00:00:08 Speaker 1: Well, I invited you here, thought I made myself perfectly clear. 00:00:17 Speaker 2: But you're a guess to my home. 00:00:21 Speaker 1: You gotta come to be empty, and I said, no, guest, your presences, presents, and I already had too much stuff. So how did you dare to surbey me? 00:00:48 Speaker 2: Welcome to I said, no gifts. I'm Richard Wineker. I hope you're having a nice stay. I'm, you know, just doing my thing. I had a slightly larger breakfast than usual, so I had a slightly smaller lunch than usual. Just the reminder, if you're for the Billionaires listening that each episode you listen to is a five hundred thousand dollars or just feel free to do what you need to do to get that money to me when the time is, when the time comes. But in the meantime, I just want you to relax. I want you to enjoy, and I want you to welcome our guest. Our guest today. I'm so happy to have her. I'm switching to gallery view on Zoom just so I can see an even bigger picture of her. Lizzie Cooperman, Welcome gifts. 00:01:36 Speaker 3: I'm feeling the gallery view. 00:01:39 Speaker 2: Can you just feel the warmth? Of the gallery. 00:01:41 Speaker 3: I've never felt it more in my life. 00:01:44 Speaker 2: I prefer a gallery. 00:01:45 Speaker 3: View, Fridger. I'll tell you what I don't prefers. The helicopter swarming outside my windows. It feels like it's orbiting my skull. I know you can't hear it. 00:01:55 Speaker 2: That you can't, Lizzie, it's me. I'm in the helicopter. The podcast is now being broadcast. Stephen is driving or piloting the helicopter. Oh my, that's a new aspect of the show. We just circle the guests home. 00:02:13 Speaker 3: It feels like you guys are mowing a lawn in my soul. 00:02:16 Speaker 2: Ok, it's so, I mean, one interesting thing that it's just I mean, I could see your hair blowing in the wind from the helicopter and I can't even hear it. God, so you've got thin walls, Lizzie, I do, I do? How are you? I'm good? 00:02:33 Speaker 3: I do feel like I'm living inside Stomp the music hall or something. These days, there's always like a Jackhanimer, a helicopter. Oh geez, I think you saw there was a peacock infestation right outside my apartment. Peacocks would just come and PLoP themselves down, kind of like nestling on top of our cars. Oh what on top of the cars? Yes, to go somewhere. And I was afraid to approach. 00:03:02 Speaker 2: My vehicle, of course, because peacock is almost like dinosaur level size. It's a large bird, right, are they not as. 00:03:11 Speaker 3: Large however as the turkey we were served on Thanksgiving last year. 00:03:17 Speaker 2: That's right. You and I shared two meals on Thanksgiving. 00:03:20 Speaker 3: In two meals on Thanksgiving, it was oh yeah. First we went to Castles with mett Ingebret said, and we had a diner style mourning. 00:03:32 Speaker 2: Beautiful breakfast one day, more than I've I mean, two meals in a restaurant in one day, which is more than I've had in the last how many months has it been six? Oh my god, Bridger, I know, I don't know, I know. 00:03:45 Speaker 3: And then the one we had at night, well, yeah, we like that place, massive quantities. 00:03:50 Speaker 2: Yes, we had like a meal for a family of five. 00:03:55 Speaker 3: It was like we were tiny. People in like Hagrid's house were like, thank you being gracious as they just PLoP down like vats of potatoes and circulates Gray. 00:04:11 Speaker 2: It felt incredible. Really, I would have that Thanksgiving dinner right now. I would do anything to be in a restaurant eating a dinner. 00:04:19 Speaker 3: Ranger. 00:04:20 Speaker 2: I would too. I can't believe it. 00:04:22 Speaker 3: I'm thinking about all the times I said, you know what, I think, I'm just going to stay in tonight. 00:04:26 Speaker 2: Oh. Of of course, I was saying to Jim this morning. I was like, if we ever get back to any level of normalcy, I need I need like a little to wrap something around my finger, to just remind myself that it's wonderful to be in public around other people, to take them, to be so thankful to be able to sit in a restaurant without fear. 00:04:46 Speaker 3: I know, well, luckily I got you a piece of string. 00:04:54 Speaker 2: No, I know, I know, Okay, but I want to get back to Peacock's for just one minute, because so how did you get eventually get it off your car? 00:05:03 Speaker 3: I just it was just a matter of time. It was all just a waiting game. But they were there for it was it was like a week. At first, I thought there was a child in pain outside my window. Okay, flag that for follow up? 00:05:20 Speaker 2: Okay, okay, flag flagging children in pain for follow up? My children in. 00:05:25 Speaker 3: Pain, I've got an incredibly entertaining story about them. At first, I was hearing this noise like outside my window, and I thought, God, it doesn't sound like a bird. It sounded like a human. I'm not doing a great peacock impression. I'm sorry. I'm not Frank Kelliendo. I'm just one woman over here. 00:05:46 Speaker 2: Okay, there will be no Vegas residency. 00:05:50 Speaker 3: There will be no Vegas residency. Flag Vegas for follow. 00:05:54 Speaker 2: Up flagging Children in Pain, Flagging Vegas, Flagging Reno. 00:06:00 Speaker 3: My Children in Pain, Flag Vegas. I kept hearing this sound outside, but I wasn't going outside a lot at the time. This was kind of like before I gradually started going insane, and because you're opening the door, so I just was inside, you know, wondering what could that noise be, and I had to go somewhere. I went out to my car and just a giant peacock. I don't even know. I'm going to say larger than Toddler. 00:06:30 Speaker 2: Size, because this peacock was I'm going to use a word I love here. Oh. Oh, I don't know this word. I don't even know if I'm pronouncing it. 00:06:42 Speaker 3: I looked up that word once when I was writing some short story. I look I was looking at the saurus for kind of like heavy set and I really love that. 00:06:52 Speaker 2: It's like e m bo n point. Oh interesting, I've never. 00:06:59 Speaker 3: There's a sixty percent chance I'm making that up. 00:07:03 Speaker 2: No one look into that. 00:07:05 Speaker 3: I have somehow conjured this word out of a non existence. 00:07:10 Speaker 2: It feels like a real French phrase, you know. 00:07:12 Speaker 3: It does like I feel like it conjures you know, images of you know, aprons and kind of like you know, flower a door. 00:07:20 Speaker 2: Oh yeah, of course, like flower on the hands and we're eating dough or putting pastry into tins or something exactly exactly, or maybe we're just thinking of oh bomb pan is that the uh is that the cafe franchise? 00:07:35 Speaker 3: What I'm thinking is, oh bompa, look it up when you have time, look it up. 00:07:40 Speaker 2: Try it the next time you're in an airport. 00:07:42 Speaker 3: Oh my god, I heard I once went to this healer. I went and saw this healer in the basement of a Marriotte hotel and flag it for follow up. He used a word that I knew didn't exist. 00:07:55 Speaker 2: He kept going. 00:07:56 Speaker 3: And the thing is, we have the deliverability right here. It's the deliverability of the universe. It was the kind of thing where I was like, I can't really pull out my phone because I'm supposed to be, you know, taking in all this healing, and also you shouldn't whip out your phone in the middle of a presentation. But he made it sound so convincing that now I almost feel it's a word. You know, he endowed it with so much meaning. 00:08:22 Speaker 2: And it was I mean, the power of the universe to be delivered? Is that what we're talking about here? I think. 00:08:29 Speaker 3: It's like, was it deliverability? 