00:00:08 Speaker 1: And I invited you here. Thought I made myself perfectly clear. But you're a guest to my home. You gotta come to me empty And I said, no, guess you're own presences presents enough. I already had too much stuff, So. 00:00:35 Speaker 2: How did you dare to surbey me? 00:00:48 Speaker 3: Welcome to, I said, no gifts. I'm Brigard Wineger. We're, of course in the backyard, slightly chilly. I I'm not wearing a coat yet, but I do have one in case that is needed, so I may be putting on a coat during the podcast. I just want to prepare you for that. I'm so glad you're here. You could be calling a family member or chatting with a coworker, developing some relationship with someone in your life, and yet you're here, and I love that. The only thing that happened to me today was I returned some pants, and so that's that was my little success. Let's get into the podcast. I'm talking. I need to stop talking about returning my pants. I'm so excited about today's guest. It's Dylan Adler. Hello, Dylan, Welcome to. I said, no gift. 00:01:39 Speaker 2: Thank you so much for having me, appreciate it. 00:01:41 Speaker 3: Thrilled to have you. You're new to town. 00:01:43 Speaker 2: I'm new to town. Yes, I came from New York just a month ago, and I really like it here. Have you spent much time in Los Angeles? I grew up visiting here because I had like family here, but not I've never lived here permanently. 00:02:01 Speaker 3: Right, you're from somewhere in California. 00:02:03 Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm from the Bay Area, from San rafel which is north of San Francisco. 00:02:08 Speaker 3: I did not know that's how you pronounced it. 00:02:10 Speaker 2: Really Israel. I would have absolutely said, I mean, I'm sure that's the correct pronunciation, but the the gringo like it's now everyone just calls it San Rafel. I know, I think we should bring back the correct pronunciation. 00:02:29 Speaker 3: California is strange like that. Los Angeles is very odd. Pronunciation is all over the map with Spanish words, because some Spanish words we say here correctly or like its close to the original pronunciation, and then there are others where it's like Los Felipe. No, now you don't even know how to say Los Fela's. 00:02:46 Speaker 2: That's exactly what I was thinking. And I literally was like, oh, yeah, I was near Los Felies last night. Literally people like los feeling, And I was like, I guess that is how you guys see. Yeah, I don't know. 00:03:01 Speaker 3: I feel like we just need to all sit down and agree on how we're going to pronounce all experts because it's dangerous, it's embarrassing for everyone. 00:03:12 Speaker 2: But Sanrafel, I know, right, Sandrafel like it's it's it's our a f a e L. But Rafel is like sounds like our a f e L, which is no. 00:03:25 Speaker 3: It sounds like Sandra Fell, Like, yeah, like your aunt fell or something. Did you hear Sandrafell's actually my grandmother's name. 00:03:36 Speaker 2: Is that really? Oh? She okay? 00:03:39 Speaker 3: Did you hear? 00:03:40 Speaker 2: Yeah? 00:03:41 Speaker 3: Yeah, Sandra may not recover she fell? What's going on? 00:03:46 Speaker 2: What's new? I? I am new here for a writing job at the Late Late Show, that's right, which I know you wrote for. 00:03:56 Speaker 3: I did not write for. I was a production assistant on the earlier iteration of that show. Oh cool, cool, I've spent some time in that building. Have you a television city? 00:04:07 Speaker 2: Television city? 00:04:08 Speaker 3: Yes, have you been able to because they of course record or shoot prices right there? 00:04:13 Speaker 2: That's right, that's right. 00:04:14 Speaker 3: Have you seen any of the prices right? 00:04:16 Speaker 2: Like? 00:04:17 Speaker 3: I remember walking past the big wheel and being so tempted to touch it. But I'm a real rule follower. I never touched the wheel. 00:04:24 Speaker 2: That's I mean, I haven't walked past that wheel, but I would love it to just see it. 00:04:30 Speaker 3: You're going to see it at some point. I feel like they shoot that there. Yeah, some sort of soap opera. 00:04:36 Speaker 2: The Bold and the Beautiful. Which is it still? It's yeah, oh yeah, since the eighties. It's I think since like the fifties or something. Oh may the fifties. 00:04:45 Speaker 3: Yeah, and there's still but now I think it's web only. Is that true? I don't know why I'm asking you. 00:04:51 Speaker 2: Yeah, Like I have part time work for Bold and Beautiful as an actor, do you know? I don't. I'm actually not sure. But you see, like you, oh the actress. They're just like gorgeous and they just they're walking down the hall with their lunch and you're like, oh, this is not a Corden writer. This is a Bold and the Beautiful actress. 00:05:11 Speaker 3: Have you ever watched soaps? 00:05:13 Speaker 2: I never did. Oh, well, does Desperate Housewives count? Oh that's a good question. 00:05:18 Speaker 3: I feel like it's kind of a postmodern yeah, right, where it's kind of aware of their yet it was also not on the same time as a soap operas they air at nine am or something. 00:05:29 Speaker 2: Right, that's right, they're wild wild. I never watched a true soap, but Desperate Housewives, I'd say that feels close. 00:05:37 Speaker 3: Yeah, why are soap operas on at nine am? Is that the time they air? Or am I wrong? Obviously shaking their head, Yes, I mean like. 00:05:46 Speaker 2: When I wake when I'm in the morning, I mean, like, that's not what I'm really craving. I mean it seems like they touch on such intense stuff, like you're sleeping with my it's like at nine am? 00:05:58 Speaker 3: Right to wake up to that, to like betrayal? I need, I need like a Today's show we're making, you know, a seasonal dish or that kind. 00:06:08 Speaker 2: Of you know, Yeah, Wendy Williams. 00:06:12 Speaker 3: Wendy is even too loud for me at that time. Sure, I mean, Wendy, that show r I P. Who's in charge of that show at this point? Is it still on? They kind of she passed the baton. Yeah, there was a lot of drama about that. Did you read about any of that? 00:06:28 Speaker 2: I didn't. I didn't. 00:06:30 Speaker 3: Fascinating there was a whole I mean soap opera level thing of her kind of saying goodbye to the show, Oh damn, which all started when she passed out when she was dressed as a statue. 00:06:42 Speaker 2: I know that clip. It's yeah, I hope. 00:06:46 Speaker 3: She's in a better place. 00:06:48 Speaker 2: Does that what you said? When someone dies? I hope she's in a bad place. Yeah, that is and in a way, you know, I don't know, Like I I didn't really even watch it. I just watched the clips that people pulled from which she was like death to them all are just like, wow, she's she really goes there. I find it kind of funny. 00:07:12 Speaker 3: But oh, we all love Wendy. Yeah, I mean she has so much to offer everyone. That's why we liked. Whether you wanted her sniping at somebody or passing out on stage exactly, she kind of was a whole buffet. Okay, So you're new to Los Angeles. Have you done anything exciting around town? Have there been any big moments for you? 00:07:32 Speaker 2: Ooh? I not. Oh I went to a while back. I went to Universal Studios. Oh, which was fun? Did you? 00:07:42 Speaker 3: Okay? 00:07:43 Speaker 2: So I hit The last time I was at Universal Studios was for the Horror Nights. 00:07:47 Speaker 3: Horror nights. Oh yeah, absolutely horrible experience. Oh no, not a good time. I just remember so much concrete it is that it's like compared to And also I'm on record as saying that Disneyland is essentially prison. But compared to Disneyland, it's like, I mean, it's like, I know, Wasteland. 00:08:08 Speaker 2: I mean it kind of like okay, like the I used to be able to ride every ride. But there's something about those Universal CGI rides like that Simpson's one that makes me want to throw up. It just I really have so little tolerance for those like ver CGI ride. 00:08:27 Speaker 3: Motion sickness, yeah right, where you're you feel like you're moving, but your body's. 00:08:32 Speaker 2: Not exactly exactly why I've one. 00:08:35 Speaker 3: I may have wondered about this on this podcast, but I wonder what happens with aging that you become more nauseous as you ride rides. 