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Wendi McLendon-Covey Disobeys Bridger · I Said No Gifts! A comedy interview podcast with Bridger Winegar

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  Speaker 1: And I invited you here. I thought I made myself
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  Speaker 1: perfectly clear. When you're a guest to my home, you
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  Speaker 1: gotta come to me empty. And I said, no, guests,
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  Speaker 1: your own presences presence enough. And I already had too
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  Speaker 1: much stuff, So how do you dare to surbey me?
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  Speaker 2: Welcome to I said, no gifts, temperature wineger. We're here
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  Speaker 2: in the studio, I believe, and I'm well. I haven't
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  Speaker 2: looked at the emails enough to confirm this, but we'll
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  Speaker 2: just assume. This is the first podcast of the year
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  Speaker 2: of twenty twenty six. Happy New year. How could we
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  Speaker 2: possibly top twenty twenty five? It was perfect? I did
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  Speaker 2: have the realization last night that one of the highlights
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  Speaker 2: of last year for me was trying a new diet soda.
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  Speaker 2: So how can you top that? How can you top
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  Speaker 2: a pepsi zero peach? You know? So we'll move forward
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  Speaker 2: into the year. I think something's going to happen this year.
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  Speaker 2: I feel like something is going to happen that's going
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  Speaker 2: to make us all so happy. So let's just keep
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  Speaker 2: that in mind. Please let me look at my business.
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  Speaker 2: I've got to make sure I've got all my business
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  Speaker 2: taken care of. Because it is the new year. We've
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  Speaker 2: come join us. I think that's everything. I'm looking at
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  Speaker 2: my doc. Still watching Little House on the Prairie. Most recently,
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  Speaker 2: I think there was a leaf collecting competition. Did not
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  Speaker 2: become as violent as you would expect, so that was disappointing.
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  Speaker 2: But let's get into the show. I'm just all over
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  Speaker 2: the place. I adore today's guests. Everyone truly loves her.
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  Speaker 2: It's Wendy McClendon. Covey, Wendy, Welcome to I said, no gifts.
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  Speaker 3: I am so honored to be here. I am so honored.
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  Speaker 3: Little House on the prairie. I'm right there with you.
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  Speaker 2: How when was last time you saw the show? Oh? Ages, decades,
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  Speaker 2: You've got to get back into it.
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  Speaker 3: But yes, because that was some good riding, excellent riding,
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  Speaker 3: all right.
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  Speaker 2: They talked about race, They talked about race, they talked
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  Speaker 2: about rape. Oh I haven't seen race.
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  Speaker 3: Oh oh, you're gonna be mad, You're gonna be upset.
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  Speaker 2: Oh my god, talking about.
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  Speaker 3: Class warfare, and there's horses and typhoe. Yeah, and you
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  Speaker 3: turn your own butter, turn.
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  Speaker 2: Your own butter. I watched an episode that was just
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  Speaker 2: a baseball game. Stop it.
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  Speaker 3: Should you see when that girl drowned. I'm sorry, there's
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  Speaker 3: a reason it was on for so long.
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  Speaker 2: I'm in season two right now. But of course every
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  Speaker 2: season is like fifty episodes, so which is also those
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  Speaker 2: good old days. You don't have to tell me now
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  Speaker 2: the show will be eight episodes long to.
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  Speaker 3: The film every two years.
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  Speaker 2: Every time we checked in with them, they'd all be
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  Speaker 2: a decade older. No, this is essentially reality TV. I'm
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  Speaker 2: watching a documentary of these people in the where supposed
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  Speaker 2: to be the Midwest. That's where they go to man Cato.
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  Speaker 2: Often they go camping. What a group Nellie Olsen. What
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  Speaker 2: this is my complaint? Yes, Nelly Olsen. They're often giving
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  Speaker 2: the brother more lines. Willy Willie. Yeah, I was gonna
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  Speaker 2: say Willie Olsen. Willy Nelson would make sense within this world.
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  Speaker 2: Willie Olsen, I'm not as much of a fan of him.
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  Speaker 2: Nelly Olsen is the town brat. Yes, just let her
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  Speaker 2: be the star of the show is my thing.
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  Speaker 3: I mean she has the best clothes. Oh, she's immaculate,
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  Speaker 3: she has the best hair. A doting mother, a doting
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  Speaker 3: nasty mother. Nasty mother. But they're the merchantstile.
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  Speaker 2: The price is exactly exactly. It's a very it's a
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  Speaker 2: tough place to grow up.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, not gentle time. No.
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  Speaker 2: I just I saw an episode where they the gals
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  Speaker 2: were on a runaway train. They got on a caboose
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  Speaker 2: and it just less.
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  Speaker 3: Sometimes that happens, you know how, Sometimes that just happens.
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  Speaker 2: You're playing, you don't have.
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  Speaker 3: To tell me. I think there's some like obsession. Did
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  Speaker 3: you have an obsession with a kid.
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  Speaker 2: As a kid to be like to live in a
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  Speaker 2: box car? Did you ever read Box Car Children or
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  Speaker 2: the sort of thing maybe that.
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  Speaker 3: Box Car Children? No, but you know that was kind
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  Speaker 3: of the preferred method to run away though you were
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  Speaker 3: a kid is you would tie all your stuff in
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  Speaker 3: a bandana, put it on a stick a bindle, walk
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  Speaker 3: down to the train tracks and just jump on whenever
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  Speaker 3: you could. And that seemed reasonable to.
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  Speaker 2: All of us, right of course. Yeah, I tried to
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  Speaker 2: run away from home at least twice. Really made it
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  Speaker 2: as far as up the hill.
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  Speaker 3: Uh huh.
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  Speaker 2: I think it's more of an attention grabbing thing. Look
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  Speaker 2: at me. Pay a little more attention to me, or
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  Speaker 2: you might lose me.
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  Speaker 3: You might lose me. I know I have options out
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  Speaker 3: in the world. What I'm in the first grade, and
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  Speaker 3: I've got feeling and it's time people started to pay attention.
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  Speaker 2: Right and I have the skill set to survive. So
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  Speaker 2: try me, mom.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, don't know if you've heard me play I'm a
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  Speaker 3: little Teapot on the recorder or on the piano. But
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  Speaker 3: I can make I can make a living for myself.
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  Speaker 3: I can busk.
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  Speaker 2: Or did you play piano as a kid.
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  Speaker 1: I did?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, Can you still play the piano with these nails?
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  Speaker 3: Not really? But I still remember things that I because
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  Speaker 3: I'm a little bit adhd. So I used to play
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  Speaker 3: things for speed or just because I had to, like right,
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  Speaker 3: you know, in the middle of whatever else I was doing,
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  Speaker 3: I'd have to run in play something on the piano
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  Speaker 3: really fast and run back out and do something else.
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  Speaker 3: So I still have that sense memory right of how
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  Speaker 3: to make those notes work right. But that's one of
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  Speaker 3: the biggest regrets of my life is that I didn't
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  Speaker 3: stick with it.
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  Speaker 2: It's same with me. I was just talking to somebody
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  Speaker 2: about this where my parents threatened me constantly, you're going
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  Speaker 2: to at this. Of course I didn't listen. And now
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  Speaker 2: I can do about the same thing. I can like
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  Speaker 2: sit down at the piano and annoy people.
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  Speaker 3: Annoy people.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, is it too late?
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  Speaker 3: You know? I just inherited an organ like a organ wow,
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  Speaker 3: okay from.
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  Speaker 2: Electric or pump electric? Oh my god.
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  Speaker 3: And it's all I want to do is just sit
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  Speaker 3: down and play. And now you really don't have an
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  Speaker 3: excuse not to because you can get the headphones that
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  Speaker 3: plug in, so no one has to be So no,
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  Speaker 3: it's never too late if you're thinking about it, and
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  Speaker 3: what a delight you would be at every party you
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  Speaker 3: went to.
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  Speaker 2: That's true.
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  Speaker 3: It's a little bit.
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  Speaker 2: I don't have any party tricks.
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  Speaker 3: Well, you're going to get yourself a portable keyboard.
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  Speaker 2: That right up.
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  Speaker 3: I bought one for my mom.
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  Speaker 2: It rolls up, it rolls.
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  Speaker 3: Up, the keyboard rolls up, and you put it in
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  Speaker 3: a little Duffel bag or something like that. It's very portable.
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  Speaker 3: She can't stand it, so it might make its way
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  Speaker 3: back to me like that. I didn't bring it for
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  Speaker 3: you today.
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  Speaker 2: So it's like a miniature version of what Tom Hanks
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  Speaker 2: plays in big kind of yeah, kind of like a
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  Speaker 2: plastic roll up. Yes, why did you play that for
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  Speaker 2: your mom?
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  Speaker 3: Because she needed to be able to practice. She still plays.
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  Speaker 3: She was my original teacher.
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  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, now that's a there's some conflict of interesting.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, it's not easy to take lessons from your mom,
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  Speaker 3: right it really.
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  Speaker 2: Is, or to pay her a weekly salary exactly, or.
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  Speaker 3: You know, when she wants you to keep playing religious
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  Speaker 3: hymns and you don't want that, you want to start
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  Speaker 3: playing jazz.
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  Speaker 2: Of course, that's the biggest problem that every piano teacher makes. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: well maybe if it was a fun song to.
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  Speaker 3: Play, Exactly, I don't want to play Fairest Lord Jesus,
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  Speaker 3: you can play that. I'm never going I'm never going
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  Speaker 3: to go anywhere where I will need to play this.
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  Speaker 3: But thank you.
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  Speaker 2: But now you have an organ? Yeah, is it huge?
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  Speaker 3: It's not huge, but it it's a big right.
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  Speaker 2: Those things are heavy.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it was not easy to get it into the house.
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  Speaker 3: Let me say that it's not moving now.
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  Speaker 2: And where do you have it in the house.
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  Speaker 3: It's our living room that we call the gift shop
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  Speaker 3: because that's where all the breakables are. Oh, I love that,
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  Speaker 3: my glass collection and all my bullshit. You know, we
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  Speaker 3: call it the gift shop.
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  Speaker 2: So, oh, that's fantastic.
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  Speaker 3: I U.
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  Speaker 2: When I was in high school, I found an electric
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  Speaker 2: organ at the thrift store and bought it for fifty
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  Speaker 2: dollars and then somehow convince my parents to let us
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  Speaker 2: bring it into the house. Yeah, and it was just
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  Speaker 2: taking up a huge portion of the basement for me
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  Speaker 2: to dick around on every few weeks. But I loved
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  Speaker 2: the thing.
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  Speaker 3: So you had to get that thing down down into
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  Speaker 3: the basement.
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  Speaker 2: No exaggeration. It must have been three hundred pounds at least.
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  Speaker 2: Did you have to.
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  Speaker 3: Break it up?
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  Speaker 2: And they're also they're like, no, they're very wide, and
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  Speaker 2: you know it's an unwheeldy object. Yes, the fact that
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  Speaker 2: I asked anyone to.
