00:00:08 Speaker 1: Well, I invited you here, thought I made myself perfectly clear. But you're I guess to my home. You gotta come to be empty, And I said, no, guess your presences presents and I already had too much stuff. 00:00:35 Speaker 2: So how did you dare to surbey me? 00:00:48 Speaker 3: Welcome to? I said, no gifts. I'm Bridger Wineger. It's about five thirty where I'm five thirty PM where we're recording. It's a little unusual for me. This is my evening voice you're hearing, So if it seems a little bit more evening style to you, that's the explanation. There's nothing else going on. And yeah, I'm just hoping you're doing okay because and I hope you're taking notes because you you know, for podcast club or whatever, you're going to want to be able to discuss this later with friends, especially because we have such a wonderful guest, Omily Gillette, Emily, Welcome to. I said, no gifts. 00:01:34 Speaker 4: Hi, Bridger, thank you for having me. 00:01:37 Speaker 3: Oh, of course, of course. I mean, you know, we scheduled this for a one thirty pm a recording a few weeks ago, and we've both had a turn in our life where that was no longer possible. Now we're now again for the second time. Coworkers. 00:01:57 Speaker 4: Yes, this is true. 00:01:58 Speaker 3: So we've already spent some time on Zoom today and you know, maybe a little bit more rowdy out atmosphere working on the television show Black Monday coming to Showtime twenty twenty one to look out for that. But now here we are at five thirty pm. How are you feeling post work day? 00:02:19 Speaker 5: Oh my gosh, you know Zoom a Zoom work day. It's weird. 00:02:25 Speaker 4: It's very weird, very weird. 00:02:29 Speaker 5: This is the first Zoom room that I've been in, right, it is weird. 00:02:37 Speaker 3: It's a whole thing to adjust to. I've done one other Zoom writers room and it was a smaller group of people and it was so I thought I was used to it, this whole situation. And I also do a podcast over Zoom multiple times a month, so I thought, you know, this is but every Zoom room is different, and with this one, the thing I'm learning is that you literally just have to steam roll through. If you're going to say anything, you just have to keep talking. And I feel like I steamrolled you today. 00:03:09 Speaker 4: Oh no, no, you didn't, you didn't. 00:03:11 Speaker 3: Well, I'm here to publicly apologize. But I had tried speaking probably up until that point five times, and so I started talking. I think we both started talking simultaneously, and I said to myself, you can't stop talking. You've got to keep talking. 00:03:25 Speaker 5: No, you just need to. It's a good strategy. Actually, it's just to just to steamroll. I mean, now we're going to call it the wineger. It's you know, it's it's a good strategy because it's really the only way to get people to listen. 00:03:41 Speaker 3: Truly. It's it's maddening. I mean, it's a crazy feeling to try. I mean because I think how many people are on our zoom it's probably ten to twelve people. 00:03:51 Speaker 5: Uh yeah, I think it's yeah, definitely ten, possibly. 00:03:55 Speaker 3: Twelve, maybe forty five. I mean yeah, there's a whole lot of people that have ideas and who are talking, and zoom is not an ideal option. 00:04:09 Speaker 6: No, And it's also like people will like the part that always throws me off is like when people will turn off their camera, so then everything shuffles. 00:04:19 Speaker 3: Oh, it throws everything off, like. 00:04:22 Speaker 4: Who am I looking at? Where am I looking? 00:04:25 Speaker 3: Where are my eyes darting to? Now? 00:04:28 Speaker 1: Why? 00:04:29 Speaker 3: Very confusing and disorienting. And then there's also the part of my brain is like trying to figure out who has disappeared, and there's a whole element of that. When I'm ready, I'll put my thing on mute. Let's say I need to go use the restroom or something. I put it on mute, but leave my screen on. 00:04:45 Speaker 4: I have noticed that you do that. I think that that is kind. 00:04:48 Speaker 3: I think it's tasteful. I think it's classy. I think ultimately I'm thinking of others when I'm doing I'm thinking of you. And I also want people to just get, you know, a full look at my setup. While I'm gone, people can kind of peek around and take a look. So hopefully that's coming across, because I would be heartbroken if people didn't realize the lengths I'm going to for their comfort. 00:05:11 Speaker 4: No, no, I realize, and I appreciate it. 00:05:13 Speaker 5: And I did look around your entire zoom background when you left, because you know, why not. 00:05:21 Speaker 4: I feel like it was an invitation to do that. 00:05:24 Speaker 3: You're in my home, you know, it's a little peek in. And how often do you get a look at your coworkers' environments? I mean hardly, ever, never, absolutely never so, I mean I'm looking in on you right now, I'm seeing your peloton. I mean, also, your lighting is fantastic. My lighting has kind of descended into half of my faces lit by lamplight, the other is dusk. I feel like I'm reporting from some sort of noir. I should have like a hat tipped over one eye or something. 00:05:58 Speaker 4: It is very noir. 00:06:01 Speaker 5: You need like some some like vertical blinds and like, uh, just some mood like I mean, it's it's beautiful. 00:06:08 Speaker 3: Of course I have it. 00:06:09 Speaker 4: I have a window that is directly in front of my face. 00:06:12 Speaker 5: Oh yeah, and then I do have this is visual, but I have this little controller which controls the blinds. 00:06:22 Speaker 3: Oh you're kidding. It's like it looks like an egg timer. Yeah, can you do that now? I'd love to watch this and just describe to people what I'm seeing. 00:06:31 Speaker 5: This is going to be great. 00:06:32 Speaker 3: This is very James Bond. 00:06:34 Speaker 5: Thank you. Yeah, it's so here. I'll close the one behind me so you can see, and then it will slowly descend. 00:06:42 Speaker 4: Actually I don't know. 00:06:43 Speaker 3: If nothing is happening. Oh okay, it's oh, it is slowly descending in kind of a sinister way. There's a blind. I mean the shade is slowly lowering, as if somebody was planning something. 00:06:57 Speaker 5: Yeah, exactly, it's very creepy. And then look, I'll stop it and then I'll raise it. This is what I do all day. 00:07:07 Speaker 3: You need to be doing this during work. Just see if you can notice I should. 00:07:12 Speaker 4: I won't tell them about the remote. That'll be our secret. 00:07:15 Speaker 3: Yes, that's our little secret until this airs. I believe this is going to air, right, I mean, I think our last episode before Thanksgiving, So this is technically the I said no gifts Thanksgiving special. 00:07:27 Speaker 4: I know that brought you a pie or something. 00:07:30 Speaker 3: Of course you would have, and that's why I didn't tell you because I don't need you super spreading. And so I just told myself keep that information until the podcast and then blindside omily with it. And do you have Thanksgiving plans this year? 00:07:49 Speaker 5: No? 00:07:50 Speaker 1: I don't have. 00:07:52 Speaker 5: We uh Mark, my husband and I we do not have Thanksgiving plans. I imagine it's going to be us run just in our home, staying inside because of the pandemic. 00:08:05 Speaker 3: Right, do you think you'll cook a big meal or just what will you do? Have sandwiches? Some crackers out of the cupboard, oh, okay. 00:08:16 Speaker 5: I mean I always eat crackers out of the cupboard every every day. I don't even wait for Thanksgiving for that to happen. I love a saltine, but aren't they good? 00:08:28 Speaker 3: I am happy to talk to you about saltines deeply underrated cracker. 00:08:32 Speaker 5: I think they're so good, they're honestly maybe the perfect cracker. 