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Speaker 3: Welcome to I said, no gifts. I'm Richard Winecker. Oh.

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Speaker 3: I hope you're looking and feeling your best. I hope

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Speaker 3: you're having a nice day. I know what you're doing

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Speaker 3: wondering recently if anyone's ever listened to this podcast on

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Speaker 3: a boat, If you're on a boat, that would be exciting.

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Speaker 3: I can't imagine what circumstances would bring you to listening

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Speaker 3: So if you feel, you know, like a slight shift

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Speaker 3: today's episode. I adore today's guest, just a wonderful person.

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Speaker 3: It's Meredith Scartino. Meredith, welcome to I said, no gifts.

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Speaker 4: Oh, thank you for having me. This is very exciting.

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Speaker 3: Do you camp.

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Speaker 4: I've been camping. I like camping when there's an expert around.

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Speaker 4: Yes, but I'm a coward around just people I know

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Speaker 4: And it was set to the song Who's That Lady? Who?

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Speaker 3: sure that's the who sings who's that lady? Wait?

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Speaker 4: Oh it's the Isley Brothers.

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Speaker 3: I'm posting songs on Instagram completely without a band, and

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Speaker 3: Who knew that the Isley Brothers were so litigious?

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Speaker 4: I don't think I truly believe the Isley Brothers would

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Speaker 3: Isley Brothers, at least one of you is listening to

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Speaker 3: let's get the song. Yeah, it's a beautiful video.

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Speaker 4: There's upwards of nine viewers that are on the line.

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Speaker 3: Will you send me this video and I'll try to

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Speaker 3: post it to Instagram?

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Speaker 3: When will you post about this episode with pleasure? Because

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Speaker 4: Or we'll just fight the court case together. It's actually

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Speaker 4: in a folder in my phone called Important Videos for Life.

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Speaker 3: Oh, how is Willy doing in general.

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Speaker 4: She's good, she just went to the bed, she just

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Speaker 4: wonder if it's sort of a known thing. Hey, don't

440
00:24:08,080 --> 00:24:11,400
Speaker 4: let concrete dry by itself overnight because you're gonna get.

441
00:24:12,880 --> 00:24:14,040
Speaker 3: That makes me want to throw up.

442
00:24:14,160 --> 00:24:16,600
Speaker 4: It's right in front of the maman. Do you guys?

443
00:24:16,600 --> 00:24:20,959
Speaker 4: Do you know, mam a beautiful cafe that's right there.

444
00:24:21,119 --> 00:24:23,480
Speaker 3: That's I'm not good for the cafe out.

445
00:24:23,400 --> 00:24:28,440
Speaker 4: West Broadway, Franklin, west side of the street, Node east

446
00:24:28,440 --> 00:24:29,000
Speaker 4: side of the street.

447
00:24:29,760 --> 00:24:31,439
Speaker 3: Did I explain to the listener that this is a

448
00:24:31,440 --> 00:24:33,920
Speaker 3: photograph of Prince and concrete. I don't even remember. I

449
00:24:33,920 --> 00:24:38,480
Speaker 3: think I was so jolted that I just immediately started

450
00:24:38,520 --> 00:24:42,199
Speaker 3: trying to speculate on what I was looking at. But okay,

451
00:24:42,280 --> 00:24:45,879
Speaker 3: so this could be rats, and you took this photo.

452
00:24:45,880 --> 00:24:46,879
Speaker 3: It's a beautiful photo.

453
00:24:47,359 --> 00:24:49,920
Speaker 4: It's an okay photo. I took it. I was just

454
00:24:50,160 --> 00:24:52,439
Speaker 4: marveling at it, wondering what it was. I was like,

455
00:24:52,480 --> 00:24:54,680
Speaker 4: is there a raccoon in the city? This is so interesting.

456
00:24:54,720 --> 00:24:58,160
Speaker 4: I took a picture, and then I thought you would

457
00:24:58,200 --> 00:25:02,800
Speaker 4: love it because I long admired your Instagram, which is

458
00:25:02,920 --> 00:25:07,879
Speaker 4: just like photos of trash. And then a caption that

459
00:25:07,960 --> 00:25:12,040
Speaker 4: says something like I knew you know, the photographer has

460
00:25:12,040 --> 00:25:15,320
Speaker 4: to act fast when he sees inspiration and things like that.

461
00:25:16,240 --> 00:25:18,320
Speaker 4: When I captured this shot. I was thinking of you

462
00:25:18,440 --> 00:25:21,840
Speaker 4: or whatever it was, and I just thought you would

463
00:25:21,880 --> 00:25:22,560
Speaker 4: appreciate it.

464
00:25:23,119 --> 00:25:26,320
Speaker 3: I appreciate it on such a deep level. Despite the

465
00:25:26,440 --> 00:25:30,000
Speaker 3: rat thing. That rat is my number one fear. Really,

466
00:25:30,720 --> 00:25:32,879
Speaker 3: rats terrify man. I had went in first grade and

467
00:25:32,920 --> 00:25:35,080
Speaker 3: then escaped and got rabies and lived in our garage.

468
00:25:35,720 --> 00:25:40,120
Speaker 4: And how do you know it got rabies?

469
00:25:41,200 --> 00:25:43,679
Speaker 3: I mean, I think that's that's a little speculation on

470
00:25:43,720 --> 00:25:45,480
Speaker 3: my part. But you know, you get out of the

471
00:25:45,480 --> 00:25:48,560
Speaker 3: cage and go live in the garage. I think rabies

472
00:25:48,600 --> 00:25:50,359
Speaker 3: are just part of the equation at that point.

473
00:25:50,880 --> 00:25:52,760
Speaker 4: And now, had you bonded with it.

474
00:25:53,600 --> 00:25:55,280
Speaker 3: I guess I had. You know, it was one of

475
00:25:55,320 --> 00:25:59,000
Speaker 3: these situations. It was like the peak of Ninja Turtle's fever.

476
00:25:59,080 --> 00:26:01,119
Speaker 3: And I asked my mom for a turtle, and for

477
00:26:01,160 --> 00:26:03,639
Speaker 3: whatever reason, she thought, no, you can have a You know,

478
00:26:03,720 --> 00:26:05,560
Speaker 3: the rat is in the ninja turtles as well. She

479
00:26:05,840 --> 00:26:08,280
Speaker 3: thought that was a cleaner pet. She thought she was

480
00:26:08,320 --> 00:26:10,560
Speaker 3: afraid of sn't that salmonilla poisoning from the turtle?

481
00:26:10,680 --> 00:26:12,480
Speaker 4: Which how do you get that?

482
00:26:13,720 --> 00:26:16,560
Speaker 3: There must have been some wave of that at some point. Yeah,

483
00:26:16,560 --> 00:26:22,240
Speaker 3: I guess if you don't cook it well enough. But

484
00:26:22,280 --> 00:26:24,359
Speaker 3: we ended up with the rat name splinter that just

485
00:26:24,520 --> 00:26:26,000
Speaker 3: escaped and then lived in the garage.

486
00:26:26,840 --> 00:26:27,280
Speaker 4: White.

487
00:26:28,160 --> 00:26:31,800
Speaker 3: No, even thinking about it now makes me a little sick.

488
00:26:31,840 --> 00:26:35,120
Speaker 3: It was brown and truly god bless. I know people

489
00:26:35,160 --> 00:26:38,840
Speaker 3: a lot of rat owners love their rats. They apparently

490
00:26:38,880 --> 00:26:41,840
Speaker 3: make a decent pet, but absolutely not for me. Just

491
00:26:41,960 --> 00:26:43,199
Speaker 3: scares the hell out of me.

492
00:26:43,480 --> 00:26:47,239
Speaker 4: What okay, Because I think I've thought about this, that

493
00:26:47,280 --> 00:26:50,960
Speaker 4: we have a bias against you know, animals that are

494
00:26:51,000 --> 00:26:56,400
Speaker 4: not as adorable animals, and we find them gross when

495
00:26:56,440 --> 00:26:59,360
Speaker 4: they're just as nice as say a.

496
00:26:59,320 --> 00:27:02,479
Speaker 3: Squirrel or a rabbit or a rabbit.

497
00:27:03,080 --> 00:27:06,520
Speaker 4: But but you knew a rat. I thought, I thought

498
00:27:06,720 --> 00:27:09,159
Speaker 4: maybe maybe it's the betrayal.

499
00:27:08,960 --> 00:27:11,959
Speaker 3: That I think that's really what happened. I think it

500
00:27:12,000 --> 00:27:13,800
Speaker 3: was my first heartbreak, it was.

501
00:27:13,920 --> 00:27:17,440
Speaker 4: And so these rat prints remind you of a rat

502
00:27:17,640 --> 00:27:20,880
Speaker 4: that only left a sign of itself and then disappeared

503
00:27:21,080 --> 00:27:22,119
Speaker 4: from your life.

504
00:27:22,440 --> 00:27:24,679
Speaker 3: Went and found a Snickers bar in the garage to

505
00:27:24,760 --> 00:27:25,359
Speaker 3: live off of.

506
00:27:25,800 --> 00:27:28,720
Speaker 4: Would ratter live in a garage than what you?

507
00:27:31,800 --> 00:27:34,920
Speaker 3: Yeah? Rats? I mean, I look, I know we are

508
00:27:34,960 --> 00:27:39,080
Speaker 3: biased towards cute animals, but rats also have They've got

509
00:27:39,119 --> 00:27:45,280
Speaker 3: a lot of crimes in their past. Yeah, just various

510
00:27:45,320 --> 00:27:47,280
Speaker 3: diseases that they continue to spread.

