Update! Update! Come get your update! We learned a lot of info about Velveeta loaves, lucky girl syndrome, seasonal treats, minimal shoes, and more that we gotta share!    On Erica’s iPhone note for seasonal treats in April, you will find  an Ojai Pixie Party, Great N.Y. Noodletown’s softshell crab, and Styer’s Peonies, and coming up with DIY traditions reminds us of The New Better Off by Courtney E. Martin.    Circle of Friends by Maeve Binchy gives cozy-soapy, which is exactly what we want right now.    Time for an acupressure mat update: Claire’s loving it! Erica’s still into her Yoga Toes.    Speaking of toes! We’re still thinking about minimal shoes, and we think these Adidas Taekwondo Shoes are a contender.    Do you have news we can use on things we discussed in previous episodes? Share them at 833-632-5463, podcast@athingortwohq.com, @athingortwohq, or in our Geneva.   Celebrate spring with Fast Growing Trees. Get 15% off your first purchase with the code ATHINGORTWO. Support your hair with Nutrafol. Take $10 off your first month’s subscription with the code ATHINGORTWOGIFT. Get good sleep with Bearaby and use the code ATHINGORTWO for an exclusive 10% discount. YAY.

We have Ollie to thank for bringing us this ep about a topic near, if not dear: the headache of feeding ourselves and others. (We have to do this multiple times a day?!?!). The app helps you figure out what to cook, makes your grocery list, and *learns what you like*—it’s a whole thing, and we’re grateful for the robots for helping us with this task. In related topics: our always-on-hand grocery items and supermarket immersive theater.   Stuff always in our pantries/fridges: Chara’s Kitchen Barbeque Sauce, Kewpie Roasted Sesame Dressing (the made-in-Japan version!), Mutti Cherry Tomatoes, Bjorn Qorn (related:nutritional yeast), Chaokoh Coconut Milk, The Rice Factory Rice, Painterland Sisters Skyr Yogurt, Portugalia Market tinned fish.    Recipes we love rn include Eric Kim’s shredded chicken in the Instant Pot for Food52, Sarah DiGregorio’s salmon and kimchi skillet for NYT Cooking, Smitten Kitchen’s slow-roasted sweet potatoes, and the tofu sheet-pan dinner from the cookbook Kid in the Kitchen by Melissa Clark,    Two exceptional easy-cooking cookbooks with companion newsletters: What to Cook When You Don't Feel Like Cooking by Caroline Chambers and Small Victories by Julia Turshen.   Download Ollie today in the app stores or at ollie.ai/athingortwo to save two of the recipes we’re cooking most.   What’s your grocery routine looking like? Share with us at 833-632-5463, podcast@athingortwohq.com, @athingortwohq, or in our Geneva.   Let Ollie help you figure out dinner: Download the free app and use the promo code ATHINGORTWO to cook what we’re cooking. YAY.

Another day, another grab bag! This time, books for dolls and/or anxious people, kitchen timers, TikTok decorum, and Miranda July’s mesmerizing Substack.    Meditations for Mortals makes a great case for pleasure reading.   Two of our current top Substacks: Miranda July’s and Heavies by Chris Gayomali.    Shoutout to Caroline Lusk on TikTok. We will be downloading your videos and sharing them with our pals for the foreseeable future.    Double shoutout to Nasirin’s Kitchen, Erica’s near–Carnegie Hall restaurant of choice.   If you’re looking for a low-tech kitchen timer, wind up Dusen Dusen’s Everybody Kitchen Timer and Frieling’s Magnetic Retro Kitchen Timer.    We have many questions about what happened during the 100 years of NY NOW.    Finally, is the anxiety bookshelf the Jibbitz of reading? Please share your intel at 833-632-5463, podcast@athingortwohq.com, @athingortwohq, or in our Geneva.   Learn from the best (and most charming) with MasterClass and an additional 15% off any annual membership when you use our link. Lean into spring with Fast Growing Trees. Get 15% off your first purchase with the code ATHINGORTWO. Promote a balanced gut microbiome with Ritual’s Synbiotic+ and get 25% off your first month with our link. Start your store on Shopify and get a $1-a-month trial with our link. YAY.

