00:00:08 Speaker 1: And I invited you here. I thought I made myself perfectly clear. When you're a guest to my home, you gotta come to me empty. And I said, no, guests, your own presences presents enough. I already had too much stuff. So how did you dad to surbey me? 00:00:48 Speaker 2: Welcome to I said, no gifts. I'm Bridger Wine girl. We're in the backyard. I now own four hundred garbage bags that my dad Ax sent me from Costco. Costco will not take them back. Look, this isn't an anti Costco intro. I just I'm not a member, and they would not take back the four hundred garbage cans. So those are not just not garbage cans, garbage bags. Their garbage bags. And they're forty five gallon garbage bags. So those aren't ones I can use in my home. Those would fit a you know, one of those garbage cans on the street. So if you're interested, reach out. I've got four hundred of them and it's about seventy pounds of garbage bags. That's my life, that's what's going on with me. I'm very excited about today's guest. I love her. I think she's so fantastic it's Alana Johnston. Alana, I'm sorry to bring this up, but it was a stressful situation. 00:01:45 Speaker 3: Basically, wait, there's a couple of things we need to talk about. One, I'm in for the bags. You're gonna sit here. First of all, we've been chatting for so long and you didn't bothered to mention you had free bag giveaway, and you're gonna see your's all. You give me this water. I'm like, could have used the bags. You could have put the water in the bag, and I could be having seventy gallons a lot. 00:02:09 Speaker 2: I'm saving the fireworks for the podcast. 00:02:11 Speaker 3: I'm saving the big guns for the podcast. It was the huge giveaway. 00:02:18 Speaker 2: I can't tell it off, Mike. Oh god, what a waste. That's why this was such a hit. 00:02:23 Speaker 3: Look at this reaction you are like, I am elated. You can't see my face, guys, but I am smiling, like I have been in here. She's floored just because of the free bags. 00:02:34 Speaker 2: She's shaking. 00:02:35 Speaker 3: Okay, let's talk about me getting here. 00:02:37 Speaker 2: Yes, please. Because we started talking about this and then you revealed something to me that I thought was it was an interesting thing for me. You said because you had a hard time getting here I have. 00:02:48 Speaker 3: First of all, let's clarify, I live so close to you, and it was only sure, it was only yeah, I live so close to But for some reason, it only took four turns to get here. I had four turns on my GPS to get here, and I bought two of them. That's fifty percent of my turns. 00:03:06 Speaker 2: That's a lot of turn which. So how many turns did you actually end up taking? 00:03:10 Speaker 3: Oh, anywhere from eight to ten. I mean it was bad because basically, first of all, getting out of I'm in Frogtown area, So getting out of where I was on riverside, they're zooming. Okay, I'm sitting there trying to make a left. 00:03:25 Speaker 2: Like an idiot, not making a left. Done. 00:03:27 Speaker 3: Yeah, people are driving back to me going good luck, it's freeways. Stop. Yeah, stopping in front of me. Didn't block me aggressively stopping. So that takes me minutes right, right, And this is precious minutes. And I left get this with a five minute buffer. I wasn't ten forty five. You're ten minutes for. 00:03:47 Speaker 2: Me, right, So you gave yourself a nice bit of gravy. 00:03:49 Speaker 3: I did, and I got here at eleven oh four so nineteen minutes. 00:03:54 Speaker 2: That is a sweaty drive. I would be paid. 00:03:59 Speaker 3: Oh I am sweaty. 00:04:02 Speaker 2: It looks so great walking up. 00:04:05 Speaker 3: Just because I knew about the bags, I thought to myself, this is gonna be. 00:04:09 Speaker 2: There got to be some garbage bags at the end. 00:04:10 Speaker 3: Of this pilot bags, And I thought, how do I get my grubby little hands on. But then it was like, then I get to your neighborhood, a lot of twist and turns. 00:04:20 Speaker 2: Here it becomes very street. 00:04:24 Speaker 3: So I make, on a very clearly marked street a wrong turn, very clearly. Mark can't struss that enough. I won't say, because I don't want to give away your location. But it was so I make I make a wrong turn, and then I'm on all these little narrow side streets where the cars can only park on one side. 00:04:44 Speaker 2: Yes, those are. 00:04:45 Speaker 3: Very scary because then a car comes and you're like, oh my god. 00:04:47 Speaker 2: Where there's only room for one? 00:04:48 Speaker 3: This only room you or give up? 00:04:52 Speaker 2: They make sense as streets. 00:04:54 Speaker 3: No they don't, because I'm like, how can anyone who created this for a horse and bugget for just bicycles cyclist? Just this is a motorcycle down we know this. So I'm making all these turns, I'm freaking out. And then here's where the four minute turn delake comes from. I get to the main street, I need to be back on here. This one, I for real won't reveal I get and I'm making an unprotected life. Guys, I know what you're thinking. We're just talking about driving. No, we're not. We're talking about taking your life in your own hands. And what are you gonna do with that responsibility on a left turn? Because I'm I'm not a good driver. I'm not dangerous to Yeah, I'm not dangerous to all the rest of you, except I'm nervous, and that can make for not the best driving soul. Sisters, there we go like you can't, for example, if you have to make it on that turn of fast left because I'm nervous, I don't have the speed to do that. So and I'm in a two thousand Toyota Echo Vintage. However you want to. 00:05:57 Speaker 2: Look at it a dainty car car like a button. The Echo is like a cute little Oh no, it's you can. 00:06:04 Speaker 3: Put on a shirt walk away for the day. So my car is doing this new thing where it won't excel past like fifty five period. Oh you know the movie gone in sixty seconds. Of course, I'm going zero to one hundred in one hundred minutes flat. It's one mile a minute. Is where I'm going to feature film. It's a fast and Furious eleven is going to be about me too slow to handle, and they're like, she can't be going this slow. We're in a car chase. So that was me getting here four minutes late, not happy because I am always on time. This you must know. 00:06:44 Speaker 2: Well, look, this is something also that you and I may have in common. I used to be always on time until the pandemic, and then my sense of time has vanished. My sense of geography is gone. 00:06:56 Speaker 3: And you didn't get it back. I'm constantly a couple of months. 00:06:58 Speaker 2: I used to be right on time away that it's like everyone's gonna feel bad because I'm the first person here. 00:07:03 Speaker 3: Oh my god, I'm always the first person there. To the point where I'm sitting in my car waiting to go seeing Furious with my garbage bags, which I use for the carpool, I just stack them up like a person in the passenger sea. 00:07:18 Speaker 2: That's a great idea. 00:07:20 Speaker 3: You take one out, you stuff it like a scarecrow. 00:07:23 Speaker 2: Costco did me a huge face. 00:07:24 Speaker 3: Costco has saved us all. Thank you. It was it your you said, your father. 00:07:28 Speaker 2: My dad accidentally sent them to my house. You know, because I'm online automatic ordered for him. He had to order more bags because initially he said, will you send them back to me? And I was like yes, But then it's harded to occurred. I think to both of us that probably would have cost hundreds of dollars. Absolutely, so he said, just keep the bag. 00:07:44 Speaker 3: Nor would they send it for you? Too suspicious, way, too suspicious. Anyone's gonna let you ship them? 00:07:49 Speaker 2: No, no, no, not that many garbage bags do. 00:07:51 Speaker 3: You don't have a license. You're not gonna pull one on me. 00:07:55 Speaker 2: Now, this is we're gonna keep talking about this because your car. Are you letting the GPS person talk to you? Yes, that stresses me out in a way that I can't even wrap my head around. 00:08:06 Speaker 3: Okay, but here's why they have to talk to me, because I don't have one of those phone holders. It's so old. None of them will go to my vents. You know that phone holder and you stick your phone to it so I can't see and I don't plunge your one you mean like from weather Tech, the cup holder one. 00:08:22 Speaker 2: No, there's the one that like sticks like a little car. 00:08:25 Speaker 3: Gets too hot, melts off. The amount I've had, I just had to buy two new ones. I keep buying them, but they melt off. I have one of those window covers. I just had to put it in another thing that delayed me. That was twenty seconds and extra twenty seconds to get in here. But it was like, it's like they melt off. It's a nightmark. So I can't see and I don't want to pick up my phone. I don't like holding my phone. 00:08:45 Speaker 2: I'm really not text and drive difficult as well. 00:08:48 Speaker 3: Yeah, so I have to have the robot talking to me. 00:08:51 Speaker 2: How about we create one that like dangles from your rear view mirror. 00:08:54 Speaker 3: Well, that's safe, and you know what, Actually, you are right. 00:08:57 Speaker 2: I should be doing that because of its kind of like a fuzzy dice situation. But it's just around. 00:09:05 Speaker 3: This is why I keep making so many wrong. 00:09:07 Speaker 2: It's extremely dizzy. 00:09:11 Speaker 3: But yeah, that's that's the deal. Now can I keep talking to you? I want to talk about this pandemic false recovery. Of course we're calling in a false recovery is a false Well you did not recover. That's what I'm here. 00:09:21 Speaker 2: I simply haven't recovered. 00:09:22 Speaker 3: Okay, let's relate for starters lost all sense of time. Yes, we all did. We can relate to this not being on time because there was nowhere to go right. So at home there was no traffic. You didn't have to plan ahead, right. 00:09:36 Speaker 2: You could leave four minutes. 00:09:37 Speaker 3: Oh my god, here we go. I could have gone to your house in thirty seconds, rolled, no car necessary, rolled. So that okay, fine, that's two years of that. Let's call it two years. Then things open. The traffic is back with a vengeance. Might I add he forgot how to drive, die in to drive and driving you're bad at it and at least and I are honest. Yes, So for the nervous drivers like us, this is now even scarier than when you first moved to la and see the driving of it all, you know what I mean. So, because I'm from Canada, are you from here? 00:10:11 Speaker 2: I'm from America's Canada. 00:10:13 Speaker 3: Utah, here we are. So this is the first news to me. Okay, Utah. Yeah, And I've been saying that America's Canada. 00:10:23 Speaker 2: It's very much in a lot of ways outside isn't a huge it's it's a lot of very polite people. Also. 00:10:30 Speaker 3: Okay, but can I ask the landscape of it all? Is there a lot of emptiness. 