00:00:08 Speaker 1: Well, I invited you here. I thought I made myself perfectly clear. When you're a guest to my home, you gotta come to me empty. And I said, no, guests, your presences presents enough. I already had too much stuff. 00:00:35 Speaker 2: So how do you dare to surbey me? 00:00:47 Speaker 3: Welcome to? I said, no gifts. It's me Bridge d Wineger, It's you the listener. Here we are. It's look, I'm a little fatig I woke up with one of my legs completely asleep the other night, which is always horrifying, and led to several hours of not sleeping, and so we're dealing with the aftermath of that, and I need you to just be patient with me. I need you to come along on this ride and respect me. Please and respect our guest because she's wonderful and I think we're going to have a fantastic time. It's none other than Sydney, Washington, Sidney. Welcome to, I said, no. 00:01:36 Speaker 2: Gifts, welcome, Welcome, I'm welcomed. I'm here. Hello, How are you? 00:01:41 Speaker 3: I'm okay. I you know, I am slightly tired. Have you ever woken up with a limb that's just completely asleep? 00:01:50 Speaker 2: Oh? Every time? 00:01:52 Speaker 4: Every time, I every time I'm up, my arms are like, no, they're ready to still be asleep. 00:01:59 Speaker 3: Oh, you're kidding. Every time you wake up? 00:02:02 Speaker 4: Uh, you know what, let's be honest. I think every time I'm up, my body is like we're still asleep. So it's not just my arms, it's the whole body. 00:02:11 Speaker 3: Your entire body. This feels like you're describing a medical problem. 00:02:16 Speaker 2: Don't you say that. 00:02:19 Speaker 4: Don't you say those bad things on this pot right now? 00:02:23 Speaker 3: That's probably a good idea. I need to stop saying things that could happen or that may be bad. I've just gotta control myself. 00:02:32 Speaker 2: I'll send the invoice to you, honey, if. 00:02:34 Speaker 3: It is, please do. This is also making me think, have you ever double with sleep paralysis? 00:02:44 Speaker 2: No? What's that? 00:02:45 Speaker 3: That's this thing. I haven't had it happen before, but it I guess you wake up and you literally can't move. You're just your entire body. I think your body literally hasn't woken up or something, or your brain isn't quite in control. You're just trapped there in your body for an undetermined amount of time. 00:03:05 Speaker 2: You know what. 00:03:06 Speaker 4: I think that has happened to me periodically, like I'll be having a dream and then I wake up from the dream, and but I can't get out of the dream. But I know that I'm up, but my eyes won't open, and I I feel like I can't move my body. 00:03:25 Speaker 3: Oh boy, yeah, I do. I feel like we're just immediately getting into you having a lot of sleep issues. 00:03:32 Speaker 2: Oh whoa, whoa. I wouldn't say issues. You say it's issues. 00:03:35 Speaker 4: I say it's growing up, you know, it's just just getting. 00:03:39 Speaker 3: Older, just discovering the aging body. Yes, oh wow, Well that's uh. You know, I need you to just keep an eye on that. And well, now we'll all keep an eye on your sleeping okay, And I hope that it's okay. 00:03:55 Speaker 2: Everyone check in, Everyone. 00:03:57 Speaker 3: Check in periodically. Just make sure she won't Sidney, How are you doing in general? 00:04:06 Speaker 4: Oh? You know what, it's the week went by fast. The year is going by even faster. 00:04:13 Speaker 2: You know. 00:04:13 Speaker 4: I think we're getting closer and closer to being able to gallivan in the street. Maybe not as prevalent as we were before the pan pan shut up, but I'm having high hopes. 00:04:28 Speaker 3: What's your current level of gallivanting? 00:04:31 Speaker 4: Oh, it's galivanting is from my couch to the refrigerator, back to the couch, maybe the bed, maybe to the floor, to my bean bag. Like, it's not a lot, it's it's truly just in the house. Oh, you know, a gallivan to the bodega. Oh, and that's to get my red Bull. Do you are you not a coffee drinker? 00:04:53 Speaker 3: Oh? 00:04:53 Speaker 4: You are going to read me for this. So I stopped drinking coffee over a year ago. It's like, it's about to go on two years. And I stopped because I was like, I'm addicted to coffee. But then I would, but then I went full blown red Bull crackhead. And so red Bull is worse than coffee. So it's but I knew that I couldn't do both. That's what it was. I had to pick one, and I was like, coffee, I don't want to drink that at night. 00:05:22 Speaker 3: So it's right, so you're drinking. Are you drinking Red Bull in the morning? No, okay, it's a night thing. You wake up and you're just what having a glass of water? What's happening? 00:05:35 Speaker 2: You know? I hear some judgment in the voice. 00:05:37 Speaker 3: Well, I've got a lot of questions about this liquid situation, and I need answers. 00:05:41 Speaker 4: It's the way that you're asking. You know, it might be sometimes I wake up and drink water. Sometimes I wake up and drink a La Croix's. It's whatever I feel like doing, you know. 00:05:54 Speaker 3: And then you're heading through the day uncaffeinated until like afternoon evening, and then the red comes in. 00:06:00 Speaker 2: Oh, you don't even want to hear what, Tom, I'm drinking the red Bull. You don't want to do it. 00:06:06 Speaker 4: It'll be like nine pm, nine pm. Whoa, how did you even have the energy to do your whole day? 00:06:16 Speaker 2: And then you're like, you know what I really need at nine pm? Caffeine? More caffeine. 00:06:23 Speaker 3: Well, then you must be a night person, Like. 00:06:26 Speaker 2: I'm a night out, I'm a night own. Oh you know, this week I've actually been going to bed a little bit earlier. But before this week, it was like five am, sing. 00:06:37 Speaker 3: Zom, that's graveyard shift. 00:06:40 Speaker 4: It was like, let me see the sunrist And then you're waking up at what eleven o'clock. 00:06:48 Speaker 2: That's knowing your business. 00:06:49 Speaker 3: I've got to know. We got into problems, and now I'm like, I'm finding the root of the problem. Almost immediately a red Bull at nine pm. I think we found the problem. 00:07:01 Speaker 2: You know, what I draw the line here. 00:07:03 Speaker 4: This is where the boundary is right now, Bridger, This is where I say no, no, no ah, Yeah, I'm waking up at like ten thirty, eleven oh, sometimes noon into pens. Sometimes I wake up early and then I go back to bed and then wake up at one. 00:07:19 Speaker 2: Oh. That's a beautiful if I have a free day. If I have a free day. 00:07:22 Speaker 3: On a free day, to wake up and then twenty minutes later go back to bed for an hour, it feels fantastic. I think that's the most comfortable sleep. Is that like hour after a long sleep? You're just you know, it's gravy gravy sleep. Yeah, I don't know. So you're uh, you're wakeing away. 00:07:41 Speaker 2: Hold no, you're asking me all the questions. What about you? What time are you going to bed? What time are you waking up? What water are you drinking? At the line, what's up? 00:07:49 Speaker 3: You don't want to know? Okay, I'm going to bed. I go to bed at like eleven thirty at night. I used to be more of a night outl when I'd go to I would go to bed at like two two thirty in the morning. But my boyfriend goes to bit at like ten thirty ish, and so then I spent about an hour playing video games or watching a TV show. He has no interest in you have a. 00:08:11 Speaker 2: Live in boyfriend, I do what a flex? 00:08:16 Speaker 4: You got to live in boyfriend and you have video games? 00:08:20 Speaker 2: Just log off. 00:08:23 Speaker 4: We don't need you here. Okay, even though it's totally your podcast. 