00:00:00 Speaker 1: Okay, the theme song's not going to play yet because I want to tell you that this episode, well, we were supposed to rerun an episode. We do that on occasion for whatever reason, and I thought, why not play a new ish episode. This is from the Patreon you know, usually these are behind the paywall, but I'm feeling very generous and so we're going to play the episode, a recent one with Brendan Scanel. It's wonderful. Hopefully it'll be a little taste for you. We're in the backyard. This is kind of what we're doing behind the paywall at patreon dot com slash. I said, no gifts, and now here's the episode. 00:00:44 Speaker 2: The lie invit did you hear. 00:00:48 Speaker 3: Fun a man? Myself perfectly clear? But you're I guess Tom, you gotta come to me empty And I said, no guests, your presences press. I'm already too much stuff. 00:01:10 Speaker 2: So how do you dare disurbey? Mean? 00:01:23 Speaker 1: Welcome to I said, no gifts. I'm Richard Wine girl. We're in the backyard. The weather is gorgeous today, feeling very spoiled by mother nature, and the birds are in the trees. The children are screaming at the elementary school I'm in total control of my life and no one can say otherwise. Everything is going as smoothly as ever and the future is right. Is there anything that's happened? I had a cob salad last night. If you haven't had one recently, get into it. But I think we should we should do the episode. I love today's guest. This is actually his third time on the podcast, but his first kind of traditional time. It's Brendan Scanel Brendan. Welcome to Izahi. 00:02:13 Speaker 2: Bye, how are you? 00:02:15 Speaker 1: I'm I'm so good? 00:02:16 Speaker 2: Are you their eyes? 00:02:18 Speaker 4: There is a light, even if you can't hear it in his voice, there is a twinkle. 00:02:22 Speaker 1: You have a true twinkle in your eye. 00:02:24 Speaker 2: Today I'm on the up and up. 00:02:28 Speaker 1: We should say it's Tuesday. 00:02:29 Speaker 2: It's Tuesday. 00:02:30 Speaker 4: Tuesday always a really good day for me. Also, I have done this podcast before. The first time over Zoom, I was in a we work which remember those days? 00:02:41 Speaker 1: What a that must have been twenty twenty one. 00:02:43 Speaker 4: It's twenty twenty maybe twenty twenty one. And then the second time I did it live in Chicago. 00:02:49 Speaker 2: All of your fans like. 00:02:50 Speaker 1: A year ago, probably next week or something. 00:02:53 Speaker 2: I'm so impressed by their devotion to you. I love them. They're great people, right, somebody had come in from Omah. 00:03:00 Speaker 1: You have people try. I mean that to me is always like I just people are so wonderful, And I think I'm a bad fan of the things I. 00:03:06 Speaker 2: Like because you don't show up. 00:03:08 Speaker 1: I won't travel across the city. No, I need to be better about this. 00:03:12 Speaker 4: When's the last time you came to one of my comedy shows. You're a fan of mine, and yet I don't think you've ever seen me. 00:03:18 Speaker 1: Welcome to Los Angeles, Welcome to Los Angeles. It actually is so shameful that comedy people don't go see comedy people more often. I mean, like, I get it, but I find you deeply funny. Thank you in person and as a stand up. And yet what am I doing this is how like I think I've seen a total of three of my friends perform five. In my defense, I'm not a stand up. Like you've probably seen most of your friends before. 00:03:46 Speaker 2: I've seen most of my friends. 00:03:47 Speaker 4: I've seen my friends bomb, I've seen my friends succeed. I've seen some of my friends get so famous and it changes them. 00:03:55 Speaker 2: They get nervous in public, and I'm like, no, one's looking at you, no one. 00:03:59 Speaker 1: No one's really famous anymore, not enough to be nervous. 00:04:02 Speaker 4: Right, But then you will be with somebody and like heads will turn sure, and that's exciting because I like to think that they're turning at me. 00:04:10 Speaker 2: Yeah, I just assume they're for you. 00:04:11 Speaker 1: Right, You don't know, you don't know, you have no idea, no idea. But yeah, you came to the Chicago show. You brought me some used food? 00:04:22 Speaker 2: I did. I brought you leftovers. Yeah, that was such a great show. The Den, the Den. 00:04:27 Speaker 1: I loved the Den. I loved the whole vibe. I wasted my time in Chicago. 00:04:32 Speaker 2: Right, you didn't do anything. 00:04:33 Speaker 1: I did nothing except for go to a bakery and then eat at small Cheval every meal? 00:04:39 Speaker 2: Is that the burger place? 00:04:41 Speaker 1: Okay, they've got like kind of a more casual version of it that was near my hotel, and it just wasn't I didn't have the energy. 00:04:47 Speaker 2: Cheval is horse right? It is? Wait? I think it? 00:04:51 Speaker 1: Wait? Is that true? Cheval means horse that's in fret, right, and the French are famous for eating horse right exactly? That's a date? Is that? 00:05:02 Speaker 2: Wow? 00:05:03 Speaker 1: That's a dangerous name for a Hamburger restaurant is. 00:05:05 Speaker 2: Oh cheval, does that mean of the horse? 00:05:08 Speaker 1: I'm googling because that to me if you're serving meat. 00:05:12 Speaker 2: How international is your crowd? 00:05:15 Speaker 1: That's a good question. I think we've got a good European audience, you do, yes, and Scandinavian we have, and then sprinkling everywhere. 00:05:25 Speaker 2: Okay, Well, I'm going to be at Edinburgh Fringe this summer. Oh We've got course out the ass. 00:05:30 Speaker 4: To perform my solo show in Scotland, and so if you're listening to this, I'll see you there and come up and I'll tell you what Bridger's like in person. 00:05:41 Speaker 2: So awful, lovely. 00:05:43 Speaker 1: Oh cheval, I mean the amount of time I'm taking. That's ian. 00:05:47 Speaker 2: Well. I took French lessons in Silver Lake at a place called Cuckoo. You did, I did? 00:05:52 Speaker 4: And then I took them on zoom during the pandemic. But mostly I just wanted to hang out with the cool French girls on zoom teaching me. 00:05:59 Speaker 1: Did you pick an up? 00:06:04 Speaker 2: No? 00:06:05 Speaker 4: In retrospect, I can't even of the horse on horseback, on horse on horseback, so it's. 00:06:12 Speaker 2: Not a safe place to eat. 00:06:14 Speaker 1: Famously, not a great have. 00:06:16 Speaker 2: You been on a horse recently. 00:06:17 Speaker 1: No, I haven't been on a horse since probably elementary school. 00:06:21 Speaker 2: Babe. 00:06:21 Speaker 4: I'm telling you, as soon as I get on a horse, I went off the horse like about every eighteen months to two years. It's like, ooh, like maybe when we're in Mexico, will do like. 00:06:32 Speaker 2: A horse ride. And then you're on the horse. 00:06:35 Speaker 4: And the flies are in your eyes and the tail is whipping you and they're shitting and the nice Mexican trow guide is talking shit about you to the other one. 00:06:48 Speaker 1: You're fully exposed to the sun. 00:06:50 Speaker 2: Oh yeah, never good for us. 00:06:52 Speaker 1: Yeah, of course the horse is a hot animal, so I can imagine that's when was the last time? Was it in Mexico? 00:06:57 Speaker 2: It was in Mexico? 00:06:59 Speaker 1: Yeah, And where did you take the horse? 00:07:02 Speaker 4: Like into the brush? I thought it was going to be on the beach, you. 00:07:05 Speaker 1: Know, at last on the beach would be. 00:07:07 Speaker 4: And it wasn't a white horse, so it wouldn't wasn't even a good photos. 00:07:12 Speaker 1: Just like like a crappy brown horse. Truly something you'd see any farm. 00:07:17 Speaker 2: Oh my god. 00:07:18 Speaker 4: So I just went on this gay cruise. I just performed on a gay cruise and sladd But the cruise was from La to pointa Arta and there were a lot of puppies on the cruise. 00:07:31 Speaker 1: Oh this is new. 00:07:33 Speaker 2: You know. They wear the puppy mask. 00:07:35 Speaker 1: Oh okay, I thought you were talking about. Actually, okay, masks and God bless everyone. 00:07:41 Speaker 2: But the God blessed with their kinks. 00:07:43 Speaker 4: But there's puppies, you know, and they're like pissing and shipping all over the cruise everywhere. Oh, schools out. Anyway, a bunch of the puppies booked a shore excursion where they went on horses in mask in their masks. There was a bunch of puppies on the horses and you know, God bless. 00:08:08 Speaker 1: The way reality is just you really. 00:08:10 Speaker 2: Can't just live whatever life you want. 00:08:13 Speaker 4: You. 00:08:13 Speaker 2: I grew up Catholic, you grew up Mormon. 00:08:14 Speaker 4: Think of all the rules, why you were supposed to behave, how everyone was supposed to think about you, how everyone was supposed to perceive your. 00:08:23 Speaker 2: Family six by six blocks you lived in. 00:08:26 Speaker 4: Completely fake puppies are on horses in Point of Iarta. There are no rules. 00:08:36 Speaker 1: Did you see any in your audience? 