00:00:08 Speaker 1: Well, I invited you here, thought I made myself perfectly clear. But you're a guess to my home. You gotta come to me empty, and I said, no guests, your presences presents, and I already had too much stuff. So how did you dare to surbey me? 00:00:48 Speaker 2: Welcome to? I said no gifts. I'm Bridger Winegar. This is I said no gifts and I'm Bridger Wineger. I hope you're wearing your favorite shirt, and if you're not, maybe take a minute and go put that on. I don't want you looking bad. I want you looking and feeling your best while you're listening, because right now I'm about to introduce one of my all time favorites, just the funniest man. Yes, Sir Leicester, Yes, sir, welcome to. I said no gifts, Ri number one. 00:01:24 Speaker 3: Thank you so much for having me, And your voice is so regal that it almost reads a sarcastic crowd. 00:01:33 Speaker 2: I was like, oh, all right, I secretly hate him. Yes, Sir Leicester, Hi, wow, this is exciting. I mean, so you are the first remote recording we've done. We recorded sixteen episodes before the world blew up, and those have been airing and I've been dragging my feet as far as this scenario goes, because for obvious reasons, I don't want to be talking to someone on the but we're just going to do it. And here you are, and you're or You're in my bedroom, I'm in your closet, and we're in our listener's ears. And you before the podcast began, you've indicated that you're you just bought some new motion lights for your closet, which I experience while watching you. 00:02:20 Speaker 3: Yeah, because I for those of you that can't see clearly, if I stop moving, the lights go out, so me and Brier will be talking and then it just goes completely dark, which has got to be stupid and confusing. 00:02:34 Speaker 4: Like, what a stupid, confusing time. 00:02:37 Speaker 2: I'm hoping that the next time the light comes back on your throat is slid. I've just witnessed a murder. 00:02:45 Speaker 3: Oh, I red that. I mean it sincerely with all my heart. It would be worth it. 00:02:50 Speaker 4: It would really be so I wish I would have. 00:02:55 Speaker 3: Had I even remotely thought about that, I would have hired someone to kill me today. 00:03:00 Speaker 2: Oh, listen to the episode of the podcast where Yes Or is Murder? 00:03:05 Speaker 3: It would be funny if I got murdered like two minutes in and then you kept going. 00:03:12 Speaker 2: Just some other things on my mind. Ye, yes, Or has been crushed by a chandelier. 00:03:21 Speaker 4: From Jake Wiseman's old chop. 00:03:23 Speaker 2: Oh my god, I forgot he worked in a chandelier's story story. Yeah, yes, sir. We've known for a while. We knew each other over the internet for a long time. Yeah yeah, but yeah, like in the last year or so, I've actually gotten to know each other. We work yeah, Black Monday. Yeah, but I mean, I think the thing that immediately we bonded over and we won't be able to get into this too much. The things we don't like. 00:03:50 Speaker 3: Oh buddy, there's TV shows we hate, there's songs we hate, there's books, there's people like. 00:03:57 Speaker 2: I mean, there's an encycloped of things to dislike. 00:04:03 Speaker 3: I'll say this one thing that I genuinely and I like. It's hard because you never want to be the person like to me, there's nothing cornier than the person you meet who like walks in and their personality is like this sucks, you know, all right? Yeah, Like sure, I guess, but like there is something to be said about we the way we love each other. Because of what we both hate is what I like. 00:04:35 Speaker 2: It's well, and I think it came out organically, you know, hating things. It's just like, right, yeah, somebody like breaks the seal mentioned something, we don't like that, then it's just an avalanche. But I feel like we line up, you know. I almost feel like if I could just subscribe to a newsletter from you, it's just like, this is the new stuff that nobody that is bad. Like every time, it would be perfect for me. It would shut down a lot of my heavy lifting. 00:05:01 Speaker 4: This is not an exaggeration. 00:05:04 Speaker 3: My girlfriend Chelsea, who you also know, will We'll be like watching something or you know, listening to a song or something, and I'll be like, I really hate this and she's like, oh, I like it, And then I'll look at her and be like, I'm in a text bridger and you'll be my first reach out. 00:05:20 Speaker 4: Every single time. 00:05:21 Speaker 3: I'm like, there's no way, there's no way this is good. 00:05:26 Speaker 2: Yes, yes, no, I really appreciate. I mean, that's a whole I mean, that's just an unair aired podcast episode waiting to happen where we just oh my god, especially because it's been months since we've seen each other yeah. 00:05:40 Speaker 4: And so yeah, we do. After this, we will. 00:05:42 Speaker 2: We'll just get into it. I feel like there are plenty of things we've got to catch up on them. 00:05:46 Speaker 4: It's just alright. 00:05:48 Speaker 2: But outside of it, something I wanted to talk to you about several months ago which we haven't been able to is I believe you bought a sewing machine. Yes, I want to hear about the sewing. I've been dying to know. You've become a sewing person, a little seamstress. 00:06:08 Speaker 4: So here's what happened. 00:06:10 Speaker 3: I uh so, I also I own like a vinyl cutter and a heat press, right, you don't know. It's these two kind of simple machines that like you run the vinyl cutter through your computer, you make little designs, and then you essentially like burn them all into your clothes with this heat press. So I was like, this is cool all I sell on Chelsea. Uh, But like I was like, I should actually like learn how to make the clothes. Like at this point, like it's just like everyone's just buying like literally garbage from H and Mzaara, and it's like, you know, it's like if something would ever happen, it would be nice to know how to like patch up a pair of pants or like make a simple T shirt for myself with like material that I like. 00:06:52 Speaker 4: So I tell her this like literally in passing. 00:06:56 Speaker 3: And then a week later was my birthday and she's like, surprise, guys, and. 00:07:00 Speaker 4: There was a sewing machine. Oh my god, yeah. 00:07:04 Speaker 3: Like and like it's really nice sewing table. I was like, oh crap, this is so dope, but like now I have to learn. 00:07:11 Speaker 4: So me, my mom, and my best friend Reza his wife Heather, who's also one of my best friends. 00:07:19 Speaker 3: Us three took a sewing class before. I mean, technically we're still in it, we just can't go. But we've been taking sewing classes so I could like learn how to do all this stuff, like how to make anything. So I like I learned how to make like a clutch and learned how to make like a tote bag and my I'm gonna make like a zippered thing if we're ever allowed outside again. But like we ended up we lent the sewing machine out, like right as the quarantine, the Great Quarantine happened because people were like needing them to like make face masks. 00:07:56 Speaker 2: Who did you lend it to the face mask factory? 00:07:59 Speaker 4: I this is this is not an exaggeration. 00:08:02 Speaker 3: So in uh so my my sister's birthday not this May that just passed, but last May she held it at my sister's gay married to a beautiful woman named Tally. I want to say it's a it's a like gay slash drag club called Prospect maybe or pre Saint. I think it's pre Saint. It's like downtown, all right, So anyway, uh, the guy who needed it was just like meet me in front of Pre Saint downtown. So we kind of just left it with a stranger in front of a drag club. 00:08:36 Speaker 2: I slightly dangerous exchange of a sewing machine. 