00:00:08 Speaker 1: But I invited you here. I thought I made myself perfectly clear. When you're a guest in 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. 00:00:35 Speaker 2: So how do you dare to surbey me? 00:00:47 Speaker 3: Welcome to, I said, no gifts. I'm Richard Wineger. We're in the backyard, and it feels like the parrots are already circling. Uh. Uncertain if you'll be able to hear them or not, but at least the neighbors aren't constructing their home today. Oh I hope you yeah, I hope your spouse knows we're together. And what's going on in my life? 00:01:09 Speaker 2: Oh? 00:01:10 Speaker 3: Those parrots are just going for it. I love it. The only thing that look it's eleven am. I've been to the grocery store for no reason already. So we're off to a good start today. Let's get into the podcast. I love today's guests. He's so funny. It's Rob Hubel, Rob Richard. Welcome to. I said, no gifts. 00:01:30 Speaker 2: Thank you for having me. The parrots of Pasadena? 00:01:34 Speaker 3: Are they of Pasadena? 00:01:37 Speaker 2: I don't know where they came from. People don't care, or they may not even be able to hear it. But they're wild parrots that fly around here, and it's the worst. You think it's the worst. I would like to I'm trying to spearhead a community organization that would poison or shoot the parrots. Uh. It's been met with a lot of resistance by bird lovers. But I think if we can like maybe light their wings on fire or I don't know what what the solution is. 00:02:07 Speaker 3: Shooting a burning arrow that. 00:02:10 Speaker 2: Something human like that is a great idea. If you light an arrow on fire and shoot it through, they would die so quickly. 00:02:17 Speaker 3: In Vikings funeral both en mass. 00:02:20 Speaker 2: Yes, but yeah, so the parrots are kind of a problem. But I think we'll be fine today. 00:02:26 Speaker 3: I think I welcome them. I have, I have. I've been in this house for two years and have not seen them at this capacity before. 00:02:34 Speaker 2: Yeah, they I you're looking at me like I might know, Like I might be expert. Is that what a bird expert is called. I don't know why they're out in full force. Maybe it's mating season. 00:02:47 Speaker 3: It is the heat that's the wild could be the. 00:02:50 Speaker 2: Heat makes the parrots more promiscuous. 00:02:54 Speaker 3: Sexy, feeling for the birds. 00:02:56 Speaker 2: Yeah, I think also the other crazy thing again this we're getting off the very boring No one likes this part of the podcast. You always start off talking about birds and always said, don't like you know, put that later, get the get the listener with something that they can relate to, then get into the bird stuff. But yeah, I don't know whether they are horny because of the heat they do. I think parents live a very long time. They live like ninety true, they're gonna outlive us. 00:03:31 Speaker 3: So they're kind of circling and kind of just bragging about how sexy along their lives is. 00:03:36 Speaker 2: They're like vultures, but louder. 00:03:40 Speaker 3: Louder and hornier vultures. 00:03:41 Speaker 2: Yeah, where did you get at the store? Really? You went to the store, because it sounds like you've done a lot already. You already went to the grocery store, but you came away empty handed with nothing. 00:03:54 Speaker 3: Is this something that you're that ever happens in your life, you go to the grocery store for no reason and you enjoy it. 00:04:02 Speaker 2: I I do enjoy whole foods and I enjoy It's no big deal. I can afford it, but I enjoy to I enjoy the people you know, like like trying to figure out what everyone's deal is, kind of like what everyone's going through, because everyone, not just at Whole Foods, but everyone that you see out is going through something. 00:04:28 Speaker 3: Of course it's very empathetic of you. 00:04:30 Speaker 2: Thank you, But I just really try to figure it out. I don't try to help them. I just try to, like in my mind, go, oh, well, that woman is fucking she's so lost. It's really have turned on her her her marriage is and shambles. But I don't offer assistance. I just sort of try to diagnose it. 00:04:55 Speaker 3: Right, it's more of a nosiness, that's when you is that? 00:05:00 Speaker 2: But you what do you enjoy about the grocery store when you aren't purchasing something? 00:05:05 Speaker 3: I mean, that's certainly part of it, saying the different types and wondering how did they get here, what led them to this target? What will they leave with? Will I interact with them in any way? 00:05:16 Speaker 2: Yeah? 00:05:17 Speaker 3: Then there's the museum aspect of it for me, which is a little like the browsing, the looking at the new product. 00:05:23 Speaker 2: Yeah, the specifically at Target. 00:05:26 Speaker 3: Yeah, I love a grocery store. Okay, the nearest grocery store is a Target or a food for Less. 00:05:30 Speaker 2: But I'm sorry, I'm very confused. Target is a grocery store. I buy all of my wardrobe at Target. I know it's got. 00:05:40 Speaker 3: It exclusively as a clothing retail I. 00:05:42 Speaker 2: Knew it was a clothing retailer. I didn't know they were in foodstuffs. 00:05:45 Speaker 3: You just think that all of the those things are just kind of there by mistake. Get this out of my way. I need gens. 00:05:52 Speaker 2: I need stretchy gens, aaysapp Hurry. 00:05:57 Speaker 3: No, I'm I'm wandering around the store. I'm browsing. I love to look at the tabloids. Yes, I don't buy. I don't buy tabloids because I feel like that might be contributing to something bad. 00:06:07 Speaker 2: Yeah, I would love. 00:06:09 Speaker 3: I'm trying to find a way to get free tabloids because I do think that. 00:06:12 Speaker 2: That doesn't seem that hard. I feel like anyone listening to this, well, first of all, a lot of people would argue that you can afford the tabloids. They're not that expensive. 00:06:26 Speaker 3: You think that's a life for me, I could be living that life. 00:06:28 Speaker 2: I think you could. You could obtain that lifestyle, but you want to be given. Is there like a subscription. 00:06:35 Speaker 3: For me, And this is truly and maybe I just need to give in. I feel like there's a moral issue with buying a tabloid. 00:06:42 Speaker 2: And you're talking about like US Weekly National Inquirer. 00:06:44 Speaker 3: I mean, I love I just love seeing the front pages of all these things because they really make me laugh. Yeah, there's always something flashy and splashy. Yeah, but who's at the top. Yeah, frequently sometimes flashy. Or if you got flashy and splashy, you know the story is you? 00:07:00 Speaker 2: Are you a because you and I don't know each other? No, are you a gossip a Hollywood gossip person. 00:07:09 Speaker 3: I don't really care that much about the deeper gossip. I love more just the headlines. I love the words they're using. I love once we get past the like the big divorce or the devastating loss, Yeah, the horrifying what have you? Don't I don't need the detail. 00:07:28 Speaker 2: Yeah, are you and I'm not here to interview you. I'm sorry if it seems like. 00:07:32 Speaker 3: That, Well, you came here. You wanted to make it as clear as possible. We don't know each other, you like, please listen, know that I didn't know what I was walking in. 00:07:41 Speaker 2: We don't know we don't know how this is going to go. But are you? And I don't want to date the podcast because I want this to be evergreen, timeless. But the Queen's funeral is happening. 00:07:55 Speaker 3: Oh the Queen, It's all over. 00:07:56 Speaker 2: There, and are I'm wondering emotionally how you are impacted? 00:08:02 Speaker 3: This is what you know? When the queen died, I thought, you know what, a lot of a lot of people's grandma's died today. That was my feeling, and then I kind of moved on then. But the loss for me is the queen has been fodder for the tabloids. I mean, she's been fifty percent of the tabloids for the last like four years. Yes, So what do we do with that space on the front of a tabloid? 00:08:23 Speaker 2: Yeah? I feel like the rest of her family is going to fill that void pretty easily. Are you? Are you excited about your new king? 00:08:34 Speaker 3: We'll see what the tabloids have to dig up about him, because I do think he's I mean, obviously he's a dud. Yeah, the man's a dud. He's been a dud. 00:08:41 Speaker 2: Yeah. 00:08:43 Speaker 3: Everything exciting around him has been the other people in his life. It's been Diana it's been mom, it's been the suns. What does King Charles have to offer? I mean, Prince Andrew. Let's be honest, there's some tabloid fodder if you ever ever talked about it. Yes, but maybe now that he's in full spotlight we get some new information. 00:09:05 Speaker 2: Yes, I bet you that will happen very quickly. There's going to be a bunch of terrible things. 00:09:11 Speaker 3: What sort of things are we talking about here? What does Charles have. 00:09:15 Speaker 2: I would imagine, I don't know, great question. I would imagine like sex scandals. 00:09:23 Speaker 3: He just seems like such an unbelievably sexless human being. 00:09:27 Speaker 2: Yeah, for sure, but there have to have been like I don't know, like some willing participants or unwilling participants. 00:09:35 Speaker 3: Who knows something gross has happened, something regardless of whether it was legal or not. He's done some gross things. 00:09:41 Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, And we don't have to talk about the stupid royals. But I have enjoyed the alternative take on her passing, which is pointing out how ridiculous and useless and wasteful the monarchy is. What an obvious like drain on their taxpayer, Like how much these people are stealing? They are stealing from you, like they have so much well for what reason. 00:10:13 Speaker 3: Yes, they feel like they should have, Like they moved into a house and should have been evicted years and years ago, years ago. Yes, and and everyone seems to agree about that. I mean, I feel like there's this weird feeling of like kind of performative sadness about it, sure, which no one really believes they're sad. Right, Maybe there's like a small community in the Midwest that feels bad about the situation. Everyone else is like they've gotten away with murder over and over and over, over and over and have contributed as far as I can tell. Yes, God bless. 00:10:43 Speaker 2: Actively and or at least passively, like not doing anything and like not trying to change things for the people of the commonwealth around the world, you know. But like but also just the pure financial scamminess of it. There's so much money that these people are getting from whatever. It's a good gig, it's a great gig. I wish I could. 00:11:09 Speaker 3: I mean, how do you land it? You gotta you gotta marry. 00:11:12 Speaker 2: In Megan Markle, my wife is furious that a that a Hollywood actress is now a princess because I think my wife has always wanted to be a princess. 00:11:23 Speaker 3: Could have happened to her, she got stuck with. 00:11:26 Speaker 2: Me, and I'm not royal, but yeah, I don't know. I think that that whole system is pretty outdated and ridiculous. And if you're listening to this and you disagree, call in right now. 00:11:37 Speaker 3: Call in. 00:11:37 Speaker 2: Our phones are live, they're silent. My phone. I'm showing you my phone not ringing. 00:11:45 Speaker 3: The world is showing its true feelings about the queen right now. No one cares. 00:11:48 Speaker 2: No one cares, or you would be calling. You would be calling our numbers. 00:11:52 Speaker 3: Where was this passion that you were I mean, the passion you were showing a few days ago. Now it's gone. They didn't care, absolutelying it on for the queen. And now the king is in charge, has the funeral as of recording right now. Has it happened yet? 00:12:07 Speaker 2: I believe it's great question on your own. 00:12:11 Speaker 3: Podcast, Thank you, Thank You, got one so far. 00:12:15 Speaker 2: I believe it's happening now. But she lies in state for like four days, which seems excessive, right. And I also just heard on the radio on the on the way over here. No big deal. I can afford a radio in my heart that the coffin is made out of lead and it weighs like a thousand pounds, Like I'm not. 00:12:39 Speaker 3: Going to sink it to the bottom of something I don't. 00:12:42 Speaker 2: Know, but so you know that. So the people that are carrying the coffin do what do they call those Paul Bears? Thank you? 00:12:49 Speaker 3: Uh? 00:12:49 Speaker 2: It's extremely heavy, extremely heavy. So when you watched it, you know there could be some funny bloopers who knows. 00:12:58 Speaker 3: Or some ripped Paul Bear, very ripped. These guys are. 00:13:04 Speaker 2: Just oiled up, ripped. Who are these guys? They're the sexiest Paul Bears, topless Paul Bear. 00:13:12 Speaker 3: That would be a good uh, dragging this coffinto the mud, which it will sink in. 00:13:17 Speaker 2: Yeah. Have you have you been to a lot of funerals? 