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  Speaker 3: Can it make samba sounds? Like? Does it have all
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  Speaker 3: the difference?
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  Speaker 2: It had? Like the little automatic switch and the drums.
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  Speaker 2: I loved the drum machine on this thing. So funky,
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  Speaker 2: Oh so funky.
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  Speaker 3: Did you walk around like with a cocktail a mocktail
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  Speaker 3: in your hand and some candy cigarettes being like hey everybody?
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  Speaker 2: Well it played a waltz beat.
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  Speaker 3: Oh.
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  Speaker 2: It also had the little synthesizer at the top, which
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  Speaker 2: I loved the sound of that thing. I wish I
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  Speaker 2: still had it. But how do you transport that? My
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  Speaker 2: purse must have run it through a wood chip. Where
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  Speaker 2: did it end up? Yeah?
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  Speaker 3: Where did it end up? Did they just move houses?
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  Speaker 2: And they moved there when I went to college, So
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  Speaker 2: I don't know what happened to that thing.
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  Speaker 3: Maybe they just included it with the sale, right, that.
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  Speaker 2: Was the big bonus, get a fifty dollars organ from
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  Speaker 2: the seventies. I'm really jealous of you. What are you
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  Speaker 2: going to do with your organ in the house? Are
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  Speaker 2: you going to play it? Or is it just kind
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  Speaker 2: of well.
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  Speaker 3: It seems like that's what I should do with it,
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  Speaker 3: But right now I just use it for decorations for like,
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  Speaker 3: you know, say you have a pair of really elegant
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  Speaker 3: severed hands from Halloween. Of course you're going to put
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  Speaker 3: those on there.
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  Speaker 2: You know. This is perfect for every holiday.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's just a fun conversation piece. And my husband
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  Speaker 3: bought an electric guitar at an auction recently that was
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  Speaker 3: signed from Gerald Cassale from Devo. Oh my god, sits
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  Speaker 3: next to it. So it seems like we're you.
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  Speaker 2: Know right, you're the way to become the Doors. Basically
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  Speaker 2: you just need I think drums and then you're the Doors.
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  Speaker 3: Well I think my my organ has the drums, so
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  Speaker 3: we're ready to be.
• 11:41
  Speaker 2: Uh you should start a Doors cover band.
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  Speaker 3: I'm so glad I came here today. You are full
• 11:45
  Speaker 3: of good ideas.
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  Speaker 2: That's what the number one thing this podcast does is
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  Speaker 2: produce money making concepts and ideas and then inform people
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  Speaker 2: of the news. That's why people come here. You know,
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  Speaker 2: it's off I say it all the time. It's a
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  Speaker 2: utility before any thing else. Yeah, that's why people tune in,
• 12:03
  Speaker 2: you know, for the headlines. Yeah, and for the business concept, for.
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  Speaker 3: The concepts and the content. I love this.
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  Speaker 2: Are you two Devo fans?
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  Speaker 3: Yes?
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  Speaker 2: Oh I just watched the documentary really good, fantastic.
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  Speaker 3: We just saw them at at the Hollywood Bowl with.
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  Speaker 2: Lena Lovich and that sounds amazing.
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  Speaker 3: That was an amazing show.
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  Speaker 2: The last time. I've only seen the B fifty twos
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  Speaker 2: once and it was at a pharmaceutical rep conference that
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  Speaker 2: we snuck into.
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  Speaker 3: So you were not a rep yourself, not yet, you
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  Speaker 3: snuck in.
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  Speaker 2: I snuck in. Got to see them play in like
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  Speaker 2: a hotel ballroom.
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  Speaker 3: I love this.
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  Speaker 2: There's such a fun band live.
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  Speaker 3: There's such a fun band. And I grew up listening
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  Speaker 3: to them when I got I, you know, elementary school.
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  Speaker 3: I went to a private Christian school. Okay, then I
• 13:02
  Speaker 3: went to a public junior high school.
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  Speaker 2: Oh what a transition.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it was quite quite jarring. But that's when I
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  Speaker 3: got into all the good music that like would shape
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  Speaker 3: the rest of my life, right right, So you know
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  Speaker 3: absolutely the B fifty two's Duran Duran Devo. Like that's
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  Speaker 3: when it was like, oh, it's.
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  Speaker 2: On so much good music that you a new Order fan.
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  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, oh wow, I haven't seen I've never seen
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  Speaker 2: Deva live.
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  Speaker 3: Well, you know you better get on that. I know
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  Speaker 3: they're an elder statesman, yes, but they put on an
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  Speaker 3: incredible show.
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  Speaker 2: They're still in costume.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, doing it all, doing it all.
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  Speaker 2: Why didn't I go to the show? How do people
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  Speaker 2: find out about what's happening at the Hollywood Ball The
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  Speaker 2: only way I find out is by seeing people posting
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  Speaker 2: that they're at the thing I want to be at.
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  Speaker 3: Well, you got to put a bit of effort into it.
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  Speaker 3: So I'm a concert person, Okay. I love going to shows.
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  Speaker 3: So I am signed up for like every ticket service,
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  Speaker 3: like get me on your newsletter. I want to know
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  Speaker 3: who's in town, right, so I stay on top of that.
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  Speaker 2: What's the most recent thing you saw?
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  Speaker 3: It was that show? It was that show. Prior to that,
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  Speaker 3: we saw Simple Minds.
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  Speaker 2: Oh the four um oh that sounds fun, which was
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  Speaker 2: really cool. Okay, wow, so you're really doing it up.
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  Speaker 3: Then I spend some money to go to shows because
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  Speaker 3: for a long time, my husband and I couldn't travel.
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  Speaker 2: So it was like, well, okay, so we'll do this
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  Speaker 2: right right? Are you do you dance while you're at shows?
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  Speaker 3: I'm annoying to hear. I'm a participator. I am a
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  Speaker 3: participator deluxe. So if you tell me to wave my
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  Speaker 3: hands in the air, I will wave my hands, and
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  Speaker 3: the person sitting next to me and the person behind
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  Speaker 3: me like, let's come on, we pay good money for
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  Speaker 3: these seats. Let's show the artists that we're into it.
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  Speaker 2: You're part of the t The band is up there playing.
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  Speaker 2: They need you to do something.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, they do not want to look down at your
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  Speaker 3: scowling ass. They want to know that you're having a
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  Speaker 3: good time.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I was just at a show and I felt embarrassed
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  Speaker 2: to be in the audience because people were being such
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  Speaker 2: bad participants. I think that's kind of an LA thing.
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  Speaker 2: People are too cool to participate, and it's like, well,
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  Speaker 2: you're hurting everyone's feelings on stage.
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  Speaker 3: Now, what were you watching?
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  Speaker 2: Well? I went to there's a band called Snowcaps, okay,
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  Speaker 2: and there's a guy who opened named Mike Kroll, who
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  Speaker 2: I adore, and I went to see It's a whole
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  Speaker 2: It's a whole thing. Do you have you ever heard
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  Speaker 2: of the band Waxahatchie?
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  Speaker 3: Yes?
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  Speaker 2: Okay, So she and her sister have been in various bands.
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  Speaker 2: They're now in a new band. Mike is one of
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  Speaker 2: their husbands. But I'm a fan of all of them independently.
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  Speaker 2: But he's a little bit louder. Okay, they're not quite
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  Speaker 2: as loud, so the audience I think was not quite
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  Speaker 2: prepared to have somebody noisy. Okay, but he was having
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  Speaker 2: the time of his life. He takes a ladder into
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  Speaker 2: the audience and climbs up the ladder. I mean, he
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  Speaker 2: does it all. There's a confetti cannon. The fact that
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  Speaker 2: people weren't moving infuriating, so weird, it's very odd. You're
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  Speaker 2: just it's uncomfortable to just stand there with your arms folded.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, unless you're going to the symphony.
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  Speaker 2: Right, if you're in a seat, okay, if you're standing,
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  Speaker 2: if there's a beat and you're not moving, you're torturing.
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  Speaker 3: You're something wrong with you.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's not natural.
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  Speaker 3: It's not natural.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. So I was an A plus student. I was moving,
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  Speaker 2: I was shouting. I never shout words at what's happening on.
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  Speaker 3: Stage, okay, never say smile.
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  Speaker 2: I never shout a song request. Have you ever? Do
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  Speaker 2: you ever do that? No? That to me is a
• 16:48
  Speaker 2: huge line crossed. You're not the manager of the show.
• 16:52
  Speaker 2: You're not running things.
• 16:53
  Speaker 3: You're not at a at a bar.
• 16:55
  Speaker 2: You're not at a bar. It's not a karaoke exactly
• 16:58
  Speaker 2: let them. You know, they've they have a set list,
• 17:01
  Speaker 2: they've prepared. They don't want to hear their number one
• 17:04
  Speaker 2: hit being you know, that's always the thing, it's their
• 17:07
  Speaker 2: biggest song being yelled at them.
• 17:09
  Speaker 3: How annoying, How annoying. I hate that.
• 17:12
  Speaker 2: I feel like I'm a kind of the model concert goer.
• 17:15
  Speaker 2: I feel like you probably are too. Then there's always,
• 17:18
  Speaker 2: I think, one woman who's too drunk and she's upsetting
• 17:22
  Speaker 2: everyone because she's going too far.
• 17:24
  Speaker 3: Too far. I saw that once at a Squeeze show.
• 17:29
  Speaker 3: So it was a Squeeze, You've got great taste of music,
• 17:32
  Speaker 3: Thank you, Squeeze and Haul and Oates.
• 17:34
  Speaker 2: Oh so I thought the show okay.
• 17:36
  Speaker 3: This woman was really feeling herself and it was maybe
• 17:41
  Speaker 3: fifteen minutes in and she was already all lickered up
• 17:47
  Speaker 3: and a fistfight broke out because she wouldn't sit down.
• 17:54
  Speaker 3: And this was right when things started opening back up again.
• 17:57
  Speaker 3: So people were kind of fearal, like, I don't know
• 18:00
  Speaker 3: how to be in public anymore. I just know how
• 18:03
  Speaker 3: to watch things on a big screen and pause when
• 18:06
  Speaker 3: I have to go to the bathroom. Well you can't
• 18:08
  Speaker 3: do that in real life, you know. And You can't
• 18:11
  Speaker 3: look at something and move your fingers like this and
• 18:13
  Speaker 3: make it bigger, you know, or make someone sit down
• 18:16
  Speaker 3: or disappear. It was wow embarrassing to watch.
• 18:21
  Speaker 2: Yes, did she was? She escort it out? No? Wow, amazing,
• 18:26
  Speaker 2: which was surprising, especially at the Bowl. It feels like, yeah,
• 18:30
  Speaker 2: there's some decorum there.
