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A Fond Memory: Michael Urie Disobeys Bridger · I Said No Gifts! A comedy interview podcast with Bridger Winegar

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  Speaker 1: And I invited you here. Gonta made myself perfectly clear.
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  Speaker 1: When you're a guest to my home, you gotta come
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  Speaker 1: to me empty. And I said, no, guests, your presences
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  Speaker 1: presents enough. I already had too much stuff, So how
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  Speaker 1: do you dare to surbey me?
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  Speaker 2: Hello?
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  Speaker 3: It's Bridger, host of this podcast. This week's episode is
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  Speaker 3: a mild rerun with our dear friend Michael Yury, who
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  Speaker 3: everyone adores. And you can listen to that in just
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  Speaker 3: a moment. But I want to remind you I said
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  Speaker 3: no gifts. The podcast you're currently listening to is coming
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  Speaker 3: to Chicago May twenty third, the Den Theater, seven thirty pm.
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  Speaker 3: We have incredible guests. We've got Brendan Scanell, Claire Ruddy,
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  Speaker 3: Ange Kim, some surprises. It's going to be delightful. Go
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  Speaker 3: I don't care what you do. Just get a ticket. Chicago,
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  Speaker 3: come on, surrounding area, come on, come to the show.
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  Speaker 3: We're going to have a terrific time. Okay, now here
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  Speaker 3: is the episode. Enjoy. Welcome to I said no gifts.
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  Speaker 3: I'm Bridger Wineger. We're in the backyard I'm here to
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  Speaker 3: protect you. You're safe. Now. The mysterious clicking in my
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  Speaker 3: car ended up being a dry leaf that was kind
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  Speaker 3: of trapped under the windshield wiper, so that was actually
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  Speaker 3: kind of cute. It was obviously not going to get
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  Speaker 3: the car looked at, so that solved itself. Let's get
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  Speaker 3: into the podcast. I adore today's guest. It's Michael Uri. Michael, Hello,
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  Speaker 3: welcome guys. What a pleasure, What an absolute pleasure.
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  Speaker 2: What about the mystery sounds in a car? Oh, very strange.
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  Speaker 3: It was at least two weeks of clicking. Oh, and
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  Speaker 3: I just wasn't going to look into.
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  Speaker 2: It, and it was a leaf all the time, it.
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  Speaker 3: Kind of holding on and clicking, clicking, clicking.
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  Speaker 2: Gosh, you must have survived a couple of rains.
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  Speaker 3: Oh yeah, it was like a It was very brittle
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  Speaker 3: by the time I got to it. Wow. But it's
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  Speaker 3: a story of survival.
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  Speaker 2: Ultimately, probably dried out and then got wet again and
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  Speaker 2: then tried out.
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  Speaker 3: Kept thinking of it was going to have a second
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  Speaker 3: chance to escape, and now it's gone. It's a very
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  Speaker 3: holl story. Ultimately.
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  Speaker 2: I've got currently a hangar on one of the hooks
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  Speaker 2: in the back of my car. Oh No, it took
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  Speaker 2: a while for me to remember that it was a hanger.
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  Speaker 2: I kept thinking somebody was I kept thinking somebody was
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  Speaker 2: throwing things at me, Like it sounds like something's falling
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  Speaker 2: on the roof of the car, but it's actually just
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  Speaker 2: a hanger banging the inside.
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  Speaker 3: For you to go there first, to think that someone's
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  Speaker 3: just antagonizing you over, I know, I know, is it
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  Speaker 3: plastic or wire or would.
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  Speaker 2: Be would it's I think that it's gosh, I don't
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  Speaker 2: even know. I haven't even looked back really. Once I
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  Speaker 2: realized what it was, I just but it's still there.
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  Speaker 2: I think it's plastic. It was for a Blazer, So
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  Speaker 2: I'm guessing one of those big plastic.
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  Speaker 3: Right heavy, yeah, because there are the thin plastic that
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  Speaker 3: I almost constantly snap taking them out of things, And.
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  Speaker 2: I get so angry when one of those things snapped.
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  Speaker 2: When you like pull a sweater off and it's snacks awful.
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  Speaker 2: Nothing makes me more angry.
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  Speaker 3: Although that snapping, if you did it on purpose, would
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  Speaker 3: be so satisfying, but it's always just disheartening. Like now
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  Speaker 3: I've got like this thing that kind of still works,
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  Speaker 3: but it'll fit weird into the garbage can, and it's
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  Speaker 3: going to pile up in.
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  Speaker 2: There, absolutely, And I don't need another hook. I've got
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  Speaker 2: plenty of hooks, so the top part is all of us.
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  Speaker 2: I've got nothing, but I'm lousy with hooks.
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  Speaker 3: Now, you told me you almost ran over my neighbor's
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  Speaker 3: dogs on the way own. Yes, I did the same.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, And I can't. I can't pass a loose dog
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  Speaker 2: and not stop and check on them. So I got
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  Speaker 2: out and I talked to the dogs for a while.
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  Speaker 2: I knocked on a few doors and I was about
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  Speaker 2: to call the number when another neighbor of yours said
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  Speaker 2: not to bother because she's called the police. Oh boy,
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  Speaker 2: and animal control, I guess, and told that, And they
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  Speaker 2: don't care.
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  Speaker 3: The owners don't care, and animal control doesn't care.
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  Speaker 2: And animals from control, I guess, doesn't. I mean the
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  Speaker 2: dogs have collars and and.
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  Speaker 3: I think one of them is kind of a tidy
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  Speaker 3: little vest.
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  Speaker 2: One even has a costume. But they won't they will not.
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  Speaker 2: And then and then it seems like there's a school
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  Speaker 2: right by. There's a school, so I heard kids, and
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  Speaker 2: then I and then there was another yard where there
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  Speaker 2: were dogs inclosed and I thought are those your brothers
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  Speaker 2: and sisters? But the dogs wouldn't say anything. They just
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  Speaker 2: barked at me. They were very they were they kept
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  Speaker 2: barking it.
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  Speaker 3: They're kind of snappy little dogs.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, not nice.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, street ultimately will be street dogs probably, but these
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  Speaker 3: neighbors just are out of control.
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  Speaker 2: I guess they must still be feeding them.
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  Speaker 3: They're still feeding and dressing them, but that's as far
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  Speaker 3: as they'll go. They're not going to take care of
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  Speaker 3: them in any other way.
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  Speaker 2: One of them's very wiry hair and personality. It's very
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  Speaker 2: wiry hair, and the others quite cute.
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  Speaker 3: Very cute little creature, but so snappy. And then right
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  Speaker 3: across the street we have similar dogs that make Jim
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  Speaker 3: furious because he doesn't want them out and about, and
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  Speaker 3: the neighbors will do nothing about an animal control will
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  Speaker 3: do nothing. I don't know what step you have to
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  Speaker 3: get to for animal control to step in. Does the
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  Speaker 3: animal have to bite you?
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  Speaker 2: Probably yeah, or be without a collar.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, so I could use myself as bait kind of
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  Speaker 3: just go out there and get I'm.
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  Speaker 2: Sure you could get bitten by one of the that
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  Speaker 2: wiry one would bite you, for sure. We have cats,
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  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I guess that's good.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, I've I read a big thing recently about
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  Speaker 3: cats in LA. Apparently we're just gonna have billions of
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  Speaker 3: cats forever. Really, it's they breed too quickly to take
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  Speaker 3: care of the issue.
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  Speaker 2: Well, they're they're probably keeping the coyotes at the top
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  Speaker 2: of the food chain.
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  Speaker 3: Oh my god, that's devastating to hear. That's tough to hear.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, if it's a stray cat that gets picked
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  Speaker 2: off by a coyote, I think that's better than like
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  Speaker 2: a housed cat or or.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, this is a classist thing. This is a real
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  Speaker 3: we're dealing with some class warfare here.
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  Speaker 2: And I have a twenty My partner and I have
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  Speaker 2: a twenty year old cat, twenty, he's twenty. What's his name, Dawson.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, I'm not familiar with this cat.
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  Speaker 2: Dawson was Ryan's cat before I came into the picture,
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  Speaker 2: and probably named for Dawson's.
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  Speaker 3: Creek, I would help twenty two thousand and three.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, and was named you know, was named Dawson
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  Speaker 2: when Ryan got him.
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  Speaker 3: Oh.
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  Speaker 2: Interesting, we kept the name, so Ryan did not name
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  Speaker 2: HI Dawson. But we realized a few years ago that
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  Speaker 2: He's not Dawson's Creek. He's Jack Dawson of the Chippewa
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  Speaker 2: Falls Dawsons, who from that from Titanic? Is that knew?
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  Speaker 3: The last time I saw Titanic was in a movie
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  Speaker 3: was in the car Mic twelve in West Shordan, Utah,
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  Speaker 3: nineteen ninety seven. So dot com for me. Oh wow,
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  Speaker 3: so that's an even deeper.
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  Speaker 2: That's what we think. Yeah, we love Titanic, Ryan, I love.
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  Speaker 2: In fact, we've gone to see remasters in the theater. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: oh yeah, we love that.
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  Speaker 3: I feel like I would respond really emotionally to that movie.
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  Speaker 2: Oh it's great?
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  Speaker 3: Is it hold up?
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  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, it's terrific. It's so Great's majestical? Majestically majestical
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  Speaker 2: is the word. We're not stopping to question. Majestical. If
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  Speaker 2: it's majestical, does that mean it's just testing.
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  Speaker 3: Majestical sounds like a medical term. That sounds like a
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  Speaker 3: severe problem.
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  Speaker 2: I sprained my majestical. I was just a pta. It was.
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  Speaker 2: I'm doing all these exercises. I don't know if it's
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  Speaker 2: ever going to get better, but uh, it's it's The
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  Speaker 2: movie is is huge, still huge and sprawling in the effects.
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  Speaker 2: Hold up, this is the thing that you did special effect?
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  Speaker 3: Oh my god, I'm of course.
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  Speaker 2: Is that so many don't hold up?
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  Speaker 3: I mean some don't hold up, like a week later,
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  Speaker 3: I know, I mean, what's that the TV show we
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  Speaker 3: just didn't watch True Detective. Oh, it starts with a
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  Speaker 3: like a herd of cartoon reindeer. It looks so I know,
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  Speaker 3: I know you can't and you can't.
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  Speaker 2: It's it's wild. And then and then like the reactions
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  Speaker 2: to the special effects, I think is the other thing
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  Speaker 2: is like the acting around the special effects, Like you
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  Speaker 2: can tell if they're just acting with tennis balls or
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  Speaker 2: if like something like I mean, I always use Jurassic Park,
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  Speaker 2: the original Jurassic Park as the example. Like that's nineteen
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  Speaker 2: ninety three. You watch that movie and you don't know,
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  Speaker 2: you can't really tell what's computer and what's puppet. Largely puppet.
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  Speaker 2: There is a lot of puppet, but there's also quite
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  Speaker 2: a bit of CGI and those hold up and they
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  Speaker 2: really hold up. Yeah, I'd say even better than like
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  Speaker 2: subsequent Jurassic films.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, some of those later Jurassic ones. I mean it's
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  Speaker 3: full cart.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, not just the Titanic. There's a few places in
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  Speaker 2: Titanic where you're like, that's not a person falling from
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  Speaker 2: the ship.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, I remember that moment. Yeah, the person that hits
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  Speaker 3: the Yeah, we love him. That's an iconic person in that.
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  Speaker 2: It's a few little things where you're like, I don't
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  Speaker 2: really buy that. But so much of it is really
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  Speaker 2: really good. But it's also practical. I think that's the
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  Speaker 2: thing about Like, so much of what makes a special
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  Speaker 2: effect work is the practical effect mixed with the CGI.
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  Speaker 3: Of course, I want to know that something real happened. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: Like like I respond better to like even I know
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  Speaker 3: it's a special effect, but I know it happened kind
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  Speaker 3: of in reality, something happened.
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  Speaker 2: It's not just like people in an entirely green room
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  Speaker 2: with green things everywhere, acting with green scene partners. Something
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  Speaker 2: has to be real.
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  Speaker 3: Right, And the thing I have seen from that movie
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  Speaker 3: multiple times since its releases the old lady dropping the
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  Speaker 3: thing in the ocean.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, the heart of the ocean. Yeah is that.
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  Speaker 3: The Is that the actual end of the movie. I
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  Speaker 3: don't remember from my original viewing of it. Do you
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  Speaker 3: want me to tell you? Yes? I do?
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  Speaker 2: After she drops it, So the whole movie, they're like,
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  Speaker 2: where is this diamond? Where's this big blue diamond? Turns
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  Speaker 2: out she's had it all along, okay, and now that
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  Speaker 2: she's told the stories, she can release Jack Dawson from
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  Speaker 2: her heart and release the heart of the ocean into
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  Speaker 2: the ocean for his.
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  Speaker 3: Five Okay, because I feel like when I watch it
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  Speaker 3: on YouTube, it says like cut scene or delete a
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  Speaker 3: scene him like what they originally filmed this and didn't
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  Speaker 3: put in the movie? That makes that actually makes more
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  Speaker 3: sense to me.
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  Speaker 2: But no, it's in there. It's so definitely in there.
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  Speaker 3: I wonder if there's some other part of what I'm
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  Speaker 3: watching that's been deleted.
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  Speaker 2: Oh maybe, Well there is like a whole I think
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  Speaker 2: there was a whole deleted thing of this, the people
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  Speaker 2: on the submarine looking at the time. I think there
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  Speaker 2: was a lot more to that. Oh, in the original
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  Speaker 2: the six hour cut, right, the three hour cut.
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  Speaker 3: That's very James Cameron of being in a submarine.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, yeah, he loves the submarine.
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  Speaker 3: He loves to get in one gets below the ocean.
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  Speaker 2: I think the final final moment of Titanic and those
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  Speaker 2: if you haven't seen it, please plug your ears. I
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  Speaker 2: think you go into a fantasy sequence where she's back
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  Speaker 2: on the ship, young beautiful Kate winslet and everyone's alive again,
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  Speaker 2: and she gets to experience is that right, Analise, Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: that's right, Aalise is nodding.
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  Speaker 3: What does she get to experience getting to port?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, they make it, they make it.
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  Speaker 3: We just watched her kind of getting off the ship
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  Speaker 3: with her suitcase.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, they make it and then they live
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  Speaker 2: happily ever after. Something something like that. I can't really
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  Speaker 2: I can't really remember, but it's something kind.
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  Speaker 3: Of liss nodding their head. Interesting, Okay, okay, good, I've
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  Speaker 3: got to I've got to get back to it. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: do you know what I was also wonder what?
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  Speaker 2: Sorry, sorry, please.
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  Speaker 3: Don't actually do apologize. I appreciate the apologize.
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  Speaker 2: I'm sorry to interrupt, but I just remembered, like, we
• 11:49
  Speaker 2: have this little house here, right right, And I got
• 11:51
  Speaker 2: this little house here, and we have and we spent
• 11:54
  Speaker 2: a week or two over the summer getting it ready
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  Speaker 2: to airbnb before we would move here now. And one
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  Speaker 2: of the things that we put in the house we
• 12:01
  Speaker 2: get some books to put in the house about some
• 12:03
  Speaker 2: books that like books, yeah, you know, like To Kill
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  Speaker 2: a Mockingbird and there's game, you know, traditional books that
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  Speaker 2: you find it is Selation. But we also got the
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  Speaker 2: double VHS of Titanic.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, that's a great air it's on the sholf. Is
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  Speaker 3: there a VHS play, No, that's called a VC That's
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  Speaker 3: really sad for me to call it a VHS play.
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  Speaker 2: There's no way I'm in the market for one of those.
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  Speaker 2: Little I had this when I was first moved to
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  Speaker 2: New York, this little TV. It's a tiny TV that
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  Speaker 2: has a built in piece combo. That's so if I
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  Speaker 2: find one, I'm getting it and I'm putting it somewhere
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  Speaker 2: in the house.
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  Speaker 3: A great Airbnb thing so that you.
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  Speaker 2: Can come to our house and watch nothing.
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  Speaker 3: But we do it.
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  Speaker 2: We also have a TV. But but you can't play
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  Speaker 2: the tape that was Titanic.
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  Speaker 3: Just two VHS tapes.
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  Speaker 2: Or four, No, just the two, just the two, or
• 12:53
  Speaker 2: it would be a lot that would be like yeah, no,
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  Speaker 2: I don't know. That would be like north by Northwest No, no, no, no, no, no,
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  Speaker 2: that's what i mean, North in South, North and South.
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  Speaker 2: I feel like that's a mini series. Things are I
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  Speaker 2: don't know, I don't know read the recesses of my brain.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not sure, but it's only two and I think
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  Speaker 2: that the I think the iceberg is when you switch tape.
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  Speaker 3: Oh oh, that's a perfect cut. I think that's yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Or you can stop watching right there and just assume
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  Speaker 3: something else happened.
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  Speaker 2: Oh that's true.
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  Speaker 3: Just kind of create your own little fantasm.
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  Speaker 2: Oh you could finish it, or just think that's the
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  Speaker 2: end and be very confused. So sweet. They made love
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  Speaker 2: in a car.
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  Speaker 3: So that's why everyone talked about the Titan.
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  Speaker 2: That's history.
• 13:35
  Speaker 3: Do you know I was wondering about recently? I heard Oops,
• 13:39
  Speaker 3: I did it again Britney Spears song recently, and I
• 13:41
  Speaker 3: was like, remember the part where it breaks down and
• 13:43
  Speaker 3: it's a very dated thing that happens where she's like
• 13:45
  Speaker 3: talking to a guy about the jeweled getting dropped in
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  Speaker 3: the ocean. Do you remember this? There's like a she
• 13:51
  Speaker 3: talks to a guy and she's like, thank you for this.
