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Speaker 1: Well, I invited you here thought I made myself perfectly clear.

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Speaker 1: When you're a guest to my home, you gotta come

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Speaker 1: to me empty. And I said, no guests, your presences

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Speaker 1: presents enough. I already had too much stuff, So how

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Speaker 2: Welcome to, I said, no gifts. I'm Richard Winecker. Oh,

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Speaker 2: here we are. I hope you're doing okay. I hope

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Speaker 2: you're not stressed out. I mean, maybe you are. I

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Speaker 2: hope you're not disarming a bomb or doing anything like that,

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Speaker 2: although that could be an interesting If you are, and

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Speaker 2: you're listening to a podcast, interesting choices are being made,

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Speaker 2: and I appreciate that. I hope I'm not adding to

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Speaker 2: the stress. I don't have any advice for you. I

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Speaker 2: don't have any advice in general, let alone about the

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Speaker 2: bomb situation. So I'm just gonna try to keep the

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Speaker 2: tone soft for you, and we're going to have a

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Speaker 2: nice time regardless of what you're doing. Because our guest

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Speaker 2: today is extremely funny and also just a nice guy.

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Speaker 2: It's Josh Gondleman. Josh, welcome to. I said no gifts.

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Speaker 3: Thank you for having me Ridger and a big shout

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Speaker 3: out to all the Bomb Squad listeners right now.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and you know, we appreciate what you're doing. We

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Speaker 2: love that you're fans of the pod and you're committed

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Speaker 2: enough to it that you're you're clipping the wires, you're

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Speaker 2: driving a little machine that heads towards the bomb, whatever

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Speaker 2: you do to disarm a bomb.

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Speaker 3: Whatever you're doing. Canonically, we hate bombs.

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Speaker 2: We are not Bob. This is not a fan This

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Speaker 2: podcast is not a bomb fan podcast. Although we do

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Speaker 2: love the bombs in Mario Brothers cute little bombs.

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Speaker 3: So there's some cute if I saw one of those,

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Speaker 3: even if I I imagine, even if I were a

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Speaker 2: It's a very good bomb design because it really humanizes

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Speaker 2: and kind of you want to be friends with that bomb.

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Speaker 2: And yeah, so I guess my question is why are

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Speaker 2: more bombs not designed that way?

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Speaker 3: I know, right, I feel like it would be great

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Speaker 2: A bomb, you know, like an old fashioned bomb where

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Speaker 2: it's like with the giant FEUs and it kind of

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Speaker 2: looks like a bowling mall. Even that's kind of cute

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Speaker 3: Yeah, there's a little whimsy with that.

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Speaker 2: Right, it's not just like this terrifying mesh you know,

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Speaker 2: of wires and that kind of thing that bombs lost

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Speaker 2: their way. I feel like bombs have lost their way.

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Speaker 3: The design. I feel like it's like that Twitter meme

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Speaker 3: of like what happened? Bombs used to look like this,

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Speaker 2: It really shows how how far we've fallen as a society.

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Speaker 2: You know, whatever, josh how are you.

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Speaker 3: I'm feeling pretty good, thank you. I'm having a nice day.

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Speaker 3: Do you ever go by Joshua? Very seldom? Sometimes people

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Speaker 3: of reason, Like I'm even josh to my parents.

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Speaker 2: Right, I'm just it's like occurring to me. Now, I've

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Speaker 2: have never heard someone called Joshua. No the tree, Yeah, truly,

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Speaker 2: it's only the tree.

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Speaker 3: It's like you wouldn't call it like, hey, We're going

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Speaker 3: the worst person I've ever met.

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Speaker 3: That's disheartening by like a New York finance or tech

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Speaker 3: it's your whole all of your hedge fund managers are

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Joshua, that's an interesting one. I think Joshua is

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Speaker 2: Like, yeah, absolutely, it's a very serious name.

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Speaker 2: Right and formal. You've really abandoned the name josh worked

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Speaker 2: Have you heard the new Joshua single? Like no, and

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Speaker 2: Oh boy, what else is going on in life? I

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Speaker 2: guess today is Jeff Bezos. Is he in space? He's back,

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Speaker 2: He's back already, Yeah, it was. I think he was

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Speaker 2: Do it during like prime time, right, I mean, who

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Speaker 2: See, this is why I wasn't paying attention in the

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Speaker 3: Way worse than you had to the airport, because like,

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Speaker 3: But in space that's never like you can't. It's not

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Speaker 3: It's not like he was like, well, if I see

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Speaker 3: say how do y'all and they'll understand what a loser,

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Speaker 2: And also just go to the moon. Why, like no

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Speaker 2: I'm not just going to fly up to fly round.

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Speaker 2: Monkeys and dogs have already done what this thing?

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Speaker 3: Yes, yeah, a numerous species, so many people. There's people

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I wonder what stopped him from the moon. Maybe

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Speaker 2: Yes, this was more just like in bungee jumping territory

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Speaker 3: It does seem fun. This is what I would do

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Speaker 3: that would be fun. Yes, this is how you waste money. Yeah.

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Speaker 3: And it's like, oh, Lebron, you think you did space jam.

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Speaker 2: Thank you. See this is why you need to be

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Speaker 2: controlling the per strings of Jeff Bezos.

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Speaker 3: I would be such a good financial advisor, too. Is

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Speaker 3: if Jeff Bezos was like, hey, Josh, would you mind

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Speaker 3: picking up some coffees, I'd be like, sure, dude, And

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Speaker 3: Honestly, I feel like it was like pumping gas. I

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Speaker 3: just like, oh, do you think you're so smart? Bezos?

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Speaker 2: And I also encourage anyone who is getting coffee for

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Speaker 2: Oh well, Josh, that actually it makes me think of

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Speaker 4: Sure, it's like a Christmas looking bag. Yeah, it's a

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Speaker 2: All that aside, Josh, Okay, so this is what I

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Speaker 2: And oh, we have a little message here. So there

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Speaker 3: I just appreciate it. First of all, you recently appeared

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Speaker 3: if I remember that I have a pint, I will

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00:23:49,800 --> 00:23:54,639
Speaker 3: eat it in four consecutive servings on four consecutive days, right,

434
00:23:54,880 --> 00:23:59,920
Speaker 3: and it's gone. So my project is forgetting buying ice cream,

435
00:24:00,160 --> 00:24:02,000
Speaker 3: forgetting I have it, and then when I look in

436
00:24:02,000 --> 00:24:04,760
Speaker 3: the freezer for just regular ice being like, oh this

437
00:24:04,880 --> 00:24:08,240
Speaker 3: is nice. I'll have one spoonful later, and then they're

438
00:24:08,280 --> 00:24:10,879
Speaker 3: the spoon in the dishwasher. But so what I've been doing,

439
00:24:10,960 --> 00:24:14,680
Speaker 3: like because during kind of the like stay at home

440
00:24:15,040 --> 00:24:18,120
Speaker 3: remote work quarantine part of twenty twenty and twenty twenty one,

441
00:24:19,160 --> 00:24:23,000
Speaker 3: there's just there was just a little variety to life.

442
00:24:23,400 --> 00:24:25,800
Speaker 3: So I was just really getting into like I was

443
00:24:25,800 --> 00:24:28,640
Speaker 3: just trying every Ben and Jerry's flavor that they had

444
00:24:28,680 --> 00:24:33,120
Speaker 3: at my corner store, every Van Luwin flavor some other

445
00:24:33,240 --> 00:24:36,800
Speaker 3: brands that I was like, sure, whatever, so that's like

446
00:24:37,040 --> 00:24:39,080
Speaker 3: I've been into, like the wacky flavors.

447
00:24:39,560 --> 00:24:41,760
Speaker 2: Wait, so when you say wacky flavors, what are we

448
00:24:41,800 --> 00:24:44,560
Speaker 2: talking about here? Because I have big opinions on wacky flavors.

449
00:24:44,880 --> 00:24:48,120
Speaker 3: So they weren't all good, but it was like an

450
00:24:48,200 --> 00:24:52,320
Speaker 3: interesting experience. Like Ben and Jerry's makes a Canoli flavored

451
00:24:52,760 --> 00:24:56,320
Speaker 3: ice cream. Ooh yeah, and I wish there were a

452
00:24:56,359 --> 00:25:00,399
Speaker 3: heavier Marscapone, MARSCAPONI. I don't know. Again, I don't mean

453
00:25:00,440 --> 00:25:01,560
Speaker 3: to be anti Italian.

454
00:25:02,000 --> 00:25:04,680
Speaker 2: He's let's just put it out there. Josh has been

455
00:25:04,680 --> 00:25:10,120
Speaker 2: fighting against the Italian people for decades, and I brought

456
00:25:10,160 --> 00:25:13,720
Speaker 2: him on this podcast to put an end to this bigotry.

457
00:25:14,040 --> 00:25:17,520
Speaker 2: We have got to stop this anti Italian maniac.

458
00:25:18,040 --> 00:25:22,320
Speaker 3: But it was a It was pretty good. But I

459
00:25:22,359 --> 00:25:27,000
Speaker 3: wish that cheese, like the Canoli filling flavor were stronger.

460
00:25:27,280 --> 00:25:29,879
Speaker 3: But I was like, right, this is interesting to try. Sure,

461
00:25:30,560 --> 00:25:32,720
Speaker 3: I've got in my freezer right now, like a Van

462
00:25:32,800 --> 00:25:36,680
Speaker 3: Lewin mocha cookie something that's very good.

463
00:25:36,840 --> 00:25:38,119
Speaker 2: Oh see that sounds lovely.

464
00:25:38,480 --> 00:25:42,280
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's terrific. It's not too not too adventurous. It's

465
00:25:42,280 --> 00:25:45,000
Speaker 3: not like, Okay, he hits a chocolate base, but then

466
00:25:45,040 --> 00:25:48,639
Speaker 3: there's like a little sea salt and gravel and holy

467
00:25:48,720 --> 00:25:54,000
Speaker 3: water loose dog for yeah.

468
00:25:54,160 --> 00:25:56,760
Speaker 2: Yeah, that to me, I think that, you know, within

469
00:25:56,800 --> 00:25:59,880
Speaker 2: the world of ice cream, anyone who has eats ice

470
00:26:00,320 --> 00:26:02,240
Speaker 2: enough that they're like, well, this time, I'm just going

471
00:26:02,280 --> 00:26:04,399
Speaker 2: to not enjoy in any way. It's just going to

472
00:26:04,440 --> 00:26:08,160
Speaker 2: be a horrible experience. I can't do that. When I'm

473
00:26:08,160 --> 00:26:11,000
Speaker 2: going to pay six dollars for an ice cream cone,

474
00:26:11,119 --> 00:26:14,639
Speaker 2: it better be incredibly enjoyable, because I've taken the time.

475
00:26:15,800 --> 00:26:18,680
Speaker 2: I'm I want to enjoy myself. I enjoy so few

476
00:26:18,760 --> 00:26:22,000
Speaker 2: things at this point that if you're going to fill

477
00:26:22,160 --> 00:26:24,679
Speaker 2: my ice cream with loose teeth and you know, like

478
00:26:24,800 --> 00:26:28,080
Speaker 2: band aids, it's what are we talking about. That's not

479
00:26:28,160 --> 00:26:29,879
Speaker 2: a treat, it's a dare.

480
00:26:30,640 --> 00:26:34,879
Speaker 3: It's you know, sometimes there's music like like it's like

481
00:26:35,080 --> 00:26:39,720
Speaker 3: free jazz, where if you're a connoisseur of jazz music

482
00:26:39,760 --> 00:26:42,280
Speaker 3: and you're like, I've heard the standards, I've heard them

483
00:26:42,320 --> 00:26:45,119
Speaker 3: played every which way. I just want to hear people

484
00:26:45,240 --> 00:26:47,679
Speaker 3: break in all the rules and I can respect that

485
00:26:47,920 --> 00:26:51,480
Speaker 3: because you're so immersed in the world, that you need

486
00:26:51,480 --> 00:26:54,639
Speaker 3: something new and bracing that's going to kind of like

487
00:26:55,320 --> 00:26:58,959
Speaker 3: snap you to attention. I just never have that need

488
00:26:59,160 --> 00:27:03,520
Speaker 3: with dessert, right, I just never I feel like I'm

489
00:27:03,680 --> 00:27:06,320
Speaker 3: up for a new flavor. But I don't think it

490
00:27:06,359 --> 00:27:08,199
Speaker 3: ever has to be something like it doesn't have to

491
00:27:08,200 --> 00:27:12,080
Speaker 3: be like a challenge or a shock to my sensibility.