00:08:42 Speaker 2: I know because I used to be capable. Yeah yeah, I used to be like actually a roller coaster junkie. I would look up like I would build them with my brother, like toy roller coaster. 00:08:53 Speaker 3: Oh really? 00:08:54 Speaker 2: Yeah? 00:08:54 Speaker 3: Would you play roller coaster Tycoon? 00:08:56 Speaker 2: Yeah? We played Tycoon? 00:08:59 Speaker 3: Uh you like as a roller coaster junkie. Were you going to different theme parks? 00:09:03 Speaker 2: Yes? Oh yeah we six Flags Magic Mountains. 00:09:06 Speaker 3: Of course, favorite roller coaster there. Oh x oh what what happens on that roller coaster? 00:09:13 Speaker 2: That one? That's one where it's a straight down drop, but the seats move and they it's so it's kind of called a four D ride because while you're riding, the seats themselves kind of flip like a zipper. Okay, so that's definitely my favorite. 00:09:27 Speaker 3: I have a really negative memory of Magic Mountain. Was also speaking of prices, right, because I came here years and years ago before I moved to LA with friends with the intent to go on the prices right. Yeah, we also went to Magic Mountain the night before. Some my friend's keys fell out of his pocket on the roller coaster and so we were just we spent probably eight hours in the six Flags parking lot. The next day needs us to say we did not go to the prices, right, We sat just in silence in a doughnut shop, but then drove home. 00:10:01 Speaker 2: It was really not a good. 00:10:03 Speaker 3: But the day itself, and now I feel like I'm just attacking every theme park you've been to. 00:10:08 Speaker 2: You bring up Universal studios. 00:10:09 Speaker 3: I say it's a wasteland, and now I'm bringing up this negative experience. I don't mean to do that. No, it's okay, it's not okay. 00:10:17 Speaker 2: Actually it's not. My dad built that. 00:10:21 Speaker 3: He's that bald man from the Old six likes Comma. 00:10:25 Speaker 2: He's really good at dancing. Yeah. 00:10:28 Speaker 3: I wonder that guy's certainly not still alive. He's in a better place. 00:10:32 Speaker 2: I think, for real, isn't a better place he must be. 00:10:35 Speaker 3: I hope this is a slander because maybe his career just stalled out. But he was like one hundred years old. 00:10:41 Speaker 2: Yes, oh yeah, he was there in the commercials. He would ride the rides and we'd be like, wow, that's that's great. I mean great. 00:10:50 Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I wonder, uh risk rip I assume yeah, it's kind of worm like. I don't know why they. I guess we all remember him. It was that. Do you remember that period of time with commercials where everything in them was disgusting, Like there was the Quizno's commercial with the disgusting rodents that were singing. 00:11:10 Speaker 2: Oh yeah yeah. 00:11:12 Speaker 3: I wonder what somebody needs to do some sort of study on that early thousands disgusting commercial culture. There definitely was helicopter overhead. I know, at any moment, like a fugitive could leap over the fence. I mean, the helicopter is directly over the house. 00:11:31 Speaker 2: The paparazzi. 00:11:34 Speaker 3: This is I wonder. I mean it's probably a car chase. 00:11:38 Speaker 2: Yeah, maybe, welcome to Los Angeles. It's my favorite party. Other cities don't have this many car chases, right, No, No, I mean like there's a New York has more. Just a subway incidents increasing increasing. Yeah, people just getting truly pushed in front of us, in pushed out, just attacked in. You know, I don't know which one is worse, but you know, there are definitely more car chases in this town. Will I will say, I want. 00:12:10 Speaker 3: I mean, it is a car culture, but so are so many other cities, and you don't hear. I feel like, truly, any night of the week, you can turn on a car chase in Los Angeles. 00:12:19 Speaker 2: I know I have whenever I've winten it, like whenever I see it on the news day it looks like it looks like toy cars just kind of like like a little kid dragging their car through. It looks kind of crazy watching that. 00:12:31 Speaker 3: Yeah, it's a it's a strange thing that the criminal mind goes to because it never works out. Yes, simply never works out. 00:12:42 Speaker 2: Never. Yeah, exactly. 00:12:44 Speaker 3: And you can, as I said before, turn on one at least once a week. You can watch once a night. You can watch what happened. So as if I were a criminal, I would say, well, I've looked at I've been watching these videos all my life. I'm just going to turn the car off. 00:12:58 Speaker 2: But I guess it's a frequently the. 00:13:00 Speaker 3: Person is absolutely out of their mind on myth or something, which probably shifts your perspective. I would imagine, yeah, did you drive over here tonight? 00:13:11 Speaker 2: I did? 00:13:12 Speaker 3: You haven't driven in a while, you've been in New York? 00:13:14 Speaker 2: Yeah, I have not, So I honestly have been like really like I drive like a grandma. I really am double double checking because I really haven't driven in a while. 00:13:26 Speaker 3: Right, And I also drive like a grandma, but in a like a grandma that's actually too old at this point to be driving. I have frequent danger like a great grandma, a great grand I have a great grandma energy. Something I've I do is turn off highways on Google Maps. It's a full senior citizen and I bless the seniors, of course. Yeah, but I feel like my driving is more similar to a great grandma in that way. I don't know. Did you have to buy a car when you got here? You're renting? 00:13:58 Speaker 2: No? I actually I'm barring my grandpa's car O your kid because he is too old to drive. So you've taken. So I've stolen and against his will. No. He lives in Thousand Oaks, so I just kind of ubered over there and I'm in the middle of the night. I keyed the car and then I drove away singing. I buzz the windows that No. 00:14:24 Speaker 3: Yeah, but I like vandalizing a car before stealing it. It feels like a reverse. 00:14:30 Speaker 2: I know it's a dumb thief would do that. 00:14:33 Speaker 3: You know something about you just singing That occurred to me recently. I can't sing, but I like to sing along in the car. You can sing. I'm curious about that experience to singing along in the car. Do you feel like because for me, I'm almost glad I can't sing because I'm not competition for my favorite singers. They're still going to be leading away in the car. Yeah, but for you, you can probably sing along quite well. Do you feel like you're getting in the way of your favorite singer? 00:15:00 Speaker 2: Oh? I you know, Actually I don't really sing along too much. 00:15:07 Speaker 3: Oh you don't. 00:15:08 Speaker 2: I'm more of a just kind of head bop. But like dancing. I like dancing, right, I don't really like to sing along. 00:15:16 Speaker 3: Okay, well, difference of opinion. I dance dancing, I do it all. This is what This is probably why I'm a dangerous trifer. The amount of dance. I mean it's I and again I encourage everyone to dance in the car. Yeah, why wouldn't you dance in the car? 00:15:33 Speaker 2: I mean, yeah, let yourself lose. It feels great, it feels wonderful. 00:15:38 Speaker 3: I'm the music's so loud, I'm moving around, I'm singing, but you're not singing at all. 00:15:44 Speaker 2: I mean some, I think sometimes at some points, but I'm not trying to outdo the vocalist. 00:15:51 Speaker 3: What sort of song would drive you to sing in the car? 00:15:53 Speaker 1: Oh? 00:15:53 Speaker 2: Man, probably Starships by Nicki Mina. Oh of course. 00:15:59 Speaker 3: Yeah, it's like what a hit? What a memory? 00:16:02 Speaker 2: That one's no right? 00:16:03 Speaker 3: That really took over for a minute. 00:16:05 Speaker 2: Oh it really did. It was at the peak of like twenty ten. Do break popp like it was just dance like, it was like chorus, course, course courus. It was like kind of that era. 00:16:20 Speaker 3: We need to get back to that miss. 00:16:23 Speaker 2: I feel like, I like what's going on now in music pop music, but it's a. 00:16:27 Speaker 3: Little slower, it's a little less. The hooks are sparse, ye say, the hooks are sparse. 