31 Burst results for "Bridger."
The Doug Collins Podcast
5 Years in the Hanoi Hilton With Lt. Col. Barry Bridgers
The Doug Collins Podcast
Jim Petterson and Barry Bridger on Their New Book 'A Spirit to Soar'
"Going to be a great discussion today. I've met up with these folks at cpac, a book has been written called the spirit to soar. And it's about the true story of former orphan and POW lieutenant colonel Barry bridger, U.S. Air Force retired colonel bridger, I am also a lieutenant colonel in the United States Air Force as well. Finished it got 20 years in, so we'll see if I make it that way. Then you got Jim, Peterson. Jim is with us, and he is on that other blue, a little bit darker blue, the navy side, which I actually started in. But I spent more of my time with the green guys down at camp Pendleton when I was there as a chaplain, but folks, guys, it's good to have you all with us. This has been an exciting, I got to look over the book. And let me just tell you Jim for riding it, but Barry for sir for you and what you've been through. Thank you both for service and I'm looking forward to some discussion here. So am I let it rip? Here we are too. I love it. Well, let's start off jam almost start off with you on the riding of the book. You ride in the book about why you started it, but you chose it to be a biography, but also a lifeless and explain that a little bit. Well, you know, Malcolm gladwell wrote a book called outliers. And he talks about people who do extraordinary things. So started out, I've observed very known very over 30 years now. And I've observed him in the things that he does. I knew a story, but I didn't know it all that well. And once I learned his story, I told him, one day I met a writer biography in that process. I opened up the discussion of this biography saying that bears have been an inspiration in my life. I've learned so much, and so a publicist said, it's a life lesson book. So we put in 17 life lessons that I've learned from Barry's life. And he's had a tremendous impact on my life. So
I Said No Gifts!
"bridger." Discussed on I Said No Gifts!
"As we sit in that I'm not really actually promoting anything, I just stream of consciousness. Unlike bridger, who apparently can't do it. So you are a challenger. It brought it out of me. Reading that chapter just awakened the challenger within. Hopefully this episode is awoken. It's a walk in a world. No, is it awoken or awaken? Awakens, wakened, that can't be right. Woken up. But that doesn't sound as important. No. Sparked the challenger in all of our listeners. And.
I Said No Gifts!
"bridger." Discussed on I Said No Gifts!
"Going to say that's, I think that's a two for me. That feels pushy. Yeah, and the idea of rewarding people for doing things feels bonkers, okay. You said a one? Yeah. One, okay. And number 5, I do not have much sympathy. I do not have much sympathy for those who are weak and facilitating. Or vacillating, excuse me. Weakness just invites trouble. This, I'm saying number one, this is starting to this person starting to sound like a psycho to me. Yeah, this is a real low. And Elise is laughing. What else does this situation? I'm just mortified. But you're mortified. Is this you? No, I never want to meet this person. Nothing to do with the challenger. We've probably all met a challenger at some point, but this sort of person seems cruel. Yes, at their worst cruel at their best a leader, like a brave brave soul that puts themselves in front of weaker I shouldn't say weaker, but people who need help. People who need a champion. Right. Yeah, I guess I'm looking at these things as probably because I've dealt with unhealthy challenges for and I'm like, oh, that sort of behavior is bad. But I guess a healthy challenger you don't even know. They're just guiding you. Or maybe the three of us are all excellent challengers. And we just don't know it. There's really no saying. Well, that reveals a little bit about both of our personalities. Basically saying that you can bully us into doing whatever you want. If you're a challenger, come into our lives and manipulate us, reward, punish, but you know why I wrote so much as so many doodles down at first is that I feel like you're someone, at least on this podcast that you're not afraid of saying a controversial thought though. You think so? Opinions. For sure. Okay, I suppose that's true. Wait, did you doodle on the challenger? I did. Somewhere even noticed that you did. Interesting. And again, I didn't even notice it because it looks like illustrations within the book. You need to become an illustrator for personality test. Oh, is that a job? It is now. Oh, I would love to. You should get your own special edition of this book. Okay. Have a little forward in the beginning. I'll do a blurb on the back. Oh, I love it. I feel like. That feels like a sellable idea. Yes. Okay, so you think I am partially a challenger? Interesting. Well, do you see, this is my problem I can't stop. Do you find it easy to say what it is that you think and back up your opinion? I will say on a podcast that I host, absolutely. Absolutely. In my day to day interactions at work, that sort of thing, a much different situation. I feel like on a podcast, this is my job. So I'm like, if I'm not doing this, what am I doing? Right. But then when I'm around other people, I'm very careful about other people's feelings and wanting everyone to be happy. Probably to a fault at the time. Oh, okay. So what are we saying here? Do I need to transfer my podcast personality into my real life? And suddenly I'm making millions of dollars a year. I'm Titan of industry. People say bridger's a challenger. We know it. He's alive. Again, I'm sorry. I don't know if this is part of the podcast for me to comment every time and at least last but I just think this is the thrill and I'll say it a billion times of recording a podcast in person. Getting to comment on a shared reality. Oh, there's nothing I like more. I'm so tired of zoom. Oh my God. So when someone comes to the backyard, I think. Reality exists. And the listener better be thrilled. They better be thrilled. Otherwise, you will, I'll find them. And I will add them to my database where I will track down their personality and shame them. So just be aware of that, listener. Okay, so you're a number four. I'm a 6 hour husband before. That's right. And I'm all over the place. Yes. I can't be counted on. I'm just you're an onion. We need to pee. What is at the root? Someone get me a new therapist. Well, this is fascinating. I really can't wait to find out, oh, and this is just changing to a page on 6 that says daring to follow your heart. And I think that's good advice that we need to dare to follow our heart. And it gives you some prompts and things like this. And do you still go back to this book on occasion? I do. I love it. And you know, it's actually really great for writers and it's really great for actors as well. Oh, I bet. How do you use it as an actor? Well, for an actor sometimes for me, it's helpful for me to know what I think that character's number is. If it's the same as mine, if it's different than mine, and I can read more about them, you can find little nooks and crannies that might not be so obvious for myself of their thought patterns or why they're motivated to do certain things. Oh, that's great. And then for writing, I find it's really interesting in a way to keep your characters separate. Because sometimes your characters kind of will start to bleed. Absolutely blurred together and kind of have different names. Yes. Yes. And I'll just be like a swamp of characteristics. Right. Yes, I know that feeling very well. And so I like this because you can kind of try to keep their motivations very separate and right. Somebody should do a show that's just all 9 personality types. Each character is one of the personality types. And I think you're the leader of the group. I think we're developing a show in the moment here. This is again a thing. We are working it out. We will be pitching to NBC next week. Look out this fall on NBC, the personalities. Yes. Is this that name right there? I'm clicking on that. Well, I mean, if nothing else, I like to throw an idea out on this podcast, not do any of the work on it. Wait for someone else to do it, and then sue. That feels like an easier way to money to me. Just throw the idea out there, have the audio recording, and then be like, wait a minute, 6 months from now, the personality, CBS, what? I will own the decadent work. Well, this is so exciting. I can't wait to give this a shot. And I'm also just thrilled with your illustrations. So great. If you don't mind, I'm going to share some of those on Instagram. People need to see. We've got to get your illustrator career off the ground. That's something else you should be doing. And then of course, in addition to the work of our television show the personalities, this fall, maybe on ABC. Okay. Let's hit all of that. We've got to go. The big four. PBS, we can't leave people out. We could develop kind of a show for PBS where no one makes any money. And the show has forgotten. Yes. That feels right. The front of this cover looks very PBS to me. It has a little Bob Ross. Yes. Soothing. You know you're going to be nurtured by whatever happens inside it. We love PBS. Okay. I think we should play a game. Okay. Do you want to play a game called gift master or a game called gift or a curse? Gift or a curse. Okay. I need a number between one and ten from you. 9. Okay, I have to do some light calculating. You have the mic for a moment. You can recommend promote, say hello, diagnose somebody's personality, whatever you want. I'll be right back. Okay. Hello, listeners. I am coming to you live for me, not for you. This is not live for you because you are not here right now. Right now it's just the three of us. A humble, beautiful, brilliant three,.
I Said No Gifts!
"bridger." Discussed on I Said No Gifts!
"A gift. Oh, thank you so much. I've had a wonderful time. I hope you like it. Listener, this is, of course, traditionally where we end the podcast and then you stop listening to the audio. If you go do something, maybe you think about me, nonstop, you tell everybody that you finally fall in and in love, it's with bridger and you just keep spreading the word and have a and then eventually we do meet. We cross paths at the grocery outlet and we both reach for the discount mug. And that's where our love story begins. But until then, you've got to stop listening to the podcast. I'm begging you to stop listening to this episode. Maybe rewind, I don't know. Do whatever you need to do. Goodbye. I said no gifts is an exact right production. It's produced by our dear friend anneliese Nelson, and it's beautifully mixed by John Brantley. The theme song, of course, could only come from miracle worker Amy man. You must follow the show on Instagram at I said no gifts. I don't want to hear any excuses. That's where you get to see pictures of all these gorgeous gifts I'm getting. And don't you want to see pictures of the gifts? Now make sure to listen, follow and most importantly leave a heartfelt review on Amazon music, Apple podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. And don't forget, you can listen to new episodes one week early on Amazon music or early and ad free.