00:08:39 Speaker 2: You know, I try not to look my audience in the face. Just performed directly over their heads. I actually did not clock any puppies. 00:08:49 Speaker 1: Is so distracting. 00:08:50 Speaker 4: You know, the shows were somewhat late. They were at like ten and eleven per minute. Should get that the puppies were already asleep. 00:08:58 Speaker 2: They get so tired. 00:09:01 Speaker 1: Did you do any excursions while you were on the crew. 00:09:03 Speaker 4: I didn't leave the boat. I was on eight days. Did not get off the boat. 00:09:08 Speaker 2: There were four different port stops. You were in jail. 00:09:13 Speaker 4: I was committed to being on this ship. Well here's what was nice during the port moments. A lot of people get off the ship, right, so you kind of have the ship to yourself. 00:09:23 Speaker 1: It's like no parents, right, quiet right. 00:09:27 Speaker 2: All the restaurants you can eat at them. 00:09:28 Speaker 4: Whenever you wanted the gym, you know Bridger buff Then you think. 00:09:37 Speaker 2: That was the best time to go to the gym? Was time? 00:09:39 Speaker 1: Yeah, I I assume on a gay cruise the gym is just a nightmare. 00:09:43 Speaker 2: I woke up the. 00:09:44 Speaker 4: First day at seven am, being like, you know, all these party people are going to be, you know, not awake at Not true. 00:09:50 Speaker 2: It was packed. 00:09:52 Speaker 1: That should be Behalf of a gay cruise is just a gym facility. 00:09:56 Speaker 2: Right, I agree? It wasn't big enough. Wow, I'm not a cruise but you have been on one. 00:10:01 Speaker 1: I have been on one. I just like the idea of going to a port and then just like going to what is essentially like a mall and then having to get back on the boat and being like, oh, there's other stuff there that I could have seen. 00:10:13 Speaker 4: Yeah, I it just wasn't for me. I was really committed to being Oh beautiful bird just flew into this. 00:10:21 Speaker 1: Oh yoh look at it. 00:10:24 Speaker 4: Oh it'd be fun if gay guys were like, I'm a birdie, you know, and they were like little birds with their little they had their claws on, because I think the idea of being a puppy is that, like life is. 00:10:37 Speaker 2: So confusing and confounding and overwhelming, and don't you just want somebody to scratch your ears and call you a good. 00:10:46 Speaker 1: Boy, tell you what to do right, and be. 00:10:48 Speaker 4: Like get over here, a little guy, I love you, and be showered with affection. 00:10:53 Speaker 1: And so what would a birdie be? Someone just throws it? Oh yeah, throws a towel over your cage. 00:11:00 Speaker 2: Oh yeah, you calm you down. 00:11:03 Speaker 1: I don't know what else? What else do you do with a bird? I guess maybe it's like more of a like a voyeuristic thing. You have people watching you, Yeah, major binoculars. 00:11:11 Speaker 2: Oh yes, and you sort of like do your little mating. 00:11:15 Speaker 1: Ritual right to a lot of squawking, shrieking. 00:11:19 Speaker 2: Showing your what's coleoqula? What is coloqula? Isn't that like a word for a butthole? I've never heard a bird butthole. 00:11:29 Speaker 1: It's very close to Caligula. Maybe that's what I'm thinking of the Roman Emperor. 00:11:35 Speaker 2: Let's go Roman, Let's go Roman Empire, Let's go school. 00:11:39 Speaker 1: Is that true? 00:11:40 Speaker 3: Now? 00:11:40 Speaker 1: Like, is that? I'm pretty sure Caligula was kind of a. 00:11:43 Speaker 2: Decade or maybe yes he was like nero. 00:11:47 Speaker 1: Yeah, so this is where we. 00:11:48 Speaker 2: Have a mad king. Now can this podcast be political? 00:11:54 Speaker 1: Don't get me started. We should reveal now we are both Trump floaters. Yes, we're behind the payball right now. 00:12:03 Speaker 4: I just don't get I drove here. This was a jump scare on your street. Is a car with a Kamala exclamation mark bumper sticker still on it, And it's like, can can you just get a little razor blade and just scratch that thing off so that I'm not screaming inside when I see it? 00:12:25 Speaker 1: That car is really interesting because it had every bumpersticker from every Democratic candidate on it at once. Okay, that wasn't sure what the endgame was. 00:12:34 Speaker 2: That's somebody who's responding to all the texts. 00:12:38 Speaker 1: You know, rather than saying stop and report. 00:12:40 Speaker 4: Spam, stop, stop stop. I can't stop fast enough. Where they're selling my number down the. 00:12:45 Speaker 1: River, I don't know. I don't know who the first person was that I gave my number two. 00:12:51 Speaker 4: Sometimes my car will start reading one of those texts, you know, it'll be like new text from my No. 00:12:57 Speaker 2: Number, and I'll click it and it'll be like, how, well it's happened again. 00:13:03 Speaker 4: I'm Monica Lafontaine from Boise and they're coming for me. 00:13:11 Speaker 2: Thankfully. 00:13:11 Speaker 4: You can give me five dollars and I won't kill myself. 00:13:15 Speaker 1: I just like. 00:13:18 Speaker 2: Stop. 00:13:19 Speaker 1: This is essentially a ransom text. 00:13:22 Speaker 2: Well they've caught me again. I'm in the cage and they've covered it with the blanket. 00:13:28 Speaker 1: Birdie culture is not what you think it is. Oh No. The thing that I'll get on voice text occasionally is Jim and I will send back in fourth hour connections results from the New York Times game, which are like five yellow squares five and it will read one yellow square, one yellow square, one yellow square. It's like, okay, stop, it needs to be able to recognize things that don't need to be read alone. 00:13:51 Speaker 2: Yeah, it needs it needs to be better. 00:13:54 Speaker 1: We do have a two houses down I'll speak quietly, a trumper who his wife has left him heat. The police have gone into his house with their guns trained. I looked on the app and it said somebody had said that there was somebody running around. 00:14:16 Speaker 2: With are you next door? Is this the app? 00:14:19 Speaker 1: This was there's another one hmmm, some crime because I was like, what's going on? And the report was somebody had a mattress or a bed comforter over their head and was running around. So I'm not sure what is going on? And I see the guy on occasion terrifying. Yeah, so I'm like, you know, people, there are a lot of weird la murders. Oh, I'm not that far from this person. I hope he's not a listener. 00:14:45 Speaker 4: Maybe he was just trying to put his duvet cover on. We know how hard that, especially if with how small we are, we can get caught in there. 00:14:53 Speaker 1: Then you're stumbling around the house. 00:14:55 Speaker 2: Right, it's not in a handkerchief. 00:15:02 Speaker 1: Oh well, I think we should look. I've delayed long enough. We should get into something else. I didn't want to talk to you about you put on the podcast twice before, once over, Zoom, once live, so obviously the rules were a little bit blurrier than the podcast is called. I said no gifts, right, so I was a little surprised. I was genuinely looking forward to having you here today. That kind of fell apart when you came into the backyard holding but from where I'm sitting looks like a gift. 00:15:34 Speaker 4: It is, unfortunately okay. And I never show up anywhere empty handed? 00:15:39 Speaker 2: Do you ever host? And people just show up and they tacky? Don't even bring a candle, bring a box of Lacroix's sake. I mean, I know you don't drink. 00:15:50 Speaker 4: I don't drink anymore, and so I'm always bringing nay everything. 00:15:55 Speaker 1: This is how I am, you know, juice, some sort of thing that I can hold in my hand and carry around the party. 00:16:01 Speaker 2: A diffuser that I don't want. 00:16:03 Speaker 1: That's a good idea. 00:16:05 Speaker 2: Oh I got a closet full of crap and bags. Do you save bags? 00:16:11 Speaker 1: Is that bags? 00:16:12 Speaker 4: Like? 00:16:12 Speaker 2: I am as opposed to one like if I get it. 00:16:15 Speaker 4: If I buy something and I'm like, oh, I might need to give a gift later, I'll save them. 00:16:19 Speaker 2: I'm in a Madewell bag right now. 00:16:20 Speaker 1: Yes, I save so many bags, especially because of this podcast. 00:16:26 Speaker 2: Okay, so I have too some things for you. You'll want to get the box first. Pulling a box out, I thought about you immediately. This is so me. 00:16:39 Speaker 1: Yes, it's the Joker, and let's be very clear, the Heath Ledger Joker of course, Bobblehead, Bobblehead. 00:16:48 Speaker 2: I think you know. 00:16:49 Speaker 4: I went out of the closet okay, like I do the one on West Hollywood because there's the weirdest crap there. Oh and I bought this months ago and it's just been in my car and I knew at one point I would need it if I got accident, and they were like, he's dead. And also there's a Joker bobblehead in his trunk. 00:17:12 Speaker 1: Is I guess the brand is head Knockers. I've never heard of this head Knockers. 