00:00:08 Speaker 1: And I invited you here. 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, guest, you're presences presents enough. I already had too much stuff, So how do you dare to surbey me? 00:00:47 Speaker 2: Welcome to I said, no gifts. It's Britchard Windinger. That's who I am. I'm so glad you're here. What can we talk about for a moment here? Let's see, well, let's uh have holidays. Look, it's July, but maybe there's a chance you're listening to this in deep December. I don't know. Hopefully you're saying on top of things, but you know, occasionally life gets in the way and suddenly you're six months behind on podcasts. You're sweating, you're panicking trying to catch up with what's happening with me. I understand, but I hope your life hasn't descended into that level of chaos. But if it has, you know, if the holidays are just around the corner, it's almost the end of the year for you. I still have months and months to deal with with twenty twenty one. Let's just get into the podcast I'm thrilled about today's guest. I think he's so funny, and I think we're going to have a good time, unless he has decides to get in a fight with me or something. Eugene Cordero, you gene welcome to I said note gifts. 00:01:50 Speaker 3: Oh hi, Hi, listen. I re listened to every podcast in deep December, and by deep December, we're talking like mid twenties December, Like before Christmas. I go, I go hard on every podcast I've ever listened to. I double down. 00:02:09 Speaker 2: Well, you have to. I mean, that's the time of the year. You've got nothing else going on. Maybe you're driving around doing some last minute shopping and you need something to listen to. 00:02:18 Speaker 3: Yeah, and I'm like, what, really, well, how do I really feel about that murder? And then I re listened to the murder. 00:02:26 Speaker 2: You know, I think that's totally fair. 00:02:28 Speaker 3: I mean, it's thrin around the holidays. It makes it makes me feel better that I wasn't murdered yet, and you know, I'll make it at least till the next year. 00:02:36 Speaker 2: Well, maybe it's your Christmas wish to get murdered, and so you're thinking, oh, this could be my year. Maybe Santa comes down the chute and just slits my throat or something, so you just to get into the general mood there. 00:02:48 Speaker 3: I try to sit on Santa's lap every year and hand him a shive and and just tell them to do it. 00:02:55 Speaker 2: When was the last time you were on Santa's last. 00:02:58 Speaker 3: Boy, not recently. I will say that the last time a Santa lap situation happened other than my kids sitting on Santa's lap, which they don't like, which I get and I'm happy about, was when I was an older like an uncle to like my cousin's kids, and I had to dress up as a Santa for that. 00:03:26 Speaker 2: Yeah, and did you have you dressed up a Santa multiple times or was there just one occasion? 00:03:32 Speaker 3: I feel like I only remember the once, which is good. I guess once, I guess I could simply answer that by. 00:03:39 Speaker 2: Once the rest of them you were in a Yeah. So wait, when you dressed up as Santa, Like, was this like an all night ordeal where you show up and you have to do the whole thing. 00:03:50 Speaker 3: So in our family, it was one of those things where all of the kids would be like playing in the basement and all that stuff, staying through midnight, like it was a Christmas Eve party, like me and my cousins and their kids. And then one of the dads from back in the day when we were kids, one of the dads from back in the day would then around eleven forty five put on the Santa suit that they all passed around, and then around midnight he would come down the stairs and then hand out all the gifts that everybody gave to each other. So we all knew it was like my you know, my uncle of doing it, but it was like the way that we were too excited to get the gifts, you know. 00:04:29 Speaker 2: Of course, of course. 00:04:32 Speaker 3: So when I did it, they all knew it was me because I was just hanging out for the last three. 00:04:36 Speaker 2: Hours and now suddenly you're gone. 00:04:40 Speaker 3: And now suddenly I'm gone, and it's still my voice as Santa, Like I didn't put on a voice. 00:04:45 Speaker 2: Wow, So you're really doing a bare minimum. It feel it's a little unfair. 00:04:49 Speaker 3: It's a holiday. I'm not getting paid. It's not like time and a half. 00:04:53 Speaker 2: You know. So you sit down, it's just Uncle Eugene with a beard off. Yeah, yeah, And so anyone happening any fun with that? 00:05:05 Speaker 3: Hey, when kids get gifts. They don't care what you're dressed as. 00:05:08 Speaker 2: That's true. 00:05:09 Speaker 3: Like if you think if you go to a toy store, like those guys are creepy as shit, right, you. 00:05:14 Speaker 2: Could have come down to the stairs as the grim Reaper. 00:05:16 Speaker 3: For maybe I will this year teach my kids a lesson. 00:05:23 Speaker 2: I feel like that's something we should get into as this society is like a grim Reaper sitting on a throne at the mall. The kids go up and tell them the Christmas wishes. 00:05:32 Speaker 3: Go hey, enjoy this gift because it might be your last one. 00:05:37 Speaker 2: Look, I feel like we have a business opportunity here that we can go around the area. Los Angeles malls were ready to pitch the grim Reaper Christmas special. 00:05:47 Speaker 3: Yes, keep the really fancy one at the Americana and the Grove. But over there at the Glendale Galleria, Grim Reapers. 00:05:54 Speaker 2: There you've got a fog machine, a. 00:05:57 Speaker 3: Fog machine right next to the shoe shining guys, the sneakers, the sneaker cleaners. 00:06:02 Speaker 2: I walked past the sneaker cleaners recently and that's uh, it was shut down. I don't know if that's a COVID thing or what, but. 00:06:09 Speaker 3: I mean, your feet are not six feet away from your mouth unless you're like six feet tall in getting your sneakers. 00:06:15 Speaker 2: Speak for yourself. I've got long, beautiful legs an extremely small tour so I'm about eight feet tall all legs, oh daddy, long legs, essentially like a Tim Burton. Are you a big holiday person? I mean it is July, but let's talk holidays. 00:06:36 Speaker 3: I am a big holiday person. My birthday is I'm a July baby. Oh ok, so I get to split up the year with gifts. You're in the sweet spot, gift sweet I was in the sweet spot gift wise, but not birthday wise while you were growing up, because like kids who have birthdays in the fall, in the spring, you get to celebrate it at school. Everybody is there, right if you have a party on that weekend. It's not like people are you know, at camp or you know whatever. Right, So you had to wrangle people for you know, summer birthdays, and it had to be like a fun like beach sitch. 00:07:13 Speaker 2: A birthday like some sort of water is. It must be involved, Yeah, yeah, it must have. You can't just have like a sleepover with a jack lantern or something. 00:07:23 Speaker 3: Too hot, too hot, too hot for the jack Lander. The jack Lander is going to melt. But but the sleepover is also too hot, because like, you're not going to sleep in a sleeping bag, no way, no, thank you. 00:07:37 Speaker 2: Oh a sleeping bag, even in the cold, can get. 00:07:39 Speaker 3: A little hot. 00:07:40 Speaker 2: Oh yeah, so I don't know this. 00:07:42 Speaker 3: Uh. 00:07:43 Speaker 2: Thematically, this episode of the podcast is one of the most temporal temp What is the word I'm looking for temporally the time is tempora, tempora, tempora. 00:07:54 Speaker 3: This is a deep fried kind of panco based Yeah. 00:08:01 Speaker 2: Time wise, this one's all over the place. The listener cannot endpoint where we are in time, and I think that's good for people. 