Speaker 1: But I invited you here. I thought I made myself
Speaker 1: perfectly clear. When you're a guest to my home, you
Speaker 1: gotta come to me empty. And I said, no guests,
Speaker 1: you're presences presents enough. I already had too much stuff,
Speaker 1: So how did you dare to surbey me?
Speaker 2: Welcome to I said, no gifts and Bridgard Wineger, we're
Speaker 2: in the backyard. There was some minor police activity about
Speaker 2: an hour ago. I don't know what was happening, but
Speaker 2: I think that's been cleared up. My voice is back
Speaker 2: to probably ninety eight percent. Probably can't still can't hit
Speaker 2: the high notes that I'm famous for, but I think
Speaker 2: we'll make it through the whole episode without me sounding weak,
Speaker 2: at least physically or vocally. Emotionally mentally, those things just
Speaker 2: continue to seem who knows that'll be spotty. I mean,
Speaker 2: what's dominating my thoughts is I have a buy one
Speaker 2: getting one free salad coupon on my counter, and I
Speaker 2: just can't stop thinking about how I'm going to use
Speaker 2: that as wisely as possible to get two salads, and
Speaker 2: when I'll eat the second salad. Is there any other
Speaker 2: crucial business we need to talk about? There isn't I adore.
Speaker 2: I love today's guest. I'm so excited he's here. It's
Speaker 2: Drew DROGI, Drew Hybridser, Welcome to I said, no gift.
Speaker 3: Thank you so much. I'm so happy you're here. I'm
Speaker 3: so happy to be here. What happened to your voice?
Speaker 2: Like I I was in New York, alast.
Speaker 3: To get it loud City.
Speaker 2: I was screaming the entire time. Sure, you have to
Speaker 2: you get on the plane the way.
Speaker 3: You gotta, you gotta, you gotta tell people exactly what
Speaker 3: you want.
Speaker 2: You've got to be open and honest. That's right, brutal. Yes, yeah,
Speaker 2: I sit down on the plane on the way to
Speaker 2: New York, and I immediately it's screaming, scream until I
Speaker 2: get back to lax Great and then I'm back into
Speaker 2: my you know, relaxed surfer.
Speaker 3: Five, sweet easy Los Angeles.
Speaker 2: Yes, exactly. Yeah, I had a I got a cold
Speaker 2: while there, and uh, it just decimated my voice. Because
Speaker 2: you were going to record earlier this week, I know,
Speaker 2: and it felt it feels like such a flimsy excuse
Speaker 2: to be like he doesn't have his voice.
Speaker 3: It's an audio podcast, like it kind of like a
Speaker 3: made up thing. No but I no, no, no, but no.
Speaker 3: It happens all the time. I lose my voice a lot.
Speaker 3: I'm horrible about, Like I have to go back and
Speaker 3: actually do like training that I quote unquote learned in
Speaker 3: college about how to take care of my instrument, and
Speaker 3: I don't. I'm horrible about it. I will blow it
Speaker 3: out so easily, and I don't always. I'm always nervous
Speaker 3: about doing it, like what I'm doing stage shows and stuff.
Speaker 3: But it usually happens at the bar after the show
Speaker 3: because you're talking for hours and you're not realizing how
Speaker 3: much you're straining just to just to make noise forever.
Speaker 3: And so that's usually where it happens.
Speaker 2: You actually lose and then what are you doing to
Speaker 2: repair it? To recover?
Speaker 3: There's a very little you can do other than rest
Speaker 3: and drink lots of water. I sometimes the saltwater helps.
Speaker 3: Gargling pineapple helps. Pineapple, yeah, pineapples very it's uh, it's
Speaker 3: a it's an anti inflammatory. Oh and you know what
Speaker 3: really helps. Actually, there's a lot of tricks that help
Speaker 3: with it. Ibuprofen. Take three. I be profn at night
Speaker 3: and three in the morning. And it because you're anti
Speaker 3: inflammatory because your voice is actually just blown out. That's what.
Speaker 3: And then and another thing, if you really need I
Speaker 3: learned this as just a fast trick is lays potato
Speaker 3: chips or fried chicken, because those things have so much
Speaker 3: grease in them that they will bond your vocal cords
Speaker 3: together to make noise.
Speaker 2: This is a dream to hear.
Speaker 3: I mean I learned this when I was, you know,
Speaker 3: doing a musical in the New York City and they
Speaker 3: told us, they were like, if you really need to
Speaker 3: make noise, it's specifically lays playing potato chips because they've
Speaker 3: got so much grease. They're just so oily. It's so oily,
Speaker 3: that's why. And or fried chicken.
Speaker 2: Wow, this is fascinating, Like real.
Speaker 3: Fried chicken, not like some like no no, no, no,
Speaker 3: like oven bake, none of that shit. You need like real, dripping,
Speaker 3: greasy fried chicken.
Speaker 2: I love greasy, dripping right.
Speaker 3: It's a great excuse to just run out in the
Speaker 3: middle shows be like I have to eat the nastiest
Speaker 3: fried chicken.
Speaker 2: I get fine.
Speaker 3: Yeah, exactly what musical were you doing in the time Titanique?
Speaker 3: Have you seen it?
Speaker 2: Wait? I saw you. I was there. When was this
Speaker 2: this was actually very uncomfortable for me because I was
Speaker 2: afraid I was going to make eye contact with you
Speaker 2: on stage. Oh god.
Speaker 3: I first of all, I can't see anything when I'm
Speaker 3: up there. I'm blind as.
Speaker 2: A bad I know, you forget that as an audience. Yeah,
Speaker 2: but at the time, I was like, if I will
Speaker 2: have to leave the theater. This must have been last year.
Speaker 3: It was last year we did it. Yeah, I mean
Speaker 3: it's still running, but I was in it last year.
Speaker 3: It's a blast. It's a parody of Titanic with all
Speaker 3: the music of Celine Dion. It's become this thing. I know.
Speaker 3: I was just thinking about Marlon Connie and Tye and
Speaker 3: Nicholas who wrote it. Now it's like the productions of
Speaker 3: it in Australia, all your Kid, London and Canada and
Speaker 3: oh yeah, all over the world the productions of Titanique
Speaker 3: that are happening, And I'm like, how cool.
Speaker 2: That's wild. When did it open it that's a great question.
Speaker 3: I should know that they've been doing it. They've been
Speaker 3: working on it off and on and workshopping it for
Speaker 3: many years. Okay, it opened at the Theater at the
Speaker 3: Old like underneath Christides or the RC right, right, So
Speaker 3: that's where it opened, okay, and then they moved it
Speaker 3: to the Daryl Roth. Yes, I'm going to say like
Speaker 3: November of twenty two it moved to Daryl Roth and
Speaker 3: it's been running there since then.
Speaker 2: Wow, for to already have international franchises, Yes, that's pretty impressive.
Speaker 3: Yes, but I think it opened, you know twenty one.
Speaker 3: It must have been obviously post pend.
Speaker 2: Right, yes, yes, yeah, that makes sense. Yeah, I saw
Speaker 2: you in it. That's such a strange. I could completely
Speaker 2: forgot obviously your performance was just completely forgettable. I was
Speaker 2: fairly in it, Vanish I just.
Speaker 3: Play an eyelash and forget about me.
Speaker 2: How long were you in it?
Speaker 3: For? Five months? Okay?
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, it's like right near Union Square there, yep, yes, yeah,
Speaker 2: house straight.
Speaker 3: It was such a dream because I've never I love musicals,
Speaker 3: like I'm not a singer, right, so, and so it
Speaker 3: was like this dream to do a musical in New
Speaker 3: York City and to do the eight shows a week
Speaker 3: thing that I had never really done because even when
Speaker 3: I did my solo show there, the most average was
Speaker 3: seven shows a week. I never did eight, right, And
Speaker 3: I was like, I need that New York theater, like
Speaker 3: it's hell.
Speaker 2: It's horrible, a nightmare.
Speaker 3: It's a nightmare. You're never not tired. Your day off
Speaker 3: is your most exhausted day. Of course, your body lets
Speaker 3: yourself actually be tired. But I'm so glad I had
Speaker 3: the experience because as someone who never thought that would
Speaker 3: happen to be in a musical, and it was like,
Speaker 3: that's very cool.
Speaker 2: To not have the number one thing you need for
Speaker 2: a musical.
Speaker 3: Right, And this character was the one part that didn't
Speaker 3: sing right right and that you don't remember, and.
Speaker 2: That I completely The rest of the show was fire.
Speaker 3: I mean, can we start, Let's go down the line
Speaker 3: and talk about how great everybody else was and memorable
Speaker 3: they were.
Speaker 2: No, you were spectacular. The whole show was so delightful.
Speaker 2: It's just a party.
Speaker 3: It's about it's a party. It's a big party. It's
Speaker 3: so much fun. Yeah.
Speaker 2: The eight shows a week thing coming from living in
Speaker 2: LA and working in this site of entertainment where you
Speaker 2: write three hours every nine months.
Speaker 3: Right exactly. Or even when you do theater in LA,
Speaker 3: it's usually four or five shows a week. You do
Speaker 3: like a weekend, and you rarely do two in one day.
Speaker 3: In La. You know, it's it's very easy. It's very
Speaker 3: JV compared to like New York is like whip cracking.
Speaker 2: Do you start to just I feel like you would
Speaker 2: just lose the feeling of it all a few shows in,
Speaker 2: Do you just feel robotic?
Speaker 3: I would feel robotic after a while. And I felt
Speaker 3: that way in my own show too, And I was like,
Speaker 3: and I remember the first time I felt that way
Speaker 3: that I'd always heard, Like, you know, an actors, you
Speaker 3: start thinking about your laundry, and you start you right,
Speaker 3: and you have those intrusive thoughts, and I was like, well,
Speaker 3: that'll never be me. I'll always be in the in
Speaker 3: the truth of the moment every time. But even in
Speaker 3: my own show, I started to go, oh, blah blah blah,
Speaker 3: I'm just thinking. And I was watching my body do
Speaker 3: the same mannerisms and that same and so I went
Speaker 3: off stage and I said the stagement. I said, oh
Speaker 3: my god, I'm so sorry. I was so out of
Speaker 3: it tonight, and he said I had no idea. Wow,
Speaker 3: So you do. It's like choreography with anything, you have
Speaker 3: to kind of actually not think about it because the
Speaker 3: worst thing to do is to be up there and
Speaker 3: go I'm not present. I need to get in my body,
Speaker 3: and then that makes you even more in your head
Speaker 3: and then you're a very aware aware of everything you have.
