00:00:08 Speaker 1: Well, I invited. 00:00:10 Speaker 2: You here, thought I made myself perfectly clear. But you're a guest in my home. You gotta come to me empty And I said, no, guests, your own presences presents enough. I already had too much stuff, So how do you dare. 00:00:36 Speaker 3: To surbey me? Welcome to? I said, no gifts. I'm Bridger Wineger. We're in the backyard. It's the dead of winter. Ah. This is the first podcast of the new year, which is very exciting. We're just absolutely bursting into twenty twenty three. Who knows what will happen? Who cares? Let's get into the podcast. I just think today's guest is so funny. It's Colton Done. 00:01:16 Speaker 1: Hey, what's up man? 00:01:17 Speaker 3: Colton? Welcome to? I said, no gifts. 00:01:19 Speaker 1: It's great to be here. 00:01:21 Speaker 3: Are you temperature wise? Are you okay? 00:01:23 Speaker 1: Like do I have a fever? 00:01:25 Speaker 4: You? 00:01:25 Speaker 3: Yeah, a thermometer if you need it? 00:01:28 Speaker 1: Funky all day? Nah, man, I'm great. It's up for Minnesota. So this isn't cool for me. 00:01:34 Speaker 3: Are you going back to Minnesota during the winter? 00:01:36 Speaker 1: Absolutely not, absolutely no. Why there's no chance? 00:01:40 Speaker 3: It sounds so appealing? No shot, do you get back to Minnesota at all? 00:01:45 Speaker 5: You would usually go back once a year, probably beginning of summer. Okay, you know, obviously COVID kind of cut into a couple of those, and work is cut into some. 00:01:54 Speaker 1: But I'll be back. 00:01:55 Speaker 3: Soon, okay, okay, but not during the. 00:01:57 Speaker 1: Winter, definitely. There's no reason. 00:02:00 Speaker 3: Do you demand family come here? 00:02:02 Speaker 5: I don't have to demand it. This is southern California. Man, they are banging down the door. 00:02:07 Speaker 3: I don't know, but I still struggle to get anybody. Maybe it's just my personality. Maybe that's my problem. 00:02:13 Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean, I don't know. I mean I've ever. I will say, to get people out here the first time is sometimes tough. Right, Somebody comes out here, like in November in the winter and they see how we're rolling. 00:02:24 Speaker 3: They there's no denying. 00:02:25 Speaker 1: There's no denying, man. 00:02:26 Speaker 3: So when you have family come out, do they stay with you? Do they say? Do you like them to say? At a hotel? 00:02:31 Speaker 2: Uh? 00:02:32 Speaker 5: I actually had a rule, probably like thirty five thirty six. I made a rule that parents stay at the hotel. 00:02:40 Speaker 3: Oh God bless. 00:02:41 Speaker 5: So I just I was like, you know what, whatever space I have or you know, had a girlfriend or whatever, I just wanted to have. 00:02:48 Speaker 1: The space, right. 00:02:49 Speaker 5: But now I have a son, okay, right, and so it is now they could stay in the house all they want, as long as they as long as they'll play with my son, so I can, yeah do something else. But we have a fun setup though, because both my wife and I's parents have like continued to travel through COVID you know, they didn't want to stop seeing us, and so they would kind of stay in their. 00:03:16 Speaker 1: Bubble, you know, throughout all that. 00:03:18 Speaker 5: And then one of them bought a casita, which is like a little trailer that they live. They pull off the back of their truck, and uh, my mom and stepdad got this thing called a go tent, which is like just basically it just looks like a little thing, but then it opens up into this big like a in the mid and. 00:03:38 Speaker 3: Yeah, interesting, So your parents are doing a lot of camping. 00:03:41 Speaker 5: Then they are they're like camp their way because both my wife's parents are also living in Minnesota, so everybody's. 00:03:48 Speaker 1: Doing the same route and then they just camp along the way. 00:03:51 Speaker 3: Oh that's so exciting. 00:03:52 Speaker 1: Not in the winter though. The winter, if they travel out here, it's got to be a flight. 00:03:56 Speaker 3: Have you stayed in the go tent? 00:03:58 Speaker 5: I haven't, but I looked at it. Man, I can't wait to stay in one of those. It looks great. I love camping. 00:04:02 Speaker 3: Does it like, does the goatent require any of the normal tent things of like staking it to the ground or any of those. 00:04:09 Speaker 5: I mean, you definitely you have some things if you want to secure it. But it's on sort of a stand. It's on something, you know, So it's already raised off the ground probably two and a half feet. Oh you know, it has like steps that go up into it, and then it kind of opens up like if you imagine a you know, sort of like an oval. 00:04:27 Speaker 1: Like an apple, or a cramp like an egg. 00:04:30 Speaker 5: All right, and then just cut that egg in half and lift up that half. But then just imagine the yolk opening up into like a tent. 00:04:36 Speaker 3: This metaphor is doing nothing for me visual. 00:04:39 Speaker 1: Okay, but I'm sure the listeners out there are give me this thing. 00:04:44 Speaker 3: I'm just imagining an egg seeping into the ground. It's but this still sound like a new step up from the tent. Maybe I'll look into that. 00:04:53 Speaker 5: It's like a step up from a tent. You pull up behind your car, very lightweight. 00:04:57 Speaker 3: Oh you pull it behind your car? 00:04:58 Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, yeah, so they like back it up into the driveway and then we put it up there. 00:05:02 Speaker 3: Oh okay, I'm starting to put the pieces together in my mind. Sounds more and more appealing. 00:05:07 Speaker 1: It's great, it's great. 00:05:09 Speaker 3: And you're so you are a big camper though. 00:05:11 Speaker 1: I love camping. Yeah, yeah. 00:05:12 Speaker 3: How often are you going camping? 00:05:13 Speaker 5: Not as often as I used to, uh, because again, like I said, I have a kid now, so it's a little harder to get out. But I took them camping for the first time this last Memorial Day weekend. 00:05:23 Speaker 3: Of Where'd you Go? 00:05:24 Speaker 1: We went up to Big Bear Lake. 00:05:26 Speaker 5: Oh lovely, And we stayed just a little bit away from Big Bear Lake up a mountain in this like. 00:05:32 Speaker 1: Old Boy Scout It was an old Boy Scout camp. 00:05:35 Speaker 3: Oh. 00:05:35 Speaker 5: And it's still had like yeah, still had like the buildings for like where they would meet up at and all this stuff like that. 00:05:41 Speaker 1: So it's pretty cool. 00:05:42 Speaker 5: But then what they've done, though, is they've kind of converted into this sort of ranch and in the middle there's this huge prairie in the middle of the property and it's full of wild horses. 00:05:52 Speaker 3: Oh my godness. So it's magic. 00:05:54 Speaker 5: It's very magical. So all day you're just like hanging out. Like most campgrounds, you're just looking at the other people. 00:06:00 Speaker 3: Like kind of burning their garbage. 00:06:02 Speaker 5: Yeah, but here you're looking at wild horses, like running through a valley with mountains behind it. 00:06:09 Speaker 3: What is this place? 00:06:10 Speaker 1: Beautiful? Holcombe Valley Ranch? 00:06:12 Speaker 3: Do you have to interact with the horses? 00:06:14 Speaker 5: No, you shouldn't inter their wild horses. You should not interact with them. 00:06:19 Speaker 3: Were did they like transport these wild horses to the valley or were they just there dancing around. 00:06:25 Speaker 5: The horse's journey. I'm not quite sure how they got there. I don't know if maybe they were always there and it's just like no, those horses have always been here or somebody brought them in. 00:06:33 Speaker 3: Wild horses are fascinating. 00:06:34 Speaker 1: Oh man, couldn't drag me away. 00:06:36 Speaker 3: You really don't get to see a horse in a wild setting ever, yeah except for this valley. 