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Welcome to I set no

1:16

gift. ERM Bridger Wienerger. I

1:19

made it home from lunch safely, so

1:22

I'm here in the backyard. That's exciting.

1:25

What else? What else? Well, yesterday,

1:28

I charged my electric toothbrush

1:30

all day. This morning I go to brush

1:33

my teeth, it tells me the battery is still out.

1:36

One of us is lying. I don't know which

1:39

hoping that it's not already broken, but

1:41

we'll just have to wait and see. It's back on the

1:44

charging dock. Happy

1:46

Valentine's Day. I know it's

1:48

no longer Valentine's Day for you,

1:51

but it is for me and I just I

1:53

had to reach out and wish you a happy

1:55

Valentine's Day. I've said

1:57

several things, none of them really connected

2:00

to each other. That's fine. We should

2:02

get into the podcast. I love today's

2:04

guest. She's just wonderful. It's

2:06

Gonzaga. Bridger. Welcome

2:08

to ICE at no

2:09

gifts.

2:09

Hello. I wish I had brought you

2:12

an electric toothbrush.

2:14

I've I've had this for maybe two months.

2:16

Oh, okay. The battery write a letter.

2:19

Yeah. I've

2:20

gotta reach out and complain. Yeah. We gotta

2:22

get on the instant chat on whatever site

2:25

and we screen grab all of it and

2:27

we let them know and have them send us

2:28

another. These instant chats the

2:31

AI chat is the most frustrating thing in

2:33

the world. It makes you feel completely

2:35

helpless. Yeah. So if I run into that,

2:37

maybe there's an eight hundred number or something.

2:40

I have an assistant who has a gift for,

2:43

like, the chatting customer

2:45

service thing, and somehow everything

2:47

comes back to me in the mail for free.

2:49

And I'm like, I don't know what you're

2:50

saying, but she didn't

2:52

touch with her. Yeah. I need somebody

2:55

to step in and solve the situation.

2:57

Are you using electric toothbrush? I

2:59

am not. I am aware that

3:01

I won't charge it. So I've learned

3:03

who I am at this point and I just

3:06

have a million toothbrushes all around

3:08

the house.

3:08

Oh, fantastic. Yeah. This is a new

3:10

development in my life, and I Brushing

3:13

your teeth. Yeah. Brush your teeth in general. It

3:15

was a it was a solid thirty years before

3:17

I got into it.

3:19

Yeah. The dentist has been begging

3:21

me for years. Yeah.

3:23

No. The electric thing I

3:25

don't know if I'm doing it correctly. Yeah.

3:27

I don't know if I'm pushing hard

3:28

enough, soft enough. I think it's

3:30

gonna be bad for me ultimately. As you do

3:32

it, yeah, are you supposed to you don't have

3:34

is it supposed to just kinda do everything for you,

3:36

but you monitor the pressure?

3:39

Yes. But I don't trust that it's doing everything for

3:42

because I'm used to --

3:44

I'm used to -- Thank you. -- I'm used to absolutely

3:47

grinding my teeth with a manual toothbrush.

3:49

Oh. And so when this is just barely

3:51

doing anything, I question

3:54

what's wrong. I feel like I'm headed for so

3:56

many candidates.

3:58

You on the way over, you got your dog

4:00

a dog leash. This is what I've learned

4:02

pre podcast. Yes. And I felt very

4:04

guilty because I'm like, she has

4:06

a leash. Is the environment

4:08

no longer gonna exist because I bought

4:10

this extra leash? And then I

4:12

was like, well, I could resale the other one, and

4:14

then it cycles back and it's like

4:16

I never wasted a

4:17

leash. So

4:19

Where are you going to resell a dog leash?

4:21

I don't know or get it. I

4:24

think there's a bad idea. Dog Charity.

4:26

I don't know. I mean, I'm a rescue charity. I give them

4:28

unleashes. But yeah.

4:30

It's a beautiful rope

4:31

leashes.

4:32

Oh, very nice. I feel a a rope leash

4:34

is probably fairly environmentally friendly.

4:37

I hope so. Fibers --

4:39

Yeah. -- will disintegrate at some point. Tell

4:41

me of it, but it can be turned into some

4:43

type of

4:43

jewelry. Yeah. What's the other one?

4:45

Is it also rope?

4:47

Yeah. Only one of them is leather.

4:49

Okay. Neither of these is made of plastic

4:51

or anything.

4:52

I was like, I know. I was just like, oh, I'm such a

4:54

consumer.

4:57

Well, your dog is to blame here. Dogs,

4:59

a big shopper. You have two dogs.

5:01

I have two. have two chihuahua

5:04

mixed says rescue things.

5:06

And

5:07

what are their names? Mils. Mils.

5:09

Mils. It's Charles Melia, the doctor

5:12

who made whatever -- Oh, wonderful. -- on the moon

5:14

movie. And then and Lumi,

5:16

who I call Lumi. And she

5:19

has a question to suit. So if you ever meet

5:21

her, don't figure out

5:22

Those are lovely partner names.

5:24

Yeah. Yeah. But

5:25

it sounds like you're only buying one of them, Malish.

5:27

Yeah.

5:27

Because the other one's at puppy camp. What

5:29

is puppy camp? It was,

5:31

like, basically, like, I had

5:33

to board my dogs. I was traveling so much, and I'm like,

5:35

you know what? A bigger bang for your

5:37

buck, boarding and training.

5:38

Oh, no. What is that horse? You

5:41

course. Yeah. And he didn't come back learning French

5:43

because he was very expensive.

5:45

How old is

5:46

he? He just turned one. Okay. I

5:48

feel like we got

5:50

our dog issues a year old and

5:52

trained

5:53

already. So it's been such a breeze.

5:55

Yeah. But I feel like if I got a puppy, I would

5:57

I would throw ten thousand dollars at it being

5:59

trained because

6:01

they're out of control otherwise. No.

6:03

I that's why I could never have a big Again, I know

6:05

about myself. I wouldn't train the thing and it would

6:08

be like, I don't

6:08

know, jumping on everyone in complete minutes.

6:11

Yeah. My dog has been eating dirt out of

6:13

the the pots in the house

6:15

recently. I don't know how to stop her.

6:17

Every night, we come

6:17

home. Baby Genius. Yeah. Really? There's

6:20

dirt everywhere. There's dirt in her bowl.

6:23

She's at she's got an addiction. It's

6:25

bizarre. What do you

6:27

do? What do you do?

6:28

Senator twelve steps. I

6:29

might have to send her to consider in a program.

6:31

My dog, the one my special

6:33

dog with aggression issues and a sleep start

6:35

on all the things, she decided to

6:39

It's very artful. I'll have to show you a photo.

6:41

She shot

6:43

on the bed. But in addition

6:45

to

6:45

that, somehow, some of it was still

6:48

stuck on her and

6:49

she managed to blink it on the wall.

6:51

Oh my god. The wall. Oh, no.

6:53

It was

6:54

both the wall and the top of a guest room.

6:56

I've a little mess.

6:57

I wish I could have had a camera in there. I'd

6:59

probably be rich on TikTok. Wait.

7:01

And did you say you were going to show me picture of

7:03

this?

7:03

Oh, I could. I mean, I mean, I'm not

7:05

currently I'll look. I'll

7:07

look. I mean,

7:09

I saw the worst picture I've ever seen on

7:11

Instagram last night.

7:12

That wasn't. National Geographic.

7:15

Posted a photo that made me shriek.

7:17

This

7:18

is a wall, by the way. Oh, my god. Shoot.

7:20

Me a picture and there's just a a piece

7:22

of dog shit right on the

7:24

wall. Like Wow. This is not a pleasant thing

7:26

to say.

7:26

Fascinating girl. Okay. Wait. What did

7:28

you see? National Geographic? Alright. You know,

7:31

they're known for beautiful scenic

7:33

photos -- Yeah. -- opening your eyes to the world.

7:35

I opened it and there are two of the most

7:37

horrifying rats crawling out of a garbage

7:39

can. I think I I had to throw it away

7:41

from me because it scared me so bad, but I think

7:43

you could see sharp

7:45

teeth. Wait. was a photo?

7:47

Photo. And so

7:49

in so I'm sorry. Nature is now in the garbage

7:51

can. On the glass I

7:53

checked, it was like the Savannah. But I haven't looked

7:55

at the

7:55

National Geographic since I was looking at the naked pictures

7:57

that I was like seven. I know. Let me

8:00

I mean, I almost want you to look at their I

8:02

can't look at it because they will

8:03

What's on their Instagram? Yeah. I want you to look and

8:06

kind of describe it to me because it made me

8:08

so I I want to reach out to

8:10

National Geographic and ask them,

8:12

they should images like this should come with

8:14

a warning or something because it really

8:17

shocked me.

8:18

Okay. Not geo. I'm

8:20

Are you seeing rats? I'm seeing

8:23

whales and babies. I'm seeing

8:26

a woman kissing a giraffe. I

8:28

am seeing What? Wait. Is this this

8:30

was just I would love to see what you're

8:32

describing as a rat. No. I'm kidding. I'm I'm

8:34

like, you can get your rat. I'm just a person

8:37

in a different land. Let's see.

8:39

I see ERM Gonzaga to

8:41

look it up. It's a pseudo memory. Oh, no. Baby

8:43

birds that look like I'm gonna look at your

8:45

heart. Corner

8:46

of my eyes, so I don't have to see the

8:47

whole Okay. Okay.

8:48

And then will show it to you on my freaking

8:50

amazing because it was That's not gonna

8:52

win any awards. Absolutely. Okay.

8:55

Did you find it?

8:56

Sorry. Okay. It was garbage.

8:58

It's garbage focused. So I

9:00

didn't notice that there were animals. You're

9:03

seeing it. It's like a kind of a one of those garbage

9:05

cans. It's like a net type

9:07

is eating -- Mhmm.