00:08:09 Speaker 3: Hey, we have decided that this is a what is that called where you can watch it at any time or listen to it Green time Angela. 00:08:18 Speaker 2: Oh evergreen ever seen the episode. I was just reading an article where that was encouraging people to be more neutral as far as past, present, and future concerned, not to be too much in the moment, not to be too much in the future, and not to be too much in the past. So this episode, maybe that's where this is coming from. No, I'm trying to just keep it all over the map time wise, Yeah. 00:08:43 Speaker 3: Yeah, let's think about your growing up, but also think about what you're listening to right now, and then think about Christmas. 00:08:52 Speaker 2: Try to stay on the road while you're doing it. Yeah, your brain is just going haywire. How are you doing in general? 00:09:01 Speaker 3: I'm good. I'm good. I'm I'm happy that it's summer right ish. Maybe it's summer for you also, But I'm happy also to be back in Los Angeles. There's a while that I was traveling and and away from the fam. So it's just always I'm such a I feel like work wise, in light and stuff, I feel like an extrovert, and I like being around people. But I love just getting home and then just being in my bubble of home, you know. So so it's nice to be back here and relaxing. 00:09:39 Speaker 2: Where were you traveling? 00:09:40 Speaker 3: I was in Vancouver, Canada for like two months and change shooting a movie, and my family couldn't come with because of you know, COVID protocols and stuff. So that was like the longest I've been away from the whole crew for a while. So you know that it's just a lot of my wife and a lot of my kids to like, you know. 00:10:03 Speaker 2: So hopefully you're handing a little guilty. 00:10:05 Speaker 3: Oh oh hopefully. Yeah, yeah, no, I live in it. I live in guilt. So it's also nice to be, you know, with all of them and you know, doing fun summer things, you know, because then it feels like a summer for me too, Like, oh, I get to do you know, all of the things that you do going to a bunch of playgrounds now that you know things are open again ish and everything. 00:10:27 Speaker 2: So what sort of summary things are you doing? You're going to playgrounds, You're going to the beach. 00:10:32 Speaker 3: We're going to the beach. Yeah, we're you know, hitting up the playgrounds that have splash pads that they just started opening up. So, like, my kids are very like my daughter's like almost one, my son is four years old, so like the idea of just a little bit of water like a puddle is amazing for them. So we try to find, you know, the ones where we don't have to get in the cold water as much. 00:10:56 Speaker 2: Wait, so a splash pad is it essentially just a standing pool of water that's like a couple of inches deep. 00:11:03 Speaker 3: Yeah, it's like for mosquitos. 00:11:04 Speaker 2: It's like for mosquitoes kind of a playground for disease. 00:11:10 Speaker 3: What we're talking about. It's like a proof tree dish. Yeah, basically, yeah, but kids splashing it and you hear just a bunch of parents say, don't, don't not me, not me. 00:11:24 Speaker 2: That sounds great. And it does it have does it have the fountains or is that one of those things that happens in an outdoor mall am I confusing the two. 00:11:31 Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, you're thinking of the Belagio in Las Vegas and that is not for children. 00:11:35 Speaker 2: Well, it was for me. I was splashing around and I was dragged away by security, but I had an incredible time. 00:11:42 Speaker 3: Yeah, but you were singing all of the Frank Sinatra songs. 00:11:46 Speaker 2: I'm a Sinatra freak and that was my moment. I said, I'm in Vegas. I'm gonna do Sinatra wild drowning in the Bolagio pool. I won't be returning, but that's fine. You go to the Belagio one, you've seen it all. 00:12:00 Speaker 3: Hey, what happens in Vegas? People die? 00:12:06 Speaker 2: Well, it sounds like you're having a wonderful summertime. You also got to go to Vancouver. When you went to Vancouver, did you have to quarantine and fourteen days? Did you lose your mind. 00:12:17 Speaker 3: I lost my mind, you know, And it was like partially guilt and then once I got into it. But then because I kind of have that introvert kind of I like being in my space. Once I've set up my space, I was actually pretty content for a while. But just the idea of like not being able to leave, you know. It's like anytime somebody tells you not to do something, You're like why of course, and then you want to do it. 00:12:43 Speaker 2: Yeah. So when you say set up your space, what do you mean? So you're in a hotel room. What is setting up a hotel room for you? 00:12:50 Speaker 3: Well, here's what makes me also very strange, I guess strange because my family wasn't there, and I'm like, oh, this is my space that I have to do everything in. I had asked. So it was like an apartment that I was in for the whole two and a half months, and they they were pretty strict as far as our COVID protocols, and my mentality was to make sure that I was working out a bunch. So I had asked the apartment complex people or the kind of corporate living apartment to like take the desk out, take the coffee table out, and I basically my living room was just a gym that I would like just be hanging out in and watch TV while I was kind of in this gym and you know, and then the kitchen was right next to it. So it was just kind of like it was like I was living back in New York in like a you know, one bedroom apartment, and I was just like, this is what I want to do with my time. 00:13:52 Speaker 4: And I'll do this and I'll do this and then you know, yeah, so did you like travel like workout equipment or did the place supply workout equipment? 00:14:03 Speaker 3: How does that get the I brought some stuff and then the production had rented some stuff that are beautiful, you know, asked for since I wasn't going to be allowed to leave. 00:14:13 Speaker 2: You're you're a big workout person. You have a podcast about working out? 00:14:18 Speaker 3: Yeah? 00:14:18 Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, what like what is your do you work out every day? As somebody? I work out about twice a week, and it's constant torture for me. There's not a moment that I'm enjoying. So to talk to someone like you, who I assume enjoys it. 00:14:34 Speaker 3: I do. I do. I mean, it's I try to work out or do something work out adjacent at least every day, because in a way it's kind of like a therapy for me too, because it gives me an opportunity to kind of just focus on the simplest task of moving a piece of weight around and not anything else. And even if I do that for like twenty minutes or like an hour and a half, depending on whatever, it gives me at least that moment where I'm like not thinking about you know, are my kids alive? You know, you know what I have to do next, what's the next job I'm going to get, any of that stuff, you know, like the stresses of life. I can only be like, well, I'm tired, and I have to move this weighted equipment to this other end of the room or up and down for the next twenty minutes. So, like, you know, for me, the idea of like you know, for a while, I was you know, I didn't like it, and then when it became therapy and I started feeling that way about it, it became helpful to me. 00:15:42 Speaker 2: That's, yeah, maybe that's what I need to do rather than work out and think about all my problems at the same time. 00:15:47 Speaker 3: Man that's the way. And when I would go to the gym and I would have a bunch of things in my head and I couldn't get rid of them. Those were the worst workouts because you're just like thinking of everything else and you're like, I got to finished this fast so I can do these other things. 