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Stephanie Courtney Disobeys Bridger · I Said No Gifts! A comedy interview podcast with Bridger Winegar

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  Speaker 1: And I invited you here. I thought I made myself
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  Speaker 1: perfectly clear. When you're a guest to my home, you
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  Speaker 1: gotta come to me empty. And I said, no, guests,
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  Speaker 1: your presences presents enough. I already had too much stuff,
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  Speaker 1: So how do you dare to surbey me?
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  Speaker 2: Welcome to I said, no gifts. I'm pretcher. Whyne girl,
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  Speaker 2: We're right into it. I'm just feeling incredible. I got
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  Speaker 2: here later than usual. I absolutely took the wrong freeway
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  Speaker 2: to get here. In my defense, it was raining. It's raining,
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  Speaker 2: and I was worrying about Claire Danes. We need to
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  Speaker 2: put Claire Danes in something where she's not stressed out.
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  Speaker 2: I just finished the beast inside me. I want to
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  Speaker 2: see Claire Danes in a TV show or a movie
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  Speaker 2: where she goes on vacation, just goes on, maybe even
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  Speaker 2: a staycation. Maybe she just wakes up later than usual,
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  Speaker 2: tools around the house, goes to a lunch that's nice,
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  Speaker 2: but you know, not so expensive that it stresses her out.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know. It goes to a boutique, doesn't just browse.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe she splurges on a new bracelet or a watch
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  Speaker 2: or something. No, not a watch is too stressful. Just
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  Speaker 2: a nice little gift for herself. That's it once where
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  Speaker 2: she's not trembling, and I love the trembling. I just
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  Speaker 2: it's every time I watch a Claire Danes vehicle, I'm
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  Speaker 2: stressed for her. So let's give her a break. Claire
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  Speaker 2: reach out. So that took me onto the one thirty
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  Speaker 2: four I was supposed to get on the five. That
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  Speaker 2: added some time to my commute, and so that leads
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  Speaker 2: us to me talking to Claire Danes directly. I think
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  Speaker 2: that's all I've thought about this morning, to be honest,
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  Speaker 2: the show had a big impact on me. She went
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  Speaker 2: through a lot in the beasts in me, and we
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  Speaker 2: should talk about I guess the other thing is the Patreon.
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  Speaker 2: Of course. I just need to remind you about the
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  Speaker 2: Patreon existing Patreon dot com slash I said no gifts
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  Speaker 2: upon the release of this episode. I think we'll just
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  Speaker 2: be starting season four of Secret Lives of Mormon Wives,
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  Speaker 2: and I'll be getting into it with the gals. I
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  Speaker 2: am the expert on the gals, and it looks like
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  Speaker 2: it's going to be a very big season. Things are
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  Speaker 2: falling apart again for mom Talk, and so we wish
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  Speaker 2: them all the best get on to Patreon. I also
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  Speaker 2: recap every commercial I see while watching that show, so
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  Speaker 2: if you're more of someone who cares about commercials, you'll
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  Speaker 2: also get to hear me talk about neutrophile and all
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  Speaker 2: of these hair care journeys people are going on. It's important.
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  Speaker 2: Get over there. Oh the rain, it's gotten me into
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  Speaker 2: a mood. Let's get into the podcast. I love today's guest.
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  Speaker 2: It's Stephanie Courtney. Stephanie, welcome to I said no gift.
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  Speaker 3: Hello, I'm thrilled to be here.
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  Speaker 2: Does the rain stress you out while you're driving? Yes?
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  Speaker 3: And then I'm always like everyone else has the problem,
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  Speaker 3: and then I do something dumb and I'm like, ah, crap.
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  Speaker 2: It's me. I think I finally admitted to myself today
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  Speaker 2: that I am also as bad as everybody else in
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  Speaker 2: the rain.
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  Speaker 3: I'm always like, be very careful, and then i do
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  Speaker 3: the most rash, idiotic move. I'm just like, I'm a patron.
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  Speaker 2: I gotta get there. Yeah, I mean I literally took
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  Speaker 2: the wrong freeway. I am as bad, if not worse
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  Speaker 2: than most people on the road while driving in the rain.
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  Speaker 2: Are you from California?
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  Speaker 3: No, I'm from New York. Just outside and you're like
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  Speaker 3: thirty minutes outside of New York City and the staburbs.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, so you grew up driving in the snow or
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  Speaker 2: this kind of thing and actual weather.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, but I feel I had to. I lived in
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  Speaker 3: New York for six years and happily didn't.
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  Speaker 2: Drive at all. Right, and then I.
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  Speaker 3: Was like kicking and screaming getting used to driving again,
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  Speaker 3: right in the worst cars that Craigslist or the back
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  Speaker 3: of the LA Weekly could cough up.
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  Speaker 2: I just I don't know what inspired this, but somebody
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  Speaker 2: got me thinking about a car I had sold on
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  Speaker 2: Craigslist when I moved. I was in New York for
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  Speaker 2: a little bit in twenty the mid It doesn't matter
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  Speaker 2: what time period. I sold my car, my old Honda
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  Speaker 2: Fit and I was like, where is it now? And
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  Speaker 2: I looked up the VIN number and founded it's made
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  Speaker 2: its way to New Jersey. Oh they've painted it orange.
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  Speaker 2: Oh what. I was thrilled to see it was still
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  Speaker 2: alive for a business or for fun. I don't know,
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  Speaker 2: that's a great question, but it looks it's in better
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  Speaker 2: condition than when I sold it to them.
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  Speaker 3: I love it.
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  Speaker 2: I sold it to them with a big crack in
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  Speaker 2: the windshield and absolutely filthy. They've taken good care of it.
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  Speaker 3: I still see my Hyundai, I think out there because
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  Speaker 3: I was like, there's a dent by the gas gap,
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  Speaker 3: and I'm like, there's a white.
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  Speaker 2: With a dent by the gas I'm like, hello, old pal,
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  Speaker 2: just longing for this Hyundai. It probably is.
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  Speaker 3: Who knows it's passed by a few. Yeah. We sold
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  Speaker 3: it to a friend very good price, and then he
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  Speaker 3: sold it and now I'm like, no, no, Now it's on
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  Speaker 3: its own adventure.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's own journey.
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  Speaker 3: It's going to be a Pixar movie. It's gonna win awards.
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  Speaker 2: Specifically hyundaive oriented Pixarnday.
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  Speaker 3: With a tape deck, enjoy it.
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  Speaker 2: Does your car now have a tape deck or a
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  Speaker 2: CD player or anything?
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  Speaker 3: No, now it's all Wi Fi cloud right.
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  Speaker 2: I kind of miss having at least a CD player. Uh.
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  Speaker 2: I feel like that could be useful at some point
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  Speaker 2: for me.
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  Speaker 3: My sister one of the awful cars she bought had
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  Speaker 3: a CD player in the back, like where you would
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  Speaker 3: put ten CDs.
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  Speaker 2: I forgot about the and it would shuffle the songs. Ooh,
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  Speaker 2: the CD change.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, it was just like David Gray David Gray, David Gray,
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  Speaker 3: Alanis Morissett and like it was a lot of difficult
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  Speaker 3: I just remember like this a lot.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, the CD changer seems like such a luxurious thing
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  Speaker 2: for a minute, but then it's like, actually, that's terrible.
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  Speaker 2: You have to really think about what ten ten CDs
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  Speaker 2: you're going to put in there. I'm very fickle and picky.
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  Speaker 2: I want to be changing things constantly. What if you're
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  Speaker 2: suddenly not in the mood and the other nine CDs
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  Speaker 2: in there aren't what you need.
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  Speaker 3: If you are coming in crying, I'm like, I need
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  Speaker 3: I need a better song. I have to cater, I
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  Speaker 3: have to get.
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  Speaker 2: My brain here. How often were people like going, you
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  Speaker 2: have to go to the trunk, Yeah, and then replace
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  Speaker 2: all of the CD That actually seems like the worst
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  Speaker 2: possible piece of technology.
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  Speaker 3: And forget about putting your suitcase back there. Oh of course,
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  Speaker 3: because you're going to destroy on whatever.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and you don't want any liquid. I'm not going
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  Speaker 2: to be throwing a gallon of milk back there or
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  Speaker 2: any loose liquids. You don't want that getting destroyed.
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  Speaker 3: Now, it's just like a very sensitive area, right.
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  Speaker 2: You can't like carry soil. There's nothing you can do
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  Speaker 2: with that trunk but put CDs in there. Oh what
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  Speaker 2: a bizarre I had totally forgotten. But what a luxury
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  Speaker 2: at the time it was to have CDs in your trunk.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I believe I had a tape deck with a
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  Speaker 3: wire like I had the wire.
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  Speaker 2: Oh of course they went to your CD.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. Well no, it was an adapter. But all I
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  Speaker 3: could do was the cassette. So I was just like, well,
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  Speaker 3: I'm listening to high school in early college. I guess
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  Speaker 3: just the Sundays and all the Sundays.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, I adore this. Why we need more the Sundays,
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  Speaker 2: not enough Sunday's materials?
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  Speaker 3: I agree. I agree that was a perfect album.
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  Speaker 2: What was it?
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  Speaker 1: Reading?
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  Speaker 2: A reading, writing arithmetic? I think so the one? Does that?
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  Speaker 2: Is that? The one with the seashell on the front? Yes? Yes,
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  Speaker 2: And then there's one. I think there may have only
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  Speaker 2: been two Sundays albums. Is that?
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  Speaker 1: Yes?
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  Speaker 3: But I never caught onto the second one. I guess
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  Speaker 3: the first one was.
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  Speaker 2: Just so if the second one is that the second
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  Speaker 2: one have that's where the story ends? Is that or something?
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  Speaker 2: I think that's the first one. God, Oh, what a
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  Speaker 2: great banand.
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  Speaker 3: Beautiful moody rainy day.
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  Speaker 2: Well, hey, yeah, this is a good Sunday's Day. Yes,
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  Speaker 2: and I kind of a hard band to kind of replicate.
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  Speaker 2: So I feel like whatever influence they have, you don't
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  Speaker 2: notice as much in other stuff. Right.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it was sort of its own what would you
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  Speaker 3: call it?
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  Speaker 2: It's kind of jangly, but her voice is.
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  Speaker 3: So ethereal yeah, so pretty. It could hit notes that
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  Speaker 3: like nobody.
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  Speaker 2: Can do it, unbelievable. No, I feel like there was
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  Speaker 2: a do you know the band Japanese Breakfast, Yes, her
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  Speaker 2: first I think her first album had a little Sunday's
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  Speaker 2: ness to it. But wow, what a great band. You've
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  Speaker 2: got a good taste.
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  Speaker 3: Well, thank you. I was, you know, and I listened
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  Speaker 3: to your Wennie mcclennan Covey interview, which I loved.
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  Speaker 2: I loved. I love her, Okay, so you don't.
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  Speaker 3: No, No, I am falling in love with you and
• 9:04
  Speaker 3: I'm already in love with her. But we get into
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  Speaker 3: such deep dives on missing persons. Oh and we actually
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  Speaker 3: went and saw missing person. She listen, the band sounds
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  Speaker 3: the same, the same, and she's wonderful. She's lived a life,
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  Speaker 3: She's lived a hard life.
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  Speaker 2: What's happened? I'm not familiar.
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  Speaker 3: Well, I know Wendy knows more, and I feel like
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  Speaker 3: I'm stealing her stories. But I think, uh, first of all,
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  Speaker 3: we shook hands, Wenny and I did. We're gonna do
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  Speaker 3: a documentary on Dale Bozio.
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  Speaker 2: Oh amazing.
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  Speaker 3: We have to do it because her story is so interesting.
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  Speaker 3: I guess she moved out here originally to be a playboy.