00:08:31 Speaker 2: Interesting? That's holy grasp that could Yeah, if. 00:08:35 Speaker 3: That were a word, I would have used it upwards of thirteen times in my Amazon chats I've been having. I posted yesterday I ordered like a probiotic and it came in this box that looked like it had been like in a boxing ring. Right, it just torn up, shredded, just truy. I'm like, the deliverability gets zero stars. I'd like to speak to a manager about it. 00:09:03 Speaker 2: Of course, about that, I'm not I'm not letting us get away from the child sized peacock sitting on your car. 00:09:08 Speaker 3: Yes, huge, I mean just sitting in its glory. And it wasn't a colorful once. It wasn't like a peacock then Is that how it works? Or is that I think the males ale? Yeah? Or kind of everything the Animal Kingdom is kind of flipped, like aren't the male. 00:09:24 Speaker 2: Why the male are always much more colorful and flamboyant, right, the females are just always kind of bland looking, which they're. 00:09:35 Speaker 3: Just like, I'm sick of this ship. I feel I'm not getting ready. Yeah, I feel like lately I feel like a true female in the Animal Kingdom. 00:09:45 Speaker 2: Like letting. 00:09:46 Speaker 3: The other day, I was like looking at my hair and I'm like, I want it to be less dark colored duck. You know, I haven't died it in so long. It's almost black. 00:09:56 Speaker 2: It's really terrific looking. 00:09:57 Speaker 4: Right, See it's almost black. I have blonde hair, Bridger, it looks almost black. 00:10:09 Speaker 2: The zoom is making it look darker on top. 00:10:12 Speaker 3: I'm using this podcast as evidence in a lawsuit. Bridgard Weineger and I said no gifts said it was black. You promise me each bottle. 00:10:23 Speaker 2: Each blonde beach. There's another B word in there. I don't know what it is. Okay, So you want to hear more? 00:10:31 Speaker 3: Okay, So just wasn't And I'm like, is it even safe to go near the car. I took a picture. I did like a little video of it. It's on my Instagram. I'm just approaching it. And then of course I went on a Google's hair how to get rid of peacocks, how. 00:10:48 Speaker 2: To deter them. 00:10:49 Speaker 3: I almost bought a car cover because I read an article that said, the peacock sees its reflection, specifically in black cars. 00:10:58 Speaker 2: Oh, it thinks another peacock is in the car or something. 00:11:02 Speaker 3: It thinks it sees either it's just obsessed with its reflections. We'll be just start packing furiously at the top of your car. So I'm like, okay, this by the way, and I'm not going to flag this for a follow up. Okay, you know I bought this car that already had a million problems, right, I bought this car that I didn't know I had this defect. 00:11:29 Speaker 2: Essentially, I felt like it was a ticking time bomb. 00:11:32 Speaker 3: It was a ticking time bomb. Someone was like, oh, you bought a twenty sixteen Kia Soul. Yeah, those have been spontaneously bursting into flax. Anyway, Luckily I haven't had to drive it a lot. The chances of that happening of contowns. 00:11:49 Speaker 2: Protected by peacocks they're keeping you from this. 00:11:52 Speaker 3: I like that maybe that's why it was no so this p I just don't understand these peacocks are suddenly just storming cities. 00:12:01 Speaker 2: Where are they coming from? 00:12:02 Speaker 3: I think the migration patterns are changing because of global warming and because of COVID. I also read that, Yeah, I mean you've seen like the videos of you know, alligators, you know, hanging out on mini. 00:12:17 Speaker 2: Golf courses and stuff like recently. 00:12:20 Speaker 3: I mean not that specifically, but there have been all these videos of like, look, the animal kingdom is now kind of taking over because there's no one. 00:12:29 Speaker 2: In the streets. Oh right, right, it can go and they're not. 00:12:32 Speaker 3: Scared of going out at night. And also, you know, so us staying in it's bringing pollution levels down right, you know, and it's also changing things. 00:12:43 Speaker 2: Also in New. 00:12:43 Speaker 3: York, I read that rats. So we're still flagging peacocks for follow up for gotten? 00:12:51 Speaker 2: Well, now we're onto rats, and I'm absolutely horrified of rats. So I need to hear whatever you're. 00:12:55 Speaker 3: Oh, okay, Well, I've learned a lot about rats lately. Actually, I heard there they can be a great pet. 00:13:01 Speaker 2: They apparently they are. They're deeply intelligent or something. But I've also I didn't realize rats can get breast cancer. No, that happened to my cousin as a kid had a rat and ended up with breast cancer. So I don't know. Do with that information what you will. But rats contain multitudes. How is that? I don't treat Okay, I don't want to say, cousin Alexandra. We're not making light of the rat having breast cancer. But it was a shocking revelution. I am shocked. But rats, I mean, they're deeply intelligent, which makes them even more terrifying. Right, you know, what else is there to say about rats that carry disease? They're gnawing through our walls as we speak. 00:13:49 Speaker 3: The rats in New York are not getting enough food because the restaurants aren't putting. 00:13:55 Speaker 2: Out their garbage. Oh boy, oh no, And where does what does this lead to? 00:14:00 Speaker 3: They're out scurrying for the cure, scurry for the cure, bridger the rats. So they're not getting enough food from the restaurants, like their garbage and stuff. So they're eating each other. Oh god, they've resorted to cannibalism. 00:14:19 Speaker 2: I'm I you know, I might take some heat from this, but I you know, New York rats go ahead and eat each other. I can do without you. 00:14:30 Speaker 3: You're like, I'm not gonna throw that result out of that. You're into it. 00:14:38 Speaker 2: I've had some up close and personal interactions with New York rats, and every one of them has well. Actually, and Los Angeles rats, Let's be honest. I had a rat run across my feet in Los Angeles. Really. 00:14:49 Speaker 3: Oh. 00:14:50 Speaker 2: I was on my way to the grocery store at about eleven PM. It's walking down the street and suddenly a rat runs out of the street and over my feet. I ran full beat into Ralphs and spent an hour in there, despite only eating one item. I was horrified, which was. 00:15:05 Speaker 3: Swiss cheese to go back and give it the meal of a life. 00:15:09 Speaker 2: I was trying to think, what does this rat want at eleven o'clock? It needs a midnight snack? Oh my god. 00:15:17 Speaker 3: See the thing about the rat for me is it's the tail that oh, of course that bothers me and naked. Yeah, get rid of those two things that the rat. Right, it's it's like. 00:15:30 Speaker 2: A giant, you know, it's basically a what is it at that point, a guinea pig or something, right, I'm thrilled about a guinea pig, but I'm not terrified of them. 00:15:39 Speaker 3: Something crazy that's been happening to me, speaking of this environment I'm living in, being like Stomped the musical, there was a noise coming from like behind my refrigerator, going oh god, no, I'm going to attempt another animal sound on your lovely vodcast listener Beware. It was like, oh, it sounded like. 00:16:03 Speaker 2: A cat purry okay. And I was like, is therea a cat stuck behind my refrigerator. 00:16:09 Speaker 3: This was an apartment that I had to buy a refrigerator, and I thought, Oh, maybe it's just, you know, maybe when they put in their refrigerator dressed up against Yes, exactly. 00:16:22 Speaker 2: And I told my friend. 00:16:23 Speaker 3: I said, I know this sounds crazy, but I feel like there's a cat stuck in my wall. Oh boy, She goes, Lizzie, that's not or she said, your neighbors probably have a cat, right, I said, Otherwise it's my refrigerator, but it's making this crazy noise. Smash cut to two months later, picture it. I call my landlord to ask him if I can get a dog, because I'm assuming other people in the building of pets, right, there are no pets allowed in the building. Oh no, I truly think there's a cat living in my wall. 00:16:56 Speaker 2: Oh this is kind of I don't know, discovering, like getting. 00:17:02 Speaker 3: Charlotte Perkins yellow wallpaper. 00:17:04 Speaker 2: This is very much like she died fifty years ago. No one's seen her since you've been you know. Wow, so there might be a cat. Do you hear the noise all the time or is it just every once in a while. 00:17:16 Speaker 3: Every once in a while, I'll just hear coming from It's got to be the refrigerator. 00:17:22 Speaker 2: I think it's the fridge. I mean, our fridge is now making kind of a Okay, this is now the sound Effects podcast. 