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Speaker 1: Hell, 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 2: Welcome to?

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Speaker 3: I said, no gift sign bricherd Winecker. I'm happy you're here.

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Speaker 1: You know.

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Speaker 3: Look, this podcast is kind of my home and I'm

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Speaker 3: I just want you to settle down, settle in, and

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Speaker 3: own thing. But for now you're in my control, and

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Speaker 3: you're going to enjoy yourself, I think, because today's guest

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Speaker 3: is absolutely fantastic. Who doesn't love today's guest. It's Sam Richardson. Sam.

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Speaker 2: Welcome to, I said, no gifts.

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Speaker 4: Oh Bridget, thank you for having me.

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Speaker 3: It's so nice to see you. It looks like you're

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Speaker 3: not in Los Angeles. If I'm going to guess, it's

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Speaker 4: It's a good guess.

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Speaker 3: So you're not experiencing our rain, our one day of

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Speaker 4: I'm not.

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Speaker 5: No, I just left yesterday. I'm in Providence, Rhode Island.

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Speaker 2: Oh does this have to do with hocus Pocus?

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Speaker 4: It does?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, here's that's very exciting. You're going to be in

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Speaker 3: the new hocus Pocus movie written by our mutual friend

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Speaker 3: Jendy Angelo. Yes, yes, former East of the podcast. No

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Speaker 4: Yeah, just to space it out. Fair enough, fair enough.

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Speaker 3: Have you been to Rhode Island before?

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Speaker 5: Yes, but I was in the touring company for Second City,

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Speaker 5: So I've been to every state except for Alaska.

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Speaker 2: Wow. Yeah, No, do you have any interest in going

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Speaker 5: I have I hear that the vampires can stay up

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Speaker 3: What's the scene in Rhode Island right now? I feel

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Speaker 4: It really is. It is my first, like literal my

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Speaker 3: All, you know, to have the ability to call a

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Speaker 5: And it's like a little overcast and like so nice,

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Speaker 3: That's very it seems very witchy. It sounds like what

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Speaker 2: You're not playing a witch, are you? Can you say anything?

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Speaker 5: I can't say anything. I could be playing a witch.

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Speaker 5: I could be playing a broom.

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Speaker 3: If you're not playing a broom, I will burn down Disney.

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Speaker 4: All right, well I might have given a spoiler.

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Speaker 2: I will run Jendangelo out of the business.

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Speaker 3: Sam Richardson has to play a broom, whether in this

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Speaker 4: Exactly, or you know, Sorcers Apprentice the movie.

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Speaker 2: Okay, So how long are you in Rhode Island for

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Speaker 4: You get to have exactly one of my buckets right here.

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Speaker 5: My girlfriend Nicole did research on him, uh and then

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Speaker 5: Look like this? Yeah, he's a Siberian forest cat.

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Speaker 4: So he's like this very looks very.

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Speaker 3: Okay, so you've I mean, we now just have audio

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Speaker 3: recording of you explaining how you've stole some rich person

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Speaker 4: Get me.

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Speaker 3: Someone, some rich sad person out in Los Angeles is

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Speaker 4: Well, I mean not entirely clear. You got to you

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Speaker 4: I couldn't resist my it's my upbringing.

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Speaker 2: Let's see here.

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Speaker 3: I've got my scissors, dangerous, never cut towards yourself. You

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Speaker 5: Oh, well, it's a bat Tech action figures. Like there's

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Speaker 5: In my house, which you can't see because I'm not

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Speaker 5: So most of them. There's some action figures that you know.

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Speaker 5: My parents were like, we're gonna put a bunch of

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Speaker 5: And a bunch of action figures at like X Men

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Speaker 4: Right, yes, very much.

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Speaker 4: Exactly. I've proven it. It's so explosive that you know.

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Speaker 5: That, like you know, like you've seen and you see

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Speaker 3: Well, let's talk more about action figures first, collecting X

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Speaker 5: You know, I had had h the Kenner line of

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Speaker 3: Of course.

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Speaker 4: That's so upsetting, isn't it so upsetting?

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Speaker 2: Of course.

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Speaker 5: Personal Ninja Turtles. Actually I had all the Ninja Turtles.

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Speaker 3: What I never had the technic and the Technodrome that's

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Speaker 5: Nope, No, any of them. All this stuff is just gone.

447
00:22:41,080 --> 00:22:43,520
Speaker 5: And I'm so mad about it. And so that thus

448
00:22:43,760 --> 00:22:46,880
Speaker 5: all these things spark me to then collect them as

449
00:22:46,880 --> 00:22:48,880
Speaker 5: an adult now that I'm like, I've got.

450
00:22:48,960 --> 00:22:51,520
Speaker 4: Disposable income and i can do whatever I want. So

451
00:22:52,000 --> 00:22:53,600
Speaker 4: I'm going to read buy my childhood.

452
00:22:56,119 --> 00:22:59,600
Speaker 3: How much is like, you know, let's say a vintage

453
00:22:59,720 --> 00:23:02,040
Speaker 3: Ninja Turtle go for these days.

454
00:23:01,960 --> 00:23:05,159
Speaker 5: Like a properly like mint on card because like so

455
00:23:05,240 --> 00:23:09,840
Speaker 5: now there's different lines, right, So there's anyca I think

456
00:23:10,040 --> 00:23:12,720
Speaker 5: across Nika they do like a bunch of different series

457
00:23:12,760 --> 00:23:16,440
Speaker 5: of Ninja Turtles. So they have like movie accurate ninja turtles,

458
00:23:16,440 --> 00:23:19,239
Speaker 5: like from from the first Minturts movie and the second one.

459
00:23:19,240 --> 00:23:21,600
Speaker 5: They have like different figures from those, and they have

460
00:23:21,720 --> 00:23:25,119
Speaker 5: like the like the average acting figure size, and then

461
00:23:25,119 --> 00:23:29,200
Speaker 5: they had the bigger ones like maybe like the twelve inch.

462
00:23:31,440 --> 00:23:32,800
Speaker 4: Action figures as well.

463
00:23:33,119 --> 00:23:35,600
Speaker 5: I think the twelve inches ones if you buy them

464
00:23:36,080 --> 00:23:38,760
Speaker 5: at the time of sale, they're fifty dollars. The smaller

465
00:23:38,760 --> 00:23:42,840
Speaker 5: ones are about maybe twenty twenty five, but like some

466
00:23:42,880 --> 00:23:44,440
Speaker 5: of them, you can't get any more so than they

467
00:23:44,480 --> 00:23:47,200
Speaker 5: shoot up in price like one hundred and fifty two

468
00:23:47,280 --> 00:23:48,480
Speaker 5: hundred dollars.

469
00:23:48,800 --> 00:23:50,560
Speaker 3: So are you getting on like eBay or is there

470
00:23:50,600 --> 00:23:52,520
Speaker 3: like an action figure dot com?

471
00:23:52,880 --> 00:23:57,600
Speaker 5: Well, there's big bad toy store plug O, which I

472
00:23:57,640 --> 00:23:59,320
Speaker 5: get a lot of my figures from a lot of

473
00:23:59,359 --> 00:24:04,280
Speaker 5: my Thundercat and my Ninja Turtles and stuff from these

474
00:24:04,480 --> 00:24:08,200
Speaker 5: modern ones. There's uh you can get it from the

475
00:24:08,280 --> 00:24:10,360
Speaker 5: Niko website. You just pre order through them and they'll

476
00:24:10,400 --> 00:24:12,560
Speaker 5: just ship it out when they have the things in

477
00:24:12,720 --> 00:24:16,040
Speaker 5: line super seven, which also makes a bunch of great

478
00:24:16,080 --> 00:24:16,800
Speaker 5: toy lines.

479
00:24:17,840 --> 00:24:21,119
Speaker 3: So I'm curious, like what is your process now, Like

480
00:24:21,240 --> 00:24:23,880
Speaker 3: how do you determine which new action figure you're going

481
00:24:23,920 --> 00:24:24,119
Speaker 3: to get?

482
00:24:24,160 --> 00:24:25,439
Speaker 2: Do you have a list of them or is it

483
00:24:25,520 --> 00:24:27,000
Speaker 2: like just random thought?

484
00:24:27,200 --> 00:24:28,440
Speaker 4: It's kind of random thought.

485
00:24:28,640 --> 00:24:32,399
Speaker 5: I feel like sometimes like my Instagram scroll will like

486
00:24:32,480 --> 00:24:35,240
Speaker 5: kind of show me because it knows what I'm like

487
00:24:35,280 --> 00:24:38,320
Speaker 5: looking for, So it's like, hey, do you know this

488
00:24:38,320 --> 00:24:40,760
Speaker 5: this line is coming out soon? Or you know or

489
00:24:41,000 --> 00:24:44,480
Speaker 5: or I'll kind of like, uh, like all the a

490
00:24:44,520 --> 00:24:46,879
Speaker 5: lot of the websites, like the Big Bad Toy Store

491
00:24:47,040 --> 00:24:49,720
Speaker 5: website will have like coming soon pre orders and it'll

492
00:24:49,760 --> 00:24:51,160
Speaker 5: show like all the stuff that's coming.

493
00:24:51,680 --> 00:24:53,120
Speaker 4: And then right sort.

