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 in my home. 00:00:21 Speaker 1: You gotta come to me empty And I said, no, guess you're presences presence enough. 00:00:31 Speaker 3: I already had too much stuff, So how. 00:00:35 Speaker 4: Do you dare to surbey me? 00:00:48 Speaker 5: Welcome to, I said, no gift. I'm Bridger Wineger. We're in the backyard. I have nothing to say to you. Right. The last two day have just been watching Motel Makeover. I've spent a lot of time watching Motel Makeover, which I feel like I'm maybe one of eight people who've done this. Do I recommend it? I don't know. It was an experience. That's my life. What else is happening? Nothing? We've got to get into the podcast. Today's I mean today is a first for the podcast. We've got three full guests. It's almost too much. Let's hope that things remain in control, that I can just do my job professionally. The guests today are wonderful, Brandy Posey, Tess Barker and Bab's Gray. Welcome to, I said, no gifts. 00:01:36 Speaker 4: Oh hi, thank you so much for having me. 00:01:41 Speaker 5: I might just go inside and let the three of you talk. This is like we're approaching birthday party level amount of people in my backyard. Absolutely, I'm basically saying six people came to my birthday party. You know, you never know, but. 00:01:58 Speaker 4: There's somebody in the bushes. So we're at six. 00:02:04 Speaker 5: I mean, we've we talked about this before the podcast you were talking about. I went into the house to get beabs some water. I come out and suddenly you're all talking about some sort of drinks and saying hydrated. And I didn't get to know what it was. 00:02:15 Speaker 2: I want to know, Well, you you offered diet sunkissed and I was just like, that sounds delicious, but it's not. It doesn't hydrate me like I need something. It's you know, it's warm. I feel like that's going to be a lot. 00:02:26 Speaker 5: Yeah. 00:02:27 Speaker 6: I do feel that we're at a medical level of heat today. Yeah, And well, I think it then spurred this other conversation. I think for all of us bev heads, we're all. I loved to meet another head and I because only above head really upon a bevehead, I think is a good host because above head will offer you. 00:02:44 Speaker 5: Above you know, sometimes I forget and I'm ashamed. The recording ends, and I'm just like, oh no, yeah, I apologize. I have to apologize to Analie's because they're the only person left to apologize to the guest is on their way home parched. So I've gotten better around it, but I do agree. And I called it diet sun kissed. The official name is sun Kissed zero oh delicious drink. And it's not your fault. It's mine because I'm the one who called it diet. 00:03:11 Speaker 2: That might change my choice. 00:03:13 Speaker 5: Interesting, it kind of does, right a little bit. 00:03:16 Speaker 6: Well, I mean they're different, though, I mean aren't they like scientifically different, Like it's a different factions. 00:03:20 Speaker 5: Like a different ingredient or something, or that's what they want us to believe. 00:03:25 Speaker 6: One of them was ruled a real carcinogen recently. 00:03:28 Speaker 5: The diet I'm going to push back. Oh okay, because as someone who drinks a lot of diet coke, I had to do my research. Yes, you have to do with the internet. You have to anytime the headline, you got to look into it. And basically what I read was for like an adult to for it to become a problem if you, let's say, if you weighed like two hundred and fifty pounds, you would have to drink eighteen diet cokes. 00:03:50 Speaker 6: A day, which some people are getting there probably. 00:03:52 Speaker 5: I know how many ancewers are we talking about here. 00:03:54 Speaker 6: That's yeah, that's like a case and a half a day. 00:03:57 Speaker 7: Is a thing where you're like, this is there's some moms from the nineties that are doing. 00:04:01 Speaker 5: Yeah, that's very true. 00:04:03 Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, you're right. 00:04:05 Speaker 6: I read the article too, and it was like everything else where, it's like, actually, just do whatever you want because this is all just clickt. 00:04:11 Speaker 5: You will die and it's whatever, right, Because then they're like the next thing is like, chocolate's good for you. You're like, what, No, it's just another thing you eat, right. 00:04:20 Speaker 2: Yeah. My friend is a food scientist. I asked her about that, the fake sugar and stuff, and she was like, same thing. It's fine unless you're doing insanely copious amounts of it, which very few people. 00:04:29 Speaker 5: Are, like me and a few other people. Yeah, let's get back to nineties moms. 00:04:35 Speaker 7: I feel like they're all kicking. 00:04:36 Speaker 5: They're all having a great time. 00:04:37 Speaker 6: So they've been kicking since Jane Fonda. 00:04:40 Speaker 4: Yes, the snack walls preserved them. 00:04:44 Speaker 5: Knock on wood for nineties moms. We wish them the best and hope they're in good health from the diet coke. But I'm glad that they were kind of testing the waters for us. 00:04:53 Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, canaries in the cave. 00:04:55 Speaker 5: Mine, Yes, exactly exactly, but yeah, some can see row. I kind of get what you're talking. It kind of tastes like you're drinking a melted popsicle, which is not something that's gonna make you feel like you're refreshed. Were a little treat. 00:05:08 Speaker 6: And if I could just offer, as you see, I have two bevyes. 00:05:10 Speaker 5: You've got a LACROI I have a Lacroix. 00:05:13 Speaker 6: Uh, it's the what is this is apollo? I walked over to Brandy's house. We lived close by, so we rode together. She already had one practice said hey, could I have one of those? I already had a water bottle look for the road, because I believe if you just have your bass water you can do it too. 00:05:30 Speaker 5: Bevy. 00:05:30 Speaker 6: You could have had the sun kissed if you also had a bass water. 00:05:35 Speaker 5: The Bevy is almost like the meal exactly. Now. It's essentially like the dry turkey you're eating. You're like, I need the water now. 00:05:43 Speaker 2: That kind of exactly I was just visiting my parents and this whole thing about how I guess my dad's not drinking enough water. Everybody, I'm so sorry to let you all know you have a dad that's not drinking. 00:05:57 Speaker 5: Wow. 00:05:57 Speaker 2: But like the thing is he used to? So it's like, what's shift in personality? Yeah, I don't know something, something's going on. And they were having this whole debate because apparently he doesn't feel great and I guess he doesn't like to put salt on things. And my mom thinks he's not getting enough electrolytes. And she had cut out a an article and put it on their cabinet with just a note that says we need to eat salt. 00:06:29 Speaker 5: It was just so, is he just eating unseasoned food? 00:06:32 Speaker 2: I guess he doesn't put salt and he cooks it, which is like what I'm I'm yeah. 00:06:38 Speaker 6: You know, I do that on accident. Sometimes I'm not anti salt by any means, but I'm not a huge salter. And sometimes I do forget to salt. 00:06:44 Speaker 2: Oh my god, I never forget. 00:06:46 Speaker 5: I'm going over yeah recipe. He is saying this much salt. I'm doubling it every time, and my blood pressure incredibly low. 00:06:54 Speaker 4: Yeah, there you got. 00:06:55 Speaker 2: I don't put salt on pizza. I'm just saying. And I had comments. I had comments who Clement did, just whoever I was with. No, this is a long time ago. It was that intense. I remember the moment when they like said, are you are. 00:07:11 Speaker 4: You about like a shaker or like a like a large chunk, like a chunk. 00:07:15 Speaker 5: Interesting, like a flake, salt, finishing salt. 00:07:19 Speaker 6: I would let you have that really finishing salt. You need to be pretty late on the touch with a little big yeah, so you can see it, so you know what's coming exactly. 00:07:30 Speaker 5: What were the toppings on this pizza? 00:07:33 Speaker 4: Salty? 00:07:34 Speaker 5: Just cheese, weird? 00:07:36 Speaker 2: I feel it. I'm really embarrassed. 00:07:41 Speaker 5: Yes, embarrassing exactly. I went through a period in fifth grade I put Lemon pepper on everything I. 00:07:48 Speaker 4: Ate because it was the nineties. 00:07:50 Speaker 5: Lemon had a favor of the big moment, big. 00:07:53 Speaker 4: Moment and where is it now? 00:07:54 Speaker 5: Well, where are they? I think the beginning of the end me throwing up hash Browns with than pepper on them. Oh, that was my last Lemon pepper ride. Yeah, I haven't touched. 00:08:06 Speaker 6: Like binge e hash Browns with womon. 00:08:08 Speaker 5: Yes, Why were my parents allowing that put it in the top cupboard when when Hash Browns don't let me have it's disgusting lemon pepper. 00:08:18 Speaker 6: That's a great you know, it's eventy because I was just thinking a dish the other night that had lemon in it, and then I peppered it heavily, and I started thinking about lemon pepper, and I was like, Oh, is this where lemon pepper came from? 00:08:28 Speaker 7: This might be it's year. It might be time for it to reverse via reverse kale. 00:08:32 Speaker 2: I think it's a rare instance where because obviously it's like some kind of lemon that's put into a dried form or whatever. Yeah, so it's not often that I'm like, I'm usually squeezing me ow like fresh lemon. I'm not like, let me get this. 00:08:47 Speaker 6: Dry hella powdered. That's a decade. 00:08:51 Speaker 5: I mean, like berry flavored lemonades were big. That's when they kind of hit the scene. You're getting your blueberry lemonades. 00:08:58 Speaker 6: From country Time Time the moms with My mom had country Time packets in her purse with her SERTs. 00:09:04 Speaker 5: Oh yes, I. 00:09:05 Speaker 2: Remember the scooping scooping of the country Time. 00:09:08 Speaker 5: Of course, of course we had the drugs. Yes, the drugs. At least you have any idea what's in lemon? Pepper? 00:09:14 Speaker 6: Lemon? Okay, sometimes they add a little bit of onion powder, garlic. 00:09:19 Speaker 4: You got to get back into this, gotta put that on some pizza. Everyone look in the back. 00:09:26 Speaker 2: Started a line. 00:09:26 Speaker 5: Of said, maybe I do the what's his name with the dressings. 00:09:33 Speaker 6: Paul dried I said no, Zes said, I like the You like the guy. 00:09:42 Speaker 2: With the dressings, not the actors. 00:09:48 Speaker 5: I refuse to acknowledge his work. No, except for on the dressing aisle. 00:09:52 Speaker 6: His passion was dressing, good dressings. 00:09:57 Speaker 5: Good dressings. I mean a lot of you know, getting the raspberry vinegarettes. We're getting a lot of again back to the nineties. We're doing some stupid things with flavors. 00:10:05 Speaker 4: Yes, the sweet salad, this sweet salad. 00:10:08 Speaker 6: I would like to stand in defense of the sweet sound. 00:10:11 Speaker 5: Okay, back it up. 00:10:11 Speaker 6: I feel that it is trashed everywhere I go. 00:10:14 Speaker 5: Okay, I've never. 