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The Ricardo Project: An I Love Lucy PodcastThe 5 Best Episodes of Season Two of I Love LucySend us a text or a question or a thought!Today, we're talking the 5 best eps of season two, plus the absolute worst.Support the showShop my Bookshop affiliate link for my fave books on I Love Lucy and Lucille Ball: https://bookshop.org/shop/thericardoproject If there’s a book you’d like to recommend to your fellow listeners, please let me know! Shop Funny Girls - minimalistic classic tv merch: https://funny-girls-tv.myspreadshop.com/ Support the podcast by m...2025-01-3122 minThe Ricardo Project: An I Love Lucy Podcast02.31 Never Do Business With FriendsSend us a text or a question or a thought!The weather outside is as cold as Lucy's dark roots, but inside we're as toasty as her red hair. Support the showShop my Bookshop affiliate link for my fave books on I Love Lucy and Lucille Ball: https://bookshop.org/shop/thericardoproject If there’s a book you’d like to recommend to your fellow listeners, please let me know! Shop Funny Girls - minimalistic classic tv merch: https://funny-girls-tv.myspreadshop.com/ Support the podcast by ma...2024-12-0424 minThe Ricardo Project: An I Love Lucy Podcast02.30 Ricky and Fred Are TV FansSend us a text or a question or a thought!Never give up. Always take comfort in your friends at 623 E. 68th St. Support the showShop my Bookshop affiliate link for my fave books on I Love Lucy and Lucille Ball: https://bookshop.org/shop/thericardoproject If there’s a book you’d like to recommend to your fellow listeners, please let me know! Shop Funny Girls - minimalistic classic tv merch: https://funny-girls-tv.myspreadshop.com/ Support the podcast by making a one time donation on Pa...2024-11-0721 minThe Ricardo Project: An I Love Lucy Podcast02.29 The Camping TripSend us a text or a question or a thought!In which Ethel is EVERYTHING and Ricky is just Ken.Pre-Order "Desi Arnaz: The Man Who Invented Television:" https://bookshop.org/a/80960/9781668023068 Help those displaced by Hurricane Helene: https://www.philanthropyroundtable.org/how-to-give-to-hurricane-helene-relief-efforts/ Support the showShop my Bookshop affiliate link for my fave books on I Love Lucy and Lucille Ball: https://bookshop.org/shop/thericardoproject If there’s a book you’d like to recommend to your fellow listeners, please let me kno...2024-10-2419 minThe Ricardo Project: An I Love Lucy Podcast02.28 Lucy Wants New FurnitureSend us a text or a question or a thought!I am sorry y'all, something weird was going on with the audio here. Pre-Order "Desi Arnaz: The Man Who Invented Television:" https://bookshop.org/a/80960/9781668023068Support the showShop my Bookshop affiliate link for my fave books on I Love Lucy and Lucille Ball: https://bookshop.org/shop/thericardoproject If there’s a book you’d like to recommend to your fellow listeners, please let me know! Shop Funny Girls - minimalistic classic tv m...2024-10-1820 minThe Ricardo Project: An I Love Lucy Podcast02.27 Lucy Is MatchmakerSend us a text or a question or a thought!My GOD this episode is racy.Support the showShop my Bookshop affiliate link for my fave books on I Love Lucy and Lucille Ball: https://bookshop.org/shop/thericardoproject If there’s a book you’d like to recommend to your fellow listeners, please let me know! Shop Funny Girls - minimalistic classic tv merch: https://funny-girls-tv.myspreadshop.com/ Support the podcast by making a one time donation on PayPal: paypal.me/ricardoproject Get...2024-10-1122 minThe Ricardo Project: An I Love Lucy Podcast02.26 The Ricardos Change ApartmentsSend us a text or a question or a thought!Ethel is a girl boss and Lucy is kind of a d*ick and every New Yorker feels so seen by the struggles of this episode.Help those displaced by Hurricane Helene: https://www.philanthropyroundtable.org/how-to-give-to-hurricane-helene-relief-efforts/ Support the showShop my Bookshop affiliate link for my fave books on I Love Lucy and Lucille Ball: https://bookshop.org/shop/thericardoproject If there’s a book you’d like to recommend to your fellow listeners, pleas...2024-10-0727 