With your daughter too, you've been doing like a little bit of quizzing each other on modern terms and stuff, which we do all the time.
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Thank you so much again and good luck with everything.
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So we're going to chat to her about the whole groundbreaking season and her journey and of course her thoughts on finding love at any age. So Joan is joining us virtually. Thank you so much for being here.
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But when you were on The Golden Bachelor, how badly did you want a spoiler? Because it was like your friends on the season at that point. Didn't you want to know who like got engaged?
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Have you been watching yourself? And is it as you expected when you were going through the filming process?
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an episode or you know sometimes i'll drink wine and talk about it and like give our predictions i love that whole process of it yeah i think there's a reason the bachelor franchise is something that there's a new episode every week and it's not all dropped at once and then you're binging it because it creates that fandom and bachelor nation and we're all like at the edge of our seats and it really creates like stars out of it which i i feel like you've definitely become and
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So I had a question. So you have, you told the guys, I don't remember if it was the last episode or the one before that you might not ever be a hundred percent open to love, maybe 90%, obviously because of John, do you still feel that way?
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Yeah, it's so true because you don't have a finite amount of love to give. Obviously, you love your kids, you love your grandkids, you love your friends, and you can have love for multiple people. Obviously, it's different when it comes to romantic relationships, I'm sure. And I know you talked a little bit about the guilt that comes with that.
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But I guess if you were to give advice, you would tell people not to hold on to that guilt.
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We talk a lot about generational differences and finding love on our podcast. Have you noticed in this time around or with talking to your children, any, I guess, differences of how love has changed over the years since years ago compared to now? Obviously texting and dating apps and all of that, but I guess you didn't have to go on the apps really much.
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Mm-hmm. Well, so you're finding love in this journey, but you're also being filmed doing it. You're on a TV show. I think so many people are curious about if that impacted your experience to be vulnerable and the age old question, I guess, of like, how much was it you choosing people on the one on ones versus the producers choosing it? And I guess what was the intervention there?
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That's great. You would like that. I know. I'm like, I want someone to produce my dates for me. That sounds great. A helicopter ride?
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What was your most fun date that you went on?
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I do think what you're saying is interesting, though, because I feel like as a viewer, I loved watching the golden Bachelor and Bachelorette much more. I mean, I love all of it, but then the I guess regular Bachelor and Bachelorette. And I think it is a little bit about now that I'm thinking about it, the approach of.
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The way that they're making the show where I feel like they do really want you guys to look good because they want to give people silly and knots. But I think like especially on Paradise and stuff like they do kind of make them they probably serve them a little much to drink. Or maybe it could be that when you're younger, you make more mistake or like you aren't thinking as much about it.
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Welcome back to another episode of Excuse My Grandma. It's Kim and my co-host.
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The other things, employment status. So if you were unemployed, unemployment is linked to living with a partner, tended to age more slowly.
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And then- Genetic factors account for 2% of the variation in aging as well. So that's actually pretty minor compared to the environmental.
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Super interesting. I was watching Kardashians the other day and she met Kim and a few of the Kardashians actually met with this guy. He's the creator of Venmo, but he sold it. And now he does all this like bio hacking genetic stuff.
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research i guess on living longer and he looked like a totally different person but he totally lives like like almost like a vampire because he probably doesn't go out in the sun but he looked like and eats extremely like restrictive way and he like thinks that he can evade like he could be immortal if he well maybe he has to freeze himself yeah
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Let's do the rewind. Let's do the rewind. Grandma, are you watching White Lotus, by the way? Because that's what I know.
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seen, I guess, three episodes now that have been out.
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I actually didn't really pick up on the health part other than they're in Thailand and they're supposed to be like Zen and everything.
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maybe i don't know i don't think the message are you enjoying it i love it it's so good okay um but it's like a murder mystery so i have my theories um right but i won't spoil anything they're very smart these guys they created a very very good uh program it's so good yeah okay let's do grandma gail's voicemail
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so this one was written in this week and then we'll see what we think so she said i'm 73 and wanted to share a funny story i have an identical twin sister and we went to the same college one day i was reading a book on campus when a guy kissed me Oh my gosh. Oh my gosh. We were easy to tell apart. She was thinner, had different hair, and was more glamorous.
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Later, I learned from a friend that she confronted her boyfriend at his frat house, kissed him, and told him, you can't tell me apart from my sister, and then she slapped him and walked off. It was funny, but I also felt conflicted. Did I do the right thing by telling her? Was he asking for the slap?
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By the way, my sister was a theater major and did some acting and TV shows in the late 70s and 80s, so part of me wonders if she enjoyed that little performance at the frat house.
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Anything to say to women out there for an International Women's Day?
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Or he was and he was a weirdo.
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But she's 73 now, and this was clearly 50 plus years ago.
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It's been bothering her. I think this is a little bit of a case, too, of like it sounds like she compares herself to her sister a lot of being like the prettier, glamorous, more glamorous sister. And I think like realize your own self-worth and like you can find a guy who's right for you. You don't have to be looking for what your sister is looking for. Exactly.
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Okay, this week we're doing 1950s slang. So tell me if this is a phrase you think we should be using again. Cruisin' for a bruisin'.
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What about bash? Is that like a party, I guess? Like let's throw a bash?
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Excuse My Grandma While We Talk Oscars and International Women’s Day
Okay, so then no. What about an ankle biter, like a misbehaving kid?
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Apparently they were slang, says the research.
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Excuse My Grandma While We Talk Oscars and International Women’s Day
Yeah, not great. Let's leave that one in the past. Okay, what about dreamboat?
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No. What about the bee's knees? Like when something's good, it's the bee's knees, right?
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Excuse My Grandma While We Talk Oscars and International Women’s Day
Okay. So let's just go with dreamboat.
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questions that you all wrote into us on our instagram stories a little bit more background about us so um grandma i'm sure we have spoken about this but what what age did you become a snowbird uh when i was in my late 30s when my children went to college my late 30s that's still kind of early
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Okay. What's your advice on getting out of a wardrobe rut?
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Yeah, I like that. Do you have a fashion trend that you want to see make a comeback?
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Excuse My Grandma While We Talk Oscars and International Women’s Day
So let's catch up a little bit. I haven't seen you in, I don't know, a week and a half.
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I don't see this as much in like real life, but I know on the Oscars carpet this week, I saw a lot of gloves. Oh, it was beautiful. There were a lot of vintage silhouettes that were modeled after that time.
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Well, not yet. You never know. Okay. Um, last one, how do you stay hopeful about dating?
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Excuse My Grandma While We Talk Oscars and International Women’s Day
Great. Okay, Grandma, thank you. It was so nice catching up over Zoom. I'll see you in the city in just a few days. Okay. And thanks, everyone, for listening. Follow us on social media. Excuse my grandma. My personal Instagram is Kim Merstein if you want to follow me when I'm not with Grandma. And we will talk to you next week.
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My birthday dinner, not our birthday dinner. It was your birthday.
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We are doing a remote podcast. I'm in New York. Grandma's in Palm Beach. And it was really easy to set up this Zoom call.
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Excuse My Grandma While We Talk Oscars and International Women’s Day
Well, so my birthday dinner was at the restaurant Milos, but I still think the clientele maybe was a little older. Oh, yes. Well, it's very expensive restaurant. Yeah.
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Beautiful. It looks like the one in Hudson Yards. I don't I haven't been to the one in Midtown, so I don't know what that one looks like.
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Excuse My Grandma While We Talk Oscars and International Women’s Day
Oh, I forgot what it was. It's some special coconut.
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But they let you look at the fish before. Well, they do that in all of them. Yeah, but I don't like to look at the fish because they just stare back at you. And I that's there.
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The big fish, yes.
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And it was nice. It was you and Poppy, my parents, and Zach. It was very intimate. But my friends still want to do something for my birthday. And I'm kind of over it now. Yeah, I was going to say. I also didn't care this year. I don't know.
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But like my girlfriends are still like, Oh, we want to like, you know, do a dinner or something. So this Friday, I know I'm seeing you Friday during the day, but at night I was going to just organize a dinner, but like, I don't know where would take a T I want to do at least a table of like six or eight.
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Yes. But the ability for you to have set up a podcast on your own is more than most people my age can even do. So it just was a lot of growing.
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No, of course not. Like anywhere downtown is so impossible. That's somewhat trendy and relevant now.
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Um, also, um, I wanted to, wait, what did you, oh, you just said something that reminded me. Um, oh, Chez Fifi on the Upper East Side. Okay. So that's like, apparently it's in a townhouse and it's impossible to get into.
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Yeah. Otherwise, this week I have this UJA charity event that I honored. Well, I'm co-chairing the event. It's so far we've sold almost 800 tickets. Oh, my gosh. It's a big event. So anyway, if you guys are listening, because this does come out Thursday early morning, you can probably still get your last chance ticket or get your ticket at the door. Tell them where it is, Kim.
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it's in chelsea piers at the lighthouse and it's for people in their 20s and 30s young adults who want to be connected with um other young jewish people it's sushi open bar um and this is one of those things we always say where you meet people this is a perfect place uh you know it's no guarantee but amongst the 800 people there has to be somebody that that ticks your box
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Especially with like, single Jewish people, they're always looking for other single Jewish people. Yeah. And so that's like, it kind of becomes a singles mixer a little bit. Which is good. Like in the past, obviously not this year, but in the past years, I always at least got one date out of it.
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I mean, it's being a female founder, owning a business. Your career has evolved so much.
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Well, even if you're not religious.
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Exactly. So yeah, lots of fun events this week. Also work stuff. So definitely check out our social media because we'll be posting more on there. Anything else I missed while you were here? No.
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You have so many Hermes bags. Why would you want the fake ones?
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Why don't you show your real ones? That's even better.
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A real Birkin with a fake Birkin.
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Okay. That sounds good to me. Let's move on to the drama club. Let's talk about the trending topic of the week. Did you watch the Oscars?
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Wait, there was nothing political other than Conan's like.
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Did you watch that?
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But this topic of the movie was about that. I think, sure, if it's a movie that is like Barbie or whatever, Wicked, and then they're coming on and talking about that, it's odd. But this was a movie about Gaza.
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It won costume design.
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No, but it was amazing because it was the first black man to win the award, which is very cool.
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Yeah. Yes. So it's funny because I watched it with Zach and he said that when we watched it, I was like, this isn't good, but I don't think I said that. Cause I think what I, what I said and what I feel is it feels like an indie movie. The budget was only $6 million.
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It's taking us back to our early days of Excuse My Grandma where we were really doing all of the setup every time on our own.
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It was an indie movie, but it was enjoyable. It was like, I was on the edge of my seat, but I wasn't worth an Academy award. I was shocked it was nominated for Best Picture.
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I don't think so, because I think the big productions make the most money in the box office.
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But why? Because it's not about fan vote. It's about the like the of the artists in the academy. Would they?
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Anora was all first-time filmmakers. That's up and coming. You're saying there should be an award for box office hits within the... For the ones that make the money. Those aren't little movies. That's the opposite of what you're saying. The up and coming people are the people winning these awards. The ones making the big movies. And they're not getting.
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And they're not actually getting the recognition. Then there should be a category less about, I don't know, artistic. I mean, because like Wicked is a big box office movie and it was nominated.
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Apparently billions of people tuned in.
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Yeah, well, lazy or just evolving, we're focusing our time on other things, maybe, and the things that we can get help on, we get help on. But I wanted to say, being female founders is an amazing thing. Coming up is International Women's Day. I think it will be the day after this episode comes out, actually. So... Yeah, just wanted to say thank you.
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That's what they said.
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I think I think most of social media. Yeah, well, that's who's watching. Well, that's who they're hearing it to. That's everybody. I think that I think that not not everybody maybe is tuning in, watching it live. But anything that's being clipped up as a viral moment, everyone on social media is seeing, which is most of the population.
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You have to be in the theater for a few weeks to be eligible.
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But a lot of them, yeah.
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Let's move on to the grandma report. It's the article. It's a recent study published in Nature Medicine. They say that these are the things that really age you.
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So environmental influences are socioeconomic status. So lower socioeconomic status was associated with accelerated aging.
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Excuse My Grandma While We Talk Oscars and International Women’s Day
Okay. Some other things, home ownership. So not owning a home correlated with increased biological age, residing in deprived areas contribute to faster aging. And then lifestyle factors, smoking, not being active, drinking alcohol. Those I feel like are, we know those. Yeah.