00:10:15 Speaker 6: Actually met anyone else besides myself who enjoys one, and I think it's fucking delicious. Have you actually ever taken a fresh strawberry, some avocado, feta and pineanuts and tossed it with some spinach. Tell me you don't enjoy that. 00:10:28 Speaker 5: Well, what you're just describing is not what I was imagining. I was imagining syrup dropped all over my lettuce. I could do a good friend. 00:10:37 Speaker 7: Yes, yes, what about a syrupy clementine that has been Oh that is what I'm thinking. 00:10:43 Speaker 4: Sweet salad. 00:10:44 Speaker 7: That's the horrible horror show that I'm imagining. 00:10:47 Speaker 5: Yes, a bug is in my salad and it's been dead in there for weeks. Basically it's disgusting. Yeah, but I can like a strawberry. I think people are like, back off. Yeah, No, strawberry should be in a lot of salads. 00:11:01 Speaker 6: In the summer. It's very refreshing. Also, can I just say I'm with throw it out there, peaches, grill up your peaches. 00:11:06 Speaker 5: And moman salad. 00:11:07 Speaker 2: I think your version of a sweet salad is different from like we're thinking, which is like yours just like reasonable, but we're thinking like when people are like, I'll have a salad, but again it's drenched in a raspberry. 00:11:17 Speaker 5: But dessert, Yeah, that kind of thing. 00:11:20 Speaker 6: You gotta get country music. But you're only thinking Jason Aldine. 00:11:24 Speaker 5: Perfect, that's a perfect description. 00:11:27 Speaker 4: I have a pitch. Sweet salad zero. 00:11:34 Speaker 5: Sweet salad zero, dressing zero, Yeah, dressing zero, Paul Newman zero, Yeah, it's. 00:11:40 Speaker 2: Awful, dressing zero. Let's just start putting zero on ship exactly. 00:11:46 Speaker 4: It's the new X. 00:11:48 Speaker 5: It's weird zero hasn't migrated from SODA's because it feels like that could. 00:11:51 Speaker 6: Well. 00:11:52 Speaker 5: I guess it's because drinks are the only thing that can really be zero calorie, right, Oh? 00:11:56 Speaker 4: Probably, Yeah, that's true. 00:11:58 Speaker 6: It surprises me though they haven't figured out a way to make other ship. 00:12:01 Speaker 2: Lean cuisine cuisine zero. What's happening though, cuisine pocket zero zero? 00:12:10 Speaker 5: You don't want a solid zero liquid? That's fine, I'll take a gas, yes, But when I'm chewing on something that I know is nothing, we have to do the line somewhere, Yes, I guess celery yeah zero zero. You like build foods out of entirely celery. I don't know. Someone's probably trying. 00:12:29 Speaker 2: And it is kind of shocking that we don't have that yet, Like, are we at the point? I guess we're gonna be three D printing food soon. Able to choose the chloric. 00:12:39 Speaker 4: Value of the. 00:12:41 Speaker 5: Good question. I mean, I don't know. I'm not a food scientist, and I don't know. I was trying to begin answering the question. Yeah, okay, well we didn't. I mean, I don't feel like we even got favorite beverages. We've just been when I got here. I feel like there was a specific other beverage that was. 00:12:57 Speaker 7: We I had brought up Lipton's brist I tea, you had walked out, because I've been seeing it in the grocery stores recently for the first time in twenty years. But I've seen it in a comedy show fridge at two different grocery stores. I don't know what's happening. Graphic design, Yeah, same graphic design. The can bright yellow, blue, white, real like zigzags all. 00:13:19 Speaker 5: Over, trying to cash in on some nostalgia or that comes back. 00:13:23 Speaker 4: Yeah, that's like the millennials are very depressed. 00:13:26 Speaker 2: It it was after all those fake sugar articles. They were like, let's get out the nineties. Moms are looking for something else. 00:13:35 Speaker 4: Yeah, exactly. 00:13:36 Speaker 5: I don't think I've ever had a canned lipt This is so unbelievably. 00:13:41 Speaker 4: Large part of my child. 00:13:42 Speaker 6: Oh my god, it's got to be ice freezing cold, right, and I'm a I'm pro real sugar. I like real sugar and everything, and this is just like a nice heart dose of real sugar. So it's just ice cold, real sugar with a vague tea flavor. 00:13:56 Speaker 5: Oh I'm not behind that at all. I can't do a sweet tea. 00:14:00 Speaker 4: It's definitely sweetea, it's sweet sea. 00:14:03 Speaker 5: Ok Yeah, I need to just it's the weeds and the herbs and the water. 00:14:07 Speaker 4: That's what I prefer to. 00:14:08 Speaker 6: Yeah, that is definitely preferable and much more high quality. But if you want to get a little dirty, how. 00:14:14 Speaker 5: Are you all taking your coffee? 00:14:16 Speaker 6: Black? 00:14:16 Speaker 5: Black and hot? Okay, hot black and cold he. 00:14:20 Speaker 4: Iced with as much creamer as it can more milk. 00:14:24 Speaker 5: Yes, you're taking milk with a little yeah, okay, I. 00:14:26 Speaker 7: Like a little cinnamon on it too. I like coffee. Did not taste like coffee. 00:14:30 Speaker 2: Okay, okay, yeah, I would say like I like it about the color of this table, so it's. 00:14:35 Speaker 5: Not at least it's not khaki. It gets to khaki color. Just order anything else, right, right? 00:14:41 Speaker 7: Yeah? 00:14:41 Speaker 5: Yeah? 00:14:42 Speaker 7: I mean, And I'm now saying before them, before the I'm between this and a khaki kind of. 00:14:48 Speaker 5: I don't know my browns or oranges. 00:14:50 Speaker 4: First day on the beach. 00:14:53 Speaker 7: We all drip people, Oh drip, I'll do it. 00:14:58 Speaker 6: Like some bullshit. Like when you go to a coffee, you get a regular coffee or do you get some bullshit? 00:15:02 Speaker 2: I just get I mean, well I get like a latte, I'll get a regular coffee. 00:15:08 Speaker 6: I think there should be a line for the people who just want a cup of coffee. 00:15:11 Speaker 3: Drip. 00:15:11 Speaker 5: Well, see, that's kind of how I feel with cold brew totally. I would drink, drink and getting yeah there, yeah, yeah. But when we start imagining other things to be put in there, why am I waiting behind you? Order a different product? 00:15:25 Speaker 4: Exactly? 00:15:26 Speaker 7: I got a big old cold brew and it lasts me four days. It goes in and out of the fridge. Wait, is one this morning from earlier this week? 00:15:35 Speaker 5: Is it from Starbucks? Like their biggest thing? Yeah? 00:15:37 Speaker 4: That or like whatever. 00:15:38 Speaker 7: There's a great place in Alhambra, Aloha Food Factory for those around Hawaiian place. 00:15:44 Speaker 4: They give you a large cold brew and it comes in a. 00:15:46 Speaker 7: Big gulf cup and it's phenomenal because it's a mix of ConA coffee and then that like a Latino coffee that has like a little bit of brown sugar. 00:15:56 Speaker 5: And cinnamon in it indible. 00:15:59 Speaker 7: It's the best coffee ever had. I can almost drink it black. Okay, it's a little bit of the sweetness. Yeah, who is more mellow rounder taste. I would say it's not harsh acidicness, isn't right? 00:16:13 Speaker 2: I mean we're test is like a coffee like pot in the morning. Yeah, yeah, like like a whole pot morning. 00:16:20 Speaker 6: I have to restrain myself to save the last cup from my husband because I often get up before him too. It's like my favorite time is my little man at coffee time in the morning. 00:16:29 Speaker 5: I love like. 00:16:31 Speaker 6: It feels good, it feels great, and like I just love waking up brilliant, drinking nearly a pot of coffee. I love like reading and just drinking too much coss and then. 00:16:40 Speaker 5: In a rage by the time he wakes up anxiety freaking out. Yeah, we did it to get that out early in the day. 00:16:50 Speaker 6: You can get in some weird ship before anyone else wakes up. 00:16:55 Speaker 7: We did a twenty four hour live stream recently where we were doing energy drink flights and tests, still managed to get a pot of coffee in in between the in between. 00:17:03 Speaker 5: Yeah, you were awake for a full twenty four hours. 00:17:05 Speaker 4: Yeah, like, yeah, how you were a body feel like really amazingly surprisingly better than I thought. 00:17:12 Speaker 2: Yeah, but it was honestly, the energy drink saved us. Like every few hours we would do little shots of like different ones, but we bought like thirty of them or something. 00:17:22 Speaker 4: And they called get Yoked in North Hollywood. 00:17:24 Speaker 7: Yeah, it has a vast selection of energy drinks. 00:17:29 Speaker 2: I remember after the first round especially being funny because it was like only a few hours in and we ended up in my front yard and I was just raking. I needed something to do. 00:17:41 Speaker 6: You did get to raking pretty early. 00:17:44 Speaker 2: I need to move my body. 00:17:45 Speaker 5: We were there leaves it was. I would say, yeah, I think raking at any time is a little worse and just let them lay there. Who cares, they'll eventually go into the earth. Yeah, what's the longest you've all been awake before? 00:18:03 Speaker 6: Oh gosh, probably like close to forty eight hours under what circumstances. Always like writing things are like working on them, like I can get into like a fugue state where I'll just like I just want to like really go nuts and just right if I can get actually really like getting weird and just like seeing them if I can like isolate myself from society. 00:18:26 Speaker 2: Yeah, I guess, I mean it must be around thirty hours or something like. I haven't really purposely stayed up all night besides that, and maybe a few other times close to forty eight. 00:18:34 Speaker 7: Because remember in college, I was a filmmager and I had to edit my like rough senior project, like over a weekend, and it was the first time I'd ever really had an energy drink. 00:18:44 Speaker 4: And there used to be a thing at seven to eleven called a bukoo. It discontinued and. 00:18:48 Speaker 7: It came in the size of eventI coffee, okay, sure, blue raspberry, and I was awake for two days straight from the buckoo. And then I remember, look came back at my thing that I've been editing for two days, and everything was like cut a little bit too fast, as I've just been real, real wired for two days, and I slept for twenty four hours afterwards. 00:19:13 Speaker 2: It was really a little bit too fast, but for a student film, I'm sure it was. 00:19:16 Speaker 5: Just oh, yeah, you want as fast as possible. 00:19:19 Speaker 4: Looking back now, it's. 00:19:21 Speaker 5: Get in there as many cuts, just drop footage. Who cares? I did that? 00:19:26 Speaker 6: In collegeized I pulled an all later, editing an eight millimeter project. I took a class where you had to shoot an edit an eight milimeter and you literally had to physically tape. 00:19:34 Speaker 5: Your hands are shaking, literally, Yeah, and. 00:19:36 Speaker 6: You use a fucking grease pencil to make your edits. I pull it on later. I'm so proud of this thing that I've like made with my hands. Get to school the screen before class, I have taped the whole fucking thing backwards and upside down. 00:19:47 Speaker 4: Oh no, oh no, now. 00:19:51 Speaker 2: It becomes an art. 00:19:54 Speaker 5: Yeah. 00:19:55 Speaker 6: I put an empty film spool in the stack with the others students work, and I told my friend, I said, tell the teacher that I've gotten violently ill, but I left my film if he wants to screen it, knowing that he would say, it's okay, you can just do it when you come back, wait home, recut it came back then. 00:20:12 Speaker 4: I'm so smart that just has barker hack. 00:20:15 Speaker 5: What a great excuse in the moment. 