minThe Ricardo Project: An I Love Lucy Podcast02.25 Lucy's Last BirthdaySend us a text or a question or a thought!Continuing last week's theme:Donate to the Sogorea Te’ Land Trust: https://sogoreate-landtrust.org/ Watch a presentation by Sogorea Te’ Land Trust: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FfuJHcqCXjA Learn about the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women Movement: https://www.nativehope.org/missing-and-murdered-indigenous-women-mmiw Support the showShop my Bookshop affiliate link for my fave books on I Love Lucy and Lucille Ball: https://bookshop.org/shop/thericardoproject If there’s...2024-09-2722 minThe Ricardo Project: An I Love Lucy Podcast02.24 The Indian ShowSend us a text or a question or a thought!Donate to the Sogorea Te’ Land Trust: https://sogoreate-landtrust.org/ Watch a presentation by Sogorea Te’ Land Trust: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FfuJHcqCXjA Learn about the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women Movement: https://www.nativehope.org/missing-and-murdered-indigenous-women-mmiw Support the showShop my Bookshop affiliate link for my fave books on I Love Lucy and Lucille Ball: https://bookshop.org/shop/thericardoproject If there’s a book you’d like to rec...2024-09-1920 minThe Ricardo Project: An I Love Lucy Podcast02.23 Lucy Hires a MaidSend us a text or a question or a thought!Mrs. Porter, the Child Wonder, is here to teach us all about self love.Support the showShop my Bookshop affiliate link for my fave books on I Love Lucy and Lucille Ball: https://bookshop.org/shop/thericardoproject If there’s a book you’d like to recommend to your fellow listeners, please let me know! Shop Funny Girls - minimalistic classic tv merch: https://funny-girls-tv.myspreadshop.com/ Support the podcast by making a on...2024-09-1322 minThe Ricardo Project: An I Love Lucy Podcast02.22 No Children AllowedSend us a text or a question or a thought!Ring the Trum-bell, Mrs. Trumbell has arrived! (See what I did there?).Support the showShop my Bookshop affiliate link for my fave books on I Love Lucy and Lucille Ball: https://bookshop.org/shop/thericardoproject If there’s a book you’d like to recommend to your fellow listeners, please let me know! Shop Funny Girls - minimalistic classic tv merch: https://funny-girls-tv.myspreadshop.com/ Support the podcast by making a one time donation on PayP...2024-09-0624 minThe Ricardo Project: An I Love Lucy PodcastAn Update: Where I've Been and Where We're GoingSend us a text or a question or a thought!Hi everyone. Long time no talk. Support the showShop my Bookshop affiliate link for my fave books on I Love Lucy and Lucille Ball: https://bookshop.org/shop/thericardoproject If there’s a book you’d like to recommend to your fellow listeners, please let me know! Shop Funny Girls - minimalistic classic tv merch: https://funny-girls-tv.myspreadshop.com/ Support the podcast by making a one time donation on PayPal: paypal.me/ricardoproject Get i...2024-08-2012 minThe Ricardo Project: An I Love Lucy Podcast02.21 Lucy Changes Her MindSend us a text or a question or a thought!Justice for Harry Henderson.Buy AKA Lucy: https://bookshop.org/a/80960/9780762484263 Support the showShop my Bookshop affiliate link for my fave books on I Love Lucy and Lucille Ball: https://bookshop.org/shop/thericardoproject If there’s a book you’d like to recommend to your fellow listeners, please let me know! Shop Funny Girls - minimalistic classic tv merch: https://funny-girls-tv.myspreadshop.com/ Support the podcast by making a one time donation on Pa...2023-10-1921 minThe Ricardo Project: An I Love Lucy PodcastAn Interview with Sarah Royal, Author of A.K.A Lucy: The Dynamic and Determined Life of Lucille BallSend us a text or a question or a thought!More like “AKA Sarah Royal Stans Fred Mertz.”Thank you so much to Sarah for joining me AGAN! Buy AKA LucyFollow SarahSupport the showShop my Bookshop affiliate link for my fave books on I Love Lucy and Lucille Ball: https://bookshop.org/shop/thericardoproject If there’s a book you’d like to recommend to your fellow listeners, please let me know! Shop Funny Girls - minimalistic classic tv merch: https://funny-gi...2023-10-121h 10The Ricardo Project: An I Love Lucy Podcast02.20 The Black EyeSend us a text or a question or a thought!This episode contains discussion of domestic violence. Listener discretion is advised.Donate to honor Vivian Vance by supporting her favorite causes:https://spcawestchester.org/donate https://donate.nami.org/give/197406/#!