WEBVTT - Rebecca Delgado Smith Disobeys Bridger 0:00:08.760 --> 0:00:14.440 Well, I invited you. Hear, I thought, I made myself 0:00:14.640 --> 0:00:15.760 perfectly clear. 0:00:17.040 --> 0:00:18.799 But you're a guest to my home. 0:00:21.200 --> 0:00:26.639 You gotta come to me empty, And I said, no, 0:00:26.920 --> 0:00:33.440 guess your own presences presents enough. I already had too 0:00:33.640 --> 0:00:36.720 much stuff, So how did you dare. 0:00:36.640 --> 0:00:52.200 To surbey me? Welcome to I said, no gifts. I'm 0:00:52.280 --> 0:00:57.400 Richard Wine girl. LA's number one. It girl. We're in 0:00:57.440 --> 0:01:02.680 the backyard and it's not quite night yet. It's the 0:01:02.760 --> 0:01:07.959 light is fading. I mean literally and metaphorically that you 0:01:08.000 --> 0:01:11.720 know things are getting dark. But we're going to have 0:01:11.760 --> 0:01:15.399 a wonderful time here. Let's see what's happening. I mean, 0:01:15.520 --> 0:01:19.760 last night I went to a restaurant and an outdoor 0:01:19.800 --> 0:01:24.200 seating situation, and while I was eating with a friend, 0:01:24.920 --> 0:01:30.840 I counted at least seven rats scampering scampering through the 0:01:30.880 --> 0:01:36.280 parking lot, which is my number one nightmare. And so 0:01:36.360 --> 0:01:38.520 that's the sort of sleep I'm working on. It was 0:01:38.640 --> 0:01:42.520 obviously a stressful evening at home, but we're looking to 0:01:42.560 --> 0:01:47.400 the neighborhoods stray cats to protect me. I have contacted 0:01:47.440 --> 0:01:54.920 the establishment. I had to. They did not respond. So yeah, 0:01:54.960 --> 0:01:57.000 we'll see what happens. But I may not be eating 0:01:57.040 --> 0:02:03.040 there again. Unfortunately. Check all of your favorite restaurants for rats. 0:02:03.040 --> 0:02:07.240 That's all I'm saying. They may have a whole farm. 0:02:07.520 --> 0:02:10.560 Let's get into the podcast. I adore today's guest. It's 0:02:10.600 --> 0:02:15.040 Rebecca Delgado Smith. Rebecca. Welcome to I said no gifts, Bridger. 0:02:15.400 --> 0:02:19.880 I couldn't be happier to be here. It's impossible. 0:02:21.880 --> 0:02:24.000 Well, we're going to try to make you happier. I'm 0:02:24.040 --> 0:02:26.000 going to do something. I'm going to offer you some 0:02:26.040 --> 0:02:28.519 sort of illicit drug during the podcast. We're going to 0:02:28.560 --> 0:02:30.480 try to just blow your mind. 0:02:30.639 --> 0:02:33.480 Oh my god, I've never done drugs. 0:02:33.080 --> 0:02:36.359 Any drugs, So this is the perfect night for you 0:02:36.400 --> 0:02:41.639 to do heroin. They call heroin kind of a gateway drug. 0:02:42.080 --> 0:02:45.800 You know, that's the one you start with. Well that's 0:02:45.800 --> 0:02:48.120 easy then, yeah, I'll go get a spoon, I'll get 0:02:48.120 --> 0:02:52.119 a needle, and uh, we'll get you in a new 0:02:52.320 --> 0:02:53.120 state of mind. 0:02:53.240 --> 0:02:56.480 Yeah. That should be really chill and relaxing. 0:02:56.840 --> 0:02:57.280 Absolute. 0:02:57.520 --> 0:03:01.880 I'm sure I'm a very late back user. 0:03:02.720 --> 0:03:04.239 I mean, I think you do have to be a 0:03:04.320 --> 0:03:06.959 laid back drug user once you're on heroin. I don't 0:03:07.040 --> 0:03:09.119 know that there's any other state of mind. And I'm 0:03:09.120 --> 0:03:12.400 not speaking from experience. What if we found out now 0:03:12.440 --> 0:03:17.440 that I'm just a real Heroin user, that would be 0:03:17.480 --> 0:03:22.320 such a turn for the podcast. Maybe maybe one day 0:03:22.360 --> 0:03:25.000 we can always aspire. Okay, I have said that I 0:03:25.080 --> 0:03:27.400 will try Heroin if I make it past one hundred. 