• 18:32
  Speaker 3: I'm pretty sure something else was happening somewhere else in
• 18:37
  Speaker 3: the arena, you know what I mean. Like it was
• 18:41
  Speaker 3: it was so early into it that people were still
• 18:43
  Speaker 3: getting into their seats and blah blah blah. But yeah,
• 18:46
  Speaker 3: I was surprised that that went off the way it did.
• 18:50
  Speaker 2: I guess if you're gonna have a fistfight, save it
• 18:52
  Speaker 2: for the beginning of the show and so we can
• 18:53
  Speaker 2: move on.
• 18:54
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 18:57
  Speaker 2: Have you ever come close to being in a fight publicly?
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: Yes?
• 19:01
  Speaker 2: Yeah?
• 19:01
  Speaker 3: Also at a concert. Well, here's the thing. If if
• 19:07
  Speaker 3: I spend money to sit in the first row, I'm
• 19:12
  Speaker 3: sitting there. You're not sitting there. You don't know. This
• 19:16
  Speaker 3: is a thing that happens now at concerts where everybody
• 19:19
  Speaker 3: wants to come straight up to the front, turn around,
• 19:22
  Speaker 3: get their selfie, and they don't care where you are.
• 19:27
  Speaker 3: They just get in your space. A lot of times
• 19:30
  Speaker 3: they're rip raw and drunk. And just to give you
• 19:34
  Speaker 3: a little background, my husband has a deep brain stimulation device.
• 19:39
  Speaker 2: Okay, okay, so.
• 19:40
  Speaker 3: It's right there at the top of his head, and
• 19:42
  Speaker 3: I'm always very much like gotta gotta say.
• 19:45
  Speaker 2: Right, of course, totally.
• 19:47
  Speaker 3: So when people start really getting in our business and
• 19:50
  Speaker 3: then they start storming the stage or just getting too
• 19:57
  Speaker 3: close because it's selfie time, it makes me uneasy. So
• 20:01
  Speaker 3: I start getting like, hey, huh, what I just say,
• 20:06
  Speaker 3: I really turn into a bitch. Don't come near my
• 20:09
  Speaker 3: you need to, Yeah, you're kind of forced to in
• 20:11
  Speaker 3: those situations, Like I'm starting to feel unsafe. Security has
• 20:15
  Speaker 3: been called. They can't keep you people back. I'm a
• 20:19
  Speaker 3: little unnerved.
• 20:20
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think that is something coming out of the
• 20:22
  Speaker 2: pandemic that people have forgotten about personal space, like or
• 20:25
  Speaker 2: where their body is in space. That's something that really
• 20:28
  Speaker 2: sets me off is when my space is invaded by
• 20:30
  Speaker 2: someone who's just like not aware of others' existence exactly.
• 20:35
  Speaker 2: It's just immediately I'm at a ten. I'm not doing
• 20:38
  Speaker 2: anything about it. I'm just seeing. But there's something about
• 20:41
  Speaker 2: just please take a look around, just be slightly aware
• 20:47
  Speaker 2: of what's going on around you?
• 20:48
  Speaker 3: Exactly, Like, at no point should your hair be flipped
• 20:52
  Speaker 3: into my lipstick.
• 20:53
  Speaker 2: I do not want to taste anything on your scale exactly,
• 20:58
  Speaker 2: it's right right. I'll let you know when I want
• 21:02
  Speaker 2: to taste you. And that happens more often than you
• 21:07
  Speaker 2: would think.
• 21:07
  Speaker 3: Yes it does, Yes, it does well.
• 21:12
  Speaker 2: Anyway, speaking of invading space and not behaving yourself, I
• 21:17
  Speaker 2: was looking forward to having you here today.
• 21:18
  Speaker 3: Oh, thank you.
• 21:19
  Speaker 2: When you'll come by, we'll have a nice chat. We'll
• 21:22
  Speaker 2: move on with our days. No hurt feelings, no boundaries crossed,
• 21:28
  Speaker 2: you know.
• 21:29
  Speaker 3: I certainly shan't across.
• 21:31
  Speaker 2: The podcast is called I said no gifts, and I
• 21:36
  Speaker 2: walk in today and I see you've got a gift.
• 21:39
  Speaker 3: Well that's really hard for me because gifts are my
• 21:42
  Speaker 3: love language. So I'm really sorry to disobey. Okay, but
• 21:50
  Speaker 3: I think you're gonna love what I got you, and
• 21:53
  Speaker 3: you better not start crying from emotion.
• 21:57
  Speaker 2: I can't make any promises. Well, I guess we'll open
• 21:59
  Speaker 2: it here on the post, all right? Okay? Is this
• 22:07
  Speaker 2: a beetle on this bag? Who is this?
• 22:09
  Speaker 3: I feel like that's Penny Marshall. Maybe it's from the
• 22:12
  Speaker 3: Gary Marshall Theater. But that has nothing to do with
• 22:15
  Speaker 3: the gift ins.
• 22:16
  Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, reaching it. It's just a bare Oh oh
• 22:21
  Speaker 2: it's larger. Oh I'm out of control right now trying.
• 22:26
  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, is this hello Kitty brand toilet paper?
• 22:32
  Speaker 3: It is?
• 22:33
  Speaker 2: It is.
• 22:34
  Speaker 3: It's something I like to get for all the men
• 22:35
  Speaker 3: in my life.
• 22:38
  Speaker 2: And you.
• 22:39
  Speaker 3: I poked a hole in the bottom so you can
• 22:41
  Speaker 3: smell it. Oh it's it smells like candy. Wow, it's
• 22:44
  Speaker 3: like strawberry.
• 22:45
  Speaker 2: Yeah what or yeah it is?
• 22:48
  Speaker 3: Isn't that delicious?
• 22:49
  Speaker 2: This is incredible? Where did this come from?
• 22:51
  Speaker 3: That came from Tokyo Central Grocery in Guardina What. I
• 22:55
  Speaker 3: don't know if you've ever been to that store. It
• 22:58
  Speaker 3: is such a treat.
• 23:00
  Speaker 2: What is it? A huge place.
• 23:01
  Speaker 3: It's a huge grocery store full of well department store,
• 23:06
  Speaker 3: really full of stuff straight from Japan, but also like housewares,
• 23:13
  Speaker 3: the best produce section you can go to. Weird things
• 23:17
  Speaker 3: like this cosmetics. Oh my god, you want your k beauty,
• 23:20
  Speaker 3: Well they've got it there too. Sushi restaurant on top.
• 23:24
  Speaker 3: I don't eat sushi, but people tell me it's amazing.
• 23:28
  Speaker 3: But weird little things.
• 23:29
  Speaker 2: Like this, like this is amazing. How often are you
• 23:32
  Speaker 2: going to this place?
• 23:33
  Speaker 3: I just discovered it. Okay, so I'm going to be
• 23:36
  Speaker 3: going a lot because I think I need to buy
• 23:39
  Speaker 3: that a toilet paper for you. Wouldn't buy it yourself?
• 23:42
  Speaker 2: No, of course, this is a real gift, it's a
• 23:45
  Speaker 2: real Are you regularly buying Hello Kitty toilet paper?
• 23:48
  Speaker 3: Not often? Because I think it's probably not great for
• 23:50
  Speaker 3: you with that scent?
• 23:55
  Speaker 2: What an interesting thing to have a cinch fascinating.
• 24:02
  Speaker 3: But see look what you can do. You can break
• 24:04
  Speaker 3: that whole thing apart and give individual roles to your
• 24:07
  Speaker 3: loved one. Oh, very smart.
• 24:10
  Speaker 2: And I guess it can bring a scent to a bathroom. Yeah,
• 24:13
  Speaker 2: so it fills the bathroom with a strawberry scent. I
• 24:16
  Speaker 2: guess it's not so much as like for holding up
• 24:18
  Speaker 2: to your face as it is just a general.
• 24:21
  Speaker 3: Just a general like I'm Bridger, I'm awesome. Here's my
• 24:26
  Speaker 3: toilet paper. This is what I require.
• 24:31
  Speaker 2: Okay, did you get anything else while you were there?
• 24:35
  Speaker 3: Yes, we got those giant pairs that look like they're
• 24:39
  Speaker 3: wrapped in gauze.
• 24:42
  Speaker 2: I don't think I've ever had one of these.
• 24:43
  Speaker 3: Oh well, I would love to say that I've had one,
• 24:46
  Speaker 3: but he eats them all before I can get them home.
• 24:48
  Speaker 3: They have the best snacks, okay, that are good for
• 24:51
  Speaker 3: like stocking stuffers or whatever. In my family, we don't
• 24:55
  Speaker 3: buy each other gifts anymore. We just give like dumb
• 24:58
  Speaker 3: little things, right right, So you know, Oh, here's a
• 25:01
  Speaker 3: gorgeous little bowl for you. And I bought a lot
• 25:04
  Speaker 3: of sheet masks Bridger so many sheep.
• 25:08
  Speaker 2: A particular sheet mask you like or are you just experimenting?
• 25:11
  Speaker 3: I am experimenting. But the thing is is they give
• 25:14
  Speaker 3: them to you in bulk. Oh so you're like, oh,
• 25:17
  Speaker 3: I need Naya cinamide on my face.
• 25:20
  Speaker 2: Sure I do.
• 25:22
  Speaker 3: Oh, here's one with fifty for the low low price
• 25:26
  Speaker 3: of seven bucks. I can't afford not to get it.
• 25:29
  Speaker 2: How often are you doing a face mask? You have
• 25:31
  Speaker 2: very nice skin and glowing thank you.
• 25:33
  Speaker 3: I also wear six pounds of makeup at all times.
• 25:36
  Speaker 3: But how often am I doing that?
• 25:39
  Speaker 2: Not?
• 25:39
  Speaker 3: Maybe once a week? I know some people do it
• 25:41
  Speaker 3: every day. That seems like a lot to me.
• 25:43
  Speaker 2: Yeah, where are you finding the time?
• 25:46
  Speaker 3: When are you finding the time? That's what I want
• 25:49
  Speaker 3: to know with these people and their twelve step skincare thing.
• 25:53
  Speaker 3: How much can the dermis really absorb, right.
• 25:58
  Speaker 2: It makes no sense to me watch one of those things.
• 26:01
  Speaker 2: Like once a year, I'll be like, okay, I should
• 26:03
  Speaker 2: probably do something, and then I look them up and
• 26:04
  Speaker 2: I'm like, oh, this is a whole I have to
• 26:06
  Speaker 2: it's a career.
• 26:07
  Speaker 3: Yeah this. I have to start my bedtime ritual at
• 26:11
  Speaker 3: five thirty exactly, you know, and then lay perfectly still
• 26:16
  Speaker 3: all night.
• 26:16
  Speaker 2: I don't know how am I supposed to watch TV
• 26:19
  Speaker 2: until the last possible minute if I have to start
• 26:22
  Speaker 2: doing my skin routine. It's forty steps long, and it's
• 26:25
  Speaker 2: often wet, so it's it seems difficult to me, but.
