A Fond Memory: Adam Rippon Disobeys Bridger

Summary

Podcast Summary: I Said No Gifts! – "A Fond Memory: Adam Rippon Disobeys Bridger"

Air Date: December 25, 2025
Host: Bridger Winegar
Guest: Adam Rippon

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Episode Overview

This episode of I Said No Gifts! with host Bridger Winegar features Olympic figure skater and television personality Adam Rippon. True to the show’s premise, Rippon arrives with a gift, delightfully disregarding Bridger’s titular rule. The pair dive into an hour-plus of characteristically offbeat banter covering the indignities of travel, airport coffee, customer service sagas, skincare adventures, and the ethics of “gift-giving” itself. The conversation is peppered with frequent tangents, irreverent observations, and genuinely funny asides, all delivered in the hosts' wry, lightly self-deprecating tone.

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Key Discussion Highlights

1. Airport and Travel Frustrations

• Airport Waiting Times & Etiquette (03:20–10:00)

  • Bridger kicks things off with a rant about the meaningless "5 to 10 minute wait" time estimate at airports.
  • Both host and guest bemoan inconsistent quality in airport experiences—especially at LAX and JetBlue terminals—with withering critique of airport Coffee Bean franchises.
    • Bridger: "Each terminal is a different country. They have different rules, different levels of quality." (07:43)

• Simone Biles’ Airport Restaurant, “Taste of Gold” (08:58–10:14)

  • Bridger reveals the soon-to-open Simone Biles' restaurant "Taste of Gold" at the Dallas airport, sparking a humorously speculative discussion.

• Travel Mishaps (11:04–16:10)

  • Annaliese tells the tale of deliberately choosing multi-stop flights, leading to inevitable, excruciating delays and missed connections.
  • Long-winded Lyft rides from LAX and the perils of rideshare drivers with “unique” ideas about routing.

2. Service Industry Snafus and Social Norms

• Airline Compensation Negotiation (16:10–18:08)
  • Adam recounts boldly seeking compensation after a lengthy tarmac delay—and ultimately getting the coveted $25 Delta meal voucher.
  • This leads into a reflection on the small victories and indignities of airline customer service.
• Customer Service Wisdom
  • "That would work on me for any suggestion. I could be there for 40 hours. You give me $25, I've won the lottery." – Bridger (17:54)

3. Unpacking Adam’s Gift

Main Segment: Begins at 33:26

• Gift Reveal (32:40–47:00)

  • Adam presents Bridger with a carefully arranged “self-care kit”: Korean under-eye and face masks, collagen-infused lip masks, and pineapple Trident gum—in a decorative mushroom bag and with an ornate handwritten card.
  • Discussion Points:
    • Adam's penchant for pretty packaging and childhood calligraphy education.
    • Bridger’s amazement at Adam's cursive handwriting and memories of nuns and rulers (“Hitting works. Let’s get back to it. More hitting in school.” – Adam, 39:21)
    • Both reminisce about childhood writing habits and family influences on penmanship.
    • Debate on whether parchment tissue paper is wasteful or essential for proper gifting aesthetics.

• The Ethics and Aesthetics of Gifting

  • Adam admits to breaking the "no gifts" rule intentionally:
    • “Yeah, well, I’m not really one to follow rules and I do like the names of the episodes where it’s somebody disobeys. Why would I pass up a chance to kind of do that?” (33:35)
  • Both agree: A gift, even if trivial, is elevated by thoughtful wrapping and presentation.

4. Skincare, Med Spas, and TikTok Trends

(54:00–75:50)

• Med Spa Revelations
  • Adam shares his plans to open a Pasadena-based med spa ("Super Skin")—with no formal medical background, but plenty of “industry research.”
  • The reality of Korean beauty treatments: many are inexpensive, but superficial compared to rigorous, evidence-based procedures in the U.S.; social media’s role in hyping up such trends.
    • “If you got anything worthwhile done [in Korea], there’d be blood, you’d be under anesthetic, and you’d be crying. Beauty only comes from trauma. It does not come from compressed air.” – Adam (73:04)
• Debunking Viral Health Hacks
  • The pair (with tongue in cheek) lament "snake oil" claims circulating on TikTok—e.g., remineralizing your teeth with gum or dried yogurt fads.

5. Gift Culture and Social Observations

• On Online Annoyances & Caption Crimes

  • “No caption needed” and “I did a thing” are derided as clichéd online captions (103:57–106:18), with debates about whether such red flags should serve as a gift (for identifying who to mute/unfollow) or a curse.

• Teenagers and the Dangers of Unchecked Confidence

  • Discussion about why today’s teens are “terrifying”—confident, iPad-raised, not held sufficiently accountable.
  • Adam: "People do need to get bullied a little bit." (90:18)

6. Gift Master / Gift or Curse Game

(96:04–107:22)

• A recurring segment where Adam must designate random items as a “gift” or “curse” with justification.
  • Three debated items:
    1. Unscented lotion – Adam calls it a curse (“Otherwise, it’s just goop”), but Bridger argues unscented is the only way; scented lotion is just “thick perfume.”
    2. “Joking to your waiter that you hated the meal you clearly devoured” – Universally agreed: complete curse, lowest tier of comedy. (“If it’s been done before, let’s put it to rest.” – Adam, 101:53)
    3. Social captions “No caption needed” – Adam says it’s a curse to the poster, a gift for identifying who to avoid. Bridger rules it a gift since it helps identify people to mute.

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

On Airport Time:

“Five-to-ten minute wait does not mean anything. I have never had someone say five-to-ten-minute wait and then that’s the time. It’s either two minutes or a half hour.”
— Bridger (05:21)

On Spa Customer Service:

“They basically acted like it was my friend's fault that they had found [the dead body]. ... My friends were covered in blood. They would not refund them.”
— Annaliese (59:34)

On Starting a Med Spa:

“I’m opening a medical—That is true. ... Ask me if I have a medical background.”
“[Do you have a medical background?]”
“No.”
— Adam & Bridger (68:00–68:32)

On Online Caption Crimes:

“My finger is floating over mute at all times. The list of people I've muted at this point…”
— Bridger (106:17)

“People do need to get bullied a little bit.”
— Adam (90:18)

“Beauty only comes from trauma. It does not come from compressed air.”
— Adam (73:04)

On Gift-Giving Disappointment:

“Sometimes people go, here's a gift, and it's like the receipt for like I donated to the zoo.”
— Adam (111:01)

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Timestamps of Key Segments

• Opening banter/travel rants: 03:20 – 16:10
• Customer service anecdotes: 16:10 – 20:00
• Rideshare/Lyft story: 28:43 – 32:40
• Gift unwrapping & self-care discussion: 33:26 – 55:11
• Korean skincare & med spa talk: 54:00 – 75:57
• Wildlife and LA urban fauna: 77:00 – 80:55
• Skincare, dog diets & walking: 81:17 – 84:59
• Gift or Curse game: 96:04 – 107:22
• Listener advice ("I Said No Emails"): 107:27 – 113:54

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Tone & Style

As always, the episode is carried by Bridger and Adam’s dry, sardonic humor, candid storytelling, and willingness to lampoon both themselves and cultural norms. They stray off-topic often, with each digression working as its own micro-sketch or observational send-up, all while maintaining a warm, conspiratorial rapport.

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For Listeners New and Old

If you’re a fan of comedic tangents about everyday absurdities—especially the petty indignities of travel or the unspoken etiquette of gifts and service jobs—this episode is a comedy goldmine. Rippon’s playful rule-breaking energy is a perfect match for Bridger’s anti-stuff ethos and dry wit, resulting in an episode that’s both “present enough” and a memorable treat—regardless of the host’s insistence against gifts.

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For more, follow the show's Instagram @isaidnogifts and catch behind-the-scenes photos of every guest’s forbidden gifts!

Transcript

[Bridger Weiniger]

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[Bridger Weiniger]

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[Bridger Weiniger]

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[Annaliese Nelson]

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[Bridger Weiniger]

When I invited you here, I thought I made myself perfectly clear. When you're a guest in my home, you gotta come to Me empty handed. I said no guests.

[Annaliese Nelson]

Your presence is presents enough.

[Bridger Weiniger]

And I already had too much stuff, so how do you dare disobey me?

[Annaliese Nelson]

I assume you want to support the show. And if that's the case, our promo codes and links from all of the advertisers are now [e-mail] promos isng. And the promo codes are deals galore. So even if you don't want to support the show, you can still get a bargain. Once more, you can support I said no gifts by using our promo codes and links@exactlyright media.com promos isng. Or you can look at the show notes for this episode, or you can go to our Instagram, or you can do none of that or all of it. Your life is yours. Do what you must. Feel free to support the show. Welcome to I said no gifts. I'm Bridger Weiniger. Oh, I lost my voice last week. Today is the first day that my voice is even semi returned to normal. The whole podcast was in jeopardy. You know, life is so fragile. Podcasts are even more fragile. This could have all gone away and then it would have been Annalise on the mic, and I'm sure they would have loved that. But I'm sure the reviews would have tanked on a lease. Don't think about it. That's all I'm going to say. I was traveling, I got a cold, I lost my voice. Someone at the airport quoted me 5 to 10 minutes wait. Which we have to stop saying 5 to 10 minute wait. It means nothing. I have never had someone say 5 to 10 minute wait. And then it. That's the time. It's either two minutes or a half hour. It's a meaningless thing to say. Just say wait. Just say it'll be a second. Because it doesn't mean anything to me in this scenario. It was a minute and a half wait. And then I almost lost my place in the line. I still ended up in group F on the airplane, but that's my fault. But yeah, five to ten minute wait. Now that I'm really thinking about this, that is. It's bad news. It's bad news. It does mean 2 minutes or 45 minutes. So let's stop saying that. 20, 25. No one's ever gonna say 5 to 10 minute wait again. Oh, I'm glad I brought it up. You know, this is why I've got a voice. This is why I have a platform for these sort of issues. But please, let's get into the podcast. I adore Today's guest, it's Adam Rippon. Adam, welcome to. I said no gifts.

[Bridger Weiniger]

It's an honor. It's a privilege. I couldn't agree with you more about your airport etiquette, and I'm glad that you have your voice back because I think it's important that somebody kind of stand up.

[Annaliese Nelson]

Thank you.

[Bridger Weiniger]

To the big guys instead of just right.

[Annaliese Nelson]

See, now there was one of one of us. Now there are two of us. And this is how we create change.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Absolutely.

[Annaliese Nelson]

One voice becomes millions.

[Bridger Weiniger]

A lot of people said that about Jill Stein this year. So I don't really know kind of how to take that or kind of where to go with that. But I do stand with you on five to ten minutes does not mean anything.

[Annaliese Nelson]

It really doesn't mean anything to me when somebody says that. I just think, oh, so just nobody knows anything right now.

[Bridger Weiniger]

No.

[Annaliese Nelson]

And it could be any amount of time.

[Bridger Weiniger]

I am personally guilty of doing that quite often.

[Annaliese Nelson]

Are you quoting people? 5 to 10 minute waits all the time.

[Bridger Weiniger]

I'll be there in a minute, in an hour. But that's. My husband is Finnish, and so he takes everything I say literally, verbatim, which is the worst thing anybody absolutely ever could do. So I'm like, I'll be home in five minutes, which will turn into. Maybe I'd come back in two days, I don't know. But five minutes is a turn of phrase.

[Annaliese Nelson]

Right. It's not an actual unit of time.

[Bridger Weiniger]

But I'm not in a professional setting. I'm on an iPhone.

[Annaliese Nelson]

Right.

[Bridger Weiniger]

LAX is a professional setting.

[Annaliese Nelson]

Yes. There should not be a 5 to 10 minute wait at LAX. It's not even the Cheesecake Factory.

[Bridger Weiniger]

No. At least there they give you the buzzer. It vibrates in your hand. You know, when you're at least within.

[Annaliese Nelson]

Five minutes completely at the airport, you should have a real strict. The planes take off at specific amounts of. I mean, it's.

[Bridger Weiniger]

It's lawless.

[Annaliese Nelson]

Yes.

[Bridger Weiniger]

No, it's absolutely lawless.

[Annaliese Nelson]

If you tell me five to ten minutes to the airport, I might as well just go home.

[Bridger Weiniger]

And you know what? Each terminal is a different country. They have different rules. They have different levels of quality. Oh, my God, it's awful.

[Annaliese Nelson]

I was in the JetBlue terminal this time, and I've got to say, things are not looking good over there. Really. The quality of. I think they have a coffee bean, which, first of all, a coffee bean in the airport. Forget it.

[Bridger Weiniger]

No. So sad.

[Annaliese Nelson]

It's the worst case scenario.

[Bridger Weiniger]

No, they're the worst coffee artisans on the Block. First of all, like, I would say on the block, going to a Coffee Bean is okay.

[Annaliese Nelson]

Yeah. It's not that bad.

[Bridger Weiniger]

No, but it's sort of bad. It is not sort of good. They do have the good ice, though, right?

[Annaliese Nelson]

They have a much better ice at Coffee Bean. Way better than Starbucks. Are you kidding me? They have the pebble ice.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Exactly.

[Annaliese Nelson]

But when you see them in an airport, I think it's almost a completely different brand at that point. It's like it just popped up there. Coffee Bean Corporate isn't even aware it exists.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Oh, no. Well, because it's probably like Coffee Bean and Co. It's like something. They got away with something. Can I show something with you that I've found out that I cannot stop thinking about?

[Annaliese Nelson]

Please don't.

[Bridger Weiniger]

I know there. I actually have to.

[Annaliese Nelson]

We actually only have a few minutes left on the podcast, and, you know.

[Bridger Weiniger]

I've had a great time, and so. Thank you, Annaliese.

[Annaliese Nelson]

Thank you. Let's get a light. No, go ahead, please.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Simone Biles is opening a restaurant. Wait. In the airport.

[Annaliese Nelson]

What? What?

[Bridger Weiniger]

Called Taste of Gold.

[Annaliese Nelson]

What is happening?

[Bridger Weiniger]

I just kind of wanted you to sit with that.

[Annaliese Nelson]

Every piece of information, how you doled that out was so perfect.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Thank you.

[Annaliese Nelson]

Taste of Gold. Should I try to guess what sort of food it is?

[Bridger Weiniger]

I think you're gonna be right.

[Annaliese Nelson]

Damn wrong. Is it burgers and bar food?

[Bridger Weiniger]

I think, more importantly, I don't know anything about it, by the way. Actually, I came here to promote it.

[Annaliese Nelson]

You are an early investor.

[Bridger Weiniger]

I'm the only investor. I don't know anything about it. I think the first thing I want to know about it, is it before or after security? Because I think that makes a huge difference. Huge difference.

[Annaliese Nelson]

Because, you know, in airports, after security, and this actually is probably completely wrong. I'm. Now I'm probably just making something up, but I think after security, there's, like, a full company that takes care of all of those restaurants. And that's why airport quality food is a little bit worse. Because, like, there's one company or a couple that have security clearance to get the food through. So somebody's like, not like baking a bomb into a coffee bean pastry.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Oh, my God. My favorite flavor.

[Annaliese Nelson]

Yeah. And so I think that's why before you get through security, I think they can be real versions of. Of restaurants.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Are you serious?

[Annaliese Nelson]

I mean, again, I could be completely making this up.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Well, I'm like, well, that would make sense, because I do think, isn't there, like, a Planet Hollywood that's like, right Outside of the Tom Bradley security, which would make sense because I don't think Planet Hollywood food could make it through security.

[Annaliese Nelson]

Oh, there's no way.

[Bridger Weiniger]

No, absolutely. They'd be stopped.

[Annaliese Nelson]

Also. Is that the last Planet Hollywood in existence?

[Bridger Weiniger]

It is, yeah.

[Annaliese Nelson]

You're also an investor there. You're trying to get it back off the ground.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Well, I already took my money out, reinvested it right into Taste of Gold, which will be coming to the Dallas Fort Wayne airport.

[Annaliese Nelson]

Before.

[Bridger Weiniger]

After security. I don't know.

[Annaliese Nelson]

It's in the Dallas.

