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Speaker 1: Well, I invited you here. I thought I made myself

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Speaker 1: perfectly clear. When you're a guest to my home, you

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Speaker 2: Welcome to? I said, no gift? Sign Bridger Wineger, here

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Speaker 2: we are. I feel pretty good. I've taken a nap,

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Speaker 2: I think you're going to be happy to Paul F.

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Speaker 3: Tompkins, Paul, welcome to. I said no gifts, bridgerd thank

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Speaker 3: you for having me. Guess what, I too took a nap.

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Speaker 3: It was a good idea, and I'm glad I.

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Speaker 2: Didn't let me ask you how long did you nap for?

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Speaker 3: I probably napped for about twenty twenty five minutes.

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Speaker 2: Oh that's a nice, healthy adult nap.

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Speaker 3: I said, an alarm, because I heard somewhere that that

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Speaker 2: Oh right, where it's just like that at that point,

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Speaker 2: you need to be asleep for six hours.

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Speaker 2: Right right now, my nap, I think maybe due to

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Speaker 2: Well, this temperature, the current temperature has now I think

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, this is this is the desert, you know,

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Speaker 3: It doesn't bother me anymore like it bothers me as

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Speaker 2: You know, right, are you with someone who wears a

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Speaker 3: I will, but it's I will say that it's rare.

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Speaker 2: You're so well dressed that I feel like you're not.

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Speaker 2: Yes, a lot of us in a pair of shorts

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean that really is that when you come

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Speaker 2: Oh? When this to me? You know, when you're getting

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Speaker 2: Bridger right, this is my fault, this is my fall.

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Speaker 3: This is supposed to be a fun diversion. It's not

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Speaker 3: It's not called Yeah, they should have known something was

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Speaker 2: The feeling of putting it, just holding a walkie talkie

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Speaker 2: That's the beat button, right, and the person at the

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Speaker 3: So it's kind of you yes exactly, and then you

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Speaker 2: I'm going to sell walkie talkies as merch which I

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Speaker 3: It's like Ted Cruz selling green eggs and ham at

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Speaker 3: Why would I bring up Ted Cruz when we're trying

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Speaker 3: I sure was not good for you. Yeah, right, I

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Speaker 2: Well, you run into some boy scouts who are a

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Speaker 3: Did you earn badges?

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Speaker 3: that's like the whole system is corrupt.

438
00:22:17,960 --> 00:22:20,919
Speaker 2: Right, It's like learning an airline is just letting anybody

439
00:22:20,960 --> 00:22:23,600
Speaker 2: fly the plane. Yes, you're supposed to be able to

440
00:22:23,600 --> 00:22:26,160
Speaker 2: trust an Eagle Scout, and I'm here to tell you

441
00:22:26,560 --> 00:22:29,880
Speaker 2: don't do it. It might be someone like me. I'm

442
00:22:29,880 --> 00:22:32,080
Speaker 2: not going to be able to carve anything. I'm not

443
00:22:32,080 --> 00:22:36,320
Speaker 2: going to be able to weave a basket carve. I'm

444
00:22:36,359 --> 00:22:38,240
Speaker 2: no good, no good.

445
00:22:38,359 --> 00:22:42,440
Speaker 3: Have you retained any of your Eagle Scout memorabilia or regalia?

446
00:22:42,480 --> 00:22:45,840
Speaker 2: I should say, I assume. I feel like the last

447
00:22:45,880 --> 00:22:48,160
Speaker 2: time I was home at my parents, I saw this,

448
00:22:48,720 --> 00:22:50,919
Speaker 2: is it a sash that we're putting on? What is

449
00:22:50,960 --> 00:22:51,440
Speaker 2: that called?

450
00:22:51,480 --> 00:22:51,680
Speaker 3: Yes?

451
00:22:52,119 --> 00:22:56,720
Speaker 2: Covered in merit badges? I assume the boy Scout shirt

452
00:22:56,840 --> 00:23:00,600
Speaker 2: is still around, but I think, well, I guess that's

453
00:23:00,680 --> 00:23:04,240
Speaker 2: kind of the beginning and end of boy Scout things,

454
00:23:04,240 --> 00:23:06,640
Speaker 2: outside of occasionally someone will get the boy Scout pants.

455
00:23:06,760 --> 00:23:09,840
Speaker 2: But I never owned the boy Scout pants. I feel

456
00:23:09,840 --> 00:23:12,040
Speaker 2: like I actually talked about boy Scout pants on this

457
00:23:12,080 --> 00:23:15,280
Speaker 2: podcast recently, but that may just have been maybe hasn't come.

458
00:23:16,960 --> 00:23:20,840
Speaker 3: Maybe that was so he slept too long. I think

459
00:23:20,880 --> 00:23:23,879
Speaker 3: it would be great to wear the if you have

460
00:23:23,920 --> 00:23:26,240
Speaker 3: your boy Scout sash to where to wear it to

461
00:23:26,280 --> 00:23:29,119
Speaker 3: like a formal event, like if you're nominated for an Emmy,

462
00:23:29,400 --> 00:23:31,800
Speaker 3: you would put it on like any any sort of

463
00:23:31,840 --> 00:23:34,800
Speaker 3: like dignitary would would put on their their you know,

464
00:23:34,880 --> 00:23:37,520
Speaker 3: their emblems of office. You know, like I won this medal,

465
00:23:37,560 --> 00:23:40,400
Speaker 3: I have this, you know this sport or whatever. Yeah,

466
00:23:40,480 --> 00:23:43,400
Speaker 3: you would put on your boy Scout sash over your tuxedo.

467
00:23:44,280 --> 00:23:47,040
Speaker 2: But that's now my goal. I didn't have any career

468
00:23:47,080 --> 00:23:50,919
Speaker 2: goals until ten seconds ago, and now it's nice to

469
00:23:50,920 --> 00:23:56,520
Speaker 2: have something to look forward to, something to work towards. Absolutely, Paul, look,

470
00:23:56,720 --> 00:24:00,040
Speaker 2: you know you brought up some unpleasant things earlier, and

471
00:24:00,080 --> 00:24:01,959
Speaker 2: you've kind of been I feel like you've just constantly

472
00:24:02,040 --> 00:24:06,400
Speaker 2: been trying to steer this podcast into rocky waters, and

473
00:24:06,480 --> 00:24:10,040
Speaker 2: I hate it and I hate to do the same,

474
00:24:10,160 --> 00:24:12,879
Speaker 2: but I do feel like if we're going the best

475
00:24:13,040 --> 00:24:18,280
Speaker 2: way through is forward. And you know, you agreed to

476
00:24:18,320 --> 00:24:20,439
Speaker 2: be on this podcast a few weeks ago. I was

477
00:24:20,480 --> 00:24:24,240
Speaker 2: so excited. I love Paul. Wonderful. It's going to be

478
00:24:24,280 --> 00:24:27,359
Speaker 2: a good time, neither of us, no hurt feelings. I

479
00:24:27,400 --> 00:24:29,880
Speaker 2: didn't feel like there'd be any hurt feelings or disrespect.

480
00:24:30,680 --> 00:24:35,280
Speaker 2: And this afternoon, I was sitting in my office and

481
00:24:36,040 --> 00:24:40,760
Speaker 2: I just her overheard Jim, my boyfriend, say thank you,

482
00:24:41,119 --> 00:24:44,600
Speaker 2: and I was like, I'm the only person here. He

483
00:24:44,640 --> 00:24:47,360
Speaker 2: has nothing to thank me for. Who could he possibly

484
00:24:47,400 --> 00:24:50,760
Speaker 2: be thinking? So I run to the front door and

485
00:24:50,960 --> 00:24:57,320
Speaker 2: I see you speed off, and obviously the emotion, my

486
00:24:57,359 --> 00:25:01,399
Speaker 2: emotions were all over the place, confusion, anger, sadness, this

487
00:25:01,480 --> 00:25:05,960
Speaker 2: kind of thing. And then Jim hance me a giant

488
00:25:06,320 --> 00:25:08,399
Speaker 2: what I would say, a giant purple hat box. Is

489
00:25:08,440 --> 00:25:12,680
Speaker 2: that either a hat box or a cake box could

490
00:25:12,760 --> 00:25:16,919
Speaker 2: be either. And so I thought, Paul has dropped something

491
00:25:16,960 --> 00:25:19,800
Speaker 2: off here. I don't know what this could possibly mean

492
00:25:19,920 --> 00:25:22,199
Speaker 2: for me or my future, but I'm going to be

493
00:25:22,200 --> 00:25:24,280
Speaker 2: talking to him in a couple of hours. I might

494
00:25:24,320 --> 00:25:27,680
Speaker 2: as well just approach him then. So now I'm going

495
00:25:27,720 --> 00:25:31,440
Speaker 2: to approach you, Paul, Is this a gift for me?

496
00:25:32,800 --> 00:25:36,280
Speaker 3: Let me let me explain. Okay, happy to let you,

497
00:25:36,840 --> 00:25:41,480
Speaker 3: I thought, and I've only I've listened to your podcast,

498
00:25:41,520 --> 00:25:45,240
Speaker 3: but only the first ten minutes of every episode. And

499
00:25:46,400 --> 00:25:48,560
Speaker 3: I thought the name of the show was I said,

500
00:25:48,720 --> 00:25:49,640
Speaker 3: oh gifts.

501
00:25:51,480 --> 00:25:53,280
Speaker 2: Oh interesting, okay, and I thought.

502
00:25:53,119 --> 00:25:55,080
Speaker 3: Well, I'm going to give him a gift. And then

503
00:25:55,440 --> 00:26:00,200
Speaker 3: I like, I was on my way over there, and

504
00:26:00,280 --> 00:26:06,240
Speaker 3: I realized I got the title wrong and so to

505
00:26:07,040 --> 00:26:09,160
Speaker 3: so I did leave you a gift, but I did

506
00:26:09,400 --> 00:26:11,520
Speaker 3: tear up the note that I had written and throw

507
00:26:11,520 --> 00:26:14,359
Speaker 3: it away. So if that, if that helps. It was

508
00:26:14,359 --> 00:26:16,639
Speaker 3: a threatening note to me, it was a it was

509
00:26:16,640 --> 00:26:21,639
Speaker 3: a warm note, so you know, saying I'm I'm happy

510
00:26:21,640 --> 00:26:23,479
Speaker 3: to give you this gift and I'm looking forward to

511
00:26:23,640 --> 00:26:25,560
Speaker 3: speaking with you on the podcast.

512
00:26:26,000 --> 00:26:28,439
Speaker 2: So just to be clear, you've accidentally listened to my

513
00:26:28,520 --> 00:26:31,600
Speaker 2: podcast a few times, shut it off and have some

514
00:26:31,920 --> 00:26:35,160
Speaker 2: just basic listening and reading difficulty, something.

515
00:26:34,960 --> 00:26:37,359
Speaker 3: Always comes up, And yes, it's true, I don't I

516
00:26:37,400 --> 00:26:40,080
Speaker 3: don't read very well and I don't listen very well.

517
00:26:40,320 --> 00:26:45,800
Speaker 2: That's fine. Everybody's welcome here. Should I open it up? Well?

518
00:26:45,800 --> 00:26:47,800
Speaker 3: Why why not? I mean, at this point, you know

519
00:26:47,960 --> 00:26:51,000
Speaker 3: it's there.

520
00:26:53,480 --> 00:26:56,240
Speaker 2: So it is in this truly, I'm going to say,

521
00:26:56,320 --> 00:27:00,439
Speaker 2: you know, we've had we've had maybe sixty episodes at

522
00:27:00,440 --> 00:27:04,560
Speaker 2: this point and varying levels of boxes and gift wrap.

523
00:27:05,040 --> 00:27:07,640
Speaker 2: I'm going to give the prize here. This is maybe

524
00:27:07,680 --> 00:27:13,280
Speaker 2: the most beautiful box I've received so far. Wow, beautiful

525
00:27:13,359 --> 00:27:16,360
Speaker 2: purple hat box. Kind of a what would you describe

526
00:27:16,359 --> 00:27:18,560
Speaker 2: this as a some sort of fabric? I don't know

527
00:27:18,560 --> 00:27:20,800
Speaker 2: what kind of I'm look, I'm not Joanne. I don't

528
00:27:20,800 --> 00:27:22,640
Speaker 2: know what sort of fabric they're looking for.

529
00:27:25,200 --> 00:27:30,080
Speaker 3: Joanne. That's a good That is a great response if

530
00:27:30,119 --> 00:27:34,200
Speaker 3: someone asked you what kind of fabric something is? Yeah,

531
00:27:35,680 --> 00:27:36,920
Speaker 3: I look like Joanne.

532
00:27:38,800 --> 00:27:41,040
Speaker 2: Everybody listener, You're free to put that in your back

533
00:27:41,200 --> 00:27:46,479
Speaker 2: pocket in case anyone confronts you about fabric in the future. Well,

534
00:27:46,480 --> 00:27:48,199
Speaker 2: I'm going to dive in here. I'm gonna ook it up.

535
00:27:48,200 --> 00:27:50,760
Speaker 2: I've never opened a hat box or again, this could

536
00:27:50,800 --> 00:27:51,679
Speaker 2: be a cake box.

537
00:27:51,880 --> 00:27:52,800
Speaker 3: It is not a cake box.

538
00:27:53,080 --> 00:27:55,159
Speaker 2: Okay, not a cake box. I'm going to open it up.

539
00:27:56,840 --> 00:28:00,879
Speaker 3: Oh and wow, it has kind of beautiful tissue paper

540
00:28:00,920 --> 00:28:02,440
Speaker 3: in here that matches the purple.

541
00:28:02,480 --> 00:28:06,080
Speaker 2: I'll say, kind of yellow and green. This is beautiful.

542
00:28:06,200 --> 00:28:09,280
Speaker 3: Those are my three favorite colors. I love that color combination. Yes,

543
00:28:09,320 --> 00:28:10,440
Speaker 3: I love that color combination.

