Danny Ricker Disobeys Bridger

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Speaker 1 (00:08):
And I invited you here.

Speaker 2 (00:13):
Gonta made myself perfectly clear. When you're a guest to
my home, you gotta come to me empty. And I said, no, guest,
you're our presences, presence in I already had too much stuff.

(00:35):
So how do you dare to surbey me?

Speaker 3 (00:49):
Okay? Before the show begins, a reminder of the live
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(01:11):
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your way to a ticket. It's going to be I mean,
we're going to have a great time. We had a
great time at Dynasty Typewriter last year. How could anything
possibly go wrong? And now I've cursed the whole thing,
And but that's you know, will only be better for

(01:33):
you if it's cursed. So there will be something that
happens on a stage, on camera, on microphone that you
don't want to miss. That's the live show Dynasty typewriter
dot com. I expect you to be there, or at
least be there, you know, Cyber be there. Okay, let's
get into the show. Welcome to I said, no gifts.

(01:57):
I'm Bridger, Weineger. We're in the back. What a lovely
feeling this is. We're so free, We're so loose. It's
not that hot. I kind of expected to just be
immediately sweating, but I guess that was kind of an illusion.
My car played on me a little trick because my
car was about ninety seven degrees my entire ride to
the coffee shop. What's going on? I'm back from Utah.

(02:20):
That was lovely. I thought I had a cold sore
ended up being a terrible ZiT. I don't know which
I'd rather have. I just want to die the news
in the backyard. Is there some sort of creature. There's
some sort of creature that has been digging up the succulents,
and one that looked almost looked like the circulant had exploded.

(02:40):
And I can't imagine what animal this is. So I'm
on the case. And when I say I'm on the case,
that just means I wait for something else to get
ripped up and then wonder what it is. I haven't
bought an animal camera yet. I think it's time to
find out what is coming into the yard. It's either
a coyote, I raccoon, apossum, might be a mole. It

(03:01):
might be an underground job because this thing looks like
it was shredded from underneath. I'll post a picture to
Instagram if I can find it. Everyone loves looking at
ripped up plants. Oh, let's get into the episode. I
love today's guest. It's Danny Ricker, Hi Bridger. Danny, welcome
to I said no gift.

Speaker 4 (03:17):
Thank you. I'm so happy to see you.

Speaker 3 (03:19):
Oh it's been a while.

Speaker 4 (03:20):
It has. We were coworkers for many years.

Speaker 3 (03:23):
Well, you were my boss.

Speaker 4 (03:24):
Yeah, I don't. I don't consider myself Danny. I'm the
cruel boss. I feel like I'm the guy who has
the most to do. I don't. I don't feel like
I'm in charge of anyone.

Speaker 3 (03:34):
Oh, poor Dan, No, you were. You were kind of
the boss, but also acted more like a coworker that way.

Speaker 4 (03:44):
I try to, you know, I like to. I like
to force my friendship upon my underlings and make them
pretend like they enjoy spending time with me.

Speaker 3 (03:52):
No, I've never felt like, oh God, here comes Danny's
going to demand something. You were we work together for
a year, only a year and a half to be
is that it? It's so crazy?

Speaker 4 (04:02):
Can I tell you are one of the most beloved,
like former members of our writing staff, Like we talk
about you as if you're like a beloved cousin who
passed away. Well, yesterday I was at work and I
was like, oh, I'm doing Bridges' podcast tomorrow, and everyone
went you are, Like everyone was so excited and jealous
that I got to see you.

Speaker 3 (04:21):
Well, it's such a sweet place to work. Whenever people
ask me how it was to work at Jimmy Kimmel Live,
I say it was like working at a family garage.

Speaker 4 (04:28):
That's a very good analogy.

Speaker 3 (04:29):
Yeah, just a lovely place run by a lovely person
and just like slightly leaning straight attitude, you know. But
like if I can work there, then anybody can. Yeah.

Speaker 4 (04:41):
And you brought something so unique to the writing staff,
which is I mean, everyone in the writing staff is nice,
but you are I know, you put off this kind
of bad boy persona of course, but on the inside
you are just a genuinely sweet person.

Speaker 3 (04:56):
I've got everyone fulled.

Speaker 4 (04:58):
You can cut this out of the podcast.

Speaker 2 (04:59):
I know.

Speaker 4 (05:00):
Oh, this is going to ruin your reputation as a
Hollywood bad boy. I understand. So I'm sorry to no.

Speaker 3 (05:05):
I really I had a great time working there, but
it was I started working there in twenty fourteen. And
and we won't get two. We can't get too political
because no one wants to think about this asshole.

Speaker 4 (05:16):
What are you talking about?

Speaker 3 (05:17):
Nanny Rick?

Speaker 4 (05:17):
Right?

Speaker 3 (05:19):
Donald Trump? But his campaign, his early campaign started while
I was working, Yes, And the mental toll it took
on me just then, HM, for the early days was like,
I can't imagine doing this thinking about this guy every
day forever. And the strength of the Jimmy Kimmelives staff
to not only be thinking about this guy, but to
actually have gotten under his skin. It's unbelievable.

Speaker 4 (05:40):
Yeah, I mean, we're not a healthy group of people
insider out, but you know it. The only benefit I
think is we have something to talk about every day
that everyone is already aware of. And you know, as
a comedy writer, if there's something you're trying to talk
about and you have to explain it for a minute,
or two before you start trying to tell jokes about it.
It it kind of hurts the jokes. But everyone knows

(06:03):
what this man is doing at all times. They track
him like some sort of farm animal with a tag
in his ear. Everyone knows his every move, and so
we don't have to explain what's going on. Everyone already knows.
You can get right to the punchline.

Speaker 3 (06:15):
I think it's very unfair to compare farm animals to
Donald Trumam.

Speaker 4 (06:19):
Sorry, leave them all. I'm sorry.

Speaker 3 (06:21):
Yeah, I remember the first time I met you was
it was such a that I hadn't worked as a
professional writer yet, and Jimmy brought me in and I
met you too, and it was I had truly like
memorized the show in a way, and then it was
just a casual conversation that was threw me off in
such a way. It was basically like, what music do
you listen to? We just wanted to make sure you're
not a psycho.

Speaker 4 (06:40):
Yeah, that's mostly if you're coming in for a meeting
like that, at least at a comedy show. Usually we've
read material and we go, okay, clearly this person is funny,
and then we just want to make sure that like
you don't have a like a.

Speaker 3 (06:51):
Weird haircut or smell.

Speaker 4 (06:54):
Yeah, yeah, you can get a vibe, but like within
ten seconds we go, oh this, oh, this is a
nice person. And you spend a lot of time when
you work on a TV show, you just spend a
lot of time with these people, and so you need
to make sure. Yeah there's no sociopaths trying to.

Speaker 3 (07:07):
Sneak in, right, So yeah, you basically just have to
be friends. That's a big surprise about getting writing jobs.
It's just like, oh, you're just a large part of
it is being tolerable.

Speaker 4 (07:16):
Yes, yeah, And you know, like if you consider it
a computer and crank out some work, that's one thing.
But if you do that while you're being very unpleasant
to those around you, it really ruins the experience. And
I mean we're there, you know. It's like a sixty
hour plus a week job, depending on the week and stuff,
and so if you're doing it with miserable people, it
makes it one hundred times worse.

Speaker 3 (07:35):
Right, right, And are you off for the summer or
what's going on?

Speaker 4 (07:39):
No, Jimmy takes the summer off now and we have
guest hosts all summer so we have a rotating band
of the wonderful people who come in and host. We
just sit a week with Anthony Anderson, who we love
and does it every year. We did a week with
Diego Luna Ofstic and Or fame, who is a fantastic guy,
would be really.

Speaker 3 (07:56):
Nice Star Wars person at all obsessed with that or.

Speaker 4 (08:00):
You know, I've heard people say that. It's like, I
don't want to speak ill of my parent company, but
I will say that, like, I'm a lifelong Star Wars sure,
and I think, unfortunately for Disney, like and Or is
the best Star Wars thing they have going right now.
And I say unfortunately because it's a very adult show.

Speaker 3 (08:18):
Oh my god.

Speaker 4 (08:18):
Yeah, there's no baby Yoda there, there's no there's no
merchandise to be had of Nandor. But he's just clothes
exactly right, with no labels or anything. Again, cool jackets, yeah,
but they already kind of a lot. Actually, I'm getting
served ads on Instagram that look like things and Or
would wear, and which is a very precise thing for
my algorithm to be doing. But they're not They're not
marketed by the Walt Disney Company.

Speaker 3 (08:39):
Right, of course, it's shipping out of somewhere and will
probably smell like damp clothes or something falls apart as
soon as you open the bag. Yep, my algorithm has
fallen apart. I don't know that it knows me anymore,
which is probably good. But I feel like the ads
I'm being served are nothing. I'm I would like to
eventually the algorithm to find one thing I actually want
to buy.

Speaker 4 (09:00):
Yeah, and then you'll be like, proud of it.

Speaker 3 (09:01):
Yeah, I'll be like, you really broke through to a
mentally ill person.

Speaker 4 (09:05):
You were listening?

Speaker 3 (09:06):
Yes, Because I feel like, like door to door sales
people can eventually break people down, and when they come
to my house, I'm like, there is no I won't
spend money on things I need like desperately. The fact
the idea of a stranger showing up and convincing me
what a waste of their time, although somebody did get
me into the backyard once and had me signing all
these contracts. What solar panels? I think, oh really, because

(09:27):
they've started dressing up. They wear like neon vasts, like
city workers, or like a child's idea of what a
city worker is. Yes, and they show up and act
like they're part they work with the state. And the
guy had me for a long time, to the point
that I had wasted so much of his time that
when I said, eventually, I'm not doing this, I was like, oh, no,
he's going to come back in a bad way.

