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Speaker 2: I don't have time to find your words for you.

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Speaker 2: That's very much my existence, playing video games in a robe,

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Speaker 3: believe in. But if you want to, I'm not gonna

436
00:21:24,880 --> 00:21:25,520
Speaker 3: say you can't.

437
00:21:31,440 --> 00:21:35,240
Speaker 2: Look I'm I'm no stranger to moral compromise. I'm happy

438
00:21:35,280 --> 00:21:35,920
Speaker 2: to get into it.

439
00:21:36,040 --> 00:21:36,159
Speaker 3: Here.

440
00:21:36,280 --> 00:21:40,399
Speaker 2: Let me get my scissor out a rather large brown box.

441
00:21:41,359 --> 00:21:43,000
Speaker 3: It's spring loaded, so be careful.

442
00:21:44,080 --> 00:21:47,960
Speaker 2: It's just full of marbles. Let's see here, what's the

443
00:21:48,000 --> 00:21:52,080
Speaker 2: best entry point? I guess right here, this is we're

444
00:21:52,200 --> 00:21:55,080
Speaker 2: some part of this podcast. I'm constantly cutting towards myself

445
00:21:55,760 --> 00:21:58,240
Speaker 2: while the guest watches on zoom and I feel like

446
00:21:58,280 --> 00:22:01,280
Speaker 2: at some point I am going to cut myself and

447
00:22:01,440 --> 00:22:02,840
Speaker 2: they're just gonna have to watch me bleed.

448
00:22:03,440 --> 00:22:05,560
Speaker 3: But now you have somebody that can call nine one one.

449
00:22:06,119 --> 00:22:09,200
Speaker 2: I'm right here. That's very true, very true.

450
00:22:09,280 --> 00:22:11,800
Speaker 3: That It's like, you don't go spilunking by yourself, always

451
00:22:11,800 --> 00:22:12,320
Speaker 3: bring a friend.

452
00:22:13,000 --> 00:22:15,760
Speaker 2: I would love to go spilunking by myself. The eeriness

453
00:22:15,800 --> 00:22:18,960
Speaker 2: of a cave. Oh, you know that could be a

454
00:22:19,040 --> 00:22:22,080
Speaker 2: nice way to go out. I don't know. Let's see,

455
00:22:22,640 --> 00:22:25,360
Speaker 2: this is maybe the most dangerous box opening I've done

456
00:22:25,400 --> 00:22:30,960
Speaker 2: on this podcast. Right careful, man, you're making me nervous.

457
00:22:31,119 --> 00:22:32,240
Speaker 2: I'm making me nervous.

458
00:22:32,359 --> 00:22:35,520
Speaker 3: This is not cut away from you, cut away, cut away,

459
00:22:36,119 --> 00:22:36,560
Speaker 3: there you go.

460
00:22:37,520 --> 00:22:40,359
Speaker 2: I'm very bad with the scissor today. I think. Let's

461
00:22:40,359 --> 00:22:43,040
Speaker 2: see here, this is gonna be the next thirty minute time.

462
00:22:43,040 --> 00:22:45,920
Speaker 3: I'm so nervous right now, I'm just waiting for the

463
00:22:46,000 --> 00:22:49,720
Speaker 3: blood to start spurting. Here we go. This is really

464
00:22:49,880 --> 00:22:50,880
Speaker 3: oh my heart.

465
00:22:53,000 --> 00:22:54,360
Speaker 2: Good breath, Let's see.

466
00:22:55,200 --> 00:22:57,639
Speaker 3: I love this audio unboxing. It's gonna be like a

467
00:22:57,680 --> 00:22:58,360
Speaker 3: whole new thing.

468
00:22:59,080 --> 00:23:02,120
Speaker 2: I would like to just have minies of the podcast

469
00:23:02,200 --> 00:23:06,480
Speaker 2: that are just boxes opening, packages being shredded. Okay, we're

470
00:23:06,480 --> 00:23:10,840
Speaker 2: getting in here. We're actually there's more tape. I'm happy

471
00:23:10,920 --> 00:23:12,680
Speaker 2: for this to go, for this to be the rest

472
00:23:12,720 --> 00:23:14,280
Speaker 2: of the podcast that was.

473
00:23:14,280 --> 00:23:16,520
Speaker 3: Originally going to be mailed. But then somebody walked by

474
00:23:16,560 --> 00:23:20,440
Speaker 3: and just picked up the package, so you have to

475
00:23:20,480 --> 00:23:21,159
Speaker 3: forgive me for that.

476
00:23:21,440 --> 00:23:24,560
Speaker 2: Let's see, this is a beautifully taped box. I mean,

477
00:23:25,040 --> 00:23:27,520
Speaker 2: nobody can get into this thing, no animal, no man.

478
00:23:30,200 --> 00:23:33,240
Speaker 2: The listener is furious at this point, and I love it. Wow,

479
00:23:33,359 --> 00:23:35,320
Speaker 2: I love just driving.

480
00:23:36,359 --> 00:23:38,159
Speaker 3: My fear has turned to boredom.

481
00:23:40,240 --> 00:23:45,520
Speaker 2: Will eventually become anger. Anger will become forgiveness, and then

482
00:23:45,560 --> 00:23:47,919
Speaker 2: we'll all be back on the same page. Oh my gosh,

483
00:23:48,320 --> 00:23:50,000
Speaker 2: are done with this tape?

484
00:23:51,840 --> 00:23:52,200
Speaker 3: Here we go?

485
00:23:52,359 --> 00:23:56,600
Speaker 2: Okay, I have finally all right, God, we've got point.

486
00:23:58,160 --> 00:24:00,760
Speaker 3: That puppy is probably dead by now, just a fly.

487
00:24:01,280 --> 00:24:06,000
Speaker 2: I thought I smelled something. Let's see here. Okay, okay,

488
00:24:06,080 --> 00:24:10,520
Speaker 2: we're just ripping in okay, Oh my god. And now

489
00:24:10,600 --> 00:24:14,800
Speaker 2: within the box is a full gift I wrapped.

490
00:24:16,040 --> 00:24:17,960
Speaker 3: You don't think i'd give you something on gift wrapped

491
00:24:17,960 --> 00:24:21,960
Speaker 3: to you? People have done it before. What What kind

492
00:24:21,960 --> 00:24:23,320
Speaker 3: of a philistine do you think? I am?

493
00:24:25,680 --> 00:24:28,280
Speaker 2: Okay, I'm gonna take a quick picture of this gift

494
00:24:28,320 --> 00:24:31,760
Speaker 2: wrap so people know how beautifully wrapped this was. Okay,

495
00:24:32,240 --> 00:24:37,399
Speaker 2: all right, where now we have a green listener. I

496
00:24:37,600 --> 00:24:42,119
Speaker 2: apologize and I completely blame OL for this, as you should.

497
00:24:42,520 --> 00:24:44,960
Speaker 2: I broke through the first layer and now we're to

498
00:24:45,200 --> 00:24:49,879
Speaker 2: the an actual gift with this cat wrapping paper. This

499
00:24:50,040 --> 00:24:51,760
Speaker 2: is incredible cat wrapping paper.

500
00:24:52,320 --> 00:24:55,520
Speaker 3: What if this is like Russian nesting gifts? That's not

501
00:24:55,640 --> 00:24:59,239
Speaker 3: a bad idea. And I actually sent you a molecule.

502
00:25:02,680 --> 00:25:08,080
Speaker 2: One day after another, just years go by podcast, just

503
00:25:08,240 --> 00:25:11,920
Speaker 2: thousands of hours of recording. Okay, we're ripping in. We're

504
00:25:12,000 --> 00:25:22,320
Speaker 2: ripping in. Okay, I hope we're getting some more noise.

505
00:25:26,000 --> 00:25:28,639
Speaker 3: I'll just make noises of while you're doing this so

506
00:25:28,720 --> 00:25:29,760
Speaker 3: people know we're still alive.

507
00:25:34,240 --> 00:25:37,840
Speaker 2: We've gone to the box layer we were opening. Now

508
00:25:37,880 --> 00:25:41,359
Speaker 2: we're to some bubble wrap. Okay, some bubble wrap noise.

509
00:25:41,520 --> 00:25:44,320
Speaker 3: You can have your private time with that later. We're busy. Now,

510
00:25:47,200 --> 00:25:52,560
Speaker 3: what is this? It's a trophy? What day? What this is?

511
00:25:53,080 --> 00:25:55,240
Speaker 2: Okay? I just need an immediate explanation.

512
00:25:56,040 --> 00:25:58,560
Speaker 3: Well, that is an actual trophy that I went in

513
00:25:58,680 --> 00:26:02,919
Speaker 3: high school. What which I'm giving to you? Third place

514
00:26:03,000 --> 00:26:06,760
Speaker 3: winner high school speech team nineteen seventy six.

515
00:26:06,960 --> 00:26:12,040
Speaker 2: Oh my god, this is incredible, listener. It's a I mean,

516
00:26:12,200 --> 00:26:14,240
Speaker 2: you know what a trophy looks like. It's a but

517
00:26:14,359 --> 00:26:16,840
Speaker 2: it's like a little man. It says third place seventy

518
00:26:16,920 --> 00:26:21,000
Speaker 2: six SCDL expository. Now what's SCDL.

519
00:26:21,880 --> 00:26:24,920
Speaker 3: I believe it's Southern California Debate League. I didn't do debate.

