00:00:08 Speaker 1: And I invited you here thought I made myself perfectly clear. When you're a guest to my home, you gotta come to me empty. And I said, no, guests, your own presences presents enough. I already had too much stuff. So how did you dare to surbey me? 00:00:47 Speaker 2: Welcome to I said, no gifts. I continue to be bridgar whine girl. I'm so happy you're here. What's going on? No, I don't know. On a nice little drive before this, so I'm relaxed. I've had a nice time listening to some music. If you're driving, I hope you're not parallel parking currently, because this feels like it would be a stressful distraction and that's gonna you know, you're going to grow to resent me and my voice, and I don't want that happening. So put a pause on anything else you're doing and just focus on the podcast. This is episode one hundred, and I would like you to start acting like it. I don't know if he even noticed the one hundred when you you know, when you were clicking around the you know, on your device, your phone in the desperate way you do, trying to get to the audio. But hopefully this audio is now enlightening you. It's opening your eyes to this big event. It's obviously a huge occasion for me. I assume an even bigger occasion for you, and so hopefully your mind is racing. You're trying to think of ways to thank me and nice things to do for me for all of the you know, the ways I've improved your life. You're outspreading the word about the podcast. You're planning a party, You're putting on your best dress. You know, you're planning a special dessert. I don't know whatever it takes to honor this enormous occasion. I support you. Now, let's just get into the show. I can't believe I mean today's guests. I'm just beyond thrilled about. Who doesn't love weird Al Yankovic. 00:02:23 Speaker 3: I sure do. Al. 00:02:27 Speaker 2: I'm already calling you Al. I called you Al before I begin the podcast, and I feel it feels so unnatural to me. 00:02:34 Speaker 3: I think it's completely natural, dude, to refer to somebody by their name. 00:02:38 Speaker 2: It feels like if I had gone to like Buckingham Palace and called her Liz. You know, it's like a title. I've known you from afar since I don't know, third grade, so suddenly to be calling you Al feels very disrespectful. 00:02:55 Speaker 3: Wow, I think we're close personal friends by now, don't you think? 00:02:58 Speaker 2: I think so? I mean I'm willing to just admit to that. I think we can just seal it here and move on, and I'll just now call you Al and try to be cool. 00:03:08 Speaker 3: Move on, call me Al and feel completely at home with that. 00:03:12 Speaker 2: Okay, fine, Al, how are you doing? 00:03:15 Speaker 3: I'm doing well. Thank you for asking. I'm not parallel parking. I'm completely relaxed and ready for this. Whatever this happens to be. 00:03:24 Speaker 2: Well, we'll get into this later. But you agreed to be on the podcast a little while ago, and you said you had some things coming up, and now you really do. You've got a movie that's just been announced, which is crazy, and you're about to go on tour again. Yeah. 00:03:38 Speaker 3: I mean, you're the first person that I've talked to outside of my immediate family about the movie. I can't give away any juicy secrets, but it feels weird to be able to finally you say yes, I'm making a movie, because that's something I kind of kept onder my vest for quite some time. 00:03:53 Speaker 2: Can you say how long you've been working on it. 00:03:56 Speaker 3: Well, I mean it's based on a funnier Die sketch that Eric Pell and I did in twenty ten, So I mean back then, I didn't think, oh, we're going to make a movie out of this. In fact, you know, we made that sketch and it, you know, went viral, and then I continue to play it in my live shows, like on the big screen, like Concents. So it's been part a part of you know, my show for many years. But I always thought, yeah, this is great. It's it's funny, but it's a three and a half minute sketch. It's it's what it's supposed to be. It's like a fake trailer, ha ha. And then I woke up one morning about two years ago and I said, no, this needs to be a movie, you know, because there were all these biopics coming out, like you know, Bohemian Rhapsody, where you know, mostly true, but they definitely took some liberty with the facts, which kind of bugged me because I said, that's not the way it happened and that's not right. And I thought, okay, well, maybe I should do Finally You my biopic and maybe even tweak it a little bit more, maybe take a few more liberties than they did. 00:04:55 Speaker 2: Yeah. I remember watching that trailer I guess, yeah, twelve years ago or whatever, and the feeling like, oh, this should be a movie. And I feel like a lot of people felt the same way. It's the trailer is very, very funny, and to see that blown up into a movie that sounds incredible to me. 00:05:11 Speaker 3: Thank you. Yeah, it's it's it's gonna be great. And again, I can't give away, like I'm kind of blown away with the people that are going to be in the movie. We've been casting this week and like everybody wants to be so it's it's really kind of blowing my mind. And I can't say anything but wow, it's a great cast. But but Daniel Radcliffe, man, he is so committed and it's just I can't tell you what it's like to wake up in the morning and check my email and there's a video from Daniel Radcliffe playing my bologna on the accordion. It's insane, it's so surreal. He's learning for the movie. 00:05:48 Speaker 2: That is incredible. 00:05:50 Speaker 3: That's one of the many things I love about him. He is deeply committed to this. 00:05:54 Speaker 2: Oh my god, and When did he get on board with this? Can you say that. 00:05:59 Speaker 3: That was quite some time ago. I can't tell you exactly when, but it was in the heat of the pandemic. I want to say maybe summer twenty twenty. I'd have to go check it, check it out. But a while. He's been part of this for a while. 00:06:11 Speaker 2: Oh, that's so fantastic. What an incredible thing this is. So you're working on the movie, you refuse to say anything about it. So we're just going to have to move on from that topic. Okay, what is your everyday life right now? 00:06:28 Speaker 3: You know, it's gotten a little bit. It was very very low key for most of the last two years, and it just now started getting very very busy again because of this movie thing, and also because we're getting ready to go on the road for six months, which is another thing. I'm hoping that COVID is not going to push the brakes on. But yeah, there's a kind of a lot of stuff going on. I continue to stay at home. I barely left the house for a very long time. But we're things are happening, things are moving to shake and. 00:06:59 Speaker 2: Finally, now, look, this is actually something I just thought about. Wordle have you played the game Wortle. 00:07:06 Speaker 3: I have not, and I know it's all the rage this week, and I feel like I should learn how to play it, because I probably would enjoy it quite a bit. But I have not looked into it yet. What do you think? Are you a wordle guy? 00:07:18 Speaker 1: Well? 00:07:18 Speaker 2: You sure. I've played it a little bit and I'm having a good time. But the real reason I'm bringing it up is it's just occurred to me that this could be an incredible weird al crossover. Wordle just found sounds like somebody who's mispronouncing weird al. 00:07:32 Speaker 3: Well. You know, I tweeted this a couple of days ago because there's an old billy on the street clip of him talking to Elena, and Elena thinks, Billy says Radil Yankovic, and Elena says, oh, wordle. 