Last Week In Hive Mind
Kimberly The Hypnotist, Foodie Accounts of Utah Graded, The Great Soda Shop Sugar Cookie Showdown, And More
This week, when I wasn’t watching my GME shares bounce up and down, I was reminiscing on how far we, Jen, Lisa, Meredith, Heather, Whitney, Mary, and I, have come.
If I’m being honest, I’m surprised by how much I’ve enjoyed this first season of RHOSLC. Sure I’m relieved that Wednesday is the finale because recapping every episode is A LOT, but I’m going to miss my new friends while they’re off the air.
Read my recap of the penultimate episode here, then check out our latest episode of The Green Room wherein I incorrectly but confidently tell Emily that Isabella Rossellini is dead.
Sorry, Izzy.
Also, our third Bridgerton episode is now available for Hive Mind patrons. Thank you so much to all of you who have donated on Patreon. I hope you’re enjoying the bonus content as much as we’re enjoying making it.
In other news, Hive Mind contributor Amanda Darling conducted groundbreaking research and tried all the soda shop sugar cookies to determine who has the best and who has the worst.
Going into this I did not realize how challenging it would be to pit sugar cookies against each other. When it comes down to it, a sugar cookie recipe is the most basic cookie recipe there is, and it’s very difficult to put one against the other and try to determine which one is better. The basic recipe is sugar, flour, eggs, butter, salt, vanilla. Buttercream is even more basic with powdered sugar, butter (or shortening, which is most often used in commercial frosting), water, and vanilla. Little to no variation between recipes, except perhaps the ratio of the ingredients.
Read Amanda’s conclusions here.
And then read this piece written by Paige Wightman, who has put her teacher skills to the best possible use and created a grading rubric for Utah’s best foodie Instagram accounts.
Being a middle school teacher means that I can tell you what 95% of the new slang means, I’m too comfortable with telling teenagers at the movie theater (remember those?) to put their phones away, and I come home from work with 0% desire to cook and 80% desire to mindlessly scroll my social medias until I panic that all the restaurants are about to close and all I’ve eaten was whatever I could shove in my mouth during my 20 minute lunch break. So though I have a lane, I have traveled the highway of Utah foodie Instagram accounts and I am here to tell you my favorites.
Last week’s episode of The Bachelor was A MESS and this week’s episode promises to trend toward messier, which makes predicting what will happen tricky, but you should still try. If you haven’t made your predictions for tonight do so now so you can maybe win 100 Bezos dollars. If you need a refresher on what happened last week, listen to our latest episode of Trash Talk:
And if reality TV isn’t your jam, might I interest you in a podcast episode about a beloved nineties movie that for me personally created some unrealistic expectations about pregnancy?
I’m still mad about the 128 and 132 pounds.
Coming This Week On Hive Mind
Contributor Benjamin Wood reviews seven selections from this year’s Sundance film festival, and Samantha Aramburu reviews the best 30 Utah restaurants to open in the last 30 years.
Plus we’ll have the final RHOSLC recap of the season in both written and audio form, another week of The Bachelor talked about, and Eli and I will sit down to discuss Search Party season 4 with Taylor and Jordyn of Girl Meets Show.
Around the Internet
Vulture published an oral history of The Emperor’s New Groove and I was delighted to learn Patrick Warburton (Puddy) improvised this scene:
I’m really enjoying the Ringer’s 60 Songs That Explain The ‘90s. It’s not a podcast that needs to be listened to in any sort of order. Pick any episode and let the nostalgia wash over you.
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