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I feel a lot more confident in my job now. So I don't think that is always how it is, but again, I'm my own boss. So I don't trust as myself in the same way that I would, you know, be held to a standard by other people. So we're doing the show remotely and my back nerve pain that I was describing gets worse and it gets really hard to do the job.
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I took medical leave and then I started working really part-time again for Cheddar. And I still have dreams about it actually that I forgot I was working part-time and I have to get back to my computer.
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then when i was working part-time i was living with my grandparents because it was covid at that point i had to come to florida and that's when the concept of excuse my grandma got into my head and we all know the story of excuse my grandma and i'll get to that a little bit more how that came to be in that moment um
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I graduated from Cornell in 2018, and I graduated with an English and media arts degree, but I didn't have a job yet because in that industry, you basically just see the job posting when they're posted. It's not like finance or something where they take a new group of analysts every year. So very rarely is something posted – in advance of graduating.
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But I'll go back a little bit to talk about the relationships and the dating of this time, because it was almost equally as confusing as my work life. So when I first started my job in news, I was still dating my college boyfriend, which was like a five-year relationship. And it was a hard transition for us.
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I remember arguing a lot and it was someone I was with for so long during these like important stages of your life. College, you're out on your own, you're learning who you are. So there was not necessarily a big trauma of the relationship. We just weren't moving forward. I realized he was missing some of the things that like I have in my boyfriend now. I realized that...
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We weren't growing together. So we broke up in 2020, February, 2020. So I'm like, I'm gonna be single. I'm gonna hit the town. Three weeks later, global pandemic.
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Early COVID, when I'm in the Hamptons with my family, when you're like really not leaving the house and everything's remote and everyone's scared, I was just doing FaceTime dates and maybe a social distance walk with people that I was meeting on dating apps. Then I don't even want to go back to that time because it's like so scary to even think about.
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But eventually, still during COVID, I went down to live with my grandparents to Florida. And that's when dating and being outside, especially in Florida, it was more acceptable. And during that time, I did meet one guy on Raya, one of the dating apps, and that actually lasted for like six months. But it was a situation ship. We were never official. And that one really cut me deep.
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And there's so many stories I can I can get into about him. He was really like artsy, always made me laugh. Realized that's the kind of dynamic that I like in a partner. Also something I feel like I have with my boyfriend now. Except this guy was like non-committal, really flaky. If it was a Saturday night, he wasn't with me. I don't know where he was. So I was not a priority in his life.
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Excuse My Solo: Career and Dating in My Early 20s
I was just like when it was convenient. But I really liked him. And work-wise, we actually had a really similar job. He had a podcast before I had a podcast. And I remember when I came out with Excuse My Grandma, we had just cut things off a few months before. And one of his friends commented on my post and was like, you're just doing this because he had a podcast. And I was like, oh my god.
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Excuse My Solo: Career and Dating in My Early 20s
He doesn't own podcasts. It was actually... One of those moments where I was like, I'm just not listening to this hater because my desire to- I'm still doing it and I don't care about him now. So like, it had nothing to do with him. My desire to like follow this path wasn't because of a guy. So that was a little strange, I remember, but-
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Because he understood my career and the entertainment industry, I really was enamored by that. And at a time you're confused and looking for someone that has a little bit more information than you, I feel like you want that person in your life. You want them to help you. You are seeing the kind of opportunities that they're getting and someone who gets you.
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Excuse My Solo: Career and Dating in My Early 20s
It feels really good at a time, even now, when you feel like not that many people in the world understand you. It's funny because we got to a point, me and that guy, where I was like, do you want to be more serious with me or end things? And he was like, yeah, I don't want to be more serious. So we obviously had to break up if I had any self-respect left.
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I think grandma saw that one coming from a while away. You know, I wouldn't tolerate that all now, knowing what I know. So I think that was just that time in my life where I was at my age, not having had an experience like that before. Now that I have, not just with him, but with other non-committal guys. And by the way, this guy is like 10 years older than me, maybe a little less.
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And so right away, I was like, let's hit the ground running and look for entry level jobs. I did a lot of internships in college, both during the summers and then also when I was on my winter breaks, because I have always been very career focused. And I felt like the more experience I was able to get, then the more answers it would give me about what I want to do.
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I think that now in my current relationship, I feel like... it has all the things that I was missing in that emotional support and someone who shows up for you and you don't have to wonder where you stand. And so I'm really grateful that with Zach, my boyfriend, we have that kind of dynamic. And by the way, it's kind of something you can see about someone pretty early on. The first time I met him,
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Which, by the way, I don't know if people know. I can't remember if I've told the story. I don't think I have. Because I talk to my friends, but sometimes I forget that I don't fill in you guys. My friend, who I met a few years ago, she was like, you would get along with my brother, which is Zach. And she actually said it in a way because of work. We had a lot of synergies there.
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And kind of what I'm saying now, I was like, I want to meet someone who knows about the industry, not even as a date. The three of us had dinner. He came in from LA where he lives. The three of us had dinner in New York. He wasn't coming in for this. He had work here.
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Um, and three of us had dinner and it very quickly was a connection between me and him that after I was like, okay, I want to go on a date with this guy. But when someone understands like your work and what you're all about, it actually makes you feel connected to a person romantically or not. Like you...
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I wanted him in my life in some way I remember saying goodbye that night we hugged like usually I wouldn't care about meeting my friend's brother if I never saw them again but I like half hugged him side hug goodbye and I was like I kind of want to see this person again which was an interesting feeling and eventually he kept traveling in from LA and we got
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We hung out more and we got more serious and now it's a long distance relationship. But my point is, even though I didn't know I was gonna date him, from early on, I knew that he's not the kind of person who would make you guess where you stood. Or that he's the kind- I knew he was the kind of person who would be supportive of me and my job and all of that. So...
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That is something that I feel like with time you learn to prioritize someone who like actually hypes you up, makes you feel good. And not only select things that they think is cool, but like just supports everything that you do. I don't regret any of my career or dating decisions because they got me to where I am today. And I must've been unfulfilled enough to,
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in those relationships that weren't doing it for me in my job that I wanted to change and I went a different path. So if I would say anything, it would be trust your gut more because if you believe in yourself that this moment, this job, this person
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something doesn't feel right and you change it, no matter what, that was the right decision to change it and not just to ignore and urge because that's how you grow. And I know it's confusing to make those kinds of decisions. Sometimes you have to flip a coin. And even when you flip a coin, a lot of the times you're like, okay, well, I wish it landed on the other thing.
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And then there's your answer. Coin's never gonna tell you. This is something my grandma actually says. Coin's not gonna tell you the answer, but it's going to make clear the answer that you kind of already know. So I even had a call with my team who I also don't talk about a ton.
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There's a lot of people behind the scenes that help Excuse My Grandma be what it is, including Eliza, who I've been working with for a few years now, actually, I think maybe two years. And she put together an amazing team who all help with Excuse My Grandma. And Eliza is like my right-hand man and woman. And we actually had a call. We have calls all the time.
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We had a call the other day where still, even now, when you guys are listening, you might've think, okay, she has, she did what she was trying to do. I have so much more that I want to do. I have so much that I'm hard on myself about. And I still struggle with decisions every day of where to take this business, personal decisions, everything. So that really hasn't I mean, I'm 28.
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Which to an extent is true because you can't figure things out in your head. Like you really do have to live them and try things in order to see what you actually like. But the big topic of this episode is kind of going to be the confusion that you feel in your 20s on all levels. Especially career, but also relationships and really everything because... I am still dealing with this.
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As I said, like, it's I'm still trying to figure things out. But I think Hopefully we can all do it together and chat things through and let me know if you related to or have advice about anything that I mentioned in today's episode. I'm really happy I could share a little bit more and we can have this one-on-one time because I feel like if I brought up the situationship...
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grandma would be like, don't talk about him. Or like, why do we have to talk about personal business? And I'm not saying his name, but like, I want to relate to you guys. It's also a form of therapy for me. I get to think over these things. And I want you to really understand why I started Excuse My Grandma and why I do it every day. Because obviously a big part of it
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is my relationship with my grandma. I want to share that with all of you. I want you to find entertainment and joy and relate to it and think of your family members when you watch us. But I chose this medium of entertainment, of social media, of content creation for a reason because I love creating and I love
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Welcome back to another episode of Excuse My Grandma. It's your host, Kim. This week, we are just going to talk, me and you. Grandma Gail and I obviously have a ton of episodes coming out, but I thought this would be a good opportunity in these Excuse My Solo episodes to talk without grandma, without a guest. So it can be a little chiller. You can get to know me a little more.
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accomplishing what i just mentioned of that connection with family through something like this and so i'm working on doing that every day and i hope everyone likes it if not i'll take that into consideration And tell me what you think about the solo episode. You're going to see me and Grandma back together next week.
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And if you want to follow my personal account, as well as Excuse My Grandma's account, that is Kim Merstein on Instagram. Otherwise, follow me and Grandma on TikTok or on Instagram at Excuse My Grandma. These episodes will also be put in full if you want to watch it on YouTube. If you're not already watching on Spotify or listening on Apple. And I'll see you next week. Bye.
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I'm about to turn 29. And it's very hard to not feel like every little decision you make is going to represent what your future is or... That one decision isn't calling the shots for everything to come forward. So it's like, if I decide I want to work in this industry, that's what my life is. And that's not true because people pivot and your desires pivot and all of these different things.
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So I'll get into times that I've kind of experienced the questioning. And I'm an overthinker as followers of Excuse My Grandma probably know. My grandma's very calling the shots, telling me what to do. And I like mulling over every emotion, which is kind of why I lean on her because it's easy for someone else to make the decision. But it is part of growing up too.
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So when I graduated college, I first worked for a streaming news network called Cheddar. I had an internship there one summer, and then again, I helped out with the inauguration. So I think that was, I guess, over one of the breaks I was home from school. So I already kind of had my in there and tried to keep up with some of the people there, even when I was back at school.
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And so it was definitely one of my first calls when I was looking for full-time jobs. My other internships, I worked at NBC. I worked at Tribeca Film Festival. And so I knew I wanted to be in entertainment. I thought it was going to be acting, something I still dream about and I'm thinking about maybe I should consider again.
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But I liked the on-air stuff and I felt like, especially with these jobs in media and entertainment, beggars can't be choosers. There's not a million options. And even if there were a few different job options posted, you might... slash probably won't get it. So anything I got offered, I was saying yes to. So with cheddar, the entry level role was as a production assistant.
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My entry level salary was about $30,000. And Thank God I'm in a fortunate position that I actually lived at home with my parents for a few years. It's crazy to think now because sometimes I'll make that on one brand deal alone. And when people tell you don't leave your steady job, you don't know how things are gonna turn out.
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Sure, but oftentimes steady job doesn't necessarily mean you're making more money or that you're working harder. So I started as a production assistant, my roles were basically, you would have multiple stories you needed to write per day, basically 30 seconds scripts for the anchor to read. So in the beginning, as a production assistant, I would probably get assigned two to five a day. And
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You're using all of these different technologies where you are writing the scripts into, you're adding those video elements to play as B-roll over the story, you're telling the editors what they need to cut, and it all happens on different softwares that you have to learn. The growing pains were painful.
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Like with any job that's your first job, especially one that was an industry that seems to be very specific, you can't really transfer a ton of skills into it. Like you really learn on the job. So I was the kind of person, I would walk around everywhere with my notebook and I would write every single thing down.
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And I remember a boss of mine there, he was like one of the executive producers of the show, was like, from day one, because I ended up staying there for about four years, I remember you walking around with your notebook. And it was just, he was like, you don't really see that. Working hard looks different for everyone, but it was very apparent that I wanted to learn as much as possible.
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I'll tell some more stories that maybe I shouldn't or wouldn't want to tell in front of grandma. So yeah, I think we could talk about different things all the time. I'll be relaxed. So I want to also hear from our listeners. What do you want to know about me? Because I honestly am an open book person.
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So I'm the kind of person, like, I had extra time for test taking. Like, I am a little bit slower in my work habits. And so it was really hard to pump out stories as soon as they were becoming available. You want to be...
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timely you want to be current you want to make sure you're not reporting something too late and you want to make sure you're doing the most up-to-date version of a story and there's all these things that go into it so I had amazing mentors there Liza she's probably not listening but she was great um and had patience with me and you really need that at a company
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I didn't love every co-worker I had.