00:13:25 Speaker 3: I haven't been to that many funerals. 00:13:26 Speaker 2: I've been to about how many? 00:13:28 Speaker 3: I would say probably four. 00:13:32 Speaker 2: Stop the podcast. Stop the fucking podcast. We should not even be recording this. Are you? I should be on my way to a Yes, you've in your lifetime? Are you like fourteen? 00:13:45 Speaker 3: I just turned eleven and I turned I'll be clear, I turned down a lot of funerals. I get the invites from like that. One's not from me. 00:13:52 Speaker 2: No, thank you. 00:13:53 Speaker 3: People are dying like flies, they're dropping like flies. But I'm not. I'm picky, I'm very My whole family is dead. I'm a loving yourself. 00:14:01 Speaker 2: I've only been to two of the. 00:14:03 Speaker 3: Funerals by accident. Those two are by accident. 00:14:07 Speaker 2: That is, well, you are you are really lucky, or everyone you know is. 00:14:11 Speaker 3: Really lucky, or I'm thoughtless. And I've forgotten a lot of funerals that I've. 00:14:14 Speaker 2: Bet either way. I mean, only four funerals. 00:14:17 Speaker 3: I think only four funerals. 00:14:19 Speaker 2: I so much grief out there waiting for you, so much grief waiting to be explored. 00:14:24 Speaker 3: I mean, I will say I think part of that. And I think I've think been thinking about this with weddings too. I grew up Mormon, and everything with Mormons happens early. People get married early, they have kids early. So your grandparents are young, youngish compared to other people's. So I haven't had that many people in my life die yet. 00:14:41 Speaker 2: Yeah, but I mean winter is coming. 00:14:44 Speaker 3: I know it's coming, like a thousand pound coffin is gonna be. 00:14:48 Speaker 2: Yeah, crush, I mean you're gonna be at some point, It'll be funeral season for you. You gotta get a snappy little black suit. 00:14:56 Speaker 3: Funeral City, USA. 00:15:00 Speaker 2: Had a I don't know how we how many that I steered us in. 00:15:05 Speaker 3: I want to talk about. 00:15:06 Speaker 2: This well, I want to. It reminds me now of one very quick story because I want, I do want to get your take on this. Okay, Okay, my parents died. I'm way older than you. My parents died a few years ago, you know, separately. They were very old and had great, long lives. But when I my mom is from South Carolina and was in South Carolina when she died, and so I called her church to start the ball rolling to sure, you know, a minister to do the funeral and every and we were you know, I'm going to fly in and and do stuff with my brothers and everything. So whoever answered the phone at my mom's church, you know, I was grief stricken. I don't even remember talking to this person, but they wrote down my name and my phone number. Okay, So about two months ago, I get a text from this person. My mom died four years ago. So I get a text from this person, and I should find it on my phone and read it to you. It makes me furious to think about this, so I might have deleted it. This person texted me and said, Hey, Rob, this is so and so from blankety blank church in South Carolina. I answered the phone when your mom died and you know, pointed to you in the right direction to whoever. Hey, listen, man, I'm coming up to New York and I need a place to stay. And I was wondering if you still have your apartment in New York and if I could crash at your apartment in New York. Text me back and let me know. Okay, thank you. So I'm I was offended by that, but I don't I may be wrong, and I'm curious. 00:16:56 Speaker 3: Let's get into this. So did you ever cross paths with this person? 00:16:59 Speaker 2: No, no idea who this person is. Never seen him before. Now I've gendered him. I don't know who the details we're going to, I don't know who this person is. I don't remember any kind of interaction with them. This is just someone that I think recognized my name. Maybe a weird comedy fan. 00:17:23 Speaker 3: Right, So, I'm aware that you were in New York at one point. 00:17:26 Speaker 2: Yes, but I've not lived in New York for I've lived in California for I think fifteen years, right, But yes, at one point, I was in New York for a long time. I was in New York for eleven years, and but not when my mom died. Yes, this person must have thought, I guess he probably has an apartment still in New York. 00:17:45 Speaker 3: But how many people have they gone through before they got to you? 00:17:49 Speaker 2: Or like, great question, great question? At what? Yes, at what point do you go? Oh? You know who I could call? I could call Rob Hubell. How do you know Rebu? Oh? His mom died and I was answering the phone at her church when she died, and I saved like a stalker. I wrote down his cell phone number and I kept it in my wallet for four years. And I'll fucking call him right now, and or I'll text him and I'll just see if that's doable, because he seems nice and we could be friends. 00:18:22 Speaker 3: Like what what sort of vacation is this person where they they're taking to New York that they're reaching out to you? 00:18:32 Speaker 2: Exactly what are you playing? I was furious, and I'm still furious. I did not. I had to be talked off a ledge my wife. I told I read my read it to my wife and she was like, oh my god. And I was like, I mean I have to call the church right and like, get this kind of trouble. This is not appropriate chur now it could be. But then my friend Paul Sheer talked me off the ledge. He said, look, it's probably like some twenty year old kid that you know is a comedy fan, like probably doesn't even work there anymore, Like just let it go talk about it on podcasts. So he gave you a little story. Yeah, he gave me a story. 00:19:21 Speaker 3: I mean, is there any chance he's been in touch with the rest of your family and there? But actually that was then again it would be like, I don't know. Maybe he's still living in New York. Obviously your family knows. 00:19:28 Speaker 2: Where you are. Yeah, I don't know. And if you're listening to this podcast, sir, what are you doing? What are you doing? What the fuck? Get your shit together? Why are you uh saving people's phone numbers who were grieving? That's so four years year, so weird. 00:19:46 Speaker 3: Even if you, let's say it wasn't even a grieving thing, maybe you just randomly met at a party four years ago, it would still be the wildest thing to hit someone up four years later and say can I stay in your apartment? 00:19:58 Speaker 2: I I I don't know. Sometimes I wonder about that age bracket, and I don't know how old you are striving to be crazy enough? Do you ever talk about thirties? Are you serious? That's impossible? I mean, I know this is a podcast and people can't see you, but google him, like, google his face, look at me. Impossible. You're in your thirties. Okay, But I was going to say that I think there might be a thing going on with this age bracket of like just kids that don't have any sense at all, right, no sense right, like you just you've been looking at apps on your phones for your whole I mean, not that that would make you thoughtless, but anyway, I'm spending too much time on this. 00:20:43 Speaker 3: No, that's fascinating. And I wonder what he's gonna I mean, you didn't respond to him, So who does he go to after you? Is the real question? 00:20:51 Speaker 2: Listen, more power to him. He'll probably move to New York, get a great job and run. Yeah, like will actively like not hire me for some show or movie? 00:21:01 Speaker 3: Remember me? 00:21:02 Speaker 2: Yeah? You piece of shit. All I wanted was a place to stay in New York. 00:21:08 Speaker 3: There's a chance you really were his first text, his first call, that would be Bizar. 00:21:14 Speaker 2: I could have been his first choice. So that's when we got into this because of funerals. That was my last funeral was funerals. That situation, so it can only get better, you know, I don't know. 00:21:26 Speaker 3: I mean this person could be involved with the next one. 00:21:28 Speaker 2: I mean, listen, I should tell everybody to call this church and try to make friends with this guy. I really should do it. I won't. 00:21:37 Speaker 1: Wow. 00:21:37 Speaker 3: And you're assuming he's in his twenties. I'm assuming he could be five years old. Yes, he could be an older person. I genuinely don't remember. I think it was a younger person, but I don't remember. Also, weird job, just answering the phone at a church. But you're getting these celebrity phone numbers. You're taking advantage living. 00:22:00 Speaker 2: Probably famous people, very famous. Oh my god, Rob you I got to write this down. I have to write this down. 00:22:09 Speaker 3: He looks down at that tattoo on his wrist, like, oh, I got time to use this number. 00:22:14 Speaker 2: Now I make use of this tattoo that I got. 00:22:19 Speaker 3: Well, I mean, that's fascinating and obviously completely inappropriate. And speaking of things that are completely inappropriate. You agreed to be on this podcast a little while ago. Yeah, this isn't the first podcast you've been been on. You you know how they would. 00:22:34 Speaker 2: You be surprised if it was. 00:22:36 Speaker 3: My fast that would be incredible, that would be Have. 00:22:38 Speaker 2: You ever had a guest? You know, I would even go out on a limb here and say you would not accept a guest that had never been on a podcast. If someone said, hey, Bridger, you know, thanks for the invite, I'd love to do the show, but I've actually never been on a podcast, you would say no, no, no, no, no no no. 00:22:55 Speaker 3: I would probably have to quietly back away. Then I'd probably be like, we've got you on a list we're gonna get We'll get to you in a fue'll. 00:23:02 Speaker 2: Double back to you. Ye that now, I know you're not going to go into this, but this podcast is obviously very exclusive. I know there's a long waiting list to you know, I've been on the list for many many months. 00:23:14 Speaker 3: You've been begging. 00:23:15 Speaker 2: But is there uh a sub sub list of people that you know You're like, well, maybe we'll get them on. Maybe there's They're not going to be that great, A. 00:23:30 Speaker 3: Guess fortunately not yet, okay. I mean occasionally you run into somebody and kind of like this funeral person that like maybe you haven't seen it or heard from in a long time. The podcast gets brought up and then you get into weird territory of like they haven't been on yet, and you have to kind of just dance around it for a minute to then hope that the subject changes. 00:23:51 Speaker 2: Been Really do people come on and they're upset that they haven't been on the podcast. 00:23:56 Speaker 3: No one that's been on has been upset that they haven't been on. But I'll run someone socially and I'll be like, oh, you're a dud and you want. 00:24:02 Speaker 2: To be on the oh yeah, yeah yeah. 00:24:04 Speaker 3: And then we. 00:24:05 Speaker 2: Just but we're not going to get any names for the listener Paul Sheer, but he was on. 00:24:10 Speaker 3: He he finally got through. Will we allowed to. 00:24:14 Speaker 2: Turn it into his own podcast. We'll start talking about movies and how they ever got made, and it's like, well how did that get You're like, wait a second, I'm now on. 00:24:24 Speaker 3: Your This is now going to be released on your networking absolutely common deer, and now the audio belongs to you. I'm signing the release. 00:24:31 Speaker 2: It happened that would just migrated and then you mind if I borrowed that episode. We've covered some really great stuff. 00:24:42 Speaker 3: But this is actually now, now that we're getting into this, it feels like you're just distracting completely from what I was trying to get us to, which is this podcast is called I said No Gifts. Yeah, I was really excited to have you here. Thank Everyone loves Rob Hubell from South Carolina to Los Angeles. 00:24:57 Speaker 2: Thank you. 00:24:58 Speaker 3: Twenty year old's all over the world are hoping that someone in your family passes so they can get your phone number, if only so. I was excited until you kind of sauntered up through my backyard folding a bag, a gorgeous gift bag. 00:25:15 Speaker 2: Thank you that. 00:25:17 Speaker 3: I mean, let's be honest, even before the podcast, we knew it was for me. You kind of made it clear that was for me. 00:25:23 Speaker 2: Well, I'm embarrassed because I think I just didn't the name of the podcast is. I said No Gifts, right, so I assumed, you know, I did some homework. I listened to a couple of the other episode, Darcy cardon Summer Is it summers or summer summer? Summer? 00:25:44 Speaker 3: Yeah, it's an interesting with Suzanne out there dominating the summer that it is his mom. He removed the s so there would be no claims of nepotism. 