00:07:47 Speaker 2: She invented wordle. She invented wordle. That's incredible. I feel like that there's got to be a crossover at some point. 00:07:55 Speaker 3: Oh, there must be word Yankovic. 00:07:59 Speaker 2: I have been played word a little bit. Do you do crosswords or anything? 00:08:03 Speaker 3: A little bit? Actually? I co wrote a New York Times crossword a year or two ago, So that's my crossword Claim to Fame. Yeah, Eric Blyinn co wrote it with me, So that was fun. What was that process? Like? He it was mostly him doing the heavy lifting. He would like kind of come up with, uh, the actual crossword, and I would I would mostly write the descriptions. And I think the theme for our particular crossword was cheesy movies, so it was all like really bad cheese bunks, like a few Gouda men, you know, you know, but it was it was fun. It was fun. I can't say that I do the New York Times Crossword and Pan every week. I'm not one of those guys, but I do enjoy them. 00:08:47 Speaker 2: Yeah, that's something to aspire to. It's something I'm like, maybe someday I'll be that person, but I'll do the mini crossword on occasion. And now I've got this wordle which there's something I enjoy playing it, but I just be like a guessing game. 00:09:02 Speaker 3: Yeah, well, what's the other there's another word game that's like super popular right now? Or are there? Although the letters are arranged cane in a circle, is that is that called spelling? Be? Maybe? I think like Seth Myers is really into it apparently, but I don't know how to play it or what it is. 00:09:17 Speaker 2: Yeah, I feel like that's one that's always like pitched to me alongside the mini crossword and I think I've got I have ten minutes for a word game today? 00:09:26 Speaker 3: Much time in your life, Bridger? Come on? Can to make your wordal priorities? 00:09:31 Speaker 2: One thing I won't touch is a word search? 00:09:34 Speaker 3: Oh? 00:09:35 Speaker 2: Words for me? What are we talking about? 00:09:37 Speaker 3: What's the point? Your life on this planet is finite? I don't want to be searching for words. 00:09:45 Speaker 2: I don't have time to find your words for you. Come on, Just give me a book with the words in the correctly arranged order and I'll enjoy it. 00:09:56 Speaker 3: You ever think of that's? Come on? 00:10:00 Speaker 2: What do you do to enjoy yourself? 00:10:03 Speaker 3: You know it sounds so boring, you know, I just I just hang out with my family and I'm empty in nesting right now. My daughter's eighteen and she's in college on the East Coast, so we see every day. But it's now it's FaceTime, right and other otherwise it's just, you know, very low key, just kind of hanging around the house. I I'm on the Internet more than a healthy person should be, and I'm you know, watch movies at night, and sometimes I play video games in my robe. It's just like but we don't get get out much, so it's just like home stuff. 00:10:33 Speaker 2: That's very much my existence, playing video games in a robe, kind of just stumbling around the house until I'm sleepy enough to go to bed. 00:10:42 Speaker 3: There you go. I think we get along very well. 00:10:47 Speaker 2: Have you been playing any video games recently? 00:10:50 Speaker 3: Yeah? What if? I You know, it's just I hesitate to talk about this because it makes me sound like a fourteen year old. 00:10:57 Speaker 2: But oh, we've got a move beyond the sort. That's what my boyfriend is calling me. Look, we're adults are playing video games, and we've just got to accept it. 00:11:07 Speaker 3: Okay, Well I've been I've been obsessed with a Grand theftoughto online for Fantastic and I've been doing like, you know, God of War and Horizon was it. 00:11:18 Speaker 2: I think it's called Horizon, isn't it where You're the Woman in the future. 00:11:22 Speaker 3: Yeah, I've zero done, thank you, thank you, Horizons era done. So that you know, I went through the beginning of the pandemic. I had an old PS three that I dug out of storage, so I was playing all these like fifteen year old games you know, for all of twenty twenty, and I was waiting to eat the PS five, So then I skipped the generation and now I'm now I'm bleeding state of the art. But all of twenty twenty I was playing like you know, you know, all the Turn of the Millennium games. 00:11:53 Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't have a PS five. There was a period when I was trying to hunt one down and then it just was two exhausting, emotional and I gave up. You know, when it's on a store shelf and I walk past when I'll get it, but I can't keep up with. 00:12:06 Speaker 3: It's kind of crazy that it's still you still can't get one. I mean it's not readily available. 00:12:11 Speaker 2: Like is this over a year years at this point? 00:12:15 Speaker 3: It's crazy. I you know, my wife was able to secure one for me on the day was available back I think I think it was November twelfth, twenty twenty. I think bless her and it like it was like one of those things like two o'clock in the morning, we like snagged it on best Buy online or something like that. It was like, oh, bless me, buddy, why I love you. 00:12:36 Speaker 2: She activaded her army of bots and then ye swarmed down. 00:12:40 Speaker 3: Gave purpose to my life. 00:12:43 Speaker 2: Grand Theft Auto for me is difficult because I have a hard time staying on task with that game. I'm immediately just distracted, and suddenly I'm riding a bike to the ocean to beat somebody up, and then I'm taking a boat somewhere. I'm not staying on the story. I've never finished when of those games. 00:13:00 Speaker 3: Well, that's I think that's the best way, and that's the way my daughter plays. She has no interest in goals or missions or stories. She just wants to go around like running over people and killing things, you know, just as a healthy person, would you. 00:13:11 Speaker 2: Know, right right as we're all kind of just naturally inclined to do. 00:13:16 Speaker 3: Yeah. 00:13:17 Speaker 2: So going back to your tour, you haven't toured in I mean, what is it two years at least at this point, do you have to have you started rehearsals? How does that? How does that work for you? 00:13:27 Speaker 3: We know, we were we like, Yeah, the last tour was the Strings Attached tour, which was our big orchestral tour. So that was twenty nineteen and obviously didn't tour twenty twenty, twenty twenty. We were gonna take off anyway, and that worked at just fine. But we were going to tour last year that obviously didn't work out, And now the tour is starting in late April. We are gonna probably do the rehearsals after we finish production on the movie, so yeah, well we'll have time to do it any It's mostly songs that we've already been doing in concerts, so it's not like we have to work up arrangements or something like that. So you know, we just need to kind of shake the cobwebs out and then it will be good to go, and then then we have one hundred and thirty three shows to get it right. 