00:06:41 Speaker 1: Oh man. 00:06:42 Speaker 5: And and my favorite thing that I didn't know is they like to make a lot of they like chatter at night. Oh so like just as the sun goes down, they're. 00:06:49 Speaker 1: Like like nain and. 00:06:51 Speaker 5: Doing it but like loud loud naane, like back to each other and you know, doing some kind of night communication. 00:06:57 Speaker 3: Fascinating. Yeah, a wild horse is interesting because I think five were to encounter a horse in the wild, I wouldn't be scared. But like if you see a wild dog in the out of nature, of course you're terrified. 00:07:07 Speaker 5: Oh yeah, I mean I think if you if a horse was acting like a while, like if a wild horse ran up to you aggressively, I think you'd be very scared. I mean they're tall. I mean they could be like ten feet. 00:07:18 Speaker 3: Tall, massive animals. They've probably weigh a ton. Is that how much of horse waves? 00:07:23 Speaker 1: I have no idea. 00:07:23 Speaker 3: Man, it's probably it's over five hundred pounds. It must be. 00:07:27 Speaker 1: I mean it's gotta be a file. I definitely give him that. 00:07:32 Speaker 3: Wow. But it's uh so it was a boy scout campground. 00:07:35 Speaker 5: For you, but now it was not. But there were still some of the facilities which, like you said, like haunted. Like yes, that's part of me thinking that, like, man, this like a lot of a lot of like youth, you know, terror is probably just like soaked into the ground of like the guy who's I got you got to shoot the bow and arrow next, you know, like, oh no, I'm gonna look like a loser. 00:07:55 Speaker 3: Yeah, I feel like like an active boy scout camp is scary, like one that's been deserted. It is even more horrifying. Oh yeah, were you ever a boy scout? 00:08:04 Speaker 1: No, no, I did. I did. What was it called? 00:08:08 Speaker 5: It was something before Cub Scouts. It was like I don't even remember what it was, like begles or something, maybe Tiger Scouts. It was like it was like little kids. And I remember I did that, and I like going outside. That was great, you know, that was fun. But uh yeah, just I think we were also broke. I think it costs money at some point. 00:08:27 Speaker 3: I feel like there was just like dumb things. You're like, you're buying the shirt. 00:08:30 Speaker 5: Yeah, it was just like stuff where it was like but you know, you know, we lived on a budget. There's just you know, it's like, okay, you can go outside anywhere, go outside. 00:08:39 Speaker 1: Learn yeah, environ to tie knot. 00:08:42 Speaker 3: Actually I can't. That's untrue of me. I can't tie a single knot really, I'm so bad. My younger sister taught me to tie my shoes. She knew how to tie your shoes before I ith mortifying most kids I think learning preschool kindergarten. 00:08:58 Speaker 1: Yeah, I think so. I can't even I can't remember when I learned how to time my shoes. 00:09:02 Speaker 3: I was first grade and it was my sister in kindergarten that finally had to take the reins and show me how to tie my shoes. 00:09:08 Speaker 1: Don't goodness? Were you just asking people to tie them every day? 00:09:11 Speaker 3: Of course at school I had my like the people I would rely on, Jenny when you tie my shoes. I mean, if my sister hadn't sepped in, I'd probably be asking you to tie my shoes tonight. 00:09:22 Speaker 1: Oh yeah, that would have been awkward. 00:09:25 Speaker 3: I need to I'm going to ask a guest at some point to tie my shoes. Get down and tie my shoes. No a thing that's interesting to me. I feel like, as a kid, your shoes are constantly coming untied. 00:09:37 Speaker 1: Oh, one hundred percent. 00:09:38 Speaker 5: I mean I don't, like I said, I don't remember when I learned how to tie my shoes. 00:09:41 Speaker 1: I don't remember tying my shoes. Most of the time I was. 00:09:44 Speaker 5: Sticking my shoes on and running out of the house, and I'm sure at some point somebody. 00:09:48 Speaker 1: Yelled at me or what are you doing? And I'd be like oh, and I'd like loosely tie them and continue running. 00:09:55 Speaker 3: Now, listen, adult, my shoes are never untied? Is it because I've become a. 00:09:57 Speaker 1: Better I never walk out of the house without my sho shoes tied, right. 00:10:01 Speaker 3: But I don't feel like I'm like walking around and I noticed my shoe has come untied like I would until tenth grade, you know, every day of my life I was looking down, Oh, my shoes around it. Now, maybe I've just become that proficient at tying my shoes. 00:10:13 Speaker 5: I mean, I'll be honest. I looked down and I was like, what is this guy talking about? This is a masterpiece down. 00:10:20 Speaker 3: I mean, they're absolutely gorgeous, and you've done a decent job yourself. 00:10:23 Speaker 1: Oh thanks, But these were already tied. Actually, I just slipped my feet in. 00:10:29 Speaker 3: If I've got a low top shoe, I'm currently wearing a high top, which is a nightmare to you can't even get on your kid. But every other shoe is just permanently tied for me, and I'm destroying the back of the shoe by pulling it on. Eventually, it's like caved in that kind of thing. 00:10:44 Speaker 1: Those are the brakes. 00:10:46 Speaker 3: New Year's Resolutions. Have you ever had one stick? 00:10:49 Speaker 1: No? 00:10:50 Speaker 5: Never had a New Year's resolution stick. I stopped making them a few years back. 00:10:54 Speaker 3: Do you can you recall the last one you tried to? 00:10:57 Speaker 5: I mean it was like, you know, be healthier, you know, like it was like it's always like, you know, work out, do something, and I still do that, but I never you know, stuff just gets in the way, you know. Like, yeah, So I'm just not big on resolutions of other people. They work for other people. I think they're great motivators. I think, if anything, a lot of times they're great ways to learn moderation. 00:11:22 Speaker 3: Sure for people for like three weeks, Yeah, like. 00:11:24 Speaker 5: Three weeks they don't do it and then they go back to whatever they're doing. But uh, but yeah, for me, it's it's it's more about I just get excited about a new year, you know, and like just that. 00:11:34 Speaker 3: What it's Scott in store for you. 00:11:37 Speaker 1: Yeah. 00:11:37 Speaker 3: I feel like I've been told that the key to a successful resolution is to be specific with the goals, and I actually think that's the way, at least for me, the way to fail it immediately. I need a real broad just kind of a suggestion of like big target. 00:11:51 Speaker 1: You're looking for a big target something like, you know. 00:11:55 Speaker 5: Be healthy, be healthy. Yeah, see, there you go, and I'll hit that. And and to be honest, you know, I guess it kind of hit that. I'm always been a little bit healthier. Almost every year since I haven't made a New Year's resolution. 00:12:09 Speaker 1: Yeah. 00:12:09 Speaker 3: I feel like the last New Year's resolution that actually worked for me was hike more so there was no like hike every day or it was just at that time, I think I didn't hike at all. So just by hiking simply once. 00:12:22 Speaker 1: You had already achieved it for the whole year. 00:12:24 Speaker 3: Yeah, and it was a huge confidence boost. So I probably hiked once a month that year. So I suggest people not do a specific thing. I mean, unless it's like quit smoking. 00:12:35 Speaker 5: That's that's a good one, that feels like one. But also you know, you got to build up to that. You gotta be ready to do it. Like I think a lot of people will be like, you know, probably like at a New Year's party, like polishing off their second pack of cigarettes and they're like, you know what, I'm going to quit tomorrow, And it's like wow, man, you know, don't set yourself up for failure. 00:12:53 Speaker 1: That's all I say. Keep going for the goal, but one in front of the other. 00:12:58 Speaker 3: Yeah, that's like a new deck aid resolution or something that's not a bad idea, a new decade resolution. 00:13:04 Speaker 1: I like that. 00:13:05 Speaker 3: Then I'm we're shooting for twenty thirty for my next life improvement. That seems tough. 