Speaker 4 (09:48):
Yeah. Well, I assume anyone who comes to my door,
no matter what they say, is trying to start a
home invasion robbery, and I treat them as such. I mean,
I'm not exaggerating. People will say they're my neighbors, and
I'm like, yeah, right, creep, get out of here. And
I anyone I've even I think you would, I hope
would agree. I'm a generally polite person. Sure I will

(10:10):
literally close the door in people's faces right now, I
and only in certain situations. But someone came literally I'm
putting my kids to bed and someone comes claiming to
be from AT and T. This is it's nighttime, right,
And this person's claim to me from AT and T
and they want to sell me some service, and I
just went I'm not interested, and he goes wait, and
I literally just closed the door and locked it. Because

(10:30):
that's like getting a spam call. Are you obligated to
pick up a spam call and politely tell the person
you're it's like, no, you just hit that button, you
hang up. I now do that. I do a live
in person version of that now.

Speaker 3 (10:41):
Because they're relentless, they're trained to be like just never
give up. Yes, And so I think that that's just
now their experience of people being like, Okay, I'm no
longer talking to you because you won't leave me alone.

Speaker 4 (10:50):
And I feel bad. I know this, this is not
this person's choice. They're doing it for money, you know,
and they're probably not getting paid too much. But I
I just I it's like I want to slam the
door in the face of their corporation. And and so
that's that's the closest I can get to, right.

Speaker 3 (11:06):
I mean, as someone who comes from door to door
culture Utah Mormon culture at a lot of these door
to door salesmen come from Utah because they're former Mormon missionaries.
And then these companies like the bug spraying or the
alarm sales or what have you, are often out of
Utah and they train these like teenagers basically who have
already been through a relentless door to door experience. They're

(11:28):
like sleeper agents. Yeah, totally. So now I feel told.
I'm like, I know exactly what's going on. You're not
kidding me, but I just shouldn't open the door. Who
comes to the door.

Speaker 4 (11:37):
Yeah, and usually I don't because I have a video
door bell, so usually I can see. But sometimes they're
tricky if they're not wearing the vest. That's kind of
where they get you, because because I'm often like, maybe
this person hit my car accidentally and they're coming to
tell me, and if I just don't answer the door,
they'll get away scott free. So street close is actually
a good way to trick me. And I'm gonna give
my address out on the podcast for all home and bakers.

Speaker 3 (11:57):
Just everyone get your pen and paper out. No, I
feel like they just need to switch. They need to
start recruiting like women seventy five plus, Yes, older grandma's
so it'd be like, wait, what's going on. Then you
open the door and then it's a really pushy old woman.

Speaker 4 (12:12):
And they take a really long time to give you
the sales pitch, and you feel like you have to
invite them in time.

Speaker 3 (12:17):
Yes, or very small children, yeah, one or the other.
You can't have just like a healthy thirty year old like,
I'm like, no, this isn't working.

Speaker 4 (12:25):
I mean, I have small children. They would be terrible
at this. They would get easily distracted. They would give
up after the first house.

Speaker 3 (12:31):
Oh right, yeah, right, No, I how did we get
to hiring old women to go door to door? It's
always hard on this show. Oh we were talking about
the guest shows and an andor, but I'm just going
to say something. I was deeply jealous. I think it
was last year he had Martin Short and see.

Speaker 4 (12:48):
Yes, that was a comedy writer fantasy camp of course
situation he hosted for four nights, and he told us,
he goes, I'm thinking about doing the last night as Jimmy.

Speaker 3 (12:58):
Glick by Heart. Oh my god, he goes, so is
that okay?

Speaker 4 (13:02):
We would that's yes, that's definitely okay. And it was
just like a magical week. He put so much work
into it, and you would think like, ah, maybe he
just cruises in and you know, is just kind of
phoning it in, right he I mean it was months
of phone calls and then because I'm one of the
head writers, he goes, can I have your phone number?
I was like yeah, and then yeah, and then I

(13:23):
would be like I'd be with like my like take
my son to a birthday party and be like Martin
Short is calling me hold on and he just have
an idea he'd want to talk to me about. And
it was so it was it was kind of like
we were dating for like six weeks and Marty reach out.

Speaker 3 (13:37):
Yeah, it was.

Speaker 4 (13:38):
It was beautiful. But then and then so Jimmy Glick
was the you know, the the final We pretended like
Marty was hosting three nights and then he needed Thursday
off and Jimmy Glick was coming in. And the writing
I our writers have never come more alive than the
assignment of going, Okay, Jimmy Glick's gonna interview Bill Hayter
and Sean Hayes and we need to write questions. And

(13:58):
that was some of the most fun I've ever had
writing comedy. And Marty is really particular about like he's
like Jimmy Glick isn't mean, He's like an idiot, and
sometimes he's such an idiot that he is mean, and
he had he has it so figured out and it
was really fun. So we did some pre tapes with
Click and then Click hosted the live show too, and

(14:19):
Melissa McCarthy and Kroll were the guests. It was just
it was such a chaotic, crazy day. He it takes
some kind of all day to get into the prosthetics
and writers meetingthetic. It really, it really was. And we'd
be doing writers meetings throughout the day where he had
his like regular Martin short body, but the Jimmy glick head,
and it was it was such a surreal day.

Speaker 3 (14:41):
Oh my god. Yeah, and that's something like it's such
a risky thing to take a character like that and
try that could have been a disaster. It was so good.

Speaker 4 (14:50):
And and he even kind of expressed to us, he goes,
I don't know if a people remember the character or
if it could still be kind of done today. And
I think he felt from us and everyone involved in
those shows, the celebrities, they're just like there's such a
love for him and that character that there's kind of
a grandfathering in of things. And there's also certain he goes,
there's some things Jimminy Click used to do that he

(15:11):
will of course no longer do. And he was really
good at finding the balance of still keeping it having
its edge, but still fitting in with twenty twenty four.

Speaker 3 (15:18):
Yeah, someone of his age, and like, I feel like
a lot of guys at that age are like, oh, oh,
you can't do anything anymore. I can't believe. And he
just walks the line perfectly. He's so funny. Oh yeah,
truly one of the all times. So are you doing
anything with a little bit of free time you have
during the summer.

Speaker 4 (15:38):
I'm trying to see my kids here and there. I'm married,
I have full custody out not one of those situations,
but it's very bad. But yeah, no, I we work
such long hours at the show, and you know the
summer guest hosts they are they require a lot of
work too, So I when I'm at work, I'm very consumed.
But when I try to when I walk in the door,

(15:59):
I try to be a full time dad and father.
I'm we're doing I took my kids camping for the
first time. Where did you go? We were down at
this place. It's called Elmorro down in Orange County. It's
Orange County. Yeah, it's by the beach. I knew they
would not sleep in a tent. They kept telling me
they were afraid of bears. I said, there are no

(16:19):
bears at the beach, But I rented, like, I found
a company. I will drop off an airstream trailer at
your campsite.

Speaker 3 (16:25):
So they, Oh my god, for them.

Speaker 4 (16:27):
This was roughing it. You know, for anyone who's actually
been camping that it looked ridiculous.

Speaker 3 (16:31):
Monsters.

Speaker 4 (16:32):
Yeah, I know, I know, but it's I'm trying to
ease them into like I feel like my son would
maybe maybe camp in a tent after that experience. So
I'm trying.

Speaker 3 (16:41):
To make an airstream on the beach. That sounds lovely.

Speaker 4 (16:44):
Yeah, I mean it was still like a state campsite,
you know, but it was fun. The we got so sunburned,
we're so white, our family and I have a yeah,
I have a I will not take off my shoe
and show you, but I have a I have a
sandal tan for the first time in my life, and
I do not like it. I am I am humiliated

(17:05):
by it.

Speaker 3 (17:07):
Are kids now? Is there any like level of scouting
for either of your kids in the future, boy girl,
some other type of scouting?

Speaker 4 (17:14):
So I was I was a boy scout, right, I
forget it?

Speaker 3 (17:17):
Were you full eagle scout?

Speaker 4 (17:19):
Night right?

Speaker 3 (17:20):
Personal nightmare for me?

Speaker 4 (17:21):
What was your eagle Scout project?

Speaker 3 (17:23):
It was we collected used clothes for and this is
like the one thing that Scouts do, or it's like, okay,
you did something that actually contributed to the world. We
collected to use clothes for the one of the local
hospitals for people who like don't have clothes coming out
of the hospital.

Speaker 4 (17:37):
That's a great project, right.

Speaker 3 (17:39):
If the rest of the boy Scout thing had gone away,
if I had just gotten to collect to use clothes
for this, great But.

Speaker 4 (17:45):
What did you do? So I did not get anywhere
close to eagle Scout. But here's my situation. So my father,
my grandfather, and my great grandfather all Eagle Scouts.

Speaker 3 (17:56):
Oh no, family disappointment.

Speaker 4 (17:57):
Yes, And then it got to me, and so I
did club Scout and I did about I think it
like two years of boy Scouts. I think I got
to like second class. I think as a rank. I
forget where that is exactly. But I had a like
a bad boy Scout troop where. And my dad was
so understanding and he was not disappointed when I quit,

(18:19):
because he goes. When I was a boy Scout, we'd
like hop in a jeep and we'd drive to Mexico,
would camp and it was like amazing. It was like
something out of like a Norman Rockwell beautiful and like
that meant a lot to him. But he come to me,
come with me to these meetings just in like a church,
you know, rec center kind of thing. And it was

(18:39):
it was run by adult men who never really amounted
to much in their lives, but they enjoyed yelling at
a bunch of young kids and neckerchiefs, you know that
that made them feel powerful. And so it was just
like lessons out of the handbook and like no, no
real experiences. So so I ended up bailing on it.
But it's I would love if my kids were interested

(19:01):
in Scouts. It is weirdly now it's old fashioned because
boy Scouts are like nice and help their community, right
like that, that's like that's like a unheard of today. Yes,
but the idea like if you went, if you showed
up in a uniform going like I'd like to help
the elderly, they think you were up to something.

Speaker 3 (19:18):
Oh yeah, absolutely, what are you trying to take from us?

Speaker 4 (19:22):
Yeah, so I there is a there's a boy Scout
troop in our neighborhood. I keep trying to like explain
to my son that it's fun. He seems very skeptical.

Speaker 3 (19:29):
Is that dorks?

Speaker 4 (19:30):
Well yeah, I mean I guess that goes that's part
of the boy scout motto. I think, uh right, but
it's like it would be fun. I'm lucky as a parent.
I'm lucky in a way that my kids have no
interests and so right, my weekends are not I'm not
at a soccer field, you know, they're really the birthday

(19:52):
party stack up.