00:25:54 Speaker 2: Try to distance himself. I listened to those episodes, and I was very prize that they brought gifts, and because I got like, well, the whole premise of the show is do not bring a gift, right, So I panicked. I went to the store and I started thinking, you know, in the back of my mind the whole time, I was like, what they say, no gifts, But what if I don't want to be the one person who doesn't have something. If you show up to a party and you don't have something, better to have it and not need it so sweet? I would just say, I'm happy to take it away if you don't think that you want it, right. But I did go shopping for you, and I got something and a card was a wow, and uh, and it's really hard to shop for you. I'll tell you that because we don't. 00:26:53 Speaker 3: Know each other, right, that makes it difficult to buy somebody a gift. 00:26:56 Speaker 2: So I could only, you know, listen to some other episodes. I started thinking about what you might like, what you might be into, and so I just went with my gut. Well, and I hope you like it. 00:27:10 Speaker 3: Should I open it here on the podcast and maybe we'll just see what happened. 00:27:14 Speaker 2: I mean, if you want to, Yeah, it's your podcast. I would say, it's your podcast, and if you want to open it, be my guest on your podcast. 00:27:23 Speaker 3: I appreciate this new level of respect you're showing me. 00:27:26 Speaker 2: And there's a you know, I mentioned there's a card also. I went to the card store. I wrote a very what I think is a thoughtful message, okay, and I don't want to overhype it. I just I hope it's something that you can use. I hope that it that you like. 00:27:59 Speaker 3: Okay, Yeah, I mean let's get into it. I mean the bag is split wide open. 00:28:03 Speaker 2: It is a gift bag situation. 00:28:04 Speaker 3: It looks like it bent over to pick something up. 00:28:07 Speaker 2: It was a I'm realizing that this must have been a gift bag that was used previously in my home because it is split. I didn't notice that. And you know, if we're gonna just you know, say everything on the. 00:28:20 Speaker 3: Podcast radical honesty, you know, yeah, if. 00:28:22 Speaker 2: That's what this is. This is like one of those gotcha podcasts where you know. Suddenly I'm like, you know, everyone's coming at me. Yeah. There is a tear or a rip in down the back of the gift bag, which I didn't notice in my home, where I certainly would have. 00:28:40 Speaker 3: It's kind of a fascinating place for a bag to rip open. You never see this sort of thing. The last person who got into this went while it was a bear, a very careful bear. 00:28:50 Speaker 2: And now I asked my wife. I said, do we have any tissue paper? Because we have a five year old, and you know, we go to birthday parties. No big deal. We can afford to go to birthday parties, children's birthday. We can afford that. And so I said, you know, I'm sure we have tissue paper. You know, it's for Bridges podcast. And she said, I don't know who that is. 00:29:10 Speaker 3: H This family does not know me. That's you came here. 00:29:14 Speaker 2: I want to make it clear that my entire family is unfamiliar. And my daughter was you know, she's five. She was like, but Papa, where are you going? I said, well, honey, Daddy will be back. I have to go to a podcast. Well, Papa, that's she calls me Papa. It's very European dangerous. I said, I'll be fine, but so we we didn't have tissue paper, so I used some bubble wrap, right, some kind of gorgeous, and then I found I found a little bit of tissue paper in our linen closet that was wrapped around an old gift. But I don't want you to think that this was thrown together. 00:29:51 Speaker 3: Right and have crossed my mind. Okay, let's get let's get the card out here. 00:29:56 Speaker 2: I think you'll I hope you like it. 00:29:58 Speaker 3: The card is completely sealed, but feels very old fashioned to me at this point when somebody licks the envelope and seals. 00:30:05 Speaker 2: Now, look, I you know I licked it. I'll be honest, I licked it. I don't have COVID. If that's what we're worried about, I wouldn't. 00:30:15 Speaker 3: Even say it's a COVID thing. I mean, that's just it feels like mult people are so lazy. Look commentary on today's society. I think people are too lazy to lick the envelope. 00:30:24 Speaker 2: I love it. It is if you know me, which if you know me, which you don't, you would know that I love to lick envelopes. It's like part of my thing. It's a very big thing. Everybody that knows me knows that about me. It's hubil. He's always looking an envelope. 00:30:41 Speaker 3: Okay, well, I'm gonna stick my finger under here and open its. 00:30:44 Speaker 2: Sorry about all the saliva, and it's wet, it's extreme. It was recently licked. I licked it in the car. I hear children gallivanting. Is there a school. 00:30:55 Speaker 3: There's a school nearby, the sound of children playing the listeners. 00:31:00 Speaker 2: You got to move to this neighborhood. They got free parrots, they got kids laughing. 00:31:06 Speaker 3: Okay, I'm opening it up. Oh oh, this is a Dolly Parton card. 00:31:11 Speaker 2: It is. It's an official Dolly Parton card, and you can you can read it. 00:31:16 Speaker 3: Out says I'll always love you. It's a picture of Dolly, of course. 00:31:19 Speaker 2: You know, because she's you know, famously. That's a song of hers. 00:31:23 Speaker 3: That is a song of hers. One of the best songs maybe of all time, could be. Could we say that it's a heartbreaking song. 00:31:32 Speaker 2: I think I think we could probably say that. 00:31:33 Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, she and Whitney have I don't know if anyone else has ever tried to cover it. 00:31:38 Speaker 4: That would be humiliating. At this point, I don't think you could do it. Y are you thinking about covering it? 00:31:44 Speaker 3: I'm toying with it. I have a demo, I have a real rough demo. But to get into the studio with this thing, I. 00:31:52 Speaker 2: Just I'm not sure it's going to be received. Honestly, maybe if I start live, do like shows, sporting events. 00:32:02 Speaker 3: Yes, in place of the national anthem, I do my version I. 00:32:05 Speaker 2: Will always love you in place of the national anthem. I mean, yeah, it's a bold move, but could be good. 00:32:13 Speaker 3: It could work in I mean, I don't see any downsides. I don't see it falling apart in it. 00:32:18 Speaker 2: I don't think there's going to be any backlash. 00:32:20 Speaker 3: Zero backlash. Okay, we're opening it up, it says Bridger. Please accept my apologies for bringing a gift. We've been through a lot, so there was there was a time when you wanted people to think we knew each other, but then you drove over here and started second guessing. 00:32:33 Speaker 2: Then, to clarify, I didn't mean. I didn't mean that you and I together have been through I just mean the collective we. 00:32:42 Speaker 3: Right, because now it says pandemic nine to eleven heat wave. I'm sorry for all of it. So you're accepting responsibility, which is nice. 00:32:51 Speaker 2: Well wait, whoa wa, whoa whoa whoa whoa woa, let's we might have to stop the podcast. I am not responsible for nine to eleven. And I've never been on a podcast where I've been blamed for nine eleven. So if that's the kind of gotcha podcast that I've walked into where I'm being blamed for nine to eleven, no, I said, We've been through. We America, the world have been through a lot, the pandemic nine to eleven and the heat wave just recently. Uh. And I apologize for all of that. I didn't. I didn't mean to imply that I am responsible responsible. 00:33:27 Speaker 3: Uh well, I appreciate you speaking to everyone's pain. 00:33:31 Speaker 2: Thank you. And this is listen, this is just the car. 00:33:34 Speaker 3: This is simply the car. Haven't opened the gift yet. 00:33:35 Speaker 2: I haven't gotten to gift. 00:33:37 Speaker 3: Have you ever met Dolly Parton? 00:33:38 Speaker 2: I have not. I feel like that would be a great person to me. 00:33:44 Speaker 3: Right. 00:33:45 Speaker 2: I've been to Dollywood. 00:33:47 Speaker 3: I've been to outside of Dollywood in Pigeon for it. Yes to Tennessee, Yes, me too. I went there in my early twenties. 00:33:54 Speaker 1: Me too. 00:33:55 Speaker 3: Wow, we could have crossed paths. 00:33:57 Speaker 2: What the same, Aime eleven. Wait, now that I'm thinking about I don't think I went into Dollywood. 00:34:05 Speaker 3: I think I was just nearby, and you were just in the insane towns, a lot of Christian the mini golf courses. Yes, yes, kind of. It's a fascinating place. 00:34:15 Speaker 2: It is really. 00:34:17 Speaker 3: I had never been to the South in general, and this was really my big taste of it. Wow, a friend's wife was dancing in a magic show at Dollarwood. 00:34:26 Speaker 2: The podcast down. I'm shutting it down again for the third time. A friend's wife was dancing in a magic show in Tennessee. 00:34:37 Speaker 3: I used to tell the story by saying my friend's wife was a magician at Dollywood, but then I had to explain the truth and it wasn't as fun. So she was dancing in a magic show. And this goes back to Mormonism. My friend was already married, he was twenty two or something. They were married. They're still married, wonderful people. But she is a dancer and got hired. 00:34:56 Speaker 2: Are you telling you like a stripper when you dance? 00:35:00 Speaker 3: Well, you no one knows what happens. Neither of us knows what happens to Dollywood. We've never been in show. 00:35:05 Speaker 2: We don't. Just a bunch of x rages, filthy, filthy Christian strippers. I don't think the theme. I don't think Dollywood is a Christian theme. No, but it's just around there, right kind of. 00:35:19 Speaker 3: It's kind of a little island in the middle of this deep. 00:35:21 Speaker 2: Place, islands in the streets. 00:35:23 Speaker 3: That we go again, Dolly did It all comes back to Dolly? 00:35:26 Speaker 2: But so you went there. I'm sorry if you've told the story. 00:35:29 Speaker 3: A lot is not on this podcast. Okay, great, Uh, we went there. We drove across the country with him because they were moving there. 00:35:35 Speaker 2: And that is so Mormon, and I don't I cannot say that, probably because I'm not Mormon, but it seems like a very Mormon that we drove across the country. 00:35:46 Speaker 3: In a car with no ac because they were moving there. They were moving there. 00:35:50 Speaker 2: You were going to help them unload their car. 00:35:52 Speaker 3: Yes, well, I think it was more. I mean, let's be honest, it was more an opportunity to drive in the country in your early twenties. Your friend's wife is becoming a magic dancer. Why would you say no? But we didn't actually go inside. We got to the parking lot. It was probably fifty dollars. We said, no, yeah, and will I ever get back? God knows. 00:36:14 Speaker 2: I don't think you will. 00:36:15 Speaker 3: And you haven't been inside either. Why were you in Pigeon Forge? 00:36:18 Speaker 2: Oh? Oh, boy, Bridger, We're gonna go deep here. No. I went to college in South Carolina. I went to Clemson, and I, oh, I hope my wife doesn't listen to this podcast. 00:36:31 Speaker 3: She's she's a dedicated fan of well she. 00:36:34 Speaker 2: She wasn't prior to this, but once I started mentioning you and I googled you to see what you were about, she started really you know, coming around to liking you. So now I'm worried she's gonna listen to this. Anyway, prior to my wife, I dated other people. Oh no, this is and yeah, marit old trouble. Well, my wife was not the first person I dated. I mean, I got married when I was forty five. I got married like, you know a few years five seven years ago. But anyway, when I was in college, I dated a girl from Tennessee. Okay, so I used to have to drive to Tennessee to go so and so I would drive past that area. Yeah, okay, but I never I never went inside, and I don't know that there is some fancy like retreat, not a retreat, like a resort in the mountains there, And I'm spacing on the name of it, but it's supposed to be beautiful, like you know, you go there with your significant other or by yourself and eat delicious food and you go on hikes. 00:37:34 Speaker 3: This is in the Smoky mountains. 00:37:36 Speaker 2: Yes, yes, yes, yes, you know the name of it. 00:37:37 Speaker 3: You seem like sure, No, okay, I just a m I have the word blue in it? 00:37:42 Speaker 2: Why do I? 00:37:42 Speaker 3: Why am I seeing the word blue? I feel like some friends may have recently gone. 00:37:46 Speaker 2: Yes, me too. 00:37:47 Speaker 3: Oh interesting, it might be the same friends. 