[Bridger Weiniger]

It's going to the Dallas.

[Annaliese Nelson]

I spend a lot of time there. Well, I have in the last year because.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Well, you should check out Taste of.

[Annaliese Nelson]

Gold because I work there. I'm at the Spirit Airlines, Dallas Fort worth Airport, Terminal 4. No, I actually was. I had a little mental break, I think mentib where I decided I liked taking a break in between LA and New York. And so often I would stop in Dallas.

[Bridger Weiniger]

I want you to know I'm smiling like the Cheshire cat. I'm going, what? My eyes are two stars. I'm going, what's going on?

[Annaliese Nelson]

Hear me out, hear me out.

[Bridger Weiniger]

I'm trying to.

[Annaliese Nelson]

Okay, yes, in theory. And it worked once.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Can you start over?

[Annaliese Nelson]

Okay. So I am going back and forth between New York and la. A decent amount of death over the last year. Probably 400 times.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Okay. In a plane.

[Annaliese Nelson]

In a plane, unfortunately.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Okay.

[Annaliese Nelson]

I'd rather be doing it by riverboat, but. And I thought. And I love to go out of Burbank, love to go out of Burbank Airport. And I love to go to LaGuardia Airport. There are not a lot of direct.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Flights from Burbank to LaGuardia.

[Annaliese Nelson]

Yes. And now I think from Burbank to New York at all. I love the listener loves just kind of the logistics of now.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Stay with us, guys. It's going to.

[Annaliese Nelson]

Because it is going to be thrilling.

[Bridger Weiniger]

It's getting better, I can feel it.

[Annaliese Nelson]

But I had to take a flight there. There was not a direct flight. So I thought, well, I'll have to stop in Dallas for an hour. Of course, I'll give it a sh. The first time it worked perfectly. It felt like I was on a road trip and I was stopping for lunch. Got stopped there, got on the plane, got to New York. It of course was like a nine hour journey rather than the traditional five to six. But I got to have my lunch, read a book.

[Bridger Weiniger]

But you're a non traditional traveler, so what does it mean?

[Annaliese Nelson]

Everybody knows that about me.

[Bridger Weiniger]

I do it.

[Annaliese Nelson]

Yeah, that's that's kind of the game of my travel agency business for the non traditional traveler for someone who loves to take 14 hours to get across the country. So it did work once. And so I thought, well, I'll keep trying this. And literally every other time there was a delay or I missed a flight.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Okay.

[Annaliese Nelson]

And there was one time when I flew from New York to LA that truly took 13 hours because it was a two stop flight.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Oh, that's where I draw the line to any kind of destination. Sorry, I can't. No, two stops.

[Annaliese Nelson]

Where are you going? You have to be going to space. There aren't even stops on the way to space.

[Bridger Weiniger]

No.

[Annaliese Nelson]

To be going from New York to LA and taking two.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Where were they?

[Annaliese Nelson]

Detroit and Salt Lake City.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Okay. Detroit I'm okay with because.

[Annaliese Nelson]

Beautiful water feature.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Yes. Gorgeous fountain. It's the Trevi fountain of the United States. The Salt Lake. I am questioning because I think Salt Lake, it has to be the final destination.

[Annaliese Nelson]

You have to die.

[Bridger Weiniger]

You can't travel through there. No. Because there, you can get a gyro there. I know. Euro.

[Annaliese Nelson]

Euro.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Now wait, I listened to your episode with Katya. Was it.

[Annaliese Nelson]

Oh, I may have talked about euros.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Yeah, yeah, it's a euro.

[Annaliese Nelson]

Euro.

[Bridger Weiniger]

I mean like the form of currency, like sort of.

[Annaliese Nelson]

I think that's more of a euro.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Because you got the euro and you're.

[Annaliese Nelson]

Speaking of euro and I'm speaking euro.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Oh, euro.

[Annaliese Nelson]

It's more of a. What is that?

[Bridger Weiniger]

A.

[Annaliese Nelson]

It's like an ee rather than a U.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Well, you would know. You travel a bit more, you make a more few stops in a few different places than I do.

[Annaliese Nelson]

I'm all over the place.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Yeah. I haven't really picked up the dialect of the Midwest quite yet.

[Annaliese Nelson]

No, I'm from Salt Lake City.

[Bridger Weiniger]

You are?

[Annaliese Nelson]

Yeah. And there's a large Greek population there. And as far as I know. And again, I don't know anything.

[Bridger Weiniger]

I'm taking everything you say as the law.

[Annaliese Nelson]

Yeah, I think it's. Yo. A lot of people say gyro.

[Bridger Weiniger]

That's a form of exercise, I think.

[Annaliese Nelson]

Exercise, helico. Isn't there like a gyrocopter?

[Bridger Weiniger]

Gyro. It's definitely not gyro.

[Annaliese Nelson]

Thank you. I appreciate you.

[Bridger Weiniger]

You know when people say gif and gif.

[Annaliese Nelson]

Yes. What do you say?

[Bridger Weiniger]

Gif.

[Annaliese Nelson]

Oh, absolutely. It's a soft G. You mean it's a hard G. Gif.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Yes, it said softly. That's what I meant. I'm sorry, I misspoke. Yes.

[Annaliese Nelson]

But just really real quiet.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Yes, yes, yes. Gif. So it's actually giro like a Z.

[Annaliese Nelson]

H E E. Okay, well, that's too far. You know, we're in America. We're trying our best.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Can you. We're talking.

[Annaliese Nelson]

We're not saying. Yeah, we're talking here. Annalise. So rude.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Well, she's really hoping that sickness kind of comes back. Yeah, you really are. I can feel that.

[Annaliese Nelson]

Listener. This is a taste of the know it all behavior you'll get from Analie's if they take over the podcast, so just be aware of that.

[Bridger Weiniger]

But I do appreciate what they're doing because they're being very smart. Just kind of. If you kind of covering all bases, dead. Which could happen at any minute.

[Annaliese Nelson]

I could end up in Salt Lake dead.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Right.

[Annaliese Nelson]

Final Destination.

[Bridger Weiniger]

The dream. Yeah, exactly.

[Annaliese Nelson]

That's the only thing left to say about this is exactly.

[Bridger Weiniger]

I did. The last time I went to Salt Lake City, I did get in a fight with a Delta agent over what I was in the. Right. I'm gonna start with that.

[Annaliese Nelson]

I'm already on the agent's side.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Okay, well, so is kind of every other agent there. I was flying, and as you would do from kind of the airport, I was on the plane, and we didn't take off for, like, two and a half hours, just on the tarmac.

[Annaliese Nelson]

You were on the plane already? Oh, no.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Okay. So then they called us off, and by the time everybody had gotten off, it had been, like, three hours, and I was traveling with a friend, and I watch this. I was like that travel girl from Instagram who was like, when you don't know the rules, and she goes, but you don't know the rules. Watch this. And so I went up to the gate, and I was like, I was just on the plane for three hours. Can I have $25?

[Annaliese Nelson]

Forget it.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Shake Shack.

[Annaliese Nelson]

For Shake Shack?

[Bridger Weiniger]

Of course, yes. Because I know that $25 from Delta is kind of usable anywhere in the airport. And they said, no. I said, you gotta be kidding me. I actually said that. Usually I said that in my mind. And I go, okay. And I walk away. But I said it out loud, and I was getting. Whoa. I scared myself a bit. And I said, are you gotta be kidding me? I was just on the flight for three hours. Well, it wasn't really three hours, technically. I said, oh, you got. And I started speaking louder. And I usually don't do this. It was, I think, the thin air.

[Annaliese Nelson]

Well. And being on a plane for three hours.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Well, then it gets worse because I walk away, and within 10 minutes, I get a text message of, Here's $25. Because I was on the plane.

[Annaliese Nelson]

25 is kind of the limit.

[Bridger Weiniger]

It's sort of. Well, it's like the minimum for three hours. They'll give you $25 to kind of shut you up with this. A little bit of McDonald's. Which does work. It does work.

[Annaliese Nelson]

That would work on me for any suggestion. I could be there for 40 hours. You give me $25. Like, I've won the lottery.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Oh, yeah. And then you don't even think about it when you spend over $25. Cause you're like, it's still free, of course.

[Annaliese Nelson]

Even if you still shake Shack loves this.

[Bridger Weiniger]

It's. Yeah, they're monopolizing it.

[Annaliese Nelson]

Yeah, it's a scam to get $25. That's amazing. But how do they give it to you? Was it like. Did you go back to the thing and they had a big gold gift certificate?

[Bridger Weiniger]

Oh, I wish. It's like a barcode that they'll scan now. It makes sense. So if everybody is owned by the same sort of corporate conglomerate, that barcode.

[Annaliese Nelson]

Is universal currency, basically. Again, you could take it to space, which.

[Bridger Weiniger]

I never want to go there.

[Annaliese Nelson]

I have no interest in going to space. I think we should shut down all space programs.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Me, too.

[Annaliese Nelson]

Leave it alone. We tried.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Who cares?

[Annaliese Nelson]

None of us will ever get to enjoy an alien. Let's just let. I mean, let's take 100 years off.

[Bridger Weiniger]

I think that's great advice.

[Annaliese Nelson]

Let's put the money elsewhere. I'm sorry, astronauts. I'm sorry, Space community that's screaming right now.

[Bridger Weiniger]

They'll get it. I think we should build a tower instead of doing, like, the rocket. Let's start with the tower first.

[Annaliese Nelson]

Isn't there a Bible story about that? I think it's the Tower of Babel. They tried to build a tower to God.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Well, just think of how much we've come since then. We probably have more technology.

[Annaliese Nelson]

Yeah. They took the time off so we can try it again.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Exactly. And at least we have a blueprint for what didn't work.

[Annaliese Nelson]

Saying that you're trying to get to God this time. We tried to get to space.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Exactly. Because we know God is a bit further from space. And he was actually much further from Earth now.

[Annaliese Nelson]

Very touchy about people trying to get to him.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Yes. But space, I think they'd get it because at one point, we'd get so high that, like, the gravity wouldn't. It would pull us up. So it'd, like, help the building stay.

[Annaliese Nelson]

Erect hand in hands of space.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Exactly. It's two complete different entities working together.

[Annaliese Nelson]

Yeah, I love this. I love joining like a collab collab with you.

[Bridger Weiniger]

I do love a collab. You might not know this. I'm collabing with the travel girl next. Do you know who I'm talking about?

[Annaliese Nelson]

I have no idea.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Oh my God. It's so worth your while.

[Annaliese Nelson]

Does she have actual useful. I mean she had this piece of information.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Absolutely.

[Annaliese Nelson]

What other things have you learned?

[Bridger Weiniger]

Oh, because she once taught me and I am paraphrasing and you'll learn that as soon as I explain it, that if you lose your luggage that somehow the airline has to pay you a certain amount of money and that you have to. You can tell them that it's all in their bylaws.

[Annaliese Nelson]

Oh my God.

[Bridger Weiniger]

That they'll be like, no, I'm sorry, there's nothing you can do. But within the airline bylaws and some of the travel restrictions, it's like in the guidelines that they have to do this. They're just saying no.

[Annaliese Nelson]

And how much money is it, do you know?

[Bridger Weiniger]

I don't know. It's either like $10 or $10000.

[Annaliese Nelson]

So it's a five to ten minute situation.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Exactly.

[Annaliese Nelson]

It could mean anything.

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[Annaliese Nelson]

Hey audiobook lovers. This week on the podcast I'm sitting down with musician, producer and walking encyclopedia Questlove. We're talking about Mark Ronson's memoir Night how to be a DJ in 90s New York City. All right, like we talked about before, Mark Ronson found sanctuary in the DJ booth. What's a tool or piece of equipment in the studio or on stage that gives you the most control? So I have two microphones on stage. We have the microphone that you hear as the audience.

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[Annaliese Nelson]

I feel like that second microphone kind.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Of saved all of our friendships.

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[Annaliese Nelson]

Years or 25 years.

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[Annaliese Nelson]

And a half years and we're going on 35.

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[Annaliese Nelson]

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[Bridger Weiniger]

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[Annaliese Nelson]

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[Annaliese Nelson]

Do you know what I just learned on an airplane? And I'm sorry to musicians everywhere. This is the Most annoying thing I've ever experienced. You can take a guitar as your personal item and put it in the stowaway.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Have you never seen that? You've never traveled with an artist before?

[Annaliese Nelson]

Well, I was in a band for a few decades, but this was before they let us take the guitars on. It was a more luxurious time. It takes so much space.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Oh yeah. A guitar is not the size of a Samsonite.

[Annaliese Nelson]

It is certainly not. I had to take my carry on luggage. I was in row nine. My carry on ended up in row 24.

[Bridger Weiniger]

I don't really kind of play by that rule. I don't really do that.

[Annaliese Nelson]

What do you mean?

[Bridger Weiniger]

Well, I think at some point you kind of had to take a stand for yourself.

[Annaliese Nelson]

I tried, I tried pushing the guitar.

[Bridger Weiniger]

No, I think at that point you're just like, if you're bringing the guitar on, you gotta play it. Sorry. Like, if it's gonna take up that much room, get in the aisle and like put out the hat.

[Annaliese Nelson]

Let's hear a solo.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Yeah, if it's that important to you, I understand. You don't want it to. To get banged around, bent and laugh. Come on, you got it. You gotta at least sing a song.

[Annaliese Nelson]

Hold it in your lap.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Give me a bridle, put it under the seat.

[Annaliese Nelson]

It's essentially a child.

[Bridger Weiniger]

It is. That is an insane thing. You can't bring on a pair of skis, right? Why? The guitar.

[Annaliese Nelson]

A guitar is very long, fragile. I mean, and again, I know it's hard to be a musician, but you should have to show that you have published music.

[Bridger Weiniger]

And no, don't say that's too easy to publish music.

[Annaliese Nelson]

That's true. Published music and made more than $40.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Oh, there you go.

[Annaliese Nelson]

Or show that you've sold out a venue. You're headed to a sold out venue.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Yes, I think that's.

[Annaliese Nelson]

There's gotta be something stopping anyone from taking a guitar well, or I'm gonna start packing my clothes in a guitar.

[Bridger Weiniger]

So how did the luggage get so far back?

[Annaliese Nelson]

Because every other. Well, as I said at the beginning of this, I was in, unfortunately in group F. So by the time I was on, literally they were all taken up. And the mean flight attendant was like, well, you can take it to 24, you asshole.

[Bridger Weiniger]

They really rattled that off quick.

[Annaliese Nelson]

You know, they were just reveling in this.

[Bridger Weiniger]

They eyed you up and they went.

[Annaliese Nelson]

He'S not worth it. He can travel back. And the rest of the time I was on the plane, I'm thinking, how am I going to get back There before everybody stands up. Because if everybody stands up, I have to wait for the entire plane to board.

[Bridger Weiniger]

That's the rule.

[Annaliese Nelson]

So I literally, upon landing, I'm unbuckling. I am running, pushing my way to the back like I had lost a baby. But it was all I could, son. Richards.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Ross. Going to the back. Yeah. Running, sprinting.

[Annaliese Nelson]

Wow. Yeah. It was a guitar. It's so inspired.

[Bridger Weiniger]

I don't like. I am willing to sit and wait because I cannot deal with the cattle.

[Annaliese Nelson]

Oh, the cattle and the social humiliation.

[Bridger Weiniger]

I'd rather just sit. You didn't want to do that, though.

[Annaliese Nelson]

I had been on the plane already so long.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Well, how many flights were you in already?

[Annaliese Nelson]

Shock. Oh, let's see. Actually. So I guess this is because I had a stop. Where did I stop? Salt Lake City? No, this was from JFK to lax, unless I was in a fugue state. So it was a direct flight.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Okay. From Burbank.

[Annaliese Nelson]

No, unfortunately, into lax, which kill me.

[Bridger Weiniger]

I've never died. I've never flown out of Burbank in my life.

[Annaliese Nelson]

Oh, it's such a pleasure.

[Bridger Weiniger]

I've picked up people from Burbank.