00:17:32 Speaker 3: So do you think our refrigerators are just like I can't believe you're using me. 00:17:37 Speaker 2: The sound Effects podcast. We bring in a folliard. 00:17:42 Speaker 3: It was a dark and stormy night. 00:17:46 Speaker 2: There was a horse clopping down the street. Yeah, maybe it is, you know, because uh, you know, since the quarantine. I mean you you've been in my You've stayed in my apartment, and for a long time, the only thing that was in there was coffee, water and milk and maybe occasionally actually accelery. So now I've got a fridge with food because I have to cook at home. Maybe that's the problem. 00:18:12 Speaker 3: God, I can't believe I didn't know your refrigerator like this. I feel like your refrigerator like went off to camp, became a different person, came back and I was like, yeah, I'm not like I'm. 00:18:23 Speaker 2: Not like learning. I learned some things. 00:18:25 Speaker 3: Yeah I'm totally different now. 00:18:27 Speaker 2: Yeah, my fridge actually has like enough ingredients to make something that resembles a meal. Maybe not like an incredible feast, but you know, on occasion, I can make something. You made some wet meatballs that you told me. I've made some wet meatballs. I've made some decent meatballs. I've made so many meatballs it's insane. But it's an easy thing to make. I mean, you go buy some ground turkey, you throw in some what have you breadcrumbs and egg and whatever seasonings, and suddenly you've got meatballs. 00:18:58 Speaker 3: Wow, your refrigerator is not the only one changed at camp. Friger by the way, you looked so svelt when I dropped off your gift, oh yesterday, I was like, whatever he's doing. I know you said you've been like playing Mortal Kombat with a selfie ring light or whatever you had something there, like I'm using. 00:19:20 Speaker 2: A ring and a Yeah, did I tell you about this yesterday? I know you told me about it a few weeks ago. Well, I mean it's this thing, and this is not an advertisement, but it's called Ring Fit Adventure and it's a video game where you you know, you've got like a yoga ring and it's insane, but it's wonderful. I'm having a terrific time playing this thing, and it's a legitimate exercise. It took me forever to track one down because everyone wants exercise equipment in quarantine. This thing's incredible. I don't know, do you is there a goal? Are you a character? Yeah? Well, currently I'm a woman in like a sports bra and uh, you know, exercise pants, running through a fantasy world. And you know there are like like musclehead monsters you have to defeat. But in the meantime, you like have to jog in place, and then you have to press the ring in or pull it out or like to do a variety of things. You're doing squats. It's like by the end I'm covered in sweat. Jim is deeply annoyed and he do do this with the headphones or is it no, there's sound coming from the TV and I want. 00:20:30 Speaker 3: You're like, you get to play piano for one hour? 00:20:32 Speaker 2: If I get to play what is it called ring fit adventure. I hope I'm getting somebody send me some money or something for talking about ring fit adventure. Yeah, yeah, really, I like, I'm not somebody who enjoys exercise at all. In fact, exercise usually makes me like legitimately angry. While I'm exercising, I think because like maybe adrenaline is kicked in and I'm mad. But this, I'm like concentrating on running through the forest or what have you, and incredible. I think I've run like twelve miles in my apartment at this point. It's insane. I've run twelve miles in my farm. I don't know what's happening. 00:21:12 Speaker 3: You're scurrying for the cure. 00:21:14 Speaker 2: I am scurrying for the cure. I'll scurry. I was gonna mention I forgot to tell you that I did have a rat as a pet in first grade. I so I am a to bury the lead bridge. I know it was, you know, it was at the height of Ninja turtles mania, and I wanted a turtle, but my mom told me I would get salmonilla poisoning. So for whatever reason, she thought it would be better to get a rat. The animal loan to carry the most disease. So I had this rat and because there's of course a rat character in the Ninja Turtles, and then it escaped to live in our garage. I think got rabies. I mean, and that's when the fear of this creature began because you know, oh you know, the rat turned on me. So there you go. I can't I've now revealed that rats can get breast cancer and they can escape. So I'm I feel like maybe it's not a great pet. 00:22:09 Speaker 3: We might be living in the Year of the Rat. Oh is this the Year of the Red No, it might be peg I may have been born in the Year of the Rat. 00:22:15 Speaker 2: I'm not. I can't be sure. What is that? I feel like you would you should know this. I know that's that's a lot of pressure. There's a lot of pressure to put on you. 00:22:26 Speaker 3: We've dubbed the correct answer and post. It's just a rob voice going Year of the Lion. Okay, there's no is there. 00:22:35 Speaker 2: Well, you did mention that you came by my place. Yesterday, and it was the first time I had seen you since the collapse of Earth, right, and you know, of course this podcast is called I said no gifts and so and we've been in touch, you know, since all this began. And then we of course got in touch about you being on this podcast, and you mentioned you asked for my mailing address, and I foolishly just gave it to you. I don't know, I'm maybe I'm naive. I didn't know how dangerous I was, right, you know, and foolishly I gave it. And then, uh, you started contacting me in the last few days as the podcast closed in, and you you mentioned that you had you had purchased a gift online for me, and of course my blood started to simmer. I wouldn't say boil, but did begin to simmer. I had told you no gifts. Fine, whatever, We'll still do the podcast. Then as the time closes in, you say the gift is in Reno. So I'm thinking Lizzie is going to all this trouble. I what's happening? Then you say, can I come by your house? Yesterday? You come by. You're holding this beautifully wrapped what I assume it's a it looks to be a gift is but the gift, the item from Reno hasn't even arrived. So now, oh, Lizzie, are these gifts? I just have to ask, are these gifts for me? These gifts are for you? Richard? Oh, okay, these gifts are should I do you want me to? I mean, obviously the one is still we're getting back to Rena. We flagged that it's still between Reno and Los Angeles. 00:24:18 Speaker 3: Right but spinning on a Russian roulette table right now, it's having the time of its life. 00:24:25 Speaker 2: Have you been to Reno? I don't know. You've been driven through Reno? Okay, I've been to Reno a couple times. I was there in fourth grade. I went on a business trip with my dad. We drove from Salt Lake to Boise to Reno. 00:24:38 Speaker 3: You're like it was for my business. My dad just came along. 00:24:42 Speaker 2: Child gambler. I had a rat vaccination company. It was a conference for rat vaccinations and children gamblers. No I did. I guess I did do child gambling there because we went to Circus Circus, which is famously the casino for children, and I, you know, won a lot of stuffed animals. That's all I can really recall. Really, Reno, that's so funny. I never knew that's what circus circus was. I mean it's it's like it is a casino, but they also have like a giant arcade facility, like a trash. 00:25:18 Speaker 3: There was one in my Okay, so are all the other circus circuses like rip like is it are they? 00:25:24 Speaker 2: Is it a chain? 00:25:25 Speaker 3: I don't. 00:25:26 Speaker 2: I know there's one in Las Vegas, and I want I'm at least as of me in fourth grade, there was one in Reno. 00:25:34 Speaker 3: This is an urgent comment below. Please circus circus casino casino or not casino casino, that's another casino. Circus circus owners, reach out, let us know if you're still in business. Just whatever other details might be pertinent to this conversation. Are you thinking of another circus circus or are you thinking of well, there was one in Minnesota that was an arcade. Oh that was just called circus circus. That it was called circus circus, and like were they ripped? Like was this a I mean it had you been the same company? 