00:08:40 Speaker 3: Well, I mean like it was so crazy because it really was. He was just like I'll be outside. We pull up, he's just like smoking. He's just like this, I mean like buff, bald, shredded gay dude. He's just like just leave it right there, and he's just like it's so funny because like it was. He was almost a Tom of Finland drawing. Oh yeah, like truly just like just like no shirt but like leather vest open like a captain's that. Like it was so funny. It was so funny. I could not get enough of him. But uh, anyway, yeah, so he has it right now? 00:09:16 Speaker 2: So do do you have any idea and it's going to be returned or is. 00:09:19 Speaker 4: It just literally not a clue? That a clue. 00:09:23 Speaker 3: I was like once we left those like do we even have contact? I guess we have to because we gave it to him, right. If he were just like no, sorry, we'd have to be like, Okay. 00:09:37 Speaker 2: That's crazy. Yeah. Did you have you received any masks from them? 00:09:41 Speaker 4: Or is it just that's the other thing? Like I thought, at the very least send us one or two. 00:09:46 Speaker 2: Bare minimum got the machine. 00:09:49 Speaker 4: He has the machine. 00:09:49 Speaker 2: Meanwhile, your skills are just eroding. 00:09:52 Speaker 3: I'm not kidding, Like I think about it a lot because like, sewing is like one of those things that like have you done it? 00:10:00 Speaker 2: The only sewing I've done was in seventh grade in homech we had to make a like a wind sock. Do you know what that is? 00:10:06 Speaker 4: Like? 00:10:06 Speaker 2: Yes, and I was terrible. I mean I was like, I was a decent student overall, but this was like one of those things where you have to stay after school to like and get special help to make ring and then it's still it's not good. But I made it in like Utah jazz colors, and then my mom probably put it in the attic and we forgot about it. Okay, but that's a lovely sewing I've done. 00:10:28 Speaker 3: It's so, I mean, so you have enough experience to know that, like it is such a process to get to the sewing part of it, right that like, if you don't, if you're not a like, if you're not constantly doing it, like you know, at least three or four times a week, like you just forget. Oh yeah, truly, Like so each time we take the class. 00:10:50 Speaker 4: It's like the first twenty minutes, they're like, okay, do this. Here's the bobbing. 00:10:54 Speaker 3: So now it's like I truly like when he gives it back, I'm just gonna be like, all right, maybe this is just yours because it just it's so intimidating. 00:11:04 Speaker 2: And it's a little scary too because you're fit. I mean, it's like kind of dangerous. Your fingers are down there by this little hammer with a needle in it, and you're like pushing a gas pedal. Essentially, it's like kind of a high octane hobby. 00:11:17 Speaker 3: Fully, the first time I did it, like it didn't go all the way through. But I was like trying to get my finger to do something and literally did the exact thing you described. Was like foot comes down, needle just goes like just right in it out of my finger. 00:11:32 Speaker 4: And I was just like, Oh, did. 00:11:34 Speaker 2: You have to go to the hospital or anything. 00:11:36 Speaker 4: No, because it wasn't. 00:11:36 Speaker 3: I was just like, you know, sewing needles are relatively small. You kind of just throw some feroxide up in there. 00:11:41 Speaker 4: I throw some super glue over it to seal that hole. 00:11:46 Speaker 2: So had you done any sewing before this? 00:11:50 Speaker 3: I maybe when I was like same thing as you, like homeack in like seventh grade, like truly, and I'm trying to think of what it was because I remember making the seam of something and I don't even remember what it was anymore. 00:12:03 Speaker 4: Might have been like an apron pocket. 00:12:08 Speaker 3: Yeah, it was really a ball maine down covered in pearls. 00:12:14 Speaker 2: And then you gave it up. 00:12:15 Speaker 3: Yeah, And I was just like this is I did. I did my one thing. 00:12:19 Speaker 2: I mean that homech thing. I I do not think I learned a single skill, but I feel like that was the one thing, the one class in all of school that I probably should have paid attention and learned something to have some level of practical skill, but instead it was like we made the windsock and then I had like learned a recipe where we put like marshmallows in Pillsbury dough, and uh, that was it. It was terrible. 00:12:47 Speaker 4: Wait was it the one where you like, was it the thing where you like roll out the sheet of like crescent rolls and then you put marshmallows in and then like you put another sheet of crescent rolls on top of it, essentially like yeah. 00:12:58 Speaker 2: And then like the marshmallow kind of disappears or something, right, yeah, yeah, and it's just like a dry dough with the swing interior. 00:13:07 Speaker 3: I remember, this is so stupid. I was in homeck we had God I wish I could remember her name now. But it's like so funny to think about school now because you're like, oh, everyone was just twenty seven, and I all thought they were like four years old. 00:13:21 Speaker 2: I thought they had been on earth since the beginning and they had acquired all of the knowledge they possibly could. 00:13:27 Speaker 3: It was just like literally just like struggling college students that are just like all right, here I am with this ghetto, but like we're this homeag teacher who's just like this young blonde girl and like she remember we had to like make these things with caramel blocks or like carmel blocks, right, And she's like okay, everyone like I'm gonna give you. Do you know what the marshmallow test is, by the way, yeah, of course, okay. 00:13:51 Speaker 4: Yeah. 00:13:51 Speaker 3: So she's essentially like, hey, these are the caramel blocks used for cooking. Just don't eat them and then you'll get one at the end, and everyone's like yeah, sure. Literally the moment she's like all right, start cooking. I just popped mine into my mouth. I started eating and she comes by because I had to sneak and try and grab the one that I was supposed to eat later, and she's like what are you doing? And I was like, oh, I dropped mine on the ground and she's like, uh, well where is it? And I was like, oh, I threw it away and she's like, well, let's trash can. I was like, I like took it out in the hall and she's like, let me smell your breath. And I was like, why is she doing this far because I was I'll say this in her defense, I was so clearly lying and I was such a bad kid. It's just like I truly like I don't advocate spanking, but like every time in my life I've been like hit by like my mom or someone, I'm like. 00:14:42 Speaker 2: Yeah, but I'm sorry this lady. I feel like if you're getting to the level where you're smelling a seventh grader's breath, there's something something has gone wrong. That's very hard. Yeah, give him another Caramel's See. 00:14:58 Speaker 3: That's the bigger part is really who cares? Like why unless it's like one of those weird things where like this came out of like her. 00:15:06 Speaker 2: Pitcheck right, or if you had swallowed a thousand dollars. It's just like I can smell the dollar bills on your I can see them con your teeth. 00:15:16 Speaker 4: Oh my god, that would be funny. 00:15:18 Speaker 3: Whatever a teacher is meant just eating all of it, Like I'm just so sorry. 00:15:22 Speaker 4: How much is that? 00:15:23 Speaker 3: I'm so sorry? But yeah, so homech I was just saying that it was now especially you're just like dang, I will say time, this is the time. I really like I'm an okay cook, Like I mean make things that like I know what flavors to put together. 00:15:43 Speaker 4: You know what I'm saying. 00:15:44 Speaker 2: But like you've eaten enough food to know that something tastes good. 00:15:48 Speaker 4: Right, yeah, butter and salt like that'll get you there. 00:15:52 Speaker 2: What are you making? 00:15:54 Speaker 4: So I make a lot of like so we're we're like pescatarians or whatever. 