0:03:27.760 --> 0:03:30.640 Oh well, I have always said that I'll smoke pot 0:03:30.880 --> 0:03:32.840 once I'm sixty five and retired. 0:03:32.919 --> 0:03:36.320 That's a great age to start. I mean, whenever, you know. 0:03:36.400 --> 0:03:39.640 I think they say things like teenager shouldn't be, but 0:03:39.680 --> 0:03:41.200 sixty five feels like the right time. 0:03:41.320 --> 0:03:44.400 At that point, we'll know if I have Alzheimer's right, 0:03:44.560 --> 0:03:46.960 dementia should be kicking in, so. 0:03:47.280 --> 0:03:50.040 Cares, just go for it, absolutely, go for it. And 0:03:50.080 --> 0:03:53.880 then you'll be so laid back and you're golfing, you're 0:03:54.280 --> 0:03:57.240 pruning the bushes. Yes you're high, out of your mind. 0:03:57.480 --> 0:04:02.600 Yes you can't remember. Anything can go wrong. How are 0:04:02.600 --> 0:04:02.960 you doing? 0:04:04.040 --> 0:04:08.280 I'm doing so well, and I really am thinking about 0:04:08.600 --> 0:04:11.840 you and your I'm just glad I can be here 0:04:11.880 --> 0:04:14.480 in your time of need. I mean that that story 0:04:14.520 --> 0:04:18.880 about rats, and I'm assuming it's a fame, like a 0:04:18.920 --> 0:04:20.000 favorite restaurant. 0:04:20.160 --> 0:04:22.200 I hope, Yeah, I think we could. I mean, I don't, 0:04:22.200 --> 0:04:23.960 I don't want to get into the habit of beeping 0:04:24.160 --> 0:04:26.760 everything I say on this podcast. We recently beep something, 0:04:26.800 --> 0:04:29.080 but I'll tell you and then we'll keep it because 0:04:29.080 --> 0:04:31.560 I don't want to harm. It's harm. Of course, it's 0:04:31.560 --> 0:04:36.520 called it's a place in Silver Leg and let's beep 0:04:36.560 --> 0:04:40.480 even the type of food. My apology to the listener. 0:04:40.720 --> 0:04:43.240 You'll have to find out about the rats yourself. Firsthand. 0:04:44.040 --> 0:04:45.800 I cannot harm a small business. 0:04:46.120 --> 0:04:48.159 But but I'm glad you alerted me. 0:04:48.400 --> 0:04:50.560 Well, you need to appreciate it. I told on a 0:04:50.640 --> 0:04:54.560 least that I might tell them depending on their behavior tonight, 0:04:54.800 --> 0:04:57.320 and so now they know. Okay, I've been very good 0:04:57.440 --> 0:05:02.800 so far. But yeah, so it was. It was. The 0:05:02.880 --> 0:05:06.159 whole evening was ruined. I was sitting there my feet 0:05:06.360 --> 0:05:09.720 up because we were eating. We couldn't leave. And once 0:05:09.760 --> 0:05:13.120 I begin eating, I will finish, regardless of the circumstances. 0:05:13.680 --> 0:05:16.599 And so I saw one rat, thought maybe that's the 0:05:16.680 --> 0:05:19.360 end of it. And then they just kept going, just 0:05:19.560 --> 0:05:23.160 running in every direction. One came over under the tables, 0:05:23.680 --> 0:05:27.640 and that I mean, it's just I'm telling you my 0:05:27.760 --> 0:05:28.320 number one. 0:05:29.279 --> 0:05:31.880 It was a family. It was a small town. 0:05:32.040 --> 0:05:37.360 It was a small town. Yeah, it really was, and yeah, 0:05:37.440 --> 0:05:39.080 I don't know what. I feel like they may have 0:05:39.120 --> 0:05:42.960 been gathering food from the next door restaurant because I 0:05:42.960 --> 0:05:45.920 didn't see any of these ones coming out of this place. 0:05:46.680 --> 0:05:49.800 I'm also starting to wonder the word restaurant, am am 0:05:49.839 --> 0:05:51.960 I using? I mean, there aren't a lot of I 0:05:52.480 --> 0:05:54.400 like when I'm eating at this type of place. When 0:05:54.440 --> 0:05:58.160 I say restaurant, you kind of think, oh, waiters, I 0:05:58.200 --> 0:06:00.960 think I'm being seated at a table. But this is 0:06:01.000 --> 0:06:04.080 also a restaurant. Okay, right. 