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Speaker 3: Welcome to I said, no gifts. I'm Bridger Wine girl.

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Speaker 3: Just right from the beginning here, I'm going to quickly

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Speaker 3: if you want to, you know, if you've ever wanted

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Speaker 3: a shirt with a picture of me driving off a cliff. Okay,

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Speaker 3: now what else do we have to talk about? If

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Speaker 3: you've ever no listen, if you recently ran into you know,

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Speaker 3: you're pulling out of a parking space in Palm Springs

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Speaker 3: and you ran into a white Hondai. That's my car

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Speaker 3: and I'm looking for you, and oh, I'd be so

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Speaker 3: heartbroken if it's a listener that ran into my car.

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Speaker 3: But please reach out. Okay, we have to get into

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Speaker 3: the podcast. I love today's guests. I absolutely adore her.

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Speaker 3: It's Melissa Fumero. Melissa, welcome to I said no gifts.

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Speaker 2: Hi, thank you for having me.

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Speaker 3: I'm so happy you're here. I brought interesting energy. I'm

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Speaker 3: the vic of a hit and run.

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Speaker 2: I am so sorry.

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Speaker 3: Thank you for your apology. Have you ever been in

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Speaker 2: The only car accident I've ever been in was a

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Speaker 3: You're kidding, I'm not. What was this in la?

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Speaker 2: It was in New Jersey, Okay, And I was a teenager,

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Speaker 3: We always blame ourselves.

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Speaker 2: I had looked down to adjust the heat. Sure, and

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Speaker 2: that is when the hit happened. And so it was

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Speaker 3: Okay, those streets in New Jersey are pretty wide.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, this one is you can ask Jimmy. It's Ridge Road. Okay,

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Speaker 2: I want to say it was like a white car,

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Speaker 2: to change the heat. You know, you're the victim here part.

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Speaker 2: had I not looked down, maybe I wouldn't have gotten hit.

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Speaker 3: No, this criminal is still out there.

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Speaker 2: This criminal is still out there.

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Speaker 3: So if you see a white car in New Jersey, uh,

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Speaker 2: Yes, reach out. Yes.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's a it's a frustrating feeling and it feels

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Speaker 3: Oh I'm thrilled with him. He's calling me.

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Speaker 2: If ever there were a location to have a hit

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Speaker 3: I believe it's called American Dream.

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Speaker 3: I know, you've been to the mall.

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Speaker 2: I have been. It is open, I think only as

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Speaker 2: It doesn't feel very recent. It doesn't feel like anyone

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Speaker 2: But also I can't imagine the amount of peace you

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Speaker 3: I mean, they've got some real ta it was.

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Speaker 3: Oh yeah, because then you're going to the water park.

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Speaker 2: Yeah exactly. I didn't have any swimsuits. So but it

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Speaker 2: Yes? We went to the little Mini Lego Land and

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Speaker 3: Creepy.

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Speaker 2: It was so creepy. There was like one little train

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Speaker 4: Like the big buildings built out of legos, and then

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Speaker 3: This was more than Legoland.

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Speaker 2: All very exciting to them.

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Speaker 3: How much time did you spend in them all total? Uh?

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Speaker 2: Like all morning we got there, I don't know whenever

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Speaker 3: This is so so wild to me. And is it

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, So it's in the meadowlands by like what

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Speaker 2: The race track so it's like, yes, it's a it's

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Speaker 2: In a mall, Like when we were parking, there were

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Speaker 2: And it's crazy because you can see it. I remember

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Speaker 2: the rest of this monstrosity of a building. And they

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Speaker 2: the color choice that they somebody came in and made

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Speaker 3: So is it now disguise kind of as a mountain?

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Speaker 3: Is it like the Matterhorn?

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Speaker 2: No, it wishes, it wishes it was.

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Speaker 3: I'm so fascinated by this whole thing. It seems like

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Speaker 3: such a terrible move at this point to open a

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Speaker 2: Yes, And when they like announced the plans for it,

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Speaker 3: And now we've got all of these Jersey people going

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I think they call it Mike's way. There. Mike

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Speaker 3: Oh that's so nice.

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Speaker 2: We can get a few nights away.

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Speaker 3: this is perfect. Yes, we just put up our Christmas

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Speaker 3: Unbelievable the price was on a tree.

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Speaker 2: He was so mad. So he went to home depot

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Speaker 3: Wow, yeah, eighty dollars. I mean it's still like kind

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Speaker 3: For something that is basically a fire hazard. Right, you're

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Speaker 2: And don't we like those trees like they grow in

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Speaker 3: Yes, I believe there's one in Texas. Really, where's Texas

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Speaker 2: Coming from colder states? Aren't They don't know?

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Speaker 2: Don't think there's any Christmas tree farms in Florida or

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Speaker 3: Don't you dare to? I don't care. There has to

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Speaker 3: How are you transporting the trees from? For Florida, where

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Speaker 2: You're putting them in water, and you're putting them in

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Speaker 3: There's actually washing around the tank, you know.

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Speaker 2: Don't we grow like eighty percent of the produce for

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Speaker 3: But a tree is not a carrot.

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Speaker 5: No, but think about I mean, the tree is cut

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Speaker 2: Right? It really doesn't look shitty until the last like

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Speaker 3: That's that's true. But I think we are.

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Speaker 2: Definitely driving Christmas trees around.

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Speaker 3: There's a Christmas tree farmer in Dallas right now. That's

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Speaker 3: saying you are erasing me. You are erasing who I

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Speaker 2: Looking forward to the social media comments already.

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Speaker 3: Yea, social media is going to be on fire.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, all those Christmas tree farmers are going to come

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Speaker 3: That's a large, large part of our listenership is Christmas

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Speaker 3: we're already fighting. We might as well. Look, I was

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Speaker 3: I think you're so funny, You're just wonderful. Well, this

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Speaker 3: said no gifts. Yeah, I don't know exactly what's going on.

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Speaker 2: Well, I'm from New Jersey, okay, and I'm Cuban. Okay,

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Speaker 2: So you just don't show up empty handed. That's rude.

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Speaker 3: So I don't know that about either people from New

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Speaker 2: I'm going to claim that for my and there.

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Speaker 3: Okay, Okay, Well I don't know that that's an excuse,

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Speaker 2: Okay, do you want me.

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Speaker 3: To open it here on the podcast?

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Speaker 2: I would love for you to open it.

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Speaker 3: Okay, right now? Okay. Now, it's a it's a little

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Speaker 2: I don't own adult wrapping paper.

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Speaker 3: Is there such a thing.

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Speaker 2: I'm gonna assume there is. I've never seen that paper.

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Speaker 3: I would consider this adult because it's very tasteful.

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Speaker 2: Oh thank you.

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Speaker 3: It's got like a little animals on it, a flamingo,

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's so prominent.

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Speaker 2: Was a happy accident as I was wrapping, and I

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Speaker 3: What that it symbolizes your appearance on the show. Yeah, okay,

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Speaker 3: well you I mean this is a real snake move to.

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Speaker 3: Oh and there's a cute little turtle too. I'm gonna

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Speaker 2: I did wrap it.

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Speaker 3: I'm so tell us of someone who can wrap a gift.

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Speaker 2: Oh my mother is so good at rapping gifts.

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Speaker 3: Did she teach you?

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Speaker 3: Lise's approaching, so to hold the microphone.

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Speaker 2: Oh, yes, here, let's see if this is a thick.

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Speaker 2: Thank you.

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Speaker 3: Here, we're getting in, we're opening, We're opening, we're opening. Okay,

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Speaker 1: Yeah?

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Speaker 3: I mean the box says the official twenty fifteen United

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Speaker 3: this is beautiful. Where did you get this? I mean

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Speaker 2: So my godfather is a congressman. Oh, you're kidding in

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Speaker 3: They can make one of these every year.

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Speaker 2: They make one every year, and you can't buy them.

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Speaker 2: I guess. Apparently my mother wanted me to make sure

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Speaker 6: Oh, so this is very collectors, very collectors.

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Speaker 3: There are some like Congress.

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Speaker 2: I had a few years as options. I decided I

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Speaker 3: Thank you. I appreciate this. It's not a cursed object.

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Speaker 2: Yes, it's not a curse object. In fact, my mom

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Speaker 3: How many do you think you have? Total?

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Speaker 2: I think I have like four or five on my tree.

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Speaker 2: So many. And that's when I was like, I don't

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Speaker 3: Many ornaments is he getting that he's giving them away?

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Speaker 2: I don't know. I don't know. I guess each congressman

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Speaker 2: I just know that every year one would get mailed

445
00:22:34,320 --> 00:22:34,560
Speaker 2: to me.

446
00:22:34,880 --> 00:22:35,200
Speaker 3: Wow.

447
00:22:36,280 --> 00:22:36,480
Speaker 2: Yeah.

448
00:22:36,520 --> 00:22:38,439
Speaker 3: And does he send it with like a family picture?

449
00:22:38,560 --> 00:22:41,199
Speaker 2: Oh, it just comes alone. It's in a box.

450
00:22:41,880 --> 00:22:43,800
Speaker 3: How much communication do you have with this man?

451
00:22:44,840 --> 00:22:49,040
Speaker 2: Very very little, you know. I mean, he's, like I said,

452
00:22:49,040 --> 00:22:52,600
Speaker 2: he's my dad's best friend. They were Cuban immigrants, met

453
00:22:52,600 --> 00:22:55,560
Speaker 2: in high school and they played basketball together. They're both

454
00:22:55,720 --> 00:22:56,840
Speaker 2: very tall.

455
00:22:56,640 --> 00:22:57,560
Speaker 3: Men, huh.

456
00:22:58,160 --> 00:23:00,680
Speaker 2: And then he went into politics. He was a mayor

457
00:23:00,720 --> 00:23:04,199
Speaker 2: in New Jersey for a long time, and then he

458
00:23:04,960 --> 00:23:08,840
Speaker 2: uh ran for Congress and won and has been in

459
00:23:08,920 --> 00:23:12,480
Speaker 2: DC ever since. And so I saw him a few

460
00:23:12,600 --> 00:23:17,440
Speaker 2: years ago, maybe around twenty fifteen or so. And it

461
00:23:17,480 --> 00:23:20,800
Speaker 2: was lovely because we got like a real, really fancy

462
00:23:20,840 --> 00:23:22,760
Speaker 2: tour of the of the capitol.

463
00:23:22,840 --> 00:23:25,040
Speaker 3: Oh your kidd Yeah, you've got to see kind of

464
00:23:25,080 --> 00:23:26,200
Speaker 3: behind the scenes stuff.

465
00:23:26,320 --> 00:23:29,840
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, yeah, like a private tour and had lunch

466
00:23:29,880 --> 00:23:31,960
Speaker 2: with him there and it was lovely. It was really nice.

467
00:23:32,000 --> 00:23:35,159
Speaker 3: How do you feel about Washington, DC as a place

468
00:23:35,200 --> 00:23:35,639
Speaker 3: to visit?

469
00:23:36,800 --> 00:23:43,639
Speaker 2: Interesting? It's odd. It's odd, right, because it's very clean

470
00:23:44,359 --> 00:23:47,160
Speaker 2: and there's a lot of money. It feels like there's

471
00:23:47,160 --> 00:23:49,399
Speaker 2: just a lot of money everywhere, especially when you're in

472
00:23:49,400 --> 00:23:52,240
Speaker 2: that central sort of year. As soon as you leave

473
00:23:52,640 --> 00:23:56,760
Speaker 2: that area doesn't feel like normal, right, Yeah, it's it's just, uh,

474
00:23:57,040 --> 00:23:59,600
Speaker 2: it's cool the history of it, and it's weird.

475
00:24:00,400 --> 00:24:01,800
Speaker 3: I mean, I'll say it, it's boring.

476
00:24:02,280 --> 00:24:07,760
Speaker 2: It's boring. I mean, other countries definitely have this beat on,

477
00:24:07,960 --> 00:24:10,000
Speaker 2: like the cap on their capitals.

478
00:24:11,119 --> 00:24:14,160
Speaker 3: Every other country's capital seems to be like a vibrant

479
00:24:14,200 --> 00:24:16,080
Speaker 3: culture and like it really gives you a taste of

480
00:24:16,080 --> 00:24:16,760
Speaker 3: the country.

481
00:24:16,880 --> 00:24:18,360
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, you don't get that here here.

482
00:24:18,400 --> 00:24:20,439
Speaker 3: It's like it's there are some here.

483
00:24:20,280 --> 00:24:25,439
Speaker 2: Are some old buildings and some museums and everything almost

484
00:24:25,480 --> 00:24:28,679
Speaker 2: everything's white. It's a bunch of white buildings and some

485
00:24:28,800 --> 00:24:31,280
Speaker 2: museums and then and then that's it.

486
00:24:31,320 --> 00:24:35,119
Speaker 3: And again apologies to the d C yes people, but

487
00:24:35,359 --> 00:24:38,920
Speaker 3: not I. I'll say, not a lot of great food, no, yeah,

488
00:24:39,280 --> 00:24:41,840
Speaker 3: just not a lot to do. Yeah, So every time

489
00:24:41,880 --> 00:24:43,520
Speaker 3: I go there, I'm just kind of baffled.