00:16:34 Speaker 2: It's like it's a little more of a vibe. It's more like a vibe as opposed to like pop pop. You know. 00:16:41 Speaker 3: Yeah, we're in a hook desert, I would say. But the good thing I'll say about that is people are going to be craving those hooks. 00:16:50 Speaker 2: Yeah. 00:16:50 Speaker 3: And I do think we're like turning the corner. Yeah, totally, because I feel like this period started maybe twenty fifteen, twenty sixteen. 00:16:58 Speaker 2: I agree. I feel like. 00:16:59 Speaker 3: The first real sign of that there was a Rihanna song, yeah, something about. 00:17:06 Speaker 2: Money, bitch, better have my money. Yes. 00:17:08 Speaker 3: I remember that being like a real key turning point in music where it's like, oh, things are gonna be very slow. Yeah, and there's not going to be a hook in site. 00:17:17 Speaker 2: Yeah, there's not gonna be a build. But it's so funny because I remember during the twenty tens. Everyone around me, including myself, was like, I'm so sick of this new kind of pop song where it's just like it's just always on the radio. But now like myself and a lot of other people I know kind of crave it. 00:17:37 Speaker 3: Oh yeah, we need it back. 00:17:39 Speaker 2: Yeah. 00:17:39 Speaker 3: Do you are you a radio listener or do you like Spotify or streaming service? 00:17:44 Speaker 2: The car is so old, it doesn't have that capability. 00:17:47 Speaker 3: It doesn't have radio capability. 00:17:49 Speaker 2: Or no, it doesn't have Spotify. Okay, so I but with no choice, have the radio. But I like the radio. 00:17:57 Speaker 3: What station are you listening to? 00:17:59 Speaker 2: Ninety four points? Oh? 00:18:00 Speaker 3: What is that? 00:18:01 Speaker 2: The soul of La? The way, I'm not. 00:18:05 Speaker 3: The only radio station I'm familiar with in La that I can count on is KD oh, but I haven't listened to it in a long time. Excellent rap music across the board. It was like it was my like, leave it on. So when I start the car, I'll hear a little bit of music before I select my own music. Oh yeah, yeah, I then like the NPR station or whatever, the classical music. But this is new to me. Ninety four point seven. 00:18:28 Speaker 2: Yeah, ninety four point seven. It's just it's like shit, it's like it's soul music but also like kind of soft rock, soft top. This sounds great. It's perfect for a morning commute. 00:18:40 Speaker 3: Yeah, that sounds perfect. Okay, Well, now I'm curious about what sort of car you're driving. 00:18:45 Speaker 2: I'm driving a Toyota Venza. 00:18:48 Speaker 3: Venza. I don't I'm not familiar with this. 00:18:50 Speaker 2: I've never heard of it before before I got this car, and no one knows what it is. But it's a two thousand and nine Toyota Venza that goes like fifteen miles per. 00:19:04 Speaker 3: Is it like a big sedan. 00:19:06 Speaker 2: It's like a mid size. I don't even know what a sedan. I think it's a mid Yeah, that's okay. 00:19:11 Speaker 3: So it's sort of a wagon only was called up a picture. Yes, so it's kind of like a crossover almost. Yeah, so I can see that being a real gas guzzler. 00:19:20 Speaker 2: Absolutely. 00:19:22 Speaker 3: Yeah, but Venza. Yeah that does make me think kind of fun we're headed to the outdoors. 00:19:26 Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, I mean maybe it's good for that, you. 00:19:29 Speaker 3: Know, but your your grandpa was driving it, so yes, it kind of is a crossover as far as people as well. It's reaching all generations. 00:19:38 Speaker 2: Oh, absolutely, like bridges the greatest generation to you know, the millennial. Yeah, it's no. I like it. It's a good you know, because me and my brother would actually ride my grandma and grandpa would drive us in that car. So it's kind of insane. 00:19:55 Speaker 3: It's very sweet. 00:19:56 Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, so it's kind of crazy that I'm driving, right. 00:20:01 Speaker 3: It's kind of been passed from generation to generation. That's very sweet of your grandpa to lend the car. 00:20:07 Speaker 2: It was very nice. 00:20:09 Speaker 3: Well, I don't want to talk about your car anymore. I want to talk about something else. 00:20:13 Speaker 2: Dylan. 00:20:14 Speaker 3: I think you're wonderful. I think you're terrific. I was so excited to have you on the podcast. The podcast is called I said no gifts. Yes, So I turned. I'm you know, going about my night, trying to get things going. I turned the corner to run inside, nearly run into you. Yeah, holding a bag. Yeah, I'm just going to it's clearly a gift for me. 00:20:41 Speaker 2: Yeah. I mean it's in a dog poop bag and dog poop bag, so no gift. 00:20:49 Speaker 3: It's never been clearer that this is a gift for me. 00:20:52 Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm sorry. I just I really wanted I just wanted to. 00:20:57 Speaker 3: You just wanted to it's just a little craving. 00:21:00 Speaker 2: Yeah, a little craving I had. And you know the dog poop. It was in the car. I didn't put them there from many years ago, but yes I do. Should I open it here on the podcast? I would love that. 00:21:30 Speaker 3: Okay, let's get into it here, reaching into this disgusting bag. Okay, reaching in, reaching, Oh, that's it. We haven't had a good sound effect on this podcast in a while, especially a dog bag. So we'll destroy some car speakers or air pods or whatever we're doing. Turn make sure you're at a decent moderate volume at all times. Okay, reaching in. Wait, wait, this is fully not in English yet. See it's a little it's a tiny little bag with some fall leaves. 00:22:02 Speaker 2: Yes, so it is tea from Japan, from Japan. Okay, it's a tea bag and it comes in a thing that it's like a subscription to Bokusu where you get snacks and teas all from Japan. And it's like a yearly subscription that I have, and that's one of the teas. 00:22:25 Speaker 3: So are you getting like a monthly package of snacks and teas? 00:22:29 Speaker 2: Yes? Yes? 00:22:30 Speaker 3: How long has this been going on? 00:22:31 Speaker 2: It's been my mom gave it to me as a birthday gift, me and my brother. So it's been going on since my birthday, which was September thirteenth this year. 00:22:40 Speaker 3: Okay, so just recently, Yeah, recently. Are you enjoying having it? 00:22:45 Speaker 2: It's literally my favorite part of the whole month. There really is. Just it's so the snacks are always different and they're so so yummy. 00:22:55 Speaker 3: Have there been any highlight snacks? 00:22:57 Speaker 2: My favorite one has got to be there. There's this kind of like sen bea, which is a rice cracker, and then seaweed and they drizzle like olive oil and like these olives just from Japan and lime on it, and it's so interesting. I wouldn't even expect it. It's not a typical Japanese flavor, but it was the most delicious thing I've ever had that sounds delicious so good. Have you spent any time in Japan, I've never. I've always wanted to go. 00:23:25 Speaker 3: Well, you've got to get there. 00:23:26 Speaker 2: I've got to. 00:23:26 Speaker 3: I mean that's obvious, but it's wonderful. Yeah, and I mean it is. It does feel to me like a land of snacks. 00:23:35 Speaker 2: Yeah, like it is a my mom, like who my Mom's Japanese and she is a snack girl, yeah, she And there's so many. Yeah, Japan has a lot of great like and really kind of like diversity in snacks. They have like lots of different kinds of snacks and their delicious. 00:23:56 Speaker 3: And it feels like there's a real drive towards innovation with snacks, like people, the creativity on display there is wild. I mean, that was an interesting thing when I went to Japan, is the amount of vending machines, like kind of beautiful vending machines. You'll be walking through a neighborhood and there'll just be like a nice glowing vending machine. 00:24:16 Speaker 2: Yeah. 00:24:17 Speaker 3: I wonder what's driving that? 00:24:19 Speaker 2: Yeah, I know that, like you were saying, clean vending machines, Japan Tokyo is very clean. 00:24:24 Speaker 3: Oh it's sparkling. Yeah yeah, yeah, I don't know what it is. 00:24:29 Speaker 2: I know, I don't know what's driving the vending machines though. Maybe I mean Japanese culture is very high on high productivity, right, and like quickness and like efficiency, right and like so maybe that's like the fastest on the go on the go if you're you know, it's kind of like a Sprinkle's vending machine. Cupcake. It's like kind of the Japanese version, So maybe maybe that's it. 00:24:52 Speaker 3: Yeah, but like in America, vending machines always look like garbage. They're so trashy. 