520
00:26:25,000 --> 00:26:28,000
Speaker 3: I did like expository speaking and humors and terp and

521
00:26:28,119 --> 00:26:29,920
Speaker 3: all all sorts of other goofy stuff. But it was

522
00:26:29,920 --> 00:26:32,760
Speaker 3: a competition. I went competed with other high schools and

523
00:26:33,119 --> 00:26:35,119
Speaker 3: I apparently came in third place, and it was like

524
00:26:35,240 --> 00:26:37,200
Speaker 3: I had my Grammys and that trophy, and I was like,

525
00:26:37,280 --> 00:26:39,960
Speaker 3: now that trophy doesn't quite fit in. Get the bridger.

526
00:26:40,320 --> 00:26:41,080
Speaker 3: You appreciate it.

527
00:26:41,960 --> 00:26:44,480
Speaker 2: This is incredible. So how long were you doing this

528
00:26:44,600 --> 00:26:46,840
Speaker 2: sort of speaking in high school? Was it something you

529
00:26:46,880 --> 00:26:48,680
Speaker 2: did throughout your high school career or was it just

530
00:26:48,760 --> 00:26:50,800
Speaker 2: like a I think.

531
00:26:50,720 --> 00:26:52,680
Speaker 3: Most of it. I think probably I started my sophomore

532
00:26:52,800 --> 00:26:54,600
Speaker 3: year in high school and it was like my big

533
00:26:54,680 --> 00:27:01,440
Speaker 3: extracurricular activity, and I did like a humorous interpretations of

534
00:27:02,200 --> 00:27:05,800
Speaker 3: comedic pieces like from Mad magazine or Woody Allen or

535
00:27:06,520 --> 00:27:09,720
Speaker 3: Neil Simon or whatever. And then the expository was a

536
00:27:09,960 --> 00:27:14,280
Speaker 3: ten minute long speech on the hot dog, which I

537
00:27:14,320 --> 00:27:16,080
Speaker 3: think that took me to state that was like my big,

538
00:27:16,280 --> 00:27:18,280
Speaker 3: my big hit. I did that my speech on the

539
00:27:18,280 --> 00:27:20,880
Speaker 3: hot dog, which basically talked about all the horrible things

540
00:27:21,280 --> 00:27:23,240
Speaker 3: that are in hot dogs and can be in hot

541
00:27:23,320 --> 00:27:26,720
Speaker 3: dogs legally, like so many like you know, milligrams of

542
00:27:27,000 --> 00:27:30,119
Speaker 3: feces or you know, rat hair or whatever, and I

543
00:27:30,160 --> 00:27:32,840
Speaker 3: should point out that I did this speech over a

544
00:27:32,920 --> 00:27:35,480
Speaker 3: decade and a half before I turned vegetarian, So during

545
00:27:35,520 --> 00:27:38,119
Speaker 3: all those time, I was still happily eating hot dogs

546
00:27:38,280 --> 00:27:39,159
Speaker 3: to my heart's contentent.

547
00:27:41,480 --> 00:27:44,320
Speaker 2: Okay, so you were talking about hot dogs. What research

548
00:27:44,400 --> 00:27:46,439
Speaker 2: did you put in to figure out what was going

549
00:27:46,520 --> 00:27:47,399
Speaker 2: into these hot dogs?

550
00:27:48,600 --> 00:27:51,639
Speaker 3: I probably went to the library. This is pre pre internet.

551
00:27:51,800 --> 00:27:53,919
Speaker 3: I actually had to go and I think check out

552
00:27:54,040 --> 00:28:00,200
Speaker 3: books and maybe look at some hard bound encyclopedias and

553
00:28:00,280 --> 00:28:03,320
Speaker 3: the way that people gleaned their information, you know, back

554
00:28:03,480 --> 00:28:04,920
Speaker 3: whatever that was in the mid seventies.

555
00:28:05,440 --> 00:28:07,440
Speaker 2: Like what books are you looking into to find out

556
00:28:07,480 --> 00:28:09,400
Speaker 2: what's happening legally in a hot dog?

557
00:28:10,400 --> 00:28:13,560
Speaker 3: It's probably the periodical section. I probably like thought it

558
00:28:13,640 --> 00:28:18,640
Speaker 3: looked up like hot newsweek hot dog articles for when

559
00:28:18,640 --> 00:28:20,480
Speaker 3: there was some kind of like thing thing from the

560
00:28:20,960 --> 00:28:24,800
Speaker 3: what the FDA or whoever was investigating hot dogs at

561
00:28:24,840 --> 00:28:25,200
Speaker 3: that time.

562
00:28:25,880 --> 00:28:27,399
Speaker 2: Do you remember any of the speech?

563
00:28:28,960 --> 00:28:33,560
Speaker 3: I gosh, it seems like I hadn't memorized for years.

564
00:28:34,920 --> 00:28:36,480
Speaker 3: I can't remember a single word about it. I just

565
00:28:36,600 --> 00:28:39,600
Speaker 3: remember that there were visual aids, so I was, you know,

566
00:28:39,720 --> 00:28:43,360
Speaker 3: I would like hold up a giant photorealistic hot dog

567
00:28:43,400 --> 00:28:46,280
Speaker 3: at one point and I'd have charts and graphs and

568
00:28:46,440 --> 00:28:48,280
Speaker 3: it was it was pretty stupid. But I was like,

569
00:28:48,360 --> 00:28:50,040
Speaker 3: you know, fifteen or sixteen at the time, so at

570
00:28:50,080 --> 00:28:52,560
Speaker 3: the time it didn't bother me that it was stupid.

571
00:28:52,920 --> 00:28:56,600
Speaker 2: Right, and at the time, because you've played at least

572
00:28:56,640 --> 00:28:59,400
Speaker 2: accordion since you were a kid, right at the time,

573
00:28:59,440 --> 00:29:00,440
Speaker 2: were you writing songs?

574
00:29:01,440 --> 00:29:03,640
Speaker 3: Yeah, I was getting some airplane the Doctor Demento show.

575
00:29:03,640 --> 00:29:05,800
Speaker 3: I had my first I think hit with him when

576
00:29:05,840 --> 00:29:08,560
Speaker 3: I was like sixteen years old by head, I mean,

577
00:29:08,600 --> 00:29:10,160
Speaker 3: he played it on the radio. My friends called in

578
00:29:10,200 --> 00:29:13,240
Speaker 3: to request it again, so that was but still, you know,

579
00:29:13,320 --> 00:29:15,560
Speaker 3: I was on the show, and I kind of thought

580
00:29:15,560 --> 00:29:17,960
Speaker 3: that was pretty cool, because you know, I never thought

581
00:29:18,000 --> 00:29:20,680
Speaker 3: that i'd have a career in show biz. I never

582
00:29:20,720 --> 00:29:23,480
Speaker 3: thought I'd be doing anything remotely fun for a living.

583
00:29:23,480 --> 00:29:24,960
Speaker 3: I thought I was giving me an architect that's what

584
00:29:25,080 --> 00:29:26,120
Speaker 3: I got my degree.

585
00:29:26,320 --> 00:29:27,360
Speaker 2: Oh no, I didn't know that.

586
00:29:27,920 --> 00:29:30,440
Speaker 3: Yeah, but but yeah, at the time I was playing

587
00:29:30,480 --> 00:29:33,760
Speaker 3: the Cordion, I was writing goofy songs and getting the

588
00:29:34,080 --> 00:29:37,880
Speaker 3: random Doctor Demento airplay, so that's yeah, that started really early.

589
00:29:38,320 --> 00:29:43,600
Speaker 2: So you're writing song, funny songs and also performing funny

590
00:29:44,240 --> 00:29:46,840
Speaker 2: comedy speeches. Basically, there must have been like some small

591
00:29:47,000 --> 00:29:49,640
Speaker 2: glimmer of hope in you that like this could become

592
00:29:49,680 --> 00:29:51,160
Speaker 2: a career, I.

593
00:29:51,200 --> 00:29:54,560
Speaker 3: Mean pipe dreams. I wouldn't say that was really honestly,

594
00:29:54,720 --> 00:29:57,320
Speaker 3: I did not, in my wildest imagination think I'd have

595
00:29:57,360 --> 00:29:59,280
Speaker 3: a life like the one that I currently have, right,

596
00:29:59,520 --> 00:30:01,480
Speaker 3: you know, I thought, you know, I was very adult

597
00:30:01,520 --> 00:30:05,200
Speaker 3: minded and rational and reasonably thought like, you know, I'm

598
00:30:05,280 --> 00:30:09,080
Speaker 3: not really like, you know, the type that would like

599
00:30:09,200 --> 00:30:12,760
Speaker 3: be a rock star or make a movie or be

600
00:30:13,800 --> 00:30:17,400
Speaker 3: have anybody pay attention to be at all. Really, So

601
00:30:17,920 --> 00:30:20,720
Speaker 3: when I first you know, started getting the Airplane Demento show,

602
00:30:20,760 --> 00:30:22,880
Speaker 3: it was you know, it was a thrill. I was tickled,

603
00:30:22,920 --> 00:30:26,080
Speaker 3: but I didn't really think anything was going to happen there.

