Speaker 1: And I invited you here. I thought I made myself
Speaker 1: perfectly clear.
Speaker 2: When you're a.
Speaker 1: Guest to my home, you gotta come to me empty.
Speaker 1: And I said, no, guests, you're a presences presents enough.
Speaker 1: I already had too much stuff, So how did you dare.
Speaker 2: To surbey me?
Speaker 3: Welcome to I said, no gifts. I'm pretcher wineker Mmm,
Speaker 3: I'm here. What's happening? We're back, We're back together again.
Speaker 3: It's been a week, we're here.
Speaker 2: I don't know what this says about me.
Speaker 3: The guest is I've made the guess extremely nervous. You
Speaker 3: just relax. This has nothing entirely me. This is my problem.
Speaker 3: Don't bring your insecurity to my insecurity.
Speaker 2: I'm projecting.
Speaker 3: Ah No, this is just kind of how I'm existing now.
Speaker 3: I'm trying to think of even what's I'm going back
Speaker 3: to the last few days and I'm just trying to
Speaker 3: remember what's going on in my life. I think the
Speaker 3: big event was chocolate chip prices have gotten way out
Speaker 3: of hand. I don't know if you've been to the
Speaker 3: grocery store recently. I was there a couple of days ago.
Speaker 3: I had to go home empty handed. It's ridiculous. It's
Speaker 3: out of control, and so don't tell me about Trader
Speaker 3: Joe's more affordable chocolate chips. Of course, I knew that
Speaker 3: I got those, but the brand I wanted and I'm
Speaker 3: not going to it has doubled in price since the
Speaker 3: last time I bought them. And then so that happened.
Speaker 3: I went to a picnic that did nothing for me emotionally.
Speaker 3: Saturday night, I drove to a party and then drove
Speaker 3: home without going to the party. That felt pretty good,
Speaker 3: and I'm sorry. I'm back in a little house on
Speaker 3: the prairie. I started watching that again last night, and
Speaker 3: in the episode, Charles's mom dies of whatever, and I
Speaker 3: had never been introduced to the character, so I didn't
Speaker 3: even who cares if she died. I don't think the
Speaker 3: audience cared that she died, and then we don't care
Speaker 3: that Charles cares, and then the episode became very boring.
Speaker 3: So I'm glad she's dead, and I think that that's it.
Speaker 3: Let me see if I have anything in my document anything. Oh,
Speaker 3: do you know? It was huge? We do need to
Speaker 3: mention this. Taylor. Frankie Paul has liked one of our
Speaker 3: Instagram posts, and she, of course is the kind of
Speaker 3: embattled Secret Life of Mormon Wives X. She's not a
Speaker 3: life currently, but you know she previous bachelorette. We don't
Speaker 3: know if we'll ever see that footage, but she has
Speaker 3: reached out by liking a post. And this feels like
Speaker 3: we are now on the road to me being in
Speaker 3: a fight with the Secret Life of Mormon Wife character.
Speaker 3: Every journey begins with one step, and I think this
Speaker 3: is it. So we'll keep our eye on that. And wow,
Speaker 3: I started with just kind of nothing, and then I
Speaker 3: brought an encyclopedia of things to talk about. But we
Speaker 3: should get into the show. Today's guest has already basically
Speaker 3: introduced herself. It's Chloe Radcliffe.
Speaker 2: Chloe, let me in there.
Speaker 3: Welcome to I said, NOE Gifts.
Speaker 2: Thank you so much for having me.
Speaker 3: I'm sorry, you know, the energy was just I don't know.
Speaker 3: I'm already on my second diet coke. Here. Yeah, I've
Speaker 3: been in the studio for twenty minutes.
Speaker 2: You're good.
Speaker 4: Oh this isn't this isn't like you didn't you don't
Speaker 4: wake up with your first diet coke.
Speaker 3: No, I have coffee, and then I had a second coffee.
Speaker 3: Then I got here. And I thought, I'll have a
Speaker 3: sip of a diet coke and then you ten minutes late.
Speaker 2: Yeah, no, it's minutes late. Look, I I will cop
Speaker 2: to it. Now.
Speaker 4: Was I almost certainly going to be running five minutes
Speaker 4: late if somebody hadn't parked me in and then I
Speaker 4: got an incredible excuse to be ten minutes late.
Speaker 3: Absolutely, that's kind of the ideal thing.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, Oh love flaming my own problems on somebody else.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you get like your half guilty at that point,
Speaker 3: and so just let the other person be fully guilt.
Speaker 3: Who was parked behind you? A friend, a laborer? Oh
Speaker 3: so you're.
Speaker 4: Making nice a nice nice man who is you know,
Speaker 4: probably very scared of most of his most days.
Speaker 3: At this point, you're going around screaming at people to
Speaker 3: get out of your way. I'm on my way to
Speaker 3: record a podcast.
Speaker 4: Who's the brown man who's painting an apartment below the
Speaker 4: apartment where I'm staying.
Speaker 2: Get him out from behind my car now, he's very
Speaker 2: very moved the car.
Speaker 3: It's uh. I think that's just a common issue in
Speaker 3: Los Angeles. I don't know that many people outside of
Speaker 3: this city run into Oh the driveway had four cars. Yea, yeah,
Speaker 3: and they're all slightly related to each other. Yeah, what
Speaker 3: you know, like he was probably uh he was working
Speaker 3: on a friend's apartment of your friend. And you're, oh, yes, yes, yes,
Speaker 3: not even living there.
Speaker 4: That actually might be true. I think I haven't asked.
Speaker 4: I haven't asked my friend who I'm staying with. But
Speaker 4: they just moved in the same building, within the same building,
Speaker 4: So I wonder, actually if he's painting their old.
Speaker 3: Part interesting your friends separately moved into the same building.
Speaker 2: As in I'm staying with a couple.
Speaker 4: Yes, they were in one apartment and now they moved
Speaker 4: to a different apartment in the same.
Speaker 2: Like four plex. Oh why, I think it has one
Speaker 2: extra bedroom. Oh and that is the bedroom that I'm saying.
Speaker 3: That you're saying, yeah, surprise. And there are two cats.
Speaker 3: You mentioned there's.
Speaker 2: Two cats, there's two dogs. It's a full house.
Speaker 4: I've been coming home at somewhere between three and four
Speaker 4: every morning because I'm here for Netflix as a joke, right,
Speaker 4: and so the after parties are going until two thirty,
Speaker 4: and then I get home at three and whatever.
Speaker 2: And one of the dogs absolutely fucking hates me.
Speaker 4: She's this little piece of shit I'm sorry, Mary Andrew
Speaker 4: if you ever listen to this little piece of shit
Speaker 4: who fucking hates me. And so at three fifteen, every
Speaker 4: single morning has been I'm sure waking up this entire
Speaker 4: building and the building next to it.
Speaker 2: And I'm like, I don't have I can't do anything
Speaker 2: about it.
Speaker 3: She's yapping away.
Speaker 2: She's yapping away.
Speaker 4: Survey says, I probably shouldn't have stayed there, but hey,
Speaker 4: at this point, we're in for a penny, in for
Speaker 4: a pound.
Speaker 3: So what do you do while she's yapping you're just
Speaker 3: quietly tiptoeing in, or you're just so wasted you barely notice.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, I'm driving black out on the four h five. No, no, no, no,
Speaker 4: I I've been the only way that I've been surviving
Speaker 4: these late nights. You can hear in my voice that
Speaker 4: my voice is like it's very tired. The only way
Speaker 4: I've been surviving is not drinking.
Speaker 2: That's mine, of course, because it's like it's it's rough enough.
Speaker 3: The idea of just being awake to that point is.
Speaker 2: Being away to that point.
Speaker 4: And then I've done somehow I've I've had like morning
Speaker 4: events the last few days, and yeah, so I've not
Speaker 4: been getting very much sleep.
Speaker 3: My secret is making the schedule or somebody else.
Speaker 4: I am. Someone else then comes to me and goes,
Speaker 4: what about all these things? But I am the one going, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 4: that's fine.
Speaker 3: How do you think you are as a house guest?
Speaker 4: I think when every living being in the apartment respects me,
Speaker 4: I respect every living bea.
Speaker 3: You're really setting up some how about that justification of
Speaker 3: bad behavior? What does that even mean? So you're horrible?
Speaker 2: I'm horrible? No, I think.
Speaker 4: Look, I think I'm a good house guest. I the room,
Speaker 4: whatever room I'm staying in, I tend to let be
Speaker 4: very very messy.
Speaker 3: Sure that makes it, but I close the door right.
Speaker 4: And anything outside of that room, I'm sort of like,
Speaker 4: it's not you know, it's my job to not track
Speaker 4: any mess around.
Speaker 3: No, I think that that's totally fine to leave that
Speaker 3: room messing. You're that's your real private space when you're
Speaker 3: the HouseGuest. No one else is using it at the time. Yes,
Speaker 3: as long as you leave it clean enough when you leave.
Speaker 2: I'm a big buy gifts at the end of a stay.
Speaker 3: Oh and what are you getting this time?
Speaker 2: I will probably this house. My base is a big
Speaker 2: giant pack of toilet paper.
Speaker 3: Oh smart, because.
Speaker 2: It's like everybody likes it, everybody uses it, everybody. It's
Speaker 2: like it's sort of funny.
Speaker 4: It's like cheeky enough to be charming, but it's also
Speaker 4: like functional.
Speaker 2: I'm not trying to guess.
Speaker 4: It's not a fucking hundred dollars candle, right, it's not
Speaker 4: more fucking olive oil.
Speaker 3: It's like, yeah, olive.
Speaker 4: And honestly, what's so funny is that I think in
Speaker 4: LA everybody gets each other olive oil. I actually could
Speaker 4: use some goddamn olive oil, but I never have house
Speaker 4: guests in New York.
Speaker 2: Somebody send me fucking olive oil.
Speaker 3: Oh I would have. I don't even know what I
Speaker 3: would do with more olive oil. I would have to
Speaker 3: be pouring it down the sink, yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, yeah yeah, coating well that way, that way
Speaker 4: everything else slips down the stae.
