Speaker 1: Well, I invited you. Hear, I thought, I made myself
Speaker 1: perfectly clear.
Speaker 2: But you're a guest to my home.
Speaker 1: You gotta come to me empty, And I said, no,
Speaker 1: guess your own presences presents enough. I already had too
Speaker 1: much stuff, So how did you dare.
Speaker 3: To surbey me? Welcome to I said, no gifts. I'm
Speaker 3: Richard Wine girl. LA's number one. It girl. We're in
Speaker 3: the backyard and it's not quite night yet. It's the
Speaker 3: light is fading. I mean literally and metaphorically that you
Speaker 3: know things are getting dark. But we're going to have
Speaker 3: a wonderful time here. Let's see what's happening. I mean,
Speaker 3: last night I went to a restaurant and an outdoor
Speaker 3: seating situation, and while I was eating with a friend,
Speaker 3: I counted at least seven rats scampering scampering through the
Speaker 3: parking lot, which is my number one nightmare. And so
Speaker 3: that's the sort of sleep I'm working on. It was
Speaker 3: obviously a stressful evening at home, but we're looking to
Speaker 3: the neighborhoods stray cats to protect me. I have contacted
Speaker 3: the establishment. I had to. They did not respond. So yeah,
Speaker 3: we'll see what happens. But I may not be eating
Speaker 3: there again. Unfortunately. Check all of your favorite restaurants for rats.
Speaker 3: That's all I'm saying. They may have a whole farm.
Speaker 3: Let's get into the podcast. I adore today's guest. It's
Speaker 3: Rebecca Delgado Smith. Rebecca. Welcome to I said no gifts, Bridger.
Speaker 2: I couldn't be happier to be here. It's impossible.
Speaker 3: Well, we're going to try to make you happier. I'm
Speaker 3: going to do something. I'm going to offer you some
Speaker 3: sort of illicit drug during the podcast. We're going to
Speaker 3: try to just blow your mind.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, I've never done drugs.
Speaker 3: Any drugs, So this is the perfect night for you
Speaker 3: to do heroin. They call heroin kind of a gateway drug.
Speaker 3: You know, that's the one you start with. Well that's
Speaker 3: easy then, yeah, I'll go get a spoon, I'll get
Speaker 3: a needle, and uh, we'll get you in a new
Speaker 3: state of mind.
Speaker 2: Yeah. That should be really chill and relaxing.
Speaker 3: Absolute.
Speaker 4: I'm sure I'm a very late back user.
Speaker 3: I mean, I think you do have to be a
Speaker 3: laid back drug user once you're on heroin. I don't
Speaker 3: know that there's any other state of mind. And I'm
Speaker 3: not speaking from experience. What if we found out now
Speaker 3: that I'm just a real Heroin user, that would be
Speaker 3: such a turn for the podcast. Maybe maybe one day
Speaker 3: we can always aspire. Okay, I have said that I
Speaker 3: will try Heroin if I make it past one hundred.
Speaker 4: Oh well, I have always said that I'll smoke pot
Speaker 4: once I'm sixty five and retired.
Speaker 3: That's a great age to start. I mean, whenever, you know.
Speaker 3: I think they say things like teenager shouldn't be, but
Speaker 3: sixty five feels like the right time.
Speaker 4: At that point, we'll know if I have Alzheimer's right,
Speaker 4: dementia should be kicking in, so.
Speaker 3: Cares, just go for it, absolutely, go for it. And
Speaker 3: then you'll be so laid back and you're golfing, you're
Speaker 3: pruning the bushes. Yes you're high, out of your mind.
Speaker 3: Yes you can't remember. Anything can go wrong. How are
Speaker 3: you doing?
Speaker 4: I'm doing so well, and I really am thinking about
Speaker 4: you and your I'm just glad I can be here
Speaker 4: in your time of need. I mean that that story
Speaker 4: about rats, and I'm assuming it's a fame, like a
Speaker 4: favorite restaurant.
Speaker 3: I hope, Yeah, I think we could. I mean, I don't,
Speaker 3: I don't want to get into the habit of beeping
Speaker 3: everything I say on this podcast. We recently beep something,
Speaker 3: but I'll tell you and then we'll keep it because
Speaker 3: I don't want to harm. It's harm. Of course, it's
Speaker 3: called it's a place in Silver Leg and let's beep
Speaker 3: even the type of food. My apology to the listener.
Speaker 3: You'll have to find out about the rats yourself. Firsthand.
Speaker 3: I cannot harm a small business.
Speaker 2: But but I'm glad you alerted me.
Speaker 3: Well, you need to appreciate it. I told on a
Speaker 3: least that I might tell them depending on their behavior tonight,
Speaker 3: and so now they know. Okay, I've been very good
Speaker 3: so far. But yeah, so it was. It was. The
Speaker 3: whole evening was ruined. I was sitting there my feet
Speaker 3: up because we were eating. We couldn't leave. And once
Speaker 3: I begin eating, I will finish, regardless of the circumstances.
Speaker 3: And so I saw one rat, thought maybe that's the
Speaker 3: end of it. And then they just kept going, just
Speaker 3: running in every direction. One came over under the tables,
Speaker 3: and that I mean, it's just I'm telling you my
Speaker 3: number one.
Speaker 2: It was a family. It was a small town.
Speaker 3: It was a small town. Yeah, it really was, and yeah,
Speaker 3: I don't know what. I feel like they may have
Speaker 3: been gathering food from the next door restaurant because I
Speaker 3: didn't see any of these ones coming out of this place.
Speaker 3: I'm also starting to wonder the word restaurant, am am
Speaker 3: I using? I mean, there aren't a lot of I
Speaker 3: like when I'm eating at this type of place. When
Speaker 3: I say restaurant, you kind of think, oh, waiters, I
Speaker 3: think I'm being seated at a table. But this is
Speaker 3: also a restaurant. Okay, right.
Speaker 2: Now, you've lost it.
Speaker 3: It's a small you know, it's like a oh and
Speaker 3: again we'll have to beep out even the description of
Speaker 3: bought it is. I don't want to give any clues.
Speaker 3: If you see a swarm of rats, you'll know which
Speaker 3: place I was talking about.
Speaker 4: Now, But don't you think that rats are everywhere we eat?
Speaker 3: I can't live in that reality.
Speaker 2: Yes, you couldn't live in my brain. Not for one.
Speaker 3: You're just constantly thinking about where rats could be. Yes, yes,
Speaker 3: but no, the I mean the question I'm trying to
Speaker 3: get at is can I call that a restaurant?
Speaker 2: Okay?
Speaker 3: Or is that crazy? I mean, it's just this very small,
Speaker 3: no weight service, but there is food being cooked and
Speaker 3: served to me and tables where I eat it.
Speaker 4: I think anywhere that where you're being served food, whether
Speaker 4: it's through a window or whether someone comes out with
Speaker 4: a with a tray yes and puts it on your table, right,
Speaker 4: I think that is technically a restaurant.
Speaker 2: It's not someone's house.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it is technically a restaurant. I just feel like
Speaker 3: it's too big of a word for this type of
Speaker 3: I mean, there are annoying words eatery.
Speaker 2: Uh, like a food service.
Speaker 3: What if I started telling people I went out to
Speaker 3: a food service last night. Now we've had in the
Speaker 3: other direction too far. Oh, the English language is too small,
Speaker 3: We've got and they need to think of another non
Speaker 3: embarrassing word that describes what I ate at that is
Speaker 3: like essentially a restaurant junior.
Speaker 4: Okay, Well, I will say, I'm trying to think if
Speaker 4: there's a word in Spanish.
Speaker 3: Oh that it observes right.
Speaker 2: Oh.
Speaker 4: Interesting, Well, in Porto Rican I don't know if this
Speaker 4: is Spanish word, but in Puerto Rico there are things
Speaker 4: called chinchotos okay, which are kind of like off the
Speaker 4: side of the road, okay, and you can usually get
Speaker 4: like a drink right, and a fried piece of yellow something, oh,
Speaker 4: fried piece of food.
Speaker 3: Some sort of fish or chicken or it's.
Speaker 4: Usually plantain based or you they you know, like and
Speaker 4: maybe like a little meat inside.
Speaker 3: Very tiny accidentally get meat any.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but they're chicken wood and fish.
Speaker 3: Would be part of it.
Speaker 2: What is the word children?
Speaker 3: Okay, how do you spell that? C H I N
Speaker 3: c h O R O okay, chinchio.
Speaker 2: It might be missing an R in there can't.
Speaker 3: I mean when in my mind a non Spanish speaker's mind.
Speaker 3: So I'm the expert at that, I imagine two rs kind.
Speaker 2: Of it might be a yeah, yeah, it might be
Speaker 2: a double R.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that comes closer. Huh uh huh More.
Speaker 4: You're kind of like stopping at the side of the road.
Speaker 4: There might not even be a table, right, so you're
Speaker 4: standing Maybe you're like standing in the casual I.
Speaker 3: Mean there are Let's let's be honest. Let's just lay
Speaker 3: out some of these words. Fast casual restaurant, which I
Speaker 3: will never say in a million years, bistro that doesn't
Speaker 3: describe it, cafe. No, there is one thing that describes
Speaker 3: it that I can't say because then it will give
Speaker 3: away the restaurant.
Speaker 2: Is that gonna also be the.
Speaker 4: This entire conversation is so alarming for the listener.
Speaker 3: It's like a weather service report, like a national emergency.
Speaker 2: Just be.
Speaker 3: But again, I'm only doing it, yes, to protect a
Speaker 3: small business. Yes, yes, I mean, and I'm being very
Speaker 3: generous here because they didn't respond to my alert.
Speaker 4: Well, they're busy, they're busy killing, they have a wrap problem.
Speaker 4: And you know this isn't a big, big establishment, right
Speaker 4: right right, They don't have the workforce, and and we want.
Speaker 2: To help the little right a little.
Speaker 3: I mean, I will push back in this particular situation.
Speaker 3: I do think they should be responsible because they they
Speaker 3: have this location as well as multiple other locations of
Speaker 3: another restaurant. Oh, I know they've got the money. I
Speaker 3: know they've got the time. Something's going. Maybe the rats
Speaker 3: are running the business. That may be the only answer
Speaker 3: to this, because maybe they're just you know, I've only
Speaker 3: give I haven't even given them twenty four hours, so
Speaker 3: maybe a couple of days.