00:24:58 Speaker 2: You know what's not mine? 00:24:59 Speaker 3: Ah, you're here with the vending machina alliance. No, I feel like they're so ugly here. But there there's something kind of nice and yeah, like a welcome site. 00:25:12 Speaker 2: I don't know, Yeah, I feel like the vending machines there, it's like it's like a legit meal in there, like from a nice place and it's just quit. You just get it. 00:25:21 Speaker 3: Right, it's on the go. 00:25:22 Speaker 2: But here it's like, you know, a five year old peanut. So your mom is was your mom born in Japan? She was she was born? Wow? Yeah, she was born in Tokyo, but she moved she was moved here by her parents when she was one, so she pretty much grew up in California. 00:25:41 Speaker 3: Okay, yeah, but you haven't been to Japan. 00:25:44 Speaker 2: I haven't. I've always won. 00:25:46 Speaker 3: Has she been since you've been born? 00:25:48 Speaker 2: Yeah, she has been. 00:25:49 Speaker 3: She's hogging it. 00:25:50 Speaker 2: She's absolutely hogging all of the Japan from us. Yeah, we're supposed to go in twenty twenty. 00:25:58 Speaker 3: Oh perfect, I mean the ideal time for a vacation, and we still went to know you forced your way, Yeah exactly, but we may go next year. 00:26:09 Speaker 2: I think. 00:26:10 Speaker 3: Was the whole family going to go to Japan? Yeah, we were gonna go to Japan, I know, for the tickets purchased? No, okay, thank god. Was there like a general plan of what you were going to do or was it just a dream? 00:26:22 Speaker 2: I think it was more like incubation phase. We were definitely going to visit family there on my mom's side and go to Tokyo I'd say for a couple of days at least. But yeah, this. 00:26:35 Speaker 3: Is so sad to hear. Now you have a brother, do you have another sibling? 00:26:40 Speaker 2: I have an older sister. 00:26:41 Speaker 3: Okay, so that would have been five people going to Japan. Yes, it's a big vacation. 00:26:46 Speaker 2: That's a huge vacation. 00:26:47 Speaker 3: When was the last time you were on a vacation with your family? 00:26:49 Speaker 2: The last time I was on well, I uh, in October, I was in Hawaii with my mom and dad okay and sister. 00:26:57 Speaker 3: Oh so your family gets along is when I'm here. 00:27:01 Speaker 2: I mean, the best we can I think, Yeah, yeah, yeah, but I do I do like spending time with them. 00:27:08 Speaker 3: Where did you go in Hawaii? 00:27:10 Speaker 2: We went to the Big Island, Okay, and we stayed on the ConA side, Okay. And I just was there for like five days, and then I hopped over to New York and then. 00:27:20 Speaker 3: To La Wow. The amount of time on a plane. I know, sick to my stomach thinking about it. 00:27:26 Speaker 2: And I the flight there, I actually missed it because I slept. I was sleeping at the gate and I woke up and the gate was closed. I was like, oh my goh, way is it. They're like, it's closed. So I had to get buy a whole new flight and go to American Airlines instead. 00:27:44 Speaker 3: They made you buy another ticket. 00:27:46 Speaker 2: Yeah. 00:27:46 Speaker 3: Wait, so the trip suddenly became twice as much money. Yes, I didn't know that that happened. I thought when you missed a flight, they were kind of nice about it. 00:27:53 Speaker 2: Well, the only other flight available was two days after all, so I was like, shit, you keep thinking about this. I really did almost break down and cry there. Oh no, no, I. 00:28:07 Speaker 3: Worry about that every time I'm at the airport. When I'm tired, I'm like, I'm in full panic mode about falling asleep because yeah, I've never heard of that actually happening to somebody. So you were alone? 00:28:19 Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, oh no, And I was sleeping right in front of the gate, like I was like a foot away. Wait, that's so cool. They were literally being like Dylan Adler come to the gate while I was like dreaming. How long do you think you were asleep for? Oh god, I think I was asleep for like twenty minutes. 00:28:42 Speaker 3: It's not worth it if you had been asleep for like six hours and got some nice rim sleep at least, but twenty minutes. 00:28:50 Speaker 2: Yeah. 00:28:50 Speaker 3: What time was your flight? 00:28:51 Speaker 2: My flight was that I think like eight in the morning. 00:28:55 Speaker 3: Okay, so you had been at the airport probably since six forty five. Yeah, yeah, Oh I hate to hear tell me how much you had to pay for the next ticket? 00:29:05 Speaker 2: Oh god, the next one was like four hundred. It was it was rough. It was rough. I would be furious. 00:29:12 Speaker 3: Yeah, I was pretty you cancel the trip. I would say, I'm sorry, I'm not paying any and I would say, have a nice time. 00:29:19 Speaker 2: To mind now. I but I really did want to see my family, So I was like jet Blue was profetically from getting to see some I like ran over to American Airline. 00:29:31 Speaker 3: Okay, so what did you do while in Hawaii? 00:29:35 Speaker 2: I swam in the ocean. We went to a lot of like delicious restaurants around the island. 00:29:43 Speaker 3: What sort of food are you eating in Hawaii? 00:29:46 Speaker 2: We're eating a lot of Japanese food. There's a lot, like we didn't go to Japan, but we went halfway where there's like a lot of Japanese food, right, and we ate a lot of that. We ate a lot of fish, a lot of like sure, oh no, a lot of butterfish. 00:30:04 Speaker 3: Oh oh yeah, I love delicious. 00:30:07 Speaker 2: It was so good. 00:30:08 Speaker 3: Okay, so you're eating, you're swimming? Yes, surfing? 00:30:12 Speaker 2: I surf. Yes, you do serve. Yes? 00:30:15 Speaker 3: How long have you served since you were a kid? 00:30:16 Speaker 2: I served when since I was like twelve. My uncle kind of taught me. No way. Yeah. 00:30:21 Speaker 3: Do you feel like you're a pretty good surfer? 00:30:23 Speaker 2: Like intermediate? 00:30:25 Speaker 3: Wow, that's impressive. Yeah, how well you've been in New York? You're not what is the phrase catching a wave? Yeah, not catching a wave off of you know, down to Hudson You what have you? 00:30:39 Speaker 1: Yeah? 00:30:40 Speaker 3: Yeah, so you haven't served for a while. 00:30:42 Speaker 2: Yeah, it's been a while since I have does your brother serf. He also serves competitive, are you too? Oh yeah, we have gotten pretty competitive when in the water and out of the water. What does that mean? I know, like me and my bro we get competitive at literally anything, okay, And like sometimes like I'll be jealous when he catches a wave and it's been a long time, so when we would catch a wave, we'd be like, look, whow I got it, And like then I would like sometimes pretend I didn't see that he got the way. 00:31:21 Speaker 3: What are some other surf slang I'm trying to think of other there's catchaway, catching. 00:31:26 Speaker 2: A wave, shredding again, gnarly pounders. Like what is the waves that just pound on the sand? Oh? 00:31:37 Speaker 3: Interesting? 00:31:37 Speaker 2: You know there's waves that break out a little bit further in the shore that are more servable, and then there are waves that break right on the shore which are dangerous to try to surr. 00:31:47 Speaker 3: Yeah, because that sounds like it's going to throw you into the earth. Yes, like broken bones exactly, okay, gnarly pounders, hang loose. 00:31:56 Speaker 2: Hair loose. Yes, there's a barrel of the wave where I've never done that, but it's where it's the wave is going over. 00:32:05 Speaker 3: You and right right, that's real pro territorial imagine. Yeah, I feel like I'm like a mom in nineteen sixty eight trying to like catch up with their kids. And you listened to the Beach Boys. 00:32:19 Speaker 2: Yeah, obviously. 00:32:23 Speaker 3: Do you like subscribe to surf culture? Do you like have favorite surfers that kind of thing. 00:32:28 Speaker 2: There is one surfer who I'm kind of obsessed with because he's pretty hot. Who His name is Knoa Iganashi okay, and he's from like southern California. 