00:00:08 Speaker 1: And I invited you here. I thought I made myself perfectly clear. When you're a guest in my home, you gotta come to me empty. And I said, no, guests, your presences presents enough. I already had too much stuff. 00:00:35 Speaker 2: So how do you dare to surbey me? 00:00:47 Speaker 3: Welcome to I said, no gifts. I'm Richard Winecker. Oh here we are. You know we are absolutely in the middle of the holidays. What a thrill. Not necessarily interested in even talking about that. The fact that I learned recently is something I want to share. I learned that blimps go about fifty miles an hour, which I feel like is actually a perfect speed for a blimp to go. I did find out, also in my very light Google search, that the Goodyear blimp goes seventy five miles an hour, which feels too fast for a blimp to go. I don't know why I'm sharing this, but I look, we're we're not two minutes into the podcast, and you've already learned a fact and you could turn it off now and your life has been enriched. So who cares? I want to get to the guest. The guest is fantastic. Everyone loves the guest. It's Fortune Famester Fortune welcomed. I said, no gifts. 00:01:49 Speaker 4: I'm so happy to be here. You're already giving us gifts with knowledge. 00:01:55 Speaker 3: Look that you know, I don't know. I guess I saw a blimp flying through the air mm hmm, and I thought it seemed to be going an alarming speed. Yeah, but I guess about fifty miles an hour. But maybe it's because it was lowered to the ground than an airplane is, so it looked like it was, you know, in a hurry. 00:02:13 Speaker 4: Well it's yeah, I guess I just haven't seen a blimp in a while. 00:02:20 Speaker 3: What kind of life are you living, fortune that you're not seeing blimps every day. 00:02:24 Speaker 4: I clearly I'm not going to enough sporting events that's usually where I see them. 00:02:29 Speaker 5: So I need to give back rooting for a team. 00:02:32 Speaker 3: You've got to pick a team and get rooting. Yeah, I got a root. You know you do see more blimps in Los Angeles than your typical city. 00:02:41 Speaker 4: True, that's because they have the Goodyear blimp that is stationed just past the airport on your way toward the treach. 00:02:50 Speaker 3: Have you seen it like on ground? 00:02:52 Speaker 5: I've seen it on ground. 00:02:54 Speaker 4: What That's how I don't That's why I don't know how fast it goes because I only see it. 00:03:00 Speaker 3: In its home base. You will only look at the Goodyear blimp if it's stationary and grounded. 00:03:06 Speaker 5: That's right. 00:03:08 Speaker 3: When you so, when it is grounded, is it? And now I'm you know, just kind of revealing an real blimp ignorance. Is the blimp like filled up when it's on the ground. 00:03:19 Speaker 4: Yeah, it's it's in its full full state, wing wings out. 00:03:27 Speaker 3: I guess I don't understand how a blimp even works. Is it just always full of arrow? Do they have to like get the pump out and start pumping it up? 00:03:34 Speaker 4: I believe it is as is always. I think, I'm pretty sure. So it's not like a it's not like a hot air balloon where you have to puff out the the the material. 00:03:49 Speaker 3: Yeah, the balloon, it's right there. 00:03:52 Speaker 5: I believe. I believe the blimp is like a stationary thing. The walls are that's the you know, there are walls. 00:04:00 Speaker 4: It's not like a helium, right, a helium blimp. 00:04:06 Speaker 3: So then how does the blimp lift off? 00:04:11 Speaker 5: Oh? 00:04:11 Speaker 4: Well, in my knowledge of blimps, which is a lot, I know a lot about blimps. Uh isn't there is there fire at some point I don't know. 00:04:25 Speaker 3: Is there is the hot air balloon? 00:04:27 Speaker 4: The fire is the hot air balloon. So maybe this is a motor. 00:04:32 Speaker 3: Some sort of motor device. And then I guess I don't understand what the blimp portion even is there, for there's the little compartment underneath, which I assume holds about two to four people. 00:04:44 Speaker 4: Right, well, now, I wish I had bought a book on blimps, and right if you give me study. 00:04:50 Speaker 5: A blimp book, a blimp on the radar. 00:05:00 Speaker 3: Asume you've never been in a blimp. 00:05:02 Speaker 5: No I can say I have not. 00:05:05 Speaker 3: I brought you on here to just give you a new goal. I don't know if I would you would review it. 00:05:13 Speaker 2: I don't know. 00:05:14 Speaker 3: I'm to get on the Hindenburg. But good Year. We don't hear about the Goodyear blowing up that often. 00:05:21 Speaker 4: Well, I don't think that people went on the Hindenburg knowing it was going to be the Hindenburgh, you know what I mean, Like no one went on the Titanic going, oh, get. 00:05:33 Speaker 5: Like we're gonna be a part of history and the wrong way. 00:05:37 Speaker 3: But I'm sure on both occasions there was at least one person on both of those crafts. It was like, oh, this is new, yeah for sure, something I haven't tried something like this before. 00:05:46 Speaker 5: Yeah, let's sail across America. 00:05:48 Speaker 3: That sounds good and sink into the bottom of the ocean. 00:05:52 Speaker 4: I don't even know if I would. I'm such a whist now. I don't even know if I would go on a hot air balloon. I was supposed to go on a hot air balloon in college. A friend of mine, like her family has like a hot air balloon, and we went all the way to Kentucky to do this, and the morning of lift off it was too windy. They got they got canceled. So to me, that was a sign that's it. No more hot air balloon charching out for you. Yeah, so universe was protecting you and that the. 00:06:26 Speaker 5: Blimps go in that category. 00:06:29 Speaker 3: For me, I think like Kentucky and New Mexico to me feel like the home of hot air balloons. 00:06:38 Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, I agree. 00:06:40 Speaker 3: Both of those states feel very hot air balloon oriented. 00:06:45 Speaker 5: Maybe because there's lots of like flat. 00:06:49 Speaker 3: Areas, right and they're both rolling. Also with Kentucky, you kind of imagine the Kentucky Derby, which is kind of colorful and fun. In Mexico, you have turquoise scenery right right, You've got turqoise everywhere. 00:07:04 Speaker 5: You have to you have to float over all the turquoise. 00:07:09 Speaker 3: It's the only way to take in all of the turkoise. For sure. I feel like a hot air balloon seems more dangerous to me than a blimp. Oh. 00:07:19 Speaker 4: I think so, because I'm thinking, and now in hindsight, I'm thinking of blimp is a motor, not not fire, you know what I mean. 00:07:28 Speaker 3: So it's just like a really powerful motor, and then there's this balloon element that's always inflated that kind of just eases things, I believe. So is it full of hydrogen? But I feel like that after the after the Hiddenburg, we don't want to be filling these things with hydrogen anymore. 00:07:48 Speaker 4: I hope that there's some blimp experts listening to this podcast right now, streaming at us, screaming at our ignorance of not knowing anything. 00:08:02 Speaker 3: Percent of my listeners are blimp freaks. 00:08:05 Speaker 5: I figured. 00:08:05 Speaker 2: I figured, and. 00:08:07 Speaker 3: I'm kind of trying to drive them away at this point. Just I'm repeating my depths of my ignorance and that's fine, fortunate you're from Charlotte. 