494
00:24:52,880 --> 00:24:56,640
Speaker 5: Of blogs and uh Reddit, we'll talk about like things

495
00:24:56,680 --> 00:24:58,439
Speaker 5: that are starting new lines.

496
00:24:58,520 --> 00:25:01,199
Speaker 3: Do you have any action figure that's eluded you that?

497
00:25:01,960 --> 00:25:03,120
Speaker 3: What's your white whale?

498
00:25:04,200 --> 00:25:08,800
Speaker 5: Let's see a white whale? Of mine is like an original.

499
00:25:09,119 --> 00:25:11,560
Speaker 5: I keep on looking for for these, like original mint

500
00:25:11,640 --> 00:25:16,200
Speaker 5: on card ThunderCats, like the original line like eighty six

501
00:25:17,040 --> 00:25:20,440
Speaker 5: because I don't want to pay a ridiculous amount, which

502
00:25:20,440 --> 00:25:22,480
Speaker 5: I eventually I will because I think it's refused to

503
00:25:22,520 --> 00:25:24,280
Speaker 5: because of it been. It's like one of those things

504
00:25:24,280 --> 00:25:26,359
Speaker 5: where once you do it, then what do you do

505
00:25:26,440 --> 00:25:30,320
Speaker 5: after that? You know, it's like it certainly it's like

506
00:25:30,359 --> 00:25:34,920
Speaker 5: I haven't done that, which I need to just eventually

507
00:25:34,960 --> 00:25:35,240
Speaker 5: do that.

508
00:25:36,600 --> 00:25:39,000
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean Power Rangers figures.

509
00:25:39,119 --> 00:25:41,760
Speaker 3: That was all about there Ranger figures. So you were

510
00:25:41,760 --> 00:25:42,840
Speaker 3: into the Power Rangers.

511
00:25:42,840 --> 00:25:45,199
Speaker 5: Oh it was it was like aimed directly at me,

512
00:25:45,760 --> 00:25:48,920
Speaker 5: you know what you was that? I was like ninety three,

513
00:25:49,440 --> 00:25:52,320
Speaker 5: so I was born eighty four, So I was nine

514
00:25:52,400 --> 00:25:56,479
Speaker 5: years old. So it was like, hey, Sam, all right,

515
00:25:56,520 --> 00:25:58,480
Speaker 5: wait did I say I was born in eighty four?

516
00:25:58,520 --> 00:26:00,200
Speaker 4: I say eighty three.

517
00:26:00,320 --> 00:26:02,639
Speaker 3: Let's see you said eighty four and it came on

518
00:26:02,760 --> 00:26:04,720
Speaker 3: ninety three you were nine years old?

519
00:26:04,760 --> 00:26:05,240
Speaker 2: That makes sense.

520
00:26:05,320 --> 00:26:10,159
Speaker 4: Yeah, I was like that just lie, just straight up. Whoa.

521
00:26:10,320 --> 00:26:12,439
Speaker 2: It came so naturally to me. I should do this

522
00:26:12,480 --> 00:26:13,040
Speaker 2: more often.

523
00:26:13,400 --> 00:26:14,560
Speaker 4: I'm a brilliant act.

524
00:26:14,760 --> 00:26:20,120
Speaker 3: Maybe I'm an excellent liar. So you got sucked into

525
00:26:20,119 --> 00:26:24,520
Speaker 3: Power Rangers very much, very much. I felt like Power

526
00:26:24,600 --> 00:26:28,280
Speaker 3: Rangers for me, Like, for whatever reason, I was fully

527
00:26:28,280 --> 00:26:31,560
Speaker 3: on board Ninja Turtles power Rangers came around, I couldn't

528
00:26:31,560 --> 00:26:34,080
Speaker 3: get on board. No, I don't know what happened. I

529
00:26:34,119 --> 00:26:38,480
Speaker 3: think that's when I became just a cruel third grader.

530
00:26:38,840 --> 00:26:43,320
Speaker 3: Yeah that's not cool. For whatever reason, I've decided that

531
00:26:43,680 --> 00:26:46,439
Speaker 3: corny thing isn't cool, but my Turtles are continue to

532
00:26:46,440 --> 00:26:46,840
Speaker 3: be cool.

533
00:26:47,000 --> 00:26:49,600
Speaker 5: Yeah, I was right on it. It was like there

534
00:26:49,640 --> 00:26:52,280
Speaker 5: was like a sniper. It just like hit me dead

535
00:26:52,320 --> 00:26:54,359
Speaker 5: in the chest. It was like, this is your obsession.

536
00:26:56,359 --> 00:26:57,960
Speaker 2: And I was like, were you ever a Power Ranger

537
00:26:57,960 --> 00:26:58,600
Speaker 2: for Halloween?

538
00:26:59,160 --> 00:27:01,480
Speaker 5: I always wanted to, but I but I always wanted

539
00:27:01,520 --> 00:27:03,199
Speaker 5: to be a Power Range. I wanted to be like

540
00:27:03,200 --> 00:27:05,680
Speaker 5: a real life Powerrangeer folloween in a way that was

541
00:27:05,720 --> 00:27:07,760
Speaker 5: like impossible to make the costume unless you're.

542
00:27:07,640 --> 00:27:10,080
Speaker 2: Like, oh right, right, buy it at Walmart, you know

543
00:27:10,119 --> 00:27:10,439
Speaker 2: what I mean.

544
00:27:10,600 --> 00:27:12,679
Speaker 5: It's like, well, like, no, I want the licra and

545
00:27:12,720 --> 00:27:15,760
Speaker 5: I want an actual helmet and a sword.

546
00:27:16,320 --> 00:27:19,440
Speaker 2: Was like, no, it's not what cost hundreds of dollars, you.

547
00:27:19,440 --> 00:27:24,280
Speaker 5: Know, which, if I ever have kids, oh there, they're costumes.

548
00:27:24,359 --> 00:27:27,480
Speaker 5: Whatever they want, it's going to be the exact thing

549
00:27:27,560 --> 00:27:28,240
Speaker 5: from the show.

550
00:27:29,520 --> 00:27:30,760
Speaker 4: I guarantee this.

551
00:27:32,040 --> 00:27:33,960
Speaker 2: So what kind of things were you for Halloween?

552
00:27:34,680 --> 00:27:36,439
Speaker 4: I was Superman a bunch of years.

553
00:27:36,840 --> 00:27:39,120
Speaker 3: That's an easy Halloween costume that to get like kind

554
00:27:39,119 --> 00:27:40,800
Speaker 3: of authentic exactly, and.

555
00:27:40,760 --> 00:27:43,320
Speaker 5: I would always wear I had Superman pajamas that I

556
00:27:43,320 --> 00:27:47,359
Speaker 5: would wear as regular clothes, you know, right, So I

557
00:27:47,560 --> 00:27:52,720
Speaker 5: Superman a lot. In fact, I was, so I was Superman.

558
00:27:53,280 --> 00:27:56,399
Speaker 5: I think the last year of Superman was in high school.

559
00:27:57,240 --> 00:28:00,600
Speaker 5: So I went to the supers a high school costume

560
00:28:00,680 --> 00:28:03,560
Speaker 5: party like at the school, and they were like had

561
00:28:03,560 --> 00:28:08,480
Speaker 5: a costume contest, and I went up there as Clark Kent,

562
00:28:09,400 --> 00:28:10,720
Speaker 5: you know, and everybody was like booing me.

563
00:28:12,520 --> 00:28:15,680
Speaker 6: It was this loser same hes put on glasses and

564
00:28:15,680 --> 00:28:17,560
Speaker 6: he thinks he's gonna win this, and I was like wait,

565
00:28:17,600 --> 00:28:21,480
Speaker 6: and I took my thing off, like yeah, it was

566
00:28:21,520 --> 00:28:23,800
Speaker 6: like a fool, like I was ancra body suit with

567
00:28:23,880 --> 00:28:27,280
Speaker 6: a thing and all that. But then my friend's, uh,

568
00:28:27,680 --> 00:28:29,800
Speaker 6: my friend's little brother won because he was just a pumpkin.

569
00:28:30,320 --> 00:28:34,960
Speaker 6: So that's just a big, like a child's pumpkin costume.

570
00:28:35,400 --> 00:28:37,320
Speaker 6: He was wearing that, so he got first place.

571
00:28:38,520 --> 00:28:40,520
Speaker 3: I would love for you to rip the suit off

572
00:28:40,520 --> 00:28:43,200
Speaker 3: to the Superman costume and for the booing to just intensify.

573
00:28:43,240 --> 00:28:45,120
Speaker 2: It gets way worse, Like this.

574
00:28:45,040 --> 00:28:46,280
Speaker 4: Isn't how I thought it would go.

575
00:28:47,920 --> 00:28:50,560
Speaker 5: That might have been what happened, and I just fucked

576
00:28:50,560 --> 00:28:52,960
Speaker 5: it out and then they cheered from me.

577
00:28:53,160 --> 00:28:53,600
Speaker 4: I swear.

578
00:28:54,520 --> 00:29:00,600
Speaker 3: Yeah, so you're a big just comic book person in general. Yeah, yeah, okay,

579
00:29:00,800 --> 00:29:03,840
Speaker 3: that's true. Okay, you haven't been in a superhero movie,

580
00:29:03,880 --> 00:29:04,120
Speaker 3: have you?

581
00:29:04,360 --> 00:29:04,760
Speaker 4: I have not.