544
00:28:10,680 --> 00:28:13,240
Speaker 2: You are talking into a purple microphone. Was that a choice?

545
00:28:14,119 --> 00:28:15,359
Speaker 3: It was a choice?

546
00:28:15,440 --> 00:28:15,640
Speaker 1: Yes?

547
00:28:15,760 --> 00:28:17,159
Speaker 2: Okay, Wow, Okay.

548
00:28:16,920 --> 00:28:19,720
Speaker 3: I mean that's the this is it's a green microphone

549
00:28:19,720 --> 00:28:21,119
Speaker 3: with a purple wins.

550
00:28:20,920 --> 00:28:24,880
Speaker 2: Beautiful mic Wow, gorgeous, And I've got so it's kind

551
00:28:24,920 --> 00:28:28,720
Speaker 2: of a mustardy yellow, kind of a green. I don't

552
00:28:28,720 --> 00:28:30,240
Speaker 2: know what sort of green. I'm not going to get

553
00:28:30,240 --> 00:28:32,320
Speaker 2: into it. It's nobody's business, but my own.

554
00:28:32,960 --> 00:28:35,359
Speaker 3: A little lighter than a grass green, I guess, yeah.

555
00:28:35,240 --> 00:28:38,360
Speaker 2: A little like more of a grass headed into fall,

556
00:28:39,400 --> 00:28:43,040
Speaker 2: not quite watered, and the chill of winter is creeping.

557
00:28:42,640 --> 00:28:44,840
Speaker 3: In seasonal effective disorder green.

558
00:28:45,560 --> 00:28:52,880
Speaker 2: Right, Okay, we're opening. Okay, what is There's some accessories, God,

559
00:28:54,280 --> 00:28:56,280
Speaker 2: there are multiple things in here, but the first thing

560
00:28:56,320 --> 00:28:58,040
Speaker 2: I'm pulling out is a top hat.

561
00:28:58,240 --> 00:28:59,720
Speaker 3: I mean, that's the star of the show.

562
00:28:59,800 --> 00:29:01,840
Speaker 2: Yees, this is I mean, I can't imagine what else

563
00:29:01,880 --> 00:29:04,040
Speaker 2: is happening in this box that would be would go

564
00:29:04,080 --> 00:29:06,440
Speaker 2: beyond this hat. But this is stunning.

565
00:29:06,720 --> 00:29:09,680
Speaker 3: Yes, that is a vintage top hat that I found online.

566
00:29:10,800 --> 00:29:13,080
Speaker 3: That was my first thought of a of a gift

567
00:29:13,200 --> 00:29:16,000
Speaker 3: for you. That is a hat stretcher that's inside that

568
00:29:16,240 --> 00:29:18,240
Speaker 3: you can unscrew. That didn't even though there was such

569
00:29:18,240 --> 00:29:21,360
Speaker 3: a thing. Yeah, Oh, Bridger, I'm happy to be telling

570
00:29:21,400 --> 00:29:22,600
Speaker 3: you all about these things.

571
00:29:22,640 --> 00:29:24,240
Speaker 2: This is very exciting for the rest of the box.

572
00:29:24,240 --> 00:29:26,320
Speaker 2: For now, we're going to talk about the hat. Absolutely

573
00:29:26,720 --> 00:29:30,120
Speaker 2: tell me everything. I love top hats. I've been obsessed

574
00:29:30,160 --> 00:29:32,080
Speaker 2: with them since I was a child. I have an

575
00:29:32,120 --> 00:29:37,640
Speaker 2: embarrassing amount of them stored away in my home, and

576
00:29:37,880 --> 00:29:43,240
Speaker 2: I think they are like there are certain clothing items

577
00:29:43,240 --> 00:29:45,800
Speaker 2: that I think also work as works of art, and

578
00:29:45,840 --> 00:29:48,560
Speaker 2: I think top hats are are just beautiful to look at.

579
00:29:48,640 --> 00:29:52,920
Speaker 2: They're a very distinctive shape, and they're they're may you

580
00:29:52,920 --> 00:29:55,920
Speaker 2: know that's that's a furfelt top hat, so that is

581
00:29:55,960 --> 00:30:02,760
Speaker 2: made from probably rabbit felt, be would be extremely so soft.

582
00:30:03,360 --> 00:30:06,880
Speaker 2: It's I think they're just they're just beautiful to look at.

583
00:30:06,920 --> 00:30:09,760
Speaker 2: And it's like if that, even if you don't have

584
00:30:09,840 --> 00:30:12,000
Speaker 2: occasion to wear a top hat every day, it could

585
00:30:12,000 --> 00:30:13,680
Speaker 2: be a thing that you could have on display and

586
00:30:13,720 --> 00:30:16,640
Speaker 2: would look very nice. Yeah, you're not going to throw

587
00:30:16,680 --> 00:30:21,480
Speaker 2: a baseball cap on display. Exactly how many top hats

588
00:30:21,480 --> 00:30:21,960
Speaker 2: do you own?

589
00:30:23,000 --> 00:30:27,280
Speaker 3: I'm going to say it's probably more than ten.

590
00:30:28,000 --> 00:30:30,720
Speaker 2: Wow, yes, And do you have is do you have

591
00:30:30,920 --> 00:30:33,560
Speaker 2: just the hat closet? Where are these being stored?

592
00:30:33,720 --> 00:30:37,040
Speaker 3: These are being stored in their own boxes in a

593
00:30:37,160 --> 00:30:41,800
Speaker 3: larger air tight you know container, right?

594
00:30:41,960 --> 00:30:44,160
Speaker 2: Oh, my God, And when did you start collecting them?

595
00:30:45,760 --> 00:30:49,920
Speaker 3: I fairly recently, actually, like I started, you know, because

596
00:30:49,920 --> 00:30:52,240
Speaker 3: I've done a lot of sketch stuff over the years,

597
00:30:52,240 --> 00:30:54,320
Speaker 3: so I have I've always loved hats, but I but

598
00:30:54,400 --> 00:31:00,200
Speaker 3: I've collected hats forever. And then when I started shopping

599
00:31:00,240 --> 00:31:03,480
Speaker 3: for sketch stuff, I realized like, oh, they you know,

600
00:31:03,760 --> 00:31:08,240
Speaker 3: they have these nice top hats, varying shapes and sizes

601
00:31:08,280 --> 00:31:11,720
Speaker 3: and colors and things like that. And I could not

602
00:31:12,120 --> 00:31:14,680
Speaker 3: help myself, and so've I like over I would say

603
00:31:14,720 --> 00:31:19,000
Speaker 3: probably over the last probably over the last what is

604
00:31:19,040 --> 00:31:23,160
Speaker 3: my oldest one? Probably goes back like twenty years or

605
00:31:23,200 --> 00:31:23,960
Speaker 3: so something like that.

606
00:31:24,160 --> 00:31:26,760
Speaker 2: Okay, so yeah, I had a couple decades of slowly

607
00:31:26,960 --> 00:31:30,959
Speaker 2: acquiring ten beautiful hats. Yes, And now did you have

608
00:31:31,000 --> 00:31:33,640
Speaker 2: to educate yourself or was this kind of a just

609
00:31:33,800 --> 00:31:37,080
Speaker 2: buy a random top hat that looks nice and then continue.

610
00:31:37,160 --> 00:31:39,240
Speaker 3: Well it would be kind of both, Like I would

611
00:31:39,280 --> 00:31:41,400
Speaker 3: I would find a hat and then learn about it,

612
00:31:41,480 --> 00:31:44,960
Speaker 3: you know, like something I hadn't seen before, and learn

613
00:31:45,120 --> 00:31:49,080
Speaker 3: what specific era it it came from, Like these are

614
00:31:49,120 --> 00:31:51,960
Speaker 3: not all vintage obviously, because that gets first of all,

615
00:31:51,960 --> 00:31:55,959
Speaker 3: it's very high, very hard to find you know, like

616
00:31:56,040 --> 00:31:58,480
Speaker 3: if you're talking about a top hat from the Bellipoke

617
00:31:58,560 --> 00:32:01,440
Speaker 3: era or something, you know, like to find something like

618
00:32:01,480 --> 00:32:06,480
Speaker 3: that in good condition would be like prohibitively expensive, you know,

619
00:32:06,760 --> 00:32:09,880
Speaker 3: it would just be insane. But there's there's places that

620
00:32:09,960 --> 00:32:13,040
Speaker 3: do reproductions of things like that. And there's a place

621
00:32:13,080 --> 00:32:16,440
Speaker 3: called Barren Hats that used to be in Burbank is

622
00:32:16,440 --> 00:32:19,360
Speaker 3: now downtown, and they make hats. They're a place that

623
00:32:19,480 --> 00:32:21,400
Speaker 3: a friend of mine told me about. They make hats

624
00:32:21,440 --> 00:32:24,640
Speaker 3: for movies, you know, and so I've had a few

625
00:32:24,840 --> 00:32:27,200
Speaker 3: hats made there over the over the years.

626
00:32:27,560 --> 00:32:29,760
Speaker 2: And so when you have them make a hat, do

627
00:32:29,800 --> 00:32:31,840
Speaker 2: you see you see a photo of a hat and

628
00:32:31,880 --> 00:32:34,040
Speaker 2: say I need it and I'm glad to have it.

629
00:32:34,040 --> 00:32:37,280
Speaker 3: Pretty much exactly what it is. Yes, yeah, yeah, I

630
00:32:37,320 --> 00:32:41,360
Speaker 3: had them make me a very tall, uh furfelt top

631
00:32:41,360 --> 00:32:48,800
Speaker 3: hat that was expensive, but not prohibitively so just embarrassingly so.

632
00:32:49,560 --> 00:32:51,080
Speaker 3: But it really is like, well, I'm only gonna have

633
00:32:51,160 --> 00:32:52,840
Speaker 3: one of these made. I'm not That's not something I'm

634
00:32:52,840 --> 00:32:54,320
Speaker 3: gonna do every year.

635
00:32:54,800 --> 00:32:57,400
Speaker 2: Well you say that, now, yeah, it suddenly you're broke

636
00:32:57,440 --> 00:32:58,920
Speaker 2: and your house is just littered with them.

637
00:32:59,120 --> 00:33:02,000
Speaker 3: I have to to my wife and say, well, I'm

638
00:33:02,000 --> 00:33:05,680
Speaker 3: not gambling, but it's it's kind of funny when you

639
00:33:05,720 --> 00:33:09,040
Speaker 3: think about it. So I had this thing made and

640
00:33:09,120 --> 00:33:12,120
Speaker 3: it was you know, what I loved about it was

641
00:33:12,120 --> 00:33:14,680
Speaker 3: that it was it was made to my specifications, and

642
00:33:15,200 --> 00:33:18,200
Speaker 3: you know, so it's it's definitely a thing that would

643
00:33:18,280 --> 00:33:20,240
Speaker 3: look familiar, like maybe something you've seen in a movie

644
00:33:20,360 --> 00:33:23,560
Speaker 3: or something, but it is a specific a specific height

645
00:33:23,640 --> 00:33:25,400
Speaker 3: and shape that I picked out.

646
00:33:25,800 --> 00:33:27,760
Speaker 2: And so when you go to the hat maker with this,

647
00:33:28,040 --> 00:33:30,360
Speaker 2: do you take a photo? Do you take and I

648
00:33:30,440 --> 00:33:31,680
Speaker 2: look it up online.

649
00:33:31,320 --> 00:33:33,840
Speaker 3: Like maybe I've seen something that I like, and then

650
00:33:33,840 --> 00:33:37,600
Speaker 3: I try to find as many pictures of that style

651
00:33:37,640 --> 00:33:40,120
Speaker 3: as possible from different angles and things like that, say

652
00:33:40,160 --> 00:33:41,200
Speaker 3: this is what I'm looking for.

653
00:33:41,880 --> 00:33:44,200
Speaker 2: And so then do you give notes on the hat

654
00:33:44,320 --> 00:33:45,840
Speaker 2: or is it just you get what you get?

655
00:33:46,080 --> 00:33:49,040
Speaker 3: No, you do. You're able to kind of collaborate with them,

656
00:33:49,040 --> 00:33:50,800
Speaker 3: which is a lot fun. And say I wanted to

657
00:33:50,840 --> 00:33:53,320
Speaker 3: I wanted to look like this and this whatever, this, this,

658
00:33:53,320 --> 00:33:55,800
Speaker 3: this width of a band, you know, like all that

659
00:33:55,880 --> 00:33:59,280
Speaker 3: kind of stuff, and it's, uh, it's you know there

660
00:33:59,400 --> 00:34:02,040
Speaker 3: there there's more options than you might think, and it's

661
00:34:02,520 --> 00:34:05,840
Speaker 3: it's fun to to make those decisions.

662
00:34:05,880 --> 00:34:07,560
Speaker 2: Right, And now do you have? Are all of your

663
00:34:07,560 --> 00:34:08,400
Speaker 2: top hats black?

664
00:34:09,320 --> 00:34:13,040
Speaker 3: No? I have, I have many black top hats I have.

665
00:34:13,560 --> 00:34:15,400
Speaker 3: I do have an opera hat that was maybe the

666
00:34:15,400 --> 00:34:18,520
Speaker 3: first one I ever bought, which is the collapsible silk

667
00:34:18,719 --> 00:34:21,320
Speaker 3: top hat. D yes exactly.

668
00:34:22,000 --> 00:34:22,279
Speaker 2: That is.

669
00:34:23,520 --> 00:34:26,560
Speaker 3: I never I never talk with people about this. So

670
00:34:26,680 --> 00:34:30,120
Speaker 3: it is like when you say that's a dream, that's

671
00:34:30,160 --> 00:34:32,480
Speaker 3: exactly how I feel about it. Like that, that is

672
00:34:32,480 --> 00:34:34,120
Speaker 3: like I gotta have. I gotta have.

673
00:34:34,000 --> 00:34:36,399
Speaker 2: That, you know, like has that anymore? You know? Yeah,

674
00:34:36,520 --> 00:34:40,080
Speaker 2: that like truly like you've traveled through time to get

675
00:34:40,120 --> 00:34:40,880
Speaker 2: that object.

