Speaker 1: Are you leave in I you wanna way back home?
Speaker 2: Either way, we want to be there.
Speaker 3: Doesn't matter how much baggage you claim and give us
Speaker 3: time and a terminol and gay a. We want to
Speaker 3: send you off InStyle. We want to welcome you back home.
Speaker 3: Tell us all about it.
Speaker 1: We scared her?
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Speaker 3: Do you need to ride?
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Speaker 1: Do you need with Karen and Chris welcome to Do
Speaker 1: you need to ride? This is Chris Fairbanks.
Speaker 2: This is Karen Kilgariff.
Speaker 4: I don't know why I say uh before my own name.
Speaker 4: It's as if I have to think about it for
Speaker 4: a second.
Speaker 2: But I feel like you've done it every time that way.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't like us in speech in general. Oh,
Speaker 4: but for some reason I throw one in right before
Speaker 4: my name.
Speaker 5: Well it sounds thoughtful and it gives you a little
Speaker 5: bit of a Tom Broka feel. Yeah, almost like a drawl.
Speaker 5: You're very serious when you introduce this podcast.
Speaker 1: A lot of what.
Speaker 4: I do is an attempt to sound like a classic broadcaster.
Speaker 1: And so I'm glad you brought up broka.
Speaker 5: I mean, your father's influence is everywhere on this podcast,
Speaker 5: is surrounding us and in your life.
Speaker 1: Yeah, is it going in all seriousness?
Speaker 2: Yes, great stopping sarcastic because it's true.
Speaker 4: Yeah, No, I'm being very serious right now. Care my
Speaker 4: father's influence looms over me.
Speaker 2: It's too bad you're being so serious because you have
Speaker 2: ed girl and Poe hair. So it's hard.
Speaker 4: That was going to be my Halloween costume. I did
Speaker 4: not participate this year, and it felt weird. Halloween used
Speaker 4: to be a big part of my life. Making costumes
Speaker 4: was a big part of my life.
Speaker 5: I'll come back this year. The whole thing's awash that
Speaker 5: we're throwing entire year out. It doesn't count. It's not
Speaker 5: going to set any any patterns for the future, right.
Speaker 4: I think everyone understands that I did put on some
Speaker 4: skeleton gloves, these woven gloves that have skeleton print on them,
Speaker 4: but they're also my gardening gloves. And I rubbed my
Speaker 4: eye and got dirt in my eye, and that kind
Speaker 4: that's how my Halloween ended, with dirt in my eye.
Speaker 2: Okay, have a sad story.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's kind of sad.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it has a lot of potential in the beginning,
Speaker 4: you think this story is going to end well, and then.
Speaker 5: It kill it and gloves. I mean, Jesus, what more
Speaker 5: could you ask for? Like, I'm like, yes, here we go,
Speaker 5: finally the story we're looking for, and.
Speaker 1: Then dirt in the eye and the end.
Speaker 5: Polachi, Okay, should we introduce our guests since he's just
Speaker 5: sitting here listening to us talk to each other.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's hard to pretend.
Speaker 4: We used to pretend over audio that they weren't in
Speaker 4: the car at the beginning.
Speaker 1: But Ridgard's sitting right next to you.
Speaker 2: He's he's like he's haunting me, like a ghost. He's
Speaker 2: right next to me.
Speaker 1: I've always his influence, and his influence is always right.
Speaker 5: Bridger is to my life as your father is to yours.
Speaker 5: They're exact parallel influences.
Speaker 1: Now, can't Bridgard let's give him a proper introductions please.
Speaker 2: You know him from the I Said No Gifts podcast.
Speaker 5: You know him from his work on many a television show,
Speaker 5: including Chris you take this part.
Speaker 4: Including he wrote on a show that I believe I
Speaker 4: was subsequently cut out of. I can't remember what it
Speaker 4: was called normal people parenting parent What was it?
Speaker 6: Called you can jump in Single Parents, but you were also.
Speaker 4: Wrote on single Parents. There was a cold open scene.
Speaker 4: It was a long it was like a scene from
Speaker 4: Children of Men.
Speaker 2: It was like a fifteen minute.
Speaker 1: Yeah, ending with me breaking up with a woman.
Speaker 4: I understand for technical reasons, Am I right, printer, That's
Speaker 4: why it was cut out.
Speaker 6: But I don't remember it much about it. So you know,
Speaker 6: in my mind you're in the episode, and that's true.
Speaker 6: Really the only thing that matters with television.
Speaker 4: I got any email that said sadly and you were
Speaker 4: cut from this episode, and I'm like, I was unaffected.
Speaker 1: By it emotionally five days later, but it was kind
Speaker 1: of cool to get, uh, what was probably my last
Speaker 1: television acting job, and you were just there. You just
Speaker 1: happened to be there.
Speaker 6: Well, I was there, and I you know, I put
Speaker 6: bugs in people's ears. I thought, you know, I saw
Speaker 6: that Chris Fairbanks was auditioning for this thing, and so I,
Speaker 6: you know, I got my fingers in the pot and
Speaker 6: I got you.
Speaker 1: A issue, did you?
Speaker 6: Oh?
Speaker 1: I did not know that.
Speaker 6: It's very subtle about it. I didn't act like we
Speaker 6: knew each other.
Speaker 1: I just you, God, damn sweetheart.
Speaker 6: That's the guy, we need to hang Thank.
Speaker 1: You, friend. I didn't know that.
Speaker 6: That makes me feel I'm your guardian angel.
Speaker 2: See, he influences everyone's life, not just mine.
Speaker 1: You're constantly hovering at the foot of my bed.
Speaker 6: Of course, of course, it's just ready to deliver a vision.
Speaker 6: And so I you know, in these situations, you don't
Speaker 6: want people to know that. You don't want the nepotism
Speaker 6: or whatever happening. So I underplated. I said, oh, that's
Speaker 6: a good audition, that's a good piece of tape. And
Speaker 6: suddenly you and I are in a grocery store in
Speaker 6: where were we, Culver City at six A.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's a somewhat familiar grocery store, right.
Speaker 6: I think it was like a one of those shopping
Speaker 6: dot com grocery stores or whatever they're called.
Speaker 4: I used to go in there across the street was
Speaker 4: my physical therapy place after I got rear ended, and
Speaker 4: so I would go in there. I would limp in there,
Speaker 4: so I was familiar with the place. I felt comfortable there. Clearly,
Speaker 4: I think you made comments that I seemed comfortable on camera.
Speaker 6: Well, I was founding at the rest of the crew
Speaker 6: trying to get the perfect shot.
Speaker 2: Now is it true?
Speaker 5: And Chris, you can attest that Bridger's just a complete,
Speaker 5: just a monster on set.
Speaker 2: Just yeah here.
Speaker 4: First I just thought he was being quiet and thoughtful,
Speaker 4: and then someone brought him the wrong coffee and he
Speaker 4: slapped it into their face.
Speaker 1: The cat flew off, they got first or a burns,
Speaker 1: and I thought Bridger has an edge and I like it.
Speaker 5: I like that on This guy's going somewhere in Hollywood.
Speaker 5: This abuse will stand, it will get him everywhere.
Speaker 4: Usually you only get abuse from the first ad like
Speaker 4: we gotta do this people and they're yelling Richard does
Speaker 4: it as a writer.
Speaker 2: Yeah of course, Yeah, of course.
Speaker 6: That's how I've made my name and that's why I'm
Speaker 6: going places. So, Karen, have you been in one of
Speaker 6: these What is the place? It's like shopping dot com
Speaker 6: or shopping car but it just happens, or it's yummy
Speaker 6: dot com or some yummy so it's not.
Speaker 2: Oh so, let's it's like pink dot where's delivery based?
Speaker 6: Yes, I think it started earlier than all these other things.
Speaker 5: Okay, yummy dot Com they're just yummy.
Speaker 2: Yeah. No, I can't go there because of the man.
Speaker 5: Oh come, I can't hold a bag that says yummy
Speaker 5: on it.
Speaker 4: It is people talk about the word moist, they talk
Speaker 4: about the word panties. Of course yummy should be at
Speaker 4: the top of the list for words that should not.
Speaker 2: For pur words.
Speaker 6: Yes, yummy and cuddle.
Speaker 2: Both of those words cuddles pretty gross.
Speaker 6: Send them into space.
Speaker 4: And then if you whispered, sorry you whispered yummy, well.
Speaker 1: Cuddling, sorry that I had to get that out. Just trifecta.
Speaker 5: And can I just add the physical The physical equivalent,
Speaker 5: which is a guy putting his head on a girl's
Speaker 5: shoulder literally has sent me out of rooms before where
Speaker 5: I was just like.
Speaker 2: You know, I can't withstand this.
Speaker 1: It's funny.
