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Maria Thayer Disobeys Bridger · I Said No Gifts! A comedy interview podcast with Bridger Winegar

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  Speaker 1: Well, I invited you here, thought I made myself perfectly clear.
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  Speaker 2: But you're a guess to my home.
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  Speaker 1: You gotta come to me empty, And I said, no guests.
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  Speaker 1: Your own presences presents enough. I already had too much stuff, So.
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  Speaker 2: How do you dare to surbey me?
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  Speaker 3: Welcome to I said, no gifts. I'm pretter Winegarl. We're
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  Speaker 3: in the backyard. What's happening. It's Saturday morning. I've been
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  Speaker 3: to target the big target. The upper level of the
• 1:04
  Speaker 3: big target is probably I would say it's fifty degrees
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  Speaker 3: hotter than the lower level. So if you're going to target,
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  Speaker 3: just keep that in mind. That's the big target. What
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  Speaker 3: else is? Oh? Actually there's there is an announcement I
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  Speaker 3: need to make. I got a text this morning. It says, hello, Lucy,
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  Speaker 3: please cancel my yoga class next week. I'm Eileen. Thank you. So,
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  Speaker 3: if you're Lucy or II Leen, work that out between yourselves.
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  Speaker 3: If that's a spam, it's an incredible attempt. I mean
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  Speaker 3: it's actually probably the most likely to get me of
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  Speaker 3: any type of spam. Lucy and I Leen all my
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  Speaker 3: love to you and your yoga. Oh, let's get into
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  Speaker 3: the podcast. I love today's guest. It's Maria Thayer. Maria, Yes, welcome, welcome.
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  Speaker 2: To I said, no, Gi, thank you for having me.
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  Speaker 3: Oh really, of course, very happy to be here. How
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  Speaker 3: could I not have you?
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  Speaker 2: Good point?
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  Speaker 3: You just told me as we were walking in. Yes,
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  Speaker 3: I mean you were devastatingly late. Let's just get that
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  Speaker 3: out of the way.
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  Speaker 4: It wouldn't make the pot yet. I did say I
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  Speaker 4: was going to be ten minutes late, and then I
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  Speaker 4: was even later than that.
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  Speaker 3: You show up on a Lisa and I are in
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  Speaker 3: a fight over how late you are. It was a big,
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  Speaker 3: big problem for us. I'm sweating on a Lisa's sweating
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  Speaker 3: or ready to cancel the recording. And then you tell
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  Speaker 3: me you're coming from Montana.
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  Speaker 4: I am coming from Montana. I meant to come here.
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  Speaker 4: It's a long story. And as I also said, I'm
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  Speaker 4: a boring guest.
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  Speaker 3: So we're gonna circle back to you being boring. Let
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  Speaker 3: me know, we'll keep touching in with how boring you
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  Speaker 3: are throughout the show. Okay, I'll give you a rating
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  Speaker 3: every ten minutes.
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  Speaker 2: Who could say boring? I could say boring, You could
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  Speaker 2: say boring. At least you could also.
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  Speaker 3: Say a Lisa's a nice new troll on Alas has
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  Speaker 3: no steaks here.
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  Speaker 4: I my family's in Montana and I tried to get
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  Speaker 4: back to Los Angeles yesterday. Oh huh, And I fly
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  Speaker 4: on passes. My mom was a flight attendant for many years.
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  Speaker 4: Oh incredible, So I always can fly.
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  Speaker 2: It cost me.
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  Speaker 4: It's very cheap to fly, but I'm always the last
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  Speaker 4: person on the flight, right right, you know how stand
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  Speaker 4: by works.
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  Speaker 2: Anyway, I got my mother up.
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  Speaker 4: All the flights were booked yesterday, but the one that's
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  Speaker 4: left at five thirty am was not.
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  Speaker 2: So I put.
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  Speaker 4: Myself on that flight and I overslept, and my ninety
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  Speaker 4: ninety eighty four year old mother got me up all
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  Speaker 4: and drove me to the airport. And when I got
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  Speaker 4: to I have a feeling. I have a when I
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  Speaker 4: go to the airport, I want to be as late
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  Speaker 4: as possible.
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  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, like I don't want.
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  Speaker 4: I know the different airports like JFK you have to
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  Speaker 4: be forty five minutes early. Billings, Montana, you have to
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  Speaker 4: be a half an hour early unless you want to
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  Speaker 4: check bags, and then it's forty five minutes early.
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  Speaker 2: Right, So I try to get there at forty six
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  Speaker 2: minutes early thirty one minutes early.
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  Speaker 3: You know, right, you don't want to spend in any
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  Speaker 3: extra time now.
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  Speaker 4: So I got to the airport in Billings, Montana thirty
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  Speaker 4: three minutes early.
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  Speaker 5: Oh so I was on time, sure, sure, but but
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  Speaker 5: I found it.
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  Speaker 2: Very difficult to check in on the machine. I usually
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  Speaker 2: run in the machines like a maniac.
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  Speaker 4: And so by the time I got to an agent
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  Speaker 4: I was it was maybe twenty eight minutes early. Oh no,
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  Speaker 4: not even early, twenty eight minutes before the.
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  Speaker 3: Flight, right right, that's cutting it close.
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  Speaker 4: I thought, well, they told me it was late, and
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  Speaker 4: I said, well, I don't have any bags, and I could.
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  Speaker 2: The Billing's airport is just a little.
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  Speaker 4: Tiny slip of an airport, right, it's got it's to
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  Speaker 4: get from the airport to the outside of the airport.
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  Speaker 2: To your gate maybe takes five minutes.
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  Speaker 3: This is very Burbank.
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  Speaker 2: Oh Burbank, Oh Burbank. I mean, what a dream Burbank is?
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  Speaker 3: Oh, Earth, heaven on Earth it is.
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  Speaker 2: I can't believe that Burbank exists.
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  Speaker 3: I know, it's bizarre. It feels like some glitch in reality.
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  Speaker 3: It really still an airport.
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  Speaker 2: That's that's there's some pitch in there somewhere. I don't
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  Speaker 2: know what it is.
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  Speaker 3: It's a time.
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  Speaker 2: It's InCred of all Burbank, Burbank. Yeah, it's incredible.
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  Speaker 4: And I was flying into Burbank actually, so I was
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  Speaker 4: going from magical airport to magical airport. But the people
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  Speaker 4: at Billings Airport, they are extremely serious people, Like they
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  Speaker 4: have the most intense security I've ever seen on any interesting,
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  Speaker 4: anywhere airplane. I used to fly around with a little
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  Speaker 4: pocket knife in my bag, and nobody would ever say
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  Speaker 4: anything to me about it. Like go through JFK, you know,
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  Speaker 4: go to like, you know, fly to a different country,
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  Speaker 4: No one whatever, say what is this pocket knife? Billy's Montana, Billy.
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  Speaker 4: No one would ever do anything there.
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  Speaker 2: It is, It's nothing.
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  Speaker 4: They always they took my pocket knife twice, and so
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  Speaker 4: finally I just said, I'm not going to have a
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  Speaker 4: pocket knife anymore. How is it girls supposed to defend
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  Speaker 4: herself without her pocket knife?
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  Speaker 3: Wittle down on a piece of wood, all of these sort
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  Speaker 3: of things.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, why this, this lady's this. This lady said.
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  Speaker 4: You're too late, And I said, well, I said, I said,
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  Speaker 4: oh come on, I could just be there right now.
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  Speaker 4: I'm uh And I said please radio and then ask them,
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  Speaker 4: and she did that thing where you do when I
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  Speaker 4: have done, when I have worked at a job, They're like,
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  Speaker 4: it's too late to have another person on the front.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, yes she.
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  Speaker 2: Did that, and they were like, yeah, it's too late.
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  Speaker 2: Was like, it can't be. And I stood there because
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  Speaker 2: I just I was incredulous.
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  Speaker 3: I just stood there.
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  Speaker 4: But I knew that I had no power and like
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  Speaker 4: I couldn't. I was flying on a non red pass.
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  Speaker 2: Didn't I couldn't make a.
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  Speaker 3: Fuss, right, technically A customer a customer.
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  Speaker 4: So I just stood there for like what felt like
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  Speaker 4: thirty seconds but probably was ten seconds, and then I
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  Speaker 4: just said, okay.
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  Speaker 2: All that, and then I went Oh, I went home.
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  Speaker 4: I went home, and then the next morning I came
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  Speaker 4: this morning, Yeah, I came, same lady.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, no, same lady. Has you changed her attitude?
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  Speaker 2: No, she did it.
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  Speaker 4: I smiled at her, but I made sure that I
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  Speaker 4: checked it before so we didn't have to have we
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  Speaker 4: didn't have to speak to each other.
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  Speaker 2: But I did smile at her, and she did not
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  Speaker 2: smile it. She looked scared of me.
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  Speaker 3: I will tell you the truth. Well, she knew that
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  Speaker 3: you had something on her. At this point that you
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  Speaker 3: could and may have a pocket knife to take your revenge.
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  Speaker 3: So the initial one was your mom just idling outside
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  Speaker 3: the airport.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, she knew.
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  Speaker 4: God, I had a feeling that this was going to
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  Speaker 4: be a bad situation, so I said, just wait for
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  Speaker 4: my mom. And we live right by the airport and Billings,
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  Speaker 4: so it's very short. So the flight left at six
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  Speaker 4: forty and we were both back in bed by six
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  Speaker 4: twenty two.
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  Speaker 3: Oh so you were able to get some more sleep. Yes,
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  Speaker 3: that's all that I care about.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, no, me too. That's really How much sleep do
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  Speaker 2: you get a night?
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  Speaker 3: I get roughly eight to nine hours?
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  Speaker 2: Yes, meat, do you two? I mean, how lazy and
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  Speaker 2: lucky are we?
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  Speaker 3: Very fortunate?
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  Speaker 2: But we live so close to Burbank. We get eight
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  Speaker 2: to nine hours of sleep every day.
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  Speaker 3: Oh my god, what more could we ask?
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  Speaker 2: Truly?
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  Speaker 3: True? Truly, that's true. I have to I need to
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  Speaker 3: start my gratitude chart or whatever they have. Those will
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  Speaker 3: be the first two things. But I'll tell you what
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  Speaker 3: if it's If it's less than eight hours, I am
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  Speaker 3: hell on earth. I am a nightmare, horrible person. I
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  Speaker 3: can't my body cannot handle less than eight hours of sleep.
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  Speaker 2: So what do you do when you have like a
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  Speaker 2: five hour a die?
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  Speaker 3: I'm nauseous, I'm mad, Oh so nauseous.
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  Speaker 2: Does coffee help?
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  Speaker 3: I mean, of course it helps a little Yeah, it
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  Speaker 3: helps a little bit, but like only for a minute,
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  Speaker 3: and then I'm back into a bad mood and I'm
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  Speaker 3: of course like making drama out of it and blaming everybody.
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  Speaker 3: Everyone's my enemy. So what about you? Are you okay?
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  Speaker 4: No, I'm lovely, of course you No, I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know.
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  Speaker 4: I think I am lovely because I just have to be.
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  Speaker 4: I'm just like, I'm having enough guts to be a jerk, like.
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  Speaker 3: Either do I. But that's that's how bad it is
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  Speaker 3: for me. I mean just chemically, I'm an absolute mess
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  Speaker 3: without eight hours of sleep.
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  Speaker 4: Do you when you have to get up at like
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  Speaker 4: five in the morning, I don't know, like like I
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  Speaker 4: did this morning?
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  Speaker 2: Did do you? Can you go to sleep at a
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  Speaker 2: normal time? I mean, so you can get.
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  Speaker 3: No, Yeah, it's like I'm still going to bed at midnight,
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  Speaker 3: you know, yes.
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  Speaker 4: And knowing that you have to get up makes me
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  Speaker 4: not have to want to go to sleep because I'm
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  Speaker 4: just like I just have.
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  Speaker 3: To get up anyway of course.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, as well stay up the rest of my life getting.
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  Speaker 3: Up, I'll be you awake for two straight weeks and
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  Speaker 3: die and that'll be the end of it for me. Wow.
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  Speaker 3: So you were but you were on a flight this
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  Speaker 3: morning and you were at the Billings airport at what
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  Speaker 3: five am?
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  Speaker 2: No, that would have been too late.
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  Speaker 4: Oh sorry, said I said six to forty, but I
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  Speaker 4: meant five thirty. Yeah, okay, right, sorry, Yeah, I guess
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  Speaker 4: I'm not quite there. And so that I had to
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  Speaker 4: come back and I had to walk my dog, my
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  Speaker 4: dog that the person takes care of my dog loves
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  Speaker 4: my dog too much and just lets her do whatever
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  Speaker 4: she wants.
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  Speaker 2: So then she's always just like a.
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  Speaker 3: Oh a menace.
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  Speaker 2: She's a menace.
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  Speaker 3: She's like stopped obeying the rules from exactly.
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  Speaker 2: It's what they dog traders call it, titled.
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  Speaker 3: Oh it's very entitled. Yes, a temporary entitle. Yes, you'll
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  Speaker 3: have to wean her off. Yeah. Basically what kind of
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  Speaker 3: dog is she?
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  Speaker 2: She's a dog.
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  Speaker 4: Small, large, she's too large for me, but I love her.
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  Speaker 4: She's not the dog I would have picked out, but
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  Speaker 4: I that's the dog I got. I love her so much.
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  Speaker 2: The case fifty pounds.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, I love that.
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  Speaker 2: Let's have my size.
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  Speaker 3: That's I'm trying to compete here, that's my same weight.
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  Speaker 3: I'm trying to lose a few get down to forty.
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  Speaker 3: Everyone pray for my weight loss journey. I mean, I
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  Speaker 3: still have time to get into a swimsuit by the
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  Speaker 3: end of the summer at forty pounds.
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  Speaker 2: I laugh a lot. I love to laugh. You have
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  Speaker 2: to know that.
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  Speaker 3: Please apologize for laughing.
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  Speaker 2: I really love to laugh.
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  Speaker 3: Let me ask you about this pocket knife. I wanted
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  Speaker 3: to circle back. Sure, what were you doing with the
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  Speaker 3: pocket knife? What do you mean, like, what situations where
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  Speaker 3: you're finding yourself in where you're like ook time to
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  Speaker 3: pull out the pocket knife and use it.
