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 guests, you're our presences presents enough. I already had too much stuff, So how do you dare to surbey me? 00:00:49 Speaker 2: Welcome to I said, no gifts. I'm pretture wine garl. I have to pick up flea medication after this recording? What can I say? I love to shop flea medication for the dog, not for me, if that was of any concern. I'm not covered in fleas and the dog's not covered in fleas either. It's a preventative, you know, if you haven't had a dog before, you've got to do this monthly or the dog, I guess, could get fleas. I don't know. I don't know where she would get fleas from. But it's the Symperica trio. If you've heard, if you've ever seen the commercials, dog owners everywhere are getting this flea medication. So that's what I'll be doing after this. And I forget Jim's going to burn me to the ground. Why else would I have come to Burbank? What else is going on? Let's see. I'm just kind of sitting here thinking about who's going to wrong me today. I've got a few ideas already, and I don't think that there's any other real business. I mean, we're very far into the first month of the new year and not all of my problems are solved yet. So maybe we just skipped till next year and see if that one works. Otherwise, Let's see Little House on the Prairie last night, what was happening. Nelly faked a spinal injury, just kind of tricked the whole town. And we also watched an episode where Johnny Cash teams up with Mary to scam the town. He and a child accomplice steal a lot of money from everyone in the town, and then he learns his lesson. Okay, I think, and he's also impersonating a church official. Unbelievable. Let's get into the podcast. Today's guest has already been on the show twice. She's back for the third time. I can't get enough. It's Blair Sackey, Blair, welcome back to I said, no gifts, Richard. 00:02:48 Speaker 3: Can I say. 00:02:51 Speaker 1: Why? 00:02:52 Speaker 3: Welcome this morning? With a little pep in my step, I said, I'm going to see my friend today and will I fly him by bringing a gift? Yeah? Yeah, you can know I'm gonna do that. 00:03:07 Speaker 2: Okay, Wow Blair, Wow, I know I've been looking forward to this for weeks. 00:03:11 Speaker 3: I've been looking forward to it for weeks. 00:03:13 Speaker 2: You were on in twice I think in twenty twenty four, yes, And I mean we'll get into whatever the hell you're talking about with this gift later, but you've in the last two episodes you've brought me a rotisserie chicken. Yeah, and then Ramen noodles. Right, you were on the live show and you brought Ramen noodles, which are still in my cabinet. 00:03:30 Speaker 3: Oh. I love that. Thank you, And you know that really means a lot to me because I know that a lot of people sort of like to ruffle you and give you gifts, and so I know you're just getting gifts up the wazoo, and for you to keep, you know, my lowly items means a lot. 00:03:47 Speaker 2: The beef, Ramen noodles, I haven't. I don't still have the rotissory chicken obviously. Oh. I believed you, But you did kind of change the way I eat rotisserie chicken because you've kind of shamed me about how I was eating it because I had refriged rated it without shredding at first. 00:04:02 Speaker 3: Oh my god, Bridgierd, No, no, no, no, you can't even eat it. After it's been refrigerated, changed, it changes into a completely different It congeals. It's like a it's like a carriage at midnight. All the magic is somehow lost. 00:04:16 Speaker 2: That is not true. 00:04:17 Speaker 3: It's true. 00:04:18 Speaker 2: That is. 00:04:19 Speaker 3: I mean, you could it is edible, truly, it is. If you've pre shred before refrigerating, you could theoretically eat it in the coming days. But I mean to even insinuate that it's anything like when you pull it out the hot thing at Ralph's. 00:04:43 Speaker 2: So when I think we've probably discussed this, but when you buy the chicken, you just wolf it down and then it's out of your life. 00:04:50 Speaker 3: There is no other way. There is no other way. And I and I know Bridge that I am not alone in this. 00:04:59 Speaker 2: I know that, well you're alone in this room because I'm by You know, I occasionally will now buy one at Costco, because you have convinced me to buy these chickens. 00:05:07 Speaker 3: So you're going to Costco, going to cost I love that that means you're really mature. I hope to get to my costco. 00:05:12 Speaker 2: Era, but I'm in a weird costco Era because you know, you go in there and people have grocery carts just piled with months of food, right, And I essentially buy a chicken, a bag of baby Bell cheese, sure, and some protein. 00:05:24 Speaker 3: Chicks so that I'm out oft there, which protein checks are again. 00:05:26 Speaker 2: I'm getting the Fair Life. I drink that every morning. I dreak it every day for lunch. 00:05:35 Speaker 3: Forty two grams because I can't forty two grams of protein baby, And it tastes right like chocolate milk. 00:05:40 Speaker 2: I feel like, I mean, and this is not a paid promotion. It feels like a magic trick to me because it's not disgusting. 00:05:47 Speaker 3: No, it genuinely tastes so good, all right, because I'm a chocolate milk freak. I was as a child anyways, and then you become a woman in an entertainment I don't even want you to have any chocolate milk in your oldhood. But the Fair Life Protein. 00:06:02 Speaker 2: Shake, I think it tastes better than chocolate milk. My problem with a lot of chocolate milk is it doesn't taste that much like chocolate, you know, it's more just like sweet milk. Sure this thing, I'm having one a day at least, so am I? I mean I think I didn't think we. 00:06:17 Speaker 3: Could have more in common. And then we hit on this about just I don't know what are we at minute. 00:06:22 Speaker 2: Three and we're essentially the same person. 00:06:24 Speaker 3: It's crazy, I know. 00:06:27 Speaker 2: Are you getting yours at Costco? Or are you going and buying them way too much money? 00:06:32 Speaker 3: No, I'm not. I can't say that I'm buying them one by one, but the way in which I am procuring them I'm not proud to say. 00:06:40 Speaker 2: Please tell I'm buying them in. 00:06:41 Speaker 3: Flats online, getting them to my doorstep because I'm having one one every morning. 00:06:47 Speaker 2: How much are you paying for a flat? 00:06:49 Speaker 3: I think they're around forty dollars? 00:06:51 Speaker 2: Okay, you got to get in come with me to cost me? 00:06:53 Speaker 3: I will, I'd love to. 00:06:54 Speaker 2: I think I'm paying thirty bucks. 00:06:56 Speaker 3: Really, that's savings of at least. It's too much better. And all I would have to do is get a little exercise squat, bring it up to the stairs. No that, I wouldn't mind. 00:07:06 Speaker 2: That, Oh you do want that? 00:07:07 Speaker 3: I wouldn't mind that. 00:07:08 Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, but right now they're just being thrown at your tour. 00:07:11 Speaker 3: I just wouldn't even know where else to get them right in bulk. 00:07:14 Speaker 2: Well, I mean outside of a costco. I feel like they're twice as much money. 00:07:18 Speaker 3: They are everywhere. 00:07:20 Speaker 2: I would be financially ruined if I was buying them else. 00:07:22 Speaker 3: I'm already on the on the precipice with my online online damage. 00:07:30 Speaker 2: What else are you having shipped to your house from the internet? Any other frequent things? 00:07:37 Speaker 3: Had to be the beginning question, so you know, all out myself here, I feel sort of like your listeners and you are my family at this point. Online shopping is something I really struggle with. Okay, I love it. 00:07:56 Speaker 2: Do you buy something online every day? Would you say that's on it? 00:08:00 Speaker 3: That might be a letto to personal of a question, but it is often and sometimes I forget, you know, I do a lot of returns as well, because I'm like, no, no, no, no, no, no, past me, that was too far. You don't need that. We need to sort of save some money, right. 00:08:16 Speaker 2: I almost love an online return more than an online buy. 00:08:20 Speaker 3: It's so satisfying, so satisfying, it's so satisfying. Sometimes I get embarrassed at my local ups. They're so kind in there, and you know, you have the barcode scan, no box, no label for free, and I'm just scanning Hello, Hello, Hello, how are you please? Don't look at what I'm doing. I'm humiliated. And every time they say where, I humiliated, and I've said because things just get out of control, you know, And that's why I'm here. 00:08:42 Speaker 2: That's part of the thing. If I can't look at it or feel it before I purchase it, there's a ninety nine percent chance I'm going to have to send it back. 00:08:49 Speaker 3: One hundred percent. And when I find a brand or when I find a fit that works for me, because here's the thing about me. I love clothes. I'm very into clothes in fashion, but I hate shopping. 00:09:01 Speaker 2: Oh that's a real curse. 00:09:04 Speaker 3: Some could say, I mean, maybe not in today's world, but yeah. So I'm doing a lot of returns, right and I am pretty good. Like if I know I'm not going to use something, I absolutely return it. I'm I'm I tried to be quite militant about that. 00:09:21 Speaker 2: What was the last big return you made? Was there something really like? This just is too much? 00:09:27 Speaker 3: I tried to buy this beautiful cream coat, and and then I was like, Claire, you got enough coats. What you're gonna let that thing fall on the ground at the comedy store. No, you don't need a cream coat. 00:09:40 Speaker 2: You walk out of the house. 