00:17:17 Speaker 4: Knockers, and it's two things men love head and knockers. 00:17:24 Speaker 1: So this is a very calculated name. 00:17:26 Speaker 2: This is I wonder if it looks guy stunning. 00:17:29 Speaker 1: I mean, it says it's hand painted, so obviously it'll be going on a mantle or something. 00:17:32 Speaker 2: This thing has got to be. How old do you think this is? That was two thousand and seven. 00:17:37 Speaker 1: That was two thousand, Yeah, I think seven or eight? No, yeah, two thousand and eight, right, and this probably came around the same time. 00:17:46 Speaker 2: Hm. 00:17:47 Speaker 1: Although he's you know, been, he's kind of an evergreen joker at this point for lunatics. 00:17:53 Speaker 2: I actually I never saw the new. 00:17:55 Speaker 1: Jokers, all the new ones. Yeah, wow, this is brand new. 00:18:00 Speaker 2: This is wow, this is mint. 00:18:03 Speaker 1: Oh, it looks like it has a neck brace on or it looks like a gorgeous little stole listener. It's uh currently has some styrofoam hanging around its neck, which actually makes perfect sense for this product. Let me look at that. It's kind of beautifully made. That's what this is like. 00:18:21 Speaker 4: Actually sort of your vibe right now, It's like, I cannot believe that this is my career. 00:18:31 Speaker 1: Look at this. It's standing on a little, uh playing card. Look at that? Did you? I'd like to know what your experience was seeing this movie. 00:18:43 Speaker 4: I think I loved it. I'm I'm sure I loved it. I'm sure I actually like those, Chris Nolan ones. 00:18:52 Speaker 1: I liked the first one. I haven't seen it in years, of course not. I liked this second one up until there's like a final third of the movie where it's like, oh, I saw the movie was going to be over like forty five. 00:19:01 Speaker 2: Minutes ago, and they kill Maggie Jillen Hall. 00:19:03 Speaker 1: Yeah, once Maggie's off screen, I agree. 00:19:06 Speaker 2: Well. 00:19:06 Speaker 4: Also in the first one, it's Katie Holmes and they do that thing where they're like, and here she is, the same girl. It's good to see you, Bruce, who I've known forever, and you collectively as an audience member, if you're watching them back to back to back, have to be like, that's the same girl, different actress, same girl. 00:19:27 Speaker 1: She's been through a lot. Yes, it's I mean like kind of an aunt viv on fresh Prince right. They kind of knew it a new woman, Thank you, new aunt? 00:19:39 Speaker 2: What new aunt? 00:19:40 Speaker 4: Why aren't we pitching that's a great new aunt? 00:19:45 Speaker 1: Oh where did this aunt come from? We thought we knew all of our aunts. Or maybe it's k n e w aunt. We thought we knew aunt. 00:19:59 Speaker 2: You knew an aunt? 00:20:01 Speaker 4: With it just a you coming to upn you knew aunt, You new aunt? 00:20:09 Speaker 1: That's classic. You did you grow up saying aunt oront aunt? 00:20:12 Speaker 2: I did? 00:20:13 Speaker 1: Yeah, I said aunt too, And I feel so trashy when I say aunt. 00:20:16 Speaker 4: Now my uncles all sound like that SNL Chris Farley, like de bears, oh s, Brendan, How is La? How is it out there? A bunch of freaks and weirdos? And when I first moved there, I'd be like, actually, everyone's really nice. And now I'm like, ah, everyone's crazy, a bunch of puppies. 00:20:37 Speaker 1: Freak. Yeah. More and more I'm like, well, actually, I think I've isolated myself within my friend group at this point, which is probably bad for my career. But I'm meeting less and less psychos more observing them online and hating them and being jealous of their career. 00:20:53 Speaker 4: Oh sure, Oh you know what happens when I experienced jealousy, Well, I just even dear friends of mine, I just mute their stories because it activates ugly feelings. Bless you, You've been muted for years. 00:21:12 Speaker 2: Why don you think I'm never responding? 00:21:15 Speaker 1: Yeah, I just I do a lot of muting stories, yes, but only I'm happy for real friends' success. I genuinely am I'm there's jealousy, of course, but I generally won't mute those people. But if they're one degree off of being a real friend, whoop, you're gone from my life. 00:21:34 Speaker 2: That makes sense to me. 00:21:35 Speaker 4: And it's really just it's an act of self care, true, and trying to protect my relationship and friendship with that person and my protect my happiness for them, right, and not be beset by ugly. 00:21:48 Speaker 1: Feelings and a little revenge. Oh sure, like I want them to notice I've stopped. 00:21:56 Speaker 4: I can't see you ever acting on revenge as a revengeful feeling. 00:22:02 Speaker 2: I some people are just not revengeful. 00:22:05 Speaker 1: I don't even know what revenge would look like. 00:22:07 Speaker 2: I think your testoster it's too low. 00:22:12 Speaker 1: So my doctor tells me you can't get away with revenge. 00:22:16 Speaker 2: Yeah, oh god, don't even try. Now that I was just on the cruise. All my ads are for the cruise. 00:22:25 Speaker 4: Oh good prep medication sure, and like testosterone replacement. 00:22:31 Speaker 2: Oh interesting, these bro podcasters are on. 00:22:35 Speaker 1: And doesn't that What does that actually do? It just turns you into a rageful psycho. 00:22:40 Speaker 2: Yeah. 00:22:40 Speaker 4: I think like these like halbermen like Maximize your Potential men are secretly all just like ripping tea. 00:22:49 Speaker 1: I'm sure they are right, and they're all they're all truly like a year away from killing a woman in their life. Sure, Like these people are so dangerous and they're only like just their initial mindset is bad, and then they're bringing in extra testosterone, which is just mutating them. Like the murders are gonna start happening more and more. I think, yes, sorry, you heard it here first. 00:23:16 Speaker 2: I'm sorry. 00:23:17 Speaker 1: It's probably true. 00:23:19 Speaker 2: It's probably the murder rate America is actually down. I think that's true. 00:23:22 Speaker 1: Crime rate is down, and this is we're getting because we voted for Donald Trump. 00:23:25 Speaker 2: Right. Oh, look at that beautiful bug. I've never seen something like that. But that was like a creamsickle bee like with orange. 00:23:33 Speaker 1: I've literally never seen a bug like that. 00:23:35 Speaker 2: Was a bee with no stripes. 00:23:36 Speaker 1: I thought I had seen every type of bug, and now you got ripes. 00:23:40 Speaker 2: That'd be a great character for you to play in a sketch show. 00:23:44 Speaker 1: It just looks like a worm be without its stripes. Would be a nice little children's book. Maybe we co write maybe maybe I think that that's another strip's gone. Oh that's a good one, and it's sort of. 00:24:00 Speaker 2: It is ultimately about being gay. 00:24:04 Speaker 1: Yes, yes, that's every children's novel or children's book ends up being Well, it's just because the character was a gay. Great, it's interesting it. 00:24:12 Speaker 2: Has children's books. Is that at market you're interested in entering? 00:24:15 Speaker 1: No, but I feel like that's something that somebody, if they just want some extra money can It. 00:24:20 Speaker 2: Can't be very much. 00:24:22 Speaker 1: I think if it hits rain, you're really like it's going crazy. 00:24:26 Speaker 2: It seems like such a flooded market. 00:24:28 Speaker 1: Yeah, I think it's like buying a lottery ticket. Basically, ray you think of like a catchy title with a name in it, Wendy the Witch, or Stripe with no stripes. You find a decent illustrator, and then you write fourteen sentences and I'm not I know. There are a lot of great, great children's books. There really are. 00:24:46 Speaker 2: Of course they're not easy. The Polar Express. 00:24:49 Speaker 1: The Polar Express one of my favorite films as well. 00:24:53 Speaker 2: That's a spooky one. 00:24:54 Speaker 1: That is a spooky one. 00:24:55 Speaker 2: My favorite TikTok almost of all time, is about Bull Express. 00:25:00 Speaker 1: What is it? 00:25:01 Speaker 2: I can't describe it. 00:25:02 Speaker 1: I'll go ahead and tell us about a TikTok followed up with a dream you had recap. 00:25:08 Speaker 2: She just said, if the Polar Express was actually good. 00:25:13 Speaker 4: And it's just Cral singing like prison book, I just have to send it to you. 00:25:23 Speaker 2: She's like singing creed. 00:25:28 Speaker 4: Yeah, are you still on TikTok? 00:25:32 Speaker 1: I post clips of the podcast, just how the audience is. I think people are leaving TikTok. 00:25:40 Speaker 2: I think so too. But it's also truly. 00:25:43 Speaker 1: I think it's the worst app like because it will find a keyword in the audio you upload that will not be offensive, but it will find offensive and it will say, well, I'm not showing that zero views shut. It's really like. I uploaded a video from the podcast of Elena Johnston talking about how after she saw Casper the Friendly Ghost as a kid and seeing the kissing scene, she wanted she had seen as enough that she could kill herself. Very innocent joke. 00:26:12 Speaker 4: Oh yeah, you can't say who cannot say KMS. 00:26:15 Speaker 1: Well, she didn't even say kill herself. She's just like basically indicated that she would end her life. Right. 