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Maria Thayer and Tien Tran Ruin Bridger's Holiday Season · 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. When 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: your own presence is presence enough. I already had too
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  Speaker 1: much stuff, So how do you dare to surbey me?
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  Speaker 2: Welcome to I said, no gifts. I'm Bridger Wineger, Happy holidays.
• 0:56
  Speaker 2: It's the holiday episode, it's the big holiday episode. What's
• 1:01
  Speaker 2: going on? Well, I think we should probably just address
• 1:03
  Speaker 2: what's happening up top. If you're listening, you aren't aware
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  Speaker 2: of what I'm currently wearing. This was a network call.
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  Speaker 2: This was what I'm currently wearing. The network kind of said,
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  Speaker 2: if you don't wear it, the podcast will be canceled,
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  Speaker 2: the masters will be destroyed. But if you're listening, what
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  Speaker 2: I would describe what I'm wearing. People are obviously watching
• 1:27
  Speaker 2: this on YouTube. They already know the cat's out of
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  Speaker 2: the bag. I mean kind of a tiny tim costume
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  Speaker 2: wearing kind of a mid thigh skirt.
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  Speaker 3: Well, it's more of a dress.
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  Speaker 2: Made out of what I assume is a flammable velvet,
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  Speaker 2: the white fringe and a little bit of itchy tool underneath.
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  Speaker 2: Of course, got these gorgeous gloves on and the network, Yes,
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  Speaker 2: you know, they said put it on or the show goes.
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  Speaker 2: I said, it's the holiday. I'll make the threats. I said,
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  Speaker 2: I'll walk if we don't get a snow machine. Can
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  Speaker 2: we get the snow going? Okay, so that's enough snow
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  Speaker 2: for now. It's the holidays. I believe this is our
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  Speaker 2: second holiday special. We did one years ago, maybe twenty
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  Speaker 2: twenty one. Is that right, Alice?
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  Speaker 3: Alice, what are you wearing?
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  Speaker 2: What is that on your head?
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  Speaker 3: Just trying to be festive?
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  Speaker 2: Take that off? It looks ridiculous. Alice is trying to
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  Speaker 2: pull focus. No, this is our second holiday episode. We
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  Speaker 2: would have done other years, but I was in jail,
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  Speaker 2: so we're trying to get back into the spirit of things.
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  Speaker 2: It's a busy season, The holidays are hectic. I'm trying
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  Speaker 2: to get everybody to refocus on what's really important. Me.
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  Speaker 2: Of course, there's the one big one for me. I
• 2:41
  Speaker 2: grew up with older Driver Safety Awareness Week. That's kind
• 2:47
  Speaker 2: of my big holiday. That, of course, takes place in
• 2:50
  Speaker 2: the beginning of December. I think it's December fifth to
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  Speaker 2: how long is a week? But if you missed it,
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  Speaker 2: you probably should just take a look at yourself, ask yourself,
• 3:01
  Speaker 2: what sort of Christian am I? I feel like it's
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  Speaker 2: almost everything. Could we there's one more thing I'd like
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  Speaker 2: to talk about. Could we get some more snow before me?
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  Speaker 2: This is probably the most holiday oriented thing I'd like
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  Speaker 2: to talk about. Snow. Please. Okay, if you're just listening,
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  Speaker 2: you're just getting the audio. But there's some gorgeous snow falling,
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  Speaker 2: and it puts me in the mood to talk about.
• 3:23
  Speaker 2: Last night I watched an episode of Tabitha Takeover. Now
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  Speaker 2: I'm back in my Tabitha bag. I of course had
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  Speaker 2: watch all of tabitha Salon Takeover. Tabitha does salon takeover.
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  Speaker 2: It's just Australian woman that I kind of got hooked
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  Speaker 2: on last year and I powered through her salon takeovers.
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  Speaker 2: She of course has the sequel, Tabitha's Takeover. Last night
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  Speaker 2: I watched an episode, and Tabitha's Takeover is a little different.
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  Speaker 2: They do more than salons, They do all sorts of
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  Speaker 2: small businesses. So last night's Tabitha's Takeover was a salon
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  Speaker 2: and she was taking over a salon in I think
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  Speaker 2: it was Douglasville, Georgia. And it was I believe it
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  Speaker 2: was called Pat's Hair Shop. All kinds of things going
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  Speaker 2: wrong for Pat. Half of her staff had walked. The
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  Speaker 2: store was terrible. She had all sorts of garbage furniture,
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  Speaker 2: kind of a troubled employee destroyed someone's dye job. Tabitha
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  Speaker 2: actually had to step in and strip some of the
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  Speaker 2: hair from color from her hair. But ultimately I think
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  Speaker 2: it was Tabitha was able to solve all of their problems.
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  Speaker 2: I haven't looked into Pat's Hair Shop shoppe to see
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  Speaker 2: if it's still in business. Elis is it still in business?
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  Speaker 2: Any idea? Let's look into Pat's Hair Shop in Douglasville, Georgia.
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  Speaker 2: It's the holidays. We should check in with our loved ones.
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  Speaker 3: Yelper's report this location has closed.
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  Speaker 2: We're sorry to hear that about Pat's Hair Shop. Christmas
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  Speaker 2: is right around the corner. That's one of the holidays.
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  Speaker 2: If you need a last minute gift, I always say
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  Speaker 2: a Pfcheng's E gift card. I assume you can get
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  Speaker 2: those between five dollars and probably thousands of dollars. You
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  Speaker 2: just want to think about the recipient's general appetite for
• 5:08
  Speaker 2: you know, chain Chinese food. I think that is all
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  Speaker 2: of our business that we've needed to cover. Again, our
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  Speaker 2: older drivers, Let's be aware of their safety, especially during
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  Speaker 2: the holidays, the roads are slippery. I think we should
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  Speaker 2: bring our guests. And it's a holiday special, so I said,
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  Speaker 2: we've got to have a couple old favorites, a couple
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  Speaker 2: real holiday sweethearts. So let's let's demand some of my
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  Speaker 2: favorites come in. So we've got Maria Thayer and ten Tran,
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  Speaker 2: two of my all time favorites. Could we bring them in?
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  Speaker 4: Oh, happy holidays, Happy, come on in, come on in.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you, Oh, thank.
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  Speaker 2: You so much. I was just telling a listener this
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  Speaker 2: was a network call. They said the show would be
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  Speaker 2: canceled if I didn't wear this.
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  Speaker 3: What was your What was your pitch?
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  Speaker 2: I had a very conservative I'm not comfortable with my
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  Speaker 2: body on camera, and I told them that several times
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  Speaker 2: in writing.
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  Speaker 3: You're sitting like you're very comfortable with your body.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I had to get comfortable with it quickly, because
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  Speaker 2: you know, I'm a professional.
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  Speaker 5: With those legs, you should be comfortable with your body,
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  Speaker 5: and I'm glad to see them.
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  Speaker 3: Those are like ballerina legs.
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  Speaker 2: Cravy again, I have a gun trained on.
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  Speaker 3: How are you too good?
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  Speaker 2: You've got to put your gifts somewhere?
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  Speaker 3: Sorry, this is the show.
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  Speaker 2: The format of this show right now is so uncomfortable
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  Speaker 2: for the guests because they have no idea where.
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  Speaker 3: To put that, and there's so many I know, we should,
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  Speaker 3: we should. These are not real, I mean, not here
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  Speaker 3: we go, let's put those.
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  Speaker 2: You two are so nice to bring things, and the
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  Speaker 2: staff was so cruel tops. I'm fighting for my life
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  Speaker 2: there for my life.
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  Speaker 3: Do you too care about the holidays? I like the holidays? Okay,
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  Speaker 3: I like the holidays. I like spending time. It stresses
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  Speaker 3: me out, though, I will say right, just like holiday
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  Speaker 3: planning logistics with my family. Maria, I just called in
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  Speaker 3: a hurry, called.
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  Speaker 5: Uh psychiatrist to get on anti anxiety medication yesterday.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, we're okay for you. This is a little intense.
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  Speaker 3: I feel a little intensely about everything.
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  Speaker 5: I need to protect my friends and family from my
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  Speaker 5: All I want to do is to a fight with
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  Speaker 5: someone else so I can.
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  Speaker 3: Fight with either one of you. It's because it hasn't
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  Speaker 3: kicked yet.
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  Speaker 2: Well, this is the show for fighting.
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  Speaker 3: I have already brought again, Yeah, is very tough. Are
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  Speaker 3: you both traveling? I'm my parents live like two hours
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  Speaker 3: south of here, so like, technically your parents, I'm doctoring
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  Speaker 3: my parents. That's where they live. My sister, actually older sister,
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  Speaker 3: she kept telling me that she was going to come,
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  Speaker 3: and I was like, okay, one of the dates, one
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  Speaker 3: of the dates, and she texted me yesterday to be like,
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  Speaker 3: we're coming to these dates, but we don't know if
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  Speaker 3: we're going to tell mom and dad because we want
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  Speaker 3: to surprise them. And I'm like, stop, I don't know
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  Speaker 3: if that's you can't surprise someone at their house for
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  Speaker 3: a whole week. That's a lot with a husband and
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  Speaker 3: two kids.
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  Speaker 2: You can't surprise someone at their house for more than
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  Speaker 2: half an hour?
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  Speaker 3: No, I agree, completely agree.
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  Speaker 2: That's like a stop in. Oh I was in the neighborhood.
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  Speaker 5: Yes, Like yeah, I'm trying to figure out a reason
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  Speaker 5: to do that, Like why who was the perfect person
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  Speaker 5: to surprise for an entire entire week?
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  Speaker 2: Hampton in they're trying to call Hampton now they're just
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  Speaker 2: calling it Hampton, trying to I'm not letting them get away.
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  Speaker 3: Are they dropping the Inn because they feel like it
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  Speaker 3: doesn't feel.
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  Speaker 2: Classic yeah, I think like this is like the elevated Oh.
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  Speaker 3: Have Hampton in part in your name?
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  Speaker 2: Yes, like except that, Yeah, we all know what we
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  Speaker 2: love it.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, they paid so much money for someone to tell
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  Speaker 3: them to drop in, right, and.
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  Speaker 2: Here comes here comes Bridger saying, okay, so your sister,
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  Speaker 2: did you come to a conclusion she I.
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  Speaker 3: Think she's going to surprise my parents for god, well,
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  Speaker 3: they're big listeners to the show.
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  Speaker 1: I know.
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  Speaker 3: That's why I'm telling because I want to get the
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  Speaker 3: word mom, dad, please be ready. They're coming the whole family,
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  Speaker 3: So get enough food for I don't know eight people.
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  Speaker 3: That's such a huge, such a huge surprise. It doesn't
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  Speaker 3: it doesn't make any sense at all good grief.
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  Speaker 5: Is there a way that you can somehow like softly
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  Speaker 5: sort of prepare your family without without ruining it for
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  Speaker 5: your sister and her husband and.
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  Speaker 3: Their children big surprise. I think it would absolutely destroy
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  Speaker 3: the family dynamic if I ruined well surprise for my
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  Speaker 3: older sister.
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  Speaker 2: Could you do could you do the grocery shopping in advance?
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  Speaker 3: Yes, that kind of thing. Okay, Now now you're I'm
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  Speaker 3: taking on the emotional labor of it. And my therapist
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  Speaker 3: said not to do that.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, I take on all.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, that's why.
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  Speaker 5: I have to get on anti anxiety.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, wait, do you have siblings three? Where do you
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  Speaker 3: fall in the birth order?
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  Speaker 2: I'm uh, it's weird with four. I'm middle, but the
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  Speaker 2: middle middle.
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  Speaker 3: I'm middle as well.
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  Speaker 2: How many do you have?
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  Speaker 3: Four? Four? That's why we're that's why we Now.
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  Speaker 2: Are you lower upper middle? I'm I'm third.
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  Speaker 3: What do you consider that lower middle?
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  Speaker 2: Okay, then I lower middle.
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  Speaker 3: I'm lower middle. Yes, I say Hampton.
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  Speaker 2: In Hampton, And you have one siblings.
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  Speaker 5: I have one sibling who's younger, and I'm the oldest.
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  Speaker 5: But I feel like the oldest has to do everything emotional,
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  Speaker 5: glue planning, sucking up ship.
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  Speaker 3: I just feel like they.
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  Speaker 5: I feel like my brother just like flounces around and
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  Speaker 5: just has a jolly old time.
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  Speaker 2: And you're going to Montana.
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  Speaker 3: I'm not going to Montana.
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  Speaker 5: Christmas used to be our big holiday. I never missed
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  Speaker 5: one ever, no matter what happened. But after my brother
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  Speaker 5: had kids, then something rearranged, and now Thanksgiving is our
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  Speaker 5: big holiday and Christmas.
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  Speaker 3: Can you know you kind of just wow? Sorry, I
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  Speaker 3: don't mean that, like for real.
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  Speaker 5: Obviously, Christmas is no, you're on record now, Christmas is
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  Speaker 5: the one true holiday.
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  Speaker 2: It's they.
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  Speaker 3: I just basically a gridge in a Christmas dress. Why
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  Speaker 3: not good? But is it because they want to be
• 12:00
  Speaker 3: their own Christmas with their kid? It's because the kids.
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  Speaker 5: Now, the kids are the most important thing about the holidays.
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  Speaker 3: It's just fine.
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  Speaker 2: Love.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, I love my nieces y.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah we used to get a lot of attention, but
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  Speaker 5: now for that three year old. But but yeah, so
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  Speaker 5: we just so the the.
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  Speaker 3: Mother in law gets Christmas. I don't know how this was.
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  Speaker 3: I was not I was not consulted.
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  Speaker 5: But so that's what happens and Christmas and Christmas is
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  Speaker 5: and my family is.
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  Speaker 3: More loosey goosey, and.
• 12:33
  Speaker 5: My brother's my brother's married in family is more like
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  Speaker 5: straight lace and so how we plan is very different
• 12:40
  Speaker 5: than how they plan.
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  Speaker 3: And I think our planning style, which is just like.
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  Speaker 5: Maybe we'll be there, I don't know, I would drive
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  Speaker 5: everyone crazy. It's so we're like we're not like it's
• 12:51
  Speaker 5: not we're not like we're not invited, but it's like
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  Speaker 5: it's just you're not invited.
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  Speaker 2: And you can't you ultimately can't count on each other
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  Speaker 2: for anything.
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  Speaker 5: So that's important, which is not which is anti the
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  Speaker 5: Christmas spirit?
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  Speaker 2: I think having children is a real power move, and
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  Speaker 2: especially during the holidays. It's the one I don't want
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  Speaker 2: children at all, but to be able to stay home
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  Speaker 2: for the holidays, you children are an anchor. Then everyone
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  Speaker 2: has to come to you. It's so powerful.
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  Speaker 3: It's so powerful. Sister, when she had kids, she was like,
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  Speaker 3: they will wake up at their home on Christmas. Right,
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  Speaker 3: you can'thing you can do.
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  Speaker 2: Unless you have like an extravagant thing you can do
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  Speaker 2: for them. So it's really they've they've got us all hostage.
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  Speaker 2: I can't say I have no reason not to go
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  Speaker 2: home for the holidays, So what do you? Where are
• 13:38
  Speaker 2: you going to Utah? Which I obviously I have a
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  Speaker 2: good time, but it's never an option for me. It's
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  Speaker 2: not like you come to me.
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  Speaker 3: You always have to go there.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, they'd be like, why are we coming? What are
• 13:48
  Speaker 2: we have to move everything for you? Of course I
• 13:52
  Speaker 2: have to get on a plane. I have to go
• 13:53
  Speaker 2: through Burbank. That's a smiled challenge for me. So I
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  Speaker 2: don't know.
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  Speaker 5: I can't believe even being so close to Burbank, the
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  Speaker 5: studio is so close to Burbank, makes me.
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  Speaker 3: When I was driving here a Suburbank, it makes me.
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  Speaker 3: It gives me such joy.
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  Speaker 2: Oh my god.
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  Speaker 3: Like I love Burbank Bank too fantastic. Yeah, it's I can't.
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  Speaker 3: I never. I never.
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  Speaker 5: I never go into Burbank and fly or come into
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  Speaker 5: Burbank without just being great.
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  Speaker 3: No, I love it. I live in a time with Burbank.
• 14:22
  Speaker 3: There's a lot of other problems, but Burbank Airport exists.
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  Speaker 3: The last time I talked about this, I like a
• 14:30
  Speaker 3: Burbank little shopping area. I can go to ri I
• 14:32
  Speaker 3: get some camping chairs and like Ohyd, I can get
• 14:38
  Speaker 3: everything I need. I can get a hose from Lows
• 14:41
  Speaker 3: and lovely the hose from Lows, and camping chairs from ARII,
• 14:46
  Speaker 3: and grab some Panda Express. It's literally a wonderful afternoon. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I got some climbing shoes from.
• 14:52
  Speaker 3: ARII are climbing.