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  Speaker 3: Bunny checked out. The situation is like, no, never mind,
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  Speaker 3: never mind, and then joins up the I'm skipping over
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  Speaker 3: a lot of important details that will be in the documentary,
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  Speaker 3: but uh, just we would just sing the deep cuts
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  Speaker 3: to each other on set of the Gold like.
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  Speaker 2: Great, before you make that documentary, just promise me that
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  Speaker 2: you'll first make a documentary about the Beatles. We don't
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  Speaker 2: have enough of those. I don't think we've covered that band.
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  Speaker 3: Just a specific six months, just one that they Oh
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  Speaker 3: my god, I know, No.
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  Speaker 2: That's a great More bands deserve documentary.
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  Speaker 3: Especially if they made such a hit like The Sundays
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  Speaker 3: and Missing Persons like no one sounded like you.
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  Speaker 2: And there are stories that we haven't heard a billion
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  Speaker 2: times already.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, women, musicians, singers.
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  Speaker 2: I'm trying to think of any female fronted bands that
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  Speaker 2: have had great documentaries, not.
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  Speaker 3: Even Pat Benattar.
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  Speaker 2: Right, yeah, I'm like, let's see. I mean I also
• 10:46
  Speaker 2: have a bad memory, so this is part of the problem.
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  Speaker 2: But what was the last band that I I don't know?
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  Speaker 3: How about this? Dione Faris remember wild Seed wall Flower?
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  Speaker 2: No, I'm not familiar.
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  Speaker 3: Holy moly, it's another perfect album. She's from another band
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  Speaker 3: and I'm an old lady with an adult brain, but
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  Speaker 3: she was like a kid in this previous band and
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  Speaker 3: then this was her.
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  Speaker 2: I know what just do? Oh? Yeah, of course, of course.
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  Speaker 3: That album is amazing. David Allan Greer also joins in
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  Speaker 3: and does like they do some skits in between that
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  Speaker 3: are so amazing. Anyway, just wild Seed Wildflower.
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  Speaker 2: And there's not a documentary.
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  Speaker 3: About Nope, but that's my next one. My child's gonna
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  Speaker 3: have to work early because his money's God.
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  Speaker 2: You just dump all of your money into music documentary.
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  Speaker 3: I'm sorry you still love mother, but look.
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  Speaker 2: At all of these bands you can learn about. Are
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  Speaker 2: you a musician at all?
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  Speaker 3: I'm a singer. I love to sing, and I took
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  Speaker 3: piano lessons and then I quit in a snit after three.
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  Speaker 2: Years, three years.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I was bad.
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  Speaker 2: I was just bad. Was it as a kid? Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: I was a kid.
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  Speaker 3: And as soon as it was like this is we're
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  Speaker 3: going to center on cords, I'm like, no one can
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  Speaker 3: do this, no id and then I quit.
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  Speaker 2: Wow. I mean I was bad, and that didn't stop
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  Speaker 2: me from taking ten years of lissense in piano. Piano?
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  Speaker 2: Are you good?
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  Speaker 3: You can you? Oh?
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  Speaker 2: I can form chords.
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  Speaker 3: But someone framed it really well. They were like, are
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  Speaker 3: you a codebreaker? And my son loves piano and has
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  Speaker 3: stuck with it and he is a code breaker brain
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  Speaker 3: and is like, are you good at languages?
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  Speaker 2: He's good at languages. Interesting, I kind of ain't.
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  Speaker 3: And so yeah, it's that kind of I understand.
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  Speaker 2: There's like kind of a math brainness to it. Maybe, Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: that makes sense, which is kind of counterintuitive because you
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  Speaker 2: kind of think of music as this very emotional yes, uh,
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  Speaker 2: free flowing thing.
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  Speaker 3: But that's the thing, it's the both sides of the
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  Speaker 3: brain coming together.
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  Speaker 2: Right, So it really requires somebody smart. Yeah, someone like
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  Speaker 2: me is going to struggle, No, really have a hard time.
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  Speaker 3: Like other people do that for me And I put
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  Speaker 3: it in my CD player, press shuffle.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I think part of my problem with piano
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  Speaker 2: lessons was I wasn't getting to play anything that I
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  Speaker 2: actually wanted to play. There was no like nothing to
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  Speaker 2: aspire to. Yeah, and so I'm sitting there with like
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  Speaker 2: my eighty year old teacher who's like making it as
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  Speaker 2: boring as possible. It's like if you, I feel like
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  Speaker 2: with a kid, you just show them something that's fun
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  Speaker 2: to play and then allowed them to do something. I
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  Speaker 2: don't know.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, you know. I think that also helped because
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  Speaker 3: a few years after taking his first lesson, him and
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  Speaker 3: his friends got a band together.
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  Speaker 2: Oh see, here we go.
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  Speaker 3: One of the dads can play every instrument, and so
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  Speaker 3: he pared down seven Nation Army for them. Oh how fun,
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  Speaker 3: and they're rocked out and they were so great. I
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  Speaker 3: remember my piano teacher. One thing that drove me crazy
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  Speaker 3: is that she would always be cooking dinner when I
• 13:45
  Speaker 3: came over, and it smelled really good and like it
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  Speaker 3: was because it's clear, it was like a balanced meal,
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  Speaker 3: and I'm just like.
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  Speaker 2: Oh god, I want that so bad. That's that's pot ROAs.
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  Speaker 2: It's so unprofessional of her, damn it. I know. I
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  Speaker 2: was just like, I don't even get to eat that.
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  Speaker 2: That's very handsle on Gretel as well, very witch with
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  Speaker 2: the yes.
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  Speaker 3: It's like, dope, you don't get to.
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  Speaker 2: My whole trick during piano lessons was I would ask
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  Speaker 2: for a glass of water and then take as long
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  Speaker 2: as possible drinking the water. So fifteen minutes of my
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  Speaker 2: lesson would just be me like sipping a glass of
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  Speaker 2: water and then maybe being like, oh, could you show
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  Speaker 2: me because she had a garden in her backyard. Why
• 14:22
  Speaker 2: don't you show me the garden.
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  Speaker 3: They always have a garden.
• 14:24
  Speaker 2: They always have a garden.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, they always have interests.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, you bastards.
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  Speaker 3: My son's piano teacher is amazing because she's just a character, Like,
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  Speaker 3: my son's a little on the shire side.
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  Speaker 2: How did you find a teacher for him?
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  Speaker 3: She teaches at the school, so he already trusted her.
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  Speaker 3: She's fun, and she's loud and just like doesn't care,
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  Speaker 3: you know, and so and I don't know. I think
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  Speaker 3: that just she provides that kind of passion. And then
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  Speaker 3: he's got the map and then like they.
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  Speaker 2: Right, I'm starting to wonder how my mom had my
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  Speaker 2: piano teacher. She wasn't in our neighborhood or anything. She
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  Speaker 2: was neighborhoods away church. Maybe it was it must have
• 14:59
  Speaker 2: been somebody church, a panlod or something like that. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: that makes sense because otherwise you had no connection to
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  Speaker 2: missus Ziegler. Interesting. What's happening? Very interesting? But the other
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  Speaker 2: thing with my mom, like we would kick and scream
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  Speaker 2: off the entire way to the piano list if I mean,
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  Speaker 2: I guess God bless my mom for putting up with it,
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  Speaker 2: because if I was the parent in this situation, I
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  Speaker 2: would have just given up and said, okay, just lie
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  Speaker 2: around on the floor.
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  Speaker 3: I yeah, me too. I was waiting for it. I
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  Speaker 3: was just like, oh, right, the three year mark and
• 15:32
  Speaker 3: then I'm like, wait, you get this? You understand this interesting?
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  Speaker 2: Do you think he's going to have some sort of
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  Speaker 2: career in it? I?
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  Speaker 3: I think here's what I want to do. And this
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  Speaker 3: is how they sat in first grade. When he was
• 15:44
  Speaker 3: in first grade. They were like, don't worry about your
• 15:46
  Speaker 3: child being the best reader of the earliest reader. As
• 15:50
  Speaker 3: long as they enjoy reading. I want him to enjoy it, right,
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  Speaker 3: and if that means playing around with friends, amen, he
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  Speaker 3: still enjoys learning because it's like a challenge, that's great, right,
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  Speaker 3: but I think he's gonna I think it'll be a
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  Speaker 3: tool in his tool belt.
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  Speaker 2: I'll say that right for him. Yeah, I think that's
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  Speaker 2: having You can't have music beat the number one thing
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  Speaker 2: at this point anyway.
• 16:11
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I guess.
• 16:12
  Speaker 2: Yeah, tough path to follow as far as making money, yea,
• 16:18
  Speaker 2: yeah at fourteen.
• 16:19
  Speaker 3: Yeah, come on the way mom's spending.
• 16:23
  Speaker 2: On these documentaries. He's got to get into a band
• 16:25
  Speaker 2: that you'll make a documentary about.
• 16:27
  Speaker 3: Oh, we'll finally have something to talk about, me and him.
• 16:31
  Speaker 2: Have you been to any other concerts recently?
• 16:34
  Speaker 3: Let me think we saw David Byrne when he was
• 16:38
  Speaker 3: That was amazing.
• 16:38
  Speaker 2: Did you see No, I didn't. I've never seen him live.
• 16:41
  Speaker 2: It feels like a mistake on my part.
• 16:43
  Speaker 3: Oh, enjoy him the next time he comes around. He's
• 16:46
  Speaker 3: got like we saw him when he did Utopia, which
• 16:49
  Speaker 3: was fantastic, and you always think like, oh, this is
• 16:52
  Speaker 3: his crowning jewel or whatever, and now he has a
• 16:55
  Speaker 3: whole slew of other young you know, in strumentalist musicians
• 17:01
  Speaker 3: is another. Sometimes they say I haven't heard it too old,
• 17:05
  Speaker 3: and they were amazing a whole new shown.
• 17:08
  Speaker 2: He was very good at staying with it. Oh my gosh,
• 17:12
  Speaker 2: everyone should look to David Byrne for his like if
• 17:15
  Speaker 2: you don't want to seem like an extremely old person. Yes,
• 17:19
  Speaker 2: because he still seems like he's in his thirties.
• 17:22
  Speaker 3: Yes, he has discovered it.
• 17:23
  Speaker 2: And I guess part of it is riding his bike
• 17:25
  Speaker 2: all the time. Yes, won't do it. I won't do it.
• 17:29
  Speaker 2: Not in La. Are you kidding that?
• 17:31
  Speaker 3: Now?
• 17:32
  Speaker 2: Oh my god, I can't imagine.
• 17:34
  Speaker 3: Do you imagine Clardine's on a bike? Could that be
• 17:37
  Speaker 3: an next show? Put her on a bike in La
• 17:40
  Speaker 3: in the country trembling loop. Oh, she's wonderful. She's a
• 17:44
  Speaker 3: master at the craft shew.
• 17:45
  Speaker 2: She's so good, but she's always stressed out.
• 17:47
  Speaker 3: Yeah, that would be funny. I was thinking like an
• 17:49
  Speaker 3: episode where like the therapist is like, it wasn't your fault,
• 17:52
  Speaker 3: You're off the hook, and then that's like halfway through
• 17:54
  Speaker 3: and then she's like.
• 17:56
  Speaker 2: A free right, a free because the last three things
• 18:00
  Speaker 2: I've seen her in were The Beast in Me, which
• 18:03
  Speaker 2: she's so stressed out. To see that, it's really great,
• 18:05
  Speaker 2: it's really exciting.
• 18:06
  Speaker 3: I love him too.
• 18:07
  Speaker 2: Yeah, he's fantastic. Matthew Reese have you ever heard his accent?
• 18:10
  Speaker 3: No, it's Welsh, right.
• 18:11
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I need to look up an interview with him
• 18:13
  Speaker 2: because I'm curious what he sounds like when he's not
• 18:15
  Speaker 2: doing an American accent.