604
00:30:27,520 --> 00:30:29,680
Speaker 3: Having said that, when I graduated from college, I did

605
00:30:29,840 --> 00:30:32,280
Speaker 3: like put myself out there and you know, knocked on

606
00:30:32,440 --> 00:30:34,360
Speaker 3: some doors and try to get a record deal going,

607
00:30:34,440 --> 00:30:38,719
Speaker 3: and to my amazement, that actually happened. But I mean,

608
00:30:38,880 --> 00:30:41,160
Speaker 3: all grow the whole time I was growing up and

609
00:30:41,280 --> 00:30:44,120
Speaker 3: as a teenager, it never occurred to me that, you know,

610
00:30:44,320 --> 00:30:46,360
Speaker 3: this is the way the path that my life would take.

611
00:30:46,600 --> 00:30:48,280
Speaker 2: Right right, how old were you when you got your

612
00:30:48,320 --> 00:30:49,240
Speaker 2: first record deal.

613
00:30:50,720 --> 00:30:54,680
Speaker 3: Well, Mike Bolona, I recorded that when I was nineteen,

614
00:30:54,960 --> 00:30:56,640
Speaker 3: and I think Capitol Records put it out when I

615
00:30:56,680 --> 00:31:00,680
Speaker 3: after I turned twenty, and I didn't. I didn't sign

616
00:31:00,800 --> 00:31:04,400
Speaker 3: my first actual real record deal until I was I

617
00:31:04,440 --> 00:31:06,280
Speaker 3: think I was twenty two. I was in nineteen eighty two,

618
00:31:06,320 --> 00:31:07,680
Speaker 3: I think it was in the first album came out

619
00:31:07,680 --> 00:31:10,440
Speaker 3: in eighty three, and that was a ten album deal.

620
00:31:11,160 --> 00:31:11,960
Speaker 2: Oh my god.

621
00:31:12,240 --> 00:31:14,280
Speaker 3: Which doesn't mean they thought I was going to have

622
00:31:14,360 --> 00:31:18,200
Speaker 3: ten albums. That was probably, you know, the last thing

623
00:31:18,280 --> 00:31:20,680
Speaker 3: they would have imagined. It was just one of those

624
00:31:20,760 --> 00:31:24,880
Speaker 3: draconian things where legally, like if by some fluke, you

625
00:31:25,040 --> 00:31:28,320
Speaker 3: happen to, you know, become successful, we've got you for

626
00:31:28,680 --> 00:31:32,320
Speaker 3: you know, the rest of your life basically, And that contract,

627
00:31:32,360 --> 00:31:34,040
Speaker 3: I will say that, you know, things actually did go

628
00:31:34,120 --> 00:31:37,040
Speaker 3: well for me, and not only did I fulfill all

629
00:31:37,120 --> 00:31:42,200
Speaker 3: ten albums, but they tacked on four more during renegotiations,

630
00:31:42,560 --> 00:31:44,800
Speaker 3: so it wound up being a fourteen album contract, which

631
00:31:44,840 --> 00:31:48,840
Speaker 3: I finally fulfilled with my last album, Mandatory Fund in

632
00:31:48,920 --> 00:31:52,880
Speaker 3: twenty fourteen. So in just thirty two short years I

633
00:31:53,040 --> 00:31:55,920
Speaker 3: was able to fulfill all my contractual obligations.

634
00:31:56,320 --> 00:32:01,040
Speaker 2: That's not a bad turnaround. Yeah, so you got this

635
00:32:01,160 --> 00:32:06,440
Speaker 2: third place trophy. Did you continue doing speech competitively after

636
00:32:06,560 --> 00:32:08,680
Speaker 2: this or was this the top of the hill for you?

637
00:32:09,560 --> 00:32:11,360
Speaker 3: I did better in high school. I think I think

638
00:32:11,400 --> 00:32:13,480
Speaker 3: I might have done some speech stuff my first year

639
00:32:13,560 --> 00:32:15,840
Speaker 3: in college. But I got kind of bordered that pretty quickly.

640
00:32:15,880 --> 00:32:17,240
Speaker 3: It was. It wound up being more of a high

641
00:32:17,240 --> 00:32:20,520
Speaker 3: school passion. But it was fun at the time. It

642
00:32:20,640 --> 00:32:23,480
Speaker 3: was just it was my first sort of performing, as

643
00:32:23,520 --> 00:32:25,480
Speaker 3: it were. So it got me in front of people

644
00:32:25,560 --> 00:32:28,520
Speaker 3: and got me comfortable like speaking, you know, in front

645
00:32:28,520 --> 00:32:30,959
Speaker 3: of people. And I guess I was, you know, very

646
00:32:31,080 --> 00:32:34,920
Speaker 3: formative and helpful and you know, doing what I do now,

647
00:32:34,960 --> 00:32:35,280
Speaker 3: I guess.

648
00:32:35,680 --> 00:32:38,280
Speaker 2: And was the next trophy you won? A Grammy?

649
00:32:41,440 --> 00:32:48,040
Speaker 3: Wasn't it? I don't know. Maybe it could have. I

650
00:32:48,080 --> 00:32:49,680
Speaker 3: mean that trophy that you're holding in your hands, I

651
00:32:49,760 --> 00:32:51,480
Speaker 3: mean that you could probably sell out an eBay for

652
00:32:51,600 --> 00:32:52,800
Speaker 3: like three to five bucks.

653
00:32:53,000 --> 00:32:58,520
Speaker 2: Easy going too, I'm in desperate need of cash anything else. Yes,

654
00:33:00,480 --> 00:33:03,479
Speaker 2: that's so that's crazy. So what what what year did

655
00:33:03,520 --> 00:33:04,480
Speaker 2: you win your first Grammy?

656
00:33:05,480 --> 00:33:08,360
Speaker 3: Uh? Eighty, Well it was for eighty four, but the

657
00:33:08,440 --> 00:33:12,400
Speaker 3: actual uh Grammys where I won it was an eighty five.

658
00:33:12,760 --> 00:33:14,120
Speaker 2: Okay, and then you've won.

659
00:33:14,720 --> 00:33:19,440
Speaker 3: If you won four five, but who's counting really, well.

660
00:33:19,360 --> 00:33:24,600
Speaker 2: Then let's say eleven. Okay, what is the What is

661
00:33:24,840 --> 00:33:28,240
Speaker 2: the experience like of being at the Grammys as a nominee?

662
00:33:28,320 --> 00:33:28,920
Speaker 3: Is it boring?

663
00:33:29,080 --> 00:33:30,720
Speaker 2: I feel like a lot of being at award shows

664
00:33:30,720 --> 00:33:32,720
Speaker 2: can be a little boring, But if you're nominated, that

665
00:33:32,800 --> 00:33:33,479
Speaker 2: must be exciting.

666
00:33:33,800 --> 00:33:36,040
Speaker 3: It's a whole different thing when you're nominated. I mean,

667
00:33:36,120 --> 00:33:39,240
Speaker 3: it's it's still I mean, my category, the comedy category

668
00:33:39,680 --> 00:33:44,160
Speaker 3: is almost always in the pre telegast show, which which.

669
00:33:44,040 --> 00:33:47,360
Speaker 2: Is also I wouldn't say it's boring, but it is,

670
00:33:50,240 --> 00:33:52,200
Speaker 2: well you mystify the award show.

671
00:33:53,360 --> 00:33:55,680
Speaker 3: Yeah, but so I mean, if if you're nominated, you're

672
00:33:55,760 --> 00:33:57,200
Speaker 3: you're nervous through the whole thing, and if you're not,

673
00:33:57,240 --> 00:33:59,760
Speaker 3: you're just sitting through the whole thing. But it's yeah,

674
00:34:00,080 --> 00:34:01,520
Speaker 3: kind of goes on for for a long time, and

675
00:34:01,520 --> 00:34:04,239
Speaker 3: they go through every random, obscure category until they get

676
00:34:04,240 --> 00:34:05,640
Speaker 3: to your category, and then all of a sudden, it's

677
00:34:05,720 --> 00:34:08,759
Speaker 3: very exciting. But it's a thrill. I mean, it's I

678
00:34:09,360 --> 00:34:11,560
Speaker 3: like it just even being nominated, because it's a fun hang.

679
00:34:11,640 --> 00:34:12,960
Speaker 3: You get to go to the Grammys and hang with

680
00:34:13,320 --> 00:34:15,360
Speaker 3: a lot of really cool people, and it's generally a

681
00:34:15,440 --> 00:34:19,600
Speaker 3: really good show. So yeah, I'm always happy when I

682
00:34:19,840 --> 00:34:20,840
Speaker 3: when I get the.

683
00:34:20,840 --> 00:34:24,640
Speaker 2: Nod right at Grammy shows. Do you have any stories,

684
00:34:24,719 --> 00:34:27,719
Speaker 2: any strange things that have happened, Any weird people you've

685
00:34:27,800 --> 00:34:29,120
Speaker 2: run into, are exciting people?