00:10:34 Speaker 2: Because Cares has a lot and. 00:10:36 Speaker 3: You kind of are that because we have a lot. It's Canada so big, but a lot of it's empty. It's forced and this and that, and he has situation. 00:10:43 Speaker 2: It's obviously very different. 00:10:45 Speaker 3: Yeah. In Utah, I'm giving out free healthcare. 00:10:47 Speaker 2: You're the one giving it. You go on weekends. 00:10:50 Speaker 3: It's not doctors without borders, it's people without borders. I don't have a degree, so it's trust me. But okay, so we're here, we're two years. So when you first moved to La, the driving is intimidating. 00:11:04 Speaker 2: Now it's worth because everyone no one, They don't care if they live or die or anymore. 00:11:10 Speaker 3: Every driver, well, we're all actors. What do we care. We'll strike anyway we care, kill me. Yeah, I'm out, So I The thing now that I want to talk about is the no recovery. What are some things we know? Being on time is out? We've lost that. 00:11:28 Speaker 2: It's gone. I'm two to five minutes late every appointment. 00:11:31 Speaker 3: What are some other things and I'll say too. We can go back and forth that you did not recover from. 00:11:37 Speaker 2: Oh god, what, let's see what have I not recovered from? 00:11:41 Speaker 1: Uh? 00:11:42 Speaker 2: I got over hand washing. I'm back to probably Oh yeah, hands. 00:11:48 Speaker 3: Well, it looks like we have the same. We can't be washing. It's not good for you. Bleeding it's not good for you. 00:11:57 Speaker 2: So I was able to deal with that. What other filvers do I really have? 00:12:02 Speaker 3: Okay, I'll do that. 00:12:03 Speaker 2: Yeah, I want to hear. 00:12:03 Speaker 3: Some spark my shamina for working out? Oh I used to be able to hardcore work out. Wait, it's this that because I got so depressed in the pandemic like everyone, and we couldn't go outside really except you know those little coat health walks or whatever. 00:12:17 Speaker 2: Wellness whatever. 00:12:18 Speaker 3: They were called too too much. But then it was like I, So I stopped working out as much. I gained some way, that's fine, who cares, But I lost the stamina. I did get back into working out, and I find even my breathing isn't the same. 00:12:34 Speaker 2: You haven't recovered at all. Did you ever have COVID? 00:12:36 Speaker 3: I did have COVID, but I never got long COVID like I. Actually my COVID was pretty easy because get this, a week before I had gone the booster cruised cruse it works. Wow. I felt I didn't even know I had it. And it wasn't like asymptomatic. It was like my nose was a little runny because it was rain. It happened to be rain in that day. You know, sometimes the weather it can like mess up your side says. So I was like, you know what, I'll take a COVID test just because whatever had it test positive next day, totally fine, running nose gone was still positive for ten days. Do it feel a wow? Can you believe it? Magic? So it's not long COVID. It was inactivity right, And even the breathing, I forgot how to like like properly breathe in a work and you feel like you can't get it back. I feel like I can't get it back. I also have still some of the excess weight that's going to make it harder. Interesting, Yeah, and it's not I'm not sitting here being like aim ugly that's mom, when I'm. 00:13:32 Speaker 2: Just incredible, truly glowing right. 00:13:35 Speaker 3: Well, well the bags so, but like it's it was just one of those things. It's fine to have the extra weight whatever. I'm older, I'm thirty nine. It's like we kind of it. Yeah, it slows down a little bit. Who cares? I truly don't. But I think i'm my because I don't have the stamina. I'm having a hard time losing that way because I'm carrying that weight. It's making right. 00:14:01 Speaker 2: And this is the other thing we should mention. I guess it's still the pandemic, which is a nightmare. 00:14:06 Speaker 3: I just to full disclosure, everybody I COVID tested this morning woke up with a bit of a running no sod. I had it already already gone, but in my because I was coming in person, I was like, the better test. Yeah, I was like, I better test because it's it's madness, like it's it's kind of it's I mean it's yeah, it's like it's back in the spotlight shadows and now it's it's like a saga and now we're on like movie two. 00:14:32 Speaker 2: So it's like people are like, I'm done with this franchise. 00:14:36 Speaker 3: Not to bring it back, but it is the fast and furious medical issues. 00:14:41 Speaker 2: That they've lost track of what people enjoyed about. 00:14:44 Speaker 3: No plot, We've got nothing. Vin Diesel heavily involved to. 00:14:49 Speaker 2: Involved at this point. 00:14:52 Speaker 3: Second him. 00:14:53 Speaker 2: But what I was gonna ask you is what sort of exercises if you tried doing? 00:14:56 Speaker 3: Okay, first thing, I got back to hiking. Okay, right, But that we're in a heat wave. So I'm going in the morning. It's too hot. I'm going in the morning. By the time i'm home, let's say, seriously, nine thirty, ten o'clock, and that's me going late. I can't breathe. I mean, I'm dying out there. My son's screen has melted off, you know. I mean, I'm wearing sun screened dow and I thought we'd be in the shade, and I still put sunstread have to you never know, we could have been outside whatever. But it's like hiking because I wanted to get back outside. I was kind of losing my mind. Another thing, I used to run, I've started walking instead. 00:15:32 Speaker 2: That's a nice I mean, it's not bad. It's a good intro. 00:15:36 Speaker 3: It's a good intro. And the running is hurd on your knees and then when you have extra weight. 00:15:42 Speaker 2: So let's not running to me is a non starter. 00:15:44 Speaker 3: You know, I can't. I can't. 00:15:46 Speaker 2: I can't imagine why I would ever run. 00:15:48 Speaker 3: I used to love it, and it's lost it for me. I like the walking. I can enjoy my music more. I can be on a phone call if I need to. It's just more enjoyable to do. 00:15:57 Speaker 2: You like a what is it? Stationary bike? Exercycle? 00:16:03 Speaker 3: I don't? You don't like it? Why don't you like that? Well? It hurts my crotch. I was going to come up with, excuse my crush. 00:16:13 Speaker 2: I mean, that's understandable. 00:16:15 Speaker 3: It is like I went to a spin classroom. I went home to Toronto to see my family and I went to a spin class with my siblings, and because my assistant mom was like, let's go to be so fun, and you know, the music's awesome, the teachers so inspired, and you should have seen this guy. He was incredible. But I was in pain for days, for days, and I'm not and you don't even you don't even want to have sex. You're in so much pain. It was a nightmare. And this was like four days. So I was like, I'm out. I'm just out for what a pillow something state, Just stay a pillow down and you're right, you're right. I have not been thinking clearly about this. 00:16:59 Speaker 2: I would like to like the bike, but I, uh, the rock climbing gym I go to has a small, little, like kind of barebones gym. I love you, maybe that's what you should come with me here. 00:17:07 Speaker 3: We are going to take you with me. 00:17:08 Speaker 2: But they have a little bike there, like they have a little gym, and so I was like, oh, I'll go try the bike for somebody sitting next to it. And I didn't know how to operate the bike, and instead of figuring it out, I just forced it. And it was one of the most painful experiences of my life. No idea how to use those bikes. 00:17:23 Speaker 3: They got to be measured. You gotta do the air pump thing of how hard the level is. 00:17:27 Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a whole thing. It's too much. 00:17:29 Speaker 3: It's way too much. Let's get back to the rock climbing. Did you do this previous to the pandemic. 00:17:34 Speaker 2: No, this was right as we were coming out of maybe three months after vaccination. 00:17:40 Speaker 3: So you had a positive pandemic. Things like a post pandemic. Like we're talking about stuff that we lost. This is a game, this is a gain. 00:17:48 Speaker 2: And I'll tell you the reason I was able to maintain any level of ability to exercise and This is kind of a throwback for this podcast. I used to talk about this NonStop. I bought a video game called Ring Fit Adventure. 00:17:59 Speaker 3: I know this, you know it, I know, with a circle thing and you like and you pulse it and you do like stapping, but then your thighs. My brother has it. 00:18:05 Speaker 2: It's incredible. Like during lockdown. It was my only means. 00:18:10 Speaker 3: Of exercise on zoom a Nintendo switch out. There you go, there, you go, got it? Hey, you had to do so, we got it right. I had to run from store to store time. They were all sold out, of course, because everyone was buying all exercise equipment. Well, now we know why you don't run. This is why the stores are gonna break your list. 00:18:25 Speaker 2: I'm just running through targets constantly, constantly, speed through target just gigging enough. No, yeah, I started rock climbing and it's wonderful. 00:18:36 Speaker 3: Okay. Can I ask you, I have a fear of heights. Do you think this will squash it or make it more? I think it will. I think it will squash it. 00:18:42 Speaker 2: I think it won't affect it that much because I'm bouldering, which is not the full you know where they're roping you in and everything, and you're going to the ceiling. This is probably thirty feet off the ground. 00:18:54 Speaker 3: That's that's quite literally steep. That's a lot for me. I will no o. I can barely do my two step stool and two step steps too it. 00:19:06 Speaker 2: Oh you love the step stool. I love my steps, so I need it. 00:19:08 Speaker 3: Oh, it's not even I love it, it's my legs. 00:19:10 Speaker 2: When I bought the step stool, when I first brought it into my home, I was like, this is the best piece of technology I've. 00:19:15 Speaker 3: Ever It was a game changer. Now so much like your father, I have a Costco membership and we have in our house this When we moved in, this built in shelving that goes up really high because it's high ceilings. And I was like, well, what a waste I have all this storage by that step stool. Oh we got toilet paper for days. It's like I should ship some to your dad's house because we have so much. Because I have the storage for it now, because I can reach all the freaking shells. 00:19:41 Speaker 2: It feels like a superpower, Isn'd it. 00:19:43 Speaker 3: Nice to not have to ask someone to get something, or to not you know what I mean, to just be like, got it, and you open your little stool. 00:19:49 Speaker 2: But the reality is a lot of people just get to live that way, people with an extra foot on. 00:19:54 Speaker 3: Imagine. I was at the grocery store yesterday trying to get bless Me a Gatorade zero and it's on the blue flavor. 