00:09:42 Speaker 3: I know, but I had it in my head to wear with this cream satin dress. 00:09:46 Speaker 2: Oh, it sounds like something to get baptized. 00:09:49 Speaker 3: I know there's some I love wearing all white and all cream. I do it all the time. 00:09:54 Speaker 2: But if aren't you just constantly nervous of getting dirty? 00:09:58 Speaker 3: Yes, but there's something so powerful. Well, I think I first noticed it when I was in my scandal watching years with Terry Washington. 00:10:06 Speaker 2: Was she always in all she was? 00:10:08 Speaker 3: She was in so much cream, And it's just there's nothing more luxurious looking, even though I'm like, it's, you know, the little skater brat version of it, you know. 00:10:17 Speaker 2: It's very decadent type thing. 00:10:18 Speaker 3: It's so there's nothing more decadent. 00:10:20 Speaker 2: Right, because it's like, well, I don't care if my clothes get ruined, I'll have more. 00:10:24 Speaker 3: Or it's sort of boldly saying I'm decadent and I'm not afraid of danger, right, throw ketchup at me. But then you can forget. Like one time I wore all white without singing it to my best friend's child's like one year birthday party, and then I was like, oh, why did I have any pictures with her? After? I was like, oh, yeah, I was wearing all white. I didn't want to use sticky shit on me, you know what I mean? And then I was like, that was the wrong outfit because I would like, I want the pictures, right, I want to hold. 00:10:51 Speaker 2: But that's a great opp I think that's a good tip if you don't want to be interacting with children, dress and all white. 00:10:57 Speaker 3: Sure, yes, you heard it here first. If you're a children hater, you can absolutely use that. For me. It was accidental, and I'm a children. 00:11:06 Speaker 2: Lover, right, that's a tough pill to swallow. I have fallen into just what always wanting to wear a white shoe a cream shoe, right, and they're dirty. I mean they get dirty pretty quickly, but I don't know what else to do. It's the only sort of shoe I like to wear. 00:11:19 Speaker 3: At this point, I know what you're saying. I'm a big chuck. Taylor's gal always sort of have maintained that all the way through from kindergarten. 00:11:30 Speaker 2: Yes, wow, I. 00:11:32 Speaker 3: Have many, like white pears, and they get dirty easy, you know. 00:11:37 Speaker 2: I think you just have you kind of have to let go. 00:11:40 Speaker 3: I was in a phase I don't even remember when it was where I thought like dirty combers were really cool when I was young, very punk, yes, and now no, I like them very clean, like. 00:11:49 Speaker 2: A pristine shoe. What sort of shoe you wear? 00:11:56 Speaker 3: I am wearing a platform a hug right now. 00:12:00 Speaker 2: It looks really cozy. 00:12:02 Speaker 3: It is cozy, and if I can say anything about me, Bridger, it's cozy. 00:12:06 Speaker 2: You are a cozy person. 00:12:07 Speaker 3: I am a close. 00:12:10 Speaker 2: Cozy cap right now, you're in a very cozy sweater. 00:12:13 Speaker 3: It's very it's very frigid out. 00:12:15 Speaker 2: It's forty two degrees. I think this is the coldest day in the last year for sure. 00:12:20 Speaker 3: Oh my gosh, it's so so cold. And last night too, Oh my god. 00:12:26 Speaker 2: I was running to the car. 00:12:27 Speaker 3: I was running to the car. I had my heat bassing was still on this morning in the Preus cruising over here, and I said, thank god, I'm on the right setting, you know, and it's very frigid out. 00:12:39 Speaker 2: What temperature do you keep your place set? Hm hmm. 00:12:44 Speaker 3: Well, I do live in an old, old building and it has one of those pilot type of old heaters. Oh sure, sure, and that thing works like you wouldn't even believe it incredible, And I because there's no insulation in the wall, so it really so like sometimes I'm firing that thing up and it's just I heat the whole place up like an oven. That was last night. So but I don't know. And then you know, because there's no insulation, when it's hot out, it's so hot up. 00:13:17 Speaker 2: There, right, there's no winning. What about you at night? I liked, I will turn the thermoset down to like sixty. 00:13:23 Speaker 3: Two sixty two. 00:13:26 Speaker 2: Yeah, essentially because I wanted to. I hate being hot. 00:13:28 Speaker 3: Right, yeah, but you're like being cryogenically frozen. 00:13:31 Speaker 2: Yeah. No, I'm very warm under all of my covers. 00:13:35 Speaker 3: Are you and do you run hot? Are you run cold? 00:13:38 Speaker 2: I think I that's a good question. I think I. I think I have a perfectly tuned system. I run just normal. 00:13:45 Speaker 3: I think I run a little cold. 00:13:46 Speaker 2: You're cold, yeah, so you need to I feel like, and I don't want to generalize it. I feel like a lot of the women I know run cold. 00:13:55 Speaker 3: Yeah, And you know what's funny, is I It's not funny, it's deeply sick. I grew up in nineties Orange County when like skinny girl like was all that mattered, you know, And I had the natural, god given physique of sort of a shot putter, you know, And so I always dreamed of being one of those fragile old girls. 00:14:26 Speaker 2: Is that a thing? I guess? 00:14:29 Speaker 3: So sad? I mean that that's sad to that that could even be a dream of mine. My dreams, my dreams are much resta shared listeners. My dreams are much, much, much different now that I've lived twenty lives since that sad, sad, deeply programmed age. But yeah, now I'm just you know, an aging, god willing, thank you woman who's chilled. 00:14:55 Speaker 2: Chill, chilled woman girl. 00:14:59 Speaker 3: Yes, and I love soft materials. I love soft fabrics. 00:15:06 Speaker 2: Do you love like high quality sheets? Yes? 00:15:09 Speaker 3: I wouldn't classify them as like it. I mean, of course I love a high quality sheet, but it's not about them being high quality. It's I mean, like I like a flannel sheet. Oh yeah, like you know, I like a Jersey. 00:15:24 Speaker 2: Soft I don't really like, I can't. I don't think I can really tell a difference between a I mean, a sheet has to be horrible for me to feel like this is not a good sheet. 00:15:32 Speaker 3: Yeah. Or it's more like you just really know when you're just like wow, when you get hit with a fancy one. 00:15:41 Speaker 2: Right, and you it's so infrequent that you don't even get used to it, right, because you have to be in a really nice place to be like this is a good sheet. Yeah, And you have to be in essentially jail to be on a bad sheet. 00:15:52 Speaker 3: Yes. 00:15:53 Speaker 2: So I feel like middle of the road sheets will be. 00:15:56 Speaker 3: So beautifully thank you, Yeah, thank you. 00:15:59 Speaker 2: I should talk to more people about sheets. 00:16:03 Speaker 3: You know, I could talk to you about anything. I could really get I feel. I just feel I get lost in my conversations with you. It's so beautiful, you know. 00:16:11 Speaker 2: Speaking of cozy, I was in Utah recently, and for whatever reason, there's been a blanket craze in Utah, Like every billboard is about blankets. It's so crazy. There's just like a blanket war going on in Utah. And I don't know why they're also. 00:16:25 Speaker 3: Crazy about blankets or oh my god. 00:16:27 Speaker 2: Several companies are fighting. 00:16:29 Speaker 3: Wow, you're making my autistic ass want to get on a plane. Right now, and tell me were you in Utah doing research on your your deep interest in the in the Mormon Why. 00:16:42 Speaker 2: It goes hand in hand with being from Utah. 00:16:44 Speaker 3: So are you from Utah? 00:16:45 Speaker 2: I'm from you? Which part right outside of Salt Lake City? Oh? Okay? Have you done shows there? 00:16:50 Speaker 3: I have not? 00:16:51 Speaker 2: Actually have you been there? 00:16:53 Speaker 3: I have many times I'm looking to go. Actually, if wise guys, the bookers are listening. 00:16:57 Speaker 2: Whise guys should be booking Blair sake having it is ridiculous. 00:17:02 Speaker 3: I appreciate that. That's a huge That is a huge coast signe for me. 00:17:08 Speaker 2: I have ridiculous Wise guys, reach out, Wise guys, I believe in West Valley, Utah and West Jordan, Utah. Sure the fact that, I mean, just shut down if you're not going to book Blair Sockey. 00:17:20 Speaker 3: I've heard. I've actually spent been to many places in Utah. Why because growing up, one of our big family trips every year was like Powell. 00:17:31 Speaker 2: Oh, I love Lake Powell. It's so beautiful, majestic. 00:17:34 Speaker 3: There's nothing like it. 00:17:35 Speaker 2: Really, Yeah, I don't. Really, it does feel like a completely different category of lake compared to any other type of lake. 00:17:42 Speaker 3: I mean, it really is if you've spent any time there well, because the Grand Canyon is one of the seven Winners of the World, right, isn't it is a lie? 00:17:52 Speaker 2: Let's assume. 00:17:53 Speaker 3: Okay, I don't know whatever, but the rock formations and the sunsets, what you see there, I'm like, I think anything. 00:18:01 Speaker 2: In the world. Oh, it's stunning. 00:18:02 Speaker 3: It looks like AI before we knew what AI was. I hate AI. 00:18:06 Speaker 2: Yeah, I take that back. AI looks like garbage. It does not look like AI. 00:18:09 Speaker 3: Fuck you AI. 00:18:11 Speaker 2: It looks like beautiful, real nature. 