00:37:50 Speaker 2: For all we know. We could be brothers. We could be I could be your dad. 00:37:55 Speaker 3: There's nothing about you. I don't know. 00:37:57 Speaker 2: Am I your dad? 00:37:58 Speaker 3: You're my father? Well, okay, so we've talked about Dolly. I haven't even opened the gift yet. 00:38:03 Speaker 2: The list? Oh god? And can I can I? Can? I? Yes, very nervous. I don't want to explain the gift, but can I ask? What have you gotten a gift that you don't like? On the show? And then I'm worried you're gonna pretend that you like it, and then you don't like it. 00:38:22 Speaker 3: Yeah. I mean I've gotten things that I've thrown I've gotten one thing I've thrown away, which I've talked about probably too much on this podcast. The comedian Jamie Lee gave me a chewed up dog toy. She knew it was a chewed up dog toy. I knew. No one thought that I was going to stay in my home now long. Yeah, and you have a dog, I have a Dog's at least she could have done to send a new dog toy. 00:38:42 Speaker 2: She doesn't want to use dog You know how. 00:38:44 Speaker 3: Dog sickness passes. Yeah, that was the one thing that I've thrown away. 00:38:48 Speaker 2: I think, okay, but everything else you've loved. 00:38:51 Speaker 3: Look, it's been I would say they've ranged from a two to a ten. There have been some real two's. 00:38:56 Speaker 2: That's fair. This is I just spent a lot of money. So I'm hoping that you like it. It's just like it's just when you know, when you ground on a limb and you really m you know, max out your credit card or whatever and sell a car, and yeah, you want the you want the receiver, the recipient to be excited. So that said, you know. 00:39:18 Speaker 3: I'll be very honest with you. I'm gonna be I'm gonna lay it all out. We've talked about radical honesty and how important communication is. 00:39:24 Speaker 2: Is radical honesty a policy on this podcast? Is? It is? It is? I just haven't heard it before on the podcast. I mean, and I was kind of fast forwarding through some parts, kind of just blasting through what I mean. I want to have funny stories of the other guests, but I didn't want to look like you know, I couldn't. I'm very busy, so I couldn't listen to all of it. But uh, yeah, if it's come up, I believe you. 00:39:50 Speaker 3: Okay, Well, uh, there's some bubble wrap here. Let me see if I can at least pop it on the mic. It's a small bubble wrap, which is not great. It's not gonna happen. It'll be more of a crank. 00:40:00 Speaker 2: I think you might be underestimating how many people like the sound of this. This is there's a whole like ASMR. There really is. 00:40:09 Speaker 3: Somebody needs to do a compilation of every unwrapped gift put on like a four hour YouTube video. 00:40:15 Speaker 2: People would go crazy crazy. 00:40:18 Speaker 3: We got some tissue, Yeah, Okay, Now. 00:40:23 Speaker 2: I hope you like it. 00:40:24 Speaker 3: Okay, so I've opened, uh, but appears to be a pair of tied eyes sweatpaints. Yes, that say have a good trip with some mushrooms on it. 00:40:34 Speaker 2: I love this, Okay, great, Absolutely. 00:40:37 Speaker 3: I actually will wear the maybe not to social gatherings. 00:40:41 Speaker 2: I wouldn't wear it to a social gathering. But it's the kind of thing where if you're if your house catches on fire, God forbid. 00:40:49 Speaker 3: God forbid. Of course God. 00:40:51 Speaker 2: It's dark, right, it's smoky. 00:40:53 Speaker 3: All of my candles are falling over. 00:40:55 Speaker 2: Yeah, or falling over you like you can't. You don't want to go outside naked? Right, these are perfect for that. You throw them on. They're bright colors. 00:41:06 Speaker 3: They're like a neon orange and yellow. 00:41:09 Speaker 2: Yeah, and it says have a good trip with some mushroom. So it's sort of like a little bit psychedelic. Maybe we don't know what that even means. Is that the brand? We don't know? But there they appear to be very comfortable. I've never worn them, you know, And I could take them back to Nordstrom and in a flash, I got a gift receipt, So it's it's not gonna hurt my feelings if you, I. 00:41:31 Speaker 3: Will say Nordstrom has a great return policy. 00:41:34 Speaker 2: Listen, they need to tighten it up. They I think I think that they. I think that a lot of costumers in the business, a lot of wardrobe stylists go low budgets. Yeah, you go there and you buy all the clothes for the movie, and then you go, oh, just fucking take it back, just like, don't fall down when you're driving, you know, your car or whatever. 00:41:53 Speaker 3: Please put down that grape juice while. 00:41:55 Speaker 2: They just return it all right. 00:41:58 Speaker 3: I think these are professional productions. 00:42:01 Speaker 2: Shows you the level of movies and shows that I'm involved with where they they can't afford the clothes. You were gonna return these clothes? 00:42:11 Speaker 3: No, I heard this about The Batman. They just have the costuming and that was done by Nordstrom, and all of those were returned. Anything you've seen Zoe Kravitz wearing in that movie is now back on the shelves. 00:42:21 Speaker 2: It's all back on the shelves anyway. I hope that you know, you seem like an athletic person. You might work out in them, or walk your dog. I know you have a lovely dog. 00:42:33 Speaker 3: You've met the dog before the podcast. 00:42:34 Speaker 2: Yeah, and she seems great. So maybe you know I don't want to sell the gift. You know, I love joy the gift. 00:42:42 Speaker 3: I mean, okay, so worst case scenario, I'm greeting firefighters in these Yes, I would love to be seen in these. Absolutely, they can see me in the dark. Not hard to spot with that. 00:42:53 Speaker 2: What would that be like? Like if you're how is it any consolation if your house is And this is for the listener anyone here. I'm assuming that most of your listeners have burned down their houses. Of who hasn't the odds are, But is it any consolation to have a group of handsome, fit, sweaty men come to your house and be like, I got you, I'm going to take care of you. I'm going to rescue you, I'm saving you. Like does that help for me? 00:43:29 Speaker 3: The temptation to be carried out like a little doll by a handsome man, I'll light something on fire? 00:43:37 Speaker 2: I mean, I'm surprised that it doesn't happen more often. 00:43:40 Speaker 3: It probably, I guarantee it's happened at least once. Someone has thought if I'm going to meet a firefighter, this is the way I'm going to do it. It's either that or host a pancake breakfast. And I don't have the time or energy for the pancake breakfast. I'll light my house on fire. 00:43:52 Speaker 2: I was, as we've kind of mentioned in New York on nine to eleven, and not involved, to be clear, not involved, but I was dating a woman and after nine to eleven, the firehouses, you know, were they were like churches of course, you know, and or and the firefighters well deserved, you know, I deserve that recognition and adulation and whatnot. But the woman that I was dating was like obsessed. 00:44:23 Speaker 3: She became kind of a yeah, stand yes. 00:44:26 Speaker 2: Like we would walk past these firehouse I'd been why are we going this way? Like we don't normally go this way, no reason, like just to like see these guys out there like doing push ups. And I don't know how we got off on this, but we're talking about fires in the in the pants. The pants are flame retardant. 00:44:45 Speaker 3: So these are absolutely made out of polyester. They will seal themselves to me and even the slight if I open an oven around them. 00:44:53 Speaker 2: They're gonna singe to your legs. 00:44:56 Speaker 3: I mean, let's really talk about a fire scenario. Wake you wake up in the middle of the night. Yeah, what are you really thinking as far as putting on clothes. I don't think I'm even I don't think I'm even considering it. I'm fleeing in whatever I've got on. 00:45:07 Speaker 2: Is that true? 00:45:07 Speaker 3: Yeah? 00:45:07 Speaker 2: I don't, cause I do think about this. 00:45:09 Speaker 3: If I'm fully naked, I'm considering throwing pulling a sheet around me. 00:45:12 Speaker 2: I've thought about it. I don't think you would want to be fully naked. But certainly you've seen on the internet, you know, dramatic rescue videos people getting pulled out of rivers or onto the helicopter, you know, when their pants fall off, and you know, I would hope that people aren't going to like laugh at you and be like, Aha, look at that idiot. His house is on fire, or he was drowning and he got pulled out of his car his pants fell down. What a jerk. I don't think that's something you need to be worried about, right, I think that people will just go you know what, it's Bridger. It was a crisis, and the fact that he didn't cover up is not a big deal, is that. But I don't think you should worry about that. 00:45:55 Speaker 3: I don't think it's not even crossing my mind. 00:45:57 Speaker 2: Oh okay, because I mean it seemed like you were. 00:46:00 Speaker 3: I mean I was looking at the sweatpants. I was thinking, what would I really do in this emergency scenario? 00:46:05 Speaker 2: Oh, and you're saying you would just yeah, just I'm fleeing. 00:46:07 Speaker 3: I'm fleeing in my nightgown. 00:46:09 Speaker 2: What is your nightgown? Flammable? 00:46:14 Speaker 3: It's absolutely flammable. So flames are chasing me out. I'm now pulling it out on, pulling it off on the front lawn. People are wondering what's. 00:46:21 Speaker 2: Happened to stop drop and roll starting fire in my grass? Now, neighborhood is burning. Now, let's assume your house is filled with smoke and it's dark. Right is your Because I'm curious about people's mindsets. Is your mindset to save yourself get out of the house or is there anything other than your dog? 00:46:43 Speaker 1: Right? 00:46:43 Speaker 2: You gotta get you gotta get your laptop, you gotta get your phone, you gotta get your photographs. You know, like, do you have a box of letters? 00:46:51 Speaker 3: I think with I don't think there's that much. I mean, maybe I grab my journals. Why most of my photos are Let's be honest, there a cloud. Journals, my journals, those are valuable and can't be replaced. 00:47:05 Speaker 2: My boyfriend, we're talking about like you got to get at least a decades worth of writing, So what like half a journal? I mean, I'm trying to imagine how much you're journaling. 00:47:13 Speaker 3: There's one entry from twenty ten that says, didn't have a great day and then I stopped. But I have dozens of books blank that I'm rescuing from the fire. 00:47:22 Speaker 2: So you're so you're running out. You've chosen now to not put on clothes, just grab your journeys and you're going to run outside, arms filled with. 00:47:32 Speaker 3: Books, arms absolutely filled with notebooks. 00:47:35 Speaker 2: Very flammable. Notebooks are flammable. They're all paper, and that's it. That's all. 00:47:42 Speaker 3: I don't even think I would grab my laptop. It's all in some sort of cloud situation maybe, But no. I was going to say my old iPods because those have music on them that I feel like, buddy, you look at it like what is happening? 00:47:57 Speaker 2: You got to get your iPod because it's gotten me use it. It's digital. You're burning, But where is that? What do you mean? 00:48:06 Speaker 3: Are absolutely irreplaceable in my home and every printed photo is basically a digital photo my laptop. Who cares. Yeah, but those iPods have hold music on them. I mean I'm obviously streaming at this point, but yeah. 00:48:21 Speaker 2: I mean you gotta have you ever been burned? It's really painful. Have you been burned? No? 00:48:28 Speaker 1: Not? 00:48:28 Speaker 3: What are you grab I mean obviously your wife and family? 00:48:31 Speaker 2: Yeah? Well, well let's think about it. It depends on you know, what kind of week we're having, because anyone you know, pissed me off. No, yeah, I'm grabbing my wife, grabbing my daughter, uh, getting our dog. I think that's it. I think that's it. Every now I had little fire blankets. Do you know what a fire blanket is? It's like, I don't know. It came up on Instagram. 00:48:55 Speaker 3: It doesn't work. 00:48:56 Speaker 2: We know that, I don't know. It's a heavy it's a very heavy like blanket made out of some and it's a little thing, a little container. You pull it down and you throw. It's really just for small fires, oh, fires on your stove. Right, So maybe we would all wrap up in one of those. But I ain't going back for my iPods. I'll tell you that. 00:49:24 Speaker 3: Well, if you have blanket, that's fascinating that feels like you should throw that away before. It's a temptation that you try to put out a fire and it leads to a bigger problem. 00:49:32 Speaker 2: No, I think I've had some impulse purchases because of the pandemic. I've become very nervous where we live and with fires. I think it's also having a child is cool, like because if the ship goes down, it's like, well, who's going to protect us? Like No, It's like, I guess it's gotta be me, And I'm not really good at that. So I got to just buy a bunch of shit. So I've bought like some things that you know, like we have like, but I need to do more, Like I should get solar and you know, right, stuff like that. I really have it, like some jugs of water. 