490
00:24:43,600 --> 00:24:47,760
Speaker 2: Yeah, there's no like DC food, right, Like, there's no like.

491
00:24:48,880 --> 00:24:52,560
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's not like going to get like there's a cuisine.

492
00:24:52,119 --> 00:24:56,760
Speaker 2: Of New York, of California, LA, yeah, New Orleans like

493
00:24:56,880 --> 00:24:59,399
Speaker 2: DC pizzas. No.

494
00:25:00,280 --> 00:25:04,400
Speaker 3: Yeah, I guess you have to go at least once

495
00:25:04,440 --> 00:25:07,200
Speaker 3: as an American. But I've now been so many well

496
00:25:07,440 --> 00:25:09,280
Speaker 3: I think i've been three times, and that does feel

497
00:25:09,280 --> 00:25:12,399
Speaker 3: like so many times. I'm just like I never need.

498
00:25:12,280 --> 00:25:16,240
Speaker 2: To go back. Yeah, I've been twice and that y Yeah,

499
00:25:16,280 --> 00:25:17,040
Speaker 2: that feels right.

500
00:25:17,320 --> 00:25:19,000
Speaker 3: I mean I've been told that it's a little bit

501
00:25:19,119 --> 00:25:21,840
Speaker 3: like LA in that it attracts a certain type of

502
00:25:21,880 --> 00:25:25,520
Speaker 3: people who are kind of like obsessed with power or fame.

503
00:25:25,880 --> 00:25:27,639
Speaker 3: But at least I think the people in LA are

504
00:25:27,680 --> 00:25:31,960
Speaker 3: at least artistic, So there it's just like boring people

505
00:25:32,000 --> 00:25:34,160
Speaker 3: that are obsessed with power here.

506
00:25:34,840 --> 00:25:36,120
Speaker 2: That's an important distinction.

507
00:25:39,720 --> 00:25:44,440
Speaker 3: But I think maybe that contributes I don't know, but yeah,

508
00:25:44,440 --> 00:25:47,840
Speaker 3: I did very little while I was there. So okay,

509
00:25:47,880 --> 00:25:51,240
Speaker 3: back to the ornament. You've decorated your tree, yes, what

510
00:25:51,400 --> 00:25:53,159
Speaker 3: else do you do for the holidays?

511
00:25:53,560 --> 00:25:58,320
Speaker 2: Oh? Well, normally we travel back east to see family,

512
00:25:59,480 --> 00:26:03,119
Speaker 2: but are children are very small and high maintenance right now,

513
00:26:03,320 --> 00:26:07,760
Speaker 2: So we have decided to do the holidays here right

514
00:26:07,920 --> 00:26:11,760
Speaker 2: for the next couple of years while they get themselves together,

515
00:26:13,400 --> 00:26:16,439
Speaker 2: get their their lives back in order to get their

516
00:26:16,440 --> 00:26:23,639
Speaker 2: shit together, start acting like respectable people in public, and

517
00:26:23,720 --> 00:26:27,720
Speaker 2: then we will take them on a plane again. No, yeah,

518
00:26:27,760 --> 00:26:30,640
Speaker 2: it's and also just like flying at Christmases a lot.

519
00:26:30,800 --> 00:26:31,280
Speaker 2: It's a lot.

520
00:26:31,440 --> 00:26:34,240
Speaker 3: So are like your parents and in laws coming here

521
00:26:34,240 --> 00:26:35,080
Speaker 3: for the holidays?

522
00:26:35,280 --> 00:26:38,920
Speaker 2: My in laws? Yeah, my husband's brother and his family

523
00:26:39,000 --> 00:26:46,040
Speaker 2: are coming for Christmas, and we typically celebrate Christmas eve. Okaya,

524
00:26:46,440 --> 00:26:49,919
Speaker 2: and we have like Cuban food. Yeah, what sort of

525
00:26:49,960 --> 00:26:53,000
Speaker 2: Cuban food are you eating? It's a very specific menu

526
00:26:53,080 --> 00:26:56,680
Speaker 2: for Christmas Eve. Oh, I want to hear this roast pork, Oh, delicious,

527
00:26:57,080 --> 00:27:00,560
Speaker 2: rice and beans okay, yuka which is like a type

528
00:27:00,560 --> 00:27:06,040
Speaker 2: of root vegetables and like plant like sweet plantains too,

529
00:27:06,560 --> 00:27:09,600
Speaker 2: both the sweet and the savory savory and that's pretty

530
00:27:09,640 --> 00:27:09,919
Speaker 2: much it.

531
00:27:10,200 --> 00:27:13,600
Speaker 3: That should be every Christmas Eve dinner. Amazing, that sounds

532
00:27:13,640 --> 00:27:16,720
Speaker 3: so delicious. Are you preparing the food? Is somebody helping you?

533
00:27:16,800 --> 00:27:17,720
Speaker 3: Are you ordering in?

534
00:27:18,040 --> 00:27:20,480
Speaker 2: I normally the last few years that we've done it here,

535
00:27:20,600 --> 00:27:27,000
Speaker 2: I've ordered. But my mother, who's if you haven't picked

536
00:27:27,040 --> 00:27:31,879
Speaker 2: up already from this podcast, is very what's the word convincing,

537
00:27:34,280 --> 00:27:37,560
Speaker 2: has talked me into cooking this year because she swears

538
00:27:37,640 --> 00:27:39,760
Speaker 2: that the pork is easy to do. I could just

539
00:27:39,760 --> 00:27:42,840
Speaker 2: get a big pork shoulder and marinate it with this, this,

540
00:27:43,000 --> 00:27:45,520
Speaker 2: and this and this two days before and then throw

541
00:27:45,560 --> 00:27:47,359
Speaker 2: it in the oven. I do already know how to

542
00:27:47,359 --> 00:27:49,720
Speaker 2: make rice and beans. Okay, the Latin store by me,

543
00:27:49,760 --> 00:27:51,919
Speaker 2: I'm pretty sure has frozen yuco, which I do know

544
00:27:51,920 --> 00:27:53,439
Speaker 2: how to make, and I do know how to do

545
00:27:53,520 --> 00:27:55,520
Speaker 2: the plantains, So.

546
00:27:55,040 --> 00:27:58,959
Speaker 3: Then you're basically set. So yeah, that'll just be hours

547
00:27:58,960 --> 00:27:59,320
Speaker 3: of work.

548
00:27:59,400 --> 00:28:01,640
Speaker 2: Could just be hours of work. I know we were

549
00:28:01,640 --> 00:28:05,680
Speaker 2: cooking for She also convinced me to cook all the

550
00:28:05,720 --> 00:28:08,320
Speaker 2: food for Thanksgiving, and so we spent all of Wednesday

551
00:28:08,400 --> 00:28:11,119
Speaker 2: like prepping and cooking, and she was like, isn't this fun?

552
00:28:12,080 --> 00:28:14,040
Speaker 2: Isn't this fun? Cooking? And I was like, yeah, it's

553
00:28:14,080 --> 00:28:15,720
Speaker 2: fun because you're here helping me.

554
00:28:16,200 --> 00:28:18,600
Speaker 3: You're not completely alone if you weren't here.

555
00:28:19,040 --> 00:28:21,720
Speaker 2: And on top of it, I'm getting interrupted every ten

556
00:28:21,760 --> 00:28:24,760
Speaker 2: minutes by a child and then coming back to the

557
00:28:24,840 --> 00:28:27,600
Speaker 2: kitchen and going what was I doing? I swear I

558
00:28:27,640 --> 00:28:30,359
Speaker 2: made this rice dish for like three hours while my

559
00:28:30,440 --> 00:28:33,119
Speaker 2: mom marinated the turkey and made the stuffing and like

560
00:28:33,440 --> 00:28:37,360
Speaker 2: made five dishes in the same amount of time. Yeah, yeah,

561
00:28:37,359 --> 00:28:40,440
Speaker 2: she goes like, isn't this fun? Isn't this great? Isn't

562
00:28:40,440 --> 00:28:41,840
Speaker 2: this what the holidays are about?

563
00:28:42,680 --> 00:28:45,000
Speaker 3: Christmas Eve is going to crush you. It is going

564
00:28:45,040 --> 00:28:46,280
Speaker 3: to absolutely destroy you.

565
00:28:46,440 --> 00:28:48,080
Speaker 2: It is everyone's going to be eating and I'm just

566
00:28:48,160 --> 00:28:49,960
Speaker 2: going to be like lying on the grass in my

567
00:28:50,000 --> 00:28:51,760
Speaker 2: front yard staring at the stars.

568
00:28:52,000 --> 00:28:55,320
Speaker 3: So do you do anything the following day at all?

569
00:28:56,080 --> 00:29:01,920
Speaker 2: Not really Like growing up, our Christmas Day was like

570
00:29:02,040 --> 00:29:05,040
Speaker 2: finishing because in New Jersey we'd have all my cousins

571
00:29:05,040 --> 00:29:08,360
Speaker 2: from New York would come over to my parents' house. Sure,

572
00:29:08,600 --> 00:29:10,600
Speaker 2: and so we would have a big Christmas Eve in

573
00:29:10,640 --> 00:29:13,400
Speaker 2: my parents' house and then we would do most of

574
00:29:13,440 --> 00:29:16,240
Speaker 2: the cleaning that night before everyone w's bed. But Christmas

575
00:29:16,280 --> 00:29:22,280
Speaker 2: Morning was spent presents finish cleaning, putting tables away, eating leftovers,

576
00:29:22,840 --> 00:29:26,120
Speaker 2: and then ordering Chinese food and going to the movies.

577
00:29:26,880 --> 00:29:28,040
Speaker 3: What a lovely way to stay.

578
00:29:28,080 --> 00:29:31,000
Speaker 2: So I still like to order Chinese food on Christmas Day.

579
00:29:31,600 --> 00:29:36,280
Speaker 3: Yeah, Christmas Day for my family lasts about two hours.

580
00:29:36,360 --> 00:29:40,160
Speaker 3: You know, some gifts and then it is agony and

581
00:29:40,200 --> 00:29:45,560
Speaker 3: it's so boring. There's nothing to do. I mean, Jim,

582
00:29:45,800 --> 00:29:48,080
Speaker 3: every time the opportunity to tell the story comes up,

583
00:29:48,120 --> 00:29:50,760
Speaker 3: he does it. I think it was the first year

584
00:29:50,840 --> 00:29:54,120
Speaker 3: he came home with me to Utah. We had a

585
00:29:54,120 --> 00:29:56,080
Speaker 3: couple of hours in the morning, and then I think

586
00:29:56,080 --> 00:30:00,920
Speaker 3: we had Christmas dinner at an absolutely empty McDonald's. It

587
00:30:00,960 --> 00:30:04,600
Speaker 3: was such a sad experience. There was one other person there.

588
00:30:04,640 --> 00:30:07,240
Speaker 3: It was a woman who obviously had been through something

589
00:30:07,280 --> 00:30:11,040
Speaker 3: on Christmas Day. She was crying. Was like it was

590
00:30:11,080 --> 00:30:13,320
Speaker 3: on the outs with their family or something. It was

591
00:30:13,320 --> 00:30:14,040
Speaker 3: a bleak.

592
00:30:14,360 --> 00:30:18,840
Speaker 2: All these the sad and deserted go to McDonald's on

593
00:30:19,000 --> 00:30:19,800
Speaker 2: Christmas Day.

594
00:30:20,080 --> 00:30:22,000
Speaker 3: But I think he secretly liked it. I think Jim

595
00:30:22,080 --> 00:30:24,760
Speaker 3: was happy that we got to go have Hamburgers on Christmas.

596
00:30:24,880 --> 00:30:29,320
Speaker 3: But he, of course is playing the martyr and it's always.

597
00:30:29,200 --> 00:30:31,280
Speaker 2: Most boring Christmas of his life.

598
00:30:31,640 --> 00:30:34,080
Speaker 3: And every time I go back to Utah, he makes

599
00:30:34,120 --> 00:30:35,880
Speaker 3: me swear we won't have McDonald's. But I think he's

600
00:30:35,880 --> 00:30:36,960
Speaker 3: hoping that we go back.

601
00:30:37,080 --> 00:30:39,280
Speaker 2: I bet. I think you're right. I think you should

602
00:30:39,280 --> 00:30:43,240
Speaker 2: take him every time you go to Utah.

603
00:30:43,280 --> 00:30:45,960
Speaker 3: But yeah, I do think that Christmas Eve is the

604
00:30:45,960 --> 00:30:49,520
Speaker 3: more exciting part of the holiday. There's the anticipation. I

605
00:30:49,560 --> 00:30:52,920
Speaker 3: think the balloon gets popped the next morning and everyone's

606
00:30:52,960 --> 00:30:53,720
Speaker 3: kind of depressed.