00:26:06 Speaker 2: Why is it called circus circus? Is that a reference to something? Am I missing a pun or I don't understand why it couldn't just be called Circus or Circus hotel, Circus zone or circus. So I don't know. It may be a chain for all we know. I mean, I'm willing to do the research and put in the time. Okay, that will have to happen. Yeah, I am curious. But as far as I know, the two circus circuses and I don't know i've been in both, but I have both our casinos and both are for children as well. Okay, this one wasn't a casino okay yet. 00:26:44 Speaker 3: Okay, right, until you get your hands on it. I would love to become a casino owner. Never give up, Never give up, do you Campbell? I really enjoy slot machine. 00:27:00 Speaker 2: Oh interesting, I. 00:27:01 Speaker 3: Think they're fun. I like the ones with a theme, right, you know. I did pretty well on a Wizard of Oz one once. 00:27:07 Speaker 2: Oh you're kidding, that's great where. 00:27:09 Speaker 3: The Emerald City music would come on. And then I went to Vegas with friends once and actually, yeah, it was a Russian roulette where you throw. 00:27:17 Speaker 2: The dice right right, Well, I think that's actually just called ulette. I think Russian roulette is the one that involves suicide. Wait, I feel like it's called something else. Oh, yeah, Russian. 00:27:28 Speaker 3: I put an apple on my head and my friends shot it off. 00:27:33 Speaker 2: Here. 00:27:34 Speaker 3: Let me show you the scar. Oh I forgot this is a podcast. We'll put the scar on Instagram. 00:27:42 Speaker 2: Lindsey had one of her ears blown clean up in the middle of a crowded casino. No, the game with the spinning wheel is roulette? Okay, that game. I was doing well on it. I think I made a couple hundred dollars. And my friend told me they sent some when to cool off the Oh the cooler. Yes, yes, I didn't want to say cooler because I was thinking, is. 00:28:08 Speaker 3: That I think that's what they're called, right, Yes, I think it is. 00:28:11 Speaker 2: I don't know why they sent a cooler. 00:28:13 Speaker 3: To change the energy, and it did change the energy. And as soon as they said yeah, they sent that guy over to stand next to you. 00:28:21 Speaker 2: I wonder what that is. Is that superstition or is that just like to make the gambler nervous or. 00:28:27 Speaker 3: I think it's real because it's also the kind of thing where once you also, I think, admit to yourself that you're winning, that's when it. 00:28:34 Speaker 2: Starts to go downhill. Right. 00:28:37 Speaker 3: That's probably hugely superstitious and a metaphor for my life. Whatever I think I'm on a roll, I think. 00:28:48 Speaker 2: It's actually true. A moment that you're like, oh, things are going well, things will absolutely fall apart right the minute you admit it. 00:28:55 Speaker 3: Or yes, you know saying I'm writing a best selling novel, you'll ever write another word? 00:29:01 Speaker 2: Oh of course not. Of course, You've got. 00:29:02 Speaker 3: Things have to stoke their power a little bit. 00:29:04 Speaker 2: Yes, you've got to have that little bit of hopelessness or uh fear. Yes, I'm creates a heat. Yeah, I'm imagining you at a wizard of a slot machine and I'm sending a cooler for that situation. I wonder what that looks. Do they have coolers for slot machines. Somebody just sits next to you and starts smoking heavily, or what, I don't know. 00:29:27 Speaker 3: Someone in a shredded shirt that says, just do it with a cigarette with a three inch ash hanging off. 00:29:44 Speaker 2: The gift is obviously, we've got to get back to this gift here because I don't want to. We've got to get into it. Just do it. I'm going to open this. I'm going to open this on the podcast, and oh my god, I also just want to say, I can't believe that there's also something coming from Reno. I mean, yes, this is the backup share. I cannot there should you know? But so this is a I said no gifts first, where this is one of two items and we'll have to do an update in the future or something. 00:30:10 Speaker 3: And they're gonna say where there was the most difficult bow to one tie in the history guests. 00:30:16 Speaker 2: My hands are bleeding. Okay, I'm opening this white bag. That's this beautiful gold ribbon. We'll hold it out near the microphone. Oh, it seems like there are two items. Was the gift? That's not a bad idea. 00:30:35 Speaker 3: People who tell you to keep the bow. Oh, I've never had that done away the passive aggressive. I did pay extra for the bow. 00:30:46 Speaker 2: I will say. I'm I actually am, especially not on a podcast when I'm opening a gift. Maybe too careful unwrapping gifts. I'm very I opened them ginger. They try to protect the paper. I don't know where that's coming from. But there are two items in here. I'm take out the first one. Okay, See it's wrapped in tissue. I could smell something through the tissue, So I who knows what this could possibly be. Ooh, this is some sort of crystal bridger. 00:31:16 Speaker 3: This is a tower of selenite. 00:31:20 Speaker 2: This is beautiful. Tell me about this. I mean, I'm truly just like my breath has been taken away because it's genuinely it's a large crystal or I mean, you'll explain what it is, but it's like it's got a good density to it, and it's almost like a little ice fortress or something. 00:31:38 Speaker 1: Hmmm. 00:31:39 Speaker 3: By the way, I haven't seen this yet because I just said, do you have anything. I mean, I described what I wanted, and so I'm seeing it for the first time too. 00:31:47 Speaker 2: Oh okay, well I'm gonna hold it up to the camera. Oh wow, take a look. 00:31:50 Speaker 3: At it looks like the planet Krypton. 00:31:53 Speaker 2: Right. I could you could easily build some sort of fortress deep within these walls and live there for eternity. I want to smell it. I love that. Well, this is a companion piece. Also. 00:32:07 Speaker 3: I think it might be the other other things that was letting off the scent, which I did notice when I handed you the bag and thought I'm really giving it away here. 00:32:14 Speaker 2: I didn't smell it. I don't know if you'll know what. 00:32:16 Speaker 3: The other item is either, I think you will, but I don't know. 00:32:19 Speaker 2: Tell me about this item. 00:32:21 Speaker 3: So this item, it is used for clearing energy, okay, and it's a crystal that's used. So we were talking about moving and the possibility of being moving recently. 00:32:37 Speaker 2: You and I are both kind of in the process, and. 00:32:38 Speaker 3: We are both in the process of moving, and so these are both things for a new home and to put this in to kind of clear out the old energy. 00:32:46 Speaker 2: Oh that's great. 00:32:48 Speaker 3: And there are also people who after they have you know, by the way, this whole gift could be called placebo effect. 00:32:55 Speaker 2: However, I think there's value. There's a lot of value to a ebo effects. 00:33:01 Speaker 3: I do too, And so there are videos on Selenight of people kind of moving it around their bodies. Okay, maybe after a toxic interaction or something that you just kind of want to let go of this after this podcast, After this podcast, Lizzie brought a dark energy and I have got to clear that away for sure. You basically would like move it around your body as soon as we hang up, and it'll cut you know, psychic chords between us. It'll kind of give you just like a feeling of like purity. 00:33:36 Speaker 2: Oh and maybe I can. Maybe this will also be kind of a removal of my current apartment complex, because it does have its ups and downs, and there are a lot of downs that will eventually have to be removed once I get out of here. But the feel of this is so lovely in my fingers. It's kind of just barely rough. I wish you could feel it some days you will. 00:33:59 Speaker 3: You're like eating, gonna love chewing on this thing. 00:34:02 Speaker 2: You see me toss it often, you immediately my dog is just destroying this crystal. I wouldn't be surprised. You know, she eats a lot of paper, so no, I feel like this is not something she's gonna want to eat. But usually, I mean I've received I have received a couple of crystals from other friends, which are usually about you know this big, and they're kind of things that get put in my desk drawer, and I mean, God bless the friends that have given them. Sure, but this is almost a little you know, this can be placed displayed. It's beautiful. 