00:00:08 Speaker 1: Hell, I invited you here, thought I made myself perfectly clear. When you're a guest to my home, you gotta come to me empty. And I said, no guests, your presences, presents, and I'm already had too much stuff. So how do you dare to surbey me? 00:00:47 Speaker 2: Welcome to? 00:00:48 Speaker 3: I said, no gift sign bricherd Winecker. I'm happy you're here. 00:00:53 Speaker 1: You know. 00:00:54 Speaker 3: Look, this podcast is kind of my home and I'm welcoming you in and so for the next hours. So I just want you to settle down, settle in, and enjoy yourself. And then you will have to do your own thing. But for now you're in my control, and you're going to enjoy yourself, I think, because today's guest is absolutely fantastic. Who doesn't love today's guest. It's Sam Richardson. Sam. 00:01:21 Speaker 2: Welcome to, I said, no gifts. 00:01:23 Speaker 4: Oh Bridget, thank you for having me. 00:01:25 Speaker 3: It's so nice to see you. It looks like you're not in Los Angeles. If I'm going to guess, it's a good guess. 00:01:31 Speaker 4: It's a good guess. 00:01:33 Speaker 3: So you're not experiencing our rain, our one day of rain of the year. 00:01:37 Speaker 4: I'm not. 00:01:38 Speaker 5: No, I just left yesterday. I'm in Providence, Rhode Island. 00:01:43 Speaker 2: Oh does this have to do with hocus Pocus? 00:01:46 Speaker 4: It does? 00:01:47 Speaker 3: Yeah, here's that's very exciting. You're going to be in the new hocus Pocus movie written by our mutual friend Jendy Angelo. Yes, yes, former East of the podcast. No she you know, we had to have her on a solid year before you. 00:02:04 Speaker 4: Yeah, just to space it out. Fair enough, fair enough. 00:02:10 Speaker 3: Have you been to Rhode Island before? 00:02:12 Speaker 5: Yes, but I was in the touring company for Second City, So I've been to every state except for Alaska. 00:02:20 Speaker 2: Wow. Yeah, No, do you have any interest in going to Alaska? 00:02:25 Speaker 4: Uh? 00:02:25 Speaker 2: Not really but okay, as listeners, my. 00:02:29 Speaker 4: Apologies, that's try. 00:02:31 Speaker 5: I have I hear that the vampires can stay up like for days at a time out there if need be, So I have no interest. 00:02:41 Speaker 3: What's the scene in Rhode Island right now? I feel like it's got to be beautiful? 00:02:45 Speaker 4: It really is. It is my first, like literal my first day. 00:02:47 Speaker 5: I got here at like two in the morning yesterday, Like I landed and had like poon to Boston, had to drive a rental car here. We've got here two in the morning. So today was like my first like full day and it's beautiful. It's like very all or even I feel they don't call it fall. It's like autumn, you know at. 00:03:04 Speaker 3: All, you know, to have the ability to call a scene autumn, I mean that that's a rare, rare thing. 00:03:12 Speaker 4: Yeah, truly. 00:03:13 Speaker 5: And it's like a little overcast and like so nice, and it's like a walking down. 00:03:17 Speaker 4: I'm wearing a. 00:03:18 Speaker 5: Sweater and a jacket, which I love. I'm from Michigan, so i love sweater weather and jackets. So I'm getting that fixed here. 00:03:27 Speaker 3: That's very it seems very witchy. It sounds like what you're describing as perfect for a hocus Pocus setting. 00:03:33 Speaker 4: Yeah. One might say. 00:03:34 Speaker 2: You're not playing a witch, are you? Can you say anything? 00:03:37 Speaker 5: I can't say anything. I could be playing a witch. I could be playing a broom. 00:03:44 Speaker 3: If you're not playing a broom, I will burn down Disney. 00:03:49 Speaker 4: All right, well I might have given a spoiler. 00:03:53 Speaker 2: I will run Jendangelo out of the business. 00:03:57 Speaker 3: Sam Richardson has to play a broom, whether in this movie or maybe the third movie, maybe that's the completion of the trilogy. 00:04:04 Speaker 4: Exactly, or you know, Sorcers Apprentice the movie. 00:04:08 Speaker 2: Right, that's not a bad idea. 00:04:09 Speaker 3: I feel like we're due for a live action version of that where you just play a broom. 00:04:15 Speaker 5: Yeah exactly, but like a spunky broom. 00:04:21 Speaker 2: Okay, So how long are you in Rhode Island for till the holidays? 00:04:25 Speaker 4: Still like just before the holidays? 00:04:26 Speaker 3: Oh boy? And then are you going back to Michigan orre you coming back to Los Angeles? 00:04:30 Speaker 4: Coming back to Los Angeles? 00:04:32 Speaker 2: Okay, you need a little warmth. 00:04:35 Speaker 5: Yeah, you know, I feel like I'll be done by then, and I'd just be like it was a fun more vacation in the cold. 00:04:44 Speaker 3: You know. 00:04:44 Speaker 5: I grew up between between Detroit and Ghana, and so like Michigan winters, you know, like nothing in contusion. 00:04:52 Speaker 4: I was like, I'm fine. So I moved from Detroit to Chicago for a while. I lived in. 00:04:56 Speaker 5: Chicagol like four years, did the touring company in the main stage and second and so like really experienced harsh Chicago cold and so like, I moved from Chicago in twenty twelve, which is what was called called it the uh polar vortex. Oh right, of course, everything like froze over. It was discussing cold, and so I moved to La I was like, you know I'm done. I'm move in LA and so now I can't handle the cold anymore, which I never thought would happened to me. But it you acclimate, you acclimate exactly. My blood is has no desire for cold anymore. 00:05:34 Speaker 3: Right, I grew up in Utah and the winters were cold, and then I lived in New York and the winters are horrible. I mean it's like I moved to New York and thought, oh, I'll be able to handle this and absolutely was not able to. 00:05:48 Speaker 4: No. 00:05:48 Speaker 3: I mean I think a lot of it had to do with how wet your feet are at almost all times. 00:05:53 Speaker 5: Yes, it's just all puddle and you're wearing like regular clothes. You're not like wearing Utah clothes in New York. 00:05:59 Speaker 2: I'm not in my Utah in a four many more exactly. 00:06:02 Speaker 3: You really have to gear up to go out in a New York winter, and it's it doesn't do anything. 00:06:08 Speaker 2: You're still miserable. 00:06:09 Speaker 3: Yeah, But now that I've been in LA for a decade or so, I feel so weak. At all times. It was like sixty eight degrees today it rained, and so I'm now in a sweatshirt. I've been also wearing a jacket around the house. It's difficult. The body falls into some insane patterns, it really does. 00:06:34 Speaker 5: But I you know, I love fall clothes, and I love sweaters and sweatshirts so much. I wear them in like eighty degree weather and like, so I'll carry handkerchief around the like mop my sweat because I'm like insisting that I have to wear the sweatshirt and like the sun is beating down on my black sweatshirt that I'm wearing in. 00:06:53 Speaker 2: But the shift is just another fun accessory. 