00:00:08 Speaker 1: And I invited you here. I thought I made myself perfectly clear. When you're a guest to my home, you gotta come to me empty. And I said, no, guess you're our presences presents enough and I already had too much stuff, So how do you dare to surbey me? 00:00:47 Speaker 2: Welcome to? I said, no gifts, Ie Richard Wineger. We're in the backyard. The temperature is perfect, this is podcasting weather. It's not too hot, it's not too cold, and Max in a light jacket. I've already had all three meals for the day. Um, I hope you're looking and feeling your best as always, and if not, maybe hit pause on the podcast and rectify that. I don't know, do whatever you want to do. We have to listen to the podcast. Well you have to listen. I have to, you know, record it. We've got an hour or so to go, and so my job has to begin now. And I'm so thrilled about our guest. It's Alyssa limpeis Alyssa. Welcome to? I said, no gifts. 00:01:29 Speaker 3: I am so happy to be here. And I can't believe you've had three square. 00:01:33 Speaker 4: You've had your three square, You've had your three square and the Folks at Home hits six pm on the Dot. 00:01:39 Speaker 3: This man has had three full meals. That's incredible. Can imagine. No, I'm like, you're an adult. That to me makes me go, you are fully an adult. 00:01:50 Speaker 2: No, this, but that's unfortunately not the end of what's happening. Okay, this is what happened. I had breakfast at a normal time, sure, lunch at like one thirty, which was kind of a later, and it was a bigger lunch because I wanted to have a breakfast sandwich for lunch. Fun okay, And then I knew we were recording this podcast, so you know, I always start panicking, is my blood sugar sugar gonna drop? And then I'm gonnating a fight. 00:02:14 Speaker 4: I hear that, and I probably go in the opposite end where I'm like, what if something terrible happens with this food I'm eating? 00:02:20 Speaker 3: And then I'm on the. 00:02:20 Speaker 4: Podcast and my body is rejecting the food. So I'm going to no, afterwards, I'll eat myself so that anything that happens will be off the air, right. 00:02:28 Speaker 2: I mean, while I was eating dinner, I truly did think, what if this leads to food poison? 00:02:32 Speaker 3: Right? 00:02:33 Speaker 2: Then my whole plan is shattered. Yes, but so far, so good. And also maybe this is the episode where I throw up and people listen to me to throw. 00:02:40 Speaker 3: Up or I pass out. One of us is going to learn the lessons. 00:02:44 Speaker 2: At A last calls the ambulance and we're both carded away and kind of a split stretcher. Did they put two people in an ambulance? 00:02:51 Speaker 3: That one's nice? 00:02:52 Speaker 4: A split stretcher would be kind of nice. It would take the kind of take the weight off of the injury. If I was like, oh, hey, buddy, you got to kind of meet someone on the. 00:03:00 Speaker 2: Way, kind of like a queen size bed of a stretcher, Yeah, that'd be nice. You never see a stretcher bigger than a twin. 00:03:07 Speaker 3: Bed, you really don't. 00:03:08 Speaker 4: But it's about time at the very least, a plush stretcher, you're kind of yeah, first class stretchers, yeah, a double. 00:03:17 Speaker 2: Queen. 00:03:18 Speaker 1: Yeah. 00:03:18 Speaker 4: If you're off, if you're going all the way across the hospital, across the. 00:03:21 Speaker 2: Bridge, so you've only had breakfast and lunch so far, well, I'm. 00:03:24 Speaker 4: Not a good person to ask this. I'm like a I'm a sort of steady grazer. I don't so that's when I hear three square meals and I'm like, that is, yeah, that's great, that's that's what you should do. But I'm sort of more of a I I'm around all the time there's food. Then it's sort of I like grays, like a like a cow. 00:03:46 Speaker 3: I guess I love a grass. I'm free range, A free range in you? 00:03:52 Speaker 2: Is it like just like vegetables and snacks lying around and you're just kind of munching, munching, munching. 00:03:58 Speaker 4: Again, see this is a three square Okay, he goes, is it? Is it vegetable? I mean again, we're living, We're living different lots. 00:04:05 Speaker 3: You're like, could a beach opped cr today and rested from the night before? 00:04:08 Speaker 2: Not? 00:04:08 Speaker 5: Quick? 00:04:09 Speaker 4: No, No I do? 00:04:10 Speaker 2: I do? 00:04:11 Speaker 4: I mean like chips, hummuses, spreads, maybe some avocados, some tomatoes, some some and then at night usually I. 00:04:18 Speaker 2: Have a big day like a meal. Yeah yeah, see I have to have these three goal posts throughout the day. I've got it. It's like I'm swimming to the next meal. If it's not there, if I don't see it in the distance, I just sink absolutely. 00:04:32 Speaker 3: Let's see. 00:04:32 Speaker 4: Then I go what happens to you. Now, are you kind of like what else for like this? Because that's so stressful to me. 00:04:36 Speaker 3: Now you're of course this crossed my mind. 00:04:38 Speaker 2: It was crazy. It's like five thirty and that's it. All of these are over. I mean, I have my evening treat. Who the listener knows I've got an evening treat? 00:04:46 Speaker 3: What's on the docket tonight? 00:04:47 Speaker 4: Do we know? 00:04:48 Speaker 3: Or is it kind of a cookie cookie? 00:04:50 Speaker 2: My birthday was a few days ago, Thank you so much. I had to bring it up. 00:04:55 Speaker 3: Had to bring it up. 00:04:56 Speaker 2: Oh wow, a friend gave me some delicious cookies. So I'll be eat one of those. 00:05:00 Speaker 3: How nice is that? Yeah, that's great, that's great. Do you have an evening treat? Well? 00:05:06 Speaker 4: Again, I would almost say I tend to eat more at nights, so so it's almost like, yeah, oh you know I do. 00:05:12 Speaker 3: I make a little bowl. I make a little sweets bowl. 00:05:14 Speaker 4: Oh so it's sort of a again, it's almost the grazing equivalent, where there's some like candies or left whatever I have that's sweet. 00:05:21 Speaker 2: I put in a little I want to hear what your dream treat bowl would be. 00:05:25 Speaker 3: Okay, dream treat bowl? 00:05:27 Speaker 4: The base has got to have like some sort of Swedish fish type that so if I want to go in that direction, it's there. 00:05:34 Speaker 3: And then some sort of chocolate vibe. 00:05:36 Speaker 4: And then on top of that you would have some like maybe a macha brownie, just a decadent, lovely yeah, or a butterscotch brownie, something very that stops you in your track, something like oh my god. 00:05:51 Speaker 3: But then you can take time on the other two. 00:05:53 Speaker 2: Yeah, but I have that brownie in the way of those other two things. I feel like I would never get to the other two items because that so that's really the crown jewel. 00:06:01 Speaker 3: It is the crown jewel. 00:06:02 Speaker 4: But I'm sort of like, oh, I have a little bit of this one, a little bit this, and then look what's waiting for me in the middle. 00:06:08 Speaker 2: Real they are kind of just picking and choosing, you know what I. 00:06:10 Speaker 3: Think it is. 00:06:11 Speaker 4: I grew up with like I just feel like I grew up Greek Orthodox food was such a like we're eating this meal at this time, we're eating this. So I think when I became an adult it was very freeing to be like, I don't I can eat whenever I'm hungry, I don't have to eat this like cream based cast role two pm just because it's Sunday or whatever. 00:06:28 Speaker 2: Let me ask you, as someone who grew up with Greek Orthodox your Greek or at least half Greek. 00:06:35 Speaker 4: I grew up on hundred percent Greek, and then we found out like, no, I'm like twenty five percent. 00:06:40 Speaker 2: Do you like Greek food? You must? 00:06:42 Speaker 1: Yes? 00:06:43 Speaker 2: What do you think of the Greek food in Los Angeles? This has been a topic on this podcast before, not with the Greek person, with somebody who had no authority. 00:06:49 Speaker 4: I hope they didn't say something bad about Papa Cristos, did they know? 00:06:53 Speaker 3: That's the only place that I but that's the that's the place. That's the place, and I will say that's the place. 00:06:58 Speaker 4: There's no real like that's basically where I go, and it is incredible, and like I feel that that's some of the best Greek. It's the closest to the feeling I got when I would like go to the Greek festival in my hometown. It's very that's right near the Greek church, so right, yeah, right, Where are you from? I'm from Massachusetts, Okay. Where in Massachusetts it's called Sea Konk and it's right on the border of Rhode Island, so I go went to the school in Providence and stuff, but it's it's in Massachusetts. 00:07:21 Speaker 2: How do you spell? 00:07:23 Speaker 3: I'm going to have you guess. 00:07:24 Speaker 4: It's okay, seaknk by the way, Massachusetts, right water nearby Rhode Island, Newport. 00:07:29 Speaker 3: The beaches. 00:07:30 Speaker 2: So that's a nice little hit. Or you're trying to trick me, You're trying to lead me down a path, Okay, but I'm going to start with s e A k o n K. 00:07:38 Speaker 3: So okay, it's very close. 00:07:41 Speaker 4: It's I think you would think it's s e A and then counch like the show, it's just see k o n K. 00:07:50 Speaker 2: It's Sea KONNK. 00:07:52 Speaker 3: So you're interesting. 00:07:53 Speaker 2: That's a great name. 00:07:54 Speaker 3: It's a great NAMEK. 00:07:56 Speaker 2: And was there a decent Greek population in Sea Konnk? 00:07:59 Speaker 4: No, maybe, but there was a Cranston Greek church population, then Patuck and and my family kind of split time, but most of it was in Patucky, and I think there was a Greek community there at least was at the church and. 00:08:10 Speaker 2: A decent Greek food scene or was it mostly your parents making the Greek food? 00:08:15 Speaker 4: Yeah, I would say I don't remember going out to Greek food as a kid, so it was like either we were having Greek food at the church or at home. 00:08:23 Speaker 2: What a dream, I know, absolute dream. 00:08:25 Speaker 3: I know it was dream. But then I you know, I got I have weird food stuff. So then I became like a vegan at a certain point, and all of a sudden, a lot of the menu is kind. 00:08:34 Speaker 2: Of a problem within the Greek crowd. 00:08:36 Speaker 4: Yes, yes, but now my mom's adapted. She makes like vegan spun a coopee ton stuff. So we find the way Greek parents find a way to feed you you can't. 00:08:45 Speaker 3: Yeah. 00:08:46 Speaker 2: Well it also, cheese has come such a far away since we were I mean since the nineties. 00:08:53 Speaker 3: She's good for you. Cheese has come such a long way. It really has cheese. Yeah, what what's going on? 00:09:00 Speaker 2: It's a as uh now it's October, but now it's we're talking November. Really the listener is, you know, Thanksgivings on the way. Are you a big Black Friday shopper? 