00:00:08 Speaker 1: Well, I invited you here, thought I made myself perfectly clear. But you're, I guess to my home. You gotta come to be empty, And I said, no, guest, your presences presents, and I already had too much stuff. So how did you dare to surbey me? 00:00:48 Speaker 2: Welcome to? I said, no gifts. I'm Richard Wineger. I've just come in from outside. I was walking around the neighborhood and noticed that the local tanning salon it's back in operation. So that's something that interests you. Reach out if you're in need of, you know, a deep rich tan or what have you. I don't know. It doesn't matter. What matters right now is I want to talk to our guest, our lovely, wonderful guest, Sandy Honig. Sandy, Welcome to. I said, no gifts. 00:01:23 Speaker 3: Thank you so much for having me. I got to be honest. 00:01:25 Speaker 4: I'd never heard your name said out loud before, and I thought it was pronounced differently. 00:01:30 Speaker 2: How did you think it was pronounced. 00:01:32 Speaker 3: Like vinegar but with the W. 00:01:34 Speaker 2: That's a lot of people, you know, truly. Part of the reason I started this podcast was a largely just passive aggressive move on my part. There are certain people in my life that for years were pronouncing my last name incorrectly, and rather than pointing that out, I just waited years and years and then started a podcast and I'm now, yeah, I'm just going to test the waters and we'll see who's listening. But you know, there are certain people in my life who certainly should know by now how to pronounce my last name, and they don't. So that's fine. But you know, last names are tricky and we don't use them that often. 00:02:12 Speaker 3: You got mine correctly. 00:02:13 Speaker 2: Well, yours is easy? Yours? You would say, do people mispronounce yours? 00:02:18 Speaker 3: What are they saying a lot of honig or hong or honing? 00:02:23 Speaker 2: Oh? Interesting? 00:02:24 Speaker 3: People like to add or remove letters, right. 00:02:27 Speaker 2: And I guess the honig makes sense. 00:02:30 Speaker 4: Yeah, I think that is how you're technically supposed to pronounce it, like it's German, and I think that's how you say right in German. 00:02:37 Speaker 2: But yeah, honig. What does that say about me that I didn't even begin to think about the correct pronunciation? I just nailed it. 00:02:46 Speaker 3: Yours? 00:02:47 Speaker 2: Your pronunciation interesting, well, Sandy, I don't know if you're aware of this. I was over in your neighborhood earlier, and yeah, a little bit north of where you live. I noticed that they're are what appear to be monster trucks. Are you are you aware of this? 00:03:06 Speaker 3: Wait? Oh, like right next to my apartment? 00:03:09 Speaker 2: Right? 00:03:10 Speaker 4: Yes, this, I am aware of the building next to me. 00:03:15 Speaker 3: They have like multiple monster trucks. 00:03:18 Speaker 2: They are I'm not exaggerating. I mean, they're not like the biggest monster trucks ever, but they're like monster trucks. 00:03:24 Speaker 3: No, yes, they are. 00:03:25 Speaker 4: It's it's scary sometimes when I'm walking and they'll be pulling into the driveway. 00:03:32 Speaker 3: And what does it say about me that I forgot when you let that be part of your life? Trucks? What are you talking to? 00:03:38 Speaker 1: Oh? 00:03:39 Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, next door they have monster trucks. 00:03:40 Speaker 2: Of course, who is driving these? Are they? Are? 00:03:43 Speaker 1: They? 00:03:43 Speaker 2: Are they the normal vehicle of these people? Are they just cruising around town and these monster trucks? Or are these like? 00:03:49 Speaker 3: I think so? I think because they'll kind of just come in and out. 00:03:53 Speaker 2: Are they loud? No? 00:03:56 Speaker 3: Hmmm? 00:03:57 Speaker 2: Interesting hybrid monster trucks. 00:03:59 Speaker 3: Yeah. 00:04:00 Speaker 2: Have you ever been to a monster truck rally? I have not. 00:04:03 Speaker 3: Should I go? 00:04:04 Speaker 2: I think everyone owes it to themselves to at some point in their life go to a monster truck rally, Okay, I mean I don't do they still? I can't remember the last time I saw a monster truck rally advertised. 00:04:18 Speaker 3: Well, I can't imagine that they're going right. 00:04:20 Speaker 2: Now, pact arenas across the country. If you are screaming for monster trucks. 00:04:27 Speaker 3: Hey, I mean, why not? I I know. 00:04:31 Speaker 2: I feel like there are I mean, at least monster truck adjacent rallies happening, so you never know, but I do think. I mean, the last time I was at a monster truck rally, I was probably in fourth grade. But all I really remember was that it was the volume was deafening, you had to wear ear plugs and still wasn't enough, and you're kind of, you know, you're just watching people like your neighbors drive around in dirt and crush cars, which I guess has some entertainment value for fifteen minutes. 00:05:04 Speaker 3: And does someone win? 00:05:06 Speaker 2: Does someone? That's a great question, I don't. I feel like when I went to the Monster truck rally, it almost had a pro wrestling style storyline where at one point I and this could be entirely imagined. I feel like one of the monster trucks almost transformed into like a you know, like robot or something. But they had like characters. There was like the grave Digger that was like kind of a hearse that was a monster truck. But I don't remember winning or losing or. 00:05:40 Speaker 3: I think you dreamt this. 00:05:42 Speaker 2: This is my dream from twelve hours ago. I did not even come to your neighborhood and none of this exists. How are you doing? 00:05:52 Speaker 3: I'm pretty good. 00:05:54 Speaker 2: What's been going on? 00:05:55 Speaker 1: But well, you. 00:05:56 Speaker 3: Know, we've coronavirusrus. 00:06:00 Speaker 2: Coronavirus is. 00:06:02 Speaker 3: Thing that I don't know if you've heard about it, but it's it's it's pretty, uh, pretty crazy stuff. I do find like I try very much to be like whenever I find myself being like, this is crazy, right, I'm like, is that hacked to say? 00:06:16 Speaker 4: At this point, it's like, of course, it's it feels hacked, be like. 00:06:20 Speaker 2: There's a hack because everyone's experiencing it and everyone's feeling that way, so it's just like, well, yeah, of course. 00:06:25 Speaker 3: But it's just like, but it is, it's crazy. 00:06:28 Speaker 2: What other thing is there to say about it? 00:06:31 Speaker 3: Yeah? I guess what what else is? 00:06:34 Speaker 1: You know? 00:06:34 Speaker 4: There's not a lot new I guess in my life. I cut my finger the other day, your finger. I was trying to make a funny video. 00:06:47 Speaker 2: Did it work? Uh? 00:06:50 Speaker 3: Well, I caught on camera me slicing my finger open. 00:06:53 Speaker 2: I think that's more valuable than like whatever you had planned. Yeah, like a real violent reaction and whatever your what you do with a cut finger? 00:07:03 Speaker 1: Was it? 00:07:03 Speaker 2: Did it hurt? You know? 00:07:06 Speaker 3: I think I was in a little too much of shock to feel. I really didn't feel much pain, but I almost passed out from looking at it. 00:07:16 Speaker 2: Wow. So was it a fairly deep cut? 00:07:19 Speaker 3: Yes? 00:07:20 Speaker 2: Oh no? And did you end up at the hospital? I did not. 00:07:24 Speaker 3: Luckily. 00:07:25 Speaker 4: My neighbor cuts his finger all the time, he says, and he had all the stuff for it, and he just like he put like some bandages on it, and he was like, you're fine, you don't have to go to the hospital. 