00:06:55 Speaker 4: You get to have exactly one of my buckets right here. 00:06:59 Speaker 3: There you go. It's a monogram Oh my god, where did you get a Where did that come from? 00:07:06 Speaker 4: From the store? It was like a Christmas gift. 00:07:11 Speaker 3: Actually, that's a great gift, a monogrammed handkerchief. Yeah, how many of those do you have? 00:07:18 Speaker 5: Came in three in the pack. But I like, I buy handkerchiefs like I buy socks. So I have a bunch of them. 00:07:24 Speaker 2: I have just piles And do you just like throw them in the laundry. 00:07:28 Speaker 5: Yeah, just throw them in the laundry and fold them up and put them in the same draw as my socks. 00:07:33 Speaker 3: Wow, I've never you know, I've never really thought about the actual technical aspect of owning a handkerchief until this moment. And it is, you know, it is kind of the sock of the shirt pocket. I suppose it is. 00:07:48 Speaker 4: It really is. 00:07:49 Speaker 3: But yeah, I think we're all I'm in the same boat, constantly looking for an opportunity to put one more layer of clothing on. So from basically November till March in Los Angeles, you're getting out your jackets, you're getting out your sweaters, You're doing everything you can before it's just not an opportunity anymore, exactly that. 00:08:11 Speaker 2: What else has been going on? 00:08:12 Speaker 5: Uh, you know, just uh working from here to there, Uh, writing and pitching and and like sort of. I was home for a little bit, so it's like just trying to like make my home time as as useful and fun as I could, like hang out with my cats. 00:08:30 Speaker 3: Who oh you have cats? 00:08:31 Speaker 4: Have two cats? Yeah? 00:08:33 Speaker 3: What are they named? 00:08:34 Speaker 4: Gus and Conan? Oh? 00:08:37 Speaker 3: Those are great names for cats, girlfriend, what are they? 00:08:41 Speaker 5: Gus is a gray cat. He's gray with like I always forget the kind of cat that Gus is, Like the the breed, the breed. Yeah, I run a cat show. Okay, So you know, I know these terms in terms like breed and ears Paul, but he's like an older cat. He's like maybe fifteen years old, but like with like sweet and like the most incredibly like he's a he's I mean everybody says this about their cats, like oh, but he's like a person, but like. 00:09:18 Speaker 4: Just really is. 00:09:19 Speaker 5: Because because then Conan as a cat we adopted from outside. Conan, we used to just hang out out in the street. He used to come to the house just and then very slowly, like he just started to like make himself at home. So we would put like we put this like cat house outside for him, or like this this pet house, so we would go inside of it. It would be warm, so it was plugged. It was plug in, so when the animal goes inside it heats up the floor. So he like he love that thing. So we'd like feed him outside all the time, and he'd come into like my office and clots the door, and he'd come into the office and like hangout. He'd sit on the back of my office chair when I would work and just like kind of sit there and perr. So I was like, well, this is this cat's my guy, So like slowly he's moved in, but he's like this wild cat, you know, but he's like our cat. 00:10:07 Speaker 4: Uh. 00:10:07 Speaker 5: My girlfriend Nicole did research on him, uh and then called this like so I was like, I think he might be this kind of cat, called this breeder who like especialily in these cats, Like, oh yeah, does he do this? Does he do that? Does he do this? Look like this? Yeah, he's a Siberian forest cat. 00:10:22 Speaker 2: What. 00:10:22 Speaker 4: So he's like this very looks very. 00:10:28 Speaker 5: Uh like unique cat. Uh because Siberian forest cat and he mentioned those things. So it's like a like a four thousand dollars cat that lives in our house. It's like they just showed up to our house one day. 00:10:42 Speaker 3: Okay, so you've I mean, we now just have audio recording of you explaining how you've stole some rich person in Los Angeles's cat. 00:10:51 Speaker 4: Get me. 00:10:54 Speaker 3: Someone, some rich sad person out in Los Angeles is listening right now, and it's becoming very clear where their cat went. 00:11:02 Speaker 4: Well, I mean not entirely clear. You got to you got to find the house. 00:11:08 Speaker 2: How long have you had the cat? 00:11:10 Speaker 5: So he's been coming around the house for about two years? Okay, and then we finally like let him in uh maybe about seven months ago because we because we had to like do the chip thing. We had to like make sure he was chipped right, and he had he had a chip. But it led to nowhere. 00:11:27 Speaker 3: Oh what to the phantom zone. 00:11:32 Speaker 5: It's a phantom zone. But like apparently this breath hasn't shown up and only showed up in America like recently. So like it's like this, so it might be like some like mobs, some Russian mobster's cat. 00:11:45 Speaker 3: It was like, that's incredible. Cats are so odd. I mean basically, how you describe getting it into your house is kind of the way when people are like, oh, you can train a cat to. 00:11:57 Speaker 2: Use a toilet. 00:11:58 Speaker 3: It's kind of the same thing where it's like, well, you're slowly move the litter box into the toilet or something. Isn't that how that works? 00:12:04 Speaker 4: I think so? Right? 00:12:06 Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean I feel like cats always need to have fifty steps before they commit to something. 00:12:12 Speaker 4: Yes, exactly. 00:12:14 Speaker 3: I would love to train a cat to use a toilet. My great grandma did that with her cat, and that's as far as I've heard her cat would use the toilet. 00:12:23 Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean. 00:12:25 Speaker 2: That's the dream that's everyone every cat owner's dream. 00:12:28 Speaker 5: Oh that's all I want. That's all I want. Both of these cats like drag the little well Gus drags. 00:12:34 Speaker 4: Litter into the bed, which is a thing in the world to me. 00:12:37 Speaker 3: There's no better feeling than putting your face down on a pillow and feeling the grain of. 00:12:44 Speaker 4: Cat litter, A nice, just exfoliant. 00:12:50 Speaker 3: Oh, cat litter is the one great downfall of a cat. 00:12:54 Speaker 2: I would say that. 00:12:55 Speaker 4: I would say that is the grand equalizer. 00:13:00 Speaker 2: Are these the first cats in your life? 00:13:02 Speaker 4: Essentially? 