• 26:29
  Speaker 3: And requires so many like poking and prodding instagramt yeah, daily,
• 26:34
  Speaker 3: I can't imagine. Yeah, I can't imagine. Now how gorgeous
• 26:38
  Speaker 3: would we both be if we adhered to this exactly?
• 26:40
  Speaker 3: But you know what, I think we're pretty cute. You've
• 26:43
  Speaker 3: got amazing skin yourself. Clearly you are sunscreening.
• 26:47
  Speaker 2: Well I have to. Yeah, I mean this complexion. I
• 26:50
  Speaker 2: went through a lot of years of sunburns, and did
• 26:53
  Speaker 2: you I grew up in the nineties and early thousands
• 26:56
  Speaker 2: when h bing tan was where it was at. Yeah,
• 26:59
  Speaker 2: and unfortunately it's just simply not an option for me.
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: It's not.
• 27:02
  Speaker 2: But there were many attempts you would try. There are
• 27:05
  Speaker 2: a lot of attempts.
• 27:06
  Speaker 3: Did you lay in a bed and a tanning bad?
• 27:09
  Speaker 2: I have laid in a bed, Not enough for it
• 27:11
  Speaker 2: to be dangerous, But there were a couple of attemps
• 27:12
  Speaker 2: where it's just like someone should have stepped in, somebody
• 27:16
  Speaker 2: that was predatory on the part of the tanning.
• 27:18
  Speaker 3: Sell you the membership, they'll sell you the little card.
• 27:22
  Speaker 2: You should have to get a license. They should like
• 27:23
  Speaker 2: have to look at your skin and see if it'll
• 27:25
  Speaker 2: even take.
• 27:26
  Speaker 3: They should say to you with those blonde eyelashes, absolutely not, No,
• 27:31
  Speaker 3: you gotta leave.
• 27:32
  Speaker 2: You shouldn't even be able to be in the parking lotigs.
• 27:35
  Speaker 3: You need to have a parasol Yes, I.
• 27:38
  Speaker 2: Think I'm headed towards parasol territory.
• 27:43
  Speaker 3: What's the downside?
• 27:44
  Speaker 2: What is the downside?
• 27:45
  Speaker 3: What is the downside? We do what we want these days.
• 27:47
  Speaker 2: Okay, it's a conversation piece. It's protecting you from u
• 27:51
  Speaker 2: V rays. Yeah, it doubles for when the rain comes. Yeah,
• 27:56
  Speaker 2: have you been to Japan?
• 27:57
  Speaker 3: I have, but it's been like thirty years.
• 27:59
  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, you've got to get back. I know, the
• 28:02
  Speaker 2: best place in the world. Yeah, it's just an absolute
• 28:05
  Speaker 2: dream at every turn. That's where I had this diet
• 28:07
  Speaker 2: soda I was talking about.
• 28:09
  Speaker 3: Tell me about your diet soda.
• 28:10
  Speaker 2: I drink.
• 28:11
  Speaker 3: My blood is mostly made up of diets.
• 28:13
  Speaker 2: So you're looking at just an entirely diet coke person.
• 28:18
  Speaker 2: This was a Pepsi zero peach and I can say
• 28:21
  Speaker 2: this I'm not advertising it because it was a limited
• 28:23
  Speaker 2: edition not only time wise, but also to an area
• 28:27
  Speaker 2: of Japan. There was like a small part of like
• 28:31
  Speaker 2: Kyoto or something where they had this magic drink and
• 28:34
  Speaker 2: I just by chance try to thinking this will be horrible.
• 28:38
  Speaker 2: Changed my life really kind of for the worst because
• 28:41
  Speaker 2: now I can't have it, and I just I'll be
• 28:43
  Speaker 2: chasing that high for the rest of my life.
• 28:46
  Speaker 3: But what I'm getting from this conversation is you were
• 28:50
  Speaker 3: in Japan recently.
• 28:52
  Speaker 2: Now That's what I'm trying to really bring up here.
• 28:55
  Speaker 3: Tell me about Japan. How long were you there?
• 28:58
  Speaker 2: I was there for ten days, okay, and spent most
• 29:02
  Speaker 2: of it in Tokyo and Kyoto. Oh my goodness, and
• 29:05
  Speaker 2: it's just for me. I've been there twice now. I
• 29:08
  Speaker 2: went there about ten years ago at the last spring,
• 29:11
  Speaker 2: and it kind of ruins traveling for you because you
• 29:13
  Speaker 2: just think, why would I go elsewhere when I can
• 29:15
  Speaker 2: go to Japan and just have a lovely, easy time
• 29:18
  Speaker 2: where things are endlessly fascinating. There's always something to look at,
• 29:22
  Speaker 2: so much good food. You never feel in danger, you
• 29:25
  Speaker 2: can just wander and be curious. It's my favorite place
• 29:29
  Speaker 2: in the world.
• 29:30
  Speaker 3: Even the grocery stores, yes, or just any little sundry shop.
• 29:35
  Speaker 3: You go in and you're going to find something that's
• 29:37
  Speaker 3: worthy of being taken home.
• 29:39
  Speaker 2: Absolutely. Yeah, this is what I say. It's like I
• 29:42
  Speaker 2: feel like for Japanese people, it's probably boring to walk around,
• 29:46
  Speaker 2: but it's like I could just wander around a neighborhood.
• 29:48
  Speaker 2: That's essentially the equivalent of I don't know a neighborhood
• 29:52
  Speaker 2: in Ohio and I'm looking at everything and having a
• 29:55
  Speaker 2: good time, and it's just you know, like appliance stores, Yeah, what,
• 29:59
  Speaker 2: have you a nice time? The flight is difficult, right,
• 30:03
  Speaker 2: I can't be on a flight for more than about
• 30:05
  Speaker 2: forty minutes before I'm in agony. So for to be
• 30:08
  Speaker 2: on it for twelve hours or something, oh oh thank you.
• 30:13
  Speaker 3: And then when you came home. There's like a re
• 30:16
  Speaker 3: entry period. You feel a little odd because you're.
• 30:18
  Speaker 2: Like feel insane. Yeah, because when you get there, there's
• 30:23
  Speaker 2: really no I really didn't have that much jet lag,
• 30:25
  Speaker 2: but the return it was like two weeks of hell.
• 30:29
  Speaker 2: Just waking up in the middle of the night, just
• 30:30
  Speaker 2: fully awake, ready to go on a walk. Very many
• 30:35
  Speaker 2: sleepless nights. So it's tough. Do you travel much?
• 30:40
  Speaker 3: I do mostly for work? Okay, sure, I hate being
• 30:45
  Speaker 3: on planes. I'm not scared, right, I just don't. I
• 30:50
  Speaker 3: just get so restless, and like I can't get comfortable,
• 30:54
  Speaker 3: even if it's the lay down bed or whatever. But
• 30:57
  Speaker 3: I can speak to the right. It's a long flight
• 31:01
  Speaker 3: thing of like, am I getting thrombosis? But wait, so
• 31:06
  Speaker 3: have you seen all these places in like rural Japan
• 31:09
  Speaker 3: where you can just buy a house that's been abandoned. No,
• 31:15
  Speaker 3: and they're cheap and you get everything that's in the house. Now,
• 31:18
  Speaker 3: that can be a nightmare. Sure it cannot also be
• 31:21
  Speaker 3: like a gold mine.
• 31:22
  Speaker 2: This is a horror movie. But buy a house fuld
• 31:26
  Speaker 2: of cursed objects.
• 31:27
  Speaker 3: Yeah, hopefully they're not cursed, but yeah, they're like actively
• 31:31
  Speaker 3: seeking people to come and take over these abandoned houses.
• 31:35
  Speaker 2: Why is that?
• 31:37
  Speaker 3: I don't know if it's just that these places are
• 31:39
  Speaker 3: not populated enough.
• 31:41
  Speaker 2: And because there is in there population issue in Japan
• 31:45
  Speaker 2: of the aging population, not enough babies or something like that.
• 31:50
  Speaker 3: Right, But there's other places, like rural parts of Italy
• 31:54
  Speaker 3: where you can do the same thing. But something tells
• 31:59
  Speaker 3: me Japan might be easier to do that because the
• 32:03
  Speaker 3: work ethic is different. Oh sure, you know, so if
• 32:06
  Speaker 3: you need a repair man, they will show up, right.
• 32:09
  Speaker 3: It's suggestion that maybe I'll help with your plumbing at
• 32:14
  Speaker 3: some point.
• 32:15
  Speaker 2: You know, my boyfriend's Italian, so we can just say
• 32:19
  Speaker 2: they're a terrible people. Can't count on that Italian about that.
• 32:24
  Speaker 2: I just know they have a different way of living,
• 32:28
  Speaker 2: you know. Yes, I feel like Japan has maybe more
• 32:31
  Speaker 2: of an infrastructure for that kind of thing. But maybe
• 32:33
  Speaker 2: we're wrong. Maybe you just end up in a haunted
• 32:35
  Speaker 2: house in the middle of the Japanese countryside and you're
• 32:37
  Speaker 2: being you're screwed, terrorized by but the little girl from
• 32:40
  Speaker 2: the well the ring man.
• 32:42
  Speaker 3: Yeah, okay, well let's not look into that further.
• 32:48
  Speaker 2: H Do you feel like that it's something you would
• 32:50
  Speaker 2: enjoy moving into the rural countryside or that trive you crazy.
• 32:54
  Speaker 3: No, I don't think I could do it. I don't
• 32:55
  Speaker 3: think I could do it. We finally bought like a
• 32:59
  Speaker 3: little vacation place because we'd never had one, and that's
• 33:02
  Speaker 3: in New Orleans. Oh, and that's about as far away
• 33:07
  Speaker 3: as I'm comfortable owning something, right, you know what I mean,
• 33:11
  Speaker 3: And it's small. I don't want a big thing that
• 33:14
  Speaker 3: I have to worry about, you know. And I don't
• 33:17
  Speaker 3: want to air and b airbnb anything. So this was
• 33:21
  Speaker 3: a situation that came up that made absolute sense, and
• 33:26
  Speaker 3: that's great, But I don't think I could own something
• 33:29
  Speaker 3: in another country.
• 33:30
  Speaker 2: How often you going to New Orleans?
• 33:32
  Speaker 3: Gosh, whenever we can. We're not on a set schedule
• 33:35
  Speaker 3: and it all depends on like what I have to
• 33:37
  Speaker 3: do work wise. But I wanted to go for Christmas
• 33:41
  Speaker 3: this year. But it looks like they've got a lot
• 33:43
  Speaker 3: of the French Quarter torn up and that's where renovation, yeah,
• 33:48
  Speaker 3: big street renovation. Nothing they do makes any sense. But
• 33:55
  Speaker 3: it is a fun place to go.