00:08:37 Speaker 3: Oh absolutely. 00:08:39 Speaker 5: And what I love doing with saltines is like looking on the side through the sleeve to see which ones are burnt at the edges. 00:08:47 Speaker 3: Yes, then absolutely got those last. 00:08:52 Speaker 5: Yeah, I'll eat the non burnt ones, and then I'll save those little burnt ones. 00:08:57 Speaker 4: That's just my eating strategy for saltine. 00:09:00 Speaker 3: I with saltines and wheat thins and triskets, I frequently thought while eating them, if this was served to me at a restaurant and it was the first time I had had these, I would think, this is one of the best restaurant meals I've ever eaten. This cracker tastes delicious. What is this food they've made for me? 00:09:17 Speaker 5: It's true. 00:09:17 Speaker 3: I think you should be able to order just a plate of crackers at a restaurant. I would go for that. That's a good appetizer. Just sprinkle some saltines over a plate and let me go for it. 00:09:28 Speaker 5: If you ever go to a restaurant and they have a cracker on the menu, you should try it. Okay, of course they must be very proud of that to put it on a menu. 00:09:36 Speaker 3: To charge for a cracker, to charge. 00:09:39 Speaker 5: For allmate cracker when there were such decent crackers available to all of us in the store. 00:09:44 Speaker 2: Yeah. 00:09:44 Speaker 6: Right. 00:09:45 Speaker 3: Cracker is like the one food that it doesn't matter where you come from, who you are, how much money you make, you can get a good cracker. 00:09:54 Speaker 4: You can. 00:09:55 Speaker 3: You will be satisfied with a grocery store cracker. I mean I couldn't even tell you another place to get a cracker. 00:10:02 Speaker 4: No, Like I mean, yeah, where would you get one? 00:10:06 Speaker 5: I mean you can get them at You could get them at like a right aid too, right, yeah, like. 00:10:12 Speaker 3: A pharmacy style. I feel like if you're buying saltines at Rite aid, you do have the flu or food poisoning or something has happened to your body that you can only consume a saltine. But is saltine your favorite cracker? 00:10:25 Speaker 5: I mean no, they're great because I really enjoy salt I love salt. 00:10:32 Speaker 2: I used to be jealous of deer when I found out that they had salt licks. 00:10:35 Speaker 3: Of course, you know, why do they. 00:10:39 Speaker 4: Get all that salt? But yeah, I do love a saltine. I don't know. 00:10:44 Speaker 2: My favorite would probably be I like a Melba toast. 00:10:50 Speaker 3: Oh, I don't know Melba toast. 00:10:52 Speaker 2: They're uh, they're kind of old school. 00:10:56 Speaker 4: There. 00:10:57 Speaker 2: They look very punishing. They look like they're like a long rectangle, and they look healthy. 00:11:04 Speaker 6: I don't think they are, especially when you just put a lot of butter on them, which is how I enjoy eating a moment. 00:11:11 Speaker 3: It's a cracker, you have to butter. I don't think I've ever buttered a cracker. You think buttering a saltine would be psychotic? What the revelations are coming to light here? That are wild? You're buttering a saltine? 00:11:33 Speaker 4: Yeah? Have you never done that? 00:11:34 Speaker 5: And then the best part is that you can squish if you put them together, you put your saltians together. 00:11:40 Speaker 4: Then the butter wish is that through the This. 00:11:42 Speaker 3: Is something I've never seen another person do. I've never even heard of doing. I mean, of course I cat dipping a cracker, But saltines are so saltines are very fragile, so I can't even imagine imagine placing a knife to a saltine without it just crumbling. You have to be very careful your saltine knife. 00:12:01 Speaker 5: Yes, yeah, you need a special knife, a very light knife. 00:12:07 Speaker 3: A saltine knife. I mean, a knife made of saltine is the only knife I could imagine working on a saltine. And you're going to have to have a very room temperature butter for that situation. 00:12:17 Speaker 4: Yes, it has to be a soft butter that's. 00:12:19 Speaker 3: Not coming straight out of the fridge. And I guess nobody wants a cold butter on a cracker. 00:12:24 Speaker 5: Now, it wouldn't work your cracker were crumble. It would be a disaster. 00:12:30 Speaker 3: So you like a melba toast, I've never heard of a melba toast, but that's something maybe I should look into. I'm I think my number one is probably a trisc it because it's it's such a hearty It's just you're really getting a texture there that you're not getting another foods and you only need a few and you're happy. 00:12:50 Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, that is true. Yeah, you don't want to eat a ton of trisc it. 00:12:56 Speaker 3: No, you don't want to like a full meal of trisc it. I don't know what that would end up feeling like in your stomach, but you know, you get five or six and you're I mean, your saliva is completely gone and you're probably that sixth cracker you are choking. But if you get a nice little saltzer water or something, or you know, for me, like a diet soda, something that's way too sweet, you're getting the salts, you're getting the sweet. 00:13:23 Speaker 4: To get mommy in there, and you've got them. 00:13:25 Speaker 3: All of course, there you go. What mommy thing would you be eating with a trisk it is my question? 00:13:31 Speaker 1: Hmm. 00:13:33 Speaker 4: Some type of a meat, A. 00:13:34 Speaker 3: Meat maybe Pat. I've never had Pat. 00:13:39 Speaker 4: I am not a fan. 00:13:40 Speaker 3: I just conceptually like it. Conceptually I can't get into it, and so I do feel like I should try it at some point just to have experienced it. But just this, a meat paste is not once we go from meat to any other product, I'm an off board. You're going to make Thanksgiving at home? That sounds nice? 00:14:03 Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, we'll try it, sure. 00:14:05 Speaker 3: Right, I mean I don't know that there are too many other options at this point. No. 00:14:11 Speaker 5: Last year, my husband was in Toronto, filming a show, and so I went up for Thanksgiving and we made a giant Thanksgiving dinner for the cast of that show. Yeah, most of whom were not even American. 00:14:31 Speaker 4: A lot of them. 00:14:32 Speaker 5: Were British, some were Canadian, one was from New Zealand. 00:14:37 Speaker 4: No one understood any of the meal. 00:14:41 Speaker 3: This is very much in the spirit of the First Thanksgiving. 00:14:44 Speaker 4: Yeah, we taught them all about it. 00:14:48 Speaker 3: What more fun could you have than learning about Thanksgiving? Has anybody done The Last Thanksgiving? I think that that could be a sci fi movie. 00:14:57 Speaker 4: I think it was last year. 00:15:00 Speaker 3: Please know we're recording this too far in advance. I don't know what timeline this episode will be released in, and it's making me sick to my stuff. 00:15:09 Speaker 5: Yeah. 00:15:09 Speaker 4: Sorry, Yes, I would totally watch that movie, The Last Thing. 00:15:13 Speaker 3: Last Thanksgiving. Anyone out there listening, That's my idea. So I have a lawyer. I am happy to sue. I've made that clear on other episodes of this podcast. I'm aggressive, I'm litigious. I will come after you, so let me. I will be releasing The Last Thanksgiving in the next fifty years, So keep an eye out, keep an eye out on cinema, maybe direct to streaming. I can't say for sure, Emily, what else is going on in your life? You've started a job for the first time in the last three days this year. 00:15:47 Speaker 4: Yeah, this is true. 00:15:48 Speaker 3: What else were you doing before that? All right? 