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Mo Welch Disobeys Bridger · I Said No Gifts! A comedy interview podcast with Bridger Winegar

• 0:08
  Speaker 1: And I invited you here. I thought I made myself
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  Speaker 1: perfectly clear. But you're a guest to my home. You
• 0:21
  Speaker 1: gotta come to me empty And I said, no guests,
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  Speaker 1: you're a presences presents enough. I already had too much stuff,
• 0:35
  Speaker 1: So how.
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  Speaker 2: Did you dare to surbey me?
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  Speaker 3: Welcome to I said, no gifts, I'm pretchard wine girl. Well,
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  Speaker 3: what what's happening? There?
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  Speaker 2: Is?
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  Speaker 3: At least the last I knew. There was a silver
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  Speaker 3: Kia going about ninety five miles an hour down the
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  Speaker 3: one thirty four who was not happy when I changed
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  Speaker 3: into his lane doing the speed limit. And I just
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  Speaker 3: want to apologize to him, Sir, I hope you find peace.
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  Speaker 3: I hope you get wherever you need to be on time.
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  Speaker 3: That was a little I'm rattled. I'm a little rattled,
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  Speaker 3: but I also have some good news. Last night, it
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  Speaker 3: was time for bed, I went to close the shade
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  Speaker 3: on the back door, and as I did, I looked
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  Speaker 3: down and underneath the gate, a little skunk came squeezing
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  Speaker 3: under and headed into the backyard. And I I have
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  Speaker 3: not felt a rush like this since I went indoor skydiving.
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  Speaker 3: It was such a thrill to see that little skunk
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  Speaker 3: on its way somewhere I don't know where, doing some
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  Speaker 3: business in my backyard. It's welcome anytime. It was so
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  Speaker 3: truly eight inches away from me, and there was no
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  Speaker 3: fear of being sprayed, So it was really it was delightful.
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  Speaker 3: It was a fun surprise before bed. Ah, is there
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  Speaker 3: anything else we should discuss? These are probably the two
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  Speaker 3: most important pressing things in the world, so then we
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  Speaker 3: can move into the podcast. I just adore today's guest.
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  Speaker 3: I think she's so funny. It's mo welch Mo.
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  Speaker 2: Welcome to is said, no gift, Thank you so much.
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  Speaker 3: Oh. Have you had any sort of skunk interaction?
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  Speaker 2: Uh? Yeah, we used to have something that kind of
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  Speaker 2: lived under the house and they go in and out.
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  Speaker 2: There's a lot of skunks where I live.
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  Speaker 3: Plastic amount of skunks in Los Angeles.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Did you ever get to see skunk babies?
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  Speaker 2: I don't know if I've had the pleasure. I've seen
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  Speaker 2: some maybe teen teens teenskuk.
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  Speaker 3: Smoking in our backyard, some like mini pepe le pews. Yes,
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  Speaker 3: did you were you ever like around? Was there any
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  Speaker 3: fear of getting sprayed?
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  Speaker 2: I'm just I'm fearful that my dog will get sprayed.
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  Speaker 3: So that's kind of the night.
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  Speaker 2: So my dog is old, and so even last night
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  Speaker 2: he wants to go out like four times. My sleep
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  Speaker 2: is so broken because it's yes, and but I have
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  Speaker 2: to I basically have to go outside and watch him
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  Speaker 2: go to the bathroom because I don't want to. There's
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  Speaker 2: raccoons too, so I'm like, I don't want Oh that's
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  Speaker 2: even more hoodies.
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  Speaker 3: Oh god, your dog is a target. I know how
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  Speaker 3: old is he?
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  Speaker 2: He's like a hundred. I don't know he's so because
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  Speaker 2: I adopted him, right, and I tell the story on stage,
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  Speaker 2: but it's it is true that that when we got him,
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  Speaker 2: they said he was two, and then our vet said
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  Speaker 2: he's at least ten.
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  Speaker 3: Oh my god, this is an orphan situation. Yes, the
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  Speaker 3: movie Orphan. Do you remember this movie? They adopt a
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  Speaker 3: little girl and find out that she's like fifty.
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  Speaker 2: This is exactly what it is. I gotta write that down.
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  Speaker 3: Oh my god, that's exactly what happened to you. And
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  Speaker 3: now I've just recently found out there's I can't write
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  Speaker 3: commend this documentary because it's garbage. But it's called like
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  Speaker 3: the Curious Case of Natalie Grace, which is you know
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  Speaker 3: so much that you've watched it.
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  Speaker 2: Of course I did.
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  Speaker 3: Well, then maybe you can tell me what happened because
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  Speaker 3: I had to turn it off.
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  Speaker 2: I still don't. I feel like it wasn't Maybe it's
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  Speaker 2: just me. Maybe I also don't watch the end of it,
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  Speaker 2: but I was like, I feel like it wasn't conclusive.
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  Speaker 2: I feel like they were just like, well, well, never
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  Speaker 2: know how old she is.
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  Speaker 3: It's so annoying. I know, it's like it truly to me,
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  Speaker 3: is like the perfect thing for me to watch. If
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  Speaker 3: it had been well made, I would have watched a
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  Speaker 3: thousand episodes. Yeah, but it's like, I don't feel like
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  Speaker 3: I'm gonna get answers here, and it doesn't feel like
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  Speaker 3: the people being interviewed Noah, still know what's going on.
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  Speaker 2: I think it should be illegal too. If you don't
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  Speaker 2: have an ending to your documentary to make us go
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  Speaker 2: through seven hours not.
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  Speaker 3: A moral thing to do.
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  Speaker 2: Find a birth certificate, hire a private detective.
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  Speaker 3: Get to Eastern Europe and find out where this person
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  Speaker 3: came from, find out if she can drink legal things.
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  Speaker 2: So annoying, it's really.
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  Speaker 3: Annoying, and it's like, yeah, because now you can't tell
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  Speaker 3: me what happened. We just have to kind of kind
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  Speaker 3: of speculate as to whether or not she was four
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  Speaker 3: or if she was ninety eight, right, and I was
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  Speaker 3: so on.
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  Speaker 2: They did do a good job of like sariness in
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  Speaker 2: the direction of like, Okay, she's definitely old, and then
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  Speaker 2: the next one I'd be like, wait, she's young. Though.
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  Speaker 2: I was going back and forth.
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  Speaker 3: And there's ever really an expert at least for I
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  Speaker 3: gave up pretty early. But it's like they're talking to
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  Speaker 3: the dad the son in the basement, and then like
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  Speaker 3: some nosy neighbor.
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  Speaker 2: Right, you're just like it felt like Hollywood, where you're
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  Speaker 2: just like, well, how old is she? Like is she young?
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  Speaker 2: Is she old? Well?
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  Speaker 3: Never know, you could ruin her career, right, Everybody loves
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  Speaker 3: her for how young she is, and meanwhile she's trying
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  Speaker 3: to kill her family. That was another thing where it's
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  Speaker 3: like she should I think this is about where I
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  Speaker 3: turned it off, which actually was kind of an exciting part.
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  Speaker 3: She showed up in the parents' bedroom holding a knife, right.
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  Speaker 2: But there was no evidence, Sorry.
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  Speaker 3: There was no evidence, and she didn't kill them, she
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  Speaker 3: didn't attack, right, So she may have just found the
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  Speaker 3: knife and needed to know where it needed to be
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  Speaker 3: put or something.
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  Speaker 2: In the middle of the night. Mommy, Dad, I want
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  Speaker 2: a sandwich.
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  Speaker 3: I'm cleaning up.
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  Speaker 2: How do I make a sandwich again? I have the knife.
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  Speaker 3: I have the biggest possible knife. So, but you watched
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  Speaker 3: all of it?
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  Speaker 2: I think I did, which is it's terrifying that I
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  Speaker 2: forget everything, you know. I think my brain makes me
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  Speaker 2: forget because it's like, well, what if you want to
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  Speaker 2: watch this again and enjoy it? Like Am of Thrones.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's kind of a self preservation thing. That's kind
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  Speaker 3: I think maybe that's a good way of looking at it,
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  Speaker 3: because I forget everything as well, rather than thinking, oh,
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  Speaker 3: I just have no retention, media retention whatsoever. No, it's
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  Speaker 3: my body saying you want to enjoy this again?
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  Speaker 2: Yes? Yes?
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  Speaker 3: Have you seen any good documentaries recently?
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  Speaker 1: Uh?
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  Speaker 2: I think so?
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  Speaker 3: Have you seen the Cup Courts? Have you seen the one?
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  Speaker 3: And we've already talked about this on this podcast. But
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  Speaker 3: the Man who wants to Live Forever?
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  Speaker 2: I haven't that. It's like Netflix is like, I promise
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  Speaker 2: you should watching this, please watch this, and I just
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  Speaker 2: keep going I just don't want to watch it. I
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  Speaker 2: can't get myself to watch it.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, I will say that one has some pretty
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  Speaker 3: clear answers. The answer you're looking for is this man normal?
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  Speaker 4: Right?
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  Speaker 3: And you find that out pretty quickly.
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  Speaker 2: And he's telling you immediately how old he is.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, that's differently between Yeah, so these kind of go
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  Speaker 3: hand in hand.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe that's where I got the idea to make it.
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  Speaker 3: He's like, I'm going to outdo that documentary. I'm going
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  Speaker 3: to tell people how old I am and how old
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  Speaker 3: I could be twenty two. No, I watched that. It's
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  Speaker 3: truly insane. And then, I mean, news keeps coming out
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  Speaker 3: about him because he's out of his mind, is constantly
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  Speaker 3: trying to stay in the news cycle. And this is
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  Speaker 3: an unfortunate piece of news that I learned yesterday. He's
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  Speaker 3: now God, I don't even know if I want to
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  Speaker 3: talk about this on a podcast. He is now posting screenshots,
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  Speaker 3: he's tracking his nightly erections and his sons and their comparison.
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  Speaker 2: Oh wow, and how is his son?
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  Speaker 3: The son's nineteen? Okay, So this, like, if this gives
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  Speaker 3: you any idea of what we're dealing with, right, it's
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  Speaker 3: it's uh, And I can't imagine how he's now dealing
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  Speaker 3: with the air quality in Los Angeles.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, remember when dads just wanted to play catch
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  Speaker 2: with their sons.
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  Speaker 3: Another erather era. Now they're having their DNA edited. They're
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  Speaker 3: basically brainwashing their children into giving them their blood. It's uh,
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  Speaker 3: am I selling this documentary?
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  Speaker 2: Well it's I mean, yeah, that's the wrong sign in Netflix.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, look at us trying to get specials over here.
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  Speaker 2: We can't get a fucking.
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  Speaker 3: Special to get a fifteen minute.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah take my blood, man's got it blid.
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  Speaker 3: Oh okay, So you've got skunks living under the house. Ultimately,
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  Speaker 3: that's what's important. Yes, yes, do you have to get like,
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  Speaker 3: do you have to call animal control?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah? They we did call them, and they got rid
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  Speaker 2: of them in an okay, in.
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  Speaker 3: A human way where they like the hook that they
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  Speaker 3: pull them out.
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  Speaker 2: I have no idea how they really do it. I think, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: they're like, we signed you up for improv classes. Everyone out.
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  Speaker 3: Everyone had to Franklin. Yeah, this is the first real
• 9:17
  Speaker 3: close encounter I've had with wildlife in the last of
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  Speaker 3: a while. I feel like the fires are kind of
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  Speaker 3: making these animals go all over the place.
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  Speaker 2: Man. Imagine living on the West Side and then as
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  Speaker 2: it's skunk. And then all of a sudden, you're on
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  Speaker 2: the east.
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  Speaker 3: Side, you're headed past Western, you're on the.
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  Speaker 2: Five, and you're just like, I never thought this would
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  Speaker 2: be my life again.
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  Speaker 3: You have your passport, a few pictures of your family.
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  Speaker 2: She was like, well, I might as well go to
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  Speaker 2: kitchen Mouse while I'm here.
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  Speaker 3: Sorry, local reference kitchen Mouse two locations. Wow, everybody had
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  Speaker 3: to kitchen Mouse. Actually, I will say the last time
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  Speaker 3: I was a kitchen mouse, I had a pretty messy sandwhich.
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  Speaker 2: I as my worst fear.
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  Speaker 3: Horrible fear.
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  Speaker 2: I hate that. I also think if you sell a sandwich,
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  Speaker 2: I do think that you should cut off that the
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  Speaker 2: ends so that it's not messy on the end where
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  Speaker 2: the lettuce is falling.
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  Speaker 3: Should that shouldn't touch your hands? Yeah, that's a really
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  Speaker 3: good point.
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  Speaker 2: I think it should just like, go to Natalie Grace,
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  Speaker 2: get that knife, trim up your sandwiches. La.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't want to feel lettuce on my palm.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, who wants that?
• 10:21
  Speaker 3: No, I just want the bread there. That's wow, you're
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  Speaker 3: making an excellent point. I mean, having a really good year,
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  Speaker 3: you're finally turning it fround.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: I wonder though, like aesthetically, is that going to look
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  Speaker 3: too clean?
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  Speaker 2: It's gonna look like a perfect parent, like the parent
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  Speaker 2: who spends too much time on the sandwich, right right,
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  Speaker 2: and your kid just wants beans.
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  Speaker 3: We all know children just kind of on a bag
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  Speaker 3: of beans at school. They want to be the kid
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  Speaker 3: at school who brought beans.
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  Speaker 2: They want the lunch that Uncle Buck packed. I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: It was like disgusting and all the kids just got
• 11:01
  Speaker 2: the lunch tavel And then he opens up. He's like,
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  Speaker 2: anybody want to trade? And all the kids go, and
• 11:06
  Speaker 2: all the chairs go.
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  Speaker 3: There's like smoke from the speeding off. Wow, So is
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  Speaker 3: that what happens to Uncle Buck? He's a bad parent.
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  Speaker 2: Uncle, but he's the uncle and he has to take
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  Speaker 2: over as the parent. And he doesn't know what he's doing.
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  Speaker 2: He's gambling, he's going bowling.
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  Speaker 3: He knows exactly what he's doing.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, he's it's the greatest movie of all time.
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  Speaker 3: What happened to the parents?
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  Speaker 4: Uh?
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  Speaker 2: They had to go to Indianapolis because Uh, one of
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  Speaker 2: the dad had a heart attack.
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  Speaker 3: The grandpa and that's the nearest. Oh the grandpa, so
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  Speaker 3: had to go.
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  Speaker 2: They just moved to Chicago. Oh god, teenager the teenager
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  Speaker 2: was like, well, maybe maybe he wouldn't have a heart
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  Speaker 2: attack if wouldn't move, or like she's just like she's moving. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: she's mad about moving. She's not really fitting in in
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  Speaker 2: the suburbs of Chicago.
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  Speaker 3: The grand the stress gave the grandpa heart attack.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, where kids? Yeah this stress?
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  Speaker 3: What are we supposed to take away from this movie?
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  Speaker 2: Uncle Buck Got his life together?
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  Speaker 3: And it's Macaulay Culkin is the he's the kid pre
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  Speaker 3: Home Alone?
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  Speaker 2: Yes, interesting, right before Home Alone. And Gabby Hoffman.
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  Speaker 3: Gabby Hoffman, Oh my god, wow, is she the sister?
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  Speaker 2: She's the sister? Well, I mean she's not the teenager.
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  Speaker 2: Then there's a teenager who's like it was like a
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  Speaker 2: crush of mine growing up.
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  Speaker 3: Who is it?
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  Speaker 2: Oh?
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  Speaker 3: No, oh her car is over.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I feel like she's in things. But she kind
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  Speaker 2: of has like an Elizabeth shoe, like the like she'd
• 12:37
  Speaker 2: be like the mean Elizabeth shoe.
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  Speaker 3: Okay. The only like teen I can remember from that
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  Speaker 3: period that was always kind of the surly teen is
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  Speaker 3: Juliet Lewis. Yeah, she's always kind of like annoyed that
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  Speaker 3: something was happening in the family, and she was cool
• 12:51
  Speaker 3: and she was always cool, but an outcast about an
• 12:54
  Speaker 3: outcast and a scientologist. Yeah, and so that kind of
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  Speaker 3: fed into every movie that she was.
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  Speaker 2: Yes.
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  Speaker 3: Wow, So this was an early tease for Macaulay being
• 13:07
  Speaker 3: kind of left by his parents. They saw him in
• 13:09
  Speaker 3: this movie, said, people love to see this child about
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  Speaker 3: his parents.
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  Speaker 2: That was the genre.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, let's build another movie around this concept.
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  Speaker 2: I wonder if he did any other.
• 13:20
  Speaker 3: Interesting I wonder if he got kind of typecast.
• 13:23
  Speaker 2: Yeah, what was the one that he did, The party
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  Speaker 2: Monster one?