686
00:34:30,120 --> 00:34:32,399
Speaker 3: Well, my favorite Grammy story is one that I've told

687
00:34:33,120 --> 00:34:35,640
Speaker 3: a lot of times, but I'll tell you as well, please,

688
00:34:35,880 --> 00:34:39,160
Speaker 3: Which which is Which is the year that Chamillionaire won

689
00:34:39,320 --> 00:34:44,240
Speaker 3: for Ride and Dirty actually just called Riding, But anyway,

690
00:34:45,200 --> 00:34:47,680
Speaker 3: he was on the red carpet and he came up

691
00:34:47,719 --> 00:34:50,680
Speaker 3: to me on the red carpet after he'd won his Grammy,

692
00:34:50,719 --> 00:34:52,600
Speaker 3: and he said, I just wanted to thank you for

693
00:34:52,719 --> 00:34:54,680
Speaker 3: doing your parody White and Nerdy, because I think that

694
00:34:54,760 --> 00:34:57,680
Speaker 3: your parody is a big reason why I won, because

695
00:34:57,960 --> 00:35:00,319
Speaker 3: it made it undeniable that my song was the song

696
00:35:00,400 --> 00:35:03,439
Speaker 3: of the ear. Wow, that's pretty cool.

697
00:35:03,600 --> 00:35:09,120
Speaker 2: Thanks man, that's great. I feel like, I mean, because

698
00:35:09,400 --> 00:35:13,319
Speaker 2: your career, you've been making music for so long, you've

699
00:35:13,400 --> 00:35:17,920
Speaker 2: probably had an influence on basically every working musician, I

700
00:35:18,000 --> 00:35:20,840
Speaker 2: mean young working musician at this point. I mean, I

701
00:35:20,920 --> 00:35:22,920
Speaker 2: think for you, like you're kind of a gateway to

702
00:35:23,040 --> 00:35:26,000
Speaker 2: music for kids. I think like for me at least

703
00:35:26,080 --> 00:35:29,360
Speaker 2: you if it's not only funny music, but like it

704
00:35:29,520 --> 00:35:31,520
Speaker 2: was the music I wasn't allowed to listen to by

705
00:35:31,600 --> 00:35:32,160
Speaker 2: my parents.

706
00:35:32,200 --> 00:35:33,719
Speaker 3: So it's like this, huh do you get Do you

707
00:35:33,840 --> 00:35:38,080
Speaker 3: hear that at all? Yeah, I mean I hear that.

708
00:35:38,200 --> 00:35:41,160
Speaker 3: I'm a lot of people's first concert or their first album,

709
00:35:42,080 --> 00:35:44,760
Speaker 3: And it's because I partly, I think, because my music

710
00:35:44,880 --> 00:35:47,839
Speaker 3: is considered quote unquote safe. It's you know, it falls

711
00:35:47,920 --> 00:35:50,799
Speaker 3: under the umbrella of family friendly. And I think that's

712
00:35:50,840 --> 00:35:53,520
Speaker 3: because I don't use profanity. But my stuff gets pretty dark.

713
00:35:53,560 --> 00:35:54,560
Speaker 2: It's really dark.

714
00:35:54,840 --> 00:35:57,839
Speaker 3: It's not really like kiaty music, because there's some really

715
00:35:58,840 --> 00:36:02,960
Speaker 3: adult concepts sprinkled through the music. But I don't, like,

716
00:36:03,040 --> 00:36:04,880
Speaker 3: you know, use harsh profanity. So I think a lot

717
00:36:04,920 --> 00:36:08,359
Speaker 3: of parents go, oh, it's fine, let the kid listen.

718
00:36:09,160 --> 00:36:13,359
Speaker 2: Yeah, I remember a pretty specific memory of listening to Uh.

719
00:36:13,480 --> 00:36:16,959
Speaker 2: I remember Larry, which is a very uppy, sunny song.

720
00:36:17,360 --> 00:36:19,640
Speaker 2: But like I think if a parent has tuned it out,

721
00:36:19,680 --> 00:36:22,320
Speaker 2: they don't hear that, like eventually the narrator of the

722
00:36:22,400 --> 00:36:25,960
Speaker 2: song it murders the Larry character.

723
00:36:26,560 --> 00:36:29,440
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, it's it's very dark. In fact, a lot

724
00:36:29,520 --> 00:36:31,760
Speaker 3: of my original songs I think are darker than the parodies.

725
00:36:31,880 --> 00:36:35,160
Speaker 3: So on the on the Vanity Tour last time, after

726
00:36:35,239 --> 00:36:37,800
Speaker 3: playing a couple of songs on a roll about decapitation

727
00:36:38,000 --> 00:36:41,399
Speaker 3: and mass murder, I stopped and I said, I didn't

728
00:36:41,400 --> 00:36:44,080
Speaker 3: really realize it before, but my stuff is really twisted.

729
00:36:44,360 --> 00:36:48,080
Speaker 3: It's like dark. What am I think? I'm a happy person.

730
00:36:48,239 --> 00:36:50,239
Speaker 3: I don't know what kind of demons am I suppressing

731
00:36:50,600 --> 00:36:51,520
Speaker 3: that this is my art?

732
00:36:51,680 --> 00:36:57,040
Speaker 2: You know, I don't know, but it works, It absolutely works.

733
00:36:57,080 --> 00:36:57,120
Speaker 3: It.

734
00:36:57,400 --> 00:37:01,840
Speaker 2: Uh yeah, it's thanks, thank you. Yeah, this is what

735
00:37:02,040 --> 00:37:04,279
Speaker 2: I can't I actually can't believe that I just now

736
00:37:04,400 --> 00:37:09,680
Speaker 2: own a trophy from you. This feels somehow cosmically unfair

737
00:37:09,800 --> 00:37:12,200
Speaker 2: or something that suddenly now I have one of weird

738
00:37:12,239 --> 00:37:13,520
Speaker 2: Al's trophies in my home.

739
00:37:13,640 --> 00:37:15,400
Speaker 3: Well, I think you can thank my wife for that

740
00:37:15,440 --> 00:37:17,440
Speaker 3: as well, because I think what can we give Bridger

741
00:37:17,520 --> 00:37:20,200
Speaker 3: that he'd really appreciate. And my wife was like, you've

742
00:37:20,239 --> 00:37:22,200
Speaker 3: got a box full of trophies, maybe you could give

743
00:37:22,239 --> 00:37:26,000
Speaker 3: him one, Like, yeah, I gout. Sure.

744
00:37:27,719 --> 00:37:30,320
Speaker 2: Did you like as a kid play sports or anything?

745
00:37:31,880 --> 00:37:33,880
Speaker 3: Not really? I mean I played a little bit of

746
00:37:33,960 --> 00:37:38,120
Speaker 3: tennis and I wasn't on any kind of professional team.

747
00:37:38,200 --> 00:37:41,800
Speaker 3: Or anything like that, ping pong, bowling. I mean, nothing's

748
00:37:41,960 --> 00:37:44,840
Speaker 3: nothing strenuous. I mean I was a prototypical nerd. So

749
00:37:45,000 --> 00:37:48,000
Speaker 3: pe class was when like the jocks would beat me up.

750
00:37:48,400 --> 00:37:51,880
Speaker 3: You know, let's play football. What's the nerd? You know,

751
00:37:53,760 --> 00:37:56,800
Speaker 3: So it was never so organized. Sports weren't really a

752
00:37:56,840 --> 00:37:59,000
Speaker 3: big favorite of mine in high school, and I continue

753
00:37:59,040 --> 00:38:02,520
Speaker 3: to not be that interested in them. So there.

754
00:38:03,719 --> 00:38:07,399
Speaker 2: Do you do anything physically work out exercise in any way?

755
00:38:08,760 --> 00:38:11,080
Speaker 3: Not a lot. I don't go to the gym. The

756
00:38:11,120 --> 00:38:12,960
Speaker 3: one thing I like to do is walk. So when

757
00:38:12,960 --> 00:38:15,640
Speaker 3: I'm like getting in shape for a tour, my house

758
00:38:15,719 --> 00:38:17,839
Speaker 3: is up on the Hollywood Hills, and I'll walk all

759
00:38:17,880 --> 00:38:20,000
Speaker 3: the way down to like Wilshire Boulevard.

760
00:38:19,560 --> 00:38:20,680
Speaker 2: And that's talk.

761
00:38:21,160 --> 00:38:23,640
Speaker 3: Yes, it's like a five to five mile walk, and

762
00:38:24,080 --> 00:38:26,200
Speaker 3: and I enjoy it, you know, I get to get

763
00:38:26,239 --> 00:38:30,040
Speaker 3: out and have some semi fresh air and uh, it's exercise.

764
00:38:30,120 --> 00:38:32,080
Speaker 3: I put on the walk, not not the walk, man,

765
00:38:32,120 --> 00:38:36,720
Speaker 3: that's like what eighties. But I listened to digital music

766
00:38:37,560 --> 00:38:43,040
Speaker 3: on a device, uh and uh and yeah, and that's that.

767
00:38:43,200 --> 00:38:46,360
Speaker 3: That's also how I kind of like relearned my lyrics

768
00:38:46,440 --> 00:38:48,520
Speaker 3: for a tour. I'll put my songs on you know,

769
00:38:49,320 --> 00:38:55,120
Speaker 3: on the iPhone or a business. I'm walking, yeah, so

770
00:38:55,200 --> 00:38:56,960
Speaker 3: people will see me, like walking down the street. You

771
00:38:56,960 --> 00:38:59,520
Speaker 3: can't you tell him wearing earpieces because my hair covers

772
00:38:59,520 --> 00:39:01,360
Speaker 3: it up. It's like I'm walking into the street just

773
00:39:01,480 --> 00:39:06,359
Speaker 3: moving my mouth like a crazy person. Like I'm completely man.

774
00:39:06,440 --> 00:39:07,239
Speaker 2: It's dangerous.