00:09:10 Speaker 4: I think I used to get the thrill of when I was younger going to this, like getting in the car with my mom and going to the Rentham Outlets, which was this these outlets near us that had even more sales. Now, I'm like, I can't be bothered. 00:09:24 Speaker 3: Do you know what I mean? 00:09:25 Speaker 4: Now, it's like if going maybe online, but if going to the store is going to create more stress for slight deal, not for. 00:09:33 Speaker 2: Me, not for me. When was the last time was when you were in Massachusetts? 00:09:37 Speaker 3: I have to imagine. 00:09:38 Speaker 4: Yes, though now I feel you know, these Black Fridays seem to stretch. It's I feel like they're sick. 00:09:44 Speaker 3: It started like four weeks ago. It's like right now. 00:09:47 Speaker 2: I got an email that I was like, okay, so it doesn't mean anything, right. 00:09:50 Speaker 3: So I love a sale. I love I love a bargain, but I think the whole idea of like you gotta shove people out of the way to get the TV. 00:09:58 Speaker 4: I'm like, okay, then I won't get the TV. I don't care that badly. That doesn't appeal to me. But yeah, I have really changed my shopping ways since the pandemic. I oh, of course, it's like I never go in person anymore. 00:10:12 Speaker 2: Do you go grocery shopping in person? That I do? Okay, and I still say paytre. 00:10:16 Speaker 4: I still love that, Yes, I think because you kind of have to be intrigued by what's in the store, and there see the foods, and I would argue that there's more in the store than if you were to like shop online, whereas I think it's the reverse for clothing stores and stuff. I think there's more options generally online than if. 00:10:34 Speaker 3: You go into these stores. 00:10:36 Speaker 2: Right. Yeah, at a grocery store, they've got ten different varieties of each eye. Yes, then you get online and you're like, well, I have to settle for that brand. Yes, it's like the third choice every time. That's not for me. 00:10:47 Speaker 4: No, mean either, I'm a yes, and I love going to the grocery store. Oh preaching to the of course, I adore going square meal. 00:10:57 Speaker 3: I mean you're yes, come on, we. 00:11:00 Speaker 4: There's something just about like having the cart in front of me, having my car knowing I'm going to load it up with the bags. 00:11:07 Speaker 3: Did you start? Where did you live before here? 00:11:10 Speaker 2: Well, I'm from Utah. I have lived in New York, which I imagine is where this is maybe headed. Because that grocery shopping experience not for me, not for me, simply not for me. 00:11:21 Speaker 4: And people used to be like, what do you like about Ellie? And it was a genuine answer, like I love going to the grocery store in my car. 00:11:28 Speaker 2: It's so it's so great just putting your groceries in the back seat and going home. 00:11:32 Speaker 3: It's a thrill. 00:11:33 Speaker 2: You can get as many groceries as you want, yes, and it's not going to affect anything. 00:11:38 Speaker 3: I don't think. 00:11:38 Speaker 4: I used to really even buy bulk groceries in New York. It would just be like I kind of was buying like one or two days at a time. 00:11:45 Speaker 2: Here. 00:11:45 Speaker 3: I could have a football team over and I could and they'd leave being like we're two full. 00:11:50 Speaker 2: Yeah. 00:11:50 Speaker 4: I liked like when my friends were I kind of overwhelmed them. I feel it's just exciting to have a lot of a lot of food. But yeah, that was a harder task in New York. 00:12:00 Speaker 2: As far as grocery stores, do you have a favorite grocery store. 00:12:03 Speaker 3: I love Trader Joe's Classic. It's simple. But then I I live right near Bristol Farms. 00:12:09 Speaker 2: Oh my god, I know you're going to Bristol Farms. 00:12:12 Speaker 3: So sometimes by convenience, I go to Bristol Farms. 00:12:15 Speaker 2: But but then you're in debt for years exactly. 00:12:18 Speaker 3: But I'll tell you this. 00:12:19 Speaker 4: My first apartment was across the street from Airwan. Bristol Farms is practically. 00:12:24 Speaker 3: For the children farms shoppers. Yeah, so I was that that used to like. 00:12:30 Speaker 4: Those prices almost like enraged me because because it was so close. It was like if I was so hungry, I had to go and I'd be looking at carrots for eight dollars something like. 00:12:39 Speaker 2: This is so. 00:12:40 Speaker 4: But Bristol Farms is good for in a pinch. I do go there a fair amount, but for the staples. I love Traders, what about you? 00:12:47 Speaker 2: I'm a I like it traders. I like a Target grocery. I actually I have no problem with any grocery store, to be honest, I get me in a grocery store and I'll be happy. 00:12:57 Speaker 3: I go one for you. What Cristiiti's and New York? Did you ever go in there? 00:13:01 Speaker 2: I have been in. 00:13:02 Speaker 4: I had to take Christiti's off my list because I also was like, I've never met a grocery store I don't love. And then I was like, there's too much dust in this grocery store, Like the colors of all of these foods are wrong. 00:13:14 Speaker 2: But that's that feels to me like every grocery store in New York outside, unless you go to a Trader Joe's or a. 00:13:19 Speaker 4: Whole Food or Fairway, Oh iasrill, I miss Fairways. 00:13:24 Speaker 3: Shop right, shop right? 00:13:26 Speaker 2: Not for me? 00:13:26 Speaker 3: Yeah, well it's fine, but it's like kind I don't even know if I've been in one. 00:13:30 Speaker 2: It's not. It's kind of like Ralph's run through the like New York, noess of everything. It's just like, this is miserable. I hate being here. Right, And then there's what's the one with z uh Bars? That's yeah, beautiful. It's basically like a magical case. 00:13:46 Speaker 3: It's stunning. Yeah, yeah, zay Bars. I only yeah, I only. 00:13:49 Speaker 4: Know from a distance, right, I never purchased, Yeah yeah, I just sort of window shop at bars. 00:13:54 Speaker 3: Yeah. 00:13:55 Speaker 2: Yeah, I stumbled up when I was interning in New York years and years ago, stumbled up upon bars. And it's like, is that even how you pronounce it? Now? I feel like New York shoppers are freaking out. 00:14:04 Speaker 3: We're gonna be bars. 00:14:07 Speaker 2: Look, I'm not fancy. 00:14:09 Speaker 3: Yeah, it's uh. 00:14:10 Speaker 2: But I remember going in there and just being like, oh, there is another universe that I'm not even aware of. In the absolutely these cheeses are just growing in the store. It was crazy. 00:14:21 Speaker 4: Yes, yes, I've never seen nuts, this caramelized know, you could do this many things to nuts. 00:14:27 Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, that's uh, that's a fourteen digit salary store. 00:14:31 Speaker 4: Like I'm like, the more money I make, that would just be where my money would go. That's the most exciting. 00:14:35 Speaker 3: Like I don't really care about cars or. 00:14:38 Speaker 4: I don't know even clothes really, but if I could like just get like gourmet grocery store stuff. 00:14:45 Speaker 3: All the time without even thinking about yeah, without even thinking about it, that would be. 00:14:49 Speaker 2: That's kind of the peak the idea of going in a grocery store not thinking about a price for a moment, come on, just grabbing things off of shelves. 00:14:56 Speaker 3: Yes, oh, I used to love that. What was it supermarkets? 00:14:59 Speaker 2: Oh yes, sounds like the Yeah, you should do a supermarket sweep in z bars or bars to the grocery. 00:15:08 Speaker 3: Oh yeah, that would be. That's kind of like that's kind of like heaven. 00:15:13 Speaker 2: That is that to me does feel a little bit like heaven, where it's like perfectly lit, it's not too brightly. It's maybe the one grocery store I've ever been in that isn't fluorescent lights. It's like mood lights. 00:15:26 Speaker 3: It's like a white bar. Yeah. Yeah, you're right, it's so true. 00:15:29 Speaker 2: Uh yeah, so I recommend that as an experience to anyone. I don't know about it as a grocery store. 00:15:35 Speaker 4: Right something, you know you got to get your staples at you go to Ralse, right, you get your staples and then you walk. 00:15:40 Speaker 2: Through za bars and get maybe one teeny treat figures. 00:15:44 Speaker 3: Exactly. 00:15:45 Speaker 2: When I first moved to La I lived with a couple on their baby for about three months. And the first horrible experience, the first red flag for me was and you didn't know them before or you did did not know them before? Wow, horrible, horrible experience. And there were so many red flags. But the first one was them saying, we'll split the groceries and it'll be one hundred and fifty dollars a week for me. So why would it be one hundred fifty for you? That would mean how many groceries would that be for me? Well? 00:16:15 Speaker 4: Right? Because also it's like if we look at that evenly, would that mean Okay, the couple eaches one fifty, so that's what's that? 00:16:22 Speaker 3: Three four fifty? Then the baby is it one fifty? Maybe how much food are we buying me? 00:16:28 Speaker 2: Or like feeding a church every week? 00:16:30 Speaker 3: Right, and also now you're at the mercy of their choices. 00:16:33 Speaker 2: I know everything about it was very odd and you said yes, Oh no, I absolutely said no. And because I had zero money, right and was buying like you two and your baby. Yes, what about my situation makes you think I could afford these groceries? Yes, yes, yeah, that was really the first red flag. And then I started buying basically clearance cereal, which they did not approve of, and it just was all downhill from there. 00:16:59 Speaker 3: Oh my god. They had the nerve to judge your food as well. 00:17:03 Speaker 2: Wow, it was. But grocery shopping it's a different experience for everyone. Yeah, it really is, and it's just wonderful. But there's and I really could talk. Maybe I should start a grocery podcast. 00:17:15 Speaker 3: I would, I'd come back. 00:17:16 Speaker 2: Just mark that down for the future. That's a potential thing coming from me in the next twenty years. Keep an eye out. 00:17:23 Speaker 3: For Well, now that we're saying this, this gift, which you'll get to. 00:17:27 Speaker 2: Later, we're going to get to it right now. 00:17:29 Speaker 3: Oh my gosh. 00:17:30 Speaker 4: Well, now that I'm thinking about it, I may have purchased this from one of the locations we just fot Oh my can you believe it? 00:17:38 Speaker 3: But by the grace of God, yes, anyway. 00:17:41 Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean I'm pulling the brakes on grocery talk for now, for now, because there's obviously something else we need to talk about, absolutely already talking about now. 00:17:51 Speaker 3: For the folks at home, this looks like what would you guess this is? 00:17:54 Speaker 2: You look at this, This looks like a wine bag. To me, it's like a tall it's about the height of a wine bottle. It has rings on it like wine stains. 