Armchair Anonymous: DIY Disaster
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What are the DIY disasters shared by Armcherries?
Wondery Plus subscribers can listen to Armchair Expert early and ad-free right now. Join Wondery Plus in the Wondery app or on Apple Podcasts. Or you can listen for free wherever you get your podcasts. Welcome, welcome, welcome to Armchair Anonymous. Today, our DIY project's gone wrong.
Let's do it yourself.
I always said this wrong. This is always a hard- It's hard to say. I always wanted to say D-Y-I. Sure. I famously said that in front of somebody and they corrected me and I got humiliated.
Oh, no. Who? Martha Stewart?
I wish. Yeah. Yeah. I wanna be humiliated by her. I'd be a sub. Baby girl. Yeah, I'd be her baby girl. I think everyone would. Yeah. Okay, let's see. There's maggots. I think I gotta warn. Oh, shit, don't say that. No, I think I gotta tell people what other things are here. Blood. Blood. Yeah, blood and maggots. Please enjoy. Do it yourself. Project's gone wrong.
Hello. Hi. How are you two?
Wonderful. What a bright smile. Did you just get your teeth zoomed?
No. You'll never believe this, but I used Arm & Hammer. I used the baking soda toothpaste.
Of course you do. It's the only one that works. It really is. And your teeth are sparkling white. Thank you. That's so nice. I feel so validated.
This has turned into a real commercial for the product.
I mean, you asked.
Okay, so Christina, where are you at?
Right now I'm in Phoenix, but I live in Salt Lake City normally.
OK, are you there on business?
My boyfriend runs a local grocery store in Salt Lake. There are a bunch of food shows all over the country, which if we have time, I have an Aaron Weekly story to tell about a food show. Oh, did you meet him? Yes, I met him at the Chicago food show for Ted Seeger. And I really embarrassed myself. Please tell me that. Let's hear.
Was he so cute in person?
He was so cute. We walked up and my boyfriend obviously knows how much I love the podcast. I was so excited to meet him. We have the same birthday.
J2C. Yeah.
So we walk up and my sister is an actress. And so I don't want to ever be starstruck. It's a very strong belief that I have. So I was trying to play it cool and I forgot how to speak English. I turned bright red. Oh my God. And my boyfriend was trying to be really sweet and was like, oh, my gosh, Christina is a huge fan of Armchair Expert. And then I got embarrassed and mad at him. Like, I'm an arm cherry. I am not a fan. There is a distinguishable difference. I walked away and was like, well, I hope I never get the opportunity to meet Dax and Monica. Based on that, I hope that I can actually speak.
So this is already going better.
I couldn't be happier that Aaron got that kind of reaction. I love it. This is a perfect story. I guarantee he'll remember because J2C is so rare and coveted.
I didn't even get to tell him.
You didn't? That would have fast-tracked you.
Yeah, but I couldn't get it out, sadly.
Okay, so you have a DIY story that went poorly.
I do. This story takes place in the fall of 2013, kind of around Halloween when I was in college. I went to a small liberal arts college in Salt Lake. My roommates and I lived in this super charming 1900s house off campus. It had these beautiful original hardwood floors. It was just full of vintage charm. And we had no business living there. But I was a sophomore in college. And at my school, I think because there's this big religious influence in Salt Lake, I found that there's a really strong counterculture to that. And my college really leaned into that counterculture. We embraced every opportunity to run wild. Yeah.
Oh, God, I wish I went there.
It was very fun. But at my school, Halloween wasn't just a fun holiday. It was the event of the year. There was an annual campus Halloween party, and it was obviously one of the most important nights of the year.
It had political ramifications.
Yes, it was the night that you would probably hook up with someone that you wouldn't normally run into. You have some kind of life altering conversation that you wouldn't remember, make some kind of decision that would haunt you. It ended up being such a mess at the school that they eventually had to shut it down. So it doesn't exist anymore.
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