• 18:16
  Speaker 3: I can't imagine.
• 18:18
  Speaker 2: Yeah, because he's got an excellent American accent.
• 18:20
  Speaker 3: Well, we've got great actors coming out of Hoyle's. Who
• 18:24
  Speaker 3: is who's the oh gosh, the one who is in
• 18:26
  Speaker 3: the the Kinsey Show, that Kinsey show.
• 18:32
  Speaker 2: Let me see here, let's see. I'm willing to do
• 18:34
  Speaker 2: some online research show. I know I'm not good enough
• 18:38
  Speaker 2: research Masters of Sex. Masters of Sex is what it's called,
• 18:41
  Speaker 2: and it's what's her name? And and what's his name?
• 18:45
  Speaker 2: And his name is Michael Sheen Michael. He's Welsh, also
• 18:48
  Speaker 2: from Wales as well.
• 18:49
  Speaker 3: Wow, I know we've.
• 18:50
  Speaker 2: Got some you would never know. It's a crucible. Great.
• 18:53
  Speaker 2: Maybe the Welsh accent is not that thick and yeah,
• 18:56
  Speaker 2: maybe it's like a neutral, more of a neutral thing.
• 18:59
  Speaker 2: I feel like that frequently with Irish accents, sometimes you
• 19:03
  Speaker 2: can almost mistake that for an American. That's right, there's
• 19:06
  Speaker 2: certain and then sometimes you hear an Irish accent and
• 19:09
  Speaker 2: you're like, I that's another language.
• 19:11
  Speaker 3: Yeah. I there's a show called Love hate. I don't
• 19:14
  Speaker 3: know if you've ever heard of it, but it's fantastic.
• 19:16
  Speaker 3: It's about like a drug gang in Ireland and one
• 19:20
  Speaker 3: guy is from Limerick and I can't understand one word
• 19:25
  Speaker 3: and he's incredible, and you just need the subtitles. But
• 19:30
  Speaker 3: it's like a backwards It's like every vowel is something else.
• 19:34
  Speaker 2: Right. There are a lot of these British shows that
• 19:37
  Speaker 2: I tried to power through without subtitles. What a mistake. Nah, man,
• 19:41
  Speaker 2: we're too far. Oh yeah, there will be once where
• 19:44
  Speaker 2: I just like, I'll give up because I don't understand
• 19:46
  Speaker 2: what's going on. I finally have committed to using well
• 19:49
  Speaker 2: subtitles on almost everything at this point, but especially with
• 19:53
  Speaker 2: these thick accents, because otherwise it's you're watching him show
• 19:56
  Speaker 2: in a foreign language.
• 19:57
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 19:58
  Speaker 2: Yeah, is that how British people field watching American shows?
• 20:01
  Speaker 3: Whenever they do an impression of us, not like professionally,
• 20:06
  Speaker 3: I mean like when they try to echo what we
• 20:08
  Speaker 3: sound like. It's flat and bland and.
• 20:12
  Speaker 2: It must be easier to understand. Yeah, because we're slower.
• 20:16
  Speaker 2: We're slower. We really like stretch the words out. Yeah,
• 20:21
  Speaker 2: maybe Southern is a different story. I've never since.
• 20:25
  Speaker 3: Had an English or Irish person ever asked me to
• 20:27
  Speaker 3: repeat anything.
• 20:28
  Speaker 2: You know what I mean, they get it. I assume
• 20:31
  Speaker 2: that it's just because they don't care about what I'm saying,
• 20:34
  Speaker 2: no interest in what I have to say.
• 20:36
  Speaker 3: It all like, hey, guys, clean up your own mask
• 20:37
  Speaker 3: before you tell me anything.
• 20:40
  Speaker 2: Yeah, but I've seen Claire in this. I saw her
• 20:43
  Speaker 2: in Fleischmann Is in Trouble, which was great, that's great,
• 20:46
  Speaker 2: also very stressed, and then Homeland where it was like
• 20:50
  Speaker 2: a new age of her.
• 20:52
  Speaker 3: Being stress during this stress character, it's just on the edge.
• 20:56
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and it was like, wow, full panic all the time,
• 20:59
  Speaker 2: and you buy it because there's a bomb about to
• 21:01
  Speaker 2: go on, yeah, which is great, but you start to
• 21:03
  Speaker 2: worry about her mental health.
• 21:05
  Speaker 3: Or off and her drug use in that show.
• 21:08
  Speaker 2: Oh that's right, she went through it and pills. And
• 21:12
  Speaker 2: then she's got Mandy nearby, who's such a comforting source
• 21:14
  Speaker 2: of you know, I would love to have Mandy as
• 21:17
  Speaker 2: a teammate, said Everyone's grandpa. But yeah, I think it's
• 21:22
  Speaker 2: time for just one show or movie. Yeah, it's even
• 21:26
  Speaker 2: just an eighty minute long movie where she has a
• 21:28
  Speaker 2: nice time.
• 21:29
  Speaker 3: Yeah, Like, is there a like a novel from the
• 21:32
  Speaker 3: late eighteen hundreds, where it's like gardening, yes, discovering yourself
• 21:37
  Speaker 3: through the growth of your hyacinth. We're all growing credits.
• 21:45
  Speaker 2: Just once, even if it's a bomb, it'll just be
• 21:47
  Speaker 2: a nice break for Yeah, a wonderful time. Well, speaking
• 21:51
  Speaker 2: of things that are stressful and make me my lip tremble, Stephanie,
• 21:56
  Speaker 2: I was looking forward to having you here on the
• 21:58
  Speaker 2: podcast today. She'll come by, we'll have a pleasant time,
• 22:03
  Speaker 2: cozy time while it's raining outside. We'll move on with
• 22:05
  Speaker 2: our days. You know. I broke my back to get
• 22:09
  Speaker 2: here to the studio, thinking we're going to have a
• 22:11
  Speaker 2: good time. And I sit down and you walk in.
• 22:15
  Speaker 2: The podcast is called. I said, no gifts and you're holding.
• 22:18
  Speaker 2: First of all, it was a garbage bag, and I thought, okay,
• 22:21
  Speaker 2: so she brought her garbage. But then I noticed through
• 22:24
  Speaker 2: the bag a beautifully wrapped gift.
• 22:27
  Speaker 3: I respect you, but I also need to live with myself.
• 22:32
  Speaker 3: And I was raised a certain way, okay, And I
• 22:36
  Speaker 3: did put it in a trash bag to take the
• 22:38
  Speaker 3: shine off it, to get it past the guards. Yes, exactly,
• 22:43
  Speaker 3: your guards they are they hold a lot of authority here,
• 22:48
  Speaker 3: Yes they do. I put the usual amount of effort
• 22:52
  Speaker 3: in nothing extra, and it might not even be for you.
• 22:57
  Speaker 3: You know what, Now, don't put me on the back,
• 22:59
  Speaker 3: wasn't it? What do you even mean for you?
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: Well?
• 23:01
  Speaker 2: Should we open it here on the podcast? Yeah? Why not?
• 23:03
  Speaker 2: All right, you've got time to burn. Well, I put
• 23:09
  Speaker 2: it on the floor earlier, if you wouldn't mind picking
• 23:11
  Speaker 2: it up for me. I don't mind that. I do
• 23:13
  Speaker 2: mind it's on the floor. I will say this is
• 23:17
  Speaker 2: I mean, no offense to past guests. I think this
• 23:19
  Speaker 2: is my favorite wrapping paper that's ever been on the show.
• 23:22
  Speaker 2: It's like a woodprint. Yes, it's like uh and it
• 23:26
  Speaker 2: feels almost like a texture of wood.
• 23:29
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 23:29
  Speaker 2: I'm going to need that paper back. Yes, you'll get
• 23:31
  Speaker 2: it back in good time. And it also has a
• 23:34
  Speaker 2: monarch butterfly and this beautiful green ribbon.
• 23:38
  Speaker 3: Yes. If you twist the top half of that butterfly. Yeah,
• 23:42
  Speaker 3: then and then you let it go, it'll fly away
• 23:46
  Speaker 3: or fall dead.
• 23:47
  Speaker 2: Wait is that true?
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: Wait?
• 23:49
  Speaker 2: What do I do here?
• 23:50
  Speaker 3: You twist the top?
• 23:51
  Speaker 2: You see how it's this little rubbery part. No, I
• 23:53
  Speaker 2: believe the.
• 23:54
  Speaker 3: Top yes exactly, yes, so give that a go.
• 23:58
  Speaker 2: I'm twisting. Oh, I've never seen some thing like this before.
• 24:01
  Speaker 2: This is for the video of you, r listener. If
• 24:03
  Speaker 2: you're just listening, you are missing out on a gorgeous
• 24:06
  Speaker 2: thing that's about to happen. Hopefully.
• 24:08
  Speaker 3: I'm gonna put my glasses on again because I don't.
• 24:10
  Speaker 2: Trust you want to see this thing? Am I doing
• 24:12
  Speaker 2: it correct? You're doing great?
• 24:13
  Speaker 3: Now I let go yep, and then I feel you
• 24:15
  Speaker 3: let go to the bottom part two. So nervous, I know.
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: It.
• 24:19
  Speaker 2: Day, I'm gonna get this right for the listener. I'll
• 24:23
  Speaker 2: at least give you the twisting of Let's see if
• 24:25
  Speaker 2: you can hear that. Okay, now I just throw it.
• 24:29
  Speaker 3: Yep.
• 24:29
  Speaker 2: I'm so nervous. There you do it.
• 24:34
  Speaker 3: I think the point is you put it in a card,
• 24:36
  Speaker 3: all twist it up.
• 24:37
  Speaker 2: Oh you put it. You put it so it's scared.
• 24:40
  Speaker 3: Exactly, and they open the card and then it's like this, Oh,
• 24:45
  Speaker 3: so you can use this.
• 24:46
  Speaker 2: Again, startling butterfly. I'm gonna do it one more time
• 24:49
  Speaker 2: because I know the listener loves a quiet, twisting noise.
• 24:53
  Speaker 2: Let's do as tight as possible here. It's gonna be dangerous.
• 24:59
  Speaker 2: This could blind somebody.
• 25:01
  Speaker 3: I'm a risk taker.
• 25:02
  Speaker 2: Okay, that was beautiful. That was the best. I love
• 25:07
  Speaker 2: this thing.
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: You know.
• 25:08
  Speaker 3: I catered a wedding once, uh, and they had lab
• 25:12
  Speaker 3: grown butterflies inside envelopes like folded paper, and they're like,
• 25:16
  Speaker 3: just pass here's a basket. I'm in my tuxedo to
• 25:19
  Speaker 3: the guests, pass them out and tell them be gentle.
• 25:22
  Speaker 3: But everyone's coming at once and they're like thanks, and
• 25:24
  Speaker 3: I'm like, oh, got be gentle. And then they were
• 25:26
  Speaker 3: like when they say I do, open your thing, and it.
• 25:29
  Speaker 2: Was just just tons of dead butterfly, half dead butterfly, like.
• 25:34
  Speaker 3: Crawling everyone like a couple escape, but they were like
• 25:37
  Speaker 3: lab grown. So they were like, I don't understand.
• 25:40
  Speaker 2: That's horrifying.
• 25:42
  Speaker 3: I wonder if that marriage left. What a terrible ITEA
• 25:47
  Speaker 3: is a terrible Nobody.
• 25:48
  Speaker 2: Tested that before. Clearly that wasn't going to work.
• 25:51
  Speaker 3: No one cared, no one asked a question, passed the
• 25:54
  Speaker 3: first question, can it be done? And then there's a
• 25:58
  Speaker 3: lab that will do it for you.
• 26:00
  Speaker 2: Now your wedding is covered in dead bugs yep, crawling, crawling,
• 26:05
  Speaker 2: and like the guests are like, I don't know what
• 26:06
  Speaker 2: to do, Like there's do I save it?