Speaker 3: You have to stop thinking and just go out there
Speaker 3: and do the show right, which is really weird because
Speaker 3: you go through this long period of like do I
Speaker 3: know my lines? Am I listening to my partner? Is
Speaker 3: this the way to deliver this the best way? Like
Speaker 3: you go through this trial period for like previews, and
Speaker 3: then you hit you like coast for a bit where
Speaker 3: you're like, oh, I'm so connected and so fun and
Speaker 3: then you're like, I am so out the door and
Speaker 3: I don't even know. But five months was as long
Speaker 3: as I felt.
Speaker 2: Like I couldn't do it, to be basically working overtime.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and just the same words over and over again.
Speaker 3: My my interests of thoughts were coming in and I
Speaker 3: would be like what if I start screaming? What if
Speaker 3: I jump up the stage? What if I high fi
Speaker 3: bridge are in the audience? Like I would just content
Speaker 3: thou show. You would exactly see time machine, That's what
Speaker 3: I need to do is go back in time. No,
Speaker 3: but I would I would have those complete thoughts of
Speaker 3: just like what if I you.
Speaker 2: Know, oh, which very fun thoughts, which are.
Speaker 3: Fun but also terrifying and also just like get in it,
Speaker 3: say it it, you know, but you know, well.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's kind of like a very dull, out of
Speaker 2: body experience. Yes, fascinating for sure, which I probably, as
Speaker 2: having no stage skill whatsoever, will never experience.
Speaker 3: I don't believe that.
Speaker 2: Well, believe it here today too.
Speaker 3: You know, I think no. I think it's like, in
Speaker 3: a way, it kind of protects you, because you know,
Speaker 3: you're like, when the audience is great, you can feel
Speaker 3: like I'm amazing, we're killing it, We're doing so great,
Speaker 3: and then they're bad and you're like, I'm horrible. And
Speaker 3: then sometimes there's part of you it's like neither you're
Speaker 3: always there's always kind of like baseline. It is what
Speaker 3: it is, and so you kind of like through that,
Speaker 3: you're kind of like, oh, we're just punching the clock
Speaker 3: and going back, and when you're doing that many shows,
Speaker 3: you're just like, all right, the next one is in
Speaker 3: five minutes, so here we go. Put another quarter in
Speaker 3: the back of my neck and wind me up or whatever.
Speaker 2: How familiar were you with Titanic before? Were you much
Speaker 2: of a fan of the movie.
Speaker 3: I do like the movie, like the I like the
Speaker 3: nineteen twelve part of the movie. The wrap around is
Speaker 3: pretty horrible. I mean, the Bill Paxton incredible is so bad.
Speaker 3: But I do think the actual Titanic part of it
Speaker 3: is really great. I saw it. I definitely saw it
Speaker 3: in the theater. I maybe saw it all the way
Speaker 3: through one other time before. But I've known them from
Speaker 3: the beginning, so I did the very first like a
Speaker 3: reading of Titanique at someone's apartment, like before it was
Speaker 3: ever done, and then I wasn't able to do it
Speaker 3: officially until last year. So I've watched I've seen Titanique
Speaker 3: six or seven times and after I've actually gone back
Speaker 3: and seen it after I did it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think I've only seen the movie once in
Speaker 2: the theaters, right, And it's just I never have any
Speaker 2: other reason to watch it.
Speaker 3: No, it's three and a half hours long, and why
Speaker 3: would you just sit down and watch that? Right?
Speaker 2: But people love it, They've worshiped.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean it's it got a lot of you know,
Speaker 3: people love to bag on it too and hate on it,
Speaker 3: but it it's better than that. I mean, you know,
Speaker 3: it's better than a lot of things that have won
Speaker 3: Best Picture, Right, you know and so, and it's a
Speaker 3: big blockbuster.
Speaker 2: Period piece, kind of engaging melodro.
Speaker 3: But everyone's really good in it, you know, the kids
Speaker 3: are great in it, Victor Carver's.
Speaker 2: Fantashure and I do. I mean, the only thing I've
Speaker 2: seen repeatedly is the dropping the thing into the ocean.
Speaker 3: Right, which is ridiculous. It makes no sense and you
Speaker 3: want to throttle that woman, like why why are you
Speaker 3: doing that?
Speaker 2: I Like, when it came to my attention as an adult,
Speaker 2: I was like, this couldn't possibly have been part of
Speaker 2: the original because I had obviously forgotten. But it's part
Speaker 2: of the film, right, right. It's so strange. It's so
Speaker 2: strange because it seems objectively bad.
Speaker 3: Yes, and it's also like what like you're throwing the
Speaker 3: whole thing away into the just sort of like.
Speaker 2: Eh, and is you're doing that just to maintain the mystery?
Speaker 2: What is the I don't even know.
Speaker 3: It's yeah, I think it's sort of like I've told
Speaker 3: my story, that's all you get, and I I don't know.
Speaker 3: I don't think James Karen thought it through. We have
Speaker 3: fun and Titanic making fun of that every night, right,
Speaker 3: But you know.
Speaker 2: Yeah, have you lived in New York much.
Speaker 3: I've never lived in New York. Oh wow, I've only
Speaker 3: I've spent a lot of time there. But I've lived
Speaker 3: in Los Angeles proper for twenty five years.
Speaker 2: Where are you from?
Speaker 3: North Carolina?
Speaker 2: Oh? Okay, okay, yeah wow, So yeah, I've only I've
Speaker 2: lived in New York for probably a total of a
Speaker 2: year and a half at this point. Okay, But I
Speaker 2: don't know that I'm made for it, So I don't.
Speaker 3: Know that I love working there and that that was
Speaker 3: the longest I was there doing Touch Sneque. But I've
Speaker 3: done my show's there. I'm trying to get I love
Speaker 3: I mean, you know, having a job there is so fun. Oh,
Speaker 3: doing a play there, a purpose, Being on a TV
Speaker 3: show there is like you know, or I love to
Speaker 3: spend like two weeks max going and seeing things and
Speaker 3: seeing friends and hanging out and spending way too much
Speaker 3: money and just being an idiot.
Speaker 2: Right, Dasha, blast right.
Speaker 3: I've never lived there where I'm just pounding the pavement
Speaker 3: trying to have a life there without like some sort
Speaker 3: of employment for too long, right, I think that would
Speaker 3: be really tough. And I'm used to this. I'm used
Speaker 3: to space and ease and ease, you know, I used
Speaker 3: to ease.
Speaker 2: The other thing I was going to ask you about
Speaker 2: related to Titanic if we can move on beyond this,
Speaker 2: but have you seen this Selene Dion documentary?
Speaker 3: Yes? I have.
Speaker 2: How did you feel about that?
Speaker 3: It's it's wonderful. You know, I had no I had
Speaker 3: no real connection with Selene Dion. If anything, I kind
Speaker 3: of laughed at her and thought she was kind of
Speaker 3: an you know, and then even the in the beginning
Speaker 3: of Titanique, you know, Marlen Mendel's hilarious impression of Celene
Speaker 3: Dion and then you know, getting to like see Nicole Parker,
Speaker 3: Jackie Burns do it, and all these people like it's
Speaker 3: this but Ty Blue, who directed our show, was so
Speaker 3: smart in making us love her. We was like, you
Speaker 3: have to love Selene. It's like the entire thing is
Speaker 3: what would Selene do? And Selene leads with kindness and
Speaker 3: so she's goofy and ridiculous, but you have to love her.
Speaker 3: And so I realized through that show. I was like,
Speaker 3: I know all of these songs. I would not own
Speaker 3: these songs is my kind of music. Yet you kind
Speaker 3: of learned to love. So I became a fan of
Speaker 3: her because of doing the show. It was one of
Speaker 3: those things of like, I did a Karen Carpenter's parody show,
Speaker 3: and I love Karen Carpenter. I was like, Karen Carpenter,
Speaker 3: get out of here, grow up. But but now you're like, oh,
Speaker 3: I love you know, I'm not afraid to admit I
Speaker 3: can like, you know, kind of like sentimental grocery store music.
Speaker 3: And and her voice is on Seline's voice is unbelievable,
Speaker 3: and so it's Karen Carpenter's obviously, so yeah so and
Speaker 3: then on top of it, with the all of her
Speaker 3: health issues that she's had, it just makes you like
Speaker 3: really see the human being that she is and you
Speaker 3: love her, and you're like, thank god, I love my
Speaker 3: starts to be weird.
Speaker 2: Oh of course weird in a good way.
Speaker 3: Absolutely, Barbara streisand is not weird enough.
Speaker 2: She could breathe it all.
Speaker 3: I'll say it. I want I want a weirdo.
Speaker 2: Let's find out something. You have all of the resources
Speaker 2: to be as strange as you possibly want.
Speaker 3: Go for it, Go for it.
Speaker 2: Be a freak.
Speaker 3: Do it.
Speaker 2: Please have something to hie.
Speaker 3: The rest of us, go, oh my god, did you
Speaker 3: see yes, of course, keep I'm guessing.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't. I mean I again, I think I
Speaker 2: do have memory issues because from the documentary, I remember
Speaker 2: health issues. I remember her son's being strange in a
Speaker 2: way where they were like drinking milkshakes all the time,
Speaker 2: oh right, and being gamers, and then she's just kind
Speaker 2: of trapped at least in the documentary in Las Vegas, right, which.
Speaker 3: That would be my deal. That's my least favorite place
Speaker 3: on earth.
Speaker 2: I'd love to hear it.
Speaker 3: I hate Las Vegas. Do you like Las Vegas?
Speaker 2: I do not, and it's awful. I have to say,
Speaker 2: you know, there are a lot I'm sure there are
Speaker 2: a lot of wonderful people who love it and live there.
Speaker 2: For me, I now cannot go back.
Speaker 3: I have been to Old Vegas and I liked that.