511
00:27:47,800 --> 00:27:51,679
Speaker 4: Mosquitoes, yeah, those kind of things that carry other things.

512
00:27:51,720 --> 00:27:55,240
Speaker 4: It's hard for people to to not have like a

513
00:27:56,440 --> 00:28:00,920
Speaker 4: some kind of innate like protect you know, protective thing

514
00:28:00,960 --> 00:28:03,000
Speaker 4: that probably goes back to like trying to keep our

515
00:28:04,040 --> 00:28:08,959
Speaker 4: our caves clean of deceased back in the day. But

516
00:28:09,000 --> 00:28:12,480
Speaker 4: it is I have. But I do think, like I

517
00:28:12,520 --> 00:28:14,680
Speaker 4: don't want to know a rat, really, but I kind

518
00:28:14,720 --> 00:28:16,399
Speaker 4: of also want to know a rat a little bit

519
00:28:16,440 --> 00:28:21,440
Speaker 4: because I also, you know, cross the street when I

520
00:28:21,480 --> 00:28:23,600
Speaker 4: am on's sidewalk and a rat runs in front of me,

521
00:28:23,600 --> 00:28:25,280
Speaker 4: out like go across the street, or I'll walk down

522
00:28:25,280 --> 00:28:27,600
Speaker 4: the center of the street a lot in the middle

523
00:28:27,640 --> 00:28:30,359
Speaker 4: of summer in Manhattan because it's just so many rats

524
00:28:30,400 --> 00:28:31,480
Speaker 4: everywhere on sides.

525
00:28:32,400 --> 00:28:35,280
Speaker 3: I had an extremely close encounter with the rat when

526
00:28:35,320 --> 00:28:38,320
Speaker 3: I was living in New York, like opening the garbage

527
00:28:38,320 --> 00:28:40,160
Speaker 3: can in front of the apartment building and the rat

528
00:28:40,240 --> 00:28:43,280
Speaker 3: is there, crawls out. I throw the lid of the

529
00:28:43,280 --> 00:28:47,000
Speaker 3: garbage can, run inside, shaking. That was the end of

530
00:28:47,040 --> 00:28:47,600
Speaker 3: the road for me.

531
00:28:48,120 --> 00:28:52,840
Speaker 4: My biggest rat based fear is it's a summer night,

532
00:28:53,280 --> 00:28:57,280
Speaker 4: I'm wearing flip flops and a skirt and it ends

533
00:28:57,320 --> 00:29:01,680
Speaker 4: with the rat somehow inside my big china like it

534
00:29:01,920 --> 00:29:06,000
Speaker 4: runs up my foot, up my leg, and then just to.

535
00:29:06,360 --> 00:29:08,560
Speaker 3: Find the new one has nowhere to go.

536
00:29:08,920 --> 00:29:11,120
Speaker 4: I'm scared of that.

537
00:29:13,640 --> 00:29:18,280
Speaker 3: Of course, it's probably happened to someone, I think. I mean,

538
00:29:18,480 --> 00:29:20,160
Speaker 3: I think, if I really think, if you can think

539
00:29:20,160 --> 00:29:21,720
Speaker 3: of something, it's probably happened.

540
00:29:22,400 --> 00:29:24,840
Speaker 4: Yeah. That's like when you see the side of you know,

541
00:29:24,880 --> 00:29:27,200
Speaker 4: of a product and it says something insane like don't

542
00:29:28,160 --> 00:29:30,480
Speaker 4: don't eat this light bulb or whatever. It's like, so

543
00:29:30,680 --> 00:29:33,160
Speaker 4: someone ate the light bulb at one point. Otherwise they

544
00:29:33,160 --> 00:29:34,880
Speaker 4: wouldn't have had to put that warning on there.

545
00:29:36,240 --> 00:29:39,080
Speaker 3: Exactly. And so that's I'm certain a rat has run

546
00:29:39,160 --> 00:29:40,160
Speaker 3: up a vagina.

547
00:29:39,800 --> 00:29:41,240
Speaker 4: At some point, I'm sure.

548
00:29:42,120 --> 00:29:42,880
Speaker 3: And then what do you do?

549
00:29:43,200 --> 00:29:46,320
Speaker 4: Well, this reminds me of this other story that's very

550
00:29:46,360 --> 00:29:50,560
Speaker 4: famous and very interesting, I think in I think it

551
00:29:50,600 --> 00:29:55,280
Speaker 4: was England, in I'm gonna say seventeen hundreds or maybe

552
00:29:55,360 --> 00:29:58,720
Speaker 4: early eighteen hundreds, but there was a woman who gave

553
00:29:58,880 --> 00:30:04,160
Speaker 4: birth to wrap like seventeen rabbits.

554
00:30:05,160 --> 00:30:06,440
Speaker 3: This is a documented thing.

555
00:30:06,760 --> 00:30:09,440
Speaker 4: This is the thing. This is a lady that gave

556
00:30:09,480 --> 00:30:16,360
Speaker 4: birth to rabbits and a couple like medical highly respected

557
00:30:16,440 --> 00:30:21,800
Speaker 4: medical professionals or scientists of the day like certified it

558
00:30:22,640 --> 00:30:27,880
Speaker 4: as this is real. This woman gave birth to rabbit parts,

559
00:30:27,960 --> 00:30:31,480
Speaker 4: not full rabbits that were alive rabbit. There was dead rabbit.

560
00:30:31,320 --> 00:30:34,680
Speaker 3: Parts, okay, just ears and legs, and I don't know

561
00:30:34,720 --> 00:30:35,280
Speaker 3: it just like.

562
00:30:35,360 --> 00:30:38,080
Speaker 4: A bunch of rabbit parts. It's just and it was

563
00:30:38,120 --> 00:30:41,200
Speaker 4: certified as like, this is real, this is a this

564
00:30:41,280 --> 00:30:45,959
Speaker 4: is a miracle, some crazy anomaly of this person. And

565
00:30:46,000 --> 00:30:48,160
Speaker 4: then years later, maybe not, maybe it wasn't years later,

566
00:30:48,200 --> 00:30:50,479
Speaker 4: but maybe it was just like one scientist being like,

567
00:30:50,600 --> 00:30:58,360
Speaker 4: I don't think so, manah. And they dissected the rabbits

568
00:30:58,480 --> 00:31:02,320
Speaker 4: and found grass in their stuff mix. It proved that

569
00:31:02,400 --> 00:31:06,080
Speaker 4: the rabbits had lived elsewhere. But so there was this

570
00:31:06,160 --> 00:31:07,800
Speaker 4: lady I think her name was my last name is

571
00:31:07,880 --> 00:31:11,600
Speaker 4: tough to look her up. Mary top Me, the woman

572
00:31:12,920 --> 00:31:18,120
Speaker 4: rabbits birth, the woman who claimed to give birth to rabbits,

573
00:31:19,680 --> 00:31:24,240
Speaker 4: Mary Toft. I was close Mary talk yeah, Mary Taft

574
00:31:24,360 --> 00:31:29,080
Speaker 4: in eighteenth century anyway, But she did this just.

575
00:31:29,040 --> 00:31:31,480
Speaker 3: To I mean, what other things had she done to

576
00:31:31,520 --> 00:31:32,719
Speaker 3: be famous before this?

577
00:31:32,960 --> 00:31:33,160
Speaker 1: Were?

578
00:31:33,160 --> 00:31:35,280
Speaker 3: Like how desperate had she gotten that?

579
00:31:36,600 --> 00:31:37,560
Speaker 4: That's a great question.

580
00:31:38,040 --> 00:31:40,720
Speaker 3: Do we have any idea. How many rabbits were up there?

581
00:31:41,360 --> 00:31:45,440
Speaker 4: Yeah, because I've read about it. I actually told someone

582
00:31:45,480 --> 00:31:48,200
Speaker 4: about it once at a dinner party, and there was

583
00:31:48,480 --> 00:31:53,400
Speaker 4: a woman there who was an artist who makes puppets,

584
00:31:53,880 --> 00:31:57,680
Speaker 4: and she made these beautiful puppets of the whole scene.

585
00:31:58,200 --> 00:32:03,400
Speaker 4: Woman eventually in some of her art. It was in

586
00:32:03,440 --> 00:32:07,560
Speaker 4: the seventeen hundreds, seventeen twenty six. She was twenty four

587
00:32:07,640 --> 00:32:10,040
Speaker 4: or twenty five years old, that's anything.

588
00:32:10,440 --> 00:32:11,720
Speaker 3: Her career had fizzled out.

589
00:32:12,560 --> 00:32:18,680
Speaker 4: She was considered an old krone at twenty four and

590
00:32:18,800 --> 00:32:20,080
Speaker 4: needed to get desperate.

591
00:32:21,840 --> 00:32:23,040
Speaker 3: Ohow many rabbits.

592
00:32:23,040 --> 00:32:27,360
Speaker 4: Oh, and it happened over many days, So this is interesting.

593
00:32:27,440 --> 00:32:33,000
Speaker 4: So there's a guy named John Howard, who's he? I

594
00:32:33,000 --> 00:32:36,000
Speaker 4: think this was the medical professional. He wrote a guy

595
00:32:36,200 --> 00:32:39,320
Speaker 4: and said, sir, I don't know if he wrote, since

596
00:32:39,360 --> 00:32:43,280
Speaker 4: I wrote you, I have taken or delivered the poor

597
00:32:43,320 --> 00:32:48,800
Speaker 4: woman of three more rabbits, all three half grown. Oh

598
00:32:48,880 --> 00:32:51,240
Speaker 4: and the last had leaped twenty three hours in the

599
00:32:51,360 --> 00:32:57,280
Speaker 4: uterus before it died. Jesus eleven rabbits eleven. As soon

600
00:32:57,360 --> 00:33:01,880
Speaker 4: as the eleventh rabbits was taken away, way up leaped

601
00:33:02,440 --> 00:33:05,400
Speaker 4: the twelfth rabbit. Rabbit is spelled with an et and

602
00:33:05,440 --> 00:33:08,160
Speaker 4: this reason which is now leaping. Oh, I guess some

603
00:33:08,240 --> 00:33:09,000
Speaker 4: of them were alive.