Speaker 2: Now. Are you're certain you got the right email or
Speaker 2: the correct I went.
Speaker 3: To the right Instagram?
Speaker 2: Okay, oh Instagram?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I sent a message I considered email that I thought,
Speaker 3: does anyone email anymore.
Speaker 2: I think so.
Speaker 3: I mean, I certainly email, I mean even crazy.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean called me old fashioned, but.
Speaker 3: I feel like restaurants and that sort of thing, they're like,
Speaker 3: we communicate with our customers through horrible social media.
Speaker 4: Yes, yes, yes, you know you think it's also it
Speaker 4: might be like their their son or daughter running their.
Speaker 2: Daughters, sons multiple.
Speaker 4: Running this Instagram account for for mom and dad or
Speaker 4: dad and dad or mom and mom.
Speaker 3: You know, modern family, Modern family got it right. So
Speaker 3: this family of rats is not responding to my message yet,
Speaker 3: and that's fine because I'm protecting them. I will not
Speaker 3: be returning. Okay, there's some like, how could I return?
Speaker 3: Could I?
Speaker 2: I wouldn't.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't see any universe where I am in
Speaker 3: the right mind and drive over there and eat among
Speaker 3: the rats again.
Speaker 4: Well, I'll tell you what this was many many years ago.
Speaker 4: I was in New York City. It was an anniversary.
Speaker 4: I'm celebrating in an anniversary, okay, And we went to
Speaker 4: a restaurant in the city, and it was it was
Speaker 4: at a time in my life where when I tell
Speaker 4: you that I was extremely.
Speaker 2: Poor, I was more than poor, more.
Speaker 3: Than whatever you're thinking, I understand.
Speaker 4: So you know, we would do my now husband and
Speaker 4: I we would do this thing where we would put
Speaker 4: all of our change in a pig piggy bank for.
Speaker 2: An entire year.
Speaker 3: Okay.
Speaker 4: I mean that's how sure we were that this relationship
Speaker 4: was going to serve good for you.
Speaker 3: You bought a piggy bank together. That really sealed the deal.
Speaker 4: And then at the end of the year, we would
Speaker 4: take it to the bank and whatever we had saved up, that's.
Speaker 2: How much we would spend on the meal.
Speaker 3: Oh, that's so fun.
Speaker 4: And I believe it must have been like one hundred
Speaker 4: and something like one hundred and twenty dollars.
Speaker 2: We were dedicated.
Speaker 3: That's a lot of change.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean anything, you know, a buck, I mean,
Speaker 4: give me a half dollar.
Speaker 3: Oh oh my, got a half dollar? Where's that coming from?
Speaker 2: In there?
Speaker 3: You're doing a legal business. If you have a half dollar,
Speaker 3: you actually robbed a bank. That's the only place that
Speaker 3: that would come from.
Speaker 2: Well that.
Speaker 3: Okay, So you had one hundred and twenty dollars, yes.
Speaker 2: And we go to this restaurant.
Speaker 4: And at the I would say, three quarters into the meal,
Speaker 4: a huge cockerroach.
Speaker 2: Starts walking right up.
Speaker 4: The wall and parks itself as if it's the third
Speaker 4: party at.
Speaker 3: Our table, and what did you do?
Speaker 2: I was so angry because I had saved up here right.
Speaker 4: I called up the I waved the server and I said,
Speaker 4: look at this.
Speaker 3: Suddenly you're in a mink coat and you've driven there
Speaker 3: in a Rolls Royce.
Speaker 4: It's like, I don't usually I'm not this person, but
Speaker 4: you're making me be this person?
Speaker 2: And what do you have to say for yourself?
Speaker 3: And what did they say?
Speaker 2: Well, they were very embarrassed, of course, and they every
Speaker 2: the meal was free, Oh my god.
Speaker 4: And I left with one hundred dollars gift certificate to
Speaker 4: the restaurant.
Speaker 3: Oh wow.
Speaker 4: But then it left me with the predicament, do I
Speaker 4: return and use this very valuable one hundred dollars?
Speaker 2: What do I do?
Speaker 3: What kind of food was it?
Speaker 2: It was?
Speaker 4: I believe it was a Spanish very nice.
Speaker 2: Yes, yeah, a.
Speaker 3: Lot of good seafood.
Speaker 4: I bet it was seafood. It was all nothing that
Speaker 4: goes with cockroach.
Speaker 3: Not what a shame? Yes, I mean did so when
Speaker 3: they were embarrassed everything, what do they do? They like,
Speaker 3: knock it off the wall? What do you do in that?
Speaker 3: Because you don't just kill it in front of the customers.
Speaker 3: Didn't just slam it.
Speaker 2: Just grab a paper towel.
Speaker 3: Pull the napkin off of one of the customer's laps.
Speaker 4: I think we quickly got up and left. It was
Speaker 4: toward the end of the meal. Oh okay, okay, And
Speaker 4: I think that what ended up happening, if I recall,
Speaker 4: was are there, our dessert got sent We went to
Speaker 4: the bar, oh okay, and the dessert got sent to
Speaker 4: the bar.
Speaker 3: Interesting, and then they kind of we ented the area.
Speaker 2: Yes, yes, we left the crime scene.
Speaker 3: Oh that's I mean for me fully worth it.
Speaker 2: Okay, Yeah, cockroach.
Speaker 3: I mean every building in New York literally has a
Speaker 3: car insted. Oh they're everywhere.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Had it been a rat, that's a completely different tale.
Speaker 3: I mean I would have raised the building. It would
Speaker 3: have been over. I would be demanding ownership of the
Speaker 3: business for a rat to crawl up the wall during
Speaker 3: my one hundred and twenty dollars meal. It's out there screaming.
Speaker 2: I don't know, but they're having fun having.
Speaker 3: You have them a lot better attitude about this.
Speaker 2: I yeah, I guess I.
Speaker 3: Immediately just want to just shut it down.
Speaker 2: It did sound like children, which could be good or bad?
Speaker 3: That's true. I mean it's after bedtime, kids, it's seven sixteen,
Speaker 3: Get those kids in bed.
Speaker 2: You know where your kids are?
Speaker 3: Do you know it's seven sixteen? Do you know where
Speaker 3: your children are? I've never really had, outside of this
Speaker 3: rat experience, a real nuisance at a restaurant.
Speaker 2: You've lived a fortunate life.
Speaker 3: I've led such a charmed live. I do remember. I
Speaker 3: feel like once a year there's a New York story
Speaker 3: about like, and the kitchen was infested with rats, Yes,
Speaker 3: and they had to shut it down and then it
Speaker 3: opened a week later. Yes, yes, but now they have
Speaker 3: the rats are which La doesn't have.
Speaker 2: And La the rats are?
Speaker 3: Have you not heard about the rats are? No? She's incredible.
Speaker 2: Is this a New York City personality?
Speaker 3: I mean, I think she's kind of just become a
Speaker 3: person just by nature of this jobb being so bizarre.
Speaker 3: And she was hired or I don't think she ran
Speaker 3: for rats are? I think she was hired. Although I mean,
Speaker 3: if you want me to get voting, get the rats
Speaker 3: are on the ball qualifications. That's a good question. I
Speaker 3: think you have to think like a rat. I think
Speaker 3: you have to. I mean, politics, topical, every politicians are
Speaker 3: rat My apologies to everybody. No, I think she was
Speaker 3: just hired. She must be some sort of rat expert
Speaker 3: and her job is to just essentially eradicate rats in
Speaker 3: New York, get rid of the problem completely. And I
Speaker 3: think she's been doing a pretty good job. I think
Speaker 3: that they've significantly reduced the rat population through new I
Speaker 3: don't know, traps, garbage cans that have lids that seal.
Speaker 3: You just want to shut down the food Yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: I think that's the key. I think I would be
Speaker 3: happy if the government took drained all of its funding
Speaker 3: from every program for six months to just take care
Speaker 3: of the rat problem in the United States.
Speaker 4: Shut down the military, yeah, absolutely, Defenseless schools are shut down. Yes,
Speaker 4: I mean any kind of social service.
Speaker 2: Garbage, Yeah, let it pile.
Speaker 3: Up six months. We can we can all suffer through it.
Speaker 3: We did COVID. This would be the kind of the
Speaker 3: new COVID.
Speaker 4: Okay, but you're not thinking straight, because if we shut
Speaker 4: down garbage service, that would be the Yeah, this is impossible.
Speaker 4: I know this because of the garbage strike of New
Speaker 4: York City.
Speaker 3: Oh did you live through that?
Speaker 4: I did not, But I just I researched it recently.
Speaker 4: There have been multiple There was a big one, I believe,
Speaker 4: I'm I mean, they've just they've been around all the time.
Speaker 2: But I'm forgetting when it was.
Speaker 3: Let's say, twenty twenty three.
Speaker 2: I'm thinking of no, no, no.
Speaker 3: You almost went along with I mean, just picking the
Speaker 3: year previous, maybe nineteen, I guess, like nineteen eighty six.
Speaker 2: I think there was one in the eighties.
Speaker 4: I know there was one around Christmas time, Okay, And
Speaker 4: this was a pivotal one because which Christmas time, Rebecca,
Speaker 4: I don't know.
Speaker 2: Once a year, I don't know what yet.
Speaker 4: But what's important about is that was right before Christmas
Speaker 4: and Christmas was about to be ruined for so many people.
Speaker 3: What a great movie.
Speaker 2: It was disgusting it was. They were living in phils.
Speaker 2: Oh you know, people were fighting outside.
Speaker 3: The rats were taking everyone's gifts. Yes, they had devoured
Speaker 3: Santa Claus alive, Santa Skeleton line in the street. Absolute wasteland.
Speaker 2: There's a happy ending. What because they are the people.
Speaker 4: Of New York's of the government in New York City
Speaker 4: came together and ended the strike before Christmas.
Speaker 2: It was a true Christmas miracle.
Speaker 3: I was hoping you were going to say, a little
Speaker 3: girl made a wish, asked Santa. That's the movie, Santa
Speaker 3: solves the garbage crisis.
Speaker 2: Well, this is what we're gonna we're probably gonna write this.
