00:00:08 Speaker 1: Well, I invited. 00:00:10 Speaker 2: You here, thought I made myself perfectly clear. But you're a guest to my home. You gotta come to me empty, and I said, no, guests, your presences presents enough. I already had too much stuff, So how did you dare. 00:00:36 Speaker 3: To surbey me? Welcome to? I said, no gifts. I'm Bridgard Wineger. We are in the backyard. The weather is lovely. I spent the entire morning trying to figure out what I would have for lunch. That's time I could have spent vacuuming my home. So now I'm kind of falling behind, and it's only Monday. There are just so many things I do that feel like they're going to start a downhill slide. And this really feels like maybe it's the one. Whatever, let's get into the podcast. I love today's guest. It's Blair. Saki Blair. Welcome to. I said no gifts. 00:01:25 Speaker 1: Oh thank you so much for having me. I feel like I'm in like the Garden of Eden out here, just paradise, beautiful. 00:01:34 Speaker 3: The weather's very nice right now. 00:01:35 Speaker 1: It's exquisite. Especially, you know, it's been really touch and go here for a while. 00:01:40 Speaker 3: We had hale yesterday did you experience the hail. 00:01:43 Speaker 1: I didn't, but I did see a TikTok of it happening in this region. 00:01:47 Speaker 3: That's good enough. Yeah. 00:01:48 Speaker 1: I love to talk about the weather now in my old age. 00:01:53 Speaker 3: Hale is one of the weathers I love to talk about because I experience it once every seven years, every blue mood. I love to talk about phases of the moon. 00:02:02 Speaker 1: But get that, don't get me started. We're on a full moon, libra lunar eclipse today. 00:02:07 Speaker 3: I noticed the moon last night. 00:02:08 Speaker 1: Yeah, gorgeous moon, super moon, libra eclipse, a faded day. Everything is going to change the next six. 00:02:14 Speaker 3: Months, is that true? Yeah? 00:02:16 Speaker 1: I get more and more armchair astrologists on TikTok. 00:02:22 Speaker 3: The amount of astrology coming out of TikTok, I feel like it's making an expert of everybody. 00:02:27 Speaker 1: Well, I do like that to sort of offset all the other things. 00:02:30 Speaker 3: On there, you know, oh, all the other garbage. 00:02:33 Speaker 1: You all these women they're like, if your period is on the new moon, you're a white witch. If it's on the full moon, you're a red witch. 00:02:42 Speaker 3: You know, do you know what kind of witch you are? Yeah? 00:02:45 Speaker 1: I'm a new moon bitch. Okay, Yeah, And. 00:02:49 Speaker 3: What is supposed to change in the next six months. What does TikTok astrology told us. 00:02:53 Speaker 1: Well, I do think it's different depending on your rising sign. But Libra is a lot about relationships, codependents. What is energy giving, what is energy draining? What our own patterns are. So I think they say, you know, what's not? A line drops off fast? 00:03:15 Speaker 3: But oh interesting, I'm a Libra rising, Libra, Libra. 00:03:19 Speaker 1: Oh so today's a big day for you. 00:03:20 Speaker 3: I guess it is. 00:03:21 Speaker 1: I'm a Libra. What's your birthday? Don't you don't whatever? 00:03:25 Speaker 3: October night, I'm October twelve. Rite both of those down, listener, Wow, write those down. We're both Libras, and you're a Libra rising as well. Leo Rising, Leo Rising, Okay, yeah, I mean I just literally learned I'm a Libra rising two days ago because a friend texted, we need to talk about our rising signs, and then we didn't even talk about it that night. Oh but it is a little scary, isn't it. 00:03:47 Speaker 1: Yeah, when someone gives you some sort of intense cliffhanger like that we need to talk, we need to talk, is always like, oh, you just dropped a bomb in and left the room. 00:03:58 Speaker 3: You know, you can't start a sentence like that and not finish it. 00:04:01 Speaker 1: Yeah, or like yeah, I have to tell you something. It's like just wait until the day, don't give any precursor. 00:04:08 Speaker 3: It is kind of a funny thing too. I mean, if you just always text that, and because you always do have to tell somebody something, you always do need to talk to somebody about, just start every text with that. That is because it could be your new thing. We need to talk. And then people are like, well, she always says we need to talk. 00:04:22 Speaker 1: Yeah. I guess if I wanted to be some sort of acerbic you know, uh, polke the bear type of. 00:04:31 Speaker 3: Goal, right right, yeah, what sort of text are you? 00:04:35 Speaker 1: What sort of text am I? Hm? I have my people that I like to check in with. Okay, historically I was not a phone called gal. I'm sort of reaching that in my old age. 00:04:47 Speaker 3: Also, because we should just stop the podcast for one minute. Blair just turned eighty seven October twelfth, at. 00:04:55 Speaker 1: Eighty seven years old. I've always been eighty seven. 00:05:00 Speaker 3: I love forever eighty seven. 00:05:02 Speaker 1: Yeah, forever eighty seven. Well, eighty for. 00:05:04 Speaker 3: Brady, eighty for Brady. Oh right, did you see eighty You need to return to text. But oh, yeah, I saw eighty for Brady on the plane I need Oh that's a perfect plane movie. 00:05:15 Speaker 1: The texts, Oh yeah, text, I like to I'll probably fire off like a bunch in a row, like my stream of thought. I'm not like a long paragraph gal right, And I don't really text that night more of you. 00:05:30 Speaker 3: Know early Riser. 00:05:31 Speaker 1: Yeah, not by choice, though, How about you? What kind of text are you? 00:05:35 Speaker 3: I must know I'm very limited. 00:05:39 Speaker 1: That's incredible boundaries. 00:05:41 Speaker 3: I get. Yeah, I guess it is decent boundaries. 00:05:43 Speaker 2: I hate. 00:05:43 Speaker 3: I mean, this is a huge thing to admit. I hate my phone shocker. But uh no, I texting does stress me out a little bit, like when I'm in a text thread and if it goes past three texts that I haven't read, I just I'm now not looking at it anymore. I'm not responding to anybody. I'm just like, you've moved on without me. Maybe you live the rest of your lives without me. I don't care. It's too much for me to handle. 00:06:05 Speaker 1: Well, that's incredible. That means you're not a people, please, sir. 00:06:09 Speaker 3: I also, I don't know. 00:06:10 Speaker 1: I will say if I get like when I was younger in my twenties. I used to love a group chat. It felt so wonderful, you know, tribal. And now if someone enters me into a group chat, I have no qualms about leaving immediately. Blair Sake left the chat, I will irish goodbye. I never say bye anything. 00:06:35 Speaker 3: That's such a powerful thing to do, to have your name has left the chat incredible. 00:06:40 Speaker 1: Any group plan or anything should always be etiquette wise on an email. 00:06:45 Speaker 3: Oh yeah, I don't because the phone is just constantly alerting me. 00:06:48 Speaker 1: Oh, it's sur frying my adrenals. 00:06:51 Speaker 3: Yeah, let's get some BCC happening. Yeah, I don't need twelve people telling me when they can arrive. 00:06:56 Speaker 1: And also a lot of them it's like you don't have the numbers in your phone and you're like, oh, what in God's name were you thinking when you fired off this missile? 00:07:09 Speaker 3: You know, although I do sometimes it's a fun little game to be like, I know four of these people and trying to figure out who the fifth or sixth person is by what they're texting, and just trying to eventually figure it out. It's a little I mean, I guess this is because I have endless hours of my day and I just can spend time thinking about who's texting me. But I do like the occasional like one mystery. 00:07:32 Speaker 1: Number, yeah one, I is not too debilitating. Yeah, I've definitely made strong guesses and saved someone under the wrong name before then you go to text them. It's just the whole strade, you know. 00:07:48 Speaker 3: But you also have to think on their side. They don't know your numbers, so they're like, who who's this person? 00:07:53 Speaker 1: True? 00:07:54 Speaker 3: True, just flailing, you know, and. 00:07:57 Speaker 1: Just living in the dark. 00:07:58 Speaker 3: Love is blind, real love is blind. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I as far. I'm a very like limit. I'll text four words. I'm not getting into big paragraphs. I have started doing a lot of voice notes. Do you do a voice note? 00:08:13 Speaker 1: I forget to do a voice note, but I'll tell you what. I enjoy every single one I receive. It is like a fun surprise gift. Oh be so bold, and everyone feels like a little magical. I get excited. I'm like, oh, someone's got it, and someone has to have to go to the voice note to say something good, you know. 00:08:37 Speaker 3: I love that. Yeah, I will say I did invent the voice note. I think in about two thousand and seven I said there should be voice texts. So for a little while I was trying a thing where I would call a friend and say what I needed to say and hang up. And this I feel like, that's basically what we're doing now, So I should take a little credit. 00:08:55 Speaker 1: I think that's great, and I think you should get a Nobel price. I'm sort of honorary doctorate because we need to give credit where credit is due, because that is one I'm famously an analog bitch to go along with my eighty seven years that I get to like new trends very slowly, Like I just got Apple pay a year ago, and my mind was blown. I was like, this is incredible. I was like, what you guys have had this for years? This is so god damn convenient. I can't even believe it. But I just had to google out to send the voice note the other day. 00:09:40 Speaker 3: But you figured it out. 00:09:41 Speaker 1: I figured it out, And yeah, I felt a little self conscious at first trying to get the training wheels going, but I sure do love it. 00:09:51 Speaker 3: Sometimes in a voice note, I'll forget that I'm not dictating a text, and so I'll say it like I'm talking to a robot, and so then the voice note is sent like I'm talking to and I'm sure the person out there and is like, why is he completely emotionless right now? But I'm getting used to it. And Apple pay is an incredible safety net as far as I'll forget my wallet and to realize, oh, my phone can do this for me, right, incredible feeling. 00:10:17 Speaker 1: Yeah. I walk five miles a day. Oh my god, I just I am also very busy and I just love to saunter around every day in the sun. That's why I cannot live in a cold place. I need to do that. And so I don't bring my wallet and stuff. Right, So I stop at the gas station, I get my ice, I get my lollipop, I get my sultzer, I get my Celsius and I just do No, don't worry, I don't know. I won't be swiping today. You'll just be getting You'll just begetting my phone. 00:10:57 Speaker 3: Scain, Where are you walking? Just wherever? Oh? 00:11:01 Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm walking around. I got a route. 00:11:03 Speaker 3: Okay. 00:11:03 Speaker 1: Many people call me the walking ghost of uh you know, see me around. 00:11:09 Speaker 3: It feels a little bit like that in La when you walk you feel like a ghost, and it probably feels like two people driving their cars that you're a ghost because there are just so few people doing it. Yeah. 00:11:18 Speaker 1: Well, so many comics live by me that they constantly tell me that they just they're like, I literally see you walking all the time. Are you always walking? I'll tell you this though, Bridger love walking hate standing? 00:11:30 Speaker 3: Oh interesting? Yeah, well, I mean, how often are you just standing for a long time? 00:11:37 Speaker 1: Just any I don't, I don't, Well you've avoided I guess I do. 00:11:41 Speaker 3: I don't work in retail. 00:11:42 Speaker 1: I have, I have, And I'll tell you what, anytime I had a freemas, I'd love to sit down. This would be a lot better if I was sitting. 00:11:51 Speaker 3: What retail did you work in? 00:11:52 Speaker 1: I worked at Lululemon when I was nineteen? 00:11:55 Speaker 3: Wow? Was this pre Lululemon murders? I think that I was. 00:12:01 Speaker 1: I was really early on in like I was in like the first couple of years I was in college when I worked there. 00:12:06 Speaker 3: And I assume that was kind of a high stress retail job. 00:12:10 Speaker 1: One time I got in trouble, Uh, this bit snitched on me to management this girl I was supposed to be training, and I was just making a few jokes trying to, you know, bond make her feel welcome, and I said, uh, because they had stations through the store. There was like welcome greeter. There was what they called them, educators, not salespeople, educators where they put some sick capitalist corporate spin on, you know, like yeah, I'm educating. Yeah, oh my god. And I said to the girl, because I would always lobby for the pants folding stations, so I could kind of just vibe back there folding folding the pants. And I made a joke like I go back here because I don't like talking to people. I was just having a joke. She told on me. Then I was reprimanded fully and the girl and the girl who snitched, who didn't even work there yet, which I was like, I don't know that was a way into a job. What a yeah, what a little snake. And she goes, well, I just wanted to help you better yourself by telling I was like, honey, it's not that deep. Wow. Yeah. 00:13:28 Speaker 3: Is she younger than you? 00:13:29 Speaker 1: I think she was older. 00:13:31 Speaker 3: She's probably the CFO now. 00:13:33 Speaker 1: Hopefully weird she's willing to stomp on the on just the chill pants folders. 00:13:40 Speaker 3: To immediately start throwing your coworkers under the bus. Like the first three months of employment should be completely kissing ants. 00:13:47 Speaker 1: Oh my god, I know. Well she wasn't going to work at our store. 00:13:50 Speaker 3: Oh interesting, so. 00:13:51 Speaker 1: She was going to work at another store. 00:13:53 Speaker 3: But that's crazy. Who was this one? 00:14:00 Speaker 1: Wild choice? 00:14:01 Speaker 3: What kind of employee discount did you get there? 00:14:04 Speaker 1: I believe it was pretty substantial. I think it was like thirty or forty percent. 00:14:10 Speaker 3: It's not too bad. 00:14:11 Speaker 1: Yeah, is that not substantial? 00:14:13 Speaker 3: Uh? When I worked at Apple, they gave us fifty percent off. How it was one computer? Probably a total. I've worked there twice, probably a total of a year. 00:14:23 Speaker 1: Oh my god, no, wonder. You were a voice text pioneer. You were at the set, you were at the apex, you were at the center of it all. 00:14:34 Speaker 3: Yeah. But the first half of the time I worked there, I didn't own an Apple computer. So I was truly the least qualified person to be working there. And whoever walked away from me having bought something was probably lied to because it's just like, you know, I owned an iPod, but that just don't qualified you to tell people about computers. 00:14:53 Speaker 1: Right, But that's okay. Yeah, one time I lied and became a computer coder. 00:14:59 Speaker 3: Is that true? 00:15:00 Speaker 1: It's one hundred percent. 00:15:03 Speaker 3: That's a huge thing too. 00:15:05 Speaker 1: Yeah, but i'll tell you a surgeon close. But no one's gonna die. You know. I was not planning on someone hiring me. 00:15:18 Speaker 3: I was like, well, here's the thing. 00:15:21 Speaker 1: I was in grad school, I was in New York. I was doing three open mics a night, like, I was so trying to survive money wise, and someone showed me this like tech temp whatever, and so I just completely fabricated a coding resume and studied a bunch of coding questions for say, if one were to be in a coding interview, what sort of questions would they ask? And then I didn't think I would get an interview. Then I got an interview. I didn't think they were going to hire me. And then that was really shocking. I had that job for two years. 00:16:06 Speaker 3: Wait and you you were coding? 00:16:09 Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean I wouldn't say it was building educational software for Scholastic, okay. And I wouldn't say it was probably like a code for like you know, I don't know Teslas or anything. It was probably lower level coding. But the first day I had to go to like the nerdiest, most benign man and say, hey, yeah, it's been a while. You can you just you might show me how to do this and write down to every step. 00:16:37 Speaker 3: Yeah, that is amazing. You probably tanked the department. 