604
00:33:09,240 --> 00:33:13,400
Speaker 3: My lord, Oh my Mary Toft, mother of twelve.

605
00:33:14,000 --> 00:33:18,280
Speaker 4: I might just have to make this show absolute about her.

606
00:33:18,720 --> 00:33:22,000
Speaker 3: Some of the rabbits were alive. That's incredible, it is.

607
00:33:22,040 --> 00:33:25,880
Speaker 3: I mean, it's remarkable that rabbits. I mean, only a

608
00:33:25,920 --> 00:33:28,640
Speaker 3: single doctor was able to kind of pipe up and

609
00:33:28,680 --> 00:33:31,640
Speaker 3: be like maybe not everyone else was on board.

610
00:33:32,080 --> 00:33:35,480
Speaker 4: This also says she has but ten days more to go,

611
00:33:35,640 --> 00:33:38,800
Speaker 4: so I do not know how many rabbits may be behind.

612
00:33:41,480 --> 00:33:44,400
Speaker 3: There could be infinite rabbits within this one.

613
00:33:44,520 --> 00:33:46,640
Speaker 4: My gosh, wonder.

614
00:33:46,440 --> 00:33:47,560
Speaker 3: What happened to her after this?

615
00:33:47,800 --> 00:33:50,600
Speaker 4: What an idiot that this guy believed her?

616
00:33:52,560 --> 00:33:54,720
Speaker 3: Well, probably after the fifth or sixth rabbit, you have

617
00:33:54,760 --> 00:33:57,280
Speaker 3: to kind of start believing. Yes, I'd be like, well,

618
00:33:57,320 --> 00:33:58,440
Speaker 3: I guess they're in there.

619
00:33:58,720 --> 00:33:59,600
Speaker 4: I guess they're in there.

620
00:34:00,120 --> 00:34:03,560
Speaker 3: Keep coming out. Wow. Anyway, I wonder if they were

621
00:34:03,640 --> 00:34:06,520
Speaker 3: rabbit babies. Certainly they must have been rabbit babies.

622
00:34:06,520 --> 00:34:11,520
Speaker 4: This rabbits, my guess is this woman found a litterate.

623
00:34:11,960 --> 00:34:15,759
Speaker 3: It's like, oh, I know it, I'll do finally the

624
00:34:15,840 --> 00:34:21,560
Speaker 3: opportunity is come. Well, this is a beautiful piece of

625
00:34:21,680 --> 00:34:23,520
Speaker 3: art for me. I mean, if I can just kind

626
00:34:23,560 --> 00:34:29,360
Speaker 3: of shift my thoughts towards raccoon and these dude, despite

627
00:34:29,400 --> 00:34:32,720
Speaker 3: whatever you say, look like they could be raccoon. Pause.

628
00:34:33,760 --> 00:34:38,360
Speaker 4: Look there, I also didn't investigate. There's a chance, I

629
00:34:38,400 --> 00:34:40,880
Speaker 4: would say, I'll be at a very small one that

630
00:34:40,960 --> 00:34:45,799
Speaker 4: there could be like a chihuahua pauw oh, interesting that

631
00:34:45,880 --> 00:34:48,560
Speaker 4: could be thrown in in the mix. But I was

632
00:34:48,800 --> 00:34:52,080
Speaker 4: done by how much it matched rat. And then it

633
00:34:52,160 --> 00:34:55,680
Speaker 4: made sense to me that it I just imagine the

634
00:34:55,680 --> 00:34:58,720
Speaker 4: setting of these guys, like all right, good day's work, guys,

635
00:34:58,840 --> 00:35:04,400
Speaker 4: or let's that's just the caution tape around it. Everyone

636
00:35:04,440 --> 00:35:05,239
Speaker 4: will respect that.

637
00:35:07,400 --> 00:35:11,600
Speaker 3: And then and then this rat family comes along. Yeah,

638
00:35:11,719 --> 00:35:14,320
Speaker 3: so what's the closest encounter you've had with a rat?

639
00:35:16,000 --> 00:35:19,799
Speaker 4: Just many running in front of my feet over and right,

640
00:35:20,280 --> 00:35:22,839
Speaker 4: or running under my table, outdoor.

641
00:35:22,560 --> 00:35:25,600
Speaker 3: Diving or something that'll just ruin a day.

642
00:35:25,719 --> 00:35:29,400
Speaker 4: Yeah. And I also have really good like if there's

643
00:35:29,600 --> 00:35:33,520
Speaker 4: a term for being a meteorologist about if I will

644
00:35:33,719 --> 00:35:38,400
Speaker 4: see rats, I know the temp I can walk outside

645
00:35:38,440 --> 00:35:41,600
Speaker 4: and immediately say this is a night where I will

646
00:35:41,640 --> 00:35:44,960
Speaker 4: see many rats, or we're safe tonight, we will not

647
00:35:45,120 --> 00:35:45,920
Speaker 4: see rats.

648
00:35:46,600 --> 00:35:48,920
Speaker 3: You just standing in front of a green screen pointing

649
00:35:48,920 --> 00:35:50,080
Speaker 3: to different parts of the city.

650
00:35:50,200 --> 00:35:53,680
Speaker 4: Yeah. I mean, like, I truly would happily work for

651
00:35:53,719 --> 00:35:55,640
Speaker 4: New York One if they need to.

652
00:35:55,640 --> 00:35:58,000
Speaker 3: Do a rat We've got a front coming in from

653
00:35:58,000 --> 00:36:00,880
Speaker 3: the north. Yeah, exactly, just rats.

654
00:36:01,040 --> 00:36:03,360
Speaker 4: I can just tell. I just know it in my bumps.

655
00:36:03,640 --> 00:36:04,680
Speaker 4: I'm always right.

656
00:36:05,480 --> 00:36:07,800
Speaker 3: That's a plague. That's just a plague. You're talking.

657
00:36:07,920 --> 00:36:08,680
Speaker 4: Yeah, maybe.

658
00:36:10,080 --> 00:36:12,839
Speaker 3: Well this is beautiful, and I actually do need more

659
00:36:12,920 --> 00:36:14,760
Speaker 3: art to hang in my house, so this is perfect.

660
00:36:14,800 --> 00:36:16,600
Speaker 3: I have a really hard time deciding what to put

661
00:36:16,600 --> 00:36:18,680
Speaker 3: on walls. I'll put this in an area where, like

662
00:36:18,719 --> 00:36:20,920
Speaker 3: I know where it'll be and it won't remind me

663
00:36:20,960 --> 00:36:22,080
Speaker 3: of rats that often.

664
00:36:22,320 --> 00:36:24,359
Speaker 4: Oh good. Yeah, Or you could also hang it if

665
00:36:24,360 --> 00:36:25,960
Speaker 4: you have a garage, you could hang in the garage.

666
00:36:26,800 --> 00:36:29,560
Speaker 3: But I feel like that's calling the rats towards the garage.

667
00:36:30,160 --> 00:36:33,560
Speaker 4: You think they they'll notice themselves.

668
00:36:34,200 --> 00:36:37,920
Speaker 3: It becomes kind of a rat art gallery. Well.

669
00:36:37,960 --> 00:36:41,160
Speaker 4: I tried to frame it as beautifully as I could.

670
00:36:41,680 --> 00:36:45,480
Speaker 3: It's really stunning. It's really just a beautiful photo and

671
00:36:45,480 --> 00:36:49,600
Speaker 3: a frame. I mean looks like you just found a

672
00:36:49,600 --> 00:36:51,399
Speaker 3: piece of art to send to me, rather than took

673
00:36:51,400 --> 00:36:54,319
Speaker 3: a photo of rat pop prints and then send it

674
00:36:54,360 --> 00:36:58,040
Speaker 3: to me. It's stunning and people can you know, it's art,

675
00:36:58,080 --> 00:37:01,239
Speaker 3: so people can choose to take away what they want,

676
00:37:01,360 --> 00:37:03,280
Speaker 3: and I'm taking away it's raccoon pause.

677
00:37:03,960 --> 00:37:05,440
Speaker 4: I'm happy to get behind that.

678
00:37:05,680 --> 00:37:09,759
Speaker 3: If you are that delusion, I think it's time to

679
00:37:09,760 --> 00:37:12,359
Speaker 3: play a game. Oh yeah, do you want to play

680
00:37:12,360 --> 00:37:14,759
Speaker 3: a game? Actually, let's see. I feel like we should

681
00:37:14,800 --> 00:37:16,520
Speaker 3: play a game called Gift or a Curse. It's been a minute.

682
00:37:16,520 --> 00:37:17,479
Speaker 3: We're gonna play that game.

683
00:37:17,680 --> 00:37:17,960
Speaker 4: Okay.

684
00:37:18,520 --> 00:37:22,880
Speaker 3: I need a number between one and ten from you four. Okay.

685
00:37:22,920 --> 00:37:25,239
Speaker 3: I have to do some light calculating to get the

686
00:37:25,239 --> 00:37:28,439
Speaker 3: game pieces we'll be playing with. So for the time being,

687
00:37:28,440 --> 00:37:30,960
Speaker 3: you have the mic. You can promote, you can recommend,

688
00:37:31,040 --> 00:37:32,880
Speaker 3: you can do whatever you want. I'll be right back.