Speaker 4: I've never noticed how much I hate that and I
Speaker 4: just visualized it and man.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm in that club.
Speaker 5: It makes me feel like Anna Swan, the giantess of
Speaker 5: Nova Scotia.
Speaker 2: I hate it so much. I hate it so much.
Speaker 4: Oh boy, what are you doing now, Bridge? Or are
Speaker 4: you just like other people wondering where the work is happening?
Speaker 1: Or are you working?
Speaker 6: You just started a job last week, Thank god it
Speaker 6: I thought that I was going to be wrapping up
Speaker 6: the year with no job, but I'm back on the
Speaker 6: show called Black Monday that I worked on the second season.
Speaker 6: We're doing the third season.
Speaker 1: Now, Blacks Monday. It's great.
Speaker 6: Yeah, it's a wonderful group of people, so it's it's
Speaker 6: nice to be treated like a human being.
Speaker 2: Is Janelle James back on that too?
Speaker 6: James is back, Yes, Leicester. I mean, we've got a
Speaker 6: lot of wonderful people here.
Speaker 4: Ya.
Speaker 1: Sir is a real sweet person, right.
Speaker 2: Angel, Yes, yeah, and such a good actor truly, we've.
Speaker 6: All worked with him. Yeah, I know him on some degree.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Do you think Bridger and I want to make this
Speaker 4: about me? But I should I take my first ever
Speaker 4: acting class? Oh maybe I should take an acting class.
Speaker 4: If I want to do acting things and be an
Speaker 4: active person, that should probably get training.
Speaker 6: Well, let me ask you, do you want to learn
Speaker 6: to act or do you want to fill your time?
Speaker 6: Because ah, yeah.
Speaker 4: Sailor yes, I do not care for the latter. I
Speaker 4: have plenty of things to fill my time. You've talked
Speaker 4: me out of acting classes.
Speaker 5: But hold on because I think acting class in the
Speaker 5: time of COVID could be very interesting. The thing that
Speaker 5: used to drive me insane because I, of course was
Speaker 5: a theater major and am of the theater, and the
Speaker 5: worst part about it is like being in the room
Speaker 5: with the people who have no shame and are there
Speaker 5: because they don't know the difference between negative and positive attention,
Speaker 5: and so it's just eyes on me.
Speaker 2: Please, I beg you.
Speaker 5: But if it's COVID, I feel like you would get
Speaker 5: much more information without all the distraction of say the
Speaker 5: girl that's lifting her knee up to her ear, or
Speaker 5: a guy that just has a big leather jacket on.
Speaker 2: That you can't stop staring at, you know what I mean.
Speaker 5: I feel like nowadays you might just get that acting
Speaker 5: those acting tips right into your Brain's.
Speaker 6: True, It's very true. And I mean, I guess the
Speaker 6: one thing that I think would be missing is I
Speaker 6: have terrible stage bright and I feel like an acting
Speaker 6: class for me would be just about diminishing the stage
Speaker 6: right and being in front of a computer screen. What's
Speaker 6: going to happen right?
Speaker 2: Well, you could get covered.
Speaker 4: It's funny what I don't. I don't get actual stage.
Speaker 4: I only feel comfortable on a stage with people.
Speaker 6: You're that's so anyplace you're comfortable.
Speaker 2: Everywhere else he's miserable.
Speaker 4: The thing that, yeah, oh man, I'm a real sad
Speaker 4: sack in most situations.
Speaker 2: Especially at Yummy dot com yday, when.
Speaker 4: There before a show, like I'm at a club somewhere
Speaker 4: and they're like, oh, the guy that usually does the
Speaker 4: announcements isn't here. Do you mind announcing the show before
Speaker 4: you know they won't know you're the headliner? Can you
Speaker 4: just say, hey, everyone, thanks for coming out here tonight's
Speaker 4: MC and I will break into a sweat. Nothing makes
Speaker 4: me more nervous then speaking into a mic hidden in
Speaker 4: the darkness to an audience if they can't see me,
Speaker 4: you know what I mean.
Speaker 6: No, that's just I applied for a job at a
Speaker 6: bank when I was about eighteen inside of a grocery
Speaker 6: store and the interview part of the interview process was
Speaker 6: they put you on the phone that went over the
Speaker 6: grocery store PA, and you had to make an announcement
Speaker 6: about banking. And I that's why I didn't get the job.
Speaker 6: I absolutely collapsed from the manager and so so I
Speaker 6: understand that feeling.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I just I'm not a good announcement baker.
Speaker 5: I would feel like that level of the interview would
Speaker 5: be callbacks, not like the first interview. You get right
Speaker 5: on the horn and they just let you start talking
Speaker 5: to the entire store.
Speaker 2: That seems to give you.
Speaker 6: Some heads up at the very least. Just know that
Speaker 6: when you're here, you'll be performing over the PA, announcing
Speaker 6: mortgage specials or whatever.
Speaker 5: And you guys have seen the sorry to do this,
Speaker 5: but you've seen the tick talk video of the guy
Speaker 5: that it's there in Costco.
Speaker 2: And he walks up.
Speaker 5: He walks up and picks up one of the phones
Speaker 5: that is the public address system and farts into it.
Speaker 1: He didn't say that.
Speaker 4: And the employee, there's an employee there that laughs harder
Speaker 4: than anyone.
Speaker 1: That's what makes the video great. It's just like, this
Speaker 1: is my my buddy.
Speaker 4: It's bring your buddy to work day, and I'm gonna
Speaker 4: let him fart the PA.
Speaker 5: Let's have a good time. This is it's so pre COVID.
Speaker 5: It's like just fart around and have a good time
Speaker 5: and laugh and spin yeah, spitting farting.
Speaker 2: So Bridger, when you work on.
Speaker 5: You don't have to give us details about block Monday,
Speaker 5: because I'm sure you're under a lot of contracting that
Speaker 5: says keep your mouth.
Speaker 1: Shut, keep your mouth shut.
Speaker 5: But so basically, to be in a writer's room, these
Speaker 5: days is being like we are now on a Zoom
Speaker 5: call for literally six.
Speaker 6: Hours, not for six hours. Yet it's a Fortunately our
Speaker 6: bosses understand how exhausting this can be. Yeah, you know
Speaker 6: we're looking at like four hour workdays. But it's very concentrated.
Speaker 6: That's why there's no screwing around. It's just you have
Speaker 6: to be paying attention the entire time, which for me
Speaker 6: is which I think probably for anyone is very difficult
Speaker 6: to do. And then there's also twelve people talking, so
Speaker 6: you're it's a it's a new rhythm that I'm getting
Speaker 6: used to.
Speaker 2: Yeah, sure, yeah. Do you ever raise your hand?
Speaker 1: You realize our hands?
Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean I feel like that's the I mean,
Speaker 6: Zoom should have like a hand raising.
Speaker 2: Feature or something yeah, or a buzz yeah.
Speaker 6: Your boxes are glowing when you have something to say
Speaker 6: or yeah.
Speaker 1: I like the idea of a loud buzz, high pitched
Speaker 1: buzzer every.
Speaker 5: Time, like on tic Tac dough when the maybe like
Speaker 5: when the dragon would come up on Tictac dough, there's
Speaker 5: a dragon sound when you want to share your idea.
Speaker 1: Tell me more about check dough. Okay, deer a female deer.
Speaker 2: No as in dough as in money.
Speaker 5: So it was a game show from the eighties that
Speaker 5: for some reason my family really loved and we'd watch it.
Speaker 2: When it was on.
Speaker 5: I believe it was syndicated, so I think it was
Speaker 5: on it like seven every night and Wink Martindale was
Speaker 5: the host. Oh classic, yeah and uh he Link Martindale
Speaker 5: was famous best friend with an R and B singer
Speaker 5: Now I can't remember who it is, and it's a
Speaker 5: really great combination. But anyway, he was a really cheesy
Speaker 5: classic game show host.
Speaker 2: Two people playing. You would answer trivia questions.
Speaker 5: That would come up on the board and then it
Speaker 5: would reveal an X or and O depending on like
Speaker 5: if you won and you were ex team, then you
Speaker 5: would get your ex there and if you got a
Speaker 5: three in a row in any way like tic tech Tow,
Speaker 5: then you would win some kind of money or there
Speaker 5: was another round I think, but you could get if
Speaker 5: you picked one the instead of a question coming up,
Speaker 5: it would just be a dragon in this really bad
Speaker 5: like eight bit kind of thing where.
Speaker 2: It'd be like ahrah and then you'd lose your money.
Speaker 6: I feel like with the name tic Tac Dough, it
Speaker 6: should have fend like an angry baker or something. Yes,
Speaker 6: the dragon does not make the theme at all.
Speaker 2: Well, maybe the dragon's protecting a cave of gold.