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  Speaker 2: Ope, I did for a while. Then I put my
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  Speaker 2: I froze my account. So it's just been kind of
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  Speaker 2: ten dollars a month for me. It's like a charity.
• 15:02
  Speaker 2: At this point. I need to get back into it.
• 15:05
  Speaker 2: Are you bouldering, Yeah, it was bouldering for quite a while.
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  Speaker 3: That's why those legs are so attract that's.
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  Speaker 2: What permanent good legs from bolder. No, it was for
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  Speaker 2: quite a while, and then for no, I had no
• 15:19
  Speaker 2: actual excuse to freeze my account. I just stopped. But
• 15:22
  Speaker 2: then I just found out that my bank has been
• 15:23
  Speaker 2: charging me a ninety five dollars a month fee. And
• 15:26
  Speaker 2: I thought that could have been going towards bouldering. So
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  Speaker 2: I reversed all the fees and now I'll start bouldering.
• 15:30
  Speaker 3: Wait, why are they why for what?
• 15:32
  Speaker 2: I'm glad I caught.
• 15:33
  Speaker 3: It keeping keeping it clean. They do that, you keep
• 15:36
  Speaker 3: it clean, you know, isn't there a bank fee? That's like,
• 15:38
  Speaker 3: we're just like, oh, just kind of an organic Yeah,
• 15:42
  Speaker 3: like we're just checking on your account. Interesting and then
• 15:44
  Speaker 3: they charge you, yes, but I don't.
• 15:46
  Speaker 2: Whoh So they say that we're charging you to mop
• 15:49
  Speaker 2: up your progress. Now this was something. This was something
• 15:52
  Speaker 2: and I hadn't even noticed. I was just looking at
• 15:54
  Speaker 2: my account. I was like, oh wait, this is new.
• 15:57
  Speaker 2: I got them on the phone. They were wonderful to me.
• 15:59
  Speaker 2: I'm on the side of banks.
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  Speaker 3: This is crazy, but I think banks are bad. No greed.
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  Speaker 5: There are two monopolized and Chase Bank can go the
• 16:11
  Speaker 5: way of thanks reach out.
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  Speaker 3: I think all banks are good and everyone should celebrate Christmas.
• 16:20
  Speaker 2: You're launching some sort of no I got them, I
• 16:28
  Speaker 2: thank god. I think I was saying this to someone recently.
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  Speaker 2: I think that even bank employees are not on the
• 16:33
  Speaker 2: side of banks at this point. So you call them,
• 16:35
  Speaker 2: You're like, I don't know where this came from. Please
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  Speaker 2: reverse this for me. They were so easy about.
• 16:39
  Speaker 3: Because you're nice. Yes, as long as you're nice.
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  Speaker 2: This is something that shocks me with service workers when
• 16:44
  Speaker 2: they're so like, I can't believe you were nice to me,
• 16:47
  Speaker 2: or I'm like, what is everyone else doing? What if
• 16:49
  Speaker 2: if you thank somebody had a drive through their eyes
• 16:53
  Speaker 2: light up, because I think most people are just like
• 16:55
  Speaker 2: they don't even hit the brakes on the drive through,
• 16:56
  Speaker 2: they're just grabbing going through. It's shocking to me. It
• 17:00
  Speaker 2: is the abuse that must be happening at the drive
• 17:02
  Speaker 2: through window. I can't imagine.
• 17:07
  Speaker 3: Have any of you worked like customers? Okay, I worked
• 17:12
  Speaker 3: at Arby's. Arby I'm so jealous. Oh why why are
• 17:16
  Speaker 3: you jealous of it?
• 17:17
  Speaker 2: Because I love Arby's.
• 17:18
  Speaker 3: Oh, and then I won't talk about it.
• 17:22
  Speaker 2: What you have to say about Arby's We've got to
• 17:23
  Speaker 2: get into the insulted chase.
• 17:25
  Speaker 3: Big Christmas. You're taking down all the big.
• 17:31
  Speaker 2: The biggest biggies is extremely powerful. It's so powerful outside
• 17:35
  Speaker 2: of Banks. It's like Banks. Arby's.
• 17:39
  Speaker 3: Yeah, there's a lot to love about Arby's. The Horsey sauce.
• 17:43
  Speaker 2: Okay, that's the one thing I don't care about.
• 17:45
  Speaker 3: The onion pedals.
• 17:47
  Speaker 2: Onion.
• 17:49
  Speaker 5: I think back in when I worked there, there was
• 17:51
  Speaker 5: no onion pedals.
• 17:52
  Speaker 3: Okay, onion pedal.
• 17:53
  Speaker 2: This is innovation that sounds like something Arby's would have.
• 17:56
  Speaker 3: I'm pretty sure that I got onion pedals. There is
• 17:59
  Speaker 3: like an onion string. Yeah. Joa shakes. I can get
• 18:02
  Speaker 3: her to shakes. It's like a chocolate coffee shake. Yeah.
• 18:06
  Speaker 3: They have them all the time. I don't think they're
• 18:07
  Speaker 3: even seasonal time.
• 18:10
  Speaker 2: Not in Los Angeles of course, because they've closed down
• 18:12
  Speaker 2: our final Arbys. That's the last arby within the Los
• 18:16
  Speaker 2: Angeles area. It's devastating.
• 18:17
  Speaker 3: Best Arby's. They had the best sign Yes, best time
• 18:21
  Speaker 3: by far.
• 18:21
  Speaker 2: They had a listener. If you're not familiar, you've really
• 18:24
  Speaker 2: lost out on a life event. But it's a giant
• 18:26
  Speaker 2: cowboy hat and neon. This says Arby's. It's gorgeous. They
• 18:30
  Speaker 2: should preserve that, or something that should be put on
• 18:32
  Speaker 2: top of the Netflix.
• 18:33
  Speaker 3: I'm sure someone has, oh my gosh, after we burn
• 18:39
  Speaker 3: it down.
• 18:39
  Speaker 2: Yes, make a lot of holiday episodes, they do, and
• 18:46
  Speaker 2: I feel like we're all gunning for a Christmas episode
• 18:48
  Speaker 2: or a Christmas movie on Netflix.
• 18:50
  Speaker 3: They would buy that, they would buy that, and then
• 18:52
  Speaker 3: anytime they open their movies, it's.
• 18:54
  Speaker 2: Like Netflix, Well, you know what my dream is. My
• 18:58
  Speaker 2: escorp is called Mervin's. Are you too familiar with Mervin's?
• 19:01
  Speaker 3: Yeah? Is it like the discount store.
• 19:03
  Speaker 2: It was like a discount department store. Up until the
• 19:07
  Speaker 2: early thousands, that was like mostly I don't know what
• 19:10
  Speaker 2: their national strategy was because it was mostly West Coast,
• 19:13
  Speaker 2: and then a couple throughout, probably like very small areas
• 19:17
  Speaker 2: of New York or whatever, they all closed down. Okay,
• 19:19
  Speaker 2: And when I started an escort, you have to pick
• 19:20
  Speaker 2: a name, and I thought, what better name than Mervin's.
• 19:23
  Speaker 2: And my lawyer looked into and he said, you can
• 19:25
  Speaker 2: take it. There might be a season desist at some point,
• 19:28
  Speaker 2: but I was like, well, I'm taking it for now,
• 19:29
  Speaker 2: and if I ever Hollywood reach out produce the show
• 19:32
  Speaker 2: it'll we'll have the Mervins logo and cheapen everything.
• 19:36
  Speaker 3: No matter what I work on, it will be diminished
• 19:39
  Speaker 3: by So there's not a single store left, no wow.
• 19:44
  Speaker 2: A lot of remaining buildings, of course, but no stores.
• 19:47
  Speaker 2: And occasionally, once, probably every two years, I'll get a
• 19:50
  Speaker 2: piece of mail from like some sort of employment service
• 19:54
  Speaker 2: or whatever, like demanding that Mervns pay that this employee
• 19:57
  Speaker 2: or whatever, Like, oh wow, I'm just not that Mervyns.
• 20:02
  Speaker 2: How am I supposed to let the world. How do
• 20:04
  Speaker 2: they even find me? I guess they look up.
• 20:08
  Speaker 3: That owes me money?
• 20:09
  Speaker 2: Get him, get him boys different Mervyns. So I don't
• 20:13
  Speaker 2: have the well, I probably have moremurvnt more money than
• 20:16
  Speaker 2: Mervin's at this point, you.
• 20:17
  Speaker 3: Definitely did you love Mervin's? Is that why you? Or
• 20:19
  Speaker 3: did you?
• 20:20
  Speaker 2: You know?
• 20:20
  Speaker 3: I have a lot of that you made that made
• 20:23
  Speaker 3: you feel like you wanted to.
• 20:24
  Speaker 2: It's given my life a certain texture. There were a
• 20:27
  Speaker 2: lot of back to school shopping trips there. There are
• 20:29
  Speaker 2: a lot of memories of kind of wandering through their
• 20:31
  Speaker 2: very dark department stores.
• 20:33
  Speaker 3: It like Filine's basement. You what's this?
• 20:36
  Speaker 2: Oh?
• 20:37
  Speaker 3: You feel like you would have loved fil we spell Fileing.
• 20:42
  Speaker 3: I love that f I L E n E right
• 20:46
  Speaker 3: Fileinge's basement. She's so classy. I just remember Phileine's Basement
• 20:51
  Speaker 3: was a discount department store. And the the main memory
• 20:54
  Speaker 3: I have is that the dressing room had no private
• 20:57
  Speaker 3: so it's just it was like a public shower. It
• 21:00
  Speaker 3: was like a public shower, just a bunch of women
• 21:03
  Speaker 3: in one room, all ages, trying on like everything that
• 21:09
  Speaker 3: they It is just like a barn. It's just like
• 21:12
  Speaker 3: a barn.
• 21:12
  Speaker 5: And it was wasn't like there was a place like
• 21:14
  Speaker 5: it wasn't fin Leeds basement, but it was. There's a
• 21:16
  Speaker 5: place in New York City that was like that too,
• 21:18
  Speaker 5: and I can't remember.
• 21:18
  Speaker 3: What it was now Entry.
• 21:23
  Speaker 5: And it was it was crowded with you like it
• 21:25
  Speaker 5: it was not just that it was just a big room,
• 21:28
  Speaker 5: but it was full of people like with sacks.
• 21:31
  Speaker 2: Yes, yeah, wow, this is a Now Murfins is starting
• 21:36
  Speaker 2: to sound like top tier.
• 21:38
  Speaker 5: You man also be something where you'd be trying something on.
• 21:40
  Speaker 5: You'd be like, I don't like this, and someone would
• 21:41
  Speaker 5: be like, can I try that?
• 21:44
  Speaker 2: So it's a sense of like ye, sense of community.
• 21:47
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's really it was.
• 21:51
  Speaker 2: Like the dressing rooms in America, everyone each other drawing
• 21:57
  Speaker 2: on discount clothes, but you two would shop there first.
• 22:01
  Speaker 2: I don't feel like we had any of those in Utah.
• 22:03
  Speaker 2: Sounds a little immodest, to be honest, and like with
• 22:05
  Speaker 2: the prevailing culture, and you talk about like probably don't
• 22:07
  Speaker 2: want to get dress undressed in front of other people.
• 22:10
  Speaker 2: We would have Mervin's. We would have dress barn. Okay,
• 22:14
  Speaker 2: rough name for any closing business dress barn, but Mervin's
• 22:20
  Speaker 2: r I P. They tried to become Murvins California at
• 22:23
  Speaker 2: one point. Try to spice it up with the calf.
• 22:26
  Speaker 5: I want to know if that ever works, Like, is
• 22:28
  Speaker 5: Hampton Right doing better as Hampton's Hampton Hampton's Hampton Hampton's.
• 22:35
  Speaker 2: That would have been an interesting move.
• 22:37
  Speaker 3: Okay, they're trying to confuse people deliberate. Wow, Actually that's genius.
• 22:44
  Speaker 3: I'm going to Hampton and no one would well, no
• 22:47
  Speaker 3: one would correct us. They mean they would be like,
• 22:49
  Speaker 3: you mean Hampton's.
• 22:50
  Speaker 2: I'm like, yeah, yeah, that's kind of witness protection vibe. Well,
• 22:54
  Speaker 2: if they switched names every single year, I think that
• 22:57
  Speaker 2: would probably be a good business plan because people would
• 22:59
  Speaker 2: be like, what's this new business. It kind of reminds
• 23:01
  Speaker 2: me of Hampton In, but it seems to be something
• 23:03
  Speaker 2: better the Ritz, the Rits. Hampton In becomes Hampton Hampton's
• 23:08
  Speaker 2: and then their fourth choice is the Rits. Wait, so
• 23:13
  Speaker 2: we were talking. I do need to circle back to
• 23:15
  Speaker 2: Arby's for just a minute because it seems like there
• 23:17
  Speaker 2: were some horror stories about oh god, this is I'm
• 23:25
  Speaker 2: not liking what you've seen.
• 23:27
  Speaker 3: I feel like I've already thought I have an image
• 23:30
  Speaker 3: of what the Arby's back kitchen is like.
• 23:33
  Speaker 2: And I've heard myths, rumors. Yeah, really, I've heard maybe confirmed,
• 23:37
  Speaker 2: some rumors, some urban legends. What what they What I
• 23:40
  Speaker 2: heard is that the meat comes as a liquid.
• 23:42
  Speaker 3: That's yes, yes it doesn't. Well, yes it does. I'm
• 23:46
  Speaker 3: not a total.
• 23:46
  Speaker 5: Liquid but I but I don't know how because they
• 23:50
  Speaker 5: roasted okay and it becomes it solidifies for sure.
• 23:55
  Speaker 2: Meat.
• 23:56
  Speaker 5: But my first day there, my and through me a
• 24:03
  Speaker 5: a meat. It comes in bags through me, and it
• 24:05
  Speaker 5: was like it was like sort of it was sort
• 24:07
  Speaker 5: of it was just sort of like this, like listeners,
• 24:11
  Speaker 5: I'm just as if you had a bag that was made.
• 24:14
  Speaker 3: Out of jelly and you're you're trying to hold it,
• 24:17
  Speaker 3: but it's slipping.
• 24:18
  Speaker 5: Like one of those, like one of those the snakes
• 24:21
  Speaker 5: that you can't Okay.
• 24:24
  Speaker 3: That's a little want my meat a little bit, But
• 24:28
  Speaker 3: you know, I don't know, I don't.
• 24:30
  Speaker 5: I mean, this was, this was, you know, eighty years
• 24:33
  Speaker 5: ago when I worked there, so so I think it's
• 24:36
  Speaker 5: I think it's I think it's probably changed.
• 24:38
  Speaker 3: But did you ever see it outside of the bag?
• 24:41
  Speaker 3: I never said.
• 24:41
  Speaker 2: I'm trying to do the math here. It gets roasted,
• 24:43
  Speaker 2: At what point does the big question?
• 24:45
  Speaker 3: And then does it turn into this? It turns into
• 24:48
  Speaker 3: a thing that is on the slicer. I know, I don't.
• 24:51
  Speaker 3: I was never allowed near the slicer when I work.
• 24:54
  Speaker 4: I was.
• 24:56
  Speaker 3: More of a fry fry and ordering person. But I
• 24:59
  Speaker 3: was a bad back then.
• 25:01
  Speaker 5: I would daydream too much, just as a rule, and
• 25:05
  Speaker 5: so when people would like tell me their order, I
• 25:08
  Speaker 5: would just like, I could not concentrate on what they
• 25:10
  Speaker 5: were saying, so I would just sort of daydream about
• 25:13
  Speaker 5: whatever I was daydreaming.
• 25:14
  Speaker 3: Probably not long did you work there?
• 25:15
  Speaker 2: Half an hour.
• 25:19
  Speaker 3: Was back for her half hour shift. I don't know.
• 25:26
  Speaker 3: I don't know how long I worked there. Not too long.
• 25:29
  Speaker 5: I mean that probably the regular rb is amount, which
• 25:32
  Speaker 5: is probably you know four months, right, that's like that's
• 25:35
  Speaker 5: a that's a that's after that you get a pension.
• 25:39
  Speaker 3: It is very but I just wouldn't remember anything that.
• 25:47
  Speaker 5: Anyone said, and so I would just like sort of
• 25:49
  Speaker 5: right like ring up what I thought that they might want,
• 25:52
  Speaker 5: and it was always wrong.
• 25:53
  Speaker 3: Of course. So then they put me on like the
• 25:56
  Speaker 3: friar which was named Big Bertha, which is that they
• 25:58
  Speaker 3: did give it that fun name, and so that I'm
• 26:02
  Speaker 3: just like in the back with you know, a little
• 26:04
  Speaker 3: hair nut. Anyway, I just it was not a it was.