Speaker 3 (19:53):
But that sounds awful. It seems like the pressure of
those has gotten way out of control.

Speaker 4 (19:58):
Well yes, however, I to a bad one recently and
that was enraging. It was enraging. So I feel like we,
my wife and I have gotten decent at throwing a
kid's birthday party and we don't go crazy. We have
friends who go crazy and it's months of planning and
it's thousands of dollars and they build think got costumes
out of Amazon box and like god, God bless them.

(20:19):
They're better parents than we have.

Speaker 3 (20:20):
I don't know, but we we like.

Speaker 4 (20:24):
The time is very important. The only time you should
have a kid's birthday party is Saturday from ten to noon.
Anything outside of that is a criminal offense because like it.
This one I went to started at five pm.

Speaker 3 (20:35):
Okay, oh, that is unfair to everybody.

Speaker 4 (20:39):
I don't know, I don't know.

Speaker 3 (20:40):
I don't want it at that time.

Speaker 4 (20:41):
No, And it was not explained why. It wasn't like, oh, hey,
like that's when we get off work. This was five
pm on a Saturday. We're in dinner time all of
a sudden, yes, yes, and so there's a lot of
stuff we can't do because we got to be at
this place at five. And then we show up and
there's kind of nothing for the kids to do. We
just show up and we're just in a backyard and
the kids are just sort of milling about, and then

(21:03):
it's me and these parents I've never met before, all
lovely people. And then there's like there's a cooler and
the cooler has some sparkling water and it has like
three beers in it, which was a kind of a
mixed message, right, Like sometimes you show up one of
these parties and the parents are kind of like, hey,
there's juice boxes if you want sang grey We got
saying like they kind of let you know what's going on,

(21:26):
or you know, when we throw one and it's from
ten to noon again the only appropriate time for a party.
We have ic coffee for the parents, reactice tacos. You
gotta kind of you gotta put the parents, yes, exactly,
and because you know, the parents don't really want to
be there, they're just coming so their kid can come.
So you got to kind of like set up a
little kind of a lounge situation for them. They have shade,

(21:47):
they have drinks, all that kind of stuff. But this
it was just a weird situation. And it went on
for about three hours. And then I was kind of
the first one to be like, well, I'm gonna go.
And my was not upset that I told him it
was time to go. He goes all right. Then we
just we just got up and left.

Speaker 3 (22:05):
You know, it seems like these were loser parents looking
for adult friends, and they're using the child as an
excuse to get people over.

Speaker 4 (22:10):
They were sweet people, it was just they didn't think
through the flow of the party. You know, you when
you throw a party. I imagine I have them at
ten to two with adults. There are juice boxes and
there are three beers. But I imagine you think a
lot about I think you and I similar in this
way about Okay, when people show up, what do they see?
How are they greeted? What is the journey they're going

(22:32):
to have a party there?

Speaker 3 (22:33):
Yeah, I send emails that are borderline rude to my guests,
and I'm not kidding. I say the party will be
ending at eleven o'clock and I will tell you to
leave because that's when I go to bed. Yeah, yeah,
that's like boundaries.

Speaker 4 (22:44):
People do want this because then it also avoids the
weird thing where the person drinks a little too much
and they came out a little too long and they're
not picking up on any social cues all the summer,
and you probably come out and you're in you're matching
pajamas and nightcap. You're about to blow out the adult Yea.

Speaker 3 (23:01):
The emails are like, I will tell you to leave
my house, so just be prepared to go. Good. People
are so refreshed by this, so like I I don't
have to like be polite and stay around longer than
I need to. I just know it'll be time. You should.
People leave ten minutes before the time I tell them
they have to leave them Like, thank god, I.

Speaker 4 (23:17):
See to the people stay at a party longer than
they want to.

Speaker 3 (23:20):
Of course I'm the only person who doesn't. I'm again
rude in those situations where I show up for fifteen
to twenty minutes and then I leave.

Speaker 4 (23:26):
When you leave, because you and I've been at a
few parties together, like you know, work parties and cousins.
Sal would have a Halloween party, we'd be there. What
was your method for leaving? Did you what they call
an Irish goodbye, which is probably a kind of a
racist term, you know, cultureless term. I don't know, but
do you Irish goodbye?

Speaker 3 (23:45):
I do Irish or French exit Irish goodbye? Although I
actually will say I think I've kind of turned it
on its head in a way of where I'm I'm
loudly just saying I'm leaving without but I'm not saying goodbye.

Speaker 4 (23:55):
You just yell it to the place.

Speaker 3 (23:57):
I just decide it's time for me to leave, and
then anyone I see on the way, I say I'm leaving,
I'm leaving. I'm leaving. The host has no idea what's
going on. Good but there's no like, there's no formal
anything for me. I just I'm like, oh god, I've
hit my end point. I'm out of here.

Speaker 4 (24:11):
Yeah, like you finish the most boring conversation you will
have at the party, and you go, I'm good, I'm
going to leave.

Speaker 3 (24:18):
But actually not even the most boring. I think this
throws people off where they'll be like, oh, I thought
we're having a good conversation and he decided to leave.
We were having a good conversation. Yeah, I just didn't
want to be there anymore.

Speaker 4 (24:26):
I want to go out on top. Yes, it's not
going to get any better.

Speaker 3 (24:29):
Than this, right, I'm done with my diet coke and
it's eight fifteen. Right, Yeah, I'm partied out.

Speaker 4 (24:35):
Well, but part of it and you don't drink correct, No,
And so that also I don't know that I've been
at a lot of parties where I haven't had, you know,
a glass of wine or something like that, and that
it must be so annoying for you to be at
parties I don't like. I mean, I guess this is
like the mystique and like the sort of the hook
of alcohol right where you're like, I can stay at

(24:57):
a place I don't want to be about ninety minutes longer. Yes,
Because I also imagine as people are getting drunk around
who you're going like this is the last place on earth.

Speaker 3 (25:05):
I want to be a zero tolerance for a drunk person. Yeah,
or even like a dear friend. I'm not putting up
with that. Yeah, I'm moving away from the right. I
don't want to speak to you. I don't want you
draping over me. You're not funny, you're not entertaining. You're
on my nerves. I have caffeine in me. Yeah, my
anxiety is already too high.

Speaker 4 (25:23):
That's right. I'm surprised to drinking a diet coke at
eight thirty. I mean, that's like it's gonna Circadian raffeine.

Speaker 3 (25:29):
That's my diet. Coke is my night caffeine. Coffee is
my day caffeine.

Speaker 4 (25:33):
You when do you cut it off?

Speaker 3 (25:34):
Usually it's getting earlier and earlier. I think I can
drink a cold brew until about two thirty. Now.

Speaker 4 (25:39):
Oh see that that's even risky for me.

Speaker 3 (25:41):
What's yours?

Speaker 4 (25:41):
Well? I read a book by doctor Sanjay Gupta. Okay, sure,
I don't know. I don't know why I did that.
I just I just sort of read it. I enjoyed it.
But one of the only thing I remember from the
book is don't drink caffeine past noon. Wrong, I forgot
I'm talking to doctor Bridger Wineger, but I.

Speaker 3 (25:58):
Could qualify at this point.

Speaker 4 (26:00):
Well, I think so. From what I understand, it stays
in your system for about twelve hours. So this is
a new way of added anxiety into my life. Where
I'm doing math, I go, when will I be going
to bed tonight? Right? And so if I go, wow, oh,
I have movie tickets, so you know, maybe it'll be
eleven thirty, then I will drink caffe until about eleven thirty.
I'm drinking coffee right now, and it's actively making nervous

(26:21):
because it is Friday when we're taping this, Like, okay,
I can be up a little late tonight. Maybe maybe
I'll be a little groggy in the morning. But it's
a it's a weird boundary I have put on myself.

Speaker 3 (26:31):
What is it hot or cold brew or what is it?

Speaker 4 (26:33):
This is cold? And I'm embarrassed to tell you because
this seems like the least like cool anything to say.
But my favorite iced coffee is the bottled Starbucks.

Speaker 3 (26:42):
Oh that is airplane drink.

Speaker 4 (26:46):
I know, I know. I told you I was embarrassed,
and I will still go to you know, I live
in Burbank, and I have three great little coffee shops,
and I frequent them all equally to keep them all
in business. I'm a good local business purveyor. But if
I'm being honest, when I my favorite and our coffee
maker broke recently, and so I had so each for

(27:06):
about a week, every morning I was going up and
I was getting my wife and I coffee at Starbucks,
and I told her, I go, I hate that I'm
saying this. I like this coffee we're drinking, and I
wouldn't do it because I'm so cheap that I would
never go to Starbucks every morning. But also factoring into
the cheap thing, you know, the cold werew you buy
your favorite coffee shop? How much is that?

Speaker 3 (27:24):
It's? How much is it? Now? It's five dollars.

Speaker 4 (27:28):
A bottle of the Starbucks iced coffee, not even cold
brew coffee. I'm so humiliated. I know, I know, but
it costs five dollars and fifty cents for an entire bottle.
I'll drink it for a week and a half, and
that's just a savings I cannot deny.

Speaker 3 (27:43):
Well, I make my own cold brew at home.

Speaker 4 (27:45):
Oh you do?

Speaker 3 (27:45):
So? I mean the caffeine consumption. It is self medicating
in a way. But I will I make my own
for my morning cold brew and then depending on like today,
I half of mineus in the fridge now, but if
I'm recording, I'll get it right before. But I'll usually
get a cold brew starting at one to one thirty
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(28:07):
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But I'll usually get one at one to two o'clock
and then drink. Now now that I'm on well Bututrin,
I'm drinking about half a cup of cold brew in
the afternoon. Save it the psych what I'm doing right now,
the way I expose myself on this podcast, it's insane.
But the cold brew, then it sits in my fridge

(28:28):
overnight and I drink half of that in the morning
with my homemade cold broom.

Speaker 4 (28:33):
Now, do you make the cold brew, because it tastes
better when you make it.