00:08:19 Speaker 4: I'm I'm technically from yeah, from Belmont. It's a tiny town, just twenty minutes from Charlotte. Everyone says Charlotte because it's easy, right. 00:08:28 Speaker 3: I mean, I'm I'm from outside of Salt Lake City. But I'm not going to tell people, Yeah, South Jordan. That makes no sense to anyone. 00:08:35 Speaker 5: So I just I've heard I've heard of South Jordan. 00:08:38 Speaker 3: That can't be true. 00:08:39 Speaker 4: I've heard of West Jordan. You have, Yeah, where have you heard of it? It's near Salt Lake City, right right? 00:08:46 Speaker 5: But it's like a there's a there's a comedy club there. 00:08:50 Speaker 3: Oh right, Uh, it's Wise Guys have one. 00:08:55 Speaker 5: Wise Guys has one downtown and in West Jordan. 00:08:59 Speaker 3: There you go, Wow, West Jordan. That's a real That is a real poll. 00:09:03 Speaker 4: I have a lot of random Mormon knowledge from you know, my time in doing comedy in Utah, and also I knew a lot of Mormons in college. 00:09:14 Speaker 5: So you know, I did not realize you were from Utah. 00:09:18 Speaker 3: I am, I am. I would love to hear just one Mormon fact, you know. 00:09:23 Speaker 5: Mormon fact. The angel Morona. 00:09:27 Speaker 4: I visited Joseph Smith and helped lead him to the Golden Plates. 00:09:33 Speaker 3: That's a Mormon. That's part of the Mormon theology. There you go. 00:09:42 Speaker 5: Also seeing book of Mormon Stories. 00:09:44 Speaker 3: Oh, you're kidding what book of Mormon. 00:09:47 Speaker 4: Stories that my Wait, parents talk to me all about the layman layman knights in ancient history something something teach us the I. 00:10:04 Speaker 3: Could remember. 00:10:07 Speaker 5: Righteously anyway, you know more of it. 00:10:11 Speaker 3: Than me at this point. Wait, where did you learn. 00:10:13 Speaker 5: It from my Mormon friends? 00:10:15 Speaker 3: Oh? My, Yeah, that's wild. That is such a deep cut. Yeah, that is the that's the That is probably the most fun song Mormons have come up with. That is Yeah. 00:10:29 Speaker 4: I don't know a lot of their other songs, but that one's pretty catchy. 00:10:32 Speaker 3: That's kind of their number one. I was in Charlotte. It was like one of the last places I was like visited before the pandemic. What were you doing there? My boyfriend was on tour with Le Miz and so I would kind of just go visit him in random US cities that I didn't really have any business being otherwise. So I'm curious what your feeling about Charlotte is. It was, uh, not what I expected. 00:11:02 Speaker 4: Oh, really, well, Charlotte is a big it's it's like a big banking area. 00:11:08 Speaker 5: There's it's like a little bland down town. 00:11:12 Speaker 4: It's just like, yes, you know, I like Charlotte, but I did not spend a lot. 00:11:18 Speaker 5: Of time in Charlotte, even though I grew up outside of it. 00:11:21 Speaker 4: My hometown is very small and quaint, and uh, you really didn't go to Charlotte a ton. I ended up spending a lot more of my young adult life in Raleigh. And Raleigh's a super cool city. Not that Charlotte doesn't have cool parts. It's really like there you have to go outside of downtown Charlotte like their pockets that are really interesting and cool. 00:11:47 Speaker 5: But Raleig's got like really up and coming. 00:11:50 Speaker 4: A lot of people are moving there, and Raleigh in the Carry area, there's cool restaurants coming there. 00:11:56 Speaker 5: Right, it's the city. 00:11:58 Speaker 4: Uh that think North Carolina city wise, that's the most interesting one. But North Carolina has a lot of towns like little towns right right. 00:12:09 Speaker 3: Yeah, Charlotte was perfectly fine. I had no problem, but it was a little more sterile than I expected. 00:12:15 Speaker 4: Yeah, that's kind of that downtown area, which that's where the theater is. 00:12:19 Speaker 5: So you probably spent a lot of time there, right. 00:12:22 Speaker 3: Yeah, I did. We got a little bit out. I went to a nice thrift store called the rats Nest Okay, which fantastic. And then one day I went which was a wild experience. I went to the Billy Graham Library. Oh have you visited that? 00:12:38 Speaker 5: I have not. 00:12:39 Speaker 4: I mean, listen, normally, when I see Billy Graham on a thing, I'm like, I don't think they want Miken around there. 00:12:50 Speaker 3: Likewise, And that's why I decided I would just head straight into Yeah. 00:12:54 Speaker 4: But yeah, there's the Billy Graham Parkway. 00:12:58 Speaker 3: He's very big in that area. I mean means all he's dead, but his I believe his son. 00:13:04 Speaker 4: There's always a son that carries on course, carries on the stuff. 00:13:08 Speaker 3: Yeah, that library, I mean both of my My uber ride to and from was very uncomfortable because there's just a lot of confusing questions. Then you get there and there's like an animatronic cow oh who I think sings or something. 00:13:24 Speaker 4: I'm impressed that you, like even bought an uber ride to and from to go there. 00:13:31 Speaker 3: I mean it was like that. My options that day were like Billy Graham Library or the NASCAR Museum. Ah, I see both places. That I don't feel fully comfortable or wanted in. 00:13:43 Speaker 4: Right, I can get. I get that my hometown's super cute. I think you would have liked it. 00:13:50 Speaker 3: Yeah, I feel like I need to see more of North carol I'd like to see both of the Carolinas actually after the Charlotte Zone. But no complaints. I just I was surprised. But what are you gonna do? What are you gonna do? What else has been going on? 00:14:06 Speaker 5: I'm back on tour. 00:14:07 Speaker 4: I'm on tour after a year and a half of sitting in my house, you know, for someone like me, I've been touring for eleven years, so it was a weird thing to suddenly be grounded and in my house. But the gates opened back up this summer and I've been pretty much going NonStop since. 00:14:28 Speaker 3: And you've got married in the last year, Right. 00:14:31 Speaker 4: I got married last October. We just celebrated a year wedding anniversary. 00:14:36 Speaker 3: Congratulations, thank you. 00:14:39 Speaker 4: Yeah, we you know, we had always thought we would get married in twenty twenty and had we never were going to do a traditional thing, so we didn't have like all, you know, anything planned or paid for, thank goodness. So we didn't have like you know, some large venue that suddenly we lost a deposit on. But when the Penn make hit, we were just starting to look at places and we. 00:15:04 Speaker 5: Just were like, oh, well, I guess that's not happening. 00:15:08 Speaker 2: And then. 00:15:10 Speaker 4: I guess it was like late September whenever, early October when Ruth Gater Ruth Peter Ginzburg died. I think it woke the gaze up and we went, oh no, because you know, the election was looming. Everything seemed very dark and scary, and we just were like, what if we can't get married at some point? 00:15:39 Speaker 5: So we were like, let's just do it. What are we waiting for? 00:15:42 Speaker 4: And that really did sort of kick us into gear, and we planned it in like three weeks and just it's amazing. Yeah, we got We had five friends there and they all we all. 00:15:54 Speaker 5: Got COVID tested and zoomed our families. 