676
00:34:40,960 --> 00:34:43,400
Speaker 3: Well, what's funny is they're still making them, like like

677
00:34:43,560 --> 00:34:46,799
Speaker 3: Christie's in London is still making hats for gentlemen, and

678
00:34:46,800 --> 00:34:49,040
Speaker 3: they still make top hats because there are like there

679
00:34:49,080 --> 00:34:52,759
Speaker 3: are there are formal weddings in England where the men

680
00:34:52,840 --> 00:34:55,080
Speaker 3: wear top hats, like the people in the bridal party

681
00:34:55,120 --> 00:34:58,800
Speaker 3: wear top hats, and but they still make collapsible silk

682
00:34:58,880 --> 00:35:01,759
Speaker 3: opera hats and it's like, I don't know that anyone

683
00:35:01,840 --> 00:35:04,640
Speaker 3: is still wearing that like anywhere, you know what I mean.

684
00:35:05,200 --> 00:35:06,719
Speaker 2: You should could possibly call for that.

685
00:35:07,000 --> 00:35:10,439
Speaker 3: Yeah, Like Prince Renier is dead, he's there's no one

686
00:35:10,560 --> 00:35:14,560
Speaker 3: left that's wearing still collapsible opera.

687
00:35:14,360 --> 00:35:17,719
Speaker 2: At well then, speaking of that, I mean, have you

688
00:35:17,800 --> 00:35:20,040
Speaker 2: worn this? I mean, where do you wear these hats

689
00:35:20,080 --> 00:35:21,560
Speaker 2: when you get the opportunity.

690
00:35:21,840 --> 00:35:24,680
Speaker 3: I wear them on stage, and I wear them like

691
00:35:24,760 --> 00:35:27,319
Speaker 3: I'll wear something to a Christmas party or something like that,

692
00:35:27,440 --> 00:35:30,360
Speaker 3: you know. And It's what's funny is like I still,

693
00:35:30,480 --> 00:35:33,799
Speaker 3: even though I am I'm known for the way that

694
00:35:33,880 --> 00:35:36,239
Speaker 3: I dressed and uh, and I like dressing up and

695
00:35:36,239 --> 00:35:38,800
Speaker 3: I've always liked dressing up, I still get a little

696
00:35:39,080 --> 00:35:43,400
Speaker 3: shy about going that far sometimes, you know, it depends,

697
00:35:43,560 --> 00:35:45,400
Speaker 3: it depends who I'm going to see if I if

698
00:35:45,440 --> 00:35:48,200
Speaker 3: I know that people don't know the people. But on stage,

699
00:35:48,200 --> 00:35:49,759
Speaker 3: I feel like I can get away with it, you know.

700
00:35:49,840 --> 00:35:52,959
Speaker 3: For if I if I'm doing like a variety show

701
00:35:53,040 --> 00:35:56,200
Speaker 3: or something, and uh, for one show, I'll wear like,

702
00:35:56,600 --> 00:35:58,279
Speaker 3: you know, white tie and tails and I'll wear a

703
00:35:58,320 --> 00:36:02,160
Speaker 3: top hat, you know, because it's like I can I

704
00:36:02,200 --> 00:36:05,480
Speaker 3: can get away with that there. But but yeah, in

705
00:36:05,760 --> 00:36:08,839
Speaker 3: everyday life, there's not that many occasions that require it,

706
00:36:09,040 --> 00:36:13,080
Speaker 3: No one requires it anymore at all. But if I

707
00:36:13,080 --> 00:36:14,839
Speaker 3: if I have the chance, like if I were going

708
00:36:14,880 --> 00:36:17,879
Speaker 3: to go to the Magic Castle or something like that.

709
00:36:17,880 --> 00:36:20,160
Speaker 3: That's a place where you are there's a dress code

710
00:36:20,200 --> 00:36:22,719
Speaker 3: you required to dress up, but you can also like

711
00:36:22,840 --> 00:36:25,160
Speaker 3: go over the top if you want, you know, because

712
00:36:25,160 --> 00:36:27,600
Speaker 3: it's a fun place and you won't be it won't

713
00:36:27,600 --> 00:36:29,160
Speaker 3: be strange to see.

714
00:36:29,680 --> 00:36:34,720
Speaker 2: I had the most traumatic possible experience at the Magic

715
00:36:34,800 --> 00:36:39,279
Speaker 2: Castle with their dress code. What I haven't turned away

716
00:36:39,280 --> 00:36:41,600
Speaker 2: at the door. I was not turned away at the door.

717
00:36:41,640 --> 00:36:46,520
Speaker 2: I was very well dressed. I so Jim, his friend

718
00:36:47,200 --> 00:36:50,000
Speaker 2: was taking us. I was told there's a dress code,

719
00:36:50,080 --> 00:36:52,600
Speaker 2: you need to dress up. That's as far as I heard.

720
00:36:53,000 --> 00:36:55,839
Speaker 2: So I put on what I believed and what I

721
00:36:55,960 --> 00:36:59,600
Speaker 2: to this day believe was a very snappy outfit. I

722
00:36:59,680 --> 00:37:03,240
Speaker 2: had had a sport coat, an orange orange sport coat,

723
00:37:03,400 --> 00:37:07,560
Speaker 2: a tie, the works. I looked put together. We get

724
00:37:07,560 --> 00:37:11,319
Speaker 2: to the door, they say, absolutely not, you have to

725
00:37:11,320 --> 00:37:16,560
Speaker 2: be wearing a suit. So really they put in a

726
00:37:17,480 --> 00:37:20,640
Speaker 2: what I believe was a forty four waist suit, pant

727
00:37:21,520 --> 00:37:24,279
Speaker 2: and suit coat, which I then had to wear for

728
00:37:24,520 --> 00:37:28,200
Speaker 2: probably a total of five hours. This was very, by

729
00:37:28,239 --> 00:37:30,799
Speaker 2: the way, very early on in my relationship, so it

730
00:37:30,880 --> 00:37:33,200
Speaker 2: was like we're basically on a date and suddenly I'm

731
00:37:33,239 --> 00:37:39,640
Speaker 2: wearing I'm disappearing into this pair of pants. So that

732
00:37:39,800 --> 00:37:42,279
Speaker 2: was a negative experience. I'll say, can I.

733
00:37:42,280 --> 00:37:45,440
Speaker 3: Ask how First I have a comment, and then I

734
00:37:45,440 --> 00:37:48,440
Speaker 3: have a question. I think this absolutely sealed the deal

735
00:37:48,440 --> 00:37:53,640
Speaker 3: for your relationship. Secondly, who could not? It has to

736
00:37:53,680 --> 00:37:55,200
Speaker 3: continue after that? Do you know what I mean?

737
00:37:56,000 --> 00:38:00,440
Speaker 2: That's a bonding experience. You've seen this person there at

738
00:38:00,480 --> 00:38:01,640
Speaker 2: a real lower.

739
00:38:04,080 --> 00:38:09,720
Speaker 3: Absolutely. Second my question is how long ago is this?

740
00:38:09,719 --> 00:38:14,920
Speaker 2: This was I believe this is twenty fifteen recently.

741
00:38:15,040 --> 00:38:16,440
Speaker 3: That's surprising to me.

742
00:38:17,280 --> 00:38:21,200
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was uh And look, I have nothing against

743
00:38:21,239 --> 00:38:23,480
Speaker 2: a dress code. If you want people to look nice, great,

744
00:38:23,960 --> 00:38:27,799
Speaker 2: but what they put me in was yes, distracting.

745
00:38:28,200 --> 00:38:30,759
Speaker 3: I'm sure everyone who saw me thought where did this

746
00:38:30,800 --> 00:38:34,280
Speaker 3: guy crawl out of? Yeah? I feel like the suit,

747
00:38:34,440 --> 00:38:38,400
Speaker 3: the specificity of the suit is too far, do you

748
00:38:38,440 --> 00:38:40,759
Speaker 3: know what I mean? Like, that's if someone's wearing a

749
00:38:40,840 --> 00:38:44,640
Speaker 3: nice jacket and trousers, that should be enough.

750
00:38:45,640 --> 00:38:49,000
Speaker 2: Also, you know women come in and can wear any

751
00:38:49,080 --> 00:38:50,200
Speaker 2: type of dress.

752
00:38:50,520 --> 00:38:53,720
Speaker 3: Well, I don't know that that's true. Oh you're kidding.

753
00:38:54,080 --> 00:38:57,279
Speaker 3: I think there are some restrictions, but I don't know

754
00:38:58,080 --> 00:38:58,759
Speaker 3: what they are.

755
00:38:59,320 --> 00:39:01,640
Speaker 2: That would explain why everyone, every woman there was in

756
00:39:01,640 --> 00:39:07,200
Speaker 2: a wedding dress. No, that's not true. And I also

757
00:39:07,320 --> 00:39:09,480
Speaker 2: I had a good time otherwise, although I will say,

758
00:39:09,480 --> 00:39:11,080
Speaker 2: and I don't want to get myself banned from the

759
00:39:11,120 --> 00:39:14,040
Speaker 2: Magic Castle. I thought the food was horrifying.

760
00:39:14,200 --> 00:39:17,359
Speaker 3: Oh the food's not great, not at all.

761
00:39:17,480 --> 00:39:19,800
Speaker 2: Okay, that's good to do you go often?

762
00:39:20,800 --> 00:39:22,880
Speaker 3: I have been a bunch. I haven't been in quite

763
00:39:22,880 --> 00:39:25,160
Speaker 3: some time, but it is. It is like a thing

764
00:39:25,239 --> 00:39:28,080
Speaker 3: that every probably like every other year. I would say,

765
00:39:28,080 --> 00:39:30,560
Speaker 3: for a little while, there amount of yeah, it's fun.

766
00:39:30,600 --> 00:39:33,520
Speaker 3: It's like it's long enough to kind of forget about it,

767
00:39:33,560 --> 00:39:35,120
Speaker 3: and then somebody brings it up and you're like, oh yeah,

768
00:39:35,200 --> 00:39:37,640
Speaker 3: let's go, and then it feels exciting. But I can't

769
00:39:37,680 --> 00:39:40,839
Speaker 3: see like people that go there all the time. I mean,

770
00:39:40,840 --> 00:39:42,040
Speaker 3: that's that's a lot, you.

771
00:39:41,960 --> 00:39:44,719
Speaker 2: Know, right, I mean there's only so much magic one

772
00:39:44,760 --> 00:39:48,359
Speaker 2: person can take and they back to the food. It's horrifying.

773
00:39:48,719 --> 00:39:52,560
Speaker 2: I mean the body can only take so much. So

774
00:39:52,640 --> 00:39:56,239
Speaker 2: you but you'll usually wear a top hat. That makes

775
00:39:56,239 --> 00:39:56,719
Speaker 2: sense to me.

776
00:39:56,800 --> 00:39:58,680
Speaker 3: No, I've never done that at the Magic Castle because

777
00:39:58,680 --> 00:40:01,520
Speaker 3: I fell I feel like I could, but it does

778
00:40:01,560 --> 00:40:04,080
Speaker 3: feel like wearing a top hat when you're not a magician.

779
00:40:04,400 --> 00:40:08,560
Speaker 3: To a magician's place. Seems like it seems like it

780
00:40:08,560 --> 00:40:10,840
Speaker 3: would invite questions from other patrons.

781
00:40:11,200 --> 00:40:13,919
Speaker 2: That's a bit like wearing a red shirt to target. Yeah,

782
00:40:14,360 --> 00:40:18,000
Speaker 2: suddenly everyone's asking you questions, questions and expecting.

783
00:40:17,440 --> 00:40:21,760
Speaker 3: Yes, and you are disappointing them with your answer. Yeah.

784
00:40:21,840 --> 00:40:24,400
Speaker 2: Okay, So now back to this particular hat. You got

785
00:40:24,440 --> 00:40:27,759
Speaker 2: this on eBay? Was you just do you just get

786
00:40:27,800 --> 00:40:29,680
Speaker 2: on eBay and type in top hat or was there

787
00:40:29,719 --> 00:40:30,760
Speaker 2: like a specific.

788
00:40:30,360 --> 00:40:32,319
Speaker 3: Idea that is exactly what I did?

789
00:40:32,680 --> 00:40:33,440
Speaker 2: Incredible?

790
00:40:33,600 --> 00:40:35,919
Speaker 3: I think I I think I typed in furfelt top hat.

791
00:40:36,480 --> 00:40:38,120
Speaker 2: It's so should I put it on?

792
00:40:38,480 --> 00:40:42,000
Speaker 3: Yeah? Take that? You can unscrew that that middle uh bar.

793
00:40:42,480 --> 00:40:45,359
Speaker 3: Then you don't have to do that perfect And now

794
00:40:45,360 --> 00:40:48,399
Speaker 3: there's something in here. Oh, these are hat sized reducers. Yes,

795
00:40:48,680 --> 00:40:50,360
Speaker 3: I did not. I gave you a stretcher and I

796
00:40:50,400 --> 00:40:53,080
Speaker 3: gave you reducing tape because I had no idea of

797
00:40:53,120 --> 00:40:56,359
Speaker 3: your head size, and I appreciate it. Yes, I took

798
00:40:56,400 --> 00:40:59,320
Speaker 3: a guess, but I mean, Bridger. I looked at pictures

799
00:40:59,320 --> 00:41:01,759
Speaker 3: of you. I looked at pictures of you standing next

800
00:41:01,760 --> 00:41:05,719
Speaker 3: to other people. I tried very hard to gauge. Is

801
00:41:05,760 --> 00:41:08,239
Speaker 3: he like a trim guy who has a big show

802
00:41:08,280 --> 00:41:11,839
Speaker 3: biz head that it's like you when you find out

803
00:41:11,840 --> 00:41:14,359
Speaker 3: the side, you're like, oh, really like one of those

804
00:41:14,400 --> 00:41:16,400
Speaker 3: type of things. So I took a gamble.