/donation/checkout?utm_source=globalNav&utm_medium=website&utm_campaign=DonationTracking&c_src=WEBINT Go to the AKA Lucy launch in Brooklyn on October 10th: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/book-launch-aka-lucy-by-sarah-royal-with-shelly-zimmerman-tickets-691070920727 Buy AKA Lucy: https://bookshop.org/a/80960/9780762484263 2023-10-0528 minThe Ricardo Project: An I Love Lucy Podcast02.19 The Club ElectionSend us a text or a question or a thought!CaroLillian Appleby is here!Buy AKA Lucy: https://bookshop.org/a/80960/9780762484263 Go to the AKA Lucy launch in Brooklyn on October 10th: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/book-launch-aka-lucy-by-sarah-royal-with-shelly-zimmerman-tickets-691070920727 Support the showShop my Bookshop affiliate link for my fave books on I Love Lucy and Lucille Ball: https://bookshop.org/shop/thericardoproject If there’s a book you’d like to recommend to your fellow listeners, please let me know! Shop Funny Girls - minim...2023-09-2828 minThe Ricardo Project: An I Love Lucy Podcast02.18 Inferiority ComplexSend us a text or a question or a thought!I am very grateful to this episode for existing.Episode Coverage starts @ 8:25 in case you don’t want all the shoutouts and whatnot!Go to the AKA Lucy launch in Brooklyn on October 10th: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/book-launch-aka-lucy-by-sarah-royal-with-shelly-zimmerman-tickets-691070920727 Buy AKA Lucy: https://bookshop.org/a/80960/9780762484263 Support the showShop my Bookshop affiliate link for my fave books on I Love Lucy and Lucille Ball: https://book...2023-09-2225 minThe Ricardo Project: An I Love Lucy Podcast02.17 Sales ResistanceSend us a text or a question or a thought!Welcome to an episode that is certainly an episode. But I do talk about the Barbie movie, so that’s a thing!Buy AKA Lucy: https://bookshop.org/a/80960/9780762484263 Support the showShop my Bookshop affiliate link for my fave books on I Love Lucy and Lucille Ball: https://bookshop.org/shop/thericardoproject If there’s a book you’d like to recommend to your fellow listeners, please let me know! Shop Funny Girls - minimalistic classic...2023-09-1533 minThe Ricardo Project: An I Love Lucy Podcast02.16 Lucy Goes to the HospitalSend us a text or a question or a thought!I am so honored that our first-ever guest is someone SO brilliant: Sarah Royal, author of the upcoming A.K.A. Lucy, which you absolutely, positively MUST preorder. I am thrilled Sarah joined me (and she'll be back soon!).Buy AKA Lucy: https://bookshop.org/a/80960/9780762484263 Follow Sarah: https://www.instagram.com/saraheroyal/?hl=en THE scene: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oz0Q9gaYtPo Support the showShop my...2023-09-071h 18The Ricardo Project: An I Love Lucy Podcast02.15 Lucy Becomes a SculptressSend us a text or a question or a thought!At last, an episode that finally answers the question: Was Michaelangelo wrong?Highlights from the episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KoU5MWDYp5w Support the showShop my Bookshop affiliate link for my fave books on I Love Lucy and Lucille Ball: https://bookshop.org/shop/thericardoproject If there’s a book you’d like to recommend to your fellow listeners, please let me know! Shop Funny Girls - minimalistic classic tv me...2023-08-3125 minThe Ricardo Project: An I Love Lucy Podcast02.14 Ricky Has Labor PainsSend us a text or a question or a thought!Call the New York Herald Time Tribune, we’re back with another episode!Support the showShop my Bookshop affiliate link for my fave books on I Love Lucy and Lucille Ball: https://bookshop.org/shop/thericardoproject If there’s a book you’d like to recommend to your fellow listeners, please let