00:13:03 Speaker 5: Yes, I had a cat when I was like a little kid. We had a cat named Figaro. But that cat ran away. I was like, I was like maybe six or seven years old. 00:13:11 Speaker 3: Okay, yeah, very interesting. Are there any other pets in your life? 00:13:16 Speaker 4: No? 00:13:17 Speaker 3: No, so, like, uh, two cats is a lot to deal with. 00:13:21 Speaker 5: It is they run the house, you know, so like all things that we do is like based on them. 00:13:28 Speaker 3: At one point we had two cats and our dog and it was absolute chaos. Look, Sam, I would love to keep talking about cats, but there's something else I'd love to discuss with you, something I have been kind of trying to avoid. I was hoping we could just get through this podcast without a fight, but I'm just gonna go for it. So, look, you agreed to be on this podcast about I don't know a month ago or so. I reached out. You were thrilled. You, you know, kind of called me immediately and said, I've been waiting for this. Yes, I've been wanting to be on the show. So to me, seemed like you had some idea of what the program was. I said, no gifts. Obviously we talked about Gendy Angelo, our mutual friend has been on the podcast. You're aware of the show and what happens here. So I was a little I was a little startled earlier when I opened the doors, you know, downpour, absolute downpour, and I looked down and there's an item waiting for me. I'm from Sam Richardson, and so now I've got it here. It's it's here in kind of this beautiful bag of kind of an underwater seascape, a sea turtle, a giant squid fish, this kind of thing. Sam, Now that I have you here on the show, we might as well, is this a it for me? 00:15:01 Speaker 4: It is? 00:15:01 Speaker 5: I know it's I know you said no gifts, but I just kind of felt compelled to, you know, get you a little something simply compelled. 00:15:09 Speaker 2: Yeah, couldn't resist. 00:15:11 Speaker 4: I couldn't resist my it's my upbringing. 00:15:14 Speaker 3: Okay, well that's fine. Look we you know, we all were brought up in our own ways, and uh it, you know we have these things that we can't can't control, and apparently you have this kind of compulsion to give. Should I open it here on the show? 00:15:33 Speaker 4: Maybe if it's I it's no trouble ie if you don't. 00:15:35 Speaker 3: Mind, well it is trouble and I do mind, but I'll do it anyway. So okay, I'm going to get in here, and immediately it's a box, so it's a I'm going to open this box. 00:15:53 Speaker 2: Let's see here. 00:15:53 Speaker 3: I've got my scissors, dangerous, never cut towards yourself. You could have just seen me stick a sis are right through my throat to watch you just bleed to death on zoom. What a grim end. 00:16:10 Speaker 4: Would be my options of women on what I could have done from here? Just words? 00:16:19 Speaker 2: Okay, here we go. Let's see what's going on. 00:16:26 Speaker 3: But okay, I've opened it up and it's immediately I mean, it's clear what it is. It's a bat Tech Batman, which is essentially a batman. About the size of a Barbie doll. 00:16:38 Speaker 4: Mm hm. 00:16:39 Speaker 3: Beyond that, I mean, it's obviously a choking hazard, but beyond that, I don't even know. Wow, what else to say. I need you to begin explaining almost immediately. 00:16:50 Speaker 5: Oh, well, it's a bat Tech action figures. Like there's a wide range of Batman action figures, but the bat Tech series. I can't remember the exact series member of the of this like toy line. 00:17:02 Speaker 2: But uh, looking, I'm not saying any information. 00:17:05 Speaker 5: Yeah, it's just like a it's it's one of the larger Batman action figures. 00:17:10 Speaker 4: I'm a big fan of action figures in general. 00:17:12 Speaker 5: In my house, which you can't see because I'm not at my house, but I have action figures all on my wall and funk CODs and all those sort of things. 00:17:21 Speaker 3: Really, yeah, but how long have you been collecting action figures since childhood? 00:17:27 Speaker 4: You know, since since the age went was appropriate. 00:17:29 Speaker 3: So since age three, after you were no longer going to choke, right, and you've you've held onto all of your action figures. 00:17:38 Speaker 5: So most of them. There's some action figures that you know. My parents were like, we're gonna put a bunch of things in storage, and then they forgot the storage unit and all those things went away. 00:17:50 Speaker 2: It's gonna be on Storage Wars. 00:17:51 Speaker 4: It's gonna be. It's gonna be on Storage Wars somewhere. 00:17:54 Speaker 5: And a bunch of action figures at like X Men action figures, and like the Blackbird Jet which was their their jet right, and a bunch of McDonald's toys like that I would always like to like, so one that I would play with and then one that I would put into they would keep in package and put away. So I had those from some like back into the early nineties. Right, all those gone, you know, they're. 00:18:22 Speaker 2: Just somewhere out in America, somewhere. 00:18:25 Speaker 4: Somewhere, maybe in Michigan. 00:18:28 Speaker 3: How did your parents lose the unit? 00:18:31 Speaker 4: They're very unorganized people, so they didn't lose it. 00:18:34 Speaker 5: I think they just forgot to pay it, you know, because I guess so they change a credit card, it doesn't want to make the charge, and so then you're like, hey, do we say the union. Oh no, oh no, no, no, that stuff is gone. 00:18:49 Speaker 3: I didn't realize that aspect of storage units, that is kind I bet it's kind of a scammy industry. 00:18:54 Speaker 4: Right, yes, very much. 00:18:56 Speaker 2: So they get your stuff. 00:18:58 Speaker 4: It's so weird. 00:19:00 Speaker 5: I just recently got a new storage unit and I was talking to the lady who like kind of runs a facility, and she said, it's very sad, and like you know that it's going to get worse because as people sort of start to lose their home properties, then storage units prices go up because people need them more, right, And she was like, I think it might quit because like this feels like so exploitative exploitive. 00:19:26 Speaker 3: That word will never come out of my mouth correctly. Like I uh just kind of told myself a few years ago, I'll never be able to say exploitive exploitative correctly. Everyone's gonna think I'm an idiot forever. 00:19:40 Speaker 4: Exactly. I've proven it. It's so explosive that you know. 00:19:48 Speaker 5: That, like you know, like you've seen and you see these people at the and they there and now they're like there's another rent they're paying, and like if they don't, there's stuff, all their memories, lazings are just gone. 00:20:00 Speaker 4: Yeah, it's really sad. 00:20:03 Speaker 3: So uh that's Batman, that really is well. I feel like somebody's got to crack down on these storage units. I mean the ones in Los Angeles are especially, They're like some tall scary buildings that almost look like that. 00:20:22 Speaker 2: I'm like, does the. 00:20:23 Speaker 3: Devil live there? They're just these kind of huge temple white temples that people are dumping their stuff into. 00:20:30 Speaker 5: Yeah, and sometimes it's like like the front is a goll glass so you can fight people like walking to their units in like it's. 00:20:38 Speaker 3: A scary thing. And now knowing that there's kind of this dark side to the industry, I thought, oh god, I don't even want to think about that. 00:20:46 Speaker 2: But we should talk about Batman. 00:20:48 Speaker 3: Well, let's talk more about action figures first, collecting X Men action figures X. 00:20:53 Speaker 4: Men action figures. 00:20:55 Speaker 5: You know, I had had h the Kenner line of Batman figures from my returns, and then Batman. I had either the real Ghostbusters figures a bunch of those. 00:21:09 Speaker 3: Of course. 00:21:10 Speaker 4: Yeah. 00:21:11 Speaker 3: I lost Peter Wenkmann action figure in the sandbox at probably age five and have never forgotten it. 00:21:19 Speaker 4: That's so upsetting, isn't it so upsetting? 