00:07:38 Speaker 2: Oh. Interesting, the finger expert next door, exactly interesting. So does it hurt now? Is it? Are you like changing the bandage? How do you treat this? 00:07:49 Speaker 3: When I'm brave, I'll change I'll let it out for like an hour a day, I'll let it, take it on a walk, take. 00:07:55 Speaker 4: It on a walk, let a breathe, and then I kind of just ignore it and I feel like right now, it's in the point where I just kind of like feel it like tugging. 00:08:06 Speaker 2: Oh okay, So now with the video you were making, is this going to be released store? Is this? 00:08:11 Speaker 3: I don't think so. 00:08:12 Speaker 2: So what were you doing in the video? Did you see. 00:08:17 Speaker 3: The thing that was going around on Twitter? I'm sure you did where everything is cake? Oh do you cut everything open and it's cake? 00:08:25 Speaker 4: I said, well, it would be funny to make my own version where I'm just cutting open things that shouldn't be cut open, right because it's difficult to cut them open and pretending that. 00:08:38 Speaker 2: Their cake inside, right. 00:08:40 Speaker 4: And then weirdly, I ended up cutting my finger. How weird is this that I ended up cutting? 00:08:49 Speaker 2: That's incredible. 00:08:51 Speaker 3: Turned out the inside of my finger was cake. 00:08:53 Speaker 2: There was there. What was the object you were cutting when your finger got cut? 00:09:00 Speaker 3: A bottle of vitamins? 00:09:03 Speaker 2: Oh? Perfect? Yeah, well, I feel like I'm to be clear. 00:09:07 Speaker 3: I lied to everyone and didn't and said that I was just cutting food. 00:09:11 Speaker 2: Oh of course you couldn't reveal I was trying to make a viral video. 00:09:16 Speaker 3: No, I wanted to make a funny video and I cut my finger open, and I was mortified. I was like, yeah, no, I was cutting bread. 00:09:25 Speaker 2: Oh no, Well, but see this. I'm very curious about all this because I've like, obviously as everyone is doing, is cooking more at home, and I have, you know, a terrible knife which I'm chopping things up with just willy nilly, and about once a day there's a close encounter with chopping half my hand off or that sort of thing, and it's just waiting for me. I guess I should sharpen the knife, but I don't have anything to sharpen it with. And avocados are very tricky. I'll cut one open. So that's the. 00:09:54 Speaker 4: One where I feel like people get dangerous because they'll just they'll just slam the knife down to try to get that hit out. 00:10:00 Speaker 3: I feel like. 00:10:01 Speaker 2: Everyone, yeah, and you don't know. You never know what the pit is going to hold. Sometimes it's perfect, it cuts right into it, and it's other times the pit splinters off. Other times you just slip off with the you know, it could go in any direction. And this is coming from someone who's you know, worked in a cafe bakery. I've sized plenty of avocados. I'm still struggling, so I don't know what to tell people. Be careful at home, be careful with it. 00:10:26 Speaker 4: Be careful when you're cutting open your vitamin bottles. Just be careful because they can actually as they're around, they might slip. 00:10:36 Speaker 2: Right, and then you know, the vitamins are going to be everywhere. Your finger is bleeding and what's next. Your medical situation is all over the place. Well, speaking of Twitter, this morning, knowing that we were going to be doing this, I thought, I'm going to check in with Sandy, what's she been up to? And so I typed your name into Twitter and I learn that your account has been blocked and the currently your name on it is Avanka Trump and that's all theation. So I assume something has been going on, and I would I would love to know more. 00:11:14 Speaker 4: Yeah, I think I've been banned completely from the Twitter. Well, you know that thing that Jabouki young White you know does and Zack Fox. 00:11:29 Speaker 3: Yeah, Cole and I are currently still suspended. 00:11:32 Speaker 1: Right. 00:11:32 Speaker 2: Cole has been gone for a long time and I don't remember even what happened there. 00:11:36 Speaker 3: He impersonated build a Blasio. 00:11:39 Speaker 2: Oh okay, sure, and his were really good. 00:11:42 Speaker 3: Sure, but yeah, for for the listener who's not familiar, you know, if you are, uh mortified. 00:11:50 Speaker 4: I have to be verified for no reason like I am or was I was mortified because I said, why am I verified? I shouldn't be verified? 00:11:59 Speaker 3: And Jabouki what he used to do is when he was verified, he would change his name on Twitter and his picture to like some big celebrity or you know, politician, or he did the FBI once and it looks like that person is tweeting yes. And then he got his verification revoked and I said, oh know, I'll. 00:12:21 Speaker 2: Do a So what were you tweeting as Avanka? 00:12:28 Speaker 4: I tweeted happy pride even just because I'm married to a man doesn't mean I'm not bisexual, which people got kind of mad at me about. 00:12:40 Speaker 2: That's truly, like, in the grand spectrum of all of this is absolutely nothing. 00:12:46 Speaker 4: Yeah, I tweeted a couple other things, like I tweeted a picture of like a Etsy thing that I found that said like live laugh, diet coke and like someone by this for you know. 00:12:59 Speaker 3: It was kind of like it was really like not anything. 00:13:04 Speaker 2: I know, but people, you know, was it like Avanka or like Trump people coming after you? 00:13:11 Speaker 3: No, it was like by people. 00:13:17 Speaker 2: By people you know better come. 00:13:20 Speaker 3: Which like you know. 00:13:21 Speaker 4: I wasn't trying to say it's funny that she's by, you know, like oh. 00:13:26 Speaker 2: Ha ha ha it would be. 00:13:31 Speaker 1: But uh it. 00:13:33 Speaker 4: Then I got suspended and I appealed and they said your account will. 00:13:39 Speaker 3: Not be restored. 00:13:40 Speaker 4: So I think I think I'm completely banned, like for life. And then I made a second Twitter to protest my suspension, and then I was suspended. 00:13:50 Speaker 2: There is they found that? Yeah, who is this army of people who are like tracking down Sandy for nothing? That's crazy to I like kind of in some way be like, Okay, they blocked this one account, but then they're like hunting you. It's crazy to make well. 00:14:07 Speaker 4: I tweeted from my new account and said I was banned, and I posted a screenshot of it, and like some people shared it, so I think it. 00:14:18 Speaker 2: Got Oh, the same people who were mad at you before came back for you. 00:14:23 Speaker 4: Yeah, or like I don't really know how it works, like if it's one if someone reported me and. 00:14:29 Speaker 3: That or you know, something like that. But I was under the impression that you ban the account, not the person, right. 00:14:36 Speaker 4: Like I was like, you know, my new account didn't violate any rule. 00:14:39 Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a whole new Sandy. 00:14:40 Speaker 3: For all they know, it was called Dandy Honig Knew. Oh yeah, Dandy Hounding Knew. They can't prove it's me. 00:14:50 Speaker 2: Of course not. I mean, it could have been a different Sandy. 00:14:53 Speaker 3: It could have been not very vite, I. 00:14:55 Speaker 2: Mean, and that could have been that could be your married last name New. Anybody was this woman out there who's married to Tom New and it's trying to start her account and it's immediately blocked on Twitter. 00:15:08 Speaker 3: But my brother when I when I made my new account, he was like, do you think that they're going to ban you here? Because you're kind of like rubbing it in their face that they banned you and you made a new account. And I was like, how could they? I didn't violate any rule on this account and then immediately banned again. So I have a secret Twitter for like I've had it for like a year, and I just kind of tweet whatever on it and so now I just use that and that's. 00:15:34 Speaker 2: I mean, I guess that's all you can do. Well, hopefully they don't listen to this, you know, and suddenly that one vanishes from the internet. I mean, are you getting I mean, being blocked and banned from Twitter? Sounds incredible. 