00:26:21 Speaker 2: That app is so good bye. 00:26:22 Speaker 1: Bye go bye bye. Oh. And the way it's like change the way people talk. I'm aliving. 00:26:27 Speaker 2: All this is so early. 00:26:28 Speaker 1: Yes, yeah, you're so on you're doing a good job on ty. 00:26:32 Speaker 2: I'm having I'm like, now is my moment. All the creators have left. 00:26:38 Speaker 4: It's completely demonetized, like there's no way to make money on it off it anymore. And I met with some agent at before this agency dropped me and he was like, you have to be making video content, and so now I am. 00:26:58 Speaker 2: And then I was dropped. 00:27:02 Speaker 4: As soon as I started this age. Yeah, we're seeing the content and it's just not working. 00:27:13 Speaker 1: You actually are doing what I see TikTok when it allows me to see one of your things. However, it decides that it's always so good, Oh thank you, it's always. But I think I'm in the same boat as you of like joining any of these services, I'm always too late, right because I think what happens is annoying people join first, annoying ambitious people, and so i'm it's off putting, and then I wait too long because normal people start getting on. But I'm so irritated so long that I wait long enough for it to then be worths me. 00:27:45 Speaker 2: I feel like we just got to be on the lookout for the next one. What is the next one? What could it possibly offer? 00:27:50 Speaker 4: There has to be one out there, and once it's out there, we're gonna attack. 00:27:56 Speaker 1: We're gonna go full throttle, and then it'll be a flop one. 00:27:59 Speaker 2: Right. 00:28:00 Speaker 4: Well, this is a big part of my I'm now been like sober for a year and a half and a big part of my like going to rehab and embracing something you've just done casually your whole life is just being like, I'm not taking anything on, I am not taking anything personally. I'm just going to continually to show up and be like I'm still here. 00:28:28 Speaker 1: That's great, that's wonderful. 00:28:31 Speaker 2: It's feeling you know, That's how I'm here right now. 00:28:35 Speaker 4: You and Bridger, I'm doing a solo show at Hollywood Fringe and Edinburgh Fringe, and your audience are people who I feel like, if they're listening to you regularly, they must be cool and I want to communicate with them and I want them to see the piece that. 00:28:54 Speaker 2: I'm working on. 00:28:55 Speaker 1: What is it that you're working on? Oh, here we get into let's get into. 00:28:59 Speaker 2: The other thing that I brought you. I brought you merch. 00:29:03 Speaker 1: Oh my god, this is your own myth merch, my owniness, tasteful merch. 00:29:07 Speaker 2: Thank you, my boyfriend makes merch for a living. 00:29:09 Speaker 1: It's called It's a hat that says the abyss on it. 00:29:12 Speaker 2: And it perfectly sized, actually works really well. This was like a bodcast pressed people. 00:29:21 Speaker 1: We look like two ginger moms supporting our sons. 00:29:27 Speaker 4: I am so basically, my brother's schizophrenic and by or bipolar and suffers from schizophrenia. And he occasionally because just completely wild's out, okay, like, travels from this whatever city he's living in, whether he's housed or on house, to a different place. 00:29:48 Speaker 2: You know, he's been to Alaska, New York. He's like a he's like a retiree. 00:29:53 Speaker 4: Sure, he's been to southern California, San Francisco, Portland, Seattle, Chicago, Cleveland. And because he's white, he can often find ways to access credit, and he can access credit. 00:30:09 Speaker 2: And all of a suddenly he'll have a Mini Cooper, right, traveling the country and the mini Cooper. So the show that I. 00:30:18 Speaker 4: Finally wrote and am working on is about my family's many attempts to sort of recover him and medicate or corral him back into some sort of. 00:30:35 Speaker 1: Care right, some sort of safe environment, right. 00:30:38 Speaker 4: And so, and I've been doing stand up for like twelve years, and all of a sudden, I started like trying to talk about him in my stand up and it wasn't serving the material because it was like only trying to make it. 00:30:54 Speaker 1: Funny, right, you need context, and it. 00:30:56 Speaker 2: Wasn't serving the audience. 00:30:58 Speaker 4: Like I'd be doing like long forty five minute sets and I'd be like, Okay, so for the last ten minutes, I'm just going to like drop this traumatic thing that's happening in my life on you, and people would be like, yeah, like thanks for sharing that, but like not what I was looking for. So what I finally tried to do is like write something that blends theater and my stand up into this story that's about my family and my brother and our us collect our collective mania around his mania. 00:31:29 Speaker 2: Right. 00:31:30 Speaker 1: Wow, that sounds incredible, It sounds very ambitious. 00:31:33 Speaker 4: Actually, it's it's something that I feel very nervous about, right, So that's what I feel called to speak on that, And so that's why I'm trying to do these festivals to sort of get it into shape, to some get it into a place where I can feel proud. 00:31:55 Speaker 2: Of what it is. 00:31:56 Speaker 1: Right, And how have you been shaping? Have you just been doing shows around LA with it. 00:32:02 Speaker 2: I have you? 00:32:06 Speaker 1: Have you shown it publicly yet? No? 00:32:07 Speaker 2: This will be a world premiere. 00:32:09 Speaker 4: Okay, I've done pieces of it around town, and I've done like I've done my hour, my stand up Hour, which at times includes parts of this in LA and New York, San Francisco, the Gay Spot Chicago, and so a lot of some of the material has been like changed and shifted into this theater piece, right, but other other than that. Now it's a world premiere in June. 00:32:39 Speaker 1: Well, that's amazing. And how many siblings do you have? 00:32:42 Speaker 2: I have four? How many do you have? I have three? Okay, well you've got a big time. 00:32:46 Speaker 1: That's small for more of man, it's standard, that's bare minimum. Four is if you have less than four children, people are like something's happening. 00:32:56 Speaker 4: In like infertility issues or they have an alternative fertility issues or alternative swinger. 00:33:06 Speaker 1: They're like, truly, if somebody has less than at least when I was growing up in the culture, then I think it may have shifted a little bit, but it was like, if you have less than four children, it's just like not a typical family. 00:33:17 Speaker 2: How many siblings do your parents have? 00:33:19 Speaker 1: My mom has three? So she has four in her family, and then my dad had six. He had seven kids in his family. 00:33:27 Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, my mom is one of ten, am I dad is one of six. 00:33:30 Speaker 1: Okay, this is Catholic. 00:33:32 Speaker 2: Catholic. 00:33:33 Speaker 1: I mean as much does Mormons get for having huge families. 00:33:37 Speaker 2: Catholics, especially Irish Catholics. 00:33:40 Speaker 1: Yeah, because contraceptions. 00:33:41 Speaker 2: Really, I think it was really frowned upon. 00:33:44 Speaker 4: Yeah, but this pope seems somewhat chill on all. 00:33:48 Speaker 2: Oh, you're biased, right, Well, he's from course still pope. 00:33:53 Speaker 4: One thing is knowing that my grandmother who ultimately like shifted towards Trump late in her life in a way that was really upsetting who I grew up in Chicago, her whole life would be so upset at this Chicago popes. Oh, it's like a complicated sign that whatever path she was on air towards the end was like. 00:34:21 Speaker 2: Would not wouldn't have wasn't serving her right now. 00:34:26 Speaker 1: This is I think for so many religious people, like Mormons really kind of showed their ass in twenty sixteen when it was like they were not going to vote for Trump. Yeah, he was so against everything Mormon stood for, and then they all voted for him and it's just like this tension and this weird hypocrisy that really showed itself, especially among older religious people. Sure, just like I don't know, I no longer know who to follow my religious leader, who I've sworn my life to, or wild Rose Beauty or I've purchased from wild Rose Media too. 00:34:58 Speaker 2: I bought a dress, Oh yes, I do remember that. 00:35:01 Speaker 1: I own address from her, and Matt Rogers brought me one of her products. 00:35:06 Speaker 2: I brought some skin care for a friend as a gift. 00:35:08 Speaker 1: And did they use it? 00:35:10 Speaker 2: I hope. 00:35:10 Speaker 4: So I feel like most skincare is sort of like all the same, right, It's the. 00:35:16 Speaker 1: Same basic ingredients that does nothing right. 