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I would say one of the things I sort of regret is on days where I wasn't feeling well, whether it had been I had the flu or I ended up developing my neck and back pain at this job because I was constantly on the computer for 10 hours a day with no breaks, I kind of wish I took breaks and that the people around me, and if there's any managers of teams listening to this, like,
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You know when someone's working hard, but don't push them when they don't seem like they can handle it or they don't seem well. Or if they ask for a day off, like, I would get guilted really, really badly if I... wasn't feeling well and couldn't come in, which wasn't that often. I worked holidays. I really busted my ass.
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And I think that's a big difference now where obviously I run my own company. I work for myself with Excuse My Grandma as a creator. And when we're working with brands and partnerships and all of these things, I push myself. But like knowing what I know now, I... would never like compromise. It's not like I don't hustle in the same way.
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I don't think I would work really, really to the bone for something I didn't care about for someone I didn't care about in the same way. I think I have the luxury now to only kind of work on things that I feel passionate about, which isn't easy for everyone to say, but That's the one thing I think I would do over. It was also the first time I was in an office setting really of any sort.
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And I remember that being really stressful too. I came, I was still living with my parents as I said, and I came home at the end of the day and I just collapsed onto the floor my first week, I remember. And I was crying hysterically and I was like, I cannot do this. And my mom, love her obviously, but she is of the mindset of, you don't have to do it.
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I'm private largely compared to most influencers that I'm not posting all my friends and my boyfriend and that kind of thing. But I want to connect with everyone. I want to share experiences. And yeah, I'm curious to know what you all are curious about. So I thought this week we could talk about how the career of Excuse My Grandma came to be. I've done a solo in 2024.
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Like, if it makes you miserable, like, quit tomorrow. Who cares? And my dad is like, you can't quit. You just started and everything gets easier. So... It was hard because I care so much about work. I want to be working, but I felt so out of my element and it's something new and that's scary. And I remember that feeling so vividly.
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And sometimes if I'm in a new experience now, I'm like, holy shit, I need to decompress. But nothing was like that intense of an emotion. Could have been that maybe that's not what I was supposed to be doing. with my life, but who knows? So I ended up staying there for a few years, as I said. So I went from production assistant. Another big job I had as a PA was
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running the teleprompter, so when you know anchors are speaking, they're reading a script, it looks like they're looking in the camera, but they're reading a script, if you've ever seen the movie Anchorman, and someone manually in the control room, which is a dark room with a million TVs that's freezing because the equipment can't overheat, someone in the control room, the lowest common denominator,
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runs the teleprompter, which is essentially twisting a wheel with your hand and following along the anchor's speech patterns. And they can't, they won't know what to read if you don't scroll. So the show can't, like, it's actually a really important job, but you have to be paying such close attention for hours a day. to make sure you're following along.
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And sometimes when you'd space out for even a second or look away for even a second, they'd be like, everyone in the control room would be like, teleprompter. And you'd be like, oh my God, oh my God. And sometimes not your fault, but it'll like just spaz and it'll scroll really fast. And then it's your job to get back to where you were. God, I'm having PTSD.
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Anyway, that was a big part of my job, random. Eventually, I work my ass off and I become an associate producer. Basically, the one to three stories I was writing becomes three to seven stories, and I'm still learning from those around me. Around then, I think... I was looking around and I was like, what is my trajectory here? Who here do I want to be like?
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I look at the head of the company who was amazing. Do I want to be like him? I don't know. I look at the head anchors. Do I want to be like them? Maybe, but not specifically reporting maybe on news. I liked the on-air aspect of it. Then I look at the head producers. Is that what I want to do with my life? And the answer was no. I didn't want to be a news producer.
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I didn't picture myself in this environment forever. So... I was like, I always wanted to do the on-air stuff. And there would be reporters, not the main anchors, but reporters who would do like a five-minute segment a day on something specific. So... I was thinking I want to do pop culture entertainment news on air. That would be amazing to get my own segment.
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Why not ask the executive producer about it? So I went to her and she was new. And she gave me an opportunity that you really don't get. I remember the...
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environment being a little toxic but i will be forever grateful for this chance that she gave me which was really only given to me because i begged for it so i don't think ever expect someone to just give something to you but i came i said this was my concept can you at least try me out one time and see how it is and she said if you can still do your current job as an
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and write your entire segment that you're going to report on yourself and cut the video and do everything for it, we'll put it on air as live. This whole show was live. So usually when I'm running the teleprompter, someone else would have to take over teleprompter for me, and my script and everything that I would do as a producer, I produced it all out myself.
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I've only done two or three of them so far, but talking about like my day-to-day business of influencing. But a lot of questions I often get are, what were you doing before becoming a content creator and before Excuse My Grandma? So I will start from there.
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I'd run, I'd put a mic on, and I did it on air. And it went well, and she gave me my own segment every day that we ended up naming Here For It, which no one really says anymore, but at the time, this was 2019, it was a popular phrase to be like, I'm here for it, if you were into something. So...
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That was awesome and I loved it and my heart would be pumping and I'd get so nervous and I'd be live, I'd be reading my own script and then I would ad-lib with the anchors for a few minutes and it was fun. And it was like, you know, silly, lighthearted entertainment, pop culture, the stuff I still like to talk about now. And it was my favorite part of the job, but it was five minutes a day.
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And the other nine hours of the day, I was still doing my normal job. I was working myself crazy, which is my personality. But I think because I injured myself with my back stuff, I was fighting through pain, which... in hindsight, I should have thought more about. So eventually, I think I got promoted to producer, I was a full time producer, I was on air every day. And then COVID happened.
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We did the show remotely, which was really hard. We had to get equipment from home. We were on these like crazy Zoom calls that basically replicated a control room. And I was more comfortable with the job, but I still struggled in a way that I still wanted my producers input and I still didn't know what I was doing half the time, but maybe that's always how it is.
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Well, you went a really long time ago. Do you know what it's like now? What? Vegas. Oh, really? Don't quote me on this, but I went... six years ago, it was like the Vegas Strip. But the falls are still so beautiful. That's the only thing when you're there. Well, there's nothing there, right. No, everything there, it's like Senor Frogs or Gamblers. It's really touristy. Alright, okay.
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Like, not a fan. Let's move on to the Grandma Report. Okay, Grandma, what's the headline? The headline is Planning a Hamptons Weekend. That's rich. The question is also, do you think it's overrated, the Hamptons? I like it.
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But yes, I was out in LA visiting Zach. Nice always to stay at his apartment. He's so clean. He's so neat. Which is, I am not.
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You can put yourself on a Resi-Notify for that.
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Okay. What about, you haven't had the chicken fingers at Surf Lodge, but people post about that a lot. Right. Hyped up. Hyped up. Round Swamp, totally not hyped up. Fabulous.
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Wir sagen, ob es gehypt ist. Oh, ist es so gut, wie Leute es denken?
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Ja. Du bist auch noch nicht bei Stevens Talk House gewesen, aber du hast die Linie gesehen. Mein Bruder hat dir den Memorial Day gezeigt.
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Keiner geht da wirklich hin. Erinnerst du dich an etwas, was früher in den Hamptons eine große Sache war?
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Lass uns über die neuen Plätze sprechen. Du hast die Swifties erwähnt. Crazy Pizza.
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Right, right. The one from Palm Beach that's at the Colony is now at the Maidstone.
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Yeah. Okay, the Sagaponic General Store, I have to see. That is getting so much social media. Your mom loves that.
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I think he bought it for her for her 60th birthday present. Well, I think she's very into food and things. I think she's very talented. Wow, very cool. Mary Lou's, that bar that opened in Palm Beach that I actually didn't go this season, that was supposed to be trendy in West Palm. Okay. Opening in the Hamptons. Where?
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I don't know. I have to look that up. Camp Ruby Rosa.
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And then I think they opened a Bon Bon, that candy place.
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If people are coming to the Hamptons, any staples that they have to go to, restaurants or activities?
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Right. Mit Uber ist es so viel einfacher. Ich konnte mir nicht vorstellen, dass man vor Uber wirklich auf jemanden, der fahren kann, verlangt.
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Was war das letzte Mal, als du in den Nordforken gingst?
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Du kannst auf Red Horse gehen, du kannst auf Citarella gehen, alle Märkte haben das. Rounds, Good for Prepared Foods to put out, andere Restaurants. Ich mag Bobby Van. Oh, ich liebe Bobby Vans Chicken Salad. Nick and Tony's.
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Fabulous, right. Scarpetta at Gurney's is fun if you're going to go to Montauk one night. Arthur and Sons. Side Harbor Tavern that opened. There's so many restaurants and all different types. Yeah, but people want the exact recommendations. Right.
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Yeah, that's fine. And Amagans, or Neapolitan.
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Yeah, the only places I really don't like standing in line anymore is for the bars and stuff. I feel like my social, my nights are starting to look more like yours, where I'm fine having a night in. But like... Dinner party rather than a bar night.
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Es ist nicht schlecht, weil Zach ziemlich zentral ist. Es hängt davon ab, ob du auf der westlichen Seite von L.A. lebst und nach der östlichen Seite gehst.
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It's fun to go to Wolfer. Yeah, sit outside.
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Yeah, on the Friday and Saturday, they have live music in the evening. Right.
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Well, yeah, the Hampton Film Festival has like a summer series where they will do outdoor movies a few a summer. Those are not expensive. That's not an expensive activity. No, I'm really looking forward to that. Sunset Beach is always fun if you go to Sheldon Island one day. Oh, yeah, that's beautiful. So I think those are all really good ones.
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Okay, let's move on to Ask Grandma Anything. Ask Grandma Anything Okay. Places to stay for a 60-plus-year-old couple.
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So it's less people here. It definitely was busy. I will say just generally with New York, like you're so used to seeing people on the street and feeling the energy of people. And I'm always like, where is everybody?
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I don't know what that is. It's like a dollar store? Yeah, well, not a dollar, a five and dime. Okay, I got it.
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Okay, let's do Grandma Gail's voicemail.
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I feel like we were basically on an eating tour. We had a lot of reservations. That's fine.
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Wir müssen über den Hailey Bieber Road Billion Dollar Deal sprechen, der überall auf der Internetseite ist. Um unsere Zuhörer im Hintergrund zu geben. Wenn du es nicht weißt, und Mama, ich weiß nicht, ob du es weißt. Ich weiß es nicht. So that includes a $600 million in cash, $200 million in stock, up to $200 million performance-based bonuses. Good for her.
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Unless, I guess, you could be going to museums or... Oh, you could. You didn't do that at all? We went to a movie lot. We went to Warner Brothers to get one of those tours. You were starstruck. Well, we both love film. And so we get there and it's so cheesy. Like there's like... die nicht mehr Schauspieler sind.
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So obviously her husband is Justin Bieber. There was all this other background too when she got... No, it's not. Anyway, her collaborators on this, on road, are Michael Ratner and Lauren Ratner. And so there's a real business infrastructure behind it. They partner with this celebrity. She only has a handful of products, but they sell out constantly.
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And it's really a masterclass in marketing, branding. It's a masterclass in social media. Right. She's staying as chief creative officer and head of innovation. They're expanding. Was sind deine Gedanken auf, ich glaube, sie ist 28 Jahre alt oder so, wie sie eine Marke baut, die in nur drei Jahren für 1 Billion Dollar verkauft wird? Nun, ich denke, ich bin sehr stolz auf sie.
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Yeah. I mean, I'm sure none of us really probably thought about celebrities and influencers then creating brands kind of on the side that they could become like business owners and entrepreneurs. That's all about That's Kim Kardashian all over the place. Right. Back in your day, was there any beauty brands that had such a rapid rise?
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Rode lehnt sich auch wirklich in die clean-girl-Aesthetik. Es ist sehr minimal. Es hat den Skincare-Benefit. Glaubst du, dass die clean-girl-Aesthetik, die von Branden wie Rode promotiert wird, für ein bisschen dauert?
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Yeah. Okay, let's do the rewind. Anything you're watching on TV right now? I just watched the show Overcompensating. Speaking of influencers, he... was a content creator doing like funny skits and then just sold this TV show that he starred in, wrote to Amazon. How great is that? I'm seeing this with a lot of creators.
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Sie sprechen von Freunden und Schauspielern, die ikonisch sind, aber 30 Jahre alt sind. Weil die meisten der Dinge, die sie jetzt filmen, nicht in L.A. sind. Nein, es ist nicht so, dass es für Netflix ist. Die Studios werden es noch zu Streamern verkaufen. Es ist mehr so, dass... Es ist sehr teuer, viel zu filmen.