00:15:48 Speaker 3: It's kind of nice. 00:15:50 Speaker 4: I mean, I kind of just lurk around and I'll my friends know that which account is mine, the like fake account, so. 00:15:57 Speaker 3: I'll just kind of respond to their tweet for fun. 00:16:00 Speaker 4: Oh sure, but you know, I'll just I've been tweeting about my finger on the fake account, you know. 00:16:05 Speaker 2: So you're kind of getting the pure Twitter experience at this point. You're not like dealing with all of the nightmarish elements of it. 00:16:13 Speaker 3: No, not at all. 00:16:14 Speaker 4: I just follow the accounts that I want to follow, and I tweet about the progress and how my finger is healing. 00:16:19 Speaker 2: That's perfect. Hopefully one day the current could come off and like everyone can get a full picture of this finger. It's pretty pretty. 00:16:28 Speaker 3: Good right now. 00:16:30 Speaker 2: Okay, good good. I wonder what the healing time is going to be on that. Have you ever had to have stitches or anything? I have not. I am very careful. 00:16:39 Speaker 4: I thought I needed to once under my lip, but I was on Fire Island and there I couldn't get to a place to get stitches. 00:16:49 Speaker 3: And my mom's a doctor, so she. 00:16:50 Speaker 2: Just like, oh perfect, patched me together. 00:16:53 Speaker 1: Wow. 00:16:54 Speaker 2: Good for you for staying safe, and thank you sort of thing. I don't know what to say. I did want to talk to you a little bit about your photography. I mean, you're one of these people. I mean, you're not one of these people. You're a person who is You do comedy well and you also are a photographer, and you do that well. 00:17:13 Speaker 1: There. 00:17:13 Speaker 2: I mean, I think there are plenty of people out there that are saying they're doing both, which they're not and often not either. But for you to be able to do both and you you really do some beautiful photography. 00:17:24 Speaker 1: Thank you. 00:17:25 Speaker 3: And you do it as well. 00:17:26 Speaker 2: Oh thank you. They appreciate that. You know, I really put it throw it all in. Are you still actively pursuing photography? What's the I mean, especially with Corona and all of this, is that still something you're working with or what's the deal? 00:17:42 Speaker 4: I mean, I haven't really done much since Corona. I did like some photos for a friend that needed them, like distance with masks on Okay, But I feel like in the last couple of years I kind of switched where comedy for fun and photography was like for work, right, And I feel like now I have yes where you know, I'm lucky to be able to do comedy for work right, and photography more for fun and for work, like I'll do like. 00:18:15 Speaker 3: If it's a good job, I'll take it. 00:18:17 Speaker 4: But I definitely have more freedom to not do like event photography should I hated doing or like I worked for years for a wedding photographer. I was his editor. 00:18:28 Speaker 2: Oh okay, so I. 00:18:30 Speaker 4: Worked at his house and basically just went through He would take like thousands, sometimes like eight to ten thousand photos at a wedding and I would have. 00:18:37 Speaker 3: To go through all of them and edit it down to like a thousand. 00:18:42 Speaker 2: Oh no, that sounds extremely draining. 00:18:46 Speaker 3: It was pretty exhausting. 00:18:48 Speaker 2: Wow. Do you feel like you learned anything from it or was it just miserable? I? 00:18:56 Speaker 4: Well, you know the Adobe program light Room. I don't think I was completely fluent in the in the program, but now I feel very confident I learned a lot of like organizational stuff. 00:19:09 Speaker 3: And I also feel like if I was hired to photograph a wedding, I know what you're supposed to do. 00:19:14 Speaker 2: Now, Okay, sure, do you have any goals to photograph a wedding? I feel like at some point you should photographs like a friend's wedding or something I've done. 00:19:22 Speaker 3: I've done a few, but never like. 00:19:27 Speaker 4: Only if it's like low pressure, because there is something about people get crazy about, like event photography in particular, like they want photos of all the food and. 00:19:41 Speaker 2: What a waste of everyone's time. No one is going to be looking at those ever again. 00:19:45 Speaker 4: They'll get mad if you, like didn't photograph one of the orders, and why do. 00:19:49 Speaker 3: You need a photo of the appetizer? 00:19:52 Speaker 4: Why do you need that? I remember I did a like a wedding. It wasn't an actual wedding. It was like the wedding had taken place in another country and they were having like. 00:19:59 Speaker 2: A wedding party. Okay, sure, also. 00:20:02 Speaker 3: On Fire Island and I'm always there. 00:20:05 Speaker 2: You can't cut off Fire Island. You're injuring yourself. You're taking photos. 00:20:11 Speaker 4: But I I didn't get a photo of the bride's shoes, and they were really upset with me. 00:20:18 Speaker 2: What how did that manifest itself? Did they yell at you? Did they send nasty emails? What was the yah? 00:20:24 Speaker 4: They emails me multiple times being like, can you go through all the photos and see if you have any photos of the breast? I was like, I didn't, I'm sorry, but you have the shoes. 00:20:33 Speaker 2: Still yes, they still exist. 00:20:36 Speaker 3: You still have them. 00:20:38 Speaker 2: We burned them on the wedding. 00:20:40 Speaker 3: Why do you need a photo of the shoes? 00:20:43 Speaker 2: Oh yeah, that's just when you hire someone to do a job like that. I think you're just you trust what they take and that that's what you get there. I mean, like that's how photography works. 00:20:55 Speaker 4: I was also like twenty, and they hired me through some like lists serve from my college program, where they literally just emailed being like, we need like a college student to photograph this wedding course. Like, obviously I didn't know what I was doing. 00:21:09 Speaker 2: You're getting what you're getting. How much did they pay you? 00:21:11 Speaker 3: I have no recollection, but it can't it couldn't have been much. 00:21:14 Speaker 2: All right. I can't imagine. I've worked in a photography studio for like maybe eight months in maybe two thousand and eight, and I have zero recollection from it. Other than there was I was an assistant, and the other assistant was named Mallory. And at one point she brought in one of those I guess it must have been Halloween or something, but brought in like a cast role that was supposed to look like a cat litter box where she had like made like cat shit out of sausage. Oh, that's my only memory, Mallory. And she was always like yeah, and she brought that in and I just have been baffled ever since. But it was very pretty that's pretty vile, right, Like, I don't understand on any level why you would make that as a food dish, let alone bring it into a workplace. But I mean, I guess she really landed it in my memory, So Mallory will always be with me. I didn't eat that, and whatever, Mallory, Mallory, Mallory, if you're listening, bad move, Sandy. Moving on. I mentioned earlier, I was in your neighborhood earlier, strolling around seeing monster trucks, this sort of thing. We came and we didn't come in contact. We're in the middle of a pandemic. But we did see each other from about six feet and you indicated that you had a little package for me. 00:22:49 Speaker 3: Yes, I know you said no gifts. 00:22:52 Speaker 2: I know you said, okay, so you do. You definitely knew because we've been in touch a little bit over email and text, and so you who did hear I said no gifts. 