00:16:43 Speaker 1: I don't think so. I really did the same thing every day for two years. I didn't. Oh yeah, I did make some mistakes definitely, which I think revealed me. But I don't know why they didn't care. 00:16:53 Speaker 3: Have you done any coding since? 00:16:55 Speaker 1: No? No, I can't say than brimming with temptation. 00:17:02 Speaker 3: Craving some coding. 00:17:04 Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm actually what I would say, technologically averse minus the voice notes and Apple pay Right, I like, don't get a new phone for like seven years. Like I recently got a new phone, and my phone before was from twenty seventeen. Okay, I like, I just upgrade when I absolutely have to, right, I. 00:17:21 Speaker 3: Think that's wonderful. 00:17:22 Speaker 1: My computer, like I got a new computer, was also from twenty seventeen, ok Like maybe earlier. 00:17:29 Speaker 3: Yeah, I tried to keep a computer for a minimum of six years. I just got a new computer. And it was because I think I apparently bought the MacBook the year that they installed an oven in the middle, and so it would just get extremely hot and the fans were going twenty four hours a day, right, So it was a four year cycle, which I felt like I wasted money. 00:17:48 Speaker 1: I think minded that too very hot? Need to cool down? 00:17:51 Speaker 3: Yeah, just burning? 00:17:53 Speaker 1: Yeah, as a brother, I don't have a heat on. You need choes to self regulate here truly. 00:18:01 Speaker 3: Yeah, well, I mean, speaking of warm things. I was excited to have your here today. Oh thanks, I'll be honest. I was very happy to have Blair on the podcast. 00:18:10 Speaker 1: Oh that's so kind of you. 00:18:11 Speaker 3: And you know, I thought you would come over. We would chat for a little while, yeah, catch up, right, and then you know, just go on with our week, right. And so I was a little surprised when I walked into the backyard. I was a little late, totally unprofessional of me. But I came up here and you were holding a bag which you handed to me, which felt warm. It does appear to be a gift podcast is called. I said no gifts, So I'm just I would say that I'm I'm panicking right now. 00:18:44 Speaker 1: Oh you are. 00:18:45 Speaker 3: Yeah. 00:18:46 Speaker 1: Yeah. It's interesting that you bring this up, Ridger, because I've never really been one for rules. I do like to accommodate others, but sometimes you just sort of get a spark in your heart and you have to act on it. And so I said, look, I don't know how this is gonna go, but sometimes God just wants you to take a swing, you know. And so I said, I know what the rules say, but maybe just this once, maybe just this once. It's great. 00:19:27 Speaker 3: That's nice. Love people they have. 00:19:28 Speaker 1: Birthdays, they say no gifts, but they love a gift. They love a gift. 00:19:34 Speaker 3: People love to get something new. And uh, this is a very cute bag. Oh yeah, it's got like a variety of desserts all over it. Sure, well, the neighbors have stopped their leaf blower. Oh yeah, so should I open it here on the podcast the Gift here? 00:19:49 Speaker 1: Yeah? Please? 00:19:53 Speaker 3: I mean it's heavier than I remember, yeah, fifteen minutes ago. Okay, we're gonna reach in. It's this gorgeous bag and there's still warmth half this is like the fiftieth thing. I would have guessed that was warm inside it's a whole roasted chicken. Oh my god, I. 00:20:23 Speaker 1: Bet you didn't look at me and say, look at this, Julia child, bitch. But guess what I am, Julia Child. That's why I brought you a rotisserie chicken. 00:20:32 Speaker 3: The Julia child of Albertson's. 00:20:34 Speaker 1: Yeah, it's sort of identically the same thing. 00:20:40 Speaker 3: Wow. I mean, I have a number of questions, but I guess we should start with why you brought this Richard. 00:20:48 Speaker 1: Once I did some extensive due diligence, once I did all the research that was to be done, I said, is this man vegan? Is this man vegetarian? Because I could put a whole wrench in my plan. But once those things were crossed off, I said, what warms the soul, warms the heart, the aorda, the solar plexus, aligns the chakras, brings joy to the spirit more than a rotisserie chicken. And look, one of my favorite things, sort of how I like to unwind is by blasting a rotis over a trash can. And I thought, my friend, Bridgie, I want to make sure that he knows that sort of satisfaction, that joy, that comfort, that explosion in the mouth of the taste buds. 00:21:43 Speaker 3: There is There are very few things that are more satisfying than just eating like a roasted chicken, not off of a plate. You're just eating it like it's medieval times. 00:21:54 Speaker 1: With our little little pause, you know, And it's a you're an experience really with a fork a knife. Honestly, it's not. That's not for me. 00:22:04 Speaker 3: But no, that's not as primal. 00:22:06 Speaker 1: No, it's we are animals after all, And I think as we've really covered with the technology and stuff, we've sort of gotten away from that from eating chicken, from that primal part of us that needs to come out. And I thought, you know, this is probably a way that he can really return to himself. 00:22:24 Speaker 3: Mm hmmm. Absolutely, this is a return to nature. How often are you eating a roasted chicken? Oh? 00:22:30 Speaker 1: Whenever I can think of it, Whenever I need a little pep in my step, whenever i'm you know, facing any sort of challenge. And I said, I need to be refortified, not only spiritually, but with a massive amount of protein, eating only with my fingers, you know. 00:22:49 Speaker 3: I mean this is great for me on a number of levels, because I did today struggle to decide on what I would eat for lunch, which is a common thing, is it? Oh? 00:22:57 Speaker 1: How could we be so synergistic? 00:22:59 Speaker 3: Do you have a hard time with deciding on lunch? 00:23:02 Speaker 1: No? 00:23:02 Speaker 3: No, I are you saying, like, because you brought the chicken and it's perfect for Yeah, I. 00:23:12 Speaker 1: Mean like I got like, you got to lock it and I had the key exactly, But also how would we have known how? There's no accidentally, But no, I sort of think about food every waking minute of the day. 00:23:30 Speaker 3: I'm very close in that mindset, and so. 00:23:33 Speaker 1: Like whenever, like I'll think of sometimes, like the night before, I'll get an idea of like and I'll be like, oh, I have to eat that tomorrow. And usually breakfast, I'm thinking about what I'm gonna eat for lunch and for dinner. 00:23:45 Speaker 3: Right, Yeah, Do you have a pretty typical breakfast every day or does that change as well? No? 00:23:51 Speaker 1: It changes all the time. Wow, this morning I had a substantial half of a breakfast breed from Cafelo's Feelest. Have you ever had that one? 00:24:03 Speaker 3: I've always wanted to try it, but it's you know, that place is surrounded by other brunch options, and I just never end up there. 00:24:08 Speaker 1: Sure you probably cross the street at a Little Doms. 00:24:12 Speaker 3: I think Little Doms is overrated. Yeah, I think more people need to just admit that it's atmosphere. It's occasionally seeing John Hamm. 00:24:21 Speaker 1: Right, But I did go there on a date a couple of nights ago, and it was I got the chicken palm, which if you're gonna go audience there and you want a solid order there, I think that, having tried many of the things, that was good. But I do hear what you're saying. And also just in that little area, there's not too many options, so that's like the best vibe. 00:24:43 Speaker 3: Sure, you know they've got the big booths and just a red booth yet lighting. But then you're eating like a pizza that's sopping wet. 00:24:51 Speaker 1: I've never had the pizza there. 