[Annaliese Nelson]

Of course you have. Because it's a normal. It's like going back in time. You can actually. Actually access it.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Totally.

[Annaliese Nelson]

You can't pick somebody up from la.

[Bridger Weiniger]

That's when America was great again.

[Annaliese Nelson]

It's what we're trying to get back to.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Yeah. Burbank Airport.

[Annaliese Nelson]

Honestly, if we could make America the Burbank airport, I would support any candidate who could do that. It's not whatever we've got in the future. But when I run, if I haven't disqualified myself by saying something on this podcast, which I'm sure I have.

[Bridger Weiniger]

I'm sure you haven't. Have you seen what disqualifies people now? Yeah. I'm sure talking badly about the Salt Lake City airport. Airport isn't really going to do you in. If Matt Gaetz is almost the Attorney General. I think you'll be kind of okay at this point.

[Annaliese Nelson]

You make a very, very good point.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Thank you.

[Annaliese Nelson]

But Burbank is a pleasure. LAX is hell on earth. They have that whole situation where you have to get on the shuttle to go to the ride share thing, the Lyft ride. And we can stop talking. We'll stop talking about airports after this. But I do want to complain about Lyft because I got in a Lyft ride that I took no less. The driver took no less than 200 turns to get me home. Oh, God. He took freeways. Off. Right before I got in, I was like, why?

[Bridger Weiniger]

That's why the freeways are there. I don't understand. Like, are you in a horse and buggy? Is there, like a reason?

[Annaliese Nelson]

This person thought he had a reason. I looked at Google Maps before I got in the thing being like, how long will this take? It said an hour and 20 minutes. I was like, that's a very long time. But life is life.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Hour and 20 minutes.

[Annaliese Nelson]

Yeah. From LAX to Highland park, it was busy.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Okay?

[Annaliese Nelson]

Usually that's.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Now you're defending them.

[Annaliese Nelson]

No, I'm not. I'm about to burn this person to the ground. Because about 10 minutes in, he said, in a few minutes, we're going to go through a parking lot. And I don't want you to worry, but there's a method to my madness. This is the worst thing. You can absolutely hear.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Absolutely. At that point, I go, all right, put your hands up. I pull out a gun and I go, you get in the passenger seat, bucko, and we're taking my way. We get right on to the fucking 110, turn back. We go back and I go, you're gonna do this over, you little motherfucker. Turn around and get back to Terminal 3 and let's do this right.

[Annaliese Nelson]

Nope. We went through not one parking lot, but two parking lots, a strip mall and a Ralph's parking lot. And, you know, I thought, well, this isn't traditional, so. And, you know, I'm a non traditional traveler. I thought, maybe this will work. We took surface streets the entire time, going through neighborhoods from LAX to Highland park, which is not a short distance. It took a solid two hours to get home. He was fighting with other drivers. At one point, he had a confrontation with another driver. I contacted Lyft after this.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Yes.

[Annaliese Nelson]

And they essentially just said, sorry that happened to you. I hate this company so much.

[Bridger Weiniger]

You know, for a while, I wasn't allowed to use Uber.

[Annaliese Nelson]

Why?

[Bridger Weiniger]

Ask them. I don't know.

[Annaliese Nelson]

Uber wouldn't let you use Uber.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Yes. I wasn't allowed. Something happened where they fell, kind of like it was in their best interest that I wouldn't use it.

[Annaliese Nelson]

The entire corporation.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Yes. And I don't know why. I don't. Like, I remember one time. Yeah, I did kind of get in an Uber that was for, Are you a Kelly? And I said, yeah. Cause I just. But how would they know that I wasn't Kelly unless Kelly complained. But how would Kelly know that I was in hers?

[Annaliese Nelson]

Right. And maybe you're a Kelly at heart.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Maybe my mom's Name is Kelly.

[Annaliese Nelson]

Well, there you go. You're Kelly Jr.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Exactly.

[Annaliese Nelson]

Kelly II.

[Bridger Weiniger]

So I'm just like. I don't know. That couldn't be it, though. But it kind of.

[Annaliese Nelson]

That feels probably right.

[Bridger Weiniger]

It does feel exactly it, Actually.

[Annaliese Nelson]

The other Kelly probably ended up dead.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Who cares? Well, they probably ended up riding for Lyft. They probably drove you back to Hyde Park.

[Annaliese Nelson]

Kelly. Well, you know, I've complained. Who knows what will happen to Kelly now that I've complained? Probably nothing at all. Promotion. Yes. She's now running Lyft. She's bringing the mustaches on the front of the cars back, but she's running.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Lyft through a Ralph's parking lot. That's insane.

[Annaliese Nelson]

I couldn't believe what I was hearing. Wow. And I gave them the benefit of the doubt. I thought, maybe this is an amazing trick and I'll be home in 30 minutes.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Yeah, no, that's when you need to give them the doubt, because I don't think they deserve benefit at this point. People will do wild things.

[Annaliese Nelson]

I mean, I think they really believed in themselves. And people have to do that. Problem.

[Bridger Weiniger]

That's a problem. They have to do it.

[Annaliese Nelson]

Gotta stop it. Very few people should believe in themselves.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Very.

[Annaliese Nelson]

Maybe one in 50.

[Bridger Weiniger]

I think there's just some people should, like, lift people up, but nobody should believe it.

[Annaliese Nelson]

That's a good idea. We should believe in others, but not in ourselves. Yes. Let the community do the work for you. Otherwise, you're taking two hours and a Lyft.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Yeah, no, that's. I'm really sorry that happened to you.

[Annaliese Nelson]

Thank you so much. I just needed two sorrys. One from Lyft and one from you. And now I can move on with my life. And now I can start using Lyft again. I was basically abused by this company. Oh, well, there's something else we've got to talk about, which is totally inappropriate. I was really excited to have you here on the podcast today. Of course I was. I thought, Adam will come, we'll have a pleasant conversation, I'll unload a bunch of baggage about travel on him, and then we'll move on with our day. So I was a little. What is the word? I was a little floored when you walked into the studio holding what I can only describe as. I mean, the podcast is called I said no gifts. Let's be very clear. I'm pretty sure you're aware of that.

[Bridger Weiniger]

I am.

[Annaliese Nelson]

This is not wtf. This is not the daily. It's. I said no gifts and you were holding what's obviously a gift.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Yeah, well, I'm not really one to follow rules and I do like the names of the episodes where it's somebody disobeys. And I felt like, why would I pass up a chance to kind of of do that? To not obey.

[Annaliese Nelson]

Right. So you're kind of the travel girl of this particular podcast.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Exactly. You might not know. Yeah, I'm like practicing. Yeah.

[Annaliese Nelson]

This is all just a dry run for your TikTok plagiarizing her account.

[Bridger Weiniger]

I keep playing this girl and I know for like the one person that will listen to this who knows what I'm talking about. They're howling.

[Annaliese Nelson]

It's probably her.

[Bridger Weiniger]

No, she's mad.

[Annaliese Nelson]

She's contacting our booker Patrick right now. Yes, I want to be on the show 100%.

[Bridger Weiniger]

But yes, I did bring kind of something. That was what you said. Yeah.

[Annaliese Nelson]

Well, should I open it here on the podcast?

[Bridger Weiniger]

Yes, I think you should.

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[Annaliese Nelson]

Penn, and we're the hosts of Irsay.

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[Bridger Weiniger]

I can see you as Mr. Darcy.

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[Annaliese Nelson]

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[Bridger Weiniger]

So this is the first here I think you should open.

[Annaliese Nelson]

Oh, this is gorgeous. I mean. Okay. You're handing me an envelope?

[Bridger Weiniger]

Yes. It's a court summons. I'm assuming you. Is that how. I didn't. Sorry.

[Annaliese Nelson]

This is such a good idea for somebody. I need to get in some sort of trouble with somebody legally, and so I can.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Yeah, I'm like. You're like Olivia Wilde right now. And I'm going, oh, sorry. These are the papers to get served.

[Annaliese Nelson]

On my own podcast.

[Bridger Weiniger]

It's amazing.

[Annaliese Nelson]

Is this your handwriting?

[Bridger Weiniger]

That is my handwriting. Do you think I kind of hired out.

[Annaliese Nelson]

You hired somebody on Fiverr to write this?

[Bridger Weiniger]

Yes.

[Annaliese Nelson]

This is really. Where did you learn to write like this?

[Bridger Weiniger]

At Our lady of Peace School.

[Annaliese Nelson]

What grade?

[Bridger Weiniger]

Second.

[Annaliese Nelson]

Second grade?

[Bridger Weiniger]

Yes. I learned how because we had. I had a n. Okay. Well, that's when we still had religion in schools.

[Annaliese Nelson]

And again, we're trying to get back to this And I think we. As quickly as possible. Really good.

[Bridger Weiniger]

I think it's gonna be really good. Hey, don't laugh. You should cry. I think it's gonna be really good for all of us. And. Yeah. So shout out to Sister Anne. She's dead, but she was the last nun to work at that school who didn't hit the kids with rulers. Wow.

[Annaliese Nelson]

And is that why she died?

[Bridger Weiniger]

Well, that's why most of the kids in my class couldn't write.

[Annaliese Nelson]

Well, okay.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Cause the hitting.

[Annaliese Nelson]

Hitting works.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Yeah.

[Annaliese Nelson]

Let's get back to it. More hitting in school.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Yes, I think so.

[Annaliese Nelson]

I mean, I didn't take cursive until 5th grade in Utah public schools. And my cursive is gone.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Really? I only write in cursive.

[Annaliese Nelson]

Really?

[Bridger Weiniger]

And I get two different kinds of reactions to. Obviously I'm doing it all the time, but I get all these reactions to it. But when people see my handwriting, one, they go, oh, my God, that's so beautiful. And two, they think I'm putting on some sort of vaudeville show of like, I'm trying to just like. Oh, you don't really write that.

[Annaliese Nelson]

Like your quirk.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Yeah, no, I'm like, no, I do write like that. And now show me how you hold a pencil. Have you seen the way people hold pencils now?

[Annaliese Nelson]

No.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Like Neanderthals.

[Annaliese Nelson]

Like this. Fists. Oh, no. Like a microphone almost.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Yeah. You're supposed to just really hold it lightly between the index and the thumb.

[Annaliese Nelson]

I was taught incorrectly, or I learned incorrectly, and I would hold it on this finger. And, like, as a kid, had a huge callus on my finger. I know the viewer can't. I mean, the listener can't hear you see you right now, but you're sweating.

[Bridger Weiniger]

I actually kind of need to see what you're doing because I have a pen in here. I just want to see how you're holding it.

[Annaliese Nelson]

Yeah, it's. It's not right.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Okay.

[Annaliese Nelson]

I mean, like, my mom took me to a doctor once like this. Oh, that doesn't look right.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Right? No. Now take the pen out and hold your hands like that. Does that look like a normal.

[Annaliese Nelson]

No, Here, hold it like you hold it. Building. Oh, that's so gorgeous. So delicate.

[Bridger Weiniger]

It's sort of like how they signed it. Like the declaration, I think maybe because.

[Annaliese Nelson]

My mom's left handed, that's why I learned incorrectly.

[Bridger Weiniger]

I don't think so.

[Annaliese Nelson]

Let's try to blame my mom here.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Okay? I'm sure we'll find something to blame my mom for.

[Annaliese Nelson]

Yeah, we'll brainstorm eventually. Okay. Well, let me open this envelope here. Let's see. Oh, I love that sound. Oh, that's beautiful. Is it?

[Bridger Weiniger]

And it just. It's so nice to get.

[Annaliese Nelson]

Oh, this is a nice little card. Hats off to you, little cowboy. My dearest Bridger, I'm not really one for following rules. I wouldn't dare come empty handed. Your handwriting is gorgeous.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Thank you.

[Annaliese Nelson]

Thank you for having me. And feel free to share what's happening in this bag. Love, Adam Rippon. This is such a beautiful card. I love this.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Okay, so you're kind of sweetening up to the idea of a gift. I see.

[Annaliese Nelson]

I'm really warming up here. And now it's in this gorgeous mushroom bag, which I adore. I mean, wow, you've really gone all out.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Well, I mean, I just wouldn't show up with something ugly.

[Annaliese Nelson]

Because I would have spread the word as quickly as possible.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Well, you know, here's the thing. If you just put a little effort into giving someone kind of some shit, which is, I mean, get ready, don't get too excited. They'll remember, like, oh, it looked so nice. I wasn't gonna roll in here with the ralph spat filled with, like, what?

[Annaliese Nelson]

That's a typical guest on this podcast.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Well, come on.

[Annaliese Nelson]

These people are trash. Listen, you've really upped the bar here. Yeah, well, we'll send this episode out as an example for future guests.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Right. If you're thinking of getting a gift, please follow these guidelines.

[Annaliese Nelson]

Here are photos. And now that I'm thinking about it, writing, feel free to share in a card. And then if this was just full of money, that would be a very good idea. I'm gonna try that for a gift, actually.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Give me that back. Let me put something in there.

[Annaliese Nelson]

Feel free to share. Okay, let's. Oh, we haven't had some nice tissue in this podcast.

[Bridger Weiniger]

You know, I know some people think that that's wasteful.

[Annaliese Nelson]

I don't think so. Really?

[Bridger Weiniger]

I think kind of. What?

[Annaliese Nelson]

I mean, what's being wasted here?

[Bridger Weiniger]

Oh, my God, can we just. Give me a fucking break. We need to wake them up.

[Annaliese Nelson]

People are coming after you all the time for your tissue usage.

[Bridger Weiniger]

I mean, I'll be honest, there is a kind of an abundance.

[Annaliese Nelson]

This was the whole bag of tissue.

[Guest Host / Advertiser Voice]

It was.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Because there's eight sheets in a little pack.

[Annaliese Nelson]

Well, let's use it. Let's not waste. I'm going to use every one of these as I pull it out.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Yes. Oh, it sounds so good on the mic. I know.

[Annaliese Nelson]

So crispy. Let's make sure. Let's See? Oh, there's more? No.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Yeah, there's. All eight sheets are in there.

[Annaliese Nelson]

Don't worry. Are there multiple things in here?

[Bridger Weiniger]

Yes.

[Annaliese Nelson]

Okay, Should I take them out in any order?

[Bridger Weiniger]

No. Okay.

[Annaliese Nelson]

Okay, so we'll take this one.

[Bridger Weiniger]

It's a choose your own adventure. Okay.

[Annaliese Nelson]

I'm very excited. Okay, so. Oh, what is this? Under eye patches. Fantastic.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Yes.

[Annaliese Nelson]

To 24k gold under eye patches.

[Bridger Weiniger]

I think they use that term loosely. Yeah.

[Annaliese Nelson]

I mean, this simply doesn't apply to.

[Bridger Weiniger]

No, I think they. Oh, 24 karat golds. And it's also like in Korean. And I think they're just like. They won't understand the difference.

[Annaliese Nelson]

Okay, should we talk about this or should I open up? What else is in here?

[Bridger Weiniger]

It all goes all come together.

[Annaliese Nelson]

Okay, so we'll bring everything out and then we'll get into it. Yes. And so we'll get to continue doing tissue.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Just a few more sheets.

[Annaliese Nelson]

I hope everyone's keeping count at home. Okay, there's one more. I'm not even looking. I've now just focused on tissue.

[Bridger Weiniger]

That's smart.

[Annaliese Nelson]

Get this much. Okay. Then we'll go for the rest of the game. Yeah.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Get it even closer to the mic. I think that'll be.

[Annaliese Nelson]

Okay. I think that's the end of the. Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. See, and this is why we're not wasteful.

[Bridger Weiniger]

No.

[Annaliese Nelson]

Ultimately, we are very in control of our carbon footprint.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Is it wasteful if you used it as a prop? No.

[Annaliese Nelson]

And if millions enjoyed it.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Oh, my God. Which I know they did. Every single one. You might not know this. I'm, like, so committed to that. I've never talked about her in my life before. I'm so sorry. I'm having.

[Annaliese Nelson]

You've gotta team up.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Oh, I hope so.

[Annaliese Nelson]

I have to team up.

[Bridger Weiniger]

I think I have to team up.