00:14:15 Speaker 2: Are you really doing one hundred and thirty three? 00:14:16 Speaker 3: We are doing one hundred and thirty three shows on this tour. 00:14:19 Speaker 2: Wow, that's incredible. Where are you going? 00:14:22 Speaker 3: Kind of everywhere? It's a world tour. We're doing the United States and Canada, so. 00:14:28 Speaker 2: We're both international, but it is. 00:14:31 Speaker 3: A North American tour. We maybe we'll do Europe and or Australia next year, but we're going We're kind of like all rock tours. It never makes any logistical sense because you know, we zigzag back and forth. We had the East coast four times, on the West coast three times. I don't know, but it's it makes no sense. Run a bus driving all around the country for six months and we wind up at Carnegie Hall. So we love, we're practicing, practicing, practicing for six months and then we'll be there. 00:14:55 Speaker 2: I think you should do one hundred and thirty two shows in Phoenix and then the Carnegie Hall. 00:15:01 Speaker 3: That was one of our considerations. We talked about that. 00:15:06 Speaker 2: Oh, that's so exciting. And this tour is almost all just your original songs, right. 00:15:12 Speaker 3: Yes, yeah, So this is you know, it's it's a small tent tour. It's not meant for everybody. I'm sure there's a lot of people that are disappointed that we're not doing eat It or whatever, and they should probably stay home because we don't want to. I don't want to look at a disappointed faces. This is. This is geared toward the hardcore bands that I've been following my career for a long time and actually like the deep cuts and want to hear these songs which I haven't been playing in concert, because you know, concerts are geared to please the most people possible, and this tour is geared toward pleasing these crazy people that want to hear my original stuff. I love that. 00:15:47 Speaker 2: Have you ever thought about doing a full album of original songs? 00:15:51 Speaker 3: Well, I don't know that I need to do that. I mean, I'm kind of done making conventional albums anyway. But I always made it like fifty to fifty, like half parodies and half originals. That just felt like a good balance because I do enjoy the parodies. I'm not like pooh poohing them, but I also enjoy doing the originals, So I like to kind of mix it up and blend the two, and it kind of kind of balances pretty well. 00:16:11 Speaker 2: Right, And did you at any point did you ever consider doing it like a non comedy album. 00:16:17 Speaker 3: No, I think there's enough people doing those. 00:16:22 Speaker 2: Well, that's very exciting that one hundred and thirty three nights, Like over what span of time is that? Six months? 00:16:29 Speaker 3: Six months? Yeah, so we it's we. I don't know, I know the exact day, but it's like we start the last week of April and the last Carnegie Halls October twenty ninth, and that's the last day. 00:16:39 Speaker 2: Do you like going to concerts as a fan? 00:16:41 Speaker 3: I do, Again, I haven't gone to many. I think I've maybe gone to one or two since you know, this this thing started. But yeah, I do enjoy that. I don't get out a lot, and I don't do like the big stadiums anymore. When I was, you know, much younger, I wouldn't mind like being with twenty thousand people. But that's not as attractive to me anymore as I I prefer to, like, you know, catch a show at the Troubadour or someplace not quite as off putting. 00:17:12 Speaker 2: Who have you seen in the last few years that you've enjoyed seeing live? 00:17:17 Speaker 3: I saw Emily King that was fun. Oh cool again, not much somethingly that she might be the only one, in fact a lot that I'd like to go see, right, I mean, I mean I'd like to go see Sparks next month. 00:17:32 Speaker 2: Like I've never seen Sparks live. 00:17:34 Speaker 3: Oh you have to, They're great. I don't think I'm gonna go just because that's right before movie production starts, and I don't think it's behoove me to be out with a bunch of people right before I hit a set. So but but yeah, but but yeah, I love going to live shows. I just don't have that many. 00:17:50 Speaker 2: Opportunities right right. Well, there's something else i'd like to talk to you about. 00:17:56 Speaker 3: Well let's talk about that then. 00:17:57 Speaker 2: Well I need to talk to you about so, like I said earlier in the podcast, we've been communicating a little bit. You agreed to be on this podcast a month or so ago, and I was beyond thrilled. I was so happy that you had agreed to do it, and I've been looking forward to it. To be honest, you know, first after I. 00:18:16 Speaker 3: Have to stop you. I beyond thrilled. That's a phrase that I used in the press release for the movie. And my wife said, nobody says beyond thrilled. Is that true? He says, that's who says beyond thrilled? What is beyond thrilled? And I said, can I say absolutely thrilled? And she said better fine, So beyond thrilled was red lined? Red lined, My friend, I'm saying beyond thrilled all the time. Well go, well see, you're my validation. I'm going to walk in after this podcasting they're walking the stroom and say, Bridger is beyond thrilled. 00:18:48 Speaker 2: Next time you have a press release, I need you to send the first draft by me. I'm happy to weigh in on your beyond thrilled. 00:18:55 Speaker 3: I do appreciate it. I'm fry to interrupt, please continue. 00:18:58 Speaker 2: Well, I mean, I'm sure you have play of reasons to delay this as long as possible. Look, you agreed to be on this podcast. I said, no gifts. You're aware of it. The world at large is aware of it. The press, you know, everybody knows this podcast has a very clear directive no gifts. So I was a little surprised. Recently. I was driving through your neighborhood at about eight thirty in the morning on a I don't know, a Friday, and I thought, why don't I stop by Al's house just to say hello as you do as I do, you know, and you know, it wasn't the experience I had hoped for. Let's just say that. Let's say suddenly I'm walking away from your house holding a large brown box, and you know, in my confusion, in my anger, in you know, just kind of like Low Blood Sugar was early in the morning, I thought, I'm gonna I don't know what this box is. I can't deal with it right now. He's going to be on the podcast at some point. Maybe I'll just confront him then. 00:20:01 Speaker 3: Wait, are you thinking that's been taking all our FedEx packages? 00:20:05 Speaker 2: We have a camera. 00:20:06 Speaker 3: I'm gonna have to look at the footage. 00:20:08 Speaker 2: That's a separate thing for me. Yeah, this is a different situation. Those packages I'm gathering for another purpose. 