• 26:06
  Speaker 2: Not a I don't want this to become the Rby's episode,
• 26:08
  Speaker 2: but it's just everything you say it like brings up
• 26:10
  Speaker 2: more questions for me. Did you ever after learning that
• 26:15
  Speaker 2: the meat was essentially slime? Did you ever have the
• 26:19
  Speaker 2: meat again? Of course I was okay, Well, then I
• 26:22
  Speaker 2: feel a little more comfortable about it.
• 26:23
  Speaker 3: It was fourteen I would have eaten slime. Then becomes
• 26:27
  Speaker 3: like DELI, this is.
• 26:30
  Speaker 5: All a really good there's a really good questions that
• 26:32
  Speaker 5: I cannot answer because I just I noticed it and
• 26:35
  Speaker 5: then I don't know, it just didn't.
• 26:37
  Speaker 3: Is it like when you make paper from wood?
• 26:39
  Speaker 2: Pulp or creepy crawlers. Do you remember creepy crawlers. It
• 26:43
  Speaker 2: was like it was kind of like easy bake oven
• 26:46
  Speaker 2: for boys, and it was like a little thing that
• 26:48
  Speaker 2: you would dump slime into different bugs and then bake
• 26:51
  Speaker 2: them and then it would become a delicious roast beef.
• 26:55
  Speaker 3: Oh you can eat it.
• 26:58
  Speaker 2: There would be like a little slant like a little
• 27:00
  Speaker 2: rubber toys. But this is what that's kind of what
• 27:02
  Speaker 2: I'm picturing with the Arby's slide.
• 27:04
  Speaker 3: Yeah, maybe that's.
• 27:07
  Speaker 2: But I just don't know how it'd be like solidified.
• 27:09
  Speaker 2: And I don't know why, like as a company is
• 27:11
  Speaker 2: like just do that as a factory.
• 27:12
  Speaker 3: Or also why that's like an that's an extra step.
• 27:16
  Speaker 3: It's a huge extra. You're gonna you're gonna make the beef.
• 27:19
  Speaker 3: You're gonna roast it, you're gonna slice it, you're gonna
• 27:21
  Speaker 3: liquefy it, and then you're gonna re reanimate it to slice.
• 27:26
  Speaker 2: Right, Maria, Now I feel like you've just come on
• 27:29
  Speaker 2: to kind of souley the name of Arby's. They have
• 27:32
  Speaker 2: good chicken fingers there fingers, I was there, okay, or
• 27:39
  Speaker 2: onion pedals.
• 27:39
  Speaker 3: It was almost I'm pretty sure. I got onion pedals there.
• 27:44
  Speaker 3: I love the name onion. It's gorgeous. No, it's really beautiful.
• 27:49
  Speaker 3: It doesn't fit with the rest of the Arby's menu,
• 27:51
  Speaker 3: I feel, I mean, if you're going roast beef, sandwich,
• 27:55
  Speaker 3: chicken ted.
• 28:00
  Speaker 2: This is look. I love Armies, but the one thing
• 28:02
  Speaker 2: I'll say is that the menu has been a little
• 28:04
  Speaker 2: all over the place over the years.
• 28:06
  Speaker 3: I guess that's why I don't.
• 28:07
  Speaker 2: Yeah, right, I feel like there's I mean, Burger King
• 28:10
  Speaker 2: is way more offensive. Like they're bigger offenders on this
• 28:13
  Speaker 2: part where they have a new menu item probably daily. Yeah, Army's,
• 28:17
  Speaker 2: it's like quarterly they have a new menu outside of
• 28:20
  Speaker 2: the chicken fingers and roast beef. They're like, suddenly we
• 28:22
  Speaker 2: have onion pedals, and so I believe they had onion pedals.
• 28:26
  Speaker 2: I believe you.
• 28:27
  Speaker 3: Thank you, I see you, and thank God. Seriously.
• 28:33
  Speaker 5: Also, if you're wrong, you should patent that on Oh
• 28:38
  Speaker 5: my god, a poem, okay, and.
• 28:42
  Speaker 3: To write a poem. Other poets are coming for you. Okay,
• 28:48
  Speaker 3: you're right, this is my time. The industry is crazy
• 28:52
  Speaker 3: right now, and I really could get into poetry.
• 28:54
  Speaker 2: We're all getting into pivoting to poets.
• 29:00
  Speaker 3: So beautiful. Oh, my gosh, I also want to but
• 29:04
  Speaker 3: I do want to say that I love I do
• 29:05
  Speaker 3: love the taste of Arby's.
• 29:06
  Speaker 2: And my god, you're in good company.
• 29:09
  Speaker 3: It's I I think I ate Arby's. Within the last
• 29:12
  Speaker 3: five years. I let's say, I think I me Arby's,
• 29:16
  Speaker 3: and I ate and I loved it.
• 29:18
  Speaker 2: I've been to I went to the Hollywood Arby's almost
• 29:21
  Speaker 2: exclusively alone. It was just a sad no, I've been
• 29:32
  Speaker 2: there in the last five years, I would say, And
• 29:33
  Speaker 2: I love their Arby's reach out open one in Los Angeles.
• 29:37
  Speaker 3: Curly fries, I do love curly Curly fries are so good.
• 29:41
  Speaker 2: They are really And you've been suspiciously quiet about how
• 29:44
  Speaker 2: much you love Arbies.
• 29:45
  Speaker 3: I honestly, I don't mean to go back to the
• 29:49
  Speaker 3: onion medals, but that's kind of all I remember eating
• 29:52
  Speaker 3: the sand I can't remember the last time I've had Arby's.
• 29:56
  Speaker 3: I'm really sorry.
• 29:56
  Speaker 2: That's fine, that's fine, fine that you know it could
• 29:59
  Speaker 2: be a new chapter.
• 30:00
  Speaker 3: Did you were ever work in fast food in your
• 30:02
  Speaker 3: I worked, and I worked at a barbecue restaurant. Oh,
• 30:04
  Speaker 3: what's the name of Damon's Barbecue. It was Honestly, it
• 30:09
  Speaker 3: was pretty good barbecue rest It was a pretty good
• 30:11
  Speaker 3: barbecue restaurant.
• 30:12
  Speaker 2: And did the meat come solid or liquid?
• 30:15
  Speaker 3: It came fully solid? Okay, yes, full solid, which is
• 30:20
  Speaker 3: a really good question. I'm going to be asking restaurants
• 30:22
  Speaker 3: from now on, every every single one, excuse me, is
• 30:26
  Speaker 3: the meat liquid? I will be coming. I'm not coming
• 30:33
  Speaker 3: if it's not liquid? You ask on. I showed up
• 30:41
  Speaker 3: and it was. It was solid, and.
• 30:43
  Speaker 2: I'm pretty sure it was before it was on my plate.
• 30:45
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't like this. No, I used to work
• 30:48
  Speaker 3: at I don't I did anyone? Did you have you
• 30:51
  Speaker 3: heard of Damon's. It's a chain, but it's also it
• 30:54
  Speaker 3: was like a sports barbecue restaurant. So it had like
• 30:59
  Speaker 3: four big, big projection screens playing like football, basketball, sports.
• 31:05
  Speaker 2: You know, this is the only sort of restaurant I'll
• 31:07
  Speaker 2: go to. I know, you love You'll catch me at
• 31:08
  Speaker 2: the sports bar sports barbee.
• 31:11
  Speaker 3: And it's it's hard to work at a sports barbecue
• 31:15
  Speaker 3: restaurant because like people don't even more so paying less
• 31:17
  Speaker 3: attention to you as a server. Oh, because they've got
• 31:19
  Speaker 3: the because they got the big.
• 31:20
  Speaker 2: Game on yea and they're probably in a bad mood.
• 31:22
  Speaker 3: And they're in a bad mood, and they're drunk and
• 31:26
  Speaker 3: and they're kind of mean and like you're bringing their food.
• 31:29
  Speaker 3: It's almost I almost felt like an early version of
• 31:32
  Speaker 3: the Alamo, you know how, like, oh, because draft house,
• 31:39
  Speaker 3: Davy Crockett died or whatever. I was like, WHOA got famous.
• 31:44
  Speaker 2: Ball and write that down in his history. I remember
• 31:47
  Speaker 2: the Alamo because that's where Davy Crockett. Let's assume I.
• 31:55
  Speaker 3: Think so.
• 31:58
  Speaker 2: You're a historian first, Arby's employees, sick historian.
• 32:02
  Speaker 3: First, I just want to say that, yes, Davy Crockett
• 32:07
  Speaker 3: did die in the battle.
• 32:12
  Speaker 2: Wait, can you look up onion pedals and see while
• 32:15
  Speaker 2: we're in the research court, WHOA Davy Crockett died at
• 32:18
  Speaker 2: the Alamo?
• 32:19
  Speaker 3: I mean, who? I don't even know who that? Who?
• 32:21
  Speaker 2: Didn't die at the album?
• 32:23
  Speaker 3: He was the guy with the hat, right, yeah, yes,
• 32:27
  Speaker 3: interesting coonskin.
• 32:28
  Speaker 2: Right now, I'm I was at the Alamo in twenty nineteen,
• 32:32
  Speaker 2: and I'm pretty sure they sold a lot. I'm such
• 32:34
  Speaker 2: a fool. How didn't I put that all together?
• 32:36
  Speaker 3: It's okay, okay, there's a lot of things I don't know.
• 32:39
  Speaker 2: This is embarrassing, especially during the holidays, not to know
• 32:42
  Speaker 2: where Davy Crockett died.
• 32:43
  Speaker 3: Wait, actually, now we all do.
• 32:45
  Speaker 2: Everyone's learning. This is an education.
• 32:47
  Speaker 3: Christmas is the time to celebrate Davey Crockett.
• 32:49
  Speaker 2: Yes, and to learn just about Ellis onion pedals.
• 32:54
  Speaker 3: They were a popular, discontinued side dish featuring lightly battered
• 32:57
  Speaker 3: petal shaped onion woods. Okay, this is huge for me.
• 33:02
  Speaker 3: Popular and also removed from the menu around twenty ten.
• 33:08
  Speaker 3: So maybe they were they poisonous?
• 33:10
  Speaker 2: Like what.
• 33:11
  Speaker 3: Popular? And were they recalled?
• 33:14
  Speaker 2: No? See, this is Arby's big problem. It's like we
• 33:17
  Speaker 2: hear the word popular and discontinuance like I mean the wheel.
• 33:22
  Speaker 3: I feel like Arby's is like you know, tagline is
• 33:25
  Speaker 3: Arby's popular.
• 33:28
  Speaker 2: But you can't get it anymore and part of the
• 33:31
  Speaker 2: menu is liquid before you eat it. Okay, so you
• 33:35
  Speaker 2: were working at Dane's Barbie, it was.
• 33:40
  Speaker 3: Like the Alamo draft hoops where you had to like
• 33:42
  Speaker 3: serve like huge people would get full racks of ribs
• 33:46
  Speaker 3: and I would have to serve full racks, like four
• 33:49
  Speaker 3: full racks on a huge tray, and I don't have
• 33:52
  Speaker 3: upper body strength.
• 33:55
  Speaker 2: It was like this.
• 33:57
  Speaker 3: That's why we brought you here too, Yeah, because I
• 33:59
  Speaker 3: need to start thing or whatever. It's clicking is when
• 34:05
  Speaker 3: you just walk off a cliff and you only get
• 34:07
  Speaker 3: to do it once, but you don't care about it.
• 34:10
  Speaker 3: You don't care, you just do it. I'm going.
• 34:18
  Speaker 6: Is that a threat?
• 34:21
  Speaker 3: Go by anxiety?
• 34:26
  Speaker 2: Wait? So you it was hard to lift off?
• 34:28
  Speaker 3: So hard?
• 34:28
  Speaker 2: It's like you know flint Stone level was right?
• 34:33
  Speaker 3: Yeah? Or I put it on the table and it
• 34:34
  Speaker 3: tips the table right exactly. Do you have any mishaps
• 34:37
  Speaker 3: like that? Thankfully? No, I never I like pride myself
• 34:40
  Speaker 3: on having never ever dropped a tray. I feel like
• 34:44
  Speaker 3: you would be. I was very hard pore about it. Yeah,
• 34:48
  Speaker 3: what you didn't have an arms strength? You would work
• 34:50
  Speaker 3: out of balance.
• 34:51
  Speaker 2: Yes, wow, that's amazing to hear. I love to hear that.
• 34:55
  Speaker 3: Did you have to do that thing? Where that the
• 34:57
  Speaker 3: Alamo draft House? When people when people are watching that,
• 34:59
  Speaker 3: they sort of like around. You don't like about Almo depressing?
• 35:04
  Speaker 3: It's a bad business model. Yes, it makes me feel depressed.
• 35:08
  Speaker 2: It throws everyone into a weird mood. I'm trying to
• 35:11
  Speaker 2: watch the movie. There's a distraction. Yes, I've never had
• 35:16
  Speaker 2: the food, but I assume it's fine at best, it's great.
• 35:19
  Speaker 3: Okay, it's great. I mean I love it. Okay, so
• 35:25
  Speaker 3: you're you're in there making people go. I'm like lower
• 35:29
  Speaker 3: lower serving me.
• 35:34
  Speaker 2: You just love people serving?
• 35:35
  Speaker 3: Yeah, you love me crawling to you don't look at me,
• 35:41
  Speaker 3: and it feels so weird. You love it? I love it.
• 35:45
  Speaker 2: I mean when I say bad business model, it is well.
• 35:49
  Speaker 2: Actually I think they went bankrupt.
• 35:51
  Speaker 3: Did they really?
• 35:52
  Speaker 2: There was some financial issue It seems like or they
• 35:54
  Speaker 2: were bought out by private equity, as everyone.
• 35:56
  Speaker 3: Is private equity. Go away, Alice? Do we know what
• 36:01
  Speaker 3: happened with go Away?
• 36:04
  Speaker 2: Light day?
• 36:05
  Speaker 3: Private banks day rip lame private equity? Oh well, I
• 36:13
  Speaker 3: mean I have.
• 36:14
  Speaker 2: More questions about all of especially Arby's, and I do
• 36:17
  Speaker 2: just want to during the holidays we should mention the goblets,
• 36:20
  Speaker 2: the limited edition goblets you could get at Arby's. I
• 36:23
  Speaker 2: can't believe neither of you.
• 36:25
  Speaker 3: I don't know about that at all.
• 36:26
  Speaker 2: Go to a goodwill you'll find one. They had every
• 36:29
  Speaker 2: year they had different limited edition gobleinets.
• 36:32
  Speaker 3: But that feels like it doesn't align with the cowboy
• 36:35
  Speaker 3: hat theme.
• 36:36
  Speaker 2: Well again, who's the wheel?
• 36:39
  Speaker 3: At once a year?
• 36:41
  Speaker 2: They made it nice?
• 36:41
  Speaker 3: We were the goblets made out of plastic or glass?
• 36:44
  Speaker 2: I'm sure glass. The gorgeous goblets. I love it themes
• 36:49
  Speaker 2: sometimes they had movie themes. Beautiful, but I think we
• 36:54
  Speaker 2: should talk about something else.
• 36:55
  Speaker 3: Okay, okay.
• 36:56
  Speaker 2: I was excited to have you two here for the holidays.
• 36:58
  Speaker 2: I thought, no one will ruin the holidays for me
• 37:00
  Speaker 2: this year, especially Tian and Maria. Uh So I invited
• 37:04
  Speaker 2: you here on the show. I said no gifts, and
• 37:08
  Speaker 2: for the last half hour or so, I've been seeing
• 37:11
  Speaker 2: because you walked into the studio holding what are clearly gifts.
• 37:15
  Speaker 3: Are these for me? Yes?
• 37:17
  Speaker 2: Okay, fine? Should we open them here on the podcast?
• 37:22
  Speaker 3: Yes you should. Yeah, okay, you're.
• 37:28
  Speaker 2: Grinding my teeth to dust, I didn't wear my nightguard.
• 37:35
  Speaker 2: We'll open this first one on top. Who's this from?
• 37:37
  Speaker 3: This is for me? Okay, yeah, hand it.
• 37:40
  Speaker 2: This is kind of an Alamo situation. This is surprisingly heavy.
• 37:54
  Speaker 3: Yes, yes, it's it's a it's a. Yes, it is
• 37:56
  Speaker 3: surprising to.
• 37:56
  Speaker 2: You, and I want you to experience how heavy that is.
• 37:59
  Speaker 3: Oh my god, I did not. Now.
• 38:01
  Speaker 5: I'm glad you've been bouldering, because otherwise you would have
• 38:03
  Speaker 5: been able to.
• 38:06
  Speaker 4: No.
• 38:06
  Speaker 2: I would say this is probably a good two pounds
• 38:09
  Speaker 2: and it's not that big. It's kind of I.
• 38:11
  Speaker 3: Want to go. Last time you were I brought a
• 38:14
  Speaker 3: gift and you were so enraged. I didn't want to.
