Spice Things Up with Lauren Lapkus

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Kulap and SuChin have a check in before introducing a previously recorded guest interview. Lauren Lapkus joins and shares how she’s making her spice cabinet look cute AF as she incorporates new spices into her signature dish, junk. Plus, more SuChin sleep reveals, and deep dives into the best worst shows.

 

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SPEAKERS

Lauren Lapkus, Kulap Vilaysack, SuChin Pak

SuChin Pak  00:10

Hey, everyone, welcome to another fine edition of ADD TO CART. I’m SuChin Pak.

Kulap Vilaysack

And I’m Kulap Vilaysack.

SuChin Pak

So, here we are.

Kulap Vilaysack 

Here we are.

SuChin Pak

Here we are. I think it’s good to sort of check in and see how we’re doing and feeling in this moment. This past weekend, after what I think we both agree is, has been pretty much the shittiest worst week of this entire year. I’m feeling kind of hopeful. I saw all the images from the rallies both in Atlanta and New York. And I just felt love and that conversation, where we’re talking about allyship and solidarity and what it means to be a person of color and marginalized. Like, that’s the larger context of this conversation. And I think there’s been a lot of, you know, comments about us being divided in that, and it feels like there’s a lot of healing. And I just loved seeing that, because that’s the conversation that I think is so important to us.

Kulap Vilaysack 

Yes.

SuChin Pak 

I also want to share too, I know you feel this way, the people that have been reaching out to us sharing their stories, both on the Add to Cart and our personal Instagram’s have been texting us emailing us, like, man, it’s just been so overwhelming. And in an overwhelming and in a good way in the sense that like we see, and we’re trying to get through every single one of those stories, there’s so much pain, there’s so much anger. But there is I feel a deep catharsis in this sharing, like, we just got to get it out for us to then look at it and figure out what to do with this.

Kulap Vilaysack

And I definitely see people you know, I’ve noticed in friends, much like how you shared your experience at MTV, I am seeing a lot of my friends tell their stories, I think this incident really has brought a lot to the surface. And bringing these dark things into the light really does set us free. And most importantly, it makes us feel less alone. And we’re not we’re not alone. We’re together in that. SuChin, you know this, Daniel Dae Kim was in front of the House Judiciary subcommittee.

Kulap Vilaysack  02:27

And he said this, and I find it so powerful. He said “there are several moments in a country’s history that chart its course indelibly for the future. For Asian Americans, that moment is now, what happens right now and over the course of the coming months will send a message for generations to come as to whether we matter whether the country we call home chooses to erase us or include us, dismiss us or respect us. And visible lies us or see us, because you may consider us statistically insignificant now. But one more fact that has no alternative as that we are the fastest growing racial demographic in the country. We are 23 million strong. We are united and we are waking up.” These stories that are being shared. It is of people who are woken up. And I really liked that part.

SuChin Pak 

That part. Yeah, that part that waking up part. And listen, hey, sometimes waking up isn’t fun. You know what I mean? You got to get yourself out of that, that dream view.

Kulap Vilaysack 

That’s right. That’s right.

SuChin Pak 

Sometimes waking up, it’s harsh. That light is..

Kulap Vilaysack 

Sometimes you’re angry about it, yeah.

SuChin Pak

You want to just be numb and go back to sleep. But that waking up process I think is happening and all of that we just, we do so much ugly crying together on this podcast, we do so much ugly crying with you guys and to share your vulnerable stories and for us to be vulnerable it is that waking up process. And we’re doing that together and it just feels just feels really good. You know, it does. And then there’s the other side of it for me. And I don’t know if you’ve been feeling this way of. So I’ve got this peace, right? where I feel so connected. There is a waking up. There’s a sense of hope.

SuChin Pak  04:23

But I have been feeling like a little bit that I’ve been holding my breath; you know that I’m just like waiting for what’s to come next. Is it another crime that we’ll be reporting on? Is it the fact that new cycles will move through this as if this was just a news story and a headline to profit from? Is it that this is a sea change and there is a reckoning? I don’t know? And so I’m a little bit on that point of uncertainty and there is uncomfortable this and that uncertainty. But on the whole I think we are better today in this moment changes minute to minute, guys.

Kulap Vilaysack 

Certainly.

SuChin Pak 

So don’t hold us to it. Do not hold us to it.