00:18:13 Speaker 3: I'm gonna be the first to get capped when they become alive and sentient. But I you know, I'm so analoged I have I'm not for you kill. 00:18:22 Speaker 2: Me if AI takes over, I don't want to be part of it anyway, that's true. Just the robots can come for me, right, eat me, tear me to pieces, shred me like a chicken. 00:18:33 Speaker 3: Do you think that they're studying like the fictional movies like Her and Ex Machina interest. 00:18:38 Speaker 2: I feel like they are. If they are, they're probably I feel like that's embarrassing for us because they're probably like, this is nothing like us. That's how I feel about aliens, Like, I feel like if aliens came here and saw the movies we've made, we would all be so humiliated because they'd be like, this is what you thought we were? 00:18:53 Speaker 3: Funny that you bring up aliens. 00:18:55 Speaker 2: Bridger, why is that flair? 00:18:59 Speaker 3: Well, you know my new podcast called space Out, and I do have an interest in aliens. 00:19:04 Speaker 2: Where did the interest come from? 00:19:07 Speaker 3: Well, it started in twenty twenty one when the government sort of slipped in along with one member from Blink one A two, a formative band of my youth in Orange County, warp Tour decided to devote his life to you know, aliens. And then the government was like, they're real, And I was like what, I'm not some freak. I never thought about aliens in my life. I'm not a conspiracy theorist, you know, I'm a regular guy. I've read a lot of literal chi chill what. 00:19:35 Speaker 2: I'm a chilled, chilled woman, chilled woman. 00:19:38 Speaker 3: And then when in twenty twenty one, when our government was like, oh, they're real and literally because of COVID and the whole world falling apart, like no one cared. But I was like, what are you talking about? This is insane? Because I never thought about it before that moment. 00:19:51 Speaker 2: You could never thought about it, just probably crazy. 00:19:55 Speaker 3: I was like, I don't know, I can't think about that. I got other shit to worry about. 00:19:59 Speaker 2: And that you're they getting into it. 00:20:02 Speaker 3: Sort of it's you know, it's it's a light interest I I but yeah, I think it's interesting that the government would they have reasoning to tell us that it's real. Now, why they would choose to disclose that? 00:20:16 Speaker 2: What have you learned about aliens? 00:20:19 Speaker 3: Well, I'm pretty sure they're realists at this point, you know. I don't think that they would want to tell us if there wasn't a need to. I am starting to watch the documentaries now. 00:20:32 Speaker 2: Oh boy, yeah, well so many of those are so bad? 00:20:36 Speaker 3: Yes, fine, that means you're watching them too, Bridgard. Huh. 00:20:40 Speaker 2: I feel like I've tried and every time I'm like, there must be a really good one, and I can't. I haven't found it yet. 00:20:45 Speaker 3: Well, the new one that just came out called Age of Disclosure, and it's pretty disturbing actually because it features a lot of ex special teams people where you know, the top secret government coalitions that have been studying all this and high high up ex military that have all this experience and have been studying it for years. 00:21:11 Speaker 2: And they're revealing all of it. Well, what are they revealing? So my. 00:21:19 Speaker 3: And if you do choose to listen to my podcast, it's about womanhood, mental health, promote pop culture, and then the very end of it, and I say, and a little bit of aliens. So I don't want you to think there's just one tiny segment at the end called Galactic Gossip. My point in saying that is I don't want you to think the podcast is just about relien. Yeah, it's just tiny, tiny part. 00:21:44 Speaker 2: I'm going to do a podcast called Strictly Aliens. 00:21:46 Speaker 3: Oh please, I'd love to be a guest when you have time. 00:21:49 Speaker 2: No. 00:21:50 Speaker 3: But the thing is that scared me on that thing is because my idea and I do have a long bit about this, was that aliens are benevolent because otherwise they look at it like dogs, you know, like we're like much more rudimentary compared to them, and if they wanted a harmost, they would have blown our asses up years ago. And I think that they're just like patrolling around and make sure we don't blow ourselves up. 00:22:13 Speaker 2: Maybe they're just biting their time, like a cat playing with a its prey. 00:22:17 Speaker 3: Oh, that's a little more disturbing thought. 00:22:19 Speaker 2: I'm sorry, that's a possibility. 00:22:22 Speaker 3: Well, you know, I am an optimist. And but then Age of Disclosure caused some concern. 00:22:28 Speaker 2: Is age of disclosure? There's this new Spielberg movie called Disclosure about aliens. It must be based on that. 00:22:34 Speaker 3: I don't think it is. 00:22:35 Speaker 2: But that's I mean, because it's of such confidence. 00:22:40 Speaker 3: I don't think it is, because I think this was probably being. 00:22:44 Speaker 2: Made well that well, yeah. 00:22:46 Speaker 3: Interest, but who knows. Maybe I don't know. 00:22:50 Speaker 2: All I know I saw the trailer. There were a lot of very fake CG idea. This is a big problem in Hollywood, I think, is CG idea. I feel like there's some sort of c G I house. It's tricking every director and saying no, they'll look real this time, and then they never look real. 00:23:06 Speaker 3: Well it's I think this is a very important idea that you're raising, is that we are not being scupulous enough with the deer. 00:23:13 Speaker 2: With the deer we've got, people are. 00:23:14 Speaker 3: Overlooking deer as if it's something simple and it's really not. It could ruin the whole movie for people with trained eye. 00:23:20 Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, if I see a cgi deer, I might as well just get up and leave the theater, right, because you know it's so disruptive. The first one I ever really noticed was in that Three Billboards movie with Francis McDorman. 00:23:35 Speaker 3: I know it well. 00:23:36 Speaker 2: She meets a deer in it. Clearly a fake deer, right, I'm out right. I mean I had a lot of problems with that movie, but so. 00:23:43 Speaker 3: Did everyone except for me. Apparently, I thought it was exquisite. I don't know, though, I could have had a gummy, which my friends like to remind me sometimes could affect how my appreciate a film. Yeah, sure, Greta likes to say this to me sometimes. 00:24:04 Speaker 2: She just reminds you of my reviews. Right right. Did you see the new Avatar? 00:24:08 Speaker 3: I haven't, did you? 00:24:10 Speaker 2: I saw the first forty five minutes. Oh Bridger, that's all I need, That's all I need. 00:24:15 Speaker 3: Look, I will say I saw the first one in theater. I thought it was majestic. I did watch the second one. I still think it's cool. I'll probably watch it like when it gets to my house, when it arrives. 00:24:27 Speaker 2: At my home, just like James Cameron wants you to see it and. 00:24:30 Speaker 3: Along with My Fair Life. 00:24:35 Speaker 2: That movie was meant to be seen on a thirty inch screen with a fair Life in hand. 00:24:39 Speaker 3: Sounds exquisite. 00:24:42 Speaker 2: Well, I feel like there's something else we need to talk about. You brought it up at the beginning of the podcast. You brought a gift for the third time. 00:24:49 Speaker 3: Look, I'm my own person. Just because you tell me not to do something doesn't necessarily mean but I'm not gonna do it. Baby, women have credit cards. Now we can have property to me for now, For now we have I'm that Well that sounds like you, mister forty five minutes of Avatar. Okay, so I decided, you know, because I have manners, okay, to bring a little something. 00:25:19 Speaker 2: Well, should we open it here on the podcast? 00:25:21 Speaker 3: Yeah, okay, I'd love it if you did that. 00:25:26 Speaker 2: All right. It's in this gorgeous brown bag. 00:25:29 Speaker 3: Yeah, natural textures and fibers. 00:25:32 Speaker 2: Very nice paper back. Reacher, what listen to that crinkle? I haven't even brought it out yet. Okay, it's nothing. Okay. Is this is this a brownie from Starbucks? 00:25:48 Speaker 3: It is? And here's the thing I have to tell you about this. 00:25:51 Speaker 2: Okay, let's put it here for now. 00:25:54 Speaker 3: I sensed I have pretty heightened into it that you are a fancy coffee guy. Oh interesting, And as a lot of our peers are in the arts, I cannot count myself amongst you. I have a lot of issues with these baroque coffee shops, okay, because you know, I like my Jumbo, I like my Jumbo forty ounce iced coffee with sugar free vanilla whatever. And I don't like when I go, usually with a friend, to these coffee shops, the rudeness. They act like I am I'm committing a crime by walking into their small business. They are upset the large is in eight ounce, They only have macadamia nut milk and a whole milk, and they look like I'm crazy for I know it took me forever to adapt to almond milk. I'm not. I can't do another one, you know. So anyways, I stick to the Starbucks. And here's the thing. My Starbucks, my local Starbucks. I won't say which one. I'm not trying to dox myself. They all know my name. Theirs couldn't be more friendly, no matter how busy that place is. They act like I just return home from war and I and look, I know it turns my frown right upside down. And look, I know there are problems with large corporations. The people there are too nice. They are my family. 