00:15:58 Speaker 3: I feel like that concentrated for of a wedding is probably way more powerful than your typical wedding. 00:16:03 Speaker 4: Well you just you really are there for the thing you're supposed to be there for. You know, it's not, uh, it's not about all the other stuff. Because we had a little family gathering, a couple of weeks ago and invited some friends, uh sort of a we still kept as small because of COVID, but. 00:16:27 Speaker 5: A prolonged reception and you feel like you barely talk to anybody, you know what I mean, because you're just like trying to talk to everybody. 00:16:34 Speaker 4: That you talk to no one in a weird way, and so on your actual wedding day. That's now that I've done it two different ways, the wedding day ended up actually getting to be about us because we did it. We did it that way. Yeah, so I actually highly recommend it. I never we never planned to get married like that, but I thought it was pretty awesome. Yeah. 00:16:59 Speaker 3: I feel like the wedding industry must be horrified that people are realizing that you don't have to have like a thousand people at your wedding to have yeah time, you. 00:17:08 Speaker 4: Don't have to spend a you know what you would have spent on a deposit for a home to have a wedding. Really, you truly don't. 00:17:19 Speaker 3: Oh, the cost of a wedding is horrifying to me. Yeah, that's so, and I'm just like, I'm not I'm not doing this. 00:17:27 Speaker 4: I think people should use the COVID excuse for the next couple of years, just like we're. 00:17:32 Speaker 5: We're not inviting anyone because like COVID. 00:17:36 Speaker 3: I'm still using you know, COVID excuses for a variety of things that it's barely holding up at this point, but it's still enough of an excuse in certain situation. 00:17:46 Speaker 5: Which flies, it can still fly. 00:17:48 Speaker 4: I mean, we're definitely not being as social still as we were pre pandemic part of that song because I'm always on tour. But when I'm home, Yeah, we're just not going out and about like we were. 00:18:04 Speaker 3: Right and if somebody comes crawling back from your pre pandemic life to get dinner or something, or we've been in contact with you, you can just se I'm not leaving the house. I'm still not leaving the house. 00:18:15 Speaker 4: I haven't talked to you in two years. Get out of here. Isn't it weird? Isn't it weird when you think, like a year and a half passed when you didn't see like a lot of most people. 00:18:28 Speaker 3: It's so overwhelming. I mean, now that we're kind of on the other side of it, I can like think about it, I can let my mind think about it. But when we were in the middle of it, if I zoomed out on any level to think about how horrifying it all was. I just collapsed. It's like we've been in this thing for months, and myself months ago it was I. 00:18:46 Speaker 4: Think we were all in fight or flight mode because if you, if you truly like stop to think about what we were dealing with it, it was too much. It was too much to like really process the horror of what was going on around. 00:19:01 Speaker 5: Us, you know, And it didn't stop. It kept going. 00:19:05 Speaker 3: You're like, when is this going to be over? 00:19:08 Speaker 5: I mean it's still not over, and you're like, enough already, geez. 00:19:13 Speaker 3: I was just reading that deer might prolong it even further. Apparently deer, Oh Carrie COVID or something, and. 00:19:21 Speaker 5: Can we just stop with the COVID already? 00:19:24 Speaker 3: Can it just die away? If I COVID from a deer, that would be a bummer. Actually, I would be thrilled. In what situation Am I going to be so close to a deer that it's able to pass COVID? To me, it's got to be a very special moment. 00:19:42 Speaker 5: Don't go hunting or eat venison. 00:19:44 Speaker 3: Or just hang out in a glen a lodge, yeah, a forest glen kind of just meeting deer by a pool and contracting COVID. I would be fine with that, but yeah, it is a little bit alarming that now apparently we have this threat. I just I can't deal with that. 00:20:04 Speaker 1: I know. 00:20:05 Speaker 5: I don't even read that. 00:20:06 Speaker 4: When they're like new update on COVID, I'm like, I don't want to I don't even want to hear it. I don't know for me, I don't want to know if there's a variance coming. I don't want to know if it's jumping from species. 00:20:17 Speaker 5: Just leave me be COVID. 00:20:19 Speaker 3: I've had enough. I've had enough. Look, Fortune, I would love to just turn this into a pandemic episode and just talk about the joys of COVID and all of this, But there are there's a more difficult thing I'd like to talk about with you. And Okay, this podcast is called I said no gifts, and you agreed to be on it a few weeks ago, and naturally I was overjoyed. I love Fortune. This will be such a fun conversation. We'll have a good time. Yeah, we'll probably talk about the pandemic for four to five hours, just a couple of minutes, and then we'll move on with our lives, right, So I was a little surprised. I was passing through your neighborhood last night. Just happened to be right nightly drives, just kind of wandering through the Los Angeles area, and I stopped by your house and thought, I'll just check in on fortune. 00:21:22 Speaker 5: Yeah, I found you at the gate. 00:21:24 Speaker 3: You found me at the gate. It was all so nice up until you're handing me an object I did. 00:21:33 Speaker 5: I felt like I needed to give you this, and. 00:21:38 Speaker 3: You gave it to me, and you said that you essentially said, this is a gift for you. There was no real mystery. 00:21:44 Speaker 4: No. I was like, I, this is a gift. But I said, don't think that I'm cheap. Yes, you did, because it's a part of a bigger thing. 00:21:57 Speaker 3: You have a you have a piece of a thing. It was in some sort of tupperware container, and I swore to you in that moment, I won't look at it until the podcast. I'd like to get in a fight with you about it once we get into it. 00:22:10 Speaker 4: It's in a ziplocu disposable what do. 00:22:14 Speaker 3: You call that container? You know, but use a little but. 00:22:18 Speaker 5: Guess what you can keep that too. 00:22:20 Speaker 3: Oh, I'm going to keep it, keep it, use a store some sort of. 00:22:25 Speaker 4: You're gonna want a sauce store, old sauce in it? 00:22:31 Speaker 3: Okay, So it's no in it because in order to not see, to maintain the surprise for myself, it's now kind of in a st bag. I assume you want me to open it here on the show. 00:22:46 Speaker 5: Oh I would. 00:22:47 Speaker 4: What if I was like, no, open it later when it's just you by yourself. 00:22:54 Speaker 3: I'm waiting for that episode. I'm waiting for you. 00:22:57 Speaker 5: Were like, oh no, no, no, that's just for you. 00:22:59 Speaker 3: No, no, don't no. 00:23:00 Speaker 5: I get embarrassed when people open there gives in front of me. 00:23:03 Speaker 4: I don't know how I feel about this. All right, fine, just this one time. 00:23:10 Speaker 3: I can open it here on the show, okay. 00:23:20 Speaker 4: And and there's this and obviously there's a story behind it. It's not it's more than what meets the eye. Let me preface it. 00:23:28 Speaker 3: I'm very okay. So I'm now seeing the zip lock thing. I'm going to open it up and see this for the first time. 00:23:33 Speaker 5: Yep. 00:23:34 Speaker 3: Oh oh that smells incredible. 