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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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Cause that was like seventies flower power.
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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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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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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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So if you're successful, you have to give your- I think a percentage.
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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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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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You can't even buy a ticket to that.
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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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I know, but how do you not like dance? I don't know.
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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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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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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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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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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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gets fired and he lives in like a really fancy suburb and he decides to like steal from his neighbors.
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You see space. But there was so much controversy around that.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Yeah, me too. How old were you when your mom passed and how did that change your life?
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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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Wait, you eat sandwiches all the time?
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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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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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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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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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So then when they were here, No, but those are your parents.
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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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Yeah. It's nice to pass down that value.
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I mean, they were... But your relationship with your grandparents, how was that different than... with poppies?
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I guess because he never had a sister. There was never a girl.
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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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The thing is, like, I can't really have a dinner party in my apartment because I have one chair.
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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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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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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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Well, that's very... But I like...
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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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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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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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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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They're very aggressive when they come over to- I can't even think of the turkey vultures mating.
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The puppy gets scared though.
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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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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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She said like for personal and professional reasons, like it makes more sense to be in Florida, which is interesting.
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But she's like really relevant in the... Well, she can be really relevant here. I guess.
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It's a big city.
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But your hair's not frizzy.
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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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What about if you could have like an experience or a trip or something?
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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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By the way, I haven't been to that restaurant, but do you know what that means in French?
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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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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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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,
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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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I love the look, but it is uncomfortable. Exactly.
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How do you just, I guess, define ease and comfort in fashion? Or is it a feeling?
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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.
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Yeah, that means like the higher arm.
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And they were in velvet dresses.
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Because it happened to be a hot day in the winter.
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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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I love a matching set because I don't have to think about styling.
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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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It's not as chic. Maybe a peplum blazer.
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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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I think, I mean, my favorites always change. I like Brick Tops and Palm Beach Grill. Yeah.
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Can't get in anymore, but it's good. Yeah.
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It's like the setting and the vibe. Yes. How to build close friendships?
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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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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
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are there fewer high quality men now than there were when you were young? I don't,
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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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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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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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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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Like everyday wear. Yeah. Mm-hmm. The 60s and the 70s were like bohemian hippie fashion.
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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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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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But loose and flowing, right? Yes.
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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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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.
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Wait, since when do you give me the credit?
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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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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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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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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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But they don't have to wear a dress.
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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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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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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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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.
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Can I ask what makes a beautiful sock?
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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,
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Doesn't it feel good to take back the power?
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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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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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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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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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Such a generational difference.