00:23:04 Speaker 3: I'm sorry, and I'm sorry. I just like it felt rude to me. 00:23:08 Speaker 4: You and you were so nice to invite me on your podcast, and I just it would have felt weird to me to not. 00:23:15 Speaker 2: Okay, I mean, thank you. It's something you know I can. I can kind of follow your mental path there on some level. But you know, we obviously come to it. Maybe we just disagree on following rules. But whatever I've got, I've got this little gift here. Now, it's this beautiful little brown packaging. 00:23:34 Speaker 4: It was gorgeous, gorgeous brown packaging that I put it in. 00:23:38 Speaker 2: It was also I mean, it's actually our exchange was very interesting. This looks kind of like something that like a spy exchange or something that you leave under like a phone booth or something. And I think, you know, we were both kind of in disguise when we exchange was made, so it felt high stakes on some level. Yeah, do want to open this? Is this? 00:24:00 Speaker 3: Seeing you hold it up, it looks so much uglier than I thought it was. 00:24:04 Speaker 2: It's very charming. 00:24:05 Speaker 3: Had it was classy, you know, wrap it in garbage, and. 00:24:11 Speaker 2: I think as what would be described as a rough human charm. What you would say, well, do you want me to open the gift? 00:24:24 Speaker 1: Show? 00:24:24 Speaker 2: I open it here on the podcast. 00:24:25 Speaker 3: Why not, let's save the card, you know. 00:24:30 Speaker 2: Be careful here. I love a I just love a like a brown wrapping. I'm gonna I'm truly being honest there. There's something about it that feels a little bit like fast food or like I'm about to open a Hamburger or something. So that's exciting. Oh what is this? You've given me a four pack of triple A batteries, which I feel like, and not any batteries, But this appears to be a Walgreens set. I would recognize that w anywhere. 00:25:08 Speaker 3: Well. 00:25:08 Speaker 4: I am a really really big fan of Walgreens. I love what they do. I think they've really got a good system going, and so whenever i'm there and i'm buying something, I try to support the local brand. 00:25:21 Speaker 2: You're not buying like an energizer from Walgreens. No, it's obviously a family business. The Walgreens are. They've got stores nationwide, and you're giving back. I'm sure they're struggling like we all are right now, and they need your pocket change. You've given me four triple A batteries, which I think are the harder battery to come by. Usually people will have a double A. 00:25:47 Speaker 3: But now that's exactly and that's exactly. 00:25:50 Speaker 4: Why is that because I find personally, you know that whenever I run out. 00:25:59 Speaker 3: Of battery for something, be it a remote, be it. 00:26:03 Speaker 2: At a you know, like a nose hair trimmer. 00:26:07 Speaker 3: Exactly. 00:26:08 Speaker 2: If you don't have a nose hair trimmer, everybody go out and get yourself one. It's a good thing to have around the house. 00:26:13 Speaker 3: You go, all right, I'll go check my toolbox and see you what batteries I have. I have double A. 00:26:19 Speaker 2: I don't have triple A every time. I every time. If you were to go into my junk drawer right now, you would find twenty four to thirty six double A batteries, not a single triple A. 00:26:32 Speaker 3: Nop. 00:26:32 Speaker 2: So now I've got and this is I don't know what this guarantee actually means. Says they're ready for ten years. Ready, they're ready to go. They're ready to go. I suppose that feels like language vague enough that it could mean anything to the Walgreens customer. 00:26:48 Speaker 4: What it means to me personally is that for ten years they'll be ready. 00:26:53 Speaker 2: Whether it's like to put in a sock and hit someone with or put into your device on some level they'll be ready to go. Yeah. It also says in storage, like like the little disclaimers in storage, which I don't entirely know what Walgreens is indicating as far as is there a proper battery storage outside of just leaving them in their package? Do I need to buy a special box? 00:27:18 Speaker 3: Well? 00:27:18 Speaker 1: What is it? 00:27:19 Speaker 3: Where does it say in storage? 00:27:20 Speaker 2: This is right but right beneath ten years in the smallest possible in storage. So I don't know what that. I guess that means maybe if you're you can't put them in your flashlight or whatever for ten years and they're. 00:27:34 Speaker 3: Ready, maybe that's maybe that's what that is. 00:27:36 Speaker 2: Compared to national brand. Yeah, I love the national brand Walgreens. What are you talking about? You are a national brand, You're one hundred percent in the national brand. That's there's something going on. There's something fishy there. I'm just looking at general things about these batteries right now. Didn't realize that Walgreen was based out of deer Field, Illinois. There you go. So that's a little something that everyone's just learned. If you're ever passing through deer Field, that you're going to want to stop by WHQ ten years from now, where is that leave us? That's twenty thirty, Sandy. What's going to be going on in twenty thirty. 00:28:14 Speaker 3: You know, it's hard to say if any of us will be here. 00:28:18 Speaker 2: It's a very I mean, these batteries may outlive all of us, It's true. I mean there's a chance that, I mean, hundreds of years from now, some sort of explorer is dusting off the remains of my apartment and finds this unopened package of Triple A's and the story that'll tell. But you know, maybe they use it as an energy source. 00:28:43 Speaker 3: I can see that storage. 00:28:45 Speaker 2: But twenty thirty, I feel like, Yeah, I don't know what the world is going to be. I truly don't. 00:28:51 Speaker 3: It's hard to know. And so I just moved to La Yeah. 00:28:55 Speaker 2: How long have you been here? You were in Brooklyn? 00:28:57 Speaker 3: I was in Brooklyn. I moved here in March, so. 00:29:00 Speaker 2: Oh you literally knew. 00:29:01 Speaker 3: Oh, I've lived here on the thirteenth of March. 00:29:05 Speaker 2: And this March twelfth and thirteenth is kind of truly the start date of all of what we're dealing with right now. 00:29:13 Speaker 3: Yes, yes it is. 00:29:15 Speaker 4: Who I had already signed a lease because i'd come out here like a month before to find an apartment. Okay, and I had signed a lease and I had shipped all my stuff, right, so I was like, alright, I'm going on the thirteenth. Actually I was supposed to get here on the sixteenth because I was going to south By Southwest first. 00:29:37 Speaker 3: Oh, sure the coming here, but then that got canceled, right, which should have been my first clue. But yeah, I moved out here on the thirteenth. 00:29:49 Speaker 2: Wow, that's really wild. 00:29:51 Speaker 3: So the worst part was I needed toilet paper just because. 00:29:56 Speaker 2: You were in a new city in a new apartment. 00:29:59 Speaker 3: I needed toilet por, I needed groceries. And it was like the. 00:30:04 Speaker 2: And had was your stuff moved into your apartment? Yet when you got here or what was the situation? 00:30:09 Speaker 3: It took like two weeks for everything to. 00:30:11 Speaker 2: Come so you kind of were just in the bleakest version of being in a new apartment. 00:30:16 Speaker 3: Yes, that's what I was being. 00:30:19 Speaker 4: I was proud of myself because I had a mattress sense terrific. 00:30:24 Speaker 2: Or I moved okay. 00:30:26 Speaker 4: Because, like I said, my neighbor who lives in this building, right, we're friends from. 00:30:29 Speaker 2: College, So oh, this is the finger neighbor. 00:30:32 Speaker 3: This is my finger neighbor. Okay, I was able to get him to like let. 00:30:37 Speaker 2: The perfect So you had somewhere to sleep, yes, I had. 00:30:40 Speaker 3: I had a mattress on the floor. 