00:23:38 Speaker 4: What not only smells incredible, it tastes incredible. 00:23:43 Speaker 3: Is this a cake? It is a piece of a cake. I mean it could also be like a nice sweet bread or something. 00:23:50 Speaker 4: Yeah, it is a cake. It is a type of cake. It is a coconut cake. It's a it's like a bunt cake. But it's there's like a thing in this that's got some sort of magical thing in it with some sort of not a chocolate chip, it's some sort of I can't even explain it, but there's it's more. 00:24:11 Speaker 3: Than just a cake. How is it more than a cake? 00:24:14 Speaker 4: So this cake is very infamous because Tom Cruise is known for every Christmas. He has a list of like one hundred people and there's a bakery in Woodland Hills that makes these cakes. He's been doing it for like twenty years and he sends one hundred of special people, people he's worked with or whatnot, he sends them one of these cakes. 00:24:43 Speaker 5: It's infamous. It's called the Tom Cruise Cake. 00:24:45 Speaker 4: What And I found out about it like two years, like right before the pandemic, and I, oh my god, it's like one of my friends got one because he works at James Gordon Show and they did a sketch with Tom and he this cake. I was like, oh my god, what is this cake. Everyone's talking about how unbelievable this cake is. So it was like my mission in life. I was like, I gotta get one of these cakes. 00:25:13 Speaker 5: But I wanted to be from Tom Cruise. I don't want I really want to. 00:25:17 Speaker 4: I really want it to be from Tea Crews himself. And so I talked about it a lot, like on our radio show and in different places. I even did a vision board. It was for twenty twenty. I put the Tom Cruise cake on it. And it's an expensive cake. It's not a cheap cake. 00:25:39 Speaker 3: How much did they charge for this cake? 00:25:41 Speaker 5: It's like one hundred dollars cake. 00:25:43 Speaker 3: Ooh, that's an expensive cake. 00:25:45 Speaker 4: I mean right, that's that's like for a bun cake. That's like an expensive cake. But I was like, oh my god, this cake must be good if he's like for twenty years or however long has been sending this cake. And so I went on the Kelly Clarkson Show and they had the bakers from their make the cake. 00:26:08 Speaker 5: So I got to finally eat the cake. 00:26:11 Speaker 4: And it wasn't obviously from Tom Cruise, but Kelly clarks is a pretty. 00:26:16 Speaker 3: Good, you know, second. 00:26:19 Speaker 4: Second best, and the cake was amazing it's so good, totally worth it. And so I went to film my radio show and I was gonna stop and get you a present, but I wanted it to be something that did have some sort of story for me. But I was like, I've been on the road, and I was like, oh my god, what am I gonna get Bridger? I don't like what am I going to give him? And then I went to film radio and it was my co host Tom Papa's birthday and our mutual Friendeel Bolter bought him. He bought him the Tom Cruise cake. And so as I was leaving, I told him that I was doing your podcast and he goes, Bridger loves food, and I go, oh my god, I gotta give him. 00:27:06 Speaker 5: This is the president. I gotta give him a piece of this Tom Cruise cake. 00:27:11 Speaker 3: Wow, this isn't This is actually no hand No. 00:27:14 Speaker 5: Hands touched it. 00:27:15 Speaker 3: By the way. 00:27:16 Speaker 4: I know it's COVID times, so no, there there are no germs on it. 00:27:21 Speaker 3: This could be covered and would be fine to eat it. My problem, I don't have a fork handy ah. 00:27:27 Speaker 5: I did not put that time. 00:27:29 Speaker 3: To decide should I take a bite of it using my hands or should I run and get a fork. 00:27:35 Speaker 5: And honestly, it's whatever. 00:27:36 Speaker 4: I won't judge you if you use your hands, but it's whatever you're comfortable with. 00:27:40 Speaker 3: I feel I'll be right back because I want to get a nice, normal bite of you. 00:27:45 Speaker 4: You gotta get all the things in it, the icing, and a lot of people don't like coconut, but everyone, everyone I know who doesn't like coconut really loves this cake. 00:27:55 Speaker 3: This must be incredible. I'll be truly right back. 00:27:58 Speaker 6: Okay, Oh yeah, he's got a fork and he's about to eat the cake. 00:28:11 Speaker 3: I have a fork and a napkin. Oh, if you don't want to watch me take a bite, I don't want to subject you to watch. 00:28:17 Speaker 5: Listen. 00:28:17 Speaker 4: I had some yesterday and I brought myself a piece that I ate at breakfast. So and I got sure, I got you a really big piece. 00:28:26 Speaker 3: It's enormous, So I'm a very generous piece of cake. 00:28:29 Speaker 4: Well, because I wasn't giving you the whole cake, because technically I couldn't take Tom's birthday cake from him. 00:28:35 Speaker 3: I tried. 00:28:36 Speaker 5: I was like, at least have to give you a big piece. 00:28:39 Speaker 3: I mean, if this cake is one hundred dollars, this is probably a fifteen dollars. 00:28:43 Speaker 4: Come on, baby, that's a nice, nice expensive slice right there. What do you think, oh the eyes of lit up? What do you think is unbelievable? 00:28:55 Speaker 3: Right? This is a Tom cake. 00:28:58 Speaker 5: It's a Tom Cruise cake. 00:29:00 Speaker 4: That is, he doesn't send no crap cakes, and so I one of these days I'm going to get the cake from Tom. 00:29:09 Speaker 5: I do feel like it tastes better if he. 00:29:11 Speaker 4: Sends it, of course, I mean, but it's it's really good as is. 00:29:17 Speaker 3: I feel like basically, I mean, you talking about it and putting it out in the world in every format you can, You're slowly, you're just building the path towards the cake. I feel like you're Yeah, I don't know, a year out, I'm close to cake. 00:29:34 Speaker 4: I mean, at least the vision board did send the because you know, with vision boards you have to be very specific. I said on one of the Tom Cruise cake. I technically got the Tom Cruise cake. I was given it. I didn't say on the vision board that he himself had to send it. 00:29:52 Speaker 3: Right, So next you need to revise the vision board with a photo You've got to do some photo doctoring. Yeah, with Tom Cruise, handing, handing the cake to me. 00:30:02 Speaker 4: You, But as a cake lover my I have a really big sweet tooth and as a lover of cake, I will say that this cake, it was, even though it was not from him, highly worth it. 00:30:16 Speaker 3: It's an amazing cake. It's so good. Do you bake cakes or a cake purchaser? 00:30:22 Speaker 4: I'm a purchaser. I'm not a good maker of food in any form, but I eat it. I'll eat a lot of it. And I'm not normally a bunt cake kind of gal. But this they like, I don't know what's in the top, Like there's a there's like a curve and there's something in it. I don't know what it is. And it's got like it's not a chocolate chip. It's like some sort of chip, Like I don't know if it's hat. 00:30:51 Speaker 3: Like a white chocolate. 00:30:53 Speaker 4: Yeah, so it's the whole cake is a mystery. But whatever they do, it's so good. 00:31:00 Speaker 3: Is this now your favorite cake or do you have a favorite cake? 00:31:03 Speaker 4: I mean, I would say quality wise, that's probably one of my favorites because it's so unique. 