689
00:37:33,400 --> 00:37:37,960
Speaker 4: Okay, wait, maybe I'll just talk about Bridger since he's away.

690
00:37:39,080 --> 00:37:43,560
Speaker 4: I worked with Bridger on Unbreakable Kimi Schmidt on Netflix,

691
00:37:44,560 --> 00:37:49,080
Speaker 4: and he's very, very, very funny, and I've always loved

692
00:37:49,080 --> 00:37:54,120
Speaker 4: Bridger and I like that he has a podcast now,

693
00:37:55,000 --> 00:37:58,879
Speaker 4: and I love his Instagram where he shows off the

694
00:37:58,920 --> 00:38:03,120
Speaker 4: gifts that his guests spring with white gloves but with

695
00:38:03,239 --> 00:38:07,560
Speaker 4: like a violent bent. The way he man handles the gifts.

696
00:38:07,360 --> 00:38:10,600
Speaker 4: It's very very funny and disturbing and wonderful.

697
00:38:11,640 --> 00:38:16,800
Speaker 3: Meredith, Yeah, that's very sweet. But listener, you should watch

698
00:38:16,880 --> 00:38:20,560
Speaker 3: Girls five EVA. That's Meredith. I mean we already spoke

699
00:38:20,600 --> 00:38:23,040
Speaker 3: about it, but it's phenomenal.

700
00:38:23,480 --> 00:38:25,880
Speaker 4: Thank you. I would love if people, you know what,

701
00:38:26,520 --> 00:38:28,880
Speaker 4: if you don't have Peacock, because you have one hundred

702
00:38:28,920 --> 00:38:35,040
Speaker 4: other streamers, I get it. I will say there's a trial,

703
00:38:35,200 --> 00:38:38,200
Speaker 4: there should be a week free trial. But even if

704
00:38:38,200 --> 00:38:40,440
Speaker 4: you're not willing to do the week free trial, like,

705
00:38:41,360 --> 00:38:45,480
Speaker 4: it's five dollars a month, and so if you buy it,

706
00:38:45,480 --> 00:38:48,480
Speaker 4: it's like a one cup of coffee. I mean, if

707
00:38:48,520 --> 00:38:51,520
Speaker 4: you if you amortize it for like what it would

708
00:38:51,520 --> 00:38:53,279
Speaker 4: be per day, it's penny.

709
00:38:53,000 --> 00:38:54,239
Speaker 3: Kind of in the way that you're doing with the

710
00:38:54,280 --> 00:38:56,200
Speaker 3: bronze statue of Willie exactly.

711
00:38:56,320 --> 00:38:58,440
Speaker 4: I mean, it's much more economical than a bronze.

712
00:38:58,400 --> 00:39:01,960
Speaker 3: It's not eighteen thousand dollars, my dog, but.

713
00:39:01,960 --> 00:39:04,080
Speaker 4: It's the kind of I feel like, if you're gonna

714
00:39:04,120 --> 00:39:07,680
Speaker 4: get a streamer, sign up for the free trial and

715
00:39:07,719 --> 00:39:09,520
Speaker 4: then forget about it for the rest of your life

716
00:39:09,560 --> 00:39:11,560
Speaker 4: and just see it on your credit card all the time.

717
00:39:12,000 --> 00:39:16,960
Speaker 4: This is a good one because it's the cheapest one.

718
00:39:16,080 --> 00:39:18,520
Speaker 3: And at least your credit card statement says a bird.

719
00:39:18,719 --> 00:39:20,880
Speaker 3: It's this type of bird. You get reminded of all this.

720
00:39:21,000 --> 00:39:23,040
Speaker 4: It seems like you're from an you know, belong to

721
00:39:23,080 --> 00:39:28,719
Speaker 4: an autobond society, very sophisticated. So I would I would

722
00:39:28,719 --> 00:39:30,319
Speaker 4: say give it a shot. There's also a lot of

723
00:39:30,320 --> 00:39:31,360
Speaker 4: other great programming.

724
00:39:31,480 --> 00:39:35,120
Speaker 3: But if you will, okay, enough killing for the Peacock

725
00:39:35,400 --> 00:39:39,600
Speaker 3: or girls might have as wonderful. But Meredith secretly is

726
00:39:40,080 --> 00:39:46,160
Speaker 3: missus Peacock owner of the Peacock Network. I forgot to

727
00:39:46,320 --> 00:39:48,839
Speaker 3: mention that up top, and I apologize. But what are

728
00:39:48,840 --> 00:39:51,920
Speaker 3: you going to do? Meredith? This is how gift you

729
00:39:51,960 --> 00:39:55,040
Speaker 3: a curse works. I'm gonna name three things and then

730
00:39:55,040 --> 00:39:56,520
Speaker 3: you're gonna tell me if they're a gift or a

731
00:39:56,560 --> 00:39:58,480
Speaker 3: curse and why. And I'm going to tell you if

732
00:39:58,520 --> 00:40:00,840
Speaker 3: you're right or wrong, because there are answers and you

733
00:40:00,840 --> 00:40:03,440
Speaker 3: can lose this game in a huge way. Okay, does

734
00:40:03,440 --> 00:40:04,000
Speaker 3: that make sense?

735
00:40:04,040 --> 00:40:06,120
Speaker 4: You just break and stomp my gift at the end.

736
00:40:06,120 --> 00:40:09,799
Speaker 3: If I have a baseball bat right off camera here,

737
00:40:10,440 --> 00:40:15,960
Speaker 3: I should do that, Okay, first up, So yeah, tell

738
00:40:15,960 --> 00:40:18,440
Speaker 3: me if they're a gift to a curse and why

739
00:40:18,760 --> 00:40:21,680
Speaker 3: number one This is a listener suggestion, and the listener

740
00:40:22,320 --> 00:40:26,720
Speaker 3: declined to be named. I feel like the email pointed

741
00:40:26,760 --> 00:40:32,560
Speaker 3: out a particular person whose last name whatever. The listener suggested,

742
00:40:32,680 --> 00:40:36,560
Speaker 3: changing the pronunciation of your last name gift to a curse.

743
00:40:37,760 --> 00:40:44,759
Speaker 4: Okay, I'm gonna say gift because guys, all names are

744
00:40:44,760 --> 00:40:50,080
Speaker 4: made up, so who's to say what's right? Okay? But

745
00:40:50,200 --> 00:40:54,840
Speaker 4: also having worked for Stephen Colbert, half of his family

746
00:40:54,880 --> 00:40:55,800
Speaker 4: goes by Colbert.

747
00:40:56,600 --> 00:40:57,600
Speaker 3: Oh right, and.

748
00:40:57,520 --> 00:41:01,080
Speaker 4: He's Colbert, so I and I'm and I I'm solidly

749
00:41:01,120 --> 00:41:03,360
Speaker 4: in his camp all the time because I love him.

750
00:41:03,680 --> 00:41:06,960
Speaker 4: So I will say it's a gift, because that that

751
00:41:07,080 --> 00:41:11,879
Speaker 4: name is is exciting, It's wonderful. Do whatever you want

752
00:41:11,880 --> 00:41:12,319
Speaker 4: with your name.

753
00:41:12,320 --> 00:41:17,239
Speaker 3: I don't care, Meredith, You're correct, it's absolutely a gift.

754
00:41:17,280 --> 00:41:21,439
Speaker 3: I as someone with too deeply confusing first and last name,

755
00:41:21,960 --> 00:41:25,839
Speaker 3: I've really come to accept it's all nonsense and I'm

756
00:41:25,840 --> 00:41:30,400
Speaker 3: not precious at all about names. Sure, change the pronunciation

757
00:41:30,480 --> 00:41:32,439
Speaker 3: of your last name, play with it, have a little fun.

758
00:41:32,480 --> 00:41:36,960
Speaker 3: I could become Bridge or whinager Bridge, r winae jaw Bridge,

759
00:41:36,960 --> 00:41:39,279
Speaker 3: your Whinaga. I mean, it's a fun, little thing you

760
00:41:39,280 --> 00:41:42,600
Speaker 3: can do at any point in your life, and why not?

761
00:41:42,760 --> 00:41:46,160
Speaker 3: Names are nonsense. I say, go for it. It's just

762
00:41:46,280 --> 00:41:52,440
Speaker 3: two random mixes of letters. Sure, change the pronunciation. I

763
00:41:52,480 --> 00:41:55,919
Speaker 3: don't care. Okay, you've got one that's very impressive. Let's

764
00:41:55,920 --> 00:41:58,879
Speaker 3: see what how you do. For some reason, this next

765
00:41:58,920 --> 00:42:01,759
Speaker 3: listener is also just an anonymous And you know, if

766
00:42:01,800 --> 00:42:04,279
Speaker 3: I just forgot to type your name in, don't come

767
00:42:04,320 --> 00:42:05,760
Speaker 3: after me. It's not my problem.

768
00:42:06,000 --> 00:42:07,120
Speaker 4: Maybe they're a coward.

769
00:42:08,160 --> 00:42:12,360
Speaker 3: Let's just assume this next person, this coward, next coward,

770
00:42:18,280 --> 00:42:21,120
Speaker 3: gift or a curse. The County Fair.

771
00:42:23,120 --> 00:42:28,280
Speaker 4: Well, I'm going to say gift. Well, wait, here's the problem.