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  Speaker 2: You'd be surprised, of course. Uh, I don't remember.
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  Speaker 4: But it's just nice to have one because like you
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  Speaker 4: can use the tip of it to like, you know,
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  Speaker 4: like right now, I could carve my name into.
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  Speaker 2: This the table.
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  Speaker 3: You were using it for vandalism. Your life is a vandal.
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  Speaker 2: They took it away from.
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  Speaker 3: You were carving your name into an airport seat. No,
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  Speaker 3: that's that's an actually extremely valid reason to have a
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  Speaker 3: pocket knife.
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  Speaker 2: Works you find once you have one You're like, how
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  Speaker 2: did I ever live without this?
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  Speaker 3: Was it like a Swiss army knife did have a
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  Speaker 3: bunch of it was just.
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  Speaker 4: Like it was a little I mean truly, if I
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  Speaker 4: had gone crazy on a plane and tried to hurt people,
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  Speaker 4: I don't know where gonna hurt it was it never could.
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  Speaker 2: Like even if they just laid there let me stab.
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  Speaker 4: Them, it would could never have killed anybody.
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  Speaker 2: It was very small. It was like, you know, an
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  Speaker 2: inch and a half blade?
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  Speaker 3: Which blade?
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  Speaker 4: But I'm like someone that like my dad is a
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  Speaker 4: big is a big you know, he's a Montana guy,
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  Speaker 4: and like he and so a lot of for a
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  Speaker 4: lot of my major birthdays or not even major birthdays,
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  Speaker 4: he would give me a gun.
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  Speaker 3: Wow, what sort of guns? Well?
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  Speaker 4: I had a twenty two and then I had a
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  Speaker 4: thirty eight special wow for when I got a car.
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  Speaker 2: And then so to keep myself to keep carjackers away.
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  Speaker 3: How many carjackers did you keep away? Never?
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  Speaker 2: Never, not a single one?
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  Speaker 3: Killed fifty carjackers.
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  Speaker 4: And then when I when I when I got into
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  Speaker 4: college in New York City, he gave me a derringer
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  Speaker 4: pistol to keep it my purse.
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  Speaker 2: What a little one shot Darringer.
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  Speaker 3: That is incredible.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, none of these guns made it anywhere. Like they didn't.
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  Speaker 2: I didn't.
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  Speaker 3: You didn't. It didn't get to New York. No.
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  Speaker 4: I mean I think that the I think I'm not
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  Speaker 4: sure about this, but I think that one of the reasons,
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  Speaker 4: besides it'd been crazy that I would definitely like shoot
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  Speaker 4: myself in the foot.
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  Speaker 3: We're on the same page here, is.
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  Speaker 4: That I think if you don't have a registered your
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  Speaker 4: gun is a registered York which is hard to get.
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  Speaker 2: It's like a year in prison minimum. Like, I would
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  Speaker 2: just end up in prison.
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  Speaker 3: There's nothing in the world I want more than for
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  Speaker 3: you to end up in prison because someone found you
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  Speaker 3: with a gun in New York.
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  Speaker 2: Don't put that out there.
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  Speaker 3: Incredible thing for you.
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  Speaker 2: What a career movie.
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  Speaker 3: A one shot so it just has one bullet in it.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, you got to be like, somebody's got to be
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  Speaker 2: very close. It's for rape. Oh, I mean, not to rape.
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  Speaker 4: Someone to if someone's got to be close enough that
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  Speaker 4: I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: I'm sorry that I brought up rapes And that's such
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  Speaker 2: a beautiful morning. I won't I do that again. Guns, guns, knives,
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  Speaker 2: This is incredible.
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  Speaker 3: It's called the darringer, darringer.
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  Speaker 4: You never heard that daringer like the like you know,
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  Speaker 4: Ma Moyle?
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  Speaker 2: You know what I'm talking about? Do you know what
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  Speaker 2: I'm saying right now?
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  Speaker 3: I actually am not the way I'm tracking. This is
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  Speaker 3: not a.
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  Speaker 4: Gun related because it's like a A is a foreskin? Yes, no,
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  Speaker 4: that's not that's not Oh and I brought up foreskin?
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  Speaker 3: What keep going re association a mole a spy? Is
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  Speaker 3: that what we're getting?
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  Speaker 2: Gangsters? Oil?
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  Speaker 3: Oh? A gangster's foreskin. Every gangster's foreskin carries a denger.
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  Speaker 3: I'm so sorry. Okay, is showing us a Derringer, which
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  Speaker 3: is an incredible gun? Is that this isn't? No?
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  Speaker 2: I just meant like, no, that's that's mine.
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  Speaker 4: Was pink.
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  Speaker 2: This is incredible.
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  Speaker 3: You have to carry it. Just don't have a bullet
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  Speaker 3: in it. Please, it got still, it got stock car.
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  Speaker 3: Oh No, so that has been used for murder. Someone's
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  Speaker 3: been killed with your pink derringer. How do you feel?
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  Speaker 2: I don't know. People's people mostly stabbed. I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know. Uh, you know, that's their business.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, how you want to murder someone as your business?
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  Speaker 3: I'm not going to be nosey and poke around. How
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  Speaker 3: you're killing people, I don't know.
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  Speaker 4: There's the down from my dad's house. There used to
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  Speaker 4: be a meth like a few houses down used to
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  Speaker 4: be a meth lab.
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  Speaker 3: I guess, I'm sure.
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  Speaker 4: And we once left the door unlocked, and I guess
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  Speaker 4: some people came in, but they didn't steal very much.
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  Speaker 2: They just stole. They everyone at that point.
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  Speaker 4: A lot of there was my we I had some
• 16:44
  Speaker 4: uncles and aunts staying there too, so there was a
• 16:46
  Speaker 4: lot of people that were in the that had their
• 16:48
  Speaker 4: stuff in the house.
• 16:49
  Speaker 2: And this story is crazy.
• 16:51
  Speaker 4: But anyway, when we came back, people had like someone
• 16:54
  Speaker 4: had like lost their curling iron lost there. So these
• 16:58
  Speaker 4: people just came in and just like just a few
• 17:01
  Speaker 4: things that they needed, like you would go to a
• 17:02
  Speaker 4: target or something. They didn't but they didn't steal like
• 17:05
  Speaker 4: the things that.
• 17:07
  Speaker 3: Like the weapons and the money.
• 17:08
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and the money. The weapons of the money, we
• 17:11
  Speaker 2: have a lot of those.
• 17:15
  Speaker 3: They got into the vault. Where are you from, Utah?
• 17:19
  Speaker 3: Tracking I mean, I've been to Montana, I've been to Wyoming,
• 17:23
  Speaker 3: all of these states, Idaho, so I'm familiar with this
• 17:27
  Speaker 3: sort of culture on some level.
• 17:29
  Speaker 4: I was in Utah this morning. You had to stop
• 17:31
  Speaker 4: their sal Salt Lake City is Salt Lake City. The
• 17:33
  Speaker 4: airport is is besides Burbank. That's a really wonderful airport,
• 17:38
  Speaker 4: don't you think the new one? Yeah, the new one?
• 17:39
  Speaker 3: What because this airport actually has gone a lot of
• 17:43
  Speaker 3: mixed reviews.
• 17:43
  Speaker 2: Oh really interesting.
• 17:45
  Speaker 4: Well the food is fantastic, a lot of food and
• 17:48
  Speaker 4: it's very reasonably priced.
• 17:50
  Speaker 3: What what did you eat? Well?
• 17:53
  Speaker 2: Nothing today?
• 17:54
  Speaker 4: But uh, usually they have some place that they just
• 17:59
  Speaker 4: it's one of those you know that sore lemonade that
• 18:02
  Speaker 4: restaurant lead It used to be at Lax.
• 18:04
  Speaker 2: It's like lemonade, but it's in Utah.
• 18:06
  Speaker 3: Oh okay.
• 18:07
  Speaker 2: But they you know, they have uh I don't know.
• 18:11
  Speaker 4: They had a BF Chang's.
• 18:14
  Speaker 3: Is that a BF Changs?
• 18:15
  Speaker 1: Oh?
• 18:16
  Speaker 2: Well, they had a BF Chang.
• 18:19
  Speaker 3: That's the knockoff. I believe that would be in the
• 18:28
  Speaker 3: solid airport BF check mister Cheng's son Brandon. But they
• 18:41
  Speaker 3: do have they've like I mean, it is compared to
• 18:43
  Speaker 3: the old solid airport such a it feels so metropolitan
• 18:47
  Speaker 3: and I mean.
• 18:48
  Speaker 4: But it doesn't it doesn't have those smoking vegetable bules.
• 18:51
  Speaker 2: It does remember those.
• 18:52
  Speaker 3: Oh yeah, of course those were those little like terrariums
• 18:55
  Speaker 3: that you got to smoke in.
• 18:56
  Speaker 2: I loved it.
• 18:57
  Speaker 3: It's such a bizarre We're putting.
• 19:00
  Speaker 2: Our foot down and you can smoke. You have to
• 19:03
  Speaker 2: go outside.
• 19:04
  Speaker 3: The weirdest possible. What airline are you flying into Salt Lake?
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: Now?
• 19:09
  Speaker 3: This is, I think is what Delta? Okay, see that
• 19:11
  Speaker 3: makes sense people if you fly Delta, because I was
• 19:14
  Speaker 3: flying southwest into salt Lake, southwest into salt Lake for
• 19:17
  Speaker 3: a period and there you had to essentially walk four
• 19:19
  Speaker 3: miles to get to the parking after that, and I
• 19:22
  Speaker 3: think people are freaking out about that.
• 19:23
  Speaker 2: Oh I don't, I don't. I never leave the airport.
• 19:25
  Speaker 3: Yeah, you're just popping in, popping out. So I think
• 19:28
  Speaker 3: the walking is what was really getting out people.
• 19:30
  Speaker 2: It is just it is just a straight line.
• 19:32
  Speaker 3: Yeah right.
• 19:32
  Speaker 4: It doesn't seem like it used to be like terminal
• 19:34
  Speaker 4: like a line within terminals out.
• 19:36
  Speaker 3: I don't know, no, this now it just feels like
• 19:38
  Speaker 3: it's almost just like extremely long.
• 19:41
  Speaker 2: It's probably good.
• 19:42
  Speaker 4: For people that have shops there because they're like, everyone
• 19:44
  Speaker 4: who goes to the airport goes past my.
• 19:46
  Speaker 3: Shop A lot of yeah, a lot. When you're working retail,
• 19:52
  Speaker 3: you've got to have those eyes. You've got to have
• 19:54
  Speaker 3: people looking in. There are a lot of retail stores
• 19:56
  Speaker 3: there that are like no one absolutely known as buying
• 19:59
  Speaker 3: a bag. This is salt Lake City on it, you know,
• 20:02
  Speaker 3: like a beautiful person. It's just that sort of thing.
• 20:05
  Speaker 3: It just feels like it's an illusion at a hologram.
• 20:08
  Speaker 3: No one's going in those stores. Yes, yeah, but salt
• 20:12
  Speaker 3: Lake you flew in for just a moment, a moment.
• 20:16
  Speaker 2: Yes, that's what I Yes.
• 20:17
  Speaker 4: Salt Lake City is also my like nightmare airport in
• 20:20
  Speaker 4: some ways because I always get stuck there. Oh like
• 20:24
  Speaker 4: during the pandemic, I got stuck there.
• 20:25
  Speaker 3: For how long?
• 20:26
  Speaker 2: For like five days? Ah, and I it was it
• 20:31
  Speaker 2: was I.
• 20:32
  Speaker 4: Was going to Montana and this is I was going
• 20:36
  Speaker 4: back home to Montana. But I was working during the
• 20:38
  Speaker 4: day on Zoom, so I couldn't fly during the day.
• 20:40
  Speaker 2: I only cold flight night.
• 20:41
  Speaker 4: So I flew into cet Lake City, got stuck there.
• 20:44
  Speaker 4: They canceled the flight and so I got stuck there.
• 20:46
  Speaker 4: Would never have flown if I didn't know that there
• 20:48
  Speaker 4: was seats on this light. Stuck there, and then I
• 20:50
  Speaker 4: had to get a hotel room and I did have
• 20:53
  Speaker 4: a car. Salt Lake City did not have it together
• 20:55
  Speaker 4: at that point, and they probably do now, I'm sure.
• 20:59
  Speaker 2: But called postmates and it would take like an hour
• 21:02
  Speaker 2: and a half. Oh, truly, it was crazy. And I
• 21:05
  Speaker 2: was in one of those airport. It was it was
• 21:08
  Speaker 2: a very it was dark time.
• 21:10
  Speaker 3: Oh. I mean for the world, what hotel you're staying at?
• 21:14
  Speaker 3: Just some airport?
• 21:15
  Speaker 2: Hotel port hotel?
• 21:16
  Speaker 3: Oh? Five days of that is prison.
• 21:19
  Speaker 2: It was prison.
• 21:20
  Speaker 3: Wow?
• 21:20
  Speaker 2: But whatever, you know, I got eight hours of sleep,
• 21:22
  Speaker 2: So what could you know? And Burbank still existed, so you.
• 21:26
  Speaker 3: Knew everything continued to exist, you know. Yeah, and you've
• 21:29
  Speaker 3: got a story out of it for a podcast? What
• 21:31
  Speaker 3: more could you ask for?
• 21:32
  Speaker 2: Story? But sure I could. I should these a little work,
• 21:37
  Speaker 2: but workshop. Yeah.
• 21:43
  Speaker 3: Do you think that the Billings Airport security is so
• 21:45
  Speaker 3: strong because of the unibomber? Do you think that because
• 21:48
  Speaker 3: isn't that where he was living?
• 21:49
  Speaker 4: Yes, he was living. He uh, he's from Montana. Ted
• 21:53
  Speaker 4: Kazinski should say his name, he doesn't, but he uh.
• 21:56
  Speaker 3: Maybe maybe they're like, we don't want another ten.
• 22:00
  Speaker 2: People are probably mixed on if they like him or not.