Speaker 4: Sure, often as they do, you know, That's why I
Speaker 4: immediately thought, I think it should have been an angry
Speaker 4: deer and it should have been tac dough.
Speaker 6: Yeah. I mean, there are at least two other options
Speaker 6: there that they could have easily gone for, and they
Speaker 6: went with a dragon. Maybe that was just I feel
Speaker 6: like there's like a warehouse of game show pieces that
Speaker 6: you just.
Speaker 2: Go and Yeah, they're like, who do you want?
Speaker 5: You can't have the Uh, you can't have the Whammy guy,
Speaker 5: he's taken.
Speaker 2: You can't have you know.
Speaker 6: But that technology. I mean, I feel like there are
Speaker 6: a lot of seventies and eighties game shows that that
Speaker 6: technology could be adapted to Zoom to make this software better. Yeah,
Speaker 6: got Hollywood Squares, you know all of these things? Yeah,
Speaker 6: some of these to improve Zoom.
Speaker 1: Yes, Yeah, that's a very good point.
Speaker 6: I don't know. I mean, everyone should have a buzzer.
Speaker 1: Hollywood Squares was the first Zoom.
Speaker 2: Right, it was.
Speaker 5: We should all have our full names in white lettering
Speaker 5: at the bottom of our squares.
Speaker 1: And we should always warpy Goldbarge in the middle for
Speaker 1: no reason.
Speaker 2: Warpy Goldberg should be there every show.
Speaker 4: There was a time that we were driving in San
Speaker 4: Francisco with a bunch of comics like uh, Margan Murphy
Speaker 4: and Mike for Biglia, and Henry Phillips was in the
Speaker 4: back of the car and he was very drunk.
Speaker 1: I think I probably was too.
Speaker 4: But we got in an argument about Whoopy Goldberg and
Speaker 4: I was like, I don't know, I've always liked her.
Speaker 1: He's like, yeah, what is she funny?
Speaker 4: And then we were at a light and he rolled
Speaker 4: down the window and had the other car at the
Speaker 4: red light roll down their window and he goes, hey,
Speaker 4: do you guys.
Speaker 1: Like Warpie gold Barge.
Speaker 4: That's just how it came out. And I forever Marky Goldbarge.
Speaker 1: It's my favorite. I can't not collar that.
Speaker 2: We got to get Henry Phillips back on the show.
Speaker 2: It's been so long.
Speaker 4: Yes, yes, it's been a long time since I've even
Speaker 4: seen him, and he's one of my best friends.
Speaker 1: It's so strange.
Speaker 2: Well, that's that's COVID. That's twenty five.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, it is.
Speaker 2: That's how it is these days.
Speaker 5: So Bridger, do you want to tell our listeners of
Speaker 5: do you need to ride about?
Speaker 2: I said, no gifts.
Speaker 5: Unless if there are people out there that are confused.
Speaker 5: I think we probably have a lot of crossover audience, but.
Speaker 6: There's a big crossover, I would hope. I think it's
Speaker 6: worth explaining.
Speaker 2: Okay, yes, walk us through.
Speaker 6: I said, no gifts. Would you both have been on
Speaker 6: at this point? Two beautiful gifts have been given to
Speaker 6: me by person Karen.
Speaker 2: Wait, sorry, what did Chris give you?
Speaker 6: Chris gave me a bottle of cologne, which Jim has
Speaker 6: been using to the point that I had to hide
Speaker 6: it because he sprays so much on himself.
Speaker 1: It's a good cologne. I looked it up.
Speaker 4: I didn't know it was supposed to be a joke gift,
Speaker 4: and then I looked it up and I was like, shit,
Speaker 4: look at the retail value.
Speaker 2: Where'd you get?
Speaker 1: Uh?
Speaker 4: My manager, Jess, I just had it. It was like
Speaker 4: in a separate bag. It was part It was given
Speaker 4: to her and I regifted and we talked, of course
Speaker 4: about regifting and gift giving and regiving of gifts that
Speaker 4: you've received. Yes on Christmas mainly, but yeah, I actually
Speaker 4: I smelled it and I liked it.
Speaker 6: This was very good. It's found a home where it
Speaker 6: has users. But I mean I've tried to tried to
Speaker 6: demonstrate to Jim it's my boyfriend, how the spray and
Speaker 6: walk through. Yes, it's not happening. It's for him. It's
Speaker 6: a direct spray on. I think this has something to
Speaker 6: do with bing.
Speaker 2: Italian Italian from New York State, right.
Speaker 6: Yeah, this is just like you've got to be doused
Speaker 6: in cologne.
Speaker 4: And it's also I've always found it wasteful. It is
Speaker 4: the way I do it. When and you spray it,
Speaker 4: half of it is just going on the ground.
Speaker 2: Right, that's for the best.
Speaker 6: You've got a nice smelling ground and a light scent.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm a real skin bracer like young, I just
Speaker 4: spray it in my hand and slap it on my face.
Speaker 6: I don't work too or like spray it directly onto
Speaker 6: the finger and you know, just a little here and there.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 6: But when you've got it just directly on your body
Speaker 6: and clothing, nobody wants to be around.
Speaker 5: That unless you're a smoker. And then it smells great.
Speaker 5: Then the combination of the two is like hello disco
Speaker 5: tech Friday night.
Speaker 2: Yeah, come on.
Speaker 1: His cigarettes and roses together.
Speaker 2: Please next s Twitter with no shirt on underneath, I'm
Speaker 2: ready to party.
Speaker 1: I missed the club scent.
Speaker 2: I do too.
Speaker 6: We hit the clubs every Friday night.
Speaker 2: Yeah, my open toe shoes.
Speaker 6: Car that blub Yeah.
Speaker 4: Now every time I go to my refrigerator, I have
Speaker 4: to call that bottle service.
Speaker 2: Oh.
Speaker 6: I mean there are just so many empty clubs across
Speaker 6: the world right now, just gathering dust.
Speaker 1: Those Yeah, I know.
Speaker 2: It's it's tragic, it's it's uh.
Speaker 5: It's hopefully some will survive because there's some show I
Speaker 5: was watching and there was some club scene. And of course,
Speaker 5: aside from comedy clubs and bars in the nineties, I've.
Speaker 2: Never been one to go to a club.
Speaker 5: In fact, I've had some horrible experiences, like in clubs
Speaker 5: and Sacramento when I was eighteen or whatever, where it's
Speaker 5: just like, oh my god, what am I doing to myself?
Speaker 2: So it's but I saw I saw one on a
Speaker 2: TV show.
Speaker 5: The other day and longed for it, like as if
Speaker 5: it was my favorite thing to do. Could you imagine
Speaker 5: walking into this high ceiling with this loud music is
Speaker 5: playing and everyone's dancing.
Speaker 2: It's just like, you.
Speaker 5: Mean, your total nightmare of like, no, now, it's the
Speaker 5: thing I want to do the most.
Speaker 6: I would get that right now. I can't even imagine.
Speaker 6: I mean, the most normal thing I've experienced recently was
Speaker 6: forgetting this microphone at home. And you don't forget anything
Speaker 6: at home anymore because you're just home all the time. Yeah,
Speaker 6: I had to turn around and get the microphone. It
Speaker 6: felt incredible.
Speaker 1: It's normal.
Speaker 2: Okay, wait, did you we interrupted? You trying to knock
Speaker 2: avoid the subject.
Speaker 6: I don't want to tell anybody about this.
Speaker 2: You better tell them. This audience needs to hear it.
Speaker 6: Okay, Yes, the podcast, I said no gifts, which you've
Speaker 6: both have been on. Yes, yes, es Aaron gave me
Speaker 6: a star. So basically the general conceit of the podcast
Speaker 6: is I beg I plead with my guests, don't bring
Speaker 6: me a gift every single time we've done I think
Speaker 6: thirty five or so at this point, I've received thirty
Speaker 6: five gifts, and it's a whole variety of things, from
Speaker 6: my bottle of cologne to a star named after me,
Speaker 6: to somebody gave me a grape tomato. So there's just
Speaker 6: a whole variety of rainbow of gifts. And we have
Speaker 6: a lot of fun. We have a nice time. You know,
Speaker 6: it's not not a loud podcast. I wouldn't say it's
Speaker 6: a loud podcast. That's by design. Oh.
Speaker 5: I thought it would be like morning radio knowing your personality.
Speaker 6: Oh, waiting for the horn to be delivered.
Speaker 5: Chris can come on and be your your morning radio
Speaker 5: code DJ.
Speaker 6: I would love to rude.
Speaker 1: That's right, we're coming to jam.
Speaker 6: That would rapping podcast where you just combine a more
Speaker 6: like NPR style host and a shot and then just
Speaker 6: let them go.