00:20:16 Speaker 3: I see this box. 00:20:19 Speaker 2: I need answer. This is a gift for me. 00:20:23 Speaker 3: Okay, I have to fess up. I know that this goes against everything you believe in. This is probably going to shake you to your core. But yes, I'm afraid it is in fact a gift. And it's just the way I was raised. I mean, Mamma didn't raise no ingrades. And I'm so grateful to be in your podcast. I felt like I had to give back something, something, anything, just to show my gratitude. So please forgive me. I know that you probably hate me for this, but I want you to look beyond that and just try to look at my core, my core essence, and realize it's all coming from a good place and I just want to do the right thing here. 00:20:58 Speaker 2: Well, my hatred is probably going it'll be a couple of years before that cools down, but I do I you know, I'm a professional. The show must go on. This feels like a giant bump in the road of this podcast, and I would be happy to just shut it down right now, but we have to deliver to the listener. So maybe do you want me to open it here on the show. 00:21:19 Speaker 3: Well, that seems like that would go against everything you believe in. But if you want to, I'm not gonna say you can't. 00:21:31 Speaker 2: Look I'm I'm no stranger to moral compromise. I'm happy to get into it. 00:21:36 Speaker 3: Here. 00:21:36 Speaker 2: Let me get my scissor out a rather large brown box. 00:21:41 Speaker 3: It's spring loaded, so be careful. 00:21:44 Speaker 2: It's just full of marbles. Let's see here, what's the best entry point? I guess right here, this is we're some part of this podcast. I'm constantly cutting towards myself while the guest watches on zoom and I feel like at some point I am going to cut myself and they're just gonna have to watch me bleed. 00:22:03 Speaker 3: But now you have somebody that can call nine one one. 00:22:06 Speaker 2: I'm right here. That's very true, very true. 00:22:09 Speaker 3: That It's like, you don't go spilunking by yourself, always bring a friend. 00:22:13 Speaker 2: I would love to go spilunking by myself. The eeriness of a cave. Oh, you know that could be a nice way to go out. I don't know. Let's see, this is maybe the most dangerous box opening I've done on this podcast. Right careful, man, you're making me nervous. I'm making me nervous. 00:22:32 Speaker 3: This is not cut away from you, cut away, cut away, there you go. 00:22:37 Speaker 2: I'm very bad with the scissor today. I think. Let's see here, this is gonna be the next thirty minute time. 00:22:43 Speaker 3: I'm so nervous right now, I'm just waiting for the blood to start spurting. Here we go. This is really oh my heart. 00:22:53 Speaker 2: Good breath, Let's see. 00:22:55 Speaker 3: I love this audio unboxing. It's gonna be like a whole new thing. 00:22:59 Speaker 2: I would like to just have minies of the podcast that are just boxes opening, packages being shredded. Okay, we're getting in here. We're actually there's more tape. I'm happy for this to go, for this to be the rest of the podcast that was. 00:23:14 Speaker 3: Originally going to be mailed. But then somebody walked by and just picked up the package, so you have to forgive me for that. 00:23:21 Speaker 2: Let's see, this is a beautifully taped box. I mean, nobody can get into this thing, no animal, no man. The listener is furious at this point, and I love it. Wow, I love just driving. 00:23:36 Speaker 3: My fear has turned to boredom. 00:23:40 Speaker 2: Will eventually become anger. Anger will become forgiveness, and then we'll all be back on the same page. Oh my gosh, are done with this tape? 00:23:51 Speaker 3: Here we go? 00:23:52 Speaker 2: Okay, I have finally all right, God, we've got point. 00:23:58 Speaker 3: That puppy is probably dead by now, just a fly. 00:24:01 Speaker 2: I thought I smelled something. Let's see here. Okay, okay, we're just ripping in okay, Oh my god. And now within the box is a full gift I wrapped. 00:24:16 Speaker 3: You don't think i'd give you something on gift wrapped to you? People have done it before. What What kind of a philistine do you think? I am? 00:24:25 Speaker 2: Okay, I'm gonna take a quick picture of this gift wrap so people know how beautifully wrapped this was. Okay, all right, where now we have a green listener. I apologize and I completely blame OL for this, as you should. I broke through the first layer and now we're to the an actual gift with this cat wrapping paper. This is incredible cat wrapping paper. 00:24:52 Speaker 3: What if this is like Russian nesting gifts? That's not a bad idea. And I actually sent you a molecule. 00:25:02 Speaker 2: One day after another, just years go by podcast, just thousands of hours of recording. Okay, we're ripping in. We're ripping in. Okay, I hope we're getting some more noise. 00:25:26 Speaker 3: I'll just make noises of while you're doing this so people know we're still alive. 00:25:34 Speaker 2: We've gone to the box layer we were opening. Now we're to some bubble wrap. Okay, some bubble wrap noise. 00:25:41 Speaker 3: You can have your private time with that later. We're busy. Now, what is this? It's a trophy? What day? What this is? 00:25:53 Speaker 2: Okay? I just need an immediate explanation. 00:25:56 Speaker 3: Well, that is an actual trophy that I went in high school. What which I'm giving to you? Third place winner high school speech team nineteen seventy six. 00:26:06 Speaker 2: Oh my god, this is incredible, listener. It's a I mean, you know what a trophy looks like. It's a but it's like a little man. It says third place seventy six SCDL expository. Now what's SCDL. 00:26:21 Speaker 3: I believe it's Southern California Debate League. I didn't do debate. I did like expository speaking and humors and terp and all all sorts of other goofy stuff. But it was a competition. I went competed with other high schools and I apparently came in third place, and it was like I had my Grammys and that trophy, and I was like, now that trophy doesn't quite fit in. Get the bridger. You appreciate it. 00:26:41 Speaker 2: This is incredible. So how long were you doing this sort of speaking in high school? Was it something you did throughout your high school career or was it just like a I think. 00:26:50 Speaker 3: Most of it. I think probably I started my sophomore year in high school and it was like my big extracurricular activity, and I did like a humorous interpretations of comedic pieces like from Mad magazine or Woody Allen or Neil Simon or whatever. And then the expository was a ten minute long speech on the hot dog, which I think that took me to state that was like my big, my big hit. I did that my speech on the hot dog, which basically talked about all the horrible things that are in hot dogs and can be in hot dogs legally, like so many like you know, milligrams of feces or you know, rat hair or whatever, and I should point out that I did this speech over a decade and a half before I turned vegetarian, So during all those time, I was still happily eating hot dogs to my heart's contentent. 00:27:41 Speaker 2: Okay, so you were talking about hot dogs. What research did you put in to figure out what was going into these hot dogs? 00:27:48 Speaker 3: I probably went to the library. This is pre pre internet. I actually had to go and I think check out books and maybe look at some hard bound encyclopedias and the way that people gleaned their information, you know, back whatever that was in the mid seventies. 00:28:05 Speaker 2: Like what books are you looking into to find out what's happening legally in a hot dog? 00:28:10 Speaker 3: It's probably the periodical section. I probably like thought it looked up like hot newsweek hot dog articles for when there was some kind of like thing thing from the what the FDA or whoever was investigating hot dogs at that time. 00:28:25 Speaker 2: Do you remember any of the speech? 