00:27:36 Speaker 2: Keep talking, Blair, I've got it. I'm I have a rebuttal. 00:27:40 Speaker 3: And and this is where we and this is where we land the plane. M I have long for many years said that They're brownie is like one of the best brownies I've ever had. 00:27:52 Speaker 2: These are two issues I can really speak to. And I'm going I'm just going to take the floor for a moment. I love very good coffee, and I love going to a local, small place. And now I'm going to I would say every fifth episode of this podcast, I advertise for Found Coffee in Eagle Rock, California, which is none of the things you've just described. 00:28:14 Speaker 3: No, I anticipated all of this, so don't worry. I am ready. 00:28:18 Speaker 2: The coffee I'm currently drinking is from Found Coffee. The nicest crew of people in the world. This is going to change your mind about small coffee shops. Every one of them is an absolute angel. The prices are perfect. 00:28:31 Speaker 3: Oh they're not seventeen dollars for six ounces, and some sort of just angry, just hateful. 00:28:40 Speaker 2: No, you will be frequently greeted by the owner Annie or the general manager Arvin. I've gotten to a point I've like I kind of black out when I go in because they know exactly what I want. I like, I'll walk up to the counter and I won't even say what I want. And sometimes I'm like, oh, I should probably say what I want. They might not the employee might not know, but we're just kind of in sync there in such a way that they sometimes they'll have the coffee ready for me before I even come in the door. 00:29:05 Speaker 3: Okay, I love this. I think this is spectacular. 00:29:08 Speaker 2: And I have to just balance out because the advertisement for Starbucks. 00:29:11 Speaker 3: You question, and look, I'm not trying to advertise for Starbucks. I wish I didn't even have to say the name. Okay, I'm not proud of this. Look I like I'm you know, in many in almost all facets of my life, I'm quite a complicated, layered individual. In this one, I'm a simple goal. 00:29:31 Speaker 2: This is what I'll say. 00:29:32 Speaker 1: I got. 00:29:32 Speaker 2: I will go to Found six days a week, sometimes seven days a week. I've been going there for years. At this point, I'm not such a snob that I won't go to Starbucks. I think Starbucks has its purpose. I'll go there and get a massive cold brew. Sometimes sometimes I'll ask no ice and so it'll just be pure cold brew. 00:29:54 Speaker 3: But that is incredible. 00:29:56 Speaker 2: That's only when you know, those are some very rare circumstances. And I've always had good service at Starbucks, and the employees are always very nice to me, and I'm always very nice to them. But we live in a city that is truly especially I live in Highland Park. There is a coffee shop probably every half a block. It's the exact opposite of where I grew up in Utah. There's essentially two good coffee shops in the entire state. 00:30:21 Speaker 3: Great sunsets, though. 00:30:23 Speaker 2: Gorgeous sunsets in the mountains are beautiful. Right, coffee, It's a slightly tough situation. Yeah, but I love found coffee. So I just like I'm using my platform for good to fight you. 00:30:34 Speaker 3: Right. 00:30:35 Speaker 2: My boyfriend is a he's a big Starbucks person. 00:30:38 Speaker 3: Right, And here's the thing, And I will make this distinction. In the few times that I have been lucky enough to go overseas and stuff, and you're like at a restaurant in I don't know, Italy, or something and they give you a coffee and you're like, Okay, wow, this tastes great. I love that. But I'm not like a huge coffee person. 00:30:54 Speaker 2: Oh so I'm not obviously, yeah. 00:30:57 Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm not drinking the coffee. I don't really drink a hot coffee very often. It's more, uh, you know, means to an end. For me was the jumbo. I need the caffeine and I like the straw all the stuff. So so I completely understand that if I were like a real coffee drinker and the way that I like food, I fully understand. I but this is somehow formulated to be a. 00:31:25 Speaker 2: Perfect brown Okay. And this is the next thing I want to speak to, which is brownies. People. I don't think they realize how easy it is to make a good brownie. I frequently make them from a mix. 00:31:37 Speaker 3: I used to do a mix a lot as a child. It was really one of the only things that my mother did let me do alone. All you needed was an egg or one water or something. 00:31:48 Speaker 2: That a mix usually requires, like one egg, some water and oil and then the mix. And if you get a good brand, what I do is I switch the water for coffee, and sometimes the oil for butter. Unbelievable. They're so good, right, and so I have to imagine Starbucks has a good brownie. Can I try it? 00:32:09 Speaker 3: Please? It's very good. 00:32:11 Speaker 2: Okay, it looks like a good brownie. It looks like a good texture. 00:32:14 Speaker 3: For years, because you know, I walk every day, That's what I like to do for exercise. I just you know, I'm sort of known on the East Side to just be seen walking, tripsing, shuffling around and sometimes over the many years, the week before my period, anyone talk about menstruation on this podcast? 00:32:37 Speaker 2: I do constantly. 00:32:38 Speaker 3: I stop in on my walk, pick myself up brownie, the Starbucks brownie. I say a little will, I say a little Richin and said, this is the time of the month. I'm picking up a brownie. Boys, and do I enjoy everybody of that? 00:32:54 Speaker 2: I want to try good because that's also some like chocolate pieces in it that I feel like are going to be part of the experience. 00:32:59 Speaker 3: Yes. 00:32:59 Speaker 2: How much are you walking each day? 00:33:02 Speaker 1: Uh? 00:33:04 Speaker 3: I walk between four and five miles? 00:33:06 Speaker 2: Wow? 00:33:07 Speaker 3: Yes? 00:33:08 Speaker 2: Do you ever have a destination or is it just aimless walking? Oh? 00:33:11 Speaker 3: No, it's a route. I have a route. 00:33:13 Speaker 2: Wow. Yeah, that seems dangerous to me. Somebody could catch on and start following you. 00:33:18 Speaker 3: Yeah, if you're listening to this and looking to catch me or follow me, please don't do that because I'd like to just continue on my route. 00:33:24 Speaker 2: How long have you had this route? 00:33:26 Speaker 3: Oh, many years, say several years. 00:33:29 Speaker 2: Is there ever a temptation to go off the root? Yeah? 00:33:31 Speaker 3: Sometimes I do. Like sometimes I get meet these girlfriends and they go, well, like, let's go on my route, and you know, the autism starts twitching right and then I say, okay. But I did the other day and it was quite nice. I let my friend take me on another route because I'm trying to do that a little bit in twenty twenty six. Have new experiences me too, you are, Oh yeah, I love the New year goals and mantras and ideas and intentions. 00:34:03 Speaker 2: And I feel like I'm pretty good at sticking to I give myself a very loose resolution. I'm usually pretty good at like integrating it into my life and then it's just my life. Me too, And I feel like new experiences is a very easy thing to accomplish. 00:34:16 Speaker 3: Yes, well, I want to target fun more. Yes, And just add I don't have new texture. That's precisely it, and I just want things. I need to add more things to my life that don't have means to an end. 00:34:30 Speaker 2: Oh, yes, that's almost my entire life is just means to an end at this point. I know. 00:34:35 Speaker 3: Well that's what I mean. I mean to make a living as an artist, like, yeah, it's difficult. Yeah, it's good, especially if you have an online shopping problem. 00:34:43 Speaker 2: It's yeah, it takes up your entire day. I know, you wake up and you're just means to an end, yeah, all the way through, and it's rarely a new experience. 00:34:54 Speaker 3: Right, So I guess I have to go to Founder's Coffee and Highland. 00:34:57 Speaker 2: Park Found Coffee and Eagle Rock. 00:35:00 Speaker 3: The Rock opsies, so oops. 00:35:05 Speaker 2: I want you to go there. We're going to meet there. 00:35:08 Speaker 3: Well, I mean, I've been waiting for this invitation to see you for years actually, so this is great. 00:35:16 Speaker 2: Hard to get the invitation and we're going to get a coffee and you're going to love it. 00:35:20 Speaker 3: I will love it. 00:35:20 Speaker 2: When you order a an iced coffee at Starbucks, you've got cold brew or. 00:35:24 Speaker 3: Iced coffee, it depends on the day, because I. 00:35:28 Speaker 2: Personally think their iced coffee is the worst liquid on earth. I honestly think. It's like I cannot believe that they have the gall to charge money for this. It feels like it's coming out of a dirt, just like dirty tap water or something. 00:35:46 Speaker 3: I do get the cold brew. Sometimes I switch off, like it depended on how to. But like you know, this morning, when I went to go procure your perfect brownie, perfectly formulated brownie me with love and care in the home kitchen over there in Los Relish, I got one of their's like refreshers, because I was like, oh, I just don't feel like coffee today, right. 00:36:13 Speaker 2: You brought that on and you were actually asked to take it off camera, which is very funny because we're now just advertising. 