00:13:09 Speaker 1: That almost is more stressful for some reason. 00:13:12 Speaker 3: Yeah, thinking about seven years from now is making me panic. And also I think that the time of year that you make a New Year's resolution, you're exhausted from the last month. It's January. It's kind of a dark solow. It seems like a bad time to be setting goals for yourself. 00:13:29 Speaker 5: I think so because you're probably getting you know, stealing over the bad stuff, right, you know, you're not like you know, which is good. I think at the end of the year, you got to process the year. So it's good to think it through. But yeah, I think maybe it's too big of a swing against all your demons at the end of the year, you know, try to take them all out with one resolution. 00:13:50 Speaker 3: Yeah, wake up sick to your stomach on January first and try to change your life. That appels it should be March or April when you start thinking about this. 00:13:58 Speaker 1: Yeah, spring is here. 00:14:00 Speaker 5: You ride it in a little envelope. Send it out and you open it. 00:14:04 Speaker 3: It comes back to Yeah, that's not a bad idea. I've got a lot of big thoughts on resolutions because rehabit. 00:14:10 Speaker 1: Let's just change it up. 00:14:11 Speaker 3: I think it's time to change it. 00:14:13 Speaker 1: And we're so stuck in like our tradition. 00:14:15 Speaker 3: In our stupid old ways. Some horrible ancestor thought of back when they were you know, farming or whatever. They were a little baby. 00:14:24 Speaker 1: It's that little baby that they always a little. 00:14:26 Speaker 3: Baby, the New Year's baby. What is his name? 00:14:30 Speaker 1: It's not baby Huey's true. I don't know. Baby Huey is just like a famous old baby. 00:14:37 Speaker 3: There is a famous baby named baby Hweie. I feel like I hope that he didn't have a dark end. Baby Hueye does seem like a But there's the New Year's baby and it's wearing a top hat. Am I wrong? 00:14:50 Speaker 5: Oh yeah, in a diaper like ready to go. 00:14:55 Speaker 3: I feel like maybe you're smoking a cigar. That that might not be true. And there's all his father time also part of New Year's a scary old. 00:15:04 Speaker 1: Wizard with a long handle beard. 00:15:07 Speaker 5: Yeah, I don't know his father time, wait, father time, Father Christmas. 00:15:14 Speaker 3: There's certainly a Baby Huey new here Mother Earth. 00:15:20 Speaker 1: I don't know, man, I don't know, man, I'm lost. 00:15:23 Speaker 3: Father Time to me is kind of an Uncle Sam type figure. Yes, kind of a like frail, ugly old man with a beard that kind of has no place in our Uncle. 00:15:34 Speaker 1: Sam's like, yeah, don't get him, like he's six flags guy. 00:15:40 Speaker 3: You know, he looks way too frail to have that much energy and that level of aggression. 00:15:45 Speaker 5: He's walking on high stepping at the parade. 00:15:49 Speaker 3: You know, he's he's got an incredible set of legs. I think we can say that his legs for days, legs for days. 00:16:00 Speaker 2: Uh. 00:16:01 Speaker 3: Father times. Yeah, there are all these kind of they're kind of like the d rate mythological I. 00:16:09 Speaker 1: Love those characters though. Those are the good ones. 00:16:11 Speaker 3: Yeah, we have Santa Claus in the Easter Bunny, and then we have all these other garbage baby Hwey, et cetera. And again, hopefully we're not talking about some historical Baby Huey that. 00:16:22 Speaker 1: Yeah, like fell in a well or something. Yeah like it. I don't think so. I'm fairly certain it's. 00:16:26 Speaker 3: Like, yes, there's something else going on there. Maybe it's part of like. 00:16:31 Speaker 5: Grandpa talking about Baby Hueyt b B Huey. 00:16:36 Speaker 3: So you're doing any research on baby Huey. 00:16:38 Speaker 6: He's just Baby in a Year? Is this the name? But yeah, the plot of I think it's Rudolph is that father Time is involved. They have to go find Baby in a Year and rescue him. 00:16:47 Speaker 3: That's Rudolph. Yeah, that's not the Rudolph story. 00:16:50 Speaker 1: I know the clamation yeah. 00:16:52 Speaker 5: In the New Year clamation, like that's the story. And okay, okay, Chris, but it's the same people. 00:16:58 Speaker 3: Wait, there's a Rudolph New Years. 00:17:00 Speaker 1: Yeah right, it's like the. 00:17:04 Speaker 3: Nobody's seen this, I'm fairly certain. But there's also the Rudolph where he goes to the Aisle of misfit Toys. 00:17:10 Speaker 5: That's that's like the last one. That's that's the Christmas one. 00:17:14 Speaker 3: And then there was an there's there's. 00:17:16 Speaker 1: A Frosty Snowman one I think, and there's a New Year's one. 00:17:19 Speaker 3: And the New Year's one was apparently not well received. I I mean certainly not by me. I've never even heard of this. 00:17:26 Speaker 1: I know, I mean, I don't know what it's rating. 00:17:31 Speaker 6: Holiday special Rudolph's Shiny New Year. So it must have been a sequel of something. 00:17:35 Speaker 3: Oh wow, they're trying to cash in and nobody cared. That's a shame. Well you can go. Rudolph does one thing you can't have him saving New Year. Yeah, well, you know, speaking of self improvement and trying to be a better person. 00:17:50 Speaker 1: Yeah. 00:17:51 Speaker 3: I was so excited that you were going to be on the podcast. I thought, Colton's so funny, seems like a nice guy. He'll come, we'll chat, we'll move into toy three with a clean, bright future ahead of us. So it was a little surprised. I was a little I was a little uncomfortable to see you coming up into the backyard holding what is clearly this podcast, and let's just be clear the listener might just be catching up. The podcast is called I said no gifts, Yeah, and here you are holding a gift. Do you have anything to say? 00:18:28 Speaker 1: Uh, Merry Christmas? Man? 00:18:33 Speaker 3: Well I okay, sure, it's a cute, very cute wrap on this box. Should I open it here on the podcast? 00:18:40 Speaker 1: Yeah, go for it. 00:18:53 Speaker 5: I think those are lo l dolls maybe, or what are l dolls? 00:18:58 Speaker 1: Those the characters right now. 00:18:59 Speaker 3: Are they kind of like a New Brats? 00:19:01 Speaker 1: Yeah, they're kind of like that. I think is this is. 00:19:04 Speaker 3: I've never heard of an l O L Dolls there. I've reallys where did you get this wrapping paper? Ordered it from the LLL Dolls. We're all on there looking at the man. 00:19:19 Speaker 5: I mean, they've got a great website. I found that it was on. It came up in like Instagram, you know how it goes like targeted at the link tree and you know, before you know it, I. 00:19:30 Speaker 3: Recently targeted ad and I'm. 00:19:36 Speaker 5: I'm deep into it, man. I have I have like a survival backpack at my house. Man, it's bad. 00:19:42 Speaker 3: Is it for like earthquakes? 00:19:43 Speaker 5: It's for anything? They're like, hey, you never know what you're gonna need. This backpack full a bunch of stuff, right expired? Well yeah, clicked on. I was like, this backpack looks really cool. Guys running through a creek, you know. 00:19:56 Speaker 3: And targeted. 00:19:58 Speaker 5: It was a targeted AD. I was probably looking for like camping supplies. 00:20:02 Speaker 3: I think that's not a bad idea to have something like that. 00:20:04 Speaker 5: It's good, I mean, but this is like, yeah, it's good, It's it's great, It's it's wonderful. 00:20:11 Speaker 3: Okay, I'm going to open the l O L Dolls wrapping here. 00:20:14 Speaker 4: Okay, Okay, now is this what is this the or is it something inside here? 00:20:26 Speaker 1: Yeah? This is this? Is this? 00:20:27 Speaker 3: You've given me some beautiful Christmas light? Yeah, colorful Christmas Yeah, okay, why uh. 00:20:35 Speaker 5: It's almost Christmas. Everybody needs a little bit of light, you know. And uh I put up I just put up some lights on my tree. It's one of my favorite things to do every year. I and uh, I just added some to my backyard, just kind of put a little bit and I have a similar type thing here, uh over like a pergolok type thing in it, and I just strung them up there. 