• 38:18
  Speaker 2: It's part of the studio designing listener, it's a if
• 38:22
  Speaker 2: you are so cruel not to remember it's a seed
• 38:25
  Speaker 2: design that Maria made. Uh, this is murder Seed wrote
• 38:29
  Speaker 2: and it's Angela Lansbury with a magnifying glass and scarf.
• 38:33
  Speaker 2: It's gorgeous and it's now part of the permanent studio design.
• 38:38
  Speaker 2: And your gift, unfortunately, is in a little drawer in
• 38:42
  Speaker 2: my house.
• 38:42
  Speaker 3: It was bangs.
• 38:43
  Speaker 2: I experimented with them. Didn't work for me, but I heard.
• 38:46
  Speaker 3: You looked good. I thought you looked really good.
• 38:50
  Speaker 2: Well maybe I'll try it again. Okay, let's open this here. Okay,
• 38:57
  Speaker 2: both of these, by the way, beautifully wrapped gifts. Thank
• 39:00
  Speaker 2: you you really you two went all out. Okay, we're opening.
• 39:04
  Speaker 2: Can we have the snow while I'm opening this? There's
• 39:07
  Speaker 2: the snow going. Oh no, oh my god, Happy holidays.
• 39:18
  Speaker 3: Okay, that's incredible.
• 39:21
  Speaker 2: That is incredible.
• 39:22
  Speaker 3: Or do you get something like that. That's a good question.
• 39:25
  Speaker 2: Probably, I don't know. Probably at your local gas station
• 39:29
  Speaker 2: or something.
• 39:29
  Speaker 3: Okay, I bet they do sell that dinner forks is
• 39:38
  Speaker 3: a pack of twelve a pack of twelve mirror polish. Look,
• 39:41
  Speaker 3: I don't know.
• 39:42
  Speaker 5: I know that this is a boring gift, but this
• 39:45
  Speaker 5: is a gift that I would want to get because
• 39:47
  Speaker 5: I don't know how you feel about but I can't
• 39:50
  Speaker 5: keep forks in my house.
• 39:53
  Speaker 3: Okay, I knew I would say things like that. I
• 39:57
  Speaker 3: knew that would happen. So this is just me. It's
• 40:02
  Speaker 3: not just me, because I talk to another friend and
• 40:04
  Speaker 3: she had the same problem. I don't know where they're going.
• 40:06
  Speaker 3: I don't know where they're going.
• 40:08
  Speaker 5: You know, maybe I'm just like throwing them out willy nilly,
• 40:12
  Speaker 5: But honestly, I can't keep forks.
• 40:14
  Speaker 3: I have two forks, two forks in my.
• 40:17
  Speaker 5: House, and then I'm constantly I have so many knives,
• 40:20
  Speaker 5: so many knives.
• 40:21
  Speaker 3: I have the opposite problem.
• 40:23
  Speaker 2: I have really two butter knives, and I have always
• 40:28
  Speaker 2: had more room for forks. So let's be honest, this
• 40:29
  Speaker 2: is a great deal.
• 40:30
  Speaker 3: I might ask for them back, but I do have
• 40:34
  Speaker 3: this problem.
• 40:35
  Speaker 2: With butter knives. But this is my defensive butter knives.
• 40:37
  Speaker 2: Occasionally you're like I need to pry something open in
• 40:39
  Speaker 2: the backyard, or I need to scrape something.
• 40:41
  Speaker 3: You throw it away?
• 40:42
  Speaker 2: Of course, why everything I own is one use?
• 40:46
  Speaker 3: TVs?
• 40:47
  Speaker 2: Cars, clothing?
• 40:52
  Speaker 3: Are you doing with your sowre question?
• 40:55
  Speaker 2: Again, I'm defending myself here. I use it as a
• 40:57
  Speaker 2: tool more than a I'm not scraping a lot of
• 41:00
  Speaker 2: butter onto toast, I guess. But your forks, this is.
• 41:04
  Speaker 3: Are you bringing them to lunch? I'm not.
• 41:06
  Speaker 5: I'm not I'm not bringing I'm not consciously bringing that
• 41:09
  Speaker 5: out of the Who knows what I'm doing.
• 41:11
  Speaker 3: I don't know.
• 41:12
  Speaker 2: I don't know.
• 41:12
  Speaker 3: I don't, I don't they're they're I just I don't
• 41:17
  Speaker 3: think this is a just me problem. I really don't.
• 41:19
  Speaker 3: I'm glad that it's not a problem. I don't think
• 41:23
  Speaker 3: it's just me. Problem is I don't have enough data
• 41:27
  Speaker 3: to support Oh gosh, if this is a universal thing.
• 41:33
  Speaker 2: Yeah, this, I mean, they're out of three people here,
• 41:35
  Speaker 2: two of them have a lot of forces.
• 41:37
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I have so many for you have more forks
• 41:39
  Speaker 3: than anyone.
• 41:40
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I've just essentially doubled my swimming at forks.
• 41:45
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I have to like run, I mean I can't.
• 41:47
  Speaker 3: I'm constantly fishing them out.
• 41:49
  Speaker 5: I really do, really have just three forks, two or
• 41:51
  Speaker 5: three forks, and I'm constantly putting them in the dishwasher
• 41:54
  Speaker 5: and then I'm like, I need a fork.
• 41:55
  Speaker 3: I'm wiping it off.
• 41:57
  Speaker 2: How many do you think you have a home right now?
• 42:00
  Speaker 3: Forks?
• 42:00
  Speaker 2: Forks three?
• 42:01
  Speaker 3: I think I have three? What's your spood? What are
• 42:02
  Speaker 3: your spoons? Like spoons? Have a million spoons?
• 42:05
  Speaker 2: Well, Maria, you can't take I can't take all of
• 42:07
  Speaker 2: this I'm going to give you.
• 42:09
  Speaker 3: Is this the first time you've given Look at how
• 42:10
  Speaker 3: there and now you gave me a gift?
• 42:17
  Speaker 2: Well, look, I control the podcast, I control what happens
• 42:21
  Speaker 2: here to me, and I know you're jealous. How many
• 42:23
  Speaker 2: forks do you have? I have?
• 42:24
  Speaker 3: I am flushed with forks?
• 42:26
  Speaker 2: Well you should have?
• 42:27
  Speaker 3: Yes, yeah, chow, but you're losing first.
• 42:33
  Speaker 5: I mean, I'm mister holiday, mister holiday, thank you, thank you.
• 42:40
  Speaker 2: Wow, So you're losing all of your forks. This to
• 42:43
  Speaker 2: me is this sort of gift I'm thrilled to get
• 42:45
  Speaker 2: because I'm not having a wedding. I'm never having a wedding,
• 42:48
  Speaker 2: and I think, you know, people are so spoiled at
• 42:50
  Speaker 2: weddings with things that you don't really buy.
• 42:52
  Speaker 3: I agree.
• 42:54
  Speaker 2: You know you're getting all sorts of appliances things that
• 42:56
  Speaker 2: you're like, I don't want to buy that for myself.
• 42:58
  Speaker 3: You're like, you don't need a fucking standing mixer. You're
• 43:00
  Speaker 3: never gonna make lighting. Okay, fine, sorry I brought it up.
• 43:03
  Speaker 3: That's listen. I know so many people that have like
• 43:08
  Speaker 3: put that on their wedding registry and I don't think
• 43:11
  Speaker 3: they've made it. They're like, I've made pasta one time.
• 43:14
  Speaker 2: Well, the pasta attachment is like it not putting it
• 43:17
  Speaker 2: in kitchen maid. No one's making the pasta exactly. They
• 43:20
  Speaker 2: might make dough or something, but the pasta thing gets
• 43:24
  Speaker 2: thrown in a drawer and is never used again.
• 43:26
  Speaker 3: I completely agree.
• 43:27
  Speaker 2: Homemade pasta is such an ambitious thing to do.
• 43:30
  Speaker 3: It's it's I find it kind of like pompous.
• 43:34
  Speaker 2: It's ridiculous. It's just it's not that much better homemade pasta,
• 43:38
  Speaker 2: and like dry pasta. Is that true?
• 43:40
  Speaker 5: I feel like I feel like forty years ago I
• 43:43
  Speaker 5: made a made homemade pasta.
• 43:45
  Speaker 3: It is really good.
• 43:47
  Speaker 2: What sort of pasta?
• 43:50
  Speaker 3: Long pasta? It was one street just looped around. It's incredible,
• 44:00
  Speaker 3: be like a mile away oh, so.
• 44:05
  Speaker 2: One person starts like across town with the spaghetti and
• 44:08
  Speaker 2: the other person they end up uh, absolutely in love,
• 44:11
  Speaker 2: Absolutely in love. That's interesting. That feels like something someone
• 44:14
  Speaker 2: should try. Actually, like a big o oh.
• 44:17
  Speaker 3: I could see that as some like Instagram sort of video.
• 44:20
  Speaker 3: Every day, I'm gonna keep eating this plasta till I
• 44:22
  Speaker 3: meet my love. Like that's what That's what I am at.
• 44:25
  Speaker 3: Do you know that? Like, do you have you seen
• 44:27
  Speaker 3: videos like that? Like I'm gonna walk around the world
• 44:30
  Speaker 3: until I meet my love. No, But like there are
• 44:33
  Speaker 3: people there's a man that I thought, there is a
• 44:34
  Speaker 3: man that I follow on Instagram. I do actually really
• 44:37
  Speaker 3: love him. He's walking around the world.
• 44:38
  Speaker 2: Wait, this is the guy who's been doing it for
• 44:40
  Speaker 2: like twenty seven years.
• 44:41
  Speaker 3: I just saw that guy.
• 44:43
  Speaker 2: This is a difference.
• 44:44
  Speaker 3: It is a different guy. This is a guy who
• 44:45
  Speaker 3: ripped off that guy. This is a guy who talking.
• 44:48
  Speaker 3: He's been on now for I'm trying to I'm trying
• 44:51
  Speaker 3: to listen to his voice in my head because I
• 44:54
  Speaker 3: think he's like day seven hundred and ninety eight. Yeah,
• 44:55
  Speaker 3: Oh that's that's a press. Yes, where is he? Where
• 44:58
  Speaker 3: do you start? He's started in Australia and then walked
• 45:03
  Speaker 3: up and I think he's now in Oh gosh, I
• 45:09
  Speaker 3: should know this Georgia.
• 45:11
  Speaker 2: Okay, So he got to the edge of Australia and
• 45:14
  Speaker 2: then took a boat and walked around the boat the
• 45:16
  Speaker 2: entire time.
• 45:16
  Speaker 3: And then I didn't sit down, and then and then
• 45:19
  Speaker 3: is now walk It's really, it's actually really, I'm really impressed.
• 45:22
  Speaker 2: I don't know. My complaint here is like, don't start
• 45:24
  Speaker 2: on Australia because then you immediately have to like start
• 45:27
  Speaker 2: in South America so you can walk all the way
• 45:29
  Speaker 2: out that.
• 45:31
  Speaker 3: He started there. Yeah, he just went through like up
• 45:34
  Speaker 3: coasts and right.
• 45:35
  Speaker 2: You want to start with at least two continents without
• 45:37
  Speaker 2: a yeah comment.
• 45:40
  Speaker 3: I'll comment, this isn't a real walk around the world
• 45:47
  Speaker 3: because you had to take a boat. But he's going,
• 45:50
  Speaker 3: he's going. He just wants to meet is he like
• 45:53
  Speaker 3: he's not meeting The love part is I've just had
• 45:57
  Speaker 3: three dates a day just whenever he meets on.
• 46:01
  Speaker 2: The road, he's looking for someone to drive him.
• 46:06
  Speaker 3: After that, I would meet my love in like in
• 46:09
  Speaker 3: like a week ago. Immediately I know I can't walk anymore.
• 46:13
  Speaker 3: This guy said the phrase meet my love like that's
• 46:17
  Speaker 3: also is a strange thing. I've never said anything like
• 46:20
  Speaker 3: that before. Meet my love, My love.
• 46:23
  Speaker 2: Would be good.
• 46:23
  Speaker 3: Rby's slogan mee, I love trying to.
• 46:27
  Speaker 2: Save the company.
• 46:28
  Speaker 3: Right, he's not really trying to save the company, but
• 46:31
  Speaker 3: he's walking around the world. He's walking around the world,
• 46:33
  Speaker 3: which always feels like kind of a scam to me.
• 46:35
  Speaker 2: Does he he should swim?
• 46:37
  Speaker 3: Also, he's not swimming anytime a machine comes in, he's
• 46:41
  Speaker 3: not swimming.
• 46:42
  Speaker 2: If a machine is involved, then it's just not for me.
• 46:45
  Speaker 2: That is just someone who's a little bored. Okay, I
• 46:48
  Speaker 2: don't know.
• 46:48
  Speaker 3: I'll tell him.
• 46:49
  Speaker 2: Okay again, that's if a machine is should not be
• 46:53
  Speaker 2: a machine involved.
• 46:54
  Speaker 3: But how is there a machine involved? Because he just
• 46:56
  Speaker 3: because he had to take like I see, because you know,
• 47:00
  Speaker 3: he should swim. I think he should get to the
• 47:03
  Speaker 3: edge of the continent that he's doing just a land base.
• 47:06
  Speaker 2: Yes, I need him to experience every element.
• 47:10
  Speaker 3: Yeah you if I'm going to send it to you,
• 47:13
  Speaker 3: you're gonna lie in. Okay.
• 47:14
  Speaker 5: Well, I can also just go like in circles around
• 47:17
  Speaker 5: Australia until he gets into the middle of Australia.
• 47:19
  Speaker 3: Oh interesting, and then dies and then cliffs and then
• 47:22
  Speaker 3: and then cliss up. I think.
• 47:27
  Speaker 2: I think that's a better idea again, write that down.
• 47:31
  Speaker 2: Three comments so far they need to get meaner and
• 47:34
  Speaker 2: more racist.
• 47:35
  Speaker 3: So let's do that, person, I will do that.
• 47:42
  Speaker 2: Okay, So the fat did we over got to spaghetti?
• 47:45
  Speaker 2: Kitchen aid mixer. I do think that's a good wedding gift.
• 47:49
  Speaker 3: I think that's a good gift for anyone.
• 47:50
  Speaker 2: Oh my god, I love it.
• 47:54
  Speaker 3: Because everyone I know that has it is not using
• 47:56
  Speaker 3: it often. Do you have to use it for you
• 47:59
  Speaker 3: to feel like they're youth?
• 48:00
  Speaker 2: It? O? Good question.
• 48:01
  Speaker 3: I feel like if you have a kitchen aid mixer
• 48:03
  Speaker 3: that you should be using it once a quarter.
• 48:05
  Speaker 2: Once a quarter, that's a I don't think that's asking
• 48:07
  Speaker 2: too much. I don't think if you if you use
• 48:10
  Speaker 2: it three times a year, then you're not using it enough.
• 48:12
  Speaker 3: No, I don't think.
• 48:13
  Speaker 2: So throw a fourth time in and it's like at
• 48:15
  Speaker 2: least for every season.
• 48:16
  Speaker 3: Every season you made something.
• 48:17
  Speaker 2: Yeah, there's like a holiday that you celebrate with your
• 48:19
  Speaker 2: kitchen aid mix or a cookie or pie in your.
• 48:23
  Speaker 5: Kitchen celebrating the holiday that you guys use special It's crazy, guys.
• 48:32
  Speaker 2: So do you have a kitchen aid mixer.
• 48:33
  Speaker 1: I don't.
• 48:34
  Speaker 2: Okay, well that's the problem.
• 48:36
  Speaker 3: It's a jealousy, jealous jealous about a queens and art.
• 48:40
  Speaker 3: I do have a queens of art.
• 48:41
  Speaker 2: I don't have one of those.
• 48:43
  Speaker 5: What does that do?
• 48:44
  Speaker 3: It just chops and dices, just chops and it makes Also, yeah,
• 48:49
  Speaker 3: you can. You can get like a dough attachment.
• 48:51
  Speaker 2: That seems unnatural to me. It seems like what sort
• 48:54
  Speaker 2: of dough it is?
• 48:55
  Speaker 3: Whipping it up so strong?
• 48:57
  Speaker 1: Right?
• 48:57
  Speaker 3: Yeah?
• 48:58
  Speaker 2: Yea, and over it. That's tough.
• 49:00
  Speaker 3: Yes, it is a tough cook it's not.
• 49:02
  Speaker 2: Its first thing is to make like a Pico de
• 49:04
  Speaker 2: gao exactly right. I think pesto, delicious pasto. I think
• 49:09
  Speaker 2: I owned something that's like a quisin Art. It's just
• 49:11
  Speaker 2: a chopper, yeah right, okay, I barely use that, so
• 49:14
  Speaker 2: I'm kind of the opposite. But you're making dough in
• 49:17
  Speaker 2: your queisin.
• 49:18
  Speaker 3: Art one time? Yeah, but I use it for everything else,
• 49:21
  Speaker 3: like I use it for sauces. Go to gyo.