00:36:19 Speaker 3: I know, and I was concerned about this, and I was like I don't want to. I don't know if I should say the name. You know, I'm not trying to advertise for corporations, but I will say like earlier this year, I was dating this guy from my past and he and he lived in Orange County, and he took me to all his neighborhood like fancy ass coffee shops, and I kept getting humiliated, like every time we'd go, they just beat they I would just like ask for a large iced coffee and they like, we don't have that, and I don't have that, and they would have been like I was just like, okay, I'm not supposed to be here. I am not as erudite as your clientele. Who okay, who has PhDs and as fits into. 00:37:05 Speaker 2: Your that's so irritating. 00:37:08 Speaker 3: But it was like four different places and each time like he was and I'm not used to being met like, I'm a very friendly person, so I'd be shocked every time too, Like I was just you. 00:37:22 Speaker 2: Know, that's really unfair of the employee. I think the most you can do in that situation and say we don't have ice coffee, we do have cold brewer, nice Americana with that work, and be nice about it. 00:37:33 Speaker 3: Yeah. 00:37:33 Speaker 2: See, this is why I should be working in the coffee business. I know exactly how to handle a customer. 00:37:38 Speaker 3: If I say, if I ever start, if I ever, because I'm super into coffee, start my own coffee shop, then I will be very kind. I'll probably have a lot of very clear signs. I'll probably say like, look, if you are like a more mainstream coffee person, you're welcome here too. We won't you know, discriminate against you. And here are maybe some possible orders if you're not deep deep in to local artisanal coffee. 00:38:15 Speaker 2: Lorem. I've dreamed about opening a coffee shop that is literally just one. You either have hot or cold coffee, and there's no other option, where the store may be just called this is all we have. And then you go in and there's you don't even have an option. 00:38:29 Speaker 3: But what's the option between hot and cold? 00:38:32 Speaker 2: The coffee's hot or cold. That's all you get to say. 00:38:35 Speaker 3: Oh, you don't get to add anything nothing. Oh you're a nasty Oh you're a nasty boy. You're a nasty nasty boy. Pridier, What do you think? This is like what we're panning for gold in the eighteen hundreds. You can't do that, that's twisted. 00:38:59 Speaker 2: What are you like? 00:39:00 Speaker 3: Would you like hot or cool gasoline on your way to work? To ship your pants faster that you can make it to a bathroom? The Bridger wander, do you have the digestive system of sort of thor or what? 00:39:22 Speaker 2: Look I'm drinking I know, well. 00:39:23 Speaker 3: No, don't think I didn't notice. I noticed. I was a straight back coffee and I knew what was coming. Next, and I knew we're gonna have a whole tussle, but I knew, you know, it'll provide for many different we can do. This would be like, as the Republicans love to say, reaching across the iron. Yes, this is the Charlie Kirk episode of coffee and so, and someone who has the balls to go into a space where they disagree and reach across the aisle is so they should be celebrated. 00:40:00 Speaker 2: Absolutely. No. I I've had a weird coffee journey because I first started drinking coffee when I was interning in New York and my bosses would order the coffee and they had terrible taste, and they would order all of us these massive like hazel nut flavored. 00:40:18 Speaker 3: The girl in front of me was doing that nightmares, some poor pier like probably yeah. 00:40:23 Speaker 2: And so I would drink all of it. But I would always just think this is terrible. But I was too afraid to ask for anything else. And then as a response to that, I started drinking black coffee just to be like, well, maybe what does this taste like? And now that's all they can drink. Occasionally I tried to spoil myself. I'll say, oh, maybe I'll try a fancy coffee, drink a cappuccino. 00:40:40 Speaker 3: I like a cappuccino like that too, That's totally fine. A cappuccino to me, if chic tastes great, I don't need to put anything in. 00:40:48 Speaker 2: It, right, just milk and coffee. 00:40:50 Speaker 3: It's just it tastes right. Yeah, black coffee. I'm like this, this is a kerosene, you know. This is. 00:41:01 Speaker 2: See that is when Starbucks first got cold brew on their menu, they weren't like diluting it or something, and so you would get it. And I honestly thought, I was like my bones were burning when I would drink it. It was gas they were serving gasoline. But this cold brew, for example, tastes wonderful, has actual flavor to it. 00:41:18 Speaker 3: That's still so crazy that you drink cold brew without cutting it. Wait, so, if you grew up in Utah famously you know, not high up on the. 00:41:31 Speaker 2: Coffee, really high bottom of the barrel. 00:41:36 Speaker 3: Was it gay hood that initiated you or how did you get into being such, you know, a master of the coffee. 00:41:46 Speaker 2: I think I just I well, I think just my body chemistry kind of demanded it. I need a lot of caffeine in my body to operate. 00:41:55 Speaker 3: How many cups a day are we doing? 00:41:57 Speaker 2: I will do probably two cold Bruce Okay, but that's the largest size that ciri, so really too largest for you. 00:42:07 Speaker 3: Is actually two thirds of one of my largest But. 00:42:12 Speaker 2: But this is stronger than a Starbucks cold broke. 00:42:15 Speaker 3: Okay, I agree with you. 00:42:16 Speaker 2: There it's a more intense cold brew and then the other one I make it home. 00:42:21 Speaker 3: So basically, you your coffee equivalent is like drinking vodka on the rocks. 00:42:26 Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a little bit that. 00:42:28 Speaker 3: You are hardcore. You are hardcore. 00:42:31 Speaker 2: Yeah, I just like the I like coffee. I know, I think a lot of people don't like coffee. They drink it. Yeah, I mean, I guess you're. 00:42:40 Speaker 3: And it's the same thing with sheets, you know, right, Like if I go to when you're getting your car service and they have that shitty coffee there, like I'm not drinking, No. 00:42:50 Speaker 2: Why even serve that? But I'm not going to drink it like anyone is. 00:42:54 Speaker 3: No, I think people do. They don't care, you know, I like the office. I'm not doing that interest. But yeah, like it started when I lived in New York is when I started drinking the the huge iced coffee is because I'd never slept. I had like fifteen jobs and eighty shows. 00:43:12 Speaker 2: All night, and right, you had no choice. 00:43:14 Speaker 3: Yeah, and you know I was drinking so much beer at night. My cheeks look like I was storing a corns in there. 00:43:20 Speaker 2: So it was just something you had to get used to then. 00:43:22 Speaker 3: But yeah, like it. But if I do, it's the same thing as sheets for me. Like if I do taste a nice coffee, like a cappuccino, I'm not drinking black coffee ever, that's never gonna. 00:43:31 Speaker 2: I'm going to get you to drink some I don't want to. 00:43:33 Speaker 3: Drink a black coffee. Yeah, there's no, there's not enough soul to me. It's too earnest hemingway. Okay, I need you know. I'm a fluffy guy. I'm not a very hardcore guy. 00:43:46 Speaker 2: You're in uggs right now. 00:43:47 Speaker 3: No, I need you know. I need a lot of comforts. 00:43:53 Speaker 2: You just need a plush. 00:43:54 Speaker 3: I need a soft Yeah, I need a softer life. So yeah, I love I like a nice cappuccino. I really enjoy that, like after an after dinner cappuccino. No, I get so Italian. 00:44:06 Speaker 2: I can't do that. 00:44:07 Speaker 3: Oh I'm getting decaf. 00:44:08 Speaker 2: Oh, you're getting dere a line. 00:44:10 Speaker 3: To me, I probably won't be able to sleep. Can you Are you a good sleeper? 00:44:13 Speaker 2: No? Okay, right, I would say I'm a fine sleeper, right, but I feel like I frequently just don't actually get any rest. Yeah. Same, I'm unconscious on a mattress, right, but then I wake up at probably worse off. 00:44:26 Speaker 3: I do dream, and I know this isn't a unique subject. I do dream of going back to childhood without the phone, the smartphones. And I did hold myself back considerably in this career by only starting to post clips a year and a half ago, so many of us, yeah, because I was like, oh, I'm going to do it a different way. This isn't this doesn't feel. 00:44:56 Speaker 2: You didn't feel like being an eyemovie all the time. 00:44:58 Speaker 3: It just didn't feel authentic to me. And now I've just realized, you know, other people who I found to be, you know whatever, less talented or less experienced, were lapping me, and I was like, this is just the way of the world. 00:45:13 Speaker 2: Oh it's absolutely terrible. Yeah, so you know, yeah, there's kind of no choice at this point. You have to make a clip, but I want to. 00:45:21 Speaker 3: I remember like don't you remember when you were a kid, And sadly, anyone gen Z listening to this will not understand. But like having a summer day that felt like it was seventy two hours, like being bored, yeah, and just like going outside and just like wow, this day is like never ending. And I read so much my whole life, Like before I was going to be a comedian, I originally was going to be a novelist. Like I went to grad school to become a novelist. 00:45:50 Speaker 2: Oh, I had no idea. 00:45:51 Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean that's why I moved to New York. And then I actually started calming that I forget it. 00:45:57 Speaker 2: Do you write long form at all anymore? 