9:09

-- is it another pizza wrap?

9:11

Is it two rats? It's three rats. Oh,

9:13

I didn't see the third. They're just discussing this.

9:15

So these, like, size of a cat. Where is this?

9:18

New York. Of course. Of course.

9:20

I love New York, but I know it's I know it's right

9:22

around there. Yeah.

9:24

It's a rat. One of them So there's

9:26

one on the ground taking the

9:28

crumbs, then there's one coming out of

9:30

the garbage can. And I think he has crust

9:32

from a pizza in

9:33

the number two. I feel like was

9:35

I imagining that?

9:37

Well, no. You don't see their teeth. Okay.

9:39

Yeah. You were this is that was just a trauma.

9:41

It was a Yeah. But I was just putting on the

9:43

It Alright. Actually, think it's a bad get or

9:45

something. And if you zoom

9:47

in on their faces, they're very

9:48

cute. If you zoom in on their tails,

9:50

you're like, you

9:51

disgusting ERM. Get out of

9:53

here. And also crow's.

9:56

Oh, just the like you describing, this

9:58

is making my toes curl. This is not

10:00

for me. It is a pizza. I would like to know

10:02

that in the in it says

10:06

Yeah. So I guess there's not one pizza

10:07

rack. Can you imagine getting famous from being

10:09

pizza rack? And now if you I imagine being

10:11

able to answer pizza rands and being like, I've been

10:13

doing this my entire life and I'm getting nothing

10:16

for it. Chrome. But that geo

10:18

come on. No. No. No. That's not

10:20

what we wanna see on the Nat GEO

10:22

page. That should be Nat GEO extreme

10:24

or Nat GEO after dog. Nat

10:26

GEO. Like, why and weird. Yeah.

10:29

There's a second photo. If you look to the right

10:32

kidding. What is it? And it's a guy I think it's safe

10:34

to show you. Oh, it's a guy being, like,

10:36

how cool it is that there's rats

10:37

here. No. And that's a normalization of

10:39

rats. And that's how you know the apartment That's

10:42

insane. -- the plague. Yeah. It's probably got the

10:44

plague the first time. Yeah. Oh,

10:46

no great. That is thank you for walking

10:48

me through that without actually exposing

10:50

me. Awesome. What

10:52

is there any type of animal that does that to

10:54

you that like that. Causes me out. Response

10:56

that I have. I mean, rats are so

10:59

gross. Mice, for some reason, don't seem as

11:01

gross. Right. I don't know. You know what?

11:03

The grossest thing I've ever seen

11:05

only in a video in junior high, which

11:07

prompts me to this day, is a

11:09

frog birthing

11:11

about forty frogs out of its

11:14

back. It's

11:16

so disgusting. Day.

11:18

What Are they the eggs?

11:20

No. No. No. What they come out

11:23

alive? So what

11:25

frog is this? It's all gross. And

11:27

I weirdly looked at that maybe, like, ten years ago, and I

11:29

was, like, yep, still gross. It

11:31

is,

11:31

like, it's a large frog.

11:33

My guess is it's, like, a foot

11:35

and a half long. Or so many.

11:37

Eleven eleven year old memory

11:39

serves

11:40

me. And then it has holes.

11:42

Like, it has disgusting holes.

11:44

Like, giant pores. Yes. Yes. Oh,

11:47

no. And maybe eggs

11:50

are housed in its back half hours. When

11:53

it births, it's just

11:55

a bunch of mini frogs, crawling

11:58

out of the disgusting forest. Of

12:00

it back. It is so

12:02

gross. Between that and a video

12:04

I saw that, like, highlighted where

12:06

germs exist, I am forever traumatized

12:08

by

12:09

science class. Where does this frog

12:11

exist? That's horrifying.

12:12

I mean, that is I I paid out. Oh, now.

12:15

I call look at this. Now it's more. Now a foreign

12:17

exchange. To me rather than threatening the cats or

12:19

threatening

12:19

them. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Because they'll invade your

12:21

space.

12:22

They'll come for me, but a a frog, you

12:24

know, a new mother just giving people

12:26

Oh god. I don't see any beauty in this.

12:28

I'm just like, we don't need that animal on this

12:30

planet. I don't know what it does for us.

12:33

The miracle of childbirth was just

12:35

growing back. Oh,

12:37

did you find it? Yes. Do

12:39

you see how to else ain't that in?

12:41

No. Yeah. Googled frog, birth

12:43

ERM And they're all

12:45

alive. Once crawling out, Oh,

12:48

that is unfortunate. It

12:50

looks like they're escaping. Oh. And

12:54

then they kinda shake out all slimy and weird. It's

12:56

not a good look at. That is people

12:59

have that phobia or

13:01

thing that's like try

13:03

something that they can't look at things that

13:05

are basically patterns or like the frog where

13:07

you see a bunch of circles at

13:08

once. On a Lisa, are you familiar with this?

13:10

Can

13:11

you are we diagnosing me today? Because We might

13:13

be able today. That's why you put up your right now

13:15

and said, I'm gonna find something wrong with t shirt.

13:17

Oh, dress my god. It's like,

13:19

I a friend of mine has it and it's like, try,

13:22

plucked blah blah blah blah. But, like,

13:24

even if you draw, like, a bunch of circles

13:26

on a paper that close together -- Yeah.

13:28

-- that pattern freaks them

13:29

out. There's something in their brain.

13:30

don't think I like that either. Yeah. I guess

13:32

it's kind of almost like fungus or something.

13:35

Yeah. I don't yeah. I don't like

13:37

anything like oh, if I see wallpaper and

13:39

it looks like porous or

13:41

disease. Like, when things look like something

13:43

in a petri dish, it's too circular, it's

13:46

too wobbly. ERM,

13:46

like, that looks like a zoomed in something

13:49

from a petri dish that I

13:50

don't wanna know. Tripophobia. Tripophobia.

13:52

That's what it is. That's a fear of

13:54

tripping. Right. This

13:57

is an aversion or repulsion to objects

13:59

like honeycombs and sponges that have repetitive

14:01

patterns or clusters of small holes.

14:04

So it's like being disgusted by the past. Because they're kinda

14:06

gross. Yeah. Multiple holes are

14:08

kinda

14:09

gross. Like, I like honeycomb, but if I actually

14:11

stare at that in a long time, I might be like, in.

14:13

Yeah. What's going on? I wonder if

14:15

it I my theory that I'm

14:18

going with right now is it's like a primal

14:20

thing that's afraid

14:20

of, like, roading

14:22

or fungus or something.

14:24

Yes. Like a porous Right. Were you, like,

14:26

damp or something? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I'm

14:28

probably way off, but it's a good

14:30

very It's also just kind of a weird thing to

14:32

see. Yeah. And that frog is the It's

14:35

mother of all of it.

14:36

It's truly the queen of trypophobia. Yeah.

14:39

That's awful. Let me ask you something. This

14:41

is completely off

14:42

topic. Have all restaurants recently

14:44

decided to decrease the temperature

14:47

by ten degrees? I think so.

14:49

But they wanna decrease the temperature by ten

14:51

degrees. They wanna take the lighting down

14:53

by ninety percent

14:56

and the volume up by eight

14:58

thousand. Yes. They don't want you. They actually

15:00

don't want you there. Please go away. I

15:02

have I can't go to any restaurant

15:04

at this point where it's I'm not chilled to

15:06

the bone

15:07

thing. It feels like in the last four months,

15:09

we've turned it down. I don't know what's going

15:11

on. You think it's just it's post COVID and nobody

15:13

has any money. They're like, come with your back,

15:15

honey. Into a pandemic,

15:17

we're lucky to be open. That's

15:19

probably true. I mean, I think because there

15:21

was a point when a lot of restaurants were leaving windows

15:24

or doors

15:24

open. Yeah. Of course. That the weather

15:26

outside is affecting. But now I feel like something

15:28

else is going on.

15:29

I was freezing last night where I was and

15:31

they brought me a blanket. Oh, not that

15:33

was nice.

15:34

Yeah. Did the restaurant have a blankets in

15:37

the first

15:37

place? don't

15:37

know, but they have lots of blankets and I

15:39

wore one and I put it over my head like I was

15:42

playing Mary in a church music

15:43

hall. I got a good thirty seconds.

15:45

Did you eat with that on? I I

15:47

would have, but I was

15:48

afraid I would dirtier.

15:49

Hunched over your pocket. Yeah.

15:51

I was with Fancy executives. I didn't want them

15:53

to see my mental health issues on my thighs.

15:56

We've done that. We need to turn up the temperature.

15:58

I need to be cozy and rest. Strong.

15:59

Yeah. can't

16:00

be chilled to the bone.

16:02

Maybe you feel cold using, maybe you're anemic. Whenever

16:04

I'm well, I'm a Sorry about that, ma'am. Look at me.

16:07

I don't know even if there's blood in my body.

16:10

I'm like one of those fish at the bottom of the sea

16:13

or something. But, you

16:15

guys, maybe that's what's going on. But I'm kind

16:17

I'm wearing full coats in restaurants at this

16:19

point. It doesn't work for me. I know.

16:21

I'm reaching out to the restaurant community. We're

16:24

we need it to turn up even by two

16:26

degrees. Yeah. Something. Maybe we can

16:28

get on their their page and

16:30

their animated chat. Their

16:32

AI chat and let them know our concerns.

16:35

Leave a lot of too

16:36

word y'all purviews just too cold

16:38

and Maybe they'll get the point because

16:40

I've had it. I've had enough. The

16:42

world is just absolutely falling apart, and

16:44

it's horrifying to watch. What's

16:48

more horrifying to watch ginger. I

16:51

was so excited to have you on the

16:52

podcast. We You know, I I

16:55

have a really good time usually on this

16:56

podcast. I have great guests. They

16:58

come, we chat, we have a wonderful time,

17:01

at least in theory. So I

17:03

was thrilled to have you here today. Thing.