00:20:01 Speaker 2: My fair blue flavor. I recently tried the white flavor and they had changed the flavor to cherry. It ruined an entire plane flight for cherry. 00:20:08 Speaker 3: Oh but the bottle's white. 00:20:10 Speaker 2: It used to be kind of a lemony lime flavor. It's now red. So I just want to warn people. 00:20:13 Speaker 3: But I like because the lemon lime tasted like Mount dew. Yeah, you know that, like a Gatorade water drink. I was like, not bad, right. So it's at the top and the first couple are. 00:20:25 Speaker 2: Gone, Oh no, it's deep and high. 00:20:29 Speaker 3: I must have sat there, like or stood there whatever, for about And keep in mind, guys, to stand perfectly still not doing anything for the grocery store for sixty seconds is a lot of time. 00:20:39 Speaker 2: This is my entire grocery experience. 00:20:42 Speaker 3: Waiting for someone to want a short lady walks past me. I went, nope, leave that one. Be your life's as bad as mine. Get out of here. Had to wait for so long for something to be like can you grab this? And of course, I mean this guy was elated. I made his day for him, to be the euros for him and didn't work there even better because it was a hero moment. Well, he saved my life. Because Gator eight or gatorade gives the electrolytes, I could quite literally be having like dehydration to die half. 00:21:12 Speaker 2: It's a desert. 00:21:13 Speaker 3: And meanwhile, I'm losing weight, no calories here we are with the zero zero sugar. I'm losing weight at this. 00:21:18 Speaker 2: Point, fading before his eyes. 00:21:22 Speaker 3: But anyways, this is all this to say, the stepstool has saved us feel great and this is pream post pandemic. I'm gonna swear by the steps toool. Oh everybody's got to have one. 00:21:32 Speaker 2: If you're under six feet, talk, get yourself a step stool. 00:21:35 Speaker 3: If you're over six feet, dog, yeah a live. 00:21:37 Speaker 2: Yeah, I get a live. In the grocery store on call. Always be in the grocery store, watching out, watch. 00:21:44 Speaker 3: To make sure. If you see a bottle in the back, pull it forward. Even if you don't want to, just bring them because then I can get like a cereal box and knock it down. 00:21:56 Speaker 2: Or climb. 00:21:58 Speaker 3: I will climb on that bottom shelf. I do it all the time. 00:22:00 Speaker 2: I have an early childhood memory of you know, those old coupon things would shoot the coupon out. I loved those so much, and they were always too high. And of course I was probably a foot tall until eighth grade. So I'm climbing up that fell medical emergency, essentially fell from the top thing. So this has been my entire life, climbing up did grocery store shelves. What happened just slam my elbow and it nearly passed out. So and I guess it's not that big of adeo. But as like a small child the parents, what is high fall? The funny bone? 00:22:32 Speaker 3: The funny bone, that's it. Charlie horses, the like when someone punches Charlie horse. 00:22:38 Speaker 2: I think it's like a cramp, right, Is that you wake up with one of those? Either of you ever woken up with a Charlie horse? Hell on Earth? 00:22:46 Speaker 3: No, not not woking up with one. There's no escape leg literally you can't moving. Yeah, horrible. Now I know how to demobilize an attacker not the Charlie horse into my bed and now here we are you cannot attack me. This is good self defense. 00:23:06 Speaker 2: This podcast, this is a self defense podcast first and foremost. 00:23:10 Speaker 3: I want to do a self defense podcast. I just described the moves I'm doing for self defense karate. No video. Yeah, i'd be like karate chopping. What does that look like? Imagine a pizza pan and you glide your hand over top like this is the best way I could describe it. 00:23:28 Speaker 2: In the one karate class I took as a kid, they taught us this. You cross your fingers like this, your index and middle finger. You put them over each other and stick it into your attacker's throat. Oh yeah, apparently that kills. 00:23:40 Speaker 3: That'll get them. 00:23:41 Speaker 2: That's a death death move. 00:23:43 Speaker 3: Okay, here's a couple of things I learned from the streets. Not my karate class because it was useless and if you were late, you had to do fifty push ups, and we were always late. This is why I'm on time because my mom was constantly late and it like late picking me up all this kind of stuff. This is why I'm always on time. So I never wanted to go into the class because I didn't want to do the fitty push up. So I would just walk back and forth past the hall and my siblings were in the class. I don't know how they got to me. Yeah, I guess the changing into the gee. But here's a couple of things I learned. Okay, if you can kick someone in the back of the knee, because that'll take them right to the ground. Here's something I did learn in judo. Took that for two weeks. Sweep the leg. 00:24:24 Speaker 2: And what do we mean when we say sweep? 00:24:26 Speaker 3: So glad you asked. You don't how a broom? First of all, stay slow to the ground, Yes, a broom. And you know how you at the end sweep it up right. Imagine keeping your leg all the way kind of just above the bottom of the ground, and then you just sweep it up to get kind of at their ankle just and the last little bit you want to go up a little. And guys, this is my street terms. So if this isn't the way to do it, well, guess what. I graduated judo in the two weeks. According to me, So it's not a big deal. We're doing it. It's called judo. So that's one way to do it. Now, the other way the eyes. You you said the move for the throat the eyes. If you can get poke someone's eye, I'm telling you it will take about Can. 00:25:07 Speaker 2: We record a small video of you demonstrating. 00:25:11 Speaker 3: I'm doing it to you? 00:25:12 Speaker 2: Yes, of course it's coming. So aggreatted defense move. 00:25:17 Speaker 3: Well, you're lucky we're this far away, because I would be good. You'd be dead, be dead right now. One last thing, don't if you're gonna punch someone, don't tuck your thumb into your fingers. You'll break your thumb. Right. 00:25:28 Speaker 2: This is why you can keep a roll of quarters or whatever. 00:25:31 Speaker 3: Well, here we go for the training, right, for the training. 00:25:34 Speaker 2: So sweep the leg. You're sweeping your own leg, not their leg. 00:25:37 Speaker 3: No, I'm sweeping their legs across me. Onto sweeps. Ultimately, it's almost a vacuum. It's that powerful. That's how much we're sweeping yourself. Baby. 00:25:54 Speaker 2: Okay, after this, we're gonna record a quick video of how to defend yourself. Honestly, I've got my one move, and you have several moves, and they're all good. Who knows how at least I have a move? 00:26:04 Speaker 3: We never know. 00:26:05 Speaker 2: I mean, speaking of defending yourself and being attacked and blindsided by who knows what. I was really excited to have you here on the podcast today. I thought, she's so much fun, We're gonna have a great time. 00:26:16 Speaker 3: Well, didn't we have a lovely meeting when we first met? Wasn't it was so nice? I carries immediately. 00:26:21 Speaker 2: I was like, I love. 00:26:23 Speaker 3: We were drawn to each other right away, I said, Or when I wrote for the podcast, I immediately I said, yes, I was. And I was so upset because we were actually scheduled two weeks ago, and I was so upset I had to miss. I got can you believe this a same day re recording? Because I I'm recording this thing from my house. I have the equipment and made and it was like an end of day notes and but sorry, morning notes four end of day. And I'm very like, if I'm doing a recording, I do it a million times until it sounds perfect. So that's why I wasn't come. I'm here for the next four hours type of thing. But I was so excited to come do this podcast because you were such a light. My husband normally remembered you. 00:26:58 Speaker 2: I love him. 00:26:59 Speaker 3: He remembered you, and he was like, oh, you're gonna have a great time, and I was like, I don't really get the concept, but it's gonna be excited and I'm very excited to be here. 00:27:08 Speaker 2: No, you too, I could recommend running into YouTube at a party me. 00:27:12 Speaker 3: We got along right away, We really did. 00:27:14 Speaker 2: And the party was wonderful. But then it was a film screening, which I was. It was two fall, and I well, we left. I was blocked from the movie screen It would have been an audio experience. We had to go. 00:27:24 Speaker 3: Anyone that was standing. Basically guys the screenings in a room and we were in an adjacent room. We were let's just clarify, we were not in the room where the movie was. 00:27:33 Speaker 2: I became a radio program screening. 00:27:35 Speaker 3: He get much like my self defense. So first of all, we're doing self defense beside the movie. But it was like I wanted to stay, but I was getting very frustrated and I didn't want that energy. 00:27:50 Speaker 2: No, you don't want to be what I mean, because. 00:27:53 Speaker 3: Then afterwards everyone's going to talk about the movie. I'm gonna be like, I didn't watch it, don't ask me. He left. We kind of all left around the same time. 00:28:00 Speaker 2: Did John John pushed his way in former guests of the podcast. 00:28:04 Speaker 3: Your supportive friend here, are you kidding me? Yeah? 00:28:08 Speaker 2: He left us, he completely abandoned us. He was he's a movie fan, movie buff. 00:28:12 Speaker 3: For supports movies. 00:28:14 Speaker 2: Self described movie buff. 00:28:16 Speaker 3: John, he is buff. 00:28:17 Speaker 2: He is buff. He's an at home workout person. 00:28:20 Speaker 3: Yeah he is. And he really like transformed his body. He's there. 00:28:24 Speaker 2: I'm proud of them, yeah, I and he keeps recommending these YouTube videos and unfortunately I've never never clicked. 00:28:30 Speaker 3: You know, don't recommend me a YouTube video. I'm not gonna watch it. Don't send me a TikTok, I'm not gonna watch it. I would rather an email with a description of something you saw, as we know, with a description of something you saw that I can revisit than watching your YouTube video. 00:28:45 Speaker 2: A video recommend is a huge ass. 00:28:47 Speaker 3: Can't stand it, huge, like nine out of ten. 00:28:51 Speaker 2: I'm not gonna watch it, I'll say, I'll just type back hahaha, regardless of what it was for the workout video. The workout video is just a stony sign silence for me for several weeks, and the conversation about how I never watched it. 00:29:04 Speaker 3: Yeah, and then John's gonna be like it. 00:29:06 Speaker 2: Shows body shaming me constantly. 