00:15:52 Speaker 5: You know, just just live in life, in this in this pandemic, just in my home right with my peloton and my husband and my cat. 00:16:07 Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't know what are people doing? Now? 00:16:09 Speaker 3: What do people do? I think that essentially what you just described as what they do? I mean, I do you feel like your cat is aware of how around you are? I feel like that's our dog is like, oh, this is crazy that they're just here all the time. She's happy, but I don't think she understands why we never leave. 00:16:27 Speaker 4: Yeah. 00:16:27 Speaker 5: No, our cat is incredibly spoiled, okay, and by us now being around all the time. And he will take breaks from us, like he he will. He will be in the room like near us, like he wants to be narrows during certain parts of the day. But then like there's a giant chunk of the day where he's just like I'm going to go to bed, and he'll just go into the bedroom and just sleep underneath the bed for a few hours. 00:16:55 Speaker 4: He's had enough of this, and I don't blame him. 00:16:58 Speaker 3: I mean, there's only so much we can see each other. 00:17:00 Speaker 4: You need some alone time. 00:17:01 Speaker 3: Oh I A few weeks ago, I looked at my boyfriend Shim and said, I need to speak to another adult without you present, because this is just too I mean, it's too much. It's way too much of the same people. 00:17:15 Speaker 4: It is way too much. 00:17:16 Speaker 5: And we do like to take the cat out in our yard because our yard is very fenced in. The cat likes to go outside. The cat's name is. 00:17:23 Speaker 3: Mister, mister okay, and is mister a male or female? 00:17:28 Speaker 5: He is a male okay. His given name from the rescue that we got him from. His given name was Princess. 00:17:36 Speaker 3: Wow, this I mean the whiplash this cat is experiencing. 00:17:40 Speaker 4: And then yeah, his given name. 00:17:42 Speaker 5: Like when he was dropped off at the shelter, they wrote a note that said this cat is very feral. His name is a princess, which was wrong because he is not feral at all. He is very accustomed to people and likes them. But then they immediately changed his name. They changed it from Princess to Asper, which I was an immediate no one. 00:18:08 Speaker 4: So then I wanted to call him bonkers. 00:18:12 Speaker 5: Because I just thought it would be a funny name for a cat, and we compromise by calling him mister. 00:18:18 Speaker 3: I think mister is a good name. I think, I mean bonkers. To be out in your yard yelling bonkers, bonkers, bonkers, I mean would be fun. But I also, you know, you've got to show the animal some level of respect, and I think mister is good. And I mean, in some ways, could be a gender neutral name if we're thinking about it as you know, like a you know, like a water mister. 00:18:40 Speaker 4: Oh, I never thought about it a cat. 00:18:44 Speaker 3: That sprays, as many cats do, which is more of a disgusting name for a cat. But yeah, I'm sorry to you know, give these new layers to Mister's life. But that's just reality, and that's what he's the name he's been given until he escaped. 00:19:00 Speaker 5: Or I like to think that because we say his name outside all the time when we're outside, like like mister or mister, like a mister if he's bad. And so I do like to think that now you put that in my head that maybe our neighbors think we're just talking about our water misters. 00:19:20 Speaker 3: Turn off the mister turn off two people who just keep forgetting they have misters in their yard and walk out. 00:19:31 Speaker 5: Yeah, so we're just constantly frustrated by these misters. I mean, I mean, I love that for us. I hope that our neighbors do have that thought about us, that we're not just two insane people who take their cat in the yard. 00:19:45 Speaker 3: You spend a decent amount of time in Palm Springs. Do you have a relationship with your neighbors or is it just, you know, keep to yourself sort of thing. 00:19:52 Speaker 5: Uh, we do have. Okay, so by we, you mean like my husband and I and I do not have. 00:19:58 Speaker 3: A relationship with Oh this is sounding familiar to me. 00:20:02 Speaker 5: Yeah, oh really, because my husband Mark, he's from the Midwest, and he's just more outgoing when it comes to meeting the neighbors, to being a good neighbor things like that. I am more of a person who is just like, oh, I'm just going to stay in my house and if there's like an emergency or something, then I guess I'll go knock on the neighbor's door. But I don't want to bother them. 00:20:23 Speaker 4: They shouldn't bother us. 00:20:26 Speaker 5: But yes, he has he he had like he actually had like a conversation with our neighbor Dean, who lives next door to us, yesterday for about an hour. 00:20:35 Speaker 3: Wow, that's incredible to me. That is just so far out of what my existence is. Making friends with people that you just run into just is not something that happens in my life me neither. If anything, I unsettle people that I run into, and then they probably wonder who I was or what I was doing for the rest of their life. But then Jim, like he'll go on walks to the neighborhood with the dog, moved into a new neighborhood recently, and he's you know, he's he knows half the neighborhood. Most of these people have never seen me. 00:21:09 Speaker 5: Yeah, that's you or just you and Jim are just like Mark and I because Mark is Yeah, he's in a lot of ways, like a lot of ways, he's the face of the relationship. You know, he's the one that's like going out and like, you know, presenting us to the public, claiming that he has this wife they never see. 00:21:32 Speaker 3: That's beautiful, that's really beautiful. I mean, I don't want to steer that too far away from this, but I did and there's something, you know, there's something I need to talk to you about, and I mean there is something else I want to discuss about this with you. I I received a package in the mail a couple of weeks ago. You obviously agreed to be on my podcast. I said, no gifts. And you know we're friends, on again, off again, co workers, zoom communicators, we do you know, our relationship has all these levels, and so I trust you. I just kind of inherently at this point believe you will not try to ruffle my feathers. And so I was a little bit surprised when I got a box on my porch and it was addressed to me from you, And I don't know, Emily, is this a gift? 00:22:28 Speaker 4: You know, Bridger, it is. It is a gift. Yes for me, Yes for you? 00:22:33 Speaker 3: Okay, great, okay, okay, okay. So there's still some level of trust within this relationship. There Should I open it here or wait till later? 00:22:47 Speaker 4: Oh? 00:22:48 Speaker 5: I mean, it is up to you because it is a gift to you. I would love to see your face when you open it. 00:22:53 Speaker 3: Okay, sure, I mean I do have a scissor handy. Oh then I. 00:22:58 Speaker 4: Don't what are we waiting for. 00:23:06 Speaker 3: Okay, I mean there is something. Okay, I'm going to do that. But there is a little topic I want to discuss with you, because this is a new thing that I've been dealing with in pandemic time, something that I'm not quite sure how to handle, which is when I send somebody something, for example, a gift, when they you know, when they haven't expressed they told me not to send them a gift, I'll send them a gift. And there's the time when you don't know if you've if they've gotten the gift, and I don't know how to handle it, how to handle finding out if they got the because I worry until i've heard. But I also don't want to be ghost. I don't want to say, hey, did you get the gift. I don't want to it to feel like I'm gilting them. How do you handle that sort of situation to make sure they got the gift without ruining a surprise. This sort of thing that is a dilemma. 