[Annaliese Nelson]

Have her take you on a trip to hell. It'll be the worst possible vacation. Okay, let me bring out what else is happening here. Okay.

[Bridger Weiniger]

I hope there's no more paper. Cause that now it does feel cumbersome.

[Annaliese Nelson]

Let's see. Okay, now I've got.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Oh, when you kind of lay it all on the table like that, it does look like a bunch of shit. But please, please, please explain it.

[Annaliese Nelson]

Okay, so then we've got some. Oh, some collagen essence masks, which are bamboo from Dermal. Are these all a der. Is it all the Dermal brand? I don't think so.

[Bridger Weiniger]

No. I think I kind of went across a genre.

[Annaliese Nelson]

This is from the Dermal family. It's a wine collagen essence mask which feels like an absolute stain on a face. Okay. And then some. I actually have no idea. Oh, collagen. Oh. A lip mask that are in the shape of lips. Like those candy wax lips.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Yes.

[Annaliese Nelson]

Which I've never eaten.

[Bridger Weiniger]

I have.

[Annaliese Nelson]

You have.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Oh, yeah.

[Annaliese Nelson]

What is that experience?

[Bridger Weiniger]

Well, I think it explains a lot of why I'm not. Well now it's literally. It's like eating a candle. Which is not that bad if you're gonna think about it.

[Annaliese Nelson]

You could do worse for things that you want.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Candy wax. I haven't thought about those in a while. But yeah. It is just. It is. I don't think we should be eating them. But. Right. I did. Whole thing.

[Annaliese Nelson]

Whole meals.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Lick my lips, lick my fingers. After. It was like Thanksgiving dinner Plates full.

[Annaliese Nelson]

Okay. The lips. And then finally some pineapple flavored pineapple twist flavored Trident. There's so much happening here.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Yeah. Well. And not anything at all. So I have everything that you have on the table.

[Annaliese Nelson]

Okay. I'm laying it all out here. Kind of like cards.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Yes. I think that's. Yeah. It looks like Yu Gi.

[Annaliese Nelson]

Oh.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Cards. I have this in excess at home. So I grabbed kind of out of my stock pile because I thought, why wouldn't you just want to treat yourself like I treat me?

[Annaliese Nelson]

Of course.

[Bridger Weiniger]

And Trident gum is my favorite gum.

[Annaliese Nelson]

Is this flavor in particular?

[Bridger Weiniger]

Absolutely. I think people really kind of say some nasty things about Trident.

[Annaliese Nelson]

Really?

[Bridger Weiniger]

Yeah.

[Annaliese Nelson]

I love Trident.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Me too. But I kind of never have heard you say it publicly at least. Yeah. And I think a lot of people kind of stayed that direction with Trident. They're afraid to. They. They're more like the route of like a stick of gum.

[Annaliese Nelson]

I've. I have fully removed stick of gum from my life.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Good.

[Annaliese Nelson]

I'm actually. I've now become a dentine ice person.

[Bridger Weiniger]

See, this is what I mean, people. Yeah.

[Annaliese Nelson]

Just hear me out. You're not gonna tell me you like Orbit Trident? No, no, no, no. You will see no Trident because I carry a bag and anything that's not in the little. And this is a wasteful product and it's little plastic like. I think they call it like a blister pack where you pop them out.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Uh huh.

[Annaliese Nelson]

Anything that's not in one of those. The gum will find its way into my bag and then will be all over my wallet and keys.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Oh no.

[Annaliese Nelson]

I can't have that ever happen to me again.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Again.

[Annaliese Nelson]

Again. No, no, no, no. That'll be the end of my life.

[Bridger Weiniger]

So is the blister pack. Is that like the bot. Like the bowl? It's like a mug of gum.

[Annaliese Nelson]

No. And that I simply will not buy either. Who's buying that? Unless you're a truck driver.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Well, unless it's the last drive you're. And you need all 200 pieces of orbit gum. Dirty mouth. Yeah. Come on.

[Annaliese Nelson]

Yeah, that plastic thing. I don't know who's buying that. I think if you were doing long distance driving or you manned a ship or something.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Something.

[Annaliese Nelson]

But if you're a normal person.

[Bridger Weiniger]

No, you can unwrap it individually.

[Annaliese Nelson]

You can unwrap it. No, what I'm talking about is, like, it's a little like cardboard, essentially the size. And then you push it out and there's like a tin foil and a plastic. I think I've got some in my bag. I'm showing.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Okay. I am quite excited because I do believe that it's going to be absolutely worth the. Oh, that. Oh, no. You know what that looks like to me? What I used to smoke. Oh, that's what that looks.

[Annaliese Nelson]

Oh, nicotine.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Not even. It just looks like I had a cigarette outside and I now need to freshen my breath. That's what that looks like to me. Dentine ice.

[Annaliese Nelson]

Well, that gives you a nice sense of danger.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Does it?

[Annaliese Nelson]

Adam's been smoking.

[Bridger Weiniger]

This is what. And I know this because that was a really popular gum to chew after. And like, in the area that I'm from, Pennsylvania, famously, they'd have their nice little Marlboro Red, and then they'd need to get right back into the classroom or into the ice rink, and then they'd have one or two pieces of dentine ice.

[Annaliese Nelson]

That makes sense.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Yes.

[Annaliese Nelson]

Wow. Well, I mean, I'm not stopping, and I don't think. You're not gonna stop.

[Bridger Weiniger]

It didn't stop them either. And so I think to hell with them. To hell with them, I think.

[Annaliese Nelson]

How long did you smoke for?

[Bridger Weiniger]

I. Well, okay, I smoked well while I was competing.

[Annaliese Nelson]

I just don't associate that with a professional athlete.

[Bridger Weiniger]

I know you wouldn't, but you would associate it with somebody who is just so thin, which I was.

[Annaliese Nelson]

So. Just while you were skating.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Yes.

[Annaliese Nelson]

Who turned you onto it? Me.

[Bridger Weiniger]

What? Because I knew people who smoked were thin, and I was like, that's what I'm missing. And I wasn't wrong, which was the really scary part about it.

[Annaliese Nelson]

But you were doing intense exercise.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Right. Which was sort of kind of counterbalancing. Everybody needs a little advice.

[Annaliese Nelson]

The smoking wasn't doing anything for you.

[Bridger Weiniger]

It was making me not eat dinner and lunch and sometimes breakfast.

[Annaliese Nelson]

But you were eating your weight in dentine ice.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Yes. And yogurt.

[Annaliese Nelson]

Yogurt.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Okay. Okay. Well, because there's calcium in that for strong bones.

[Annaliese Nelson]

Calcium and protein. Great source of protein. Now people are drying it out.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Drying the yogurt out.

[Annaliese Nelson]

Have you seen this? No. It's a new trend. People are drying out yogurt. Of course it's on TikTok, but they, like, leave it out overnight. I haven't looked into it that much because obviously I don't have any interest in drying out my yogurt personally.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Oh, okay. I scrolled past a video like this. Please tell me if I'm right. I saw a dollop of something go into a cheesecloth.

[Annaliese Nelson]

Yes, yes.

[Bridger Weiniger]

And then they dry that out and.

[Annaliese Nelson]

Then they eat it.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Okay, okay. I'm gonna say a few things. I don't think we are gonna make America healthy again. I actually don't. And I think we're kind of too far gone. Have you seen the videos of that one woman who goes, what I have right here is raw milk, and it doesn't go bad. And she unscrews the top, and all you hear is you see a little bit of, like, you know, the liquid of what I perceive as milk go in. And then you hear. And then she goes, oh, it gets better. She takes out one of those, like, you know, from Ikea where you can get the milk frothers, but like the handheld one where like one AA battery goes in. She goes. It actually never goes, oh. And she puts that in and she froths the milk to kind of break up its own.

[Annaliese Nelson]

The curds or whatever, the cheese that's forming.

[Bridger Weiniger]

And then she kind of brings it, you know, she moves it kind of up and down to break up all the chunks, and then she drinks the whole thing.

[Annaliese Nelson]

I drink milk.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Me, too.

[Annaliese Nelson]

Oh, I love to meet a fellow milk drinker.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Why do people.

[Annaliese Nelson]

We're so rare now.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Yeah. I'm sorry. Almonds don't have udders.

[Annaliese Nelson]

No, no, no, no. It's almond water.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Yeah.

[Annaliese Nelson]

And I cannot eat a cookie with.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Almond water unless I stole it from a child. A baby. Its own child. I don't want it.

[Annaliese Nelson]

No, no, no, no. I need to have stolen from a baby.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Yeah. And here's the thing. I know milk is supposed to turn a baby cow into an 800 pound cow, and there's a part of me that wants that.

[Annaliese Nelson]

I would love nothing more than to be half a ton.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Exactly.

[Annaliese Nelson]

I want to be a Prize winning cow.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Yes. Take me to the fair, please, please.

[Annaliese Nelson]

Blue ribbon.

[Bridger Weiniger]

I think you'd get the blue ribbon.

[Annaliese Nelson]

I'm shooting for 800 pounds. No, the raw milk thing, I can't do that. I need it ultra pasteurized.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Me too. As it should be.

[Annaliese Nelson]

Because milk, like, there's such a fine line between it being something I can drink and being the most disgusting possible thing in the world. And like if another texture becomes part of it, it's over.

[Bridger Weiniger]

That's how I feel about. And I do love kind of looking over at your side of the table right now because I've truly turned it into just a bunch of trash.

[Annaliese Nelson]

This is not trash though. We should talk about this.

[Bridger Weiniger]

No, but wait. This is what mean, it's. I brought three of everything because I thought, oh, I. Well, one, I didn't know how large the crew is. And I'm looking around, I'm going, oh, it's like 28,000, 28 people in there. John. There's John. Kind of John's reflection back there.

[Annaliese Nelson]

We have the whole CG scene.

[Bridger Weiniger]

They're right there. I see them.

[Annaliese Nelson]

The puppeteers.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Yes. So something for everybody.

[Annaliese Nelson]

Uh huh.

[Bridger Weiniger]

I lost my train of thought. I was saying something, but please go on. You're doing.

[Annaliese Nelson]

You brought all of these for everybody?

[Bridger Weiniger]

Yeah, that's it.

[Annaliese Nelson]

That wasn't leading to a greater point? No, I mean, welcome to my world.

[Bridger Weiniger]

No, I said it kind of with the kind of the lilt that there was like more to what I was saying, but I just thought, nope, period.

[Annaliese Nelson]

Well, then let's talk about these things. How often are you using these masks?

[Bridger Weiniger]

Well, not, not really. I actually, I believe in them. Right.

[Annaliese Nelson]

This is gonna lead to a severe burn for me.

[Bridger Weiniger]

I hope. I do like them. The lip ones, you give them to the kind of the people who don't do the most around here, I think.

[Annaliese Nelson]

You on a leash.

[Bridger Weiniger]

They're gonna love them. So they're whatever the eye masks are. Nice.

[Annaliese Nelson]

Okay. 24 carats.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Yeah. Oh, it looks like I slipped in four in there.

[Annaliese Nelson]

Oh, okay. I can double up.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Yes. So what I like to do when I do use these, I don't use them very often, but I'll do the eye masks and then I'll put the sheet mask over that. Oh. Just kind of make sure that everything is as covered as possible.

[Annaliese Nelson]

And how long. I've never done any of these things.

[Bridger Weiniger]

20 minutes.

[Annaliese Nelson]

20 minutes.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Lay down.

[Annaliese Nelson]

Okay.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Lay down. No, I'm kidding.

[Annaliese Nelson]

Get on the floor. This is a robbery. That's a great way to start a Robbery, handing out face masks, nobody in the bank. Yeah.

[Bridger Weiniger]

But they leave kind of beautiful.

[Annaliese Nelson]

So refreshed. Yes.

[Bridger Weiniger]

They look so nice.

[Annaliese Nelson]

Victimless crime I was at. This is interesting. These are. I think these are mostly Korean products. I was at WI Spa last night. Have you ever been?

[Bridger Weiniger]

No, I haven't.

[Annaliese Nelson]

Fantastic. Are you familiar with what it is?

[Bridger Weiniger]

Yeah, it's for the. We, the people.

[Annaliese Nelson]

It's a Korean all day Spa. It's open 24 hours a day. It's in K town.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Yes.

[Annaliese Nelson]

Wonderful.

[Bridger Weiniger]

K Town is sort of of my final destination.

[Annaliese Nelson]

You're never in K town. No. You gotta get over it.

[Bridger Weiniger]

I go there every once in a while to get Korean barbecue. Obviously, it's the top of the food chain for me. When they do the redo the food pyramid, I'm politicking hard that they're gonna have, like, seasoned and salted beef up at the top. But that's when I'll go to K Town. Other than that, the infrastructure is tough to get through.

[Annaliese Nelson]

The parking is difficult.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Yeah.

[Annaliese Nelson]

There are a lot of things that make it hard to get around. I will say, but when you go to wee spa, you pull up, all.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Your troubles melt away.

[Annaliese Nelson]

Yeah, all of your troubles melt away. I think I actually spoke about this on the very first episode of this podcast. And, like, when you start, and this.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Being the very last, it's kind of.

[Annaliese Nelson]

A nice full circle moment. Thank you for listening.

[Bridger Weiniger]

I'm shutting you down. That's the court summons.

[Annaliese Nelson]

Yes. Cease and desist.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Yes. Yes.

[Annaliese Nelson]

There's been another. I said no gifts this whole time and they're finally suing me. No. I remember I spoke about Wii Spa on the first episode. And of course, like, when you start a podcast, you get a lot of people listening who aren't going to be future listeners. They're just trying it out. And of course, a lot of those people are morons. And I remember a lot of people being like, this snob. All he wanted to talk about was the Korean spa. It costs $30.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Yeah.

[Annaliese Nelson]

And has the, like, the appeal of a high school gift. I love it. I adore it. It's like the least.

[Bridger Weiniger]

You're a brand ambassador. You're doing a great. I want to go. Oh, my. It's like a gym from a school. Oh, my. I'm like, start the car, Annalise.

[Annaliese Nelson]

No, I love it. It's a wonder world. It's so relaxing. It's so.

[Bridger Weiniger]

I know they said you were a snob, but I'm gonna say something. I don't think anything $30 is relaxing.

[Annaliese Nelson]

This is the. I mean, $30, as far as I'm concerned, is too expensive. And that's the least relaxing thing about it.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Okay.

[Annaliese Nelson]

But $30 is a great deal. You could be there for 24 hours. I'm gonna be there for two. Of course.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Yes.

[Annaliese Nelson]

Well, you get to just go sit in all their beautiful little pools. They have, like, a clay spa you can lay in a salt spa. This is not a snobby thing. It's a wonderful place to be. Why did I even bring it up? Oh, because we have these.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Yes.

[Annaliese Nelson]

Things. But I'm.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Because I'm actually here representing those people to take you down. So I really don't kind of do people who write mean comments.

[Annaliese Nelson]

Oh, well, how so? You just ignore or do you attack?

[Bridger Weiniger]

I don't attack. Cause I go, God, it just must be so awful to be you. It really. And I mean that kind of. With my full chest.

[Annaliese Nelson]

Truly, like, what is your life like?

[Bridger Weiniger]

You would spend. Which I like sometimes. I'm one of them. But I am. I will write my nasty thing to my friend not to. Like an online platform.

[Annaliese Nelson]

You don't know.

[Bridger Weiniger]

No, that's crazy. Why are you gonna. Yuck. Someone's yum.

[Annaliese Nelson]

It's very odd behavior.

[Bridger Weiniger]

It's so sure alone.

[Annaliese Nelson]

You're broken.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Yes. I'm untruth social.

[Annaliese Nelson]

The only other thing I'll say about Wii Spa, as much as I talked about it being not that great, it's fantastic because there are other spas around town, and I had some friends go to one and they found a dead body in one.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Well, that happens in the.

[Annaliese Nelson]

I believe in the pool. No, I think in, like, the steam room. Oh. And that spa, not wee spa, did not respond well to the entire situation.

[Bridger Weiniger]

How so?