00:15:59 Speaker 3: Right, So so there's things, you know, there's like little tricks of the trade, like salmon can be like cooked from thawed or frozen, so we like there's not too much prep with it. It's really just like you know, you want to do some lemons and garlics, some dill, a little bit of salt, a little bit of olive oil. Throw that in the oven, delicious fry like get get the fresh shrimp, not even the fresh shrimp. But when I say fresh, I mean the cooked pink shrimp. I don't want to be the gray it's disgusting. Throw that in a pan with some olive oil and some like crushed red pepper, and then you're gonna cook that. 00:16:38 Speaker 4: For a little bit. Then you flash fry shaved Brussels sprouts. 00:16:43 Speaker 2: Flash frying is that when there's like a flame involved. 00:16:46 Speaker 3: No, no, no, no, it's just a high heat, like you just heat the oil like super super high, dangerous right to a dangerous point going there. So you only cook it for like one or two minutes, like oh okay, and then uh you you make little tacos with that. 00:17:01 Speaker 4: You know, there's you know, there's other little things. 00:17:04 Speaker 2: I don't know. 00:17:05 Speaker 4: We eat a lot of like beyond meat. 00:17:07 Speaker 2: Oh of course, of course, Like are you a. 00:17:09 Speaker 4: Beyond a person? 00:17:10 Speaker 3: I'm not. 00:17:10 Speaker 2: I'm I'm not vegetarian or anything. I don't mind it, but like I never seek it out. Yeah, I mean it's. 00:17:16 Speaker 3: You like you'll just if you You're like, I'm gonna get a cheeseburger. You like, go get a cheeseburger. 00:17:20 Speaker 2: Oh. Absolutely, My heart is in terrible condition. Oh really, my cholesterol. I like, I have to do things to get it under control. But also, you know, I live with Jim, who is is the worst person to live with as far as that sort of thing goes, because that's all he wants to eat. So and of course I'll like if someone says I want to eat a cheeseburger, like, oh yeah, I'll have a cheeseburger, right, So I eat too many. But I mean, the the quarantine has helped. I've I hadn't cooked a single thing until all this happened, and now I've learned to make tortillas. I'm making, you know, all sorts of things, none of them fantastic, but better than I couldn't possibly expect. 00:18:02 Speaker 4: I uh, I just sorry. I truly have just gotten in the. 00:18:09 Speaker 3: Like mindset of, look, it's probably gonna suck, so I might as well just like make it. 00:18:16 Speaker 4: Yeah, like I just kind of enjoy it, or yeah, yeah. 00:18:19 Speaker 3: Like it's so weird, Like I don't know, like there's like this weird thing that happened to you know, kind of keeping it on the home ech of it all is that like I never fully expected to like be in a cooking situation in the sense that I thought I was either going to be so broke that all I was gonna eat was like ramen and like peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, or I was gonna be so rich that I'd have a chef. 00:18:44 Speaker 4: But it's like neither of those are true. 00:18:47 Speaker 2: You got it nice right in the middle where you have to do everything. There's no excuse whatsoever. 00:18:55 Speaker 3: It's just like I'm kind of just like a middle class you know, like, oh, this is what people have been talking about, Like I will like because Chelsea isn't like she she doesn't really cook, she doesn't really clean, and this isn't me going. 00:19:09 Speaker 2: After her, and this is just torturing. 00:19:13 Speaker 4: I was ready to flame up my girlfriend. 00:19:16 Speaker 3: But she's not domestic as the term right, She's not as domestic as I am. So I truly I get up every morning, I like walk the dog, I come back in, I clean the kitchen, I like prep the living room for her to clean. And it's like by the time I've done, it's like ten thirty in the morning, and I'm like. 00:19:36 Speaker 2: I am exhausted. 00:19:40 Speaker 3: The idea of like having to do that with like children around is the I mean it sincerely. My mom was a single mom, and I'm like, of three children, I'm like, this makes no sense that any of us are alive. Like, there's no way I'd have a kid. Oh that would be dead at six years old. It's impossible. 00:19:59 Speaker 2: I was thinking the same thinking about my mom recently. I mean, she and my dad are so married. But like the idea of her doing that every single day and then like us complaining about dinner and her not murdering is all four of us. 00:20:11 Speaker 4: It's crazy, the craziest thing. That's what I was gonna say. 00:20:14 Speaker 3: So, like, so that's like my mom's single whatever or single mom whatever, idea of like a child being like I need help with my homework and you like pick up my clothes. 00:20:22 Speaker 4: You know what are we gonna eat? Can I go to so and So's house? Like? Well? 00:20:25 Speaker 3: And I was like it really, I gotta say, like the level of clarity of like I don't want kids that came through this quarantine a. 00:20:34 Speaker 4: Huge shock through. 00:20:36 Speaker 2: It's hard enough with the dog. Yeah, it's crazy. Yeah, this is completely off topic, but yeah, correct me if this is if I'm wrong. Did you work at best Buy? 00:20:47 Speaker 4: Oh? No, you are absolutely correct. 00:20:49 Speaker 3: I worked at the best Buy on Santa Monica and the Libreall. 00:20:55 Speaker 2: I only ask because I also worked at best Buy. 00:20:57 Speaker 3: I truly there's and I mean this sincerely, Like I believe that you, as a person should be proud in any job that you do because you're a human being. He deserves to be happy and be respected. So when I say pride, I mean carrying that in terms of how people treat Sure should be proud, But I do not like anybody who was proud of their job, any job. 00:21:26 Speaker 4: I don't care what it is. 00:21:27 Speaker 3: If Lebron James is like I'm proud to be a basketball player, like you're a luler. 00:21:33 Speaker 4: Is my pet peeve. 00:21:35 Speaker 3: And the one thing I'll say is that best Buy really wanted you to be proud. Oh yeah, And I was like, you're just you're never going to get this from me. 00:21:43 Speaker 4: You got to move on. 00:21:44 Speaker 2: That's a huge ask. 00:21:46 Speaker 4: Wait, what can I ask? What department you worked on? 00:21:48 Speaker 2: I was like a cashier. 00:21:50 Speaker 4: Oh okay, you're up product. 00:21:51 Speaker 2: Yeah, where were you? 00:21:52 Speaker 4: So I was I. 00:21:54 Speaker 3: Was technically in DEI, which said for digital images. But when people just like cause best Buy is also one of those places where people were like, I'm not going to work today, so they're. 00:22:06 Speaker 4: Just like, uh, you're gonna work. You know, at these point of view, you've got to work, and you're like what. 00:22:10 Speaker 3: So when that happened, then they would like put me on cashier up front. But like it was, I'll say, like, dude, this week, I didn't know it, but I was blacktosed. I've been lactose in tolerant pretty much my whole life, but when I moved to LA it switched from being like, oh my tummy hurts to being full blown like cystic acne. So I was like working in best Buy, my face hurt because I was just ravaged in pimples selling digital cameras, and I was like, I am literally the person that I hate, like. 00:22:41 Speaker 4: Just like a door covered an acne, being like you should get a cannon five. 00:22:45 Speaker 2: It's just like, so, what how long were you there for? 00:22:50 Speaker 4: I worked there for like a year. 00:22:53 Speaker 3: I remember specifically, you know, it was a little less than a year because I started. Oh I I started in December and it was Christmas time, and then I quit after the following like Black Friday. 00:23:10 Speaker 2: Wow, so you were Black Friday? 00:23:12 Speaker 3: Yeah, because like I read, yeah, I originally got it because I was like I just need like a holiday job. And then I kind of just like okay whatever, and then oh yeah, they they called me and I'll never forget this. 00:23:24 Speaker 4: They called me in at three thirty in the morning. I was like what, who cares? Who cares? 