00:08:27 Speaker 3: This is now Sydney's podcast. I'm going to bring in another guest for her to talk to. I am done. I've retired. 00:08:34 Speaker 4: Maybe you bring in your boyfriend. I'll interview your boyfriend. 00:08:39 Speaker 3: I needed to get those two brags out. I've been waiting a full year on this podcast to brag about having a boyfriend and video games. And now I'm done that the picture is complete. No, I'll yeah, I'll go to bed like eleven thirty ish. Then I wake up at truly anytime. It can be six in the morning, it can be seven. Some days, I'm sleeping till nine am. When it's colder, I sleep longer. And it's been a little bit cold lately, So really, what's the weather over there? When I wake up, it's probably fifty degrees and so, and it's been raining this kind. 00:09:13 Speaker 2: I don't feel sorry for you you know what what I wake up to? 00:09:16 Speaker 4: You know what I wake up to? First of all, I wake up to construction going crazy at eight a m. And then and then it's freezing here. So I'm not even well. Actually it's been kind of nice. Let me not lie, let me not lie on mother Nature. 00:09:32 Speaker 3: But right, it's springtime, and well it's almost springtime in New York. 00:09:35 Speaker 2: It's getting there. It's getting there. 00:09:37 Speaker 3: Those winters can last a long time there, and it can be dark and it can be very cold. So I do feel bad saying, oh, fifty degrees, which in a lot of places is almost shorts. 00:09:47 Speaker 2: Weather another flex but my body has. 00:09:53 Speaker 3: From living in LA has really really weakened as far as temperatures go, and you get below sixty degrees, I have the seat warmer in my car on, I have the heat on. I'm I have a full coat. So it's uh. I do feel bad about the fifty degree complaints. But what are you going to do? 00:10:12 Speaker 2: You know, it's fine, We'll let you slide this time. 00:10:15 Speaker 3: So what you're staying up, especially all night, what are you doing? Are you crafting? What's happening? 00:10:22 Speaker 2: Wow? 00:10:22 Speaker 4: You said crafting. You immediately went to Golden girls. Hold on, do you even know me? 00:10:28 Speaker 2: Bridger? 00:10:29 Speaker 3: You obviously don't. 00:10:30 Speaker 2: I wouldn't dare I wouldn't dare Craft. It's a lot. It's a lot of. 00:10:35 Speaker 4: Surfing the net, watching reality TV, a lot of you know, overthinking the decision and decisions I've made, you know, seven years ago. It's talking on the phone. I'm a big facetimer. Oh yeah, that's that's my side, gig. Just facetiming. 00:10:53 Speaker 3: Is facetiming a new thing as of the pandemic or has it been a thing as long as FaceTime has existed. 00:10:59 Speaker 4: I've always it's been a face timing person. But it just it just went wild during the last year. 00:11:07 Speaker 3: Oh yeah, I bet yeah. 00:11:08 Speaker 4: It's like I rarely use the audio feature. It's like I need to see your face. 00:11:14 Speaker 3: Now, let me ask you your opinion. I don't mind facetiming, but I need somebody to text me before the FaceTime I. 00:11:21 Speaker 4: Don't understand you. Yeah, just just pick up. What do we what? What is there to hide? I mean, we've literally seen it all. Everybody has had a breakdown via Insta stories, Twitter, Instagram Live. I mean we've seen it on we've heard it on the phone, we've seen it. It's like, show us, show us your flaws. Oh, I'm not ready. What you don't have your wig on, you don't draw your eyebrows in, you got crossing your eyes. I take you as you are. This is church, okay, don't. I don't need to text you and let you know that I'm faced. I'm just know that I'm your friend and I'm a FaceTime right, But I. 00:12:00 Speaker 3: Feel like you just I guess you are a more accepting person. And maybe I just don't know about the people in my life. I don't know that they're as accepting as you are. 00:12:08 Speaker 4: And I'm not a casting director. What are we What are you trying to get ready for? What do you need to be prepared? 00:12:14 Speaker 2: Just pick up? I need to see your face so you're not lying to me. 00:12:21 Speaker 3: I would love to get a surprise phone call from a casting director. 00:12:26 Speaker 4: Imagine that's a nightmare and that's violence, and we do not accept that. 00:12:32 Speaker 3: That is assault. 00:12:33 Speaker 2: Yeah. 00:12:34 Speaker 3: Oh, so you're facetiming a lot of people and also kind of in the middle of the night. 00:12:39 Speaker 2: Yes, Oh, because I have a lot of la friends. 00:12:41 Speaker 4: Oh right, right, My friend Larry Owens was on the West Coast, and I would I mean we just because we had different times. I was able to call at three and it's still not be terrible for him. 00:12:54 Speaker 3: Oh, I can see that makes there's some logic there. Yeah, you've got red Bull coursing through your system. Get ready to talk to friends there? Yeah, all I adds up. 00:13:04 Speaker 2: Yeah, that's my exercise talking. 00:13:09 Speaker 3: I feel like I've heard New York is kind of feels kind of normal, like you can go out and see people, Like the streets are like not empty. Is that sound right? 00:13:20 Speaker 2: You know, the term normal? 00:13:24 Speaker 4: I think it has shifted whatever the hell people are saying is normal. I'm from like old New York where first of all, the trains weren't even renovated yet. So like it's never been normal for me. Okay, it's never been normal, and I don't think it'll ever be. And I'm not looking I'm looking for it to be normal. I'm I am always thinking towards the future. 00:13:48 Speaker 2: What is the future to be? Like? 00:13:50 Speaker 3: What part of New York? You win? 00:13:52 Speaker 2: I'm in Brooklyn right now? 00:13:54 Speaker 3: Okay? 00:13:54 Speaker 2: Yeah? Ever heard of it? 00:13:58 Speaker 3: This is education for it? 00:13:59 Speaker 2: What's this? Yeah? 00:14:01 Speaker 3: Yeah, no, I lived in Fort Green for like a year. 00:14:05 Speaker 4: Wow, another flex, Another flex Fort green. 00:14:09 Speaker 3: So you're doing well, doing so well, trust God. I wish please if anyone wants to share a trust fund with me, I'm open to the possibility. I'm still willing to be adopted by uh, I don't I guess. I still don't quite know how a trust fund works, but it seems like a comfortable spot to be in life. 00:14:31 Speaker 2: Okay, So my good friend who has a trust fund coming up, she has to turn thirty. 00:14:37 Speaker 4: Five thirty five to get it. Okay, So I heard thirty five. Then then you get to cash out. 00:14:43 Speaker 3: And is that like a do you think that's a typical age for a trust fund? 00:14:47 Speaker 2: I don't know, but this is what it is for her. 00:14:50 Speaker 4: And so I was like, this was years ago, and I was like trying to look at her and I was like, okay, but so how old are you? She didn't say right, But I feel like she got to be close. It's got to be coming up, right. I think you'll know when she turns thirty five. I think it'll be clear whether she because suddenly she's gonna have all this money. 00:15:10 Speaker 2: True, well, she are low key. She always got the coins. 00:15:14 Speaker 4: So if you got a trust fund, that means you're already doing pretty damn well. 00:15:19 Speaker 3: Right, it means you've just started at a good spot. 00:15:23 Speaker 4: Yeah, you're not a spot, you're not homeless with a trust fund, but that is an amazing pilot, right, young a young artist, that's like, you know, thirty four, I said young, young, young artist. 00:15:36 Speaker 3: Thirty thirty four is young. I think we need to normalize thirty four being young. 