Speaker 3: Like the Old Vegas part is very cool and like
Speaker 3: I can imagine that. But the New Vegas, the Strip,
Speaker 3: it's literally everything terrible about America forced into this horrible,
Speaker 3: just vein of filth, and it's and it's all always
Speaker 3: so hot outside and so cold inside. It's loud, they
Speaker 3: are people everywhere. It's decad it it's barbecue, pork chop,
Speaker 3: margarita it's awful.
Speaker 2: When was the last time you were there?
Speaker 3: Yesterday? No? No, you know I have not been there
Speaker 3: in years. I only go there when I have to.
Speaker 3: My family used to take family trips there, and they
Speaker 3: used to think it was so fun. We're gonna We're
Speaker 3: gonna meet in Vegas, and they would fly all the
Speaker 3: way from the Carolinas and then I would meet them
Speaker 3: in Vegas and I was like, please, can I go
Speaker 3: home to North Carolina. I'd actually rather, I mean, I
Speaker 3: must rather be in North Carolina than than Las Vegas.
Speaker 3: But I guess I had. I had a job there,
Speaker 3: maybe ten or more years ago, and I remember getting
Speaker 3: like a six am flight out of there, just gland
Speaker 3: at six forty five am in LA I mean, like
Speaker 3: I would take the earliest flight to get out of there.
Speaker 3: I was like, nope, no more of this.
Speaker 2: No, it is torture for me to be there. There's nothing,
Speaker 2: There's zero appeal. You are seeing the absolute base of
Speaker 2: human behavior, seeing people at their lowest.
Speaker 3: Yes, and just the sadness of people like with the
Speaker 3: sweaty cocktail and putting another quarter in the slot machine,
Speaker 3: just being like my mortgage and you're just like this
Speaker 3: is so dark and awful, and I just I when
Speaker 3: I win mon I don't like gambling, I go okay,
Speaker 3: like it doesn't do anything for me to win. I'm
Speaker 3: that way with games too. I don't need to win games.
Speaker 3: I'm going to in any setting. I'm going to a
Speaker 3: game night tonight, and I pissed people off because I
Speaker 3: don't care. Where's your competitive spirit. I'm like, I had
Speaker 3: to let that die to do what I do for
Speaker 3: a living, I had to not be competitive. So I
Speaker 3: just don't enjoy. So that part of that I don't like.
Speaker 3: The entertainment is, yeah, it's cats on ice, you know,
Speaker 3: it's never anything like, I don't know, challenging.
Speaker 2: Right, I mean, of course, now the thing is people
Speaker 2: want to see the sphere.
Speaker 3: That I would like to see that.
Speaker 2: It's like, is it worth going there?
Speaker 3: I'll I'll see it on the helicopter passed or exactly.
Speaker 2: I guess I could make a road trip that simply
Speaker 2: doesn't stop in Las Vegas. You just drive through, you
Speaker 2: take a peek, you do that.
Speaker 3: It's like Big Ben Parliament. And just.
Speaker 2: Because none of the bands that they are scheduling there
Speaker 2: haven't hold any interest for me. I don't need to
Speaker 2: see you two and write three D or whatever we're
Speaker 2: talking about.
Speaker 3: No, I mean the bands have to be those kind
Speaker 3: of bands, right.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they have to be the biggest band. They have
Speaker 2: to be like a an NFL halftime band, right, which
Speaker 2: doesn't hold a lot of my attention, unfortunately. What sort
Speaker 2: of games are you playing at game night?
Speaker 3: I don't know, but these are intelligent, like like very
Speaker 3: I mean, these are one of the people there is
Speaker 3: like a producer and big brother oh the game creating
Speaker 3: the games, and they really like have a sort of
Speaker 3: you know, and you kind of get there, like I
Speaker 3: don't know what world I'm walking into.
Speaker 2: Tonight, cheese.
Speaker 3: But there are games like celebrity that I'm usually very
Speaker 3: good at, right, but I don't care, Like when I'm
Speaker 3: like I don't.
Speaker 2: That's kind of even worse when someone's good and they
Speaker 2: don't care, I.
Speaker 3: Know, they hate you. You're like and they're like, come on,
Speaker 3: you don't even have to put it whatever. But I'm
Speaker 3: terrible at most games, and I'm terrible at poker. So
Speaker 3: when I randomly went a hand, like a clock's always
Speaker 3: you know, right, a broken clock?
Speaker 2: Is it always rites twice a day? That right?
Speaker 3: Yes? Yes, which you know.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean that's sort of gambling in general exact
Speaker 2: because anyone can I know there's like.
Speaker 3: A strategy to all of it, and I just don't care.
Speaker 3: My brain doesn't cannot care enough.
Speaker 2: The only one that I can like tolerate as far
Speaker 2: as card games is black check because it's simple, it's
Speaker 2: over pretty.
Speaker 3: Quickly, right, and I've got to get to twenty one. Yes,
Speaker 3: it's when you get sixteen and you're like, I don't
Speaker 3: really know what should I do?
Speaker 2: And ultimately who cares?
Speaker 3: Who cares?
Speaker 2: So we can just get through this? Yeah, but yeah,
Speaker 2: I'm not a I mean, there's just Las Vegas. They're
Speaker 2: gonna have to think of something new if they're going
Speaker 2: to draw me in.
Speaker 3: Thank you. I go there for a paycheck or maybe
Speaker 3: a hug from mom.
Speaker 2: Well, I think there's something else I hate that I'd
Speaker 2: like to talk to you.
Speaker 3: Let's get into it.
Speaker 2: I was looking forward to having you here today, absolutely
Speaker 2: thrilled to have Drew here. I thought we'll have a
Speaker 2: wonderful conversation. Drew will go home ha. So you know
Speaker 2: the podcast is called I said no gifts and so,
Speaker 2: and I know there have been emails and I'm sure
Speaker 2: hundreds of phone calls, and the title has been repeated
Speaker 2: over and over too. Yeah, so it was a little
Speaker 2: I'm just going to say disappointed today.
Speaker 3: Sorry.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you showed up holding what could not more clearly
Speaker 2: be a gift for me.
Speaker 3: I really wanted to give it to you. I am sorry.
Speaker 3: I know, I just but you know what that thing
Speaker 3: where people say no gifts they really want, that's what
Speaker 3: they really mean.
Speaker 2: I really want them, right, I mean because I don't
Speaker 2: say for me, but people.
Speaker 3: When I have parties, I don't say no gifts. And
Speaker 3: then when I don't get a mic, what the fuck
Speaker 3: I didn't give me a gift?
Speaker 2: Do I have any real friends?
Speaker 3: I'm like, no gifts please. That's like someone saying bring
Speaker 3: bring me right. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know that I would ever have an
Speaker 2: invitation that said no gifts. What place in my life
Speaker 2: do I have to get to where I'm no begging
Speaker 2: people not to please don't.
Speaker 3: Bring me anything. I need nothing, I need everything.
Speaker 2: I'll take whatever you can get all of it.
Speaker 3: Please. My place is just full of choch keys and
Speaker 3: I need them all. But I hope you like this.
Speaker 2: Well, yeah I should. I open it here on the
Speaker 2: podcast Okay.
Speaker 3: I know we should cancel our Amazon Prime subscriptions, but
Speaker 3: get this on Amazon.
Speaker 2: How do we get out of this Amazon truck we have?
Speaker 3: There has to be a new, a new way.
Speaker 2: Slightly less worse version of Amazon, right because Amazon kind
Speaker 2: of for the longest time, Walmart was the place no
Speaker 2: one goes to Walmart, right, and now Walmart almost seems
Speaker 2: like a good guy.
Speaker 3: Yes, totally.
Speaker 2: So somebody that's just ten percent less horrible than Amazon
Speaker 2: needs to trot in, I know, and give us an
Speaker 2: opportunity to switch service.
Speaker 3: So that we can just order things that we can't
Speaker 3: because I I hope no one's given you this before,
Speaker 3: but I didn't nowhere else to get it. I hope
Speaker 3: you don't mind it.
Speaker 2: Oh, you know, because I've been given several.
Speaker 3: Oh my god, I love it. It's it's an adorable
Speaker 3: like little like litterate, like a purloined little gun for
Speaker 3: your for a little for a little coin purse. It
Speaker 3: shoots one bullet at a time. That's all I need. Yeah,
Speaker 3: just a few feet across. It makes a cute little
Speaker 3: noise when you shoot it.
Speaker 2: Okay, let me open this, Okay, let's see here. Take
Speaker 2: two hands.
Speaker 3: Okay, Oh, yeah, so it's supposed to also come gift wrapped.
Speaker 3: I believe I believe it is, and there's a yeah, sure,
Speaker 3: keep your gift a surprise. Let's so what does it
Speaker 3: say here?
Speaker 2: Let's see, I'm not gonna this seems to be just
Speaker 2: the gift for seats or does that have a message
Speaker 2: on it? Oh?
Speaker 3: Yeah, it tells you what it is. It's a gift
Speaker 3: for seat and.
Speaker 2: This just says enjoy your gift from Drew DROGI Okay, okay, right,
Speaker 2: very person obviously spent hours asked.
Speaker 3: Him to say the most personal thing possible.
Speaker 2: But okay, okay, now we're look at that beautiful, gorgeous?
Speaker 3: How fun is that? See? Now you're happy? Now I'm
Speaker 3: finally Now is there a gift? Is there a note
Speaker 3: inside that?
Speaker 2: Okay, now there's a there's the same message, but now
Speaker 2: half printed. It says essentially, joy your gift.
Speaker 3: Joy your gift from Drew from so see. Okay, so
Speaker 3: I'm so glad that happened. Joy your gift. When I
Speaker 3: was okay, so I spent before I moved to l A,
Speaker 3: I spent a summer in Kentucky outdoor summer stock Wow,
Speaker 3: and I need to get my entire theater resume I need. Yeah,
Speaker 3: so storied and rich and textured. No, I was doing
Speaker 3: and so after the shows we were doing Outroorth Theater.
Speaker 3: It was so crazy. We had to stand in the
Speaker 3: joyed at mine, go stand at the joy at mine?
Speaker 3: What's so that you would stand in line and people
Speaker 3: would won't go by and they would go joined it,
Speaker 3: joyed it, joined it. And when people would push past you,
Speaker 3: they would go, jout.