00:23:32 Speaker 3: And I get there and they were just like you gotta like they were literally talking to me like again as if we were on the front lines of COVID, like you gotta be ready, like this is yes, sir, You've never seen anything like this. 00:23:45 Speaker 2: This is exactly what happened to me. We had to be there at like three am on Black Friday, and I'm not getting Our general manager said this is gonna be war. But the bullets aren't real bullets, they're rubber bullets. It's like, well, what are we talking about? And I remember my coworker leaning over and saying, I think he's going to have an aneurysm. He was like shouting at us like we were about to storm norm. I mean, it was crazy. And then and then of course it's just like you're standing for nine hours checking out computers, right, No, this's just this isn't war. This is just ye still working. 00:24:18 Speaker 3: People who wanted season two of Arrested Development on DVD for eight. 00:24:22 Speaker 4: Dollars, like that's all. 00:24:24 Speaker 3: It was like, I kept like scanning DVDs and then like at the end they were just like, oh my god, like our sales are through the roof. I'm like again, you have to understand I don't care. And then I found I was like I just can't do this anymore, Like I'm out, so I like quit. But I like weirdly met Seth Green working there and just straight up ass and I was like, well, you make me an intern on Robot Chicken and he. 00:24:48 Speaker 2: Was like yeah, oh my God, that's incredible. 00:24:50 Speaker 3: It's like, yeah, so it was like it definitely had a plus to it, Like there are so many like because I'll say this, I don't know, I don't think we've ever talked about this, Like are you still impressed by seeing celebrities or not? 00:25:02 Speaker 2: No, absolutely you're not. I think that. I think there are probably some that I truly love that if I saw them, I would be impressed, but otherwise it doesn't really do anything for me. 00:25:13 Speaker 4: Interest are you? Okay? Wait, who would impress or not impress you? Who would you be? Like, Oh, I'm kind of starstruck right now? 00:25:19 Speaker 2: Do you know who I was thinking about recently? Andre three thousand? Okay, I would be dazzled. I'd be like that's like a legend and like also kind of like a magical like hermit who right, yeah, yeah, no one sees right. But like as far as actors and stuff, I don't know. I'm I'm also bad at I mean maybe Laura Dern, Okay, I'd be I would be like, oh. 00:25:43 Speaker 4: That's cool, Oh but see to me, Laura Dern is like such a legend. Like I would be. 00:25:48 Speaker 3: Like, oh right, Flora d you know, But my problem is is that I it's not everyone, but like you know, I'm Seth Green and kind of was like told everyone I saw I saw a Shanti's mom at a seven eleven and literally told everyone at my hometown. 00:26:10 Speaker 4: I told everyone, was like you'll never guess. 00:26:14 Speaker 3: There was like, okay, Also, how do you know what a Shanzi's mom looks like? 00:26:18 Speaker 4: You know what I mean? 00:26:20 Speaker 3: So I still weirdly, there's like a part of me that like loves that kind of stuff, Like, dude, this is this is a sad one. 00:26:27 Speaker 4: But like I was at. 00:26:29 Speaker 3: I went to a restaurant a few months ago and as we were walking in, I don't know if you're a shark tank guy, Oh of course, Okay, mister Wonderful was walking out with Laurie and Barbara and Robert. It was like everyone but Damon and uh Mark, And I was like this, this is objectively cool to me. 00:26:49 Speaker 2: I mean, I mean, that's the Avengers. That's crazy. Why are they? That's crazy that they're seeing each other at all off of work. 00:26:57 Speaker 3: They must have truly, it must have been that thing, you know, where you're just all working and then you're like, should we just all go eat? 00:27:03 Speaker 4: Literally right now? Where none of us see each other ever. 00:27:05 Speaker 2: Again, Like, I just assume everyone in entertainment secretly hates each other and like does not want to see them outside of work. So that's shocking to me. 00:27:14 Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean that, I think we both know that to be true. 00:27:17 Speaker 3: But also sometimes we're just like, look, we're all headed the same way. 00:27:21 Speaker 4: Should we very. 00:27:21 Speaker 2: Tired, We've just bought a lot of new ideas. Let's set out. Also, I know you go ahead? 00:27:29 Speaker 4: No, no, no, go. 00:27:30 Speaker 2: Yeah, sir, you're the guest. I want you to go ahead. 00:27:33 Speaker 4: Oh my god. 00:27:33 Speaker 3: Okay, last thing was there's a very interesting shark chaink blog that tells you all of the companies they actually ended up investing in or if they actually tried to launch them or not, and you'd be shocked if they like make the deal on camera, just never give the people their money, never contact them again. 00:27:50 Speaker 4: Yeah, how does that crazy thing? It's this crazy thing where it's like. 00:27:54 Speaker 3: Technically they're not signing a contract, but I think it's Mark Burnett who show it is the producer. He gets one percent of sales for everything that goes on Shark Tank for the rest of their her business career. 00:28:09 Speaker 4: It's crazy. 00:28:10 Speaker 3: So it's like by very by very mention of like Mark Cuban being like, okay, you got a deal. They're essentially saying like, we might give it to you, but this is going to help waunt you regardless. 00:28:22 Speaker 4: It's crazy. 00:28:23 Speaker 2: Well, that's that's good to know. I mean, yeah, well, if I'm like Wark Tank, I'm going to take a contract with me, and I agree, and like I sign it on. 00:28:30 Speaker 3: Camp absolutely absolutely, because you know, because here's the thing is, like you're like they if you watch it, you're like they do between five and seven deals an episode, right, which there's one hundred episodes. That means there should be seven hundred companies. We're all like, oh, it's a shark Tank, but there's not we know of four we know like scrub Daddy, the Stuffed Bagels, Squatty Body, you know what I mean. 00:28:53 Speaker 4: Like, there's like. 00:28:54 Speaker 2: No if they were really launching all of those companies, the Shark Tank would literally be the cornerstone of American economy. Like if the show got canceled, it would just creater. I mean it already is. But that's crazy. 00:29:07 Speaker 4: Yeah, it's crazy. 00:29:08 Speaker 2: Oh I want to see that blog. 00:29:09 Speaker 4: Yeah, you got to check it out. It's wild. 00:29:17 Speaker 2: Well, I don't want to take us off shark Tank topic, but I do think there's something we need to talk about. We do, yes, sir, the podcast is obviously called I said no gifts right earlier today we saw each other at a socially distant U socially safe distance. 00:29:36 Speaker 4: Yes. 00:29:36 Speaker 2: You came to my apartment building and I came down to the lobby and you were holding a gift. Yes. Is this something you and you've left it with me, so I I assume you want me to open it. 00:29:50 Speaker 4: Yes, and if you could do it now, that would truly okay. 00:29:53 Speaker 2: I'm fully willing to do this. It's in a blue bag. It has some pink tissue. I did not. I was tempted to peak while we waited to record, but did not. So this is all very exciting. I'm gonna take it out here. This isn't This is actually you've given me a thoughtful gift, which is crazy. This is uh, you gave me Kurt Vonnegut's Time Quake, which is an incredible book. 00:30:28 Speaker 4: Yeah, oh so you read it. 00:30:29 Speaker 2: On your recommendation, but I read the e book, which is just I don't think as valuable. You can't mark up or anything, and this is a book which I truly think has some beautiful life advice, and uh, it's just it's one of his later books, so I don't think people hear about it as much. But I was truly bowled over by this. And you're a big Kurk Vonnegut. 00:30:53 Speaker 3: Person, truly so and this is so this is one of the things that we bonded over loving. 