Speaker 3 (28:38):
I make it. It is better than like if I
you know a lot of those bottled ones, there's something
going on. It tastes kind of dusty.

Speaker 4 (28:45):
Yeah, they're a little acidic.

Speaker 3 (28:46):
Yeah, I will say, like the who makes some good ones.
Some of the more expensive ones are good, but they
are like they're actually very expensive to buy a huge
thing of expensive cold brew.

Speaker 4 (28:56):
Some of that if you go to like a little
hipster grocery store, you like a little sick sounds like
a oat milk latta thing is like six dollars.

Speaker 3 (29:03):
That does not taste that good.

Speaker 4 (29:04):
No, And look, I'm a suburban dad. I'm looking. I'm
looking to pinch pennies wherever I can. I'm not ashamed
of that. I Uh, my brother and I were making
beer in my backyard for a few this is years
ago now, and we were like, we're geniuses. Think about
how much we're gonna save on beer. It turns out
it costs ten times as much to make your own beer.
It tastes terrible, And I was getting food poisoning from

(29:27):
because like you're you like sterile it. You use old
beer bottles, you sterilize them. But I think there was
a some sort of kink in our sterilization process. And
I would constantly get horrific food poisoning from drinking this beer.
And then my wife goes, she goes, you know, like
beer is like really cheap to buy like at the
store kind of notoriously the cheapest alcohol, and you and

(29:50):
your brother are spending so much time. We had like
bubbling like cases of beer in like our in our bathroom.
My wife hated it, and she goes and you're you
will potentially end up in the hospital from drinking and unsterilized,
and they can explode.

Speaker 3 (30:06):
Yes, I've not even on TV. I've seen it on TV,
but I know people whose beer has exploded in their garage.
Dangerous thing.

Speaker 4 (30:13):
Yeah, and I was doing that all to say, to
save money. Oh, I'm bond with my brother, I guess.
But so all I'm saying is like if you're if
you're making it because you make the best col brew
in the.

Speaker 3 (30:24):
World, I certainly don't. I would support it. Tolerable, Yeah,
but I'm just in the I've been doing it for
almost ten years now. Oh really, I got a whole system,
the Toddy system.

Speaker 4 (30:33):
All right.

Speaker 3 (30:33):
It's not a competition, Well it is actually, and I'm
winning in a huge one. Well, speaking of doing terrible things,
there's something else I hate to talk to you about.
I hate to even bring it up. I thought things
were going okay. I was excited to have you here
on the podcast. I thought, Danny and I've worked together.
I know he's professional, he's he's not going to try

(30:53):
to stir up anything. The podcast is called. I said
no gifts, so I was a little surprised when you
showed up on my doorstep. Would not supp ringing the doorbell,
banging on the door. There was some yelling. Then you've
tried to pull away, and I finally ran out and
uh waved you down. And you've stopped in the middle

(31:14):
of the street. It's your car is idling right now.
And stepped out of the car holding what's clearly a gift. Yeah,
I mean that's that's your response.

Speaker 4 (31:24):
Look, I I miss you. I hope that was clear
and and I haven't seen you in probably a year,
and I wanted you to know that I'm always thinking
about you, okay, and so this was just a little
way to let you know what you mean to me.

Speaker 3 (31:41):
Okay, my heart has melted, Okay, my heart is a puddle. Well,
you've you've brought this gift. It's an adorable little blue
bag with anchors on it. Are away.

Speaker 4 (31:51):
Because you know you're you kind of anchor me. You know,
you've always kind of been my rock.

Speaker 3 (31:55):
Right. Since I've left the show, You've I've heard you've
lost lost it? Yeah you think was how you have us? Said? Yeah,
well should I open it here on the podcast?

Speaker 4 (32:03):
Yeah, if you want to.

Speaker 3 (32:04):
Yeah, well, let's we've got some tissue. I feel like
we're not getting enough tissue on the podcast anymore. It's
not throwing enough car speaking air pods. Okay. Oh and
I've thrown that into my garden.

Speaker 4 (32:17):
We'll take that out where the mole will eat it later.

Speaker 3 (32:19):
Yeah. Okay, now we're reaching in. Should I pull this
all out at once?

Speaker 4 (32:22):
Yeah? Yeah, because it.

Speaker 3 (32:23):
Feels like there's so yeah.

Speaker 4 (32:24):
Yeah, there's three three items, three parts of it. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (32:28):
Oh, this is fantastic. They're vintage TV guides.

Speaker 4 (32:31):
Yeah. And you know, you and I both are television writers,
and everyone in our industry is happy to tell you
that the television industry is dying. And I was in
a shop in my neighborhood and they were selling these
vintage TV guides from the mid nineties, and I thought
this might transport us back to a happier time in
our industry.

Speaker 3 (32:52):
When it felt like a financially stable future. Yes, right, right, Well,
I mean this is thrilling. I mean, let's talk about
these covers for We've got one with Kevin Sorbo, totally topless.

Speaker 4 (33:03):
Yeah, and this was before he was a conspiracy theorist again,
a nicer time, right, he was just an oily man
who was on network television.

Speaker 3 (33:12):
My friends, this is just a very small side. My
friends Brett Evans and Nick Ciarelli, two of the funniest
people I've created. I think during the pandemic a video
about Kevin Sorbo saying that Kevin Sorbo had died, and
I think it went kind of viral in a way
that people started to wonder, had Kevin Sorbo died filming
a commercial for an iPhone gambling? I can't remember exactly,

(33:39):
but if people type that into Google, they'll probably get
to see the video. So we've got Kevin, and we
should circle back to Kevin. Surely we have the years
and cheers and jeers with Burt Reynolds and who's this one?

Speaker 4 (33:51):
You know what I was hoping you would know. I
figured you might know more than me.

Speaker 3 (33:55):
Oh, there are two women. There's a Oh, this is
Dave Letterman's mom right in the middle. Oh, oh god,
that's Dorothy Letterman. How crazy. But then there's a woman
on top home. Sorry, there's a woman with kind of
renaissance curls red hair. She's got a rose in her mouth.

Speaker 4 (34:11):
And the real star of that one, though, is the
ad on the back. If you flip it over. Oh
my god, it's a cigarette cigarette ad with a you know,
now when you see cigarette ad, if you see them,
there's a very long disclaimer. This has a very soft
disclaimer about cigarettes on it. Oh wow, it's like they
it's like, maybe you don't smoke in a hospital. It's
basically what it's says.

Speaker 3 (34:29):
The kind of is a cigarette smoke contains carbon monoxide.
But they don't like if somebody didn't know what that was,
they'd be.

Speaker 4 (34:35):
Like, okay, okay, sounds good.

Speaker 3 (34:36):
Yeah, it tastes like you. It's just like essentially a
picture of your grave.

Speaker 4 (34:40):
Yes, they just put corpses on there.

Speaker 3 (34:42):
Now, Yes it's a mirror at that time magazine. But
this is a gorgeous come to Marlboro, maryl Bor Wait,
I haven't said this, Marl Burrow. I said Marlborough in
such a long time. Yeah, is that how we say
the cigarette company?

Speaker 4 (34:56):
Mark? Whoa Marlborough is? I would say that might be wrong.
There's and allan there.

Speaker 3 (35:00):
I don't feel like you say like Carl. I think
you say Marlborough.

Speaker 4 (35:03):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (35:04):
Well, I don't know that I've ever said the word alone.

Speaker 4 (35:06):
With just a couple of just a couple of dudes
talking about cigarettes.

Speaker 3 (35:09):
One of my jobs was a secret shopper for cigarettes.
What when I was living in Utah, I would drive
from gas station to gas station. You know, I looked
like you know, when I was like twenty, I looked
like I was fourteen, sure, And so I would go
to these places and ask to buy cigarettes and see
if they would ask for my ID. Ask for my
ID every single time. Of course, but the company who

(35:30):
hired me had never seen me, so they didn't realize
that they were essentially sending a child out. And everyone,
of course would ask for my I D right, But
I was ordering camel lights, that was my brand.

Speaker 4 (35:41):
Yeah, don't order something to believe? What were you deputies
to arrest the people on the spot.

Speaker 3 (35:46):
They should have given me a gun gun in execution
right there. But yeah, I never ordered this brand. And
I've really exposed myself with someone who's never smoked. Yeah, well,
never been able to. They wouldn't even let me purchase
the cigarettes.

Speaker 4 (36:00):
You know, I'd like to come back, you know, maybe
in like a year, I'd like to come back and smoke.
I've never smoked a cigarette either, smoke our first cigarettes together.

Speaker 3 (36:10):
Maybe it should be this brand. I can't believe I
have much advertising we've given a cigarette.

Speaker 4 (36:13):
I know that is a big That is a big
ad in the back of that too. Yeah, hey, this
could be a good sponsor though for this podcast.

Speaker 3 (36:19):
A lot of cigarettes advertising. At least mark that down.
I want to become a cigarette podcast. We should probably
put a disclaimer right now that cigarettes will give you
lung cancer. Yeah, sure, respons We have a lot of
tweens listening.

Speaker 4 (36:32):
Yeah sure, yes, yeah, I know, I know you're I
know you're big in the K pop community, so yes.

Speaker 3 (36:36):
Yes, yeah. But Dorothy Letterman and then unknown woman. That's
a shame that TV Guide didn't feel like that you
should put anyone's.

Speaker 4 (36:43):
Name, although at the time I'm sure that was probably
like I know, all of course, Yeah.

Speaker 3 (36:48):
These were three of the nine people on TV at
the time.

Speaker 4 (36:51):
Yeah, you know, I I flipped through them briefly earlier,
and I noticed a trend in there is that they
give very literal descriptions of what will be happy on
each episode of television. Yeah, like there, let me grab
this sect, let me go from this Regius one.

Speaker 3 (37:05):
Yeah, speaking one with Regis phil but it says Regis
rights and he has a giant pens big pencil.

Speaker 4 (37:09):
That's how you know you're right.

Speaker 3 (37:11):
That's kind of the professional look. Yeah, let's see here,
let's fine.

Speaker 4 (37:15):
Some like they'll have uh oh, here's a bridge. I'm
just going to show this to you and not the camera.
But this this is.