Speaker 2: What does that mean?
Speaker 3: Watch out? Watch out? Wow shout. And I'm from North Carolina,
Speaker 3: but I did not understand Kentucky. Like that was a
Speaker 3: new language for me. That's it was the Blue Ridge Mountains.
Speaker 3: It was a very different joyed it, joyed it? What
Speaker 3: was it? I'm really glad that joy your gifts.
Speaker 2: Really come full circle? Yeah, your theater career.
Speaker 3: Oh, it's just inside. It's just it's just a list
Speaker 3: of all the shows I've done Arizona. You can order
Speaker 3: on Amazon. It's very expensive and it's just a list
Speaker 3: of all of all of my credit.
Speaker 2: That's your new Amazon storefront. Air dropping them into people's homes. Okay,
Speaker 2: let's open these bags that they put them in are
Speaker 2: the toughest material on ours. This could be used in
Speaker 2: the military. Yeah, okay, no, let's see here. I don't
Speaker 2: need your help.
Speaker 3: Oh I love it.
Speaker 2: I like how strong I sai.
Speaker 3: No, yes, not vocally weak at all anymore.
Speaker 2: Okay, we're pulling it out here. Okay, it's oh and
Speaker 2: then it's almost I don't need your help.
Speaker 3: Okay again, I.
Speaker 2: Did not expect more.
Speaker 3: My god, it's a Russian doll. Keep going, that looks okay.
Speaker 3: I wishers video like who wraps that? Like someone in
Speaker 3: a factor was like it's slapping band aids on just
Speaker 3: like blue tissue paper. It's still happening more.
Speaker 2: Band aids than necessary.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it really seems angrily wrapping. I mean it's done
Speaker 3: with their day. Francis Random Dorman, Oh my god, we
Speaker 3: literally the same thing.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that movie I had a lot of complicated feelings about.
Speaker 3: Yeah, same, but I also maybe haven't related to a
Speaker 3: lead character as much. At the end, I was like,
Speaker 3: oh am, I hurt. I'm fine with that.
Speaker 2: Was it an Amazon ad?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 2: It felt not against it enough. Felt it felt like
Speaker 2: it took such a neutral look at Amazon.
Speaker 3: Really liked it because I think it was I was
Speaker 3: like just happy that like somebody who was like a
Speaker 3: drifter who was like, I'm a I'm a traveler all that,
Speaker 3: and it gave a lot of love to that. I
Speaker 3: didn't feel sorry for her in any way. Yes, which
Speaker 3: I thought was really great, and I thought she was
Speaker 3: fantastic in it, and and I really liked the like
Speaker 3: kind of the documentary feel of it.
Speaker 2: All these are all ems wanted to see one person
Speaker 2: have to, you know, pee in a bottle or something,
Speaker 2: just the truth.
Speaker 3: Oh, but you so like the shitting in the bucket
Speaker 3: didn't count. She shits in a buck yes, I can't
Speaker 3: memory specifically pee in a bottle, but she does ship
Speaker 3: in a bus while at work, No, while in her
Speaker 3: while in her in her van van.
Speaker 2: Okay, I wanted to see her ship in a bucket
Speaker 2: in the Amazon warehouse. Oh, okay, because I'm sure that's
Speaker 2: had to happen. Oh, I'm probably the person who wrapped this.
Speaker 3: Well keep ground wrapping. You know, I have no you
Speaker 3: have no idea what you're going to get? Okay, I
Speaker 3: wish I Okay, Now it's in this box another boxes.
Speaker 2: Tell you what it is. It's has tech deaths.
Speaker 3: Yes, yes, it's an ass tech death whistle. And have
Speaker 3: you ever heard this before. I've only heard this online
Speaker 3: and it makes the most incredible noise. It's a very
Speaker 3: upsetting noise that it makes, and it's apposed to like
Speaker 3: ward off enemies, as texts used it. I should have
Speaker 3: actually done research before I came on this, because I
Speaker 3: knew what I was giving you, but I dont real
Speaker 3: thing about it. I don't even know if this is
Speaker 3: going to work at all, but it makes a really
Speaker 3: wonderful upsetting noise and it words off evil spirits.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, I'm going to carry this in my bag.
Speaker 3: Yes, as you should. It's better than a gun. So
Speaker 3: now I think you just blow into the top of it.
Speaker 2: Okay, Yeah, we'll get a little further away for now.
Speaker 2: Like here on elys is directing the death with oh
Speaker 2: my god. Okay, that's what we played throughout the episode.
Speaker 3: Yeah, absolutely, anything, just like you need it, Like I
Speaker 3: just feel like, I'm so want to scream right now
Speaker 3: in the world. It's I get I give you that.
Speaker 3: It's like a it's like a one are those things
Speaker 3: you just you.
Speaker 2: Like a stress ball, It's like a screaming into a towel.
Speaker 3: Scream into a towel. Does screaming for you? You just
Speaker 3: have to blow into it and it just it it.
Speaker 2: I was recently thinking should I start a TikTok where
Speaker 2: every video is just me screaming into a different substance
Speaker 2: or towel or whatever. Here's a thousand eat a thousand
Speaker 2: count sheets or whatever, because that's the feeling all the time, right,
Speaker 2: just scream how it feels to scream into this. Let
Speaker 2: me but now we should probably alert the listener every
Speaker 2: time I'm about.
Speaker 3: Yeah, trigger warning. It's it's really deeply.
Speaker 2: You feel like I'm hitting it the note correctly.
Speaker 3: Let me see, I will not. Okay, I think that's
Speaker 3: all you can do, right.
Speaker 2: I just want to make sure I'm getting the perfect
Speaker 2: note out of this death whistle because I'm.
Speaker 3: Sure saying, see if you can hum into and see
Speaker 3: that changes it?
Speaker 1: Hmmm?
Speaker 3: Are you.
Speaker 2: Perfect? See it either does or.
Speaker 3: Choices.
Speaker 2: That's the tech life whistle. I just want to keep
Speaker 2: blowing this, and I know this has got to be
Speaker 2: excruciating for a listener.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I love that. Punish them for making the choice
Speaker 3: to listen to this, Like, oh my god, what am I.
Speaker 2: Doing with my life? Yeah, I've got to get it together.
Speaker 3: Hurt them. Wow, So no one's giving you this before.
Speaker 2: This has never been on the pot. Okay, good, okay good,
Speaker 2: But probably every gift from now on will be a death.
Speaker 3: So I hope this just sets off a whole like
Speaker 3: death whistle chain, because I know you've done this show
Speaker 3: for a while and I was like, I didn't you know.
Speaker 3: I wanted to make sure this is unbelievable. I'm so happy.
Speaker 2: It really is a stress reliever. Yeah, I'm like, I've
Speaker 2: released so much already. How did you learn about this?
Speaker 3: I saw it online. I saw something and the noise
Speaker 3: made me laugh because it was just like this thing
Speaker 3: and people would just say it was like this, really,
Speaker 3: it's this primal, upsetting noise that you would hear it,
Speaker 3: and yes, exactly, dear right, just like bread just sort
Speaker 3: of it words off evil spirits and do you.
Speaker 2: Have one of your own?
Speaker 3: No, But now I need to you're so jealous. I know,
Speaker 3: I know I'm going to find a way to steal that.
Speaker 2: The only thing that's missing as my death was, and they.
Speaker 3: We're gonna see it. I'm gonna be doing a recording
Speaker 3: of something else you're gonna see at the background like
Speaker 3: that mother fuck.
Speaker 2: That's like a nine part docu series.
Speaker 3: Yes, exactly. I mean I think it's a good I
Speaker 3: think it's a good thing to have.
Speaker 2: I hope it's a good I think this is a
Speaker 2: good thing to have.
Speaker 3: I not like a like the have you seen Trilogy
Speaker 3: of Terror? Have you seen that movie?
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 2: What's this?
Speaker 3: Oh my god? Okay, so it was. It was a
Speaker 3: TV movie that came out in the seventies with Karen Black,
Speaker 3: who was like huge star years ago. She's Oscar. I mean,
Speaker 3: she was amazing at her She did a TV movie.
Speaker 3: It was. It was three short films. She plays four
Speaker 3: characters in the movie because there's one for she plays twins. Okay,
Speaker 3: no one remembers the first two movies, the first two shorts.
Speaker 3: The third short is a legendary and truly terrifying piece
Speaker 3: about a woman who gets a zooni fetish doll, that's
Speaker 3: what they call it. I'm sure very problematic, this white
Speaker 3: woman getting this African doll that has that's literally a
Speaker 3: problem that she pulls it out of her I think
Speaker 3: she could to get it from her mother. She's on
Speaker 3: a phone call, she's in the bathtub, and they're like,
Speaker 3: whatever you do, don't let the doll's belt fall off.
Speaker 3: Because then all hell breaks.
Speaker 2: Loose its successories exactly.
Speaker 3: Don't make it nude. And so she's in the bathtub.
Speaker 3: All of a sudden, doll just standing there and the
Speaker 3: belt just falls off. Next thing you know, that doll
Speaker 3: is chasing her around her apartment. She's throwing it in
Speaker 3: the oven. She is screaming. It's from the doll's point
Speaker 3: of view. It's growling, it's stabbing at her. It's absolutely
Speaker 3: it's so it's like a thirty minute long Don't watch
Speaker 3: the first two films, watch the third and trilogy of Terror. Everyone,
Speaker 3: I'm telling you, I highly recommend it is.
Speaker 2: The doll done through stop motion, Yes, okay.
Speaker 3: A lot of it is from the point of view
Speaker 3: of the doll, so you're just seeing like you're just
Speaker 3: seeing this, like these arms and stabbing at her and
Speaker 3: she's on the ground screaming. But it's really upsetting.
Speaker 2: This feels so up your house.
Speaker 3: Oh I love it, but I love Child's Play all
Speaker 3: so like the original Child's Play, it is genuinely scary.
Speaker 2: I've never seen.
Speaker 3: Oh it's great, it's great. You don't think that, like,
Speaker 3: oh little dolls. Can I be scary? Nothing wrong?
Speaker 2: Can we get a visual on Trilogy of Terror, on
Speaker 2: this doll in particular, I really just want to visualize
Speaker 2: what's happening. I do feel like seventies and maybe early
Speaker 2: eighties is shocked already.