I Said No Gifts!
"bridger." Discussed on I Said No Gifts!
"Now I'm gonna crinkle this grocery bag. Yeah. It's not like a camera grocery bag. Have you ever used one of those bridger where it doesn't make any noise? No. Oh yeah, they have prop paper bags that are designed to make them sound. Oh my God, that makes perfect sense. I know. Fabric? No, it's like paper, but it's almost like that sort of, it's not actually sticky, but it's just very like, you can really feel it, you know? Wow. It doesn't feel like a paper. It's almost like rubberized or something, but it is paper. I've got to get one of these. Yeah, you gotta get one of those and just carry it around everywhere. And once you see one, you'll see it. You can't not see it on TV. Every time you watch something, you're like, that's a fake, because it never actually folds, you know? The illusion is just shattered. Shattered. With cash on TV. Which is always so phony looking. So fake looking. Okay, again, that said, again. I'm going to get into the bag here. Get into the bag. Like a cat, get into the bag. Okay, I'm feeling. I feel like cloth. Yeah. Okay, I'm reaching in. It's real cloth. It's not, oh my God. I'm just going to this is so bizarre. Well, I mean, it's not that bizarre. Nothing in my world is that bizarre. But I was looking at your shirt and I was going to ask you about your show. Oh, yeah. And now I'm reaching into this. And so river is currently wearing a beautiful tie dyed T-shirt. And now I've reached into the bag and pulled out my own tie dye. That's right. I didn't even I just was attracted to the shirt this morning when I put it on. Like I knew I was coming to this podcast. I knew what I gave you. But I just like grabbed the shirt, I was like, yeah, I'll wear this one. That'll look good on the Zoom. Like I just did anything that's not even, but also coincidence and it's perfectly aligned, you know? Like this is wild. It feels like your reality is like bleeding through the zoom into my reality. Like suddenly I'll be in your glasses. I'll have a green wall behind me. Okay, I have a tie dye T-shirt. Did you make this? I did, yeah. How? Well, my partner and I made those. So we, during the pandemic, I mean, we did not make the shirt itself. We did buy the shirt. Okay. I mean, I would be so impressed. I mean, yeah, you never know, with my partner, you never know. She makes all kinds of stuff. But we got it from this company called everybody world, which is local in Los Angeles, and they kind of grew out of the ashes of American apparel and kind of took the positive, the actual stuff that was supposedly or actually good about American apparel, which is like living wages and reusing things and sustainability, all that stuff. And implemented it. And now that's the company is like running on those things. So it's a 100% recycled cotton. Which is great. All of that shirt is excess fibers for making other shirts. I have no idea. How do you recycle fighting? I don't know. Just the whole thing where you get the fibers and then you turn them, you loom it and you make the shirts from that. Just run it through some sort of paper shredder or something. So that shirt is very low impact on the environment. And then we got into this white. It was white. But not super white because they don't like, they don't bleach cycle. Yeah, yeah. It retains that sort of earthiness to it. And then, yeah, in the pandemic, my partner's a musician, but also she does many jobs, but that's like her main thing. So each of us, we weren't able to do our jobs. And we were looking for like creative outlets and I got like, I was actually doing the artist way when it started. Oh, perfect. That's looking for stuff. And I got like a little tie dye kit from like Joanne's or something online. And did it and really enjoyed making them and then so we just started making them and people were like, yeah, we want to buy these and we were like, okay. And so we started making them and people were buying them and I think we donated like $5000. Oh my God. That's how many shirts we sold. And then it was like it was starting to turn into a business. And I was like, I don't want to do this. I did not sign up to become a T-shirt salesman. No, I did not. I mean, I really enjoy making them, but we have a really small apartment is quite small. We actually don't have the space to make large quantities of shirts. I wish you, if you go back on my Instagram, you could probably find it, but we would just have literally stacks of shirts just all over our apartment, like folding them, and it does use a lot of water and you're just like washing things over and over again. So anyway, that is all to say that I really enjoyed making tie dye stuff when I was making it. And I'd probably make it some more, but that's one of them. So, okay, first of all, okay, so walk me through how tie dyeing actually works. Okay. I don't understand. I mean, because usually, I feel like you usually just see one color tie dye. That's probably the easiest. And this is several different colors. It is kind of the easiest. I mean, there's like two, so we got after I got that Joanne fabrics like starter kit. That was like, oh, cool. This is fun. And then we looked, or I researched legit, not that it wasn't legit, but it's just like, what's the what are better dies and stuff like that? And so there's this company called Dharma that they've been the tie dye folks for like the whole time. So like the shirts in the 70s and all that stuff, that was them. That's like their dies. I mean that name is perfect. Yeah, they got their first. And it's something called a prose die. So the dye, it's very sciencey. Like the dye actually bonds to the fibers in the shirt. So you have to use all natural fibers. It won't stick to anything. Synthetic. So the dyes that I was getting from JOANN fabrics or if you use like a writ die, that's I think it's called like submersion or something like that where it's not actually bonding to the fabric, which is why it tends to like fade or wash out or transfer and stuff like that. So these dyes, once it is fully bonded and set to the fabric, it doesn't really, it's not going to transfer. This shirt is still pretty vibrant and it's even over Zoom, it's very vibrant. It's like two years old, you know? I mean, let's say it looks brand new. Yeah, for a while. So my partner got because she's also a Carpenter. She got really into like folding techniques. And that's a big part of it, but I was much more into the dying part of it of that sounds like more fun to me. Yeah, I'm a little, I'm a little more like viscerally minded. I went to college for a printmaking and I was always like just using the stuff as opposed to like planning the thing out. It's just like the way my creativity works. And so there's pretty much two methods for I mean there's like three, but one is vat dying where you're like submerging it and mixed die. I never did that because it felt very overwhelming. I mean, where does one get a vat? Where do you get vats? Multiple vats. Let alone of that to necessitate a vat rack. You know what I mean? But you can mix it in like classic style into like the ketchup bottle, you know, sort of thing. And then you paint it onto the shirt, or the method that I really enjoy, that I had no idea was even a thing until I started looking into this, which is ice dying. Ice dying. Ice dying, where you take because when you buy the die, it's powder. And then you mix it with water. And that's part of what creates that chemical process. Like you have to have the water part of it for it to bond to the fiber..
I Said No Gifts!
"bridger." Discussed on I Said No Gifts!
"Sure. I said, yeah, listen, you want to, what do you want to do? You want to put the pencil things in the rug or you want pixel things in the toilet. And the answer is pencil things in the toilet. I think that's a beautifully played. Dustin Hoffman is probably, it's probably been years since he had a food board and less. You know, you get to a certain level and you kind of leave foodborne illness behind. And it's always nice to have a memory of your diarrhea as you're throwing up. Even late in life. Yes. Maybe just don't eat it again. You know, you just crushed your clear. That's all no big deal. That's tricky with rice, though. I mean, the thought of eating rice now make you sick. I love rice. It's so it's so just a mild thing to eat. I love rice. I love it. I love it. I love it. I love it. I make it with, oh, I put a butter in there. And I put it with the bouillon. Oh. It turns out so salty. Oh, it's so good. You ever do that? I've never shockingly I've never had butter in rice. What? I don't know. You gotta put bouillon and butter. How much butter? Tablespoon. Tablespoon. Okay, so not a whole cube of butter. Kind of depends on how you look at a cube, but yeah, it's really good. You don't really love fresh. Sounds lovely. Yeah, then are you eating it with a vegetable? Sure, you play something on top of it and you can't just eat rice sometimes because sometimes you really do need to eat protein. But it is so, can't recommend it enough. So lovely recipe. That's free to the listener. Okay, you played that perfectly. Let's answer a listener question before people freak out. Okay. You know, people write into, I said, no gifts at Gmail dot com. Oh. And they have problems. They have concerns. Things are not going right in their lives. Mostly about gifts or social situations. And then I end up kind of having to deal with their garbage. And so I bring a guest along. Will you answer one with me? Yeah, I'd love to. Okay, here's a good one. This is dear bridger and sparkling guest. My husband and I need your help.
I Said No Gifts!
"bridger." Discussed on I Said No Gifts!
