Leslie Price (A&F and Uniqlo) joins Devin and Andy again to talk about the Trader Joe’s shopping experience. Is TJ’s inspired by Tiki culture, nautical culture, or old-time whimsy? Do you know the meaning of the store bells? Has TJ's solved the issue of line stress? Has Trader Joe’s also done the impossible and made a store brand something that’s a good value and worth seeking out? Are you someone who sees the cart half-full of dairy, or half-full of lactose??

Hello, Gloria

NPR Joe Coulombe obituary

Trader Joe’s Wikipedia

Are Trader Joe’s Bags the Last Vestige of American Soft Power? (Guardian)

Fig Glazed Skillet Chicken (knock your socks off recipe)

Full Carts Social: Bluesky, Instagram

Theme music by⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠Jed Becker⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, cover art by⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠Margaret Flatley⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, music insertion by Skye MacLeod

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Devin, Andy, and guest Carlo Blackmore (see also: Michaels) visit the New York Transit Museum. What does the new Vignelli-influenced subway map say? What’s more fun than a turnstile to nowhere? What is your favorite era of subway car? What does MetroCard nostalgia mean? What will you do with your vintage, subway-used grab hold? Did you cast your vote for Miss Subways??

Goodbye (and Good Riddance?) to the MetroCard by Dodai Steward (NYT)

MetroCard Cookies Fly off Shelves (NYP)

Poetry in Motion: Ragtime by Kevin Young

Inside Lllewen Davis trailer

MetroCard subway curtain (old map!), Ugly Sweater

Wayne Chrebet (former NY Jet)

64,000 Attempts at Circulation

Some MetroCard collabs

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Theme music by⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠Jed Becker⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, cover art by⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠Margaret Flatley⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, music insertion by Skye MacLeod

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Devin and Andy visit the holiday market in Union Square. Is bigger always better with holiday markets? Does a good market experience mean finding that one vendor you really like, or an overall vibe that you’re into? What is your personal ranking of: Holiday Markets, Street Fairs, and Farmer’s Markets? Are we at peak ornament? Are booths selling old novels that have been turned into clocks part of some larger plan to take books out of circulation? Can skullcap really help us get back to sleep??

Mentioned:

Made in Philadelphia Holiday Market

Hell’s Kitchen Hot Sauce

Makeshift

Wafels and Dinges

Mulled Wine Cup Specialists

Pixie Doodle Farm

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Theme music by⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠Jed Becker⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, cover art by⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠Margaret Flatley⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, music insertion by Skye MacLeod

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