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  Speaker 3: Didn't the old lady drop it in the ocean? Oh? Yes, right, right,
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  Speaker 3: right right. I want to know who the guy was,
• 13:58
  Speaker 3: who was that actor? Who was the He could be
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  Speaker 3: dead by now? No one knows who that I named. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: we should guess who could have possibly been.
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  Speaker 2: That's like nineteen. That's like two thousand.
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  Speaker 3: Second album two thousand least. Yeah, nine eleven.
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  Speaker 2: Eleven, So who was famous pre nine eleven? We're gonna
• 14:20
  Speaker 2: go with like a I'm gonna say it's going to
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  Speaker 2: be like Scott Wolfe.
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  Speaker 1: Or like.
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  Speaker 2: Uh Dermot mulrooney.
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  Speaker 3: Who plays uh oh, I can't even think of the
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  Speaker 3: CBS show. So no, I guess Scott wolf is. No,
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  Speaker 3: it's no post r. He was lucky for John.
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  Speaker 4: Well, you know it's you're not okay, you're far off,
• 14:46
  Speaker 4: but it actually not, and it's actually connected in a
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  Speaker 4: very funny way.
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  Speaker 3: It's a real like it's a celebrity.
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  Speaker 4: No, that's that's where you're far off. But it's going
• 14:54
  Speaker 4: to come back to medical ship in a second doctor
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  Speaker 4: his name, his name is Eli Swanson and he actually
• 15:02
  Speaker 4: was mostly a model, but then he decided to quit
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  Speaker 4: modeling and acting and he became a doctor.
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  Speaker 2: So many, so many stories like that.
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  Speaker 3: Of course he became a real estate agent, not a
• 15:16
  Speaker 3: TV doctor, but an actual now supposedly doctor. Was that
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  Speaker 3: his final role? Nail in the coffin? Wow, what's what's
• 15:27
  Speaker 3: his name? One more time?
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  Speaker 2: Eli?
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  Speaker 4: Eli Swanson?
• 15:30
  Speaker 3: Eli reached out do you think it.
• 15:33
  Speaker 2: Do you think a doctor turned I mean an actor
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  Speaker 2: turned doctor would have a good bedside manner?
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  Speaker 3: Oh, I think incredible, right, Yeah, I feel like a
• 15:42
  Speaker 3: recent Oh I went to a an urgent care recently. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: the worst bedside manner I have ever excalated. This was
• 15:49
  Speaker 3: a couple of months ago, and I had had a
• 15:51
  Speaker 3: fever for a few days and various other things. And
• 15:54
  Speaker 3: I went in and told him this, and he I
• 15:57
  Speaker 3: couldn't give like a what my temperature was, and so
• 16:00
  Speaker 3: when he was listing my symptoms, he said, you're a
• 16:03
  Speaker 3: subjective fever. It's just like I can say, I told you.
• 16:08
  Speaker 3: You can just believe me.
• 16:09
  Speaker 2: It's not that crazy you think you have a fever, sir, subjective?
• 16:17
  Speaker 2: You just keep the heat on in your house. But
• 16:19
  Speaker 2: I'm not convinced. Wow, that's not cool. I've got a
• 16:22
  Speaker 2: great LA urgent care doctor.
• 16:24
  Speaker 3: Please, Oh wait, that you can recommend.
• 16:26
  Speaker 2: Yes, I've gone two times now today, two times today.
• 16:32
  Speaker 2: I'm very I'm definitely ill. No over the actually once
• 16:35
  Speaker 2: back in April and then once recently. Because I don't
• 16:37
  Speaker 2: I live mostly in New York, but whenever i'm so,
• 16:41
  Speaker 2: I don't have a doctor here.
• 16:42
  Speaker 3: Right, I mean neither do I well, right.
• 16:45
  Speaker 2: I've only had a doctor in New York for a
• 16:47
  Speaker 2: few years. It was the thing that I, you know,
• 16:50
  Speaker 2: neglected for a long time. But I was staying near
• 16:53
  Speaker 2: this urgent care and I thought I had I got
• 16:57
  Speaker 2: I thought I got very sick. I was very I
• 16:59
  Speaker 2: was not feeling well, and I was shooting this movie
• 17:01
  Speaker 2: and I had to kiss spoiler if you're going to
• 17:04
  Speaker 2: see that. If you see it, I had to kiss
• 17:05
  Speaker 2: a I'm not going to say who. I had to
• 17:06
  Speaker 2: kiss a very famous actor.
• 17:08
  Speaker 3: Oh my god.
• 17:10
  Speaker 2: And I was like, I think I'm sick. And it
• 17:12
  Speaker 2: was several days away, and I thought, if I'm sick,
• 17:14
  Speaker 2: I need to get on antibiotics right away so that
• 17:16
  Speaker 2: I'm not contagious when I have to kiss legendary household name.
• 17:22
  Speaker 3: Oh my god.
• 17:25
  Speaker 2: I had a screaming if I have COVID or strep throat,
• 17:30
  Speaker 2: That's what I thought. I thought it was strep throat
• 17:31
  Speaker 2: because I've had strep throat many times in my life,
• 17:33
  Speaker 2: and I know the feeling, and I've in fact diagnosed
• 17:38
  Speaker 2: myself to a doctor. They said, no, you don't don't
• 17:41
  Speaker 2: take my job tested me. They said, you're subjective. Strep
• 17:45
  Speaker 2: throat and then later tested me and later it was
• 17:48
  Speaker 2: strep throw and I was right along, but this time
• 17:53
  Speaker 2: it was not strep throat. I went to this doctor
• 17:55
  Speaker 2: and he was so nice, and he gave me all
• 17:57
  Speaker 2: the drugs that I could possibly have wanted, which it's
• 18:00
  Speaker 2: all I really want. I want that, I want, I
• 18:01
  Speaker 2: want antibiotic, I want steroid, and I want like something
• 18:05
  Speaker 2: that will make me feel immediately better. And he gave
• 18:09
  Speaker 2: them harry like a heroin shot like immediately. But it
• 18:12
  Speaker 2: turned out and this is okay, Now it's gross. Are
• 18:15
  Speaker 2: you ready? This is where it gets gross. It was
• 18:17
  Speaker 2: not strep throat. Thank god. I am prone to canker
• 18:21
  Speaker 2: sores and have been my entire life connection. Oh yes,
• 18:25
  Speaker 2: I have been my entire life. If I bite myself immediately,
• 18:29
  Speaker 2: I will definitely get definitely get a cankerstorm. And sometimes
• 18:32
  Speaker 2: they just come from stress or you know whatever. I
• 18:35
  Speaker 2: had two canker sores where on my uvula, on my.
• 18:43
  Speaker 3: How did they get there?
• 18:44
  Speaker 2: I have no idea. I have no idea.
• 18:47
  Speaker 3: I didn't know that they could climb.
• 18:52
  Speaker 2: Basically, this has happened to me before, where I've had
• 18:54
  Speaker 2: canker stores in the back of my mouth and it
• 18:56
  Speaker 2: has felt like because it makes you know, it makes
• 18:58
  Speaker 2: the whole area irritated, like a sore throat situation. These
• 19:03
  Speaker 2: were on my uvula. He looked back there and he
• 19:06
  Speaker 2: was like, he's like, it's probably strapped. You're right, and
• 19:08
  Speaker 2: you're probably right. Let me just take a look. And
• 19:11
  Speaker 2: he looked and he was like, Oh, you've got canker
• 19:14
  Speaker 2: stores on your uvula. And I that's never happened to
• 19:18
  Speaker 2: me before. There were two of them.
• 19:19
  Speaker 3: Oh, I wonder how that happened. I don't know.
• 19:23
  Speaker 2: I don't know if it was like they got the
• 19:25
  Speaker 2: uvula got scratched by some you know, or something. Yeah,
• 19:30
  Speaker 2: at that time, I ate a pencil, or I had
• 19:34
  Speaker 2: my glass sandwiches. I don't know, but I suddenly like
• 19:37
  Speaker 2: like like suddenly I felt so much better. Right because
• 19:40
  Speaker 2: a canker stor because those do get better and you
• 19:42
  Speaker 2: can medicate them. You can, well, I do, yes, Actually,
• 19:46
  Speaker 2: if you get them, I have a pretty good remedy.
• 19:48
  Speaker 3: I would love to hear this, I mean share it
• 19:50
  Speaker 3: with the listener.
• 19:51
  Speaker 2: It's called canker. I think it's called canker, rid canker,
• 19:54
  Speaker 2: and it's made of b pollen. Okay, And I get
• 19:57
  Speaker 2: it online, okay, and my mother found it for me.
• 19:59
  Speaker 2: You're ago because because I always suffered from them and
• 20:02
  Speaker 2: nothing that you can get at CBS or Walgreen. It
• 20:05
  Speaker 2: really does a trick. It might numb it, but it
• 20:07
  Speaker 2: doesn't really make it better. But this stuff, it stains
• 20:13
  Speaker 2: everything it touches. It's it's black and it's a black liquid,
• 20:16
  Speaker 2: and it stains everything it touches. So it'll get if
• 20:18
  Speaker 2: you have it near your teeth, it'll get all of
• 20:20
  Speaker 2: your teeth, all your all of your fingers in your hands.
• 20:23
  Speaker 2: But it really does the trick. If you start using
• 20:25
  Speaker 2: it as soon as you get a kinker store, it
• 20:27
  Speaker 2: will not run its.
• 20:28
  Speaker 3: Course and you just kind of apply it with your finger.
• 20:31
  Speaker 2: It has it. It has a tip, so I I
• 20:33
  Speaker 2: just use the tip or I douse a Q tip
• 20:37
  Speaker 2: for the uvula was so far back there. I doused
• 20:40
  Speaker 2: a Q tip and I just like jammed it back there,
• 20:42
  Speaker 2: but immediately started feeling better.
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: Uh.
• 20:44
  Speaker 3: Of course the steroids helped, right. I think he gave
• 20:46
  Speaker 3: me storids. Then. See, this is the thing about urgent
• 20:49
  Speaker 3: care doctors. They will give you whatever they're going to
• 20:52
  Speaker 3: lead to. When there's like this super bacteria that we
• 20:55
  Speaker 3: can't destroy it will be because of urgent care doctors. Yes,
• 20:58
  Speaker 3: they will give anybody whatever drug they want. Yeah, antibiotics, sure, sure,
• 21:03
  Speaker 3: you just drive by and they'll throw it into your car.
• 21:05
  Speaker 2: Absolutely want to steroid and here it is, go far
• 21:08
  Speaker 2: whereas your real doctor, your normal doctor will be like
• 21:11
  Speaker 2: I gave you a steroids six years ago, you're not
• 21:13
  Speaker 2: getting another one.
• 21:14
  Speaker 3: Or like begging them Yeah, yeah, like I gave you.
• 21:17
  Speaker 2: A zpac once once in twenty thirteen. I can't give
• 21:20
  Speaker 2: it to you again. But you know, an urgent care
• 21:22
  Speaker 2: they don't. They don't well, I don't.
• 21:24
  Speaker 3: Think they'll ever see you again. They think you're going
• 21:25
  Speaker 3: to die at home and you're the problem for them
• 21:27
  Speaker 3: is solved.
• 21:28
  Speaker 2: Yeah, But what they don't know is they're creating like.
• 21:31
  Speaker 3: A cult mutants.
• 21:32
  Speaker 2: Yeah. And I'm going to go back to doctor this
• 21:34
  Speaker 2: doctor every time I'm sick in Los Angeles, because I
• 21:37
  Speaker 2: know he'll give me and he's really sweet. Back to
• 21:39
  Speaker 2: bedside matter.
• 21:40
  Speaker 3: He's really sweet. Yeah, he was nice. I can't believe.
• 21:43
  Speaker 3: I mean, imagine if you could have given and this
• 21:45
  Speaker 3: will get beaped strap throat, that would have been a
• 21:49
  Speaker 3: career high for you. Yeah.
• 21:51
  Speaker 2: But what if you kill him. I mean, this is
• 21:53
  Speaker 2: the other thing, like legendary, right, what if I kill
• 21:57
  Speaker 2: legendary household name with my strep throw and if he's like,
• 22:01
  Speaker 2: you know, like he's just one strip thrown away from death.
• 22:04
  Speaker 2: I also like, I work with Harrison Ford on this
• 22:07
  Speaker 2: show Shrinking.
• 22:08
  Speaker 3: You could have killed so many.
• 22:10
  Speaker 2: I don't think anything he's gonna kill Harrison Ford. But
• 22:14
  Speaker 2: he's been in has in literal plane crashes. I mean
• 22:18
  Speaker 2: I think I hear him crashing right now, crash in
• 22:20
  Speaker 2: my backyard.
• 22:21
  Speaker 3: Harrison. Welcome to the podcast. You finally answer our call.
• 22:26
  Speaker 2: But my first job, I remember my first job. I
• 22:29
  Speaker 2: think it was my first or second job during the pandemic.
• 22:32
  Speaker 2: But four things were happening when they were do jobs
• 22:35
  Speaker 2: and everybody was like in hazmat suits.
• 22:37
  Speaker 5: Very weird sets at that weird time, Yeah, really weird,
• 22:40
  Speaker 5: very like that that moment in ET when the Peter Coyote, Yes, yes, okay, continue,
• 22:48
  Speaker 5: I'm sorry.
• 22:49
  Speaker 2: Peter Coyote the first that's such a good movie.
• 22:52
  Speaker 3: Oh it's a great movie.
• 22:53
  Speaker 2: My god, Peter Coyote is the only man whose face,
• 22:59
  Speaker 2: adult man whose face you see in that whole movie.
• 23:02
  Speaker 3: Or Camp or Jone's Muppet babies or.
• 23:07
  Speaker 2: You don't see an adult man until that point.
• 23:09
  Speaker 3: Am I read that it must be that.
• 23:11
  Speaker 2: It might be that. But there is a cut scene
• 23:13
  Speaker 2: from ET with Harrison Ford as his principle. I think
• 23:18
  Speaker 2: he's the principal at Elliott's school.
• 23:21
  Speaker 3: How did they get rid of that? They cut it?
• 23:22
  Speaker 2: I think because they decided they didn't want to see
• 23:24
  Speaker 2: any people, any men, any adult men.
• 23:28
  Speaker 3: Harrison Ford didn't want to get typecast as in educate
• 23:31
  Speaker 3: right right right after of course, mister Indiana, after Doctor
• 23:35
  Speaker 3: Jones and Doctor Jones.
• 23:37
  Speaker 2: But the second job I had when we were I
• 23:40
  Speaker 2: think it was the first second job I had during
• 23:42
  Speaker 2: COVID super lockdown still you know, only outdoor restaurants things
• 23:48
  Speaker 2: like that. Was this competition reality show that I hosted
• 23:53
  Speaker 2: called Clipped. I'm sure you saw it.
• 23:56
  Speaker 3: I was watching before you got here.
• 23:58
  Speaker 2: About It was basically top for the British Bakeoff, but
• 24:01
  Speaker 2: with topiary artists.
• 24:03
  Speaker 3: Oh, I actually loved this idea. Okay, this is great.
• 24:06
  Speaker 2: And the head judge was Martha Stewart. Oh so so
• 24:11
  Speaker 2: here I am on the set with Martha Stewart during
• 24:14
  Speaker 2: but long before the vaccine and during super COVID times,
• 24:19
  Speaker 2: and I was like, what if I And I was fine,
• 24:21
  Speaker 2: I never got COVID and I was very careful. I
• 24:23
  Speaker 2: wasn't going anywhere. And I was like, what if I
• 24:26
  Speaker 2: killed Martha Stewart? What if I give Martha Stewart COVID
• 24:30
  Speaker 2: and she dies from it?
• 24:30
  Speaker 3: And she's demanding a kiss from everyone on.
• 24:32
  Speaker 2: Set because everyone, do you want to hear funny Martha Stewart?
• 24:35
  Speaker 3: Anecdotically, I mean, no, let's move on. I want nothing
• 24:39
  Speaker 3: to do with Martha Stewart.
• 24:40
  Speaker 2: She I have two I really like her.
• 24:44
  Speaker 3: I mean I got a god are you kidding?
• 24:46
  Speaker 2: And she was cool. I got a real kick out
• 24:47
  Speaker 2: of her. So so we had never met, but she
• 24:52
  Speaker 2: well we sort of met, but she would never have remembered.
• 24:54
  Speaker 2: But she had been on an episode of Ugly Betty
• 24:58
  Speaker 2: which I was on, and she filmed it. It was
• 25:01
  Speaker 2: a phone call. It was basically my so I played
• 25:05
  Speaker 2: Vanessa Williams assistant, and Vanessa Williams, her character was sort
• 25:08
  Speaker 2: of like Anna win Tour and so she knew everybody.
• 25:10
  Speaker 2: And so she was like, I need I need a recipe.
• 25:13
  Speaker 2: I'll call Martha Stewart and she calls. She just like
• 25:16
  Speaker 2: picks up the phone calls Martha Stewart and they shot
• 25:18
  Speaker 2: Martha on her now defunct talk show. They just went
• 25:22
  Speaker 2: and shot her there and she's literally on the set
• 25:24
  Speaker 2: of her talk show and she answers the phone. It's
• 25:26
  Speaker 2: so stupid, but I mean, it must have taken her
• 25:30
  Speaker 2: six minutes. So I wasn't going to bring that up
• 25:34
  Speaker 2: as something that you know, I wasn't gonna bring I
• 25:36
  Speaker 2: was I was going to make small you know, if
• 25:38
  Speaker 2: small talk came up. I wasn't going to be like,
• 25:40
  Speaker 2: remember Ugly Betty because I was sure she wouldn't.
• 25:43
  Speaker 3: To have to insist that she remembers.