0:06:05.440 --> 0:06:06.160 Now, you've lost it. 0:06:06.160 --> 0:06:09.080 It's a small you know, it's like a oh and 0:06:09.160 --> 0:06:11.880 again we'll have to beep out even the description of 0:06:11.960 --> 0:06:14.160 bought it is. I don't want to give any clues. 0:06:15.320 --> 0:06:18.280 If you see a swarm of rats, you'll know which 0:06:18.320 --> 0:06:19.479 place I was talking about. 0:06:19.560 --> 0:06:24.040 Now, But don't you think that rats are everywhere we eat? 0:06:23.640 --> 0:06:26.719 I can't live in that reality. 0:06:26.880 --> 0:06:30.400 Yes, you couldn't live in my brain. Not for one. 0:06:30.520 --> 0:06:33.640 You're just constantly thinking about where rats could be. Yes, yes, 0:06:34.600 --> 0:06:36.560 but no, the I mean the question I'm trying to 0:06:36.680 --> 0:06:38.640 get at is can I call that a restaurant? 0:06:38.800 --> 0:06:39.280 Okay? 0:06:39.560 --> 0:06:42.599 Or is that crazy? I mean, it's just this very small, 0:06:42.839 --> 0:06:46.680 no weight service, but there is food being cooked and 0:06:46.760 --> 0:06:48.560 served to me and tables where I eat it. 0:06:48.680 --> 0:06:53.320 I think anywhere that where you're being served food, whether 0:06:53.400 --> 0:06:56.760 it's through a window or whether someone comes out with 0:06:56.800 --> 0:07:00.479 a with a tray yes and puts it on your table, right, 0:07:00.560 --> 0:07:02.360 I think that is technically a restaurant. 0:07:02.480 --> 0:07:03.480 It's not someone's house. 0:07:03.680 --> 0:07:05.720 Yeah, it is technically a restaurant. I just feel like 0:07:05.760 --> 0:07:07.520 it's too big of a word for this type of 0:07:07.839 --> 0:07:10.600 I mean, there are annoying words eatery. 0:07:10.480 --> 0:07:11.720 Uh, like a food service. 0:07:13.360 --> 0:07:15.120 What if I started telling people I went out to 0:07:15.160 --> 0:07:19.160 a food service last night. Now we've had in the 0:07:19.360 --> 0:07:24.760 other direction too far. Oh, the English language is too small, 0:07:24.960 --> 0:07:27.280 We've got and they need to think of another non 0:07:27.320 --> 0:07:32.520 embarrassing word that describes what I ate at that is 0:07:33.160 --> 0:07:34.840 like essentially a restaurant junior. 0:07:35.640 --> 0:07:41.560 Okay, Well, I will say, I'm trying to think if 0:07:41.600 --> 0:07:43.600 there's a word in Spanish. 0:07:43.360 --> 0:07:45.480 Oh that it observes right. 0:07:45.560 --> 0:07:45.720 Oh. 0:07:45.760 --> 0:07:50.240 Interesting, Well, in Porto Rican I don't know if this 0:07:50.280 --> 0:07:54.520 is Spanish word, but in Puerto Rico there are things 0:07:54.560 --> 0:07:58.480 called chinchotos okay, which are kind of like off the 0:07:58.480 --> 0:08:01.360 side of the road, okay, and you can usually get 0:08:01.400 --> 0:08:07.600 like a drink right, and a fried piece of yellow something, oh, 0:08:07.720 --> 0:08:09.400 fried piece of food. 0:08:09.520 --> 0:08:12.440 Some sort of fish or chicken or it's. 0:08:12.320 --> 0:08:18.480 Usually plantain based or you they you know, like and 0:08:18.560 --> 0:08:20.360 maybe like a little meat inside. 0:08:20.240 --> 0:08:23.640 Very tiny accidentally get meat any. 0:08:24.200 --> 0:08:26.600 Yeah, but they're chicken wood and fish. 0:08:26.360 --> 0:08:27.480 Would be part of it. 0:08:27.520 --> 0:08:29.280 What is the word children? 