• 22:03
  Speaker 3: There Oh, that's true, because he did have there was
• 22:05
  Speaker 3: some of that manifesto was kind of like, if you
• 22:09
  Speaker 3: lean far right enough or whatever into enough conspiracies, you
• 22:12
  Speaker 3: can get on board with Ted.
• 22:13
  Speaker 4: It's crazy that the New York isn't in the New
• 22:16
  Speaker 4: York Times published manifesto.
• 22:18
  Speaker 5: That's insane, But we're all better for it.
• 22:24
  Speaker 3: We all learned some importance.
• 22:26
  Speaker 2: It's really screwed up.
• 22:30
  Speaker 3: He got published.
• 22:31
  Speaker 2: He got published on the front page of the Time.
• 22:34
  Speaker 3: I don't I can't speak to you, but I have
• 22:35
  Speaker 3: never been published in the Times either. Maybe we need
• 22:39
  Speaker 3: to move to Montana getting some more interesting ideas. He died.
• 22:47
  Speaker 3: I think he died recently, all.
• 22:49
  Speaker 2: Right, But but in prison, Yes, yes.
• 22:54
  Speaker 3: Caught him, They trapped him.
• 22:55
  Speaker 4: Yes, his brother I think turned him and noticed that
• 22:58
  Speaker 4: his language sounded like, oh, that sounds like my my brother.
• 23:01
  Speaker 3: Can you imagine reading that and being like, hmm, this guy.
• 23:05
  Speaker 3: I've gotten letters like this before. Wow, what a betrayal
• 23:12
  Speaker 3: it is?
• 23:12
  Speaker 4: It is there There are also you. You run into
• 23:14
  Speaker 4: a lot of Ted Kazinski's in Montana. You know, they're
• 23:17
  Speaker 4: they're rapid, there's isolation. They're not like probably Harvard I
• 23:20
  Speaker 4: think he was like Harvard educated, am I education or something?
• 23:23
  Speaker 3: Right? He was like highly intelligent, right, but just yeah,
• 23:27
  Speaker 3: an we.
• 23:27
  Speaker 2: Say that though they always say like like that.
• 23:29
  Speaker 4: Guy from Ida home a Moscow, Idaho.
• 23:34
  Speaker 2: You know, the guy who killed the ladies and the
• 23:37
  Speaker 2: man in the in the college.
• 23:39
  Speaker 3: Oh, that's pretty recent. Yeah, he was supposed to be.
• 23:42
  Speaker 2: Like he's so smart. Fun seem that smart.
• 23:44
  Speaker 3: I mean he's like he was like, what was his plan?
• 23:48
  Speaker 2: Yeah he didn't not that.
• 23:49
  Speaker 3: It's just a smart nerd. That was mad.
• 23:52
  Speaker 2: I don't who know, who knows.
• 23:54
  Speaker 3: And then he got caught. He drove to Pennsylvania or something, right,
• 23:57
  Speaker 3: he got.
• 23:57
  Speaker 2: Caught for doing like everything. I mean, it's hard to
• 24:00
  Speaker 2: murder people nowadays.
• 24:02
  Speaker 3: You can't murder anyone anymore.
• 24:04
  Speaker 2: No, you can't.
• 24:09
  Speaker 3: Well, I think I think we do need to talk
• 24:12
  Speaker 3: about something else. Okay, there's something I do need to
• 24:16
  Speaker 3: speak to you about. Unfortunately, I was looking forward to
• 24:20
  Speaker 3: having you here on the podcast today, despite you telling
• 24:22
  Speaker 3: me over and over I'm boring, I'm boring, I'm boring.
• 24:26
  Speaker 3: So far I'm giving you like a fifty out of ten.
• 24:28
  Speaker 3: I mean all sorts of you.
• 24:30
  Speaker 2: We see, that's no past.
• 24:31
  Speaker 3: No, that's a D fifty out of ten. Now you
• 24:36
  Speaker 3: get an f. No, you were five hundred percent. You're
• 24:43
  Speaker 3: you're killing it. I mean, we're finding out about the
• 24:45
  Speaker 3: pocket knife, trying to sneaking pocket knives onto planes, guns,
• 24:49
  Speaker 3: I mean, life of crime, methadics, stealing, curling irons. All
• 24:55
  Speaker 3: of our other guests are failures at this point. But
• 25:00
  Speaker 3: you know, I was looking forward to having your here today.
• 25:02
  Speaker 3: I was really excited to talk to you.
• 25:04
  Speaker 2: I was excited to talk to you too.
• 25:05
  Speaker 3: So I was a little surprised, because, of course the
• 25:07
  Speaker 3: podcast is called I said no gifts. I was a
• 25:10
  Speaker 3: little thrown when you came kind of skipping into my
• 25:15
  Speaker 3: backyard holding what could not be more clearly a gift,
• 25:21
  Speaker 3: beautifully wrapped.
• 25:22
  Speaker 2: Is beautifully wrapped.
• 25:23
  Speaker 4: I'm going to need that garbage that garbage bag back. Actually,
• 25:26
  Speaker 4: I don't like wasting a garbage bag.
• 25:28
  Speaker 3: I'm giving. I'm making sure you take that home with you. Well,
• 25:34
  Speaker 3: shall I open this gift here on the podcast? You okay? So,
• 25:37
  Speaker 3: as you mentioned, it is just it's gorgeously wrapped in
• 25:41
  Speaker 3: a garbage bag, beautiful, obviously new garbage bag. I'm going
• 25:46
  Speaker 3: to reach it.
• 25:46
  Speaker 2: It smell the garbage book bag smells good, doesn't it.
• 25:49
  Speaker 3: No, it's lightly scented, lightly scented. It's not like a
• 25:53
  Speaker 3: gross scent where it's not fruit or something. It's just
• 25:56
  Speaker 3: kind of lightly perfumed. Is that on purpose?
• 25:59
  Speaker 2: I asked the garbage bag company get in touch.
• 26:02
  Speaker 3: Okay, I'm pulling this out, pulling Oh now there's another bag.
• 26:07
  Speaker 3: Oh I love this bag too. It's a blue bag
• 26:09
  Speaker 3: that says youth dynamic.
• 26:10
  Speaker 2: You can keep that bag.
• 26:12
  Speaker 3: I'm through it. Where did this come from?
• 26:13
  Speaker 2: I don't know.
• 26:14
  Speaker 3: Incredible youth dynamics.
• 26:16
  Speaker 2: This is my new bags, cobwebs on it. Thank you
• 26:20
  Speaker 2: for not mentioning that.
• 26:23
  Speaker 3: Okay, whoa, Oh my god? What weight? I mean? I'm
• 26:28
  Speaker 3: beyond baffled at what I'm looking at. Okay, so it's
• 26:31
  Speaker 3: like to describe what I'm looking at. It's a wood.
• 26:34
  Speaker 3: It's a piece of wood with a spider currently crawling
• 26:37
  Speaker 3: on it. Now, let's just take a look at that spider.
• 26:39
  Speaker 3: I'm gonna try to get it.
• 26:40
  Speaker 2: Does it does?
• 26:45
  Speaker 3: So, there is a spider. I don't even know what
• 26:46
  Speaker 3: to do with it. Should I release it to the garden.
• 26:48
  Speaker 3: I'll blow it away so it doesn't die. It'll find
• 26:52
  Speaker 3: its way somewhere. Welcome to the backyard. Okay. So it's
• 26:57
  Speaker 3: a piece of wood with a piece of styrofoam tape
• 26:59
  Speaker 3: to it, and then it it seems to be some
• 27:02
  Speaker 3: sort of state fair project. Yes, okay, and then okay,
• 27:07
  Speaker 3: this is okay, So this piece has fallen off. This
• 27:09
  Speaker 3: is Maria thay or Billings, Montana, out of state. Oh
• 27:13
  Speaker 3: and there's also a it appears there's this is your
• 27:17
  Speaker 3: boarding past?
• 27:18
  Speaker 2: Yes?
• 27:20
  Speaker 3: Is that today's boarding past?
• 27:21
  Speaker 2: So that's from another fight, but you can have that.
• 27:23
  Speaker 3: Where were you headed this time? I've still saw like
• 27:25
  Speaker 3: the city somewhere. Okay, So we'll keep this. I'll try
• 27:27
  Speaker 3: to kind of farm some information from this and take
• 27:31
  Speaker 3: advantage of your life. Okay. So again it says Maria
• 27:36
  Speaker 3: fay Billings, Montana, out of state, class twenty one, out
• 27:40
  Speaker 3: of state resident. Okay, so you flew in from LA
• 27:43
  Speaker 3: to try to win a prize at the state fair?
• 27:45
  Speaker 3: Is that what I'm seeing?
• 27:46
  Speaker 4: So yes, I there, this is the At the Minnesota
• 27:48
  Speaker 4: State Fair. There is something called crop art, and I
• 27:52
  Speaker 4: frequently compete.
• 27:54
  Speaker 2: And this is my last year's entry.
• 27:58
  Speaker 3: Okay. Now tell me about this piece of art, because
• 28:01
  Speaker 3: there's this another thing.
• 28:02
  Speaker 4: Do you think that that this is the this is
• 28:04
  Speaker 4: the art? Do you think this is the art. Yes, No,
• 28:07
  Speaker 4: you have to open this more.
• 28:08
  Speaker 5: Oh oh my god, Oh my god, I'm going to
• 28:12
  Speaker 5: take a picture of what I thought was.
• 28:13
  Speaker 2: The art than me thinking.
• 28:15
  Speaker 3: I assume this is how oh my god, it felt
• 28:20
  Speaker 3: very outsider art. We'll just say that it felt to
• 28:24
  Speaker 3: say there.
• 28:25
  Speaker 2: Is this Alma guard.
• 28:29
  Speaker 4: I thought, first of all, you're so generous, like this
• 28:32
  Speaker 4: is hideous.
• 28:34
  Speaker 2: And if you you.
• 28:37
  Speaker 4: That, you were immediately like get out of my backyard.
• 28:41
  Speaker 2: Just shows that you are a wonderful person.
• 28:43
  Speaker 3: Like really truly, I was trying to make sense of.
• 28:46
  Speaker 2: This human being in a wonderful host.
• 28:50
  Speaker 5: No, that's not that art folk artist, you know. Okay,
• 28:54
  Speaker 5: So I need to open this, Yes you do? Okay,
• 28:57
  Speaker 5: So I mean right now, it's like a piece of
• 28:58
  Speaker 5: syrophone with a piece of I'm going to tell you.
• 29:00
  Speaker 2: Can I tell you this before before?
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: Are you o? Bit?
• 29:04
  Speaker 4: So I try to do this every year. I don't
• 29:05
  Speaker 4: do it every year because I love the Minnesota State Fair.
• 29:08
  Speaker 4: I used to live in Minnesota.
• 29:09
  Speaker 3: Okay, oh okay, And now let me just clarify because
• 29:11
  Speaker 3: I kept thinking you're saying Minnesota. You're from Billings, Montana.
• 29:16
  Speaker 3: Clarify this.
• 29:18
  Speaker 2: So it's very hard for me to like, do any
• 29:20
  Speaker 2: you know, finish a project. My best friend.
• 29:24
  Speaker 4: Is loves the subject of this, of this thing, and
• 29:29
  Speaker 4: so I was like, I'm going to make you a
• 29:32
  Speaker 4: thing of your of.
• 29:34
  Speaker 2: Your fair person.
• 29:35
  Speaker 3: Oh sure, sure.
• 29:36
  Speaker 2: So I send her.
• 29:36
  Speaker 4: Pictures and she was always like, you know, and I
• 29:39
  Speaker 4: could tell you she just wasn't like into it right
• 29:43
  Speaker 4: and it's not really her style.
• 29:44
  Speaker 3: You know.
• 29:45
  Speaker 2: Her house is like animal print and like and this
• 29:47
  Speaker 2: is like, this is the thing. So when I was
• 29:51
  Speaker 2: thinking about this podcast, I was like, what, what what
• 29:53
  Speaker 2: can I.
• 29:53
  Speaker 4: Bring that will be So I was like, maybe i'll
• 29:56
  Speaker 4: you know, she hasn't she has it's but a year
• 29:58
  Speaker 4: and she hasn't mentioned it.
• 30:00
  Speaker 2: So I texted her yesterday I said, Hey, I'm gonna
• 30:03
  Speaker 2: can I bring this this podcast? Never heard from her?
• 30:08
  Speaker 3: What is that even supposed to me?
• 30:09
  Speaker 4: I think it just means that she doesn't want it,
• 30:11
  Speaker 4: and she doesn't want to say I don't want it.
• 30:13
  Speaker 3: Well, this person needs to start speaking up for herself anyway.
• 30:17
  Speaker 2: Anyway, open it.
• 30:18
  Speaker 3: Okay, we're gonna open it up. Okay, and let's say
• 30:23
  Speaker 3: you did win fourth prize.
• 30:26
  Speaker 2: I did it in my category.
• 30:28
  Speaker 3: Okay, I'm peeling the tape off here, and does this
• 30:32
  Speaker 3: other thing taped to it have anything to do or
• 30:34
  Speaker 3: is it just the medium? This was?
• 30:36
  Speaker 4: In order to compete, you had to tell what seed
• 30:39
  Speaker 4: you used.
• 30:40
  Speaker 3: Oh, okay, that's incredible. So you're using all kinds of
• 30:43
  Speaker 3: celery seed, flax seed, something called al car.
• 30:46
  Speaker 2: Yes, that's a yes.
• 30:48
  Speaker 4: I had to go to a seed like emporium Wow
• 30:50
  Speaker 4: in Montana to get that.
• 30:52
  Speaker 3: Roughly like nine different things.
• 30:54
  Speaker 4: You don't use, you used, you can use illegal seeds,
• 30:57
  Speaker 4: and then you get docked.
• 30:59
  Speaker 3: Oh have done interesting? You're allowed to but acknowledge technology.
• 31:04
  Speaker 2: Cheatah.