Speaker 3: Tim Allen's looking for his next Santa Claus movie, and
Speaker 3: I think him just gathering garbage off the streets is
Speaker 3: kind of the ultimate.
Speaker 4: Tim Allen is going to be the garbage union worker.
Speaker 3: You know, he's gonna be Santa and he's just gonna
Speaker 3: show up. I think he's actually going to be a scab.
Speaker 3: Santa becomes a scab and does all the garbage lifting
Speaker 3: for himself and then actually harms the union. Yes, and
Speaker 3: everyone in the process thinking he's doing a good deed.
Speaker 3: But that sets you up for a sequel exactly because
Speaker 3: he hasn't I learned his lesson. Yeah, he put all
Speaker 3: these families out of I mean, everyone's starved through Christmas
Speaker 3: because of Santa thinking I'll take care of the garbage.
Speaker 4: Well, and here was the problem. The garbage was piling
Speaker 4: up so high he couldn't see the numbers for the addresses,
Speaker 4: and so this this was directly impacting Santa.
Speaker 3: Of course, he couldn't find the children. No, he goes
Speaker 3: by street number.
Speaker 4: Yes, you know, he has very he's very organized organized.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they should put street numbers on chimneys if they
Speaker 3: really want, I mean, if we really want to sell
Speaker 3: the Santa fiction.
Speaker 4: That's a really good point. In fact, that's another thing
Speaker 4: we can sell.
Speaker 3: This is the new giant skeleton at home depot would
Speaker 3: say chimney's street number and maybe a little mailbox that
Speaker 3: hooked your chimney.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, that's such a good idea. It's a picture.
Speaker 2: You're a genius.
Speaker 3: People have said up before, and they'll say it again. Interesting. Well,
Speaker 3: I mean, speaking of gifts and them finding themselves in
Speaker 3: horrible places, is this kind of thing good? Rebecca. I
Speaker 3: was really happy to have you here. I thought, Rebecca's
Speaker 3: going to come. We'll catch up. Maybe we'll find out
Speaker 3: some new things about each other, Maybe we can talk
Speaker 3: to the garbage crisis. Well, you know, these are the
Speaker 3: things that we're going through my mind about my podcast,
Speaker 3: I said, no gifts, you received emails. We know each other.
Speaker 3: You are aware I had this podcast. You're also in
Speaker 3: the podcast world, so you're a professional, and I expected
Speaker 3: professional behavior. Correct, So I was. I was a little
Speaker 3: upset when I saw you kind of trotting up into
Speaker 3: my backyard holding what is clearly a gift for me.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I've let you down, haven't I.
Speaker 3: You've let me down. I'm just I will say, I'm disappointed,
Speaker 3: not angry. Okay, I'm seeing oh ah, but the gift
Speaker 3: is beautiful. This is we should start a ranking system
Speaker 3: of how well wrapped the gifts.
Speaker 2: Thank you.
Speaker 3: This one's really gorgeous. It's in a kind of a
Speaker 3: white and gold wrap with this beautiful orange bow. You
Speaker 3: really did it. Do you like wrapping gifts?
Speaker 2: I've out done myself.
Speaker 3: You've out done yourself this time. I really love it.
Speaker 2: I mean I do love wrapping gifts.
Speaker 4: Okay, I will say I come from a wonderful gift
Speaker 4: wrapping family.
Speaker 3: Oh it runs in your blood, it does.
Speaker 4: Now, they're not good gift givers, but they're wonderful gift wrapped.
Speaker 3: So you can set up an incredible expectation. Yes, just
Speaker 3: and then just swipe them, I mean knock them off
Speaker 3: their feet, just to disappoint them ultimately. Yes, Okay, so
Speaker 3: we'll see what happens to me. Okay, should I open
Speaker 3: it here on the podcast?
Speaker 4: I would love for you to open it. I mean
Speaker 4: I do I should say I apologize, okay, thank you,
Speaker 4: but uh but I don't see I am smiling, so
Speaker 4: I know it doesn't come.
Speaker 3: Off an apology. No, you're not an apology. If you
Speaker 3: were sorry, you wouldn't have done it.
Speaker 2: That's very true.
Speaker 4: And I apologize for my terrible apology on top of
Speaker 4: a terrible.
Speaker 3: Thing that I've done. The mistakes are mounting. I'm going
Speaker 3: to stop you before you really ruin your reputation. Oh
Speaker 3: I love this ribbon. It's also you know, like a
Speaker 3: fabric ribbon, which is so rare. I can use. I
Speaker 3: can put this in my hair.
Speaker 2: The wrapping is that something you do not that often enough.
Speaker 3: It's a bag. I'll keep it sometimes, I guess will
Speaker 3: show up without wrapping, you know, and you know I
Speaker 3: scream and then I say, I can go get you
Speaker 3: a bag, and then we put it in an old bag. Yeah,
Speaker 3: I'll definitely repurpose. I mean see that, Oh you can't
Speaker 3: really see that cact just over there occasionally able to
Speaker 3: try to kill itself by falling over, and like, I
Speaker 3: don't know what how if that happens, but I was like,
Speaker 3: I need something to keep it up. That doesn't look terrible.
Speaker 3: And I had an old green ribbon tied it around
Speaker 3: it and out holds it up until it's decided it
Speaker 3: chooses life again. So this orange ribbon may find its
Speaker 3: way into the gardens.
Speaker 2: Oh that's exciting. Yes, send me a picture.
Speaker 3: I'll send you a Should I open these gifts either
Speaker 3: in any order?
Speaker 2: There two gifts, some great question.
Speaker 4: Let's start with the smaller. You want to start with
Speaker 4: the smaller and then build your way up to the.
Speaker 2: Big one, right, okay?
Speaker 4: Yeah, And I should say they're both pretty small.
Speaker 2: They're hand hand size.
Speaker 3: One of them is the size of a seventy inch television.
Speaker 3: A nice four three color square gel sharpie pens. Yes, now,
Speaker 3: should we start discussing these now or do I need
Speaker 3: to open the second thing to give them context?
Speaker 2: You know, I think that they can talk. We can
Speaker 2: talk pens.
Speaker 3: Okay, tell me why you brought me these pins?
Speaker 2: Okay, these are my favorite pens.
Speaker 3: I love when people have a passion for pins, when
Speaker 3: they really know pins.
Speaker 4: And I will say these are special, okay, because you.
Speaker 2: Haven't brought it up.
Speaker 4: So I'm a little upset, but but that's okay.
Speaker 2: We can get past it. They're all one point.
Speaker 3: Zero one point zero okay, right.
Speaker 4: Sometimes you will go online and you will find these
Speaker 4: a plethora of these sharpie gel pens, but they are
Speaker 4: a point seven smaller.
Speaker 3: Does that mean smaller? What does that refer to?
Speaker 2: Actually, it just means the line.
Speaker 3: Thinner, right, And this is bold.
Speaker 4: This is extremely bold, but it's not a sharpie right, Okay,
Speaker 4: so it really rides that like.
Speaker 3: The sound of this.
Speaker 4: And now I have these at work and people steal
Speaker 4: them from me.
Speaker 3: Oh no, no, No, You've got to put a little
Speaker 3: uh like a choplifting alarm or one of those ink
Speaker 3: things that explodes if it needs that, they take it away.
Speaker 3: I think that would.
Speaker 2: So be careful what you were you? Yeah?
Speaker 3: Should I open and try it on this other I'm
Speaker 3: very excited about it.
Speaker 2: Absolutely.
Speaker 3: Oh this is in one of those tricky wrapping so
Speaker 3: hard to.
Speaker 2: No, you have to decide are you're going to do black,
Speaker 2: red or blue?
Speaker 3: I think I'm going to do blue.
Speaker 2: Okay, I like that. That's a good choice.
Speaker 3: Be tasteful with the golden white on the wrapping paper.
Speaker 4: Okay, Now you're gonna there's a little ball that's a
Speaker 4: it's a sounds nice, right.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that sounds beautiful. People a lot of beeping and
Speaker 3: clicking on this episode. Okay, what were you saying? I'm
Speaker 3: so sorry.
Speaker 2: There's a cover and the tip of the pen. It's
Speaker 2: for the protection of the ink.
Speaker 3: Wow, so I have to take that off.
Speaker 2: The people at Sharpie know what they're doing.
Speaker 3: I mean, this is unnecessary. The fact that they've covered
Speaker 3: this up is extremely unnecessary.
Speaker 2: But I respect because it means it's so thought out.
Speaker 3: There's a factory somewhere that is producing caps that are
Speaker 3: smaller than a ladybug to put on the tip of
Speaker 3: a pen. I mean that's extraly. That isn't probably ladybug?
Speaker 3: I yeah, that is. This is this is what we're
Speaker 3: the real animate this little cap. I'll have to take
Speaker 3: a picture then share it if people will even be
Speaker 3: able to see it.
Speaker 4: I mean, I'm sure there are like birds and fish
Speaker 4: dying because of.
Speaker 3: These little swallow these things.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so I apologize.
Speaker 3: I could swallow that. It's very hard. It's like a
Speaker 3: piece of sand.
Speaker 2: Don't try to swallow it all.
Speaker 3: Swallow whatever I want. Okay, we've got the blue hair.
Speaker 3: Is there anything you'd like me to write?
Speaker 1: Uh?
Speaker 3: Hey girl, No, I'm writing hey girl. Hey girl, Yes, queen, Yeah,
Speaker 3: that's fun. Oh this just I mean even on wrap,
Speaker 3: this wrapping paper that is not meant to be written,
Speaker 3: it's going on pretty well?
Speaker 2: Is it okay? Good?
Speaker 4: I'm sorry ass Yes, queen queen. Yeah, beautiful.
Speaker 3: That looks gorgeous. Oh my god, really pretty.
Speaker 2: And well I don't want to give away what's what's okay?
Speaker 3: What's happening there?
Speaker 2: What's happening now?
Speaker 3: I mean I I do love pens of all sorts.
Speaker 2: Are you a big pen?
Speaker 3: I don't have the pen knowledge. I don't really have
Speaker 3: knowledge of anything.
Speaker 2: Neither do I. That's why I came with pens. I
Speaker 2: don't know this. Is there anything more basic? I don't
Speaker 2: have to tell you.