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  Speaker 3: Oh, do his parents leave town and he becomes the
• 13:28
  Speaker 3: party monster?
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  Speaker 2: It's like, absolutely those parents weren't around from what I remember.
• 13:33
  Speaker 3: Let him go to the limelight. Yeah, and then he
• 13:37
  Speaker 3: becomes a that's a true story, right, he's like a murderer.
• 13:40
  Speaker 2: I think so again my memory. I mean, he wants
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  Speaker 2: me to watch it again.
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  Speaker 3: It's very Home Alone in a way. He's like left
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  Speaker 3: to his own devices and then is hurting people that.
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  Speaker 2: I think it's the follow up to Home Alone. I
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  Speaker 2: think what happens is just like, well, my parents abandoned me,
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  Speaker 2: and then he just becomes a mon star in platform shoes. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Wow, there's that. There's Richie rich I don't know what
• 14:08
  Speaker 3: happens to the parents, and that people liked, Well, the.
• 14:12
  Speaker 2: Parents aren't available. Yes, I feel like the butler or
• 14:16
  Speaker 2: somebody is his friend. And then I know and then
• 14:21
  Speaker 2: the other the other kids come over and he's got
• 14:23
  Speaker 2: Oh god, that was such like an aspirational.
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  Speaker 3: Oh yeah, he's like the sling shot that shoots you
• 14:28
  Speaker 3: across the yard or whatever. Where are the parents? They
• 14:30
  Speaker 3: have to go to Dubai.
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  Speaker 2: Where were the parents? So they leave again they must,
• 14:35
  Speaker 2: even if they're on the other side of the mansion,
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  Speaker 2: you're not seeing them for.
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  Speaker 3: A while, right, They're just too busy with their own money.
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  Speaker 3: And then Richie rich God knows where his money's coming from.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: I remember when I was a PA early in LA
• 14:48
  Speaker 3: I had to go around to different like places that
• 14:49
  Speaker 3: props or whatever. And I remember being in a place
• 14:52
  Speaker 3: that created must have been like fake magazines or something,
• 14:56
  Speaker 3: but they had one framed on the wall that was
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  Speaker 3: I think it was Time or Busy this Insider, And
• 15:00
  Speaker 3: I had Macaulay Culkin from that movie and it said
• 15:03
  Speaker 3: chair Boy of the Board, so it was obviously from
• 15:05
  Speaker 3: that movie. I want that in my own house. Wow, yeah, great,
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  Speaker 3: fake man.
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  Speaker 2: I have to get that way hold on. I gotta
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  Speaker 2: get that as a gift.
• 15:14
  Speaker 3: I am I just leaving well, I mean, speaking of gifts,
• 15:20
  Speaker 3: I mean you brought it up. There's something I'd like
• 15:24
  Speaker 3: to talk to you about. I'm not comfortable getting into
• 15:29
  Speaker 3: this topic at all. It's something I rarely have to do,
• 15:33
  Speaker 3: so I hate that you've put me in this position.
• 15:36
  Speaker 3: I was excited to have you here today on the podcast.
• 15:38
  Speaker 3: I thought mo will come by, I'll brag about my
• 15:42
  Speaker 3: skunk story, She'll leave feeling less than and we'll move
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  Speaker 3: on with our lives. So I was a little surprised.
• 15:52
  Speaker 3: It was a little shocked, I'll be honest, when I
• 15:54
  Speaker 3: saw you come trotting in holding a gift bag the
• 15:57
  Speaker 3: podcast is called. I said, no gifts. We have, you know,
• 16:01
  Speaker 3: mutual friends who have been on the podcast before you
• 16:04
  Speaker 3: obviously received emails. I assumed you would get it. So
• 16:11
  Speaker 3: I don't know what's the meaning of this gift.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, when you become a parent, okay, and you
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  Speaker 2: start having to go to all of these parties, you
• 16:22
  Speaker 2: feel like such an idiot when you come empty handed,
• 16:25
  Speaker 2: and a lot of these birthday parties they tell you, hey,
• 16:29
  Speaker 2: no gifts, right, And I'm like, I always feel really
• 16:32
  Speaker 2: bad for the kid. And I know they're just trying
• 16:33
  Speaker 2: to be good for the environment or whatever. But all
• 16:35
  Speaker 2: these LA parties they say do not bring gifts, and
• 16:38
  Speaker 2: I'm the only one that comes in Santa Claus herself
• 16:46
  Speaker 2: with a nice shiny truck for little Johnny.
• 16:52
  Speaker 3: Okay, so you kind of just feel like this is
• 16:54
  Speaker 3: an extension of that behavior. Yes, well it's in this
• 16:58
  Speaker 3: beautiful mushroom bag. Should I open it here on the podcast?
• 17:03
  Speaker 2: I mean, I would love for you too.
• 17:07
  Speaker 3: Okay, let's get into it here. Let's see here, we've
• 17:11
  Speaker 3: got some tissue and we're reaching in, we're pulling out. Oh,
• 17:18
  Speaker 3: so we're looking at a piece of clothing. Here, it's
• 17:21
  Speaker 3: some sort of t shirt. Oh, it's a twenty twenty
• 17:25
  Speaker 3: two champions the City of Burbank ball. Oh basketball, Yes, this.
• 17:31
  Speaker 2: Is clearly.
• 17:35
  Speaker 3: I saw a net beneath, which is based obviously a
• 17:39
  Speaker 3: basketball net, but my brain immediately jumped to volleyball. I
• 17:43
  Speaker 3: think it's because volleyball is a sport that scares me most.
• 17:46
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it is scary. That ball comes very it's bad.
• 17:48
  Speaker 3: So it's terrifying to me. No, this is basketball. Were
• 17:52
  Speaker 3: you on this team?
• 17:53
  Speaker 2: Okay? So because I'm in Burbank right now at the studio.
• 17:56
  Speaker 2: I thought to myself, listen, I don't know if you've
• 17:58
  Speaker 2: ever won a championship, especially a rec league basketball with
• 18:02
  Speaker 2: women who are all over the age of thirty five
• 18:07
  Speaker 2: basically walking down the court. But I have, and I
• 18:09
  Speaker 2: know what it feels like to be a winner. And
• 18:12
  Speaker 2: I wanted you to have that same feeling. And I
• 18:15
  Speaker 2: can't wait to see you wearing that around town.
• 18:18
  Speaker 3: Interesting assumption that you would think that I've never won
• 18:20
  Speaker 3: anything accurate, but a big swing on your part. I
• 18:27
  Speaker 3: would say, I'm not trying to think if I've won
• 18:30
  Speaker 3: any sport thing ever. No, I have gone trophies.
• 18:35
  Speaker 2: What are the trophies for?
• 18:36
  Speaker 3: Well, I was on im from you. I was on
• 18:38
  Speaker 3: the Junior Jazz for a few years, and you know
• 18:41
  Speaker 3: they would give you a trophy regardless of skill level
• 18:44
  Speaker 3: or comprey. Yes, whatever you added to the team.
• 18:48
  Speaker 2: Was John Sockton your coach?
• 18:50
  Speaker 3: I wish, my god, I would have loved to have
• 18:53
  Speaker 3: John stocks as a coach. He was my hero, fellow
• 18:56
  Speaker 3: short person. He's short, right, yeah.
• 18:58
  Speaker 2: Well, he's also a guy that like he's just one
• 19:01
  Speaker 2: of those guys that if he's wearing regular clothes. You're like,
• 19:03
  Speaker 2: there's no way this man plays basketball. And I love
• 19:06
  Speaker 2: people like that. You're like, there's absolutely no way.
• 19:09
  Speaker 3: He looks like a math professor. Does maybe not even
• 19:12
  Speaker 3: I would say like a high school math teacher. He
• 19:14
  Speaker 3: just kind of jeans and a bad shirt.
• 19:17
  Speaker 2: Yeah, he looks like and he looks like he's always
• 19:20
  Speaker 2: looked like a dad when he was like twenty one,
• 19:22
  Speaker 2: like a.
• 19:22
  Speaker 3: Dad forever fifty and but a very good point guard. Yes,
• 19:27
  Speaker 3: one of the all time great acting like I know
• 19:30
  Speaker 3: how one.
• 19:30
  Speaker 2: Of the all time great volleyball basketball players is he?
• 19:35
  Speaker 3: Currently? He kind of coaches now right, I'm.
• 19:38
  Speaker 2: Not sure what he's up to. I think he occasionally
• 19:40
  Speaker 2: I will do a little Google search of John Stockton, Yeah,
• 19:44
  Speaker 2: of John Stockton, or like players where I'm like, what
• 19:46
  Speaker 2: what do you do after retirement?
• 19:49
  Speaker 3: Yeah? Usually you either from what my experience, you coach,
• 19:53
  Speaker 3: or you open a car dealership, right, or a restaurant, Oh,
• 19:57
  Speaker 3: restaurant Johnson?
• 19:58
  Speaker 2: Yeah, Michael Jordan, in which I always was confused by
• 20:01
  Speaker 2: because I'm like, all these guys ever did was eat concessions.
• 20:05
  Speaker 2: That shows what do these guys know about?
• 20:10
  Speaker 3: Food?
• 20:12
  Speaker 2: Always is still a thing I think it's in the
• 20:13
  Speaker 2: Denver International Airport that I.
• 20:15
  Speaker 3: Think that is like the exact timeline of a basketball player.
• 20:20
  Speaker 3: They start the business, it succeeds for a little while,
• 20:24
  Speaker 3: but then it's no longer successful enough to stand on
• 20:26
  Speaker 3: its own. It moves to an airport, right, yes, and
• 20:29
  Speaker 3: then eventually dies.
• 20:30
  Speaker 2: It does. And I don't even think with the car dealerships,
• 20:33
  Speaker 2: I feel like, I mean, it's really funny to think
• 20:36
  Speaker 2: of a popular play like Lebron all of a sudden
• 20:38
  Speaker 2: as car dealerships. It's become Now they're like media moguls,
• 20:41
  Speaker 2: oh yeah, or even on the lowest level, become social
• 20:46
  Speaker 2: media like eat my gummies.
• 20:48
  Speaker 3: Yeah, that is kind of the new thing, right, Like
• 20:51
  Speaker 3: if you were a famous athlete in the nineties you
• 20:54
  Speaker 3: had a car dealership, and now you have it all right,
• 20:59
  Speaker 3: because I I'll go home on occasion and there's still
• 21:02
  Speaker 3: the Carl Malone car Dealership and it has a very
• 21:06
  Speaker 3: funny sign because it says on the side it says
• 21:08
  Speaker 3: Carl Malone's Body and Paint. But if you just see
• 21:11
  Speaker 3: the first few letters, it just seems like a business
• 21:13
  Speaker 3: that's for Carl Malon's body.
• 21:17
  Speaker 2: But it's like an attraction of roadside attraction.
• 21:21
  Speaker 3: It's like a King tut situation. He's just lying in
• 21:23
  Speaker 3: a coffin or whatever. It's not a bad idea. After
• 21:28
  Speaker 3: Carl passes, yes, it could tour Him'll bring it to
• 21:31
  Speaker 3: his people. Who was your team growing up?
• 21:35
  Speaker 2: The Bulls?
• 21:36
  Speaker 3: Oh are you from Chicago?
• 21:37
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm from Illinois.
• 21:39
  Speaker 3: Yeah, so we really had a rivalry. We did, Yeah,
• 21:42
  Speaker 3: because there was a point when the Jazz were good, right,
• 21:45
  Speaker 3: extremely good, almost good enough.
• 21:47
  Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, I moved to Chicago basically when the
• 21:51
  Speaker 2: Bulls became really bad, right after all the championships. Yeah,
• 21:56
  Speaker 2: so it was it was tough, but then I became
• 22:00
  Speaker 2: I don't know, then I was like, well now I'm
• 22:01
  Speaker 2: a fan, and even bigger fan.
• 22:03
  Speaker 3: Yeah, because you're rote have something to root.
• 22:04
  Speaker 2: Yeah, And then you know, you get to that point
• 22:07
  Speaker 2: where you're in your early twenties and I'm like, what
• 22:08
  Speaker 2: am I doing watching all these games?
• 22:10
  Speaker 3: Like nobody's I'm not getting anything, No one's moving forward.
• 22:17
  Speaker 3: They're just losing game after game, and.
• 22:19
  Speaker 2: I'm just spending the hours. And I remember I used
• 22:21
  Speaker 2: to watch the Bears games and like when I was
• 22:24
  Speaker 2: in college and I would just be like at my
• 22:27
  Speaker 2: apartment watching them by myself in my room, and I'm like,
• 22:30
  Speaker 2: like watching these people live their dreams and I'm like,
• 22:34
  Speaker 2: it's not outside. No, I got to go play frisbee golf.
• 22:40
  Speaker 3: Do you play frisbee golf?
• 22:41
  Speaker 2: I really want to.
• 22:42
  Speaker 3: Okay, have you ever done it?
• 22:45
  Speaker 2: I've tossed it around a few times, but I'm not
• 22:48
  Speaker 2: in a real way.
• 22:49
  Speaker 3: Okay, that's a big thing in the valley here, isn't it.
• 22:51
  Speaker 3: People play a lot of frisbee golf around here.
• 22:53
  Speaker 2: I would love to try.
• 22:54
  Speaker 3: Am I just assuming that because there's enough space in Burbank.
• 22:56
  Speaker 2: To I know? I really I feel like that's true. Yeah,
• 23:01
  Speaker 2: this is the only place in LA that it's happening.
• 23:05
  Speaker 3: No, I feel like frisbee golf is something I could do.
• 23:08
  Speaker 2: That's that's why I want to do it, because I
• 23:10
  Speaker 2: also have the same feeling about myself.
• 23:11
  Speaker 3: That's a good slogan for frisbee golf. It's something you
• 23:14
  Speaker 3: could do.
• 23:15
  Speaker 2: It's something even you could do.
• 23:19
  Speaker 3: It just really nags you from the beginning, something even
• 23:23
  Speaker 3: you could do. And do you play it on like
• 23:28
  Speaker 3: golf courses?
• 23:30
  Speaker 2: It's like a in a park.
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: I believe.
• 23:32
  Speaker 3: Okay, you're bothering people.
• 23:34
  Speaker 2: You're bothering people. Yeah, kids are getting.
• 23:36
  Speaker 3: Hit in like you're getting in the way of picnics. Yeah,
• 23:40
  Speaker 3: people are just trying to mind their own business instead
• 23:42
  Speaker 3: of they're in the middle of your game. Even you
• 23:45
  Speaker 3: can do this, and I guess it's just like golf,
• 23:48
  Speaker 3: where like two people can play at a time.
• 23:51
  Speaker 2: I don't know, Like I feel like you could have
• 23:54
  Speaker 2: a few people because then you each treat it like
• 23:58
  Speaker 2: a hole or whatever.
• 24:00
  Speaker 3: I don't know, but you don't need a lot of people.
• 24:02
  Speaker 2: No, I think you can play solo.
• 24:04
  Speaker 3: Oh, now that feels sad.
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: It is.
• 24:06
  Speaker 3: That's tough.
• 24:08
  Speaker 2: Well, it's like you're practicing then and right, you're practicing
• 24:11
  Speaker 2: for this. It's kind of like when you're going to
• 24:13
  Speaker 2: the pick a ball court as you do it, just
• 24:18
  Speaker 2: like yeah, I've seen like people do that and I'm like,
• 24:20
  Speaker 2: come on, we can we gotta get out of this.
• 24:24
  Speaker 3: Find somebody put a post on Craigslist or something. Maybe
• 24:29
  Speaker 3: a pickleball.
• 24:30
  Speaker 2: Can't practice pickleball?
• 24:33
  Speaker 3: How possibly you hit it against a wall?
• 24:35
  Speaker 2: No, okay, there are two courts. When I was like playing,
• 24:38
  Speaker 2: I would go with my wife and we go with
• 24:39
  Speaker 2: our friends. There always to be this woman that had
• 24:43
  Speaker 2: the whole court. So she is taking up an entire
• 24:46
  Speaker 2: pickleball right now.
• 24:47
  Speaker 3: It's selfish and said, yeah.
• 24:49
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and I'm just and you can't obviously you can't
• 24:52
  Speaker 2: like move her, so.
• 24:57
  Speaker 3: But I don't even understand. So she's just like hitting
• 24:59
  Speaker 3: it over the net and going in.
• 25:00
  Speaker 2: Yes, she had like a well she had like a
• 25:03
  Speaker 2: bucket of balls.
• 25:04
  Speaker 3: Oh, okay, that could be done anywhere. You don't need
• 25:07
  Speaker 3: the court to do that alone.
• 25:08
  Speaker 2: Yeah, she could also do it on There are plenty
• 25:10
  Speaker 2: of basketball courts and nobody was playing basketball.