00:34:35 Speaker 3: I'm like, it's sculptural. Like I tell you what's good about the gift? The person who tells you you know, you could also use it for him pizza dough roller dough roller. Well, I don't think I'm gonna use it as a Dora, you know what. I use it for curly iron. That's me though she can do anything, bangs around it. Now, you you are are a bit of a crystal collector? Is that correct? I'm going to say crystals are not a big part of my rappertoire. This is you know I have crystals. 00:35:10 Speaker 2: Okay, I put. 00:35:13 Speaker 3: One in my bra ones that fell out at the Glendel Galleria. So I'm doing to put this crystal in my bra. No, what was law somewhere in an H and M dressing room at the moment? 00:35:23 Speaker 2: What was the goal of having that in your bra? It's quarantining there. 00:35:29 Speaker 3: I don't remember. 00:35:31 Speaker 2: I truly don't remember. 00:35:32 Speaker 3: It was a small one. 00:35:33 Speaker 2: Though, I mean that sounds so ut. 00:35:36 Speaker 3: Obviously my love life was at a low point. A man undresses me and just crystals just pour out of my bosone just this treasure trove. He's just buried in jewels. Scrooge McDuck. Would you feel the crystal in your bra or did you forget? 00:36:01 Speaker 2: No? 00:36:01 Speaker 3: It was like I think it was pretty flat. 00:36:03 Speaker 2: So I've had crystals. They aren't. 00:36:05 Speaker 3: You know, I am more of a and I'm in the thing is you know I have there two I have two sides like everyone part of you know, I hold skepticism. 00:36:15 Speaker 2: You're very too faced. 00:36:17 Speaker 3: I'm extremely two faced. Watch out listeners after this podcast, I hang up and I go on. I said, gifts please. 00:36:28 Speaker 2: Just like that. No, but you do have I think this is an interesting thing about you because I think you can explain. But you have a deep interest in a lot of this sort of world. But I feel like there's also y a skepticism maybe, right, I do Taro. I make fun of Taro, right. 00:36:47 Speaker 3: Also, I mean I just don't like to take anything really too seriously. 00:36:52 Speaker 2: However, Taro for. 00:36:53 Speaker 3: Me is less about you know, telling someone what will happen in their future and more about just like a snapsh of the moment, right, And I just think it's a really fun thing to do, and if you find meaning in it that it can help you and guide you and maybe cause you to become more in tune with your own feelings based on the images before you. 00:37:16 Speaker 2: Right, it's just a moment to reflect and think about what's going on now. Yes, and then maybe if there's like a peek into the future. You can enjoy it and maybe not count on it. In the future, you a seductive future. You've read my Taro before you? We were in a tiki bar and springs and it was fantastically were you do an excellent job reading Tarot? 00:37:44 Speaker 3: Thank you? 00:37:45 Speaker 2: I love doing that. Don't you do Taro? You do it on Cameo? Right? 00:37:49 Speaker 3: I do Taro on Cameo as Ruth Badergensburg. 00:37:53 Speaker 2: Incredible. 00:37:53 Speaker 3: And I also do it as this character. I do Mountain Schwartz, right, so you can get guys. 00:37:59 Speaker 2: I mean there's a menu of options. You like that with a headset right now? Is so funny, like you're in a drive through window. 00:38:09 Speaker 3: I know. 00:38:13 Speaker 2: No you have you had any weird interactions on Cameo? Has it been? What's that experience been? 00:38:19 Speaker 3: Like? Well, I've enjoyed it for the most part. Oh great, I will say it is kind of you know. I did raise my price slightly because I was charging you know, fifteen dollars or something and I'd have to like do a reading, put on makeup and on these days where I feel like I just don't want to arrive and appear anywhere, right, so, but yeah. 00:38:44 Speaker 2: I do enjoy it. Oh, I should order a cameo from you. Maybe that's my next step. 00:38:50 Speaker 3: Also, Ruth Bader Ginsburg health has been shaky. I know it's been bad for business. I'm kidding, That's what I'm like, Please, Ruth, stay alive. I should I open the next element of this gift? Yeah, I think I think you should. Okay, let's because it ties into the first. 00:39:15 Speaker 2: It's a little bit lighter. It can be a little more careful with this. 00:39:19 Speaker 3: Yeah, okay, we're opening. 00:39:22 Speaker 2: We're opening, We're opening. I don't want to just. 00:39:25 Speaker 3: I can smell it through zoom. Oh, this is beautiful. This is a beautiful Is it sage? 00:39:33 Speaker 2: It is sage? This is I've like been given free sage by like a hotel i'll stay at, which is about two like an inch long. This is like a genuinely beautiful sage. Thank you? 00:39:46 Speaker 3: Do you? Uh? 00:39:47 Speaker 2: Do you say your apartment? Thank you for. 00:39:51 Speaker 3: Loving the thing I have not glimpsed or picked out. 00:39:54 Speaker 2: On my own. It smells incredible. It smells beyond sage. Actually, it's like, I wonder there's another it's sage an herb. What is sage? 00:40:03 Speaker 3: Sage is an herb, and it was actually originally I believe used as a healing herb by I think the Egyptians for like digestive help, and then I think Native Americans were the first to use it for smudging and clearing energies of new spaces. 00:40:20 Speaker 2: Oh okay, so is sage ever ending up in food? Yes, I'm trying to think of what food you put so right, I don't know. I think I don't know very. 00:40:31 Speaker 3: I think it might be in competition with Rosemary. 00:40:33 Speaker 2: A little bit. Oh, but you're never going to Rosemary your apartment. But to see you're never. 00:40:38 Speaker 3: Going to Rosemary, how do you know you're putting these limits on yourself? You're always putting these limits. 00:40:47 Speaker 2: No, the great thing about sage is that you obviously has kind of these new age or whatever properties, but it also has the wonderful Both of these actually have the wonderful element of being just practically nice. One will make your home or apartments smell nice. Baseline, that's what you're getting. If you get the supernatural properties or what have you fantastic. 00:41:12 Speaker 3: Well, the reason I added this Selenite tower, honestly, it was because I was like, oh, I'll get him a big Okay, I'm not gonna lie. I did text your boyfriend Jim, and I asked him what your birthday was, because I was going to do your birth chart. Oh then, now this is my journey with all. I like that I'll peek behind the curtain of a gift. After finding out that your gift was living it up in Las Vegas, I called the shipper. I called ups. They told me to call each other and I was like, you know what, that's not good enough. We're going to take this to the next level. Called Jim. I was about to do you a birth chart, and I said, let me just make sure my printer that I haven't used once since I've lived in this apartment, it's still going and it's not. 00:42:00 Speaker 2: It was shooting blanks. You get like everyone gets like four uses out of a printer that should just be put on printed on the box. Printer is the biggest scam of all time, Like, how have we not gotten the technology that to get an efficient printer? By now? I don't understand. 00:42:17 Speaker 3: I know, I try anyway, Okay, so the awesome Then I thought, oh the what about sling for his apartment? That I thought sage And then I had an image of you lighting it on fire and Jim going, what are you doing? And I'm not saying Jim. Jim's open and wonderful and beautiful, but. 00:42:38 Speaker 2: Also some reason highly emotional and reactive. Let's just be honest. 00:42:44 Speaker 3: I was like, what if Printer was just like smoking up like I don't know, or what if there was something, you know? And so I thought, well, let me give them something just really solid to balance it out. Right, They have options, let me do options for clearing this. 00:43:00 Speaker 2: Well, I think I can do both. I've said I think you see my miniature stages before to great success, especially when our downstairs neighbors were just smoking. They're gone now, but you know they, oh they were, I think they were running a bar or something. You do you remember the smell? 