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It's really cool, even just like personally to see the power of a personal brand turn actor, showrunner. Like it's inspiring to see someone achieve their goals and be like, oh, we could do that. The show is really, really good.
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It's so funny. I feel like so many people came out of the woodworks as Knicks fans. Like random girls on the street were wearing Knicks hats. Everybody in New York were not a Knicks fan.
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Okay, these old trends, do we want to bring them back today? Jack Rogers Sandals.
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Yeah, but I feel like it had a moment and I'm ready to bring it back. You know what's also back right now? Remember Havianas, the rubber flip-flops? Oh, right, yes. That's like very... In now? In now. Okay. So I ordered two pairs. And they're like $30, which is nice.
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Oh, okay. Instagram filters, like making yourself look better.
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What about tagging a place? I still do this, but if you take a picture at a restaurant and you're tagging the restaurant, it's not super cool to do anymore. I don't know. I've never done that, sweetheart. What do you think? I think it's fine. Okay, so bring it back. Yeah, let's bring it back. What about big straw hats?
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Okay, and then also like puka shell necklaces.
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I've been seeing like rope or gold chains with one statement. That's pretty. Sort of like that. I like that.
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All right, let's leave it in the past. Okay. Alright, thank you all so much for listening. Remember to leave us a review, rate us five stars, press that follow button and follow us on social media where, excuse my grandma, my personal is Kim Merstein. I'll talk to you soon. Bye.
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Sie waren so, hier ist, wo sie das in diesem Sitcom vor 40 Jahren filmten. Und wir waren so, okay. Es war lustig, weil es zwei Tour-Guides gab. Und zuerst kommen wir da und sie waren uns umdrehen. Du hattest einen von diesen Sizzle Reel, fünf Minuten Filme, bevor es anfängt. Okay. And they're like, sit in the front row, everyone.
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And then after, before it starts, they say, actually, you two move to the back row. You three move to this row. They had selection? I have no idea. Maybe it was height.
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No, I don't know what was going on. And then eventually two tour guides come and they say, everyone with the front row. So they divided it up into tour guides.
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Der Mann, der die erste Runde hatte, der Tour-Guide, kam raus und er war energetisch und er war lustig. Und der andere Mann hasste sein Leben. Und natürlich, als wir in die zweite Runde geflogen sind, waren wir mit ihm. Also war er so, oh, ich habe meine Linien nicht richtig gesagt. Und ich war so, oh mein Gott. Also, anyway, es war nicht, es war ein langer Tag.
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Welcome back to another episode of Excuse My Grandma. It's Kim and my co-host. Grandma Gail. So, Grandma, we have seen each other briefly, but we haven't fully caught up because we spent about a week apart around Memorial Day.
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But otherwise we, I mean, it's also fun just like you feel like I would love to get more involved in the TV and film industry and beyond.
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Well, anywhere. Yeah, they film in New York all the time too. It's not even about that. It's like, yeah, I would love to do more in that entertainment side. So it's always fun to feel closer to that. And restaurant wise. I mean, what was your favorite?
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Are you so good? That's what you do there. I swear, all you do is go to Erewhon.
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No, everyone's skinny. Erewhon has healthy, prepared food. It's kind of like Butterfield. Oh, okay. And that's what people compare it to, although it's not a direct comparison.
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There's a lot of smoothies, including the Halle Bieber smoothie. That's the popular one. We're going to talk more about Halle Bieber later. It kind of tastes like a strawberry shortcake.
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Right. And with Okay. Okay. Okay. It's like seaweed. It's gel.
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And Zach was like, what are you doing? Because I'm eating gel. He's like, why is there gel in my fridge? And I was like, it has all these nutrients. And it's really good for... I think seaweed is actually itself. I think seaweed's different. Oh. Seamoss, it's like good for digestion, thyroid, like has all... I think you should stop reading these articles. I promise.
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Well, that's in your building. That's what I'm saying. So, now I'm... Now you're healthy. Now I'm a healthy person. Everything's changed.
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Women in the Sea. I'm surprised you recognized me with only two arms. I know. So yes, Erewhon's a big thing. And then other restaurants. We went to Damian, which is... Have you ever been to the restaurant Cosme in New York? It's like fancy Mexican. Okay. I love it.
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Because I think... I like Rosa Mexicana because I like the guac.
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I'm sure some people like it. It's fine. I liked all the other restaurants more. There's more restaurants there, I would say, that are that middle tier of like, I feel like here in New York, it's like either the really trendy, impossible to get into, too expensive restaurants or like really, really casual. Like I have trouble finding standard good medium. Like a bistro type.
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And there's a lot of that there. We went to one bistro bar at Toile. It was French.
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Well, that's what I'm going for right now. Also Dante Beverly Hills for lunch. Had really nice views of the city. This place Simon. This place RVR in Venice. I will say, I'm not going to say which one. There was a rat. Oh, no.
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Well, we ate at this restaurant and I was like... But I don't think we should just name the name of the place. I won't. I thought it was the best meal. The food was so good. I never had this cuisine really before. Because it's probably full of rats. No, we were having the best meal and then we were waiting on dessert and Zach's eyes go... And I was like, what a roach again? And he was like, worse.
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A mouse might be alright. He said a long tail. So then I jumped up and he said I was wearing those open-toed sandals that we packed. He said it was an inch from my sandal. So, and then he goes, do you still want dessert? I know. I was like, no, we're leaving. Let's go. So, they were very nice and polite about it, but that kind of put a damper.
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And then there was this place, Anna Jack Thai, where I guess during, it's been around for 40 years. And I guess during COVID, they implemented Taco Tuesday, where they eat in the alleyway. Oh, that's fun. And they kept that tradition because it was so popular. So we went and did that. But not only did you eat in the alleyway, they also gave you paper plates and plastic silverware.
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No, no, there was wait service. It's just like supposed to be COVID themed. Oh, okay. But I don't want to be COVID themed.
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I know. It's funny because I feel like usually when I go away somewhere and I am not wherever mom or my brother is, they try to make it seem like I missed the best thing ever. And they didn't even try this time.
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Another spot. I know we've obviously touched on our summers in the Hamptons, but a lot of people are going this summer for a weekend or they go out there or they want to know more about it. So I feel like we should give our top Okay, so let's move on to the Grandma Report. This one is a Hamptons Girl Weekend comes with an outrageous price tag these days.
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So basically it's being compared to Disneyland. The Wall Street Journal reports an individual can drop at least $3,823 in just three days if they splash cash at some of the pricey places beloved by their favorite New York City influencers. Sieh, ich denke, das ist das Problem.
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And hopefully you split that. I mean, you're splitting that amongst girls. But there's that $97 lobster salad.
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People think it's fun. You don't have to take off work. It's easy on the weekends. Well, that's true. And that there's other young people they can socialize with. That they will meet with. And that they'll meet if they go to Surf Lodge or any of those places.
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I think the question is... What do you want out of the weekend? Also, can you do the Hamptons inexpensively? Nein. Also dann solltest du in den Hamptons gehen, wenn du fühlst, dass es einen Schaden auf deine Finanzen stellt?
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Klingt das schlecht, wenn du es nicht erlaubst, irgendwo anders zu gehen?
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I don't know if it's about outdoing, but I think it's about, oh my gosh, my favorite influencers or Bethany Frankel or whoever it is.
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Welcome back to another episode of Excuse My Grandma. It's Kim and my co-host Grandma Gail. Okay, Grandma, let's tell everyone about our Thanksgiving.
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See, I don't like a gift card because I feel like then it's – it almost seems cheaper than if – It's not, though. Yeah, but it almost seems like you're like, okay, I got them a $125 gift card versus giving them a pair of mittens that could have been any price.
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If it's someone who likes tech, you can always get a cool phone case or AirPods. You can, as long as they can return it.
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But I feel like if you don't have a pair of AirPods or something, you know you can get someone that.
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Right, yeah. Ideally, if you're buying gifts for people, you know them pretty well. Otherwise, why are you getting them a gift?
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But I feel like that's cash.
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What's a good gift for a dad?
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So same thing for a grandfather gift. What about a grandmother gift?
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When it comes to getting gifts for your significant other, how far into dating do you think you can give someone a gift? Right.
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Nothing. You connect your Bluetooth. Oh, so then forget that. All right.
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She was fine all summer. And the last time she had this issue was Thanksgiving last year.
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I don't think major.
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I feel well I wouldn't not give a gift just because you could break up unless you're having problems like but you don't even if you're having problems you still could give somebody a little gift yeah I would always if you're with someone I would give them a gift but I I don't think I if you aren't in an actual relationship I think it's weird to give a gift even if you're sort of seeing each other if you're not in a relationship why do you need a gift a month like I think it's
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Yeah, they could. I just feel like I would tell one of my girlfriends if they just started dating someone that they don't need to get a gift. But if they've been dating for more than a month, probably. I don't know.
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Yeah. How much do you think you should spend on a gift?
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She obviously has some anxiety around the... the floors, but maybe when people come into the house and that heightened her already being, being, she needs to shrink.
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Yeah, maybe I'll make some gift guides for the mom in your life, the grandma in your life, your partner. And we can link those on our social media if people want to see some of our recommendations.
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To wear on Thanksgiving maybe?
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They all have every brand.
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So for our article to go over this week, there is this Vogue article that talked about seven lifestyle habits that make Copenhagen Europe's slow aging capital.
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Maybe they're frozen. Yeah. You know what? I'm sure. Cold actually isn't one of the things that they listed, but let's see if we can use any of these in our lives. OK. Creating a cozy home environment. OK. I think Danes emphasize comfort and relaxation at home with. candles and cozy furnishings to reduce stress. Isn't Ikea from there? Ikea's, I thought that was Swedish.
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Well, that's the same area. Same cold area. Regular sauna use, which detoxifies the body. They're very big into health. Non-exercise activity, so cycling, walking, any physical activity that supports cardio. Right, okay. healthy diet, the Danes diet is fish, fruit, vegetable. Comfortable fashion and minimal makeup.
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So you're maintaining your skin healthier, reducing the stress that could be associated with appearance.
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But, yeah, you're connecting with nature. You're simplifying your routines.
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Before we get into our Ask Grandma Anything where listeners wrote in some questions, I thought we could give a little advice about those who are single around the holidays. I mean... It can feel lonely, and it's definitely a time where people are doing cute couple activities and they're cuddled up.
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Yes, and I feel like instead of seeing the holidays as a reminder of your relationship status, embrace that time with your loved ones and doing what makes you happy. Go to a spa.
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You don't have to stress about getting them a gift.
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And I think also taking advantage of any holiday parties you're invited to and events and meetups to connect with new people. You volunteer, you can always meet people.
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But it doesn't taste fried.
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I also think whether you're single or whatever your relationship status is, the end of the year is also a good time to reflect and to shift the focus from thinking about, oh, here are all the things I don't have in my life. And OK, how can I. How many things you really have. Think about how grateful you are to have what you have and then also reflect on what you do want in your next relationship.
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Yeah, it's good.
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Set some intentions for the new year. I know I will be doing that.
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Someone said, I am in love with my friend who's dating someone else. We have the best time. Should I wait for him?
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Then you could waste an opportunity to meet someone else.
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Yeah. Do elegant women need to have expensive jewelry and bags or is it a state of mind?
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I also think you can dress classy without it being designer. Absolutely.
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Top three favorite restaurants in Palm beach.
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Oh, it must be so great. It's so great.
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Well, I like Beach A. That's only there.
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Never mind. What about Lola 41? There's one in Nantucket.
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Oh, Flagler Steakhouse, that's only in Palm Beach.
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But it is good.
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Sometimes things, like, I'm like, oh my gosh, it's overpriced for no reason. I do have good meals there.
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Okay, if you could only listen to one song, what would it be?
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That's a very odd song.
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Don't tell me something from Wicked. Oh, I was going to say... Definitely a musical. Something from a musical. Okay. Or maybe like Somewhere Over the Rainbow.
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Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious. Exactly. I don't think I'd pick that. I think that would annoy me. I like it. Okay. How do you glamify a boyfriend or help him become more stylish?
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I think also things that fit them well. Yes. I think a lot of the time guys look goofy because the pants are too tight or the shirt is too oversized or the sneakers are old or whatever it is. And I think it's those little...
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Right. What's one podcast episode you really want to make? either a topic or a guest?
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Yeah, that's what we needed. We need that turkey.