00:28:28 Speaker 3: I gosh, it seems like I hadn't memorized for years. I can't remember a single word about it. I just remember that there were visual aids, so I was, you know, I would like hold up a giant photorealistic hot dog at one point and I'd have charts and graphs and it was it was pretty stupid. But I was like, you know, fifteen or sixteen at the time, so at the time it didn't bother me that it was stupid. 00:28:52 Speaker 2: Right, and at the time, because you've played at least accordion since you were a kid, right at the time, were you writing songs? 00:29:01 Speaker 3: Yeah, I was getting some airplane the Doctor Demento show. I had my first I think hit with him when I was like sixteen years old by head, I mean, he played it on the radio. My friends called in to request it again, so that was but still, you know, I was on the show, and I kind of thought that was pretty cool, because you know, I never thought that i'd have a career in show biz. I never thought I'd be doing anything remotely fun for a living. I thought I was giving me an architect that's what I got my degree. 00:29:26 Speaker 2: Oh no, I didn't know that. 00:29:27 Speaker 3: Yeah, but but yeah, at the time I was playing the Cordion, I was writing goofy songs and getting the random Doctor Demento airplay, so that's yeah, that started really early. 00:29:38 Speaker 2: So you're writing song, funny songs and also performing funny comedy speeches. Basically, there must have been like some small glimmer of hope in you that like this could become a career, I. 00:29:51 Speaker 3: Mean pipe dreams. I wouldn't say that was really honestly, I did not, in my wildest imagination think I'd have a life like the one that I currently have, right, you know, I thought, you know, I was very adult minded and rational and reasonably thought like, you know, I'm not really like, you know, the type that would like be a rock star or make a movie or be have anybody pay attention to be at all. Really, So when I first you know, started getting the Airplane Demento show, it was you know, it was a thrill. I was tickled, but I didn't really think anything was going to happen there. Having said that, when I graduated from college, I did like put myself out there and you know, knocked on some doors and try to get a record deal going, and to my amazement, that actually happened. But I mean, all grow the whole time I was growing up and as a teenager, it never occurred to me that, you know, this is the way the path that my life would take. 00:30:46 Speaker 2: Right right, how old were you when you got your first record deal. 00:30:50 Speaker 3: Well, Mike Bolona, I recorded that when I was nineteen, and I think Capitol Records put it out when I after I turned twenty, and I didn't. I didn't sign my first actual real record deal until I was I think I was twenty two. I was in nineteen eighty two, I think it was in the first album came out in eighty three, and that was a ten album deal. 00:31:11 Speaker 2: Oh my god. 00:31:12 Speaker 3: Which doesn't mean they thought I was going to have ten albums. That was probably, you know, the last thing they would have imagined. It was just one of those draconian things where legally, like if by some fluke, you happen to, you know, become successful, we've got you for you know, the rest of your life basically, And that contract, I will say that, you know, things actually did go well for me, and not only did I fulfill all ten albums, but they tacked on four more during renegotiations, so it wound up being a fourteen album contract, which I finally fulfilled with my last album, Mandatory Fund in twenty fourteen. So in just thirty two short years I was able to fulfill all my contractual obligations. 00:31:56 Speaker 2: That's not a bad turnaround. Yeah, so you got this third place trophy. Did you continue doing speech competitively after this or was this the top of the hill for you? 00:32:09 Speaker 3: I did better in high school. I think I think I might have done some speech stuff my first year in college. But I got kind of bordered that pretty quickly. It was. It wound up being more of a high school passion. But it was fun at the time. It was just it was my first sort of performing, as it were. So it got me in front of people and got me comfortable like speaking, you know, in front of people. And I guess I was, you know, very formative and helpful and you know, doing what I do now, I guess. 00:32:35 Speaker 2: And was the next trophy you won? A Grammy? 00:32:41 Speaker 3: Wasn't it? I don't know. Maybe it could have. I mean that trophy that you're holding in your hands, I mean that you could probably sell out an eBay for like three to five bucks. 00:32:53 Speaker 2: Easy going too, I'm in desperate need of cash anything else. Yes, that's so that's crazy. So what what what year did you win your first Grammy? 00:33:05 Speaker 3: Uh? Eighty, Well it was for eighty four, but the actual uh Grammys where I won it was an eighty five. 00:33:12 Speaker 2: Okay, and then you've won. 00:33:14 Speaker 3: If you won four five, but who's counting really, well. 00:33:19 Speaker 2: Then let's say eleven. Okay, what is the What is the experience like of being at the Grammys as a nominee? 00:33:28 Speaker 3: Is it boring? 00:33:29 Speaker 2: I feel like a lot of being at award shows can be a little boring, But if you're nominated, that must be exciting. 00:33:33 Speaker 3: It's a whole different thing when you're nominated. I mean, it's it's still I mean, my category, the comedy category is almost always in the pre telegast show, which which. 00:33:44 Speaker 2: Is also I wouldn't say it's boring, but it is, well you mystify the award show. 00:33:53 Speaker 3: Yeah, but so I mean, if if you're nominated, you're you're nervous through the whole thing, and if you're not, you're just sitting through the whole thing. But it's yeah, kind of goes on for for a long time, and they go through every random, obscure category until they get to your category, and then all of a sudden, it's very exciting. But it's a thrill. I mean, it's I like it just even being nominated, because it's a fun hang. You get to go to the Grammys and hang with a lot of really cool people, and it's generally a really good show. So yeah, I'm always happy when I when I get the. 00:34:20 Speaker 2: Nod right at Grammy shows. Do you have any stories, any strange things that have happened, Any weird people you've run into, are exciting people? 00:34:30 Speaker 3: Well, my favorite Grammy story is one that I've told a lot of times, but I'll tell you as well, please, Which which is Which is the year that Chamillionaire won for Ride and Dirty actually just called Riding, But anyway, he was on the red carpet and he came up to me on the red carpet after he'd won his Grammy, and he said, I just wanted to thank you for doing your parody White and Nerdy, because I think that your parody is a big reason why I won, because it made it undeniable that my song was the song of the ear. Wow, that's pretty cool. 00:35:03 Speaker 2: Thanks man, that's great. I feel like, I mean, because your career, you've been making music for so long, you've probably had an influence on basically every working musician, I mean young working musician at this point. I mean, I think for you, like you're kind of a gateway to music for kids. I think like for me at least you if it's not only funny music, but like it was the music I wasn't allowed to listen to by my parents. 