00:31:01 Speaker 4: Vonnigat, right, But. 00:31:03 Speaker 3: Uh yeah, truly, I he's it's so weird because like, I know, there's like, and I don't know about you, but you know, there's like these people like and I essentially call him like record store people who are like I listen to this. 00:31:16 Speaker 4: Song and I was nineteen, and. 00:31:18 Speaker 3: You know, like they have like a story behind everything, and I'm like, okay, yeah, like yeah, it's a good song, you. 00:31:23 Speaker 2: Know, but ultimately it's a song. 00:31:26 Speaker 3: It's a song, yeah, and I really love it and like I get how it moves you, but like I don't like me and Chelsea were actually kind of talking about this too, but like I don't like when people talk about music like the way they talk about food, where they're like, oh, the the flavors of things like stop stop, like you're ruining this thing I like. But I will say Kurt Bonnigan is one of the few people in the world where I'm like everything he does, like really like shifts my thinking in a way that I'm like, oh, it is so interesting, you know, so a that that version of Time Quake has my favorite cover that they've done for it, because it's gone through, you know, right, tons of artistic covers, but that one is my favorite one, which is one of the reasons number two. Hardbound, I you know, felt like you actually, I. 00:32:19 Speaker 4: Feel like there's something, there's something to be said about and you're kind of just touched on it. There's something to be said about reading a book and then putting it away and having on display like that was an accomplishment. I know, it's oh stupid. 00:32:33 Speaker 2: I think it's great because again with the books, I'll be like, I'll just forget that I read a book and it'll just vanished from my mind. 00:32:40 Speaker 3: Yeah, truly, because it just feels like swiping like you're like looking on Twitter or something and you're like, oh, I guess technically that's an accomplishment, but it also went nowhere. 00:32:49 Speaker 2: It feels like you didn't conquer anything. 00:32:51 Speaker 3: Right, and then the last thing, and this is like the you know, the bigger, bridger part of it is that I feel like him and you and this is this is gonna sound so loaded, but I mean it sincerely. I think that there are only a few people in the world that truly understand humor and not just like joke joke, joke, joke, but I mean like the concept of it and like how to like make something not just funny, but analyze it in a way that like it's it's like shell is humor and its interior is humor. 00:33:31 Speaker 4: And I feel like you and him both do that very well. I think it's like oh but like yeah, I just so I And I also right now I believe in like it's just there's just so much crap out in the world, you know, there's every level. 00:33:53 Speaker 3: It's just like I I just like, what's something that like can I don't know. It feels like it means something to the person that's getting it and means something to me, but also was like not just crap it like has a you know again, like you were saying, like you actually look in that book and like, oh, I remember this passage. And I also think that like it's such a because for those of you who don't know, it's it's a sci fi novel, but it's actually a memoir and like he couches it in this really interesting way. 00:34:22 Speaker 4: But it's like stuff like. 00:34:23 Speaker 3: That where I'm like, I truly I am like, oh, that's something like Bridger would do, and so like, I don't know, I just felt like it felt. 00:34:28 Speaker 4: Like the right thing to do. 00:34:29 Speaker 2: Yeah, it truly is such a great book. And also another thing that I love about Vonica that I think you and I both agree on is like he comes from a place that is not of privilege. He wants everybody to enjoy. He's not trying to be the smartest person. He just happens to be, but is willing to just make a thing for everybody, which is so fantastic. And yeah, yeah, I just think this This book truly made me cry. It's so yeah, there's that's really terrific. Yeah, are you reading much lately? 00:35:05 Speaker 4: I actually know. 00:35:06 Speaker 3: What's so funny is that like when this started, I was like, I'm going to read a book a week, I'm going to get through it, blah blah blah. And I truly like started a book a week and just never got to it. 00:35:16 Speaker 4: But I was starting. I was like, this is the one, this is the one. 00:35:22 Speaker 3: No, this is the one, but I will say the one I'm almost done is uh, do you know who Mary Roach is? 00:35:29 Speaker 2: I know that name. 00:35:31 Speaker 3: She she writes these really phenomenal like deep dive science books. So they're all nonfiction, but like, uh, she's done a few. I mean she's done like ten at this point, but I've loved every single one of them. She wrote a book called Spook Science Tackles Afterlife. It's great, Yeah, I'll, i'll, I'll send you a copy that I have your address. And she wrote another one called Packing for Mars. It's about the history of space travel. Anyway, she's phenomenal. And one of her earlier ones is this book called Golf that's literally just about your digestive system and the history of the science. 00:36:07 Speaker 4: Of your digestic system. And it's like for you, yeah, yeah, truly. 00:36:12 Speaker 3: So I've been reading it and I'm it's like the first one that I'm gonna be done with, and I'm like. 00:36:18 Speaker 4: It's nice to like. 00:36:20 Speaker 3: It's weird because like, especially in the things that we do in the fields that we work in, you know, like everyone's looking for like the next entertainment thing or the show or the movie, and it's nice to kind of just step back and be like all of it's crap, Like let's let's and not that we all have to learn something, but like we don't need to just stare off into from our phone to our TV to our computer, you know what I mean, Like it would be nice to look at paper, I guess for once. So that part of it's been dope and like just you know, learning stuff and like actually feeling like the again, because I could have gotten the like you know, ebook version of it, but I was just like a want I feel like I accomplished something, and I swear to you I retain things better if I read them off paper. 00:37:08 Speaker 2: Oh that's one hundred percent true. I think that's like I've read studies about that. I think, oh really, yeah, for whatever reason, your mind just does not. Maybe it's because it's easier to get distracted while looking at a screen or something like for me, I'll be like the fact that I can look up the definition of any word on an ebook is so distracting because if I like kind of know the definition of word and I can just like use the context to get through the paragraph. I'm like, well, but I probably should learn the exact thing and memorize it. And by the time I've memorized the definition, I don't know what I'm reading about. I'm like, okay, well and now I've learned a word, but have fully lost what this book is. So it's uh. 00:37:43 Speaker 4: That is so funny. That is so funny. 00:37:48 Speaker 2: Yeah, paper books are fantastic. I owned a lot of books until we moved to New York a few years ago, and then, like the moving back and forth, I was like, until I'm set again, I'm not going to start collecting books because right, hundreds of pounds of books that I've read was difficult. But now I'm like, I'm in LA, so I can start doing this again. It's a challenge for sure. 00:38:11 Speaker 4: Yeah, but I got sorry. 00:38:13 Speaker 2: Oh, I was just going to ask you this book you're you've read, do you have any fun tidbits you can share anything you've learned. 00:38:20 Speaker 4: From Time Quick in particular the Mery Roach. 