• 31:04
  Speaker 3: Yes, it's a good idea for any competition. Feel free
• 31:08
  Speaker 3: to cheat, but you will lose. Okay, let's let's see
• 31:11
  Speaker 3: if this is trying to be careful here. Oh my god,
• 31:16
  Speaker 3: it says murder. It's Angela Lansberry made it entirely out
• 31:22
  Speaker 3: of seeds, and it says murder seed rote how your
• 31:26
  Speaker 3: friend has horrible taste.
• 31:27
  Speaker 5: Your friend's a loser. Make sure I'm going to fight
• 31:32
  Speaker 5: fight with her. I'm attacking her. She's low character, low taste,
• 31:36
  Speaker 5: and low character.
• 31:37
  Speaker 3: This is beautiful. This one fourth prize?
• 31:40
  Speaker 2: Yeah, out of five?
• 31:41
  Speaker 3: What one? Number one?
• 31:44
  Speaker 2: Somewhere some piece of trash. I don't remember. This is
• 31:47
  Speaker 2: not very I don't think that this is very good. Actually,
• 31:50
  Speaker 2: are you talking better than this? This is she looks
• 31:53
  Speaker 2: a little I don't know.
• 31:55
  Speaker 3: I think that this is gorgeous. She's holding a magnifying glass.
• 31:59
  Speaker 3: She's out to find out who killed, and you've got
• 32:02
  Speaker 3: her hair perfect. It looks I mean, I wouldn't even
• 32:05
  Speaker 3: need the murder Seed wrote to know that that was
• 32:06
  Speaker 3: Angela Lansback.
• 32:07
  Speaker 2: I just thought it was hilarious joke.
• 32:09
  Speaker 3: It's a great joke.
• 32:10
  Speaker 2: I co would think instead of she I turned into seed.
• 32:14
  Speaker 3: You know, really, how long did this takes a make.
• 32:19
  Speaker 4: I don't know, not too long, maybe ten fifteen hours,
• 32:25
  Speaker 4: I don't know.
• 32:25
  Speaker 3: Okay, over the course of several weeks. Yeah, and okay, So,
• 32:29
  Speaker 3: how like, I'm so curious how this sort of thing
• 32:31
  Speaker 3: even comes together? Do you draw her? Do you like
• 32:33
  Speaker 3: print out a picture and just cover it with seeds?
• 32:35
  Speaker 3: How does this hand?
• 32:36
  Speaker 4: I think I printed out a picture and then I
• 32:38
  Speaker 4: painted it, and then I covered it with seeds.
• 32:42
  Speaker 2: And there's different ways. There's there's a lady what's her name,
• 32:46
  Speaker 2: Lillian Colton. She's the seed Queen of Minnesota. Okay, she's dead.
• 32:53
  Speaker 3: Okay, Lillian consider think about it.
• 33:00
  Speaker 2: But anyway, she her portraits. She does beautiful portraits with seeds. Okay,
• 33:06
  Speaker 2: so she has a way of doing it where that's
• 33:08
  Speaker 2: what I was gonna say.
• 33:09
  Speaker 4: That technique is that you put a bunch of Elmer's
• 33:12
  Speaker 4: glue and you use a toothpick and you just go
• 33:15
  Speaker 4: from Elmer's glue, pick up a seed and then put
• 33:17
  Speaker 4: it on by one.
• 33:18
  Speaker 2: One by one. But I don't do that. That's why
• 33:20
  Speaker 2: I only get fourth place. I just dumped the seeds
• 33:23
  Speaker 2: on with some glue. I mean these I did, but
• 33:26
  Speaker 2: like a lot of these. I just like this. Dump
• 33:30
  Speaker 2: dump dump dump.
• 33:33
  Speaker 3: You know, there are certain areas where it's just such
• 33:35
  Speaker 3: a giant space that doesn't need a lot of details.
• 33:37
  Speaker 2: Lily and probably wouldn't would would not dumb.
• 33:39
  Speaker 3: She'd be serious with this, Yes she would be.
• 33:43
  Speaker 4: But when you're competing out of state, there's not many
• 33:45
  Speaker 4: weirdos that send in their seed art.
• 33:49
  Speaker 3: So you do mail this to them.
• 33:50
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mail it.
• 33:51
  Speaker 3: You have to don't go, I go.
• 33:53
  Speaker 2: They have to get it before the fair starts. So
• 33:56
  Speaker 2: you mail it to them with also postage to get
• 33:59
  Speaker 2: it back.
• 34:00
  Speaker 3: Okay, self address stamped envelope.
• 34:02
  Speaker 2: Yes, stam do envelope.
• 34:04
  Speaker 4: And then so I went to the fair this time
• 34:06
  Speaker 4: to see it in person, okay, and to like stand
• 34:10
  Speaker 4: next to it and tell people this is mine, right,
• 34:13
  Speaker 4: And then.
• 34:14
  Speaker 3: There's your moment. Yes you needed the spotlight at the
• 34:17
  Speaker 3: Minnesota sat.
• 34:20
  Speaker 2: It's sad, but it's it's incredible, so true and uh yeah,
• 34:24
  Speaker 2: so that's that's what happened.
• 34:26
  Speaker 3: So how did the fair? How did you become aware
• 34:29
  Speaker 3: of the fair? What was the first time you read?
• 34:30
  Speaker 4: I was also grew up in Minnesota, Okay, so I
• 34:34
  Speaker 4: would go to the state fair and then I just,
• 34:37
  Speaker 4: I don't know, I just started loving the crop art.
• 34:40
  Speaker 4: I tried to buy one of Lilian's pictures of Tom
• 34:43
  Speaker 4: Selleck one. Oh oh it's so good, but she refused
• 34:48
  Speaker 4: to sell.
• 34:48
  Speaker 3: Wow, and she really has some standards, she really does.
• 34:52
  Speaker 3: She's doing it clearly for the seed.
• 34:54
  Speaker 2: Yes, there's a book called The Seed Queen about her.
• 34:56
  Speaker 3: Oh, you look very confused. You're not sure if it
• 35:00
  Speaker 3: just sounded dirty queen? Sure that it was seeking? Yeah,
• 35:08
  Speaker 3: I mean it's not the perfect title. A Crop Queen
• 35:11
  Speaker 3: could have done just as well, truly, but truly thing.
• 35:17
  Speaker 4: Yes, So I didn't do one this year, but I've
• 35:19
  Speaker 4: done one the last couple of years. I did a
• 35:21
  Speaker 4: Colombo one for my brother.
• 35:23
  Speaker 3: Oh fantastic. Do you only do murder mystery?
• 35:26
  Speaker 2: No, I just recently.
• 35:27
  Speaker 4: I'll just do for people I love, even if they
• 35:30
  Speaker 4: don't want it, I will make something for them because
• 35:33
  Speaker 4: then I will finish it.
• 35:34
  Speaker 3: What a lovely gift. Did your brother appreciate it? He did?
• 35:37
  Speaker 3: He framed his Okay, So again, when we talk about
• 35:41
  Speaker 3: your friend, I would just think about her where she
• 35:46
  Speaker 3: stands in your life. She's no friend of mine.
• 35:50
  Speaker 2: My brother's more aesthetically like me.
• 35:52
  Speaker 3: Okay, and your friend, I.
• 35:54
  Speaker 2: Don't even know what you're asthetic is?
• 35:55
  Speaker 3: This might this is perfect, this is my this is
• 35:58
  Speaker 3: going in the I said no gifts gallery. What was
• 36:02
  Speaker 3: the first one you ever did?
• 36:03
  Speaker 2: What did I do? I did Eisenhower? Wow? No, I
• 36:06
  Speaker 2: did a walter Mondale. I think I did a walter
• 36:10
  Speaker 2: Mondale because Minnesota. I want to win right now. Yeah,
• 36:15
  Speaker 2: you're only wait per place in my life that I'm competitive.
• 36:18
  Speaker 3: Actually, tell you the truth, it's a healthy place to
• 36:20
  Speaker 3: be competitive. I think I've.
• 36:22
  Speaker 2: Never gotten the blue. But I often they want you
• 36:27
  Speaker 2: to do something.
• 36:27
  Speaker 4: It's like a kitchy, very liberal section of the popcast.
• 36:31
  Speaker 3: Oh okay, okay, so if you.
• 36:32
  Speaker 4: Want to do if like you know a Minnesota politician,
• 36:37
  Speaker 4: I did, Al Franken, Okay, sure, that was my best one.
• 36:40
  Speaker 2: That was This is pre right.
• 36:42
  Speaker 3: I was gonna ask what point in history was al?
• 36:44
  Speaker 2: You know, Al didn't want his either.
• 36:46
  Speaker 3: Oh. Interesting, Well, I mean that was an early red flag.
• 36:52
  Speaker 3: I'm just gonna say, you know whatever, Al, But.
• 36:57
  Speaker 2: But that album was the best one I did.
• 36:59
  Speaker 3: It was the best one. Yeah. What prize did you win?
• 37:02
  Speaker 2: Third? Third?
• 37:03
  Speaker 4: Yeah?
• 37:03
  Speaker 2: That one? I had illegal seeds?
• 37:05
  Speaker 3: Oh what was the illegal seed rice? What other illegal
• 37:10
  Speaker 3: seeds are they?
• 37:11
  Speaker 2: I guess any seed that doesn't grow in Minnesota is illegal.
• 37:14
  Speaker 3: Okay, and but this one that we're currently looking looking
• 37:18
  Speaker 3: at is all legal, I think.
• 37:20
  Speaker 5: So.
• 37:20
  Speaker 2: Yeah. I did not use any poppy seeds. That's also
• 37:23
  Speaker 2: a minus.
• 37:23
  Speaker 3: Okay.
• 37:24
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 37:24
  Speaker 3: What have been some of the big winners of the
• 37:26
  Speaker 3: past years. Do you can you remember any.
• 37:28
  Speaker 2: There was a beautiful Lincoln Boring, very boring. They have
• 37:33
  Speaker 2: prizes for everything.
• 37:34
  Speaker 4: It's it's there's like you can cover a shoe and
• 37:37
  Speaker 4: that's like with seeds, and that's like in a different category.
• 37:41
  Speaker 2: Okay, there's best scarecrows.
• 37:43
  Speaker 3: Scarecrow is made of seed.
• 37:45
  Speaker 2: No, this is, but it's in the same building. It's
• 37:47
  Speaker 2: the cop art building. You really should go.
• 37:50
  Speaker 3: All of your listeners incredible, but let's all go. Somebody
• 37:52
  Speaker 3: should be making I mean, pause the podcast and begin
• 37:55
  Speaker 3: making one of me. Right now. We'll hold a bridge
• 38:00
  Speaker 3: fair and we'll judge all of the different seed versions
• 38:02
  Speaker 3: of me.
• 38:03
  Speaker 2: You amazing.
• 38:05
  Speaker 3: If I don't see one within the next six months,
• 38:08
  Speaker 3: I'm canceling the podcast. I will blame every listener, and
• 38:13
  Speaker 3: then I'll blame you the chain of blame. Well, this
• 38:17
  Speaker 3: is such a beautiful hobby. And do you think you'll
• 38:20
  Speaker 3: do one this coming year?
• 38:22
  Speaker 2: No, I don't.
• 38:22
  Speaker 4: I would have to really throw it together because I
• 38:24
  Speaker 4: think they're due in two weeks or something. Oh okay,
• 38:27
  Speaker 4: for this current year, I could, yes, but I don't
• 38:31
  Speaker 4: have an idea.
• 38:33
  Speaker 2: No ideas well.
• 38:35
  Speaker 3: Twenty twenty five, yes, sort thinking now all for sure?
• 38:38
  Speaker 2: Do one for twenty twenty five?
• 38:39
  Speaker 3: Who were some famous people from Minnesota but fun.
• 38:43
  Speaker 2: Who were fine?
• 38:44
  Speaker 3: Yeah?
• 38:44
  Speaker 2: God, I'm only thinking Garrison Keeler Garrison.
• 38:47
  Speaker 3: That's been done right.
• 38:48
  Speaker 2: Also, I think that he got in trouble.
• 38:50
  Speaker 3: Oh, that's right. All of these kind of interesting as
• 38:54
  Speaker 3: men over sixty. You know, they've all got something going on.
• 38:57
  Speaker 4: You know what I want to do it? Also as
• 38:59
  Speaker 4: a friend of as a friend of mine is Anne Kim.
• 39:01
  Speaker 4: She's a chef from Minnesota. She was on I don't
• 39:04
  Speaker 4: know if you ever go look at chef's table or
• 39:07
  Speaker 4: watch it.
• 39:10
  Speaker 3: I've been looking at TV so in the night, looking
• 39:14
  Speaker 3: at television. Oh so does she have a restaurant in Minnesota?
• 39:17
  Speaker 4: Yeah, she has a few, and she she's a pizza
• 39:19
  Speaker 4: one but she's a James Beard Award where Anyway, I thought, oh,
• 39:22
  Speaker 4: I'll just make one for Anne, But I don't know
• 39:24
  Speaker 4: if Anne would like one.
• 39:25
  Speaker 3: Either, I know. And then you start getting into some
• 39:27
  Speaker 3: territory where like is it going to affect the relationship?
• 39:30
  Speaker 4: Yes, like maybe my friend they start to feel weird
• 39:33
  Speaker 4: about each other. Y.
• 39:34
  Speaker 2: Yes, I don't feel weird, but I hope.
• 39:35
  Speaker 3: That you you feel weird. You definitely feel weird. Your
• 39:39
  Speaker 3: friend has crossed a boundary in a way that's going
• 39:42
  Speaker 3: to ruin this friendship. I guarantee it. And Kim okay,
• 39:49
  Speaker 3: but yeah, Jessicat when you get into personal it gets
• 39:52
  Speaker 3: a little tricky, Yes, And I can't think of a
• 39:54
  Speaker 3: single person from Minnesota.
• 39:56
  Speaker 4: Oh, Coen Brothers, Judy Garland, Garland, Paul Westerberg, all of
• 40:03
  Speaker 4: who's whoskerd.
• 40:07
  Speaker 3: That's a great one'd be thrilled.
• 40:09
  Speaker 2: Frank Sinatra, No.
• 40:12
  Speaker 3: Frank Sat from Minnesota's gonna say, what what a fraud?
• 40:19
  Speaker 3: That would be thinking? What how did I fall for that?