"You can just hold it, feels, you know, just immediate power. Surging through your arms. Yes. I mean, I don't personally own a sledgehammer and probably never will. But you love, there's nothing to complain about there. Absolutely not. Well, you didn't play that game too bad. You got two out of three. Two out of three. That's the passing grade in any American high school. Yeah, you're well on your way to, you know, you're like 9th choice college. And my ultimate safety. Okay, we've got to answer a listener question. This is called, I said no emails. People write into I said no gifts at Gmail dot com. Desperate people, you know, people with various problems issues that they've decided they've come to a place where they can't solve it on their own. It's in a lot of ways kind of sad and pathetic, but generosity is kind of my love language. That's not a love language. But it could be. If I say it, it's true. So I go out of my way. I bring the guest in and we consult. Will you help me answer a question? Absolutely. Okay, this feels like an email. Dear bridger and guest. I have a predicament. My little sister, who is very religious and doesn't believe in birth control keeps having kids. Now, no shame towards her, whatever floats her boat. But I work a slightly above minimum wage job and when it comes to birthdays and especially Christmas, my budget is very slim. The more kids she has, the more money I have to spend. All her kids are boys. There are four of them now, and they are all under the age of 6. I need to know what I can get all these kids without going broke on just her family alone. I'm dreading Christmas already. Please help me. I'm scared they will send me into bankruptcy, the more and more she continues to pop out. Help. And then there are four crying emojis. Which is worth noting. That's from Tara. Tara's sister won't stop having children and apparently expects a gift for every one of them. That's kind of the baseline situation here. And did we have a number on how many so far how many kids are there? We've got four under 6. It sounds like you've got four under 6. She's probably got years and years of having children, this could lead to 12, 15 offspring before. I mean, it seems like a pretty rapid rate. One every 18 months. And so what does the sister law from what we can tell is just struggling? Trying to keep the lights on while still trying to be a fun aunt..
I Said No Gifts!
"bridger." Discussed on I Said No Gifts!
"Look, we should answer a listener question or two. It's part of my service to the community. Kind of that sort of thing. I don't mow lawns. I don't pick up trash, but I do answer questions. This is called, I said no emails. People write into ice at no gifts at Gmail dot com. Every one of them has a different problem about social problems they've got or gift giving, they need to give someone a gift. I don't know, everyone's got some situation. Let's read one. Okay, this says, hello bridger and guest. I have a future predicament. I have been with my boyfriend for almost 7 years. Yes, I'm still waiting on a proposal. It's fine, I'm guess, I guess. 7 years is not that long. Look, okay, I need to keep reading. Editorializing. I can't help, but just immediately begin getting in there. Okay, so this person says, I'm a maniac, and I'm already thinking about wedding guests to invite. I recently discovered my half sister on Facebook and Instagram so that, okay, the half sister is all over social media. We turned out to be more alike than I had anticipated. She was my father's first daughter from his first marriage. I was born after she was grown, and she already had a child of her own. A little backstory. Things went sour and my parents cut off communication with my half sister when I was a baby. This meaning I have never met her. My mother does not like her and basically thinks she's evil. My sister and I seem to be, and this isn't parentheses. My sister and I seem to be very similar. So maybe I am also evil in my mother's eyes and she just doesn't know it yet. Okay. Well, that's a big assumption. My father, however, has never spoken a word about my sister to me. I believe he is unaware that I even know of her existence. I would love to have my sister at my wedding, but I don't feel like I can tell my mildly unstable mother that I found my sister and that she seems to be someone I want in my life. I also don't feel like I can even say her name around my closed off distant father. How do I give the gift of peace between excommunicated family members? Or should I just go for it surprise them all and let the chaos be cheap entertainment at the wedding that will hopefully happen. Bridger and guest, please help me. I clearly need a lot of it. Love Lauren. I forgot that there's not even a engagement. I know halfway through I was like, oh, this could all go south way before a wedding even happens. We don't even have a safe to date yet. Wow. This person is living in a grims fairytale where there's kind of a sister who can't be mentioned. She's a half sister who may show up at her wedding. This is the plot of Cinderella. No, not Cinderella. Maybe sleeping beauty is maybe kind of a when there's kind of an evil uninvited guest that shows up and throws a curse on everyone. So that's the feeling I'm getting. First of all, let's just say Lauren, the only two people who have met this half sister are your mom and dad. And you seem to be and they both hate this person. So for all we know this person absolutely sucks. We've got to just we've got to think that that could be something that's actually going on. The reality could be half sister is no good. Or used to suck also. She's changed. So what do we say to Lauren, who kind of leads a life of assuming and just bad faith and hoping that she's going to be getting married when her fiance, we don't know who the fiance could possibly be. We've got a major case of cart before the horse here. And the cure is getting engaged. That first step could be very helpful. I think you should figure out what's going on with regards to your engagement because what if you say that you want to get married and then your partner doesn't want to get married and then there's no wedding at all and you don't have to worry about this. Right. But also maybe the engagement happens and then you can deal with all this bullshit. But I'm just saying let's deal with that first. This is like but truly this is something that comes up in therapy for me all the time, which is I'm like, so I'm thinking 8 steps ahead. I want to try and manipulate everyone in my life and doing what I want. Well, how about what's actually going on? And I'm like, but that's so boring. Nothing. Nothing's going on. What about the problem I invented? I have this rich fantasy that I have imagined. Let's play in that world. Come here. What do you think? I pay you for. Well, you're Lawrence seemed to be birds of a feather. I mean, she hasn't even met this half sister outside of as far as I can tell. Instagram and maybe Facebook marketplace, she's trying to buy furniture. Now that's a movie. All I wanted to buy was a used rocking chair. And I got a lot more. That needs to be on the homophobia network. The first offering. Folding myself into the pump above me an hour, by the way. I welcome any type of homophobe to my network. Straight, queer, if you have a homophobia, you are welcome to pitch ideas shows. We will take them. We will go straight to production. You just have to have a little bit of hatred in your heart for, you know, you've got to be a bigot on some level. That's all we ask. Yeah, so Lauren, you can either get engaged as metra has suggested, which I think is perfectly reasonable. You could meet this woman. And kind of feel it out yourself. I mean, all you've seen is probably like her on the beach, maybe some political posts that apparently you agree with, but you didn't really say where you lie on the political spectrum. So God knows what's happening there. But maybe arranged for a coffee date or, you know, I wouldn't say like a good situation. I would say somewhere in between good and bad situations. So you get a real feel for her almost right off the bat. Or show up really late to your coffee date, just to see if she's freaking out. Oh. You know, a little test to see if this is somebody you want at your wedding. Yeah. But don't jump to any other conclusions until you've made one of those decisions because you're putting a lot of people in danger here. And your parents have warned you. They both warned you. Your father won't even speak of this person. I mean, I don't even know what to say..
The Doug Collins Podcast
The Spirit to Soar: Lt Col Barry Bridger's Story of Hope
"A book's been written called the spirit to soar. And it's about the true story of former orphan and POW lieutenant colonel Barry bridger, U.S. Air Force, retired, colonel brazier, I am also a lieutenant colonel in the United States Air Force as well. Finished it got 20 years and so we'll see if I make it that way. Then you got Jim, Peterson. Jim is with us, and he is on that other blue, a little bit darker below the navy side, which I actually started in. But I spent more of my time with the green guys down at camp Pendleton when I was there as a chaplain, but folks, guys, it's good to have you all with us. This has been an exciting I got to look over the book. And let me just tell you, Jim for riding it, but Barry for sir for you and what you've been through. Thank you both for service and I'm looking forward to some discussion here. So am I let it rip? Here we are too. I love it. Well, let's start off jam almost start off with you on the riding of the book. You ride in the book about why you started it, but you chose it to be a biography, but also a lifeless and explain that a little bit. Well, you know, Malcolm gladwell wrote a book called outliers. And he talks about people who do extraordinary things. So started out, I've observed very known very over 30 years now. And I've observed him in the things that he does, I knew a story, but I didn't know it all that well. And once I learned his story, I told him, one day I met a writer biography in that process. I opened up the discussion of this biography saying that berry's been an inspiration in my life. I've learned so much and so a publicist said, it's a life lesson book. So we put out 17 life lessons that I've learned from Barry's life. And he's had a tremendous impact on my life.
I Said No Gifts!
"bridger." Discussed on I Said No Gifts!