00:43:18 Speaker 3: Yes, it was like you know Abercrombie pumps cologne, your neighbor pumps weed directly into your herb. 00:43:26 Speaker 2: But then it got beyond weed and it was just cigarette smoke, and it was just like, at least weed has like some level of it smells kind of like a plant or something. But uh, when it got to cigarettes, it's just like, well, now you're just assaulting me. This is yeah, that's not good. But they're gone now and I wish them the best they were. 00:43:45 Speaker 3: Have you not been going out on your balcony? 00:43:48 Speaker 2: Have I not been going out? Have you been going out? 00:43:50 Speaker 3: Sorry, I'm only asking things in negative double negatives. 00:43:54 Speaker 2: Now have you not been not going outside? You're the riddle master? Oh what? 00:44:02 Speaker 3: Speaking of what I remember? I was like, oh, right, you were riddles for the other present. 00:44:05 Speaker 2: You can guess you have a riddle. 00:44:08 Speaker 3: I only wrote three lines and then I was like, I can't come rhyme. I read it like, okay, so okay, it begins in the morning with ink that is storming and with weeks of transforming. Okay, be the bees will be swarming. It begins in the morning with ink that is storming, with ink that is storming, and with weeks of transforming. 00:44:37 Speaker 2: Weeks of transforming. And is it the fourth line that would have helped me get to the result? Here? 00:44:44 Speaker 3: There's one I could have given you that would give it all away. 00:44:47 Speaker 2: Oh and you couldn't find. 00:44:49 Speaker 3: The Oh no, I can't think of something that rhymes with it. Oh what kind of it's it's a little bit along the deliverability lines. 00:44:56 Speaker 2: Okay, kind of work right. 00:44:59 Speaker 3: From once and she does the same from Once you were Borning. 00:45:07 Speaker 2: That's going to give it away? Oh is this set letters from my mother? Is that what? The answer is? Close? Really, you're very close ink swarming transforming. 00:45:22 Speaker 3: It begins in the morning with ink that is storming ink, and with weeks of transforming, and with waves of transforming from She also does it from Once you were Born. Oh, I think I think you're close. 00:45:41 Speaker 2: Tell me, Fridger, I have to know. I got you a copy of The Artist's Way. Oh is that the next thing that's coming? Yeah, oh my god, that's great. My mom does the art. Sorry, I say she checked it out at the library. I hope. And if she's listening to this, mom, I hope you've now purchased a copyright than depending on it. Yes, bless the library. But this is a book you need a copy of just in your life. 00:46:07 Speaker 3: You need a copy of it also because you need to write in your own copy. Right now, let me tell you I have four copies of The Artist's Way. 00:46:16 Speaker 2: Why do you have four? I don't know. 00:46:18 Speaker 3: Someone thought, oh Lizzie loves this, I'll get her the twenty five year edition. Oh sure, I maybe accidentally took someone else's. But every copy I have, except the hardcover one is just torn to shreds because I've used it so much. 00:46:33 Speaker 2: Oh, I'm so excited about this. 00:46:35 Speaker 3: And I also saw that your mom was doing it and did these beautiful paint drawings or paintings of these mushrooms. Oh right. 00:46:42 Speaker 2: She's been sending me postcards like once a week of just beautiful paintings of mushrooms. And I think she's really enjoyed it. Maybe it's my turn. I won't be painted. I feel like I don't know, Okay, I'm very excited to dive into the artists way. 00:46:59 Speaker 3: You're one of the most creating of people. 00:47:00 Speaker 2: I know. 00:47:00 Speaker 3: It's not like we're like God, We've got to find a direction for Britain. 00:47:05 Speaker 2: They got to get. 00:47:06 Speaker 3: Bridge out of this depressive rut. But it helps me whenever I'm stuck. Right, it kind of stirs the pod a little bit, and they're like the little activities you do, like go on it. It's kind of a spiritual path. It's actually modeled after aa Oh interesting the woman who wrote it. I believe she started drinking while she was writing and she needed to kind of tease everything else, right, and she went to AA. Her name is Julia Cameron. She's a playwright and I believe a screenwriter. And she went to AA and then she modeled this recovery for blocked artists. Okay after AA. So it's a very emotional, it's healing. Wow, that's you know, in one chapter, list five, like list your grievances or why can't you believe in a supportive higher power? 00:48:02 Speaker 2: Tell me why? Right? 00:48:05 Speaker 3: And so it's kind of while you're doing these you do morning pages every day, three pages stream of consciousness, which I've been doing for a very long time, which is why I've become a notebook hoorder. And that all has to be done handwritten, right, I do it by hand. Yeah, because it's a different it connects in a different way. Right. 00:48:24 Speaker 2: You can't do it as quickly. You have to think through more or whatever. 00:48:28 Speaker 3: Yes, I actually looked this up because I am dealing with a notebook overload. 00:48:34 Speaker 2: Oh sure, you just have boxes and boxes of them. 00:48:37 Speaker 3: I have so many of them, and part of me thinks I should just throw them away. But have actually, you know, also written stuff I kind of like in these notebooks. So I went on the minimalist. You know, there's that minimalist podcast. And someone asked them what do I do with all my old journals? And they said, start writing them on a computer. Oh so you like digital transfer to just write like type on a computer. 00:49:02 Speaker 2: Oh like start. 00:49:03 Speaker 3: Now. 00:49:04 Speaker 2: I don't know that that's a great idea. 00:49:05 Speaker 3: I don't think so either. And I was like, you know what, I'm not going to make these guys be artists too on top of everything. Yeah, I feel like I guess that is just essentially blogging to this person is yes, person is just telling you to blog, and exactly, it's not two thousand and seven. 00:49:24 Speaker 2: No, it's not. Get get out your pen, get out your paper. You've got to get it out. That's good. 00:49:30 Speaker 3: You've got to write about the peacock infestations happening in your neighborhood. 00:49:34 Speaker 2: Think of it. You know, there's not a lot going on right now, but try to find something happening and write it down. Yes, Lizzie, I have to say it's time to move on. In the podcast, I feel like we're going to set sale the gift or not the gift the game portion of the podcast. Maybe we should have some sort of light wind here. Maybe we set sale. That would be nice soothing wind Sam, maybe no game today. We are going to play the game. We are going to play. I'm here to confuse you. That's my I said no games. So I think with you. I think we're going to play the game gift Master. To play that game. First of all, I need a number between one and ten from you. Oh god, eight, okay eight? Right now I have to go calculate the part of the game that you'll be playing with. So right now you've got the microphone. Promote yourself, promote something, recommend something, do whatever you want with this time. I'll be right going to do that right now. 00:50:37 Speaker 3: I am taking or finished, actually the David Lynch master Class. I recommend it so strongly, so highly. He talks about turning off all distractions for four hours a day, which I've been doing daily twelve to four. I'll admit sometimes I up, but I like it. What can I plug? I have a podcast called Lizzie Cooperman's Home Alone four. It's a weekly podcast, and I am on episode four, I think, the fourth episode on this season of Corporate, in an episode written by the one and only Bridger Winner. Bridger, am I just saying these plugs like this cart will definitely be deleted. 