607
00:30:54,600 --> 00:30:57,800
Speaker 2: I will say having small kids has made Christmas kind

608
00:30:57,840 --> 00:31:01,520
Speaker 2: of fun again. I bet yeah, because that is, you know,

609
00:31:01,760 --> 00:31:04,920
Speaker 2: the whole Santa thing. It's so fun to lie to

610
00:31:04,960 --> 00:31:09,280
Speaker 2: them the whole month of December, the whole month you

611
00:31:09,360 --> 00:31:12,760
Speaker 2: have something to hold over their heads. Every time my

612
00:31:12,800 --> 00:31:15,920
Speaker 2: son acts up, I'm like, you better watch up. That's

613
00:31:15,920 --> 00:31:17,720
Speaker 2: all I do is I just sing that lyric and

614
00:31:17,760 --> 00:31:18,440
Speaker 2: I walk away.

615
00:31:19,360 --> 00:31:21,920
Speaker 3: That is delightful. When did when did you find out

616
00:31:22,040 --> 00:31:23,440
Speaker 3: about Santa Claus?

617
00:31:23,760 --> 00:31:26,719
Speaker 2: I want to say I was like, I don't know,

618
00:31:27,240 --> 00:31:28,440
Speaker 2: like nine or ten.

619
00:31:28,640 --> 00:31:31,040
Speaker 3: Okay, that's about I feel grade.

620
00:31:31,480 --> 00:31:34,040
Speaker 2: Yeah, I feel like right, it was like fourth fifth grade.

621
00:31:34,080 --> 00:31:36,800
Speaker 2: I immediately told my best friend because I was that

622
00:31:36,920 --> 00:31:38,960
Speaker 2: person just ruined her life.

623
00:31:38,960 --> 00:31:39,920
Speaker 3: How did she react?

624
00:31:40,000 --> 00:31:46,400
Speaker 2: She cried. Oh my god, I was that friend. I

625
00:31:46,440 --> 00:31:50,360
Speaker 2: was like, did you know that Santa's not real? Just

626
00:31:50,520 --> 00:31:54,680
Speaker 2: no regard for her feelings at all. She cried, and

627
00:31:54,720 --> 00:31:57,360
Speaker 2: I was like, why are you crying? I think I

628
00:31:57,400 --> 00:31:59,760
Speaker 2: also told her about sex Till later.

629
00:32:00,040 --> 00:32:03,480
Speaker 3: It's like, did you know you are a very valuable

630
00:32:03,520 --> 00:32:07,160
Speaker 3: person in that woman's life. She's probably so thankful for you.

631
00:32:07,960 --> 00:32:10,760
Speaker 3: She could have she could still be believing about Santa Claus.

632
00:32:11,280 --> 00:32:11,920
Speaker 2: It's possible.

633
00:32:12,440 --> 00:32:14,560
Speaker 3: So you came in at the right moment. Because let's

634
00:32:14,600 --> 00:32:16,560
Speaker 3: be honest, fourth fifth grade, you're getting a little old

635
00:32:16,560 --> 00:32:17,760
Speaker 3: distill believe in Santa Claus.

636
00:32:17,760 --> 00:32:19,160
Speaker 2: You are, and you don't want to be the last kid.

637
00:32:19,400 --> 00:32:21,040
Speaker 3: No, that's humiliating.

638
00:32:21,480 --> 00:32:25,680
Speaker 2: That's a real tough spot to be truly. But now

639
00:32:25,680 --> 00:32:29,240
Speaker 2: I'm scared because I know I have that kid. Kids

640
00:32:29,320 --> 00:32:31,479
Speaker 2: is going to be You're gonna tell all his friends.

641
00:32:32,280 --> 00:32:33,400
Speaker 2: He's gonna tell them all.

642
00:32:33,880 --> 00:32:39,720
Speaker 3: Yeah, and your parents calling you my child is crying? Yeah,

643
00:32:39,840 --> 00:32:42,760
Speaker 3: how do I explain this to my son? Yeah, that's tough.

644
00:32:42,880 --> 00:32:47,920
Speaker 3: I have a couple friends who their philosophy on Santa

645
00:32:47,920 --> 00:32:50,800
Speaker 3: Claus is interesting. They do lie to their kids about Santa,

646
00:32:50,840 --> 00:32:54,040
Speaker 3: but only they say Santa brings the smaller gifts and

647
00:32:54,080 --> 00:32:56,080
Speaker 3: then they take credit for the big gifts.

648
00:32:56,640 --> 00:32:57,480
Speaker 2: I gotta get down with that.

649
00:32:57,600 --> 00:32:58,600
Speaker 3: I think that's a good idea.

650
00:32:58,720 --> 00:33:01,360
Speaker 2: I kind of do that. We started doing that this year.

651
00:33:01,400 --> 00:33:03,400
Speaker 2: I said, well, Sanna only gets you a few gifts

652
00:33:03,400 --> 00:33:05,120
Speaker 2: and Mom and Papa get you the rest. Because I

653
00:33:05,160 --> 00:33:08,760
Speaker 2: realized Santah had too much power. Right, He's getting he's

654
00:33:08,760 --> 00:33:10,680
Speaker 2: getting so much credit. And also I think there's a

655
00:33:10,720 --> 00:33:13,160
Speaker 2: little part of my son's brain that was like, it's

656
00:33:13,160 --> 00:33:16,680
Speaker 2: impossible to watch all of us all the time. So

657
00:33:16,840 --> 00:33:21,600
Speaker 2: I needed some of that present power in my control. Like,

658
00:33:21,760 --> 00:33:24,640
Speaker 2: you know, that big thing you want, he's not getting

659
00:33:24,640 --> 00:33:26,280
Speaker 2: that for you. I'm getting that for you.

660
00:33:26,320 --> 00:33:27,480
Speaker 3: So you need me.

661
00:33:27,720 --> 00:33:29,240
Speaker 2: You need me. Watch yourself.

662
00:33:29,240 --> 00:33:30,600
Speaker 3: You can't count on Santa Claus.

663
00:33:31,160 --> 00:33:33,400
Speaker 2: Watch your tone.

664
00:33:33,800 --> 00:33:36,480
Speaker 3: No. I support that. I feel like every parent should

665
00:33:36,480 --> 00:33:42,200
Speaker 3: do that. It probably makes your kid appreciate you more sooner, or.

666
00:33:42,400 --> 00:33:44,800
Speaker 2: Just makes you more makes him more mad at you.

667
00:33:46,640 --> 00:33:48,480
Speaker 3: Yeah, and I guess if the big gift is kind

668
00:33:48,480 --> 00:33:50,840
Speaker 3: of a dud, then they really game. Yeah, you can't

669
00:33:50,840 --> 00:33:52,080
Speaker 3: blame anybody but yourself.

670
00:33:52,120 --> 00:33:56,800
Speaker 2: There is some risk involved, for sure. See how it goes.

671
00:33:58,280 --> 00:34:00,120
Speaker 3: Have they do they write Christmas list.

672
00:34:00,560 --> 00:34:02,720
Speaker 2: Yes, he just wrote his last night.

673
00:34:02,920 --> 00:34:05,040
Speaker 3: What are kids wanting for Christmas? Now?

674
00:34:05,280 --> 00:34:08,320
Speaker 2: Oh god, Well, my son is going to be seven,

675
00:34:08,960 --> 00:34:15,399
Speaker 2: so he's approaching the age of like less toys into toys.

676
00:34:16,080 --> 00:34:19,560
Speaker 2: He asked for some video games for his Nintendo Switch. Okay,

677
00:34:21,040 --> 00:34:23,279
Speaker 2: what else? Did he ask for? Some Lego sets?

678
00:34:23,320 --> 00:34:24,880
Speaker 3: Okay? Oh?

679
00:34:24,920 --> 00:34:29,279
Speaker 2: This cool? Like, uh, he's gonna try out for We'll

680
00:34:29,320 --> 00:34:31,120
Speaker 2: not try out. He's gonna do it, but he has

681
00:34:31,160 --> 00:34:35,000
Speaker 2: to do like a little league. So it's like this

682
00:34:35,520 --> 00:34:37,040
Speaker 2: to practice hitting the ball.

683
00:34:37,480 --> 00:34:39,279
Speaker 3: It's like a it's like a little.

684
00:34:39,280 --> 00:34:41,520
Speaker 2: It's like a ball on a thing that comes around,

685
00:34:42,080 --> 00:34:45,960
Speaker 2: almost like a heather ball, yes, kind of, but like

686
00:34:46,040 --> 00:34:49,759
Speaker 2: a modern version of it. It looks like it kind

687
00:34:49,760 --> 00:34:50,960
Speaker 2: of comes around. I don't know.

688
00:34:51,120 --> 00:34:54,360
Speaker 3: Oh interesting, I thought it was interesting. I've never successfully

689
00:34:54,440 --> 00:34:57,720
Speaker 3: hit a baseball, oh, not once in my life.

690
00:34:58,120 --> 00:34:58,920
Speaker 2: That's amazing.

691
00:34:59,200 --> 00:35:00,759
Speaker 3: I mean, I guess I should own at this point

692
00:35:00,760 --> 00:35:02,640
Speaker 3: as I should be proud of you.

693
00:35:02,680 --> 00:35:04,680
Speaker 2: Should I actually impressed.

694
00:35:04,840 --> 00:35:08,120
Speaker 3: Unfortunately I've tried, so that's the problem. Yeah, I had.

695
00:35:08,360 --> 00:35:10,759
Speaker 3: If I had taken a stand against it early on

696
00:35:10,800 --> 00:35:12,719
Speaker 3: and said I will never hit a baseball, I would

697
00:35:12,719 --> 00:35:15,920
Speaker 3: be proud of that. Unfortunately, there are over the years.

698
00:35:16,320 --> 00:35:21,680
Speaker 2: I like that you tried and it never happened.

699
00:35:21,800 --> 00:35:23,000
Speaker 3: It never happened for me.

700
00:35:23,760 --> 00:35:26,680
Speaker 2: Now you just know. Yeah, and I'm not in your

701
00:35:26,680 --> 00:35:29,640
Speaker 2: skill set yet yet.

702
00:35:29,800 --> 00:35:31,680
Speaker 3: I could be a late bloomer. You could maybe I

703
00:35:31,719 --> 00:35:34,719
Speaker 3: get really into baseball now you never know, and just

704
00:35:34,840 --> 00:35:37,799
Speaker 3: ruin another team's fun. They're just like sending Bridger out

705
00:35:37,800 --> 00:35:39,560
Speaker 3: to bat and you can't hit a single ball.

706
00:35:39,960 --> 00:35:41,479
Speaker 2: Honestly, that sounds fun.

707
00:35:41,640 --> 00:35:43,160
Speaker 3: Did you play any sports in school?

708
00:35:43,520 --> 00:35:45,719
Speaker 2: I did not. I was a dancer growing up. Oh

709
00:35:45,800 --> 00:35:50,880
Speaker 2: and so I did not really do sports in a

710
00:35:51,000 --> 00:35:52,040
Speaker 2: dance studio every day.

711
00:35:52,200 --> 00:35:53,600
Speaker 3: What sort of dance was it? Like?

712
00:35:54,280 --> 00:35:59,520
Speaker 2: Mostly ballet and like theater like musical theater, Broadway, jazz,

713
00:36:00,719 --> 00:36:05,960
Speaker 2: and I guess contemporary like modern okay, sure, and then

714
00:36:06,000 --> 00:36:07,640
Speaker 2: some tap that I was really bad at tap.

715
00:36:07,840 --> 00:36:09,960
Speaker 3: Oh I don't know that I could do tap. I

716
00:36:09,960 --> 00:36:12,640
Speaker 3: have a friend in an adult tap class, and it's

717
00:36:13,239 --> 00:36:16,720
Speaker 3: I've gone to both of her recitals. Fascinating to watch,

718
00:36:17,600 --> 00:36:19,080
Speaker 3: absolutely fascinating.

719
00:36:18,680 --> 00:36:19,759
Speaker 2: To come with you next time.

720
00:36:19,920 --> 00:36:23,640
Speaker 3: Absolutely, I'm sure the the tap studio will take any

721
00:36:23,680 --> 00:36:28,759
Speaker 3: audience member they could possibly get. I mean, I won't

722
00:36:28,840 --> 00:36:31,680
Speaker 3: name the name of the dance studio, but they the

723
00:36:31,719 --> 00:36:34,600
Speaker 3: owner puts on some interesting productions. I bet with some

724
00:36:34,680 --> 00:36:36,640
Speaker 3: interesting sci fi storylines.

725
00:36:36,760 --> 00:36:42,040
Speaker 2: Oh, all of every owner of a dance studio is

726
00:36:42,040 --> 00:36:42,640
Speaker 2: is a character.

727
00:36:43,000 --> 00:36:45,799
Speaker 3: Yeah, I believe that. I absolutely believe that. And I

728
00:36:45,800 --> 00:36:52,600
Speaker 3: imagine adult tap studio owners are a rare breed, interesting breed.

729
00:36:52,800 --> 00:36:55,799
Speaker 2: Almost have to be. It's like a job requirement, right.