Speaker 2: Remember at the very beginning, we talked about we were
Speaker 2: going to do a drive time a podcast that was
Speaker 2: drivetime radio morning radio. Remember it was like the first episode.
Speaker 5: I think we talked about, yeah, getting like sound effects
Speaker 5: in and and just like talking over each other and
Speaker 5: talking about topical weird news stories and stuff that would.
Speaker 1: Be I gott Yeah, Yeah, I think that it's a
Speaker 1: great idea. We had a great idea. It's still a
Speaker 1: good idea.
Speaker 2: It's in the bank. We we we've got that one
Speaker 2: to rely on if we need it later.
Speaker 1: It's really joky.
Speaker 4: I think that you and I both like just being
Speaker 4: normal people talking as friends.
Speaker 2: That yeah, this is hard enough.
Speaker 5: I can't imagine how to go every fucking ten minutes
Speaker 5: the way those people seem to have to.
Speaker 4: Which which button is Homer Simpson saying some donuts again,
Speaker 4: it's so.
Speaker 1: Hard to keep track of these buttons.
Speaker 6: I feel like I have led this podcast down because
Speaker 6: on my before I set out to drive over here,
Speaker 6: I thought, you know, the podcast has been off the
Speaker 6: out of the car for a while. Maybe I can
Speaker 6: a little of this seeing the world to the podcast.
Speaker 6: Maybe I'll observe what I see on the way over.
Speaker 6: Every five minutes on my drive, I remembered, oh, I
Speaker 6: should be observing thing. Did not observe a single thing
Speaker 6: for you, outside of pulling into Karen's neighborhood and seeing
Speaker 6: a sign that said happy fall y'all. That's all I've got.
Speaker 1: And I kind of like that sign.
Speaker 2: You miss because you missed the South.
Speaker 4: When I moved to Austin and people were saying y'all,
Speaker 4: Like if you're in a restaurant the wait person to
Speaker 4: come over and say what can I get, y'all, and
Speaker 4: you'd be alone. They just say it to say it,
Speaker 4: and I'm like, you can, please never say y'all. It
Speaker 4: bothered me so much, and now that I don't live
Speaker 4: there anymore.
Speaker 1: I love y'all. Yeah, I love texting it. I love
Speaker 1: reading it. I don't say it as much as I
Speaker 1: as I type it.
Speaker 6: I love the word. It's very comforting. I like to
Speaker 6: say it. I would feel like a complete fraud if
Speaker 6: I started saying.
Speaker 2: Y'all, yeah, me too.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I think maybe that's why.
Speaker 5: We leave it to the side. We leave it to
Speaker 5: the autumn signs. Let them say yeah, we lead it
Speaker 5: in our minds.
Speaker 1: Happy fall y'all. I love it.
Speaker 2: It feels great, happy fall y'all.
Speaker 5: If I haven't said it to either of you, happy
Speaker 5: fall y'all. You know what's funny is it's almost like
Speaker 5: you and I are in a car.
Speaker 2: Let me go. I know it's actually a little bit more.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I'm like a like an old fifties movie here.
Speaker 4: Yeah. When Karen and I were talking about ever doing
Speaker 4: live podcasting, it reminded me of this I performance I
Speaker 4: did in eighth grade of Little Old Lady from Pasadena.
Speaker 4: I think it's a Beach Boys song, or it's a
Speaker 4: band that sounds a lot like the Beach Boys, and
Speaker 4: I made a cardboard side profile of a car and
Speaker 4: sang it from the car we would have to do
Speaker 4: something like that, and I think Karen was right to say, no,
Speaker 4: that is something we will never do.
Speaker 5: Yeah for our live show. So we come out in
Speaker 5: a cardboard car. No, I just immediately Chris's idea.
Speaker 4: No. I immediately, I was like, I understand, I understand
Speaker 4: why you're saying that.
Speaker 6: Not when we know people could drive a car through
Speaker 6: the side of an auditorium. That's just you know, you
Speaker 6: see this in the news all the time. Car crashes through.
Speaker 2: An auditor it happens constantly.
Speaker 6: I mean, that would be the live show Karen and
Speaker 6: Chris just for being through the side of a theater.
Speaker 4: That's right, Or actually, in all seriousness, that would be
Speaker 4: if there was a car on stage. That was a
Speaker 4: frank we did when I was because I'm from the
Speaker 4: theater too. I don't know if you know that, Karen
Speaker 4: or I was. That's being at Jason. I didn't put
Speaker 4: enough hours in, but I was in place with the
Speaker 4: Thespians and on this guy, Matt. It was his birthday
Speaker 4: and we carried his tiny little show nine fourteen, the
Speaker 4: Ugly Little Poor Show, which was liftable by just five people.
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 4: We carried it from the parking lot and put it
Speaker 4: on the Sentinel High School stage as a prank. And
Speaker 4: then he came in the r and his car was
Speaker 4: on stage. I guess that was the entire prank.
Speaker 6: To me, that's not a prank, that's an inconvenience.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it really was for him and for us, And
Speaker 4: I don't know that I think that the look on
Speaker 4: his face it was like we all knew it wasn't
Speaker 4: worth all the labor.
Speaker 5: Oh.
Speaker 2: I like it as a surprise if we did.
Speaker 4: A live show and there was an actual car on stage. Yeah,
Speaker 4: they have a back garage usually, or.
Speaker 5: We could just get one of those prop cars, you know,
Speaker 5: where it's the front of the car and we're sitting
Speaker 5: in it and then there's no back and the whole
Speaker 5: thing weighs fifty.
Speaker 2: Pounds and it's not a big deal.
Speaker 1: I like it.
Speaker 3: I do.
Speaker 4: There was a sitcom called My Two Dads, Oh yeah,
Speaker 4: and one of the dads was a sculptor or he's
Speaker 4: an artist and he made furniture and it was like
Speaker 4: would be the front of a like a bumper in
Speaker 4: the headlights, but it was a couch.
Speaker 1: I remember the show that they didn't know what I'm
Speaker 1: talking about.
Speaker 6: Yes, because these were too homosexual.
Speaker 5: It was Paul Reiser was one of the dads, and
Speaker 5: Greg ev again was the other dad who was from
Speaker 5: BJ and the bear and he if I'm correct.
Speaker 2: And then there was a little girl.
Speaker 5: So it was like they the mother didn't know which
Speaker 5: one was the dad, and so the mother dies and
Speaker 5: then they get together and even though they're fighting and
Speaker 5: they're like, I'm because they were like the odd couple.
Speaker 5: Paul Reiser was all uptight and Greg Eviden was again
Speaker 5: was the artist dad with long hair or a mullet.
Speaker 2: And then the little girl's like, I'm learning so much
Speaker 2: from two men.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's a sitcom premise that easily would be ruined
Speaker 4: by DNA testing. Now it's like watching forensic files or something.
Speaker 4: It's like, yeah, that sitcom would not exist.
Speaker 2: The whole premise is gone. The second DNA is invented.
Speaker 1: By the way, up.
Speaker 4: Until now, I just thought it was Kenny Loggins. What's
Speaker 4: the other dad?
Speaker 2: The singer kind It looks like Loggins high Weight of
Speaker 2: the danger Zone.
Speaker 6: Has Kenny Friend showed into acting?
Speaker 5: I mean he's he was in many many videos, uh,
Speaker 5: music videos, music videos, he does roasters.
Speaker 2: That's Kenny Rodgers. Wait too, highway to the danger zone
Speaker 2: is who you're thinking of.
Speaker 5: The gambler is who you're thinking of. I'm thinking of,
Speaker 5: and we're talking about.
Speaker 6: You're the danger zone, the one who's produced a lot
Speaker 6: of horrible music.
Speaker 1: Well, actually it's surprising.
Speaker 4: There's the there's the Footloose song, there's the song from
Speaker 4: Caddie Shack like and a lot of them are like
Speaker 4: rock songs for my youth that he just was hired
Speaker 4: to write them for movies.
Speaker 2: He dominated the radio waves when I was young.
Speaker 6: You certainly did.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, Cam and the Fabulous Thunderbirds.
Speaker 6: Was that the official name?
Speaker 1: I think so, the Fabulous Thunderburt.
Speaker 6: I'm realizing now I've seen Kenny Loggins in concert, a
Speaker 6: Fourth of July concert in Utah called Stadium of Fire.
Speaker 2: Yes, who else?
Speaker 6: Donny Osmond would come in on helicopter dangling from a rope. Yes,
Speaker 6: we saw of course, like the Mike Love version of
Speaker 6: The Beach Boys.
Speaker 2: Boo.
Speaker 6: I mean, how did that ever happen? How is it
Speaker 6: just turned it into like a franchise, The Beach Boys.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he just he went corporate.
