Hi everybody welcome back to the Be Therein Five Podcast, I'm Kate Kennedy, your host.

There's some weeks where so much happens pop culturally that even though it'll, you know,

give this episode a poorer shelf life than,

I mean, really any of the produce of traders shows, what are they doing?

I swear the spores sprout in the car ride home like I cannot keep anything fresh on that

place. So why are people treating that mini tow bag like it's a goddamn Birken?

Like I just googled it. What's up with those Trader Joe's many tow bags?

This is the Guardian money bags. What's up with those Trader Joe's many tote bags? The Guardian.

Money bags. Would you pay $1,200 for one of Trader Joe's $2.99 tote's?

No! Are people well?

And this is Business Insider.

How Stanley Cups and Trader Joe's mini tots got so popular.

Like those aren't the same thing.

I almost feel like Stanley cups are getting avocado toasted, you know, where it's an item that becomes

symbolic of something quote-unquote basic, what you know I hate that when you

but when you think about it is just that it's basic it's cup. It's a piece of bread like it's more pathological to be that like these things would bother a person

than that you'd be a person eat God forbid putting an avocado on toast or, you know, walking around with a cup of water. I just, I don't know, people make a personality type out of like hating and eye rolling at these popular things and I feel like people are more in order with Stanley Cups than they need to be.

I, as you know, like I was so interested when they first started happening because I do like hype.

I don't want to you know I apologize to

miniature canvas tote bag from Trader Joe's America. I don't want to offend you

I think I just look at the size and the aesthetic and I just don't really know where I'm wearing this tote, but I get that it's cute in that way of like I like watching videos of people make tiny food.

It's just like, oh, you can fit the basics in there, but also it is just wide open,

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