730
00:36:56,000 --> 00:36:58,120
Speaker 3: But yeah, I've been to both. Both had a light

731
00:36:58,400 --> 00:37:02,120
Speaker 3: political tone and both had some sort of sci fi element,

732
00:37:02,200 --> 00:37:07,600
Speaker 3: which an interesting experience overall. But you've tapped a little.

733
00:37:07,760 --> 00:37:10,600
Speaker 2: I've tapped a little. I wish. I think it's cool

734
00:37:10,600 --> 00:37:13,920
Speaker 2: when you're when someone's like really good at taps, so embarrassive,

735
00:37:14,000 --> 00:37:18,759
Speaker 2: so impressive. I wished I could be like that, But

736
00:37:20,080 --> 00:37:24,680
Speaker 2: my feet don't do it.

737
00:37:26,760 --> 00:37:31,520
Speaker 3: That's a good explanation. I actually have recently been thinking

738
00:37:31,520 --> 00:37:34,000
Speaker 3: about taking a dance class. I think that that could

739
00:37:34,040 --> 00:37:36,839
Speaker 3: be a good time. Yes, I love to dance, but

740
00:37:36,920 --> 00:37:39,440
Speaker 3: like have never trained as a dance Yeah. That feels

741
00:37:39,480 --> 00:37:43,120
Speaker 3: like a fun diversion, distraction from my life.

742
00:37:43,320 --> 00:37:46,879
Speaker 2: Absolutely. Well, it's like such a release, right because there

743
00:37:47,120 --> 00:37:54,000
Speaker 2: is a creative expression element to it, and that if

744
00:37:54,040 --> 00:37:57,480
Speaker 2: you can get have a good class and you can

745
00:37:58,000 --> 00:37:59,799
Speaker 2: have a little bit of that, it's like, yeah, it's

746
00:38:00,040 --> 00:38:01,400
Speaker 2: why not. I feel really good.

747
00:38:01,239 --> 00:38:05,200
Speaker 3: After Yeah, But again, going back to the adult dance

748
00:38:05,280 --> 00:38:07,520
Speaker 3: element of it, who am I going to be dancing with? Well,

749
00:38:07,560 --> 00:38:10,760
Speaker 3: maybe that's a good thing. Maybe they're all bonkers, that's true.

750
00:38:10,920 --> 00:38:12,360
Speaker 3: I get to meet a lot of character.

751
00:38:12,600 --> 00:38:14,600
Speaker 2: Yes, I think you should do it.

752
00:38:14,760 --> 00:38:17,400
Speaker 3: Maybe I'll do it. Maybe I'll go to the community

753
00:38:17,400 --> 00:38:20,080
Speaker 3: center or something. I don't even know where to begin looking,

754
00:38:20,760 --> 00:38:23,799
Speaker 3: but maybe that's the next step in my life. My

755
00:38:23,880 --> 00:38:26,000
Speaker 3: new chapter is a dancer I am.

756
00:38:26,280 --> 00:38:27,040
Speaker 2: I am into it.

757
00:38:27,120 --> 00:38:28,360
Speaker 3: Do you like to dance at weddings?

758
00:38:28,800 --> 00:38:29,160
Speaker 2: I do?

759
00:38:29,719 --> 00:38:30,719
Speaker 3: What a wonderful time?

760
00:38:30,880 --> 00:38:33,840
Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, I love a wedding. I know people

761
00:38:33,880 --> 00:38:38,080
Speaker 2: have opinions about weddings. I what's not to love about

762
00:38:38,080 --> 00:38:38,480
Speaker 2: a wedding?

763
00:38:38,840 --> 00:38:41,240
Speaker 3: Did you? I have to assume you enjoyed your wedding?

764
00:38:41,520 --> 00:38:43,200
Speaker 3: I did? But was it stressful?

765
00:38:43,520 --> 00:38:47,399
Speaker 2: It was because we had a really big wedding, right,

766
00:38:48,040 --> 00:38:52,239
Speaker 2: which is not really like who we are. But it

767
00:38:52,320 --> 00:38:55,279
Speaker 2: was just like our circumstance because we're Latin and we

768
00:38:55,360 --> 00:38:56,480
Speaker 2: have so many cousins.

769
00:38:56,680 --> 00:38:57,920
Speaker 3: Oh sure, sure.

770
00:38:57,840 --> 00:39:01,360
Speaker 2: So yeah it was. And I didn't have I was young.

771
00:39:01,560 --> 00:39:03,919
Speaker 2: I was in my twenties. I got married pretty young

772
00:39:04,520 --> 00:39:06,680
Speaker 2: and so I didn't have like a wedding planner or

773
00:39:06,840 --> 00:39:09,360
Speaker 2: anything like. I did everything myself.

774
00:39:09,440 --> 00:39:10,759
Speaker 3: Okay, okay, so that.

775
00:39:10,880 --> 00:39:14,640
Speaker 2: Was stressful, right, I can only imagine. And but then

776
00:39:14,840 --> 00:39:17,280
Speaker 2: the actual day was not stressful.

777
00:39:17,320 --> 00:39:18,520
Speaker 3: Oh well that's nice.

778
00:39:18,560 --> 00:39:21,600
Speaker 2: Then I was able to kind of just let it

779
00:39:21,640 --> 00:39:24,520
Speaker 2: all go right and be like whatever, it can all

780
00:39:24,680 --> 00:39:28,000
Speaker 2: fucking fall apart and I'm done. I am so done

781
00:39:28,040 --> 00:39:31,759
Speaker 2: planning this fucking wedding. I'm going to go I'm going

782
00:39:31,760 --> 00:39:34,040
Speaker 2: to say I do, I'm going to get drunk, and

783
00:39:34,080 --> 00:39:37,000
Speaker 2: I'm going to dance. And then that's what I did.

784
00:39:37,160 --> 00:39:38,440
Speaker 3: It's such a healthy attitude.

785
00:39:38,560 --> 00:39:38,960
Speaker 2: Thank you.

786
00:39:40,080 --> 00:39:42,000
Speaker 3: Yeah. I don't think I could. I could handle it.

787
00:39:42,320 --> 00:39:45,600
Speaker 3: I had a birthday party recently and it nearly broke me.

788
00:39:46,360 --> 00:39:49,480
Speaker 3: I was up until the moment it started. I was sweating.

789
00:39:49,560 --> 00:39:52,000
Speaker 3: I was swearing I would never do it again. Yeah,

790
00:39:52,040 --> 00:39:52,520
Speaker 3: it just.

791
00:39:52,640 --> 00:39:53,879
Speaker 2: You're gonna do it again next year.

792
00:39:53,960 --> 00:39:54,879
Speaker 3: I had a wonderful time.

793
00:39:54,920 --> 00:39:55,760
Speaker 2: I had a great time.

794
00:39:55,760 --> 00:39:56,360
Speaker 3: Once it began.

795
00:39:56,960 --> 00:39:59,759
Speaker 2: That's the thing. That's the thing, that's the that's the

796
00:39:59,840 --> 00:40:02,680
Speaker 2: like drug part of it, right, is like this planning

797
00:40:02,760 --> 00:40:04,840
Speaker 2: is so stressful and you're like, why am I doing this?

798
00:40:04,880 --> 00:40:07,440
Speaker 2: I'm never fucking doing this again and then you have

799
00:40:07,520 --> 00:40:08,280
Speaker 2: the best time.

800
00:40:08,600 --> 00:40:08,839
Speaker 3: Right.

801
00:40:09,280 --> 00:40:11,200
Speaker 2: I can't tell you how many times I say to

802
00:40:11,239 --> 00:40:13,520
Speaker 2: my husband, like, we should do a vow renewal just

803
00:40:13,560 --> 00:40:15,240
Speaker 2: so I could throw another fucking wedding.

804
00:40:15,360 --> 00:40:17,440
Speaker 3: Yeah you should. You probably will at some point I

805
00:40:17,440 --> 00:40:21,000
Speaker 3: want to. But imagine if it went wrong, you go

806
00:40:21,080 --> 00:40:22,680
Speaker 3: through all that stress and then you don't have a

807
00:40:22,680 --> 00:40:24,840
Speaker 3: good time, I would probably throw myself into the ocean.

808
00:40:25,280 --> 00:40:28,080
Speaker 2: I don't know, though. Sometimes that can also be a surprise,

809
00:40:28,160 --> 00:40:30,560
Speaker 2: because sometimes parties where everything goes wrong end up being

810
00:40:30,640 --> 00:40:32,720
Speaker 2: like the best party you.

811
00:40:32,600 --> 00:40:36,520
Speaker 3: Have just a better attitude about everything. That would be

812
00:40:36,520 --> 00:40:39,080
Speaker 3: the end of me. It would be my farewell party,

813
00:40:39,160 --> 00:40:42,200
Speaker 3: it would. Yeah, I can't. I couldn't handle the stress

814
00:40:42,360 --> 00:40:43,840
Speaker 3: followed by a dud of a party.

815
00:40:44,080 --> 00:40:48,600
Speaker 2: Yeah, just quit society, go into isolation, become a repost

816
00:40:48,760 --> 00:40:49,960
Speaker 2: for the rest of your days.

817
00:40:51,600 --> 00:40:53,480
Speaker 3: But I do like going to a wedding, of course.

818
00:40:53,520 --> 00:40:54,880
Speaker 3: I mean, yeah, I've been to.

819
00:40:55,080 --> 00:40:56,480
Speaker 2: There's people that don't.

820
00:40:56,520 --> 00:41:00,239
Speaker 3: They're like weddings well, I mean unless it's a huge

821
00:41:00,320 --> 00:41:04,160
Speaker 3: The idea of a destination wedding bothers me. Why because

822
00:41:04,200 --> 00:41:07,040
Speaker 3: it's like suddenly I'm paying my for a vacation that

823
00:41:07,200 --> 00:41:09,680
Speaker 3: to a destination. I didn't have any plan on going.

824
00:41:09,520 --> 00:41:12,640
Speaker 2: To okay A. It depends where it is.

825
00:41:13,000 --> 00:41:13,320
Speaker 3: True.

826
00:41:13,400 --> 00:41:15,680
Speaker 2: That's a big, very true. Because if you're having your

827
00:41:15,680 --> 00:41:25,359
Speaker 2: destination wedding in somewhere, that's I'm gonna judge you so harshly, right,

828
00:41:25,440 --> 00:41:27,759
Speaker 2: because then, yeah, you want me to spend money to

829
00:41:27,880 --> 00:41:28,520
Speaker 2: go there.

830
00:41:29,040 --> 00:41:30,480
Speaker 3: Really, see, that's my fear.

831
00:41:31,120 --> 00:41:34,880
Speaker 2: But if it's somewhere cool, that's like you're giving us

832
00:41:34,880 --> 00:41:38,880
Speaker 2: an excuse to go somewhere we may not have gone. True,

833
00:41:39,120 --> 00:41:41,200
Speaker 2: it forces us to take a vacation. I'm bad at

834
00:41:41,200 --> 00:41:44,040
Speaker 2: taking vacation. It's terrible as see. That's what I like

835
00:41:44,080 --> 00:41:47,400
Speaker 2: about destination weddings is it forces me to take a

836
00:41:47,480 --> 00:41:48,920
Speaker 2: vacation and go somewhere.

837
00:41:49,320 --> 00:41:51,839
Speaker 3: Again. Back to the attitudes, maybe I just need to

838
00:41:51,880 --> 00:41:56,920
Speaker 3: shift in attitude. Maybe I just a destination wedding. Hopefully,

839
00:41:57,400 --> 00:42:00,719
Speaker 3: hopefully none of my friends get married. That's kind of

840
00:42:00,760 --> 00:42:04,120
Speaker 3: the only thing that will protect me from that. But

841
00:42:04,360 --> 00:42:06,000
Speaker 3: there are a lot of them out there that are

842
00:42:06,040 --> 00:42:09,480
Speaker 3: still unmarried. Do you like matchmaking?

843
00:42:11,080 --> 00:42:15,319
Speaker 2: I like the idea of it, and I wish it's

844
00:42:15,320 --> 00:42:17,799
Speaker 2: a skill I wish I had. I feel like I

845
00:42:17,800 --> 00:42:20,040
Speaker 2: would be a good match, like you.

846
00:42:20,000 --> 00:42:22,120
Speaker 3: Would be a really great matchmaker.

847
00:42:21,719 --> 00:42:26,040
Speaker 2: But I have no matches to It's hard. Credit for

848
00:42:26,960 --> 00:42:31,120
Speaker 2: it's hard. And every time someone's like if you know anyone,

849
00:42:31,520 --> 00:42:33,800
Speaker 2: I get so excited, like, oh, I bet I do,

850
00:42:33,920 --> 00:42:38,279
Speaker 2: I bet I do know someone, and then I don't, right,

851
00:42:38,560 --> 00:42:39,719
Speaker 2: and it's like.