00:31:11 Speaker 5: But I enjoyed a nice like red velvet cake. 00:31:14 Speaker 4: That's my southern roots right there. 00:31:19 Speaker 5: Did you ever watch what is the steel magnoias? 00:31:23 Speaker 3: Oh, of course the groom's. 00:31:25 Speaker 4: Cake was a red velvet armadillo cake. But back then red velvet was not anywhere but the South, like people it was. It not hit California yet, so people were like, what is red velvet armadillo cake? 00:31:41 Speaker 3: Yeah? Red velvet really did not go nationwide, probably till two thousand and seven. 00:31:45 Speaker 4: Yeah, it was like I'd moved to la and I think two thousand and four and maybe a year or two later they start popping up in the form of cupcakes, and people were actually like, what is what is this delicious cake? 00:32:04 Speaker 5: I mean, it's kind of it's basically. 00:32:06 Speaker 3: Like chocolate cake, right, It's just a red. 00:32:11 Speaker 5: Red It's just a red chocolate cake. 00:32:14 Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah, red velvet for me is a confusing sensory experience because it is cocoa but the red. My brain doesn't know what's happening, right, So yeah, I need my chocolate cake to look like a chocolate. 00:32:28 Speaker 4: I don't want to look like a bloody armadillo. 00:32:35 Speaker 3: Do you is cake your favorite sweet or do you have a minus cookies? Full disclosure? 00:32:41 Speaker 5: Yeah? 00:32:42 Speaker 3: But are you a cake? First person? 00:32:44 Speaker 4: Everyone assumes I'm an ice cream first person, because I do silly ice cream dances and I do. I do really like ice cream, but yeah, cake is my number one sweet. 00:32:56 Speaker 3: I love an ice cream, but it is not a year round you know, it's very the conditions have to be just right. 00:33:03 Speaker 4: Yeah, people people send me ice cream, which is really lovely, but I rarely am like in my house going I gotta sit down with a bowl of ice cream. 00:33:13 Speaker 5: I think ice cream is the most fun. 00:33:14 Speaker 4: When you're like you're on a stroll with a friend and you like see an ice cream place and it's a warm day and you're like, let's get ice cream. It's kind of like more of a surprise treat. 00:33:25 Speaker 3: One hundred. I need my ice cream and a cone, served preferably by like a friendly teenager. 00:33:31 Speaker 4: Yeh, as opposed to those non friendly teenagers. 00:33:35 Speaker 3: Or for sure a senior citizen or something. Yeah. No, I'm completely on board with that situation. Cake. For me, a cake has to be excellent. Cake's not my first because there are so many bad cakes. There's a lot of like yeah, dry right, and if you get saddled with a slice of that, then it's like a job. 00:33:56 Speaker 4: Yeah, you're yeah, and you don't want to I used to like laugh when skinny people said this, but they would I used to work with people that would take a bite of something sweet and if it wasn't good, they would throw it away and say, not worth the calories. 00:34:12 Speaker 5: Oh boy, And so that always made me laugh. 00:34:15 Speaker 4: And so once, you know, I, of course need to think about the calories and I don't, but I. 00:34:21 Speaker 5: I did it once where I wasn't even thinking that. 00:34:25 Speaker 4: It was in the writer's room at Chelsea, them saying that rubbed off on me, and I took a bite of something, and I go, oh, not worth the calories, and they're going what I was say, Ew, you guys are rubbing off on me. 00:34:38 Speaker 3: This is a terrible sign. Oh yeah, no one should ever say that. Yeah, unless you're every everything you are eating, you're also saying this is worth the cali worth it? Extremely annoying. Oh I'm so thrilled to have this cake. I little piece of personal news. All of my treats in my house are out. I ran out yesterday. Oh no, all of my piscotti is gone. All of my cookies are gone. 00:35:07 Speaker 5: I like a nice piscotti too. 00:35:10 Speaker 3: My mom makes piscotti and excellent piscotti. 00:35:15 Speaker 5: Oh I'm bet. 00:35:16 Speaker 4: I don't know if I've had anything, but you know, at the store piscotti. 00:35:22 Speaker 3: Well, the store piscotti is so hard, so I think it gets a little bit of a bad wrap. If you have, like somebody someone make piscotti for you, it's phenomenal, I bet, and it well, well there's a little tip for everyone. 00:35:37 Speaker 5: Well I'm glad you have a little sweet tree. 00:35:39 Speaker 4: And you know, I thought, if anything, these cakes are hard to come by, and so I like to I like to share those cakes, you know, in the in the rare times that I get one, I thought, oh my god, I can actually share this cake with somebody else. 00:35:58 Speaker 5: It's gonna be. 00:35:59 Speaker 3: Bridger essentially my Tom Cruise. 00:36:02 Speaker 4: I mean, you know, the next I'm gonna be sliding down the hallway in my underwear and a white shirt. 00:36:12 Speaker 3: I wonder what poor assistant is doing all that cake purchasing and delivering. It's probably a whole army of people. The whole army of people. And it's not like I've followed his career. It's not like how I go, Well, I'm not. I don't think I've ever seen a Mission Impossible movie. Don't say this, You're not gonna get the top loco. Oh no, wait is a dedicated listener. 00:36:34 Speaker 5: Oh no, I'm it's in my queue. I'm gonna I'm gonna watch them all. 00:36:39 Speaker 4: I'm just more like intrigued by the the who's on the list and who's not on the list, and like how long do you stay on the list, Like if you did a movie with him, you get it like that Christmas and maybe one more, But then are you like. 00:36:56 Speaker 5: Off the list. 00:36:56 Speaker 4: I'm more like just kind of obsessed with the list of who gets the cake, why they get the cake, and why they don't and if you get only the one, are you like, oh my god, Tom hates me. 00:37:10 Speaker 3: Now right, I'm off the list. 00:37:14 Speaker 4: So I think part of it is also the intrigue of the recipients. 00:37:19 Speaker 3: Yeah. I love the idea of Tom sitting down with like a boardroom of people at the beginning of each year and saying, who's getting a cake this year? Yeah, like we need ideas for who's gonna get my cake. 00:37:29 Speaker 4: Who's gonna get my cake? Who did I work with? And do they like once they reach a certain number, are they like that's enough? Too many cakes? Like we can't eat like five people have to go and I love that it's from a tiny bakery in Woodland. 00:37:47 Speaker 5: Hills, right. 00:37:48 Speaker 3: I wonder how he found it. 00:37:50 Speaker 4: I think Joe told me that he was Katie when he was with Katie Holmes. Or no, maybe it goes back even further Nicole Kidman, I'm not sure. 00:38:00 Speaker 5: I don't know how long. Maybe the cake is only ten years. I don't know. 00:38:04 Speaker 4: Whoever he was with was filming a movie with Diane Keaton, okay, and Diane Keaton was like on a mission to find whoever Tom was with, had a huge sweet tooth and was like, I love cake. 00:38:16 Speaker 5: Diane Keaton love cake. 00:38:19 Speaker 4: And the two women were like doing a comparison of like who can find the best cake? 00:38:26 Speaker 3: And Diane Keaton found this cake. This does feel like a Diane Keaton cake. Yeah. I bet she has one of these, like on a cake stand at all times in her house. 