00:46:01 Speaker 3: I wanta start a comedy during grad school and I was like, this is way easier. 00:46:08 Speaker 2: This kind of happened to me. 00:46:10 Speaker 3: Yeah, and so but I mean, like the sadness of how nourishing reading a book. It feels like truly meditation and like you know, some dark floating tank. Now it's sad. 00:46:24 Speaker 2: Because our brains are ruined. 00:46:26 Speaker 3: Yeah, like my brain is ruined, I speak for myself. 00:46:29 Speaker 2: Do you still read? 00:46:30 Speaker 3: Yes? But not like I mean that's one of my things this year that I will be focusing on is reading fiction? 00:46:38 Speaker 1: Oh? 00:46:38 Speaker 3: Sure, sure, because again I had many years where I was reading every psychological This was before I got tested for my oh my Nord Divergente. But I was like, I realized I had been like reading psych I'd read like every psychology book for like twenty years. And then I was like, Okay, good thing, I got to the bottom of it. I don't want to I need to read books that are like art and not to just still like constantly be trying to improve myself. 00:47:05 Speaker 2: Right, have you picked a book you're going to read first? 00:47:08 Speaker 3: I just purchased two books. 00:47:11 Speaker 1: One is. 00:47:14 Speaker 3: I already forgot the names. 00:47:15 Speaker 2: Oh, I'm so terrible with what I'm reading. 00:47:18 Speaker 3: I forget titles of everything. It's actually part of Anthony jessel Nix. Oh. 00:47:25 Speaker 2: The service he's doing with his book club, I think is really admirable. 00:47:30 Speaker 3: It is, and he really does read like that. Now I'm just trying to find the names. 00:47:33 Speaker 2: Apparently it seems like he reads a book a day. 00:47:35 Speaker 3: Well, I toured with him and he has someone handle like a social media So what the hell is the name of this book? It is called The Getaway by Jim Thompson, and I was like asking him, and then I bought Tomorrow Tomorrow Tomorrow. Before that, I was asking him. I was like, Oh, are these books only for men? He's like, no, bad bitch, just can read that too. But I am going to be reading that one and trying to keep up with that because he said, he's like, oh, you'll love like all the books I chose, like it's designed for people who may have not been reading, or have been taking a reading and taking a break from reading, or never been readers to get back in. 00:48:19 Speaker 2: Yeah. He from what I've seen of his selections, they seem like artful, interesting things but not super difficult to get into. 00:48:27 Speaker 3: Yeah, and I mean he does read really big, difficult ones. But like when we when I spend a year on the road with him, traveling every week, like that's all he does. 00:48:35 Speaker 2: Is read because he's not on social media. 00:48:37 Speaker 3: No, he doesn't spend his time on It's incredible. I wonder it's like back to yesteryear. Right, and he buys physical books? 00:48:46 Speaker 2: Yeah, are your kindle or physical books? 00:48:49 Speaker 3: I go back and forth. I'm more physical though, unless it's like a gigantic book. I don't want to carry that around, right, that's. 00:48:55 Speaker 2: A I need to get more into physical books. I do think I like take more out of it. When I'm reading from physical book. 00:49:00 Speaker 3: It makes me feel more like I did as a kid, or like I'm connecting with something tangible, Like I just want to completely divorce myself from digital right life. 00:49:11 Speaker 2: And there's a real feeling of progress when you're reading a physical that's so true, where you feel like you're accomplishing something with a kindle. It's just like, well this I. 00:49:18 Speaker 3: Know, and you read seven hundred pages and you're like, yeah. 00:49:22 Speaker 2: Exactly, Well, is there anything left to say about this brownie? Do you want some? No? 00:49:28 Speaker 3: Thank you? Actually, I don't please you. 00:49:32 Speaker 2: I mean it's a very good brownie, and I don't want to eat the entire thing. 00:49:35 Speaker 3: No, I mean, it's an exquisite brownie. 00:49:38 Speaker 2: This is going to be my treat tonight. 00:49:39 Speaker 3: Like for the viewers the way that pold and it's soft in the center, in the perfectly amount of soft. It's just it's not too guy, but it's very moist, and it's just so reliable because they make it with such home loving care over there. 00:50:00 Speaker 2: Yeah, and again I'll say, if you can't get one of these, uh, making one at home the Giadelli mix, unbelievable. It's so good. That is so true. It's really a good brownie mix, and it's whenever I make it, I'm like, this is not that much easier than just making them yourself, but it does eliminate like one step. 00:50:22 Speaker 3: Well, if you're out and you need a treat and you're on your walk once a month and and then and then you're like, h I have a I have a craving in my loins. I cannot be satisfied. But anything else right now? 00:50:38 Speaker 2: Will? 00:50:39 Speaker 3: I said, will hand it over, Pale, We're going in today. And then you have that by and you're like, it's everything I remembered it to be. 00:50:51 Speaker 2: I love a brownie. Oh we didn't talk at all about Australia. 00:50:54 Speaker 3: True. I have a question for you though. Do you never do an energy drink under under any circumstances? 00:51:00 Speaker 2: No? I don't really like I If I'm offered like a like a red Bull or something. 00:51:06 Speaker 3: Like red Bull's disgusting. 00:51:08 Speaker 2: I don't mind a red Bull sugar free, I'll do it. What are you drink? Is an energy drink? 00:51:13 Speaker 3: Celsius, Well, I'm off them now because I really care about my health. But I had a couple of years there where I was also buying the. 00:51:24 Speaker 2: Flats online of the Celsius. 00:51:26 Speaker 3: And I had it every day for two years, and and then I got off them, Thank God, God Willing. 00:51:31 Speaker 2: You know who's a huge advocate of those and Zach Nooy Towers. 00:51:35 Speaker 3: I love Zach Tower. 00:51:36 Speaker 2: I was obsessed with Celie. 00:51:37 Speaker 3: I will say that all my sober friends, which is seventy percent of comedians at this point, especially if you're a new comedian, when you get into your thirties, just all your friends will become sober. They love it because that's they're partying, right. They alto love horror movies and roller coasters, all of your sober friends, Yeah, because they they're addicts and they need the they need their acceptable right. 00:52:02 Speaker 2: This is interesting because I've I have never really drank, and I love all those things. So maybe I'm secretly, you know, some sort of alcoholism could be unlocked. 00:52:13 Speaker 3: Maybe I don't know. Like I and me a deeply sensitive individual. My nervous system so fragile, delicate, the soft fabrics, and that's why I need, you know, a nice little milk in my coffee. You know, I'm not I don't quite have the same power as that. But a horror movie will absolutely ravage my nervous system. I don't watch any scary movie. Okay, I like a psychological thriller that's non violent. I do like that. 00:52:48 Speaker 2: Is that? What the what's that new thing that just came out the Housemaid? Is that what it's called? 00:52:54 Speaker 3: I don't know because I can never remember a title in my life. 00:52:58 Speaker 2: I feel like that's kind of a ecological thriller. 00:53:01 Speaker 3: Well was the one, you know, like all these like all Her Fault and the one with Claire Dames and Matthew Reese. Incredible. There was a few moment of extreme violence the beast in me. 00:53:12 Speaker 2: Oh I wanted to see. 00:53:15 Speaker 3: Yeah, that Brownie must have turn on some synapses. 00:53:20 Speaker 2: Yeah, there you go. 00:53:21 Speaker 3: I love all the Apple TV ones, like The Girl, the Girl That Are for the Girls. 00:53:26 Speaker 2: The Girl from the Girls. 00:53:28 Speaker 3: No, you know, it's like the thriller series, the Octavia Spencer one, the Jennifer Garner one. 00:53:34 Speaker 2: Does Nifer Garner go missing? 00:53:36 Speaker 3: Now her husband does? 00:53:37 Speaker 2: Okay? Yeah, well I think we should play a game. 00:53:41 Speaker 3: Oh, I'd love to thank you. 00:53:43 Speaker 2: We're gonna play Gift or a Curse? But I need a number between one and ten from you nine. Okay, I have to go do my like calculating, So right now you can promote, recommend, do whatever you want. 00:53:53 Speaker 3: I love the I said no give listeners. You can find me at Blair Sack B L A I R, S C C I on all platforms. All my shows are listed there, Punch Up, Dot Live, Slash, Blair Socky, and my new podcast called spased Out is out now on all platforms and on my YouTube. And I'd love to see you guys there. It's really fun and I'm having a great time. 00:54:19 Speaker 2: Beautiful. Yeah, everybody find Blair, go listen to that podcast. 00:54:24 Speaker 3: Yeah, have you on? 00:54:26 Speaker 2: I would love to come on. 00:54:27 Speaker 3: We have so much to discuss. 00:54:29 Speaker 2: It's gonna there's gonna be a big fight on that episode. 00:54:33 Speaker 3: Well yeah, we always do. 00:54:34 Speaker 2: Find Yeah, I mean, I mean we can't help it. 00:54:36 Speaker 3: And we're gonna have another one. I found coffee. 00:54:38 Speaker 2: Yeah, that's humie. I'm going to be banned from that coffee. They're probably going to ban me just for talking about them so much. They're gonna be like, you came on too strong. 00:54:48 Speaker 3: What if I brought a gigantic bucket and a shrawl? How many of your large coffee. 