00:20:17 Speaker 6: Thank you, especially no sleep. 00:20:18 Speaker 5: I've got to get better excuses. Do you get it everything? Literally, all I have to say is I have plans. That's literally all you have to say. 00:20:28 Speaker 2: Yeah, do you say yes and then back out or you go through. 00:20:30 Speaker 5: I go through with it, and it's a giant obligation and it's just agony. 00:20:34 Speaker 6: And is it always agony? 00:20:36 Speaker 5: Almost every time? 00:20:37 Speaker 7: Yeah? 00:20:39 Speaker 5: I mean there's the occasional fun surprise. It's like, oh I should have given that person one more chance. Yeah, I had such a good time together. But how often does that really happen? Most people are? You know, everyone in my life is horrible. Let's just be honest. I'm just putting it out there. If they're listening, not my problem, but excuses. I've maybe I should practice excuses right now? 00:21:03 Speaker 6: Yeah, Rich, after this, I'm gonna go see Oppenheimer. Do you want to come with me? 00:21:08 Speaker 5: I'm so sorry. I have lunch plans there we. 00:21:11 Speaker 7: Got Yeah, okay, let me see. 00:21:17 Speaker 2: Oh this weekend, I actually am having a family reunion in Long Beach and my boyfriend can't make it. And I do have a plus one for my family reunion. Could you come with me? 00:21:30 Speaker 5: No? 00:21:31 Speaker 4: No, no, no, no, no. 00:21:33 Speaker 5: This is the problem. This is the problem. But I'll try to try. 00:21:38 Speaker 7: See, I have a a friend is getting rid of their mattress and I they're going to give. 00:21:44 Speaker 4: It to me. It doesn't fit in my vehicle, but it would fit in yours. 00:21:49 Speaker 7: Could you help me on Saturday morning get a new mattress. 00:21:55 Speaker 5: I'm going to help you in that situation. I would, I would help you. It's a there's that one. Actually that felt like a job, so I would have to help the job. I would help with the job. 00:22:09 Speaker 4: And I buy you lunch afterwards. Is payment? 00:22:11 Speaker 5: Yes? And if you don't see this is where things get bad. If you don't the rest of my life, I will think about that every day. How tacky a brand favor. 00:22:23 Speaker 6: And like gratefully so honest. 00:22:25 Speaker 5: A lunch expensive so much? 00:22:28 Speaker 6: And you know, I had a job once where at like you know, the three pm slumper, everyone got tired. They only bought like the top people's Starbucks and. 00:22:37 Speaker 5: So bad. 00:22:38 Speaker 6: I always have that my brain, like whenever I have my own fucking empire, everyone's getting Starbucks. 00:22:44 Speaker 5: Yes, of course, but then you get to it, and then you become a villain. If you have an empire, right, suddenly you're a lot of No. I really think that you can avoid doing that. There are people at the top who are still nice. Yeah, not as many of them, but there are some people who managed to pull it off. 00:23:05 Speaker 6: And I just like, even if you're a dick. Coffee is a small enough expense that you can still be a dick and paffe. 00:23:12 Speaker 2: It's so will atrocity. 00:23:18 Speaker 5: Yeah, you got to put gas in the tank so you can continue being horrible. 00:23:22 Speaker 7: I used to have a job and an automotive marketing social media job, and on Fridays they it sounds awful, right, No, I'm on board, And on Fridays at three o'clock you could go into the break room and everyone got one micro brew and a bag of chips. 00:23:38 Speaker 4: You had to drink it and eat it with everybody else. 00:23:40 Speaker 5: What. Yeah, that is so weird. 00:23:42 Speaker 4: And I'd be like, what if I just left at three o'clock, we could just be. 00:23:46 Speaker 5: Done for the day. I know, my time is way more valuable than a bag of chips. 00:23:50 Speaker 6: What is it about a bag of chips that feels so insulting? 00:23:53 Speaker 5: It feels like like emergency situation, like there was an earthquake or something like we've got chips, Like we've got chips for everybody. It's not like, oh, what a cool treat. 00:24:03 Speaker 2: Yeah no, it's again, it's just a thing that should be available, not like a Friday. 00:24:08 Speaker 5: Yeah. 00:24:09 Speaker 7: I know, you guys are contract We don't have healthcare, but we do have razor scooters and chips on Friday. 00:24:14 Speaker 6: I just like if they had just gone a pottery barn and dumped a bunch of chips in a cute bowl, it would be less shitty. Yeah, have a fucking cool guacamole and I won't be as pissed off. I actually will do a lot of degrading shit for good snacks. 00:24:28 Speaker 5: Yes, wells with a bag of chips. That's something that can be thrown at me. Yeah, so I think that's the problem. If you can't throw it at me. Yeah, I feel a little more respect. 00:24:37 Speaker 4: It's not a sealing a zoo. 00:24:39 Speaker 5: I shouldn't be able to catch it. No, yes, maybe that's the thing. I don't know, speaking of rude behavior, I was really excited to have the three of you here. You know, I thought it might be a little overwhelming. I've never had three guests, but I love these people. We'll have a nice time, chat about whatever we want, move on with our days, continue to respect to each other as colleagues. Uh So, I was a little surprised podcast is called I said no gifts on a last shows up. We're chatting, having a lovely time, and I'm prepared for the day, I'm hydrated, whatever, and then suddenly the three of you Rrian holding what are clearly gifts. 00:25:18 Speaker 2: Yes, two two gifts have brought three because the three of us. 00:25:24 Speaker 7: But I would counter that there are three of us brought two gifts, So did we even bring a gift at all? 00:25:28 Speaker 5: Interesting? Interesting way to get around how tacky it is. I find it extremely distasteful in a lot of ways. But you're here on the podcast. Yes, should I open them? 00:25:41 Speaker 7: Here? 00:25:41 Speaker 5: I think so. 00:25:43 Speaker 2: I think we'd like to see you open them. Yeah, that's okay. 00:25:45 Speaker 5: I mean I've just assumed they're for me. Yes, they are, okay. 00:25:49 Speaker 2: Gifts weekly, but especially not for you. 00:26:14 Speaker 5: All right, Well they're too and they're nicely wrapped. Let's be honest with Oh, don't make me choose. 00:26:19 Speaker 2: I think you should do this one first. But what do you guys say? 00:26:21 Speaker 5: Or this one one for the listener? One is in kind of a citrus package, very cute wrapping. The others in more of a I would say it's like an abstract cocko art deco bag. Dollar tree, guitur, dollar tree. 00:26:36 Speaker 6: Can you believe it? 00:26:37 Speaker 5: Yeah? Dollar Tree. I mean it's probably ruining the planet. But they've got great gift rap. Excellent gift wrap. Absolutely absolutely, you shouldn't pay more than a dollar for gift maybe this one. 00:26:46 Speaker 2: You know what? 00:26:48 Speaker 6: You should have been that, But I just had an idea I would like to share. You know those like cute little mini libraries that are everywhere. 00:26:54 Speaker 5: Oh yeah, we have those for gift wrap. Oh smart, because it has so much garbage under our nuts and stuff. 00:27:01 Speaker 4: I love that. 00:27:02 Speaker 2: I'm just going to start stuffing him into those. If you could. 00:27:10 Speaker 5: A bag you could put your gift in. 00:27:11 Speaker 4: Perfect you have a quick bag. 00:27:12 Speaker 6: The person receiving the gift doesn't care much for it, You don't care much. We just need a click bag in the buck. 00:27:18 Speaker 5: Wow, you're describing my home. I have so many bags at this point. Yeah, maybe I should be the kind of the pioneer in this field going out from it. Think about it. We'll think about stuff and garbage elsewear. The police are pulling through. Turn it down too. 00:27:33 Speaker 4: Good of an idea, Shut it down, Shut it down? 00:27:37 Speaker 5: Okay, so what do you think the citrus or the bag? 00:27:41 Speaker 2: I think of this one first, actually, because we might want to do something. 00:27:45 Speaker 5: Interest story is developing. Okay, I'm lifting up this white bag here, I'm reaching this one. 00:27:50 Speaker 2: You can only get from us. 00:27:51 Speaker 5: Yes, oh okay, I'm very curious. 00:27:55 Speaker 2: M this is a very cute bag. 00:27:57 Speaker 6: Yeah, this needs to be reused. 00:27:59 Speaker 5: It very class tearing a tissue. 00:28:04 Speaker 2: I've never seen something. 00:28:05 Speaker 6: Open giving the bag above. I love that. 00:28:16 Speaker 5: Destroying carters. Okay, okay, I'm getting it. I'm pulling it out. I want to full visual experience. Okay, this is beautiful. It's a framed A framed triple picture says live well, laugh often, love much. This is a nice twist on the traditional. And then it's the three of you posing with what appears to be some sort of butterfly trap. Is it a butterfly trap? Butterfly lantern? 00:28:47 Speaker 2: Yeah? 00:28:49 Speaker 4: Globe? 00:28:50 Speaker 5: I love this. When were these pictures taken a. 00:28:53 Speaker 4: Few years ago? 00:28:55 Speaker 7: Four years? 00:28:56 Speaker 6: It's part of COVID Yeah, better times? 00:28:59 Speaker 7: Yeah? And the format is J is a JC Penny photo You to recommend so much. 00:29:07 Speaker 5: I want to hear about this experience because you know, I haven't been in a Penny's photo studio and since probably nineteen ninety seven, So what was the full experience like? 00:29:18 Speaker 6: Well, first of all, I don't know if you remember, but that sort of like community theater role. They have of the various backdrops right where you can choose and it's not something they do in photoshop or key and you still do manually choose your Wow. 00:29:29 Speaker 5: Yeah, yead blessed ye. 00:29:31 Speaker 6: It's pulled down. There is a sort of like fairly saddened poultry like area with sort of props, which, as you may guess, is where we got the butterfly cloves. 00:29:40 Speaker 5: Okay, sure, they I think. 00:29:42 Speaker 6: Are mostly for like baby or newborn pictures, but they'll let anyone use. 00:29:45 Speaker 5: Them, and they I've got so many questions. First of all, the backdrops, do you remember any of the options? 00:29:52 Speaker 2: There was a wood panel one. I remember that because we used some of those. I like clouds, you know, just just kind of like genera and then different colors. 00:30:01 Speaker 7: Yeah, the laser background of our Youth is gone and I. 00:30:05 Speaker 2: Was not there. 00:30:06 Speaker 6: I feel like, I don't know if I'm remembering this like a Mendola thing, but I feel like there's like an autumnal sort of like gazebo situation that I love. 00:30:13 Speaker 2: A gaze, Yeah, where you can like seem like you're you're transported. 00:30:17 Speaker 5: Another thing, Yes, and you just went with a nice Robin Zegg blue yes, which we love. Okay, so that I have that question, My next is the photographer this person? Were they a photographer? 00:30:29 Speaker 6: That's a great question. 