Save Ann (Ariana's Version) (From The Sandovault) (w/ Aricia Skidmore-Williams)

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03/27/24 • 81 min

"You're a prize ... he is not the prize." This week on VPR, it's a tale of two (broken) relationships. It's also a tale of girl's girls and not-so-girl's girls. Plus: real estate drama (congrats on your new house Ariana!), a secret Vegas makeout, very guttural breathwork with Dr. Vu, and our dearest Ann shoots her shot with a potential new boss ... Amanda and Ann are here to gab about it all.

Then, the gals talk to comedy queen and podcaster extraordinaire Aricia Skidmore-Williams (22:44) about all her wild stories from the trenches of assistanthood. Aricia's building an empire; we have no choice but to stan.

For this week's final act, Lauren Payton (from last week!) is back to talk "Swag Runoff," cool/fun/weird hand-me-downs from previous bosses (1:13:13).

Check out:

Aricia's Instagram

Aricia's many podcasts: Even The Rich, Even The Royals, Rich and Daily

Ann's Cameo

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Our cover art was made by America's sweetheart, Maddy Weinberg, and our theme song features parts of "Kawaii Til I Die" by Starjunk 95

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For this week's final act, Lauren Payton (from last week!) is back to talk "Swag Runoff," cool/fun/weird hand-me-downs from previous bosses (1:13:13).

Check out:

Aricia's Instagram

Aricia's many podcasts: Even The Rich, Even The Royals, Rich and Daily

Ann's Cameo

Our cover art was made by America's sweetheart, Maddy Weinberg, and our theme song features parts of "Kawaii Til I Die" by Starjunk 95

Developed & produced in association with Paradiso Media

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Previous Episode

"What the F is Ann's Job?" (w/ Lauren Payton)

"Shoes on the chair?!" This week on VPR we watched our girl Ann swiffer for her goddamn life, and heard Ariana ask the important questions: What exactly is Ann's job description? And why does it feel like she's becoming Tom's mom? Also in this ep: sexy singles in a pool, a situationship in a swan boat, a sad Sandoval in a closet ... and Amanda and Ann are here to unpack it all!

Then the gals interview content creator, comedian, and proud girl kisser Lauren Payton about her adventures in assistant-ing: the good, the bad, and the absolutely delulu (36:26). Her stories are cuckoo bananas, so strap in. Giggles abound, fun codenames guaranteed.

To round out the episode, Ann, Amanda, and Lauren deliver another installment of "If They Were Your Boss" (1:17:30) -- they choose some celebs and riff on how they might treat their staff.

Check out:

Lauren's Instagram (hi.poppylaur)

Lauren's TikTok (poppylaur)

Ann's Cameo

Our cover art was made by America's sweetheart, Maddy Weinberg, and our theme song features parts of "Kawaii Til I Die" by Starjunk 95

Developed & produced in association with Paradiso Media

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Next Episode

Everybody's Talking About Ann (w/ Rebecca Leib)

“If he had HR, he’d be fucked.” This VPR episode is a doozy for our dear Ann. She's "professional and prepared," but she's also fired (or is she?!). There's a kitchen interview (that leads to an outburst about Ann), a sparkling water tasting party (where the VPR gang inquires about and then Ariana and Tom fight about Ann), and then a cursed beach day (during which another argument breaks out about Ann). Mercury is in fact in retrograde. Ann is here to share her side of the story and Amanda is here to defend her friend to the ends of the Earth.

"SECOND of all," the gals sit down with Rebecca Leib (42:06), former celebrity psychic’s assistant and current ghost girlie. She shares some of her favorite anecdotes from her support staff jobs, including a game show hosted by Jane Lynch and a ghost hunting show that had her stay at an extremely creepy haunted mansion while tipsy. They also talk about how teeny tiny Lala, Ariana, and celebrities in general are in real life.

Before class is dismissed, they play a new game, “True Crime, Fake Crime,” (1:24:36) and tell a truly unhinged tale about Taylor Armstrong of Real Housewives fame and her imagined untimely death by candle. If you don’t understand it, you’re paying attention.

Rebecca’s plugs:

If you want more Rebecca in your ears, you’re in luck! You can check out her and Jason Horton’s shows Ghost Town & Vanderpodcalypse Now wherever you get your podcasts!

Ghost Town podcast - episode featuring astrologer extraordinaire and VPR sweetheart Ally Lewber

This episode utilizes “[FREE] True Crime - Generic Theme Music” (you’ll never guess what we googled to find it....we googled “generic true crime music free.” ) Score by Esteven Rodriguez. Thank you Esteven Rodriguez!

Our cover art was made by America's sweetheart, Maddy Weinberg, and our theme song features parts of "Kawaii Til I Die" by Starjunk 95

Developed & produced in association with Paradiso Media

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.