805
00:41:16,719 --> 00:41:19,920
Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, I couldn't tell you if my where my

806
00:41:20,040 --> 00:41:23,600
Speaker 2: head lies in the you know, the grand scheme of heads.

807
00:41:23,920 --> 00:41:27,080
Speaker 2: As a kid, I definitely knew I had a huge head. Okay,

808
00:41:27,239 --> 00:41:32,240
Speaker 2: Now as an adult, what would you say, your guests,

809
00:41:32,680 --> 00:41:33,959
Speaker 2: do I still have a big head?

810
00:41:34,840 --> 00:41:38,359
Speaker 3: I think your your head looks in proportion to your body. Okay, good,

811
00:41:38,719 --> 00:41:41,200
Speaker 3: now as well, now I can see what I'm looking at,

812
00:41:41,280 --> 00:41:45,359
Speaker 3: is your your head, neck and shoulders. Okay, so in

813
00:41:45,440 --> 00:41:49,000
Speaker 3: proportion to your shoulders. I think you have like a

814
00:41:49,000 --> 00:41:52,520
Speaker 3: a little bit of a of a large head. Okay, beautiful,

815
00:41:52,600 --> 00:41:54,719
Speaker 3: but in a striking way, like in a way that

816
00:41:55,080 --> 00:41:57,000
Speaker 3: in the way that showbiz people have.

817
00:41:58,880 --> 00:42:01,399
Speaker 2: It's one of those eye catching heads.

818
00:42:01,080 --> 00:42:03,560
Speaker 3: That ever exactly it draws you in.

819
00:42:04,239 --> 00:42:06,600
Speaker 2: Okay, I'm gonna put this on, not for the entire thing,

820
00:42:06,680 --> 00:42:09,520
Speaker 2: because you know that's gonna make both of us uncomfortable

821
00:42:09,520 --> 00:42:10,759
Speaker 2: for me to be sitting here on the top half

822
00:42:10,800 --> 00:42:11,480
Speaker 2: of the rest of the time.

823
00:42:11,520 --> 00:42:13,040
Speaker 3: But let's see, I mean I would feel right at

824
00:42:13,040 --> 00:42:14,440
Speaker 3: home now does that?

825
00:42:14,600 --> 00:42:14,839
Speaker 2: See?

826
00:42:14,840 --> 00:42:15,439
Speaker 3: Does that fit?

827
00:42:16,040 --> 00:42:20,640
Speaker 2: That's too directly? Too small? So now what do I do?

828
00:42:20,920 --> 00:42:22,840
Speaker 2: I guess I could put it like this. Does this work?

829
00:42:23,040 --> 00:42:25,120
Speaker 3: Well? There, that's why I brought the I gave you

830
00:42:25,160 --> 00:42:28,000
Speaker 3: the stretcher as well, to try and make it bigger.

831
00:42:28,239 --> 00:42:30,720
Speaker 2: Yes, it doesn't just maintain the size.

832
00:42:30,480 --> 00:42:33,600
Speaker 3: No, it will. It will literally stretch it out. And

833
00:42:33,680 --> 00:42:35,640
Speaker 3: I don't but that that might be a little too.

834
00:42:35,719 --> 00:42:37,480
Speaker 3: Can you tell me what size that is? Is that

835
00:42:37,520 --> 00:42:38,279
Speaker 3: seven to one eighth?

836
00:42:38,400 --> 00:42:42,200
Speaker 2: Perhaps it's a giving away some information about the size

837
00:42:42,200 --> 00:42:43,359
Speaker 2: of my head here, this is.

838
00:42:43,320 --> 00:42:45,600
Speaker 3: A seven and one eighth. Yeah, I would say you

839
00:42:45,640 --> 00:42:49,160
Speaker 3: were probably a seven and a quarter. I'm a seven

840
00:42:49,200 --> 00:42:51,480
Speaker 3: and three eighths and seven and a quarter is one

841
00:42:51,560 --> 00:42:53,240
Speaker 3: down from myka.

842
00:42:53,800 --> 00:42:56,239
Speaker 2: So basically what we're saying is you said I had

843
00:42:56,239 --> 00:42:58,040
Speaker 2: a big head. You had assumed I had a big

844
00:42:58,080 --> 00:43:01,600
Speaker 2: head from Afar, but you were way off. My head

845
00:43:01,640 --> 00:43:02,320
Speaker 2: is enormous.

846
00:43:02,440 --> 00:43:05,360
Speaker 3: I was not way off. I would say, can I

847
00:43:05,360 --> 00:43:06,600
Speaker 3: see it again? Can you put it on again?

848
00:43:06,680 --> 00:43:09,720
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's and let's say mentioned like this.

849
00:43:10,040 --> 00:43:11,719
Speaker 3: Yeah, the tag goes in the back. Can you can

850
00:43:11,760 --> 00:43:15,279
Speaker 3: you give me a profile? I'm gonna I'm gonna say, like, yeah,

851
00:43:15,280 --> 00:43:17,799
Speaker 3: you probably are seven and a quarter, so it might

852
00:43:17,840 --> 00:43:19,600
Speaker 3: even be a seven and three eights, which in which

853
00:43:19,600 --> 00:43:20,760
Speaker 3: I was I was too off.

854
00:43:21,719 --> 00:43:24,719
Speaker 2: Paul is a tall man and I essentially have the same.

855
00:43:24,920 --> 00:43:25,719
Speaker 3: That is not true.

856
00:43:26,040 --> 00:43:27,239
Speaker 2: You're certainly taller than me.

857
00:43:27,440 --> 00:43:28,200
Speaker 3: I may be taller than you.

858
00:43:28,239 --> 00:43:32,120
Speaker 2: I'm five nine that I mean, anything above five four

859
00:43:32,200 --> 00:43:35,320
Speaker 2: to me is extremely tall. I might as well be

860
00:43:35,360 --> 00:43:41,040
Speaker 2: in the NBA. So Paul, who is significantly taller than me,

861
00:43:42,360 --> 00:43:45,160
Speaker 2: we share the same headsize. So listener, you're to the

862
00:43:45,800 --> 00:43:49,040
Speaker 2: the podcast of the biggest head in the industry, So

863
00:43:49,200 --> 00:43:51,120
Speaker 2: just be aware of that at this point. That's just

864
00:43:51,520 --> 00:43:55,759
Speaker 2: we discover things all the time about ourselves. Well, it's beautiful,

865
00:43:55,760 --> 00:43:57,640
Speaker 2: and so with a stretcher, I just put it in

866
00:43:57,640 --> 00:43:59,160
Speaker 2: there and just crank it a little bit.

867
00:43:59,600 --> 00:44:01,520
Speaker 3: The ideally you would have do you have do you

868
00:44:01,640 --> 00:44:02,960
Speaker 3: have hapen to have a steamer?

869
00:44:03,640 --> 00:44:05,799
Speaker 2: I don't have a steamer, but I'm happy to get

870
00:44:05,840 --> 00:44:07,160
Speaker 2: one if if need be.

871
00:44:07,520 --> 00:44:10,480
Speaker 3: Ideally a steamer would do it. You would so you

872
00:44:10,480 --> 00:44:15,040
Speaker 3: would soften up the felt and the the brim right right,

873
00:44:15,120 --> 00:44:18,040
Speaker 3: and then you would crank it as as much as

874
00:44:18,040 --> 00:44:20,839
Speaker 3: you can and then let it sit for you know,

875
00:44:20,880 --> 00:44:24,400
Speaker 3: for a for a while, but I would say, judging

876
00:44:24,440 --> 00:44:27,359
Speaker 3: from the way it looked, Uh, it's not gonna work.

877
00:44:27,840 --> 00:44:29,640
Speaker 3: It's not gonna it's not gonna be enough because you

878
00:44:29,680 --> 00:44:31,320
Speaker 3: can there's only so far you can do without.

879
00:44:31,200 --> 00:44:33,640
Speaker 2: Damaging that right, it could explode.

880
00:44:33,880 --> 00:44:37,880
Speaker 3: Yeah, you're just a hat shrapnel in your face.

881
00:44:39,120 --> 00:44:43,080
Speaker 2: That's what took my father. Now, okay, well then this

882
00:44:43,200 --> 00:44:46,120
Speaker 2: is uh. I mean, but going back to it being

883
00:44:46,160 --> 00:44:49,040
Speaker 2: a beautiful work of art, I just have a nice

884
00:44:49,080 --> 00:44:54,080
Speaker 2: thing to display. Yeah, absolutely, I mean that said it fits.

885
00:44:54,280 --> 00:44:56,879
Speaker 2: I mean it sits atop my head. How much does

886
00:44:56,920 --> 00:44:59,040
Speaker 2: this thing need to be on my head to be

887
00:44:59,760 --> 00:45:02,759
Speaker 2: to technically fit? I feel like I could still wear

888
00:45:02,800 --> 00:45:04,520
Speaker 2: it a rat, I mean, wear it to an event.

889
00:45:04,880 --> 00:45:07,239
Speaker 3: Right, you want a hat to fit, to come to

890
00:45:08,040 --> 00:45:12,840
Speaker 3: like just above your ears. Oh you're kidding. Yeah, you

891
00:45:12,840 --> 00:45:14,879
Speaker 3: know what. Let me let me see it one more time.

892
00:45:14,920 --> 00:45:17,440
Speaker 3: If you just put it straight on your head. Yeah,

893
00:45:17,960 --> 00:45:19,680
Speaker 3: you know what, you might want to try the stretcher

894
00:45:19,719 --> 00:45:20,240
Speaker 3: and see.

895
00:45:20,080 --> 00:45:22,320
Speaker 2: I'm going to try the stretcher and just see what happens.

896
00:45:22,360 --> 00:45:24,920
Speaker 2: I mean, what do we have to lose at this

897
00:45:25,000 --> 00:45:27,520
Speaker 2: point exactly? And we have a hat to gain?

898
00:45:27,680 --> 00:45:30,160
Speaker 3: Yeah, and top hats are oval you know, they're they're

899
00:45:30,200 --> 00:45:32,760
Speaker 3: like most hearts, they're an oval opening, so it could

900
00:45:32,800 --> 00:45:33,520
Speaker 3: make the difference.

901
00:45:33,719 --> 00:45:38,600
Speaker 2: So I'm gonna want to stretch it horizontally, basically towards

902
00:45:38,600 --> 00:45:39,120
Speaker 2: my ears.

903
00:45:39,160 --> 00:45:42,160
Speaker 3: Stretch no, or do not do that? That will break

904
00:45:42,200 --> 00:45:45,120
Speaker 3: the hat. What do you want to do? Is you

905
00:45:45,160 --> 00:45:47,239
Speaker 3: want to follow the shape of the stretcher? Is the

906
00:45:47,239 --> 00:45:52,799
Speaker 3: shape of the hat? Oh? Yeah, it never occurred to

907
00:45:52,840 --> 00:45:54,600
Speaker 3: me that there would be another way, But I'm glad

908
00:45:54,640 --> 00:45:55,200
Speaker 3: you spoke up.

909
00:45:55,280 --> 00:45:57,279
Speaker 2: Well, if you want someone to think of the wrong

910
00:45:57,320 --> 00:46:01,000
Speaker 2: way to do something, give me a call. I will

911
00:46:01,000 --> 00:46:04,200
Speaker 2: find the way to ruin the object. Now should I

912
00:46:04,239 --> 00:46:08,280
Speaker 2: get back into this box? There's more going on it? Sure? Yeah, yeah, yeah,

913
00:46:09,400 --> 00:46:12,279
Speaker 2: Oh so are you? Why don't you just open a

914
00:46:12,320 --> 00:46:15,040
Speaker 2: hat shop. I assume this is to maintain the hat.

915
00:46:15,160 --> 00:46:16,880
Speaker 3: Yes, that is to clean. That's a brush to clean

916
00:46:16,920 --> 00:46:20,160
Speaker 3: the hat. You would essentially do it counterclock you brush

917
00:46:20,200 --> 00:46:21,200
Speaker 3: a counterclockwise.

918
00:46:21,400 --> 00:46:24,520
Speaker 2: Oh, this is a merit badge. I feel like Hat

919
00:46:24,600 --> 00:46:28,279
Speaker 2: Care could absolutely be the next Boy Scout, But I

920
00:46:28,280 --> 00:46:30,799
Speaker 2: feel like the Boy Scouts shut down. It's hard to say,

921
00:46:30,800 --> 00:46:32,480
Speaker 2: but that could be the first merit badge of the

922
00:46:32,480 --> 00:46:33,320
Speaker 2: New Boy Scouts.

923
00:46:33,560 --> 00:46:37,040
Speaker 3: Hat Care the New Boy scouts. If they're getting into

924
00:46:37,080 --> 00:46:40,680
Speaker 3: caring for top hats, I'm gonna have a son just

925
00:46:40,760 --> 00:46:46,200
Speaker 3: to make him join. My boy is a proud, fancy boy.

926
00:46:47,080 --> 00:46:50,480
Speaker 3: That's the Haberdacherie badge. Right.

927
00:46:51,480 --> 00:46:53,960
Speaker 2: Wow, this is incredible. Well so now, I mean, I'm

928
00:46:54,040 --> 00:46:58,120
Speaker 2: learning so much from my own headsize to just the

929
00:46:58,160 --> 00:47:01,560
Speaker 2: care of hats. It's incredible. I don't know what to

930
00:47:01,600 --> 00:47:02,680
Speaker 2: even do with myself.

931
00:47:04,760 --> 00:47:06,720
Speaker 3: I mean, do you ever wear hats.

932
00:47:07,360 --> 00:47:11,879
Speaker 2: I'm a recent hat wearer, probably in the last couple

933
00:47:11,920 --> 00:47:14,400
Speaker 2: of years. Just as far as baseball caps, you know,

934
00:47:14,480 --> 00:47:17,799
Speaker 2: when it's just like, I don't want to my hair, look,

935
00:47:17,960 --> 00:47:20,600
Speaker 2: my hair's out of control. Let's throw on a baseball cap.