582
00:29:05,600 --> 00:29:06,160
Speaker 3: It's time.

583
00:29:06,760 --> 00:29:08,080
Speaker 4: I agree.

584
00:29:08,600 --> 00:29:10,360
Speaker 3: I feel like we're coming around the bend here. It's

585
00:29:10,400 --> 00:29:15,239
Speaker 3: probably I'm predicting twenty twenty three. Sam Richardson is in

586
00:29:15,280 --> 00:29:17,760
Speaker 3: one of these things. It's kind of a crime. It

587
00:29:17,800 --> 00:29:18,479
Speaker 3: hasn't happened.

588
00:29:19,040 --> 00:29:19,560
Speaker 4: I agree.

589
00:29:19,680 --> 00:29:23,400
Speaker 5: I certainly want I want it more than anything, truly.

590
00:29:23,520 --> 00:29:27,960
Speaker 5: I love that I go to every superhero movie first

591
00:29:28,080 --> 00:29:36,040
Speaker 5: day possible, and I'm like, accurate, inaccurate, terrific, well done.

592
00:29:37,240 --> 00:29:39,160
Speaker 2: Are you looking for I assume you're looking forward to

593
00:29:39,200 --> 00:29:40,200
Speaker 2: the new Batman movie.

594
00:29:40,320 --> 00:29:42,719
Speaker 5: I am very much the Batman I am. I think

595
00:29:42,760 --> 00:29:45,720
Speaker 5: it's going to be great. I'm looking forward to it.

596
00:29:46,120 --> 00:29:47,800
Speaker 2: Do you have a favorite superhero movie?

597
00:29:48,280 --> 00:29:50,080
Speaker 4: Favorite suphero movie? Might be?

598
00:29:50,520 --> 00:29:54,200
Speaker 5: It might be the original Superman, the seventy seven Superman Chris.

599
00:29:54,720 --> 00:29:58,880
Speaker 5: It's one that I didn't It was one where every

600
00:29:58,920 --> 00:30:01,760
Speaker 5: time I watch it I appreciate it even more. Like,

601
00:30:02,080 --> 00:30:05,240
Speaker 5: first of the music that John Williams score is so brilliant.

602
00:30:05,760 --> 00:30:08,840
Speaker 5: I think christophery is a brilliant Superman. They were like

603
00:30:08,960 --> 00:30:12,640
Speaker 5: jokes in theres the storytelling. I'm missing describing things about

604
00:30:12,680 --> 00:30:16,840
Speaker 5: movies in general. But one thing I hadn't realized as

605
00:30:16,880 --> 00:30:18,320
Speaker 5: a kid. But then he's a girl up, Like when

606
00:30:18,320 --> 00:30:21,240
Speaker 5: you watch that movie. He doesn't become Superman for an

607
00:30:21,280 --> 00:30:24,680
Speaker 5: hour into that movie, whoa. But you don't even notice it,

608
00:30:24,760 --> 00:30:27,280
Speaker 5: you know what I mean, because it's like good character.

609
00:30:26,960 --> 00:30:30,480
Speaker 2: Building, right, you know, I care about this person, care about.

610
00:30:30,280 --> 00:30:32,080
Speaker 5: This person, So when you become Superman, you're like, oh,

611
00:30:32,080 --> 00:30:34,080
Speaker 5: well he's all these things before you know.

612
00:30:34,120 --> 00:30:36,600
Speaker 3: I haven't seen it. So the first hour of the movie,

613
00:30:36,640 --> 00:30:38,800
Speaker 3: is he just hiding Superman from everyone? Or he's just

614
00:30:38,840 --> 00:30:41,080
Speaker 3: Clark Kenton he kind of doesn't know, Well, it's him growing.

615
00:30:41,120 --> 00:30:46,360
Speaker 4: So it's it's it's Krypton first, right, and it's it's

616
00:30:46,480 --> 00:30:49,680
Speaker 4: all of uh, well, I can't think of his name.

617
00:30:50,560 --> 00:30:52,120
Speaker 4: Oh my goodness, the uh.

618
00:30:52,240 --> 00:30:58,320
Speaker 3: Here we go proven a complete comic book, frogs about

619
00:30:58,360 --> 00:31:01,520
Speaker 3: any of them.

620
00:31:01,640 --> 00:31:07,480
Speaker 4: Oh my god, a street car named Desire Godfather. Sometimes

621
00:31:07,480 --> 00:31:10,120
Speaker 4: my brain won't come up with names. And it's a big.

622
00:31:10,320 --> 00:31:12,240
Speaker 3: Marlon brand of Marlon brand Y.

623
00:31:13,120 --> 00:31:16,720
Speaker 2: I know that Joerel Superman spots and he's like the Council.

624
00:31:16,800 --> 00:31:18,440
Speaker 5: So like it starts out with him on the planet

625
00:31:18,480 --> 00:31:22,360
Speaker 5: Krypton warning everybody that Krypton is about to explode over

626
00:31:22,680 --> 00:31:26,120
Speaker 5: and everybody says denied, and so he sends the baby off.

627
00:31:26,560 --> 00:31:28,560
Speaker 5: This story is the story of Superman. So that's the

628
00:31:28,640 --> 00:31:34,760
Speaker 5: first like fifteen minutes is there. Then it's him raining,

629
00:31:35,280 --> 00:31:39,239
Speaker 5: arriving on Earth, him being raised as a boy, and

630
00:31:39,280 --> 00:31:42,080
Speaker 5: then him growing up and then being raised by John

631
00:31:42,120 --> 00:31:45,560
Speaker 5: and Martha Kent and all that sort of. It takes

632
00:31:45,560 --> 00:31:48,120
Speaker 5: an hour to get there. And so then for the

633
00:31:48,120 --> 00:31:51,280
Speaker 5: second half of it, or from our one, then you're

634
00:31:51,320 --> 00:31:54,000
Speaker 5: in Smallville or then you're in Metropolis. The rest of

635
00:31:54,040 --> 00:31:57,560
Speaker 5: the movie is spit in Krypton and Smallville. Then you

636
00:31:57,600 --> 00:31:59,040
Speaker 5: go to Metropolis.

637
00:31:59,280 --> 00:32:01,320
Speaker 2: This movie's five hours long.

638
00:32:01,400 --> 00:32:05,000
Speaker 4: Yeah, five and a half. The Lord of the Rings Edition.

639
00:32:05,920 --> 00:32:10,480
Speaker 3: I'm certain to feel like, I mean, the Superman fandom,

640
00:32:10,720 --> 00:32:13,160
Speaker 3: this desire to just spend money on all of these things,

641
00:32:13,400 --> 00:32:17,760
Speaker 3: like leading towards kind of a Nicholas Cage style financial

642
00:32:17,840 --> 00:32:20,320
Speaker 3: situation where you buy like a t Rex skull and

643
00:32:20,640 --> 00:32:21,800
Speaker 3: suddenly you're broke.

644
00:32:21,920 --> 00:32:24,480
Speaker 4: If they offer it to me, I'm running the card.

645
00:32:25,640 --> 00:32:28,440
Speaker 3: Which no problem with Nicholas Cage. The man seems to

646
00:32:28,520 --> 00:32:30,960
Speaker 3: lead a fascinating, wonderful life and he's so good.

647
00:32:31,440 --> 00:32:34,960
Speaker 5: He's so good, he's a very fun person to watch.

648
00:32:35,320 --> 00:32:38,880
Speaker 5: But he bought a t Rex and like then it

649
00:32:38,920 --> 00:32:40,920
Speaker 5: was in full debt.

650
00:32:40,800 --> 00:32:43,120
Speaker 3: And had like a maybe a pyramid or something. I

651
00:32:43,160 --> 00:32:45,800
Speaker 3: feel like you probably could just say anything right now,

652
00:32:45,840 --> 00:32:48,200
Speaker 3: and he probably has at least tried to purchase at

653
00:32:48,240 --> 00:32:51,400
Speaker 3: some point. He owned the Haunted Castle, he owned fifty

654
00:32:51,440 --> 00:32:52,960
Speaker 3: acres of swamp land.

655
00:32:55,080 --> 00:33:00,880
Speaker 2: But no, I feel that I could be in the

656
00:33:00,920 --> 00:33:02,360
Speaker 2: cards for you, and I'm fine with that.

657
00:33:03,000 --> 00:33:04,560
Speaker 4: I certainly hope. I hope.

658
00:33:05,120 --> 00:33:08,000
Speaker 5: And what my plan is and I'll well, maybe we'll

659
00:33:08,000 --> 00:33:10,239
Speaker 5: cut this part out for the irs is I'm going

660
00:33:10,320 --> 00:33:14,280
Speaker 5: to buy an island first. Then all my purchases then

661
00:33:14,360 --> 00:33:19,880
Speaker 5: go to that island, and then I uh, I demand independence,

662
00:33:19,960 --> 00:33:22,480
Speaker 5: and so then they become it becomes a war crime

663
00:33:22,480 --> 00:33:23,720
Speaker 5: if you try and take them from me if I,

664
00:33:24,040 --> 00:33:26,400
Speaker 5: you know, go into dead on them.

665
00:33:27,080 --> 00:33:30,160
Speaker 3: Suddenly your Amazon account has like your home address and

666
00:33:30,200 --> 00:33:35,040
Speaker 3: then like an island address that everything's getting shipped to exactly.