00:21:22 Speaker 3: Just gone for good? 00:21:24 Speaker 4: I had the scared one where you squeeze his legs and his eyes would like pop. 00:21:28 Speaker 3: Out them and the mouth would drop. 00:21:29 Speaker 4: My mouth would drop, yep. 00:21:31 Speaker 2: Of course. 00:21:32 Speaker 4: Yeah. 00:21:35 Speaker 3: I was a big Ghostbusters and Ninja Turtles, Action Figure. 00:21:38 Speaker 5: Personal Ninja Turtles. Actually I had all the Ninja Turtles. I had Beabob and rock Steady. I had the Turtle Van. Oh, of course the sewer placed that. And then one year I was living in Ghana and my dad sent My dad was in Detroit and he sent me as a Christmas gift the Technodrome. 00:21:58 Speaker 3: What I never had the technic and the Technodrome that's a big product. 00:22:02 Speaker 5: To ship international, I had to have been very expensive, and it was probably I was. I would I would be bold to say, and even if it's not true, I'm going to just make the statement that I was the only kid in Africa to have the Technodrome, at least the. 00:22:17 Speaker 3: Third You're probably one of twelve children on the entire planet that owned the Technicus. That's like high level collecting as a kid. Yeah, that's you know, when you get you're getting those big set pieces. Those are rare items in the action figure community when you're in first grade. Wow, And do. 00:22:35 Speaker 2: You still own any of the Ninja Turtles. 00:22:37 Speaker 5: Nope, No, any of them. All this stuff is just gone. And I'm so mad about it. And so that thus all these things spark me to then collect them as an adult now that I'm like, I've got. 00:22:48 Speaker 4: Disposable income and i can do whatever I want. So I'm going to read buy my childhood. 00:22:56 Speaker 3: How much is like, you know, let's say a vintage Ninja Turtle go for these days. 00:23:01 Speaker 5: Like a properly like mint on card because like so now there's different lines, right, So there's anyca I think across Nika they do like a bunch of different series of Ninja Turtles. So they have like movie accurate ninja turtles, like from from the first Minturts movie and the second one. They have like different figures from those, and they have like the like the average acting figure size, and then they had the bigger ones like maybe like the twelve inch. 00:23:31 Speaker 4: Action figures as well. 00:23:33 Speaker 5: I think the twelve inches ones if you buy them at the time of sale, they're fifty dollars. The smaller ones are about maybe twenty twenty five, but like some of them, you can't get any more so than they shoot up in price like one hundred and fifty two hundred dollars. 00:23:48 Speaker 3: So are you getting on like eBay or is there like an action figure dot com? 00:23:52 Speaker 5: Well, there's big bad toy store plug O, which I get a lot of my figures from a lot of my Thundercat and my Ninja Turtles and stuff from these modern ones. There's uh you can get it from the Niko website. You just pre order through them and they'll just ship it out when they have the things in line super seven, which also makes a bunch of great toy lines. 00:24:17 Speaker 3: So I'm curious, like what is your process now, Like how do you determine which new action figure you're going to get? 00:24:24 Speaker 2: Do you have a list of them or is it like just random thought? 00:24:27 Speaker 4: It's kind of random thought. 00:24:28 Speaker 5: I feel like sometimes like my Instagram scroll will like kind of show me because it knows what I'm like looking for, So it's like, hey, do you know this this line is coming out soon? Or you know or or I'll kind of like, uh, like all the a lot of the websites, like the Big Bad Toy Store website will have like coming soon pre orders and it'll show like all the stuff that's coming. 00:24:51 Speaker 4: And then right sort. 00:24:52 Speaker 5: Of blogs and uh Reddit, we'll talk about like things that are starting new lines. 00:24:58 Speaker 3: Do you have any action figure that's eluded you that? What's your white whale? 00:25:04 Speaker 5: Let's see a white whale? Of mine is like an original. I keep on looking for for these, like original mint on card ThunderCats, like the original line like eighty six because I don't want to pay a ridiculous amount, which I eventually I will because I think it's refused to because of it been. It's like one of those things where once you do it, then what do you do after that? You know, it's like it certainly it's like I haven't done that, which I need to just eventually do that. 00:25:36 Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean Power Rangers figures. 00:25:39 Speaker 3: That was all about there Ranger figures. So you were into the Power Rangers. 00:25:42 Speaker 5: Oh it was it was like aimed directly at me, you know what you was that? I was like ninety three, so I was born eighty four, So I was nine years old. So it was like, hey, Sam, all right, wait did I say I was born in eighty four? 00:25:58 Speaker 4: I say eighty three. 00:26:00 Speaker 3: Let's see you said eighty four and it came on ninety three you were nine years old? 00:26:04 Speaker 2: That makes sense. 00:26:05 Speaker 4: Yeah, I was like that just lie, just straight up. Whoa. 00:26:10 Speaker 2: It came so naturally to me. I should do this more often. 00:26:13 Speaker 4: I'm a brilliant act. 00:26:14 Speaker 3: Maybe I'm an excellent liar. So you got sucked into Power Rangers very much, very much. I felt like Power Rangers for me, Like, for whatever reason, I was fully on board Ninja Turtles power Rangers came around, I couldn't get on board. No, I don't know what happened. I think that's when I became just a cruel third grader. Yeah that's not cool. For whatever reason, I've decided that corny thing isn't cool, but my Turtles are continue to be cool. 00:26:47 Speaker 5: Yeah, I was right on it. It was like there was like a sniper. It just like hit me dead in the chest. It was like, this is your obsession. 00:26:56 Speaker 2: And I was like, were you ever a Power Ranger for Halloween? 00:26:59 Speaker 5: I always wanted to, but I but I always wanted to be a Power Range. I wanted to be like a real life Powerrangeer folloween in a way that was like impossible to make the costume unless you're. 00:27:07 Speaker 2: Like, oh right, right, buy it at Walmart, you know what I mean. 00:27:10 Speaker 5: It's like, well, like, no, I want the licra and I want an actual helmet and a sword. 00:27:16 Speaker 2: Was like, no, it's not what cost hundreds of dollars, you. 00:27:19 Speaker 5: Know, which, if I ever have kids, oh there, they're costumes. Whatever they want, it's going to be the exact thing from the show. 00:27:29 Speaker 4: I guarantee this. 00:27:32 Speaker 2: So what kind of things were you for Halloween? 00:27:34 Speaker 4: I was Superman a bunch of years. 