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Hi there! It’s time for our fifteenth 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.
This week we’re discussing moving in with your girlfriend after just one year (even when you have an ominous feeling about it maybe), dating someone significantly shorter than you, and the politics behind not commenting on our political posts but definitely commenting on our cookie posts. Also, how do you feel about Smittens (either the band or the mittens)? Holding hands in general? Wearing someone else’s underwear?
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First time I’ve listened to one of these. Felt like chatting at work, except with me being super quiet and not very conversational. Thank you for keeping me company this afternoon whilst I attempt not to think about the election.
you’re welcome! thank you so much for listening!
I’m only 8 minutes into this but I’m pretty sure this is my favorite part:
“It’s like when kids fight and their parents put them inside the same T-shirt.”
“WHAT?”
I think this is my first comment on this site. I could be wrong but I don’t ever remember doing so before. I felt like a kid caught with my hand in the cookie jar when y’all were talking about people that don’t leave comments, so I promise to try and leave them more often. This podcast was so good! I laughed out loud throughout and felt very inspired by the pep talk at the end. Thanks guys!
ashanti!!! we love you no matter whether you comment or not but ALSO thank you for commenting!
!!! yes same everything rachel said!
I didn’t remember Rachel saying “I want to go out and win a football game now” but I laughed so hard when I heard her say it just now.
heather i don’t even know how to play football!!!
“Why do I feel like crying now?” OMG ME TOO.
I needed this today.
Thank you for this lovely moment on Election Day. Rachel and Yvonne, l promise to comment more on your news posts!
i appreciate it, ann!
THANKS FOR UPLOADING THIS TODAY y’all are the best. I was injured by my parents waterbed once when I was very little. I think I was sick and the sheet got pulled off of part of it and I got stuck to it. Anyway thanks for providing this distraction. I too want to go out and win a football game now.
waterbeds will eat you alive, it’s true.
So I thought it was just me getting a bit teary at the end and I blamed it on sleep deprivation and having a newborn and all of that but nope, glad it wasn’t just me.
Having a baby is tough and being at home alone with a baby is really hard and this is the first time I’ve listened to this the whole way through because I basically can’t find time to do anything buuttt I got to listen to this while feeding Octavia and it made me feel like I was sitting around with friends having a conversation about height differences and cookies and the election, because that’s basically what y’all were doing but I so normal again and I felt a part of it and less alone and I can’t event tell you how much that means to me right now.
Thank you.
ella this made me cry! thank you for being here!! and congratulations on octavia! and on still doing all the mom things while you’re sleep deprived and everything is tough. i used to listen to the Planet Podcast while i rocked eli to sleep or folded laundry, and it was exactly what you’re saying — like sitting around with friends and feeling normal and less alone. that was before i even knew i was queer! anyway thank you for sharing this and i just feel so ???!
i’m a freelancer so i’m working from home and listening to this podcast while doing non-brain-intensive stuff and waiting for the election results and i gotta say — thanks for keeping me company!
Just got around to listening to this now. It made me laugh – which I really needed today. Thank you.
You guys, I just listened to this podcast, and unlike every other piece of media created before 9pm Tuesday, November 8th, 2016, it did not make me want to cry! It actually made me laugh, and appreciate the world. So thank you for bringing me that small 42 minutes of joy.
ok i’m only halfway through but speaking as a short person who has been in relationships primarily w/ significantly taller folks (7-10 inches):
a. if someone dumped me solely because they felt awkward about our height difference (especially if it was framed as “you’re just too short for me” and not “i’m too tall/a weirdo about height sorry”) i would feel really hurt and confused??? i would also feel like that person was stupid because what if we could be great together????? and u threw it away cuz u have to lean down to kiss me??? what
b. height differences are great! great for spooning, great for face to face cuddling, kind of bad for holding hands while walking i will admit, great for leaning your head onto her head (if u are the Tall in the relaysh), great for not running out of room on the bed length-wise during sex, just great
anyway just your local short angry person piping up
also so far this podcast has cracked me up like 8 times, a+ and thank you, as always
Super late listening to this… but the pasta bowl story/life affirmations with Arcade Fire swelling in the background was spot on. Made my day. Thank you for this.
I just discovered this podcasts series and am loving it.
Coincidentally, I also just got some pasta bowls. I love them SO much!
Stay strong, as always. You guys rock.