492
00:27:12,000 --> 00:27:16,080
Speaker 2: Right, I don't need like laundry deterg to write. You know,

493
00:27:16,119 --> 00:27:19,160
Speaker 2: there are certain things I just know are not going

494
00:27:19,200 --> 00:27:22,600
Speaker 2: to be enjoyable. They're not going to taste like a treat.

495
00:27:22,760 --> 00:27:26,719
Speaker 2: I think in general, human beings have figured out the

496
00:27:26,760 --> 00:27:33,000
Speaker 2: palette we can use for dessert. Sure, chocolate, peanut, butter, fruit,

497
00:27:34,600 --> 00:27:36,600
Speaker 2: you know, there are plenty.

498
00:27:36,600 --> 00:27:42,000
Speaker 3: I've only named three here. There's like but I agree,

499
00:27:42,119 --> 00:27:44,200
Speaker 3: I think, like, oh, you know what I like? This

500
00:27:44,240 --> 00:27:47,240
Speaker 3: is what I was looking at Wanderlust Creamery, and there

501
00:27:47,320 --> 00:27:50,879
Speaker 3: was one place in Los Angeles that looked too aggressive,

502
00:27:51,760 --> 00:27:54,600
Speaker 3: Like there's a place called and I don't I've never

503
00:27:54,680 --> 00:27:58,080
Speaker 3: been the description of the ice cream, like the flavors.

504
00:27:58,080 --> 00:28:00,960
Speaker 3: I was like, these are interesting, but that the the

505
00:28:01,000 --> 00:28:04,639
Speaker 3: pictures all looked like too designed for Instagram, Like it

506
00:28:04,680 --> 00:28:08,359
Speaker 3: looked like the mix ins were Instagram quantities not like

507
00:28:08,560 --> 00:28:11,800
Speaker 3: good quantities for eating, and the like font choice and

508
00:28:11,840 --> 00:28:14,639
Speaker 3: everything was incredibly aggressive, and I was like, I don't

509
00:28:14,680 --> 00:28:18,560
Speaker 3: need an ice cream that's trying to simulate the experience

510
00:28:18,640 --> 00:28:21,880
Speaker 3: of like, uh, cocaine at five in the morning, when

511
00:28:21,880 --> 00:28:26,200
Speaker 3: you've been out since one am. So I saw Wanderlust

512
00:28:26,240 --> 00:28:28,760
Speaker 3: and what one thing that appealed to me was that

513
00:28:28,840 --> 00:28:33,320
Speaker 3: there were flavors that are dessert like that I've not

514
00:28:33,560 --> 00:28:38,719
Speaker 3: seen in ice cream frequently, Like a Vietnamese coffee ice cream, right,

515
00:28:39,120 --> 00:28:41,840
Speaker 3: a flavor I love, like a coffee flavor with some

516
00:28:41,880 --> 00:28:44,440
Speaker 3: sweet and condensed milk. That's a flavor that I'm like,

517
00:28:44,440 --> 00:28:47,800
Speaker 3: what a treat, But to ice creamify it that seems

518
00:28:47,800 --> 00:28:48,520
Speaker 3: new and fun to me.

519
00:28:49,280 --> 00:28:53,880
Speaker 2: Yes, Wanderlust does do that where they're respectfully pushing the

520
00:28:53,920 --> 00:28:57,960
Speaker 2: boundaries of true exactly. They're evolving well we've already done,

521
00:28:58,200 --> 00:29:01,560
Speaker 2: or finding other things that happened to make sense as

522
00:29:01,720 --> 00:29:05,680
Speaker 2: dessert or you know that we've we've seen succeed and

523
00:29:05,720 --> 00:29:09,880
Speaker 2: dessert in some way before, and turning them into ice cream.

524
00:29:09,880 --> 00:29:13,920
Speaker 3: And turning kind of like like desserts of various like

525
00:29:14,080 --> 00:29:17,320
Speaker 3: different food cultures and traditions into ice cream is what

526
00:29:17,360 --> 00:29:19,440
Speaker 3: some of it looked like, and I'm like, oh, that's cool,

527
00:29:19,440 --> 00:29:22,840
Speaker 3: like an ice cream version of whatever, like a flawn

528
00:29:23,000 --> 00:29:23,480
Speaker 3: or something, you.

529
00:29:23,400 --> 00:29:24,640
Speaker 2: Know, not that seciety.

530
00:29:24,880 --> 00:29:27,080
Speaker 3: We're like, oh yeah, we're in the dessert world and

531
00:29:27,120 --> 00:29:29,320
Speaker 3: you're taking this and putting it in a scoop, and

532
00:29:29,520 --> 00:29:32,280
Speaker 3: I'm intrigued by that. But it's not like, oh, there's

533
00:29:32,280 --> 00:29:35,680
Speaker 3: so many fucking cookies in this cookie monster would o

534
00:29:35,920 --> 00:29:37,200
Speaker 3: d okay?

535
00:29:37,880 --> 00:29:40,240
Speaker 2: Well, we are trying to kill every member of Sesame

536
00:29:40,320 --> 00:29:41,120
Speaker 2: Street with our yes.

537
00:29:41,440 --> 00:29:41,640
Speaker 3: Yeah.

538
00:29:41,680 --> 00:29:41,920
Speaker 2: Yeah.

539
00:29:41,960 --> 00:29:44,840
Speaker 3: If a child saw this, they would weep because they

540
00:29:44,880 --> 00:29:48,280
Speaker 3: wouldn't believe that ice cream could look like this, right,

541
00:29:49,840 --> 00:29:53,000
Speaker 3: But I think, yeah, like a subtle like just and

542
00:29:53,040 --> 00:29:56,800
Speaker 3: I tried to think about it from an enjoyability standpoint

543
00:29:56,920 --> 00:30:00,240
Speaker 3: rather than because we had once gosh, what was it?

544
00:30:00,240 --> 00:30:03,360
Speaker 3: It was like a milkshake with a little like we

545
00:30:03,560 --> 00:30:05,560
Speaker 3: It was like a treat someone sent us as an

546
00:30:05,560 --> 00:30:09,200
Speaker 3: old job, where it was like a milkshake, but on

547
00:30:09,320 --> 00:30:12,560
Speaker 3: top was like the way you would garnish, like a

548
00:30:12,560 --> 00:30:16,440
Speaker 3: bloody mary with olives. Was like a donut. And it's

549
00:30:16,520 --> 00:30:19,320
Speaker 3: like this is too much. First of all, too much dessert.

550
00:30:19,680 --> 00:30:21,720
Speaker 3: There's no great way to eat it, but like when

551
00:30:21,760 --> 00:30:23,600
Speaker 3: you want a milk, Like a milkshake is so much

552
00:30:23,640 --> 00:30:27,200
Speaker 3: dessert already. We don't need a second dessert on top

553
00:30:27,240 --> 00:30:29,880
Speaker 3: of it to just like really hammer home, like I

554
00:30:29,920 --> 00:30:31,440
Speaker 3: don't want to live.

555
00:30:31,560 --> 00:30:33,480
Speaker 2: Well by the time you eat that donut, you're not

556
00:30:33,520 --> 00:30:36,080
Speaker 2: going to want the milkshake any correct, Yeah, you're going

557
00:30:36,120 --> 00:30:36,920
Speaker 2: to feel sick.

558
00:30:37,280 --> 00:30:40,320
Speaker 3: You can't like if you want like a garnish that's

559
00:30:40,360 --> 00:30:44,080
Speaker 3: a like a gummy bear a single or three gummy bears,

560
00:30:44,120 --> 00:30:46,000
Speaker 3: the way you do olives on a Martin, but like

561
00:30:46,080 --> 00:30:48,920
Speaker 3: a doughnut, like a mini cupcake. It's like this is

562
00:30:48,920 --> 00:30:51,840
Speaker 3: a separate, a separate dessert endeavor.

563
00:30:52,080 --> 00:30:56,720
Speaker 2: It's truly Instagram culture. I mean it is all of

564
00:30:56,760 --> 00:30:59,600
Speaker 2: that is just built to have a picture taken of it, right,

565
00:31:00,160 --> 00:31:02,800
Speaker 2: and no one's actually enjoying that, no, And.

566
00:31:03,280 --> 00:31:06,280
Speaker 3: I think it's like kind of like I don't know,

567
00:31:06,480 --> 00:31:09,680
Speaker 3: it just feels like a little wasteful because it's a

568
00:31:09,720 --> 00:31:12,640
Speaker 3: lot to consume out of the pressure of like, well,

569
00:31:12,680 --> 00:31:14,200
Speaker 3: I paid money for this. I don't want it to

570
00:31:14,240 --> 00:31:17,040
Speaker 3: go to waste. But it's more for the visual aesthetic,

571
00:31:17,080 --> 00:31:20,800
Speaker 3: Like I would rather get something that I enjoy more

572
00:31:21,680 --> 00:31:23,920
Speaker 3: and just like enjoy it because like I don't know.

573
00:31:23,960 --> 00:31:26,040
Speaker 3: Dessert does not have to be for Instagram. There are

574
00:31:26,080 --> 00:31:30,959
Speaker 3: already we already have senses to enjoy dessert without it

575
00:31:30,960 --> 00:31:33,200
Speaker 3: also having to be for other visuals.

576
00:31:33,600 --> 00:31:37,120
Speaker 2: Right, yeah, wander Lust, I think they do a nice job.

577
00:31:37,160 --> 00:31:40,160
Speaker 2: But they I think they say it's like inspired by travel, which,

578
00:31:40,960 --> 00:31:43,520
Speaker 2: let's be honest, is a little annoying. But the ice

579
00:31:43,560 --> 00:31:46,280
Speaker 2: cream itself is so wonderful that it makes up for it,

580
00:31:46,680 --> 00:31:49,640
Speaker 2: and it's not like inspired by travel, And now it's

581
00:31:49,720 --> 00:31:52,400
Speaker 2: like a it tastes like a suitcase or.

582
00:31:54,160 --> 00:31:57,840
Speaker 3: Airplane. It's like blood shredded up boarding passive.

583
00:31:58,160 --> 00:32:01,600
Speaker 2: Right, So, I think they do a nice job. Are

584
00:32:01,600 --> 00:32:03,920
Speaker 2: you a traveling person? Do you enjoy traveling?

585
00:32:04,200 --> 00:32:07,360
Speaker 3: I do like to travel. I'm like pretty well traveled

586
00:32:07,360 --> 00:32:09,840
Speaker 3: in the United States just from stand up and I

587
00:32:10,040 --> 00:32:14,120
Speaker 3: like them. Yeah. So I've been to places that I

588
00:32:14,200 --> 00:32:18,840
Speaker 3: like wouldn't have otherwise necessarily gone, that I've really enjoyed, Like,

589
00:32:18,960 --> 00:32:22,400
Speaker 3: are there any surprising ones? Like Asheville, North Carolina is

590
00:32:22,440 --> 00:32:25,160
Speaker 3: like a beloved city. But I think being booked to

591
00:32:25,160 --> 00:32:27,360
Speaker 3: do stand up there is what kind of like accelerated

592
00:32:27,360 --> 00:32:29,800
Speaker 3: my timeline of actually visiting, and I've been back since.

593
00:32:30,440 --> 00:32:32,200
Speaker 3: It's a great place. So it's not It wasn't like,

594
00:32:32,640 --> 00:32:34,640
Speaker 3: oh I would never I would never think to go there,

595
00:32:34,640 --> 00:32:36,400
Speaker 3: but it was like, oh, this is a reason to

596
00:32:36,400 --> 00:32:37,680
Speaker 3: go to this place and then hang around for a

597
00:32:37,720 --> 00:32:39,680
Speaker 3: couple of days and like enjoy the right.