Speaker 3: People call me bridger a has qwina girl. I'm just
Speaker 3: kind of empty and have nothing to offer. But I
Speaker 3: do love pens. I love doodling with pins. I love
Speaker 3: writing with pens. I can't do a pen, and so
Speaker 3: I cannot write pencil no, thank you, but a pin. Oh,
Speaker 3: especially at work and you're bored and you're just doodling
Speaker 3: away the dream. Yeah, and these are so beautiful that
Speaker 3: these are going to have to read. I should put
Speaker 3: a little chain on them or something.
Speaker 2: You should definitely put your name on it. They will
Speaker 2: be stolen.
Speaker 3: How often you're getting a pin stolen?
Speaker 2: So often?
Speaker 4: And I see and you know, people have the audacity
Speaker 4: to then show up walk around work with these. Oh,
Speaker 4: and I know who you are because no one else
Speaker 4: here is buying sharpie gels at one point.
Speaker 3: Oh the rest of your trash. Wow, that really is
Speaker 3: a bold move to take a pin that is so
Speaker 3: clearly not just an office pin. Yes, and then go
Speaker 3: about your day exactly.
Speaker 4: It's not like the office depo pens that they put
Speaker 4: out for everyone.
Speaker 3: No, right, Grameric, Yeah, you buy those in bulk. Yeah,
Speaker 3: these are stylish. They've got a rubber comfort grip, and
Speaker 3: they have the no bleed technology always vivid. So I'm
Speaker 3: sorry that you work with just a group of monsters, criminals,
Speaker 3: freaks and scumbags. Trust that if I, if we shared
Speaker 3: an office, I would respect the boundary that you were
Speaker 3: willing to put a little extra money into your pens,
Speaker 3: and I would continue to use crap, you know, because
Speaker 3: I that's the standard I hold for myself absolutely, And
Speaker 3: I see other people they deserve good pins. I can
Speaker 3: find one in you know, on the floor. You don't care,
Speaker 3: parking lot, wherever, wherever the pen comes from. Uh yourself,
Speaker 3: Well I don't. I don't need to. I just start
Speaker 3: a podcast, wait four years, record hundreds of episodes, and
Speaker 3: then it come to me. I have a list of
Speaker 3: things I'm just waiting for, and I'll record the podcast
Speaker 3: until they're all in my life. And you know this
Speaker 3: is step one.
Speaker 2: This is your way of manifesting.
Speaker 3: Yes, this is my this is my vision board. Okay,
Speaker 3: and it's working out incredibly.
Speaker 2: I'm so happy for you.
Speaker 3: Should I open the next gime? Yes?
Speaker 4: I think you should. I think it's time. And can
Speaker 4: you guess what it is?
Speaker 3: Just look, it is in the shape of some type
Speaker 3: of book. We can't assume, you know, I will assume
Speaker 3: it's a Daniel Steele or thank you.
Speaker 2: I love that you thought I would bring over your
Speaker 2: Daniels Sell.
Speaker 3: Everybody reads her. I mean we have to a Grisham clancy.
Speaker 3: You know, these are the novels I'm looking to guess. Okay,
Speaker 3: Oh that's this is tougher paper than I expect.
Speaker 2: Well, it's expensive.
Speaker 3: Now this is another beautiful piece. Wow, this is a
Speaker 3: gorgeous it's like a it is a journal and this
Speaker 3: is worry for Nothing? Cognitive? Oh it's a CBT journal.
Speaker 1: Oh.
Speaker 3: Interesting, A guide, a guided anxiety journal designed to help
Speaker 3: break free of negative thought patterns. Oh, you're making some
Speaker 3: big assumptions about the way I think, and it's not
Speaker 3: the way I think.
Speaker 2: Tell you, I'll tell you what it is there.
Speaker 4: I was struck by this book because there's nothing for
Speaker 4: me more stressful than a book telling me to worry
Speaker 4: for nothing.
Speaker 3: Of course, what is the book?
Speaker 2: No, if you want to kill my insides, then be
Speaker 2: this book.
Speaker 3: Where did you find it?
Speaker 2: I found it on Amazon here.
Speaker 3: So do you have any idea what's inside or anything?
Speaker 2: I peaked?
Speaker 4: It doesn't It doesn't help what's inside.
Speaker 2: What's inside won't help you.
Speaker 3: Okay. Yeah, it's a cognitive behavioral therapy journal. Yes, so
Speaker 3: it's not a a regular journal.
Speaker 2: Now you can just read that. Oh okay, okay, okay.
Speaker 3: I'm looking out for the listener here. I look out
Speaker 3: for small businesses listeners. You know, I'm a hero to
Speaker 3: so many. Okay, you're so close slipping off. This is
Speaker 3: essentially like the book's bra I'm pulling that off. Okay,
Speaker 3: I've taken that off.
Speaker 2: Sexy, it's a very sex.
Speaker 3: If nothing else, this is a very sexy podcast. Okay,
Speaker 3: I'm opening the book for worry for nothing. Own your thoughts, okay, okay, okay.
Speaker 3: So it is a journal, so I will be writing it.
Speaker 3: But initially it says.
Speaker 2: Thoughts, Oh, I didn't read that.
Speaker 3: Yes. Is They don't ask for permission or give advanced notice.
Speaker 3: They don't care who or where we are. They often
Speaker 3: weigh us down. That almost started to feel like like
Speaker 3: a pitch for a horror movie. Something's coming for us.
Speaker 3: And then it gets into various thoughts that's it, and
Speaker 3: then it gives oh it. It does give some examples
Speaker 3: of negative thoughts, such as, you're wondering, Yeah, I'm going
Speaker 3: to embarrass myself. I'm never going to be cool enough.
Speaker 3: I feel so alone. This is the rhythm of my day,
Speaker 3: we all know. Let's see and yeah they So this
Speaker 3: is just about stopping kind of these intrusive thoughts. How
Speaker 3: to use this journal articulation day date, day time, and location.
Speaker 3: And so I'm going to be making these entries about
Speaker 3: what's going on I think, uh, and describing how I'm feeling,
Speaker 3: then how I'm thinking. And see, I'll tell you I
Speaker 3: do write in a journal.
Speaker 2: Oh, Okay, this is good.
Speaker 3: But what I currently write in my journal are things
Speaker 3: like Monday, went had this for lunch, went here for dinner,
Speaker 3: watch this on TV. That's the yes essentially, So it
Speaker 3: does really. I mean occasionally I will put a lie
Speaker 3: in it. Okay, I'll put like a crazy thing that
Speaker 3: I did in case someone's looking through my journal in
Speaker 3: the future, I'll be like, I killed this person or
Speaker 3: and just hope that somewhere down the line they're like,
Speaker 3: oh my god, the things we're discovering.
Speaker 4: Okay, I mean what you have is just like in
Speaker 4: case a crime is committed, people will know what went wrong, what.
Speaker 3: Went wrong right, right, or it can be used against
Speaker 3: me in court and I'll be like, no, I was.
Speaker 2: Kidding, right, and this podcast is proof.
Speaker 3: And this podcast is proof. Yes, I will have to
Speaker 3: put on kind of a multimedia display to show them
Speaker 3: that I am innocent. I love to get into the
Speaker 3: court room and just do a slide show, do an
Speaker 3: audio presentation.
Speaker 4: I have to say it's I am pro therapy. So
Speaker 4: that's that is, you know. The my my annoyance.
Speaker 2: With this book is not because it's.
Speaker 3: A therapy, of course, of course, right, It's more the
Speaker 3: book telling how dare you.
Speaker 4: Don't tell me what to do, don't tell me what
Speaker 4: to worry about.
Speaker 3: I didn't find you on psychology today. It wasn't extremely
Speaker 3: difficult to book you. Yeah, that's who I want telling
Speaker 3: me Yes, while I avoid eye contact with you. But
Speaker 3: this actually does feel like it could be potentially helpful
Speaker 3: for me. It gives useful journaling tips, practice, practice, practice,
Speaker 3: believable alternative thoughts. Okay, so I think maybe a step
Speaker 3: that we avoided here was that, like you write down
Speaker 3: what you were thinking, and then you write down an
Speaker 3: alternative thought. Oh so like you think about it in
Speaker 3: a more real you know, it's kind of a seabe.
Speaker 2: I mean that is useful you think about technique.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you step outside of the thought and compare it
Speaker 3: to what's really going on.
Speaker 2: Complete the thought, complete the.
Speaker 3: Thought, give it context, and make it seem as ridiculous
Speaker 3: as it actually.
Speaker 4: Right, right, Like, you don't just say I'm an idiot,
Speaker 4: I'm an idiot, because.
Speaker 3: Right then I write pages and pages. I'm demanding the
Speaker 3: newspaper publish it. I'm yes, you complete the thought, yes,
Speaker 3: but yeah, this is so interesting. So oh and so
Speaker 3: every day it has like a you write down your thought,
Speaker 3: what do you Okay, describe how your so, what's going on? Now?
Speaker 3: I'm giving the listener this so they can just essentially
Speaker 3: pirate their own version of this. They can create their
Speaker 3: own journal.
Speaker 2: You don't need to buy it from Amazon.
Speaker 3: No, no, no no. You write what's going on? Then
Speaker 3: you write describe how you're feeling. Then you write, now,
Speaker 3: what are you thinking? What evidence supports that thought? What
Speaker 3: about evident evidence that contradicts it? Got it? Let's try
Speaker 3: writing down an alternative thought. How do we feel now?
Speaker 3: Anything else?
Speaker 2: Before you go anything else.
Speaker 3: It really just carries you through through the thought process
Speaker 3: and hopefully all of your negative thoughts aren't real. Otherwise
Speaker 3: this book is going to be just dread chilling, Yes,
Speaker 3: just inescapable horror. Oh my god, I have these horrible
Speaker 3: thoughts and they're all true. I have so much evident supporting.
Speaker 2: This is You were right.
Speaker 4: Your first was this is a hard at the beginning
Speaker 4: of a horror movie.
Speaker 2: And I think you might be right.
Speaker 3: A journal that like turns your horrible thoughts into reality.
Speaker 3: Oh we should beat that. Nobody copied that. That's my
Speaker 3: that's my horror movie. Or write and then I'll sue you.