00:32:39 Speaker 3: Is he a like current surfer, tired surfer? Okay, current surfer. 00:32:43 Speaker 2: Honestly, I don't know his technique. I just think he's hot. That's enough. It's enough enough. Yeah, so I just follow him. But yeah, I wish I knew more about surf culture. Yeah. 00:32:56 Speaker 3: I mean, I think you're kind of a bit of a fraud surf since you're twelve and you don't know anything other than one surfer that you have a crush on. 00:33:04 Speaker 2: Okay, I know my uncle my Uh, I was about to say, Tony Hawk fully exposed exposed? 00:33:12 Speaker 3: Is Tony surf at all? I bet he's tryed. 00:33:14 Speaker 2: Sure, he's good at it. 00:33:15 Speaker 3: He seems like such a good guy. 00:33:16 Speaker 2: He does. 00:33:17 Speaker 3: He seems like a genuinely good person to me. 00:33:19 Speaker 2: He does. There's a video with him in Little Nas Eggs where Little Nas was like, watch me skate, and then he was about to go and then Tony Hawk like when So he's collabing with Little Nas. He's got to be a good person. 00:33:35 Speaker 3: But what you were going to say, because you were saying something you were about to say, Tony Hawk. 00:33:39 Speaker 2: Oh yeah, my uncle is a surfer and was actually in a surf movie. What yeah? 00:33:46 Speaker 3: I mean, I couldn't name a single surf movie, so I need I need you to just fully explain. 00:33:50 Speaker 2: It's called North Shore and he was in it in the eighties. He's an actor, Okay, so he he played a surfer named Rick Caine in the eighties who like surfed and I guess like in the surf community, the movie was huge. 00:34:07 Speaker 3: Have you seen the movie? 00:34:08 Speaker 2: Yes, it's a great movie. 00:34:09 Speaker 1: I love it. 00:34:10 Speaker 3: What is the plot of the movie. 00:34:12 Speaker 2: The plot of the movie is this art school student who's who wants to like surf and learn how to surf. So he goes to the North Shore and he learns how to surf from the pros, and he falls in love with someone and then he. 00:34:25 Speaker 3: Goes Wow, Yeah, I need It's called north Shore, north Shore. I need to see this movie. Uh, just for everyone's information, I'm about to put on my coat. I'm getting too cold. 00:34:34 Speaker 2: Absolutely it is cold. I know I'm because I was like, La, I'm bringing all my I don't need pants, but. 00:34:44 Speaker 3: You're you're like you showed up in shorts. 00:34:47 Speaker 2: And like a tank top. Yes, and I'm now in pants. 00:34:50 Speaker 3: A coat and two shirts. 00:34:52 Speaker 2: I know I brought too many shorts to this town. 00:34:56 Speaker 3: What have you been doing today that you've been in shorts? I mean, I guess it was about seventy degrees. 00:35:00 Speaker 2: Yeah, I was in the house all day. But after this, I'm gonna go to Wio and go to some gay bars. And I'm like, short shorts is what la gays? Where? Maybe I'll do that for a rude awake? Where are you going? 00:35:13 Speaker 3: And who? 00:35:14 Speaker 2: I don't know? 00:35:14 Speaker 3: Yeah, So you're just gonna wander over there in short shorts exactly, just catch awave essentially exactly. Are you a big like night out person? 00:35:25 Speaker 2: I do? I like to dance, Oh, fantastic dance wise? Like what's your music of choice? Oh? I love when they play two thousands. 00:35:37 Speaker 3: Hits such as like, are we talking about like. 00:35:43 Speaker 2: I'm talking like hips don't lie? Oh yeah by us sure. Oh, I'm like I'm saying like it's like the a bar mitzvah. Basically that's my favorite kind of like. 00:35:56 Speaker 3: You know what song from that like mid thousands era of is Missy Elliott Lose Control and her song on and on two classics will get me dancing immediately. Absolutely, absolutely fantastic songs. So I'm on the same page with you here. I mean, I never go dancing, but if I were to, those are the songs that would get me going. But those are the songs you'll see me dancing too in the car. Yeah, it'll look kind of like a threat, like somebody that's maybe a little bit dangerous. Okay, So you're going out tonight, and we should say it's Friday night as we record this. So this is an interesting way to begin your Friday night recording a podcast. I would want it no other way, and then getting in your car and going to who. 00:36:42 Speaker 2: Exactly soap opera podcast Cloud you're kind of your normal day. Yeah. Yeah, it's like my version of Jim Tan Laundry from Jersey Shore. Soap Opera podcast Cloud are. 00:36:57 Speaker 3: You meeting up with anybody over there? 00:36:58 Speaker 2: Yeah, meeting up with some other gays. 00:37:01 Speaker 3: Okay, good, So you're not going you're not going completely alone? Yeah, I would be a little worried about you. 00:37:06 Speaker 2: Yeah. 00:37:07 Speaker 3: No, I've gone to the club alone before, well but not in Los Angeles. 00:37:11 Speaker 2: Not but now, looking back, I was in a darker place. Yeah. 00:37:16 Speaker 3: What does what does going to the club alone look like? 00:37:19 Speaker 2: Yeah, it looks like I think it just kind of looks like being very horny. And that's all there is behind it, honestly, that's all there is. 00:37:31 Speaker 3: Do you feel like I would feel kind of scary as like kind of alone person at the club? 00:37:39 Speaker 2: Sure? I mean like when I was there, I think I would sometimes feel like an odd person out and there, and I was afraid people would look at me like, oh suspicih, like here's you doing? But I think I would like dance enough that people were like oh yeah, and then I don't know. 00:37:58 Speaker 3: Yeah, no, I'm a big supporter of doing things alone, but going to the club alone, I would need a little bit more of an argument for that. Before I was completely convinced. 00:38:09 Speaker 2: To each his own. You know, I don't do it anymore. 00:38:12 Speaker 3: Well, that's what you think in your life could take a turn and you could be kind of a solo clubber. Once again, how often are. 00:38:21 Speaker 2: You going to a club? Maybe I just kind of I just went for the first time, went to Fire Island. 00:38:30 Speaker 3: Oh terrific. 00:38:31 Speaker 2: It's summer, and I really was never that big of like a club goer, but it kind of just opened. I was like, whoa, this is actually really fun. So I've been going almost every weekend. 00:38:43 Speaker 3: Oh my god, you've become addicted. 00:38:45 Speaker 2: Yeah. I haven't been to a club in my entire life. Really, never been in a club. 00:38:51 Speaker 3: I mean maybe like I've been in clubs to see concerts or whatever, but never I could never say I went clubbing. 00:38:57 Speaker 2: Yeah. 00:38:57 Speaker 3: The closest thing was the Classics skate rink in eighth grade, like on rollerblades. 00:39:03 Speaker 2: So you got it out of your system that early. Yeah, but no, it never been clubbing. I love to hear that gays are more than just the club. 00:39:15 Speaker 3: Thank you, thank you. 00:39:18 Speaker 2: Yeah. 00:39:19 Speaker 3: Okay, so you're going clubbing tonight. I have this tea. Do you have any idea what sort of tea it is? 00:39:23 Speaker 2: I know it's you know, the boxes are kind of season themes. Okay, so I know that it's going to be some sort of fall maple situation. 00:39:33 Speaker 3: That sounds nice. 00:39:34 Speaker 2: Yeah. 00:39:34 Speaker 3: I've never had a maple ta me neither, so maybe it's not a maple t me. 00:39:41 Speaker 2: Yeah, no, I think I did that. Come. We're just talking out of my hands. You know, that's probably some sort of fall. 00:39:48 Speaker 3: Do you have a favorite type of tea? 00:39:50 Speaker 2: I really love Because I'm working at Cordon there's a lot of English people. Oh, they love PG tips. 00:39:58 Speaker 3: Oh what's PGI no. 00:39:59 Speaker 2: I I learned about it two weeks ago. It's this like British tea and my British coworker showed it to me and I was and I tried it and it was delicious for me. 00:40:11 Speaker 3: I like drinking tea. But there's no I'm never like it. That was an amazing tea. Sure it's not the same experiences of other drinks or foods, it's sure. Sure it was like slightly different taste than water. 00:40:28 Speaker 2: Let me tell you, though, I have never had that moment until I had the teas from this Wow, and it was like it just is a different level of tea. I was like, Wow, this tastes like the earth in the best way. I can't even describe it. So I think you're I think you might be in surprise. 