775
00:39:07,640 --> 00:39:09,640
Speaker 3: Yeah, stay away from the weird guy.

776
00:39:11,520 --> 00:39:14,160
Speaker 2: I will say, speaking of your hair, I think it's

777
00:39:14,160 --> 00:39:16,520
Speaker 2: probably been said before, but I think we need to

778
00:39:16,600 --> 00:39:19,680
Speaker 2: point out that we'd all has the most luscious hair,

779
00:39:19,920 --> 00:39:22,239
Speaker 2: some of the most luscious hair in entertainments.

780
00:39:22,640 --> 00:39:26,239
Speaker 3: I think it needs to be said because of this

781
00:39:26,320 --> 00:39:29,560
Speaker 3: beautiful Maine and you could just cut off a piece

782
00:39:29,600 --> 00:39:30,359
Speaker 3: and eat it right now.

783
00:39:30,440 --> 00:39:34,319
Speaker 2: It's just luscious, luscious locks. That's what we've got to say.

784
00:39:34,360 --> 00:39:38,360
Speaker 2: That's the headline here. Al it's an iconic hairstyle and

785
00:39:38,760 --> 00:39:40,319
Speaker 2: it's luscious, luscious hair.

786
00:39:41,239 --> 00:39:43,400
Speaker 3: Don somebody had to say it. I'm glad it was you.

787
00:39:43,760 --> 00:39:44,880
Speaker 2: Yes, I use.

788
00:39:45,080 --> 00:39:47,080
Speaker 3: I use whatever product happens to be in the shower.

789
00:39:47,200 --> 00:39:50,759
Speaker 3: Sometimes it's a shampoo, sometimes a conditioner, sometimes both, so

790
00:39:50,840 --> 00:39:52,320
Speaker 3: I like to mix it up. I go crazy.

791
00:39:52,800 --> 00:39:53,760
Speaker 2: Is it hard to maintain?

792
00:39:55,719 --> 00:39:57,400
Speaker 3: No, I mean you know, it's it's it takes a

793
00:39:57,440 --> 00:39:59,279
Speaker 3: while to comb through. So I don't do that every day.

794
00:39:59,560 --> 00:40:03,279
Speaker 3: You're not you're not seeing the full Uh you're seeing

795
00:40:03,320 --> 00:40:07,160
Speaker 3: the kind of unkempt al today, right, but uh yeah,

796
00:40:07,200 --> 00:40:09,920
Speaker 3: I mean it takes a while. It's a lot to

797
00:40:09,960 --> 00:40:10,799
Speaker 3: deal with. Wow.

798
00:40:10,920 --> 00:40:13,400
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's so there's Is there ever blow drying?

799
00:40:14,200 --> 00:40:16,960
Speaker 3: No? I just all my hair trips.

800
00:40:17,080 --> 00:40:19,480
Speaker 2: No. I just I feel like people need to know.

801
00:40:20,040 --> 00:40:21,399
Speaker 3: Just air dried, my friend.

802
00:40:21,640 --> 00:40:24,719
Speaker 2: Wow, that's a lot of hair to air dry. I

803
00:40:24,840 --> 00:40:26,560
Speaker 2: M I've never had long hair like that, but like

804
00:40:26,680 --> 00:40:27,959
Speaker 2: even my fairly sho.

805
00:40:27,920 --> 00:40:30,440
Speaker 3: I enjoyed dripping around the house though. It's something I like.

806
00:40:31,000 --> 00:40:31,880
Speaker 3: My wife loves it.

807
00:40:32,640 --> 00:40:36,000
Speaker 2: So you're just slipping and sliding around this wet yeah,

808
00:40:38,400 --> 00:40:43,319
Speaker 2: just constantly smell like mildew. Well I'm glad, we I'm

809
00:40:43,560 --> 00:40:46,040
Speaker 2: you know, I had to say it. People need to pay.

810
00:40:46,960 --> 00:40:49,040
Speaker 2: We've just got to respect your hair more.

811
00:40:49,320 --> 00:40:53,520
Speaker 3: I think it's saying that for years. I've set a petition.

812
00:40:55,640 --> 00:40:58,359
Speaker 2: I will be the first to sign it. I think

813
00:40:58,360 --> 00:40:59,120
Speaker 2: it's time to play a.

814
00:40:59,160 --> 00:41:03,439
Speaker 3: Game, shall we. Okay, I've got I've got a pencil paper.

815
00:41:03,560 --> 00:41:05,640
Speaker 2: Oh beautiful, you're gonna you need to write something down.

816
00:41:05,680 --> 00:41:09,319
Speaker 2: We're gonna play a game called Gift Master. All right,

817
00:41:09,680 --> 00:41:12,319
Speaker 2: I'll tell you how how it goes when we get

818
00:41:12,360 --> 00:41:13,840
Speaker 2: to it, but I need a number between one and

819
00:41:13,920 --> 00:41:18,480
Speaker 2: ten from you. Okay, Pie, Okay, I've got to do

820
00:41:18,560 --> 00:41:22,080
Speaker 2: some like calculating with Pie. In the meantime, you can

821
00:41:22,160 --> 00:41:24,399
Speaker 2: recommend something, you can promote something, you have the mic.

822
00:41:24,440 --> 00:41:25,200
Speaker 2: I'll be right back.

823
00:41:25,719 --> 00:41:28,960
Speaker 3: Oh my goodness, I think we've recommended and promoted me

824
00:41:29,920 --> 00:41:33,480
Speaker 3: as much as possible. Again, tour coming up. You can

825
00:41:33,560 --> 00:41:37,759
Speaker 3: go to weird al dot com to h to get

826
00:41:37,800 --> 00:41:40,520
Speaker 3: information and or buy tickets to one of the one

827
00:41:40,600 --> 00:41:43,560
Speaker 3: hundred and thirty three shows I'm doing this year, god willing.

828
00:41:44,120 --> 00:41:47,200
Speaker 3: And then we had a movie coming out, which I

829
00:41:47,239 --> 00:41:49,239
Speaker 3: don't know when it's coming out maybe the I think

830
00:41:49,640 --> 00:41:51,759
Speaker 3: hoping the end of this year because it's it's gonna

831
00:41:51,760 --> 00:41:53,400
Speaker 3: be total Oscar bait, so I think it's gonna have

832
00:41:53,440 --> 00:41:55,759
Speaker 3: to come out during the Oscar season. So we'll see

833
00:41:55,760 --> 00:41:57,640
Speaker 3: about that. But that that's kind of bit for me

834
00:41:57,719 --> 00:41:59,680
Speaker 3: right now. And also I've got a bunch of trophies

835
00:41:59,719 --> 00:42:03,240
Speaker 3: in my attic, so if you want any trophies, contact

836
00:42:03,320 --> 00:42:04,759
Speaker 3: Bridger and we'll work kind of deal.

837
00:42:05,480 --> 00:42:09,400
Speaker 2: Okay, beautiful, perfectly used amount of time. This is how

838
00:42:09,440 --> 00:42:12,200
Speaker 2: we play gift Master. I'm going to name three gifts,

839
00:42:12,280 --> 00:42:15,680
Speaker 2: three items that you can potentially give away. Okay, then

840
00:42:15,680 --> 00:42:18,560
Speaker 2: I'm going to name three famous people. You're going to

841
00:42:18,600 --> 00:42:21,920
Speaker 2: tell me which famous person you'll give which gift and

842
00:42:22,000 --> 00:42:23,040
Speaker 2: why does that make sense?

843
00:42:23,480 --> 00:42:25,640
Speaker 3: And we're actually going to do this. I'm going to

844
00:42:25,680 --> 00:42:25,840
Speaker 3: do it.

845
00:42:25,880 --> 00:42:28,440
Speaker 2: I'm going to dip into my own pockets and pay

846
00:42:28,480 --> 00:42:30,359
Speaker 2: for these gifts to go to the celebrities.

847
00:42:30,680 --> 00:42:32,239
Speaker 3: Okay, okay, then it's worth my time.

848
00:42:33,600 --> 00:42:36,120
Speaker 2: These are the gifts that you'll be giving away today.

849
00:42:36,560 --> 00:42:39,520
Speaker 2: Number one, this is a very simple gift, a lind troller,

850
00:42:40,280 --> 00:42:42,600
Speaker 2: you know, you know, take care of a suit coat

851
00:42:42,719 --> 00:42:46,320
Speaker 2: or whatever, get rid of cat hair, always practical. Number

852
00:42:46,440 --> 00:42:50,200
Speaker 2: two this is less conventional. This is the ability to

853
00:42:50,280 --> 00:42:54,960
Speaker 2: become very very small. So this will allow the gifty

854
00:42:55,120 --> 00:42:59,760
Speaker 2: to essentially shrink to a very small size, maybe mouse size,

855
00:43:00,400 --> 00:43:00,719
Speaker 2: got it.

856
00:43:00,960 --> 00:43:06,840
Speaker 3: And finally, we have printer paper. Is that just like

857
00:43:06,880 --> 00:43:07,839
Speaker 3: regular typing paper?

858
00:43:08,000 --> 00:43:09,880
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's just you know, probably a stack of one

859
00:43:09,960 --> 00:43:14,040
Speaker 2: hundred sheets of white uh, you know, fluorescent white paper

860
00:43:14,160 --> 00:43:18,719
Speaker 2: that can be printed on scribble. What bond number you know,

861
00:43:20,360 --> 00:43:22,279
Speaker 2: I'm gonna say that's a solid four hundred.

