This week the Wives™️ are joined by artists and curators Suzanne Joskow and Henderson Blumer.  We discuss Suzanne’s community cookbook archive, Henderson’s podcast, and the show they’ve just curated at The Floating Gallery, as well as being parents to an 18-month-old.

“The Body is the House We Live In” is on view @thefloatinggallerylosangeles until April 29th!

• Community Cookbook Archive LA by Suzanne Joskow
• Behind the Blue Wall Podcast by Henderson Blumer

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Honestly this episode's discussions are straight-up not as exciting as past episodes (although this one is free of body-horror) but it had been so long since we'd recorded just the two of us that we had much, much catching up to do... which includes debuting the newest member of the family (and her 90s pop-star nickname!), stupid little backpacks, toddlers being dark-sided, and the lengths our teens will go to get In-N-Out.

• The Body is the House We Live In - Art Exhibition @ The Floating Gallery in Los Angeles
• Zara on TikTok

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CW for graphic birth and body discussion.

The wives are joined by Best Wife and super-doula, Holly Maneri.  Amanda and Holly swap birth stories as Austyn serves in the important role of non-uterus-haver to ask incredibly basic questions about childbirth.  In a horrifying twist, another husband is wrong about toilet paper positioning — listen with care.

• Holly the Doula
• @hollydoulaoc

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The Best Wives Club welcomes stylist, sustainable fashion expert, and best girlfriend Lakyn into the fold and she breaks one of the Club's most sacred vows but she's so beautiful that we forgot to get mad.

• Lakyn's website
• Lakyn's newsletter
• Lakyn's socials

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CW: pregnancy loss, death, and certain information about Santa Claus.

The Best Wives Club shares the floor today with author, artist, grief specialist, and best wife Ann Faison.  Ann shares her compassionate wisdom on how to apply the paradigm of grief to everything from bedtime temper tantrums to picky eaters, and the journey that brought her this wisdom.   

• "Are We There Yet?" Podcast by Ann Faison
• "I'm Listening" Substack by Ann Faison
• Books by Ann Faison

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The wives-in-law meet for the fifth session of the Best Wives Club.  Austyn has important news to share as the family's crash-course towards living in a 1970s sitcom continues full-force.  We also indulge in some Love Is Blind fawning, put our own spin on death panels, and rue the untapped resource of divorced Canadian men.

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If it sounds like we recorded these discussions about some events when they were current six weeks ago but are just now releasing them, no we didn't and no we aren't and that's rude to say.  Cyberbullying is timeless.

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Our official delegation critiquing wives in film (otherwise known as The Best Wives Movie Club) is given the floor to discuss Stepmom (1998) starring Julia Roberts and Susan Sarandon.  Don't worry if 90s tear-jerkers aren't your thing: Batman, Star Wars, Cinderella, and the bad Disney direct-to-home-video sequels also find their way into the conversation.

Oh, and it's definitely not a must to have recently seen Stepmom to enjoy this episode but if you want to it's on Netflix and Peacock.  

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