00:51:29 Speaker 2: No. 00:51:30 Speaker 3: Oh, I'm like, is this like, okay, no, you go play in that room. 00:51:37 Speaker 2: And no, well you've got we'll look at whatever you do. So do what you need to do. 00:51:45 Speaker 3: Okay. Another thing I'm doing is I'm taking a UCLA class right now. I'm writing my memoir because apparently I'm ninety years old, and I am really enjoying it and it's very challenging. I'm really trying to crack open the structure. And I'm also listening to an audio book on memoir by Natalie Goldberg, who actually pronounces it memoir, which really sounds like a spicy soup to me. Okay, I love some memoir. Very interesting. You kind of did all sorts of things at that time, which is very nice to hear. We've got some self promotion, we got promotion for other things. I think that's a good use of the time. So am I rat business? 00:52:44 Speaker 2: Your rat business has got The pandemic has been bad for your rat business. We do not want to close down. No, but I will say Home Alone four is an excellent podcast to listen to. You've got to listen to. I didn't hear everything you said, but your your organism is so funny. Look at album organism. Yeah, if she has an album called the Organism, it's so funny, you will be like, moment to moment you will be laughing. But we're about to play the game, Leslie, so buckle up. Okay, Okay, So I'm going to name three gifts, three potential gifts, and then three celebrities. You have to tell me which celebrity you will give which gift bridget. 00:53:26 Speaker 3: I might have to turn on my phone to google celebrities because I don't know who anyone is. 00:53:30 Speaker 2: I think you'll know and I'll have some context on some level. Okay. The gifts are a desert cottage, a mop bucket, a bucket, a mop bucket, and a huge microwave. 00:53:47 Speaker 3: Now it's like, when have you ever heard of a mock bucket, like a fake bucket. It's like an example bucket. This is no handle would be if we produce the bucket. This is what essentially what it looks like. No, it's a mop for mopping. And now I think I can't remember if we've used a huge microwave in the past in Gift Master, but if we have, it's back on the menu. 00:54:13 Speaker 2: Huge microwave. Now the people you're going to be giving These two are Steve Harvey, so you know, talk show host, kind of obnoxious personality, Steve Harvey, let's see here, Rivers Cuomo, who a lead singer of Weezer. Rivers Cuomo kind of another interesting personality type. And finally, Danny Treyjo actor Danny Treyjo. We all love and know Danny Trayho who also runs you know, various taco and donuts donut establishments around Los Angeles. So those are the three people, all men. So I apologize for that, but we're looking at A Rivers Cuomo, Steve Harvey. 00:54:57 Speaker 3: Yeah, okay, I have one already. 00:55:00 Speaker 2: Okay, let's hear it. 00:55:03 Speaker 3: The first one is Steve Harvey definitely gets the mop bucket, okay. And why because I feel like while he's doing his thing and he's out there, he can go hello or something like that, like through the mop bucket. Like I feel like you can use it as on my megaphone. You go ahead it and be like come on right a percuss. 00:55:20 Speaker 2: Yes. 00:55:20 Speaker 3: I feel like he could use the mop bucket to enhance his monologue, make a strike it, to make a point. And this is you, and this is you men. And then I'll put the mop pocket on his side and be like, and this is you guys with the mop pucket on your head. You're acting around you're a woman or whatever you talk about men and women, right. 00:55:42 Speaker 2: You know, terrible? Wait, do a one man show with that. 00:55:45 Speaker 3: He could be the woman then mopping stereotypical woman mopping the kitchen. 00:55:49 Speaker 2: Then the guy comes home, right, Or I can see Steve turning a mop over, you know, like people do, and treating that as the woman on stage. He feels in line with his kind of comedy. Seve, if you're listening, we're willing to produce the sexist special that you've got. I think that's an excellent first call there. You're giving Steve everything he needs to continue doing what he does. Okay, the microwave goes to rivers. Okay? 00:56:15 Speaker 3: And why the reason is microwaves are music? Oh interesting, And I think you could do really interesting things. 00:56:26 Speaker 2: You could call a song like potato two. 00:56:28 Speaker 3: Okay, when I make a baked potato and I hit potato twice, right, Like, that's a great name for song. 00:56:34 Speaker 2: Potato twice Potato. It starts out and it. 00:56:36 Speaker 3: Goes beep beep and then R and then the song. 00:56:41 Speaker 2: Okay, I think that's a decent use the microwave as an instrument river school. Yes, there you go, Danny. I want you to have it all. You want Danny to have it all. I want Danny to Danny. 00:56:56 Speaker 3: Oh, by the way, please wear bug spray if you go to a desert conic. You've had experiences? 00:57:03 Speaker 2: Yes, I've had. 00:57:06 Speaker 3: Yes, I'm like, do we This leads into another hour long podcast about lime disease. I think the bottom line is when you're out in the wilderness, yes, practice take safety right well, I mean people need to be protecting themselves from me. I am telling you this is a PSA. Tuck your pants into your socks. Oh, absolutely too hot out, don't go stay home. 00:57:34 Speaker 2: Trust me. A tick bite does nothing to fool around with. 00:57:36 Speaker 3: It's nothing to fool around. Get the medication immediately, thirty days minimum of doxy cycling. Okay, there you go, Danny from Lizzie Cooperman MD. Listen to that Danny Treye in your desert cottage. I wouldn't he already owns one. If he does, great, you can have another. I don't know what to do. I wonder if he has a taco restaurant too in Hollywood. It's called Trey Host. I'm going to be almost not world class tacos, but they're fine, right right, they're a little You can find a better taco in Los Angeles, Danny, right solid, and get the cottage, and get the cottage. Okay, get to yourself. 00:58:16 Speaker 2: Okay. I think you did a really good job there, everybody. You did it efficiently, you did it with care, and I think those men are all going to enjoy their new gifts. And so we're gonna move on. The winds are blowing again. We're moving on to I Said No Questions. This is the part of the podcast where people have been writing into I Said No Gifts at gmail dot com. They are desperate for answers. They need to know they have questions about gifts to give people in their lives or that sort of Huh. Let's answer a couple of questions really quickly. Here we'll try to get through them. Okay. First of all, this one says Bridger, two of my good friends are pregnant right now, and I'm bummed that I won't be able to hold the babies when they arrived because of the apocalypse. I want to get each of them something, because as soon as you become a mom, everything becomes about the baby. Obviously, I would like to be friends with both of these babies, so perhaps they deserve presents too. What are your thoughts? Thank you? Jordan in Ontario. Jordan in Ontario is looking to get her friends, so I guess she the babies are coming, but she wants to get the mothers a gift. Is that what I thought you're saying. But I can't hold them, Well, she can't hold them, that's part of that. She's bummed about that, but she wants to get the gifts. I have an idea. Okay, let's hear it. Oh, get the. 00:59:34 Speaker 3: Baby a onesie, but then get your arm sculptures of your arms coming out the armhole. So stuff it with a torso too, like plastic kill your embrace. That's what this baby needs right now. Is kind of the mannequin's touch exactly. Sorry, I didn't mean to make light of it, and I do want to think of a good guest. 01:00:00 Speaker 2: I feel like, uh, to get the mother. These moms are gonna want some They're gonna want something relaxing. I think right now they're about to give birth. They're going and they're also probably gonna have to go to you know, not to bum everybody out, but to extra lockdown hospitals that sort of thing. So it's probably deeply stressful. So what do you get a new mother who needs to relax. 01:00:26 Speaker 3: Well, I'm gonna say I am, unlike a lot of people and guests I've heard on the podcast, I like the most basic gift possible. 