00:30:42 Speaker 2: All right. So what were I mean you were able to go down and get some groceries I imagine at some point, yes, yes, But was it just a nightmare? 00:30:51 Speaker 3: It was really it was dark. It was It was also very cold when I got here. 00:30:58 Speaker 4: I've never been here, like not in the spring or summer, right, And I didn't have any like blankets or anything. It was just like my heat wasn't working in the apartment, and my friend just like drove over with like sweatshirts and blankets. 00:31:14 Speaker 3: It was just it was really dark. 00:31:16 Speaker 2: Were you sleeping in like fully, like winter clothes? 00:31:20 Speaker 3: I was sleeping in my winter coat. 00:31:23 Speaker 2: I've only had to do that a couple of times when I was living in New York, when I was doing an internship and our building would get so cold that I would literally be like wearing a beanie. I would put on a winter coat pants and then be in like a sleeping bag. So it was essentially just camping in my apartment. 00:31:39 Speaker 3: That was basically what it was. 00:31:41 Speaker 2: And you wake up like drenched in sweat. There's no it's the worst possible scenario. Wow, what a welcome to our wonderful city. And have things. I mean, obviously things as far as the virus have not improved, but I mean your life is probably kind of filled out a little bit. 00:32:01 Speaker 3: I would say I have pretty much everything that I need, and then slowly I'm getting like, but you know, it's like my walls are pretty empty still. But it's been like a slow right. 00:32:13 Speaker 2: I mean, I think you just get the basics in and then you start figuring out what you actually need. 00:32:18 Speaker 3: But it's like I need I got. 00:32:19 Speaker 1: You know. 00:32:20 Speaker 3: The big thing was when I stopped using a big plastic tub as a bedside table. That was that was the big, the big change in my life. 00:32:27 Speaker 2: Where did the new bedside table come from? 00:32:31 Speaker 4: I got these like shelves from someone on craigslist. 00:32:35 Speaker 2: Oh see, and that's a I mean, even that right now is a scary thing to be doing. 00:32:39 Speaker 3: I know. 00:32:40 Speaker 4: I just got them from this guy who had them in a storage unit, so he was like, I haven't touched them, perfect mon okay, and then I just wiped it all down. 00:32:48 Speaker 2: Okay, Yeah, that's that feels safe enough. 00:32:51 Speaker 3: Yeah. 00:32:52 Speaker 2: I mean that I've only brought one thing into the apartment since the shut down, and it was two things from our buildings. Him to dumbbells which I wiped down. That brought into the apartment whipe wiped down. And then my boyfriend gotten My boyfriend and I got in a big fight over it because he thought I had brought the virus into the apartment. 00:33:11 Speaker 4: I mean, I will say that since then, I've done it a few times and I don't have COVID. 00:33:18 Speaker 2: Right, I mean, I feel like the science is evolved a little bit about the virus being on services, right, It's like, yeah, less of a concern. It's more about like people's mouths spreading that sort of thing. 00:33:33 Speaker 3: But yeah, like I'll still wipe everything down. 00:33:35 Speaker 4: And like I got a desk chair and I didn't sit in it for like a couple of days. 00:33:39 Speaker 3: I let it like sit in the corner. 00:33:44 Speaker 2: Oh that's good to know. I feel like you were you were we were talking about twenty thirty and you were like and I moved to Los Angeles. 00:33:51 Speaker 3: Oh right, I was gonna. I forgot why I brought it up. 00:33:55 Speaker 2: I'm keeping you up, Thank you so much. 00:33:57 Speaker 4: Was I brought it up because I I wanted to ask about the earthquake kits because I don't have one, and I was like that, you know, if you don't have one, batteries could be good. 00:34:08 Speaker 1: Right. 00:34:09 Speaker 2: Of course, now they're saying. 00:34:10 Speaker 3: There's increased chances of earthquake earthquake. 00:34:14 Speaker 2: I honestly feel like six months ago they were saying an earthquake feels even less likely than ever, and now it's like, now it's three times more likely that we're going to be a massive earthquake. Yeah, I don't know. I guess you just always have to be prepared. I have an earthquake kid which was given to me by a friend who moved to New York, and so that's just I don't I've never even opened it, so I can't say what's going to help me be prepared after an earthquake. But it'll be like a fun surprise just opening it and be like, oh, here's two expired granola bars, here's a battery where the or a flashlight where the battery doesn't work. And then I turned to Sandy, and although I will say it, traditionally in a battery you're looking for more of a what battery goes is there. It's like the big round one. Is that a D battery? 00:35:02 Speaker 3: A D battery? 00:35:03 Speaker 2: D battery? Certainly you never know, you never know. Yeah, that's true. 00:35:07 Speaker 3: You never know what kind of batteries on need in the new world, and. 00:35:09 Speaker 2: You never know how resourceful you're going to become in an apocalyptic situation. Suddenly you're turning four triple A a's into one big D battery. 00:35:19 Speaker 3: Exactly. 00:35:20 Speaker 2: I guess I should just uh, I need to expand my horizons with batteries. It's probably good to have one of everything. Then there's a little square battery which you'll put on your tongue. Have you ever done that? 00:35:32 Speaker 3: Oh? 00:35:32 Speaker 2: What have you ever put a nine volt battery on your tongue? No, this is something you do. A lot of children will try or dare each other, or probably male children, it's probably more likely. 00:35:44 Speaker 3: Why do they do it? 00:35:45 Speaker 2: It zaps you. Oh, it's like it's you know, they have like the two little things on top of those square Yes, if you touch both of those to your tongue, that will zap you. 00:35:54 Speaker 3: And this is what they want. 00:35:56 Speaker 2: This is a I guess boys are daring each other to hurt themselves, and this is something that could happen, I suppose, but yeah, earthquakes are coming. And have you ever have you experienced an earthquake yet? 00:36:09 Speaker 3: Yes? 00:36:10 Speaker 2: When was this? 00:36:11 Speaker 3: I've experienced three. So I was here for most of last year, and there were those like two last summer. 00:36:19 Speaker 2: Right, and those are probably the two biggest I've experienced in LA ten years. 00:36:24 Speaker 4: I the first one happened while I was. 00:36:29 Speaker 3: You know, miitro Juharry. 00:36:30 Speaker 2: Oh, yes, of course. 00:36:31 Speaker 3: I was at her apartment and I was on the toilet. 00:36:35 Speaker 2: Okay, beautiful, I. 00:36:37 Speaker 3: Was, how do I explay this? I was taking a ship and the walls started to shake. Oh, and I thought that I. 00:36:48 Speaker 4: Broke the toilet, and that I thought that I was causing the pipes to the whole. 00:36:57 Speaker 3: Room was shaken. 00:36:58 Speaker 2: Finally done it. 00:37:00 Speaker 4: It was like, okay, I did it. I broke the toilet. But then her boyfriend wit, oh yeah, of course, of course he yelled earthquake from the other room, and I was like, thank. 00:37:13 Speaker 2: God, that would have been devastating. 00:37:17 Speaker 3: I had never experienced one before, and I just was like. 00:37:22 Speaker 2: What did I know? I would much rather there'd be a devastating earthquake than to ravage a friend's toilet, destroy their plumbing. I mean there's snow coming back from that. You would have just had to cut off all ties with her, and yeah, just moved on. Yeah, I have a clear memory. The first earthquake I ever experienced was in Utah. Was in first grade. I think my brother was in third grade. We were for some reason, both in the shower together and suddenly it's rocking and you and your brother are naked in the shower and it's just that will just burn its way into your memory. And then it was decades before another earthquake. But it's always a little bit frightening. 