00:24:53 Speaker 3: I mean, you are a lucky woman. It's bad pizza. They do actually have a decent break fast, though, I would say, oh yes, do you know who has incredible chicken palm? Is Sunday Gravy. Have you ever been there? No? 00:25:06 Speaker 1: Where is that? 00:25:08 Speaker 3: It's hard to say. I think it's in. It's close to the airport, to be honest, I think it's pretty. It's it's a drive. 00:25:16 Speaker 1: Like in El Segundo. Maybe I don't think I'm gonna. 00:25:21 Speaker 3: Make it's ale. 00:25:23 Speaker 1: Why were you at there? 00:25:24 Speaker 3: Because I had heard Sunday Gravy was great. 00:25:26 Speaker 1: Oh, like you drove there. 00:25:28 Speaker 3: My boyfriend loves chicken parm so we go there. You know, it's a very special occasion because it's a drive. But the food is phenomenal. 00:25:35 Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, well, I do love a recommendation. Do you guys cook? 00:25:39 Speaker 3: No, okay, it's humiliating. 00:25:42 Speaker 1: Wait no, that's not humiliating. But I want to go back to the breakfast because I need to. Like I sometimes I have been having a bagel thins with kim cheese and locks, and sometimes I just have a diet muscle milk like. 00:25:57 Speaker 3: Oh sure, some sort of a gym bit protea shape. 00:26:00 Speaker 1: When I'm not hungry, or like a sour dough avocado thing that sounds nice. I like a hot breakfast. I'll say I'm not a not a yogurt tea seed overnight oats girl. 00:26:15 Speaker 3: Disgusting, slimy texture is not. I can't do that in the morning. No, I have to have my wiles. I need to be strong. But to be putting that texture in that temperature in my mouth that early is Yeah. 00:26:27 Speaker 1: What is your breakfast? 00:26:29 Speaker 3: Entirely protein bars and coffee. I don't have the strength to decide on anything else in the morning, sure, unless I'm going out, So I just need something I can immediately start eating. Because I'm also pretty nauseous every morning, and lunch is also usually a very standard thing like a protein shake, except for when I'm when I have to communicate with another person, I need my blood sugar level to be above negative fifty. So when I do have to decide, I'm just driving around town freaking out, just hoping I find something that doesn't taste horrible. 00:26:59 Speaker 1: Yeah, I love that goal, that's good. 00:27:04 Speaker 3: Do you cook a lot? 00:27:06 Speaker 2: Uh? 00:27:06 Speaker 1: No, I do enjoy cooking. My parents are incredible, both incredible at cooking. My dad as a pizza oven, makes everything from scratch, pasta is whole Italian. My mom's incredible and unfortunately, due to this career choice, I have been on the road for the past many years, and so that's sort of taken me out of the cooking. But I do like prepare nice salads. I'll make a nice salmon roast, some vegetables, roast the chicken. Very simple, single woman things sound wonderful, But I love to make go down to my parents' house. I get a recipe beforehand, and then I cook like something that might be, you know, more complicated or that I want to try, but not alone. 00:27:57 Speaker 3: You know, have you had any big failures? 00:28:02 Speaker 1: Yes, I've had many failures. Now that you ask, yes, I have had many failures. 00:28:13 Speaker 3: We'll just cut that tiny piece of audio to share with you. I'm going to ruin you. 00:28:26 Speaker 1: One time, like a couple thanksgivings ago. I want to make this cream corn, okay, And I've done it before where it turned out exquisite, and I guess I got like way too simple of a recipe because it was like hot soup corn. It was not ideal. And I also think I put too much nutmeke if I can be candid with you, but I do like you gotta try, you gotta get uncomfortable. I made the bravest short ribs at my parents recently, and I going forward, the sauce needed to be reduced a little bit more, but the meat perfect tenderness, the flavor perfection, So you know, there's always room for improvement. 00:29:13 Speaker 3: Right. What is braizing? 00:29:15 Speaker 1: It's really where you cook a meat in the sauce so that it's sort of on the verge of like a stewed meat, so it's very moist and soft. 00:29:29 Speaker 3: Okay, yeah, and creamed corn? How is that not everyone's last choice of food? That makes no sense to me as a. 00:29:39 Speaker 1: Food Now, Bridge. 00:29:40 Speaker 3: The name itself is revolting. How does that ever cross in one's mind that they want to eat that? 00:29:47 Speaker 1: Now, Bridger, I can meet you halfway in the vulgarity of the name, But there is a sort of unbridled sighed to me that has interest in these disgusting nineteen fifties Midwestern foods like cream corn done well. To me, I think is just delicious. 00:30:17 Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean maybe I just need to try. 00:30:21 Speaker 1: Incredible. Do you like a vodka sauce? 00:30:24 Speaker 3: Oh? 00:30:24 Speaker 1: Yeah, sure, Okay, I was worried you weren't going to Oh I like. 00:30:27 Speaker 3: A vodka sauce. Are you just thinking, oh, he does like any cream based thing. 00:30:29 Speaker 1: Yeah, I was thinking you were like not liking the heavy. 00:30:31 Speaker 3: Stuff, because oh I love a heavy thing. 00:30:33 Speaker 1: Oh okay, me too, because I think I eat pretty light. You seem to too, that I make these heavy foods. I put them on a pedestal, like I want to have them at holidays and stuff. 00:30:48 Speaker 3: Right, it's a huge event, yes, right. 00:30:50 Speaker 1: And I enjoy the ceremony of it to see how the rest of the world lives. 00:30:56 Speaker 3: And then you're back to salads and a bit of salmon, a little. 00:30:59 Speaker 1: Bullshit, bullshit, hard boiled egg. 00:31:03 Speaker 3: Tuna bitch, I do like a hard boiled egg. I can eat almost anything. I've kind of come to the conclusion. I've probably talked about that I can't eat any form of beats on the podcast before. But I've as beats. 00:31:17 Speaker 1: Oh they go right through yuh huh. 00:31:19 Speaker 3: They don't go into me at all. I hate a beat right and I think it's something that's very similar in flavor and texture as a pork chop. I can't eat either of those things. It'll taste like dirt. 00:31:29 Speaker 1: I understand where you're coming from. I hear you. I receive that. I feel that way. I feel that way about yogurt. 00:31:38 Speaker 3: Any yogurt. 00:31:39 Speaker 1: H Well, it's trauma and deuced. I I had like very fitness parents, okay, growing up in Orange County. Oh sure, and I had a nineties diet mom, despite my parents a cute cooking acumen. But like it was the nineties when there was like that acidophilus craze where everyone was like, we need that, could you need? I could gutteria and you could only get it from yogurt, you know. And uh so then my mom made us have yogurt every day and we weren't all kids where we were raised like you eat what we give you, like you don't get to be picky, which I'm actually like, but that was the one thing, literally like I ate broccoli, I ate spinach. I was you know, I was a garbage disposal and this is the one thing. I was like, you know what, I don't funk with this, And it was a huge thing. My dad heavy the discipline. He said, you know what, if you don't need that, you're gonna eat too, and yeah. 00:32:44 Speaker 3: I feel like a great plan. 00:32:46 Speaker 1: Yeah. So it all came to a head one day fourth grade and I ate both of them and I was so angry and I was like, you're not you won't break me. So I ate both and then threw it up on his feet. And then a couple of years ago, during the pandemic, I took one of those everly well food tests. Guess what, everyone turns out Blair allergic to yogurt, allergic allergic. It said that, but I was like, interesting. 00:33:23 Speaker 3: Wow, I guess that's like it. But you're not allergic to other dairy. 00:33:26 Speaker 1: No, it's not almos allergic to other things, Matzla. I know that one was huge. Gluten tomato night shade, I mean a lot of stuff. But they also say that on those allergy tests that like you could have a mild that your allergy to a food could be considered mild and also at the same time heavily affect you, or it could be considered a high allergy and barely affect you. 00:33:54 Speaker 3: So changed the system. 