• 25:45
  Speaker 2: No, you remember, oh you remember Martha. But so we're
• 25:48
  Speaker 2: sitting during some downtime and she asked me about myself
• 25:51
  Speaker 2: very kindly. She's like, so, what shows have you been on?
• 25:54
  Speaker 2: And I was like, well, I was on this show
• 25:55
  Speaker 2: Ugly Betty. And I thought, well, maybe i'll mention it now.
• 25:58
  Speaker 2: I was on this show Ugly Betty. And before where
• 26:00
  Speaker 2: I can, she goes, oh, I was on Ugly Betty.
• 26:02
  Speaker 2: I still get checks.
• 26:06
  Speaker 3: Martha is aware of her residual checks.
• 26:08
  Speaker 2: That's can you believe that?
• 26:10
  Speaker 3: That's incredible?
• 26:11
  Speaker 2: Martha? And this is like this one episode of Ugly
• 26:16
  Speaker 2: Betty is not. I mean, you're going to get some
• 26:18
  Speaker 2: residual checks, but.
• 26:19
  Speaker 3: Like at this point she's probably getting like fifty dollars
• 26:22
  Speaker 3: a year or something.
• 26:23
  Speaker 2: Maybe, yeah, like maybe, And and she knows, Wow. Can
• 26:29
  Speaker 2: you imagine how many checks Martha Stewart must get endless
• 26:33
  Speaker 2: she opens them all she knew, Wow.
• 26:35
  Speaker 3: Unless things have really dried up, she's counting on them.
• 26:40
  Speaker 2: She was shooting three shows at once during the pandemic,
• 26:42
  Speaker 2: Like I don't think you know. She was literally shooting
• 26:45
  Speaker 2: two shows at the same time while we were doing
• 26:47
  Speaker 2: this September of twenty twenty.
• 26:49
  Speaker 3: That is remarkable.
• 26:51
  Speaker 2: Crazy. And then the other one was the first day
• 26:53
  Speaker 2: of shooting. We were shooting in Terrytown, New York. Do
• 26:57
  Speaker 2: you know where that is. It's sort of like just
• 26:59
  Speaker 2: just below West chest forty five minutes outside the city. Okay, great,
• 27:03
  Speaker 2: I'm sure super charming at this big, beautiful castle we
• 27:06
  Speaker 2: were shooting, you know, on the grounds. Everything was outside,
• 27:08
  Speaker 2: you know, very covid. But after lunch on the first day,
• 27:11
  Speaker 2: I had lunch in my trailer or whatever. I said.
• 27:14
  Speaker 2: She didn't have a trailer, she had. There was like
• 27:16
  Speaker 2: a house on the property that was her trailer and
• 27:18
  Speaker 2: she had a driver, and you know, after lunch, I said,
• 27:23
  Speaker 2: what you do for lunch? And she said, oh, we
• 27:26
  Speaker 2: took a drive and we went and looked at Sing Sing,
• 27:29
  Speaker 2: which is a prison. Enough, that's right over there.
• 27:32
  Speaker 3: What an interesting thing I said, to be doing?
• 27:34
  Speaker 2: Is that? What ex cons do?
• 27:38
  Speaker 3: They go? I look, it's kind of like looking at houses,
• 27:46
  Speaker 3: you know, right, just like when.
• 27:47
  Speaker 2: You're a homeowner, right, I want to look at it.
• 27:50
  Speaker 3: Or like if you're at curiosity.
• 27:51
  Speaker 2: If you're at a bookstore and you see a book
• 27:53
  Speaker 2: you own, you pick it up for some reason.
• 27:55
  Speaker 3: You're now an enthusiast.
• 27:56
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I do that. And if I'm at a bookstore
• 27:58
  Speaker 2: and I see book I own, I think, oh, look
• 28:00
  Speaker 2: at this, I own this. It's the same book at home,
• 28:03
  Speaker 2: but I have to look at it.
• 28:04
  Speaker 3: Wow, Martha's life, I mean truly, God bless the prison,
• 28:10
  Speaker 3: every element. I'm like, this woman is incredible.
• 28:12
  Speaker 2: And now she's eighty and never been hotter.
• 28:14
  Speaker 3: Oh she looks.
• 28:17
  Speaker 2: Wine with snooped.
• 28:18
  Speaker 3: All the way she's taken control of her life post
• 28:22
  Speaker 3: prison has been just so remarkable. Yeah. Wow, to go
• 28:26
  Speaker 3: look at Sing Sing and what is that you drive
• 28:29
  Speaker 3: up to? Like a chain link fence and watch the
• 28:31
  Speaker 3: prisoners work out.
• 28:32
  Speaker 2: I guess, yeah, yeah, you're like, that's a high wall.
• 28:35
  Speaker 2: I don't know, what do you what do you?
• 28:37
  Speaker 3: What do you look at her snipers in their towers?
• 28:39
  Speaker 3: I don't know. Wow. And that's what she did for lunch,
• 28:42
  Speaker 3: That's what she did for the Martha Stewart diet.
• 28:45
  Speaker 2: Let's go for a drug.
• 28:46
  Speaker 3: You go look at prisons. Wow. Those are both incredible stories.
• 28:52
  Speaker 3: Martha Stewart stories all.
• 28:53
  Speaker 2: Day, Martha Stewart days, we're pretty pretty great.
• 28:57
  Speaker 3: Was your family of Martha Stewart family?
• 29:00
  Speaker 2: No, No, I didn't discover Martha until I mean, you know,
• 29:04
  Speaker 2: like my first real like memory of Martha was probably
• 29:07
  Speaker 2: when she was on Ugly Betty, and you know, she
• 29:10
  Speaker 2: was pretty big at that time. I can't remember when
• 29:13
  Speaker 2: she went to prison, if that was before or after,
• 29:15
  Speaker 2: but she always been famous, and you remember she after
• 29:19
  Speaker 2: her own Apprentice, of course.
• 29:22
  Speaker 3: I mean, and now, look, we got the worst possible
• 29:25
  Speaker 3: host of the Apprentice's president. What if we had gotten
• 29:27
  Speaker 3: Martha Stewart.
• 29:28
  Speaker 2: Can you imagine a different story. We would look terrific,
• 29:32
  Speaker 2: This country would look Terris Sparkling. There's a great clip
• 29:36
  Speaker 2: that I've seen, like on TikTok or whatever, when Joan
• 29:39
  Speaker 2: Rivers was on Martha Stewart's show and it's this hilarious
• 29:45
  Speaker 2: I can't remember. I'm gonna butcher it, but basically, Joan's
• 29:49
  Speaker 2: doing a bit and she's like, somebody sent me a gift.
• 29:51
  Speaker 2: It was Trump's stakes, and Martha immediately goes disgusting or
• 29:57
  Speaker 2: something like that, and Joan said, I know, oh I
• 30:00
  Speaker 2: can't eat Trump. Jones's bit was about how she thought
• 30:04
  Speaker 2: Trump's stakes were made of Trump.
• 30:06
  Speaker 3: It's so clever. I love god.
• 30:08
  Speaker 2: She was funny.
• 30:09
  Speaker 3: What's incredible? Wait? Was she on the original Martha Stewart?
• 30:12
  Speaker 3: What were they doing?
• 30:14
  Speaker 2: I don't know, cooking. It was Martha Stewart's talk show.
• 30:17
  Speaker 3: Okay, the talk show. I went to the talk show
• 30:19
  Speaker 3: you did when I was interning at Letterman. I think
• 30:22
  Speaker 3: that's right. My mom came and visited and we went
• 30:24
  Speaker 3: and saw Martha Stewart live. I think that's right. Wow,
• 30:28
  Speaker 3: went and waited in line and then went in or
• 30:31
  Speaker 3: that's just a fantasy that I always wanted to happen.
• 30:33
  Speaker 2: That seems like it really happened. So she shot out
• 30:35
  Speaker 2: in New York. Yeah, yeah, that makes sense. Yeah, what
• 30:38
  Speaker 2: was Letterman like?
• 30:41
  Speaker 3: I loved, I mean, I adore. I'm obsessed with David
• 30:44
  Speaker 3: Letterman to this day. It was a dream and it
• 30:46
  Speaker 3: was also a complete nightmare. Yeah, being an intern there
• 30:49
  Speaker 3: was like being hazed by a frat every single day.
• 30:53
  Speaker 3: Oh wow. I worked in There's Writer's department, and there
• 30:55
  Speaker 3: was some real negative qualities to it. I mean, the
• 30:58
  Speaker 3: atmosphere of that show was so bad. I mean I
• 31:01
  Speaker 3: have to imagine Dave would at this point be like,
• 31:03
  Speaker 3: oh yeah, it was not a healthy work environment. But
• 31:06
  Speaker 3: I got to be on the show. I like the
• 31:09
  Speaker 3: whole thing. I got to play Alan Calter's son. Oh wow,
• 31:12
  Speaker 3: can you imagine Rip, one of my favorite announcers ever.
• 31:16
  Speaker 3: He died a last year, a couple of years ago.
• 31:19
  Speaker 2: He was the guy.
• 31:20
  Speaker 3: He was great, you kind of look like look he
• 31:22
  Speaker 3: has red hair. He had red hair, my god, and
• 31:25
  Speaker 3: he had a lot of bits on the show.
• 31:26
  Speaker 2: He was hilarious.
• 31:27
  Speaker 3: He was so funny. He was really man. He was old. Yeah,
• 31:32
  Speaker 3: he was probably well I think he was probably when
• 31:34
  Speaker 3: he died, maybe in his late seventies or eighties or
• 31:37
  Speaker 3: not that. But yeah, I got to play his son
• 31:39
  Speaker 3: twice on the show. I looked into Dave's eyes during
• 31:43
  Speaker 3: one of those bits, and I felt like my entire
• 31:45
  Speaker 3: insides turned to ashes. I was so scared, just terrified.
• 31:50
  Speaker 3: But that ex part of the experience was wonderful.
• 31:52
  Speaker 2: Wow.
• 31:53
  Speaker 3: Every other element was hell. I was eating crackers for lunch,
• 31:56
  Speaker 3: I had no money. It was just awful.
• 31:59
  Speaker 2: But of course offices there in the at Sullivan Theater.
• 32:02
  Speaker 3: Yes, yes, wow, I mean but thank god, I mean that.
• 32:05
  Speaker 3: I don't think I would be sitting here right now
• 32:07
  Speaker 3: if I didn't do that.
• 32:09
  Speaker 2: Yeah. So Ryan was on my partner. Ryan was did
• 32:12
  Speaker 2: a bit on Letterman once.
• 32:13
  Speaker 3: What what did he do?
• 32:14
  Speaker 2: It was so cool that he called. He was He
• 32:18
  Speaker 2: was like, my commercial agents just called and I'm supposed
• 32:22
  Speaker 2: to go over to Letterman to do a bit. And
• 32:23
  Speaker 2: there was no audition. He just like got picked right
• 32:26
  Speaker 2: And I was like, what are you? He was so
• 32:28
  Speaker 2: nonchalant about it. I was like, and I was a
• 32:30
  Speaker 2: big fan. I watched Letterman on when I was in
• 32:34
  Speaker 2: college and I had my little TV VCR combo. I
• 32:37
  Speaker 2: would watch Letterman every night. And I was like, this
• 32:40
  Speaker 2: is the coolest thing you've ever done. You're doing a
• 32:42
  Speaker 2: bit with Letterman. Tell me everything? And he was like,
• 32:45
  Speaker 2: I don't know. It's like I'm supposed to be, like
• 32:48
  Speaker 2: I'm going to be in a suit, and I'm like
• 32:50
  Speaker 2: a young executive and I just walk out in the
• 32:52
  Speaker 2: middle of his monologue and I put a name tag
• 32:55
  Speaker 2: on him and then I say he goes. He says
• 32:58
  Speaker 2: what's this for? And I say, couldn't hurt my help,
• 33:04
  Speaker 2: and then I walk off. And I was like, that
• 33:06
  Speaker 2: is a classic Letterman bit. It's so good, you say,
• 33:10
  Speaker 2: he said, I'm from the network, and I was like,
• 33:14
  Speaker 2: that's and he's like, is it funny?
• 33:15
  Speaker 3: Okay? Cool?
• 33:16
  Speaker 2: I was like, you don't understand. It's so funny. It's
• 33:18
  Speaker 2: so good.
• 33:19
  Speaker 3: You're gonna be. It's gonna be. It's gonna kill those
• 33:21
  Speaker 3: interruptions I lived for, Oh God. And he didn't.
• 33:25
  Speaker 2: He had no idea. He never watched letterm and he'd
• 33:26
  Speaker 2: never seen it.
• 33:27
  Speaker 3: Wow, of course this is not how it always is.
• 33:29
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and he was like he was like, I didn't
• 33:31
  Speaker 2: even gaze eyes on him until I was on TV
• 33:35
  Speaker 2: in front of him.
• 33:35
  Speaker 3: Oh. Like, they just said I would need a lot
• 33:38
  Speaker 3: of prep before that happened.
• 33:40
  Speaker 2: I think if it had been me, I would have
• 33:42
  Speaker 2: I also, I would have been so nervous and so anxious,
• 33:44
  Speaker 2: but because he didn't really have any right, he just
• 33:47
  Speaker 2: went and did it. It's on his reel and he
• 33:50
  Speaker 2: like takes the namesack off and the smacks it on
• 33:53
  Speaker 2: his chest and like Letterman's like old and frail. Even
• 33:57
  Speaker 2: then he was like old and frail and right and
• 34:00
  Speaker 2: said when I smacked him in his chest, I thought
• 34:01
  Speaker 2: I was gonna break him.
• 34:02
  Speaker 3: He kills him on stage. You two are out for
• 34:05
  Speaker 3: our older celebrities. You're both trying to kill all of
• 34:08
  Speaker 3: the food. Wow. Well, I mean speaking of putting people
• 34:13
  Speaker 3: in danger and kind of just being a nuisance in general.
• 34:17
  Speaker 3: I was really excited to have you here today, Michael.
• 34:19
  Speaker 3: I thought you, I adore Michael, will have a lovely time.
• 34:23
  Speaker 3: We'll record something, who knows what it is, but it'll
• 34:25
  Speaker 3: be nice, and then he'll leave. So I was a
• 34:29
  Speaker 3: little surprised, I would say I was borderline upset when
• 34:34
  Speaker 3: you nearly ran over my neighbor's dogs and then showed
• 34:37
  Speaker 3: up late holding what's obviously a gift. Oh yeah, the podcast.
• 34:44
  Speaker 3: I mean, what's the title of the podcast, Michael, I
• 34:47
  Speaker 3: want to hear you say it.
• 34:49
  Speaker 2: You said no gifts.
• 34:50
  Speaker 3: I said, no gifts. Right right, So I'm wondering there's
• 34:55
  Speaker 3: this little pink box sitting here on the table. Gorgeous.
• 34:59
  Speaker 3: There's no denying that.
• 35:02
  Speaker 2: Sorry, I misunderstood.
• 35:06
  Speaker 3: Okay, it was an ignorance.
• 35:08
  Speaker 2: That's my that's totally my beast black of education. You
• 35:11
  Speaker 2: know what, why didn't I just take it with me?
• 35:13
  Speaker 2: I'll return it to whence it came unless you want
• 35:18
  Speaker 2: to just see what it is, if you'd like to
• 35:20
  Speaker 2: open it.
• 35:20
  Speaker 3: I mean it is very invited, I mean it is.
• 35:22
  Speaker 3: There's a temptation here from me. Maybe if you don't mind,
• 35:27
  Speaker 3: I'll open it.
• 35:27
  Speaker 2: Here on the podcast open and I think you should
• 35:30
  Speaker 2: open it.
• 35:30
  Speaker 3: Okay, we're both doing something a little tacky here.
• 35:33
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I mean I chose hot pink for the box, so,
• 35:36
  Speaker 2: like I was, I was like from.
• 35:38
  Speaker 3: The beginning, stunning. Oh it's a lovely color, blinding pink.
• 35:46
  Speaker 3: I wonder how I even open this. It's kind of
• 35:48
  Speaker 3: like a trick.
• 35:49
  Speaker 2: Yeah, because you pull that yeah.
• 35:51
  Speaker 3: Just then it kind of drops and blows.
• 35:56
  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, is that the top?
• 35:58
  Speaker 3: The top? It was opened in a way that is
• 36:01
  Speaker 3: deeply confusing.
• 36:02
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that is weird.
• 36:03
  Speaker 3: Now got some kind of easter grass? Yeah, yeah, pull
• 36:06
  Speaker 3: it out. And then is there something in the eastern
• 36:09
  Speaker 3: It must be in there. Yeah, it must be in
• 36:11
  Speaker 3: unless it ate it. There's a measuring tape in here,
• 36:17
  Speaker 3: that's right a Iikeia to find this in this beautiful
• 36:22
  Speaker 3: box is absolutely ideal. This was the perfect box for
• 36:25
  Speaker 3: this ikeea measuring tape. Okay, why did you bring this?
• 36:29
  Speaker 3: And this is actually very handy for me. Okay, I'm
• 36:32
  Speaker 3: constantly measuring.
• 36:33
  Speaker 2: I know this about you because I'm a fan of
• 36:36
  Speaker 2: the podcast. I know that you lost all of your
• 36:41
  Speaker 2: measuring tapes, threw them all out, you got rid of them,
• 36:45
  Speaker 2: you said no more.
• 36:46
  Speaker 3: I couldn't have them in my home anymore.
• 36:49
  Speaker 2: And I heard the the Paul Rubens episode Oh Sure,
• 36:53
  Speaker 2: which is IP which is rip oh tragic. But I
• 36:58
  Speaker 2: will say it's one of the best episodes of a
• 37:00
  Speaker 2: podcast I've ever listened to it. It is so a listener.
• 37:05
  Speaker 2: I'm sure you already heard it, but if you haven't,
• 37:07
  Speaker 2: it's so good. You're terrific.