667
00:33:34,960 --> 00:33:39,240
Speaker 4: And it's like the billing addressesn't match it yet, but.

668
00:33:39,200 --> 00:33:40,760
Speaker 3: It will and all of this will add up in

669
00:33:40,760 --> 00:33:44,640
Speaker 3: such a beautiful way, exactly if you were going to

670
00:33:44,680 --> 00:33:45,120
Speaker 3: be If you.

671
00:33:45,120 --> 00:33:46,880
Speaker 2: Could just pick a superhero to be in a movie,

672
00:33:46,880 --> 00:33:47,480
Speaker 2: who would it be?

673
00:33:48,440 --> 00:33:49,440
Speaker 3: Oh, it's like your dream?

674
00:33:50,720 --> 00:33:53,600
Speaker 4: Well for real, for real, I said that I want

675
00:33:53,640 --> 00:33:54,800
Speaker 4: to be Beast from X Men.

676
00:33:55,160 --> 00:33:57,000
Speaker 2: Oh my god, that's a great choice.

677
00:33:57,400 --> 00:33:59,440
Speaker 5: I would, I would, I would truly love to be

678
00:33:59,520 --> 00:34:01,360
Speaker 5: But I'm like, the more I say it, the more

679
00:34:01,400 --> 00:34:03,680
Speaker 5: I'm like, oh, I'm making sure it doesn't happen by

680
00:34:03,680 --> 00:34:06,040
Speaker 5: saying it, because then they're gonna be like, you don't

681
00:34:06,080 --> 00:34:09,120
Speaker 5: tell us what to do. You don't say the guy

682
00:34:09,200 --> 00:34:13,920
Speaker 5: you want to be. This isn't Halloween failt We find

683
00:34:13,960 --> 00:34:15,320
Speaker 5: you and then we have a surprise.

684
00:34:17,440 --> 00:34:20,000
Speaker 3: Well, I feel like you've got You're putting it out there.

685
00:34:20,000 --> 00:34:20,600
Speaker 2: At the very least.

686
00:34:20,640 --> 00:34:23,040
Speaker 3: I'm sure someone at Disney will be spiteful and make

687
00:34:23,080 --> 00:34:29,960
Speaker 3: you Cyclops or something. But close enough, same same realm.

688
00:34:31,120 --> 00:34:33,799
Speaker 3: But you're gonna just despise your co star when they

689
00:34:33,840 --> 00:34:35,399
Speaker 3: recast Kelsey Grammar as.

690
00:34:35,360 --> 00:34:38,920
Speaker 4: Beast exactly like you're so old.

691
00:34:38,800 --> 00:34:41,560
Speaker 2: You just can't let it go, Kelsey, I'll shove it.

692
00:34:43,000 --> 00:34:46,040
Speaker 3: Wow. Well this is really really fascinating. And now I

693
00:34:46,040 --> 00:34:48,160
Speaker 3: have this Batman action figure. Do you think I should

694
00:34:48,200 --> 00:34:50,200
Speaker 3: take it out of the packaging at any pert?

695
00:34:50,600 --> 00:34:53,600
Speaker 4: I think you should. I think I think that's it's imposable.

696
00:34:53,840 --> 00:34:55,560
Speaker 4: So you want to you want to like get.

697
00:34:55,440 --> 00:35:00,680
Speaker 3: Those particulation, various positions, et cetera. Yeah, maybe put it

698
00:35:00,680 --> 00:35:03,480
Speaker 3: on a bat Does it call the bat cycle?

699
00:35:03,800 --> 00:35:06,360
Speaker 4: Yeah, he's got the bat cycle batmobile.

700
00:35:07,160 --> 00:35:09,200
Speaker 2: Bat cycle sounds just too much like bicycle.

701
00:35:09,520 --> 00:35:13,680
Speaker 5: Yeah, I know, it's very it's very similar, very similar.

702
00:35:13,920 --> 00:35:17,919
Speaker 5: And like the Nolan movies they called the bat pod

703
00:35:18,800 --> 00:35:19,480
Speaker 5: bat pod.

704
00:35:19,920 --> 00:35:22,680
Speaker 2: You know that's interesting. That doesn't quite describe it either.

705
00:35:22,960 --> 00:35:25,360
Speaker 5: Well, it's because in those movies, like it's part of

706
00:35:25,360 --> 00:35:28,279
Speaker 5: the Batmobile and then it shoots out of the Batmobile like.

707
00:35:28,239 --> 00:35:31,719
Speaker 3: A oh that okay, that makes enough sense. And then

708
00:35:31,760 --> 00:35:33,919
Speaker 3: he drives it through them all, I feel like, which

709
00:35:33,920 --> 00:35:36,759
Speaker 3: is so exciting. We'd all love to drive a motorcycle

710
00:35:36,800 --> 00:35:40,480
Speaker 3: through them all, whither you know it or not, thrill.

711
00:35:40,920 --> 00:35:43,680
Speaker 4: Yeah, when you're doing it and you're like, what was missing?

712
00:35:44,480 --> 00:35:51,640
Speaker 3: This was the right choice? Past a hot topic? Now

713
00:35:51,800 --> 00:35:55,719
Speaker 3: what you also collect funko pops? I do do you

714
00:35:55,719 --> 00:35:56,440
Speaker 3: get in line?

715
00:35:56,960 --> 00:35:58,000
Speaker 4: No? No, no, no.

716
00:35:58,200 --> 00:36:01,359
Speaker 3: The lines to me is it's a bridge too far.

717
00:36:01,480 --> 00:36:04,880
Speaker 3: That feels Yeah, that feels like desperate behavior to me.

718
00:36:04,960 --> 00:36:07,200
Speaker 3: And I'm sorry to anyone that does that. But you're

719
00:36:07,239 --> 00:36:10,200
Speaker 3: standing out in the cold. What are we talking about?

720
00:36:10,400 --> 00:36:13,960
Speaker 5: Yeah, No, I refuse to stand in line for anything anymore,

721
00:36:14,160 --> 00:36:18,239
Speaker 5: like connect, I truly will in the bathroom, I just

722
00:36:18,239 --> 00:36:22,600
Speaker 5: hold it. I wish at first I was joking, but

723
00:36:22,680 --> 00:36:24,960
Speaker 5: I'm like, wait, that's true. I don't do it. I

724
00:36:25,000 --> 00:36:27,600
Speaker 5: will just like hold it. I won't stand in line

725
00:36:27,680 --> 00:36:28,520
Speaker 5: for anything.

726
00:36:31,360 --> 00:36:34,640
Speaker 3: Yeah. I think like the older you get, the more

727
00:36:35,120 --> 00:36:38,120
Speaker 3: difficult or it's just like what, I don't know. I've

728
00:36:38,160 --> 00:36:41,880
Speaker 3: waited for enough things. I'll just I'll get something easier.

729
00:36:41,920 --> 00:36:45,640
Speaker 3: I'm not putting in the work for anything. Yeah, we've

730
00:36:45,640 --> 00:36:48,080
Speaker 3: done away with most lines. You know, you just have

731
00:36:48,120 --> 00:36:49,960
Speaker 3: to wait in line for a movie or whatever. That

732
00:36:50,120 --> 00:36:52,440
Speaker 3: feels crazy. Now it's the idea of like having to

733
00:36:52,480 --> 00:36:54,440
Speaker 3: show up two hours before the movie to just get

734
00:36:54,440 --> 00:36:55,719
Speaker 3: in line.

735
00:36:56,000 --> 00:36:58,719
Speaker 4: No, I won't do it. It simply will not.

736
00:37:00,480 --> 00:37:04,040
Speaker 5: I used to collect I mean I do still collect sneakers, right,

737
00:37:04,520 --> 00:37:08,080
Speaker 5: but like the game of acquiring them is now just

738
00:37:08,160 --> 00:37:11,200
Speaker 5: about paying resellers to get it and who can pay them,

739
00:37:12,400 --> 00:37:16,280
Speaker 5: and so like the idea of like procuring these things

740
00:37:16,480 --> 00:37:20,040
Speaker 5: or like knowing the ends, it's like essentially all but disappeared.

741
00:37:20,400 --> 00:37:22,880
Speaker 5: Like the line used to be, even even for a while.

742
00:37:22,960 --> 00:37:25,240
Speaker 5: There's like a brief window there with like the line

743
00:37:25,280 --> 00:37:27,399
Speaker 5: was that you would get to order on your computer first,

744
00:37:28,040 --> 00:37:31,759
Speaker 5: But now they use what's called bots that then go

745
00:37:31,800 --> 00:37:33,959
Speaker 5: in and buy out the inventory in a split second

746
00:37:34,000 --> 00:37:37,080
Speaker 5: because it's a computer program, and so like you just

747
00:37:37,080 --> 00:37:39,560
Speaker 5: can't beat it. So now I'm like, I don't need

748
00:37:39,680 --> 00:37:42,040
Speaker 5: the sneakers. I don't need these I mean I was

749
00:37:42,080 --> 00:37:44,439
Speaker 5: saying I don't need action figures. I don't need these things.

750
00:37:44,600 --> 00:37:45,120
Speaker 4: So I did it.

751
00:37:45,200 --> 00:37:47,719
Speaker 5: Somebody is just like so blatantly put themselves in the

752
00:37:47,719 --> 00:37:50,720
Speaker 5: middle of this thing that I want and the purchase.