936
00:47:21,000 --> 00:47:25,160
Speaker 2: But even though those baseball caps and I mean hats

937
00:47:25,200 --> 00:47:27,480
Speaker 2: and shorts, there are two of the most difficult things

938
00:47:27,800 --> 00:47:31,320
Speaker 2: to find that that you'll look good in.

939
00:47:31,680 --> 00:47:35,200
Speaker 3: I agree. I think that hats especially are very intimidating

940
00:47:35,200 --> 00:47:38,360
Speaker 3: for people because it's a big it can be a

941
00:47:38,360 --> 00:47:41,080
Speaker 3: big statement, and I think that a lot of people

942
00:47:41,120 --> 00:47:43,799
Speaker 3: are I think a lot of people assume they can't

943
00:47:43,800 --> 00:47:46,360
Speaker 3: pull them off when they absolutely can. I think that

944
00:47:46,480 --> 00:47:49,319
Speaker 3: you have a good I like pictured you in this hat,

945
00:47:49,360 --> 00:47:52,279
Speaker 3: and I thought Bridger has a great face for this,

946
00:47:52,880 --> 00:47:55,000
Speaker 3: I think you are a hat guy, and you might

947
00:47:55,040 --> 00:47:55,839
Speaker 3: not be aware of it.

948
00:47:56,480 --> 00:47:59,640
Speaker 2: Well, a few years ago, I thought, you know, I

949
00:47:59,680 --> 00:48:01,040
Speaker 2: sort of going with the idea of what if I

950
00:48:01,120 --> 00:48:03,759
Speaker 2: made a giant shift in style and had a very

951
00:48:03,760 --> 00:48:06,880
Speaker 2: specific style. And suddenly, you know, I really like the

952
00:48:06,920 --> 00:48:09,680
Speaker 2: idea of dressing like an old fashioned cowboy, you know,

953
00:48:09,760 --> 00:48:16,359
Speaker 2: like kind of a TV probably Howdy dooty. What's gonna

954
00:48:16,360 --> 00:48:18,160
Speaker 2: happen is I'm going to end up looking like Howdy dooty.

955
00:48:18,480 --> 00:48:22,120
Speaker 2: So never canceling the idea, but I like, I do

956
00:48:22,239 --> 00:48:24,640
Speaker 2: like the idea of wearing a hat. I mean, with

957
00:48:24,719 --> 00:48:27,560
Speaker 2: a baseball cap. It's essentially, don't look at me with

958
00:48:27,680 --> 00:48:31,080
Speaker 2: the top hat. It's like everyone look and speak and

959
00:48:31,160 --> 00:48:35,799
Speaker 2: think of me at all times exactly so I need to.

960
00:48:35,840 --> 00:48:39,319
Speaker 2: I would love to get into the zone with a hat.

961
00:48:39,440 --> 00:48:40,640
Speaker 2: It's just I think, like.

962
00:48:40,920 --> 00:48:43,960
Speaker 3: Especially for someone with a fair complexion, a good straw

963
00:48:44,000 --> 00:48:47,719
Speaker 3: hat is good for the summertime, right.

964
00:48:47,760 --> 00:48:50,799
Speaker 2: I have a friend who also sunburns easily. She's got

965
00:48:50,840 --> 00:48:53,200
Speaker 2: all kinds of big hats that she's wearing around town.

966
00:48:53,800 --> 00:48:56,640
Speaker 2: That's not a bad idea. And then you know, I'm

967
00:48:56,920 --> 00:49:01,320
Speaker 2: preserving myself for later. That kind of thing a sunscreen needed.

968
00:49:03,480 --> 00:49:05,520
Speaker 3: So this is not to be used as a replacement

969
00:49:05,520 --> 00:49:09,359
Speaker 3: for sunscreen, but it is a good thing I need

970
00:49:09,480 --> 00:49:12,680
Speaker 3: is a straw hat, and I can go about naked

971
00:49:12,800 --> 00:49:17,920
Speaker 3: with that. I'm jump in a volcano. Son like a

972
00:49:17,960 --> 00:49:20,760
Speaker 3: straw hat, A nice men straw hat is so grateful.

973
00:49:20,760 --> 00:49:22,760
Speaker 3: Like if you show up to like a pool party,

974
00:49:23,280 --> 00:49:25,520
Speaker 3: you know what I mean. Then you take it off,

975
00:49:25,560 --> 00:49:27,279
Speaker 3: you get in the pool, you come out, your hair's

976
00:49:27,280 --> 00:49:29,600
Speaker 3: all messed up from the from a pool. You don't

977
00:49:29,640 --> 00:49:31,359
Speaker 3: have to worry about it. You just put that hat on.

978
00:49:31,440 --> 00:49:34,239
Speaker 3: It's a great feeling. It's a good look. I think,

979
00:49:34,360 --> 00:49:37,319
Speaker 3: I really do think that you have a great you

980
00:49:37,360 --> 00:49:38,480
Speaker 3: have a great face for hats.

981
00:49:38,880 --> 00:49:42,040
Speaker 2: If I appreciate that great face for hats, the head

982
00:49:42,560 --> 00:49:46,080
Speaker 2: far too large for most of them. That's fine. You'll

983
00:49:46,120 --> 00:49:50,560
Speaker 2: be happy to learn that without guessing. There are many

984
00:49:50,600 --> 00:49:53,640
Speaker 2: hats that will fix you as long as.

985
00:49:53,560 --> 00:49:54,560
Speaker 3: You're not guessing.

986
00:49:55,080 --> 00:49:56,840
Speaker 2: Is there a hat you a style of hat you

987
00:49:56,880 --> 00:49:58,400
Speaker 2: won't wear that you're opposed to?

988
00:49:59,080 --> 00:50:04,080
Speaker 3: I don't really like those sort of beanies, not like

989
00:50:04,120 --> 00:50:06,160
Speaker 3: a wool winter hat, like I'll wear that if it's

990
00:50:06,200 --> 00:50:09,160
Speaker 3: cold in but just like that sort of felt you know,

991
00:50:09,840 --> 00:50:12,720
Speaker 3: beanie kind of thing. I don't really like that look

992
00:50:12,920 --> 00:50:13,399
Speaker 3: that much.

993
00:50:13,719 --> 00:50:16,240
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's the only hat I can currently picture, probably

994
00:50:16,239 --> 00:50:18,560
Speaker 2: because you just said it that I can't picture you

995
00:50:18,560 --> 00:50:21,360
Speaker 2: wear it because you can kind of drift from style

996
00:50:21,440 --> 00:50:23,759
Speaker 2: to style. You're wearing this hat right now. It looks

997
00:50:23,800 --> 00:50:26,160
Speaker 2: great with your mustache. I can also imagine you in

998
00:50:26,200 --> 00:50:29,799
Speaker 2: a cowboy hat to sense thank you. Do you wear

999
00:50:29,800 --> 00:50:31,160
Speaker 2: a baseball cap? I do?

1000
00:50:31,239 --> 00:50:32,759
Speaker 3: Yeah, Like when I go to the gym, I'll wear

1001
00:50:32,760 --> 00:50:36,840
Speaker 3: a baseball cap. And if I'm just like running errands

1002
00:50:36,920 --> 00:50:39,840
Speaker 3: or whatever, Yeah, a baseball cap is I think a

1003
00:50:39,920 --> 00:50:42,400
Speaker 3: great I like. I like a fitted cap. I like

1004
00:50:42,480 --> 00:50:45,200
Speaker 3: the sort of I like the shape of that better

1005
00:50:46,440 --> 00:50:48,800
Speaker 3: than like the what is known as the dad hat.

1006
00:50:48,960 --> 00:50:51,480
Speaker 2: I don't, of course, I don't like that shape.

1007
00:50:52,560 --> 00:50:53,319
Speaker 3: I don't like it.

1008
00:50:53,840 --> 00:50:57,960
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm I'm ready for the dad cap. Let's move

1009
00:50:58,000 --> 00:51:00,440
Speaker 2: on to a baseball cap that just is a sh shape.

1010
00:51:00,920 --> 00:51:04,240
Speaker 2: Absolutely coming back into that stuff, absolutely.

1011
00:51:06,040 --> 00:51:10,759
Speaker 3: Right. Look, I'm barely in the hat game. I can't

1012
00:51:10,760 --> 00:51:13,839
Speaker 3: be making this sort of call. I'm determined to get

1013
00:51:13,880 --> 00:51:16,080
Speaker 3: you in it. This is my this is now my goal.

1014
00:51:17,120 --> 00:51:20,280
Speaker 2: Well, I'm off to a decent start, A decent start,

1015
00:51:20,840 --> 00:51:22,440
Speaker 2: I've got to get the steamer. I've got to get

1016
00:51:22,440 --> 00:51:25,279
Speaker 2: this thing under control. And then what do I pair

1017
00:51:25,360 --> 00:51:27,320
Speaker 2: this top hat with? I guess a tuxedo?

1018
00:51:27,800 --> 00:51:31,480
Speaker 3: Sure? Or I mean I feel like it's a good

1019
00:51:31,520 --> 00:51:34,080
Speaker 3: thing for a for a New Year's Eve party, you.

1020
00:51:34,000 --> 00:51:34,480
Speaker 2: Know what I mean.

1021
00:51:35,160 --> 00:51:37,080
Speaker 3: Of course, you show up. You can either wear a

1022
00:51:37,080 --> 00:51:38,760
Speaker 3: suit or you can wear one of your nice sports

1023
00:51:38,800 --> 00:51:41,200
Speaker 3: coats with whatever. You know, if you're putting together like

1024
00:51:41,239 --> 00:51:45,399
Speaker 3: a sort of fun, eye catching outfit, why not throw

1025
00:51:45,400 --> 00:51:48,560
Speaker 3: a fucking top hat on the complete the look. Yes,

1026
00:51:49,239 --> 00:51:51,720
Speaker 3: I'd love to complete the look. I'm also in favor

1027
00:51:51,760 --> 00:51:54,520
Speaker 3: of people just making their own thing.

1028
00:51:55,480 --> 00:51:57,400
Speaker 2: Yeah, I feel like I'm kind of in this fog

1029
00:51:57,560 --> 00:52:01,440
Speaker 2: of I don't know what stuff isle is anymore. And

1030
00:52:01,520 --> 00:52:03,239
Speaker 2: also we've been through the past year where it didn't

1031
00:52:03,280 --> 00:52:05,919
Speaker 2: really matter. So maybe it's time I, you know, get

1032
00:52:06,000 --> 00:52:08,520
Speaker 2: kind of a direction and go for it rather than

1033
00:52:08,560 --> 00:52:11,520
Speaker 2: just throwing on the first thing I see in my closet.

1034
00:52:12,719 --> 00:52:16,440
Speaker 2: But you know, if we've got I don't have that

1035
00:52:16,560 --> 00:52:18,320
Speaker 2: much energy, we'll see what happens.

1036
00:52:18,480 --> 00:52:22,080
Speaker 3: What's what's something that you've you've always liked the look of,

1037
00:52:22,160 --> 00:52:25,319
Speaker 3: but you've been you've felt like you couldn't pull it off.

1038
00:52:25,760 --> 00:52:30,400
Speaker 2: I love I love someone on Safari, an old Safari person.

1039
00:52:30,480 --> 00:52:32,680
Speaker 2: That's a very sharp look.

1040
00:52:32,719 --> 00:52:35,200
Speaker 3: I'll say, like what Banana Republic used to look like

1041
00:52:35,280 --> 00:52:38,399
Speaker 3: when it was when it was a store, right.

1042
00:52:38,600 --> 00:52:40,400
Speaker 2: I mean, I would love to look like I should

1043
00:52:40,400 --> 00:52:44,600
Speaker 2: be holding a machete kind of on the back of

1044
00:52:44,800 --> 00:52:45,919
Speaker 2: you know, the Jungle.

1045
00:52:45,640 --> 00:52:47,879
Speaker 3: Cruise or absolutely.

1046
00:52:48,320 --> 00:52:51,960
Speaker 2: But I'm also a fairly small person, so I like

1047
00:52:52,040 --> 00:52:57,000
Speaker 2: things that aren't too billowy, because then I just lost clothes,

1048
00:52:57,640 --> 00:53:02,400
Speaker 2: as Magic Castle demonstrated most extreme. But you know, I

1049
00:53:02,480 --> 00:53:05,279
Speaker 2: like those, you know, I like, as I said before,

1050
00:53:05,280 --> 00:53:08,840
Speaker 2: a cowboy. But I'm now like actually saying it aloud.

1051
00:53:08,880 --> 00:53:11,279
Speaker 2: It feels like it could be a difficult look for

1052
00:53:11,320 --> 00:53:17,520
Speaker 2: me to achieve. I don't know. Maybe I hire a stylist.

1053
00:53:17,800 --> 00:53:20,200
Speaker 3: Do you have a favorite outfit? Do you have a

1054
00:53:20,200 --> 00:53:22,799
Speaker 3: thing like if you get invited to something like a

1055
00:53:22,880 --> 00:53:25,759
Speaker 3: nice party or whatever, going out to dinner, where you're like, oh,

1056
00:53:26,040 --> 00:53:27,040
Speaker 3: I get to wear this.

1057
00:53:28,080 --> 00:53:32,719
Speaker 2: I have a favorite Polo shirt which I purchased. It

1058
00:53:32,800 --> 00:53:36,000
Speaker 2: was I found it at a store, like basically under

1059
00:53:36,040 --> 00:53:37,960
Speaker 2: a pile of clothes. It was I think it was

1060
00:53:38,120 --> 00:53:41,640
Speaker 2: produced in probably nineteen sixty five, but was brand new,

1061
00:53:42,120 --> 00:53:46,520
Speaker 2: and it fits wonderfully. Everything about it. I like. I

1062
00:53:47,480 --> 00:53:52,560
Speaker 2: was wearing it once and this very fashionable woman from

1063
00:53:52,560 --> 00:53:55,799
Speaker 2: New Zealand said, that's a catchy shirt, which I thought,

1064
00:53:55,800 --> 00:53:58,399
Speaker 2: that's such a great way to describe a shirt, and

1065
00:53:58,440 --> 00:54:00,960
Speaker 2: that for me, So maybe I do like something that

1066
00:54:01,080 --> 00:54:04,480
Speaker 2: it looks kind of summary and it fits well. It's

1067
00:54:04,520 --> 00:54:06,680
Speaker 2: falling apart at this point because I've worn it so much.