00:38:06 Speaker 3: I don't know, I just yeah, I'm from a east coast, so we didn't never. We didn't never. 00:38:12 Speaker 2: We didn't never have an earthquake. Of course, we never. But I feel like, I mean a lot of the buildings, like my apartment building is probably thirty to forty years old, This has been through a lot of earthquakes. Does that mean it's safe or does that mean that it's like teetering on the edge of just total destruction. I can't say. I wonder if. 00:38:30 Speaker 4: It's something where like they can handle a certain number and. 00:38:34 Speaker 2: Then that's how buildings are built. Yeah, they just have like a chalkboard where they're marking it off, and yeah, you're on forty eight. You've got two more before everybody is just pancaked. 00:38:46 Speaker 3: Oh wow, I got to get a kid. I gotta make a kid. 00:38:49 Speaker 2: You've got to get it. You can make your own. You can buy one online, you know, and then they're like these ones for morons that are like a thousand dollars and like in a like luxurious bag. But give me a break. I can't imagine bringing something like that into my home. 00:39:04 Speaker 3: But I did see one online when I was looking about what to put in a kit. 00:39:09 Speaker 4: I saw one that you could buy online that comes in a big bucket, but the bucket doubles as a toilet. 00:39:15 Speaker 2: Love it. That's what you need. I mean, that's what you could have used that last year. Yeah, I mean that's not a bad idea. I mean, yeah, at some point you're probably gonna need a bucket, and why not just have the thing that your dinner was in? 00:39:31 Speaker 3: Mm hmm. 00:39:32 Speaker 4: I was just like, you know, I could make my own, but there but that bucket. 00:39:36 Speaker 2: Though, all right, that appealing bucket, that bucket. What else it comes in the bucket? 00:39:43 Speaker 3: You know, there's grown ol bars, batteries, flashlight. 00:39:47 Speaker 2: Uh. 00:39:48 Speaker 4: Oh you know what I was reading online you should put in your earthquake kit is map map of your like local area. 00:39:56 Speaker 2: Oh, I mean, just in case you need to get around. 00:40:03 Speaker 4: Just because like I mean, I personally don't really know they around with my phone, right. 00:40:09 Speaker 2: So to have kind of a map with local hotspots or emergency services or something, it's probably valuable. Okay, yeah, I guess anything that you need back up in case your phone is not to be relied on. Yes, okay, everybody. I hope everyone listening is making a little checklist in their mind and preparing for the doom. 00:40:34 Speaker 4: Of an earthquake or I definitely feel like everything what with everything going on, I'm like, well, yeah, we're not making it another like ten years. 00:40:42 Speaker 2: Oh, it's just piling on at this point. So it's just like, oh, things are just going to become exponentially worse. And then there's always this looming threat. I don't know if you've read anything about that, like super volcano or whatever that is in Yellowstone. 00:40:57 Speaker 3: Oh No, I've not. 00:41:00 Speaker 2: I mean I haven't read about it in a while. So hopefully they've decided that it's not a threat. But as far as I know. It just there's like a volcano beneath Yellowstone that, if it were to erupt, would just truly be impossible to escape for the Western United States. Wow, and we'll all just be, you know, buried in lava. Which I guess, like, if you're going to die, that's the kind of the thrilling way to do it. But I don't know how you The earth continues to be a mystery for all of us. We've just got these ticking time bombs waiting to just explode out of Yellowstone and what a But all that said, if you're listening, I'm not trying to increase anxiety. Everything's fine. You're listening to a podcast. You probably had a nice meal today, and like you'll go to sleep tonight and tomorrow everything will be fine. Let's wake up, You'll wake up and things will move on, and everything's fine. I mean, everything's not fine, But if you're listening to a podcast, things are okay. Yes, Sandy, I think it's time to move on to the game. Okay, enough is enough. Do you want to play a game called Gift or a Curse or a game called Gift Master, Gift or a Curse Okay, I need a number between one and ten from you. 00:42:19 Speaker 3: Eight. 00:42:20 Speaker 2: Okay, I have to calculate an element of the game right now that requires some random calculations for the next minute or so. You can promote something, you can recommend something, you can say whatever you want, because it's all up to you. 00:42:32 Speaker 3: Here you go, I can just talk say whatever i'd like. 00:42:37 Speaker 2: Oh yeah, whatever you want. 00:42:40 Speaker 3: Let's see. It's so, you know, we want you might have the floor. 00:42:48 Speaker 4: You know. 00:42:48 Speaker 3: That's all the ideas really, just you know, jumping out of your head. 00:42:53 Speaker 4: Let's see what's there to talk about? Well, okay, and how long do I have to speak? You're still calculating? Okay, Well let's see one, two, three, four, five, six, and others. Those are just you know, some numbers I've been thinking about lately, seven, eight, nine, and you know, ten if you're lucky. But moving on to eleven, twelve, thirteen, which you know some would prefer to skip just because you know, it's one of the more superstitious numbers, fourteen, which is a great age, fifteen, sixteen, seventeen, eighteen, nineteen, and of course. 00:43:39 Speaker 2: Yeah, easily the worst use of that time I've ever seen, simply indisputable, and I'm really happy for you that you are able to just I'm really thrilled at the lack of self promotion. A just truly waste everyone's time. I have absolutely no problem with that sort of use of that minute. I mean, it's you know, I throw people. 00:44:08 Speaker 3: Ever, wasn't really a minute. 00:44:09 Speaker 2: I don't know. I have no sense of time. That could have been six years, that could have been. It was at least like what you counted to nine or something. I don't know. 00:44:19 Speaker 3: I got to twenty. 00:44:20 Speaker 2: Oh, you got to twenty, so at least I got to twenty fifteen to twenty seconds. Anyway, this is how the game is going to go, and there are winners and there are losers. Basically, I'm just gonna name three things, and you're gonna tell me if there are a gift or a curse and why there are correct answers. So be careful. 00:44:40 Speaker 3: Okay. 00:44:41 Speaker 2: The first thing that we're going to talk about here, gift or a curse? Pet Instagram accounts curse Sandy. I need you to back that up. 00:44:51 Speaker 4: I think they're a curse because you know, everyone loves to start on Instagram, but no one likes to maintain one. And I can know this as someone with multiple Instagrams. You know, I have a photo account and I have a regular account, And if you think I've updated the photo account in the last seven months, you'd be wrong. 00:45:11 Speaker 3: It's a curse. 00:45:13 Speaker 4: And then also, all your friends feel obligated to follow it, and they don't want to have to see these photos all the time, but they feel obligated. 