00:27:36 Speaker 3: That's an easy Halloween costume that to get like kind of authentic exactly, and. 00:27:40 Speaker 5: I would always wear I had Superman pajamas that I would wear as regular clothes, you know, right, So I Superman a lot. In fact, I was, so I was Superman. I think the last year of Superman was in high school. So I went to the supers a high school costume party like at the school, and they were like had a costume contest, and I went up there as Clark Kent, you know, and everybody was like booing me. 00:28:12 Speaker 6: It was this loser same hes put on glasses and he thinks he's gonna win this, and I was like wait, and I took my thing off, like yeah, it was like a fool, like I was ancra body suit with a thing and all that. But then my friend's, uh, my friend's little brother won because he was just a pumpkin. So that's just a big, like a child's pumpkin costume. He was wearing that, so he got first place. 00:28:38 Speaker 3: I would love for you to rip the suit off to the Superman costume and for the booing to just intensify. 00:28:43 Speaker 2: It gets way worse, Like this. 00:28:45 Speaker 4: Isn't how I thought it would go. 00:28:47 Speaker 5: That might have been what happened, and I just fucked it out and then they cheered from me. 00:28:53 Speaker 4: I swear. 00:28:54 Speaker 3: Yeah, so you're a big just comic book person in general. Yeah, yeah, okay, that's true. Okay, you haven't been in a superhero movie, have you? 00:29:04 Speaker 4: I have not. 00:29:05 Speaker 3: It's time. 00:29:06 Speaker 4: I agree. 00:29:08 Speaker 3: I feel like we're coming around the bend here. It's probably I'm predicting twenty twenty three. Sam Richardson is in one of these things. It's kind of a crime. It hasn't happened. 00:29:19 Speaker 4: I agree. 00:29:19 Speaker 5: I certainly want I want it more than anything, truly. I love that I go to every superhero movie first day possible, and I'm like, accurate, inaccurate, terrific, well done. 00:29:37 Speaker 2: Are you looking for I assume you're looking forward to the new Batman movie. 00:29:40 Speaker 5: I am very much the Batman I am. I think it's going to be great. I'm looking forward to it. 00:29:46 Speaker 2: Do you have a favorite superhero movie? 00:29:48 Speaker 4: Favorite suphero movie? Might be? 00:29:50 Speaker 5: It might be the original Superman, the seventy seven Superman Chris. It's one that I didn't It was one where every time I watch it I appreciate it even more. Like, first of the music that John Williams score is so brilliant. I think christophery is a brilliant Superman. They were like jokes in theres the storytelling. I'm missing describing things about movies in general. But one thing I hadn't realized as a kid. But then he's a girl up, Like when you watch that movie. He doesn't become Superman for an hour into that movie, whoa. But you don't even notice it, you know what I mean, because it's like good character. 00:30:26 Speaker 2: Building, right, you know, I care about this person, care about. 00:30:30 Speaker 5: This person, So when you become Superman, you're like, oh, well he's all these things before you know. 00:30:34 Speaker 3: I haven't seen it. So the first hour of the movie, is he just hiding Superman from everyone? Or he's just Clark Kenton he kind of doesn't know, Well, it's him growing. 00:30:41 Speaker 4: So it's it's it's Krypton first, right, and it's it's all of uh, well, I can't think of his name. Oh my goodness, the uh. 00:30:52 Speaker 3: Here we go proven a complete comic book, frogs about any of them. 00:31:01 Speaker 4: Oh my god, a street car named Desire Godfather. Sometimes my brain won't come up with names. And it's a big. 00:31:10 Speaker 3: Marlon brand of Marlon brand Y. 00:31:13 Speaker 2: I know that Joerel Superman spots and he's like the Council. 00:31:16 Speaker 5: So like it starts out with him on the planet Krypton warning everybody that Krypton is about to explode over and everybody says denied, and so he sends the baby off. This story is the story of Superman. So that's the first like fifteen minutes is there. Then it's him raining, arriving on Earth, him being raised as a boy, and then him growing up and then being raised by John and Martha Kent and all that sort of. It takes an hour to get there. And so then for the second half of it, or from our one, then you're in Smallville or then you're in Metropolis. The rest of the movie is spit in Krypton and Smallville. Then you go to Metropolis. 00:31:59 Speaker 2: This movie's five hours long. 00:32:01 Speaker 4: Yeah, five and a half. The Lord of the Rings Edition. 00:32:05 Speaker 3: I'm certain to feel like, I mean, the Superman fandom, this desire to just spend money on all of these things, like leading towards kind of a Nicholas Cage style financial situation where you buy like a t Rex skull and suddenly you're broke. 00:32:21 Speaker 4: If they offer it to me, I'm running the card. 00:32:25 Speaker 3: Which no problem with Nicholas Cage. The man seems to lead a fascinating, wonderful life and he's so good. 00:32:31 Speaker 5: He's so good, he's a very fun person to watch. But he bought a t Rex and like then it was in full debt. 00:32:40 Speaker 3: And had like a maybe a pyramid or something. I feel like you probably could just say anything right now, and he probably has at least tried to purchase at some point. He owned the Haunted Castle, he owned fifty acres of swamp land. 00:32:55 Speaker 2: But no, I feel that I could be in the cards for you, and I'm fine with that. 00:33:03 Speaker 4: I certainly hope. I hope. 00:33:05 Speaker 5: And what my plan is and I'll well, maybe we'll cut this part out for the irs is I'm going to buy an island first. Then all my purchases then go to that island, and then I uh, I demand independence, and so then they become it becomes a war crime if you try and take them from me if I, you know, go into dead on them. 00:33:27 Speaker 3: Suddenly your Amazon account has like your home address and then like an island address that everything's getting shipped to exactly. 00:33:34 Speaker 4: And it's like the billing addressesn't match it yet, but. 00:33:39 Speaker 3: It will and all of this will add up in such a beautiful way, exactly if you were going to be If you. 00:33:45 Speaker 2: Could just pick a superhero to be in a movie, who would it be? 00:33:48 Speaker 3: Oh, it's like your dream? 00:33:50 Speaker 4: Well for real, for real, I said that I want to be Beast from X Men. 00:33:55 Speaker 2: Oh my god, that's a great choice. 00:33:57 Speaker 5: I would, I would, I would truly love to be But I'm like, the more I say it, the more I'm like, oh, I'm making sure it doesn't happen by saying it, because then they're gonna be like, you don't tell us what to do. You don't say the guy you want to be. This isn't Halloween failt We find you and then we have a surprise. 00:34:17 Speaker 3: Well, I feel like you've got You're putting it out there. 00:34:20 Speaker 2: At the very least. 00:34:20 Speaker 3: I'm sure someone at Disney will be spiteful and make you Cyclops or something. But close enough, same same realm. But you're gonna just despise your co star when they recast Kelsey Grammar as. 00:34:35 Speaker 4: Beast exactly like you're so old. 00:34:38 Speaker 2: You just can't let it go, Kelsey, I'll shove it. 00:34:43 Speaker 3: Wow. Well this is really really fascinating. And now I have this Batman action figure. Do you think I should take it out of the packaging at any pert? 00:34:50 Speaker 4: I think you should. I think I think that's it's imposable. So you want to you want to like get. 00:34:55 Speaker 3: Those particulation, various positions, et cetera. Yeah, maybe put it on a bat Does it call the bat cycle? 