Are exposed ankles back? Luigi Mangione sure says so. Also, stuffie reports, Jibbitz musings, purchasable solutions, travel lacrosse balls, and more!   Stuffie bag charms are happening at 10 Corso Como, we ate up Liza Corsillo’s "I Spent 3 Hours at the Jellycat Diner" for NY Mag, and we’re just getting to know Mofusand and their loreless world via their Uniqlo collab.    Jibbitz-inspired living is taking over! The Boulder Public Library hosted a make-your-own jibbitz event, and shoe charms and sandal rings are coming for Birkenstocks. Speaking of Birks, do you have thoughts on Reykjaviks?    We love this Ruth Madievsky quote in her piece in The Cut about the Berlant/Novak podcast:  “The pair bonded over their mutual obsession with purchasable solutions to the problem of being alive.” Two of our current solutjions: a lacrosse ball when traveling and a magnifying mirror with a light. The concept made us think about the book Meditations for Mortals by Oliver Burkeman.   What purchasable solutions to the problem of being alive (aka Thingies?) do you rely on? Let us know at 833-632-5463, podcast@athingortwohq.com, @athingortwohq, or in our Geneva.   Treat your hair nice with Nutrafol. Take $10 off your first month’s subscription with the code ATHINGORTWO. Ring in spring with Fast Growing Trees. Get 15% off your first purchase with the code ATHINGORTWO. Sleep better and get 20% off your Helix mattress when you use our link.  YAY.

First things first: You won’t get sick from touching a bag of S’noods! We’re also coming at you with custard oatmeal, holiday mash-ups, and the many sides of the TikTok creator fund.   We have a lot of thoughts about S’noods, their origins, and the sweet kugel flavor.    Custard oatmeal is the new breakfast of champs around here. Erica’s recipe is from Life Around the Table, but there are a lot of fancier versions still.   The Minnesota Zoo and Anchorage Bird Rescue also got in on the fun of ex-centric V-day fundraising.    A follow-up on produce drawer cold remedies, @dr.beachgem10 has thoughts.   We found some comfort in Sarah Eckel’s "How I’m Staying Sane" installment of her Substack It’s Not Us.    Get your store running on Shopify and get a $1-a-month trial with our link. Welcome spring with Fast Growing Trees. Get 15% off your first purchase with the code ATHINGORTWO. Change your clothes with Nuuly and take $28 off your first month with the code ATHINGORTWO. Sleep better with Bearaby and use the code ATHINGORTWO for an exclusive 10% discount. YAY.

We have some denim thoughts we can’t bottle up anymore! Also: cookies, curse words, and no-polish confidence. Here we go.   Irene from the Real World made a great TikTok about sitting jeans vs. standing jeans. Shoutout to The Consistency Project for helping us find vintage denim that fits and Jane on Jeans for endless intel—the place for denim discourse.    The limited-edition Tate's White Chocolate Raspberry cookies? So good!    These little wooden mushroom nutcrackers + shelled walnuts = a nice pre-dinner snack-slash-activity.     We are hacking ourselves out of Google AI by adding curse words to our searches.    What corners of TikTok are grabbing your attention? Let us know at 833-632-5463, podcast@athingortwohq.com, @athingortwohq, or in our Geneva.   Start your store on Shopify and get a $1-a-month trial with our link.   YAY.