0:08:29.480 --> 0:08:32.640 Okay, how do you spell that? C H I N 0:08:33.400 --> 0:08:37.239 c h O R O okay, chinchio. 0:08:37.760 --> 0:08:39.560 It might be missing an R in there can't. 0:08:40.000 --> 0:08:42.880 I mean when in my mind a non Spanish speaker's mind. 0:08:42.920 --> 0:08:45.360 So I'm the expert at that, I imagine two rs kind. 0:08:45.240 --> 0:08:48.120 Of it might be a yeah, yeah, it might be 0:08:48.120 --> 0:08:48.599 a double R. 0:08:48.720 --> 0:08:51.280 Yeah, that comes closer. Huh uh huh More. 0:08:52.000 --> 0:08:54.360 You're kind of like stopping at the side of the road. 0:08:55.000 --> 0:08:57.920 There might not even be a table, right, so you're 0:08:57.960 --> 0:09:01.960 standing Maybe you're like standing in the casual I. 0:09:01.960 --> 0:09:04.000 Mean there are Let's let's be honest. Let's just lay 0:09:04.000 --> 0:09:07.040 out some of these words. Fast casual restaurant, which I 0:09:07.040 --> 0:09:10.120 will never say in a million years, bistro that doesn't 0:09:10.120 --> 0:09:15.480 describe it, cafe. No, there is one thing that describes 0:09:15.480 --> 0:09:17.319 it that I can't say because then it will give 0:09:17.360 --> 0:09:18.800 away the restaurant. 0:09:23.920 --> 0:09:26.360 Is that gonna also be the. 0:09:28.200 --> 0:09:31.920 This entire conversation is so alarming for the listener. 0:09:33.160 --> 0:09:36.720 It's like a weather service report, like a national emergency. 0:09:37.040 --> 0:09:37.400 Just be. 0:09:39.440 --> 0:09:41.680 But again, I'm only doing it, yes, to protect a 0:09:41.720 --> 0:09:45.520 small business. Yes, yes, I mean, and I'm being very 0:09:45.559 --> 0:09:47.800 generous here because they didn't respond to my alert. 0:09:48.280 --> 0:09:53.040 Well, they're busy, they're busy killing, they have a wrap problem. 0:09:54.080 --> 0:09:59.520 And you know this isn't a big, big establishment, right 0:09:59.640 --> 0:10:04.800 right right, They don't have the workforce, and and we want. 0:10:04.480 --> 0:10:06.319 To help the little right a little. 0:10:06.520 --> 0:10:09.360 I mean, I will push back in this particular situation. 0:10:09.480 --> 0:10:11.880 I do think they should be responsible because they they 0:10:11.880 --> 0:10:16.319 have this location as well as multiple other locations of 0:10:16.400 --> 0:10:19.320 another restaurant. Oh, I know they've got the money. I 0:10:19.320 --> 0:10:23.240 know they've got the time. Something's going. Maybe the rats 0:10:23.240 --> 0:10:26.760 are running the business. That may be the only answer 0:10:26.800 --> 0:10:30.280 to this, because maybe they're just you know, I've only 0:10:30.280 --> 0:10:32.920 give I haven't even given them twenty four hours, so 0:10:33.720 --> 0:10:34.760 maybe a couple of days. 0:10:35.120 --> 0:10:37.520 Now. Are you're certain you got the right email or 0:10:37.559 --> 0:10:38.560 the correct I went. 0:10:38.480 --> 0:10:39.520 To the right Instagram? 0:10:39.600 --> 0:10:40.960 Okay, oh Instagram? 0:10:41.080 --> 0:10:43.280 Yeah, I sent a message I considered email that I thought, 0:10:43.320 --> 0:10:44.800 does anyone email anymore. 0:10:45.840 --> 0:10:48.800 I think so. 0:10:50.360 --> 0:10:52.880 I mean, I certainly email, I mean even crazy. 0:10:53.000 --> 0:10:54.679 Yeah, I mean called me old fashioned, but. 0:10:54.640 --> 0:10:57.160 I feel like restaurants and that sort of thing, they're like, 0:10:57.200 --> 0:11:00.360 we communicate with our customers through horrible social media. 0:11:00.440 --> 0:11:02.599 Yes, yes, yes, you know you think it's also it 0:11:02.679 --> 0:11:07.120 might be like their their son or daughter running their. 