00:35:03 Speaker 4: Yeah, he's got the bat cycle batmobile. 00:35:07 Speaker 2: Bat cycle sounds just too much like bicycle. 00:35:09 Speaker 5: Yeah, I know, it's very it's very similar, very similar. And like the Nolan movies they called the bat pod bat pod. 00:35:19 Speaker 2: You know that's interesting. That doesn't quite describe it either. 00:35:22 Speaker 5: Well, it's because in those movies, like it's part of the Batmobile and then it shoots out of the Batmobile like. 00:35:28 Speaker 3: A oh that okay, that makes enough sense. And then he drives it through them all, I feel like, which is so exciting. We'd all love to drive a motorcycle through them all, whither you know it or not, thrill. 00:35:40 Speaker 4: Yeah, when you're doing it and you're like, what was missing? 00:35:44 Speaker 3: This was the right choice? Past a hot topic? Now what you also collect funko pops? I do do you get in line? 00:35:56 Speaker 4: No? No, no, no. 00:35:58 Speaker 3: The lines to me is it's a bridge too far. That feels Yeah, that feels like desperate behavior to me. And I'm sorry to anyone that does that. But you're standing out in the cold. What are we talking about? 00:36:10 Speaker 5: Yeah, No, I refuse to stand in line for anything anymore, like connect, I truly will in the bathroom, I just hold it. I wish at first I was joking, but I'm like, wait, that's true. I don't do it. I will just like hold it. I won't stand in line for anything. 00:36:31 Speaker 3: Yeah. I think like the older you get, the more difficult or it's just like what, I don't know. I've waited for enough things. I'll just I'll get something easier. I'm not putting in the work for anything. Yeah, we've done away with most lines. You know, you just have to wait in line for a movie or whatever. That feels crazy. Now it's the idea of like having to show up two hours before the movie to just get in line. 00:36:56 Speaker 4: No, I won't do it. It simply will not. 00:37:00 Speaker 5: I used to collect I mean I do still collect sneakers, right, but like the game of acquiring them is now just about paying resellers to get it and who can pay them, and so like the idea of like procuring these things or like knowing the ends, it's like essentially all but disappeared. Like the line used to be, even even for a while. There's like a brief window there with like the line was that you would get to order on your computer first, But now they use what's called bots that then go in and buy out the inventory in a split second because it's a computer program, and so like you just can't beat it. So now I'm like, I don't need the sneakers. I don't need these I mean I was saying I don't need action figures. I don't need these things. 00:37:44 Speaker 4: So I did it. 00:37:45 Speaker 5: Somebody is just like so blatantly put themselves in the middle of this thing that I want and the purchase. 00:37:50 Speaker 4: I'm like, I refuse, I refuse to give this person. 00:37:55 Speaker 3: Money just trying to buy a PlayStation for a year now, So I gave up. Because these the resellers are the scourge of the planet. 00:38:02 Speaker 4: Truly, it's so frustrating. 00:38:05 Speaker 3: Oh, it's maddening. Normal people can no longer buy things. You have to go through someone who knows how to program. 00:38:11 Speaker 4: Yeah, exactly. 00:38:11 Speaker 5: And they have forty or fifty of them in their apartment and just sitting there, make a picture of it on their Instagram. 00:38:18 Speaker 3: Like you, I'm going to find you. I'm going to get in there and find I'm going to feel so sad about your living conditions. You live with seventy PlayStations and a mattress? 00:38:30 Speaker 2: What are you doing with your life doing? 00:38:33 Speaker 3: What are you doing? 00:38:34 Speaker 4: Fully? 00:38:34 Speaker 3: Just be a decent person, Sam, I'm in a terrible mood. We're talking about these horrible people. 00:38:45 Speaker 2: Oh but at least we're exposing. 00:38:47 Speaker 3: Yeah, this is kind of if nothing else, this is kind of an expose. 00:38:51 Speaker 4: We got to bring the knowledge to the people, right. 00:38:56 Speaker 3: I feel like we should play a game. 00:38:57 Speaker 4: All right, Yes, We're going to play. 00:38:59 Speaker 3: A game called Gift Master. But I need a number between one and ten from you. 00:39:03 Speaker 4: Nine. 00:39:04 Speaker 3: Okay, I have to do some light calculating. I have to find our game pieces while I'm doing this. You have the microphone. You can recommend something, you can promote something, you can do whatever you want. 00:39:15 Speaker 2: I'll be right back. 00:39:16 Speaker 5: Wonderful some promotions. A show that has just been re released. It was on YouTube Premium and no one saw it there because YouTube didn't have a great sort of mechanic frequency things. It's called Champagne Hills, so as Me and Adam Pally. It just came to Hulu so now people can watch it. It's a show about two guys who were in an entoura. Their high school buddy became a very popular hip hop artist and they were hangers on and I kind of left their whole life behind. And he dies and so now their gravy train is gone and they have to move back to their hometown of Champagne, Illinois, and they're not prepared for it. So that's on Hulu. Check that out. And Detroitter's Elisaba Detroitter's My Show with Tim Robinson on It was on Comedy Central now some Paramount Plus. 00:40:10 Speaker 4: Check that out. And The after Party comes to Apple TV this winter. 00:40:16 Speaker 3: Sam, it's January. 00:40:18 Speaker 4: It's January. Well then get ready, you know what I mean, I got to build the height. 00:40:23 Speaker 3: You know what, I think that it's great, I wrote on The After Party. I know you did Look, all the things Sam just recommended are actually huge recommendations for me. Champagne Hill was created by two absolute rascals of people, Matthew and Daniel Libman very funny show Detroit's is one of the few comedies of the last ten years that actually makes me laugh. And now we've got the after party coming. I mean, this man is just a machine bringing you entertainment. Watch all of those things, please, I mean, or don't. That's also an option. You can live in your own miserable filth all you want. But Sam has just presented an absolute platter of entertainment. Sam, this is how we play the game. Okay, I'm gonna name three potential gifts, three items that you can give away or experience. Is that kind of thing? And I'm gonna name three celebrities, three famous people. You're going to tell me which gift you're gonna give which person and why? Okay, does that make any sense? 