00:30:30 Speaker 4: I've actually looked into it because I was like, how do you get this job? 00:30:33 Speaker 3: Right? 00:30:33 Speaker 5: Right? Yes? What is this situation? 00:30:35 Speaker 4: And you go to a J C. 00:30:37 Speaker 7: Penny photography school to shoot this stuff specifically, So whether you were a photographer outside of J. C. Pennies or not, you are trained for their for their way. 00:30:48 Speaker 2: Do you think more training than like police or less? 00:30:55 Speaker 5: It's a wait, but truly how much time? 00:31:00 Speaker 7: I think it's like it's like a week or two of an exocive to like learn and then you have like you study under someone as any of these places studies under somewhere. 00:31:08 Speaker 4: Yeah, you're an assistant photographer to learn the trade. 00:31:11 Speaker 6: In the studio, have an apprentice in our sash. 00:31:14 Speaker 4: So we had a. 00:31:14 Speaker 7: Fully said, well, I don't know how many people are training. 00:31:18 Speaker 5: The same building as Olive Garden, the one in Italy. Go there for your I hope. So wow, that's really interesting. 00:31:26 Speaker 6: I mean I feel my memory of her is that she was kind of great. Yeah, she was kind of down to clown. 00:31:33 Speaker 5: That's wonderful when you show did you have to make an appointment? 00:31:37 Speaker 4: Yes, okay, must make an appointment. 00:31:39 Speaker 7: Also Group one also searched Reddit for the best option, just went into the conversations. 00:31:46 Speaker 4: Looking for the best cheapest. 00:31:48 Speaker 5: Way to do it right? Right? How much do they charge you? 00:31:51 Speaker 2: It was only like thirty bucks or something. 00:31:53 Speaker 5: Yeah, it got good. 00:31:56 Speaker 2: Very pictures like, we use them a lot, but I think we changed do we change the looks? So we had the same look, but they love to change backgrounds and different things a bunch. 00:32:05 Speaker 7: Yeah, and the format so this is like a three picture with the live laugh love on it. These were a series of phoes they called the enhanced version. 00:32:12 Speaker 5: Oh of course. 00:32:14 Speaker 7: So there was black and white color. And then she disappeared for a while and she came back. She's like, would I just see the enhanced option around? 00:32:22 Speaker 5: Yeah? 00:32:23 Speaker 4: And then she showed us these and we were like, well, need it. 00:32:27 Speaker 2: It's so funny that they have a training school for it, because I guess I understand a little bit, but I feel like mostly this job is just like how do you deal with human beings? And there's only one way to do that was just do the job I do. 00:32:38 Speaker 6: Feel any of us, I dare say, could do it. 00:32:41 Speaker 5: Yeah. They have the big light square thing. 00:32:44 Speaker 6: Yeah, everyone's gonna look great. 00:32:46 Speaker 5: Yeah, because I kind of just assumed at this point they were just like, go buy the cheapest digital camera you can and have the person and pants take the pictures. 00:32:53 Speaker 6: You know, there's more craft to it. 00:32:56 Speaker 5: Okay, Wow, I'm going to do it. I would love to do it. 00:33:00 Speaker 2: Some beautiful photos, I mean, and also this is a gift from us because we're all aunts and I want to it feels like a very aunt I guess. 00:33:08 Speaker 4: I don't know if you guys. 00:33:10 Speaker 2: I have quite a few aunts, and my mom and her sisters would all get glamour shots taken and then like I feel like they were gifted to it. I just feel like we're always getting other people's glamour shots. 00:33:20 Speaker 6: Absolutely, I've never done that with my sister to our nieces, but that would be hilarious, clown and they would make so much fun of us, and it would be a lot of fun for everyone. 00:33:29 Speaker 4: So funny to send. 00:33:30 Speaker 2: I mean, we're very fun to get somebody a picture of yourself. It's just like it's a very. 00:33:36 Speaker 4: Interesting Yeah look at me. 00:33:40 Speaker 6: Multiple times, Yeah, with your mom, But I like love that they have like adult sister photos. 00:33:45 Speaker 5: It's cute. I mean, I do want to talk to you Threa's aunts about this, because I, uh have very strong opinion about this, and I was probably guilty at some point of like aunts are funny. Yes, I have maybe on this podcast called for a complete cease fire on ants are incredible so great? Oh yeah, yeah, it might be the best type of family member. 00:34:07 Speaker 4: Oh yeah, I think so. 00:34:08 Speaker 2: Okay, As we've all leaned into becoming aunts, we're like, oh, this is the best. You can do weird stuff. You can kind of just be your bill, be your own aunt, you know, yeah. 00:34:17 Speaker 7: Can show up and just be like here, let me blow your mind a little bit, kids, see you Lateran drag, I. 00:34:23 Speaker 6: Mean you come in, you do a performance, you have a character, a point of view. You've got to be funny, you've got to do dress up, You've got a dance there's no rules. Yeah, I mean I would say, like I'm an eleven out of ten ant, Like I do dance videos with my nieces. I've made flower crowns, We've made homemade pasta. 00:34:42 Speaker 5: What an aunt? 00:34:42 Speaker 4: Yeah, I was. 00:34:44 Speaker 2: I saw my niece and nephew this last weekend, and my nephew went away to like summer camp. So I was like, let's make a video for him, and we did a parody of Backstreets Back to like Logan's Back. 00:34:55 Speaker 5: Basically we wrote a. 00:34:57 Speaker 2: Parody song together, and I have to edit the video together. But yeah, you just get to like indulge your. 00:35:04 Speaker 5: Brandy has no specific examples terrible ant over here. 00:35:08 Speaker 7: I've actually been waiting my my two My two nieces are four and then three weeks old. 00:35:16 Speaker 4: Basically baby baby, baby baby. 00:35:18 Speaker 7: And I send them postcards from around the country as I am on. 00:35:21 Speaker 4: Tour, so that way, and she has a little box. 00:35:24 Speaker 7: Then she looks the pictures and when she can read, she gets to read about all my adventures around the country. 00:35:28 Speaker 5: Romantic and mysterious. Yeah, and I think can have all these layers, whereas uncles it's just kind of a shitty job. There's like one thing you get to do is be goofy or whatever. 00:35:37 Speaker 6: There's no but I have a very close relationship with my gay uncle. 00:35:41 Speaker 5: Okay, I'm. 00:35:44 Speaker 6: A gay uncle is like a pretty if not at the level of the ant, could be even above at times. 00:35:49 Speaker 5: Oh interestingly, I wouldn't dare bringing it. I wouldn't think I'm a pretty good uncle. Are you How old are your nieces or nephews? You probably got I mean, I got your Mormon family. So I've got three nieces, one seven, one is three, one is a baby born in earlier this year. Then I've got several five nephews teenagers to babies. I think I'm a pretty good uncle, especially to three nieces. They're real. 00:36:22 Speaker 6: You can say you might need to narrow it down to you got it. 00:36:24 Speaker 5: You do kind of have gotta make choices zero in. It's I mean, part of Mormonism is just that you are surrounded by so many family members. You gotta move the spotlight around, which makes you feel a little guilty. 00:36:37 Speaker 6: Find your niece, you know, if I have a giant Catholic family. But the dynamics, I think it's kind of fun too, because it's kind of like you kind of move tables. 00:36:45 Speaker 5: Right, pit them against each other. Who wants my love? This kind of tissues all over the ground are creating a huge mess on the floor. Apologies, but no, I just feel like ants, as far as I'm concerned, top of the heap. 00:37:02 Speaker 6: Yeah, how many ants do you have. 00:37:04 Speaker 5: I have, and then we get back into Mormonism. On my mom's side, I have three aunts, a pluses. My dad's side a lot more ants I can't even begin to say, because he had a pretty big family. Yeah, and he has. I think he was like a family of nine. So I would say I don't even want to great aunts. 00:37:23 Speaker 6: A lot of good ants on that side, and that's the thing, Yes. 00:37:28 Speaker 5: A lot. They're all good. No complaints about the ants. That's the things are all over the map. 00:37:33 Speaker 6: Yeah there's I think there is a lot more. There's a lot more deviation in the uncle category. There's a lot more chances for it to go wild. 00:37:41 Speaker 5: Uh huh, or to go let's just say bad. 00:37:43 Speaker 4: Yeah, yes we got you. 00:37:45 Speaker 5: Always have some rotten eggs. Yes, they don't care. Some don't care, and that's a problem. Ants always care, that's the thing. 00:37:52 Speaker 2: Thousand percent. 00:37:53 Speaker 7: Yeah, absolutely they understand the role uncles, just as uncles haven't had a strong uncle figure, I think exactly. You know, yeah, fascinating if we could stop and like you could be the beginning of the les the mantle. 00:38:10 Speaker 5: I don't want to be the face of uncles though, you know what, I wonder if it's just the word uncle. It's not fun to say. 00:38:17 Speaker 6: It's not really Yeah, I guess it just doesn't sound like it's too close to ankle. 00:38:22 Speaker 5: Yeah, it does sound like a joint, whereas aunt has two different pronunciations. I'm not classy enough for an aunt. 00:38:32 Speaker 2: No, I love it when someone drops an aunt. 00:38:34 Speaker 5: I wish I could have an aunt, one single aunt. That's all I asked for. 00:38:37 Speaker 7: Yeah, I'm all the idea of being the sister and a bunch of aunts. 00:38:41 Speaker 4: That is, like, I'm aunt, choose your own. 00:38:45 Speaker 2: I didn't think that you made the distinction. I feel like the person calling you that, But now I like being like. 00:38:50 Speaker 5: Excuse me, Yeah, speaks to me like an aunt. 00:38:54 Speaker 4: Don't you see my various shawls at aunt? 00:38:58 Speaker 2: Now I understand that this is obviously an extremely prized gift, of course, and I'm curious, like, you've gotten so many different kinds of gifts. Where does a gift like this end up? Where do a lot some of your gifts go. 00:39:09 Speaker 5: With a bathroom? At this point, I have a little back office, which on this podcast, the listener was subjected to about six months of episodes, me talking about it being full of water, which was a real trial for my life earlier this year. But when that office is dry and not destroyed, which it currently is, this is where pieces of art like this go. You know, we've got shelves. I've got to hang some of this at some point. I've got the bathroom, so it won't go in the main house. Let's be honest, it's not going. It's not going in the bedroom. I didn't expect you to go anywhere displayed this. Worst things have been displayed. It's a nice thing. Look at this. It's very it's charming. It's a reminder of pennies, which we all love and I have no complaints about. One more question. We can close the door on ants. Do you say aunt blank or do you just call them by their first name. 00:40:06 Speaker 6: Aunt blink and blink and blank. I saw them ant blink. 