772
00:42:28,440 --> 00:42:31,680
Speaker 4: I've never been to one, so all I know are

773
00:42:31,719 --> 00:42:35,600
Speaker 4: the things i've read or seen, you know, news clips

774
00:42:35,640 --> 00:42:38,480
Speaker 4: of you know, hey, there's a deep fried butter you

775
00:42:38,480 --> 00:42:43,319
Speaker 4: can eat at the Wisconsin State Fair or something like that.

776
00:42:43,840 --> 00:42:48,279
Speaker 4: And I guess I might say curse only because I

777
00:42:48,280 --> 00:42:51,239
Speaker 4: feel like there's a lot of very unhealthy food and

778
00:42:52,360 --> 00:42:56,040
Speaker 4: you know, they you know, there's pigs stuff where I

779
00:42:56,040 --> 00:42:58,680
Speaker 4: feel like the pigs meet a terrible and maybe after

780
00:42:58,719 --> 00:43:01,120
Speaker 4: they get a blue riven, they don't get.

781
00:43:01,000 --> 00:43:05,080
Speaker 3: Spared, right, I think that they go on they win

782
00:43:05,160 --> 00:43:13,160
Speaker 3: a home and car. It's kind of a sweepstakes for pigs.

783
00:43:14,560 --> 00:43:19,800
Speaker 4: If it's a sweepstakes for pigs, then it's what was

784
00:43:19,840 --> 00:43:21,400
Speaker 4: it was a blessing.

785
00:43:21,040 --> 00:43:24,440
Speaker 3: No gift, get on board.

786
00:43:25,920 --> 00:43:28,840
Speaker 4: It's a gift. But if it's if the pig doesn't

787
00:43:29,200 --> 00:43:36,040
Speaker 4: doesn't get like a brand new you know, or something,

788
00:43:36,200 --> 00:43:36,719
Speaker 4: I would.

789
00:43:36,520 --> 00:43:45,560
Speaker 3: Say the showcase showdown the curse, Meredith wrong, Oh, County

790
00:43:45,560 --> 00:43:47,120
Speaker 3: Fair is a gift. I've never been to one. I've

791
00:43:47,160 --> 00:43:50,279
Speaker 3: been to a state fair, which I think is a

792
00:43:50,320 --> 00:43:52,040
Speaker 3: little bit. I feel like the state Fair is a

793
00:43:52,040 --> 00:43:53,880
Speaker 3: little bit trashier or something. I feel like there's a

794
00:43:53,880 --> 00:43:56,840
Speaker 3: lot more concrete involved with the state Fair. There's a

795
00:43:56,840 --> 00:44:00,120
Speaker 3: lot of blankets, like fleece blankets with Marilyn Monroe on

796
00:44:00,160 --> 00:44:03,360
Speaker 3: them being sold. That is a curse. But the County

797
00:44:03,400 --> 00:44:07,080
Speaker 3: Fair seems so quaint. There's the blue ribbon. I feel like,

798
00:44:07,120 --> 00:44:12,000
Speaker 3: there's the pie contest. We've got Charlotte spinning spiders webs.

799
00:44:12,040 --> 00:44:14,200
Speaker 3: I have to imagine that. I don't think Charlotte was

800
00:44:14,239 --> 00:44:17,480
Speaker 3: at the state Fair. That was certainly a county fair.

801
00:44:17,760 --> 00:44:20,440
Speaker 4: You know. I was thinking, you meant state Fair.

802
00:44:22,280 --> 00:44:24,400
Speaker 3: Don't the backpedaling, because.

803
00:44:24,320 --> 00:44:27,120
Speaker 4: You're right, I'm just trying to be a good student

804
00:44:27,160 --> 00:44:29,279
Speaker 4: and get a better grade. I'm just trying to work

805
00:44:29,320 --> 00:44:32,440
Speaker 4: you right now until you get me or the writing.

806
00:44:33,360 --> 00:44:37,759
Speaker 3: You got it wrong? A gift? It might just be

807
00:44:37,800 --> 00:44:40,799
Speaker 3: my imagination, and maybe going to one would change my mind.

808
00:44:40,800 --> 00:44:42,719
Speaker 3: But I love the County Fair. I love to think

809
00:44:42,760 --> 00:44:45,360
Speaker 3: of the County Fair and Babe.

810
00:44:45,760 --> 00:44:46,000
Speaker 1: Yeah.

811
00:44:46,120 --> 00:44:48,680
Speaker 3: Well, actually, what did Babe do in the movie. Did

812
00:44:48,719 --> 00:44:50,120
Speaker 3: he go to a fair or was he just part

813
00:44:50,160 --> 00:44:51,600
Speaker 3: of some sort of pig competition?

814
00:44:52,120 --> 00:44:54,360
Speaker 4: I don't know, but I mean he ends up in

815
00:44:54,360 --> 00:44:55,440
Speaker 4: the city at some point.

816
00:44:55,920 --> 00:44:58,640
Speaker 3: I just recently heard that that movie's good. I've heard

817
00:44:58,640 --> 00:45:00,560
Speaker 3: Babe Pig in the City is a good movie.

818
00:45:00,719 --> 00:45:01,960
Speaker 4: I'm sure it's a good movie.

819
00:45:02,560 --> 00:45:07,600
Speaker 3: Apparently people love it. I had no idea. No, now

820
00:45:07,600 --> 00:45:09,480
Speaker 3: that I'm thinking about it, I feel like Babe helps

821
00:45:09,560 --> 00:45:12,759
Speaker 3: round up the other pigs, probably, you.

822
00:45:12,719 --> 00:45:16,440
Speaker 4: Know, in a Ferdinand style way, try to escape.

823
00:45:18,480 --> 00:45:20,920
Speaker 3: The listener is probably furious about me not knowing the

824
00:45:21,080 --> 00:45:23,959
Speaker 3: plot of Babe. Forgive me. I remember there being three

825
00:45:24,000 --> 00:45:27,000
Speaker 3: mice that sing and that was cute. Okay, so you've

826
00:45:27,000 --> 00:45:31,600
Speaker 3: gotten one right and one wrong. Whatever, and now finally

827
00:45:34,160 --> 00:45:35,880
Speaker 3: gift or a curse. And this is again from a

828
00:45:35,920 --> 00:45:38,440
Speaker 3: listener with a name which is exciting someone named Colby

829
00:45:39,120 --> 00:45:41,720
Speaker 3: accidentally replying all gift or a curse.

830
00:45:42,920 --> 00:45:45,799
Speaker 4: Okay, I'm gonna say gift, but I'm gonna say it's

831
00:45:45,840 --> 00:45:54,040
Speaker 4: a gift to others. It's usually hilarious what happened, and

832
00:45:54,080 --> 00:45:56,320
Speaker 4: it's one of those things. It's just part of life's

833
00:45:56,800 --> 00:45:59,920
Speaker 4: you know, humiliation and embarrassment is part of life. An accident.

834
00:46:00,120 --> 00:46:03,440
Speaker 4: Hopefully it didn't hurt someone's feelings too much. But I

835
00:46:03,480 --> 00:46:05,680
Speaker 4: would say it's a gift to other people who get

836
00:46:05,719 --> 00:46:09,000
Speaker 4: to hear the story generally, but it is a curse.

837
00:46:09,040 --> 00:46:10,480
Speaker 4: If it happens to you, it's terrible.

838
00:46:11,120 --> 00:46:12,480
Speaker 3: Well you have to pick one or the other. You're

839
00:46:12,480 --> 00:46:13,520
Speaker 3: going to say it's a gift.

840
00:46:13,520 --> 00:46:14,440
Speaker 4: I'm gonna go gift.

841
00:46:15,280 --> 00:46:19,560
Speaker 3: You're right, of course, of course. I think even look

842
00:46:19,640 --> 00:46:23,200
Speaker 3: in the moment the accidental reply all, what a horrible feeling.

843
00:46:23,560 --> 00:46:26,080
Speaker 3: But the truth comes out. The truth was going to

844
00:46:26,120 --> 00:46:32,960
Speaker 3: come out at some point anyway. Why not just have it.

845
00:46:29,760 --> 00:46:35,560
Speaker 4: Just lay it out there, you know, Yeah, cold hard truths.

846
00:46:36,960 --> 00:46:40,200
Speaker 3: We should all be replying all all the time. I agree,

847
00:46:40,239 --> 00:46:44,279
Speaker 3: reply all from your heart. I feel like sure, it's

848
00:46:44,320 --> 00:46:46,799
Speaker 3: probably a horrible and probably has ruined a lot of

849
00:46:46,880 --> 00:46:51,760
Speaker 3: lives and has devastated people in all kinds of ways.

850
00:46:51,840 --> 00:46:55,879
Speaker 3: But I feel like, yes, I know in my heart

851
00:46:55,960 --> 00:46:58,520
Speaker 3: it's a gift. We love to hear about somebody replying

852
00:46:58,520 --> 00:47:02,800
Speaker 3: all and embarrassing themselves or pointing out a flaw in

853
00:47:02,920 --> 00:47:07,080
Speaker 3: someone else. It's an X ray. It's ultimately an X

854
00:47:07,160 --> 00:47:10,200
Speaker 3: ray into the person, and we love it a gift.

855
00:47:10,680 --> 00:47:14,160
Speaker 4: It's an x It's an X ray that reveals the

856
00:47:14,239 --> 00:47:18,480
Speaker 4: rabbits inside the ugly truth.

857
00:47:19,480 --> 00:47:22,759
Speaker 3: She replied, all with those rabbits.

858
00:47:23,440 --> 00:47:27,360
Speaker 4: It's trying to dovetail. I don't know that it worked or.