Coming to you live from the couch! We have a batch of miscellaneous updates for you, from Julius and Tree Paine fanfic to food trends, cute and otherwise.   Cutie news! Hello Kitty + Miffy statues have shown up at 17 State St. in  NYC, and we’re excited to see these two powerhouses partner in this way.    We are captivated by the very elaborate Fluffy Algodón Cotton Candy Art and floof cotton candy cakes.    Also! Rebecca Jennings’s story on “pick me” foods for Vox is an incredibly interesting piece about how food trends change, and it brought some great memes to our attention.    Speaking of meme accounts: We suggest taking a peek at Assistants vs. Agents on Instagram and their Hollywood Agent Awards specifically.    What celeb content are you fanfic-ing? Let us know at 833-632-5463, podcast@athingortwohq.com, @athingortwohq, or in our Geneva.   Show your hair some love with Nutrafol. Take $10 off your first month’s subscription with the code ATHINGORTWO.   YAY.

Happy Valentine’s Week! Let’s celebrate with a cat-neutering campaign, to-go Velvetta, Jibbitz vision boards. Oh, and Santa.   We’re super charmed by CUNY’s callout for couples who met on campus and want our alma mater to do the same. And: Please take note of River Kitty Cafe’s ‘Neuter Your Ex’ initiative.    How do we these Vans in adult sizes?    If you’re in NYC and looking for Galentine’s Day plans, come to our event about the bonkbuster on Feb. 13. Dream panelists!!   Back to the onions: Pauline Chalamet advocates for putting a cut one under your bed when you start to feel sick.   Live La Dolce Velveeta with Vel2Go, lol.   Fiber! See: Floura.    Also, are we manifesting via Jibbitz now?   Friends, the fire-proof bag.   Do you know who Claire’s Secret Santa is? Let us know at 833-632-5463, podcast@athingortwohq.com, @athingortwohq, or in our Geneva.   Learn from the best with MasterClass and an additional 15% off any annual membership when you use our link. Support a balanced gut microbiome with Ritual’s Synbiotic+ and get 25% off your first month with our link. YAY.  

It’s time to treat ourselves to a good, old-fashioned catch-up. Ready for some updates on workouts, hair styling, hot dogs, and marriage?   Kayleen Schaefer’s Elle article “How 50 Pushups a Day Helped Me Cope In an Uncertain World.”    Three hair recs: Ranavat Fortifying Hair Serum, the Dyson Airwrap, and Christophe Robin Temporary Color Gel.   Shoutout to PDT, the speakeasy behind Crif Dogs, and the Turkey and the Wolf Cookbook by Mason Hereford and JJ Goode. High-end fun?!    Claire’s beloved Kikkerland back scratcher; Cam’s beloved Champagne poppers.   “62 Extremely Passionate Recommendations” ℅ Harling Ross’s Gumshoe Substack.   Looking for a little pick-me-up? Share what’s been cheering you up lately at 833-632-5463, podcast@athingortwohq.com, @athingortwohq, or in our Geneva.   Launch your store on Shopify and get a $1-a-month trial with our link. YAY.  

Ah, we can’t wait for you to get to hang with Upasna Barath! We chat *THINGIES* with the author and playwright—and also discuss her experience writing Comedic Timing, a modern bi-awakening with exceptional dialogue and the most charming friendships. It’s the next exceedingly delightful 831 Stories release, out tomorrow!   Upasna’s Thingies include incense in the mornings (Upstate Stock’s Albany Black Spruce, specifically), scented body oil over perfume (Nuxe FTW), a red lip with no makeup ( Violette Bisou Balm—and maybe she’ll try Ilia Lip Sketch Hydrating Crayon?), Italian hand gestures, a heating pad, meaningful apologies, and Opsin Archive ceramics.    Also, onions are approaching A Moment in untraditional formats (as in, on feet?)?    Keith Haring helps us define cutie eyes—shoutout to Radiant: The Life and Line of Keith Haring by Brad Gooch—and even if you can’t make it to Luna Luna, check out the original posters and merch.   What does a meaningful apology look like to you? Share at 833-632-5463, podcast@athingortwohq.com, @athingortwohq, or in our Geneva.   Treat your hair to Nutrafol. Take $10 off your first month’s subscription with the code ATHINGORTWO. Launch your store on Shopify and get a $1-a-month trial with our link. YAY.