• 49:25
  Speaker 2: What sort of dough did you make?
• 49:27
  Speaker 3: We just made cookies recently. It was a pumpkin oat
• 49:33
  Speaker 3: meal cookie.
• 49:35
  Speaker 2: It's nice. It was nice fall based. Yeah, it was nice, right,
• 49:41
  Speaker 2: And Marie, I feel like you are a little more
• 49:43
  Speaker 2: in favor of a quis or of a kitchen. Eight
• 49:45
  Speaker 2: are you making dough in yours?
• 49:47
  Speaker 3: I've made? Yeah, I probably made dough. And I think
• 49:51
  Speaker 3: I made some dough. I don't remember.
• 49:53
  Speaker 5: I think I made I made some biscuits recently, and
• 49:56
  Speaker 5: I don't know if I used the quisin art or not,
• 49:58
  Speaker 5: but I use it.
• 49:59
  Speaker 3: I have a quisin Art in all, so I have
• 50:00
  Speaker 3: a mini queis and art for just small.
• 50:02
  Speaker 2: Things like what a single nut?
• 50:05
  Speaker 3: Like last night I used that's well, but last night
• 50:09
  Speaker 3: I used it for a fetet dip that I made what.
• 50:17
  Speaker 5: Well, feta obviously lemon, lemon, rined garlic and a lot
• 50:23
  Speaker 5: of pepper.
• 50:24
  Speaker 3: And for like a pita it was for roasted uh squash.
• 50:31
  Speaker 5: Oh that's what happened for mesh when you serve it
• 50:36
  Speaker 5: on a bed of a whipped pa Oh.
• 50:43
  Speaker 2: Incredible. Was this for an event or just yourself? No?
• 50:46
  Speaker 5: A friend came over for dinner and but but then
• 50:49
  Speaker 5: he told me that he didn't like cheese, which I
• 50:51
  Speaker 5: knew before you.
• 50:55
  Speaker 3: But he likes pizza.
• 50:57
  Speaker 5: So I'm constantly my best friend constantly trying to push
• 51:01
  Speaker 5: him more cheese, because cheese.
• 51:04
  Speaker 2: Is cheese is a pretty universally enjoyed product.
• 51:07
  Speaker 3: I know I now understand cheese now because I didn't
• 51:11
  Speaker 3: grow up with like I grew up eating a lot
• 51:13
  Speaker 3: of Vietnamese food. There's cheese based you're not getting like
• 51:16
  Speaker 3: cheesy fu. Right, No, it's not.
• 51:18
  Speaker 2: A bad idea.
• 51:19
  Speaker 3: I think it would be.
• 51:22
  Speaker 2: That's like a cheese beef soup and sounds nice. Does
• 51:25
  Speaker 2: it sounds like an Arby sandwich?
• 51:27
  Speaker 3: It does sound like an Arby sandwich. Cheese beef soup.
• 51:30
  Speaker 3: They serve it in the goblet. You gotta just drink it.
• 51:34
  Speaker 2: But yeah, So when did you first start really getting
• 51:36
  Speaker 2: into cheese? Like college, I started to understand and was
• 51:39
  Speaker 2: it hard to get into?
• 51:43
  Speaker 3: I was open to it. I'm open to it, and
• 51:45
  Speaker 3: I'm still getting like being introduced to cheeses. But you're
• 51:49
  Speaker 3: not a cheese lover yet, I think I would. I
• 51:51
  Speaker 3: love a bree. I love a brea that I can
• 51:55
  Speaker 3: like always be like I love breath.
• 51:57
  Speaker 2: Right? Is there a cheese you won't do?
• 52:00
  Speaker 3: No, I'll try all of them. Okay, I'll try all
• 52:03
  Speaker 3: of them. Really stinky ones I haven't quite figured out yet.
• 52:06
  Speaker 2: Right those ones are I can't imagine anyone eating those
• 52:09
  Speaker 2: for the first time and enjoying them.
• 52:10
  Speaker 3: Yeah, they're a little intents. I haven't quite gotten there yet.
• 52:13
  Speaker 2: I've only in the last five years come around to
• 52:15
  Speaker 2: blue cheese. Wow, yeah, me too, my beginning of the
• 52:21
  Speaker 2: difficult cheeses. Are you a blue cheese?
• 52:24
  Speaker 3: Any cheese, any cheese at all?
• 52:27
  Speaker 2: Incredibly stinky cheeses?
• 52:29
  Speaker 5: Any any cheese, like the stinkiest cheese you've ever I
• 52:31
  Speaker 5: don't remember names of businesses or cheeses.
• 52:34
  Speaker 2: Or okay, fine, but your friend came over. You knew
• 52:46
  Speaker 2: he didn't like cheese. You still made a cheese based
• 52:48
  Speaker 2: It's so funny like it.
• 52:51
  Speaker 3: No, he did it, he didn't like it was yeah, fair,
• 52:55
  Speaker 3: it's fair. And then I said, I said do you?
• 52:57
  Speaker 3: I said, do you?
• 53:00
  Speaker 2: What just happened? Something?
• 53:03
  Speaker 3: Something clift somebody got left.
• 53:06
  Speaker 2: Oh, this is the ghost of Chris Fleming. He was
• 53:11
  Speaker 2: the last person in this room, and this is the
• 53:14
  Speaker 2: gift he gave a while ago. But now, oh my god,
• 53:18
  Speaker 2: we're haunted. Everyone is haunted by Chris Fleming at some point.
• 53:21
  Speaker 3: Oh, I love him.
• 53:22
  Speaker 2: We love Chris Fleming, except for when he's haunting a
• 53:25
  Speaker 2: holiday episode the ghost of.
• 53:27
  Speaker 3: Podcast Gun.
• 53:31
  Speaker 4: You Have.
• 53:33
  Speaker 3: It's honestly, you're too careful about it. It is so
• 53:36
  Speaker 3: it feels very natural to you. It's when I when
• 53:39
  Speaker 3: I when I, uh my dad got me a gun
• 53:42
  Speaker 3: that was like that think Derringer when I got into college.
• 53:49
  Speaker 2: And do you still own it?
• 53:50
  Speaker 3: I can't remember.
• 53:51
  Speaker 5: I got stolen out of a car, that's right, Which
• 53:53
  Speaker 5: is so I myself constantly.
• 53:57
  Speaker 2: Because it probably has been used to kill someone. Yes, no,
• 54:01
  Speaker 2: for sure you're going to be framed.
• 54:02
  Speaker 3: I didn't think about that. Yeah, if someone still think, yeah,
• 54:07
  Speaker 3: you what if you came in and I had a little.
• 54:11
  Speaker 2: What a mystery solved?
• 54:15
  Speaker 3: Scary? Oh did someone give you that?
• 54:18
  Speaker 4: Yes?
• 54:18
  Speaker 2: This was given on the podcast actually by Lizzie Cooperman.
• 54:21
  Speaker 3: Oh wow, Okay, that's really good. Did it have little?
• 54:24
  Speaker 1: Uh?
• 54:24
  Speaker 2: It came with nothing. It was ultimately a bad gift
• 54:27
  Speaker 2: by her. It should have had a bullet or a
• 54:29
  Speaker 2: little pellet or something.
• 54:31
  Speaker 3: What are the they have like little things that make sounds? Right?
• 54:34
  Speaker 2: What are called?
• 54:36
  Speaker 3: I don't think it's always there for us and we
• 54:38
  Speaker 3: know what it is. It's a I know what you're saying, Elic.
• 54:41
  Speaker 3: You have any idea what the sort.
• 54:42
  Speaker 2: Of gun is called? It's a toy cap gun cau
• 54:46
  Speaker 2: but let's make a satisfying click.
• 54:48
  Speaker 3: It does.
• 54:49
  Speaker 2: I know, it's right into a little handbag.
• 54:52
  Speaker 5: Did you have anything like that when you're growing up,
• 54:55
  Speaker 5: real guns or toy guns, but that kind of gun
• 54:59
  Speaker 5: would be.
• 55:00
  Speaker 2: Oh joy killed joys.
• 55:03
  Speaker 3: Absolutely killed joys.
• 55:04
  Speaker 2: We would have nerf guns, which you know, fired the
• 55:07
  Speaker 2: We had super soakers, super soakers.
• 55:09
  Speaker 3: It does hurt when you got shot. No, super soccers
• 55:12
  Speaker 3: were just like you fill a thing with water. It
• 55:13
  Speaker 3: was just a water gun and then it would break
• 55:16
  Speaker 3: and then it would break almost one time use again,
• 55:19
  Speaker 3: which I love.
• 55:20
  Speaker 2: I support plastics that are one time use.
• 55:23
  Speaker 3: Did you have guns growing their guns? But then we
• 55:26
  Speaker 3: also had like cap guns like that, and we also
• 55:28
  Speaker 3: had BB guns. Did you shoot the guns? We shot them?
• 55:30
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I shot all the guns, but yeah, but the
• 55:34
  Speaker 5: BB guns, Like my brother shot me with the BB
• 55:36
  Speaker 5: gun and that hurts.
• 55:37
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean I grew up in a culture of guns.
• 55:40
  Speaker 2: My brothers both had BB guns. I think at some
• 55:42
  Speaker 2: point my parents there was a vibe coming from me
• 55:45
  Speaker 2: whether they're like, well, we don't need to get him
• 55:46
  Speaker 2: one of those.
• 55:47
  Speaker 3: They didn't know what it was.
• 55:49
  Speaker 2: They were like, for whatever reason, we don't think he
• 55:50
  Speaker 2: needs a gun.
• 55:53
  Speaker 3: I've gone paintballing. That's like the paintballing. Yeah, it hurts.
• 56:01
  Speaker 3: Can I take it again? Take it again? Christmas? It
• 56:06
  Speaker 3: freaking sucks. It was part of a bachelor party.
• 56:12
  Speaker 2: It's always part of it.
• 56:12
  Speaker 3: It's always part of a bachelor party. And like the
• 56:15
  Speaker 3: only lesbian at the bachelor party. And it hurts. Yeah,
• 56:20
  Speaker 3: it probably you're you're like so scared. I was scared,
• 56:23
  Speaker 3: But I.
• 56:23
  Speaker 2: Think that's kind of important. Otherwise the game is not
• 56:26
  Speaker 2: that fun. It's important to be scared of all times
• 56:28
  Speaker 2: of your life, to never stop worrying constantly.
• 56:32
  Speaker 3: One second I thought I could be good For one second.
• 56:36
  Speaker 3: I was like I could get low and kind of
• 56:39
  Speaker 3: run around and hide. And no, it was shot you.
• 56:43
  Speaker 3: Oh I don't remember who?
• 56:44
  Speaker 5: And did it hurts?
• 56:44
  Speaker 3: It hurt? Like and where did they shoot you? In
• 56:46
  Speaker 3: my arm? Yes? And I stopped. I was like, I'm
• 56:51
  Speaker 3: I was like, I'm not doing And is it like
• 56:53
  Speaker 3: a winner the winner is the last person standing? Yeah, yeah, yeah,
• 56:57
  Speaker 3: I'll tell you.
• 56:58
  Speaker 5: I definitely think that I would do this. If I
• 57:01
  Speaker 5: had to play paintball, I would start out just being
• 57:04
  Speaker 5: like shoot me so I could get like me.
• 57:07
  Speaker 3: I don't want to spend.
• 57:08
  Speaker 5: I know I'm not gonna win, and I don't want
• 57:10
  Speaker 5: to spend like an hour or however long it takes
• 57:13
  Speaker 5: being scared that someone's gonna hit me in the head
• 57:15
  Speaker 5: with a and like whatever and can cuss me.
• 57:18
  Speaker 2: That describes my end of the world's opinion, Like the
• 57:22
  Speaker 2: moment it happens, just like, Okay, I'm done.
• 57:24
  Speaker 3: We don't need to survive for that.
• 57:25
  Speaker 2: No, I don't want to be I don't want to
• 57:26
  Speaker 2: scam and defend myself in any way.
• 57:29
  Speaker 3: I can like.
• 57:30
  Speaker 5: Lucid dream so when I'm when I'm dreaming about somebody
• 57:34
  Speaker 5: trying to kill me, I purposely run towards them. And
• 57:40
  Speaker 5: I'm not joking, so I can like get it over with,
• 57:44
  Speaker 5: you know, And then I know, like I know, I
• 57:45
  Speaker 5: know it's just a dream and I'm just like I'm
• 57:47
  Speaker 5: just gonna let this person, it's a guy, always kill me,
• 57:51
  Speaker 5: kill me and stab me or whatever whatever he wants
• 57:53
  Speaker 5: to do, and then I'll be old.
• 57:55
  Speaker 3: It'll be over with this away from I know that
• 57:59
  Speaker 3: what is normal. I don't know problem solving. Would you
• 58:03
  Speaker 3: escape people in your dreams? Well, I know I don't
• 58:06
  Speaker 3: wake up, you just wake up. I was wake up. Yes,
• 58:09
  Speaker 3: if something scary is happening, I remember just being like
• 58:13
  Speaker 3: wake up.
• 58:14
  Speaker 2: Wow.
• 58:14
  Speaker 3: Yes.
• 58:15
  Speaker 2: All I want is to be able tolucid dream and
• 58:17
  Speaker 2: I can't. It's interesting to me that, like within the
• 58:20
  Speaker 2: world of like you're dreaming and you could do literally
• 58:22
  Speaker 2: whatever you want, some one has a gun and you
• 58:23
  Speaker 2: don't like then become.
• 58:25
  Speaker 3: Really strong and like bight turn. You know what that
• 58:30
  Speaker 3: is interesting? It works. It works for my personality, I think.
• 58:35
  Speaker 3: I think that is what I'm like.
• 58:39
  Speaker 2: No, I've tried to train myself to lucid dreams. They
• 58:42
  Speaker 2: tell you that, like, uh, in real life, you should
• 58:46
  Speaker 2: like if you see text or numbers, you should look
• 58:48
  Speaker 2: at them, look away, then look at and make confirm
• 58:50
  Speaker 2: that they're still there. Because I guess you can't do
• 58:51
  Speaker 2: that in dreams. Like in a dream, if you were
• 58:54
  Speaker 2: to do that, you would look and it would be
• 58:55
  Speaker 2: a different thing. Oh, you're supposed to take do dream journals.
• 59:00
  Speaker 2: Barely did that, so I guess I'm not trying very hard.
• 59:02
  Speaker 3: I think journal after you, yeah, write down.
• 59:05
  Speaker 2: What you wrote, And I've never been able to get
• 59:08
  Speaker 2: into it, and I want maybe I want it too bad.
• 59:10
  Speaker 3: Yeah, you have to be a little more likely, Yeah,
• 59:13
  Speaker 3: you have to be like, I don't want to dream.
• 59:17
  Speaker 2: I can't constantly respond to the text.
• 59:18
  Speaker 3: Yah, take a few weeks of.
• 59:22
  Speaker 2: Yeah, right now, this is me.
• 59:26
  Speaker 3: Let me lose.
• 59:28
  Speaker 2: Listen, I'm holding a gun to the camera. You're missing out.
• 59:32
  Speaker 2: Gather the TV around the computer.
• 59:33
  Speaker 3: It's the holiday TV.
• 59:37
  Speaker 2: Gather the TV around the computer.
• 59:39
  Speaker 3: I'm so drunk.
• 59:42
  Speaker 2: Gather the family around the computer YouTube dot com. Okay, well,
• 59:48
  Speaker 2: I've given you each forks. I have this bounty of
• 59:51
  Speaker 2: forks that I get to take home with me. Should
• 59:53
  Speaker 2: we open the next gift?
• 59:54
  Speaker 3: I would like to see this.
• 59:55
  Speaker 2: Okay, right, this is lighter than I expected. I was
• 59:59
  Speaker 2: hoping for something really dance.
• 1:00:04
  Speaker 3: Okay, it just happened to have both holiday wrappings, you both.
• 1:00:08
  Speaker 2: That's amazing. Actually, the two people, totally different people had
• 1:00:12
  Speaker 2: holiday rapper.
• 1:00:13
  Speaker 3: I didn't have to go get it. You that you
• 1:00:14
  Speaker 3: asked to be on the holiday special.
• 1:00:16
  Speaker 2: Right, But for me, I'd be like, oh yeah, I
• 1:00:18
  Speaker 2: have a paper bag. Yeah, or oh wow, I found
• 1:00:22
  Speaker 2: some old birthday wrapping papers. So God bless both of them.
• 1:00:25
  Speaker 2: Good Christians, That's what I'm saying. Okay, oh, let's see
• 1:00:29
  Speaker 2: where do this is what you've given me? A trick box.
• 1:00:33
  Speaker 3: I think it was me. Where does the box it
• 1:00:38
  Speaker 3: should be a little flip open. Well that's where you're
• 1:00:41
  Speaker 3: okay right there, right there?