00:41:25 Speaker 4: Yes? It does. 00:41:27 Speaker 3: Okay, these are the gifts you'll be giving today. Number one is a travel pillow, a nice little you know, one of those things that wraps around your neck. Possibly. Number two is less conventional. It's a hotel ice machine, a full size hotel ice machine. We would all love to have my garage. Oh, I would be out there every night with my little pucket truly. And finally, this one's more of an experience or I don't even know if that it's an experience. It's the courage to change. So you'll be giving them the courage to change. And the people you're going to be giving them to are. Number one is Jason Momoa. We all love Jason Momoa. 00:42:09 Speaker 4: Yeah. 00:42:10 Speaker 3: Number two is kind of a team Jake and Maggie Chillenhall brother sister team, both fine actors in their own right. And finally, Diane Keaton. 00:42:21 Speaker 5: Okay, oh all right, I think if I'm gonna I'm gonna give Diane Keaton that neck below because I think I think you appreciate the most, you know, the neck that needs the most protecting. Out of all four of these people, if you include the. 00:42:39 Speaker 3: The thank you for acknowledging that they're for. You know, Jake and Maggie are separate people. 00:42:45 Speaker 5: There are separate people. They are cerferent people. Think I think she would also be the onening she got that, she'd be like, oh, thank you, you know, also like the most the easiest liftable gift out of the three. 00:43:01 Speaker 3: Uh, what are you saying about Diane's strength? I feel like she's got excellent upper body strength. She has pythons, Juel. She there for looks and not for for for use. 00:43:13 Speaker 2: She's kind of got show muscles. 00:43:15 Speaker 4: He's got show muscles. It's all full air, like, oh, Cogan. 00:43:20 Speaker 2: Okay, that's that feels like a nice gift for Diane. 00:43:23 Speaker 4: Yeah. 00:43:23 Speaker 3: I feel like she's probably like on planes and it's like I need to rest. I can't just bunch up the blanket next to my head. I need a pillow. 00:43:31 Speaker 4: Yeah, I think I think. I think that's I think that's the gift for her. Now the other one, it's hard. It's hard because like you think that I'm just. 00:43:39 Speaker 5: Gonna give MoMA the ice machine because you're like, oh, my man's party man. He's probably always needing ice. He's probably always needing ice. 00:43:49 Speaker 7: Just crunching, just crunching, just put it in drinks, chewing on it just as a habit, just you know, cooling off his muscles after a workout. 00:44:01 Speaker 5: I am convincing myself. Actually now I'm like, maybe he should have that ice machine. 00:44:05 Speaker 2: He played an excellent pitch made a great pitch. 00:44:08 Speaker 5: But I'm going to say that I'm going to give him the what's the phrase exactly, the courage to courage to change, because I'll tell you what happened to mister memo there to him a superhero. 00:44:22 Speaker 4: He's a superhero. Well, became famous for super abs and then did a vacation where he didn't have abs, and they lit him up. 00:44:32 Speaker 3: They were like they did, They're like, look, he's fat. 00:44:35 Speaker 5: He's like no, he has like regular person abs and not even above like well above average he has I'm sure strong man like got that on vacation. He's on vacation, like I simply I was flabberg acid. So I'm going to give him the courage to let himself get fat. Go ahead, go ahead and't get fat. 00:44:59 Speaker 3: I think that's fair, very that's very courteous of you. I feel like he probably is under an immense amount of pressure to just have rippling abs at all times. 00:45:08 Speaker 4: You know, Like. 00:45:11 Speaker 8: I wonder how much he can, like if you go like like if you're talking about like, oh, I'm gonna have a donut, because he had to like plan that four months in advance, three weeks. 00:45:24 Speaker 3: A nightmare, A nightmare, I like to do. 00:45:27 Speaker 5: What I want to do when I want to do it. I'm going to give him the courage to do the same. And then I'm assuming that as siblings, a sibling pair, ice has to to you know, you can't you're using more than one person's share of ice in a home. You're gonna this way, there's there may be no sibling fights over the quantity of ice in the home. 00:45:57 Speaker 4: And I'm assuming they share one big house with all the I assume. 00:46:01 Speaker 3: They have bunk beds. Yeah, they probably have like double birthdays. Yeah, I think so that makes sense. Yeah, I think they're consolated each other's throats about the ice. 00:46:12 Speaker 4: It has to be. 00:46:13 Speaker 5: There's no I mean, in my mind, I try and close my eyes and like imagine them like living in a peaceful ice world, and they just I can't do it. It doesn't exist there. So, like I think I'm going to solve that problem for them. Give them machine constantly and then like even if they need to like put a schedule up on like who has access to the eyes machine at what point you know, even if it's like by the five minutes, like they you take you know, twelve to five and then ten to fifteen, and then twenty to twenty five, whatever that may. You know, I'll have a schedule out there. I think I'll have solved a lot of their problems with that. 00:46:49 Speaker 2: I feel like that's great. 00:46:50 Speaker 3: If it's one of those ones that the flap, you could have like a little signing sheet on the ice machine exactly. Jake signed in for a glass of ice at eleven forty five pm, you signed out at eleven pm exactly. 00:47:02 Speaker 5: And here's the thing. Secretly, there's enough ice that they don't have to do that. But it's about respect of each other's time. It's about building good habits. 00:47:15 Speaker 3: You've got to start them young. You have to start them young. I thought that was excellently played. You really looked into each of these people's wants and needs. 00:47:26 Speaker 2: And kind of just nailed it. I appreciate that. 00:47:29 Speaker 4: Thank you very much. 00:47:31 Speaker 3: Sam. This is the final segment of the podcast. It's called I Said No Emails. People right into I Said No Gifts at gmail dot com with a whole variety of questions about gifts, about social situations, about their general problems. They drag me into it, the guests gets dragged into it, and then we solve the problem. Perfectly every time. I mean, we haven't had a single complaint yet, so it's you know, we're batting. Is it a batting a thousand? Does that make sense? Yeah, I'm not the person who should be saying batting a thousand, but that's fine. I'm going to own it. This is the question we're going to answer today, It says deer bridger and tolerant guest. I am writing to ask for your help as I prepare for the upcoming holiday season. Last year, I gave my boss a gift for the holidays, even though I don't usually gift up to the boss. It had been an especially tough year. Of course, we are two physicians who practiced geriatric medicine. Who ah, so I decided to get her a few things. Shortly after she unwrapped the gift for me, she said thank you. I then proceeded to rewrap and redistribute the items to other staff in our clinic. Before my very eyes, she kept none of the gifts for herself. They were just little fun things like chocolates, coffee, beans, and mug soap, candle, etc. And honestly, I laughed to myself after my initial shock because I thought it was so brazen and hilarious. 