Speaker 5: He wanted his Jimmy Buffett slice of the pie so wild?
Speaker 6: How did not just suite them into oblivion.
Speaker 2: Because Wilson's kind of like, well, I did everything and
Speaker 2: everyone knows it, and I've got other fish to fry,
Speaker 2: So you guys do go do what you want.
Speaker 6: I feel like, who's Uncle Jesse from Full House?
Speaker 1: He was on John Scott Yeah, yeah, yeah, Okay, I
Speaker 1: was gonna say Scott Bayo.
Speaker 2: But different.
Speaker 4: That's it's like it's likes and Rogers.
Speaker 1: Yes, they're interchangeable to me.
Speaker 6: Oh, Stamos. I feel like Stamos is a he must
Speaker 6: be a better person than old I've heard heat person.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think he is. He has a good sense
Speaker 2: of humor.
Speaker 5: He's been he's been around forever, and if you're a
Speaker 5: real prick, you're not around forever. That's the That's the
Speaker 5: deep dark Hollywood secret is the reason people go away.
Speaker 5: Sometimes it's because personal reasons, and sometimes it's because everyone
Speaker 5: hates their guts.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and it's just.
Speaker 2: Like we're just we cannot work with that person ever again.
Speaker 1: Yeah. James Woods syndrome.
Speaker 6: James Wood syndrome.
Speaker 5: Also, here's what's funny. John Stamos volunteered to play Scott
Speaker 5: Bao when they were talking about doing a Happy Days reunion.
Speaker 5: That's he like got on Twitter and was like, I'll
Speaker 5: play Jochy.
Speaker 1: So he knows they're interchangeable even.
Speaker 2: Well he knows, Yeah, he knows.
Speaker 6: He knows he's the better version.
Speaker 1: He's the great.
Speaker 2: I think Scott bo is Italian And yeah.
Speaker 6: Bayo blocked me on Twitter in like twenty eleven, and
Speaker 6: I don't know why. She was like the first person
Speaker 6: to ever block me on Twitter. Oh how did we cross?
Speaker 2: He just hates your fucking comedy? Was this ship?
Speaker 1: He's on the wrong side of politics. If I'm not
Speaker 1: for sat well.
Speaker 5: He's you know, I find there are the people who
Speaker 5: found this little like kind of dopamine hit of fame
Speaker 5: by being contrariant and fighting with people and saying, yes,
Speaker 5: here's the way it's going to go. None of them
Speaker 5: planning that or doing that with any long term vision,
Speaker 5: because it's just like, so what, You're just going to
Speaker 5: keep on being this kind of flashpoint asshole.
Speaker 2: It's weird. It's it's weird, so agro it's crazy.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it too. Yeah.
Speaker 6: I found out James Woods was dating some this intern
Speaker 6: I worked with it like ten years ago, and she
Speaker 6: was the most annoying person I'd ever met, and she
Speaker 6: was probably she was very irritated, but she's probably like
Speaker 6: a age.
Speaker 2: Are shape those shoes that kind of rocked on.
Speaker 4: The bottom, Yeah, there's there are sketchers shoe I have sketched.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 4: I was told when I first was having hip problems
Speaker 4: to wear something like a shape.
Speaker 1: Up really, and I said I would rather have it.
Speaker 2: I'd rather have both my hips removed.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm not gonna wear a shoe with a rock
Speaker 4: or sole.
Speaker 6: Was supposed to just surfing reference.
Speaker 2: It just makes it harder to live.
Speaker 5: And so in that way, you're kind of like less hungry,
Speaker 5: and you're just more frustrated, and you're just like, I'm
Speaker 5: just not enough. And I guess I'll ruin walking for
Speaker 5: myself because that's how much I don't deserve anything good.
Speaker 2: Was my internal monologue when I bought them.
Speaker 6: That's from final document the company.
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Speaker 2: Getting somewhere, getting across the room becomes the worst problem
Speaker 2: in your life. Thank you, shaups.
Speaker 1: Yeah, do you have problems?
Speaker 4: Well, welcome to the world of being heckled by your
Speaker 4: kids in the privacy of your own.
Speaker 1: Oh, they come with a pair of transition lenses.
Speaker 2: The worst though, truly the worst, And to this day
Speaker 2: people are still wearing transition lenses.
Speaker 6: I feel like we got the word out, and I
Speaker 6: guess we didn't.
Speaker 5: I think there's some people who are just like, it's
Speaker 5: about convenience only for me, and other than that, I
Speaker 5: don't care.
Speaker 6: And I think there are optometrists who are just excellent salespeople.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 6: I think they're telling people they're not the ones that
Speaker 6: you think they are. And then you put them on
Speaker 6: and then their transition lenses and he looks.
Speaker 4: Like a creek.
Speaker 5: Yeah, there's it's always like ooh, someone's got a secret.
Speaker 5: Someone at the business meeting's got a secret, a.
Speaker 6: Sex crime secret.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's not a fun it's funny.
Speaker 4: There's a weatherman for Channel seven here in Los Angeles
Speaker 4: that is, I'm sure theeerologist. He's he seems like a
Speaker 4: nice man, but he has transitions lenses and they're right
Speaker 4: in that mid zone where we haven't gone full tint.
Speaker 4: And he's got hair that he's got like a combed back,
Speaker 4: greased back, mullet haircut.
Speaker 1: He knows. He's just a young guy that knows his weather.
Speaker 4: And the other day I was watching him and did
Speaker 4: a voiceover and it was all about being some sort
Speaker 4: of a murderer.
Speaker 1: Sex based murderer because he looks like that.
Speaker 4: And then I felt bad because I was like, he's
Speaker 4: probably a nice man and everyone is liking this Instagram.
Speaker 1: What if he sees it? If you're listening right now,
Speaker 1: mister weather man, I don't know your name, but just
Speaker 1: give him a new lenses just for the indel I.
Speaker 5: Mean, it's not worth because this is the thing, Like
Speaker 5: a guy like that on a set, well, then the
Speaker 5: lights are bright enough that your glasses think it's the sun.
Speaker 6: Right.
Speaker 5: You can't control these fucking transition lenses. They they don't
Speaker 5: actually transition, they stay gray. So you just have this
Speaker 5: weird look about you that's like you're you're a little
Speaker 5: bit behind Venetian blinds, behind your glasses.
Speaker 2: You're the paper.
Speaker 5: You're peeping tom from behind your own glasses.
Speaker 4: Always first, for whatever reason, his likability, I guess the
Speaker 4: only person that gets away with them is Jeff Goldbook.
Speaker 4: He's always been a slightly tinted glasses guy.
Speaker 2: You know why because he always has like a weird
Speaker 2: orange hat on or something, or he's saying something off
Speaker 2: rhythm that makes you forced to listen to him. That's
Speaker 2: why I offer them off.
Speaker 5: Like those commercials he does for is it apartments dot com?
Speaker 2: So yeah, does he do yummy for all we know?
Speaker 5: But those the apartment dot com ones make me laugh.
Speaker 5: They're like good commercials.
Speaker 6: It's genuinely just funny. The way he speaks is no
Speaker 6: matter what he says, it will sound funk.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yes, yes, yes, yeah, you do need an apartment?
Speaker 2: Right, yes, yeah.
Speaker 1: He is yummy.
Speaker 6: I think he's gone. He's got the money to buy
Speaker 6: nice looking transition lenses. I think that's the other he's
Speaker 6: probably paying what thirty.
Speaker 2: Dollars a pair easily I mean right.
Speaker 5: Also because his his lenses will usually be like they're
Speaker 5: going from light blue to dark blue.
Speaker 4: Right.
Speaker 5: As a standard algebra teacher, gray.
Speaker 4: Ye, he's the only one that can afford iridescent transition lenses.
Speaker 1: They're like comedian chameleon.
Speaker 4: Comedian chameleon. Let's call this full podcast off.
Speaker 5: Now, let's ask let's get back to Bridger because he
Speaker 5: is the guest. Yes on me, now, Bridger in your
Speaker 5: thirty because this is your first podcast, I said, no guests,
Speaker 5: is your first podcast that you've ever hosted.
Speaker 2: In the thirty or so episodes.
Speaker 5: That you've done, have you had any experiences that were
Speaker 5: shocking to you of being a podcast host, anything that
Speaker 5: stood out or anything fun that you want to share, things.
Speaker 2: That have happened.
Speaker 6: Let's see things and.
Speaker 5: I can start you off with Emma Thompson, but you
Speaker 5: can start writing.
Speaker 6: I well talk about Emma Thompson because thank you.
Speaker 1: For bringing Emma Thompson into my life.
Speaker 6: Bridge right, I'm introducing this young star. I feel like
Speaker 6: she may be in a movie at some point.