862
00:43:22,520 --> 00:43:25,960
Speaker 3: Okay, okay, okay, cool, three fine gifts. By the way,

863
00:43:26,000 --> 00:43:27,399
Speaker 3: I can't wait to see who's gonna get these.

864
00:43:28,160 --> 00:43:31,000
Speaker 2: The following people will be getting the gifts. Number one

865
00:43:31,280 --> 00:43:38,240
Speaker 2: is kid rock musician rock okay. Number two Dennis Quaid

866
00:43:39,000 --> 00:43:43,239
Speaker 2: actor Dennis Quaid. And number three, uh, you know he's

867
00:43:43,280 --> 00:43:47,920
Speaker 2: in control of North Korea, Kim Jong un. Oh, so

868
00:43:48,160 --> 00:43:54,799
Speaker 2: it's you know, three men known for a variety of things, uh, and.

869
00:43:54,960 --> 00:43:56,719
Speaker 3: Three and three people that I was going to get

870
00:43:56,719 --> 00:44:00,080
Speaker 3: gifts for for Christmas on what to give them. So

871
00:44:00,239 --> 00:44:03,200
Speaker 3: this is this actually is gonna be very helpful. Wow,

872
00:44:04,600 --> 00:44:06,800
Speaker 3: this I mean I could spend like a couple of

873
00:44:06,920 --> 00:44:09,040
Speaker 3: weeks just kind of figuring this out because this is

874
00:44:09,080 --> 00:44:11,680
Speaker 3: a this is a tough call, because I mean they

875
00:44:11,719 --> 00:44:13,840
Speaker 3: could Oh gosh, are we doing this now? Do I

876
00:44:13,880 --> 00:44:14,920
Speaker 3: need to figure out who gets what?

877
00:44:15,160 --> 00:44:16,239
Speaker 2: You've got to do it now?

878
00:44:17,440 --> 00:44:24,040
Speaker 3: Okay? Oh? Man, okay. I think the ability to become

879
00:44:24,200 --> 00:44:28,719
Speaker 3: very very small uh uh maybe have to be Kim

880
00:44:28,800 --> 00:44:31,520
Speaker 3: Jong mun just because of the whole little rocketman thing,

881
00:44:32,080 --> 00:44:35,560
Speaker 3: you know. I think I think, uh, it could be

882
00:44:35,680 --> 00:44:39,640
Speaker 3: post ironic, it could be it could go beyond irony

883
00:44:39,880 --> 00:44:44,720
Speaker 3: to become very very true No, that makes sense because

884
00:44:44,760 --> 00:44:47,400
Speaker 3: he's such a powerful, powerful man, and I think the

885
00:44:47,560 --> 00:44:49,719
Speaker 3: size shouldn't really imagine to him. So I think he

886
00:44:50,160 --> 00:44:53,000
Speaker 3: I think he's a confident enough person that being mouse

887
00:44:53,120 --> 00:44:57,120
Speaker 3: sized wouldn't really make him upset. I think he'd be

888
00:44:57,200 --> 00:45:00,200
Speaker 3: fine with that. I think it'd be totally cool. He's

889
00:45:00,200 --> 00:45:01,000
Speaker 3: going like a cool guy.

890
00:45:01,120 --> 00:45:04,320
Speaker 2: He seems like a cool dude. He seems like somebody

891
00:45:04,440 --> 00:45:05,640
Speaker 2: who could hang. For sure.

892
00:45:06,280 --> 00:45:08,760
Speaker 3: He could hang as he can have like mouse friends.

893
00:45:09,360 --> 00:45:11,680
Speaker 3: He could be like running around them, like the Tom

894
00:45:11,719 --> 00:45:13,440
Speaker 3: and Jerry thing where you can run in the mousehole.

895
00:45:14,920 --> 00:45:19,120
Speaker 2: What does Ken's mousehole look like? He's got his thread

896
00:45:19,200 --> 00:45:19,800
Speaker 2: that he sits on.

897
00:45:20,520 --> 00:45:25,080
Speaker 3: It's the prototypical art shaped mousehole that you've come to

898
00:45:25,160 --> 00:45:27,800
Speaker 3: see and love and animated.

899
00:45:27,400 --> 00:45:30,360
Speaker 2: Feature the wedge of cheese. I actually think that he

900
00:45:30,480 --> 00:45:31,840
Speaker 2: does eat a lot of cheese. I feel like there

901
00:45:31,880 --> 00:45:33,719
Speaker 2: was a news story where he had gout because he

902
00:45:33,880 --> 00:45:34,760
Speaker 2: ate too much cheese?

903
00:45:35,640 --> 00:45:38,320
Speaker 3: Did he go to a cheese factory? Was inspecting the cheese?

904
00:45:38,360 --> 00:45:39,080
Speaker 3: Am I thinking of this?

905
00:45:41,080 --> 00:45:43,359
Speaker 2: These are all details from his life in some way

906
00:45:43,480 --> 00:45:47,040
Speaker 2: that we've probably kind of mushed together and can believe

907
00:45:47,160 --> 00:45:47,840
Speaker 2: his reality.

908
00:45:48,640 --> 00:45:51,640
Speaker 3: I think so, But but I'm I'm I'm very happy

909
00:45:51,680 --> 00:45:54,960
Speaker 3: with my decision. I'm picturing a mouse sized Kim Jong

910
00:45:55,040 --> 00:45:57,720
Speaker 3: Un and thinking that's kind of better for everybody.

911
00:45:58,040 --> 00:46:00,480
Speaker 2: And I think, like PR wise people be like he's

912
00:46:00,520 --> 00:46:00,960
Speaker 2: so cute.

913
00:46:02,200 --> 00:46:04,439
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean because a lot of people are afraid

914
00:46:04,440 --> 00:46:07,239
Speaker 3: of him because, like, you know, he kills people. So

915
00:46:07,760 --> 00:46:09,320
Speaker 3: the fact that he was like cute as a mouse,

916
00:46:09,520 --> 00:46:10,920
Speaker 3: I think it's good for his PR.

917
00:46:12,960 --> 00:46:15,600
Speaker 2: That's a beautifully given gift. I think he would really

918
00:46:15,640 --> 00:46:16,160
Speaker 2: appreciate it.

919
00:46:16,280 --> 00:46:18,200
Speaker 3: I'm very happy with that choice. Now the rest are

920
00:46:18,239 --> 00:46:23,600
Speaker 3: gonna be a little tougher, you know, people are gonna

921
00:46:23,640 --> 00:46:26,280
Speaker 3: say that, like I'm like, I got to think about

922
00:46:26,360 --> 00:46:28,439
Speaker 3: kid Rock, but I think he needs the lint roller.

923
00:46:29,280 --> 00:46:32,560
Speaker 3: I think k you know, because in no offense, because like,

924
00:46:32,640 --> 00:46:36,360
Speaker 3: who doesn't love kid Rock and everything. He doesn't, but

925
00:46:36,719 --> 00:46:38,719
Speaker 3: but he just seems like a very linty guy to me.

926
00:46:39,600 --> 00:46:41,520
Speaker 3: He just seems seems like if he takes off his

927
00:46:41,680 --> 00:46:43,440
Speaker 3: hat or his jacket, it's just gonna be like an

928
00:46:43,480 --> 00:46:47,520
Speaker 3: avalanche of lint. So so a lint roller I think

929
00:46:47,600 --> 00:46:49,719
Speaker 3: it would be hoove him if he doesn't get this

930
00:46:50,120 --> 00:46:52,480
Speaker 3: immediately as a gift, And I hope you get it

931
00:46:52,520 --> 00:46:55,000
Speaker 3: to immediately. I think it would behove him to like

932
00:46:55,400 --> 00:46:58,920
Speaker 3: go to a like Walmart or any any high end

933
00:46:59,320 --> 00:47:02,879
Speaker 3: department store and purchased his own lip roller or maybe

934
00:47:02,880 --> 00:47:03,239
Speaker 3: a couple.

935
00:47:04,480 --> 00:47:06,399
Speaker 2: I think they come in like a pack of three, right.

936
00:47:07,080 --> 00:47:09,000
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know one of the things I always say,

937
00:47:09,040 --> 00:47:11,279
Speaker 3: I always say is you can never have too many

938
00:47:11,320 --> 00:47:11,920
Speaker 3: lint rollers.

939
00:47:12,840 --> 00:47:14,640
Speaker 2: That's kind of your trademark statement.

940
00:47:15,080 --> 00:47:17,959
Speaker 3: It's so you know that. I think that's probably again,

941
00:47:18,000 --> 00:47:19,960
Speaker 3: ask my wife to see if she can carve that

942
00:47:20,000 --> 00:47:22,560
Speaker 3: on my tombstone, because I think I think if I'm

943
00:47:22,560 --> 00:47:23,880
Speaker 3: about anything, I'm about.

944
00:47:23,680 --> 00:47:26,000
Speaker 2: That you built a career on it. Yeah, at this

945
00:47:26,080 --> 00:47:28,439
Speaker 2: point it's a little you know, hack that you're still

946
00:47:28,480 --> 00:47:31,880
Speaker 2: doing it. But look, yeah, no, I agree. I mean

947
00:47:31,920 --> 00:47:34,400
Speaker 2: I feel like kid Rock is someone who's probably constantly

948
00:47:34,480 --> 00:47:38,319
Speaker 2: covered in hair, lind this sort of thing. He could

949
00:47:38,440 --> 00:47:38,680
Speaker 2: use it.