me know! Shop Funny Girls - minimalistic classic tv merch: https://funny-girls-tv.myspreadshop.com/ Support the podcast by making a one time donation on Pay...2023-08-2421 minThe Ricardo Project: An I Love Lucy Podcast02.13 Lucy Hires an English TutorSend us a text or a question or a thought!Ribbety pippety ay! To what do you attribute your plethora of fatigue? We’ve got a fun one today :)The scene: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tuRLvM_byagSupport the showShop my Bookshop affiliate link for my fave books on I Love Lucy and Lucille Ball: https://bookshop.org/shop/thericardoproject If there’s a book you’d like to recommend to your fellow listeners, please let me know! Shop Funny Girls - minimalistic classi...2023-08-1817 minThe Ricardo Project: An I Love Lucy Podcast02.12 Lucy's Show Biz Swan SongSend us a text or a question or a thought!Sweet Adeline, we’re here! I had no idea how special this episode was until I started writing. Enjoy!Pepito the clown: youtube.com/watch?v=pPQnuyaf8V0 A great rendition of Sweet Adeline by Julian Neel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxQOPbc4loESupport the showShop my Bookshop affiliate link for my fave books on I Love Lucy and Lucille Ball: https://bookshop.org/shop/thericardoproject If there’s a book you’d...2023-08-1520 minThe Ricardo Project: An I Love Lucy Podcast02.11 Pregnant Women are UnpredictableSend us a text or a question or a thought!Hello. Its me.Support the showShop my Bookshop affiliate link for my fave books on I Love Lucy and Lucille Ball: https://bookshop.org/shop/thericardoproject If there’s a book you’d like to recommend to your fellow listeners, please let me know! Shop Funny Girls - minimalistic classic tv merch: https://funny-girls-tv.myspreadshop.com/ Support the podcast by making a one time donation on PayPal: paypal.me/ricardoproject Get in touch: 2023-08-1123 minThe Ricardo Project: An I Love Lucy Podcast02.10 Lucy is EnceinteSend us a text or a question or a thought!We’re having a baby, my babies (the Ricardos) and me! Yes, the Ricardo baby is ALL of our baby.Please subscribe! New episodes every Thursday.The Holiday Season is approaching - please remember to be generous with your gratuities and to shop small businesses wherever possible! Support the showShop my Bookshop affiliate link for my fave books on I Love Lucy and Lucille Ball: https://bookshop.org/shop/thericardoproject If there’s a book you’d...2022-12-2020 minThe Ricardo Project: An I Love Lucy Podcast02.09 Ricky Loses His VoiceSend us a text or a question or a thought!Ricky is a big baby, and this episode is a delight.Please subscribe! New episodes every Thursday.The Holiday Season is approaching - please remember to be generous with your gratuities and to shop small businesses wherever possible! Support the showShop my Bookshop affiliate link for my fave books on I Love Lucy and Lucille Ball: https://bookshop.org/shop/thericardoproject If there’s a book you’d like to recommend to your fellow listeners, pleas...2022-12-0620 minThe Ricardo Project: An I Love Lucy Podcast02.08 RedecoratingSend us a text or a question or a thought!Or, “The One Where Lucy and Ethel Bicker Like Real Best Friends.”Please subscribe! New episodes every Thursday.The Holiday Season is approaching - please remember to be generous with your gratuities and to shop small businesses wherever possibleSupport the showShop my Bookshop affiliate link for my fave books on I Love Lucy and Lucille Ball: https://bookshop.org/shop/thericardoproject If there’s a book you’d like to recommend to your fellow listener...2022-11-2927 minThe Ricardo Project: An I Love Lucy PodcastDesi Arnaz, The Original Wife GuySend us a text or a question or a thought!Yep. I'm talking Wife Guys, and I'm bringing it back to Desi Arnaz.Please subscribe! New episodes every Thursday.The Holiday Season is approaching - please remember to be generous with your gratuities and to shop small businesses wherever possible! Support the showShop my Bookshop affiliate link for my fave books on I Love Lucy and Lucille Ball: https://bookshop.org/shop/thericardoproject If there’s a book you’d like to