00:16:03 Speaker 2: Well, look, Eugene, there's something else I need to talk to you about about Last week, someone sent me your the address of your home, and I thought, oh, this is interesting. Got Eugene's address, and I was a little bored over the weekend, So I thought, why don't I go check out Eugene's place, you know, maybe kind of a little wellness check essentially, just cruise by and you know, maybe it's the real litter in me see what you're working with housewise. And so I hopped in the car and made my little trip. And as I was approaching your home, I don't know, something came over me. Something wasn't right. I oh, it just had kind of a pit in my stomach. As I looked at your porch and I saw what appeared to be a little bag sitting on your porch. 00:16:55 Speaker 3: Was it a white bag? 00:16:57 Speaker 2: It was a white bag, And I got out of my car and kind of slowly approached your house, and you know, just fear setting in. And I get to the bag and it had my name on it, and you know, the initial idea was maybe I'll ring the bell and check in with your Gene. But seeing this bag, I thought, what what what's happening here? I out of the goodness of my heart and a little bit of nosiness, I just wanted to see Eugene's house and now suddenly I'm confronted by this bag. But it says not a gift for Bridger Weinecker, which the mind games. It felt like mind games galore. 00:17:40 Speaker 3: Well you said just no gifts. 00:17:45 Speaker 2: Ah, okay, so look that may or may not be true your gene. Okay, this podcast is called I said no gifts, And so you know, it's been a struggle. I've been hosting this thing for over a year now, and I run into it decent amount of difficulty with guests. There's kind of maybe it's just the universal love for me as a person. These people can't resist giving me a gift. So you've given me something that appears very much to be a gift. Yes, but it also explicitly says not a gift, right, but it's in quotation marks. Yes, so that again we hit it into reverse and we're wondering, what is this bag, Eugene? Is this a gift or not a gift? 00:18:34 Speaker 3: Sorry, that is very confusing the way that I wrote that the bag itself is not a gift. 00:18:41 Speaker 2: Okay, So the bag itself is not a gift. Yes, okay, interesting, So this is a layered mind game. 00:18:47 Speaker 3: Yeah. 00:18:48 Speaker 2: Yeah, the fact that I was able to even get home safely is a miracle. Well, should I open it here on the podcast? 00:18:57 Speaker 3: I think you should because what's inside I could be possible gifts. 00:19:09 Speaker 2: Okay, so the chances of me freaking out are still astronomical. Yeah, we let's open it up and see what happens. It's a nice little white bag, and as we said, it says not a gift for bridge or wineger but not a gift. Just the words not a gift are in quotation marks. So, uh, it's got a little nice tissue with stars on it. Let's open it up. It's a tissue. If we haven't had enough tissue in the last few ye yes, we're gonna just dive in. 00:19:40 Speaker 3: And that's what people's head Boatmr are. Yeah, people are falling asleep and they don't even know what time of year it is. 00:19:49 Speaker 2: People have been asleep for twenty minutes. Okay, okay, oh now this is something very interesting. You've given me some You're going to have to explain this a little bit. But foot cushions like soul. What is the technical word for these insults? Insults? I couldn't think of insuls. They're Air Plus brand seven to twelve size insuls. So look, I'm not going to give away my foot size. 00:20:22 Speaker 3: I mean, especially since you look like a Tim Burton character. People don't know how big your feet would be compared to your torso. 00:20:32 Speaker 2: But I will say they are in between seven and twelve. So do with that information what you will. 00:20:37 Speaker 3: I feel like most people are. 00:20:40 Speaker 2: I'm not a size fifteen. I'm in between a seven and twelve. But Eugene, tell me what's going on here? Okay, I'm going to put the bag. There's other stuff going on in the bag. But yeah, yeah, we got we got to talk about this. 00:20:51 Speaker 3: I have realized that we'll talk about this. We'll talk about the broad strokes of it later. But the short stroke of this gift is planter fhil she itis or whatever it is says that the don't. 00:21:06 Speaker 2: Say planter fascia or yeah yeah, fasha fresca. 00:21:11 Speaker 3: So it's a thing where people are like, oh, you know, like the the uh arches in your feet, you know, are bad or whatever. So you have this issue, right, every shoe and everything deals with it. So it's just what people. It's people's feet. It's just a feet thing. And I don't know why, but I put insoles like these in my shoes, in all of my shoes because my shoes get like if you just wear regular sneakers and stuff. And maybe because I have caveman feet, maybe that's part of it too, and maybe I'm assuming you do or everybody in the world does. But once you put these in, whatever shoe you got just feels better just while you're standing interesting. I don't know why. So it's just like you put those gel things in, even if they're pair of shoes, because usually what happens is the shoe gets uncomfortable before your shoes look. 00:22:05 Speaker 2: Bad, right because that part has been worn out because your foot is just directly exposed to it and it's flattening it. I assume. 00:22:14 Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, so you put these in in a pair of shoes that you like, that you still feel like look good on the outside, and you can get some good use out of it, and then you get more comfortable feet. 00:22:25 Speaker 2: Well, this is this has been an actual constant worry for me because I exclusively wear vans. All of my shoes are vans. 00:22:33 Speaker 3: Vans are so flat on your feet. I love vans, but I put those in my vans. I have a pair of vans that I'm sure I could show you that have those insults in it. 00:22:42 Speaker 2: Right, I've been wearing vans for probably seventeen years at this point, almost exten you're. 00:22:49 Speaker 3: Eighteen years old. 00:22:50 Speaker 2: Night, So I was, you know, by the doctor pulled me out. They slapped some vans on me, and so my feet are not just flat, they're now curving back up towards my body. The shape of who I am is an absolute mystery. I'm a medical mystery, but not that much of a mystery because it was the doctor who put these on my feet initially. But I know I do worry about, uh constantly about my feet being too flat, and then do absolutely nothing about it. You know, I have a pair of flip flops and then vans. So none of these things are doing anything for the arches of my feet. 00:23:29 Speaker 3: Yes, so this is just one of those things where you'll try them on. You might be like, ooh, these feel kind of comfortable, and then your feet might feel a little bit not sore, but like just different for a while where you have them on it, and then it like, I don't know, I like, h just I just I have a bunch of these at my house, and I like when I get a pair of shoes that I know are starting to feel weird on my feet, I like, pull one another one out and I put it on there. 00:23:56 Speaker 2: What did somebody recommend them to you? Or did you just see a commercial? 00:24:00 Speaker 3: I got them at like a running like a at like a running store because they, you know, it was one of those running stores where you try where they want to see how you run. 00:24:11 Speaker 2: First and they see what you heard about these your gait is. 00:24:15 Speaker 3: And all this stuff, and I don't know how much of that is a sham, but then they were like, oh, maybe for your other shoes you should have these, and I was like, oh, I'll buy one, And then I liked those more than the running shoes. 00:24:27 Speaker 2: Oh you're kidding. 