00:15:41 Speaker 2: Thirty four is young in New York. 00:15:43 Speaker 3: Oh yeah, absolutely, yeah. 00:15:45 Speaker 2: It's young in New York. It is. 00:15:47 Speaker 3: I think fifty five is young in New York. 00:15:49 Speaker 4: No, No, I don't know what you're talking in La. In La, you turn twenty six and it's already like do you have an AARP card? I don't know if I even said that, right, but one of those cards you start getting your Social Security money twenty six. 00:16:07 Speaker 3: I think the internet has made anything over the age of twenty retirement age exactly. Everyone on the internet is a baby fuck TikTok? 00:16:17 Speaker 2: Can I say that right now? Fucking absolutely ajoining my life? No, I'm kidding it. 00:16:22 Speaker 4: I mean, I know some great people who are pushing out amazing content on TikTok, and I'm just I'm just a hater because I just don't have the patience or the brain, you know, capacity to work on it. 00:16:36 Speaker 2: But yeah, it's the use. The youths are really really. 00:16:40 Speaker 4: Doing it on TikTok, and they're able to do it in you know, sixty. 00:16:44 Speaker 3: Seconds, sixty seconds. It's crazy. 00:16:47 Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm a stand up comedian. 00:16:49 Speaker 4: When they say five minutes, Oh, we need a five minutes set, I'm like, I'm going nuts. I'm like, five minutes, give me twenty seid yeah, oh no, no, tell them, Oh I got thirty minutes. 00:17:01 Speaker 2: Oh I got that in the bag. Thirty minutes. That's nothing. 00:17:06 Speaker 3: But it's five minutes. 00:17:07 Speaker 4: Five minutes. It's really driving me nuts because it's interesting. You have to compact everything in five minutes. 00:17:14 Speaker 3: Right right? I guess that makes sense. 00:17:16 Speaker 4: And I'm bad at like gauging time. I don't know what five minutes is for me, Like how long have you been on the pod? 00:17:22 Speaker 2: How long have you been here? 00:17:23 Speaker 3: Look, here comes an incredible flex for me. I have my sense of time is I essentially am a clock. At this point I can tell you within two minutes what time it is. I don't know where this came from, where the sense even developed, but it's right there in me. And so it's maybe my one skill. 00:17:44 Speaker 4: Well, can I say one thing? Your voice? You should be an animated clock. Your voices. It really gives me clock energy. Somebody reach out. Let's get this clock pilot going bridge the clock, bridge. 00:18:00 Speaker 2: Of the clock. We would Yeah, the clock that always knows the time. 00:18:09 Speaker 3: That's the whole show. It's the dullest show on television. 00:18:13 Speaker 4: No, No, you'd be surprised. People love knowing the time. 00:18:16 Speaker 3: People do like to know the time. Speaking of TikTok and that kind of thing, you do this Sid cooks thing on Instagram? 00:18:26 Speaker 2: Don't you do that? Bridger? You better get that title right. It's Sid can cook, can't cook? 00:18:31 Speaker 4: Do you know one of those CID and cooking and something Sid can cook can cook? 00:18:36 Speaker 3: That's right, Yes, Sid can cook, but you don't cook. 00:18:40 Speaker 2: But you've been doing it. 00:18:41 Speaker 3: For a while, right, Well have you watched I actually haven't watched. 00:18:46 Speaker 4: Wow, filiar with it? Okay, Anie, you kulds cut this off now, y'a. The hostess has not seen a Sid Can't Cook. I have clips up on Instagram. Did you even did you even research me? 00:19:00 Speaker 3: Of course I've researched you. 00:19:02 Speaker 4: Okay, I want to who we were that's cool, and you know I have your address. 00:19:07 Speaker 3: So I tried to look at the cooking things and couldn't find I know it's done live usually mm hmm. So I gave up almost immediately. And that's kind of on me. 00:19:18 Speaker 2: It's it's so on you. It's literally on my page. Okay, it's literally go far you. 00:19:24 Speaker 4: Know what it is because I don't. The first it's like a video, you know, Instagram TV. The first video is the first like clip. Does it look like a cooking show? It looks like, oh, Sydney's being hot, she's in her dress and she's dancing, So you have no idea that underneath that there's food. 00:19:43 Speaker 3: Oh okay, well yeah, then I need to I obviously have to return and watch this. But I am curious because you've been learning to cook kind of right, people are like guiding you through this cooking. You have a friend try to teach you how to cook. 00:20:00 Speaker 4: This energy that you're giving me, it's like you're not really believing in the process. 00:20:04 Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I'm learning because I'm. 00:20:06 Speaker 3: Coming from this place. I can't cook it either, so highly skeptical. 00:20:10 Speaker 4: Apparently a lot of people don't know how to cook, but they surely know how to tell people what the hell to do. So we got a lot of people telling people what to do, but they're not doing well. 00:20:19 Speaker 3: It's easier to tell than to do. 00:20:23 Speaker 2: The American way. 00:20:26 Speaker 3: I can sit here and read you a recipe all day, but ask me to do the recipe forget it? 00:20:32 Speaker 2: Nope, nope. 00:20:33 Speaker 3: Has there been anything that you've been able to like to actually cook that you enjoyed? 00:20:39 Speaker 4: I've made buffalo wings several times. Buffalo wings is like my my thing. 00:20:44 Speaker 3: Now, what's your process? Are you baking? Are you frying? 00:20:48 Speaker 2: Are you we're baking and they were. 00:20:50 Speaker 3: Broiling, baking then broiling, so is that to like make sure it's not raw? 00:20:55 Speaker 4: No, that's broiling. Is like make it crispy, crispy, crisp. 00:21:00 Speaker 3: The sauce, oh, I like the sound of this. And are you making the sauce yourself? 00:21:04 Speaker 2: Hell yeah, I'm making the sauce myself. What most things on CID can cook is from scratch, babe, Wow, from scratch. If you're not cooking from scratch, you're not cooking. 00:21:14 Speaker 4: Well, buffalo wild wings, you're just heating some stuff up, that's all you're doing. I'm actually making it from scratch. 00:21:21 Speaker 3: So what are you putting your sauce? 00:21:23 Speaker 2: What do I put my sauce? 00:21:24 Speaker 4: I put hot sauce, I put honey, I put brown sugar. Sometimes I put a little don't tell anyone, but I put a little wishter seer sauce in it. 00:21:33 Speaker 2: You know, we just change it up. 00:21:35 Speaker 3: Why not tell anybody that. 00:21:37 Speaker 2: Because they don't need to know. They need to make their own damn sauce. 00:21:42 Speaker 3: I cannot say that word. I do not how to pronounce worst. Just sure, I never I will. 00:21:52 Speaker 2: I don't know. I don't know. It's it's stuff for steaks. 00:21:54 Speaker 4: But you put it in a little of the buffalo sauce and it's amazing. 00:21:58 Speaker 3: Oh I've never heard that before. 00:22:00 Speaker 2: That's okay, Well you heard it here first. 00:22:02 Speaker 3: That's a cooking tip. That's a Cyndy Washington cooking first, a literal. 00:22:06 Speaker 2: Chef on your freaking pot right now. 00:22:09 Speaker 3: Just spreading this knowledge. Yeah, okay, So you're making what you're making buffalo wings? 00:22:17 Speaker 2: Risotto? 00:22:20 Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, a lot of people don't know how to make risoto. And here I am here, I am doing what I can. I finally I made macaroni and cheese. Oh and now I'm not talking about like that in the box stuff that you guys are doing, the craft singles and whatnot. I'm making real macaroni and cheese that someone grandmother died over. 00:22:42 Speaker 2: I'm making real mac and. 00:22:44 Speaker 3: C And are you is that a baked mac and cheese or is this in a pot? 00:22:49 Speaker 4: I don't know any other way, but baked. You got to do a big macaroni and cheese. 