As the people of the world begin to peek out of their front doors for signs of life beyond home, Big Lotion and Little Lotion explore the concept of tradition in this week's episode of Pass The Lotion. We discuss the association of tradition with formality and the extraction of tradition's goodness, leaving the rigid and outmoded behind as relics. Did bucking tradition put a Jack Of All Trades in the White House? Is Little Lotion anti-tradition? Can she be convinced otherwise? Are we stifled by tradition? Has the power of groupthink led society down a path of believing that all tradition is to be honored and upheld without exception, without critical reasoning? It can't be true that we should keep doing things the way they've been done because they've always been done that way, right? And what about rethinking the broadest sense of commonly accepted traditions, like the requirement of reporting to work at an office in a post-COVID world? 

An interesting astrological tie-in as the North Node of the Moon moves into the sign of Gemini today, and the South Node moves into Sagittarius. The nodes of the moon only change zodiacal signs once every 18 months, and they strongly influence the subconscious feeling states of the collective depending on the signs they are transiting. As we release the lower expressions of the South Node in Sagittarius and embrace the higher expressions of the North Node in Gemini over the next 18 months, will there be a keener focus on moving away from doing things as they've always been done simply because tradition dictates it is so? 

Plus, Big Lotion picks up a dead mouse, PTL branded masks, and Moisturizing Jams Of The Day from Three6Mafia and Lauryn Hill! And yo, holler at us, fine listeners! Send comments and questions for the podcast to [email protected]. The Pass The Lotion Podcast is a Bad Bitch Records production.

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https://badbitchrecords.com/three-women-blog/revolutionary-lotion-the-playlist

On the latest episode of Weekend Lotion, welcome to May! In numerology, May is a 9 universal month of completions and endings. Also on Weekend Lotion, Big Lotion and Little Lotion play What Are You Wearing and share (lack of) progress on the Taurus New Moon intentions we set last weekend. The Contrarian captures Drewry talking in his sleep on video. Stevie Nicks has three roommates. The potential impact of COVID-19 introspection on American voter turnout in the fall. Big Lotion and Little Lotion play President: what would we have done differently? And we pour some out for the 19th anniversary of the friend holiday known as "5/2." May you celebrate wherever you are listening. Keep on rockin' in the free world, fine people, and we will be back next week with a new topic on the Wednesday episode of PTL. If you haven't checked out any of our musical collaboration playlists - Revolutionary Lotion: The Playlist, Moisturizing Jams Of The Day, Pass The Lotion Premiere: A Musical Celebration - the Bad Bitch Records links below include YouTube and Spotify editions of all three playlists. Email us! Send comments and questions for the podcast to [email protected]. The Pass The Lotion Podcast is a Bad Bitch Records production.

https://badbitchrecords.com/three-women-blog/revolutionary-lotion-the-playlist

https://badbitchrecords.com/three-women-blog/ptl-moisturizing-jams-of-the-day-april-and-may-2020

https://badbitchrecords.com/three-women-blog/the-pass-the-lotion-premiere-a-musical-celebration

In Revolutionary Lotion, Big Lotion and Little Lotion share some of our favorite songs of change, revolution and protest from Gil Scott-Heron and Public Enemy to Loretta Lynn, The Staples Singers, Janet Jackson and Sinéad O'Connor. When an artist writes and records words of protest, change or truth, is there a resulting magic within the finished container of the song or album? How are artists able to communicate powerful truths of inequality and injustice through music so brilliantly when most of us find those same truths difficult to speak? Also, a sidebar on how Drewry got an F in a class on Bob Marley in college, Whitney gets triggered by Broadway, Moisturizing Jams Of The Week from 2Pac and Nas and a belated birthday duet to Claybrook. For this episode of Pass The Lotion, we put together a playlist of 26 revolution songs, many of which are discussed in the episode. Link below to the Revolutionary Lotion playlist on YouTube and Spotify! Stay moisturized y'all, and we will be back on Saturday morning with Weekend Lotion to usher in the month of May! 

To check out Revolutionary Lotion: The Playlist (YouTube and Spotify), just follow the link below:

https://badbitchrecords.com/three-women-blog/revolutionary-lotion-the-playlist

And for YouTube and Spotify playlists of our April and May PTL Moisturizing Jams Of The Day:

https://badbitchrecords.com/three-women-blog/revolutionary-lotion-the-playlist

Drewry dresses up for Weekend Lotion, small changes during COVID-19, vigorous baths, coming to peace with solitude, Taurus New Moon intentions, Gabrielle Hamilton, the return of passion, the ban of circling back. And dangit, we forgot to sing Happy Birthday to PTL family member Claybrook Penn at the end of the episode. Happy birthday, dear CP, happy birthday to yewwwww! We will sing to you (late) on next Wednesday's episode. Happy weekend everyone, don't forget to pass that lotion! The Pass The Lotion Podcast is a Bad Bitch Records production. Send questions and comments to be shared on the podcast to [email protected]. Much love!