00:48:49 Speaker 2: I don't know. 00:48:49 Speaker 3: Maybe I was asking for it, given that I gave her was an all too tempting collection of small items that make handy individual office gifts. My question is what is my next move for this year? Thanks for your help, Jenny. Okay, Jenny, Jenny, this situation is bonkers. I can't imagine what this but this is the first thing I'm gonna say, Jenny, is what's your problem with a little holiday generosity? Yeah, Jenny, you watched this selfless boss give away all of these beautiful gifts. She could have, of course, thrown those in the back of her car and taken them home and you know, got into those chocolates and had a little mug, but instead she gave them to your coworkers. 00:49:37 Speaker 2: It sounds like you're angry that she didn't give you one. 00:49:40 Speaker 4: Yeah, that's what it would seem like. 00:49:42 Speaker 3: And it's just so awful to hear this thing around the holidays is my problem. It's like, Jenny, when you give up a gift, it's no longer yours to do what you want with. 00:49:53 Speaker 2: You're no longer in control. It sounds like you're a control freak. 00:49:56 Speaker 5: That's gonna say it sounds like Jenny is a control freak, like once to micro manage and play up a tear to the entire office. And I think that's what you most upset about. 00:50:08 Speaker 3: And I mean, this is your boss, Jenny. Are you doing this in the normal workday, trying to control the boss. You might be hated around the office, you might be on the chopping block. I mean you should just be thanking God that you're even still there. 00:50:23 Speaker 4: Yeah, exactly. Maybe that's what the indicator was too. 00:50:25 Speaker 5: Like you gave the gift, it was immediately redistributed, as in, I can't accept the gift from you because I know what's coming. 00:50:34 Speaker 3: I feel so guilty taking all these things knowing I'm going to fire you the day before Christmas, send you home, and you know, suddenly the house is cold, and all of those things this person didn't want to. 00:50:46 Speaker 4: Be super chocolate will taste bitter. 00:50:49 Speaker 3: Right, all that aside, What is your move for this year? 00:50:54 Speaker 2: Jenny? 00:50:54 Speaker 3: If you if you don't want to deal with this problem, you gave all these tiny little gifts. I think you've already answered it. You have to give your boss the heaviest possible gift with your boss's face on it. M Yeah, what are we talking about here, Like, what's a you know, a water barrel with the boss's name on it? 00:51:11 Speaker 4: Yeah, just a big rock, a big. 00:51:14 Speaker 3: Boulder, you know, kind of a Mount Rushmore style carving of the boss's face exactly. These are the obvious choices. Any good gift giver knows. 00:51:25 Speaker 4: Yeah, those things to shoot off the hip. 00:51:26 Speaker 5: Just any gift giver would be like, oh, boulder, water barrel, just automatic. I would say, like robot with the face of your boss. But then you're just helping that boss give away more gifts. I think you can program that robot to be more generous because this this boss seems like the greatest person. It may your boss may be Santa Claus. Oh interesting, so interesting. 00:51:52 Speaker 3: Santa Clause he works at a geriatric medical center because. 00:51:56 Speaker 5: He's so generous that when he's not making toys, he's like, I'm a dog. If he's a doctor, of course, he's been around forever, he's time to get a degree. 00:52:07 Speaker 3: They never talk about Santa's just like, never mentioned that he probably has read every book he must have, right, he hasn't. It's a groundhog Day type thing. He should he's he should be good at everything. 00:52:19 Speaker 4: Yeah, like he knows every market. 00:52:21 Speaker 3: He isn't he's wasted eternity yea, truly, his body is a prison and it's inescapable, and he just lives with a tiny reindeer and missus Claus. 00:52:31 Speaker 5: Missus Claus, who I think is fictional. I think they may make it seem nice. 00:52:36 Speaker 3: I think, are we saying that Santa's gay and he doesn't want to tell his parents, so he's made up this fictional I think so this second beard, it all makes perfect sense. I mean, well, wow, we've learned a lot here. He works at a geriatric center. He is deeply closeted in the North Pole. No one knows that Santa is probably dating as trainer, and missus Claus doesn't exist, and not in a like do you believe in Christmas way, but just in kind of a lying you know. 00:53:14 Speaker 5: Exactly, Like I'm just like, look at the clues, you know what I mean, and like just a city right in front of this whole time. 00:53:22 Speaker 4: Don't let him lie. 00:53:23 Speaker 2: To you, stop letting Santa light. 00:53:28 Speaker 3: Okay, Well, Jenny, look, you got plenty of advice here, and if you can't take some of that into your life, you should be fired, and it should be on Christmas Day. Yeah, like right before you open the gifts in front of the family. Sudden you get a call you lost your job. Now you're crying, you can't go on. The holiday is ruined. It is a Christmas to remember, but maybe not in the way you would want it to. Yeah, Sam, thank you for helping me answer this question. Thank you for this Batman action figure. I have a shelf behind me that's almost empty. My office is slowly we're putting things up, and Batman's going to go right up there. 00:54:07 Speaker 4: Oh it makes I'm very excited. 00:54:09 Speaker 3: This has just been a wonderful time and I'm excited to move forward with Maybe this will start my own action figure collection. You never know, and then we're competing trying to outbit each other on rare figures. You'll be an enemy I already am. 00:54:27 Speaker 4: It's true. 00:54:30 Speaker 3: Well, thank you very much, and listener. As I said at the beginning of the podcast, you've been in my home. It's been an hour or so. I feel like that's enough time for us to spend together this week. Maybe you can come back around next week if we're both feeling it. If not, that's okay. Go out and do something else. Now, do whatever you want. 00:54:52 Speaker 2: I'll talk to you soon. 00:54:54 Speaker 3: I love you, goodbye, I said, No Gifts is an exactly right production. It's produced and engineered by our dear friend Annalise Nelson, and the theme song is by miracle worker Amy Mann. You must follow the show on Instagram at I said No Gifts. That's where you're going to see pictures of all these wonderful gifts I'm getting. 00:55:21 Speaker 2: You have to see the gifts. 00:55:23 Speaker 3: Listen and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Stitcher or wherever you found me. And why not leave a review while you're there. It's really the least you could do, considering everything I do for you. And if you're interested in advertising on the show, go to midrool dot com slash ads. 00:55:43 Speaker 1: Well I invit, did you hear? Funa man myself perfectly clear. When you're a guest to Merha, you gotta come to me empty. And I said, no, guest, your presence is present enough. I already had too much stuff, So how do you dare to surbey me