00:00:08 Speaker 1: Well, I invited you here, thought I made myself perfectly clear. 00:00:17 Speaker 2: But you're a guest to my home. 00:00:21 Speaker 1: You gotta come to me empty, and I said, no guests. Your presences presents enough, and I already had too much stuff. 00:00:35 Speaker 2: So how do you dance to surbey me? 00:00:47 Speaker 3: Welcome to I said, no gifts. I'm Richard Wineger. I made it home from lunch safely, so I'm here in the backyard. That's exciting. 00:00:59 Speaker 2: What else? What else? 00:01:00 Speaker 3: Well, yesterday I charged my electric toothbrush all day. This morning I go to brush my teeth, it tells me the batteries still out. One of us is lying. I don't know which. I'm hoping that it's not already broken. But we'll just have to wait and see. It's back on the charging doc. Happy Valentine's Day. I know it's no longer Valentine's Day for you, but it is for me and I just I had to reach out and wish you a happy Valentine's Day. I've said several things, none of them really connected to each other. That's fine, we should get into the podcast. I love today's guests. She's just wonderful. It's Ginger Gonzaga Ginger. 00:01:42 Speaker 2: Welcome to I said, no gifts. 00:01:43 Speaker 4: Hello, I wish I had brought you an electric toothbrush. 00:01:48 Speaker 3: I've had this for maybe two months. 00:01:50 Speaker 4: Ah, okay, the battery writ Yeah. 00:01:54 Speaker 3: I've got to reach out and complain. 00:01:55 Speaker 4: Yeah, we got to get on the instant chat on whatever site and we screen grab all of it and we let them know and have them send us another one. 00:02:03 Speaker 3: These instant chats. The AI chat is the most frustrating thing in the world. It makes you feel completely helpless. Yeah, so if I run into that, maybe there's an eight hundred number or something. 00:02:14 Speaker 4: I have an assistant who has a gift for like the chatting customer service thing, and somehow everything comes back to me in the mail for free. And I'm like, I don't know what you're saying, but. 00:02:27 Speaker 3: Yeah, I need somebody to step in and solve the situation. Are you using electric toothbrush? 00:02:33 Speaker 2: I am not. 00:02:34 Speaker 4: I am aware that I won't charge it. So I've learned who I am at this point, and I just have a million toothbrushes all around the house. 00:02:42 Speaker 2: Oh fantastic. 00:02:43 Speaker 3: Yeah, this is a new development in my life. And I am brushing your teeth. Yeah, brush your teeth in general, it was a It was a solid thirty years before I got into it to the Yeah, the dentist has been begging me for years. No, the electric thing, I don't know if I'm doing it correctly. Yeah, I don't know if I'm pushing hard enough, soft enough. I think it's going to be bad for me ultimately. 00:03:05 Speaker 2: As you do it. 00:03:06 Speaker 4: Yeah, are you supposed to you don't have that. Is it supposed to just kind of do everything for you but you monitor the pressure? 00:03:13 Speaker 3: Yes, But I don't trust that it's doing everything for him because I've got teeth. 00:03:18 Speaker 2: I thank you. 00:03:19 Speaker 3: I'm used to absolutely grinding my teeth with a manual toothbrush, and so when this is just barely doing anything, question what's going on? I feel like I'm headed for so many cavities. You on the way over, you got your dog a dog leash? This is what I've learned pre podcast. 00:03:36 Speaker 4: Yes, And I felt very guilty because I'm like, she has a leash? 00:03:41 Speaker 2: Is the environment no longer going to exist? 00:03:43 Speaker 4: Because I bought this extra leash and then I was like, well, I could resell the other one, and then it cycles back and it's like I never wasted a leash where are you going. 00:03:53 Speaker 3: To resell a dog leash I. 00:03:55 Speaker 2: Don't know, or gifted. 00:03:59 Speaker 4: Dog charity I don't know, rescue charity and give them some leicies. 00:04:03 Speaker 2: But yeah, it's a beautiful rope lea very nice. 00:04:06 Speaker 3: I feel like a rope leish is probably fairly environmentally friendly. 00:04:11 Speaker 2: I hope. 00:04:11 Speaker 3: So fibers, yeah, disintegrade at some point can be turned into some type of jewelry. What's the other one? Is it also rope? 00:04:20 Speaker 2: Yeah? One of them is leather. 00:04:23 Speaker 3: Okay, so neither of these is made of plastic or. 00:04:25 Speaker 4: Anything classic I know. I was just like, oh, I'm such a consumer. 00:04:31 Speaker 3: Well, your dog is to blame here. The dog's a big shopper. You have two dogs? 00:04:35 Speaker 2: I have two. 00:04:35 Speaker 4: I have two Chihuahua mutt mixes rescue things. 00:04:40 Speaker 2: What are their names? 00:04:41 Speaker 4: Mills, Milk Mills, the doctor who made whatever wonderful the Moon movie, and then uh and Lumia, who I call loomy and uh she has aggression to shoes, so if you ever meet her and don't figure up. 00:04:56 Speaker 3: Those are lovely partner names. 00:04:58 Speaker 4: Yeah. 00:04:58 Speaker 3: Yeah, but it sounds like you're only buying one of them a leash. 00:05:00 Speaker 2: Yeah, because the other one's at puppy camp. 00:05:02 Speaker 3: What is puppy camp? 00:05:04 Speaker 4: It was like basically like I had to board my dog because I was traveling so much, and I'm like, you know what a bigger bang for your buck boarding and training? Oh yeah, he's going to come back learning French because it was very How old is he? 00:05:20 Speaker 2: He just turned one? 00:05:21 Speaker 3: Okay, I feel like we got our dog issues a year old and trained already. So it's been such a breeze. Yeah, but I feel like if I got a puppy, I would I would throw ten thousand dollars at it being trained because they're out of control. 00:05:36 Speaker 4: The No, that's why I could never have a big dog again. I know about myself. I wouldn't train the thing and it would be like, I don't know, jumping on everyone. 00:05:43 Speaker 2: In a complete menace. 00:05:45 Speaker 3: Yeah, my dog has been eating dirt out of the pots in the house recently. I don't know how to stop her. Every night we come home. Really, there's dirt everywhere, there's dirt in her bowl. She's she's got an addiction. It's bizarre. What do you do? 00:06:01 Speaker 2: What do you do? Twelve to twelve step? 00:06:02 Speaker 3: I might have to send her to get her in a program. 00:06:05 Speaker 4: My dog, the one, my special dog with aggression issues and a sleep startle and all the things she decided to. 00:06:13 Speaker 2: It was very artful. I'll have to show you a photo she shot on the bed. 00:06:18 Speaker 4: But in addition to that, somehow some of it was still stuck on her and she managed to flee it. 00:06:24 Speaker 2: On the wall. 00:06:25 Speaker 3: Oh my god. 00:06:26 Speaker 2: Wall. It was both the wall and the top of a guess room. Absolutely mess. 00:06:30 Speaker 4: I wish I could have had a camera in there. I'd probably be rich on TikTok. 00:06:34 Speaker 3: Wait, and did you say you were going to show me a picture of this? 00:06:37 Speaker 2: I could? I mean, I mean, I'm not. 00:06:40 Speaker 3: I'll look. I mean I saw the worst picture I've ever seen on Instagram. Last night, National Geographic posted a photo that made me shriek. 00:06:51 Speaker 2: This way, show. 00:06:54 Speaker 3: Me a picture and there's just a peace of dog shit right on the wall. Like wow, this is not a pleasant thing to see. 00:07:00 Speaker 4: Fascinating girl. Okay, wait, what did you see? National Geographic? 00:07:03 Speaker 2: All right? 00:07:04 Speaker 3: You know they're known for beautiful, scenic photos opening your eyes to the world. I opened it and there are two of the most horrifying rats crawling out of a garbage can. I think I had to throw it away from me because it scared me so bad. But I think you could see sharp teeth. 00:07:19 Speaker 4: Wait, it was a photo photograph and so so I'm sorry nature is now in the garbage. 00:07:25 Speaker 2: A canause glad I checked. It was like the savannah. 00:07:28 Speaker 4: But I haven't looked at a National Geographic since I was looking at the naked pictures and I was like, seven. 00:07:32 Speaker 2: I mean, let me. 00:07:33 Speaker 3: I mean I almost want you to look at their I can't look at it because it will on their Instagram. Yeah, I want you to look and kind of describe it to me because it made me so I want to reach out to National Geographic and ask them they should images like this should come with a warning or something, because it really shocked me. 00:07:52 Speaker 4: Okay, now, Geo, I'm seeing rats. I'm seeing whales and babies. I'm seeing an kissing under raff, I am seeing what wait is this? This was just I would love to see what you were describing as a rat. Never kidding, It's just a person in a different land. 00:08:12 Speaker 2: Let's see. I see, I'm going to look at it's a pseudo memory. Oh no, baby birds. 00:08:17 Speaker 3: That look like I'm gonna look my eyes so I don't have to see the whole thing, and then I will show it to you on my rating because. 