00:18:04 Speaker 3: Yep. 00:18:05 Speaker 2: And then I've described it. I don't know what else. It's a Burgundy why the burgundy? Ye, which screams read wine. I mean, I was looking forward to having you on the podcast. Oh oh, this is such a warm, funny personality. What in the world could happen that would make this podcast take a sharp left towards a fight? Yes, I didn't think anything could cause that, So I was a little surprised when I look down the driveway about twenty minutes ago. Now here you come holding what's clearly a gift bag. And basically, even before the podcast began, you start telling me it's a gift for me. 00:18:44 Speaker 4: And look if you if you also remember I started apologizing profusely, I said, look, I am sorry. 00:18:52 Speaker 3: I didn't I I had to bring something. I had to I you can't go into a house empty handed. 00:18:58 Speaker 2: Well, you come on a podcast called I Say No Gifts with a gift, and it's there are some hurt feelings. 00:19:04 Speaker 4: Look, I understand that. I respect that if if it helps. All of these things are just from my home. Some of them I'm not even sure if they should be consumed. 00:19:20 Speaker 2: Well should I open it here on the podcast? 00:19:22 Speaker 3: I think that would be lovely. 00:19:39 Speaker 2: Okay, let's dive right into this. 00:19:42 Speaker 3: Also, your socks, this is good news. This is good news. 00:19:45 Speaker 2: These were given to me by my mom for my birthday. Some fall leave socks. Okay, they came right in time. I had just thrown out some other socks and mother's no mothers mother always yep, and the socks hit the yep. Okay, okay, I'm reaching into this bag. Okay, I'm pulling out that's the wrapping. Is the wrapping like coming undone as we speak? Yes, So listener, what's happening is I grabbed the wrapping and it kind of must have just fallen off the gift because now I'm just holding the wrapping that came out of the gift bag. 00:20:21 Speaker 3: So I sort of use I sort of used it as a tissue paper. 00:20:25 Speaker 2: It's beautiful tissue paper. Thank you, reaching further in pulling, pulling, pulling. Okay, so now we've got some more tissue paper. Okay, now the gift is I'm now dropping it on the ground. Okay, well, the first thing that's fallen on the ground. 00:20:39 Speaker 3: There's a couple. There's one. 00:20:40 Speaker 2: There's melting on my pants already. Okay, We've got two chocolates, a York peppermint, patty Dark Dove, Deepest Dark chalk, Deepest Dark. Now these are both. There are other things in this bag. Should you take them out? Now? 00:20:55 Speaker 4: Yeah, they're all cut to the bag, confetti, edible, betty kind of Oh yeah. 00:21:03 Speaker 2: Baby pumpkin, oh, little baby pumpkin to sit right next to the pumpkin already on this tape. 00:21:09 Speaker 3: I know, look at that. And that was bought from the one the only trader. 00:21:12 Speaker 2: You're kidding, I kid you not. This is the most fall decorations that I've ever been in my home. Really, too pumpkins, too small, pumpkins, too. 00:21:20 Speaker 4: Small, pumpkins one smaller than an already small one somehow. 00:21:24 Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, Well, there are a couple of things I want to Let's talk about the pumpkin first. Please, why did you bring me this pumpkin? 00:21:31 Speaker 3: Well? 00:21:32 Speaker 4: I love fall decor, much like the supermarket. I love suburban feelings. I love so now I'm coming to a home and I go, I bet he's gonna love suburban trinkets. 00:21:46 Speaker 3: And I come here. What do I see? 00:21:48 Speaker 4: You're wearing socks with leaves on them and a pumpkins on the table. I said, okay, I did something right. 00:21:54 Speaker 3: Check me. 00:21:55 Speaker 4: And then you say we're going to get in a fight. And I go, oh my god, we're getting in a fight. And so I've gone on a roller coaster of emotions. But I'm yeah, I'm happy that this is being greeted by a friend. 00:22:05 Speaker 2: Is your home decorated with a lot of fall stuff right now? 00:22:09 Speaker 4: It is not not a ton, but there's there every there's candles and soaps in all the in all the sense like every candle right now is either in the apple family or the pumpkin family. Oh wow, as well as like dish soap, and and then I have a lot of pumpkins. 00:22:24 Speaker 2: So when when do you begin decorating for fall? Is it September? One September twenty second October? 00:22:30 Speaker 4: For so damn hot that I couldn't I couldn't get myself to do it. And then I want to say, like I kind of go by the trader Joe's calendar not to bring up trade rose stwush. But when they bring the pumpkins in, I go, it's not time, it's time, And so I started stalking the fridge. 00:22:45 Speaker 3: I have apple butter, pumpkin butter. Oh yeah, what are you putting apple butter on? 00:22:49 Speaker 4: I love an English muffin. Oh talk about a midnight treat that's like a classic for me. And an English muffin with maybe pumpkin butter maybe maybe maybe tofa cream cheese, maybe. 00:22:59 Speaker 3: Maybe play just playing. I know, I don't mind. 00:23:02 Speaker 2: I don't mind a play in English muffins. Actually, yep, it's got. They're kind of sour, is that right? I haven't had one in a long time. 00:23:09 Speaker 4: I think they are. 00:23:10 Speaker 3: Maybe maybe that's the sour dough one. 00:23:13 Speaker 2: Maybe they have like a pretty they have a flavor. 00:23:17 Speaker 3: Flavor it's not and there's a crunch. The consistency is right. 00:23:20 Speaker 2: It's kind of spongy. Yes, I love an English muffin and it kind of does seem like a Massachusetts type snack to me. 00:23:27 Speaker 3: That might be it, you know, the truth, that's the truth. 00:23:29 Speaker 4: Like I think that I in all seriousness like decorations and stuff because it's like we don't get the full seasons here, and I think that I miss home, and I I try to make it feel like home is and I feel that my mom was big on kichi item right, so right, It's funny. You spend your whole life You're like, I know how to get away, and then I leave. You get across the. 00:23:52 Speaker 3: Country and I'm like, no, it's all I want to. I'm like putting up scented ship everywhere because I'm like I miss it. Yeah. Are you a pumpkin harbor? Yes, but I feel like I did it. 00:24:03 Speaker 4: A lot when I was younger because we had a garage. Now I don't like that you got a nice I would you have an excellent pumpkin. 00:24:10 Speaker 3: This is a great pump because you kind of need that. 00:24:14 Speaker 4: Without that, it's it's like, I guess you could put newspapers down, but I have. Yeah, I don't want my floors to get but this like cement that's that's I. 00:24:23 Speaker 3: Was that bad boy right off. You could bob for apples back here. 00:24:26 Speaker 4: This is a I'm gonna hold an yes, yes, face face painting right there. 00:24:33 Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, are you do? 00:24:35 Speaker 4: You do you carve? 00:24:36 Speaker 2: I don't, you know, I don't. I kind of have decided in the last few years that I hate it. 00:24:41 Speaker 3: I think that's it. I think it's not that enjoyable. It's not. 00:24:44 Speaker 2: Uh. Mine always looks terrible. My hands are cold and wet. Yep, it's a mess. 00:24:51 Speaker 4: And then it's like you can eat the pumpkins. It's like, I don't know if we want to eat they're like. 00:24:55 Speaker 2: Gunky about I go to Trader Jose and have them make them for me exactly. It's going to be four dollars and I don't have to buy a pumpkin and get slime all over my house. 00:25:05 Speaker 3: Yeah. 00:25:05 Speaker 4: It feels like the sort of thing that I'm like, Oh, if I had kids like it, it's more than now. 00:25:09 Speaker 3: They see. It's just like a time thing like our parents probably gave to us. 00:25:12 Speaker 2: This will take up This will take a lot of three hours the middle of the fall. 00:25:16 Speaker 4: Right when you're doing it on your own, you're like, this is kind of just there's no purpose here and it's not that what are we doing? 00:25:22 Speaker 2: I want it to be over already. 00:25:23 Speaker 3: Yes, apple picking, I like though, that's the. 00:25:26 Speaker 2: Whole You Have you been in La or is this back East? 00:25:31 Speaker 3: I guess only back east. I don't really think I've been up here. 00:25:34 Speaker 4: I went to a pumpkin patch with my boyfriend in Santa Barbara last weekend, but we tried finding apple picking and we couldn't. 00:25:39 Speaker 2: Now, as far as apple picking goes, you go to some farm, they hand you a what a basket. 00:25:46 Speaker 4: A basket, a bushel, basket, a bush, a tasket. Yeah, they give you a basket, I think, and then. 00:25:54 Speaker 3: They say just go hog wild. You kind of just go rome. It's a real trust you have with them where they they just kind of yeah. And is it like take as many as you want? Kind of is the is the ideas like take as many as you want and then you pay by the weight? 00:26:07 Speaker 2: Okay? 00:26:08 Speaker 3: Interesting? 00:26:09 Speaker 1: Yeah? 00:26:09 Speaker 4: And then there's like all these tags and you try to know which ones which and I feel like I always remember stress, like where's the honey crisp? 00:26:15 Speaker 3: You never like find that, like you gotta go back there. It's like yeah, it's it's always a large zone. 00:26:21 Speaker 2: I didn't realize that these apple farms had different varieties of apples. 00:26:24 Speaker 4: Absolutely, that's the whole thing. You go, there's like the yellow ones I really like. 00:26:29 Speaker 3: And you like a yellow apple you're talking about No, No, it's because yours are when you're thinking of it, is it nealy? Yeah, I'm thinking about against you exactly. So you're coming you. 00:26:41 Speaker 4: You gotta get to the patch. If you get a yellow on the patch, it's like crisp bit. You ever had a yellow at the patch? 00:26:49 Speaker 5: From bolder Colorado? 00:26:51 Speaker 3: Bolder Colorado, you've never had a yellow on the patch. I don't know what to say. I don't know what to say. No, actually I don't really know if color but it Colorada. 00:27:01 Speaker 2: Feels like it like an apple steak. 00:27:02 Speaker 3: Most of the West, like I feel that you you all have everything a little bit. 00:27:07 Speaker 5: It's a little bit. We had a lot of people from actually from Massachusetts. I w a lot. I went to school with a lot of kids that their families. 00:27:13 Speaker 2: But no yellow apple, No yellow apples. 00:27:15 Speaker 5: A lot of meal yellow apples. So what's the deal? All right? 00:27:19 Speaker 4: I wish I could know the name. But there is one that if you get it at the thing. It's crisp, and it's just it's not too sweet. It's like a it's like a dry wine, but of an apple. 00:27:30 Speaker 2: Wow, I guess I've got to seek it out, because yeah, the last time I had a yellow apple was probably in nineteen ninety two at like in the school cafeteria, and you went, never again, right, not happening to me. 00:27:39 Speaker 3: No, I have three of these a day, and now one is ruined. One of my meals is ruined by. 00:27:44 Speaker 2: This sweet and mealy disgusting. 