598
00:32:40,080 --> 00:32:41,800
Speaker 2: Have you been to all fifty states?

599
00:32:42,800 --> 00:32:47,400
Speaker 3: I haven't been to Alaska or Hawaii, Okay, but every

600
00:32:47,440 --> 00:32:49,360
Speaker 3: I've been to most of them. I've performed in like,

601
00:32:49,880 --> 00:32:52,840
Speaker 3: well well over half of the states, which is wow,

602
00:32:53,040 --> 00:32:56,120
Speaker 3: that's fun. Yeah, so like that. Yeah, I just I like,

603
00:32:56,280 --> 00:32:57,760
Speaker 3: I like to travel in the United States. I love

604
00:32:57,800 --> 00:32:58,440
Speaker 3: a road trip.

605
00:32:59,080 --> 00:33:02,080
Speaker 2: I love a road trip. Oh yeah, what's the longest

606
00:33:02,120 --> 00:33:03,040
Speaker 2: road trip you've been on?

607
00:33:03,440 --> 00:33:05,880
Speaker 3: I went. I took thirty days with a friend or

608
00:33:05,920 --> 00:33:08,200
Speaker 3: twenty eight days maybe with a friend in two thousand

609
00:33:08,200 --> 00:33:10,360
Speaker 3: and nine, and we drove we were living in Boston,

610
00:33:10,920 --> 00:33:16,080
Speaker 3: down to Texas and then across the southwest and then

611
00:33:16,200 --> 00:33:21,240
Speaker 3: up to Seattle and then back east. Oh it was awesome.

612
00:33:21,520 --> 00:33:23,040
Speaker 2: Did you ever feel like you were going to lose

613
00:33:23,040 --> 00:33:23,800
Speaker 2: your mind? Though?

614
00:33:25,000 --> 00:33:26,920
Speaker 3: It was like a little like I think by the

615
00:33:26,960 --> 00:33:28,720
Speaker 3: time we got to there were a couple of cities

616
00:33:28,760 --> 00:33:30,200
Speaker 3: we stayed in for a few days, and I think

617
00:33:30,200 --> 00:33:32,480
Speaker 3: by the time we got to Chicago, like our last night.

618
00:33:33,040 --> 00:33:35,400
Speaker 3: We were like, I guess we could like find a

619
00:33:35,400 --> 00:33:39,400
Speaker 3: hotel tonight or we could just drive home now. So

620
00:33:39,440 --> 00:33:41,760
Speaker 3: it was like ten pm. We got off stage, got

621
00:33:41,800 --> 00:33:45,400
Speaker 3: in my little Toyota Corolla, and then just like started driving.

622
00:33:45,440 --> 00:33:51,120
Speaker 3: We set the DVR. Excuse me DVR, we said, the GPS.

623
00:33:51,240 --> 00:33:53,320
Speaker 3: This was when you had like a little GPS unit

624
00:33:53,360 --> 00:33:55,240
Speaker 3: in the car, oh you know, two thousand and nine.

625
00:33:55,440 --> 00:33:59,360
Speaker 3: It was like a little iPad mini sized guy that

626
00:33:59,600 --> 00:34:01,120
Speaker 3: just was like, all I do is tell you where

627
00:34:01,120 --> 00:34:07,760
Speaker 3: to go. So we sent the GPS to Boston from Chicago,

628
00:34:08,239 --> 00:34:13,520
Speaker 3: and it took us through Canada. What yeah, And going

629
00:34:13,560 --> 00:34:16,040
Speaker 3: into Canada at the time, they were just like hey,

630
00:34:16,480 --> 00:34:19,480
Speaker 3: glad to have you. Welcome to the neighborhood. And we

631
00:34:19,560 --> 00:34:22,080
Speaker 3: drove straight through. We like stopped to get like a

632
00:34:22,120 --> 00:34:24,520
Speaker 3: coffee and use a rest stop bathroom, and then we

633
00:34:24,560 --> 00:34:27,520
Speaker 3: got back to the United States three hours later with

634
00:34:27,680 --> 00:34:32,840
Speaker 3: no passports because we did not attend I'm leaving the country.

635
00:34:32,960 --> 00:34:35,000
Speaker 3: The customs in the US were like, all right, what

636
00:34:35,040 --> 00:34:36,720
Speaker 3: are you doing in Canada? And we're like our comedians

637
00:34:36,760 --> 00:34:39,359
Speaker 3: were coming from Chicago. We just drove straight east and

638
00:34:39,400 --> 00:34:41,839
Speaker 3: this is what happened. And they were like, you just

639
00:34:42,000 --> 00:34:46,440
Speaker 3: accidentally drove it to Canada. Were like, yeah, they've incredibly suspicious,

640
00:34:46,840 --> 00:34:50,240
Speaker 3: very suspicious. I would not have trusted me two thousand

641
00:34:50,239 --> 00:34:52,920
Speaker 3: and nine though, a different time, a different time, just

642
00:34:53,760 --> 00:34:58,439
Speaker 3: flying through the world, no quarantine necessary, not a care

643
00:34:58,480 --> 00:35:02,120
Speaker 3: in the world. Yeah, could just freely move between countries.

644
00:35:02,160 --> 00:35:05,800
Speaker 3: About two weeks of staying in a hotel, slowly losing

645
00:35:05,840 --> 00:35:06,600
Speaker 3: your mind.

646
00:35:07,000 --> 00:35:08,719
Speaker 2: Do you think you're going to travel at all now

647
00:35:08,800 --> 00:35:12,160
Speaker 2: with being vaccinated in this kind of thing, I mean,

648
00:35:12,400 --> 00:35:14,080
Speaker 2: assuming you're not an anti vaxer.

649
00:35:14,480 --> 00:35:20,760
Speaker 3: I'm vaccinated. Yeah, not to brag to hundreds of nations

650
00:35:20,760 --> 00:35:22,800
Speaker 3: in the world that I have not had that option yet,

651
00:35:23,040 --> 00:35:26,359
Speaker 3: but I'm vaccinated. I think I've planned like a couple

652
00:35:26,360 --> 00:35:28,000
Speaker 3: of little things. We went to Miami for a couple days,

653
00:35:28,040 --> 00:35:30,480
Speaker 3: my wife and I for anniversary and we just sat

654
00:35:30,600 --> 00:35:33,640
Speaker 3: like by a pool and enjoyed the sunlay. That was

655
00:35:33,680 --> 00:35:37,799
Speaker 3: really nice. And we're going to Philly for a few

656
00:35:37,880 --> 00:35:42,000
Speaker 3: days for her birthday. So we're doing mostly like short

657
00:35:42,160 --> 00:35:44,800
Speaker 3: few day trips within the United States.

658
00:35:44,880 --> 00:35:47,320
Speaker 2: Yeah, I've got to figure out some sort of travel.

659
00:35:47,360 --> 00:35:50,319
Speaker 2: I'm gonna absolutely snap here if I don't get out

660
00:35:50,320 --> 00:35:50,920
Speaker 2: of the city.

661
00:35:51,320 --> 00:35:54,040
Speaker 3: I started because we went to Miami in May, and

662
00:35:54,080 --> 00:35:56,040
Speaker 3: then around the fourth of July, we had friends that

663
00:35:56,080 --> 00:35:57,400
Speaker 3: were like, Oh, we're going to the Jersey Shore for

664
00:35:57,400 --> 00:35:58,839
Speaker 3: a couple of days. We're going to Hampton's a couple

665
00:35:58,920 --> 00:36:01,239
Speaker 3: days are do you have any plans? And I was like,

666
00:36:01,560 --> 00:36:03,879
Speaker 3: I was looking forward so much to this trip in

667
00:36:03,920 --> 00:36:08,359
Speaker 3: May that I truly forgot to plan the rest of

668
00:36:08,400 --> 00:36:11,320
Speaker 3: my wife and just like stopped thinking into the future

669
00:36:11,480 --> 00:36:13,239
Speaker 3: because for a year, I just got to the point

670
00:36:13,239 --> 00:36:15,680
Speaker 3: of like tomorrow is like today, which was like yesterday,

671
00:36:16,000 --> 00:36:17,880
Speaker 3: and so I don't really have to make plans. I

672
00:36:17,920 --> 00:36:20,440
Speaker 3: have to like, in fact not make plans and just

673
00:36:20,480 --> 00:36:23,960
Speaker 3: like decide to live life one day at a time.

674
00:36:25,000 --> 00:36:27,240
Speaker 3: And now that that's an option to like do stuff

675
00:36:27,239 --> 00:36:29,480
Speaker 3: on purpose, I had forgotten how to do that.

676
00:36:30,160 --> 00:36:33,720
Speaker 2: Right, Doing things on purpose and planning ahead and also

677
00:36:33,880 --> 00:36:36,960
Speaker 2: being spontaneous right now are two things. I'm just like, Oh,

678
00:36:37,040 --> 00:36:39,720
Speaker 2: you can do these things, and yeah, they will work

679
00:36:39,760 --> 00:36:40,759
Speaker 2: out in some way.

680
00:36:41,320 --> 00:36:43,920
Speaker 3: My wife had plans one night to like have dinner

681
00:36:43,960 --> 00:36:47,799
Speaker 3: with friends, and I forgot to think about what to

682
00:36:47,880 --> 00:36:51,279
Speaker 3: do that night, and I was like, I was like, oh,

683
00:36:51,320 --> 00:36:52,640
Speaker 3: I could see a friend that I haven't seen in

684
00:36:52,640 --> 00:36:54,560
Speaker 3: a while, like someone that she doesn't know as well

685
00:36:54,920 --> 00:36:57,000
Speaker 3: that you know that like we would just talk about

686
00:36:57,000 --> 00:36:59,200
Speaker 3: whatever comedy or high school or whatever it is. And

687
00:36:59,239 --> 00:37:02,720
Speaker 3: I was like, Okay, who are my friend?

688
00:37:04,360 --> 00:37:07,160
Speaker 2: Right, there's a whole list of people who, for all

689
00:37:07,200 --> 00:37:09,439
Speaker 2: I know might be dead at this point that I've

690
00:37:09,520 --> 00:37:11,840
Speaker 2: just like lost contact with who I would have regularly

691
00:37:11,920 --> 00:37:14,680
Speaker 2: probably seen once a month or something. And I'm just like,

692
00:37:14,719 --> 00:37:16,640
Speaker 2: I need to sit down and just make a list

693
00:37:16,680 --> 00:37:19,160
Speaker 2: of people that may have vanished for my life.

694
00:37:19,400 --> 00:37:21,319
Speaker 3: Yes, I've been, you know, going to a few social

695
00:37:21,360 --> 00:37:23,719
Speaker 3: events and like a bunch of comedy stuff, doing some

696
00:37:23,760 --> 00:37:27,719
Speaker 3: more stand up and like my excuse me, my comically

697
00:37:27,800 --> 00:37:31,439
Speaker 3: large reactions when I see someone, and it's always the same.

698
00:37:31,520 --> 00:37:34,120
Speaker 3: I was like, hey, like arms out stretched up in

699
00:37:34,120 --> 00:37:36,040
Speaker 3: the air as if I'm about to start the YMCA,

700
00:37:36,160 --> 00:37:37,600
Speaker 3: and then I go, I haven't seen you in forever,

701
00:37:37,680 --> 00:37:40,520
Speaker 3: And then I go, wait, I haven't seen anyone forever,

702
00:37:40,600 --> 00:37:41,919
Speaker 3: but it's nice to see you.

703
00:37:43,160 --> 00:37:46,680
Speaker 2: Yeah. There's still like occasionally meeting up with people and

704
00:37:46,719 --> 00:37:49,719
Speaker 2: like we just kind of slowly approach each other then

705
00:37:49,880 --> 00:37:52,360
Speaker 2: stop without hugging, and then I'm like, well, now the

706
00:37:52,400 --> 00:37:56,359
Speaker 2: moment is lost. If I can't now hug you, and

707
00:37:56,480 --> 00:37:58,759
Speaker 2: so there's just kind of the staring at each other

708
00:37:59,080 --> 00:38:04,000
Speaker 2: that's uncomfortable, but we're all we're all relearning.