00:35:19 Speaker 2: Right. 00:35:20 Speaker 1: I mean I I with Whitney Rose, I would be a little. 00:35:22 Speaker 2: Bit more afraid. 00:35:24 Speaker 1: So I feel like she's willing to do whatever it takes to get. 00:35:28 Speaker 2: A buck, right. Well, yes, and which I wish I was more like that. I had toom mentality. 00:35:38 Speaker 1: This is something that I think most of us in comedy at this point, who have kind of like controlled ourselves and planted to be polite and then ultimately plateaued, have looked at psychos who have shot off into the atmosphere and been like now I'm like, well, I could at least follow up on an email. 00:35:57 Speaker 2: Right, I wouldn't do Oh no, this is in my sobriety. I'm bothering people. 00:36:03 Speaker 1: Yes, you have to see. 00:36:04 Speaker 4: I feel like, even though you never drank, you should just do three months in rehab to be like, my mentality is all wrong. I need the like I need to be set free, Like I feel so like set free of alcohol that I that you need that for something. 00:36:23 Speaker 2: You got to go to esselon. 00:36:24 Speaker 4: Or that's not a bad idea, and you don't go do ayahuasca. I feel like a lot of psychopaths are like I went and did ayahuasca, and what I learned is that I am the center of the universe. 00:36:34 Speaker 1: I'm the only thing that matters to anyone exactly. 00:36:37 Speaker 2: I learned that everyone else is a simulation. 00:36:39 Speaker 4: And I'm in the Truman Show and you're like, okay and that, and you are behaving that way. 00:36:46 Speaker 1: And they were probably behaving that way a little bit before anyway, right, Yeah, they didn't need to go ahead. 00:36:51 Speaker 4: Right, I experienced ego death, but by being a huge crazy person. 00:36:58 Speaker 1: No, I do just literally, in the last probably six to nine months have been like push a little bit. Yes, you should maybe stand up for yourself on occasion you got. 00:37:11 Speaker 2: To join like a writer's group or an actor's group. 00:37:15 Speaker 1: That's not a bad idea. 00:37:16 Speaker 2: Get on a zoom and everyone's just hanging so my manager spin at my mouth. They are getting me out. So does it feel like I should shove a banana in my own ass? And everyone's like, are they signing people? I've just got drop. 00:37:40 Speaker 1: That's I mean, that's basically what we're living in right now. That's essentially what we're living in outside of like fourteen people who don't have to deal with it. Oh yes, who built their their boats and have sailed away watching the rest of us drown. Oh god, no, I. 00:37:57 Speaker 2: Don't think I'm drowning. 00:37:58 Speaker 4: I feel like my boat like hit in a toll and I'm like, I mean my castaway moment where I'm like, all. 00:38:05 Speaker 2: I gotta do is stay alive. 00:38:07 Speaker 4: You know where he goes to the top and you learn afterwards he's like tried to throw a body, but he couldn't kill himself the way he wanted to. 00:38:14 Speaker 1: I don't remember that part. I only saw him once and it was right as I was getting strep throat. 00:38:20 Speaker 2: Oh so you were also experiencing. 00:38:23 Speaker 1: I remember that movie was a physical experience for me because I was strep throat was gearing up to make me sick. I remember being like, oh, this feels bad to watch. 00:38:33 Speaker 4: Well, I haven't seen it in years, but I feel like that's kind of where I am now. 00:38:38 Speaker 2: Okay, and the plane, the ship, it's gonna. 00:38:41 Speaker 1: Come, It's going to come. 00:38:43 Speaker 4: I gotta I'm just building the raft one podcast appearance. 00:38:47 Speaker 2: At the time. 00:38:49 Speaker 4: Yeah, I feel like I'm a little Batreon podcast experience that I just did. 00:38:53 Speaker 1: Jenny yangs oh, I love too. 00:38:56 Speaker 2: I feel like she lives like down the pretty close. 00:38:59 Speaker 1: And who cares where I saw? I saw She's so lovely. Well, I saw it Zach and Way Towers, uh special special release. 00:39:08 Speaker 2: Nice, she's lovely. I'm going to see Zach tonight. I'm doing his show, The Best Story, one of the best. 00:39:14 Speaker 1: Yeah, but yeah, this is I guess what we're all kind of going through. I feel like I'm on essentially a raft and so I haven't drowned, and I have the ability to move, and You're beloved and I'm ultimately beloved. 00:39:30 Speaker 2: That is simply not true. 00:39:32 Speaker 1: I think I've really hated are you. I don't know. I'm like, am I secretly hated? 00:39:37 Speaker 2: I don't think so. 00:39:38 Speaker 4: I would tell you if I had heard some well, I've actually never heard anyone. 00:39:42 Speaker 2: Speak ill of you. That might just be because. 00:39:44 Speaker 4: You're not part of the conversation. I would if you're not being hated, you're not part of the conversation. 00:39:53 Speaker 2: I just learned that nobody. 00:39:56 Speaker 1: I try to be nice to everybody, right, I try to be nice and just stay in my own lane. But maybe that's a bad idea. 00:40:05 Speaker 2: I can't. I don't know. 00:40:08 Speaker 4: I feel like sometimes in my when things are going well for me, that's when I would get a little like persnickety about things and like start having standards. Oh sure, And now that that's not happened, Like you know, I'm just a little pup. 00:40:27 Speaker 2: I just try and just want to be told I'm doing a good job. You are doing a good junk you. Thank you. We're both in relationships. 00:40:35 Speaker 1: We're both in relationships. 00:40:37 Speaker 2: A lot of gay guys can't hold down a man. 00:40:39 Speaker 1: That's very true. 00:40:40 Speaker 2: I hear that all the time. 00:40:42 Speaker 4: There's no good single men, And I'm like, maybe the problem is you. 00:40:46 Speaker 1: Maybe you haven't lowered your standards enough. 00:40:48 Speaker 2: Exactly. No, Well you got snatched up. 00:40:52 Speaker 1: I have a wonderful person in my life, and I feel very lucky. 00:40:55 Speaker 2: Good, and you have a wonderful person I do. I have a merch maker. 00:40:58 Speaker 1: You've got a merch maker and maker. Merchant maker, make merch. 00:41:05 Speaker 2: Make me a hat or a tote? How does he make it? He's not like a sweatshop. He's at an email. He's sending emails. 00:41:18 Speaker 1: Okay, but he knows the different manufacturers, etcetera. That's to design. This is a hat. 00:41:27 Speaker 2: I'm wearing a hat. 00:41:27 Speaker 4: This was written, this text font was created and drawn by my other brother. 00:41:35 Speaker 2: Oh, my brother Kevin, who's an artist. Okay, so he's an artist. Kevin's an artist. Kevin's an artist. 00:41:42 Speaker 4: Brendan's a gay guy professionally. And so my my brother made this. And then Joe, my partner, you know, knows a hat guy. 00:41:54 Speaker 2: Right right, Well, it worked out. It's all working out. I got to make some merch for your pie. Is it all boys and your fan? Two girls? Oh? Two girls, two older sisters. 00:42:03 Speaker 1: Okay, what about you. 00:42:05 Speaker 2: I've got a younger sister and two older brothers, two older brothers. 00:42:09 Speaker 4: Right, Oh, I never had an older brother. 00:42:12 Speaker 2: Oh, where are you in those middle middle? 00:42:15 Speaker 1: So three of five you have three two under you? 00:42:20 Speaker 2: Yes, two under two older? Okay? Wow? Yeah, who's the baby Kevin? Who did that? 00:42:26 Speaker 1: Are? 00:42:26 Speaker 2: Okay? Well? 00:42:27 Speaker 1: And as far as it's like two years between. 00:42:30 Speaker 2: Each, like three three two or three? Interesting? 00:42:34 Speaker 1: So there's a pretty big age gap between the oldest and youngest. 00:42:36 Speaker 2: Yeah, maybe like twelve years or something like that. 00:42:41 Speaker 4: I can't I can't do the math right now. I don't want to say how old my oldest sister is. 00:42:46 Speaker 1: You don't want to ruin her right career because I'm twelve star, how are your career? 00:42:53 Speaker 2: Because a twenty eight year old I do feel like I'm cresting. 00:42:56 Speaker 1: But you still have two years to get thirty under thirty right, and you are putting in work. 00:43:00 Speaker 2: Oh, I'm a founder. 00:43:04 Speaker 1: Who picks the thirty under thirty? Who what pervert? It's ultimately a pervert, Yes, who's got their eye on young people? 00:43:11 Speaker 2: I agree a some other thirty year old thirty one year old who's been thirty for like fifty years? Is that Forbes? 00:43:20 Speaker 1: I think it is Forbes, And we don't think anyone trusts Forbes anymore. I think Forbes is just something you can like sign up like Facebook and write an article. 00:43:27 Speaker 4: Right, Yeah, I haven't been on a list in years. 