Speaker 3: That's always my fine. That's kind of my usual plan
Speaker 3: of throw an idea out there and let someone else
Speaker 3: do the work and then sue, yeah it was my idea,
Speaker 3: get at least partial credit for it. This is sorry by.
Speaker 4: The Bridger Masterclass of Writing, of Writing and Lawsuits.
Speaker 3: Yeah, well this is very exciting. Do you journal?
Speaker 4: I don't, okay, because I have this terrible I you know,
Speaker 4: I recently told my therapists that I don't journal, okay,
Speaker 4: because she was like, you should journal, and said, well, she's.
Speaker 3: New, we're getting to know, okay, you still hate her.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, yeah, she was like, you should journal, and
Speaker 4: I said, I don't do that.
Speaker 3: Oh so declarative.
Speaker 4: Yes, I have this horrible fear that people are when
Speaker 4: I die, Oh, there's just gonna be pages and pages
Speaker 4: of of my of my thoughts. And I'm sure that
Speaker 4: says well. Her response was, oh, so that's who you are,
Speaker 4: she said, So that's how you know I believe.
Speaker 2: She said, oh so that's how you think? That says
Speaker 2: a lot about I was like, oh, does it.
Speaker 3: You're already walking out the door ready to fight, just lunge.
Speaker 3: That's yeah. That's such an interesting opposite view of how
Speaker 3: I view the journal where I'm just looking to absolutely
Speaker 3: shift everyone's thinking about who I was as a person alive,
Speaker 3: where they think, oh, this is not the person that
Speaker 3: we thought he was, because they're saying like, oh, he uh,
Speaker 3: you know, burned a house down in twenty fourteen, he
Speaker 3: stole a car in twenty twenty two, he's responsible for
Speaker 3: a series of thefts throughout the San Fernando Valley. I
Speaker 3: put these lines in it, and then they're reading through
Speaker 3: They're like, I'm tired of reading what he about, what
Speaker 3: he ate for dinner? And then bam they read the
Speaker 3: lie and they think we trusted him and now we
Speaker 3: know he's a criminal. Wow, So that's what I think
Speaker 3: you should take that. And also you're going to be dead.
Speaker 2: Well, this is yes, you're You're right. Why do I
Speaker 2: care so much?
Speaker 3: Why do you Why are you so afraid of everyone
Speaker 3: knowing who you are?
Speaker 2: Yes, I mean, I'm sure this is deep and dark.
Speaker 3: It might be, it may not be.
Speaker 4: But on the other hand, I do podcast a lot,
Speaker 4: so anyway anyone wants to know, I probably already.
Speaker 3: Said, right, I know that's well, write it down.
Speaker 2: Why do I have to write it down for you?
Speaker 2: Why do I have to make it easy for you, right.
Speaker 3: Do you feel like when you began podcasting and we
Speaker 3: love to just discuss the art of podcasting, did it like,
Speaker 3: did it initially feel difficult to talk a little bit
Speaker 3: because you're like, well, I don't want to say that.
Speaker 3: I don't want to say that about myself. I reveal
Speaker 3: that about myself. And then did that get easier or
Speaker 3: I mean, from my own experience, it was slightly difficult,
Speaker 3: but it's really made my entire life much easier because
Speaker 3: eventually I'm just like, well, I have to I'm not
Speaker 3: going to skirt around this in a conversation. I'll just
Speaker 3: say it and then I can say it to other people.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think it has helped me.
Speaker 3: So this is your journal, this is my journ podcasting.
Speaker 2: Yes, this podcast today, with a.
Speaker 3: Single episode, is going to unlock who you are to
Speaker 3: your entire family.
Speaker 2: They don't listen. That's how I'm gonna get them to
Speaker 2: listen to my podcast.
Speaker 4: When I die, my listen.
Speaker 2: My downloads are going way up through the roofs.
Speaker 3: That's so true. I mean, my family is gonna be like,
Speaker 3: we wish we had listened to it while he was alive,
Speaker 3: But then it's gonna be such They're gonna be like, actually,
Speaker 3: it's kind of great now we have all this annoying audio.
Speaker 4: Yes, well I think about that all the time because
Speaker 4: you know, podcasting is a new medium, right, so there
Speaker 4: hasn't been like a generation of podcasters who have passed away, right, right, will.
Speaker 3: Be the first generation? Yeah, wow of dead podcasters.
Speaker 4: And but we're gonna have so much a backlog of audio.
Speaker 3: But the thing that worries me is that, you know,
Speaker 3: the entire podcast industry is always on fire, more so
Speaker 3: maybe now than ever. Yes, what if they don't have
Speaker 3: the storage and they just start deleting it?
Speaker 4: Oh well, that that is something to worry about, I
Speaker 4: will say.
Speaker 3: For everyone to worry about not just poot it.
Speaker 2: And put it on a CD and save it for
Speaker 2: your records.
Speaker 3: Yes, the I've heard CDs. I mean we just were
Speaker 3: talking about CDs on the podcasts. I mean everything always
Speaker 3: makes it come back, And to own a bunch of
Speaker 3: CDs and DVDs sounds so refreshing. I do own a
Speaker 3: lot of Blu rays, which I'm happy. Like when I
Speaker 3: go and look at my closet, I'm like, oh, I
Speaker 3: can just select from these and I know I like
Speaker 3: all of these, and I won't be settling for whatever
Speaker 3: garbage Netflix is thrown up into a living room. Netflix,
Speaker 3: if you're looking, I'm always willing to pitch animated, live
Speaker 3: action whatever you need. I'm there are game shows. I
Speaker 3: do an idea for a reality show called Popularity Contest. Okay,
Speaker 3: I want to hear this, And it's just every episode
Speaker 3: someone gets voted off depending on how popular they are.
Speaker 3: Then that's it. It's just the b Yes, it's just
Speaker 3: about being cool, and so at the end they say, sorry,
Speaker 3: you're not popular enough.
Speaker 2: I love this.
Speaker 4: I'm obsessed. I want to watch it yesterday. I want
Speaker 4: to be like mid season already.
Speaker 3: Sorry you're just not popular?
Speaker 2: Ah? Is that how you get kicked off?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Of course?
Speaker 2: Oh my god?
Speaker 3: Can you imagine anything more devastating to hear?
Speaker 2: No, I'm trying to think of something worse. I don't
Speaker 2: like you. I mean, I want a divorce. Is that worse? No?
Speaker 3: No, Everyone on the show will be desperate to be popular,
Speaker 3: and they'll slowly find out that they're not.
Speaker 2: There can only be one winner.
Speaker 3: Only one person who's considered popular, and then they're the
Speaker 3: most popular personal for that year. That then they probably
Speaker 3: have to come back every year. The most popular person
Speaker 3: does have to come back and see if they can
Speaker 3: continue being popular. Okay, and it's difficult because they're aging
Speaker 3: and we live in an age of society, so there's
Speaker 3: a chance they're becoming less popular.
Speaker 4: Oh my god, this is an incredible social experience which
Speaker 4: needs to happen richer.
Speaker 2: And I'm I'm shown. I shook. But just like, okay,
Speaker 2: I watched Bachelor. You know I'm not a Bachelor Nation.
Speaker 4: I'm not a Bachelor Okay, you're not that hard. I
Speaker 4: have a distant cynicism. I can be cynical, Okay, sure,
Speaker 4: but but maybe, yes, a healthy cynicism. Maybe there's like
Speaker 4: a popular nation, you know.
Speaker 3: Where it's like among countries. Is that what you're saying?
Speaker 4: Contestins, But you know, like Bachelor Nation, you're part of
Speaker 4: the Bachelor once you've been on the show, and depending
Speaker 4: on like how many weeks you last did, it's like
Speaker 4: your importance in Bachelor Nations.
Speaker 3: So I whenever someone says Bachelor Nation, I just feel
Speaker 3: like they're basically being like, I'm a swiftie. It's not
Speaker 3: just a name for fans of the show.
Speaker 4: Yes, one can say, like to Bachelor Nation. You're you're
Speaker 4: speaking to Bachelor Nation, but I would say, also there's
Speaker 4: the Bachelor family, which is also like like royal Bachelor
Speaker 4: Nation royalty, I guess.
Speaker 3: Okay, and contestants from the show. Yes, yes, interesting and yes,
Speaker 3: so there would be a Popularity Nation Nation, and I
Speaker 3: get I imagine the setting would probably have to maybe
Speaker 3: a high school. Oh yeah, maybe we find in an
Speaker 3: abandoned high school somewhere and spit shine and then it
Speaker 3: all takes place there just sleep in the classrooms or something.
Speaker 3: I can't think of all the details.
Speaker 4: There's plenty of those with our decaying educational system.
Speaker 3: Yes, this is what we should do with public education
Speaker 3: is turn it into a tasteless.
Speaker 2: Reality show to real so scared.
Speaker 3: For the record, I'm an enormous proponent of the public
Speaker 3: education we love. I mean, it's my one one thing
Speaker 3: I care about is public education, and I've outside of rats.
Speaker 3: Once we take care of those, all the money should
Speaker 3: just be dump education.
Speaker 2: Absolutely.
Speaker 3: But Popularity Contest coming potentially to Netflix if they know
Speaker 3: what's good for them, or elsewhere, and then probably on
Speaker 3: Netflix after it gets canceled on wherever it started. Okay,
Speaker 3: people are gonna love it. Oh, it's gonna popularity contest.
Speaker 2: It's alrighty you hit.
Speaker 3: It's already a massive hit. People are freaking out.
Speaker 2: I think you've just got a million followers. I just
Speaker 2: like that.
Speaker 3: I'm slowly becoming more popular just by pitching the idea.
Speaker 4: Oh my god, you would be the most That is
Speaker 4: that why you're doing it?
Speaker 3: Because I know I will be the most popular person
Speaker 3: on this.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you're the creator.
Speaker 3: Yeah, the creator just kind of cheats his way to
Speaker 3: the top every time.
Speaker 2: Oops.
Speaker 3: I didn't know you guys liked me so much? How
Speaker 3: did we get to popularity?
Speaker 2: And remember it was a turn. I know that we
Speaker 2: talked about Netflix and not really really.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Netflix really threw us as entertainment professionals. We had
Speaker 3: to have immediately become desperately pitching to the network.
Speaker 2: Hello are you listening?