00:22:53 Speaker 3: That's I mean, I fully agree. But you know, somebody, I see you know the box is not baked. So I imagine you could like make a sauce in a pot and a possible you're. 00:23:04 Speaker 4: Talking about the root. You're talking about the root. Yeah, we do roue. We do a root and then we put it, we bake it. 00:23:10 Speaker 3: I feel like, I mean, for somebody who says she can't cook, you're using terminology here. That feels like a chef. 00:23:18 Speaker 4: See, it's funnier when I say I can't cook. It's funnier when I like, I don't know what I'm doing. But when you put me on the spot here and I don't actually have to do it, when I just have to say it, it sounds like I know what the fuck I'm doing. But I've made macaroni and she's three times, three times times on the show because I kept failing. 00:23:37 Speaker 2: The third time, just blew it out the water. 00:23:40 Speaker 3: Now, the first two times, was it inedible or was it just like, oh this sucks that it was not good? 00:23:46 Speaker 4: Oh, put too much on evaporation of evaporated milk for the second time, and then the first time it wasn't It wasn't terrible, but I like couldn't get the root right right. 00:23:59 Speaker 3: And you need that tech sure to be good otherwise you're gonna have a nasty cheese. 00:24:04 Speaker 2: Yes. 00:24:05 Speaker 3: Wow? And are you cooking for yourself almost every day? Now? Where do you get takeout? Hell? 00:24:10 Speaker 2: No, situation, Hell no. 00:24:12 Speaker 4: I live off of cereal. I want to thank cinnamon toast crunch for being by my side on the highs and lows of the day. I love you know, I love a salad or blueberries, grapes. You know, I'm I can. I'm like a little squirrel like I can. I can live off of not a lot? 00:24:34 Speaker 3: Can I ask you your top three cereals? 00:24:37 Speaker 4: Top three cereals obviously cinnamon toast crunch, Okay, apple jacks, oh interesting. 00:24:43 Speaker 2: And then frosted rice crispies. 00:24:46 Speaker 3: Oh frosted, Oh like just sweet rice crispies, not yeah, plain rice crispies. I don't know who's just eating a bowl of plain rice crispies. 00:24:53 Speaker 2: That feels someone who is seventy and over. 00:24:57 Speaker 3: But it's kind of like a kid cereal still. 00:24:59 Speaker 2: Now, it's just no plane. 00:25:01 Speaker 4: The plain rice pots, plain rice christ fees is only to make rice chrisb retreats, right. 00:25:06 Speaker 3: Right, But there's I imagine there's somebody out there just eating a bowl of plain puffed rice and milk quich. 00:25:14 Speaker 4: That person is a murderer certain thing. You should not trust them. 00:25:19 Speaker 3: At the very least that person is murdering people, if not. 00:25:22 Speaker 2: Worse slitting throats. 00:25:26 Speaker 3: I haven't had apple jacks in a long time. 00:25:29 Speaker 4: Apple jacks they hit, they hit. You know what the problem is. I'm not I'm not gonna say my teeth not the best. So apple jacks are kind of hard. So you got to you gotta pour the milk on it and let us sit for a little, get a little sauce. 00:25:41 Speaker 3: It's a hard cereal. 00:25:42 Speaker 2: It's hard. It's for somebody who's got real good dental right. 00:25:46 Speaker 3: That's like it's like a mouth ripper opener, you shred the inside of your gums. 00:25:52 Speaker 2: Your gums. 00:25:55 Speaker 3: Well, I mean we can at least agree on cinnamon toast crunch. I think that must be one of the most popular cereal. 00:26:00 Speaker 2: Yes, absolutely, I mean the kids love it, the adults love It's it's a win win. 00:26:05 Speaker 3: Everybody loves a cinema toast crunch, Sydney. I feel like one thing not everybody loves is a surprise. And I'm just going to pivot here to something i need to talk to you about. 00:26:18 Speaker 2: Let's chat. 00:26:19 Speaker 3: This podcast is called I said no gifts. You know that the world at large knows that. And a few weeks ago you agreed to be on this podcast. You you know, you knew the title, and you agreed, and I was excited to have you here. I was looking forward to it. And then something kind of came out of left field. Is that what people say when something surprises them? That feels like a sports metaphor That's out of my reach, but I'm going to say it anyway. A surprise a shock. A box arrived on my doorstep earlier this week, box that I had not ordered, and you know, my mind began to question what could possibly what could this be? And then I slowly discovered it was from Sydney Washington, and I thought, Okay, Sydney's got a bigger game she's playing at here, and let's just try to go with it. And so I just have to ask you, Sydney, did you did you send me a gift? 00:27:27 Speaker 2: Unfortunately I did? 00:27:29 Speaker 3: Okay, I mean it's now so I'm looking at it now. There's a kind of a bag here it says I do, which I don't even know what's happening there. It's got some little owls on it. It seems to be almost wedding themed. I mean, should I open the gift here on the podcast? 00:27:50 Speaker 2: I think that was That's the only good thing that you could do. 00:27:54 Speaker 3: Right now, Okay, let's dive in here. 00:28:03 Speaker 2: You've got some tissue wrapping. 00:28:05 Speaker 3: We have to have the tissue wrapping. 00:28:07 Speaker 2: They gotta hear that. 00:28:08 Speaker 3: You gotta hear that, Mr, Yes, ASMR. Now this is really just this is this box in this bag is packed. Here we go, Okay, so I'm gonna open this up. Okay, I'm I'm I'm I opened a brown box and now I've got another. Oh okay, Sydney, what I actually you know on this podcast, I'll frequently open and almost immediately know what I'm looking at. What I'm seeing is a brown box and it says remote control Ocean wave projector. And then so I need almost an immediate explanation from you because this feels like this is an object that I don't I'm not even familiar with on a base level. What is this? 00:29:03 Speaker 4: Well, I just changed your life. I've changed, I really just remixed your whole house. It is a light projector. Instead of hearing the ocean, you have the ocean on your ceiling, on your walls. 00:29:22 Speaker 2: Yeah. 00:29:22 Speaker 3: Yeah, wait, so it's like a again, I just don't even have the vocabulary. 00:29:27 Speaker 1: To speak to. 00:29:30 Speaker 2: It's a light projector. 00:29:31 Speaker 3: It's like a light projector. And so is it putting on the ceiling like pictures of fish? 00:29:36 Speaker 2: No, just like the ocean waves. 00:29:38 Speaker 3: Oh, like as if you were under the ocean or something. 00:29:41 Speaker 2: Yes, Little Mermaid, Oh. 00:29:43 Speaker 3: This sounds fantastic. Wait wait, do you have one of these at your apartment? 00:29:53 Speaker 2: Do I have one of those? Darling? Several? 00:29:58 Speaker 3: You do? 00:29:59 Speaker 4: Yeah, for like different rooms. You know what, a girl's got to have her ocean. 00:30:04 Speaker 3: So is this something you have on at all times or is it like time to relax. Let's get the ocean going. 00:30:10 Speaker 4: It's only when it gets stark because you can't really see it during the day. Okay, but you know you turn when the light when the lights go down, I mean when the sun goes off, when the sun is like by bye, I flick that thing on maybe when I'm about to watch a movie, or when I'm not watching a movie, when I'm. 00:30:25 Speaker 2: Just playing music, and it's very like calming. 