Speaker 3 (37:26):
God there's as a racist little rascals doll.

Speaker 4 (37:30):
That's an ad from a different time.

Speaker 3 (37:32):
Wow, I wonder what year that is to see this.

Speaker 4 (37:34):
Is from August nineteenth, nineteen ninety five. Okay, okay, like okay, Like,
here's one. It says, so it's got Grace underfire, Coach,
the Drew Carey Show and Ellen, and it says tonight
Drew will blow you away literally and they don't explain
what that means.

Speaker 3 (37:52):
What sort of teases that no information.

Speaker 4 (37:55):
Tonight Grace is in for the fight of her life
on Coach, Hayden gets a full time bodyguard, Tim Conway,
Ellen All New Ellen Unplugged. Special performances by Bonnie Raid,
Aaron Neville and David Crosby.

Speaker 3 (38:11):
Here's a good description. A mouse leaves her rural digs
to spend Christmas with her urbane cousin in his fancy
New York residence. Can you guess the show?

Speaker 4 (38:21):
Say it again?

Speaker 3 (38:22):
Let's see a mouse leaves her rural digs to spend
Christmas with her urbane cousin in his fancy New York residence.
Sally Jesse Rafiel. Now, HiT's a country mouse in the
city mouse. Of course, of course hit. Let's see We've
got Sammer or a Samurai cyber squad. Was this a

(38:42):
TV show or a movie? God, what a different time
it was.

Speaker 4 (38:46):
See here's one for Chicago Hope. An old friend comes
home to die after an all new David Letterman. Here's
why Leno goes to Vegas? Tonight show goes to Vegas.
I'd love to see his guests where Heather Locklear in respect
the aforementioned Martin Short, Tracy Ulman, Tom Arnold, Chevy Chase

(39:09):
and of course Wayne Newton.

Speaker 3 (39:11):
Wow, this is I mean a treasure trove.

Speaker 4 (39:15):
Here's an ad for Letterman's fifteenth anniversary. And he's wearing
a He's wearing a hat on a shoe. That's how
you know, shoe.

Speaker 3 (39:21):
That's a comedy.

Speaker 4 (39:22):
Shoe. You know it's a comedy.

Speaker 3 (39:24):
I'm sure he loved doing it. Wow, this is my favorite.
This isn't in here, but it was from a cable
description once of Predator, and I remember it referred to
Predator as a sneaky alien. Buckle up.

Speaker 4 (39:42):
He's written by people have never seen any of the properties.

Speaker 3 (39:46):
Tip toeing alien Predator. Let's see.

Speaker 4 (39:49):
Here's one. Here's one for the Simpsons all month long.
It's homer Mania trapped Tonight, Homer and mister Burns are
buried in an avalanche. Who will make it out live?
Oh that's kind of dark, right, This is kind of
a I don't know. This is an art form that
no longer exists.

Speaker 3 (40:05):
Is they were, like and they were well paid people
making these. Yes, that's the craziest thing about this. Like
now anything close to this is a blogger who makes
like ninety cents a post.

Speaker 4 (40:16):
Reviewing the Masked Singer.

Speaker 3 (40:18):
Oh yeah, exactly. Let's see. Oh my god, I'm going
to just live in these for a while. Do they
still do TV Guide?

Speaker 4 (40:24):
I don't think so. I mean, they don't even have
like a tv O Guide anymore really like shame. Oh
this is agoing in a Groundhog Day was airing at
eight o'clock on ABC and it says Bill Murray is
in love with Andy McDowell.

Speaker 3 (40:38):
That's all. The main hook of the thing is gone.

Speaker 4 (40:42):
There we go.

Speaker 3 (40:44):
That could be any movie. It's like the easiest to describe.
Everyone knows the plot of that movie at this point,
and it's so interesting.

Speaker 4 (40:52):
But they were trying to I guess hook the people
who read TV Guide at the time and were.

Speaker 3 (40:56):
Just like, I don't want any of that science shit.
Let's see there are a lot of full house. Yeah,
it's a full house period. Jesse's lack of privacy drives
him out of the house for a break from the family,
and he winds up missing the baby's eighteen month birthday party.
Who cares the baby? Yeah, the baby who was the
of the babies. I think he has twins twins and

(41:18):
Lri Laughlin right, they were like, well, we have the
twins playing one person. Now, let's get twins playing twins.

Speaker 4 (41:24):
It was Quadruplet's playing twins. No, I'm just making that up. Now,
that might be true. It might have to be sense right.

Speaker 3 (41:31):
With the tag rules.

Speaker 4 (41:32):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (41:33):
Interesting, Wow, if those are four kids, what was going
on in that family? They had four kids and decided
to make all of them actors.

Speaker 4 (41:40):
Doesn't the premise of full House sound like a fucking
nightmare if you were living in it?

Speaker 3 (41:44):
Right? Depressing? Yeah, the whole thing. It's like a guy's
wife dies.

Speaker 4 (41:48):
Yeah, that's before before you go.

Speaker 3 (41:50):
And then his brothers end up living with him or something.

Speaker 4 (41:53):
Yeah, I think, isn't I think Uncle Joey I think
was the wife's brother. I might be getting this totally wrong, right,
and then Jesse Ane Lisa is nodding, she knows. And
then Jesse was not related by blood, I don't think, right.
He was like, he was a friend.

Speaker 3 (42:10):
He was a drifter. It's just a strange man.

Speaker 4 (42:14):
He was. He was the wife, the dead wife's uh
husband boyfriend. Yeah he was. He was making love to
the wife before she died.

Speaker 3 (42:24):
Things are very tense in the tenor household and we're
basically family.

Speaker 4 (42:31):
Yeah, that house was not that big. Think about all
the the just the number of adults living in that
house too much?

Speaker 3 (42:37):
Yeah, too much, ones living the attic, ones in the basement.
One has a failing comedy career, One has failing music career.

Speaker 4 (42:44):
That's the worst part living with a failed stand up
comedian while you're trying to raise Both of.

Speaker 3 (42:50):
Those guys are on coke.

Speaker 4 (42:51):
Yeah, oh yes, heavy cokeys. Yes, a failed rock and
roll star and a failed stand up comedian.

Speaker 3 (42:56):
Yes, they have so many issues. I know you bring
those into the house with your chill. What sort of
parent his dan?

Speaker 4 (43:02):
Unbelievable?

Speaker 3 (43:03):
Before the millennials come for me, it is swapped. It
is Uncle Joey was the friend and Uncle Jesse.

Speaker 4 (43:09):
Oh interesting about Bridger and I are millennials, by the way,
let's let's let's.

Speaker 3 (43:15):
Give Jen alpha. I'm eleven years old. I am young
Jen Alfie.

Speaker 4 (43:24):
Yeah, yeah, Bridge and I are elderly millennials, is what
it is.

Speaker 3 (43:28):
But but uncle Joey was I'm sorry, he was the friend. Yes,
he was called the friend. And alanis Morrissett's spurned lover. Yes,
that was his not only his real story, but also
within the show. I believe I've been to Jeff Franklin's house.
You have nightmarish experience. One of the most bizarre things
that's ever happened to me. I was two weeks into

(43:50):
dating Jim and he's like, oh, I do these things
called living room shows that Ileana Douglas. I don't know
if you know who that is. She's like, she was
in a bunch of Scorsese movies and started doing these
shows in people's living rooms, rich people's houses around la
and as a benefit or whatever. And I guess he
was doing one about paper straws. This was all before
every allegation in the world came out against him. But

(44:12):
Jim was singing there in front of his shark tank,
and he's like, I don't think you'd want to go
to this. I was like, of course I would want
to go to It's built on shar and Tate's property. Wow,
the tackiest mansion in America. And I got to go
and sit through one of the weirdest things I've ever seen,
several performers, Jim singing, sit down, you're rocking the boat
in front of a shark tank. Wayne Newton was there.

Speaker 4 (44:36):
It was I mean, I'm not surprised you fell in
love with Jim that bad night.

Speaker 3 (44:40):
It was a very strange time. And then Jeff Franklin,
of course, was one of the slimiest people I've ever seen. Wow,
And again, oh yeah, we're talking about full house and
now I think.

Speaker 4 (44:49):
He did get you into the Hollywood illuminati, though, yeah,
you owe them.

Speaker 3 (44:55):
I think that house is probably still on the market.
It's like, why would you buy that? There?

Speaker 4 (44:59):
Is Like I live in Burbank and there's a house
that has been in sale in the Hills of Burbank
for many years now, and it was clearly owned and
built and maintained by like someone who was a Hollywood
producer who had a lot of money in like nineteen
fifty seven, right, and it's so big, and the house
is on sale for like eight million dollars. But someone

(45:21):
today who has eight million dollars wouldn't be caught dead
living there. So it's in this weird real estate sort
of limbo where anyone who would actually maybe want to
live in the house could never afford it because it's
insanely priced.

Speaker 3 (45:33):
Right. Yeah, that's the thing with all those like super
expensive mansions. I always think, well, if I had that
much money, I would just get the house I wanted. Yeah,
why would I buy somebody else's weird idea of a house?

Speaker 4 (45:42):
Yeah, and someone who like built it, Yeah it was
their dream house. But like that changes so generationally so
quick course.

Speaker 3 (45:50):
Yeah, and anyone when it's specifically their dream house, they
probably have something they will deeply annoy you because they
haven't got a very specific idea of how to live.

Speaker 4 (45:57):
Even just like like we we just got kitchen cabinets
because the ones and we moved into the house. You know,
they were like handbuilt, but they're falling apart, and you
know in the color is like kind of it looks
very like kind of two thousands, and we were like,
we need some new cabinets. And my father was beside himself.
He was like, these are beautiful handmade oak cabinets and
you're just gonna throw them in the trash And I go, Dad,

(46:19):
They're they're literally falling out of the wall. And he goes,
what are you getting. I go, I know cabinets dot
Com and they're they're Shaker cabinets and he's his mind.
He was spinning in circles. He couldn't believe it. The
Eagle Scout was like, I will some men built these
with his own blood, sweat and tears, and you're throwing
it away some man who's been dead for thirty years.

Speaker 3 (46:39):
Probably, But yeah, have they been installed yet?