0:11:07.679 --> 0:11:10.280 Daughters, sons multiple. 0:11:11.880 --> 0:11:15.599 Running this Instagram account for for mom and dad or 0:11:15.679 --> 0:11:17.000 dad and dad or mom and mom. 0:11:17.400 --> 0:11:26.040 You know, modern family, Modern family got it right. So 0:11:26.040 --> 0:11:29.400 this family of rats is not responding to my message yet, 0:11:29.440 --> 0:11:32.280 and that's fine because I'm protecting them. I will not 0:11:32.320 --> 0:11:35.600 be returning. Okay, there's some like, how could I return? 0:11:35.640 --> 0:11:36.760 Could I? 0:11:36.760 --> 0:11:37.360 I wouldn't. 0:11:38.160 --> 0:11:41.880 Yeah, I don't see any universe where I am in 0:11:41.880 --> 0:11:45.000 the right mind and drive over there and eat among 0:11:45.040 --> 0:11:45.680 the rats again. 0:11:46.120 --> 0:11:49.680 Well, I'll tell you what this was many many years ago. 0:11:49.760 --> 0:11:53.199 I was in New York City. It was an anniversary. 0:11:53.440 --> 0:11:56.480 I'm celebrating in an anniversary, okay, And we went to 0:11:56.840 --> 0:12:01.440 a restaurant in the city, and it was it was 0:12:01.720 --> 0:12:04.600 at a time in my life where when I tell 0:12:04.640 --> 0:12:08.480 you that I was extremely. 0:12:07.880 --> 0:12:10.679 Poor, I was more than poor, more. 0:12:10.480 --> 0:12:11.959 Than whatever you're thinking, I understand. 0:12:13.000 --> 0:12:16.120 So you know, we would do my now husband and 0:12:16.160 --> 0:12:18.480 I we would do this thing where we would put 0:12:18.559 --> 0:12:21.439 all of our change in a pig piggy bank for. 0:12:21.360 --> 0:12:22.360 An entire year. 0:12:22.600 --> 0:12:23.000 Okay. 0:12:23.080 --> 0:12:25.240 I mean that's how sure we were that this relationship 0:12:25.280 --> 0:12:27.839 was going to serve good for you. 0:12:26.280 --> 0:12:31.080 You bought a piggy bank together. That really sealed the deal. 0:12:32.240 --> 0:12:34.280 And then at the end of the year, we would 0:12:34.360 --> 0:12:37.920 take it to the bank and whatever we had saved up, that's. 0:12:37.720 --> 0:12:39.000 How much we would spend on the meal. 0:12:39.240 --> 0:12:40.360 Oh, that's so fun. 0:12:40.880 --> 0:12:43.160 And I believe it must have been like one hundred 0:12:43.200 --> 0:12:45.040 and something like one hundred and twenty dollars. 0:12:45.080 --> 0:12:46.439 We were dedicated. 0:12:46.520 --> 0:12:47.400 That's a lot of change. 0:12:47.480 --> 0:12:51.920 Yeah, I mean anything, you know, a buck, I mean, 0:12:52.120 --> 0:12:53.360 give me a half dollar. 0:12:53.520 --> 0:12:56.720 Oh oh my, got a half dollar? Where's that coming from? 0:12:56.760 --> 0:12:57.120 In there? 0:12:57.240 --> 0:12:59.400 You're doing a legal business. If you have a half dollar, 0:13:01.800 --> 0:13:04.600 you actually robbed a bank. That's the only place that 0:13:04.600 --> 0:13:05.319 that would come from. 0:13:05.720 --> 0:13:06.520 Well that. 0:13:08.040 --> 0:13:10.360 Okay, So you had one hundred and twenty dollars, yes. 0:13:10.920 --> 0:13:13.200 And we go to this restaurant. 0:13:14.120 --> 0:13:18.560 And at the I would say, three quarters into the meal, 0:13:19.440 --> 0:13:22.160 a huge cockerroach. 0:13:23.280 --> 0:13:25.079 Starts walking right up. 0:13:24.920 --> 0:13:30.280 The wall and parks itself as if it's the third 0:13:30.400 --> 0:13:31.640 party at. 0:13:31.480 --> 0:13:35.560 Our table, and what did you do? 0:13:37.000 --> 0:13:42.400 I was so angry because I had saved up here right. 