Speaker 3: It's the disposal. Would think, may probably.
Speaker 2: I did get.
Speaker 4: Last time I was in LA, a couple of months ago,
Speaker 4: I stayed with a friend who had just moved into
Speaker 4: I keep finding people who have just moved, being like,
Speaker 4: I want to make your plate uncomfortable. I a friend
Speaker 4: had just moved and he This was like a big
Speaker 4: upgrade for him. He has been living below his means
Speaker 4: for a very long time, right, And he was very
Speaker 4: picky about where he was moving and he's very particular
Speaker 4: about his space and and like rightly so. And he's
Speaker 4: like hot and cool and you know, probably OCD and
Speaker 4: has his you know, his life is very like regimen.
Speaker 3: Right.
Speaker 2: So he had finally picked this place and then.
Speaker 4: Me a Tornado, a sort of haunted house for neurodivergent
Speaker 4: people comes in and like flops down in his life.
Speaker 5: Right.
Speaker 2: But I got him two pieces of art, Wow, big pieces.
Speaker 4: Of art that I was like, I don't think he
Speaker 4: would ever pick these, but I think he really, I
Speaker 4: think he would like them.
Speaker 2: And I think they're like going with the theme. They're
Speaker 2: like simple but a little risky.
Speaker 3: This feels so high stakes to me.
Speaker 4: Yes, but I kind of love and I picked him
Speaker 4: out on Facebook park Place and I drove to fucking Irvine.
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, at least that's probably an hour and I drove.
Speaker 4: I drove over an hour, oh in both directions, got
Speaker 4: these two big pieces of art.
Speaker 2: He said he really likes them.
Speaker 3: Do we know if they're on the walls yet?
Speaker 2: I don't I haven't been back.
Speaker 3: Ask for a video tour.
Speaker 2: Yeah, how's your place feeling?
Speaker 3: That's so true?
Speaker 2: Are you settling in?
Speaker 3: What a swing? From toilet paper to like, here are
Speaker 3: massive pieces of art you have to.
Speaker 2: Display, yeah, to like a taste.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but that's kind of nice actually, because picking art
Speaker 3: for yourself is also really high stakes, where like I'll
Speaker 3: be paralyzed. I'll be like, well, I just will never
Speaker 3: put anything on my walls because I can't figure it
Speaker 3: out for somebody to just be like, here's something, Yes,
Speaker 3: put this.
Speaker 2: On the walls. Here you go. And they were I.
Speaker 4: Knew basically they're they're like fairly simple, actual pieces of art.
Speaker 4: They're like they're just little like sort of beach nature scenes.
Speaker 4: But they were matted in these huge frames with tons
Speaker 4: of matting around it, and it makes this.
Speaker 3: Like kind of dramatic statement, right right, But.
Speaker 4: They're very simple, And that's what made me be like,
Speaker 4: I think this guy who likes kind of simple things, right,
Speaker 4: but got this giant fucking place that can swallow a
Speaker 4: bunch of art.
Speaker 3: Sure, sure, I think Yeah's you need as much art
Speaker 3: as you can get. Basically if you have a ton
Speaker 3: of space. Y. Wow, very interesting I mean they may
Speaker 3: have just ended up back, ended up back on Facebook
Speaker 3: market Place.
Speaker 4: I told him, I was like, you can, you can,
Speaker 4: you can drop these off a goodwill.
Speaker 2: I do not. I will not go back.
Speaker 3: What did you do? You just hopped on marketplace and
Speaker 3: typed in art crazy?
Speaker 2: I think I typed in like huge poster.
Speaker 4: And then I also was looking for like some like
Speaker 4: modern funky, like simplistic but modern interesting like bouhou see
Speaker 4: right again, stuff that's simple but can still.
Speaker 3: Pop stylish but not like going overboard.
Speaker 4: Yes, and then I just looked at the marketplace for
Speaker 4: like a week, and then your algorithm learns and it
Speaker 4: starts feeding me shit, right, And then it fed me
Speaker 4: these things and they were far away, and because they
Speaker 4: were far away and they had bad photos, right, nobody
Speaker 4: I could.
Speaker 3: I could bad photo. I mean, of course it's the
Speaker 3: secret to anything, renting whatever. So you have a Facebook.
Speaker 3: See my problem is I no longer have a Facebook profile,
Speaker 3: so Facebook Marketplace cannot learn about me. It's my sisters.
Speaker 3: So it's like I'll log in every once a year
Speaker 3: and I'll be like, here's some kitchen tables in Utah,
Speaker 3: and it's just like, well, I don't this isn't what
Speaker 3: I'm looking for.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, well my house in Utah already has a
Speaker 2: kitchen table.
Speaker 3: I'm drowning in kitchen tables. It's the last thing. But
Speaker 3: you're on there. How often are you getting something on Facebook? Marketplace?
Speaker 4: I used to be more of a hound for it,
Speaker 4: but I will say I go on Craigslist free listings
Speaker 4: multiple times a day.
Speaker 3: Oh wow, it's to scan. Oh interesting? Have you found
Speaker 3: anything good? Oh?
Speaker 2: Oh, the best? Like what? I think it's worth me showing.
Speaker 3: You the no, I mean, I'm asking, I'm okay, okay,
Speaker 3: I want to see what's happening here. I've had zero luck.
Speaker 3: Usually it's like a CD tower.
Speaker 2: Well, so this is the thing.
Speaker 4: This is why I have to This is why you
Speaker 4: have to go on it multiple times a day, because
Speaker 4: there's not that.
Speaker 2: This is what I'm about to describe is a really
Speaker 2: bad explanation.
Speaker 4: But there's not that many good things, which means that
Speaker 4: the good shit goes quickly, right, right, and so you
Speaker 4: kind of got to be on top of it. Okay,
Speaker 4: let's see if I can find So this is my bedroom?
Speaker 3: Okay, Oh, beautifully appointed bedroom.
Speaker 2: Thank you.
Speaker 4: That light fixture that was free is a. It was
Speaker 4: twenty dollars. It is a seven hundred dollars light fixture.
Speaker 4: I found it on Craigslist.
Speaker 2: I biked there. I bike everywhere in New York.
Speaker 4: I strapped that thing to my backpack. I have a
Speaker 4: picture of me riding through. It's literally sitting like feet
Speaker 4: out from me.
Speaker 3: That's like having a wingspan.
Speaker 4: Yes, truly, I had to go so slowly and be
Speaker 4: so careful. I'm usually a very aggressive rider, and I
Speaker 4: was like, it does not matter if it takes me
Speaker 4: two hours. Again, why did you rent a car because
Speaker 4: I'm because I'm I am the cheapest person I have
Speaker 4: ever met?
Speaker 3: Oh, you've met your match?
Speaker 2: Yes?
Speaker 3: Really?
Speaker 2: Okay?
Speaker 3: Great?
Speaker 2: Oh thrilling?
Speaker 3: Don't even great?
Speaker 2: Great?
Speaker 4: Do you see the like loose sight shelf on the left,
Speaker 4: the clear thing? Yes, that came from the sidewalk wow
Speaker 4: in New York.
Speaker 3: Listener, how would you describe the light fixture because it's
Speaker 3: probably how big do you think that is? It's probably
Speaker 3: like four feet.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's probably three or three to four feet across,
Speaker 4: and then probably like three feet it was probably four
Speaker 4: feet in length, and then my uh ex cut it
Speaker 4: like trimmed the top.
Speaker 3: Okay, after you had biked it after I biked it home,
Speaker 3: and it's kind of like two arches connected to each other.
Speaker 2: Yes, it's like very architectural.
Speaker 3: It's so beautiful.
Speaker 2: Thank you, thank you. It's what I'm proudest.
Speaker 3: How far was the bike ride?
Speaker 2: Uh?
Speaker 4: Normally that was probably like a twenty minute ride, and
Speaker 4: I probably took forty five minutes to get home. The
Speaker 4: big mirror, this big mirror fixture, yes, free on craigslist.
Speaker 4: What in the Bronx? And I borrowed a friend's station wagon,
Speaker 4: a friend who lives way the fuck out in Brooklyn,
Speaker 4: like in one direction, as far from the Bronx as
Speaker 4: you can get, right, borrowed their station wagon. Made another
Speaker 4: friend come with me on this adventure. I was like,
Speaker 4: we haven't hung out in a while. Do you want
Speaker 4: to go on a weird friend adventure and then we
Speaker 4: can talk on this long ride. Right, He came up
Speaker 4: with me to the Bronx. We put it in the
Speaker 4: station wagon. Couldn't close the trunk of course. See that's
Speaker 4: an enormous mirror.
Speaker 2: Yeah, drove it home. Wow, you have to make get
Speaker 2: it in Yeah.
Speaker 3: Wow, good for you. I feel like this sort of
Speaker 3: thing is easier to do in New York getting good
Speaker 3: free fines. Yeah, I think because maybe because in New
Speaker 3: York there's less space, so when something has to go,
Speaker 3: it just has to go. Even it has good LA,
Speaker 3: it'll probably just end up in another part of your
Speaker 3: house for a really long time.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that makes sense. That makes sense.
Speaker 3: Unless it's true garbage. Sure, and then people are like,
Speaker 3: I'll probably just literally throw it away rather than give
Speaker 3: it away.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, Like there's way less like on the sidewalk.
Speaker 3: In New York you can just walk around, and things
Speaker 3: on the sidewalk in LA are non starters.
Speaker 2: The problem is things on the sidewalk in New York
Speaker 2: will give you bed bugs.
Speaker 3: Oh. I think that's probably true in LA too. There's
Speaker 3: at least bed bugs living in there, if not more,
Speaker 3: I mean, creatures galore. You're really asking for it. If
Speaker 3: you occasionally, I'll be tempted, But I just think I
Speaker 3: think like a mirror, that would probably be something you
Speaker 3: could pick up off. Yeah, bed bugs get in mirrors.
Speaker 2: They're always looking at themselves.