Speaker 4 (46:41):
Yes?

Speaker 3 (46:41):
Yeah, they just wanted to feel about them.

Speaker 4 (46:43):
He said nothing when he came over and saw them.
So I feel like there was some sort of simmering
baby boomer rage going on.

Speaker 3 (46:51):
That happens to an old cabinet. It doesn't get sent
to goodwill, No, it's destroyed.

Speaker 4 (46:56):
I feel like when you renovate your house, you just
have to sort of have a little mental disconnect, going like,
this is all just going right in a landfill. Right,
there's no recycling, there's no it's just it's going right
in there.

Speaker 3 (47:08):
Yeah. Right, What is the website? What's the Facebook thing?
Buy nothing?

Speaker 4 (47:13):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (47:13):
I think you could put them on by nothing and
they would be stripped out of your house within ten minutes.

Speaker 4 (47:18):
We put one thing on buy nothing, and we got
like fished, we got scammed.

Speaker 3 (47:23):
You're kidding, Like it wins immediately, We wins in that
situation we put we were getting rid of a couch
is when we moved, and we're like, I wouldn't rot
for this couch anymore.

Speaker 4 (47:31):
And so my wife put it up there and it
was like two hundred and fifty bucks and immediately someone responds, going,
I would like it, and I can't. I can't give
you cash. I want to like like send it you
something on zell or like a PayPal and I can't
pick it up, but I'm going to pay you and
then I'm to secure the item and then I'm gonna
come pick it up at a later date. We're like,

(47:52):
that's weird. And then it was like I sent you
a PayPal request, did you get it? And the person
got weirdly aggressive, and I was like, I think this
is maybe some sort of scam. And we looked it
up and it was like that's very common. Yeah, And
that was the first thing we ever tried to like
sell and buy nothing. I guess is when you give
it away for free, So that's different. I guess this
was a this was Facebook marketplace, but.

Speaker 3 (48:12):
Oh yeah, that's a different whole other game than Yeah.

Speaker 4 (48:15):
But then the buy nothing thing, that is good because
it goes to a good place. But then people are
coming to your to your house, and that's sometimes they
want to inspect the item.

Speaker 3 (48:24):
If you're getting it for free, no question y, Yes
I'm sorry. Yeah, yeah, you were coming and you're taking
it away. Yeah, that's your garbage man, And as far
as I'm concerned, I will leave it in the street
for you. Yeah, Because people will be like, I have
half a jar of protein powder.

Speaker 4 (48:40):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (48:40):
You can't ask questions about that sort of thing. It's
just come get it.

Speaker 4 (48:43):
Yeah. My sister in law lives in Manhattan and during
COVID there there by nothing. Group was like, very uh,
very active. And she said someone was giving away a
half eaten cake and there were the number of people
who wanted a half eaten cake during the height of
the pandemic was believable.

Speaker 3 (49:00):
Yeah, they were just experimenting. They were having the time
of their lives.

Speaker 4 (49:06):
People a deal.

Speaker 3 (49:08):
Well, is there anything left we should say about TV Guide?
I'm just so excited about these. This is really like
up my alley in a way that you have no idea.

Speaker 4 (49:15):
I feel like we haven't. Man, I really want to
get in this one.

Speaker 3 (49:20):
Let's see. Uh. I love Dylan's dilemma sends him back
to the bottle. That's tough to hear. Sister sister appalled
by lyrics to a rap song. Lisa and Ray refuse
to buy concert ticket for the Twins grow.

Speaker 4 (49:35):
Up Weirdly, I'm seeing no Kevin Sorbo interview in this.

Speaker 3 (49:41):
I did see. I'll post a photo of this. Let's
mark this as a note to post. It's just it's
an ad for ABC Prime Time. And there's a picture
of Roseanne and it says ha ha. There's a picture
of Ellen, who we all love, and it says ha ha.
And then there's a picture of who are these two
news anchors? There is that Sam Donaldson and Diane Sawyer.

(50:03):
Oh of course Diane own six movies for twenty nine
cents each. Did you ever belong to one of those
clubs like a Columbia House and you would order like
fifty CDs for a dime and then your parents would
get billed.

Speaker 4 (50:15):
I think my parents were too cheap. This is why
I'm cheap. Is my parents were too cheap to even
even give me the penny.

Speaker 3 (50:23):
Well, the thing is, you wouldn't get I think, Actually,
what would happen with Columbia House. I don't know how
they stay in business because literally children would sign up
and have no means of paying them, and then the kid,
like I remember multiple times, just being like, well I
don't have the money, and then they would just hang
up and that was the end of the thing. Oh,
they must have been losing. I don't know. I don't know.
Oh God, so many cigarette ads do they still print

(50:44):
cigarette ads. I'll think.

Speaker 4 (50:45):
So, I think legally you can't.

Speaker 3 (50:46):
Now, yeah, I think you have to be in a
country without those laws.

Speaker 4 (50:51):
The watchful eye of the.

Speaker 3 (50:53):
Wow, the gorgeous. I got a real holiday issue. Here.
Are you watching anything on TV?

Speaker 4 (51:00):
I'm a real, just kind of basic television viewer. I
enjoy Marvel shows. I watched Daredevil Born Again, which I
was delighted by. I watched the Ironheart series, which I
was I'm kind of like a Marvel completist. Even when
I'm not as interested in the show, I still I
still watch it, and I enjoy all those But you know,

(51:22):
because we have kids, we have such limited television time,
and so like I, you know, I like, on a workday, no,
there's no question I will not be watching There's no
there's no joy on it, of course, you know, free
time on a workday. And then like on the weekends,
my daughter who's now eleven, is like, why can't I
stay up until ten o'clock? And there's not a good

(51:44):
answer to why she can't until And she'll be like, well,
what do you guys want to watch? I want to
watch it too, and we go, well, you can't watch it,
and she's like why, and then I have to go, well,
there might be like, you know, adults making love and
and I can't say that to my daughter, of course,
and she also does not Kids don't understand. They can't

(52:06):
compute the idea that you would maybe want to not
be with them for like one hour, you know. And
we're trying to explain like, well, you know, like mom and
I like we we have a relationship and you know
that was even around before you guys, and you know,
and we like to have a little time by ourselves.
And they're like, but like, what do you guys even
do when we're here? And the answer is like, we
just kind of look at our phones while the show

(52:27):
plays on television. But like that's an important, of course
saying parents need, but they really can't compute it. So
I for me, I have to sometimes I will get up.
This is so sad, I'm saying this outlied. I will
get up at like six am on Saturday, and I'll
watch a show before the kids wake up, and I'm
happy sleep.

Speaker 3 (52:44):
Yeah, like this is my me and my sister's relationship
where she has three kids, and I'll like have finished
a series like three months ago and I'll be like,
what do you mean you saw nine episodes left to watch?
It's like, well, because I get to watch ten minutes
a day. Yeah, well it's micro does the babysit?

Speaker 4 (53:00):
Yeah, even like adolescents, we watch and we really liked that.
I go, oh, there's only three episodes. We can knock
this out on like like a Saturday night maybe, and
then then we've watched the show. Right, then we get
the the dopamine hit. If we finished a season.

Speaker 3 (53:13):
Some completion of something. Yeah, oh god, yeah, I can't
do it. I simply can't. I'm just going to be
a child for the rest of my life.

Speaker 4 (53:21):
It's it's an easier way to go. We love our
children dearly. But the logistical part of it is it's complicated.
It's fraught, to say the least.

Speaker 3 (53:29):
Well, I feel like we should play a game.

Speaker 4 (53:30):
I would love to on a least should.

Speaker 3 (53:33):
What do you think gift her a cursor? Gift master today,
let's do. Let's do gift a curse? Okay, gorgeous, let
me get it. I have to get into the dock
and do some light calculating, get our game pieces. Great,
here's some yardwork starting. Let's all enjoy that. Right now,
I need a number between one and ten from you.

Speaker 4 (53:50):
I'm gonna I feel like everyone says seven, so I'm
gonna say four.

Speaker 3 (53:53):
Okay. I have to do some like calculating to get
the game pieces. So promote, recommend to whatever you want.

Speaker 4 (53:58):
Okay, great, see promoting. I have a book out. I
wrote a book this year called Wow, You Look Terrible.
It's a it's a parenting book. It's a comedy book,
but it's a self help book as well that helps
parents get back the three things they lose when they
have kids, which is their time, their money, and their mind.
I think that's out if you're somebody who's not opposed
to gifts like bridge. I think it makes a good

(54:19):
gift for any parent out there, or you might enjoy
it if you're a parent yourself. I'm also a head
writer and a producer on a television show called Jimmy Kimmelive.
That's on weekdays eleven thirty five pm on Channel seven ABC.
And that's all I got.

Speaker 3 (54:32):
Gorgeous. Yeah, everybody, consume, consume, consume, Go get the book,
watch the show. Do both at once. Nobody. I mean,
that's a that's not a two screen experience. Yeah, no,
you feel like that could be a new hybrid of something.

Speaker 4 (54:45):
I only read physical books now, Like I do not
like reading on an iPad.

Speaker 3 (54:49):
Oh sure, I lost my kindle on the plane source
subject for me.

Speaker 4 (54:52):
I'm sorry to hear that. First of all, thank you,
but I feel like reading on an iPad. There's too
many other like more exciting way can then read a book.
It's like there's a reason there's no library at Disneyland, right,
no one would go in, right, So I feel like
I need the physical book because no text messages can
pop up, right, there's no Twitter.

Speaker 3 (55:10):
I would say even the kindle is harder to focus
on than with a regular book, because you can look
up the meaning of any word. Yeah, and like I'll
find a word that's like kind of aware of and
I'll still look up the definition and then I'm thrown
off for a half hour. Yeah, I need to get
back into physical books. And maybe the universe is trying well,
Delta is. I've reported it to the loss of thatut
and I'm sure they're on it.

Speaker 4 (55:32):
They've been up all night.

Speaker 3 (55:33):
Yes, yes, okay, this is how we play Gift or
a Curse. I'm going to name three things. You're gonna
tell me if they're a gift or a curse and why?
And I don't tell if you're right a wrong, because
there are a correct answers. All right. This first one
is from a listener named Rick, and it says gift
or a curse correcting someone's misuse of a word.