00:38:37 Speaker 4: Probably so, I believe. And this is Joe said this. So if it's wrong, don't Joe Bolt, don't come after me with your tweets about the origin of this and say that I'm spreading false Diane Keaton rumors. 00:38:53 Speaker 5: I just was told that she was the one who found this cake. 00:38:57 Speaker 3: I bet Diane would welcome that rumor. 00:39:00 Speaker 4: Yeah, her house was featured in some architect architectural design magagines. Right, yeah, and it it is totally the kind of house that would have this cake sitting. 00:39:12 Speaker 3: On, right, I can picture. I mean it's the Nancy Meers type situation. Oh, I'm so thrilled. Wait, so you've only you have you seen any Tom Cruise movies? Yeah, back in the day. 00:39:25 Speaker 4: You know, it's I'm just not I'm not like I don't watch like a lot of the Marvel movies. 00:39:31 Speaker 5: I don't watch the like action things. 00:39:34 Speaker 4: I'm more of a rom com gal or a comedy gal. But so I liked his Days of like you know, gosh, you know, Days of Thunder and Far, Far and Away, a good romantic comedy, Jerry maguire, funny comedy, you know that, those kind of movies. 00:39:56 Speaker 3: He has been in a few, like kind of lighter movies, and he does a great job. He's always so charming. 00:40:02 Speaker 5: Yeah, he's just like the action guy now. 00:40:05 Speaker 3: Right, I mean he kind of just has a death wish, right, stunts and trying to prove this sort of thing. 00:40:11 Speaker 4: There is a video of him doing his own stunt where he jumps from one building to the next, and he breaks his ankle, and then you see the whole thing happening. 00:40:21 Speaker 3: I saw this. I had he. 00:40:24 Speaker 4: Lifted himself back like he broke it. You see it break, and he still lifts himself up. Like anyway, I'm not let me just preference by saying I'm not like this is a super fan. 00:40:36 Speaker 3: He's fine. I need you to just own up to He's a cool guy. 00:40:44 Speaker 4: I guess I don't really even know him. I like his old movies, so I'm not a super fan. I'm just obsessed with this case. 00:40:51 Speaker 3: You just know that he's good at giving away cakes. Yeah, and also you're obsessed with his career, and you know all Tom Cruise trivia. I think that's fair. 00:41:00 Speaker 5: Oh gosh, oh gosh, no, oh no. 00:41:05 Speaker 3: Well, I'm sorry. When you come on and record a podcast, truths are revealed, the. 00:41:11 Speaker 5: Truth are revealed. 00:41:12 Speaker 4: I was just like, you need to try this cake because it's infamous. 00:41:16 Speaker 3: You, I mean, just absolutely nail. I mean, what God send this is. I mean I would like to maybe put Tom Cruise giving this me this cake on a vision board as well. Then maybe it's kind of a competition between you. 00:41:28 Speaker 4: And I yeah, you might end up you might get it first, because I've revealed I haven't seen any the mention impossible, so them all I might have taken myself off the list. 00:41:42 Speaker 3: Well, I think I would like to just make you know, maybe a verbal agreement with you right now. Whoever, whichever one of us gets the cake from Tom Cruise first, Yeah, will give the other a bite of that. That's specific version of this. That's nice. 00:41:59 Speaker 5: Yeah, I like that. I uh or well, I wasn't sure which way you were going. 00:42:04 Speaker 4: If we would give each other a bit or taunt each other, I'd be like, haha, second, I got it first. 00:42:11 Speaker 3: Drived by your house with the cake strapped to the top of my car. Yeah, kind of blasting my horn circle the block a few times. 00:42:20 Speaker 5: Just a big old taunt. 00:42:22 Speaker 3: You got the cake, flying down and pecking at this cake that you wanted so bad and mean. 00:42:27 Speaker 4: Meanwhile, I'm cutting out pictures from my vision boarding a twenty sevens like a serial killer, and you get the cake. 00:42:39 Speaker 3: That's life works like that. Sometimes life can surprise you. Okay, I think it's time to play a game. All right, let's do it. We're gonna play a game called Gift or a curse. Oh, okay, I need a number between one and ten. 00:42:56 Speaker 6: Eight. 00:42:57 Speaker 3: Okay, I have to do some light calculating to get our game pieces, the things we're going to work with. 00:43:01 Speaker 5: Okay. 00:43:02 Speaker 3: In the meantime, you can recommend something, you can promote something, you can truly do whatever you want. You have to Mic, I'll be right back. 00:43:09 Speaker 5: I mean, I guess while I'm here. I am on tour. 00:43:14 Speaker 4: I have a brand new hour of stand up after my Netflix special Sweet and Salty, premiered in twenty twenty. It's on that site. It's on Netflix. If you want to see a Netflix special, check that out. I put this tour up. It was supposed to start in March of twenty twenty. Obviously that did not happen. So a year and a half later, here I am on tour and I'm coming to cities all over the country. So if you like stand up comedy, if you like to laugh, if you like to feel positive silly things in your belly, come to one of my stand up shows. You can go to fortune Femster dot com for tickets. Beautifully, don thank you. 00:43:56 Speaker 5: I wasn't sure how much time you need. 00:43:58 Speaker 3: And that's up almost perfectly with my calculating. All right, it was meant to be. Okay, this is how the game works. I'm gonna name three things, and you're gonna tell me if there are a gift or a curse and why. And you just have to be extremely careful because there are correct answers. There's a chance that you get zero and then it's I mean, it just adds to the sadness of not getting the cake from Tom Cruise or why just bad thing after bad thing happens t follows you. Okay, with all that in mind, the first one up is a listener suggestion from someone named Hannah. Hannah has written a gift or a curse funky toilets, And when she wrote this in she said she included a photo of a toilet in the shape of a high heel shoe. 00:44:47 Speaker 5: Oh, so I have to decide if that's a gift or a curse. 00:44:51 Speaker 3: Yes, and tell me why a high heel shoe. Well, and it doesn't have to necessarily be a high heel shoe. I think she basically. 00:45:00 Speaker 4: Meant novelty shape novelty shapes. I mean, I could see why you would say high heel because if you sat up top, you definitely wanted to get the flow to go down, you. 00:45:13 Speaker 5: Know what I mean, as long as there's a. 00:45:17 Speaker 4: Base, a basin that they can go into at the bottom, that works for me. Uh So, that to me sounds like a gift. Uh Like, toilets are boring, why not why not use it. 00:45:30 Speaker 3: Up a little bit fortune excellent? Of course, I've never used a funky toilet. I've never had a novelty toilet. I've never even seen one in real life. But just from this, this photo alone, that she sent this beautiful high heel shoe toilet. Yeah, toilets are all the same shape. Occasionally they're a different color. But why not, let's get it. Let's just get in there and make them strange shape, make them funky, you can make them. There are things you could have. A toilet this shape of a horse, giant tooth, I mean giant. The possibilities are truly endless. You could have. 00:46:12 Speaker 4: It would be fun if there was a toilet in the shape of a hand, like like laying flat and so you sat on the hand. 00:46:20 Speaker 3: I don't know, that's excellent. Yeah, I mean that's the if that hasn't happened already. The toilet industry should be shut down. Yeah, so then they're like, are you sitting on a hand? 00:46:32 Speaker 5: I mean that's my toilet. 