Speaker 2: She's got she's got what it takes me. I just
Speaker 2: want to share she has it.
Speaker 6: She's beautiful, she's intelligent, she's charming. Let's put her in
Speaker 6: a movie.
Speaker 4: How do you? Why not? No?
Speaker 6: I mean that was truly the wildest thing that's I mean,
Speaker 6: maybe ever happened to me outside of a podcast or
Speaker 6: not find out that Emma Thompson, I mean, Emma Thompson
Speaker 6: for me is like David Bowie level. Everyone loves this person.
Speaker 6: There's not a soul on the planet that doesn't like
Speaker 6: Emma Thompson. She's had.
Speaker 4: She won an Oscar for writing and acting in the
Speaker 4: same film.
Speaker 6: That's right, so cool and like and I think for
Speaker 6: everybody she's cool.
Speaker 1: Yes.
Speaker 6: So to find out that she was listening to my
Speaker 6: podcast for I mean, it was like a month before
Speaker 6: she was actually on it. I was fully convinced I
Speaker 6: was being scammed and then it was going to be
Speaker 6: a scam that ended in me killing myself because I
Speaker 6: was so excited. I was like, Emma jas is going
Speaker 6: to be on this and then I, you know, because
Speaker 6: she was in Scotland. We had to record at ten
Speaker 6: am or whatever. I woke up that morning. I was like,
Speaker 6: why didn't I verify this information? I could be fatally
Speaker 6: walking into a trap where I will kill myself.
Speaker 2: Yes, Can I just say that.
Speaker 5: I didn't listen to that episode for a while after
Speaker 5: it came out because for lots of different reasons. But
Speaker 5: it's I do a thing where I pre write things
Speaker 5: and then don't like them when I hear the real thing,
Speaker 5: and I ruin life for myself that way and have
Speaker 5: for many years.
Speaker 2: But this one, I just had this thing where I
Speaker 2: was so excited and it was such an amazing like
Speaker 2: that story and everything that the fact that it's her
Speaker 2: is just so high level, like oh primo that I
Speaker 2: was like, you're you're gonna listen to it and you're
Speaker 2: not gonna like it, and so just don't you know
Speaker 2: what I mean, just like let it do what you
Speaker 2: think it is, imagine, because you feel like you can
Speaker 2: only be disappointed. And then I listened to it.
Speaker 5: You handled yourself so fucking well for I don't know,
Speaker 5: I wouldn't have been such a weirdo and I think
Speaker 5: done very badly me too. You were so good at it, Bridger,
Speaker 5: and you were so like right there you were having
Speaker 5: a conversation with her, but you were super funny, so
Speaker 5: I could tell you were doing macro micro over and
Speaker 5: over with her.
Speaker 2: It was just and it moved along, you know what
Speaker 2: I mean.
Speaker 5: It was like we got in, you got into it
Speaker 5: and you know, had some fun, but then it was
Speaker 5: like you guys really talked about stuff.
Speaker 2: It was just like a true delight. And of course
Speaker 2: the way she was on it was just exactly how
Speaker 2: I hoped and wished she would be and it was
Speaker 2: so fucking wonderful.
Speaker 6: Well, I think that that truly only speaks to how
Speaker 6: cool Emma Thompson is because she's she's a household name,
Speaker 6: and she was totally normal and it was nice and
Speaker 6: fun to be to talk to. It was crazy. Yeah,
Speaker 6: I've been more intimidated by people. I've had other people
Speaker 6: on this podcast, so no one's ever heard of God
Speaker 6: bless them, but I'm more nervous with them because they
Speaker 6: bring a nervous energy. Emma Thompson was just normal and wonderful.
Speaker 6: And then we got to talk about vacuuming me. I mean,
Speaker 6: she loves the vacuum. I loved the vacuum. It was
Speaker 6: incredible connection over dice and vacuums. You know.
Speaker 1: Oh that's terri No.
Speaker 6: That was very exciting and God bless her. I mean,
Speaker 6: we just we're all very lucky to have Emma Thompson
Speaker 6: in our lives.
Speaker 4: Her daughter, I mean Instagram message and said, uh, we
Speaker 4: liked your episode of I said no gifts and I
Speaker 4: was like, oh, thank you.
Speaker 1: I didn't know who I was talking to.
Speaker 4: And then she sent a message a few days later
Speaker 4: and said, oh, we re enacted your fishing joke. We
Speaker 4: were fishing and my mom was pretending she caught a
Speaker 4: bird and pretended to reel it in and started fake crying.
Speaker 4: I'm like, oh, what a funny mom, and then she
Speaker 4: said my mom Samma Thompson and.
Speaker 1: I was like, what the what I did?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 1: I wanted to fact you and I did. And I'm like, yep,
Speaker 1: this is her daughter.
Speaker 6: Yeah, lovely.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and it's because your podcast.
Speaker 5: It's actually we have guys to thank for all of it. Really,
Speaker 5: she's she's out there. She is a grassroots district manager
Speaker 5: in the UK for uh before I said no.
Speaker 6: Guests, Oh, absolutely, she's getting the word out. I mean
Speaker 6: our listener base in the UK. I think we owe
Speaker 6: entirely to Guya wise, thank you. But yeah, that was exciting,
Speaker 6: and I'm trying to think of other things that have happened.
Speaker 6: You know, usually I'm shocked by like someone being on
Speaker 6: the podcast and the level of recording equipment they've brought, Like,
Speaker 6: how are we thinking here? Is this how you were
Speaker 6: usually speaking over your computer? But of course we are,
Speaker 6: So you just got to be You've gotta just let
Speaker 6: it happen. Yeah, and whatever people bring there there and
Speaker 6: as long as we can hear the audio on some level, Yeah,
Speaker 6: that's all I can ask at this point.
Speaker 4: Yeah, if it's any consolation when I think back on
Speaker 4: doing your podcast, I don't I thought I was with you.
Speaker 4: I don't remember it being a zoom thing naturally. Yeah,
Speaker 4: we were natural.
Speaker 1: It was so fun. We had so much fun.
Speaker 2: Are you in the studio?
Speaker 6: No, it was over zoom.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah, it just is I see sorry.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, it just felt comfortable and fluid.
Speaker 6: And finally, I should say that, since the last time
Speaker 6: I saw you, your gravity has finally kind of taken
Speaker 6: hold of your Yeah. Yeah, it's great.
Speaker 1: It's starting, and I don't know that I like it,
Speaker 1: but I'm gonna keep going.
Speaker 2: I got a cut.
Speaker 1: There's like a well it's wet right now, it's when
Speaker 1: it's dry there is.
Speaker 5: It's got a right now has a bit of a
Speaker 5: Johnny Depp and sleepy hollow feel, or maybe even a
Speaker 5: tad of like a Beethoven, young Beethoven.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, what was that movie?
Speaker 6: Is that?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 1: It is Mozart is the guy that was good and
Speaker 1: then he disappeared.
Speaker 5: There is a Beethoven movie called Immortal Beloved, with motherfucking
Speaker 5: Gary Oldman stomping and throwing his head down on the
Speaker 5: piano like the guy from him up. You know that
Speaker 5: one buppet that plays the piano and gets really mad
Speaker 5: and then slams his own head on the piano.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, he's a bear.
Speaker 2: No, no, you're thinking Fallsy.
Speaker 6: Were talking about. Oh god, no, there is another.
Speaker 5: There's a third, is it, mister t No, No, no,
Speaker 5: it's Sesame Street. It's like a Sesame Street interstitial Oh
Speaker 5: and it was this character and so it's a It
Speaker 5: was one of more of the more seventies ones.
Speaker 2: And it's I think he's blue.
Speaker 1: I think he looks like he's just a grover looking guy.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but he's he.
Speaker 5: I think the one I remember looked like an actual man,
Speaker 5: but his face was blue. And he starts to play
Speaker 5: the piano and then he messes up and then gets
Speaker 5: really mad and bangs on the piano, and it's as
Speaker 5: a child was so delightful.
Speaker 1: Yeah what what? What message? What?
Speaker 6: What?
Speaker 1: How are they teaching kids with that? Don't get angry
Speaker 1: at your art? Yeah?
Speaker 5: I think it was like, yeah, don't if you're frustrated,
Speaker 5: you don't slam your head into anything.
Speaker 6: Although everyone willing.
Speaker 5: It, Yes, it'll be really funny and good kid comedy.
Speaker 1: What is the clip? Which muppet is it? Where have
Speaker 1: you guys seen this clip?
Speaker 4: Where he's talking to a sweet little girl and she
Speaker 4: keeps interrupting him in the middle of the alphabet.
Speaker 2: The Little black Man, and then at the.
Speaker 4: End he's like, fine, I'm leaving, and then so the
Speaker 4: up goes off screen and then she's like, I love you,
Speaker 4: and then he comes back and he's like I love
Speaker 4: you too.