• 25:12
  Speaker 3: In your living room. Yeah, keep us out of it,
• 25:15
  Speaker 3: keep us out of it selfish loser, Yeah, totally unfair. Wait,
• 25:21
  Speaker 3: so in twenty twenty two, you were on this team.
• 25:24
  Speaker 2: Yes, I'm still on that team.
• 25:26
  Speaker 3: Okay, And how are you guys doing?
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: Now?
• 25:27
  Speaker 2: We won last season as well.
• 25:30
  Speaker 3: Wow, you're dominating.
• 25:31
  Speaker 2: We did have a three pet Oh my god, congrats,
• 25:34
  Speaker 2: thank you. Where do you play It's at the All
• 25:38
  Speaker 2: of Recreational Center. It's like right and Burbank.
• 25:40
  Speaker 3: Okay, yeah, and do you have a coach?
• 25:44
  Speaker 2: No, No, it's just it's wreck basketball. I've been playing
• 25:46
  Speaker 2: in this league, that league for like over ten years
• 25:49
  Speaker 2: I think at this point. So we've been a team
• 25:52
  Speaker 2: at this point, we just can't leave. We've been playing
• 25:54
  Speaker 2: together for so long, and we look so bad. Like
• 25:59
  Speaker 2: when teams, like younger teams will come in, they're like,
• 26:02
  Speaker 2: I'm about to beat these like little up. Yeah. Literally,
• 26:07
  Speaker 2: did they know we've been playing together so long that
• 26:09
  Speaker 2: your marine?
• 26:11
  Speaker 3: Yeah, of course you know everything about each other. Wow,
• 26:15
  Speaker 3: did you play in high school or college?
• 26:17
  Speaker 2: I played in high school, I played in I played
• 26:21
  Speaker 2: one year of junior college basketball.
• 26:24
  Speaker 3: So you must be pretty good.
• 26:25
  Speaker 2: No, I mean I was when I was like twenty.
• 26:30
  Speaker 3: But you're a three people.
• 26:31
  Speaker 2: I mean, come on, I'm on the team.
• 26:34
  Speaker 3: Yeah, what's your position on the thing is?
• 26:37
  Speaker 2: You don't practice as like a rec league? You know,
• 26:39
  Speaker 2: you have your you basically you live your life during
• 26:42
  Speaker 2: the week, and then you come in. You don't stretch
• 26:44
  Speaker 2: and you so around. It's so dangerous.
• 26:49
  Speaker 3: So you all just show up having done your own
• 26:51
  Speaker 3: homework and hope things work out.
• 26:53
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and you have you know, this is my retirement year,
• 26:57
  Speaker 2: this five, I'm retiring from recreational basket.
• 27:01
  Speaker 3: You have to make an announcement.
• 27:02
  Speaker 2: Well, I'm making it an entire documentary.
• 27:05
  Speaker 3: Way are you currently filming?
• 27:08
  Speaker 2: And I'm and it's Natalie Grace is in it. She's
• 27:11
  Speaker 2: on my team.
• 27:14
  Speaker 3: She's really kept to herself.
• 27:16
  Speaker 2: Yeah, she won't put her birth year on the forms, she.
• 27:21
  Speaker 3: Won't sign the release. Yeah, it's holding up the documentary.
• 27:25
  Speaker 2: It really is.
• 27:25
  Speaker 3: We just to blur her out, a small blur just
• 27:29
  Speaker 3: all over the court.
• 27:31
  Speaker 2: It's been really difficult. It takes so long to edit.
• 27:38
  Speaker 3: People have had to pull her aside and say, Natalie,
• 27:40
  Speaker 3: you are ruining the documentary.
• 27:42
  Speaker 2: And she's just the thing is, she's a beast on
• 27:44
  Speaker 2: the court, and she gets a triple double every game.
• 27:49
  Speaker 3: We're rooting for her.
• 27:50
  Speaker 2: Yeah, we are.
• 27:51
  Speaker 3: She's the you know, you always start documentary thinking this
• 27:55
  Speaker 3: is gonna be the subject and then you find the
• 27:57
  Speaker 3: story and this is an Italia's this is it.
• 28:00
  Speaker 2: I'm in a back seat.
• 28:01
  Speaker 3: Now, how long have you been shooting this documentary for
• 28:07
  Speaker 3: like two.
• 28:07
  Speaker 2: And a half years?
• 28:09
  Speaker 3: Oh my god, this is what happened is I.
• 28:15
  Speaker 2: I started to film it during this season and it
• 28:19
  Speaker 2: was going to be our big you know, Okay, we're
• 28:21
  Speaker 2: going to be We're we want to win the championship.
• 28:24
  Speaker 2: And we were by far the worst team and we
• 28:28
  Speaker 2: kept getting beat by thirty points and then forty points
• 28:33
  Speaker 2: and we're so bad that I was like, well, I
• 28:36
  Speaker 2: can't go out like this, and so then I tried
• 28:38
  Speaker 2: another seat. So now I'm basically on my third retirement season.
• 28:42
  Speaker 3: So oh so in that first season you said this
• 28:45
  Speaker 3: is the last time.
• 28:46
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I thought that was going to be the last one,
• 28:48
  Speaker 2: and then the next one. And now I've actually stooped
• 28:52
  Speaker 2: to paying players. I'm going to be paying some player salaries.
• 28:57
  Speaker 3: Can I ask what you're paying them?
• 28:59
  Speaker 2: I'll give them as it depends on how good they are.
• 29:01
  Speaker 2: But I'm my plan is to give them like an
• 29:05
  Speaker 2: envelope of two hundred dollars and see if that's enough.
• 29:10
  Speaker 3: Just kind of watch their face as they open it.
• 29:12
  Speaker 2: Yeah, see how they and see if they If that's enough,
• 29:15
  Speaker 2: I guess.
• 29:16
  Speaker 3: So when is the do you know when the final
• 29:17
  Speaker 3: game is?
• 29:19
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's probably going to be in maybe July or something.
• 29:23
  Speaker 2: I'd love for you to come.
• 29:24
  Speaker 3: I will be there. Okay, great, put it on my calendar,
• 29:27
  Speaker 3: send me an invite. Amazing, holyst write this down. I've
• 29:30
  Speaker 3: got to go to this game. I will be there.
• 29:32
  Speaker 3: I'm going to be the final shot of this documentary.
• 29:34
  Speaker 2: Yes, you are just going to be all of a sudden,
• 29:36
  Speaker 2: You're in the game.
• 29:38
  Speaker 3: Scoring the game winning points. The first time I've ever
• 29:42
  Speaker 3: been valuable to a basketball team.
• 29:44
  Speaker 2: Amazing, amazing, ending.
• 29:46
  Speaker 3: Do you guys have a team name?
• 29:49
  Speaker 2: Let's see, I'm trying to I we were the ninety
• 29:52
  Speaker 2: nine Bowls because it was like the worst team mystery.
• 29:58
  Speaker 2: But I've been calling the documentary Last Chance Me. Okay,
• 30:02
  Speaker 2: so maybe it'll be called the Last Chance Me. I
• 30:06
  Speaker 2: would love I mean, even your listeners, if anybody has
• 30:08
  Speaker 2: a good idea for a team name. We have until April.
• 30:12
  Speaker 3: Okay, we've got until April. Yeah for a team name.
• 30:14
  Speaker 3: I'm going to start brain and storm everything. The Bridgers.
• 30:18
  Speaker 2: I love it.
• 30:19
  Speaker 3: It's decent thought, but it's like, why not get the
• 30:22
  Speaker 3: name out there? I love it.
• 30:24
  Speaker 2: I've become a sponsor of a women's basketball team.
• 30:27
  Speaker 3: The Curious Cases, the Natalie Graces. The names are right
• 30:33
  Speaker 3: here for you to take it.
• 30:34
  Speaker 2: You're right, it's gonna be a hard decision.
• 30:37
  Speaker 3: Ninety nine Bowls. I like that name. So ninety eight
• 30:40
  Speaker 3: they were okay, yeah they won, Okay, yeah, that must
• 30:43
  Speaker 3: have been when I stopped watching.
• 30:44
  Speaker 2: Yeah, then a goat Yeah. Then it was like they
• 30:46
  Speaker 2: have to root for a whole new team.
• 30:48
  Speaker 3: And I kind of just lost interest at that point.
• 30:51
  Speaker 3: And as you said, now every year I promise myself,
• 30:53
  Speaker 3: I'm going to get back into watching basketball, and then
• 30:55
  Speaker 3: don't do it, then regret it.
• 30:58
  Speaker 2: It's there are a lot of game games in a basketball.
• 31:01
  Speaker 3: Season of games, and now WNBA and NBA there's double
• 31:06
  Speaker 3: the amount of games to watch.
• 31:07
  Speaker 2: Well, the women will play as many, but so yeah,
• 31:10
  Speaker 2: so if you want like a smaller yeah, and they
• 31:13
  Speaker 2: play in the problem for me is that they play
• 31:16
  Speaker 2: in the summer. Oh, and I'm like, there's so much
• 31:18
  Speaker 2: to do in the summer.
• 31:20
  Speaker 3: That's a bad schedule. It is.
• 31:22
  Speaker 2: I think they should be the same.
• 31:23
  Speaker 3: Time, get more eyes on it during the fall.
• 31:26
  Speaker 2: I think it should be like an opener closer situation
• 31:28
  Speaker 2: in the NBA, like where sometimes the WNBA closes. Maybe
• 31:34
  Speaker 2: it's the same.
• 31:34
  Speaker 3: Day, Right, you have to sit through two full basketball games, right,
• 31:39
  Speaker 3: that's not a bad idea. That's kind of the only
• 31:41
  Speaker 3: way you can do that to double up on the schedule. Yeah, summer.
• 31:46
  Speaker 3: I can't imagine sitting around at night during the summer
• 31:48
  Speaker 3: watching game after game after game.
• 31:50
  Speaker 2: Well, I was gifted before the WNBA kind of and
• 31:55
  Speaker 2: I'm so happy, blew up.
• 31:57
  Speaker 3: And yeah it's really exploded less incredible.
• 32:00
  Speaker 2: But the season before that, I got a season tickets
• 32:04
  Speaker 2: for my birthday. Is a gift. And I love watching basketball.
• 32:09
  Speaker 2: I mean, I'm wearing a Sparks hat right now.
• 32:12
  Speaker 3: I say, yes, like, I know, I have no idea
• 32:14
  Speaker 3: what these teams are.
• 32:15
  Speaker 2: And I got even I, like a huge basketball fan,
• 32:20
  Speaker 2: went to maybe two of those games because I'm like,
• 32:23
  Speaker 2: you have to plan your entire schedule around that.
• 32:26
  Speaker 3: It's an event. It's more than like going to the opera. Right,
• 32:29
  Speaker 3: you have to drive somewhere. It takes up hours and
• 32:32
  Speaker 3: hours that parking.
• 32:34
  Speaker 2: Is Yeah, the parking.
• 32:36
  Speaker 3: Where did they play?
• 32:36
  Speaker 2: You have at Staple Center at a crypto dot com arena.
• 32:40
  Speaker 3: That's a long way to go.
• 32:42
  Speaker 2: Yes, you have to find something in purple to wear.
• 32:45
  Speaker 3: Of course you can't not in purple. You can't ejected
• 32:49
  Speaker 3: from the game immediately. Yeah, and how many games a
• 32:52
  Speaker 3: week are they playing?
• 32:53
  Speaker 2: Well, they don't. It just depends on how many home
• 32:55
  Speaker 2: games they have. But it was enough where I was
• 32:57
  Speaker 2: like this isn't worth the money.
• 32:59
  Speaker 3: Wow?
• 32:59
  Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, And I'm not the type of person I'm
• 33:02
  Speaker 2: really bad at being like Okay, well, I'll sell them
• 33:04
  Speaker 2: this week or like my job.
• 33:07
  Speaker 3: I'm like, no, yeah, that seems now that I'm thinking
• 33:12
  Speaker 3: about it, it seems like it's such a luxurious thing
• 33:15
  Speaker 3: to have season passes. But now that's the most stressful
• 33:17
  Speaker 3: thing I can imagine it is. It's just like the planning,
• 33:20
  Speaker 3: don't do guilt, Yeah, the worry.
• 33:23
  Speaker 2: And it's like, oh, I got to be in town
• 33:25
  Speaker 2: for this. Oh I was gonna go to my sister's wedding,
• 33:27
  Speaker 2: but I have a Sparks game to go.
• 33:29
  Speaker 3: Owning a dog, it is less rewarding they should. Yeah, yeah,
• 33:36
  Speaker 3: I think it's more just find the games you want
• 33:38
  Speaker 3: to go to, go to them, don't go to them.
• 33:41
  Speaker 2: I like one game a year, that's really all I
• 33:43
  Speaker 2: need to go to. Wow one Yeah, okay, in all sports.
• 33:47
  Speaker 2: One game, I'm like, I don't need.
• 33:50
  Speaker 3: It's about ten times the amount I need to go to.
• 33:54
  Speaker 3: I see like the traffic going to a Dodgers game,
• 33:57
  Speaker 3: and I think that would be a once in a
• 33:59
  Speaker 3: lifetime activity for me.
• 34:00
  Speaker 2: The game is getting into the game, it's parking, it's
• 34:05
  Speaker 2: it's the whole hassle of getting getting your hot dog,
• 34:07
  Speaker 2: getting your Dodger dog. All of that requires so much
• 34:11
  Speaker 2: more than the actual game itself.
• 34:16
  Speaker 3: Is a Dodger dog different than a regular hot dog.
• 34:19
  Speaker 2: I think it's just longer. Okay, but here we go again.
• 34:22
  Speaker 2: It's coming out of the side of the bun.
• 34:26
  Speaker 3: I'm want rubbing against my up against my hands. Hey,
• 34:32
  Speaker 3: two hands like a corn on the co just eating
• 34:36
  Speaker 3: the bund. So it's just longer. And are they building
• 34:41
  Speaker 3: the gondola? Have you been tracking this at all? Not
• 34:44
  Speaker 3: at all, none of us. Apparently we don't want the
• 34:46
  Speaker 3: gondola being built. Where something moron is trying to build
• 34:50
  Speaker 3: a gondola from I think Griffith Park to Dodger Stadium.
• 34:54
  Speaker 2: Wait, that's long, right, Yeah, I.
• 34:56
  Speaker 3: Think that's quite a way. How do you even keep
• 34:59
  Speaker 3: that up in the wait?
• 35:00
  Speaker 2: So, if they're going from Griffith Park to Dodger Stadium,
• 35:03
  Speaker 2: they're just going over the highway.
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: I think so.
• 35:06
  Speaker 3: And obviously I don't know that much and I'm just
• 35:09
  Speaker 3: making things up, but that would be exciting. But I
• 35:12
  Speaker 3: think we're not supposed to want this. It's kind of
• 35:15
  Speaker 3: Olympics vibes where it's like this just seems like a
• 35:17
  Speaker 3: wasteful thing that there's probably a better solution.
• 35:20
  Speaker 2: But it's going over people's houses.
• 35:22
  Speaker 3: It's going over people's houses. It's running into birds, yes,
• 35:26
  Speaker 3: scaring people in their cars, just screaming as you drive
• 35:35
  Speaker 3: down the one. A one that seems extremely dangerous. Even
• 35:40
  Speaker 3: if it's a short distance. A gondola is dangerous. It
• 35:43
  Speaker 3: could fall to the ground at any time.
• 35:44
  Speaker 2: And also, have you ever had fun in a gondole?
• 35:48
  Speaker 2: As anyone?
• 35:49
  Speaker 3: I'm having a blast. It's a thrill ride slowly moving
• 35:54
  Speaker 3: down a cable.
• 35:55
  Speaker 2: It's just like whoa, oh my god, look how high
• 35:58
  Speaker 2: we are? Oh my god, wait, there's my car.
• 36:02
  Speaker 3: I will say. The gondola. Have you been up the
• 36:05
  Speaker 3: one in Palm Springs?
• 36:07
  Speaker 2: You know, that's the one I do want to go on.
• 36:08
  Speaker 2: It's exhilarating because I don't remember it unless it's it's
• 36:11
  Speaker 2: on the way out of town basin.
• 36:13
  Speaker 3: Yes, yes, it's kind of the first thing you see
• 36:15
  Speaker 3: as went on. I've been on it.
• 36:18
  Speaker 2: I was like, who goes on that? People like sighting?
• 36:20
  Speaker 3: And I had such a good time. It's kind of scary.
• 36:24
  Speaker 3: M's it feels old enough that something could happen, so
• 36:27
  Speaker 3: you're a little like, oh, this is exciting. And then
• 36:30
  Speaker 3: you get up to the top of the mountain and
• 36:31
  Speaker 3: it's no longer desert a, it's more mountain a, which
• 36:34
  Speaker 3: is it's such a Jurassic shift from Palm Springs.
• 36:38
  Speaker 2: And do you get out at the top.