00:40:50 Speaker 3: I do like a nice green tea, same, that's my favorite, but it's hard to get a good one, like at a gas station or whatever. They're always like full of sweetener for disgust. Yeah, I don't want a sweetened green tea. I know me neither who's drinking that? I know it feels like the absolute opposite of what you want from a green tea. 00:41:08 Speaker 2: I know a green tea should have zero sugar. 00:41:12 Speaker 3: Tastes just like a nice grass exactly. 00:41:14 Speaker 2: It should taste like a farm, yes, absolutely, rolling hills, yeah, exactly, I don't. 00:41:20 Speaker 3: I don't want something that's like sprite adjacent in my green tea. That's gross awful, absolutely awful. 00:41:26 Speaker 2: I agree with that. Snack wise Japanese or not, do you have favor? 00:41:30 Speaker 3: What's your favorite snack? 00:41:31 Speaker 2: Oh? God, I really uh snack wise pershuodo? 00:41:39 Speaker 3: I think that counts as it. I mean it's an Are you like opening the fridge and just grabbing some persudo? Yes, maybe I need to get into that. That sounds wonderful. 00:41:46 Speaker 2: It's like I love a cold thing, uh huh. I love a thinly sliced kind of neat situation, and I feel so fancy when I eat it, even if you're just like grabbing it out of the fridge. Exactly where are you getting your preshudo? Get it from Trader Joe's. 00:42:06 Speaker 3: Okay, do they just sell it in like a little package or something. 00:42:09 Speaker 2: Yeah, they sell it in a little package. The best brand I think is the Parma one. 00:42:14 Speaker 3: Okay, yeah, Parma preshudo. This is this is actually I need a savory snack in my life that's not like a potato chip. 00:42:21 Speaker 2: Yeah. 00:42:21 Speaker 3: So this is perfect. 00:42:22 Speaker 2: It's a good it's salty, right. Yeah. Yeah. 00:42:25 Speaker 3: I've always been kind of well, I'm just a bad grocery shopper. I'm very good at going to grocery stores, but very bad at actually buying groceries. Okay, so but this is so this sort of tip is very good for me. 00:42:37 Speaker 2: Yeah. 00:42:37 Speaker 3: It's like I can I don't have to go to the deli or whatever to get my prosudo exactly. 00:42:41 Speaker 2: You can just tjs exactly. 00:42:45 Speaker 3: Get my my fix. I'm genuinely going to do that. I'm very excited about. Because you're eating preshudo drinking tea, I think it's time to play a game. We're going to play a game called Gift to a Curse. But I need a number between one and ten for me. Okay, six, Okay, I have to do some light calculating so to get our game pieces. So while I'm doing this, you have the microphone. You can recommend, promote, just talk to the listener, tell a secret. Oh, sing whatever you want. 00:43:17 Speaker 2: I'll be right sing. You know you can. I have a show at the Allegian Theater December tenth, seven thirty. Check it out. You can follow me on Instagram at de Lannadler Underscore, on Twitter at to Leannadler six or TikTok atd Lannaddler seven. They're just a couple of Dylan Adlers that have taken it. They're all like teens from Aspen and some shit. But uh, that's so you can find me and yeah, definitely get some purtido guys. 00:43:52 Speaker 3: Excellent. I mean, I think this is coming out after the tenth of December, so a lot of people are missing out. OKAYR is furious now, it's okay, five days ago you could have seen Dylan live at the Illusion. 00:44:07 Speaker 2: We better bleep that or there will be consequences. 00:44:10 Speaker 3: Well, what you have to do now is December tenth, twenty twenty three, have another show, and for giving them so much time, they can plan a trip to Los Angeles to see you. I think that's something worth considering. Imagine a year from December tenth. Yeah, this podcast has forced you into doing a live show. You've got an audience that's so prepared. Yeah, they have been waiting all year. 00:44:37 Speaker 2: They've been waiting all year, and I just do a vant garde art and scream at that. It's horrible. It's just a terrible night at the theater. Yeah, everyone's upset, but one person has changed forever in the worst way, the worst way. 00:44:53 Speaker 3: Yeah, a life ruined. Okay, yes, follow Dylan, who twitter still around at this point? 00:45:01 Speaker 2: Oh my god, that's right. 00:45:02 Speaker 3: We've been watching it really really burned down. How long do you think that Elon Musk will be alive for? 00:45:08 Speaker 1: Oh? 00:45:08 Speaker 2: I hope, I oh god. I feel like he's gonna live for long? You do. 00:45:13 Speaker 3: I feel like he's got another seven years? 00:45:15 Speaker 2: I hope? Oh my god? Should we? You can bleep that. It's up to you. 00:45:20 Speaker 3: Do you want to believe it or not keep it? I'm just saying, like the the trajectory he's on. Just like it feels dangerous. It feels like somebody that's just out of control of everything. 00:45:33 Speaker 2: Yeah. 00:45:33 Speaker 3: I also feel like there was a There are the rumors of him doing meth, all sorts of things. It feels like he's I'm giving him another seven years. 00:45:41 Speaker 2: Okay, I don't want to bum it. 00:45:43 Speaker 3: Well, that's not gonna bum anybody out nobody. 00:45:45 Speaker 2: He's terrible. He's so annoying. Yeah. 00:45:49 Speaker 3: Yeah, we have gotten way off track with the game. I've got to play the game. Okay, this is how gift to a curse works. I'm gonna name three things. You're gonna tell me if they're a gift or a curse? And why Actually, let me back up one moment. The network has been telling me. I have to tell people that we have merchandise, So we're just interrupting right now. You can go to exactly Rightmedia dot com, slash shop, you can buy the other game, gift Master, you can buy a sweatshirt. We've got all kinds of things. I can't believe I'm doing this right now, but it just clicked for me. This is my podcast. I'll remember things when i want pure chaos. I'm so sorry, gift you a curse. We're back to the game. The podcast is all over the map. I'm gonna name three things. You're gonna tell me if there are a gift or a curse, and why. I'm gonna tell you if you're correct or not there are correct answers. You can totally bomb this game. You will not be asked back to the podcast. Oh, there's a good chance that they will delete the audio, so be careful. 00:46:52 Speaker 2: Okay. 00:46:53 Speaker 3: Number one, This is from a listener named Ray. Ray is suggested, gift you a curse. Loaded, So I feel like fries with a bunch of stuff on them, gift or a curse? 00:47:06 Speaker 2: You know, I think I think that's a gift. You know, I think loaded fries, can you know, enhance Sometimes when it's a little bacon bits or it's like some some good cheese, I think it's a little extra surprise. So I'm saying it's a it's a little gift. 00:47:24 Speaker 3: Dylan, wrong. No, I I understand the the allure, the I understand the appeal. You look at this, you know, this pile of food. We all everyone loves a French fry, and everyone loves every ingredient that gets dumped on top of Yeah, not for me. I'm a huge believer in a nacho. But with a nacho, the base you're starting with is much harder, much crispier, so it's going to withstand all the slop you're dumping on top of it. French fries are a little more fragile to begin with. I like to have a little more. Maybe it's a control issue, but I like to know how much dip or whatever I'm putting onto my French fry. 00:48:05 Speaker 2: Okay, you're not. 00:48:05 Speaker 3: Bringing me this tray of food. It's soaked with nacho cheese. I mean you did say good cheese. Yeah, there is there is some good nacho cheese. I'll stand up for cheese. It doesn't work for me. Curse Okay, wrong number two. This is from someone named Lizzie gif Her. A curse dress codes that are quote Denimon diamonds or quote jeans and jewels, jewels and jewels or Denimon diamonds. 00:48:35 Speaker 2: I've never heard of that in my life, honestly. I mean just personally, I'm like, I'm just gonna wear some short shorts. You know you don't need that much. 00:48:46 Speaker 3: We should say this evening your invitation did say denimon diamonds and you just showed up a sport wear. I'm in kind of a full denimon diamond look. I'm in a cowboy hat. 00:48:56 Speaker 2: I would say, uh saying, I would say a curse because just put on some sweatpants. Put on some sweat Yeah, Dylan, wrong. 