0:13:43.320 --> 0:13:47.559 I called up the I waved the server and I said, 0:13:47.720 --> 0:13:48.280 look at this. 0:13:51.240 --> 0:13:54.000 Suddenly you're in a mink coat and you've driven there 0:13:54.000 --> 0:13:55.040 in a Rolls Royce. 0:13:57.040 --> 0:13:59.680 It's like, I don't usually I'm not this person, but 0:13:59.760 --> 0:14:01.240 you're making me be this person? 0:14:03.320 --> 0:14:05.000 And what do you have to say for yourself? 0:14:05.080 --> 0:14:06.040 And what did they say? 0:14:06.280 --> 0:14:11.040 Well, they were very embarrassed, of course, and they every 0:14:11.360 --> 0:14:13.560 the meal was free, Oh my god. 0:14:14.280 --> 0:14:17.560 And I left with one hundred dollars gift certificate to 0:14:17.679 --> 0:14:18.440 the restaurant. 0:14:18.760 --> 0:14:19.680 Oh wow. 0:14:19.720 --> 0:14:22.320 But then it left me with the predicament, do I 0:14:22.480 --> 0:14:26.720 return and use this very valuable one hundred dollars? 0:14:28.040 --> 0:14:28.800 What do I do? 0:14:29.120 --> 0:14:30.960 What kind of food was it? 0:14:30.960 --> 0:14:31.680 It was? 0:14:33.320 --> 0:14:37.720 I believe it was a Spanish very nice. 0:14:37.880 --> 0:14:38.600 Yes, yeah, a. 0:14:38.600 --> 0:14:39.880 Lot of good seafood. 0:14:39.920 --> 0:14:43.600 I bet it was seafood. It was all nothing that 0:14:43.720 --> 0:14:44.680 goes with cockroach. 0:14:46.920 --> 0:14:50.400 Not what a shame? Yes, I mean did so when 0:14:50.440 --> 0:14:52.480 they were embarrassed everything, what do they do? They like, 0:14:52.560 --> 0:14:55.280 knock it off the wall? What do you do in that? 0:14:55.600 --> 0:14:57.480 Because you don't just kill it in front of the customers. 0:14:57.720 --> 0:15:00.840 Didn't just slam it. 0:15:01.040 --> 0:15:02.640 Just grab a paper towel. 0:15:03.520 --> 0:15:05.560 Pull the napkin off of one of the customer's laps. 0:15:06.080 --> 0:15:09.480 I think we quickly got up and left. It was 0:15:09.720 --> 0:15:12.840 toward the end of the meal. Oh okay, okay, And 0:15:12.880 --> 0:15:15.200 I think that what ended up happening, if I recall, 0:15:15.360 --> 0:15:17.800 was are there, our dessert got sent We went to 0:15:17.840 --> 0:15:20.200 the bar, oh okay, and the dessert got sent to 0:15:20.240 --> 0:15:20.440 the bar. 0:15:20.640 --> 0:15:23.240 Interesting, and then they kind of we ented the area. 0:15:23.400 --> 0:15:25.600 Yes, yes, we left the crime scene. 0:15:26.240 --> 0:15:30.040 Oh that's I mean for me fully worth it. 0:15:30.200 --> 0:15:31.520 Okay, Yeah, cockroach. 0:15:32.000 --> 0:15:34.200 I mean every building in New York literally has a 0:15:34.240 --> 0:15:36.160 car insted. Oh they're everywhere. 0:15:36.240 --> 0:15:36.520 Yeah. 0:15:36.800 --> 0:15:41.200 Had it been a rat, that's a completely different tale. 0:15:41.440 --> 0:15:44.760 I mean I would have raised the building. It would 0:15:44.800 --> 0:15:47.600 have been over. I would be demanding ownership of the 0:15:47.640 --> 0:15:50.720 business for a rat to crawl up the wall during 0:15:50.720 --> 0:15:54.600 my one hundred and twenty dollars meal. It's out there screaming. 0:15:54.760 --> 0:15:56.240 I don't know, but they're having fun having. 0:15:57.640 --> 0:15:59.240 You have them a lot better attitude about this. 0:15:59.560 --> 0:16:01.600 I yeah, I guess I. 0:16:03.080 --> 0:16:06.160 Immediately just want to just shut it down. 0:16:06.360 --> 0:16:08.640 It did sound like children, which could be good or bad? 0:16:08.760 --> 0:16:13.760 That's true. I mean it's after bedtime, kids, it's seven sixteen, 0:16:14.280 --> 0:16:15.240 Get those kids in bed. 0:16:15.280 --> 0:16:16.240 You know where your kids are? 0:16:16.480 --> 0:16:18.400 Do you know it's seven sixteen? Do you know where 0:16:18.400 --> 0:16:24.000 your children are? I've never really had, outside of this 0:16:24.120 --> 0:16:29.000 rat experience, a real nuisance at a restaurant. 