• 40:23
  Speaker 2: Joe Phi, Robert DeNiro mean.
• 40:30
  Speaker 3: The Queen of England. Well, I'm going to start brainstorming
• 40:39
  Speaker 3: people for you to make out of seed. I'll send
• 40:41
  Speaker 3: you a list of people.
• 40:43
  Speaker 2: Love that, because love that I need ideas.
• 40:46
  Speaker 3: We've got to get somebody to get you. Is this
• 40:48
  Speaker 3: the like the typical size? It's like basically.
• 40:51
  Speaker 2: No, you could. You can as big as as small
• 40:54
  Speaker 2: as you.
• 40:55
  Speaker 3: But as far as you as like, have you made
• 40:57
  Speaker 3: a bigger one.
• 40:57
  Speaker 2: Than bigger than that? I think that's a smlest one
• 41:00
  Speaker 2: I've made. Oh interesting, Yeah, that's the most petite.
• 41:03
  Speaker 3: What's the largest?
• 41:05
  Speaker 2: I don't know what our size is?
• 41:07
  Speaker 3: I guess agree that's I ask myself that all the time.
• 41:10
  Speaker 3: No spatial reasoning skills whatsoever.
• 41:12
  Speaker 2: No, So somewhere between three feet and ten feet.
• 41:15
  Speaker 3: High, fifty miles okay, so but you've made like a large.
• 41:25
  Speaker 2: Yes, yes, the Al Franklin was pretty large.
• 41:27
  Speaker 3: Oh okay, what a shame?
• 41:29
  Speaker 2: Yeah, what a shame.
• 41:30
  Speaker 3: Where do we stand with Al Frankin at this point?
• 41:33
  Speaker 2: Well, you know, people love him again.
• 41:34
  Speaker 4: And I I but he but people are like, oh,
• 41:38
  Speaker 4: he just made a joke about somebody's you know he
• 41:42
  Speaker 4: did that that picture right. It wasn't just that I
• 41:46
  Speaker 4: tried to kiss someone in a podcast. Like if I had,
• 41:48
  Speaker 4: like tried to kiss you, can you imagine how much.
• 41:51
  Speaker 3: How much anything goes? And I said, no, guess Maria's
• 41:54
  Speaker 3: coming towards me, like I'm backing away.
• 41:57
  Speaker 2: It was it was a radio show, but somebody was
• 41:59
  Speaker 2: interviewing you my face? What and he tried to kiss her?
• 42:02
  Speaker 3: What? What is going on in a brain about it? Like?
• 42:04
  Speaker 2: What?
• 42:05
  Speaker 6: Oh?
• 42:06
  Speaker 3: God? Like I get what sort of brain is that
• 42:09
  Speaker 3: that thinks this is okay, this is the time I
• 42:11
  Speaker 3: do this.
• 42:12
  Speaker 2: I actually also now I remember it.
• 42:14
  Speaker 4: I had a I have a friend that used to
• 42:16
  Speaker 4: work in the Senate and I was visiting my friend
• 42:19
  Speaker 4: Jeremiah in DC and all these all these senators were
• 42:23
  Speaker 4: coming out and it was sort of exciting, and they
• 42:24
  Speaker 4: were all getting into their fancy black cars, and I
• 42:26
  Speaker 4: was like, wow, this is fucked up, like.
• 42:28
  Speaker 2: Our country is backed up. All these guys are.
• 42:30
  Speaker 4: Millionaires, but I appreciated. He came out and his wife
• 42:35
  Speaker 4: picked him up. Okay, but he was waiting there.
• 42:39
  Speaker 2: And at that time I was waiting for my friend
• 42:41
  Speaker 2: and I saw him. I was very excited. There was
• 42:43
  Speaker 2: also a gentleman there screaming about abortion.
• 42:46
  Speaker 5: Oh interest and like a crazy person, I'm sure as.
• 42:51
  Speaker 2: El Franken sort of toddled over to me and I
• 42:54
  Speaker 2: was like, oh my god, I'm and I he said hello.
• 43:00
  Speaker 4: I was just a little weird in itself, but maybe
• 43:02
  Speaker 4: you know, and I said I'm sorry. He was like
• 43:05
  Speaker 4: he pointed to the guy and I was like, I'm
• 43:07
  Speaker 4: sorry about my dad.
• 43:08
  Speaker 2: Oh, and he did it.
• 43:11
  Speaker 4: Well, see you don't think it's funny either. He didn't
• 43:14
  Speaker 4: think it's funny either, and he was like ah, and
• 43:16
  Speaker 4: then he wandered away from me again.
• 43:18
  Speaker 3: Al did al did y? What a bizarre interaction. What.
• 43:24
  Speaker 2: I tried to make a joke and Al was freaked out.
• 43:28
  Speaker 3: Oh you said sorry about my dad? Ye oh, okay,
• 43:31
  Speaker 3: now see now this is funny. I was like, what
• 43:33
  Speaker 3: is Al Franklin talking? Saying that to you. It was like,
• 43:36
  Speaker 3: this makes zero sense.
• 43:37
  Speaker 4: So it's obviously not a good jokes, and you broke
• 43:43
  Speaker 4: it to me and Al agreed with you.
• 43:45
  Speaker 3: No, no, no no. I was thinking, why was like,
• 43:48
  Speaker 3: I got get.
• 43:48
  Speaker 2: Away from this crazy late.
• 43:50
  Speaker 4: There's two great there's someone yelling at about abortion and
• 43:53
  Speaker 4: then a lady.
• 43:53
  Speaker 3: Tried a perfect joke.
• 43:55
  Speaker 2: A perfect joke anyway.
• 43:57
  Speaker 3: That makes sense. But for Al Franken to be saying
• 44:00
  Speaker 3: that to you is like the hoops. I was jumping
• 44:02
  Speaker 3: through my brain to make that.
• 44:03
  Speaker 2: I didn't tell that story very well, but I will
• 44:05
  Speaker 2: say something. I do like that he got into like
• 44:08
  Speaker 2: uh you know CRV right. I mean, he truly was
• 44:11
  Speaker 2: the only person.
• 44:12
  Speaker 3: His wife is like not aware that he's trying to
• 44:14
  Speaker 3: kiss people on podcasts. She's like, here, honey, I'm here
• 44:17
  Speaker 3: to pick you up to take you to a podcast
• 44:19
  Speaker 3: appearance where you're going to kiss somebody. I don't like it.
• 44:23
  Speaker 3: I don't like it, and he doesn't laugh at your Actually.
• 44:28
  Speaker 2: I'll ask, I'll ask permission, and then I will do it.
• 44:34
  Speaker 3: I need every guest on this podcast from now on.
• 44:36
  Speaker 3: This is what happens.
• 44:39
  Speaker 2: Please still gives and kissing gives our tongue.
• 44:43
  Speaker 3: I said, no gifts and please ask before you kiss me.
• 44:53
  Speaker 3: That's a nice title for a podcast, Yes, it is,
• 44:55
  Speaker 3: and then we hear people kissing me all the time.
• 44:59
  Speaker 3: It's very erotic podcast. Wow, what an interaction you had
• 45:02
  Speaker 3: with him? And what does he do for a living now?
• 45:05
  Speaker 3: Is he's still writing books? I don't know.
• 45:07
  Speaker 4: Actually he's you know, retire, Yeah, he's probably go just
• 45:14
  Speaker 4: he probably gives speeches.
• 45:15
  Speaker 2: Oh right, right, I mean I don't know. That's a
• 45:18
  Speaker 2: cool gas.
• 45:19
  Speaker 3: Right, And it doesn't seem like he's one of these
• 45:20
  Speaker 3: people who like got canceled and then became a far
• 45:22
  Speaker 3: right person just because right. So oh, I can't really
• 45:27
  Speaker 3: speak to him at this point other than what we
• 45:29
  Speaker 3: know and the fact that he's had a seed portrait. Yes,
• 45:32
  Speaker 3: probably not the first and but probably the last.
• 45:35
  Speaker 2: Of seed portraits.
• 45:37
  Speaker 3: Yeah, he's probably gonna get Well, it's.
• 45:38
  Speaker 4: So available to my mom's garage. I think rats have
• 45:40
  Speaker 4: eaten most of it, but.
• 45:42
  Speaker 3: It is perfect arn't for rats. Now, I'm afraid to
• 45:45
  Speaker 3: have this.
• 45:45
  Speaker 2: In my home. That's why that spider was enjoying it.
• 45:48
  Speaker 3: I'm gonna spray it with rat poison. I'm terrified. I'm
• 45:54
  Speaker 3: absolutely mortified that this is going to be attracting rodents
• 45:57
  Speaker 3: any day.
• 45:58
  Speaker 2: It's just a a buffet.
• 46:04
  Speaker 3: Rat's probably find the sort of eating tacky, you know.
• 46:06
  Speaker 3: It's like the sort of thing where you like, go
• 46:07
  Speaker 3: to a restaurant it's a cake that looks like a
• 46:09
  Speaker 3: shape and you're like, well that's a bad cake. That's
• 46:13
  Speaker 3: just like a pile of seeds.
• 46:15
  Speaker 2: Fond fond.
• 46:19
  Speaker 3: I feel like as a society we're kind of moving
• 46:22
  Speaker 3: beyond that, right, I think fondant.
• 46:24
  Speaker 2: Fond whatever it is, Yeah, it's not. It doesn't look appetizing.
• 46:27
  Speaker 3: We're all on to it where it's just like that's
• 46:29
  Speaker 3: sweet plastic. Yes, great job that you made the like
• 46:33
  Speaker 3: a thing that looks like a Ferrari cake or whatever.
• 46:37
  Speaker 3: But I don't want anything to do with it. Just
• 46:39
  Speaker 3: make a nice round cake, yes, or a sheet cake cakes.
• 46:44
  Speaker 2: Don't get me started on shee cakes. I mean don't
• 46:46
  Speaker 2: because it's boring.
• 46:49
  Speaker 3: Well, I think I'm going to try to get into
• 46:51
  Speaker 3: seed art. Is it difficult?
• 46:52
  Speaker 2: No?
• 46:53
  Speaker 3: This one?
• 46:53
  Speaker 2: Fourth place?
• 46:54
  Speaker 3: Are you an artist outside of this?
• 46:56
  Speaker 4: I sometimes paint sometimes, Oh that's lovely, but you know
• 47:00
  Speaker 4: I am an actor.
• 47:03
  Speaker 2: I don't know if you've heard, but did.
• 47:09
  Speaker 3: You go to art school?
• 47:11
  Speaker 4: No, no, I went to I actually don't think that
• 47:13
  Speaker 4: acting is an art.
• 47:14
  Speaker 3: It's like a it's absolutely an art. When everyone else does,
• 47:20
  Speaker 3: it's pornography trash. I went.
• 47:23
  Speaker 4: I went to acting school, which is like which is
• 47:25
  Speaker 4: like refrigerator repair school.
• 47:27
  Speaker 3: You know what I mean.
• 47:27
  Speaker 2: It's just like you don't learn anything, but you do.
• 47:31
  Speaker 3: I don't think so you've made a career out of it.
• 47:34
  Speaker 2: I don't.
• 47:35
  Speaker 3: And people cherish you, do.
• 47:37
  Speaker 2: They thank you?
• 47:38
  Speaker 3: I mean I cherish you.
• 47:39
  Speaker 2: I cherish you too.
• 47:42
  Speaker 3: A whole generation of people in comedy cherish you. I
• 47:46
  Speaker 3: think that's true. So acting school, for one, if nothing else,
• 47:50
  Speaker 3: thank god, you want to acting school to.
• 47:52
  Speaker 2: Be cherished, to be cherished, I mean I didn't feel
• 47:58
  Speaker 2: that way. You don't feel cherished. Acting school?
• 48:00
  Speaker 3: Oh oh, in acting school was a horrible It was
• 48:03
  Speaker 3: just you know, it was.
• 48:04
  Speaker 7: It was it was they had cuts, you know, people
• 48:09
  Speaker 7: were it was just I don't know if they do
• 48:11
  Speaker 7: that still, but they're like, let's break you down right
• 48:15
  Speaker 7: to build.
• 48:15
  Speaker 3: You up, totally destroy you.
• 48:18
  Speaker 2: Acting automatron. I don't know if acting robot.
• 48:21
  Speaker 4: I don't know what an automatron is rot, but like yeah,
• 48:24
  Speaker 4: but then you get out.
• 48:25
  Speaker 2: And you're like, oh, people, people just want you to
• 48:29
  Speaker 2: be a character ture version of yourself. That's like what
• 48:32
  Speaker 2: you got to get your thing right? I don't know.
• 48:36
  Speaker 3: That's mostly what's happening on television. People are just showing
• 48:38
  Speaker 3: up and speaking a little bit louder and faster than
• 48:41
  Speaker 3: they usually dom hm hm. But I feel like you
• 48:46
  Speaker 3: must have what school did you go to?
• 48:48
  Speaker 2: Juilliard School?
• 48:49
  Speaker 3: Oh my god, I know. Okay, well look.
• 48:52
  Speaker 2: At that, look at that at me, the Juilliard School.
• 48:59
  Speaker 3: That's credible.
• 49:00
  Speaker 2: It's incredible.
• 49:01
  Speaker 3: That is I mean, you must have been thrown out
• 49:04
  Speaker 3: of your mind when you were accepted.
• 49:08
  Speaker 4: I was because they didn't care about grades and I
• 49:10
  Speaker 4: had very bad grades.
• 49:11
  Speaker 3: Oh perfect, You had no choice but to.
• 49:13
  Speaker 4: Go the way that anyone would be impressed by me.
• 49:17
  Speaker 4: Like if I had gone in and great, like they
• 49:19
  Speaker 4: didn't care.
• 49:19
  Speaker 2: You could I think you had to write an essay.
• 49:23
  Speaker 2: But I know someone who got in who their essay
• 49:25
  Speaker 2: was just a drawing.
• 49:27
  Speaker 3: So you could have done Sea Dart.
• 49:29
  Speaker 2: Oh they would have loved it. No, but it was.
• 49:32
  Speaker 2: It does have like a name for itself. But it's
• 49:35
  Speaker 2: it's not all that. It really isn't.