00:24:28 Speaker 3: Yeah, but I don't put them in my workout shoes. I just put them in like my life shoes. Those ones that I gave. 00:24:36 Speaker 2: You are your workout shoes flat. 00:24:38 Speaker 3: Or yeah right, yeah yeah. 00:24:41 Speaker 2: And so you have running shoes, you have workout shoes, you have normal life shoes. But they're all supporting your arches. 00:24:48 Speaker 3: Yeah, and especially for some reason, I love the look of boots, but I don't like and like dress shoes, but I don't like how unsupportive they are, right that I have to put those like those are for like sneakers and stuff, but I put those inside like dress shoes so that they don't bother my feet. 00:25:07 Speaker 2: Style wise, day to day, are you like wearing a pair of sneakers or what's your general shoe? 00:25:14 Speaker 3: I'm a general sneaker guy through the day, okay. And then if we are to, you know, go into the evening hours, I will switch. I will mister Rogers into a pair of boots. 00:25:26 Speaker 2: And when you say boots are what sort of boots? Are cowboy boots? What are we talking about here? 00:25:31 Speaker 3: No, like lace up boots, like like wrestler boots that go all the way to my knees. 00:25:39 Speaker 2: Wrestler boots and a kilt. 00:25:45 Speaker 3: No, just like a pair of like like not like like you know, kind of dress like quarter height. 00:25:53 Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, have you ever owned a cowboy boot? I'm not talking about cowboy boots. I'm thinking, why don't I own some cowboy boots? I think I could get into that. 00:26:04 Speaker 3: I think you could, especially with your legs. The only time I've ever worren cowboy boots, I think were for a high school production of Oklahoma. 00:26:16 Speaker 2: Who were you in Oklahoma? 00:26:18 Speaker 3: Well, that's the thing. I played Ali Hockey, Ali the peddler, Ali hackem. Look. 00:26:26 Speaker 2: I asked that question knowing full well I don't anyone. Yeah, yeah, you could have said the Grim Reaper. 00:26:33 Speaker 3: Well he's in it. Yeah, yes, Jed. But but uh but my car I bought a pair of cowboy boots for that or my mom and dad, and then we realized my character doesn't wear cowboy So I've worn them a couple of times. I mean I wore them a couple of times, and then they went to waste. 00:26:52 Speaker 2: What a shame, And cowboy boots are not cheap. 00:26:55 Speaker 3: No, no, so that's what that's you know, But it wasn't like I wasn't playing too many sports and stuff in high school, so it wasn't like my parents were paying a bunch of money for other gear. 00:27:07 Speaker 2: Hockey gear or whatever. Yeah, so how long have you been wearing these these insuls? 00:27:14 Speaker 3: I would say a number of years. I'm talking about like five or six years at least. 00:27:19 Speaker 2: Have you noticed a difference in your feet? 00:27:21 Speaker 3: I mean, I guess what would end up happening was I would I'd feel some knee problems when I wasn't wearing them, or like if I'm wearing a different kind of shoe for a while, Like that's the other thing. I would bring a pair of these if I was doing a new show or I was on a production that you know, they're providing me with the you know, the costume shoes, and I was like, oh, yeah, these these fit great. And then I would just put my own insuls in them. So yeah, and then so I just don't have to deal with more humans because then I you know, then I don't feel like weird. While I'm like, well, there's a specif a kind of insul that I use. Can you find these for me? I just bring them, put them in those shoes, and you know, because if I wear them, if I'm standing for too long and I'm wearing them, then my feet start to feel a little crampy, and then my knees hurt. So these help. 00:28:17 Speaker 2: Yeah, And if you ask a stranger to buy you insuls, they might get you a different brand, and then you're kind of guilty and you have to wear those, and then it's just a bigger problem. 00:28:25 Speaker 3: Yeah, And it's usually they when they do put insults, it's like the ones that you just buy it, like the grocery store that is just the same thing as what was already in there. It's just maybe a tiny bit thicker. 00:28:38 Speaker 2: It's like a foot shaped piece of felt basically, yes. 00:28:41 Speaker 3: Yeah, and then you watch like a grown person cut them for you and put them in your shoes, and you're like, no, no thanks. 00:28:50 Speaker 2: Have you ever been to a like a cobbler? Is that what a shoe person is? 00:28:55 Speaker 3: All? 00:28:57 Speaker 2: I wish? 00:28:59 Speaker 3: I wish, I wish. This is the first time anybody's ever asked me if I've been to a cobbler. 00:29:04 Speaker 2: That's a good first state question for anyone out there that's. 00:29:08 Speaker 3: Oh, nice shoes. You've ever been to a cobbler? Are those custom? 00:29:15 Speaker 2: I feel like a cobbler is a real like, you've got to be making really good money to be going to a cobbler. 00:29:23 Speaker 3: Oh, that's the next level of complete fame, right where you're like, oh, this suit is is custom made, and my shoes have been cobbled. These are freshly cobbled shoes, made made for me, made to measure. 00:29:43 Speaker 2: Cobble as a verb. I've been cobbling all day. I can't deal with this right now. I've got to workout. I can't think about cobbling anymore. 00:29:52 Speaker 3: Honey, I've got to work out, And then can you please hand me just a glass of scotch with one rock because I've been cobbling all day long. 00:30:03 Speaker 2: Now. I drive by a cobbler on occasion and I think, what pair of shoes do I care enough about to take to a cobbler? And the answer is none of them. They are all thirty dollars. I found them at Nords from rack. I'm not going to get them cobbled. 00:30:17 Speaker 3: No, they're not. They're they're cobble. They're they're non cobblers. 00:30:20 Speaker 2: Do you take a pair of vans, Like, if you take a pair of vans to a cobbler, do they just laugh you out of the store. 00:30:26 Speaker 3: I think they laugh at you just as much as the sneaker cleaners do. If you wear vans and you try to get them cleaned, They're like, this is not what we're talking about, buddy. 00:30:35 Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't. I guess maybe some nice boots could be cobbled. 00:30:39 Speaker 3: Yes, but as like resold or whatever they sold. 00:30:43 Speaker 2: Right, yeah, right, But nothing I currently own could be cobbled, And that's fine. Maybe at some point I'll have some shoes worth cobblin. 00:30:52 Speaker 3: I don't know. I don't know if I ever want to be at the point where I'm like, I need to get these cobbled. Yeah. 00:30:58 Speaker 2: I just feel like I'll just buy some new shoe shoes. 00:31:00 Speaker 3: Yeah, because then that also means that I'm like, did I spend too much money on these shoes that they need to be compled because I need to keep them worth it. 00:31:09 Speaker 2: I'm just I don't know, way too emotionally attached to these shoes and I have to take them to someone who is a professional shoe person. 00:31:16 Speaker 3: It's just. 00:31:18 Speaker 2: Okay, well, I'm excited to try these. I'm uh, we'll see what happens. They're kind of like the retainer of the feet. 00:31:24 Speaker 3: It's like yeah, yeah, yeah, if you have it's like invisile line, if you will keep them in there. 00:31:32 Speaker 2: I've got uh and I had my permanent This is for longtime listeners. My permanent retainer has been gone a while, but I'm wearing an invisilene retainer at night. Oh and so I've kind of got the insol in my mouth all night. 00:31:46 Speaker 3: Yeah that's good. 00:31:48 Speaker 2: It's I don't know if it's doing me any good or not, but uh, well, your teeth look great, Thank you, thank you. I actually speaking of that last night, I had a dream that I was just gnawing on cheese, which I think had something to do with this new retainer. 