00:29:11 Speaker 3: I'll never be enough for John. 00:29:13 Speaker 2: Oh, no one, No one ask the long line of friends that ex friends John were no longer friends. He gave me the best gift that's ever been given on this podcast, by the way, car garbage can. 00:29:25 Speaker 3: Oh, here we go. It's a good one. Okay. I hope nobody's given mine, but mine comes with a thorough explanation. 00:29:33 Speaker 2: Well interesting, Yeah, I would hope to get an explanation from you, because the podcast is called I said no gifts. You walk into the backyard, you look great, you look fantastic, and then I see a Neon pink bag in your hands. Yes, here we are, and you've just admitted this is a gift for me. 00:29:46 Speaker 3: Yeah. 00:29:47 Speaker 2: Should I open it? 00:29:47 Speaker 1: Here? 00:29:47 Speaker 2: On the podcast? 00:29:48 Speaker 3: I quite simply insist. And I know he said no gifts, but no one tells me what to do. Here you go. No tissue paper. I didn't want to waste because I knew you're gonna. 00:30:17 Speaker 2: Have so much tissue paper in my home at this Yes, okay, waste. 00:30:20 Speaker 3: Here's what we're gonna do. You open it, you say what it is, don't look. I noticed you didn't. I asked you not to. You say what it is, and then let me tell you what it really is. 00:30:29 Speaker 2: Oh fantastic, Just say the description of the product or whatever this is, Okay, pulling it out, pulling it out still to box. 00:30:37 Speaker 3: It's a box. 00:30:38 Speaker 2: I want a full visual experience. 00:30:40 Speaker 3: Yeah, I can see you're you're being true to it. 00:30:42 Speaker 2: Oh, this is a Magic Puzzle Company thousand piece jigsaw puzzle, The Puzzled Patron original art by Taylor Rose, Number one puzzle on TikTok. 00:30:54 Speaker 3: So let me explain what it really is. This is the best way you could get to know me. This is the beginning of a friendship with Alanna Johnston. Here's why. Let's go over what a puzzle is. One complicated, Oh, extremely timely. I'm loyal. If I'm your friend, will be your friend for life. Okay. Three colorful, bright, exciting. Four misleading because you think it piece fits and it doesn't. Right. Five This one has a magic trick in it. When I was a kid, I had a little magic set because I loved magic and I think I'm kind of a whimsical, magical person. 00:31:25 Speaker 2: Oh of course I believe that one. 00:31:27 Speaker 3: So this one is a special one. You have to unlock this magic trick. 00:31:30 Speaker 2: A magic trick. What do you mean a magic trick? 00:31:32 Speaker 3: There's a magic trick once you solve the puzzle. Like you do the puzzle, there's like a magic trick that you see in the visual of it. And now can I ask you something? Have you ever seen anything like that? I've never seen. I don't seen anyone like me. 00:31:45 Speaker 2: I haven't. I met you at that party. I thought, this is a new sort of person. 00:31:49 Speaker 3: This is a new sort of I didn't even know exist made one of them. That is why I gave you that puzzle. It was like I had another gift for you. Let's get into this, and then loved back up gift after, which is at my house. I almost brought both of them, and I went, no, just just do for next time, save it for next time when you bring me back. But this was I thought a fun gift because it's social. You can do it. You have it going, you know, somebody comes over and then they like start picking away at the puzzle. We loved the puzzle, but it's also like a crazy puzzle. It's beautiful, it's very fun, it's whimsical. Take another measure. 00:32:28 Speaker 2: There'll be pictures of this. 00:32:29 Speaker 3: Okay, good because to be explosive Instagram. The design's insane. It's insane. 00:32:34 Speaker 2: It's really beautiful, And this is what I'm gonna say. There have been two puzzles given on. 00:32:39 Speaker 3: This podcast before I figured people like puzzles. 00:32:41 Speaker 2: One was from Kelly Hudson. Okay, she gave a used holiday puzzle which was never never made. She didn't insist that I make the puzzle. She gave it. We talked about a lovely conversation. 00:32:51 Speaker 3: Okay, fair enough, love Kelly. 00:32:52 Speaker 2: Second was from Chris Thayer. Okay, this was a new puzzle. It was was unopened. It was of past Republican president Okay, and he made a move on the podcast, which was a call to arms for the listeners to demand I make the puzzle. 00:33:06 Speaker 3: And did that happen. 00:33:08 Speaker 2: It was a thousand piece puzzle with all everybody but the absolute worst president on it. Well, I mean, it's arguable with which one is the worst, but the most recent worst one was not on the puzzle. I made the puzzle. I had never done a puzzle before, never as an adult. 00:33:25 Speaker 3: And you took on a thousand pieces. 00:33:27 Speaker 2: And my boyfriend was out of town for weeks, so I was alone with the Republican presidents for fifteen was it fifteen weeks on my kitchen counter, just destroying the visual of the entire room. And it was excruciating. 00:33:44 Speaker 3: I can't what a burden it laid on me. Every day I want to give. This is a punishment my brand, So this is such a reward. Here's the thing. I thought you might have been given a puzzle because people love puzzles, and in the pandemic, yes, so we've all kind of reborn into puzzles, right right, But this was just and it's still in the package, a gorgeous gift, but it was like I just thought it would be puzzles can be plain or a landscape or whatever. But I was like, this is so hard. You don't even have to do it. It's so hard. 00:34:21 Speaker 2: It's a thousand. I did a thousand with people. I didn't want to look at it. 00:34:24 Speaker 3: This is not cohesive, like like well. 00:34:28 Speaker 2: This was all flesh tone. It was all just white. So it was that came a point where I was like, I've got five hundred pieces of peach. 00:34:36 Speaker 3: So really the color actually might help you. 00:34:38 Speaker 2: I think that I'm actually better at puzzles because of this is one thing Republican presidents have given me an ability to be better at puzzles. And you know, there's a little good in everybody. There's a little good in everybody, so this is going to be very exciting for me. My friend Leela is a big puzzle doer, and uh, when I worked on Unbreakable Kimischmidt years ago, and there was a joke that she pitched that was someone was about to finish a puzzle, there was one piece left, and I don't want to I'm going to butcher this joke, but it was basically, now, let's turn this fun game into a picture nobody wants, which is largely most true. But this is a fun picture. It's like there's like an evil, multi eyed monster in the middle, kind of a Greek demon sort of thing. But it's cartoonish, it's whimsical, it's light. 00:35:28 Speaker 3: Can I can I make your request? 00:35:30 Speaker 2: Yes? 00:35:31 Speaker 3: Wait? Are you going to do this puzzle? Yes? 00:35:32 Speaker 2: Or not? 00:35:32 Speaker 3: For real? 00:35:33 Speaker 2: I am going to do the puzzle and I'm committing I'm not I'm not being shamed into it like Chris Thayer did with the last one. So it will take probably twenty weeks. 00:35:41 Speaker 3: That's fine. Let's be honest, let's get your boyfriend out of town. Let's get to you. 00:35:44 Speaker 2: He's actually leaving town pretty soon. 00:35:46 Speaker 3: So this, honest, I would say that as a joke. This is perfect because now you will do this puzzle. Of course, So here's what I want. When the puzzle is done and it's time for the trick, you have to invite me back over. 00:35:59 Speaker 2: Okay, I want to see you want to see a trick. 00:36:03 Speaker 3: I've never heard of a puzzle with a trick. This is My brother turned me onto this, so I was like, I have to know what the thing is. 00:36:12 Speaker 2: You'll know when it's time to come. You'll receive the call. I'll just call and hang up. 00:36:16 Speaker 3: Call me up to the major leave. You will receive the call. What is it? Saturday Night Live? Lauren's gonna call me being like it's harmful trick. That's my impression. 00:36:29 Speaker 2: You're going to get a call from an eight to one number. You'll pick up, You'll hear a click, and you'll know it's time to come here. You might get an email or a text. 00:36:38 Speaker 3: Let's honest, no, I prefer the click. Now. Can I tell you what the backup was going to be? 00:36:44 Speaker 2: Yes? And I would like to circle back to puzzles. 00:36:46 Speaker 3: But oh, we'll circle back. But let me get it out of my system, because I want to know if you already have one an evil eye? 00:36:52 Speaker 2: What's an evil eye? 00:36:54 Speaker 3: I should have brought it high. I'm devastating. Okay. You know that blue eye that you'll see everywhere. It's like a sure, yes, that's the evil eye. Okay, and it wards off evil spirits. And you're supposed to put it in your house like above a doorway to ward off evil spirits. Now, I tend to give these out to people when they have recently moved, because when you move, that's a fresh start. 00:37:17 Speaker 2: Right. 00:37:18 Speaker 3: If you've got the evil spirits in your house, I don't know if I can get them out of there. That might require something else, that cleansing of something that because the eye is supposed to face out to protect them from coming in. If you have it in your house, I would assume wouldn't you want it facing in the house to keep an eye on. 00:37:32 Speaker 2: Who's exactly right? 00:37:33 Speaker 3: Right? 00:37:34 Speaker 2: Right? 00:37:34 Speaker 3: So I might have to bring you one. I mean to see if I need to get anything out of here. 00:37:39 Speaker 2: Look, this house was built in nineteen twenty three. Okay, so somebody certainly has died, right building the last hundred years, somebody died. 00:37:48 Speaker 3: You're being haunted. 00:37:49 Speaker 2: I'm being haunted. And maybe it's a good ghost. 00:37:51 Speaker 3: Yes, it might be an evil ghost, but but it's a ghost nonetheless. 00:37:55 Speaker 2: And the house it is a ghost. 00:37:57 Speaker 3: The whole house is a ghost. 00:38:01 Speaker 2: It vanishes at midnight. No, and my uh office back here as a And this is something the listener does not want to hear about anymore. Flooded for probably the first three months of the year. So I think it's cursed. There's a water ghost, water spirit, some sort of evil. 00:38:17 Speaker 3: The plan. Here's what we're doing when I come for the magic trick. I'm bringing the Evil Eye. Okay, now, I think we've got double trouble on our side. Here we have the evil Eye watching the evil spirits. But if we're we're magic, we could get into the dark arts. Do you know what I'm trying. I would love to get into the dark to say. 00:38:36 Speaker 2: I've never I've never used a wigie board. 00:38:38 Speaker 3: Oh oh, I have to come. 00:38:41 Speaker 2: There was a. 00:38:41 Speaker 3: Strong left over my mind. 00:38:43 Speaker 2: I think of the Satanic panic in Utah. I think it kind of went a little bit further from the eighties into the nineties. 00:38:48 Speaker 3: And so you guys kind of had your own thing going. 