• 49:37
  Speaker 3: They're going to rescind your degree.
• 49:39
  Speaker 4: They you know what they I this is nice of them.
• 49:43
  Speaker 2: But I I stopped.
• 49:46
  Speaker 4: I ran out of money halfway through Juilliard and they
• 49:49
  Speaker 4: still let me continue.
• 49:51
  Speaker 3: That's amazing.
• 49:52
  Speaker 2: But they never gave me my diplomas. I owe them money.
• 49:56
  Speaker 3: Oh interesting, I think they.
• 49:57
  Speaker 2: Never they but you know what, they never asked for
• 49:59
  Speaker 2: it either. I can ask for money.
• 50:01
  Speaker 3: It's an interesting bargain to strike.
• 50:02
  Speaker 2: I know, it's weird. They have a lot of money.
• 50:04
  Speaker 2: I think now you can go for free.
• 50:06
  Speaker 3: Oh, everybody, email Juilliard at Juilliard dot com. I'm sure,
• 50:11
  Speaker 3: send them a drawing and you're in free ride. Did
• 50:16
  Speaker 3: you ever act on the stage.
• 50:18
  Speaker 4: Yeah, that's what I thought I was gonna do, always
• 50:21
  Speaker 4: playing Juliet forever and like I was like, oh, I'm
• 50:24
  Speaker 4: gonna I had I really was not ambitious. I wanted
• 50:28
  Speaker 4: to be like in the course of a Broadway musical.
• 50:30
  Speaker 4: That was my big It was just like, that is
• 50:32
  Speaker 4: the life for me. But I've never done that.
• 50:35
  Speaker 3: So you've never been in a Broadway show.
• 50:37
  Speaker 4: I consider that I've done that because I did do
• 50:41
  Speaker 4: Shakes from the Park.
• 50:42
  Speaker 2: Oh okay, and that is like a version of.
• 50:44
  Speaker 3: Broadway right right.
• 50:45
  Speaker 2: But maybe I'll still. I mean, I'm not dead yet.
• 50:47
  Speaker 3: Oh yeah, you've got plenty of time, so.
• 50:49
  Speaker 2: Yeah, maybe, yes, I did. I did theater in New
• 50:51
  Speaker 2: York for a long time and then.
• 50:53
  Speaker 3: Have no idea.
• 50:54
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 50:55
  Speaker 2: Really terrible stuff, really terrible things, horrible. Play.
• 51:02
  Speaker 3: Well, I think we should play a game.
• 51:03
  Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, I love games so much, I really do.
• 51:05
  Speaker 3: Oh incredible. I love to hear that we're gonna play
• 51:08
  Speaker 3: a game called Gift or a Curse. But before we
• 51:11
  Speaker 3: do that, I need a number between one and ten
• 51:13
  Speaker 3: from you.
• 51:13
  Speaker 2: Is this gonna be about opinions?
• 51:16
  Speaker 3: It's about facts?
• 51:17
  Speaker 4: Okay?
• 51:17
  Speaker 3: Oh great, Okay, okay, I tell you about it.
• 51:20
  Speaker 2: Sorry, you know what, it's none of my business.
• 51:22
  Speaker 3: None of your business. Okay, all right, your nose.
• 51:25
  Speaker 2: Between ten and twelve, one and twelve.
• 51:28
  Speaker 3: Let's do ten and twelve today.
• 51:29
  Speaker 2: Okay, I guess eleven.
• 51:33
  Speaker 3: Okay, with the number eleven, I have to do some
• 51:36
  Speaker 3: light calculating to get our game pieces. So you have
• 51:38
  Speaker 3: the mic right now. You can recommend something, promote something,
• 51:41
  Speaker 3: do whatever you want. I'll be right.
• 51:42
  Speaker 2: No, I have to talk. Oh god, what No? I
• 51:50
  Speaker 2: feel so alone right now.
• 51:52
  Speaker 4: I don't know what do I recommend? I guess if
• 51:58
  Speaker 4: you like cooking. I recom mend the New York Times
• 52:01
  Speaker 4: cooking recipes. They have some really good recipes, and every
• 52:05
  Speaker 4: time I make one there, I'm boring myself.
• 52:08
  Speaker 2: See this is I can't I can't do this. Does
• 52:12
  Speaker 2: every please come back to me?
• 52:14
  Speaker 3: This is kind of the Juilliard of this podcast, where
• 52:16
  Speaker 3: we just absolutely break you down and you have to
• 52:18
  Speaker 3: learn to stand on your own. I just I need
• 52:24
  Speaker 3: someone to New York Times recipes. They have some They
• 52:27
  Speaker 3: have some recipes that are always haunting me. But then
• 52:29
  Speaker 3: I click it and it says sign up, and I
• 52:31
  Speaker 3: say no, thank you.
• 52:32
  Speaker 2: Oh you can have my password. I'll give you my password.
• 52:34
  Speaker 2: That's my other gift. And you know what, And I'll
• 52:37
  Speaker 2: give you password.
• 52:39
  Speaker 3: Using that password and your boring pass, I will become
• 52:42
  Speaker 3: Maria Thayer. Watch out Maria that. If you can hear
• 52:49
  Speaker 3: the police in the background, they're onto us, onto me.
• 52:53
  Speaker 3: Excellent recommendation. What am I going to do? You know
• 52:56
  Speaker 3: what I'm going to recommend is the album Green River
• 52:59
  Speaker 3: by c CR Credence Cleairwater Revival. Have you heard this album?
• 53:03
  Speaker 2: What sing me a song from it?
• 53:04
  Speaker 5: Oh?
• 53:04
  Speaker 3: I can't sing? Do you know the song? I mean?
• 53:07
  Speaker 3: Bad Moon Rising? But bad Moon. Incredible song.
• 53:13
  Speaker 2: Low Die, Low Die wrote.
• 53:17
  Speaker 3: A song for everyone.
• 53:20
  Speaker 2: No, what is it? I don't know. That's time.
• 53:22
  Speaker 3: I will not sing a note on this podcast. That'll
• 53:25
  Speaker 3: be career ending. Excellent album. I hadn't listened to it
• 53:28
  Speaker 3: in years, front to back, incredible, incredible album on at
• 53:33
  Speaker 3: least Do you have anything to recommend?
• 53:35
  Speaker 2: How dare you make me speak? I know Affle, you
• 53:38
  Speaker 2: know what.
• 53:38
  Speaker 6: I'm going to recommend that everybody go see Twisters because
• 53:41
  Speaker 6: Bridger hated it, so I no, I.
• 53:43
  Speaker 3: Did not hate. I thought it was one of the
• 53:45
  Speaker 3: dumbest movies I've ever seen, but very fun. Okay, very fun.
• 53:49
  Speaker 2: All right, maybe you're not on my shit list.
• 53:50
  Speaker 3: Okay, Twisters doesn't make any promise other than being a
• 53:53
  Speaker 3: dumb movie about that, and it was very fun.
• 53:55
  Speaker 2: It was very fun.
• 53:56
  Speaker 6: We need more movies like that to come out in
• 53:58
  Speaker 6: the summertime.
• 53:59
  Speaker 3: And ultimately it needs the press. It really is. I'm
• 54:02
  Speaker 3: sure it's hurting for.
• 54:03
  Speaker 2: Mommy, it's so hurting.
• 54:08
  Speaker 3: Okay, we've all made recommendations all over the map. It's
• 54:11
  Speaker 3: time to play gift or a curse. I'm gonna name
• 54:14
  Speaker 3: three things. Yes, you're gonna tell me if there're a
• 54:16
  Speaker 3: gift or a curse? And why okay, then I will
• 54:19
  Speaker 3: tell you if you're right or wrong, because there are
• 54:22
  Speaker 3: correct answers and you can fail. You can get a
• 54:25
  Speaker 3: pink ribbon, but you're shooting for a blue ribbon.
• 54:28
  Speaker 2: Yes?
• 54:28
  Speaker 3: Is that the highest?
• 54:29
  Speaker 2: Are you saying that this is a failure? That's what
• 54:31
  Speaker 2: you seem like.
• 54:35
  Speaker 3: I agree, I know I'm saying that it's just not
• 54:39
  Speaker 3: the blue ribbon. This is the pink ribbon, which is
• 54:42
  Speaker 3: a gorgeous shade. But we all know the blue ribbon
• 54:45
  Speaker 3: is what Wilbur wanted to win in Charlotte's Web, and
• 54:50
  Speaker 3: I can't remember how that turned out. For Okay, the
• 54:53
  Speaker 3: number one the first thing we're going to be talking
• 54:55
  Speaker 3: about today. This is from a listener named Eden. Gift
• 54:58
  Speaker 3: or a curse when someone leaves their phone on do
• 55:01
  Speaker 3: not disturb one hundred percent of the time.
• 55:05
  Speaker 2: Gift?
• 55:05
  Speaker 4: Why, Well, it's a boundary and people telling you their
• 55:09
  Speaker 4: boundaries is a gift. I love it, and uh yeah,
• 55:17
  Speaker 4: I do it. So it's a gift, so very into.
• 55:21
  Speaker 3: It knocked it out of the park. You're you're talking
• 55:24
  Speaker 3: to the right person with this. I don't think that
• 55:26
  Speaker 3: it should even be an option on a phone. I
• 55:28
  Speaker 3: think the phone should just that should be the standard
• 55:30
  Speaker 3: for the phone where it's never bothering you.
• 55:33
  Speaker 2: Ever, that's wonderful, and.
• 55:35
  Speaker 3: You know you just go and check in with it, yeah,
• 55:37
  Speaker 3: rather than it bothering you. I will frequently leave mine
• 55:40
  Speaker 3: non do not disturb for days at a time, which
• 55:42
  Speaker 3: gets frustrating for other people in your life. But big deal.
• 55:46
  Speaker 2: But the thing is it doesn't mean anything because it does.
• 55:49
  Speaker 2: Like it you do you get back to it? Yes,
• 55:53
  Speaker 2: you get back to it, right.
• 55:55
  Speaker 3: I mean I think when people try to call in
• 55:56
  Speaker 3: a sense straight to voicemail, they freak out.
• 55:58
  Speaker 2: Sometimes are people calling you one calls?
• 56:00
  Speaker 3: My phone is ringing off the hook? You know? No,
• 56:10
  Speaker 3: I get about three, I would say, two to three
• 56:12
  Speaker 3: phone calls a day. Does that feel?
• 56:14
  Speaker 2: That feels very popular to me?
• 56:15
  Speaker 3: Actually, that's that? Can't possibly are some of these people?
• 56:18
  Speaker 4: I mean, if you count spam calls, I get, you know,
• 56:20
  Speaker 4: two to three, but I don't.
• 56:23
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I guess I don't get that many phone calls.
• 56:25
  Speaker 3: I place phone calls, I think, but it's only family
• 56:28
  Speaker 3: members essentially, or very occasionally a friend I'll.
• 56:31
  Speaker 2: Call, Yes, yes, me too, But I would.
• 56:34
  Speaker 3: Much rather just have an undo not service. Then we're
• 56:36
  Speaker 3: on my terms.
• 56:37
  Speaker 2: What do you think about a FaceTime? An unplanned FaceTime?
• 56:41
  Speaker 3: See this is I mean, we just talked about this
• 56:43
  Speaker 3: on the podcast because no we're talking. We talked about
• 56:46
  Speaker 3: something adjacent because somebody wrote in asking is it inappropriate
• 56:50
  Speaker 3: to just call without texting? And I said, go for it. Yes.
• 56:54
  Speaker 2: People sometimes get upset about that, but I think that's great.
• 56:57
  Speaker 3: That's fine because you know that's but facetiming there's an expectator.
• 57:02
  Speaker 3: You're going to be seeing the person, and you want
• 57:03
  Speaker 3: to be mildly prepared to have your face blown up
• 57:06
  Speaker 3: on someone's phone. Yes, and that feels weird. I need
• 57:09
  Speaker 3: a text? Hey, would you mind? Do you want to FaceTime? Yes? Yeah,
• 57:12
  Speaker 3: it's not can I FaceTime? It's not uh I need
• 57:15
  Speaker 3: to FaceTime you? It's do you want to FaceTime?
• 57:17
  Speaker 2: What if it's your brother or your mom?
• 57:20
  Speaker 3: Absolutely not. I need them to in advance say okay,
• 57:24
  Speaker 3: what about you.
• 57:26
  Speaker 4: I I just won't answer if they FaceTime me and
• 57:29
  Speaker 4: I don't want to, but I will my brother. I
• 57:31
  Speaker 4: will FaceTime and I know he doesn't like it, so
• 57:35
  Speaker 4: I still do it.
• 57:37
  Speaker 3: I don't mind FaceTime.
• 57:38
  Speaker 2: I say, can I FaceTime?
• 57:40
  Speaker 3: You.
• 57:40
  Speaker 2: Now he won't.
• 57:42
  Speaker 3: Oh so you have to sneak it in.
• 57:44
  Speaker 4: Yes, okay, he won't answer me, or he he or
• 57:48
  Speaker 4: he'll say he probably would say no.
• 57:50
  Speaker 2: I just say, like, I feel like he needs to.
• 57:52
  Speaker 3: Be pushed a little bit. Okay, right right.
• 57:54
  Speaker 2: I just said I like boundaries, and then I just immediately.
• 57:57
  Speaker 3: Said it wor yes, no. I. I guess there's probably
• 58:04
  Speaker 3: one my sister, if she facetimes me, I would probably
• 58:09
  Speaker 3: if I feel like it's an appropriate time, would I
• 58:11
  Speaker 3: answer yes. Most of the time, I'm just like, oh,
• 58:13
  Speaker 3: they made a mistake. I'll hang up and they'll call me.
• 58:16
  Speaker 3: And then if they FaceTime again, I think, oh, this
• 58:18
  Speaker 3: person's a psycho. I'm blocking them.
• 58:20
  Speaker 2: It only takes two two times.
• 58:23
  Speaker 3: Very short fuse. Okay, so you've gotten one right so far,
• 58:26
  Speaker 3: which is incredible. Number two This is from a listener
• 58:29
  Speaker 3: named Rachel Gift her a curse talking animals in commercials.