Speaker 3: They're very vague.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, to every one of them.
Speaker 3: Have you ever had bed bugs?
Speaker 2: Absolutely a.
Speaker 3: Nightmare?
Speaker 2: It is this the thing I am the most scared
Speaker 2: of in my entire life.
Speaker 3: Of course, it just feels like a plague. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: when was this twenty nineteen and.
Speaker 2: You're saying you're just crawling.
Speaker 4: It is the scared in the world to me, most
Speaker 4: primarily because I do not react to the bites, and
Speaker 4: so I only discovered it because.
Speaker 2: My boyfriend at the time reaction to the bites.
Speaker 4: So then we weren't living together, and so I would
Speaker 4: keep being like, hey, baby, you want to you want.
Speaker 2: To come over? After I like was pretty sure ironic
Speaker 2: any of them. I was like, you want to sleep
Speaker 2: over tonight? He was like, are you using me as
Speaker 2: a fucking bedbug canary in the coal mine? Are you
Speaker 2: using me as like a little test? And I was like, no,
Speaker 2: I miss you.
Speaker 3: I want to see so you're immune to bedbugs?
Speaker 2: Why I'm strong and cool?
Speaker 3: We need to like map your DNA or something.
Speaker 2: Yeah, feels I consume. I yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 3: I wonder what's going on.
Speaker 4: I'm also one of the least germophobic people I've.
Speaker 2: Ever been around.
Speaker 3: Okay, so this is all adding up with springing free things.
Speaker 2: Into your eye.
Speaker 4: I'm like cheap and I love trash and I don't
Speaker 4: and I love I kind of love.
Speaker 2: Being dirty and grimy. Okay, and I've showered Dory.
Speaker 3: You live very clean.
Speaker 4: Yeah, thank you, I did my hair. I sort of
Speaker 4: got the sense that this was a clean This is
Speaker 4: a clean.
Speaker 3: It's one of those clean sanitary podcast you hear about. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: there's something else I wanted. There are two things I
Speaker 3: actually want to talk to about. But the first is
Speaker 3: kind of a controversial issue. When you came in, you
Speaker 3: were holding a bagoo bag, which I formerly had this
Speaker 3: exact same bag. Okay, let's bring it on camera. Do
Speaker 3: you want to grab it? Yea, yeah, this is a
Speaker 3: controversy that I'm willing to stir up again. This bag
Speaker 3: was given to me by my sister in a couple
Speaker 3: of years ago for a birthday, and I thought, oh,
Speaker 3: that's such a beautiful bag, what a beautiful green bag.
Speaker 3: And then I lived my life for two years, two no,
Speaker 3: probably three years, thinking wow, I have a beautiful green
Speaker 3: bag in my life, and then somehow it got brought
Speaker 3: up to another human being and I said, oh I
Speaker 3: have We've got to get my green bag.
Speaker 2: Go grab my green bag. It's over there. Go grab
Speaker 2: a bag. You'll know it. It's green.
Speaker 3: And the avalanche of people just questioning my view of
Speaker 3: the world because everyone said it was yellow. Uh, you
Speaker 3: came in and I said, what color do you think
Speaker 3: that peg is?
Speaker 2: Yes? And what did I say?
Speaker 3: You said, sand?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I had not heard yet. Yes, I mean, look,
Speaker 2: I will stand behind sand I this this is it's
Speaker 2: it's yellowish. I mean I could call this yellow. I
Speaker 2: caught gold. Maybe there's no fucking world in which this
Speaker 2: is green.
Speaker 3: Would you say there are green undertones?
Speaker 2: You know what? Actually?
Speaker 4: Unfortunately, yes, Unfortunately, I would actually say that this is
Speaker 4: like it is a it is a greenier yellow.
Speaker 2: It's not green.
Speaker 3: Well, do you know what the official name is?
Speaker 5: No?
Speaker 3: What is it Spanish? Olive? No? I did a lot
Speaker 3: of digging. I had to do a lot of digging,
Speaker 3: too kind. I mean, I'm the one being gas list.
Speaker 3: I had to prove that my reac was true. Now
Speaker 3: you're grabbing yellow objects green objects. Okay, so this is
Speaker 3: like it's the deodorant the I think a cold buyer
Speaker 3: brought that actually and has a yellow cap. No, that's
Speaker 3: not true, it's dairy glowly. Just grab a green object
Speaker 3: and a yellow object and tried convinced me this is yellow.
Speaker 2: So this is okay, Oh my god.
Speaker 3: That scared me.
Speaker 4: First second, Oh no, this is the adrenaline portion of my.
Speaker 3: Heart is pounding, sweating. Yeah, I'm just questioning my entire
Speaker 3: past at this point.
Speaker 2: You're not color blind? No?
Speaker 3: No, I go to the optometrists once a year. They
Speaker 3: do the whole test.
Speaker 2: Do they do a color blind test?
Speaker 3: Yeah? Have you ever done that? It's very fun. Actually
Speaker 3: you get to look at like they'll have like a letter,
Speaker 3: it's made of dots, and you have to like kind
Speaker 3: of pick out if what the letter is or something.
Speaker 2: Do you go to the optometrists once a year.
Speaker 3: Because I have contexts, So I've got to re up
Speaker 3: my description.
Speaker 2: Get I have better than twenty twenty vision.
Speaker 3: What does that mean?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Yeah, yeah, I can see better than yeah yeah yeah,
Speaker 2: that's actually true. So I can fly fighter jets. Get me?
Speaker 2: Is that military?
Speaker 3: You kind of look like you should be flying jumpsuit
Speaker 3: right now?
Speaker 2: It sort of.
Speaker 4: I also sort of feel powerful holding this juicer. You know,
Speaker 4: I have my weird little kingdom now, you know, I
Speaker 4: have I have my what.
Speaker 2: Is this called?
Speaker 3: What is it a lime? Yeah, that's a scept I.
Speaker 2: Have my scepter. I have my bag, in front of me.
Speaker 3: And you've got like a weapon, You've got a spray
Speaker 3: deodoran spray as an attacker. Wow yeah, wow, But this
Speaker 3: better than twenty twenty vision, Like that just feels made
Speaker 3: up to me. What does that mean in practical terms?
Speaker 2: I think, I mean, I think it means it means
Speaker 2: a serial good. I don't, I don't know. It's just
Speaker 2: like just told you that a nurse nurse.
Speaker 3: Okay, so now we're getting into some territory of a
Speaker 3: non fashional, not non expert, I would.
Speaker 2: Say, but I read. I read the whole eye chart.
Speaker 3: Okay. Wow, I don't think I've ever been able to
Speaker 3: do that.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think you could. I think twenty twenty is
Speaker 4: like gets to a line and then there's below.
Speaker 3: Okay, wow, fascinating You are immune from bed bugs? Yeah,
Speaker 3: better than twenty twenty fashion. Again, like what's happening DNA wise?
Speaker 4: I mean, yeah, look, I genuinely I think I am
Speaker 4: strong and good and the fact that this is such
Speaker 4: a like real part of me, This this sort of
Speaker 4: like incredibly cocky, proud of myself.
Speaker 2: Grimy, weird little monster.
Speaker 4: And then also there's a part of me that's like
Speaker 4: I'm such a piece of shit, and I've never accomplished
Speaker 4: anything good in my life and I should quit. I
Speaker 4: should give up now. And that part comes out when
Speaker 4: I drink. So it's actually good you're getting this because
Speaker 4: I haven't been drinking.
Speaker 3: Right, interesting, Yeah, we can thank the festival for the yeah, yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah, for for whatever, for whatever, arrogant shitthead, I'm being
Speaker 4: right now.
Speaker 3: Well, I mean speaking of things that a piece of
Speaker 3: shit would do. I was so excited to have you
Speaker 3: here on the podcast today.
Speaker 2: I'm excited to be here.
Speaker 3: I thought, you know, Chloe, you'll come by. We'll just
Speaker 3: have a nice conversation and just move on. The podcast
Speaker 3: is called I said no gifts, so I was absolutely
Speaker 3: floored when you came trotting into the studio holding this
Speaker 3: Austin Powers level bag, kind of psychedelic gift bag.
Speaker 2: Yes, this is for me, it is for you.
Speaker 4: I look, this bag is my my signal that I
Speaker 4: understand that we have slightly different vibes.
Speaker 2: Right. I cleaned myself up, right. I bought a flower bag.
Speaker 2: I didn't I had it.
Speaker 4: I had it in a Vaughn's plastic bag that I
Speaker 4: got out of the gutter.
Speaker 2: But then I was like, I don't think Bridger is
Speaker 2: gonna lie like this.
Speaker 4: I think I need to have a nicer wrapping vessel.
Speaker 2: So that's why I got to feel.
Speaker 3: Like I'm gonna reach in and something's gonna bite me.
Speaker 4: Yeah. Now there are two items in.
Speaker 3: Okay, did should I take the mountain in specific order?
Speaker 2: No? No, No, I think they can come out together. Yes,
Speaker 2: that's think I've got.
Speaker 3: Oh. Oh, these are gorgeous.
Speaker 2: I'm so glad.
Speaker 3: What are these bracelets? Or are these for like a
Speaker 3: gorgeous ponytail?
Speaker 4: They look if you can, if you can find a
Speaker 4: ponytail fat enough, imagine the hair.
Speaker 2: Incredible.
Speaker 4: I think I think that actually would go around the
Speaker 4: tail of a pony.
Speaker 3: Oh wow, can you imagine the pony? Yeah, pretty pony
Speaker 3: with this thing on. Yeah, that's sued the Princess of
Speaker 3: the farms.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and she she goes drunk with power.
Speaker 3: Yes, starts killing other animals, starts holding a scepter, tramples
Speaker 3: the farmer's wife. Yes, yes, these are bracelets for.
Speaker 2: Uh who?
Speaker 4: Well for one of them, the one that you're holding
Speaker 4: in your right hands, for my dead grandmother.
Speaker 1: Her?
Speaker 3: How big was her hand?