00:32:04 Speaker 3: So yeah, also, how hard of cheese are you eating? That you gnaw on it? It usually you should get through it pretty quick. 00:32:12 Speaker 2: Well, I'm kind of a little mouse in nature, a. 00:32:16 Speaker 3: Mouse of the long legs. 00:32:17 Speaker 2: Oh that is that is a very tim burtony Well, as I describe, my torso is very small. So my torso is essentially a mouse. And then I've got these essentially two pairs of stilts on top of each other for legs. 00:32:33 Speaker 3: Beautiful, just beautiful, one. 00:32:34 Speaker 2: Too my mousehole. Should I get back into the bag, here. Yes, okay, Now there are two objects in here. One feels soft, one feels hard. Which one should I take out? 00:32:47 Speaker 3: First? Take the soft one out so we could explain this all at once, and then it doesn't feel weird. Okay, so go ahead and explain with it. 00:32:53 Speaker 2: This is either oh, this is either mittens or socks. Hello, oak Well says hello, cozy feet. So it's I assume saw socks with toe yeah, sock gloves. 00:33:08 Speaker 3: Stock gloves. Okay, so a couple of things. I'm not a feat guy. I don't know why I gave you. 00:33:15 Speaker 2: For years, I actually had to block him on several email. He's been creating new email addresses to get in touch with me about my feet. 00:33:23 Speaker 3: I after I after I realized that I left a bag that says this is not a gift outside. There was a while where I was in the house and I was like, wait a minute, did I put socks and the UH and the insoles in there? And then I went outside and it was and and you had already been confused and taken the bag away. That I was like, now I have to explain why I'm giving him two feet things when I'm not a feet guy. 00:33:53 Speaker 2: The next object in the bag is going to be a letter just begging me to send you photos of my feet. 00:33:59 Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, and a rabbit's foot. But yeah, I don't know why. I don't know why. I just like there was it was something about I was just thinking about like comfort, right, gifts. 00:34:14 Speaker 2: And have you ever used have you ever used a pair of socks like this before? 00:34:18 Speaker 3: I have, I've had a pair of shoes that I've been like that. 00:34:22 Speaker 2: Wait, I'm now looking at this and I have I actually have no idea how this works because it's not like a glove, right, it's like a fingerless glove for the feet. Is that what this is? 00:34:33 Speaker 3: Open them up and then you put your hands in them? Just a fair out how they work? 00:34:37 Speaker 2: I wonder if I've got yes, of course, I've got some scissors. I've I'm fully prepared and clip this. 00:34:47 Speaker 3: Let me see you're cutting them in half essentially, so now you're just making legs. 00:34:51 Speaker 2: Hurting them. 00:34:53 Speaker 3: What you want? 00:34:54 Speaker 2: Okay, So I'm gonna put my hand in here and see about this. What what is this concep truly? What shark tank? Miracle? And I look at you? 00:35:04 Speaker 3: What what is what is supposed to be? And then you can, and then you can flip it over right right, I mean you can put it in there and. 00:35:11 Speaker 2: Then you can can you flip like inside it? Like? 00:35:14 Speaker 3: No? No, no, no, is there like another part where it goes over the. 00:35:18 Speaker 2: Oh let's see here? Oh? Oh no, no, I at a loss for words, Eugene, Am I losing my eyesight? No, it's see. Look, I'm going to show you over the zoom here. See how that is? 00:35:35 Speaker 3: Yes? 00:35:36 Speaker 2: And then there's there's nothing that flips as far as I can tell. 00:35:41 Speaker 3: Okay, there are pairs that flip and there pairs that don't. I guess that is a no flip pair. So I don't know if you're going to be into either pair. To be honest, the ones that don't flip. What is the point of this? It's literally just try the wile. You don't how to do it now, I mean you can't, you can't. 00:36:05 Speaker 2: I'm gonna just slip into these real quick and see what happens. This is not a normal feeling. I genuinely, it kind of looks like early eighties Madonna. You know, for your list gloves for my feet and so is you're is it supposed to keep your toes cold while the rest of your foot sweat what I need to talk to the people at Hello Cozy Feet or Hello Bellow or whatever we're talking about here. Okay, I've got it on and I'm not gonna I'm not going to cross the bridge of showing my foot in the over the zoom. 00:36:50 Speaker 3: But let's just keep them on for the rest of it. 00:36:52 Speaker 2: We'll see how this just affects my general mood. Yeah, the circulation is cut off for my toes. Maybe that's the thing, is to your just have your toes chopped. 00:37:02 Speaker 3: It Does it feel weird to have your toes separated? 00:37:05 Speaker 2: It feels incredibly weird. Yeah, it's deeply unsettling. But yeah, yeah, but it does. Is this like for I wonder is this like for dancers? 00:37:17 Speaker 3: You know what Hello Bellow is A it's a it's like a diaper brand, like for kids and adults, and like it's Dax Shepherd and Kristen Bell's company that they like do like uh diaper delivery and then like wipes and all the things that deal with being parents. Okay, and for one of the things for parents, it's these cozy socks and and my wife and I have had a couple of pair of them where they've sent it to us and we're like, what are these that would put them on? And some of them have the the loop that goes on to them so you can like throw a pair of shoes on because it feels weird to put those ones on with no shoes, I mean, those shoes out on top of them. 00:38:00 Speaker 2: I just cannot imagine any scenario where this makes sense. For a it's just for home. It's just for home. 00:38:07 Speaker 3: Those ones especially are just for home, and even the ones that have the FlipTop on them or just for home because it makes it too bulky at the top of your shoe. 00:38:16 Speaker 2: Yeah, so the flip top one, it's like almost like a mitten with a flip yes. 00:38:21 Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah. I don't know why you would ever need your toes exposed. 00:38:25 Speaker 2: Right, Conceptually it makes no sense to. 00:38:27 Speaker 3: Me, no, but they do somehow feel somewhat cozy. I mean the I mean, the the name of them are correct. I don't know how great they are, but they were just one of those things where I'm like, oh, we have another pair of these. These are funny and I don't know if people would enjoy these. 00:38:47 Speaker 2: It's like it's certainly a gimmick. It's it's just like, what are we what are we talking about? Is this to get your I mean, I'm gonna have to do some deep research to figure out what o uh, Decks and Kristen were trying to get across. Yeah, yeah, what's happening in that household where it's diapers and then socks without toe covering? 00:39:11 Speaker 3: Hey it's cozy feet, man. 00:39:12 Speaker 2: It's okay, Well I've got these on. While I have them on, should I get the next thing out of the bag? 00:39:19 Speaker 3: Yes, yeah, the last of them? 00:39:21 Speaker 2: All right, okay, so this is not a I mean, it could be a foot related thing, but sure, you know, it's a premium cooling towel. And I've never heard of a cooling towel. 00:39:35 Speaker 3: So the last thing was cozy feet. So that was for December. So we're still kind of like into the future of the present in the past, right, So we've thematically made this all make sense. And we were talking about working out that's a cooling towel. So like hot summers here in La it gets hot, you put water on that, you ring it out and you put it around your neck and it keeps you cool for like a while. 