00:46:34 Speaker 3: Maybe a toilet the shape of a tornado, like a little tornado you're shut on the top of. 00:46:39 Speaker 4: I like that or or like or you know those little in the mall they have like little electric I don't know, like dinosaurs, like you ride up like a little tiny looks like one of those. 00:46:55 Speaker 3: And I think it should move. I think it should be kind of a like a mechanical situation. 00:47:01 Speaker 4: Oh no, I could get messy. 00:47:05 Speaker 3: Okay, Well, you're off to such a good start. I'm very proud of you already. 00:47:10 Speaker 5: Thank you. 00:47:11 Speaker 3: Okay, next up, this is uh gifter a curse. Clapping along to music. 00:47:17 Speaker 4: Oh gosh, this is tough because it really depends on the clapper. 00:47:23 Speaker 5: If you if you have no rhythm, if you're not really aware. 00:47:26 Speaker 4: Of beats, you can really mess up a song with claps. And you know, you could throw the whole vibe of a song off with your just wrong claps. So I'm gonna say it's a curse. We don't need Let they let them sing, let them do their thing. We don't need you to insert your terrible rhythm into it. 00:47:50 Speaker 3: Fortune Oh no, look, I understand where you're coming from here. Okay, let's just first of all say, flat out objectively, clap along to music is a gift. Okay, I see where you're coming from here. Uh, And I guess I think it's delightful. But I'm only speaking for myself clapping along. I'm in the car, I'm clapping like I'm having the time of my life. 00:48:16 Speaker 5: I've never clapped to music before. 00:48:18 Speaker 4: You haven't, like if I was in a church situation, maybe like I love Jesus. 00:48:26 Speaker 3: Yeah, we are singing some Jesus songs. Hey man, Jesus. 00:48:32 Speaker 4: That makes sense, But like, like, what what even like it's Britney bitch, you know, I don't know. 00:48:43 Speaker 3: I would love for Britney spears to start really leaning heavily on hand claps. And yeah, I. 00:48:48 Speaker 4: Mean certain songs you're like, yeah that there's some clapping involved. But a few songs I know that there's that they're like, now you guys, clap. 00:49:01 Speaker 3: It's the it's the thing that maybe it's because the fact that I can't really sing along because I'm terrible. I'm a terrible singer. Also, Okay, you know it's like a little entryway for the non singer to participate in the sun. 00:49:13 Speaker 5: That's true. That's true. 00:49:15 Speaker 4: So we have to like really dig into the situation someone's in as to when or not they're clapping right a little. 00:49:25 Speaker 3: Yeah that sounds nice. I mean, I welcome it in any situation. Yeah, you're deadly wrong and everyone hates. 00:49:35 Speaker 2: To hear it. 00:49:35 Speaker 3: But that's fine. Deadly wrong, Okay. Final one. This is from a listener named Jesse, who has suggested gift or a curse mashed potatoes with chunks of potato skin mixed in, so it's kind of a less traditional mashed potato. 00:49:56 Speaker 4: Some people really like that, you know, they want the skin. It gives it a little texture. I'm Southern, we didn't have no skin in our taters. So I'm gonna need you to, uh properly. 00:50:11 Speaker 5: I'm gonna need you to take the. 00:50:12 Speaker 4: Extra steps to skin your potatoes because I think it's only in there because you're being lazy. You don't want to skin them, you don't wanna, you don't want to take the necessary steps to have a clean, perfect potato to then mash. 00:50:27 Speaker 5: So that's on you, So don't act like it's supposed to be there. 00:50:31 Speaker 3: It's not you're saying, Uh, it's a curse it, curse fortune. You got one out of three. Let's just watch. I love my potato with it. What do you have against a little rustic charm. It's it's got a texture, it's got dirt in it. The skin is dirt in it. The skin does not have dirt in it. 00:50:57 Speaker 4: When you when you bite down and you've tast that little sandy crunch, that's dirt. 00:51:03 Speaker 3: I don't know who's been making your mashed potatoes with the skin mixed in, but it sounds like a very lazy person who did skip even the washing aspect. Yeah, well look I'm not I'm a purist. 00:51:14 Speaker 5: I'm a purist. 00:51:17 Speaker 4: I need honey potatos, no skin, no skin on me or taters. 00:51:24 Speaker 3: I'm ashamed to be on a zoom with somebody with such a simplistic view of mashed potatoes. Oh no, I can't handle it. 00:51:34 Speaker 4: We have to ask the listeners now to write in and tell us their preference of skin. 00:51:42 Speaker 5: Skin. 00:51:43 Speaker 3: The listener actually will be involved. This will be on the Instagram with a poll. Okay, we're going to find out the truth. Well, I mean, we're not going to find what am I talking about? I have stated the truth. 00:51:54 Speaker 5: The truth is left interpretation. No, no, no, the truth is in the eye of them out. 00:52:00 Speaker 3: Hoolder fortune to see you desperately claw at some sort of success. Here is breaking my heart. 00:52:10 Speaker 5: Well I tried, I tried. 00:52:13 Speaker 4: I know there are listeners right now that are on my side, and that's what will help me sleep at night. 00:52:19 Speaker 3: You came out really strong with the toilet thing, and you got cocky, and I got cocky. 00:52:23 Speaker 5: I thought for sure that one thing would be a curse. 00:52:28 Speaker 3: Well, look, it's time for the final segment of the podcast. This is called I said no emails, people write into I said no gifts at gmail dot com. So many people have so many problems, and they're usually gift related or social situations that these people simply can't figure out how to do on their own. So they turned to me and you the guest. 00:52:50 Speaker 5: Oh that's nice. 00:52:51 Speaker 3: Would you help me with help me answer a question here? I mean, I too said no emails. But fine, let's give this a shot. Let's see. Here's one. Okay. This says, hello, bridge or and guest, I am planning my holiday gifts early this year and need your input on if it's acceptable to give a few months of therapy. Oh, my friend had a rough COVID and used alcohol a bit too often to cope, which strains some of his relationships. He's been trying to get his shit together for some time and could probably use professional help. Is this a thoughtful gift or an insulting gift? Yours sincerely, Nicole. Interesting, this is a very complicated That is complicated, indeed, Nicole, Look therapy, of course, I support it in almost every situation. Giving therapy to someone is a difficult situation. Look, does the friend need therapy? Probably? I think that's clear from the four lines of this email. I've got a good look at this person's life and what's going to solve their problems. I'm going to say, And now that I've said all that, I'm gonna say, definitely give him therapy. Wow, I think see that coming. Do some light research, you know, just poke around on the internet, find a therapist that you like the photo of, and then send them the few hundred dollars for however many sessions, and then make sure you're present when the friend opens the gift. Now, fortunate, How are you feeling about this? 00:54:42 Speaker 5: Well? 00:54:42 Speaker 4: I think it only can work if you've had a conversation with that friend and the friend has said, I really I think I should go to therapy. I think I just I don't know where to go or how do I even get started. There has to have been some sort of communication on their. 