17:06

Maybe twenty minutes ago,

17:08

I hear a knock at the door. I open

17:10

it and here's ginger holding

17:13

something. Yeah. It's

17:16

a little brown box.

17:19

The podcast again, I maybe

17:21

maybe this come through the emails. Maybe

17:23

you weren't aware. My team.

17:25

Blaine, I'll throw them on to the box. Podcasts

17:28

has called. said no gift. There's

17:30

this little brown box with the writing

17:32

on it that says beautiful wrapping

17:34

paper. You obviously wrote that

17:36

on there to indicate Well,

17:38

this is a gift. Yeah. And it's like, I

17:40

didn't have any wrapping papers, so then

17:42

I just made it as if there

17:44

was. Well, when you read it, it seems

17:47

like there's people who are wrapping favorites. It

17:49

tells you that they're

17:49

it. Well, you're trying to get my pity now.

17:52

You can't, you know, have a single wrapping in your

17:54

mouth. Sound embarrassing, but I don't I don't

17:56

feel bad for you at all. Okay. I feel

18:00

anoid. Uncomfortable.

18:03

And I don't know what to do, but

18:05

other than open it on this podcast, should I

18:07

open I feel silly. Yes. Please open

18:10

it. I feel so little giving this gift, but it's

18:12

a it's a gift. I keep continually giving

18:14

people right

18:15

now.

18:15

Not that you're not special. Interesting. I feel like

18:17

it's

18:17

more of the moment for me to give this gift.

18:20

Okay. ERM interesting. Weirdly

18:22

maybe vain gift. I don't know.

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19:01

Before I open it, I'm going to say the

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box it's currently in is a very odd box

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because it says do not open unless

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final

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customer. I

19:09

hope you're the final customer. Is this

19:11

the box that came in? Or is this a Then

19:13

on that, the box, they came back. Oh, okay. Yeah. So

19:15

we're gonna find out

19:17

what the final customer The final customer sounds

19:19

like I'm going

19:20

to dial nine. Is Chris does. Okay.

19:24

Oh, interesting. 00I

19:26

just Oh my god. And Anna

19:30

in her life, my boyfriend, girl. Oh,

19:32

no. I'm bleeding. I'm not

19:34

now actively bleeding. I'm

19:37

gonna go get a

19:39

band aid. I'll be right. I'll I'm gonna

19:41

run inside for just a

19:42

moment. I'm now bleeding. Oh,

19:44

no. Okay.

19:50

General.

19:51

I violently assaulted.

19:54

This is a podcast first that I have been

19:56

attacked by the guest. I

19:58

feel so I drew

20:00

blood. An attempt on my life Yeah.

20:04

Listener, I'm back with a hastily put

20:06

on band aid. Oh, my goodness. Narrowable,

20:09

but take care of that

20:10

later. I haven't had a paper cut in a long time.

20:12

When

20:12

was the last time you had? A while. Your

20:14

man, it also matches your shirt. Like, do it to

20:16

you? It's the same color. That's

20:17

very nice. I've stylish at me.

20:20

Okay. Well, I'm bleeding. That's fine.

20:22

Yeah. While I was opening it, the

20:24

bigger shock was that I have this gift

20:26

here. Which is, yeah, very

20:28

self centered.

20:28

I will let him know.

20:30

Let's just put the spotlight on

20:32

ginger.

20:33

So she's giving

20:34

giving me a funko pop of her character her

20:36

and she hulk. Yes. Nikki.

20:38

But I could sign it. You could sell

20:40

it all the things. You

20:43

could put it on eBay. Oh,

20:45

it was very incredible. I

20:48

wonder why it says final customer

20:50

for a Funko

20:51

pop. I don't know. You're not open

20:53

unless final

20:54

final customer. That will

20:56

haunt me for the rest of my life, which might

20:58

be short at this point. But Okay. So

21:00

you gave me this

21:01

thing. Do you want any other funko

21:03

pops? I while I own

21:05

the Hulk and I own geal.

21:08

Did Disney supply these to

21:10

you?

21:10

Or -- Yeah. -- did you go to the Funko store?

21:12

It's

21:12

a Funko a Funko. Buy all of your other

21:14

things

21:14

when you ERM That I believe

21:16

that a thousand five works for Disney.

21:19

They're like, no. No. No. Yeah.

21:23

No. I just bought them and I give them

21:26

people are

21:27

for charity things.

21:29

Oh, sure. Sure. So did you go to the Funko

21:31

pop store or order them online?

21:32

I ordered them online.

21:33

Okay. Why do we think of the Funko Pop

21:35

store? I think that's one. Yeah.

21:37

There was one by a place I used to live when

21:40

I used to live in Hollywood, and I

21:42

didn't know what it was. I was just

21:44

like, what is this? I never

21:46

went inside. I didn't I didn't

21:48

realize until I had my own doll that

21:50

that store was a thing with dolls

21:53

for adults, I guess, or whatever it

21:55

is. And now I know all these people that have funko

21:57

pops and I'm like,

21:58

okay. I don't know. It seems so

22:00

weird to me. Yeah. There's like a collector

22:03

aspect to it where they have those

22:05

enormous lines out inside the

22:07

store. Yeah. The whole thing makes me

22:09

a little uneasy. Yeah. I don't I

22:12

mean, they're great. I

22:15

don't get it. Or I guess

22:17

I do collect collector type thing.

22:19

Right. I don't know. I mean,

22:21

for us, we they will, like, like,

22:24

people will have assigned them, and then

22:26

it's, like, that's they like that better than a

22:28

selfie or something or

22:29

You know what I mean? Interesting. Right. Right. But

22:33

I like it for myself because

22:35

it's a brown doll. It's

22:37

it's

22:38

adorable. Yeah. And when I grew up, I

22:40

had, like, all these white barbies

22:42

and and when I and I had one Hawaiian barbie

22:44

that my mom got me, but was always like Clark

22:46

experimenting. Just using the

22:48

blonde barbies are that were all my

22:50

friends. So it

22:51

was weirdly sweet in that way and also

22:53

totally bizarre. This is great.

22:55

What when did you find out they were going to be making this

22:57

of you?

22:58

They just And we don't

23:01

have to talk about this by the way.

23:02

Want to talk about this. I mean, how many people

23:04

have a doll made up it's ERM odd.

23:07

Yeah. They I guess they made an Instagram post,

23:09

and so we knew that she hulk and

23:11

the hulk or Jen Walters and the hulk and

23:13

myself would be in the first round

23:15

if she hulk fun

23:16

copods. And was just like, oh, wow.

23:19

Who's such an honor? It's a huge chunk.

23:21

Yeah. I mean, you're contributing

23:24

to landfill problems. There's be

23:26

a whole island of the

23:27

stalls. Oh my god. No. You can melt it

23:29

down and you can make it a plate.

23:32

And then you could reuse that plate and

23:35

No.

23:35

These are collectors, so people will hold on to them.

23:37

I think that this feels like a decent use

23:40

of plastic.

23:40

Yeah. We're not throwing these out. We're not throwing them

23:43

into No. Yeah. Or maybe forever and

23:45

solving depression. Of

23:46

course. Yeah. Making people happy. Yeah. Getting

23:48

people in line So they're, you know,

23:50

forming communities,

23:51

forming communities, forming friendships. Yeah.

23:53

We're getting in sales out of their house. But

23:56

you know what I mean? They're like, aha. The online

23:58

makes them friends. Facebook community,

24:02

getting people to have an opportunity to exercise

24:04

their communication

24:05

skills,

24:06

all the little sun show -- cancer. --

24:08

all of that. What else?

24:11

Actually, I did do a a charity with Paul Rudd.

24:13

He has a charity called The Big Schlick with himself

24:15

and David Koeckner and Sydney, Kiss

24:17

and all these people. And we go to children's hospitals.

24:20

And it was so cute

24:23

to see how excited they got

24:25

when they would get like an ant man funko

24:27

pop.

24:27

Oh, I'm sure. Yeah. It's also that just that

24:30

level of, like, you can't really

24:32

make the kids happy unless your fame is enough

24:34

to

24:34

know.

24:35

Oh, right. Who you are? I saw I saw, like,

24:37

who's this? Yeah. I saw, like, the value

24:40

the beautiful side of the value of his

24:42

you know, his fame in that way. It's

24:44

just like it doesn't it doesn't matter if I was saying

24:46

hi. But man man says hi. They're

24:49

like, I had a good

24:49

day. Give us some time. Yeah. Give us a little

24:52

time. Yeah. A couple of years from now, the kids at

24:54

the hospital be screaming for you. That's

24:57

very sweet. Do you collect anything?

24:59

Listen to the birds, by the way. The birds are

25:01

truly surrounding us.

25:03

Yeah. It feels like we're going to be tacked at any

25:05

moment.

25:06

Lovely. I've kinda noticed birds so

25:08

much more this year.

25:09

Interesting. By the way. You're finally feeling

25:11

some gratitude. Yeah. I know. Right? Because

25:13

before I was just like, Let me hit these things in

25:15

my car. But no.

25:17

I I don't know what it is. I lived in Venice during

25:19

the pandemic and there were just birds that would sing to

25:21

me every morning and I was like, this is wild.

25:24

And then I've just I've noticed

25:26

them around me so much more, and I love in

25:29

Atlanta, I love watching them, like, that

25:31

weird migratory -- Oh,

25:33

sure. -- shapes that they may in the sky.

25:36

And felt like chosen one day by all these birds

25:38

because they went and landed in my cherries. Their

25:40

stop. You

25:40

know? And then they went off and I was like, there could have

25:42

been any tree in any tree but mine.

25:45

Oh, that's very

25:45

nice. Very

25:46

nice. What was I going to ask before

25:48

I got distracted by the birds? Oh,

25:50

do you collect anything?