00:08:25 Speaker 2: It was that's not gonna win any awards. Absolutely, Okay, did you find it? 00:08:29 Speaker 4: Sorry, okay, it was garbage. It's garbage focused, so I didn't notice it. 00:08:35 Speaker 3: There animal you're seeing it. It's like kind of a one of those garbage cans. It's like a net type is eating. 00:08:43 Speaker 2: Is it another pizza rat? 00:08:45 Speaker 3: Is it two rats? It's three rats? Oh, I didn't see the third. 00:08:48 Speaker 2: They're just discussing. This is like a size of a cat. Where is this New York? 00:08:52 Speaker 4: Of course, of course I love New York. But I know it's I know it's running around there. Yeah, it's a rat, one of them. So there's one on the ground taking the crumbs. 00:09:02 Speaker 2: Then there's one. 00:09:03 Speaker 4: Coming out of the garbage again, and I think he has crust from a pizza. 00:09:06 Speaker 2: It's another tea rat. 00:09:08 Speaker 3: I feel like, was I imagining that? 00:09:10 Speaker 2: Well, no, you don't see their teeth? 00:09:12 Speaker 3: Okay, yeah you were? 00:09:13 Speaker 2: This is that was just a trauma. 00:09:15 Speaker 3: Yeah, that I was just putting on the right. 00:09:17 Speaker 4: Actually, I think it's a bad get or something. And if you zoom in on their faces, they're very cute. If you zoom in on their tails. You're like, you disgusting vermin, get out of here, and also cross. 00:09:30 Speaker 3: Oh, just like you describing this as making my toes curl. This is not for me. 00:09:35 Speaker 4: It is a pizza I would like to note that in the it says, uh, yeah, so I guess there's not one pizza rat. Can you imagine getting famous from being pizza rat? 00:09:44 Speaker 2: And now you can. 00:09:44 Speaker 3: Imagine being all the other pizza rats and being like, I've been doing this my entire life and I'm getting nothing for it. Grow but that geo come on, no, no, no, that's not what we want to see on the nat GEOE. That should be nat Geo Extreme or nat Geo after Dark. 00:10:00 Speaker 2: I feel like wild and weird. 00:10:02 Speaker 4: Yeah, there's a second photo if you slip to the right, and it's the guy. 00:10:07 Speaker 2: I think it's safe to show you. 00:10:08 Speaker 4: It's a guy being like, how cool it is that there's rats here and that's a normalization of rats and that's how you. 00:10:14 Speaker 2: Know the apolcast is the plague? 00:10:16 Speaker 3: Yeah the first time? Yeah, ohoy, that is thank you for walking me through that one that actually exposing me awful. What is there any type of animal that does that to you that like that grosses me out. Your response that I have, I mean, rats are so gross. 00:10:33 Speaker 4: Mice, for some reason don't seem as gross, right, I don't know. You know what the grossest thing I've ever seen, only in a video in junior high which haunts me to this day, is a frog birthing about forty frogs out of its back. 00:10:49 Speaker 2: It's so disgusting. 00:10:52 Speaker 3: Wait are they the eggs? 00:10:54 Speaker 4: No? 00:10:54 Speaker 2: No, no, they come out alive. So what frog? 00:10:59 Speaker 3: Is this gross? 00:11:00 Speaker 4: And I weirdly looked at up maybe like ten years ago, and I was like, yep, still gross. 00:11:05 Speaker 2: It is like it's a large frog, like I guesses it's like. 00:11:08 Speaker 4: A foot and a half long, or so my eleven eleven year old memory serves me. 00:11:14 Speaker 2: And then it has holes like it has disgusting. 00:11:18 Speaker 3: Hole giant pours yes, yes, oh no, And maybe eggs are howled in its back. 00:11:25 Speaker 2: Hours when it bursts, it's just a. 00:11:29 Speaker 4: Bunch of mini frogs crowing of the discussing floors of its back. 00:11:34 Speaker 2: It is so gross. 00:11:36 Speaker 4: Between that and a video I saw that like highlighted where germs exist? 00:11:41 Speaker 2: Forever trauma sized by science class? 00:11:43 Speaker 3: Where does this frog exist? That's horrifying? 00:11:50 Speaker 2: In California than threatening the rest or threatening. Oh yeah, yeah, because they'll invader space. 00:11:55 Speaker 3: They'll come for me. But a frog, you know, a new mother just giving. 00:12:00 Speaker 4: Oh god, I don't see any beauty in this. I'm just like, we don't need that animal on this planet. I don't know what it does for us. 00:12:06 Speaker 3: The miracle of childbirth was did you find it? Do you see how disgusting that. 00:12:15 Speaker 2: Google frog birth from back? And they're all once crawling out. Oh that is unfortunate. 00:12:23 Speaker 3: It looks like they're escaping. 00:12:25 Speaker 4: Yeah, and they kind of shake out, all slimy and weird. 00:12:30 Speaker 3: It's not good look at that is people have that phobia or thing that's like try something that they can't look at things that are basically patterns or like the frog where you see a bunch of circles at once, Are. 00:12:43 Speaker 2: You familiar with that? Are we diagnosing me today? 00:12:46 Speaker 3: We might be able to today. That's why you can't find out I'm going to find something wrong with It's like a friend of mine has it, and it's like try pluck fluff bluff. 00:12:56 Speaker 4: Yeah. 00:12:57 Speaker 3: But like even if you draw like a bunch of circles on a paper close together, that pattern freaks them out there's something in their brains. 00:13:04 Speaker 2: I don't think I like that either. 00:13:06 Speaker 3: Yeah, I guess it's kind of almost like fungus or something. 00:13:09 Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't. Yeah, I don't like anything. 00:13:11 Speaker 4: Like if I see wallpaper and it looks like porous or disease, like when things look like something in a Petrie dish. 00:13:18 Speaker 2: It's too circular, Bobby. 00:13:20 Speaker 4: I'm like, that looks like a zoomed in something from a Petrie dish that I don't want to know. 00:13:24 Speaker 2: Phobia, that's what it is. That's a fear of tripping. 00:13:29 Speaker 4: Right. 00:13:30 Speaker 3: This is an aversion or repulsion to objects like honeycombs and sponges that have repetitive patterns or clusters of small holes. 00:13:38 Speaker 2: So it's like being disgusted by the. 00:13:39 Speaker 4: Pa is there kind of gross? Yeah, multiple holes are kind of gross. Like I like honeycomb, but if I actually stare at it a long time, I might be like. 00:13:47 Speaker 3: Yeah, what's going on? I wonder if my theory that I'm going with right now? Yea, it's like a primal thing that's afraid of like rotting or fungus or something. 00:13:58 Speaker 2: Y's like a porous right in depth or yeah, yeah, yeah. 00:14:02 Speaker 3: I'm probably way off. But it's also just kind of a weird thing to see, and that frog is the mother of all of it. It's truly the queen of tripophobia. Yeah, oh that's awful. Let me ask you something. This is completely off topic. Have all restaurants recently decided to decrease the temperature by ten degrees? 00:14:22 Speaker 2: I think so. 00:14:23 Speaker 4: But they wanted to decrease the temperature by ten degrees. They want to take the lighting down by ninety percent and the volume up by eight thousand. 00:14:32 Speaker 2: Yes, they don't want you. They actually don't want anything. 00:14:34 Speaker 3: Please go away, I have I can't go to any restaurant at this point where it's I'm not chilled to the bone. It feels like in the last four months we've turned it down. I don't know what's going on. 00:14:45 Speaker 4: You think it's post COVID and nobody has any money. It's like, come with your back at Honey, into a pandemic. We're lucky to be open. 00:14:53 Speaker 3: That's probably true. I mean, I think because there was a point when a lot of restaurants were leaving windows or doors open. Of course that the weather outside is affecting. But now I feel like something else is going on. 00:15:03 Speaker 4: I was freezing last night where I was, and they brought me a blanket. 00:15:06 Speaker 3: Oh that was nice. 00:15:08 Speaker 2: Yeah. 00:15:09 Speaker 3: Why did the restaurant have a blanket in the first. 00:15:11 Speaker 4: Place, I don't know, but they had lots of blankets and I wore one and I put it over my head like I was playing Marry in a church music off. 00:15:17 Speaker 2: I got a good dirty second. Did you eat with that on? 00:15:20 Speaker 4: I would have, but I was afraid I would dirty hunched plate. Yeah, and I was with fancy executives. I didn't want them to see my mental health issues on my face. 00:15:29 Speaker 3: We've got that. We need to turn up the temperature. I need to be cozy in a restaurant. Yeah, I can't be chilled to the bone. 00:15:35 Speaker 2: Maybe maybe you're a knee mack whenever. 00:15:39 Speaker 3: Look at me. I don't know even know if there's blood in my body. I'm like one of those fish at the bottom of the sea or something. But yeah, maybe that's what's going on. But I'm wearing full coats and restaurants at this point it doesn't work for me. I'm reaching out to the restaurant community or we need to turn up even by two degrees. Yeah something. 