Speaker 2: She was a tiny, tiny, tiny new York jew.
Speaker 3: She must have been like four feet tall.
Speaker 4: She truly was under five feet, right, and it shocks
Speaker 4: me that that could possibly have not slipped off of
Speaker 4: her hand. But yeah, whoa, it must have just been
Speaker 4: very annoying, you know, sort of jangling.
Speaker 3: Around because there's no way I could fit this around
Speaker 3: three fingers. I don't have big hands.
Speaker 2: Yeah, oh oh it does.
Speaker 3: It does open up.
Speaker 1: Oh.
Speaker 2: We were going in different directions.
Speaker 3: I was saying, okay, I'm putting these on a medium.
Speaker 4: Okay, good, you put them on. And then this one
Speaker 4: that just pulls apart. No, no, no, at the that's the spring.
Speaker 2: Yes, there you go. Yeah, you got it.
Speaker 3: Wow, I'm feeling so pretty already.
Speaker 2: Look at that.
Speaker 3: And is this also your?
Speaker 2: This one? Now?
Speaker 4: That one I got at a I think I got
Speaker 4: it at a garage, so okay, And.
Speaker 2: I genuinely love that one, okay.
Speaker 4: And I have spent years being like, I'm gonna wear
Speaker 4: it some day and I never have and I've never
Speaker 4: figured out a time to wear that.
Speaker 3: How did you bring these two? Because you're here from
Speaker 3: New York?
Speaker 2: Yes?
Speaker 3: Did you bring these for the podcast?
Speaker 5: Yes?
Speaker 4: They're beautiful and they're just two things that I never
Speaker 4: ever ever wear, And I think at this point I
Speaker 4: never will wear.
Speaker 2: But I don't want them to just I was like.
Speaker 4: Nothing, I don't want them to be nothing right, And
Speaker 4: so they're here.
Speaker 3: I feel guilty taking these from you.
Speaker 2: No, no, no, no no.
Speaker 3: It's very rare that I feel guilty taking anything from
Speaker 3: a guest.
Speaker 4: Well good, I'm honestly, I think based on the vibe
Speaker 4: that I've given so far, you wouldn't expect that I
Speaker 4: brought something you feel guilty into.
Speaker 3: I feel so powerful in these thrilled Wow. So did
Speaker 3: you have a good relationship with your grandma?
Speaker 2: I kind of barely knew her.
Speaker 4: Okay, my my dad was the youngest of four, and
Speaker 4: then he had me when I was forty five.
Speaker 2: When I was forty three.
Speaker 3: It was a very strange father giving birth to a.
Speaker 2: Forty came out.
Speaker 4: I came out, you know, hair dye in hand. I'm
Speaker 4: starting to go gray. I gotta cover this up. Somebody
Speaker 4: get me a white wine with ice Cubesah, really came
Speaker 4: up with an attitude. No, he was forty three when
Speaker 4: I was born, and he is the youngest of four,
Speaker 4: and so my grandmother was eighty when.
Speaker 2: I was born. Oh, and she lived.
Speaker 4: In New York, and I was born in Philly. But
Speaker 4: then my dad my parents split up when I was
Speaker 4: a baby, and my mom moved back to Minnesota.
Speaker 3: Oh, where she was from, right right, and.
Speaker 4: She brought me and so I grew up like visiting
Speaker 4: my grandma once a year, right, So, I like, I
Speaker 4: didn't really know her. And then at her funeral, my cousins,
Speaker 4: who are all like twenty and twenty five years older
Speaker 4: than me, we're all like, we loved all these memories
Speaker 4: of Grandma. Grandma given us back rubs, Grandma make us brown,
Speaker 4: He's Grandma. And I was like, god, I have kind
Speaker 4: of one memory of Grandma, and that was her telling
Speaker 4: me to turn on the light because I was reading
Speaker 4: in the dark and it was going to hurt my eyes.
Speaker 2: And you know what that means? I would have had
Speaker 2: even better.
Speaker 3: That's right, Oh my god, you'd be unstopaby. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: you'd be predator.
Speaker 2: But at least I could kill Alien?
Speaker 3: Does Predator kill Alien?
Speaker 2: In Alien v? Predator?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Do we know who the winner was?
Speaker 2: I assume there is a sequel to Alien VI.
Speaker 3: I bet there's a truce. I bet they'd come together
Speaker 3: as friends, right.
Speaker 2: Hey, buddies.
Speaker 4: The last shot is Alien Predator sitting on one of
Speaker 4: those like rocking swings that old people have in their
Speaker 4: front yards as the sun goes down over a lake.
Speaker 3: They're on a tandem bike. Oh, we have more in
Speaker 3: common than we think. Well, look at that Alien. I
Speaker 3: wonder I feel like Predator probably one. Predator is probably
Speaker 3: more of a I feel like Predator could wear ants,
Speaker 3: like it's a sort of creature that like is one
Speaker 3: step above Alien, which is just kind of a giant
Speaker 3: bug Alien.
Speaker 4: Yes, Alien in pants does need to cut like a
Speaker 4: hole for its.
Speaker 3: Table, right, It's like it's more like I can imagine
Speaker 3: Alien using a litter box more than Predator.
Speaker 4: Yes, yes, yes, Predator. Predator ships into a hole that
Speaker 4: it has lasered into the ground, and then it sort
Speaker 4: of lasers its own ship into little ash and then
Speaker 4: uses that ash to.
Speaker 2: Make a map of where Alien lives.
Speaker 3: Very resourceful.
Speaker 2: Yeah looe, where did that improv come from?
Speaker 3: No idea, where did that fan fag come from? I
Speaker 3: think we're both passionate about these two. Yeah, so you
Speaker 3: had very.
Speaker 2: Few seen Alien Predator. Sorry, we had a really off
Speaker 2: We had a real clear off ramp there.
Speaker 3: I haven't have you, I guess, unless as a very
Speaker 3: forgettable ending, which you could. I love Alien the movie. Yes,
Speaker 3: I think Alien is one of my all time favorites.
Speaker 3: To be honest, I think it's so good.
Speaker 4: I saw it once when I was fourteen, and I
Speaker 4: was with my dad and I was sick. And my
Speaker 4: dad called my mom and he was like, what do
Speaker 4: I do with her? She's sick and she's fucking boring.
Speaker 4: And my mom said, I don't noticit her on the
Speaker 4: couch and watch a movie. And he said, great, this
Speaker 4: is the perfect time for us to watch Alien. I'm
Speaker 4: sick at fourteen.
Speaker 3: So stressful to be watching well sick.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I remember, I remember liking the movie, but I
Speaker 4: remember almost nothing about it.
Speaker 3: Oh it's fantastic, it's really great. But then the rest
Speaker 3: of them I'm not that crazy about.
Speaker 2: I remember Aliens.
Speaker 3: It's not for me. People like that movie not for me.
Speaker 2: Okay. All I remember about that is big wall of
Speaker 2: dead bodies.
Speaker 3: Oh.
Speaker 4: Interesting, that's the only thing I remember, because dead bodies
Speaker 4: is my number two fear after number one bead bugs.
Speaker 3: Oh, just dead bodies. Yeah, I guess that's a pretty
Speaker 3: natural fear.
Speaker 2: Everybody.
Speaker 4: This is the reaction that everybody has, And I'm like, no,
Speaker 4: I think I think for me, it's like I'm like
Speaker 4: more freaked out.
Speaker 2: I'm like I'm more I'm they like really get me,
Speaker 2: Like yeah, it's.
Speaker 3: Kind of a better than twenty twenty situation. I have
Speaker 3: an edge on being scared of dead bodies.
Speaker 4: More afraid of dead bodies than most people are.
Speaker 3: Not to brag, do you know what my biggest fear
Speaker 3: was for essentially my entire childhood hunt of virus.
Speaker 2: No, because you're in Utah where there is hunted virus.
Speaker 3: So I mean, and my probably a big fear for
Speaker 3: me as an adult is going on a cruise. So
Speaker 3: like these things combining.
Speaker 2: Fucking god, hell has the last two weeks been like
Speaker 2: for you?
Speaker 3: There really was a day where it's like I have
Speaker 3: to I've just got to not think about this. I
Speaker 3: need to find just a reasonable news article that's not
Speaker 3: stoking any flames, because I think that fear could get
Speaker 3: out of control.
Speaker 4: Oh my god, And do you have do you have
Speaker 4: any kind of like OCD tendencies or like hypochondriacal tendencies.
Speaker 3: No, I don't really, I mean, but through that fear
Speaker 3: as a kid, I like there were there were years
Speaker 3: where I was not able to sleep alone, and when
Speaker 3: I would sleep, I would cover my entire body up
Speaker 3: to my head, worried that a mouse might come in
Speaker 3: and bite me or give me unt virus.
Speaker 4: Wow, wait, can you get hounta virus from a mouse bite?
Speaker 3: I don't think so, but I think I was just
Speaker 3: covering my base.
Speaker 2: Yes, yes, that makes sense.
Speaker 4: Wait did you not want to stay blown because of
Speaker 4: your hunt virus fear?
Speaker 3: Yes? Yeah, hontavirus was absolutely horrifying to me.
Speaker 2: It is it is your right. I'm going to say you.
Speaker 3: In this it's uncurable. Correct, it's really a bad I'm
Speaker 3: not trying to scare anybody. It seems like things are
Speaker 3: under control. It seems like something that's slow to spread.
Speaker 2: Yes, and it's and effective at killing.
Speaker 3: Yes, which is kind of good.
Speaker 2: Yes for an epidemic.
Speaker 3: Yes, I learned that about rabies recently. Like it's hard
Speaker 3: to get rabies because most from small animals, because it'll
Speaker 3: be usually kill them before they get to you. Sure,
Speaker 3: so that rabies was another Most of my fears were
Speaker 3: rodent based.
Speaker 2: As a child. Interesting any other road in based fears.
Speaker 3: I think those were the two big ones. Just essentially,
Speaker 3: being bit by a mouse was scary.