"But yeah, she was also very quiet, which is incredible. She's not a barking dog. And that's made her very easy for me to love. And not that I don't love a barking dog. I love a yapping dog, but that's probably because I don't live with any. Yeah, mys is barely ever barks. Maybe if there's a squirrel situation going on or people just walk up to the door. She's not bark. And I find it very soothing. It's very nice. She just cuddly and no barking. We locked out. Did you have dogs growing up? We did have dogs growing up. And I had a dog named freeway that we found at the freeway. I got the name of the dogs. I had a dog named poodle that was a German Shepherd that I got to write its name on the dog house and I wrote the word puddle. My parents were very nice. They just let me do whatever. And then we had a dog named magic. And magic was a sweet, like a sweet dog. I think she was like some sort of she was a golden retriever. She was a nice dog. What's your current dog named? Holly, Holly. Oh yeah. Well, we were watching the outsider and Holly is the name of one of the characters who has like a cash on the back of her neck. And so when we went to go, we went to go foster a dog. They told us, they're like, here's this beautiful black dog named Mackie. I think you guys would be a perfect stock would be perfect for you. And we show up and that dog, Mackie, beautiful dog, is leaving with someone else, and then we walk in and I was like, oh, I think we're here for Mackie and the layers like sorry. We just gave Mackie away, but we have this shaking, scary dog with a huge wound on its neck, and I was not prepared for this. And I was like, what? It's like actively bleeding. And not that I didn't want to help this dog, but I was expecting this beautiful black dog that you see in like a Patagonia catalog or something. And it was this little kind of shaky dog with a huge one on his neck. And the wound reminded us of the stock Holly, and it turns out we stayed with this dog and we didn't know that she would have her period as soon as she got home and she was on her period and she was bleeding from her neck and there was a lot of blood, but it really didn't matter to us because she was such a sweet dog. And it was like the right thing to do. We were like, we'll keep this dog. We're foster. We'll show it to other people. But within a day, we're like, oh, maybe we should just adopt this dog because she's so sweet. Wait, where was this open wound from? What is this place? We have no idea. I mean, they found her on the streets of highland, which is like, maybe on the way to idle wild. They're like, Joshua, like Palm Springs. It's like this town. And I like to say, I growing up as a Latin man in the hood, like to say this dog was definitely a hood rat. I was like, this dog had never been inside. This dog may have been chained to something. I don't know. But we have nursed her back to health and she is the sweetest sweetest little dog. Oh, that's such a nice thing to hear. I mean, sure. Okay, that's nice. But I do need to talk to you about something else, which I don't find so nice. I will say I was kind of prowling around your neighborhood recently. It was around, I don't know, I was on my way to dinner. And I thought, maybe I'll see what's happening around Chris's house. It's kind of darting through the shadows and, you know, just doing my general prowl, and so I was a little surprised to have that upset when I came upon your door and I looked to my left and there was a little bag hanging there, and I, you know, I thought, what could this possibly be? Is this for me, Chris couldn't have possibly left this for me, but I took it anyway. And then I went to dinner, and I thought I will deal with that, I'll confront Chris on the podcast and just see what game he's playing now, and so now I currently have this little adorable. Let's say it, let's just say it. Absolutely adorable. Pink bag with kind of a hologram balloon that says, baby. And now, hearing that you have a baby and that I just kind of took this off your porch. I hope I haven't stolen something from your child. Chris, is this a gift from me? Yeah, it has nothing to do with my child. I actually have this bag custom made for you. I just thought it would be wonderful. I was like, I think bridger, I think a hologram. This hologram with the word baby on it is exactly it. So it had a custom made. It has nothing to do with my baby daughter or her one year old or one or first birthday that just happened. I just really thought her, we wrapped all her gifts in camo. But I was like, for bridger, this would be a perfect bag. We repurpose this bag and I'm giving it to you. It's a beautiful bag. I mean, it is perfect for a baby, and I'm happy to be kind of identified as a baby. And so do you want me to open it here on the podcast? I can wait till another day. It's really up to you. I mean, I'd say open it. Audible is the leading provider of spoken word entertainment. All in one place. I love audiobooks. I love books in general, of course. But, you know, I can't read a book while I'm driving. So that's where audiobooks come in. And as an audible member, you get one credit every month good for any audiobook title in audible's.
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"Real pushing you to your emotional limit. Well, first I have to say that I have trouble believing that you only go to the gym once a week. With that jawline, sir. But also, I think they're trying to push you to your limit. They're trying to break you to move weight around. I think that's what it is. I think they're trying to just drive me away. I think that's probably the whatever. Okay, so we've talked about the peloton and now you've got a new baby. How old is the baby? One year old. One three days. Boy, you're a girl. Girl. Oh, how sweet, how is this your experience been for you? I really like it. We've been home anyway for the last year. So it felt really nice to hang out with this little kid. And get to know her. No complaints from me. I didn't know whether I was going to like it or not, and I just completely really love it. And yeah. Yeah, I don't know what I expected you to say. Oh, it's been awful. What was I thinking? Well, I'm glad you asked, bridger. I wish I could send her back. I know. What a little piece of garbage this kid is. That's really destroyed our lives. Just a sweetie little kid. I really love her. It's really nice. And yeah, that's an interesting, because you had, I mean, the baby was born in the real depths of the pandemic. Yeah. It's right in the depths. We decided, you know, at the very beginning of the pandemic, we were going to try anyway. We were like, let's try to do this. And you never know how long it's going to take and I guess we forgot that I'm Latino because she and my wife got pregnant like in a month. And it was like, and we kind of knew it. When it happened, not to be TMI, but we were trying to do this. And one night, we were doing it. And it was fun. We had a great time. And we finished right at 7 59, and I know this, because at 8 p.m., everyone walked outside and started hitting pots and pans for frontline workers, but we had completely forgot, and we had just collapsed on top of each other, and all of a sudden it was like, and I was like, I think that might be our baby. It totally was our baby. It just totally was. And I was like, wow, someone, the neighborhood is rooting for us. That is incredible. What a way to be conceived. I hope she's you're going to have to tell her that story over and over. I'm sure she'll be thrilled to hear it. She'll love it. Wow, what an incredible I forgot about the banging of pans and pots. Yeah, it just happened in that two month window when people were still doing that. Right. And so, yeah. Oh, that really just memories of the last two years. I just have been kind of burying them as well as I can and it's always a shock to hear some little reminder of early pandemic. What else has been going on? I mean, that's about it, you know? Just excited to get back out there. I've been pretty locked. I don't know about you, but I've been pretty locked down for like a couple months. And it feels like things are opening back up. Yes. And it feels very nice. We saw some friends last weekend, we allowed them inside the house. It was, it was crazy. It was really felt like, and we were such social people and to be locked down has been so treacherous. But it's been really, I don't know, it's a little brighter later in the day. It feels like things are moving in a nicer direction. So I don't know. I'm in a better mood the last week I'd say, once it feels like this is hopefully could see our friends more and stuff now. And even performing. I just can't imagine another wave of something. I think I've done as much as humanly possible. Let's move on. I don't know. Yeah, yeah, I don't want to talk about it. It's just so awful. Do you go like, do you go on drives? Do you do anything to get out of the house? Not really. I mean, I walk the dog, which is fun. How long have you had the dog? We got the dog the first day of lockdown. 7 59. Yeah, yeah. We got her then, and then she's just a really sweet dog. But completely a pandemic dog. And we had no idea that we were going to have a baby right away. So we feel pretty bad for. And she's come around. She initially kind of apprehensive about the baby, yeah, she was. I mean, one day we couldn't find her and she was under the couch facing the wall. She was suicidal. And so we had, that was we're a little worried about her. But now they get along, great. Like the baby and the dog like they seek each other out. And the baby is gentle with her and petzer and the dog. Licks her hanging. It's really sweet, but at the beginning, I was like, no, what have we done to this poor dog? And she's just a real sweetie. What kind of dog is she? You know, we paid for a really bad my wife's dad. A little bit of a cheapskate. And for Christmas, we're like, can we get a DNA test? This dog. We think she's a cattle dog bassini mix because she's kind of shaped like a cattle dog and has the face of a basenji and she doesn't bark. And these are all traits of a G and then we play sweet foster the job from said she was a cattle dog. But according to this, she's like chihuahua and a dachshund and something else, but it's definitely a bad company. It's like this is definitely just a real hoopty bootleg dog DNA test thing. And I think it's ridiculous to spend money on that. I think that's why we kind of asked for it as a gift. But if you pay $30 or this thing, you're going to get a $30 answer, and that's what we got. $30? $30. It's like the cost of a stamp. Yeah. Yeah, totally. Self addressed envelope, and one stamp, and they're like, send us a picture. That's not a good sign. Maybe, yeah, I don't know. Do you have a dog? Yes, and we did one of those tests as well. I think, I don't know, ours was maybe $80. So also, how much is one of these even supposed to cost? Yeah. It's not like I'm out there window shopping for dog DNA tests. So I truly have no idea what to expect as far as payment goes, but they told us she's all American bulldog. Oh, wow. We had no idea. We thought that she was like a pit bull or a box or some mix, but apparently it's just an American bulldog. But again, it could be a full lie. It's impossible to say. It's gonna be completely lies. I mean, they have your name, they could easily just get on your Instagram and find the picture of the dog and pay some poor person to just guess, you know? Yeah, yeah, there's a wheel they have..
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"Sarah, take all of this information, don't leave any of it out. You've got to just follow this to a T otherwise that are probably going to delete your records and then you're going to be off in the dental wilderness again. Your mouth can't handle another infection. James I now am so prepared to relapse into my life. I'm just going to reclaim my virginity. Yeah. I've got I'm going to go for a life of complete abstinence. Now, now let me ask you a question because you may already be there because I'm to understand your homosexual and of course home sexual sexuality does not count. That's fine, because as we know only the only sex that is true is reproductive. And so am I to understand that you truly are a heterosexual virgin? I'm not. You're not a hero. So there's nothing I can do. I've got a I can't I've got to reclaim. You've got to reclaim, okay. I thought maybe we had I thought maybe we had. I know. Would have been so easy. I could have just started already been there. Already had it figured out. As far as this book is concerned, I'm already on my way to heaven. Or I would have been, but no, I think you want to have it. I feel like I can turn this thing around. I have a sense about these things. I think you're going to have a thank you so much. To be told I'm going to heaven over Zoom. What could be better? Bridger, you are going to have it. Look in my webcam. You are going to have it. What a fun thing to say to someone else you're killing them. James, thank you so much. This was wonderful. This is got to be in the top three podcast appearances that I've been able to make. And to for us to truly have gotten to know each other through the podcast, I think, is a God thing. And it's a God thing. There's no other way I can say it. I mean, it's beautiful. It's beautiful. And I feel so close to you right now. I feel close to you. And listener, this is the end of the podcast, and I hope you've taken some lesson from all of this. I hope that you're, I mean, I hope that you're not on Amazon now buying the book. I hope you were on it a half hour ago, as soon as you heard the title of the book. Otherwise you're not serious about reclaiming your abstinence. So please get the journal, get the book. It's never too late. Until you're in hell. That point, there's no turning back. So I'm going to let you go from the podcast and I hope you have a wonderful week and happy new year. Here.