00:30:28 Speaker 3: It's cool, sounds so relaxing. I'm opening the box to get some idea of what I'm even looking at, because the brown box makes it look like a little bowl with a remote control. Okay, you know you've got your typical wires here, I'm looking at some wires. 00:30:45 Speaker 2: Don't lose the wires you need them. 00:30:47 Speaker 3: Okay, there's something for customer service. 00:30:50 Speaker 2: Don't lose that you need that. Call them. 00:30:52 Speaker 3: Call them. I will not leave them alone. Okay, here we go. Oh, this is this is very cool looking. 00:31:00 Speaker 2: I got you cool gift. 00:31:01 Speaker 4: It was it was I went above the limit because I said, this is what Bridger really needs. 00:31:06 Speaker 3: This is I mean, God, bless a lot of the guests on this podcast. Occasionally you get an item that is just unusable, something that does not improve your life, and this feels like something that will actually, you know, improve a room. 00:31:19 Speaker 4: Well, those people are comedians and I am just a mere uh civilian that just happened to jump on your pod. 00:31:28 Speaker 3: This is how did you find out about this? 00:31:31 Speaker 2: How did I find out about this? This is my life. This is true, Bridger. You have not done any research about it. If you knew Ocean. 00:31:39 Speaker 4: The three things about me, three things Sydney is going to give you looks, lights, and love. That's what I'm always That's the three things that I have. That's an amazing guarantee, Yeah, guarantee. Today I don't really have any like any I don't have any looks for you because I'm tired. But I watched Euphoria, I watch you know, Insecure, and they have like really good lighting on those shows, a lot of like all blue. 00:32:12 Speaker 2: Or like kind of red, and you know, I. 00:32:16 Speaker 4: Got addicted addicted during the pandemic. I was like, how am I I'm going to be in the house all the time. I need to find a way to feel good in here and lighting. 00:32:27 Speaker 2: Lighting is the best way. 00:32:28 Speaker 3: So you just started googling like mood lighting. Yes, yeah, I'm now remembering. I feel like I've seen you tweet about like like your house being an art installation or something with lights or something. 00:32:40 Speaker 2: Yes, I did say that. 00:32:41 Speaker 3: Okay, so what do you have any favorite lights you've purchased. 00:32:46 Speaker 4: There's this one lamp that changes colors, like you can change your whole room to like a red, a pink, a blue, or orange and yellow, and then if you're playing music, then the light can actually change color to the music. Oh wow, that's that's my favorite one. I've spent way too much on lighting. It's insane. It's like, just buy a house already. What's wrong with you? 00:33:07 Speaker 3: But you've got all these relaxing lights going. That sounds nice to me. I mean, what's your standard for a light? Do you just get on whatever website and start looking at them and just go for it? 00:33:19 Speaker 4: You know, Google, Google's your friend, Google's your enemy. 00:33:23 Speaker 3: Google's all of our enemy. 00:33:26 Speaker 2: Google is like it can make or break a whole minute of your life. 00:33:31 Speaker 4: But yeah, I look for a lot of things light inspirations on you know, online, and then I do what I can. 00:33:40 Speaker 3: Now, going back to the ocean element of this, what's your feeling on the ocean. 00:33:45 Speaker 2: It's very calming. It's really cood. I can't swim in the ocean, but it's very very calming. You know. 00:33:50 Speaker 4: When I think of the ocean, I think of Titanic, and I just think of people drowning. But wait, that's that's no, that's when you first thing about the ocean. But then when it's just lights on your wall of the ocean, that's safe. 00:34:05 Speaker 1: Right. 00:34:06 Speaker 2: Yeah. 00:34:07 Speaker 3: Do you have any interest in like scuba diving? 00:34:09 Speaker 4: I do have interest in that, but I have to learn how to first trust the water, right, and then I can move to that. 00:34:17 Speaker 3: That part scares me and it feels like you. I mean, I think you have to like go to school basically to learn to scuba dive, and you have to get. 00:34:26 Speaker 2: It's very expensive. 00:34:27 Speaker 3: Yeah, it's very expensive, but it's something that you would be interested in pursuing. 00:34:32 Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I would. 00:34:34 Speaker 4: I would be interested in it if somebody would sponsor it. 00:34:38 Speaker 3: Yeah, right, right. Have you ever done anything like snorkeling? 00:34:42 Speaker 2: I have not. I told you I don't trust the water. I don't trust it. 00:34:46 Speaker 3: I snorkeled once, and I understand that feeling completely. It was kind of interesting but also horrifying. You know, I'm very scared of eels. I'm scared of drowning, So there's not a lot of relaxation there happening for me. Yeah, but I guess it's nice to see under the water or whatever. Have you been to the ocean during the pandemic. 00:35:12 Speaker 2: I was in La and I went to the beach. 00:35:14 Speaker 4: Okay, but like not really not so much, right, Oh you know what, I went, Oh, I'm a bad girl here. I went to Loom for I went to to loom during a panini. Please drag me, do whatever you need to do. Feel good about it. But I did it and I went. I went to the beach and it was really nice. 00:35:36 Speaker 3: When was this? 00:35:38 Speaker 2: This was in September? 00:35:39 Speaker 3: And how was the trip? 00:35:40 Speaker 4: It was wonderful. We'd stayed in the house for most of the most of the trip. We weren't out and about like that. We like cooked in the house. We had a pool, so we got a rooftile. Yeah, so we got a house so that we we just didn't want to be here, you know. 00:35:56 Speaker 3: Right of course, of course. Oh, well, you're revealing a lot on this podcast. 00:36:02 Speaker 4: And honestly, I do too much. I give too much on these damn podcasts. I gotta scale all the way back. You asked me one thing. You're like, how's your day. I'm like, well, I went to loom and almost relapsed twice. Like just I'm always saying too much. 00:36:20 Speaker 3: That's fine, you know, for you to do what you gotta do. Yeah, well, this is a very exciting light. I'm looking forward. 00:36:27 Speaker 2: You're going to use it? 00:36:29 Speaker 3: Of course, what do you think I'm gonna do with it? 00:36:31 Speaker 4: I don't know, you said, people send you things that you can't really use. So sometimes you probably just get a gift and you take a photo of it and then you never think about it again. 00:36:39 Speaker 3: No. I think about these gifts all the time. I mean I did today. I'm posting a video of me. It was recently the first year anniversary of the podcast, and so I made a video of me putting all of the gifts into a garbage can and lighting them on fire. I of course didn't actually light them on fire. But I'm already expecting some level of blowback about people say, I can't believe you burned the gifts. I didn't actually burn the gifts. 00:37:07 Speaker 2: It's oh wow, you are something else. You're something else, but out of control. 00:37:14 Speaker 4: You just want people to have their underwear and a bunch. Because if I saw you lighting a potentially a gift that I would be like, give you my money back, give me my money back. I would sending your receipt and I'm like, I will VEMO you and request it and be like, give me my money. 00:37:31 Speaker 3: I would never burn a gift. But I mean, if people will actually think that I've burned gifts, I'm a little flattered that they believe I'm the sort of person who would just fill a garbage can with things and light it on fire. I'm not that person. 