Speaker 4 (55:53):
Curse for sure? Why because the only reason okay, so
I should ask of it's the perspective someone correcting you, Danny,
or you correcting someone Danny.

Speaker 3 (56:04):
I'm not giving you any more information.

Speaker 4 (56:06):
Shoot, okay, all right, okay, well hold on, let me
reassess here. Now I'm gonna say curse because the only
reason anyone is doing that. You might say it's because, well,
I don't want you to keep using the word incorrectly
in the future. The only reason you're doing it is
to feel superior to the person, I guarantee. And I
will do this to my children sometimes because I feel responsible,

(56:28):
like if I don't correct it, right, like who else
is going to tell them? And maybe I don't want
them to be embarrassed at school. But if this is
an adult doing it to another adult, absolutely a curse.

Speaker 3 (56:38):
Correct. Yeah? This one for me? This I have to
just say curse. I mean, what what a rude behavior?
I mean, there's no good way to correct the way
somebody pronounces a word. Yeah, there's the one where you, uh,
just repeat the word using the correct pronunciation. So so condescending,
so condescending. Also pointing at ut out you're looking for

(57:00):
a fight? Yeah, yeah, what's wrong with you? Just let
it go?

Speaker 4 (57:04):
Right?

Speaker 3 (57:05):
And I guess this is a misuse, So I guess
it could be pronunciation or someone. It's just like, unless
you're looking to start a fight. And I support people
picking fights all the time, but I have to say,
you just don't do it.

Speaker 4 (57:18):
And in your head you do that, and then you
imagine that person going, oh my god, thank you for
telling me. That's not the emotion. The person feels like,
oh you asshole.

Speaker 3 (57:25):
No, I mean, there's actually kind of nothing worse, no
worse feeling than someone like, oh you misused that word.

Speaker 4 (57:32):
Yeah, that should be done privately and in shame. Later,
if you realize you've been using a word incorrectly, that
is a private moment between you and God.

Speaker 3 (57:40):
Send it an anonymous letter letting them know, but don't
get it in person. Okay, you've gotten one right, so
far good.

Speaker 4 (57:46):
Thank you.

Speaker 3 (57:47):
Number two. This is from a listener named Zach Gift
to a curse Toms Chewable Tablets.

Speaker 4 (57:52):
Go Gift. Why, well, I should say I've never used that.
This is funny you bring this something I've never used
thumbs before. In the last week and a half, I've
had the thought, as a forty year old man, maybe
I should start using toms right. So, I'm not speaking
from experience here. I'm only imagining what using toms is like.
But I've been thinking about it quite a bit lately,

(58:14):
and perhaps I'm over idealizing the effect of tombs, but
I do feel like it will be a positive change
in my life should I ever work up the courage
to begin using.

Speaker 3 (58:25):
Them right right, wrong, augh, curse. This is my thing
with the tombs chewable tablet and I've I've had a
few experiences in the past. My stomach is essentially steel,
but occasionally I push it too far and they work
like a miracle.

Speaker 4 (58:39):
They do.

Speaker 3 (58:39):
The taste and texture of this product is one of
the worst things you can possibly imagine. Just make it
a swallow mobile pill. I don't like the age you
need to be to have a tombs you should learn
to have swallowed a pill.

Speaker 4 (58:50):
Oh, I see. Yeah, it's sort of like a Flintstone's
chewable vitamin for grown adults.

Speaker 3 (58:55):
Right, yeah, kid needs a thumbs. Yeah, and look look
we are. It goes out to children who need tombs
and their heartburn and they're spicy eating. But I feel
like for the the audience, the we should just swallow
the pill. Because you chew one of these things, it's
necho level of disgusting.

Speaker 4 (59:13):
Can you swallow a chewable tombs or is that.

Speaker 3 (59:15):
Choke immediately all instant death? At least tombs. I'm talking
to thumbs right now. Gather the office around. Make it
a better flavor. It's a candy. Is artificial flavor? Just
do a better flavor.

Speaker 4 (59:28):
Are there distinct flavors because there's different colors in the Again,
I'm a I have never heard personally use about the product.
I'm a neophyte, but I want to know, like are
different Like I've tried like those like fiber gummy things
and they claim that some are peach and some are strawberry.
Or is there a singular Tombs flavor or do they
kind of mix it up?

Speaker 3 (59:48):
I want to say that they're different flavors on at
least do you think they're like subtle and discuss? They're
all bad so it doesn't really matter. But I think
feel like there's like a banana strawberry, a.

Speaker 4 (59:58):
Grape banana is a bad choice.

Speaker 3 (01:00:00):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, just make them like like a sour candy.
I guess you all. Then you run the risk of
now I want to eat a ton of tons?

Speaker 4 (01:00:07):
Yes, right, and then you'll get super powers.

Speaker 3 (01:00:09):
Why I don't run a medication company.

Speaker 4 (01:00:12):
What medication would you take to give you that effect
that you would swallow? Is there one on the market
or has Tom's completely cornered this area? There must be
a pill form of a heartburn medic heartburn medication or nexium?
Or or is that the cult?

Speaker 3 (01:00:25):
Nexium is some sort of breathing I think yeah, nextium
is a cult. There's another thing called Wait, there's nexium
the cult. And then there is a product that's very.

Speaker 4 (01:00:34):
Cool next, because I maybe I've tried that. It's next. Next, No,
not next, there's.

Speaker 3 (01:00:39):
Something that's like for it's clear your breathing or something interesting. Listener,
it's nexium that is the pill? What's the cult?

Speaker 4 (01:00:50):
Or are they kind of under the same umbrellas, the
cult name, the same parent company.

Speaker 3 (01:00:55):
What's going on? It's nexum, Yeah, they're both is also
called next to them?

Speaker 4 (01:01:00):
What poor branding on one of their parts. I don't
know which one came first, but someone should have googled it.
I cannot be true.

Speaker 3 (01:01:09):
What is happening? Well, you didn't get the point. We've
got everybody. Look, do your research on medicine and cults.
We don't want you, you know, thinking you're taking a
medication and ending up having being branded or something. Okay,
this is from a listener named Annie Gift. He a curse.
Stay in your car, oil change places a curse.

Speaker 4 (01:01:30):
Why you are trapped and there is nothing you can do.
And I I feel judged. When my car's being worked on,
I feel like they get in there and they go,
oh boy, it's been the sky went h thirty five
hundred miles instead of the three thousand miles. And we

(01:01:51):
can tell immediately whatever. But when I'm in the waiting
room and I'm drinking you know, instant coffee, your room
temperature water, I feel like there's a there's a separation
that's needed. I kind of feel like you're I feel
like i'm in like an aquarium, sort of being judged
by these men. Right, I are doing work I wouldn't

(01:02:11):
even know how to start to know how to do
on my own car. And I feel like, for social
reasons and just just good decorum, you need to separate
the customer from the vehicle during these situations. Correct, Yes,
thank you. Curse.

Speaker 3 (01:02:27):
I mean there's so many things that could go wrong here.
First of all, I don't want to be in the
car when the thing collapses on the person.

Speaker 4 (01:02:31):
Oh yeah, Oh you are at least an accessory of crime.
If not directly responsible, life is ruined. Yeah, you and
your car is haunted horrible.

Speaker 3 (01:02:40):
Also, what I mean that's them trying to cut costs
on those gorgeous little paper cups that you get to
drink the water out of. That. I like the taste
of that you only ever see the only other places
in the dentist's office.

Speaker 4 (01:02:50):
Yes, and usually you're.

Speaker 3 (01:02:51):
Getting the flora or the scope in those, so you
get just the water on paper taste.

Speaker 4 (01:02:56):
Yet, right, I love.

Speaker 3 (01:02:58):
Being in a waiting room at an oil change.

Speaker 2 (01:03:00):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (01:03:00):
Odd things on the television.

Speaker 3 (01:03:02):
Tile that you'll see in no other building on the planet. Yeah,
usually a wall that's painted the most garish red you
can imagine, or maroon.

Speaker 4 (01:03:08):
Yeah. I feel like you're.

Speaker 3 (01:03:09):
Saying red or maroon walls and you're s getting to
watch Judge Judy.

Speaker 4 (01:03:12):
Yeah, and what is the benefit to them to staying
in the I feel like the pitch is that's a benefit.

Speaker 3 (01:03:18):
To you at the coom Union.

Speaker 4 (01:03:20):
It's faster. It can't be faster.

Speaker 3 (01:03:21):
It's saving probably a total of thirty to sixty seconds. Yeah,
getting out of the car and walking into the place.

Speaker 4 (01:03:27):
Yeah, there's no way it's actually faster for you.

Speaker 3 (01:03:30):
It's they're cutting costs and making it seem like it's
a better thing for it, like they're doing you a favor, right. Yeah,
I want my free water. I want a few minutes
of Judge Judy. Yeah, I want the smell of the place,
and I want I love when they come in and
say your car's done. It's like everything's okay. You get
to take your family member home. They're not going to
die here.

Speaker 4 (01:03:47):
Yeah. It's sort of like like how like babies used
to be born. It's like the father would sit out
like smoking and they go congratulations, everything went great, and
go wow, thank you, and you get to be.

Speaker 3 (01:03:57):
On your ways. Nice. Exactly, Well, you've got two out
of three, all right, absolutely a passing grade. You could
have really failed, and that would have been horrifying for everybody.

Speaker 4 (01:04:07):
I feel like I wouldn't if I had run into
you elsewhere after this, I would have absolutely.

Speaker 3 (01:04:13):
I'm sorry, have we met?

Speaker 4 (01:04:15):
Okay?

Speaker 3 (01:04:15):
I didn't even have the final doc open, so let
me get this open. Okay, here we go. This is
the final segment of the podcast. It's called I Said
No Emails. People write into I Said No gifts at
gmail dot com. They send voice notes that are sixty
seconds long in a quiet area. I think that's all
you have to do, right, Honalise Onaliz is giving me

(01:04:36):
the thumbs up about that. Uh we you help me
answer a question?

Speaker 4 (01:04:39):
I would love to you.