• 26:08
  Speaker 3: No, We're going to receptions.
• 26:10
  Speaker 2: What a distraction?
• 26:13
  Speaker 3: It was rough and I was complicit, like all of
• 26:15
  Speaker 3: us and our tuxedos were looking at each other like.
• 26:19
  Speaker 2: I'm complicit. This is your Tyra Banks documentary. Did you
• 26:24
  Speaker 2: watch that?
• 26:24
  Speaker 3: No?
• 26:25
  Speaker 2: But I paid for it? No, my kidding.
• 26:26
  Speaker 3: I haven't watched it, but I have to. Yes, there's
• 26:28
  Speaker 3: a lot I need to watch. Gush, darn it.
• 26:30
  Speaker 2: Okay, well, let's open this gift. Here. I wrote something
• 26:34
  Speaker 2: says dearest Bridgard, this is for you, exo stiff than
• 26:38
  Speaker 2: it is for you. Okay, fine, I'll open it up.
• 26:42
  Speaker 2: I'm trying to be careful with this.
• 26:44
  Speaker 3: It's done.
• 26:45
  Speaker 2: Oh, it's beautiful. I wanted to not be totally shredded.
• 26:48
  Speaker 2: I had to use two sheets. Let's see here. Oh
• 26:52
  Speaker 2: where did you get this wrapping paper?
• 26:54
  Speaker 3: Let me think I'd like to go to like paper
• 26:57
  Speaker 3: sores or whatever. Then they've got them, and she up.
• 27:00
  Speaker 2: Against the wall. That's the best wrapping paper. So fun.
• 27:03
  Speaker 3: And if you just get a bunch, then you always
• 27:05
  Speaker 3: have some night.
• 27:07
  Speaker 2: Okay, getting in here, Oh you might need okay, Oh,
• 27:11
  Speaker 2: let's see, we'll see. I think you can. Really you're
• 27:13
  Speaker 2: underestimating my finger strength here.
• 27:16
  Speaker 3: Don't look at the box. The box isn't the the Yeah,
• 27:19
  Speaker 3: if you do that, I think, yeah, yeah, yeah, you've
• 27:23
  Speaker 3: got it.
• 27:23
  Speaker 2: Look at you. Okay, and then that.
• 27:29
  Speaker 3: Packing tape.
• 27:31
  Speaker 2: Okay, we're getting okay, we're getting a door to the tissue.
• 27:38
  Speaker 3: I am going to need that.
• 27:40
  Speaker 2: You're just gonna keep saying that this is a new
• 27:43
  Speaker 2: type of rap.
• 27:44
  Speaker 3: I see it everywhere. I think it's just it's you
• 27:47
  Speaker 3: got extra cushioning.
• 27:48
  Speaker 2: It's almost like fish net or something. You could catch
• 27:51
  Speaker 2: an animal in this. Okay, Oh and I look at
• 27:56
  Speaker 2: this little there several little birds I'm finding adorable little
• 28:00
  Speaker 2: included little pink and orange and green birds are almost
• 28:07
  Speaker 2: like sherbetrbet colored.
• 28:09
  Speaker 3: Let's see here, put them anywhere.
• 28:12
  Speaker 2: These My table is now filling with adorable small birds.
• 28:17
  Speaker 3: And oh my god, this is so cute.
• 28:19
  Speaker 2: Where did these come from? I don't know.
• 28:21
  Speaker 3: Somewhere a week that I skip therapy, I went on birds,
• 28:26
  Speaker 3: birds and paper.
• 28:27
  Speaker 2: There's now this, there's this kind of crimped paper. And yeah,
• 28:30
  Speaker 2: they've got a nest. I'm creating a nest on my
• 28:32
  Speaker 2: table again. The listener is loving this to me, just crafting,
• 28:37
  Speaker 2: taking a hard turn to me crafting. Okay, make sure
• 28:41
  Speaker 2: I've got all the birds. Okay, now we're pulling out. Okay, now.
• 28:48
  Speaker 3: With an explanation, are you ready?
• 28:50
  Speaker 2: Yes, I absolutely. Let me describe what I'm seeing. This
• 28:54
  Speaker 2: is a little wood box that's like kind of what color?
• 28:56
  Speaker 2: Would you say? This is cherry cherry and it has
• 29:01
  Speaker 2: it's like a little treasure chest with a switch on
• 29:04
  Speaker 2: the top.
• 29:05
  Speaker 3: Okay, I would like for you to set it on
• 29:08
  Speaker 3: the table, and I say, carefully, all right, this is
• 29:10
  Speaker 3: called a useless box. What did you call me? I'm joking.
• 29:15
  Speaker 3: It's called a useless box. And if you keep your
• 29:18
  Speaker 3: fingers away from the top, but just move the lever, okay, right,
• 29:22
  Speaker 3: So like maybe I'm scared, hold it from the other
• 29:26
  Speaker 3: hold it from the lever side.
• 29:27
  Speaker 2: Let's see here exactly.
• 29:28
  Speaker 3: And then just with your other finger, just flick the lever.
• 29:33
  Speaker 2: I'm so scared, and so a little.
• 29:38
  Speaker 3: Finger by what by flicking the lever, a finger comes
• 29:42
  Speaker 3: out and pushes it back. Oh so it's completely useless.
• 29:48
  Speaker 2: What where did you get this thing?
• 29:51
  Speaker 3: My husband found it somewhere and it is the funniest thing.
• 29:55
  Speaker 2: It's none of your business.
• 29:56
  Speaker 3: Box, that's right, that's right, And it's called the useless box.
• 30:00
  Speaker 3: And it will never let you see what's inside because
• 30:03
  Speaker 3: it's not on your biz listener.
• 30:05
  Speaker 2: It's almost kind of hard to describe. It's like I
• 30:08
  Speaker 2: hold the box and it has a little the lever
• 30:10
  Speaker 2: is like one of those little switches that it's like
• 30:12
  Speaker 2: a little old timy like old timey switch and when
• 30:14
  Speaker 2: you push it, let's see you might be able to
• 30:16
  Speaker 2: hear this. The box slightly opens and a little finger
• 30:20
  Speaker 2: comes out and pushes your finger away. I want to
• 30:24
  Speaker 2: do this for the rest of my life.
• 30:25
  Speaker 3: It's so quick, Yes, it is fright, and it's a
• 30:31
  Speaker 3: little more delicate than you would imagine.
• 30:33
  Speaker 2: So we're like on our third Oh do they fall
• 30:36
  Speaker 2: apart pretty quickly? Just you know, treat it well. It's
• 30:40
  Speaker 2: a whole I mean, it's a device.
• 30:42
  Speaker 3: It's a whole device for no reason, just to be
• 30:45
  Speaker 3: I don't know, just to tell you to mind your biz.
• 30:48
  Speaker 2: This is a funny invention because it's the sort of
• 30:50
  Speaker 2: thing that like, conceptually no box exists like this that
• 30:54
  Speaker 2: you would be like, oh, yeah, there's the little thing.
• 30:56
  Speaker 2: I know, I'll push this and get what's inside. It's
• 30:59
  Speaker 2: like the trick is unlike anything you've experienced before, and
• 31:02
  Speaker 2: it's quick.
• 31:03
  Speaker 3: It's so much faster than you would It doesn't even.
• 31:05
  Speaker 2: Give you time. No, you kind of don't even understand
• 31:08
  Speaker 2: what's happening while you're not even in on the joke.
• 31:11
  Speaker 2: You're the joke. But then once you're now I'm in
• 31:13
  Speaker 2: a relationship. Yeah, I want to do this all the time. Yes,
• 31:18
  Speaker 2: I wonder how that even works. I guess this is
• 31:21
  Speaker 2: it's almost in the same category as the what is
• 31:25
  Speaker 2: that the perpetual motion bird thing that like drink going
• 31:29
  Speaker 2: to drink? Yes, yeah, I like I don't I really,
• 31:32
  Speaker 2: I guess I would classify this as a gag.
• 31:36
  Speaker 3: Yes, a prank, and a curiosity on your table.
• 31:40
  Speaker 2: It's an oddity, a curiosity.
• 31:42
  Speaker 3: To confound and delight and annoy.
• 31:44
  Speaker 2: Yes, something you would buy out of a wagon something
• 31:47
  Speaker 2: like that, right, or at the old general's store. Yes,
• 31:51
  Speaker 2: where How where did your husband find that?
• 31:53
  Speaker 3: He finds like he's sort of in charge of sort
• 31:55
  Speaker 3: of like the art in our home, like he will
• 31:58
  Speaker 3: find really cool. I don't know. Short answer, like it
• 32:01
  Speaker 3: just arrived and he's like, oh, this is kind of
• 32:04
  Speaker 3: horror movie. Yes, we had to make a deal, and
• 32:07
  Speaker 3: you're going to have to make a deal with the
• 32:09
  Speaker 3: devil to keep this.
• 32:10
  Speaker 2: Keep doing it, don't stop.
• 32:13
  Speaker 3: I think what he does is he does gofundmes, you
• 32:15
  Speaker 3: know where it's like, so then a lot of things
• 32:19
  Speaker 3: appear where he's like, I just respect this.
• 32:21
  Speaker 2: And do you think this was a gofund me? I
• 32:23
  Speaker 2: love the idea of this Kickstarter campaign. Yes, finally everyone's
• 32:28
  Speaker 2: been asking for a box that won't let you open it.
• 32:31
  Speaker 2: We figured it out.
• 32:32
  Speaker 3: We figured it out. We can make it to the
• 32:34
  Speaker 3: four million dollar goal again, our kid really start working.
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: Now.
• 32:41
  Speaker 2: I just love this thing. I don't I uh, it's
• 32:45
  Speaker 2: almost like something that Grandpa would have or uncle. Yeah,
• 32:48
  Speaker 2: give that a but no one's partner. And now I
• 32:52
  Speaker 2: kind of am desperate to know what's going on inside
• 32:55
  Speaker 2: and I'll never know.
• 32:56
  Speaker 3: Well you could. I think there's a little you see,
• 32:58
  Speaker 3: the little like classes you can open that you can open.
• 33:01
  Speaker 2: But again, I ruin it for I don't know if
• 33:03
  Speaker 2: I should ruin it for life.
• 33:04
  Speaker 3: Maybe keep it have one mystery.
• 33:06
  Speaker 2: It's its own little magician and it shouldn't give away
• 33:09
  Speaker 2: its secrets. Yeah, so what are there other things in
• 33:11
  Speaker 2: your house like this? Um?
• 33:14
  Speaker 3: Let me think think think. Uh No, I'm trying to
• 33:18
  Speaker 3: think if there's anything as funny as that, But I
• 33:21
  Speaker 3: don't think so, but I do. I'm sort of like
• 33:24
  Speaker 3: the person that shows up with a crystal or two.
• 33:27
  Speaker 2: Oh sure, sure.
• 33:28
  Speaker 3: So I'll do a thing where like we have, you know,
• 33:30
  Speaker 3: like just a bowl of artistic moss and rocks or whatever,
• 33:34
  Speaker 3: and then I found a little Lego Drothy and a
• 33:37
  Speaker 3: little Lego Toto and I'll like So there's little bits
• 33:40
  Speaker 3: of whimsy that I try.
• 33:42
  Speaker 2: So do you take Do you buy crystals? Often?
• 33:46
  Speaker 3: A little bit sometimes I I don't know why, but
• 33:51
  Speaker 3: like they're pretty and right.
• 33:53
  Speaker 2: I mean I think that's enough enough. And if they
• 33:57
  Speaker 2: happen to have some sort of that's.
• 34:00
  Speaker 3: It where I'm not going to delve too deeply.