00:37:43 Speaker 4: We didn't think that we were going to have a coup this year, but we did didn't know that we were going to see some of our friends and family all up and through at the Capitol. So you know, because of that, I don't put any one past anything. I don't put anything. 00:38:00 Speaker 3: I guess publicly I should say now I don't. I haven't burned any of my gifts, of course not. I mean maybe eventually I'll have an actual breakdown and burn all of my belongings. Well, no, that's a long way. 00:38:13 Speaker 2: You're going to do that. 00:38:14 Speaker 4: Nope, not, We're not going to say that on the podcast. No, we're not now while I'm on here. 00:38:19 Speaker 3: Put these things out into the world. 00:38:21 Speaker 4: I don't want to be associated with it. I don't want people to think that I'm a part of it. 00:38:25 Speaker 2: No, no, no, no, no. 00:38:27 Speaker 3: Okay, So let's assume I am going to use this ocean light you think you suggest I should also play music while I'm doing it. 00:38:35 Speaker 2: You can, you. 00:38:36 Speaker 4: Can, or you could have it on while your TV's on too, if you want to. If you want to just show me the layout of your place, I just want to case the place. 00:38:46 Speaker 2: You see what you got going on there. 00:38:48 Speaker 3: Send you a copy of my key. 00:38:50 Speaker 2: Yes, show me. 00:38:50 Speaker 4: Where your safe is, and yeah, I can tell you exactly where you should put the light. 00:38:56 Speaker 3: I need to get a safe. I would love to have a safe full of jewels and money. Maybe that's my next life goal. 00:39:03 Speaker 4: I would first have to have jewels and money to have a sight, don't I do not. I'm the type of person that holds my Social Security card on me at all times. 00:39:12 Speaker 2: Really, yeah, like a crazy person that. 00:39:14 Speaker 3: Feels to me more dangerous. You've got to put it in your underwear drawers. 00:39:18 Speaker 4: I live on the edge, you know, because I'm in the house for most of the time, so it's fine. 00:39:25 Speaker 3: Why do you have your Social Security card with you? 00:39:27 Speaker 2: Ask me these questions? You're a crazy host? What's wrong with you? 00:39:31 Speaker 3: I'm a very normal host. I'm answering the questions that people need. People out there want to know, and they want to know about your social security Come on. 00:39:42 Speaker 4: Oprah, I'm markle No, I'm actually hearing. 00:39:46 Speaker 3: We saw Oprah ask Megan about her social Security card. You watched it and she demanded to see it. It was an uncomfortable moment in the interview, but we went with it. And now I'm copying Oprah. 00:39:57 Speaker 4: I said that I had my Social Security at all times and you said, no. 00:40:01 Speaker 3: What what? That's a normal way of asking a question. I want I demand an apology. I'm so sorry. 00:40:10 Speaker 4: You're right, You're a fantastic hoast and I was just being you know, wild and wacky. 00:40:17 Speaker 3: You're out of control. Mm hmm, okay, Well maybe I'll play some music with it. That seems nice. This I could uh oh, I wonder if I could put it outside or something. 00:40:28 Speaker 4: You know what, I think you can? You can you have a little do you have a little backyard patio? 00:40:32 Speaker 3: Sat patio situation? Happening, So I think you can. That sounds very relaxed. You can literally do. 00:40:38 Speaker 2: Whatever the hell you want with it, and you could take it anywhere you want. 00:40:41 Speaker 3: I just can't burn it. That's the one thing I can't do. 00:40:44 Speaker 2: You could actually go camping with it. 00:40:46 Speaker 3: Oh that's a good idea. Bring the ocean to the forest. 00:40:50 Speaker 2: Mm hmmm, that's what the forest is missing, the ocean. 00:40:58 Speaker 3: Well, I'm very excited about this. I know will post something to Instagram. Maybe this will require some type of video or something, because people need to see this in action. It's a whole new thing. 00:41:08 Speaker 2: They need to see it. And you got to do it at night. 00:41:11 Speaker 3: Yeah, I have to do it at night. I'm not going to do it in the in broad daylight. 00:41:15 Speaker 2: Not right, it's wrong. 00:41:17 Speaker 3: It's moody, it's oceany. It's fun and people need to see it. Yep, Sydney, I want to play a game. 00:41:25 Speaker 2: Let's go. 00:41:25 Speaker 3: We have a game called Gift or a Curse. We also have a game called Gift Master. It's up to you. You can decide which game you'd rather play. 00:41:32 Speaker 2: Gift or a Curse. 00:41:33 Speaker 3: Okay, Gift or a Curse. I need a number between one and ten from you five. Okay, I have to do some light calculating in order to get the pieces of the game we'll be playing with. While I'm doing this, you can promote something, you can recommend something, you can do whatever you want. I'll be right back. 00:41:51 Speaker 4: If you loved everything you heard from me, you can get more of that on the two podcasts that I'm on. The Unofficial Expert on Forever Dog, I do that with Marie Fausten, my best friend, and then I have another podcast called hobby Hunter on Headgum. I have Instagram just sid BW and you could catch my sid ken Cook highlights on there. And I'm on Twitter but I'm not amazing on there. But I'm a work in progress. So if you want to see me, you want to see me thrive like you know monthly. Check me out there on just sid NYC. That's just syd NYC. 00:42:34 Speaker 3: Perfect. Wow. I mean, what a nice just you were ready to go. You got out all the information and you were also I think you're good on Twitter. I like that honesty. You never hear somebody say I'm trying to get better at it. 00:42:49 Speaker 4: Oh it's you know, it's like you know, this was two hundred and forty characters. It's you have to be really concise or you got to know exactly what you say. And I'm a long winded bit. I love run on sentences. 00:43:02 Speaker 2: Period. Why do you need a period? Just keep going? 00:43:06 Speaker 4: So Twitter forces me to actually figure out what the hell I want to say. 00:43:12 Speaker 3: It's a tricky thing. I uh yeah, whatever, Let's play the game. Yes, it's called gift or a curse. Basically what's going to happen. So I'm going to tell you three things, and you're going to tell me if there are a gift or a curse and why that. I'm going to tell you the correct answer. There are correct answers, so you can lose this game. Be very careful, all right. First things. First, gift or a curse. This may require a little bit of explanation. Gift to a curse when you go to pick up a pumpkin and then realize it's a fake pumpkin. So this's ever happened to you? 00:43:46 Speaker 4: Never I would never go and pick up a pumpkin. But if I did get a pumpkin for Halloween to like draw on it or something like that, it's actually better because when the pumpkin when you're done with it. 00:44:00 Speaker 2: Disposing of it is annoying, right, like a real pumpkin. Right, So it's a gift. 00:44:06 Speaker 3: Okay, Well, because you don't have any experience with this, it does feel like an unfair question to bring up to you, but you manage to get it correct. I think when it's a gift, when you think you're about to pick up a real pumpkin and then you find out it's a fake pumpkin because it's way lighter, and it's kind of a fun little surprise. A lot of people don't. I don't think they appreciate that, and you don't get that sensation very often. Suddenly you're just lifting too quickly, and I think everyone agrees that's a gift. Yes, okay, so you're off to a very good start now. The second one, we actually did a poll of this on Instagram, so we'll have to get into the details of that after. But gift or a curse wind chimes, it's a. 00:44:56 Speaker 4: Gift for me. It's a gift. It's calming. I love it in the morning. It hit it in the night. 