00:54:59 Speaker 3: End and this is what they want. 00:55:02 Speaker 4: You can't like, I know, we all do it all the time, Like you're like, that person needs to talk to somebody here, this person, that person has some big problems. They might not realize that they have those problems and need right to talk to someone. So if you're like, hey, I thought you could use some therapy, it can be insulting if they've not said that themselves. 00:55:24 Speaker 3: So you're saying, my idea for you know, plan a big fun birthday party. Everyone bring gifts and gather around the friend while he opens my gift of therapy. May not be the route to go. 00:55:36 Speaker 5: That might not be the route. 00:55:37 Speaker 4: Yeah, that could be an awkward gift reveal where all of a sudden they're like, here's a you know, two hundred dollars worth. 00:55:45 Speaker 3: Of better help. You never know though, and guess he's got like a Jack Daniel's bottle, Like what, I'm fine well, Nicole, you have two, you know, opposing views on this matter. Fortune's made one of us. We are just, you know, truly two minutes out from Fortune failing spectacularly on the game. Oh no, So it's hard to it's hard to believe anything this person is saying at this point. You know, everything she says could be built on a lie. It could be or genius or genius. The same could be said for me. But I feel like I'm probably the person you want to listen, Tom, But that's truly up to you, and I hope that you come to some you know, some gift. The friend needs a gift of some sort. We've talked about cake and therapy. That has two potential gifts on this podcast. So those are some options. 00:56:54 Speaker 5: Yeah, they can either eat their feelings and you're talking about their. 00:56:56 Speaker 3: Feelings, right, maybe stop drinking the feeling. But I'm glad you wrote in, Nicole, because you were able to get excellent advice. Yeah, you're welcome, Fortune. This cake is outstanding. What a beautiful gift, and what a wonderful revelation about Tom Cruise, the cake master. 00:57:19 Speaker 4: You know, I hope somebody learned something today about Tom Cruise. 00:57:23 Speaker 5: Cake and blimps. That's all I care about. 00:57:28 Speaker 4: I'm just impressed that you have created a podcast that where you get gifts every week. I'm most jealous of that. 00:57:40 Speaker 3: Not, you know, with the amount of items stacking up in my home, not all. Maybe not something I would advise someone. 00:57:49 Speaker 5: To do, gotcha, gotcha. 00:57:51 Speaker 3: But you know, occasionally I get a nice piece of cake that I just get to eat and then I don't have to end. I've also got this beautiful ziploc container, which you will not be getting back. 00:57:59 Speaker 4: There you go, that's part of the gift. I mean, I listen. I don't want you to be a hoarder. I don't want to contribute to your horder ways if that's what this podcast is leading to. So it kind of I'm glad that I could give you something that will eventually go away. 00:58:16 Speaker 3: I appreciate it, and truly we need to get the word out to Tom Cruise. If you know someone who knows Tom Cruise, if you know someone who knows someone who knows someone who knows Tom Cruise, if you're deep in scientology, oh and you're listening here within the sound of my voice, Let's get the word out. Fortune deserves a cake from Tom Cruise. 00:58:37 Speaker 4: There you go, it's and what a better time to get one? Then there's no better time than the holidays, Christmas. Rights around the corner, Tom, and I'll like a like a cake, Tom Thomas. 00:58:54 Speaker 3: Thomas, get down here with that cake immediately. Fortune, thank you so much. I've had a delightful time Ridge. 00:59:02 Speaker 5: It was lovely talking to you. Thank you for having me. 00:59:05 Speaker 3: It's so much fun. And listener, I feel like you're probably not going to be getting this cake from Tom Cruise and I apologize, but start making a vision board for yourself. Or did we actually? Fortune? By the way, did you ever name the bakery? 00:59:22 Speaker 4: I believe it's pronounced domes domes do o a in apostrophe s domes kind of like the d version of joan. Yep, exactly, that's done. That's how you Yeah, I just looked it up. 00:59:37 Speaker 3: So no e in there, there's zero e d o a n apostrophe s done. 00:59:44 Speaker 5: They have them on gold belly. Now that's how. 00:59:46 Speaker 4: Popular this cake A famous cake. It's a fame. I'm telling you, it's the famous cake. I actually kind of Oh it's white child. It says white chocolate coconut, buttcake so those little Ship white chocolate, Yeah. 01:00:01 Speaker 3: They're phenomenal. Everybody's got to get this cake. 01:00:05 Speaker 4: It says this bakery is family owned for a quarter of a century, twenty five years, right, so. 01:00:17 Speaker 3: Wow, I guess they probably opened in ninety six and then Tom was giving you know, Jerry McGuire cakes to the cast of Jerry maguire. Here comes Dones. Yeah. 01:00:28 Speaker 4: This claims the cake's fifty dollars, but maybe that's if you buy it in person. 01:00:33 Speaker 3: Maybe it's shit that makes sense. I don't know sense the cake is anywhere between fifty and one thousand dollars. I assure you you will not be paying more than one thousand dollars for this cake. 01:00:47 Speaker 4: But I love that it is officially now called the Tom Cruise Cake. 01:00:51 Speaker 3: Oh, it is officially called the Tom Cruise Cake. 01:00:53 Speaker 5: Yeah, that's what they want, the Tom Cruise Cake. 01:00:57 Speaker 3: Everybody, go get a cake. It's fantastic. I can't say enough about it. You've got all the information which I waited till the very last second to get for you. You kind of have to string the listener along. You've got to have something to wait for. Listener, move on with your life. Take that information. We'll talk again soon, bye bye. I said, No Gifts is an exactly right production. It's produced and engineered by our dear friend Analyse Nelson, and the theme song is by miracle worker Amy Mann. You must follow the show on Instagram at I said No Gifts, that's where you're going to see pictures of all these wonderful gifts I'm getting. You have to see the gifts. Listen and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Stitcher or wherever you found me. And why not leave a review while you're there. It's really the least you could do, considering everything I do for you. And if you're interested in advertising on the show, go to mideral dot com slash ads. 01:02:05 Speaker 2: But I invited you here. 01:02:10 Speaker 1: Thought I made myself perfectly clear. When you're a guess to my home, you gotta come to me empty, And. 01:02:22 Speaker 2: I said, no guests. 01:02:24 Speaker 1: Your presences presents enough that I already had too much stuff. 01:02:32 Speaker 2: So how do you dare to surbey me