• 34:03
  Speaker 2: But it can't hurt with Yeah, unless it's cursed, unless
• 34:08
  Speaker 2: it's an evil crystal. Oh I don't buy evil crystals.
• 34:11
  Speaker 2: Well you think you don't buy it? Oh no, it
• 34:14
  Speaker 2: depends on if you're tricked or not. It's not rich
• 34:16
  Speaker 2: which you buy them from.
• 34:18
  Speaker 3: Oh yeah, shoot, that's that's where I mess up.
• 34:22
  Speaker 2: This sounds like something that could have some sort of
• 34:24
  Speaker 2: evil property.
• 34:25
  Speaker 3: Yeah, exactly. This is like one of those movies where
• 34:27
  Speaker 3: it's like right psychological torture. Yeah, I promise you it's
• 34:35
  Speaker 3: just a little finger that keeps shutting.
• 34:36
  Speaker 2: Up, but I just want to keep doing it. Kind
• 34:39
  Speaker 2: of feels like it's almost like this podcast turned into
• 34:41
  Speaker 2: a box or something.
• 34:43
  Speaker 3: Yeah, maybe that's why I made the connection. I'm like,
• 34:45
  Speaker 3: I have the perfect thing. No, it's just I've heard
• 34:48
  Speaker 3: other people's gifts and I'm like, oh gosh, darn it.
• 34:51
  Speaker 2: Like that, I gotta step up. I know this is
• 34:54
  Speaker 2: absolutely top five gifts. It's such a fun it's a
• 34:58
  Speaker 2: I've never heard of something like this, never experienced something
• 35:01
  Speaker 2: like this.
• 35:01
  Speaker 3: I have a feeling that the person who makes this
• 35:04
  Speaker 3: it is gonna have a lot of business once you
• 35:05
  Speaker 3: put that on.
• 35:05
  Speaker 2: The Instagram right to right they're going to it'll probably
• 35:09
  Speaker 2: ruin their life because suddenly they're gonna blow up and
• 35:11
  Speaker 2: they're gonna be making too many of these boxes.
• 35:14
  Speaker 3: I just leave more destruction in my weight, just like
• 35:16
  Speaker 3: Dead Butterfly, Like bye bye guys.
• 35:20
  Speaker 2: Uh, not to go back to crystals, but I feel
• 35:22
  Speaker 2: like doing it anyway. Okay, I don't know that much
• 35:25
  Speaker 2: about crystals. When you go do you just go to
• 35:27
  Speaker 2: a crystal shop? Do you just see them at random places?
• 35:31
  Speaker 3: There's a place, you know in of the Seventh Ray,
• 35:35
  Speaker 3: do you know that it's so pretty. It's up on
• 35:37
  Speaker 3: the Pega can. Yes, Yes, it's beautiful pretty. Yes, it's
• 35:42
  Speaker 3: like there's a little brook and it's outdoors and there's
• 35:44
  Speaker 3: fairy lights and all that stuff. And then they've got
• 35:46
  Speaker 3: this little store and it's perfect. It's a perfect tourist
• 35:49
  Speaker 3: trap because I don't normally like walk into a crystal store. Right,
• 35:55
  Speaker 3: you're on a night out and you're feeling magical anyway, Yes,
• 35:58
  Speaker 3: and it's that's where I have the majority, that's where
• 36:03
  Speaker 3: I get them.
• 36:03
  Speaker 2: That feels like the best place to get them.
• 36:05
  Speaker 3: Yes, yes, because you do feel magical already.
• 36:08
  Speaker 2: Right, it's like almost like a tree house or like
• 36:10
  Speaker 2: a somewhere over an elf would live or something that's
• 36:13
  Speaker 2: fairy lights.
• 36:14
  Speaker 3: Man, that's all I need, is all I want. And
• 36:16
  Speaker 3: I'm you know, I'm like.
• 36:18
  Speaker 2: I'm magical. Oh this is talking to me. Do have
• 36:23
  Speaker 2: you eaten there? Yes, I've never. I've just been to visit. Oh, okay,
• 36:27
  Speaker 2: what sort of food are they serving at the end
• 36:29
  Speaker 2: of the secon?
• 36:30
  Speaker 3: I think kind of Americana and then you could get
• 36:32
  Speaker 3: your you get sort of anything there. But if you're vegan,
• 36:35
  Speaker 3: you can be happy there, you know. I think the
• 36:38
  Speaker 3: last time. They've got a really nice like polenta. Oh interesting,
• 36:42
  Speaker 3: but a good steak. Yeah, nice, nice wine.
• 36:45
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 36:45
  Speaker 2: It feels kind of Laurel Canyon, New Age. Nice place.
• 36:50
  Speaker 3: Absolutely, you're in the Topanga Canyon. You know, like there's
• 36:55
  Speaker 3: you know that there's a big there's just art everywhere,
• 36:59
  Speaker 3: like a pig lying on a huge spike. When nearby
• 37:03
  Speaker 3: the Arboretum like the will.
• 37:04
  Speaker 2: Gear Wait, I'm not familiar with this.
• 37:06
  Speaker 3: Oh botanic and pardon me not the arboretom. It's the
• 37:08
  Speaker 3: will Have you heard of the will Gear Theater? Oh
• 37:10
  Speaker 3: my god, you gotta go. Will Gear. I guess played
• 37:14
  Speaker 3: grandpa on The Waltons. But he loved Shakespeare and he
• 37:17
  Speaker 3: and his family we're talking now probably his great grandchildren
• 37:21
  Speaker 3: run it. And they do Shakespeare in an outdoor amphitheater. Oh,
• 37:26
  Speaker 3: and it's beautiful and you show up and you bring
• 37:28
  Speaker 3: a picnic and you bring whatever you want.
• 37:30
  Speaker 2: Oh, that sounds so nice.
• 37:31
  Speaker 3: And it's very near end of the seventh ra so
• 37:33
  Speaker 3: I'm not changing topics. But it's lovely and they have
• 37:37
  Speaker 3: classes for kids and stuff, and they perform like you know,
• 37:40
  Speaker 3: a mid summer night's dream. But you're in the woods
• 37:42
  Speaker 3: and right absolutely stunning.
• 37:43
  Speaker 2: Oh that sounds really lovely, really nice. Have you ever
• 37:46
  Speaker 2: done live theater?
• 37:47
  Speaker 3: Yeah? I all right, Well I went to I did
• 37:50
  Speaker 3: it all throughout, like elementary school up and then in college,
• 37:54
  Speaker 3: and then I went to acting school for two years.
• 37:56
  Speaker 3: And then I was broke in New York City. And
• 38:00
  Speaker 3: then because I was like catering so much to just
• 38:03
  Speaker 3: pay the bills and stuff, I started to stand up.
• 38:06
  Speaker 3: My friend dared me to do some stand up and
• 38:10
  Speaker 3: that was a game changer because I'm like, oh my god,
• 38:12
  Speaker 3: like I don't have to.
• 38:14
  Speaker 2: Rehearse, like rehearse with a bunch of people and rent
• 38:16
  Speaker 2: the theater. I can control this. I can control this.
• 38:19
  Speaker 3: And it's at the time, it was like and it
• 38:20
  Speaker 3: was six minutes and I was just I ran into
• 38:22
  Speaker 3: someone last night actually who saw me do my first
• 38:25
  Speaker 3: like act, And I had a jingle bell earring that
• 38:28
  Speaker 3: I would ring to do the what do you call it?
• 38:33
  Speaker 3: Changing the topic basically segways my segway belt. So I'd
• 38:37
  Speaker 3: be like, oh, that was my first joke because I
• 38:41
  Speaker 3: was so new and I didn't know what I was doing,
• 38:43
  Speaker 3: and it was so funny to like this was ninety
• 38:45
  Speaker 3: six or something and so I was like, oh my.
• 38:47
  Speaker 2: God, that's right, what a gimmick.
• 38:49
  Speaker 3: Yeah, And but then things well whatever, things started moving
• 38:52
  Speaker 3: before they stopped for a long time. But my now
• 38:55
  Speaker 3: manager saw me and said, if you want a manager,
• 38:59
  Speaker 3: come to LA and like, oh god, yes.
• 39:01
  Speaker 2: Don't forget the jingle bell. Don't forget the jingle bell
• 39:03
  Speaker 2: or the jingle bell. Comic got your talent, right, the
• 39:06
  Speaker 2: jingle bell? Have you got the bell?
• 39:09
  Speaker 3: Can we get a headshot of the bell?
• 39:13
  Speaker 2: Do you still have the jingle bell? No?
• 39:14
  Speaker 3: I don't think. Well maybe maybe I saved it, Like
• 39:17
  Speaker 3: I've got like little boxes of like this is precious
• 39:20
  Speaker 3: to me, and I'm sure it's somewhere there. It was
• 39:22
  Speaker 3: a little Christmas ear ring, so it was like a
• 39:25
  Speaker 3: hook with a bell and a little tiny, tiny read bell.
• 39:28
  Speaker 2: Mean, someday you're going to be cleaning out a back
• 39:32
  Speaker 2: room or a basement or something. You'll hear the jingling.
• 39:35
  Speaker 2: You'll be sobbing. No one will be able to get
• 39:39
  Speaker 2: you out of this absolute melt.
• 39:41
  Speaker 3: Right, it'll be like Grammar, stop crying.
• 39:47
  Speaker 2: Do you remember what your first play was in elementary school?
• 39:50
  Speaker 1: Oh?
• 39:50
  Speaker 3: Golly, okay, yes, I believe that that was Okay, I
• 39:54
  Speaker 3: was a bee, and it was like I was the bee.
• 40:00
  Speaker 3: I was the bee in the motel. Don't you remember
• 40:04
  Speaker 3: Willie Loman, that's a prostitute. And then I fly away.
• 40:09
  Speaker 3: Your son's crying. It was it was like it was
• 40:15
  Speaker 3: like a celebration of spring. And I remember just being Oh,
• 40:20
  Speaker 3: I rate that. I had to memorize lines. And by
• 40:22
  Speaker 3: the way, the lines was like a strip of paper
• 40:24
  Speaker 3: with a little you know, I come outs, get on
• 40:29
  Speaker 3: exit stage right. Yeah, so that was my first theatrical rule.
• 40:34
  Speaker 2: That's adorable. That's pretty cute. It's kind of like the
• 40:36
  Speaker 2: uh what music video of blind Melon video picturing that. Yeah,
• 40:42
  Speaker 2: so you're like the second most famous B Yeah.
• 40:46
  Speaker 3: Well there's two B movies.
• 40:47
  Speaker 2: Oh right, right, so but at the time, you were
• 40:51
  Speaker 2: probably the most famous bee.
• 40:53
  Speaker 3: In Stony Point, New York. Yeah.
• 40:54
  Speaker 2: Sure, of course. Nobody else had done the bee.
• 40:56
  Speaker 3: Yet, no I had done it. It was me set
• 40:59
  Speaker 3: the stage for other Yeah, no one, No one gives
• 41:02
  Speaker 3: me any credit. Thank you for this, of course.
• 41:05
  Speaker 2: Of course that's why you came here today. Look at
• 41:07
  Speaker 2: this little scene I've set up here. The birds surrounding
• 41:11
  Speaker 2: reminded what this is called.
• 41:12
  Speaker 3: The useless box.
• 41:13
  Speaker 2: Useless box.
• 41:14
  Speaker 3: Yeah, and you got your so you've got some friends.
• 41:17
  Speaker 2: Look at that.
• 41:19
  Speaker 3: It's very silly.
• 41:21
  Speaker 2: I really like that. Are you into like magic or
• 41:24
  Speaker 2: any of these things? Do you like going to magic shows?