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"bridger." Discussed on I Said No Gifts!
"There are unisex sock. They're in the laundry. Yeah, no, but it's a good sock. I want to know text me. Let's give the socks about three weeks. You know, live in them a little. You know, try them. I'm not gonna make it. I'm currently in trial context, and now I'm in trial socks. Yes. Everything is just a bit of a trial. It's the end of the year. Richard you don't know what 2022? Yeah. Behold. These socks could lead me down a whole new path. That's right. Towards welcome aboard ocean. And welcome aboard ocean or overboard ocean. You know, we're not sure yet. So in a few weeks, you will let me know. Hey. These are really fantastic socks. Thanks. You're going to get an all caps text that just says, welcome aboard ocean. Okay. Be prepared. Okay, great. 50 exclamation points. I will find the sock emoji. Yeah. Welcome for it. It'll probably set your phone on fire. Yeah. Well, this is great. I'm now in two different socks. I think we should play a game. Let's do it. Do you want to play a game called GIF master or a game called gift or a curse? Oh great, gift or a curse. Okay, beautiful. I need a number between one and ten. 9. Okay. Oh, I love a high number. I have to do some light calculating. I have to get the game pieces. We're going to be working with promote something recommend something you've got the mic for a minute, do whatever you want. All right, well, I've given you the secrets of my socks, so go ahead, guys, get that. Bridger mentioned that I have a podcast with the lovely gal named kula and it's called add to cart. And this is what we do. Every week we talk about the things that we've bought. That have just delighted us and brought us joy. Some of them are game changers. Oh, a game changer you ask, sure, like, for instance, when I found a toilet cleaner that then went into a UV tray so that all the bacteria was killed upon every time I washed, I clean my toilet, and I thought, well, that's a game changer. My life will never be the same. That company has now shuttered and you can no longer buy them. Should have bought so many of them. They should have loaded up. I keep talking about this. This could be the only merch that we ever sell. Is this toilet brush that went into a UV holder? I mean, that is genius. That's a very good idea. I have been throwing out toilet brushes or filthy. Disgusting. One use it's built there. It's filthy. Or like, fine. I'll wash it, and then I'll take it out back and let it sit in the sun and then I forget about it and you know, the next day someone comes over and is like, oh, you're one of those people. I had so many toilet brushes. So this company has shut down. You can't get them anymore. Ouch. So I think you've got a revived. I know. Well, I have thought about it. But anyway, those are just some of the things that we talk about on our podcast. It's an excellent podcast, a very fun time. And I mean, just this little peek into it, you've heard about this toilet brush, listener. So go listen to it. Okay, it's time to play gift cards. This is how we play. Okay. I'm going to name three things. You're going to tell me if they're a gift or a curse and why. There are correct answers, you will lose this game if you mess up. So just be extremely careful. But if I win this game, if you win this game, you enter a very rare territory. I think maybe three people out of 80 odd people have won this game. So, you know, the stakes have never been higher. Never. All right, the first one, this is a listener suggestion. GIF and the listener is named Amy. Gift or a curse, those plastic coated paper clips. You know the little ones that are kind of during all colors. They're a little. I mean, of course they're a gift. What? What's the curse that's attached to it? I mean, why wouldn't you look doubtful? Do you not agree? I just want to hear your reasoning as to why you think why there are gift as opposed to the strictly metal. Oh, strictly metal. I mean, that's just, there's no technology there. You know, we have an improved. We haven't involved. We're past that point. We also are not sending each other telegraphs. You know, now we've got bullet journals. We've got bullet coffee, you know, we're putting geeks. We're putting butter. We're putting butter in our coffee. These days, this is where we're at. And each of those, you know, you use the blue ones for your taxes and you use the red ones for thank you notes and you use the yellow ones for reminders. It's technology. It's human evolution. I love to hear it. You've got the first one right. I love those little things. It feels like you're killing it about this game. You're off to a very good start. I mean, don't count your chickens, but look, you're off to a very good start. I love the little plastic paper clips. Occasional probably chew on one, you know? I'll bite it. The metal ones no thank you. No dangerous. It's not the 40s anymore. No. I love the little plastic. There's still metal, so they have the hard crunchy center. I'm basically talking like I eat these. Listener don't eat the plastic coated paper clip. Just enjoy them for what they are. They're color coded, so you can, you know, as solution was just saying, use them to organize, I love them. Absolutely. Absolutely. Excellent. You've got this one out of the park. Is it easy one? I see I see. You start on your real soft. Real soft. Just lure you into kind of this sense that you're going to do well and then knock you down. We'll see. Okay, the second one is from our producer on a lease. Analysis suggested gift or a curse when a bride slash groom wears converse during their ceremony. Gift or a curse. While now, no, no, no, no, no, no. This one, this one, I'm putting myself out here for this one because I did. I did wear pink converse for my reception. Okay. But not for the ceremony. Absolutely a curse. You can't wear sneakers. To pledge your undying love. Devotion and obedience. Don't forget that. He's being very important in a relationship. Do a partner. And converse. That's like, that's like making a promise and then crossing your fingers behind your back. You're not nobody everybody knows you're not serious. I mean, I wouldn't take that person seriously. Wow. Two out of two. Of course that's a curse. What are you 14? This isn't the blink one 82 concert. Sure, where I'm doing the reception when you have to walk all over the lawn or whatever greeting people you barely want to talk to. Look, I'm not getting married at any time soon or ever. But during the ceremony, can we please just be adults for ten minutes? That's right. We don't need you dancing in. We don't need you in your skate where just put on those clothes and get married like two serious people. That's right. I agree. That's right. Two adults, please. Adults only. Otherwise. Do whatever you're gonna do with the skate park. You don't want whatever you're doing, but not during the marriage ceremony. Especially when I drove across.
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"bridger." Discussed on I Said No Gifts!