• 36:40
  Speaker 3: You get out at the top, and I think there
• 36:41
  Speaker 3: are hiking options. My boyfriend refused, so we kind of
• 36:44
  Speaker 3: just had to sit in the lodge and wait to
• 36:47
  Speaker 3: go back, kind of watch people eat like Dorito's and
• 36:52
  Speaker 3: probably Dodger dog style food, and then you go back
• 36:56
  Speaker 3: down and you are there seats of like a weird
• 37:00
  Speaker 3: lodge at the top or.
• 37:02
  Speaker 2: Like but like I mean when you're in the ganda
• 37:04
  Speaker 2: or in the gondola, I believe you stand and how
• 37:06
  Speaker 2: many people are in there with you, I'm going.
• 37:08
  Speaker 3: To estimate eight to ten. Okay, that feels about right.
• 37:11
  Speaker 2: So this is like a nightmare elevator ride, is what
• 37:15
  Speaker 2: I'm hearing. If that thing get that's how you choose
• 37:18
  Speaker 2: to look at yehs, which I do.
• 37:22
  Speaker 3: I kind of see it as a little uh, a
• 37:24
  Speaker 3: little splurge, a little vacation, a little cruise.
• 37:28
  Speaker 2: I appreciate that you're going out there and you're doing that.
• 37:31
  Speaker 2: The attractions in Palm Springs.
• 37:34
  Speaker 3: I think that's the one I've ever done. Oh, I've
• 37:36
  Speaker 3: done that, and then I've done There used to be
• 37:38
  Speaker 3: a thing called robot lights. Are you familiar with this? No,
• 37:41
  Speaker 3: this thing was incredible. This was one of the weirdest
• 37:43
  Speaker 3: things I've ever experienced. There's a an artist. I guess
• 37:47
  Speaker 3: that's what he is out there, some sort of thing. Uh,
• 37:50
  Speaker 3: And I think he comes from wealth and owns a
• 37:54
  Speaker 3: house in a nice neighborhood. But decades ago, I think,
• 37:57
  Speaker 3: started collecting garbage and things like this and turning them
• 38:00
  Speaker 3: into structures in his backyard, giant robotic structures, spray painting them,
• 38:05
  Speaker 3: turning them into all sorts of robots and things. And
• 38:08
  Speaker 3: every year during the holidays he would open it up
• 38:10
  Speaker 3: and you could go wander through it.
• 38:12
  Speaker 2: Oh wow.
• 38:13
  Speaker 3: Obviously I think that bothered the neighbors because he's just
• 38:16
  Speaker 3: literally in a neighborhood, and some annoying neighbor got it
• 38:20
  Speaker 3: closed down. So but it was kind of the thing
• 38:23
  Speaker 3: you would do in Palm Springs during the holidays.
• 38:25
  Speaker 2: Oh, that's fun.
• 38:26
  Speaker 3: I have to imagine all that garbage is still there. Yeah,
• 38:30
  Speaker 3: it's I imagine if you weremoving a bunch of toxins
• 38:33
  Speaker 3: fly into the air and kill the neighbors.
• 38:34
  Speaker 2: It's out of the closet a thrift store.
• 38:39
  Speaker 3: He just donated it all to the good will. Yeah,
• 38:42
  Speaker 3: what do you do with it? Like a spray painted
• 38:45
  Speaker 3: Oregon and t Rex that you found in the trash?
• 38:51
  Speaker 3: But I think he might do private tours now. So
• 38:53
  Speaker 3: those are the two things I've ever done in the
• 38:55
  Speaker 3: two spring.
• 38:55
  Speaker 2: Well, I've been to the date farm. Date farm.
• 38:58
  Speaker 3: He loves to go to the date farm.
• 39:00
  Speaker 2: But I overdosed on dates because I've never had one
• 39:02
  Speaker 2: since I had a date shake. I've had a date shake, yeah,
• 39:07
  Speaker 2: and then I had I like bought dates there because
• 39:09
  Speaker 2: it just feels like you know when you go to
• 39:10
  Speaker 2: one of those places and you're like they have all
• 39:12
  Speaker 2: the things, Like when you go into a fudge store
• 39:14
  Speaker 2: and I'm like any other time in my life, but
• 39:17
  Speaker 2: you're like on Macina Island or something, and you're like, Okay,
• 39:20
  Speaker 2: I guess I'm meeting fudge now, and you have to
• 39:22
  Speaker 2: buy a brick of it and then you just have it.
• 39:25
  Speaker 3: You always buy too much fudge, Yeah, you can't. You
• 39:28
  Speaker 3: should probably buy like the size of a stamp of
• 39:30
  Speaker 3: fudge and you'll have enough. But you buy the thing
• 39:33
  Speaker 3: that's literally like you can build a home with us,
• 39:36
  Speaker 3: and then you're like, well, I'm sick of this flavor.
• 39:39
  Speaker 2: And my mom always gets it. She goes on vacation,
• 39:41
  Speaker 2: go's like Door County, Wisconsin, and she'll get me these
• 39:45
  Speaker 2: bricks of fudge, and I'm just like, I like, I
• 39:49
  Speaker 2: hate to say it, but I'm like, there's chocolate at
• 39:51
  Speaker 2: the store, and I don't want to put anyone out
• 39:54
  Speaker 2: of business here.
• 39:56
  Speaker 3: I mean, my feeling with fudge is you just ask
• 39:59
  Speaker 3: for a sample, then you leave the store. You've had enough, yes, yeah,
• 40:02
  Speaker 3: but again we don't want are.
• 40:03
  Speaker 2: You ever guilty? Are you ever samples? I get like,
• 40:07
  Speaker 2: even with frozen yogurt, it's just like you. And then
• 40:10
  Speaker 2: I go, well, like because then you do that thing
• 40:12
  Speaker 2: where you lie and you go I'll be back. I
• 40:14
  Speaker 2: just have a show and then I'll come back. I
• 40:16
  Speaker 2: just don't want to eat, and then you're lying.
• 40:19
  Speaker 3: I often do that with like small boutiques or like
• 40:23
  Speaker 3: local stores that have stylish but two expensive goods and
• 40:27
  Speaker 3: they're small, and it's like you you're the only person
• 40:29
  Speaker 3: in the store, and of course you're not going to
• 40:31
  Speaker 3: buy anything, so then you have to say I'll be
• 40:34
  Speaker 3: back next weekend, Yes, be back yeah, I've liked to
• 40:38
  Speaker 3: so many small business owners.
• 40:40
  Speaker 2: Getting on the phone. Hold on one second, Oh, you
• 40:43
  Speaker 2: have to go right now. Okay, I was just gonna
• 40:45
  Speaker 2: buy this. Let me just put this down. Okay, I'll
• 40:48
  Speaker 2: be back next weekend.
• 40:50
  Speaker 3: I'm getting in an ambulance. I don't feel guilty in
• 40:54
  Speaker 3: a frozen yogurt place because I feel like it's usually
• 40:58
  Speaker 3: a giant corporation.
• 40:59
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and it doesn't take a lot to make the
• 41:01
  Speaker 2: frozen yogurt.
• 41:02
  Speaker 3: Right, It's essentially powder and water.
• 41:04
  Speaker 2: Yeah, but to do it anyway, it's I will gain
• 41:09
  Speaker 2: twenty pounds to I don't know why this is, Like,
• 41:12
  Speaker 2: I think that is where my people pleasing comes through.
• 41:14
  Speaker 2: Is just some places like this.
• 41:16
  Speaker 3: Where it's absolutely meaningless.
• 41:17
  Speaker 2: Yeah it is. And I'm like, okay, well, I guess
• 41:19
  Speaker 2: I'm buying the shelf because the store's small. Yeah.
• 41:24
  Speaker 3: I like, I'll get trapped in that cycle. And what
• 41:26
  Speaker 3: I do is I remind myself of when I had
• 41:28
  Speaker 3: jobs like that that were just kind of part time
• 41:32
  Speaker 3: or whatever. I'll remember like, oh, I didn't care what
• 41:34
  Speaker 3: the customer did.
• 41:35
  Speaker 2: Either, That's true.
• 41:36
  Speaker 3: I wanted them to go away. Yeah, I was like
• 41:38
  Speaker 3: when they left, I was happy.
• 41:40
  Speaker 2: Yeah, you're not getting paid any different unless it's like
• 41:42
  Speaker 2: the owner of the frozen.
• 41:44
  Speaker 3: That's where we run into traps.
• 41:45
  Speaker 2: Which I have been friends with owners of frozen yogurt shops. Brag,
• 41:50
  Speaker 2: Yeah it's not a big deal.
• 41:54
  Speaker 3: Ah yeah, How did we get to frozen yoga sample?
• 41:58
  Speaker 2: We always will, we always do.
• 42:01
  Speaker 3: We were talking about fudge. I have completely again memory,
• 42:05
  Speaker 3: It's just absolutely there's no I would have to spend
• 42:08
  Speaker 3: the next half hour trying to uh trace back to
• 42:11
  Speaker 3: how we got to this product, to this conversation.
• 42:14
  Speaker 2: Impossible.
• 42:16
  Speaker 3: I interesting, we start with basketball, we end up in
• 42:19
  Speaker 3: frozen yogurt. Kind of a tale as old as time.
• 42:23
  Speaker 3: I would say, is there anybody on your team that's
• 42:26
  Speaker 3: also in comedy.
• 42:27
  Speaker 2: On my Sunday team? I don't think so. Okay, it's
• 42:30
  Speaker 2: mostly just yeah, just pros at their lives. Like there
• 42:36
  Speaker 2: we have a mother daughter oh on our team.
• 42:39
  Speaker 3: Is there any rivalry between the two of them?
• 42:41
  Speaker 2: No, but like sometimes you know, you you see you
• 42:45
  Speaker 2: see the mothering sometimes.
• 42:46
  Speaker 3: Interesting, just like you know, I can't imagine being on
• 42:49
  Speaker 3: a team with a parent.
• 42:51
  Speaker 2: I first of all, I would immediately I just know myself.
• 42:54
  Speaker 2: I'd immediately yell at my mom that she's doing something wrong,
• 42:57
  Speaker 2: of course, and I don't wouldn't do that in real life,
• 42:59
  Speaker 2: but in back basketball, I'm just like, immediately, please go
• 43:02
  Speaker 2: sit on the bench. You're embarrassing me. Stop talking about
• 43:06
  Speaker 2: the day I was born. Had you ever been on
• 43:10
  Speaker 2: a team with a family member.
• 43:11
  Speaker 3: There's no chance. I mean, first of all, none of
• 43:13
  Speaker 3: us are good at sports, so that I had to
• 43:18
  Speaker 3: tell me a sport, and then I'll think of which
• 43:20
  Speaker 3: family member.
• 43:20
  Speaker 2: It's going to be volley basketball, and you played basketball
• 43:23
  Speaker 2: with a volleyball. That's the only difference.
• 43:25
  Speaker 3: And it can be a parent or a sibling. Yes,
• 43:29
  Speaker 3: I wish one family member had athletic skill. I'm going
• 43:34
  Speaker 3: I guess I would have to say out of all
• 43:36
  Speaker 3: of those, probably my dad is the most has probably
• 43:41
  Speaker 3: played some type of sport in his life. The rest
• 43:44
  Speaker 3: of us are absolutely worthless as far as athletics go.
• 43:49
  Speaker 2: How many are there?
• 43:50
  Speaker 3: I have three siblings, they and my mom and dad,
• 43:55
  Speaker 3: and I can say with confidence that all three of
• 43:58
  Speaker 3: my siblings are horrible at sports.
• 44:00
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think it's good to be bad at sports.
• 44:02
  Speaker 2: You say, so, as you get older, you're like, what
• 44:04
  Speaker 2: do I need that for?
• 44:06
  Speaker 3: To have a nice time. I would love to have
• 44:08
  Speaker 3: a nice time, and I'm simply not allowed.
• 44:10
  Speaker 2: You're not allowed.
• 44:11
  Speaker 3: You're right, Although I now, like the older I get.
• 44:14
  Speaker 3: I see friends getting severely injured playing basketball, yes, which
• 44:18
  Speaker 3: never even occurred to me. Like they're like real horrible
• 44:21
  Speaker 3: injuries where they end up with a surgery or whatever.
• 44:24
  Speaker 2: I've seen, Like I play basketball outside sometimes with mostly
• 44:29
  Speaker 2: male comedians, and I have seen a guy boom both
• 44:33
  Speaker 2: teeth out.
• 44:34
  Speaker 3: Oh.
• 44:35
  Speaker 2: Like as an actor, you know, you're just like say goodbye. Yeah.
• 44:40
  Speaker 2: He What I'm saying is he is an actor, not me.
• 44:42
  Speaker 2: Like as an actor, I can't imagine. I'm just like, okay, now,
• 44:47
  Speaker 2: it's hard enough to be an actor in you have a.
• 44:49
  Speaker 3: Forced retirement, yeah, or you're in a new lane, you're
• 44:51
  Speaker 3: a new sort of character and chef, you're now the
• 44:54
  Speaker 3: hill pit lay. Yeah, I've like people have. I guess
• 44:58
  Speaker 3: you break your ankle, people of broken bones. I don't
• 45:02
  Speaker 3: even know how. I guess you just land too hard.
• 45:04
  Speaker 2: There's a lot that it just feels a lot harder
• 45:07
  Speaker 2: as you get older. I got an injury last year
• 45:11
  Speaker 2: and I just started a new job. Oh and I
• 45:13
  Speaker 2: couldn't move my neck. Oh, and keep in mind. I've
• 45:16
  Speaker 2: gone through childbirth. The worst pain I've ever been and
• 45:19
  Speaker 2: in my life was this neck injury. I went to
• 45:22
  Speaker 2: the er twice, couldn't wait in the line, oh, and
• 45:24
  Speaker 2: was like it took a week. I don't even really
• 45:27
  Speaker 2: know how it ended up getting back. But I started
• 45:30
  Speaker 2: this new job, so I was like in the writer's
• 45:33
  Speaker 2: room and then I had to be like, I have
• 45:35
  Speaker 2: to go. I can't move my neck. And it was
• 45:38
  Speaker 2: just one of those things where you start a job
• 45:40
  Speaker 2: and they immediately think like, well, she's not reliable, and
• 45:43
  Speaker 2: I'm like, I swear to go my neck. I can't.
• 45:46
  Speaker 2: I can't move my neck.
• 45:47
  Speaker 3: Did you have to wear a neck Brice?
• 45:49
  Speaker 2: I didn't have to, but I did.
• 45:51
  Speaker 3: That's a hard thing to start a job in a neck, Brice.
• 45:54
  Speaker 2: I did it for fun, okay, yeah? And I had
• 45:57
  Speaker 2: to get driven to work. It was like, yeah, it
• 46:00
  Speaker 2: was bad.
• 46:01
  Speaker 3: How did you injure your neck?
• 46:02
  Speaker 2: It was from basketball. This girl's like playing really aggressively.
• 46:05
  Speaker 3: I hate this person, I know, and I was like,
• 46:07
  Speaker 3: and I kept telling you.
• 46:09
  Speaker 2: Stop bumping into me. Like she's probably like fifteen years
• 46:13
  Speaker 2: younger than me though, and she's just a.
• 46:14
  Speaker 3: Bully stand classic bully behavior. Oh, she's going to injure
• 46:19
  Speaker 3: more people. Yeah, someone's got to stop her. I'm going
• 46:22
  Speaker 3: to find her.
• 46:23
  Speaker 2: Thank you.
• 46:25
  Speaker 3: That'll be the last shot of your documentary, the serving
• 46:31
  Speaker 3: her papers for your lawsuit. I'm happy to let me
• 46:35
  Speaker 3: know if you need me to surve I. Yes, I
• 46:37
  Speaker 3: will track her down.
• 46:38
  Speaker 2: And this is my lawyer. I bring one ever game.
• 46:42
  Speaker 3: While you're sitting in the car in a neck brace,
• 46:44
  Speaker 3: I'm tracking her down. Well, is there anything left to
• 46:49
  Speaker 3: say about this T shirt? I can't believe I'm taking
• 46:51
  Speaker 3: I mean, do you I hope you have another at home?
• 46:53
  Speaker 2: I mean, I just I have so many of T
• 46:55
  Speaker 2: shirts like that, but I have only given it to
• 46:58
  Speaker 2: one person, and that's you.
• 47:00
  Speaker 3: Oh what an honor? Yeah, and it is now kind
• 47:02
  Speaker 3: of stolen valor. People are going to be like that. Yeah.
• 47:06
  Speaker 3: People are gonna start talking about me and saying Bridger
• 47:08
  Speaker 3: didn't win.
• 47:09
  Speaker 2: Anything, didn't win that women's league.
• 47:14
  Speaker 3: Yeah people, Uh, this could lead to my downfall. But
• 47:17
  Speaker 3: I'll wear it proudly. Maybe I'll wear this to the
• 47:19
  Speaker 3: gym and chill.