• 41:27
  Speaker 3: I love going to the I know I have a
• 41:31
  Speaker 3: friend of mine. He was in the Growlings for a
• 41:33
  Speaker 3: while and he is a great magician. Oh gosh, of
• 41:37
  Speaker 3: course now I'm gosh darn it. I will remember his
• 41:40
  Speaker 3: name in a second. But he got us, my husband
• 41:43
  Speaker 3: and I tickets to see I love it. It's great
• 41:48
  Speaker 3: at the Magic Castle, at the Magic cast. Thanks for
• 41:50
  Speaker 3: finishing my thoughts, I trailed off.
• 41:52
  Speaker 2: What sort of magic did he do? Just stay?
• 41:55
  Speaker 3: He does kind of close up?
• 41:57
  Speaker 2: Okay, he's great.
• 41:58
  Speaker 3: And then his partner, she's a mentalist. Oh and she
• 42:03
  Speaker 3: that was incredible too. She would guess what people were thinking.
• 42:08
  Speaker 3: I don't know how they do it. How do either
• 42:12
  Speaker 3: of them do it?
• 42:13
  Speaker 2: Did you go on stage and get your thoughts?
• 42:17
  Speaker 3: I was just part of an audience, but watching her
• 42:21
  Speaker 3: deal with the audience. And his name, Oh my god,
• 42:23
  Speaker 3: I'm gonna have to write to you and tell you
• 42:25
  Speaker 3: his name. Harrison Lambert.
• 42:29
  Speaker 2: Oh, Harrison Lambert, magician name right?
• 42:31
  Speaker 3: And his partner is Christa. I believe anyway. Harrison Lambert,
• 42:37
  Speaker 3: he actually did one of the progressive commercials. Oh no,
• 42:40
  Speaker 3: he was someone who came up in a karaoke bar
• 42:43
  Speaker 3: and was But he brings a deck of cards wherever
• 42:46
  Speaker 3: he works, and like, if you're in between, he'll do
• 42:48
  Speaker 3: a card trick.
• 42:49
  Speaker 2: Oh what a nice thing to be able to do.
• 42:51
  Speaker 3: And but he does it well, so it's.
• 42:52
  Speaker 2: Not like annoyed by someone's like first time magic trick.
• 42:57
  Speaker 3: Oh the cards I spilled up on the No, he's
• 43:02
  Speaker 3: a master, and you're like.
• 43:03
  Speaker 2: Wow, And I'm so curious about this mentalist thing. I
• 43:06
  Speaker 2: guess they're just so there's a whole field that you
• 43:09
  Speaker 2: learn about figuring out how to guess what people are
• 43:12
  Speaker 2: I know, and leading them into telling you information that
• 43:15
  Speaker 2: you're able to then build.
• 43:16
  Speaker 3: That must be maybe there's physical cues. I mean she's
• 43:19
  Speaker 3: not telling. I'm not asking because it's like a lot
• 43:21
  Speaker 3: of fun.
• 43:21
  Speaker 2: It's fun to be mystified fun. She might be just magic.
• 43:25
  Speaker 3: Maybe she's magical.
• 43:26
  Speaker 2: Were we how frustrating it would be for her to
• 43:29
  Speaker 2: be like, no, it's not a trick. I just am
• 43:32
  Speaker 2: able to tap into another dimensional someone, Please believe.
• 43:37
  Speaker 3: No, I've stood next to crystals. I'm not magic, so
• 43:40
  Speaker 3: you can't be.
• 43:42
  Speaker 2: Oh my god, I've stood next to crystals. Resume special skills.
• 43:50
  Speaker 3: I've stood next to crystals, really and what happened? Nothing? Nothing.
• 43:56
  Speaker 3: I chose them for the color in the room.
• 43:58
  Speaker 2: Oh, I need to get into crystals.
• 44:01
  Speaker 3: I don't know. They feel good in the hand. I
• 44:02
  Speaker 3: know I love just like rolling them around, and a
• 44:05
  Speaker 3: geode is kind of magical.
• 44:06
  Speaker 2: Yeah, they're very pretty. Yeah, they kind of do nothing
• 44:09
  Speaker 2: beyond that. But maybe there's some sort of placebo effect.
• 44:13
  Speaker 3: Yes there maybe crystal festivals people go to. I'm going
• 44:17
  Speaker 3: to out her, but Wenny mcclennan Covey, that's a crystal.
• 44:20
  Speaker 2: Oh, she's a big crystal gal.
• 44:21
  Speaker 3: He's a crystal gal.
• 44:23
  Speaker 2: M hmm.
• 44:24
  Speaker 3: She she has a collection, Wendy Wendy Parts two.
• 44:32
  Speaker 2: We need explain. So she has a big collection.
• 44:37
  Speaker 3: I have not seen it, but I know that she
• 44:40
  Speaker 3: loves them. Okay, but uh, yeah, I think I'm just
• 44:44
  Speaker 3: a sucker for like, what a pretty color? Even just
• 44:46
  Speaker 3: looking at these little colorful.
• 44:48
  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I'm very much a child in that way.
• 44:50
  Speaker 3: Yeah, And I feel like we're kind of, I don't know,
• 44:53
  Speaker 3: we're influenced by pretty things. Well, Wendy, Well, Weny, figure
• 44:59
  Speaker 3: that you have splained interview.
• 45:03
  Speaker 2: Well, is there anything left to say about the box?
• 45:05
  Speaker 3: No, man, enjoy it justin.
• 45:07
  Speaker 2: I just love this thing.
• 45:09
  Speaker 3: It is very fun.
• 45:12
  Speaker 2: Well, I think we should play a game. Okay, We're
• 45:15
  Speaker 2: going to play a game called Gift to a Curse.
• 45:16
  Speaker 2: But I need a number between one and ten from you. Seven. Okay.
• 45:20
  Speaker 2: I have to do some light calculating to get our
• 45:22
  Speaker 2: game pieces. So right now you can recommend, promote, do
• 45:25
  Speaker 2: whatever you want with the microphone. I'll be right back.
• 45:27
  Speaker 3: Okay. Oh he just disappeared in a Bridger shaped puff
• 45:30
  Speaker 3: of smoke.
• 45:31
  Speaker 2: I can still hear. Hello. My name is Stephany Courtney.
• 45:35
  Speaker 3: And I'm a gen X the Quaires. I would love
• 45:41
  Speaker 3: to plug a show that I do every week. I
• 45:43
  Speaker 3: do a show Wednesdays at the Grownlings Theater in Los
• 45:46
  Speaker 3: Angeles and it's called the Crazy Uncle Joe Show. And
• 45:50
  Speaker 3: it's me and I five friends or my five friends,
• 45:53
  Speaker 3: and I I feel like my mom's standing right behind
• 45:55
  Speaker 3: me correcting my English. And we do we invite a
• 45:59
  Speaker 3: couple of guests so long, and we do a long
• 46:02
  Speaker 3: form show and it's an improv show and it's so
• 46:04
  Speaker 3: fun and it moves quickly. It's an hour and a
• 46:06
  Speaker 3: half top to bottom, and we hope to see you there.
• 46:10
  Speaker 2: Gorgeous, everybody, go see Stephanie's show. That sounds like so
• 46:13
  Speaker 2: much fun.
• 46:15
  Speaker 3: Just watch the crystals. They're scattered all over the audience.
• 46:20
  Speaker 3: Just watch your eyes. Wear glass.
• 46:22
  Speaker 2: They're just throwing crystals. People.
• 46:23
  Speaker 3: We have to stop doing that, but we won't.
• 46:26
  Speaker 2: Too many people have been hospitalized. When will it not
• 46:30
  Speaker 2: be enough for you? Sorry? Okay, let's see. This is
• 46:34
  Speaker 2: how we play gift to a curse. I'm going to
• 46:36
  Speaker 2: name three things. You'll tell me if there are a
• 46:37
  Speaker 2: gift or a curse, and why I don't tell you
• 46:39
  Speaker 2: if you're right or wrong, because there are correct answers.
• 46:42
  Speaker 2: You can walk away a big winner or a total loser,
• 46:45
  Speaker 2: so be careful, or something in between, which is also
• 46:49
  Speaker 2: a total loser. These are all from our Patreon listeners today.
• 46:52
  Speaker 2: This first one is from a listener named Anna. Gift
• 46:55
  Speaker 2: or a curse. When a landscaper drives their lawnmower down
• 46:58
  Speaker 2: the center of the street, that's a curse.
• 47:01
  Speaker 3: I feel that's a curse because we are so on
• 47:05
  Speaker 3: autopilot when it comes to driving that any aberration can
• 47:12
  Speaker 3: just throw you off like a lot more than what
• 47:14
  Speaker 3: the situation calls for.
• 47:15
  Speaker 2: But if you're like I didn't expect.
• 47:17
  Speaker 3: And then just a slight turnoment wheel, it could be
• 47:20
  Speaker 3: a disaster. So I say it's a curse.
• 47:22
  Speaker 2: Wrong, This is a gift. Oh. I love to see
• 47:27
  Speaker 2: somebody driving a lawn mower down the street. I think
• 47:29
  Speaker 2: that they's what a power that they take. Suddenly they're
• 47:32
  Speaker 2: the king of the road. Nobody They get to call
• 47:34
  Speaker 2: every shot from here on out because they are on
• 47:37
  Speaker 2: the vehicle that nobody else is on. They also have
• 47:40
  Speaker 2: a weapon attached to their vehicle, and they're having the
• 47:43
  Speaker 2: time of their life. You know, they're they're proving that
• 47:46
  Speaker 2: these machines don't just have to be on the grass.
• 47:48
  Speaker 3: They must they must feel very powerful.
• 47:51
  Speaker 2: Imagine the power. Yeah, I'm essentially a throne.
• 47:54
  Speaker 3: Yeah, slow thrown with a weapon in the front.
• 47:58
  Speaker 2: Yeah. And also reminds me of the David Lynch movie
• 48:02
  Speaker 2: What Was That where he drives the lawnmower across the
• 48:04
  Speaker 2: United States.
• 48:04
  Speaker 3: It's his brother, A very long tail, a very short tail,
• 48:08
  Speaker 3: a very love.
• 48:09
  Speaker 2: It's weirdly, it's a weird David Lynch movie. For how
• 48:12
  Speaker 2: sweet it is. It is David Lynch lawnmower. A straight story,
• 48:16
  Speaker 2: A straight story. And is that guy the dad from
• 48:21
  Speaker 2: Anne of green Gables.
• 48:22
  Speaker 3: Oh my god, the one who played Matthew Cuthbert on
• 48:25
  Speaker 3: the Anna green Gables.
• 48:26
  Speaker 2: Wrong, Uncle Matthew, let's see here. I might be wrong. No,
• 48:31
  Speaker 2: I don't think it is. Who's that guy?
• 48:34
  Speaker 1: It is?
• 48:35
  Speaker 2: It is? Oh my goodness, Matthew.
• 48:39
  Speaker 3: I told you I'm in charge of raising the child.
• 48:42
  Speaker 3: Keep your or out. Oh my god, I'm the woman
• 48:49
  Speaker 3: I am today because of Anna green Gables. Oh I
• 48:53
  Speaker 3: love it.
• 48:54
  Speaker 2: I need to go back and rewatch that I didn't
• 48:57
  Speaker 2: see the new version. I didn't either. I don't. I
• 48:59
  Speaker 2: don't need that tarnishing my memory. Is a band of
• 49:01
  Speaker 2: green game. Megan follows Yes and lastic series. Oh my god,
• 49:06
  Speaker 2: I don't know that I saw all of it, because
• 49:07
  Speaker 2: you know, it keeps becoming Anne of you know, advantually
• 49:10
  Speaker 2: becomes like Anne of Burbank or something. But the huge
• 49:16
  Speaker 2: chunk that I saw wonderful, amazing.
• 49:18
  Speaker 3: You know Anna Burbank. She works in the TJ Max
• 49:22
  Speaker 3: at the Empire Center. It's crazy. It went too far.
• 49:27
  Speaker 3: It went too long.