"Man, it's I call it the baby sleep. I'm like, oh, there's the baby, and the baby sleep just a little. Are your kids able to fall asleep easily? They didn't as babies, which was fun. But now, now, yeah, pretty, yeah, they're not they're totally fine sleepers. There's no nothing to report there. It's really just me. You're just kind of rolling on the sleepless eyes. And then do you ever, okay, we'll get off of this because I'm sure this is boring. Because we're talking about sleep. But then the whole point is is that my brain is working so furiously and it's the middle of the night. And I have been known to get up and cook an omelet because I'm starving. Maybe that's what I need to try doing. I know it doesn't get no good. You're fully on, you know, Venezuelan time. And you are not in Venezuela. I would love to just start clanging around the kitchen at 3 a.m.. I'm sure my boyfriend would be thrilled. Nobody's thrilled when I do that. But, you know? You've got to do something. I mean, and I'm starving at this point. Right. And I do think that getting up and getting out of the room for at least a brief minute changing the setting at before you get back in bed can work sometimes. Not for you. Again, I would be and it doesn't work for you either. Let's be honest, you have gotten up in the middle of the night. I'm sure you have. And that it changes. Well, I mean, talking about sleepless nights and things that are keeping us away, we might as well just get right into this. A few weeks ago, you agreed to be on this podcast and a few weeks before that well a few months before that, I was on your podcast. That's right. Which that episode of your podcast kind of felt like training wheels for this podcast and some interesting ways where I host I said no gifts, you host ad to cart. While I was on ad to cart, which I went in thinking was a safe space, ended up being kind of an ambush on your part. And your co host kullas part. You ended up giving me some gifts on that podcast. A variety of treats and coffees and it was, you know, sent a real it threw me for a loop and I thought that that was behind us. So you agreed to be on this podcast, I thought everything was going to be fine. Yeah. A couple of weeks ago, I receive kind of a package. Not kind of a package. Yeah. Apac. On the package, I'm sure. And I was really bewildered. I will say I was confused. I knew you were coming up on the podcast, but it was far enough in the future that I thought this couldn't possibly be from such units. What could this be? And so, but then, you know, two weeks went by and sleep a wink. Suffered physically suffered mentally, professionally, things have gone absolutely haywire for me. Relationships with my family are afraid. This kind of thing. But now I have you here, I might as well ask you. Is this a gift for me? It is a gift for you. And I know you said, wait a minute. But it isn't a bag that says it says, welcome aboard. Welcome aboard ocean. At the bottom, it just says ocean. And who knows how I ended up in this bag? And that's the theme for that bag is a theme for this year. You know, you can take it as something relaxing or a cry for help. This is where you I think this should be our mission statement for 2022. Welcome aboard. Ocean. Welcome aboard ocean. The listener can do with those three words. That's right. Be creative. Exercise. Yes, look at 2022 20, well that's a hard one to say. 2022 as you're kind of blank canvas, your ocean. Welcome yourself aboard. And be creative. Kind of like, surgeon was with sending me something that I didn't ask for. That's where it, correct. Those are the best kinds of gifts I love giving people. Things that they never asked for. Things that they didn't want, and yet here I am. Well, should I open it here on the podcast? Absolutely. You should. And you know what? Obviously, everybody knows. It's not like we planned anything on this podcast. So it is very interesting that I sent you a gift. That is related to what we just talked about. Oh, you're kidding. No, I'm not kidding. Whether you're struggling with grief, relationships, stress, or you're having trouble sleeping or meeting goals, online therapy might be for you. Better help is secure online therapy that offers video phone and even live chat sessions with a licensed professional therapist. And I suggest therapy to everyone. It's been extremely beneficial to me, it's great to have someone to talk to. I could go on and on. Better help will assess your needs and match you with your own licensed professional therapist. You can be matched with a therapist in under 48 hours, there's no uncomfortable waiting room. Therapists have a broad range of expertise available and the service is even available for clients worldwide. Visit better help dot com slash gifts and join the over 2 million people who have received the help from one of better helps experienced professionals. I said no gifts is sponsored by better help and our listeners get 10% off their first month of online therapy at better help dot com slash gifts. That's better HELP dot com slash gifts. Oh, I'm very excited to see what's happening in here. Let's get a nice healthy tissue. Yeah, just silent to that, but soothing noise. This might be the last 2000 paper cuts. This episode will have the longest tissue yet. Yeah, that's right. Turn up that tushy warmer. Okay, it's been thrown on the ground, reaching into aforementioned soft package. Okay. All right, open up this up. Oh, this is I didn't realize this until just now it says bridger Weiner. Do not open. Correct. Well, I followed your rule. Let's rip it open. I had to send it early because I was like, what if what if supplying? That is a new thing. So this podcast probably should think about. And I just, I didn't want to. Yeah. See here. Okay, I'm getting, okay, I'm getting a look. I'm trying to figure out, wait. Okay. Are these socks? These are dickies brands. 6 pairs of dry dry tech crew performance work sucks. Sweat fighting, stay dry comfort. Okay. And is there a note or anything? Let's see. No, no. Oh, there's a send a thank you. And a gift for you. Okay. Oh, actually, this does say something. What does it say? Please do not open until we record. Well, this doesn't do any good. It's in the package. All will be revealed. Okay..
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"Care of and then, you know, one name on the other side. I don't know the policy. You are caring for it, I think. Right. I guess I'm now the caretaker. The unwilling participant in this little game. Anyway, you agreed to be on the podcast. It's called I said no gifts. You're familiar, I'm familiar enough with the show. There's obviously a clear directive up top. Can't miss it. Even if you're optometrists gouge both your eyes out, you're not going to be able to miss what's going on in this podcast. I said no gifts. So I'm going to pick it up now. It hasn't been opened. It's in kind of a bag that says born to be fabulous, which feels like an assault. Wait, are you serious? Wait, that's what it came in? It's hard to say. Nobody can say how it ended up in this bag. There are so many mysteries in my life and so many mysteries for the listener. That's kind of the appeal of this podcast is mystery. I hope I'm watching you see this for the first time. I have a feeling I'm not, but that's okay too. Damien, I'm going to say there is only been. To this state, I think one gift that I was aware of before the podcast. Oh, okay, okay, good. Whatever's in this bag, I don't know what's happening in here. And that's why I'm going to ask you, is this a gift from me? That is a gift for you, yes. Should I open it here on the show? I believe you should. Okay, let me get in here. Okay, tissue. Tissue, yep. Humans, here we are. We're in demay. We're coming out of the pandemic. It's time to turn your cool idea into a website and do it with Squarespace. You've heard it, you've heard me say it before and I want to look at these websites when you've had a lot of time to think. During the pandemic, what are my interests? What do I want to show off what I want to turn into a business? What am I blogging about? What music, if I were going to start a new website today, I'm very interested in comedy from the early 20th century, like I'm reading a Groucho Marx book right now. I would love to come with other people who are interested in that era of comedy. Show off some things that I've learned and hook up with them to learn stuff from them. That's what it's all about. It's life's all about, right? All these websites are optimized for the mobile your site looks awesome and you got online store capabilities with these integrated features. If you're setting it up, they'll give you help. They have analytical tools, humans, no more excuses, do it today. 'cause if you do it today, head to Squarespace dot com slash improv, you get a free trial. When you're ready to launch use the offer code improv, that's the word improv. To save 10% off your first purchase of a website or domain. That's right. And get your domain there too. That's Squarespace dot com slash improv with code improv, authorit improv for 10% off your first purchase. Okay, so I'm pulling it out. There's now in kind of a priority mail envelope. Yeah, a little bit of a crude envelope. And yeah, we can now confirm it does say care of bridger, not care of Damien. That would have that probably would have gotten lost in the mail. Okay, so I'm gonna get in here. Let's see, press firmly to seal. Where's my entry point? That's my question. There was a little bit of drama too about this because the delivery date was between today the day we're recording this. And 8 days from now. So I had an 8 day span that this may not arrive. And I saw this and I go, I don't care if this is late. I have to, he needs this. Yeah. I can not wait to see what's in here. Let's see, I might have to just use my scissors because look, I love the UPS. I support the UPS and so anyways, they make so many beautiful stamps, but I will say they're priority mail envelope. Sometimes there's a bit of a mystery as to how to open it. I agree. There's no rep tear thing that you can do. I need to tear things. I need a little tab. So I've cut it. And then it is tough. It's leathery. You could make a jacket out of this. And it's going to keep snipping. Maybe I'll just snip near the mic. Let's roll the gift. Okay. Just absolutely shred the gift. Go shred the gift, cut it in half. No, you can't just can't do that today. I'm going to bed. This is so quality material. Okay, here we go. I caught a glimpse of it, but I have no idea what this. Okay, making sure that envelope is empty. Now looking. Yes. What? Oh my God. This is a beautiful sign. It's gorgeous. Yes. It's a little wood sign with a little piece of this twill. Maybe. I don't know. It's like a rope at a white person's wedding. Where we go around the mason jar or something. Right. This is so that there's a picture of a cruise ship going through a beautiful tropical location. And then there's some words that says I have no cruise control. Dot dot dot dot dots. There's four dots. We noticed that. I couldn't ask for more. It's a lot of suspense building for what could be next. That's what it is. I have no cruise control. It's like the crew's book themselves. Yeah. This speaks to me on so many levels. This is I knew you would appreciate it. There are so few people in my life who would truly appreciate that. And I'm like, this is perfect. I love nothing more than a piece of home decor that is just the black hole of taste. Yes. And this to me is stunning. I love cruise culture. I love, you know, this is, you know, we've all seen live laugh love. We've seen it used in a million different. It's dead on so many. I will say, in 2000 11, I made some friends. They were getting married. I made them a homemade sign that said giggle give grow. Which I feel like I should make my I should start an Etsy shop for that. That's good. Yeah. Because I'm sure it was a shock to their system and God only knows where they keep it in their home. But giving somebody something like that is kind of it's kind of sabotage because now suddenly they have this hideous piece of decor that what do you do with it? Right. This just recently, where did you get this? Was it an Etsy purchase?.
I Said No Gifts!
"bridger." Discussed on I Said No Gifts!