• 33:59
  Speaker 2: What never been. There's a couple American cities where I
• 34:04
  Speaker 2: just for whatever reason, have never been that I'd really
• 34:06
  Speaker 2: like to go to. But there's never a real reason. Yeah,
• 34:10
  Speaker 2: and I don't drink, okay, and good for you. No,
• 34:15
  Speaker 2: it's neither good nor bad. It's just something I don't do.
• 34:17
  Speaker 2: It's I'm not interested in drinking. So it's like, I
• 34:19
  Speaker 2: know that is part of the experience and just kind
• 34:22
  Speaker 2: of a party atmosphere. But I imagine there are other
• 34:25
  Speaker 2: things to enjoy. The food is probably wonderful.
• 34:28
  Speaker 3: See, I don't eat shellfish, so the food is not
• 34:32
  Speaker 3: really I know I'm saying something really sacrilegious here. But
• 34:37
  Speaker 3: I'm a music person. Oh okay, so that's my thing
• 34:41
  Speaker 3: because I mean the minute you walk out the door
• 34:43
  Speaker 3: in the morning, music's playing. There's a brass band playing,
• 34:46
  Speaker 3: so well, it's like living in the middle of Disneyland,
• 34:49
  Speaker 3: you know the dream. Yeah, or there's people dancing down
• 34:54
  Speaker 3: the street or some random parade. It's just a really
• 34:57
  Speaker 3: fun atmosphere. And the history is nuts, right.
• 35:03
  Speaker 2: And then I'm sure I would love to go on
• 35:05
  Speaker 2: a ghost tour. I would love to go on a
• 35:06
  Speaker 2: swamp tour. These are things that appeal to me. Yeah,
• 35:09
  Speaker 2: I guess I just have to say that's where I'm
• 35:10
  Speaker 2: going on vacation.
• 35:11
  Speaker 3: Yes, definitely.
• 35:13
  Speaker 2: How many days is right, for it feels vagacy in
• 35:16
  Speaker 2: a way where it's like it might be a lot,
• 35:18
  Speaker 2: you know, like you don't need to be there for
• 35:20
  Speaker 2: a long time.
• 35:20
  Speaker 3: I'd say four or five days, okay, you know, and
• 35:23
  Speaker 3: then and then all that energy kind of gets to you,
• 35:26
  Speaker 3: right and you're like, okay, it's time to go back,
• 35:29
  Speaker 3: and you know, get out of this little bubble. But
• 35:32
  Speaker 3: it is a fascinating place.
• 35:34
  Speaker 2: Have you been on a swamp tour? Yes? Did you see? Yes? Yeah? Terrifying. Well,
• 35:41
  Speaker 2: you know there's.
• 35:43
  Speaker 3: The Honey Island swamp, which is what they photographed to
• 35:48
  Speaker 3: use in the Princess and the Fraud. Okay, sure, actually
• 35:51
  Speaker 3: beautiful as swamps go. But you know it's on the Gulf,
• 35:56
  Speaker 3: so that brackish water. You could get a bull shark
• 35:59
  Speaker 3: in there. Well, it's Louisiana. People are just built different.
• 36:05
  Speaker 3: A shark and a swing shark, and a gator, maybe
• 36:08
  Speaker 3: some snakes. It's like, okay, well I don't want any
• 36:11
  Speaker 3: of them, Like I want to look at these things
• 36:14
  Speaker 3: from a distance. Please don't take me near a bull shark. Wow.
• 36:18
  Speaker 2: Please.
• 36:18
  Speaker 3: If you're telling me a snake is going to drop
• 36:20
  Speaker 3: from those trees, we're not going near those trees, of course,
• 36:23
  Speaker 3: But I saw we were on a swamp tour and
• 36:27
  Speaker 3: this they some places they give you marshmallows to throw
• 36:31
  Speaker 3: to the gators. Other places will give you like a
• 36:33
  Speaker 3: protein ball, some weird.
• 36:35
  Speaker 2: Pro marshmallow doesn't make a ton of sense for gator bait,
• 36:37
  Speaker 2: but who am I to say?
• 36:38
  Speaker 3: They love them. They have a sweet tooth, which also
• 36:42
  Speaker 3: makes them diabetic if you feed them too many marshmallows.
• 36:45
  Speaker 3: Just like with people, you don't want to do that.
• 36:48
  Speaker 3: But this man said, oh, can I have one of
• 36:51
  Speaker 3: those protein balls. He opened it up and put the
• 36:56
  Speaker 3: ashes of his dead best friend and fed it to
• 37:01
  Speaker 3: a gator because she was such a gator person. That
• 37:05
  Speaker 3: is what she wanted. So he carried out her last
• 37:09
  Speaker 3: wishes on this tour. And it was kind of like, God,
• 37:13
  Speaker 3: that's so weird, but also what a good friend.
• 37:16
  Speaker 2: Very sweet, And now I have a way I want
• 37:18
  Speaker 2: to be disposed of, maybe not even as ash. Just
• 37:21
  Speaker 2: throw my body at the swamp, just let the alligators
• 37:24
  Speaker 2: go crazy with me. That should be a thing.
• 37:27
  Speaker 3: That should be a thing. If that's what you really want,
• 37:30
  Speaker 3: you should have it.
• 37:33
  Speaker 2: You should have it.
• 37:34
  Speaker 3: Also, I'm thinking that's a good business.
• 37:36
  Speaker 2: To go into right, kind of like mortuary slash alligator
• 37:40
  Speaker 2: feeding farm. The bodies just get taken out to the
• 37:42
  Speaker 2: swamp and launched in there and then the alligators go nuts.
• 37:46
  Speaker 3: Here we go, another brilliant business ideas.
• 37:48
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm challenger the amount of millionaires. This podcast has
• 37:52
  Speaker 2: launched the listeners. Hopefully they're listening and you know, taking
• 37:56
  Speaker 2: this advice. Somebody in New Orleans right now is saying
• 37:59
  Speaker 2: I need Yeah. Here it is, go to mortuary school
• 38:03
  Speaker 2: and buy a swamp boat. Yeah, maybe a catapult. You're
• 38:08
  Speaker 2: in business. I love this. I feel like that's a
• 38:10
  Speaker 2: totally fine thing to ask for. Well, Ash in a ball,
• 38:14
  Speaker 2: Yeah did he Did he have to ask permission or
• 38:17
  Speaker 2: they just.
• 38:18
  Speaker 3: Well he did say hey, this is what I'm going
• 38:20
  Speaker 3: to do, okay, because.
• 38:23
  Speaker 2: He's got a gun and he's telling everybody, yeah, this.
• 38:25
  Speaker 3: Is you know, this is what I'm about to accomplish here.
• 38:28
  Speaker 3: And I did get it on video because I just
• 38:32
  Speaker 3: couldn't believe what I was seeing, like that. That is
• 38:34
  Speaker 3: the last thing in the world I thought I was
• 38:37
  Speaker 3: going to see that day, But it really was like,
• 38:41
  Speaker 3: that's so weird. But your weird friend wanted that, and
• 38:44
  Speaker 3: you made sure she got it.
• 38:46
  Speaker 2: God, does you know, do you have any preference about
• 38:50
  Speaker 2: when you die? Cremation or burial, whatever's easiest. That's kind
• 38:55
  Speaker 2: of how I feel. You know, nobody spent any time
• 38:58
  Speaker 2: or money.
• 38:59
  Speaker 3: Just be done with it, don't drag it out. That's
• 39:05
  Speaker 3: that's the one of the saddest things when when you're
• 39:09
  Speaker 3: when someone you know passes and then well we got
• 39:12
  Speaker 3: to do this, and then we gotta have a big, long,
• 39:17
  Speaker 3: you know, period of this, and so and so can't
• 39:19
  Speaker 3: come in for a month, so we got to hold off.
• 39:22
  Speaker 3: And it's like God to prolong that goodbye. Yes, when snappy,
• 39:28
  Speaker 3: just make it snappy.
• 39:30
  Speaker 2: That's a good idea of the name for the funeral home.
• 39:32
  Speaker 2: Make it snappy, and the alligators are snapping. This is
• 39:35
  Speaker 2: all coming together, truly, what a package.
• 39:38
  Speaker 3: I love this so much. What if you just like
• 39:40
  Speaker 3: launched them right off the back of your facility, So
• 39:43
  Speaker 3: if you had like a mortuary that was on stilts
• 39:49
  Speaker 3: near the swamp, you just launch them right out the
• 39:53
  Speaker 3: back door.
• 39:55
  Speaker 2: Everyone say you're good bye, make it snappy.
• 39:57
  Speaker 3: Have some macaroni, and then get out we have another
• 40:01
  Speaker 3: you know.
• 40:04
  Speaker 2: Yeah, this is this business concept that this podcast has
• 40:09
  Speaker 2: ever gotten to I'll take this to shark tank and
• 40:13
  Speaker 2: see who bites? See who just looked it?
• 40:17
  Speaker 3: It bites.
• 40:19
  Speaker 2: Maybe there are just too many words for uh, succeeding
• 40:23
  Speaker 2: that have to do with biting. Yeah, snappy bite interesting,
• 40:28
  Speaker 2: but make it snappy. Funeral home, New Orleans coming, give
• 40:32
  Speaker 2: me three years, probably a few permits I have to
• 40:34
  Speaker 2: get through or whatever. Probably probably how long does it
• 40:37
  Speaker 2: take to go to mortuary school?
• 40:38
  Speaker 3: I don't know. But then you got to you got
• 40:40
  Speaker 3: to construct the right you.
• 40:42
  Speaker 2: Know, right, the right structure, structure.
• 40:45
  Speaker 3: There will be some hurricanes between now and then.
• 40:48
  Speaker 2: We tell what do you do during hurricane season? I
• 40:50
  Speaker 2: guess you just throw them into the hurricane.
• 40:53
  Speaker 3: And then they end up where they end up on
• 40:55
  Speaker 3: top of somebody's house. Probably, yeah, which is fine at
• 40:58
  Speaker 3: that point, it just doesn't matter her.
• 41:02
  Speaker 2: Oh are you much of a Hello Kitty person?
• 41:06
  Speaker 3: Not really? Not really. Growing up, I wanted to be
• 41:09
  Speaker 3: a Hello Kitty person, but my parents would not buy
• 41:12
  Speaker 3: me that stuff, right right, so, uh, you know they
• 41:16
  Speaker 3: were they were very smart about, hey, we're not buying
• 41:20
  Speaker 3: you barbies because that's taken us down a road of expensive.
• 41:24
  Speaker 2: That you wanted. Then suddenly accessories galore.
• 41:27
  Speaker 3: Exactly same with Hello Kitty.
• 41:30
  Speaker 2: So what were they getting you into?
• 41:33
  Speaker 3: They liked learning based things, and once I started taking
• 41:40
  Speaker 3: dance classes, it was all about that. Right, you're a dancer, Well, sure,
• 41:47
  Speaker 3: what kind of I was for a long time? Okay,
• 41:50
  Speaker 3: I was for what sort of dancing?