00:20:57 Speaker 1: Gives a nice glow. 00:20:59 Speaker 5: And the holidays and you know, we don't really get a lot of the seasons here, so bring a little bit of the Minnesota winter to you with the glow of some Christmas lights. 00:21:06 Speaker 3: I really appreciate it. Now, when you're decorating your house with Christmas lights, do you do the rest of the house? Do you hire somebody to do the house or do you just leave the house alone. 00:21:15 Speaker 1: I'm still doing it. 00:21:15 Speaker 3: I do it, you do it all. 00:21:17 Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm doing it right now. 00:21:18 Speaker 5: It's not like super extravaging it, but I did like do the whole like line the whole uh, you know, gutter off the front of my place, not the second second floor. But yeah, how long do I think at some point I'll probably hire somebody if I if I have the. 00:21:35 Speaker 3: Dangerous Yeah, are you doing it completely alone? 00:21:38 Speaker 4: Yeah? 00:21:38 Speaker 1: I did it on my own. 00:21:40 Speaker 3: You're on a ladder. 00:21:41 Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean I'm on a ladder. I guess, you know, I don't know. I'm not that high up, you know. 00:21:47 Speaker 3: I don't know. That seems very risky to me. Okay, And how do you plan it? I that's the other thing. How do you know how many lights you need for the roof? 00:21:56 Speaker 1: You know, you don't you know, you're just buying. 00:21:58 Speaker 4: Yeah. 00:21:58 Speaker 5: I kind of looked at it and, uh, you know, sort of kind of eyeballed it. 00:22:02 Speaker 3: And uh, have you been doing it for this for a while or is. 00:22:05 Speaker 5: This is the first time I decorated this house because I bought this house a few years ago and I wasn't in town last Christmas, so this was the first Christmas I was really able to. 00:22:14 Speaker 3: And do you feel like your neighborhood everybody gets the decoration people do? 00:22:19 Speaker 5: It's like every couple of houses has like they do serious decorations. 00:22:22 Speaker 3: Oh, does it feel competitive. 00:22:24 Speaker 1: Uh, I think it looks like it does. 00:22:27 Speaker 5: I'm not going to get into that because you know, it's like I I'm fine putting it up, but I just you know, I don't want to do overdo it right when I see the ones that are like too much, it's like unless my whole street was doing that, it was something that we're like. 00:22:42 Speaker 1: We're all gonna do it. 00:22:43 Speaker 3: So you're a joiner. 00:22:45 Speaker 5: I'll join in if if if everybody's like, we got to really do this, then i'd you know, be like I we'll hire somebody. But if it's just gonna be like me putting them up, I'm not going to compete with you know, the guy down the street who like turned his house to a gingerbread house. 00:22:58 Speaker 3: You know, like I can't imagine the amount of time that takes. 00:23:02 Speaker 1: It just it takes too much, too too much time. 00:23:04 Speaker 3: But I wonder if it's a sort of thing where like a couple of years from now, the high of putting up the lights won't be enough for you. You're gonna want to add an extra element and then you know that's just going to build and build and build. 00:23:15 Speaker 1: That's possible. I think I actually think it's going to be the opposite. I think. I think it's like every year it's going to pare down. We're not gonna put the Frosty the Snowman, you know. 00:23:28 Speaker 3: Inflatal Yeah, what do you think about the inflatable things? Would you put one of those in your. 00:23:33 Speaker 5: I have a Frosty the Snowman. I got a Santa Claus with reindeer. 00:23:38 Speaker 3: Now did you put those up? Well? 00:23:40 Speaker 1: Yeah, but they're just you just plug them in and and then like. 00:23:43 Speaker 3: The fan blows into it or whatever. That's very exciting. Does your kid like them? 00:23:49 Speaker 1: Loves them? 00:23:50 Speaker 5: That's why they're okay, right, he absolutely loves them. Yeah. 00:23:54 Speaker 3: I feel like as someone without children, there may never be any Christmas joy at my home. I mean we have the Christmas tree. 00:24:01 Speaker 1: Okay, you got some lights. 00:24:03 Speaker 3: I mean I got these lights. Now, we were just talking about what color of lights do you have on your tree? 00:24:08 Speaker 1: Uh, I have one. 00:24:09 Speaker 5: It's I have a tree, a fake Christmas tree. Okay, that's from I forget the name of the company. 00:24:17 Speaker 3: They're great Christmas targeted at I assume. 00:24:19 Speaker 5: This was not a targeted ad. This was it was the people who get Christmas trees for TV. Oh, so I was talking to it like a set designer, and they were like, oh, yeah, this is the company that we get the trees from. 00:24:32 Speaker 1: It was like, oh, let me check that out. And they do. They do like Hallmark movie trees, like and all. 00:24:37 Speaker 3: The beautiful trees on cable. 00:24:39 Speaker 1: And so uh so I got one of those. 00:24:40 Speaker 5: And so the lights are they can need to be all white lights, and then I push a button and it's colored lights. 00:24:46 Speaker 3: You get the option. 00:24:47 Speaker 5: Yeah, and then I could push another button it's the white lights and the colored lights. 00:24:50 Speaker 3: That's incredible. Yeah, I've never thought about that. But the trees on TV are all fake and they all at gorgeous Balsam Hill. Balsam Hill, that's one's pleasant, kind of a hidden valley. 00:25:02 Speaker 1: Yeah. 00:25:02 Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, So you've got both options. Yeah, we put We've had white lights and I've decided they're kind of a bummer. 00:25:10 Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I don't know. 00:25:11 Speaker 3: It's just when you have the option. 00:25:13 Speaker 1: These guys on there. 00:25:14 Speaker 3: I'm not putting these on there. I just decorated the tree. 00:25:17 Speaker 1: You just throw these in there, throw them in the mix. Man, I'm telling you that's gonna be pure. 00:25:21 Speaker 4: K Oh. 00:25:23 Speaker 1: You always think so until you turn them on, my man. 00:25:26 Speaker 3: This is coming from somebody with a fancy Hollywood tree designed by Lucas Film or something you can switch colors at the touch of a switch. I mean, that feels like something that we should all have access to at this point, I. 00:25:38 Speaker 1: Think would be fair. 00:25:39 Speaker 5: I mean, I think it's like universally income and tree that changes lights. 00:25:46 Speaker 3: Get the squad on it. We did. Recently. I finally convince my boyfriend to get a fake tree, and it has absolutely saved the relationship. 00:25:56 Speaker 5: It's so great. I mean I get I get the experience of going out maybe in a few years, you know, kids are older or whatever. 00:26:05 Speaker 1: You know, we'll go out to like so you can like see the tree. 00:26:08 Speaker 3: Before it's cut down. That kind of thing. Yeah. 00:26:10 Speaker 1: Maybe, but even you know, I get into it smells nice in the house. 00:26:14 Speaker 3: You know, that's one thing. 00:26:15 Speaker 1: Really, you know, that could be great. 00:26:16 Speaker 5: But yeah, overall, if you have people running around all the time and you got to already got to do a lot. 00:26:23 Speaker 1: Of cleaning, right right, just like why just add something that's. 00:26:26 Speaker 3: Just vacuuming up, needles making and the watering of it is such a nightmare. You're all under the. 00:26:32 Speaker 5: Tree and then you feel bad if you like messed up the watering of it, right, Like of course you're like this thing that we just brought it to enjoy and we've just murdered it. 00:26:42 Speaker 1: Yeah. 00:26:42 Speaker 2: Uh. 00:26:43 Speaker 5: And it's so sad at the end too, right, like wrap it in that big bag and just leave it on the sky and. 00:26:48 Speaker 3: Like the whole that trail of needles that like all the way down your pad or your driveway. It's so sad. 00:26:54 Speaker 1: And you're like, let me make a resolution. 