• 1:00:44
  Speaker 6: Oh I have to oh, well you're still wrong. Okay, different, joyful, Okay,
• 1:00:54
  Speaker 6: pulling it up.
• 1:00:55
  Speaker 2: Whoa, this is interesting. Okay, this is where the podcast
• 1:00:59
  Speaker 2: is magical podcast. It's a pamphlet called Meets for Men.
• 1:01:03
  Speaker 3: Yes, is this a recipeople, It is a recipe book
• 1:01:06
  Speaker 3: nineteen fifty four. Oh my god, I believe just does
• 1:01:10
  Speaker 3: the say general motors on the back on the back.
• 1:01:12
  Speaker 2: Of the let's see Western election.
• 1:01:14
  Speaker 3: Election And it is just insane.
• 1:01:19
  Speaker 2: This is this might have the original Arby's b for
• 1:01:21
  Speaker 2: us honestly everything.
• 1:01:24
  Speaker 3: It's like kind of crazy, very heavy meat forward. I
• 1:01:28
  Speaker 3: love I thought you would really like it.
• 1:01:30
  Speaker 2: I feel like it just like kind of and look
• 1:01:32
  Speaker 2: look at how those things are combined where this is
• 1:01:34
  Speaker 2: all combined.
• 1:01:36
  Speaker 3: For me Arby's meats, and I love that it just
• 1:01:39
  Speaker 3: meets for men. Yes, women not allowed, women not allowing meat.
• 1:01:43
  Speaker 2: This is not for the gals.
• 1:01:44
  Speaker 3: No, but it is for the gals to make I
• 1:01:46
  Speaker 3: believe they to say that. And then I like the
• 1:01:51
  Speaker 3: two men that are on it.
• 1:01:53
  Speaker 2: Because thestration is amazing.
• 1:01:55
  Speaker 3: Yes, those are the only type of men that exist exists.
• 1:01:58
  Speaker 2: Yes, I'm both of them. Yes, in every one of us,
• 1:02:01
  Speaker 2: there are two men, and it's both of these men.
• 1:02:04
  Speaker 3: Yes, it's both of those men.
• 1:02:05
  Speaker 2: Wow, one has a bow tie, one has some sort
• 1:02:08
  Speaker 2: of weird balding pattern.
• 1:02:09
  Speaker 3: Yes. And and I love that it says meats for men,
• 1:02:12
  Speaker 3: And in that there's a sub caption that is favorite meat.
• 1:02:16
  Speaker 2: T eight favorite meat dishes for Men, with hints for hamburgers,
• 1:02:21
  Speaker 2: steaks for a man, tricks with leftovers, and stew's fit
• 1:02:25
  Speaker 2: for a king.
• 1:02:26
  Speaker 3: Oh and I thought of you. I love that.
• 1:02:31
  Speaker 2: I You've got to pull these together in some way.
• 1:02:34
  Speaker 2: Let's look at these recipes. Let's see pot roast with vegetables,
• 1:02:37
  Speaker 2: beef stroking off, London broil, beef stew, beef kebab, if
• 1:02:41
  Speaker 2: you got I feel like this is a thing, like
• 1:02:43
  Speaker 2: if you found a discount on beef London broiled broiled steak.
• 1:02:47
  Speaker 2: This is where did this come from?
• 1:02:49
  Speaker 3: I found it at a little like vintage store like
• 1:02:55
  Speaker 3: force like kind of like a pack of recipe book.
• 1:02:58
  Speaker 3: And I saw that and I was like, this is perfect.
• 1:03:01
  Speaker 3: It does and I bought two and because there were
• 1:03:04
  Speaker 3: two of these. This is the thing that I have
• 1:03:06
  Speaker 3: found across two different things. Like I have one for
• 1:03:09
  Speaker 3: myself whoa that I bought at a different in Chicago.
• 1:03:13
  Speaker 3: This one I found in Champagne. Wow, because I was like,
• 1:03:18
  Speaker 3: I will have to give this. I think I could
• 1:03:20
  Speaker 3: give this to someone. And when you, when you texted me,
• 1:03:22
  Speaker 3: I was like, this, this is the moment. This is now.
• 1:03:26
  Speaker 2: We're tied forever. Yes, whenever one of us is making
• 1:03:29
  Speaker 2: a beef dish, will when we.
• 1:03:30
  Speaker 3: Text you and'll be like, do you want to do
• 1:03:31
  Speaker 3: a veal broil? Do you want to do a stuff
• 1:03:34
  Speaker 3: pork chops with banana saute? Exactly? Know, the recipes are
• 1:03:38
  Speaker 3: kind of gross.
• 1:03:41
  Speaker 2: Veal chops California kind of amrvans California situation. Wow. The loaf,
• 1:03:46
  Speaker 2: yeah there, I mean this is kind of the decade
• 1:03:48
  Speaker 2: I think es. Yes, hints for hamburgers.
• 1:03:52
  Speaker 3: Like barbecue hamburgers with like tomatoes looks, Oh my god,
• 1:03:57
  Speaker 3: those looks still liquified. Actually they look.
• 1:04:00
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's a mess. That's disgusting.
• 1:04:02
  Speaker 3: It is gross.
• 1:04:03
  Speaker 2: Let's say barbecued hamburgers. This is salad oil. One of
• 1:04:08
  Speaker 2: the rest of One of the things you need is
• 1:04:09
  Speaker 2: salad oil and a quarter cup of sugar. We all
• 1:04:12
  Speaker 2: love our sweet bergers. I love to bite into. Let's
• 1:04:23
  Speaker 2: see here, let's see tricks with leftovers. We can get
• 1:04:26
  Speaker 2: a baked meat, puff, meat and cheese, sandwich, broil. It's
• 1:04:30
  Speaker 2: good advice is good gravy This is brought to you
• 1:04:37
  Speaker 2: by a fire truck. When gravy from the roast, you're
• 1:04:42
  Speaker 2: lying people bleeding's too dry. Gravy when gravy from the
• 1:04:52
  Speaker 2: roast runs short. Tried this, you stupid asshole. Used canned
• 1:04:57
  Speaker 2: bu leon or boon made from cubes for each cup.
• 1:05:01
  Speaker 3: Is how I think a bullion? No, I think it's.
• 1:05:12
  Speaker 2: Used to tablespoon's flour mixed with a little and that's
• 1:05:15
  Speaker 2: itally sized. Little. Don't overdo it with the cold water.
• 1:05:18
  Speaker 2: Stirn too bouleon cook until thickened. So I guess it's
• 1:05:21
  Speaker 2: one of these things where it's like, well we have
• 1:05:22
  Speaker 2: a tablespoon of flavor. Yes, now make beef colored water, yes,
• 1:05:27
  Speaker 2: which is for emergency.
• 1:05:29
  Speaker 3: That's in a mesh.
• 1:05:30
  Speaker 2: And your husband's man and he wanted gravy, And you're like, well,
• 1:05:33
  Speaker 2: I didn't think that far ahead. I don't know.
• 1:05:35
  Speaker 3: Men.
• 1:05:36
  Speaker 2: You turn to meats for men. This is unbelievable. You're
• 1:05:39
  Speaker 2: a big barbecuer, aren't.
• 1:05:40
  Speaker 3: I'm a big barbecuer. So this is kind of barbecue? Yeah, yeah,
• 1:05:43
  Speaker 3: I love I kind of love meat. Meat.
• 1:05:47
  Speaker 2: Did it start with Damons?
• 1:05:48
  Speaker 3: It didn't start with Damon's. Like my my growing up
• 1:05:52
  Speaker 3: the weekend, my parents loved doing like Vietnamese barbecue, and
• 1:05:57
  Speaker 3: so like from there, I've just always kind of love
• 1:06:00
  Speaker 3: Like my mom would make incredible ribs and chicken wings
• 1:06:05
  Speaker 3: in like a fish sauce sort of based marinate uyuni lunchtime,
• 1:06:14
  Speaker 3: and then I would I loved grilling, oh okay, and
• 1:06:17
  Speaker 3: so I still and what is it called? Not tang uh?
• 1:06:21
  Speaker 2: What is it?
• 1:06:22
  Speaker 3: What is it when you put meat in a mar
• 1:06:26
  Speaker 3: And yes, I love a marinade.
• 1:06:28
  Speaker 2: So how often are you cooking a big meat meal?
• 1:06:30
  Speaker 3: I mean, my wife would like it to be less,
• 1:06:33
  Speaker 3: but it is.
• 1:06:33
  Speaker 5: Not a man.
• 1:06:34
  Speaker 3: No, she's not a man.
• 1:06:35
  Speaker 2: So she's on the right path.
• 1:06:37
  Speaker 3: She is on the right path. Probably like I think
• 1:06:39
  Speaker 3: I grew probably like once a week. That's amazing, crazy,
• 1:06:43
  Speaker 3: that's okay, Okay, I.
• 1:06:45
  Speaker 2: Think that I would love for somebody to grill for
• 1:06:47
  Speaker 2: me once a week, And yeah, I do.
• 1:06:49
  Speaker 3: I think I do do that.
• 1:06:50
  Speaker 2: Wow, And do you have like a famous recipe? Do
• 1:06:53
  Speaker 2: you say here comes famous that like.
• 1:06:56
  Speaker 3: I have adapted. I can't make the ribs to taste
• 1:06:59
  Speaker 3: exactly like my because you never can. It's so hard.
• 1:07:01
  Speaker 3: But that is like amongst my friends, that's the one
• 1:07:05
  Speaker 3: that is the one that people remember what.
• 1:07:07
  Speaker 2: Sort of things we're putting in the marinade.
• 1:07:09
  Speaker 3: So it's brown sugar, honey, soy sauce, low sodium soy sauce,
• 1:07:15
  Speaker 3: and a little bit of a little dark soy sauce.
• 1:07:18
  Speaker 3: So I think that's just me trying to be like
• 1:07:20
  Speaker 3: heart health healthy, Okay, even though it's even though it's
• 1:07:25
  Speaker 3: bad meat brill.
• 1:07:30
  Speaker 5: Something I'm gonna take care of, something that'll makes sense,
• 1:07:33
  Speaker 5: I understand.
• 1:07:36
  Speaker 3: And a little fish sauce for that little like kind
• 1:07:39
  Speaker 3: of ineffable and an onions, garlic, salt and pepper, what
• 1:07:44
  Speaker 3: about some and a little ketchup ketchup right, a little
• 1:07:48
  Speaker 3: ketchup that makes sense within a like a barbecue sauce. Yeah,
• 1:07:51
  Speaker 3: and it's like very a little sweet, little savory. And yeah,
• 1:07:55
  Speaker 3: I used to make it all the time and I
• 1:07:57
  Speaker 3: still do. But that is what I like to make.
• 1:08:00
  Speaker 2: So jealous do you grill at all?
• 1:08:03
  Speaker 3: Well, I have a grill. I don't you just turn it?
• 1:08:21
  Speaker 5: Yeah? Yeah, no, I but I have started to get
• 1:08:24
  Speaker 5: into like I've gotten gotten it and I want to
• 1:08:27
  Speaker 5: ask you where you get your meats because I've started
• 1:08:29
  Speaker 5: to like go in different places to get me like,
• 1:08:33
  Speaker 5: you know, like meats that are that are raised on
• 1:08:36
  Speaker 5: the little farms and stuff.
• 1:08:38
  Speaker 3: Socall, we've talked about that cookbook and Lazy Acres is
• 1:08:44
  Speaker 3: the other place that.
• 1:08:45
  Speaker 2: Lazy which is kind of Bristol Farms.
• 1:08:48
  Speaker 3: Junior, Yes it is. Yeah, so that is where I'm
• 1:08:50
  Speaker 3: getting good meats.
• 1:08:54
  Speaker 2: Well, I'm thrilled about this. I'm absolutely over the moon.
• 1:08:59
  Speaker 2: I'm going to have to have some sort of beef
• 1:09:00
  Speaker 2: party forks for everyone.
• 1:09:02
  Speaker 3: A beef party. Invite women though, or do you want to?
• 1:09:07
  Speaker 3: Are we just making it for you? You'll be Yeah,
• 1:09:10
  Speaker 3: you'll be behind the scenes. You will not be seen. Yeah,
• 1:09:13
  Speaker 3: you will leave once the meat is ready. The lights
• 1:09:18
  Speaker 3: go out.
• 1:09:19
  Speaker 2: Everyone suddenly there's a plate of food in front of them.
• 1:09:21
  Speaker 2: The women have vanished.
• 1:09:22
  Speaker 3: I love this. This sounds good for us ultimately, it's
• 1:09:26
  Speaker 3: good for you for me too.
• 1:09:28
  Speaker 2: I'm giving here, I'm giving, and I'm giving and I'm giving,
• 1:09:31
  Speaker 2: and all that you two do is take. It's kind
• 1:09:34
  Speaker 2: of gross. Ultimately, well, I'm gonna put this here. I
• 1:09:36
  Speaker 2: think we should play a game. Okay, O, great, We're
• 1:09:39
  Speaker 2: going to play a game called Gift or a Curse.
• 1:09:42
  Speaker 2: Do you too have anything to promote or recommend? It
• 1:09:44
  Speaker 2: is the holidays. I'm willing to give you a chance
• 1:09:46
  Speaker 2: to do something for yourselves.
• 1:09:50
  Speaker 3: I will be in San Francisco doing San Francisco Sketch
• 1:09:54
  Speaker 3: Fest at the end of January. So if you're in
• 1:09:56
  Speaker 3: San Francisco, come come see a stand up show.
• 1:09:59
  Speaker 2: Oh that's great.
• 1:10:00
  Speaker 3: It's the end of January and end of January January thirty,
• 1:10:02
  Speaker 3: first listener.
• 1:10:03
  Speaker 2: If you don't do that, then what are you doing
• 1:10:06
  Speaker 2: in a Bay Area?
• 1:10:07
  Speaker 3: Come on, get on the bart, Get on the bart,
• 1:10:10
  Speaker 3: go come to punch on the trolley. Get on the trolley.
• 1:10:14
  Speaker 3: I love this.
• 1:10:14
  Speaker 2: Do an entirely track based way to get there.
• 1:10:19
  Speaker 3: Don't take away mo get to me.
• 1:10:23
  Speaker 2: Okay, Maria, do you have anything?
• 1:10:27
  Speaker 5: Well, I feel like it's the things that I have
• 1:10:29
  Speaker 5: to promote are not coming out recently, so so I
• 1:10:31
  Speaker 5: just really know.
• 1:10:33
  Speaker 2: You're You're on Instagram, You're in all sorts of good uh,
• 1:10:37
  Speaker 2: film and TV. Yeah, what he types, Maria Thay are
• 1:10:40
  Speaker 2: into Google to.
• 1:10:42
  Speaker 3: Yes, go on a journey. There's some old stuff, there's
• 1:10:45
  Speaker 3: going to be some new stuff. I think that may
• 1:10:47
  Speaker 3: be on an episode. Well, I don't know, you know what.
• 1:10:50
  Speaker 2: I like that Now someone's going to watch every single
• 1:10:53
  Speaker 2: episode of television on.
• 1:10:55
  Speaker 3: An episode of television very soon that you know. Oh,
• 1:10:58
  Speaker 3: I can't wait a movie coming out at some point.
• 1:11:03
  Speaker 5: Okay, I wrote on a television show that's coming out
• 1:11:06
  Speaker 5: in months.
• 1:11:07
  Speaker 3: I guess, I don't know. Anyway, the people that.
• 1:11:10
  Speaker 2: You're working for are not happy with you right now.
• 1:11:14
  Speaker 3: They were already not happy with it.
• 1:11:18
  Speaker 2: Right now, they're busily trying to edit you out of the.
• 1:11:22
  Speaker 3: Right right you know whatever feeling.
• 1:11:25
  Speaker 2: I tried to give you a nice.
• 1:11:27
  Speaker 3: Little you did you did? You did a really lovely
• 1:11:30
  Speaker 3: you did something very nice, You did something very nice.
• 1:11:33
  Speaker 2: You were missus clause type you are? You are missus
• 1:11:36
  Speaker 2: clause and uh, but we should play the game. I'm
• 1:11:40
  Speaker 2: going to name three things. You'll tell me if there
• 1:11:43
  Speaker 2: are a gift or a curse, and why then don't
• 1:11:45
  Speaker 2: tell you if you're right or wrong, because there are
• 1:11:46
  Speaker 2: correct answers. You two are competing against each other.
• 1:11:49
  Speaker 3: Oh yeah, this could destroy Yes, I told you that
• 1:11:57
  Speaker 3: I would run right into the as soon as I can,
• 1:12:04
  Speaker 3: So that's competitive.
• 1:12:06
  Speaker 2: I am all right, Well, I'll be very careful. This
• 1:12:09
  Speaker 2: first one is from a listener named Noah, and these
• 1:12:11
  Speaker 2: are a holiday theme. Doesn't that fun for a holiday episode?