• 37:10
  Speaker 3: Paul is so it's.
• 37:13
  Speaker 2: Actually like devastating to hear him so recently be so brilliant.
• 37:18
  Speaker 3: It was just constantly funny, so funny, so inventive.
• 37:23
  Speaker 2: I adored it. I wanted to listen to it again.
• 37:25
  Speaker 2: But in it, at some point I can't remember how
• 37:28
  Speaker 2: it came up. You said that you had lost all
• 37:31
  Speaker 2: other measuring and I thought it was some kind of
• 37:34
  Speaker 2: like measuring tape bandit that came to your house and
• 37:38
  Speaker 2: took them all. Well, you were talking about yardsticks. That's
• 37:40
  Speaker 2: what it was, because it was in the game, I think,
• 37:44
  Speaker 2: and yardstick was one of the gifts for a celebrities. Yes, yes, yes,
• 37:48
  Speaker 2: And you said that it's made of metal, hopefully not plastic.
• 37:52
  Speaker 2: And Paul said, well, you can get one made of
• 37:56
  Speaker 2: cloth or tape right from Ikea. And I'm this is incredible.
• 38:03
  Speaker 2: I have been carrying this measuring tape around with me
• 38:08
  Speaker 2: for the last month because we have this house in
• 38:12
  Speaker 2: la and it's tiny, and so we have to measure
• 38:15
  Speaker 2: everything that.
• 38:16
  Speaker 3: We bought within the last inch.
• 38:18
  Speaker 2: And I picked one of these up at Ikea. He
• 38:20
  Speaker 2: described the Ikea free measuring tape.
• 38:24
  Speaker 3: Imagine Paul Rubins and Ikea.
• 38:27
  Speaker 2: Well, that's the thing. I immediately started to imagine him
• 38:31
  Speaker 2: taking these because they're free. I'm sure he has many
• 38:34
  Speaker 2: of them. I'm sure he had many of them in
• 38:35
  Speaker 2: a drawer somewhere.
• 38:36
  Speaker 3: I mean, he gave me essentially his junk draw I
• 38:40
  Speaker 3: can't believe I didn't get one of these from him,
• 38:41
  Speaker 3: because he needed them so much, so badly, but he
• 38:45
  Speaker 3: didn't know is that you did too, And so now
• 38:48
  Speaker 3: you have this. Wow, this is really a full circle thing.
• 38:52
  Speaker 2: I've literally been carrying this around for the last month
• 38:54
  Speaker 2: since I got to Los Angeles in my in my
• 38:56
  Speaker 2: jean jacket pocket.
• 38:58
  Speaker 3: That's a very cool thing to have in a jean
• 38:59
  Speaker 3: jacket and paired.
• 39:01
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it was great and and and I wear that gene.
• 39:03
  Speaker 2: I'm not wearing it today, but I wear that jean
• 39:05
  Speaker 2: jacket most days. And so as soon as I heard that,
• 39:08
  Speaker 2: I thought, that's that'll be the gift that I bring
• 39:11
  Speaker 2: Bridger and I went and found it and and and
• 39:14
  Speaker 2: anyway here it is.
• 39:15
  Speaker 3: So it's so weird because I was just a couple
• 39:17
  Speaker 3: of days ago thinking about Paul, like a very recent
• 39:20
  Speaker 3: thing thinking about him. I don't know why, but yeah,
• 39:23
  Speaker 3: what about him?
• 39:24
  Speaker 2: All the time? He was he was so magical, just
• 39:29
  Speaker 2: one of the all times, just a complete original. Yes,
• 39:34
  Speaker 2: and also somebody you know, I mean he talked about
• 39:37
  Speaker 2: he was in some movies, you know, he did things
• 39:39
  Speaker 2: not as Pewe and was great.
• 39:41
  Speaker 3: A like a FBI agent in Matilda.
• 39:46
  Speaker 2: Amazing, great, amazing, and he gave you fake money from
• 39:50
  Speaker 2: the movie Blow. And of course he was like a
• 39:53
  Speaker 2: vampire and Buffy and the vampires there right, Penguin's parents
• 39:57
  Speaker 2: and Batman father, so like, you know, like and and
• 40:04
  Speaker 2: of course Peewee and I always, you know, since I
• 40:08
  Speaker 2: was a kid, thought that he hung the moon. And
• 40:11
  Speaker 2: I never met him, but he was a hero. And
• 40:15
  Speaker 2: when he died, my dear friend Becky Newton, who was
• 40:19
  Speaker 2: on Ugly Betty with me, we shared a love of
• 40:21
  Speaker 2: Pewee forever, she sent me a giant doll oh of Pewee.
• 40:27
  Speaker 3: No, how big is it?
• 40:28
  Speaker 2: It's it's it's huge. It's it's probably a yardstick's tall,
• 40:34
  Speaker 2: but I have it in New York. And I mean,
• 40:38
  Speaker 2: like he really.
• 40:39
  Speaker 3: Was just so important adventure, Oh my god. Absolutely truly
• 40:45
  Speaker 3: a perfect movie, completely perfect movie. I never saw Big Top.
• 40:49
  Speaker 2: Big Top was not as good, but it was also
• 40:51
  Speaker 2: very fun.
• 40:52
  Speaker 3: We should revisit.
• 40:53
  Speaker 2: And then he remounted his his stage show. That's right,
• 40:58
  Speaker 2: and I saw him on Broadway. Yeah, it's it was fantastic.
• 41:02
  Speaker 3: When that was like in the tens, the teens.
• 41:05
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I would say the time went with Ryan, so
• 41:07
  Speaker 2: it was post It was probably like nine or ten. Ryan,
• 41:11
  Speaker 2: I've been together since eight, so probably like ten.
• 41:13
  Speaker 3: And what was the show?
• 41:15
  Speaker 2: It was People's Playhouse. Wow, curtain went up and there it.
• 41:18
  Speaker 3: Was, Oh my god.
• 41:19
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it was incredible cherry shame. You know, the mailman
• 41:25
  Speaker 2: came by the like the little wizard guy that's just ahead.
• 41:30
  Speaker 3: That scared me until I was old enough for not
• 41:32
  Speaker 3: to scare me anymore. But yeah, there was always an uncanny,
• 41:35
  Speaker 3: weird element to that that. Yeah, it was very eerie.
• 41:38
  Speaker 2: But they had the foil ball and you know the
• 41:41
  Speaker 2: Word of the Day and all that stuff, and it
• 41:43
  Speaker 2: was delight. We went on Christmas Day, Oh what a.
• 41:45
  Speaker 3: Perfect Chris wonderful and Paul loved holidays and there you go.
• 41:50
  Speaker 3: Absolutely well as far as measuring goes, are you do you?
• 41:53
  Speaker 3: I feel like I'm pretty good at estimating time, but
• 41:56
  Speaker 3: spatially I'm so bad.
• 41:58
  Speaker 2: I can be I can. Yeah, I'm with you. I'm
• 42:00
  Speaker 2: not great at it. That's why I need you know. Ryan.
• 42:04
  Speaker 2: We actually have this rug in our house that Ryan
• 42:06
  Speaker 2: and I fought. Oh, every time we would be out,
• 42:10
  Speaker 2: I'd say, well, that rug is not this side. He's like, no,
• 42:12
  Speaker 2: no it is, and I'd be like, no, that's definitely
• 42:15
  Speaker 2: not and he's like, I promise you didn't. Then we
• 42:16
  Speaker 2: go home, and this has happened several times. You'd go
• 42:18
  Speaker 2: home and remeasure it and he was always right and
• 42:21
  Speaker 2: I was always wrong, and I'd be like, god, I
• 42:22
  Speaker 2: sure I thought it was more than five feet.
• 42:24
  Speaker 3: Were you heading out rug shopping without the measurements?
• 42:27
  Speaker 2: Kind of yeah, I mean this is another like an
• 42:30
  Speaker 2: obvious and we would go back and try to find
• 42:33
  Speaker 2: like the email receipt to see if it had of course,
• 42:37
  Speaker 2: but he was pretty confident it was my It was
• 42:39
  Speaker 2: really on me. I was the one who was skeptical
• 42:41
  Speaker 2: about how how big them?
• 42:42
  Speaker 3: Well, it's also I just got a kitchen rug. And
• 42:45
  Speaker 3: even if you have their measurements, I don't think it helps.
• 42:47
  Speaker 3: Once you get into your house, it's always like, oh
• 42:49
  Speaker 3: that's way too big.
• 42:50
  Speaker 2: Right, still exactly, it's still it doesn't really matter, right,
• 42:54
  Speaker 2: And you're trapped. And we were in a we're in this.
• 42:56
  Speaker 2: We have this tiny house. It's five hundred and eighty square.
• 43:01
  Speaker 3: Feet over and that's a very small time, like.
• 43:04
  Speaker 2: An actual tiny house, right, And we've lived in apartments,
• 43:06
  Speaker 2: so like I actually love small.
• 43:08
  Speaker 3: Oh so nice to just be able to look at
• 43:10
  Speaker 3: everything and have everything under control.
• 43:12
  Speaker 2: Yes, I actually quite like being in small places. And
• 43:15
  Speaker 2: we got all this tiny furniture to fill this tiny
• 43:18
  Speaker 2: house and we were airbnbing it for the for all
• 43:22
  Speaker 2: of the fall before I came back to shoot drinking
• 43:25
  Speaker 2: and it was adorable, all these tiny little things and
• 43:28
  Speaker 2: it was tiny little house. And then we got there
• 43:30
  Speaker 2: to live there, and I was like, oh, this is awful.
• 43:33
  Speaker 2: This is the worst couch I've ever sat on, Like,
• 43:35
  Speaker 2: I can't I can't possibly sit in this chair.
• 43:37
  Speaker 3: You just have these horrible reviews on where are these
• 43:40
  Speaker 3: coming from?
• 43:41
  Speaker 2: I don't understand what's wrong with sitting on it?
• 43:43
  Speaker 3: Two places jail.
• 43:44
  Speaker 2: Yeah, So so we started looking for and then we
• 43:47
  Speaker 2: want there's this show we like to watch. I don't
• 43:50
  Speaker 2: know if you guys do this, but if it's the
• 43:52
  Speaker 2: end of the night and like we're not quite ready
• 43:54
  Speaker 2: for bed, but we aren't ready to start a new
• 43:57
  Speaker 2: TV show.
• 43:58
  Speaker 3: Do we have the energy for a plot?
• 44:00
  Speaker 2: Yees don't have the energy for a plot. Our go
• 44:03
  Speaker 2: to is my lottery dream home.
• 44:05
  Speaker 3: I knew you were going to say this. You mentioned
• 44:07
  Speaker 3: this to me a couple of months ago and I
• 44:09
  Speaker 3: have started watching it.
• 44:10
  Speaker 2: And I have Oh my gosh, David tattooed. David is
• 44:15
  Speaker 2: the greatest.
• 44:16
  Speaker 3: Watching his transformation throughout the series is fascinating.
• 44:19
  Speaker 2: And if you watch later seasons where he's covered in tattoos,
• 44:22
  Speaker 2: the credits are still from season one where he doesn't
• 44:24
  Speaker 2: have any tingle. Yeah, so you see him like imagine
• 44:28
  Speaker 2: winning the lottery and he has no tattoos. But then
• 44:30
  Speaker 2: it cuts to him in Memphis or wherever, meeting the people,
• 44:33
  Speaker 2: and he's like, basically like face tattoo tattoos.
• 44:37
  Speaker 3: Now, Yes, I love him.
• 44:39
  Speaker 2: He said something on an episode recently. We were watching
• 44:42
  Speaker 2: recently in our tiny little home, sitting on our tiny
• 44:44
  Speaker 2: little couch on our tiny little sofa and toothpick chairs.
• 44:50
  Speaker 2: They were looking at a small room that had a
• 44:52
  Speaker 2: big couch in it, and he said he walked in
• 44:57
  Speaker 2: and they were like, oh, I love this room. I
• 44:58
  Speaker 2: love this couch. And he's like, that's right. When you
• 45:00
  Speaker 2: have a small room, big furniture makes it feel bigger.
• 45:04
  Speaker 2: And I thought that's totally crazy.
• 45:06
  Speaker 3: Yeah, that feels like the opposite.
• 45:07
  Speaker 2: But it's true. Really, we got like a proper couch
• 45:11
  Speaker 2: for our tiny house, and it now feels it's a
• 45:15
  Speaker 2: totally different place.
• 45:16
  Speaker 3: I would think the exact me too, in that blowing
• 45:20
  Speaker 3: David from my of my Lottery dream Hall.
• 45:23
  Speaker 2: It's totally true. If you have a small place, put
• 45:26
  Speaker 2: a big piece in there and it will make it
• 45:28
  Speaker 2: feel bigger. And in fact we're putting we're building a
• 45:31
  Speaker 2: tiny office in our in the tiny backyard of our
• 45:34
  Speaker 2: tiny house, and we've decided that our horrible, tiny couch
• 45:38
  Speaker 2: is going to go there. It's fine if you're just
• 45:41
  Speaker 2: like sitting at attention. It's when you want to relax
• 45:44
  Speaker 2: in any way that it doesn't work.
• 45:45
  Speaker 3: It's causing problems.
• 45:46
  Speaker 2: So like to be an office couch. It's gonna be fine, right,
• 45:50
  Speaker 2: but but it's not ready yet. So right now we
• 45:54
  Speaker 2: have our new normal sut sized couch and our tiny
• 45:59
  Speaker 2: awkward how are you? But it all fits.
• 46:04
  Speaker 3: It fits. You're finding out some interesting things about the space.
• 46:07
  Speaker 2: Yes, So like all these years of living in tiny
• 46:09
  Speaker 2: spaces thinking you need tiny furniture, I was wrong, Like
• 46:13
  Speaker 2: a tiny place can sustain a big piece of furniture.
• 46:17
  Speaker 3: Where did you get the big couch? Court court crt
• 46:22
  Speaker 3: r CRT.
• 46:23
  Speaker 2: How do I know that furniture I guess I'm just
• 46:24
  Speaker 2: studied this furniture shopping. Yeah, it's a famous furniture.
• 46:28
  Speaker 3: Okay, my lottery dream home, let's get back.
• 46:30
  Speaker 2: Okay, Yeah, we've got finally. God, I've been dying to
• 46:32
  Speaker 2: talk about those.
• 46:33
  Speaker 3: This show is so interesting to watch because it's whenever
• 46:36
  Speaker 3: I think lottery, I'm like endless money. But then there
• 46:39
  Speaker 3: will be episodes where the person has not one enough
• 46:41
  Speaker 3: to even buy a house, and so it's like what
• 46:44
  Speaker 3: it feels very like. It feels like there's a lot
• 46:46
  Speaker 3: of stretching to describe what a lottery is.
• 46:49
  Speaker 2: Like.
• 46:49
  Speaker 3: I feel like I'm gonna be watching an episode and
• 46:51
  Speaker 3: they're gonna be like, I want twenty dollars on a scratch.
• 46:53
  Speaker 2: And I'd like to buy this house. What kind of house?
• 46:56
  Speaker 2: A Barbie house? Yeah? Exactly. Yeah, And sometimes it's inherented.
• 47:00
  Speaker 2: Have you seen one like that?
• 47:01
  Speaker 3: Ya? Well, that's real. They push it's.
• 47:03
  Speaker 2: Season thirty or something.
• 47:05
  Speaker 3: And you know what I mean. They's kind of dark
• 47:07
  Speaker 3: to call your inheritance a lottery winning.
• 47:09
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I guess it isn't quite.
• 47:10
  Speaker 3: A mom died in a slipping, let's celebrate, and she
• 47:17
  Speaker 3: never spent a dime on herself, so now we get
• 47:19
  Speaker 3: it all.
• 47:20
  Speaker 2: Yeah. My favorite is when somebody who does win a
• 47:23
  Speaker 2: big amount when it's oh, because there's always a moment
• 47:26
  Speaker 2: where he's like, so, how much did you win? And
• 47:29
  Speaker 2: they tell it and then he's like, and how much
• 47:30
  Speaker 2: are you giving me to work with to find you?
• 47:33
  Speaker 2: Because the premise of the show listener is that David
• 47:36
  Speaker 2: comes to your town and he shows you three.
• 47:39
  Speaker 3: Homes in a very flowy outfit in a gorgeous lower
• 47:43
  Speaker 3: year turning heads in whatever small town he's in, and
• 47:47
  Speaker 3: he shows you three possible homes and you have to
• 47:49
  Speaker 3: pick one, and then they come back six months later
• 47:53
  Speaker 3: when you haven't yet moved in, and they do a pretend.
• 47:56
  Speaker 2: It's great here. But he'll ask at the beginning how
• 47:59
  Speaker 2: much did you win? And then he'll say how much
• 48:02
  Speaker 2: is your budget? How much you're giving me to work with?
• 48:04
  Speaker 2: Is what he says. And my favorite is when they're like,
• 48:07
  Speaker 2: we won ten million dollars and he's like, oh my god,
• 48:10
  Speaker 2: that's amazing, and what's your budget and they're like three
• 48:14
  Speaker 2: hundred thousand.
• 48:16
  Speaker 3: We will not be using the money.
• 48:17
  Speaker 2: We won't be using the money, and so suddenly suddenly
• 48:20
  Speaker 2: he's like they're like we'd like at least one bathroom.
• 48:24
  Speaker 2: It's like and you see his face, like you see
• 48:28
  Speaker 2: him dial along side. He gets so excited, like I'm
• 48:30
  Speaker 2: gonna be able to find a mansion for these people,
• 48:32
  Speaker 2: and it's like, okay, you're getting a trailer.
• 48:37
  Speaker 3: Yeah, there's a lot of things on the show like that.
• 48:39
  Speaker 3: I'm like, oh, this is confusing.