00:40:09 Speaker 5: Yeah, what a distance you have from your aunt's first name basis first name when speaking about them to other people, maybe using the word aunt. But when I see them. 00:40:21 Speaker 2: Oh so I guess if I see them, yeah, like I'm good thing of my aunt Connie. I guess I wouldn't call her aunt Connie to her face. 00:40:28 Speaker 6: But oh really, for me, it's like I actually I mean it in like an endearing wabe. I always call them like uncle Bobby, aunt Dairy. But and like because I like my nieces all call me auntie tea, Oh that's cute. 00:40:40 Speaker 2: And the yeah yeah, they call me ant barb, so like, I think it's cute. 00:40:44 Speaker 5: I think it's very cute. No complaints, but I've just like, for whatever reason, my family has decided to drop the. 00:40:49 Speaker 6: Time at a certain age, you drop it. 00:40:51 Speaker 5: That's a good question. I don't have any specific memory of using the title. Okay, it's all first names for me, but maybe there was a point when I going aunt uncle. 00:41:01 Speaker 7: I think my aunt Linda would be upset if I stopped calling her at Linda. I just if I just dropped Linda on her, she'd be like the disrespect yea, I. 00:41:10 Speaker 5: Am your aunt. 00:41:14 Speaker 2: I have done nothing to become this position in your life. Give me my. 00:41:19 Speaker 6: Title about being an aunt as everyone knows that. Yeah, you know, you put in no work to have this privilege. You're it's a very like sort of privileged position to be in. You have no responsibility, You've done no work. You get a lot of credit. 00:41:35 Speaker 5: It's great, and no one ever was like it takes a lot to be a bad aunt, you know, exactly. 00:41:44 Speaker 6: Like there was one Christmas where I did. It was when my oldest niece was like she was a toddler still, so like wasn't fully like you toddler kind of language talking, and I got it like a little bit too drunk at Christmas and my niece was the only one that could understand me, and we were just toddler talking to each other on the carpet, and my whole family was like taking pictures of us and laughing at us. And it's like, yeah, I was a bad ant, but I was a good aunt. 00:42:07 Speaker 4: That and that's aunt privilege. An uncle could not do that, Like. 00:42:14 Speaker 2: You actively have to work to be a bad and I think you obviously could be an aunt who's like not there or something, but that's like not necessarily a negative connotation. It's like a parent member or something. It's just like, Okay, well they're not there. They're not going to go out of their way to be shitty. 00:42:25 Speaker 7: Probably the older pinching cheek ant is the is the stereotypical bad ant. But I think we have seen that stereotype enough or or lived through it that were like never again, not on my watch. 00:42:39 Speaker 5: Come back to charming. Yes, it's now kind of retro to be that sort of ante. Yeah, cheek pinching, I mean you're doing a bit, you're you know, yeah, that's real. 00:42:47 Speaker 7: You're not going full pinch, You're just doing a little like fake pinch stage pinch. 00:42:52 Speaker 5: Yes, yeah, but maybe their phonies. Maybe if you're doing that, you're a phony aunt. 00:42:57 Speaker 6: Uncles have a ants don't have as much as like the parlor to x Oh. 00:43:01 Speaker 5: Interesting, Like I think. 00:43:02 Speaker 6: That's real uncle territory, like moving thumbs and moving thumb that going behind your ear and then you can get a little more creative from there. But I do think that's sort of like the purpose. 00:43:11 Speaker 5: Of cheap garbage. That's just in a way to avoid an emotional connection exactly. That's not the uncle I strive to be. I'm not bringing tricks and I watch next time, I'll probably have like a card game to show them or something. I don't know. Okay, well, we've really done a dive into ants that this podcast needed, that everyone needed to thank you. 00:43:34 Speaker 6: So I just had one more thing to say about Jay Cree being an aunt. I just needed does everyone no, penny my brain is short starting because I needed to tell you guys that there is still one Mervin's open in America. 00:43:49 Speaker 5: I mean, this is you're opening a door here, opening a door Bridger's eyes. 00:43:53 Speaker 6: Just I believe it's in Arizona, but I like her. I saw a news story on Amazon Time Day where they like cut to the one Mervins that was open. I was in Costa Rica with my in laws. It was like BBC News was running a story about Amazon Prime Day, which would not normally be on my radar, and then they cut to the one Mervins that's open in America for their take on Amazon Prime Day, and I was like, there's still a fucking Murphins. 00:44:20 Speaker 5: I'll tell you my ESCRP is called Mervns. Because I was under the pressure they were all gone. This is now I have a competitor and they have an upperhand because I have a department store. You guys know, get digging here because I'm my heart's bounding. 00:44:39 Speaker 2: Okay, sorry, what's is there? Like a tire up factory on fire. 00:44:45 Speaker 5: There is burning rubber, the smell smelling collective stroke. 00:44:50 Speaker 2: There was also sirens. At the same time. 00:44:54 Speaker 6: I did go running when there was a tsunami warning. 00:44:58 Speaker 7: I think it's big Mervins to be like talk about Wait does that not smell like like asphule? 00:45:05 Speaker 2: I guess its successful? Sorry? 00:45:09 Speaker 4: Interesting, shocking. 00:45:10 Speaker 5: Well, I don't know, maybe you are in the pocket of Murvns or something. You're trying to get us off the path. But I'm I'm like a dog with the bones, dog with the bone here? 00:45:19 Speaker 4: Oh please? 00:45:22 Speaker 5: But you're all know Merphins because you'd run into people in LA that like grew up without Mervyns and they're always like, I don't know what you're talking. I'll tell them who cares that your company is called Mervans. But when you meet somebody who did back to school shopping at Mrvhin's immediate connection, I. 00:45:37 Speaker 6: Mean, there's nothing more back to school shopping. 00:45:40 Speaker 5: Than nothing nothing. Man, those low ceilings, oh that I mean? 00:45:45 Speaker 6: And then maybe I think, if I'm not mistaken, they sold like JanSport. 00:45:48 Speaker 5: Backpacks there factory outlet. But yes, of. 00:45:52 Speaker 6: Course, yeah, but shoes, socks, underwear, everything for the school year. 00:45:57 Speaker 5: Everything you could walk out of there with the whole gamut. And uh, it was not a fun experience, you know. 00:46:03 Speaker 6: Because your mom was always pissed. Your mom as much as your mom loved Bourbons. She fucking didn't want to be there with you. 00:46:08 Speaker 5: No one wanted to be Remember. 00:46:10 Speaker 2: The different like I remember it, but I don't remember the difference of it between it and the other places. 00:46:15 Speaker 5: Okay, so it's just. 00:46:16 Speaker 2: Like a camere about like it just a discount. 00:46:19 Speaker 5: Like what would you say it was between J C. Pan It's I would say one step below jac Pants. Yeah. Yeah. Often a free standing building. 00:46:30 Speaker 6: Definitely, and like I would say, kind of ushered in the area the era of like shopping centers that were built around one kind of weird. 00:46:36 Speaker 5: Store, right, the little up around the department store. Does it relates to a Coles very similar? I would say, like because it's a free standing thing and you could buy perfume there right right, jewelry, it got it all. 00:46:52 Speaker 6: Yes, and like I feel like a really good selection of ladies like comfy high heels at a very reasonable. 00:47:00 Speaker 2: Yeah. 00:47:00 Speaker 5: Yeah, but it was not like the store that you were thrilled to be back back to school shopping. You're like, couldn't we go to Bab's like z cm I that's a utah, Yeah, Dillard's. What are the other department stores? 00:47:15 Speaker 4: Did you guys have? Montgomery Awards. 00:47:17 Speaker 5: That sounds classy. 00:47:19 Speaker 4: It was not classic, but I mean just a real girl. 00:47:22 Speaker 7: I always loved the name because I just love the idea of a man being named Montgomery, you know, such a good first name, so classy. 00:47:29 Speaker 5: Yeah, Robinson's Oh that's see, that's another that's classy, right. 00:47:33 Speaker 6: That Robinson is classy. There was Broadway, there was bullets. 00:47:40 Speaker 7: I remember seeing a Lord and Taylor in Annapolis for the first time, and just from the font, I was like, it's not for me. 00:47:47 Speaker 5: Keep driving. 00:47:47 Speaker 4: It's never been inside of Lord and Taylors. 00:47:49 Speaker 2: Live next to a dying Macy's, like a stor collapsing on it. 00:47:56 Speaker 5: Go into Macy's. Now you are the only person the store, and I'm saying, there are no employees. It's you. 00:48:02 Speaker 6: Yeah, it's like leave some money in their bucket or something. 00:48:06 Speaker 5: You can see you. We're having a hard time. 00:48:08 Speaker 2: It's a weird feeling because I've been in a few of those stores where it's obviously like things are not going well and so they're taking they have less stuff on the floor, so the aisles are all getting whiter and whiter, and it's just very creepy. 00:48:20 Speaker 5: Yes, yeah, you go to the one an eagle rock and it is. 00:48:23 Speaker 4: Well, it's on its way out. 00:48:25 Speaker 5: They have I mean you are in probably nineteen ninety eight when you're in that store. Nothing has changed, Yeah, absolutely nothing, and I love it. 00:48:33 Speaker 6: Yeah, mus because the prices haven't changed either. I mean if if it almost is like thrift store shopping where it's like, if you are in the mood right to ruffle around some shit you can in the dark. I have to say, I found, because I'm really into cooking, I found this all clad set of like really beautiful stainless deer steel cookware that was like a skillet, one of those big like Dutch oven things, and like another pot three piece set. It was like seventy five percent off of steel, all. 00:49:01 Speaker 5: Clad, because no one thinks about going there for that sort of stuff exactly. 00:49:04 Speaker 4: Absolutely. 00:49:05 Speaker 5: That was a period when you're like, oh, I've got the wedding registry at Macy's, will go buy it. But now people are like, I don't know even know if there's anything in there anymore. 00:49:12 Speaker 6: No, no, no, no, Macy's. 00:49:13 Speaker 4: I think the goal is bankruptcy. 00:49:15 Speaker 5: Yeah, joined a torpedo, Yeah, get. 00:49:18 Speaker 7: It over to get the rid of the product and just run it into the ground right, Well, we're all going to miss it when it's gone, but we're contributing to the problem. 00:49:28 Speaker 5: I don't know what to say. We've got to open the next gift, you do. I mean, we've hit on topics that I just love to chat about, which is okay, we're opening here the citrus. I love to well wrapped. 00:49:41 Speaker 6: I mean, great jobs to really pretty paper. 00:49:45 Speaker 4: Gorgeous paper. 00:49:47 Speaker 7: Can I say just enough? Just enough tape? You did a great job taping too much? 00:49:55 Speaker 2: I don't know, I just I like doing it. 00:49:58 Speaker 5: Jillie belly bean boozled. 