"Will you answer a question with me? Of course, I'd love nothing more. Okay, this is what this person is saying. Let's say okay, here's a good one. It says dear bridger and and this is a nice qualifier for you. And arguably the greatest I said no gifts podcast guest yet. So this person took a shot in the dark, and I think they nailed it. They were accidentally right. No shade to the rest of your guests, but I at least agree with this person. I mean, you find it's like signed bearded in West Hollywood. It's like I did a lot of work leading up to this podcast. I got your pistachios. I created a fake email account. I for leading a double life. This says, okay, I started dating someone who had recently separated from her husband. Okay, oh wow. She was visiting my hometown of Los Angeles where she and I met and formed a quick whirlwind of a relationship, but ultimately she had to go back home to North Carolina where she still shared a house with her eventual ex-husband. This isn't very dramatic already. We see that as fuck. I know. Psychosexual. Yeah, this is like the plot of every 90s movie. I love this episode. We stayed in touch over the next few weeks, but I could feel the fire between us slightly starting to fade due to the long distance and other obvious hurdles required to keep the relationship alive. However, I happened to be planning a few months vacation to a nearby state, which was only a 5 hour drive from her. Very convenient. Okay, this is getting dark. She asks if I wanted to come visit and stay at our House for a week or so. I was a bit hesitant to be her guest while the husband still lived there, but she insisted that he was fine with it. And even speculated that he and I could become friends. Oh my God, what is happening? Dude. Just enjoy your trip. Get the thoughts all right. Let's get to the rest of the class. Like 10,000 things could go wrong here. I decided to take her up on the offer to spend some time with her and see if our relationship had anything. Okay, it's also, I feel like someone's hiding. He just didn't want to pay for a hotel. He saw free, lodging and he went for it. Here comes the twist. The twist, the act of telling her husband that I was coming, sparked a new motivation in the husband to try harder to make their marriage work. What is that? By the time I had arrived at their house, he had won her over and convinced her to give it another shot. Although I was disappointed that my relationship was over, I was strangely proud to be the catalyst for the for potentially saving a marriage. I ended up staying in the guest bedroom and for the next week played board games, watch movies cooked meals, and I had a delightful time with them. Maybe I've already done enough for them, but I can't shake this feeling of needing to send them a gift for their hospitality. Any ideas, thanks, and that's from Josh, who has apparently almost ruined a marriage and then saved it, gotten free lodging, played board games, and somehow not ended up a third. As I say, I was just going to say, that's from Josh, who's afraid to admitting he did a threesome with a married couple in his email to a podcast. The pieces were there. Or I will say the only possibility that he didn't get involved sexually with the two of them or one of them in front of the other is they were all juiced up off having him there. Oh my God. You know what I mean? Like a little toy. Yeah, he's like, yeah, I'm gonna go fuck my wife. I know you went on this whirlwind date with her. But I'm gonna fuck my wife while you're in the guest room. It feels fucking weird, but I do think you should send a gift for hospitality because no matter if you, especially if you're in third them, you owe it to them. You stay to someone's house for a week, no matter what the insane dynamics are, you should send them a little something. This is one of the most deranged emails I've ever received. Everything that happened here is beyond what I could possibly imagine. Driving 5 hours like oh yeah. I'm going 5 hours ago hang out with this woman I used to hook up with in her new husband there back together. Josh, he could have been killed. LA has board game spot. I don't know what to tell you. I mean, I mean, let's give credit to this woman. She's really just doing an incredible job. She's Josh and interested. She's got the husband doing everything he can to win her back. And then they're all playing board games together. She must be the most perfect person in the world. Now she like exemplifies an expression I don't understand at all. She's having her cake and eating it too. I do not understand it. I might have even said it wrong, but I think this is a clear example of someone having cake and eating it. I think she's having her cake and fucking it too. Okay, so assuming that Josh needs to send these people a gift, what do you send? You know, this love triangle. I got you. Board games. There's four games. There's a ton of them, so you know which ones they have because you spent a week playing them. I'm sure you got all the way down to fucking railroad tycoon before you were like, let's figure something out. There are some great board games and you know what they're into. I know I'm sounding like you 30. You're really aware of what their preferences are. You know, you're versatile. Assume that they I mean, it was just a sexual fantasia this entire week. Just with the occasional board game, I think board games are a perfect thing. And I also think it's a nice slight because you send the board games and it's a little like you didn't quite cut it with your board games. Maybe tried this on for size. These are some elite board games that us LA people play. All right. And then maybe there's, you know, you're kind of giving a new crack to the relationship. Maybe it cracks wide open and then the opportunity will present itself again. Maybe she comes back to LA. But it's probably easier to find someone to date in your hometown than a married woman who lives across the country. 5 hours from the nearest friend of yours. For all we know she doesn't live there either. She might have, you know, various romances happening all over the country. Oh yeah, she's got like 11 fake families and she said she's just changing wigs in the car and stuff. It's kind of a gone girl situation that we've got on our hands. She's dying her hair at the gas station. She's going to big lots for a new outfit every three days. Josh, I mean, thank you for, I mean, look, do whatever you want. This experience is one that few people can claim they've had and you've obviously left out some erotic details that we probably all would have appreciated. Yeah, don't make us fill them in. I hope you enjoyed your trip, Josh, and I'm sure they'll enjoy the fresh copy of apple's to apples..
I Said No Gifts!
"bridger." Discussed on I Said No Gifts!
"Right. For anything. If there's anything you need, just trying to be a good one. What are you hiding, Kevin? Well, the motive killed somebody. Isn't fully altruistic. Because it is sowing, well, I mean, but hopefully it's reciprocal. It's like sewing the seeds of being a good neighbor. Where it's like, hey, I got a little dumb name Dexter, sometimes he winds when I leave. I hope it's not annoying. And just general neighbor stuff, and even just like that little bit of a relationship will pay off dividends in the future. If you just establish, and I have been like, we're best friends out, but just like, hey, I'm not insane. And it's weird. I'm not a weird person. You can eat this thing. Here's this cute little dude. I've kept alive. I don't expect a gift in return. People do it. I think, in the times I've done it, I've put my phone number on it, so they have my number, and they've usually texted me like, oh, the cookie was so good. Thanks so much. That's all it is. And that's all I need. I don't need to get to. I don't think it becomes like a never ending feedback loop that you had trained to by just receiving a gift. I think the neighbor Kai is probably expecting nothing in return. I think the idea is just neighborly goodwill. A smile on the hallway. It's not a trap to get into, okay, now I gave him a gift now he gives me, like, I don't think that's actually what's going on. And I think it's fully fine. To admit that you don't know someone's name. Two words, rosemary's baby. Okay. This person could be trying to get into Kai's life. Ah. You know, I didn't have subtly trying to Satan needs to have a baby. Uh huh. And Kai for whatever reason is the choice. And this satanist and his partner have brought the bottle of wine, I think all I'm gonna say is be careful. Be careful and you know what, after bridger said that, I think that is correct. Kind of forget everything I said. Be on the lookout. Always be looking over your shoulder Kai for the sweet older gentleman and his partner. Maybe Satan. Perhaps. We don't know. We would love a follow-up, actually. Right. So many details in this email yet. No mention of Satan being the partner. Could have helped a lot could have provided some clarity here. Kai better luck next time writing an email, and I can't give you any more. Any more suggestions or help. That's on you. Kevin, yes. I can not wait to eat this treat. I can't wait for you to eat a mile I probably should have eaten it on the podcast, but then I wonder if there was a thought. I'm very cautious about mouth noise. Well, of course you would take the microphone away like a gentleman. Why are we dealing with just silence? Should I take a bite and have a silence? How's the vamp in the whole time, be like, okay. We thought it was the podcast. I'm about to eat part of this tree. And part of it and you can go ahead and dig in while I say this. But part of what I thought might happen is like, oh, I'll make him eat it. And him, yes. What it is, whilst eating. That would have been an excellent thing. That would have been diabolical. And perfect. What's some other stuff that would have been better? We didn't do. Start over the recording. Let's get back into it. Welcome to I said, okay. Hey, let's do it. I'm bridge your winegar. Anneliese, do you want to try this too? Let's split one of these. We're gonna eat off Mike. Kevin can do whatever he wants. Oh, that's so nice. Well Kevin, do you want one? You know, I've had one, some good, thank you. I did satiate my palette before coming here. You know, this is the second time I've made this recipe. And it came out a little softer this time. More like almost a monkey bread if you're familiar. I'm sure you are. In a little bit different. The last time it was a bit of a crispier bar. Which I don't know if that had to do with using tinfoil or not. When I baked it, but honestly, a not difficult recipe to do for people wanting to do it. Phenomenal. Great. That, I mean, frequently there will be a baked good with the cheesecake element that doesn't really the cheesecake you don't this has the texture of cheesecake, which is something that most baked goods with the cheesecake black, I think. Yeah, well you gotta chill it. That's the thing. You gotta chill it after you bake. But it's also a snickerdoodle. Everyone's favorite cookie to say. Do you think you would have been able to guess what it was just purely by taste? I wouldn't have been able to say snicker. Well, maybe I have a lot of started thinking what is he doing? I would have said, what is the cinnamon crumble cheesecake? Which is which is technically correct? Another name for snickerdoodle? Yes, very accurate. Whoever came up with the snickerdoodle, I don't know, what were they doing? They were laughing while drawing. They were left. Perfect. Okay, I waited until the very end of the podcast to eat the dessert and I hope that that can throw in climax. Yeah, you've got there's a three act structure beginning middle, and in. This is the epilogue. Satisfying conclusion. Kevin, thank you. This was so much fun. Thanks for having me. What a nice time. And Dexter, thank you for being here and being such a polite dog. He says thank you, wow. If you said it in full English, I'm very impressed. And listener, this is the end of the podcast. You know, we recorded it in my office and I appreciate you putting up with pandemic audio in every way and form. I think people are used to it. You know what? We were listening to this at home or in their cars, or on their commutes, and they're saying, it sounds like my echo office. This sounds like the bathroom stall I go into cry when I'm at work. Home for me. Personal feels great to cry together. And I'm glad you were here. Take care, goodbye. I said no gifts isn't exactly right production. 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Will Arnett: Twitter Is Where Comedy Goes To Die