00:16:01 Speaker 4: Maybe we can get on their their page and their animated chat, their AI chat and let them know our concerns. 00:16:08 Speaker 3: Leave a lot of two word yel previews just too cold, and maybe they'll get the point because I've had it. I've had enough. The world is just absolutely falling apart. It's horrifying to watch. What's more horrifying to watch Ginger. I was so excited to have you on the podcast. We you know, I have a really good time usually on this podcast, I have great guests, they come, we chat, we have a wonderful time, at least in theory. So I was thrilled to have you here today. Uh, maybe twenty minutes ago. I hear a knock at the door. I open it and here's Ginger holding something. Yeah, it's a little brown box. The podcast again, I maybe maybe this didn't come through the emails. Maybe yeah, I'll throw them on to the bus. Podcast is called I said, no gift. There's this little brown box with the writing on it that says beautiful wrapping paper. You obviously wrote that on there to indicate, well, this is a gift. 00:17:13 Speaker 4: Yeah, and it's like I didn't have any wrapping papers, so then I just made it as if there was well, I read it. It seems like there's be able wrapping paper. It tells you that there is. 00:17:23 Speaker 3: Well, you're trying to get my pity now you can't you have a single wrap in your house. Sound embarrassing, but I don't. I don't feel bad for you at all. I feel annoyed, uncomfortable, and I don't know what to do. But other than open it on this podcast, should I feel silly? 00:17:42 Speaker 2: Yes, please open it. 00:17:44 Speaker 4: I feel still giving this gift, but it's a it's a gift I keep continually giving people right now. 00:17:49 Speaker 2: Not that you're not a special interest. I feel like it's more of the moment for me to give this gift. 00:17:53 Speaker 3: Okay, very interesting. 00:17:55 Speaker 2: Weirdly, maybe vain gift. I don't know. 00:18:11 Speaker 3: Before I open it, I'm going to say the box it's currently in is a very odd box because it says do not open unless final customer. 00:18:19 Speaker 2: I hope you're the final customer. 00:18:20 Speaker 3: Is this the box that came in or is this that's the box that came Oh okay, we're gonna find out what the final customer is. Final customer sounds like I'm going to die. 00:18:31 Speaker 2: This is. 00:18:33 Speaker 3: Oh interesting? 00:18:35 Speaker 2: Oh I just and I injured girl? 00:18:42 Speaker 3: No I'm bleeding, actively bleeding. I'm going to go get a band aid. I'll be right. I'm going to run inside for just a moment. I'm now bleeding. 00:18:54 Speaker 4: Oh no, okay, Ginger, I violently assaulted. 00:19:04 Speaker 3: This is a podcast first that I've been attacked by the guests. 00:19:08 Speaker 2: I feel so I drew blood. 00:19:10 Speaker 3: An attempt on my life. Yeah, oh uh, listener, I'm back with a hastily put on band aids. Terrible, but I'll take care of that later. I haven't had a paper cut in a long time. When was the last time you had. 00:19:22 Speaker 2: For a while. Your bandon also matches your shirt like color. 00:19:27 Speaker 3: That's very nice, have stylish. Okay, well I'm bleeding, that's fine. 00:19:32 Speaker 2: Uh. 00:19:33 Speaker 3: While I was opening it, the bigger shock was that I have this gift here, which is very self centered. I mean, I know, let's just put the spotlight on Ginger. So she's given me a funko pop of her character, and she halts, yes, Nikki, but. 00:19:49 Speaker 2: I could sign it, you could sell it, all the things you can put it on eBay. 00:19:56 Speaker 3: Incredible. Uh. I wonder why it says final customer or for a funko pop. 00:20:01 Speaker 2: I don't know. 00:20:02 Speaker 3: Do not open unless final customer that will haunt me for the rest of my life, which might be short at this point. But Okay, so you gave me this thing. Do you owt any other Funco pops? I? 00:20:14 Speaker 2: While I own the Hulk and I own g Hulk. 00:20:18 Speaker 3: Did Disney supply these to you or did you go to the Funkos store. 00:20:24 Speaker 2: Things when you were I believe that. 00:20:28 Speaker 3: Disney. 00:20:29 Speaker 4: They're like, no, no, no, yeah, no, I just bought them and I give them to people or give for charity things. 00:20:38 Speaker 3: Oh sure, short, So did you go to the Funko Pop store? Order them online? 00:20:42 Speaker 2: I ordered them online. 00:20:43 Speaker 3: Okay, what do we think of the Funco Pops store? 00:20:46 Speaker 2: I've never been in one. 00:20:47 Speaker 4: Yeah, there was one by a place that used to live when I still lived in Hollywood, and I didn't know what it was. 00:20:53 Speaker 2: I was just like, what is this? I never went inside. I didn't. 00:20:57 Speaker 4: I didn't realize until I had my own do all that that store was a thing with dolls for adults. 00:21:03 Speaker 2: I guess, or whatever it is. 00:21:05 Speaker 4: And now I know all these people that have Funko Pops and I'm like, Okay, I don't know. 00:21:09 Speaker 2: It seems so weird to me. 00:21:11 Speaker 3: Yeah, there's like a collector aspect to it, where they have those enormous lines outside the store. Yeah, the whole thing makes me a little uneasy. 00:21:20 Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't. I mean they're great. 00:21:24 Speaker 4: I don't get it, or I guess I do collect collector type thing, right, I don't know. 00:21:30 Speaker 2: I mean for us, they. 00:21:32 Speaker 4: Will like, like people will have a sign them and then it's like that's they like that better than a selfie or something interesting, right, But I like it for myself because it's a brown doll. 00:21:48 Speaker 3: It's adorable. 00:21:48 Speaker 2: Yeah. 00:21:49 Speaker 4: And when I grew up, I had like all these white barbies, and I had one Hawaiian barbie that my mom got me. But I was always like Clark experimenting just using the blonde barbies are so my friends. So it was weirdly sweet in that way and also totally bizarre. 00:22:04 Speaker 3: This is great. When did you find out they were going to be making this of you? 00:22:08 Speaker 2: They just and we don't have to talk about this, by the way, I do want to talk about this. 00:22:13 Speaker 3: I mean, how many people have a doll made of film? It's very odd. 00:22:16 Speaker 4: Yeah, they I guess they made an Instagram post and so we knew that she Hulk and the Hulk or Gen Walter's in the Hulk and myself would be in the first round if she Hulk fun copots and I was just like, wow, there's such an honor. 00:22:30 Speaker 3: It's a huge on. 00:22:31 Speaker 4: Yeah. 00:22:32 Speaker 3: I mean, you're contributing to landfill these problems. There's going to be a whole island of this dollar. 00:22:38 Speaker 4: No, you can melt it down and you can make it a plate and then you can reuse that plate. 00:22:44 Speaker 3: And No, these are collectors, so people will hold on to them. I think that this feels like a decent use of plastic. Ye're not throwing these not throwing them. 00:22:52 Speaker 2: Into yeah forever and solving depression. 00:22:56 Speaker 3: Yeah, making people happy, getting people in line, so they're. 00:23:01 Speaker 4: Performing commutes, per forming friendships. We're getting in cells out of their house. But you know what I mean, they're like, oh, the online make some friends, Facebook community, getting people to an opportunity to exercise their communication skills. 00:23:16 Speaker 2: The cancer after that? What else? Actually I did do a charity with Paul Rudd. 00:23:23 Speaker 4: He has a charity called The Big Slick with himself and David Kickner and City Kiss and all these people, and we go to children's hospitals and it was so cute to see how excited they got when they would get like an ant man funk copop. 00:23:37 Speaker 2: Oh, I'm sure. 00:23:38 Speaker 4: Yeah. It's also that just that level of like, you can't really make the kids happy unless you're famous enough. 00:23:44 Speaker 2: To know you arewise. Yeah. 00:23:47 Speaker 4: I saw like the value, the beautiful side of the value of his you know, his fame in that way. It's just like it doesn't it didn't matter if I was saying hi, but man man says hi. 00:23:58 Speaker 2: They're like, I had a good day. 00:24:00 Speaker 3: Give us some time. Ye, I had a little time. Yeah, a couple of years from now, the kids at the hospitalill be screaming for you. That's very sweet. Do you collect anything? Listen to the birds, by the way, the birds are truly surrounding us. Yeah, it feels like we're going to be attacked at any moment. 00:24:16 Speaker 2: Lovely, I've kind of noticed birds so much more this year. 00:24:19 Speaker 3: Try the way you're finally feeling some gratitude. 