• 1:12:15
  Speaker 2: Noah has suggested gift or a curse cinnamon scented pine cone.
• 1:12:22
  Speaker 3: Pine I answer, okay, who wants to go? I'll go?
• 1:12:30
  Speaker 3: Curse was just pointed at me. It's high, like blacked out?
• 1:12:44
  Speaker 3: Did I even say my answer?
• 1:12:46
  Speaker 2: Even four hours?
• 1:12:49
  Speaker 5: A curse has already smelled good enough. They don't need
• 1:12:52
  Speaker 5: anything that same.
• 1:12:54
  Speaker 3: Okay, both of you are cursed. Yeah, I would say
• 1:12:56
  Speaker 3: curse as well, because I'm just like, why ad I
• 1:13:00
  Speaker 3: if I get the pine cone? I'm getting the pine
• 1:13:01
  Speaker 3: cone for the pine cone smell.
• 1:13:03
  Speaker 4: Right right?
• 1:13:04
  Speaker 3: I like pine better than me? Too interesting?
• 1:13:07
  Speaker 2: I do too wrong?
• 1:13:08
  Speaker 3: Woh god?
• 1:13:09
  Speaker 2: Why I stepped on a pine cone with a bare
• 1:13:11
  Speaker 2: foot before? Yes, this disgusting cinnamon scent is a great
• 1:13:17
  Speaker 2: way to alert you that you're coming up on a
• 1:13:19
  Speaker 2: pine cone that's rolling around on the ground that fell
• 1:13:21
  Speaker 2: off of the display in your robe your early morning.
• 1:13:24
  Speaker 2: If it were just pine, you would probably confuse it
• 1:13:27
  Speaker 2: with the Christmas tree and think nothing's wrong. You smell
• 1:13:29
  Speaker 2: that disgusting cinnamon, you know something's wrong. You're able to
• 1:13:32
  Speaker 2: go and pick it up off the floor.
• 1:13:34
  Speaker 3: What about pine? That smell like pine? But they they
• 1:13:38
  Speaker 3: scream all the time, or like they make a sound interesting?
• 1:13:42
  Speaker 2: Yeah, pine cone?
• 1:13:43
  Speaker 4: Oh?
• 1:13:43
  Speaker 3: I like that. Okay, so that's okay. I'd be what
• 1:13:47
  Speaker 3: is it saying? Don't know? Can you haven't say whatever
• 1:13:51
  Speaker 3: you want?
• 1:13:52
  Speaker 2: Screams kill me?
• 1:13:58
  Speaker 3: Well, you both got that wrong, had to hear it.
• 1:14:01
  Speaker 3: I disagree.
• 1:14:02
  Speaker 2: Well, of course you disagree. You got it wrong, and
• 1:14:04
  Speaker 2: you're a sore loser. It is a holiday, it's trying
• 1:14:07
  Speaker 2: to be in a better mood. Okay. This next one
• 1:14:09
  Speaker 2: is from a listener named Casey. Gift or a curse
• 1:14:11
  Speaker 2: White Elephant Gift exchanges.
• 1:14:15
  Speaker 3: I can go first this time. I'm gonna say gift.
• 1:14:18
  Speaker 3: Why because I like the element of surprise, And I
• 1:14:21
  Speaker 3: know people like what is white elephant? The one where
• 1:14:24
  Speaker 3: you just put it in the middle and then everyone
• 1:14:27
  Speaker 3: takes it one at a time and then you can
• 1:14:28
  Speaker 3: steal someone else's gifts. Yeah, I like that. I like
• 1:14:32
  Speaker 3: the addition of sort of anger and drama into a
• 1:14:36
  Speaker 3: sort of gift giving element like I like, I like
• 1:14:40
  Speaker 3: the way that like like. I did it once with
• 1:14:43
  Speaker 3: my family and I ended up with the gift that
• 1:14:45
  Speaker 3: I brought, which is which is wit some time. But
• 1:14:50
  Speaker 3: I loved it. I loved every second of it. What
• 1:14:53
  Speaker 3: was the gift? It was a cocktail. It was honestly
• 1:14:55
  Speaker 3: not a great gift. I understand why it was left
• 1:14:57
  Speaker 3: on the table. It was a cocktail recipe book interesting,
• 1:15:01
  Speaker 3: honestly helpful, but no one and recipes I am. I
• 1:15:05
  Speaker 3: love them interesting. I love recipe books.
• 1:15:08
  Speaker 5: Right, so gift, gift and gift because well, because it's
• 1:15:13
  Speaker 5: a gift, it's literally a gift, and I'm a literalist.
• 1:15:21
  Speaker 3: Wrong curse.
• 1:15:24
  Speaker 2: I hate these things.
• 1:15:26
  Speaker 3: I hate.
• 1:15:27
  Speaker 2: I think about it last minute. I find something in
• 1:15:29
  Speaker 2: the closet that's neither useful or funny, it's just junk.
• 1:15:33
  Speaker 3: I take it to the party. I see something I
• 1:15:35
  Speaker 3: actually want.
• 1:15:36
  Speaker 2: The one person that brought something nice, probably a gift card,
• 1:15:38
  Speaker 2: twenty five dollars gift card. I want it so bad
• 1:15:41
  Speaker 2: I become very competitive to get it. I don't get it.
• 1:15:44
  Speaker 2: I drive home from every white Elephant exchange in tears. Oh, horrible. Wow,
• 1:15:49
  Speaker 2: the bad.
• 1:15:50
  Speaker 3: Yeah, there was one. There was one at my office
• 1:15:53
  Speaker 3: when I worked in advertising, and there was the boss
• 1:15:56
  Speaker 3: had put an iPod. That's that is very that is
• 1:16:01
  Speaker 3: very cruel. Yes, if everyone is doing fifty and under,
• 1:16:04
  Speaker 3: you can't just drop in an iPod. And god, I
• 1:16:10
  Speaker 3: can still picture the faces of my coworkers getting the
• 1:16:14
  Speaker 3: iPod stolen and being handed like socks. It's tough.
• 1:16:20
  Speaker 2: That would ruin the holiday.
• 1:16:21
  Speaker 3: They would ruin the holidays.
• 1:16:23
  Speaker 2: Oh, I hope it went to a good home. Or
• 1:16:25
  Speaker 2: was it one of your least favorite coworking.
• 1:16:26
  Speaker 3: I think it was one of my least favorite. I
• 1:16:28
  Speaker 3: think it was the woman who had two rats as pets.
• 1:16:30
  Speaker 2: Oh god, well, she needed something, she needed something, something
• 1:16:33
  Speaker 2: to take home.
• 1:16:34
  Speaker 3: And ratip pets are good. I don't want the rat
• 1:16:36
  Speaker 3: I don't want the rat community to come after me.
• 1:16:39
  Speaker 3: Had it happened before, after before, I've had it happened before.
• 1:16:45
  Speaker 3: And rats are really smart.
• 1:16:46
  Speaker 2: Let's say some good things about rats.
• 1:16:48
  Speaker 3: So really smart. They're there. They are rodents. The rodents. Yes,
• 1:16:56
  Speaker 3: they're not cockroaches, and they're not cockroaches. They from certain
• 1:17:03
  Speaker 3: angles are cute.
• 1:17:05
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I can see why someone would love a rat.
• 1:17:07
  Speaker 2: I can also for myself to see why it would
• 1:17:09
  Speaker 2: be the most horrifying creature. The tail is a horrible
• 1:17:13
  Speaker 2: tr move.
• 1:17:14
  Speaker 3: It's the hit. It's the tail for me as well.
• 1:17:16
  Speaker 3: But it's the tail for you. That's good.
• 1:17:18
  Speaker 2: If it's the tail for you, then it is weird.
• 1:17:22
  Speaker 2: I can understand the rest of the.
• 1:17:24
  Speaker 3: Rat in the rat community.
• 1:17:29
  Speaker 2: We love rat owners. I just have a deep trauma
• 1:17:33
  Speaker 2: with rats, and I have a hard time.
• 1:17:34
  Speaker 3: Wait, what is it from?
• 1:17:35
  Speaker 2: I had a rat as a first grader and it
• 1:17:37
  Speaker 2: escaped and went to live in the garage as a
• 1:17:40
  Speaker 2: rabbit animal and had a tragic end, and then the
• 1:17:44
  Speaker 2: betrayal the idea of rabies and then becoming disease carriers.
• 1:17:47
  Speaker 2: Just stayed with me for the rest of my life
• 1:17:50
  Speaker 2: and ultimately as my mom's fault splinter. Because I wanted
• 1:17:53
  Speaker 2: a Ninja turtle. My mom thought I would get sell
• 1:17:55
  Speaker 2: Manila from a turtle, so she thought, let's get a rat.
• 1:17:58
  Speaker 2: I've talked to with her about this and I've made
• 1:18:01
  Speaker 2: sure she was a bad parenting movie.
• 1:18:05
  Speaker 3: Okay, so you both have gotten zero? All right?
• 1:18:08
  Speaker 2: This final one is from Kathleen Gift or a Curse
• 1:18:12
  Speaker 2: Vegan Eggnog.
• 1:18:22
  Speaker 5: I guess, uh, I don't know this one is this one?
• 1:18:26
  Speaker 5: I could go either way. I guess I don't like egnog.
• 1:18:32
  Speaker 5: I think eggnog is a curse, personal curse. I wouldn't
• 1:18:35
  Speaker 5: say it's a curse for everyone. It's a personal curse.
• 1:18:38
  Speaker 5: And I'm gonna say it's a you know, gift. I
• 1:18:43
  Speaker 5: don't know, it's just a gift. It's a gift to
• 1:18:45
  Speaker 5: have a choice.
• 1:18:45
  Speaker 7: Of Okay, I'm gonna say, curse the pure. Some things
• 1:18:51
  Speaker 7: don't need a vegan version. Some things don't need a
• 1:18:54
  Speaker 7: vegan version. And I want my I want eggs in
• 1:18:59
  Speaker 7: my eggnog. That is spoken like a true meeting.
• 1:19:02
  Speaker 2: I know.
• 1:19:03
  Speaker 3: I'm sorry. No, I love that you can have a choice.
• 1:19:06
  Speaker 3: But for this, I'm going to say, curse. It's a gift.
• 1:19:14
  Speaker 3: It's a gift. It's a gift.
• 1:19:17
  Speaker 2: This is the only way I'll drink my eggnog. And
• 1:19:19
  Speaker 2: I'm a dairy heavy person, but I don't like the
• 1:19:22
  Speaker 2: I don't even know if it actually has eggs. It
• 1:19:24
  Speaker 2: does it, but that's the word there, and then it's
• 1:19:26
  Speaker 2: so thick and the dairiness of it it all is horrifying.
• 1:19:29
  Speaker 2: But for whatever reason, when we say almond milk or
• 1:19:32
  Speaker 2: oat milk with those flavors, I think it's a delightful beverage.
• 1:19:37
  Speaker 2: I think that's the only way I'll drink an eggnog
• 1:19:39
  Speaker 2: is if it's not dairy based. And I drink milk
• 1:19:42
  Speaker 2: every single day, that's something wrong with.
• 1:19:44
  Speaker 3: Me, as I drink milk every way. But I also
• 1:19:52
  Speaker 3: drink milk every day. But when you when you say
• 1:19:54
  Speaker 3: it out loud, it does sound freaking in cereal or like, yeah.
• 1:19:59
  Speaker 2: Mi, you've been trying. Look, someone was trying to shame
• 1:20:01
  Speaker 2: us out of drinking milk. And I'm standing up and
• 1:20:03
  Speaker 2: I'm saying, look, I eat a cookie. I need milk
• 1:20:06
  Speaker 2: me too. I'm sorry.
• 1:20:07
  Speaker 3: So, okay, I understand cereal. Every day, sometimes I have
• 1:20:11
  Speaker 3: like a I don't know, like this morning, I had
• 1:20:13
  Speaker 3: an RX bar, okay, and a glass of milk right water.
• 1:20:17
  Speaker 2: Can you imagine that feels like stranded?
• 1:20:19
  Speaker 3: Yeah. It hasn't drank milk since I was a kid.
• 1:20:21
  Speaker 2: Wow.
• 1:20:22
  Speaker 5: I mean unless it's like I have a chocolate chip
• 1:20:24
  Speaker 5: cookie and somebody it's just like the perfect thing that happen.
• 1:20:27
  Speaker 2: Okay, So if you had a chocolate chip cookie every day,
• 1:20:30
  Speaker 2: you would drink milk every day.
• 1:20:31
  Speaker 3: Do you have a chocolate chip cookie?
• 1:20:32
  Speaker 2: Almost? I have some type of cookie every single day,
• 1:20:36
  Speaker 2: so I.
• 1:20:38
  Speaker 3: So much. That makes me happy. I Oh, I do
• 1:20:45
  Speaker 3: you make these?
• 1:20:49
  Speaker 2: This is something I I will make a batch of
• 1:20:52
  Speaker 2: dough and then I freeze, you know, because if I
• 1:20:55
  Speaker 2: had a bunch of cookies, I would eat all of
• 1:20:56
  Speaker 2: them at the same time. So the listeners like, shut up, Richard,
• 1:20:59
  Speaker 2: we know. But I will make the dough, turn it
• 1:21:03
  Speaker 2: into balls, freeze it, and then bake myself one cookie
• 1:21:06
  Speaker 2: every night. My boyfriend Jim used to have one cookie
• 1:21:08
  Speaker 2: as well. He doesn't know how good he has it.
• 1:21:10
  Speaker 2: He's now eating those ice cream sandwiches from Trader Joe's
• 1:21:14
  Speaker 2: every night, which I recently discovered. The cookies and cream
• 1:21:16
  Speaker 2: ones are pretty good.
• 1:21:17
  Speaker 3: They're pretty good.
• 1:21:18
  Speaker 2: The other one I don't. I could, the chocolate chip
• 1:21:20
  Speaker 2: cookie one doesn't work. Oh, the mini cones I've heard
• 1:21:23
  Speaker 2: are good.
• 1:21:23
  Speaker 3: I haven't hand really good.
• 1:21:24
  Speaker 2: But I every night a cookie unless I run out,
• 1:21:27
  Speaker 2: and then I'll always have a backup of like frozen
• 1:21:30
  Speaker 2: something from the store just in case I need a
• 1:21:32
  Speaker 2: treat every night.
• 1:21:33
  Speaker 3: No, I love this and I feel like it if
• 1:21:37
  Speaker 3: fits perfect. Something about it, yeah, something about it. It's
• 1:21:44
  Speaker 3: just perfect.
• 1:21:45
  Speaker 7: Yes.
• 1:21:47
  Speaker 3: Do you to not finish the day with a treat?
• 1:21:49
  Speaker 3: I do?
• 1:21:50
  Speaker 2: Okay, what's your truth?
• 1:21:51
  Speaker 3: Sometimes a little chocolate, a little dark chocolate, classy, sophisticated. Yeah, okay,
• 1:21:57
  Speaker 3: take it, okay, dark, a dark chocolate, or a little
• 1:22:02
  Speaker 3: Trader Joe's mini cone.
• 1:22:03
  Speaker 2: Okay, I do love that. I need a treat at
• 1:22:06
  Speaker 2: the end of the day. It's a reward. It is
• 1:22:09
  Speaker 2: a reward, something you can always count on. What are you?
• 1:22:12
  Speaker 3: I don't know though. Yeah, it's a little treat.
• 1:22:16
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it doesn't have to be an extravagant thing. It
• 1:22:18
  Speaker 2: could be a life saver.
• 1:22:19
  Speaker 3: Yeah, that would be sad. That would be sad.
• 1:22:23
  Speaker 2: Yeah, but the last thing you have before bed, you
• 1:22:25
  Speaker 2: have a single life saver. No, that's a tough thing
• 1:22:28
  Speaker 2: to think about.
• 1:22:28
  Speaker 3: It'd be hard for me to have the self control.
• 1:22:31
  Speaker 3: I would have to do what you do.
• 1:22:32
  Speaker 2: Yes, this is something I had to learn because there
• 1:22:34
  Speaker 2: was no self control whatsoever. But I'm having my milk,
• 1:22:38
  Speaker 2: I'm having my cookie. Everyone's going crazy about protein these days.
• 1:22:41
  Speaker 2: I get a little protein.
• 1:22:42
  Speaker 3: At the milky.
• 1:22:44
  Speaker 2: Look, I'm with the dairy council. Sue me, you guys.
• 1:22:48
  Speaker 3: Milk is like ten grams of protein.
• 1:22:50
  Speaker 2: This now feels like sponsored content, and unfortunately it's not
• 1:22:56
  Speaker 2: like something we even get something free from. And they're
• 1:22:58
  Speaker 2: not going to send us a gallon. That's not something
• 1:23:01
  Speaker 2: I want on my porch. Maybe a subscription to a milkman.