709
00:38:03,719 --> 00:38:07,279
Speaker 3: The far away enthusiasmts like what's up? And then you're like, okay,

710
00:38:07,320 --> 00:38:10,160
Speaker 3: do we do we shake hands? Some people I think

711
00:38:10,200 --> 00:38:15,360
Speaker 3: have been very like anti hug philosophically, which seems like

712
00:38:15,360 --> 00:38:17,359
Speaker 3: a cheat. Like if you don't like to hug, that's

713
00:38:17,400 --> 00:38:20,280
Speaker 3: one thing, like totally fair. I don't want to violate

714
00:38:20,320 --> 00:38:23,279
Speaker 3: anyone's personal boundaries. But when you're anti hug as like

715
00:38:23,400 --> 00:38:28,360
Speaker 3: a like people shouldn't hug, it's like, come on, what

716
00:38:28,440 --> 00:38:31,320
Speaker 3: are we supposed to do? We have been so remote

717
00:38:31,360 --> 00:38:33,839
Speaker 3: from one another, like people shouldn't hug? Like what kind

718
00:38:33,880 --> 00:38:34,160
Speaker 3: of take?

719
00:38:34,280 --> 00:38:34,520
Speaker 1: Is that?

720
00:38:35,400 --> 00:38:36,400
Speaker 2: Not a great take?

721
00:38:37,000 --> 00:38:39,200
Speaker 3: The one that the one that popped into my head

722
00:38:39,200 --> 00:38:40,680
Speaker 3: the other day that I was like, oh I should

723
00:38:40,719 --> 00:38:43,400
Speaker 3: just say this on Twitter, get ratioed into oblivion and

724
00:38:43,440 --> 00:38:46,960
Speaker 3: delete my account, is that because this isn't really a thing.

725
00:38:47,000 --> 00:38:49,040
Speaker 3: But like people are like, oh, are we going to

726
00:38:49,080 --> 00:38:51,600
Speaker 3: stop blowing up birthday candles? Which like maybe sure that

727
00:38:51,640 --> 00:38:54,879
Speaker 3: one I get, But the one that I've been thinking

728
00:38:54,880 --> 00:39:00,879
Speaker 3: about is, oh, just throw the coats on the bed, throwing.

729
00:39:00,600 --> 00:39:02,800
Speaker 2: Coats on the bed. It's always been like, what's that,

730
00:39:03,040 --> 00:39:09,040
Speaker 2: I mean it's rough. Nope, coats are kind of just dirty.

731
00:39:09,160 --> 00:39:12,200
Speaker 3: Yes, and on the bed they're the dirtiest. If I

732
00:39:12,400 --> 00:39:15,440
Speaker 3: get my coat dirty, like if I if I spill

733
00:39:15,520 --> 00:39:18,440
Speaker 3: something on my shirt, right like if I spill like

734
00:39:18,480 --> 00:39:21,120
Speaker 3: a little coffee on my shirt, I will if I'm home,

735
00:39:21,239 --> 00:39:23,880
Speaker 3: I change it right away. I put it in the laundry,

736
00:39:24,360 --> 00:39:26,759
Speaker 3: I wash it. If I spill a little coffee on

737
00:39:26,800 --> 00:39:31,040
Speaker 3: my coat, that coat's staying coffeed up until winter.

738
00:39:31,840 --> 00:39:35,480
Speaker 2: Of course, people are worried about like pant like wearing

739
00:39:35,600 --> 00:39:39,360
Speaker 2: jeans on the bed or whatever. Jeans get washed pretty regularly.

740
00:39:39,560 --> 00:39:43,520
Speaker 2: Coats coats, coats may never get washed, may never get washed.

741
00:39:43,560 --> 00:39:45,440
Speaker 2: I will usually do one at that I'll like be

742
00:39:45,560 --> 00:39:48,279
Speaker 2: mindful of doing it, like when it's warm enough that

743
00:39:48,320 --> 00:39:50,280
Speaker 2: I'm like, okay, the coats are going away.

744
00:39:50,440 --> 00:39:53,680
Speaker 3: But like I also don't have like just a vast

745
00:39:53,840 --> 00:39:56,359
Speaker 3: array of coats. So if I put my warm if

746
00:39:56,360 --> 00:39:58,440
Speaker 3: I'm like, oh my coat's got a little stain on it,

747
00:39:58,600 --> 00:40:00,480
Speaker 3: I'll take it to the dry cleaner and I'm just

748
00:40:00,719 --> 00:40:01,680
Speaker 3: cold for a week.

749
00:40:03,640 --> 00:40:07,240
Speaker 2: I mean, something really bad has has to have happened

750
00:40:07,239 --> 00:40:09,279
Speaker 2: for me to wash a coat like I had, I

751
00:40:09,400 --> 00:40:12,319
Speaker 2: have to have buried a body to be like, oh,

752
00:40:12,360 --> 00:40:13,640
Speaker 2: maybe I should throw it in the wash.

753
00:40:14,040 --> 00:40:16,640
Speaker 3: Oh, I was over it, Dexter's gill.

754
00:40:17,640 --> 00:40:21,920
Speaker 2: Maybe it's time I'll put it in the wash. Otherwise,

755
00:40:22,080 --> 00:40:24,560
Speaker 2: And so to be putting those on beds, that's fine. Yeah,

756
00:40:24,680 --> 00:40:27,400
Speaker 2: throw on the floor, Yeah, throw them on the floor.

757
00:40:27,680 --> 00:40:31,560
Speaker 2: Floor and coat are a better match than bed and ghosts. Certainly,

758
00:40:31,680 --> 00:40:34,200
Speaker 2: I would rather be putting your shoes on my bed.

759
00:40:36,520 --> 00:40:38,719
Speaker 3: Just just rub your butt on my.

760
00:40:40,360 --> 00:40:42,759
Speaker 2: Everybody, take your diaper off and throw it on the bed.

761
00:40:44,080 --> 00:40:46,400
Speaker 3: I'm sure there's been a party that started like that.

762
00:40:49,000 --> 00:40:50,799
Speaker 3: But yeah, throw the coats on the bed is like

763
00:40:51,040 --> 00:40:54,560
Speaker 3: something I hadn't considered in a long time, because I

764
00:40:54,640 --> 00:40:56,759
Speaker 3: definitely like, I've been going to some gatherings now, but

765
00:40:56,800 --> 00:40:59,319
Speaker 3: it's they're, you know, largely coat free because of the weather.

766
00:41:00,239 --> 00:41:02,480
Speaker 3: So back in the winter, the first night, it's like, well,

767
00:41:02,640 --> 00:41:04,479
Speaker 3: we do the coats, and so we'll keep them away

768
00:41:04,480 --> 00:41:07,839
Speaker 3: from my bed. You need to lead the charge. I'm

769
00:41:07,880 --> 00:41:12,360
Speaker 3: gonna no coats on the bed. That's that's my new mantra.

770
00:41:14,760 --> 00:41:19,759
Speaker 2: Oh okay, well, look coats, ice cream, all of this aside.

771
00:41:20,000 --> 00:41:21,839
Speaker 2: I think we should play a game. Do you want

772
00:41:21,840 --> 00:41:23,600
Speaker 2: to play a game I would love to do you

773
00:41:23,640 --> 00:41:25,320
Speaker 2: want to play a game called Gift or a Curse

774
00:41:25,719 --> 00:41:27,080
Speaker 2: or a game called Gift Master.

775
00:41:27,640 --> 00:41:28,760
Speaker 3: Let's see Gift or a Curse.

776
00:41:28,920 --> 00:41:31,520
Speaker 2: Okay, I will tell you how we're going to play

777
00:41:31,520 --> 00:41:33,000
Speaker 2: it in a minute. I need a number between one

778
00:41:33,000 --> 00:41:33,480
Speaker 2: and ten.

779
00:41:34,840 --> 00:41:35,120
Speaker 3: Four.

780
00:41:35,600 --> 00:41:38,880
Speaker 2: Okay, I have to do some light calculating. Don't freak

781
00:41:38,920 --> 00:41:42,359
Speaker 2: out right now. You're going to promote something, You're gonna

782
00:41:42,400 --> 00:41:44,560
Speaker 2: recommend something, Do whatever you want. I'll be right back.

783
00:41:45,200 --> 00:41:49,520
Speaker 3: Okay. Oh, this is such a pleasure to be here

784
00:41:49,520 --> 00:41:52,640
Speaker 3: with you on Bridges Podcast. I will suggest that you

785
00:41:52,840 --> 00:41:56,440
Speaker 3: enjoy if you haven't seen Itjesus and Marrow went to Cambridge,

786
00:41:56,440 --> 00:42:00,319
Speaker 3: Massachusetts to hang out with Acclaimed uh Celebrate to tell

787
00:42:00,400 --> 00:42:03,640
Speaker 3: us yo Yo Ma and they got him to play

788
00:42:04,440 --> 00:42:08,160
Speaker 3: contemporary Ish music pop music and it was really great.

789
00:42:08,560 --> 00:42:14,799
Speaker 3: Yo Yo Ma has incredible vibes. He played the late

790
00:42:14,880 --> 00:42:19,120
Speaker 3: DMX's Rough Riders Anthem. He did Toxic by Britney Spears.

791
00:42:19,520 --> 00:42:22,880
Speaker 3: It is a treat I really I had very little

792
00:42:22,920 --> 00:42:24,680
Speaker 3: to do with it coming together the way it did.

793
00:42:24,880 --> 00:42:27,440
Speaker 3: It looks great. Our directors did great. Our writers did great.

794
00:42:27,760 --> 00:42:31,080
Speaker 3: Jesus and Marrow were so funny. It's on YouTube Jesus

795
00:42:31,080 --> 00:42:35,600
Speaker 3: and Marrow interviewing Yo Yo Ma and Cambridge, Massachusetts. It said, delight,

796
00:42:36,000 --> 00:42:36,920
Speaker 3: that sounds wonderful.

797
00:42:36,960 --> 00:42:38,000
Speaker 2: I've got to watch that.

798
00:42:38,200 --> 00:42:39,400
Speaker 3: It was all very fine.

799
00:42:39,560 --> 00:42:42,640
Speaker 2: I was half listening you. I mean, we already talked

800
00:42:42,640 --> 00:42:45,239
Speaker 2: about your podcast Make My Day. But people should be

801
00:42:45,239 --> 00:42:46,080
Speaker 2: listening to that as well.

802
00:42:46,120 --> 00:42:46,840
Speaker 3: Thank you.

803
00:42:46,960 --> 00:42:50,040
Speaker 2: People should be following Josh on Twitter. Thank you. He's

804
00:42:50,120 --> 00:42:54,439
Speaker 2: all over the place. Listen. You know, Josh really does

805
00:42:54,440 --> 00:42:58,759
Speaker 2: a lot of things very well. So type his name

806
00:42:58,800 --> 00:43:00,439
Speaker 2: into Google and go on a ride.

807
00:43:00,719 --> 00:43:04,440
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's Josh Gondleman feet.

808
00:43:04,640 --> 00:43:09,759
Speaker 2: Sure, the feet pictures you're going to see. It's just

809
00:43:09,880 --> 00:43:11,000
Speaker 2: discussed astonishing.

810
00:43:11,200 --> 00:43:15,720
Speaker 3: You're gonna be like, does this man have a face here,

811
00:43:17,920 --> 00:43:20,719
Speaker 3: Josh Gondleman wife. Sure, we'll see if the internet knows

812
00:43:20,760 --> 00:43:21,640
Speaker 3: you I'm married.

813
00:43:21,360 --> 00:43:25,680
Speaker 2: To that's always an interesting uh search suggestion where they're

814
00:43:25,920 --> 00:43:27,640
Speaker 2: you're like, oh, so people are now just looking for

815
00:43:27,719 --> 00:43:28,240
Speaker 2: your partner.

816
00:43:28,640 --> 00:43:32,839
Speaker 3: Yeah, and it's I mean, my wife Maris is a

817
00:43:32,880 --> 00:43:36,480
Speaker 3: writer and podcaster. But I feel like when you type

818
00:43:36,480 --> 00:43:40,880
Speaker 3: in Josh gondal wife, that's all you're doing. Podcast.