00:40:01 Speaker 2: Oh that sounds nice. 00:40:02 Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah. So if you're outside, like on a hike or doing anything outside for a while, or even just going to like a farmer's market, and you know it's gonna be a scorcher right there, you just put one of those on, ring it out and put it around your neck. I use it when we're like when I go on like hikes, like the midhike, if it gets really hot, or if my son is doing like some kind of sports thing outside or at a playground for a long time, I'm like, hey, come over here, he eats a stack. I put one of those things on his neck and then, you know, and then he's gone for another three hours. 00:40:33 Speaker 2: Oh that's great. It's just a little recharge. 00:40:35 Speaker 3: Yeah, it's a little recharge, and it feels good. Like the back of your neck is insanely sensitive, and like to put it behind, like to put it around your neck feels really nice. 00:40:44 Speaker 2: So is it like what technology is? 00:40:48 Speaker 3: I don't know why it stays so cold for so long, but it works. 00:40:53 Speaker 2: Yeah, because it has no chemicals. I was thinking, is there some sort of menthol or something? 00:40:58 Speaker 3: You know what? I think it's just the fact that like it's like just putting like a cold terry cloth on the back of your neck or your forehead, but it just doesn't drip and it stays kind of in there, like whatever the spandexy material it is of it, you know, just doesn't necessarily like my shirt isn't just sopping from the drips of like a regular towel. 00:41:22 Speaker 2: Right, just a big wet terry cloth. Yeah, yeah, yeah, Now is this something I could wear while working out or is that gonna put me in danger? 00:41:30 Speaker 3: I think you'll be in a good place if you worked out with that on. Okay, Yeah, I would even start out by going, like saying out loud to everybody around, I think I'm gonna go pretty hard today. So then you put that out, put that around your neck, and get and get to work. 00:41:45 Speaker 2: Me standing alone in my living room, I'm going to see. 00:41:48 Speaker 3: That I'm gonna go pretty hard today. 00:41:52 Speaker 2: I say to my dying house planted, Oh, this is very interesting. It has been extremely hot. I go to the gym once a week and it's very hot there. So maybe this will be the thing that changes everything for me. Yeah, and suddenly I'm just shredded. 00:42:13 Speaker 3: Yeah, Now you're just humongous. 00:42:17 Speaker 2: Just making everyone around me uncomfortable and they're Ridgerd's different. 00:42:21 Speaker 3: What's haened much different. We can't see his neck. 00:42:26 Speaker 2: His head is just kind of sinking into this shape, this triangle. Torso. Well, that's the that's the my goal. And so now I have the tools I need to succeed. Yeah, and I have to say, these socks I'm getting used to and like I can feel my toes. It's like the sort of thing where like if I need to pick something up with my toes or kind of slip back into my primate origins, I do. 00:42:54 Speaker 3: I feel like they are for guerrillas, right. 00:42:58 Speaker 2: Right, this is a fully you can open a drawer, you can, you know, pick up a spoon you dropped. 00:43:06 Speaker 3: Yes, absolutely, it's it's it's meant for using all of your your. 00:43:16 Speaker 2: What digit I assume? I feel like I'm at a real loss for words today. My lack of education is coming through in a huge way. I mustn't able to grasp temporal. I still tempora. I think that's right. I think that's right. Is it temporal or temporal? I don't know, you know what. 00:43:41 Speaker 3: Both of those still sounded like the same word to me. 00:43:44 Speaker 2: Sounds like someone that is trying to learn how to pronounce words. Yeah, just coming up way too short. 00:43:52 Speaker 3: One of the Awake listeners right now is giving us the correct answers. 00:43:57 Speaker 2: I think it's time to play a game. Do you want to a game called Gift Master or a game called gift or a curse? 00:44:04 Speaker 3: Oh, gift Master or gift or a curse. I like the idea of something being the master of something, So let's go gift Master. 00:44:11 Speaker 2: Okay. I need a number between one and ten from you. 00:44:14 Speaker 3: Eight. 00:44:15 Speaker 2: Okay. I have to do a little bit of light calculating. I have to go get the game pieces. So right now, you can promote something, you can recommend something, you can do whatever you want with this time. I'll be right back. 00:44:26 Speaker 3: Oh okay, let's see. So I will take this opportunity for a couple of things. A. We were talking about working out quite a bit here, so you can listen to the Dumbbells podcast. That's the podcast that I host with my buddy Ryan Stanger, and we just jokingly talk about working out and also give real advice so that it doesn't seem like a very broy workout podcast and something that you can listen to at the gym. And then other than that I'm on a show called Tacoma FD. Both the first two seasons are on HBO Max right now if you can find it on there, Tacoma FD. And then season three is going to start again on True TV this fall. And uh yeah, I feel good about those things. And then other things. You know, you can look me up on social media of course, like at huge cordero and see what else I'm up to. 00:45:28 Speaker 2: Beautiful, you got it all in there. Look I gave you an extra couple of seconds. I felt like you needed to get it all in. 00:45:35 Speaker 3: Yeah, So just a quick commercial break for my stuff, you know. Oh, if you ever need a Santa I am not available. He will do a horrible job. 00:45:45 Speaker 2: Yeah, do not let your nieces and nephews near this Santa Claus because he will disappoint. 00:45:50 Speaker 3: Yes, very much. 00:45:51 Speaker 2: So this is how the game works. I'm going to name three objects that three things that potential gifts you could give a way. Then I'm going to name three celebrities. You're going to tell me which celebrity you're going to give which gift and why great, these are the gifts you'll be giving today. Number one is a cemetery plot, so you know, a place, a final resting place. 00:46:15 Speaker 3: Okay. 00:46:17 Speaker 2: Number two is a log flume ride designed after them, so kind of a the log flume is the theme of the person. Does that make sense? It kind of a personal splash mountain love it. And finally a nineteen ninety six Toyota Camry, a reliable probably beige, kind of a gold beige. I feel like that was the only color of camra they made in the mid nineties, but very reliable car. Ye at the number not number four. There are only three things, as promised. The people you're going to be giving them too are number one one of our great rappers, Big boy ooh okaycast of outcast, Number two one of our great documentarians Ken Burns. 00:47:07 Speaker 3: Oh Ken Burns, fantastic, uh huh. 00:47:11 Speaker 2: And then number three one of our great actors, Lucy Lou. This is a good round of people. I feel like we've got talent all over the board here, respectable people in their fields, and then a variety of gifts. 00:47:30 Speaker 3: Yeah, oh man, who would you give the cemetery plot to? Now? Is that anywhere? 00:47:36 Speaker 2: It's anywhere, it's any type, it's for any time as well, so you know it doesn't mean they're going to die as soon as you give it to them. Could be just a nice little piece of land. 00:47:50 Speaker 3: Okay, So since it could be anywhere, we'd give this one to Ken Burns. And the reasoning is, I would think that it's a cemetery. It's I'm thinking more of the casket and the way that it would be set up. Now, this is a movable plot, I mean yeah, yeah, because it'll be it's it's like a new style where it's like futuristic in a way where it can be mobile, and it will be constantly but slowly moving to all of the places where he has done documentaries, and so his body just kind of glides through all of these places. And if you happen to be in the place where his body is, you know, then you also, you know, get to give him a little nod, you know, because it'd be like, oh, he's here, you know, he's here in Antarica right now, as you know. And then whatever the documentary or and his voice will be constantly playing on top of it. This will obviously be hovering because we don't know what the terrain is at all of these places. 