753
00:37:50,800 --> 00:37:53,719
Speaker 4: I'm like, I refuse, I refuse to give this person.

754
00:37:55,000 --> 00:37:57,680
Speaker 3: Money just trying to buy a PlayStation for a year now,

755
00:37:57,960 --> 00:38:00,960
Speaker 3: So I gave up. Because these the resellers are the

756
00:38:00,960 --> 00:38:02,440
Speaker 3: scourge of the planet.

757
00:38:02,760 --> 00:38:04,759
Speaker 4: Truly, it's so frustrating.

758
00:38:05,320 --> 00:38:08,400
Speaker 3: Oh, it's maddening. Normal people can no longer buy things.

759
00:38:08,480 --> 00:38:10,920
Speaker 3: You have to go through someone who knows how to program.

760
00:38:11,000 --> 00:38:11,680
Speaker 4: Yeah, exactly.

761
00:38:11,680 --> 00:38:15,080
Speaker 5: And they have forty or fifty of them in their

762
00:38:15,120 --> 00:38:17,279
Speaker 5: apartment and just sitting there, make a picture of it

763
00:38:17,320 --> 00:38:18,120
Speaker 5: on their Instagram.

764
00:38:18,160 --> 00:38:21,480
Speaker 3: Like you, I'm going to find you. I'm going to

765
00:38:21,520 --> 00:38:24,759
Speaker 3: get in there and find I'm going to feel so

766
00:38:25,080 --> 00:38:29,240
Speaker 3: sad about your living conditions. You live with seventy PlayStations

767
00:38:29,280 --> 00:38:30,360
Speaker 3: and a mattress?

768
00:38:30,880 --> 00:38:33,080
Speaker 2: What are you doing with your life doing?

769
00:38:33,200 --> 00:38:34,040
Speaker 3: What are you doing?

770
00:38:34,200 --> 00:38:34,520
Speaker 4: Fully?

771
00:38:34,760 --> 00:38:41,640
Speaker 3: Just be a decent person, Sam, I'm in a terrible mood.

772
00:38:42,000 --> 00:38:43,920
Speaker 3: We're talking about these horrible people.

773
00:38:45,200 --> 00:38:47,440
Speaker 2: Oh but at least we're exposing.

774
00:38:47,680 --> 00:38:49,640
Speaker 3: Yeah, this is kind of if nothing else, this is

775
00:38:49,719 --> 00:38:51,080
Speaker 3: kind of an expose.

776
00:38:51,520 --> 00:38:54,360
Speaker 4: We got to bring the knowledge to the people, right.

777
00:38:56,160 --> 00:38:57,439
Speaker 3: I feel like we should play a game.

778
00:38:57,640 --> 00:38:59,600
Speaker 4: All right, Yes, We're going to play.

779
00:38:59,480 --> 00:39:01,680
Speaker 3: A game called Gift Master. But I need a number

780
00:39:01,680 --> 00:39:02,799
Speaker 3: between one and ten from you.

781
00:39:03,400 --> 00:39:03,720
Speaker 4: Nine.

782
00:39:04,440 --> 00:39:07,000
Speaker 3: Okay, I have to do some light calculating. I have

783
00:39:07,040 --> 00:39:09,960
Speaker 3: to find our game pieces while I'm doing this. You

784
00:39:10,000 --> 00:39:13,200
Speaker 3: have the microphone. You can recommend something, you can promote something,

785
00:39:13,640 --> 00:39:14,840
Speaker 3: you can do whatever you want.

786
00:39:15,120 --> 00:39:16,080
Speaker 2: I'll be right back.

787
00:39:16,719 --> 00:39:21,840
Speaker 5: Wonderful some promotions. A show that has just been re released.

788
00:39:23,160 --> 00:39:27,000
Speaker 5: It was on YouTube Premium and no one saw it

789
00:39:27,040 --> 00:39:31,520
Speaker 5: there because YouTube didn't have a great sort of mechanic

790
00:39:31,600 --> 00:39:34,799
Speaker 5: frequency things. It's called Champagne Hills, so as Me and

791
00:39:34,800 --> 00:39:37,399
Speaker 5: Adam Pally. It just came to Hulu so now people

792
00:39:37,440 --> 00:39:40,120
Speaker 5: can watch it. It's a show about two guys who

793
00:39:40,120 --> 00:39:44,239
Speaker 5: were in an entoura. Their high school buddy became a

794
00:39:44,360 --> 00:39:47,399
Speaker 5: very popular hip hop artist and they were hangers on

795
00:39:48,239 --> 00:39:49,759
Speaker 5: and I kind of left their whole life behind. And

796
00:39:49,840 --> 00:39:53,160
Speaker 5: he dies and so now their gravy train is gone

797
00:39:53,560 --> 00:39:58,520
Speaker 5: and they have to move back to their hometown of Champagne, Illinois,

798
00:39:58,960 --> 00:40:00,920
Speaker 5: and they're not prepared for it. So that's on Hulu.

799
00:40:01,400 --> 00:40:05,839
Speaker 5: Check that out. And Detroitter's Elisaba Detroitter's My Show with

800
00:40:05,880 --> 00:40:08,719
Speaker 5: Tim Robinson on It was on Comedy Central now some

801
00:40:08,840 --> 00:40:09,839
Speaker 5: Paramount Plus.

802
00:40:10,360 --> 00:40:14,640
Speaker 4: Check that out. And The after Party comes to Apple

803
00:40:14,719 --> 00:40:15,600
Speaker 4: TV this winter.

804
00:40:16,400 --> 00:40:17,759
Speaker 3: Sam, it's January.

805
00:40:18,000 --> 00:40:21,160
Speaker 4: It's January. Well then get ready, you know what I mean,

806
00:40:21,239 --> 00:40:22,279
Speaker 4: I got to build the height.

807
00:40:23,719 --> 00:40:25,600
Speaker 3: You know what, I think that it's great, I wrote

808
00:40:25,600 --> 00:40:28,879
Speaker 3: on The After Party. I know you did Look, all

809
00:40:29,000 --> 00:40:33,759
Speaker 3: the things Sam just recommended are actually huge recommendations for me.

810
00:40:33,880 --> 00:40:38,800
Speaker 3: Champagne Hill was created by two absolute rascals of people,

811
00:40:39,000 --> 00:40:43,520
Speaker 3: Matthew and Daniel Libman very funny show Detroit's is one

812
00:40:43,560 --> 00:40:46,360
Speaker 3: of the few comedies of the last ten years that

813
00:40:46,480 --> 00:40:48,880
Speaker 3: actually makes me laugh. And now we've got the after

814
00:40:48,960 --> 00:40:51,880
Speaker 3: party coming. I mean, this man is just a machine

815
00:40:51,920 --> 00:40:56,799
Speaker 3: bringing you entertainment. Watch all of those things, please, I mean,

816
00:40:57,480 --> 00:41:00,920
Speaker 3: or don't. That's also an option. You can live in

817
00:41:00,960 --> 00:41:04,200
Speaker 3: your own miserable filth all you want. But Sam has

818
00:41:04,239 --> 00:41:08,960
Speaker 3: just presented an absolute platter of entertainment. Sam, this is

819
00:41:09,200 --> 00:41:12,080
Speaker 3: how we play the game. Okay, I'm gonna name three

820
00:41:12,480 --> 00:41:16,320
Speaker 3: potential gifts, three items that you can give away or experience.

821
00:41:16,400 --> 00:41:18,839
Speaker 3: Is that kind of thing? And I'm gonna name three celebrities,

822
00:41:18,880 --> 00:41:21,799
Speaker 3: three famous people. You're going to tell me which gift

823
00:41:21,840 --> 00:41:24,799
Speaker 3: you're gonna give which person and why? Okay, does that

824
00:41:24,840 --> 00:41:25,520
Speaker 3: make any sense?

825
00:41:25,600 --> 00:41:26,320
Speaker 4: Yes? It does.

826
00:41:27,160 --> 00:41:30,280
Speaker 3: Okay, these are the gifts you'll be giving today. Number

827
00:41:30,280 --> 00:41:34,400
Speaker 3: one is a travel pillow, a nice little you know,

828
00:41:34,680 --> 00:41:36,960
Speaker 3: one of those things that wraps around your neck. Possibly.

829
00:41:38,200 --> 00:41:42,240
Speaker 3: Number two is less conventional. It's a hotel ice machine,

830
00:41:42,239 --> 00:41:44,960
Speaker 3: a full size hotel ice machine. We would all love

831
00:41:45,000 --> 00:41:48,440
Speaker 3: to have my garage. Oh, I would be out there

832
00:41:48,440 --> 00:41:52,600
Speaker 3: every night with my little pucket truly. And finally, this

833
00:41:52,680 --> 00:41:54,840
Speaker 3: one's more of an experience or I don't even know

834
00:41:54,840 --> 00:41:57,640
Speaker 3: if that it's an experience. It's the courage to change.

835
00:41:58,840 --> 00:42:01,239
Speaker 3: So you'll be giving them the courage to change. And

836
00:42:01,920 --> 00:42:04,200
Speaker 3: the people you're going to be giving them to are.

837
00:42:05,719 --> 00:42:09,080
Speaker 3: Number one is Jason Momoa. We all love Jason Momoa.