00:45:04 Speaker 2: You know, you don't hear it. 00:45:07 Speaker 4: It's only a curse if it's really windy outside. 00:45:12 Speaker 3: Right when it's just banging and clanging and that kind of thing. Yeah, Sydney, Okay, So this is the first time I've done this on this podcast where we've had you know, we've had people vote on this, and so sixty one percent of people said it's a curse, thirty nine percent said it's a gift. And the real answer, it is a gift. You've gotten two head of two so Farly, I love a wind chime. I like that they can sound kind of scary. I love that they can sound calming, and I have no problem with the you know, a tornado can go through wind chimes, and I'm still loving the racket they're making. 00:45:47 Speaker 2: Wind chimes are all purpose. 00:45:49 Speaker 3: They're all purpose. They look good, they sound, they provide so many different sensations. They can bring a certain eeriness to a scene. They can be kind of peaceful. Sixty one percent of my listeners are completely wrong about this. They're miserable. They're miserable. These people, they've got to pull it together. Wind chimes are a gift, and Sydney, you're just nailing it. So I hope you don't drop the ball on this final one. This is a listener suggestion somebody named Josh suggested gift or a curse the sharpener on the back of a box of crayons. Are you familiar with that? There's like a sharpener in there, gift or a curse? 00:46:37 Speaker 2: Gift? 00:46:38 Speaker 3: Okay, and why you got You gotta. 00:46:41 Speaker 2: Sharpen the crayons. 00:46:42 Speaker 4: And if you're if you're feeling crazy, sharpen the pencil, sharpen your eyeliner. You're a lip blander. You could sharpen a whole bunch of things in that bitch. So it's like again all purpose. 00:46:54 Speaker 3: Oh, I hate to hear this. I hate for you to get too right and then just absolutely fail on the last one. I think that, well, I know that the sharpener on the back of a box of crayons is a curse. I've never had one work for me. I mean, you know, I don't feel like they actually sharpen a crayon in theory. 00:47:14 Speaker 2: I thought they were. You know, when the last time I had crayons, I'm almost fifty. What are you talking about. 00:47:20 Speaker 4: I haven't seen a box of cray I haven't used a box of crayon since I don't know middle school. 00:47:26 Speaker 3: Well, then we can put time. Time has kind of softened your opinion on the sharpener. I haven't used one in probably who knows how many years at this point. Yeah, but all I remember is it never sharpened the crayon. I think that it was Crayola, you know, just trying to upcharge on those boxes. They were charging more on the sixty four pack, and the sharpener never worked, And anybody that disagrees is wrong. I think that that was just a fraud on the part of the Crayola people. And it's a curse, absolutely a curse. So Sydney, look, you got two out of three. Some people get zero out of three, some people get I don't know that anyone's ever gotten three out of three. That remains to be seen. But you've got a good, solid two out of three. That's not bad. Congratulations. I'm very proud of you. 00:48:22 Speaker 2: Thank you so much. 00:48:24 Speaker 3: We've got to answer some questions. This is called I said no emails. People are writing into I said no gifts at gmail dot com with a variety of gift related related things. Will you help me answer something? 00:48:36 Speaker 2: Yeah, of course. 00:48:37 Speaker 3: Okay, let me read this real quick. This says Hybridge. Are and guest, my mom, aged sixty and her boyfriend aged sixty four, are getting married in five weeks and I have no idea what to get them as a wedding present. It's a low key wedding and they have both been married before. I've asked what they want, and all my mom said, and I'm going to say, Mum, this is how this person's spelling it, I'm not saying. And all my mom has said is that helping out on the day is enough. Ideally, I'd like to give them a gift that they could enjoy together, but the more I think about it, the more I realize they have nothing in common. I'd also like to show that I love and accept my mom's partner, but don't see her as see him as a father figure as they met when I was eighteen. Is this too much backstory? This person's asking this, and I'm gonna say probably. My mom likes mowing the lawn, organizing her shed, and DIY projects on the house. Her boyfriend likes sport, reading biographies, and coffee. They both like gardening, getting coffee together, talking about our dog, and watching Scandinavian drama on Netflix. Hope this helps, and thank you for your assistance. I'm sure you'll come up with something wonderful. That's a lot of pressure. This is from Sarah in Perth, Western Australia that explains the things like mom and calling sports sport this person she I feel. 00:49:59 Speaker 2: Like not. 00:50:02 Speaker 3: She's it feels like she's going to destroy this marriage. First of all, she's saying. 00:50:05 Speaker 2: She's doing a lot. 00:50:06 Speaker 3: The mom doesn't have anything in common with the boyfriend. She's just pointing that out publicly. Sarah, I don't know what to tell you, Yeah, but it does seem like they have some things in common. 00:50:16 Speaker 2: They're like to answer this real quick. Gift card, gift card, gift card, Get a gift card, what sort of gift card? Get a gift card? 00:50:23 Speaker 4: Get it like one of the you know, Visa, I don't know, master card, one of them gift cards. 00:50:30 Speaker 2: Put three hundred dollars on it. They both get one fifty. They figure it out. 00:50:34 Speaker 4: They're they're in an age where they're online shopping for stuff that they don't need. 00:50:38 Speaker 2: Gift card. 00:50:39 Speaker 3: What what you're saying here, I feel like is going to lead to some sort of fight between these two because suddenly they have to split the money and decide what they're going to spend it on. They have nothing in common. 00:50:48 Speaker 2: Get to gift cards. Then, Okay, do I have to freaking get the gift cards for this person cards? 00:50:56 Speaker 3: This is what I'm gonna say. Hisn't her gardening gloves? No? A shovel now a rake? Nope, a bag of dirt. 00:51:05 Speaker 4: You know what the gift is, mind your business, get out of your mom's business. 00:51:10 Speaker 2: Stop putting her business on the pod. 00:51:13 Speaker 4: Just just be happy for her, and if some go wrong, be there to pick her. 00:51:17 Speaker 2: Up when she falls. And that's it. That's a good gift. 00:51:19 Speaker 3: Sarah Sidney is furious with you, and so I'm just going to reach out and say they like getting coffee together. I say, get them a nice coffee machine, a nice pour over coffee machine that makes a nice cup of coffee, and you know, a coffee grinder. And then they suddenly but then they don't. I feel like then you're trapping them in the house. We are in a pandemic. So maybe that's good. 00:51:45 Speaker 4: You're thinking too much about this. The gift cards, and we move to the next. 00:51:49 Speaker 3: Okay, we are going to I'm going to say, tape the gift cards to the shovel and give it to mom and dad. We're moving us the next one. I have too many of these to answer, so we've got to I've got to be better at answering. 00:52:01 Speaker 4: You want to hit all of the angles. That's what it is. You're really sweet. 