Kulap Vilaysack 

Yeah, SuChin, I am with you. I feel the way you feel. I don’t know as well; I hope for certain things. But we’ll see. But in the meantime, I know it’s really important for the both of us is that we want to make sure that we say the correct and full names of the victims of the Atlanta shooting. Please remember Soon Chung Park, Suncha Kim, Yong Ae Yue, Hyun Jung Grant, Xiaojie Tan, Daoyou Feng, Delaina Ashley Yaun-Gonzales, Gonzales and Paul Andre Michels. Let’s not forget about them. Please, please, please. I’m going to make an awkward transition now. Here it comes in 321.

Kulap Vilaysack

A little behind the scenes, Add To Cart behind the scenes. We recorded last week, this interview that you’re going to hear before we did our emergency episode. And it was such a nice talking to Lauren Lapkus. A good friend of mine. A hilarious person talking to her about the things that she added to cart was such a delightful respite. From what was going on. What was it heavy in our hearts. And, frankly, it brought me some joy in a really dark place. And so we’re hoping that you guys feel that way too. And we’ll enjoy this interview with Lauren Lapkus.

Kulap Vilaysack  06:44

Oh, Add to Carter’s I don’t know. I’ll call you that now I guess. I am so excited to have my friend Come on right now. She is a comedian and actress, a fellow podcaster. A woman of so many talents. Please give it up for Lauren Lapkus.

Lauren Lapkus 

Oh, yes. Oh my god, I’m so excited to be here. I listened to your show every single week like the day it comes out. I’m a big fan. And I’ve even bought products that you’ve talked about. So I’m a super fan.

Kulap Vilaysack 

Well, one of them I know is a SuChin Pak game changer.

Lauren Lapkus 

The toilet brushes?

Kulap Vilaysack 

That’s right.

SuChin Pak 

I’m sorry, the only, the only true game changer. I’ve talked about a few game changers but let’s really be honest here in the circle of trust. The UV self-sanitizing toilet brush holder is the game changer. Am I right? Or am I right?

Lauren Lapkus

Oh my god. Well, I have to confess something which is so stupid it is that I haven’t cleaned my toilets since I bought it. I like set them up. And I put the batteries in and I was like blue light I posted on my Instagram and then I probably never cleaned my toilet. I bought a two pack I have three bathrooms; I bought a two pack. My thinking was I don’t want to keep it in the powder room. I will put a plunger there because I think that’s essential. If you’re a guest, and you have a problem, there needs to be a plunger available and you don’t wanna have to ask someone.

SuChin Pak  08:24

I never even thought about that.

Lauren Lapkus 

So I have a plunger to every bathroom.

Kulap Vilaysack 

Yeah, and especially I know most of your friends. And that really makes a lot of sense.

Lauren Lapkus 

If you have Gabriel came over, […]

Kulap Vilaysack 

Tip of my tongue. (laughs)

Lauren Lapkus 

Just make sure it’s there. It’s just a discreet thing. It’s just sitting there. But with the toilet brush, I figure I’m the only one cleaning it when I do and so I can carry it from one to the other and then the other ones in the other location.

SuChin Pak 

Okay, awesome. See? Lauren is the perfect middle to our sandwich because I’m on the it’s the perfect do you see how you’re bridging the gap?

Lauren Lapkus

I thought this, I thought this before actually the underwear conversation. I thought this, there’s been a lot of moments where I’m like I relate to both of you but I do think I kind of sit right in the middle.

Kulap Vilaysack 

So then you wear just like a classic bikini or?

Lauren Lapkus 

It’s a classic bikini brief. (laughs)

SuChin Pak 

And you probably just change it two times a day not four times a day.

Lauren Lapkus 

I’m at two times a day in person.

SuChin Pak 

Listen, this is perfect…

Lauren Lapkus 

You sleep and then you wake up you take a shower you put on new underwear. You put a new one before bed.

Kulap Vilaysack

I either go commando before bed or I’m wearing my soil panties.

SuChin Pak 

Don’t be so hard on yourself, Kulap. Soil is such a strong word. Lightly misted. Sprinkled. You know?

Lauren Lapkus  10:11

My soiled linen.

SuChin Pak 

Nothing about you is soiled. Let’s be very clear on that. Alright, so we’re so excited. Thank you for sharing all of the add to cart adds to your cart. I can’t wait to hear your new add to carts that we’re going to be adding to our carts.