• 48:40
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 48:40
  Speaker 3: I see the word lottery and I think we're just
• 48:42
  Speaker 3: going for it, right and they.
• 48:44
  Speaker 2: No, No, No, it's model homes or you know, like
• 48:47
  Speaker 2: but it's still so exciting and it's fun to to
• 48:50
  Speaker 2: like try and guess what they're gonna what they're gonna pick.
• 48:52
  Speaker 3: Oh, are you good at guessing?
• 48:54
  Speaker 2: No, I'm usually wrong. I'm usually wrong. I'm often surprised.
• 48:58
  Speaker 2: Ryan's better at it than I. And he's like, they're
• 49:00
  Speaker 2: not going to do that because they want split level,
• 49:02
  Speaker 2: or they're not going to do that because they need
• 49:03
  Speaker 2: a backyard, and I'm like, I wasn't really paying attention.
• 49:05
  Speaker 2: Maybe I missed that part.
• 49:07
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm I feel like I'm pretty good at guessing
• 49:09
  Speaker 3: on House Hunters, but that's because I kind of know
• 49:11
  Speaker 3: the tricks of how they produce that show. At this point, Oh,
• 49:14
  Speaker 3: which they like basically you have to have closed on
• 49:18
  Speaker 3: the house before they let you on the show. So
• 49:20
  Speaker 3: like the houses that actually look lived in and have furniture,
• 49:23
  Speaker 3: those are just houses they've found that won't be purchased.
• 49:26
  Speaker 3: It's usually the ones that look like something like very
• 49:29
  Speaker 3: temperate or like you can tell that it's a house
• 49:32
  Speaker 3: that's going to be moved into rather than one that's
• 49:34
  Speaker 3: being lived in.
• 49:36
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 49:36
  Speaker 3: So, but on Lottery Dream Home, there's no telling what's
• 49:40
  Speaker 3: going to anyone's guest. Yes, it's truly anyone's guests. Yeah,
• 49:43
  Speaker 3: and the people are always interesting, yes they are. And well,
• 49:47
  Speaker 3: people who play the lottery, I mean it's it's it's
• 49:49
  Speaker 3: a it's a special kind of person who plays lottery.
• 49:52
  Speaker 3: I don't know if you play the lot I don't
• 49:53
  Speaker 3: play the lottery.
• 49:54
  Speaker 2: I don't. I don't gamble. And at least you play
• 49:55
  Speaker 2: the lottery.
• 49:56
  Speaker 3: At least is hooked. I'm trying to get them to stop.
• 49:59
  Speaker 3: The money is just I mean, here's the deal.
• 50:02
  Speaker 4: I'm terrified of winning because then suddenly all of your relationship.
• 50:06
  Speaker 3: Dynamics changed totally. You'd have to tell no one you
• 50:09
  Speaker 3: have to move. I don't want any of that. I'm
• 50:12
  Speaker 3: ready for the lottery to ruin my life, just destroy
• 50:15
  Speaker 3: all my relationships. I'm happy to What.
• 50:18
  Speaker 2: Would you do if you win the lottery?
• 50:19
  Speaker 3: Well, first, I'd go on my lottery dream home. That's
• 50:21
  Speaker 3: the only reason I want to win the lottery. I
• 50:23
  Speaker 3: don't care about the financial freedom. Let me meet David.
• 50:27
  Speaker 3: Is there no other way for me to What would
• 50:30
  Speaker 3: I do if I won the lottery? I unfortunately, because
• 50:34
  Speaker 3: it's a mental illness of mine. I wouldn't change anything.
• 50:37
  Speaker 3: I simply would spend no more money, right, I would
• 50:40
  Speaker 3: just sit in a bank account and everyone would resent me. Oh,
• 50:44
  Speaker 3: I would kind of. That's how I would ruin relationships
• 50:46
  Speaker 3: because they'd be like Bridger has so much money and
• 50:48
  Speaker 3: he's doing nothing new with it. He's not buying us
• 50:51
  Speaker 3: better things. He's not solving any of our problems. He
• 50:54
  Speaker 3: just continues to worry about money.
• 50:56
  Speaker 2: Yeah, what would you do? I also, I'm a keep
• 51:00
  Speaker 2: money under my mattress kind of a guy too. But
• 51:03
  Speaker 2: I do think I would take my parents sure, and
• 51:07
  Speaker 2: like colleges for nephews and nieces and things. Right, and
• 51:10
  Speaker 2: then I would because we have a little apartment and
• 51:14
  Speaker 2: a little house, I want a big I want a
• 51:16
  Speaker 2: big I want some day, I definitely want some day
• 51:20
  Speaker 2: to be able to furnish a shop.
• 51:22
  Speaker 3: Without Oh can you imagine not think about a price,
• 51:25
  Speaker 3: to just be like, oh, I like how that looks,
• 51:27
  Speaker 3: and it doesn't matter now it's mine.
• 51:29
  Speaker 2: Yes, And I don't need a tape measure because it
• 51:32
  Speaker 2: doesn't matter. The house is big enough for anything.
• 51:34
  Speaker 3: We need to actually make sure that it's not small
• 51:36
  Speaker 3: too small for the.
• 51:37
  Speaker 2: House exactly exactly. So I think that's probably where I
• 51:41
  Speaker 2: would go. I would, I would, but I wouldn't do
• 51:43
  Speaker 2: anything outrageous, right, you know, like cars. I don't really
• 51:48
  Speaker 2: care about cars.
• 51:49
  Speaker 3: They mean nothing to me.
• 51:50
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and I don't need like I like to travel,
• 51:53
  Speaker 2: but I wouldn't need to travel extravagantly. I think I
• 51:56
  Speaker 2: think I would travel more, but I would, you know,
• 51:59
  Speaker 2: still travel modestly. I don't need to, you know. But
• 52:04
  Speaker 2: I think set up my family and a big house, I.
• 52:07
  Speaker 3: Would probably buy a new doormat. That's and that's like
• 52:11
  Speaker 3: a slightly bigger, better doormat. That would be the shift
• 52:15
  Speaker 3: in my life.
• 52:15
  Speaker 2: Oh, okay, do you have a small doormat.
• 52:17
  Speaker 3: I think it's too small. I like it because it's
• 52:20
  Speaker 3: it's like, doesn't get soaked in the rain, like it
• 52:23
  Speaker 3: it's like kind of a weird elastic or something, because
• 52:27
  Speaker 3: we had one of those natural fiber ones and it
• 52:30
  Speaker 3: was just soaked all the time. So this one is
• 52:32
  Speaker 3: good for the rain. But I think it's too small
• 52:34
  Speaker 3: for the space and I think it looks ridiculous. But
• 52:36
  Speaker 3: I'm not willing to change. I'm waiting to win the lottery,
• 52:40
  Speaker 3: my lottery dream doormat.
• 52:44
  Speaker 2: Imagine a look on David's face when he says what
• 52:48
  Speaker 2: do you win in You're like fifteen million, and then
• 52:50
  Speaker 2: he's like and what's your budget and you're like thirty dollars?
• 52:53
  Speaker 3: What?
• 52:53
  Speaker 2: Oh, I don't want a house. I'm just looking for
• 52:56
  Speaker 2: a doormat.
• 52:57
  Speaker 3: That's what he has a suicide pill for. I was
• 53:00
  Speaker 3: right on the show, and you can.
• 53:01
  Speaker 2: Just like imagine when the cameras stopped rolling, he goes
• 53:04
  Speaker 2: over to a producer and he's like, I flew all
• 53:07
  Speaker 2: the way here.
• 53:08
  Speaker 3: I'm staying in. Its supposed to be my career. Where
• 53:12
  Speaker 3: did this guy come from?
• 53:13
  Speaker 2: Oh? I also love on that show when he goes
• 53:16
  Speaker 2: to the local realtors.
• 53:18
  Speaker 3: Oh, anytime we get a local realtter or involved househowners,
• 53:22
  Speaker 3: international householders, I love these people.
• 53:24
  Speaker 2: Yes, and he's like he's like, come here, give me
• 53:26
  Speaker 2: a hug, give me some sugar. And you can see
• 53:28
  Speaker 2: they can tell like this person hasn't hugged anyone in years,
• 53:31
  Speaker 2: or like this is not hugging down.
• 53:34
  Speaker 3: I wonder how they track down those people. Oh, what
• 53:37
  Speaker 3: is the casting process for a reltter on a reality
• 53:40
  Speaker 3: show where the reeller is not actually involved?
• 53:43
  Speaker 2: Oh? Good question. Last night I was actually at the
• 53:47
  Speaker 2: Artios Awards, which is the casting director's Oscars session. Now
• 53:52
  Speaker 2: the casting doctors have an OSCAR twenty twenty six coming around.
• 53:57
  Speaker 2: There will be a casting director Oscar, which is very exciting.
• 54:01
  Speaker 2: It was. It was very exciting last night to be
• 54:03
  Speaker 2: there because this is the first time they've all gathered
• 54:05
  Speaker 2: since the news. But there was a reality show category.
• 54:09
  Speaker 2: Oh of course, because there's casting for of course. But
• 54:12
  Speaker 2: my Lottery dream Home is not nominated.
• 54:14
  Speaker 3: Oh no, that's got a sting. I wonder if it's
• 54:17
  Speaker 3: ever been nominated.
• 54:18
  Speaker 2: I don't know, I don't know, but I would nominate them,
• 54:21
  Speaker 2: Oh of course. I mean it's like basically the only
• 54:22
  Speaker 2: reality show I watched, so I probably wouldn't be a
• 54:25
  Speaker 2: good judgment.
• 54:25
  Speaker 3: I mean, they have two viewers right here. That's I mean,
• 54:28
  Speaker 3: something somebody cares about it. I mean, And there are
• 54:31
  Speaker 3: also a thousand seasons, so many we're getting into parents
• 54:35
  Speaker 3: dying and leaving money and calling that a lottery. So
• 54:37
  Speaker 3: obviously there's plenty of episodes.
• 54:41
  Speaker 2: I love that you can hear a school here.
• 54:42
  Speaker 3: Oh yeah, we're getting the announcements right now. We'll get
• 54:46
  Speaker 3: children screaming, children laughing. What else do we get? Sometimes
• 54:51
  Speaker 3: they'll have like music playing fun upbeat like Bruno Mars music.
• 54:54
  Speaker 3: I don't know what they're doing over there. But the
• 54:57
  Speaker 3: thing is is I have no idea what the school's
• 54:59
  Speaker 3: schedu rule is because we'll go it'll be like Tuesday
• 55:02
  Speaker 3: through Thursday silence, and then suddenly there's noise on a Friday.
• 55:06
  Speaker 3: I'm like, wow, this is not a normal school.
• 55:09
  Speaker 2: Or maybe they're punished during the week and then they're
• 55:12
  Speaker 2: let loose on Friday.
• 55:13
  Speaker 3: And cages up there.
• 55:15
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 55:15
  Speaker 3: I don't know what's going on there, but I get
• 55:18
  Speaker 3: a little bit of elementary school happening.
• 55:20
  Speaker 2: It's a fun every day kids laughing. As the kids.
• 55:24
  Speaker 3: Laughing, I think it's time to play a game.
• 55:29
  Speaker 2: Oh finally, I've been waiting.
• 55:31
  Speaker 3: For him only I think it's gift or a curse.
• 55:34
  Speaker 3: Oh I'm so good at well, I mean yeah, I'm
• 55:36
  Speaker 3: not that good at anything. What are we talking about?
• 55:39
  Speaker 3: I need a number between one and ten from you,
• 55:41
  Speaker 3: Michael eight. Okay, I need to do some like calculating.
• 55:44
  Speaker 3: So right now you can promote, recommend, do whatever you
• 55:47
  Speaker 3: want with a microphone or my lottery.
• 55:50
  Speaker 2: Dream Home is a show you can find on Max.
• 55:53
  Speaker 2: There are dozens and dozens of seasons. The host David
• 55:57
  Speaker 2: is delightful and tattooed to the wazoo.
• 56:02
  Speaker 3: It's a great show.
• 56:03
  Speaker 2: I also just recently watched the latest seasons of Fargo
• 56:07
  Speaker 2: and True Detective and love them. Albeit there is some
• 56:11
  Speaker 2: faulty reindeer cgi in one of them, but those shows
• 56:16
  Speaker 2: are terrific. Great performances from the two leading detectives on
• 56:21
  Speaker 2: True Detective and Juno Temple, famous for Ted Lasso is
• 56:26
  Speaker 2: brilliant on Fargo. And then I also when's this coming out?
• 56:30
  Speaker 3: March twenty first?
• 56:31
  Speaker 2: March twenty first. If you are listening to this on
• 56:33
  Speaker 2: March twenty first, and you are anywhere in the Tri
• 56:35
  Speaker 2: state area, you have two more weeks to go. See
• 56:38
  Speaker 2: Spam a Lot on Broadway, which is the greatest show ever.
• 56:42
  Speaker 2: I was in it with Bridgers partner Jimmy Smagoula, and
• 56:46
  Speaker 2: it is closing early, sadly, but it is, I promise you,
• 56:51
  Speaker 2: the most fun you'll have on Broadway. So go check
• 56:53
  Speaker 2: it out.
• 56:55
  Speaker 3: Excellent. What a shame about spam Alat fun show. I know,
• 56:59
  Speaker 3: we're so good in it. Thank you, Jim so Good
• 57:01
  Speaker 3: and it's brilliant. James I.
• 57:05
  Speaker 2: Gohart plays King Arthur and he's he's wonderful. And Taren
• 57:08
  Speaker 2: Killem was wonderful, oh, Taren, former podcast guest here pre
• 57:13
  Speaker 2: spam Alot, and now Alex Brightman is playing Lancelot. Christopher
• 57:17
  Speaker 2: Oldzgerald one of the greatest musical comedy actors of all time.
• 57:20
  Speaker 2: So Good plays Patsy and it's just a wonderful show.
• 57:24
  Speaker 2: It is non stop laughs, and it's playing at the Saint
• 57:27
  Speaker 2: James Theater through I think April ninth is the last
• 57:29
  Speaker 2: show pure entertainment.
• 57:31
  Speaker 3: Go see it. Just a fun time and uh yeah again,
• 57:34
  Speaker 3: thank you for apologizing about this cartoon reindeer at the
• 57:38
  Speaker 3: beginning of True Detective. I was really upset by that.
• 57:41
  Speaker 2: When you saw that, were you like, is this a
• 57:42
  Speaker 2: Christmas show?
• 57:43
  Speaker 3: It felt like, like, where's Tim Allen He's gonna be
• 57:48
  Speaker 3: I was, I was honestly shocked. I was thinking, this
• 57:50
  Speaker 3: is the first thing I'm singing your TV show, and
• 57:52
  Speaker 3: it's the most phony looking cgi cariboo or whatever. Throw
• 57:57
  Speaker 3: a few extra dollars towards the cariboo.
• 57:59
  Speaker 2: Yeah, maybe it's hard to get trained caribou.
• 58:02
  Speaker 3: Well, I don't care.
• 58:04
  Speaker 2: I don't care.
• 58:05
  Speaker 3: Get another trained animal trained to have trained dogs running
• 58:08
  Speaker 3: through the snow with antlers than we are in.
• 58:14
  Speaker 2: I mean, Jim Cameron would have done it. Jim Cameron
• 58:17
  Speaker 2: would do it. You can do it, Hbo or whatever.
• 58:22
  Speaker 3: Michael. This is how we play Gift, a curse, tame
• 58:24
  Speaker 3: three things. You'll tell me if there're a gift or
• 58:26
  Speaker 3: a curse and why, and then I'll tell you if
• 58:28
  Speaker 3: you're right or wrong. Because there are objectively true answers.
• 58:32
  Speaker 3: There are no subjective fevers here. Let's get into this
• 58:37
  Speaker 3: number one. This is from a listener named uh Anika
• 58:40
  Speaker 3: or anka A n n I k A. How do
• 58:43
  Speaker 3: we feel an I'd say Onnica, you could go in
• 58:50
  Speaker 3: any direction with that name, so I think AKA, there
• 58:53
  Speaker 3: we go. Of course, that was the obvious. They've suggested
• 58:59
  Speaker 3: gift her a curse when fitness trainers want you to
• 59:02
  Speaker 3: yell during their class, curse, Why.
• 59:08
  Speaker 2: Well, not everyone needs to speak at the gym. When
• 59:13
  Speaker 2: I'm at the gym, I don't want to talk. I
• 59:16
  Speaker 2: don't even want to say no, I'm not using that
• 59:19
  Speaker 2: machine when someone says, are you using this machine? I
• 59:22
  Speaker 2: don't want to talk to anybody at the gym. I'm
• 59:24
  Speaker 2: there to do my thing. This is actually a problem
• 59:27
  Speaker 2: in New York. I know way more people in New
• 59:29
  Speaker 2: York than I do in LA, so this doesn't happen here,
• 59:31
  Speaker 2: but in New York. I've lived in New York since
• 59:33
  Speaker 2: nineteen ninety nine. I know too many people, and it's
• 59:37
  Speaker 2: too small of a player, very small. And I run
• 59:40
  Speaker 2: in the same circles as people who go to the gym,
• 59:42
  Speaker 2: and they're always there. And sometimes I go to the gym.
• 59:45
  Speaker 2: If I'm going to the gym for like a short
• 59:46
  Speaker 2: period of time, I'm like, I can't. I just can't
• 59:50
  Speaker 2: run into you right now. Nothing's happened since yesterday when
• 59:55
  Speaker 2: we had the same conversation at the fly machine, And
• 59:57
  Speaker 2: I've got nothing more to say to you. I like you,
• 1:00:00
  Speaker 2: but there's nothing. There's and I avoid people at the gym.