• 41:51
  Speaker 2: Were you doing?
• 41:52
  Speaker 3: Jazz and ballet? Because my sister and I grew like
• 41:55
  Speaker 3: really fast, so we were just these giant, gangly girls
• 41:59
  Speaker 3: that have no grace whatsoever. So my parents were like, well,
• 42:03
  Speaker 3: we got to fix this.
• 42:04
  Speaker 2: We got to beat it into them. We gotta do
• 42:05
  Speaker 2: something via tap.
• 42:09
  Speaker 3: Tap dancing that'll bring it all together. No, but they
• 42:13
  Speaker 3: put us in ballet, and then it kind of stuck
• 42:16
  Speaker 3: and we did.
• 42:17
  Speaker 2: How long did you do dance? Like into high school
• 42:20
  Speaker 2: or was it into my thirties? Wow? That's that's the
• 42:24
  Speaker 2: way I.
• 42:24
  Speaker 3: Went to Japan. Was I was on a tour, a
• 42:27
  Speaker 3: dance tour.
• 42:28
  Speaker 2: We've really buried the lead here.
• 42:29
  Speaker 3: Well it's not that exciting now, but.
• 42:32
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's exciting to me.
• 42:33
  Speaker 3: You were dancing in Japan, in Japan in nineteen ninety two,
• 42:37
  Speaker 3: Oh my god, yeah, all around. I mean, I'm glad
• 42:40
  Speaker 3: I got to go to Japan that way, of course,
• 42:42
  Speaker 3: because I didn't have to pay for anything and getting paid. Yeah,
• 42:46
  Speaker 3: and I got to see a lot of the country, right,
• 42:49
  Speaker 3: you know, was our show good?
• 42:51
  Speaker 2: No?
• 42:52
  Speaker 3: It sucked. I'm embarrassed when I look at the pictures.
• 42:57
  Speaker 3: But that's okay because we didn't have phones then, so
• 43:00
  Speaker 3: the footage doesn't live anywhere. And yeah, I had a
• 43:04
  Speaker 3: lot of fun memories.
• 43:06
  Speaker 2: What was the show? Like? What were they advertising it in?
• 43:09
  Speaker 3: So it was like a Latin review. So you're looking
• 43:13
  Speaker 3: at me going, yes, I see why you were was
• 43:15
  Speaker 3: the big assumption exactly. But this was the summer of
• 43:19
  Speaker 3: the Olympics in Spain, okay, so it was like a
• 43:23
  Speaker 3: Spanish a little taste of Spain exactly. So we had
• 43:26
  Speaker 3: you know, we did Spanish themed numbers. A vocalist that
• 43:32
  Speaker 3: sang it is very stupid.
• 43:35
  Speaker 2: So have you dressed in.
• 43:38
  Speaker 3: Let's see, like you know those big mambo rough that
• 43:41
  Speaker 3: you wear on your arms, okay, and like a bikini
• 43:44
  Speaker 3: looking thing or horrible just horrible little outfits, terrible, terrible
• 43:51
  Speaker 3: and those shiny, ugly ass tights that people are wearing
• 43:54
  Speaker 3: now of course that are like like the color of
• 43:57
  Speaker 3: your diet coke. But put them on a fair skin person.
• 44:01
  Speaker 3: It's fine, you know, and they make your legs look
• 44:05
  Speaker 3: chunky because they're shiny, and for some reason, every pop
• 44:07
  Speaker 3: star now is wearing those shiny ugly tide.
• 44:10
  Speaker 2: That's one of those fashion choices where you're like, we
• 44:12
  Speaker 2: all know now and it doesn't look good. Yeah, in
• 44:15
  Speaker 2: ten years, it's going to look even worse. You're gonna
• 44:16
  Speaker 2: be looking at the video and photos and being like,
• 44:18
  Speaker 2: I knew even then it was the bad choice to make.
• 44:21
  Speaker 3: I knew I shouldn't have been hip hop dancing in
• 44:24
  Speaker 3: a majorrette uniform, but I did it anyway.
• 44:30
  Speaker 2: And look where you are now.
• 44:31
  Speaker 3: Look where you are now, Miss Lopez.
• 44:35
  Speaker 2: Were there big audiences for these shows?
• 44:37
  Speaker 3: Sometimes?
• 44:38
  Speaker 1: Wow?
• 44:38
  Speaker 3: So like sometimes we would perform in these beautiful clubs okay,
• 44:43
  Speaker 3: you know, had bandstands, maybe look like Ricky Ricardo might
• 44:46
  Speaker 3: come out, you know, beautiful. And then other times it
• 44:49
  Speaker 3: was like, wait, is this a pizza hut at four
• 44:53
  Speaker 3: in the afternoon, but or you know, like a beautiful
• 44:58
  Speaker 3: hotel ballroom or something like that, And then yeah, how
• 45:02
  Speaker 3: long were you in Japan for the tour? Lasted about
• 45:05
  Speaker 3: a month?
• 45:06
  Speaker 2: Okay, you know, so dream trip it was really fun. Wow, Yeah,
• 45:11
  Speaker 2: I feel like you should do a revival. The next
• 45:13
  Speaker 2: time you set put in Japan should be on another
• 45:15
  Speaker 2: dance tour. I'll do it. You to come with me.
• 45:22
  Speaker 2: I will be the manager.
• 45:23
  Speaker 3: All right, Well, can't you do like a tight You
• 45:26
  Speaker 3: know I can do.
• 45:27
  Speaker 2: I'll dance. Yeah, I'll learn, learn a few numbers. You'll learn.
• 45:31
  Speaker 3: Get a few eight counts together, that's all it takes.
• 45:35
  Speaker 2: Yes, you and I do a taste of Spain too.
• 45:38
  Speaker 3: Yes, Oh god, I love this. We're going to sing?
• 45:44
  Speaker 3: Oh god, Oh well, I just I just messed that up.
• 45:50
  Speaker 3: I don't know.
• 45:51
  Speaker 2: We'll work on it. We've got a workshop scenes details.
• 45:55
  Speaker 3: Certainly our friends and family will want to weigh in.
• 45:57
  Speaker 2: Yeah, of course, as they do they do. Well, is
• 46:00
  Speaker 2: there anything left we have to say about Hello, Kitty
• 46:02
  Speaker 2: Strawberry toilet paper?
• 46:04
  Speaker 3: Just that you should enjoy every square of that. Don't go,
• 46:10
  Speaker 3: you know, toilet papering someone's house. Yes, we did.
• 46:16
  Speaker 2: We did. What a thrill?
• 46:18
  Speaker 3: What a thrill?
• 46:19
  Speaker 2: What a harmless thrill?
• 46:20
  Speaker 3: I mean you know what else we did too, is
• 46:23
  Speaker 3: we would spray paint the driveways. We did this people.
• 46:30
  Speaker 3: It is such vandalism. But when we were in high school.
• 46:35
  Speaker 3: This is the eighties. For some reason, in our school district.
• 46:39
  Speaker 3: This is what everybody did. You would go out in
• 46:41
  Speaker 3: the middle of the night, one of your little seventeen
• 46:44
  Speaker 3: year old friends with a Volkswagen square back would cram
• 46:48
  Speaker 3: ten people in and you would spray paint the stencil
• 46:52
  Speaker 3: of whatever club you were in.
• 46:54
  Speaker 1: Oh.
• 46:54
  Speaker 2: Interesting, So I was.
• 46:55
  Speaker 3: I was in you know, dance, and I was a
• 46:58
  Speaker 3: cheerleader and all this so still in front of my parents' house,
• 47:01
  Speaker 3: we have those stencils. Wow, you know, or water Polo
• 47:06
  Speaker 3: eighty seven in the apron of your driveway.
• 47:08
  Speaker 2: The dor kiest version of graffiti possible.
• 47:12
  Speaker 3: So stupid. And we also had fraternities and sororities in
• 47:16
  Speaker 3: my high school. In high school, yes, not sanctioned by
• 47:19
  Speaker 3: the school, but they still did it. But they had
• 47:21
  Speaker 3: their own stencils, and so you would, you know, just
• 47:26
  Speaker 3: muck up the entire block.
• 47:28
  Speaker 2: What a stencil centric education, I know. Interesting. Yeah. Yeah,
• 47:32
  Speaker 2: toilet papering is as far as we ever got. But
• 47:34
  Speaker 2: I'd love to do that again, but I feel like
• 47:37
  Speaker 2: once you get past eighteen, you can be arrested and
• 47:39
  Speaker 2: then it becomes a real issue.
• 47:40
  Speaker 3: Yeah, and also because we went through the toilet paper shortage, you.
• 47:46
  Speaker 2: Know, a little precious about I kind of am with
• 47:49
  Speaker 2: certain like there are certain things I'll see in my cupboard.
• 47:52
  Speaker 2: It's like a food. It's like probably going to expire
• 47:54
  Speaker 2: or has been expired, and I think I'll just leave
• 47:56
  Speaker 2: it there just in case, in case, in case, there's
• 47:59
  Speaker 2: a run on the grocery stores. It's a terrible feeling.
• 48:03
  Speaker 3: That's a drum of balsamic vinegar from twenty ten. Now,
• 48:09
  Speaker 3: if I know my vinegars, it just gets better.
• 48:12
  Speaker 2: Yeah, of course, So well, hang on to it.
• 48:17
  Speaker 3: I'll put it down in the basement next to the organs,
• 48:20
  Speaker 3: because you see, that's how we're tying it all together.
• 48:25
  Speaker 2: Well, I think we should play a game. We're going
• 48:27
  Speaker 2: to play a game called Gift or a Curse. But
• 48:28
  Speaker 2: I need a number between one and ten from you. Four. Okay.
• 48:32
  Speaker 2: I have to do some light calculating to get our
• 48:34
  Speaker 2: game pieces. So right now, you can promote, recommend, do
• 48:37
  Speaker 2: whatever you want. I'll be right back.
• 48:38
  Speaker 3: Okay. So Hi, everybody, it's Wendy McClendon Covey, and I
• 48:44
  Speaker 3: just want you to watch Saint Dennis Medical on NBC
• 48:47
  Speaker 3: every Monday night at eight next day on Peacock, because
• 48:51
  Speaker 3: you know that's how we do things now. And I
• 48:54
  Speaker 3: hope you all are having a beautiful new year.
• 48:59
  Speaker 2: Gorgeous. Okay, everybody go watch Saint Dennis Medical. We have
• 49:02
  Speaker 2: a lot of friends on that show, past guests, etc.
• 49:06
  Speaker 2: Fun So and it's a good show. Fun you comedy.
• 49:10
  Speaker 2: What a nice thing to have on television, A novelty
• 49:14
  Speaker 2: to have comedy. Yeah, Okay, this is how we play
• 49:17
  Speaker 2: Gift or a Curse. I'm going to name three things.