Speaker 3: It's shocking. This is probably shocking.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, oh, I feel like seventies and oh let's
Speaker 2: see here.
Speaker 3: Oh oh yeah it is, yes, exactly.
Speaker 2: It's got a massive head.
Speaker 3: Oh and just teeth and just and lips like full lipsticks.
Speaker 2: This is not I mean, this is a problematic creature.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Full Kelly and Conway.
Speaker 2: You know, just where's Kelly.
Speaker 3: She's a she's a warrior dog. She's a fun little doll.
Speaker 3: Just don't take her belt off. She'll come for you.
Speaker 2: To be stocks around your house by Kelleyhan conflict Hell true,
Speaker 2: hell true, Hell No. What I was going to say
Speaker 2: is like, I feel like seventies and eighties TV horror
Speaker 2: is almost scarier than horror in the movies from those decades.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, because it's like you listened to Sam Pancakes podcast. Yes,
Speaker 3: he's a great podcast called Sam Pancake Presents the Monday
Speaker 3: Afternoon Movie. I'm the horrible, like dear friend of it.
Speaker 3: It's about he does the TV movies from the seventies
Speaker 3: and eighties. Okay, oh fantastic, and I've done it a
Speaker 3: few times. It's so much fun you watch a really
Speaker 3: obscure movie. But there were so many TV and it's
Speaker 3: specifically TV movies right from that decade what is it movie?
Speaker 3: And they're usually horror, and they're and they're horrible like
Speaker 3: and they tie things up in the whatever amount of
Speaker 3: time they have, right, And I know, but it was
Speaker 3: But also that's a thing too, I think for because
Speaker 3: even as like a kid, I mean I grew up
Speaker 3: in the eighties and I would watch those things and
Speaker 3: they were on TV in the you know, in the
Speaker 3: middle of the day, were terrifying. I think about like
Speaker 3: I would come home from school and on HBO in
Speaker 3: the middle of the day would be Kujo and Mommy Darrist,
Speaker 3: which I still call a horror movie because I was
Speaker 3: a child and that movie's on TV every day, and
Speaker 3: it was terrified.
Speaker 2: That would scare the light.
Speaker 3: It was so scary. And I loved horror. I love thriller,
Speaker 3: I love Nightmare and elm Street, I love all of
Speaker 3: that stuff. But there were some of those that when
Speaker 3: they would feel like they were real, right, there was
Speaker 3: like there was a document and sometimes when that when
Speaker 3: they weren't scored properly, they were more up, they were
Speaker 3: more upsetting. You were just like, why this is happening
Speaker 3: where it's like a movie. It's like, oh, this is
Speaker 3: a movie and it's bump up on and you know
Speaker 3: the bad guy's coming. But some of those, like really
Speaker 3: cheap ones were just sort of like.
Speaker 2: They don't have the budgets to tell you when it's
Speaker 2: coming now, so you're it was just sort of like,
Speaker 2: oh my god, and mommy dear, is just the idea
Speaker 2: of having a scary mother figure screaming and having.
Speaker 3: Cutting the hair scene. I know where I talking about
Speaker 3: the wire hangers and all this stuff like that, but
Speaker 3: when she chops off Christina's hair, Oh, it's really upsetting.
Speaker 3: It's very upsetting.
Speaker 2: I mean, to have that happen to you, to have
Speaker 2: your my mom even tried to get into the hair character.
Speaker 3: Now, I know, thank you, she's not cut out, not literally.
Speaker 2: Literally thank you. Yeah. I feel like I just recently
Speaker 2: watched one of these movies. I love a haunted house movie,
Speaker 2: and there's a few of them, but I found a
Speaker 2: I wish I could remember. It was a seventies TV
Speaker 2: movie where these people moved into what was I think
Speaker 2: even they acknowledged was a cursed home and then just
Speaker 2: tried to make a go of it.
Speaker 3: Oh, I think I know what you're talking about. And
Speaker 3: a famous for this in the seventies woman was the
Speaker 3: mother in it. Believe in it, But I don't remember.
Speaker 3: But There's in a Basement?
Speaker 2: Yeah, smiliar. Yeah, yeah, I mean, this is a good
Speaker 2: thing to bring up on a podcast.
Speaker 3: I don't know, And I think it's is it that
Speaker 3: one where oh her? And then oh god?
Speaker 2: Right?
Speaker 3: And should we spoiled it?
Speaker 2: What's the scariest movie you've ever seen?
Speaker 3: I okay, so immediately I think about my mom and
Speaker 3: I love scary movies, and we would go to the
Speaker 3: movies a lot growing up, and I remember going just
Speaker 3: being like, let's go. It was like a nine to
Speaker 3: thirty on a week night. Right when it had opened,
Speaker 3: we saw Silence of the Lambs.
Speaker 2: Oh my god.
Speaker 3: That was because we were just preparing for like this
Speaker 3: kind of a spooky and having no idea how genuinely terrifying.
Speaker 3: That's the scariest I've ever been in a theater watching
Speaker 3: that movie. And that movie still is very effective and
Speaker 3: very disturbing to me. I'm I think Rednecks in the
Speaker 3: Woods are really scary, like Texas chains Lamask a Wrong Turn,
Speaker 3: All Wrong Turns Eliza Dushkoup And it's actually a really
Speaker 3: great nineties early two thousands, Like Red Next it's actually
Speaker 3: really really scary and great. I love it. But it's
Speaker 3: those movies are scarier to me than like zombies or
Speaker 3: alien or things like that. Right when it's like, oh,
Speaker 3: that could really happen.
Speaker 2: That's exactly I feel.
Speaker 3: That's really really scary to me. And I also just
Speaker 3: growing up in the South, I think you just.
Speaker 2: Kind of are scared of, like, oh, yeah, that's they
Speaker 2: could be.
Speaker 3: Oh at any moment, Like cities don't scare me, like
Speaker 3: country scares me.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that makes a lot of sense. And the wrong
Speaker 2: turn they're just trying to go on a nice vacation.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and they take the wrong turn. Little do you
Speaker 3: know they're hunted by these Yeah, for a purpose. Sure,
Speaker 3: lunch Hills have Eyes as another good one. And yeah,
Speaker 3: there's always a lot of those that are.
Speaker 2: Just sort of like you know, I just watch the
Speaker 2: Zodiac documentary. Have you seen this?
Speaker 3: Oh? Yeah, I have not seen it.
Speaker 2: No, It was scary initially, and then I started to
Speaker 2: feel like these people are telling their story that they
Speaker 2: think that they basically lived with the zodiac. Oh okay,
Speaker 2: started to feel a little. I became skeptical.
Speaker 3: Uh huh, I understand. I love that movie. That's the
Speaker 3: movies believe, but that's really about the world around it
Speaker 3: because no one ever really knew who he was. I
Speaker 3: kne who the actual killer was, and so that made
Speaker 3: it even more disturbing when you go into it knowing
Speaker 3: like they're not going to find.
Speaker 2: Him because he's still out there.
Speaker 3: Yes, wasn't there that people thinking that Ted Cruz was
Speaker 3: the Zodio, which literally makes no sense because Ted Cruise
Speaker 3: is younger than me or my age. It's a crazy disturbing.
Speaker 2: Number with Ted Cruise is he's probably twenty eight.
Speaker 3: Age, he's my age, and no, but I you know,
Speaker 3: you're the numbers, and it's sort of like, oh, well
Speaker 3: then no, it's obviously not.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean even that, I just don't like him
Speaker 2: getting any attention on my agree negative or positive. I
Speaker 2: just want him to fall into a swamp and no
Speaker 2: one ever knows. He's just vanishes from society and we can't.
Speaker 3: Wait for that to happen to a lot of people.
Speaker 3: I mean, that's what's going to have to happen.
Speaker 2: True.
Speaker 3: At this point, we scream into our death mask and
Speaker 3: just hope for swamps, you know, Hope for Swamps, my
Speaker 3: favorite Oprah book Club book, Hope for Swamps.
Speaker 2: Do we know exactly what this is supposed to do?
Speaker 2: Is it supposed to ward off?
Speaker 3: Is it's supposed to ward off? I hope it's not
Speaker 3: to like invite, invite.
Speaker 2: My life just craters after this, Like sure, let's go,
Speaker 2: Like well, I'm just great, just drive off. Listening to
Speaker 2: Karen Carpon, I.
Speaker 3: I know exactly rainy days and mondays. No, I I
Speaker 3: think it's to ward off evil spirits. I don't say
Speaker 3: that on at.
Speaker 2: Least you have any idea.
Speaker 3: There are a few things. One of the main things
Speaker 3: is to.
Speaker 4: It was used as an intimidation tactic in war, completely
Speaker 4: can be used in ceremonies and human sacrifice rituals.
Speaker 2: Perfect to get into it.
Speaker 3: Sweet may have.
Speaker 4: Been used to honor the wind god and to call
Speaker 4: for favorable weather conditions. Weather today, Yeah Yeah announced the
Speaker 4: death of a tribal member, and the whistle was used
Speaker 4: on the day of the dad along with other instruments.
Speaker 4: So there, Yeah, the multipurpose whistle.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it truly is. It's a Swiss army knife and
Speaker 2: there you go. I mean, I don't even know if
Speaker 2: I describe this to the listener, but it's a little
Speaker 2: black skull and it's so tasteful. Little skull, yeah, half skull. Yeah,
Speaker 2: the jaw is gone, some enormous teeth up front. Ye,
Speaker 2: and it's really stunning. I think it's made out of
Speaker 2: clay or something. Let's just do another, just, you know,
Speaker 2: because we should do this periodically.
Speaker 3: Hm. I also love that it like it's like a kettle.
Speaker 3: It gets stronger, it builds, you know.
Speaker 2: Yeah, there's no tea at the end. It's just.
Speaker 3: Kind of that annoying tea at the end, just the
Speaker 3: rage sounds of air escaping.
Speaker 2: Do you play any instruments?
Speaker 3: I don't.
Speaker 2: Did you ever take I never did.
Speaker 3: I have very long piano fingers that people always said
Speaker 3: you your hands to play piano, and I was always told, like,
Speaker 3: you'll regret it, you never play piano. I don't regret it.