[Annaliese Nelson]

They basically acted like it was my friend's fault that they had found it, which it was. They wouldn't even fund their money. I mean, my friends were covered in blood.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Refund the money.

[Annaliese Nelson]

They would not refund them.

[Bridger Weiniger]

I'm all like, I'm a lawyer now. I know.

[Annaliese Nelson]

This is another case for travel girl.

[Bridger Weiniger]

If you find a dead body, wait till you see. You're gonna drop dead when you see her for the first time. Okay, please, I am so sorry. I'm never speaking again until you finish this story. They found a dead body.

[Annaliese Nelson]

They went into.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Took the pulse.

[Annaliese Nelson]

My friend, she went in there because the person was unconscious. And they walked in, they're like, what's happening? And the spa would not take responsibility. My friend had to check it out and basically confirm that they had died.

[Bridger Weiniger]

What?

[Annaliese Nelson]

And then finally the spa kind of got involved, but continued to act like it was not their fault and that there was really nothing wrong. And there were other spa goers who were annoyed that it was happening. They were like, we want to use the spa. Well, it's annoying.

[Bridger Weiniger]

To die during peak hours is annoying.

[Annaliese Nelson]

Find another place to crawl off and die, dude.

[Bridger Weiniger]

In the locker room.

[Annaliese Nelson]

Yes.

[Bridger Weiniger]

You can block that off, but not in the sauce.

[Annaliese Nelson]

Not where we're supposed to have fun.

[Bridger Weiniger]

No. What?

[Annaliese Nelson]

Yeah, they found it. And my friends, they waited until the ambulance and the fire department came to make sure they obviously were the adults in the room because the spa was not going to do this. Then my friend said, what was the spa's plan?

[Bridger Weiniger]

Just going, oh, he's really. In a deep breath.

[Annaliese Nelson]

That's a great question. Were they hoping that the body would just disintegrate?

[Bridger Weiniger]

Well, that's kind of. Does happen very quickly. Within the hour. Within the hour, yes, absolutely within the hour. It will sort of just disintegrate. It will turn into a Himalayan rock salt.

[Annaliese Nelson]

That's the secret of all of these spots. Yes.

[Bridger Weiniger]

They're just dead bodies.

[Annaliese Nelson]

No, they waited until the paramedics come and taken care of it. Then they ask, can we get a refund? And they said no.

[Bridger Weiniger]

What?

[Annaliese Nelson]

I mean, it's kind of a lift situation.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Well, it is sort of like times are tough, people are. We lost a customer today.

[Annaliese Nelson]

No refunds for anything. Ever.

[Bridger Weiniger]

No, that's. And what. It was a massage envy.

[Annaliese Nelson]

It was not a massage envy. What happens in a massage envy? I can't picture exactly what's going on because it's kind of a franchise thing and I, I feel like that feels so impersonal for. I want like a. I want a massage. You want a regular small business?

[Bridger Weiniger]

Uh huh. Well, Massage envy is a small business. It's a local business. I used to be a Massage Envy member.

[Annaliese Nelson]

And what was your experience like with Massage Envy?

[Bridger Weiniger]

Impersonal, Kind of. Exactly. Like you said, kind of terrible. Okay, this is what I don't like. And I'm so sorry, but I'm. I'm like really kind of tired of people cutting corners. A massage is kind of on the hour.

[Annaliese Nelson]

Yes. Right, right.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Don't go. 50 minutes.

[Annaliese Nelson]

No, no, no, no, no.

[Bridger Weiniger]

80 minutes. No, sweetheart, 60 minutes. 60 minutes. 90 minutes. That's sort of the timeframe. 50. No, that means you want. What are you doing twiddling your thumbs and yanking my junk for 10 minutes? Do your job. Nobody wants to work.

[Annaliese Nelson]

Wait, so what would happen after 50 minutes. I'd just be like, your time's up.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Time out, time's up.

[Annaliese Nelson]

Argue with them, time's up.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Harvey Weinstein. They would just kind of leave and it's 50 minutes and so then I have 10 minutes to kind of scramble.

[Annaliese Nelson]

My face and wonder what's going on.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Leave the money on the dresser.

[Annaliese Nelson]

Did you ever try complaining?

[Bridger Weiniger]

No, because they did say that it was 15 minutes. So I need.

[Annaliese Nelson]

That is not the standard massage time. It should be one hour.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Yeah, I agree.

[Annaliese Nelson]

Who settled on 50 minutes?

[Bridger Weiniger]

I did when I signed the contract, but I still don't like it.

[Annaliese Nelson]

Is that their gimmick? Our massages are less time.

[Bridger Weiniger]

I've seen other places kind of try.

[Annaliese Nelson]

To pull this stunt.

[Bridger Weiniger]

We'll call it a stunt. It's a cheap trick. Not for me because they're charging me the 60 minute kind of rate.

[Annaliese Nelson]

Right. And is it like a monthly subscription where you can go as often as you want?

[Bridger Weiniger]

Well, no. So it's like a monthly subscription, which I think, listen, it's been a while. I think basically your monthly subscription will get you one massage a month, which is cheaper than if you had just bought it outright. And then if you miss it that month, it rolls over. So they kind of took that sort of at and T Verizon kind of mentality of the rollover minutes and they used it towards massage. It was nice that somebody kind of took that over though.

[Annaliese Nelson]

Yeah, of course. Somebody had to take over the rollover concept.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Yeah. Because they don't. We don't really do that anymore.

[Annaliese Nelson]

No, nothing rolls over, I guess. Yeah, I can't think of anything.

[Bridger Weiniger]

No.

[Annaliese Nelson]

So you're the massage. Let's say you missed it for January, it rolls over to February. Now in February you can have two massages.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Yes. Because you paid for that one massage at your members rate. Right. Right now I'm going, wait, that's pretty good. I'm about to join again.

[Annaliese Nelson]

Especially if you let them all roll over for 12 months and then you're.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Having 12 in a row that day. You could just do them all that day.

[Annaliese Nelson]

You just let them kill you there.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Yeah. No refund.

[Annaliese Nelson]

No refund needed.

[Bridger Weiniger]

That is. I really don't think I'll ever get over that.

[Annaliese Nelson]

Wow, the 50 minutes.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Not the 50 minutes, the dead body.

[Annaliese Nelson]

Oh, the dead body, of course. I mean, imagine my friends, right? How do they ever relax in a massage?

[Bridger Weiniger]

Where was it in this state?

[Annaliese Nelson]

It was in K town. Yeah, I would name it, but I bet I'm sure there's some legal gray Area there. That could become difficult.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Don't. Because I do think that they'll have what's coming.

[Annaliese Nelson]

I feel like they're not going to. I feel like this has probably happened multiple times. For them to not be freaking out, they must be like, oh, I guess it's hot.

[Bridger Weiniger]

What do you. I mean, people die.

[Annaliese Nelson]

They do put the warnings and that's.

[Bridger Weiniger]

And you know what, that will go a long way in the court of law. Absolutely.

[Annaliese Nelson]

Certainly will. So if you got, if you're feeling lightheaded, get out. Sorry.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Nothing would be more lightheaded than dead. Yeah. And I guess they were feeling it.

[Annaliese Nelson]

They were, absolutely.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Don't suck it up. You're dying.

[Annaliese Nelson]

Yeah. RIP to whoever that person was.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Yes. The first time I went to Japan ever, I did also see a dead body on the street.

[Annaliese Nelson]

Ooh, that's a tough situation.

[Bridger Weiniger]

There's no kind of anything else I can share about that story. Not because I was involved. Yeah. But yeah.

[Annaliese Nelson]

Had it been there for.

[Bridger Weiniger]

A while, I mean, this is dark, I start crying. I could have helped, I don't know. But nobody was doing anything. They might not have been dead. Just shallow breathed, shallow breath.

[Annaliese Nelson]

And no one was helping. This feels very kind of par for, for human nature.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Yeah. It was a premonition, I think. I'm so sorry I brought that up. My God.

[Annaliese Nelson]

But you're saying it was a premonition? You knew they were going to die in that bush.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Yeah.

[Annaliese Nelson]

So basically you see, everyone you see, you see is a dead body.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Eventually, yes, you know, they'll be dead.

[Annaliese Nelson]

I'm looking at a dead body.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Right, right.

[Annaliese Nelson]

Ultimately we're all looking at dead bodies constantly.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Well, yeah, eventually, yes.

[Annaliese Nelson]

You're looking at a future dead body.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Yes. Uh huh.

[Annaliese Nelson]

That's an easy way to lie. That's a good party story. Saw a dead body last week.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Really?

[Annaliese Nelson]

No one's gonna ask that many follow up questions. No.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Unless they're the police.

[Annaliese Nelson]

And then they're not gonna ask any.

[Bridger Weiniger]

No, no. They're gonna go, this guy's crazy. We gotta get out of here.

[Annaliese Nelson]

Okay, well, I've got all of my masks here. How long have you been using masks?

[Bridger Weiniger]

Metaphorically or the physics?

[Annaliese Nelson]

Metaphorically first. When did you become your true self?

[Bridger Weiniger]

Still haven't? No, I'm still kind of masking now. Social masking. I kind of have been using them for I guess like 10 or 15 years.

[Annaliese Nelson]

Who got you into these?

[Bridger Weiniger]

The Koreans.

[Annaliese Nelson]

The Koreans came for you personally?

[Bridger Weiniger]

Yes.

[Annaliese Nelson]

Have you been to Korea?

[Bridger Weiniger]

I have, yes.

[Annaliese Nelson]

People go there and it seems like a Wonderland. I mean, like, for skincare.

[Bridger Weiniger]

I'm gonna tell you something about something.

[Annaliese Nelson]

Okay?

[Bridger Weiniger]

Okay. One, I'm opening a medical.

[Annaliese Nelson]

Is that true?

[Bridger Weiniger]

That is true.

[Annaliese Nelson]

Can I be the first? Can I cut the ribbon, please? Maybe. I mean, you'll cut the ribbon. Maybe I can cut the ribbon.

[Bridger Weiniger]

I don't need to cut the ribbon. You can do it. Nobody's asked. And I didn't ask to cut it either. So, please.

[Annaliese Nelson]

You weren't even planning on a ribbon?

[Bridger Weiniger]

No.

[Annaliese Nelson]

I'll bring the ribbon.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Until now. I'm going, hey, wait, I should audition for that. And so. Well, one, I have. Ask me if I have a medical. I know you're the host, but here's a good question. Ask me. Do I have a medical background?

[Annaliese Nelson]

Do you have a medical background?

[Bridger Weiniger]

No.

[Annaliese Nelson]

We'll cut out all the other things before that. So I sound smart?

[Bridger Weiniger]

Yeah. I do. Not technically. Okay. And so in the state of California, you're not allowed to own it, but there's a lot of. There's, like, some ways to go around it.

[Annaliese Nelson]

Okay, let's hear these.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Found them all. So it started with. I have a friend who I had been going to who did, like, my lasers and injections and stuff. Edit that out. No, I'm kidding. And they were like, I wanna do my own thing. And I was like, well, if you're doing your own thing, tell me where. I'm just gonna follow you. I'll never come to this place again. A chain.

[Annaliese Nelson]

Oh, a chain.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Yes. Laser envy. Yeah, Laser envy. And they were telling me, like, oh, but I need to find. They are a nurse. And you need to have a medical director of your clinic who's an md.

[Annaliese Nelson]

Okay.

[Bridger Weiniger]

And I was like, one of my best friends, his husband is a doctor, was recently disbarred and never will be barred again. Yeah, he's actually completely barred. And I said, let me talk to him. And so she was telling me I need to find a doctor to be the head of the clinic. I said, let me talk to my friend. Maybe I can help you.

[Annaliese Nelson]

Right.

[Bridger Weiniger]

And then we started talking and I was like, would you ever wanna do something together? And she was like, hell, yes.

[Annaliese Nelson]

Oh, my God.

[Bridger Weiniger]

So we've been working on the process of, like, getting it together. And so now I know a lot about all of this stuff. And now let me tell you about.

[Annaliese Nelson]

Let's get the.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Okay, I'm going.

[Annaliese Nelson]

Let me tell you about for real.

[Bridger Weiniger]

As someone who. Yeah. No. So now, why all those treatments you see on TikTok and all those people going. They have Their pinky up their nose. Shut up, bitch. Listen to me, okay? Everything's so cheap over there. Yeah. Cause you're getting like they're blowing air at your face.

[Annaliese Nelson]

Oh. There are a lot of like, not.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Scientifically proven, but there's a lot of like really superficial treatments that you can get done that we don't have because.

[Annaliese Nelson]

They'Re unnecessary, they're nice.

[Bridger Weiniger]

But it's like, wouldn't it be nice if I just blew on your face for 20 minutes?

[Annaliese Nelson]

The dream. That's the concept for your business.

[Bridger Weiniger]

And so I'm thinking of offering it. And so the thing is that they have things where it's like they blow compressed air onto your face.

[Annaliese Nelson]

Compressed air, Honey, I can go out in the wind.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Yeah, exactly. Blow the dice and fucking hair dryer at me. Okay. And they'll offer things like a red light where it's like, okay, the red light sort of documentation that we have. You know those face things that you can do with the red light mask.

[Annaliese Nelson]

There are a lot of things where it's like, it's like vitamins, taking vitamins. Where it's like, it's probably not.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Which, you know, I'm scarfing those down.

[Annaliese Nelson]

Of course I am. Why not try roll the dice? Exactly.

[Bridger Weiniger]

I'm all about. It's like Vegas. And so, so with the red lights, like Omnilux for instance, I'm actually taking them down right now in this podcast, Goodbye Omnilux. So all of the studies that they've done on red light are based on. Not the mask that they sell on the panels that they sell to professional, corporate. Interesting. The panels that they are selling, that's all their studies are done on how effective the panels are, not the masks and the use of like quote, the same technology. Right. So they'll do like different red light treatments. But to have red light be effective, you need to do it consistently, like two, three times a week.

[Annaliese Nelson]

And for it to be super strong.

[Bridger Weiniger]

It just needs to be stronger than a little light up battery pack.

[Annaliese Nelson]

Right. Like a mill shack style.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Yes. So and then when it comes to like the, the different treatments, like the real intense ones, like your pico laser, your clear and brilliant and everything, everything, like is price comparable to over here? Oh, we just have a lot of the less like walk in walkouts. Cause a lot of these people are. And I'm gonna take, I'm gonna name names. Don't worry. A lot of these people will walk in and they'll be like, I went to Korea and I got eight sin treatments in one Day. And they leave. And they just left. And they're like. And look at my skin. They're just slathered in Vaseline, head to toe, slick as a seal. And they're going, I got all this done. Okay, listen to me. If you got anything worthwhile done, there'd be blood, you'd be under anesthetic and you'd be crying.

[Annaliese Nelson]

There would be trauma involved.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Absolutely. Because beauty only comes from trauma. It does not come from compressed air. Okay, that's kind of true. And so then when they go and they compare the prices of. It's like within dollars for how much is Botox or syringes of filler or things like that. It's all very comparable. They just. A lot of more superficial treatments which people will feel like, oh, I'm getting so much done.

[Annaliese Nelson]

Right. What a bargain. And then forgetting airline tickets and hotel people are.

[Bridger Weiniger]

And then they go home and they drink raw milk. What can you do? There's really no.

[Annaliese Nelson]

I think there's no saving anybody.

[Bridger Weiniger]

I should defund the Department of Education. I think we should. And we should fund the Tourist Board of Korea. I think we should do that. I think that'd be really good.

[Annaliese Nelson]

No, I mean, that all. I guess that adds up. Sorry, I'm canceling my trip to Korea.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Well, don't.

[Annaliese Nelson]

A culturally rich country that I was just planning to go get air blown on my face.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Yeah, exactly. No, and you know what it is? The people who do it, they love it. And they're like, I need an AI skin analysis. Oh God, girl, please, spare me the details.

[Annaliese Nelson]

Snake oil.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Yeah. Enough.

[Annaliese Nelson]

So what are you going to do at your clinic?

[Bridger Weiniger]

Everything everybody else does, right?