00:35:32 Speaker 3: So it's like this, huh do you get Do you hear that at all? Yeah, I mean I hear that. I'm a lot of people's first concert or their first album, And it's because I partly, I think, because my music is considered quote unquote safe. It's you know, it falls under the umbrella of family friendly. And I think that's because I don't use profanity. But my stuff gets pretty dark. 00:35:53 Speaker 2: It's really dark. 00:35:54 Speaker 3: It's not really like kiaty music, because there's some really adult concepts sprinkled through the music. But I don't, like, you know, use harsh profanity. So I think a lot of parents go, oh, it's fine, let the kid listen. 00:36:09 Speaker 2: Yeah, I remember a pretty specific memory of listening to Uh. I remember Larry, which is a very uppy, sunny song. But like I think if a parent has tuned it out, they don't hear that, like eventually the narrator of the song it murders the Larry character. 00:36:26 Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, it's it's very dark. In fact, a lot of my original songs I think are darker than the parodies. So on the on the Vanity Tour last time, after playing a couple of songs on a roll about decapitation and mass murder, I stopped and I said, I didn't really realize it before, but my stuff is really twisted. It's like dark. What am I think? I'm a happy person. I don't know what kind of demons am I suppressing that this is my art? 00:36:51 Speaker 2: You know, I don't know, but it works, It absolutely works. 00:36:57 Speaker 3: It. 00:36:57 Speaker 2: Uh yeah, it's thanks, thank you. Yeah, this is what I can't I actually can't believe that I just now own a trophy from you. This feels somehow cosmically unfair or something that suddenly now I have one of weird Al's trophies in my home. 00:37:13 Speaker 3: Well, I think you can thank my wife for that as well, because I think what can we give Bridger that he'd really appreciate. And my wife was like, you've got a box full of trophies, maybe you could give him one, Like, yeah, I gout. Sure. 00:37:27 Speaker 2: Did you like as a kid play sports or anything? 00:37:31 Speaker 3: Not really? I mean I played a little bit of tennis and I wasn't on any kind of professional team. Or anything like that, ping pong, bowling. I mean, nothing's nothing strenuous. I mean I was a prototypical nerd. So pe class was when like the jocks would beat me up. You know, let's play football. What's the nerd? You know, So it was never so organized. Sports weren't really a big favorite of mine in high school, and I continue to not be that interested in them. So there. 00:38:03 Speaker 2: Do you do anything physically work out exercise in any way? 00:38:08 Speaker 3: Not a lot. I don't go to the gym. The one thing I like to do is walk. So when I'm like getting in shape for a tour, my house is up on the Hollywood Hills, and I'll walk all the way down to like Wilshire Boulevard. 00:38:19 Speaker 2: And that's talk. 00:38:21 Speaker 3: Yes, it's like a five to five mile walk, and and I enjoy it, you know, I get to get out and have some semi fresh air and uh, it's exercise. I put on the walk, not not the walk, man, that's like what eighties. But I listened to digital music on a device, uh and uh and yeah, and that's that. That's also how I kind of like relearned my lyrics for a tour. I'll put my songs on you know, on the iPhone or a business. I'm walking, yeah, so people will see me, like walking down the street. You can't you tell him wearing earpieces because my hair covers it up. It's like I'm walking into the street just moving my mouth like a crazy person. Like I'm completely man. 00:39:06 Speaker 2: It's dangerous. 00:39:07 Speaker 3: Yeah, stay away from the weird guy. 00:39:11 Speaker 2: I will say, speaking of your hair, I think it's probably been said before, but I think we need to point out that we'd all has the most luscious hair, some of the most luscious hair in entertainments. 00:39:22 Speaker 3: I think it needs to be said because of this beautiful Maine and you could just cut off a piece and eat it right now. 00:39:30 Speaker 2: It's just luscious, luscious locks. That's what we've got to say. That's the headline here. Al it's an iconic hairstyle and it's luscious, luscious hair. 00:39:41 Speaker 3: Don somebody had to say it. I'm glad it was you. 00:39:43 Speaker 2: Yes, I use. 00:39:45 Speaker 3: I use whatever product happens to be in the shower. Sometimes it's a shampoo, sometimes a conditioner, sometimes both, so I like to mix it up. I go crazy. 00:39:52 Speaker 2: Is it hard to maintain? 00:39:55 Speaker 3: No, I mean you know, it's it's it takes a while to comb through. So I don't do that every day. You're not you're not seeing the full Uh you're seeing the kind of unkempt al today, right, but uh yeah, I mean it takes a while. It's a lot to deal with. Wow. 00:40:10 Speaker 2: Yeah, that's so there's Is there ever blow drying? 00:40:14 Speaker 3: No? I just all my hair trips. 00:40:17 Speaker 2: No. I just I feel like people need to know. 00:40:20 Speaker 3: Just air dried, my friend. 00:40:21 Speaker 2: Wow, that's a lot of hair to air dry. I M I've never had long hair like that, but like even my fairly sho. 00:40:27 Speaker 3: I enjoyed dripping around the house though. It's something I like. My wife loves it. 00:40:32 Speaker 2: So you're just slipping and sliding around this wet yeah, just constantly smell like mildew. Well I'm glad, we I'm you know, I had to say it. People need to pay. We've just got to respect your hair more. 00:40:49 Speaker 3: I think it's saying that for years. I've set a petition. 00:40:55 Speaker 2: I will be the first to sign it. I think it's time to play a. 00:40:59 Speaker 3: Game, shall we. Okay, I've got I've got a pencil paper. 00:41:03 Speaker 2: Oh beautiful, you're gonna you need to write something down. We're gonna play a game called Gift Master. All right, I'll tell you how how it goes when we get to it, but I need a number between one and ten from you. Okay, Pie, Okay, I've got to do some like calculating with Pie. In the meantime, you can recommend something, you can promote something, you have the mic. I'll be right back. 00:41:25 Speaker 3: Oh my goodness, I think we've recommended and promoted me as much as possible. Again, tour coming up. You can go to weird al dot com to h to get information and or buy tickets to one of the one hundred and thirty three shows I'm doing this year, god willing. And then we had a movie coming out, which I don't know when it's coming out maybe the I think hoping the end of this year because it's it's gonna be total Oscar bait, so I think it's gonna have to come out during the Oscar season. So we'll see about that. But that that's kind of bit for me right now. And also I've got a bunch of trophies in my attic, so if you want any trophies, contact Bridger and we'll work kind of deal. 00:42:05 Speaker 2: Okay, beautiful, perfectly used amount of time. This is how we play gift Master. I'm going to name three gifts, three items that you can potentially give away. Okay, then I'm going to name three famous people. You're going to tell me which famous person you'll give which gift and why does that make sense? 00:42:23 Speaker 3: And we're actually going to do this. I'm going to do it. 00:42:25 Speaker 2: I'm going to dip into my own pockets and pay for these gifts to go to the celebrities. 