00:50:08 Speaker 3: So do you have a fire extinguisher? We do have a fire I've got to buy one. This is reminding me. Yeah, oh God, to think that this episode gets released and I haven't bought one. In my house burns down. 00:50:17 Speaker 2: Oh I should have brought that listen for future guests. 00:50:20 Speaker 3: Future guests, are you listening fire extinguisher? 00:50:23 Speaker 2: I bought that. I had an extra one. 00:50:25 Speaker 3: I could have I've got to get one in my house. 00:50:27 Speaker 2: They're not expensive. You should get one. 00:50:28 Speaker 3: It's a very good thing to have around you never know. 00:50:31 Speaker 2: But what are you going to do when like there's a big like uh, like the power grid goes down. 00:50:39 Speaker 3: I'm reaching out to friends. 00:50:41 Speaker 2: It's every man for himself, right, because you don't have your phone. Yeah, what are you do? Your battery is gonna die. 00:50:47 Speaker 3: I'm gonna lie very still for as long as possible. And then if that doesn't work, my car's electric, so that's also scary. 00:50:55 Speaker 2: Yeah that'll last for a little while. 00:50:58 Speaker 3: Right, I mean that's why I've got to keep it charge at all times. 00:51:00 Speaker 2: So you got to keep at least saw your charger. Yeah, got to keep but you can only but if the if the grid goes down, Right, you don't have solar in your house. 00:51:09 Speaker 3: Right, No solar, but solar I feel like doesn't even really work without the grid. 00:51:14 Speaker 2: I'm trying to get into. I don't understand it fully either, But there's but you can get these big battery packs for you the solar, so so you part of the solar thing is And again I sound like I'm sponsored by either the fire department or the fucking solar. 00:51:31 Speaker 3: Solar, So there's a lot of money. Those salesmen will not leave you alone. 00:51:35 Speaker 2: I will not They will not leave. And I don't even own solar, but I think you part of what you're doing is selling it back to the power company. And then part of it if you get these big batteries is you can uh, you can put it into your big battery pack, so then you can have you know, at least like a week's worth of power. And again, if you're a listener and I'm wrong, please call us and let me know. 00:51:55 Speaker 3: My phone again, the phones are phone. 00:51:58 Speaker 2: I did get a text, but it's not from more listener. 00:52:01 Speaker 3: Yeah, I need to look into the solar. I need a fire extinguisher. 00:52:04 Speaker 2: I'm not trying to make you worried. 00:52:06 Speaker 3: But things are going to happen. Things are certainly going I don't want to worry anyone. 00:52:11 Speaker 2: I don't want things are currently this podcast, the tone of this podcast is very upbeat and not at all alarmist. 00:52:18 Speaker 3: But now we're getting into some territory. Is the world is hanging by a thread. 00:52:23 Speaker 2: Could go down, I would just get a fire extinguisher. 00:52:25 Speaker 3: I start with little steps, little steps, and then we you know, start taking the sprinklers out? 00:52:32 Speaker 2: Are you? And if you need to wrap it. 00:52:35 Speaker 3: Up because we haven't even really I need to know who your general logic was with buying those sweatpants? 00:52:40 Speaker 2: Great, well, why am I sorry? I really sidetracked this with talking about five. 00:52:45 Speaker 3: I think I kind of did. Okay, Sorry, the blame is all over the place. The only thing we know is you were somehow involved with nine to eleven. 00:52:53 Speaker 2: I would really I'm I'm gonna get a lot of calls about that again. I'm checking my phone and uh, the podcast. 00:52:59 Speaker 3: Is right, The podcast is love. 00:53:02 Speaker 2: It's weird because people are not calling me. The only person that's called me is the person from that church that when my mom died York. No man, I got to use the toilet. Where are you? So you were asking about my my logic general? Yes, okay again not really knowing you. Everyone loves sweatpants comforting. I wasn't sure of what you would like color wise, and yellow and orange tied eye is not really that popular right now, but it could be, so I thought, why not try to get ahead of it. Do you remember when camouflage became like a big fashion thing, like everything was camo. 00:53:44 Speaker 3: Pure Camo. You were head to toe camo. 00:53:46 Speaker 2: I was head to tow a camo. So this yellow and orange tied eye could be big, we don't know. And then the mushroom have a nice trip thing. You know, there's just been a lot of research lately about my room in. 00:54:00 Speaker 3: A lot of psychedelics right way. 00:54:02 Speaker 2: So the I'm just trying to it's a conversation starter, you know what I mean? Because you if you wore those to the grocery store, you you're going, You're walking around, You're trying to gauge everybody and figure out what their deal is? What's this person's deal, what's this lady's story? Someone may say to you, Hey, I really like those sweatpants. Man, what is? What is? Have a nice trip? And then you can you. 00:54:26 Speaker 3: Know, suddenly an hour has passed. 00:54:28 Speaker 2: You got a new friend. 00:54:29 Speaker 3: We're walking out together. We're at the self checkout line. I'm helping her, she's helping me. I'm showing her the app. Yeah, we're seeing what app? Are you showing the Target app? 00:54:41 Speaker 2: You? I don't know. There's a lot to unpack there. Are you do you make? Do you make money turning people onto the Target app? 00:54:51 Speaker 3: For every ten users that I sign up. 00:54:53 Speaker 2: That's a lot. 00:54:54 Speaker 3: Yeah, I got a five dollars off of thirty dollars, so I'm I'm. 00:54:57 Speaker 2: Not knocking doors. It's not a good deal calling out from my car. You're wasting so much time. It's not five dollars for every ten. 00:55:05 Speaker 3: Yes, and I have to say that that it's a twenty five dollars purchase. So I'm spending more than I'm making. It's ruining my life. 00:55:11 Speaker 2: Yeah, but anyway, that was my thought that that sweatpants are comfortable. They're comforting. You know, we are kind of coming out of a heat wave, so you may not get a chance to wear them right now. But fall is coming out. 00:55:26 Speaker 3: Fall is absolutely coming. I'm every morning I have to throw something on to walk the dog. I put on a sweatpant, a croc there you I use my boyfriend's crocs. They're way bigger than my feet. Fine, the audacity. Does he know that you wear his cross? Yeah? He is actually upset by us. Yeah, I'm he's like, you need your own cross. Yes, I don't want to spend money. 00:55:50 Speaker 2: They're working. 00:55:50 Speaker 3: Fine, the croc should be loose. 00:55:55 Speaker 2: Bridger, you look ridiculous in larger man's crock than your Everyone's like, what how did this person? Did you get shrinken down? Why are these not fake? Could you not afford the crocs in your size? 00:56:10 Speaker 3: Questions about my financial situation coming up? What money the community is gathering money to buying me? 00:56:18 Speaker 2: You wear any clothes of yours? 00:56:21 Speaker 3: No, interesting because that would be a real scenario where people would know that's definitely not his clothing. That's too small for that man. Okay, he's he's six six two. Maybe I'm five six, so that he puts on my pants and nothing. 00:56:38 Speaker 2: Maybe that's not Maybe he could wear these sweatpants. 00:56:40 Speaker 3: Could easily stretch. That's the secret of a stretch. A sweatpant, A sweatpant. Who I like that sweatpants? 00:56:46 Speaker 2: Stop the podcast Bridger, this is a great idea for a business. Sweatpants. Oh my god, it's so easy to say. It's fun to say. 00:56:55 Speaker 3: People love it. It becomes you know, people are talking about the market this podcast. There's gonna be sweat pants. 00:57:01 Speaker 2: Sweatpants by the end of the day. 00:57:03 Speaker 3: Sweatpants. Wow, fascinating pants. That feels like something that they're talking about on Good Morning America. Yeah, Like, what do you need to buy your partner for the holidays. 00:57:13 Speaker 2: Do you watch that program? 00:57:15 Speaker 3: I haven't seen it in a long time. That's one I definitely have to just turn on the TV and it's on. If I have to find an app to turn it on, it's not happening. 00:57:22 Speaker 2: Do you watch it? Wait? What do you mean if you have to find an app to turn on your television? 00:57:28 Speaker 3: Because Oh, basically, what I'm saying is I don't have live TV anymore. 00:57:31 Speaker 2: Oh so, like if I have to open the Apple TV in a very condescending way, I don't have live TV anymore. Like you, like you really are disgusted by me specifically, I actually know, but that's not the tone I was trying to strike. 00:57:48 Speaker 3: Live TV is a luxury, oh, I mean, because you're I feel like with live TV, you're paying for cable or whatever. Yeah, it's just like kind of having water in the faucet. Whereas for me, I've got the apps. I'm opening Apple TV go navigating to what do we have? 00:58:04 Speaker 2: So live television is not really a thing in your life, as I believe it is not a thing for most people. 00:58:12 Speaker 3: Right at this point, there's. 00:58:13 Speaker 2: Kind of been a big brew haha recently that CNN. Do you know about this? Well, CNN is kind of like becoming pretty right wing very suddenly. They have new I believe again, call me on my phone everybody if I'm wrong about this, but I believe they are part of that big merger with Discovery and all that you know, Warner Brothers merger Discovery and all that time Warner you know CNN blah blah blah. Anyway, so part of that merger was they have this new guy that's running it, and they basically just looked at it and they said, look, the only people watching live TV are old people. 00:58:51 Speaker 3: Yeah, extremely old people. 00:58:53 Speaker 2: Old people. That's why I like all that crap. You see the History Channel and like everything is geared gonna be geared more for like old people. So CNN specifically has been catching a lot of flack, as they should because they've just been like, well, fuck it, let's just do what Fox News is doing. That's kind of there. 00:59:11 Speaker 3: Wow, that's horrifying. 00:59:12 Speaker 2: But your point to your point that it's just old people that are watching like cable, right, the ratings are no one's watching exactly. 00:59:22 Speaker 3: And and let's say for old people, there are a lot of old people who aren't out of their mind. 00:59:27 Speaker 2: Politically, yes, for sure, people I apologize. 00:59:33 Speaker 3: But but that media, I mean that marketing strategy makes perfect sense. 00:59:38 Speaker 2: Yeah, but it's a bummer. 00:59:39 Speaker 3: It's a real drag. I mean, CNN has been on a real downhill slide and it feels like that's just going to accelerate it in a crazy way. 00:59:45 Speaker 2: And also, just like the world, like, if you're putting that out there, it's. 00:59:48 Speaker 3: Just garbage poison. How do we get ton becoming? We were talking about live TV Good Morning America. I love I do love turning on a live television. I mean it's like the hotel room luxury of just like you turn it on, you don't care what's on. You didn't have to work to get it on. So a morning show? 01:00:06 Speaker 2: Do you find morning shows comforting? 01:00:08 Speaker 3: I find fascinating. 01:00:10 Speaker 2: Yeah. My wife does the morning news here in La Okay. But so she's on at four o'clock in the mar Her day starts at four o'clock in the morning. She's on the air, the show starts at four, and then it ries to like seven thirty okay, and then she comes home in like eighty workdays over, Yeah, and she's done. But she has to wake up at like one in the morning to go to I think she's been doing that since before we were married. She's been doing it for a while, and then we had a baby, she took a few years off, and then now our daughter's five, so you know, she's been doing kind of off and on for a lot. It's right, it's a bummer. That's a real backward schedules, a bummer. But I just know that that morning news stuff is and morning shows are like part of so many people's like daily ritual, which I it's not part of my thing. I don't because when I do, my wife will have it on sometimes when I get up because you know, whatever her show was on before, and then it'll roll into the Today Show. My rights on NBC, so it'll roll into the Today Show. And I'm always struck by like this all seems like it's just paid. 01:01:21 Speaker 3: It feels very promotional. It's all infomercial ass. 01:01:25 Speaker 2: Tota talking about this fire extinguisher or fire blanket you know or you know not you know, obviously those are great products because I'm sponsored by now so, but but just they're always trotting out like summer recipes, and it's all like by some frozen food manufacture, what. 01:01:43 Speaker 3: If someone with a cook book. 01:01:44 Speaker 2: Yes, it's all just selling, it. 01:01:47 Speaker 3: Does feel like. And maybe it's because I only really watched those as a kid when we were off of school. So I think there's that's the comfort I get from it at this point, and I at that point I didn't really get what promotion was. I have to imagine it's always been that, right, just this weird problems. Yeah, it's like late night shows but in the morning and with more products. 