838
00:42:09,320 --> 00:42:10,160
Speaker 4: Yeah.

839
00:42:10,440 --> 00:42:13,880
Speaker 3: Number two is kind of a team Jake and Maggie

840
00:42:13,960 --> 00:42:18,120
Speaker 3: Chillenhall brother sister team, both fine actors in their own right.

841
00:42:18,920 --> 00:42:21,040
Speaker 3: And finally, Diane Keaton.

842
00:42:21,960 --> 00:42:26,759
Speaker 5: Okay, oh all right, I think if I'm gonna I'm

843
00:42:26,800 --> 00:42:31,560
Speaker 5: gonna give Diane Keaton that neck below because I think

844
00:42:31,600 --> 00:42:35,600
Speaker 5: I think you appreciate the most, you know, the neck

845
00:42:35,640 --> 00:42:37,680
Speaker 5: that needs the most protecting. Out of all four of

846
00:42:37,680 --> 00:42:40,480
Speaker 5: these people, if you include the.

847
00:42:39,960 --> 00:42:42,360
Speaker 3: The thank you for acknowledging that they're for. You know,

848
00:42:43,239 --> 00:42:45,360
Speaker 3: Jake and Maggie are separate people.

849
00:42:45,440 --> 00:42:49,719
Speaker 5: There are separate people. They are cerferent people. Think I

850
00:42:49,800 --> 00:42:51,600
Speaker 5: think she would also be the onening she got that,

851
00:42:51,680 --> 00:42:57,120
Speaker 5: she'd be like, oh, thank you, you know, also like

852
00:42:57,880 --> 00:43:00,840
Speaker 5: the most the easiest liftable gift out of the three.

853
00:43:01,520 --> 00:43:04,959
Speaker 3: Uh, what are you saying about Diane's strength? I feel

854
00:43:04,960 --> 00:43:09,520
Speaker 3: like she's got excellent upper body strength. She has pythons, Juel.

855
00:43:09,680 --> 00:43:12,879
Speaker 3: She there for looks and not for for for use.

856
00:43:13,960 --> 00:43:15,320
Speaker 2: She's kind of got show muscles.

857
00:43:15,320 --> 00:43:18,640
Speaker 4: He's got show muscles. It's all full air, like, oh, Cogan.

858
00:43:20,320 --> 00:43:23,040
Speaker 2: Okay, that's that feels like a nice gift for Diane.

859
00:43:23,120 --> 00:43:23,319
Speaker 4: Yeah.

860
00:43:23,320 --> 00:43:25,839
Speaker 3: I feel like she's probably like on planes and it's

861
00:43:25,880 --> 00:43:28,920
Speaker 3: like I need to rest. I can't just bunch up

862
00:43:28,960 --> 00:43:31,240
Speaker 3: the blanket next to my head. I need a pillow.

863
00:43:31,560 --> 00:43:34,120
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think I think. I think that's I think

864
00:43:34,200 --> 00:43:37,960
Speaker 4: that's the gift for her. Now the other one, it's hard.

865
00:43:38,000 --> 00:43:40,000
Speaker 4: It's hard because like you think that I'm just.

866
00:43:39,920 --> 00:43:44,320
Speaker 5: Gonna give MoMA the ice machine because you're like, oh,

867
00:43:44,360 --> 00:43:47,480
Speaker 5: my man's party man. He's probably always needing ice. He's

868
00:43:47,480 --> 00:43:49,040
Speaker 5: probably always needing ice.

869
00:43:49,360 --> 00:43:54,200
Speaker 7: Just crunching, just crunching, just put it in drinks, chewing

870
00:43:54,280 --> 00:43:57,680
Speaker 7: on it just as a habit, just you know, cooling

871
00:43:57,719 --> 00:43:59,720
Speaker 7: off his muscles after a workout.

872
00:44:01,040 --> 00:44:03,600
Speaker 5: I am convincing myself. Actually now I'm like, maybe he

873
00:44:03,600 --> 00:44:04,800
Speaker 5: should have that ice machine.

874
00:44:05,920 --> 00:44:08,440
Speaker 2: He played an excellent pitch made a great pitch.

875
00:44:08,960 --> 00:44:12,839
Speaker 5: But I'm going to say that I'm going to give

876
00:44:12,880 --> 00:44:17,520
Speaker 5: him the what's the phrase exactly, the courage to courage

877
00:44:17,560 --> 00:44:20,680
Speaker 5: to change, because I'll tell you what happened to mister

878
00:44:20,719 --> 00:44:22,600
Speaker 5: memo there to him a superhero.

879
00:44:22,719 --> 00:44:28,319
Speaker 4: He's a superhero. Well, became famous for super abs and

880
00:44:28,360 --> 00:44:31,200
Speaker 4: then did a vacation where he didn't have abs, and

881
00:44:31,320 --> 00:44:32,160
Speaker 4: they lit him up.

882
00:44:32,480 --> 00:44:35,440
Speaker 3: They were like they did, They're like, look, he's fat.

883
00:44:35,600 --> 00:44:39,000
Speaker 5: He's like no, he has like regular person abs and

884
00:44:39,040 --> 00:44:41,799
Speaker 5: not even above like well above average he has I'm

885
00:44:41,880 --> 00:44:46,240
Speaker 5: sure strong man like got that on vacation. He's on vacation,

886
00:44:46,880 --> 00:44:51,680
Speaker 5: like I simply I was flabberg acid. So I'm going

887
00:44:51,760 --> 00:44:55,719
Speaker 5: to give him the courage to let himself get fat.

888
00:44:56,040 --> 00:44:58,439
Speaker 5: Go ahead, go ahead and't get fat.

889
00:44:59,239 --> 00:45:02,319
Speaker 3: I think that's fair, very that's very courteous of you.

890
00:45:02,440 --> 00:45:05,240
Speaker 3: I feel like he probably is under an immense amount

891
00:45:05,239 --> 00:45:08,720
Speaker 3: of pressure to just have rippling abs at all times.

892
00:45:08,600 --> 00:45:09,839
Speaker 4: You know, Like.

893
00:45:11,280 --> 00:45:15,759
Speaker 8: I wonder how much he can, like if you go

894
00:45:16,080 --> 00:45:18,359
Speaker 8: like like if you're talking about like, oh, I'm gonna

895
00:45:18,360 --> 00:45:20,360
Speaker 8: have a donut, because he had to like plan that

896
00:45:21,160 --> 00:45:23,600
Speaker 8: four months in advance, three weeks.

897
00:45:24,120 --> 00:45:27,480
Speaker 3: A nightmare, A nightmare, I like to do.

898
00:45:27,360 --> 00:45:29,440
Speaker 5: What I want to do when I want to do it.

899
00:45:30,880 --> 00:45:33,919
Speaker 5: I'm going to give him the courage to do the same.

900
00:45:36,200 --> 00:45:40,200
Speaker 5: And then I'm assuming that as siblings, a sibling pair,

901
00:45:41,920 --> 00:45:45,000
Speaker 5: ice has to to you know, you can't you're using

902
00:45:45,000 --> 00:45:47,759
Speaker 5: more than one person's share of ice in a home.

903
00:45:48,960 --> 00:45:52,840
Speaker 5: You're gonna this way, there's there may be no sibling

904
00:45:52,880 --> 00:45:55,520
Speaker 5: fights over the quantity of ice in the home.

905
00:45:57,760 --> 00:46:00,200
Speaker 4: And I'm assuming they share one big house with all

906
00:46:00,239 --> 00:46:02,120
Speaker 4: the I assume.

907
00:46:01,880 --> 00:46:05,719
Speaker 3: They have bunk beds. Yeah, they probably have like double birthdays. Yeah,

908
00:46:06,120 --> 00:46:09,919
Speaker 3: I think so that makes sense. Yeah, I think they're

909
00:46:10,000 --> 00:46:12,080
Speaker 3: consolated each other's throats about the ice.

910
00:46:12,920 --> 00:46:13,640
Speaker 4: It has to be.

911
00:46:13,680 --> 00:46:15,560
Speaker 5: There's no I mean, in my mind, I try and

912
00:46:15,600 --> 00:46:17,440
Speaker 5: close my eyes and like imagine them like living in

913
00:46:17,480 --> 00:46:21,360
Speaker 5: a peaceful ice world, and they just I can't do it.

914
00:46:21,360 --> 00:46:24,360
Speaker 5: It doesn't exist there. So, like I think I'm going

915
00:46:24,400 --> 00:46:27,560
Speaker 5: to solve that problem for them. Give them machine constantly

916
00:46:27,800 --> 00:46:29,640
Speaker 5: and then like even if they need to like put

917
00:46:29,640 --> 00:46:31,480
Speaker 5: a schedule up on like who has access to the eyes

918
00:46:31,560 --> 00:46:33,799
Speaker 5: machine at what point you know, even if it's like

919
00:46:33,800 --> 00:46:36,719
Speaker 5: by the five minutes, like they you take you know,

920
00:46:36,840 --> 00:46:40,839
Speaker 5: twelve to five and then ten to fifteen, and then

921
00:46:41,160 --> 00:46:44,839
Speaker 5: twenty to twenty five, whatever that may. You know, I'll

922
00:46:44,840 --> 00:46:47,120
Speaker 5: have a schedule out there. I think I'll have solved

923
00:46:47,160 --> 00:46:48,440
Speaker 5: a lot of their problems with that.