950
00:47:39,440 --> 00:47:42,200
Speaker 3: Yeah, and then almost almost by default, I'd have to say,

951
00:47:42,239 --> 00:47:45,080
Speaker 3: Dennis Quaid gets the printing paper. But it also kind

952
00:47:45,120 --> 00:47:47,080
Speaker 3: of makes sense because you know, he seems like a

953
00:47:47,239 --> 00:47:50,320
Speaker 3: kind of person that you know is always going to

954
00:47:50,400 --> 00:47:55,160
Speaker 3: Staples and always you know, just he's running out of toner.

955
00:47:55,400 --> 00:47:59,800
Speaker 3: He's like, you know, it seems like an office of

956
00:48:00,040 --> 00:48:02,239
Speaker 3: lives is something that that is a big part of

957
00:48:02,320 --> 00:48:05,640
Speaker 3: his life, something he needs constantly, probably more so than

958
00:48:05,680 --> 00:48:07,800
Speaker 3: the other two people on the list. So not that

959
00:48:08,000 --> 00:48:10,800
Speaker 3: he absolutely needs print paper, but I'm sure we'd appreciate it.

960
00:48:11,200 --> 00:48:13,799
Speaker 3: He'd probably you'd probably get a nice thank you note back, like, oh, man,

961
00:48:13,800 --> 00:48:15,040
Speaker 3: I was just about to go out to the staples.

962
00:48:15,200 --> 00:48:17,799
Speaker 3: He saved me a trip. Thank you, Bridge, You're you're

963
00:48:17,840 --> 00:48:20,160
Speaker 3: the best. No, that makes sense to me.

964
00:48:20,320 --> 00:48:23,400
Speaker 2: I can picture Dennis getting a little too frustrated with

965
00:48:23,480 --> 00:48:26,400
Speaker 2: the printer not working or being out having forgotten to

966
00:48:26,440 --> 00:48:29,080
Speaker 2: get the extra load of paper, you know, maybe losing

967
00:48:29,160 --> 00:48:32,840
Speaker 2: his temper, apologizing later for getting so mad about the printer.

968
00:48:33,120 --> 00:48:35,239
Speaker 2: But if he has an extra stack of paper, he'll

969
00:48:35,239 --> 00:48:35,640
Speaker 2: be fine.

970
00:48:36,239 --> 00:48:39,239
Speaker 3: Yeah. My fantasy is he's right now, like printing out

971
00:48:39,320 --> 00:48:43,040
Speaker 3: his headshot or a resume, and he's like halfway through,

972
00:48:43,120 --> 00:48:46,000
Speaker 3: and it says, what out of paper? Honey, do you

973
00:48:46,040 --> 00:48:48,160
Speaker 3: have any more paper? All of a sudden ding dong,

974
00:48:48,520 --> 00:48:53,520
Speaker 3: special delivery. What's this? And it's your gift? And he

975
00:48:53,800 --> 00:48:57,759
Speaker 3: is overjoyed. He starts weeping. He starts weeping on the

976
00:48:57,960 --> 00:49:01,160
Speaker 3: on the printer paper and three or four sheets are ruled,

977
00:49:01,160 --> 00:49:01,640
Speaker 3: but the rest.

978
00:49:01,600 --> 00:49:06,560
Speaker 2: Is still good, beautifully played. Al That is truly a

979
00:49:06,640 --> 00:49:09,480
Speaker 2: perfect round of that game, and those gifts will be

980
00:49:09,600 --> 00:49:13,040
Speaker 2: deeply appreciated. I can't wait to get Kid Rock, you know,

981
00:49:13,200 --> 00:49:16,080
Speaker 2: get the lint off of him. We're all gonna benefit

982
00:49:16,160 --> 00:49:18,759
Speaker 2: from Kim Jong un being just the you know, a

983
00:49:18,840 --> 00:49:23,720
Speaker 2: cute little mouse. And of course Dennis Quaid. We'll probably

984
00:49:23,760 --> 00:49:26,920
Speaker 2: be printing off restaurant menus headshots this kind of thing,

985
00:49:27,239 --> 00:49:29,000
Speaker 2: and he won't be screaming at the printer anymore.

986
00:49:29,280 --> 00:49:30,560
Speaker 3: Yeah, everybody wins.

987
00:49:30,800 --> 00:49:34,040
Speaker 2: Everybody wins. That's how Gift Master works. It's all about winning.

988
00:49:35,400 --> 00:49:37,520
Speaker 2: This is the final segment of the podcast. It's called

989
00:49:37,600 --> 00:49:41,200
Speaker 2: I said no emails. People write into I said no

990
00:49:41,320 --> 00:49:46,520
Speaker 2: gifts at gmail dot com. Let's be honest. Their lives

991
00:49:46,640 --> 00:49:49,720
Speaker 2: are not going well. They're riding into the podcast for advice.

992
00:49:49,960 --> 00:49:53,600
Speaker 2: These people are desperate. Things are bleak. Would you mind

993
00:49:53,760 --> 00:49:54,839
Speaker 2: helping me answer a question?

994
00:49:55,160 --> 00:49:56,160
Speaker 3: I would be honored.

995
00:49:56,280 --> 00:49:57,960
Speaker 2: All right, let me read it with you like the

996
00:49:58,000 --> 00:50:01,359
Speaker 2: British way. Oh my god, that's so classy. Thank you, Yeah,

997
00:50:01,560 --> 00:50:05,800
Speaker 2: very posh. Okay, this is deer Bridger and esteemed guests.

998
00:50:05,920 --> 00:50:08,600
Speaker 2: So right off the bat, they're really you.

999
00:50:08,640 --> 00:50:09,719
Speaker 3: Know, I've got a name.

1000
00:50:09,840 --> 00:50:15,239
Speaker 2: You know, Yeah, this is insulting. This is my paternal grandmother.

1001
00:50:15,520 --> 00:50:20,160
Speaker 2: Georgia is turning ninety two on two twenty two, twenty two,

1002
00:50:20,360 --> 00:50:23,480
Speaker 2: so that's coming up. She recently moved in with my

1003
00:50:23,680 --> 00:50:27,600
Speaker 2: husband and I and likes to play video solitaire and

1004
00:50:27,760 --> 00:50:32,560
Speaker 2: watches Natflax what she calls Netflix for some reason. Okay,

1005
00:50:32,600 --> 00:50:35,839
Speaker 2: so that's not a typo nat Flax. That's very hard

1006
00:50:35,920 --> 00:50:39,279
Speaker 2: to say. Okay, moving on, what would be a good

1007
00:50:39,320 --> 00:50:41,920
Speaker 2: gift for a ninety two year old? And before you

1008
00:50:42,040 --> 00:50:44,279
Speaker 2: suggest it, we already got her a throw blanket with

1009
00:50:44,360 --> 00:50:48,399
Speaker 2: a picture of a naked Jamie Fraser from the show Outlander.

1010
00:50:49,040 --> 00:50:52,520
Speaker 2: Looking forward to your response, Love Rachel. Okay, I've never

1011
00:50:52,560 --> 00:50:54,960
Speaker 2: seen Outlander, and I'm not familiar with Jamie Fraser, but

1012
00:50:55,239 --> 00:50:57,799
Speaker 2: apparently the grandma loves this man and wanted him naked

1013
00:50:57,840 --> 00:50:58,440
Speaker 2: on a blanket.

1014
00:50:59,520 --> 00:51:02,279
Speaker 3: Well, I think it's hard to go wrong with a

1015
00:51:02,360 --> 00:51:06,120
Speaker 3: throw blanket. I'm still a little upset because I mean,

1016
00:51:06,200 --> 00:51:10,920
Speaker 3: if the paternal grandmother had any class, she would be

1017
00:51:11,000 --> 00:51:14,040
Speaker 3: running twenty two, which would make all the other information

1018
00:51:14,200 --> 00:51:17,919
Speaker 3: that much more interesting. Like ninety two, it doesn't quite

1019
00:51:17,960 --> 00:51:18,160
Speaker 3: you know.

1020
00:51:18,200 --> 00:51:20,759
Speaker 2: Scan right, So right off the bat, we know we're

1021
00:51:20,800 --> 00:51:21,480
Speaker 2: dealing with trash.

1022
00:51:22,040 --> 00:51:26,600
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's trash, trash, Yeah, throw blanket. I think, you know,

1023
00:51:26,840 --> 00:51:28,200
Speaker 3: I don't know, what do you think. I think it's

1024
00:51:28,239 --> 00:51:29,799
Speaker 3: hard to go wrong with a throw blanket, no matter

1025
00:51:29,800 --> 00:51:31,120
Speaker 3: who's naked on it, right.

1026
00:51:31,080 --> 00:51:33,160
Speaker 2: I mean, there are so many men who could be

1027
00:51:33,239 --> 00:51:35,800
Speaker 2: naked on a throw blanket. She's got one. Why is

1028
00:51:35,840 --> 00:51:38,520
Speaker 2: that stopping you from getting another throat blanket with an

1029
00:51:38,560 --> 00:51:40,600
Speaker 2: actor I've never heard of naked on it, you know,

1030
00:51:41,160 --> 00:51:44,839
Speaker 2: Just get her countless blankets. She's just moved into the house.