• 49:28
  Speaker 2: They went she lived too long. She's one hundred and
• 49:32
  Speaker 2: fifty years old. She's working at teaching.
• 49:35
  Speaker 3: What did I?
• 49:38
  Speaker 2: Uh, No, you're wrong. It's a gift. We get to
• 49:42
  Speaker 2: imagine the grandpa or the I guess, wait, what are
• 49:45
  Speaker 2: they in Ann of Green Gables.
• 49:46
  Speaker 3: He's the adopted Yes, but he's very old.
• 49:50
  Speaker 2: Yes, so can you be in the adoptive grandfather? I
• 49:54
  Speaker 2: think at that point you just just get to skip.
• 49:57
  Speaker 2: You just get to say I'm not your dad, I'm
• 49:58
  Speaker 2: your grandpa. He just she would.
• 50:00
  Speaker 3: Blather on, and then he'd just smile.
• 50:03
  Speaker 1: A heart.
• 50:04
  Speaker 2: It just broke your heart. Such a sweetie. Well, you've
• 50:07
  Speaker 2: gotten one wrong so far. Let's see what happens next. Alright,
• 50:13
  Speaker 2: this is from Luna. Gift You're a curse dessert in
• 50:16
  Speaker 2: a jar.
• 50:18
  Speaker 3: Oh. I find myself charmed by it. I think it's
• 50:22
  Speaker 3: a gift because then you can if you don't finish it,
• 50:26
  Speaker 3: you can always reseal it and then use the jar.
• 50:29
  Speaker 3: I think it's a gift. I think you win twice
• 50:31
  Speaker 3: three times because you eat it.
• 50:33
  Speaker 2: Correct. That's a good.
• 50:34
  Speaker 3: Oh my god, I'm still alive.
• 50:38
  Speaker 2: No, I love it. I think it's nice. I think
• 50:39
  Speaker 2: there's nothing wrong with this. It's a nice little container
• 50:42
  Speaker 2: with a reusable thing that later can be used for dessert, drink, jam,
• 50:48
  Speaker 2: capturing bugs. Probably a fifth thing you use your imagination,
• 50:54
  Speaker 2: you can think of anytime you use your imagination, you
• 50:56
  Speaker 2: can think of a fifth thing.
• 50:58
  Speaker 3: So imagination is to give.
• 51:01
  Speaker 2: So I think this is very nice. It's usually kind
• 51:03
  Speaker 2: of a good dessert. You don't usually you don't have
• 51:05
  Speaker 2: the boring desserts in a jar.
• 51:06
  Speaker 3: You know what is the kind of a dessert in
• 51:08
  Speaker 3: a jar? Layered layers, Yes, some layers, textures, Oh, just
• 51:12
  Speaker 3: a surprise.
• 51:13
  Speaker 2: Yes, at least one of those will be whipped cream. Problems.
• 51:16
  Speaker 2: No notes, Yeah, no notes at all. That's an absolute gift.
• 51:19
  Speaker 2: I can't imagine that being a problem for anybody. And
• 51:22
  Speaker 2: if it is, just take a look in the mirror.
• 51:25
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 51:25
  Speaker 2: Finally, this is from a listener named Joseph. Gift or
• 51:28
  Speaker 2: a curse when you buy a new pair of shoelaces
• 51:30
  Speaker 2: for an old pair of shoes.
• 51:33
  Speaker 3: Oh, that's I have a lot of emotions coming up
• 51:37
  Speaker 3: with that. I think it's a gift. I'm gonna say
• 51:40
  Speaker 3: it's a gift because you're you're giving a gift to
• 51:43
  Speaker 3: the planet by not like throwing away shoes you're having
• 51:46
  Speaker 3: them live longer. I think you're you're you've jazzed up
• 51:50
  Speaker 3: your shoe and I think once shoelaces like break or fray.
• 51:56
  Speaker 3: That's depressing, that's just depressing. You feel like, I'm not
• 51:59
  Speaker 3: gonna say you do you writer, I'm gonna say I
• 52:02
  Speaker 3: feel like I'm I'm not operating.
• 52:04
  Speaker 2: At a high level.
• 52:06
  Speaker 3: Like my shoelaces frayed and dirty and gross.
• 52:10
  Speaker 2: I think it's a gift. I'm gonna do it wrong.
• 52:13
  Speaker 3: I'm dead.
• 52:14
  Speaker 2: Oh no, this is for me. This is an absolute curse.
• 52:17
  Speaker 2: I've I've tried it over and over, always thinking this
• 52:19
  Speaker 2: is giving the shoes new life. No, it just becomes
• 52:22
  Speaker 2: an uncanny situation where you're looking at your shoes. You're thinking, well,
• 52:25
  Speaker 2: they still look terrible, but now the shoelaces looks new,
• 52:29
  Speaker 2: and it's distracting, and everybody can tell I'm a fraud.
• 52:33
  Speaker 2: It has done nothing but make the shoe look worse.
• 52:36
  Speaker 2: At some point you have to say goodbye shoes.
• 52:38
  Speaker 3: Okay, okay, I'll take my loss with grace.
• 52:42
  Speaker 2: You've got one out of threat brother, pretty bad job today.
• 52:46
  Speaker 2: That's tough, tough pill to swallow, but Ellis has their
• 52:50
  Speaker 2: own gift or a curse, and now they're going to
• 52:52
  Speaker 2: present us with it and we'll both have to speak
• 52:54
  Speaker 2: to Okay, ellis what are we talking about today?
• 52:57
  Speaker 4: Gift or a curse? Grocery store suit?
• 53:00
  Speaker 1: She h.
• 53:02
  Speaker 3: I never like it, and I'm gonna tell you why.
• 53:05
  Speaker 3: I'm going to tell you why because it's sushi shouldn't
• 53:10
  Speaker 3: be refrigerated. You know what I'm saying interesting that rice
• 53:13
  Speaker 3: should not be cold and chucky, which is once if
• 53:19
  Speaker 3: you have like leftover sushi and stuff. I'm just like
• 53:22
  Speaker 3: roll the insides. I just can't abide.
• 53:25
  Speaker 2: A cold, stiff, chalky rice. I can't.
• 53:28
  Speaker 3: I can only say that like Harrison, like a Harrison Ford.
• 53:32
  Speaker 4: Are cold chockery rice.
• 53:35
  Speaker 2: I don't kill my wife, but chalky rice the fugitive too.
• 53:40
  Speaker 2: It's just all about getting bad grocery store sushi. I'm
• 53:46
  Speaker 2: a doctor. Uh No, I'm on the same page. I
• 53:49
  Speaker 2: think this is a curse. I h. I think that
• 53:51
  Speaker 2: sushi has its place, and I think sushi should always
• 53:54
  Speaker 2: be kind of an occasion, even if it's like you know,
• 53:57
  Speaker 2: you go to a cheap, affordable sushi, it should just
• 54:00
  Speaker 2: be it should have been just made. I don't like
• 54:03
  Speaker 2: the idea of that gumminess that happens when rice gets cold.
• 54:08
  Speaker 2: God knows how long it's actually been in there. I
• 54:11
  Speaker 2: don't think it's often that cheap enough to even justify it.
• 54:14
  Speaker 2: You know. It's like, well, if I'm going to get sushi,
• 54:16
  Speaker 2: all spend a little bit extra and just go to
• 54:17
  Speaker 2: a restaurant where they're going to make it for me.
• 54:19
  Speaker 2: I agree.
• 54:20
  Speaker 3: I feel there has to be some measure of respect
• 54:22
  Speaker 3: for the art of it.
• 54:24
  Speaker 2: Right, I don't know, you know, there are certain things
• 54:27
  Speaker 2: I just don't want refrigerated served in a plastic dish. Yeah,
• 54:32
  Speaker 2: there's something that I'm going to be gagging, And there's.
• 54:35
  Speaker 3: A lot of I feel like once you get the
• 54:38
  Speaker 3: rubber band and the plastic in the thing, the little
• 54:41
  Speaker 3: plastic separators, you're just like it's like having a party
• 54:44
  Speaker 3: for yourself that no one showed up. Like I feel,
• 54:47
  Speaker 3: there's like there's been effort made, but why.
• 54:50
  Speaker 2: It's just me right, just pick something else in the
• 54:52
  Speaker 2: refrigerated section, something you can microwave. Yeah, I agree, ellis No,
• 54:58
  Speaker 2: it's a gift.
• 55:01
  Speaker 4: The amount of times that I've been in the store
• 55:04
  Speaker 4: tempted to buy something quick and easy and unhealthy for me. Now,
• 55:08
  Speaker 4: I'm not saying that the grocery store sushi is good.
• 55:11
  Speaker 4: I'm not saying it, But that's not the question. The
• 55:12
  Speaker 4: question is if it helps you in some way?
• 55:15
  Speaker 2: Is it a gift?
• 55:16
  Speaker 4: Yeah, because I've like eaten that instead of something that's
• 55:18
  Speaker 4: way worse for me. Yes, and it's helped me out
• 55:21
  Speaker 4: of those situations. And as a child, it was my
• 55:23
  Speaker 4: first exposure to sushi.
• 55:25
  Speaker 2: And it was kind of like terrible exposure.
• 55:28
  Speaker 1: Mmm.
• 55:28
  Speaker 4: I mean, say what you want about that, but like
• 55:30
  Speaker 4: I it did help me introduce It introduced me to
• 55:33
  Speaker 4: a whole new world that opened up my world to
• 55:35
  Speaker 4: better sushi. So you know, there you go.
• 55:38
  Speaker 3: When you had better sushi, did you feel like I'm
• 55:40
  Speaker 3: eating something different, like completely different than.
• 55:43
  Speaker 4: Oh yeah, but like a in a good way. It
• 55:45
  Speaker 4: was like, oh wow, this is even better than I
• 55:48
  Speaker 4: could have ever imagined. But I already enjoyed the taste
• 55:51
  Speaker 4: of the grocery store sushi enough that it was like
• 55:53
  Speaker 4: a treat, Like good sushi, real sushi was the treat.
• 55:56
  Speaker 3: Well, I feel like I died and was revived and
• 55:58
  Speaker 3: died again.
• 55:59
  Speaker 2: Well, will you do me a favor?
• 56:02
  Speaker 4: Maybe?
• 56:03
  Speaker 2: Will you just edit out everything you said? How you do.
• 56:07
  Speaker 2: It's a kindness you'll find out. Okay, well, we uh
• 56:13
  Speaker 2: walked away losers in Ellis's sick game. But that's fine.
• 56:17
  Speaker 2: Let's we hope me answer a question. Sure people are
• 56:20
  Speaker 2: writing into I said no gifts at gmail dot com
• 56:22
  Speaker 2: or sending voice notes that have to be sixty seconds
• 56:25
  Speaker 2: or shorter and decent audio if we all know what
• 56:29
  Speaker 2: decent audio sounds like at this point, let's read one today. Though.
• 56:33
  Speaker 2: Let me get into the dock here, let's see. Okay, okay,
• 56:38
  Speaker 2: this is dearest Bridger, an esteemed guest. That's very nice.
• 56:42
  Speaker 2: I'm desperately seeking assistance as my neighbor's dog. And let
• 56:45
  Speaker 2: me just note here neighbor with a U. So we
• 56:49
  Speaker 2: don't know where this person is or if they're just
• 56:51
  Speaker 2: trying to be fancy in the United I tell you that, yeah,
• 56:54
  Speaker 2: we do not like this person's I'm desperately seeking assistance
• 56:59
  Speaker 2: as my neighbor's dog is constantly getting out and running
• 57:03
  Speaker 2: a muck in the neighborhood without a caller or id.