00:50:02 Speaker 6: Are you excited? How do you feel? 00:50:04 Speaker 5: Well? We have to open them, of course, because this I've never tried this product, but I know immediately what it is. There's gotta be something disgusting. Yes, it's like the Harry Potter thing. Yeah, we've got a different flavor and uh okay, so let's how do we even talk about this? How do we talk about jelly belly? As someone who's been to the jelly Belly factory, It's it's outside of San Francisco, Okay, Now, incredible, Yeah, incredible time there. I got to try so many jelly belly. He's got a free hat, no complaints. 00:50:37 Speaker 2: Did you get to try some like off the market flavor. 00:50:38 Speaker 5: I feel like they had like maybe discontinued flavors or something. 00:50:42 Speaker 4: That's that's fine. 00:50:43 Speaker 5: You went in there. I'm sure now COVID has probably destroyed any of this. Yeah, although their connection to Ronald Reagan makes me wonder, I don't know, are so connected. 00:50:53 Speaker 6: The only the only presidential library I've ever been to is the Reagan Library because I'm from around here, and the only memory I have of it is just being inundated with jelly bellies because he was losing his mind while in office and the only thing that he cared about was jelly beans, so he put I'm dead. Seriously, he put jelly bean dispensers throughout the entire White House, and now there's jelly beans all over the Riggan Library. 00:51:17 Speaker 5: Well, I want to go one SCEP further. I believe, and I kind of want to believe, this is real services perful helicopters are just dropping on ropes, and the conspiracy I've heard is they needed to get the jelly beans in his mouth so he would chew and they could put words in kind of a mister ed. 00:51:40 Speaker 2: That is fucking incredible, And they were not hiding the jelly bean. 00:51:46 Speaker 5: They needed him chewing so they could kind of drop in words that I've heard. That's the theory I heard, and I'm happy to continue that rumor. 00:51:59 Speaker 7: You know. 00:52:00 Speaker 4: Oh yeah, that's can to me from now on. I'm telling everybody that. 00:52:06 Speaker 2: Okay, so there's a few reasons. 00:52:07 Speaker 5: Yeah, let's say I've distracted wildly. 00:52:11 Speaker 2: So this is we have a segment on our show called Tasty Tasty taste tests. We haven't done in a minute, but you know, this is like something we would do. We've tried like weird candy, corn flavors, stuff like that. This is also something as I'm from I'm from you to. Also, I didn't grow Mormon. 00:52:26 Speaker 3: I know. 00:52:26 Speaker 5: This was shocking to me. Yeah, such a rare fine. 00:52:28 Speaker 2: I know, but this did remind me. This felt like a Mormon game, felling a family home. 00:52:33 Speaker 5: Even this is a sort of Mormonism I can hang on to. This is like this, I'm on board. It's fun. Yeah it is. 00:52:42 Speaker 2: And as an aunt, I actually played this with my nephew and it's very fun. With the specific bean, yes, with a with a different you know, not this regift obviously. 00:52:51 Speaker 5: But like this type of this game. 00:52:53 Speaker 6: Okay, so the. 00:52:56 Speaker 2: Thing is you spin I mean, we don't I think we should do around maybe, but you spin it and you there's different beans in the little container thing, and then uh, you pick one and it can either be the gross one or the good one. 00:53:07 Speaker 6: Basically, Oh that's so cool. So like if you get blue, it's like Verry blue toothpaste, but there's grocer ones, there's like peat or barf. 00:53:16 Speaker 5: Oh god, als, will you film this so we can get all reactions as sugar. 00:53:22 Speaker 2: Or juicy pears. 00:53:25 Speaker 7: I don't I don't want to know about the jelly belly. Person that was like doesn't taste quite like a book. 00:53:33 Speaker 2: A little bit morey socks are tooty fruity dead fish. 00:53:40 Speaker 5: And okay, Babs, you do you want to be the master of ceremonies here, so remind me again what happens we spin the basically spin it. 00:53:48 Speaker 2: And whichever one it lands on, you have to pick the one the matching jelly belly. But it could be one of those two flavors. 00:53:54 Speaker 5: Okay, so I'll go first, Just you go. 00:53:57 Speaker 2: Just so we can set off. Okay, so I've got juice, he pear or so it's this green one with the little sponsor where we gonna. 00:54:05 Speaker 5: Be gone, right juicy pear, unless you think that's what bookers. 00:54:13 Speaker 2: Those bookers are delicious. 00:54:15 Speaker 5: Smart to tell. Okay, sweet tests, you're up. 00:54:20 Speaker 1: On the. 00:54:22 Speaker 4: Fruity or stinky socks. 00:54:25 Speaker 5: Oh god, that's hard, Like stinky socks is kind of flavor. Yeah yeah, okay, Okay, here we go. She's consuming. I'm gonna be the one person. 00:54:43 Speaker 6: Give me. 00:54:45 Speaker 4: We know what's going on. 00:54:46 Speaker 2: Which Okay, Brandy's. 00:54:48 Speaker 5: A brandy, Brandy, Brandy. 00:54:50 Speaker 4: I'm also y juicy pear. 00:54:51 Speaker 5: But okay, so. 00:54:54 Speaker 2: That's like a spotted one. Okay, yeah, she's I got one. 00:55:00 Speaker 5: So she does the book? What does that mean? What does that mean? 00:55:13 Speaker 2: The fact they had to think about it made me know that it was not the good one. 00:55:18 Speaker 6: It's been on forever. 00:55:20 Speaker 7: It was me trying to manifest a different jelly bean into my mouth. 00:55:23 Speaker 4: In the moment, I was like, I'm a powerful being. I can shade at the outcome. 00:55:27 Speaker 6: How long did it take you to realize? 00:55:30 Speaker 7: I mean there was a moment of denial, of course, where I was like, no, it hasn't happened, No. 00:55:37 Speaker 5: Can you? Oh? I mean, what is the what are we talking about? 00:55:40 Speaker 4: What saltiness? 00:55:42 Speaker 7: It's like. 00:55:45 Speaker 4: A sweatiness. 00:55:49 Speaker 2: As we know, they're very good, like the butter popcorn taste, just like butter popwords, so. 00:55:53 Speaker 5: They know how to Okay, yeah, here we go, I'm going to spin the wheel. 00:55:59 Speaker 2: Here we go. 00:56:01 Speaker 5: What have we got here? Blue? Which is actually and the worst thing about this is I also hate buttered talking. Well, I mean, I guess it doesn't matter that I'm just gonna and I did just mention I'm gonna get salmonilla poisoning. So yeah, breathing into my mouth. 00:56:32 Speaker 2: Chewing doesn't look very happy. You can't tell. 00:56:40 Speaker 5: I honestly could no. The way that expands in your mouth, I know that. 00:56:52 Speaker 6: Again, it's so fun to watch it happen to someone because you kind of see it before they. 00:56:58 Speaker 5: Do that, because it's heart sweet, which is even worse like going to sweet to egg. 00:57:05 Speaker 4: Oh boy, it's hard because it goes, it goes. 00:57:09 Speaker 7: Maybe you didn't run your life and then it just expands in your mouth. 00:57:14 Speaker 5: You're like, oh no, and there's no like I really couldn't describe that to any other food other than egg. It's not even like salty or anything. It's just literally disgusting tasting. Yeah, oh well that's horrible. 00:57:28 Speaker 4: The hard part. 00:57:30 Speaker 6: It's like making me tinse up even the thought of it, Like we know it's fake, it's just sugar and chemicals, but it's like it's not. 00:57:35 Speaker 2: But again they're good at it. Yeah, it's like that, the bad version of that uh willy wonka want where it tastes like a whole meal. Yeah. 00:57:44 Speaker 5: Yeah, I will say that whatever they're doing to get this flavor is probably worth one hundred and fifty diet cokes. That is cancer to get to. Oh yeah, I mean do we go one more round? 00:57:59 Speaker 2: It's feed round because we need a chance to get it all right, all right. 00:58:05 Speaker 5: Let's see not thrilled about god? 00:58:07 Speaker 4: No, what what is this one? 00:58:08 Speaker 2: Peach or barf? Okay, okay, this better good. 00:58:16 Speaker 4: This one looks good. 00:58:17 Speaker 5: Peach bar you can't. 00:58:19 Speaker 2: Smell it doesn't smell againything? 00:58:21 Speaker 4: Okay? 00:58:23 Speaker 7: Oh immediate bar immediate bar? 00:58:27 Speaker 5: No, she hates stone, I mean that is bar Yeah, what kind of barf? 00:58:39 Speaker 2: That's the big question I had to swallow as soon as. 00:58:42 Speaker 5: What did you eat before barfing? Would you imagine? 00:58:45 Speaker 2: Yeh, spaghetti because that's what a kid would bar or lemon pepper. 00:58:54 Speaker 4: That's actually one of the options on special. 00:58:57 Speaker 2: Like the acid, Like that's all you like? Feel that? 00:59:00 Speaker 5: Oh god, okay, test. 00:59:03 Speaker 6: Alright, this hasn't even happened to me yet, and I'm like, so. 00:59:08 Speaker 5: Okay, the wheels spinning blue? 00:59:10 Speaker 7: You also got pear, teacher, bar, No, should. 00:59:14 Speaker 2: We try another one just for fun? 00:59:17 Speaker 5: Okay, okay, this is how we learn. Okay, the bean is in. This can't happen to be a second time. 00:59:28 Speaker 4: I know, I know you can. You have so many beverages, use them. 00:59:36 Speaker 5: Okay, awful, Okay, well this is speed speed round. 00:59:44 Speaker 4: That's bar Okay, Randy, go for it. Hold on, give a real thin I got. I'm gonna do rotten egger. 00:59:52 Speaker 5: But right, okay, rotten egg? But all right, thank you, rotten egg. Sorry, here we go, guess being chewed or butter? 01:00:02 Speaker 2: Wait, she's got to know. 01:00:04 Speaker 5: Oh, there we go. It's an egg. 01:00:06 Speaker 4: Oh it's really bad. It's much worse than boggers. 01:00:09 Speaker 5: It's bad. Right, But this is what I'll say. I didn't I really didn't know for quite a while. Is this that other flavor I hate? 01:00:16 Speaker 7: Which is the but is there is a minute use the butter to make the eggs yeah, I like the butter, but I have always thought it had a little bit of a note of urine. 01:00:26 Speaker 5: Oh interesting, it does, definitely. It's I mean it's movie theater floor. That's what they should call it. It is. 01:00:31 Speaker 6: By the way, still have the barf taste hate eggs. 01:00:36 Speaker 5: They were spinning. Okay, I've gotten black. I'm so happy. Mint or tooth or blueberry? Oh, I get rewarded. 01:00:46 Speaker 1: This is. 01:00:49 Speaker 5: Blueberry. 01:00:50 Speaker 4: Oh good good. You know I'm glad. 01:00:52 Speaker 5: Good things happen to good people. Let's just be honest. 01:00:56 Speaker 2: Okay, close up this horror shown. I was like, we were also putting ourselves through. 01:01:02 Speaker 6: I love but you know, I feel like I feel alive right now. 01:01:05 Speaker 2: Yeah, I feel like that's we do a lot of stupid things, and I. 01:01:07 Speaker 4: Feel like this is a This is great a game. 01:01:10 Speaker 5: Yeah, wonderful game. 01:01:12 Speaker 7: Excited If he did pull us out, like in a line or something to challenge people, that's. 01:01:17 Speaker 5: A great idea. 01:01:17 Speaker 4: You know, it travels well. 01:01:21 Speaker 5: And I'm saying band aid on there. This to me is irresponsible. Again. 01:01:26 Speaker 2: I mean, if you want to up the uncle game, the answer than because the kids, the kids after I was playing this, my nephew, you just made me. I was just eating them and he was just wanting to see my Yeah. 01:01:39 Speaker 6: Candy, its gross things. 