00:49:15 Speaker 3: I you know, I'm only becoming aware of this dress code as as we speak. I mean, I obviously copied and pasted this suggestion from her email into the document, but I'm not entirely clear on what this is. But I love the mystery. I've never been invited to a party with denim and diamonds, or it doesn't even say dress party. Maybe this is like a work dress code. 00:49:39 Speaker 2: I don't know. 00:49:40 Speaker 3: I would love a work dress code that's jeans and jewels. Oh for sure, what office environment is that? 00:49:46 Speaker 2: I know that I probably. 00:49:50 Speaker 3: Twitter's next big movie. 00:49:52 Speaker 2: Jeans and jewels. That's what that eight dollar thing is about. We're getting the employee's jewels and. 00:49:58 Speaker 3: Diamonds, gorgeous genes. No, I love the idea of this. I may host a party in the near future that's denim and diamonds. I fully support it. I think it's excellent it's a gift. Okay, Okay, it might be the. 00:50:14 Speaker 2: First guest in history to get it all wrong. 00:50:16 Speaker 3: No, some other people have lost, don lice. Do you have any idea who's lost? We might as well shame them while we're here. 00:50:21 Speaker 4: Yeah, so we've got Carl Tart's. 00:50:24 Speaker 3: Carl Tart was the first loser. Carl's a loser. 00:50:27 Speaker 4: Jesse Tyler Ferguson. 00:50:28 Speaker 3: Jesse Tyler Ferguson lost big loser, and Irene too oh Irene lost recently. Wow, three big losers. 00:50:37 Speaker 2: I mean you may join. 00:50:39 Speaker 3: I mean you have a chance to. I mean you have a chance to not be a complete loser. 00:50:43 Speaker 2: I have a chance to not be a loser. But it's pretty impressive list. 00:50:47 Speaker 3: I know, you get to join like kind of a select few of. 00:50:49 Speaker 2: You know, I want to be on Modern Family. Okay, let's do this. 00:50:53 Speaker 3: Okay. 00:50:54 Speaker 2: Gift or a curse? 00:50:54 Speaker 3: This is from a listener named Emily. Gift a curse, Bougie. Advent calendars or adults. 00:51:01 Speaker 2: Okay, an advent calendar is that a religious thing? 00:51:06 Speaker 3: It's Advent calendars are for Christmas. These little so the ones that I had as a kid had twenty five days in them. Okay, and you would like it's a little calendar that it was like a cardboard box that you would open each day and there's a piece of chocolate up up till Christmas. More recently, there are these new things that are like I have to have a friend recently that got one that was like perfume or skincare products. I think she spent two hundred dollars on this thing. Every day she's open. We're talking about adults here, but every day she's opening a little thing leading up to Christmas and she's getting a little product. So what do you think. 00:51:48 Speaker 2: I think that's a gift. For sure, it's a little surprise. It's like ooh, it's like kind of brings back the little I don't our family doesn't do gifts, So I think that'd be kind of joyful to be like a little. 00:52:00 Speaker 3: Surprise no matter what it. Yeah, Dylan, what they're a gift. Yeah, you didn't lose, You did not lose. I look, I'm never gonna buy one for myself. But a friend who her spending habits as far as gifts go, her name is Sarah, I'll name her. She's a big gift giver. She gave me a beautiful advent calendar with chocolates in it. A couple of years ago. This thing, there's no way it costs less than one hundred dollars. I had the time of my life. Yeah, the chocolates were delicious. It was a beautiful box. I think I may have. 00:52:35 Speaker 2: Kept the box. Yeah, it's fun. It's fun. 00:52:38 Speaker 3: I mean I don't know that I support it. You know, for people who are on a budget, I think it's probably very it's a wasteful thing to buy, sure, but to give to somebody, I guess it's a nice thing. 00:52:50 Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a fun gift. 00:52:51 Speaker 3: The problem with giving it, though, is you have to give it twenty five days before Christmas, and so then Christmas rolls around and the person's like, okay, now I'm ready for my gift. 00:52:58 Speaker 2: Yeah. 00:53:00 Speaker 3: I don't know how that works, but no, it's a gift. You got one out of three. Horrible job, absolutely terrible. You didn't get to join the select few, but you did get one point, and I appreciate you know, I'm fine with with an F solid F. 00:53:17 Speaker 2: Okay. 00:53:17 Speaker 3: This is the final segment of the podcast. It's called I said no emails. People write into I said no gifts at gmail dot com. Every one of my listeners their life is a mess. They have problems. They have no one to turn to because they've kind of isolated themselves with me as the host of the podcast, so they email me. They turned to me and the listener or to the guest for help. We help me, help somebody. Okay, let's read. Let's get into the document here. Okay, Now, this is the most formal intro to an email on this podcast I've ever seen. To whom it may concern, you know who you're writing to you who ever, we'll find out who it is. 00:54:01 Speaker 2: But you know who I am. 00:54:03 Speaker 3: Maybe you don't know who the guest is, but this is extremely cold. Okay, To whom it may concern, A dear friend recently gifted me take out from a vegan pop up restaurant. On paper, this was a lovely gesture, as the food was exceptional and my friend seemingly went out of her way to support a local small business. However, the experience was fraught with difficulty on my part. A and now we've got a list of things happening here. 00:54:29 Speaker 2: Ay. 00:54:30 Speaker 3: I received a text the day of that I would have a thirty minute window to pick up the food. B The pop up resides in the heart of downtown Los Angeles. 00:54:40 Speaker 2: I e. 00:54:40 Speaker 3: Parking would be scarce and difficult. See all of this took place the Friday afternoon leading up to a holiday weekend. We don't know which holiday. What's a recent holiday? 00:54:50 Speaker 2: We've got Halloween, the Halloween Memorial. 00:54:56 Speaker 3: Veteranans Day, Veterans Day. Okay, so I've been one of those holidays that doesn't matter. I don't know why I'm asking. After a horrific commute and twenty minutes of hopelessly circling for street parking, I succumbed to a six dollars spot in a nearby law This person is describing a real nightmare for me. I retrieved the food, left a generous tip. Okay, your friend didn't tell you you had to leave a generous tip, and coughed up nearly fifteen dollars for two gallons of gas at the dreadfully overpriced Chevron near the one oh one Freeway on my way home. Parentheses, Yes, my gaslight came on after all of the driving required to get to this destination. 00:55:34 Speaker 2: Sounds like she's driving a Venza or a Vesna or whatever. She is in a gas guzzler. 00:55:39 Speaker 3: Yeah, how can I ever repay my friend for this generous quote gift of a free Oh it was lunch. I was picturing dinner this whole time. Oh, I guess it was this Friday afternoon. Now this is We've got to get into this. I'm truly desperate for ideas best Lily. So it sounds like she wants revenge. 00:55:59 Speaker 2: I'm hearing that, Lily. 00:56:00 Speaker 3: Okay, So first we have to picture her in an absolute gaskezler of a car. It sounds like you drove here from. 00:56:05 Speaker 2: San Diego or Orange County. 00:56:09 Speaker 3: I mean to be you know, running at e bad planning. It feels like her friend is getting blamed for a lot of Lily's problems. 00:56:19 Speaker 2: Yeah. 00:56:20 Speaker 3: Yeah, the friend didn't tell her to get to buy this hummer. The friend didn't tell her to generously tip. Look, we love a generous tip, but it wasn't necessary. You could have done a normal tip. But she's desperate, and I can, you know, I can kind of get on her side. This sounds like a horrible gift. Like a pop up restaurant. 00:56:41 Speaker 2: I have honestly never been to one. I don't know what that is. It's a restaurant that appears for a brief period of time in a difficult to get location. Usually it's traveling c It's almost like a traveling circus. Not for me, when I go to a restaurant, I want to know what's going to be there for a long time. I need to commit to the relationship. 