00:42:30 Speaker 3: Okay, okay, then it's worth my time. 00:42:33 Speaker 2: These are the gifts that you'll be giving away today. Number one, this is a very simple gift, a lind troller, you know, you know, take care of a suit coat or whatever, get rid of cat hair, always practical. Number two this is less conventional. This is the ability to become very very small. So this will allow the gifty to essentially shrink to a very small size, maybe mouse size, got it. 00:43:00 Speaker 3: And finally, we have printer paper. Is that just like regular typing paper? 00:43:08 Speaker 2: Yeah, that's just you know, probably a stack of one hundred sheets of white uh, you know, fluorescent white paper that can be printed on scribble. What bond number you know, I'm gonna say that's a solid four hundred. 00:43:22 Speaker 3: Okay, okay, okay, cool, three fine gifts. By the way, I can't wait to see who's gonna get these. 00:43:28 Speaker 2: The following people will be getting the gifts. Number one is kid rock musician rock okay. Number two Dennis Quaid actor Dennis Quaid. And number three, uh, you know he's in control of North Korea, Kim Jong un. Oh, so it's you know, three men known for a variety of things, uh, and. 00:43:54 Speaker 3: Three and three people that I was going to get gifts for for Christmas on what to give them. So this is this actually is gonna be very helpful. Wow, this I mean I could spend like a couple of weeks just kind of figuring this out because this is a this is a tough call, because I mean they could Oh gosh, are we doing this now? Do I need to figure out who gets what? 00:44:15 Speaker 2: You've got to do it now? 00:44:17 Speaker 3: Okay? Oh? Man, okay. I think the ability to become very very small uh uh maybe have to be Kim Jong mun just because of the whole little rocketman thing, you know. I think I think, uh, it could be post ironic, it could be it could go beyond irony to become very very true No, that makes sense because he's such a powerful, powerful man, and I think the size shouldn't really imagine to him. So I think he I think he's a confident enough person that being mouse sized wouldn't really make him upset. I think he'd be fine with that. I think it'd be totally cool. He's going like a cool guy. 00:45:01 Speaker 2: He seems like a cool dude. He seems like somebody who could hang. For sure. 00:45:06 Speaker 3: He could hang as he can have like mouse friends. He could be like running around them, like the Tom and Jerry thing where you can run in the mousehole. 00:45:14 Speaker 2: What does Ken's mousehole look like? He's got his thread that he sits on. 00:45:20 Speaker 3: It's the prototypical art shaped mousehole that you've come to see and love and animated. 00:45:27 Speaker 2: Feature the wedge of cheese. I actually think that he does eat a lot of cheese. I feel like there was a news story where he had gout because he ate too much cheese? 00:45:35 Speaker 3: Did he go to a cheese factory? Was inspecting the cheese? Am I thinking of this? 00:45:41 Speaker 2: These are all details from his life in some way that we've probably kind of mushed together and can believe his reality. 00:45:48 Speaker 3: I think so, But but I'm I'm I'm very happy with my decision. I'm picturing a mouse sized Kim Jong Un and thinking that's kind of better for everybody. 00:45:58 Speaker 2: And I think, like PR wise people be like he's so cute. 00:46:02 Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean because a lot of people are afraid of him because, like, you know, he kills people. So the fact that he was like cute as a mouse, I think it's good for his PR. 00:46:12 Speaker 2: That's a beautifully given gift. I think he would really appreciate it. 00:46:16 Speaker 3: I'm very happy with that choice. Now the rest are gonna be a little tougher, you know, people are gonna say that, like I'm like, I got to think about kid Rock, but I think he needs the lint roller. I think k you know, because in no offense, because like, who doesn't love kid Rock and everything. He doesn't, but but he just seems like a very linty guy to me. He just seems seems like if he takes off his hat or his jacket, it's just gonna be like an avalanche of lint. So so a lint roller I think it would be hoove him if he doesn't get this immediately as a gift, And I hope you get it to immediately. I think it would behove him to like go to a like Walmart or any any high end department store and purchased his own lip roller or maybe a couple. 00:47:04 Speaker 2: I think they come in like a pack of three, right. 00:47:07 Speaker 3: Yeah, you know one of the things I always say, I always say is you can never have too many lint rollers. 00:47:12 Speaker 2: That's kind of your trademark statement. 00:47:15 Speaker 3: It's so you know that. I think that's probably again, ask my wife to see if she can carve that on my tombstone, because I think I think if I'm about anything, I'm about. 00:47:23 Speaker 2: That you built a career on it. Yeah, at this point it's a little you know, hack that you're still doing it. But look, yeah, no, I agree. I mean I feel like kid Rock is someone who's probably constantly covered in hair, lind this sort of thing. He could use it. 00:47:39 Speaker 3: Yeah, and then almost almost by default, I'd have to say, Dennis Quaid gets the printing paper. But it also kind of makes sense because you know, he seems like a kind of person that you know is always going to Staples and always you know, just he's running out of toner. He's like, you know, it seems like an office of lives is something that that is a big part of his life, something he needs constantly, probably more so than the other two people on the list. So not that he absolutely needs print paper, but I'm sure we'd appreciate it. He'd probably you'd probably get a nice thank you note back, like, oh, man, I was just about to go out to the staples. He saved me a trip. Thank you, Bridge, You're you're the best. No, that makes sense to me. 00:48:20 Speaker 2: I can picture Dennis getting a little too frustrated with the printer not working or being out having forgotten to get the extra load of paper, you know, maybe losing his temper, apologizing later for getting so mad about the printer. But if he has an extra stack of paper, he'll be fine. 00:48:36 Speaker 3: Yeah. My fantasy is he's right now, like printing out his headshot or a resume, and he's like halfway through, and it says, what out of paper? Honey, do you have any more paper? All of a sudden ding dong, special delivery. What's this? And it's your gift? And he is overjoyed. He starts weeping. He starts weeping on the on the printer paper and three or four sheets are ruled, but the rest. 00:49:01 Speaker 2: Is still good, beautifully played. Al That is truly a perfect round of that game, and those gifts will be deeply appreciated. I can't wait to get Kid Rock, you know, get the lint off of him. We're all gonna benefit from Kim Jong un being just the you know, a cute little mouse. And of course Dennis Quaid. We'll probably be printing off restaurant menus headshots this kind of thing, and he won't be screaming at the printer anymore. 