Lauren Lapkus 

Yes. Okay, so I have a few things here. I’ll start with one that it’s not that exciting to me, but it was exciting when on the day that it happened. And ever since that has brought me some joy. I got these Spice Jars from Amazon. And then I put all my spices into them. They come with stickers that say all the spices you could possibly have; I think because they give you like 1000 that I only have like 20 spices. But this is my black pepper. And now it looks beautiful. But you know how black pepper usually comes in that weird little red container. And it’s like just a little square. And it’s always uncomfortable to use. It’s not easy. I love this beautiful jar.

Lauren Lapkus 

Now all my jars are perfect in my cabinet. And I got a spice shelf that has layers. And so they stand they can read them all at the same time. Now that was a beautiful day for me. I got these for a mere I think $25 on Amazon. I think it might be a little more. And I spent my whole afternoon just pouring spices into jars and throwing out the containers, which probably is wasteful. I don’t know, where do you stand on that?

Kulap Vilaysack 

Oh, right. I see what you’re saying. Because the aesthetics.

SuChin Pak 

Well, they would end up in the trash anyway.

Lauren Lapkus 

Ultimately, they’d end up in the trash.  This I’ll never throw out.

SuChin Pak 

You’ll never throw that out. And maybe you’ll be motivated to actually buy spices in bulk now that you are a spice keeper, or a spice warrior.

Kulap Vilaysack 

Oh, SuChin there you go.

Lauren Lapkus 

That’s actually need to learn about this because I don’t know much about cooking and I’m just dipping my toe in. And by that I mean I put garlic in my box mac and cheese but.. (laughs)

Kulap Vilaysack  12:08

You customize it, great.

Lauren Lapkus 

That’s my next level. I’m like, oh, you can make it a little better.

Kulap Vilaysack 

Now, Lauren, I want to picture you wearing a beautiful apron and then also like a tiny funnel to..

Lauren Lapkus

It comes with a funnel. The funnel is washable silicone.

SuChin Pak 

Wait, I’m sorry, can we dial this back? How many spices? I know that this pack I see now on your link that there’s 24 that comes with this pack, right? But how many spices have you filled? Because you said how many?

Lauren Lapkus 

I filled about 20, I have a few extra jars.

SuChin Pak 

Kulap, do you have 20 spices in your spice rack?

Kulap Vilaysack

I have more than 20, whenever you’re gonna ask me is going to be I have more..

SuChin Pak 

Oh my god this is so […]

Lauren Lapkus 

That’s what I also gleaned from this podcast.

SuChin Pak 

I’m thinking I’ve got like garlic powder, pepper and salt.

Lauren Lapkus

Okay, see, I used to be like you. Yeah, and I never had anything like that. And then I went to the store. This was before the pandemic, of course, like last year, and I was like, I’m just gonna get into this, I’m gonna just buy a bunch that I think sound familiar.

SuChin Pak 

Give us a few.

Lauren Lapkus 

And I was like, I’m just gonna fill my cabinet because it feels weird that I don’t have any like, and I was starting to get into cooking even with like Blue Apron or like random things that I was getting through my podcast. And a lot of times they send you a little spice, but then I was like, oh, I liked that. So then I would buy the thing that I liked. And look, the truth of it is my aunt literally I posted this on Instagram, my aunt goes, those are all going to be expired and you’ll never like stick to it. And I was like, actually I will. And these are all going to due to expire, like in 2022. So I thought this is safe. This is enough time for me to use these things. And if I don’t use it in a year, I have the photo of what the day I did this and I know that it’s expired, you know, like I can keep track of this.

SuChin Pak  14:11

Give me, would you Lauren and I don’t want to put you on the spot. So forgive me, but just give me an example. Just one example of a recipe that you have used since you’ve got this spice, you know, library may I say it’s a library, that you could share like, oh, I made this and I added margarine and dill.

Lauren Lapkus 

I think if you look back to the conversation we had about the toilet brushes. I do a lot of purchasing and then that’s kind of where it stops. And so I think my beautiful spice cabinet is what I’m really promoting here more than what I do with the spices but the ones in the front are the ones that getting the most play and that’s garlic powder. That’s salt and pepper, sea salt, you know, that’s really what’s happening. At the back spices, they don’t get a lot of action, but I feel like I feel kind of proud because some of them were already pretty empty when I put them in. So it looks like I mean, I did use them, but I don’t know I my husband and I make this thing called junk, which is where you just put like every vegetable that you have into like a pan.