00:26:59 Speaker 3: I've just drained my entire house of joy and now I have to think think hopeful thoughts. You No, it's no good. So these this fancy tree you got, is it? How do you put it together? 00:27:10 Speaker 5: Is it? 00:27:10 Speaker 1: Like the three two pieces? 00:27:11 Speaker 5: Two pieces comes in two pieces and like one you know, the wider bass, and then you just stick the top part on and then you kind of. 00:27:22 Speaker 1: Like tease out the branches. And I love thee Yeah, yeah, it's very fun. 00:27:27 Speaker 5: And then uh that's the that's the other fun thing about the you know the fake trees, Like you can kind of adjust it a little design you want to hang stuff on it. 00:27:34 Speaker 1: You can like move it around so that haggs are hanging, not just you know all over. 00:27:38 Speaker 5: The place and then plug it in. It's good to go. I mean I got it a few years ago. It was in storage all last year, pulled it out this year, popped it open. 00:27:47 Speaker 1: It looked brand new. 00:27:49 Speaker 3: Believe the best. I can't recommend that sort of thing enough. Balsam Hills, Balsam Hill sounds like a tree company. 00:27:55 Speaker 1: If it's not. 00:27:58 Speaker 4: Hill. 00:27:58 Speaker 3: Wow, Balsam Hills gets a big recommendation. But I'm now thinking of creating an invention. And I bet somebody has like a very long what is it a snout or a what on a watering? Can they need an extremely long one for Christmas trees? 00:28:14 Speaker 1: Yes? Oh yeah, to get in there and. 00:28:16 Speaker 3: Right, that must be an invention, right, I'm. 00:28:18 Speaker 5: Sure there's something you could use it. You could use like one of those shoehorns, those really long shoehorns. 00:28:23 Speaker 1: Just pour. 00:28:27 Speaker 3: That's not a bad idea. Okay, I'm putting that in my back pocket as an invention. Do you have any Christmas traditions that you celebrate? 00:28:36 Speaker 1: H I mean just the usual opening up presence in the morning. Uh. 00:28:41 Speaker 5: I'm not religious at all, so you know, it's very much just about like probably something that I kind of slowly stopped doing and now I just have kind of gotten more into it with a kid and right trying to find those moments to have rituals and memories and stuff like that. 00:28:56 Speaker 1: So, and it's also one of those things that where it'd be. 00:28:58 Speaker 5: It's way too hard to like go along right along with it totally. It's like Disney, you know, like it's we're all just trapped. You get there and you start doing it, and it's like, you know what, just go with it and you'll have a good time. 00:29:11 Speaker 1: Is this you know? 00:29:13 Speaker 5: So we get up in the morning, open up some presents, like having a day where I don't have to worry about emailing anybody or making it you know, a except for obviously family calls. But uh, you know it's it's nice just to have those kind of days. 00:29:27 Speaker 3: Right, it's raining really hard, is that okay? On else? 00:29:30 Speaker 6: I think we just talk about it. 00:29:31 Speaker 1: Man. 00:29:32 Speaker 5: I think it sounds great. It's rain, you guys can hear it or not. But it's beautiful. 00:29:36 Speaker 3: Yeah. We are sitting in under fortunately we have some covering and we're surrounded by Los Angeles rain, which is a rare sight. 00:29:44 Speaker 1: Very rare, much needed, great to see. 00:29:46 Speaker 3: Yeah, Okay, so but back to Christmas for a moment. Do you and your wife get to each other presence? 00:29:51 Speaker 1: Sure? 00:29:52 Speaker 3: Are you? Do you have any ideas for what you're getting over this year? 00:29:56 Speaker 1: When is this one coming out post Christmas? Right? Uh? 00:30:01 Speaker 3: So this can be uh. 00:30:02 Speaker 5: Well, I think this is gonna be. It's and it maybe end up being more for our son. But I know she She's talked about a lot, and it's something that I'm like, I don't want to do. 00:30:13 Speaker 1: But it's a piano. 00:30:16 Speaker 3: Oh nice, I mean that can makes a big, beautiful present. 00:30:19 Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean, you know, I don't like clutter, and I'm like very worried that this piano is just gonna be a shelf for more random stuff, you know. 00:30:31 Speaker 3: I mean, get a baby, grand. 00:30:36 Speaker 5: Pushed, well, then then it'll just get shoved into wires, just laundry. It's a great place to dry your socks. But I think that's what I think, that's what I'm gonna do. 00:30:46 Speaker 3: You have your eye on a certain type of piano. 00:30:48 Speaker 5: You know, there's ones that I've looked at, but you know, in a relationship, gift giving can be so hard, you know, and it's like something like a piano has like such an aesthetic that is kind of in the eye of the beholder. So like if some what I'm trying to figure out is if I do like some kind of gift certificate ate like steinw Co or like something that's a directed gift certificate to the piano show, and then let her kind of pick up on the aesthetic that she wants instead of me trying to pick it and be like hey, and her being like, it is a piano, but look at this. 00:31:24 Speaker 3: Piece of furniture I bought you that you don't like exactly. And that's it's also hard to make that a surprise. 00:31:31 Speaker 1: Yeah, well yeah, it would be a very heavy one. 00:31:34 Speaker 3: I'd have to be late at night and then or something. Yeah, do you play the piano? Does she play the piano? 00:31:43 Speaker 1: I think so. 00:31:43 Speaker 5: I mean I've seen I've seen, I know she did when she was younger, and I've seen her like play around in different things, and she she really wants to do it. 00:31:53 Speaker 3: So okay, so she's been she's expressed interesting, expressed. Tickling the ivory is this kind of thing, you. 00:32:00 Speaker 1: Know, and I like, I I love the sound of a piano. 00:32:03 Speaker 5: Well it was around I'm sure i'd you know, try to learn as much as I could. 00:32:07 Speaker 1: You know, I'm older guy, so I don't know. 00:32:08 Speaker 3: Take a lesson. 00:32:09 Speaker 1: Yeah, maybe I'll take a lesson. 00:32:11 Speaker 3: Hire a piano teacher. Do you think she's gonna hire a piano teacher? 00:32:15 Speaker 5: I don't know, I don't know. I mean there's also a lot of like online these days too. 00:32:20 Speaker 3: So yeah, you just got a YouTube video and somebody will talk you through it. Interesting. Do you play any instruments? 00:32:26 Speaker 1: I can play a little guitar. 00:32:28 Speaker 3: Oh nice, Where did you learn to play guitar? 00:32:30 Speaker 1: Just you know, dude school? Yeah? Yeah, do you play? 00:32:39 Speaker 3: Do you play it actively? Do you own a guitar or is it something you just bother people with when you see one. 00:32:44 Speaker 5: I've always had a guitar, but recently I started playing a little bit more. Play like a couple of times a day or something. I would be like, just play a few songs. 00:32:54 Speaker 3: But what kind of songs are you playing? 00:32:56 Speaker 5: There's so it's usually stuff that my son wants to here. So like, there's this song called the Wellerman. Okay, it's like the sea shanty song. 00:33:06 Speaker 6: Oh. 00:33:07 Speaker 5: I think I may have heard it on like TikTok's at some point, but uh, it's you know, it's he likes the song and it's about a whaling. 00:33:16 Speaker 1: Ship, I think. 00:33:17 Speaker 5: And then and then Sesame Street did a cover of a what's that guy's song I'm. 00:33:23 Speaker 3: Yours, I'm yours. 00:33:24 Speaker 1: I don't know that's Jason Moranza. Okay, there you go Street. 00:33:31 Speaker 5: So Sesame Street did a version of that called Let's Go Outdoors or something. I think he does it too. He sings it, so I've like learned the chords to that. Okay, he likes that song a lot, so stuff like that. 00:33:44 Speaker 3: I'm not crazy about this path you're going down with the guitar. 