852
00:42:40,840 --> 00:42:42,719
Speaker 3: Well, here's the thing. Are the people that usually say

853
00:42:42,719 --> 00:42:45,560
Speaker 3: if you know someone? Is it a woman that says this? No,

854
00:42:45,640 --> 00:42:46,520
Speaker 3: I feel like you know.

855
00:42:46,480 --> 00:42:48,080
Speaker 2: A lot of guys, women and men.

856
00:42:48,640 --> 00:42:50,960
Speaker 3: It's pretty much most of the people that I'm trying

857
00:42:51,000 --> 00:42:54,560
Speaker 3: to make matches for women my friends with in LA

858
00:42:54,800 --> 00:42:57,240
Speaker 3: and there's like, I think there are like four decent

859
00:42:57,280 --> 00:43:00,080
Speaker 3: men in Los Angeles. I'm like, I don't know women, and.

860
00:43:00,160 --> 00:43:03,720
Speaker 2: It's a lot harder. Yeah. Usually if a guy asks me, I'm.

861
00:43:03,520 --> 00:43:05,399
Speaker 3: Like, oh, right, I've got fifty people.

862
00:43:05,440 --> 00:43:07,600
Speaker 2: I could say, yeah, yeah, I've got some ladies, right,

863
00:43:07,680 --> 00:43:10,080
Speaker 2: But if a woman does yeah, it's like, oh, I'm sorry.

864
00:43:10,560 --> 00:43:12,160
Speaker 2: So many guys that suck out.

865
00:43:12,040 --> 00:43:15,400
Speaker 3: There right now, even my close friends. I can't imagine

866
00:43:15,400 --> 00:43:15,960
Speaker 3: sending you up.

867
00:43:16,080 --> 00:43:16,640
Speaker 2: I'm so sorry.

868
00:43:16,760 --> 00:43:19,920
Speaker 3: I would never I can name all sorts of problems

869
00:43:19,920 --> 00:43:21,960
Speaker 3: with this person. I don't want you anywhere near them,

870
00:43:22,600 --> 00:43:24,680
Speaker 3: but I do enjoy I mean, I feel like, I'm

871
00:43:24,719 --> 00:43:27,160
Speaker 3: constantly on the hunt for to make a match because

872
00:43:27,640 --> 00:43:29,600
Speaker 3: in doing, I mean, it's such a satisfying feeling.

873
00:43:29,600 --> 00:43:31,480
Speaker 2: When it works out, it must be so exhilarating.

874
00:43:31,560 --> 00:43:33,640
Speaker 3: Oh it's a thrill. Yeah, and it feels like.

875
00:43:33,640 --> 00:43:35,240
Speaker 2: So have you ever matched someone?

876
00:43:36,040 --> 00:43:39,480
Speaker 3: Yes? I have and it felt great and they're still together.

877
00:43:42,040 --> 00:43:44,319
Speaker 3: But that was years ago. It's been over at least

878
00:43:44,400 --> 00:43:46,960
Speaker 3: a decade. So I've lost the top. You have one,

879
00:43:47,080 --> 00:43:49,720
Speaker 3: I've got one in my pocket. I've got one, and I've.

880
00:43:49,600 --> 00:43:52,520
Speaker 2: Got it all together. And it was a success story.

881
00:43:52,400 --> 00:43:56,919
Speaker 3: Right, So I'm just I'm chasing that high. Yeah, I've

882
00:43:56,920 --> 00:43:59,400
Speaker 3: got to find another match to make. We'll see what happens.

883
00:43:59,440 --> 00:44:02,480
Speaker 3: I need to keep a little rollodex, just a more spreadsheet,

884
00:44:03,400 --> 00:44:04,759
Speaker 3: and then I can you know.

885
00:44:04,760 --> 00:44:06,399
Speaker 2: A little Google sheet if you will.

886
00:44:06,520 --> 00:44:13,920
Speaker 3: All right, right, availables, I mean speaking of docs and

887
00:44:13,960 --> 00:44:15,960
Speaker 3: that sort of thing. We should play a game. Okay,

888
00:44:16,360 --> 00:44:18,040
Speaker 3: We're gonn play a game called Gift to a Curse.

889
00:44:18,400 --> 00:44:20,319
Speaker 3: I need a number between one and ten from you.

890
00:44:20,960 --> 00:44:21,240
Speaker 2: Eight.

891
00:44:21,400 --> 00:44:23,480
Speaker 3: Okay, I have to do some light calculating. I'll tell

892
00:44:23,480 --> 00:44:25,480
Speaker 3: you how we played the game in a moment. But

893
00:44:25,560 --> 00:44:27,400
Speaker 3: right now you have the mic. You can recommend, you

894
00:44:27,440 --> 00:44:29,080
Speaker 3: can promote, you can do whatever you want.

895
00:44:29,200 --> 00:44:33,719
Speaker 2: Oh okay, I don't know if I have anything to well.

896
00:44:33,760 --> 00:44:41,840
Speaker 2: Blockbuster is on Netflix currently and I'm on it and

897
00:44:41,960 --> 00:44:46,439
Speaker 2: Bridger is a writer on it. Thank you. I also

898
00:44:46,560 --> 00:44:49,480
Speaker 2: have a little indie comedy called bar Fight that's a

899
00:44:49,520 --> 00:44:53,000
Speaker 2: little bit Christmas y that is currently streaming on demand.

900
00:44:53,640 --> 00:44:57,480
Speaker 2: And uh, those are my things currently right now in

901
00:44:57,520 --> 00:45:02,200
Speaker 2: this moment. You did it, Thank you, You're so Goodlockbuster sweating, Okay.

902
00:45:05,120 --> 00:45:11,200
Speaker 3: No, you did it. Nobody ever sees it coming. They

903
00:45:11,200 --> 00:45:13,960
Speaker 3: don't know what to do. There's frequently kind of nervous

904
00:45:13,960 --> 00:45:18,279
Speaker 3: hedging about what they want to promote. Uh, promoting things

905
00:45:18,400 --> 00:45:22,000
Speaker 3: is very hard to recommend something that you've done. It's

906
00:45:22,040 --> 00:45:25,680
Speaker 3: there's because it's yeah, do I think I am.

907
00:45:26,120 --> 00:45:29,279
Speaker 2: That's what it feels like every time. But watch this

908
00:45:29,360 --> 00:45:32,360
Speaker 2: thing I did. But that's literally my whole job. I

909
00:45:32,440 --> 00:45:34,240
Speaker 2: don't have a job if you don't watch.

910
00:45:36,200 --> 00:45:40,279
Speaker 3: Likewise, so people, I think the promotion is and that's

911
00:45:40,280 --> 00:45:42,080
Speaker 3: why I give the platform. I want to give a

912
00:45:42,120 --> 00:45:45,520
Speaker 3: safe space where you can shamelessly talk about yourself.

913
00:45:45,560 --> 00:45:46,160
Speaker 2: Appreciate that.

914
00:45:46,239 --> 00:45:49,160
Speaker 3: And most people just uh don't do a very good

915
00:45:49,239 --> 00:45:52,000
Speaker 3: job at him. But that was fine. You did perfectly

916
00:45:52,000 --> 00:45:56,040
Speaker 3: fine there, fine, Yeah, go watch Blockbuster and.

917
00:45:55,960 --> 00:45:57,839
Speaker 2: What's the name of the movie bar Fight?

918
00:45:58,000 --> 00:46:01,560
Speaker 3: Barfight? Go see those things? Viewer and or viewer listener,

919
00:46:01,760 --> 00:46:04,359
Speaker 3: listen listener, you're not looking at the podcast. I hope

920
00:46:04,360 --> 00:46:05,759
Speaker 3: you're not looking at I don't know.

921
00:46:05,840 --> 00:46:08,000
Speaker 2: It might be they might be watching those little numbers.

922
00:46:08,000 --> 00:46:12,560
Speaker 3: You never know. Okay, this is how we play Gift

923
00:46:12,600 --> 00:46:15,239
Speaker 3: or a Curse. I'm gonna name three things. You're going

924
00:46:15,280 --> 00:46:16,520
Speaker 3: to tell me if there are a gift or a

925
00:46:16,560 --> 00:46:17,760
Speaker 3: curse and why?

926
00:46:18,080 --> 00:46:18,480
Speaker 2: Okay.

927
00:46:18,560 --> 00:46:20,600
Speaker 3: And I'm going to tell you if you're correct or

928
00:46:20,640 --> 00:46:23,200
Speaker 3: not because there are correct answers. Oh okay. And you

929
00:46:23,200 --> 00:46:26,040
Speaker 3: can bomb the game great, which would be so embarrassing

930
00:46:26,080 --> 00:46:28,360
Speaker 3: for you, so be careful.

931
00:46:28,440 --> 00:46:29,880
Speaker 2: I haven't been embarrassed in a while.

932
00:46:29,680 --> 00:46:35,040
Speaker 3: So well, prepare yourself. Okay. So the first thing, this

933
00:46:35,080 --> 00:46:38,719
Speaker 3: is a listener's suggestion from someone named Jessica. Jessica wants

934
00:46:38,760 --> 00:46:42,720
Speaker 3: to know gift or a curse? Unexpectedly long yellow traffic

935
00:46:42,800 --> 00:46:45,360
Speaker 3: lights unexpectedly?

936
00:46:45,640 --> 00:46:52,200
Speaker 2: Oh, gift? And why because you can drive through them safely?

937
00:46:54,760 --> 00:47:00,680
Speaker 3: Okay, Well, Melissa, I have some news for you. Wrong curse.

938
00:47:01,960 --> 00:47:05,239
Speaker 3: This is why because it allows too much room for

939
00:47:05,320 --> 00:47:09,120
Speaker 3: decision making. For someone like me, I need to be

940
00:47:09,200 --> 00:47:11,200
Speaker 3: told what to do. I actually don't think there should

941
00:47:11,200 --> 00:47:12,839
Speaker 3: even be a yellow light. I just need a yes

942
00:47:12,920 --> 00:47:15,719
Speaker 3: or no. I need to stop or go the yellow light.

943
00:47:15,760 --> 00:47:18,719
Speaker 3: And when it's unexpected, I don't know how long. Then

944
00:47:18,960 --> 00:47:21,680
Speaker 3: I'm slowing down. I'm speeding up. I'm slowing down. My

945
00:47:21,760 --> 00:47:23,400
Speaker 3: heart is raising. I don't know what to do. I'm

946
00:47:23,440 --> 00:47:28,040
Speaker 3: putting myself and every other driver in the vicinity in danger. Wow,

947
00:47:28,640 --> 00:47:33,719
Speaker 3: and for that reason alone? Curse? And why is there

948
00:47:34,080 --> 00:47:36,480
Speaker 3: there must be some sort of standard. Why isn't there

949
00:47:36,520 --> 00:47:38,520
Speaker 3: a standard for the yellow light? There should be four

950
00:47:38,600 --> 00:47:39,600
Speaker 3: seconds or something.

951
00:47:39,880 --> 00:47:43,399
Speaker 2: There should be a standard. Although I guess intersections come

952
00:47:43,440 --> 00:47:48,680
Speaker 2: in different sizes. Sure, so maybe that is too. Has

953
00:47:48,760 --> 00:47:50,000
Speaker 2: to take that into account.

954
00:47:50,520 --> 00:47:52,560
Speaker 3: Is it like a thing to keep you on your toes?

955
00:47:52,719 --> 00:47:55,400
Speaker 3: I guess so it's not like your Everyone knows they

956
00:47:55,400 --> 00:47:57,440
Speaker 3: have this much time with a yellow light, right.

957
00:47:58,560 --> 00:48:01,440
Speaker 2: I don't know when it's been I don't know what

958
00:48:01,440 --> 00:48:02,960
Speaker 2: it says about me. I see yellow, and I go

959
00:48:02,960 --> 00:48:04,839
Speaker 2: a little faster, just so I can make that ship.

960
00:48:05,840 --> 00:48:08,839
Speaker 3: I still haven't quite figured. I'm finally getting into the

961
00:48:09,680 --> 00:48:12,640
Speaker 3: beating through the yellow light rather than slamming on my brakes.

962
00:48:12,640 --> 00:48:14,239
Speaker 2: But you like it.

963
00:48:14,239 --> 00:48:18,040
Speaker 3: It feels good. Let's be honest. It's a little rush.

964
00:48:18,080 --> 00:48:20,040
Speaker 3: I oh, I'm saving.

965
00:48:19,760 --> 00:48:23,080
Speaker 2: Time and well thrilling when you see it go red

966
00:48:23,480 --> 00:48:26,960
Speaker 2: just as you pass under it without.

967
00:48:26,840 --> 00:48:28,120
Speaker 3: Kissing the ceiling or whatever.

968
00:48:28,480 --> 00:48:29,319
Speaker 2: No, is that a thing?

969
00:48:29,560 --> 00:48:32,680
Speaker 3: Yeah? I think there's some superstition where you like kiss

970
00:48:32,680 --> 00:48:34,560
Speaker 3: your hand and then touch the ceiling. Onalise, have you

971
00:48:34,600 --> 00:48:38,120
Speaker 3: ever heard of this? Analie is shaking their head. Yes, yeah,

972
00:48:38,120 --> 00:48:39,440
Speaker 3: I think it's the thing. I don't know. Maybe it's

973
00:48:39,480 --> 00:48:43,200
Speaker 3: good luck, or maybe it's okay, something to I don't know.