recommend to your fello...2022-11-1724 minThe Ricardo Project: An I Love Lucy Podcast02.07 The CourtroomSend us a text or a question or a thought!Please enjoy the Law and Order reference at the beginning of this episode. Oh, if only this was executive produced by Dick Wolf.Please subscribe! New episodes every Thursday.Shop my Bookshop affiliate link for my fave books on I Love Lucy and Lucille Ball: https://bookshop.org/shop/thericardoprojectIf there’s a book you’d like to recommend to your fellow listeners, please let me know! Support the podcast by making a one time donation on PayPal: paypa...2022-11-1215 minThe Ricardo Project: An I Love Lucy Podcast02.06 Vacation From MarriageSend us a text or a question or a thought!The Ricardos and Mertzes are in a rut. Rut rut rut. So what’s Lucy to do but move in with Ethel and hide on the roof?Please subscribe! New episodes every Thursday.Shop my Bookshop affiliate link for my fave books on I Love Lucy and Lucille Ball: https://bookshop.org/shop/thericardoprojectIf there’s a book you’d like to recommend to your fellow listeners, please let me know! Support the podcast by making a one time do...2022-10-2719 minThe Ricardo Project: An I Love Lucy PodcastThe 5 Best Episodes of Season One of I Love LucySend us a text or a question or a thought!Today it's a bonus episode - the top five episodes of season one of “I Love Lucy” that aren’t “Lucy Does a TV Commercial,” plus honorable mentions, including the worst and second worst episodes of the season. Please subscribe! New episodes every Thursday.Shop my Bookshop affiliate link for my fave books on I Love Lucy and Lucille Ball: https://bookshop.org/shop/thericardoprojectIf there’s a book you’d like to recommend to your fellow listeners, please let me know! 2022-10-2019 minThe Ricardo Project: An I Love Lucy Podcast02.05 The OperettaSend us a text or a question or a thought!She is Lily of the Valley, he is the good Prince Lancelot, Lucy is in a pickle. Its “The Operetta,” a delightful little satire that reminds us just how talented Vivian Vance and William Frawley are.Operetta Scenes:Fred’s solo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X5fc9ksqawA Ethel’s solo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0G9pPJQSzaA Lucy’s “solo”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EAml-CpQbKI The check bounced: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WyTXj...2022-10-1315 minThe Ricardo Project: An I Love Lucy Podcast02.04 The HandcuffsSend us a text or a question or a thought!Lucy handcuffs Ricky to her because she wants a date night. That’s pretty saucy if you ask me! Please subscribe! New episodes every Thursday.Shop my Bookshop affiliate link for my fave books on I Love Lucy and Lucille Ball: https://bookshop.org/shop/thericardoprojectIf there’s a book you’d like to recommend to your fellow listeners, please let me know! Support the podcast by making a one time...2022-10-0618 minThe Ricardo Project: An I Love Lucy Podcast02.03 Anniversary PresentSend us a text or a question or a thought!Grace Foster is a queen. That’s it. That’s the synopsis.Please subscribe! New episodes every Thursday.Gloria Blondell as Daisy Duck playlist (I did not make this playlist): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uXTBH3fHuyM&list=PLOkhbMqb35EpRIL3lNHRg8Dir0nIhFhXT Shop my Bookshop affiliate link for my fave books on I Love Lucy and Lucille Ball: https://bookshop.org/shop/thericardoprojectIf there’s a book you’d like to recommend to your fellow listeners, please le...2022-09-2919 minThe Ricardo Project: An I Love Lucy Podcast02.02 The SaxophoneSend us a text or a question or a thought!Hiya, cats! Lucy breaks out the old saxophone to try and get into Ricky’s band tour. But when it doesn’t work, the Ricardos trade tricks and pranks until, of course, Lucy wins. Stay up here and get your kicks, man! Please subscribe! New episodes every Thursday.The Tropicana Scene: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0q8WvdjDpi4 What Glow Worm *Actually* Sounds Like: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=opSpd8Z5hms Shop my Bookshop affiliate link for