• 57:06
  Speaker 2: Our neighbors have three kids and one dog. It's clear
• 57:09
  Speaker 2: that they have their hands full, but their dog somehow
• 57:11
  Speaker 2: escapes at least once a week, and they don't seem
• 57:14
  Speaker 2: to make any attempt to stop him. I spend a
• 57:17
  Speaker 2: lot of time at home, so I'm typically the dog's rescuer,
• 57:20
  Speaker 2: But I have a one year old baby and a
• 57:22
  Speaker 2: dog of my own to care for and can't constantly
• 57:24
  Speaker 2: be on neighborhood dog watch. Just this afternoon, I lured
• 57:29
  Speaker 2: their dog to me because he was running through our
• 57:31
  Speaker 2: street and was approached by a car full of these
• 57:33
  Speaker 2: sweet people who said they'd been looking for him after
• 57:36
  Speaker 2: seeing him running through the neighborhood. This is the fifth
• 57:39
  Speaker 2: neighborhood with the U. Okay. Normally i'd force myself to
• 57:43
  Speaker 2: confront the owner and tell them to do something about
• 57:45
  Speaker 2: the situation, but I believe they're moving out soon. Oh
• 57:48
  Speaker 2: and obviously I hate confrontation of any kind. My question finally,
• 57:53
  Speaker 2: would it be totally deranged for me to buy a
• 57:56
  Speaker 2: caller and ID tag with the dog's name and address
• 57:58
  Speaker 2: and affix it to him the next time he gets out?
• 58:01
  Speaker 2: Bless you for reading? Yes, bless me. That's from Sarah. Okay, okay, Sarah,
• 58:08
  Speaker 2: neighborhood with the you. The dog is all over the place,
• 58:12
  Speaker 2: it's bothering her. She's very nosy, she can't mind her
• 58:16
  Speaker 2: own business. She's looking out and just looking for neighborhood
• 58:19
  Speaker 2: business to get her fingers in. What is she supposed
• 58:23
  Speaker 2: to do in this situation?
• 58:25
  Speaker 3: Okay, I'm very concerned for this dog getting hit by
• 58:29
  Speaker 3: a car. It's driving me nuts. So number one, I
• 58:34
  Speaker 3: think that's very generous of Sarah to offer to get
• 58:37
  Speaker 3: the ID tag and the collar. I wonder if because
• 58:44
  Speaker 3: I know, like, if you show up to a neighbor
• 58:46
  Speaker 3: with just a complaint and notes, that can be just
• 58:50
  Speaker 3: fall on deaf.
• 58:51
  Speaker 2: Ear right, just giving them a chore.
• 58:53
  Speaker 3: But if you give them a solution, that's a different thing.
• 58:55
  Speaker 3: So I wonder if there's like, is there a fence opportunity,
• 59:00
  Speaker 3: is there a electronic fence opportunity? Is there a microchip situation?
• 59:07
  Speaker 3: Or that sweet family full of people in the cart?
• 59:10
  Speaker 3: Can you say, are you overwhelmed with this dog? Because
• 59:13
  Speaker 3: there might be people that want the dog?
• 59:15
  Speaker 2: Oh? Interesting, So I.
• 59:17
  Speaker 3: Have like the three kind of solutions, but.
• 59:19
  Speaker 2: Right it's a tricky one. I mean, I something I'm
• 59:22
  Speaker 2: seeing here is that this person hates confrontation, but these
• 59:26
  Speaker 2: people are moving, so maybe this is a good opportunity
• 59:28
  Speaker 2: to try confronting someone where the stakes are pretty low.
• 59:32
  Speaker 2: You can be as nasty as you want, right, just
• 59:34
  Speaker 2: be as confrontational as possible, because pretty soon the slave
• 59:37
  Speaker 2: will be wiped clean anyway. So you show up and
• 59:40
  Speaker 2: you're just the worst to them, and it'll teach them
• 59:43
  Speaker 2: a lesson and you'll also get to learn something yourself,
• 59:47
  Speaker 2: which is that you can be as confrontational as possible.
• 59:50
  Speaker 3: It's practice, yeah.
• 59:51
  Speaker 2: Practice to you know, cause a lot of confrontations.
• 59:56
  Speaker 3: Yes, and then like bye as the moving van pulls up.
• 1:00:00
  Speaker 2: You've hired to help them get out of.
• 1:00:01
  Speaker 3: Here, yes, yeah. All my solutions are like, spend a
• 1:00:05
  Speaker 3: lot of cash on doing their job for them. Yeah.
• 1:00:09
  Speaker 3: That that is crazy making though, because you're like, oh,
• 1:00:12
  Speaker 3: once the dog's on the.
• 1:00:13
  Speaker 2: Street, people have got to get their dogs and their
• 1:00:16
  Speaker 2: the thing is needs help and you don't watch out.
• 1:00:19
  Speaker 3: I just always think like, you don't get a second chance.
• 1:00:22
  Speaker 3: You don't if you get a warning. If you get
• 1:00:25
  Speaker 3: a second warning and a third one, like something you're.
• 1:00:27
  Speaker 2: Wrong borrowed time. Yeah, right right, an off leash dog
• 1:00:32
  Speaker 2: alone is too much for me. A dog running around
• 1:00:35
  Speaker 2: the neighborhood. It's not You should not be the other
• 1:00:38
  Speaker 2: neighbor's problem, right, I mean maybe Sarah. Maybe Sarah takes
• 1:00:42
  Speaker 2: take dog in and the dog has miss disappeared for
• 1:00:45
  Speaker 2: a few days, share the wits out of them. Oh,
• 1:00:49
  Speaker 2: and then they really learned the lesson.
• 1:00:52
  Speaker 3: Oh gosh, uh my my. Also, because I'm non confrontational,
• 1:00:57
  Speaker 3: excepting I yelled at.
• 1:00:58
  Speaker 2: You, love, yes you did so, sorry whatever.
• 1:01:02
  Speaker 3: But I would say, show up with a couple of
• 1:01:04
  Speaker 3: solutions and then uh and one threat and one threat.
• 1:01:08
  Speaker 2: Two solutions and one threat. Right, If the two first
• 1:01:11
  Speaker 2: two solutions don't work, then you move to threat. If
• 1:01:15
  Speaker 2: the threat doesn't work, kidnap the dog. Kidnap the dog.
• 1:01:19
  Speaker 3: Now you have another dog solved, but you have escape
• 1:01:21
  Speaker 3: art it.
• 1:01:22
  Speaker 2: Yes, I think that that's a kind of a perfect
• 1:01:24
  Speaker 2: solution to what is essentially to what I'm seeing here
• 1:01:27
  Speaker 2: is not a problem, and it just seems like a
• 1:01:29
  Speaker 2: cry for attention from Sarah just wanted to be on
• 1:01:32
  Speaker 2: a podcast or something, and he.
• 1:01:34
  Speaker 3: Did a writing assignment. Yeah, it has to be five
• 1:01:38
  Speaker 3: hundred words.
• 1:01:41
  Speaker 2: Well, I think that we've solved Sarah's situation. Yes, and
• 1:01:45
  Speaker 2: hopefully the dog is in safe hands, away from the neighbor,
• 1:01:49
  Speaker 2: away from Sarah. In a third situation where somebody that's
• 1:01:54
  Speaker 2: not desperate for attention and can take care of dogs.
• 1:01:56
  Speaker 2: Is taking care of it?
• 1:01:57
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I hope they moved somewhere where there's a fence.
• 1:02:00
  Speaker 2: Yeah, or a big field and they're the only house
• 1:02:02
  Speaker 2: in the neighborhood. Kind of an Ann of green Gables
• 1:02:05
  Speaker 2: situation that sounds like heaven. I hope Matthew Cuthbert comes along.
• 1:02:08
  Speaker 2: They moved to Prince Edward Island.
• 1:02:11
  Speaker 3: Oh god, that's all I want.
• 1:02:13
  Speaker 2: I think that's all anyone wants. Oh my god, how
• 1:02:17
  Speaker 2: the people that actually live on Prince Edward Island field,
• 1:02:19
  Speaker 2: They must just be flying high all the time. They
• 1:02:21
  Speaker 2: must be so happy all the time. Yeah, except for
• 1:02:24
  Speaker 2: probably the nine months of winter they experience whatever, and
• 1:02:28
  Speaker 2: then they have the winter bowl.
• 1:02:31
  Speaker 3: Puffs sleeves. Everyone's in puffs sleeves.
• 1:02:34
  Speaker 2: Love of puffs. Well I have, I mean, just an
• 1:02:39
  Speaker 2: all time best gift. This one more time.
• 1:02:42
  Speaker 3: I want to rate. I just want to rate. I
• 1:02:44
  Speaker 3: want the gift to rate. That's all I want.
• 1:02:46
  Speaker 2: Yeah, of course, let's see if we can get that
• 1:02:47
  Speaker 2: sound on Mike, isn't it. That's cute.
• 1:02:52
  Speaker 3: That's a little finger coming out turning it off.
• 1:02:54
  Speaker 2: I love this thing. I'm so glad that's such a
• 1:02:57
  Speaker 2: nice time with you. Wonderful time with you. I've been
• 1:02:59
  Speaker 2: a fan and now I got to be guests. I've
• 1:03:02
  Speaker 2: been a fan of yours and I'm glad that you've
• 1:03:03
  Speaker 2: gotten to be a guest as well. Oh my goodness,
• 1:03:05
  Speaker 2: what a great situation for both of us.
• 1:03:09
  Speaker 3: Even though I lost other gifts.
• 1:03:12
  Speaker 2: Yeah, these are past gifts, a small sampling, it's a
• 1:03:15
  Speaker 2: growing selection. Jephane's just picked up a sign that says
• 1:03:21
  Speaker 2: I have no cruise control. It's like the cruises book themselves.
• 1:03:25
  Speaker 2: That's from Damien Fahi. My gorgeous piece of decor. What
• 1:03:29
  Speaker 2: a beauty. Yeah, you've got some good stuff. Yeah, I've
• 1:03:32
  Speaker 2: gotten some good stuff. I've gotten a lot of garbage,
• 1:03:34
  Speaker 2: and those guests should be ashamed. We'll talk off, Mike.
• 1:03:39
  Speaker 2: I'll email you the list. Thank you, thank you for
• 1:03:42
  Speaker 2: being here.
• 1:03:42
  Speaker 3: Thank you for having me.
• 1:03:43
  Speaker 2: Have a wonderful day. Listener. The podcast is over, and
• 1:03:47
  Speaker 2: that's fine. Podcasts come to an end on occasion. This
• 1:03:51
  Speaker 2: one's ending, and you have to just deal with those
• 1:03:53
  Speaker 2: feelings on your own. I'm closing the door. I love you, goodbye.
• 1:04:00
  Speaker 2: I said no gifts is an exactly right production. Our
• 1:04:04
  Speaker 2: senior producer is Ellis Nelson, and our episodes are beautifully
• 1:04:08
  Speaker 2: mixed by Ben Holliday. The theme song is by Miracle
• 1:04:12
  Speaker 2: Worker Amy Mann, and we couldn't do it without our booker,
• 1:04:15
  Speaker 2: Patrick Cottner. You must follow the show on Instagram. At
• 1:04:19
  Speaker 2: I said, no gifts, that's where you're going to see
• 1:04:21
  Speaker 2: pictures of all these wonderful gifts I'm getting. And don't
• 1:04:24
  Speaker 2: you want to see the gifts?
• 1:04:27
  Speaker 1: Lie?
• 1:04:28
  Speaker 2: Why did you hear?
• 1:04:31
  Speaker 1: Gonta man? Myself perfectly clear? But you're a guest to me.
• 1:04:39
  Speaker 1: You gotta come to me empty, And I said, no guests.
• 1:04:46
  Speaker 1: Your presences presents enough. I'm already too much stuff.
• 1:04:53
  Speaker 2: So how do you dance? Survey me
• 1:05:01
  Speaker 3: Fifteen day