01:02:06 Speaker 2: I think also it's probably I don't know how it works. I'd have to ask my wife, but like they probably make a lot of money, like getting you know, if they ask, right, Hey, Bed bath and Beyond, you guys want us to do a thing with all of your summer products. It's going to cost you one hundred thousand dollars, but then we'll give you a five minute segment. 01:02:23 Speaker 3: That's how they're saying on the air at this point. Probably it's like music videos with product placement. There's no money for them anymore. Yes, and so you throw a bunch of items. 01:02:32 Speaker 2: Yes, Is that a thing where there was there ever a bunch of products and music videos? 01:02:36 Speaker 3: No, there was a long period up until probably two thousand and What are we going to say here two thousand and eight, when you could watch a music video without sing a product? Okay, but at this point big music videos are essentially commercials. 01:02:47 Speaker 2: I did not know that. 01:02:48 Speaker 3: Yeah, it's really interesting all of the I mean, the artist makes money from it, but the video is paid for by whatever expensive watch or stupid product. 01:02:57 Speaker 2: Know that. I always just thought the record label was like losing money on this video that no one's going to see on YouTube, but just as like a thing to promote the right record. 01:03:07 Speaker 3: I mean, I think there's just no money in the music industry. 01:03:10 Speaker 2: There is point. There's no money anywhere. 01:03:12 Speaker 3: It really isn't every I mean, as far as entertainment goes, they're just flipping. 01:03:15 Speaker 2: A line in podcasts. It's in podcasts. 01:03:18 Speaker 3: It's in and and sweatchpants and pants. 01:03:22 Speaker 2: Everything's going in to sweatch pants. I think I don't know how we got into that. I know you've talked. I'm sure you've talked extensively about your family and being a Mormon and everything on the but but as an outsider, it is interesting, right right, because it is the focus of so many Netflix documentaries that have watched, right and I'm trying to gauge where you are. 01:03:48 Speaker 3: I'm happy to talk about I'm happy to answer any question. 01:03:51 Speaker 2: Okay, I really just have one. 01:03:53 Speaker 3: I would love to hear it. 01:03:55 Speaker 2: Are the Osmond's cool, Johnny and Marie? 01:04:00 Speaker 3: They are behind the scenes and in front of audience is cooler than ever? 01:04:05 Speaker 2: Did you are you from? And I'm sorry for the stereotype of thing. 01:04:11 Speaker 3: I have no sense. 01:04:11 Speaker 2: Are you from Utah? 01:04:13 Speaker 3: I am you are from Salt Lake City? You are outside of Okay. 01:04:16 Speaker 2: I love it there. I love it there. We go to Park City a lot. I drove there during the pandemic time. I'm going there in two weeks. 01:04:24 Speaker 3: What are you doing there? 01:04:26 Speaker 2: It's an easy flight from here. It's cheap and easy. And we just go there to get away from the heat, right and go to the mountains and you're hiking during the Oh, we don't go to Saltlic City. We go to Park City. Yeah, we just go to Park City and like walk around and hike and ski in the winter time. Yeah, but yeah, we just go there to chill out. And the grandparents are going to come there and and we'll just mess around. But yeah, so I'm always I'm always more I feel like I'm Mormon adjacent, Like. 01:04:53 Speaker 3: I feel like that you've spent this much time in Utah. 01:04:55 Speaker 2: I've spent all the time there. I really like it there. Mormons are are very polite. 01:05:02 Speaker 3: Have you ever known a Mormon closely, grow up with Mormons or anything? 01:05:07 Speaker 2: Great question, Great question. I don't think so. I don't think not closely. 01:05:14 Speaker 3: Okay, you're from the South. Yeah, and I feel like Mormons are not super welcome in the South because Evangelicals despise Mormons. 01:05:23 Speaker 2: Oh is that true? Wow? 01:05:25 Speaker 3: So maybe that has something to do with it. 01:05:26 Speaker 2: Okay, well, I apologize. I didn't have anything to do with even the evangelical takeover of the South or their hostil I apologize you towards I don't think I know any Mormons very closely. I feel like there was a guy I worked in I lived in Aspen, Colorado, right after college for just a little while, and I feel like a guy that I worked with there, and I was working in hotels and stuff, and I feel like I worked with a couple of Mormons. But that was Colorado. So those are different Mormons in the you told. 01:06:00 Speaker 3: Me, Yeah, that is a different flavor of more than party Mormons. 01:06:04 Speaker 2: You is your sorry, we don't. 01:06:07 Speaker 3: Have to you don't have to apologize. 01:06:08 Speaker 2: Well, I just wanted to know, like, is your uh is your family? How do I ask this succinctly or how do I ask this so it's not a whole other podcast. Are you tight with your family or was this sort of thing of like I got to break away and get away from this? Uh No, we're still We're still close. 01:06:29 Speaker 3: I mean like there was like a period of weirdness and like obviously being gay was a like I didn't come out till I was thirty. Wow, up to anyone, let alone my parents. 01:06:39 Speaker 2: Wow. 01:06:39 Speaker 3: But then they handled that pretty well, even better than ever. I mean, I'm sure it's like a it's a weird thing to talk about publicly. Still, but I've like, I know, I've finally gotten to a place where I'm like, I'm no one and the Mormon Church is a hundred billion dollar organization. I can say mildly uncomfortable things about this thing. Yes, a lot of people I love her more, Yeah, and we have a great relationship. I have nothing. I don't have any good things to say about the Mormon Church. 01:07:05 Speaker 2: Yeah, but by the way, they're not coming after you. 01:07:07 Speaker 3: No, they can't. 01:07:08 Speaker 2: They can't. 01:07:09 Speaker 3: You never know, but I to them. 01:07:11 Speaker 2: That would be a great movie though, like a Mormon mafia that like really like comes. 01:07:14 Speaker 3: After you, it tarts to take me down. 01:07:16 Speaker 2: It'd be like scary but also friendly. Yeah. 01:07:20 Speaker 3: I mean, I think the Mormon Church, like any religion, has good things about it, but it has a lot of horrible. 01:07:25 Speaker 2: For us for sure. Can I tell you and then we don't have to talk about anymore. The Mormon Church at one point thought that I was a superstar. What the entire Mormon Church was convinced that I, Rob Hubel was a superstar. And briefly, I will tell you that my grandfather was an artist, a painter, a great painter who painted all of these like very religious paintings of like Jesus and like you know, Jesus with kids and walking through the garden, all. 01:08:00 Speaker 3: The kind of the Kenny logins Jesus. 01:08:03 Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, sure, I guess I don't know what that means, but. 01:08:06 Speaker 3: Kind of like kind of a. 01:08:08 Speaker 2: Very handsome yesld beer, Yes, yes, very handsome. So at one point in my grandfather's artistic career, the Mormon Church asked him to do some paintings for them, I guess. And I don't know exactly what all Mormons believe is or I don't know how where it kind of like goes away from the Jesus thing into the whole other plates. 01:08:32 Speaker 3: And sorry, but I don't apologize to me. 01:08:36 Speaker 2: I don't care. But in the Mormon in Salt Lake City and the main Mormon tabernac, right, there are several gigantic murals paintings done by my grandfather, you're kidding and so, and he was not Mormon. He was just a religious dude, you know, right, And uh, but they I guess, you know. He was like, well, their money's green, and it's Jesus. I love Jesus. Okay, So he paints it like all of these big giant, like bigger, bigger than me, like right, massive, massive style of Jesus. And uh, it's in the Mormon tabernacle there. And one time I was, I was in Salt Lake City and I walked in. I was like, hi, I'm I'm just trying to find some paintings by a relative of mine. And they're like, oh, okay, who's that? And I was like, his name is Harry Anderson, that's my grandfather, said and they said, oh, you're wait, your grandfather is Harry Anderson. And they like the guy at the front gate like had like a walkie talkie, he's like Harry Anderson's grandson is here, Harry Anderson's grandson, like co bread code Red and like all of these people like came out of the woodwork and like brought me in oh and like shied me around, and like I didn't have the heart to tell them like he he wasn't a. 01:09:55 Speaker 3: Mormon contract job. 01:09:56 Speaker 2: Yeah, so I just didn't. I just let them believe whatever they wanted to believe, you know, I accepted their gifts of the rose petals and they lifted me on their shoulders. And but it was really it was really wow. Pretty. 01:10:10 Speaker 3: I mean, you look kind of Mormon. You look like like a you know, healthy American man, which is like every Mormon wants to be. 01:10:16 Speaker 2: Thank you so much for saying that. 01:10:18 Speaker 3: Do we have any idea how much your grandpa made off that job? Great, I'd love to know that number. 01:10:23 Speaker 2: That's a great question. I'll have to ask my aunt. She would know. 01:10:28 Speaker 3: Wow, and he did this in the last like sixty years, probably. 01:10:32 Speaker 2: Yeah, I think you did it in like probably like that I want to say, like the seventies, that is credible. 01:10:38 Speaker 3: Yeah, you mean more to the Mormons than I do. 01:10:41 Speaker 2: Is that true? 01:10:41 Speaker 3: I mean yes? 01:10:43 Speaker 2: From wow, I can wow. Thank you. 01:10:46 Speaker 3: You kind of came here to take my Mormon throne, and I'm giving it to you. 01:10:51 Speaker 2: I will take it. I will take it. 01:10:55 Speaker 3: We should probably play a game. You have to play a game. 01:10:57 Speaker 2: Let's do it. 01:10:58 Speaker 3: Do you want to play a game called gift or a curse or a game called gift Master. One is more of a thought experiment. One is more of a game with hard fast rules. 01:11:06 Speaker 2: I don't like rules. 01:11:07 Speaker 3: Let's play gift Master. 01:11:08 Speaker 2: Okay. Let's see that. 01:11:09 Speaker 3: I need a number between one and ten from you. 01:11:11 Speaker 2: Four? Okay, everyone says seven. 01:11:14 Speaker 3: I see a lot of people say seven. You rarely get a four or a two. 01:11:17 Speaker 2: Of course, that's why. 01:11:18 Speaker 3: How often do you get a one? Almost never? That's a confusing number to again the idiots. I have to do some light calculating. You can recommend something, promote something of the mic. 01:11:27 Speaker 2: I'll be right back. Okay, gosh, I wasn't expecting this. I just want to say that the new album drops pretty soon. I think it's going to be a big hit. On Spotify. I hope you guys will If you don't currently have Spotify, I hope you'll get it. Listen to the album. I know you're thinking, Wait, I didn't even know Rob Hubil was a singer. Well, I'm not yet, but I could do. I could bake an album if I wanted to. Richard, how long do I have to vamp? 01:11:57 Speaker 3: Right? 01:11:59 Speaker 2: Gosh, I don't have an album, Everybody, I've just never been given I've never come to a podcast and then just been told to promote something. Oh, this is torture. Let me see if anyone's called. No, no one's called. That was the perfect use of the time. That was an absolutely perfect use promoting an album that I that does not exist. 01:12:20 Speaker 3: But it's kind of like a kickstarter where it's like if the support. 01:12:23 Speaker 2: Is there people, that's right, If people contribute, then I will go and make an album. 01:12:28 Speaker 3: Right, So then if they're disappointed, that's there. 01:12:30 Speaker 2: They told you to do it. Yeah, and we're all investors. 01:12:33 Speaker 3: Right, We're all investors, and all of our money has been wasted on Rob's stupid little idea. This is how this game works. I'm gonna name three gifts so you can give away and then I'm gonna name three celebrities and you're gonna tell me which of those people you'll give which gift? And why does that make sense? 01:12:49 Speaker 2: Yes? Okay, so is there a time limit? 01:12:51 Speaker 3: No, you could spend hours. 01:12:53 Speaker 2: I'm just so nervous. 