819
00:43:42,800 --> 00:43:46,520
Speaker 2: It's very Josh, Let's play gift or a curse. This

820
00:43:46,640 --> 00:43:50,040
Speaker 2: is how it works. I'm gonna name three things. You're

821
00:43:50,040 --> 00:43:51,720
Speaker 2: gonna tell me if there are a gift or a curse?

822
00:43:51,800 --> 00:43:56,080
Speaker 2: And why? Uh, there are correct answers. People have lost

823
00:43:56,120 --> 00:43:59,280
Speaker 2: the game before. I think you know, very few people

824
00:43:59,320 --> 00:44:02,000
Speaker 2: have come close to that's a difficult game. It's a

825
00:44:02,280 --> 00:44:06,560
Speaker 2: game that's ruined careers, marriages, et cetera. So be careful,

826
00:44:06,640 --> 00:44:11,040
Speaker 2: please sure. Okay, So first up, gift a curse. And

827
00:44:11,080 --> 00:44:14,880
Speaker 2: this is a listener suggestion from someone named Ryan. Okay,

828
00:44:15,080 --> 00:44:19,200
Speaker 2: Ryan has suggested gift a curse. People dancing around their

829
00:44:19,320 --> 00:44:22,640
Speaker 2: kitchens in movies and TV, so you know, I think

830
00:44:22,640 --> 00:44:25,080
Speaker 2: this is kind of you know, there will be a

831
00:44:25,480 --> 00:44:28,160
Speaker 2: song will suddenly start playing it the people, the characters

832
00:44:28,160 --> 00:44:30,560
Speaker 2: in the movie are dancing around their kitchens.

833
00:44:31,960 --> 00:44:40,359
Speaker 3: This is a curse for sure. And why because I'm

834
00:44:40,360 --> 00:44:43,480
Speaker 3: not gonna lie. I've done a little kitchen dancing. But

835
00:44:43,520 --> 00:44:45,839
Speaker 3: it's you know, if I put some music on when

836
00:44:45,840 --> 00:44:48,279
Speaker 3: I'm cooking, maybe a little shoulder shimmy, maybe I get

837
00:44:48,280 --> 00:44:51,360
Speaker 3: the hips working. But we're not talking. Never in my

838
00:44:51,520 --> 00:44:55,200
Speaker 3: life have I had the house to myself and gone

839
00:44:55,320 --> 00:45:00,520
Speaker 3: full Tom cruise risky business dress shirt, no pants, and

840
00:45:00,600 --> 00:45:02,600
Speaker 3: if anyone does, it's an homage to Tom Cruise and

841
00:45:02,640 --> 00:45:05,319
Speaker 3: risky Business. That's not a natural thing to want to do.

842
00:45:05,760 --> 00:45:10,600
Speaker 3: Like again, I think it is just improper representation of

843
00:45:10,680 --> 00:45:13,960
Speaker 3: dancing in the kitchen, That's what it. It's too choreographed,

844
00:45:14,040 --> 00:45:17,440
Speaker 3: it's too like the knife is too involved while you're cooking.

845
00:45:17,800 --> 00:45:21,200
Speaker 3: It's just not careful. I don't I think it is.

846
00:45:21,920 --> 00:45:24,840
Speaker 3: It's too flamboyant. It's like the milkshake with the doughnut

847
00:45:24,920 --> 00:45:27,759
Speaker 3: on top. This is for the gram. This is not

848
00:45:27,880 --> 00:45:29,680
Speaker 3: how people dance on their own.

849
00:45:30,880 --> 00:45:37,279
Speaker 2: Josh, Josh, Josh Josh. You step into the Gift for

850
00:45:37,360 --> 00:45:41,320
Speaker 2: a Curse arena and you fall flat on your face.

851
00:45:42,960 --> 00:45:45,520
Speaker 2: I think this is again why do I always say

852
00:45:45,520 --> 00:45:49,480
Speaker 2: I think I know that this is a gift. Whatever

853
00:45:49,560 --> 00:45:53,600
Speaker 2: you're experiencing in your kitchen is apparently just not enough.

854
00:45:53,840 --> 00:45:57,640
Speaker 2: You're not letting go. I love to watch the people

855
00:45:57,680 --> 00:46:00,319
Speaker 2: in the movie. I mean, actually Risky Business is I

856
00:46:00,360 --> 00:46:02,680
Speaker 2: find that whole thing with the old time rock and

857
00:46:02,760 --> 00:46:06,080
Speaker 2: roll is so annoying. That image is so ier. That

858
00:46:06,200 --> 00:46:11,520
Speaker 2: song sucks that whole like I've seen that parodied into

859
00:46:11,560 --> 00:46:13,719
Speaker 2: the ground. I don't ever want to see that image again,

860
00:46:13,719 --> 00:46:15,440
Speaker 2: and I never want to hear that song again. And

861
00:46:15,440 --> 00:46:17,400
Speaker 2: I'm sorry to even bring it up on this podcast,

862
00:46:17,480 --> 00:46:18,799
Speaker 2: but it does remind me that it's one of the

863
00:46:18,800 --> 00:46:20,759
Speaker 2: worst songs ever, and I need to put it in

864
00:46:20,880 --> 00:46:25,600
Speaker 2: my worst songs ever playlist. That aside. Outside of that,

865
00:46:25,680 --> 00:46:27,800
Speaker 2: I love to watch people dancing around in their kitchens

866
00:46:27,800 --> 00:46:30,120
Speaker 2: to some annoying song, and I love to do it

867
00:46:30,160 --> 00:46:34,000
Speaker 2: myself when I mean, I have to be alone. If

868
00:46:34,000 --> 00:46:36,560
Speaker 2: my boyfriend's at home, I'm not dancing around the kitchen.

869
00:46:36,760 --> 00:46:39,040
Speaker 2: But the moment it is I put on the music,

870
00:46:39,600 --> 00:46:42,960
Speaker 2: I'm baking cookies or I'm making something to eat, I'm

871
00:46:43,040 --> 00:46:46,560
Speaker 2: dancing pretty, I'm dancing a lot. Let's be honest.

872
00:46:46,719 --> 00:46:49,960
Speaker 3: Okay, this is maybe just me, this is my experience

873
00:46:50,000 --> 00:46:53,760
Speaker 3: as a person of low impact dancing.

874
00:46:54,719 --> 00:46:57,040
Speaker 2: You've got to dance more in the kitchen. Maybe not

875
00:46:57,080 --> 00:46:58,440
Speaker 2: with a knife. I think you bring up a good

876
00:46:58,440 --> 00:47:02,319
Speaker 2: point there. If there's much knife action, you obviously have

877
00:47:02,320 --> 00:47:06,440
Speaker 2: a death wish and no one wants to end up

878
00:47:06,480 --> 00:47:09,319
Speaker 2: like having to explain to an EMT. Listen. I love

879
00:47:09,400 --> 00:47:12,040
Speaker 2: the song. I got a little careless and now I'm

880
00:47:12,080 --> 00:47:13,000
Speaker 2: bleeding everywhere.

881
00:47:13,160 --> 00:47:14,879
Speaker 3: No scrubs came on while I was.

882
00:47:14,880 --> 00:47:20,600
Speaker 2: Chopping carriers, and now four of my fingers are in

883
00:47:20,680 --> 00:47:21,680
Speaker 2: the drain and.

884
00:47:21,600 --> 00:47:25,279
Speaker 3: I'm surrounded by people wearing scrubs. I'd be so many

885
00:47:25,560 --> 00:47:26,320
Speaker 3: back together.

886
00:47:27,640 --> 00:47:31,120
Speaker 2: That's actually very appropriate, and hopefully that can happen. I

887
00:47:31,160 --> 00:47:34,839
Speaker 2: bet that's somebody's dream, So, you know, hopefully that works

888
00:47:34,840 --> 00:47:36,360
Speaker 2: out for someone. I don't want that to happen to me.

889
00:47:36,440 --> 00:47:38,479
Speaker 2: I just want to have a nice time dancing around

890
00:47:38,520 --> 00:47:41,840
Speaker 2: the kitchen. I support characters in TV and movies dancing

891
00:47:41,840 --> 00:47:45,640
Speaker 2: around the kitchen. I support myself, and I encourage Joshua

892
00:47:45,920 --> 00:47:48,239
Speaker 2: to do the same. I'm only going to say that

893
00:47:48,239 --> 00:47:49,000
Speaker 2: when I'm mad at you.

894
00:47:49,200 --> 00:47:51,279
Speaker 3: Okay, that's fair. That is often how it comes out.

895
00:47:52,840 --> 00:47:56,080
Speaker 2: Okay, So look, you failed the first one, and that's

896
00:47:56,120 --> 00:48:03,040
Speaker 2: totally fair. People make mistakes. Next up, gift or a curse? Okay,

897
00:48:03,080 --> 00:48:05,000
Speaker 2: where is it? Oh, gift or a curse? This is

898
00:48:05,040 --> 00:48:08,839
Speaker 2: another listener suggestion from somebody named Oliver. And this is

899
00:48:09,080 --> 00:48:11,799
Speaker 2: when someone says, do you know who you look like?

900
00:48:12,280 --> 00:48:15,359
Speaker 2: Gift or a curse? So when somebody, I guess, when

901
00:48:15,360 --> 00:48:17,000
Speaker 2: they say to you, hey, do you know who you

902
00:48:17,040 --> 00:48:17,400
Speaker 2: look like?

903
00:48:18,760 --> 00:48:22,880
Speaker 3: I think I think it's a gift, okay, and it's

904
00:48:23,400 --> 00:48:27,560
Speaker 3: it's telling you something about that person. It's telling you

905
00:48:27,600 --> 00:48:31,719
Speaker 3: that that person doesn't know to not do that. And

906
00:48:31,760 --> 00:48:36,400
Speaker 3: there's probably other stuff they don't know, like, you know,

907
00:48:36,600 --> 00:48:41,120
Speaker 3: just little stuff. They're probably the kind of person who

908
00:48:41,280 --> 00:48:45,040
Speaker 3: when you tell them about something you love, they go, oh,

909
00:48:45,080 --> 00:48:48,520
Speaker 3: I hate that for you know, just like aggressively, and

910
00:48:48,560 --> 00:48:51,759
Speaker 3: you're like, hey, man, I wasn't soliciting. I was just

911
00:48:51,840 --> 00:48:54,120
Speaker 3: telling you a preferen sie. They're probably the kind of

912
00:48:54,160 --> 00:48:59,440
Speaker 3: person that, like they when you go out for someone's

913
00:48:59,440 --> 00:49:01,919
Speaker 3: birthday and we're like, okay, let's all split the check,

914
00:49:02,000 --> 00:49:05,400
Speaker 3: except it's Jason's birthday, so we'll cover We'll cover Jason,

915
00:49:05,520 --> 00:49:09,680
Speaker 3: they're probably like they quibble about that. You know, it's

916
00:49:09,760 --> 00:49:13,200
Speaker 3: like this person probably just doesn't have a mastery of

917
00:49:13,239 --> 00:49:20,200
Speaker 3: the subtler elements of living in society, just basic basic

918
00:49:20,239 --> 00:49:23,440
Speaker 3: human interaction. You know, do you know who you look like?

919
00:49:24,040 --> 00:49:29,040
Speaker 3: If you don't say one of the ten most attractive people,

920
00:49:29,320 --> 00:49:32,600
Speaker 3: and not even just because I look I think the

921
00:49:32,640 --> 00:49:36,120
Speaker 3: beauty standards right with there, especially for women, there's there's

922
00:49:36,200 --> 00:49:38,880
Speaker 3: like such a narrow band of what we consider to

923
00:49:38,920 --> 00:49:43,400
Speaker 3: be like a hot person. However, as a society. We

924
00:49:43,520 --> 00:49:47,080
Speaker 3: know the cultural resonance of of when you say, do

925
00:49:47,120 --> 00:49:51,120
Speaker 3: you you know who you look like? And uh, yeah,

926
00:49:51,280 --> 00:49:54,279
Speaker 3: I know who I look like. You know, it's so

927
00:49:54,400 --> 00:49:57,799
Speaker 3: unless it's someone that is three orders of magnitude more

928
00:49:57,800 --> 00:50:00,239
Speaker 3: attractive than I actually am, I do not want to

929
00:50:00,239 --> 00:50:02,719
Speaker 3: hear it. I don't need to hear anymore that I

930
00:50:02,760 --> 00:50:07,439
Speaker 3: look like the late great artist Keith Herring. I don't

931
00:50:07,440 --> 00:50:09,600
Speaker 3: need to hear anymore that I that I look like

932
00:50:09,960 --> 00:50:15,560
Speaker 3: acclaimed filmmaker and comedic actor David Wayne. I don't need

933
00:50:15,600 --> 00:50:17,759
Speaker 3: to hear anywhere that I look like Craig Fann, the

934
00:50:17,840 --> 00:50:20,560
Speaker 3: lead singer of the Whole City. I know these things.