00:27:47 Speaker 3: But sometimes I find a honey crisp now too sweet almost. 00:27:51 Speaker 2: I don't like a sweet apple at all. I need a you know, a Jonathan, a Granny. 00:27:55 Speaker 3: Smith yep, I like an like a jazz or an envy. 00:27:58 Speaker 2: Okay, now see this is so far out of my remolf knowledge. With apples and jazz or an envy like perfumes. 00:28:07 Speaker 3: You simply have to try the infatuation apple. Oh you haven't lived to tell. Yeah, you've had the jazz. Yeah, it's by j Low. It seems delicious. 00:28:20 Speaker 2: Yeah. Well, well now this I'm a little more intrigued about apple picking because I really imagine it's like trapped on an apple farm with sweet apples. 00:28:28 Speaker 4: Right, I get that, but no, no, if you go to the right zone, you can get a whole variety, and then I would make apple sauce apple so homye I was so, I'm a very homey person. 00:28:38 Speaker 2: Wow, So you're decorating your house from fall. You're having a nice time. You brought also these two. I feel like there might be one there. No, there are two more in here. Oh yes, and they're dub I think you know they have messages inside it. 00:28:52 Speaker 3: They do, and there are three of the gift. 00:28:55 Speaker 2: I think all three of us should open one and read it aloud, because the message is inside of a Dove chot ocolate frequently make me so sad. Same, they're kind of the most suppressing thing in the world. 00:29:05 Speaker 3: And you're eating like a tiny kind of bad quality. You no offense, love your dove. I'm meeting you. But yeah, it's like things aren't going great before we open these. 00:29:15 Speaker 2: I will say the saddest when I ever saw my friend Leela opened one and it said I believe it said Dad was right. Stop, It's like, what does that mean? It mean? 00:29:25 Speaker 3: Why is that in a Dove chocolate? Dad was right? 00:29:31 Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, Okay, okay, atalyst, what did you get. 00:29:35 Speaker 5: Be someone you look up to? 00:29:38 Speaker 2: Okay? 00:29:39 Speaker 5: From Emily and Kansas. 00:29:42 Speaker 2: Their listeners suggestions, Wow, okay, listen, let's hear yours. 00:29:50 Speaker 3: Okay, book the flight. I feel like there's two ways to look at this is from Brie from Michigan. 00:29:58 Speaker 4: Either that's being like book the flight, live, laugh, love, or it's Bree, a mother from Michigan, being like, book the flight. 00:30:07 Speaker 3: You said you're coming home for Christmas. Book the flight. 00:30:10 Speaker 4: My mom's been asking about the Christmas flight for about six months. 00:30:14 Speaker 2: I thought you were going to say that Bree is booking a flight to leave her family. It's like, I've got to get out of here. 00:30:20 Speaker 3: Flight book the flight, get away from mom. She's crazy. 00:30:23 Speaker 2: Okay, Mine says, let's see here. Uh be fearlessly authentic. And that's from so Teria s in New Jersey. Okay, so be fearlessly authentic. Where are they sourcing these who? 00:30:40 Speaker 3: Where? 00:30:41 Speaker 4: How do we know if these are people we want to take advice from? The Dove executives. We yes, of course, we've learned to trust them. 00:30:47 Speaker 3: I'm not this is actually yeah mouthful. My blood was dropping. The gift comes in handy. 00:30:56 Speaker 2: I've got to I have to finish eating this chocolate. The listener is gonna be just disgusting. 00:31:01 Speaker 4: Yes, but if you're home, maybe this is the time to make a little tripole for yourself. 00:31:05 Speaker 3: Get a little bowl. 00:31:06 Speaker 4: Maybe you have some chocolates, you something lying around, join us. Oh look at that bite. I just got pit by a budget. You put a mosquito bite, but in sort of a classic, Like doesn't that just look like a classic mosquito classic? 00:31:17 Speaker 3: It's kind of just a yeah you almost Yeah. 00:31:20 Speaker 2: The thing about La is mosquitos weren't here until like four years ago. 00:31:23 Speaker 3: I heard this because I got here four years ago the whole time. 00:31:26 Speaker 2: Yeah for me. But the thing I've noticed, and maybe I just hadn't been bitten by a mosquito in a long time, is these mosquito bites are gone in like eight hours. I feel like as a kid who was like, this is gonna be here all week. Yeah, yeah, but maybe these mosquitos are weaker, although I've heard they're worse. They're called ankle biters and they carry a lot of horrible things. 00:31:48 Speaker 3: Well good. 00:31:49 Speaker 2: Anyway, back to Duve chocolate. Yes, yeah, I love it. Do you like a fortune cookie. I do. 00:31:59 Speaker 4: I do you like anything like a message within? Like I'm the type of person like a Yogi tea, I'm like, oh that was made for me. 00:32:06 Speaker 3: I hated that kind of a sucker for these, I love it. 00:32:09 Speaker 2: I mean with a fortune cookie, I don't eat the cookie, no interest whatsoever. Yeah, I smash it and read. 00:32:15 Speaker 3: I usually take like one bite. I don't think I've ever finished a fortune cookie in my life. It's a meal. 00:32:21 Speaker 4: It's a meal in itself, and you've just eaten a meal, and this I feel like chocolate. I feel contrasts with meals. A fortune cookie is so close to almost like bread or plus that it's usually like, well it's close. 00:32:32 Speaker 3: To the I just had rice. 00:32:33 Speaker 2: I don't Yeah, I just had like probably also had orange chicken or something, so it's already sweetness. Yes, yeah, I do love a message in any form. A Snapple fact. 00:32:43 Speaker 3: Well that I mean rocks my world when I found those. Those are not real? 00:32:46 Speaker 1: Right? 00:32:47 Speaker 3: Those are some Oh what I'm sorry, Snapple facts are fake. I think some are reel and some are fake. Can we get a fat check? 00:32:54 Speaker 2: Os? Was this like a scandal? 00:32:55 Speaker 3: Well, I maybe I'm around comedians a lot I'm like, maybe that was a premise on us. 00:33:01 Speaker 2: It feels like grounds for a lawsuit. 00:33:02 Speaker 3: But I think it's Snapple facts are not all real. 00:33:05 Speaker 2: I know Brett Michaels has his own type of Snapple. 00:33:08 Speaker 5: Okay, According to a twenty thirteen article by The Atlantic, some. 00:33:13 Speaker 3: Are real and some are not. So how is that not a lawsuit? They're called Snapple facts. You can't just be that's misinformation. And then it's also like, well what do we do with this? Then each one were is are we supposed to? 00:33:25 Speaker 1: Like? 00:33:26 Speaker 3: They should at least say if it's true for right? Please? And what are we doing here? 00:33:30 Speaker 2: This is this is what's led to the anti vax movie. 00:33:32 Speaker 3: Absolutely can't trust sources. 00:33:34 Speaker 4: Of course, that's where it all began. Wow, we thought these were going to be from professionals. It's from Brianna from Michigan. 00:33:41 Speaker 2: I know what. I've got some lady in New Jersey telling me to be my own, my authentic self. What she could be completely wrong, you be wrong. She's maybe trying to sabotage America. I'm also like, if my authentic self is the person that's taking advice from a Dove chocolate, I don't want to be that person. 00:34:01 Speaker 3: Yeah, totally totally and book that flight. Maybe I shouldn't be running away from my problems. Maybe I should be saying with them. 00:34:07 Speaker 2: I don't know what travel advice that that may be a travel agent. 00:34:10 Speaker 3: Well, that could be it. 00:34:11 Speaker 4: That could be after the pandemic, Jet Blue called up Dove. They said, look, it was a solid save. Brianna said, to take the flight. Yeah, but on Michigan. 00:34:20 Speaker 2: Brianna m yeah, I'd like to know how to submit us a Dove message? Is that what this qualifies? 00:34:26 Speaker 4: As you have one? 00:34:27 Speaker 3: You might even off the you might. 00:34:30 Speaker 2: Uh what could I possibly what advice could I give somebody through a Dove chocolate, eat the cookie, take it on home. Even that's a nice vague thing that you just have no eye. 00:34:41 Speaker 3: Take it on home. It's nice. Take it on home. 00:34:45 Speaker 2: Yeah, completely meaningless, but feels like something that would drive someone in some direction. 00:34:50 Speaker 4: Totally take it on home and then yeah, home is wherever it needs to be. 00:34:57 Speaker 3: I was like, okay, yeah, huh, okay, okay. 00:35:01 Speaker 2: I like a meaningless platitude, right because. 00:35:03 Speaker 4: You kind of you kind of just put whatever you want on it. You can make anything feels. 00:35:07 Speaker 2: As long as it's like you nine words and has just kind of a vague thing about home or yourself. People be like they'll make it their thing. 00:35:15 Speaker 3: It's like, oh gosh, you're so right. Yeah, yeah. 00:35:19 Speaker 2: It is a shame that Dove is kind of the only candy that's offering a message. Why not just put a message in everything? 00:35:26 Speaker 4: You know? 00:35:26 Speaker 3: That's so true? Or like like, did you have like frozen burritos? 00:35:30 Speaker 2: I haven't had a frozen burrito in a long time. There was a I'm from Utah and there was a brand, well I won't say the brand because I don't want to get sued by them, but apparently someone found a beak in their burrito, a freak, and then a woman fell into the salsavad at the factory. What these things happened to this burrito place, the frozen burrito place. 00:35:53 Speaker 4: Do you imagine those people being like, well, it can't get any worse than a beakrita And then they're like bad news. 00:36:03 Speaker 3: I mean, Nancy went down, that's good. That's how the joker happened. He falls into a vat of toxic something. 00:36:09 Speaker 4: Wait did she just was kind of like the woman who fell into the grape song like that viral news thing like did you. 00:36:15 Speaker 1: Kind of fall in? 00:36:16 Speaker 3: And then they were like like they just got her out or did she died? 00:36:20 Speaker 5: She died. 00:36:22 Speaker 2: As far as I remember, there was like this this period in my life, like in the mid to late nineties where I remember all these stories like Burlington coat factory was using dog hair and this burrito place the woman fell in the vat, someone found a beak in there burrito. And now I feel like I'm not getting as much of that as I need. 00:36:40 Speaker 3: Oh my goodness, I'm. 00:36:42 Speaker 2: Sorry to derail. What were you talking about with frozen burrito? 00:36:45 Speaker 3: No, I can't possibly. I'm so sorry to this woman who passed on. 00:36:48 Speaker 4: I was sort of picturing someone like getting out of the vat covered in salsa, like you'll never guess what happened to me today. 