00:24:22 Speaker 4: Yeah, I know, right, because before I was just like, let me hit these things in my car. 00:24:26 Speaker 2: But no, I don't know what it is. 00:24:28 Speaker 4: I lived in Venice during the pandemic, and there were just birds that would sing to me every morning and I was like, this is wild. And then I've just I've noticed them around me so much more. 00:24:37 Speaker 2: And I love in Atlanta. 00:24:39 Speaker 4: I love watching them like that weird migragatory shapes that they make in the sky. And I felt like chosen one day by all these birds because they went and landed in my tree. 00:24:49 Speaker 2: Is like they're stop, you know. 00:24:50 Speaker 4: And then they went off and I was like, oh, they could have been any tree in any tree but mine. 00:24:54 Speaker 2: Oh that's very very nice. 00:24:57 Speaker 3: What was I going to ask before I got distracted by the bird? 00:25:00 Speaker 2: Oh? Do you collect anything? Do I collect? 00:25:05 Speaker 1: No? 00:25:05 Speaker 2: I was gonna make it a joke. I don't have one. 00:25:08 Speaker 3: I don't collect anything enemies. Well, what are some other things you can collect? 00:25:16 Speaker 2: Life experiences to learn from? 00:25:18 Speaker 3: Is there anything you want to collect? 00:25:20 Speaker 4: I would like to consider myself, like with one thing that I do, like a dl hoarder for good in that any hotel I go to, I compulsively take all of the shampoos because I only use non toxic parabin free like toiletry so I can't use whatever's the hotel anyways, but I like go out of my way to hoard as many as I can't. I make sure I take all of them, put them in the bag, make sure the maid gives me more, blah blah blah. And then once my pile is giant and I've got this whole hoarding collection of freeze soaps and whatever, then I give it to like the downtown women's shelters, and. 00:25:54 Speaker 2: I feel like I got to do the collect e hoardery kind of thing. But then I like purge it eventually, Oh it's great. 00:26:00 Speaker 3: It's kind of a robin Hood of hotel shampoo. 00:26:03 Speaker 4: And I'm just like ha ha, Like i feel like I'm stealing, but I'm And the best times that I get a lot of them is if I'm filming at a hotel, because anytime you film at a hotel, the production has to book like the whole floor, right, So I just me and the pias just go through all the floors and we steal. And I'm just like, oh man, we have like fifty soaps and conditioners. 00:26:23 Speaker 3: So smart. Everybody should be doing that. Anytime you're on vacation, collect the soap. 00:26:27 Speaker 4: So then give them away, because I do think that if you just use a little bit of it, I do think it gets thrown. I think right legally, I don't think they can use products. 00:26:36 Speaker 3: Yeah, and that's tacky anyway. We're not giving away to use shampoos. Yeah, get some class. 00:26:42 Speaker 2: Yeah. So I don't know it is, but I do. I feel like I'm stealing. 00:26:46 Speaker 3: Well, no, you're just giving. It's for the greater good. Yeah, hotels have plenty of shampoo. Yeah, and you know they're. 00:26:53 Speaker 2: Always trying to rip us off. 00:26:54 Speaker 3: Lately, it's like they won't clean your room and they're still hiding behind COVID where it's just like this is so. 00:26:59 Speaker 4: Everybody eyes and cover all the things. 00:27:03 Speaker 3: The hotels are not getting a pass anymore. No, no, no hotel shampoo bottles. I love those little bottles. I haven't used one in a long time. That's a nice little souvenir at the very least. Yeah, I don't collect anything. I don't even know at this point that maybe it's just a lack of interest in everything that I just don't collect a single thing. 00:27:23 Speaker 2: Maybe you don't need the permanence of like the cold. 00:27:27 Speaker 3: Yeah, maybe we should look at this as a better part of my person. I'm beyond beyond the physical, beyond yeah, the material. No, I wonder, let's see what could I collect stamps is a classic, coins is a classic. 00:27:42 Speaker 2: I collect people. People collect really good people. 00:27:45 Speaker 3: So you look at people as objects. 00:27:47 Speaker 4: Yea, I put them in a room one day, they'll get out. But I do actively collect like lovely people I think go out of my way or I consider them collected in my life. Once I on them and I'm like, oh, you're you're great. 00:28:02 Speaker 3: Are you somebody who will just make a surprise phone call? 00:28:05 Speaker 2: Maybe? Okay, Well so that's a no. I don't know. 00:28:09 Speaker 4: I'm like, well, I'm just I would probably be unaware that it felt like surprising interest. I would probably be on that side, like I don't I have a bad con. I think it's like an ADHD thing where it's like you're not aware of how much time has passed. Oh yeah, I'll just like call someone if I haven't seen someone in a while. It's I'm like, they still have that affection in my life. So I'm just like, oh, yeah, not to I should in a minute, let me call I Shaw And it might I imagine it might be weird, but I'm like, I have time. 00:28:34 Speaker 3: I don't think it's weird at all. I think it's very nice. 00:28:37 Speaker 2: I mean, it might feel like a surprise, you know. 00:28:40 Speaker 3: Yeah, I think it is usually a surprise to the other person. But if you're collecting all these people, I don't make that. I'm trying to be better about making surprise phone or just phone calls in general, without scheduling and making last minute plans. 00:28:52 Speaker 2: I love. 00:28:53 Speaker 3: I've started to really love a last minute plan getting a text two hours before. 00:28:58 Speaker 2: Dinner and be like, do you want to get dinner? 00:28:59 Speaker 3: Yeah, what a nice thing to happen, rather than like scheduling three weeks out and then it just becomes this dreadful event. 00:29:06 Speaker 2: It's a weird, like sticker on your calendar or whatever. 00:29:09 Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm trying to encourage everyone in my life to just reach out last minute. 00:29:13 Speaker 2: Yeah, that's it is nice. 00:29:14 Speaker 3: There's some spontaneity. 00:29:16 Speaker 4: It's like feel cool, Like, yeah, sometimes I just go to dinner on a Wednesday. 00:29:20 Speaker 3: I mean to admit in the moment that there's nothing going on in your life, which is kind of a problem, but it is nice. It's just like, oh, sure, I'm not I'm just sitting on the couch watching my life go down to drail. 00:29:30 Speaker 2: I'll get dinner with you. 00:29:33 Speaker 3: I think we all need to make especially in la I think that's very difficult to do. 00:29:38 Speaker 2: What plans are last minute, last minnuity. 00:29:41 Speaker 4: Yeah, I have certain friends that I know, like if I'm going to make a last minute plan, I kind of I have like my five that I can reach out to. 00:29:47 Speaker 3: Okay, who don't have any other friends, no one else in their lives, Like. 00:29:52 Speaker 2: I don't know if they planned anything for. 00:29:53 Speaker 4: Check out this loser yeah, or they're just more I don't know, flexible or I don't know, yeah, losers the other. 00:30:05 Speaker 3: That's the only word we can describe them with. Do you like to get a surprise phone call. 00:30:10 Speaker 2: If I can see the number? 00:30:13 Speaker 4: Yeah, But like an unknown, unknown caller sets me into a panic attack, to the point where I actually have had to have friends, like in a therapy way actively like neutralize that for me, you know, because I would associate unknown caller with like scary people. So they've I've like had friends like text me, like they know to text me in advance, like I'm calling and it's unknown and then I'm like okay, or like now I have positive association with certain My friend Vincent Piazza uses an unknown thing, but he's a love so I would be like, okay, text me before and then I know it, lets me know, yeah and help me flip this in my brain. And now unknown doesn't see me as much, but I would always I think I run thinking that in a surprise call is a tragedy, there's something that someone died there, or there's an ask someone needs something. 00:31:08 Speaker 3: You know, it is not good news. I'm now as we talk about this, remembering that at some point, like in maybe five years, well actually less than that. A few years ago, I think my phone number was one digit away from a senior citizen's phone number, and I was constantly getting calls for this senior citizen. 00:31:26 Speaker 2: Who had dumb friends. 00:31:29 Speaker 3: But the calls have stopped, and I'm realizing, Oh, no, did the person I don't want to think about it, but I, oh, how do you know how. 00:31:39 Speaker 2: The senior say didn't see that. 00:31:42 Speaker 3: Because all of their friends were old people. 00:31:45 Speaker 2: You could just tell me. I mean, maybe they switched by the let's hope that misogyny. 00:31:52 Speaker 3: Let's just assume the best they got. They switched from Verizon to T Mobile. 