1031
00:51:44,880 --> 00:51:49,040
Speaker 2: You're obviously probably it's just you and your husband. Like

1032
00:51:49,280 --> 00:51:51,319
Speaker 2: you probably didn't have that much betting in the first place.

1033
00:51:51,360 --> 00:51:52,200
Speaker 2: You've got to stock up.

1034
00:51:53,880 --> 00:51:56,960
Speaker 3: I agree one percent. If you get anything else, I

1035
00:51:57,040 --> 00:51:59,880
Speaker 3: think maybe the ability to be the size of a mouse,

1036
00:52:00,040 --> 00:52:06,160
Speaker 3: that would do you know, the second gift a blanket

1037
00:52:07,640 --> 00:52:08,279
Speaker 3: late in life.

1038
00:52:08,360 --> 00:52:10,880
Speaker 2: It's a great laden life decision to become small as

1039
00:52:10,920 --> 00:52:13,000
Speaker 2: a mouse. Like she's probably seen it all.

1040
00:52:13,160 --> 00:52:15,480
Speaker 3: She's the blanket has become that much bigger when your

1041
00:52:15,520 --> 00:52:18,879
Speaker 3: mouse sized, right, that's that much more blanket to enjoy.

1042
00:52:19,360 --> 00:52:21,560
Speaker 2: You don't have to buy as much blanket for grandma.

1043
00:52:22,160 --> 00:52:25,200
Speaker 2: That's correct, And I mean, look, she just moved in.

1044
00:52:25,320 --> 00:52:29,280
Speaker 2: She's playing she loves to play video solitaire. I mean, Rachel,

1045
00:52:29,400 --> 00:52:32,319
Speaker 2: let's be honest. Your grandma's taking advantage of you. She's

1046
00:52:32,840 --> 00:52:36,799
Speaker 2: moving in and immediately having a birthday, expecting gifts. You've

1047
00:52:36,800 --> 00:52:39,480
Speaker 2: already done her this huge favor. She's the third wheel

1048
00:52:39,520 --> 00:52:44,120
Speaker 2: in this relationship. What a burden, total burden. I mean,

1049
00:52:44,680 --> 00:52:46,320
Speaker 2: I don't know that you should get her anything. I

1050
00:52:46,360 --> 00:52:47,680
Speaker 2: don't even know if you should be throwing her a

1051
00:52:47,760 --> 00:52:50,520
Speaker 2: birthday party. You want all of her friends messing up

1052
00:52:50,560 --> 00:52:50,960
Speaker 2: the house.

1053
00:52:52,040 --> 00:52:53,120
Speaker 3: Ask her what she's going to get you?

1054
00:52:58,440 --> 00:53:01,240
Speaker 2: Yeah, maybe just get her a card. This is happy birthday, Grandma.

1055
00:53:01,360 --> 00:53:02,759
Speaker 2: She opens it up and says, now, what are you

1056
00:53:02,800 --> 00:53:05,400
Speaker 2: going to give me? And then just leave her for

1057
00:53:05,480 --> 00:53:05,759
Speaker 2: the night.

1058
00:53:06,400 --> 00:53:09,000
Speaker 3: You know all people love surprising, So maybe you could

1059
00:53:09,040 --> 00:53:10,320
Speaker 3: like wake her up in the moon. I say.

1060
00:53:16,760 --> 00:53:19,120
Speaker 2: Absolutely. I think that you know if you want her

1061
00:53:19,280 --> 00:53:24,000
Speaker 2: to enjoy her ninety second year, and that's the perfect

1062
00:53:24,080 --> 00:53:27,640
Speaker 2: more three am on your ninety second birthday being woken

1063
00:53:27,719 --> 00:53:31,080
Speaker 2: up by a screaming granddaughter. Who could ask for more?

1064
00:53:31,560 --> 00:53:32,040
Speaker 3: Who could?

1065
00:53:32,680 --> 00:53:36,560
Speaker 2: Rachel? I mean, I think I don't. I don't want

1066
00:53:36,600 --> 00:53:38,800
Speaker 2: to step on any toes. I don't want to you know,

1067
00:53:39,400 --> 00:53:41,200
Speaker 2: assume too much, but I think it's time to start

1068
00:53:41,239 --> 00:53:45,360
Speaker 2: thinking about moving Grandma out. This woman swoops in, eating

1069
00:53:45,400 --> 00:53:52,440
Speaker 2: your food, using your blankets, playing your video Solitaire. I mean, yeah, look,

1070
00:53:53,200 --> 00:53:53,799
Speaker 2: she's a leech.

1071
00:53:54,880 --> 00:53:57,879
Speaker 3: It's very suspicious behavior. If you ask me, I mean

1072
00:53:58,000 --> 00:54:00,560
Speaker 3: I would, I would have her followed, or at least

1073
00:54:00,560 --> 00:54:02,800
Speaker 3: have an investigator. Can't figure out what's her trip, what

1074
00:54:03,239 --> 00:54:06,959
Speaker 3: is her deal? She's she's got some kind of scam

1075
00:54:07,080 --> 00:54:09,200
Speaker 3: going on here. I don't know what it is, but

1076
00:54:09,280 --> 00:54:11,120
Speaker 3: I think you should figure it out before it's too late.

1077
00:54:11,600 --> 00:54:14,320
Speaker 2: She is bleeding your bank account while you're not watching.

1078
00:54:16,000 --> 00:54:18,120
Speaker 2: Use the gift money. Like Al said on a PI,

1079
00:54:19,000 --> 00:54:22,880
Speaker 2: get the situation under control, get Grandma behind bars, and

1080
00:54:22,960 --> 00:54:24,840
Speaker 2: then you know you don't have to worry about these

1081
00:54:24,880 --> 00:54:28,920
Speaker 2: big birthday parties anymore. It's too much. Al, we answered

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00:54:29,000 --> 00:54:31,719
Speaker 2: that question perfectly. We've I mean, I think we exposed

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00:54:31,840 --> 00:54:37,040
Speaker 2: this broadster. And yeah, you're doing God's work, You're helping people.

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Speaker 3: I thank you.

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00:54:38,920 --> 00:54:41,319
Speaker 2: It needs to be said over and over and over.

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00:54:41,440 --> 00:54:43,880
Speaker 2: It should be screamed from the rooftops, and hopefully Rachel

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00:54:44,360 --> 00:54:48,920
Speaker 2: understands that, and hopefully Rachel's thankful, because I hope so too.

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Speaker 2: You know, I've gone out of my way to help,

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Speaker 2: and so is Al here. Wonderful.

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Speaker 3: It's the most I could do. Al.

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Speaker 2: This has been such a delightful time, and now I

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00:55:00,560 --> 00:55:04,000
Speaker 2: have a trophy. This is increading too, which I can

1093
00:55:04,080 --> 00:55:05,920
Speaker 2: kind of probably just claim credit for.

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Speaker 3: You know, I hope, I hope you proudly display that

1095
00:55:09,600 --> 00:55:14,080
Speaker 3: and say I am third. I'm not a winner. I'm

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Speaker 3: a third place person.

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Speaker 2: I've never succeeded at a single thing. I'll proudly do that.

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00:55:22,320 --> 00:55:24,160
Speaker 2: Thank you so much for doing this. I've just had

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Speaker 2: the time of my life.

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Speaker 3: Meet too. This are so fun things, man, listener.

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00:55:27,800 --> 00:55:30,759
Speaker 2: This is the end of the podcast, and you know

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00:55:31,000 --> 00:55:34,279
Speaker 2: we're learning, you know what happens at the end of

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00:55:34,360 --> 00:55:37,960
Speaker 2: the podcast and figuring out you know how to handle ourselves.

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Speaker 2: And I trust that you've done that and that you're

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00:55:41,360 --> 00:55:43,719
Speaker 2: you continue to grow as someone who knows how a

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Speaker 2: podcast ends. And so again I'll send you off into

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Speaker 2: the world. I God knows what might happen to you,

1108
00:55:50,840 --> 00:55:53,880
Speaker 2: but it's not my responsibility. I have to kind of

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Speaker 2: absolve myself at this point. This is the end. Goodbye.

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Speaker 2: I said. No Gifts is an exactly right production. It's

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Speaker 2: produced and engineered by our dear friend Annalise Nelson, and

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Speaker 2: the theme song is by miracle worker Amy Mann. You

1113
00:56:14,920 --> 00:56:19,240
Speaker 2: must follow the show on Instagram at I said no gifts,

1114
00:56:19,800 --> 00:56:22,080
Speaker 2: that's where you're going to see pictures of all these

1115
00:56:22,200 --> 00:56:25,240
Speaker 2: wonderful gifts I'm getting. You have to see the gifts.

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Speaker 2: Listen and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Stitcher or wherever you

1117
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Speaker 2: found me. And why not leave a review while you're there.

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Speaker 2: It's really the least you could do considering everything I

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Speaker 2: do for you. And if you're interested in advertising on

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Speaker 2: the show, go to midrool dot com slash ads.

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Speaker 3: Well I invit, did you hear?

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Speaker 1: Funa man myself perfectly clear. When you're a guest to me,

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Speaker 1: you gotta come to me empty, And I said, no, guests,

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Speaker 1: your presence is presents enough. I already had too much stuff,

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Speaker 1: So how do you dare to surbey me?