00:33:47 Speaker 5: I mean, it's just I don't I don't like really sit and sing the songs. And I'm just like practicing moving my fingers in the on the chords, trying to like find the same rhythm of the song and then laying it for him. And he gets all excited because he can hear that and then sees it on the. 00:34:05 Speaker 3: Yeah, it's his live version of the TV. 00:34:07 Speaker 1: Yeah. 00:34:08 Speaker 3: Wow. Jason Rez does kind of have a muppetty feel to him. He is kind of a muppet type person. 00:34:16 Speaker 5: He's in the He's in the Sesame Street thing, and he's just kind of like bopping along and singing with the muppets. 00:34:22 Speaker 1: He seems like a nice guy. 00:34:23 Speaker 3: I mean, I'm sure he is sure. I don't know. The jury's out as far as I'm concerned. 00:34:33 Speaker 1: What do you know about this guy? Because why I'm singing to my kids. 00:34:36 Speaker 3: I've overheard in the grocery store, you know, blasting through the ralph speakers or whatever. 00:34:41 Speaker 1: Oh, I don't what are his other songs? 00:34:43 Speaker 3: I don't know. 00:34:44 Speaker 5: Then yours that's the song. I'm telling you, that's the same one. But he's going outdoors. He's like, let's go outdoors. 00:34:57 Speaker 3: That's a perfect child's song. 00:34:59 Speaker 1: Kids. But then he wants to go outside. 00:35:01 Speaker 3: You know, So I love got a positive message. 00:35:03 Speaker 1: I play that, he goes outside, and I'm good to go. 00:35:06 Speaker 3: How old is your kid? 00:35:07 Speaker 1: He's almost three? 00:35:09 Speaker 3: Okay, Oh that's a great age to be listening to dad playing the guitar watching Sesame Street. 00:35:14 Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, he's seventeen. 00:35:21 Speaker 3: He just got back from college. 00:35:23 Speaker 1: He's moved back in. I mean, these days housing it is tough. 00:35:28 Speaker 3: Okay, So you can play the guitar, you should be easily to be able to pick up the piano. Guitar is so hard to learn to play. 00:35:35 Speaker 5: Yeah, I don't know. I mean I'm not like, I don't you know. All I know is like how to do the chords on the guitar, So I don't. 00:35:41 Speaker 3: Yeah, but to form the chor scales or anything requires a lot of you, you know, you've got the dedication, the musicality. 00:35:51 Speaker 1: Maybe I'll get the president and he'll end up being a gift for me. 00:35:55 Speaker 3: Maybe your wife will absolutely hate it. 00:35:56 Speaker 1: Yeah, what are you doing? 00:36:00 Speaker 6: Well? 00:36:00 Speaker 3: I've got these Christmas lights. Maybe I should decorate one of the trees in the backyard or something. 00:36:05 Speaker 1: I think that's a great idea. 00:36:06 Speaker 5: These are indoor outdoor lights, so you can per side where they go. 00:36:10 Speaker 3: Do they make exclusively indoor. 00:36:12 Speaker 1: Lights indoor lights? Oh for sure. 00:36:15 Speaker 3: What's the Why wouldn't they just make all of them indoor outdoor? 00:36:18 Speaker 5: At this point, I think there's just a little bit of weather protection, and then an indoor light can have like a thinner wire and you know, maybe be a more delicate like actual glass fixture, like all around and shatter. 00:36:30 Speaker 3: So these are tougher. 00:36:32 Speaker 5: These are a bit tougher, but they're still you know, they're led, but they're they're my favorite kind of Christmas lights. They're these little dome soft glow colors. 00:36:41 Speaker 3: Right, you know, they've got all of the classic colors, and we've all, of course, in the last fifteen or twenty years, added blue. 00:36:48 Speaker 1: Yeah. 00:36:49 Speaker 3: Do you remember when there was the shift to blue? What do you think of the blue. 00:36:51 Speaker 1: One percent behind all the blue? You know, it's ever been. 00:36:57 Speaker 5: I never remembered it on the Christmas lights, And now until you just said it, I was like, oh, I guess they did add it. I but I just thought, yeah, I don't know why I was never able to find those older Christmas lights with just like but what I used to do is just get one that's all red and one that's all green. 00:37:13 Speaker 3: Oh sure, and then you get. 00:37:14 Speaker 1: One that's white, and then you can just do it and then. 00:37:16 Speaker 3: You're real classic Christmas colors, classic Christmas colors. 00:37:19 Speaker 5: But I like, but I like the color blue. It's just uh yeah, I needed to be softer. So that's why I like these ones, because even though the blue is in there, it's just a soft, nice, glowing blue. 00:37:29 Speaker 3: Right, rather than like the vape shop blue. 00:37:31 Speaker 1: Yeah. 00:37:32 Speaker 3: Yeah, don't want to take. 00:37:33 Speaker 1: That out of it. 00:37:34 Speaker 3: Yeah, it takes you out of the holiday seasons. You're cranky, you're freaking out. 00:37:37 Speaker 5: Yeah, you're just loosing's harsh color. 00:37:43 Speaker 3: It is weird. It feels like I. 00:37:44 Speaker 1: Love blue, those one of their favorite colors. 00:37:47 Speaker 3: But this feels like science went too far. 00:37:49 Speaker 1: Yeah. They because you should do something doesn't mean you. 00:37:52 Speaker 3: Should exactly exactly plain God doesn't always work out, as Jurassic Park has taught us over fifteen movies. Let's play a game. Okay, We're gonna play a game called Gift or a Curse. I need a number between one and ten from you. 00:38:07 Speaker 1: Six. 00:38:08 Speaker 3: Okay, I have to do some light calculating. So okay, while I'm getting our game pieces, you can recommend something, promote something, do whatever you want with a microphone. I'll be right bough. 00:38:17 Speaker 1: All right, great, Hey, what's up everybody. 00:38:19 Speaker 5: I hope you enjoying the show, have a wonderful time and having a great end of the year. Beginning of the year, if you haven't checked out on Netflix, you could go see a show called The Recruit. 00:38:31 Speaker 1: I'm on it. Go check it out stream it. 00:38:34 Speaker 5: They may have already canceled it by the time you hear this, but it'll still be on Netflix forever. 00:38:42 Speaker 3: Excellent. Yeah, The world of cancelation. 00:38:46 Speaker 5: You never know, I don't know, you know, Like you tell people to go see a show or something, some of the streaming stuff, they'll like make their decision like a week after. 00:38:54 Speaker 3: It's like, okay, streaming television. It's a scary time for television. You never know when your favorite thing is just going to vanish into the night exactly. This game is called gift or a curse. I'm gonna name three things. Okay, you're gonna tell me if they're a gift or a curse and why, And then I'm gonna tell you if you're right or wrong, because there are correct answers. Okay, all right, all right? This uh first one is from a listener named I believe ale. Is that correct? I can't. I can't say. Maybe it was Alex at some point ale or Alex. I may have removed an X. It's hard to say. But this person with an A name suggested gift or a curse. When people apologize in advance, for example, I'm sorry if I snap at you today, it's not you. I'm just really stressed. 00:39:43 Speaker 1: Is that a gift or a curse. 00:39:46 Speaker 2: To me? 00:39:47 Speaker 3: I mean, whatever you think? 00:39:51 Speaker 1: Uh, I think it's a curse. I mean, it sounds like a curse to me. 00:39:56 Speaker 5: It sounds like that would just one if somebody said that to me that, I'm sure they're trying to reassure me, but that doesn't reassure me. That would like stress me out. And if I felt like I had to say that to someone, I feel like I'm just setting myself up for failure, be being like, hey man, I might lose it today, so look out. 00:40:15 Speaker 1: All right, let's give it a shot. Like, I don't know, so that's a curse for me? 00:40:20 Speaker 3: You got it? Of course, it's essentially a threat. Yeah, it's like, why don't you just control yourself? 00:40:27 Speaker 1: Yeah? Exactly. 00:40:27 Speaker 3: Don't sort apologize if you accidentally blow up. Okay, we all completely melt down at one point. But if you're aware you're gonna melt down. 00:40:36 Speaker 5: How about this, we all assume if it happens, we'll be apologetic. 