25:51

Do I collect No.

25:55

I was in a major joke. I don't have

25:57

one. don't

25:59

collect anything.

26:01

Enemies. And

26:04

what are some other things you can collect?

26:05

To collect experiences to

26:07

learn ERM.

26:08

Yes. Is there anything you want to collect? I

26:12

would like to consider myself, like, with

26:15

one thing that I do, like, a DL Horter for

26:17

Good in that any hotel I

26:19

go to. I compulsively take

26:21

all of the shampoos because I only use non

26:24

toxic paraben

26:25

free, like, toiletries.

26:26

So I can't use whatever's in the hotel anyways. But

26:28

I, like, go out of my way to hoard as

26:30

many as I can. I make sure I take all of them, put them

26:32

in the bag, make sure the maid gives me more blah blah

26:34

blah. And then once my pile is

26:36

giant. And I've got this whole hoarding collection

26:39

of free soaps and whatever, then

26:41

I give it to, like, the downtown women shelters.

26:43

I'm so And I feel like I got to

26:45

do the collective hortery kind of

26:47

thing, but then I, like, purge it eventually. Oh,

26:50

that's great. It's

26:50

kind of a robin hood of hotel champagne.

26:54

And I'm just like, like, I feel like I'm stealing,

26:56

but I'm and the best times that I get

26:58

a lot of them is if I'm filming

27:00

at a

27:01

hotel. Mhmm. Because I'm just trying me filming at a

27:03

hotel. The production has to book, like, the

27:05

whole floor.

27:05

Right. So I just me the PAs. Just go through

27:07

all the floors and we steal it. I'm just like,

27:09

oh, man, we have, like, fifty soaps

27:11

and conditioners.

27:12

That's smart. Yeah. Everybody

27:14

should be doing that. Yeah. Anytime you're on vacation,

27:17

collect the soap, you can give them

27:18

away. Because

27:19

I do that if you just use a little bit of it, I

27:21

do think it gets thrown. I think --

27:23

Right. -- legally, I don't think they can

27:25

Use products.

27:26

Yeah. That's

27:27

tacky anyway. If we're not giving away, you

27:29

know, shampoos, get some glass.

27:32

Yeah. So I don't know. It

27:34

is but I do. I feel like I'm stealing it.

27:36

Well, no, you're just

27:37

give it's for the greater good -- Yeah. --

27:39

these hotels have plenty of shampoo. Yeah.

27:42

And know, they're always trying to rip us off.

27:44

Lately, it's like they won't clean your room, and

27:47

they're still hiding behind COVID, but it's just

27:49

like this isn't

27:49

Everybody hides their own COVID. Other things.

27:52

Really? The hotels are not getting

27:54

a pass anymore. No. No. No. No.

27:57

Hotels shampoo bought I love those little bottles.

27:59

I haven't used one in a long time. They're

28:01

fine. Yeah. It's a nice little souvenir at

28:03

the very least. Yeah.

28:05

I don't collect anything. I don't even know at this

28:07

point that maybe I it's just

28:09

a lack of interest in everything that

28:11

I just don't collect a single

28:13

thing. Maybe

28:14

you don't need the permanence of, like,

28:16

the color. Yeah. If you wish Look at this as a better

28:19

part of my personality. ERM beyond

28:21

-- Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. -- physical. Yeah.

28:24

Yeah. The material. No.

28:26

I wonder let's see. What could I

28:27

collect? People Stamps is

28:30

a classic, coins is a classic.

28:32

I collect people. People I just

28:34

like really good people.

28:36

So you look at people as objects. Yeah. Yeah.

28:38

Those objects I put them in a room. I

28:40

don't one day they'll get out. But I do

28:42

actively collect like,

28:44

lovely people -- Mhmm. -- I think.

28:46

Go out of my way. Or consider them collected

28:49

in my lot of

28:49

ones. I found them. And I'm like, oh, you're

28:51

you're great. Are you somebody who will just

28:54

make a surprise phone call? Maybe.

28:56

Okay.

28:57

Well, so that's a no. I

28:59

don't know. I'm like, well, I'm just I would probably

29:01

be unaware that it felt, like, surprising. Oh,

29:03

interesting.

29:04

Probably on that side, like, I don't I

29:06

have a bad con I think it's, like, an ADHD thing

29:08

where it's, like, you're not aware of how much

29:10

time has

29:10

passed.

29:11

Like, oh, yeah. I'll just, like, call someone. If

29:13

I haven't seen someone in a while, it's ERM, like, they

29:15

they still have that affection in my life.

29:17

So I'm just, like, oh, yeah. Not to I

29:19

show you in a minute. Let me call I show you. And it might I

29:21

imagine it might be

29:22

weird, but I'm like,

29:23

I have time. I don't think that's weird at all.

29:25

Yeah. I think it's very nice.

29:27

I mean,

29:28

like, we feel like as surprise. You know?

29:30

Yeah. think it is usually surprise to the other

29:32

person. But if you're collecting all these people,

29:34

I don't make that I'm trying to be better about

29:36

making surprise folk or just phone calls

29:38

in general without scheduling and

29:41

making last minute plans. I love

29:43

I've started to really love a last

29:45

minute plan. Oh, cool. Getting a text two hours

29:47

before dinner and be like, do you wanna get dinner?

29:49

Yeah. What a nice thing to happen

29:52

rather than, like, scheduling three weeks

29:54

out, and then it just becomes a dreadful

29:56

event. It's a weird, like, sticker on

29:58

your calendar or whatever. Yeah.

30:00

I'm trying to encourage everyone in my life to

30:02

just reach out last minute.

30:03

Yeah. That's it is nice. There's

30:05

some spontaneity. It's

30:07

like, feel cool. Like, yeah. And ERM gonna put

30:09

it dinner on Wednesday. I mean, you have to wait a

30:11

minute in the moment that there's nothing going on in your

30:13

life, which is kind of a problem. But

30:15

it is nice. Like, oh, sure. I'm not I'm

30:17

just sitting on the couch watching my life

30:19

go down the drain. I'll get dinner

30:21

with you. I

30:23

think we all need to make especially

30:26

in LA, I think that's very difficult

30:28

to

30:28

do. What

30:29

plans are last

30:29

minute? Last minute. Yeah. I have

30:31

certain friends that I know like, if I'm gonna make

30:34

a last minute plan, I kinda I have, like, my five

30:36

that I can reach out

30:37

to. Okay.

30:37

And if five who don't have any other friends,

30:40

no one else in their lives. You found,

30:41

like, I don't know if they've planned anything

30:43

for sure. This loser. Yeah.

30:47

But they're just more I

30:49

don't know. Flexible or I don't know.

30:51

Yeah. Blueser is the other one.

30:54

Loser is the word word. That's the only

30:56

word we can describe them with. Do

30:58

you like to get a surprise phone call? If

31:01

I can see the number

31:02

-- Okay. -- yeah. But, like,

31:04

a unknown unknown

31:07

caller -- Oh, I know. -- sets me into a panic attack.

31:09

To the point where I actually have had to have

31:12

friends, like, in a therapy way,

31:14

actively, like, neutralize that

31:16

for me. You know, because I would associate

31:18

unknown caller with, like, scary people.

31:21

Oh, of course. So they've I've, like, had

31:23

friends, like, text me like, they know to text

31:25

me in advance. Like, I'm calling and

31:27

it's unknown and I'm like, okay. Or,

31:29

like, now I have positive association with

31:32

certain my friend, Vincent Piazza, uses

31:34

an unknown.

31:35

Thing. And he's a love. So I would be like,

31:37

okay. Text me before.

31:39

And then I know

31:40

it's love, you know. Yeah. And help me flip this

31:42

in my brain. And now unknown doesn't scare me

31:44

as much, but I would only I

31:46

think I run thinking that an

31:49

a surprise call is a tranche. There's

31:51

something someone died. Right.

31:54

There or there's an ask.

31:56

Someone needs something. You

31:58

know This is not good news. Yeah. ERM

32:01

now, as we talk about this remembering

32:03

that at some point, like, in maybe five year

32:05

well, actually, less than that a few years

32:08

ago. I think my phone number was one digit

32:10

away from a senior citizens

32:12

phone

32:12

number. Yeah. And I was constantly getting calls

32:14

for this senior citizen.

32:16

Who had dumb friends.

32:18

They must be spoiled, but the numbers calls

32:20

have stopped, and I'm realizing, oh,

32:22

no.

32:23

Did the person no. I

32:26

gotta think about it. I Oh.

32:28

How do you know the senior says, what's I didn't

32:31

see that?

32:32

What kind of deep tactics Because all of their

32:34

friends were old people. You could just tell

32:36

me Yeah. That's super good. I mean, maybe they

32:38

switched from generations of us. Let's hope

32:40

the misogyny. Now

32:42

let's just assume the

32:44

best. They got they switched from Verizon

32:46

to T Mobile or something. They switched

32:48

or they had they were like, I

32:50

don't need all these calls and I'm sending a boundary in

32:52

my life, and then they've changed their phone number

32:54

finally at seventy five they learned. I

32:57

don't have to take all these phone calls.

32:59

Or respond to all these people. And,

33:01

yeah, so that's what happened. They're still alive. Everything's

33:03

great. Well, and for their sake, let's hope they were

33:05

like ninety nine and seventy five

33:07

would still be a pretty tragic.

33:09

Yeah. Wow. Interesting. Maybe they

33:11

went off the grid. You

33:12

could call that number. Oh, that's it.

33:14

I'll dial my number Well, that could take

33:16

a while. Yeah. That could take a while. But

33:19

person, whoever you are reach out, I hope you're

33:21

-- Okay. -- hope you're safe. I hope you're cozy.

33:24

I hope you haven't died. Oh, that would be

33:26

such a tragedy. Yeah.