00:38:24 Speaker 3: Oh oh yeah, yeah, I mean there's just so many things you learned, Like so many people think that you're like this is I mean, we can get graphic kind of but not really really people think like your spit is essentially just used to like moisturize your food and break it down so I can get to your stomach right or in actuality, your mouth is where fifty or like forty five percent of your digestion takes place. Your stomach is really only there to anti bacterialize your food. But that's what your that's what your stomach ass it does, Yeah, it really like and then and the rest of your digestion takes place like small intestine, pancreas and all that stuff. But like there's there again, like there's just so many little like so many little things about. Like there was a dude who there was a French fur trader or French Canadian fur trader who was like in a store or something ends up getting not in a brawl, but something happens and he ends up getting shot in his in his stomach directly into his stomach, and a doctor comes to help him and he, instead of sewing the whole upgoat figures out that he can make the whole heel open and start using this guy to experiment on. Yeah, so like there's there's this weird like I want to like do a movie on. 00:39:47 Speaker 4: It or something. 00:39:48 Speaker 3: It's essentially like this fancy doctor keeps this poor guy with a hole in his stomach in his home and will just dip food into his stomach. How long it takes to decompose you. It's crazy. There's so many crazy, stupid, weird little things like I don't know, I mean, like I go on and on and on, like you know, the the what's the the pounds of pressure that like a typical bird's gullet can excrete as like five hundred pounds. Like it's crazy, yeah, truly, like it's so insane like anyway, Yeah, it's just it's just been like so incredibly like eye opening. It's just like dumb stuff like strawberries or a natural teeth whitener. 00:40:38 Speaker 2: Oh that's Strawberries are like a magical thing. I think they don't get enough credit. They taste delicious, they're low sugar, they do it, do it all, and they love. 00:40:48 Speaker 3: And weirdly, like we all know that, like, uh, it so much of your taste to smell and you know, blah blah blah, but it's really like seventy nine to eighty five percent of smell is handling your taste. Oh, and the rest of it is, dude, it is so weird, like the experiments that they've placed on people where they essentially will just like waft steak into a room, but make you eat a piece of candy and it's like your body physically will not react to the taste of the sugar, Like. 00:41:24 Speaker 4: Whoa, it's really weird. 00:41:26 Speaker 3: The types of sali, like we have different types of saliva and like it's it's crazy. Oh and the tasting that you're doing isn't on your tongue, it's in like you know that hole in the back of your mouth where like your nose, your nose and throat and it's all happening there. 00:41:43 Speaker 2: Like it's really it's getting way more credit than it deserves. 00:41:46 Speaker 4: Yeah, except that it's the strongest muscle on the bottom. 00:41:48 Speaker 2: Of course, of course. Yeah, that's great. 00:41:50 Speaker 4: It's really weird. It's really, really, really weird. 00:41:53 Speaker 2: I want to have the job of the person who's just like blasting like hot beef smell into a room. 00:41:59 Speaker 4: Well, it's crazy because they also talk about how they do it with dogs and cats and like so dogs are one like essentially one smell base, whereas cats are like one percent taste based. 00:42:13 Speaker 2: Makes sense with their personalities. 00:42:14 Speaker 3: Yeah, so when they do when they create foods for pets, like all they want to do is make it smell good enough for dogs that doesn't also gross us out because because dogs senses of smell are so good that what actually would be appealing to them would repulse us, like it would make our house smell to pung out. So they essentially just spend their days trying to make pet food that like we can withstand, but it's actually dogs kind of hate it. 00:42:44 Speaker 4: It's so crazy. 00:42:45 Speaker 2: Corul for dogs. 00:42:46 Speaker 3: Yeah, it's really crazy anyway, Wow, stuff like that. 00:42:50 Speaker 4: Yeah. 00:42:50 Speaker 2: Well, on the opposite end of books, something I need to thank you for is which has just really gotten us through quarantine is ninety Day Fiance. 00:42:59 Speaker 4: Oh. 00:43:00 Speaker 2: I mean I had heard a little bit about, you know, over the years, and then I feel like last fall you really started hitting on it, and I was like, I need to Like, I felt like once a week he were saying this man is the ugliest person I've ever seen. I was like, Okay, it's time for me to check out ninety Day Fiance. And we've now watched five seasons and are now beginning season one of Before the ninety Days. Oh, which is this show? 00:43:26 Speaker 3: It's crazy, it's I'll say this like, so I'm gonna go out of way and thank my brother and his wife. So they had been watching it, so, like, you know, my brother's also a TV writer, right, and he weird like he like doesn't enjoy anything that's written. 00:43:43 Speaker 4: He's just like assured like a reality. So him and his wife are just like these huge reality TV. 00:43:49 Speaker 3: So they've been watching ninety Day for years and then they got my mom to watch it because we have like a family group threat and they're always like talking back and forth. So we're finally like, okay, we'll watch this stupid show. And we watched it. Did you see the one with I think the first episode that really made me like I'll never stop watching the show was with Paul and Karini where he goes into the woods. 00:44:09 Speaker 4: And then the Brazilian cops follow him in. 00:44:11 Speaker 2: Wait, I recognize the name Karini. Wait this is before the ninety Day, this is before the ninety Days. We're watching this the guy who takes like ten giant storage things into Brazil, Yes, who's basically and then he makes her take a pregnancy in an STD test and they cannot communicate with each other. They literally are using his phone to talk to each other. 00:44:34 Speaker 3: Even though I just told you a bunch, it still doesn't spoil what happens in a way that you're going to wait, have you gotten to the part with him swimming yet or no? 00:44:41 Speaker 2: Yes, when he's basically in like a like a parachute suit or something, swimming. 00:44:46 Speaker 3: Around essentially afraid that a worm is going to crawl and his wader. 00:44:50 Speaker 4: Yes, the weirdest thing. 00:44:54 Speaker 2: Is the least appealing man on planet Earth. 00:44:56 Speaker 3: Disgusting, disgusting, but also is on cameo, like you know, every three months or so, we buy a cameo from him for thirty dollars because he starts by saying, like your name and what's up. But like every other cameo on the planet Earth, they you know, they're done. 00:45:13 Speaker 4: In like forty seconds, right top. 00:45:16 Speaker 3: He's like, Okay, now let me show you my house. The last one we ordered from him. He literally is like, here's my anti colon cancer, uh screening test, Here's here are the things I take to make sure I have healthy bowel movement. I'm prompted and he's like he's like, uh, now, say what's up to the people and they'll like point the camera to Crany and she's like, just like she doesn't know the language. 00:45:41 Speaker 2: No, of course, neither has made any attempt to learn the other's language. 00:45:44 Speaker 4: It's crazy, baby, It's so insane. 00:45:48 Speaker 3: But anyway, yes, I truly like there's there are things they're doing now once you like catch up that you're kind of like, it feels like they they're a little too in. 00:45:57 Speaker 4: On the joke, right. 00:45:58 Speaker 2: I can't I can't get with it. 00:46:00 Speaker 4: But there's still don't worry, there's still Helodeesterly. 00:46:03 Speaker 2: Yeah. I can't imagine they're smart enough to be that in on the joke, right, I mean, these people are insane. 00:46:08 Speaker 4: Yeah. 00:46:09 Speaker 2: This is also the season where the guy who manages McDonald's use Spence's entire four day to go to the Philippines. This man, it's like, what is happening in a person's brain? It's crazy to me. 00:46:23 Speaker 4: It's because the interesting thing about the show is that you realize that, like, whereas emotions like exist on a spectrum or sorry, that you realize that intentions exist on a spectrum, emotions do not. 00:46:40 Speaker 3: So a thing that happened to one person could be a completely different thing that happened to another person, yet they react the same, right, So like one of these people will be like I lost my partner, like in a fire or something super tragic. 