924
00:46:49,200 --> 00:46:50,239
Speaker 2: I feel like that's great.

925
00:46:50,280 --> 00:46:51,799
Speaker 3: If it's one of those ones that the flap, you

926
00:46:51,800 --> 00:46:53,919
Speaker 3: could have like a little signing sheet on the ice

927
00:46:53,960 --> 00:46:57,000
Speaker 3: machine exactly. Jake signed in for a glass of ice

928
00:46:57,040 --> 00:47:00,440
Speaker 3: at eleven forty five pm, you signed out at eleven

929
00:47:01,280 --> 00:47:02,440
Speaker 3: pm exactly.

930
00:47:02,640 --> 00:47:07,600
Speaker 5: And here's the thing. Secretly, there's enough ice that they

931
00:47:07,640 --> 00:47:09,840
Speaker 5: don't have to do that. But it's about respect of

932
00:47:09,880 --> 00:47:15,080
Speaker 5: each other's time. It's about building good habits.

933
00:47:15,880 --> 00:47:18,439
Speaker 3: You've got to start them young. You have to start

934
00:47:18,480 --> 00:47:22,360
Speaker 3: them young. I thought that was excellently played. You really

935
00:47:22,480 --> 00:47:25,920
Speaker 3: looked into each of these people's wants and needs.

936
00:47:26,280 --> 00:47:29,680
Speaker 2: And kind of just nailed it. I appreciate that.

937
00:47:29,840 --> 00:47:30,640
Speaker 4: Thank you very much.

938
00:47:31,640 --> 00:47:34,040
Speaker 3: Sam. This is the final segment of the podcast. It's

939
00:47:34,040 --> 00:47:36,640
Speaker 3: called I Said No Emails. People right into I Said

940
00:47:36,640 --> 00:47:39,719
Speaker 3: No Gifts at gmail dot com with a whole variety

941
00:47:39,719 --> 00:47:44,600
Speaker 3: of questions about gifts, about social situations, about their general problems.

942
00:47:45,120 --> 00:47:47,920
Speaker 3: They drag me into it, the guests gets dragged into it,

943
00:47:48,239 --> 00:47:51,040
Speaker 3: and then we solve the problem. Perfectly every time. I mean,

944
00:47:51,080 --> 00:47:53,600
Speaker 3: we haven't had a single complaint yet, so it's you know,

945
00:47:53,920 --> 00:47:56,960
Speaker 3: we're batting. Is it a batting a thousand? Does that

946
00:47:57,000 --> 00:48:00,320
Speaker 3: make sense? Yeah, I'm not the person who should be

947
00:48:00,360 --> 00:48:02,360
Speaker 3: saying batting a thousand, but that's fine. I'm going to

948
00:48:02,400 --> 00:48:05,320
Speaker 3: own it. This is the question we're going to answer today,

949
00:48:05,440 --> 00:48:08,960
Speaker 3: It says deer bridger and tolerant guest. I am writing

950
00:48:08,960 --> 00:48:10,920
Speaker 3: to ask for your help as I prepare for the

951
00:48:11,000 --> 00:48:13,880
Speaker 3: upcoming holiday season. Last year, I gave my boss a

952
00:48:13,880 --> 00:48:16,680
Speaker 3: gift for the holidays, even though I don't usually gift

953
00:48:16,840 --> 00:48:19,680
Speaker 3: up to the boss. It had been an especially tough year.

954
00:48:19,719 --> 00:48:22,800
Speaker 3: Of course, we are two physicians who practiced geriatric medicine.

955
00:48:22,800 --> 00:48:25,640
Speaker 3: Who ah, so I decided to get her a few things.

956
00:48:26,160 --> 00:48:28,600
Speaker 3: Shortly after she unwrapped the gift for me, she said

957
00:48:28,680 --> 00:48:33,160
Speaker 3: thank you. I then proceeded to rewrap and redistribute the

958
00:48:33,200 --> 00:48:36,400
Speaker 3: items to other staff in our clinic. Before my very eyes,

959
00:48:36,920 --> 00:48:39,239
Speaker 3: she kept none of the gifts for herself. They were

960
00:48:39,280 --> 00:48:43,279
Speaker 3: just little fun things like chocolates, coffee, beans, and mug soap, candle, etc.

961
00:48:43,840 --> 00:48:46,520
Speaker 3: And honestly, I laughed to myself after my initial shock

962
00:48:46,840 --> 00:48:49,160
Speaker 3: because I thought it was so brazen and hilarious.

963
00:48:49,239 --> 00:48:49,640
Speaker 2: I don't know.

964
00:48:49,680 --> 00:48:52,200
Speaker 3: Maybe I was asking for it, given that I gave

965
00:48:52,320 --> 00:48:55,640
Speaker 3: her was an all too tempting collection of small items

966
00:48:55,640 --> 00:49:00,319
Speaker 3: that make handy individual office gifts. My question is what

967
00:49:00,520 --> 00:49:07,280
Speaker 3: is my next move for this year? Thanks for your help, Jenny. Okay, Jenny, Jenny,

968
00:49:07,280 --> 00:49:16,200
Speaker 3: this situation is bonkers. I can't imagine what this but

969
00:49:16,320 --> 00:49:18,080
Speaker 3: this is the first thing I'm gonna say, Jenny, is

970
00:49:18,120 --> 00:49:22,560
Speaker 3: what's your problem with a little holiday generosity? Yeah, Jenny,

971
00:49:23,160 --> 00:49:27,799
Speaker 3: you watched this selfless boss give away all of these

972
00:49:27,840 --> 00:49:30,680
Speaker 3: beautiful gifts. She could have, of course, thrown those in

973
00:49:30,680 --> 00:49:32,319
Speaker 3: the back of her car and taken them home and

974
00:49:32,840 --> 00:49:35,759
Speaker 3: you know, got into those chocolates and had a little mug,

975
00:49:35,800 --> 00:49:37,600
Speaker 3: but instead she gave them to your coworkers.

976
00:49:37,719 --> 00:49:39,839
Speaker 2: It sounds like you're angry that she didn't give you one.

977
00:49:40,239 --> 00:49:41,920
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's what it would seem like.

978
00:49:42,280 --> 00:49:44,960
Speaker 3: And it's just so awful to hear this thing around

979
00:49:44,960 --> 00:49:49,239
Speaker 3: the holidays is my problem. It's like, Jenny, when you

980
00:49:49,280 --> 00:49:52,000
Speaker 3: give up a gift, it's no longer yours to do

981
00:49:52,040 --> 00:49:52,799
Speaker 3: what you want with.

982
00:49:53,560 --> 00:49:55,400
Speaker 2: You're no longer in control. It sounds like you're a

983
00:49:55,440 --> 00:49:56,160
Speaker 2: control freak.

984
00:49:56,520 --> 00:49:58,960
Speaker 5: That's gonna say it sounds like Jenny is a control freak,

985
00:49:59,080 --> 00:50:02,040
Speaker 5: like once to micro manage and play up a tear

986
00:50:02,760 --> 00:50:06,000
Speaker 5: to the entire office. And I think that's what you

987
00:50:06,160 --> 00:50:07,560
Speaker 5: most upset about.

988
00:50:08,000 --> 00:50:11,680
Speaker 3: And I mean, this is your boss, Jenny. Are you

989
00:50:11,719 --> 00:50:15,160
Speaker 3: doing this in the normal workday, trying to control the boss.

990
00:50:15,320 --> 00:50:17,279
Speaker 3: You might be hated around the office, you might be

991
00:50:17,280 --> 00:50:20,880
Speaker 3: on the chopping block. I mean you should just be

992
00:50:20,960 --> 00:50:22,879
Speaker 3: thanking God that you're even still there.

993
00:50:23,280 --> 00:50:25,319
Speaker 4: Yeah, exactly. Maybe that's what the indicator was too.

994
00:50:25,360 --> 00:50:28,759
Speaker 5: Like you gave the gift, it was immediately redistributed, as in,

995
00:50:29,520 --> 00:50:32,920
Speaker 5: I can't accept the gift from you because I know

996
00:50:32,960 --> 00:50:33,560
Speaker 5: what's coming.

997
00:50:34,200 --> 00:50:37,200
Speaker 3: I feel so guilty taking all these things knowing I'm

998
00:50:37,280 --> 00:50:41,479
Speaker 3: going to fire you the day before Christmas, send you home,

999
00:50:41,920 --> 00:50:44,920
Speaker 3: and you know, suddenly the house is cold, and all

1000
00:50:44,960 --> 00:50:46,960
Speaker 3: of those things this person didn't want to.

1001
00:50:46,960 --> 00:50:48,560
Speaker 4: Be super chocolate will taste bitter.

1002
00:50:49,520 --> 00:50:54,000
Speaker 3: Right, all that aside, What is your move for this year?

1003
00:50:54,080 --> 00:50:54,360
Speaker 2: Jenny?

1004
00:50:54,360 --> 00:50:56,040
Speaker 3: If you if you don't want to deal with this problem,

1005
00:50:56,120 --> 00:50:57,960
Speaker 3: you gave all these tiny little gifts. I think you've

1006
00:50:58,000 --> 00:51:00,200
Speaker 3: already answered it. You have to give your boss the

1007
00:51:00,239 --> 00:51:06,000
Speaker 3: heaviest possible gift with your boss's face on it. M Yeah,

1008
00:51:06,080 --> 00:51:08,719
Speaker 3: what are we talking about here, Like, what's a you know,

1009
00:51:08,760 --> 00:51:11,520
Speaker 3: a water barrel with the boss's name on it?