• 47:20
  Speaker 2: Off on the weights machine, and I.
• 47:24
  Speaker 3: Feel like this will be long on me. I won't
• 47:25
  Speaker 3: even have to wear shorts. I can just go to
• 47:27
  Speaker 3: the gym in this a pair of shoes. That'll be
• 47:30
  Speaker 3: a new look for me.
• 47:30
  Speaker 2: I imagine you go to them and I like that.
• 47:33
  Speaker 3: Just it's kind of like when you're eight, sleep like pajamas,
• 47:37
  Speaker 3: you just wear a really long T shirt and shirt.
• 47:39
  Speaker 3: Oh my god, that's gonna be me.
• 47:42
  Speaker 2: My daughter just wears she usually just wears a shirt
• 47:45
  Speaker 2: of ours, but she's kind of fancy and she has
• 47:47
  Speaker 2: to wear like she wear like eight silk collared shirt.
• 47:54
  Speaker 3: Like, Okay, do you feel like meeting raising a kid
• 47:58
  Speaker 3: in La brings us out? In them? They're just surrounded
• 48:00
  Speaker 3: by other fancy children, And.
• 48:02
  Speaker 2: I think it's rebellion against me. Oh interesting, like she
• 48:06
  Speaker 2: sees how I dress, huh, and she's and then like
• 48:09
  Speaker 2: her my wife's mom is dress is beautiful every day, okay,
• 48:14
  Speaker 2: And I think she sees her and she she was
• 48:16
  Speaker 2: like her rebellion against me is like I'm not going
• 48:19
  Speaker 2: to dress like I'm going to be your mother lesbian.
• 48:22
  Speaker 2: I'm not dressing like an LA lesbian like you.
• 48:26
  Speaker 3: I wonder if either of my parents' dress affected the
• 48:28
  Speaker 3: way I dressed. And I've got to I'm gonna get
• 48:31
  Speaker 3: back into that trying to think of interesting.
• 48:35
  Speaker 2: I think I probably dress like my dad, who is
• 48:38
  Speaker 2: like an ex con, and there are times where I'm
• 48:41
  Speaker 2: wearing like a cutoff tank top and oh interesting.
• 48:44
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I do feel like, uh, like your parents. If
• 48:48
  Speaker 3: you just imagine what they wore on a vacation twenty
• 48:51
  Speaker 3: five to thirty years ago, that's usually what's in style. Yeah,
• 48:54
  Speaker 3: so you just like find some old family photos from
• 48:57
  Speaker 3: roughly that time period, that's what you should be wearing.
• 49:00
  Speaker 2: That's absolutely right. I feel like people wear that on stage.
• 49:04
  Speaker 2: Like I will see people and stand up doing stand
• 49:07
  Speaker 2: up with a Hawaiian shirt and they just look like
• 49:10
  Speaker 2: they're on vacation.
• 49:11
  Speaker 3: Yes, I think it's a safe rule of clothing. Just
• 49:15
  Speaker 3: find a picture from what would it be at this point.
• 49:17
  Speaker 3: I guess it would be like ninety five to two thousand. Yeah,
• 49:21
  Speaker 3: well we're mom and dad wearing.
• 49:22
  Speaker 2: I don't want those puffy shorts to come back though,
• 49:25
  Speaker 2: that women would wear. They were like khaki shorts that
• 49:28
  Speaker 2: kind of went down to your knees and then there
• 49:29
  Speaker 2: was a big puff right here, and then there was
• 49:32
  Speaker 2: a skinny belt and my mom used to wear those.
• 49:37
  Speaker 3: It's unbelievable that anybody ever thought this is the way
• 49:40
  Speaker 3: we should go fashion.
• 49:41
  Speaker 2: No, my god, that's not where I want the puff
• 49:45
  Speaker 2: literally anywhere, but they are actually that puff is No
• 49:49
  Speaker 2: one's on board with that puff.
• 49:50
  Speaker 3: No, but women across the nation had it.
• 49:55
  Speaker 2: They had that, and then they because then the shirt
• 49:57
  Speaker 2: is a little bit tighter, the glasses are big.
• 50:01
  Speaker 3: Well, brace yourself.
• 50:03
  Speaker 2: But hey, my mom had five kids, so it worked.
• 50:08
  Speaker 3: You have four siblings, brothers or sisters. I have one brother, okay, yeah,
• 50:13
  Speaker 3: are you the youngest child, I.
• 50:14
  Speaker 2: Am the second oldest. Okay yeah?
• 50:17
  Speaker 3: Are the rest of your siblings good at sports?
• 50:19
  Speaker 2: Let me see. No, my youngest sister, Kim, she played soccer, okay,
• 50:24
  Speaker 2: and then maybe my middle sister would play volleyball. But
• 50:27
  Speaker 2: but we were not. I mean, my my youngest sister
• 50:30
  Speaker 2: was exceptional, but we weren't. The other kids weren't getting by.
• 50:34
  Speaker 3: Yeah bye.
• 50:35
  Speaker 2: Yeah. My brother, Oh, my brother was on the badminton team.
• 50:39
  Speaker 3: Okay, this is a sport I could be good at.
• 50:41
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and he was on the they didn't have it
• 50:43
  Speaker 2: was the girls badminton team because they didn't have one for.
• 50:47
  Speaker 3: Yeah, and can I ask them as your brother's sexuality,
• 50:51
  Speaker 3: he's gay. I was hoping for a turn. I was
• 50:56
  Speaker 3: hoping for a big boy.
• 50:58
  Speaker 2: Well, I was, I was gonna let you I was
• 51:01
  Speaker 2: gonna let it be known when I said he went
• 51:02
  Speaker 2: from badminton to be in a furry and so I
• 51:07
  Speaker 2: was like, I think you're gonna know.
• 51:10
  Speaker 3: Your brother's a furry. Yeah, that's incredible. Yeah, I've never uh,
• 51:16
  Speaker 3: I've never known a furry or someone. I've never been
• 51:18
  Speaker 3: this close to a furry before. Yes, did you watch
• 51:21
  Speaker 3: the evolution? Like how did this unfold?
• 51:23
  Speaker 1: I did?
• 51:24
  Speaker 3: So.
• 51:24
  Speaker 2: He used to be like he had so many stuffed
• 51:26
  Speaker 2: animals growing up.
• 51:27
  Speaker 5: Okay, I was like tracking, tracking, tracking, No, he was,
• 51:33
  Speaker 5: there's like an app okay, and you have an avatar, right,
• 51:36
  Speaker 5: and it kinda like I don't really know a lot
• 51:39
  Speaker 5: about Pokemon culture, but it kind of reminds me of
• 51:42
  Speaker 5: it's like.
• 51:42
  Speaker 2: Feels adjacent to it. Okay, sure, And so he had
• 51:45
  Speaker 2: his avatar and he's a dragon named Sin that's Hyanne okay,
• 51:49
  Speaker 2: big red dragon. And so he was that for a
• 51:53
  Speaker 2: long time.
• 51:53
  Speaker 3: Not furry, by the way. Interesting, it's a scaly creature.
• 51:57
  Speaker 2: Thank you.
• 51:58
  Speaker 3: Sorry brother, Sorry.
• 52:00
  Speaker 2: But you're wrong.
• 52:01
  Speaker 3: Canceled cancer, removed from the furry community. So he okay,
• 52:07
  Speaker 3: So he was on an app with a red dragon
• 52:10
  Speaker 3: and it was four furries.
• 52:11
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it was a furry app. And and so you
• 52:14
  Speaker 2: have your avatar. And then he had that forever because
• 52:18
  Speaker 2: it costs a lot of money to get the suits made,
• 52:20
  Speaker 2: so that he finally and I want to say, it
• 52:23
  Speaker 2: takes a year to get it made from because you
• 52:26
  Speaker 2: design it with somebody. Wow, and it's sent off. It
• 52:29
  Speaker 2: was made in Japan.
• 52:30
  Speaker 3: Wow. How much does that cost?
• 52:32
  Speaker 2: It was at least five thousand dollars.
• 52:35
  Speaker 6: Wow.
• 52:36
  Speaker 2: And his boyfriend now husband.
• 52:41
  Speaker 3: Is old wolf? Okay wolf? Yeah? And does the wolf
• 52:45
  Speaker 3: have a name?
• 52:46
  Speaker 2: I forgot his name. I'm such a bad sister in law.
• 52:52
  Speaker 3: They must have a good sense of humor about.
• 52:54
  Speaker 2: This, Yeah, they do. And I've also like when I
• 52:57
  Speaker 2: talk about it, I asked my brother if I can
• 52:59
  Speaker 2: talk about.
• 53:00
  Speaker 3: Okay, right, Yeah, I would love if you were just
• 53:02
  Speaker 3: throwing him under the bus right now, just.
• 53:03
  Speaker 2: The more amazing. Yeah. And if I when I've said it,
• 53:07
  Speaker 2: like on stage, I always ask him and I go
• 53:09
  Speaker 2: over the joke with him because I don't want because
• 53:11
  Speaker 2: because I feel like furries are bullied, right, so I
• 53:14
  Speaker 2: don't want to be just another person bullying without permission.
• 53:20
  Speaker 3: You will ask the victim first. Yes, yeah, wow, And
• 53:26
  Speaker 3: do you know how he landed on the dragon or so?
• 53:29
  Speaker 3: I have so many questions and I don't even know
• 53:31
  Speaker 3: where to begin.
• 53:32
  Speaker 2: So but sorry, I just kind of threw this out
• 53:35
  Speaker 2: like it's a incredible refurry.
• 53:37
  Speaker 3: I could have just gotten into badminton and now we've
• 53:39
  Speaker 3: got this. Yeah. First of all, does he still play badminton.
• 53:44
  Speaker 2: I don't know if he does, but he's genuinely really good.
• 53:46
  Speaker 2: I played him once and it was it's scary. It
• 53:48
  Speaker 2: actually became kind of like tennis. It was it was.
• 53:51
  Speaker 3: It was no longer a safe game. Yeah, it wasn't fun, Okay,
• 53:54
  Speaker 3: I don't like to hear that. I like badminton to
• 53:56
  Speaker 3: be a safe space where kind of fluttering exactly.
• 53:59
  Speaker 2: I want to be a backyard game.
• 54:01
  Speaker 3: I want it to be a game four gay man. Yes,
• 54:07
  Speaker 3: but he got on the app and then they had
• 54:10
  Speaker 3: little red dragon avatar for him to pick, and then
• 54:12
  Speaker 3: he designed the costume from that.
• 54:14
  Speaker 2: I'm not sure if he ohoped it or if he
• 54:17
  Speaker 2: like designed it. I'm not sure exactly sure how that worked.
• 54:19
  Speaker 2: I just remember he showed me the like basically blueprints
• 54:22
  Speaker 2: of the design when he sent it to Japan, and
• 54:24
  Speaker 2: then he sent me photos of it being made.
• 54:26
  Speaker 3: Wow. Yeah, And as I assume it's an impressive costume,
• 54:30
  Speaker 3: it is, it is impressed.
• 54:32
  Speaker 2: I'm not sure how like when he travels, I think
• 54:35
  Speaker 2: he so he has a special suitcase for the head, right,
• 54:39
  Speaker 2: and how we tried to do it with the straightcase.
• 54:43
  Speaker 2: It's literally impossible.
• 54:44
  Speaker 3: Did the suitcase have to be custom made?
• 54:46
  Speaker 2: I think it's like he bought it. It's like a
• 54:48
  Speaker 2: special dragon. It's like remember those big hat boxes. Yeah,
• 54:53
  Speaker 2: it's like that.
• 54:54
  Speaker 3: It's kind of that.
• 54:56
  Speaker 2: I love you, brother, He's really sweet.
• 55:00
  Speaker 3: Did he kind of have to come out as a
• 55:01
  Speaker 3: furry to you?
• 55:02
  Speaker 2: I kind of knew he was living with me when
• 55:04
  Speaker 2: he was doing that, And we watched MTV True Life
• 55:08
  Speaker 2: I'm a Furry, Oh when it came out, and we
• 55:10
  Speaker 2: used to always like someone would someone said in it,
• 55:15
  Speaker 2: I'm a furry, and so we always like like when
• 55:18
  Speaker 2: we would answer the phone, we'd always be like, I'm
• 55:20
  Speaker 2: a furry. And so I guess it started as us
• 55:24
  Speaker 2: bullying True Life, and then he actually got into it.
• 55:29
  Speaker 3: Great. Yeah, I don't think I've ever seen an episode
• 55:31
  Speaker 3: of True Life, and every one of them sounds amazing Yeah,
• 55:35
  Speaker 3: where do I find those? They must be streaming somewhere.
• 55:38
  Speaker 2: I think that should bring that show back. It was
• 55:39
  Speaker 2: pretty incredible.
• 55:40
  Speaker 3: Yeah, after they're airing The Curious Case in Natalie Grace. Yeah, cancel.
• 55:44
  Speaker 2: It's basically day in the Life, you know sort of thing.
• 55:48
  Speaker 3: Oh, I'm that's what I'm going to start watching. I
• 55:50
  Speaker 3: need something to watch on TV.
• 55:52
  Speaker 6: You can watch it on Paramount Plus.
• 55:55
  Speaker 2: Episodes are old. I think they're all. There was only
• 55:57
  Speaker 2: three seasons. I felt like it went on forever though.
• 55:59
  Speaker 3: When it on three seasons, probably about fifty episodes each.
• 56:03
  Speaker 3: I assume maybe I'll sign up for Paramount Plus for
• 56:06
  Speaker 3: a week for you should for this.
• 56:08
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it'll take just one one week for three seasons.
• 56:13
  Speaker 3: Wow, I'm really excited for your brother. Then is there
• 56:17
  Speaker 3: anything in his future where he'll stop being a dragon?
• 56:20
  Speaker 2: Maybe if he wins the lottery and he can get
• 56:22
  Speaker 2: another it's just more of a cost Yeah, I'm trying
• 56:25
  Speaker 2: to make it big in Hollywood so that I can
• 56:27
  Speaker 2: get him a new costume.
• 56:29
  Speaker 3: Oh that's very sweet.
• 56:30
  Speaker 2: Yeah, instead of like buying my family house, I really
• 56:33
  Speaker 2: just want to get him another animal.
• 56:34
  Speaker 3: Have a custom made, yeah costume. Would you get to
• 56:38
  Speaker 3: pick the costume over course, Yeah, what would you pick?
• 56:42
  Speaker 2: Not a fox because I've been told that foxes are slutty.
• 56:47
  Speaker 3: He's a married man, now right, yeah right, you don't
• 56:50
  Speaker 3: want to ruin the marriage?
• 56:51
  Speaker 2: Should we do? Yeah? I mean, oh, I feel like
• 56:54
  Speaker 2: a bunny would be. I've seen a bunny, and I'm like,
• 56:59
  Speaker 2: the bunnies are kind of fun.
• 57:00
  Speaker 3: Bunny also feels like I could get into some slutty territory.
• 57:03
  Speaker 2: Yeah, but also you could be the easter bunny at
• 57:06
  Speaker 2: the mall if they oh, it's like a plan b
• 57:10
  Speaker 2: it's your safety Yeah, it's your safety net.
• 57:13
  Speaker 3: Just throw a vest on it and give it a
• 57:15
  Speaker 3: pocket watch. Kids can sit on its lap.
• 57:19
  Speaker 2: What is it with rabbits and pocket watches? Get an
• 57:22
  Speaker 2: Apple watch.
• 57:25
  Speaker 3: They're busy, busy, busy. Do they still do rabbits at
• 57:28
  Speaker 3: the mall? Interesting?
• 57:30
  Speaker 2: Yes, they do, because they do. They do it the Americana.
• 57:33
  Speaker 3: Okay, they must be better than when I was a kid.
• 57:37
  Speaker 2: They're still weird.
• 57:38
  Speaker 3: It's a hard costume to make, it is and they it's.
• 57:42
  Speaker 2: Usually a white bunny, right, which is number one wrong?
• 57:46
  Speaker 2: And their feet are always so dirty because it's wealthy.
• 57:51
  Speaker 3: There's no way to keep those cleany.
• 57:52
  Speaker 2: I know I feel bad for them, but I'm just like,
• 57:54
  Speaker 2: this is disgusting.
• 57:56
  Speaker 3: Just put boots on them or something.
• 57:58
  Speaker 2: Shield your eyes, daughter.
• 58:00
  Speaker 3: Although I guess if you put boots on a rabbit,
• 58:02
  Speaker 3: then it starts to look sexy and then it's like
• 58:05
  Speaker 3: we're sending the real Yeahjessica, rabbit, did you believe in
• 58:11
  Speaker 3: the I did, but for a shorter period of time
• 58:15
  Speaker 3: than Santa Claus.