00:46:55 Speaker 4: You're like, oh my god. 00:46:56 Speaker 3: And this other person will be like, I was a dork and now i have thirty thousand dollars and I'm going to go find my dream person. 00:47:05 Speaker 4: In the Philippines. 00:47:06 Speaker 3: And it's like both of them are like, I need to find my dream person in the Philippines. One is born of tragedy and one is born of like I deserve this for being a nerd, Like it's so crazy. 00:47:18 Speaker 2: It is so wild, and it truly is. Every season there's at least one man who's like, I found a woman in the Philippines. And they always say the same thing, like they really value marriage there, which to me, the translation is, oh, I found a woman. I can trap because no one else will speak or talk to me because I am horrible. Yeah, and then about eighty percent of the people on the show are coming out of Tampa. And I mean, like I could go on and on. It's just such a wild program to watch. I just adore it, and I can't thank you enough for that. 00:47:49 Speaker 4: Hey, you know, anytime. I got more Rex already. 00:47:55 Speaker 2: I think it's time to play a game. Do you want to play the game Gift or a Curse or the game Gift Master. I'll explain the rules to you after you pick. 00:48:04 Speaker 4: Okay, wait, Gift or a Curse or Gift. Yes, it's so funny. Gift Paster just sounds so funny to me. 00:48:18 Speaker 2: Okay, we're gonna play Gift Master. I need a number between one and ten from you. 00:48:22 Speaker 4: Okay, seven, Okay, I have a. 00:48:24 Speaker 2: List of things. I have to use that number to randomly calculate what you're gonna be playing with. So right now, I just want you to spend some time promoting something, recommending something, do whatever you want. You have an under I mean the amount of time you have who knows? 00:48:38 Speaker 4: Okay? Perfect? All right? Uh hey Yasser again. 00:48:43 Speaker 3: I have a podcast with my brother Isaiah Lester called My Brother Sneaker. You can find it Spotify, Apple, iTunes, you know all those things. It's technically a sneaker podcast, but kind of devolves very quickly every episode at about thirty seconds in and we kind of just talk about things we want to about things we want to but again leaking it to sneaker culture. Watch Black Monday on Showtime, show that me and Bridger. 00:49:11 Speaker 4: Both wrote for. Watch Black af on Netflix. 00:49:15 Speaker 3: Another show I got to work on in Duncanville on Fox, a very funny animated program. Check out Bridger's work Corporate and Jimmy Kimmel Live and Kimmy Schmidt. I forgot the new thing he just worked on, but it's very cool. Follow me on Twitter and Instagram. 00:49:34 Speaker 2: Yes, or Leicester, I want you to just keep going on and on, but I'm yeah. We have to play gift Master. Yeah, and so the rules of this game are, I'm going to give you three gifts potential gifts to give to somebody, and I'm going to give you the names of three celebrities and then you're going to tell me which gift you would give to which celebrity and why that makes sense? 00:49:58 Speaker 4: Yes? 00:49:58 Speaker 2: Feel right? 00:50:00 Speaker 4: I love it. 00:50:00 Speaker 2: Okay, So the gifts that you're going to be giving, I'm sorry, I'm here, we go, okay, I always struggle. 00:50:06 Speaker 4: Here. 00:50:07 Speaker 2: The gifts you're going to be giving are a pair of basketball shorts, okay, a backstage pass to Jason Moraz and bootcut khakis. 00:50:17 Speaker 3: Okay, bootcut khakis Jason moraz backstage pass basketball short. 00:50:21 Speaker 2: Yeah, so I guess two pairs of legware, So that's interesting. 00:50:24 Speaker 4: Yeah. 00:50:25 Speaker 2: The celebrities you're going to be giving these two are Melinda Gates okay, mel Gibson, uh huh and Lisa Ling. 00:50:34 Speaker 3: Oh wow, huh okay. I can say, hmm, all right, I think I got it. Basketball shorts go to Melinda Gates because there's just no world in which basketball shorts have come across her like life in the past twenty five years. 00:51:01 Speaker 4: It is impossible. It's impossible. 00:51:05 Speaker 3: I'm like, hey, you know, wear these while you're like handing out in the malaria actual. 00:51:11 Speaker 4: Or whatever. 00:51:11 Speaker 2: Yeah, I can absolutely see Melinda in a pair of basketball short. 00:51:14 Speaker 3: It would just be funny, just like very bag you like and one right, yeah. 00:51:22 Speaker 4: But just like walking down of the bedroom like, hey, what's up, nothing. 00:51:28 Speaker 2: But the waist up still kind of dressed. 00:51:30 Speaker 3: Up but exactly yeah, literally, like, yeah, a blouse that she just hasn't taken off for the day yet, but she like is wearing basketball shorts and like loose kind of dingy white sox. It was just like I got this shoveld around the house around their huge hard they're heated by hot water harp, So that that's who I'd put there, Uh, Lisa Ling, I would make God, Actually, this one's hard because here's here's here's where I'm going, and I'll explain and then then I'll dole out the gifts. Lisa Ling feels like she could actually pull off boot cut keg right, like there's the Witch. There's a world in which they're stylish. But if I give them to Mel Gibson, then I feel like because it's like are they are they tight up top? 00:52:29 Speaker 4: Like? Are they tight in the Yeah? 00:52:31 Speaker 2: These are essentially like a bell bottom right like but like purchase an old navy gotcha? 00:52:37 Speaker 4: Okay? Yeah yeah. 00:52:39 Speaker 3: But then so so here's the issue. I don't know if Lisa Ling would love Jason Moraz. It's like fifty percent, right, but I have a feeling Mel Gibson would one hundred percent enjoyed. 00:52:52 Speaker 4: Jason listening to Jason right, yeah, all right, So it's like. 00:52:59 Speaker 3: So it's you know what, So yeah, I'll go with my original thought. I but then here's here's the other thing is that I know Jason Maraz would pull Lisa on stage and then she would end up loving it. 00:53:12 Speaker 4: So like the joke kind. 00:53:13 Speaker 3: Of doesn't work, you know what I mean, And she'd be like dancing and like that would suck. But I think, no matter what, mel Gibson, one hates those pants. And so if Lisa's I'll have to enjoy herself at mel Gibson. Like just the idea of him having like just covered in cigarette ash and like he's like boot cut khakis is like just the idea of it is really making me laugh because there's nothing. It's so weird because usually you can wear yourself around a pair of pants, like you'd throw like a cool enough sweater on or some shoes or whatever that you're like not paying attention to the pants. But those pants, there's no getting. 00:53:50 Speaker 2: Around, like escapes. 00:53:53 Speaker 4: It's like the first thing you're gonna be like, oh what, Yeah, I saw Mel Gibson today and he was wearing. 00:54:00 Speaker 2: He was in bootcut kakis and platform hip flip flops. Something's going on with that? 00:54:08 Speaker 4: So funny. 00:54:09 Speaker 3: So yeah, all right, he gets the boot cut and Lisa Laying gets the Jason Moras. But again, to be clear, I know Jason Moraz would love having her there, which also sucks. 00:54:18 Speaker 2: But this is the argument I'll make for Lisa being backstage at Jason Moraz. I feel like there's like a dark, sad, hard hitting documentary that could be made backstage at a Jason Moraz concert. Lisa's hosting, Lisa's investigating. She's not there for fund She's there to uncover whatever's happening backstage at the Moraz concert. 00:54:38 Speaker 1: Yeah. 00:54:38 Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, So I think you've made the right choice. 