00:36:55 Speaker 3: I feel Oh, I feel terrible. Wow, Well that's that's that is very sad. 00:37:00 Speaker 4: I was just going to say it would be very nice because when I'm having a frozen burr it's not the best day. It's like, so if a front if inside of that it said like tomorrow's a new day, that would save lives. I think it was like, yeah, you're doing great. Yeah, you're doing the best you can and that's enough. 00:37:21 Speaker 3: If it's it's up from here. 00:37:24 Speaker 2: Yeah, when you're making a frozen burrito microwave oven, well I always do microwaves. 00:37:29 Speaker 4: I mean, I'm tempted by oven, but it's usually forty five minutes in the oven. At that point it's like, well, I would do something else. 00:37:35 Speaker 3: I would make a meal. Yeah. The goal of this is speed, not sort of taste. Really. 00:37:41 Speaker 2: Yeah, so when you put yours in the microwave, do you put a paper towel over it? 00:37:45 Speaker 3: I don't do any of that. I don't do any of that. 00:37:47 Speaker 4: Yeah, get a damp paper towel. It's like you got the wrong gal. That's that's not what I'm doing here. I mean I've gotten better now. Like when I was first in LA I had a similar I just I feel like my current place. I now I'll have a kitchen and I grocery shop and stuff. But in the beginning I didn't have a car. When I got here, and I was I was very like frozen meals. 00:38:06 Speaker 2: And right, and yeah, yeah, those frozen meals, I mean, of course they're fine, but they could use a little pick me up message or yes, something to encourage, or even like a nice song recommendation that fun. Maybe just a phone number that you can call and somebody's on the other end encourage. 00:38:26 Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's that's true. They're nice staples. They're good to have. 00:38:31 Speaker 4: Oh. I actually really like there's these what's it called the tattoo because I'm on the road a bit sometimes for comedy and and I'm you know, vegan, so it's a little tough sometimes. 00:38:42 Speaker 3: But the tattooed chef. Have you ever had? No folks had these? 00:38:47 Speaker 2: It's called the tattooed tattooed chef. 00:38:48 Speaker 3: I don't know who these chefs are, but they make a great like bootuble. 00:38:54 Speaker 1: Oh. 00:38:54 Speaker 4: I can't tell you how many I've eaten in those. To me, I prefer that over something I could get at a restaurant. 00:38:59 Speaker 3: I buy. 00:39:00 Speaker 2: This is available at your local grocer. 00:39:02 Speaker 4: They're hard to find, and when I find them, I biologue, Oh okay, but they're just fabulous. 00:39:06 Speaker 2: Wowick peas and cauliflower and wow, that sounds great. 00:39:10 Speaker 3: I love them. 00:39:11 Speaker 2: I mean, speaking of Trader Joe's, they've got some great along those lines. 00:39:15 Speaker 3: They have an equivalent there as well. 00:39:16 Speaker 4: It's a blue box and it has like tofu and and but the Toto chefs is a little bit more dynamic flavor ones I would. 00:39:23 Speaker 2: Say, I've got to look for the tattooed chef. 00:39:25 Speaker 3: Yeah, they have a bunch of stuff, but the one that I love is the is the bootable. 00:39:28 Speaker 2: Do you know what I realized about myself recently is I don't like to hear people call each other chef. 00:39:34 Speaker 3: Oh well, it's become a big thing. 00:39:36 Speaker 2: It makes me feel embarrassed. There's like, I don't know what's driving it, but I feel embarrassed. And my apologies to the chef community, but yes, there's something about that that just makes me uncomfortable. 00:39:48 Speaker 3: I have a question for you. Were you an athlete? 00:39:50 Speaker 5: No? 00:39:51 Speaker 2: I mean, God blessed you even asked? 00:39:55 Speaker 4: No, I mean, hey, I was an athlete, and I loved and still call my coach coach. 00:40:02 Speaker 2: Uh. 00:40:02 Speaker 3: I think for me, I see the chef and I see coach, and I go I get it. I get it. It's like their version of coach. 00:40:08 Speaker 4: And for as long as I live, I will call my coach coach, even though I haven't run for my coach what twenty years or whatever. 00:40:15 Speaker 2: And I think that for that exact reason, is why I don't like any of this is like there's some sort of it's almost straight culture. 00:40:21 Speaker 3: Yes, that probably is it. It feels it because it's chef. 00:40:25 Speaker 2: Yeah, it's got that. Yeah, sergeant, sergeant, Yes, that's it. 00:40:29 Speaker 3: That's it. That's it. 00:40:30 Speaker 2: I think we've we've done. 00:40:32 Speaker 3: Yeah. 00:40:32 Speaker 4: And there's something to me that's very uh safe about the coach like a chef. It's like this person's telling me what to do and I'm gonna and I'm gonna. 00:40:41 Speaker 3: Yeah. 00:40:42 Speaker 2: You know that they have a skill set, you know that they've earned it. Yes, yeah, I sir, do you like do you mind? 00:40:48 Speaker 3: Doctor? 00:40:49 Speaker 2: Doctor is the one I'll I'll do. But I actually have never called one of my doctor's doctor, have you? 00:40:54 Speaker 4: Yes see see I think we're uncovering something. I I call my therapist doctor and I don't even know. 00:41:00 Speaker 2: If that's like the proper but right that would be like a psychiatrist, right. 00:41:04 Speaker 3: But I call a doctor because I'm just like, uh, I went to Catholic school. 00:41:09 Speaker 2: Teos, I'm probably like you, oh, yeah, this is all just this is all really ground into you basically exactly. 00:41:14 Speaker 4: Where it's like you don't call someone by their yeah, even old like friends, I call their parents. 00:41:20 Speaker 3: Like missus and wow, that's old fashioned. Yeah. 00:41:23 Speaker 2: Would you answer the phone as a kid like Limparis residents? 00:41:28 Speaker 3: I think it was just hi, this is a listen. 00:41:30 Speaker 4: I asked who speaking please, but it was always mass speaking please? 00:41:33 Speaker 3: Were you sitting at a desk every time? That's crazy? 00:41:39 Speaker 2: Wow, that's great? How professional? 00:41:41 Speaker 4: I know, I know. 00:41:42 Speaker 3: But yeah, my parents, my grandparents lived with us. I had a very like old school. I love that my parents. 00:41:49 Speaker 4: I feel like I've said this before, but so apologies if you've heard me say this before. 00:41:53 Speaker 3: But my dad had to go to my mom's house. She was like whatever, twenty so she had to go to my dad had to go to my mom's parents' place, and they had to have dinner together before he took her out. 00:42:07 Speaker 2: Wow, that's amazing that your mom's parents just wanted to make sure this sky was good. Wow, it's like bad news. 00:42:16 Speaker 3: Things are gonna be a little different for me. Yeah, I sort of broke that tradition. 00:42:22 Speaker 2: I mean, if that were to happen now in any. 00:42:24 Speaker 3: It would be a red flag run. 00:42:27 Speaker 2: Run absolutely, run from this group of people. But things have changed. Yeah, yeah some ways. Wait, how did we get answering the phone chef chef makes me so uncomfortable. 00:42:39 Speaker 3: Do you hear people like is this. 00:42:41 Speaker 4: Something that you hear at a restaurant or is it more in media like right now shopped shopped. 00:42:47 Speaker 2: I wanted to be able to watch the bear, but they do it in that. It was like my first nightmare. I love, like I know everyone. It's like and like I watched the pilot. It's like, I can see why people like this. I had to turn it off. 00:43:03 Speaker 3: Yeah, because of the show. 00:43:04 Speaker 2: I simply couldn't listen to me get it. If you don't like that phrase, that's not the show. Show It's truly like in the first five minutes, I felt like I was o ding. It was crazy. But it is something nice to learn about yourself. 00:43:15 Speaker 3: Yes, it's good to know things you don't like. Great, I don't like. 00:43:17 Speaker 2: Maybe I need to just uh, maybe I need to grow up. Maybe I need to accept that. 00:43:21 Speaker 3: No, maybe I need to let go of the of the the hold that policism has on me. 00:43:27 Speaker 2: But yeah, the doctor thing that does doctor is I'm going to try that next time I see my doctor. 00:43:35 Speaker 3: What do you call it or do you just not say hi? Yeah? 00:43:37 Speaker 2: Okay, I called my doctor high. Oh yeah, I'm trying to imagine a scenario. I think it would have to be like a dark scenario or like, doctor, what are the results? 00:43:45 Speaker 3: Doctor? Hit me straight like that's kind of yeah, yeah, yeah yeah. 00:43:48 Speaker 2: Otherwise I can't imagine any scenario where I would use that title. 00:43:51 Speaker 3: Oh yeah, I'm using it all the time. If I have like a cough, I'm like, hi, doctor, thank you for meeting with me. 00:43:56 Speaker 4: I'm also kind of a hypo, and I'm meeting with my doctor all the time, and I respect his opinion so much because I'm like. 00:44:07 Speaker 2: Are you tele adoctor or in person? Doctor? 00:44:11 Speaker 3: I used to be in person, but now I'm. 00:44:13 Speaker 4: Basically all teledoc unless I guess I have to get blood drawn or or something. 00:44:17 Speaker 3: Right, phrase, but is that what it's called? 00:44:18 Speaker 2: Teledoctor? Do I sound like I'm a thousand years old? Ye? Are? 00:44:22 Speaker 3: Yeah? 00:44:22 Speaker 2: I tele it dog? 00:44:23 Speaker 3: Are we boomers? Yeah? 00:44:26 Speaker 2: No? 00:44:26 Speaker 3: I tele adoc tell doc. 00:44:28 Speaker 2: I had an experience with teledo's. Pre pandemic was a nightmare, like misdiagnosed. It was just so terrible. But then of course, over the pandemic, NOTT so good. But then I'm now back to in person, Okay, because I just like to, like, I need you to see the three D version of this. That's fair any with therapy, everything I've got back into in person, just because I mean, even with this podcast, I basically told on a last never again on Zoom and occasionally we still do it on Zoom. 00:44:56 Speaker 3: I am. I was so glad. I think outside Greacs it feels like we don't have to worry, right. 00:45:00 Speaker 4: But for podcasts and for meeting people and hangings, it just makes a big difference. 00:45:05 Speaker 2: Be much more comfortable. 00:45:06 Speaker 4: Especially you're usually meeting someone for the first time on a podcast and you're you're it's it works, and I'm glad it existed in the interim. 00:45:14 Speaker 2: But now for for can't do it anymore. Now, I'm really trying to push Zoom as far out of my realm as I possibly can. 00:45:21 Speaker 3: Think that's good. 00:45:23 Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, we have this York peppermint patty. I have to reveal you hate them, despise everyone does. And why do you think I'm giving it to you. 00:45:31 Speaker 3: I had a box of I had a bag full of at least like said. 00:45:35 Speaker 2: Take it. 00:45:36 Speaker 3: I had a full. 00:45:39 Speaker 4: Container of candy and I ate all of it except the York. Yeah, these are That's why these are in the gift bad. 00:45:47 Speaker 2: It's like the texture. I don't mind mint, ye I don't. I love dark chocolate, but mint in that form is what is that substance memory? 