859
00:47:29,200 --> 00:47:33,040
Speaker 3: Very tough. That's a a It's a confusing, muddled callback

860
00:47:33,920 --> 00:47:39,120
Speaker 3: that I really appreciate. Actually, Okay, two out of three

861
00:47:39,440 --> 00:47:42,399
Speaker 3: not bad, you got a nice sixty six percent people

862
00:47:42,440 --> 00:47:46,360
Speaker 3: have done worse. Okay. This is the final segment of

863
00:47:46,400 --> 00:47:49,719
Speaker 3: the podcast. This is called I said no emails. People

864
00:47:49,800 --> 00:47:52,040
Speaker 3: write into I said no gifts at gmail dot com.

865
00:47:52,480 --> 00:47:54,440
Speaker 3: Every one of them has some problem that I end

866
00:47:54,520 --> 00:47:56,560
Speaker 3: up dealing with. The guest has to deal with it.

867
00:47:57,160 --> 00:47:59,920
Speaker 3: I mean, I say this every time my listeners have

868
00:48:00,760 --> 00:48:04,120
Speaker 3: It's actually out of control how many issues people have

869
00:48:04,360 --> 00:48:07,960
Speaker 3: surrounding gifts and social situations, but I've solved every one

870
00:48:08,000 --> 00:48:09,719
Speaker 3: of them perfectly, So that's good. Will you hope me

871
00:48:09,760 --> 00:48:13,040
Speaker 3: answer a question I'd love to. Okay, let me get

872
00:48:13,040 --> 00:48:16,239
Speaker 3: intoto the thing here, let's see. Okay, here we go,

873
00:48:16,719 --> 00:48:21,680
Speaker 3: deer bridger and extremely disrespectful guest. A week before Mother's Day,

874
00:48:21,680 --> 00:48:24,480
Speaker 3: my husband and kids surprised me in advance with two

875
00:48:24,520 --> 00:48:28,080
Speaker 3: tickets to see Hamilton. They were all so proud and

876
00:48:28,200 --> 00:48:31,520
Speaker 3: totally impressed with themselves with the gift of Broadway. Scratch

877
00:48:31,600 --> 00:48:34,480
Speaker 3: that off Broadway, as I live in the Midwest and

878
00:48:34,560 --> 00:48:38,040
Speaker 3: any production in Saint Louis is not considered Broadway to me. Okay,

879
00:48:39,400 --> 00:48:41,480
Speaker 3: I also know, I mean.

880
00:48:41,600 --> 00:48:46,200
Speaker 4: She's disappointed with the gift because she's like, this is

881
00:48:46,239 --> 00:48:49,080
Speaker 4: not quite Broadway. Anyway ahead, this is.

882
00:48:49,160 --> 00:48:52,640
Speaker 3: Very I mean, I'm I'm gonna reserve my thoughts and

883
00:48:52,719 --> 00:48:56,000
Speaker 3: opinions for this email to the very end, because my

884
00:48:56,080 --> 00:48:59,840
Speaker 3: heart is racing. Let's just say my heart is racing. Okay.

885
00:48:59,840 --> 00:49:02,720
Speaker 3: So I also noticed that he spent a ludicrous amount

886
00:49:02,760 --> 00:49:04,880
Speaker 3: of money four hundred and fifty dollars through a third

887
00:49:04,960 --> 00:49:08,640
Speaker 3: party ticket agency and it was non refundable. Then had

888
00:49:08,680 --> 00:49:10,720
Speaker 3: the nerve to say I could take anyone I wanted,

889
00:49:10,760 --> 00:49:13,360
Speaker 3: and I was like, I'm not offering a friend a

890
00:49:13,400 --> 00:49:15,680
Speaker 3: two hundred and twenty five dollars ticket on a Wednesday

891
00:49:15,719 --> 00:49:18,640
Speaker 3: night to an off way Broadway It ran rendition of Hamilton,

892
00:49:19,000 --> 00:49:21,080
Speaker 3: like I could have watched this on Disney with the

893
00:49:21,120 --> 00:49:24,920
Speaker 3: original Broadway cast. Okay, I made my husband go with me,

894
00:49:24,960 --> 00:49:26,919
Speaker 3: and the tickets were second to last row at the top.

895
00:49:27,160 --> 00:49:29,520
Speaker 3: We managed to move to lower seats and enjoyed the show.

896
00:49:29,920 --> 00:49:34,040
Speaker 3: The dilemma I'm in, So that's not exactly the dilemma. Apparently.

897
00:49:34,120 --> 00:49:36,920
Speaker 3: The dilemma I'm in is what do I get this

898
00:49:37,000 --> 00:49:39,480
Speaker 3: man for Father's Day? He orders stuff for himself on

899
00:49:39,560 --> 00:49:43,160
Speaker 3: the daily from Amazon. It's now boiled down to Cologne.

900
00:49:43,280 --> 00:49:45,560
Speaker 3: What can I get a guy who gets everything for himself?

901
00:49:45,680 --> 00:49:49,280
Speaker 3: Hints he loves the Saint Louis Cardinals, Saint Louis Blues,

902
00:49:50,000 --> 00:49:54,520
Speaker 3: and two button Polos. Thanks in advance for your help, Allen. Okay,

903
00:49:54,560 --> 00:49:57,600
Speaker 3: so basically what we've gotten the information about this man

904
00:49:57,640 --> 00:50:00,520
Speaker 3: makes him seem like he's a store in the Saint

905
00:50:00,520 --> 00:50:05,400
Speaker 3: Louis Airport. But okay, so this person, what are we

906
00:50:05,480 --> 00:50:08,080
Speaker 3: talking about. That's a lovely gift that the family gave

907
00:50:08,120 --> 00:50:09,080
Speaker 3: her the two.

908
00:50:08,920 --> 00:50:10,760
Speaker 4: Tickets that he hates the gift.

909
00:50:11,360 --> 00:50:15,640
Speaker 3: She absolutely her children and husband script and saved for

910
00:50:15,760 --> 00:50:17,000
Speaker 3: months to buy these tickets.

911
00:50:17,040 --> 00:50:22,840
Speaker 4: But she thinks he's very wasteful because because of the surcharge.

912
00:50:22,440 --> 00:50:24,160
Speaker 3: For the She's a Broadway snob.

913
00:50:24,320 --> 00:50:26,920
Speaker 4: She's a Broadway you know, she could have in the

914
00:50:26,960 --> 00:50:30,239
Speaker 4: amount of money that they've spent for the surcharge, she

915
00:50:30,280 --> 00:50:33,640
Speaker 4: could have gotten the flight. Sounds like alone to New

916
00:50:33,719 --> 00:50:34,720
Speaker 4: York is what she really.

917
00:50:34,600 --> 00:50:36,120
Speaker 3: Well, she's going to She's gonna be on a lot

918
00:50:36,120 --> 00:50:38,319
Speaker 3: of flights alone. Keeps acting like this.

919
00:50:38,520 --> 00:50:40,440
Speaker 4: I mean, I feel like if she doesn't know what

920
00:50:40,560 --> 00:50:43,040
Speaker 4: to get him and he has everything, maybe divorce.

921
00:50:42,760 --> 00:50:48,920
Speaker 3: Paper kind of on like a Cardinals stationary. Maybe a

922
00:50:48,960 --> 00:50:53,560
Speaker 3: Cardinals station Do they ever do theme stationary for divorce papers?

923
00:50:53,560 --> 00:50:57,040
Speaker 3: That's a business I could get into Sharks today. I

924
00:50:57,080 --> 00:50:58,600
Speaker 3: bring to you my business.

925
00:50:58,800 --> 00:51:02,560
Speaker 4: Uh, just to sort of lighten it up a little,

926
00:51:03,600 --> 00:51:07,839
Speaker 4: you know, But it's on your favorite team stationary.

927
00:51:09,200 --> 00:51:10,160
Speaker 3: You can't be mad.

928
00:51:10,280 --> 00:51:13,320
Speaker 4: You can't be mad. You get to keep the stationary.

929
00:51:13,840 --> 00:51:18,439
Speaker 3: This is basically like going to the game. Okay, first

930
00:51:18,440 --> 00:51:21,200
Speaker 3: of all, well, I think I've already said first of

931
00:51:21,200 --> 00:51:22,480
Speaker 3: all a bunch of times, But I've just had a

932
00:51:22,520 --> 00:51:24,680
Speaker 3: lot of first of all opinions about did I even

933
00:51:24,680 --> 00:51:27,440
Speaker 3: say it's from Ellen Ellen the Broadway? This is a

934
00:51:27,480 --> 00:51:30,919
Speaker 3: Broadway tour. These are good performers. That's a world class show.

935
00:51:31,080 --> 00:51:32,959
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, let's not spit on them.

936
00:51:33,600 --> 00:51:35,919
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm sure it was a fantastic show. And you've

937
00:51:35,960 --> 00:51:37,239
Speaker 3: just got a horrible attitude.

938
00:51:37,920 --> 00:51:43,360
Speaker 4: I think that. Okay, I think it's hard when you

939
00:51:43,600 --> 00:51:49,120
Speaker 4: have expectations for present generally, you know, right, I don't

940
00:51:49,160 --> 00:51:52,719
Speaker 4: know if she had expectations for an amazing present or not.

941
00:51:53,280 --> 00:51:55,400
Speaker 3: It sounds like she did, but I do think.

942
00:51:55,239 --> 00:51:58,360
Speaker 4: It's always if you do, you're almost always let.

943
00:51:58,200 --> 00:52:02,360
Speaker 3: Down, Yes, because it's supposed to be a surprise, so

944
00:52:02,480 --> 00:52:04,879
Speaker 3: it shouldn't be your expectations, right.