00:31:56 Speaker 4: Or something they switched or they had they were like, I don't need all these calls. And I'm setting a boundary in my life and then they change their phone number. Finally, at seventy five, they learned I don't have to take all these phone calls or respond all these people. 00:32:11 Speaker 2: And yeah, so that's what happened. They're still alive. 00:32:13 Speaker 3: Everything's great, and for their sake, let's hope they were. Like ninety nine, seventy five would still be a pretty tragedy. Yeah, wow, interesting, maybe they went off the grid. 00:32:22 Speaker 2: You could call the number. 00:32:23 Speaker 3: Oh that's I'll dial my number. Well that could take a while. Yeah, that could take a while. But person, whoever you are, reach out. 00:32:31 Speaker 2: I hope. 00:32:31 Speaker 3: I hope you're safe. I hope you're cozy. I hope you haven't died. Oh, that would be such a tragedy. 00:32:38 Speaker 2: Yeah. 00:32:39 Speaker 3: I do appreciate a surprise phone call. Our mutual friend, Jessica Gow really looks at it as a challenge for me. She will call me at all kinds of hours and listening to this podcast, and I'm sure she's going to call very quickly. 00:32:51 Speaker 2: I should be. 00:32:52 Speaker 3: I'm gonna have to be aware of the timing of this because I'm going to be getting a call from Jessica. 00:32:56 Speaker 2: I appreciate that because I do I do text. You're a pretty. 00:33:01 Speaker 4: Uh. My new thing is like, if you don't want to be woken up, then you'll have your phone on silent or whatever. 00:33:07 Speaker 2: And I do take deliberty to text her at very odd hours, and I'm like, she gets it, she knows me, and I'm as bad as she's not. Yeah, she's fine with you. 00:33:15 Speaker 4: Yeah. 00:33:16 Speaker 3: I have been absolutely abusing that do not disturb feature on my phone. 00:33:20 Speaker 2: Oh yeah, it's great. Oh it's oh. 00:33:22 Speaker 3: It feels so good to just get nothing from anyone. And then you look at it and you're like, oh, I missed all of this. Now it's on my terms. 00:33:29 Speaker 4: Yes it is, and they know because they actively cross that boundary and text it but do not disturb And then yeah, and then did you know? 00:33:37 Speaker 2: There? 00:33:38 Speaker 4: You can you can set it so some people see the. 00:33:41 Speaker 3: Thing never happening. For me, I don't want anyone coming through the gates. Yeah, I've got to block everyone. Have you set a thing where you can have a few people come through? 00:33:50 Speaker 4: Yes, my assistant can come through, and depending on the day, sometimes other people maybe my my my reps. 00:33:57 Speaker 3: So you get to program several different ones, is it like? 00:34:00 Speaker 4: Yeah, you can choose, like how many people can break through? You can choose whether or not people see that you have it on dune understurbed. 00:34:06 Speaker 3: Oh wow, I need to get into it. 00:34:08 Speaker 4: You can see who you can proget to who can see that's some. That's some sounds like some dating weird, passive aggressive, you know. 00:34:16 Speaker 2: Gamy type stuff. 00:34:17 Speaker 4: But I always I always have it on there, and when I have it you can see it and then but certain people can break through, and I think they know they can. 00:34:24 Speaker 3: You should be able to have like an away message. I would like it to just respond leave me alone or something. 00:34:28 Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't think you like leave me alone. I thought a I am away message? 00:34:33 Speaker 3: We all, I know, I feel like apple. Somebody there has to be listening. There's a new idea for the next update. Ye away messages bring back the late nineties early thousands, since we all have an away message. Wow, I'm so good at thinking of phone ideas. Maybe maybe it's a new career path for me. 00:34:51 Speaker 2: What was it? 00:34:52 Speaker 4: What kind of away messages did you have when you were like aim? 00:34:55 Speaker 3: That's see, that's an interesting thing for me. I wasn't really allowed to be on a until the point that I didn't really care about a way allow because my parents wouldn't let me on. What if it was because I was like a criminal, or. 00:35:10 Speaker 2: Because you've been in jail. I'm allowed to have contact. 00:35:12 Speaker 3: With actually monitored my Internet usage and I was not allowed on AIM. Uh No. I just I think like by the time I was on AIM, I was like a later teens and I didn't care about in a way message Yeah, or maybe I'm lying and I had them and I've just forgotten. What were you putting on? 00:35:30 Speaker 4: I mind always said it was like an underline and it said cliche quotation here because everyone always had some dumb quote dance like no one's like as they're a waving like this is who I am. Here's my bumper secret quote. It was so dumb or at least you know the people I knew in God. 00:35:49 Speaker 3: What we're fighting out is you don't like anyone in my life surrounded yourself with a loser. 00:35:53 Speaker 2: Everyone's blocked. We call the losers for the last minute lunch friends. You know, I called them for the last minute. I'm very sad when to hear that I love them, though I do. 00:36:03 Speaker 3: We love them. We love everybody. Yeah, I wish I could remember. Actually, if I remembered, i'd probably be humiliated by my aim away messages. I can't imagine what lame thing I was thinking in the late nineties early thousands, But I wonder if I had Gmail away messages. 00:36:20 Speaker 2: Who cares? 00:36:21 Speaker 3: Oh yeah, I don't think nobody chats anymore. We're all done chatting. 00:36:25 Speaker 4: Yeah. 00:36:25 Speaker 2: I never did like the g G chat. 00:36:27 Speaker 3: I never did che chat. I kind of got off chea cha. I guess like when I was working a normal office job. 00:36:33 Speaker 2: I was chatting. Oh yeah, if you're at a desk all day, right, that's different. Yeah, but I think people are now on slatting all day. 00:36:40 Speaker 3: Oh we know modern society. You're either on slack or you're at the roller. 00:36:46 Speaker 2: Yeah, those are the two options everybody. Yeah. 00:36:49 Speaker 4: I've been on Slack once during a Zoom pandemic game of Mafia where we were playing Mafia on Zoom, which lasted two days and wasn't saying and also if you wanted to further chat with people, you could chat on Slack, and I was just like, this is this is too much for me. 00:37:04 Speaker 3: That's overload. Wait, the Mafia game lasted two days. 00:37:07 Speaker 2: It was very elaborate. 00:37:08 Speaker 4: Yes, Meli Lensky is amazing with Mafia and she has a wonderful group, a collected group, ever changing, wonderful pot of people. And so it was like, yeah, it lasted two days, so to the point where you're texting people and trying to manipulate them and make you think, oh wow, Mafia like it went on. It carried on through to the next night, so it existed during the next day, like outside of the Zoom. 00:37:34 Speaker 3: Wow, it becomes part of your reality. 00:37:37 Speaker 2: Oh but at the height of the pandemic to find something. I also game nights and they worked pretty pretty well. 00:37:45 Speaker 3: I was surprised, right, but yeah, game nights were fun. Some of those games, some of those word games or whatever really annoyed me. What were some of the word games are not wordle like the ones that you're doing a party game over zoom but it's like funny prompts voice. 00:38:05 Speaker 4: I was only invited to. I have to plan my own parties. I gotta get get invited to my Mafia party. Everything else I have to plan on my ass. 00:38:13 Speaker 3: I wonder what the longest Mafia game ever had, I mean, you could kind. 00:38:17 Speaker 4: Of have it go for a year, right, Yeah, maybe I feel like it was this were you Mafia. I'm never Mafia, which is a bummer. 00:38:26 Speaker 2: I might have been. I don't know. Oh, I know what I was doing during this game. I was just playing a weirdo. 00:38:30 Speaker 4: Wild card and I think I even I kept trying to convince people that I was Mafia even though I wasn't, because everyone in this group knows that I want to be Mafia. So I kept using the zoom to have like knives in the background casually and just random like you know. 00:38:44 Speaker 2: Things that would make me look like I was a villain. But they didn't buy it. 00:38:48 Speaker 3: They know I never get You get really into Mafia when you're playing it. 00:38:51 Speaker 4: I get into Mafia to the point where there's a character called the Alien, and I really want to be the Alien. And one time I was the Alien, and one time everyone knew that I was the Alien. And if you're the Alien and people think you're Mafia, then the whole town explodes. And after a while people saw that my fantasy was almost coming alive. I was like shaking, I'm so happy and that they could tell. 00:39:11 Speaker 2: And then someone someone ruined it. 00:39:12 Speaker 4: But they almost let me have my moment where I was just finally like the alien that exploded everything. 00:39:17 Speaker 3: Wait, is Alien a normal part of mafia. 