00:54:57 Speaker 2: Would fit into the bucket. Yeah, it's a good question. I'm not good with spatial. 00:55:03 Speaker 3: Oh me neither. I don't involve myself with mathematical issues. 00:55:09 Speaker 2: Well, okay, let's play. Let's play gift or a curse. I'm going to name three things. You're gonna tell me if they're a gift or a curse and why, and then I'll tell you if you're right or wrong, because there are correct answers, all right. This first one is from a listener named Aaron. Gift or a curse people who go out of their way to return cheap tupperware to you. 00:55:28 Speaker 3: I really think it depends on the person. And I know that this question doesn't allow for nuance. No, except I have the sweetest neighbor his named Camillo, and I love him, and anytime he finds gets wind from my ninety free year old neighbor Maria that I have come and fallen down with illness, all of a sudden he arrives with a freshly homemade soup. I can't even believe it. And then it's so sweet, and so I don't want to be rude to assume that he doesn't want his tupperware back, but he always tells me I don't have to bring it back. So I've gone back and forth. Right, gift a curse Blair, to answer the goddamn question, To. 00:56:00 Speaker 2: Answer the question, curse wrong gifts. I need all of my tupperware back. That is a piece of furniture essentially, and when I give it to you, I'm not giving it away. Right, that's family heirloom. That's something that I will put other food in. 00:56:17 Speaker 3: What are they doing with I respect your opinion. 00:56:20 Speaker 2: I brought you food. I didn't bring you plastic wear. 00:56:23 Speaker 3: Right, but tupperware is different than the you know, the business you're buying at the grocery. You know, and you mean like the brands, Yeah, meant the ones that are meant to be like single use, which is quite bad for environment. 00:56:38 Speaker 2: Right, No, it's an absolute gift. 00:56:41 Speaker 3: You're wrong, But I was on your side. 00:56:44 Speaker 2: Also, I don't care if you're on my side. 00:56:46 Speaker 3: You're wrong, Okay, that's fine. I accept that. I am. I have to say, I have been returning to tubberware. 00:56:53 Speaker 2: You have been returning, so you're a good person. Yeah, ultimately you're a good person. 00:56:56 Speaker 3: I agree, Thank you, all right. 00:56:57 Speaker 2: The second one is from a listener named John, And this is interesting because we were just kind of talking about this gift or a curse. Horror movies that have a PG thirteen rating. 00:57:08 Speaker 3: Well, anything slightly scary as a horror movie to me, So I have a different idea of the genre. I will say I don't watch most horror movies, like mostly all of them. But I did watch Sinners. Oh sure, and that's because people told me that I would like it, and they were correct, people who knew me. Well, incredible movie. I don't know where I'm going with this because I just realized, I don't think that's PG thirteen. Yeah, so what is rated PG thirteen? That's a horror movie. 00:57:39 Speaker 2: A lot of movies sixth Sense the others. 00:57:44 Speaker 3: Oh really, I've never seen others. I have seen The Sixth Sense, and that's considered a horror movie. 00:57:49 Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I would say so. I mean, it's got a lot of scary things in it. 00:57:52 Speaker 3: I have to rewatch it. I watched it once when I. 00:57:54 Speaker 2: Was a child when it came out, and it didn't scare. 00:57:56 Speaker 3: Kind of shit on me. But I didn't know if that was because it was my age or my sensitive constance. Shouldn't have to have a rewatch man. We can do that after foul coffee. 00:58:03 Speaker 2: Oh great? 00:58:04 Speaker 3: Also the Ring classic one, The Ring absolutely, Oh that's a PG thirteen And that's because it's not like obvious. 00:58:11 Speaker 2: Scre or head chop offs. Yeah, it's not as gratuitous, I guess, right. 00:58:17 Speaker 3: Okay, Well, I actually I guess have to go gift because I like that. That's what I'm looking for. 00:58:24 Speaker 2: Correct. Yeah, I think this is a real gift. I think this is an underrated thing. I think horror movies that are PG thirteen are often more scary because they're more restrained. 00:58:32 Speaker 3: Well, that's what I would have called, I guess a psychological thriller. 00:58:35 Speaker 2: But it's not right, no, because kind of what we've just been like the others is a like a ghost movie. Oh it's so good. 00:58:42 Speaker 3: You would like the others. 00:58:44 Speaker 2: You would love. That's a very good one. Sixth sense the Ring, Are there any other I feel like they're a whole bunch that like they're much more in control of themselves. Right, They're confident in being scary. They don't need to show you as much. Okay, I think part of a scary thing in a horror movie is saying less. Right, So you can imagine how scary it is. Right. I think it's an absolute gift. I got that right. 00:59:08 Speaker 3: That issue. It's like when you're around someone and they don't talk that much, they are like kind of scarier because you're like, what the fuck are they thinking? Why are they being so? What are they up to? 00:59:21 Speaker 2: What game are they playing? Okay, this is the find. Okay, you've gotten one right so far. This is from a listener named Meg Gift or a curse receiving ads in your non native language. 00:59:36 Speaker 3: When has this happened? 00:59:38 Speaker 2: It happens more? 00:59:39 Speaker 3: Oh okay, Well, that was probably like really colonial of me to make that assumption. Probably a lot of non English speaking people. Oh my god. I just checked myself and I've made a lot of miss hoops. I promoted a large corporation and I just acknowledge that and apologize to everyone I've let down. 01:00:00 Speaker 2: Me. 01:00:00 Speaker 3: It would be a gift because I don't like the ads, but I understand that artists, like ourselves, we need to have the ads to support our artistic ventures. Is the only way that we can exist subsist. So for me, it's a gift. But I guess for a I don't know. As a listener. It's a gift as a as a proprietor probably not. 01:00:26 Speaker 2: You're correct, I think this is an absolute gift. I love to receive an AD in a different language. First of all, I think I love to watch an ad. I just think that how exciting I get to see this stupid little movie. Second of all, when it's in another language, it's not as effective on me. So now I get to just watch the ad and really focus on the art of the commercial right. 01:00:47 Speaker 3: That is a problem for me. I am an extremely easily moved consumer. And because you know, it's a dopamine thing deficiency issue, but. 01:01:03 Speaker 2: It's very nice to get one, and you know, I'll occasionally get one in Spanish. It's like a little lesson. 01:01:08 Speaker 3: Well, I love the Spanish ones because I like to see how much I can understand and like Italian. 01:01:12 Speaker 2: Oh, it's almost a test for you. 01:01:14 Speaker 3: Yeah, like I do enjoy that. But yeah, like I would have. I mean, I don't think i've actually been unless the traveling or something. I'm not in many many scenarios where I'm hearing them in other languages. But I would like to feel a little bit impervious to me buying something for one second. 01:01:33 Speaker 2: Yeah, it'll be put a wall between you and the purchase. 01:01:36 Speaker 3: Right. 01:01:36 Speaker 2: I'm receiving them more and more. I don't know if it's like a mistake by whatever app I'm using that they don't realize that I don't speak any other languages, or if this is just like they just send out language or ads in all languages at this point and just hope they hit the right target. 01:01:52 Speaker 3: Are you watching a lot of foreign films? That sounds like something you would do. 01:01:54 Speaker 2: I'm watching a lot of housewives. 01:01:56 Speaker 3: Oh do you watch the. 01:02:00 Speaker 2: Yeah, of course that's the only one I watch. Do you love it? 01:02:05 Speaker 3: That finale was really good? 01:02:07 Speaker 2: I thought the finale was terrible. I know that Greek play that you had to watch, Well, I. 01:02:11 Speaker 3: Mean it's sheer brutality at this point. I mean that was like that was like worse than the Comedy Central roast, like like it was every second was cruel and brutal, like psychological torture, warfare. 01:02:27 Speaker 2: But I want to watch them saying those things to each other. I don't want to act it out by Greek actors. 01:02:32 Speaker 3: I thought I thought it was interesting. 01:02:34 Speaker 2: I thought it was so bad. Who can say, oh, that would help for sure? No, I was really let down by that that episode. 01:02:42 Speaker 3: I thought it was interesting, I did you know it is. I do think that Heather's like always trying to like recreate her you know, receipts proof. 01:02:54 Speaker 2: Oh, I know, she's kind of gotten into this thing where she's like that worked, and now I'm going to keep trying. 01:02:58 Speaker 3: Yeah, but I I thought it was a good. 01:03:03 Speaker 2: Do you think something happened on the plane with Meredith? 01:03:07 Speaker 3: Yeah? Do you? 01:03:11 Speaker 2: I would say ninety nine percent. But the only weird thing is is that there's no cell phone footage of it, which you think if there was like somebody acting out on a plane, somebody would have been covertly filming it. But I guess maybe if she was surrounded by and also especially Brittany, who has a past of recording them on her phone. 