00:49:00 Speaker 2: Futuristic, futuristic, anything futuristic has to have a hover element everything. 00:49:05 Speaker 3: Yeah, and a little bit of lded lights into it. Yeah, just to keep everybody away and also, you know, bring some fashion to it. 00:49:12 Speaker 2: Right, it's kind of a King Tut style going from museum to museum. Poor just doesn't get to rest just a little. Yeah, we're going to keep them working. We're going to can work in like Tut. Him and Tut are just going to keep on working. Great, So that's that for them. I'm going to give Big Boy the Camra mainly because it's champagne colored or beige. 00:49:42 Speaker 3: It kind of has that kind of hot Lanta timeless vibe to it. He could make it look cool even if he was driving it today, right, not even putting anything in it. I'm talking about factory direct. You know what they're giving you the you know, the five CD changer probably in there and everything. You know, no auxiliary not even an auxiliary plug in there. 00:50:09 Speaker 2: So you need the tape the tape deck that connects to the CD player. 00:50:13 Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, you got it, He's got it. There might even be like a radar detector for the cops, who knows. I feel like Big Boy still has a radar detection. Yeah, yeah, same, same, So I think this is just gonna be one of his many cars, you know, because you'd see him on like a cribs or something where you're like, these are all my cars and he has all the fancy ones, and then you see the camera and you would just be like, I get it. I don't think you'd even have to explain it. He would just be like, I got this from my boy U G GUIDERO, thank you very much. And then he would just be riding in it and be like, thank you for coming to my house. 00:50:48 Speaker 2: Big boy does Out of all of the rappers, I mean maybe Andre three thousand a side, those two I think would appreciate a mid nineties camera. I think absolutely, I absolutely love that sort of car. 00:50:59 Speaker 3: And the trunk just be all fur coats, oh absolutely, just stuffed with stuff, just stuffed middle of the summer. So then that leaves what does that leave for Lucy Lou? That leaves the log Flume ride? Oh my gosh, are you kidding me? What a ride? 00:51:18 Speaker 2: Of course? 00:51:20 Speaker 3: What a ride I mean? And what would I mean there would be I mean, there would be so many elements of you know, the Charlie's Angels in that ride. I mean that that would be probably coming down. You know, the flume would be Charlie's Angels, right, or getting your head chopped off and kill Bill the top of her the top of her head gets cut off. So that would be cool if that, like, you know, you had the dock at a certain point or the top of your head gets cut off. 00:51:54 Speaker 2: In a little splash element there, Yeah, a little splash, some blood of splash there. I would love a log Flume ride based mostly on blood. Splash is entirely blood based. 00:52:08 Speaker 3: Yeah, and then there would be yeah, so be mostly blood, a little bit of Charlie's Angels, and then the rest of the ride, which would probably be another forty five minutes, would just be a full episode. 00:52:21 Speaker 2: Of Elementary CBS's Elementary CBS. 00:52:26 Speaker 3: Is Elementary just to like go like she is Sherlock Holmes. 00:52:31 Speaker 2: What we're talking about here is a solid hour of log Flume. 00:52:34 Speaker 3: Then oh yeah, yeah, yeah, you're getting dried on the ride. This is this is post this is post splash, and then you go through like one of those like like dryers, and then there's Elementary. 00:52:48 Speaker 2: So what you're describing as a car wash, yeah, a loosely lou themed car wash. 00:52:53 Speaker 3: You're right, I had to change what a log flume is. 00:52:58 Speaker 2: That's actually not a bad idea for a log flume, and I hope that Disney, I hope the imagineers are listening. A full drying element. I think people would actually really appreciate. 00:53:08 Speaker 3: I think they will, and I think I'm hoping the new Princess and the Frog version of the Splash Mountain will have the drying element to. 00:53:18 Speaker 2: It, and maybe also that other element of a car wash that we all want to experience, which is just those things that are slapping the car, just the loose fabric, just we. 00:53:28 Speaker 3: Just wanted to do some whipping flaps, right, just come out with welts all over your body, but sparkling clean and ready to experience the rest of the park. 00:53:40 Speaker 2: Yes, well, excellent job, Eugene. I mean, I think despite the fact that you kind of forgot the log flume last minute, but you rearranged it for Lucy perfectly. And if anyone deserves a log flume ride, I really think it's Lucy Loup. 00:53:55 Speaker 3: Absolutely, it's her. 00:53:57 Speaker 2: She's done it all. Her career spans all kinds of genres and which would really uh work perfectly for the thrill of a log flume. 00:54:07 Speaker 3: Absolutely she and she would be thrilled to know that there's a log flume all about her. 00:54:12 Speaker 2: Of course. Of course, now this is the last part of the podcast. This is called I said no emails. People are writing into I said no gifts at gmail dot com. People have questions, people have situations. You know, people have problems, and I'm here to solve them. You're going to assist me. Let's answer a question. Great, This says dear Esteemed Bridger and esteemed guests. So no, that's the worsesteemed, that's you, you gene my friend slash coworker. So we're getting into some interesting territory already when we have to qualify this person as two different things. My friend slash coworker recently had a baby, and I am struggling to come up with an appropriate gift to celebrate this wondrous occasion. As a childless person myself, I really had to know what idea, what kind of gift a recent mother would want, So I turned to several moms in my life for answers. I've received a number of great gift suggestions for the baby in all caps, but none of these moms have been able to recall what they wanted to ease the stress of dealing with a newborn. Now, not only do I still have no idea what to get for my friend, but I'm also kind of sad. Oh okay, interesting, Bridger and guest, Please help me come up with something really nice to do for her. She likes cats and kitchy nick knacks, and I'd really like to get something to help her relax. Regards Madeleine. So, Madeline is kind of dealing with a depression. That's I've associated with this friend slash coworker and the other coworker slash friends in her life who can't give her good answers. She wants to give this person something that's not for the baby, which I think is interesting. 00:55:58 Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, Well, are doing all of the heavy lifting and the hard work while this baby is being kept alive, So a gift for mom is fantastic with a newborn. A couple of things. If the mom is breastfeeding, you might want to stay away from any kind of alcoholic thing because sometimes they don't want to and until it's the last feeding of the day, and then you can have a glass of wine afterwards. If that's the case, and they they're not or it's like after the baby's gone to bed. A nice bottle of wine always is nice for a mom, a new mom. A extra large coffee mug is always a funny gift to give to a new mom. 00:56:52 Speaker 2: Not a bad idea, Not a bad idea. You're I mean, you're a father of two. I am a father of two, So I feel like you must look. I've got no kids, I've got no wife. Yeah, you've got a pair of cozy socks on it. We're this household. We're not planning on having a child anytime soon. So I feel like you do have to do a lot of the work here for me. You've geene because. 