00:38:49 Speaker 2: We had our own kind going, though, but there was a real like Satan is in control, so we never got to play Wigiboard or any of these friends. 00:39:00 Speaker 3: Okay, I'm gonna come back, and basically I have to bring someone with me. Do you know what, nessa Frantowski. No, First of all, you got to get it on the pod. She's like one of the best gift givers I've ever heard in my life. Down what happened is and I'm sorry I totally derailed us, but I have to. 00:39:15 Speaker 2: There's no derailing on this podcast. The train is just driving through dirt through the entire podcast. 00:39:20 Speaker 3: So basically, because this is going to apply to you, basically, I had a lot of terrible family things happen, and a lot of people die or like get seriously sick in the in the span of three months, and all while we were getting a new house. Oh and Essa came and now she comes every year at the exact same time when we move in at March, and she blessed the house. I'm not talking religion, I'm talking witchcraft. She blessed the house all the doorways and then we hung the evil Eyes. I'm knocking on wind right now. Not a single bad thing has happened that that was a year and a half ago. 00:39:55 Speaker 2: What is this? 00:39:56 Speaker 3: She can't so she does a smoke thing. You have to hold a feather, You have to hold a smoke. She's speaking what she's doing, she's putting in spells. We did a Harry Potter spell like you have to do everything and then you hang the evil eyes. So I have to bring her here. Sometimes if you play your cards right, she'll do a terror read. I have to bring her here. She needs to bless your house like that'll be that'll be the tree stuffs going on in here. That will be the treat. I will bring my home d cursed. Yes I will. That is it, will do the magic trick and will decurse your house, will hang the evil eye once and for all, and then I'm coming back a year later and we're going to do a review. So I'm going to be on the podcast three times. 00:40:37 Speaker 2: At least three times. 00:40:38 Speaker 3: Because if something happens between or you need self defense, you got to bring me back. 00:40:42 Speaker 2: And your fourth time will be here. You'll come back to apologize for my death. One of these things. 00:40:46 Speaker 3: Is going to cause my self defense was so bad you immediately died instantly. 00:40:53 Speaker 2: As the new host, you'll apologize. 00:40:55 Speaker 3: First, Yes, I will take over the podcast. Leave this in your will to me. 00:41:00 Speaker 2: Are you a big believer in the dark arts? 00:41:03 Speaker 3: You know, I believe in energy. I don't think. I'm not a religious person. I to cause no offense to anyone. I don't believe in God or anything like this or practice anything. But something's up, something's going on, Like there are things. I don't even mean ghost, I don't e mean whatever, but it's like there are things where like you'll have many hauntings, I almost want to call them, or like weird coincidences or like things lining up, or like like one time I open this cabinet door and a giant normalty sized cat mug fell onto my face. And I'd had weeks of breaking jars of things, just breaking all these jars, and then I got attacked by my friend's cat, Sphinx cat attacked me and gave me blood poisoning. And Vanessa too, the witch what so she's not a witch, but I'm just saying it so you remember what I'm talking about. Yeah, the witchy traits, but it I'm just saying there was a couple of things and the cat mug and it cut my nose, and then the cat pierced my leg, my skin, and that's how I got the blood poisoning. And I'm like, it was just a couple of weird things, and this all happened in the course of a few weeks, and. 00:42:12 Speaker 2: Then was the blood poisoning the end of this kind of themed curse. 00:42:16 Speaker 3: Friend moved out with the cat. Wow left. 00:42:18 Speaker 2: What is blood poisoning? 00:42:20 Speaker 3: Sure, I'm glad you asked. 00:42:21 Speaker 2: So. 00:42:22 Speaker 3: Basically, cats have this bacteria in their saliva if it pierces your skin and the saliva gets in. Basically, what had happened was there was a little, just a little bitemark on my leg and it got red around then all of a sudden, dark red. This is all the blood gathering and it's spreading up our leg. Oh and when we went in, you go to the hospital immediately, right it sounds dangerous. I mean immediately. We went in the next day and they were like you should have come here right away. Oh wo to give us these meds that caused vertigo. They were so strong. I had vertigo for a week. But they were like this is no job, like and people don't know this, but they were like, it's this cat thing. It like we've seen this a million times. It is causing this. You have to come in right away. Oh my god, do you believe that? 00:43:09 Speaker 2: But it took the vertigo situation, took care of the blood. 00:43:13 Speaker 3: All good. But that was my reaction to that drug. 00:43:16 Speaker 2: And that's This is different than cats scratch fever. 00:43:19 Speaker 3: Very different from cats scratching what carry for skin? The cat scratch fever does something where you're like attracted to the cat. It's like you create this bomb with the cat. It does like I don't I don't want to say pheromone, but it does this weird thing of like I don't know how to describe it. This is what the doctor told me because I asked what's the difference, and she was like, one of them just kind of bonds you to the cat and the other one ripels. It's like, yeah, wonder which one I got? 00:43:48 Speaker 2: Cats have two speeds? 00:43:49 Speaker 1: Yeah. 00:43:50 Speaker 2: There you go, like you hate me or you're deeply attracted to me. 00:43:53 Speaker 3: But this is so this is me. That answers your question, what about you? What do you believe something? Do you feel stuff? 00:43:59 Speaker 2: I feel like there's Yeah, there's gotta be something going on. There's something happening. I mean, I can't say there's not something happening. 00:44:07 Speaker 3: There are aliens or whatever you want to call them. Oh, we know this. This is for you to think, this is insane. That's common sense. So why couldn't we have powers or something? Why not? What's the difference. 00:44:18 Speaker 2: Something's going on. 00:44:19 Speaker 3: Something's going on. I'm like, why couldn't there still be energies or parallel universes taking place right in front of us? And that's what you're feeling. Why right? Well, they're mentions. 00:44:27 Speaker 2: They're magic now until it becomes science and then it's boring. 00:44:30 Speaker 3: Well, that's how the is going to unlock. To bring it back to the puzzle, we're gonna do the magic of the puzzle, discover a science behind it, and we're born to death. There we go, we're both done. 00:44:40 Speaker 2: But then we turn to uh decursing the house, and. 00:44:42 Speaker 3: We're decurse the house. Regardless of if you die or not. We must because whoever comes in next, we must decurse this house. There is some going on, and it's too old. My house is nineteen twenty. It's too old. It's like, no, we have to clean this up. 00:44:56 Speaker 2: You've got just take them up to it. Sweep the feet, sweep the flood, sweep the fun. 00:45:04 Speaker 3: Wow, I love this podcast. I could talk to you. I don't even know how long we've been going. I could talk to you for a hundred hours. I'm having so much time and this is the morning too. What a way to start my day. 00:45:15 Speaker 2: No, or then we go into the rest of the day completely exhausted by our conversation, we go take a nap. 00:45:20 Speaker 3: I'm gonna need one because I am giving you everything I've got right now. This is all I have. I hope like it. 00:45:29 Speaker 2: What if I was just like, I've got to end this as quickly as possible. 00:45:32 Speaker 3: You're like, well, thanks for coming, throw your mic walk away, break it so you never have to record again. 00:45:39 Speaker 2: She broke the podcast. 00:45:40 Speaker 3: She broke it. 00:45:41 Speaker 2: I was gonna ask you, do you have any memorable puzzles you've done, or do you just like, are you kind of willing nilly with what sort of puzzle you pick? 00:45:48 Speaker 3: I'm not willing nilly? Okay, A really fun one I did in the Pandemic was a candy shop. Oh so it was all the jars of candy and chocolates. So it was really hard, but really satisfying because it's so bright. I like bright colors. This numerous times, this is my plane is even then I've got the bright blue on my Oh my shoe that's coming downe. You gotta put my mic down to fix it. 00:46:13 Speaker 2: Right now, she's tying her shoes. 00:46:16 Speaker 3: She's got the high I've got the high tops. I like bright colors, and it makes it easier for me to do the puddle because I kept puzzle sorry, categorized by the colors and by the end pieces the border. 00:46:28 Speaker 2: Right, that's kind of strategy you go to go with. 00:46:30 Speaker 3: I also love anything with a sky, a sky like sunrise. It's very hard, but again so satisfying. Like when I do a puzzle, first I color coordinate and then I'm doing it by the shapes of the pieces, Like at some point it stops being about color and you have to be like, oh, yeah, this one did the sharp edge. I know exactly where that piece is. 00:46:52 Speaker 2: Right you start, They're like the ones that are kind of like a big h yes, looking look at the categorize. 00:46:58 Speaker 3: You've got them here, and you're like you're like memorize them it's like that memory card game. You remember where it is in your piles. 00:47:04 Speaker 2: And then they're the freaks. Yeah, you got to remember the freaks. 00:47:07 Speaker 3: Well, then there's the discovery you have put a wrong piece in the spot and it was so exact, but it's not horrible, and that that'll get you. Here's what I hate. People hate doing people really too hard. 00:47:20 Speaker 2: I mean, my only experience was with people, and it was it was not It was like. 00:47:25 Speaker 3: A nightmare and people you don't even like. Really a bad situation for me. But that's my most memorable puzzle is. 00:47:31 Speaker 2: How big was it? 00:47:32 Speaker 3: A thousand piece? 00:47:34 Speaker 2: Is a thousand your threshold? 00:47:36 Speaker 3: That's as far as I got. Okay, I like to do online jigsaw puzzles too. 00:47:40 Speaker 2: Online That doesn't seem that satisfying to me. 00:47:42 Speaker 3: Well, when you're on your iPad you got nothing to do, it's not satisfying at all. Yeah, but I turned the volume off at the end. When you've got the picture, it removes all the puzzle piece lines and then it's just the picture like a poster. So pretty fun, is it? 00:47:57 Speaker 2: Like you should be able to use it as a desktop wallpaper at that point. Just a hint to the tech industry. 