00:40:41 Speaker 1: Be understanding. 00:40:42 Speaker 3: Yes, And if you're running around apologizing in advance, just have a bigger breakfast or something. Make sure you're in a better mood. Take a second. Okay, so you got one out of one so far. Number two. This is from someone named Connor Gift or a curse watching a movie for the first time with someone who has already seen it before. 00:41:02 Speaker 1: Oh, that's a gift for me. 00:41:04 Speaker 5: Why watching the movie for the first time with someone who's already seen it before. 00:41:10 Speaker 1: Uh oh, I see what they're saying. 00:41:17 Speaker 5: I enjoy watching the movie with someone who hasn't seen it before. But now for my official answer, I'll say that that's a curse when you're watching the movie with somebody who has already seen it before and they're trying to like, oh, oh, you gotta watch this, or Okay, this is the this is the best part. Did you hear what he just said? That's gonna come back, So you gotta remember that. Yeah, that would be that would be horrible, So that that'd be a curse. 00:41:42 Speaker 3: Excellently played. Of course, that's a curse. The pressure is so high on you, Like the person usually wants you to like it. They're trying they think you're gonna be impressed by the movie or whatever. So you're sitting there for two hours, uncomfortable, not in a movie watching mood. You're just worried about the social ass of this. 00:42:01 Speaker 1: Uh. 00:42:01 Speaker 3: And yeah, there's just the expectation of one not wanting to hurt their feelings or say your favorite movie is horrible. Yeah, so you don't get to form an opinion of the movie. 00:42:10 Speaker 1: But there is there's a good way to be a partner in that. 00:42:15 Speaker 5: How if you are the person who's already seen the movie and you know the person's gonna enjoy the movie. Like I love that, Like I love like when I get to see, like there's there's a movie called. 00:42:26 Speaker 3: Er r r r Okay, Oh so I want to see that. 00:42:30 Speaker 5: Okay, I love this movie. And I had this friend and I was like, oh, he is going to lose his shit when he watched this movie, and so I made sure to watch it with him. And it was the best. Like I wasn't being like hey man, oh you got to watch this. It was just one of those things where you when you know somebody well enough that you know that this is going to be their shit, it's really fun to watch like someone be like, oh yeah, I get all excited. Uh but uh but I the way that that was worth one hundred percent. That's the horrible situation to be in when the person is like so uncomfortable. 00:43:05 Speaker 3: Yeah, the person showing that the movie really has to know the other person one hundred percent. Otherwise you're setting yourself up for failure. And then there's gonna be a lot of silence after the movie ends, and you might not see each other again. 00:43:20 Speaker 1: Yeah, you may lose a friend. 00:43:22 Speaker 3: May this happened before? 00:43:24 Speaker 1: What happens? 00:43:24 Speaker 2: You know? 00:43:25 Speaker 3: Okay, you've gotten two out of two. This is very exciting. 00:43:28 Speaker 1: I almost lost that other one when I was like going with my heart and I had it. 00:43:31 Speaker 3: I know you did some nice thinking there. I appreciate the gamemanship here. Finally gift to a curse. This is from someone named Amy. Okay, A poor memory, A poor memory? 00:43:47 Speaker 5: Well, I mean so this is you know, one of you know, I'm gonna take it as it literally sounds like they're talking about you have not an adequately operating memory in your brain, and not just the idea of a memory of being poor, just like memory, a memory that's just yeah, a memory that just is like it's not that great. Always have one bad memory, I mean it would be so bad. But a poor memory, I mean, well, you want to have. 00:44:22 Speaker 3: The I want to say, I really appreciate and I'm thinking, yes, I want to win. Very few people have won this game. So if you win, it's gonna be very exciting. 00:44:32 Speaker 5: Oh really, okay, well a poor memory, well if okay, so if you know that you. 00:44:38 Speaker 1: Have a poor memory, you know this is the curse, all right. 00:44:40 Speaker 5: You can put everything on your phone right away, have full access to pretty much everything that you need to memorize. Right, I'm trying to think about this in a positive way. So but if you do have a poor memory, then you can always fall back on that as like a great excuse for any any fun right, Like it is the best, Like I just don't have a good memory, man, sorry, you know, and that eventually people are just like yeah, just you're gonna have to remind them like this person does not have a good memory. So they're like the village will rally around you and kind of carry you a little bit, and then you don't have to do as much processing. That would be the positive where I'd say it would be a gift if you were gonna game the system. But you know, nothing is more frustrating to me than not remembering something, Like I think whenever where I'm trying to remember something and I can't, it is like and I especially when it's like an easy thing and I know that I know it. That is a frustrating thing, and I don't like that feeling. So that feels like a curse to me, So I gotta say that I think it would be a curse. 00:45:47 Speaker 3: Colton ring the bell, you the game. I think there are like four people that everyone I think a memory a poor memory. As someone with an absolutely terrior memory, there's no there's no like the scenario you were describing, where you're gaming the system and manipulating everyone. It doesn't work. Nobody appreciates that you have a poor memory. They just think you're doing a bad job all the time. And if they have to constantly remind you, they resent you. Yeah, they just And then of course I'm forgetting things constantly. I can't. I can remember nothing the other A couple of weeks ago, I had the thought, I hope science is making something that maybe they'll develop something that reactivates your mind at some point, that suddenly you have this flood of memories. I wonder if that's a scientific possibility that I kind of do want absolutely just to bey. 00:46:42 Speaker 1: Can you become immobilized by memories? 00:46:45 Speaker 3: Oh my god, I wonder what that would do to you physically, if suddenly you just remembered everything that you've had forgotten. Oh, you probably lose immediately, lose fifty pounds. You're just like your body wouldn't know what to do with itself. 00:46:58 Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean, I think you'd have a psychi break. I think I think there's a reason why your memories have to take off. 00:47:05 Speaker 3: But so I have so many memories that have disappeared. I'd like a few of them to come back to me. 00:47:10 Speaker 1: That would be good. 00:47:11 Speaker 5: Yeah, Well there's you know, and there's people who have great memories, you know, and like they'll be telling a story. They'll be like, yeah, when I was in kindergarten, I did this thing. And I'm like, you gotta be kidding me. You don't remember that. And they're like, I remember it. I got up at this time in the day and this is what I did. And I had this kind of this character on my drink glass, like this stuff where I'm like, I don't remember anything. 00:47:33 Speaker 3: I can remember three things from the nineteen nineties. 00:47:35 Speaker 5: Whenever I see a picture of me as a kid, it might as well be like a strange another person. Yeah, I have no idea what's happening in the picture. 