00:39:19 Speaker 4: I think it's in some mafia's it's where like the role is that you're not you're an alien. But if you can convince people that you're mafia and they vote you out as mafia, you're like, hah, just k JK. 00:39:32 Speaker 2: I was an alien and the whole interesting. I need to get to like pretend to be an alien for five seconds if. 00:39:39 Speaker 3: I feel like, yeah it is, it's not real like FBI, rival Mob or something. 00:39:47 Speaker 2: Listen, they're out there. We got floating balloons or shooting out of the sky. 00:39:51 Speaker 3: Andrew, I'm telling you a few very cute balloons episodes ago. I said, I think something is going to happen from space this year. Yes you okay? 00:40:00 Speaker 2: Do we think? Okay? This is why I haven't ruled it out, which is fun going home. 00:40:06 Speaker 3: Yeah, we're living in the thrill of the potential of aliens. 00:40:10 Speaker 4: Yeah. 00:40:10 Speaker 3: I don't think this is the alien invasion. I think this is the appetizer. 00:40:15 Speaker 2: This is the teas. 00:40:17 Speaker 3: The aliens are coming later this year, let's hope. 00:40:19 Speaker 2: Because bring it on. You know, after a pandemic. 00:40:22 Speaker 4: It's not for aliens like they want to be like how much can your brain handle and I don't know if people's brains can handle that much, is what we've all learned. But I will say my friend took a really cool video of random things in the sky. Oh yeah, Like it looked like it wasn't as concrete as a balloon, but it was like little flurries and it was really odd. Oh yeah, it looks if you saw the video, you'd be like, wow, where was this? It was just in his backyard in La Yeah, and it was just like little. I mean, I sound crazy, I'm aware, I'm aware. Well, speaking of that, can I tell you what really funny? Of course people believe in aliens. I love the concept of an aliens. But I did a I did a I did a show recently and one of the actors, somehow we were talking about thinking we weren't We were talking about woo stuff. We hadn't gotten on aliens yet. And I love this person and I'll have her tell me this story on a podcast one day so she knows that I'm. 00:41:18 Speaker 2: Not This is not judgment. 00:41:19 Speaker 4: But she was like, we were all in a warming vand or whatever, traveling and she was like, uh, and Tom Arnold is behind us, which just makes this story funny, and she's like, we're talking about whatever, not not aliens. 00:41:32 Speaker 2: But she kept telling me. She's like, have you made contact? Have you made you Madney contact? 00:41:36 Speaker 4: And I'm trying to there's a couple of conversations happening, and she's like, have you made contact? 00:41:40 Speaker 2: And then I was like, oh, she's she's got an alien. Sorry, she's about to tell me. 00:41:44 Speaker 4: So I go, oh, with aliens and she's like yeah, and I'm like, no, no, I I haven't made contact. 00:41:50 Speaker 2: She was like I have I have. 00:41:53 Speaker 4: So then she launches in to you know, the light beings that she's seen, and then one was really really tall and when we really really short, and it was twenty five years ago, and it's a very very fun story. I will say. The part where she lost me was when she went and I was sitting down and she did this thing, jiggle thing with her hands and she went and my ass started too fine, right, And I was just like it was one of those things where like everyone behind you was listening to you, entertaining this conversation in a normal way, so you're like, I wonder what they think about because I'm and I was just like I was so on board with a snowman looking alien, the tall light being looking alien. 00:42:35 Speaker 2: That was full of love. 00:42:36 Speaker 4: But when you went to basically anal probing, I was like, that just sounds cliche, you know what I mean? 00:42:43 Speaker 3: Right, that she's heard that somewhere else. 00:42:46 Speaker 4: Yeah, and then someone showed me the SNL sketch of a very funny like alien invasion alien contact sn's sketch. 00:42:52 Speaker 2: It was very similar, So she. 00:42:54 Speaker 3: Just ripped off SNL. 00:42:56 Speaker 2: Yeah. 00:42:57 Speaker 3: Well, look it was what nineteen ninety seven? Whild do you year? 00:43:00 Speaker 2: Maybe it happened you're mad? Is that correct? 00:43:03 Speaker 3: Twenty five ninety eight? 00:43:05 Speaker 2: Yeah, I was off. 00:43:06 Speaker 3: Nineteen ninety eight, will say for my sake, also a crazy year. Yeah, we'll save in crazier year than nineteen ninety seven. And so there was a chance that this happened to her. 00:43:16 Speaker 4: Yeah, listen, I hope it did well in this loving way, that she had contact with an alien I don't want. 00:43:21 Speaker 2: And she just said vibrating. She didn't say it hurt. 00:43:23 Speaker 4: So I'm like, gentle massage, gentle handled approving massage. 00:43:29 Speaker 2: They might be just tickling us. 00:43:30 Speaker 4: They might think it's so fu sounds deeply a rotten Yeah, maybe they've heard the cliche. So now they're doubling down on it because they're like, and this is what they think we do, then that's what I'm gonna do. 00:43:39 Speaker 3: We'll take advantage. 00:43:41 Speaker 2: Speaking of crazy years segue, not nineteen oh. But I was ignorant to like the challenger. 00:43:50 Speaker 3: Oh oh boy, that's a tough situation. 00:43:52 Speaker 2: I didn't know that they sent the teacher of the year. 00:43:56 Speaker 3: Yeah, Teacher of the Year was this eighty six. 00:43:59 Speaker 4: Eighty six, and I rewatched it after someone brought it out. I watched, like the news program. It is pulverized the second you start to see too much fiber and fire and then it's instantly polarized. And it's so weird to hear the NASA tech being like, we're ready to launch this thing. It's pulverized, and then they go, uh, there's we're gonna do a backup plan plan for whatever mishap is there. 00:44:24 Speaker 2: And it's just like. 00:44:25 Speaker 4: Neutral, and no one in the news is going like, oh my god, everyone got blown to smotherings And it's very obvious and sad. There's like literally zero. It's like such a monotone, like step by step. 00:44:37 Speaker 3: Whoa like like a calm collection. 00:44:40 Speaker 2: Yeah, like it's so odd. 00:44:43 Speaker 3: I wonder if it was just shock of like no one even knew how to respond to, like what do you do? And you know you're live on TV and you're just like I would be Yeah, this is why it can't be a news reporter. 00:44:57 Speaker 2: And I would love for you to be a news reporter. I love news blue first, all that stuff. 00:45:01 Speaker 3: Oh my gosh, you're getting into the YouTube, the greatest hits, that sort of thing. Do you have a favorite news blooper? 00:45:07 Speaker 4: I do like that one guy that's like, he's really professional and then all of a sudden, the bee gets him and he's like, gets really country and he's like, I hate these colin I don't like the one where the woman's stomping on grapes and she has a clearly bad, like injured body. 00:45:22 Speaker 2: That's a real rough No, it's too real. 00:45:25 Speaker 3: You're watching somebody break a bone or something, get a concussion. 00:45:28 Speaker 2: At the very she makes a yeah. 00:45:31 Speaker 3: I'm trying to think. There's this guy, Ernie something in New York and I think he just I don't even know what inspires him to say this, but he says fucking chicken on air. 00:45:41 Speaker 2: Yeah, why does he do that? I don't know, but it's very odd to and he's just glitching. What what are we reading? 00:45:49 Speaker 4: What puppies were born today? For the Wednesday morning program? Like it's just like fuck a chicken? 00:45:55 Speaker 3: Yeah no, yeah, Maybe I should get into the news game. Now that it's shutting down. I was like to be on the news is not quite what it used to be. I think we should play a game. Okay, we're gonna play Gift or a Curse today. Okay, I need a number between one and ten from you. Okay, seven, Okay. I have to do some light calculating. So while I'm doing this, you can promote. I'm so good at calculating, famous for my calculations. You've got the mic. You can recommend, promote, do whatever you want. 00:46:23 Speaker 4: You're doing calculating, Yes, oh my goodness. What do I recommend John Lewis's audio book Get into It? Love Representative John Lewis? What can I promote? True Liz is coming out March first on CBS and Paramount Plus. I play Helen Jamie Luke Curtis is part Originally she's having a moment that's exciting. 00:46:43 Speaker 2: What else can we say? Is amazing music? 00:46:48 Speaker 4: Tatiata from she holds just sent me that very I mean, I'm sure everyone knows of the the cliche remix of Pony from by Genuine and Britney Spait's Toxic So Hot. 00:46:58 Speaker 2: It very exciting song. It's a mashup, yeah, which is great. 00:47:03 Speaker 3: We've got to get back. We need to bring mash ups back. I don't know why they went out of style. Yeah, it's just you put two nice together more fun. Yeah, they're like, it's weird how they kind of just vanished. 