00:45:59 Speaker 3: It's it's so close to toothpaste. 00:46:02 Speaker 2: It's something that's just always wet. It makes no sense to me. 00:46:07 Speaker 3: Does that look like outside of the how does that contain itself outside of that? 00:46:12 Speaker 4: It's not I would have yeah, no, yeah, I would know what happens if you fall in that kit. I would go they're done. 00:46:18 Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I think that may be my at least like when you buy the variety Halloween pack or whatever. Happening for me. 00:46:29 Speaker 3: But even on Elise there my language was very. 00:46:35 Speaker 2: It was not hands up, wicks is gone correct, the reason is gone. 00:46:40 Speaker 3: I'll have it. 00:46:41 Speaker 2: There was no jumping for joy happening now. Yeah, what's the first cand of you go for in a bag? I love the milk, dude, Oh interesting milk. That's probably like sixth on my list. Oh my gosh. 00:46:54 Speaker 3: I love a kit Cat is of. 00:46:56 Speaker 2: Course very high on the list. And the kit cat is that you're fascinating thing to me because of its relationship to Japan. Are you familiar with this? 00:47:04 Speaker 3: Well, I love a macha kit Cat. 00:47:06 Speaker 2: Well, Japan loves kit Cats because I think accidentally kit cat like means I want to say like good luck or something in Japanese. And so it's become a huge phenomenon there. They were the first ones with multi flavored kit Cat. 00:47:19 Speaker 4: Yeah, and that's I still feel where you get the coolest flavor, Like if you in a specialty store and they have. 00:47:24 Speaker 2: I love it Jumbo kit Cat, no our chocolate kit. 00:47:27 Speaker 4: Cat, white Chocolate kit Cat around Easter. I love getting the single ones where you have some white. 00:47:32 Speaker 2: Oh, I've never had else. Oh, like the bag has a fantastic I love a KitKat. 00:47:38 Speaker 3: What about you? What's so? I think it goes probably kit Cat milk dud Swedish fish for me. 00:47:42 Speaker 2: Interesting. Yeah, I love a Twix. I love Peebe Twix, I love a Reese's. You're just absolutely frowning at all of them. 00:47:50 Speaker 4: I think, as you can't go wrong with I can't blame you for that. The Twigs then to peeb Twigs, I. 00:47:55 Speaker 3: Go, oh my gosh, wow, I guess I guess, well, you know. 00:48:02 Speaker 4: What, You're a cookie, You're I'm a cookie man. First, I can respect that. I can respect that I am not a cookie person. 00:48:09 Speaker 3: You're not a cookie person. I know what desserts? 00:48:12 Speaker 2: Then? What's your your cake? A pie? 00:48:15 Speaker 4: I like a pie, cobbler, I like a cobbler. I like a like a vegan treat. Cake is usually cake, and cookies to me are usually a bit overrated. Interesting, There's I think it's easy to make a bad cookie and a bad cake, and I think a good cake or good cookie. Of course I'm not above that, but I think we we're oversaturated with bad cookies and bad cakes. 00:48:37 Speaker 2: You've got to make them at home. You have to make them at home or go to an excellent baker. A brownie? Do you like a brownie? Wow? 00:48:45 Speaker 3: Well we are such a. 00:48:47 Speaker 4: Different you know again, I had an eating disorder for so long that I think that I lost There's like I can't I like, Yes, I do like all of them, but I think it. 00:48:58 Speaker 3: There's so many things that I'm like. I probably like it, but I don't really interact with it. 00:49:02 Speaker 4: Then, right, because maybe there's something controlled about a candy that makes me be like I have re interacted with candies. 00:49:09 Speaker 2: Right, that's for me. A cookie, it's an with a cake. It's like I've got a pound of food sitting in front of Yes, a cookie. It's like, okay, this is yeah. I'm like, I can. And maybe I don't know if that's good or bad that I'm like, oh, this is I can. Yes, I don't know. 00:49:26 Speaker 3: No, I think that's good. I think that I like that. 00:49:28 Speaker 2: Like as in the Realm of treats. I'm like, if I bake nine cookies, I'm eating nine cookies. So I've got to I've got to keep away. 00:49:35 Speaker 3: Can ever do a single cook a single bake? 00:49:37 Speaker 2: I mean, the lestener knows every single light I'm baking a cookie, except of course, tonight I've got the birthday cookie. Okay, but I'm firing up the oven. I need to get a smaller like one of those mini toaster oven things to bake. 00:49:50 Speaker 3: It might be part of the ritual. 00:49:51 Speaker 1: You like the. 00:49:53 Speaker 5: Energy. 00:49:54 Speaker 3: That might be your things. The energy come on interesting. So you're a single that's nice. So you you smell it in the air. 00:50:04 Speaker 2: Smell it in the air, Now, I get it. 00:50:07 Speaker 3: That's a different story because you're getting the homemade cookie. 00:50:09 Speaker 2: It right, that is, it's not like a bunch of crappy grocery store. 00:50:13 Speaker 4: That's what I was kind of thinking, like, even, yeah, there's no all the Bristol Farms does have you ever gotten? 00:50:18 Speaker 2: I believe they've got a good cookie. 00:50:20 Speaker 3: They have that big it's a big sort of honker of a thing, and they're very well, Like I. 00:50:25 Speaker 2: Feel like there's a Bristol Farms in Pasadena that could be. I don't know why I'm asking you as the expert like you, I. 00:50:32 Speaker 3: Think this is my I can tell you where I am, where I am right now. 00:50:36 Speaker 2: We're closer to Pasadena than the old other farms I'm aware of. So maybe I stop by Bristol Farms when I'm really feeling fancy. Yeah, get myself a cookie. 00:50:45 Speaker 3: Yeah, and yeah, they're they're I think they're like, well, they're well, they're really large. 00:50:50 Speaker 2: Okay, I love a large. 00:50:51 Speaker 3: Yeah, they're kind of like the New York What was the thing they're like. 00:50:54 Speaker 2: To la soon? Oh look, I should run a cookie gazette. Yeah, I've got my finger on the pulse of cookies. 00:51:02 Speaker 4: I used to live right across in New York. You slive right across from milk. What are your thoughts on milk? 00:51:06 Speaker 2: Milk has lost its way? Yeah, you know, I used there was a time when I thought milk made excellent treats. 00:51:12 Speaker 5: Yep. 00:51:12 Speaker 2: Now they've kind of gone to a factory format. 00:51:15 Speaker 4: Well, I'm even when you said Levene is coming here, I'm like, I wonder if that will lose some of the it's it's a dangerous game. 00:51:21 Speaker 2: I look, this is something I've theorized in the past about in the past. They have frozen levein cookies now, which is always. 00:51:27 Speaker 3: That's the first step. 00:51:28 Speaker 2: That's right, what are you doing? Saw this happen with Missus Fields in nineteen ninety one. 00:51:33 Speaker 3: Oh, you're so right, You're so right. 00:51:36 Speaker 2: Rapid expansion is good for no one, no one. But maybe they've got control of it. 00:51:40 Speaker 1: Maybe. 00:51:41 Speaker 4: But it's true because like Levene, I remember the line that was kind of part of the appeal, I'm gonna wait in this line, I'm gonna get it. And you're you're getting something that is in limited supply and you feel like you've earned it it. 00:51:53 Speaker 2: Yeah, it's an activity, right, and there's that kind of a barrier in the way where it's like I can't do this every day. 00:51:57 Speaker 3: Yes, exactly in my life. 00:52:00 Speaker 4: I think that that's important. Whereas the minute you can just pop pop aull of vein in the open. 00:52:05 Speaker 3: Why am I running a line? 00:52:06 Speaker 2: It cheapens the experience that said, I will go, And I have considered getting a job there just in order to see how it works. 00:52:13 Speaker 3: So like, see if there's any secrets there. 00:52:15 Speaker 2: Putting there. I honestly thought maybe I should look for an application online, just work there for a couple of weeks, get it under my belt, and move on with my life. But I feel like my resume at this point, they'd be like, what why is he applying to? 00:52:29 Speaker 3: They would smell it, they would know, they would know something's going on with this person, and steal our recipes. Yeah, I bet you're not the first. 00:52:36 Speaker 1: Yeah. 00:52:37 Speaker 2: And now we're saying it out loud on a podcast, so they know I'm coming. 00:52:40 Speaker 3: Well, I used to did you ever work in food? 00:52:43 Speaker 2: I've worked in food. I've worked in bakeries. Okay, so what about you? 00:52:46 Speaker 3: Well I worked at Butcher's Daughter for a while. Oh, there's one that just came like. I was walking on my daily walk and I said, oh my god, there's Butcher's store. 00:52:54 Speaker 2: That's a nice place. 00:52:55 Speaker 3: It was nice. Yeah, what did you do there? I was waitress. 00:52:57 Speaker 2: Oh, how wonderful did you enjoy working there? 00:53:00 Speaker 4: I loved working there because it was a really yeah, like I've had friends who work at places where it's very upscale, and you have to know, it was a really cool casual place where I did never feel like I had to know much about wines or maybe it's different now, but back then, it was just kind of like you want, the avocado was great, That kil caesar was great, green juice. 00:53:19 Speaker 3: Call it a day. 00:53:19 Speaker 2: That's an yell, chef put it on a plate, exactly. Yeah, Jeff, yes, Jeff, Yeah. I don't think I could work in a high stakes right me neither. 00:53:29 Speaker 3: I'm more of like a hey, guys, how we doing. I have to be able to lean. If I can't lean, I'm not going to do a good job. 00:53:35 Speaker 2: I have to be able to make countless mistakes throughout the evening. It's basically what I have to be able to do and not have anybody scream at me too much. 00:53:42 Speaker 3: Exactly. 00:53:43 Speaker 2: Have you ever had a bad food job? 00:53:46 Speaker 4: I mean, I think there are bad parts to every freight job, I would say, but I inherently don't feel I've ever had an entirely bad food job. Worked at the like at the beach, at the concession stamp. 00:53:59 Speaker 2: Oh, that's that was my cousin recently, like corn dogs, like. 00:54:03 Speaker 3: Fries, fingers and yeah, and then I worked at Ben and Jerry's. 00:54:08 Speaker 2: Oh wonderful. Never worked in an ice cream store. I feel like I would have thrived. 00:54:12 Speaker 3: Yeah, you would have. I think you would have liked it. But it definitely changes your relationship to ice cream. 00:54:20 Speaker 2: Yeah, I can imagine. I've been to one ice cream store in Massachusetts outside of Boston that's kind of famous. Okay, Yes, they have like I feel like they have a go kart track or something. I wish I could remember the name Delicious ice Cream. I mean, oh nice, there's a lot of good ice cream back a weird name like a family name or something. Okay, but it's not springing to either of our minds. It must not be that good. 00:54:47 Speaker 3: No, and then yeah, Butcher's daughter, those were my Those were my main stomping. 