1068
00:54:06,680 --> 00:54:08,360
Speaker 2: I don't ownly know things I like, So I just

1069
00:54:08,600 --> 00:54:11,399
Speaker 2: destroy the things I do, Like this is what I do.

1070
00:54:12,920 --> 00:54:14,360
Speaker 3: This is life, Bridger.

1071
00:54:14,680 --> 00:54:17,840
Speaker 2: We find the things we love and we just to them.

1072
00:54:17,960 --> 00:54:20,680
Speaker 3: Yes, we rend them apart.

1073
00:54:21,080 --> 00:54:22,480
Speaker 2: Do you have a favorite outfit?

1074
00:54:23,120 --> 00:54:26,480
Speaker 3: I do tend to wear like the same handful of

1075
00:54:26,520 --> 00:54:29,239
Speaker 3: things over and over again because I just can't, you know,

1076
00:54:29,520 --> 00:54:32,280
Speaker 3: Like I get paralyzed by choice in my own closet.

1077
00:54:32,360 --> 00:54:34,160
Speaker 3: Not that I have like a walk in closet or

1078
00:54:34,360 --> 00:54:37,799
Speaker 3: from Wonderland, but I do have I do. I have

1079
00:54:37,920 --> 00:54:41,359
Speaker 3: like outfits like suits or whatever to be prepared for

1080
00:54:41,440 --> 00:54:43,840
Speaker 3: things like this is good in case I get go

1081
00:54:43,920 --> 00:54:47,320
Speaker 3: to that thing or whatever. But like right now this summer,

1082
00:54:47,360 --> 00:54:49,680
Speaker 3: I have this sort of suit that I got from

1083
00:54:49,719 --> 00:54:52,720
Speaker 3: a company called alex Crane and this was an Instagram

1084
00:54:52,760 --> 00:54:55,319
Speaker 3: find which here because this is the only time this

1085
00:54:55,360 --> 00:54:58,080
Speaker 3: has ever worked out for me, I think. And it's

1086
00:54:58,080 --> 00:55:00,360
Speaker 3: a sort of it's a very casual kind kind of

1087
00:55:00,680 --> 00:55:05,200
Speaker 3: uh seersucker suit. That is, the pants are kind of

1088
00:55:05,239 --> 00:55:07,640
Speaker 3: like a gene sort of but they're they're made out

1089
00:55:07,640 --> 00:55:09,920
Speaker 3: of the out of linen material and they have a

1090
00:55:09,920 --> 00:55:14,160
Speaker 3: seersucker stripe and the the the jacket is like a

1091
00:55:14,200 --> 00:55:19,359
Speaker 3: sort of shirt jacket, but I iron the lapels to make

1092
00:55:19,400 --> 00:55:23,480
Speaker 3: them more jacket like instead of shirt line. Oh interesting, yeah, yeah, yeah,

1093
00:55:23,520 --> 00:55:25,719
Speaker 3: And right now that's I want to wear that every day.

1094
00:55:25,800 --> 00:55:26,319
Speaker 3: I love it.

1095
00:55:26,719 --> 00:55:28,920
Speaker 2: And that was an instant like it was a suggested

1096
00:55:29,000 --> 00:55:30,240
Speaker 2: ad situation.

1097
00:55:31,320 --> 00:55:32,840
Speaker 3: I couldn't believe a very.

1098
00:55:32,680 --> 00:55:35,000
Speaker 2: Different uh information in the algorithm.

1099
00:55:35,200 --> 00:55:38,239
Speaker 3: Oh, I get so much garbage, so much garbage that

1100
00:55:38,320 --> 00:55:40,840
Speaker 3: is that is advertised to me. Where like I remember

1101
00:55:40,840 --> 00:55:42,600
Speaker 3: one time I saw this vest that I thought, Wow,

1102
00:55:42,640 --> 00:55:45,880
Speaker 3: that's a that's a cool pattern and I but it

1103
00:55:45,960 --> 00:55:47,880
Speaker 3: was like I can't believe that price. And then I

1104
00:55:47,920 --> 00:55:52,200
Speaker 3: got it and it was essentially like like the pattern

1105
00:55:52,360 --> 00:55:58,880
Speaker 3: was printed on all like the closest wool could be

1106
00:55:59,000 --> 00:56:02,640
Speaker 3: too plastic was was what this material was. And I

1107
00:56:02,680 --> 00:56:05,000
Speaker 3: was mortified. This is the sort of thing that catches

1108
00:56:05,040 --> 00:56:06,799
Speaker 3: fire on Yeah. I was like, yeah, I was like,

1109
00:56:06,840 --> 00:56:09,080
Speaker 3: this is you get what you deserve. You you brought

1110
00:56:09,080 --> 00:56:10,960
Speaker 3: this on yourself. You should be ashamed.

1111
00:56:11,520 --> 00:56:14,040
Speaker 2: Well, I'm glad the suit worked out. That's I mean,

1112
00:56:14,080 --> 00:56:15,239
Speaker 2: an amazing Instagram.

1113
00:56:15,440 --> 00:56:17,560
Speaker 3: It really I and this is I posted about this

1114
00:56:17,719 --> 00:56:20,600
Speaker 3: on Instagram. But I was at the at the grocery store.

1115
00:56:20,600 --> 00:56:22,840
Speaker 3: I was I was leaving and I was returning my

1116
00:56:22,880 --> 00:56:26,279
Speaker 3: cart to the cart area and a woman wanted my cart.

1117
00:56:26,360 --> 00:56:28,080
Speaker 3: She came up to me and said, is that a

1118
00:56:28,080 --> 00:56:31,640
Speaker 3: seersucker suit? And I said yes, and she said divine

1119
00:56:33,320 --> 00:56:36,240
Speaker 3: the ultimate compliment. I mean, what more do you want?

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00:56:36,480 --> 00:56:38,200
Speaker 3: What more do you want.

1121
00:56:38,320 --> 00:56:39,719
Speaker 2: At the grocery store? No? Less?

1122
00:56:39,800 --> 00:56:42,759
Speaker 3: Yeah, But that's what I love about it is it's

1123
00:56:42,800 --> 00:56:45,640
Speaker 3: casual enough that I can go grocery shopping and it's

1124
00:56:45,680 --> 00:56:47,600
Speaker 3: not like why is this guy wearing a suit to

1125
00:56:47,640 --> 00:56:49,080
Speaker 3: the to the supermarket.

1126
00:56:49,440 --> 00:56:53,280
Speaker 2: But I feel like you're doing other grocers, not not grocers,

1127
00:56:53,320 --> 00:56:55,919
Speaker 2: grocery shoppers. The grocer is the owner of the grocery store.

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00:56:55,920 --> 00:56:59,680
Speaker 2: My colleagues at the grocery you're doing You're doing everyone

1129
00:56:59,719 --> 00:57:02,200
Speaker 2: at the g or you stow a favor. You look nice,

1130
00:57:02,360 --> 00:57:04,160
Speaker 2: and you know everybody else is kind of just wearing

1131
00:57:04,160 --> 00:57:07,520
Speaker 2: their thing. We should all do. Wearing nice clothes is

1132
00:57:07,560 --> 00:57:09,600
Speaker 2: kind of a favor to everyone you come in contact.

1133
00:57:10,560 --> 00:57:12,320
Speaker 3: A thing of beauty is a joy forever.

1134
00:57:12,719 --> 00:57:14,839
Speaker 2: Look, we've got to move on. We have to play

1135
00:57:14,880 --> 00:57:17,000
Speaker 2: a game. Yes, Paul, do you want to play Gift

1136
00:57:17,040 --> 00:57:19,360
Speaker 2: Master or Gift or a Curse. I'll explain how it

1137
00:57:19,400 --> 00:57:20,680
Speaker 2: works once you've selected.

1138
00:57:20,960 --> 00:57:22,880
Speaker 3: I would love to play Gift Master. Please.

1139
00:57:23,000 --> 00:57:24,919
Speaker 2: Okay, I need a number between one and ten.

1140
00:57:25,680 --> 00:57:26,000
Speaker 3: Nine.

1141
00:57:26,640 --> 00:57:29,200
Speaker 2: Okay, I have to do the like calculating. I need

1142
00:57:29,240 --> 00:57:32,200
Speaker 2: to figure out the game pieces. You promote, you recommend,

1143
00:57:32,400 --> 00:57:34,520
Speaker 2: you teach, do whatever you want. I'll be right back

1144
00:57:34,960 --> 00:57:35,880
Speaker 2: and just I'll.

1145
00:57:35,760 --> 00:57:39,240
Speaker 5: Let you know that I am currently hosting four podcasts.

1146
00:57:39,560 --> 00:57:42,760
Speaker 5: I am the co host of Star Trek, the Pod Directive,

1147
00:57:42,760 --> 00:57:46,640
Speaker 5: the Official Star Trek Podcast with Tawny Newsom. I host

1148
00:57:46,760 --> 00:57:49,800
Speaker 5: The Neighborhood Listen with Nicole Parker, which is on stitchru

1149
00:57:49,800 --> 00:57:51,520
Speaker 5: Premium right now.

1150
00:57:52,000 --> 00:57:56,680
Speaker 3: That is, we take posts from Nextdoor, the ring app,

1151
00:57:56,840 --> 00:58:00,120
Speaker 3: what any kind of social networking for neighborhoods, and we

1152
00:58:00,240 --> 00:58:04,960
Speaker 3: use them as the basis for improv comedy. I host

1153
00:58:05,120 --> 00:58:09,720
Speaker 3: Freedom with Scott Ackerman and Lauren Lapkis that is free

1154
00:58:09,800 --> 00:58:13,480
Speaker 3: every Thursday wherever you get your podcasts. And I also

1155
00:58:13,560 --> 00:58:15,680
Speaker 3: host a podcast with my lovely wife Janey had Ed

1156
00:58:15,720 --> 00:58:20,120
Speaker 3: Tompkins called Stay f Homekins, which we record on Friday nights.

1157
00:58:20,160 --> 00:58:23,800
Speaker 3: It started during quarantine and it's just us catching up

1158
00:58:23,840 --> 00:58:25,160
Speaker 3: at the end of the week and then we put

1159
00:58:25,160 --> 00:58:30,040
Speaker 3: it up unedited. And that is me in a nuts

1160
00:58:30,160 --> 00:58:31,360
Speaker 3: che That.

1161
00:58:31,480 --> 00:58:35,080
Speaker 2: Was very I mean, you did that perfectly well, thank

1162
00:58:35,120 --> 00:58:38,600
Speaker 2: you very much. Nailed all of it, and I mean

1163
00:58:38,640 --> 00:58:41,160
Speaker 2: I feel like I and I'll also give myself a compliment.

1164
00:58:41,280 --> 00:58:42,920
Speaker 2: Usually I really get in the muck here trying to

1165
00:58:42,920 --> 00:58:45,360
Speaker 2: figure out what's going on with the game and the like,

1166
00:58:45,400 --> 00:58:48,920
Speaker 2: to the point that the guest is panicking. So I

1167
00:58:48,960 --> 00:58:51,760
Speaker 2: did an excellent job. So maybe this is more I

1168
00:58:51,800 --> 00:58:53,840
Speaker 2: did a good job and you just got lucky.

1169
00:58:54,360 --> 00:58:57,200
Speaker 3: Okay. I mean if that helps you, then go.

1170
00:58:59,600 --> 00:59:02,680
Speaker 2: Paul. Basically, how gift master works. I will name three

1171
00:59:02,880 --> 00:59:06,320
Speaker 2: potential gifts, and I will name three celebrities, and you

1172
00:59:06,360 --> 00:59:08,280
Speaker 2: have to tell me which gift you'll give which celebrity

1173
00:59:08,320 --> 00:59:11,360
Speaker 2: and why. Understood, all right, these are the three gifts

1174
00:59:11,400 --> 00:59:14,760
Speaker 2: you'll be giving today. First of all, Now this is

1175
00:59:14,760 --> 00:59:17,240
Speaker 2: where I really struggle. I get back in the Google

1176
00:59:17,280 --> 00:59:20,560
Speaker 2: doc and suddenly I'm just losing my line. Okay, here

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00:59:20,600 --> 00:59:23,440
Speaker 2: we go. Number one, you're going to be giving away

1178
00:59:23,480 --> 00:59:27,200
Speaker 2: a Dutch oven, the you know, the item that that

1179
00:59:27,560 --> 00:59:31,360
Speaker 2: I suppose the Dutch originated. Do you bury it in

1180
00:59:31,400 --> 00:59:33,680
Speaker 2: the ground? I don't know. It's a no, you don't.

1181
00:59:33,760 --> 00:59:36,720
Speaker 2: It's just an iron oven that you you cook. Thanks

1182
00:59:36,760 --> 00:59:42,760
Speaker 2: in second gift you'll be giving is an improvised guitar solo.

1183
00:59:42,880 --> 00:59:45,240
Speaker 2: So that's, you know, essentially you're going to be getting

1184
00:59:45,240 --> 00:59:49,320
Speaker 2: on your axe and just wailing doing whatever you can

1185
00:59:49,600 --> 00:59:53,680
Speaker 2: as a gift. And finally, the third gift you'll be

1186
00:59:53,680 --> 00:59:58,360
Speaker 2: giving is a faux hawk, which is the hairstyle sort

1187
00:59:58,360 --> 01:00:01,479
Speaker 2: of went out of in about two thousand and nine.

1188
01:00:02,080 --> 01:00:04,680
Speaker 2: So that those are the three gifts you'll be giving.