01:12:55 Speaker 3: Okay, these are these are decent gifts. The first is just fresh cut flow hours. It's a nice thing to give away. 01:13:01 Speaker 2: That's really nice. 01:13:02 Speaker 3: The next is four new followers on Instagram, so the humble gift, that's not It depends on how many followers they already have, okay, and who knows what those followers are. They could be anyone could be the President of the United States for. 01:13:16 Speaker 2: Kay, that's pretty cool. 01:13:17 Speaker 3: And finally, a whip smart grandson. So that's uh, I'm going to give someone someone will suddenly have a whip smart grandson that they can brag about at the pool or whatever. 01:13:27 Speaker 2: Great. 01:13:29 Speaker 3: The three people you'll be giving them to our Drake R and B Sensation, Shelley Duvall. We love Shelley and I have a something I've recently learned. Does I have a hard time with celebrity pronunciations? Is it the safty brothers or the softy brothers? 01:13:45 Speaker 2: Great question. I think it's the. 01:13:46 Speaker 4: Softy brother softy brothers, not softy like ice cream. 01:13:52 Speaker 2: Maybe it is safty. It might be. 01:13:54 Speaker 3: Safty, might be softy, it's s a f d I E. Yeah, BT's their most recent movie, that just uncut gems. 01:14:02 Speaker 2: No, there's a newer one. 01:14:03 Speaker 3: They have a new one they produced called Funny Pages. Yes, I've heard it's great. Okay, but yeah, I think they're just producers. I think someone else directed it. 01:14:12 Speaker 2: Okay, Oh, this is really hard. Well, obviously I'm gonna give Drake the whip smart grandson. Why because I just feel like he would really enjoy that relationship, in that dynamic. You know, I feel like I don't know Drake, I've never met him, but that tandem, that partnership of Drake and a just a fucking super smart math, whiz math, whiz wise cracking, you know, grandson hanging out with him like and he has to hang out with you. Yes, it's not like the grandson is like you know, you see him like once a year on the holidays like this, he's like in the entourage like all the time. Like it would kind of be a burden. 01:15:07 Speaker 3: The parents are kind of absent at this point, and Drake is like, I'm kind of the parent, but he has my grandson and he's so great. I have to tell you about it. 01:15:15 Speaker 2: I would love to just kind of see him have to deal with that. It would kind of be a burden, and I think I would enjoy watching that. They're probably he probably work his way into some songs. 01:15:24 Speaker 3: All right. And Drake loves he's a rapper. He loves to brag. That's part of the rap game. And somebody's bragging about his grandson. 01:15:30 Speaker 2: His whip smart grandson. So fresh cut flowers, I guess would be Shelley Duvall. And that sounds a little gender conforming whatever, but I just feel like she would really appreciate that. I don't think that she would benefit from four Instagram followers. The Softie Brothers might really like that. They might go on their Instagram, assuming they have a shared. 01:15:57 Speaker 3: Yeah, they're kind of like all those couples as a shared Facebook account. I want to make sure they're not cheating on. 01:16:03 Speaker 2: Look it up. But I feel like if they got four new followers, they would be Yeah, they could be pretty psyched, you know, if they were verified and they were. 01:16:11 Speaker 3: Like cool, right, not just four blank account. 01:16:14 Speaker 2: No, no, no, not just like four you know civilians. I'm talking about like four you know, cool other famous you know, Like I was thrilled recently when I saw that someone started following you know, that account, passenger shaming. 01:16:30 Speaker 3: I don't know this account. I'm still out of touch. 01:16:33 Speaker 2: Are you on Instagram? I am? And you don't follow passenger shaming? 01:16:38 Speaker 3: No, I don't. 01:16:39 Speaker 2: Have you ever been on an airplane before? 01:16:41 Speaker 3: I have been on an airplane, so you know. 01:16:43 Speaker 2: About air travel. There's a really funny Instagram account called passenger shaming, and it's all you send them pictures of people doing terrible things on planes. So it's all people with like, you know, clipping their tongue in, people with you know, open wounds on those on their leg. 01:17:00 Speaker 3: The person should be on an emergency helicopter, but they got confused. 01:17:03 Speaker 2: But there's all sorts of just like really gross, No, not just gross, but like like one I remember was a woman scrolling. She had the movie screen, you know, right in front of her in like first class, and she's barefoot, and she's scrolling through the movie choices with her fucking bare feet. So someone she knows what she's Someone videoed that and sent it to passenger shaming anyway, I just saw that they followed me on Instagram and I was very excited. It's a funny account. So for the Softie Brothers, if they had, you know, a verified fool account like that. 01:17:37 Speaker 3: I feel like they would be excited to get a follow from Shelley to ball. 01:17:40 Speaker 2: I don't know her Instagram game. 01:17:42 Speaker 3: I don't know, I know, but I feel like they'd be like Shelley's following us. 01:17:45 Speaker 2: This is this is a terrible question, and I apologize. If Shelley is listening. Is Shelley a lot boy? I hope? So I don't she is? Okay? 01:17:56 Speaker 3: On Lise is nodding, yes. 01:17:57 Speaker 2: Onalise, you have been typing furiously. Are you transcribing. 01:18:01 Speaker 3: Anal says writing their novel? I've asked Honali's please put the novel on hold for one hour. 01:18:08 Speaker 2: She can't. Inspiration strikes when it does, and she is motivated to write. 01:18:16 Speaker 3: Look, when you're writing a novel, you have to throw yourself into you got. 01:18:19 Speaker 2: You got to get it out there. So Shelley Duvall is currently a lot We okay, okay, we have confirmation she is alive. We don't know whether she's on Instagram, but she would I assume like fresh cut Flowers more than four followers on Instagram. 01:18:35 Speaker 3: I feel like the title of the Safty Softie Brothers movie about Shelley Davall is called fresh cut Flowers. It's kind of a spiritual follow up to Uncut Gems. That's great, and people are like, Shelley's back. Why hasn't she been in movies for the last forty years? Well, the Saftes know, are. 01:18:51 Speaker 2: You friends with the Saftes? 01:18:52 Speaker 3: Well, based on my punciation, but it was a very specific poll there to the Safties are on here? Yeah, this is an endless list of celebrities. That's what I was calculating. I'm randomly calculatings. 01:19:07 Speaker 2: Walked by you in the grocery store. Not together, not together, just apart from would you go, Holy crap, that's David and Chris say, I don't know their names? What is it? David and Gris? 01:19:19 Speaker 3: I have no idea. 01:19:20 Speaker 2: What so you? 01:19:22 Speaker 3: Albert and Simon? 01:19:24 Speaker 2: You wouldn't know them. 01:19:25 Speaker 3: I would only recognize them together. You separate them and I'm essentially blind. 01:19:30 Speaker 2: Okay, I don't. I'm I'll take your word for I I'm not convinced that you would recognize them together. 01:19:38 Speaker 3: Well, let's look at the song that said we are the Safty Brothers. The evidence is, I know their most recently produced movie. I'm now actually talking about it being good, so maybe I do know them. 01:19:49 Speaker 2: I think that you saw like a part of a trailer on Instagram like I did, like yesterday, and you're like, oh, funny is it funny papers? 01:19:58 Speaker 3: Is it funny pages? 01:19:59 Speaker 2: Funny page? And I think that I think what happened was it was just at a film festival, maybe in Venice, right. 01:20:05 Speaker 3: Probably Tiff, Yes, Tiff, I love the name Tiff for the Tiffany Film Festival. 01:20:11 Speaker 2: Film Festival. 01:20:13 Speaker 3: No, don't know them, but it feels like that those are nice natural choices. They get four followers. Hopefully one of Shelley revives her career so you no longer think she's dead. She's getting flowers, maybe the day she gets nominated for the Oscar for being in this in this year. 01:20:30 Speaker 2: In this movie. Are you have you ever been to? This is going back to you. I know you're about to wrap it up right there, but as a guest, I won't allow it. Will you be at Sundance this year? Are you because you are from Utah. 01:20:45 Speaker 3: I used to go to Sundance Is that true? Just like as an observer when I lived in Utah? 01:20:50 Speaker 2: Yeah, I would you go there and see movies? 01:20:52 Speaker 3: Yeah, we would go see movies. Oh cool, you would buy tickets or whatever and go see movies. I've never been there as as a person in the industry. Yeah, yeah, maybe at some point I've had. I feel like I had a short film screened by Sundance at another thing that wasn't Sundance, which was nice, but then it was also. 01:21:10 Speaker 2: Like, come on, what about take the pod there? 01:21:14 Speaker 3: Take Do you take a podcast to a film festival? 01:21:17 Speaker 2: Yeah, there's so many celebs. 01:21:19 Speaker 3: Maybe and what we're just waiting for him to pass by. 01:21:21 Speaker 2: Well you do do it? You do a short, you do like a speed round with people. 01:21:26 Speaker 3: And they're giving me their Sundance swag. Oh my god, here we go. The wheels are turning. I mean it is swag city that It's crazy. I mean I would get swag and I wasn't a celebrity or anything. They're just handing out nice. 01:21:39 Speaker 2: I got in a lot of trouble. I went there, no big deal. I you know, I can afford to go to the festival. I went there for something a couple of years ago, and there was a booth or whatever the people that make coach, you know, bags. 01:21:53 Speaker 3: Oh sure, sure, you know. 01:21:55 Speaker 2: So I saw something there that I wanted to and they didn't have it in my size. It was a big jacket, was like a big pea coat that they made. I was like, oh, and they said, oh, we'll send it to you. Just give us your address and we'll send it to you. So a huge like bag of coach came to my house and my wife was so excited for one second and then saw that it was for me. It was so mad that I got something for myself and did not get something for her, And I really did screw up. I was a big mental blunder. But in that. 01:22:28 Speaker 3: Situation, could you have said, can I also get one from my wife? Or is that I think that might be cross. 01:22:32 Speaker 2: I'm not very famous and I'm like kind of lucky to be getting swag, so to be like, hey, well what about for my wife there? You know, it depends. It depends if if you're. 01:22:42 Speaker 3: Kind of blindsided in that moment, You're like, I didn't expect the stappen to think of another person. Yeah, like all the people you could be getting things for. 01:22:48 Speaker 2: But I think our idea for you to take this podcast to sun Dance and get so much swag. I mean, that's a little bit devious to do it, but it's also just a great way to get a lot of famous people to do the show. 01:23:03 Speaker 3: That's an I mean, the wheels are turning and you're. 01:23:05 Speaker 2: From there, right, it makes perfect go see your family. You could also maybe make amends. Maybe there's people that you. 01:23:11 Speaker 3: Have to Half of that episode is me apologizing to different Mormons and then meeting celebrities and getting they were there too tired to carry around exactly. And then it's like seventeen degrees. 01:23:22 Speaker 2: There's snow boots and they're there are good. 01:23:25 Speaker 3: Things at Sundance, there are hopefully. Yeah, I feel like this has gott to happen. 01:23:29 Speaker 2: There's a lot of swag there. 01:23:31 Speaker 3: Robert reach out, Robert Redford invite me. I've got a think. 01:23:36 Speaker 2: He's listening right now. Of course, I don't know the audience for the pod, so I don't know whether Robert Redford is actively live. You know, there's a live show and. 01:23:47 Speaker 3: He's trying to get through, but his phone isn't. 01:23:49 Speaker 2: Working okay, because I'm looking at my phone and. 01:23:51 Speaker 3: I've disabled his phone remotely. There was a point when he was calling him too often, and it was like, yes, you're a celebrity, but what was the last real thing it did? 01:24:00 Speaker 2: I have a terrible question. Robert Redford is so alive? Robert is question Mark. 01:24:05 Speaker 3: Honly's nodding head. 01:24:06 Speaker 2: Okay, confirm that. Okay. 01:24:08 Speaker 3: He was in a movie about being lost at sea a few years ago. 01:24:12 Speaker 2: Oh yes, yes, yes, I remember. I just feel like I haven't seen him, so I'm I'm assuming he's doing okay. Okay. She's skyping with him, so he's fine. Okay. 01:24:22 Speaker 3: Robert is skyping into the podcasts, screaming at anay's. 01:24:28 Speaker 2: What put me through to the boys? Tell him I'm alive. 