00:47:16 Speaker 4: Yeah, I think people do them on like TikTok, but it's very odd to watch someone like DJ in the room is very sad. 00:47:22 Speaker 2: How much other things I see on TikTok. I'm like, this is very sad to me. Like, I don't see the bit that they're doing. I see their. 00:47:30 Speaker 4: Lonely apartment, right, you know what I mean, and the fact that they're inside and no one else is there and they've managed to put up ten. 00:47:36 Speaker 2: Videos today, you know what I mean. 00:47:38 Speaker 4: That's why I can't watch porn either, because I'm like, I can feel their emotions. 00:47:41 Speaker 2: I don't think that girl wants to be there. 00:47:44 Speaker 3: I mean a great deal of empathy. Yeah, your empathy is just ruining everything. This is how we play gift or a curse. I'm gonna name three things. You're gonna tell me if they're a gift or a curse and why? Okay, And I'm gonna tell you if you're right or wrong, because there are correct answeres. Okay, so let's get into this. The first one is a listener suggestion from somebody named Snight, and Sonight has suggested gift her a curse. This is kind of long movies where dead wives haunt their husbands with the memories of their perfect love and untimely demise. 00:48:22 Speaker 2: Gift he a curse, gift. 00:48:23 Speaker 3: Or a curse. 00:48:24 Speaker 4: I didn't know there were movies like that. I haven't seen anything, Okay, so I was not sorry. Dead wife haunts ex husband. 00:48:31 Speaker 3: Haunts well husband or ex husband divorces. 00:48:34 Speaker 2: I think is uh until the person dies? 00:48:37 Speaker 3: Is that the crow is the crow? Is the crow about his wife dying and haunting him? 00:48:44 Speaker 2: Avenger. 00:48:45 Speaker 4: I'm going to go ahead with curse because I'm confused by the film already film genre apparently alrighty and like like cute ghosts, you know, like friends. 00:48:59 Speaker 3: Yeah, what's another cute ghost? The Little Mario. 00:49:03 Speaker 2: Ghost with the ghost from Ghost cool. 00:49:07 Speaker 3: I wouldn't just what Patrick swayzey, it's more of a hot ghost. Yeah, not so much cute territory. But you're saying curse, I'm saying curse. 00:49:16 Speaker 2: You're right, You're absolutely right. 00:49:18 Speaker 3: I mean, I think, I think what this listener is suggesting is like the wife is basically used as a plot device to make the husband do whatever he's doing in the movie. So we kill off the woman so the guy gets to do something in the movie, so he has a purpose, which said, you're right, it's right, which is a terrible thing for a movie. And my real problem is the other. 00:49:40 Speaker 4: Way to erase a woman's role just say it's a ghost and not have her there taking away jobs from women. 00:49:46 Speaker 2: Hashtag not cool. 00:49:48 Speaker 3: My and my ultimate problem with this is it actually could be a fun idea for a movie if the wife is like the haunting is more of a harassment. The husband can't get away from the wife and she's haunting him and his life has become a living hell because his ghost wife won't leave him alone. 00:50:02 Speaker 2: Yeah, that's a movie. He's like trying to date other people, move on, right, but she's out there goofing. 00:50:07 Speaker 3: There's this evil ghost that's just haunting every every one of his steps. So that's a curse in every way possible. Excellently played. We've got the dump trucks coming by this garbage day. Yeah, so, listener, you may be hearing the thrill of my bins being dumped into the back of a dump truck. Okay, number two, you've gotten one right so far. This is from a listener named Kate. Kate has suggested gift to a curse the phrase wet my whistle. 00:50:34 Speaker 2: Wet my whistle. 00:50:35 Speaker 4: For me, it is a curse, and that's because I feel like it's a phrase, but also it feels like it would have some crossover with like idioms, which I've never understood because I have a foreign parent. Learned that if you have a foreign parent where English is their second language, they don't. 00:50:51 Speaker 2: Know any idioms, right, So I grew up not knowing any idioms. 00:50:54 Speaker 4: Or little phrases like wet my whistle, and I'm like, what is everyone talking about? And then I would use them incorrectly. 00:50:59 Speaker 2: I still don't. 00:51:00 Speaker 3: Oh, a wet blanket means wet blanket's a weird one. I mean, it's you're kind of a bummer to be around. Is it because it's I think the want is like a wet blanket you would throw over a fire and it would put it out. Is that what we're talking about. 00:51:12 Speaker 2: I don't know. I think it's because it's gross. 00:51:14 Speaker 3: Wants to growing mildew? 00:51:16 Speaker 2: Yeah, or sight for sore eyes. I didn't know what that was. That one makes it. Absolutely, that's a real weird one. Yeah. So wet your whistle, No, it's a curse. Curse. Yeah, it's weird. 00:51:27 Speaker 3: I mean, you're right, I mean it's gross. Yeah, anything when we're getting something wet is kind of gross. And then what we're describing wet your mouth as a whistle. 00:51:37 Speaker 4: Yeah, but isn't the point of it, like you're thirsty, right, or you're about to speak. 00:51:41 Speaker 3: Yeah, you've got to wet your whistle. I don't want to think about someone wetting their mouth. Yeah, there's too much. I got to wet my whistle. Yeah. I don't know anybody that would use that term, that phrase, curse wet. No one should be wetting their whistle. Okay, so you've gotten two out of two so far. This is pretty good. Pretty good. Uh Finally, listener named Nicole Gift for a curse. Having cereal for dinner. 00:52:10 Speaker 2: Oh a gif? Okay? 00:52:12 Speaker 4: And why because it's delicious. It's non conventional, there's no rules. I love cereal with like almond milk or oat milk. Oh, it's so delicious. I love cereal. 00:52:24 Speaker 2: What kind of cereal I like. I've been eating some sort of paleo cereal that's like a strawberry that sounds nice, I like. And I mix it sometimes with this, like Keto chocolate cereal, so it's like a chocolate. Oh my goodness. 00:52:38 Speaker 3: Wow, you're a real culinary mess. 00:52:41 Speaker 2: I love. 00:52:42 Speaker 3: Okay. So you're saying gift, yes, I. 00:52:46 Speaker 2: Hate to hear it. 00:52:47 Speaker 3: You could have had a perfect game. You could have had a perfect game and away a winner. You've absolutely fallen apart in the last moments. 00:52:56 Speaker 2: It's a curse. 00:52:57 Speaker 3: A cereal for dinner doesn't work for me. Cereal. I've been recently eating cereal for lunch, which is a real curveball. Ok we all know cereal for dinner. It's gotten to a point that it's a cliche and we know when you're eating cereal for dinner, things have fallen apart. 00:53:13 Speaker 4: Is a cinematic scene. It's almost like you've seen it in films where you're. 00:53:16 Speaker 3: Like, ah, it's like sitting in an empty bathtop. It's like we've seen it before. Who cares. It's a bad situation. You can't end the day on a cereal unless you make the trust a lunch lunch cereal. I really support it, especially with these cereals. Is the cereal industry or We've got some new competitors that have cereals that actually feel like a meal. You know, these paleo cereals. It's not all sugar. So I've been eating some for lunch. It feels fine. Yeah, but for dinner. If I get to a cereal dinner, I know things have gone badly for me. It's a curse. And you, I guess you've kind of had cereal for dinner with this game, because you've dropped the ball in a huge way embarrassing. 00:54:04 Speaker 2: It's obvious I've given up. 00:54:07 Speaker 3: Okay, well, decently played, Thank you. This is the final segment of the podcast. It's called I said no emails. People write into I said no gifts, said gmail dot com. They've got questions galore ye please know and listener. I need to also tell you you can submit gift or curse suggestions there. People are asking me this all the time. The email's right here in the podcast. I can't supply the email to everyone. That's what you do, okay, but we hope me answer our listener question. Listen to some desperate person. 00:54:40 Speaker 4: Yes, okay, this is what at least understood the email assignment from listening. 00:54:45 Speaker 2: Didn't need it blasted out in a newsletter. Come on, this person's got it together, all right. 00:54:50 Speaker 3: This is hello Bridger and gorgeous gorgeous guests. That's very nice. 00:54:55 Speaker 2: I love that it's just generic, like it doesn't matter who it is, what. 00:55:00 Speaker 3: Been the most hideous person alive. It would be really uncomfortable for me to say that the listener's putting me in a really dangerous position here. Okay, this is I would hate to disrespect your valuable time, so I will get straight to the point. 00:55:14 Speaker 4: Could have gotten straight to the point by literally not including that line Dantina sentence. 