Lauren Lapkus 

SuChin, just junk all the time.

SuChin Pak 

Excuse me, ladies. Let me educate you on the Asian cuisine. It’s called stir fry. (laughs) Do I have to be the voice of reason?

Kulap Vilaysack 

Oh, man, I stand corrected.

Lauren Lapkus

No, no, no, you’re right, you’re right. I think the reason why mine doesn’t qualify as stir fry. Because it’s not good. And it’s not anything. It’s literally any frozen vegetable that we have any meatless meat, you kind of throw it in, and you kind of start adding spices all over the place. And that’s where the time that’s where the rosemary, that’s where these other things that I’ve purchased come into play, because I don’t really know what they do. I don’t really know if I like them. But I mix it all together. And I’m like, yeah, seems healthy.

Kulap Vilaysack  16:12

And SuChin for me, I do pre-quarantine I do huge family meals. So I’m using all of them spices. Now of course, they’re the ones that Lauren spoke about that rarely get any play, you know, I’m not using saffron every day. But you know, I’m not made a goal that shit is expensive.

Lauren Lapkus 

I feel like Kulap you would have a cabinet like this where everything is really organized.

Kulap Vilaysack 

I actually am like; I was thinking if we were all willing to take a picture of our condiments and spices and share it with our listeners. Mine is not as organized. It should be more organized. But I’d be willing.

Lauren Lapkus 

The steps that I bought might be good for you.

SuChin Pak 

This is, this is great.

Lauren Lapkus 

Okay, my next thing, and this thing is it became controversial to myself when I was going to talk to you about it because I looked at how much it cost and I didn’t know. This is the Sleep Crown Pillow. Okay, now it is shaped kind of like you almost but not really. It’s a rectangle with legs. And you put it on your head like this.

SuChin Pak 

Oh my god over your face.

Kulap Vilaysack 

Whoa.

Lauren Lapkus 

And you cover your head and ears with this pillow. And it’s really it feels like a cloud. It feels amazing.

SuChin Pak 

I need this.

Lauren Lapkus 

If you can see I’m like it’s very squishy. It’s very soft. My friend hooked me up with this company. And they sent me this pillow. And I was like skeptical. I don’t know what this is. She’s like it’s amazing. Every time I take a nap, I put this on my head and I’m out like a light and like minutes. It’s truly amazing. I went to the website and it costs $168 and I thought oh no, I can’t talk about this because I feel like that’s a lot to ask for a pillow. But they have a code on their website for $25 off which I also noted and it really is amazing. And there’s also a body pillow which I really want them to send me so if they’re listening please send me that because it’s $369 and I just can’t, I can’t justify that at the moment but this is an amazing product.

Kulap Vilaysack  18:35

So, is it the sort of the weight, a little bit of the weight that helps with it?

Lauren Lapkus 

Yeah, so they kind of claim it’s sort of like a really light gravity but like it’s super it’s almost weightless. So it’s not like any pillow I’ve ever had. It’s almost like a pillow that you like had when you were eight and you like used it for like 20 years and you’re like that’s my pillow, you know what I mean?

Kulap Vilaysack 

Scott has a body pillow that you know exclusive to our listeners I call his Binky. He doesn’t call it that.

Lauren Lapkus 

I’m sorry you reveal so much good Scott shit on the show.

SuChin Pak 

Lauren I’m intrigued by this pillow.

Kulap Vilaysack

I am too.

SuChin Pak 

It is on the pricey side. But I love that you have the $25 coupon and I’m intrigued by many reasons because I am a sleeper, where you can’t see me in the bed. Do you know what I mean? Like I sleep under everything.

Lauren Lapkus 

Oh you’ll love this.

SuChin Pak 

That’s why I’m intrigued and when you..

Kulap Vilaysack 

So you’re like entomb?

SuChin Pak 

Oh yeah totally.

Lauren Lapkus 

Do you put like a pillow on your head?

SuChin Pak 

Yes, I sleep with one pillow here, then a pillow in between my knees. A pillow to hug and then a pillow on top of my head.

Lauren Lapkus 

This is my look right now too, oh my god especially once I added this guy.