Speaker 2: Big bad. Yeah what if you got bit by a
Speaker 2: larger animal?
Speaker 3: Okay, right, take an arm amazing? Yeah, yeah, it won't
Speaker 3: get me a rabies not easy, yeh.
Speaker 2: I back in Minnesota.
Speaker 4: I grew up Minnesota and started Comedy of Minnesota, and
Speaker 4: I the neighbor's cat, which was like a semi outdoor cat,
Speaker 4: bit me once, and I it bit me a lot,
Speaker 4: but this one time sort of seemed weird, and I
Speaker 4: researched rabies and everything said, it takes like ten days
Speaker 4: to travel from it bit me on the hand, It
Speaker 4: takes ten days to travel from Do you know all
Speaker 4: of this?
Speaker 3: So you should have been there?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Yeah, Are you still afraid of rabies?
Speaker 5: No?
Speaker 3: I mean actually I wouldn't mind giving it a spin,
Speaker 3: to be honest, wore this thing?
Speaker 2: Give yourself something interesting?
Speaker 3: Finally, Yeah, I've got nothing else on my schedule. Yeah.
Speaker 2: It.
Speaker 4: It turns out that it takes ten days to travel
Speaker 4: from your extremity to your brain. And it's only bad
Speaker 4: when it's in your brain. If it says your hand,
Speaker 4: that's fucking fine. Who cares, can't raby's in your hand,
Speaker 4: You're totally fine. Not a big and so I and
Speaker 4: within that ten days. If that it's only transmissible if
Speaker 4: it's already in your brain. And so if the animal
Speaker 4: dies within those ten days, if it's in your brain,
Speaker 4: it's going to kill you.
Speaker 2: Within a couple days, okay, right, And so you just have.
Speaker 4: To see if the animal dies within the next week,
Speaker 4: if you can keep track of the animal, that's the big,
Speaker 4: but weird, tough, tough with a mouse.
Speaker 3: Yeah, headed into its mousehole. Yea, it's out in the field.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's tough. But with a cat, I put in
Speaker 2: a I put a calendar.
Speaker 3: And just wait to see if you're going to die?
Speaker 2: Is the cat dead? And then the cat was alive
Speaker 2: a week later.
Speaker 3: I got this car rather than seeing a doctor or anything.
Speaker 2: Yeah, what am I going to do for it?
Speaker 3: Would they be able to tell?
Speaker 1: Uh?
Speaker 2: No, I think they can't tell.
Speaker 4: I think they just give you a round of the
Speaker 4: vaccination preventatively, and I think the these vaccines are really unpleasant.
Speaker 3: Oh, because you're getting a bit of rabies.
Speaker 2: But I am inoculated naturally.
Speaker 3: This can't possibly.
Speaker 2: I think I could beat rabies.
Speaker 3: You're playing with fire like you're inoculated. Why what a
Speaker 3: nurse told me, no, Okay, I thought that I.
Speaker 4: Was inoculated because this cat by, but now I'm doing
Speaker 4: the math that cat didn't have rabies, so I'm but
Speaker 4: I really do think I feel in my bones that
Speaker 4: my body could is stronger than.
Speaker 3: Rabies, and I think that's more important than actually being inoculated.
Speaker 3: Just yeah, absolutely, but if you believe that you are it,
Speaker 3: I think ultimately.
Speaker 4: Wait, has seriously have you had like bad days over
Speaker 4: the last couple of weeks about haunt virus.
Speaker 3: There was just the one day when, like, you know,
Speaker 3: because obviously because of COVID, like the flashbacks to that
Speaker 3: of like I remember seeing people like making little jokes
Speaker 3: about it and being like, well, I don't know if
Speaker 3: I really And that's what was starting to happen, like
Speaker 3: people in their Instagram stories making a joke about it.
Speaker 3: I was like trying to stay centered in some way
Speaker 3: where it's like this is different, yes, and it's hard
Speaker 3: to get you know, reasonable information, yes, like trying to
Speaker 3: because every news story is like, well and this person
Speaker 3: they have made it onto the land or whatever. It's like, well, yeah,
Speaker 3: but we know them where they are whatever, Like this
Speaker 3: can be contained.
Speaker 2: Well, the scary thing was the flight attendant, Right, wasn't
Speaker 2: there flight.
Speaker 3: I didn't know there's a flight attendant.
Speaker 4: I think somebody who's not who wasn't on the boat
Speaker 4: got sick. But I think, yeah, I don't know. I
Speaker 4: mean I think we won't really know for a few weeks.
Speaker 2: Right, No, no, no, no, no. And do you go on
Speaker 2: Reddit at all?
Speaker 3: Yes, I've read it read the last couple of years,
Speaker 3: a recent Reddit convert. I made fun of it for
Speaker 3: a long time. I thought that it's only for straight man,
Speaker 3: but now it's the only good part of the Internet.
Speaker 2: It is the only good part of the Internet. It's
Speaker 2: the only one left.
Speaker 3: Yes, it's the only place where you can find true
Speaker 3: answers from human beings. Yes, so crazy.
Speaker 4: I just type whatever whatever I want to type into
Speaker 4: Google and then I just put Reddit in there.
Speaker 3: Yes, that's the only way to find an answer at
Speaker 3: this point. It's ridiculous.
Speaker 2: Well done, Reddit.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's good for them for kind of sticking it
Speaker 3: out as kind of just a place where people could
Speaker 3: talk about Christopher Nolan. And now it's for everybody, and.
Speaker 2: Now everybody can talk about Christopher.
Speaker 3: Yes, now we can finally get it.
Speaker 4: Reddit has sort of lived the arc of the loser
Speaker 4: in high school who then like keeps themselves together, is
Speaker 4: just committed to their identity for long enough that then
Speaker 4: as an adult it becomes you're like, oh, that person
Speaker 4: is actually kind of cool.
Speaker 3: We're pretty solid, they're dependable, and they've been true to themselves.
Speaker 4: Yeah, they're like interesting, they didn't they didn't go you know,
Speaker 4: with all the trends.
Speaker 3: Yeah, right right, hopefully they can keep that. I mean,
Speaker 3: that's the same with Craigslist. Actually, Craigslist is i mean
Speaker 3: basically a wil place. Yeah, but it's always been that way.
Speaker 3: It's always been a place that you might get killed
Speaker 3: or get a deal on a couch.
Speaker 4: Yes, And Craigslist is the kind of thing where it's
Speaker 4: like Craigslis is living the life of the of the
Speaker 4: like emo grunge, piece of shit kid who then is
Speaker 4: who is like I'm never gonna have kids and is
Speaker 4: never going to have children, and now, as an adult,
Speaker 4: when everybody else has children, is the cool person for
Speaker 4: not having a.
Speaker 3: Du completely and everyone gets to have fun with them,
Speaker 3: and just like you can go to them for drugs basically.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, you can go to them for drugs.
Speaker 3: Absolutely what happened to the craigslist killer. Do we know
Speaker 3: what he's up to?
Speaker 2: I think another craigslist killer got up. He died by suicide.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, Baugust fifteenth, twenty ten.
Speaker 2: But was it like the police are closing in? He
Speaker 2: was awaiting trial.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that'll do it?
Speaker 2: Sure, okay, all right, honestly at that point, yeah, do
Speaker 2: it go out?
Speaker 3: Yeah, just it's time to go. You've done your Craigslist killing.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you've taken a lot of lives. Take your own life.
Speaker 3: Was he taking a lot of lives?
Speaker 2: He was convicted of murdering three men in Ohio? Oh wow, crazy?
Speaker 4: Okay, So by see and to me, you know what,
Speaker 4: the scariest part of that is their bodies.
Speaker 2: After they're did.
Speaker 3: Yeah, exactly. None of that else is terrifying to you.
Speaker 3: It's fine, fine, just so let me see what.
Speaker 4: Happened, because I think I could reason with a Craigslist.
Speaker 3: You're putting again, putting yourself in very dangerous, yeah.
Speaker 2: Dangerous territory.
Speaker 4: And and I'm making I'm making a real cocky announcement.
Speaker 3: It's just going to go out to the You're going
Speaker 3: to have to really vet what you get from Craigslist
Speaker 3: at this point. I wouldn't mind if you just run
Speaker 3: them by me from now on.
Speaker 2: Okay, I'm gonna I'm gonna hit you up.
Speaker 3: I'm happy to get in touch with these. I can't
Speaker 3: be responsible for you being Craigslist killed.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, you're because you are now gonna feel complicit.
Speaker 2: Of course, we talked about it.
Speaker 4: Yes, Hey Bridger, I'm gonna go pick up a printer
Speaker 4: that only half works.
Speaker 3: What do you think now? This is something you got
Speaker 3: to guess?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Where else am I gonna get that for free?
Speaker 3: Ah? Well? Wow, I've got these. I feel like we
Speaker 3: haven't talked about these at all.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Are you a big jewelry person? I like real it's
Speaker 3: a nice ring. Where did that come from?
Speaker 2: Freezook workplace?
Speaker 3: Wow?
Speaker 4: And I haggled for it, okay, listed for thirty five.
Speaker 4: I came in at twenty five thirty.
Speaker 3: What did you What was your initial offer? Twenty five
Speaker 3: twenty five? Yeah, so they just met you.
Speaker 2: They met me at at thirty oh at thirty at
Speaker 2: thirty okay, and.
Speaker 4: I biked from Ridgewood, where I lived, to Long Island
Speaker 4: City and I met her on a sidewalk out side
Speaker 4: of a Trader Joe's at nine thirty at night for.
Speaker 3: A single ring, for a single ring, And then did
Speaker 3: you slip it on and ride home?
Speaker 5: No?
Speaker 2: Then I think I went to a stand up show.
Speaker 2: I think I was on my way to a spot.
Speaker 3: But did you wear it to the show? Flashy new
Speaker 3: piece of jewelry on stage?
Speaker 2: I should have?
Speaker 4: Yeah, I should have. I should have shown off. Yeah,
Speaker 4: that's right. I got thirty bucks to spare.