Speaker 3: I've never been interested in and I mean I love
Speaker 3: when people play it. Well. I wish I could sing
Speaker 3: that's the thing. I'm going to bring that back too.
Speaker 3: That's the thing that I wish I could do is
Speaker 3: like sing and dance and then I would, you know,
Speaker 3: just do plays all the time.
Speaker 2: But piano, no, how well can you sing? Can you
Speaker 2: like in the car? You're like, I can.
Speaker 3: Carry So Titanic gave me a lot more confidence. And
Speaker 3: I can talk sing, you know, I can do talkie
Speaker 3: sing things. It's just not a pretty sound when I sing,
Speaker 3: and but I have found ways of doing it, and
Speaker 3: a lot of it is just is confidence. Sure. I'm
Speaker 3: just where I'm way more confident saying lines. When I
Speaker 3: have a song and I'm like, oh God, if I
Speaker 3: mess up a word, I'm going to throw the whole
Speaker 3: song away. I'm not really gonna know. I had to
Speaker 3: do a show where I had to another theater story.
Speaker 3: I had to do Vogue. I just sing Madonnald's Woe,
Speaker 3: which I've sung for thirty years. I had to have
Speaker 3: it written down. I had to make excuse that it
Speaker 3: was written for me because I was like Greta Garbo
Speaker 3: and Monroe Dietrich into Mondial, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Harlow, Jimmy Carter,
Speaker 3: Carter Black. I was like, literally going, I don't know
Speaker 3: what I'm saying, and I was yeah. So I was like,
Speaker 3: if I get this wrong at the beginning of the show,
Speaker 3: then the whole show is to have it written down.
Speaker 3: I was so in my head about it.
Speaker 2: I wouldn't be surprised if Madonna has to have it
Speaker 2: written down.
Speaker 3: She has everything written down on her hand.
Speaker 2: I'm just messy.
Speaker 3: Carlow Gene picture of a what.
Speaker 2: Just covered in bit? Uh? Did you ever? Did you
Speaker 2: perform in middle and high school? Was that a thing?
Speaker 3: High school? Tenth grade? I started doing theater in high school. Yeah?
Speaker 2: Did you do high school musicals?
Speaker 3: I did not. I think I directed musicals in my
Speaker 3: community theater when I was in high school. Wow. Yes,
Speaker 3: oh oh. Let me tell you. I've got the Lincoln
Speaker 3: Times News in Lincoln, North Carolina when I was eighteen.
Speaker 3: I remember I was directing this the musical called Smoke
Speaker 3: on the Mountain, which is a gospel musical comedy in
Speaker 3: nineteen ninety five. Yep, And the headline of the paper
Speaker 3: just said, Drew Drogi eighteen is Lincolnin's orson Wells. That
Speaker 3: was the nicest I've ever gotten. The nicest thing that
Speaker 3: anyone's ever said about me. They really had high expense
Speaker 3: on Oh oh, it's all over it. I had to
Speaker 3: work in your hair. Yeah, you know, it's my head shot.
Speaker 3: You don't have quotes on your head shots from your
Speaker 3: town newspaper. Come on, gotta get in the business.
Speaker 2: That's huge. How did you react to that?
Speaker 3: I was it was downhill from there. I was like,
Speaker 3: I can't live up to that. So yeah, but I
Speaker 3: did a lot with the Community Theater. I was actually
Speaker 3: a wonderful it. I did save my life because I
Speaker 3: was kicked out of every club. We had like a
Speaker 3: whole marijuana tobuckle where we were found with marijuana and
Speaker 3: all my awards were stripped away from me and like everything.
Speaker 3: So the only thing I had by the end was
Speaker 3: the Community Theater. They took very romantic. They took our
Speaker 3: scholarships away, they took our We were kicked out of
Speaker 3: the Honor Society, out of the like all the clubs.
Speaker 3: We were like, it was literally our senior year was
Speaker 3: just we're stripping this from you and taking this from you.
Speaker 3: And there's thousands of dollars in scholarship money we're taking
Speaker 3: from Wow, what a ship yeah, because we confess to
Speaker 3: having a joint. We weren't even cod was on a
Speaker 3: school trip.
Speaker 2: What a way to make sure the person continues to
Speaker 2: do drink?
Speaker 3: And when I continue to do drug, of course I
Speaker 3: usually eat it, but I do I do pot every day.
Speaker 3: I would say that, And I learned to lie. I
Speaker 3: learned how to lie be like, no, I didn't have
Speaker 3: I don't have a joint on me. I. But because
Speaker 3: I was like, oh, I'm going to tell the truth,
Speaker 3: we were.
Speaker 2: Yeah, why did you decide to tell the truth?
Speaker 3: We were actually they were really they were really insidious
Speaker 3: about it. They they grabbed one person out of the
Speaker 3: group and made her fest up. They said, she's already
Speaker 3: told us, and so you may as well tell us, right,
Speaker 3: And we also were just like, well, we're going to
Speaker 3: do the right thing and we're going to say yes,
Speaker 3: we did it. And then because of that, then it
Speaker 3: was like our lives and we're like, oh, right, next time,
Speaker 3: don't don't tell the truth. That's what I learned from
Speaker 3: that whole situation was like lie and weeds better than
Speaker 3: you know, most of those people that you're you know, you.
Speaker 2: Know, yeah, I think just lie until at least until
Speaker 2: you have the full picture of what's going to happen exactly.
Speaker 3: They never known, and they would have they would have
Speaker 3: literally been like you know, he said, versus she said,
Speaker 3: but we would have let our friend she.
Speaker 2: Could throw her under the bus. Yeah, she made the
Speaker 2: decision she did. This is a pro rat podcast.
Speaker 3: Absolutely okay. In that case, Well, is.
Speaker 2: There anything left to say about the whistle?
Speaker 3: I don't think so.
Speaker 2: I mean, we'll blow it. It'll be blown again frequently.
Speaker 3: But I say I highly recommend them. I recommend getting
Speaker 3: them in a store. But if you can't find them
Speaker 3: in a store, they.
Speaker 2: Are on alms online. I wonder you can get these
Speaker 2: in a store.
Speaker 3: I know, Like, what store? Do you go to?
Speaker 2: Target?
Speaker 3: I'm sure they or they have Holiday death Wessons, Silver
Speaker 3: Bell Death wik Yes, yes, I have Santa's boots. What have.
Speaker 2: Well, I think it's time to play a game. All right, great,
Speaker 2: I think we'll play this game called Gift a Curse Listener.
Speaker 2: We'll play Gift Masters soon. It's under construction again. I'm
Speaker 2: so lazy. Oh all right, I need a number between
Speaker 2: one and ten from you.
Speaker 3: Seven, Okay.
Speaker 2: I have to do a little bit of light calculating
Speaker 2: to get our game pieces. So you can promote, recommend,
Speaker 2: do whatever you want.
Speaker 3: I can promote, Oh please, when is this coming out?
Speaker 3: Do we know? Well at that point, hopefully it will
Speaker 3: still be in theaters. But I'm in a new movie
Speaker 3: called Queer that opens on November twenty seventh, but I
Speaker 3: don't know what actually when it opens wide, but definitely
Speaker 3: go see that. What else I've got nothing else going on? Yeah,
Speaker 3: that's about it. I'm looking for work.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's perfect. I mean, it's so exciting the movie.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's it's really great. It's wonderful. I'm very excited that.
Speaker 2: I mean, it seems like it's going to be incredible.
Speaker 2: On Daniel Craig, Yes, he's wonderful. It's just the nicest,
Speaker 2: normal to earth person. He's such a great I mean,
Speaker 2: he's phenomenal in this movie, I'm sure. And Nike anything
Speaker 2: he's ever done, and I mean he's always great. But
Speaker 2: this is just like WHOA and then Luca Guaddino. So
Speaker 2: it was like so it was it was a dream.
Speaker 2: Somebody made it because he's made two movies this year.
Speaker 3: He did well. Challengers was done, but because of Strike
Speaker 3: and the whole thing, and they had a hold back
Speaker 3: what weever. But yeah, so he actually showed us Challengers
Speaker 3: when we were when we were filming.
Speaker 2: There, so I got to get to see that inside school.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and I love Challengers too. It's but it's a
Speaker 3: lot of the same team. I mean, justin Kurtziz who
Speaker 3: wrote the script for both of Atticus Ross Andresler just
Speaker 3: the music for both, and so like Jonathan Anderson designed costumes,
Speaker 3: and so it's a lot of the same team that
Speaker 3: did Challengers also did Queer and they are wildly different movies. Yeah,
Speaker 3: they seem very very gay movies in very different ways.
Speaker 2: Ultimately both tennis films.
Speaker 3: Yes, of course, there's so much tennis. No I play,
Speaker 3: Chris Evert. The fact that you're that that's my reference true,
Speaker 3: Not Martina and Averagel, not Venus and Serena, Chris Ager.
Speaker 2: Chris Evert, sure, I mean those are you have way
Speaker 2: more tennis polls than I could have possibly had.
Speaker 3: I don't even know how I know that. Very impressive
Speaker 3: she hosted, and now that's how I know.
Speaker 2: So there we go, there we go exactly, Okay, do
Speaker 2: I have anything to recommend? Oh, I've been rewatching getting on.
Speaker 3: Oh, Laurie metcalf.
Speaker 2: Oh, just an unbelievable And I've learned recently that people
Speaker 2: who I trust in respect haven't even heard of the show.
Speaker 3: Oh it needs to come back and people need to
Speaker 3: watch again. I need to watch it again because I
Speaker 3: didn't watch all of it and loved the ones that
Speaker 3: I did see.
Speaker 2: Oh so you haven't You haven't seen the final episode. No,
Speaker 2: I have not. It's so beautiful. There's a moment that
Speaker 2: is one of the most beautiful moments I've seen in television.
Speaker 2: Oh it was a very funny show.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, it was really funny. Yeah, it was also
Speaker 3: really great. I saw Yesterday, which is a very different tone,
Speaker 3: but speaking of like hospital, way more in the comedy side,
Speaker 3: but Saint Denis medical.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, of course, it's so fun and it's got.
Speaker 3: It's got. You have a friend of any.