33:29

I I do appreciate a surprise phone

33:31

call. Our mutual friend, Jessica Gao.

33:33

Yes. Really looks at it as a challenge for

33:35

me. She will call me at all kinds

33:37

of hours and

33:38

she'll be able to see this podcast, and I'm sure she's

33:40

going to call very quickly. I should be

33:42

I'm gonna have to be aware of the timing

33:44

of this because I'm going to be getting a call from

33:46

Jessica. I appreciate that because I do

33:49

I do text her at pretty my

33:52

new thing is, like, If you don't wanna be

33:54

woken up, then you'll have her phone on silent or

33:56

with her own speech. Right? And I do

33:58

take delivery to text her at very odd hours, and

34:00

I'm like, She gets it. How's

34:02

it? She knows me, and I'm as bad as she's, like,

34:04

about that. Yeah. She's fine with it. Yeah. I have

34:06

been absolutely abusing the do

34:08

not to ERM feature on my phone. Oh, yeah.

34:10

It's oh, it's in oh, it feels

34:13

so good to just get nothing from anyone

34:15

other than you look at

34:16

it. You're like, oh, I missed all of this right now.

34:18

It's on my terms. Yeah. It is.

34:20

And they know because they actively

34:23

cross that boundary index it, but they do

34:25

not

34:25

disturb. Yes. And then yeah. And

34:27

then did you know if there you can you can

34:29

set it so some people see the

34:31

thing Never happening for me. I don't want anyone

34:34

coming through the gate. Yeah. I've gotta

34:36

block everyone.

34:36

Yeah. Have you set a thing where you can have

34:39

few people come through? Yes. My assistant can

34:41

come through And depending on the day,

34:43

sometimes other people can go, maybe

34:45

my my reps. So

34:47

you get to program several different ones?

34:49

Is it like Yeah. You can choose, like,

34:52

how many people can break through. You

34:54

can choose whether or not people see that you have it on

34:56

do not

34:56

disturb.

34:57

Oh, wow. I need to get into it. You

34:59

can see who you can project to, who

35:01

can see? That's some that's some

35:03

sounds like some dating weird gossip because

35:05

of, you know, game y type stuff, but

35:07

I always I always have it on there. And

35:09

when I have it, you can see

35:11

it. And then but certain people can break through.

35:13

And I think they know they can. You

35:14

should be

35:14

able to have, like, an away message. I would like

35:16

it to just respond leave me alone or something. Yeah.

35:19

Doesn't make you, like, leave me alone. Right. Yeah.

35:22

Where's that AIMA message we own? I know.

35:24

I feel like Apple Somebody there has to

35:26

be listening. There's a new idea for it or

35:28

the next update. Yeah. Away

35:30

messages, bring back the late

35:32

nineties, early thousands. We all love an

35:34

away

35:35

message. Yeah. Wow.

35:37

I'm so good at thinking of phone ideas. Maybe

35:39

maybe it's a new

35:40

career

35:41

path for me.

35:42

What was it what kind of away messages did you have

35:44

when you ERM, like, AIME? That's see,

35:46

that's an interesting thing for

35:47

me. I wasn't really allowed to be on

35:51

until the point that I didn't really care

35:53

about a

35:53

white house. She's allowed.

35:55

Because my parents would limit wouldn't let me on.

35:57

What if it was because I was like came

35:59

in dollars

36:00

because you've been in jail. You're not glad

36:02

to have contacted us. So from my parole officer,

36:04

actually, we monitored my Internet usage,

36:07

and that was I was not allowed on ERM.

36:09

No. I just I think, like, by the time I was

36:12

on AIM, I was, like, a later

36:14

teens and I didn't care about an away mess

36:16

message. Yeah. Or maybe I'm lying and I had

36:18

them and I I've just forgotten. What were you putting

36:20

on? I mine always said it was

36:22

like an underline and it said cliche quotation

36:25

here because -- I'll be honest. -- everyone always had

36:27

some dumb quote. It's

36:29

like no one's gonna be like, as they're waving,

36:32

like, this is who I am. Here's my bumper

36:34

sticker clue. It is so dumb. Or at

36:36

least, you

36:36

know, the people I knew. Got it. What

36:40

we're finding out is you don't like anyone in your

36:42

life. Was it rounded yourself with

36:43

losers? It's the ones blocked. We

36:45

got losers for the last minute lunch.

36:48

When Zoom know, I called them for last minute

36:50

lunch, we were very sad when they hear that. I love

36:52

them, though. I do. We love them. We

36:54

love everybody. Yeah.

36:56

I wish I could remember. I if I remembered,

36:58

I'd probably be humiliated about by my

37:00

name away messages. I can't imagine

37:03

what lame thing I was thinking in

37:05

the late nineties, early thousands, But

37:08

I I wonder if I had Gmail away messages.

37:11

Who

37:11

cares? Oh, yeah. I don't think I meant Nobody chats

37:13

anymore. Yeah. We're all done chatting.

37:15

Yeah. I never did, like, the g cheek out. Never

37:17

did Cheech out. I I

37:19

kind of got off Cheech out. I guess, like, when I was

37:21

working a normal office

37:23

job, I was Cheech chatting.

37:24

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. If you're at a desk all day --

37:26

Right. -- that's different. Yeah. But I think

37:28

people are now on Slack. We're always getting

37:30

all day. Oh, we

37:33

know modern society, you're either on Slack

37:35

-- Yeah. -- or you're at the roller, but those

37:37

are the two options. Yeah.

37:39

I I've been on Slack once during a Zoom

37:42

pandemic game of mafia, where we were

37:44

playing mafia on Zoom, which lasted two days

37:46

and wasn't saying, and but also if you wanted

37:48

to further chat with people, you could

37:50

chat on

37:51

Slack. And I was just like, this is this is

37:53

too much for me.

37:54

That's overload. Wait. The mafia game

37:56

lasted two days. It was very

37:58

elaborate. Yes. Melelyn skews, amazing

38:00

with Ophthia, incredible. And she

38:03

has a wonderful group, a collected

38:05

group ever changing wonderful

38:07

pod of people. And so it was like,

38:10

yeah, it lasted two days. So to the

38:12

point where you're texting people and trying to manipulate

38:14

them and

38:15

make you think, oh, wow. That's so amazing.

38:17

Mafia. Like, it went on. It carried on

38:19

through to the next night. So it

38:21

existed during the next

38:23

day, like, outside of the Zoom.

38:24

Wow. It becomes part of your reality. Yeah.

38:27

Oh.

38:28

But the hi. The pandemic and

38:30

have to find somewhere in town. Yeah.

38:33

I also game nights, and they worked pretty

38:35

pretty well. I was surprised. Right. But

38:37

Yeah. Game outs were fun. I some

38:40

of those games, some of those

38:42

word games or whatever really annoyed

38:45

me. Oh, here's

38:45

some of the war games. I what are the games?

38:47

Myrtle. Not Myrtle. Like, the ones

38:49

that you're doing a party game over Zoom,

38:52

but it's like funny

38:53

prompt. So the guys ERM more annoying voice.

38:55

I was only invited to I have to plan

38:58

my own parties. I

39:00

gotta get get my invited to one mafia

39:02

party. Everything else I have to plan on my own. I

39:03

wonder what the longest mafia game

39:05

ever had. I mean, you could kind of have a go

39:07

for a year. Right?

39:09

Yeah. Maybe. I feel like it was this.

39:11

Were you mafia?

39:13

I'm never mafia, which

39:15

is a bummer. I might have been.

39:17

don't know. Oh, I know what I was doing during this

39:19

game. I was just playing a weirdo wild card,

39:21

and I think I even I kept

39:23

trying to convince people that I was mafia even though wasn't

39:26

because everyone in this group knows that I wanna Momma. Mhmm.

39:28

So I kept using the zoom to have, like, knives in

39:30

the background casually. Just random,

39:32

like, you know, the things that would

39:35

make me look like I was a villain, but

39:37

they didn't buy

39:38

it. They know. I never

39:38

get Do get really into mafia when you're

39:41

playing it? I get into mafia to the point where

39:43

there's a character called the alien, and I really

39:45

wanna be the alien. And one time I was the

39:47

a and one time everyone knew that

39:49

I was the alien. And if you're the alien and

39:52

people think you're mafia, then the whole town

39:54

explodes. And after a while, people saw

39:56

that my fantasy was almost coming alive. I was,

39:58

like, shaking. I was so happy. And

40:00

that they could tell, and then someone I was wondering

40:02

if, but they almost let me have my moment. Right.

40:04

It was finally, like, the alien that exploded

40:06

everything. Wait. Is alien a normal

40:09

part of mafia? I think it's in some

40:11

mafia. It's where, like, it the role

40:13

is that you're not you're an alien.

40:16

But if you can convince people that you're

40:18

mafia and they vote you out as mafia,

40:20

you're

40:21

like, just k. JK, I was

40:23

an alien in the

40:23

whole new world. Interesting. Yeah. And

40:25

then you get

40:26

to, like, pretend to be an alien for five seconds.

40:28

It's a really awesome theme. I feel like

40:30

Yeah. It is. It's not really Isn't it, like,

40:32

FBI or something? CIA

40:35

or rival mob or

40:37

something. Listen.

40:37

They're out there. We got floating balloons

40:40

that were shooting out of the sky. Kendra, I'm telling

40:42

you, a few arrows ago balloons.

40:45

A few arrows ago, I said, I think

40:47

something is gonna happen from space this

40:49

year.

40:49

Yes. Do okay. Do we think I'd

40:51

okay. This is wrong with this. We haven't

40:53

rolled it out, which is But -- Right. -- we live in

40:55

a movie on going home. Yeah. We're

40:57

living in the thrill of the the potential of

41:00

aliens. Yeah. I don't think this is the alien

41:02

invasion. I think this is the

41:04

appetizer. This is the Ts.

