We’re back with performer, activist and sophisticated (transplanted) New Yorker, Ariel Speedwagon, and saying a (very temporary) goodbye to another sophisticated New Yorker, Stacey McGill. In this episode, we drink New York Sours as we discuss Stacey’s Scarcity-Mentality Candy Fantasies (in the words of Ariel “Tootsie Pops, Stacey? C’mon! Dream Bigger!”) and the fun serial killer banner goodbye her friends make for her when her family has to move back to New York City for her father’s work. We discuss Ariel’s rare dual-devotion to the Sweet Valley High books AND the BSC, and fall down a feminist rabbit hole debate over doing versus being in gendered children’s books of the 80’s and 90’s. It’s almost like a real wine book club for a minute.

Beverages Consumed: New York Sour

Guest: Ariel Speedwagon

Book Discussed: #13 Goodbye, Stacey, Goodbye