01:01:41 Speaker 4: Yeah, being goozled. 01:01:44 Speaker 5: That was so bad. Wow, what an incredible experience I've grown. 01:01:48 Speaker 4: Yeah, me too. 01:01:48 Speaker 6: I wasn't expecting that to be that intense. 01:01:50 Speaker 5: I know, the raw egg really bad, really bad experience, really really awful. 01:01:56 Speaker 6: I was praying you weren't going to say should we do another around? 01:01:59 Speaker 5: I literally was. 01:02:00 Speaker 6: I so thought I was gonna be scott free because we had initially discussed just doing one round. 01:02:04 Speaker 5: No I had, I mean I had to come out of this. No, you had the wind with a win. I needed a win to These. 01:02:09 Speaker 2: Are the ones we didn't pull, which were birthday cake or dirty dishwasher okay, which I have had, dirty dishwater, which I've had and taste so much like well, not that I know, but you know, you know, cappuccino, or liver and onions. 01:02:23 Speaker 5: Okay, well liver and onions to argue for is the thing people eat? 01:02:27 Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I'm not going to toasted marshmallow or stink. 01:02:31 Speaker 5: Bug, stink bug, Okay, that's not happening. 01:02:34 Speaker 2: And then pomegranate or old bandage. 01:02:37 Speaker 5: Old bandage to me, someone should be fired for that. Yeah, no one knows what that tastes like. 01:02:43 Speaker 7: Just in the in the pitch meeting, there's just a guy in the corners like, what about an old. 01:02:47 Speaker 5: Band or something? 01:02:50 Speaker 4: Yeahs above him. 01:02:52 Speaker 6: It was sort of a stroke of genius because they kind of did not like, no one knows what that tastes like, but everyone knows what that tastes like. 01:02:58 Speaker 2: Like when you see when you're at a like a pool and you see when floating, well, that feels it tastes like what that looks like. 01:03:05 Speaker 6: Absolutely, some things have such a gross look that they have a taste interesting. 01:03:09 Speaker 5: Very true, very true. 01:03:11 Speaker 4: I've seen it with my mouth. 01:03:14 Speaker 6: I don't know there's a popular game. It's kind of gone out of favor. But like people used to like get old school baby showers have this thing where they would put a diaper in a diaper awful and it makes me It made me like physically ill to look at. I was like literally like I'm a comedian and this is not funny. 01:03:28 Speaker 5: It's not funny now, it's rude. It's really empty stomachs. I skipped lunch exactly. I can't eat out of a diaper, no, nor. 01:03:39 Speaker 6: Can I eat anything else. After looking at No No, I. 01:03:42 Speaker 2: Feel like I've only heard tale of this, but luckily I never had to. 01:03:45 Speaker 5: I worked with the woman once who did a cat litter version of it. What is wrong with a cast ro all that looks like cat litter? Awful? No one wants this other than Mallory. Okay, well, I think now we should go from this game to another game. Let's just let's turn this into full game show. We're gonna play it. I've never played this with multiple people, so I'm curious how this is all gonna unold. We're gonna play a game called Gift Master. But first I need a number between one and ten. 01:04:16 Speaker 2: You have to decide together. 01:04:17 Speaker 5: Yeah, whoever calls it out first. It's the most popular number, so that that will satisfy all three of you. I have to do some light calculating, so right now I recommend promote you know what to do? 01:04:28 Speaker 4: Okay. 01:04:29 Speaker 2: Our podcast is Lady to Lady every Wednesday on the Exactly Right Network, thank God, and we've been going for a long time. We got lots of fun episodes and it's a good time. 01:04:39 Speaker 5: Yeah. 01:04:39 Speaker 7: The three of us are stand up comics and we have before the guest on who's generally like another lady, funny lady of some kind, and it's just. 01:04:46 Speaker 4: Amazing guests from all over the place. Karen, Georgia Bridger, you should be on soon. Yeah, this is this is an invite on air. 01:04:55 Speaker 5: You wait till you're in public. Okay, I'm good to go here. Yeah, listener, listen to Lady the Lady. We've had such a good time here so much. We'll have a good time there. Listen to podcasts, do whatever you want care. This is how we play gift Master. I'm gonna name three things. Three things you can give away, gifts, experiences, whatever them. Name three celebrities. You can tell me which celebrity you would give which gift and why there's no winners or losers here. This is just well you never know. Maybe three are horrible at it, and I declare you losers. 01:05:33 Speaker 4: Bat at celebrities. Are we together? 01:05:38 Speaker 5: You're just not even competing. You're gonna just just we're gonna discuss and then I'll yeah, well we'll get to it. These are the gifts. So this first one's from a listener named Catherine. It's the metal shell of a vintage Jeep Grand Wagoneer which is a very specific thing. That's like something you'd see on the set of mash or something. Number two rapid hair loss, so that's an experience. Number three by one get one at Famous Footwear. So that's a good gift. Yes, yeah, Now these are the people you'll be giving them to. Number one John Mayer okay, Number two Lester Holt, and number three Diane Keaton. 01:06:14 Speaker 2: Okay, Lester holds like an MSNBC or he wasn't SEBC. 01:06:17 Speaker 5: I don't know where he is currently as a news anchor. 01:06:19 Speaker 2: And then Diane. 01:06:20 Speaker 5: We love Leicester. We love Diane. 01:06:22 Speaker 2: I've actually worked personally with less you have excuse me at the olymph the Salt Lake City Winter Olympics. 01:06:28 Speaker 5: Oh I saw Leandis Moore set there, did you? I was outside the fence, but I saw That's pretty cool. 01:06:34 Speaker 2: I worked like, you know, a PA job during it, and I would drive Lester Holt around. 01:06:39 Speaker 5: Oh wow, so you really know Leicester BFF. Nice. 01:06:44 Speaker 2: I'm sure he remembers me. Yeah, he was nice. 01:06:45 Speaker 4: Susan k what do you think? 01:06:46 Speaker 6: Is he a deep guy? 01:06:47 Speaker 4: Is a jepk oh? 01:06:48 Speaker 2: Okay? Okay, Well he already kind of has like a receiving hairline. If not completely got, I would say ball, yeah, like it's pretty up there if not totally and I. 01:06:56 Speaker 6: Feel like it's with sin Pergunta. We have to give rapid hair lost to John Mayor. 01:07:04 Speaker 7: Take power, take exactly. 01:07:08 Speaker 5: Of course right away, his age lying out of his head. Yes, I want people are worrying. 01:07:15 Speaker 6: Yeah, broadcast like the moon landing, you need a little bit exactly. 01:07:20 Speaker 5: Families gathered around the TV watching it. 01:07:24 Speaker 6: Although it does make me a little sadd because, like as the ladies, I kind of like I do like John Mayor. Okay, I just like him necessarily, like yeah, it's like he's very like it's like he's horrible, but I like him. 01:07:38 Speaker 5: People like him. I'm not on board. I'm not on the good ship Mayor, but. 01:07:41 Speaker 6: Yeah, I know you shouldn't be. 01:07:43 Speaker 2: I have seen a perform and it was very impressive. 01:07:45 Speaker 5: People love the guitar skill. 01:07:46 Speaker 6: He's very talented, and like I it's it's sort of like the Jelly Belly, It's like the Starbucks music. 01:07:54 Speaker 5: It's like, oh sure, like he is just. 01:07:58 Speaker 2: An American principle at this point. Loved him, but yes, definitely the hair loss, hair loss, because I do think, yeah, he needs some humbling. We need to see what he is like when people, you know, when when he's got a little less mojo doing. 01:08:18 Speaker 5: That, Right, I think that's very smartly played. 01:08:22 Speaker 2: And then this is a hard one because the shell of the jeep. 01:08:27 Speaker 6: Oh, I think that's actually very easy that obviously. 01:08:31 Speaker 4: That's also kind of play out your logic. 01:08:34 Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean because I'm just seeing it because to me, I don't know this is true, but to me, she lives in Montecito, and so I see it like in the backyard in Montecito being like incorporated into some cool sort. 01:08:45 Speaker 4: Of like water works. 01:08:46 Speaker 6: Yeah, I see it very like rustic chic, kind of like very Mason jar O Hi kind of. 01:08:56 Speaker 5: Yeah. 01:08:56 Speaker 7: She could replace the windshields with or she could put in a stangle in the windows. 01:09:01 Speaker 2: Yeah, sorry, I mean. 01:09:03 Speaker 5: This, I just had this realization. I think Diane Keaton could live in anywhere that is the name of a Pepperidge Farm cookie. Yes, doesn't that make sense. 01:09:11 Speaker 4: Absolutely, she probably. 01:09:12 Speaker 5: Has a home in every one of whatever. 01:09:15 Speaker 6: She lives there. 01:09:16 Speaker 4: Yeah. 01:09:19 Speaker 2: I know about her from a video from a video of for like years ago cooking something in her kitchen when she's like looking at the camera and She's like, Okay, I'm gonna go get a fork, and she goes off screen and takes at least a minute to go elsewhere and get a fork and come back. And You're like, where are this woman's forks? Like she has a huge estate and yeah, and so I'm imagining her walking past a window which beyond we are seeing the shell of the jeep with yeah, the succulents, et cetera, one. 01:09:50 Speaker 4: Of her forks, right, yeah. 01:09:51 Speaker 7: Yeah, she has friends of taking wedding photos in front of it and feels like a nice backdrop. 01:09:57 Speaker 2: She also filmed a little video of her dancing to the Mighty Cyrus Flowers, so yeah, yeah, and I can see that also being a set piece. 01:10:05 Speaker 6: For that exactly. Now, I just want to be dancing with Diane Keaton. 01:10:09 Speaker 2: Yeah, maybe he will be after we give her this. 01:10:12 Speaker 4: Yes, just could do it, so Lester Holt. Then for the buy what the bo shoes? 01:10:16 Speaker 7: Yeah, like a deal like his big feet. 01:10:22 Speaker 2: I think he's on the move a lot, you know. 01:10:25 Speaker 7: Well, and if he was an anchor, you're not seeing his shoes, which means he can get real crazy with them. And I think there's a thing with some men where like that's where their personality comes. 01:10:33 Speaker 4: Out in the shoe, right. 01:10:35 Speaker 2: You know, So I don't know what he's geting a famous foot where that's really setting him apart. 01:10:39 Speaker 6: Though I don't know a lot about Lester Holt, but I feel like he's in my head. He's very like standard issue kind of like old guy. Okay, okay, and old guys really like deals shoes. 01:10:54 Speaker 4: Yeah, he's not gonna stand in a sneaker headline. Yeah no. 01:10:58 Speaker 5: I also feel does get kind of the misfit toys sometimes that are like there's a reason no one chose that. 01:11:04 Speaker 2: I literally forgot that that story existed. 01:11:07 Speaker 5: Start another escorp famous. 01:11:10 Speaker 2: See you actually your company is names. 01:11:13 Speaker 5: Just waiting for a season to sist. Yeah, but less you're a tall guy, I assume he's tall. Yeah, I feel like he has that authority. 