• 1:23:05
  Speaker 2: Imagine I having a milkman deliver a bottle of milk
• 1:23:08
  Speaker 2: every moment, old fashion with that. That's very meat for man,
• 1:23:12
  Speaker 2: that is very meat. And oh yeah, I'm sure that exists.
• 1:23:16
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm sure it does too. Like Oberweiss, I feel
• 1:23:18
  Speaker 3: like probably does it interesting? Sorry, dropped a milk name, Oberwiss, Oberwise.
• 1:23:26
  Speaker 2: That sounds fancy. Yeah, you can buy it is out
• 1:23:30
  Speaker 2: of a glass bottle. Nothing better, nothing better. Well, unfortunately,
• 1:23:35
  Speaker 2: and we've come together in a lot of things in
• 1:23:37
  Speaker 2: the last few moments where you did lose the game.
• 1:23:39
  Speaker 3: I did lose Maria one.
• 1:23:41
  Speaker 2: She got one out of three, which is bad. So
• 1:23:44
  Speaker 2: you lost to a looser. Merry Christmas, Okay, we uh,
• 1:23:51
  Speaker 2: we should answer at least one listener question. The unfortunate
• 1:23:55
  Speaker 2: thing about this podcast is people write into I said
• 1:23:56
  Speaker 2: no gives at Gmail dot coffee Calm, and they often
• 1:23:59
  Speaker 2: have Christmas questions. But they often come in after we've
• 1:24:01
  Speaker 2: recorded for the holidays, so then they don't get their answers,
• 1:24:05
  Speaker 2: so we should answer at least one Christmas question. Let's
• 1:24:08
  Speaker 2: see here bu bu buh.
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  Speaker 3: Hm.
• 1:24:12
  Speaker 2: And then I open it and I'm immediately like, what,
• 1:24:14
  Speaker 2: who cares? Let's see here? Bup up up? I thought
• 1:24:19
  Speaker 2: I had the holiday ones. Oh, here we go, let's see. Okay,
• 1:24:23
  Speaker 2: hello Bridger and guest. So unfortunately doesn't. It's just one
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  Speaker 2: of you.
• 1:24:28
  Speaker 3: You should probably both feel free to speak, and says
• 1:24:31
  Speaker 3: as the holidays what sorry, excuse me, we were trying
• 1:24:37
  Speaker 3: to decide who was guest.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, I'll throw a knife between the two of you
• 1:24:41
  Speaker 2: and let you figure it out. As the holidays grow nearer,
• 1:24:45
  Speaker 2: I realize we are in a bind. My family buys
• 1:24:47
  Speaker 2: alcohol as the default gift for everyone. To me, this
• 1:24:50
  Speaker 2: is not an issue at all and is actually a
• 1:24:52
  Speaker 2: welcome gift. However, my husband is newly in recovery. He
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  Speaker 2: does not want to draw attention to this fact, but
• 1:24:58
  Speaker 2: also does not want to get a bottle each for
• 1:24:59
  Speaker 2: my parents, brother, and sister to tempt him. How do
• 1:25:02
  Speaker 2: we mention this to my family that we would greatly
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  Speaker 2: appreciate if they stray from their tradition of easy gifts
• 1:25:08
  Speaker 2: of whiskey and get a non alcoholic gift. Thank you
• 1:25:12
  Speaker 2: so much. That's from Emily. So this is a this
• 1:25:14
  Speaker 2: is an actual question, which is surprised Emily. I think
• 1:25:19
  Speaker 2: you just tell them, but I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: The family.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, family, troubled group of people. They're all drunk all
• 1:25:32
  Speaker 2: the time.
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  Speaker 3: Congratulations to your husband.
• 1:25:34
  Speaker 2: Yeah, marrying into this horrible group of people. Yes, they're
• 1:25:39
  Speaker 2: all like it's set off by the smallest things change
• 1:25:42
  Speaker 2: and yeah, they're horrible with change. They just want whiskey
• 1:25:47
  Speaker 2: and to keep living the lives that are already living.
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  Speaker 3: So how do we get them? I think I know. Well,
• 1:25:54
  Speaker 3: first I would be like Emily, go to therapy, Go
• 1:25:58
  Speaker 3: to therapy, learn about how to set the boundaries. No, no, no, no,
• 1:26:03
  Speaker 3: you're right, you're right.
• 1:26:06
  Speaker 2: It's her fault. Everything here is Emily's fault. She brought
• 1:26:10
  Speaker 2: this husband in who she's tiptoeing around his feelings, she's
• 1:26:14
  Speaker 2: tip tiptoeing around her drunk family's feelings, and she's writing
• 1:26:17
  Speaker 2: into podcasts. What what are we supposed to do with
• 1:26:24
  Speaker 2: this person?
• 1:26:24
  Speaker 3: Okay, I have got so I have I do like
• 1:26:28
  Speaker 3: to drink, but also when I I do like also
• 1:26:31
  Speaker 3: a lot of also do. I'm going to keep saying.
• 1:26:33
  Speaker 2: Also, that's your last also, and then you'll be asking.
• 1:26:38
  Speaker 3: Non alcoholic drinks. Okay, I actually do really like there's
• 1:26:44
  Speaker 3: a whole new industry and I feel like, Emily, you
• 1:26:47
  Speaker 3: should just pick the non alcoholic drinks that you think
• 1:26:51
  Speaker 3: your husband will like and send them to you, like
• 1:26:54
  Speaker 3: make the gift shopping easy. Already have it picked out,
• 1:26:56
  Speaker 3: because if you send, if you tell drinkers or this
• 1:27:01
  Speaker 3: family of gift givers that like, go buy now an alcoholic,
• 1:27:05
  Speaker 3: I could I could hear them being like where would
• 1:27:07
  Speaker 3: I get that?
• 1:27:08
  Speaker 2: Right?
• 1:27:08
  Speaker 3: You know, like right, they're already so mad. They're already
• 1:27:12
  Speaker 3: so mad, mad and lazy. They're mad and lazy. They
• 1:27:14
  Speaker 3: don't want to do that research. Where am I going
• 1:27:16
  Speaker 3: to get that non alcoholic? Is it in the same aisle?
• 1:27:19
  Speaker 2: You know?
• 1:27:19
  Speaker 3: Like you can just hear them like, oh, look at him.
• 1:27:22
  Speaker 3: I guess he doesn't he doesn't want jim p so true.
• 1:27:31
  Speaker 5: Souls like I feel like I feel like I wonder
• 1:27:34
  Speaker 5: if like she said that, she said that she didn't
• 1:27:36
  Speaker 5: want to draw attention to Is that right?
• 1:27:38
  Speaker 2: It?
• 1:27:38
  Speaker 3: Why?
• 1:27:38
  Speaker 2: Let's see, he doesn't want to draw attention to the fact.
• 1:27:41
  Speaker 2: But then you have to have to Well again, it's communication,
• 1:27:44
  Speaker 2: which this family is fails at you every year. But
• 1:27:48
  Speaker 2: I think maybe, well, unfortunately, it's an unsolvable problem. There's
• 1:27:55
  Speaker 2: no way this can be solved outside of Emily maybe
• 1:27:58
  Speaker 2: buying a box of like a right and wrapping it
• 1:28:01
  Speaker 2: up and avoiding the family this year Sprite twelve cans
• 1:28:06
  Speaker 2: of Sprite, Sprite zero, Sprite Cranberry Sprite Ginger regular regular.
• 1:28:14
  Speaker 3: If that's I think that's dangerous.
• 1:28:20
  Speaker 2: Well, I think that Unfortunately, we've determined Emily has an
• 1:28:23
  Speaker 2: unsolvable issue.
• 1:28:26
  Speaker 3: Shame to hear that.
• 1:28:27
  Speaker 2: But not everyone can have a good holiday, that's the thing.
• 1:28:31
  Speaker 3: Yeah, we'd never promised to solve No, no, no, we're
• 1:28:33
  Speaker 3: just here to We kind of just listen.
• 1:28:35
  Speaker 2: Right, And there's so many of us. If everyone had
• 1:28:38
  Speaker 2: a good holiday, I don't know if the energy would
• 1:28:40
  Speaker 2: be too much.
• 1:28:41
  Speaker 3: No, it would be too much.
• 1:28:42
  Speaker 2: At least one person should have a horrible family and
• 1:28:44
  Speaker 2: a husband.
• 1:28:44
  Speaker 3: That's mad at them, beautifully said.
• 1:28:47
  Speaker 2: We answered that perfectly. And now I've got my forks,
• 1:28:52
  Speaker 2: I've got my meat recipes. I've just spent two hours
• 1:28:56
  Speaker 2: of my two best friends. I did bring you.
• 1:28:59
  Speaker 3: Each of this is kind of rare.
• 1:29:02
  Speaker 2: I thought about each of your personalities. You'll know as
• 1:29:04
  Speaker 2: soon as you open these, and okay, this is for you.
• 1:29:08
  Speaker 2: They're beautifully wrap Trader Joe's bags and.
• 1:29:13
  Speaker 3: The holiday themed bags, Holiday themed bags.
• 1:29:16
  Speaker 2: This is very nice. Feel free to open them here
• 1:29:19
  Speaker 2: on the podcast.
• 1:29:19
  Speaker 3: Okay, would here God of War?
• 1:29:27
  Speaker 2: You got a copy of God of War three for
• 1:29:29
  Speaker 2: the PlayStation three.
• 1:29:31
  Speaker 3: I knew you would love this. I saw that.
• 1:29:35
  Speaker 2: I saw them at the store. I was at the
• 1:29:37
  Speaker 2: store sweating, panicking. I had looked at so many things.
• 1:29:40
  Speaker 2: I thought, that looks kind of like to you and that,
• 1:29:41
  Speaker 2: and then I saw this. I thought, she needs got four.
• 1:29:44
  Speaker 3: Yes, because I've done this make up look recently. Yes,
• 1:29:48
  Speaker 3: you had a big red stripe across the red stripe
• 1:29:50
  Speaker 3: across my face. In the end, there will only be chaos.
• 1:29:53
  Speaker 2: That's kind of that actually makes sense for you. That
• 1:29:56
  Speaker 2: makes sense for you, and so play it in good spirit.
• 1:30:00
  Speaker 2: That's something you can gather the family or the TV
• 1:30:02
  Speaker 2: around the family, or the family around the TV and
• 1:30:05
  Speaker 2: fire it up and just get into God of War three.
• 1:30:08
  Speaker 5: Wow.
• 1:30:08
  Speaker 3: Thank you so much.
• 1:30:09
  Speaker 2: Of course, of course, and Maria, let's see what you've
• 1:30:12
  Speaker 2: got Oh, the receipt is still in it that Oh,
• 1:30:15
  Speaker 2: there's still a receipt. That's probably a Trader Joe's receipt.
• 1:30:18
  Speaker 2: The Wire season I thought, why not? Everyone loves the Wire.
• 1:30:25
  Speaker 2: Physical media is on its way back.
• 1:30:26
  Speaker 3: It is on its way back.
• 1:30:27
  Speaker 2: Classic TV show.
• 1:30:31
  Speaker 3: Season one, season one. There are I don't remember what
• 1:30:36
  Speaker 3: happens in this season.
• 1:30:37
  Speaker 2: There's a lot of drama, yes, perfect of drugs. Yeah,
• 1:30:40
  Speaker 2: this is of course, this is a Christmas Day binge.
• 1:30:43
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's and The Wire season one. That's it's not
• 1:30:49
  Speaker 3: for this. This is from Trader Joe's and I'm going
• 1:30:53
  Speaker 3: to it's a granola. This is now part of my
• 1:30:56
  Speaker 3: guest should be framed. You got it? Says a granola
• 1:31:01
  Speaker 3: protein peanut bee. Oh, I love that. Have you had
• 1:31:03
  Speaker 3: a protein pumpkin? Whole org pumpkin? Oh that was for
• 1:31:07
  Speaker 3: our dog's diarrhea.
• 1:31:10
  Speaker 2: That's you know, you're buying pumpkin your when your dog
• 1:31:13
  Speaker 2: has this is a holiday trick when your dog, when
• 1:31:16
  Speaker 2: Bonnie has You have a Dobby and Bonnie as well.
• 1:31:18
  Speaker 2: We just learned this. We both have a Bonnie.
• 1:31:20
  Speaker 3: Oh that's really special.
• 1:31:22
  Speaker 2: But when your own personal Bonnie has diarrhea and you
• 1:31:25
  Speaker 2: give them a couple of scoops of pumpkin for a
• 1:31:26
  Speaker 2: few days and then it clears it enough. Bonnie recently
• 1:31:29
  Speaker 2: had the worst diarrhea I've ever seen.
• 1:31:34
  Speaker 3: We had lunch recently, and you opened our lunch that way.
• 1:31:36
  Speaker 2: Yes, I said, before you take a bite, Well, you
• 1:31:39
  Speaker 2: take a bite. Let me tell you something. I've got pictures.
• 1:31:45
  Speaker 3: But you both have these.
• 1:31:46
  Speaker 2: Gorgeous gifts, and you can't thank me enough, obviously, so
• 1:31:53
  Speaker 2: and I can't thank you enough, obviously. Yes, I'm excited
• 1:31:56
  Speaker 2: for you, you both to go on those journeys, and
• 1:31:59
  Speaker 2: I am so through the and you also, let's not
• 1:32:01
  Speaker 2: forget I gave you both forks.
• 1:32:03
  Speaker 3: Yes, yes, yes, thank you.
• 1:32:06
  Speaker 2: I have forks, I have meets for men. I've had
• 1:32:08
  Speaker 2: such a lovely time with you too here lovely happy holidays,
• 1:32:12
  Speaker 2: happy uh. Older Driver's Awareness Week that's at the beginning
• 1:32:17
  Speaker 2: of December.
• 1:32:18
  Speaker 3: That will be okay.
• 1:32:19
  Speaker 2: You have a year to prepare for older drivers safety.
• 1:32:21
  Speaker 2: We've passed.
• 1:32:23
  Speaker 3: I didn't, I didn't do anything.
• 1:32:24
  Speaker 2: It's been busy this year. It's been a hectic year.
• 1:32:26
  Speaker 3: Right, any of the older drivers, I know, I know
• 1:32:28
  Speaker 3: they're probably all dead now.
• 1:32:31
  Speaker 2: Oh I hate to hear it, but find some more
• 1:32:33
  Speaker 2: older drivers and make sure they're safe.
• 1:32:36
  Speaker 3: Yeah, okay of December six, is it? If that's what
• 1:32:40
  Speaker 3: it is.
• 1:32:41
  Speaker 2: Yes, it's really a thing Older Drivers Safety Awareness Week. Yes,
• 1:32:44
  Speaker 2: it's of course it's a real thing. What are you
• 1:32:46
  Speaker 2: talking about? You probably you must not have gone to
• 1:32:48
  Speaker 2: church growing up. I definitely, well if I don't know
• 1:32:53
  Speaker 2: what church you are going to, but you know, not Christian.
• 1:33:02
  Speaker 2: But thank you both for being here. I think we
• 1:33:03
  Speaker 2: should have some more snow. Listener, I'm yelling over the snow.
• 1:33:09
  Speaker 3: The podcast is over.
• 1:33:11
  Speaker 2: Happy holidays, God bless bless us, Merry gentlemen.
• 1:33:15
  Speaker 3: What is it?
• 1:33:15
  Speaker 2: God bless us everyone. He's just he's manipulative.
• 1:33:23
  Speaker 3: He could walk. I'm sorry.
• 1:33:30
  Speaker 2: They were manipulating that wonderful Scrooge, very rich. Yeah, all
• 1:33:36
  Speaker 2: Scrooge wanted to do was be left alone in some
• 1:33:38
  Speaker 2: of his families. They can feel bad about trying to
• 1:33:40
  Speaker 2: run a small business. Disgusting. All right, I love all
• 1:33:45
  Speaker 2: of you. Goodbye, I said. No Gifts is an exactly
• 1:33:54
  Speaker 2: right production. Our senior producer is on Alis Nelson, and
• 1:33:58
  Speaker 2: our episodes are beautifully mixed by Ben Toliday. The theme
• 1:34:02
  Speaker 2: song is by miracle Worker Amy Mann, and we couldn't
• 1:34:05
  Speaker 2: do it without our booker, Patrick Cottner. You must follow
• 1:34:09
  Speaker 2: the show on Instagram. At I said, no gifts, that's
• 1:34:11
  Speaker 2: where you're going to see pictures of all these wonderful
• 1:34:13
  Speaker 2: gifts I'm getting. And don't you want to see the gifts?
• 1:34:17
  Speaker 1: Lie?
• 1:34:18
  Speaker 3: Why did you hear?
• 1:34:21
  Speaker 1: Gonta made myself perfectly clear, But you're a guest to me.
• 1:34:29
  Speaker 3: You gotta come to me empty, And.
• 1:34:34
  Speaker 1: I said, no guests, you're O presences presence and I
• 1:34:40
  Speaker 1: already had too much stuff, So how do you dare
• 1:34:45
  Speaker 1: to survey me