935
00:50:21,160 --> 00:50:23,359
Speaker 3: I know them there that you don't need to tell

936
00:50:23,440 --> 00:50:25,239
Speaker 3: me unless you're like, do you know who you look like?

937
00:50:25,480 --> 00:50:28,600
Speaker 3: You look like if Stanley Duci were hotter, like a hotter.

938
00:50:29,160 --> 00:50:30,840
Speaker 3: That's what you always have to do, you know what

939
00:50:30,920 --> 00:50:33,640
Speaker 3: I mean? The other one that I'm always tempted to

940
00:50:33,719 --> 00:50:36,480
Speaker 3: do because it's not an insult, but it's not a compliment,

941
00:50:36,520 --> 00:50:39,200
Speaker 3: so I never do it. But I'll be like, I'll

942
00:50:39,239 --> 00:50:41,319
Speaker 3: be like, I saw this person that looked like you,

943
00:50:41,960 --> 00:50:44,719
Speaker 3: but less attractive, so I knew it wasn't you, but like,

944
00:50:45,239 --> 00:50:51,680
Speaker 3: there's no way to take that right. What a worthless utterance.

945
00:50:51,719 --> 00:50:56,920
Speaker 3: But I do think it often. Wow, oh, book, open

946
00:50:57,280 --> 00:50:57,880
Speaker 3: and close.

947
00:50:59,000 --> 00:51:03,120
Speaker 2: You nailed that in such a I mean thorough beautiful way.

948
00:51:03,760 --> 00:51:09,360
Speaker 2: I absolutely agree. I mean your argument there is just perfect.

949
00:51:09,400 --> 00:51:11,759
Speaker 2: I mean, that could have that would stand up in

950
00:51:11,800 --> 00:51:15,640
Speaker 2: the Supreme Court. Absolutely a gift in that exact way,

951
00:51:15,640 --> 00:51:19,320
Speaker 2: because that question is one of the most harrowing things

952
00:51:19,680 --> 00:51:22,799
Speaker 2: you could possibly hear. Yeah, unless it's one of like

953
00:51:23,200 --> 00:51:26,560
Speaker 2: the six objectively most gorgeous people on the planet that

954
00:51:26,560 --> 00:51:30,000
Speaker 2: you're about to compare the person to shut up, just

955
00:51:30,160 --> 00:51:32,160
Speaker 2: don't don't say that. No one wants to hear it.

956
00:51:32,360 --> 00:51:36,280
Speaker 3: We all know. I've lived thirty six years on my life.

957
00:51:36,520 --> 00:51:38,920
Speaker 3: I know what I look like. I've seen other people.

958
00:51:39,200 --> 00:51:42,120
Speaker 3: I know which of them look like me. So it's

959
00:51:42,120 --> 00:51:44,880
Speaker 3: a gift you're giving. You're giving someone the Rosetta stone

960
00:51:44,920 --> 00:51:46,280
Speaker 3: to your bad personality.

961
00:51:46,880 --> 00:51:51,000
Speaker 2: That excellent. I mean, wow, what a way to turn

962
00:51:51,000 --> 00:51:53,160
Speaker 2: around the game than you. I mean, you've really just

963
00:51:53,280 --> 00:51:57,279
Speaker 2: nailed it there in such an incredible way. Nobody ask

964
00:51:57,440 --> 00:52:00,200
Speaker 2: that question. Cut it out. If you're if you've if

965
00:52:00,200 --> 00:52:02,439
Speaker 2: you're the sort of person that asks that question, it's

966
00:52:02,520 --> 00:52:05,880
Speaker 2: never too late to start a new and be better.

967
00:52:06,920 --> 00:52:11,440
Speaker 2: Stop it. Okay, So number three Joshua're headed into the

968
00:52:11,480 --> 00:52:15,600
Speaker 2: finals here, gift or a curse and let me I'm

969
00:52:15,640 --> 00:52:20,480
Speaker 2: struggling to find and that's completely fine. I am not perfect,

970
00:52:20,560 --> 00:52:23,799
Speaker 2: and the listener is patient. Gift or a curse? Here

971
00:52:23,800 --> 00:52:27,000
Speaker 2: we go. They've got a lot of bomb work to do. Yes,

972
00:52:27,160 --> 00:52:30,160
Speaker 2: they could wait. The bomb has still not been diffused.

973
00:52:30,680 --> 00:52:34,920
Speaker 2: They're dealing with a super villain level bomb. This is

974
00:52:34,960 --> 00:52:39,480
Speaker 2: another listener's suggestion. So one named Jessica, gift a curse.

975
00:52:40,320 --> 00:52:43,719
Speaker 2: Families that have their own whistle to find each other

976
00:52:43,840 --> 00:52:48,879
Speaker 2: in stores. Now, this is an interesting one. Very specific, Yeah,

977
00:52:49,080 --> 00:52:54,960
Speaker 2: incredibly specific one, and I appreciate specificity. What do you

978
00:52:55,000 --> 00:52:56,120
Speaker 2: think I'm.

979
00:52:55,960 --> 00:53:02,960
Speaker 3: Going to say gift because any time you see a

980
00:53:03,000 --> 00:53:05,360
Speaker 3: thing in the wild where you're like, I thought this

981
00:53:05,520 --> 00:53:08,680
Speaker 3: was just from like TV, and not even TV that

982
00:53:08,880 --> 00:53:13,000
Speaker 3: happens now, I thought this is from like fifty sitcoms

983
00:53:13,360 --> 00:53:15,759
Speaker 3: and you see people doing it. I think it's like

984
00:53:15,840 --> 00:53:19,080
Speaker 3: a gift to see in the wild, because that's a

985
00:53:19,160 --> 00:53:21,840
Speaker 3: story like if I saw that happen, if I was

986
00:53:21,880 --> 00:53:25,239
Speaker 3: in a target per se and I saw like a

987
00:53:25,360 --> 00:53:30,000
Speaker 3: dad like and then you see, like his five kids

988
00:53:30,200 --> 00:53:31,279
Speaker 3: all coming towards him.

989
00:53:31,200 --> 00:53:32,960
Speaker 2: Like all of them.

990
00:53:33,000 --> 00:53:35,839
Speaker 3: I would be like, I'm going to tell people about this.

991
00:53:37,080 --> 00:53:41,680
Speaker 3: It is. It's not expected. It is. I think it's

992
00:53:41,719 --> 00:53:45,600
Speaker 3: a gift in its scarcity and its specificity. I think

993
00:53:45,840 --> 00:53:49,600
Speaker 3: if every time I went to Trader Joe's there was like, uh,

994
00:53:50,040 --> 00:53:53,600
Speaker 3: just a plethora of families with their own different whistles

995
00:53:53,600 --> 00:53:56,520
Speaker 3: and it sounded like an aviary, I would switch my

996
00:53:56,560 --> 00:53:59,520
Speaker 3: answer to curse. But because of how rare this is

997
00:53:59,800 --> 00:54:04,000
Speaker 3: and how strange and how like ineffective it seems. But

998
00:54:04,040 --> 00:54:06,840
Speaker 3: if it works, I what a gift to behold.

999
00:54:08,640 --> 00:54:12,120
Speaker 2: Wow, you've done it. I absolutely agree. I mean, I

1000
00:54:12,680 --> 00:54:15,400
Speaker 2: don't know that I've ever experienced this in any way,

1001
00:54:15,800 --> 00:54:20,799
Speaker 2: but the idea of it's so old fashioned and bizarre.

1002
00:54:21,920 --> 00:54:24,040
Speaker 2: I can only I mean, if I were a retail

1003
00:54:24,080 --> 00:54:29,200
Speaker 2: employee and I was constantly hearing whistling to summon the troops,

1004
00:54:30,520 --> 00:54:35,280
Speaker 2: probably very annoying, deeply as someone who might come across

1005
00:54:35,320 --> 00:54:37,800
Speaker 2: that at some point, it'll feel like an old fashioned treat.

1006
00:54:38,520 --> 00:54:40,520
Speaker 2: And I mean I couldn't ask for more. I think

1007
00:54:40,600 --> 00:54:43,520
Speaker 2: that's absolutely a gift. I mean, I'm not going to

1008
00:54:43,560 --> 00:54:46,719
Speaker 2: be doing it anytime soon. No, But if I have

1009
00:54:46,760 --> 00:54:51,640
Speaker 2: a trademark whistle, let alone one that like like activates

1010
00:54:51,640 --> 00:54:54,000
Speaker 2: some chip in the children's head to bring them to

1011
00:54:54,040 --> 00:54:55,600
Speaker 2: you in the produce section.

1012
00:54:55,640 --> 00:54:59,200
Speaker 3: Because I do love the variations of it that appear

1013
00:54:59,800 --> 00:55:02,319
Speaker 3: in in the real world, like if I'm at a

1014
00:55:02,360 --> 00:55:06,200
Speaker 3: party with my wife and you know those subtle signals

1015
00:55:06,200 --> 00:55:09,280
Speaker 3: of like we gotta go home, Like I love that

1016
00:55:09,400 --> 00:55:15,239
Speaker 3: kind of like subtle coded communication. Oh yeah, because if

1017
00:55:15,280 --> 00:55:18,120
Speaker 3: he feels like intimacy, it feels like people recognizing and

1018
00:55:18,160 --> 00:55:21,040
Speaker 3: seeing each other and like acting for the common good

1019
00:55:21,239 --> 00:55:25,440
Speaker 3: of the relationship. And this is like an old timey

1020
00:55:25,960 --> 00:55:29,279
Speaker 3: Swiss family Robinson version of that, where now it's just

1021
00:55:29,320 --> 00:55:32,920
Speaker 3: like you text the family group chat and everyone knows, hey,

1022
00:55:33,000 --> 00:55:35,040
Speaker 3: I'm at the front. I checked out already, come on.

1023
00:55:35,280 --> 00:55:39,680
Speaker 3: But to have a signature whistle, it's like, yeah, good

1024
00:55:40,040 --> 00:55:40,319
Speaker 3: on you.

1025
00:55:40,760 --> 00:55:45,000
Speaker 2: Yeah, fantastic. Anything that makes us closer to birds. I'm

1026
00:55:45,200 --> 00:55:50,239
Speaker 2: on board with Josh. You did a decent job there.

1027
00:55:50,360 --> 00:55:53,359
Speaker 2: I think I was very worried about you coming into

1028
00:55:53,440 --> 00:55:56,960
Speaker 2: the game, and then you did it. You've got two three,

1029
00:55:57,200 --> 00:56:00,680
Speaker 2: Thank you. Pretty good score, not bad, not perfect, But

1030
00:56:00,920 --> 00:56:03,400
Speaker 2: no one's asking No one's asking for perfection.

1031
00:56:03,520 --> 00:56:04,239
Speaker 3: Here. Thank you.

1032
00:56:05,040 --> 00:56:08,120
Speaker 2: This is the final part of the podcast. This is

1033
00:56:08,120 --> 00:56:11,040
Speaker 2: called I Said No Emails. People write into I Said

1034
00:56:11,040 --> 00:56:13,560
Speaker 2: No Gifts at gmail dot com. Every one of them

1035
00:56:13,600 --> 00:56:18,480
Speaker 2: has a question, a situation, a problem, whatever. They're seeking advice.

1036
00:56:18,520 --> 00:56:20,800
Speaker 2: Will you help me answer and give some advice?