Speaker 2: I've had got friends who write on it. Oh, yes, Yaomi, Naomi,
Speaker 2: my friend justin Ye.
Speaker 3: People, it's I mean, you've got the the national treasure
Speaker 3: that is Wendy McLendon Covey and she's so good, and
Speaker 3: the legend that is David Alla Greer And like Allison
Speaker 3: told me, it's like this great cast. But it's also
Speaker 3: really moving and very sweet. I thought it would just
Speaker 3: be a fun you know, just a roperstar in a
Speaker 3: in a hospital, but instead it's it's really I was like, Wow,
Speaker 3: I'm really moved.
Speaker 2: And two solid hospital recommendations. People need to be watching
Speaker 2: more hospital on t tree.
Speaker 3: There's not enough hospital on TV.
Speaker 2: That's whatever, says the problem with the industry. Yes, get
Speaker 2: some more hospitals and we'll fire. Okay, this is how
Speaker 2: we play Gift or a Curse. I'm going to name
Speaker 2: three things, and you're going to tell me if there
Speaker 2: are a gift or a curse and why, and then
Speaker 2: I'll tell you if you're right or wrong. Because there
Speaker 2: are correct answers. You can fail this game. Oh I
Speaker 2: hope so, and I probably will. You use the death
Speaker 2: whistle because why wouldn't.
Speaker 3: Why not.
Speaker 2: When the death whistle blows, that means you did not
Speaker 2: get the point. Okay, when the death whistle blows, it
Speaker 2: means you were also correct. I'll just why afterwards. It'll
Speaker 2: be blown no matter, okay. Number one this is from
Speaker 2: a listener named Steph. Gift or a Curse When somebody
Speaker 2: is out on a walk and happens upon a fruit
Speaker 2: tree near the sidewalk in a stranger's yard and helps
Speaker 2: themselves to some of the fruit.
Speaker 3: And it's a gift or a curse. Yes, I see,
Speaker 3: I'm going to call that a gift. Why because it's
Speaker 3: you never eat all the fruit that it's on your tree,
Speaker 3: give it to the neighborhood. It's fruits made to be eaten.
Speaker 3: I think it's a I think it's a delicious treat.
Speaker 3: And I enjoy all the fairy tales in which people
Speaker 3: bite fruit and magic happens to them.
Speaker 2: Oh, correct, correct, Yes, I love. I'm always so scared
Speaker 2: to do it myself. I'm so tempted. Yes, but I
Speaker 2: think if your fruit tree is hanging over the sidewalk,
Speaker 2: that's city property. Yes, And why can't I take a
Speaker 2: little after my neighbors have.
Speaker 3: My neighbors have an orange tree who belonged to gay
Speaker 3: rights activists and legend Morris Kite, who did pass away
Speaker 3: a few years ago, but he was like the amazing
Speaker 3: gay like like hero of That's Hollywood, was in his nineties.
Speaker 3: He had this bitter orange tree that's good for marmalade
Speaker 3: and cocktails. You don't really want to eat the oranges, right,
Speaker 3: It produces so many oranges and they're thrilled, or at
Speaker 3: least they tell me they are when we when we
Speaker 3: take them off the tree to they're wonderful in a negronie.
Speaker 2: Oh that sounds I need to find out where this
Speaker 2: is located. Shop. Yeah, yeah, I think it's lovely. Someone's
Speaker 2: going to take it, whether it's a wild animal another person,
Speaker 2: or it will fall to the ground, yes, and rot
Speaker 2: on the ground. Yeah, we should all. I want to
Speaker 2: get one.
Speaker 3: Anyone who is like, donate the fruit, then dig up
Speaker 3: the tree right, throw it away, Throw the tree away,
Speaker 3: and you're selfing with it. Die? Thank you?
Speaker 2: No you? Okay, you get the point. An absolute gift
Speaker 2: okay number two. This is from a listener named Cameron.
Speaker 2: Gift or a curse welcome Matt's slash other assorted front
Speaker 2: door trinkets or decor in the indoor hallway of an
Speaker 2: apartment building.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna say, curse.
Speaker 2: Why.
Speaker 3: I think they're trying too hard. I mean, like, it's
Speaker 3: one thing if it's like a nice decorative map, but
Speaker 3: if it has a message on it, I'm always like
Speaker 3: uh uh oh, Like I'm a little bit like red flag.
Speaker 3: It's like you're you're you you are trying. It's like
Speaker 3: bumper sticker or anything like. I'm this and it's just
Speaker 3: it's a lot at me. I don't need a welcome
Speaker 3: or anything wacky or fine. When I'm walking in the door,
Speaker 3: a nice, beautiful pattern, a nice color, lovely. I can
Speaker 3: dust off my shoes or leave them at the door.
Speaker 3: I'm happy to do that. Don't scream words at me
Speaker 3: when I'm coming up to your place. Thank you.
Speaker 2: Wrong, it's a curse. It's a gift. It's a gift.
Speaker 2: I mean, I'm doing a lot here. I'm playing an instrument.
Speaker 2: Now the listener has to forgive me. You're wrong, You're
Speaker 2: absolutely wrong. I love it. The more clutter we can
Speaker 2: get in a hallway, the better, the more opportunities to
Speaker 2: trip over trinkets and chowkeys. I think it's absolutely terrific.
Speaker 2: And I love a little mattch to wipe my filthy
Speaker 2: feet the mud off.
Speaker 3: Do you like it to say funny things like lordy, lordy,
Speaker 3: Brenda's forty.
Speaker 2: Yes, that's all they should say. A special happy birthday
Speaker 2: welcome that you own for the rest of life. That
Speaker 2: someone's gone. This is you have a second item for
Speaker 2: your correct Yeah, I mean you've really proven yourself wrong.
Speaker 3: Here, Yeah I really have.
Speaker 2: That.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I know.
Speaker 2: Okay, so one out of two so far and this
Speaker 2: is the final one. This is from an unknown listener.
Speaker 2: And whenever I see unknown it feels a little creepy.
Speaker 2: It's like an unmarked grave. But whatever, gift your a
Speaker 2: curse saying the name of the credit card company before
Speaker 2: reading out the number. It's a Visa for one four seven.
Speaker 3: Oh, that's a curse. You're an idiot, because first of all,
Speaker 3: they know by the like a Visa and MasterCard, they
Speaker 3: have like certain numbers that immediately make it what it is.
Speaker 3: But also like it doesn't the number is not going
Speaker 3: to be different per like that's that credit cards number.
Speaker 3: It's not like, oh, Visa has that number and MasterCard
Speaker 3: house Americans. The number is the number. You don't need
Speaker 3: to say that. That's like saying it's a red card. Uh,
Speaker 3: you know what I mean, we don't need that.
Speaker 2: And now the school it's just.
Speaker 3: So many.
Speaker 2: I lead a musical life. Wrong, Ah, it's a gift again.
Speaker 2: I mean, speaking of Brenda, this feels like real Brenda,
Speaker 2: right when somebody it's a master card for one for
Speaker 2: something that's a.
Speaker 3: Dream Diners club.
Speaker 2: It's a Discover three one, threes eight. It's I think
Speaker 2: that's perfect behavior I need. I think we should all
Speaker 2: be bringing that energy.
Speaker 3: Oh, I love it. I love it. I just find
Speaker 3: it like.
Speaker 2: That's very phone in between your ear and shoulder reading
Speaker 2: it out?
Speaker 1: You are?
Speaker 3: I mean, I love I love anyone who's going to
Speaker 3: read their credit card number out loud in public, really loud,
Speaker 3: and just announce it. I mean, how fun? What a
Speaker 3: wild adventure you're must always be on. Yeah, I think
Speaker 3: that's how I got scammed again. It's a Visa five
Speaker 3: six one.
Speaker 2: How often are you reading out the number? You're calling
Speaker 2: the Sears catalog? You're on the phone with pennies. It's
Speaker 2: I think it's a gift, at least for our Brenda's Sure,
Speaker 2: Well you got one out of three, one out of three.
Speaker 3: That's not bad.
Speaker 2: It's not a complete fail.
Speaker 3: No, And I don't care. I told you I don't
Speaker 3: like to win.
Speaker 2: Right, you're the person for this, right, and now I'm furious.
Speaker 2: I need you to be passionate about this. And now
Speaker 2: we need to get into the on aalase gift or
Speaker 2: a curse. On liase is a very objective judge and
Speaker 2: they're going to give us one and we're both going
Speaker 2: to try to get the correct answer on release. What
Speaker 2: is your thing today?
Speaker 4: Gift a curse? The friendship of Martha Stewart and Snoop Dogg.
Speaker 2: Interesting. Do you want to go first?
Speaker 1: Oh?
Speaker 3: Yeah, go first. I think that's a gift. I think
Speaker 3: that's a wonderful thing. I think they both are fascinating personalities.
Speaker 3: They both bring out a real like mirth in each other.
Speaker 3: He absolutely made her like he's has softened her in
Speaker 3: a really fun way. I'm a fan. I'm a fan
Speaker 3: of that pairing and partnership.
Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, I'm also going to say gift. I was
Speaker 2: on the phone with my mom just last night talking
Speaker 2: about the Martha Stewart documentary.
Speaker 3: Which I've not seen.
Speaker 2: It gets a little dark. She seems like she could
Speaker 2: be a very lonely person. But my mom wants them
Speaker 2: to get married.
Speaker 3: Ah.
Speaker 2: She just loves these two together. We all love them together.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I mean, I feel like it's a pretty honest thing
Speaker 2: that's happening. I hope, I hope that they love each other.
Speaker 3: I hope so too. I think it's fantastic, it's organic,
Speaker 3: and maybe it's just We're totally just. You know, sometimes
Speaker 3: you feel like, oh, you literally put these two wildly
Speaker 3: different people together in a world and whatever, but like
Speaker 3: in a buddy comedy or something right. But instead I'm like, no,
Speaker 3: they genuinely I want to believe they genuinely like each other.
Speaker 2: I mean it should be an buddy comedy, would solving
Speaker 2: a crime?
Speaker 3: Or she needs to be in the remake of Taxi?
Speaker 1: Yes?
Speaker 2: Absolutely, on Elis, how did we do?
Speaker 3: You're wrong, it's a curse.
