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Hi there! It’s time for our fourth episode of A+ Inbox LIVE! If you’re a first-time listener, A+ Inbox LIVE! is where Riese, Heather, Yvonne, Rachel and I choose three questions from the A+ Priority Inbox and answer them live on a podcast, using amateur recording equipment and very little editing! It’s casual and honest and very 2006. You can dig back into the archives for previous episodes to feed into your ear canals.
On this week’s show, we discuss lightening the weight of confessing a crush, some cocaine stories (??), soups galore, and Vapid Fluff as legitimate, interesting and well-written fun. There’s also a special guest! You don’t want to miss it!
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Friend crushes are totally a thing and my wife and I talk about them all the time. They are not sexual at all, just a “hey, I think this person is super awesome right now” and not that I want to make out with them.
That’s a friend crush.
Yeah but back when I had no clue at all how gay I was I thought I had awesome friend crushes all the time and turns out I WANTED TO DATE THE HELL OUT OF THESE WOMEN.
(I’m so mad at 17 year old me who could have slept with the hottest girl)
a) high kicks [video unavailable, but still].
b) chili is not soup.
Here I am walking around this earth thinking chili was soup.
i think chili is a stew
i agree with you mey
i went looking for this immediately thereafter, thank you! i have been thinking about it so much.
another super amazing podcast.
i’m glad my boy Ross Kardashian gets brought up
Also, though, with crushes, i feel like the main difference in amount of pressure and potential embarrassment is between telling someone you don’t know that well and telling someone who you’ve known for a while and is a good friend. it’s a whole lot more nerve wracking to tell a good friend you have a crush on them then the cute girl who works at the movie theater that you see once a week.
Clearly none of you tried that beetroot soup recipe I left on the last “Some Answers to Some Things…” column, which is a shame because it is the best. The color alone wins everything.
I saw a live-combat giant chess match at a Renaissance Fair and it was the closest I’ll ever come to living in Harry Potter, SO: recommended.
STEFFFFFFFF!!!!!
I have too many things to say about this. An unmanageable number. I need help coming up with a word for this group of peanut gallery comments, like a business of ferrets, but for these words.
In the meantime, I’d make a macro of stef coming out of a garbage can, but I’m having just horrible luck with image posting voodoo, so someone else is gonna need to make this thing.
IT ME!
here i am flirting with nicole kidman
HA! BITE IT EASY-TO-COPY-PASTE-CODE! I GOT YOU THIS TIME!
I thought a friend crush was called a Squish
Stopping by to let you know I am having a bread bowl of tomato soup at Panera for dinner, carry on
can you bring one to laneia please?
YES PLEASE BRING ME SOME.
Coke Use was mentioned in a past A+ inbox answer (pre podcast) regarding self medication for depression btw
The fact that I remember this seems weird / pathetic now that I’m re-reading this comment
I Need An IRL Social Life
I remembered it too, it was part of a very interesting / relevant discussion!
See I never used coke because I’m always on Adderall, and if Adderall is any indication, uppers do different things to Not ADHD people
Like my sister used to swipe mine and snort em, and she’d get Positively Giddy
If I snort addy, I just chew the inside of my cheek without realizing it, feel numb to all human emotions, and stop talking because there is nothing to talk about.
Cocaine sounds terrible, basically
(I didn’t ask the Cocaine question and would 100% tell if I had, I just think about this a lot because my friends are always tryin to buy my adderall)
Reise on Soup is so earnest
I KNOW IT’S SO CUTE.
When I was 13 my family went to the Maryland Renn Fest and I got in a fight with my mom because I was acting like a spoiled brat and I sulked off and then got lost for FOUR HOURS and when my sister found me she tried to pull me out the exit by the arm and I was just FEELING VERY *attacked* so I, ya know, hit her
In my defense, none of my problems were diagnosed or medicated at this time in my life, but yeah
And my parents were very mad at me for all of the above but also mostly because they wanted to leave like three hours earlier to Beat The Traffic
But couldn’t because I called my mom a Bitch in public and got slapped and then ran off and got so, so hopelessly lost
0/10 Would Not Go Back
I was hypnotized at a Ren Faire, so this podcast was very important to my emotional growth.
!!!!!
wait are you not going to elaborate on that??? please go on
The elusive soup you’re talking about is also known as Avgolemono soup. It’s so delicious! Maybe there’s a canned version somewhere, but there are a ton of recipes online if you want to try to make some yourself.
Ok, so I need to tell someone, anyone before I burst.
I’M GOING TO A-CAMP, I’M GOING TO CAMP, I’M GOING TO CAMP.
I’d been *praying* that an email would arrive and TODAY IT DID. And I said, FUCK IT, I’M GOING.
I immediately applied for a week’s leave and told my boss WHAT IT FUCKING WAS AND OUTED MYSELF IN THE PROCESS. I’ve registered.
YES I WILL FLY TO THE OTHER SIDE OF THE WORLD AND SPEND $$$ FOR THE MOST AMAZING WEEK OF MY LIFE BECAUSE I AM AN ADULT, I’VE WORKED FOR & DESERVE THIS.
Send help for ALL the feelings.