01:11:23 Speaker 6: Is then because like I feel like because I have a big feet and I can find cute shit famous foot where, because I have like the fucked up. 01:11:28 Speaker 5: Size you get into Nords from rack at the back there they've got size thirty eight. Put them on for fun. That's what I do. 01:11:34 Speaker 6: I kind of I'm glad joke. 01:11:38 Speaker 5: Your entire size community should be a shamed. Well, that was really beautifully played because I've never I've only ever allowed one person to play it. Oh and so to see three people come together in such an incredible laser focused way, it shows that you you threw really work well together. Work well we do. Okay, Well, we're at the final segment of theod. This is called I said no emails. People write in to I said no gifts at gmail dot com with questions. Galore recently opened it up to literally any question because I don't care anymore. I'm bringing a real I care a little bit. I care, of course I gift, but i'd have all sorts of questions. That's what I should precentage. You feel like you're at have not caring. Yeah, depends on the subject. Okay, Oh, I mean I'm not caring what sort of question I get. I'm at a zero because I want to hear all sorts of things. We've gotten so many gift questions, and we still get a lot of gift questions, but you know, it's fun to occasionally just get some random thing. Fortunately, today's is about a gift for Fortunately, well, they write in with questions, Well, help me answer a question. 01:12:41 Speaker 6: Please, I have a quick question, are you at. 01:12:45 Speaker 5: I'm horrible because I'm a bad decision maker. I spiral into like when it comes time to buy my niece a gift, full panic, full panic until the very last minute, and then it's a fine gift. It's like, although I did give her James and the Giant Peach recently and she went crazy for it. That was one of those ones where she opened it though, and was like threw it to the side. Now she loves it and now, yeah, she talks about it. So but I'm a bad gift giver. Okay, rapid Fire, how do you three? I feel like you're good gift givers. 01:13:16 Speaker 4: I pride myself. I'm being ready to put myself up there. 01:13:18 Speaker 5: I think you okay, I need to get better at it, considering that part of my profession has the title or has the word in the title you know what here is what I do. 01:13:26 Speaker 6: I think this is good advice. Like someone in your life, for your like you know, your significant other, someone in your family, don't just do it when it's going to be near their birthday or Christmas, like at random times when they say something that's like oh it would be cool that or like there's something I've always make a little note in your phone so that when it's time to get them a gift, you have the idea. 01:13:45 Speaker 5: Yeah, I make a little note in my brain and then forget within a happy hours. Simply don't want Yeah, I don't have any recollection of the rest of this episode. Okay, let's see here, what's going on with this? Person says? Do you bridge are and respect? Disrespectful guest singular? But we'll tack aness on there. I recently got married and we opted to have a very small, non traditional wedding. We had one rule, no gifts, seasoned decists coming to you, baby, but of course many of our family and friends disobeyed, including several who were not even invited. My mother called to remind me to send thank you cards to the gift givers. While we appreciate the gesture, one of the reasons we chose to do a small, no gift wedding was to avoid the fuss of traditional wedding gift etiquette. Am I really required to send thank yous for gifts I did not ask for or really even want? What are my obligations here? Frankly, I'm more tempted to send thank yous to those who followed the rules. I figured you, of all people, could relate to the trauma of unsolicited gifts. Please help me keep my cool with these insolent gifters, truly yours can't. 01:14:52 Speaker 6: Oh, great question, we're. 01:14:55 Speaker 5: Doing with a very ungrateful person. Yes, deep things, let's just put it out there. Cats. She doesn't appreciate anything, so let's keep that. 01:15:04 Speaker 7: In mind, right right, right, Well, so here's my thing. So you were given gifts, and I'm assuming gifts is not money because I think that's. 01:15:11 Speaker 4: Like two separate. 01:15:13 Speaker 7: And then if you didn't have a registry, then people are just flying blind yes. 01:15:17 Speaker 4: And giving you. So I understand your annoyance. 01:15:20 Speaker 7: I do still think you need to unfortunately send the cards and the car if it's a person you're ever going to have to see again. 01:15:26 Speaker 4: Right, I mean you've done that, You've done. 01:15:32 Speaker 6: I did the whole of fame. 01:15:33 Speaker 5: Oh okay, I did the whole thing. Seems exhausting. 01:15:35 Speaker 6: It is exhausting, and like a wedding is really exhausting, and then the cards is like it's like the color correction when you're turning in like a film paget. 01:15:45 Speaker 3: Yeah. 01:15:46 Speaker 6: Yeah, So like you think you've done, and then there's the cards. 01:15:47 Speaker 5: But I don't know. 01:15:49 Speaker 6: I feel like, if you're this a verse to it, don't do it. Because as much as it was a bit of a pain in the ass, I just kind of had a glass of wine and watched reality TV and I enjoyed writing that. I am quite the opposite of this. Listen. I love writing cards. So I think if there's no joy in it for you, it's not a big enough deal as the other person. And and and you didn't ask for gifts, So I don't think that she should. She doesn't want to. 01:16:11 Speaker 5: Okay, what about the people who weren't even invited? 01:16:15 Speaker 2: That's interesting. 01:16:16 Speaker 5: We've got a draw lines somewhere. 01:16:18 Speaker 7: It feels passive aggressive to send a gift to what you're not invited to, to be like, if you had invited me, this is what you're going. It feels very it feels like an attack. 01:16:27 Speaker 5: I'm here. 01:16:28 Speaker 6: I guess my opinion on that, as it would depend on the level. Like I had a couple of people by us gifts that were invited, but they were small gifts, and I didn't like. I think it's a very small gift if you're not invited, is sort of like a I think you know. 01:16:41 Speaker 3: What, right. 01:16:42 Speaker 6: I guess it depends on new relationship with the person too. 01:16:45 Speaker 5: If I don't get an invite, you're not getting anything. 01:16:48 Speaker 4: I wouldn't do it. 01:16:49 Speaker 5: You're out of my life. 01:16:51 Speaker 6: That's true, that's it. 01:16:53 Speaker 4: What about a postcard? Where have you got a couple of thank you postcards? 01:16:56 Speaker 1: Done? 01:16:56 Speaker 4: And I just said thanks? 01:16:57 Speaker 2: I think it's the same amount of annoyance. Don't think it's that much of a difference. 01:17:01 Speaker 5: Well, the envelopes removed from the equation seaper postage. 01:17:07 Speaker 2: It's just the same postage. 01:17:09 Speaker 4: No postcards are cheaper. 01:17:10 Speaker 5: They've got a little a few cents cheaper, I believe. 01:17:12 Speaker 4: Yeah, it's like thirty eighth four sons. Okay, but you have. 01:17:14 Speaker 2: To buy a different stamp than like a river stamp. 01:17:16 Speaker 5: I mean, yeah, well it's yeah, I guess it's a trip to the post office. 01:17:19 Speaker 6: And I'm not gonna lie to this listener. It's a bit of a pin in the ass, that's what I feel like. Of course, I think I personally do. I think it's a little tacky. Yeah, but I think if you're feeling this, if you're feeling this digging your heels in the ground about wanting to be tacky. 01:17:31 Speaker 5: I think be tacky own the tackiness. 01:17:34 Speaker 2: I mean, knowing my I would rather just send out the thank you cards than deal with my mom bugging me about the thank you Yeah, I know, my my. Their obsession with thank you cards knows no bounds in my family. And you are very disrespectful if you don't send one. So I would just do it, just to do it, you know. 01:17:53 Speaker 5: So ultimately Cat is trapped. Yeah, Cat is absolutely trapped. Don't send the thank you cards? And I mean, what was the actual question. I think that's what it was. But don't don't do it. Cut those people out of your life. 01:18:08 Speaker 4: Yeah, never speak to them again, block them, a lot. 01:18:11 Speaker 7: Of videos of you using the gifts they sent, build a career off of it, a fortune. 01:18:17 Speaker 5: Don't thank them. In your Ammi's speech, well we answered her question more than perfectly. Yeah, she should be paying us, she should be sending us. 01:18:25 Speaker 2: I thought we were get for that. 01:18:26 Speaker 5: You are that'll come later. Get back to me in a few years, Bridger. 01:18:31 Speaker 6: You we do expect to think your card from me? 01:18:32 Speaker 5: Yeah, of course. 01:18:34 Speaker 2: I am looking forward to getting like a thirty cent check in the mail from Irvin's. 01:18:37 Speaker 6: And yeah, we want to remembers Mervin's as that's commercial right open. 01:18:45 Speaker 2: I do remember that one. I do remember that. 01:18:47 Speaker 5: No, and they went out of business. 01:18:52 Speaker 4: It's so catchy. 01:18:53 Speaker 2: I don't know. 01:18:55 Speaker 5: Was it like thirty seconds of. 01:18:57 Speaker 2: That trying to open the they were waiting for the doors open. 01:19:03 Speaker 5: There was like a riot outside. 01:19:07 Speaker 6: And then like the POV was like you're inside Mervins and the moms against the glass going open. 01:19:17 Speaker 5: I do remember that, the great Mervyns riots. Well, I've exposed the murvan my connection to Murvins, and let's hope it doesn't ruin me. But you've got you have to live honestly, honestly, openly and out loud Mervyns. See that would have been better. That would have been a better slogan for around the Well you three, this, I mean, what incredible gifts, what experiences. I've got something to remember. I've had a horrible time with the candy. I couldn't have had a better time with the three of you. This is great and well, as far as I know, hydrated, yes, very starting and ending hydrated. Who could ask for? 01:19:57 Speaker 2: We will not be complaining of being parched. 01:20:00 Speaker 5: I better not hear a single complaint A rumors. 01:20:05 Speaker 2: I was going to say on the there was on the podcast rumor mill that you were leaving your guest parte. 01:20:09 Speaker 5: So yes, well, thank you for being here and listener. The podcast is over. I want you to do something else. I don't care what I do, care what it is. I care so deeply about what it is. I'm sorry for bringing this attitude. I don't know what it is in me today. It's the heat. Blame the heat. I care about what you do next, so be very careful. 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 Ben Holliday. 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? Well, I invit? 01:21:11 Speaker 4: Did you hear. 01:21:14 Speaker 1: Thought? I made myself perfectly clear. When you're a guess to my home, you gotta come to me empty. And I said, no gifts. 01:21:29 Speaker 3: Your own presences. Presence, and I already had too much stuff. So how do you dare to survey me