• 58:34
  Speaker 2: Gift why because animals?
• 58:41
  Speaker 3: That's all you're gonna say about this? More animals, Maria
• 58:47
  Speaker 3: wrong curse?
• 58:49
  Speaker 2: No why because.
• 58:51
  Speaker 3: I love to see an animal in a commercial. But
• 58:53
  Speaker 3: the moment they're talking, it's a fake animal. The magic
• 58:55
  Speaker 3: is ruined for me. Show me beautiful pictures of dogs running,
• 58:59
  Speaker 3: cats eating, Well, don't show me the cat eating the
• 59:01
  Speaker 3: wet food. No one wants that. But I love to
• 59:04
  Speaker 3: see a real animal and a commercial even doing a
• 59:05
  Speaker 3: trick or a stunt. But when their mouth starts moving,
• 59:10
  Speaker 3: she's like, what is what am I looking at?
• 59:12
  Speaker 2: I think animals should be seen and not heard.
• 59:14
  Speaker 3: Seen and not heard.
• 59:15
  Speaker 2: That that's wrong.
• 59:17
  Speaker 3: Problematic now that people can tell how I vote. No,
• 59:25
  Speaker 3: I think it's about it.
• 59:27
  Speaker 2: Boundaries me a little bit.
• 59:28
  Speaker 3: Yeah, boundaries crossed when the animal begins to speak, if
• 59:32
  Speaker 3: it's barking or meowing, that's okay, although then I start
• 59:35
  Speaker 3: to wonder, as a starved animal or are they scaring it?
• 59:38
  Speaker 2: I do think that when kids cry and.
• 59:40
  Speaker 3: All the weirdest what is that? Yes? Someone recently made
• 59:44
  Speaker 3: a good point to me about AI of child actors
• 59:48
  Speaker 3: and babies. Let that be AI.
• 59:50
  Speaker 4: Okay, I mean, but then slippery slope, yes, and just like, well,
• 59:56
  Speaker 4: what makes a baby?
• 59:58
  Speaker 2: It's most actors act like baby.
• 1:00:01
  Speaker 3: I love a producer being like he's forty three, he's
• 1:00:03
  Speaker 3: a baby. But yeah, that that was the one time
• 1:00:14
  Speaker 3: when I've been like, oh maybe hmm, maybe I can
• 1:00:17
  Speaker 3: get on boards with computers taking over.
• 1:00:19
  Speaker 2: Yeah, you don't like that Geico lizard.
• 1:00:23
  Speaker 3: I could take him or leave him. My niece had
• 1:00:25
  Speaker 3: a crush on him for a while, which I found
• 1:00:26
  Speaker 3: very cute. So she was in love with the Geico
• 1:00:33
  Speaker 3: gecko that she just lets you I gave. Do you
• 1:00:36
  Speaker 3: know what I think? I like wrote to Geico or something.
• 1:00:39
  Speaker 3: It was like, how do I get a stuff version
• 1:00:41
  Speaker 3: of what's his name? Gordon? Oh?
• 1:00:43
  Speaker 2: I think his name is Gordon.
• 1:00:44
  Speaker 3: I was like, can I get one? And they sent
• 1:00:46
  Speaker 3: me one and it was like the best gift she
• 1:00:48
  Speaker 3: possibly could have.
• 1:00:49
  Speaker 2: That's all so sweet.
• 1:00:50
  Speaker 3: And I should say that she's thirty two.
• 1:00:52
  Speaker 2: She's a baby.
• 1:00:53
  Speaker 3: Yeah, she's a baby. No, this is she was probably
• 1:00:56
  Speaker 3: three and she was obsessed. And what a great choice.
• 1:00:58
  Speaker 3: He's so charming. He tries is a convertible, does work
• 1:01:02
  Speaker 3: for an insurance company? Which is gets dark.
• 1:01:05
  Speaker 2: Now it's it's true. You do like I had a
• 1:01:07
  Speaker 2: crush on the Hefty Smurf.
• 1:01:10
  Speaker 3: Oh, look he was so se his name's Hefty Smurf,
• 1:01:15
  Speaker 3: Hefty Smurf. Let's see here. Of course this guy is
• 1:01:20
  Speaker 3: red Hawk. Again, he's got the little tattoo. And then,
• 1:01:23
  Speaker 3: of course, if we have somebody shirtless. Let's see, but
• 1:01:28
  Speaker 3: aren't all of the smurf is always shirtless?
• 1:01:31
  Speaker 2: I guess so is Papa Smurf somebody.
• 1:01:36
  Speaker 3: I think, let's see here, Papa Smurf. Let's yeah, they're
• 1:01:40
  Speaker 3: all shirtless. All of the Smurfs are pretty good looking.
• 1:01:44
  Speaker 3: I'm gonna say they've got that great blue We found
• 1:01:49
  Speaker 3: an erotic Papa Smurf almost immediately absolutely ripped skin tight
• 1:01:57
  Speaker 3: red pants marvelous. Yeah, okay, that was a good choice
• 1:02:01
  Speaker 3: for you to have a crush on. It was more humanoid.
• 1:02:05
  Speaker 6: I just have to let you guys know that Gordon
• 1:02:07
  Speaker 6: Gecko is actually the character from Wall Street played by
• 1:02:10
  Speaker 6: Michael Douglass.
• 1:02:11
  Speaker 3: But did they also name the insurance cart Martin?
• 1:02:14
  Speaker 2: Wait Martin?
• 1:02:16
  Speaker 3: Yeah, nobody knows. Currently as recording, we are the only
• 1:02:20
  Speaker 3: three people in the world.
• 1:02:21
  Speaker 2: That knows that is Martin.
• 1:02:24
  Speaker 3: Spread the words Martin. No, no, no, no. They had
• 1:02:27
  Speaker 3: the easy joke. There, go for it. I still call
• 1:02:31
  Speaker 3: him Gordon. I don't care. Cancel my insurance Geico, I
• 1:02:36
  Speaker 3: don't care. But ultimately a curse. Talking animals are a
• 1:02:42
  Speaker 3: curse in commercials. So you've gotten one out of two
• 1:02:45
  Speaker 3: so far. Here's your big moment to get at least
• 1:02:47
  Speaker 3: one more point. This is from a listener named Andy.
• 1:02:50
  Speaker 3: Andy has suggested gift her a curse middle aged men
• 1:02:53
  Speaker 3: using a younger generation slang words ironically.
• 1:02:56
  Speaker 2: Oh god, that is awful, truly awful. I don't get it.
• 1:03:08
  Speaker 2: I don't get how people dude, like are they we're
• 1:03:13
  Speaker 2: our own generation. Just let us be your own generation.
• 1:03:16
  Speaker 1: You know.
• 1:03:17
  Speaker 4: I just read that you that, so I just read
• 1:03:20
  Speaker 4: that younger people don't like invisible socks. They were and
• 1:03:25
  Speaker 4: like then so people are now like wearing right freaking
• 1:03:29
  Speaker 4: out yes, and they're like I gotta.
• 1:03:30
  Speaker 3: She's like, why even disguised?
• 1:03:32
  Speaker 2: I don't. I don't like, they're not for you. It's
• 1:03:36
  Speaker 2: not for you. You have other things.
• 1:03:39
  Speaker 3: Also, you have hindsight where you think. I do remember
• 1:03:42
  Speaker 3: a point in my life when that sort of sock
• 1:03:44
  Speaker 3: was popular for children, and then a few years later
• 1:03:46
  Speaker 3: I thought that looks bad. And then you switch to
• 1:03:49
  Speaker 3: a noosu. Yeah suck. You had your long socks, yeah, wherever,
• 1:03:54
  Speaker 3: whatever you want, but don't try to be don't seventeen?
• 1:03:57
  Speaker 2: No, why just why just why why do that? What
• 1:04:04
  Speaker 2: do you think?
• 1:04:05
  Speaker 3: Well, it's a gift. I'll tell you why.
• 1:04:09
  Speaker 2: I really truly have to go.
• 1:04:13
  Speaker 3: Maria's climbing on top of her motorcycle and driving away,
• 1:04:16
  Speaker 3: firing her gun into the air.
• 1:04:20
  Speaker 2: Oh god, what.
• 1:04:21
  Speaker 3: I'll tell you exactly why. I will tell you exactly why.
• 1:04:25
  Speaker 3: This is a gift. Of course it's mortifying. Of course
• 1:04:27
  Speaker 3: it's humiliating. Of course it's unacceptable. But it is such
• 1:04:32
  Speaker 3: a beautiful sign that the word is dead. It's the
• 1:04:35
  Speaker 3: graveyard for the word once it comes out of the
• 1:04:37
  Speaker 3: lips of a middle aged man trying to either ironically
• 1:04:40
  Speaker 3: or purposefully use it. The word we all know. Well,
• 1:04:44
  Speaker 3: the word's done. You can say goodbye to that word,
• 1:04:47
  Speaker 3: shuffle it off, and the youth can start thinking of
• 1:04:49
  Speaker 3: their new words again.
• 1:04:50
  Speaker 2: I have a counterpoint to that, which is I think
• 1:04:54
  Speaker 2: words go by too quickly.
• 1:04:56
  Speaker 4: Oh interest, well, we don't get to save her words
• 1:04:58
  Speaker 4: enough before the middle aged me to ruin them for like,
• 1:05:03
  Speaker 4: let's just you know, I can't think of any because I.
• 1:05:07
  Speaker 3: The one I'm thinking of currently. Well, first of all,
• 1:05:10
  Speaker 3: I think that the Internet is to blame for that,
• 1:05:12
  Speaker 3: because we all have access to all of the things immediately,
• 1:05:15
  Speaker 3: so the middle aged men can hop right on board
• 1:05:17
  Speaker 3: and start using the words. But you know, that's just
• 1:05:20
  Speaker 3: the cycle. At this point, We've just got to keep
• 1:05:22
  Speaker 3: thinking of new things. But the current one that's being
• 1:05:24
  Speaker 3: all over the news is brat. Have you heard this?
• 1:05:28
  Speaker 3: We're seeing every news anchor trying to figure out what
• 1:05:30
  Speaker 3: bratt means. I mean, I'm sure Charlie XCX is freaking
• 1:05:34
  Speaker 3: out happiness. No, I'm sure. Well, maybe it's like, oh,
• 1:05:38
  Speaker 3: finally here's a little cash, but it's like, now my
• 1:05:42
  Speaker 3: word has been ruined by the Channel nine news by
• 1:05:46
  Speaker 3: four six year olds saying brat over and over and
• 1:05:49
  Speaker 3: over again, trying to figure out what green means. But
• 1:05:55
  Speaker 3: it means bratt.
• 1:05:57
  Speaker 2: Okay, I didn't know. Maybe there's more too.
• 1:06:00
  Speaker 3: I don't know, ask Chuck, but uh, Bratt has been
• 1:06:05
  Speaker 3: kind of it has been very powerful, Yes, I mean,
• 1:06:10
  Speaker 3: I mean it's really boosted the campaign, although it makes
• 1:06:13
  Speaker 3: me wonder, is now Taylor Swift going to say, well,
• 1:06:16
  Speaker 3: because Tamala is so on board with Charlie, can I
• 1:06:18
  Speaker 3: not touch this? Because I'm jealous? And everyone's saying, what's
• 1:06:22
  Speaker 3: Taylor Swift going to do? The politics of pop music
• 1:06:25
  Speaker 3: are fascinating.
• 1:06:26
  Speaker 2: God that question. Honestly, I'm getting sick to my stomach.
• 1:06:29
  Speaker 2: I just like don't. I don't know.
• 1:06:31
  Speaker 3: I mean, well, only time will tell, Only time will tell.
• 1:06:36
  Speaker 4: Just like I don't know. Yeah, I just don't know.
• 1:06:39
  Speaker 4: I don't what is happening.
• 1:06:42
  Speaker 3: I need you to speak to this moment, Maria.
• 1:06:45
  Speaker 2: I can't. I can't. It's very person like me.
• 1:06:54
  Speaker 3: You know exactly what's going on. You're very shrewd. But
• 1:07:00
  Speaker 3: know who knows?
• 1:07:01
  Speaker 2: Yes? No, I yes, no, yes, no. I did see
• 1:07:05
  Speaker 2: that newscast A Bratt. That's how I was. I was
• 1:07:09
  Speaker 2: cued into Bratt. Actually, I was like, I've even passed
• 1:07:12
  Speaker 2: those people.
• 1:07:15
  Speaker 3: Had you heard of Charlie XC action? But Brat was
• 1:07:19
  Speaker 3: it was in your bones? Yeah? I guess it was absolutely.
• 1:07:22
  Speaker 3: Had you enjoyed the songs?
• 1:07:25
  Speaker 2: I mean no, I don't. I didn't know them. I
• 1:07:28
  Speaker 2: now I have enjoyed them. I mean, but I still
• 1:07:31
  Speaker 2: but I still I've listened to them. I enjoyed the dances.
• 1:07:35
  Speaker 2: I do enjoy a.
• 1:07:35
  Speaker 3: Good bread dance. But I mean I can't say. I
• 1:07:38
  Speaker 3: mean the fact that I just said that is I've
• 1:07:40
  Speaker 3: now killed the word.
• 1:07:42
  Speaker 2: But do you know about that dance?
• 1:07:43
  Speaker 3: Of course? Of course, I mean again, the dance has
• 1:07:46
  Speaker 3: been the internet, sex everything. It's like a little It's
• 1:07:49
  Speaker 3: truly like there's a chicken nugget on the ground and
• 1:07:51
  Speaker 3: every fly in the world lands on it. At once.
• 1:07:54
  Speaker 3: Things get eaten up and snapped away from us.
• 1:07:56
  Speaker 6: Please let me teach it to you. I will teach you.
• 1:07:59
  Speaker 6: I will, absolutely, and then that will be the effect.
• 1:08:04
  Speaker 6: Then you'll have to prove that this is actually.
• 1:08:06
  Speaker 3: There is no chance to me too. Absolutely absolutely, this
• 1:08:11
  Speaker 3: is gonna air in a month before are gonna be
• 1:08:13
  Speaker 3: looking us suing the Apple Dance in a month we prove.