00:43:31 Speaker 2: I should make a list, Bridgers list. 00:43:33 Speaker 1: What's stopping me? People love to be on a list. Once someone's on a list, they start promoting the list, and it gives it, it makes it valid, and then everyone else wants to be on the list. 00:43:42 Speaker 4: And then all of a sudden you have an event. Yeah, and it's like sponsored by am way Away Presents Bridgers List, and it's called the B List. 00:43:57 Speaker 1: Well, we should do a list. We should do that B list, B list everyone wants. We should want people to be on the B list. 00:44:05 Speaker 4: People, I guess people do want to be It's the same thing with like the queer teas. These are quarterly right, Like how are there so many queer tea ceremonies that I'm never invited to? And there's always photos and there's always like best You've probably never been nominated. 00:44:22 Speaker 1: For, not nominated, not invited to. I'm not as far as i'm as I know, I'm not part of the gay community, right, I don't think that I'm allowed. They've built a wall up and I'm not allowed in the gay community. 00:44:34 Speaker 4: Well, I get that there's only one spot for one gay ginger is you took it a long time? There's this other gay redhead Dan, who's lovely. Okay, but we text each other when we get appointments. Oh sure, sure, are you going out for this? 00:44:52 Speaker 1: Are you doing somebody wants a ginger right? 00:44:54 Speaker 2: Are you doing the Scandinavian accent? 00:44:56 Speaker 1: Oh? God, the scandal? Oh Norwegian? 00:45:02 Speaker 2: Norwegian? Did you do that? Yes? 00:45:06 Speaker 4: That? 00:45:06 Speaker 1: I have to destroy that footage I sent it along. I can't sing Happy Birthday. 00:45:12 Speaker 2: I had to sing. I forgot to sing. 00:45:14 Speaker 1: I had to sing. 00:45:16 Speaker 2: Well, maybe you got to the second round. They didn't ask me to sing. I cannot sing. 00:45:22 Speaker 1: It was horrible. 00:45:23 Speaker 2: You can't you just match maker match No. 00:45:25 Speaker 1: I truly can't keep pitch like. I can't carry a tune. 00:45:29 Speaker 2: Wow, and your partner is a musical. 00:45:32 Speaker 1: It's horrible. It's almost abusive because when I try singing, he makes fun of me. Oh god, he could. He should teach me how to sing. 00:45:39 Speaker 4: Teach me how to sing. We're just giving you other podcast ideas. 00:45:44 Speaker 1: I think we should have a podcast called the bat List. 00:45:46 Speaker 2: I agree everybody wants to be on the list, or we should. 00:45:51 Speaker 1: At least have an annual thing wherever whoever made the B list? 00:45:54 Speaker 2: That would be fun. 00:45:55 Speaker 4: Okay, So here's how I do feel like if it was a recurring thing, we could be. 00:45:58 Speaker 2: Like Today's so of the B list is like fast casual? Who made the interesting? 00:46:09 Speaker 4: It would be like, you know, Chili's made the B List, but Friday has dropped. 00:46:17 Speaker 1: They've made it to the D list. Wow, this is interesting. 00:46:22 Speaker 4: But we can also do people you know that would just potentially be hurting our career. 00:46:27 Speaker 1: Yeah, I know this is the thing, but I'm kind of ready to ready to just torpedo self sabotage in a huge way. I'm ready to name it. I'm so tired of protecting everyone. 00:46:39 Speaker 4: I do feel like people are craving that sort of authenticity. 00:46:42 Speaker 2: Yeah, it's just who do you hate? Or I mean you've seen Network, right? 00:46:47 Speaker 1: Oh yeah, of course right? And that is how this Maybe I should have a Network moment where I just started namingk comedians I don't like. 00:46:55 Speaker 4: Yeah, well, I have such a lovely view of Eagle Rock or wherever you live right now. 00:47:00 Speaker 1: And we got to play a game, play a game, we got into some dangerous territory. 00:47:09 Speaker 4: Okay, so just FYI listener, we just cut about six minutes of Bridger and I talking shit. And if you want to hear that unfiltered, you got to come to some of the live shows because that live stuff is where that shit talking happens, and then it gets cut in post. 00:47:28 Speaker 1: So you don't want any of that now, Okay, Connor, cut it all, listener. We had to cut a lot because we said a lot of I will say horrible people's names and some nice people's names. 00:47:40 Speaker 4: Well, at a certain point, I was trying to guess who Bridger thinks it is horrible, and I said some nice people's names who I don't think are horrible, but I think it could be reflected that, like, somewhere deep in my. 00:47:51 Speaker 2: Brain, I think you thought they were good. 00:47:53 Speaker 1: Right, that's true, But really I'm. 00:47:55 Speaker 2: Just trying to get to know you better. 00:47:58 Speaker 1: What you're trying to do is talk shit. 00:48:00 Speaker 2: You know. 00:48:00 Speaker 4: We the first time we ever met, I think we got like set up on a friend date. Somebody was like, you two should know each other, and we went to Lakhma. 00:48:08 Speaker 2: Oh my god. 00:48:08 Speaker 1: Of course it was so nice, pre pandemic. 00:48:10 Speaker 2: Pre them tearing down all that we should go to New Life, Ah, the new it looks incredible. 00:48:15 Speaker 1: Let's go, let's do it. Let's go see some art. 00:48:16 Speaker 2: I hear it's fabulous. 00:48:18 Speaker 1: Well, promote your show one more time before we play the game. 00:48:20 Speaker 4: My show, Brendan's Canal the Abyss, exploring a sinking feeling is at Hollywood Fringe in La at the Broadwater in June. A bunch of weird dates come to that. It's fifty five minutes, such a gas. It's over before it starts. And then for all your international listeners Edinburgh, I met the Gilded Balloon. 00:48:43 Speaker 3: Oh. 00:48:43 Speaker 1: I like the sound of that at. 00:48:45 Speaker 4: Nine to twenty pm every single day for the Longust, twenty six shows in a row. 00:48:52 Speaker 1: That is incredible. 00:48:53 Speaker 4: Yeah, and then also be at Monkey Barrel doing improv afternoon. 00:48:57 Speaker 2: And you're on Instagram. 00:48:59 Speaker 1: You're on TikTok Instagram. 00:49:00 Speaker 2: I'm on TikTok. I'm on threads. Oh are you threading? No? 00:49:04 Speaker 1: I'm constantly saying. It's saying, here's a thread you might like. I look at it. Of course it's not a thread. I like. I've never had a thread that I was interested in. 00:49:11 Speaker 2: You gotta get on threads. 00:49:12 Speaker 1: No, thank you, I'm not doing this anymore. 00:49:15 Speaker 2: I feel like I'm doing a consultation with you. 00:49:18 Speaker 1: I've bled enough. 00:49:19 Speaker 4: I'm an insane woman, actress, acting teacher in LA and I'm just like, what if you were Latina? 00:49:27 Speaker 1: It's just wrowing everyone. 00:49:29 Speaker 2: You're Latina. Diversity is huge right now, Bridge air Winnegar. 00:49:39 Speaker 1: All right, this is how we play. We're playing a game called Gift a Curse. As soon as the garbage truck leaves, it is garbage day, and we love the sound of trash being taken. Mm, they're moving on. 00:49:51 Speaker 2: If trash is being taken, it means it's no longer near me. 00:49:55 Speaker 1: Yeah, it's no longer near me. 00:49:57 Speaker 4: Do you ever hear the trash and you realize you didn't put the trash out? 00:50:02 Speaker 1: Horrible fit And you're running there and you're waving down and you're rolling it, and it's it moves slow enough that you think you can catch it, but it's freaking usually fast enough that you can't. 00:50:15 Speaker 2: No, and they don't stop. 00:50:17 Speaker 1: They don't know, they don't They shouldn't. Good for them. 00:50:19 Speaker 2: No, they've got places to be. 00:50:22 Speaker 1: Okay, we're going to play Gift or a Curse. I'm going to name three things you'll tell me if they're a gift or a curse? And why then I'll tell you if you're right or wrong. Okay, correct answers? 00:50:31 Speaker 2: All right? 00:50:31 Speaker 1: This first one is from a listener named Antonia. Gift or a curse. Cadberry cream eggs, Oh, curse? Why curse? 00:50:42 Speaker 4: I just feel like that's like an Easter candy that's year round. So I'm like, there, this is for Easter. However, you're selling them a round, so a lot of them are stale and weird, right, because they make them all for Easter, right, all of a sudden, it's no and you're eating a Cadberry egg and you're like, this, this is past its date, right, And now that you're saying that, let me just check what I think. 00:51:12 Speaker 1: Aberry a Cadberry cream egg is, because I know they're two different. Okay, yes, this is what I was thinking it is. 00:51:19 Speaker 2: Yeah, this is like. 00:51:20 Speaker 4: One of those British chocolates that like British people are like, oh, I. 00:51:23 Speaker 2: Love that, and then you have a bite of it and it crumbles all over you. But you're saying curse. I think curse. Correct? Thank god? 00:51:32 Speaker 1: Oh this is I like the mini eggs. Of course, everyone loves the mini egg Oh, I love a mini egg Cadberry, although Cadberry has recently I think changed the recipe, which is shameful. I think so too, because it was a perfect candy that was a nice little treat around springtime. The Cadberry cream egg is disgusting. It's designed to look and feel like an egg in your mouth. 