974
00:48:43,200 --> 00:48:45,160
Speaker 3: Maybe you make a wish or something. I don't know,

975
00:48:45,719 --> 00:48:48,240
Speaker 3: but I do that on occasion, and it feels it's exciting.

976
00:48:48,320 --> 00:48:51,960
Speaker 2: I'm going to add that to my and driving retire.

977
00:48:51,560 --> 00:48:53,640
Speaker 3: You should give it a shot. Make a little wish

978
00:48:53,800 --> 00:48:56,399
Speaker 3: next time. I mean, people in Los Angeles go through

979
00:48:56,640 --> 00:48:59,000
Speaker 3: red lights that have been red for forty seconds. I know,

980
00:48:59,040 --> 00:49:03,920
Speaker 3: I don't feel too bad going through an orange light exactly. Okay,

981
00:49:03,960 --> 00:49:06,520
Speaker 3: so you definitely have not gotten one right so far.

982
00:49:06,640 --> 00:49:09,600
Speaker 3: But it's only one, okay. This next one is from

983
00:49:09,600 --> 00:49:12,839
Speaker 3: a listener named Cameron, and Cameron wants to know gift

984
00:49:12,840 --> 00:49:16,600
Speaker 3: to a curse restaurants that bring out your order quote

985
00:49:16,840 --> 00:49:17,680
Speaker 3: as it's ready.

986
00:49:18,600 --> 00:49:29,719
Speaker 2: Mmmm mmm. Oh it's hard because it depends on the restaurant. Oh,

987
00:49:30,520 --> 00:49:37,880
Speaker 2: I'm gonna say curse because I don't want my main

988
00:49:39,600 --> 00:49:44,080
Speaker 2: coming out at the same time as my appetizer, because

989
00:49:44,120 --> 00:49:48,239
Speaker 2: then essentially my appetizer is a side dish. It now

990
00:49:48,360 --> 00:49:52,840
Speaker 2: changes genres and I'm uncomfortable with that.

991
00:49:53,040 --> 00:49:58,240
Speaker 3: M you got it. Yeah, a total curse. It upsets

992
00:49:58,239 --> 00:50:00,880
Speaker 3: the natural order. Yeah, there's a reason and that these

993
00:50:00,920 --> 00:50:03,560
Speaker 3: things are placed in order on the menu from beginning

994
00:50:03,600 --> 00:50:06,360
Speaker 3: to end. Yes, I don't like it feels kind of

995
00:50:06,400 --> 00:50:07,400
Speaker 3: like a newer trend.

996
00:50:07,560 --> 00:50:11,320
Speaker 2: Only Okay, if you're eating at a tapas restaurant.

997
00:50:10,840 --> 00:50:12,600
Speaker 3: Well, right, that makes a little more sense.

998
00:50:12,560 --> 00:50:16,040
Speaker 2: Because everything is on an equal playing field. You're more

999
00:50:16,160 --> 00:50:19,480
Speaker 2: or less ordering appetizers the entire time.

1000
00:50:19,640 --> 00:50:21,719
Speaker 3: Everything's kind of a smaller thing, like.

1001
00:50:21,719 --> 00:50:25,359
Speaker 2: Yeah, there's maybe like two sizes of everything small and

1002
00:50:25,480 --> 00:50:27,440
Speaker 2: like a little bit less small.

1003
00:50:27,560 --> 00:50:30,440
Speaker 3: And this is why I avoid a tapas restaurant in general.

1004
00:50:30,880 --> 00:50:33,560
Speaker 3: It makes me so nervous. I mean, I've talked about

1005
00:50:33,560 --> 00:50:36,560
Speaker 3: this endlessly on this podcast. Really, the sharing element. I

1006
00:50:36,560 --> 00:50:38,640
Speaker 3: never know how much food I need to know. I

1007
00:50:38,680 --> 00:50:40,880
Speaker 3: need to see the plate of my food. I know

1008
00:50:40,920 --> 00:50:44,200
Speaker 3: that that's all yours, This is all mine. Go crazy,

1009
00:50:44,280 --> 00:50:49,239
Speaker 3: go hogwild. Yeah, at a tapas restaurant, I'm uncomfortable from

1010
00:50:49,239 --> 00:50:50,719
Speaker 3: moment one to the end.

1011
00:50:51,160 --> 00:50:54,200
Speaker 2: When you eat at a family style restaurant, and you

1012
00:50:54,239 --> 00:50:56,960
Speaker 2: know this happens every time, It's like a shared situation.

1013
00:50:57,560 --> 00:51:01,840
Speaker 2: There's always the last bite. Oh, the plate that sits there.

1014
00:51:01,719 --> 00:51:04,160
Speaker 3: For a long time, just getting colder and colder.

1015
00:51:04,200 --> 00:51:06,239
Speaker 2: Are you the person that says I'm gonna take this

1016
00:51:06,320 --> 00:51:09,000
Speaker 2: last by anybody want it or you just you just

1017
00:51:09,080 --> 00:51:10,120
Speaker 2: wait and see how it plays.

1018
00:51:10,320 --> 00:51:12,719
Speaker 3: I'm absolutely waiting for every other person to claim it

1019
00:51:12,760 --> 00:51:14,359
Speaker 3: before I do. What about you?

1020
00:51:14,600 --> 00:51:15,239
Speaker 2: I claim it?

1021
00:51:15,360 --> 00:51:18,360
Speaker 3: So see, you're actually a hero in this situation.

1022
00:51:18,480 --> 00:51:21,120
Speaker 2: I really like it. I'm like, anybody want this, Like,

1023
00:51:21,160 --> 00:51:24,719
Speaker 2: if you want this, eat it, because I'm not. I'm

1024
00:51:24,719 --> 00:51:25,279
Speaker 2: gonna eat it.

1025
00:51:25,840 --> 00:51:28,840
Speaker 3: Every table needs somebody like that. Yeah, I'm a problem

1026
00:51:28,840 --> 00:51:32,960
Speaker 3: in that situation because I'm I'm contributing to the weird

1027
00:51:33,080 --> 00:51:36,480
Speaker 3: sense of every Clearly everyone wants it, right, someone just

1028
00:51:36,520 --> 00:51:39,040
Speaker 3: speak up and take it to eat it.

1029
00:51:39,160 --> 00:51:41,839
Speaker 2: Yes, I there's nothing I hate more when everyone goes

1030
00:51:41,880 --> 00:51:44,600
Speaker 2: oh no, oh no, it's fine, It's you, it's all

1031
00:51:44,680 --> 00:51:46,640
Speaker 2: you get it, And I'm like, no, if you want it,

1032
00:51:47,160 --> 00:51:49,399
Speaker 2: just say you want it, right, just eat it.

1033
00:51:49,440 --> 00:51:50,759
Speaker 3: But then what do you what do you do if

1034
00:51:50,760 --> 00:51:51,600
Speaker 3: everyone wants it?

1035
00:51:52,520 --> 00:51:56,200
Speaker 2: Then you cut it up into four pieces?

1036
00:51:56,360 --> 00:51:57,480
Speaker 3: Big enough for four pieces.

1037
00:51:57,520 --> 00:51:58,959
Speaker 2: Well, everyone can have a lick.

1038
00:52:01,760 --> 00:52:03,640
Speaker 3: Everyone gets a lick, and then one person gets.

1039
00:52:03,400 --> 00:52:06,520
Speaker 2: To choose a solution to every problem.

1040
00:52:08,800 --> 00:52:10,919
Speaker 3: Okay, I can't argue with that, And I will say,

1041
00:52:10,960 --> 00:52:13,600
Speaker 3: like family style restaurants, I will. I guess that's a

1042
00:52:13,600 --> 00:52:16,120
Speaker 3: different thing if you go out Chinese or something. I'm

1043
00:52:16,120 --> 00:52:18,200
Speaker 3: more comfortable in that situation because the plates of food

1044
00:52:18,200 --> 00:52:19,480
Speaker 3: are enormous.

1045
00:52:19,840 --> 00:52:21,160
Speaker 2: And I don't well, it's a tapa.

1046
00:52:21,320 --> 00:52:23,920
Speaker 3: The tapas just makes me crazy. It makes me, it

1047
00:52:24,080 --> 00:52:27,920
Speaker 3: scares me. Not for me, but I'm glad we're on

1048
00:52:27,920 --> 00:52:33,440
Speaker 3: the same page here. Curse bringing it out as it's ready. Yeah,

1049
00:52:33,800 --> 00:52:35,240
Speaker 3: just time it correctly.

1050
00:52:35,440 --> 00:52:36,960
Speaker 2: They're called courses for a reason.

1051
00:52:37,080 --> 00:52:39,879
Speaker 3: Yes, I'm not. I can't deal with the chaos of that.

1052
00:52:39,920 --> 00:52:42,520
Speaker 3: It's not for me. Okay, So you've gotten one out

1053
00:52:42,560 --> 00:52:45,640
Speaker 3: of two so far, and you can get one more

1054
00:52:45,680 --> 00:52:48,680
Speaker 3: correct or one more wrong. We'll see what happens. And

1055
00:52:48,719 --> 00:52:50,319
Speaker 3: we're just getting I mean, I think this whole list

1056
00:52:50,360 --> 00:52:55,160
Speaker 3: is now listener suggestions. God bless us all. Janey wrote

1057
00:52:55,200 --> 00:52:58,600
Speaker 3: in Gift or a Curse when a when a family

1058
00:52:58,680 --> 00:53:01,680
Speaker 3: member has a baby and somehow that baby is now

1059
00:53:01,719 --> 00:53:09,200
Speaker 3: your uncle. So I you can answer this and we'll discuss.

1060
00:53:09,560 --> 00:53:15,560
Speaker 2: Oh, it's a lot to unpack. I don't want to

1061
00:53:15,640 --> 00:53:28,000
Speaker 2: offend anyone. The baby is now your uncle. I'm gonna

1062
00:53:28,040 --> 00:53:34,480
Speaker 2: go with Giffa because it's pretty rare that you get

1063
00:53:34,520 --> 00:53:39,600
Speaker 2: to boss your uncle around and potentially like beat them

1064
00:53:39,680 --> 00:53:41,520
Speaker 2: up a little bit. I mean, I'm saying from a

1065
00:53:41,560 --> 00:53:44,360
Speaker 2: kid's perspective if I was a kid, not like an

1066
00:53:44,400 --> 00:53:48,680
Speaker 2: adult should not uh you know, should be nice to children. Uh,

1067
00:53:48,719 --> 00:53:52,280
Speaker 2: but like a from like a power stance, I'm into.

1068
00:53:52,400 --> 00:53:54,960
Speaker 2: I'm into the role reversal there. I'm into the kind

1069
00:53:55,000 --> 00:54:02,600
Speaker 2: of the power shift the niece, her nephew basically getting

1070
00:54:02,640 --> 00:54:05,879
Speaker 2: to have power over there their uncle. That's so I'm

1071
00:54:05,880 --> 00:54:06,640
Speaker 2: gonna go with gifts.

1072
00:54:06,800 --> 00:54:10,239
Speaker 3: You got it? I mean yes, speaking of upsetting the

1073
00:54:10,360 --> 00:54:13,680
Speaker 3: natural order, this is really a wild situation. I'm trying

1074
00:54:13,680 --> 00:54:17,160
Speaker 3: to do. So does this mean? What does this mean?

1075
00:54:17,239 --> 00:54:22,000
Speaker 3: Your grandma and grandpa have a baby late in life?

1076
00:54:22,080 --> 00:54:26,160
Speaker 3: Is that what that means? Shaking their head, nodding their head.

1077
00:54:26,239 --> 00:54:29,839
Speaker 2: Yes, yes, that's yes, that's what it is.

1078
00:54:30,120 --> 00:54:31,840
Speaker 3: Yes, I don't think that there's any other way of

1079
00:54:31,880 --> 00:54:32,320
Speaker 3: that happening.

1080
00:54:32,360 --> 00:54:35,280
Speaker 2: So like your let's say, like your grandparents got divorced

1081
00:54:35,280 --> 00:54:39,040
Speaker 2: at some point, Okay, and then oh, oh, this is

1082
00:54:39,040 --> 00:54:46,680
Speaker 2: in a in a movie. What movie is it? It's

1083
00:54:46,719 --> 00:54:49,719
Speaker 2: like an old movie from the eighties or nineties and

1084
00:54:49,760 --> 00:54:52,480
Speaker 2: he goes to see and I'm trying to think of

1085
00:54:52,560 --> 00:54:56,279
Speaker 2: who the comedic actor is in the in the role

1086
00:54:56,320 --> 00:54:59,400
Speaker 2: I'm thinking of, But he goes to see his father

1087
00:55:00,040 --> 00:55:03,040
Speaker 2: and who's like carrying a baby and he's like, say

1088
00:55:03,120 --> 00:55:03,920
Speaker 2: hi to your uncle.