00:52:06 Speaker 3: Here's one more. Let's do one more. This is a good one, Hibridger. I wanted to write to you to let you know about an unfortunate gift I received and hope you can answer my question. For my birthday this year, my boyfriend gifted me a lazy susan. To ensure we're all on the same page, I'll provide a description of what of a lazy susan and its functionalities. Okay, we know what a lazy susan is. It's one of those things. It's like a revolving tray you put on a table and you put condiments. Sometimes, you say in a Chinese restaurant. I don't know. This is great to use at a restaurant if you're sharing dishes with your dinner guests. We'll see did at around table. They're also good for board games like scrabble, if you have a game night. Okay, thank you for the description. However, a lazy susan is not great if you are a twenty seven year old woman living alone in quarantine. No, this is the big reveal. The lazy Susan's functionality is questionable because the top of the lazy Susan isn't flat happening here, so I'm unable to find any use for it. My boyfriend and I have since moved in together, okay, and I've never used the lazy Susan. Can I remove this gift from our home? I appreciate your time and attention to this matter. And that's from uh Devin. Okay, So Devin got this lazy susan as a gift. It doesn't seem like she and the boyfriend have been together that long for him to be giving her a lazy Susan. Yeah, that feels like, you know, we've been married for thirty years. I've run out of things to give you. Here's a bent lazy susan. How is it not even flat? Doesn't seem like a functional lazy susan. 00:53:37 Speaker 2: If you say lazy susan one more time, lazy this su Yeah, you don't like the gift. You don't like the gift. I mean. 00:53:49 Speaker 4: The thing is is that it's all about being honest so that people don't get you more gifts that you don't like. 00:53:57 Speaker 3: More lazy Susan, more lazy. 00:53:59 Speaker 4: So if you say, hey, this is I love, thank you, thank you so much. I appreciate this, but I don't I don't know if this is really like, I don't want to throw it away? 00:54:11 Speaker 2: Do you want it? I don't know. 00:54:14 Speaker 3: But then he moved in, so now it's there, lazy Susan. 00:54:17 Speaker 2: Hey, well, I don't know. Is it? Is it taking up too much space? 00:54:22 Speaker 3: I mean it seems like, you know, one you can't even use. It's not flat on top, So it's like, what is the point. First of all, where did this boyfriend get the idea for the You know what she should do? 00:54:31 Speaker 2: She should break it and be like it broke and. 00:54:33 Speaker 3: Then that's so smart. I don't know how you break one of these things. But I feel like you put it through the dishwasher. 00:54:42 Speaker 2: There's a way. 00:54:43 Speaker 4: There's a way to break it. I break everything, So there is a way. 00:54:48 Speaker 3: You throw it against the floor, send it to me, I'll break it. I think you uh stage a break in. Say while you were gone, mask men entered the home broke our lazy Susan, forgive me, don't and I'm not too broken up about it. Don't get me another. We'll be okay without another. Lazy Susan Bridger. You're I love the way your mind thinks. I think. I mean, it's a complicated when when a partner gives you a gift, it's you know, getting rid of it can be tricky. So you stage a crime and uh, problem solved as far as I'm concerned, Lazy Susan is gone. And take Sydney's advice here though, be honest about a gift or you're going to get more of that gift and it's just going to you know, multiply in your life and eventually it's going to be an even bigger problem. It's really just about honest communication between gifty and gift. I don't know, I feel like we answered that question perfectly. That was a real two handed It sealed it. I mean, God bless both of us for just being here for the listener and being patient and kind and ready to just listen to these gift situations. We're helping people. 00:56:10 Speaker 2: I'm mother Teresa's. 00:56:12 Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't think Mother Teresa ever gave any advice on gifts. So I'm just going to put that out. 00:56:20 Speaker 4: There, a modern day, modern day mother Teresa. 00:56:26 Speaker 3: Today. I'm so thrilled to have had you here. This is the end of the podcast. And now I've got this ocean light thing that is going to turn make it seem like I'm drowning at all times. 00:56:37 Speaker 4: Change your life. It's going to make waking up so much better. 00:56:41 Speaker 3: It's going, Oh, that's a great I should just leave it on at night, so if I wake up in the middle of the night, I'll my leg will be dead. I'll assume I'm at the bottom of the ocean and fly into some sort of panic. 00:56:54 Speaker 4: I love that for you. That feels so fun. That'll definitely make you. They'll put some pep in your step into I'm to waken up, absolutely. 00:57:02 Speaker 3: I need that in the pandemic. The monotony has gone too far. I need to start. I need to change up the situation. I've got to feel like I'm in the ocean. 00:57:09 Speaker 2: I am done. 00:57:11 Speaker 3: I think we're all done, and it does feel like we're headed out of it. 00:57:16 Speaker 2: If I buy one more plant. 00:57:18 Speaker 3: Wait, have you been buying plants too many? Are you good at taking care of plants? I mean, I don't want to extend the podcast too much longer. 00:57:24 Speaker 2: But no you're not. 00:57:25 Speaker 3: Okay, Well that makes me feel better because I'm also so bad. I mean, I am seeing quite a few plants in your zoom. 00:57:32 Speaker 2: Yeah, they're everywhere. 00:57:33 Speaker 3: And you have one. Oh my god, you have a ton of plants. 00:57:38 Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a nightmare. 00:57:39 Speaker 3: Are any of these easy to take care of? I just need to know a larger plant that won't require too much of my effort. 00:57:46 Speaker 2: A snake plant is good. 00:57:47 Speaker 3: I have a snake plant. I'm beyond. I need like a tree looking plant that I want. 00:57:52 Speaker 2: I got this. 00:57:52 Speaker 4: I did a show and they let me have it for free and I lugged it in an uber. 00:57:58 Speaker 3: Right, I have it? 00:57:59 Speaker 2: Yeah, what is that? I don't know. 00:58:01 Speaker 3: I feel like I've killed a plant like that before. I don't trust that plant. 00:58:04 Speaker 2: I don't know what it is, but is here? 00:58:07 Speaker 3: Okay, Well this has been no help. 00:58:11 Speaker 2: You just know that it is alive. It's alive. 00:58:16 Speaker 3: Okay. Well, before we start to scream at each other over plants, we're gonna end the podcast. We're gonna let the listener move on with their life. And you know, everyone, thank you for joining us here today, and Sydney, thank you. You're just wonderful. 00:58:32 Speaker 2: I do what I can. 00:58:33 Speaker 3: Everyone have a fantastic day, goodbye. I said, No Gifts is an exactly right production. It's engineered by our dear friend Annalise Nelson and the theme song is by miracle worker Amy Mann. You must follow the show on Instagram at I said No Gifts, that's where you're going to see pictures of all these wonderful gifts I'm getting. Listen and subscribe on Apple podcast, Stitcher or wherever you found me, and why not leave a review while you're there. It's really the least you could do. And if you're interested in advertising on the show, go to midroll dot com slash ads. 00:59:13 Speaker 1: Well, I invited you here, thought I made myself perfectly clear. But you're a guess to my home. You gotta come to me empty, And I said, no, guess, your presence is business enough. I already had too much stuff, So how do you dare to surbey me