00:54:51 Speaker 2: Grounds, right right. 00:54:52 Speaker 3: Also, once I knew a menu of place, I'm like, I'm not going anywhere, of course. 00:54:56 Speaker 4: Yeah, I learned it. 00:54:57 Speaker 3: I'm good. 00:54:57 Speaker 2: Yeah, I'll ride this as long as I possibly exactly. I miss things about food service. Same, I missed the control, like just knowing what I'm doing all the time. 00:55:07 Speaker 3: I think it's incredibly Yeah, do you have a sometimes like overactive? Do you have any. 00:55:13 Speaker 2: Anxiety or of course of course. 00:55:15 Speaker 3: I think it's a. 00:55:15 Speaker 4: Really good job for anxiety because it's like you had tasks and there was a place for your brain to focus on. 00:55:22 Speaker 2: You have to remain focused, You have to remain focus. 00:55:24 Speaker 4: It's meditative in a way, and you're you're you're moving a lot, and you're connecting with people. 00:55:28 Speaker 3: And yeah, I really I liked it. I mean I remember also days being like. 00:55:34 Speaker 2: It's extremely hard. 00:55:34 Speaker 3: It's extremely hard. It's such extremely hard. 00:55:37 Speaker 2: Yeah, but there's kind of no time to think about your own problem. 00:55:41 Speaker 3: That's right, just nice, that's right. Yeah, it's very Yeah. I actually it's funny the other day. Do you feel you still have some special skills from it? 00:55:50 Speaker 4: Like I like the other day, for example, I like went into a room knowing I needed to whatever gets scissors or something, and then I forgot but I knew, like your brain clocks when you have some thing to do when you haven't done it yet. I feel that's a real lesson learned from waiting for someone asked for you know, some like you always know, have I done everything? 00:56:09 Speaker 3: In my mind? 00:56:09 Speaker 4: Like did someone ask for ketchup and I didn't get it? Your brain like it weighs on you slightly, And. 00:56:15 Speaker 3: I feel I still have that. So if I'm at home and I'm like, what did I need. 00:56:18 Speaker 2: To order or what did I need to Yeah, I feel like I probably had that up until a point and then my mind, I feel like I've just fully we don't need this anymore, But I wish I still had that skill. 00:56:28 Speaker 3: Now. 00:56:28 Speaker 2: I just think I know there's something I have to do, and I guess that's not going to happen because I will not remember it and that it'll just haunt me for a week and then it'll. 00:56:36 Speaker 3: Do yell at me and so it'll be fine, right right right? 00:56:39 Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean I can definitely cut a sandwich pretty well. Oh. 00:56:42 Speaker 3: Interesting, So you were at a place where you kind of because. 00:56:44 Speaker 2: I don't think the job I had to make sandwiches and you had to table service or sound was like a cafe. So it was like I was all over the place doing everything and then there were table service where I was. The most I did was scoop curry into a bowl. 00:56:58 Speaker 3: Okay, yes, so yeah, and did you have one that you liked most. 00:57:03 Speaker 2: I loved the working of the Tay Food place. The food was so good. It's fun running around to table to table. 00:57:09 Speaker 5: Yeah. 00:57:10 Speaker 2: I had very few complaints about that. I mean it can't be high stress. Yes, Valentine's Days a nightmare. 00:57:16 Speaker 3: Yes, but yeah wow. 00:57:18 Speaker 2: I think it's time we should play a game. Oh please, let's play a game called Gift Master. I think we haven't played this in a minute. I need a number between one and ten from you. 00:57:26 Speaker 3: Seven. 00:57:27 Speaker 2: Okay, I have to do some light calculating right now. You can promote, recommend, do whatever you want with the mic. Okay, great Trader Jews, I can't recommend it enough. 00:57:38 Speaker 4: No. I did a special called No Bad Days on Peacock. It's an hour special about losing my dad. It's funny, it's sad. It's like a one woman's show kind of vibe. If you're into that thing, go pop over to Peacock and watch. And I'm on a show called Flepish Misdemeanors, which is on Showtime. I'm in season two. I play Sydney. If you don't see me in the first episode, fear Not I'm not there yet, but I'm coming and it's gonna be fun. 00:58:04 Speaker 3: What else? 00:58:04 Speaker 4: You can follow me on Twitter or Instagram at Alyssa Limp and that's where I I just that's where I spend most of my time. 00:58:13 Speaker 2: Okay, perfect, Look at that listener, Go watch the special and this is so funny. Watch Flatbush misdemeanors. Did you work with Jordan kimmitdle Yes? I love Jordan. Jordan one of my favorite people of Fabulous. 00:58:25 Speaker 4: He did, there's a great warner. There's this great, amazing one shot and it's my favorite chot. 00:58:30 Speaker 5: Of the show. 00:58:31 Speaker 2: And he's an excellent director. 00:58:32 Speaker 3: He's incredible. 00:58:33 Speaker 2: He uh yeah, everything he does is so special. 00:58:36 Speaker 3: He's great. 00:58:37 Speaker 2: Okay, this is how gift master works. I'm going to name three gifts, three things you can give away, and I'm gonna name three celebrities. You're gonna tell me which celebrity you will give which gift and why wonderful? 00:58:48 Speaker 3: Okay, So what happens if I don't know one of the celebrities will. 00:58:51 Speaker 2: Well or I'm happy to explain this. 00:58:55 Speaker 3: Call a friend. 00:58:55 Speaker 2: Yeah, you can have you can call me. Okay, the gifts you'll be giving all are number one, lunch at Costco doctory, we love the Costco Cafe. Number two and this is an interesting one, a polarizing micro Mini. So it's a micro mini. That's people some people love. What's a micro mini? An extremely small mini skirt. Oh. I feel like in the last few months I saw a headline that was like this person was wearing a polarizing micro Mini. 00:59:24 Speaker 3: I actually know exactly what. 00:59:26 Speaker 4: You mean because I've thought about ordering it and be like, no, I'm like decorating my house with pumpkins. 00:59:31 Speaker 3: It's not the time for that. That time has passed. 00:59:33 Speaker 2: Yeah, so you will be giving one of the people today, I'm a polarizing micromny. Some people are going to be screaming where that micro many Some people are gonna be like, it's not working for you. And number three is horrible breath. Oh, that's something they just have to live with a little bit of a yeah, a little challenge, give a curse, but eventually, but today it's a gift. It's a gift for this per and it's something for them to overcome. 01:00:02 Speaker 3: Their life will be different. There's novelty is fun. 01:00:04 Speaker 2: Yes, okay, the people celebrities will be giving them too. Are Number one Jackie Chan. We love Jackie Chan International Star. Number two Lisa Barlow. Do you know who this is? She's a real housewife of Salt Lake City. 01:00:19 Speaker 3: Enough, I think that's enough. 01:00:21 Speaker 2: She I'll tell you a little more. She loves fast food, she drinks so much diet soda. Her family all looks pretty sick. And number three Jenna bush Hagar. 01:00:31 Speaker 3: Jenna bush Hager. Okay, wonderful, I know it. 01:00:34 Speaker 5: I got it. 01:00:35 Speaker 3: I think, oh, can I have a moment. 01:00:38 Speaker 2: You can have a moment and I can give you some more information about Lisa Barlow. She has a tequila brand. She is a convert to the Mormon Church. 01:00:49 Speaker 4: I kind of think I have to give her the bad breath because I think there's something very fun. I don't really watch the Real Housewives, but I feel there's a lot of sort of yelling and fights, and I like you to. 01:01:00 Speaker 3: She told me I had bad breath. She said what, And then that's the whole thing, the whole season. She like, I hit her in the face because she said I had bad breath? 01:01:07 Speaker 4: How she but everyone knows yet behind the screens, they're all going, the girl has bad breath, and she should. 01:01:11 Speaker 3: Take care of it. You know, I think it would be good TV. 01:01:14 Speaker 4: I think it would be fun, and it seems like she kind of likes fast food, so it could yeah, draw attention to Yeah anyway, Okay, you should. 01:01:23 Speaker 2: Be producing housewives. 01:01:25 Speaker 3: Yeah my god, yeah, you have a. 01:01:27 Speaker 2: Season long arc already. It's gonna lead to so many attacks. 01:01:32 Speaker 4: Yes, yes, yes, so I think that would be fun. I think we give was it Jenna. 01:01:38 Speaker 2: Bush Jenna bush Haker, Yes, jennifersh Hager, Like. 01:01:41 Speaker 3: We give her the I think we give her the mini, give her the money. 01:01:45 Speaker 4: Maybe we give her the polarizing micro Mini, because I think it would be uh, I don't I'm not sure if I'm picturing the right. 01:01:52 Speaker 2: One, but I twin right, and I can't remember her twins, but I'm. 01:01:56 Speaker 4: Picturing both of them in like very sort of turtlenecks, wetters, very sort of a slack. 01:02:03 Speaker 2: Very rope. 01:02:04 Speaker 3: It's kind of fun to be like, did you see what Jenna Brush was on? 01:02:07 Speaker 4: And I was like, that was kind of that was I kind of liked the other person, like, I think that was too short and it might make you go, Jenna. 01:02:13 Speaker 3: Bush Hager can wear that polarizing mini skirt. 01:02:15 Speaker 4: God damn it, I'm gonna wear this. I'm gonna wear this, this tiny black dress. I think it might push people to go out of their comfort zone style wise. If Jenna bush Hager is wearing a polarizing. 01:02:24 Speaker 2: That's kind of her saying your authentic. 01:02:26 Speaker 3: Your authentic self. 01:02:28 Speaker 4: And then Jackie Chan, I'm putting him in Costco because I'm thinking I'm thinking he might have he might have some fun in there. 01:02:35 Speaker 3: There's a lot of like he could fight, like a. 01:02:38 Speaker 2: Like a Jackie Chan fighting Costco. 01:02:41 Speaker 3: And I'm seeing like the sort of the big metal. 01:02:44 Speaker 4: Structure, You're falling and going down, and I think it could be kind of kind of fun. And also Costco has a great lunch, and I love Jackie Chance, so he might just enjoy a nice lunch. 01:02:54 Speaker 3: He kind of seems like a Costco dad today. I think he does. I don't think he would. I don't think you'd have to get a guest pass. I think no. 01:03:01 Speaker 2: Absolutely, he's in there. He's pushing the giant car. Yes, yeah, and then he's like a fight breaks out and he's dashing across the tops of the like bulk paper towels or whatever. 01:03:11 Speaker 3: Exactly. Yeah, swinging from the rafters of one to the other. 01:03:15 Speaker 2: In perfectly given. Thank you so much, truly and especially so what a special round of that. You barely know who Lisa Barlow is and you gave her the exact gift she needed, or that she may already have. 01:03:28 Speaker 3: We wow, yes, yes, yes, God only knows. I'm gonna she's gonna find that. Did you hear what that girl said about me on the podcast? 