00:23:54 Speaker 5: This has happened to me actually several times during the pandemic because one of my favorite things to do Bridger is to just send people random gifts. 00:24:03 Speaker 3: In the Maith, we've established that yeah, that they. 00:24:06 Speaker 5: Don't know are coming. It is sort of what I'm known for. But yeah, it is weird because you can't really just check in. And I mean the way that I usually handle it is I'll just like text them something random, right, and then sort of like dance around the topic of the gift that I sent and then and then if they don't bite, then they I guess they didn't get it, but or they're just rude and they don't want to tell me. 00:24:34 Speaker 3: I guess maybe it is just a more of a test of who in your life is rude. It is, yeah, because I think if you get a package from somebody, you should alert them. I mean, I am now exposing myself. I never told you that I got this in the well, maybe I did. I may not have told. 00:24:52 Speaker 4: You you did bridge. 00:24:53 Speaker 3: I did tell you that. 00:24:56 Speaker 5: You did the polite thing, which is I think in this situation, and the recipient has to when they get the gift, send a photo. 00:25:05 Speaker 3: Yes, I think that that helps. I mean it eases everybody's nerves. Yeah, otherwise I'm in a total frenzy until I've found out if they got it or not. And I don't want to leave in the surprise. Okay, well, I don't know that we came to any clear answer there on how you handle it, but I don't know that there is one. Ultimately, I'm going to open this gift. So I'm going to put the mic in the mic stand, get my handy scissor. It's a a sign this might be the heaviest gift given on this podcast, so we'll say that. Wow, I'm going to pick it up. It's in a brown box. I don't know what's in here that I'm gonna scissor. I'm not going to a scissor it. I'm gonna I'm going to open it with a pair of scissors. 00:25:46 Speaker 4: This is exciting. 00:25:48 Speaker 3: Oh it's so heavy. I mean, it's heavier than you would expect. Okay, you know I've been given like a as much as light of an object on this podcast is a cherry tomato. So I'm not hand I'm not used to a a weighty gift. So here we go. This is a lot for me to handle. This is did you wrap this? Did you package this? Taping job? 00:26:22 Speaker 4: Thank you? Okay again, this is what I'm known for. 00:26:28 Speaker 3: What is Oh, so we're getting into this. There's already Okay, so we could have opened this box pre podcast, yes, because there's a there's now an actually wrapped gift. But you know, I try to be honest. I want this surprise to be as pure as possible, so I I didn't open the box because you know, there could have just been the surprise right inside ruin it and then the thrill is gone. So I've opened the box and now we have a wrapped gift here, which is a beautiful Laurel rap. I mean, look at that. That's gorgeous. So that's just maybe I should take a picture of it now before I unwrap, because it's always worth documenting. Okay, I'm gonna open this now. This is the longest unwrapping of this podcast, and. 00:27:17 Speaker 6: I like that. 00:27:18 Speaker 3: Okay, good, Okay, here we go. I'm unwrapping. Oh my god, what. 00:27:33 Speaker 5: This is? 00:27:34 Speaker 3: You have given me something for my heart? This may be the the uh, I mean the uh. I feel so deeply seen by this gift that I could uh start crying. You've given me an entire stack of vintage People magazines, which is for me. That's correct all I could ever possibly ask for. I mean, the first one I'm seeing is Larry Hagman is back from the brink the Dallas Stars. This is also you're a big Dallas fan. 00:28:16 Speaker 5: Oh, a huge Dallas fan. 00:28:18 Speaker 4: I found Dallas. 00:28:19 Speaker 5: Like a couple of years ago, and Mark and I spent I think two years watching every episode of Dallas. 00:28:27 Speaker 3: How money, are there. 00:28:29 Speaker 4: A million there? Like there's fourteen seasons. 00:28:32 Speaker 3: No, and they're probably like twenty episodes each. 00:28:35 Speaker 5: At least I would say the average number of episodes is twenty two. 00:28:39 Speaker 3: And during an hour long. 00:28:41 Speaker 5: And they're well, they're like forty five minutes. But yeah, because it's like a network television hour. But yeah, it's an amazing sho. 00:28:47 Speaker 3: You are a you have an appetite for television unlike anybody I've ever seen before. 00:28:52 Speaker 5: It's my one ture joy. 00:28:53 Speaker 3: You would come into work when we were actually working in an office last season, and you know, we get to work at ten am, and you would have watched like three hours of TV before you even got there. 00:29:03 Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, which is amazing. 00:29:05 Speaker 3: I'm so jealous of that ability. 00:29:07 Speaker 4: I have TV on pretty much all the time. 00:29:09 Speaker 3: That's great. I absolutely support that. I mean, I'm so torn. Let's go through some of these people magazines and just talk about you know thoughts and feelings. I mean this one. I mean, this has obviously got Dallas on it. It also has Ted Danson and Mary Stein Virgin's wedding bash. So that's the year we're looking at here, which is nineteen ninety five. They got married. 00:29:33 Speaker 5: That's so crazy. 00:29:34 Speaker 3: And they're still together. 00:29:35 Speaker 4: They're still together. 00:29:36 Speaker 3: They're great, and they seem like a great couple to me. 00:29:39 Speaker 4: They do. 00:29:39 Speaker 3: Do you have that feeling? I mean, she is just dynamite. 00:29:44 Speaker 5: She's a delight, She's I love everything about her. She seems so pleasant. 00:29:50 Speaker 3: And she's in one of my favorite movies, which is Clifford. Do you know that movie? 00:29:57 Speaker 5: No, I've never seen it. 00:29:58 Speaker 3: Oh it's oh you I have to see it. 00:30:01 Speaker 4: The Big Red Dogs. 00:30:02 Speaker 3: Oh no, no, no. Martin Short as a ten year old boy. 00:30:05 Speaker 5: Oh, I've never heard of this movie. 00:30:07 Speaker 4: What. 00:30:07 Speaker 3: It's incredible. It's maybe one of the best comedic performances I've ever seen Martin Short playing a ten year old boy. I mean, it's like, if you like Martin Short even remotely, it's maybe his best performance. It's incredible. Wow, really a wild movie. And then Mary is in it. Charles Groden, Richard Kind and the movie bombed so bad that it bankrupted the company that produced it. 00:30:36 Speaker 5: So, oh, I love a flop. That's great. I got to see this movie. She's she's also in book Club. I thought I thought you were going to say your favorite movie is book Club. 00:30:46 Speaker 3: I don't know book Club. 00:30:48 Speaker 4: Book Club came out not that long ago. 00:30:50 Speaker 3: Okay. 00:30:51 Speaker 4: Yeah. 00:30:52 Speaker 5: It was about Mary Stine Virgin and Kandicebergen and Jane Fonda okay, and somebody else who I can't remember, four grand dames of the Silver School. 00:31:03 Speaker 3: Of course. 00:31:03 Speaker 5: It was about them starting a book club where they read fifty Shits of Gray and how change their lives. 00:31:10 Speaker 3: Wow, that's uh yeah, it's weird to make a movie about a book club and then having to pick the book. Uh is that's the whole thing. Seems like a bad idea to me. 00:31:21 Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm gonna be honest with you. 00:31:23 Speaker 3: Oh. 00:31:23 Speaker 4: Diane Keaton, that's the other lady. 00:31:24 Speaker 3: Okay, what a cast? 00:31:26 Speaker 2: What a cast. 00:31:27 Speaker 4: The best part of the movie was Diane Keaton. 