Speaker 3: What's the most you've ever spent on Craigslist?
Speaker 5: Oh?
Speaker 2: What a question.
Speaker 4: I one time I paid my cousin's four hundred dollars
Speaker 4: for their two thousand dollars couch.
Speaker 2: Oh but that's that wasn't craigslis right.
Speaker 3: That's a different situation.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, probably probably a hundred bucks or something.
Speaker 3: Okay, Yeah, I got a limit a hundred bucks.
Speaker 2: I bought a new couch this year. I spent two dollars.
Speaker 3: You did not use craigslist? Who did you use?
Speaker 1: Uh?
Speaker 2: Love joy Joy Love joybird Joy Birds love Joy something
Speaker 2: like that?
Speaker 3: Wow? What pushed you to use it to buying an.
Speaker 4: My boyfriend was allergic to my old couch. It was
Speaker 4: truly making him. It was it was he was waking
Speaker 4: up like swollen eyes couldn't talk, voices gone so bad
Speaker 4: allergies And is this.
Speaker 3: The same boyfriend as bed bugs? No, okay, separate situation.
Speaker 2: I date delicate man.
Speaker 3: Yes, you do, just the daintiest flower, pathetic words. It
Speaker 3: should be blown away by the lights, breeze. That's fine. Yeah,
Speaker 3: they're like testing things out for you.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 4: I dated one toxic muscular criminal in between them.
Speaker 2: And he's the one who cut the light fixture down.
Speaker 3: Oh, very good, So he had a purpose.
Speaker 4: I bring him up, him in, he does all the
Speaker 4: he does all the mechanical shit.
Speaker 2: Then I get rid of him.
Speaker 4: Then I go back to the fragile little flowers. Yeah, no,
Speaker 4: I am no, but I am. Look I I here's
Speaker 4: the thing. I don't like this bracelet.
Speaker 3: You don't like it? No, I think it's great, listener,
Speaker 3: It's like green and blue. What would you say it's
Speaker 3: made out of?
Speaker 2: No, this is yellow.
Speaker 3: Again. There's always like a second of me thinking, oh no,
Speaker 3: it's green, blue and gold.
Speaker 2: Green blue and gold. So there's a little yellow on there.
Speaker 2: It's costume jewelry, for sure. I have no idea. And
Speaker 2: it's and it's I think I would assume that it's
Speaker 2: from like the sixties.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's very chic, I would say.
Speaker 4: And it's got like little enamel painting, like little I
Speaker 4: think it's a little like painted glass enamel on it.
Speaker 2: It's just like a it's just like a It's it's
Speaker 2: very mod.
Speaker 3: Do you think I could get away with wearing that?
Speaker 2: Yes?
Speaker 3: You think so?
Speaker 2: Yes, I think so colored?
Speaker 3: Vintage, Yeah, songs, it's vintage. And then what about this
Speaker 3: other one? Do you like that? It looks more like
Speaker 3: a little it's almost like a little crown.
Speaker 2: This other one I've always imagined wearing like high up
Speaker 2: on my forearm.
Speaker 3: Oh interesting, that's kind of a I don't know what
Speaker 3: that is, superhero, wonder Woman, wonder Woman.
Speaker 2: So yeah, it's a little a little a little brace, right,
Speaker 2: but you're not into it.
Speaker 3: It's just so no, I mean, look at me what
Speaker 3: You've got a gorgeous ring on right now?
Speaker 2: That's true. That is true. I do have a gorgeous ring.
Speaker 3: This thing, I mean, the one we're currently talking about,
Speaker 3: I would say, is kind of for no one.
Speaker 2: Thank you, thank you for I honestly appreciate the validation.
Speaker 3: This is like, I mean, unless you're twelve years old, yes,
Speaker 3: or a figure skater eighty six figure skater. Outside of that,
Speaker 3: what are you trying.
Speaker 2: To prove to big spray of rhinestone?
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's it's a kind of just.
Speaker 2: It sort of looks like something if somebody still wants
Speaker 2: to love Claires.
Speaker 4: The jewelers are in the mall, but they're an adult
Speaker 4: and they feel like they can't go into Claire.
Speaker 3: Right, this is this is all they're Claire. What do
Speaker 3: you but you don't just wear this with regular clothes.
Speaker 3: You've got to be wearing.
Speaker 4: I think that there was a time Okay, I worked
Speaker 4: in a corporate office before I did stay Okay, and
Speaker 4: I worked in a corporate office from twenty twelve to
Speaker 4: twenty fifteen, okay, And I think maybe even maybe even earlier,
Speaker 4: maybe more like twenty eleven something. I think that that
Speaker 4: age was when like J Crew was selling big rhinestone pieces.
Speaker 3: Oh this makes sense.
Speaker 2: There were like big necklaces with huge glass jewels. Right,
Speaker 2: do you remember this? Do you know what?
Speaker 3: I can imagine walking into a J Crew and seeing
Speaker 3: even the models and the photographs wearing the sort of stuff.
Speaker 4: I actually think that this I don't. I think that
Speaker 4: this is from longer ago than that. I don't maybe
Speaker 4: this is a J Crew to you know, twenty thirteen.
Speaker 3: This is your from your grandma too, No, that I
Speaker 3: got from a garage though.
Speaker 2: Okay, my gift is bracelets.
Speaker 3: You stayed on theme. Yes, with two separate sources.
Speaker 2: That's amazing, separate sources.
Speaker 4: My gift is things that are in my house that
Speaker 4: I can't bear to just put out.
Speaker 2: On the sidewalk.
Speaker 3: But yeah, this don't get in my house anymore. Almost
Speaker 3: certainly J Crew. Then this feels like a J Crew,
Speaker 3: like it's by the cash register in like a little bus.
Speaker 2: Yes, yes, and.
Speaker 3: You're thinking, well this would go well with my new.
Speaker 4: With my blazer, yeah, my cardigan. Yes, and this is
Speaker 4: this really screams. I wish I was a wasp, you know.
Speaker 3: That's the new collections. That's kind of just J Crew.
Speaker 4: Yes, yes, J Crew says, if only my name was
Speaker 4: on the deed of a sailboat.
Speaker 3: Yes, but unfortunately I live in Arizona.
Speaker 2: Yes, exactly, exactly, exactly.
Speaker 3: Okay, well, these are gorgeous. This this will obviously become
Speaker 3: part of the set and then I'm gonna I'm gonna
Speaker 3: see what happens to my personality wearing this around friends,
Speaker 3: see if anybody calls me out, I'm.
Speaker 2: Curious for that.
Speaker 4: For people's reactions, I really genuinely would like to hear.
Speaker 4: The thing is that I think it's a very cool bracelet.
Speaker 3: It's just so not me, right, yeah, but I think
Speaker 3: it's very stylish.
Speaker 2: It's from I mean a New York Upper West Side.
Speaker 3: Yes, stylish old lady.
Speaker 2: In the it might be even older than the sixties. Wow.
Speaker 3: Well, I've got to be careful with that idea.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Well, I think we should play a game.
Speaker 2: All right, let's play it.
Speaker 3: We're gonna play a game called Gift or a Curse.
Speaker 3: I need a number between one and ten from you.
Speaker 2: Six.
Speaker 3: Okay. I have to do some light calculating to get
Speaker 3: our game pieces. So right now, you can promote, recommend,
Speaker 3: do whatever you want. I'll be right back.
Speaker 4: Wow, okay, promote. I'm promoting myself. That's because that's sort of.
Speaker 3: A line, very non traditional.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 4: I am at Chloe Backliffe on all socials and for
Speaker 4: our New York friends.
Speaker 2: I'm on tour. I do stand up. I'm going to
Speaker 2: Seattle in Portland.
Speaker 4: After LA i'll be in Atlanta, I'll be I'm all
Speaker 4: over for our New York friends, I am doing I
Speaker 4: have a solo show called Cheat, which is about how
Speaker 4: I have cheated in.
Speaker 2: All of my past relationships.
Speaker 4: And I am doing that in August for two nights
Speaker 4: at Joe's Pub August nineteen eighth and twentieth. So come
Speaker 4: on out to see Cheat in New York.
Speaker 3: And do you have any recommendations?
Speaker 2: Yeah, let's see, let's see. I'm sure I have recommendations.
Speaker 4: Umm. Look, this is a this is a bit of
Speaker 4: a NEPO higher but I am dating a very funny
Speaker 4: comedian named Stuart Laws.
Speaker 2: He's British. Ok So if you're into that accent, look
Speaker 2: him up.
Speaker 3: He's very fragile. So if you don't like a fragile yeah, yea.
Speaker 2: Oh he's allergic to a fucking couch. I mean you
Speaker 2: should be. He should.
Speaker 3: I can't sit.
Speaker 4: No, no, yeah, he can't relax. But he's very very funny.
Speaker 4: You should look him up.
Speaker 3: That's a great recommendation. I don't think I don't consider
Speaker 3: that NEPO. Okay, that's nice.
Speaker 4: That's yeah, that's that's I'm earning points. Yes, because later
Speaker 4: I can be a little bit mean to him.
Speaker 3: Exactly. You need some sort of.
Speaker 2: Leverage Hey, I promote, did you on I said, no.
Speaker 3: Kid, doesn't that mean anything to you?
Speaker 4: Please goddamn cook me fucking dinner. I am the idiot
Speaker 4: husband and he is the long suffering wife.
Speaker 2: Very very very much.
Speaker 3: You have to have one. Yes, yes, Well, this is
Speaker 3: how we play a gift or a curse. I'm going
Speaker 3: to name three things. You will tell me if there
Speaker 3: are a gift or a curse and why, and then
Speaker 3: I'll tell you if you're right or wrong, because there
Speaker 3: are correct answers, and you can lose the game, all right.
Speaker 3: This first one is from a listening. They're very high.
Speaker 3: This first one is from a listener named Darren. Gift
Speaker 3: or a curse. When someone says, don't yuck my yum.
Speaker 2: Curse, I truly I both hate.