• 1:08:17
  Speaker 2: That it's actually a gift. There you go, the.
• 1:08:23
  Speaker 3: Fact that I'm trapped on audio being absolutely blackmailed by
• 1:08:29
  Speaker 3: my producer. This is disgusting. I don't even know where
• 1:08:33
  Speaker 3: to go from here.
• 1:08:34
  Speaker 2: No, there's nowhere to go.
• 1:08:35
  Speaker 3: Oh, I'm sweating, I'm nauseous. I would have rather woken
• 1:08:39
  Speaker 3: up at four am. Well, you got one out of three, which.
• 1:08:44
  Speaker 2: It's true I got. In my mind, I got three.
• 1:08:46
  Speaker 3: Out of three, and that's all that really matters. You're
• 1:08:49
  Speaker 3: you're wearing whatever type of socks you want? Yes, exactly, Okay, Well,
• 1:08:53
  Speaker 3: decently played. This is the final segment of the podcast.
• 1:08:57
  Speaker 3: It's called I said no emails people write into I
• 1:08:59
  Speaker 3: said gifts at gmail dot com. You know, it's hard
• 1:09:03
  Speaker 3: to not say they're begging for answers. Okay, they're absolutely begging.
• 1:09:08
  Speaker 3: Would you help me answer a question?
• 1:09:09
  Speaker 2: Of course.
• 1:09:10
  Speaker 3: Okay, let's get into the doc. This says, hello, Bridger
• 1:09:13
  Speaker 3: and thoughtful guest. That's very nice. I think that's very true.
• 1:09:18
  Speaker 3: You've proven over and over this is I've been happily
• 1:09:22
  Speaker 3: divorced since twenty nineteen. Well, that remains to be seen.
• 1:09:26
  Speaker 3: Since then, I have exchanged gifts and well wishes with
• 1:09:29
  Speaker 3: my former mother in law for birthdays and Christmas. This
• 1:09:32
  Speaker 3: past Christmas, I sent my children to their grandparents' house
• 1:09:35
  Speaker 3: with our chosen gift lo and behold, no gift was returned. Nothing.
• 1:09:41
  Speaker 3: She didn't even reach out. Now, I didn't say no gifts.
• 1:09:44
  Speaker 3: I have gotten them for the past several years and
• 1:09:47
  Speaker 3: was utterly hurt to be frozen out. I at least
• 1:09:50
  Speaker 3: expected a card, as I had been part of the
• 1:09:52
  Speaker 3: family for over eighteen years. Nothing for my birthday either,
• 1:09:56
  Speaker 3: not even a text. Mother in law's birthday is coming up.
• 1:10:00
  Speaker 3: I'm conflicted on if I should send a card, do
• 1:10:02
  Speaker 3: a gift, or ignore it altogether. I'm leaning towards just
• 1:10:06
  Speaker 3: breaking free from that entire family. But what does Bridger
• 1:10:09
  Speaker 3: etiquette say? Giftless in Tennessee? Serenity, and that's from Brianna
• 1:10:13
  Speaker 3: or Brianna.
• 1:10:14
  Speaker 2: So if I understand, she got divorced in twenty nineteen,
• 1:10:17
  Speaker 2: right before the pandemic.
• 1:10:19
  Speaker 4: Perfect, perfect, and then she has been giving her mother
• 1:10:24
  Speaker 4: in law, former mother in law.
• 1:10:25
  Speaker 2: Gifts until last year.
• 1:10:27
  Speaker 4: Yes, so this has been going on for a while, Okay, right,
• 1:10:29
  Speaker 4: and this is the first year that she has not.
• 1:10:30
  Speaker 5: Received a gift or a thank you card, nothing at all? Okay,
• 1:10:34
  Speaker 5: dead silence, got it? Absolute just darkness. I mean, I
• 1:10:39
  Speaker 5: think we should just put the obvious out that the
• 1:10:41
  Speaker 5: mother in law died. That feels like a clear How else,
• 1:10:47
  Speaker 5: I mean, how are any of us supposed to know
• 1:10:49
  Speaker 5: if this woman's alive. There were all these signs of
• 1:10:52
  Speaker 5: life up until a very distinct point, and now Brianna's
• 1:10:56
  Speaker 5: children might be keeping a secret from her.
• 1:10:58
  Speaker 2: Ayah, they went to Grandma's load to bear.
• 1:11:03
  Speaker 3: I know we all have Grandma's dead. We can't tell mom,
• 1:11:08
  Speaker 3: and we have to let mom just keep sending her gifts,
• 1:11:12
  Speaker 3: which is torturing the ex husband. The ex husband feels
• 1:11:16
  Speaker 3: like he's been taunted by this ex wife gifts. So
• 1:11:22
  Speaker 3: that's one thing that could have and most likely happened.
• 1:11:26
  Speaker 3: Number Two, there's a new wife in the picture.
• 1:11:30
  Speaker 2: Oh yes, I didn't even think of.
• 1:11:31
  Speaker 3: Daughter in law who has kind of become the Spengali
• 1:11:36
  Speaker 3: of the mother and his brainwash her until the gift
• 1:11:39
  Speaker 3: exchange is happening there and Brionna's vanished.
• 1:11:43
  Speaker 2: Yes, but maybe that wouldn't the kids tell the.
• 1:11:46
  Speaker 3: The Oh well again, maybe the kids are keeping a secret.
• 1:11:49
  Speaker 2: These kids are incredible.
• 1:11:50
  Speaker 3: Maybe the kids are falling in love with new step mom. Yes,
• 1:11:53
  Speaker 3: and they don't. They're so conflicted.
• 1:11:55
  Speaker 2: Yes, they want to be the gifts.
• 1:11:56
  Speaker 3: Right, they're thinking of ditching Brionn all together.
• 1:12:00
  Speaker 2: I'm sure that's not true, Brianna.
• 1:12:01
  Speaker 3: But you never know, Brianna, think about that right before
• 1:12:05
  Speaker 3: you go to bed. And then the third option is
• 1:12:07
  Speaker 3: this mother in law is ungrateful and horrible. So what
• 1:12:12
  Speaker 3: do you do with the final option when your mother
• 1:12:15
  Speaker 3: and ex. Let's okay, and again, let's say, Brianna, you
• 1:12:18
  Speaker 3: keep calling your mother in law. Brianna's a little delusional
• 1:12:21
  Speaker 3: at this point. No longer X it's an ex mother
• 1:12:25
  Speaker 3: in law. But eighteen years, eighteen years, but you're not
• 1:12:30
  Speaker 3: so calling your husband, your husband, Brianna, or if you are,
• 1:12:34
  Speaker 3: then we'd need to that's another email X. Yeah, so
• 1:12:41
  Speaker 3: you know at some point I'm.
• 1:12:43
  Speaker 2: I'm taking this very seriously.
• 1:12:45
  Speaker 3: As you should. So what should she do?
• 1:12:49
  Speaker 2: Well, you know, we don't have all the information.
• 1:12:52
  Speaker 3: We don't.
• 1:12:52
  Speaker 2: She hasn't either.
• 1:12:53
  Speaker 3: She left to have so many crucial details. Drive by
• 1:12:56
  Speaker 3: your house before you send the email. Check the obituaries.
• 1:13:00
  Speaker 4: Oh, there's a lot of reasons why she Maybe she
• 1:13:02
  Speaker 4: feels maybe the mother in law feels weird about them
• 1:13:04
  Speaker 4: still being in touch. Right, she's crazy, they'll be if
• 1:13:07
  Speaker 4: there's if the kids are still right, maybe there is
• 1:13:10
  Speaker 4: another voice in there.
• 1:13:11
  Speaker 2: Maybe the ex is dating somebody, and but as.
• 1:13:16
  Speaker 4: Somebody who I have a family member that is a
• 1:13:19
  Speaker 4: family member, and I always give her gifts and she
• 1:13:23
  Speaker 4: never gives me gifts. And I don't even know if
• 1:13:25
  Speaker 4: she even gets them. I send them because and then
• 1:13:27
  Speaker 4: and then, so like last Christmas, I gave her something
• 1:13:31
  Speaker 4: and then a few months ago she sent me a
• 1:13:34
  Speaker 4: picture of her using.
• 1:13:36
  Speaker 3: Oh okay, so she is getting them.
• 1:13:38
  Speaker 2: So she's getting them, but she's not thinking me or anything.
• 1:13:42
  Speaker 2: But do you know what, sure it just if you
• 1:13:46
  Speaker 2: want to give a gift.
• 1:13:47
  Speaker 3: That's why it's a gift. Yes, you can't expect anything. No,
• 1:13:51
  Speaker 3: it's not an exhame.
• 1:13:52
  Speaker 4: Yes, yes, And if you want to give I think
• 1:13:54
  Speaker 4: it's lovely if she wants to keep her children's grandmother
• 1:13:57
  Speaker 4: in her life, right and if that include its gift giving.
• 1:14:01
  Speaker 4: But if it's healthier for her to like she's never
• 1:14:04
  Speaker 4: to not to not have that relationship with her ex
• 1:14:07
  Speaker 4: mother in law.
• 1:14:08
  Speaker 2: I mean, she's gonna have a relationship with her because
• 1:14:10
  Speaker 2: she she's.
• 1:14:11
  Speaker 3: There, no matter right, at some point they're going to
• 1:14:13
  Speaker 3: cross paths.
• 1:14:14
  Speaker 2: That's that's I took it seriously.
• 1:14:17
  Speaker 3: And what do you think I think? I mean, I
• 1:14:19
  Speaker 3: think that's very healthy. I do think that there's a
• 1:14:23
  Speaker 3: chance that the mother in law has do not disturb
• 1:14:25
  Speaker 3: on her phone.
• 1:14:27
  Speaker 2: Which you always already said yes, yes.
• 1:14:30
  Speaker 3: So maybe Brionna needs to also turn it on on
• 1:14:32
  Speaker 3: her phone and then continue sending gifts be you know,
• 1:14:38
  Speaker 3: you just it's nice to have the edge as a
• 1:14:40
  Speaker 3: better person, continue to show off how good of a
• 1:14:44
  Speaker 3: person you are. And this mother in law.
• 1:14:46
  Speaker 2: That was the underlying thing of what I was saying.
• 1:14:49
  Speaker 2: Actually that's what actually was.
• 1:14:51
  Speaker 4: I pretended like it was just like be a good person.
• 1:14:53
  Speaker 4: But it's like, be a good person, so I will.
• 1:14:56
  Speaker 3: Yes, So the new lady in the husband's life knows
• 1:15:01
  Speaker 3: how great you are, how everybody just looks at you
• 1:15:04
  Speaker 3: as this kind of eternal sunshine.
• 1:15:06
  Speaker 2: Yes, you were unfazed. You also have so much money
• 1:15:10
  Speaker 2: that you're like, you're generous.
• 1:15:12
  Speaker 4: Yeah, you've got it all, thoughtful guests, you're the thoughtful personn.
• 1:15:16
  Speaker 3: Ex exactly, Brianna. You don't want people to think things
• 1:15:20
  Speaker 3: are going wrong, and the first way to let things
• 1:15:23
  Speaker 3: people know things are going wrong is to stop giving gifts. Yes,
• 1:15:26
  Speaker 3: so actually get progressively more expensive gifts, even if it
• 1:15:31
  Speaker 3: ruins you, because if she's not dead already.
• 1:15:36
  Speaker 2: Yes, you're gonna guilt this lady into an early gests.
• 1:15:39
  Speaker 3: You'll kill her soon enough. Yes, Brianna, Oh, don't right
• 1:15:45
  Speaker 3: back in. Okay, we answered it perfectly. We probably solved
• 1:15:51
  Speaker 3: a lot of issues in that family. Yes, who knows.
• 1:15:54
  Speaker 3: Maybe there's a rekindling of love, there's you know, children
• 1:15:57
  Speaker 3: revealing secrets. There's no telling what this podcast can do. Oh, Maria,
• 1:16:04
  Speaker 3: I have this beautiful piece of art. I have a
• 1:16:06
  Speaker 3: prize winning piece of art. True, this is the first
• 1:16:10
  Speaker 3: award winning piece of art I've gotten this podcast.
• 1:16:12
  Speaker 2: Am I going to be able to tour the to
• 1:16:14
  Speaker 2: see the other.
• 1:16:15
  Speaker 3: I can show you the other art so exciting. Yeah,
• 1:16:18
  Speaker 3: I'll bring it out. We've gotten a few pieces that
• 1:16:20
  Speaker 3: are all lovely. I've had such a wonderful time with
• 1:16:24
  Speaker 3: you here today. Thank you for extremely boring. I know
• 1:16:28
  Speaker 3: I'm exhausted. I know we're gonna have to cut this
• 1:16:31
  Speaker 3: down to about three minutes of audio. Thank you for
• 1:16:37
  Speaker 3: being here. My pleasure listener podcast is screeching to a halt,
• 1:16:41
  Speaker 3: Go do something else. I love you, goodbye. I said,
• 1:16:50
  Speaker 3: No Gifts is an exactly right production. It's produced by
• 1:16:53
  Speaker 3: our dear friend on Aalise Nelson, and it's beautifully mixed
• 1:16:56
  Speaker 3: by Ben Holliday. And we couldn't do it without our
• 1:16:59
  Speaker 3: guest booker, Patrick Cottner. The theme song, of course, could
• 1:17:03
  Speaker 3: only come from a miracle worker, Amy Mann. You must
• 1:17:07
  Speaker 3: follow the show on Instagram. At I said no Gifts,
• 1:17:10
  Speaker 3: I don't want to hear any excuses. That's where you
• 1:17:12
  Speaker 3: get to see pictures of all these gorgeous gifts I'm getting.
• 1:17:15
  Speaker 3: And don't you want to see pictures of the gifts?
• 1:17:18
  Speaker 1: And I invited you hear thought a man myself perfectly clear.
• 1:17:27
  Speaker 1: When you're a guest to me, you gotta come to
• 1:17:32
  Speaker 1: me empty. And I said, no gifts, your presences presents enough,
• 1:17:41
  Speaker 1: and I'm already too much stuff.
• 1:17:45
  Speaker 2: So how do you dare to survey me?