Speaker 4: I see the reason why I'm going to be the
Speaker 4: bad guy here because I know, deep in your heart Bridger,
Speaker 4: you want to say it's a curse, because you know
Speaker 4: that should be.
Speaker 2: You know Martha, you love Martha.
Speaker 3: I mean sure, I know.
Speaker 4: That you really want to have that best friend status
Speaker 4: with Martha.
Speaker 2: Wow for you to, I mean you you have seen
Speaker 2: me in a way that no one else possibly could.
Speaker 2: Of course, I would love to be on her little
Speaker 2: she rides like a little four wheel go kart throughout
Speaker 2: the movie, to be the passenger and that and her
Speaker 2: just being mean to me, I'm I would love nothing more.
Speaker 4: What a missed opportunity.
Speaker 3: But you know I I love Snoop and I will
Speaker 3: have to say. Now, I maybe I have told this
Speaker 3: story before. Back in the day, I was catering at
Speaker 3: the Playboy Mansion. Okay, it was Jamie Fox's birthday the
Speaker 3: Playboy Mansion. All these people were there and they were
Speaker 3: very strict about like times like at this time, we
Speaker 3: have to stop serving this and you can do this.
Speaker 3: And we were all in these like horrible nehrew jackets
Speaker 3: and running in my horrible job and everyone's like mean
Speaker 3: and whatever. And this guy grabbed me and he was like,
Speaker 3: I need a sprite. He just got me. He's like
Speaker 3: I need and I need to get a sprite. And
Speaker 3: I was like, I'm sorry, sir, it's cut off whatever.
Speaker 3: And he looks me and he goes, it's for Snoop
Speaker 3: and I was like absolutely, And I went in, and
Speaker 3: I mean I dug through, I just unlocked codes. I
Speaker 3: went through Pep secret doors. What I dove in I
Speaker 3: was finding us. I was like, I'm getting Snoop a sprite.
Speaker 3: He's got driving off exactly why he needs it and
Speaker 3: he needs a sprite. And I'm like, I will do
Speaker 3: that for Snoop Dogg. So You're welcome if you're listening, son,
Speaker 3: I did that for you.
Speaker 2: How are they cutting off sprite? At any point during
Speaker 2: it was sprite?
Speaker 3: He needed a can of sprite. I was like, that's
Speaker 3: I will fire me Patina catering.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that feels like something that should just be on
Speaker 2: a table somewhere in the gardeners.
Speaker 3: I was like, that's not even like making you a
Speaker 3: cocktail or anything involving. It was not chopping we not
Speaker 3: you know what a moheedo or something you want to
Speaker 3: sprite that.
Speaker 2: People get thirsty all the time all the time. Wow,
Speaker 2: good for you for really stepping in there a great person. Wow,
Speaker 2: So you've been into the Playboy Mansion?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 2: What was that? What was it was?
Speaker 3: I just remember being very dark and not welcoming and
Speaker 3: it just didn't feel like fun or sexy at all
Speaker 3: to me. And it was, but it was also like
Speaker 3: it was working and just sort of like you're sort
Speaker 3: of ordered around, and it's almost like my memories of
Speaker 3: like working in places, was like you were basically like,
Speaker 3: look down, don't take this in. This isn't your life,
Speaker 3: you know, kind of a thing. I let them call
Speaker 3: me Andrew when I.
Speaker 2: Ca I was like, do you want to call you Andrew? No?
Speaker 2: Is your name? Andrew?
Speaker 3: My full name is Andrew, but my mom and dad
Speaker 3: were like called me Drew from day one. They named
Speaker 3: me Andrew, but I was always to be Drew, and
Speaker 3: so yeah, they when I was like, yeah, call me
Speaker 3: Andrew here, I'm just I'm a different person here when
Speaker 3: I'm here. So Andrew did that job.
Speaker 2: Always to be Drew is such a beautiful title for something.
Speaker 3: Ah my next, so always to be Drew?
Speaker 2: Wow, what is the word I've been? I have been
Speaker 2: to the Playbood Mansion, but not inside, just the outside,
Speaker 2: and it was as similar.
Speaker 3: That's more what I remember than the inside. I don't
Speaker 3: remember how much of that we went in.
Speaker 2: But do you remember the outside being kind of also
Speaker 2: not taken that well taken care of?
Speaker 3: No, yeah, it was kind of yeah. I was like, yeah,
Speaker 3: it was a dingy, Yes.
Speaker 2: It was yeah. They I guess they're really putting something
Speaker 2: out there to make people think it's nice. But I
Speaker 2: know there's a mildew.
Speaker 3: Yeah, there's a girl melting on everything.
Speaker 2: I think, yes, Okay, let's uh. This is the final
Speaker 2: segment of the podcast. Unfortunately we lost on Elisa's Little Game,
Speaker 2: which makes me sick.
Speaker 3: But what do you do?
Speaker 2: This is? I said, no emails people right in too,
Speaker 2: I said, no gifts at gmail dot com begging for answers.
Speaker 2: Great you help me answer question? Yes, okay, this says
Speaker 2: dear Bridger and memorable guest. That's nice, especially considering all
Speaker 2: of my memory problems. My husband and I are expecting
Speaker 2: our first child through surrogacy. Our surrogate is an amazing
Speaker 2: woman who has been through the entire IVF process and
Speaker 2: most of the pregnancy at this point without a single complaint.
Speaker 2: We have given some gifts at the major milestones, such
Speaker 2: as baskets of self care products, gift cards, et cetera.
Speaker 2: At the most recent appointment, she gave us a very thoughtful,
Speaker 2: handmade gift. Oh that's nice. As we prepare for the birth,
Speaker 2: we are at a loss for what to get the
Speaker 2: person who gives birth to our son. Any suggestions will
Speaker 2: be given the consideration they deserve. Well that I don't
Speaker 2: like to hear that. Oh yeah, sincerely, Lucas and Justin
Speaker 2: from Atlanta, Georgia. I mean to end, they deserve the
Speaker 2: consideration they deserve. I mean, I almost just want to
Speaker 2: shut down the podcast. If you're not just gonna take
Speaker 2: these with open arms.
Speaker 3: Exactly, we'll consider it. Well, of course she would also
Speaker 3: like it's one of those things, like, of course she would,
Speaker 3: but to say that she's a little bit like, Okay,
Speaker 3: it was.
Speaker 2: A nastiness to it. If you didn't believe we were
Speaker 2: going to have a good answer for you, maybe just
Speaker 2: don't write into the podcast exactly find another part.
Speaker 3: Also, do you think this is real anyway? I mean,
Speaker 3: your baby's real? Okay, great, congratulations another child in the world.
Speaker 3: What do you give the mother for like having the baby?
Speaker 2: Right, especially now that she's given another gift, I don't
Speaker 2: feel like she should have given a gift.
Speaker 3: She's done enough, she's done enough, she's gone too far,
Speaker 3: she's absolutely done enough.
Speaker 2: Early red flag. Actually, I would say maybe she's like
Speaker 2: planning to take the baby. Oh I hope, maybe she's
Speaker 2: starting to make get.
Speaker 3: It back.
Speaker 2: They she opened at the hospital and the doors.
Speaker 3: What god, I mean, what do you get? What do
Speaker 3: you give someone that's like done that? Like I feel
Speaker 3: like anything is never enough. I mean you could buy
Speaker 3: her a house and still be like, but you gave
Speaker 3: us a child, you know what I mean? So I
Speaker 3: would say, you know, I think a really nice dinner car,
Speaker 3: like a you know, get for a nice.
Speaker 2: Nice local rest restaurant or franchise, franchise, national change.
Speaker 3: And you know a year in a wine club. Does
Speaker 3: she drink now that she's just drink wine.
Speaker 2: Or has she been secretly drinking? There you go, then
Speaker 2: that's a problem, sure not to her. Not. Now what's
Speaker 2: done is done, thank you.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I would just say something like that you've already
Speaker 3: given her, like spa. It sounds like self treatment, stuff
Speaker 3: like things.
Speaker 2: You know. Yeah, there's just never there. I mean, I
Speaker 2: guess you could give her a pet, give her another
Speaker 2: life large animal.
Speaker 3: But then it's just to take care of that likes
Speaker 3: just to want that. A large animal like a jaguar.
Speaker 2: A jaguar exotic, something that's borderline illegal. Okay, sure, something
Speaker 2: that should not be caged.
Speaker 3: But Atlanta's big.
Speaker 2: You know, her house is probably massive.
Speaker 3: I'm sure. Give her a.
Speaker 2: Wild animal, something zoo, I don't know. Get her something
Speaker 2: that's been preserved in amber yea or in some swamp
Speaker 2: in the.
Speaker 3: Thanks for taking our child and deal with this.
Speaker 2: Yeah, moving on, because who knows the child that they've
Speaker 2: all created together could be a nightmare.
Speaker 3: I hope he is.
Speaker 2: So you have to give her something that could potentially
Speaker 2: be a life.
Speaker 3: Ruin heer, Absolutely so.
Speaker 2: I think actually the only thing is an exotic animal.
Speaker 3: That bites and get an astac death mask death whistle,
Speaker 3: and then you know, train it through.
Speaker 2: That, trained through a death.
Speaker 3: I think that parents would be wonderful. Let's fine, okay,
Speaker 3: exactly just anybody. We're putting it out there now. Bridge
Speaker 3: and I are looking to become dads. Make us a kid,
Speaker 3: and you will get You'll get an exotic animal preserved
Speaker 3: in amber with an az tech death whistle. Who could ask, hello,
Speaker 3: all you had to do nine months out of your life?
Speaker 2: Who care?
Speaker 3: Cook a baby? Thank you?
Speaker 2: Deal with it.
Speaker 3: You'll never hear from us again.
Speaker 2: We will change our numbers. Oh, we'll never again, full
Speaker 2: new identities, and you're left with this creature. Well I
Speaker 2: feel like that. I mean that that requires full consideration. Yes,
Speaker 2: I mean they're doing it. Let's just assume that Justin
Speaker 2: and what's his name, Lucas, Lucas, thank you Justin and
Speaker 2: Lucas take it away. Uh, surprise her, shock, her, delight
Speaker 2: her exactly one for one baby for animal. Yeah, don't
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