• 58:16
  Speaker 2: It's completely unbelievable that a life size rabbit would be.
• 58:20
  Speaker 3: It's a hard one to like keep that fantasy alive.
• 58:25
  Speaker 3: Santa Claus sure, just an old man. Even the Tooth Fairy.
• 58:29
  Speaker 3: It seems like kind of a humanoid creature. The rabbit,
• 58:33
  Speaker 3: It's like, I've never seen anything resembling this. What could
• 58:37
  Speaker 3: its motive be? Where is We never really found out
• 58:41
  Speaker 3: where it was coming from?
• 58:42
  Speaker 2: Yeah, where does it live?
• 58:44
  Speaker 3: That feels like an easy detail to nail down for parents.
• 58:47
  Speaker 2: It's like exactly, I mean, there's in the mouth pole
• 58:50
  Speaker 2: is the meadow Montana? If you told me, can I
• 58:58
  Speaker 2: tell you? Can I tell you a big piece the
• 59:00
  Speaker 2: news that happened today.
• 59:01
  Speaker 3: I would love it's on subject.
• 59:03
  Speaker 2: My daughter, who is five, lost her tooth, her first
• 59:08
  Speaker 2: tooth this morning.
• 59:10
  Speaker 3: So what's the plan moving forward?
• 59:11
  Speaker 2: Her tooth fairy was, Yeah, well, first of all, with Santa,
• 59:14
  Speaker 2: we never we never like talked about it, only out
• 59:19
  Speaker 2: of like laziness, and so she doesn't really care about it,
• 59:23
  Speaker 2: so she doesn't really asked a lot of questions, okay,
• 59:26
  Speaker 2: And so I'm like, well, I feel like, I don't know,
• 59:29
  Speaker 2: it feels weird now that she's five to all of
• 59:31
  Speaker 2: a sudden and be like, no, there's a man that
• 59:34
  Speaker 2: comes into our house and gives you presents.
• 59:36
  Speaker 3: You know, yeah, you kind of have to let like
• 59:37
  Speaker 3: the frog boil in that situations.
• 59:40
  Speaker 2: They have to believe it. Young. Yeah, we didn't ask
• 59:43
  Speaker 2: any questions, and so we were just like, never said anything.
• 59:48
  Speaker 3: So does Santa come at Christmas?
• 59:50
  Speaker 2: Like this year we put some gifts that said from Santa,
• 59:53
  Speaker 2: but like she never asked one question. She's psychological effect,
• 1:00:00
  Speaker 2: it really is. She's going to be so confused, tell
• 1:00:04
  Speaker 2: me anything. They're like, it never came up.
• 1:00:08
  Speaker 3: So the tooth fairy, now you have to decide.
• 1:00:10
  Speaker 2: So the tooth fairy, I'm trying to figure out what
• 1:00:12
  Speaker 2: people do because a dollar just seems like who cares.
• 1:00:15
  Speaker 3: That's the other thing where like as a kid, I
• 1:00:17
  Speaker 3: would have been like a quarter seems like a lot
• 1:00:19
  Speaker 3: of money.
• 1:00:20
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and you used cash, you went down to seven
• 1:00:23
  Speaker 2: to eleven and you could get a slurpy or whatever.
• 1:00:25
  Speaker 3: But now what does that mean?
• 1:00:28
  Speaker 2: We asked her what she wants, Oh, no, classic, and
• 1:00:32
  Speaker 2: she said a chocolate coin. Oh, like we can do that.
• 1:00:36
  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's probably more valuable than an actual coin.
• 1:00:39
  Speaker 2: Yeah, And I don't know what to give her under
• 1:00:41
  Speaker 2: her pillow that would make it exciting for her, right
• 1:00:45
  Speaker 2: because this is an only child who gets whatever she wants.
• 1:00:47
  Speaker 3: Anyway, nothing's going to be impressive.
• 1:00:50
  Speaker 2: Nothing is impressive unless we have, you know, a writing job.
• 1:00:55
  Speaker 3: Right exactly, I guess. And then I feel like with
• 1:00:58
  Speaker 3: the Tooth Fairy, it always like kind of peters out,
• 1:01:01
  Speaker 3: like there's a few teeth get lost and a little
• 1:01:04
  Speaker 3: bit of money is given, and then the parent's like, okay,
• 1:01:06
  Speaker 3: do you.
• 1:01:06
  Speaker 2: Know why it happens all at once where Christmas is
• 1:01:09
  Speaker 2: spread out so interesting? Right, and she's like, losing your
• 1:01:13
  Speaker 2: teeth all within like a year and a half or.
• 1:01:14
  Speaker 3: Happens pretty quickly, right, which is also terrifying to think about.
• 1:01:18
  Speaker 2: Yeah, imagine it's like things, Yeah, it is actually and if.
• 1:01:23
  Speaker 3: Nobody prepared you for that, you'd be like, what is
• 1:01:25
  Speaker 3: happening to my body? I'm dying.
• 1:01:27
  Speaker 2: I thought she had a seed cut stuck in her
• 1:01:30
  Speaker 2: mouth and then realize there's another tooth that was coming
• 1:01:33
  Speaker 2: and it and.
• 1:01:34
  Speaker 3: Yeah, what's happening in the mouth is just a horrifying
• 1:01:39
  Speaker 3: mystery to everyone.
• 1:01:40
  Speaker 2: It's disgusting. I remember, it feels like, you know, they
• 1:01:44
  Speaker 2: get their teeth, it's a huge ordeal. It's so painful
• 1:01:47
  Speaker 2: for them. And then the next thing you know, they're
• 1:01:50
  Speaker 2: falling out and you're like, god, I hope it doesn't
• 1:01:53
  Speaker 2: fall in the tub, Like, I hope we have the tooth.
• 1:01:56
  Speaker 2: And then my wife told me this morning, I'm keeping
• 1:01:59
  Speaker 2: the teeth, and I'm like, you're collecting the teeth. You're
• 1:02:02
  Speaker 2: going to be one of those people collecting the teeth.
• 1:02:03
  Speaker 3: Yes, most a lot of parents collect at least a
• 1:02:06
  Speaker 3: few of the teeth. Right.
• 1:02:07
  Speaker 2: I feel really emotional that she lost her tooth, But
• 1:02:10
  Speaker 2: there's no way in hell and I'm collecting those teeth because.
• 1:02:15
  Speaker 3: It's like one step away from collecting their hair.
• 1:02:18
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's just like you collecting their dental.
• 1:02:21
  Speaker 3: Gross little thing. Yeah, when did you stop believing in
• 1:02:27
  Speaker 3: Santa Claus.
• 1:02:29
  Speaker 2: Third grade. My mom was sick and she was just
• 1:02:33
  Speaker 2: like had the flu and she didn't have time to
• 1:02:36
  Speaker 2: wrap any of the presents. And her handwriting is it's
• 1:02:40
  Speaker 2: so her. And so I saw that, and so I
• 1:02:43
  Speaker 2: went in the basement when she was doing laundry and
• 1:02:45
  Speaker 2: I was like, Santa Claus isn't real? Wow, And we
• 1:02:48
  Speaker 2: made a really scary bassment. So and then you know
• 1:02:55
  Speaker 2: what she told me.
• 1:02:55
  Speaker 3: I'll never forget.
• 1:02:57
  Speaker 2: She said, don't tell Mikayla. Mikayla is my older sister. Oh,
• 1:03:02
  Speaker 2: all of a sudden, I had power.
• 1:03:06
  Speaker 3: How much older is Mikaela? Ten years older?
• 1:03:09
  Speaker 2: Yeah? When did you find out?
• 1:03:12
  Speaker 3: Third grade? I didn't put it together. I feel so
• 1:03:15
  Speaker 3: jealous of you. No, Christopher Gibbs told me in class,
• 1:03:19
  Speaker 3: what did he say? Santa's not real? And I don't
• 1:03:23
  Speaker 3: think I was really that broken up about it. I
• 1:03:25
  Speaker 3: think I was still skeptical. I think there was still
• 1:03:28
  Speaker 3: like I don't know if this is entirely true, but
• 1:03:31
  Speaker 3: it did like it cracked the case open a little bit.
• 1:03:34
  Speaker 3: And then I started putting things together. And then my
• 1:03:36
  Speaker 3: older brothers were like started hinting about it. Eventually, I
• 1:03:40
  Speaker 3: think the final step I took was on my Christmas list.
• 1:03:43
  Speaker 3: I thought, well, I'll ask for a bag of magic,
• 1:03:47
  Speaker 3: and if Santa's real, of course he can give it
• 1:03:49
  Speaker 3: to me. But my parents will not be giving that.
• 1:03:52
  Speaker 3: I didn't get it. Case closed. My parents are fools.
• 1:03:58
  Speaker 2: Back of magic been it could have been another year.
• 1:04:02
  Speaker 2: It could have been joy for you. I had to
• 1:04:04
  Speaker 2: ruin it for there's there's basically an industry that is
• 1:04:07
  Speaker 2: built around keeping Santa's secret, because even when you watch
• 1:04:12
  Speaker 2: the children's movies, it's like the adults are like, well,
• 1:04:16
  Speaker 2: if you don't believe in Santa, Like, well, your mom
• 1:04:18
  Speaker 2: doesn't believe in Santa, and that's why they always have
• 1:04:21
  Speaker 2: these like it's ruining herlines.
• 1:04:23
  Speaker 3: Yeah, she's absolutely losing it because she doesn't believe in
• 1:04:28
  Speaker 3: Santa Claus. I have friends now. I think this might
• 1:04:31
  Speaker 3: be a more modern thing where they let their's kids
• 1:04:34
  Speaker 3: believe in Santa, but any good gift that the child
• 1:04:37
  Speaker 3: receives is from the parents, not Santa. Yeah, so the
• 1:04:40
  Speaker 3: child learns these are the people I can count on, right,
• 1:04:43
  Speaker 3: not some made up thing.
• 1:04:44
  Speaker 2: Yeah. I mean I can't wait to tell her. I
• 1:04:48
  Speaker 2: can't wait for her to come to me and be
• 1:04:50
  Speaker 2: like wait.
• 1:04:50
  Speaker 4: What is this?
• 1:04:51
  Speaker 3: What is it gonna tell her in the middle of
• 1:04:53
  Speaker 3: a fight.
• 1:04:53
  Speaker 2: Yeah, guess what my mom she when my mom found
• 1:04:58
  Speaker 2: out Santa Claus wasn't real her basically she was too
• 1:05:01
  Speaker 2: old and her mom had to tell her. She was
• 1:05:04
  Speaker 2: in fifth or sixth grade.
• 1:05:05
  Speaker 3: Okay, so your sister takes after her.
• 1:05:07
  Speaker 2: Yeah, naive and uh And her mom said, Santa Claus
• 1:05:12
  Speaker 2: isn't real And she said does I mean the Easter
• 1:05:16
  Speaker 2: money is a real?
• 1:05:17
  Speaker 3: Too good for her for it together pretty quickly, Like you,
• 1:05:23
  Speaker 3: any is usually the first one to go. You should
• 1:05:28
  Speaker 3: check in with your mom about what she still believes. Yeah,
• 1:05:31
  Speaker 3: might surprise you. Well, I think we should play a game.
• 1:05:36
  Speaker 3: We're gonna play a game called Gift he a Curse.
• 1:05:38
  Speaker 3: I need a number between one and ten from you four. Okay,
• 1:05:42
  Speaker 3: I have to do some light calculating to get our
• 1:05:44
  Speaker 3: game pieces. Right now. You can promote, recommend, do whatever
• 1:05:47
  Speaker 3: you want.
• 1:05:48
  Speaker 2: I'll be okay, okay, promote. See. Oh, I'm watching the
• 1:05:54
  Speaker 2: SNL documentary. I don't want to promote that though they
• 1:05:57
  Speaker 2: never hired me. Don't watch that. If you guys want
• 1:06:02
  Speaker 2: to watch me, I have a special out on Hulu.
• 1:06:06
  Speaker 2: It's called dad jokes where I go and I try
• 1:06:09
  Speaker 2: to find my dad after not seeing him for twenty years,
• 1:06:12
  Speaker 2: And you gotta watch it to believe it. What happened
• 1:06:17
  Speaker 2: at the end.
• 1:06:19
  Speaker 3: That's a way better documentary recommendation than the first one.
• 1:06:25
  Speaker 3: That one actually has something to do with you.
• 1:06:28
  Speaker 2: My guys, watch this is no documentary.
• 1:06:32
  Speaker 3: Everyone go watch Mode's documentary. Fantastic. It's such a great idea.
• 1:06:37
  Speaker 2: Yeah, someone had to.
• 1:06:38
  Speaker 3: Somebody had to.
• 1:06:39
  Speaker 2: Someone in my family had to.
• 1:06:41
  Speaker 3: My brother were a competing You all pitched on this
• 1:06:45
  Speaker 3: documentary one. Okay, this is how we play. Do I
• 1:06:50
  Speaker 3: have anything to recommend? I never recommend anything anymore, and
• 1:06:54
  Speaker 3: now that I've brought it up, I feel like I
• 1:06:55
  Speaker 3: have to recommend something. Is there a song I've heard
• 1:06:57
  Speaker 3: recently that I really liked? I'm actually gonna look at Spotify.
• 1:07:02
  Speaker 3: I feel like I've opened a door here.
• 1:07:04
  Speaker 2: Do you listen to new music? Are you going to
• 1:07:06
  Speaker 2: recommend something?
• 1:07:07
  Speaker 3: What should I do? Old or new?
• 1:07:08
  Speaker 2: Something new? Because I don't know.
• 1:07:10
  Speaker 3: I mean, okay, let me see the newest thing I've
• 1:07:12
  Speaker 3: listened to. Okay, I've never known how to pronounce this
• 1:07:16
  Speaker 3: guy's last name. He used to be in the band
• 1:07:18
  Speaker 3: The Walkman, Hamilton, Lighthouser, Laththauser. He has a song called
• 1:07:22
  Speaker 3: Knocking Heart that is unbelievable.
• 1:07:24
  Speaker 2: Is it a country song?
• 1:07:25
  Speaker 3: It's kind of like a garage it's a love song.
• 1:07:29
  Speaker 3: Oh it's so good. Okay, that's a good one to recommend.
• 1:07:33
  Speaker 3: I liked dragging you into that.
• 1:07:35
  Speaker 2: Yeah, hey, I like I mean, I won't remember that.
• 1:07:39
  Speaker 3: Do you like country music?
• 1:07:41
  Speaker 2: I don't like music I was listening to. I wanted
• 1:07:47
  Speaker 2: to see what why everyone was listening to Chris Stapleton.
• 1:07:50
  Speaker 3: So I've been listening to that and did you find
• 1:07:52
  Speaker 3: out why?
• 1:07:53
  Speaker 2: I mean, yeah, it's like it's nice, Okay, is it
• 1:07:56
  Speaker 2: like it's country, but it's not like country country.
• 1:08:01
  Speaker 3: It's not like radio music country. Yeah, it's more.
• 1:08:05
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's not like the stories aren't extremely basic, like
• 1:08:09
  Speaker 2: not like Toby Keith. Yeah, it's not like I don't know,
• 1:08:12
  Speaker 2: I gotta get out of the city. It's always like
• 1:08:14
  Speaker 2: I got to get out of the city. So I
• 1:08:15
  Speaker 2: lived in the city for a little while. I got
• 1:08:16
  Speaker 2: to get out of there. I got to get back
• 1:08:17
  Speaker 2: to my roots. I gotta lives. Stop sign in the town.
• 1:08:25
  Speaker 3: Single confusing stuffs.
• 1:08:26
  Speaker 2: And they're obsessed with like getting back together with their
• 1:08:29
  Speaker 2: high school girlfriends.
• 1:08:30
  Speaker 3: Yeah, always such a red flag. Yeah, she's in such things.
• 1:08:35
  Speaker 3: She's got this guy that is obsessed with her now
• 1:08:38
  Speaker 3: singing about it publicly.
• 1:08:39
  Speaker 2: Yeah, he's just behind her. She's had her kid's game.
• 1:08:43
  Speaker 2: He's got his acoustic guitar.
• 1:08:49
  Speaker 3: Every mainstream country singer is a stalker and should uh,
• 1:08:53
  Speaker 3: somebody needs to look into that. Okay, this is how
• 1:08:55
  Speaker 3: we play Gift for a course. I'm going to name
• 1:08:58
  Speaker 3: three things. You'll tell me if they're a game or
• 1:09:00
  Speaker 3: a curse and why. Okay, and then I'll tell you
• 1:09:02
  Speaker 3: if you're right or wrong, because there are correct answers
• 1:09:04
  Speaker 3: and you can lose huge great love to all right.
• 1:09:09
  Speaker 3: Number one, this is a listener suggestion. The listener is
• 1:09:12
  Speaker 3: an interesting one. It's called Mad Scoops ice Cream, some
• 1:09:15
  Speaker 3: sort of ice cream business that listens to the podcast.