00:48:01 Speaker 3: Oh my god, you really should have to show the your or you know what it should be too. You can use it at a desktop at any point, so if you still you can see the puzzle pieces and what more. 00:48:13 Speaker 2: That's a good idea for a desktop that should be like in the software, like when you're just bored, you're just putting together your wallpaper. Yes, I I feel like this is the first good idea that's ever been made on this podcast. And we've had a lot of ideas. 00:48:27 Speaker 3: Like John. 00:48:30 Speaker 2: I love John. 00:48:31 Speaker 3: John did when I had my podcast, John did it like two or three times. That's so much. I love John. 00:48:35 Speaker 2: He's an incredible man. We love him and we love him. Well, we just thought of a great idea. Oh god, I hope somebody some slimeball. Who are those twins the Winkle Boss twins? 00:48:46 Speaker 3: Okay, why you know, we're a different wavelengths here. 00:48:51 Speaker 1: The. 00:48:53 Speaker 2: Winklevosses or the Olsons. Okay, they had a baby one of them? Did the smoking one or the one that nobody knows there was the one that was constantly smoking? 00:49:02 Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't know which one. Okay, to be honest with you, Good for her because wasn't one of them with that French guy the smoking. 00:49:08 Speaker 2: Was a smoker. 00:49:09 Speaker 3: I think it's the other one. 00:49:10 Speaker 2: Okay, the other one. 00:49:10 Speaker 3: That's what I'm gonna get. 00:49:11 Speaker 2: I hope she wasn't smoking during pregnancy. That's all I ask of the old sins. 00:49:15 Speaker 3: All I ask of anyone is don't smoke during the pregnancy. Immediately after, get back into it, I mean. 00:49:22 Speaker 2: In the hospital, in the hospital doctor, to have a light if. 00:49:25 Speaker 3: You can get back into it, please for. 00:49:29 Speaker 2: I imagine that's probably happened at least once, because if you think about it, it's probably happened before. 00:49:34 Speaker 3: Yeah. 00:49:35 Speaker 2: Yeah, new mothers like light me up, back and away. 00:49:37 Speaker 3: Yeah. 00:49:41 Speaker 2: Okay, Well, I think it's time to play a game. Let's play on a least skipt her a curse this time, I imagine. Okay, I'm really on top of it. I'm becoming a podcasting professional. I'm keeping track of things. 00:49:52 Speaker 3: I uh, you've got your computer, You've got. 00:49:56 Speaker 2: I've got my timer here. It's amazing. 00:49:58 Speaker 3: We're getting a lot done on the pod. I need a number between one and ten from you. Okay, seven, okay, sure, that's a common one. 00:50:04 Speaker 2: Eight is the most common, seventh the classiest. I would say perfect. Three is kind of the thinking man's number. 00:50:11 Speaker 3: I would say, I feel like five is a cop out. 00:50:12 Speaker 2: Five nobody ever goes to. 00:50:14 Speaker 3: I was gonna say six because my birthday is June sixth, but then I thought even no, I'm off. 00:50:21 Speaker 2: Okay, I have to do some like calculating. Right now. You can promote, recommend, do whatever you sure. 00:50:25 Speaker 3: I'll promote. I'm doing a lot of live shows at Dynasty, at Largo, at Allesion, UCB, all theaters that I love lyric Hyperion. So my instagram is at the Only Alana Johnston, and my ex whatever the heck that is, is at Alanta Underscore Johnston. That's where I post about my shows. And I believe I have a show with May Martin and Stephanie Allen at the Allegion on the sixteenth and seventeenth of September one at seven thirty one at seven o'clock. I think, don't quote me on that. So check website. You we're back. 00:51:02 Speaker 2: Go see her please and it's unbelievable. Please so funny and follow. And you had a podcast, I mean they could go back and listen. 00:51:09 Speaker 3: That's right, self esteem party all about self love and self spear. 00:51:12 Speaker 2: Go back You've got a nice library of things for people to listen to. You know, I'm going to try to start recommending things on this podcast, but I've been wanting to do this, and the only thing I can think of today is Found Coffee and Eagle Rock. Incredible. This is a recommendation for three to ten people. But it's so good and so there's no pretension there. I love it. It's like home. 00:51:31 Speaker 3: Okay I live. Can I do a recommendation of local business? Yeah? 00:51:34 Speaker 2: Of course. 00:51:35 Speaker 3: I live on the La river Path where there's Spoke Bicycle Cafe, which is a've never been. Oh, then that's my recommendation. It's huge, it's all outdoors, but it's covered so a lot of shade, big those big long wooden benches, which is always fun. 00:51:49 Speaker 2: I love to be. 00:51:49 Speaker 3: And then the whole Bikes Bicycle shop in the back right and everyone can bring their bike there if you like to bicycle. No one's going to steal it. It's not that kind of place. Really cool and they have full food and everything. 00:51:59 Speaker 2: Okay, And was that the recommendation you're going to say? Because I felt like you were headed towards another recommendation. 00:52:04 Speaker 3: It's called wax paper it's a sandwich shop. It's very expensive, but all the sandwiches are named after NPR hosts. I love it, and it's worth it. The sandwiches aren't there. 00:52:11 Speaker 2: Sandwiches are so unbelievably delicious, so good. 00:52:14 Speaker 3: So it's like, if you're going to spend the money, you're like, oh, it's a lot of money. But it's like, well, you're getting the taste, that's all. I'm going to say. It's probably the same price as a Jersey Mix, but Jersey Mikes, you're going to get a bigger sandwich. But it's of this plane right variety. 00:52:26 Speaker 2: And now now I'm going to push back slightly. This is my and we will get into the game. But I am going to say, wax paper delicious. The sandwiches are so good. It's a nice sandwich treat. Yes, And also I think they're the first time I feel like they're they're pioneers in sixteen dollars sandwiches. We'll just say that. But the ingredients are great, great, they're putting the money in. You're not getting ripped off. Jersey Mike's delicious lands and a bargain. It's a bargain. They're not selling you a sixteen dollars cent. If you get a sixteen dollars sandwich at Jersey Mikes, you've gone two falls. I think I'm paying eight dollars. 00:52:56 Speaker 3: Cannot Oh, no, I know what it is. What I'm thinking the foot long. 00:53:00 Speaker 2: Oh, you're not the same size is a big sand. 00:53:03 Speaker 3: Yeah, the six inch would be closer to the wax paper size. Right, I don't know eight. I'm gonna vote nine or ten one dollar different. 00:53:13 Speaker 2: But obviously one of them is a giant national chain with millions and millions. 00:53:17 Speaker 3: Wax Paper is a cute little place house to get to it. 00:53:21 Speaker 2: We love wax paper. 00:53:22 Speaker 3: We love it. All right, let's get to wow far. 00:53:24 Speaker 2: With local recommendations. Anyone that's not in Los Angeles is just turning off the podcast, or like you jerks, leaving us up. Actually, well, I'll recommend another thing that I want to go to in Ohio next week. Remind me on a lis there's a bakery that I've been dying to go to, but I have no reason to go to Columbus. We'll get into that next week. This is how we play the game. I cannot believe I've gone way too far today to play gift or a curse. 00:53:50 Speaker 3: I'm name three things. 00:53:51 Speaker 2: You're gonna tell me if there are a gift or a curse, and why, then I'll tell you if you're correct, because right or wrong, because there are correct answers. Of course, you gotta be careful. Number one this is from somebody named Emily. A listener named Emily has suggested when someone reposts all of the birthday story posts their friends have made to their own stories, so we end up with like twenty happy birthday, your beautiful bitch story reposts in a row. 00:54:16 Speaker 3: Gift to a curse to who the person for the birthday. 00:54:20 Speaker 2: I can't give you anymore information. 00:54:22 Speaker 3: Oh I see, so it's on me. Okay. Two part answer. Gift to the person whose birthday it is because it gives you more wishes. Curse to everyone else who feels the pressure to post. 00:54:32 Speaker 2: You can't. 00:54:32 Speaker 3: You can't go. 00:54:33 Speaker 2: You got a name, gift or a curse? 00:54:34 Speaker 3: Okay, fine, perrect I'm gonna say a curse. 00:54:39 Speaker 2: You're right, of course it's a curse. Curse. It's a I mean, I have to say it's a curse. I feel like I'm on record of basically being like that's like it's like taking your birthday cards door to door. It's it's like too much, we don't no one else cares. 00:54:51 Speaker 3: This was the first year, this past birthday that I reposted the birthday stories because I usually ask people don't post about me period. And I don't like my birthday being known because I don't like birthdays in this year. For me to make it less of a big deal, I post, and I might just fucking let people know it's your birthday. Hated it? You hated it? Too many messages? Everyone, what are you doing? What are you doing now? People to a party? June sixth? 00:55:15 Speaker 2: June sixth, everybody or marked that down in your calendars. We know her socials. So it is a curse. But of course the curses it goes both ways, because you're like, of course, of course it's nice to know people are thinking about you, but also because an immediate burden because you're like, now we do I have to repost this. 00:55:31 Speaker 3: And everyone's like, what are you doing for your birthday? Is celebrating right? 00:55:34 Speaker 2: And then sudden you're exposed and I mean, look is my birthday October ninth. I don't know what. I hate to receive some birthday wishes. 00:55:43 Speaker 3: Okay, well, you're already getting weekly gifts, so I don't know. Are we pushing it? Are we pushing it too far today? 00:55:49 Speaker 2: Yes? But it is ultimately a curse. We're all trapped in. 00:55:55 Speaker 1: Now. 00:55:55 Speaker 3: Did they answer that it was a curse? 00:55:57 Speaker 2: They, Emily just gave me the suggestion. I amagine the answer, the tone, yes, the end I didn't come up with. I knew. 00:56:04 Speaker 3: Yeah, it's an objective truth. 00:56:06 Speaker 2: Emily just threw that in. But I feel like Emily is probably on the side of curse just considering the tone of how she suggested it. 00:56:12 Speaker 3: I agree. 00:56:13 Speaker 2: Okay, So one right, so far, very good for you. 00:56:16 Speaker 3: Here we are. Number two. 00:56:17 Speaker 2: Hillary has written in and suggested gift her a curse a print subscription to The New Yorker. 