Speaker 4: I hate the sound of the word yuck and I
Speaker 4: hate the sound of the word yum. Bad sounds two
Speaker 4: terrible sounds yuck, yum, awful, so bad.
Speaker 3: Curse correct.
Speaker 2: It's also said by the word people.
Speaker 4: It's that my people with who think that their entire
Speaker 4: personality can just be voting for Kamala, like I fucking
Speaker 4: hate yeah, curse.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Just the phrasing is as bad as it probably
Speaker 3: could be. Yes, it's in some ways, like I get
Speaker 3: the philosophy just like, but then there's a part of
Speaker 3: me where I'm I'm very pro snob and very pro
Speaker 3: telling people things are bad. Yeah, So there's part of
Speaker 3: it where I'm like, there's certain things like if I'm
Speaker 3: eating something and somebody tells me that looks gross, Okay,
Speaker 3: I don't do that. Yes, but sometimes it's like, if
Speaker 3: someone has a bad taste, I'm.
Speaker 2: You are what are you, bridger? If not a taste maker?
Speaker 3: If not a tastemaker, would be on my grave. Yeah,
Speaker 3: taste maker. Yes, yes, No, I think we've gone too
Speaker 3: far in the direction of this. I don't even like
Speaker 3: saying it aloud of don't yuck my yum.
Speaker 2: Oh, we've were way too supported.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we've got a yuck some things.
Speaker 2: Yes, we have to go back to being mean. Yes,
Speaker 2: that's sort of that. That's why I think.
Speaker 4: I think how soft and supportive and like understanding and
Speaker 4: empathetic we have we have the the emphasis on uh,
Speaker 4: you know, understanding everyone's yum.
Speaker 2: Everyone has a different yum.
Speaker 4: Is sort of part of why the the people who
Speaker 4: we disagree with.
Speaker 2: Have gone so far in the other direction.
Speaker 3: Just being like we.
Speaker 4: Have not cleaned up our own house and yucked in
Speaker 4: up yums over here.
Speaker 3: We've got to occasionally. Not everything can be yum.
Speaker 2: No, not everything can be yum.
Speaker 3: Okay, you've gotten one correct so far. The second one
Speaker 3: is from a listener named Molly. Gift or a curse
Speaker 3: when an item of clothing is described as buttery.
Speaker 4: Now hold on, when a material in an item of
Speaker 4: clothes that makes up an item of clothing is described
Speaker 4: as buttery.
Speaker 2: Gift, Okay, this it's buttery leather.
Speaker 4: Fine, I like that, but just being like that shirt
Speaker 4: is buttery, I'm gonna say I'm gonna I'm going to
Speaker 4: say a controversial I think it's a curse. My argument
Speaker 4: for this is that I hate online speak in real life,
Speaker 4: and I think that that being like, oh those pants
Speaker 4: are buttery, it's like starting to get.
Speaker 2: A little online speak in real life. So I'm going
Speaker 2: to say a curse.
Speaker 3: Correct. I don't agree with this in any I don't.
Speaker 3: I think the first time I heard this was in
Speaker 3: that documentary about the stretch pants or whatever. The what
Speaker 3: that's all the information I'm giving you. I'm sorry.
Speaker 2: Where this is? Where then diagram of our life? Does
Speaker 2: that scheme.
Speaker 3: Did you not say this about the pyramid scheme where
Speaker 3: they were selling the faulty stretch pants?
Speaker 2: No, what's a faulty? Also, what can boss? May be faulty?
Speaker 2: They were not stretching enough.
Speaker 3: They were I think they smelled and it was a pyramid.
Speaker 2: Scheme sometimes, is it? Do you mean the like the
Speaker 2: old navy jeans smell?
Speaker 3: No, what's that?
Speaker 2: Do you know what I'm talking about?
Speaker 1: There?
Speaker 4: Sometimes there's this specific smell that it's like cheap denim
Speaker 4: and it smells like it smells like rubber.
Speaker 2: Right, it's not denim. Okay, Interesting, I think you're smelling
Speaker 2: the polyester.
Speaker 4: I think you're smelling dead dinosaur bones made into genes,
Speaker 4: you know, quote unquote genes.
Speaker 2: Anyway, I wonder if that's what the legging smell like.
Speaker 3: No, I think they smelled like dead bodies. To be honest,
Speaker 3: ellis do you know everyone has seen this documentary other than.
Speaker 2: Lula Rich.
Speaker 3: Lula Rich is what it's called. And it was like
Speaker 3: it was a pyramid scheme, okay, And people were selling
Speaker 3: these horrible pants and the bodies they smelled something like
Speaker 3: something sewers, crazy something, But they were described as buttery.
Speaker 3: The feeling was buttery. I don't think you should apply
Speaker 3: food adjectives, but maybe, well, yeah, maybe that's what was
Speaker 3: going on with the smell. It felt buttery and smelled buttery.
Speaker 3: But no, I just don't think that buttery should I
Speaker 3: actually don't even think food should be described. It's in
Speaker 3: the same category as yum or yuck. To me, I
Speaker 3: got the word buttery. Yeah, yeah, there are a lot
Speaker 3: of food adjectives that drive me crazy when people are
Speaker 3: like melt in your mouth or falls off the.
Speaker 2: Bone, falls off the bone. I don't like Yeah, you're right,
Speaker 2: You're totally right. I don't like it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we need a new vocabulary for food. I think
Speaker 3: all of it off the bone better slithers off the
Speaker 3: battle except crawls out of the bowl. You've gotten two
Speaker 3: correct so far? Ok, very good. Finally, this is from
Speaker 3: a listener named Matt Gift or a curse googling someone
Speaker 3: before a date.
Speaker 2: I think, curse why.
Speaker 4: I think it's just frankly, too much work. Frankly, I'm
Speaker 4: gonna know within ninety seconds based on how their face
Speaker 4: moves whether I like them or not, and you know
Speaker 4: what I mean, And and then like it should be
Speaker 4: based on the date. And I don't even mean like, well,
Speaker 4: the person could present, you know, a lie. It's like
Speaker 4: if you're if they're presenting a lie. I think I'm
Speaker 4: gonna know, right, I might not know what they're lying.
Speaker 4: I don't know, I might not know what the truth
Speaker 4: is sure, but you'll see something.
Speaker 2: It's gonna be fucking off. Yeah, and then I'm gonna
Speaker 2: be like.
Speaker 3: No, correct, you win a game.
Speaker 1: No.
Speaker 3: I think this is a curse.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I understand why someone would want to try, but first
Speaker 3: of all, leave some mystery. Yeah, let the relationship play
Speaker 3: out and get dragged out as long as possible. It's
Speaker 3: hard to find somebody, So even if it's for a
Speaker 3: few weeks and then you find out.
Speaker 2: Way a little bit of your fucking life.
Speaker 3: Yes, otherwise it's just going through more profiles. Wouldn't you
Speaker 3: rather be lied to for a few months?
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I I would. I just it's it drives
Speaker 2: me nuts to me. This is like people.
Speaker 4: Trying to use the internet to be in control, and
Speaker 4: I just frankly have have let life throw the dice
Speaker 4: as it may.
Speaker 3: M right right now. I mean, I think it's kind
Speaker 3: of unavoidable. I mean, especially you end up seeing them
Speaker 3: on Instagram or something. But if you can avoid, yeah,
Speaker 3: try to avoid beforehand. Yeah, and then you can also
Speaker 3: start kind of building your little mystery with them, like, Okay,
Speaker 3: they'd said this, but now I'm seeing this. Things are
Speaker 3: not adding up. I'm in danger. Yes, and uh.
Speaker 4: Also the idea of coming into a date knowing things.
Speaker 4: So I bet I bet that this right?
Speaker 3: Wait?
Speaker 2: Are you are you dating at this point?
Speaker 3: I'm in a relationship.
Speaker 2: Yes, okay. Were you were you dating around while you
Speaker 2: had a podcast?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 2: Yes, okay, so I now I'm in a monogamous relationship.
Speaker 4: But when times when I have been dating and people
Speaker 4: have come in and been like, oh, I send to
Speaker 4: a podcast that you were on, It's like I don't want,
Speaker 4: I don't don't.
Speaker 3: What do you do with that information?
Speaker 2: I guess I would.
Speaker 4: Rather they tell me than not tell me. And then
Speaker 4: I like and then and then later they're like, oh, yeah,
Speaker 4: that thing that you were telling me, I already knew
Speaker 4: because I had heard this, But it's still like, it's like,
Speaker 4: I don't want you to fucking know. I want you
Speaker 4: to interact with me, to engage with me, as I
Speaker 4: am the person sitting across the table.
Speaker 3: Front right right. I don't think you should bring that
Speaker 3: much information about the other person too, because then it
Speaker 3: throws the chemistry off.
Speaker 2: You want, you want a mutual level of information.
Speaker 3: Yes, I'm both right. If you're going to listen to
Speaker 3: me on a podcast, send me one of you, thank you.
Speaker 3: And if you're not on a podcast, you're obviously not
Speaker 3: cool enough.
Speaker 4: And if you're going to Google me, then send me
Speaker 4: your own Google results exactly.
Speaker 3: Yes, uh yeah, I think we're in total agreement. Curse.
Speaker 3: Let's answer a listener question people are writing into I said,
Speaker 3: no gifts at gmail dot com, just kind of begging
Speaker 3: for answers. Yeah, desperate, everyone's desperate these days. We helpe
Speaker 3: me answer something. Yes, okay, this says I work at
Speaker 3: a colonial And first of all, it says no deer
Speaker 3: or no high nothing. It's just right into the question.
Speaker 2: This person, this person is a is a New Yorker.
Speaker 3: They're barging in. They don't have time, They've got to
Speaker 3: get on the subway.
Speaker 4: I will say, last time I was in La I
Speaker 4: went to spoke bicycle.
Speaker 3: Cafite oh, which I love, yes, lovely, and the.
Speaker 4: Person behind the counter it was like a long, long
Speaker 4: line and I got up there.
Speaker 2: We were there.