[Annaliese Nelson]

Just the effective things.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Yes. And the thing is, what I don't like about going to. Like what I didn't like about going to a med spa was that I just didn't. I didn't feel like they were just trying to pedal me to like some sort of thing I either didn't need or didn't want, or like I was like, I just want to do something to like maintain.

[Annaliese Nelson]

Right.

[Bridger Weiniger]

And they were like, I don't want.

[Annaliese Nelson]

Like a radical transformation.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Well, I wanted that too. And they were like, please leave.

[Annaliese Nelson]

I want to be unrecognizable in the worst way possible. Radicalized politically.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Uh huh. Which I am now. And it feels good. And so I just think that like the whole experience can just be better.

[Annaliese Nelson]

Pleasant and common sense, I imagine.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Yes. And I. Well, when I was getting into it one, I just, it felt like intimidating, of course. And I Did starting a hospital, essentially. Exactly. Which I'm prepared and qualified to do. Not in the eyes of kind of the state of Gavin Newsom.

[Annaliese Nelson]

The St. Adam Rippon Hospital.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Yeah, it's like off brand Cedars is kind of what I'm starting.

[Annaliese Nelson]

Oaks. Yeah.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Different trees.

[Annaliese Nelson]

Wait, so do you actually have a name for the med spa?

[Bridger Weiniger]

Super skin.

[Annaliese Nelson]

Oh, I like this.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Thank you.

[Annaliese Nelson]

And do you know where it's going to be?

[Bridger Weiniger]

I think. Well, I live in Pasadena, and so does my friend who's the nurse. And so we want to try to find something in Pasadena.

[Annaliese Nelson]

Right. I feel like Pasadena is the home of quality. Yes, that's probably true, I think.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Yeah. There's no shortage of med spas there. There's like 50.

[Annaliese Nelson]

50. And you're gonna put them all out of business?

[Bridger Weiniger]

Absolutely. Well, before. Well, because of arson, even before you.

[Annaliese Nelson]

Open your business, they will be dead.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Oh, yeah. It'll just be like. It'll be like a K town spa.

[Annaliese Nelson]

A string of frank fires breaks out.

[Bridger Weiniger]

In Pasadena to every local med spa.

[Annaliese Nelson]

Please become a fire bug. That's all I want for you.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Yeah, I'm gonna go in the next door app and be like, I think.

[Annaliese Nelson]

I smell smoke as you're lighting the fire.

[Bridger Weiniger]

When people are like, we saw a suspicious five, seven kind of looking man getting a lot of gasoline out of the ExxonMobil. And I'll go on right there right away and be like, no, no, that was.

[Annaliese Nelson]

That was made up.

[Bridger Weiniger]

I think you're wrong.

[Annaliese Nelson]

This person has lied before.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Bot.

[Annaliese Nelson]

It's a bot. Next story.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Well, they're going there next.

[Annaliese Nelson]

They probably are, right? Just reporting coyotes.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Oh, my God. Wait, do you live in it? You live in an area where there's a lot of coyotes?

[Annaliese Nelson]

Oh, yeah, Yeah, I see coyotes. I see. I have a lot of wildlife. Raccoons, possums, coyotes, parrots.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Yeah, we have the parrots, too.

[Annaliese Nelson]

I think those are the four major. And then cats.

[Bridger Weiniger]

A lot of you kind of throw.

[Annaliese Nelson]

Cats into lot of feral cats.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Really?

[Annaliese Nelson]

Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. And I love them. I mean, not a lot. I mean, now I'm talking like I live behind a dumpster, but there are a couple feral cats.

[Bridger Weiniger]

I've been to your house. You do? Don't lie.

[Annaliese Nelson]

There's a lot of rotting garbage that I just kind of dip into. No, we have a couple feral cats. And I suppose. I mean, I financially are like, romantically. They're my secret family. My boyfriend has no idea.

[Bridger Weiniger]

The raccoons, I don't really. I like them online.

[Annaliese Nelson]

I love a Picture or video?

[Bridger Weiniger]

I used to live in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. And where I lived, the door to leave my apartment was like right next to the dumpster.

[Annaliese Nelson]

Oh, no.

[Bridger Weiniger]

And so at night when I would like throw the trash out, I would sometimes accidentally hit them, not knowing that.

[Annaliese Nelson]

They were in there already doing their job. They were at work, right?

[Bridger Weiniger]

And I'm like, show me your papers. I was originally. Yeah. So furious. And they'd hiss at you. Oh, yeah, Come on.

[Annaliese Nelson]

That's not a sound you wanna hear from a raccoon.

[Bridger Weiniger]

No, you don't wanna hear any noise. How about a fucking thank you?

[Annaliese Nelson]

I just gave you gold.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Yeah, you're gonna want what's in there. How about a fucking thank you? And then the coyotes, we see them all. They just walk the streets.

[Annaliese Nelson]

Oh, yeah. Sidewalks. I'm not scared of a coyote, though. Are you okay?

[Bridger Weiniger]

What happened to you? You're not scared of a wild dog.

[Annaliese Nelson]

They're not. They're scared of you. Oh, they're absolutely scared.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Who told you that? A coyote. They're scared of you.

[Annaliese Nelson]

They truly are. They're way more frightened of larva. The only thing that is.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Who are you calling large? Me.

[Annaliese Nelson]

Me. I'm huge. 7, 2, £400. No, the only things that are really in danger of coyotes are small pets. Otherwise, coyotes, you know, they'll just stand there then scurry off. If you're bigger than them.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Yeah, well, I thought that's because they were rude, not because they were scared.

[Annaliese Nelson]

It's because you thought you had an off putting personality.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Yeah. What the hell?

[Annaliese Nelson]

I'll never have a friend.

[Bridger Weiniger]

No, I actually have one of those, like a rape whistle sort of deal on my bag. Cause I have a small dog. Oh, okay. I have a medium sized dog. And so I have two dogs. They're both like mixes, right? Tony, he's from the streets of Tijuana.

[Annaliese Nelson]

Okay.

[Bridger Weiniger]

And I guess he's getting sent back there soon. And he's half pit bull and then half kind of a mini. If you literally Google Mexican street dog, he looks exactly like that.

[Annaliese Nelson]

Long hair or short hair?

[Bridger Weiniger]

Like, like shortish. And so he's like a German shepherd, boxer, golden retriever. So he's just incredible. He looks like a dog, right? Like, he's so cute. And then we have Tracy. She was found in a dumpster in Bakersfield. Oh, I know.

[Annaliese Nelson]

That's heartbreaking.

[Bridger Weiniger]

It is.

[Annaliese Nelson]

That is heartbreaking. I do run a puppy mill, so I don't care.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Oh, so maybe it was you threw Tracy in there. Well, we have her now.

[Annaliese Nelson]

We have A lot of excess dogs. And, you know, it's just part of the business. People. People love their Labradoodles, right?

[Bridger Weiniger]

They're in, they're out. And she's half pit bull, half wiener dog.

[Annaliese Nelson]

Oh, my God. That's gotta be so sweet.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Yeah. She looks like an alien. And she's very small. And we have to. And now my favorite thing to do is, like, she just is so. Acts like she plays all day long. And she gets so skinny. Like, she just looks like Bones.

[Annaliese Nelson]

Is she smoking?

[Bridger Weiniger]

No. She's gonna start soon. I'm gonna teach her how. And so we give her this little yogurt concoction. And I always call it one Weight Gain 3000. And so Tracy eats Weight Gain 3000. And so she is.

[Annaliese Nelson]

That's like something you could sell at the. At Petco.

[Bridger Weiniger]

I will do that.

[Annaliese Nelson]

That'll be eventually the next thing you sell.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Well, and then I'll sell the antidote.

[Annaliese Nelson]

Yeah, exactly.

[Bridger Weiniger]

You have to create the problem. Cigarettes to solve it. Yeah, cigarettes.

[Annaliese Nelson]

Wait, I'm sorry, but you have small dogs. You have kind of the rape whistle for coyotes. I feel like you were trying to say something.

[Bridger Weiniger]

I wasn't.

[Annaliese Nelson]

And then I was immediately, I just wanted to know what your dogs looked like.

[Bridger Weiniger]

One thing that you will about me is that the sentences I say don't kind of string or, like, lead into the next sentence.

[Annaliese Nelson]

You famously have never made a point.

[Bridger Weiniger]

And I never will.

[Annaliese Nelson]

You hate a thesis.

[Bridger Weiniger]

I do not do that. I do kind of a synopsis, but not a thesis.

[Annaliese Nelson]

But I'm curious about this whistle. Then what does it attach to your keys?

[Bridger Weiniger]

So I am kind of the outfit I'm in while I'm on a walk is, like, casual. And then I have a fanny pack sort of like around the shoulders. Like, crossbody.

[Annaliese Nelson]

Of course.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Okay.

[Annaliese Nelson]

We love a crossbody fanny pack.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Yes. I wanted you to finish that because I went crossbody. What? And so, in my little Ziploc. Not Ziploc, my little zipper fanny pack in there, I have two packs of Trident bubblegum flavored gum. Naturally, sometimes the walks get long.

[Annaliese Nelson]

Okay.

[Bridger Weiniger]

And then I have the poop bags. Two rolls of poop bags.

[Annaliese Nelson]

Responsible of dog owner, of course.

[Bridger Weiniger]

We should shoot down the people who don't.

[Annaliese Nelson]

Oh, absolutely.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Just killed on the spot. Like, we should drone. Like, I think we need to get Elon on that.

[Annaliese Nelson]

There should be a sniper on every electric pole. Yeah. Just waiting for these people.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Bye.

[Annaliese Nelson]

Bye. Sorry.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Good.

[Annaliese Nelson]

You're not a responsible person.

[Bridger Weiniger]

No.

[Annaliese Nelson]

Not doing the bare minimum.

[Bridger Weiniger]

I'm gonna run on that one day. Probably run from it actually.

[Annaliese Nelson]

It'll be kill, kill, kill. That's your slogan?

[Bridger Weiniger]

Yes. Yeah. And so I have that and then I have treats in the back. Cause Tony's very food motivated.

[Annaliese Nelson]

Oh, okay, okay.

[Bridger Weiniger]

So he would do anything for like a piece of raw meat. Shit. Yeah. Not even I could have rocks in my hand and I'd go, what's up? And so I have that and then it's a little keychain that goes onto one of the zippers. And for this to work, all you do is, is like you rip it off of the keychain and it's this loud, loud whistle.

[Annaliese Nelson]

Is it a one use only?

[Bridger Weiniger]

Multiple.

[Annaliese Nelson]

Have you ever had to use it.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Just in my house for fun? It can get dangerous in there.

[Annaliese Nelson]

Yeah, it's like a fidget spinner that.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Cry wolf in the house.

[Annaliese Nelson]

You're all alone.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Uh huh. Nobody's there. The dogs are like, what is going on? Again? They're completely numb to the sound now.

[Annaliese Nelson]

Yeah. Okay, well I'll have to look into one of those.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Oh yeah, well, the other day I saw on TikTok somebody who I hate was going, right now only on the TikTok shop. I got this one for my sister, for my aunt, for my mother and for my grandmother. They're only $20 now, but click on this link right now. I'm like, oh, give me a break, stop it. I don't trust anybody who's ever had an Amazon storefront linked in their bio.

[Annaliese Nelson]

Of course not. No. Up until five years ago, this was not a part of human behavior. No, it's not a normal thing to do. You were not like, oh, I'm buying all these things for my family. Wouldn't you like one? That's never been a thing until now.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Well, it was a thing when there was like the Avon lady.

[Annaliese Nelson]

Yeah, of course. And we all knew she was a con artist.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Exactly. When she was trying to get a free car.

[Annaliese Nelson]

Yes. She at least had a purpose.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Right. Like the people. I have more respect for the women who worked at Lularoe than I do for anyone who links to my Amazon store. Stop.

[Annaliese Nelson]

Just garbage.

[Bridger Weiniger]

No, absolute garbage. You'll never guess what I found only today. And I'm like, this is the thing, you guys. If something costs a cent on the TikTok shop, the tariffs are gonna hit you hard.

[Annaliese Nelson]

Those people are in for a big finding out.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Absolutely. Go to your Amazon storefront. I hope it's linked to a GoFundMe. Cause you're gonna need the money. Money. You're gonna need the money.

[Annaliese Nelson]

It's a two stop shop for supporting these tiktokers at this point.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Absolutely. And they need it.

[Annaliese Nelson]

Well, should we say anything else about these things? Do you wanna take some of this?

[Bridger Weiniger]

I wanna try the gum. That is the best flavor I've ever had.

[Annaliese Nelson]

I've never had the pineapple flavor.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Do you know gum is really good for your teeth?

[Annaliese Nelson]

It is good for your teeth. It's good for your. And there's also, again, a TikTok trend of, like, young men chewing gum or something to strengthen their jaw.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Good luck. I've researched seeing these people going, well.

[Annaliese Nelson]

Do you have some?

[Bridger Weiniger]

Oh, I have some in my bag. Two extra packs. The people on TikTok going, well, I. You'll never believe it. I remineralized my teeth.

[Annaliese Nelson]

R.E.M.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Open the schools. I'm like, I'm begging someone to open the schools. I remineralized my teeth. All my cavities went away. They didn't.

[Annaliese Nelson]

This is an RFK situation, which.

[Bridger Weiniger]

All his cavities went away and they went into his brain, and now his brain is an empty cavity.

[Annaliese Nelson]

It's an absolute void. It just sucks. Echo chamber.

[Bridger Weiniger]

It's terminal F. It's jet boomer.

[Annaliese Nelson]

Spaceships cannot fly past it without getting sucked into it.

[Bridger Weiniger]

No, actually, the tower building up to space, that was his idea and I stole it. Yeah.

[Annaliese Nelson]

This gum is delicious.

[Bridger Weiniger]

I told you, the pineapple flavor, it's the best. And you have to get it online.

[Annaliese Nelson]

They don't sell it in stores. Yours, it's only in your TikTok.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Well, if you go to my Amazon storefront, you'll kind of find it there.

[Annaliese Nelson]

I did have to order the centen ice online. No, store, store.

[Bridger Weiniger]

What's going on to, like, mom and pop shop? Well, I'm, like, going to Target, so I'm telling you, Target's a mom and pop at Target.

[Annaliese Nelson]

They're not selling this to me.

[Bridger Weiniger]

They're selling orbit.

[Annaliese Nelson]

Orbit. And it was all over. I'm gonna have to spit this out because people are gonna hear me chewing gum.

[Bridger Weiniger]

They want to hear that.

[Annaliese Nelson]

I'm gonna do it a couple times. Listener, if you're. If you don't like to hear the sound of someone chewing, turn away. Now, I'm just gonna do this because I was given gum as a gift and we should chew.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Mm. So beautiful.

[Annaliese Nelson]

Okay, now I have to say, I.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Hear your teeth kind of getting remineralized. My teeth were remine. That's what they said. They say it like.

[Annaliese Nelson]

Remineral. They didn't Know again, they didn't know.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Their teeth had mineralized.

[Annaliese Nelson]

It means nothing.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Nothing means anything.

[Annaliese Nelson]

Did they say what remineralized their teeth? Oh, the gum did.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Right.

[Annaliese Nelson]

Is it any gum?

[Bridger Weiniger]

No, it's a special gum that Teresa, if you look. Yes. Wait, I'm not.

[Annaliese Nelson]

Is that true?

[Bridger Weiniger]

Yes.

[Annaliese Nelson]

What? Yes, people are morons.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Absolutely.

[Annaliese Nelson]

Close it all down. You should have to get a license to use the Internet.

[Bridger Weiniger]

I think this is something I truly believe. If you aren't going to use your government name and then post it. Oh, wow. You shouldn't be allowed to bare minimum.

[Annaliese Nelson]

Right?

[Bridger Weiniger]

Absolutely.

[Annaliese Nelson]

Yeah. I mean, that makes sense.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Yeah.

[Annaliese Nelson]

There should be some accountability.

[Bridger Weiniger]

There should be complete accountability.