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Yeah, I agree. That would be... Pretty life-changing.
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I think that, you know, Ellie Zeiler, who came on our podcast really early days. And she actually lives in Israel now. I really enjoy following her. And I think really early on, it was probably a year ago now. It might have been even... I don't know, maybe early this year. Right. She did go to a hospital or something. Well, she went to the hospital, yeah. Yeah.
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Do you have advice for a brand new grandma who lives near her grandchild?
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Totally agree. I think I saw something recently, it was on social media or something, saying what you should find in your partner is not only someone you can grow old with, but someone you could stay young with. Right, that's true. Or stay a child with.
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No, you don't understand. Since I saw Wicked. Well, first, I'll go back a little bit because I was in Mexico when Wicked came out. Otherwise, I would have seen it immediately. I was begging to be invited to every pre-screening and no one invited us. Oh. Oh, that was so mean. I couldn't watch it the day it came out.
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Anything else, Grandma?
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All right. Thank you all for listening and we will see you soon.
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And while I was in Mexico, I was like, the first thing that's happening when we land is we're going to see Wicked. I was with my boyfriend for his friend's wedding in San Miguel de Allende, which was an amazing place. I posted some pictures on my personal Instagram on Kim Merstein. But so the next we got in 11 p.m. So we couldn't go in that night. But the next morning we went to see the movie.
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incredible. I want to get into all of it. You haven't seen it.
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I saw Gladiator for the first time last week because I had never seen it before, so I wanted to see it before potentially seeing this one, and that was a good movie. I don't know about the second one.
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But it shows how people turn up when they need to.
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I actually feel like, if anything, it was probably targeted the most to millennials who, when Wicked came out on Broadway, I was a child. And that's nostalgic for my generation because we grew up. on that show.
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It's for everyone. It's absolutely for everyone. It's for everyone. And it was only part one. And obviously, even if you haven't seen Wicked on Broadway, you've seen The Wizard of Oz.
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So there's things. We're laughing because Grandma didn't know they were even related. I didn't know they were related.
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You knew. You probably just forgot. Maybe I forgot. Yeah, that's the whole thing. It's the prequel to The Wizard of Oz.
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So my entire TikTok is full of wicked clips. Of interviews, of everything. And Cynthia and Ariana have cried in every single interview. Have you seen this? They get emotional. Someone will say, oh, I love your dress. And they'll say,
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oh thank you so much i this was such an important movie for me and i had and this is oh i'm sure it was no whatever and they just they cry and everything they're holding hands for them and what something that's going viral is cynthia says um or or an interviewer had said people really held space for this for defying gravity and now everyone's saying are you holding space oh she was like oh wow that that really means so much to me how old are they
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Are they in their 20s or a little older? I would say like early 30s, but let's see.
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Ariana's 31. All right. Okay. And Cynthia Erivo is 37.
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Very good. But a lot of people are saying they look a little unhealthy because they both look very thin.
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So let's talk about the numbers because Moana, Wicked, and Gladiator.
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And that's a sequel. And by the way, that devoured the competition. Good. With $135 million over the 2021.
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And $221 million during the five-day holiday season.
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Yeah, and Wicked wasn't too far behind. Good. $80 million over the traditional weekend. That's a lot. $117 million during Wednesday to Sunday. Okay. And then Gladiator 2 was number three with $30.7 million over the traditional weekend. Well, I would have figured that. $44 million during the five days. And by the close of the second weekend, I think Wicked...
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Yeah, 214.3 million domestically, which pushed it over the lifetime gross of Greece in 1978. So now it's the most watched movie musical. Wow, wow, wow. Which is pretty crazy.
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Yeah, and people are saying Glicked weekend, so Gladiator and Wicked. It's a fun weekend. Sort of like Barbenheimer, when Barbie and Oppenheimer came out. I don't know if it quite had the same rivalry or comparison.
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But that was more comparable, I feel like, of two huge movies. I don't know if... Well, Oppenheimer is special. And Barbie, those felt bigger maybe than... Than Gladiator? I don't know.
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Big budget. In both. Yeah. Also, people are talking about how Ariana met her current boyfriend, Ethan Slater, who was SpongeBob on Broadway while on set in 2022. And they had both left their spouses for each other during that filming. He had had, he had just had a baby during that time. So that's like the drama. Okay. But yeah, there's, they're still dating.
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It seems they're together on the carpet. Okay. But that's fun because in the movie you see the first time where, he kind of taps her on the shoulder and she's like, oh, they're not love interests in it, but he loves her in it. So it's just a fun thing to be aware of when you're watching.
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Yeah. And they have all of those Easter eggs to, you know, nods to the Wizard of Oz throughout it and things. So there's a lot to watch for. I will definitely be going again. Okay.
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Yeah, but I went shopping in the Hamptons.
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Yes. So it's so beautiful. That was before too. Yes.
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Don't fix what's broken.
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So it's very nice. I went to Wolfer over the weekend.
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my boyfriend and his family.
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And it was so festive. They had all the lights on the ceiling.
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Yep. I thought it was really nice to all be together in the house. And it's fun in the Hamptons because I feel like it has that fall vibe. Well, you like that.
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Let's talk a little bit about gift giving. Okay. What would you recommend getting a parent, maybe your mom?
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How do you know the brand that they already have?
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Excuse My Grandma's Guide to Etiquette
Welcome back to another episode of Excuse My Grandma. It's Kim and my co-hosts. Grandma Gail.
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So you've been a certified etiquette expert for years. Would love to know how you got into it.
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Yeah, I feel like now it wouldn't be expected to read a book like that. Until you run into a certain problem, you weren't thinking about picking up the book. And I don't know, I do feel like it probably takes a big weight off of your back once you know, OK, I'm doing the right thing.
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Yeah. OK, so I'm excited to actually pull you now and settle some discussions. So we'll do some rapid fire dating party table manner etiquette questions. And then I'm thinking maybe you'll say what you think, Grandma. I'll say what I think. And then Allison will tell us what the right thing to do is.
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Okay, so let's talk about dating first, because we talk about that a lot. The question I used to get all the time, why are you still single? That a lot of people like to ask women. Do you think that's rude, Grandma?
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So how do you think you should ask that question, I guess?
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Right. I think you're right in that asking, are you seeing anyone?
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But why are you even curious unless you do have a setup or something like that?
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That's because I talk openly about, or I used to talk about being single so much, but most people don't walk around doing that.
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But here's another dating one. How to exit a bad date. Do you have to... sit through it? Is there a certain excuse you use? What do you think the right thing is?
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I think I feel the same. I would usually bite the bullet, but there were some times where the waiter wasn't coming over, drinks would go on and on. And I had to be like, sorry, have a early day at work tomorrow. Do you think we could get the check? Or I would say, I did this once. I was like, my back really hurts on this couch. I think we need to like leave. But how would you say we should...
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You like are my paper. You give me sports news,
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Yeah. I think you have, when you're making the plan, you make a plan that you know has a beginning and an end.
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Okay. Last dating one. When the bill comes. I used to say I would do the reach and be like, oh, can I? And kind of go into my bag with no real expectation of taking my wallet out. Do you have to offer to pay if that's not what you want in the dynamic? Grandma.
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But even if you make more money than a man, you still might not want to pay.
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Well, by the way, though, I think obviously there's spectrums of this, but even if a guy isn't making a ton at their job, they can still save enough. It's just a dinner.
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But I have seen on TikTok and stuff that people talk about. It's like jeans, oversized jeans, a little crop top.
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OK, let's talk about parties. I feel like we, is it rude to leave a party early? Or maybe it's not early. Maybe it's one of those parties that goes hours on end. Do you have to say goodbye to the host? Or I like, if it's a lot of people, I do tend to Irish exit, which is just escaping out the back door.
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If it's a dinner party of 10 people, obviously I'm going to say goodbye, but I'm curious what you both think.
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But I don't know what else they expect to wear.
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Who gets a plus one? Who doesn't? Can you be offended if you don't get a plus one?
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There's a lot of single people at the wedding and you know that they'll know each other. Maybe not. But if you're only inviting three single people and not giving them plus ones, it's not the best.
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But I guess people say like they go out to a restaurant in New York and they see like 15 girls walk in for dinner and they're like in a uniform.
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Because my friends are all like, if you're not engaged, you're not getting a plus one.
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But you want your guests to have fun, right? It's tough.
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Okay, let's talk about parties on a smaller scale. Let's say you're having a dinner party. We always get asked about like hosting gifts and things like that. So what is the proper etiquette? Like, should you always bring something with you versus sending flowers or something the next day?
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I know I feel like I've heard don't bring flowers or something that night because it could kind of ruin the aesthetic of whatever they planned in their home. So is there a right way to do that?
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my thing is usually if my friends are having a birthday party or something at a restaurant and i want to bring them a birthday gift but then i feel like if we're not going home after and we're going out but maybe they are going home i'm never sure if i should bring something with me because if other people at the party are bringing something and then i was planning on sending something the next day i don't want them to feel like i forgot right yeah
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Also, if I don't know, I mean, I happen to know a little bit about wine. But if you don't know about wine and then you're just going to like a grocery store or something, like... I know a $30, but is it just a thought? Because people can be picky with their wine.
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Because most people aren't going to buy a $200 bottle of wine as a gift.
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Right. Yeah, because if you're bringing something as your hostess gift, sometimes it's totally fine. But I do have friends that if they're staying with me or something, they'll bring like cookies for my parents, but then they eat the cookies.
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that's all right my parents don't care but it's just like that's an example I feel like um okay let's talk about table manners for a little bit uh grandma and I were discussing this before you came um but having your phone out at the dinner table um is there a if it bothers you is there a way to politely call the person out and say like do you mind not having your phone out
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people don't look the same as new york it might be just like a placebo effect they tie their scarves differently they they wear their bags a little differently it's the same stuff it's just how like you say put it together speaking of i was scrolling through social media the other day and i saw this couple that was out for dinner i think he might have been a famous dj or something well they tried to go to a restaurant in miami but they turned him away because he was wearing a t-shirt oh a lot of people want jackets
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And it's usually not that. I mean, like there are some, friends or my boyfriend who like I know he'll have to do work if we want to go to an early dinner sure but with most of my friends if we're at dinner and we're pulling out our phones it's like to scroll or like check it's nonsense like nonsense it's nonsense yeah um
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Also with food, when you're at a restaurant, I feel like I know this, but I want to set the story straight. If everyone's getting served and only like two people have their food or three people have their food, like when can you start
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But I feel like our family always like kind of screams this at each other when we're at, when we go out for dinner and two people get served and like, let's say Poppy starts eating and then my dad would be like, why are you eating? I haven't been served. And then he's like, two people have been served.
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That's what happens. And then with communication in general, I wanted to just get your perspective on what our older audience who's listening, how they can learn more about modern texting and communication. I feel like, for example, we were talking about this earlier, but Grandma doesn't think you have to respond to a text right away, whereas if it was a friend, I'd be like, that's so rude.
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Excuse My Grandma's Guide to Etiquette
So when there's those generational divides, do we just have to not take it personally?
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Excuse My Grandma's Guide to Etiquette
Yeah. OK, so with Passover and Easter coming up and a lot of people are going to be hosting and having dinner parties and everything else, we thought we would do a little crash course of just how to do a proper table setting. I always end up like calling you. I get confused. I don't host a lot.
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Also, if there's certain things about like how to hold our cutlery and our wine glasses, we're going to go through all that.
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Excuse My Grandma's Guide to Etiquette
Yeah, but do you think that's like an outdated thing? No. Even if the, whether it's a fancy restaurant or just a trendy restaurant or whatever, like the no jeans or no t-shirt rule to me seems outdated as you're saying that's what everybody wears.
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Okay, we have out our table setting. Allison's going to tell us everything that we need to know.
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Wait, can I borrow one and see what I do? I don't know what I do. Hold on. So if I am Yeah, there you go. You're doing great. Do I do that? I think I do that. But does it have to be like that? Basically, for people who are just listening, your fingers have to be straight. And I feel like I kind of curl that.
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plate the fork and knife are face up parallel to the plate because i i didn't realize i thought you do that every time you put your silverware down but then people would think i was finished if i was in the middle so that makes sense that there's different yes codes and it's even this is getting really technical here but
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Thank you. That's a good thing. If you are going to the bathroom or getting up in the middle of the meal, where does your napkin go?
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I didn't realize that. Sometimes I feel like I was putting it on the plate. That's no.