00:31:31 Speaker 5: She gets a love interest and her three friends are like, you know, Diane, like, what are you doing? You're going out with this guy? You're all sexed up because of this book. You need to you need to make over. And so they do a makeover montage on Diane Keaton and nothing changed. She comes out and she's still covered from neck to tour as is her wont Yeah, and uh, there's there's no change. It's pretty great. 00:32:02 Speaker 3: Have you heard the rumor about Dolly Parton having sleeve tattoos? I have? 00:32:07 Speaker 4: Yeah. 00:32:07 Speaker 3: I wonder if Diane has a full body tattoo. 00:32:12 Speaker 4: That would be amazing to ankle just tattooed and her hands and her hands right, Wow, she wears gloves too. 00:32:21 Speaker 3: She maybe she's either afraid of the sun or she's got just an incredible full body tattoo either as fine. 00:32:30 Speaker 4: I saw her once feeding a meter in l. 00:32:34 Speaker 3: That's an incredible thing. 00:32:35 Speaker 5: It was probably the greatest celebrity seting that I've ever had. 00:32:39 Speaker 3: Did you have gloves while she fed the meter? 00:32:41 Speaker 4: She had gloves on. She was wearing a hat. 00:32:44 Speaker 5: She was wearing like a collared shirt, and underneath it I could see that there was a turtle knack. 00:32:49 Speaker 4: It was great. 00:32:51 Speaker 3: Oh, I was so jealous. 00:32:53 Speaker 5: Yeah. 00:32:53 Speaker 4: It was the most starstruck I think I've ever been. 00:32:55 Speaker 5: She obviously didn't care. 00:32:59 Speaker 3: No, I imagine she was as starstruck to see you. I'm this feels a little like when I saw ben Stein at a bus stop, or someone who looked like ben Stein sitting at a bus stop when you live in Los Angeles. My rule is if it looks remotely like the person, the story is now that person about that person, that celebrity. And this guy looked for all intents and purposes like ben Stein waiting for the bus. So definitely, let's just believe that it was him and move on, because I would be shattered if it weren't. Oh so now, oh wow. So the next magazine, we're hopping back two years, and this is an interesting I feel like you've almost placed these in order because Ted and Whoopee are in love on this People magazine. How things can change in just two years for and Ted dance and they're made in America. Love scenes were no act. Here are the provocative pairings that played out on the sets of this summer's hottest movies and shows and what you won't see on screen. And I don't know that I even know these other celebrities. Interesting that tracks, I. 00:34:11 Speaker 5: Mean, it's I have to tell you, I'm very happy that you that you love this. 00:34:18 Speaker 4: This lot of People magazines. 00:34:21 Speaker 3: Where did you get them? 00:34:22 Speaker 4: I got them off of eBay. 00:34:23 Speaker 3: It's they're beautiful. 00:34:25 Speaker 5: It's something that I've really started to do during the pandemic, which is go on eBay and search for vintage People magazines and a lot of times people just want to unload them. They they will say, here's thirty five issues of People magazine that you can buy in one fell swoop. Please take them, please please. 00:34:47 Speaker 3: And I do what sparked this for you? 00:34:50 Speaker 4: First off, I love tabloids and I love gossip I live. 00:34:56 Speaker 3: Sometimes I go to the grocery store just to look at them. 00:34:59 Speaker 5: Oh they're beautiful. I think it's a great pastime. It's always entertaining. But my favorite part of People magazine, which they don't do anymore in the current day issues of People, is the mail bag. Oh yes, So I really got into the vintage Peoples because of the mail bag. 00:35:19 Speaker 3: What are people writing into people about? 00:35:22 Speaker 4: Oh, it's great, Bridger. 00:35:23 Speaker 5: They're so passionate about the stupidest things. And you know these people they were writing letters. 00:35:31 Speaker 3: Right, they were just shooting off an email. They had to sit down and write a letter about whatever topic and then send it to a magazine. 00:35:39 Speaker 5: Look up the address, buy a stamp, post it. It's a lot of effort to write a letter about you know how, maybe you think that one of their choices in the fifty most Beautiful People section was wrong. 00:35:54 Speaker 3: Oh this is such a beautiful thing. I've needed something for my coffee table. I'd had a few vintage family circles sitting on my table and they're a little beat up at this point. So this is going to be able. I'll be able to refresh them every few weeks. And I mean, suddenly you've got Robert Danny Junior's sad fall in the August of nineteen ninety six. 00:36:15 Speaker 4: We all remember that. 00:36:16 Speaker 3: Of course, gwynethan brad do the White House. I mean the language. I don't know that I've ever talked to you about this, but just the language of a magazine, of a tabloid magazine cover is will never stop being funny to me. 00:36:32 Speaker 5: Oh agree, It's just. 00:36:35 Speaker 3: I mean, wow, this one is especially powerful. It's a Princess Diana and Prince Charles. He never loved her. It's charles shocking confession makes the divorce certain and leaves Britain wondering if he's fit to be king and we'll probably never know. 00:36:53 Speaker 4: No, we're never gonna know. 00:36:54 Speaker 3: We're never gonna know if and it's I mean, this is just outstanding. 00:37:00 Speaker 6: Now. 00:37:00 Speaker 3: Do you subscribe to any tabloids? 00:37:03 Speaker 5: Oh? Yeah, yep, I sure do. I subscribe to to US Weekly. 00:37:10 Speaker 3: Oh of course. That's kind of has US kind of taken over for People. 00:37:14 Speaker 5: You know, it did for a first spell there, but it had like the more selacious gossip people sort of you know, they wanted to be like a little bit more celebrity friendly. 00:37:26 Speaker 3: Well, they're a trusted journalistic news source, let's just say it. People, Yeah, they are. 00:37:32 Speaker 5: But People is always my favorite because People also has true crime, right, which US does not really dabble in unless it's unless it's celebrity. 00:37:42 Speaker 3: During the crime, celebrity on celebrity crime. Yeah, yeah, People, I think, I mean it's is it every issue? They have a true crime story? 00:37:51 Speaker 4: Yeah? They should. 00:37:53 Speaker 5: No, they do, they do. I know that I know for a fact that they do because I read it. But they do sometimes you know, it's not not the best selection, right, but they try. 00:38:05 Speaker 3: Have you read any good true crime People stories recently? 00:38:09 Speaker 5: So in one of my lot of vintage People magazines, I think it was from like the early nineties. I read about this kid who murdered his parents, which, uh, you know, it really did tick all the boxes in terms of like what you want in the delicious true crime story. 00:38:30 Speaker 3: Like what what was happening? 00:38:32 Speaker 5: He was? You know, there were photos of him. I think he was a hockey player, so there were like lots of photos of him with like his hockey team, and like, no one suspected. 00:38:40 Speaker 3: Well, I mean anytime somebody suspect. I don't know many situations where someone suspected. No, it's usually kind of out of nowhere, isn't it. 00:38:51 Speaker 5: I would think, although, like if I were if I were to be called to be like on a like on a dateline, or like as like a friend of or an acquaintance of in a true crime story, I would say that I knew the whole time. I wouldn't. I wouldn't delve into this narrative of like, no, I never suspected he was so nice, she was so nice. I would be like I always thought there was a darkness. I told a lot of people, no one believed me. 00:39:20 Speaker 3: That's a great, great tag today. Anyone who didn't see this coming was a fool, And you could just make yourself a hero in that situation. Who's going to call you out? 00:39:32 Speaker 5: Yeah? 00:39:33 Speaker 4: And I would say I told a lot of people and yeah, I mean, what are they going to do? Call me a liar? No, they're in jail. 00:39:44 Speaker 3: Oh that I need to keep that in mind for if I ever go on one of these things. I knew, I knew it was coming, but maybe I won't say I told anyone else. I thought I would keep it to myself and see what happened. I was interested that it seemed like it might go in a different direction and that might be fun to watch, so I kept it to myself. 