1089
00:55:05,400 --> 00:55:07,320
Speaker 3: So this is a real plot point in a movie.

1090
00:55:07,600 --> 00:55:10,840
Speaker 2: Yeah, oh, I can't remember it what it is.

1091
00:55:11,160 --> 00:55:13,400
Speaker 3: We'll have to look into that. How is that not

1092
00:55:13,480 --> 00:55:16,040
Speaker 3: the whole movie? That's my question. We should all know

1093
00:55:16,120 --> 00:55:17,920
Speaker 3: that movie off the top of her heads, because it's

1094
00:55:17,960 --> 00:55:20,880
Speaker 3: the movie about the baby being an uncle. Uh No,

1095
00:55:20,920 --> 00:55:23,680
Speaker 3: But it's a complete gift. I mean, you have this

1096
00:55:23,760 --> 00:55:26,560
Speaker 3: new it's this new, strange little person in your life

1097
00:55:26,600 --> 00:55:33,239
Speaker 3: who is somehow yeah, your uncle. It's almost Freaky Friday esque.

1098
00:55:33,320 --> 00:55:37,480
Speaker 3: The shift in dynamics there, and you get to you

1099
00:55:37,600 --> 00:55:41,799
Speaker 3: rarely get to teach your uncle, and yeah, it's just

1100
00:55:41,800 --> 00:55:43,719
Speaker 3: something that it's a little thing you can talk about

1101
00:55:43,719 --> 00:55:48,400
Speaker 3: at parties. My mom's eighty nine and she had a baby.

1102
00:55:48,600 --> 00:55:50,319
Speaker 2: I gotta go. Baby's at my aunt right now.

1103
00:55:51,200 --> 00:55:56,759
Speaker 3: I gotta go, you guys, Yeah, I love it, I absolutely.

1104
00:55:56,760 --> 00:55:58,640
Speaker 3: I mean there probably should be a different word for it.

1105
00:55:59,200 --> 00:56:00,720
Speaker 2: Yeah, there should.

1106
00:56:00,800 --> 00:56:05,160
Speaker 3: That's an opportunity for our language to expand and evolve.

1107
00:56:05,520 --> 00:56:08,480
Speaker 2: And I also feel like there should be a different

1108
00:56:08,560 --> 00:56:12,120
Speaker 2: name for like kid uncles and aunts, like do you

1109
00:56:12,200 --> 00:56:14,560
Speaker 2: know what I mean? Like that have like much older

1110
00:56:14,600 --> 00:56:17,200
Speaker 2: siblings that become an uncle at age like five?

1111
00:56:17,520 --> 00:56:23,040
Speaker 3: Oh right right, Yeah, that's another strange was.

1112
00:56:22,960 --> 00:56:25,160
Speaker 2: The movie Parenthood? I'm just gonna drive me crazy if

1113
00:56:25,200 --> 00:56:29,000
Speaker 2: I don't ask, Oh, was it parent parenthood?

1114
00:56:29,600 --> 00:56:31,239
Speaker 3: But that also happens in Parenthood?

1115
00:56:31,560 --> 00:56:31,919
Speaker 2: It does.

1116
00:56:32,200 --> 00:56:34,400
Speaker 3: Wow. It was a trend that was kind of the

1117
00:56:34,440 --> 00:56:36,600
Speaker 3: hot thing in the eighties and nineties was to have

1118
00:56:36,640 --> 00:56:41,640
Speaker 3: an uncle baby. Yeah, and now we've kind of forgotten it.

1119
00:56:41,880 --> 00:56:43,680
Speaker 3: And that's why we're trying if we have to do

1120
00:56:43,719 --> 00:56:46,080
Speaker 3: the math in our heads about having a baby that

1121
00:56:46,080 --> 00:56:46,880
Speaker 3: becomes an antroom.

1122
00:56:46,960 --> 00:56:49,399
Speaker 2: I want to say, it was like does it all

1123
00:56:49,400 --> 00:56:50,000
Speaker 2: do anything?

1124
00:56:50,280 --> 00:56:50,840
Speaker 3: Die Hard?

1125
00:56:51,520 --> 00:56:51,759
Speaker 2: Was it?

1126
00:56:51,760 --> 00:56:51,840
Speaker 1: It?

1127
00:56:51,880 --> 00:56:53,279
Speaker 2: Was like, I don't even know that it was the

1128
00:56:53,320 --> 00:56:55,920
Speaker 2: main character in the movie. Oh, it's gonna bother me.

1129
00:56:57,200 --> 00:57:00,080
Speaker 3: And there are listeners right now that are absolutely screaming

1130
00:57:00,160 --> 00:57:00,840
Speaker 3: the title.

1131
00:57:00,600 --> 00:57:01,600
Speaker 2: Of the Yeah exactly.

1132
00:57:01,640 --> 00:57:04,920
Speaker 3: And I love to drag a listener through a movie. Guess, uh,

1133
00:57:05,480 --> 00:57:06,480
Speaker 3: I wonder what it is.

1134
00:57:06,719 --> 00:57:08,600
Speaker 2: I'm like, was it I'm like, and I'm like going

1135
00:57:08,680 --> 00:57:12,000
Speaker 2: through all the guys that were in those movies, right,

1136
00:57:12,120 --> 00:57:16,720
Speaker 2: It's like, either it was Ben Stiller or it was Oh,

1137
00:57:16,800 --> 00:57:21,200
Speaker 2: what's the actor with like the really gravelly voice.

1138
00:57:22,160 --> 00:57:26,240
Speaker 3: You're not giving us anything to work on here. That's

1139
00:57:26,280 --> 00:57:28,200
Speaker 3: simply not enough.

1140
00:57:28,280 --> 00:57:30,080
Speaker 2: He's always mad in things.

1141
00:57:30,480 --> 00:57:36,120
Speaker 3: He's always mad, and his voice is graveling. Thinking thinking now,

1142
00:57:36,120 --> 00:57:40,160
Speaker 3: the listeners probably immediately thought of this person. Wow, to

1143
00:57:40,240 --> 00:57:43,200
Speaker 3: forget about this gravelly voiced, angry man who has an

1144
00:57:43,280 --> 00:57:48,880
Speaker 3: uncle baby, What a shame? What a shame? Yeah, well

1145
00:57:49,080 --> 00:57:51,240
Speaker 3: you got two out of three. Great, you started the

1146
00:57:51,280 --> 00:57:52,919
Speaker 3: game on an huffle note I did.

1147
00:57:54,120 --> 00:57:55,120
Speaker 2: What was the first one to give?

1148
00:57:55,120 --> 00:57:57,640
Speaker 3: It was the unexpectedly long traffic light.

1149
00:57:57,560 --> 00:57:59,240
Speaker 2: Yellow traffic right right right? Yeah?

1150
00:57:59,320 --> 00:58:03,520
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, but did lead to some discussion about that answer. Well,

1151
00:58:03,600 --> 00:58:05,880
Speaker 3: feel good, good about whatever you want. You lost it.

1152
00:58:07,120 --> 00:58:11,000
Speaker 3: But you did get sixty six percent. You could have

1153
00:58:11,000 --> 00:58:14,240
Speaker 3: done much worse. We've seen worse. You're good at math, No,

1154
00:58:14,320 --> 00:58:16,760
Speaker 3: I'm not. This is you know, one hundred and fifty

1155
00:58:16,840 --> 00:58:19,080
Speaker 3: or something episodes, and I finally kind of got that

1156
00:58:19,880 --> 00:58:24,080
Speaker 3: the math of that, I still struggle. This is the

1157
00:58:24,160 --> 00:58:28,320
Speaker 3: final segment of the podcast. It's called I Said No Emails,

1158
00:58:28,440 --> 00:58:30,480
Speaker 3: and people write into I Said No Gifts at gmail

1159
00:58:30,520 --> 00:58:35,440
Speaker 3: dot com with problems. Ooh, my listeners have mounting problems

1160
00:58:35,480 --> 00:58:39,120
Speaker 3: in their lives. You know, they've just kind of lost control,

1161
00:58:39,640 --> 00:58:43,680
Speaker 3: and they will turn anywhere for help, even to a podcast,

1162
00:58:43,840 --> 00:58:47,600
Speaker 3: and so they're writing in we hope me answer a question. Yeah, okay,

1163
00:58:47,600 --> 00:58:52,320
Speaker 3: this says Dear Bridger and brilliant guests. That's very nice.

1164
00:58:52,480 --> 00:58:55,560
Speaker 3: I need some help finding a gift for my friend Kyla.

1165
00:58:56,080 --> 00:58:57,760
Speaker 3: Her birthday is coming up and I want to get

1166
00:58:57,760 --> 00:59:00,320
Speaker 3: her something special, But she moved to France and I

1167
00:59:00,360 --> 00:59:02,880
Speaker 3: still live in Washington, so it has to be something

1168
00:59:02,880 --> 00:59:05,880
Speaker 3: I can send overseas. I haven't sent her anything but

1169
00:59:05,960 --> 00:59:08,080
Speaker 3: a small card in the mails since she moved, so

1170
00:59:08,120 --> 00:59:10,040
Speaker 3: I feel like this gift has to say congrats on

1171
00:59:10,080 --> 00:59:13,520
Speaker 3: the move. Also be a housewarming gift, a birthday gift,

1172
00:59:13,560 --> 00:59:16,040
Speaker 3: and since her birthday is close to Christmas, as might

1173
00:59:16,040 --> 00:59:18,560
Speaker 3: as well pile that on two. Oh and it also

1174
00:59:18,720 --> 00:59:20,280
Speaker 3: needs to let her know that I miss her. This

1175
00:59:20,400 --> 00:59:21,280
Speaker 3: is okay.

1176
00:59:21,400 --> 00:59:21,640
Speaker 2: Wow.

1177
00:59:22,240 --> 00:59:25,200
Speaker 3: We bonded over our love of horses when we worked

1178
00:59:25,200 --> 00:59:28,200
Speaker 3: as wranglers on a farm. Oh, she has good friends

1179
00:59:28,240 --> 00:59:30,800
Speaker 3: with my cat and now has one of her own

1180
00:59:30,840 --> 00:59:33,080
Speaker 3: courtesy of her new boyfriend. We are getting a lot

1181
00:59:33,120 --> 00:59:35,680
Speaker 3: of information. This person has sent in a book proposal.

1182
00:59:36,960 --> 00:59:40,760
Speaker 3: She likes plants, is great at making yummy health food,

1183
00:59:41,120 --> 00:59:44,320
Speaker 3: She bikes everywhere, and loves the outdoors as long as

1184
00:59:44,320 --> 00:59:47,680
Speaker 3: it's warm and preferably sunny, don't we all? I hope

1185
00:59:47,720 --> 00:59:50,280
Speaker 3: that I gave you enough infhoto go on. You gave

1186
00:59:50,360 --> 00:59:51,040
Speaker 3: us so much?

1187
00:59:51,160 --> 00:59:52,320
Speaker 2: Is this a TV pilot?

1188
00:59:55,360 --> 00:59:59,880
Speaker 3: We're unexpectedly long yellow lighting this. I really appreciate any

1189
01:00:00,080 --> 01:00:03,040
Speaker 3: help you both can offer. Thanks so much, Emma. Okay, So,

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01:00:03,160 --> 01:00:06,080
Speaker 3: first of all, it sounds like Emma is extremely cheap

1191
01:00:06,120 --> 01:00:08,720
Speaker 3: because she should be sending She gave us like ten

1192
01:00:08,760 --> 01:00:10,680
Speaker 3: different things she should be giving a gift for and

1193
01:00:10,720 --> 01:00:17,040
Speaker 3: wants to give one gift Birthday Christmas housewarming, Missing you congrats?

1194
01:00:17,360 --> 01:00:21,040
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's multiple trying to check all these boxes with

1195
01:00:21,200 --> 01:00:23,080
Speaker 2: one gift, single gift?

1196
01:00:23,080 --> 01:00:23,840
Speaker 3: Are you kidding me?

1197
01:00:24,200 --> 01:00:28,160
Speaker 2: I mean my gut instinct. Send her a pony, I know,

1198
01:00:28,320 --> 01:00:30,040
Speaker 2: send her the horse. Send her the horse.

1199
01:00:30,040 --> 01:00:33,040
Speaker 3: That's the only thing that can cover all of these things.

1200
01:00:33,240 --> 01:00:35,000
Speaker 2: Can you send horses internationally?

1201
01:00:35,520 --> 01:00:36,760
Speaker 3: I mean, I don't know that you want to send

1202
01:00:36,760 --> 01:00:40,240
Speaker 3: one to France. France has a weird history with horses.

1203
01:00:39,840 --> 01:00:40,000
Speaker 1: And.

1204
01:00:43,320 --> 01:00:44,360
Speaker 2: Okay, don't send a horse.

1205
01:00:44,520 --> 01:00:45,960
Speaker 3: You don't send a horse to France.