1189
01:00:05,400 --> 01:00:11,960
Speaker 2: Two the following celebrities. Number one, daughter of Lenny, Zoe Kravitz.

1190
01:00:12,800 --> 01:00:17,720
Speaker 2: She's making a big name for herself. Number two, Oh god,

1191
01:00:18,240 --> 01:00:22,240
Speaker 2: oh god, where did it go? We're gonna we're staying

1192
01:00:22,280 --> 01:00:26,680
Speaker 2: on steady ground here. There's nothing wrong. Everything's happening for us.

1193
01:00:27,040 --> 01:00:36,200
Speaker 2: Jessica Seinfeld okay. And number three the author, Yes, okay, yes,

1194
01:00:36,920 --> 01:00:44,560
Speaker 2: and just general thinker Jessica Seinfeld and finally, of course Heraldo.

1195
01:00:45,360 --> 01:00:48,080
Speaker 2: So we've got we're all over the place with these celebrities,

1196
01:00:49,960 --> 01:00:50,600
Speaker 2: all right.

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01:00:50,560 --> 01:00:57,520
Speaker 3: Jessica Seinfeld, Giraldo, and Zoe Kravitz Dutch Oven, guitar solo.

1198
01:00:57,560 --> 01:01:01,000
Speaker 3: Now the guitar solo. It is the best of my

1199
01:01:01,160 --> 01:01:02,920
Speaker 3: ability to play the guitar. Is that correct?

1200
01:01:04,000 --> 01:01:06,720
Speaker 2: That's up to you. You can lie in this situation.

1201
01:01:07,240 --> 01:01:09,080
Speaker 2: I mean, you are just going to be picking that

1202
01:01:09,120 --> 01:01:11,680
Speaker 2: guitar up and improvising whatever you can.

1203
01:01:11,840 --> 01:01:15,840
Speaker 3: Okay, I think I know where to go. I'm going

1204
01:01:15,920 --> 01:01:23,040
Speaker 3: to give Jessica Seinfeld the Dutch oven because she's supposedly

1205
01:01:23,760 --> 01:01:28,520
Speaker 3: a cookbook author, but I don't like that she apparently

1206
01:01:28,880 --> 01:01:32,360
Speaker 3: steals ideas from other people, and I'm assuming she already

1207
01:01:32,400 --> 01:01:34,920
Speaker 3: has a Dutch oven, so it's a bit of a

1208
01:01:34,960 --> 01:01:41,040
Speaker 3: fuck you. I'm going to give Zoe Kravitz the guitar solo,

1209
01:01:41,840 --> 01:01:44,240
Speaker 3: where I do not know how to play the guitar,

1210
01:01:44,320 --> 01:01:47,520
Speaker 3: but I'm doing my absolute best to make it nice, right,

1211
01:01:47,760 --> 01:01:51,440
Speaker 3: because something tells me that she would find it funny

1212
01:01:51,520 --> 01:01:53,000
Speaker 3: and maybe endearing.

1213
01:01:53,320 --> 01:01:56,080
Speaker 2: Right, or pity you and try to give you a lesson.

1214
01:01:56,240 --> 01:02:00,680
Speaker 3: May perhaps maybe she's probably listened too much good guitar

1215
01:02:00,720 --> 01:02:02,960
Speaker 3: playing in her life. Now maybe she's like, this is

1216
01:02:03,000 --> 01:02:06,400
Speaker 3: a refreshing change of pace. And of course, because the

1217
01:02:06,440 --> 01:02:09,840
Speaker 3: way I would do it would be with absolute swagger.

1218
01:02:10,320 --> 01:02:13,680
Speaker 3: I would say, I am Zoe, I'm a huge fan

1219
01:02:13,720 --> 01:02:16,400
Speaker 3: of yours, I admire your work, and this is a

1220
01:02:16,440 --> 01:02:18,760
Speaker 3: gift from me to you, and I would I would

1221
01:02:18,840 --> 01:02:21,760
Speaker 3: my physically, my approach would be, oh my god, this

1222
01:02:21,800 --> 01:02:25,560
Speaker 3: guy is going to shred. And then what comes out

1223
01:02:25,600 --> 01:02:29,120
Speaker 3: is what comes out. And then I will say I

1224
01:02:29,160 --> 01:02:30,600
Speaker 3: should have said I don't know how to play the

1225
01:02:30,640 --> 01:02:33,360
Speaker 3: guitar before I start the solo, but that's the best

1226
01:02:33,360 --> 01:02:36,600
Speaker 3: I can do. And finally, I would give the faux

1227
01:02:36,640 --> 01:02:40,440
Speaker 3: hawk to Haraldo because I think he deserves it. I

1228
01:02:40,480 --> 01:02:44,800
Speaker 3: want to. I want to see him humiliated. Uh, I

1229
01:02:45,200 --> 01:02:47,560
Speaker 3: want to see it would look bad, it would look

1230
01:02:47,600 --> 01:02:50,200
Speaker 3: bad on him, and I want to. I want to

1231
01:02:50,240 --> 01:02:52,120
Speaker 3: see it, and I want other people to see it.

1232
01:02:52,120 --> 01:02:55,200
Speaker 3: I want him to have to go on camera complaining

1233
01:02:55,200 --> 01:02:57,560
Speaker 3: about whatever the fuck it is he complains about while

1234
01:02:57,840 --> 01:03:02,960
Speaker 3: having this faux hawks, Roaldo permanently switched to those tinted glasses.

1235
01:03:03,240 --> 01:03:06,040
Speaker 2: I think he has right. I think he has, which

1236
01:03:06,840 --> 01:03:10,360
Speaker 2: what's going on? I mean, I mean that's just objectively

1237
01:03:10,360 --> 01:03:13,400
Speaker 2: a bad Yes, have someone in his life that's saying Heraldo,

1238
01:03:13,440 --> 01:03:14,760
Speaker 2: you already look scary enough.

1239
01:03:14,880 --> 01:03:19,640
Speaker 3: Yeah, you're not a tinted glasses guy, Heroldo. You weren't

1240
01:03:19,680 --> 01:03:22,360
Speaker 3: in a band. What do you think you're doing. The

1241
01:03:22,400 --> 01:03:25,000
Speaker 3: only people who can wear, in my opinion, who can

1242
01:03:25,040 --> 01:03:29,440
Speaker 3: wear tinted glasses and earn them is musicians, the elderly

1243
01:03:29,520 --> 01:03:33,720
Speaker 3: musicians specifically, right right, And I don't know, like somebody

1244
01:03:33,720 --> 01:03:38,040
Speaker 3: who has a real personality that's like, you don't question it.

1245
01:03:38,120 --> 01:03:40,960
Speaker 3: If you're questioning it about the person. They can't wear them.

1246
01:03:41,000 --> 01:03:44,439
Speaker 3: And I questioned about Roaldo and this I will say,

1247
01:03:44,480 --> 01:03:46,840
Speaker 3: I wore I to a dinner the other night. I

1248
01:03:46,880 --> 01:03:50,080
Speaker 3: wore tinted glasses. I have a bear of blue tinted glasses.

1249
01:03:50,400 --> 01:03:56,440
Speaker 3: This was a daylight into night situation, and so I

1250
01:03:56,520 --> 01:03:58,919
Speaker 3: wore glasses that were light enough that you could see

1251
01:03:58,960 --> 01:04:02,960
Speaker 3: my eyes while it was light out and then still,

1252
01:04:03,240 --> 01:04:05,960
Speaker 3: but also light enough that when it was night it

1253
01:04:06,040 --> 01:04:07,800
Speaker 3: wasn't like I was wearing a pair of sunglasses.

1254
01:04:08,400 --> 01:04:11,280
Speaker 2: Right, And I what type of frame they're like?

1255
01:04:11,320 --> 01:04:15,280
Speaker 3: A nice like a sort of smoked pearl.

1256
01:04:15,000 --> 01:04:16,479
Speaker 2: Kind of gray frame.

1257
01:04:16,760 --> 01:04:20,080
Speaker 3: God, this is beautiful with light blue lenses. And I

1258
01:04:20,720 --> 01:04:22,960
Speaker 3: was very kind of self conscious about it, like can

1259
01:04:23,040 --> 01:04:25,800
Speaker 3: I just make these my glasses for the night. But

1260
01:04:25,840 --> 01:04:28,160
Speaker 3: a friend of mine who is a musician, was there

1261
01:04:28,200 --> 01:04:31,280
Speaker 3: at the table, also wearing blue glasses, and I was like,

1262
01:04:31,360 --> 01:04:33,240
Speaker 3: I'm sitting right next to him. We're wearing a blue

1263
01:04:33,280 --> 01:04:34,120
Speaker 3: glasses together.

1264
01:04:36,320 --> 01:04:38,720
Speaker 2: No, I think that's they I think it has to

1265
01:04:38,760 --> 01:04:41,959
Speaker 2: look purposeful, yes, exactly. With someone like Heraldo, it looks

1266
01:04:42,000 --> 01:04:44,440
Speaker 2: like he got them off the racket, Dwayne Reed, or

1267
01:04:45,160 --> 01:04:46,040
Speaker 2: they look horrible.

1268
01:04:46,120 --> 01:04:47,960
Speaker 3: He absolutely cannot be doing this.

1269
01:04:48,360 --> 01:04:50,320
Speaker 2: No, I mean there are so many things he can't

1270
01:04:50,400 --> 01:04:51,400
Speaker 2: and shouldn't be doing.

1271
01:04:51,600 --> 01:04:54,360
Speaker 3: That's like if Bill Barr started wearing ting glasses.

1272
01:04:55,920 --> 01:05:00,800
Speaker 2: I would love to see that. Let's get villains. Claes

1273
01:05:01,880 --> 01:05:05,040
Speaker 2: Uh excellently played, Paul. I really think you did an

1274
01:05:05,080 --> 01:05:09,360
Speaker 2: excellent job there, and all of those gifts were beautifully given.

1275
01:05:09,920 --> 01:05:11,840
Speaker 2: We've got to do one more thing. This is called

1276
01:05:11,880 --> 01:05:14,200
Speaker 2: I said no emails. People write into I said no

1277
01:05:14,280 --> 01:05:18,040
Speaker 2: gifts at gmail dot com. Every one of them has

1278
01:05:18,080 --> 01:05:21,200
Speaker 2: got something going on in their life that they've decided

1279
01:05:21,200 --> 01:05:24,840
Speaker 2: to turn to this podcast, and so out of just

1280
01:05:25,360 --> 01:05:28,280
Speaker 2: the largeness of my heart. I try to give some advice.

1281
01:05:28,760 --> 01:05:29,920
Speaker 2: Would you help me answer?

1282
01:05:30,200 --> 01:05:30,400
Speaker 3: Yes?

1283
01:05:30,960 --> 01:05:33,680
Speaker 2: Okay, this large of heart, large of head, This is bridge.

1284
01:05:35,320 --> 01:05:40,200
Speaker 2: This man has got something going on in his dreams. Okay,

1285
01:05:40,200 --> 01:05:42,680
Speaker 2: this first one, and I apologize. They don't address you

1286
01:05:42,720 --> 01:05:45,360
Speaker 2: in any way. It just says Bridger, not my problem,

1287
01:05:45,440 --> 01:05:48,880
Speaker 2: It's okay. It says. My paternal Grammy is little and

1288
01:05:49,000 --> 01:05:51,480
Speaker 2: Scottish and I was ranting to her once a long

1289
01:05:51,520 --> 01:05:55,000
Speaker 2: time ago about how my maternal grandma used to force

1290
01:05:55,080 --> 01:05:57,920
Speaker 2: me to watch the sound of music so much that

1291
01:05:58,000 --> 01:06:01,600
Speaker 2: I can't stand it. Somehow, how Grammy got confused and

1292
01:06:01,640 --> 01:06:05,560
Speaker 2: now thinks that I love the sound of it. And

1293
01:06:05,600 --> 01:06:08,000
Speaker 2: for my birthday she got me this super nice box

1294
01:06:08,000 --> 01:06:10,960
Speaker 2: set with a hand painted jewelry box and a replica

1295
01:06:11,040 --> 01:06:14,360
Speaker 2: of the original playbill. I had to smile and act

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Speaker 2: like I loved it. But what do I do now?

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Speaker 2: I hate this movie. I don't want to throw away

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Speaker 2: this gift from the only living grandparent I actually like.

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Speaker 2: That's from Alison. So Allison has got a lot of

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Speaker 2: grandparent drama going on in her life. She's maternal grandmother

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Speaker 2: versus paternal grandmother. I mean, this can only end in tears.

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Speaker 2: What do you do with this gift?

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Speaker 3: I have two suggestions. First would be there must be

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Speaker 3: someone in your life who loves this movie. There's got

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Speaker 3: it right. I think everyone has someone in their life

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Speaker 3: who loves the sound of music, has seen it a

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Speaker 3: million times, and is down to see it whenever it

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Speaker 3: comes on TV. Right. Failing that, I think you have

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Speaker 3: to embrace the absurd. It's it couldn't be more perfect

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Speaker 3: that your sweet grandmother heard the message, heard the nicest

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Speaker 3: possible message that you love this movie, remembered it, and

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Speaker 3: then got you this gift. Like you have to just

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Speaker 3: you have to have to have to embrace how perfect

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Speaker 3: that is.

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Speaker 2: Most grandmothers are just giving you know, the five dollars

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Speaker 2: bill in a card.

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Speaker 3: Yes, you know this is elaborate.

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Speaker 2: I know this is like a multifaceted gift. Yes, yeah,

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Speaker 2: I mean going back to your first suggestion, apparently the

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Speaker 2: maternal grandma is obsessed with this, obsessed with this movie. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: if it sounds like you've just got a shoe in

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Speaker 2: gift for her next Christmas?

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Speaker 3: When do these two ever meet up? Do you know

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Speaker 3: what I mean each other? Yes? Exactly. We also don't

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Speaker 3: know if that grandmother is still alive the maternal grandmother,

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Speaker 3: she did say, or he I can't remember who who Elice?