Drewry's Weekend Lotion OOTD:

https://badbitchrecords.com/three-women-blog/drewrys-weekend-lotion-ootd

Gabrielle Hamilton's article in NY Times Magazine:

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/23/magazine/closing-prune-restaurant-covid.html

Big Lotion and Little Lotion discuss the surge in dream retention during COVID-19, inspired by Rebecca Renner's article for National Geographic entitled The pandemic is giving people vivid, unusual dreams. Here's why. In our discussion on the podcast, why are we remembering more of our dreams right now? What significance do dreams hold? What about the assertion by late British philosopher Alan Watts that our waking hours are, in fact, the dream? Nightmares, sleep apnea, dream journals, prophetic dreams, funny dreams, recurring dreams and the surfacing of unresolved subconscious matter within the realm of the dreaming world. Also, featuring lyrical excerpts from Fiona Apple and Amy Ray on this episode as the Moisturizing Jams of the Week. And, lizard sex. And a vintage apocalyptic public broadcast educational program on the Dewey Decimal System (link below). And Kim Krans. And, lizard sex. Did we mention lizard sex yet? Email us! Send comments and questions for the podcast to [email protected]. The PTL Podcast is a Bad Bitch Records production.

The PTL Podcast Premiere Playlist: A Musical Celebration (YouTube and Spotify)

https://badbitchrecords.com/three-women-blog/the-pass-the-lotion-premiere-a-musical-celebration

 

Tomes and Talismans from Missouri Public Broadcasting

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6DzzPDnIKtQ&feature=youtu.be

 

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At-home haircuts during COVID-19, mad love for the PTL Premiere Musical Celebration playlist, Outer Banks and The Crown, the Rick Rubin / Malcolm Gladwell Broken Record Podcast and Helen Ellis' podcast The Southern Lady Code, digital spring cleaning, productivity and dreams of Antarctica.

After two months of publicly piloted episodes, bandwidth brown-outs and all, Big Lotion and Little Lotion celebrate the official premiere of The Pass The Lotion Podcast on April 15, 2020! New segments include Moisturizing Jam of the Day and What Are Your Wearing?, a COVID-19 fashion commentary. Whitney shares new poetry, The World Sings. As an introduction for new listeners to the PTL hosts, Drewry and Whitney face off in Newlywed Lotion, a highly moisturized and platonic version of the legendary Newlywed Game. Check out the Pass The Lotion Premiere playlist on the 3 Women blog of the Bad Bitch Records website, also available on the BBR YouTube channel and Spotify. Link below. Happy premiere y'all! 

https://badbitchrecords.com/three-women-blog/the-pass-the-lotion-premiere-a-musical-celebration

https://badbitchrecords.com/three-women-blog/the-world-sings

We kick off the weekend talking RuPaul's Drag Race, The Crown, the upcoming musical season of The Bachelor franchise, and the most memorable check-ins of the week as we all continue to do our best to navigate shelter in place. The next episode of PTL will be our official premiere episode on Wednesday, April 15!

In pilot #7, Big Lotion and Little Lotion work with Kim Krans’ The Wild Unknown Archetypes to answer questions relevant to the human race on planet Earth in the present day. What is our collective North Star right now? What is our collective shadow that we need to bring into the light of conscious awareness? And how may we best understand this current global crisis within a broader historical lens in order to give each of us greater peace at this time? We continue to hold space for the collective, dear friends, with love and laughter. Happy Libra Full Moon - check out the stunning Supermoon tonight! Libra is about restoring balance in relationship with others. During this first full moon of the zodiacal year that began on March 19 when the Sun went into Aries, we are being invited by the cosmos to love more deeply and act with greater gentleness, including to ourselves.

Note: The second pilot of Weekend Lotion originally debuted on April 4, 2020 as an entry of the 3 Women Blog at BadBitchRecords.com.

In Weekend Lotion, we tee up the weekend by dipping our toes into the realm of archetypal psychology with Kairos and the Siren from Kim Krans' beautiful Wild Unknown Archetypes Deck.