00:45:20 Speaker 3: It's a curse for you, it's a curse for everyone around you. 00:45:23 Speaker 2: Interesting, Okay, Sandy, Right off the bat, I'm just gonna flat out say you're wrong. I understand. I understand the logic, and especially with the guilt of having to follow somebody's you know, we follow enough things that said, there's there's truly so much worse happening on Instagram. But when I, you know, I follow you know, one or two of my friend's pet accounts, one of them is absolutely they absolutely need to be doing this thing. The dog is snarling all the time. It's fun to watch the dogs snarl. It's very small, you know, It's I feel like it's a gift in a way. That's just like it's the thing that you you would never get yourself, but it's there. It's a gift. It's just animals. I mean, don't don't make me go on and on about the horrors of Instagram. But I will say, I love to hear everybody loves You're so right in the everyone loves to start one. They don't love to you know that we're planting these little gardens and then just letting them die all over the planet. But I mean, I I have a I have my one Instagram account which is updated maybe once every six months. I have this podcast Instagram account, and then I have a secret thing that's just literally for my sister. But I'm following, you know, various things on their actual photographers who know what they're doing. You know, occasionally I'll just type in like a type of dessert I want to see pictures of, and then I'll just follow that those will be failing in random animals, things that truly are very just smooth for my brain. So these pet things, I say, if you're going to make one for your pet, go ahead. If it's not, don't listen to Sandy. You don't have to maintain it. If there are four pictures, fantastic, who cares? At least you're not like at least it's not another thirst strap, that's all. I guess that. 00:47:22 Speaker 3: Sure, I guess you know, I guess I'm more cynical where I'm just like. 00:47:25 Speaker 2: Enough, Sandy, We've got to let a little bit of this goodness into our lives. Animals are the last pure thing. 00:47:33 Speaker 3: No, You're right, it is better. 00:47:34 Speaker 2: Although we say like a lot of famous pets, there's probably some dark stuff going on there too, where you know they're the uh, the attention and validation needed. The pets are probably being put through things that they don't want to be put through. There's you give on a walk a line that said we're moving on. Sandy has absolutely missed number two. Give to a curse, US Weekly, the magazine US Weekly. It's kind of a you know, the tabloid that you're seeing at the grocery store. Kind I say, gift, okay? And why because uh. 00:48:14 Speaker 4: I enjoy when I'm at a grocery store and I'm checking out, just. 00:48:17 Speaker 3: Seeing what they're talking about. What did they say it? 00:48:21 Speaker 4: What kind of stuff are they getting into? This person's getting divorced, but they're keeping the kids. 00:48:28 Speaker 3: Do I know who it is? No? Do I care? No? Is it fun to look. 00:48:34 Speaker 2: At you Sandy, You've made a huge turnaround. Of course, this is That's exactly my logic. I love to be standing sometimes I kind of prefer for there to be a line at the grocery store just so I can look at the covers of these magazines. The language they use on the covers of these magazines is always just bonkers. It's just like what sane person is writing these articles. 00:48:57 Speaker 3: I love the copy. 00:48:58 Speaker 2: Oh, it's so good. 00:49:00 Speaker 4: I remember seeing an article once about some celebrity that was just like at the beach, and it was like the funny lady let the water lap at her legs while she took a quick dip. 00:49:14 Speaker 2: I love referring to, you know, like a comedic actor as a funny lady or the funny lady or funny man or all of that sort of copy is extremely funny to me. So I do feel like there's some horrible aspect to tabloids where all the money is going to the devil or whatever. So I don't I never pay for them, but I do love a free look at an usweekly. Whatever trash you're gonna throw at the in the grocery storeline, I'm taking a look. It's a gift. Sandy has got one out of two and we're headed into number three. Sandy gift her a curse. Indoor swimming pools. 00:49:54 Speaker 3: Now based on the pattern so far, set I, it's it would appear to me that most of these things, perhaps to you, are a gift. So should I answer how I think you would answer, or would I would? 00:50:11 Speaker 2: Well, you know, I'm not giving you any advice on how to play the game. 00:50:14 Speaker 3: An indoor pool, you know, I would say, you know, it's a gift if it's. 00:50:18 Speaker 2: Raining, well, but I need it. 00:50:21 Speaker 3: You can be in a pool when it's raining, but it's a curse because you're inside. I'm going to say, gift. Okay, because any pool is a gift. 00:50:38 Speaker 2: Sandy, you've managed to get two out of three. I think indoor pools. Pools are absolutely a gift, and I feel like the only ones I've ever experienced are in weird motels or exactly this sort of thing. But there's a real distinct vibe and the smell is weird. I guess there are like gyms that have indoor pools, but what I'm real thinking about here is like a strangely not updated swimming pool where the air is barely breathable. Yes, its lighter is kind of bouncing off the walls. It's silent, very weird. I was in Omaha earlier this year and this they had a swimming indoor swimming pool which I think the bottom was made out of aluminum or something, which was extremely strange. But it's giving you a little You get to swim, but you also get the strange of experience, strange experience of being in just a giant bathtub inside a motel. 00:51:35 Speaker 3: Yes, it's definitely an experience, and I feel like my main experiences of indoor pools are at like when there's a bar mitzvoot in the family. 00:51:45 Speaker 2: Oh yeah, we're. 00:51:46 Speaker 4: All staying at a hotel and you get to see all the cousins you never seen you're and you all get to sort of swim for ten minutes, but no one wants to get their hair wet because the barm's of. 00:51:57 Speaker 2: Course, so no one's really having fun. You're kind of just standing around in lukewarm water. Okay, well you did pretty well. Actually I thought you were gonna, you know, you drop the ball with the minute of promotion, you. 00:52:12 Speaker 3: Know, I would why promote when I could count to twenty. 00:52:16 Speaker 2: That's true. I think that's a good life, good life lesson before promoting yourself, count to twenty and see if it's worth promoting yourself. Okay, final part of this, will you just help me answer a couple of questions. This is called I said no questions. People are writing into I said no gifts at gmail dot com. They need help, like picking gifts for people in their lives. Okay, so I'm going to read the first one here Highbridger, My older brother is about to celebrate his thirty fifth birthday. He and I are very different, so it's hard for me to come up with gifts for him. I love giving gifts and spend thinking months thinking about them, but always skip him. Read into that what you will. He's really conservative, loves guns and big bang theory. Wow, you're describing me here. He has a Oh, here we go. He has a wonderful wife and two girls under five. What can you suggest as a bigger gift to make up for the many missed birthdays in the past. That's from L. Just the letter L kind of mysterious, probably because she doesn't want to get in trouble with this brother in California. 