01:24:36 Speaker 3: Okay, perfectly played game, Thank you, excellently played. We have to answer a listener question, would you help me? 01:24:42 Speaker 2: Oh god, it's not. Honestly, it's not my favorite part of the show, but I will do it. 01:24:47 Speaker 3: You hate this you. 01:24:50 Speaker 2: Because I like it when it's us. I like it when it's me and Bridger and Onally's is kind of like looking at us and Robert kind of begging Robert trying to skype in. I don't love letting the listeners in this much, but we can if you want. 01:25:02 Speaker 3: Okay. Uh, this is the final segment of the podcast. Thank god, it's good you and me both. Uh. It's called I said no emails people write into. I said no gifts at gmail dot com. 01:25:14 Speaker 2: Can you say the address one more time? 01:25:15 Speaker 3: I said no gifts at gmail dot com. Okay, I'm gonna start kind of hammering that with. 01:25:20 Speaker 2: I'm gonna fucking go after it. It takes over your life in a really unhealthy way. Break me back. Why are you writing me? I know where you live. 01:25:32 Speaker 3: Your entire emails in the subject line, it's just so so angry. Uh, here's a good here. Let's read this one. This says deer Bridger and most disrespectful guests yet probably so that's an interesting way to present you. 01:25:48 Speaker 2: Wow. Did they know that it was going to be me? 01:25:50 Speaker 3: No? They must have known, right, No, they consulted up. 01:25:53 Speaker 2: I'll pre promote who's coming. That wouldn't make sense. 01:25:56 Speaker 3: We've been like for months, Robs coming to the show. 01:26:00 Speaker 2: Don't give up yet my appearance, please please. 01:26:04 Speaker 3: My husband, Dakota and I welcomed our baby girl, Emma, into the world on April first. She is our first child and we are totally in love with her. I have since quit my job and I'm a stay at home mom. Our two year wedding anniversary is approaching, and this is where I need your help. Being a single income family, we're on a tight budget. Will you please give me a gift ideas for our anniversary. Dakota, the husband, enjoys. 01:26:28 Speaker 2: Please, you're saying Dakota's name a lot. We're really like promoting Dakota. We get We've been. 01:26:34 Speaker 3: Written by Dakota. Probably know Dakota enjoys playing disc golf and listening to the grateful. 01:26:41 Speaker 2: Dead in the traditional Boy Oh Boy. 01:26:44 Speaker 3: The traditional two year. 01:26:45 Speaker 2: And Dakota is the income earner, not for long. He's not listening to the dead and playing frisbee golf the countries following them on tour Jerry. 01:26:57 Speaker 3: The traditional two year anniversary gift is caught and the modern gift is China. Thank you, Jordan. 01:27:03 Speaker 2: So either Dakokota and Emma, that's a handsome family. 01:27:08 Speaker 3: That is a good looking family. They're getting the pic they're getting pictures for the holiday carts already. 01:27:12 Speaker 2: And I don't know where they live or what they look like, but they do sound their names are extraordinary. I don't think you have to go by the whatever it's the two years. Think of what it is. I don't know what it is. I don't know who made that up. It's certainly not a gift that you would be like, oh, thank you for the thing made out of cotton. I'd rather have a fucking diamond, you dumb, dumb you know so for Dakota love diamonds. Dakota loves diamonds. He's following the dead and he's wearing his diamond. He's got ice, so much. 01:27:50 Speaker 3: Ice spending the one in common. 01:27:55 Speaker 2: So Dakota. And by the way, we're not making fun of Dakota that he likes the dead or he's on tour with them. I don't know that he's on tour with them. I'm sure he may have a great job. We're stereotyping Dakota. But what do you give your husband who's into frisbee golf and the dead for their two year anniversary? And they have one child, so you don't want to spend a ton of money. 01:28:19 Speaker 3: Right, I mean, I feel like the baby. We have three people In this scenario, one has a job. One is new to the world and has gotten rid of one of the jobs. This baby needs to become an income earner. We lost Instagram account. 01:28:33 Speaker 2: A whole other podcast. Wait, this is not part of the gift. 01:28:36 Speaker 3: This is just a side Well, this is in order to afford whatever gift we're about to present them. This baby has got to become this baby. 01:28:44 Speaker 2: This baby. We're gonna blow up Emma on Instagram. She does need some sort of cool content out there. I don't know what her instagame is. 01:28:53 Speaker 3: She's gonna have a gimmick. We've got plenty of babies at this point that What does this baby do that's gonna break through the noise at this point? What maybe have to do? Yeah, I mean it's got to learn to talk real quick. Uh. Maybe it's wearing something that a baby doesn't usually wear. 01:29:08 Speaker 2: These are all great ideas, but we are getting away. 01:29:12 Speaker 3: From the because I'm worried about their income. 01:29:14 Speaker 2: Well is there are most of your emails gifts related. 01:29:19 Speaker 3: They're almost a gift or like social situations. 01:29:22 Speaker 2: So hard for me, it's hard. I'm not a great gift. 01:29:26 Speaker 3: I absolutely believe in both of us because we have information here disc golf if you ever played disc golf, not. 01:29:32 Speaker 2: That I would like to talk about throwing up, Yeah, there are. They're What they do is they set up these little posts and you know, it's like a like about four or five feet tall, and it has a little a bunch of chains around it with a basket, and you throw the frisbee and you try to get it stuck in these chains so it falls into the back. 01:29:52 Speaker 1: Oh. 01:29:53 Speaker 2: Sure, it's really fucking lame. It's so lame. Coda. I'm so sorry. I mean, Dakota, it's great, buddy, it is great. And and we're going to get you a frisbee made out of cotton. 01:30:06 Speaker 3: I mean, if the modern gift is China, is that what we're talking about? Like the plates, here's maybe frisbee. 01:30:13 Speaker 2: What is her name? Jordan, Jordan, Jordan. Here's the deal. This is this is my move. This is what I would do. Get him something related to the baby, so it can't not like it, you know what I mean, Like it's your two year anniversary, Emma, is you know, the the focal point of your of your marriage and your life. And if you give him something like I don't know, like a plate with her face on it, or Frisbee Frisbee? Are you kidding me? Can you get a Frisbee? 01:30:52 Speaker 3: I'm sure the world of online customization that doesn't happen. That that's after after we launched sweatpants, sweatpants, We're going straight into customized frisbees, Frisbees. 01:31:02 Speaker 2: Put a picture of Emma on a Frisbee. Done and it's set, and it's done. You are really good at that. We got to it. Is that a burden for you? 01:31:15 Speaker 3: It's it's certainly a curse and a burden. Okay, it's work. It's draining me and eventually it's good. I mean it's aging me rapidly. 01:31:26 Speaker 2: The thinking of other gifts for other people. 01:31:30 Speaker 3: Just thinking about other people in general. I'd like to kind of just keep it all here, and yeah, it can be taxing, kind of go through the world thinking about Bridger looking in mirrors and yes, flexing, thinking what's Bridger's next move? 01:31:41 Speaker 2: Yes, this kind of thing, what's he going to buy at the grocery store? But yet to constantly be thinking about other people's gifts, and then of course people you're famous for this. Now people are gonna be like your whole life and people gonna go, oh, what can. 01:31:54 Speaker 3: I get right? And I'm absolutely just at a loss. 01:32:00 Speaker 2: Maybe is there a cheat for you? Like, is there a way to just have like five you know, and then you just go no matter that you kind. 01:32:07 Speaker 3: Of tailored to the situation. 01:32:09 Speaker 2: Yes you go okay, but you have to act like it's the first. 01:32:14 Speaker 3: Time that just popped into my mind. Oh have you heard of? 01:32:17 Speaker 2: I think? I think also sponsorship idea for you. You got to get these relationships going with these brands so that you can just fucking go, oh, you got to get this thing from Target or not Target, because you know that's big. 01:32:30 Speaker 3: But you know, if you if you get right, this is a great gift item. This brand of sweatpants. I give it to everyone. 01:32:37 Speaker 2: Yeah exactly? Is that because I gave you sweatpants? What if it was? 01:32:41 Speaker 3: What if I had completely forgotten sweatpants at this point? Very worrisome. 01:32:45 Speaker 2: I feel like I feel like if companies sponsored you, if like you got five companies to sponsor you that sold a variety of different types of stuff, you could always then say, oh, here here's my secret blah blah blah blah blah dot com. 01:33:01 Speaker 3: I reach into my gift toolbox and everyone loves. 01:33:04 Speaker 2: I'm just trying to solve problems because it sounds like a burden. 01:33:08 Speaker 3: You know that I have a lot of issues in my life. 01:33:10 Speaker 2: No, I just I don't like it's stressful to me. We look, we have to go to a kid's birthday party next weekend, and I'm like, I'm stressed about what I get this person. 01:33:20 Speaker 3: That's a hard one because on their parents are going to be seeing what you gave the kid, and what is the price budget for a kid's gift? 01:33:25 Speaker 2: These times, I don't want to go too low, so I spend a thousand. I spend a thousand on my daughter's like you know, a classmate of hers in kindergarten. I just go, this is a thousand, will be nice, no one will complain. We usually make it a gift card. It'll be like a thousand dollars Starbucks gift. 01:33:44 Speaker 3: Card, piece of furniture from Creighton Barrel or something, a new couch. 01:33:50 Speaker 2: An L shaped couch for your seven year old. But yeah, it is. 01:33:56 Speaker 3: That is. 01:33:56 Speaker 2: I feel for you that it's tough. I appreciate that about that. The holidays must be. 01:34:02 Speaker 3: The holidays are killing me. They're absolutely bleeding me. 01:34:05 Speaker 2: Try this podcasts. If you listen long enough, it does take a dark turn most of the episodes. 01:34:12 Speaker 3: Yeah, it starts to just slowly. 01:34:14 Speaker 2: It starts off very positive, very did we get to the gift, and then there's some you know, a little bit of a come down, and then eventually. 01:34:22 Speaker 3: We get to you just looked at that crack in the foundation. At the very beginning, you would know that this was all going to cave in around you. But yeah, yeah, it sneaks up on you and your day's ruined. 01:34:33 Speaker 1: Rob. 01:34:33 Speaker 3: I have my sweatpants here, Ridger. 01:34:35 Speaker 2: It was a delight to get them to you. 01:34:37 Speaker 3: I'm so happy you came. I'm going to be wandering around the neighborhood and these and oversized crocs. 01:34:43 Speaker 2: Thank you. 01:34:43 Speaker 3: The neighbors will thank. 01:34:44 Speaker 2: You well, thank you for I hope that you will get a lot of use out of them. Look, God forbid that your house burns down, but keep them, keep them handy so you can run outside. 01:34:55 Speaker 3: And firefighter, I'm dangling lifeless from his arms and my sweatpants. 01:34:59 Speaker 2: I mean definitely I could see you cradled as a baby in sweat any sweatpants and a big strapping fireman's arms like a nine foot tall fire Well, can I just put you down now? It's okay. If you want to carry me around longer, well, i'd really prefer I mean, I kind of saved you already. I'll just put you down, right, bro, It's okay. I'm being passed from arm to arm. The firemen are pressing me in a circle the old timey rescue where they pass you down the line of like the bucket brigade, like the last one. 01:35:32 Speaker 3: It's really romantical. 01:35:36 Speaker 2: That would be beautiful. 01:35:37 Speaker 3: Well, thank you for being here, Thank you for having me. Everybody and listener. I know your day has been absolutely decimated and ruined. Where do you go from here? It's anybody's guess. But that's the risk you take when you start listening to this podcast, and it happens week after week. Maybe eventually you learn to stop. But in the meantime, I want you to pick up the pieces and move. The podcast is over. I love you, goodbye, I said. No Gifts is an exactly right production. It's produced by our dear friend Annalise Nelson, and it's beautifully mixed by John Bradley, and we couldn't do it without our guest booker, Patrick Kottner. The theme song, of course, could only come from miracle worker Amy Mann. 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? 01:36:37 Speaker 2: My line, why did you hear? Fun? A man? 01:36:42 Speaker 1: Myself perfectly clear? But you're I guessed, Tom. You gotta come to me empty, And I said, no guests, your presences, presence en I already had too much stuff, So how do you dare to surbey me