00:56:23 Speaker 3: Well, gift because you have to pay for the online subscription. And I understand waste of paper. Okay, fine, But first of all, if they use recycled paper, we're laughing. I don't know if they do. Let's say they do, for my saying, but you have to pay for that online subscription. Now, are you going to read the magazine? Probably not? Are you gonna look smart having it in the house? Yes, your So that's a gift. Oh you're going to say a curse because then you feel like you have to read. 00:56:49 Speaker 2: Well, this is my problem. I've had a tab open on my Chrome or whatever browser I've got on for probably three weeks because they're running a sale. They were running a sale for the print and I was so tempted. It was such a good deal for a full year of the print magazine online access. Still haven't clicked one way or the other. The sale is probably over, and I want that. 00:57:11 Speaker 3: I want you know. 00:57:12 Speaker 2: It's nice to you probably read four percent of the articles in the New Yorker and they're stacking up and they're making you feel bad. But it's nice to know you can dip in when you want to. So it's become a curse in my life because I don't I don't know which way to go. 00:57:25 Speaker 3: Well, that's because we're dealing with your money. 00:57:27 Speaker 2: Yes, if it was, the gift would be such a curse. Mom, are you listening? 00:57:36 Speaker 3: Okay? 00:57:36 Speaker 2: Valid, But it's a curse. 00:57:37 Speaker 3: I'll give you that. 00:57:37 Speaker 2: Yeah, so you get one out of tude. So far, we hate to see it. Number three Jeff Listener. Jeff has written in Gift or a Curse Luxurious reclining movie theater seats. 00:57:48 Speaker 3: Curse, where are you gonna put it? 00:57:50 Speaker 2: Oh? 00:57:50 Speaker 3: You don't mean in your house? 00:57:51 Speaker 2: You I believe these are in a movie theater. 00:57:53 Speaker 3: Okay, great, well, right, at first of all, I was right about that verst one trigger response a curse? Where are you gonna put it? Okay, so they put it in a movie theater. Right here. Here's the thing I beg Your little sneaky answer is gonna be cursed because you're like, then it's noise, then you're falling asleep. But I'm gonna tell you this. I think it's a gift because there's nothing funnier than pain to go out so you can feel at home. And I think, for comedy's sake, that's a gift. What were you gonna say? 00:58:24 Speaker 2: Now it's a curse. I don't need any more encouragement to fall asleep in a movie theater. Oh yeah, I could be in a metal reclining chair in a movie theater and I'm out within the first ten minutes. To be at home, I can't have that. I can't have you encouraging me. I need to be completely sitting up. 00:58:41 Speaker 3: Ohne, you were gonna pull a stunt like this three curses in a row. Yeah, no, wonder why your house is full of demons. 00:58:47 Speaker 2: I'm I'm begging Satan. Come to me. 00:58:50 Speaker 3: You've got the one. He's probably in all your places you've ever. 00:58:53 Speaker 2: Liked dark Lord take me. Yeah, that's the theme of this podcast. 00:58:57 Speaker 3: You don't have to cleanse you. She doesn't even need to come in that. I need to get you a necklace. Now it has to be on your person. This is I'm just I have one and I love it. 00:59:10 Speaker 2: How often are you wearing just weddings? 00:59:12 Speaker 3: Nope, because it's it's a little one. It was my grandmother's all the people that passed away because I'm an Arab valuable Yeah, I'm Syrian. So she was from Syria. So all these came straight out of Syria. All these evil lies came straight out of Syria. And traditionally it's something you would want gifted to you because it's somebody showing you that they are watching over their loved ones, and it brings to give it to someone. So she passed me. She was one of the ones in that three month span that passed away, and my mom was like, has all this Astralia of hers? And She's like do you want this? And I was like, yes, I do. Give me all the evil eyes, so I took them off, so my house is covered on them. 00:59:46 Speaker 2: But when do you choose to wear the evil evil? 00:59:48 Speaker 3: Oh? Yes, that's right, that's what you asked. My apologies, I wear it. I don't wear it to shows because I don't like when a necklace moves on stage and I'm. 00:59:56 Speaker 2: Very active on stage. 00:59:57 Speaker 3: But I actually wear it quite frequently whenever I have a lo cut shirt because you right, it's yeah exactly, so when I wear and I wear low cut shirts often. So say if I went out three times in one week, I'll wear it once. If I go out three times, yeah, it's not bad. 01:00:14 Speaker 2: But if I were to wear it, I'd have to start wearing some more plunging neck clients. 01:00:18 Speaker 3: For you, it just has to be on your skin like a vampire, like, uh, just burn my face. Yeah that's how bad it's gone. Just brand Okay, can't wait. Can I do one round of gift or curse with you? 01:00:31 Speaker 2: Oh? Yeah, of course. I would love to have the tables turned. Okay, and just for the record, you got thirty three percent. 01:00:38 Speaker 3: Don't not good? 01:00:39 Speaker 2: Not great? But if we've already committed to three other appearances with you on this podcast, and the final one I'll be dead, So get to do whatever you want. 01:00:46 Speaker 3: Oh my god, I can't wait. That's the gift? Is you dying a curt sorry, gift for me in my podcast career? Okay, gift your curse? Now, I am if I had brought the Evil Eye? Do you think it's a gift or a curse? 01:01:04 Speaker 2: The fact that you brought it or the fact that it would. 01:01:05 Speaker 3: Be in my home, well you have to answer. I don't give you more. 01:01:10 Speaker 2: Okay, gift. 01:01:11 Speaker 3: Interesting. 01:01:12 Speaker 2: I would have opened it and been initially been like, oh if this looks familiar, I don't know what it is, but I've seen this before, so I would have been immediately mystified, okay, And then we would have been able to talk as we have about all these curses, and I wouldn't have to live in fear until I actually it actually comes in my home. And now, until that thing enters my home, I'm living with the evil curses and I have to finish this puzzle before it comes to me. 01:01:38 Speaker 3: Okay. So yeah, first of all, you do so. 01:01:41 Speaker 2: Gift, that's my interesting? 01:01:43 Speaker 3: I think a curse? Oh, wow, for you specifically, here's why, because you have to live without it. Like if I had brought it today, maybe you see it as a gift. I still see it as a curse for you specifically because now you know you have all this evil presence round and how are you going to sleep that night? If I hadn't mentioned it, you wouldn't have known. Very true, it's a gift. It's a gift and it will protect you. And even though you're waiting for it, you know it's coming. And now you know a friend of yours, which I think we're friends, yeah, but we have we have to see after the evil. But you would know someone is thinking of you and to enough to the point where they feel they need to protect you in your home. 01:02:36 Speaker 2: Oh what a lovely feeling. 01:02:37 Speaker 3: So it is a gift because I I had it and I was debating between the two. So there was a part of me that's like, oh, maybe to protect them, But then I was like, well, I don't know you that well, I don't know your backstory, and now here we are, My god, you need more than anyone I've ever met, right, you know, because of your house, because what's happened, not you, but your house. 01:02:53 Speaker 2: The logic is very clear here. 01:02:54 Speaker 3: Yes, so it's a curse for me. Now I messed up? Right? 01:02:58 Speaker 2: And now are we doing three suggestions of just one gift? 01:03:02 Speaker 3: I just wanted to know about what you. 01:03:05 Speaker 1: Don't? 01:03:06 Speaker 3: Uh? 01:03:07 Speaker 2: What is the phrase? If you come for the King, you'll see him, don't miss, don't miss. 01:03:12 Speaker 3: If you come for the King, he'll be there. He waiting for you, waiting for you, politely, he is you. 01:03:19 Speaker 1: Doc. 01:03:21 Speaker 2: Okay, badly played, but what a great time we have to This is a final segment. 01:03:26 Speaker 3: Of the podcast Bummer. 01:03:28 Speaker 2: It's called I said no emails. People write in to I said no gifts at gmail dot com. Can you hear the kids at the school screaming? 01:03:35 Speaker 3: School started? This is insane. 01:03:37 Speaker 2: I guess it started. It's earlier and earlier. This is not a pro education podcast. This is very anti education, but we can't get into that right now. People write into I said no gifts at gmail dot com with questions galore. Will help me answer a question I'd love to. Okay, let's see get into the doc and scrolling putting this down. Okay, this says dear Bridger and charming defiant guest. That's a nice way to put it to say I am desperate and hopeless is putting it mildly. I am planning a party to celebrate me capital me xclam exclamation point, specifically my ten years of sobriety. A kind friend put together a lovely invitation for me to share with invitees, and to my surprise, she clearly stated on the invitation no gifts, trusting her judgment over mine. The invitations went out unedited paragraph break, new paragraph. The problem is that I do indeed want gifts. New paragraph. I am a single gay man, and we've said on this podcast before no gay listeners, please stay away from the podcast. We don't need you writing in saga this. 01:04:44 Speaker 3: See of the fans. 01:04:48 Speaker 2: I am a single gay man with no engagement parties or baby showers on the horizon. This could be my last chance to get gifts. I suppose I can think of no more qualified people than you and your guests to help me get what I want. How do I maintain a humble appearance and still point guests towards my Amazon registry? Please see invitation for reference, and know that you and a disrespectful plus one are most welcome to celebrate me. 01:05:13 Speaker 3: Bring a dip. 01:05:13 Speaker 2: Okay, well, very respectfully, Shawn and Seattle Sean will see what happens. I mean, I don't know what dip I would bring. 01:05:20 Speaker 3: I'm not coming to your fricking party? Are you nuts? I'm not going there? Good luck celebrating with no one? Oh my god, this is a mess. This is a huge mess, amassive mess. Can I say all the reasons why I would love to hear so? The idea of no gifts on the invitem? Hm, I wouldn't have even if that inby went out without that on there, I wouldn't have even thought to bring a gift? Do I bring? 01:05:49 Speaker 2: Right? 01:05:50 Speaker 3: Empty beer? What do I bring as a joke? Like? Do I bring a gag gift? Right? What's the sense of humor around the subject. A lot of my sober friends have a very good sense of humor around the subject, because, you know, they know was the illness they were struggling. They're better now, they're and they can laugh at themselves and some stuff, not laugh because they were like that was pretty shitty of me. But they're able to like. And these are all comedians I happen to be talking about anyways, so they were already funny yes, and it's big in our industry of oh, too much and then nothing because you because it was too much. And we live in a drug and alcohol infused industry. 