Speaker 3: Well, I'm so glad to have this little journal. Where
Speaker 3: did I put it here? Yes, darkness is so gorgeous
Speaker 3: and I will start journaling in it after my current
Speaker 3: one is full. And this one's going to be an
Speaker 3: interesting shift for the future reader at the estate sale
Speaker 3: or wherever they find it, where they're like wow. He
Speaker 3: really started expressing himself and dealing with the things that
Speaker 3: he refused to deal with until twenty twenty four. Yeah,
Speaker 3: very exciting.
Speaker 4: It'll either be really interesting or extremely boring for them
Speaker 4: to read it.
Speaker 2: It's like, I'll get over it.
Speaker 3: Uh and if anything, they'll be like, what pen did
Speaker 3: he use? Just now? It's the gorgeous What brand is
Speaker 3: it again? Never forget it's Sharpie. Of course it was
Speaker 3: too obvious. It was right there, Yes, and I just assumed,
Speaker 3: what are other there's Bick Sharpie. I feel like there's
Speaker 3: one more.
Speaker 4: Okay, I'm forgetting it. Hell with you, the ball point one,
Speaker 4: the oh my god, I'm so.
Speaker 3: After kind of telling everyone how much you knew about pens,
Speaker 3: Is that a brand or is that an offshoot?
Speaker 2: That's a style brand?
Speaker 3: This is saying it's a brand, Ni ball reach out.
Speaker 3: We should get boxes and boxes of pins after this podcast.
Speaker 3: I'm sure they'll just be begging us to use their pins. So, uniball, Sharpie, Bick,
Speaker 3: we would like to test your pins, hundreds of them.
Speaker 3: I'm going to open a pin store. Well, I think
Speaker 3: it's time to play a game. Okay, on at least
Speaker 3: I'm trying to get us back on track here, what
Speaker 3: was the last game we played? Gift Master? Okay, we'll
Speaker 3: play Gift You a Curse today. So I need to
Speaker 3: get into the document here, and I need a number
Speaker 3: between one and ten from you. Oh eight, okay, right now,
Speaker 3: I'm going to use that number to do some light
Speaker 3: calculating to get our game pieces. So while I'm very busy,
Speaker 3: you can recommend, promote, do whatever you want with the microphone.
Speaker 3: I'll be right back. Okay.
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Speaker 4: figure out who's to blame. At the end of the day,
Speaker 4: we come up with a culprit. And of course there's
Speaker 4: our follow up episode called The Aftermath, where we then
Speaker 4: discuss with an expert this historical moment, tragedy, you name it.
Speaker 4: And you can follow us on Instagram at the Alarmist
Speaker 4: Podcast and you can also find us you know wherever
Speaker 4: you get your broadcasts.
Speaker 3: Beautifully done. It's such a good podcast, so educational, and
Speaker 3: we discussed a fake or a fictional disaster. We did
Speaker 3: a national Lampoon's Christmas vacation. Eventually you'll ask me to
Speaker 3: be on to talk about real Unbelievably, you thought he can't,
Speaker 3: he can't go beyond a PG. Thirteen movie. But eventually
Speaker 3: we're going to get to a huge disaster and I'm
Speaker 3: going to come on with so much information you won't
Speaker 3: even need the expert.
Speaker 2: Oh my god.
Speaker 3: So just be prepared.
Speaker 2: This is going to be exciting.
Speaker 3: This is how we play gift drinkers. I'm going to
Speaker 3: name three things. You're going to tell me if there're
Speaker 3: a gift or a curse and why, and then I'll
Speaker 3: tell you if you're right or wrong. Because there are
Speaker 3: correct answers. You can win big, you can lose big,
Speaker 3: you can do whatever. The middle thing is number one.
Speaker 3: This is from a listener named Sarah. Gift you a curse.
Speaker 3: The spilt food or drink decorations on display in furniture stores.
Speaker 3: Are you familiar with these?
Speaker 4: Like the fake spelt food, like a can of soda
Speaker 4: with a fake.
Speaker 3: Like a like an orange rubber that looks like, you know,
Speaker 3: the soda has been spilt there kind of you know.
Speaker 3: It's like a more evolved version of like a gag vomit.
Speaker 4: Uh huh, yeah, I would say this is a this
Speaker 4: is a gift for the prankster at heart. Okay, it's
Speaker 4: a talking piece when you when a new person enters
Speaker 4: your home or office, right, it can really break the tension.
Speaker 4: You can also use it to you know, prank of.
Speaker 2: Family member or a loved one. I'm just spit volume here.
Speaker 2: I probably set the wrong answer.
Speaker 3: Wrong. Yes, curse, This is why I love them. I
Speaker 3: love being in a furniture store and coming upon the
Speaker 3: spilled soda, the spilled gravy boat. I don't think that
Speaker 3: actually exists, but that should exist, and I think that's
Speaker 3: part of why this is a curse. I know, actually,
Speaker 3: I know in my heart there's no such thing as
Speaker 3: a fake gravy boat where gravy's spilled everywhere, and that's
Speaker 3: the industry is in trouble. But my bigger problem is
Speaker 3: when I see them in these stores, I think, why
Speaker 3: can't I have these in my own home? Why don't
Speaker 3: I have a lot of these at home? And then
Speaker 3: the reason is is because they look bad in a
Speaker 3: real home.
Speaker 2: It's messy.
Speaker 3: I guess they look messy, and they make you look
Speaker 3: like someone who genuinely loves pranks.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm embarrassed honestly. Then he said it was again.
Speaker 4: I wish I could take it back.
Speaker 3: I mean, but at the end of the day, they
Speaker 3: are a lovely thing, and they're so they truly are
Speaker 3: the craftsmanship to create a thing that looks like a
Speaker 3: spilled sun kissed. I'm really stuck on Orange Solda for
Speaker 3: some reason. I think that they're absolutely beautiful pieces of
Speaker 3: art which are cursed in a way that is really
Speaker 3: unfortunate for everyone because they can only ever belong in
Speaker 3: our What is a furniture store? Blank? Yeah, you know,
Speaker 3: I feel like, what is the furniture?
Speaker 2: What is the furniture it?
Speaker 4: Think?
Speaker 3: Can you think of a name? Oh? Why am I
Speaker 3: blanking on? Literally everything to Go?
Speaker 2: Am I saying?
Speaker 3: Is that what you were asking me to say?
Speaker 2: Rooms to Go?
Speaker 3: Is that Christmas? It's called rooms to Go?
Speaker 4: Yeah, where you buy an entire room, kind of like
Speaker 4: bring it to your house.
Speaker 3: I think Living Spaces does the same thing. Now we're
Speaker 3: getting into it, Ashley furniture I would love we're getting
Speaker 3: now we're moving up.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Okay, so now just that was for that was for
Speaker 3: my cognitive test, just so I could remember furniture stores.
Speaker 3: But we love to see them there and we can't
Speaker 3: take them home. It's like seeing a beautiful dog at
Speaker 3: the shelter and thinking, well, I don't have room for
Speaker 3: it right now, and knowing that it's out there somewhere
Speaker 3: and it can't be in my home. And that's why
Speaker 3: it's a curse. Yeah, and that's why you're deadly wrong.
Speaker 2: And you're absolutely right. I should be thank.
Speaker 3: You, thank you.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 3: Number two, This is from a listener named Kelsey. Gift
Speaker 3: to a curse. When everyone else at the dinner table
Speaker 3: has their food and the one person who doesn't have
Speaker 3: their food served yet says, please don't wait for me,
Speaker 3: go ahead and gifter a curse.
Speaker 2: Curse?
Speaker 3: Why oh oh.
Speaker 2: I already said curse.
Speaker 3: I mean you can't change your mind.
Speaker 2: I just think that's a trap.
Speaker 3: Okay, after trap.
Speaker 4: You don't actually want them to go on because you're
Speaker 4: upset that you don't have your food and you're gonna
Speaker 4: have to watch them.
Speaker 2: I mean, I understand it.
Speaker 4: You're probably a nice if you say that, you're a
Speaker 4: nice person.
Speaker 2: But there are also going to be a group of
Speaker 2: people that are have this has.
Speaker 4: Learned behavior for them, and are not actually nice people
Speaker 4: who want you to eat and they're just saying, go
Speaker 4: ahead and eat, eat test, And that's a trap. So
Speaker 4: if I'm at that table, I.
Speaker 2: Hate I would rather they not say anything at all.
Speaker 3: Go completely silent for the rest of the.
Speaker 2: Meal until their food comes.
Speaker 3: Sure, kind of just simmer there and their anger. Yeah, okay. Interesting,
Speaker 3: So you're saying curse.
Speaker 2: I'm saying it's a curse, that situation is a curse
Speaker 2: or yeah.
Speaker 3: Wrong, of course, gift. I love a test and a trap.
Speaker 3: First of all, we're all starving, we are ready to eat.
Speaker 3: Thank you for the go ahead. You should have said
Speaker 3: this much earlier, you know, as soon as one plate
Speaker 3: got set down, everyone should have said eat the food.
Speaker 3: But the fact that you waited until literally all of us,
Speaker 3: I mean, it's an interesting behavior. But thank you for
Speaker 3: finally giving us the go ahead. And if it's your
Speaker 3: little mind game, good for you. I'm glad you're testing
Speaker 3: all of us and seeing how we react. We should
Speaker 3: all be constantly doing mind games with each other at
Speaker 3: restaurants most of all, so it's a gift if I
Speaker 3: have to sit and wait for your more complicated meal
Speaker 3: to come out. Oh well yeah, oh, the respect level
Speaker 3: is just plummeting. I mean, the hatred is growing. Let
Speaker 3: me eat my meal, Let me devour it in front
Speaker 3: of you while you starve at the table. That's all
Speaker 3: I ask.
Speaker 4: I think what we've learned is that you and I
Speaker 4: can't go to dinner and we can't go shopping together
Speaker 4: so far.
Speaker 2: So let's see what else we can't do together.
Speaker 3: Okay, this is the final one. You've gotten zero so far,
Speaker 3: which is so humiliating. This is from a listener named Peter,
Speaker 3: and it's a gift to a curse semi.
Speaker 2: Colon's I'm really.
Speaker 3: Really thinking about this, and I appreciate that trying to
Speaker 3: dig yourself out of the hole.