00:40:04 Speaker 5: You're like, I'm saving it all for you, Keith Morrison. 00:40:10 Speaker 3: Oh, I mean, what a strange sensation to end up as one of those people on dateline, because you know, it's something we all dream of doing, but the circumstances that lead to that are usually not not ideal. I think you kind of wanted to be like the coworker you hate that does it. Yes, yeah, then you don't have you don't experience personal tragedy. 00:40:32 Speaker 5: Or like, let's say one of these neighbors that I will never meet or talk to. 00:40:37 Speaker 3: And suddenly you know everything about them, You're the no at all. 00:40:39 Speaker 5: Yeah, Suddenly I'm like, oh, yeah, no. We would talk to him all the time. He always parked his car in such a way that I thought was suspicious. Those kinds of details, really they land you the interviews, that's what. 00:40:54 Speaker 3: How do they track these people down? I would not want that job to be like the guy who has to find him to ors friends to be on TV. 00:41:02 Speaker 5: No, it seems pretty terrible. 00:41:04 Speaker 3: Not ideal, not ideal. Well, you know, this is truly the gift of legends. I do want to just read a few more things, because I like out of context headlines on these magazines are always wonderful. For example, Tiffany versus her mom. What does that war of the gossips? Why women fight at work? 00:41:30 Speaker 4: Want to? 00:41:30 Speaker 3: I know, I think we'd all like to know why women won't stop fighting at work? Oh, Madonna and Warren? Okay, I mean we're getting Liz Taylor's out of the hospital into a cause. Well, I don't even into a cause. What are we talking about here? And let's just try to babies who have babies. That's a classic. 00:41:52 Speaker 4: That is always a classic. 00:41:53 Speaker 3: Day in the life of teen pregnancy in America and you're Yeah, this is a lot to handle. This is I'm going to this is going to take up the rest of my Oh. Riva McIntyre. I had a dream about Reba McIntyre last night. I did. I had a dream that I met her and her husband. But I don't think she's married anymore. But in the dream, they were hiding from me the fact that they were billionaires. They were deeply ashamed that they were billionaires. 00:42:19 Speaker 5: But she was Reba mc. 00:42:21 Speaker 3: McIntyre, and I was like trying to comfort her. I was like, Reaba, I don't care that you're a billionaire, You're still I don't know why I'm having that dream. But now I've got an exclusive visit to her home in this Oh this is a People extra. So that's a collector's edition. 00:42:38 Speaker 4: Oh so yeah, sometimes they'll throw those in there on eBay. 00:42:41 Speaker 3: Oh it's gold, It's absolute gold. Alan Jackson, I'm going to get a tour of his home. I mean, this is something so unbelievably special. I mean, you get all kinds of range of a whole range of gifts on a podcast about gifts, and how often does some just not only speak to your soul, they sing to your soul. Omily, you have sung to my skull, my soul with this gift. I just can't get enough. But all that, it's time to play a game. 00:43:13 Speaker 4: Oh oh, all right, we have. 00:43:16 Speaker 3: Games called Gift Master or Gift or a Curse, and I guess I have to now start reminding people. As of this recording, there's now an at home version of Gift or a Curse. No, just kidding, there's now an at home version of Gift Master, which you can you can, I don't. I can't remember how you find it online, but if you can, you'll find it. It's very fun to play and will cause family problems, problems with your friends, and you'll get to play this game at home. So, Emily, do you want to play Gift Master or Gift or a Curse? 00:43:49 Speaker 5: Oh well, I feel like we should play Gift Master because it's now available in a home edition. 00:43:53 Speaker 3: Yeah, let's let's turn this into just a full uh yeah, a full demo. I mean, the the home version is slightly different because you're going to be fighting with your friends and family. But yeah, Emily, I need a number between one and ten from you. 00:44:09 Speaker 4: Okay, I'm going to go with three. 00:44:10 Speaker 3: Okay, I have to calculate the elements of the game right now. So for the next whoever knows, who knows how long you can promote, you can recommend, you can just drag somebody through the mud. That do whatever you need to do. I'll be right back. 00:44:24 Speaker 4: Oh, I would love to drag someone through the mud. But who to drag? Who to drag? I have nothing to. 00:44:30 Speaker 5: Promote, I will I will say that I've been really enjoying this app called Pluto TV, which, if you're a television addict like myself, is basically every old TV show that you can think of that has its own channel that will replay the show twenty four to seven. So there is a there is literally a channel on Pluto TV, the app that is a Deal or No Deal channel, and it will constantly play the television show Dealer No Deal, which is kind of hypnotic. There's also a channel that literally just plays the MTV dating show from the early two thousands called Next, which is an instant classic. It's also got like some old things on there, like old Johnny Carson. If that's your thing, it's not really mine. It's got something for everyone, So yeah, you guys, check it out. Pluto TV. 00:45:30 Speaker 3: So you came on my podcast too. You're getting paid millions by Pluto TV. I need to try Pluto TV. I've heard things, and again, listener, neither of us has been paid by Pluto TV. I don't know how to have the money to pay anyone, but I've heard that it's got a lot of you know, the forgotten elements of TV. 00:45:51 Speaker 5: Yeah, just things that you are like, oh, how could there possibly be enough of this show to fill a channel for twenty four hours a day until eternity? But there is like like Next, that show Next. There are a million episodes of Next, Like it's crazy. 00:46:09 Speaker 3: I've got to give it a shot. But all that aside, we've got to play the game. I'm going to tell you three gifts and three celebrities, and then you're gonna tell me which gift you're gonna give, which celebrity and why. Okay, Okay, so I hope just buckle up, Omily. The gifts you're going to be giving are a tin of popcorn, a meet and greet with Tony Hawk, and where is the final gift? I constantly struggle A ten pound box of salmon. That's the third gift. Okay, So those are the gifts you're going to be giving. The following people. Following people you'll be giving gifts too are Apple CEO Tim Cook, rap legend Missy Misdemeanor Elliott, and finally somebody who's a little bit newer to the scene, pop songstress Charlie xc X. So there you go, what are you are you giving these gifts? And why? And yeah, yeah, I don't know why I said, And there's no ant, it's just that. 00:47:21 Speaker 1: Yeah. 00:47:22 Speaker 5: Out of the list of those celebrities, I mean, no staid on Tim Cook, I'm sure he's a great guy. Uh Sam with Charlie, I enjoy her hit, but Missy is Missy's my favor in this list. So I'm going to give her the gift that I think I would enjoy the most and maybe maybe she would also enjoy it, which is the tin of popcorn, because that just sounds that sounds great, Like who doesn't want a tin of I mean usually those stings of popcorn, they do taste a little. 