01:06:27 Speaker 2: I'm on drugs right now. 01:06:28 Speaker 3: Perfect, So I'm on drugs. That's why I got lost for the easiest drive for four turns into eight. So the idea of gifts as an attendee stresses me out, and then seeing no gifts makes me feel insecure and bad because I'm like, was I supposed to bring your gift? I think they're gonna get gifts. I do. Here's why. When someone says no gifts, everyone knows that means gifts. Nobody follows that anymore. Somebody says no gifts, does anyone follow that me? Here's the thing. I at least bring a card. 01:07:06 Speaker 2: A card that is a gift. You went out of your way. 01:07:10 Speaker 3: But if it was someone's birthday, I do give a gift of like let me take. 01:07:14 Speaker 2: You to lunch. 01:07:15 Speaker 3: Oh sure, so that's a gift. Just I'm not physically bringing right. So this is why I actually think they might get gifts. It just might not look the way you think it would. Like on a registry right now, if you do want people in that registry. It's up to your friend. Your friend has to follow up with everyone, going, Hey, I know we said no gifts, but I put together a registry, and I think it would be really nice if we got some stuff off. That's very subtle. I mean I put together a registry, right. 01:07:50 Speaker 2: I mean Another tactic he could take is he replies all to this email, thanks everyone for coming. He drops the registry thing just in the bottom, sends it up, waits five minutes, now responds again. Oh my god, this is so embarrassing. I didn't mean to put the link to my Amazon gift registry in the email. Don't even look, don't even spend a second on it. I'm so sorry. My heart is breaking. 01:08:15 Speaker 3: Like you're gonna need a novelist to write all these emails. This is the most work I have ever heard. First of all, my idea was simple, make the friend tow it. 01:08:25 Speaker 4: This poor person's all pretty struggling for ten years, working so hard to get their life together, and now you want this guy to draft on hundred emails. 01:08:36 Speaker 2: Well, because well, let's say ultimately three emails, because he doesn't need to write one third just to entice and say please don't look. Everything on there is so embarrassing. I wouldn't want you to see any of it. I'm humiliated. Now they're tempted, they're looking, they're buying, they're bringing. That feels like a good plan to me. 01:08:52 Speaker 3: Here's another thing the friend could do. I think it has to be the friend because or oh my god, I've got it. This person the party. The party person writes everybody going hi. I know on the event I said no gifts. It was brought to my attention that it was kind of rude of me to tell people what to do. Oh you, So my friend has helped me put together registry because I know everybody celebrates in different ways. Should you want to get a gift, here you go. It's no pressure. I didn't realize I was rude, Like make a joke of it, right, right, but then put it in because some people do like giving gifts, that's their love language. 01:09:29 Speaker 2: Of course, people love to do it. Some people energize, you know what I mean. 01:09:32 Speaker 3: It's like, I love the gift of time. I think that's the most precious thing you can give somebody. So that's why I won't buy you a gift. I'm always the let me take it to get your nails. 01:09:41 Speaker 2: Let's go to spend some time to get Yeah, let's. 01:09:44 Speaker 3: Spend some time together. That to me is a gift, right, But some people like the physical gift. 01:09:48 Speaker 2: I love to buy a mink. 01:09:50 Speaker 3: It's easier for a mink coat, but of course for the sobriety. But that's what I think it can Either yes, they can email themselves, but you're right, there needs to be a joke in there. You gotta gotta have a joke because otherwise it's a blatant ass and we can't do that. 01:10:08 Speaker 2: Or you play some mind games. 01:10:10 Speaker 3: You play some mind game. 01:10:11 Speaker 2: I've laid out a perfect plan for some mind games that you met three email Monty. I guess that's what it would be called. Yeah. Perfect, And either way, gifts are gonna be flowing in. 01:10:21 Speaker 3: Okay, here's another one. Is this insane. Give wrap a bunch of empty boxes, put a table at the party and put the gifts. 01:10:30 Speaker 2: That is so smart. 01:10:31 Speaker 3: Then people will see that, put on a QR code to the registry of Amazon, print it out, frame it in a little thing and just don't mention it and they can be like, I know, I said, no gifts, but people brought them anyways. 01:10:42 Speaker 2: Look at all then. 01:10:44 Speaker 3: Who's not going to be fooled by that the first attendee at the party, because they will know no one brought those gifts. So you got to wait to least five to seven people are there. 01:10:56 Speaker 2: Yeah, that becomes a little tricky. There are some question you. 01:10:58 Speaker 3: Could have ever read. I am having the time of my life. 01:11:02 Speaker 2: I think that third idea. That idea is genius. I mean it requires a few gymnastics, but once you get into. 01:11:08 Speaker 3: It, well, this point, you're spending money to make money. 01:11:10 Speaker 2: You are spending money, but it's a small investments. If you're gonna do it, then you load up that registry you put every every wish had. 01:11:19 Speaker 3: No I just thought of this. What if someone's like, let's open the gifts. 01:11:24 Speaker 2: Well, this is what happens to get it out at the bottom. 01:11:27 Speaker 3: Someone and then fires immdi. 01:11:32 Speaker 2: This is not a dead end by any means. You start opening them and say this was supposed to be a big night for me and somebody played this prank. 01:11:39 Speaker 3: Oh my god, so you don't know pen anymore perfect. 01:11:41 Speaker 2: You start crying. Everyone feels bad for you. Look, he thought he got all these gifts and he's devastated gifts. 01:11:48 Speaker 3: This is great, This is all good, all workable material. 01:11:51 Speaker 2: There's an ocean. The fact that he even wrote in is ridiculous. 01:11:55 Speaker 3: This person thought it was a problem is madness to me. And just keep in mind a problem you created, a problem. Absolutely the invitation unemited, unedited from your own PHONEZ you gotta you gotta reapprove you that g Yeah. 01:12:11 Speaker 2: Take the invitation just to even see what font they use. 01:12:15 Speaker 3: And also congrats on ten years. 01:12:17 Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm so excited for I mean. 01:12:18 Speaker 3: This, you know you and I talking about this question is for sure gonna drive them and to drink again. But that's okay. We came We came in hard. 01:12:28 Speaker 2: The listeners are all just they're out of their minds at this point. 01:12:31 Speaker 3: No, great, great question. Thank you for writing and really loved getting into the bow. 01:12:35 Speaker 2: Sean and Seattle, enjoy your gifts. Enjoy the bountiful, the mountain of gifts you will receive. Well we I mean, what a team we made for that right, perfect, absolutely perfect, And Sean couldn't have asked for more if he did, that's a that's his problem. I'm deleting it from the doc so we don't double up. 01:12:56 Speaker 3: Sick of solving this. 01:12:57 Speaker 2: Guys, We're always there for him and I'm so think of it. 01:13:01 Speaker 3: Have you ever left sea outle a couple? See me bring me a dip? You want me to sit here, fly with a dip on my lap through security? Come on, sitting here with my home most ready to go? 01:13:13 Speaker 2: Do you think you could bring a dip through security or. 01:13:16 Speaker 3: Because let me tell you this, my sister tried to bring homos and they threw it out. 01:13:19 Speaker 2: They thought it was a liquid. 01:13:21 Speaker 3: Yes, they said nope, because the consistency and they threw it out. Now. I don't know if they would do that for everybody, but it has been done. That's all A wow, it has. 01:13:28 Speaker 2: I tend to think you should be able to take a dip. 01:13:31 Speaker 3: But keep in mind three ounce container. Oh that's where your liquids are. How are you going to bring a whole dip? Interesting? And for a party we're talking at costco dip. 01:13:39 Speaker 1: You know who? 01:13:40 Speaker 3: We need your dad to accidentally dips massive, massive amount of dip. Your dad will send a couple of garbage bags and there a. 01:13:52 Speaker 2: Garbage bag full of dip. 01:13:54 Speaker 3: Yeah, just the one. Don't tell me we're at the end. 01:14:00 Speaker 2: You I heard. 01:14:00 Speaker 3: I can't believe this size would go for it. I could go on all day. 01:14:04 Speaker 2: Look you in the eye and said I would go another two hours. 01:14:06 Speaker 3: That's insane. Guess it's can it take me that long to get home? This is gonna take my old day. 01:14:15 Speaker 2: Look very rarely there's a guest where I look at I think, oh, we've been going for an hour and a half. And I look at my timer and it says eight minutes. This has not been one of those experiences. And I got a gift that is beautiful. I can't wait to get into this post. 01:14:29 Speaker 3: You got part one of a gift. 01:14:30 Speaker 2: Yeah, part one must we forget. 01:14:32 Speaker 3: Once this is done, you will get part And I'm not talking around. 01:14:34 Speaker 1: I want. 01:14:35 Speaker 3: I'm going to give you my number so we don't have to do email. You can direct text me the photo. When it's done, I'll be back. 01:14:40 Speaker 2: I can't wait. I'm so thrilled to thank you for being here. This is delightful. 01:14:43 Speaker 3: Thank you for having me, and thank you for all your hard. 01:14:45 Speaker 2: Work on lease on Aalas puts in the work. 01:14:48 Speaker 3: Oh yeah, I didn't say your name, so how would anyone know I was talking to you? 01:14:52 Speaker 2: I just turned this sounded like you were be very sincere again to me. 01:14:57 Speaker 3: Yeah, it's just so lovely to you. Just forgot. 01:15:03 Speaker 2: What a treat uh listener, you can tell the podcast is over and you're screaming for it to keep going. But I've got to put an end to this. We've got to have boundaries between you and me, So I'm ending the podcast. I love you, goodbye, I said, No Gifts is an exactly right production. It's produced by our dear friend Annalise Nilson, and it's beautifully mixed by Ben Holliday. And we couldn't do it without our guest booker, Patrick Kottner. The theme song, of course, could only come from miracle worker Amy Mann. You must follow the show on Instagram at I said no Gifts, I don't want to hear any excuses. That's where you get to see pictures of all these gorgeous gifts I'm getting. And don't you want to see pictures of the gifts? 01:15:50 Speaker 1: Line? Why did you hear? Funa man? Myself perfectly clear, But you're I guess in my home. You gotta come to me empty And I said, no, guest, your own presence is presents enough. I already had too much stuff, So how do you dare to surbey me?