• 49:19
  Speaker 2: I'm going you'll tell me if there are a gift
• 49:21
  Speaker 2: or a curse and why, and then I'll tell if
• 49:23
  Speaker 2: you're right or wrong. So there are correct answers. People
• 49:26
  Speaker 2: have failed before it's ruined their lives, so just be
• 49:30
  Speaker 2: very careful, all right, all right? This first one is
• 49:32
  Speaker 2: from a Patreon listener named Corey. Gift or a Curse
• 49:35
  Speaker 2: seasonal color analysis.
• 49:40
  Speaker 3: That is a curse. And I'll tell you why I
• 49:44
  Speaker 3: had my colors analyze back when this nonsense started, which
• 49:48
  Speaker 3: was the early eighties.
• 49:50
  Speaker 2: I am a summer okay.
• 49:52
  Speaker 3: Okay, do you know how hard it is to find
• 49:56
  Speaker 3: colors in that palette without dragging the damn book with
• 50:02
  Speaker 3: you everywhere? Okay?
• 50:04
  Speaker 2: What colors are in the summer?
• 50:06
  Speaker 3: Okay, so summer you're not supposed to wear black?
• 50:08
  Speaker 2: Okay.
• 50:09
  Speaker 3: Well, well, I'm sorry, but that is the cornerstone of
• 50:12
  Speaker 3: my life.
• 50:13
  Speaker 2: And everyone looks good in black.
• 50:14
  Speaker 3: Pretty much except summers should be wearing navy blue.
• 50:19
  Speaker 2: Oh interesting, But I'm not going to.
• 50:21
  Speaker 3: Be told that I can't wear navy or that I
• 50:25
  Speaker 3: can't wear black, and that I don't look good in it.
• 50:27
  Speaker 3: Shut up, there it is. I mean, look, when you
• 50:33
  Speaker 3: see someone having their colors analyzed, you can see their
• 50:37
  Speaker 3: face perk up or blanch out when you hold up
• 50:40
  Speaker 3: certain things. Oh interesting, but it's just another thing to
• 50:44
  Speaker 3: obsess about. It's it's right up there with counting your
• 50:46
  Speaker 3: steps and counting your macros. It's just one more thing
• 50:51
  Speaker 3: to obsess over.
• 50:52
  Speaker 2: Did you go to a consultant?
• 50:54
  Speaker 3: No, once again, my mother did it. She bought the
• 50:58
  Speaker 3: book called Color Beautiful. Okay, and it gives your charts okay, okay,
• 51:04
  Speaker 3: And so you're supposed to take it with you shopping.
• 51:07
  Speaker 2: Come on, you're supposed to take it to every shopping trip. Yes,
• 51:11
  Speaker 2: that's so unreasonable.
• 51:13
  Speaker 3: It's unreasonable.
• 51:15
  Speaker 2: I wonder what season I am.
• 51:17
  Speaker 3: Oh, you are such an autumn. It's not funny.
• 51:20
  Speaker 2: Okay, Yes, what does that say for me color wise,
• 51:24
  Speaker 2: So you are gonna go with a.
• 51:30
  Speaker 3: Yellow based red not a blue based red.
• 51:32
  Speaker 2: Okay, interesting because you have red hair. Okay, that's good
• 51:37
  Speaker 2: to know.
• 51:37
  Speaker 3: So yellow or orange based things are your jam. Probably
• 51:43
  Speaker 3: dark brown is your black? Oh?
• 51:45
  Speaker 2: Interesting? I feel like green works for me?
• 51:49
  Speaker 3: Is that a yellow based green? Probably does, but not
• 51:53
  Speaker 3: a blue based.
• 51:53
  Speaker 2: Stay away from blue based, yeah, because they probably make
• 51:56
  Speaker 2: me look like a corpse.
• 51:58
  Speaker 3: Yes? Interesting, Yes, and it'll make people want to throw
• 52:02
  Speaker 3: you into the gator pe.
• 52:07
  Speaker 2: Well, maybe that's the plan, Wendy.
• 52:09
  Speaker 3: Okay, Well, am I wrong? Or am I right? Is
• 52:11
  Speaker 3: this a blessing oracle?
• 52:12
  Speaker 2: You're correct. It's a curse, as you've just demonstrated. It's
• 52:17
  Speaker 2: it's immediately wrong because everybody can wear black, and everybody
• 52:22
  Speaker 2: wants to be a little goth. So if you try
• 52:25
  Speaker 2: to rule out black, any color is wrong, but that
• 52:30
  Speaker 2: should be. Everyone should have a few black pieces in
• 52:33
  Speaker 2: their more trobe. And I don't want to think about it.
• 52:37
  Speaker 2: I don't want to carry a catalog to that. Don't
• 52:39
  Speaker 2: tell me what to buy. Let me find out how
• 52:43
  Speaker 2: awful I look in a color that'll be a surprise.
• 52:46
  Speaker 2: Let me wear it out in public and have people gasp,
• 52:50
  Speaker 2: look away, and then I start. That's good feedback. That's good,
• 52:54
  Speaker 2: honest human feedback, not book feedback. So it's a curse.
• 52:59
  Speaker 2: I don't need anyone to tell me what season I am.
• 53:02
  Speaker 2: Let me choose. Yes, I'm a deep winter okay. Number two.
• 53:08
  Speaker 2: This is from a picture on the surnamed Alice gift
• 53:10
  Speaker 2: her a curse. The toilet with the big and little
• 53:13
  Speaker 2: flush buttons dependent on contents of the toilet.
• 53:17
  Speaker 3: I hate those. It is a curse. Why just always
• 53:24
  Speaker 3: use the big one because that little one doesn't do anything?
• 53:30
  Speaker 3: That little one sometimes wouldn't even take one square of
• 53:33
  Speaker 3: Hello Candy toilet paper down. No, no, it's got to
• 53:38
  Speaker 3: be the button, always as a courtesy for the next person.
• 53:46
  Speaker 2: Correct, yes, thank you, No one uses that. Nobody ever
• 53:50
  Speaker 2: obeys the little button. No, why would you use the
• 53:53
  Speaker 2: little button?
• 53:54
  Speaker 3: And aren't you really just pressing them both? Right?
• 53:59
  Speaker 2: Do I have to read a book on how to
• 54:00
  Speaker 2: use this thing?
• 54:01
  Speaker 1: I don't.
• 54:01
  Speaker 2: I don't need to think about the toilets. Yeah, the
• 54:06
  Speaker 2: contents of the toilet are not the toilet's business. Yeah
• 54:08
  Speaker 2: you know, I will just push the big buttons and
• 54:10
  Speaker 2: make it all away.
• 54:12
  Speaker 3: No one's ever.
• 54:13
  Speaker 2: Using a little button. No one's that responsible, and if
• 54:16
  Speaker 2: they are, there again probably making mistake for the next
• 54:19
  Speaker 2: person who's using it. There should be no room for
• 54:21
  Speaker 2: error in toilets.
• 54:22
  Speaker 3: And if someone's gifting you a toilet, I don't want
• 54:26
  Speaker 3: to know why. I don't want to know.
• 54:29
  Speaker 2: What's wrong you I mentioned getting a toilet as a gift.
• 54:31
  Speaker 2: I can't. It's a tough one.
• 54:33
  Speaker 3: How do you How do you bluff your way through that?
• 54:36
  Speaker 2: Thank you? You know? How do you move on?
• 54:40
  Speaker 3: Although I would, I will say there is a store
• 54:42
  Speaker 3: in New Orleans that sells these beautiful customized toilet seats.
• 54:46
  Speaker 2: Really what sort of toilet seats? Like?
• 54:49
  Speaker 3: Do you want your favorite singer airbrushed on a toilet
• 54:54
  Speaker 3: seat the way you might on the side of a van,
• 54:58
  Speaker 3: very swanky.
• 55:00
  Speaker 2: Have you bought any No, not yet, not yet. There's
• 55:08
  Speaker 2: nothing that makes a bathroom feel dirtier than a toilet
• 55:10
  Speaker 2: seat that's not just a white toilet sea.
• 55:12
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's like it needs to be a pristine white
• 55:16
  Speaker 3: toilet seat, maybe with a fluffy little cover.
• 55:21
  Speaker 2: Absolute playground for disease. Yeah, bacteria everywhere. Okay, you've gotten
• 55:27
  Speaker 2: two rights, so far, very good. Finally, this is from
• 55:29
  Speaker 2: a listener named Adrian gift her a curse. When couple
• 55:32
  Speaker 2: say we're pregnant, that is a curse.
• 55:35
  Speaker 3: Why that is so gross? We're pregnant.
• 55:45
  Speaker 2: No, no, no, no, no, no, wrong, No, this is
• 55:50
  Speaker 2: a gift, Wendy, This is an absolute gift. We all
• 55:55
  Speaker 2: know that both partners are doing the exact amount of
• 55:58
  Speaker 2: work within this pregnant.
• 56:00
  Speaker 3: You're right, said the childless woman.
• 56:05
  Speaker 2: The childless man. You're right. I see the thing to say.
• 56:12
  Speaker 2: I think that every couple should say we're pregnant. Every
• 56:15
  Speaker 2: couple should share a social media account. Totally healthy, totally normal.
• 56:23
  Speaker 3: They should wear the same pajamas. They should wear matching pajamas.
• 56:27
  Speaker 3: I'm not saying matching and saying same, like in tandem.
• 56:31
  Speaker 2: It's like.
• 56:33
  Speaker 3: Jamas tandem jammas again. Yeah, here we've got a new idea. Oh, Jams,
• 56:38
  Speaker 3: we're so inspirational.
• 56:40
  Speaker 2: I know, I know. Unfortunately you're not because you got
• 56:43
  Speaker 2: that one wrong and you've only got two out of three. Right,
• 56:46
  Speaker 2: that's got to sting a little bit. It does. Well,
• 56:49
  Speaker 2: you'll learn eventually, you'll learn, all right. This is the
• 56:52
  Speaker 2: final segment of the podcast. People are writing into I
• 56:55
  Speaker 2: said no gifts at gmail dot com. They're begging for answers.
• 56:59
  Speaker 2: We help me answer question, all right, Hello bridger and
• 57:03
  Speaker 2: fabulous guest. That's nice. A dear friend of mine is
• 57:05
  Speaker 2: getting married and is the anti bridezilla. For example, there
• 57:09
  Speaker 2: will be no bridesmaids because she doesn't want anyone to
• 57:11
  Speaker 2: feel obligated to wear a certain outfit, plan a bachelorette party,
• 57:15
  Speaker 2: or generally spend any extra money or time on anything.