00:49:29 Speaker 3: Yeah, everybody wins. 00:49:30 Speaker 2: Everybody wins. That's how Gift Master works. It's all about winning. This is the final segment of the podcast. It's called I said no emails. People write into I said no gifts at gmail dot com. Let's be honest. Their lives are not going well. They're riding into the podcast for advice. These people are desperate. Things are bleak. Would you mind helping me answer a question? 00:49:55 Speaker 3: I would be honored. 00:49:56 Speaker 2: All right, let me read it with you like the British way. Oh my god, that's so classy. Thank you, Yeah, very posh. Okay, this is deer Bridger and esteemed guests. So right off the bat, they're really you. 00:50:08 Speaker 3: Know, I've got a name. 00:50:09 Speaker 2: You know, Yeah, this is insulting. This is my paternal grandmother. Georgia is turning ninety two on two twenty two, twenty two, so that's coming up. She recently moved in with my husband and I and likes to play video solitaire and watches Natflax what she calls Netflix for some reason. Okay, so that's not a typo nat Flax. That's very hard to say. Okay, moving on, what would be a good gift for a ninety two year old? And before you suggest it, we already got her a throw blanket with a picture of a naked Jamie Fraser from the show Outlander. Looking forward to your response, Love Rachel. Okay, I've never seen Outlander, and I'm not familiar with Jamie Fraser, but apparently the grandma loves this man and wanted him naked on a blanket. 00:50:59 Speaker 3: Well, I think it's hard to go wrong with a throw blanket. I'm still a little upset because I mean, if the paternal grandmother had any class, she would be running twenty two, which would make all the other information that much more interesting. Like ninety two, it doesn't quite you know. 00:51:18 Speaker 2: Scan right, So right off the bat, we know we're dealing with trash. 00:51:22 Speaker 3: Yeah, it's trash, trash, Yeah, throw blanket. I think, you know, I don't know, what do you think. I think it's hard to go wrong with a throw blanket, no matter who's naked on it, right. 00:51:31 Speaker 2: I mean, there are so many men who could be naked on a throw blanket. She's got one. Why is that stopping you from getting another throat blanket with an actor I've never heard of naked on it, you know, Just get her countless blankets. She's just moved into the house. You're obviously probably it's just you and your husband. Like you probably didn't have that much betting in the first place. You've got to stock up. 00:51:53 Speaker 3: I agree one percent. If you get anything else, I think maybe the ability to be the size of a mouse, that would do you know, the second gift a blanket late in life. 00:52:08 Speaker 2: It's a great laden life decision to become small as a mouse. Like she's probably seen it all. 00:52:13 Speaker 3: She's the blanket has become that much bigger when your mouse sized, right, that's that much more blanket to enjoy. 00:52:19 Speaker 2: You don't have to buy as much blanket for grandma. That's correct, And I mean, look, she just moved in. She's playing she loves to play video solitaire. I mean, Rachel, let's be honest. Your grandma's taking advantage of you. She's moving in and immediately having a birthday, expecting gifts. You've already done her this huge favor. She's the third wheel in this relationship. What a burden, total burden. I mean, I don't know that you should get her anything. I don't even know if you should be throwing her a birthday party. You want all of her friends messing up the house. 00:52:52 Speaker 3: Ask her what she's going to get you? 00:52:58 Speaker 2: Yeah, maybe just get her a card. This is happy birthday, Grandma. She opens it up and says, now, what are you going to give me? And then just leave her for the night. 00:53:06 Speaker 3: You know all people love surprising, So maybe you could like wake her up in the moon. I say. 00:53:16 Speaker 2: Absolutely. I think that you know if you want her to enjoy her ninety second year, and that's the perfect more three am on your ninety second birthday being woken up by a screaming granddaughter. Who could ask for more? 00:53:31 Speaker 3: Who could? 00:53:32 Speaker 2: Rachel? I mean, I think I don't. I don't want to step on any toes. I don't want to you know, assume too much, but I think it's time to start thinking about moving Grandma out. This woman swoops in, eating your food, using your blankets, playing your video Solitaire. I mean, yeah, look, she's a leech. 00:53:54 Speaker 3: It's very suspicious behavior. If you ask me, I mean I would, I would have her followed, or at least have an investigator. Can't figure out what's her trip, what is her deal? She's she's got some kind of scam going on here. I don't know what it is, but I think you should figure it out before it's too late. 00:54:11 Speaker 2: She is bleeding your bank account while you're not watching. Use the gift money. Like Al said on a PI, get the situation under control, get Grandma behind bars, and then you know you don't have to worry about these big birthday parties anymore. It's too much. Al, we answered that question perfectly. We've I mean, I think we exposed this broadster. And yeah, you're doing God's work, You're helping people. 00:54:38 Speaker 3: I thank you. 00:54:38 Speaker 2: It needs to be said over and over and over. It should be screamed from the rooftops, and hopefully Rachel understands that, and hopefully Rachel's thankful, because I hope so too. You know, I've gone out of my way to help, and so is Al here. Wonderful. 00:54:54 Speaker 3: It's the most I could do. Al. 00:54:57 Speaker 2: This has been such a delightful time, and now I have a trophy. This is increading too, which I can kind of probably just claim credit for. 00:55:06 Speaker 3: You know, I hope, I hope you proudly display that and say I am third. I'm not a winner. I'm a third place person. 00:55:17 Speaker 2: I've never succeeded at a single thing. I'll proudly do that. Thank you so much for doing this. I've just had the time of my life. 00:55:25 Speaker 3: Meet too. This are so fun things, man, listener. 00:55:27 Speaker 2: This is the end of the podcast, and you know we're learning, you know what happens at the end of the podcast and figuring out you know how to handle ourselves. And I trust that you've done that and that you're you continue to grow as someone who knows how a podcast ends. And so again I'll send you off into the world. I God knows what might happen to you, but it's not my responsibility. I have to kind of absolve myself at this point. This is the end. Goodbye. I said. No Gifts is an exactly right production. It's produced and engineered by our dear friend Annalise Nelson, and the theme song is by miracle worker Amy Mann. You must follow the show on Instagram at I said no gifts, that's where you're going to see pictures of all these wonderful gifts I'm getting. You have to see the gifts. Listen and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Stitcher or wherever you found me. And why not leave a review while you're there. It's really the least you could do considering everything I do for you. And if you're interested in advertising on the show, go to midrool dot com slash ads. 00:56:45 Speaker 3: Well I invit, did you hear? 00:56:50 Speaker 1: Funa man myself perfectly clear. When you're a guest to me, you gotta come to me empty, And I said, no, guests, your presence is presents enough. I already had too much stuff, So how do you dare to surbey me?