• 1:09:18
  Speaker 3: So now they've gotten free advertising it. God knows where
• 1:09:21
  Speaker 3: they exist. I hope it's good ice cream, that's all
• 1:09:24
  Speaker 3: I'll say. They listen to the podcast, so it must
• 1:09:27
  Speaker 3: be wonderful. Okay. Gift or a curse? When people say
• 1:09:30
  Speaker 3: protein when a bug lands in your drink and slash
• 1:09:34
  Speaker 3: or food curse, why that's disgusting.
• 1:09:39
  Speaker 2: That's like, I mean, if I feel like that'd be
• 1:09:42
  Speaker 2: like if a hair where in your food and you're
• 1:09:44
  Speaker 2: just like, it's it's a gift, Like it just feels
• 1:09:47
  Speaker 2: like a lie. Like you're just saying something bad happened
• 1:09:49
  Speaker 2: to you and you just want to rebrand it. And
• 1:09:52
  Speaker 2: sometimes it's just bad.
• 1:09:55
  Speaker 3: Correct. Oh, that's a curse. That's uh, I mean, in
• 1:09:58
  Speaker 3: my opinion, that's First of all, that's seems really irritating.
• 1:10:01
  Speaker 3: Don't mind your own business. Second of all, that bug
• 1:10:04
  Speaker 3: is a person. That bug has a life. It's I
• 1:10:08
  Speaker 3: think it's just there for a little bite or a
• 1:10:09
  Speaker 3: little sip, and now you're turning it into food.
• 1:10:12
  Speaker 2: That's empathetic.
• 1:10:13
  Speaker 3: Yes, I'm an EmPATH ultimately, I feel for everything, and
• 1:10:19
  Speaker 3: it's paralyzing. I think that's a curse. Leave the bug alone,
• 1:10:25
  Speaker 3: Leave the person who may or may not consume the
• 1:10:27
  Speaker 3: bug alone. Keep your eyes on your own paper or
• 1:10:30
  Speaker 3: your own food or drink.
• 1:10:31
  Speaker 2: If you were on a first date and they ate
• 1:10:34
  Speaker 2: the bug that landed in their food, and you're just gonna.
• 1:10:39
  Speaker 3: Be like, oh, yeah, what does that say for the
• 1:10:44
  Speaker 3: rest of the relationship. But also if you're on a
• 1:10:46
  Speaker 3: first date and a bug lands on your food and
• 1:10:48
  Speaker 3: your date says protein.
• 1:10:50
  Speaker 2: Yeah, also a problem.
• 1:10:51
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's a lose lose.
• 1:10:54
  Speaker 2: I can't even imagine.
• 1:10:56
  Speaker 3: I think the clearest path forward there is to say
• 1:11:00
  Speaker 3: there's a bug in your food, and I'm sorry, right,
• 1:11:02
  Speaker 3: I know what you're going through. If there's anything I
• 1:11:06
  Speaker 3: can do to help, let me know, I'll be eating
• 1:11:08
  Speaker 3: my food.
• 1:11:09
  Speaker 2: What if they touch your food to get the bug out.
• 1:11:13
  Speaker 3: That's a huge line cross. I'd rather eat the bug
• 1:11:15
  Speaker 3: than whatever their fingers touched. Who knows where those fingers
• 1:11:19
  Speaker 3: have been. Yeah, I mean, God knows the last time
• 1:11:23
  Speaker 3: they washed their hands. The bug is probably cleaner. You know,
• 1:11:25
  Speaker 3: this bug is just out to dinner.
• 1:11:27
  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, this is a fancy bug.
• 1:11:28
  Speaker 3: Yeah, probably in their finest clothes. They took a shower
• 1:11:31
  Speaker 3: before going leaves the bug alone. Curse. Okay, you've gotten
• 1:11:35
  Speaker 3: one right so far. Number two. This is one. This
• 1:11:38
  Speaker 3: listener knows my heart in some ways. A listener named
• 1:11:41
  Speaker 3: Keith has suggested gift her a curse crumble cookies. Are
• 1:11:45
  Speaker 3: you familiar with these?
• 1:11:46
  Speaker 6: Yes?
• 1:11:46
  Speaker 3: I am.
• 1:11:47
  Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, it feels like a bit of both
• 1:11:52
  Speaker 2: because it's so exciting the first time, But it does
• 1:11:56
  Speaker 2: be Okay, I'm gonna say curse because don't they come
• 1:11:59
  Speaker 2: in a.
• 1:11:59
  Speaker 3: Box four It's a good question.
• 1:12:02
  Speaker 2: It feels like impossible to finish them. And I can't
• 1:12:08
  Speaker 2: let cookies just sit on that. It's a curse to me.
• 1:12:10
  Speaker 2: It's a curse to me in my body, in my mind.
• 1:12:13
  Speaker 3: You get the point this is. I have different reasoning here.
• 1:12:17
  Speaker 3: This is maybe the most passionate thing, the thing I'm
• 1:12:21
  Speaker 3: most passionate about. I might run for office on this issue.
• 1:12:24
  Speaker 3: I think crumble cookies and God bless us all are horrible.
• 1:12:29
  Speaker 3: I think it is the worst type of cookie you
• 1:12:30
  Speaker 3: can eat. I think that it's a scam. I think
• 1:12:34
  Speaker 3: they're truly. Pick any cookie in the world. It'll be
• 1:12:38
  Speaker 3: a better cookie. Go buy a bag of Oreos. It's
• 1:12:40
  Speaker 3: a better cookie than this. These are made to take
• 1:12:42
  Speaker 3: a picture of I cannot and I loved ones. Friend's
• 1:12:46
  Speaker 3: family have sent them to me. They eat them, they
• 1:12:49
  Speaker 3: think they enjoy them. They are plato.
• 1:12:52
  Speaker 2: M h.
• 1:12:53
  Speaker 3: Buy let's see, let's buy some eggs, butter, flour, sugar,
• 1:12:57
  Speaker 3: maybe brown sugar. You can you can do the whatever,
• 1:13:00
  Speaker 3: vanilla chocolate chips. You could probably buy that much stuff
• 1:13:04
  Speaker 3: for how much for Krumble cookies cost disgusting. Yeah, go
• 1:13:08
  Speaker 3: buy some cookies at Alberson's, buy the toll House refrigerated
• 1:13:12
  Speaker 3: ones and bake them. This will all be cheaper and
• 1:13:15
  Speaker 3: it's better than Krumble cookies. I'm gonna take this company down.
• 1:13:19
  Speaker 3: I cannot believe how popular these things are. They're not good.
• 1:13:23
  Speaker 3: I agree, They're just like a sweet paste that look nice.
• 1:13:27
  Speaker 2: They go too far. They're like creative room that came
• 1:13:32
  Speaker 2: up with all the different flavors. Go too far, and
• 1:13:34
  Speaker 2: it becomes if a cookie is that heavy, Like when
• 1:13:37
  Speaker 2: is it too heavy?
• 1:13:38
  Speaker 3: When does it become like a weird little is it
• 1:13:39
  Speaker 3: a cake? Wet cake? And then it's not satisfying what
• 1:13:43
  Speaker 3: you want from a cake. Right, So it's now just
• 1:13:46
  Speaker 3: this thing you bought at them all.
• 1:13:47
  Speaker 2: You also can't eat it with your hands, really, you know,
• 1:13:50
  Speaker 2: it's a mess. It's in the middle, right right.
• 1:13:53
  Speaker 3: There are a lot of problems. And I also I
• 1:13:56
  Speaker 3: think it's from Utah, which again hits close to home home.
• 1:14:00
  Speaker 3: Utah's Mormons are pretty good at making cookies.
• 1:14:03
  Speaker 2: So you want to be the only person from Utah
• 1:14:05
  Speaker 2: that's famous.
• 1:14:06
  Speaker 3: Yes, that's kind of the root cause of my problem. Uh,
• 1:14:12
  Speaker 3: no crumble cookies are our curse and Keith, thank you
• 1:14:14
  Speaker 3: for finally bringing this to everyone's attention. What an important
• 1:14:17
  Speaker 3: issue and more people need to be talking about how
• 1:14:20
  Speaker 3: horrible they are and if anyone wants a recipe or anything,
• 1:14:23
  Speaker 3: reach out or also just go literally buy chips. Ahoy,
• 1:14:26
  Speaker 3: it is more satisfying nutter butter. I mean I could
• 1:14:29
  Speaker 3: go on and on. Now I'm out of control. Okay,
• 1:14:31
  Speaker 3: you've gone two out of two so far. You're over.
• 1:14:33
  Speaker 2: You're over telling people to eat Nutter butters. Where have
• 1:14:36
  Speaker 2: we gone in this podcast that if Nutter butters are
• 1:14:39
  Speaker 2: good at.
• 1:14:39
  Speaker 3: All, Nutter butters are delicious.
• 1:14:41
  Speaker 2: No, they barely tastes like peanut butter anymore.
• 1:14:44
  Speaker 3: I don't know if they changed the recipe.
• 1:14:46
  Speaker 2: I just once you have it as an adult, trust me,
• 1:14:49
  Speaker 2: it's underwhelming. And so is the like the peanut butter
• 1:14:52
  Speaker 2: cookie from Girl Scouts that all peanut butter one.
• 1:14:55
  Speaker 3: Oh, I'd be curious about that one.
• 1:14:57
  Speaker 2: Recently, you know what, they ripped it off from Nutter butter.
• 1:15:00
  Speaker 2: I'll say it.
• 1:15:01
  Speaker 3: I feel like the Girl's Scout peanut butter is actually
• 1:15:04
  Speaker 3: more up my alley because it's more it's less sweet
• 1:15:06
  Speaker 3: it's more like an oatmeal.
• 1:15:08
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think the cookie is wrong. I'd rather have
• 1:15:11
  Speaker 2: the one that's chocolate, the peanut butter patty.
• 1:15:13
  Speaker 3: I think that one's bad. That one is like that
• 1:15:16
  Speaker 3: is starting to approach crumble territory, where it's like it's
• 1:15:20
  Speaker 3: advertises this thing, but it's not really those things. It's
• 1:15:23
  Speaker 3: like not real chocolate. It's like not real peanut butter.
• 1:15:26
  Speaker 3: It looks in a pear peanut butter. I don't think. So,
• 1:15:30
  Speaker 3: everyone do your work. The only Girl Scout cookie I
• 1:15:33
  Speaker 3: think that's remained the same is the thin.
• 1:15:35
  Speaker 2: Mint thin mint. And you know what, the short bread one.
• 1:15:39
  Speaker 3: Oh, that makes sense.
• 1:15:40
  Speaker 2: It's good.
• 1:15:40
  Speaker 3: That makes sense. You can't really do anything to short
• 1:15:42
  Speaker 3: bread other than keep putting butter and sugar together. The
• 1:15:46
  Speaker 3: thin mint, I will say this, the thin mint is
• 1:15:49
  Speaker 3: one of the few things that has remained the same
• 1:15:52
  Speaker 3: over decades. Yeah, it tastes. I think it tastes the
• 1:15:55
  Speaker 3: same now as it did in nineteen ninety three.
• 1:15:57
  Speaker 2: Yeah, neighborhoods change, you know, people get older. The thin
• 1:16:01
  Speaker 2: mint stays the same.
• 1:16:03
  Speaker 3: You can always count on the thin Okay, two out
• 1:16:06
  Speaker 3: of two so far. Number three. This is from a
• 1:16:09
  Speaker 3: listener named Cali gift to a curse a drive through
• 1:16:11
  Speaker 3: that doesn't have a trash can to throw out old
• 1:16:14
  Speaker 3: drinks prior to getting a new one.
• 1:16:16
  Speaker 2: Okay, here's why it's a gift to me. Okay, you
• 1:16:20
  Speaker 2: need to clean out your car right when you get
• 1:16:22
  Speaker 2: to your house. And it's basically trying to teach you
• 1:16:24
  Speaker 2: a lesson to don't go. You cannot go to a
• 1:16:28
  Speaker 2: drive through if you already have stuff from the cups
• 1:16:31
  Speaker 2: in your car. You need to You need to take
• 1:16:33
  Speaker 2: a break and just go to your house empty every night.
• 1:16:37
  Speaker 2: I trust me, We live in our cars here and
• 1:16:40
  Speaker 2: I have to clean out my car basically every night,
• 1:16:42
  Speaker 2: and you do it at your house. But it's a
• 1:16:44
  Speaker 2: red flag on yourself if you've got too much garbage
• 1:16:47
  Speaker 2: in there and you're wanting more garbage.
• 1:16:51
  Speaker 3: Whoa, you win the game.
• 1:16:54
  Speaker 1: Wow.
• 1:16:55
  Speaker 3: Really, this is my exact reasoning. This is about personal responsibility.
• 1:17:00
  Speaker 3: Drive through is not your maid. The drive through is
• 1:17:02
  Speaker 3: not your personal dumps or they don't owe you a
• 1:17:05
  Speaker 3: garbage can. They owe you the drink you paid for.
• 1:17:09
  Speaker 3: And if I see a garbage can, like where what
• 1:17:11
  Speaker 3: is it? Where is that in the placement of the
• 1:17:15
  Speaker 3: drive through. It's getting confusing, you're reaching out the window
• 1:17:18
  Speaker 3: or there's garbage flowing out of it.
• 1:17:20
  Speaker 2: Have you ever seen one of those without garbage flowing
• 1:17:23
  Speaker 2: out of it? No?
• 1:17:24
  Speaker 3: Yeah, because that's the last thing the employees think about.
• 1:17:26
  Speaker 2: It's got to be impossible to clean those, the ones
• 1:17:28
  Speaker 2: that have the little shoot.
• 1:17:29
  Speaker 3: Yeah, how do you get into that thing? You probably
• 1:17:31
  Speaker 3: have to have a lock and key or something, password
• 1:17:35
  Speaker 3: or something, and they're usually made out of that weird
• 1:17:37
  Speaker 3: gravel rock and they're like they're probably each weigh a
• 1:17:39
  Speaker 3: thousand pounds. I'm sure there's an animal living in every
• 1:17:42
  Speaker 3: one of those. Those things are a curse. Nobody owes
• 1:17:46
  Speaker 3: you place it. Throw away your old drink. Get control
• 1:17:50
  Speaker 3: of your life. I have a car garbage can. Not
• 1:17:53
  Speaker 3: to brag. I got it on this podcast and it's
• 1:17:55
  Speaker 3: changed my life. That's what you need to do is
• 1:17:58
  Speaker 3: get your little car garbage can going, and then if
• 1:18:00
  Speaker 3: you don't want to throw it out every time, once
• 1:18:03
  Speaker 3: a week, you just empty your garbage can.
• 1:18:05
  Speaker 2: If you have a kid and she's not in there,
• 1:18:07
  Speaker 2: I always throw shit in her car seat that it
• 1:18:12
  Speaker 2: doesn't right.
• 1:18:13
  Speaker 3: That's a perfect kind of garbage can carries children and garbage.
• 1:18:18
  Speaker 3: That's how they should advertise those. Once your child has
• 1:18:20
  Speaker 3: outgrown it, it's now just a trash can.
• 1:18:23
  Speaker 2: It's perfect.
• 1:18:25
  Speaker 3: Well, congratulations on winning the game.
• 1:18:27
  Speaker 2: Thank you very well played.
• 1:18:28
  Speaker 3: Honalis. Do you have your gift or a curse?
• 1:18:31
  Speaker 2: I do?
• 1:18:31
  Speaker 3: What is it? Today? Honally is now going to present
• 1:18:34
  Speaker 3: a topic that we both have to answer to, and
• 1:18:36
  Speaker 3: then Honalis will tell us whether we're a ride or round.
• 1:18:38
  Speaker 6: Okay, it's really just a quality check being the first
• 1:18:42
  Speaker 6: person to clap in an event.
• 1:18:45
  Speaker 3: Do you want to go? Or should I go?
• 1:18:47
  Speaker 5: You go?
• 1:18:48
  Speaker 3: Okay? I think that that is a gift, and this is,
• 1:18:53
  Speaker 3: you know, largely about being a leader, not a follower.
• 1:18:56
  Speaker 3: You're making your decision right there that you enjoyed the performance.
• 1:18:59
  Speaker 3: You're set the trend and if nobody else collapse, you
• 1:19:03
  Speaker 3: may be humiliating yourself and disrupting something, but you made
• 1:19:07
  Speaker 3: the choice. You took a risk, and it's going to
• 1:19:10
  Speaker 3: pay off huge because suddenly you're going to be surrounded
• 1:19:12
  Speaker 3: by applause and you're going to think I started that. Yeah,
• 1:19:15
  Speaker 3: I'm the clapper. What do you think?