00:57:04 Speaker 3: A pop up thing just the idea of like having to figure out when it's happening, where it's happening makes me It's like going on a date with somebody who's got months to live or something that is not the sort of situation I want to get into. So Okay, Lily, now I'm on your side. This is a horrible gift to what do you get? I mean, maybe she starts planning a destination wedding, like so far away, so expensive to get to, with all of the trimmings, like multiple events before, Like there's an engagement party that's also do you do people do a destination engagement party? That sounds like a huge pain. 00:57:44 Speaker 2: I'm sure it's jeans and jewels. 00:57:51 Speaker 3: This is I mean, that's my immediate idea is because that sounds as difficult to get to as this pop up in downtown Los Angeles, and I guess it's hard to disguise as that as a gift. Yeah, what's what's another a pet? 00:58:06 Speaker 2: Yeah, maybe it's a goldfish that only lives for a day, so she knows how it feels to be forced to have such a small time window. 00:58:17 Speaker 3: Yeah, that's not a bad idea. But as soon as I said pet, I thought, oh, now there's an animal that's trapped in this lunatics, you know, game of revenge. I don't want that. But a goldfish has got a little less memory. Probably it feels like less of a casualty. 00:58:34 Speaker 2: Yeah. 00:58:35 Speaker 3: Now we're not promoting goldfish. 00:58:36 Speaker 2: Stuff promoting I'm to be ethical. I'm saying the goldfish is you know, it's already on its last leg, and it's and with you know, naturally, so you just kind of give it. Give her a very sickly goldfish. 00:58:50 Speaker 3: She go to pet Smart pick out the absolutely sickest, just nastiest looking goldfish. 00:58:56 Speaker 1: Yeah. 00:58:56 Speaker 3: Yeah, and then it's probably dead by the time you give it to yeah, or on its last leg. 00:59:03 Speaker 2: Yeah. 00:59:04 Speaker 3: What is the lifespan of a goldfish? 00:59:06 Speaker 2: Oh? 00:59:07 Speaker 3: Because they don't, I mean even the healthy ones. 00:59:09 Speaker 2: Even the healthy it's so they live for it's such a small life for a fish, least ten to fifteen years. What. Oh, that's true, because have you ever heard about goldfish? 00:59:21 Speaker 3: Like you put one in a lake and they grow to the and now now I'm saying this and it sounds like something that's like a lie. But they grow to the size of the container there, and so people will put them in a lake and then they will be enormous. Oh wow, because after ten years of eating lake food, Yeah, they're gigantic. Do you think that's true? 00:59:40 Speaker 4: Analis, it says, I mean, on the very brief Google search that I did, it seems as though that is true. So I'd have to do a. 00:59:46 Speaker 3: Little more digging. Okay, I mean they must have like a ceiling of how big they grow. Don't put what if you put one in the ocean, it's not going to become the size of a way. 00:59:54 Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah, but I'm sure they're also happier there. 00:59:59 Speaker 3: I mean, we're also talking about a fresh water fish would die immediately up to. 01:00:02 Speaker 4: Sixteen point one inches top five pounds in the wild. 01:00:05 Speaker 3: It says, Okay, yeah, that's pretty big. I wonder if you eat that. That can't be good fish. 01:00:10 Speaker 2: I mean Yeah, that's gotta be just wiry fish. 01:00:15 Speaker 4: It says you shouldn't or something, whether in the wild or as a pet, shouldn't be ingested. Goldfish can carry microbacteria or parasites that can damage your. 01:00:26 Speaker 3: Health of youstice. Okay, well it seems like a last resort then, yeah, a last resort. Okay, So Lily destination wedding absolutely impossible to get to. It requires boat, plane, trolley, whatever. It's horrible for unnamed friend or, as Dylan suggested, a fish that she immediately falls in love with. 01:00:50 Speaker 2: It has to be so charming, really handsome. Yeah, but on its last leg dead. 01:00:56 Speaker 3: The next morning. Yeah, dead before soaps. Yeah, Okay, I think that's a perfect Uh. We answered the problem, and we really uh hope that Lily makes some better choices. 01:01:08 Speaker 2: Yeah. 01:01:08 Speaker 3: I mean again, she should have if she knew this was going to be a problem, she should have just lied to the friend and said. 01:01:14 Speaker 2: That she would that she got it. Yeah. 01:01:17 Speaker 3: I don't, and I don't understand this bizarre thirty minute window. It's like your wire unwire, a bomb, disarm, disarm. I don't know what am I talking about. I don't know what you're talking about. It I interrupted the podcast like the three quarters of the way through to start promoting merchandise. 01:01:37 Speaker 2: Hey, sell that merch This house doesn't pay for itself. 01:01:45 Speaker 3: I uh, this is a you know what's happening is I haven't had dinner yet. My blood sugar is affecting the way. I'm thinking, you haven't had dinner before this? You're kidding, Yeah, you should, so you have an edge on me. 01:01:59 Speaker 2: I do a little What did you get a Sweet Green? I got a blackened chicken with kale and spinach, and I got a little lime squeeze on some rice. 01:02:10 Speaker 3: Let me ask you, do you feel like the lettuce at Sweet Green is drier than most lettuce? 01:02:14 Speaker 2: The kale is pretty dry. 01:02:15 Speaker 3: It's the driest kale dry. What are they doing to that kale? No, it's like if you don't have something on that kale, you're choking exactly. 01:02:25 Speaker 2: Sometimes you're just stuck with the kale at the end and you really need like a Pacific ocean level of water to help that go down. 01:02:33 Speaker 3: It really is. It's like confetti. Yeah, Sweet Green, I'm usually getting a kale, see sir there, okay? And that you know that's a dry bowl of food that is it's like fish food exactly. Oh no, I mean hopefully somebody at Sweet Green HQ is listening. Yeah, wet the kale. 01:02:52 Speaker 2: Wet the kale. I don't care how I want it wet. 01:02:57 Speaker 3: Okay, So you've had a late afternoon dinner. I hope you get something more to eat before the club. 01:03:03 Speaker 2: I think I will. 01:03:07 Speaker 3: I've got my tea here. This seems like an I wonder if it's caffeinated. 01:03:11 Speaker 2: I think it is. 01:03:11 Speaker 3: Okay, so I won't be having this before bed. 01:03:13 Speaker 2: Okay, that'll be, but it'll likeh is perfect. Definitely that I was thinking about. I don't have I have no tea in the house. I've got to get some more tea in the house. So this will be a nice little toe towards tea. Definitely. 01:03:27 Speaker 3: Thank you so much for being here. 01:03:29 Speaker 2: Thank you for having me this wonderful listener. 01:03:34 Speaker 3: I don't know what I've been doing. I don't know what I've guided you through in this episode. I'm sorry that I was just ping ponging all over. It's unacceptable. I'll eat dinner next time. Actually, this isn't my fault. Don't know. Everyone needs to stop pointing their fingers out. 01:03:52 Speaker 2: Everyone needs to stop screaming at you right now. Honestly, I think you did amazing. 01:03:56 Speaker 3: Thank you. 01:03:57 Speaker 2: It's nice to hear some words of support v occation. You know, we all need a little pat on the back, even if we're just all over the place on a podcast listener, I hope you've learned something or taken something away from today's episode. 01:04:14 Speaker 3: I'm gonna let you go. I have to let you go. I love you, goodbye, I said, no Gifts is an exactly right production. It's produced by our dear friend Annalise Nilson, and it's beautifully mixed by Leona Squilatchi. And we couldn't do it without our guest booker Patrick Kottner. The theme song, of course, could only come from miracle worker Amy Mann. You must follow the show on Instagram at I said no gifts. I don't want to hear any excuses. That's where you get to see pictures of all these gorgeous gifts I'm getting. And don't you want to see pictures of the gifts? 01:04:53 Speaker 1: Lievt did you hear? Funa Man myself perfectly clear, But you're a guess to my home. You gotta come to me empty And I said no guess your own presences presents enough. I already had too much stuff, So how do you dare to surbey me?