• 1:00:03
  Speaker 2: If I see somebody I know, even people I know, well,
• 1:00:06
  Speaker 2: I will avoid that.
• 1:00:07
  Speaker 3: Oh that sounds horrifying to me to run into somebody
• 1:00:09
  Speaker 3: you know.
• 1:00:09
  Speaker 2: Yeah, oh, and it happened. And at the gym I
• 1:00:12
  Speaker 2: go to, there's so many people. I mean, it's like
• 1:00:15
  Speaker 2: and Ryan and I always joke there's so many people
• 1:00:17
  Speaker 2: that we know at the gym, and like sort of
• 1:00:20
  Speaker 2: Broadway Famous Broadway, and it's like it's gotten so bad
• 1:00:24
  Speaker 2: that I avoid Bernadette Peter's at the gym.
• 1:00:29
  Speaker 3: She will not leave you. She wants to.
• 1:00:31
  Speaker 2: Talk between every set, and I love her. I mean,
• 1:00:33
  Speaker 2: I'm obsessed with her. I'm going to see her in
• 1:00:34
  Speaker 2: concert tomorrow. But I can't talk. I can't talk. I'm
• 1:00:39
  Speaker 2: busy listening. I'm busy listening to I said no gifts,
• 1:00:42
  Speaker 2: and I'm on my third set and I can't talk
• 1:00:44
  Speaker 2: to you. Bernette Peters.
• 1:00:45
  Speaker 3: This is kind of the ultimate weightlifting podcast, really pumps
• 1:00:49
  Speaker 3: people high energy.
• 1:00:51
  Speaker 2: But I actually was.
• 1:00:52
  Speaker 3: I I think I was.
• 1:00:55
  Speaker 2: It was some funny jiff of Bernadette or something like that,
• 1:00:58
  Speaker 2: and I sent it to Ryan Jiff for gift.
• 1:01:00
  Speaker 3: Interesting. I love to hear somebody naturally say Jiff because
• 1:01:03
  Speaker 3: I say gift, but like I think it didn't feel intense.
• 1:01:06
  Speaker 3: It felt like you are a Jiff person.
• 1:01:08
  Speaker 2: Generated is the word, right, Well.
• 1:01:10
  Speaker 3: It's the technically it's supposed to You're supposed to say Jeff,
• 1:01:14
  Speaker 3: but I say, too bad. It looks like Giff, the
• 1:01:17
  Speaker 3: creator of Jeff's, dropped the ball.
• 1:01:20
  Speaker 2: I'm a big fan of peanut Butter. I think that's
• 1:01:22
  Speaker 2: why I go to jail.
• 1:01:25
  Speaker 3: How has there not been some sort of Jeff Peanut
• 1:01:28
  Speaker 3: Butter crossover campaign? Yeah, I don't know animated.
• 1:01:32
  Speaker 2: Jeff, but I sent Ryan a Jeff of Bernett Peters
• 1:01:36
  Speaker 2: or something like that, just as a joke, just as
• 1:01:38
  Speaker 2: you know, you know, as you do. And he wrote back,
• 1:01:41
  Speaker 2: it's the lady from the gym, Like, that's how much.
• 1:01:45
  Speaker 3: Bernadette's a huge meathead. She's just muscle bound, terrific shape.
• 1:01:49
  Speaker 3: I mean, she's like one hundred years. She looks in crab.
• 1:01:53
  Speaker 3: So she's just hitting the gym. She hits them. What
• 1:01:55
  Speaker 3: machines is she using?
• 1:01:57
  Speaker 2: She does freeways. I always see her doing freeways.
• 1:02:00
  Speaker 3: And she has benching thousands of pounds, can bench four
• 1:02:06
  Speaker 3: hundred pounds. Wow, you're saying curse.
• 1:02:10
  Speaker 2: I'm saying it's a curse for a trainer to insist
• 1:02:14
  Speaker 2: that you shout absolutely, thank you, huge curse.
• 1:02:18
  Speaker 3: I mean, what I'm thinking is what I can't do
• 1:02:21
  Speaker 3: in any situation is yell in unison. And this is
• 1:02:24
  Speaker 3: like they're saying during class. And since I was a child,
• 1:02:28
  Speaker 3: I feel so embarrassed when people are yelling in unison,
• 1:02:31
  Speaker 3: doing cheers or whatever. I can't do it. I simply
• 1:02:33
  Speaker 3: I will remain silent or I'll lip sync whatever we're yelling,
• 1:02:37
  Speaker 3: because I just spine is just tingling at the embarrassment.
• 1:02:43
  Speaker 3: I'm not going to get on a bike and yell
• 1:02:44
  Speaker 3: with the rest of my classmates about exercise. That's humiliating, don't.
• 1:02:49
  Speaker 3: I'm there, I'm doing the thing that's as much as
• 1:02:52
  Speaker 3: you can ask for me.
• 1:02:53
  Speaker 2: I think that's a fair, that's totally fair.
• 1:02:55
  Speaker 3: Never tell me to yell. No, I'll yell when I
• 1:02:58
  Speaker 3: want to. I will scream, but not when somebody's making
• 1:03:04
  Speaker 3: me exercise so very good.
• 1:03:05
  Speaker 2: What about like a picket or a protest, I.
• 1:03:08
  Speaker 3: Won't even do it. Then. If we're you know, like
• 1:03:12
  Speaker 3: November twenty sixteen, we're marching down through New York, everyone's
• 1:03:17
  Speaker 3: yelling some club president I'm not I'm silent. I've got
• 1:03:22
  Speaker 3: a sign. That's all you can ask for you Yeah, great, great,
• 1:03:25
  Speaker 3: So no one asked me to yell in Unison. It's
• 1:03:27
  Speaker 3: no one should do it. It's embarrassing for everybody. Okay,
• 1:03:31
  Speaker 3: very good. Number two this is from someone named Jacqueline
• 1:03:34
  Speaker 3: Gift or a curse. Misplacing your wallet, panicking that you've
• 1:03:38
  Speaker 3: lost it somewhere around town, and then finding it in
• 1:03:40
  Speaker 3: your home a few minutes later.
• 1:03:43
  Speaker 2: Gift, Why, well, you're your moments from canceling your credit cards,
• 1:03:50
  Speaker 2: from panicking from the the horror of potentially getting order
• 1:03:53
  Speaker 2: the DMV and replace your driver's license. And now you
• 1:03:57
  Speaker 2: don't have to retrace your moments. Oh my gosh, moments.
• 1:04:00
  Speaker 2: You don't have to retrace your steps. What a relief.
• 1:04:03
  Speaker 2: You've got your wallet. I once left. I used to
• 1:04:05
  Speaker 2: have one of those phone cases that was also a wallet.
• 1:04:09
  Speaker 2: Oh sure, sure, And I loved it. I thought it
• 1:04:13
  Speaker 2: was the greatest thing ever. I was obsessed with it.
• 1:04:15
  Speaker 2: I thought I had figured out, you know, it solved
• 1:04:18
  Speaker 2: everything everything, Just like my tiny home, I have everything
• 1:04:22
  Speaker 2: in this one tiny thing. And then I was extremely
• 1:04:28
  Speaker 2: high in Dallas at a Starbucks on my way to
• 1:04:33
  Speaker 2: a Bury Manilo concert. I left it at the Starbucks
• 1:04:39
  Speaker 2: and didn't realize it until I went to the box
• 1:04:42
  Speaker 2: office to pick up my Manilo tickets and they said,
• 1:04:44
  Speaker 2: can I see your ID? And I was like no,
• 1:04:48
  Speaker 2: and thank god I'm notable. So he googled me and
• 1:04:52
  Speaker 2: they gave me the ticket and I went to the
• 1:04:56
  Speaker 2: concert thinking.
• 1:04:57
  Speaker 3: Without that would have ruined my evening. I would have
• 1:04:59
  Speaker 3: gone home.
• 1:05:00
  Speaker 2: I should have gone back to Starbucks, the last place
• 1:05:02
  Speaker 2: you were. But the tickets were comped because I kind of.
• 1:05:05
  Speaker 3: Know Berry Manalis, right, how do you know him?
• 1:05:08
  Speaker 2: From being a fan from insisting found his door staff,
• 1:05:13
  Speaker 2: from insisting I've been a Fanolo for many years and
• 1:05:16
  Speaker 2: the moment I had a monarch from of fame that
• 1:05:19
  Speaker 2: was my first course. And I've been to his concert
• 1:05:22
  Speaker 2: nearly twenty times. Wow, I'm a big fan, like legit,
• 1:05:26
  Speaker 2: not an un ironic Fanelo. And I'm more than a Fanallo,
• 1:05:31
  Speaker 2: I'm an ambassallo. And uh so I was like, well,
• 1:05:38
  Speaker 2: I'm not going to miss the concert. And I also
• 1:05:40
  Speaker 2: I think we figured out that the Starbucks was closing soon,
• 1:05:43
  Speaker 2: and I was like, it's not going to matter anyway,
• 1:05:45
  Speaker 2: I'll just call tomorrow, right, you know, But of course
• 1:05:49
  Speaker 2: it was gone, and and I was in Dallas, and
• 1:05:54
  Speaker 2: I had to fly back to New York in a
• 1:05:56
  Speaker 2: couple of days.
• 1:05:56
  Speaker 3: I was caught in Dallas just a week ago. You
• 1:05:59
  Speaker 3: got stuck. I hate American Airlines. We've said that on
• 1:06:02
  Speaker 3: this podcast before, but now I'm saying it again. It
• 1:06:05
  Speaker 3: was a rough experience. All of their the restaurants there
• 1:06:08
  Speaker 3: at Dallas Fort Worth close at nine pm. Even the
• 1:06:11
  Speaker 3: Chilis two Chili's two Starbucks is no longer serving hot
• 1:06:15
  Speaker 3: food after nine o'clock. My ultimate nightmare there stuck.
• 1:06:20
  Speaker 2: Was there a lounge you could buy into? Sometimes?
• 1:06:22
  Speaker 3: Probably? But as we discussed with the lottery, there's no
• 1:06:25
  Speaker 3: way I'm paying for that, right right, No, that's fair.
• 1:06:27
  Speaker 3: I'm sorry. Continue, Okay, So anyway, I lost my phone
• 1:06:33
  Speaker 3: and wallet, and the easy thing to get was credit card,
• 1:06:38
  Speaker 3: literally on the doorstep of the place I was staying
• 1:06:41
  Speaker 3: the next day. That quickly, so fast? How does that happen?
• 1:06:44
  Speaker 2: Because they want you to spend money. It got there
• 1:06:47
  Speaker 2: so so quickly. I had to have a friend who
• 1:06:50
  Speaker 2: was staying in my apartment FedEx me my passport so
• 1:06:54
  Speaker 2: that I could get on a plane and The hardest thing.
• 1:06:59
  Speaker 2: I mean, getting another driver's license was not easy, but
• 1:07:02
  Speaker 2: it wasn't pressing right. The hardest thing was replacing my phone,
• 1:07:07
  Speaker 2: because you cannot get a phone without an ID.
• 1:07:11
  Speaker 3: Oh, I will not.
• 1:07:13
  Speaker 2: They will not give you without an ID.
• 1:07:16
  Speaker 3: Is that wild? That's bizarre? How does that work?
• 1:07:19
  Speaker 2: I couldn't believe it. And I was like, do you
• 1:07:22
  Speaker 2: have Google? I am known. They wouldn't have said no, sorry.
• 1:07:28
  Speaker 3: That won't work. Well, this was pre you being on
• 1:07:29
  Speaker 3: an Apple show.
• 1:07:31
  Speaker 2: That's true.
• 1:07:31
  Speaker 3: That would have helped.
• 1:07:32
  Speaker 2: Oh, I wonder if that would have helped.
• 1:07:34
  Speaker 3: That would have helped.
• 1:07:35
  Speaker 2: If I was at the Apple store and I said,
• 1:07:37
  Speaker 2: we're colleagues, you might not realize this is what we're called.
• 1:07:42
  Speaker 2: But I couldn't believe it. Also like I'm from Dallas,
• 1:07:45
  Speaker 2: I'm from I'm from Dallas. You know I'm a sort
• 1:07:48
  Speaker 2: of a local boy.
• 1:07:50
  Speaker 3: Does it means nothing?
• 1:07:51
  Speaker 2: They had no idea who I was. They couldn't have
• 1:07:53
  Speaker 2: cared less at this at this.
• 1:07:54
  Speaker 3: Apple is just getting destroyed low and.
• 1:07:58
  Speaker 2: They were rude. They were even rude about it. I
• 1:08:01
  Speaker 2: could I was so discouraged. It was like such an upsetting,
• 1:08:05
  Speaker 2: discouraging moment. And I luckily I was staying with my
• 1:08:08
  Speaker 2: very dear friends, and they took very good care of
• 1:08:10
  Speaker 2: me and through the whole ordeal. But holy crap, was
• 1:08:13
  Speaker 2: at heart and they gave me. This is crazy. They
• 1:08:16
  Speaker 2: gave me one of their credit cards to use in
• 1:08:19
  Speaker 2: the interim, and I had to Like, I had a
• 1:08:21
  Speaker 2: rental car and I had to return it, and I
• 1:08:25
  Speaker 2: was driving without a license. I was freaking out. And
• 1:08:27
  Speaker 2: then I get to the airport and I'm like, oh shit,
• 1:08:29
  Speaker 2: I have to return this with gas in it. And
• 1:08:32
  Speaker 2: I go to the gas station and I'm and I'm
• 1:08:34
  Speaker 2: using their card and it asked for a ZIP code
• 1:08:37
  Speaker 2: and I'm like, I'm like, what's that.
• 1:08:39
  Speaker 3: I don't know.
• 1:08:40
  Speaker 2: I don't know the zip code and I can't remember
• 1:08:43
  Speaker 2: how I figured it out. Eventually, Oh, I think I
• 1:08:45
  Speaker 2: had someone's one of their phones or something. They gave
• 1:08:47
  Speaker 2: me one of their phones and I was I was like, oh, yeah,
• 1:08:50
  Speaker 2: there's a Louby's cafeteria at the end of their block.
• 1:08:53
  Speaker 3: Do you know what that is? Take the name of
• 1:08:55
  Speaker 3: this business.
• 1:08:57
  Speaker 2: There's a Loubi's cafeteria at end of the block. If
• 1:08:59
  Speaker 2: I google the Lubies cafeteria, that will show me the
• 1:09:02
  Speaker 2: address and then and then I got the zip code
• 1:09:04
  Speaker 2: that way. It was like Lubis Cafeteria.
• 1:09:06
  Speaker 3: Okay, what is that sidebar?
• 1:09:08
  Speaker 2: Luby's Cafeteria. They're in Texas. I don't think there are
• 1:09:12
  Speaker 2: any they're there anymore. But when I was a kid
• 1:09:14
  Speaker 2: in Texas, there were two cafeterias. One was Louby's and
• 1:09:16
  Speaker 2: one was Wyatt's. Okay, And it is a place where
• 1:09:19
  Speaker 2: you go and there's a long line. It's like cafeteria,
• 1:09:22
  Speaker 2: you know, like a school cafeteria. Sure, long line. You
• 1:09:24
  Speaker 2: get a tray and you go through and you take
• 1:09:26
  Speaker 2: I want those I want this, Okra, I want the chicken.
• 1:09:28
  Speaker 2: I want this, you know, mac and cheese or the
• 1:09:30
  Speaker 2: pudding or whatever. And you go down the line and
• 1:09:33
  Speaker 2: you get in. You go sit at these nice tables
• 1:09:35
  Speaker 2: and it's quite lovely. It sounds loveless, Yes, it's quite lovely.
• 1:09:39
  Speaker 2: And there was a Loubies. It's not there anymore, but
• 1:09:41
  Speaker 2: there's a Louby's at the end of my friend's block.
• 1:09:43
  Speaker 3: And that helped. God bless Louby or Loopy Luby l
• 1:09:48
  Speaker 3: u b Yluby Luby's. And I'm familiar with BUCkies, but
• 1:09:52
  Speaker 3: that's all different.
• 1:09:52
  Speaker 2: BUCkies. I was. I was literally wearing my BUCkies pajamas
• 1:09:56
  Speaker 2: this morning. I love BUCkies.
• 1:09:58
  Speaker 3: I've never been to one, but I read I feel
• 1:10:00
  Speaker 3: it would be a dream world for me.
• 1:10:01
  Speaker 2: It is so cool. Yeah, BUCkies is a really and
• 1:10:05
  Speaker 2: I and the billboards are all over the South wherever
• 1:10:09
  Speaker 2: they are, And my parents live in the Austin area,
• 1:10:11
  Speaker 2: and I'm in Dallas a lot because that's where I
• 1:10:13
  Speaker 2: grew up and I have friends there, and I work
• 1:10:14
  Speaker 2: there sometimes, and I was and so I've driven from
• 1:10:17
  Speaker 2: Dallas to Austin many times. And there is a BUCkies halfway.
• 1:10:22
  Speaker 2: It's a little more than halfway, but there are so
• 1:10:25
  Speaker 2: many signs that you are whipped into a frenzy. By
• 1:10:29
  Speaker 2: the time you get there, you are so ready for BUCkies.
• 1:10:33
  Speaker 2: It's like it's like and some of the signs are
• 1:10:34
  Speaker 2: really cheeky. They're like beef turkey.
• 1:10:37
  Speaker 3: It'll just like say right right, I.
• 1:10:42
  Speaker 2: Just like say one of the things that they.
• 1:10:44
  Speaker 3: Sell, what's their number one thing is I think that
• 1:10:48
  Speaker 3: there's like a beef jerky wall. Okay, wow, you can
• 1:10:51
  Speaker 3: get my dream.
• 1:10:52
  Speaker 2: Any kind of beef jerky. There's like also can't so
• 1:10:55
  Speaker 2: much candy, but there's there's also I've never seen so
• 1:10:59
  Speaker 2: much any urinals.