00:55:18 Speaker 3: Do some editing before you send these things. Hire an editor if it takes that. But oh, what a waste of our time. I've got valuable things to do. This is Sherry has been one of them, assuming who I know who Sherry is? 00:55:31 Speaker 2: Right, off the bat. 00:55:32 Speaker 3: Sherry has been one of my closest friends since childhood. We are both female in our mid twenties. She is being thrown a baby shower for her first birthday. Should all we should also point out that this is the first baby in our friend group and the shower is being thrown by her family, and I have not participated in the setup in any way. 00:55:52 Speaker 2: Okay. 00:55:53 Speaker 3: She specifically texted our group chat today telling me and our other friends to please not bring gifts to her baby shower. This feels absurd to me. Is I already have a list of things I'm buying this baby with or without the pretense of a party. Also, it feels wrong to not bring a gift to a baby shower. Despite this, the last thing I want to do is upset the expecting mother. So Bridger and Guest please tell me if I should bring her a gift or respect her wishes. Thank you in advance from your Oh, from your adorning fan. That's very nice. We love that. Bailey, Bailey, Bailey and Share. We've got Bailey and Shrry classic friends. 00:56:33 Speaker 4: Me As you know, when people say no gifts, you just do it anyways, that's your lived experience. 00:56:39 Speaker 3: Oh my god, hundreds of times for an over. What do you feel like about this situation? 00:56:46 Speaker 2: Though? 00:56:46 Speaker 4: When people say no gifts in a situation like that, do they really mean it. I assume they're just insanely rich, and so they're saying that to kind. 00:56:57 Speaker 2: Of acknowledge, like a, I'm good, like you don't have to, but I would still bring something. 00:57:06 Speaker 3: I think the real situation here is really it sounds like she and Cherry are best friends. So let's imagine Bailey showing up piles of gifts. Lesser friends are there haven't brought gifts, but now Sherry looks like an asshole. 00:57:21 Speaker 4: Yeah, but also so don't bring him to the shower and bring him the next day. Because she's your best friend. You're here to sing her anyways, and you buy gifts for your friend's baby. 00:57:30 Speaker 3: Yeah, that's not a bad idea. I mean, I think a nice thing to bring to a baby shower. This situation is kind of do a is it sleeping beauty situation where you bring a curse where you show up and make a huge scene and then curse the baby for life. There you go, that's an option that's available, and it's not material, so you're not showing up with a bag or a big box or just curse. Well, I mean, whatever would happen you're trapped in a castle, or you're gonna die, or I think that that's a nice thing to bring to a baby shower. 00:58:02 Speaker 4: Yeah you can also if you're gonna, if you're already bought stuff, you could come early and secretly. 00:58:08 Speaker 2: Oh yeah, but it's not bad. I would I wouldn't be so strong enough as to say no gifts. 00:58:14 Speaker 4: I'd be like, I hope they get me get You know what I'm bunna about right now is I just bought a house, and I'm like, man, I wish I could have a registry, Like I can't imagine the things I bought for all my friends that are married, and I get it, they're setting up their house. 00:58:26 Speaker 2: Always say, am I get all by myself? 00:58:28 Speaker 4: And I'm just like, whe should I get have a registry for myself just for being like, hey, cool, good job lady, you buy your own house. 00:58:34 Speaker 3: That should be a thing. 00:58:36 Speaker 2: I felt the exact same. No, I should normalize that. 00:58:39 Speaker 3: This is why I still have bad plates. Yeah, I'm not gonna buy myself good plates. I need somebody to go to whatever department store whatever and get me some class dish. Yeah, you should be able to sign up for a registry no matter what. I know. I should be able to go to whatever store and say, this is the event in my life. 00:58:58 Speaker 2: Yeah you really all some famous person did that. I forget who. It was an athlete or something, and people bought them the things. 00:59:05 Speaker 3: Millionaire athletes doing this. 00:59:07 Speaker 4: It was. 00:59:08 Speaker 2: Yeah, it was definitely like a lot. 00:59:09 Speaker 3: I know you've got the money, I know, but if he did and. 00:59:12 Speaker 2: I knew it, I know exactly what I want. I know everything. Your manschology. 00:59:18 Speaker 3: Yeah, a lot of people don't get married anymore, but. 00:59:21 Speaker 4: Then if you don't get married, you're you're still going to the weddings and buy all the things. 00:59:26 Speaker 2: Were all the friends and I'm like, can they get me my place right? 00:59:30 Speaker 3: My blenders on its last legs? 00:59:32 Speaker 2: Blender? Yeah? Cool towel, Okay, maybe. 00:59:36 Speaker 3: You have some nice towels. I mean, I could go on and on about the things that I have garbage versions of because the people in my life didn't think to give me anything. 00:59:45 Speaker 2: Oh point is Bridger's venmo is. 00:59:54 Speaker 3: Yeah, I think Bailey got her answer. Have you heard about these baby showers where they like put food in diapers. These weird going on. 01:00:02 Speaker 4: I did some film for a friend one time which was based off of this type of thing. I I don't need a weird themed bizarre that's really focusing on the weird parts of a baby and the process and bizarreness that. 01:00:18 Speaker 2: It ships in a little thing. 01:00:19 Speaker 4: And you could put chocolate bar in there and then someone has to eat it and they get points, but the points aren't real. 01:00:28 Speaker 3: Yeah, let's just have some normal food put out the board and cheeses and what have you. 01:00:34 Speaker 1: Is. 01:00:34 Speaker 3: Don't make me eat out of a diaper, not in front of people. No, that's disgusting. There's some committee out there that's like inventing new disgusting ideas for you know, baby showers, gender reveals, and then they spread them. 01:00:55 Speaker 2: Over the internet. Remember the gender reveal in l A that literally started a buye of course, of course. 01:01:01 Speaker 3: I mean I think you can't have a gender reveal at this point without starting like that's part of the fun. The tradition is, oh, we we cause a huge Yeah, somebody's eye got blown out or something. We've got to cut it out with all of that. Well, Bailey, good luck to you. Curse the baby show up in a you know, like a tornado or whatever fly down on the house and everyone's screaming, and the baby now has something to deal with for the rest of their lives. We answered it perfectly, we did. I mean, no one could ask for more. 01:01:35 Speaker 2: No, I'm killing killing Ginger. 01:01:40 Speaker 3: I now own a little piece of you. I got this Funko pop doll. It's a collector's item. I didn't have to wait in line. 01:01:48 Speaker 2: Yeah. 01:01:49 Speaker 3: I don't think there's anything worth waiting in line for. It's not worth it. No, No, I don't care how good the thing is. I'm not going to You're not going to find me on the sidewalk. 01:02:00 Speaker 2: Gladly just walked to the front and be like, are you gonna do anything about it? Are we cool? 01:02:06 Speaker 3: I'll just make a scene in front of the store. No, I'm very excited to have this. I'll be displaying it. And you've really found a way to focus the podcast on you. 01:02:17 Speaker 4: Yeah, tender marvel Seahok, Matt, oh, thank you so much for being This is wonderful, Uh listener. 01:02:28 Speaker 3: Wow, podcast is coming to a close, and I'm gonna let you go. I'm going to let you do whatever you need to do with your life. I can't remember what I was talking about at the beginning of this, Oh my toothbrush ill. Maybe I'll get on to that. Check in on your batteries, because there's a chance something's dying and then it'll be too late and you won't be able to use it. We've got to keep things charged. I've got to stop talking on the podcast. 01:02:53 Speaker 2: I have to let you go. This is the end. 01:02:55 Speaker 3: Goodbye, I love you, I said, No Gifts is an exactly right production. It's produced by our dear friend Annalise Nilson, and it's beautifully mixed by Leona Squilatchi. And we couldn't do it without our guest booker Patrick Cottner. The theme song, of course, could only come from miracle worker Amy Mann. You must follow the show on Instagram. At I said no Gifts, I don't want to hear any excuses. That's where you get to see pictures of all these gorgeous gifts I'm getting. And don't you want to see pictures of the gifts? 01:03:31 Speaker 2: He lie invit? 01:03:32 Speaker 1: Did you hear? Funna Man myself perfectly clear. When you're a guest to me, you gotta come to me empty And I said no guests, your presences, presents in and I'm already too much stuff. 01:03:58 Speaker 2: So how do you dad? 01:04:00 Speaker 4: So the me