1206
01:00:46,080 --> 01:00:47,480
Speaker 2: Don't send a horse.

1207
01:00:48,040 --> 01:00:52,440
Speaker 3: But let's see you said pony. Maybe that's a different situation.

1208
01:00:52,760 --> 01:00:55,920
Speaker 3: Maybe don't send a whole horse, send a pony, Send

1209
01:00:55,920 --> 01:01:00,200
Speaker 3: a pony or something. A horse ad chasin like a mule.

1210
01:01:00,400 --> 01:01:02,680
Speaker 2: Mm hmm, a donkey, a donkey.

1211
01:01:03,880 --> 01:01:07,680
Speaker 3: Any of these animals will do. I mean a goat coat.

1212
01:01:07,960 --> 01:01:09,520
Speaker 2: Goats are amazing.

1213
01:01:10,280 --> 01:01:11,440
Speaker 3: Goats are very cute.

1214
01:01:11,760 --> 01:01:13,800
Speaker 2: They're so cute and friendly.

1215
01:01:13,960 --> 01:01:17,160
Speaker 3: They make a good pet. Well do they kick? Uh?

1216
01:01:17,200 --> 01:01:22,760
Speaker 2: They can? But but I uh, my husband had a

1217
01:01:22,800 --> 01:01:26,160
Speaker 2: house in Florida at one point that had like a

1218
01:01:26,200 --> 01:01:29,640
Speaker 2: few acres and he had goats. Oh, and they were

1219
01:01:29,760 --> 01:01:30,880
Speaker 2: so sweet.

1220
01:01:31,480 --> 01:01:32,200
Speaker 3: They're very cute.

1221
01:01:32,200 --> 01:01:35,280
Speaker 2: Little they wanted to be like petted and rubbed, and

1222
01:01:35,720 --> 01:01:36,240
Speaker 2: they're so.

1223
01:01:36,320 --> 01:01:38,160
Speaker 3: Cute and would they eat trash.

1224
01:01:38,520 --> 01:01:43,960
Speaker 2: Yes, they keep your yard very clean of all plants

1225
01:01:45,040 --> 01:01:46,240
Speaker 2: and grass, But.

1226
01:01:46,240 --> 01:01:49,120
Speaker 3: Don't they also like is this am I imagining this?

1227
01:01:49,280 --> 01:01:51,680
Speaker 3: Don't goats like eat garbage sometimes?

1228
01:01:53,000 --> 01:01:53,200
Speaker 1: Yeah?

1229
01:01:53,240 --> 01:01:58,360
Speaker 2: I don't. Yeah, I think they'll eat anything. Pigs too,

1230
01:01:58,440 --> 01:02:00,200
Speaker 2: like pigs will really eat anything.

1231
01:02:00,440 --> 01:02:02,320
Speaker 3: But I feel like I can imagine a goat eating

1232
01:02:02,360 --> 01:02:02,840
Speaker 3: a can?

1233
01:02:02,960 --> 01:02:04,240
Speaker 2: Will a goat eat a can?

1234
01:02:04,440 --> 01:02:06,200
Speaker 3: Or sound like something you see in a cartoon that's

1235
01:02:06,320 --> 01:02:09,040
Speaker 3: dangerous cat finding like a skeleton of a fish in

1236
01:02:09,080 --> 01:02:11,560
Speaker 3: a garbage can? Maybe this is something I learned from

1237
01:02:11,640 --> 01:02:14,640
Speaker 3: Looney tunes. Maybe that feels like bad information.

1238
01:02:15,000 --> 01:02:19,600
Speaker 2: They take down like a cactus. Oh really, Yes, they'll

1239
01:02:19,680 --> 01:02:21,800
Speaker 2: just eat like whatever.

1240
01:02:22,600 --> 01:02:24,600
Speaker 3: Why is that? Why do goats do that?

1241
01:02:25,040 --> 01:02:27,640
Speaker 2: I don't know. They're not all the time, and they

1242
01:02:27,800 --> 01:02:30,320
Speaker 2: just eat all the plants.

1243
01:02:30,560 --> 01:02:33,560
Speaker 3: Well, so you could send a goat to France, I

1244
01:02:33,560 --> 01:02:36,760
Speaker 3: mean there, so we've kind of they are like five

1245
01:02:36,840 --> 01:02:39,080
Speaker 3: different things here, and each of those is probably at

1246
01:02:39,160 --> 01:02:41,240
Speaker 3: least a fifty dollars gift. How much could a goat

1247
01:02:41,280 --> 01:02:41,840
Speaker 3: possibly call?

1248
01:02:41,960 --> 01:02:45,480
Speaker 2: Curiously send some nice stuff for her new cat?

1249
01:02:45,960 --> 01:02:47,960
Speaker 3: That's true, she has a new cat with a new boyfriend.

1250
01:02:48,000 --> 01:02:51,680
Speaker 3: We don't know if he's French. Or not. It's interesting

1251
01:02:51,840 --> 01:02:54,000
Speaker 3: that the boyfriend sounds suspicious to me. It sounds like

1252
01:02:54,080 --> 01:02:57,080
Speaker 3: he's an interloper. He's just arrived in this woman's life

1253
01:02:57,200 --> 01:03:01,480
Speaker 3: and she's in France, and something about that is a

1254
01:03:01,520 --> 01:03:03,640
Speaker 3: little makes me a little uneasy.

1255
01:03:03,800 --> 01:03:05,240
Speaker 2: Yeah, a little bit of a red flag there.

1256
01:03:05,480 --> 01:03:07,360
Speaker 3: But send a cat condo.

1257
01:03:07,880 --> 01:03:09,000
Speaker 2: Oh, send a cat condo.

1258
01:03:09,400 --> 01:03:11,240
Speaker 3: I'm sure you could get one of those to France.

1259
01:03:11,280 --> 01:03:14,240
Speaker 3: I mean the I don't know what budget we're working with.

1260
01:03:14,280 --> 01:03:15,160
Speaker 3: That would have been the reason.

1261
01:03:15,200 --> 01:03:15,760
Speaker 2: That would have been.

1262
01:03:16,360 --> 01:03:20,760
Speaker 3: Yeah, she was so happy to provide way too much.

1263
01:03:21,120 --> 01:03:22,760
Speaker 3: There's a motorcycle that's exciting.

1264
01:03:23,480 --> 01:03:23,640
Speaker 4: Um.

1265
01:03:24,360 --> 01:03:27,280
Speaker 3: Yeah, she she failed the writing of this email in

1266
01:03:27,320 --> 01:03:29,640
Speaker 3: a huge way. Yeah, she should have said, dear Bridger

1267
01:03:29,720 --> 01:03:31,880
Speaker 3: and brilliant guest, my friend moved to France. I've got

1268
01:03:31,960 --> 01:03:34,960
Speaker 3: five hundred dollars. What should I do exactly? But she

1269
01:03:35,120 --> 01:03:37,200
Speaker 3: was so concerned about.

1270
01:03:37,680 --> 01:03:39,680
Speaker 2: Too many parameters.

1271
01:03:39,920 --> 01:03:43,959
Speaker 3: She knows too much. The listener now knows too much,

1272
01:03:44,400 --> 01:03:47,600
Speaker 3: but really solved the issue. Yes, some sort of livestock

1273
01:03:48,400 --> 01:03:53,760
Speaker 3: cat condo and maybe a card that says miss you. Yeah,

1274
01:03:54,040 --> 01:03:54,720
Speaker 3: failing all.

1275
01:03:54,760 --> 01:03:58,120
Speaker 2: Those things written card, Yeah goes a long.

1276
01:03:57,920 --> 01:04:01,400
Speaker 3: Way, goes a very long way. And obviously you're very cheap.

1277
01:04:01,800 --> 01:04:04,880
Speaker 3: She's cheap. She's avoiding sending too many gifts. You might

1278
01:04:04,920 --> 01:04:07,200
Speaker 3: as well just send a card. Yeah, the friend is

1279
01:04:07,240 --> 01:04:10,120
Speaker 3: going to know you don't care either way, serious, because

1280
01:04:10,120 --> 01:04:14,120
Speaker 3: she's gonna say, why didn't she send me dozens of gifts? Emma,

1281
01:04:14,200 --> 01:04:17,600
Speaker 3: you've failed us and you failed your friend. I'm glad

1282
01:04:17,680 --> 01:04:20,440
Speaker 3: she's moved that. There's a reason she moved to France.

1283
01:04:20,760 --> 01:04:23,360
Speaker 2: Yeah, oh my.

1284
01:04:23,240 --> 01:04:27,600
Speaker 3: God, Melissa, we answered the question perfectly. I now have

1285
01:04:27,720 --> 01:04:32,520
Speaker 3: this hyper specific Christmas ornament that is truly so we'll

1286
01:04:32,520 --> 01:04:36,280
Speaker 3: have some pictures on Instagram, obviously, but this is irresponsible

1287
01:04:36,320 --> 01:04:37,760
Speaker 3: spending on the capital's part.

1288
01:04:38,320 --> 01:04:41,040
Speaker 2: Shocking. I know this is where.

1289
01:04:40,760 --> 01:04:44,600
Speaker 3: Most of our taxes are going, is to these bizarre

1290
01:04:44,760 --> 01:04:49,440
Speaker 3: ornaments that I'm going to Maybe I'll run for Congress

1291
01:04:49,440 --> 01:04:51,440
Speaker 3: at some point and this will be my platform. No

1292
01:04:51,880 --> 01:04:55,400
Speaker 3: more ornaments, no more ornamance, cut the fat with the ornaments.

1293
01:04:55,440 --> 01:04:58,240
Speaker 2: The reason public education is so poor in this country

1294
01:04:58,960 --> 01:05:01,680
Speaker 2: because they're decorat in that box.

1295
01:05:03,560 --> 01:05:05,360
Speaker 6: Ridiculous And I can't wait for you to hang it

1296
01:05:05,440 --> 01:05:07,920
Speaker 6: up on your tree, absolutely going on the tree right

1297
01:05:07,960 --> 01:05:12,320
Speaker 6: in the front. I've had such a wonderful time with you.

1298
01:05:13,080 --> 01:05:14,640
Speaker 6: Thank you, so much for being here.

1299
01:05:14,800 --> 01:05:19,680
Speaker 3: Thank you and listener, Oh, we've come to the end

1300
01:05:19,680 --> 01:05:21,880
Speaker 3: of the podcast. I thought I was going to have

1301
01:05:21,880 --> 01:05:23,520
Speaker 3: to put on a coat at some point, but I didn't.

1302
01:05:23,560 --> 01:05:26,080
Speaker 3: It's pretty cold, but I made it through with just

1303
01:05:26,160 --> 01:05:30,200
Speaker 3: two shirts. So that's kind of what been my private struggle.

1304
01:05:30,240 --> 01:05:33,480
Speaker 3: And I hope that you weren't. You know what sacrifices

1305
01:05:33,520 --> 01:05:36,680
Speaker 3: I'm making for you. And now it's time for you

1306
01:05:36,760 --> 01:05:38,760
Speaker 3: to go on with your day. I hope you have

1307
01:05:38,800 --> 01:05:43,440
Speaker 3: a wonderful time. We're here in December. Happy holidays, I

1308
01:05:43,560 --> 01:05:51,080
Speaker 3: love you, goodbye, I said, No Gifts is an exactly

1309
01:05:51,200 --> 01:05:54,840
Speaker 3: right production. It's produced by our dear friend Annalise Neilson,

1310
01:05:55,080 --> 01:05:58,880
Speaker 3: and it's beautifully mixed by Leanna Squilatchi. And we couldn't

1311
01:05:58,880 --> 01:06:02,080
Speaker 3: do it without our guest book kirk Patrick Cottoner. The

1312
01:06:02,080 --> 01:06:06,160
Speaker 3: theme song, of course, could only come from a miracle worker,

1313
01:06:06,240 --> 01:06:10,000
Speaker 3: Amy Man. You must follow the show on Instagram. At

1314
01:06:10,040 --> 01:06:12,400
Speaker 3: I said no Gifts, I don't want to hear any excuses.

1315
01:06:12,680 --> 01:06:14,439
Speaker 3: That's where you get to see pictures of all these

1316
01:06:14,440 --> 01:06:16,560
Speaker 3: gorgeous gifts I'm getting. And don't you want to see

1317
01:06:16,560 --> 01:06:17,520
Speaker 3: pictures of the gifts?

1318
01:06:19,440 --> 01:06:21,520
Speaker 2: The lie invit did you hear.

1319
01:06:23,800 --> 01:06:29,000
Speaker 1: Funna made myself perfectly clear. When you're a guest to me,

1320
01:06:31,880 --> 01:06:37,960
Speaker 1: you gotta come to me empty. And I said, no guests,

1321
01:06:38,240 --> 01:06:44,120
Speaker 1: your own presences, presence in. And I already had too

1322
01:06:44,320 --> 01:06:45,200
Speaker 1: much stuff.

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01:06:45,840 --> 01:06:48,920
Speaker 3: So how do you dare to survey me?