• 1:11:02
  Speaker 3: There is throughout the store. There everywhere they're outside. You
• 1:11:08
  Speaker 3: can pump gas and pe at the same time. But
• 1:11:10
  Speaker 3: there's so many gas pumps, there's so many urinals. And
• 1:11:14
  Speaker 3: there's also so many freezers with ice. That's freney because
• 1:11:20
  Speaker 3: I think a lot of people on road trips with
• 1:11:21
  Speaker 3: coolers that need them right.
• 1:11:24
  Speaker 2: And then of course, in addition to that, you can
• 1:11:27
  Speaker 2: get hot lunch, you can get pastries. Colatchies is a
• 1:11:30
  Speaker 2: big Calachis. You can get Calachies, and you can buy
• 1:11:34
  Speaker 2: your entire wardrobe. They've got clothing, clothing, anything for the kitchen.
• 1:11:40
  Speaker 2: Any you would have so many doormat options. I'm telling
• 1:11:46
  Speaker 2: you any doormat you could possibly want. It could say
• 1:11:48
  Speaker 2: don't mess with Texas, sure, but it could also you
• 1:11:51
  Speaker 2: probably can find the bridge.
• 1:11:54
  Speaker 3: That's the one thing that no one will ever print
• 1:11:56
  Speaker 3: on a product is the name Bridger. Bridges closest I'll
• 1:11:59
  Speaker 3: ever get, not even a bridge, bridget, no.
• 1:12:02
  Speaker 2: Bridge it yeah, oh yeah, bridget. Well you can always
• 1:12:04
  Speaker 2: get like a bridget and like turn the T into
• 1:12:07
  Speaker 2: an R.
• 1:12:07
  Speaker 3: That's true, it's gonna be janky looking carv it R.
• 1:12:11
  Speaker 2: But yeah, but when I like BUCkies is the kind
• 1:12:15
  Speaker 2: of place where you go and you're looking through like
• 1:12:16
  Speaker 2: their housewares department, and you think, I want to buy
• 1:12:20
  Speaker 2: all new housewares and I want them all.
• 1:12:23
  Speaker 3: Idea that it went this.
• 1:12:24
  Speaker 2: Far, it's worth it. There's some small BUCkies, right that
• 1:12:27
  Speaker 2: aren't like that. There's smaller BUCkies that are more like
• 1:12:29
  Speaker 2: a really nice seven eleven. But it's sort of I mean,
• 1:12:33
  Speaker 2: it's like it's basically like Target meets a gas station
• 1:12:37
  Speaker 2: meets seven eleven. Yeah, it's a gas station.
• 1:12:40
  Speaker 3: Well, you're saying, gift. Ultimately back to that gift, gift, gift, gift.
• 1:12:46
  Speaker 3: It's a curse. Those moments between losing the wallet and
• 1:12:51
  Speaker 3: finding the wallet will aid you a million years. I
• 1:12:53
  Speaker 3: don't care what relief there is. At the end. You're
• 1:12:57
  Speaker 3: sick to your stomach, and by the time you get
• 1:12:59
  Speaker 3: to the wall wallet you might as well be dead. Damn.
• 1:13:03
  Speaker 3: It's a horrible I know that there's some relief there,
• 1:13:06
  Speaker 3: but I'd rather die. It's a curse.
• 1:13:09
  Speaker 2: Wow, losing the wallet at all.
• 1:13:11
  Speaker 3: I can't. I can't lose the wallet. I can't. I
• 1:13:13
  Speaker 3: would rather not find the wallet. Oh, I'd rather just
• 1:13:17
  Speaker 3: have to start over, start a scratch, because I'm devastated,
• 1:13:20
  Speaker 3: beyond belief. I lost my bag in New York a
• 1:13:24
  Speaker 3: couple of months ago. The ten minutes of not having
• 1:13:27
  Speaker 3: it horrible, absolutely horrible. Age at least five years. So
• 1:13:33
  Speaker 3: you've missed that point.
• 1:13:34
  Speaker 2: Damn okay.
• 1:13:36
  Speaker 3: Number three this is from and this is a strange
• 1:13:39
  Speaker 3: combination of names. Two listeners have written in Casey and
• 1:13:42
  Speaker 3: Anthony have suggested food courts.
• 1:13:45
  Speaker 2: Are you sure it wasn't Casey Anthony.
• 1:13:47
  Speaker 3: Her middle names? And we're just finding out Casey and
• 1:13:53
  Speaker 3: Anthony have written in apparently or Casey Anthony and she
• 1:13:57
  Speaker 3: thought that this would throw us, throw us off. It
• 1:13:59
  Speaker 3: didn't do much work on the fake name, but they've
• 1:14:03
  Speaker 3: suggested food courts gift or a curse. Food courts are
• 1:14:06
  Speaker 3: a gift?
• 1:14:07
  Speaker 2: Why there's nothing like a cinnamon or a jamba juice
• 1:14:15
  Speaker 2: or a full on burger and fries to keep your
• 1:14:20
  Speaker 2: shopping experience going because I get very fatigued shopping. I'm
• 1:14:25
  Speaker 2: not I don't like shopping. I'm not a big shopper.
• 1:14:28
  Speaker 2: But if if I can split up a day shopping
• 1:14:30
  Speaker 2: at them all, or you know, some establishment with lots
• 1:14:34
  Speaker 2: of shops with a meal or even a snack, or
• 1:14:38
  Speaker 2: even if it's just like an even if it's just
• 1:14:40
  Speaker 2: like a diet coke, sure it will make all the
• 1:14:42
  Speaker 2: difference in the world. I recently went to a food
• 1:14:46
  Speaker 2: court at the Gallery in Glendale and I had the
• 1:14:49
  Speaker 2: most delicious five guys.
• 1:14:50
  Speaker 3: Burger and fries. Oh incredible, and a diet coke. It
• 1:14:54
  Speaker 3: was truly terrific.
• 1:14:55
  Speaker 2: And it costs thirty dollars. What thirty? It was twenty
• 1:15:02
  Speaker 2: seven dollars.
• 1:15:03
  Speaker 3: For a bird's airport pricing, right, what are they doing
• 1:15:07
  Speaker 3: over there?
• 1:15:08
  Speaker 2: I don't know. Is that am I just getting old?
• 1:15:11
  Speaker 2: Or is everything more expensive now?
• 1:15:13
  Speaker 3: I mean things are more expensive, certainly, things have gotten
• 1:15:16
  Speaker 3: out of hand pricing wise, especially within food. Yeah, I
• 1:15:19
  Speaker 3: feel like food the food industry is kind of I
• 1:15:22
  Speaker 3: don't know what they're doing. The egg prices went up
• 1:15:25
  Speaker 3: for ten minutes, and then everybody said everything is now
• 1:15:26
  Speaker 3: forty dollars. But you should not be paying thirty dollars
• 1:15:30
  Speaker 3: at a food court five guys.
• 1:15:32
  Speaker 2: I mean, I don't go to fast food often at all,
• 1:15:34
  Speaker 2: but like it used to be, you could get a
• 1:15:37
  Speaker 2: whole meal for five dollars, right, I.
• 1:15:39
  Speaker 3: Mean that was sure, that was a thing okay, Well,
• 1:15:41
  Speaker 3: I mean sure, Michael, I.
• 1:15:43
  Speaker 2: Mean six under ten.
• 1:15:46
  Speaker 3: But I will say ten years ago you could get
• 1:15:49
  Speaker 3: an eight dollars meal. I think you could get something
• 1:15:52
  Speaker 3: great dollars and now. But if you had said, if
• 1:15:54
  Speaker 3: I were to estimate how much you paid at the
• 1:15:56
  Speaker 3: food court, five guys, I would have said, fifteen dollars.
• 1:16:01
  Speaker 3: What did you order? I got a bacon cheeseburger right right,
• 1:16:05
  Speaker 3: and fries okay, and probably a large diet coke.
• 1:16:09
  Speaker 2: Sure, but that's that's it.
• 1:16:13
  Speaker 3: I would say, max sixteen dollars for that. There's something
• 1:16:17
  Speaker 3: going on at that food court.
• 1:16:18
  Speaker 2: Do you think they charged?
• 1:16:19
  Speaker 3: They must be. There's no way a free standing five
• 1:16:24
  Speaker 3: guys is charging somebody thirty dollars for that meal. If
• 1:16:26
  Speaker 3: they are, then the whole company should be shut down.
• 1:16:28
  Speaker 2: But it's also that five guys doesn't have a value menu.
• 1:16:33
  Speaker 2: I feel like most fast food places, you can get a.
• 1:16:37
  Speaker 3: Combo right of course, and it's cheaper. Well it's not cheaper,
• 1:16:41
  Speaker 3: but the price is just combined and you don't have
• 1:16:43
  Speaker 3: to do the math. Is that I think that's basically
• 1:16:46
  Speaker 3: actually cheap. I don't think that. Well, maybe some places.
• 1:16:49
  Speaker 2: They don't give it's everything's all a heart at five.
• 1:16:51
  Speaker 3: Guys, that doesn't it means nothing to me. That should
• 1:16:54
  Speaker 3: not be thirty dollars in and out that same meal
• 1:16:57
  Speaker 3: would have been eleven dollars. I know for a fact
• 1:16:59
  Speaker 3: because as I eat it probably twice a week, so
• 1:17:02
  Speaker 3: in and out my heart is going to explode.
• 1:17:04
  Speaker 2: Still has they still have a reasonable.
• 1:17:07
  Speaker 3: Completely reasonable, well made and reasonable. I mean their politics
• 1:17:11
  Speaker 3: are probably horrible. Yeah, but if the fries and in
• 1:17:15
  Speaker 3: and out are not great, once you get used to them,
• 1:17:17
  Speaker 3: everything's fine. The burgers are terrific, excellent, and if you
• 1:17:21
  Speaker 3: order the fries well done, you're in a good spot.
• 1:17:23
  Speaker 3: Oh interesting, These are the tricks people need to know.
• 1:17:27
  Speaker 2: You can do that. Oh yeah, you can say I
• 1:17:29
  Speaker 2: want my fries well done.
• 1:17:30
  Speaker 3: Oh yeah, they're happy to do it.
• 1:17:32
  Speaker 2: Oh okay, because I just like over salt them and
• 1:17:34
  Speaker 2: pretend like it's.
• 1:17:36
  Speaker 3: I mean, it is ultimately just something salt delivery service.
• 1:17:39
  Speaker 3: I just need something to be pure salt in every meal,
• 1:17:42
  Speaker 3: so I don't really care what texture it is exactly.
• 1:17:46
  Speaker 2: What would be your favor if you had to choose,
• 1:17:48
  Speaker 2: But any fast food is in and out what you would.
• 1:17:52
  Speaker 3: In and out and howl and raise, which is not.
• 1:17:55
  Speaker 3: It's there, only have two locations in LA But it's
• 1:17:57
  Speaker 3: a fast food place. It's like hot Chicken. Oh yeah,
• 1:18:01
  Speaker 3: those are the two places.
• 1:18:02
  Speaker 2: Frat Burger, what about fast?
• 1:18:03
  Speaker 3: Never been to a fat Burger is really good? Is
• 1:18:05
  Speaker 3: it really really good? I don't even know where I
• 1:18:07
  Speaker 3: would go to fat.
• 1:18:08
  Speaker 2: There's one in Los Felis.
• 1:18:12
  Speaker 3: Oh, kind of in the same parking lot as John's
• 1:18:15
  Speaker 3: the grocery store, and there's a CVS there. Yeah, there's
• 1:18:21
  Speaker 3: yeah in the area, but it's not fast.
• 1:18:26
  Speaker 2: I wouldn't say I wouldn't necessarily call Fat Burger fast.
• 1:18:28
  Speaker 3: It feels more like a casual. You have to wait.
• 1:18:31
  Speaker 3: I mean they have a drive through situation. So you're
• 1:18:32
  Speaker 3: saying they have bad service.
• 1:18:35
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I guess that's I guess that is what I'm saying,
• 1:18:37
  Speaker 2: that it's a good burger but lousy service.
• 1:18:40
  Speaker 3: Well, I'll give you the correct answer here in a moment.
• 1:18:42
  Speaker 3: But I do want to say one more thing about
• 1:18:43
  Speaker 3: the Glendale Galleria. Yeah, I just found out they close
• 1:18:45
  Speaker 3: at eight pm. No, that makes no sense, that is
• 1:18:48
  Speaker 3: not natural for them all. I'm all as you're close
• 1:18:51
  Speaker 3: at nine pm, nine pm earliest, absolutely are during the holidays.
• 1:18:55
  Speaker 3: You've got a ten or eleven o'clock. Eight pm feels
• 1:18:58
  Speaker 3: like small town to me.
• 1:19:00
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, I feel like, if it's eight pm
• 1:19:02
  Speaker 2: and you're in the middle, will you even make it?
• 1:19:05
  Speaker 3: You probably freeze, dissolve or something that makes no sense
• 1:19:10
  Speaker 3: to me. Eight o'clock very early nine pm. I don't know.
• 1:19:14
  Speaker 3: Maybe it's a pandemic post pandemic sort of thing where
• 1:19:16
  Speaker 3: that we can't sustain them all after eight pm. But
• 1:19:20
  Speaker 3: I'm pretty sure the dent Tai Fung is open after
• 1:19:22
  Speaker 3: eight o'clock. So that makes what you're not familiar with
• 1:19:26
  Speaker 3: dent Taipung. No. The Dumpling Place, super Dumpling Place, wonderful,
• 1:19:30
  Speaker 3: almost impossible to get into. They were at the Americana.
• 1:19:34
  Speaker 3: It's a big controversy because they moved to the Galleria.
• 1:19:37
  Speaker 3: It was a big win for the Galley.
• 1:19:39
  Speaker 2: Oh oh, and you can get to it from the outside. Yes, yes, okay,
• 1:19:42
  Speaker 2: I know what you're talking about, but I've never been.
• 1:19:44
  Speaker 3: I believe it used to be a virtual reality center
• 1:19:47
  Speaker 3: right there that no one went to. Turned into a restaurant. Wow,
• 1:19:51
  Speaker 3: great dumplings. I do like the Americana. I like the
• 1:19:54
  Speaker 3: American I prefer the Galleria.
• 1:19:58
  Speaker 2: Do you like the grove.
• 1:20:00
  Speaker 3: I don't mind the I feel like the grove is sparse.
• 1:20:02
  Speaker 3: They don't have enough happening at the grove. Don't you
• 1:20:05
  Speaker 3: think it's pretty small? It is pretty small.
• 1:20:07
  Speaker 2: The food the Farmer's market situation is pretty great. Oh
• 1:20:11
  Speaker 2: the food court thing there which doesn't have they don't
• 1:20:14
  Speaker 2: have that. At the Americana they don't.
• 1:20:16
  Speaker 3: The Americana you kind of have to do, almost has
• 1:20:19
  Speaker 3: no food. It's kind of like a cheese.
• 1:20:21
  Speaker 2: Cheesecake factory or popcorn at the movie.
• 1:20:23
  Speaker 3: Isn't that right?
• 1:20:23
  Speaker 2: Really? All you can or Mike, it is like a
• 1:20:26
  Speaker 2: really nice restaurants.
• 1:20:27
  Speaker 3: Right, like the Catsuya sushi place. I don't know that
• 1:20:31
  Speaker 3: that qualifies as a nice restaurant, but it's like a
• 1:20:33
  Speaker 3: sushi place.
• 1:20:34
  Speaker 2: I like, you know, not not like I mean, cheesecake
• 1:20:38
  Speaker 2: factory is perfectly nice.
• 1:20:39
  Speaker 3: But it's we all know what exactly what the cheesecake
• 1:20:41
  Speaker 3: factory literally a factory. Yes, it's there are people standing
• 1:20:46
  Speaker 3: in a line producing your product, horrible conditions. Okay, well
• 1:20:53
  Speaker 3: look I have to give you the answer. Yeah, food
• 1:20:55
  Speaker 3: courts are a gift.
• 1:20:56
  Speaker 2: I love a food court.
• 1:20:57
  Speaker 3: What I'll say, I love to go. I love a
• 1:20:59
  Speaker 3: hot dog on a I love them. Well, that might
• 1:21:03
  Speaker 3: be the only thing I like to eat in a
• 1:21:04
  Speaker 3: food court anymore, but there's probably something else I would
• 1:21:07
  Speaker 3: like to eat there. And I love the atmosphere. I
• 1:21:10
  Speaker 3: love the mix of smells that feels bad, and I
• 1:21:16
  Speaker 3: prefer them to a food hall. Are you familiar with
• 1:21:19
  Speaker 3: food halls? Food halls are simply food courts for millennials. Oh,
• 1:21:23
  Speaker 3: it's exactly a food court, except for we've started calling
• 1:21:26
  Speaker 3: them a food hall. Maybe they're like slightly nicer restaurants,
• 1:21:31
  Speaker 3: more chef driven restaurants. But they're ridiculous and I hate
• 1:21:35
  Speaker 3: that that it even exists. Just give me a trashy
• 1:21:38
  Speaker 3: food court that a teen can make me feel uncomfortable.
• 1:21:40
  Speaker 3: And Casey and Anthony have written in given us the suggestion.
• 1:21:46
  Speaker 3: Thank you, Casey. And and is probably her grandmother's name.
• 1:21:51
  Speaker 3: It's a beautiful middle name, full.
• 1:21:54
  Speaker 2: Name Andrew, grandmother grandma Andrew.
• 1:21:59
  Speaker 3: Well you two out of three, not bad, not bad,
• 1:22:01
  Speaker 3: not bad, not bad, not bad. I could have I
• 1:22:03
  Speaker 3: could have done better, but I could. You can always
• 1:22:06
  Speaker 3: do better. We can always do better, and that's one
• 1:22:08
  Speaker 3: of the nice things about life.