00:47:55 Speaker 4: Stale, usually terrible, They're usually terrible. 00:47:59 Speaker 5: I'm sorry, Missy, but out of those gifts, it's like, you know, ten pounds of salmon. I don't think she wants. 00:48:07 Speaker 3: That that's a time bomb. 00:48:10 Speaker 4: It's it's not a great gifts. 00:48:13 Speaker 5: It seems like a burden. 00:48:14 Speaker 4: Really. 00:48:14 Speaker 3: I will say this though, I mean, out of all of those people, Missy is most likely to own like a seal or something that would eat fish. 00:48:23 Speaker 4: Oh good call. 00:48:24 Speaker 3: Well, I can imagine her having kind of a like a shark tank or something where she's got you know, pets to feed through the salmon too. 00:48:35 Speaker 4: Yeah, so maybe she has a cat. 00:48:37 Speaker 3: Yeah, she could be feeding a whole colony of cats. 00:48:39 Speaker 5: We don't know, but you made me like reevaluate my options here, Bursuer. 00:48:43 Speaker 4: This is this is hard giving. 00:48:46 Speaker 5: These giving these imaginary gifts to these celebrities. I do think that a meat and greet with Tony Hawk, I don't really want to put Tony Hawk through meeting Tim Cook. 00:49:01 Speaker 4: I think, I don't. 00:49:03 Speaker 5: Know, it feels like it would be a very awkward situation for the two of them. Tim Cook would probably come in on a skateboard. Maybe it should be very embarrassed. 00:49:13 Speaker 3: Absolutely would come in on a skateboard. 00:49:15 Speaker 5: Yeah, and then he's like try to get him, like he tried to get Tony Hawk to do some weird cross promotion with an iPhone or something there. 00:49:24 Speaker 4: It wouldn't go well. 00:49:25 Speaker 5: So I'm going to give the Tony Hawk Meet and great to our friend Charlie perfect. 00:49:30 Speaker 3: I can see her getting into skating. 00:49:32 Speaker 5: Sure, and you know, maybe they could talk about I don't know, does he have a video game or something? 00:49:38 Speaker 3: Oh, only give me a break. Does he have a video game? He's got? So there were so many Tony Hawk video games? 00:49:46 Speaker 4: Is that like what he does now? That is what I think? 00:49:47 Speaker 3: That's kind of that was kind of his secret way to everyone knowing who he was. You know, I think he was a good skateboarder, then had a video game which reached people such as myself who were not cool and so and now he's kind of, you know, just a household name. 00:50:07 Speaker 4: Yeah. 00:50:07 Speaker 3: But he and Charlie could play the video game together or collaborate in some way. 00:50:13 Speaker 5: Yeah, like he would maybe like the sound, like the sound that he makes on his on his skateboard. She could put that into a song. Oh. 00:50:19 Speaker 3: Or she's an experiment experimenter is that a word? Nobody knows? 00:50:25 Speaker 4: No one. 00:50:25 Speaker 3: I could see her, you know, dabbling with some field recordings of skateboards. 00:50:30 Speaker 5: Yeah, right, I feel like those two. Yeah, those two they're gonna they're gonna have a great time together. What a great gift I gave her. And yeah, that means that Tim Cook gets that salmon, which I honestly think would be great because he could bring that to the office. 00:50:46 Speaker 3: Oh that's true. He could. I think people would be happy to see him walking into the office with ten pounds of raw fish. 00:50:55 Speaker 4: What else are you supposed to do it? 00:50:58 Speaker 3: I mean he could he could hold like company barbecue. 00:51:02 Speaker 4: Uh, put it on a card table the entrance. 00:51:07 Speaker 3: You really have no idea, it's uh yeah, but I think that that's not a bad I can. I think that that fits. I think you've you've nailed it. I hate to say it. I hate to say it, but I think you've nailed it. What a wonderful job you've done there. So let's move on to the next thing. And yeah, let's see here, we've got to answer some questions. This is called I said no questions. People are writing into I said no gifts at gmail dot com. They are desperate for answers. So we're going to answer a couple questions here. Would you help me with this? With that, you've just shown off what a great gift giver you are. Here's the first one that says, Dear Bridger and Guest, I have a tricky gift situation. I'm hoping you can help me with. My parents got divorced last year after thirty two years of marriage. My dad has a new girlfriend who was a friend of my mom's. Oh boy, I don't like it, but I'm trying to stay out of everyone's business and maintain a relationship with my dad. Now, my dad and his girlfriend are buying a house together near where me and my husband live. I need help thinking of a housewarming gift that is polite but not too welcoming. I don't want I don't really want a relationship with this girlfriend. I just want to keep the peace that's from Alex Alex's dad. Her dad is making some interesting moves in his life. And the new girlfriend, who is probably the mom's now ex friend. 00:52:36 Speaker 4: What do we can't imagine they're hanging out. 00:52:37 Speaker 3: I don't think they're hanging out. I mean the first thing that pops into my mind housewarming gift for this dad's new girlfriend is a giant oil painting of mom, something that they can hang over the fireplace, in the bedroom wherever it needs to be. She is a reminder to dad and girlfriend that mom has been betrayed by two separate people. 00:53:03 Speaker 5: Always number one. That your mom is always going to be number one. She's always looking over their shoulder from an oil painting. 00:53:14 Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't care. 00:53:16 Speaker 3: What's something that's a gift that's not too welcoming. I think that that's the sort of thing. 00:53:21 Speaker 5: Is like a plant, Yeah, because plants die and hopefully like their relationship will too. Yeah, I mean, and also a plant, a plant is really. 00:53:35 Speaker 4: Like, I mean, it is a burden. 00:53:37 Speaker 5: Like that is very much like giving somebody ten pounds of salmon. It's it's something that you know sounds maybe okay on paper, but then like in reality, you're just like, what am I going to do with this? 00:53:48 Speaker 3: Right? Right? 00:53:50 Speaker 4: Also, she doesn't. 00:53:51 Speaker 5: Sound very nurturing this friend, so it will die. I would probably honestly just give her a candle. 00:54:02 Speaker 3: Oh is a perfect neutral. 00:54:04 Speaker 5: I mean, it's it's just a it's kind of a fuck you, like it really is just like I didn't put any thought into this at. 00:54:12 Speaker 3: All, right, especially if it over like a vanilla or a fresh linen. 00:54:16 Speaker 5: Yes, yes, or like a cinnamon spike. 00:54:20 Speaker 3: You go, like with a really pungent flavor, like a pine cone or something, and then they really can't even use it. 00:54:26 Speaker 4: Yes, they'll take they can smell it, and the box isn't even open. 00:54:29 Speaker 3: No one wants an house to smell like a hot pine cone. No, no, I don't know if that's even a smell of candle. But yank Yankee Candle company reach out to me. We can figure out how to make a pine cone candle hot pine. I think that's fine. I think we've given Alex the answers she needs. We've got to move on. I have so many questions that I'm just trying to power through these. This is bridger parentheses and guests, so you're more of a parenthetical here, and that's fine. My boss's wife is due with their first child early next year. We work well together and have worked together for several years in an office job. I met the wife once and she seems lovely as well. What's an appropriate gift to give given that this is a good employer employee relationship and stay well from Vanessa. Vanessa needs to get the boss's wife a gift, and she likes both of them, and for the baby, I guess I just immediately forgot that, you know what. I think that with a baby, my go to is usually books. I like to get a few nice books to remind people that reading is valuable. This baby's going to get a lot of clothes up front that it's going to grow out of immediately. Yeah, the toys are probably going to be made from non recyclable plastic, so that's devastating to the environment. But you go with a book, and this baby everyone's happy. 