0:16:29.280 --> 0:16:31.480 You've lived a fortunate life. 0:16:31.600 --> 0:16:38.160 I've led such a charmed live. I do remember. I 0:16:38.200 --> 0:16:39.920 feel like once a year there's a New York story 0:16:39.960 --> 0:16:42.920 about like, and the kitchen was infested with rats, Yes, 0:16:43.240 --> 0:16:44.680 and they had to shut it down and then it 0:16:44.760 --> 0:16:46.960 opened a week later. Yes, yes, but now they have 0:16:47.000 --> 0:16:48.720 the rats are which La doesn't have. 0:16:50.000 --> 0:16:51.720 And La the rats are? 0:16:51.920 --> 0:16:55.280 Have you not heard about the rats are? No? She's incredible. 0:16:55.560 --> 0:16:57.400 Is this a New York City personality? 0:16:58.240 --> 0:16:59.680 I mean, I think she's kind of just become a 0:16:59.680 --> 0:17:03.760 person just by nature of this jobb being so bizarre. 0:17:04.400 --> 0:17:07.840 And she was hired or I don't think she ran 0:17:08.000 --> 0:17:13.320 for rats are? I think she was hired. Although I mean, 0:17:13.880 --> 0:17:17.840 if you want me to get voting, get the rats 0:17:17.880 --> 0:17:22.480 are on the ball qualifications. That's a good question. I 0:17:22.480 --> 0:17:24.719 think you have to think like a rat. I think 0:17:24.800 --> 0:17:30.439 you have to. I mean, politics, topical, every politicians are 0:17:30.560 --> 0:17:36.000 rat My apologies to everybody. No, I think she was 0:17:36.040 --> 0:17:38.080 just hired. She must be some sort of rat expert 0:17:39.359 --> 0:17:44.280 and her job is to just essentially eradicate rats in 0:17:44.320 --> 0:17:47.399 New York, get rid of the problem completely. And I 0:17:47.400 --> 0:17:49.160 think she's been doing a pretty good job. I think 0:17:49.160 --> 0:17:54.840 that they've significantly reduced the rat population through new I 0:17:54.880 --> 0:17:59.720 don't know, traps, garbage cans that have lids that seal. 0:18:00.880 --> 0:18:02.920 You just want to shut down the food Yeah, yeah, yeah, 0:18:02.920 --> 0:18:06.600 I think that's the key. I think I would be 0:18:06.680 --> 0:18:09.520 happy if the government took drained all of its funding 0:18:09.560 --> 0:18:13.000 from every program for six months to just take care 0:18:13.040 --> 0:18:14.880 of the rat problem in the United States. 0:18:14.920 --> 0:18:21.720 Shut down the military, yeah, absolutely, Defenseless schools are shut down. Yes, 0:18:22.800 --> 0:18:24.680 I mean any kind of social service. 0:18:25.040 --> 0:18:26.720 Garbage, Yeah, let it pile. 0:18:26.600 --> 0:18:29.720 Up six months. We can we can all suffer through it. 0:18:29.760 --> 0:18:32.439 We did COVID. This would be the kind of the 0:18:32.480 --> 0:18:33.120 new COVID. 0:18:33.240 --> 0:18:35.760 Okay, but you're not thinking straight, because if we shut 0:18:35.800 --> 0:18:40.800 down garbage service, that would be the Yeah, this is impossible. 0:18:42.480 --> 0:18:46.320 I know this because of the garbage strike of New 0:18:46.400 --> 0:18:46.920 York City. 0:18:47.280 --> 0:18:48.800 Oh did you live through that? 0:18:49.000 --> 0:18:52.840 I did not, But I just I researched it recently. 0:18:53.600 --> 0:18:59.280 There have been multiple There was a big one, I believe, 0:18:59.800 --> 0:19:02.359 I'm I mean, they've just they've been around all the time. 0:19:02.400 --> 0:19:04.239 But I'm forgetting when it was. 0:19:04.400 --> 0:19:05.960 Let's say, twenty twenty three. 