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Right, exactly. OK, what if you're at a dinner party or just out for dinner and it's like family style kind of food? How do you know who to serve first or if you can serve yourself first? I don't think you have to serve yourself first.
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Excuse My Grandma's Guide to Etiquette
I feel like if I'm out with a bunch of girls and the food comes, why can't you put food on your plate first?
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I feel like there's less to catch up on when we're actually in the same place because we're talking outside of the podcast versus I feel like some co-hosts, like they only see each other once a week when they have to record and they like have a list of things they need to catch up on. Sometimes we don't see each other for weeks.
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So if you're on a date and food comes, should I say, can I serve you some first?
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Yeah, I feel like generationally there are manners that are kind of different. Like you would have expected to wear a jacket and a tie and a tie. And also even with like communication and things, we've talked about this, but like there's certain etiquette rules of texting that I feel like generationally are different. Like, you'll leave me a voicemail and I'm like, can you just text me?
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When you're pouring wine, is there like a level it should be poured to? Yes, so you don't want to go past the halfway point. Okay. And then you were going to show us something with tea or coffee, like stirring. So if we use, okay, I'll move this over here.
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Exactly. This is tea and coffee is... You would curl them together. Exactly. Yes. I think I do that one.
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So how do you get everyone's attention? I think that's a hard one.
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We've learned so much. This was such a great demo. As we wrap it up, anything else you want the audience or listeners to know and where they can follow you?
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Like, I am not listening to a voice. To me, like a voicemail is like, now you expect me to take time to listen to this?
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Excuse My Grandma's Guide to Etiquette
Yeah. I feel like I learned a lot with Allison. That was fun. She's terrific.
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To end out the episode, you and I should play a little game of Should We Bring It Back, but with retro manners. Okay. So kissing on the cheek as a greeting, which we still kind of do. Like it's, you know, being like, hi, how are you? Mwah. Mwah, mwah, mwah. On both cheeks.
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Well, I don't think I ever did European style. Did everybody used to do European style? I don't know. It just depends. No. Okay. I don't think that's bad. Yeah, I think it's fine too.
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What about getting the car door for a woman?
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Excuse My Grandma's Guide to Etiquette
Agree. Addressing like adults by their last name, like Mr., Mrs., whoever.
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Excuse My Grandma's Guide to Etiquette
But growing up, when I would go to my friends' houses, I didn't say Mr. and Mrs. Well, then that was their rules.
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so and so this is so and so i don't know i feel like that's been lost a little bit and that like in um more casual to your friends i say mr and mrs but i would to mom's friends i would never say mr and mrs like i know them but you know them very well maybe maybe it's a matter that you just know them better yeah it could be um Okay, having the man order your meal for you.
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Excuse My Grandma's Guide to Etiquette
So like you told him your order first, and then when the waiter comes over, he orders for both of you. Did that used to happen?
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Excuse My Grandma's Guide to Etiquette
Well, also sometimes I text you and like three days later you're like, yeah, I like that shirt. And I'm like, what are you talking about? And then I realize you're referring to a text from three days before.
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I don't think there's anything wrong with it. I feel like usually I'm sharing if I'm out with Zach or something. So then whoever one of us feels like talking to the waiter, we just order for both of us. But it is kind of hard when both people are like, I'll have this. And then they're like, and also this. I feel like one person does take over.
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Yeah. I think bring it back. Okay. Quick Ask Grandma Anything. People wrote in, what is your favorite memory of Kim as a little girl?
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What are things to see for someone's first time in Palm Beach or do?
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But if a friend didn't respond to me for three days, I'd be like, she's mad at me. Something happened. So just, there are like etiquette rules for that.
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I don't even know if I'd go out of my way to do those things as a first-time visitor. Those are, I feel like, I feel like you go to Worth Avenue.
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uh but there's a lot to do and just enjoy the weather and the people yeah we'll get some to we'll get to some of these other questions on instagram um so definitely follow us at excuse my grandma um we're everywhere you we're basically on every social media platform um so we will see you next week bye
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Yeah. I think we need to discuss this further later in the episode. Okay. But first let's do the drama club. Okay. This podcast, The Good Guys, which has Josh Peck as one of the co-hosts who was on that show, Drake and Josh, that I used to watch on Nickelodeon.
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And he's so great. I actually just saw him speak at a meta event for some influencers at the Facebook offices, Instagram offices. Yeah. he finally had Drake, his old Nickelodeon co-host on his podcast. And that was like a long awaited thing. So a lot, it's in two parts and I've seen some clips online and people are like really interested to see them back together again.
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And then obviously there's that bad past that Drake unfortunately went through. I watched the documentary, Quiet on Set, that was a year ago, I think at this point.
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Yeah, he's been talking about it openly for a little bit of time now. Um, yeah. And it, I mean, yes, the whole thing is so sad also, because it's like, you are confused and impressionable and you want a career and you think they're trying to please their adults around them and, and, and they distant the, the, people in power, they distance the children from their families, too.
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But you can think you're really watching somebody. And it's really sometimes, yes, it's the parents involvement, but sometimes it's also just systematically like these institutions changing their ways and having things in place that to make sure they're taking care of their people.
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Right. And we've been talking about this issue now since the documentary. It's been like a year, as I said. But I think it'll be interesting also to be listening to the conversation with
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um josh because i feel like he was on set with him every day as children he didn't even know what was going on so hearing them relive it that way and they just had like the most fun dynamic well i'm glad i'm glad i'm glad he's starting to heal yeah i'm excited to listen um okay let's move on to the grandma report This week there is an article in self.com talking about age gap relationships.
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And they get a bad rap usually. We get a lot of questions always asking, is it okay if we're this amount of time apart? But there are some tips that Self Magazine laid out of like how to actually make it work. But we've also seen it a lot more in the media. I think it was last year in Baby Girl, Family Affair, Bridget Jones. They all portrayed those age gap relationships.
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So here's what they said on Self Magazine as the tips.
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Okay, find shared interests that transcend generations. I agree with that. Like you can connect with someone regardless of their age. Approach your differences with curiosity. So you can try out each other's hobbies, even if you think it might not be something you're interested in, you can embrace a trend from their generation.
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So like, and if the guy is into it, like perfect.
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The article basically says that in that, like, you should get on the same page about your non-negotiables as early as possible. Like, if one person wants a family and one person doesn't. Exactly. That's the biggest drawback. Because then if you're aligned, like, move forward. Yeah. And then like all relationships, it's like, don't let the minor issues fester.
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Yeah, I mean, I think it's like, for example, if one person has an insecurity of, oh, I don't think you're going to like, I'm scared you won't be attracted to me as I get older. Oh, and also taking care of them. Right. Taking care of them.
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Right. So openly talk about those things. And then it's like show the haters that you're a united front. So, you know. like with your friends and your family, it helps to say, I hope you're happy for us and things like that. Let's do Grandma Gail's voicemail.
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Remember, you can always email us your questions, team at excusemygrandma.com, team at excusemygrandma.com, or send us a DM with a voice message or a message on Instagram and just say hi. Or you can leave us a voicemail. There's a link in our story highlights that you can just record it right there. And that's also in our Instagram bio. So this week, someone wrote in. Hi, Kim and Grandma Gail.
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My partner and I have been together for two years and recently moved in together. We get along really well, but I've started to notice little differences in how we handle social situations, especially at the dinner table. I was raised to be mindful of things like not speaking with a mouthful, keeping phones away during meals and waiting for everyone to be served before eating.
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My partner, on the other hand, is much more relaxed about these things and doesn't see them as a big deal. I don't want to come across as nitpicky, but I do think small gestures like these matter. What's the best way to bring this up without making it feel like I'm trying to correct them? I'd love any advice if you have on balancing personal values with differences in a relationship.
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You know what, though? I do do it with you guys, but if I was on a date, I don't bring out my phone. Even if I'm on a one-on-one with my girlfriends, I think maybe it's the one-on-one thing. I feel like I have to be present, and if I want to take out my phone to show them something, I'll say, can I take out my phone and show you this?
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Excuse My Grandma's Guide to Etiquette
But if it's a group, I think I do just look at my phone because I figure that the rest of the conversation will keep going even if I'm looking at my phone.
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And I mean, you could say, like, I know I haven't said anything. Well, that's a good way. But I do feel like I'd love if you didn't chew with your mouth open. It's kind of giving me the ick. In like a...
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Excuse My Grandma's Guide to Etiquette
not such a serious way but just be like i mean i don't know zach does this where if he blows his nose oh i don't think we have to talk about your boyfriend's voice i'm just like please do it in the bathroom like dad does it too like he'll do it in the kitchen i'm like i don't want to hear someone blowing their nose like and then now he just says it in the bathroom but it's a normal bodily function i don't want to hear it oh well that's your problem so whatever i think you can say that well i don't think it should be done at the dinner table yeah yeah
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Excuse My Grandma's Guide to Etiquette
So grandma, we talked a lot about manners and etiquette. So I think it's time to bring in an expert who can kind of settle some of these discussions. So we're going to bring in someone who knows a lot about etiquette. So I'm going to go get her. Okay. Okay. Grandma and I were talking earlier about all the generational differences of manners and etiquette.
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Excuse My Grandma's Guide to Etiquette
So we're so excited because we're finally bringing in an expert. to settle some of these discussions. Alison Shepardock, if you follow her, she's the Elevate Etiquette on Instagram. And we're excited to talk to you. Thanks for joining.
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Excuse My Solo: Spring Flings and NYC Summer
Some of these actually, both of these, I don't think I ever told my grandma. So buckle up. Welcome back to Excuse My Grandma. This week, it's just me, Kim. Grandma's not here, so we're gonna get into the things I probably wouldn't wanna bring up if she were sitting here next to me. So this week, I'm gonna talk about getting back into city life.
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And if you're pleasantly surprised, like I think that's a really good sign to try it with someone. So this summer, I definitely want to enter with intention, both professionally and socially, like literally from my parents supervising my dates to now hopefully planning some adult dinner parties with people I actually want in my life. It's a really full circle moment.
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So I really think this summer is going to be about blending the social and the personal, staying grounded. keeping work creative, and being intentional about who and what I spend my energy on. So I'm really happy we could talk this week, you guys.
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He's visiting from LA and we've been making lots of plans because he doesn't always, you know, I want him to meet all of my friends who he really hasn't. And he doesn't get to like experience my life here in the way that I do. So I always get excited. I want him to, you know, I make double dates with everybody and I make group plans. So we really have like every night busy.
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I also am going to take him uptown to see where I grew up at some point because it's so nostalgic for me to go to all those childhood spots, which always makes me feel so connected to the city again. And I usually split my days between being uptown where my grandma is and I kind of get that creative side of my job because I'm filming with my grandma so much and getting that content done.
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And then downtown at my apartment is... you know, where I get to do the behind the scenes producer writer type work and do calls with my team and calls with brands and really the business side of things. So I kind of feel like work from home
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is at my apartment and then like going into the office is going to see grandma gail so that's really how my days look and the whole spring like the weather in the city has been amazing it's all anyone can talk about like it's all giving reset energy With wardrobe, like we're, you know, putting the coats away and we're wearing our new outfits. Our routines look different.
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And I feel like even with relationships and dating, you kind of...
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naturally every spring and summer start a new roster of new people and like you're adding I feel like you're going out more just like happy hours and everyone's in a good mood so you're going out on the weekends and the weather's nice and maybe you're going somewhere away for the weekend so you're always meeting new people and I in the past feel like it was always the busiest time for dating.
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So even, I mean, I know this sounds, I'm so old school and I'm such a romantic, so this sounds like the opposite, but I would literally like have a note in my phone of guys I was going out with, guys that were after that, like few guys in the roster, if they didn't work out, the ones that I'm planning on adding in,
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like either I just got their numbers or I want to ask a friend to set me up with them or whatever it is, and even new interests. So they were all in the phone and it just like, to be fair, I was treating dating a little bit like a job because Obviously on Excuse My Grandma, we talk about dating and relationships and it felt a little bit like research.
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And now that I'm in a relationship, like just whatever those topics are, I'm just thinking of my boyfriend in my head and like my current relationships. But before when I was going on lots of different first dates, there was a lot to work with. So I'm just filling my nights in different ways.
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Like before it was first dates, now it's date nights with my boyfriend or nights with my friends or a lot of the time, work events because brands will do like activations and things especially in the city um like pre or post dinner and i get to meet some people which is always great and then fashion wise i'm definitely deep into grandma core like
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It's all I can think about, whether it's home aesthetics, which is like cottage, vintage pieces, antique, and then clothing too, like also vintage, but cardigans, cozy, like cool stuff. But it has not been my aesthetic. It's really been my grandma gals.