• 1:19:18
  Speaker 2: Curse? For all of the reasons that you just said,
• 1:19:21
  Speaker 2: this person wants to be on stage, they wish that
• 1:19:23
  Speaker 2: they could be the one that gets the applause, but
• 1:19:27
  Speaker 2: they go, well, what's the next best thing. I'm going
• 1:19:29
  Speaker 2: to start the applause and pretend like it's for me. Okay,
• 1:19:33
  Speaker 2: I'm going to make it about me, and it's even
• 1:19:36
  Speaker 2: better if nobody claps. They're the first one to stand
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  Speaker 2: in a standing ovation.
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  Speaker 3: I know it, curse wrong, They're the star now. Good
• 1:19:47
  Speaker 3: for them for taking control of their life. Leader on Elise,
• 1:19:51
  Speaker 3: what do you think Bridger's right?
• 1:19:53
  Speaker 4: It's a I'm sorry. I'm sorry, Moo, but you're just jealous.
• 1:19:59
  Speaker 4: All those just point to you just thinking, you know,
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  Speaker 4: I wish I could be that brave. I wish I
• 1:20:04
  Speaker 4: could be the one to clap first, because that's me.
• 1:20:07
  Speaker 4: I always every time somebody claps first, I'm thinking.
• 1:20:10
  Speaker 2: God, I wish that was me.
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  Speaker 6: I wish I had that confidence. And therefore it is.
• 1:20:13
  Speaker 6: It is a gift because it's something to aspire to.
• 1:20:17
  Speaker 3: Wow. Good for me, Yeah, mo, what a you really
• 1:20:20
  Speaker 3: fell on your face after?
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  Speaker 2: You know, I should be buying tickets to the person
• 1:20:24
  Speaker 2: that's the first one to clap at an event.
• 1:20:27
  Speaker 3: You will be, because so once they do that, they're
• 1:20:29
  Speaker 3: on their way to success. And you'll be the first
• 1:20:31
  Speaker 3: person to clap at their big show. At their clapping show. Okay,
• 1:20:36
  Speaker 3: this is the final segment of the podcast. It's called
• 1:20:38
  Speaker 3: I Said No Emails. People write into I Said No
• 1:20:41
  Speaker 3: Gifts at gmail dot com. They're curious, their lives are
• 1:20:45
  Speaker 3: a mess. They need help. They're asking all sorts of things.
• 1:20:47
  Speaker 3: Will you help me answer this question? Okay, this is Hello,
• 1:20:51
  Speaker 3: Dear Bridger and the guest of the week that is you.
• 1:20:54
  Speaker 3: I need to break up with my boyfriend, but I
• 1:20:56
  Speaker 3: need to do it over the phone. I want to
• 1:20:58
  Speaker 3: give him a gift as a way to make up
• 1:21:00
  Speaker 3: for it. I know it's strange, but we just celebrated
• 1:21:03
  Speaker 3: our three year anniversary and I feel as though a
• 1:21:05
  Speaker 3: gift will tell him how much I still care about
• 1:21:07
  Speaker 3: him and tell him I still want him in my life,
• 1:21:09
  Speaker 3: but platonically instead. Giving gifts is one of my love languages.
• 1:21:13
  Speaker 3: Part of the problem is he's very minimalistic, and I
• 1:21:16
  Speaker 3: don't want to give him something that will be a burden.
• 1:21:18
  Speaker 3: He and I are both transgender and are endlessly excited
• 1:21:21
  Speaker 3: about mundane things, utilizing the colors of the trans flag.
• 1:21:24
  Speaker 3: I worry about giving him something too personal because I
• 1:21:27
  Speaker 3: don't want to give him a gaudy reminder of me.
• 1:21:30
  Speaker 3: It is completely reasonable to tell me a gift is inappropriate.
• 1:21:33
  Speaker 3: But I'm hopeful that I can find something to help
• 1:21:35
  Speaker 3: make this an easier breakup for him to process. Thanks,
• 1:21:38
  Speaker 3: And that's from Cain. Ps. The reason I need to
• 1:21:41
  Speaker 3: break up with him is that I'm simply not attracted
• 1:21:44
  Speaker 3: to him anymore. So there's a just a burn at
• 1:21:47
  Speaker 3: the end. That's a tough thing to hear. H fair,
• 1:21:52
  Speaker 3: but also probably unnecessary to put in the letter Caine.
• 1:21:55
  Speaker 3: This poor guy is just out now.
• 1:21:58
  Speaker 2: I'm starrying to think of gift idea, now that I
• 1:22:01
  Speaker 2: have that piece of information, now that we know he's
• 1:22:03
  Speaker 2: an ago not in a hat, can't.
• 1:22:06
  Speaker 3: Fix Oh what do you think about this? I mean,
• 1:22:13
  Speaker 3: I think it's appropriate to give a gift. I mean
• 1:22:16
  Speaker 3: I think when I hear somebody doesn't want things, they're
• 1:22:19
  Speaker 3: minimalistic gift. A nice gift is removing yourself from their lives.
• 1:22:24
  Speaker 3: That's great, one last thing they have to worry about.
• 1:22:27
  Speaker 3: That won't be the color of the trans flag, but.
• 1:22:30
  Speaker 2: It's a starting point, which is the color of abandonment.
• 1:22:39
  Speaker 3: That's a lonely color to look at. But what is
• 1:22:44
  Speaker 3: something else you could give? That's I mean, I'm just
• 1:22:46
  Speaker 3: thinking of mean things. A mirror, but Cain kind of
• 1:22:51
  Speaker 3: didn't give us that much to work with here. Yeah,
• 1:22:54
  Speaker 3: that than an insult, right, I.
• 1:22:58
  Speaker 2: Mean, And you can never go wrong with a T
• 1:23:01
  Speaker 2: shirt that says I'm was stupid. I'll say that. But
• 1:23:05
  Speaker 2: you know you're single. It's like it feels weird to
• 1:23:07
  Speaker 2: give a gift that's going to help somebody else hook up.
• 1:23:11
  Speaker 2: But she seems like it's going to be a good
• 1:23:13
  Speaker 2: break up. Yeah, so maybe something single person.
• 1:23:16
  Speaker 3: Would like, I'm with no one.
• 1:23:19
  Speaker 2: I'm with no one.
• 1:23:22
  Speaker 3: My life is empty. Yeah, don't ask me why my
• 1:23:26
  Speaker 3: last partner broke up with me. These are all T shirts.
• 1:23:29
  Speaker 2: This is uh yeah, my ex bought me this gift
• 1:23:32
  Speaker 2: right before we broke up.
• 1:23:33
  Speaker 3: T shirt but we're still on good terms. That's on
• 1:23:35
  Speaker 3: the back.
• 1:23:37
  Speaker 2: Or maybe that's a necklace, Yeah, what a necklace. See.
• 1:23:41
  Speaker 2: The problem with getting somebody a gift when you're breaking
• 1:23:43
  Speaker 2: up is you know when you look at like, every
• 1:23:46
  Speaker 2: time you wear this T shirt that I gave you
• 1:23:48
  Speaker 2: to the gym, you're gonna think about me heartache. Yeah,
• 1:23:50
  Speaker 2: your heartache. And so I don't wear any jewelry exes
• 1:23:55
  Speaker 2: gave me, and come to think of it, none of
• 1:23:56
  Speaker 2: them ever gave me Anny.
• 1:24:00
  Speaker 3: Well, you've got to reach out to them. Yeah, Hey,
• 1:24:03
  Speaker 3: I just notice something. I don't know if this is weird,
• 1:24:07
  Speaker 3: but I know it's been ten years, but I just
• 1:24:10
  Speaker 3: realized you didn't give me any jewelry when we broke up.
• 1:24:13
  Speaker 2: I have nothing to look at and think about.
• 1:24:15
  Speaker 3: You except for all of these pictures that.
• 1:24:19
  Speaker 2: Are on my wall in my secret room in my house.
• 1:24:21
  Speaker 3: And this country song I'm writing about you. So I
• 1:24:26
  Speaker 3: think that those are some decent gift options.
• 1:24:28
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 1:24:29
  Speaker 3: Maybe why not just an edible thing so he gets
• 1:24:32
  Speaker 3: to eat it.
• 1:24:33
  Speaker 2: It's nice and you can forget about it.
• 1:24:34
  Speaker 3: I think that's perfect, right, Yeah, and then it's just
• 1:24:37
  Speaker 3: like you mean something to me, forget about me, enjoy
• 1:24:41
  Speaker 3: not this crumble cookie. Oh it's gonna don't you dare.
• 1:24:44
  Speaker 3: I would never just buy the toll House cookies bake them.
• 1:24:49
  Speaker 3: They look kind of like you made them at home.
• 1:24:51
  Speaker 2: It can't be bad. It can't be Okay, somebody's breaking
• 1:24:54
  Speaker 2: up with me and giving me homemade I'm like, it's poisoned.
• 1:24:57
  Speaker 3: That's true. It's got to be wrapped individually wrapped. This
• 1:25:00
  Speaker 3: could be like a razor in the candy situation. Very
• 1:25:04
  Speaker 3: good point. So it's gotta be.
• 1:25:07
  Speaker 2: If they if they drink, I would say about I.
• 1:25:10
  Speaker 3: Feel like buying somebody liquor during a breakup is a
• 1:25:13
  Speaker 3: tough one.
• 1:25:14
  Speaker 2: Trader just gift card, come on and knick go wrong.
• 1:25:18
  Speaker 3: That's not a bad idea. Go buy yourself something on
• 1:25:21
  Speaker 3: your first trip to the grocery store. But you don't
• 1:25:23
  Speaker 3: have to think about what I want.
• 1:25:25
  Speaker 2: And also, Trader Joe's is great for single people.
• 1:25:27
  Speaker 3: It's perfect, so many individual items. Everything is basically enough
• 1:25:32
  Speaker 3: for one person.
• 1:25:33
  Speaker 2: Say all of this in the card, everything, download the
• 1:25:36
  Speaker 2: transcript of.
• 1:25:36
  Speaker 3: This podcast, just send the episode to them. I think
• 1:25:42
  Speaker 3: they'll be happy to hear that you're not attracted to them.
• 1:25:45
  Speaker 3: That'll be a fun little twist at the end for them.
• 1:25:48
  Speaker 2: I've never yeah, yeah, I've never given a partying gift
• 1:25:53
  Speaker 2: for I don't.
• 1:25:54
  Speaker 3: I don't know that that's a popular move.
• 1:25:58
  Speaker 2: Right. This feels like you got like you wouldn't be
• 1:26:01
  Speaker 2: friends with this person.
• 1:26:02
  Speaker 3: Yes, yeah, it feels like it's kind of people pleasing. Yeah,
• 1:26:06
  Speaker 3: it's like I think maybe what you need to do
• 1:26:08
  Speaker 3: is just say sorry. I don't like the way you
• 1:26:11
  Speaker 3: do your hair right, and I know you could change that,
• 1:26:14
  Speaker 3: but I've seen you with this hairstyle and there's nothing
• 1:26:18
  Speaker 3: I can It's gonna be a nightmare for me.
• 1:26:20
  Speaker 2: You can also do what everyone in la is done
• 1:26:24
  Speaker 2: during the fires, which is just go look at your
• 1:26:25
  Speaker 2: closet and what garbage you want to give to people
• 1:26:28
  Speaker 2: displaced by fires, and just people are so back the
• 1:26:31
  Speaker 2: back of garbage.
• 1:26:32
  Speaker 3: People are just dumping things.
• 1:26:33
  Speaker 2: It's like, have some thought, You're like, it's like a shelf,
• 1:26:39
  Speaker 2: a three tier shelf with two shelves.
• 1:26:42
  Speaker 3: My broken ike address, or you can't open the drawers,
• 1:26:45
  Speaker 3: but do with it what you will.
• 1:26:46
  Speaker 2: And then they're posting on social media. Just dropped off
• 1:26:49
  Speaker 2: a donation bag, just backed.
• 1:26:51
  Speaker 3: Up my dump truck. Made volunteers life harder, Lord help us.
• 1:26:59
  Speaker 3: Everyone's trying their well, maybe not, some people are trying
• 1:27:02
  Speaker 3: a little harder.
• 1:27:03
  Speaker 2: Some people are really giving garbage.
• 1:27:05
  Speaker 3: Well, Caine, the answer, you got your answer, don't write
• 1:27:08
  Speaker 3: back in We answered it perfectly. Good luck with the breakup,
• 1:27:11
  Speaker 3: Good luck with your new friend or whatever. Hopefully you
• 1:27:14
  Speaker 3: two can remain friends after what you've done to him.
• 1:27:17
  Speaker 2: You're so good at relationship advice.
• 1:27:21
  Speaker 3: That's why I'm about to announce my spinoff podcast. Okay,
• 1:27:27
  Speaker 3: well answered the question perfectly. I now have this T
• 1:27:29
  Speaker 3: shirt to kind of show off around town. I'm gonna
• 1:27:31
  Speaker 3: be showboating everywhere I go the gym, dances, parties, wedding, badminton.
• 1:27:39
  Speaker 3: People will be intimidated by me. They'll be impressed, and
• 1:27:43
  Speaker 3: then they'll find out the truth and lose all respect
• 1:27:46
  Speaker 3: for Then you'll be canceled, and then I'll be canceled.
• 1:27:48
  Speaker 3: This is my road to cancelation.
• 1:27:50
  Speaker 2: Also, it's a really ugly grave, so.
• 1:27:53
  Speaker 3: I will say this is the worst color of T
• 1:27:56
  Speaker 3: shirt you can buy.
• 1:27:57
  Speaker 4: It is.
• 1:27:57
  Speaker 2: It's clip art too, and you know they had the choice.
• 1:28:01
  Speaker 3: Very lazy department. This is it's screen printed, so they
• 1:28:07
  Speaker 3: could have done something decent. Yeah, they give jerseys now,
• 1:28:10
  Speaker 3: they give jerseys. Interesting, they're really big. Okay, of course,
• 1:28:13
  Speaker 3: it's always really big.
• 1:28:15
  Speaker 2: It looks atrocious.
• 1:28:16
  Speaker 3: This is my This has been my lifelong battle of
• 1:28:19
  Speaker 3: whenever there's a free item, it's too big. Why can't
• 1:28:23
  Speaker 3: we occasionally have something that's too small for people?
• 1:28:25
  Speaker 2: Yeah?
• 1:28:26
  Speaker 3: Just one time, the whole team gets a small T
• 1:28:29
  Speaker 3: shirt and I get to go home wearing something that fits.
• 1:28:32
  Speaker 3: It's ridiculous. It's absolutely ridiculous. But this is I mean,
• 1:28:37
  Speaker 3: the T shirt itself is literally like the fashion art,
• 1:28:40
  Speaker 3: fashion equivalent of clip art. It is color, the sizing,
• 1:28:44
  Speaker 3: it's just somebody said that's the shirt, and I'm thrilled.
• 1:28:49
  Speaker 3: I couldn't be happy with it. Well, I've had a
• 1:28:51
  Speaker 3: wonderful time.
• 1:28:52
  Speaker 2: I've had a great time. Thank you so much for
• 1:28:54
  Speaker 2: letting me talk with you and Irbing, You're.
• 1:28:56
  Speaker 3: So thank you for being here. Listen, the podcast is over.
• 1:29:02
  Speaker 3: I want you to remain calm. I want you to
• 1:29:04
  Speaker 3: take a few breaths. I want you to think about
• 1:29:07
  Speaker 3: what you'll do with the rest of your day and
• 1:29:08
  Speaker 3: make a smart decision and informed decision. Do what's best
• 1:29:12
  Speaker 3: for you. I'm gonna let you go. I love you, goodbye.
• 1:29:20
  Speaker 3: I Said No Gifts is an exactly right production. Our
• 1:29:24
  Speaker 3: senior producer is on Alisa Nelson, and our episodes are
• 1:29:27
  Speaker 3: beautifully mixed by Ben Tolliday. The theme song is by
• 1:29:31
  Speaker 3: miracle Worker Amy Mann, and we couldn't do it without
• 1:29:34
  Speaker 3: our booker, Patrick Cottner. You must follow the show on
• 1:29:38
  Speaker 3: Instagram at I Said No Gifts. That's where you're going
• 1:29:40
  Speaker 3: to see pictures of all these wonderful gifts I'm getting.
• 1:29:43
  Speaker 3: And don't you want to see the gifts invant?
• 1:29:46
  Speaker 1: Did you hear?
• 1:29:50
  Speaker 3: Fun?
• 1:29:50
  Speaker 1: A man myself perfectly clear? But you're I guess, Tom,
• 1:29:58
  Speaker 1: you gotta come to me empty, And I said, no, guest,
• 1:30:04
  Speaker 1: your own presence is presents. And no, I already had
• 1:30:10
  Speaker 1: too much stuff.
• 1:30:12
  Speaker 2: So how do you dare to surbey me?