• 1:22:10
  Speaker 2: Do you like Grand Central Market? Oh?
• 1:22:12
  Speaker 3: I don't mind. I went there a lot during my
• 1:22:14
  Speaker 3: jury duty trial thing where they were trying to pick
• 1:22:18
  Speaker 3: jury duty. Yeah, and I ate a lot at they
• 1:22:22
  Speaker 3: have a good Korean place.
• 1:22:23
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and amazing place or what and then a savch play.
• 1:22:29
  Speaker 2: So they have all different kinds of phenomenal.
• 1:22:32
  Speaker 3: I've had neither of those.
• 1:22:34
  Speaker 2: An egg slut, Oh, of.
• 1:22:35
  Speaker 3: Course, egg slutt. That's the original egg slut. Egg slott.
• 1:22:39
  Speaker 3: I'm the kind of.
• 1:22:41
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I like saying it, but.
• 1:22:43
  Speaker 3: Yeah, but the place I like, I think we've seen
• 1:22:46
  Speaker 3: it's seen better days.
• 1:22:47
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 1:22:47
  Speaker 3: Also, I think it should be called eggs sex worker.
• 1:22:50
  Speaker 3: Eggs sex worker is much catchier. It's time to get
• 1:22:54
  Speaker 3: with the times. Egg slut. Okay, it's time for the
• 1:22:58
  Speaker 3: final segment of the podcast. This is called I said
• 1:23:00
  Speaker 3: no emails. Yes, people write into I said no gifts
• 1:23:03
  Speaker 3: at gmail dot com, absolutely desperate for answers. Will you
• 1:23:06
  Speaker 3: help me answer a question? Yeah, okay, let's get into
• 1:23:09
  Speaker 3: the document here. This says dear Oh, speaking of dear
• 1:23:14
  Speaker 3: Bridget and predictably disrespectful guests. So I don't know if
• 1:23:19
  Speaker 3: that was purposeful or what, but this person is just
• 1:23:22
  Speaker 3: kind of getting at me from the start. I need
• 1:23:25
  Speaker 3: help for some background. My now fiance and I got
• 1:23:28
  Speaker 3: together just about six months before lockdown. As you can
• 1:23:31
  Speaker 3: into it, we survived and thrived, but as a result
• 1:23:34
  Speaker 3: of our honeymoon phase continuing into the pandemic, we had
• 1:23:38
  Speaker 3: extra time and money to go way over the top
• 1:23:40
  Speaker 3: with gifts for birthdays. As examples, I bought him a
• 1:23:43
  Speaker 3: much needed Martin acoustic guitar. He followed that with a
• 1:23:46
  Speaker 3: mini album of five of my favorite songs that he
• 1:23:49
  Speaker 3: recorded and played every instrument on. I came back at
• 1:23:52
  Speaker 3: that with having a dozen of our friends record their
• 1:23:55
  Speaker 3: versions of his favorite songs and learned how to mix
• 1:23:58
  Speaker 3: to create an album. Oh my God, what's happening here?
• 1:24:01
  Speaker 3: He came back at that with quite literally individually illustrating
• 1:24:05
  Speaker 3: the thirty two things he loves about me? Oh what
• 1:24:08
  Speaker 3: about me? For my thirty second birthday. It goes on,
• 1:24:11
  Speaker 3: but I'd hate to bore you. Won We've got bad
• 1:24:13
  Speaker 3: news for you. Last year we called a birthday gift
• 1:24:17
  Speaker 3: truths as things continued to escalate and we just couldn't
• 1:24:20
  Speaker 3: outdo each other. Yeah, this could have led to you
• 1:24:23
  Speaker 3: could escalate to murder. They would have killed each other.
• 1:24:26
  Speaker 3: In October of twenty twenty four, he will be turning forty,
• 1:24:29
  Speaker 3: and I feel that I must have a gift of grandiosity,
• 1:24:32
  Speaker 3: especially since we just did cards last year. He loves
• 1:24:36
  Speaker 3: music and art most of all the Tim and Eric universe,
• 1:24:39
  Speaker 3: and is really quite a brilliant, humble and unassuming art professor.
• 1:24:43
  Speaker 3: I'm willing to splurge on something within reason, but can't
• 1:24:46
  Speaker 3: come up with a new idea. I've done the cameo thing,
• 1:24:49
  Speaker 3: gotten him an outdoor pizza oven, a vacation period. Help
• 1:24:53
  Speaker 3: me come up with something new. Best regards Aaron, what
• 1:24:55
  Speaker 3: is this couple doing? Wow, the amount of things they've done,
• 1:25:00
  Speaker 3: It's like a lifetime of like I.
• 1:25:02
  Speaker 2: Know, I think, I think for his fortieth birthday she
• 1:25:04
  Speaker 2: should dump him.
• 1:25:05
  Speaker 3: Absolutely get rid of this looser. He drew some pictures
• 1:25:09
  Speaker 3: and recorded some songs that you had to act like
• 1:25:12
  Speaker 3: you liked. I know you're getting him a vacation, an
• 1:25:16
  Speaker 3: outdoor pizza oven. This guy's a dirt bag. I wonder
• 1:25:18
  Speaker 3: who she booked on cameo for it? Oh interesting, and
• 1:25:22
  Speaker 3: she kind of gave us no details about the music
• 1:25:25
  Speaker 3: or anything. Who could have possibly been? You feel like
• 1:25:28
  Speaker 3: the guy from Sugar Ray does a lot of cameos.
• 1:25:30
  Speaker 3: What's his name? Mark McGrath. I'm assuming it was Mark McGrath.
• 1:25:34
  Speaker 3: Let's go over that she got.
• 1:25:36
  Speaker 2: She's willing to spend a lot of money a pizza,
• 1:25:39
  Speaker 2: an outdoor pizza oven.
• 1:25:40
  Speaker 3: How much does that cost. It's a huge thing.
• 1:25:43
  Speaker 2: That's expensive, right, it's got to be I mean, that's
• 1:25:46
  Speaker 2: a brick and you know it must be right.
• 1:25:49
  Speaker 3: I mean, maybe my knowledge of a pizza oven is limited,
• 1:25:52
  Speaker 3: but I'm at I'm picturing one of those giant igloo shapes.
• 1:25:56
  Speaker 2: It's gotta be huge. You don't just pick that up. No,
• 1:26:00
  Speaker 2: Low's that's something that you have to like have I
• 1:26:03
  Speaker 2: don't think maybe you do. I don't know. I don't know.
• 1:26:06
  Speaker 2: That's something.
• 1:26:07
  Speaker 3: Assuming she spent thirty thousand dollars on that. Wow, the
• 1:26:10
  Speaker 3: vacation it feels like. And the pandemic. It's twenty twenty,
• 1:26:15
  Speaker 3: this has been four years of time. Yeah, the amount
• 1:26:18
  Speaker 3: of this is hundreds of thousands of dollars in gifts.
• 1:26:20
  Speaker 3: Let's assume this couple, she's got to get out of
• 1:26:23
  Speaker 3: the get him out of the picture.
• 1:26:25
  Speaker 2: They don't there's no mention of they're not married.
• 1:26:28
  Speaker 3: Well, if they are married, she should divorce and get
• 1:26:30
  Speaker 3: all of this back.
• 1:26:31
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think she should like go out with a bang,
• 1:26:35
  Speaker 2: she should go get pregnant by another man and then say,
• 1:26:42
  Speaker 2: happy fortieth.
• 1:26:43
  Speaker 3: I'm naming the child after you. The perfect gift. He
• 1:26:48
  Speaker 3: didn't have to put in any work.
• 1:26:49
  Speaker 2: And he doesn't have to raise the child because it's
• 1:26:51
  Speaker 2: somebody else's. He can leave, she can leave. And but
• 1:26:56
  Speaker 2: what did you get for?
• 1:26:57
  Speaker 3: Did you?
• 1:26:57
  Speaker 2: Are you forty?
• 1:26:59
  Speaker 3: No? But Jim's about to turn a few years from fifty,
• 1:27:03
  Speaker 3: a couple of years from fifty, and he never does
• 1:27:05
  Speaker 3: anything for his birthdays. But he keeps threatening that he
• 1:27:07
  Speaker 3: wants to do something big for his birthday. And I
• 1:27:10
  Speaker 3: don't even know how that's going to manifest itself because
• 1:27:12
  Speaker 3: he never does anything for his birthday. What is he
• 1:27:14
  Speaker 3: going to want?
• 1:27:15
  Speaker 2: What is Jimmy Smoogoola gonna want for his fiftieth?
• 1:27:19
  Speaker 3: He doesn't ever want anything. It's he's a very hard
• 1:27:22
  Speaker 3: person to get a gift for. I guess some sort
• 1:27:25
  Speaker 3: of event, a party, yeah, where people come and celebrate him.
• 1:27:30
  Speaker 2: I think, well, he loves he loves like like good desserts.
• 1:27:35
  Speaker 3: He loves it. He loves a good meal. So I
• 1:27:37
  Speaker 3: think cheesecake factory.
• 1:27:39
  Speaker 2: I think it's cheesecake factory at the Americana.
• 1:27:42
  Speaker 3: That's always the ultimate gift. Jim would say, can we
• 1:27:45
  Speaker 3: please just go somewhere where we don't get a number?
• 1:27:49
  Speaker 3: He says that to me because that's so funny. So
• 1:27:53
  Speaker 3: that's what That's how I'll spoiled Jim on his fiftieth.
• 1:27:55
  Speaker 2: But this person for my fortieth was in the pandemic
• 1:27:59
  Speaker 2: and got me a few things, but he got me
• 1:28:02
  Speaker 2: a vintage Berry Manelow shirt.
• 1:28:05
  Speaker 3: Oh that's a really good you know that from what
• 1:28:08
  Speaker 3: decade would you say it was?
• 1:28:10
  Speaker 2: I think it was eighties.
• 1:28:12
  Speaker 3: Wow, So that's a real that's a stunning, s.
• 1:28:15
  Speaker 2: Really cute shirt. Fit me perfectly, it was, it was.
• 1:28:20
  Speaker 2: That was a really really good gift. And for him
• 1:28:23
  Speaker 2: I got and his nephew, our nephew and his sister
• 1:28:29
  Speaker 2: helped help. We got him a video, a compilation of
• 1:28:32
  Speaker 2: everybody that loves him.
• 1:28:34
  Speaker 3: He's very sweet. That's a yeah, end in tears sort
• 1:28:37
  Speaker 3: of thing.
• 1:28:38
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, exactly if he if he had tears.
• 1:28:40
  Speaker 3: He's emotionless. He's emotionless. So he didn't get a very cold,
• 1:28:43
  Speaker 3: cruel person.
• 1:28:47
  Speaker 2: Yeah. So yeah, like that's that's tough. That's she's she's
• 1:28:50
  Speaker 2: really outdone.
• 1:28:51
  Speaker 3: Herself. She's she's painted herself into a corner where all
• 1:28:54
  Speaker 3: she can do is have an affair and get pregnant
• 1:28:58
  Speaker 3: and move on with her life and ditch this loser.
• 1:29:00
  Speaker 3: I think that's it, and take his pizza up and yeah,
• 1:29:03
  Speaker 3: take back the vacation. However you can do that, demand
• 1:29:07
  Speaker 3: the rights to the cameo. Uh, and then it's perfect.
• 1:29:13
  Speaker 2: But if he's an art history professor, I suppose you
• 1:29:16
  Speaker 2: could do. You know, I was in the stage version
• 1:29:19
  Speaker 2: of the Da Vinci Code.
• 1:29:20
  Speaker 3: Oh I love this. I know, I'm surprisingly on stage.
• 1:29:25
  Speaker 3: That's where I was. That's what it was born to be.
• 1:29:28
  Speaker 2: I sort of thought that's what the bulk of this
• 1:29:30
  Speaker 2: interview would be about. But it's okay that.
• 1:29:32
  Speaker 3: That episode we'll have a slight music and then get
• 1:29:37
  Speaker 3: into episode two. Dan Brown.
• 1:29:41
  Speaker 2: Dan Dan is actually really cool.
• 1:29:44
  Speaker 3: House, I hope. So he's got a lot of money.
• 1:29:46
  Speaker 2: He has so much money, and he's done really well.
• 1:29:49
  Speaker 2: He's done a really good job with it, like he
• 1:29:51
  Speaker 2: you know, sometimes he's like like really really rich people.
• 1:29:54
  Speaker 2: You think, you know, what are you even doing with it?
• 1:29:57
  Speaker 3: Like, oh, Constant, I'm like, oh, you get to have
• 1:29:59
  Speaker 3: all that money and we're making horrible choices he has.
• 1:30:03
  Speaker 2: He had us over his house and it is a
• 1:30:04
  Speaker 2: really cool house. Very Dan Brown. Anyway, one of the
• 1:30:08
  Speaker 2: closing night gifts or opening night gifts that someone gave
• 1:30:10
  Speaker 2: all of us was a Mona Lisa card, but instead
• 1:30:15
  Speaker 2: of the Mona Lisa face, it was our own face.
• 1:30:18
  Speaker 2: And I wonder as an art historian if he might
• 1:30:22
  Speaker 2: get a kick out of something like that.
• 1:30:23
  Speaker 3: That's not a bad idea, a commission of really accurate. Yeah,
• 1:30:27
  Speaker 3: it's what is the Mona Lisa oil? Well, I can
• 1:30:30
  Speaker 3: assume oil on whatever Mona Lisa has done the original
• 1:30:36
  Speaker 3: medium and of his face, or.
• 1:30:39
  Speaker 2: What about like what about like a portrait of him
• 1:30:42
  Speaker 2: in the style of Van Goal?
• 1:30:44
  Speaker 3: Oh interest, you know, like all Like I mean, I
• 1:30:47
  Speaker 3: think what we're kind of doing without realizing it is
• 1:30:50
  Speaker 3: setting up a divorce because he's not gonna like it
• 1:30:52
  Speaker 3: and she's gonna feel mad.
• 1:30:54
  Speaker 2: I want them to separate.
• 1:30:56
  Speaker 3: Yes, you're just trying to get these stupid part as
• 1:30:57
  Speaker 3: quickly as possible.
• 1:30:58
  Speaker 2: Something to mock. I want her to do something to
• 1:31:02
  Speaker 2: say I don't respect you.
• 1:31:05
  Speaker 3: This is all but a lie. Well, Aaron, let's see Aaron.
• 1:31:12
  Speaker 2: Oh, I'm sorry you're talking to you were.
• 1:31:18
  Speaker 3: Well, Aaron, I write this long to lose my mind
• 1:31:23
  Speaker 3: on the episode. No, Aaron has so many options here. Yeah,
• 1:31:27
  Speaker 3: cheesecake factory, baby painting. You can't go wrong, can't go wrong,
• 1:31:34
  Speaker 3: absolutely cannot go wrong. On a fortieth, you've got till October. Yeah,
• 1:31:39
  Speaker 3: you know to do all of those.
• 1:31:41
  Speaker 2: Yeah, you could do them all right, but but you
• 1:31:43
  Speaker 2: know you could start now and you could have the
• 1:31:45
  Speaker 2: baby by October.
• 1:31:46
  Speaker 3: Oh my god, the baby could be entering high school
• 1:31:49
  Speaker 3: really resent already? Yes, perfect, well, Michael, we answered the
• 1:31:55
  Speaker 3: question perfectly.
• 1:31:56
  Speaker 2: Great, I think so.
• 1:31:58
  Speaker 3: And now I have this measuring to which I'm just
• 1:32:00
  Speaker 3: gonna go crazy with measure thing. I'm going to know
• 1:32:03
  Speaker 3: the measurement of everything in my home.
• 1:32:05
  Speaker 2: Anything within three feet.
• 1:32:06
  Speaker 3: You can see your feet, but you can also go
• 1:32:08
  Speaker 3: you know, then you do three feet, and then you
• 1:32:10
  Speaker 3: just keep your finger there and then do another three feet.
• 1:32:13
  Speaker 2: That's right. That's the beauty of the tape.
• 1:32:15
  Speaker 3: That's the beauty of tape and space. Uh and uh,
• 1:32:18
  Speaker 3: I've just had a wonderful time with you here today.
• 1:32:21
  Speaker 3: Thank you for being here and listener, the podcast is over.
• 1:32:25
  Speaker 3: You've got to find something else to do. I'm not
• 1:32:28
  Speaker 3: giving you any suggestions. I'm leaving you on your own,
• 1:32:31
  Speaker 3: get out of here, goodbye. I love you. I said,
• 1:32:38
  Speaker 3: No Gifts is an exactly right production. It's produced by
• 1:32:42
  Speaker 3: our dear friend Analise Neilson, and it's beautifully mixed by
• 1:32:45
  Speaker 3: Ben Holliday. And we couldn't do it without our guest booker,
• 1:32:48
  Speaker 3: Patrick Kottner. The theme song, of course, could only come
• 1:32:52
  Speaker 3: from a miracle worker, Amy Man. You must follow the
• 1:32:56
  Speaker 3: show on Instagram at I said no Gifts, I don't
• 1:32:59
  Speaker 3: want to hear any excuses. That's where you get to
• 1:33:01
  Speaker 3: see pictures of all these gorgeous gifts I'm getting. And
• 1:33:04
  Speaker 3: don't you want to see pictures of the gifts?
• 1:33:07
  Speaker 1: And I invited you here, I thought I made myself
• 1:33:13
  Speaker 1: perfectly clear. But you're a guess to my home. You
• 1:33:20
  Speaker 1: gotta come to me empty, And I said, no guests.
• 1:33:26
  Speaker 1: Your own presences presents enough. And I already had too
• 1:33:32
  Speaker 1: much stuff, So how do you dare to surbey me