1010
00:51:11,840 --> 00:51:14,880
Speaker 4: Yeah, just a big rock, a big.

1011
00:51:14,680 --> 00:51:19,320
Speaker 3: Boulder, you know, kind of a Mount Rushmore style carving

1012
00:51:19,320 --> 00:51:23,360
Speaker 3: of the boss's face exactly. These are the obvious choices.

1013
00:51:23,440 --> 00:51:25,600
Speaker 3: Any good gift giver knows.

1014
00:51:25,480 --> 00:51:26,799
Speaker 4: Yeah, those things to shoot off the hip.

1015
00:51:26,880 --> 00:51:31,480
Speaker 5: Just any gift giver would be like, oh, boulder, water barrel,

1016
00:51:31,840 --> 00:51:37,400
Speaker 5: just automatic. I would say, like robot with the face

1017
00:51:37,440 --> 00:51:41,440
Speaker 5: of your boss. But then you're just helping that boss

1018
00:51:41,480 --> 00:51:43,319
Speaker 5: give away more gifts. I think you can program that

1019
00:51:43,440 --> 00:51:47,040
Speaker 5: robot to be more generous because this this boss seems

1020
00:51:47,040 --> 00:51:49,520
Speaker 5: like the greatest person. It may your boss may be

1021
00:51:49,600 --> 00:51:52,840
Speaker 5: Santa Claus. Oh interesting, so interesting.

1022
00:51:52,920 --> 00:51:56,520
Speaker 3: Santa Clause he works at a geriatric medical center because.

1023
00:51:56,480 --> 00:51:59,279
Speaker 5: He's so generous that when he's not making toys, he's like,

1024
00:51:59,360 --> 00:52:03,719
Speaker 5: I'm a dog. If he's a doctor, of course, he's

1025
00:52:03,719 --> 00:52:06,480
Speaker 5: been around forever, he's time to get a degree.

1026
00:52:07,440 --> 00:52:10,759
Speaker 3: They never talk about Santa's just like, never mentioned that

1027
00:52:10,840 --> 00:52:13,560
Speaker 3: he probably has read every book he must have, right,

1028
00:52:13,840 --> 00:52:17,120
Speaker 3: he hasn't. It's a groundhog Day type thing. He should

1029
00:52:17,280 --> 00:52:18,920
Speaker 3: he's he should be good at everything.

1030
00:52:19,280 --> 00:52:20,760
Speaker 4: Yeah, like he knows every market.

1031
00:52:21,120 --> 00:52:25,000
Speaker 3: He isn't he's wasted eternity yea, truly, his body is

1032
00:52:25,040 --> 00:52:28,880
Speaker 3: a prison and it's inescapable, and he just lives with

1033
00:52:28,960 --> 00:52:31,480
Speaker 3: a tiny reindeer and missus Claus.

1034
00:52:31,520 --> 00:52:33,200
Speaker 5: Missus Claus, who I think is fictional. I think they

1035
00:52:33,320 --> 00:52:34,960
Speaker 5: may make it seem nice.

1036
00:52:36,320 --> 00:52:39,319
Speaker 3: I think, are we saying that Santa's gay and he

1037
00:52:39,320 --> 00:52:41,000
Speaker 3: doesn't want to tell his parents, so he's made up

1038
00:52:41,040 --> 00:52:48,520
Speaker 3: this fictional I think so this second beard, it all

1039
00:52:48,560 --> 00:52:53,239
Speaker 3: makes perfect sense. I mean, well, wow, we've learned a

1040
00:52:53,280 --> 00:52:57,680
Speaker 3: lot here. He works at a geriatric center. He is

1041
00:52:57,760 --> 00:53:00,960
Speaker 3: deeply closeted in the North Pole. No one knows that

1042
00:53:01,000 --> 00:53:07,880
Speaker 3: Santa is probably dating as trainer, and missus Claus doesn't exist,

1043
00:53:08,800 --> 00:53:11,160
Speaker 3: and not in a like do you believe in Christmas way,

1044
00:53:11,200 --> 00:53:14,040
Speaker 3: but just in kind of a lying you know.

1045
00:53:14,400 --> 00:53:17,960
Speaker 5: Exactly, Like I'm just like, look at the clues, you

1046
00:53:18,040 --> 00:53:20,440
Speaker 5: know what I mean, and like just a city right

1047
00:53:20,440 --> 00:53:21,399
Speaker 5: in front of this whole time.

1048
00:53:22,160 --> 00:53:23,320
Speaker 4: Don't let him lie.

1049
00:53:23,160 --> 00:53:25,879
Speaker 2: To you, stop letting Santa light.

1050
00:53:28,200 --> 00:53:32,200
Speaker 3: Okay, Well, Jenny, look, you got plenty of advice here,

1051
00:53:32,360 --> 00:53:34,200
Speaker 3: and if you can't take some of that into your life,

1052
00:53:34,360 --> 00:53:39,320
Speaker 3: you should be fired, and it should be on Christmas Day. Yeah,

1053
00:53:39,440 --> 00:53:41,200
Speaker 3: like right before you open the gifts in front of

1054
00:53:41,239 --> 00:53:43,880
Speaker 3: the family. Sudden you get a call you lost your job.

1055
00:53:44,000 --> 00:53:47,760
Speaker 3: Now you're crying, you can't go on. The holiday is ruined.

1056
00:53:47,800 --> 00:53:50,880
Speaker 3: It is a Christmas to remember, but maybe not in

1057
00:53:50,920 --> 00:53:54,919
Speaker 3: the way you would want it to. Yeah, Sam, thank

1058
00:53:54,960 --> 00:53:57,160
Speaker 3: you for helping me answer this question. Thank you for

1059
00:53:57,200 --> 00:53:59,680
Speaker 3: this Batman action figure. I have a shelf behind me

1060
00:53:59,760 --> 00:54:05,560
Speaker 3: that's almost empty. My office is slowly we're putting things up,

1061
00:54:05,600 --> 00:54:07,080
Speaker 3: and Batman's going to go right up there.

1062
00:54:07,440 --> 00:54:09,080
Speaker 4: Oh it makes I'm very excited.

1063
00:54:09,719 --> 00:54:13,880
Speaker 3: This has just been a wonderful time and I'm excited

1064
00:54:13,880 --> 00:54:15,799
Speaker 3: to move forward with Maybe this will start my own

1065
00:54:15,840 --> 00:54:19,480
Speaker 3: action figure collection. You never know, and then we're competing

1066
00:54:20,440 --> 00:54:23,640
Speaker 3: trying to outbit each other on rare figures. You'll be

1067
00:54:23,680 --> 00:54:27,560
Speaker 3: an enemy I already am.

1068
00:54:27,960 --> 00:54:29,600
Speaker 4: It's true.

1069
00:54:30,880 --> 00:54:35,200
Speaker 3: Well, thank you very much, and listener. As I said

1070
00:54:35,200 --> 00:54:37,280
Speaker 3: at the beginning of the podcast, you've been in my home.

1071
00:54:37,360 --> 00:54:40,799
Speaker 3: It's been an hour or so. I feel like that's

1072
00:54:40,960 --> 00:54:44,200
Speaker 3: enough time for us to spend together this week. Maybe

1073
00:54:44,200 --> 00:54:46,520
Speaker 3: you can come back around next week if we're both

1074
00:54:46,760 --> 00:54:50,799
Speaker 3: feeling it. If not, that's okay. Go out and do

1075
00:54:50,880 --> 00:54:52,759
Speaker 3: something else. Now, do whatever you want.

1076
00:54:52,880 --> 00:54:53,879
Speaker 2: I'll talk to you soon.

1077
00:54:54,280 --> 00:55:01,920
Speaker 3: I love you, goodbye, I said, No Gifts is an

1078
00:55:01,960 --> 00:55:06,799
Speaker 3: exactly right production. It's produced and engineered by our dear

1079
00:55:06,880 --> 00:55:10,719
Speaker 3: friend Annalise Nelson, and the theme song is by miracle

1080
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Speaker 3: worker Amy Mann. You must follow the show on Instagram

1081
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Speaker 3: at I said No Gifts. That's where you're going to

1082
00:55:18,640 --> 00:55:21,520
Speaker 3: see pictures of all these wonderful gifts I'm getting.

1083
00:55:21,800 --> 00:55:23,200
Speaker 2: You have to see the gifts.

1084
00:55:23,960 --> 00:55:28,440
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1085
00:55:28,560 --> 00:55:31,680
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1086
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1087
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Speaker 1: Well I invit, did you hear? Funa man myself perfectly clear.

1090
00:55:52,080 --> 00:55:57,319
Speaker 1: When you're a guest to Merha, you gotta come to

1091
00:55:57,480 --> 00:56:03,920
Speaker 1: me empty. And I said, no, guest, your presence is

1092
00:56:04,239 --> 00:56:10,600
Speaker 1: present enough. I already had too much stuff, So how

1093
00:56:10,680 --> 00:56:13,320
Speaker 1: do you dare to surbey me