• 57:19
  Speaker 2: Here is the conundrum. Her family has decided to throw
• 57:21
  Speaker 2: her a bridal shower against her will, and our group
• 57:24
  Speaker 2: of friends is invited. She texted us to say that
• 57:27
  Speaker 2: if we brought a gift, we would be uninvited to
• 57:29
  Speaker 2: the wedding. Ooh, and that us acting as a buffer
• 57:32
  Speaker 2: between her and her family was gift enough, much like
• 57:35
  Speaker 2: your guest own. Now they're putting something on you. We
• 57:37
  Speaker 2: plan on disobeying this order and getting a collective gift.
• 57:41
  Speaker 2: The ideal gift is something silly but maybe still useful
• 57:44
  Speaker 2: to split between four people. So far, our only idea
• 57:47
  Speaker 2: is a bidet. Now we're getting to toy that territory,
• 57:50
  Speaker 2: so we would appreciate any suggestions you have. The bride
• 57:52
  Speaker 2: loves crafting, baking, and her cat thinks in advance, that's Miranda.
• 57:56
  Speaker 2: So Miranda's friend is a giant pain in the ass.
• 58:00
  Speaker 2: She wants it all, she doesn't want it all. She's
• 58:02
  Speaker 2: making demands of friends and family. Were you a bridezilla?
• 58:08
  Speaker 3: I wasn't, But I've been in a lot of weddings.
• 58:11
  Speaker 3: I've been in a lot of weddings.
• 58:12
  Speaker 2: So you've probably seen all sorts of behavior.
• 58:14
  Speaker 3: Yes, this person is.
• 58:17
  Speaker 2: They just want a nice gift to split. The cost
• 58:19
  Speaker 2: will be split between four people for their friends, who
• 58:22
  Speaker 2: they obviously don't really like that much. She's writing in
• 58:26
  Speaker 2: a nasty email about the friend to a podcast, so
• 58:29
  Speaker 2: we know that they're not that close. And there's this
• 58:33
  Speaker 2: weird emotional situation with the family inviting them to a
• 58:41
  Speaker 2: thing that that bride doesn't want. There's probably going to
• 58:44
  Speaker 2: be a fight at the party or the wedding. Yeah,
• 58:47
  Speaker 2: so what do you do to kind of smooth things over?
• 58:49
  Speaker 2: Is my question? The but day, I don't know that
• 58:53
  Speaker 2: that's a great gift.
• 58:54
  Speaker 3: No one wants you to buy them that.
• 58:56
  Speaker 2: Yeah, nobody wants When someone's opening that at the party,
• 58:59
  Speaker 2: then suddenly we're all imagining you using the bidet exactly,
• 59:02
  Speaker 2: and the family is here.
• 59:05
  Speaker 3: Okay, Well, let's talk first about the emotional manipulation of
• 59:10
  Speaker 3: her saying you better not get me anything or I
• 59:13
  Speaker 3: will uninvite uninvited. Let's be serious. If they don't get
• 59:18
  Speaker 3: you anything, she'll bitch about it forever, all right, Right,
• 59:25
  Speaker 3: So I disagree with getting her like a fun, silly thing.
• 59:30
  Speaker 3: Don't waste your money on something somebody can't.
• 59:33
  Speaker 2: Use, right, Okay, The money is going to be spent
• 59:35
  Speaker 2: either way.
• 59:36
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's going to be spent either way. So what
• 59:39
  Speaker 3: you need to do is, in my opinion, give her
• 59:45
  Speaker 3: an experience.
• 59:46
  Speaker 2: Okay, So buy.
• 59:50
  Speaker 3: Like a gift card for a restaurant or a hotel.
• 59:56
  Speaker 2: Oh kind of even honeymoon level, yeah right.
• 59:59
  Speaker 3: Or stay cation staking you know, find out where they're
• 1:00:04
  Speaker 3: going on the honeymoon, get them a dinner wherever. That's
• 1:00:07
  Speaker 3: gonna be right, right, But don't buy a gag gift. Okay.
• 1:00:14
  Speaker 3: Nobody likes a gag gift because then the impetus is
• 1:00:18
  Speaker 3: on them to find.
• 1:00:20
  Speaker 2: Out what to do with this.
• 1:00:21
  Speaker 3: Where I put this in the house and donate it
• 1:00:24
  Speaker 3: right or unloaded on somebody else, you know what I mean.
• 1:00:27
  Speaker 2: Now it's on the garage floor for five years. Come on,
• 1:00:30
  Speaker 2: it's just like, don't leave it alone. I feel I
• 1:00:33
  Speaker 2: agree in a large you know, it seems like the
• 1:00:36
  Speaker 2: friend doesn't like their family. I'm almost wondering, maybe you
• 1:00:41
  Speaker 2: get the friend a new phone plan where the family
• 1:00:43
  Speaker 2: doesn't have that number. Now this is an idea.
• 1:00:47
  Speaker 3: Now, this is just you making sense once again. I'm
• 1:00:50
  Speaker 3: getting to the root of the phone that they don't
• 1:00:54
  Speaker 3: have access, right.
• 1:00:55
  Speaker 2: Essentially a burner phone. Now, how often do you get
• 1:00:59
  Speaker 2: a burner own for your wedding? Not very often.
• 1:01:04
  Speaker 3: But you are making so much thanks, thank you.
• 1:01:08
  Speaker 2: You can get them a cute little cell phone, a
• 1:01:10
  Speaker 2: cell phone case. Now we're getting in. It's probably a
• 1:01:12
  Speaker 2: little more expensive, but it'll be worth it in the end. Yes,
• 1:01:16
  Speaker 2: And then yes, they can stay in touch because they're
• 1:01:19
  Speaker 2: obviously going to want to manipulate you in the future,
• 1:01:23
  Speaker 2: call you screaming about what you've done wrong this time.
• 1:01:26
  Speaker 2: This bride, I feel like you're not just a bridezilla,
• 1:01:28
  Speaker 2: You're that's your whole life. No, one's just in one
• 1:01:32
  Speaker 2: segment of their life. Difficult. No no, no, no no.
• 1:01:34
  Speaker 2: They're difficult all the time the time. And now we're
• 1:01:36
  Speaker 2: just paying attention to them being difficult.
• 1:01:38
  Speaker 3: She's just a Zilla's okay, she's a zilla about different
• 1:01:43
  Speaker 3: things at different time.
• 1:01:45
  Speaker 2: Right, this one just happens to involve friends and family.
• 1:01:49
  Speaker 2: So just be prepared for a lifetime of torture with
• 1:01:52
  Speaker 2: this friend, with this friend.
• 1:01:54
  Speaker 3: But I can say it's nice that she doesn't want
• 1:01:57
  Speaker 3: to have any bridesmaids, because it is a pain in
• 1:02:00
  Speaker 3: the end, it.
• 1:02:00
  Speaker 2: Is a huge pain. It's a job, an unpaid position.
• 1:02:03
  Speaker 3: An unpaid, shitty position that won't end, that will end,
• 1:02:10
  Speaker 3: It never ends. You know, there's got to be a
• 1:02:14
  Speaker 3: you know, engagement party, a save the date throwdown.
• 1:02:18
  Speaker 2: You know this, and that the innovations that happen within
• 1:02:21
  Speaker 2: within that industry are psychotic, psychotic whoever it's you have
• 1:02:28
  Speaker 2: to keep the money flowing, so they're always thinking of
• 1:02:29
  Speaker 2: a new event for people.
• 1:02:30
  Speaker 3: To have exactly. And then it keeps you off balance
• 1:02:34
  Speaker 3: for the first few years of your marriage because it
• 1:02:37
  Speaker 3: sets a terrible precedent, you know, and it makes you
• 1:02:41
  Speaker 3: believe that people are at your beck and call, and
• 1:02:43
  Speaker 3: they are.
• 1:02:44
  Speaker 2: Not so, and now you're deeply in debt. The whole
• 1:02:48
  Speaker 2: thing is just a disaster.
• 1:02:49
  Speaker 3: So then what what can you do to stir the
• 1:02:52
  Speaker 3: excitement back up? Get pregnant and now we're in.
• 1:02:56
  Speaker 2: The baby shower industrial complex.
• 1:02:59
  Speaker 3: Sufferable, Yeah, make me our industrial complex.
• 1:03:02
  Speaker 2: Yes, yeah, it's never ending. So maybe just break up
• 1:03:07
  Speaker 2: the marriage. That's my advice. Break up the marriage and
• 1:03:09
  Speaker 2: move on. I think we answered the question perfectly. We
• 1:03:12
  Speaker 2: did no complaints, and now I've got all this toilet paper.
• 1:03:16
  Speaker 2: I'm so thrilled.
• 1:03:17
  Speaker 3: I'm so thrilled for you. This is going to be
• 1:03:19
  Speaker 3: a really expansive time for you.
• 1:03:21
  Speaker 2: Yes, there's going to be growth in new areas of
• 1:03:23
  Speaker 2: my life.
• 1:03:24
  Speaker 3: You're gonna be like, what else can I Hello Kitty?
• 1:03:28
  Speaker 2: And they have something for everything they do? You can
• 1:03:30
  Speaker 2: get Hello Kitty on anything at this point.
• 1:03:32
  Speaker 3: Yes you can, Yes you can.
• 1:03:33
  Speaker 2: Thank you for bringing this, thank you for being so welcome,
• 1:03:36
  Speaker 2: Thank you for having me listener the podcast. I'm pulling
• 1:03:40
  Speaker 2: the brake slowly, gently. We're all going to move on
• 1:03:45
  Speaker 2: with our days. No one is panicking, no one is sweating,
• 1:03:48
  Speaker 2: no one is turning into an anxious mess and thinking
• 1:03:51
  Speaker 2: about everything they've ever done wrong. We're just moving on
• 1:03:54
  Speaker 2: with our days. So I'm going to let you go.
• 1:03:56
  Speaker 2: I love you, goodbye. I said no gifts is an
• 1:04:04
  Speaker 2: exactly right production. Our Senior producer is on Alisa Nelson,
• 1:04:09
  Speaker 2: and our episodes are beautifully mixed by Ben Toliday. The
• 1:04:13
  Speaker 2: theme song is by Miracle Worker Amy Mann, and we
• 1:04:16
  Speaker 2: couldn't do it without our booker, Patrick Cottner. You must
• 1:04:20
  Speaker 2: follow the show on Instagram at I said, no gifts.
• 1:04:22
  Speaker 2: That's where you're going to see pictures of all these
• 1:04:24
  Speaker 2: wonderful gifts I'm getting. And don't you want to see
• 1:04:27
  Speaker 2: the gifts?
• 1:04:28
  Speaker 1: The lion?
• 1:04:29
  Speaker 3: Why did you hear.
• 1:04:33
  Speaker 1: Thot a man myself perfectly clear? When you're a guest
• 1:04:38
  Speaker 1: to me, you gotta come to me empty. And I said, no, guests,
• 1:04:47
  Speaker 1: Your our presences presents enough. I already had too much stuff,
• 1:04:55
  Speaker 1: So how do you dan to survey me
• 1:05:01
  Speaker 3: The pain