1037
00:56:21,080 --> 00:56:21,640
Speaker 3: Would love you?

1038
00:56:22,120 --> 00:56:26,960
Speaker 2: Okay? This first one says, dear Bridger and disobeying guest,

1039
00:56:27,239 --> 00:56:31,600
Speaker 2: that's indicating you. My husband turns thirty in March of

1040
00:56:31,719 --> 00:56:35,880
Speaker 2: twenty twenty two, so we're planning ahead here and I

1041
00:56:35,920 --> 00:56:38,360
Speaker 2: want to make sure we do something special to celebrate.

1042
00:56:38,600 --> 00:56:41,880
Speaker 2: We love to travel, he's already been to all fifty states.

1043
00:56:42,080 --> 00:56:44,239
Speaker 2: We enjoy a good red wine. We have two big

1044
00:56:44,320 --> 00:56:46,759
Speaker 2: dogs we love spending time with. And we have no

1045
00:56:46,880 --> 00:56:49,880
Speaker 2: kids yet but hope to be pregnant around that time.

1046
00:56:50,400 --> 00:56:53,799
Speaker 2: What's the best way to celebrate turning thirty? Thanks and

1047
00:56:53,920 --> 00:56:58,120
Speaker 2: love the podcast. Thank you, Lara Beth or Lara Beth

1048
00:56:58,719 --> 00:57:01,319
Speaker 2: La You are a It's always a little confusing for me.

1049
00:57:01,400 --> 00:57:03,839
Speaker 2: Is Laura Laura? Is that the same name? It's hard

1050
00:57:03,880 --> 00:57:09,400
Speaker 2: for me to say Laura Laura, My apologies. What okay?

1051
00:57:09,440 --> 00:57:12,320
Speaker 2: So we're dealing with a real planner here. She's turning

1052
00:57:12,320 --> 00:57:16,560
Speaker 2: into the podcast a solid nine months or so. I

1053
00:57:16,840 --> 00:57:17,560
Speaker 2: appreciate this.

1054
00:57:17,920 --> 00:57:20,680
Speaker 3: I usually if I'm planning a vacation, I don't write

1055
00:57:20,720 --> 00:57:22,680
Speaker 3: into a podcast task where I should go to like

1056
00:57:22,840 --> 00:57:23,680
Speaker 3: two months out.

1057
00:57:26,720 --> 00:57:30,080
Speaker 2: Yeah, so her husband's going to be turning thirty. They're like,

1058
00:57:30,440 --> 00:57:34,200
Speaker 2: looks like they're trying to have a kid. It seems

1059
00:57:34,240 --> 00:57:37,520
Speaker 2: like they've got I mean, Laura, Laura, it sounds like

1060
00:57:37,960 --> 00:57:40,120
Speaker 2: on some level you've written into just tell me how

1061
00:57:40,160 --> 00:57:43,960
Speaker 2: full your life is, and congratulations. I appreciate that you've

1062
00:57:44,000 --> 00:57:48,160
Speaker 2: got it together in your early thirties or late twenties whatever.

1063
00:57:48,560 --> 00:57:50,000
Speaker 2: We don't know about. We don't know what Laura is.

1064
00:57:50,080 --> 00:57:51,120
Speaker 2: She might be ninety six.

1065
00:57:52,440 --> 00:57:56,240
Speaker 3: Hey, and if so, congratulations on nabbing that younger man.

1066
00:57:56,640 --> 00:58:00,720
Speaker 2: Right, but what do we think? What's a good birthday

1067
00:58:00,720 --> 00:58:04,320
Speaker 2: present for someone turning thirty who loves to travel? We

1068
00:58:04,360 --> 00:58:07,959
Speaker 2: already talked, I mean interesting, interestingly, we've talked a little

1069
00:58:07,960 --> 00:58:11,280
Speaker 2: bit about travel. Here you are talking to someone who

1070
00:58:11,320 --> 00:58:13,480
Speaker 2: has to two men who have never been to all

1071
00:58:13,560 --> 00:58:17,320
Speaker 2: fifty states. So we're lesser men than your husband. So

1072
00:58:17,560 --> 00:58:19,400
Speaker 2: just keep that in mind while we give you advice.

1073
00:58:20,040 --> 00:58:24,760
Speaker 3: I would say my advice is you're planning on having

1074
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Speaker 3: a child, lovely. I would say, do something that you

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00:58:30,840 --> 00:58:35,600
Speaker 3: will that you couldn't enjoy as much with a child.

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00:58:35,600 --> 00:58:36,840
Speaker 3: There's lots of stuff that you can do with a

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00:58:36,920 --> 00:58:40,880
Speaker 3: child that is like that is you can say that

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00:58:41,320 --> 00:58:43,360
Speaker 3: or do it again with a child. Right, Oh, Disney World,

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00:58:43,600 --> 00:58:46,120
Speaker 3: that's really fun with a kid, to appreciate their wonder

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00:58:46,160 --> 00:58:48,720
Speaker 3: even National parks, that's something that you could do with

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00:58:48,760 --> 00:58:51,320
Speaker 3: a child that their majesty. But something that is not

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00:58:51,840 --> 00:58:54,480
Speaker 3: for kids, whether that's something that's like a little more

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00:58:54,840 --> 00:58:57,920
Speaker 3: physically rigorous than a kid would want, something that children

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00:58:57,960 --> 00:59:01,520
Speaker 3: would consider boring, but like something that you're like if

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00:59:01,560 --> 00:59:05,040
Speaker 3: you had a toddler, Like, think about yourself. I know

1086
00:59:05,080 --> 00:59:08,040
Speaker 3: you're a planner, Laurabath, So think about yourself in a

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Speaker 3: twenty twenty five you have a two and a half

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00:59:10,320 --> 00:59:13,360
Speaker 3: year old, What do you wish you could do more

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00:59:13,400 --> 00:59:14,520
Speaker 3: than anything in the world.

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Speaker 2: Do that Josh is saying, go on a drug fueled rampage.

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00:59:20,000 --> 00:59:24,880
Speaker 2: That's what I'm hearing. Which, look, you know that could

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00:59:24,920 --> 00:59:27,400
Speaker 2: be a that's an experience. We talk a lot about

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00:59:27,440 --> 00:59:31,080
Speaker 2: giving experiences as gifts on this podcast, and that feels

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Speaker 2: like one. But no, I agree with Josh here. Eventually

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00:59:35,960 --> 00:59:38,280
Speaker 2: the kid is not They're not going to be you know,

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Speaker 2: they're going to be wonderful in so many ways, but

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00:59:40,680 --> 00:59:43,920
Speaker 2: they are going to I don't want to say stand

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00:59:43,960 --> 00:59:48,760
Speaker 2: in the way of certain adult activities, but look, take

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Speaker 2: a traveling husband to another country. Go to a country

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00:59:54,680 --> 00:59:57,720
Speaker 2: that might be a little more difficult for a young child.

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00:59:57,840 --> 01:00:00,920
Speaker 2: That is more adult experience. So just go on a

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Speaker 2: you know what are we thinking, go somewhere a little

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01:00:05,520 --> 01:00:07,480
Speaker 2: more out there.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, go Like if they made a sequel to you know,

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Speaker 3: they make a sequel to a movie where they go

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Speaker 3: to like now now they're like in Europe for like

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Speaker 3: National Impoon's European Vacation or whatever. If they made like

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Speaker 3: a sideways where they go to Europe, like a wine taste,

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01:00:23,800 --> 01:00:26,400
Speaker 3: you know, like a wine you like red wines. Some

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Speaker 3: that's definitively not for children unless they're cool kids. But

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Speaker 3: I think like if something like that, like go to

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Speaker 3: a place like a vineyard and stay in a villa,

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01:00:41,920 --> 01:00:45,520
Speaker 3: you know, something Italy, quaint and nice, Yeah, Italy, where

1114
01:00:45,520 --> 01:00:48,040
Speaker 3: a kid would be like the stinks and you're drunk.

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Speaker 3: I think that's perfect.

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Speaker 2: I find a good dog sitter, head to Italy and

1117
01:00:58,640 --> 01:01:00,720
Speaker 2: enjoy these last few moments where you can get on

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01:01:01,040 --> 01:01:03,640
Speaker 2: like a ten hour plane flight without worrying that the

1119
01:01:03,640 --> 01:01:04,680
Speaker 2: baby's going to be crying.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, without having loaded every episode of Blue Eye onto

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Speaker 3: your high path.

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Speaker 2: Right Okay, Laurabeth answered, You've got plenty of time to

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Speaker 2: do the travel planning. We don't even need to. You

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Speaker 2: don't need any more advice, and do not write in again.

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Speaker 2: I'm not giving any more free advice to you, Laura Beeth

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Speaker 2: or Laura Beth, I don't know again. I apologize no's

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Speaker 2: answer one more here. This is deer Bridger and valued guest.

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Speaker 2: In over a year of quarantine, I've had the opportunity

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Speaker 2: to reflect on a few things. In that time. I

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01:01:38,480 --> 01:01:41,560
Speaker 2: noticed a pattern. I have poor tastes in men who

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01:01:41,600 --> 01:01:45,320
Speaker 2: also have poor taste in gifts from lovers past. I've

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01:01:45,360 --> 01:01:50,400
Speaker 2: received pairs of socks that don't match. A washboard, complete

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01:01:50,400 --> 01:01:53,560
Speaker 2: with the promise that he'd provide Oh good lord, I

1134
01:01:53,960 --> 01:01:57,240
Speaker 2: hate to even say this because this sounds awful, complete

1135
01:01:57,240 --> 01:02:00,760
Speaker 2: with the promise that he'd provide washboard abs the next year,

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01:02:01,200 --> 01:02:05,240
Speaker 2: dot dot dot, yikes, et cetera. Oddly enough, I've received

1137
01:02:05,280 --> 01:02:09,720
Speaker 2: white shoes to paint on, apparently twice from two separate exes.

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01:02:10,200 --> 01:02:12,600
Speaker 2: All this is to ask you, how can I respectfully

1139
01:02:12,680 --> 01:02:15,200
Speaker 2: communicate to the next suitor that I'd like him to

1140
01:02:15,320 --> 01:02:17,400
Speaker 2: raise the bar A bit hate to say it, but

1141
01:02:17,440 --> 01:02:21,240
Speaker 2: I don't want to get another pair of blank canvas shoes.

1142
01:02:21,360 --> 01:02:25,000
Speaker 2: Help me break the cycle regards that's from Mo. MO

1143
01:02:25,240 --> 01:02:29,920
Speaker 2: has a type, a very strange, horrible type. It sounds like,

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01:02:31,000 --> 01:02:33,480
Speaker 2: I mean this washboard abs thing. I mean, I hope

1145
01:02:33,480 --> 01:02:37,120
Speaker 2: that that was just an immediate I'm dumping you. Yeah,

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01:02:37,160 --> 01:02:40,840
Speaker 2: because if you stayed in the relationship a minute after that, Mo,

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01:02:41,000 --> 01:02:42,960
Speaker 2: You've got some work to do on your sec gift.

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01:02:43,880 --> 01:02:47,720
Speaker 2: That's a horrible gift and an annoying ex boyfriend. And

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01:02:47,760 --> 01:02:50,640
Speaker 2: then how have you, Mo? How have you found two

1150
01:02:50,680 --> 01:02:53,040
Speaker 2: separate people who have given you white shoes to draw on?

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01:02:53,280 --> 01:02:54,760
Speaker 2: Is that part of your dating profile?

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01:02:55,320 --> 01:02:58,680
Speaker 3: Right? Are you? Are you an artist who works in

1153
01:02:58,760 --> 01:03:03,640
Speaker 3: the medium of shoes, who's even so work life balance? Guys?

1154
01:03:05,160 --> 01:03:07,800
Speaker 2: Oh, you're putting out something out there that is attracting

1155
01:03:07,920 --> 01:03:12,040
Speaker 2: these guys who are I don't even know what's happening.

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01:03:12,160 --> 01:03:15,120
Speaker 2: I mean, I will say, Josh, you're a big shoe person.

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01:03:15,520 --> 01:03:17,880
Speaker 3: I am a big shoe person. Yeah, so do you have.