Speaker 1: And then they kiss. It is it. It makes me
Speaker 1: almost cry thinking.
Speaker 2: It's the cutest West. It's her with Kermit. So they're
Speaker 2: doing a thing and she's giggling yeah, and he's pretending
Speaker 2: to be mad. It is one of the like those
Speaker 2: early days SS. I mean, I have to say Sesame Street.
Speaker 2: I watched it every single day.
Speaker 5: It was like the whole pattern of my day was
Speaker 5: like coming home from preschool or whatever, and then I
Speaker 5: would watch I would watch Sesame Street and then take
Speaker 5: a nap, and it was like this whole crucial But
Speaker 5: I mean, there are certain like sketches from from seventies
Speaker 5: Sesame Street that I'll remember forever.
Speaker 2: I feel like they like my last.
Speaker 4: It's such an important show. Yeah, I'm glad I didn't
Speaker 4: get taken away. When was it?
Speaker 1: George W. Bush want to get rid of it.
Speaker 2: I think it's like it's not well.
Speaker 5: In the they wanted to defund public television, and Miss
Speaker 5: Chester Rogers went to the Senate and was like, what
Speaker 5: up Pools and made.
Speaker 1: What he said, and a gold chain around his neck.
Speaker 5: He smacked the microphone down.
Speaker 1: No one ever thought he'd say that.
Speaker 6: It's always a that's such a crazy move every time
Speaker 6: they tried to defund public television, because literally everyone loves
Speaker 6: these shows, has some nostalgic attachment to them, so it's
Speaker 6: just like we're coming to burn down your house.
Speaker 5: Well, and also some for some people and some kids
Speaker 5: like it's the only education or educational anything they'll get that.
Speaker 2: Isn't like by this serial. It's like it actually is.
Speaker 2: You can sit there and watch stuff. And then my
Speaker 2: dad used to force us to watch Cosmos and it
Speaker 2: used to make me really angry, and.
Speaker 5: Of course as a child because I was like, that's
Speaker 5: just not borring, it made me nuts. Well, of course
Speaker 5: now it makes me feel smart and I know, you know,
Speaker 5: those like monologues by Carl Sagan about how we're all,
Speaker 5: you know, just little bits of stardust and all that shit.
Speaker 2: That's like good stuff to have in your brain that
Speaker 2: might get forced in.
Speaker 6: There I feel like we're like playing chicken with you.
Speaker 6: I feel like Karen and I are in the car
Speaker 6: and you're also in a car.
Speaker 2: Yes.
Speaker 1: Yeah, speaking of footloose, you're an attractor. I'm an attractor.
Speaker 1: That's my shoelace is caught.
Speaker 2: You think you're right, it's just your shoelace.
Speaker 1: But in the end, I windy. I'm a very unbalanced girl.
Speaker 5: In the end, you dance under Sparkles. That was a
Speaker 5: perfect movie.
Speaker 1: I watched it recently. It is so good.
Speaker 2: It's so good, and he's so good Kevin Bickon, come.
Speaker 1: On, Yeah, when is he not good?
Speaker 2: He's always good.
Speaker 5: And as a youngster who could dance, and also I
Speaker 5: thought he could do all those gymnastics he did in
Speaker 5: the Barn, which is that dance number that ends in
Speaker 5: him just fucking going around and around on some barn poles.
Speaker 5: First of all, how did that poll get there in
Speaker 5: that barn? That doesn't ever happen? Yeah, what's happened?
Speaker 4: My favorite thing is he swings his body's going forward
Speaker 4: and he lets go and his momentum could only be a.
Speaker 1: Backflip out of it. But then the next shot is
Speaker 1: from just diving and we all bought it. We're like, yeah, no,
Speaker 1: I just slipped over and started diving. Sure, yes, just
Speaker 1: to let off some steam.
Speaker 2: Just he had to. He's frustrated from the bullying.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 5: The problem with getting rid of bullying is it's gotten
Speaker 5: rid of frustration dances, which is one of the best ways.
Speaker 2: Men could express themselves in high school. Yeah, yeah, no, No, I.
Speaker 4: Mean when I got mad, I used to skateboard in
Speaker 4: a warehouse, like in Blaming the Cube.
Speaker 1: But it's the same, the same situation.
Speaker 5: It's the same feel and Gleaming the Cube. Do a
Speaker 5: bunch of people go into a warehouse and skateboard.
Speaker 4: No, he goes by himself. He's mad at his dad.
Speaker 4: He's mad, that is Uh, his step.
Speaker 1: Brother got murdered. There's a murder in it. It's a
Speaker 1: murder mystery. It's actually a very good movie.
Speaker 2: I didn't And uhleaming the Cube, what does it?
Speaker 6: What does it mean when we say gleaming the cube?
Speaker 6: What does that mean?
Speaker 2: Nothing?
Speaker 1: I never knew. It was never a skate phrase. It was.
Speaker 4: It caused reluctance for me to watch the movie or
Speaker 4: jump on board. No one knows what gleaming the Cube means.
Speaker 4: It's made easy and I hate it. They should have
Speaker 4: called it something else. It's a jewelry term, jewel leaves
Speaker 4: the cube.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, it.
Speaker 5: Should have been called ali as.
Speaker 2: Everybody do some alis. That's the only skate move I know.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it was called everybody and it was the same
Speaker 4: poster and everything.
Speaker 1: I would have seen it.
Speaker 6: Much, right, Karen, Have you ever skateboarded?
Speaker 2: Well, funny you should ask.
Speaker 5: When I was twelve, my dad one Christmas, I just
Speaker 5: had a I was given a skateboard.
Speaker 2: I didn't ask for.
Speaker 1: I didn't know this.
Speaker 2: It was a stingray. It was plastic, very narrow.
Speaker 5: And I for real, yes, well, my mom threw it
Speaker 5: away because when I turned like seventeen, my Mom's like,
Speaker 5: get all this shit out of the garage, and I
Speaker 5: was like, what's happening? What did I do? But I
Speaker 5: wrote it down to my friend Katie Neuberger's house. She
Speaker 5: lived at the end of the street. And are of
Speaker 5: course out in the country, right, So the street had
Speaker 5: just been paved and.
Speaker 1: Then downhill did you palm a hill? No?
Speaker 5: No, God no, the street had just been paved and
Speaker 5: then they had put some gravel over the top. I
Speaker 5: was this skateboard was so loud as I rode that.
Speaker 5: I was riding the middle street because we were out.
Speaker 5: I mean cars went by our house once every four hours.
Speaker 5: I was riding down the street real careful, but so
Speaker 5: loud that I couldn't hear the cars had lined up
Speaker 5: behind me. I'd stopped traffic on that side of the
Speaker 5: road because oh.
Speaker 1: You were in the middle of the street like a
Speaker 1: goddamn boss.
Speaker 5: Yes, but only because these were big empty streets all
Speaker 5: day and night most of the time. And then but
Speaker 5: this was like so and I didn't hear those cars
Speaker 5: coming and the graveling and the rumbling, like it was
Speaker 5: not a good surface to skateboard on anyway. Yeah, and
Speaker 5: then the sound went straight into my ears.
Speaker 2: I think. Yeah, that was the last time I wrote
Speaker 2: on it.
Speaker 4: Well, the sting ray of the ocean. It's not known
Speaker 4: for its speed, is that true. It's under the stand
Speaker 4: and the sand and stains your foot, That's all I know.
Speaker 6: But it's notoriously loud, yes, so definite.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it makes gravel sounds. It's weird.
Speaker 1: It's very weird.
Speaker 5: One of my when those when they were doing the debates,
Speaker 5: one of my favorite tweets I've ever seen is someone said,
Speaker 5: Mike Pence looks like the underneath of a sting ray.
Speaker 2: He does the best thing of all time.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, that's the best, is what he looks like.
Speaker 1: There is that little face under there, yeah, broad face.
Speaker 1: Let me explain how he looks.
Speaker 6: Like the gi yes, the.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: What else is going on? Ridgard?
Speaker 5: What do you have any wisdom? Being we've all been
Speaker 5: in quarantine now for I think eight months. It's November one.
Speaker 5: Happy November everybody, Oh yeah, happy November.
Speaker 1: Shaped off my mustache. It could have been for cancer.
Speaker 6: Oh well, what a waste throw a mustache. So I've
Speaker 6: never looked into that growing a mustache for cancer.
Speaker 1: It's ridiculous.
Speaker 4: No one's ever donating to cancer. It's for testicular cancer
Speaker 4: on the heels of breast cancer awareness months, so it's
Speaker 4: like taking the wind out of that cancer. Your awareness
Speaker 4: is sales. Yeah, it's silly. It's just a reason for
Speaker 4: people to grow mustache.