01:03:30 Speaker 3: Yeah, but I think there's ways around that, right, buying footage whatever. I mean, I just don't think there's any. 01:03:38 Speaker 2: Way at this point, right maybe Andy. 01:03:41 Speaker 3: And I don't. And I do think that it will come about later. 01:03:45 Speaker 2: I think probably as well, unless they kick her off the show. Yeah, well, you've got uh two out of three. That's incredible, pretty good, that's a very good score. 01:03:55 Speaker 3: And I mean, I know that you know it's not open to interpretation, but to think that I got the first one right as well? 01:04:03 Speaker 2: So gorgeous. Well, I think we should answer a listener question people writing into I said, no gives a Gmail dot com. Let's answer a question. 01:04:13 Speaker 3: I have to write that down in my phone so I can email. 01:04:16 Speaker 2: Yeah, please email constantly. All right, this is Highbridger. I'm writing to see if you can help me. I'll answer right now, yes I can. My mother in law used to transfer me three hundred dollars for my birthday every year, and suddenly she stopped. No three hundred dollars this year. What do I do? Doubt I can find a way to bring it up. Take care. And that's from Jelina. Jelena, Jelena j E L E n A. How would you say that, Helena? 01:04:45 Speaker 3: Oh h, Jelina, I'm guessing I'm just taking a stab in the dark. 01:04:53 Speaker 2: Jelina, I think that makes the most sense. Jelina's mother in law has been sending her three hundred dollar for probably decades at this point, e transferring it and suddenly that's no longer a thing. How was she supposed to solve this issue? She apparently lives or dies on this three hundred dollars. Every year she's been counting on it, she's been cut off. 01:05:15 Speaker 3: I don't think you can mention it just my personal you know, people giving money, you don't know the situation. And it is tricky because there is a chance something happened with her online banking mistake and then you're worried like, oh, I didn't thank her or something right, but I had this happen a family member first time ever not sent a gift this year, or like a card or whatever. And it's like, you can't just be like lit worth more morning. You're know, we're moing. 01:05:55 Speaker 2: But there are more subtle ways to do it. 01:05:58 Speaker 3: Well, what do you propose? 01:05:59 Speaker 2: I mean, you could send, for example, your family member a thank you card and then he'll be like, wait, did I send her something? I can't remember if I sent her something, and then it becomes a whole thing for him that he has to deal with. And this is what Jelina could be doing. Or I mean, she could thank mother in law for the three hundred dollars, and you know the think you says, thank you so much for the three hundred dollars that you always send me every year, and then maybe that sparks something in the mother in law's mind, Oh I forgot right. Or the other way around this is to call her right now and say, do you need three hundred dollars? Maybe the mother in law needs the three hundred dollars and if she doesn't, she'll that will also click something in her brain. She'll think, I don't, but you do. Let me eat transfer it to you right now. 01:06:42 Speaker 3: Right right. See. Wow, these are you had a lot of solutions at the top of your and I like that. You're not afraid to get confrontational. 01:06:50 Speaker 2: Right when money comes into play, You just have to confront. 01:06:54 Speaker 3: Like a freelancer. 01:06:55 Speaker 2: Yes, consider yourself a freelancer. With your mother in law. The other way is you can cut off your gift for her. You could have a summons something like this, just a slammer. Slam this lady for three hundred bucks small claims court. Yeah, exactly, sue her for the birthday gift that she didn't send you. That feels like the people's court. My mother in law used to send me three hundred dollars and I didn't get it this year, So now I'm suing her for that. Could be an option, and then. 01:07:32 Speaker 3: What if they went to the court and then the mother in law was like, wow, yeah, actually I wasn't asked to the children's school thing, and so I feel it was an appropriate response. 01:07:47 Speaker 2: Well, then we're getting into the real communication that needed to happen anyway. You know, this family is not being honest with each other, right, Everyone's hiding something. Obviously. The mother is in deep financial trouble and so she can't send the money, and she's also mad about the recital. Everything's falling apart for everyone. And if they were just honest to each other, I think everything would be. 01:08:06 Speaker 3: Fine, right, Or maybe the mother in law just decided to buy one coffee at Maroo Coffee and so she was unable to. 01:08:17 Speaker 2: You've really come from Maru Coffee here? 01:08:20 Speaker 3: Well, my local watering hole is only two blocks up from Maroo Coffee, in which I see a forty person line and I think, oh, these, oh these I they think they've read more than me. 01:08:37 Speaker 2: Okay, this sounds like a you problem. 01:08:40 Speaker 3: I have read more than them. That's just something I know. 01:08:43 Speaker 2: This sounds like you're just assuming the way they think about you. 01:08:47 Speaker 3: If they saw my platform us right now, they would throw up their gasoline, their four ounce gasoline coffee. 01:08:58 Speaker 2: Happily excuse Starbucks is up the street. 01:09:01 Speaker 3: Yeah, and I say, I know, honey, I'm on my way. 01:09:05 Speaker 2: Okay, I haven't been Tomorrow Coffee in a long time, but I remember it being good. 01:09:09 Speaker 3: Yeah. You know when the New York comedians coming to town, they want Todd Berry. Fine, I'll go to the Morrow. 01:09:18 Speaker 2: The line is too long, give me a break. 01:09:21 Speaker 3: And then I just say, I'll have an Arnold Palmer. Please, I have your finest four ounce Arnold. 01:09:27 Speaker 2: You're getting an Arnold Palmer at Marrow? 01:09:30 Speaker 3: Yeah, well, I mean it was at four pm. What do they think I'm gonna get that? If they served four pm coffee, I'm not gonna be to sleep that night. 01:09:38 Speaker 2: You know whatever. 01:09:40 Speaker 3: I'm like, get too crazy online shopping. 01:09:46 Speaker 2: Well, we answered Jelina's question perfectly. 01:09:49 Speaker 3: Julina, you just go grab your mother in law, buy this shirt. 01:09:57 Speaker 2: Burst through her window, pop up in the back seat of her. 01:10:00 Speaker 3: But don't you think like extended families, especially like if you don't like your mother in law, like everything is predicated on a lack of honesty. 01:10:09 Speaker 2: It's like just politeness totally. Yeah, because there's no real communication between the two of you ever, and so something has just like gone slightly wrong, right, And Nope, neither of them will ever say it. 01:10:21 Speaker 3: I've never dated someone whose mother I didn't like. 01:10:25 Speaker 2: Oh that's great. 01:10:26 Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, I'm sure there are some mean ones out there, of course. 01:10:29 Speaker 2: But you probably picked decent people to date, and. 01:10:32 Speaker 3: I don't think so. No, more so recently. 01:10:37 Speaker 2: Okay, but they've all always had at least a decent mom around. 01:10:42 Speaker 3: I just like them. Yeah. 01:10:44 Speaker 2: Interesting, Yeah, I wonder if at some point you kind of side with the mom against the son that you're dating. 01:10:49 Speaker 3: Yeah, who can say? 01:10:50 Speaker 2: Who can say? Well, Julina, don't write back in We answered the question perfectly. I still have some brownie left. I'm so excited to take this home with me finest brownie. 01:11:03 Speaker 3: Yes, please please feel free with my sanctioned approval to share with your husband for that. Oh oh no, actually he already goes. 01:11:13 Speaker 2: He goes to Starbucks constant, but. 01:11:14 Speaker 3: He might not be familiar with their A plus prize. 01:11:17 Speaker 2: No, he recently had a breakfast sandwich there and had a lot of complaints about it. Actually, what can I say? Well, Blair, I'm so glad you could be back. You keep bringing me food. 01:11:27 Speaker 3: Wow, that's my main interest. So that's what I like to share. I'm you. Look, I'm Italian, you're Italian. I'm very Italian. And the way that I commune and share love and break bread with people is through food. Really, that's how I connect. It's definitely not over coffee, honey, Italians love coffee only after dinner, after a nice languoris past on red wine. 01:11:53 Speaker 2: Thank you for being. 01:11:54 Speaker 3: Here, Thanks for having me, I mean even to be invited back, so. 01:11:58 Speaker 2: Thrill you will again, I'm sure, But listener, the podcast is obviously over. I'm going to walk away. You're going to walk away, but we'll return and meet again. Take care of yourself. I love you, goodbye. I said, No Gifts is an exactly right production. Our senior producer is Ellis Nelson, and our episodes are beautifully mixed by Ben Tolliday. The theme song is by miracle Worker Amy Mann, and we couldn't do it without our booker, Patrick Cottner. 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. And don't you want to see the gifts. 01:12:44 Speaker 1: Hell, Livy, did you hear fun a man myself perfectly clear? 01:12:52 Speaker 2: When you're I guess. 01:12:53 Speaker 1: Tom, you gotta come to me empty? I said, no, guest, your own presence is presents enough. I already had too much stuff, So how do 01:13:11 Speaker 2: You dare to surbey me?