945
00:52:05,040 --> 00:52:10,680
Speaker 5: Maybe it's the fact that maybe the surcharge something about

946
00:52:10,719 --> 00:52:13,720
Speaker 5: that is making me think because I recently just bought

947
00:52:13,840 --> 00:52:15,600
Speaker 5: tickets to see Into the Woods and I had to

948
00:52:15,640 --> 00:52:18,480
Speaker 5: spend a lot more on stub hub together.

949
00:52:18,960 --> 00:52:22,040
Speaker 4: Because I did it last minute kind of not last minute,

950
00:52:22,040 --> 00:52:24,799
Speaker 4: but like it was also a short run. But so

951
00:52:24,880 --> 00:52:28,360
Speaker 4: maybe they were immediately, you know, all bought up immediately,

952
00:52:28,600 --> 00:52:30,759
Speaker 4: and they were all always like that. But there's a

953
00:52:30,880 --> 00:52:34,880
Speaker 4: chance that maybe was bothering her is that he bought

954
00:52:34,880 --> 00:52:38,239
Speaker 4: it probably the night before Mother's Day, and so there

955
00:52:38,239 --> 00:52:38,719
Speaker 4: was a laugh.

956
00:52:38,880 --> 00:52:41,920
Speaker 3: Oh, if you had thought about.

957
00:52:41,600 --> 00:52:46,560
Speaker 4: Me, maybe that could be behind it, because it really

958
00:52:47,520 --> 00:52:51,279
Speaker 4: because if you had really planned and thought and you know,

959
00:52:51,320 --> 00:52:54,120
Speaker 4: put a lot of effort in it, there might not

960
00:52:54,160 --> 00:52:55,960
Speaker 4: have been that big surcharge.

961
00:52:55,920 --> 00:52:58,400
Speaker 3: Right, And then that makes perfect sense.

962
00:52:58,640 --> 00:53:00,960
Speaker 4: It would have felt like he considered hern more so,

963
00:53:01,000 --> 00:53:03,480
Speaker 4: maybe she's just feeling taken granted. I don't know.

964
00:53:04,040 --> 00:53:06,719
Speaker 3: No, I think you've gotten right to the heart of this.

965
00:53:06,800 --> 00:53:08,480
Speaker 3: And it makes me think that Ellen is a ticket

966
00:53:08,480 --> 00:53:11,120
Speaker 3: saleswoman and she works at the box office and she's

967
00:53:11,200 --> 00:53:14,040
Speaker 3: pissed that he didn't go to her, and she sees

968
00:53:14,080 --> 00:53:17,160
Speaker 3: these third party apps or whatever kind of coming for

969
00:53:17,280 --> 00:53:20,319
Speaker 3: her job and it was a sore spot for her.

970
00:53:20,760 --> 00:53:21,120
Speaker 4: It is.

971
00:53:21,520 --> 00:53:23,759
Speaker 3: And meanwhile, she's in a husband with three interests, one

972
00:53:24,160 --> 00:53:26,160
Speaker 3: which is two button polos. I don't even know what

973
00:53:26,160 --> 00:53:30,000
Speaker 3: that means. Is that is there a polo with three

974
00:53:30,239 --> 00:53:31,200
Speaker 3: tons of buttons?

975
00:53:31,360 --> 00:53:35,320
Speaker 4: And that is that considered to be like a whores.

976
00:53:35,000 --> 00:53:42,920
Speaker 3: Polo, a whole collection of horlo.

977
00:53:42,640 --> 00:53:47,720
Speaker 4: Third button, it goes down to four inches still above

978
00:53:47,760 --> 00:53:48,440
Speaker 4: the nipples.

979
00:53:51,120 --> 00:53:53,960
Speaker 3: I have a polo that goes to the groin.

980
00:53:56,120 --> 00:53:59,120
Speaker 4: I mean, that's just a button down, but it does

981
00:53:59,200 --> 00:53:59,839
Speaker 4: connect with the.

982
00:54:00,440 --> 00:54:03,600
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's just a tiny to put him on over

983
00:54:03,640 --> 00:54:10,560
Speaker 3: your head. It's that j Loo dress she was wearing

984
00:54:10,640 --> 00:54:14,000
Speaker 3: officially a polo to the Grammys in two thousand and two.

985
00:54:14,080 --> 00:54:17,320
Speaker 3: That's a I believe that was a fifty button polo.

986
00:54:17,560 --> 00:54:21,000
Speaker 4: Well, you know what, maybe maybe Ellen, because I feel

987
00:54:21,040 --> 00:54:24,839
Speaker 4: like you have issues about the present because he got

988
00:54:24,880 --> 00:54:26,799
Speaker 4: you don't like the president. So maybe if he's a

989
00:54:26,800 --> 00:54:31,280
Speaker 4: Cardinals fan, you should get him ticket the worst seats

990
00:54:31,920 --> 00:54:34,440
Speaker 4: to a Cardinals game in the worst.

991
00:54:34,239 --> 00:54:37,479
Speaker 3: Town, that's way in the last minute. And away game,

992
00:54:38,360 --> 00:54:40,640
Speaker 3: you know, like three grand on this stick. Yeah, away

993
00:54:40,680 --> 00:54:44,560
Speaker 3: game you buy him twenty minutes before the scalper really

994
00:54:44,600 --> 00:54:48,360
Speaker 3: gets you a cash. Yeah, and then see how he feels.

995
00:54:48,400 --> 00:54:50,080
Speaker 3: See how Dave feels about that.

996
00:54:50,800 --> 00:54:54,239
Speaker 4: I will say, whenever you're playing some kind of experiment

997
00:54:54,320 --> 00:54:58,280
Speaker 4: with the other person, it never works. They don't notice,

998
00:54:58,520 --> 00:55:01,760
Speaker 4: Like he'll just be like, thanks, honey, I love it.

999
00:55:02,120 --> 00:55:03,160
Speaker 4: And you're doing all this.

1000
00:55:03,280 --> 00:55:06,280
Speaker 3: Work, You're doing all this math in your brain thinking

1001
00:55:06,280 --> 00:55:10,720
Speaker 3: it's going to have this amazing Well, it's because you're dealing.

1002
00:55:10,920 --> 00:55:13,400
Speaker 3: I mean, in this situation, Ellen's dealing with somebody the

1003
00:55:13,480 --> 00:55:16,080
Speaker 3: husband who woke up from a nap the night before

1004
00:55:16,080 --> 00:55:18,759
Speaker 3: Mother's Day and remembered and just got on stub Hub

1005
00:55:18,760 --> 00:55:21,319
Speaker 3: and bought these expensive tickets to a show that neither

1006
00:55:21,360 --> 00:55:23,719
Speaker 3: of them actually wanted to see. So it's kind of

1007
00:55:24,080 --> 00:55:25,160
Speaker 3: this marriage is crumbling.

1008
00:55:26,239 --> 00:55:29,120
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean I don't think it's beyond repair, but

1009
00:55:29,239 --> 00:55:33,759
Speaker 4: I think it. Yeah, there's an attitude adjustment.

1010
00:55:34,360 --> 00:55:36,279
Speaker 3: Yeah, they're at the point where the couple's therapists is

1011
00:55:36,320 --> 00:55:38,600
Speaker 3: no longer like gung ho about saving and it's a

1012
00:55:38,600 --> 00:55:42,040
Speaker 3: little bit more speaking carefully about how this could end.

1013
00:55:43,400 --> 00:55:47,120
Speaker 3: That's just how I'm getting the I mean, Ellen reached

1014
00:55:47,120 --> 00:55:50,120
Speaker 3: out obviously to the right right source with this podcast,

1015
00:55:50,200 --> 00:55:52,239
Speaker 3: and she's gotten all of the advice that she could

1016
00:55:52,239 --> 00:55:53,040
Speaker 3: possibly use.

1017
00:55:53,840 --> 00:55:56,160
Speaker 4: I could talk about this for another hour, though I was.

1018
00:55:56,200 --> 00:55:59,200
Speaker 3: Saying, Ellen gave us a lot to unpack. I mean,

1019
00:55:59,239 --> 00:56:00,640
Speaker 3: I could have just read the first half of that

1020
00:56:00,680 --> 00:56:05,600
Speaker 3: email and said, Ellen, it's time to respect these performers.

1021
00:56:06,400 --> 00:56:10,400
Speaker 4: I also think I will say, and like my partner Andrew,

1022
00:56:10,480 --> 00:56:15,279
Speaker 4: he's bought me some terrible presents because he waits the

1023
00:56:15,400 --> 00:56:17,840
Speaker 4: last minute. I also am the last minute person. But

1024
00:56:17,880 --> 00:56:20,719
Speaker 4: I think that I'm somehow, I think I still pull

1025
00:56:20,760 --> 00:56:22,120
Speaker 4: it out and get something really good.

1026
00:56:22,640 --> 00:56:23,360
Speaker 3: You just think you're that.

1027
00:56:23,480 --> 00:56:28,560
Speaker 4: Sometimes sometimes he'll it'll be like Christmas Eve, and he'll

1028
00:56:28,680 --> 00:56:32,960
Speaker 4: run out and then come back with a collection of

1029
00:56:32,960 --> 00:56:35,600
Speaker 4: odd items that clearly came from one store.

1030
00:56:35,480 --> 00:56:37,520
Speaker 3: Like it's pleasure.

1031
00:56:38,040 --> 00:56:41,000
Speaker 4: Like on Christmas, I'll open this thing and it's like, oh,

1032
00:56:41,040 --> 00:56:47,000
Speaker 4: this is an eighty dollars Japanese wash claw, Like, okay, great,

1033
00:56:47,239 --> 00:56:51,719
Speaker 4: it's beautiful. I don't read this, but thank you. I

1034
00:56:51,800 --> 00:56:55,320
Speaker 4: know you panicked. I know you panicked.