00:57:17 Speaker 3: Oh that's okay. I'm happy to answer these and kitchy wise, you don't want to get anything kitchen and small, because then the baby will eat it and die in choke. So a robe some kind of rope like, even if it's not even an expensive robe, but just like, oh. 00:57:36 Speaker 2: A robe is an excellent gift. I will say for truly anyone, if you're in need of a gift and you don't know the person that well, I was given a gift a robe a while ago. I didn't think I would use it. I'm using it, well, not during the summer, but the rest of the year constantly. 00:57:52 Speaker 3: Yes, And there are someones even in the summer that are just kind of like a you know, like a shawlish, thin robe that she could throw on after she's you know, spent some time with the baby or has to answer the door or something and you can just throw a you know, a cute little RoboN. My wife has a couple of cute little robes that we keep in rotation for the summer in the winter months. 00:58:19 Speaker 2: I think that's a good gift. I mean, I'm also wearing a pair of Tolis socks right now that your cheine gave me, and I've kind of settled into the idea kind of. I mean, who knows what my life is going to be six months from now while I mean after wearing these socks. But yeah, for the moment, it feels like a kitchy gift that you can get. They are KITCHI yes, it's a memorable gift that no one's going to say no to. 00:58:45 Speaker 3: And they'll be like, these are weird, and then you'll put them on and then you'll go, hmmm. 00:58:50 Speaker 2: I don't hate it. 00:58:51 Speaker 3: I don't hate it. I don't know if I. 00:58:53 Speaker 2: Like it, but it's a new experience. And you know, when you have a new boy and baby, you're probably a home a lot more. Yes, you need these new experiences. 00:59:03 Speaker 3: You need that new experience. This is the great thing about those socks that I gave to you as well, is they will be in your drawer because this will be the first and last time you'll ever wear them, but they'll be in your drawer. And then every time you look at me like should I put those on? There's no reason I'm about to leave because you And that was the funny thing that we like, is like I never put on socks to stay in the house, right, So I have had to put those out on like I've had to think about it, like, Okay, I've put my socks on for the day. I remember that these socks are in the drawer tonight when I get home, I need to switch. Yeah, and maybe wear them as I'm watching a movie or something. 00:59:47 Speaker 2: That's the least relaxing thing I can think of the song to think of my game plan for socks. But these socks, I also feel like I'm going to be digging through my sock dur being like, where's this other pair of socks? I'm like, these, get these out of what why are they still even in here? This are just in my way. So, Madeline, that's a gift that you could give to this friend slash coworkers who's who is obviously not one hundred percent friend because you have to say she's also a coworker, and. 01:00:14 Speaker 3: You've also had to check in with us to give a. 01:00:16 Speaker 2: Gift, so you obviously just don't care about her at all. I mean I think, look, just don't give her anything. You obviously don't care if this person lives or dies. Yeah, obviously, and you're surrounded by people who won't give you good answers. These people don't care about you, Madeline. I think the gift you need to give is to just cut ties. 01:00:40 Speaker 3: Yeah, get a new job, get a new job, get some new friends. Because obviously what it was is that these coworkers thought that they gave the best gift, and they don't want to give you clues on what would be close to gifts that they're going to get. So they're selfish people, right. Uh. 01:01:01 Speaker 2: And then I guess you know, if you want something kitchy, look like matching clothes, for the mother and the baby. 01:01:08 Speaker 3: Oh, there you go. 01:01:08 Speaker 2: I assume there's I have to believe in my heart there's a retailer out there who sells mother baby matching clothes. 01:01:16 Speaker 3: There is there's the like, you know, I'm with this one. You know, T shirt situation, T shirt onesie situation. That is so stupid. 01:01:29 Speaker 2: Well, actually, by look, we're all over the place with the time. Get them a halloween matching Halloween costumes. 01:01:35 Speaker 3: Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, you know. 01:01:37 Speaker 2: You get the mom like a witch costume and the baby. What does a matching thing for a witch? 01:01:46 Speaker 3: Just the baby? Is the cat? The cat that would be with the witch? 01:01:49 Speaker 2: No, no, no, dress the baby. Give this expecting mother a broom costume for her baby. 01:01:58 Speaker 3: I will say. One of the best, one of the best gifts we did get for our baby, our first baby, that we used for our second baby as well, was this little blanket that it and hat situation that you're supposed to swaddle the baby in that makes the baby look like a burrito. 01:02:15 Speaker 2: Oh it's adorable. 01:02:16 Speaker 3: It literally looks like a tortilla. I just supposed to wrap it up and then take a picture. And we did it with both kids because. 01:02:23 Speaker 2: It was the best hilarious kitschy gifts as if you're a new parent, you should absolutely take advantage of the opportunity to dress your child up as many inanimate objects as you possibly can. 01:02:35 Speaker 3: You. I am making fools of these children because I know that when they get older, they're going to try to make a fool out of me, and I will have evidence. 01:02:45 Speaker 2: Right, you're just creating like a backlog of blackmail material. 01:02:49 Speaker 3: Yeah, thank you. 01:02:50 Speaker 2: Yes, you've only got a limited amount of time and you've got to take advantage. Yeah, So, Madeline, I hope everything we've just said there, I don't hope. I know everything we just said there was perfect and you kind of just take that. And now you know what you need to get this friend slash coworker. 01:03:07 Speaker 3: Right, which is get them all of these things, all. 01:03:10 Speaker 2: Of these things. Yeah, get into some deep financial trouble personally, in order to impress this friend, Eugene. We did an excellent job. Everyone knew we would. And we're at the end of the podcast and I've got all of the I'm wearing my new non socks and nobody knows what they are. I mean, the blood has stopped running to my toes. I will soon just be a toeless monster. And that's fine. I've got my towel, and then I've got my arch support, which is probably going to actually change my life. I've done irreparable damage to my feet and so who knows if it's going to actually work. But I'm sure every pediatrist will be thrilled to know that I'm going to be working on my arches. 01:03:57 Speaker 3: Oh man, can you imagine them? Like, wait a minute, have you been working on these arches? 01:04:01 Speaker 2: Somebody's been working on their arches. Well, thank you so much, and thank you for being here. I just had a wonderful time. 01:04:12 Speaker 3: Wow, me too. 01:04:14 Speaker 2: And listener, this is the end of the podcast. So now you get to do what you want with your life. I'm going to kind of release you, and I should. I I should remind you to have new merch available online. You go to exact well, just google it. I can't remember the address. 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