"So you don't spend much time on twitter anymore not much anymore. It's way way too depressing. It's been dominated by the unfunny. Est people in the world get a lot of fun and i i wouldn't even include myself. I was much more of a sort of avoid era. But there are people like you and there were so many interesting funny voices on their five eight ten years ago and is now dominated by virtual virtue signaling amongst people who wanna already know that they're doing the right thing right and a race to be right everybody's racing. It's not just about being right. It's about how quickly you can put it out there. I'm amazed by people by how much how right they are about. Every subject follow whom. I kind of like i kind of know every subject that comes up there like and then this and then so and so shouldn't be doing this wait. You're just as impassioned about. Come quads yesterday about this and tomorrow it'll be whatever the next news item is unlike settled down. Of course i mean it's just. That mentality is so far from my own uncertain about what i'm going to have for breakfast and even after i like if you ask me what i had wouldn't be able to quite confidently tell you so to get online. It'd be like everyone. This is exactly the truth is very. it's a difficult mindset for me to understand roaming ask you this. You say you're unsure about what to have for breakfast kid. Do you feel confident that you could defend your choice. After you've had breakfast absolutely
AP News Radio
'The Crown,' 'Mandalorian' Top Emmy Nominations With 24 Each
"The crown and the Mandalorian are tied for the most Emmy nominations with twenty four each marches are a letter with the latest I wouldn't want them to know their dad sees greatness in them every show nominated for best drama and comedy series this year comes from a streaming service with the exception of this is us on NBC up for best drama it's competition in that category is the boys Bridger tend the crown the handmaid's tale Lovecraft country the Mandalorian and pose best comedy nominees are blackish cobra kai Emily in Paris the flight attendant hacks the Kaminski method ten fifteen and Ted lasso the Emmys will air live on CBS on September tenth
News and Perspective with Taylor Van Cise
State Supreme Court OKs effort to recall Seattle Councilmember Kshama Sawant
"Shama Sawant from these CIA. Seattle City Council can move forward, says the state Supreme Court. In a unanimous ruling, the court found three of the charges against so wants were sufficient enough to warrant a recall election. Those charges include the use of city property for political purposes, illegally allowing a crowd of her supporters into City Hall and leading a march on Mayor Jenny Durkin's residents whose address is protected under federal law. It's time for her to go. She's not doing anything for us. That's Henry Bridger, who manages the recall. So want campaign, which now has to gather signatures in order to get the measure on the ballot. Statement. So what called today's ruling unjust but unsurprising Jeff
KOMO
"bridger." Discussed on KOMO
"Bridger, he works for us. She's our employees where her boss and it's time to fire in a statement, so want calls the ruling unjust but not unexpected. We're learning about the proposals for a long term budget from the State House Transportation Committee. The 16 year plan called Miles ahead Washington spending $22 billion on maintenance, highway improvements and reducing carbon emissions. The plan doesn't yet have a specific proposal on how to pay for it. There are reports of a gas tax increase. Also, a similar plan in the Senate would tax new vehicles an average of $276 based on their fuel efficiency. Bill is still in its early stages, with the House Transportation Committee still to come, and Brian Calvert with why you might want to snag an appointment now with a specialist before you plan on returning to the office. Somebody this time 504 Piers Marina with our co Moh traffic. We do that every 10 minutes on the force from the Jew Been Law Group Traffic Center south on I five is solid traffic from highway 18 into the five curve. It's sluggish South Found 167 from Highway 18 Ellingson were also still looking at significant. Slow down south and I fight from Lake City Way into Seattle and south down four or five in Bellevue from Northeast eight. To Newcastle in Millcreek on highway 5 to 7, which is the bottle every highway. There is a collision north of 1/80 that's causing backups in both directions. So the South found backup is from Seattle Hill Road and the North down. Backup's going to be from just north of 1 96 Kenard corner. We also have A situation in so much on Highway nine north on Highway nine. Approaching Marsh Road, a collision eyes reported there as well. Your next coma, traffic it 5 14..
Colleen and Bradley
"Bridgerton" is returning for a second season on Netflix
"10 has officially been renewed by Netflix for a second season after weeks of speculation, So the second season of the show will focus on Anthony Bridger tins Quest to find a wife after his turbulent love life was played out in the first Syriza Now, Bridgeton. Follows the Richardson family and how their lives were turned upside down by the revelations of the elusive an anonymous Lady thistle down in London who is voiced by Dame Julie Andrews.
Bloomberg Businessweek
Streaming on Netflix, Hulu, Amazon Prime, and HBO
"Services that signed up a lot of new subscribers since the pandemic began, are rolling out new content to retain those subscribers. Disney and Pixar soul streaming on Disney Plus HBO plus started streaming wonder Woman 1984 on Christmas Day. That time will come Diane and a new Netflix show Bridger Iton is a huge head. Now. Discovery Channel thinks there's room for it least one more major streaming service. It launched Discovery plus this month with an appeal to people who already have streaming subscription If you have a Disney, given what else is a companion? If you have Netflix and Disney, you're gonna want us If you have HBO and Disney, you're gonna want us because we're different, Discovery CEO David Zaslav says. One big difference is that Discovery Plus doesn't rely on scripted shows, and he thinks the timing of the launch is helpful. Disney has been really successful globally, so his Netflix, but people have watched a lot of the content on their
Dan O'Donnell
Captain America praises boy who saved sister from dog attack
"Is sending a Captain America shield to the Wyoming boy who saved his life. Well sister from an attacking dog. Evans praise six year old Bridger Walker as a hero in an Instagram post, saying What Walker did was brave and selfless. Walker had stepped between the dog and his four year old sister and ended up needing 90 stitches in his left cheek. Mariah
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'Captain America' Chris Evans Praises Boy Who Saved Sister From Dog Attack
"A captain America's shield to the Wyoming boy who saved his little sister from a dog attack. Evans praise six year old Bridger Walker as a hero in an Instagram post, saying What Walker did was brave and selfless. Walker had stepped between the dog and his four year old sister and ended up needing 90 stitches. In his left cheek. Walker told his dad, he saw the dog charging and said, This is what this is what he said. This is what the little boy said If someone had to die, I thought it should be me.
AP News Radio
The Latest: Cases of COVID-19 surging in South Africa
"A member of the White House coronavirus task force says expect hospitalizations and death rates to rise in the coming weeks Averell Bridger Ross says despite a surging cases the pandemic is not out of control but it's going to take a lot of effort to combat it and in areas of the country where there's been a surge bars need to close restaurants need to limit people and masks need to be worn in public or the virus will take over even though the death rate if you get it is going down your chances of surviving are much better we do expect us to go up if you have more cases more hospitalizations we do expect to see that over the next two or three weeks before this turns around the assistant health and Human Services secretary who made his comments on ABC's this week also says the situation could be worse in the fall with a combo of the flu in the corona virus so they'll be ramping up testing even more I'm Julie Walker
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Woman in charge of San Antonio's coronavirus response is stepping down
"San Antonio city coronavirus chief is stepping down since the beginning of the corona virus crisis Colleen Bridger has overseen San Antonio's public health response to the crisis and soon will start a private consulting business she will leave the city on July
This Morning with Gordon Deal
Congress inching closer to raising legal smoking age to 21
"San Antonio health leaders are praising Congress for taking a step this week towards raising the national smoking age from eighteen to twenty one associate city manager doctor calling Bridger says this will make a huge impact on public health and in turn it was definitely a leader in this effort we were the first city in Texas to pass tobacco twenty one and so we like to think that Texas followed our lead and now the nation is following our lead as well but she says more focus needs to be on vaping she wants the federal government to crackdown on fruity vaping
All Things Considered
Trade spat with China has farmers in Trump country "very, very concerned"
"We're going to go to rural missouri now for another view of the tense trade situation between the us and china today china announced possible tariffs on fifty billion dollars worth of us goods like actual tariffs imposed earlier this week the additional ones now being threatened target farmers some of america's most successful exporters frank morris a member station casey you are has been getting reaction at dawn this morning betty's truckstop near sweet springs missouri took their coffee with the side of bad news means are down fifty cents overnight and corns down fourteen because of this trade thing with china corn and soybean farmer jim bridger per brown overalls quickly reckons his potential losses oh let's say fifty cents about fifty thousand dollars income this year china's threatened to slap tariffs on some of the biggest us crops corn soybeans wheat cotton but charles tukwila sitting next to bridges warren jacquet says it's too early to accurately tally losses could have an impact on whether whether probably as more of a role at tariff is going to we have always survived well true these days most us farmers survive on exports they produce far more than americans can use selling overseas keeps farm prices from collapsing china about more than a billion dollars worth of us pork last year but this week is slapped a twenty five percent tariff on that pork and that's being felt here on the farm we're loading pigs whatever to send them to the market right here brent sandwich hearings hog farm in central missouri says he'll make less than these animals today than you would have last week but he supports president trump and he likes his aggressive negotiating style you know sometimes you have some short term pain for some long term gain the current pain is spread pretty wide china has already placed fifteen percent tariffs on farm products grown across a wide swath of the country including fresno california where ryan jacobson runs the farm bureau when we talk about the chinese market it's important recognizing some of our top exports into their by rancor pistachios almonds wine oranges and economically some california farmers live or die on exports exports represent about seventy percent of our total production richard montoya with the american pistachio growers says that more than half of exported pistachios go street to china china also buys a big chunk of the calif on and crop we generally are free traders we believe.