00:55:59 Speaker 5: I think, yeah, books are always my go to for babies only because I don't really know what babies want ever, and uh and I feel like at some point they will they will learn how to read, right. Yeah, I don't like giving I don't like giving kids toys. 00:56:22 Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean baby toys, especially before toddler, before childhood. Baby toys to me, all, I'm like blind to them. They all look exactly the same to me. I don't know what I'm giving anybody or what it's going to do. And then I'm I'll like google best baby toys, and then suddenly I'm getting some you know article that was clearly a paid for article, and who knows if these toys are even good for the baby. But I know a book works and mother or father can read to baby and everybody's happy. Vanessa, go with books, Go with books. 00:56:57 Speaker 4: I just got a book. 00:56:59 Speaker 3: No, this is unconventional because I usually only do two. But we have a Thanksgiving related question, so let's just quickly answer this person. Hello Bridger and honored guests. So I'm glad we are answering this one. I'm driving across the country for Thanksgiving to visit my brother in San Diego. His girlfriend has graciously agreed to let me stay at her apartment for the visit. They started dating in March and asked my mom and I for family recipes to make my brother food when he feels homesick. So what a wonderful person. What would be what would be a good gift to give her as a thank you for housing me? She likes to cook, is a student, and for some okay now, and for some reason likes my little brother. Okay, let's leave the little brother alone. Best from Chloe in Chicago. So Chloe needs to buy this brother's sweet girlfriend a gift for staying with her. Do you get people gifts when you stay with him? I should, Yeah, that's my answer. 00:57:57 Speaker 4: I usually I give them. 00:58:00 Speaker 5: I will take them to dinner, right, or that type of a thing, like like, my presence is for you. You enjoyed having me here, You enjoyed having me. Let's eat together. 00:58:11 Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't know. She likes cooking. 00:58:13 Speaker 3: She does like cooking. I feel like cookbook, cookbook. 00:58:19 Speaker 4: Sure, that's good. 00:58:22 Speaker 5: I like you can get her like a fun set of measuring cups. 00:58:27 Speaker 3: Oh yeah, Like I think a high quality set of measuring cups because I usually cheap on them, and I think most people don't go for a high quality. But you get them a nice thing that they're going to be able to use, dishwasher friendly obviously. I think that that's not a bad idea. Or a nice cutting board, you know, like a good size cutting board. All of mine are about the size of a ruler, and so anything that I cut on them is immediately on the counter. So I think a cutting board. Go kind of you know, splurge on a cutting board. 00:58:58 Speaker 5: That's always a good give because people always destroy their cutting boards. 00:59:03 Speaker 3: Right because they're hacking away on them. They're yeah, maybe running them through the washer too many times. You show up, you drive across the country, you've got the room in the car, throw a either wood, a nice wood or marble cutting board in the back of the car. And brother's girlfriend's going to be thrilled out of her mind. 00:59:22 Speaker 4: She's gonna love it. 00:59:24 Speaker 5: She can't complain, yeah, I mean, and if she does complain, then I mean, then she didn't deserve it. 00:59:29 Speaker 3: Yeah, she didn't deserve it, and she revealed herself as a bad person. And that's Emily. We did an excellent job answering questions. It's just been lovely having you here. I mean, my gosh, what a lovely time. And I am now I've been showered with what is one of my favorite things in the world, People magazine, a tablet tabloid I will read till the end of the day. God bless you. 00:59:59 Speaker 5: Of course. Can I tell you what my favorite tabloid headline? Ever? 01:00:04 Speaker 3: Of course, the fact that we're only getting to this right now is making me sick. 01:00:08 Speaker 5: Oh. I literally just remembered, but I can't believe I ever forgot it. My favorite tabloid headline was in Star magazine. I don't remember the year, but it was a close up of Demi Moore's knees and they had a giant yellow circle around it and it said, OMG, she finally had them lifted. 01:00:29 Speaker 3: Knees lifted, Yeah, which she didn't. 01:00:32 Speaker 4: I mean, I don't. 01:00:33 Speaker 5: I don't know if that's a procedure. Finally, Star was waiting, Star had a knee reporter running out of patients. Yeah, they Star had somebody that was literally just covering her knees. 01:00:50 Speaker 3: She finally had them. 01:00:51 Speaker 4: And she finally had them lifted. 01:00:53 Speaker 3: OMG, that is truly psychotic. Oh, I'm glad, glad you were able to reveal that. I mean, that's a failing on my part as a podcast host not to ask, and I apologize. 01:01:07 Speaker 4: No, No, Bridger, it wasn't Omily. 01:01:10 Speaker 3: Thank you for being here. I guess I should. I've remembered the address you have to go to in order to buy the game. I believe it's exactly right, Media dot com, slash shop. If that's not right, that's you'll find it. We all know how to use the internet at this point. But you know all that aside. God bless Omily Gillette. Go find her on Uh, she's got to work all over television and the internet. Go enjoy all of the goodness she's given to us. And I guess Happy Thanksgiving. I hope that this doesn't for some reason air after Thanksgiving because we've gone hard. 01:01:48 Speaker 5: We have we have discussed a lot of Thanksgiving topics, but. 01:01:52 Speaker 3: That's Thanksgiving is a year round thing. So whatever, all right, Well, Omily, I'll see you tomorrow at work. Yeah, podcast listener format in this format and podcast listener, I don't have it, I guess I don't podcast They often have names for the listeners. This doesn't have a name for their listener. What would that even be called? I don't know. Podcast listener feels a little inappropriate at this point. Say gifters, gifters, gift debts, gift easy. You know, that's not up to me. I think that that's probably up to the listener to decide. And what does Lady got Gaga call her fan base monsters? That could be my listeners. I could just co opt that from her. 01:02:34 Speaker 4: You just take it. 01:02:37 Speaker 3: Anyway. I'll leave you with that confusing mash of me just randomly talking, and go out into the world and enjoy yourselves. Goodbye. I said, no. Gifts isn't exactly right production. It's engineered by Earth Angel Stephen Ray Morris. The theme song is by miracle Worker Amy Mann. You can follow the show on Instagram and Twitter at I said no gifts, and if you have a question or need help getting a gift for someone in your life, email me at I said no gifts at gmail dot com. Listen and subscribe on Apple podcast, Stitcher or wherever you found me, and why not leave a review while you're at it? 01:03:15 Speaker 5: Well, I invit, did you hear? 01:03:20 Speaker 1: Thought? I made myself perfectly clear, But you're a guess to me. You gotta come to me empty And. 01:03:32 Speaker 5: I said no guests. 01:03:34 Speaker 1: Your presences presents enough. I already had too much stuff. So how did you dad to surbey me?