Speaker 4: I guess a curse because does anyone really know how
Speaker 4: to use a semi colon?
Speaker 3: Right?
Speaker 4: I mean, I I just hearing myself say semi colon.
Speaker 4: I know that I said it incorrectly. It depends where
Speaker 4: you're from. It's a regional thing, clearly, I don't. I
Speaker 4: don't use them very often because they make me feel uncomfortable,
Speaker 4: self conscious. Yeah, I not a not a fan.
Speaker 3: So curse, oh to walk away with the zero. No
Speaker 3: one wanted you to fail completely. We were all pulling
Speaker 3: for you. It's a very small list of people. It's
Speaker 3: almost elite. I mean, you've entered an elite, elite group
Speaker 3: of losers, which is fine, Okay, you can't do everything right.
Speaker 3: You can't do anything right as far as I'm no,
Speaker 3: there are gifts. I mean, first of all, they're so tasteful,
Speaker 3: such a classy little you know they It is you're
Speaker 3: wielding a power when you know how to use a
Speaker 3: semi I mean it is. What s upsetting is the
Speaker 3: different pronunciations and I fluctuate between, which is maybe it's
Speaker 3: kind of fun. It's like, how am I feeling? Semi colon?
Speaker 3: Semi colon?
Speaker 1: Uh?
Speaker 3: And you can put that on like a different jacket,
Speaker 3: which is exciting. It's you know, today I'm a semi
Speaker 3: colon person. Tomorrow I might be semi colon.
Speaker 2: Is there one that's like meaner or.
Speaker 3: I think semi classic semi is more American and it's.
Speaker 2: More cowboy, like a semi truck.
Speaker 3: Yeah, like a semi truck. Yeah. Have I ever heard
Speaker 3: someone say semi truck.
Speaker 2: I'm not going to say no. I'm sure there have.
Speaker 3: Been probably probably people in the UK, oh for sure, right,
Speaker 3: but they probably also have a different foldly different word.
Speaker 2: They don't say semi, they don't say truck.
Speaker 3: They I think they say LORI, right, I think that's
Speaker 3: a truck. In the UK. This is so insane they
Speaker 3: call it an articulated LORI.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, they went.
Speaker 3: Too far with this one. Well, you know we know
Speaker 3: that you have class.
Speaker 2: Get over yourself, calm.
Speaker 3: It's a big rig.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: So semi colon is more. You know, we're trucking, we're
Speaker 3: and I found out we have listeners that are, you know,
Speaker 3: listening to the podcast while they're driving trucks across the country,
Speaker 3: which I'm just thrilled about. I'm kind of a Johnny
Speaker 3: Cash type, you know. You know they listened to Johnny
Speaker 3: Cash in the seventies while they were driving it. Now
Speaker 3: while they're driving they're listening to a boring podcast.
Speaker 2: God, I'm so happy for you.
Speaker 3: Yes, yes, yes, uh, semi colon. As we've discussed this
Speaker 3: a little class here, it's a little bit more. You're
Speaker 3: in your you know of a lord jacket. You want
Speaker 3: people to know you can actually use it. A semi colon.
Speaker 3: It's two independent clauses. It's two clauses that can stand
Speaker 3: as their own, that are connected to each other.
Speaker 2: Puck us through this. I mean, I'm learning right now.
Speaker 3: So it's like it's like a very powerful comma, you know,
Speaker 3: and I think that we always need a more powerful comma.
Speaker 3: You don't want to overuse it because then you look
Speaker 3: like a psycho. But when you occasionally pop that in somewhere,
Speaker 3: it tells people that you know more than they do.
Speaker 3: It's putting the reader in their place, and the reader
Speaker 3: needs to know that occasionally they're stupid and that's why
Speaker 3: they didn't write the book. It's kind of an insult ultimately,
Speaker 3: I feel it. And now that I'm saying it's like,
Speaker 3: is that is it too independent clauses? I think it's
Speaker 3: two clauses that can stand on their own, you know,
Speaker 3: that are basically sentences, but they're not quite strong enough
Speaker 3: to be their own sentence.
Speaker 4: Okay, can you give us an example, because I this
Speaker 4: is my big question.
Speaker 2: This is when I.
Speaker 4: Die, if there's a higher being?
Speaker 2: This is the question to IOA A right.
Speaker 3: So yeah, I mean it is a tricky because it
Speaker 3: feels so almost optional almost every time. But let's let's
Speaker 3: try this. Rebecca had brought a gift semi colon Bridger
Speaker 3: hadn't seen this coming. Oh that feels about right. I
Speaker 3: would say both of those are sentences.
Speaker 2: They're connected, but there should be a pause.
Speaker 3: And you want to know, you want people to know
Speaker 3: that one they both really affect each other.
Speaker 2: I assume, Oh, okay, well I love that you know.
Speaker 3: And this is coming from somebody who did graduate in
Speaker 3: English poorly, who can barely explain this thing and is
Speaker 3: probably kind of wrong.
Speaker 4: Well, you're talking to someone who graduated from acting school.
Speaker 2: So I'm.
Speaker 4: Just wanting to be anywhere I made it here. I
Speaker 4: know how to drive a car.
Speaker 2: Somehow, and I.
Speaker 3: If you want into a semi colon and a script,
Speaker 3: you're gonna have a breakdown, career, a ruining. So I'm
Speaker 3: saving a life tonight. Yes, yes, okay, well you lost
Speaker 3: deal with it.
Speaker 2: I'm so embarrassed right about it? In your CBT journal,
Speaker 2: I don't have one.
Speaker 3: Well, you're gonna have to get online or head to
Speaker 3: your local journal shop. This is the final segment of
Speaker 3: the podcast. It's called I Said No Emails, and people
Speaker 3: write into I Said No guess at gmail dot com
Speaker 3: complaining about the state of their lives, wondering where they
Speaker 3: should go next. What's wrong? With me this kind of thing,
Speaker 3: and they expect me to answer, and fortunately, I, you know,
Speaker 3: have generous and just a deep well of knowledge, which
Speaker 3: directly opposes to what we were talking about earlier on podcast.
Speaker 3: People call me Bridger deep well of knowledge. So would
Speaker 3: you hold me answer a listener question? I would love
Speaker 3: to Okay, let's get into this.
Speaker 4: I was gonna say I would love to answer unsolicited advice,
Speaker 4: but this is solicited.
Speaker 3: This is extreme overly solicited advice. They're getting into my
Speaker 3: private I said, no gifts, email and demanding answers.
Speaker 2: You do love to email, don't you.
Speaker 3: I can't get enough, can't get me away from the email. Okay,
Speaker 3: so this has Bridger common Usually they'll say, like Bridger
Speaker 3: and guests or whatever. So they really left you out here,
Speaker 3: which is wow, probably at least mildly hurtful.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I just lost. I lost a game and now
Speaker 2: I'm not being included.
Speaker 3: Invisible, which I will speak for you is horrifying, absolutely horrifying.
Speaker 3: This is Bridger looking for a gift for my middle
Speaker 3: aged friend who recently borrowed her husband's pickup truck to
Speaker 3: move my daughter into her first apartment. This friend, like me,
Speaker 3: has everything interesting little brag doesn't need more stuff to
Speaker 3: curate or manage in her and is not is not
Speaker 3: expecting a gift thoughts. That's from Julia. Okay, So first
Speaker 3: of all, I do want to point out she Okay,
Speaker 3: she's saying that she has everything. She's got it all.
Speaker 3: Her friend apparently also has it all.
Speaker 2: Oh so you think Julia has it all?
Speaker 4: Because the way I heard it was that her friend
Speaker 4: has it all, but Julia doesn't have it all.
Speaker 3: Look at the email, babe, it says this friend like
Speaker 3: me in parentheses, has everything. Yeah, so she I don't
Speaker 3: think she even cares to get an answer. She just
Speaker 3: wanted to tell the world that she has everything.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, did you just say babe? You've ever
Speaker 2: said babe?
Speaker 3: Well earlier I wrote what did I write? Hey?
Speaker 2: Girl?
Speaker 1: Yes?
Speaker 3: So it's seeping into the podcast. Who knows what will
Speaker 3: be next? Look, you know, I'll do whatever. Anale is
Speaker 3: a homophone. I'm surrounded by homophones. There's no My safety
Speaker 3: is at an all time risk right now. I could
Speaker 3: you know I could be attacked at any MoMA. This sucks.
Speaker 3: I hate being here.
Speaker 2: Ah.
Speaker 3: No, Julia wrote into brag about how she has everything.
Speaker 3: Including a pickup truck. Okay, well, let's see, my friend
Speaker 3: recently borrowed her husband's.
Speaker 2: She borrowed her husband's pickup truck.
Speaker 3: Does she have to however, I'm actually questioning what this
Speaker 3: person wants.
Speaker 2: Wait wait, wait wait, she borrowed.
Speaker 4: This person borrowed her husband's Okay.
Speaker 3: To move Julia's daughter into her first apartment.
Speaker 2: I'm still stuck on the borrowing the husband's makeup truck.
Speaker 2: I'm sorry. Do you have to say?
Speaker 4: Hey, honey, can I what this is?
Speaker 2: I'm alarmed?
Speaker 3: I mean there is, I mean, this is you know,
Speaker 3: the misogyny is just black. This husband is First of all,
Speaker 3: Julia's friend needs to leave the husband. That's a separate email.
Speaker 2: And we're not telling you what to do, but we
Speaker 2: don't know.
Speaker 3: If you have to like write in a sign out
Speaker 3: sheet to get the truck. No, the marriage is in danger, yes,
Speaker 3: but what we have to put that aside because she
Speaker 3: borrowed David's truck. Let's say, David, David is very protective
Speaker 3: as truck, but he said, honey, you can take it
Speaker 3: for the day, but don't adjust the seat to move
Speaker 3: Julia's daughter into her first apartment. Okay, Ultimately, this is
Speaker 3: between Julia's daughter and the friend.
Speaker 4: The friend and also the husband did not offer to
Speaker 4: do any heavy lifting.
Speaker 3: He was watching the game honey go on. So Julia,
Speaker 3: and now I've got a problem with Julia's ungrateful daughter.
Speaker 3: Why isn't the daughter writing in to ask about what
Speaker 3: gifts she should give?
Speaker 2: This free question?