01:00:36 Speaker 2: And what do you mean. 01:00:37 Speaker 3: I love a candle, I love a sock, I love a bath salt. 01:00:42 Speaker 2: Okay, Yeah, just things that you are you're gonna use no matter what, right, and if they're not crappy, equality you'll use them. Don't chip on the things, but to put some care into them. But they're basic things that we all use at some point. Bath salt's interesting. That might be something you know, your body is tired, you're exhausted from giving. 01:01:01 Speaker 3: Birth, or maybe something to distract a baby, because especially now where you can't leave your. 01:01:08 Speaker 2: House, right and you're. 01:01:11 Speaker 3: Something for them, Yeah, to distract, Like I would get some kind of baby Einstein thing that goes ding ding ding or whatever that a baby will just stare at for hours. Get a baby a flat screen TV to learn it. 01:01:27 Speaker 2: I think, I think that's a gift that can be enjoyed by mother and baby. Just a huge TV. That's a really funny baby gift to sit people would be so amused. Just say the inevitable, Okay, I think, Okay, Jordan, send them either a television, bat salts, a candle, or I think a robe. A robe. Yeah, I think a nice robe right now? Why aren't Why isn't everybody in a robe all the time? Anyway? 01:02:06 Speaker 3: Wow, So send them some. Maybe the baby gets a robe because I was arrested for that once. I'm kidding, Jordan. We're moving on. 01:02:17 Speaker 2: I don't feel like we give you that good of advice, but you're That's what happens when you write into me. Now. Next up, Dear Bridger and Guest, my husband will be turning thirty five soon and I need help choosing a gift. In the past couple of years, I've done a painting of him and one of our cats, and a book of encouragement where I got all of our friends to say thoughtful and sweet things about him and put it in a book. Now I have to I feel like I have to one up myself every year. He likes video games, writing, and our cats. Please help. That's from Ari in Minnesota. Ari. Uh, that's where I'm from. Ari is looking to get their husband a gift, trying to one up that Ari. First off, First off, that is a losing game. You're going to destroy yourself. You can't one up yourself every year. 01:03:04 Speaker 3: What have you gotten for Jim? What's the what was the last birthday? Last birthday gift? I feel like he was he was on tour and I got him. I think I got him an iPad, but that may have been for Christmas. He needed something to work on and or like to FaceTime with and that sort of thing, and so I think I got him n an iPad and earbuds like wireless earbuds and those he used a lot. But those are also just kind of they're just practical things. They weren't super thoughtful in a way. I mean, speaking of video games all ry, I don't know, get the Ring Fit Adventure. This has become the this is uh well we've already talked about this on the podcast. 01:03:49 Speaker 2: I'm now just literally turning this into a sponsor to. 01:03:52 Speaker 3: Add I think still the ones with mannequin arms. 01:03:56 Speaker 2: Yes, what husband doesn't want to be kind of cradled in a onesie. The cats though, and. 01:04:04 Speaker 3: The wait, there's a can you say again what the husband's interests are? Oh? 01:04:09 Speaker 2: Yeah, of course video games, writing and cats. So and he's turning thirty five, so of course we've also already just talked about the artist's way, So if the husband has used that before or not, that could be a gift the cats. Is there a cat tree, a cat condo, a cat toy. I'm gonna be a cat food. 01:04:34 Speaker 3: I'm going to go ahead and say a year's worth of master classes or. 01:04:39 Speaker 2: One master Oh this is also the master class sponsored thought. 01:04:43 Speaker 3: I've taken every class and done every program. I'm a mess without direction. I don't have someone saying this is what you need to do every morning. 01:04:54 Speaker 2: What is the most valuable thing? 01:04:56 Speaker 3: I will just turn to sludge immediately? What have you learned from masterclass? Let's saying I did the David Lynch master class, right. I just felt emboldened by it. Okay, honestly a little worried that I'm too bold for the podcast rank. 01:05:16 Speaker 2: Now wait, it really emboldened me. 01:05:19 Speaker 3: I have gray smoke curling out of my ears as I speak. 01:05:23 Speaker 2: I feel emboldened. Does David Lynch also have a book? Did you mention that in this in your promotion Catching the Big Fish? Is that what it's called? I didn't. 01:05:33 Speaker 3: I didn't talk about that, but I have read that book. 01:05:35 Speaker 2: Is that valuable? And I do own it? Okay, that might be something worth looking into it for a writer. Imodate anybody by my ownership of a book. I'm like and I do happen I own a single book. 01:05:46 Speaker 3: Have a copy of the David Lynch Masterclass? 01:05:52 Speaker 2: I was saying. 01:05:52 Speaker 3: He tells you to turn your phone off every day or to not be distracted for four hours a day. 01:05:58 Speaker 2: Oh, very valuable. I started doing extremely. Yes, I've cheated a few times. Okay, as everybody with right, that's a great little piece of advice that you know, Yeah, I mean, I guess, yeah, I mean, maybe we just take six hours more on this podcast and kind of or just call me an. 01:06:16 Speaker 3: I'll spew regurgitated. 01:06:19 Speaker 2: Less and say spill the most. Let's get a summary of the master classes. That's the husband, that's the gift you give your husband. Ay. A cameo from Lizzie as Ruth Bader Ginsburg revealing everything she's learned through masterclass. 01:06:34 Speaker 3: The master classes they have Judy Blue like they've they have all different writers from all different genres. 01:06:41 Speaker 2: Not everybody. Yeah, I ever used it. I can't. 01:06:44 Speaker 3: James Tatterson, Malcolm Gladwell, Aaron Sorkin. 01:06:49 Speaker 2: What are they paying these people? 01:06:50 Speaker 3: Billy Collins, Margaret Atwood has one. 01:06:53 Speaker 2: I know an hour long? What's the deal? 01:06:55 Speaker 3: No, they're a series of lessons with homework that you can downloa participate. 01:07:02 Speaker 2: Again, I've never used this, so I can't speak to its quality, but Lizzie seems to be very into it. Ari think about that for your husband, or you've gotten enough of our attention. We're moving. The podcast is nearly Go get your husband a wonderful gift and uh uh live wonderfully. Lizzie. We're done giving people advice. We're done with the help. This is I'm not here. This is not a charity podcast. I give what I can give. The show is over, essentially, the show is over, and it's been so wonderful having you here. Show's over. 01:07:39 Speaker 3: I'm just in a theater. 01:07:41 Speaker 2: We've got another set in twenty. No, this this has been absolutely a delight. I've now got a beautiful I would say full power sage. I will be uh. Once I have moved, we'll be using And I've got remind me again the name of this Christal Selenite, Selenite, which I may roll pizza dough with, I may display it. Can do it all, Lizzie, I don't have to tell you. You're an absolute delight and well, this. 01:08:14 Speaker 3: Has been the ultimate guest being a guest on your show, Bridger. 01:08:20 Speaker 2: I'm so excited to have you here, and you know, hopefully we'll be able to see each other in real life in the future. And in the meantime, everyone the as I've made very clear, the podcast is over, so eventually the audio will end and you will move on with your day and we'll see you next week or if this is the last episode you listen to, that's that's your business. Ah my love, goodbye. I said no gifts isn't exactly right production. It's engineered by Earth Angel Stephen Ray Morris. The theme song is by miracle Worker Amy Mann. You can follow the show on Instagram and Twitter. At I said no gifts, and if you have a question or need help getting a gift for someone in your life, email me at I said no gifts at gmail dot com. Listen and subscribe on Apple podcast, Stitcher or wherever you found me, and why not leave a review while you're at it? 01:09:19 Speaker 1: And I invited you, hear Gonta made myself perfectly clear. When you're a guest to me home, you gotta come to me empty. And I said, no guests, your own presences, presents, and I'm already too much stuff. So how do you dare to surbey me?