00:33:56 Speaker 1: Yeah, it seems very a more. 00:34:00 Speaker 3: And like they're covering their bases. 00:34:03 Speaker 1: Yeah, I guess. But it also did make sense in a way because I was like, I don't find myself being perturbed by these things. 00:34:10 Speaker 3: Right, So you didn't change your diet. 00:34:12 Speaker 1: At all, No, not even a little bit. 00:34:14 Speaker 3: Did you take the test just on a whim? 00:34:15 Speaker 2: Yeah? 00:34:16 Speaker 1: I was just curious, Okay, I am very curious girl. 00:34:22 Speaker 3: I mean speaking of fourth grade. In third grade, our teacher had us. She put pistachio putting on our desks and we had to It was to clean the desk. 00:34:30 Speaker 1: Incarnation. Look, I don't know, dashio pudding. What's this lady doing? 00:34:36 Speaker 3: Great question, she's dead now. But it made me throw up and so for a very long time, kind of a slimy textured thing with a pistaschio flavor. No, thank you. I've recently come back around to pistashio flavored things. 00:34:51 Speaker 1: I am also a quick trigger like smells, sights, like things can like I am a gaggy I guess as sensitive being sensory issues. 00:35:06 Speaker 3: Probably, but yeah, is there any particular smell that you can't stand? 00:35:13 Speaker 1: Yeah? So many vomit, shit, trash, blair. 00:35:17 Speaker 3: You're describing things that no one can stay the. 00:35:20 Speaker 1: I know, I know, but but also it's like like my stomach will yeah, or like get close just in a way that I don't know that other people are quite affected. 00:35:30 Speaker 3: Right, you're just immediately Yeah, vomiting everywhere? 00:35:34 Speaker 1: Yeah, if I blood, which you can imagine is really uh interesting as a woman, right, Yeah, that's a conflict of interest. 00:35:43 Speaker 3: Yeah, completely. 00:35:45 Speaker 1: Sometimes I look down and the blood drains from my face. 00:35:48 Speaker 3: Do you get faint? Yeah? Oh oh that's a you're in a tricky situation there. 00:35:54 Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm really Victorian despite having a well developed quadruceps. 00:36:00 Speaker 3: Do you have a hard time watching like horror movies or slasher movies. 00:36:03 Speaker 1: Oh you couldn't. You couldn't get me in there, no matter what. Oh my god, I don't watch that stuff. I'll be I'll be up all. 00:36:13 Speaker 3: Night, up all night. But like, as far as the blood goes, do you like if you see blood on film, does that affect you? 00:36:19 Speaker 1: Oh? Totally? Like you know why used to watch Gray's Anatomy, oh boy, and or any medical thing I look away during those parts. Or like I was when I recently decided last summer to try Game of Thrones. As I said, I like to come to things very late. 00:36:34 Speaker 3: I mean this roast chicken is very Game of Thrones. 00:36:38 Speaker 1: Yes, yeah, primal, But I was like, I couldn't watch half of it. I would miss half the episode by putting my face in the pillow. You know. 00:36:47 Speaker 3: So okay, Well, you know, I don't know what to tell you about that. I guess you just have to avoid most media at this point. 00:36:53 Speaker 1: Yeah, good business. I picked you know. 00:36:57 Speaker 3: I started watching the Game of Thrones. People. They have a new show called Three Body Problem. Have you heard of this? No, it's based on a Chinese book, but it's about aliens contacting Earth or something. 00:37:07 Speaker 1: Is it good? What's it all? 00:37:09 Speaker 3: A great question? It's on Netflix. I've read the first two books. 00:37:13 Speaker 1: With Almanodormus or whatever, what's her name. 00:37:15 Speaker 3: I don't know who that is, but probably. 00:37:17 Speaker 1: I think she's a star. 00:37:18 Speaker 3: Okay, the girl, Yeah, like it's like a really beautiful woman. Yeah, and she's apparently the smartest woman alive, and it's like, oh, this one's a supermodel. Good for her. 00:37:29 Speaker 1: I have to watch it. 00:37:30 Speaker 3: Now I've watched. I can't stop watching it. So I don't know. Maybe that's good, but there are moments where I'm like, this feels very NBC nineteen ninety ninety. Yes, there's something a little cheesy about it. 00:37:44 Speaker 1: Yeah. I think it's hard to probably navigate the alien territory without it feeling that way, but I have not seen it. How do you feel about the alien topic? 00:37:57 Speaker 3: Oh? Just in general? Yeah, well I'm annoyed. I'm annoying that they are out there sure, and there's just no chance we're ever going to get to talk to them, Isn't that? Isn't that irritating? 00:38:09 Speaker 1: Yeah? Well, I'll say this. I had never considered or really spent any time thinking about aliens until about two years ago, where the government was like, oh, yeah, they're real, and I was like, what do you mean? What do you mean that? What what do you mean? 00:38:26 Speaker 3: So did you start doing some heavy thinking? 00:38:29 Speaker 1: Yeah? I did, because I was like, it's something about to happen, because why if they've known for the last I don't know, eighty eight years, there must be a reason that they're deciding that their push has come to shove that they have to roll it out to us. 00:38:46 Speaker 3: Now why Well, wasn't it the Blink one eighty two guy kept bothering them? 00:38:51 Speaker 1: Yeah, I think you shout out Tom DeLong. Oh No, it's not him. Wasn't Mark Cop shout out Tom DeLong? 00:39:00 Speaker 3: I could, I could think of Travis Barker and Mark Happis, But I so okay, Tom DeLong, Tom DeLong, Tom DeLong. But a great name. I've never There's something very rhythmic and melodic there. It kind of does all these musical name Tom DeLong. 00:39:23 Speaker 1: Well, I just found it so odd the reasoning behind it. I was like, is there some why are they telling us now? You know? 00:39:32 Speaker 3: Right? And I feel like it was one of those internet topics where it's like, too many people are talking about this. I'm annoyed. I'm not looking into it. So I never really looked that far into it, did they. I did read the Times article where they had like footage from a guy in his plane. I don't know, I'm struggling to think of a jet fighter plane and he like sees what's essentially like a white tic tac floating in the air. But did they basically confirm like we've seen things, but we don't know if they're certainly in say, we know they're aliens. 00:40:01 Speaker 1: No, they did, like they have high ups, Like it's in Congress right now, a bill about how the rollout of information is. Yes, one hundred percent true, it's like passed on I think it passed in one side of Congress, but about how to determine the rollout to the public. But then I watched this documentary that my brother told me about. I forget the name, but they like captured two extra terrestrials in Brazil in nineteen ninety four. 00:40:35 Speaker 3: What is this documentary? 00:40:37 Speaker 1: I need to know the name because I must tell you. But it was really but apparently the US took whatever. The US has all the info. 00:40:44 Speaker 3: And where are those where are they now? 00:40:47 Speaker 1: They're with the US. It's like all secret. 00:40:49 Speaker 3: And they're like in a cage. 00:40:51 Speaker 1: No they're dead. 00:40:53 Speaker 3: Moment of contact, yes, moment of contact. 00:40:55 Speaker 1: Moment of contact about the Brazil Yeah, yeah. 00:40:58 Speaker 3: Wow, But they to watch that. 00:41:00 Speaker 1: But they like those guys that were in Congress were like high ups in like the military that testified, like you know, many different occurrences, and I was just like, what, this is just so weird because I never thought about aliens in my life, you know what I mean. 00:41:16 Speaker 3: I've been thinking about aliens since day one. 00:41:18 Speaker 1: Really, I feel that's because you're a man. 00:41:21 Speaker 3: It probably is. It probably leans like to the interest is probably a little more male. I think like the nineties probably conditioned us in that way, right, But I think now aliens are for everyone. 00:41:33 Speaker 1: Well yeah, I mean I guess they're they're around, but it wasn't around. 