00:51:57 Speaker 2: Regular eggs. 00:51:58 Speaker 1: Yeah, the regular egg is kind of like you have to really kind of prepare yourself mentally to eat an egg. 00:52:04 Speaker 2: Oh, a runny egg. I mean love. 00:52:06 Speaker 1: I will love them when I'm eating them, but I can't you can't think ten seconds about what you're doing. 00:52:11 Speaker 4: No, that I'm eating like an egg that popped out of a chicken and she was in And even if you bought the free range ones, they weren't really allowed to roam. 00:52:22 Speaker 1: There is a lot of scandal around, like. 00:52:24 Speaker 2: In like Auschwitz for these fucking chickens. Yeah, and everyone was free range and out farm. 00:52:35 Speaker 1: The farmer had to run and catch it on a beautiful green hill. No, it was in a dirty, filthy patch. No, but a Cadbury cream egg. No one likes them. No, there's simply I understand the novelty of a food looking like another food. It also is kind of like the patient zero for food looking like other food. You know, this is how we got is it cake? Basically? 00:52:56 Speaker 2: God, that's tracking that line. 00:52:59 Speaker 1: Yeah, all the way back. And you've got a chocolate egg that looks like an egg and has a yolk in the middle. Yeah, disgusting. 00:53:07 Speaker 2: That's a curse. 00:53:08 Speaker 1: Okay, so we've gotten one right so far. This second one is from a listener named Sarah. Gift or a curse the word yummy. 00:53:22 Speaker 4: I think gift why mmm, yummy, yummy. I think you can use it in a lot of ways, like picture this, you've just eaten the guy's come. 00:53:36 Speaker 2: Yummy. 00:53:37 Speaker 4: But but also somebody walks out in a great outfit yummy yummy. 00:53:44 Speaker 2: Uh, somebody has just baked cooked for you. Oh yummy. This is this is an acting exercise, yummy m oh. 00:53:55 Speaker 4: Or like it's they've tried something new but you haven't tried it yet. 00:53:59 Speaker 2: But it sounds interesting, like, you know, like a white person being like I made I made Paea. You're like, oh, yummy. 00:54:08 Speaker 4: It can have anticipation behind it, like you can preempt. 00:54:12 Speaker 2: Something with yummy. 00:54:13 Speaker 3: Mm hmm. 00:54:14 Speaker 2: Yeah. I think it's a gift, correct gift. 00:54:18 Speaker 1: We all love saying yummy. We're all saying it constantly. I'm at a restaurant, I'm perusing the menu, I'm going yummy yummy. Doesn't that sound yummy? I feel like you can kind of just go anywhere with it. Yummy yummy in my tummy. 00:54:34 Speaker 2: That feels cursed, that feels. 00:54:38 Speaker 1: No. You like saying yummy yummy in my tummy, rolling your window down to a stranger. 00:54:42 Speaker 2: Yummy yummy and my tummy. 00:54:45 Speaker 4: I think there are times when you, as a gay man, are allowed to cat call other gay. 00:54:51 Speaker 2: Men and it's not bad, right, And. 00:54:54 Speaker 4: I think yummy yummy in my tummy is something you could say. Driving through West Hollywood, me and my sixty plus group of friends, we're all retired therapists, and we just drive down Santamn a couple of bar going yummy yummy, am I tummy. 00:55:18 Speaker 2: Hoping some twink will get in the car and make me feel whole. 00:55:24 Speaker 1: Okay, well, you've gotten two right so far. That's pretty good. 00:55:28 Speaker 2: Has anyone ever gone three for three? Oh? 00:55:29 Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a small list. I think it's a smaller list of people who have failed completely, like zero for zero for three freaks. Yeah, those people really outdid themselves. This final one is from a listener named Levi. Gift or a Curse, splitting the bill evenly. 00:55:49 Speaker 2: Gift Okay, I'm. 00:55:55 Speaker 4: I guess I just feel like it all works out in the wash unless you have like a friend who's like, really on the. 00:56:01 Speaker 2: Dole and the dole is you and I, Yeah, I just feel like I'm down to split everything. 00:56:08 Speaker 4: I suppose, yes, gift the thing of like, here's what I had, here's what you had. I feel like the person who puts their credit card down eventually ends up paying more because as a country, we're not good at math, and people aren't anticipating tax and tip. 00:56:28 Speaker 1: And it's hard to start doing the percentages right. 00:56:31 Speaker 4: Or one of your friends is like I only tip eighteen percent, and then you're like. 00:56:34 Speaker 2: Well, now I've learned that about you. 00:56:36 Speaker 4: And it's hard for me to continue the friendship. 00:56:42 Speaker 1: I was planning to rip off the waiter. I wasn't going to give any. 00:56:45 Speaker 2: Tips, so right, Well, I don't tip. 00:56:47 Speaker 4: I don't believe it tips so and they have to pay taxes on them, which I don't think is right. 00:56:51 Speaker 1: So yeah, eh, so gift gift, you. 00:56:57 Speaker 2: Think splitting it evenly I think is a gift. 00:57:00 Speaker 4: I think it's a gift that you can give yourself and your friend and the loved ones. 00:57:04 Speaker 1: Wrong curse, no, no, no, we have as a society we have to step away from this. First of all, we have the tech. Every waiter has a little device that can split up the bill or at least roughly. Second of all people, there's always one person who goes crazy, and it's usually not the person that I even wanted at dinner. And so I'm like, I'm listening to order and order and order, knowing I'm going to have to pay for their They're insane meal. 00:57:38 Speaker 2: They're Aaron Cheney, yes, and like. 00:57:40 Speaker 1: Four different drinks all that make no sense with the meal. I hate it. The all you could. The best you can do is the person who over ordered says, I do the tip that to me makes sense. 00:57:54 Speaker 2: I guess in the gift, I'm anticipating. 00:57:58 Speaker 1: That you dine out with on a people. 00:58:00 Speaker 4: Right exactly, I'm anticipating that I'm not going to dinner with monsters. 00:58:07 Speaker 1: Well, you'll be supposed. 00:58:08 Speaker 2: I feel like everything is fucking shared. 00:58:10 Speaker 4: Now if you're going to a sit down restaurant. 00:58:12 Speaker 1: Not at the restaurants I avoid, avoid, avoid. 00:58:15 Speaker 2: No there's no ordering your own entrey. 00:58:18 Speaker 1: I'm sorry. 00:58:18 Speaker 2: If I'm in Los Angeles, I'm getting up and leaving. 00:58:21 Speaker 1: Oh I have to share. I have to like collaborate on my meal. 00:58:25 Speaker 2: Yes, that's how it all. It's small plates, family styles, shared. There's no I'm getting the chicken palm for me in this town. 00:58:35 Speaker 1: That's right here. Absolutely. There are a few types of restaurants where I probably will do sharing style. At Chinese restaurants, sure, Thai restaurants, so you. 00:58:46 Speaker 2: Respect other people's cultures. 00:58:48 Speaker 1: Ah, yes, those table not farm to table. 00:58:55 Speaker 4: Occasionally Italian okay, see Italian, I feel like is one of the places where. 00:59:00 Speaker 2: You order your own entree. 00:59:01 Speaker 3: Right. 00:59:02 Speaker 2: I mean it's clar you get that, you get the fatucinia fraido. 00:59:07 Speaker 1: Right, But at an Italian restaurant, I can see myself someone having a big thing of pasta, but I've got more of a protein. So I'm like, let's split it a little bit. 00:59:15 Speaker 2: So maybe you would split the bill as a gift. We would figure it out in the honest way. You're not like each getting a Spamoni. 00:59:25 Speaker 1: I love a Spamona, of course. 00:59:28 Speaker 2: Okay, Well you've got two out of three, Okay, I'll take that. I don't want to be three for three. 00:59:32 Speaker 1: No, you like a little rough edge. 00:59:34 Speaker 2: That should be my own personal right. 00:59:36 Speaker 1: Right, let's answer a listener question or two. Let's see here the garbage truck is now, it's kind of it's revenge. It's on the other side of the street. Let's see here. We've got to have a decent question here. 00:59:52 Speaker 2: There's some narrow streets around here too. 00:59:54 Speaker 1: Oh my life side swiped a neighbor. 00:59:56 Speaker 2: Well, I can't imagine. You're a good driver, thank you, thank you for saying a little old lady behind the wheel of like a white car. 01:00:12 Speaker 1: But there are narrow streets and parking on both sides makes things tricky. 01:00:16 Speaker 2: Do you have a sedan or a hatchback? 01:00:18 Speaker 1: I have like a crossover. 01:00:21 Speaker 2: Ish thing, like a small suv. 01:00:24 Speaker 1: It's like a Have you seen the Ionic five? Do you know what that is? 01:00:28 Speaker 2: Yes? Oh dai, yes, you walked past. 01:00:31 Speaker 1: It in the driveway. It had the thing on it right, slathered in commala. 01:00:37 Speaker 4: Kamala, Biden, We did it, Joe, all of it? 01:00:43 Speaker 1: Tim Tim who was Oh no, Tim Waltz, Tim Waltz different, Tim. Jim Kaine is a true dud, right he was Hillaries, and he was like, a what were we thinking? This guy is a nothing? 