[Annaliese Nelson]

You should have to government name and what you got on the ACT or sat just to let people know who they're dealing with.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Absolutely. Well, the people who don't have any. Like, this is the thing. We'd weed them out right away. We'd weed them out right away. Because you know who the worst people online are?

[Annaliese Nelson]

Who?

[Bridger Weiniger]

They're under the age of 50.

[Annaliese Nelson]

They're very powerful.

[Bridger Weiniger]

They're the most powerful people in America.

[Annaliese Nelson]

They truly are.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Because they're grew up on an iPad.

[Annaliese Nelson]

They grew up on an iPad. They're extremely confident and they're stupid.

[Bridger Weiniger]

This is the thing. When we. I'm assuming we're about the same age. I'm 11, 25. Yes.

[Annaliese Nelson]

So you're speaking about me directly.

[Bridger Weiniger]

I get a bloody nose. I'm like, I'm 25.

[Annaliese Nelson]

Your teeth fall out.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Well, I remineralized them, so they're gonna be fine. I think that's that because of the Internet. Like when we were young. We are young. When we were younger, when we said something that was wrong, we were corrected immediately. Immediately.

[Annaliese Nelson]

By somebody smarter than us, which made.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Us feel like, okay, if I'm gonna say something, I should know something about it.

[Annaliese Nelson]

Right, like you do in the real world.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Exactly. Well, in girl worlds, as they say on Mean Girls, you need to make a public statement about everything. And people are like, you didn't really talk about this. Like, what? No, people didn't like it when we did the Black Box. They don't. Like we have to listen to people. Why don't we try listening to people? Like, stop.

[Annaliese Nelson]

No. You just have to march forward without listening to anybody.

[Bridger Weiniger]

And that's what a lot of people do. And they're really good at it. And some of them are successful.

[Annaliese Nelson]

Oh, extremely successful. Do you know what I will say about teenagers right now? I used to be scared of teenagers because I was like, oh, they're cooler than me or they know something. In the last, like, three years, I've become scared of them because there's a scary look in their eyes, especially teenage boys. There's a real, like, lacrosse, sex predator look in almost every one of their eyes at this point.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Yes.

[Annaliese Nelson]

I don't know what's happened.

[Bridger Weiniger]

It's trendy.

[Annaliese Nelson]

Well, Joe Rogan.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Yes.

[Annaliese Nelson]

But they've all been turned into this devil.

[Bridger Weiniger]

This is the thing. They're all. I truly believe that they're all so easily swayed the other way. They could easily be swayed the other way. The wayward wind.

[Annaliese Nelson]

But how do we.

[Bridger Weiniger]

We just don't. You don't let them know that you're getting them. You have to shame them.

[Annaliese Nelson]

Oh, interesting.

[Bridger Weiniger]

They all have a kink. Shame. They all want to be. Everybody wants to be shamed at some level.

[Annaliese Nelson]

You want to be shamed at the.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Highest level, I think. I think at the judicial level is like, how they want to be.

[Annaliese Nelson]

We learn through shame.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Absolutely. People do need to get bullied a little bit.

[Annaliese Nelson]

I completely agree.

[Bridger Weiniger]

I was bullied.

[Annaliese Nelson]

I was bullied and I bullied.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Right.

[Annaliese Nelson]

And you're going to bully me after this podcast. You're going to feel like shit.

[Bridger Weiniger]

And I want. That's why I came here. But people are not. They're not learning their lessons anymore.

[Annaliese Nelson]

No, there's no. I mean, there are so many lessons to learn and simply no one's standing up to anybody.

[Bridger Weiniger]

No. You know who taught me the. Sherry Lewis. Taught me a lot of lessons.

[Annaliese Nelson]

Classic bully Sherry Lewis.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Oh, the biggest bully.

[Annaliese Nelson]

Lamb Chop was kind of a bully.

[Bridger Weiniger]

I think because she was small.

[Annaliese Nelson]

It came from insecurity.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Absolutely. I have found her daughter on TikTok, which I like.

[Annaliese Nelson]

Sherry Lewis has a daughter?

[Bridger Weiniger]

Yeah.

[Annaliese Nelson]

And she must be in her.

[Bridger Weiniger]

She's half lamb.

[Annaliese Nelson]

No. Could you imagine there were things going on on that set.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Yeah.

[Annaliese Nelson]

What is her thing? Is she an influencer?

[Bridger Weiniger]

No, she's just sort of like kind of reliving her mother's memory.

[Annaliese Nelson]

Good.

[Bridger Weiniger]

I have said this once on a podcast before, so I really hope. Well, it does bear repeating, so I'll say it again. When Sherry Lewis died, I did set up, like, a shrine of lamb chop things on a shelf in my room.

[Annaliese Nelson]

Oh, that's so sweet. Do you have a lamb chop stall?

[Bridger Weiniger]

I did.

[Annaliese Nelson]

Okay. And like a Charley horse. Was that one of them I had.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Well, I didn't really kind of do well. He was a side character. Yeah. But he had that kind of lacrosse ish side.

[Annaliese Nelson]

Yeah, completely. He was kind of the prototype.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Yes. But, yeah, I had a pillow that I remember that when I was five years old, I threw up on because my appendix ruptured.

[Annaliese Nelson]

Oh, my God.

[Bridger Weiniger]

I'm fine.

[Annaliese Nelson]

Your appendix ruptured at 5? It really wasn't in for the long haul.

[Bridger Weiniger]

No, no, it actually was kind of in and out.

[Annaliese Nelson]

I'm out of here.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Yeah, I gotta go.

[Annaliese Nelson]

I can't do this planet.

[Bridger Weiniger]

But it does save you some weight. It was a good weight. I was already concerned. Concerned about it at 5.

[Annaliese Nelson]

So how much does an appendix weigh?

[Bridger Weiniger]

Too much.

[Annaliese Nelson]

You probably lost a great percentage of weight as a five year old.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Absolutely.

[Annaliese Nelson]

You're like, wow, I really slimmed down this fall.

[Bridger Weiniger]

My BMI is looking amazing. They're like, you're in five years old.

[Annaliese Nelson]

You just lost an organ. Yeah. So Sherry Lewis's daughter is on TikTok, selling all kinds of things. She has her own TikTok.

[Bridger Weiniger]

She hasn't sold anything. Right now. She's just kind of selling the American dream.

[Annaliese Nelson]

Oh, is there any, like. Oh, politically this could get dicey.

[Bridger Weiniger]

No. Except for the red hair.

[Annaliese Nelson]

Oh, interesting. If you like, glanced, you would say, is she wearing a red hat?

[Bridger Weiniger]

Maybe like, oh, no, that woman's. And I really. I feel like that the tone I'm taking is like, I'm talking down to her. I'm looking up to her.

[Annaliese Nelson]

She sounds like she's doing.

[Bridger Weiniger]

She's doing great.

[Annaliese Nelson]

Like pure.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Yes. She's doing what you'd want Sheri Lewis daughter to do on TikTok. She's doing it right. And she's spreading positive message.

[Annaliese Nelson]

Lovely.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Yeah.

[Annaliese Nelson]

Thank God Sheri didn't live to see TikTok.

[Bridger Weiniger]

I think she would have liked it, actually. She's a kind of Republican coded Sherry Lewis.

[Annaliese Nelson]

Oh, I don't want to know this.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Well, and I only say that because it's sort of like off brand Sesame Street. Oh, wow.

[Annaliese Nelson]

I've never really put. Did she start lamb chops? Because she's like, Sesame street is getting too political. They've got someone who lives in a garbage can.

[Bridger Weiniger]

I think maybe.

[Annaliese Nelson]

Oh, Sherry.

[Bridger Weiniger]

No, I have no idea. No, I have no idea. No.

[Annaliese Nelson]

Sherry was a hard leftist.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Yes. And I wanna believe that.

[Annaliese Nelson]

Yes.

[Bridger Weiniger]

I wanna believe that.

[Annaliese Nelson]

Yes. I mean, she had the animals coming.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Together and they had that song that never ended.

[Annaliese Nelson]

Oh, right. Which is kind of an equality message. Enough song for everyone.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Yes. That was sort of the driving force behind the song that never Ends.

[Annaliese Nelson]

Good for her for essentially leaving a curse on earth with that song.

[Bridger Weiniger]

She left something. She left a daughter and A curse.

[Annaliese Nelson]

Well, I think it's time to play a game.

[Bridger Weiniger]

I agree.

[Annaliese Nelson]

I think let's play Gift Master today. Actually, we haven't played this in a while. I need a number between 1 and 10 from you.

[Bridger Weiniger]

8.

[Annaliese Nelson]

Okay. Actually, I'm switching my mind. I want to play gift or a curse, But I'll still use the same number. I have to do some light calculating.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Oh, wait. If it's a different game, I need to give a different number.

[Annaliese Nelson]

Okay, I do need a different number from you. What number would you.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Two.

[Annaliese Nelson]

Two. Oh, a perfect number for this. I need to do some, like, calculating to get our game pieces. So you can recommend, promote. Do whatever you want. I'll be right back.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Okay, great. I don't have anything to promote, actually. But you can follow me on Instagram and you can go to my medical spa when it opens. And because I don't have any sort of medical credentials, I won't be performing any of the services, which is a good thing. And it is the. The right thing.

[Annaliese Nelson]

Okay, that's great. I believe in Utah, you don't have to have a license to drive. To drive. To do anything at all.

[Bridger Weiniger]

No, to drive. You don't need it.

[Annaliese Nelson]

No, there's that. I don't know if you watch Housewives of Salt Lake City, but one of the ones is the Beauty Lab and Laser.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Oh, gay, right?

[Annaliese Nelson]

You think her name's Gay?

[Bridger Weiniger]

No. Meredith Gay. I don't watch the house. Whitney.

[Annaliese Nelson]

Whitney Gay.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Is that her last name?

[Annaliese Nelson]

Yeah.

[Bridger Weiniger]

One of them owns a medical spa, correct?

[Annaliese Nelson]

Yes, yes, A successful medical spa called Beauty Lab and Laser. And I've been there multiple times. I've never gotten a treatment. Just went and got a picture.

[Bridger Weiniger]

What did you get? A mint at the front?

[Annaliese Nelson]

They don't even give you a mint.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Come on, Beauty Lab.

[Annaliese Nelson]

I know you're listening. Put some pillow mints up there for.

[Bridger Weiniger]

People to get in. Yeah, for passerbys.

[Annaliese Nelson]

For me.

[Bridger Weiniger]

When you're taking your eight flights to New York, give the poor man a mint.

[Annaliese Nelson]

Don't worry. I need a lunch. My mint lunch. Okay, we've got to stay on task here. I can't get us off. I'm gonna name three things, okay? You're gonna tell me if they're a gift or a curse and why.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Oh.

[Annaliese Nelson]

And then I'll tell you if you're right or wrong. Because there are correct answers.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Yes.

[Annaliese Nelson]

Am I very clear?

[Bridger Weiniger]

Very. Crystal.

[Annaliese Nelson]

Number one, curse.

[Bridger Weiniger]

And I'll tell you why. Okay, I'm ready. I'm so sorry.

[Annaliese Nelson]

This is from a listener. Named Kristen Gift or a curse? Unscented lotion.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Curse. Why? Because the way lotion was developed, it was developed because the scent is sort of the best part about it. Otherwise, it's just goop. Right. And I understand that the lotion does serve a purpose of sort of moisturizing the skin, but it comes at a great cost. And the great cost is that it feels awful and it feels like goop. And I think that the only way to kind of counteract the kind of glop is the scent. Now, the scents do come in kind of different tiers of what's sort of acceptable and not. And I think your kind of middle ground is cool, which is polarizing, because it does sort of go vacation, but swerves very hard to suntan lotion.

[Annaliese Nelson]

Right. People are smelling the beach. People are smelling the pool.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Yes. But I think your higher tier are your sort of special flavors are like your florals. Some florals are good.

[Annaliese Nelson]

Sure, sure.

[Bridger Weiniger]

And that's the correct answer. Wrong. Oh.

[Annaliese Nelson]

Oh, you don't get the point. Unscented lotion. If I put on a scented lotion, I immediately think I am not being. And as you know, your business is just about to blossom, and we don't do lotions.

[Bridger Weiniger]

So I'm not.

[Annaliese Nelson]

But I need you to be more of an expert on this ad.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Okay.

[Annaliese Nelson]

When I put on a scented lotion, I know I'm not getting the moisture I need. I'm putting on a thick perfume.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Okay.

[Annaliese Nelson]

I do not want.

[Bridger Weiniger]

And what's wrong with that?

[Annaliese Nelson]

If I wanted perfume, I would do a light spritzer.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Well, do you know that the oils from the lotion help the scent stay longer? I learned that on TikTok. You'll never guess what I learned on so from lotion. Okay, I'm listening. I'm just not hearing you.

[Annaliese Nelson]

You know, when I'm at a hotel or at somewhere that supplies a lotion, I know I'm in immediate danger because I know it's going to have a smell. It'll be a floral smell. I'll put it on. And it's essentially somewhere between water and GAC and potpourri. None of those things is doing what it needs to moisturize my. My body.

[Bridger Weiniger]

And so potpourri, the famous moisturizer I'm.

[Annaliese Nelson]

Rubbing into my skin, dust all over my body.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Pine cone just grabbed. Scratching.

[Annaliese Nelson]

Great exfoliator. That's not a bad idea.

[Bridger Weiniger]

No.

[Annaliese Nelson]

Again, I could be an early investor after cutting the ribbon.

[Bridger Weiniger]

It's like an African net sponge. It's a pine cone.

[Annaliese Nelson]

Is that a real thing? An African nut sponge?

[Bridger Weiniger]

Net. Net.

[Annaliese Nelson]

Net sponge, yes.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Sorry, did you not understand my. My accent when I said that? African net sponge.

[Annaliese Nelson]

Net sponge. Is that anything like a loofah?

[Bridger Weiniger]

It's. Well, a loofah is sort of like what white people started to do when we stopped using the washcloth, which I never.

[Annaliese Nelson]

I will not do. Oh, you. I've never started.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Well, then maybe that's the reason the lotions are so irritating, is that you're not kind of scrubbing off the top layer.

[Annaliese Nelson]

I'm using the loofah.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Oh, boy. That is. That's sort of like a disease waiting to happen.

[Annaliese Nelson]

A disease waiting to happen.

[Bridger Weiniger]

I think the loofah is. So the net sponge is, in essence, to break it down is like the loofah if it weren't sewn together.

[Annaliese Nelson]

Oh, so it's like a miles and miles of tulle. Like tulle. Tulle's not a bad idea for a shower tool.

[Bridger Weiniger]

No, absolutely not.

[Annaliese Nelson]

A beautiful tool hanging from the side of your shower.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Yes. I'm distracting me because I'm still not kind of understanding. You're in immediate danger. You're at an hie holiday and expressed lotion.

[Annaliese Nelson]

We all have to start with an unscented lotion. I understand you stink, and you want to smell it up with your roses or your sandalwoods, but that should come as a second layer to the medically dermatology prescribed.

[Bridger Weiniger]

They don't like unsensed.

[Annaliese Nelson]

Unscented lotion is a case. It's a base. It's a foundation.

[Bridger Weiniger]

What lotion are you using? Vani cream. What is it?

[Annaliese Nelson]

I mean, I'm gonna say this. You're probably gonna scream Aveeno.

[Bridger Weiniger]

No, that's fine.

[Annaliese Nelson]

I love Aveeno.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Jennifer Aniston has been using it for years. I'm sure that's what I do.

[Annaliese Nelson]

Religiously religious. We know. She's bathing in it.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Yeah. Aveeno and smart water.

[Annaliese Nelson]

She sleeps in, like a vat.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Yes. Of Aveeno. Of Aveeno?

[Annaliese Nelson]

Yes.

[Bridger Weiniger]

No, I'm. Hey, listen, I'm not. I don't believe in expensive, expensive products.

[Annaliese Nelson]

Oh. A lot of it's. I mean, it is a scam. So much of it.

[Bridger Weiniger]

There's only two different tiers of products. Well, three. Free, over the counter, and prescription.

[Annaliese Nelson]

Yes.