0:19:06.200 --> 0:19:08.720 I'm thinking of no, no, no. 0:19:10.840 --> 0:19:13.119 You almost went along with I mean, just picking the 0:19:13.240 --> 0:19:19.120 year previous, maybe nineteen, I guess, like nineteen eighty six. 0:19:19.720 --> 0:19:20.920 I think there was one in the eighties. 0:19:21.000 --> 0:19:24.280 I know there was one around Christmas time, Okay, And 0:19:24.320 --> 0:19:32.040 this was a pivotal one because which Christmas time, Rebecca, 0:19:32.280 --> 0:19:32.679 I don't know. 0:19:33.440 --> 0:19:35.240 Once a year, I don't know what yet. 0:19:35.480 --> 0:19:38.120 But what's important about is that was right before Christmas 0:19:38.440 --> 0:19:42.040 and Christmas was about to be ruined for so many people. 0:19:42.200 --> 0:19:43.040 What a great movie. 0:19:43.160 --> 0:19:46.359 It was disgusting it was. They were living in phils. 0:19:46.560 --> 0:19:51.680 Oh you know, people were fighting outside. 0:19:52.080 --> 0:19:55.920 The rats were taking everyone's gifts. Yes, they had devoured 0:19:55.960 --> 0:20:01.520 Santa Claus alive, Santa Skeleton line in the street. Absolute wasteland. 0:20:01.680 --> 0:20:06.720 There's a happy ending. What because they are the people. 0:20:06.760 --> 0:20:10.159 Of New York's of the government in New York City 0:20:10.320 --> 0:20:14.040 came together and ended the strike before Christmas. 0:20:14.400 --> 0:20:15.840 It was a true Christmas miracle. 0:20:16.000 --> 0:20:17.320 I was hoping you were going to say, a little 0:20:17.359 --> 0:20:22.800 girl made a wish, asked Santa. That's the movie, Santa 0:20:22.840 --> 0:20:24.200 solves the garbage crisis. 0:20:24.280 --> 0:20:27.320 Well, this is what we're gonna we're probably gonna write this. 0:20:27.480 --> 0:20:30.640 Tim Allen's looking for his next Santa Claus movie, and 0:20:30.800 --> 0:20:34.359 I think him just gathering garbage off the streets is 0:20:34.520 --> 0:20:36.000 kind of the ultimate. 0:20:36.480 --> 0:20:40.119 Tim Allen is going to be the garbage union worker. 0:20:40.800 --> 0:20:43.879 You know, he's gonna be Santa and he's just gonna 0:20:43.880 --> 0:20:46.640 show up. I think he's actually going to be a scab. 0:20:47.880 --> 0:20:50.879 Santa becomes a scab and does all the garbage lifting 0:20:50.960 --> 0:20:54.000 for himself and then actually harms the union. Yes, and 0:20:54.160 --> 0:20:56.720 everyone in the process thinking he's doing a good deed. 0:20:56.960 --> 0:20:59.520 But that sets you up for a sequel exactly because 0:20:59.560 --> 0:21:02.560 he hasn't I learned his lesson. Yeah, he put all 0:21:02.600 --> 0:21:05.720 these families out of I mean, everyone's starved through Christmas 0:21:05.760 --> 0:21:08.520 because of Santa thinking I'll take care of the garbage. 0:21:08.560 --> 0:21:11.679 Well, and here was the problem. The garbage was piling 0:21:11.800 --> 0:21:15.800 up so high he couldn't see the numbers for the addresses, 0:21:16.600 --> 0:21:22.280 and so this this was directly impacting Santa. 0:21:22.400 --> 0:21:25.440 Of course, he couldn't find the children. No, he goes 0:21:25.480 --> 0:21:26.280 by street number. 0:21:26.480 --> 0:21:32.000 Yes, you know, he has very he's very organized organized. 0:21:33.119 --> 0:21:35.199 Yeah, they should put street numbers on chimneys if they 0:21:35.240 --> 0:21:37.320 really want, I mean, if we really want to sell 0:21:37.359 --> 0:21:38.240 the Santa fiction. 0:21:38.480 --> 0:21:42.080 That's a really good point. In fact, that's another thing 0:21:42.119 --> 0:21:42.800