SuChin Pak 

Sometimes, you see this like the pillow on top of my head and the pillow, I have to get it so that the pillow on top of my head sort of forms an eye, you know, visual shield. Otherwise, I put another pillow. So it’s a complete box around my head.

Lauren Lapkus  20:09

Do you also wear an eye mask?

SuChin Pak  

So I used to wear an eye mask. And I would wear an eye mask if I could ever find the eye mask when I need it. There is something about the weight on your head. That is the difference between the eye mask and this pillow idea.

Lauren Lapkus

No, no, because I have used iron masks for years now. And they always end up like on my head. And I’m like.. This really stays. You can sleep on your side. You could sleep on your back. They say you works at any position. I have also tried that. And it covers your eyes and your ears. So it cuts out 90% of sound. They say that on their website. It’s like it’s a surprising amount of sound is decreased. And it’s true.

SuChin Pak

I believe that.

Kulap Vilaysack 

I’m very interested in this. Okay, that’s a hot tip. Hot add to cart.

Lauren Lapkus 

Okay, my next thing is a TV show.

Kulap Vilaysack 

All right.

Lauren Lapkus 

It is a Netflix show called Marriage or Mortgage. Have you seen this show?

SuChin Pak 

I’m so glad you brought this up.

Lauren Lapkus 

Have you seen it?

Kulap Vilaysack 

I haven’t.

SuChin Pak 

I have.

Lauren Lapkus 

Did it fill you with rage?

SuChin Pak 

I couldn’t get past episode one.

Lauren Lapkus 

Okay, that’s how I felt. I thought I’ll never watch the show again. And then we’re like, let’s watch another one. And it still fills you with rage. It did. We decided to record watch along with it. So on my Patreon not to plug it but I am plugging at my Patreon. You can watch the show with us. And we you know, just talk over the whole thing. But we were like, so shocked by the ending every single time.

SuChin Pak 

Do they always pick the wedding?

Lauren Lapkus

We haven’t seen all of them yet. But everyone that we’ve watched they have. And I’m so disturbed. So Kulap, here’s what the show is. It’s a show where a couple is going to they’re engaged. And they’re either going to have a wedding, they have a down payment amount of like usually it’s $35,000 or something and they’re either going to put it on a wedding or on a down payment on a house. And of course, you’re sitting there going, if you have the savings, and that could get you a down payment, you should get the house like there’s no question to me if you have to choose between both of them either have one day of fun, or you have a house. And then they always pick the wedding. And then COVID strikes in the middle of filming. So by the time they have their wedding, some of them have […] pandemic weddings. And then that’s crazy.

Kulap Vilaysack  22:21

Oh my goodness.

Lauren Lapkus 

Yes. Because like the first episode I go, oh my god, are they gonna have COVID […] Like I was like, there’s no, I’m sure they shot this all before. Now cut to the one year later they had their wedding. It’s October 2020. They’re fully having 50 or more people there. There’s no masks in sight, no mention of it. It’s like, it’s a crazy show. It’s so good.

SuChin Pak 

And, you know, I before I even clicked play, I had mentioned it to my husband. And I said, you know, there’s this show, I think it’s kind of a genius idea, Marriage or Mortgage. And he was like, how is that a show? Who’s gonna pick marriage? And I was like, I bet obviously, it made it on the air. So there’s going to be a mix of it.

Lauren Lapkus 

Yeah.

SuChin Pak 

I thought this one I was like, this is trash. I can’t watch this. It was a young couple who was struggling, you know? It’s not like these people have a ton of money.

Lauren Lapkus 

That’s the part that makes me feel so crazy.

SuChin Pak 

And so they spend the money that they would have for a mortgage on a wedding. And then the silver lining is, is they get to save now for a mortgage in the future.

Lauren Lapkus 

Yeah, they’re like they had a great wedding. And now, now they’re saving up for their mortgage or whatever. And it’s like you had it a minute ago. I don’t understand

SuChin Pak

It doesn’t make any sense.

Kulap Vilaysack 

So in the world of sort of like real estate shows, the one that I am enjoying, and I through the HGTV app on my Apple TV.

Lauren Lapkus 

Oh, do I need that? You know what’s good is Discovery Plus, they have a lot of good HDTV type thing.

Kulap Vilaysack  24:01

I think this will probably be on Discovery Plus, and I think you’ll have the entire season of Escape to the Chateau.

SuChin Pak 

What is that?