my...2022-09-2220 minThe Ricardo Project: An I Love Lucy Podcast02.01 Job SwitchingSend us a text or a question or a thought!Speed it up a little! It’s time to talk about the iconic chocolate factory scene. And feminism, and capitalism, and history, and failure. This one has so much to talk about!Please subscribe! New episodes every Thursday.The chocolate factory scene: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NkQ58I53mjk&t=0sMy embarrassingly painstaking comic analysis on the scene: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wMsPh9ArAcQ&t=1055s Shop my Bookshop affiliate link for my fave book...2022-09-1532 minThe Ricardo Project: An I Love Lucy Podcast01.35 Ricky Asks for a RaiseSend us a text or a question or a thought!Wow, we made it to the end of the 1st season, and with a splash! When Ricky is out of work, Lucy, Ethel, and our boy Fred work to show the Tropicana how many people love Ricky…by pretending to be all those many people. Plus, Xavier Valdez deserved more. Plus plus, a quick update on the summer and a note of sincere gratitude.Please subscribe! New episodes every Thursday (when not on hiatus, which I’m about to be on!)2022-06-0922 minThe Ricardo Project: An I Love Lucy Podcast01.34 Ricky Thinks He's Getting BaldSend us a text or a question or a thought!Lucy Ricardo shows that sometimes she’s the reasonable one in this marriage when Ricky hears an offhanded comment and takes it way too far. But why wait for someone to move on from a little moment of insecurity when you can spend your entire emergency fund on it and beat your husband with a whisk? Please subscribe! New episodes every Thursday!Papermoon Loves Lucy: https://papermoonloveslucy.tumblr.com/post/129140988218/ricky-thinks-hes-getting-bald 2022-06-0223 minThe Ricardo Project: An I Love Lucy Podcast01.33 Lucy's ScheduleSend us a text or a question or a thought!Break out your bullet journals, the Ricardos are getting organized! This time, Lucy and Ricky are facing the biggest enemy of our time - gross patriarchal ideology. We meet WASPS icon Phoebe Littlefield, and I am forced to admit that Fred Mertz is not a perfect angel baby. I’m sad, but that’s what you get when you’re a butt.Please subscribe! New episodes every Thursday!Shop my Bookshop affiliate link for my fave books on I L...2022-05-2618 minThe Ricardo Project: An I Love Lucy Podcast01.32 Lucy Gets Ricky on the RadioSend us a text or a question or a thought!It's time for a change of pace! I Love Lucy slows down the physical comedy and focuses on wordplay this week for a delightfully silly episode. When Ricky knows the answers to a radio quiz show’s tough questions, Lucy thinks she’s married to a genius, and gets him on the air, to hilarious results.Please subscribe! New episodes every Thursday!Shop my Bookshop affiliate link for my fave books on I Love Lucy and Lucille Ball: https://bookshop.org...2022-05-1918 minThe Ricardo Project: An I Love Lucy Podcast01.31 The Publicity AgentSend us a text or a question or a thought!Oh boy. I love Lucy Ricardo but this episode made my voice raspy. Its time for a quick acknowledgement of another way Hollywood has a history of being very disappointing where non-white cultures are concerned, which is very, very important.Please subscribe! New episodes every Thursday!Shop my Bookshop affiliate link for my fave books on I Love Lucy and Lucille Ball: https://bookshop.org/shop/thericardoprojectIf there’s a book you’d like to recommend to your fellow listeners, plea...2022-05-1218 minThe Ricardo Project: An I Love Lucy Podcast01.30 Lucy Does a TV CommercialSend us a text or a question or a thought!Its the moment that made Lucille Ball a forever star. Its the moment that invented syndication! Its the moment we all knew that Fred was the most supportive friend of the group! Its THE Vitameatavegamin episode! Please subscribe! New episodes every Thursday!References:Vitameatavegamin: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KY3eOtJwOhE Red Skelton’s Original Routine: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4mgHNX9eUgShop my Bookshop affiliate link for my fave books on I Love...2022-05-0525 min