Speaker 3: This family is a disaster. Stop listening to podcasts and
Speaker 3: get your life in order.
Speaker 2: Get yourself a journal.
Speaker 3: Yeah, get yourself a family, CBC journal. Are you all
Speaker 3: right what you're feeling and who you should be giving gifts?
Speaker 3: And what trucks you should be borrowing? I mean, if we,
Speaker 3: I guess we should answer what should Julia give this
Speaker 3: friend who borrowed a truck to move a snob daughter
Speaker 3: into an apartment?
Speaker 4: I mean, for you're right, this is the dog. This
Speaker 4: is between again, the daughter and the friends.
Speaker 3: This daughter makes me sick to my stomach. Oh, so
Speaker 3: she's just in her on her throne in her apartment.
Speaker 2: I mean, Julia, what are you doing your your You're
Speaker 2: enabling Yeah, it's behavior.
Speaker 3: When you should be there for your friends saying why
Speaker 3: did you have to borrow the truck? Yes? Isn't it
Speaker 3: just kind of your guys's truck.
Speaker 2: And what was he doing that was so important that
Speaker 2: he couldn't help you?
Speaker 1: Right?
Speaker 2: Lift a dresser and my horrible daughter? Not and not,
Speaker 2: And I'm not not that the friend needs a guy
Speaker 2: to help it.
Speaker 3: Right, of course, this is where it gets thorny, of course,
Speaker 3: But you've always said that women do need men for
Speaker 3: everything on and off podcasts.
Speaker 4: I'm just saying, like more more hands creates less work?
Speaker 3: Is more cooks makes the kitchen better?
Speaker 4: Is?
Speaker 3: I think it's the phrase?
Speaker 4: Is it really no more hands?
Speaker 2: I'm not good with phrases.
Speaker 4: If you nailed that one, I'm really proud, like butter,
Speaker 4: But I do have a I have a suggestion.
Speaker 3: Okay, let's hear it.
Speaker 4: For what she can get the friend who has everything
Speaker 4: a prank canon.
Speaker 3: For her furniture, for the husband's truck, for the Yeah,
Speaker 3: I know, I said I wouldn't do anything to the truck,
Speaker 3: but I had to have a sun kissed and now
Speaker 3: it's all over the leather seats. Real test of the
Speaker 3: marriage there, Oh my god. I mean you're gonna find
Speaker 3: out what David think, I mean, how he acts to
Speaker 3: an emergency when he sees that soda spilled all over
Speaker 3: his precious truck.
Speaker 4: And now, dare I ask you, Bridger, do I get
Speaker 4: my point back now that we've agreed.
Speaker 3: Not in a million years? Are you kidding again? It's
Speaker 3: not real. What are you talking about. You're not like
Speaker 3: waiting in the parking lot after Wheel of Fortune, like
Speaker 3: I'm sorry, I know the answer now. No, the game's over,
Speaker 3: the prize is lost, and it was a good price.
Speaker 2: But we're still it was a good prize, excellent, precise,
Speaker 2: tell me what it was.
Speaker 3: There are no prizes, credibility, respect from the community, this
Speaker 3: kind of thing, because my listeners will swarm your podcast
Speaker 3: with negative reviews.
Speaker 2: Then no.
Speaker 3: One stars, You're gonna just burn you down. She lost
Speaker 3: a game on another podcast, hers must be terrill.
Speaker 2: Please don't do that. We can't afford it.
Speaker 3: Oh no, no, nobody's swarm unless it's with good reviews.
Speaker 3: I mean, okay, I think that that actually is the
Speaker 3: perfect gift to the situation. It'll solve so many problems,
Speaker 3: bring up so many horrible things that needed to be
Speaker 3: brought out. Yeah, I mean. And then the other obvious
Speaker 3: one that Julia, like in her rush to tell everyone
Speaker 3: that she has everything, didn't realize her poor friend doesn't
Speaker 3: have a truck. That's the one thing she doesn't have. Wow,
Speaker 3: her husband has a truck.
Speaker 2: So since she is wealthy, I mean, yeah, maybe not.
Speaker 2: Why am I assuming that because she has everything? Yeah,
Speaker 2: but sometimes people, you know, everything can be you.
Speaker 1: Know, love.
Speaker 3: I'm not getting that from Julia. I'm getting this as
Speaker 3: the material girl. She's got it all, and when she
Speaker 3: means all, she means earthly possessions that she can't take.
Speaker 2: With her Yeah. Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3: And her friend. She's dragging her friend into this. Her
Speaker 3: friend has bought every type of car and ignored the
Speaker 3: fact that she might at one point need a truck.
Speaker 3: So now, Julia, you can take one of her trucks
Speaker 3: and give it to the friend.
Speaker 2: So you're assuming Julia has a truck, has everything.
Speaker 3: Didn't want to help her daughter with her truck because
Speaker 3: she hates her daughter.
Speaker 4: One would assume that Julia doesn't have a truck because
Speaker 4: that's why she didn't help.
Speaker 3: Okay, well, ask that Julia would give that detail. She's
Speaker 3: obviously a bad rider.
Speaker 2: But Julia, this is my bigger question.
Speaker 4: Why didn't Julia get in the truck and go along
Speaker 4: with her friend to help her daughter move in.
Speaker 3: Well, now that's it's unclear if that happened or not.
Speaker 3: She might have shown up in one of like one
Speaker 3: of her helicopters or by boat. She probably just doesn't
Speaker 3: want to share airspace with another person. Oh and so
Speaker 3: she's like, well, I'll just bring my own personal vehicle.
Speaker 3: I have somebody to pick from. Why would I get
Speaker 3: in your husband's dumpy truck. I'll meet you there in
Speaker 3: my maserati m. She screeched up to her daughter's first
Speaker 3: apartment and said, I'm ready to lift boxes. Then I'll
Speaker 3: write and write emails. Julia, you did get your answer
Speaker 3: somewhere in here, at least two answers. The friend got
Speaker 3: an answer we don't want to ever hear from the daughter.
Speaker 3: She had her chance, and she blew it to us
Speaker 3: in a disgusting way. And Julia, I mean, take that answer.
Speaker 3: Do whatever you want. Do not write back into the podcast. Wow,
Speaker 3: perfectly answered, Wow, we nailed it.
Speaker 2: Do you always tell your listeners never to write back?
Speaker 3: No, this is the first time. Oh wow, this is
Speaker 3: this is the first time. Usually I'm very respectful. You know,
Speaker 3: a lot of thank yous, a lot of it means
Speaker 3: so much. This is the first time i've you know,
Speaker 3: Julia really got to me.
Speaker 2: Wow, Yeah, you're in the zone.
Speaker 3: I'm in the zone. Julia will never be in the zone.
Speaker 3: That's the one thing she'll never have is being in
Speaker 3: the zone. Rebecca, I'm I've got these incredible gifts. I'm
Speaker 3: so thrilled that I can actually use these things and
Speaker 3: discover what's wrong with me mentally and reveal the future
Speaker 3: generations that I had a lot of mental illness that
Speaker 3: went undiagnosed. But maybe this will lead to me getting
Speaker 3: a new therapist. It's so difficult sometimes it is. They
Speaker 3: do not make it easy, but everyone should try. If
Speaker 3: you need a therapist, you should try.
Speaker 2: And keep trying and keep don't give up.
Speaker 3: It's kind of like dating, yes, somehow worse.
Speaker 2: I've been left by many therapists.
Speaker 3: Oh well, they can't handle you. You're a menace.
Speaker 2: I'm the problem.
Speaker 3: Yes, you're destroying the psychology community. They have your picture
Speaker 3: on office walls everywhere. Do not help this woman.
Speaker 2: They've given me excuses that are.
Speaker 3: Real, flimsy excuses.
Speaker 4: You know, I'm leaving the practice or I'm not taking
Speaker 4: your insurance anymore.
Speaker 2: But trust me, it feels like abandonment.
Speaker 3: Of course it doesn't. If you had your all, you'd
Speaker 3: be able to figure out that problem for yourself. But
Speaker 3: you never will. No, you never will. You you've refused
Speaker 3: to work on yourself, unlike me with my journal.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I've had a wonderful time with you here today, me too, whatever,
Speaker 3: Thank you so much.
Speaker 2: For being here, Thank you for having me.
Speaker 3: Of course any time, that's not true. We've got a book,
Speaker 3: you know. This variety is the spice of life. Many
Speaker 3: hands makes light work. Oh, that's what it is. I
Speaker 3: thought that's what you said.
Speaker 2: I said, many hands makes less work, is what I said.
Speaker 3: It's essentially the same, okaying, semi colon, semi colon.
Speaker 2: I've learned so much.
Speaker 3: I know we are it's it's a learning podcast. Ultimately,
Speaker 3: this is it's a resource for people. But again, thank
Speaker 3: you for me and listener. The podcast is over. I
Speaker 3: know we kind of made you think it was over,
Speaker 3: and then we dipped back into a little bit of
Speaker 3: extra delight, which I should charge you for. That's a
Speaker 3: mini So maybe we'll edit that out and charge for that.
Speaker 3: That remains to be seen.
Speaker 2: Put it on the Patreon.
Speaker 3: We're launching a Patreon with a thirty second episode with
Speaker 3: zero contest listener. The podcast is over, Get out of here,
Speaker 3: have a wonderful day. I love you, goodbye. I said,
Speaker 3: No Gifts is an exactly right production. It's produced by
Speaker 3: our dear friend Analise Nilson, and it's beautifully mixed by
Speaker 3: Ben Holliday. And we couldn't do it without our guest booker,
Speaker 3: Patrick Kottner. The theme song, of course, could only come
Speaker 3: from miracle worker Amy Man. You must follow the show
Speaker 3: on Instagram at I said no Gifts, I don't want
Speaker 3: to hear any excuses. That's where you get to see
Speaker 3: pictures of all these gorgeous gifts I'm getting. And don't
Speaker 3: you want to see pictures of the gifts?
Speaker 1: But I invited you here, thought I made myself perfectly clear.
Speaker 1: But you're I guess to my home.
Speaker 2: You gotta come to me empty, And.
Speaker 1: I said, no, guess, your own presences presents enough. I
Speaker 1: already had too much stuff, So how do you dare
Speaker 1: to surbey me