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When your body gives up on Lucky Charms

Just double the seasoning

Florida life and Gainesville essay

Eddie Huang & The Places Review

Zuni Café chicken and bread salad

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The one and only Helen Cho joins us to talk unboxing and Labubu.

She said you can watch this one and this one and this one.

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Episode Topics Covered:

• Laurie’s book tour adventures and bookstore visits
• New Jersey loving/hating, jughandles, and gastrointestinal vengeance
• Vomiting into a gift bag in a car
• "Two Girls One Cup" regret (we will not link this, thanks) and generational Google trauma
• Toilet innovation: the slap chop for your ass
• Serious Eats halal cart chicken and rice
• Praise for Kelly Fields' biscuits
• Instagram memes and unsolicited DM boundaries
• Discussion of Careless People and Facebook’s internal dysfunction
• Very Important People improv show recommendation
• White Lotus commentary and Mike White history
• Loaded nachos and the curse of second helpings (recipe is nachos, but like, loaded)
• Final shoutout to Lisa Donovan’s coconut cake recipe

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It's just Laurie, Chris, a sterile cup, and a bottle of AriZona Iced Tea.

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Caroline Choe joins us to talk about her new book, Banchan: 60 Korean American Recipes for Delicious, Shareable Sides.

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