00:47:44 Speaker 3: I do feel like there I mean, it's probably all like scam like pseudo science things that where you can like train your memory or train your but. 00:47:51 Speaker 5: Baby, but I don't know if you can get stuff back. I don't know if you could like reload it. I think if it's gone, it's just. 00:47:57 Speaker 3: It's just gone. That's a sad thing to think of out the brain just lets it all go. What a shame, what a terrible device. Well you, I mean, you've played this so excellently on at least we have any idea how many people have won won the game. You would be the eighth, oh eighth won this game, but out of a like, we've don't know how many. 00:48:22 Speaker 1: Wonderful read. 00:48:31 Speaker 3: So actually it's probably more special to completely failed the game because very people have failed. Three people have failed. So in the way you've lost, you kind of failed yourself here, you're now a part of an elite eight. Gross Okay, well excellently played regardless. This is the final segment of the podcast. It's called I said no emails people write into I said no gifts at gmail dot com with there are various problems. 00:49:01 Speaker 1: Listen said. 00:49:03 Speaker 3: My listeners are not only bad people, they have a ton of problems. So they storm the gates. They're dumping these emails into the inbox and just expecting answers. Would you answer a question with me? 00:49:16 Speaker 1: Whatever I can do to help clean up that book. 00:49:18 Speaker 3: We've got to clean out the inbox. Okay, this is Lovely Bridger. That's a nice thing. Lovely Bridger and catastrophic guests. So they're insulting you right after your recent quasi failure, not fair and calling me lovely. So I don't know what to do with that, But this says I am begging for any help you can offer. I have a professor who I absolutely adore, and her course has even caused me to change my major and continue on that path. She won't be teaching at my school after this semester, so I won't have her as a professor again. But because she's had such an influence on me, I want to get her a small gift at the end of the semester. What is an appropriate gift that shows how much I appreciate her, but doesn't come off too strong because it's a huge class and although she would recognize me, we haven't spoken much directly, and I doubt she could put a name to my face. Please help please please warmest regards Caitlyn. I'm gonna I'm gonna say something here. Caitlyn is looking to give this person a thoughtful, meaningful gift. This person wouldn't recognize her in a crowd, so she's kind of she's been watching him afar and feels invisible. I feel like this professor might be in danger. 00:50:32 Speaker 1: Oh w you're thinking that this might be like. 00:50:34 Speaker 5: A Caitlyn is talking Susan's situation. 00:50:40 Speaker 3: What happens in desperately seeking Susan? 00:50:43 Speaker 5: I think it's Madonna, right, and she like somebody dresses up like her, or she dresses up like the other person. Interesting, isn't that what that movie is about? 00:50:53 Speaker 3: You're the only person in this rainstorm that knows. 00:50:57 Speaker 5: I have no idea, but there's yeah, fairly sort It's like, you know where somebody's like watching the person and they're like, I'm gonna act like that person and be their friend, and they want to like turn into that. But I don't think that's what Kaylen say. I think, Kayla just I'm sure that this professor knows who Caitlyn is. 00:51:14 Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean an impact on that. 00:51:16 Speaker 5: Yeah, And you know what a wonderful thing every you have to assume that any teacher or professor, especially at that level, their whole goal is to inspire somebody. I would hope, so I would just say, even just a card, so you wrote you inspired me this, you know, the this thing that you did inspired me to do X y Z, and that really means a lot. I think that that would be a very thoughtful thing. And you know from the heart also, you know, yeah, it's not like you have to read their mind on what the perfect gift would be. That isn't too ostentatious. You know, it's just a card, right, you know, a card that is is nice. Maybe a picture of you and her that you that you that you've put together with like kind of cut, yeah, get her together, and. 00:52:14 Speaker 1: You know, maybe a picture of her from a far then maybe. 00:52:17 Speaker 5: Like cut make a copy of that and cut out like the eyes and the nose and then mix them yours together as like your child and say like this would be our child. 00:52:26 Speaker 1: And then. 00:52:29 Speaker 3: The desk, well, let's you don't have to leave it on the desk. We know you know where she lives. 00:52:34 Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, put it, stab it into her tire with a butcher knife, leave it there. 00:52:39 Speaker 3: On one of your many passes by her house, hop out of the bus and uh put it on her windshield or her heart will melt. Hire a bumed, just hire somebody to kind of stumble over there, throw it through her window. I mean, you want to There are so many ways to deliver a gift. You might be but I think this is excellent advice for Caitlin. Caitlin is ready to take the next step with this professor, take their relationship to another level. Something comes crashing through the window in the middle of the night. This Professor's never going to forget Caitlin, and Caitlyn then doesn't have to pursue her path that she'll probably be headed to prison or something. There's I don't see anything wrong with that gift. Of course, you can also just write a thoughtful card. 00:53:31 Speaker 5: I think, So, what's that? What's that a papaya or whatever it is? They got great cards at Target, Papie people. 00:53:37 Speaker 3: You spend like forty dollars on the card. It's got some beads on the front. Papa. Is that about a papyrus? 00:53:46 Speaker 1: Papyrus? 00:53:46 Speaker 3: Because I think that may have been like one of the last stores I was in before the pandemic and they were going out of business. Oh no, I think that they're now kind of a target exclusive brand. Retail stores no longer exist. So Caitlin go to get and get the Papyrus card. Then of those cards are entirely too expensive. 00:54:04 Speaker 5: It's like a dog riding a skateboard, three D layered with like a velvet. 00:54:09 Speaker 1: It's like, wow, look at this. 00:54:12 Speaker 3: Yeah, those are they're entire legally much. But that you know, when you want to show somebody your care you spend, just use your words. The teachers love to hear it. Colton, excellent, excellent. We answered Caitlyn's question perfectly. She can't complain. Her professor is going to just be over the moon about whatever option she chooses. And now I've got these Christmas lights, you go, and uh, you know, I'm gonna load up on colorful lights post Christmas. With the clearance sales next year, I'll be completely or this upcoming Christmas. And what are we even talking about the next time I need Christmas lights, they're all going to be colored and the boring white ones I can, I guess save for a summer party. That seems like something you can put out for a summer party. A it's magical. I'm so happy to have them, and I've had a wonderful time with you. 00:55:05 Speaker 1: It's been a blast, and. 00:55:07 Speaker 3: Thank you for being here and listener, it's raining. I hope this hasn't upset you too much, but I think it's kind of nice. You kind of got a nature's sound for free on this episode. Nothing to complain about. And it is the end of the podcast, so I hope you can move on with your day and move into this new year, and hopefully it's not too horrible of a year. We'll see what happens. I'll talk to you soon. I love you, goodbye. I said, No Gifts is an exactly right production. It's produced by our dear friend Analise Nelson, and it's beautifully mixed by Leanna Squilatchi. And we couldn't do it without our guest booker, Patrick Kottner. The theme song, of course, could only come from miracle worker Amy Man. 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. 00:56:10 Speaker 2: Well, I invite, did you hear thought? I made myself perfectly clear. But you're a guest to my home. You gotta come to me empty, And I said, no gifts. Your presences presents enough, and I already had too much stuff. So how do you dan to surbey me?