1035
00:56:56,480 --> 00:56:59,040
Speaker 3: Just write a thoughtful card at that point, I know.

1036
00:56:59,120 --> 00:57:01,839
Speaker 4: Yeah, So I don't know. I would give I would

1037
00:57:01,880 --> 00:57:02,680
Speaker 4: give this guy a.

1038
00:57:02,719 --> 00:57:05,680
Speaker 3: Pass, give him one pass if you end up at

1039
00:57:06,000 --> 00:57:10,839
Speaker 3: Hamilton again next year. This is a pattern, and uh,

1040
00:57:12,080 --> 00:57:14,279
Speaker 3: it's time to start thinking about it. I mean, maybe

1041
00:57:14,280 --> 00:57:16,720
Speaker 3: next year he takes you to New York. I mean,

1042
00:57:16,720 --> 00:57:19,520
Speaker 3: maybe he hears this podcast and it devastates him and

1043
00:57:19,520 --> 00:57:22,400
Speaker 3: he knows that he's on borrowed time.

1044
00:57:23,400 --> 00:57:28,360
Speaker 4: Right, Maybe you can tell what the direction his efforts

1045
00:57:28,360 --> 00:57:31,720
Speaker 4: are going if you just keep getting progressively one row

1046
00:57:31,880 --> 00:57:33,520
Speaker 4: closer to the stage.

1047
00:57:34,720 --> 00:57:38,640
Speaker 3: With every mother, until eventually he's King George. He's singing

1048
00:57:38,880 --> 00:57:43,840
Speaker 3: right into your eyes Oh, he gets down and asks

1049
00:57:43,880 --> 00:57:48,120
Speaker 3: you to marry him again. It's so romantic. I mean this,

1050
00:57:48,120 --> 00:57:50,160
Speaker 3: this could go in a lot of directions for Ellen

1051
00:57:50,200 --> 00:57:53,160
Speaker 3: and Dave, and we wish him the best.

1052
00:57:53,960 --> 00:57:56,280
Speaker 4: Yes, I wish them. I wish you guys the best.

1053
00:57:57,080 --> 00:58:00,280
Speaker 3: Merredith, we answered the question perfectly on of our idea

1054
00:58:00,280 --> 00:58:04,960
Speaker 3: of levels. It was a perfect answer, hopefully. Yeah, perfect answer.

1055
00:58:05,040 --> 00:58:07,320
Speaker 3: And I'm sure the listeners are going a bunch of

1056
00:58:07,320 --> 00:58:09,840
Speaker 3: listeners are having this exact problem. Now they can apply

1057
00:58:09,920 --> 00:58:13,480
Speaker 3: that advice to their own lives. And uh, it could

1058
00:58:13,640 --> 00:58:15,600
Speaker 3: lead to a divorce epidemic for all we know.

1059
00:58:16,520 --> 00:58:22,640
Speaker 4: Love if you and I became sort of ethicists, right, Uh, yeah,

1060
00:58:22,680 --> 00:58:26,240
Speaker 4: of course we fielded questions.

1061
00:58:26,840 --> 00:58:30,080
Speaker 3: We should have a like that Radio Collin show.

1062
00:58:30,360 --> 00:58:31,320
Speaker 4: Yes, that would be great.

1063
00:58:31,920 --> 00:58:34,080
Speaker 3: I mean this is just the beginning of that. I

1064
00:58:34,120 --> 00:58:38,320
Speaker 3: can only feel it coming. And Ellen, thank you for

1065
00:58:38,360 --> 00:58:42,760
Speaker 3: reaching out. Your problem has been solved. And Meredith, now

1066
00:58:42,800 --> 00:58:45,280
Speaker 3: I have a beautiful piece of art to hang in

1067
00:58:45,320 --> 00:58:45,720
Speaker 3: my home.

1068
00:58:46,080 --> 00:58:46,920
Speaker 4: Can I see it?

1069
00:58:47,400 --> 00:58:48,600
Speaker 3: Of course? Have you not seen it yet?

1070
00:58:48,640 --> 00:58:50,600
Speaker 4: I haven't seen it because I I well, I mean

1071
00:58:50,640 --> 00:58:54,160
Speaker 4: I've seen the photo, but I didn't see what it

1072
00:58:54,280 --> 00:59:01,840
Speaker 4: ended up looking like. Let's see that Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,

1073
00:59:02,640 --> 00:59:03,240
Speaker 4: looks great.

1074
00:59:03,720 --> 00:59:04,680
Speaker 3: It's very sweet.

1075
00:59:05,080 --> 00:59:06,160
Speaker 4: It is sweet.

1076
00:59:06,560 --> 00:59:10,280
Speaker 3: That rat or raccoon maybe dead, but it left its

1077
00:59:10,320 --> 00:59:12,720
Speaker 3: mark on the greatest city in the world.

1078
00:59:13,000 --> 00:59:17,080
Speaker 4: It's sort of like, you know, it's Hollywood Walk of

1079
00:59:17,120 --> 00:59:21,600
Speaker 4: Fame or whatever you put her. Had a whole little ceremony.

1080
00:59:23,080 --> 00:59:27,320
Speaker 3: It paid the twenty five thousand dollars fee and entertainment tonight.

1081
00:59:27,440 --> 00:59:33,760
Speaker 4: Was there, Rat, Nancy O'Dell is there? Rat Billy Bush

1082
00:59:33,840 --> 00:59:34,160
Speaker 4: is there?

1083
00:59:36,400 --> 00:59:41,800
Speaker 3: Billy Bush will do anything. Oh, I've just had a

1084
00:59:41,800 --> 00:59:44,920
Speaker 3: wonderful time with you here. This is just being spectacular,

1085
00:59:45,080 --> 00:59:49,080
Speaker 3: and I thank you for sending this lovely gift.

1086
00:59:49,360 --> 00:59:52,920
Speaker 4: Hey, oh so you turned around. You're not mad at

1087
00:59:52,960 --> 00:59:53,440
Speaker 4: me anymore.

1088
00:59:53,560 --> 00:59:55,960
Speaker 3: I'm you know, we got through, we went through a

1089
00:59:56,040 --> 00:59:58,280
Speaker 3: variety of things. We basically got married and divorced with

1090
00:59:58,280 --> 01:00:02,240
Speaker 3: Aaron's email, Ellen's email, and I feel like this is

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Speaker 3: something I'm going to cherish.

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Speaker 4: So maybe what Ellen, Maybe Ellen being hating her presence

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01:00:08,400 --> 01:00:11,840
Speaker 4: so much made you appreciate the act of gift giving

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Speaker 4: that I gave you that gift, So it made me

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Speaker 4: I calculated the whole bit.

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Speaker 3: All right, Well, thank you, and listener, this is the

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Speaker 3: end of the podcasts. What do you want me to

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Speaker 3: call them?

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Speaker 4: I just like that it maybe is just one person.

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Speaker 3: There's a single person sitting in a quiet booth somewhere

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Speaker 3: in the Midwest. Oh yes, I forgot Thank you. That's

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Speaker 3: aspirational for me for someone to listen to this while

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Speaker 3: on a boat. If you do listen to it on

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Speaker 3: a boat, please reach out. Let the world know that

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01:00:51,800 --> 01:00:56,479
Speaker 3: you're listening to a podcast while at sea or at lake,

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01:00:56,680 --> 01:00:58,520
Speaker 3: or at pond, whatever it takes.

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Speaker 4: Or at boat store.

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Speaker 3: Or a boat show or at boat show. We can't

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Speaker 3: can't out the boat show audience. We would love to.

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Speaker 3: I would love to do a boat show. I will

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Speaker 3: do a live show from a boat show. I can

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Speaker 3: be in you know, kind of a ski boat recording

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Speaker 3: with my guests. So that's a new goal.

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Speaker 4: First sound, you'd have to keep the tarbomb and be.

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Speaker 3: Underneath just telling everyone to shut up all the times

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Speaker 3: turned down.

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Speaker 4: That public domain rock music that you're blasting from the

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Speaker 4: new Chaparral thirty eight foot bow Rider.

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Speaker 3: That's something we're all going to look forward to in

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Speaker 3: the future. I said no gifts at the boat show,

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Speaker 3: but until then, the show is over, the podcast is done.

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Speaker 3: You've spent an hour or so with us today, and

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Speaker 3: I hope you've had the time of your life. And

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Speaker 3: I hope that this energy can continue for at least

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Speaker 3: another few minutes during your day before things go set

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Speaker 3: and you are in a terrible mood. We'll talk again

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Speaker 3: next week. I love you, goodbye, I said, No Gifts

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Speaker 3: is an exactly right production. It's produced by our dear

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Speaker 3: friend Analise Nelson, and it's beautifully mixed by John Bradley.

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Speaker 3: The theme song, of course, could only come from miracle

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

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Speaker 3: at I said no gifts. I don't want to hear

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Speaker 3: any excuses. That's where you get to see pictures of

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Speaker 3: all these gorgeous gifts I'm getting. And don't you want

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Speaker 3: to see pictures of the gifts.

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Speaker 4: I invite?

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Speaker 2: Did you hear? Though? A man? Myself perfectly clear? But

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Speaker 2: you're a guess, Tom.

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Speaker 1: You gotta come to me empty And I said no gifts.

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Speaker 2: Your presences presence and

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01:03:00,120 --> 01:03:04,520
Speaker 1: Already had too much stuff, So how do you dare

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Speaker 1: to surbey me?