41:07

The real aliens are coming later this year.

41:09

Let's hope. Because Bridger it on. You know, after

41:11

our pandemic, it's time for aliens. Like,

41:14

they wanna be like, how much can your brain handle?

41:16

And I don't know if people's brains can handle

41:18

that much. But I

41:20

will say my friend took a really cool video

41:23

of random things

41:25

in the sky. Oh. Yeah.

41:27

Like, it looked like it wasn't

41:29

as concrete as a

41:31

balloon.

41:32

Right.

41:32

But it was, like, little flurries,

41:35

and it it was really odd.

41:36

Oh. Yeah. It

41:37

looked if you saw the video, you'd be like, wow.

41:40

Where was this? It was just in his backyard.

41:42

In LA? Yeah. I know it was just, like,

41:44

little I mean, sound means that I'm aware.

41:46

I'm aware. Whoa. Speaking

41:48

of that, can I tell you really funny accent? Speaking

41:50

of people who live in aliens. I love the

41:52

cons of in aliens, but I did a I did

41:54

I did a show recently. And

41:57

one of the actors, somehow we were talking

41:59

about the thing. We weren't we were talking about Wu stuff.

42:01

We hadn't gone on aliens yet. And

42:03

I love this person. And I'll have

42:05

her tell me the story on a podcast one day

42:07

so she knows that I'm not. This is not judgment. But

42:10

she she was like, we were all in a warming

42:12

van or whatever traveling, and she was like,

42:15

and Tom Arnold is behind us, which just makes

42:17

us to very funny. And she's like,

42:20

talking about whatever. Not not

42:22

aliens, but she kept having me. She's like, have you made

42:24

contact? Have you made have you

42:25

contact? And I'm trying to there's a couple conversations

42:28

happening. She's like, Have you have you made contact?

42:30

And then I was like,

42:31

oh, she she's a she's getting

42:33

aliens. Sorry. She's just about to tell

42:34

me. So I go, Oh, with aliens?

42:37

And she's like, yeah. And I'm like, no.

42:39

No. III haven't made

42:40

contact. She's like,

42:41

I have. have. Yeah.

42:43

So then she launches in to you

42:46

know, the light beings that she's seen, and then one

42:48

was really, really tall, and and one was really,

42:50

really short, you know, twenty five years ago -- Okay. -- and

42:52

it's a very, very fun story. I will

42:54

say the part where she lost

42:56

me was when she

42:58

went and I was sitting down

43:01

and she did this thing jiggle thing with her hands and

43:03

she went and my ass started

43:06

to vibrate. And I was just like,

43:08

it was one of those things where everyone behind

43:11

you is listening to you energy in this

43:12

conversation. In a

43:14

normal way. So you're like, I wonder what they

43:17

think about because I'm like

43:19

and I was just like, I was so

43:21

on board with a snowman looking alien,

43:23

the tall light being looking alien that was

43:25

full of love. But when you went

43:28

So basically, anal probing. I

43:31

was

43:31

like, that just sounds cliche. You know what mean?

43:33

Right. That she's heard that

43:34

somewhere else. Cliche. Yeah. And then someone

43:36

showed me that as in all sketch of a a

43:39

very funny, like, alien invasion alien

43:41

contact

43:42

SNL'sketch. It was very similar. So Oh, gosh.

43:44

She just she just ripped off SNL. Yeah.

43:47

Well, look, it was, what, nineteen ninety seven

43:49

wild deer. Maybe I don't look at your map. Yeah.

43:51

Yeah. Is that correct? Twenty five.

43:54

No. Ninety

43:55

eight.

43:55

Yeah. I was off. Nineteen ninety eight. All I

43:57

will say for my sake, also

43:59

a crazy year. Yeah.

44:01

Will save in crazier year than nineteen ninety

44:04

seven. And so there was a chance that this happened

44:06

to her.

44:06

Yeah. Listen, I hope it did. Well,

44:08

in this loving way that she had contact

44:10

with an alien.

44:11

I don't want And

44:12

she does said vibrating. She didn't say ERM.

44:14

So I'm, like,

44:15

gentle massage. Gentle. Gentle.

44:18

Paneled, broving massage. They might be

44:20

just tickling as they might be just so

44:21

fun. Sounds

44:22

deeply erotic. Yeah. Maybe they've heard

44:24

the cliches. So now they're doubling down on

44:26

it because they're like, And this is what I think we

44:28

do, then that's what I'm gonna do. We'll take advantage.

44:31

Speaking of crazy years segue

44:33

-- Last nineteen ninety seven.

44:36

But I was ignorant

44:37

to, like, the challenger.

44:40

Oh, Rio, boy. That's a tough

44:42

situation. I

44:43

didn't know

44:43

that they

44:44

sent the teacher of the year.

44:46

Yeah. Teacher of the year, was this

44:49

eighty six? Eighty

44:50

six. And I rewatched it after

44:52

someone brought it. I watched, like, the new program.

44:55

It is pulverized. The second you

44:57

start to see too much fire and fire and then

44:59

it's instantly pulverized. And it's so

45:01

weird to hear the NASA tech being like,

45:03

we're ready to launch this thing.

45:05

Mhmm. It's pulverized. And

45:08

then in the go, there's

45:10

we're gonna do a backup plan

45:12

plan for whatever mishap is there. And

45:14

it's just, like, neutral. And no one in

45:16

the news is going, like, oh my

45:19

god. Everyone got blown to smithereens and

45:21

it's very obvious and sad. There's, like,

45:23

literally zero it's, like, such

45:25

a monotone, like, step by step --

45:27

Whoa. --

45:28

like like a calm collected.

45:30

Yeah. Like, it's it's

45:33

it's so I

45:33

wonder if

45:34

it was just

45:34

so robot. Shock. Like, no one even

45:36

knew how to respond to her. Like, what

45:38

do you do? And you know you're live on TV,

45:40

and you're just like, I

45:41

would be receiving a recording. Yeah. This is why

45:43

I can't be a news reporter. Oh. And

45:47

I would love for you to be a news reporter. I

45:49

love news

45:50

bloopers. All that stuff. Oh my god.

45:52

You're

45:52

getting into the YouTube, like, greatest hits.

45:54

Yeah. Sort

45:55

of like, do you

45:55

have a favorite news blooper? I do

45:58

like that one guy that's, like, he's

46:00

really professional. And then all of a sudden, the bee gets

46:02

so

46:02

many. He's like, that's really contrarian. He's like,

46:04

hey.

46:05

Oh, I love it. Colin, I don't like

46:07

the one where the woman's stomping

46:09

on grapes, and she has a clearly bad,

46:11

like, injured blood. That's a really rough one. One.

46:14

No. It's too real. You're watching somebody

46:16

break a bone or something that can in

46:18

the very late stage. She makes an odd sound.

46:20

Yeah. Yeah. I'm trying to think there's

46:22

this guy Ernie something

46:24

in New York, and I think he just I don't even

46:26

know what inspires him to say this,

46:28

but he says, fuck a chicken. On

46:30

air? Yeah. Why did he do that? I don't know,

46:33

but it's very odd to me. I'm sure he's just

46:35

glitching.

46:35

It's just

46:36

really like it's like, what

46:38

what are we reading? What puppies

46:40

were born today for the Wednesday morning

46:42

program? Like, it's just like, Fucking

46:44

chicken. Yeah. No. I yeah. Maybe

46:47

should get into the news game now that it's shutting

46:49

down. Yeah. I was like to be

46:51

on the news is not quite what it used to

46:53

do. I think

46:55

we should play a game. Okay. We're gonna

46:57

play gift or a curse today.

46:58

Okay.

46:59

I need a number between one and ten from you.

47:01

Okay. Seven. Okay. I have to do some light calculating.

47:04

So while I'm doing this You're good at hearing it. Promote.

47:06

I'm so good at calculating

47:07

this. Famous for my calculations. You've

47:10

got the mic you can recommend, promote, do

47:12

whatever you want. Oh, as you're doing calculating?

47:14

Yes. Oh my goodness. What do I recommend?

47:17

John Lewis's audiobook. Get

47:20

into it. Love representative John

47:22

Lewis. What can I promote? True lives is coming

47:24

out March first on CBS and Paramount

47:27

Plus. I play Helen. Jamiely

47:29

Curtis is part originally. She's

47:31

having a moment that's exciting. What else

47:34

can we say is amazing? Music,

47:38

Tatiana from Sheehan's just sent me that

47:40

very I mean, I'm sure everyone knows of the cliche

47:42

remix of pony

47:45

from by genuine and Bridger Spears

47:47

toxic. So hot. It's

47:49

a very exciting song.

47:51

It's a mash up.

47:52

Yeah. Which is great. We've got to get back.

47:54

We need to bring mashups back. Yeah. I

47:56

don't know why they went out of style. Yeah.

47:59

It's just you put too nice fun things

48:01

together, but it's more fun. Yeah.

48:03

Yeah. They're, like, it it's weird how they

48:05

kind of just vanish. Yeah. I think

48:07

people do them on, like, TikTok, but

48:09

it's very odd to watch someone like DJ in

48:11

the room is very sad. Mhmm. So how much of the things

48:13

I see on DJ? ERM, like, this is very

48:15

sad to me. Like, I don't

48:18

see the bit that they're

48:19

doing. I see their lonely apartment.

48:21

Right. You know what I mean? And the fact that they're inside.

48:24

And no one else is there and they've managed to put up

48:26

ten videos today. You

48:27

know what I mean? That's why I can't watch

48:29

corny there because I'm like, I can feel their emotions.

48:31

I don't think that girl wants to be there. That's

48:34

why I was just gonna I mean, a great deal

48:36

of empathy. Yeah. Your empathy

48:38

is just ruining everything.

48:42

This is how we play gifter occurs. Okay.