01:01:00 Speaker 2: I think that that's kind of what you want in a VP these days. 01:01:05 Speaker 1: But Tim, and is it Waltz? How I've already forgotten? 01:01:09 Speaker 2: This is horror? Tim wants. 01:01:10 Speaker 4: He's kind of like the old He's great, like a old little like character from The Borrowers or something. 01:01:21 Speaker 1: I really liked him. He was He's a pretty straightforward person. He also loved Crazy Taxi on the Dreamcast. He loved playing the game Crazy Taxi, which really endeared him to me, especially as somebody who like. 01:01:32 Speaker 2: Wow, what a deep pull on the Dreamcast. 01:01:35 Speaker 1: Yeah, so I appreciated that. But we have to answer. Let's answer one question here, and let's see this. As you arrived to a pot luck neighborhood holiday party. What have you brought? And what are you hoping will be there? That's from Megan. 01:01:50 Speaker 2: What if I brought and what if I hoping will be there? I make a pretty good key lime pie. 01:01:56 Speaker 1: Oh that's a nice thing. 01:01:57 Speaker 4: Yeah, and it doesn't require you to anything. It doesn't require an oven. 01:02:03 Speaker 2: You're not even the Graham Cracker. 01:02:06 Speaker 4: Well, it's made ahead of time. Oh, it's like everything's made in my house. Right, it's put in a fridge so it's chilled. So it's a rive chill that gets put in the fridge or freezer until they bring up the dessert. Right, Because at a potluck, a curse is bringing something. He just needs a little bit of time in the oven and it just needs ten to fifteen. 01:02:28 Speaker 1: Then that person didn't do their job. They've created a new job. 01:02:31 Speaker 4: Unless you're like, I know, we're going to Tim and Nancy's. They have an enormous mansion. 01:02:38 Speaker 2: With with a. 01:02:39 Speaker 4: Butler kitchen where we can throw it in there, right, and there's going to be staffed. 01:02:44 Speaker 1: They've got several underpaid employees. 01:02:46 Speaker 4: Of course that they're paying cash who will be there. So it's fine. We can bring. 01:02:53 Speaker 2: The mastacholi to be what'soli? Maybe that's a Midwestern thing. It's like penne. It's like a lasagna, but with penne maasta choli? 01:03:05 Speaker 1: Okay, oh pasta choli. 01:03:07 Speaker 2: Pasta choli. And so that's what I can bring. And what am I hoping is there? I love chicken salad. 01:03:18 Speaker 1: Oh interesting, a mayo base, Oh yeah. 01:03:20 Speaker 4: Okay, but with grapes and walnuts, right, an walnut. 01:03:25 Speaker 2: Chicken, A well made one. 01:03:27 Speaker 4: You can put it on a cracker, you can make your own note sandwich out of it. You can bring with a tupperware, steal some of it, put it in your car, eat it on the hot car until. 01:03:37 Speaker 2: You're ready to go. Well, I parked in the shade. 01:03:39 Speaker 1: Oh, of course, on their lawn. I need to get into chicken salad. Maybe that's my problem. 01:03:46 Speaker 2: Not enough protein. 01:03:48 Speaker 1: It's the mayo, and it's not like mayo. I don't mind mayo. I love mustard, you do. I don't mind mayo on a sandwich or whatever. But when it's like goofy, it's on stage, the spotlight's on mayo, it's a little hard for me to deal with. 01:04:03 Speaker 2: Hm. I get that. What about you? 01:04:07 Speaker 1: I would bring? I kind of only can bring cookies. Sure, their showstoppers. 01:04:12 Speaker 2: Are you baking them? 01:04:13 Speaker 1: Baking buying them and baking them? People are going nuts? 01:04:16 Speaker 2: Are you going and and they're gluten free? 01:04:19 Speaker 1: No, but I should get into gluten free because you know we've gotten we've got gluten free people. Of course, but it's hard to I had, actually, speaking of Chicago, had the one of the best chocolate chip cookies in my entire life, gluten free at Unfortunately I can't remember the name of the bakery. 01:04:33 Speaker 2: Gluten free. It's not fucking around. And here's often what's in gluten free cookies, Just like more fat. Oh yeah, like a lot of butter beam cheese. 01:04:43 Speaker 1: Maybe some nuts hold it together. So I would bring a chocolate chip cookies. 01:04:49 Speaker 4: I said fat in a good way, Like I'm not saying like they make you fat. 01:04:54 Speaker 2: I'm saying like. 01:04:55 Speaker 1: It's got a nice rich exactly butterinus to it. It's held together by crisco. 01:05:01 Speaker 2: Coconut oil. There we go. 01:05:03 Speaker 1: Although coconut coconut oil or like using it for vegan things, I'm not into it. Find a different substitute because then all I taste. 01:05:11 Speaker 2: Is coconut coke. That's true. 01:05:13 Speaker 1: What I'm hoping will be there will be like a nice summary salad with a crisp. 01:05:19 Speaker 4: Green That's a problem sometimes with summer salads because they have fruit, like if they got a strawberry pretty quick. 01:05:28 Speaker 1: So I like something, you know, I like it's a good slaw, but not a mayo based a vinegar based interesting law, like what they've got red and green cabbage. You have vinegar, olive oil, a crunchy like a nut. Maybe a ciche type thing. 01:05:46 Speaker 2: Oh like a crowd. 01:05:47 Speaker 1: Oh interesting, now, like a crouch, a crowd or a pickled thing is more of I need that to go with a meat or something. I should just throw that on a plate. 01:05:55 Speaker 2: Forget it. 01:05:56 Speaker 1: But a slaw, summer slaw. I'm into it. I think we answered that really beautiful way. We were both very honest. 01:06:04 Speaker 2: Well, it's about to be the season of potlucks. 01:06:06 Speaker 1: Yeah, that's true, so everybody's got to start thinking about what they'll bring. Well, I've got my hat. 01:06:13 Speaker 2: It looks great. 01:06:14 Speaker 1: It's a good hat, and it's nice because it's not obvious merch. 01:06:18 Speaker 2: Right, it's just more of a mindset. 01:06:20 Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a mindset. You want to be there, you want to be in the And then, of course I have the joker who we love. 01:06:29 Speaker 4: Do you just have Do you just immediately donate all the stuff that is brought to you? 01:06:34 Speaker 2: Like that must be it? 01:06:35 Speaker 1: No, your house, my garage full of things. Fortunately we have the studio now where I leave a lot of things to just be used basically as set deck and live shows I give things away. 01:06:45 Speaker 2: Oh yes, I remember that. 01:06:47 Speaker 1: And listener, I'm so sorry that we haven't done more live shows. Recently, I'm depressed. Depressed. It's not entirely depression, but that's definitely playing into me responding to emails at venues. 01:07:01 Speaker 4: I think we should do a live show called the B List, and basically we just oh at once a. 01:07:06 Speaker 2: Year we you know, like kind of annoying different things that get the be get the B make the B List. 01:07:14 Speaker 1: We should start thinking about that for maybe early November, far away, but it's gonna be the end of the year. 01:07:22 Speaker 2: It's true. 01:07:24 Speaker 4: Yes, the twenty twenty six B List, that might be a thing that we do, might be a thing, an alternative source of revenue for us. 01:07:32 Speaker 1: Yes, we've got to find as many. 01:07:33 Speaker 2: As possible sponsorship. 01:07:35 Speaker 1: We could stream it right, and we could really you know, because people are dying to be on a list. 01:07:41 Speaker 2: I agree. It's basically it's all about being on the list. 01:07:44 Speaker 1: Imagine people campaigning to get on our list. 01:07:47 Speaker 2: I would love that for you can make videos. 01:07:50 Speaker 1: Yeah, this is something that we're putting out there. 01:07:53 Speaker 4: If you want to see the B List, comment and subscribe and keep giving you the Patreon find me on Instagram, come to my show. Yes by Oh if you don't live in Hollywood sorry or Edinburgh, you can in the next by the time this is out. Yes, you can buy a merch. You can buy merch for me. I will go towards my journey to Scotland. 01:08:18 Speaker 2: Oh perfect, Right, I've. 01:08:20 Speaker 4: Got tots, I've got sweatshirts, and I've got hats, a good looking hat. 01:08:25 Speaker 2: Right, you can have the same hat as Bridger. 01:08:30 Speaker 1: Well, thank you for being here. 01:08:31 Speaker 2: It's has been so nice. 01:08:33 Speaker 1: I adore you. And listener, the podcast is just kind of over. It's uh, we're slowly kind of just running out of gas, so I'm gonna let you go. I'm sorry. Yeah, you didn't get to hear us gossiping. 01:08:47 Speaker 2: Had a great time driving or cooking. 01:08:49 Speaker 1: Whatever you were doing, doing your laundry, folding laundry, avoiding your spouse, all kind. 01:08:56 Speaker 4: Of seeing in a little fight, just cooling off, ready to re enter the conversation, apologize, speak on why you were feeling the way you were feeling, and hope that they hear you. 01:09:09 Speaker 2: Beautiful, I love you. 01:09:11 Speaker 1: Goodbye.