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And I really want to lean in and I'm getting obsessed with like sourcing and finding these vintage pieces that feel really personal and also remind me of my grandma. So if you guys know any like...
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spots to find these kind of things either home clothing whatever it is like please let me know because I'm making it a personal project for the summer and that's really fun and exciting to me also this week we have my grandma's birthday my mom's birthday and then my grandpa's birthday three days in a row and by the time this episode comes out it'll already have been my mom and grandma's birthday so I can share a little bit about what I'm getting them and stuff um
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I am a birthday person. My grandma Gail, not so much. I will make the whole month of February about my birthday. She knows what she wants. She's like, I don't need a gift. Actually, let's not even go to dinner. Like I'm over you. Like, no, I'm kidding.
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But because we're going to dinner the next two nights for my mom and grandpa's birthday, she's like, we don't need to go to dinner with the same group of people three nights in a row. Like we'll have lunch. So that's our plan so far. I'm going to go to lunch with her and my mom at, The new private club that I joined, San Vicente, which is in the Old Jane Hotel in the West Village.
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the birthdays in my family coming up and what we have planned and what I'm planning on getting them, spring flings of the past versus having my boyfriend now, building a roster and all my tips, and what it's like just having a boyfriend heading into this summer when work is crazy busy. So let's get into all of it. So I'm officially back from Palm Beach for the season.
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And she hasn't seen it yet. And she, like, loves that kind of stuff. So I think that'll be fun. And then I got her a gift from Christian Dior, one of her favorite designers. And she totally deserves it with all the work that she puts in with Excuse My Grandma. But it's hard to get this lady a gift, I'm telling you. Like, I think she...
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has high standards and also wouldn't use a lot of things unless like she really liked it so I know she likes Dior and I couldn't really afford a sweater or like a bag from there but there's a beautiful like glass bowl that I got her it's like an ice bucket and I think she'll really use it a lot in East Hampton and it gives that like you know, vintage vibe. So I think she'll really like it.
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Very classy. And yeah, then for my mom, I got her a pair of sunglasses she's been eyeing and I still need to get something for Poppy. By the way, what'd we think of the Poppy reveal? I feel like it was so exciting to finally show him. And it totally snuck up on me when we reached 500,000 followers that I was like, oh my God, I just have to post him now.
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Like I didn't even get to tease it out as much as I would have wanted. But I know we only got to see him for a second. I'm hoping we get a podcast with him or something that we can really get to know his personality or I know his personality that you guys can really get to know his personality. And, you know, maybe when we hit a million because that feels like a big deal.
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But we're going to hit 500,000 on TikTok pretty soon. So let us know what you want to see for that. Like maybe I know we haven't seen my mom yet. So maybe that. So anyway, if you guys are listening and don't follow us on TikTok already, go press follow. Tell your friends, tell your daughter, tell your mom, whatever. And yeah, I feel like we're growing so much. It's really, really exciting.
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It's so fun to see. And there's so much more in store to show all of you, including an event that we're doing May 7th at Blushington that we're actually going to meet all of our community in person. Like you can buy a ticket that's going to bottomless closet, which is an amazing charity and come and hang out with us and we'll take pics and we'll chat. Um, again, it's at Blushington.
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You can get a little mini glam moment, um, You can have champagne, light bites. We're going to walk away with an amazing gift bag with like a lot of our favorite items. So hopefully we see you on May 7th. The link is on our Instagram. If you just check there, we have the link in our bio and we'll be posting about it up until the event.
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Okay, let's get into past spring fillings, little situation shifts that I've had. Some of these, actually both of these, I don't think I ever told my grandma. So buckle up. The first one, okay. Unfortunately I have a thing for guys who have motorcycles. I'm sorry. Like I think I've outgrown it to be fair. Cause like I have a bad back and I would never do it again. but I did have a thing.
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We're not gonna talk about the main situationship whose bike I was on a good amount. We're gonna talk about this guy who, we're gonna talk about, what am I saying? We're going to talk about this guy who I went on two dates with. He was a great guy. Ended up not being my type, but really nice. And I knew, I was in the Hamptons staying with my parents because it was summer.
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And I made this date from a dating app on the weekend. And I told my parents I would never date a guy with a motorcycle again. But of course he, I didn't know he had a bike, but he texted me. He's like, I'll pick you up. I have this 1970s Vespa. That's all you have to say to me to like melt. I'm like, oh my gosh. Like I love old vehicles. I love nostalgia. I want to be on the back of the bike.
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I want my Roman holiday moment. I'm Audrey Hepburn. I'm envisioning it. But if my parents saw this bike come up to the apartment, I would not be allowed to go. So I literally told him to meet me down the road because, you know, safety, independence, all that. Um, I still wanted to go, but if, yeah, I couldn't have my parents see or hear that happening. So I'm like, okay, bye mom and dad.
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I won't go back again until November. So I'm easing my way back into New York City life again and soon the Hamptons. So most days I've been uptown because I want to get stuff done with my grandma. And it's also just a...
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I called an Uber and it didn't come to the front of the house. And I like walked down, this is three or four years ago at this point, FYI, but And yeah, I walked down the street and the guy was like, why didn't you want me to pick you up in front of your house? And, you know, it was easier just not to. I was like, don't worry about it.
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And we actually had a nice date, but, you know, just didn't align. Um, speaking of not my type though, there was another date I wanted to tell from summer and I love creative date ideas.
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This was a beach picnic date that I went on, but this is just to show you how codependent me and my family are, or actually I should just say how my parents really have no boundaries when it comes to me and my love life. So this guy who I think was also from a dating app, uh, might've been a setup. I don't remember, but he, um, picked me up in a car.
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and we went to the beach and did like a beach picnic and you kind of lose track of time on those kind of dates because there's no waiter coming over and it was a nice date. And so I think three hours went by My parents thought I was murdered. They were texting and calling, which I didn't see because I was rude. I wasn't looking at my phone.
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And they decided to get in a car with my brother, too, and drive to the beach because they knew where I was. They could see and find my friends where I was because they have me on there since they're nuts. Love you guys, but, like, you're nuts.
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And they thought I must have just, like, drowned in the ocean since it had been three hours, so they decided to drive to the beach, pretty quickly see where I'm sitting on the beach, but that's not enough. They want to, like, you know, stake out and watch the whole date go down like it was a live episode of The Bachelor.
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And they stayed for a while, but then they eventually left, and then the guy took me home, and... and like walked me to the door and my dad opened the door and was like, hi. I was like, why do we have to meet on the first date? You don't even know if I like this guy. The whole thing. It's a little hard to date from home, I will say. But you need your parents to like the guy, right?
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So, you know, at the end of it, I could easily say not my type for either, but it was fun and creative date ideas. I do like the outdoor dates. I used to do a lot of walking dates, and my grandma was always like, why are you walking? What are you, Forrest Gump? And I was like, you know what? Fair. I think the days of the walking date might have to be over. We should probably...
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easy middle ground between being in Palm Beach and in downtown New York City and seeing my friends to kind of have that like a few days on the Upper East Side it eases you back in from super old school of Florida to New York life again and it's It's going pretty well, I think. I've been really happy to be back. Zach, my boyfriend, has been here too, which has changed my social rhythm a bit.
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sit at a bar or a restaurant like normal people. I am excited for the Hamptons this summer. Usually my social scene there was like trying to get into these trendy bars like Surf Lodge and Talk House, because that's where everyone would go out. But I get tired pretty early now. I mean, I always had this inside me, but it's really like stressful to get into those places.
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Like it's never really been my vibe. And I always gravitated toward parent parties.
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it's so much nicer if you if your friends parents are having parties or your parents are having parties just bring a few friends to that like it's free food it's like way chiller of an atmosphere they probably have like music and a pretty setup it's not like you're not drinking out of solo cups like i love that stuff um i can think of like over the last year or so like i went to a shabbat that was really nice at one of my friends houses um
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One of my friends, her parents had a party and invited us and our dinner party, you know, and they like, they had great food and they had a karaoke machine that Zach and I like hogged the whole night, which was so much fun. I've always been an old soul. So maybe this isn't appealing to people, but I'm finally leaning into that instead of pretending that like, oh my God, I love the bar scene.
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And like, I'm not going to be there till I'm 40. Like once in a while, a hundred percent, but I want to definitely spend more time like at the adults table, you know? This summer is definitely gonna be a little bit different since Zach hopefully will be in the Hamptons with me sometimes. And it's really, I mean, we were dating last summer, but it was the very beginning.
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And we're staying at my parents' house when we're in the Hamptons.
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and we're even in separate rooms actually uh because my parents it kind of began as a rule when i was younger and then it became my rule because i was like we'll sleep in the same room but like i love having my closet in a separate room getting ready in a separate room doing my hair and makeup and then like i'll go over and visit his room a little bit during the day and then we can have a sleepover and we'll hang out and whatever but like it's nice to have the separate
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um spaces and uh I'm trying to think if he stayed with us for an extended amount of time I think it was just in Palm Beach he was with my grandparents for like 10 days straight um and yeah that was the longest amount of time but that's honestly like
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when you know that after 10 days everything went well like it shows you how much you like really vibe with someone and I always think I feel like a question my friends ask me and like that I would always stress about is like oh I just started seeing someone new but like should we do the weekend trip together is it too early like should they meet my parents and I honestly think if you want to you should do it like obviously don't do it after two dates but
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after 10 dates and you're like, is it still too early to like have him stay with my family for the weekend? Like I did that with Zach before we were even boyfriend and girlfriend because it's kind of a nice way to not test it out, but like you see how they interact with your family. Like you see, were you sick of them by the end of the weekend?
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Welcome back to another episode of Excuse My Grandma. It's Kim and my co-host, Grandma Gail. So as you guys can tell, if you are watching the episode, we are not in our typical setting. We're in the Spotify offices here in New York recording our pod for this very special Mother's Day episode. Exactly. Grandma is very thrown off by the new setting.
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Yeah, when I used to work at Cheddar because it wasn't far from here in the financial district.
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In every situation. So talking more about Mother's Day, our plan this year is just to get dinner on Sunday with the family. We're doing some work.
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Yeah, I guess, but everyone's uptown except for me. And my brother.
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Nice. When you were growing up, what did your mother's days look like? We always had barbecues because we lived in the suburbs. Right.
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What about when mom was young and you were like a young mom?
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What was your first Mother's Day as a mom like? Do you remember?
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Well, I think... Not to put you on the spot, but whenever you take an Uber or Lyft, you like to tell the driver where to go.
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Yeah, I feel like all of my memories from really all of my childhood – Was being raised by multiple generations.
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I feel like it's a group effort. Yeah. Everything we do in my family. Especially raising kids. We were lucky. We were lucky. Yeah. Were there things that, like decisions that my mom and dad made that they had to get, like, talk to you about first or get your opinions on?
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But the time I was, like, applying for school and stuff, you knew more.
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What about if, like, I did something that I was going to get punished for? I would hang up the phone.
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Yeah. I don't even remember getting... Well, I remember getting in trouble a lot, but I don't remember punishments that like lasted a long time. I know when I was talking to a lot of my friends, if I did something bad, who even knows what it was, it was like no TV for the rest of the night, something like that. And then my other friends would be grounded for a month. They can't go out.
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Mom was strict with me for sure. Like I had strict curfews. Just everything was definitely like...
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Also, the difference between your first child and my mom's first child, me being girls. Right. And then the second children being boys.
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Yeah. So here's what we're going to discuss in the episode today. So you guys know what to expect. We're going to recap our Mother's Day event from yesterday, which was at Blushington. We're going to talk all about different Mother's Day and mom topics. From what makes a good mom today versus back then.
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But in most cases, it's... Empathetic and more capable.
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Yeah, for sure. Was there anything... That your mom said to you or advice that would be like taboo now or even advice you gave mom.
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Mom guilt. And obviously we're going to answer all the questions from the Ask Grandma Anything that you wrote in on Instagram. We're going to go through a few articles, including why girls in the West Village all look the same. So let's get into it. Grandma, first of all. Happy early Mother's Day.
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What do you think makes a good mom today versus back in the day?