00:41:38 Speaker 3: I feel like, once we actually see an alien, how long is it going to be forward bored with it? I would say probably thirty six hours, max. 00:41:47 Speaker 1: I just be stupefied by the public's just insane disinterest and apathy. Like whatever, sure, whatever you guys want. 00:41:58 Speaker 3: It really is the something wild will happen, and it might be wild for twenty four hours before everyone's like stop talking about that. 00:42:06 Speaker 1: I also just feel like they're benevolent, Like I sort of think that they're like we are to dogs, like I mean, obviously less close, but they're just sort of hanging out making sure nothing we don't blow ourselves up, and they're just like they're not trying to. I think they're benevolent, otherwise they would have already killed. 00:42:27 Speaker 3: Us, right right, right, that's that's a good point. I think it's a pretty good point. Or they're fighting their time. Yeah, see, that's like what is there? I guess they're just observing, but that's got to get boring for them. 00:42:40 Speaker 1: Unless they want to taste of blasting or row tiss, then they'll probably head down soon. 00:42:46 Speaker 3: An alien just eating chicken over the garbage can. 00:42:49 Speaker 1: Yeah, they're like, I've had enough of that shit. 00:42:53 Speaker 3: So you feel like there are aliens here? 00:42:56 Speaker 1: Well, I don't think the government would say that unless they were absolutely. 00:42:59 Speaker 3: Sure government's full of shit. 00:43:02 Speaker 1: That's true, you're right, I you know, I have a very very large issue of that. I'm just very literal person. 00:43:12 Speaker 3: M h and uh. 00:43:15 Speaker 1: I just believed them because I would be like, the stakes are too high for them to say that, right right, Because maybe they're worried about everyone just sending in a mass chaos. But everyone's like, I'm fucking busy. I don't know how to pay my phone bill. Shut up. 00:43:30 Speaker 3: You know, Well, if we have aliens then, I mean, who knows what's going on, but it feels like they're everything is just way too far away from us for us to ever make valuable contact. 00:43:44 Speaker 1: Yeah, I'll tell you what. I'm not losing sleep over it. It's just that's like the not really on my list of worries at all. Especially how could it be. I'm out here in this gorgeous backyard, this with beautiful vistas. The sun is shining, so hummingbird on the way in here? 00:44:02 Speaker 3: Oh, hummingbirds are very alien, you think. Yeah, they're like just kind of floating there. 00:44:08 Speaker 1: Oh, because they never stopped. 00:44:09 Speaker 3: Yeah, interesting thing about them that does seem like a little aircraft or like. 00:44:15 Speaker 1: I would have never made the connection before this moment. 00:44:20 Speaker 3: This is your alien year. 00:44:21 Speaker 1: Yeah, well yeah, I never had one before. I was buzzy doing stuff, thinking about other stuff. 00:44:30 Speaker 3: What would you do if you had an alien sighting? Like literally, like would you call a friend? 00:44:36 Speaker 2: Like? 00:44:36 Speaker 3: What you take me? 00:44:37 Speaker 2: Bitch? 00:44:37 Speaker 1: Let's go? Yeah, walk me like a dog. I'm tired, put a collar on me. Tell me what's gonna happen. Honey. You know, I love some info. I love some inside info. I love the info. 00:44:51 Speaker 3: That's a good attitude. Yeah, yeah, I would be relieved. Yeah, regardless of what I was about to do to me, I'd be like, well, at least there's an answer here. 00:45:00 Speaker 1: At least there's an answer. At least I uh can make a juxtaposition to all the film I've seen get to the bottom of what's going on here. Yeah, so I'd ask some good stories. That would be nice. 00:45:15 Speaker 3: I have always thought if aliens do come, like for them to see the things we've thought looked like aliens is going to be so humiliating, right, and oh this is what you thought we were. Well that's embarrassing. 00:45:27 Speaker 1: Well, they are probably like way, way, way, way way higher intelligence than us. 00:45:33 Speaker 3: They have to be, right, yeah, because I. 00:45:35 Speaker 1: Feel like they're just spectators of us or something. But well, I bet you they look down and they're like, look at these buckers are just on their phones all the time. What a boring species. They literally do nothing. They or to post mes and watch their little screen. I don't do shit. 00:45:50 Speaker 3: Maybe that's why they don't want anything to do with us. Probably just move on. 00:45:54 Speaker 1: Like lokally, these little boring, sedentary dumb dums. 00:46:02 Speaker 3: Well, do we have anything left to say about roasted chicken. Well, should I eat part of it here? 00:46:09 Speaker 1: Please? Please? And you know what I have to say. I am happy to have inadvertently brought solution to your lunch quandary. 00:46:22 Speaker 2: This. 00:46:23 Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean I wish I hadn't eaten lunch day. I would just be eating this right in front of you. 00:46:27 Speaker 1: Did you have a protein bar? 00:46:28 Speaker 2: No? 00:46:28 Speaker 3: I got a taco? 00:46:30 Speaker 1: What kind of taco? 00:46:31 Speaker 3: I went to homestateho and I got coffee at my favorite coffee. 00:46:36 Speaker 1: I like that Home State Taco. 00:46:39 Speaker 3: Homestate has decent tacos. They've switched their coffee. So now I have to go to literally a different. 00:46:43 Speaker 1: You have to make two stops. 00:46:46 Speaker 3: I'm trying to open this bag. 00:46:48 Speaker 1: It's not easy. 00:46:48 Speaker 3: Huh Okay, here we go. Should I just grab some of it? 00:46:52 Speaker 1: Please? 00:46:54 Speaker 3: Woo oh wonderful, so satisfying. 00:46:59 Speaker 1: You never suck us quality. It just always is consistent, every time you know what you're gonna get. 00:47:05 Speaker 3: It is one of those things like people should be eating these constantly. It's so delicious, it's so delicious cheap it's yes. 00:47:13 Speaker 1: And now, after having a bite, would you say that I am the Julia child of comedy? 00:47:19 Speaker 3: Oh? Certainly, thank you, definitely of this podcast. 00:47:22 Speaker 1: Oh my god, this is all I've ever wanted. 00:47:26 Speaker 3: For there to be another Julia Child of this podcast. They're gonna have to dig her up. 00:47:30 Speaker 1: Yeah, isn't be an interesting? Like I We've only met like once or twice, and I came up. I was like, I never do this, which is one hundred percent true. I was like, but I really want to come on your podcast, And that's funny because I don't really do that many podcasts. 00:47:49 Speaker 3: Or like when you asked, I really was some people. Sometimes people will ask and be like, oh, I. 00:47:57 Speaker 1: Don't like to ask for anything, which which is another huge problem. I think that would be light years ahead in this business. If I wasn't plagued with that. 00:48:08 Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm a very wait for it to just happen. 00:48:12 Speaker 1: Maybe for years, yes, not quite. 00:48:14 Speaker 3: A strategy, and then just kind of be mad at people who have the psycho drive to do that I don't. 00:48:22 Speaker 1: I don't have them mad at other people. It's more like, Wow, I really just I don't know how to get ahead. I can't get to the bottom of it. 00:48:37 Speaker 3: Well, it's hard because it's hard to modulate it where it's like I don't ask ever. But I feel like if I'm going if I did ask, I'd go way too far. And I like, how do you find the middle ground of being like a normal person who just feels like they deserve things. 00:48:51 Speaker 1: I don't know. It's very like anti leaning girl boss bad, very bad because I'm not getting myself a seat at the table. But I also do feel like the people that are have like a spot to give are getting so hit up mercilessly that I am like, oh, you know, I don't want to burden them. 00:49:18 Speaker 3: Mm hmmm. I mean that's even like I want to ask my manager for a thing. Yeah, this person is, that's their position in my life. So I've wasted a lot of years. 00:49:29 Speaker 1: Same with me, And that's sort of why I like to blast the row taste kind of get back down to nature. 