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George Wu

May 7, 2026

0:48
If you haven't checked out the full episode, let me share these four standout moments.
0:54
We were sending each other things that you would dream of buying, as any normal friends do.
1:00
Your hopes, I wanna go here on holiday, or one day when I have my own place, I'll buy this chair.
1:06
And it actually started with, I think it's when Hay was quite new, and they released a gold side table that was almost too small to be properly functional.
1:19
You couldn't have it as your coffee table.
1:21
And too pretty to want to use it every day.
1:24
So it was definitely, like, a luxury dream.
3:14
It's a reminder that the best creative projects often begin when you stop trying to make something and start making it for the love of it.
12:06
I literally had a free personal shopper.
12:07
shopper.As a joke, as you can imagine, I was torn between insane jealousy and also curiosity of what I could get Malika to buy.
12:17
I made [laughs] a Instagram account for literally an audience of one.
12:22
I called it I Can't Afford This But Maybe She Can, me being the one that I can't afford this, and started, like, posting genuinely things that I really loved, and then Malika would comment on the bottom saying, "I'm buying this one.
12:35
I'm buying this one." And then they would appear in our house.
12:38
I left it open to the public because I didn't know anything about Instagram, and who's gonna follow this account anyway? It was just a really silly idea.
12:46
And yeah, and then slowly friends started following, and then members of the public started following, and then COVID hit.
16:38
But your curiosity, where does it take you, and where do you find the stuff in the first place?

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