00:54:41 Speaker 4: You nailed that. 00:54:42 Speaker 2: I mean Melianda Gates with the basketball shorts. Immediately, that's where my mind went, Yeah, you could have really failed, and you nailed it. 00:54:50 Speaker 4: No. 00:54:50 Speaker 2: Man, We're moving on to the final part of the podcast and then I can let you go. I just need your help. This is called I said no Questions. People are writing into Ice No Gifts at gmail dot com. They've got a lot of questions about gifts. So let's try to answer one or two right now. Okay, I'll read the first one, says Bridger, What do I get someone who's graduating from college but is going into a post pandemic world. Hint, it's me. I'm the graduate. I want to spend money on myself. That is Hillary w I don't know where she is, but Hillary wants to buy yourself a nice little some something. What do you in this whole new hellscape that we're living in, What is going to make a new graduate happy? 00:55:33 Speaker 4: See, that's the thing, and we kind of talked about it before. But you can. 00:55:38 Speaker 3: Only the idea of buying anything that people see is gone. 00:55:43 Speaker 4: Right, So it's like, unless. 00:55:45 Speaker 3: You genuinely enjoy wearing jewelry around the house. Me, it's like you don't want to get jewelry, you know, right unless you have like a cool like backyard or something. 00:55:58 Speaker 2: You don't want to like rows alan in your jewels. 00:56:05 Speaker 4: Like it's so hard. But I mean, I guess it also depends on where she lives. But I'll say this, I. 00:56:11 Speaker 3: Truly would invest in like a very nice like. 00:56:16 Speaker 4: Piece of cookwaar, Like that's a really great idea. 00:56:20 Speaker 3: Get like a nice pan, or like if you have if you don't have an instant pot, get like an instant pot, like something that's really gonna like help you be at home, or even like a dope blanket, you know what I'm saying, something. 00:56:35 Speaker 2: Like like like a gravity blanket or something that's gonna be comfortable and you can enjoy. Right, I think that's pretty solid. Yeah, something that's just going to make because we're we're not post to anything yet, we're just living in the trap, and who knows how much longer it's gonna be exactly. And I feel like for the rest of our lives, we're gonna need anything that brings any source of comfort exactly. So I always think, if I'm like trying to like spoil myself or whatever, I'll just be like, oh, if like I'm a child, i imagine myself as a child and then pick something that basically would appeal to that person, because I'm like, that will just be a pure, enjoyable thing and I won't have overthought it. Right, Hillary, congratulations on graduating. I'm sorry that this is how you start off on this. Yeah, let's answer once. One more question, He says, Hello, bridge or and guest he's thinking about you. Yes, sir, my name is Jack Salazar. Let's see, I'm very difficult to give gifts too, because I never know what I want or what other people could give me for Christmas or birthdays, et cetera. I'm hard to shop for because I have very specific taste and some of the things I like are too expensive. I'm just trying to get through this. What can I do to make it easier for my friends and family to give a present to me. I love trivia, puzzles, riddles, and TV. That's from Jack in Mexico. Jack, you're making your friends and family's life a living hell. You've got to if you've got specific things, you've got to just start making a list of things you want. 00:58:08 Speaker 3: That's but it's also crazy in the sense that it's like they make like Simpson's trivial pursuit, pursuit not expensive. Yeah, like they're everything he named is like I like puzzles, and it's like, Okay, they make TV versions of puzzles. 00:58:23 Speaker 4: They make TV versions of trivia. Like what are you talking about? 00:58:26 Speaker 2: Jack? You just need to combine these things. You've got to combine them and then present them to people. None of these things are out of reach. I mean, a riddle is something that someone could give you for free. 00:58:36 Speaker 3: I was just go I swear to God right before you said that, I was gonna say, did you say riddles or no? 00:58:42 Speaker 2: Jack loves riddles. 00:58:43 Speaker 4: Jack. 00:58:44 Speaker 2: If you've got somebody in your life who doesn't have a lot of cash, just tell them to write you down a few riddles and then you can try to solve them. It'll be a little game between the two of you. 00:58:52 Speaker 4: At the very least, his email was a riddle. This is crazy, right, Well, he's. 00:58:57 Speaker 2: The riddle master jack Jack trivia. I'm thinking there's so many great trivia games out there, or you know, like if you've got like a Nintendo or something, get yourself ask for Jeopardy. That's something that causes fights between Jim and me constantly. I'm pretty good at Jeopardy. Jim's decent, and you know, there's there's some tension that builds up there. That's a wonderful thing you can get yourself. 00:59:21 Speaker 3: Or the jack box like game set, right, Quiplash. 00:59:26 Speaker 2: This is the time. Yeah, is the time for it, buddy, get on it. I think that the trick to getting to making things easier for your friends and family is to just be real specific and you don't need to even hint around. Just tell them. Find things that you want that you don't necessarily care to buy yourself, and let them know. Yeah, I uh, I mean that's the only advice I can really give there. Yeah, sorry guy, or google riddles. Yeah, just give the gift to yourself. 00:59:58 Speaker 4: Yeah, get a mini like miniature of the sphinx or something. 01:00:02 Speaker 2: I don't know, we'll get a real sphinx to move in. I'm like, yeah, what is that They walks in the morning, It crawls in the morning, walks in the afternoon. That sort of riddle. Jack, the world is a riddle. I don't know what to tell you, but thank you for writing in. I think things will be fine and gifts will come to you. Yes, sir Bridge, it's so wonderful seeing you. Your emotion light has now turned into sort of a party situation. 01:00:31 Speaker 4: So I think it means that it's like dying or something. 01:00:34 Speaker 2: About to catch fire. Yeah, for people who don't know, it's now kind of a club atmosphere. And yes, there's closet. 01:00:43 Speaker 3: This is so stupid, it's so crazy. 01:00:47 Speaker 2: Sorry, that's sorry. 01:00:49 Speaker 4: I'm back. 01:00:50 Speaker 2: I'm I'm so thrilled about this book that you gave me. I am I. I am always encouraging people to something. I learned that there's no such thing as a good reader. There's only a good rereader, and I think that's very true. You reread something once you have the full picture, you're going to find out all kinds of new information about the book. You're going to enjoy it even more. Yeah, yes, sir, it do it for us, Yes, do it free ass er. If not for me, I know you won't do anything for me. 01:01:18 Speaker 4: Oh God. 01:01:19 Speaker 2: Anyway, I hope everyone has a wonderful day, yes, or thank you. 01:01:23 Speaker 4: For being here, thanks for having me. 01:01:24 Speaker 2: And hopefully we'll be able to sit down at dinner soon and just talk about things we don't like. 01:01:31 Speaker 4: Open violely. Finally, all right. 01:01:34 Speaker 2: Well, take care of yourself there out there in the world, and we'll be back again soon. I said no gifts isn't exactly right production. It's engineered by Earth Angel Stephen Ray Morris. The theme song is by miracle Worker Amy Man. You can follow the show on Instagram and Twitter. At I said no gifts, And if you have a question or need help getting a gift for someone in your life, email me at I said no gifts at gmail dot com. Listen and subscribe on Apple podcast, Stitcher or wherever you found me, and why not leave a review while you're at it. 01:02:09 Speaker 1: But I invited you here, thought I made myself perfectly clear. But you're a guest to my home. You gotta come to me empty, And I said no, guess your presences, presents enough I already had too much stuff, So how do you dare to surbey me?