Speaker 2: Yeah in defiance, good move.
Speaker 5: Yeah, But bridgerd do you have any any COVID quarantine?
Speaker 5: I don't know overall how weird life.
Speaker 2: Is right now? Advice Let's see, like, how are you coping?
Speaker 2: Would you say, I'm I'm eating.
Speaker 6: I'm making tacos at home five days a week. I
Speaker 6: will buy. Listen, if you can find a good homemade
Speaker 6: tortilla to purchase, absolutely do it because that's going to
Speaker 6: get you through Monday through Friday. The meal will be
Speaker 6: the exact same thing, and you'll like it every time.
Speaker 5: Sorry, are you saying that you're buying tortillas like in
Speaker 5: your neighborhood.
Speaker 6: Well, I'm buying them from a local place that makes them. Yeah, Like,
Speaker 6: we need to get the word out to Mexican restaurants
Speaker 6: make your tortillas. Really, I'm going to buy them from
Speaker 6: a factory. Your quality of your food will be diminished
Speaker 6: by at least seventy five percent. Wow, you have a
Speaker 6: nice tortilla you've made. That's I think we've underestimated it
Speaker 6: too long. Okay, I'm probably preaching to the choir to
Speaker 6: a lot of people that already know that. Oh yeah,
Speaker 6: but if you tortilla, who cares what's inside it? It's
Speaker 6: the same thing with bread. You can sandwich are good bread? Again,
Speaker 6: who cares what's inside it?
Speaker 2: True?
Speaker 6: So that's been for me a huge when I'm making
Speaker 6: tacos a NonStop, to the point that Jim is upset.
Speaker 2: The old taco fight.
Speaker 6: What else is going on? Let's see you other things.
Speaker 5: Homemade tacos as a coping mechanism, I mean, homemade tortillas.
Speaker 2: I love this.
Speaker 6: Another thing I've found. You know, I make a lot
Speaker 6: of cookies. Yes, they transition to using a bread flour
Speaker 6: for a cookie. And this has changed my life.
Speaker 2: What's the different bread flower?
Speaker 6: It's just there's something extra special about it. It tastes
Speaker 6: way better. Really, I'm not kidding you know. I've used
Speaker 6: all purpose flour in my entire life. I've now I
Speaker 6: will swear by bread flour for the rest of my existence.
Speaker 6: Is getting a more toothsome treat?
Speaker 2: I mean?
Speaker 1: And what is a bread flower that?
Speaker 6: To me? I have no idea. You just go to
Speaker 6: the grocery store, scan the shelves. You're sing, okay, you're single,
Speaker 6: whole weet, You're singing bread cake, bread flour.
Speaker 2: Do you think it rises better? Does it make them cakeier?
Speaker 6: It doesn't make them cake It makes them more like bread,
Speaker 6: I guess, which. I don't know if that sounds good
Speaker 6: to people, but I'm shocked by the way it tastes.
Speaker 6: It's wonderful. It's like a fully different cookie.
Speaker 2: For me.
Speaker 6: I made enough cookies at this point to say I
Speaker 6: know how to make a cookie.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 6: I mean the one time I made cookies for someone else,
Speaker 6: they were horrible, and so that person, if you talk
Speaker 6: to them, don't believe what they're saying. Because I'm trying
Speaker 6: to off in too many ingredients and I ruined the cookies.
Speaker 6: I didn't taste them before I gave them to them. Oh,
Speaker 6: and I was humiliated. That's something you need to do
Speaker 6: before you make something for somebody, before you give it
Speaker 6: to them, taste it.
Speaker 5: I'm sorry you made cookies for someone and ate none
Speaker 5: of the dough or the baked cookies until.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I gave it to them. Oh, I had them.
Speaker 6: I was mortified. I was like, this is not a
Speaker 6: good product. And they're probably they're over there being so
Speaker 6: polite saying these are good. These taste like garbage.
Speaker 2: Were they chocolate chip?
Speaker 6: They were chocolate chip. But I also put in espresso powder. Oh,
Speaker 6: love would deepen the flavor, but it just made them
Speaker 6: taste like chalk.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I wouldn't espresso powder.
Speaker 6: You put in brownies?
Speaker 2: Oh okay, that's good.
Speaker 1: Okay, did you call and say hey, I have to
Speaker 1: say I apologize for these cookies.
Speaker 6: I just tried it. I should have called. I texted.
Speaker 1: I know that's something that's a text worthy, but yeah,
Speaker 1: you can text.
Speaker 6: I probably should have written a letter.
Speaker 5: Of apology, a formal let letter of apology.
Speaker 6: I should have had my lawyer contact them and let
Speaker 6: them know that there would be compensations. Text and it
Speaker 6: seemed to do the job.
Speaker 2: You know what's fun? Sorry?
Speaker 5: Were you?
Speaker 6: I wasn't gonna say. I was looking at the beautiful sunset.
Speaker 5: I know we're experiencing quite the sunset over here. Do
Speaker 5: you want to see it?
Speaker 1: Yes? Please? I didn't know this whole time you were
Speaker 1: looking out a window. Yes, Oh wow, glorious.
Speaker 2: Isn't that nice?
Speaker 6: That's a little bit like going on a drive. Christ
Speaker 6: It was like a little experience.
Speaker 2: Are you there?
Speaker 6: I am still here? Okay, okay, wait yeah.
Speaker 1: My picture cut out. I think we're fine. We just saw.
Speaker 6: Web browser and I'm not going to I'm not going
Speaker 6: to say what I saw to my stomach.
Speaker 5: When we sat down for this computer, we both were
Speaker 5: set up all our stuff and we're just like, how
Speaker 5: are we going to do?
Speaker 2: This is so weird?
Speaker 5: And then I clicked on something to open the emails
Speaker 5: so that we could go onto this zoom and it
Speaker 5: went on to my Google search. So we were both
Speaker 5: just staring at the Google Search. You want to tell
Speaker 5: everybody what.
Speaker 6: It was Back to the Future character. There was like
Speaker 6: the Wikipedia of Back to the Future characters. Karen, do
Speaker 6: you want I mean, can we.
Speaker 1: Get into it?
Speaker 6: Always is something a private matter?
Speaker 2: No, no, we can get into it.
Speaker 5: I am. I'd love to defend myself because I didn't
Speaker 5: even think about how that it could be interpreted in
Speaker 5: other ways, and of all the things you could be
Speaker 5: embarrassed by when you open.
Speaker 2: Up your browser.
Speaker 5: I had made a reference in this thing I was writing,
Speaker 5: and I said, it's just like when Marty McFly is disappearing,
Speaker 5: because it's the same feeling. And then I was like,
Speaker 5: wait a second, was his name Marty McFly? And then
Speaker 5: I had to because like all of a sudden, I
Speaker 5: couldn't remember.
Speaker 2: I was like, I don't want to. I want to
Speaker 2: make sure I'm referencing the right person.
Speaker 1: You guys, the requid has stop.
Speaker 6: Just now?
Speaker 1: Oh it just not right now?
Speaker 5: Just now?
Speaker 2: Oh? Perfect? Well, I mean not perfect, but at least
Speaker 2: we caught it.
Speaker 1: And we're talking. I have bad news. Also, Wait, mine
Speaker 1: also has stopped. Wait when did your stuff? I don't know?
Speaker 2: Okay, all right, this first guest back.
Speaker 4: I know, I know, I know, I know. I just
Speaker 4: broke out into a sweat and I feel really good.
Speaker 2: Well, I mean, we have recordings of everybody so up
Speaker 2: to this point.
Speaker 4: I mean, yeah, I don't think anyone will be mad.
Speaker 4: We can just we can have a disclaimer maybe or.
Speaker 1: Just transition to zoom. Let's just eat leave all.
Speaker 4: I mean, I really we might as well. I really
Speaker 4: apologize you guys.
Speaker 1: You've been listening to. Do you need a ride?
Speaker 4: D I M A R?
Speaker 2: Come?
Speaker 6: Thank you?
Speaker 1: Are you leaving?
Speaker 3: I you wanna way back home?
Speaker 2: Either way we want to be there.
Speaker 3: Doesn't matter how much baggage you claim, and give us
Speaker 3: time and a terminol and gay. We want to send
Speaker 3: you off in style. Do you wanna welcome.
Speaker 2: You back home?
Speaker 3: Tell us all about it?
Speaker 1: We scared her?
Speaker 2: Was it fine? Malcorn? Do you need to ride? Do
Speaker 2: you need to ride?
Speaker 3: Do you need to ride?
Speaker 1: Do you need to ride?
Speaker 3: Do you need to ride?
Speaker 2: Do you need rides? Do rides? Do you mean.
Speaker 1: With Karen and cress h