01:03:36 Speaker 5: She gave me. 01:03:37 Speaker 2: That's all I want in the world, just for this podcast to spark a fight on housewives. 01:03:42 Speaker 4: Also, I like know that there's housewives from tons of regions, but in my head, they all have this accent. 01:03:48 Speaker 2: I mean, Lisa basically does have that does no matter where you are in the world, if you're if you're a real housewife, you have this accent. Yeah, yeah, excellently played so much. This is the last segment of the podcast. It's called I said no emails people right into I said no gifts at gmail dot com. They bring problems and they kind of just dump them at my doorstep expecting answers. Yes, okay, so let's answer something here. This says, hello Bridger and disrespectful guests. My husband and I just bought a condo in a large building. Brag. I know, come on, oo, big building. Didn't buy it in a small building. As that large building money. We don't move in for another six plus weeks, but I already know we'll need to do some fairly major construction. Oh wow, So not only are they buying the condos, they're not satisfied. 01:04:40 Speaker 3: They're not satisfied the wall's gotta go. Yeah, So number one? 01:04:45 Speaker 2: Is it bad form for our first introduction to the neighbors to be telling them we'll be doing construction? 01:04:50 Speaker 3: Number two? 01:04:51 Speaker 2: When meeting the new neighbors we share walls with, I think two units. What is an appropriate gift to bring? We don't have an oven, hence the construction, So it sounds like they bought a condo without an oven. These people don't know how to buy a condoc Yes, so I can't bake anything but store. Oh this is interesting, but store bought food feels lazy. We've kind of already touched on the subject. The only thing I know about one neighbor is that they like long chotchkes. I think little flags with fall leaves, pumpkins. A little skip of what has happened. 01:05:21 Speaker 3: Was not planned. 01:05:22 Speaker 4: Wow, the magic energy. Yeah, we're all more connected than we think. 01:05:27 Speaker 2: Yeah, we really are. The simulation brings us together. Thanks in advance for your help. And that's from uh Oh. 01:05:34 Speaker 3: I love that name. 01:05:35 Speaker 2: A great name. Odra and her husband. They've got two questions here. Number one is a bad form to tell the neighbors there's gonna be in construction. Yes, I think it is. I think that this come as a surprise to the neighbors. I think these neighbors are living their their lives in these beautiful condos in a large building. I don't think they should be given any heads up. 01:05:55 Speaker 4: And you know what I think too. You don't have to apologize for existing. It's like your place doesn't have an oven. That's not on you, like you have to do construction. If you're talking to your neighbors and chatting with them, it kind of reminds me of when people are on planes and they have babies and they like give everyone gift bags because their baby might cry. 01:06:12 Speaker 3: Is that a thing? 01:06:13 Speaker 1: Yes? 01:06:13 Speaker 4: I see that on Twitter all the time, and I'm like, that's very nice, But you don't have to you don't have to do that. 01:06:17 Speaker 3: It's okay. Gift bags what's in these gift bags? Like, here's a it's like always a Like. 01:06:23 Speaker 2: There's a new iPhone, air pods, you please forgive us forever our child. 01:06:28 Speaker 3: Here's yeah, here's a new car. 01:06:32 Speaker 4: I guess I would say if it, I would say, introduce yourself like before that, and then you'll chat about the construction. 01:06:38 Speaker 3: I don't know if you have to be like, Hi, I'm so sorry. 01:06:42 Speaker 2: Right, don't stop apologizing before there's a problem. 01:06:45 Speaker 3: I think so, I think. 01:06:46 Speaker 2: And also, you make this huge racket for what will probably be months. The neighbors are going to They're going to despise this kind of faceless person that lives there. They're going to start thinking bad things about you. They're going to really have the worst possible imagination. Good point, then you show up and wow them in a huge way, and they feel terrible. Yes, they think I shouldn't have thought that. Odra and husband are so awful. I now they feel like the bad person, and now they're kind of in debt to you forever. 01:07:17 Speaker 3: Okay. 01:07:18 Speaker 4: The only thing I will say now that we say this is I'm thinking I only know rentals, and I'm like when someone like because this happened to me, they were doing construction on the bottom unit, and my landlord did give notice, and I did appreciate it because I remember I had like a meeting that I cared about, and I was like, I'm going to go somewhere else. So I wonder in purchasing, is there there's no one above you. I guess it's on you. There's no like building manager or anything. 01:07:43 Speaker 2: Right, Yeah, it's hard to say. Hard maybe say. 01:07:46 Speaker 3: Well, could you combine the gift with it? 01:07:47 Speaker 4: Could you kind of go with the gift, introduce yourself and then say, like, by the way, we're going to be doing construction. 01:07:52 Speaker 3: Maybe it's more that, maybe it's not an apology, it's more just. 01:07:54 Speaker 2: Like, by the way, by the way, do you think I'm telling Audre? Let it be the biggest possible surprise. 01:08:02 Speaker 3: I think the biggest possible surprise, A. 01:08:04 Speaker 2: Huge racket inconvenience the entire building for months, and then become kind of a villain in everyone's mind, and then you've got something to work on. You've got to win everybody over. But also once you do win them over, it's going to be so satisfying for everyone that's I like that their lives have basically been ruined by this person. They've never met, this shadowy figure that's making all of these constructions. 01:08:28 Speaker 3: And the most fun game night they've ever had in their lives. 01:08:31 Speaker 2: And they go, holy shit, I'm so glad they got this oven. 01:08:35 Speaker 4: So glad they got this oven, because how good when those levine take home cookies. 01:08:40 Speaker 2: We know that those were just reheated in the oven's and that's something for them to talk about when they get home. 01:08:46 Speaker 5: Now. 01:08:46 Speaker 3: In terms of the game, Yeah, what do you give? I mean, I'm a big candle person. 01:08:50 Speaker 2: You love candle. You do like to give a candle as a gift. 01:08:53 Speaker 4: Because I think a candle is something that it's like food in that it's it's used, So you're not giving someone something that's like, you don't know, some decorative style. 01:09:01 Speaker 3: They don't have to have this forever. It's temporary, but it's Yeah. 01:09:05 Speaker 2: Candles are kind of in the same category for me as gift cards, where they were kind of for a while it was like, you don't give that unless you don't know the person. It's thoughtless. I think a candle is an excellent gift, and I think we need to stop talking about them as a bad guy. 01:09:17 Speaker 4: I agree, and especially if it's a night, like a nice candle. Maybe it's no, there's no phosphates, or it's like an organic. I think that's good too. You don't want to get one that's like just perfumeing. 01:09:27 Speaker 2: Right, it's one that's like I've seen like movie night where it's supposed to know, like popcorn or something like please get that away. 01:09:33 Speaker 3: From not the movie night. Yeah, but yeah, if not that, I mean, what's your what's your goal? 01:09:37 Speaker 2: I mean, this person likes a chotchkey, but I feel like if you show up with like a little flag, it's like it kind of makes you look like you think less of them. I think, like, oh, I know you like your little tacky things out front. Here's another, uh flamingo or what have you? No, I think when it's a new neighbor, it's somebody who don't really know. I think, you know, a candle, some sort of nice soap. 01:10:00 Speaker 3: Uh nice soap is nice an ASoP soap? 01:10:02 Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I mean nobody can deny that. 01:10:05 Speaker 3: Nobody can deny an acep soap. You you don't. 01:10:08 Speaker 4: I don't want to buy that for mice. It's too ex of course, but it would be such a thrilled. 01:10:12 Speaker 2: Half of course, and then like you put it in your bathroom and everyone thinks you bought it. 01:10:16 Speaker 4: That's a that's if you guys have a soop money what you do because you're getting a condo in. 01:10:20 Speaker 2: A big building it and working on it for years and tell us the dream home. 01:10:26 Speaker 3: The least you can do is an ASoP soap. 01:10:28 Speaker 2: I mean, I think what we ultimately need to think about here, Adre, is that by the time this beautiful condo is done, you will have driven all of these neighbors away. 01:10:36 Speaker 3: So the gift ain't gonna help save your money and got. 01:10:38 Speaker 2: A canon, You're going to be living in an empty, huge, empty building, in your little dream home, and forget the neighbors. Don't tell them anything, just let them go. I think we answered that perfectly. Yep, we luck and congrats, Welcome home, Audra and husband. Yes, I've had such a wonderful time you. I've got treat and what a fantastic thing and charming little orange pumpkin. We'll take a picture with it. You can hold the pumpkin I already had. 01:11:06 Speaker 3: We've got match version of my gifts. 01:11:09 Speaker 2: Yours is the I think that the compliment they do they do. I you know, I'm a classic person. I love an orange pumpkin. 01:11:16 Speaker 3: So you saw my heart. You can't go wrong. 01:11:19 Speaker 2: And yeah, I've just had a terrific time. Thank you for being here. I have some final words if you don't mind, I would love some final words. 01:11:26 Speaker 3: Baby, book the fly. 01:11:31 Speaker 2: Listener. You don't have to hear anything else. This is the end of the podcast. You've got to get on your favorite website or contact your travel agent. Get going, book the flight. I'll see you again soon. Well you'll hear me again soon. I don't know how podcasts work. I love you so much. Goodbye. I said No Gifts is an exactly right production. It's produced by our dear friend Analise Nelson, and it's beautifully mixed by John Bradley. And we couldn't do it without our guest booker, Patrick Cot. The theme song, of course, could only come from a miracle worker, Amy Man. You must follow the show on Instagram at I said no Gifts, I don't want to hear any excuses. That's where you get to see pictures of all these gorgeous gifts I'm getting. And don't you want to see pictures of the gifts? 01:12:19 Speaker 3: And I invited you. 01:12:20 Speaker 1: Hear, I thought, a man myself perfectly clear. When you're a guest to my home, you gotta come to me empty. And I said, no guests. Your presences presents enough, and I'm already too much stuff. So how do you dare to survey me