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It's called gentle parenting. Oh, is that what it's called? I don't know. I'm not in the weeds of this, but a lot of the time, instead of just letting your kid cry in the other room, I don't know exactly how it works, but You would go down to their level and you would say, what is making you feel sad or whatever it is.
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But I was just watching Meet the Parents.
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And the De Niro character had the nanny cam and was like, we have to just let him cry. That's how he's going to learn how to be self-sufficient. And then Barbra Streisand and, oh my God, Dustin Hoffman were sneaking in and giving him chocolates and stuff. So there are different parenting styles.
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Right. I guess as a mom, do you have to be super hands-on to be a good mom? Yeah. You think so?
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Yeah, but I also think mom guilt is a huge thing now that you hear about how some people are raising their kids and you're like, should I be doing that? Or mom guilt also can be like you feel bad that you're working or missing certain things. Well, that is a problem.
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No, you will, I think, see a lot of that. But I think I would say 100% there's no reason that a woman having a career should negatively impact
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Wait, am I that predictable? I thought I hadn't given you a frame.
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I also think today some women decide that they don't want to have kids or some women wait till they're in their late 30s or even 40s sometimes. Do you think that is empowering to have the optionality or do you worry that they'll miss out?
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Yeah, exactly. Get them a little stepladder. What do you think of momfluencers? Like if you're an influencer, but you're a mom, so you're showing your kids and stuff like that. Do you think, like, what are your general thoughts on that?
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Is that what you're trying to say? Let's say, like, when in 10 years from now, I'm posting on social media all the time.
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And they have a lot of very customizable gift options, which is great, cards, everything.
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By that logic, you're making money for your family.
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Yeah. Some celebrities, like you'll hear the kids' voices and you're responding to them, and that's kind of maybe better than showing their faces. I don't know where I stand on it, but like Amy Schumer the other day, I guess it was her son's sixth birthday, and she posted pictures of him but always something covering his face.
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Yeah, because you don't want to have people – But then why post it at all?
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Do you think being a cool mom is a compliment or a red flag? I don't think it matters.
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It doesn't matter if he's got a bad – No, I think a cool mom is like other people saying, oh, Kim has a cool mom. She lets us stay up late.
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Mean Girls? You've seen Mean Girls with Lindsay Lohan. No, I didn't see it.
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It's like 20 years old at this point. But the Amy Poehler character... She would walk in and, like, the daughter was, like, hooking up with a guy. And she'd be like, do you guys need anything? And, you know, that's the ultimate cool mom. Okay, let's get into the drama club. Some trending topics, gossip, drama that happened this week on social media. Yeah. We talked a lot about the Met Gala.
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Without the grandkids' names on her dress.
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I wish that every minute you were seeing a new celebrity walk in.
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But I guess people are just seeing the screenshots of the outfits on social media later.
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I did want to see Rihanna. We didn't even really make it until— It was 5 at 10 she went on.
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Of course. And she had her baby bump. She looked really good. She looked beautiful. A$AP Rocky, the guy who had, like, the cane.
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Question, and we'll get to this later, I have more questions about this, but would you get your daughter, my mom, a Mother's Day gift for being a mom, or do you only get your mom a Mother's Day gift?
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How do you feel about the fact they've had three kids and are not married? Yeah.
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Okay. Let's move on to the grandma report. We're going to talk about two articles. One is a study. Do you call your mom enough? Perfect for Mother's Day. Data shows you probably don't. A significant portion of Americans acknowledge they don't communicate with their moms as often as they should. The average contact was about once a week. Oh, boy. Yeah.
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And also a lot of the study was saying that moms feel underappreciated. 30% of moms say their families don't express enough gratitude. And 39% report getting less than an hour of personal time per day.
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That's personal time. Like mothers only get an hour to themselves. Oh, oh, I'm sorry.
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No, so moms only, like. They don't have enough mommy time.
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So, I don't know. I feel like Mother's Day can feel a little performative.
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And I get it. Sometimes I'm like, I have a million emails I haven't read. I feel nonstop like it doesn't feel like a conversation anymore.
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about la-di-da whatever like can happen in this moment but also we spend hours of our time scrolling a day like that can it's not going to kill the vibe to get on the phone for five minutes exactly with your mom grandma whoever it is um so that's and it makes the mom and the grandma feel very special yeah OK, the other article, a lot of people are talking about this online. It's an article.
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It must be nice to be a West Village girl was the title. I read that, Kimmy. I told you that a couple of weeks ago. I think this is a different one. But basically they were saying we were talking a little bit about like the matching uniforms that everyone's in. So it's. The vintage coat, the ballet flats, the style to look effortless but very curated kind of look.
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But there is like a – the article was talking about there's an identity to the West Village that has completely changed. Like I'm sure even when you would go down to the West Village, it felt very artsy and bohemian like back in the day.
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Wishing that they were downtown. A lot of the girls in the West Village, and I'm probably part of this, but they treat the city like this. the stage for their Instagram posts. So it's like the coffee shop, the like walking down Bleaker Street, the old townhouses. It's just about like taking on that aesthetic and like romanticizing New York. But I don't know if it's really true to who...
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The gift is me. I keep giving. Yeah, true. I think if you're a mom, you don't have to get anyone else a gift. Right, exactly. But what about if you're a husband or a dad?
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I just wonder if the West Village is like the new Marie Hill with, like, a uniform identity and, like, kind of basic.
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Okay, let's go to the rewind. Grandma, what are you watching on TV lately?
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Okay, did you watch the new season of You? No. That's a big Netflix title right now. I don't think so, as a matter of fact. I think on Hulu, I have to double check that. The Last of Us has a new season. Black Mirror has a new season. Oh, I have to start. Oh, I have to. I don't watch those shows, but I know people are talking about them. Did you finish your Friends and Neighbors on Apple?
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Let's play a game. Should we bring it back? Mother's Day edition. Not my TV. Not your TV. Okay. Handwritten letters for Mother's Day.
Excuse My Grandma
Excuse My Grandma’s Mother’s Day Special
What about family portraits, like an actual?
Excuse My Grandma
Excuse My Grandma’s Mother’s Day Special
We don't do Christmas cards. We don't do... We've never sat down to get a commissioned painting. No.
Excuse My Grandma
Excuse My Grandma’s Mother’s Day Special
Okay, last one. What about plastic-covered furniture in the home?
Excuse My Grandma
Excuse My Grandma’s Mother’s Day Special
Okay. Well, happy Mother's Day to everybody who's listening today. Enjoy it. Call your mom. Call your grandma. Call your aunt. Call your best friend. Also, if you are listening or watching to the podcast on Spotify, please rate us five stars. It makes such a difference to help our show get on top of the charts. Wherever you're listening, you can rate and review.
Excuse My Grandma
Excuse My Grandma’s Mother’s Day Special
It might be today. It might have already happened. Oh, okay. depending on when this comes out. But anyway, follow us on social media to see all the latest because we will post clips to everything. Yeah, follow Kimmy. She puts everything in. Excuse my grandma on all the social media platforms. And we'll talk to you soon. Bye.
Excuse My Grandma
Excuse My Grandma’s Mother’s Day Special
Because that's the thing, too. Let's say you're a mom, but you have kids that are under 15 and they're not paying for a gift.
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Excuse My Grandma’s Mother’s Day Special
Yeah. What's wild, though, is like, why do we even expect men to remember these things? Yeah.
Excuse My Grandma
Excuse My Grandma’s Mother’s Day Special
Yeah. I feel like Mother's Day is more about spending the time together doing an activity, a lunch, whatever it is, rather than big gifts.
Excuse My Grandma
Excuse My Grandma’s Mother’s Day Special
So in a little bit, I want to recap our Mother's Day event. But first was thinking we could start with some of the Ask Grandma Anything questions because they were all Mother's Day related. Okay. All right. So we had people write in something that you and your mom always disagree on, but you love her anyway. And these were some of the responses. Okay. Someone said sharing family news.
Excuse My Grandma
Excuse My Grandma’s Mother’s Day Special
So like mom tells everyone everything. And they're like, why do you have to? I actually get this one. Sometimes I tell mom something and suddenly all her friends know about it.
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Excuse My Grandma’s Mother’s Day Special
Okay, some other Mother's Day-related questions. Handling a mother-in-law when you're not close, but you and your mom are, and you all live in the same city.
Excuse My Grandma
Excuse My Grandma’s Mother’s Day Special
They said, is your mom jealous of your relationship with your grandma?
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Excuse My Grandma’s Mother’s Day Special
It's actually funny. I had no idea you stared at yourself while we recorded. I did. And that you always listen back to our episodes.
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Excuse My Grandma’s Mother’s Day Special
No, she would want us in the closet, but I don't think she'd want to be trying the clothes on. I don't know where the barriers are, but she'll tell me all of her thoughts on all of our videos. Oh, she does? Oh, she texts me and she's like, this sounded, this wasn't funny.
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Excuse My Grandma’s Mother’s Day Special
Well, she knows I'm the one curating maybe the post.
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Excuse My Grandma’s Mother’s Day Special
Of course, constructive. Okay, Grandma Gail's advice when you've lost your mom.
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Excuse My Grandma’s Mother’s Day Special
It's interesting. I feel like when I don't know, I'm sure everyone feels different and has their different process. But when someone's past, when they're like talking to them or connecting with them, I feel like it is often out the window or outside. Like, why is that?
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Excuse My Grandma’s Mother’s Day Special
Yeah. Like at first I tried like a mini skirt and jacket, but it was a little like stiff for that specific event.
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Excuse My Grandma’s Mother’s Day Special
And then there were some really cute, like, collared sweater, like, shirt things that I was thinking about. But the dress felt really festive.
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Excuse My Grandma’s Mother’s Day Special
Yes, Bottomless Closet, which donates to disadvantaged women to help them feel empowered to go back into the workforce. So we had a donation box that will actually be at Washington.
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Excuse My Grandma’s Mother’s Day Special
You know what? Everyone has their different craft. Like if you are better by re-listening to yourself, love that for you, I think I would pick apart every – because I already edit a lot of our stuff.
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Excuse My Grandma’s Mother’s Day Special
no it was lovely the box will be at blushington all month long and you can also go to blushington and get the kim look or the gail look all month long which was something we had at the event like to get grandma's classic blowout um and to get some of my like favorite glowy makeup tips oh yeah they put a false eye of course i didn't do it but you went very pretty false eyelashes on it was very
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Excuse My Grandma’s Mother’s Day Special
Yeah. I mean, it's always interesting to try something new as creators and business owners. Um, And I really, as you said, like we didn't know how it would go, but so much effort and time went into it. It looked it, by the way.
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Excuse My Grandma’s Mother’s Day Special
And it was really amazing that we did sell out so quickly after, you know, we only were promoting it for like a week or so. Right. We had to cap it due to the space capacity.
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Excuse My Grandma’s Mother’s Day Special
And more kept RSVPing, so then we had to cut it off, unfortunately.
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Excuse My Grandma’s Mother’s Day Special
Yeah, and I loved it. People really followed the assignment, too. We told people if they could bring the donations, and they did. We asked people to bring...
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Excuse My Grandma’s Mother’s Day Special
family member since it was a Mother's Day event and like excuse my grandma is always a family affair and people really did come with their mom and their aunt and their grandmas right so I was really happy that we had such a large turnout and such impact on our audience and that we were able to sell out so it felt like really successful and your team was great I mean they all did a great job it was it was a really terrific day
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Excuse My Grandma’s Mother’s Day Special
The day before, I went to set up, and it was hilarious because there was this one woman who was getting her hair or makeup done when we were setting up, and she was so curious to what we were doing that even after she finished, she was like to the Blushington people, can I eat my pizza here and continue to watch them?
Excuse My Grandma
Excuse My Grandma’s Mother’s Day Special
Yeah. And she kept asking us things, which was funny. But yeah, that was just hilarious. And then day of, we got – a few hours early to the events to Blushington to set up and everything. And throughout the event, I feel like everyone who kept coming in wrenched beeline to you and was like, does my skirt go with my shirt?
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Excuse My Grandma’s Mother’s Day Special
That's fair. The office here is great though. We got a little sneak peek and – The view.
Excuse My Grandma
Excuse My Grandma’s Mother’s Day Special
Oh, yeah. We'll get to that when we get to your headlines.
Excuse My Grandma
Excuse My Grandma’s Mother’s Day Special
But also I feel like if I'm going to psychoanalyze, which I love to do, I think people love getting validation from someone who seems like they know what they're talking about or it's very, I don't know, no nonsense. And you do know what you're talking about.
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