Speaker 3 (01:04:39):
Okay, this is Hello Bridger, an incredibly talented guest.

Speaker 4 (01:04:42):
Thank you.

Speaker 3 (01:04:43):
Jury's still out. I live in a beautiful area where
there's a lot of hiking and outdoor recreation. With influencers
being so prevalent, now we have we have had a
hard time going anywhere without loads of people about no
more secret spots. I can't decide if it feels good
to share the space and see people getting outside and
moving their bodies pervert or wishing to keep it to ourselves,

(01:05:05):
which feels selfish. Is gate keeping a gift or a curse? Oh?
This was a secret gift or a curse? Interesting? Come on,
thank you. And that's from Jenny from the Pacific Northwest PNW.
As Jenny puts it, okay, all right, I don't think
I've ever heard pnd me. I handled that really well. Well. Now,
I guess we just have to discuss if this is

(01:05:26):
if gatekeeping is a gift or a curse, especially I
guess within the realm of outdoor spaces.

Speaker 4 (01:05:32):
Yeah, I think people ruin everything that's nice in this world,
and so I think it's you should be able to
have your own little secret spot like I go, I
go hiking in the in the hills of Burbank. When
I go hiking and there's like a moderate amount of
people up there, you don't want to be totally alone,
but you want to see someone every twenty minutes and

(01:05:54):
you give them a little head nod and.

Speaker 3 (01:05:56):
Right, yeah, when they can find your body.

Speaker 4 (01:05:57):
Yes, exactly, there's a there's a last own whereabout situation? Right,
and maybe you still want to see some wildlife if
there's too many people. There's no wildlife all of a sudden,
And the reason to go to a place like this
is to try to find some peace in this fucking
nightmare we live in right every day. So if you're
there and the word influencer was triggering to me here

(01:06:18):
because I feel like if you are somewhere and there's
people recording a TikTok video, that that is the most
enraging thing I can run into in like a nature space.

Speaker 3 (01:06:29):
In a just regular space.

Speaker 4 (01:06:31):
Yes. By the way, I my zero tolerance thing now
is people doing that in like target, like reviewing a
product or playing a hilarious little prank in a store.
I'm here to get mouthwashed, and I'm not part of
your show of all time. Yes, but no, I think
you should if you have a spot you like, tell

(01:06:51):
no one about it. But do you agree?

Speaker 3 (01:06:54):
Oh of course. It's a weird. Uh. I feel like
if something is a free thing, that is especially it's
supposed to be peaceful, keep it to yourself. Yes. With
restaurants and stuff, that's a trickier thing where it's like
you don't want the restaurant to go out of business, Yeah,
but you also don't want it to become so popular that.

Speaker 4 (01:07:10):
It you've along the road there.

Speaker 3 (01:07:12):
So I don't know how that part of gatekeeping I think. Actually,
I guess I think all gatekeeping is incredible. I think
every gate should be kept.

Speaker 4 (01:07:22):
You would rather a restaurant go out of business and
the owner their family is on the street, as long
as you don't have to wait for a table.

Speaker 3 (01:07:31):
Yeah, yes, that's ultimately I'm with the wake of dead
restaurants just in my wake, but with the public space
is that sort of thing? I think actively keep it
to yourself. Don't even tell close friends, no family members,
blindfold them. Yes, I just thought of one random question

(01:07:51):
to ask you.

Speaker 4 (01:07:52):
Yes, and I'm sorry. I know it's the end of
the podcast, but it popped into my head and I
cannot leave until I know the answer. What is your
favorite chain restaurant?

Speaker 3 (01:08:00):
Oh? Interesting, this is a great question. Okay, i've recently.
It's complicated. First of all, the one I go to regularly.

Speaker 4 (01:08:07):
You're not going to say the name because you don't
want people to go there.

Speaker 3 (01:08:10):
Now, I'll name all of these because who cares. They're
all out to ruin each other. And the one that
I go to regularly has withstood the storm. Is in
and out. Okay, they've managed to continue to expand and
be popular and not be disgusting. Yeah, I'll eat a
hamburger there once a week. My heart is going to fail.
A more controversial one in this household currently is I've

(01:08:31):
started going to a place called the Habit or Habit Burke.

Speaker 4 (01:08:34):
I'm familiar with Habit.

Speaker 3 (01:08:35):
Yeah, Jim was away for a while. He's working. He
was in a show on Broadway for about six months,
and I needed a grilled chicken sand which I could
not find one anywhere. I found it at the Habit,
and I was shocked. I thought, this is pretty good.
This is the qualifier. I kind of describe it as
National park food.

Speaker 4 (01:08:54):
Okay.

Speaker 3 (01:08:55):
It feels like basically the quality of food that you
would get at a like one of the little weird
places is at a national park where you like, I'm
hungry enough.

Speaker 4 (01:09:02):
Yeah, or like or like like you might have it
like a water park potentially, Yeah, the.

Speaker 3 (01:09:07):
Water park is maybe one level bullet Okay, okay, okay,
but yeah, like you know, it's like this is totally
fun edible. But I've been going there, and let's see
if I.

Speaker 4 (01:09:18):
Feel like I should have a third Well, I'm gonna
say even those two you named are almost kind of
indie in the grand scheme of chain restaurants. There, I
was hoping, okay, there was going you were going to
be like I love Ruby Tuesdays. I was hoping you
had one deep inside. And maybe you.

Speaker 3 (01:09:35):
Don't like this. I'm trying to think of one I
never I haven't been to in probably fifteen years is Chili's. Yeah,
and I have good fond memories of Chili's me too.

Speaker 4 (01:09:44):
Chili's was was mine.

Speaker 3 (01:09:45):
Yeah, But they're not around LA anymore, so I can't
really speak to the quality.

Speaker 4 (01:09:48):
Yeah, I can't eat gluten anymore, which knocks out almost
every chain restaurant there is.

Speaker 3 (01:09:53):
But I will say this about chain restaurants. My sister
is Celiac, and I feel like a lot of chain restaurants.
I have such strict st that if you do find
one that's like gluten frey friendly, they are pretty good
about it.

Speaker 4 (01:10:04):
They're almost too good about it. I find restaurants that
take it seriously. I feel guilty and the manager comes
out almost like scared to talk to me, and they
go we hear there's a gluten allergy at the table.

Speaker 3 (01:10:16):
I go, ah, yeah, yeah, we fired your service.

Speaker 4 (01:10:20):
They ate bread within the last month and they are
gone in case they breathe on you. No, I don't
have celiac and seag is very serious, like they have
to treat it to So I they always ask me
allergy or preference right now For me, it is an allergy,
but it's not a serious allergy. And I know if
I say allergy, a whole thing has to have back
there of course, So I say preference and then I
feel like a Hollywood yeah exactly style, Yeah, yeah exactly.

(01:10:44):
And they look at me and they go, You're not
that thin, Like what's you don't look healthy. There's not
a healthy glow about you. I don't know what you
think this is accomplishing.

Speaker 3 (01:10:51):
Wait, so you would say Chili's. Is there another?

Speaker 4 (01:10:53):
Well Chili's? We we only eat at one restaurant. I
never eat a restaurants. It was a place called Don
Kuco's and Burdbank. Oh that's just you're like just a
family style Mexican restaurant. It is the only restaurant my
kids will eat out. We used to go there once
a week, right, and it's horribly unhealthy and it's wonderful
and they have Margarita's and my kids only eat chips,

(01:11:15):
and then we order them an entre they do not eat,
and my son orders the hamburger there, which he says
is delicious, even though he never eats it. And then
when I cook him a hamburger at the house, he says,
I don't like hamburgers. Play yes, and I go, well,
you order you always or don Cuco's, but that one's good.
And then I go crazy because I'm actually good at
making hamburgers, of course, and it's it's really insulting.

Speaker 3 (01:11:36):
I remember going through that period as a kid of
being like I love hamburger's at McDonald's, but homemade ones
like oh what is that?

Speaker 4 (01:11:42):
Yes, even though they're easily better, yes, better taste, like.

Speaker 3 (01:11:46):
The worst home hamburger is going to be way better
than a McDonald's hamburger. Maybe that's not entire Well whatever,
I don't need to be fair to McDonald's.

Speaker 4 (01:11:53):
Well, well, and you're now you have Marlborough as a sponsor.
You don't need McDonald's.

Speaker 3 (01:11:57):
We'll reach out to them next week. Just horrible Havergerson cigarettes.
I'll be eating them on podcasts, smoking in my guest face. Well,
I've got these gorgeous TV guys. I'm going to pour
through these.

Speaker 4 (01:12:11):
And I hope you pass them down to your children.

Speaker 3 (01:12:12):
Grand course, is Kevin Sorbo still alive as far as
I know as of this recording is as of this recording,
as of this release. We'll see that there's a time difference, Kevin.
I don't know, if I don't know, if I care, Kevin,
do whatever you want, live or die. I'm so thrill
that you could be here today.

Speaker 4 (01:12:30):
Thank you for having me. I all kidding aside, I
we we love you and we miss you at the
show and you're You're a great guy, and I'm very
happy to see you.

Speaker 3 (01:12:37):
Thank you, Thank you, and listener, the podcast is I'm
hitting the brakes. We're all going to well. We all
have our seat belts on, so we're fine. The podcast
is over. I love you, goodbye, I said. No Gifts
is an exactly right production. Our senior producer is on

(01:12:58):
Alise Nelson and our episodes are beautifully mixed by Ben Toliday.
The theme song is by miracle Worker Amy Mann, and
we couldn't do it without our booker, Patrick Cottner. You
must follow the show on Instagram. At I said no gifts.
That's where you're going to see pictures of all these
wonderful gifts I'm getting. And don't you want to see
the gifts I invit?

Speaker 4 (01:13:20):
Did you hear?

Speaker 1 (01:13:23):
Gonta man?

Speaker 2 (01:13:24):
Myself perfectly clear?

Speaker 3 (01:13:27):
But you're a guest to me.

Speaker 1 (01:13:31):
You gotta come to me empty, And I said, no guests,
your presences presence, and I already had too much stuff.

Speaker 4 (01:13:45):
So how did you dan to survey me?

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