48:44

ERM gonna name three things. ERM gonna

48:46

tell me if they're a gift or a curse

48:48

and why.

48:49

Okay. And I'm gonna tell

48:50

you if you're right or wrong because there are correct

48:52

answers. Yes. Yes. Okay. So

48:55

let's get into

48:55

this. The first one is a listener suggestion

48:58

from somebody named Suneet.

48:59

Okay. And tonight has suggested gift

49:02

or a curse. This is kind of long.

49:04

Movies where dead wives haunt

49:06

their husbands with the memories of their perfect

49:08

love and untimely

49:10

demise. Gift

49:12

ERM a curse.

49:13

Gift her a curse. I didn't know there were movies

49:15

like that. I haven't seen anything. Okay.

49:18

So Oh, sorry. Dead

49:19

wife, Hans, ex husband.

49:22

Hans well, husband or ex husband,

49:24

divorce, I think, is

49:26

Until the person die. Is

49:28

that the crow? Is that what the result was?

49:30

Crow. Is the crow about his wife

49:32

dying and haunting him? Oh, I think she's like a surprise

49:34

to the avenger. I'm

49:35

gonna go ahead with curse.

49:38

Because I'm confused by

49:40

the film already. Film genre,

49:42

apparently. Alright. I

49:45

like, like, cute

49:46

ghost, you know, like -- Sure. -- friendly ghost.

49:48

Okay. Just friendly ghost. Yeah.

49:50

What's another cute ghost?

49:53

A little Mario ghost. Was

49:55

the ghost

49:56

from ghost cool? I wouldn't

49:58

just what? Patrick Swazzy.

50:00

It's more of a hot ghost. Yeah. Not

50:03

so much cute

50:03

territory. Yeah. But you're saying curse.

50:05

I'm saying curse. You're right. You're

50:07

absolutely right. I mean, I think I think

50:10

what this listener is suggesting is,

50:12

like, The wife is basically

50:14

used as a plot device to make the

50:16

husband do whatever

50:18

he's doing in the movie. So we kill off the woman

50:20

so the guy gets do something in the movie.

50:22

So he has a

50:23

purpose. Which you've right. Right. He

50:26

has

50:26

is

50:26

a terrible thing for a movie. Yeah.

50:28

There And my real problem is another

50:30

way to erase a woman's role. Just

50:33

say it's a ghost or not have her there.

50:35

Taking away drops of a

50:36

woman, hashtag not cool. My

50:38

and my ultimate problem with this is

50:40

it actually could be a fun idea for a movie

50:42

if the wife is, like, the haunting

50:45

is more of a harassment. Yeah. The husband can't

50:47

get away from the wife, and she's haunting

50:49

ERM. And -- Yeah. -- his life has become a living hell because

50:51

his ghost wife won't leave him alone. Yeah. That's

50:53

a movie. And he's, like,

50:54

trying to date other people and move on. Right. But

50:56

she's out their goofy. There's

50:58

this evil ghost that's haunting

51:00

every every one of his steps. Yeah. So

51:02

that's a curse in every way possible. Excellently

51:05

played. We've got the dump trucks coming by this

51:07

garbage day. Yeah. So listen,

51:09

you may be hearing the thrill of my bins

51:11

being dumped into the back of a dump truck.

51:15

Okay. Number two, you've gotten one right

51:17

so far. This is from a listener named Kate.

51:19

Kate has suggested gift or a

51:21

curse the phrase

51:23

wet my whistle.

51:25

Wet my whistle. For me --

51:26

Mhmm. -- it is occurs. Okay. And

51:28

that's because I feel like it's a phrase,

51:30

but also it feels like it would

51:32

have some crossover with like

51:34

idioms, which I've never understood

51:36

because I have a foreign parent.

51:37

Oh, okay. Learned that if you have foreign parent

51:40

where English is their second language. They don't know any

51:42

idioms. Right. So I grew up not knowing

51:44

any idioms or little phrases like, web by

51:46

whistling. I'm like, what is everyone talking about? And then I

51:48

would use them incorrectly. I still don't know

51:50

what wet blanket

51:51

means.

51:51

Wet blanket's a weird one. I mean, it's

51:53

you're kind of a bummer to be around.

51:55

Oh. Is it because it's I think

51:57

the We don't want to like a wet

51:59

blanket, you would throw over a fire and it would put it

52:01

out. Is that what we're talking about? I

52:02

don't know. I think it's because gross. No.

52:05

Lots

52:05

growing mildew. Yeah.

52:06

Or site for sore eyes. I I didn't know what that was.

52:08

That one makes absolutely correctly.

52:11

That's a real weird one.

52:12

Yeah. So wet your whistle. No.

52:15

It's a curse. Yeah. Sounds weird.

52:17

I mean, you're right. I mean, it's gross. Yeah. We are people

52:19

waiting. Anything when we're getting something

52:22

wet, just kinda grows. So then

52:24

what for describing, what might your

52:26

mouth as a

52:27

whistle?

52:27

Yeah. But isn't the point of it, like, you're thirsty?

52:30

Right. Or you're about to speak? Yeah.

52:32

You gotta wet your whistle. I don't wanna

52:34

think about someone wetting their mouth.

52:36

Yeah. There's too much moisture there. Gotta

52:40

wet my my my ERM. Yeah.

52:42

don't know anybody that would use that term --

52:44

No. -- that phrase -- My god. -- curse.

52:46

Curse wet no one should be wetting their

52:49

whistle. Okay. So you've

52:51

gotten two out of two, so Oh my goodness. This is

52:53

pretty good. Perfect. Pretty good.

52:55

Finally, listener named Nicole, gift

52:58

her a curse having cereal for dinner.

53:00

Oh, a gift.

53:02

Okay. And why? Because it's delicious.

53:05

It's nonconventional. There's no rules.

53:08

I love cereal

53:09

with, like, almond milk or oat milk. Oh,

53:12

it's so delicious.

53:13

I love cereal. What kind of cereal?

53:15

I like I've been eating some

53:17

sort of paleo cereal that's like strawberry flavor.

53:20

That sounds nice. I like and I mix

53:22

it sometimes with this, like, keto chocolate

53:24

cereal sauce, and it's like chocolate strawberry

53:26

situation. My goodness. Wow.

53:28

You're a real Yeah. -- culinary master.

53:30

Yeah. I love

53:32

hear you. Okay. So you're saying gift. Yes.

53:36

I hate to hear it. You could have had

53:38

a perfect game. You could have had

53:40

a perfect game and walked away a

53:42

winner. You've absolutely fallen

53:45

apart in the last moments. It's a curse.

53:46

It's a curse. Hi. Serial for

53:49

dinner doesn't work for me. Cereal.

53:51

I've been recently eating cereal for lunch.

53:53

Okay. Which is a real curve ball. Okay.

53:55

I'll know cereal for dinner. It's

53:58

gotten to point that it's

53:59

cliche. And we know when you're eating cereal

54:01

for dinner, things have fallen apart. It is a

54:03

bad cinematic scene. It's almost like

54:05

you've seen it in films where you're like, They're

54:08

like some

54:08

messages. They're sitting in an empty bathtub.

54:10

It's like we've seen it before. Who

54:13

cares? It's

54:15

a bad situation. You can't end the

54:17

day on a cereal unless you

54:19

make the truth. The truth. A

54:21

long period. Lunch cereal,

54:24

I really support it. Sure. If you can Especially

54:27

with these cereals, is the cereal industry or

54:30

we've got some new competitors that have cereals

54:32

that actually feel like a meal. You know,

54:34

this paleo cereals. It's not all sugar.

54:36

Okay. So I've been eating some for lunch. It

54:38

feels

54:39

fine. Yeah. But for dinner,

54:41

if I get to a cereal dinner, I know things have

54:43

gone

54:44

badly for me. It's a curse.

54:46

And you I guess you've kind

54:48

of had cereal for dinner with this game because

54:51

you dropped the ball in a huge

54:53

way. Imparison. It's obvious

54:55

they've given up.

54:57

Okay. Well, decently played.

55:00

Thank you. This is the final segment

55:02

of the podcast. It's

55:03

called, I said no emails. People write

55:05

in to I said no gifts at gmail

55:07

dot com.

55:08

Oh, cute. They've got questions galore. can't

55:10

ask them anything else. Yeah.

55:14

Please know. And, listener,

55:17

I need to also tell you you can submit gift

55:19

or curse suggestions

55:20

there. People are asking me this all the time. The

55:22

email's right here in the podcast.

55:24

I can't supply the email to everyone. That's

55:26

what you do. Okay. But we hope you answer

55:28

a listener question. Listen to some desperate

55:30

person. Yes. Okay. This is At

55:32

least understood the email assignment from listening.

55:35

Didn't need it blasted out in a newsletter.

55:37

Exactly. Come on. This person's got it together.

55:40

Alright.

55:40

This is Hello Bridger and

55:42

gorgeous, gorgeous guests. That's very nice.

55:45

Oh my.

55:45

I love that it's just generic. Like, it

55:47

doesn't matter who it is. I know you're trolling

55:49

because What have I been the hugest hideous person

55:51

alive? That would be really uncomfortable for me

55:53

to say. The Disobeys putting

55:56

me in a really dangerous position here.

55:59

Okay. This is I would hate to disrespect your

56:01

valuable time, so I will get straight

56:03

to the point. Could have gotten straight to the

56:05

point by literally not included in that line. Don't do

56:07

any edits. Do some editing

56:09

more and these things, hire

56:11

an editor if it takes that. But What

56:14

a waste of our time. I've got valuable

56:16

things to do. This is Sherry

56:18

has been one of assuming who

56:20

I know who Sherry is right off the bat. Sherry

56:23

has been one of my closest friends since

56:25

childhood. We are both female in

56:27

our mid twenties. Okay. She is being

56:29

thrown a baby shower for her first

56:31

birthday We should all we should also

56:34

point out that this is the first baby in our

56:36

friend group, and the shower is being thrown

56:38

by her family. And I have not participated

56:40

in the setup in any way. Okay.