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Speaker 3: They said, Alison said, this is the only living grandparent

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Speaker 3: that Alison likes. But we don't know how many grandparents

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Speaker 3: that is.

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Speaker 2: She's essentially just given us a mystery. This is like

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Speaker 2: a word problem on the SAT. How many living grandparents

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Speaker 2: does Alison have that she likes? Yeah, could be anywhere

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Speaker 2: between one and a hundred. And from what I know,

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Speaker 2: from what I remember about I think Google doc Alison

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Speaker 2: Paul has given you two excellent options. I you know,

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Speaker 2: I lean towards keeping it. You know, paternal Grammy is

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Speaker 2: little in Scottish. She sounds adorable and you're gonna want

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01:08:39,439 --> 01:08:41,880
Speaker 2: something to remember her by, whether it's a movie you

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Speaker 2: despise or not. So you've got have a story.

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Speaker 3: Like anyone who comes to your home. You have to

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Speaker 3: put it in a prominent place, and when somebody asks

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Speaker 3: about it, you tell them the story. It's a great story.

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Speaker 3: Every everyone would laugh hearing this story. It's perfect, and

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Speaker 3: they also see how much do you love your wee

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01:09:00,960 --> 01:09:01,799
Speaker 3: Scottish Grammy?

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Speaker 2: Right, A gift doesn't have to be something you're actually

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01:09:04,360 --> 01:09:07,680
Speaker 2: gonna use. Can sometimes just be a nice memory, or

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01:09:07,720 --> 01:09:09,280
Speaker 2: it can be a hat that doesn't fit on your

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01:09:09,360 --> 01:09:15,559
Speaker 2: huge head exactly, Paul, can we answer one more question here?

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01:09:15,600 --> 01:09:17,040
Speaker 2: I've got to be better about this. Oh?

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01:09:17,040 --> 01:09:17,720
Speaker 3: Absolutely.

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01:09:18,479 --> 01:09:20,280
Speaker 2: Now this is another one where it just says deer

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01:09:20,320 --> 01:09:23,720
Speaker 2: Bridger and then you know they've used the underscore to

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01:09:23,760 --> 01:09:27,240
Speaker 2: make a blank. So we'll say deer Bridger and Paul F. Tompkins.

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Speaker 3: Sure.

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01:09:27,840 --> 01:09:30,799
Speaker 2: My father is going to retire this year after working

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01:09:30,840 --> 01:09:34,280
Speaker 2: forty plus years for his city's fire department. I'd love

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01:09:34,320 --> 01:09:36,679
Speaker 2: for your help to come up with a perfect gift

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01:09:36,760 --> 01:09:40,120
Speaker 2: that shows how proud I am of him and his accomplishments.

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01:09:40,160 --> 01:09:42,320
Speaker 2: A little bit about him. He's a jack of all

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01:09:42,360 --> 01:09:44,800
Speaker 2: trades and is always keeping himself busy in his spare

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01:09:44,840 --> 01:09:49,080
Speaker 2: time by playing hard. His interests include vacationing at the

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01:09:49,160 --> 01:09:52,240
Speaker 2: lake in his RV trailer, riding around town on his

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01:09:52,320 --> 01:09:57,080
Speaker 2: e mountain bike, planning fun vacations with my mom, going

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01:09:57,080 --> 01:10:01,000
Speaker 2: to concerts with his fellow hippie friends, and absolutely doting

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01:10:01,000 --> 01:10:04,000
Speaker 2: on his grandchildren. I feel like a plaque to put

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01:10:04,000 --> 01:10:06,120
Speaker 2: it on his wall would just not do him justice.

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01:10:06,200 --> 01:10:08,040
Speaker 2: Well I didn't suggest that, so I don't know why

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01:10:08,040 --> 01:10:11,879
Speaker 2: you're getting after me, Heather, any help you can provide

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01:10:11,960 --> 01:10:14,720
Speaker 2: is sincerely appreciated. Thank you, Heather. So, the one thing

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Speaker 2: we know that Heather just kind of preemptively freaked out

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01:10:17,880 --> 01:10:21,280
Speaker 2: about was she doesn't want a plaque for dad. I

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01:10:21,320 --> 01:10:23,679
Speaker 2: don't know what she means. Okay, don't get him a plaque.

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01:10:23,760 --> 01:10:24,559
Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't know.

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01:10:25,080 --> 01:10:28,679
Speaker 2: Don't get him a trophy. It never yeh.

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01:10:28,720 --> 01:10:30,840
Speaker 3: Don't get in the key to the city. There's a

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01:10:30,880 --> 01:10:34,120
Speaker 3: lot of things you don't have to get him. However,

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01:10:34,640 --> 01:10:37,880
Speaker 3: the plaque suggestion gives me an idea. I don't know

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01:10:37,920 --> 01:10:40,320
Speaker 3: what kind of plaque she was thinking of, but you know,

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01:10:40,479 --> 01:10:43,839
Speaker 3: in like in England where they have those blue historical plaques.

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01:10:44,200 --> 01:10:46,639
Speaker 2: Oh, those are beautiful, so classic.

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01:10:46,760 --> 01:10:49,840
Speaker 3: You can get custom ones of those made to put

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01:10:49,880 --> 01:10:50,759
Speaker 3: on your own home.

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01:10:51,240 --> 01:10:53,400
Speaker 2: Is this another Instagram ad? You've seen this?

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01:10:53,479 --> 01:10:57,639
Speaker 3: I've seen this on Etsy. Oh of course, but they

1386
01:10:57,640 --> 01:11:00,320
Speaker 3: look like the real thing. They're like actual flats ruined

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01:11:00,320 --> 01:11:01,400
Speaker 3: to the side of your house.

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01:11:01,880 --> 01:11:05,240
Speaker 2: Oh that sounds wonderful, sounds so classy and charming.

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01:11:05,400 --> 01:11:08,280
Speaker 3: Yeah, and it's it's it's certainly an interesting thing. Not

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01:11:08,439 --> 01:11:10,680
Speaker 3: a lot of people have this. If your dad is

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01:11:10,720 --> 01:11:13,920
Speaker 3: this sort of outsized character, I think you could come

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01:11:14,000 --> 01:11:15,680
Speaker 3: up with something fun to put on that plaque to

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01:11:15,720 --> 01:11:20,840
Speaker 3: commemorate him. Right, failing that, I mean, maybe an elaborate

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01:11:21,000 --> 01:11:22,599
Speaker 3: sound of music themed give.

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01:11:25,200 --> 01:11:28,240
Speaker 2: Maybe we can put Heather in touch with Alison. Alison's

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01:11:28,240 --> 01:11:31,080
Speaker 2: trying to offload this pile of garbage. The Grammy gather

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01:11:32,120 --> 01:11:34,479
Speaker 2: and as far as I can tell, this father has

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01:11:34,640 --> 01:11:37,599
Speaker 2: never seen the sound of music. I mean, we only

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01:11:37,640 --> 01:11:38,800
Speaker 2: have so many details.

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Speaker 3: It's his last great adventure is to finally seek the

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01:11:43,000 --> 01:11:51,000
Speaker 3: sound of music. For yeah, exactly, fighting fires to going

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01:11:51,040 --> 01:11:54,519
Speaker 3: to concerts. The one hill he has not climbed.

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01:11:55,360 --> 01:11:58,000
Speaker 2: Heather, This is the one thing that's popping into my mind.

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01:11:58,200 --> 01:12:02,040
Speaker 2: He has been fighting fires for forty years. This is

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01:12:02,080 --> 01:12:04,960
Speaker 2: the one thing everyone knows about firefighters. The one thing

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01:12:05,000 --> 01:12:07,240
Speaker 2: we're all jealous of is they have the pole to

1407
01:12:07,320 --> 01:12:10,800
Speaker 2: slide down. He doesn't have access to that anymore. Get

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01:12:10,880 --> 01:12:12,920
Speaker 2: him a pole in the house. What do you think?

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01:12:12,960 --> 01:12:14,560
Speaker 2: What are you talking about? That's of course what you

1410
01:12:14,560 --> 01:12:15,200
Speaker 2: should get him.

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01:12:15,280 --> 01:12:17,200
Speaker 3: That's absolutely it. That has to be it.

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01:12:17,560 --> 01:12:20,719
Speaker 2: Cut a hole in the top floor and then slide

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01:12:21,240 --> 01:12:23,439
Speaker 2: the pole down. Your mom can get well, this mom

1414
01:12:23,439 --> 01:12:25,200
Speaker 2: in the picture, I can't remember. I'm sorry if I

1415
01:12:25,280 --> 01:12:28,519
Speaker 2: bringing up bad memory. Oh no, she's still part of

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01:12:28,520 --> 01:12:30,559
Speaker 2: the picture. Mom and Dad are sliding down the pole.

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01:12:30,600 --> 01:12:34,160
Speaker 2: The grandkids are loving it. Absolutely, bring the firehouse home.

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01:12:35,680 --> 01:12:39,080
Speaker 2: That's what we make that firehouse a fire home. Yes,

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01:12:39,520 --> 01:12:43,880
Speaker 2: this is my Instagram. I think that could really take off,

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01:12:44,040 --> 01:12:47,160
Speaker 2: just suggesting these poles to be drilled into people's homes.

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01:12:47,240 --> 01:12:49,559
Speaker 3: Absolutely, Heather, you.

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01:12:50,240 --> 01:12:53,400
Speaker 2: I mean, you've got so many great suggestions here that

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01:12:53,439 --> 01:12:56,040
Speaker 2: you should be writing me a check right now, a

1424
01:12:56,160 --> 01:13:00,280
Speaker 2: big fat check. My name is Bridger Wineger. Paul will

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01:13:00,680 --> 01:13:07,439
Speaker 2: be receiving none of it. Paul's looking very unhappy with

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01:13:07,479 --> 01:13:09,760
Speaker 2: me right now. That's not my problem. Why I am

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01:13:09,920 --> 01:13:14,439
Speaker 2: helping then, you're doing it because you out of the

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01:13:14,479 --> 01:13:18,120
Speaker 2: goodness of who you are. You're trying to be a

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01:13:18,160 --> 01:13:21,120
Speaker 2: better person. You're always saying I want to be better,

1430
01:13:21,560 --> 01:13:24,040
Speaker 2: and I'm trying to help you in this journey. And

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01:13:24,080 --> 01:13:29,320
Speaker 2: I've given you opportunity after opportunity. Here, asked an answered Paul,

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01:13:30,080 --> 01:13:34,360
Speaker 2: what a beautiful gift I've received. Here I have behind me,

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01:13:34,400 --> 01:13:38,080
Speaker 2: you can see some empty shelves and I'm constantly wondering

1434
01:13:38,120 --> 01:13:40,400
Speaker 2: what do I put on these? And now I'm starting

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01:13:40,439 --> 01:13:42,840
Speaker 2: to wonder, is this the first thing? And then we

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01:13:42,880 --> 01:13:43,840
Speaker 2: build around the top.

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01:13:43,920 --> 01:13:47,479
Speaker 3: Pat. Wow, I would be honored. Of course, I am

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01:13:47,520 --> 01:13:48,800
Speaker 3: devastated that it doesn't fit.

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01:13:49,560 --> 01:13:49,960
Speaker 1: Well.

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01:13:50,200 --> 01:13:52,920
Speaker 2: Look, heads are very tricky things, It's true. I mean

1441
01:13:52,960 --> 01:13:55,200
Speaker 2: my head may have grown since the last time you saw.

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01:13:55,880 --> 01:13:58,320
Speaker 3: You're still growing.

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01:14:05,200 --> 01:14:07,280
Speaker 2: But you know, if this were just a baseball cap

1444
01:14:07,360 --> 01:14:09,880
Speaker 2: that didn't fit, I would just now own something that

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01:14:09,960 --> 01:14:12,559
Speaker 2: didn't matter. But I've got a beautiful top hat that

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01:14:13,439 --> 01:14:16,000
Speaker 2: kind of fits and might fit after I stretch it out,

1447
01:14:16,080 --> 01:14:18,559
Speaker 2: and if it doesn't, I have a beautiful display piece

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01:14:18,600 --> 01:14:19,519
Speaker 2: that I can talk about.

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01:14:19,640 --> 01:14:20,479
Speaker 3: That's exactly right.

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01:14:21,000 --> 01:14:23,200
Speaker 2: It's wonderful. I'm so happy that you were able to

1451
01:14:23,240 --> 01:14:27,760
Speaker 2: be here. I'm so just beyond thrilled and thank you.

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01:14:28,160 --> 01:14:30,400
Speaker 3: It was absolutely my pleasure, and thank you for having me.

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01:14:31,080 --> 01:14:34,439
Speaker 2: Now, listener, maybe you can go get a hat. You

1454
01:14:34,600 --> 01:14:37,240
Speaker 2: know your head size, you can go figure that out

1455
01:14:37,280 --> 01:14:39,519
Speaker 2: for yourself and make that little We're all headed out

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01:14:39,520 --> 01:14:41,840
Speaker 2: into the world. If we're vaccinated, we can go to

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01:14:41,880 --> 01:14:45,120
Speaker 2: the hat shop. Go do both of those things, and

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01:14:46,120 --> 01:14:52,920
Speaker 2: stop listening to the podcast. Now take care, bye bye.

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01:14:54,720 --> 01:14:59,120
Speaker 2: I said. No Gifts is an exactly right production. It's

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Speaker 2: produced engineered by our dear friend Annalise Nelson and the

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Speaker 2: theme song is by miracle worker Amy Mann. You must

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Speaker 2: follow the show on Instagram. At I said no gifts,

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Speaker 2: that's where you're going to see pictures of all these

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01:15:14,520 --> 01:15:17,639
Speaker 2: wonderful gifts I'm getting. You have to see the gifts.

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Speaker 2: But you're a guest to me.

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Speaker 1: You gotta come to me empty and I said, no guests,

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Speaker 1: your presences presents and I already had too much dough,

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Speaker 1: So how do you dare to survey me