00:49:36 Speaker 3: Just remember who you are, remember who I am. 00:49:39 Speaker 1: Take a break from the biz, from the business every now and again. 00:49:44 Speaker 3: Well, I think we should play a game. Oh we're going to play a game called Gift Master. I need a number between one and ten from you. 00:49:53 Speaker 1: Okay, I'll go ten. 00:49:54 Speaker 3: Okay, I have to do some light calculating to get our game pieces. Sure, right now, you can promote something, recommend something, do whatever, you want. 00:50:00 Speaker 1: Oh okay, Well, since you brought it up, I'd love to promote my brand new debut one hour special comedy special, my first one called Live from the Big Dog. It's on veeps. You can access it through the link in any of my social media at blairsakor blairsak dot com. Yeah, that would be very good. Also, my shows are on there my website. I have some Netflix is Joke shows coming up, Austin shows, Moon Tower, you get it, blah blah blah. 00:50:36 Speaker 3: Beautiful everyone go see or see at home. Blair. 00:50:40 Speaker 1: I'd like to recommend the rotissar chicken. 00:50:42 Speaker 3: Rotis ry, chicken is delicious. What do I have to recommend? I've been listening to an album by uh, this person named Rosalie. It's called Bite Down. That's just I've listened to it probably thirty times in the last three days. 00:50:56 Speaker 1: Really, that's actually a huge endorsement, considering that nobody listen to whole albums anymore. 00:51:01 Speaker 3: I have to listen to whole albums. It's i mean, one of album's good enough to listen to beginning to end wonderful. 00:51:07 Speaker 1: Now do you mix your any substances with your listening. 00:51:11 Speaker 3: Social I don't because I usually listen to things when I'm driving. 00:51:15 Speaker 1: Oh that's a good time. 00:51:16 Speaker 3: So only when I'm drunk driving, Am I right? Kind of? 00:51:21 Speaker 1: Okay? 00:51:21 Speaker 3: No, I I'll just go drive to listen to music. 00:51:25 Speaker 1: Oh. I love that. That's so intentional. 00:51:27 Speaker 3: It feels great. 00:51:28 Speaker 1: Yeah, because I'm always trying to get back I'm always trying to stop the multitasking from mindfulness, and that's like I'm going for a drive to really get into the music. And now, how did you find out about Rosalie? 00:51:42 Speaker 3: That's a great question. Probably I think I read. I know, I read a website called Dusted, a review music review website. She had plays with this band that I also like, and so I think at some. 00:51:56 Speaker 1: Point, okay, it was natural progression. 00:51:59 Speaker 3: Yeah, but she's just one wonderful cool But I think it's time to play the game. Is how we play gift Master. I'm gonna name three things, three gifts you can give away. I'm gonna name three celebrities. You'll tell me which celebrity you would give which gift and why. Okay, does that make perfect sense? 00:52:15 Speaker 1: It does? 00:52:15 Speaker 3: Okay. The gifts you're giving today are number one wedge heels, Number two a harpoon. Well, so kind of for you know, big fish or what have you? 00:52:25 Speaker 1: Sure? 00:52:25 Speaker 3: And number three is haunt of virus. Oh, are you familiar with haunted virus? 00:52:30 Speaker 1: Is that like hand to mouth or something. 00:52:32 Speaker 3: It's a it's a disease you get from mice. Oh, you know what it does to you. But it was probably a number one fear for me through elementary and middle school. 00:52:41 Speaker 1: Right, okay, rightfully? 00:52:43 Speaker 3: So I'll say, and I don't even know if that's how you pronounce it might be hantavirus, but hantavirus sounds very Midwest. 00:52:49 Speaker 1: Right zilantro. 00:52:54 Speaker 3: Oh I've never heard cilantro. Oh my god, I love that. 00:52:57 Speaker 1: One time I corrected my mother's friend when I would as a child, and I was like solantro and she never lets me forget to live it down twenty years later and I said, what a fucker soul, I said, lady Clantro. That doesn't sound right. 00:53:12 Speaker 3: That doesn't feel natural at all. 00:53:15 Speaker 1: That doesn't roll off the tongue. 00:53:18 Speaker 3: These are the three celebrities you're giving them to. Number one Stephanie Meyer, author of The Twilight Cyrus. Number two Donald Glover, and number three Judith Light Oh beautiful, we love Judith Yes, what do you think, Oh gosh. 00:53:35 Speaker 1: This could be career suicide. 00:53:38 Speaker 3: Judith Light is gonna ruin. Do not cross. 00:53:43 Speaker 1: Judith Light's gonna She's gonna end up a huge headline. Just like everything I say does on podcasts. It always ends up on the New York Post at my door begging for a comment. Why'd you give hunt to virus? To Donald Glover, I said, I said, it was a gunda my head situation. I was in the garden of Eden at Bridger's house. You never know what's gonna happen over there. 00:54:05 Speaker 3: I should have a gun on the podcast. 00:54:08 Speaker 1: You should have a gun. I said, no gifts. 00:54:14 Speaker 3: I just have a gun trained on the guests the entire hour. 00:54:18 Speaker 1: You know, I have to applaud I don't know if anyone has ever done this in the history of your podcast, but I do have to applaud your humility to say no gifts. Thank you know, Yeah, yeah, Okay, Judas Light, Stephanie Meyer. I'm gonna go Judith Light Harpoon because I think if anyone has the gusto, sort of the the iron will, the tenacity, it's gonna be her to maneuver that thing and then Stephanie Meyer. What was the other item. 00:54:50 Speaker 3: Let's see hauntavirus and wedge heels. 00:54:52 Speaker 1: Oh, wedge heels are definitely going to Stephanie Meyer. I got. I bet you got a closet full of wedge heels. 00:55:00 Speaker 3: Okay, so it'll just be a drop in the bucket. 00:55:03 Speaker 1: I think so. Yeah. I think it would be like, oh, you know me so well type of thing. Right, I'd be like, oh, I feel so known, you know, I feel so considered. 00:55:12 Speaker 3: So sorry. Yeah, she does seem like a wedge heel goal. 00:55:15 Speaker 1: Yeah, I bet she's got a collection of wetg heels that range from Jessica Simpson brand all the way to sort of like Christian Dior. 00:55:23 Speaker 3: Wow. Yeah, certainly. I think everyone has to have at least one pair of Jessica Simpson wedge heels in their closet. 00:55:28 Speaker 1: I had a few that really saw me up and down the coast of California in my twenties. Yeah. I used to love a wedge heel. I thought they were just so chic. 00:55:40 Speaker 3: They're probably on their way back. 00:55:42 Speaker 1: In maybe like a maybe like a tasteful Espa drill or something. 00:55:47 Speaker 3: Right. Yeah, when I was a copywriter, I had to do copy for Jessica Simpson's Shoes and perses. Uh huh, Well. 00:55:53 Speaker 1: She's a billionaire. 00:55:54 Speaker 3: Yeah, people love it. Yeah, she's made so much money. 00:55:57 Speaker 1: Wait, how was copywriting fine? 00:56:00 Speaker 3: It was actually kind of fun because when you're writing about stupid things like Jessica Simpson, wedge Heels is like, there are no steaks here. Yeah, and I get to write about the dumbest thing being made. 00:56:10 Speaker 1: So I give you up Cowgirl in Chic two tone. 00:56:18 Speaker 3: Yeah, exactly. Okay, So wedge Heels go to Stephanie. Yeah, and then Donald's getting a haunt of virus. 00:56:26 Speaker 1: I mean, you're questioning me about that in a way that feels confronting. But it was sort of a random thing, in the way that you know, when you have to do fuck Mary kill, somebody's got to not personal. It's like there was only three. I didn't know who else to get it, and I don't know if I want to give haunt of virus to a woman. 00:56:45 Speaker 3: In God's not in twenty twenty four. 00:56:49 Speaker 1: Twenty twenty four. 00:56:50 Speaker 3: Women are not getting haunted virus in twenty twenty right. 00:56:52 Speaker 1: I mean, then all of a sudden, Fox News gonna call me and say, hey, you want a drop here and and I'll say I don't want that. 00:57:01 Speaker 3: They probably already have an anchor that's famous for that. 00:57:03 Speaker 1: It was just a tongue in cheek game. 00:57:05 Speaker 3: Stop. 00:57:06 Speaker 1: How did you get this number? 