Kulap Vilaysack

And so it’s this English couple. This English family. And they’re not like, it’s not Victoria and David Beckham, okay. It’s like they’re these […] a designer and engineer. And they’re straw bridges. And they have two young kids, and they bought a shed a French Chateau in the Loire Valley, I believe, for like $350,000 and had no plumbing and had no sewage and they’ve just renovated every room.

SuChin Pak 

Themselves?

Kulap Vilaysack 

Yeah, themselves. And they also they do weddings there. He cooks, she designs like and it’s that’s been a nice, very soothing, sort of like I get to be in France and I get to see like them struggled to like, you know, figure out how to do things. So on the HGTV app, which is I think free to everybody, they only let me see like five episodes. So it’s like five episodes rent and random season. They’ve already been there for five years. This is their third year, but I really enjoy it.

Lauren Lapkus 

That sounds really good.

Kulap Vilaysack 

It’s a Chateau. You know, with a moat, and there on 12 acres of land.

Lauren Lapkus 

Like this is cool. Cute.

Kulap Vilaysack

Now, you have two LA businesses for us to add to cart to.

Lauren Lapkus 

Yes. And these are for people who live in LA. So I understand that is not everyone. But if you are in LA, I want to shout out these two companies. This is okay. So my friend Kevin Porter, who you probably know Kulap, I would guess maybe?

Kulap Vilaysack 

I don’t know Kevin Porter.

Lauren Lapkus 

He hosts a lot of podcasts. But he’s so great. And he started in quarantine, he started baking cookies, and they were delicious. And then he started a company, and you can order them and he will deliver them to your house.

Kulap Vilaysack  26:09

Oh my goodness.

Lauren Lapkus 

And they’re really good. And all of the proceeds go to charity. And they’re like delicious. And they’re all they’ll have funny names. He’s got Nicole Rich High, James Brown Butter, Pretzel Lee Sullenberger and Cinnamon Thea Nixon, right now that’s what’s in stock. But they’re delicious. He has dropped off a few times to my house as a surprise. And it’s always like the best thing ever to open your door and just see like a pile of cookies there. And you can all have that. So I wanted to plug that because it’s he’s really great.

Kulap Vilaysack 

His name is Kevin Porter. The name of his business is Kevin Bakin.

Lauren Lapkus 

Yes, Bakin, So kevinbakinshop.com. And you can see all of his stuff. And then the other person I wanted to promote is […] wife, Tiffany, recently followed her passions. And she started a floral design company, floral arrangements. And they’re stunning. It’s called if you go on Instagram, it’s the sweetzerlife. And there’s a website for that too. But her stuff is so beautiful.

Kulap Vilaysack 

I follow her. Her tablescapes are just always the epic, the most gorgeous and she is not. She is not a minimalist. She is a maximalist.

Lauren Lapkus

Yeah, so she was forever posting on Instagram, like just for Thanksgiving, she would make her table look amazing, like every holiday truly full of flowers and beautiful things. And she recently realized that was what she really wanted to do with her life. And so she started this company. And with wild horses, my improv group, we bought Erin White had a bouquet for her birthday yesterday. And that’s so recent picture on there. And they turned out so stunning. And I’m just so excited. I think it’s so cool on people, like, take a risk like that and leave a job to do something that’s more passion-based.

Kulap Vilaysack 

She’s so creative.

Lauren Lapkus 

And also, I don’t know how to do anything like that. So I like I’m so impressed by this, like her tablescapes like you were saying, like, I could never, I like put a candlestick out. And I’m like, look what I did.

Kulap Vilaysack  28:10

It’s on its side and…

SuChin Pak 

You see my spice rack? Do you see that spice rack back there?

Kulap Vilaysack 

You move the spice rack into the middle of the table, centerpiece.

Lauren Lapkus

Everyone can access, whichever ones you’re interested in.

SuChin Pak 

Use the ones in the back.

Lauren Lapkus

Yes, please use these up. They’re getting a little they’re a little foam. The expiration date is approaching.

Kulap Vilaysack 

Lauren, thank you so much for coming on. You’re like, I already want to have you back.

Lauren Lapkus 

I’m so happy I got to do this. Because truly every week I’ve been listening. But I’m so excited I got to get on the show. It’s so good. I just love it so much. I feel like it’s like listening to friends. And I just think it’s great.