00:53:18 Speaker 3: H A bigger gift to make up for years of. 00:53:21 Speaker 2: Sounds like she's missed. It sounds like she and I, she and the sky are not on the same page, which I can't blame her. 00:53:27 Speaker 3: I was because my instinct was going to be truck nuts, which because I recall my my brother once got them for my stepsister's boyfriend as a heat as a gift because he didn't know what to get him. 00:53:45 Speaker 2: WHOA, it wasn't as a I mean, I guess it's always going to be kind of a joke. 00:53:49 Speaker 3: It was. It was like it was like a joke, but it was it was like a sort of like a you know, secret Sanna thing where all right, I feel like that would always happen where someone's significant other would be included and whoever got them didn't know what to get them, And I think my brother got them trucknuts and it went over really well. 00:54:04 Speaker 2: Okay. I mean that's a thing that you can get somebody. I mean, you're supporting the truck nuts industry, which is tough, that's the but I mean, everything we know about this guy, it sounds like he would probably be into it. I mean, the truck nuts will just forever be mystifying to me the whole aspect. I mean, like, what is the just general thinking of a truck as a body? Yeah, what what's happening there? But you know, there's a certain part of the population that thinks that's a good idea, and this guy might land right there. 00:54:39 Speaker 3: Yeah, but I'm thinking, if it's years of not getting a guest. 00:54:44 Speaker 2: Right, you need something hundreds of truck nuts or get them a truck. 00:54:49 Speaker 3: Oh, and put the truck nuts on it. 00:54:51 Speaker 2: There you go, So you know this is a you know, Elle, you're looking at how much does a truck cost? Twenty thirty dollars depending on where you if you find a sale, you're looking at fifteen bucks, so you get the truck. Trucknuts are probably about forty five thousand dollars, so you're looking all in forty five fifteen dollars. But this is we're talking about years of not getting this person at gift, so it might be worth your time. I don't know. And if that doesn't work, you do have nice things to say about the wife, you say, she's wonderful, and two girls under five, maybe just get them a gift and put his name on it. And then suddenly they're getting something nice, and this jerk is you know, it looks like a gift. I don't know what to say, Elle moving on, get the truck nuts. This one says. This person is really buttering me up, my Darling Bridger. And now it's how do I stop buying myself gifts? I grew up without a lot of money. Now I'm while I'm frugal, I have fun money, and a lot more fun money than I thought i'd ever have. So it's hard not to buy the racing bicycle. I've always wanted a very comfortable sectional and a two hundred dollars NERF gun that's been taunting me for years? How could I stop these financially destructive habits, even though they end up being so much fun. That's from Troy and Minnesota. Troy, A racing bicycle, that's the keyword that's happening right here. I and a two hundred dollars nerf gun that you've had your eye on for years. I think if you've had your eye on anything for years, it's time to just buy it or move on with your life. That's great, but you're just looking to it. Sounds like you haven't bought any of these things, and you're asking me how to stop buying these things, and that creates a puzzle for me, Sandy, is there anything happening here? 00:56:45 Speaker 4: I had the same thought, which is has he bought these things or he's saying that he always buys the things and these are the things he's trying to prevent. Because also I'm thinking a sectional that doesn't sound like a necessarily a fun. 00:56:58 Speaker 2: No, it sounds like something you might need. I mean, I mean it sounds Troy. So the the kind of sandwich here is a racing bicycle, a piece of furniture, and a toy gun. I would say, maybe just skip number one and three and by yourself a functional piece of furniture that you're going to enjoy. 00:57:22 Speaker 4: And what I've been doing because I have a hard time spending money, right but since I've moved, there's a lot of things that I've needed to. 00:57:30 Speaker 3: Get, yes, and I have a hard time. 00:57:33 Speaker 4: You know, my instinct is to go to the dollar store and you know, get it and then it immediately breaks. 00:57:37 Speaker 2: Since you're preaching to the choir here, I've. 00:57:40 Speaker 4: Been using I've been putting together these chip clips that break every time I use a collar store and I put them back together. 00:57:48 Speaker 3: Every day they break, and I figured out how to put them back together, and I could just get I could just get a different chip clip. 00:57:54 Speaker 2: How much is a like a national brand chip clip cost? 00:57:58 Speaker 3: I couldn't tell you. 00:58:00 Speaker 2: I can't be more than five dollars. 00:58:02 Speaker 3: No, I know. I used a broken can opener for five years. 00:58:09 Speaker 4: It had like one part of the blade was dull, so every single time I opened a can, it would skip. 00:58:15 Speaker 2: Hard your finger. Lucky, you just have just now cut your finger. 00:58:19 Speaker 3: I know, because every time I would have to stab the can with a knife to get it to open. 00:58:24 Speaker 4: And it took me five years to be like, oh, I could just buy another one. So my way of getting myself to when there's something I need is I go, I have to donate the same amount of money that I sent. 00:58:36 Speaker 2: Oh that's smart, And then it gives you kind of a little bit of a moral compass. It feels like, oh, I'm actually going to do some good with this, and yeah, that's not a bad idea. Troy, are you listening? So if you're going to buy a NERF gun, I want two hundred dollars being donated to a decent cause or find yourself one hundred dollars nerf gun. To be honest, I wasn't aware that these toys got into that price. And then spend one hundred dollars on a charity or donate it to some good cause. That's not a bad idea. I have a really hard time spending my money myself, and so maybe I'll take that little trick into consideration for the future. I don't know, Troy. You hopefully some level of this advice helps you. If it didn't keep buying things. I don't know. There are worse things you could do. That's true, Sandy, We've helped enough people. You didn't completely lose the game. 00:59:32 Speaker 3: I didn't. 00:59:33 Speaker 2: It's been absolutely wonderful. And now I've got four triple A batteries to my name, so. 00:59:39 Speaker 3: They are good for ten years. 00:59:40 Speaker 2: Right for the next ten years, I'm going to have a target on my back. People are going to want these batteries, and I'm going to have to just like always be watching behind my back because someone's going to come for me. But if anybody needs a battery, I am happy to lend, just reach out. But yeah, it's been wonderful having you. It's been a delight and I'm sorry to hear about your finger. 01:00:03 Speaker 3: Thank you so much. You know it's looking pretty good. I'm taking a look at it right now. Looks pretty good. 01:00:10 Speaker 2: You've been part of Sandy's healing process while listening to this podcast, so well. 01:00:14 Speaker 3: Thank you for having me. I had an absolute. 01:00:17 Speaker 2: Blast, wonderful. That's what I like to hear. That's what we like to hear. And wave hello to the Monster Truck neighbors. And I absolutely will everyone. I never know how to end a podcast, and that's fine. I don't need you bothering me about it. I don't need the complaints. I haven't received any, but and now that I'm shining a light on it, I probably will. But that's fine. This is the end of the podcast. This is where you stop listening. All my love I Said No Gifts isn't exactly right production. It's engineered by Earth Angel Stephen Ray Morris. The theme song is by Miracle Worker Amy Man. You can follow the show on Instagram and Twitter at I Said No Gifts, and if you have a question or need help getting a gift for someone in your life, email me at I Said No Gifts at gmail dot com. Listen and subscribe on Apple, podcast, Stitcher or wherever you found me, and why not leave a review while you're at it. 01:01:13 Speaker 1: But I invited you here, thought I made myself perfectly clear. When you're a guess to my home, you gotta come to me empty. And I said, no guests, your presences, presents, and I already had too much stuff. So how do you dare to surbey me?