00:57:10 Speaker 3: Okay, well, sure, I feel like Donald could do something with that. 00:57:13 Speaker 1: I did really enjoy mister and missus Smith. 00:57:16 Speaker 3: Oh, I need to watch that. 00:57:17 Speaker 1: I've heard it was exquisitely done. My air skin. It was just really fun. I liked the italy. I liked, you know, all the complicated emotional layers. I thought it was very well done, very fun. Watch. Good job Donald. 00:57:35 Speaker 3: It feels like a fun vacation to go on Little Escape. 00:57:38 Speaker 1: Yeah, it was good. 00:57:40 Speaker 3: Okay, maybe I'll watch that. I recommend it's a good recommendation. Yeah, okay, you played the game perfectly. 00:57:46 Speaker 1: Wow, thank you. I will think I would be riddled with guilt about Donald for probably three to five days, but then I'll get over. 00:57:53 Speaker 3: It and maybe he'll reach out. 00:57:56 Speaker 1: Probably, Donald, I should have given you wedge heels. This is career suicide. Fuck. 00:58:03 Speaker 3: Meanwhile, Judith Light is all over town with our harpoon. Yeah, deadly Judith. 00:58:11 Speaker 1: Uh. 00:58:11 Speaker 3: This is the final segment of the podcast. It's called I said no emails people write into I said, no gifts at gmail dot com. Absolutely just begging for answers. Wow, you hope me answer a question? Sir? Okay, this says hello, Bridge are an esteemed guest. That's very nice. My name is Mary Anne, and I'm in a bit of a pickle. I am a big gift giver, but I appear to have married into a family of gift neutral givers. I've been married to my husband for four years, and every time a birthday or Christmas or father's Mother's Day comes, I go shop and try to find a meaningful gift. The gift is given, the response is usually tip it at best, usually an oh nice, cool, and at worst there are critiques on the gift itself. Personally, I come from a family where if you get a gift, the first word should be thank you, and if you hate the gift, keep that ish to your self. Well, and look, we've got four more paragraphs, so hang in here. Last year in twenty twenty three, we didn't see his brother, his wife, and their daughter for most of the year, so we kept buying birthday slash Mother's and Father's Day gifts. And in the fall, when my husband was asked do dog sit for them. He brought their gifts down to their place and left them. We never heard anything about the gifts. No thank you texts, slash cards, slash emails. The most recent incident was Christmas twenty twenty three. We all remember Christmas twenty twenty three. I started shopping for gifts in October, bought and wrapped in November so that I was ready to go in December. The first week of December, my husband's brother texts him and asks, are the adults doing gifts this year? Please keep in mind his child is the only not adult. Okay, everyone's an adult except for this child. Oh my, I mean, I'm trying to keep it in my brain right now, to which my husband said, yes, knowing we already had gifts. Okay, so the adults are doing gifts this year, that's what we need to know. No response from his brother and him, his wife and child skipped our families Christmas gathering. We haven't seen them since Thanksgiving. At this point, well, they could be dead. I have no problem adjusting to a white elephant exchange, secret Sannah or no gifts, but I think that waiting until December to float the idea is too late. Now we have all their gifts still rapped and labeled. We're in the home stretch here. Looks like we may have the honor of going to their place for Easter. So what do we do? Bring all of the Christmas gifts? Bring them and leave them in the car and wait to see if they have any gifts for us. Rewrap them and give them as birthday gifts this year. Take the hint and just stop gifting them. Please help many thanks, mary Anne. Please help me, mary Anne. This is what happened. They bought a bunch of gifts this family. This is the missing information. Mary Anne never told us what sort of gifts she's giving. She says she's getting critiques, and people are like, this is okay. For all we know, mary Anne is a horrible gift giver. Maybe the family is incredible and she's just giving garbage. 01:01:00 Speaker 1: I'm just a fly on the wall here, But honestly, mary Anne, I have to pose the question. I think something deeper is going on here, girl. I think I think the complete stonewall response of about fifty different scenarios, without the slightest bit peep of acknowledgement, there is some blood boiling feud going on. This is much much bigger. This has nothing to do with gifts. There has been some sort of irrefutable fracture. I don't know even how you got the invite to the Easter gathering. What's even gonna go down there? And I think you might have to do some investigation that is deeper than the gifts. 01:01:54 Speaker 3: I think that's very good, that's wise advice. I mean, no one knows when he ever is. It's impossible to know when Easter is, so I don't know if this is going to reach Marianne in time. I think you leave them in the car, leave the gifts in the car, go in there and figure out what's going on with the family. 01:02:12 Speaker 1: Bust down the door. 01:02:17 Speaker 3: You've got to figure this out. 01:02:19 Speaker 1: What is going on here? What the hell is going on? 01:02:28 Speaker 3: She's got a fistful of Easter ham Yeah, just freaking out. 01:02:33 Speaker 1: We don't know is this a Christian? Is sir? Pagan? Easter? Is this? Is this a pity invite? A Are they saying what's going on? Are they have they recently become into meth? 01:02:46 Speaker 2: You know? 01:02:46 Speaker 1: I mean what we don't know? We got we need more answers Marianne. 01:02:51 Speaker 3: I know, she sends an email the length of the Bible and she leaves out all of these key details. Yeah, she's to take an email writing class. 01:03:00 Speaker 1: Man. Maybe first on the list is an email writing class. I think that could really build some bridges back in your family if you start there. Lady. 01:03:13 Speaker 3: Maybe she's just been writing so many bad emails to her family. They are just taking it out on the gifts she's giving them. 01:03:19 Speaker 1: Yeah, maybe it cried wolf too many times. I don't know. There's something missing here, like maybe she left that person's men at the altar. Maybe there's something There was some huge transgression where they said no more gifts, and not only that, we won't even acknowledge gifts from this side of the bloodline to maintain our honor. 01:03:46 Speaker 3: I think that's probably the most likely thing. Yeah, Marianne, you've gotten your answer, the perfect answer. 01:03:53 Speaker 1: Happy Easter, Happy Eastern Marianne. 01:03:56 Speaker 3: Happy Easter everyone who knows. Maybe Happy Easter twenty twenty five, just in case we missed Easter. Easter probably is on September fourth this year. I don't know, and I don't care. Mary Anne again, good luck, Okay, Blair, I've had such a wonderful time with you. 01:04:17 Speaker 1: Oh wow, thank you. 01:04:19 Speaker 3: I've gotten to eat chicken with my bare hands. 01:04:21 Speaker 1: Oh. I'm just so glad to be a part of this is really a dream realized for me, and to be in such gorgeous surroundings. 01:04:29 Speaker 3: Thank you, Thank you listener. The podcast is over. You know it's over. There's a plain overhead. It's time to move on with your day. Tom DeLong, I love you, goodbye. I said, No Gifts is an exactly right production. It's produced by our dear friend Analise Neilson, and it's beautifully mixed by Ben Holliday. And we couldn't do it without our guest booker, Patrick Kottner. The theme song, of course, could only come from miracle worker Amy Mann. You must follow the show on Instagram. At I said no gifts. I don't want to hear any excuses. That's where you get to see pictures of all these gorgeous gifts I'm getting. And don't you want to see pictures of the gifts? 01:05:17 Speaker 2: But I invited you hear I thought I made myself perfectly clear. When you're a guest to my home, you gotta come to me empty. And I said no gifts. Your presences. Presence enough I already had too much stuff. So how do you dare disurbey me? 01:06:00 Speaker 1: Um,