1158
01:03:17,880 --> 01:03:21,480
Speaker 2: Any insight into why this could possibly be happening or

1159
01:03:21,560 --> 01:03:22,919
Speaker 2: is it just bad luck?

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01:03:23,200 --> 01:03:26,240
Speaker 3: I need to know more about Mo because I hesitate

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01:03:26,320 --> 01:03:29,200
Speaker 3: to venture. I guess, like, is she someone who designs

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01:03:29,240 --> 01:03:33,320
Speaker 3: her own clothes? Is not someone who designs their own clothes?

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01:03:33,440 --> 01:03:35,760
Speaker 3: You know? Like I don't, I don't know. If you're

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01:03:35,840 --> 01:03:38,640
Speaker 3: a crafts person who likes to do that kind of activity,

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01:03:38,760 --> 01:03:41,320
Speaker 3: still not a great gift. A gift that's also a task.

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01:03:41,600 --> 01:03:42,840
Speaker 2: Yeah, here's some work to do.

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01:03:43,240 --> 01:03:47,440
Speaker 3: Yeah, oh you want a nice ferry shoes designing yourself Bearragamo.

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Speaker 3: I think I have an advice for this, which is

1169
01:03:54,040 --> 01:03:55,800
Speaker 3: you might not want to hear it. It might be

1170
01:03:55,840 --> 01:04:01,959
Speaker 3: hard to handle. Tell your partner what you want for

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01:04:02,000 --> 01:04:02,480
Speaker 3: a gift.

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01:04:03,560 --> 01:04:09,120
Speaker 2: I think that that is actually excellent advice communicating and

1173
01:04:09,800 --> 01:04:13,439
Speaker 2: obviously Mo has some level of and there's nothing wrong

1174
01:04:13,480 --> 01:04:17,680
Speaker 2: with that. Standards about gifts, Toto. Mo is not just

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01:04:17,960 --> 01:04:21,360
Speaker 2: going to accept any gift, especially a washboard. I mean

1176
01:04:21,680 --> 01:04:24,320
Speaker 2: the wash I mean, no one blames Moe for not

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01:04:24,480 --> 01:04:26,080
Speaker 2: being thrilled out getting a washboard.

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01:04:26,080 --> 01:04:29,480
Speaker 3: Absolute, Well, that's not on you.

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01:04:29,080 --> 01:04:34,480
Speaker 2: You're right, let your partner know what you want. Also,

1180
01:04:34,840 --> 01:04:37,720
Speaker 2: if you're if you're uncomfortable doing that, loudly talk about

1181
01:04:37,720 --> 01:04:40,160
Speaker 2: all these other horrible gifts you've gotten in the past,

1182
01:04:41,080 --> 01:04:45,360
Speaker 2: especially the shoes, because you know you've done it twice.

1183
01:04:45,440 --> 01:04:47,880
Speaker 2: We can't have this happen again. Just let them know

1184
01:04:48,000 --> 01:04:50,000
Speaker 2: how awful all these gifts have been and hopefully that

1185
01:04:50,040 --> 01:04:54,080
Speaker 2: will get something going in the partner's brain that, oh,

1186
01:04:54,120 --> 01:04:55,120
Speaker 2: I've got to be careful.

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01:04:56,200 --> 01:04:59,680
Speaker 3: Yes, I think, let them know that you've been burned

1188
01:04:59,680 --> 01:05:04,280
Speaker 3: before and you won't you won't be burned again. But

1189
01:05:04,440 --> 01:05:07,240
Speaker 3: also just say it if you're like I want wireless headphones,

1190
01:05:07,240 --> 01:05:08,480
Speaker 3: and be like, you know, I want to get a

1191
01:05:08,520 --> 01:05:11,600
Speaker 3: pair of wireless headphones. This would be a great birthday present.

1192
01:05:11,760 --> 01:05:14,160
Speaker 3: Don't feel like you have to be creative and get

1193
01:05:14,200 --> 01:05:17,640
Speaker 3: me like a bunch of disassembled tulips for me to

1194
01:05:17,680 --> 01:05:21,160
Speaker 3: glue back together, Like don't I think? I think like

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01:05:21,400 --> 01:05:26,200
Speaker 3: there's this idea that the surprise gift is like, like

1196
01:05:26,240 --> 01:05:28,840
Speaker 3: you want a person to know your heart so well

1197
01:05:29,240 --> 01:05:31,680
Speaker 3: that they that they give you the thing that you

1198
01:05:31,760 --> 01:05:35,280
Speaker 3: didn't know you wanted but then and that is really magical.

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01:05:35,560 --> 01:05:37,920
Speaker 3: But the next best thing is when they give you

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01:05:38,040 --> 01:05:40,760
Speaker 3: the thing you did know you wanted, because they also

1201
01:05:40,840 --> 01:05:43,440
Speaker 3: knew you wanted it because they care about you and

1202
01:05:43,480 --> 01:05:45,760
Speaker 3: want you to be happy, and they listen right like

1203
01:05:45,840 --> 01:05:48,560
Speaker 3: you said, bridgie communication. If you're like, oh gosh, it

1204
01:05:48,600 --> 01:05:50,320
Speaker 3: doesn't have to be a specific thing. You don't have

1205
01:05:50,360 --> 01:05:53,080
Speaker 3: to send them a link to a retail site, but

1206
01:05:53,240 --> 01:05:55,760
Speaker 3: you go, you know, I really have been looking for

1207
01:05:55,840 --> 01:06:01,760
Speaker 3: like a nice new sweater that fits these cable net cardis.

1208
01:06:01,840 --> 01:06:04,040
Speaker 3: Those are the marching orders. They can go off and

1209
01:06:05,080 --> 01:06:06,920
Speaker 3: at least work within those parameters. And even if they

1210
01:06:06,960 --> 01:06:09,080
Speaker 3: get you a real ugly sweater, you know they heard

1211
01:06:09,120 --> 01:06:11,520
Speaker 3: you and that they tried and that they weren't just like,

1212
01:06:12,400 --> 01:06:15,640
Speaker 3: I don't know. I got you some like gas station speed.

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01:06:17,000 --> 01:06:19,000
Speaker 2: Which, by the way, excellent gift.

1214
01:06:20,520 --> 01:06:22,680
Speaker 3: But you don't want to be faster at a gas station.

1215
01:06:24,480 --> 01:06:27,600
Speaker 2: Yeah, you just want to, you know, metaphorically, give them

1216
01:06:27,640 --> 01:06:31,040
Speaker 2: that white pair of shoes to draw on as a gift,

1217
01:06:31,440 --> 01:06:34,360
Speaker 2: you know, does that make any sense? You've got to

1218
01:06:34,400 --> 01:06:39,320
Speaker 2: give them the little canvas too to draw the gift on.

1219
01:06:39,520 --> 01:06:43,840
Speaker 2: Don't give them the exact thing, but something the boundaries

1220
01:06:43,880 --> 01:06:46,680
Speaker 2: that will lead to the gift you want, and then

1221
01:06:46,680 --> 01:06:49,720
Speaker 2: if it doesn't work out, then you're cursed. Apparently something's

1222
01:06:49,800 --> 01:06:53,160
Speaker 2: just going. I mean, there's a dark forces are working

1223
01:06:53,240 --> 01:06:55,440
Speaker 2: against you, and that's something you have to deal with

1224
01:06:55,520 --> 01:06:57,560
Speaker 2: outside of the relationship.

1225
01:06:57,280 --> 01:06:59,120
Speaker 3: And outside of the podcast. I don't think we are

1226
01:06:59,280 --> 01:07:02,840
Speaker 3: qualified to this, this kind of curse in nature.

1227
01:07:04,920 --> 01:07:08,000
Speaker 2: Well we've answered. You know, we've done an excellent job

1228
01:07:08,040 --> 01:07:13,800
Speaker 2: here Mo and Laura Laura Beth I have both received

1229
01:07:14,600 --> 01:07:18,720
Speaker 2: world class advice free of charge, which not a lot

1230
01:07:18,720 --> 01:07:23,120
Speaker 2: of podcasts can promise. So look, I don't want to

1231
01:07:23,200 --> 01:07:29,440
Speaker 2: diminish any other podcasts, but sometimes you just have to. Yeah, Josh,

1232
01:07:30,360 --> 01:07:33,160
Speaker 2: look now I have ice cream in my future. Good

1233
01:07:33,200 --> 01:07:36,800
Speaker 2: ice cream. I've had a wonderful time talking to you.

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01:07:37,360 --> 01:07:38,000
Speaker 3: This is light.

1235
01:07:38,800 --> 01:07:40,520
Speaker 2: I've got the full day ahead of me. I mean,

1236
01:07:40,520 --> 01:07:43,800
Speaker 2: it's only eleven o'clock for me right now. I'm going

1237
01:07:43,840 --> 01:07:48,360
Speaker 2: to just boost off like a rocket Jeff Bezos style

1238
01:07:49,640 --> 01:07:52,360
Speaker 2: and just have a wonderful day. Thank you so much

1239
01:07:52,360 --> 01:07:53,160
Speaker 2: for being here.

1240
01:07:53,360 --> 01:07:54,160
Speaker 3: Thank you for having me.

1241
01:07:54,240 --> 01:07:57,600
Speaker 2: This is a pleasure and listener. Now it's time for

1242
01:07:57,680 --> 01:07:59,480
Speaker 2: you to unless it's the end of your day. I

1243
01:07:59,520 --> 01:08:03,200
Speaker 2: don't know. Again, I'm not going to assume anything about

1244
01:08:03,200 --> 01:08:07,040
Speaker 2: your life outside of the bomb situation, and I'm praying

1245
01:08:07,080 --> 01:08:10,919
Speaker 2: that that's taken care of. Itself. Oh, I can't even

1246
01:08:10,920 --> 01:08:13,600
Speaker 2: believe I brought it up at the beginning, and I apologize,

1247
01:08:13,760 --> 01:08:19,720
Speaker 2: but again, no one's expecting perfection. Have a terrific day.

1248
01:08:19,800 --> 01:08:22,560
Speaker 2: Go do something. This is the end of the podcast.

1249
01:08:22,920 --> 01:08:30,880
Speaker 2: Take care, goodbye. I said, No Gifts is an exactly

1250
01:08:31,120 --> 01:08:35,439
Speaker 2: right production. It's produced and engineered by our dear friend

1251
01:08:35,600 --> 01:08:39,320
Speaker 2: Annalise Nelson and the theme song is by miracle worker

1252
01:08:39,479 --> 01:08:43,840
Speaker 2: Amy Mann. You must follow the show on Instagram at

1253
01:08:43,920 --> 01:08:47,160
Speaker 2: I said No Gifts. That's where you're going to see

1254
01:08:47,200 --> 01:08:50,400
Speaker 2: pictures of all these wonderful gifts I'm getting. You have

1255
01:08:50,479 --> 01:08:54,960
Speaker 2: to see the gifts. Listen and subscribe on Apple Podcasts,

1256
01:08:55,080 --> 01:08:58,519
Speaker 2: Ditcher or wherever you found me, and why not leave

1257
01:08:58,520 --> 01:09:01,640
Speaker 2: a review while you're there. It's really the least you

1258
01:09:01,680 --> 01:09:05,120
Speaker 2: could do, considering everything I do for you. And if

1259
01:09:05,160 --> 01:09:08,479
Speaker 2: you're interested in advertising on the show, go to miderl

1260
01:09:08,640 --> 01:09:10,520
Speaker 2: dot com slash ads.

1261
01:09:12,040 --> 01:09:19,040
Speaker 1: Well, I invited you here, thought I made myself perfectly clear,

1262
01:09:20,320 --> 01:09:25,439
Speaker 1: But you're a guess to my home. You gotta come

1263
01:09:25,479 --> 01:09:27,360
Speaker 1: to me empty, and.

1264
01:09:28,840 --> 01:09:30,720
Speaker 3: I said, no, guess.

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01:09:30,840 --> 01:09:37,840
Speaker 1: Your presences presents enough that I already had too much stuff.

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01:09:38,400 --> 01:09:41,519
Speaker 1: So how do you dare to surbey me?