Kulap Vilaysack 

Thank you, Lauren. Everybody listening probably knows about all of your podcast. But just in case.

Lauren Lapkus

If you don’t know I have a podcast with Kulap’s husband, Scott and Paula Tompkins called THREE DUMB where we just talk about random stuff. And that’s really all it is. And then we play a game at the end. And you can get on board with that, it’s free. And I also have a show with Nicole Byer called NEWCOMERS where we watch things we’ve never seen. So the first season was All Star Wars. The second season was all Lord of the Rings. And the third season, we got to choose what we wanted to do. And it’s Tyler Perry movies. So we’re having a great time.

Kulap Vilaysack 

That’s amazing.

Lauren Lapkus 

And then I have a Patreon, like I mentioned, which you can find if you search my name with Patreon and you will get it. There’s lots of stuff on there.

Kulap Vilaysack 

And you know, she’s an amazing actor. She, you were just in the GOOD GIRLS.

Lauren Lapkus 

Yes, I’m recurring on that still through this whole season. So that’s fun, it’s on NBC.

Kulap Vilaysack 

And if you haven’t seen it yet, please check her out on Netflix. She is the star of the WRONG MISSY. And you were super great than that.

Lauren Lapkus 

Thank you. That was fun.

Kulap Vilaysack 

And were you on Instagram and on Twitter.

Lauren Lapkus  30:01

Oh yeah, just Lauren Lapkus, you can find me and see all the you know, cool amazing things I’m up to and quarantine. It’s all throwback pictures.

SuChin Pak 

And by the way, imminently, imminently a video of you cleaning your toilet with the toilet brush.

Lauren Lapkus 

When you post this episode I will do that. I will post a video cleaning my toilet with that thing.

SuChin Pak 

Look at that. Highest downloaded episode to date I have a tingly feeling, that tingling feeling.

Kulap Vilaysack 

Go grab a pose pad.

SuChin Pak

You’re right. I will go do that as well. Lauren, thank you so much for bringing us your tips, sharing your hopes, your dreams, your vulnerabilities and being with us.

Lauren Lapkus 

Thank you so much. This is so fun.

SuChin Pak 

All right. Well, that’s it for us this week. Oh my goodness. Lauren is such a jam. I like adding everything to cart by the way.

Kulap Vilaysack 

I’m pretty sure I’m getting that pillow. Make sure you check out Comedy Week on Stitcher where they are celebrating our show. Plus some other hilarious podcasts for April Fool’s. No tricks, just the treat of listening to add to cart and many more all for free on Stitcher and check out their curated homepage if I do next comedy pod obsession.

SuChin Pak 

Don’t forget if you sign up for stitcher premium you can listen to our podcasts Add To Cart and so many other hilarious comedy pods ad free like Comedy Bang Bang, How Did This Get Made and more for only get this for $99 a month or $34.99 a year, what a steal. Use code CART and get your first month free, code is only valid on stitcher.com/premium and not valid on in app purchases.

Kulap Vilaysack 

Make sure you follow us at @AddToCartPod on Instagram where you see all of what Lauren shared with us. And hey, leave us a voicemail. Why not? What’s that voicemail number?

SuChin Pak  32:08

I have no idea and we still don’t have a voicemail. What’s the voicemail number? 833-453-6662.

Kulap Vilaysack 

You know what? Don’t leave a voicemail. I think SuChin, I think this will work. Don’t do it. Don’t you dare leave a voicemail.

SuChin Pak 

But I leave one every week, just so that that voicemail line you know doesn’t go cold you know what I mean, I like to keep it hot for all you guys that are going to be Oh wait. We’re just told there are voicemail so we’ll share that next week. We will share it next week Kulap. We’re not that organized. You guys keep them coming. Because word on the street is they’re amazing. And that’s it for us on this edition, again that number is 833-453-6662. Bye!

CREDITS

ADD TO CART is a production of Lemonada Media. Our producer is Claire Jones and our editor is Ivan Kuraev. The music is by Wasahhbii and produced by La Made It and Oh So Familiar with additional music by APM music. Executive producers are Kulap Vilaysack, SuChin Pak, Jessica Cordova Kramer and Stephanie Wittels Wachs. Be sure to check out all the items we mentioned today on our Instagram at @AddToCartPod. Also, please take a moment to rate review and subscribe to the show wherever you get your podcast.

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