56:44

She specifically texted our group chat

56:46

today telling me and our other friends

56:48

to please not bring gifts to her baby shower.

56:50

This feels absurd to me as I

56:52

already have a list of things I'm buying this

56:54

baby with or without the pretense

56:57

of a party. Also, it feels wrong

56:59

to not bring a gift to a baby shower.

57:02

Despite this, the last thing I want to do

57:04

is upset the expecting mother.

57:07

Bridger and guest, please

57:09

tell me if I should bring her a gift or

57:11

respect her wishes. Thank you in

57:13

advance ERM your oh, from your

57:15

adorning fan. That's very

57:17

nice. We love that. Yeah. Bailey.

57:20

Bailey and Sherry. We've got Bailey and Sherry

57:22

classic frankly.

57:24

As you know, when people say no gifts, you just

57:26

do it anyways. Or that That's your

57:28

lived experience. Oh my god.

57:31

Hundreds of times. So for and over

57:33

and

57:33

over. What do you feel like

57:35

about this situation, though? When people

57:37

say no gifts in a situation like

57:39

that, do they really mean it

57:42

in I assume they're just insanely

57:44

rich. And so they're saying that

57:46

to kind of acknowledge, like,

57:49

Just so you

57:49

know, ERM good. Like,

57:51

you don't have to. But I

57:54

would still bring something. This I

57:56

I think the the real situation here

57:59

is really nice. Sounds like she and cherry

58:01

are best

58:01

friends. So --

58:02

Yeah. -- let's imagine Bailey showing up

58:04

piles of gifts Yeah. Lesser friends

58:07

are there.

58:07

Yeah. Haven't brought gifts. But

58:10

now Sherry looks like an asshole. Yeah. But also

58:12

so don't bring ERM to the shower. Bridger

58:14

the next day because she's your best friend, you're gonna see

58:16

her

58:16

anyways, and you buy gifts for your

58:18

friends, baby. I yeah. That's

58:20

not a bad idea. I mean, I think that nice

58:23

thing to bring to a baby shower. This

58:25

situation is kind of do a is

58:27

it sleeping beauty situation where you bring

58:29

a

58:29

curse? Where you show up

58:31

and make a huge scene --

58:33

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. -- and then curse the baby

58:35

for life. There you go. That's

58:37

an option that's available. And it did it's

58:39

not material. Yeah. So you're not showing up with

58:41

a big bag or a big box.

58:43

You're just cursed. Well, I

58:45

mean, whatever what happened. You're trapped in a

58:47

castle or you're gonna die or

58:50

I think that that's a nice thing to bring to a

58:52

baby

58:52

shower.

58:52

Yeah. You can also if you're gonna if

58:55

you're already bonced off, if you could come early

58:57

and secretly.

58:58

Oh, yeah. But it's

58:59

not bad. I I would I

59:01

wouldn't be so strong enough is to say

59:03

no gifts. I'd be like, I hope to get

59:05

me

59:06

gifts. You know what I'm about right now is I just bought

59:08

a house. And I'm like, man, I wish

59:10

I could have a registry.

59:11

Oh, like, I could have a registry. The

59:13

things I bought for all my friends that are married

59:15

and I get it, they're setting up their house, all

59:17

these ERM get all by myself, and

59:19

I'm just like, we're just gonna get a registry

59:21

for myself just for being like, hey,

59:22

cool. Good job, lady, by your own house. That's

59:24

true. Didn't show you a thing. I

59:26

thought the exact same way.

59:27

No. We should normalize that. This is why

59:29

it's still a bad plate. Yeah. I

59:32

ERM not gonna buy myself good plates. I need

59:34

somebody to go to whatever

59:36

department store right over and get me some classy

59:39

dishware. Yeah.

59:41

You should able to sign up for a registry

59:43

no matter what? I

59:44

know. I should be able to go to whatever

59:46

store and say, this is the event in my life.

59:49

Yeah. We really all should. Some famous

59:51

person did that, I forget. Who it was an

59:53

athlete or something, and people bottom

59:54

the things. A millionaire athletes

59:56

doing this. I thought it was yeah. It was definitely

59:59

like a lot. I know. You've

1:00:01

been out the money. I know. But if he did

1:00:02

it, can I do it? You

1:00:05

know exactly what I want. I know everything

1:00:07

remains the apology. Yeah. Yeah. A lot

1:00:09

of don't get married

1:00:10

anymore. That's what I'm saying. But then if you don't

1:00:12

get married, you're you're still going

1:00:14

to the wedding and buy all the things or all

1:00:17

friends. And I'm like, oh, can they get me

1:00:19

my plates?

1:00:19

Right. My blender's on its last legs. Yeah.

1:00:22

It's a decent new blender.

1:00:24

Yeah. Cool towel. Okay.

1:00:26

I think you have some nice tea towels. I

1:00:28

mean, I could go on and on about the things that I

1:00:30

have garbage versions

1:00:31

of. Yeah. Because the people in my life didn't

1:00:33

think to give me any color. Oh.

1:00:36

Which point

1:00:37

is, Bridger's Venmo is my

1:00:40

boyfriend has yeah.

1:00:44

I think Bailey got her answer. Have you heard about

1:00:46

these baby showers where they're like, put food in

1:00:48

diapers?

1:00:51

These weird Boeing came out. I did

1:00:53

some film for a friend one time, which

1:00:55

was based off of this

1:00:57

type of thing. I I don't need

1:00:59

a weird themed bizarre

1:01:01

game that's really focusing on the

1:01:03

weird parts of a baby and the process

1:01:06

and bizarreness that it shits

1:01:08

in a little today. And then we could put a

1:01:10

chocolate bar in there and then someone has to eat it

1:01:12

and then they get points, but the points aren't

1:01:14

real. Everyone's

1:01:17

disgusting. Yeah.

1:01:19

Let's just have some normal food

1:01:21

put out the board and cheeses

1:01:23

and what have you's. Don't make me eat out of

1:01:25

a diaper. No. No. Good. Lord.

1:01:28

No. Not in front of people. Not in front of

1:01:29

them. Not in front of my pie. From LTV or

1:01:32

Or Or

1:01:32

Or Yeah. A

1:01:34

bowl of cereal. No.

1:01:37

That's disgusting. I mean, there's some committee

1:01:39

out there that's like, inventing new disgusting

1:01:41

ideas

1:01:42

for, you know, baby showers, gender reveals

1:01:44

and then they spread them over the Internet.

1:01:46

Do you remember

1:01:47

the gender reveal in LA that literally started to buy

1:01:49

off? Course. Of course.

1:01:51

I mean, I think you can't have a gender reveal

1:01:53

at this point without

1:01:54

starting. Like, that's part of the fun

1:01:56

the tradition is always because

1:01:58

a huge -- Yeah. -- and a straw

1:02:00

left their house. And then yeah. Somebody's

1:02:03

eye got blown out or something.

1:02:06

We've gotta cut it out with all of that.

1:02:08

Well, Bailey, good luck to you.

1:02:10

Curse the baby. Show up in a,

1:02:12

you know, like a tornado or whatever,

1:02:14

fly down on the house, and everyone's screaming,

1:02:17

and the baby now has something to deal

1:02:19

with for the rest of their lives. We answered

1:02:21

it perfectly. We did. I mean, no

1:02:24

one could ask for more. No. Alright.

1:02:26

I'm Telling it. Telling

1:02:29

it. Ginger, I now own

1:02:32

a little piece of you. I've got this

1:02:34

funko pop doll. It's

1:02:36

a collector's item. I didn't have to wait in line.

1:02:38

Yeah. I don't think there's anything worth

1:02:41

waiting in line for. No. I

1:02:43

don't

1:02:43

mind. It's not worth it. Oh, no. No. No. I don't

1:02:45

care how good the thing is. No. ERM I'm

1:02:47

not gonna you're not going to

1:02:48

find me on the sidewalk.

1:02:50

I'll gladly just walk to the front and

1:02:52

be like, are you gonna

1:02:54

do anything about

1:02:55

it? There we go. I'll just make

1:02:57

a scene in front of the store. No.

1:03:00

I'm very excited to have this. I'll

1:03:02

be displaying

1:03:03

it. And you've really found

1:03:05

a way to focus the podcast on you, which is

1:03:07

Yeah. That

1:03:08

was going with GOL. Ginger

1:03:10

is not gonna marvel she hulk. Man, all things.

1:03:14

Thank you so much for being Yeah, man. This is wonderful.

1:03:17

Yeah. Listener. Wow.

1:03:19

Podcasts coming to a close

1:03:22

and I'm Gonzaga let you go. I'm going

1:03:24

to let you do whatever you need to do with your life.

1:03:28

I can't remember what I was talking about at the beginning

1:03:30

of this. Oh, my toothbrush. Maybe I'll get

1:03:32

onto that. Checking on your batteries

1:03:34

because there's a chance something's dying and

1:03:36

then it'll be too late and you won't be able to use

1:03:39

it. You've gotta keep things charged.

1:03:41

I've got to stop talking on the podcast. I

1:03:43

have to let you

1:03:44

go. This is the end. Goodbye.

1:03:46

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1:03:52

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1:03:54

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I don't wanna hear any excuses. That's

1:04:15

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1:04:17

I'm getting. And don't you want to see pictures of the

1:04:19

gifts?

1:04:26

Farnament myself perfectly clear.

1:04:30

But you're a guest in my home.

1:04:34

You gotta come to me until

1:04:38

I said, no, good. You

1:04:41

know, presences. Presences. No.

1:04:44

And I already had

1:04:46

too much stuff. So

1:04:48

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