[Bridger Weiniger]

And the only thing that works are prescriptions and procedures, so I'm sorry if you got it over the counter. La Mer. Oh, is used to. Here's the.

[Annaliese Nelson]

You bought it in a mall kiosk.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Stop it. It's in a glass container. You Fucking fool. There's mineral oil as the first ingredient. It's oil. It's olive oil.

[Annaliese Nelson]

It's grease.

[Bridger Weiniger]

It's grease. Butter. It's goop. Exactly what I've been saying. But it's scented.

[Annaliese Nelson]

Right. And people fall for it. And it's French.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Yes.

[Annaliese Nelson]

Or at least the name is.

[Bridger Weiniger]

I'm sorry that I got that.

[Annaliese Nelson]

You got it wrong. But don't let that shake your confidence too much.

[Bridger Weiniger]

It hasn't at all, actually. It's only kind of emboldened me. I'm ready.

[Annaliese Nelson]

Okay. The second one is from somebody named Ollie. Gift or a curse? Joking to your waiter at a restaurant that you did not like a dish that you've clearly just devoured.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Absolutely. That's a curse. Why? That is the lowest tier of comedy available of going, well, I hated it, and then pushing the clean plate back to the waiter. Oh, my God. That is, like, for me, when I think of that, I think of David and Goliath. I am David, and I'm taking the slingshot right to the head. And I'm dead. And I want everyone dead. I don't. That's so terrible. If it's been done before, if the joke in the bit has been done before, I think maybe let's put it to rest.

[Annaliese Nelson]

You are correct. It's a curse. And I'm looking at this from the waiter's perspective. This poor person is just trying to do their job, and part of that is acting like they enjoy your company, and you're pushing it to the limit by telling them a joke that they have heard a billion times.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Right.

[Annaliese Nelson]

This person should not be subjected to your open mic.

[Bridger Weiniger]

I have actually. Wait, I'm gonna say something. I'm gonna give a disclaimer to this.

[Annaliese Nelson]

Okay, let's hear it.

[Bridger Weiniger]

I think it's okay if somebody says that joke ironically, but if they say it.

[Annaliese Nelson]

But I mean, there's. It's too quick of an interaction to deal with irony and all of this.

[Bridger Weiniger]

If the waiter prompts you with a. Let me guess, you didn't like it, then you can hit them with a yeah, I hated it. And it's. It's harmless. It's a harmless interaction. But I also. Now I'm on your side of it being a curse, but if the t. But I really do feel for the table.

[Annaliese Nelson]

Right.

[Bridger Weiniger]

How shameful.

[Annaliese Nelson]

Oh, so embarrassing.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Embarrassing. Never returning to the restaurant with that person at least.

[Annaliese Nelson]

No, no, no, no. They've been excommunicated from the group. Goodbye. I will work to have them banned. And, yeah, it's a complete curse. And yeah, I think at least letting the waiter be in control of this.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Dynamic, they should be in control of everything.

[Annaliese Nelson]

Of the country. Yes, I actually kind of believe that. Okay, so you've gotten one so far. And this is the final one. This is from somebody named Maris. Gift or a curse? Writing no caption needed. As your caption to a picture online.

[Bridger Weiniger]

There's a. It's a two. It's a double edged sword. Cause it's a curse to you and it's a gift to me. Cause I know now and the gift is I know to avoid you. And the curse is you have no original thoughts of your own. No caption needed. I did a thing. Stop it.

[Annaliese Nelson]

Oh, I did a thing.

[Bridger Weiniger]

I did a thing.

[Annaliese Nelson]

Can I just a slight detail detour, please. The slightest.

[Bridger Weiniger]

We haven't taken any. Yeah.

[Annaliese Nelson]

Have you seen the documentary about the Grey's Anatomy? Liar. The writer that was lying about her entire life.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Ah, no.

[Annaliese Nelson]

Oh, you have to see it. It is fascinating. She lied about literally any traumatic event you can imagine. She lied about having it from cancer to having somebody die in a mass shooting. What to all.

[Bridger Weiniger]

And her name was Rachel Dulza.

[Annaliese Nelson]

I mean, she's kind of the Rachel of the.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Of medical.

[Annaliese Nelson]

Of Grey's Anatomy. But I think they show a screenshot of something she did that I think was the biggest red flag possible. I think it may have been the first episode she wrote of Grey's Anatomy or something. And she got on Twitter and the first sentence of this tweet is, my.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Nails are like in my palms. They're like bleeding. Uh huh.

[Annaliese Nelson]

I did a thing.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Stop.

[Annaliese Nelson]

Period.

[Bridger Weiniger]

That's.

[Annaliese Nelson]

Or maybe it was I wrote a thing. Either way, if I had been one of her co workers, I would have started telling everyone there's something going on with Elizabeth. Yeah, let's figure this out now, because.

[Bridger Weiniger]

This could be the rape whistle on my fanny package. I pull it, the fire alarm is off.

[Annaliese Nelson]

Absolutely.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Really? I did. I wrote a thing. It doesn't matter either.

[Annaliese Nelson]

It doesn't matter what the verb is there. It's the most insane thing you could possibly write. And then as a professional writer, this person. I mean, like every element of it was like, this person here is at danger.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Wait, like your poetic license should be revoked.

[Annaliese Nelson]

Absolutely.

[Bridger Weiniger]

That's crazy. That is a curse.

[Annaliese Nelson]

Yeah, it's a curse.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Yeah.

[Annaliese Nelson]

And okay, so you're saying. But you're saying no caption needed is a gift to you, which you have to pick one side or the other.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Oh, curse. Okay, I'm Seeing, like, the silver lining is the gift of that. Like, I know to just avoid this person at all costs.

[Annaliese Nelson]

Right, Right. Unfortunately, you do not get the point. It's a gift. Four reasons that you did outline.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Okay.

[Annaliese Nelson]

I mean, my finger is floating over mute at all times. The list of people I've muted at.

[Bridger Weiniger]

This point, I've never muted anyone.

[Annaliese Nelson]

Do you unfollow?

[Bridger Weiniger]

No, I kind of suffer through you.

[Annaliese Nelson]

Just deal with it.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Well, because I have to know what the other 99% think, you know, I.

[Annaliese Nelson]

Do have a few of those in my feed where I'm like, I gotta keep an eye.

[Bridger Weiniger]

I have to keep. There are some people that I have that I have not unfollowed. Cause I'm keeping tabs on them.

[Annaliese Nelson]

Because you can learn, you can grow.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Cause I know the FBI is gonna contact me and go, where? What were they doing? And that I can have the keys to kind of get them thrown into jail. I know that. And so I know that I have a kind of social and moral obligation to keep tabs on these people.

[Annaliese Nelson]

Yeah. You say, here's a screenshot. I wrote a thing.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Exactly.

[Annaliese Nelson]

Lock her up, boys.

[Bridger Weiniger]

She can't be trusted. She can't be trusted at all. And they're like, what? That was Ryan Murphy. Throw him in.

[Annaliese Nelson]

Ryan Murphy gets on Twitter and says, I wrote a thing.

[Bridger Weiniger]

I wrote a. A thing.

[Annaliese Nelson]

That's all I want in the world.

[Bridger Weiniger]

We're getting there, Ryan.

[Annaliese Nelson]

Reach out. Well, you got one out of three.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Okay.

[Annaliese Nelson]

Bad, not good. Not good. But room to grow.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Yeah.

[Annaliese Nelson]

Room to learn. And that's all we want out of anyone on this podcast. This is the final segment. This is called I said no Emails. People write into I said no giftsmail.com begging for answers. That's all you need to know. Will you help me answer a question, please? Okay, let me get into the doc. Okay. This says Dear Guest. Now this. I mean, they usually say Dear Bridger and Guest. So this is.

[Bridger Weiniger]

It sounds like this is. Can I see the laptop? It's for me. No, no, no, I don't need. Oh, that's for me.

[Annaliese Nelson]

Actually, dear Guest, I mean, I feel. Look, I'm a sensitive person, so I'm a little shaken right now, but that's fine. Dear Guests. And specifically not Bridger. Yes. Okay. It says, every year my family asks for a list of things each family member would like for Christmas. And it always feels very impersonal. Not much thought is put into the gifts besides picking something to buy from said list. And it feels more like an obligation this year I want to approach the holidays differently and move away from capitalist gift giving. I'm 27, and while there is many a thing I would like to give, I feel the money spent on gifts could go to better causes like charities. How can I convince my family to put their money to better use so we can all be more altruistic? This upcoming holiday season, yours truly, Lauren in Durham. And again, I guess you will have to start. I'm happy to provide some information, but Lauren has specifically asked just for your help, at least initially.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Um, Lauren from Durham. I. I like where your heart is at. I think kind of suck it up. Buttercup. Listen. No, no, no. And I don't. I don't. I don't know you. Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. Lauren, Lauren, Lauren. Back up. Edit this out. No, keep it in. I want her to know my inner thoughts. I think that. I mean, what do you want? What do you want? Like, what do you want? I understand. And I'm gonna say. Say this. Lauren, I'm going to. I'm eye to eye with you right now. I don't like gifts either one. Because a lot of it is just. People just give you junk to be like, I got you junk. I'm familiar as you have opened packets of Trident and Korean sheet masks in front of you. But you'll use those.

[Annaliese Nelson]

I will be using those.

[Bridger Weiniger]

And that doesn't take up real estate.

[Annaliese Nelson]

Yes, they will. Eventually you get to be thrown away.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Right. And you won't, because you won't.

[Annaliese Nelson]

Or you, like, made into a quilt or something. I'll find a use.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Yes, yes, yes. So I'm with you. Where it's just like, I don't need this. I don't need you to go to the Sharper Image and get me like. But it's a wire. It keeps all your wires together. I don't. I'm with you. I don't need that. But listen, your family, your parents, they don't have much time left, and I just sort of think you have to kind of like, let them do what they want to do.

[Annaliese Nelson]

I agree completely. Lauren, your family's about to say Lauren is a killjoy.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Yeah.

[Annaliese Nelson]

She's just making Christmas so boring.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Yes.

[Annaliese Nelson]

Look, maybe you do a combination.

[Bridger Weiniger]

I think that's what I was just going to say. A hybrid, let's say. Let's put a price limit on it.

[Annaliese Nelson]

Yes. Price limit. Start from there.

[Bridger Weiniger]

And then I'm going to give someone the gift. Gift of friendship, love. Don't. Sometimes people go, here's a gift, and it's like the receipt for like I donated to the zoo.

[Annaliese Nelson]

Yes.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Right.

[Annaliese Nelson]

Yes, they printed that out.

[Bridger Weiniger]

That's my favorite charity.

[Annaliese Nelson]

The zoo.

[Bridger Weiniger]

The Detroit Zoo. Yes.

[Annaliese Nelson]

They have a beautiful water feature.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Yeah, they do. So much for the community.

[Annaliese Nelson]

Question mark.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Yeah, I love them. Yeah. So donate to the zoo.

[Annaliese Nelson]

Yeah. I think a hybrid where you maybe you do the list of things you want and then a list of potential charities. Or say maybe we limit it to small businesses. We can only buy each other things from local small businesses. Yes.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Or you know how like in the campaign when you buy like campaign merch, it's actually like a donation to the campaign. Oh, right. Do they have that for charities?

[Annaliese Nelson]

Oh, probably.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Right, do that.

[Annaliese Nelson]

Some oversized T shirt.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Yes.

[Annaliese Nelson]

Ill fitting. Yes.

[Bridger Weiniger]

A tote bag.

[Annaliese Nelson]

Hat.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Everyone needs a tote bag and an ill fitting hat.

[Annaliese Nelson]

Water bottle.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Oh my God, I could use another. A keychain. Do that.

[Annaliese Nelson]

That's not a bad idea.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Ask for that. Why don't you be the change you want to see in the world and ask for literally the donation.

[Annaliese Nelson]

And then your family members may follow your lead. Unless you're the one that they don't like already.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Well, here's the thing. It would be. It's gonna be so self righteous that you show up to Christmas and somebody's like, I got a Nintendo DS. And then another person's like, I got a 74 inch TV. And you turn to them with a little envelope and go, I asked mother and father to donate to the little sisters of the poor. You selfish bitch.

[Annaliese Nelson]

I'd love to be playing Mario right.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Now, but I have to contact the little sisters of the poor.

[Annaliese Nelson]

Maybe sometime you can show me a TV show.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Cause I donated mine and I don't. I don't have one.

[Annaliese Nelson]

Can I get a ride home? Lauren, you're so lucky that I even chipped in here. I mean, I had no reason to give you any advice. I was so rude. Don't write back in.

[Bridger Weiniger]

It was crazy. She. And you know what? For someone who didn't want anything, she did kind of want our time.

[Annaliese Nelson]

She wanted attention. She obviously wanted to be seen as a good person, which she clearly isn't. She listens to this podcast others. She's a rotten egg.

[Bridger Weiniger]

No.

[Annaliese Nelson]

Bad news, Lauren. Sorry. Merry Christmas. Happy holidays. Your family's gonna be pissed. Yeah, well, we answered it perfectly. Absolutely perfectly. And now I've got gum for days. This can go in my car. It won't go in my bag as I described.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Yes.

[Annaliese Nelson]

Oh, it'll go in my freezer.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Oh, yeah, please put that in Your freezer. It'll melt.

[Annaliese Nelson]

That's a new trend. I bet that could start dry yogurt facetime.

[Bridger Weiniger]

I need to kind of. I just. It's like nobody carries. Nobody cares about, like, your gut flora anymore.

[Annaliese Nelson]

No, no, no, no, no, no. No one cares. Let it die.

[Bridger Weiniger]

No.

[Annaliese Nelson]

Let it die.

[Bridger Weiniger]

No. Awful.

[Annaliese Nelson]

Oh, Annaliese, we forgot to play your version of Gift or occurs today, but I think we've gone. We've probably got enough audio here. We'll play it another time.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Yeah, we have two hours. I couldn't. It's my fault that this went so long. I didn't stop.

[Annaliese Nelson]

Adam called me before the show and said, don't let Anneliese do the gift or curse today. I can't. I don't have the strength or the patience.

[Bridger Weiniger]

What now? Is Adam undermining you? Is it me or is it Adam?

[Annaliese Nelson]

It's everyone. I can't trust anyone in my life.

[Bridger Weiniger]

I'm sort of thinking if you were sick, you've sort of been around him, so there's bound to be a few.

[Annaliese Nelson]

House.

[Bridger Weiniger]

I'm looking for a job for roommates is what I'm saying, and I hope I get it.

[Annaliese Nelson]

Congratulations on the new podcast, Adam.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Thank you. Thank you.

[Annaliese Nelson]

Please enjoy it. No. I'm so thrilled to become a new person with all these products and then come to your place to have all of the damage fixed after this causes permanent scarring.

[Bridger Weiniger]

That's how we go.

[Annaliese Nelson]

This is how you get people in.

[Bridger Weiniger]

You create the problem, and then you solve it by creating a new problem.

[Annaliese Nelson]

That's the cycle. I've had such a wonderful time with you here today.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Me too.

[Annaliese Nelson]

Thank you for being here. And listener. The podcast is over. My voice basically made it. You. You've gone. Just imagine I was smoking the whole time. Isn't that an image? Isn't that a pretty image? Me just lighting up cigarette after cigarette while I record a podcast while my guest can't smoke. That'll be the next episode. Okay, it's over. I love you. Goodbye. I said no Gifts is an exactly right production. Our senior producer is Annelise Nelson, and our episode episodes are beautifully mixed by Ben Tolliday. The theme song is by miracle worker Amy Mann. And we couldn't do it without our booker, Patrick Cotner. You must follow the show on Instagram at I saidnogifts. 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?

[Bridger Weiniger]

Thought I made myself perfectly perfect. Clear when you're a guest in my home, you got to come to me empty handed. I said no gifts.

[Annaliese Nelson]

Your presence is presence enough.

[Bridger Weiniger]

And I already had too much stuff so how do you dare disobey me? Okay, only 10 more presents to wrap.

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[Bridger Weiniger]

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