Speaker 4: I was there with friends for breakfast, and I got
Speaker 4: up there and I said, They said, hi, how are you?
Speaker 2: And I said I'm good. I'll take a.
Speaker 4: Or Hi, how are you? And I think I didn't
Speaker 4: say I'm good. I think I said I'll take a whatever.
Speaker 4: I started ordering because I was like, in the interest
Speaker 4: of efficiency, sure, and they said how are you?
Speaker 2: And I was like, oh, my fucking god. And I
Speaker 2: was like, I'm good. How are you? And they went good,
Speaker 2: thank you. Now what can I get you?
Speaker 3: I was like, Wow, I would be mad at that point.
Speaker 2: I was. I was.
Speaker 4: I thought it was a downding, and my friends who
Speaker 4: I was with, we all thought it was astonishing.
Speaker 3: But hey, hey man, I mean I get let's be honest,
Speaker 3: you were being very rude.
Speaker 2: I was, I was being an asshole.
Speaker 3: But if someone's rude to me, yes, I'm just especially
Speaker 3: if I'm working cash register. I'm like, yeah, I don't
Speaker 3: care anyway, Yes, let's get you out of here. The
Speaker 3: sooner you're out of here the better. Yeah, you don't
Speaker 3: you won't tell me how you are. Yeah, you don't
Speaker 3: want to be intimate with me?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Yeah, anyway, So this person.
Speaker 3: Okay, this person butts in. They say, I work at
Speaker 3: a colonial House museum and I'm tasked with planning our
Speaker 3: two hundred and fiftieth celebration of Independence day. I'm not
Speaker 3: feeling particularly patriotic for obvious reasons and cannot find inspiration
Speaker 3: for event planning. Bridger and Dearest rude guests. Oh so
Speaker 3: they're kind of hitting us up at the end of
Speaker 3: the email, whatever, what would you plan for the day?
Speaker 2: That's from Jennifer for the day at a colonial house?
Speaker 3: What fourth of July two hundred and fiftieth?
Speaker 2: But what is that? One? Is the colonial.
Speaker 3: Colonial House Museum? Okay, so I think usually they've probably
Speaker 3: got they've got sparklers, they have some sort of made
Speaker 3: out of raspberries.
Speaker 2: To me, it's like.
Speaker 4: The day, look, this is this is not a funny answer,
Speaker 4: This is an earnest answer, but like, could the day
Speaker 4: be celebrating, uh, ways that people like patriotically exercise their
Speaker 4: right to free speech and like protests or whatever, or
Speaker 4: like like civil engagement. Honestly, maybe just highlighting civil engagement.
Speaker 4: And it's like, how does voting at the local.
Speaker 3: Level just bore people to death?
Speaker 4: Or what about highlighting I wonder if there's a parallel
Speaker 4: between the Revolutionary War and uh, what our country is
Speaker 4: right now.
Speaker 2: And this is clearly the topics that I don't I
Speaker 2: don't know, and we threw we threw off the the
Speaker 2: idle of the English oppression.
Speaker 4: I wonder if there's like a way that you can
Speaker 4: sort of get the message of fuck the direction that
Speaker 4: the country is going in right now out through the
Speaker 4: lens of the revolutionary War.
Speaker 3: Oh, that's that would be nice, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 3: Be kind of exciting. Yeah, yeah, I have a hard
Speaker 3: time with this. The fourth of July just historically is
Speaker 3: the where I bottom out each year, just deeply depressed.
Speaker 3: Really yeah, and it's I think part partly to do
Speaker 3: with the holiday, but partly it's just something's happening. I'm
Speaker 3: always at a low on the floor.
Speaker 2: There is a summer angst. Yeah, I know exactly what
Speaker 2: summer angst you're talking.
Speaker 3: And I think the dissonance of people celebrating is so happy,
Speaker 3: yeah over something where you're like whatever you're doing. And
Speaker 3: I don't like fireworks or hot dogs. I love fireworks.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it does that really? That booes it up for me.
Speaker 3: Yeah, So it's just me, it's a huge clash, and
Speaker 3: then I end up just questioning everything on the fourth
Speaker 3: of July, So I don't have a lot to say
Speaker 3: about the We've got the big number two hundred and fifty.
Speaker 3: You can do a lot of fun with that. Guess
Speaker 3: the jelly beans, but I guess the number would be
Speaker 3: two hundred and fifty. So that's not a good guessing game.
Speaker 5: Sure, sure you could say you could guess well, no, no, no,
Speaker 5: it's it's you have you have a big bucket of
Speaker 5: jelly beans, and you say, try and get as close
Speaker 5: to two hundred and fifty jelly beans as you can,
Speaker 5: like right, Like guess.
Speaker 2: That's a great game, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's a lot of just avoidance. I'm kind of
Speaker 3: saying avoid thinking about how terrible.
Speaker 2: You could you could have.
Speaker 4: You could have a little track around the house and
Speaker 4: have one of the like ponies on a stick and
Speaker 4: give people a tri corner hat and let them run
Speaker 4: around and yell one if by land two if by
Speaker 4: see right? Or she could do that or oh yes,
Speaker 4: she holds up the lantern, and then you, like Paul Revere,
Speaker 4: must run around the house and like telling people the
Speaker 4: British are coming.
Speaker 2: The British are coming.
Speaker 3: I think that's a nice thing to happen at the museum.
Speaker 2: That's fun.
Speaker 3: Play some loud, non paid just like loud pop music.
Speaker 3: It doesn't have to be our standards. Okay, just get
Speaker 3: in there with some club beats.
Speaker 2: Yeah, what about Party in the USA.
Speaker 3: Party in the well. See now that we're headed in
Speaker 3: a bad direction, because that makes it seem like it's
Speaker 3: we're in a fun time.
Speaker 2: It's pretty okay. We could play Born in the USA, which.
Speaker 3: Is right one the more subtle.
Speaker 2: Yes, yes, a subversive critique of.
Speaker 3: The country, so entirely Springsteen.
Speaker 4: Yes, yes, Springsteen has really been talking about He goes
Speaker 4: for it.
Speaker 2: He's talking about how Trump is bad.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so there we go, Bruce, Bruce. Maybe invite Bruce
Speaker 3: for some sort of guest speaker.
Speaker 2: What about invite local union leaders.
Speaker 3: Oh that's nice to speak in costume.
Speaker 4: As Paul Revere, as Bruce Springsteen. What if you have
Speaker 4: the local pipefitters union dress up as Bruce Springsteen in
Speaker 4: the E Street Band and they guess how many jelly
Speaker 4: how how big of a handful you need of jellybeans
Speaker 4: to get to two.
Speaker 3: Fifteen Happy Birthday America. I think we I think that's perfect. Okay,
Speaker 3: all right, and then I mean, obviously start sending your
Speaker 3: resume out before this and just Jennifer, you're obviously not
Speaker 3: meant to be at that museum anymore. Anyway, you're begging
Speaker 3: podcasts for answers. She's done. Yeah, well, we answered the
Speaker 3: question perfectly.
Speaker 4: I think the one thing that yes, I do think
Speaker 4: we answer the question perfectly. I will say I want
Speaker 4: in the same way that I actually want liberals and
Speaker 4: smart people who I trust to serve in the military
Speaker 4: and to be in.
Speaker 2: The police force.
Speaker 4: I am like, I want Jennifer to stay at this
Speaker 4: colonial house. It's like making her life. But it's like
Speaker 4: I cannot have these institutions that I think are are
Speaker 4: like rampant with misinformation and power and misdirection to then
Speaker 4: only be run by people who I think a very true.
Speaker 3: She's brave for sticking around we need.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Jennifer, you are. You are actually doing doing the work.
Speaker 2: You're doing the work.
Speaker 3: Yes, you're doing the Paul Revere's work. Yeah, so good
Speaker 3: for her. Never leave the job, even if it's making
Speaker 3: you miserable, Jennifer.
Speaker 4: Yeah, let all those Republicans go and run like I
Speaker 4: don't know, animal.
Speaker 3: Shelters or something Kennedy Center. Unfortunately, I fucking got Well,
Speaker 3: I've got my beautiful bracelets, got your bracelets, and uh,
Speaker 3: kind of a renewed hope in Craigslist. To be honest,
Speaker 3: I go home and start. I'm gonna dive again.
Speaker 2: It's it's my it's my procrastination.
Speaker 3: That's better than what I'm using my phone for.
Speaker 2: What are you using your phone for?
Speaker 3: Garbage? Social media?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Yeah, so if I could get into Craigslist.
Speaker 2: I could.
Speaker 4: It is my Craigslist is my This is acceptable, This
Speaker 4: is inacceptable.
Speaker 3: Yeah, fantastic, so much more interesting.
Speaker 4: Figure out what you want, make a list of what
Speaker 4: you want and search for that. You can save searchers
Speaker 4: and Craigslist you can log in. They have an internal
Speaker 4: chat feature. You can chat with other people on Craigslist
Speaker 4: on their app.
Speaker 3: Anyway, Well, I've had a lovely time with you.
Speaker 2: I've had a thrilling time.
Speaker 3: Thank you for being here. Listener. The podcast is over.
Speaker 3: I expect you to leave. Goodbye. I love you, I said.
Speaker 2: No.
Speaker 3: Gifts is an exactly right production. Our senior producer is
Speaker 3: Ellis Nelson, and our episodes are beautifully mixed by Ben Holliday.
Speaker 3: The theme song is by Miracle Worker Amy Mann and
Speaker 3: we couldn't do it without our booker, Patrick Cottner. You
Speaker 3: must follow the show on Instagram. At I said, no gifts,
Speaker 3: That's where you're going to see pictures of all these
Speaker 3: wonderful gifts I'm getting. And don't you want to see
Speaker 3: the gifts?
Speaker 2: I invit? Did you hear?
Speaker 1: Thot a man myself perfectly clear? When you're a guest
Speaker 1: to me, you gotta come to me empty. And I said,
Speaker 1: no guests, your presences presents, and.
Speaker 2: I'm already stop. So how do you dare to surbey
Speaker 2: me