Anna Drezen Disobeys Bridger

Summary

Podcast Summary: Anna Drezen Disobeys Bridger

Podcast Information:

• Title: I Said No Gifts! A Comedy Interview Podcast with Bridger Winegar
• Host: Bridger Winegar
• Guest: Anna Drezen
• Episode Title: Anna Drezen Disobeys Bridger
• Release Date: August 7, 2025

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Introduction

In this episode of "I Said No Gifts!", Bridger Winegar welcomes comedian and actress Anna Drezen for what promises to be an engaging and humorous conversation. True to the podcast's theme, Bridger requests that guests come without gifts. However, Anna Drezen playfully defies this rule, setting the stage for a lively and entertaining dialogue filled with personal anecdotes, humorous exchanges, and interactive segments.

Initial Banter and Studio Issues

The episode begins with Bridger expressing frustration about technical issues with his new car, highlighting the chaotic nature of his daily life. He shares an amusing update about his lost Kindle being found by Delta Air Lines, lamenting the unexpected shipping fees but appreciating its return. Bridger also teases listeners about an upcoming live show and promotes his game, "Gift Master," available in the Exactly Right Store.

Notable Quote:

Bridger Winegar [02:14]: "When I invited you here I thought I made myself perfectly clear. When you're a guest in my home it come to me empty handed. I said no. Guess your presence is presents enough and I already had too much stuff so how do you dare to survey me?"

Gift Etiquette and Expectations

Upon Anna Drezen's arrival, Bridger humorously confronts her about bringing a gift despite his clear request. The two engage in a lighthearted exchange about the nature of gifts, Bridger's preference for minimalism, and the comedic tension arising from Anna's defiance.

Notable Quote:

Anna Drezen [05:24]: "All of your suspicions are true, the paranoia. I'm confirming it now."

Discussion on Anna's Life and Careers

Anna shares snippets of her life, including her work on the podcast "Secret Lives of Mormon Wives" and her experience directing a short film. The conversation delves into the challenges of creative projects, balancing personal life with professional endeavors, and the humorous aspects of directing and acting.

Notable Quote:

Anna Drezen [18:03]: "What's going on in your life?"

Short Film Experience

Bridger recounts his recent experience shooting a short film over two days. He describes the setting as a church campus with various challenges, including unexpected noise from swim lessons nearby. The discussion highlights the unpredictable nature of filmmaking and the comedic mishaps that can occur during production.

Notable Quote:

Bridger Winegar [18:17]: "I shot a short film the last two days."

Challenges with Scheduling and Organization

A significant portion of the conversation focuses on Bridger's and Anna's struggles with scheduling, organization, and the use of tools like Google Calendar. They humorously discuss their ineffective methods, missed appointments, and the personal impacts of poor time management.

Notable Quote:

Anna Drezen [53:34]: "I have so much free time at this point. That it's just nothing."

Game Segment: Bad Choices

Transitioning into an interactive segment, Bridger introduces the game "Bad Choices," a Cards Against Humanity-style game. They pull and discuss various humorous and outrageous questions, sharing laughs over the absurdity of some scenarios.

Notable Quote:

Anna Drezen [46:11]: "Would you spend the night in a full porta potty for $10,000?"

Gift or Curse Game

In another interactive segment, Bridger and Anna play "Gift or Curse," where they evaluate items sent by listeners to determine if they are gifts or curses. This segment brings out their comedic chemistry as they humorously assess everyday objects' value and quirks.

Notable Quote:

Bridger Winegar [83:31]: "It's like, you're in a bad place. Banana. No one likes a banana candy."

Closing Remarks and Final Thoughts

As the episode nears its end, Bridger and Anna reflect on their conversation, the gifts (and curses) shared, and the perpetual comedic tension of the "no gifts" rule. They express mutual appreciation for the exchange and hint at future episodes' potential topics and games.

Notable Quote:

Anna Drezen [94:12]: "Thank you for bringing all of these objects."

Bridger Winegar [94:14]: "Thank you for taking them off my hands."

Conclusion

This episode of "I Said No Gifts!" masterfully blends humor, personal storytelling, and interactive game segments, showcasing the delightful rapport between Bridger Winegar and Anna Drezen. Their candid conversations about life’s chaotic moments, coupled with playful defiance of podcast rules, create an engaging listening experience that is both relatable and entertaining.

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Key Takeaways:

• The humorous dynamics between host and guest can defy set rules for entertaining interactions.
• Personal anecdotes about creative projects and daily mishaps add depth and relatability.
• Interactive segments like "Bad Choices" and "Gift or Curse" enhance listener engagement through humor and participation.
• Discussions about personal challenges, such as scheduling and organization, are approached with comedic flair, making them both insightful and amusing.

Notable Quotes with Timestamps:

• Bridger on gifting tensions [02:14]: "When I invited you here I thought I made myself perfectly clear..."
• Anna confirming Bridger's paranoia [05:28]: "I'm confirming it now."
• Bridger on his short film experience [18:17]: "I shot a short film the last two days."
• Anna on scheduling struggles [53:34]: "I have so much free time at this point. That it's just nothing."
• Bridger on ineffective scheduling methods [55:52]: "This has gone far enough..."
• Anna on "Gift or Curse" game [83:31]: "It's like, you're in a bad place. Banana. No one likes a banana candy."

This comprehensive summary encapsulates the essence of the episode, highlighting the key conversations, humorous exchanges, and interactive segments that make "I Said No Gifts!" a standout comedy podcast.

Transcript

[Bridger Weiniger]

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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 it come to me empty handed. I said no. Guess your presence is presents enough and I already had too much stuff so how do you dare to survey me?

[Anna Dresden]

Welcome to I said no gifts. I'm Bridger Weiniger. We are here in the shadow of the Burbank Airport in studio. What's going on? My car has been beeping at me non stop. It's out of control. I'm in a new car and it's putting me in danger. The amount of alerts is baffling. I need to talk to somebody. I had a headache yesterday. I don't have a headache today. And, oh, you know, I feel like I started last episode kind of saying that Delta Air Lines would never find my lost Kindle. Apparently they found it. I can't believe they found it. They are charging me $30 in shipping to get it back to me, and I know how much things cost to ship and I feel like I've suffered enough already. It should have been a free. That should be part of the package. They should bring it to me. But I'm happy to get it back and then I'll return the Kindle I bought in its place. My life is chaos, but I'm shocked. I couldn't believe that they found it. And I think that's the important news. Then less important, we have the live show coming up August 22nd at 7:30pm, Dynasty Typewriter, Los Angeles, California. If you can't be here, you can also get a live stream. It's going to be, we're going to have such a good time or we won't. I'll have a meltdown on stage. It'll go viral and you'll be there in the moment and you'll be able to say, I was there when Bridger had the meltdown. So everyone's a winner. Everyone walks away a winner. Patreon, still there. Still there for you to be part of. I'm now sharing my cookie recipe. I'm giving it all away on this thing we're talking about Secret Lives of Mormon Wives. We're having regular bonus episodes. It's all there for you. Patreon.com isaidnogifts now it's time for the podcast. I love today's guest. Everybody adores her. It's Anna Dresden. Hannah, welcome to I said no gifts.

[Bridger Weiniger]

This is. That's the. This is news for me. Can I sit here and silently just.

[Anna Dresden]

Take that all in?

[Bridger Weiniger]

The amount of hatred I think is being directed towards me at all times is in fact a fake. And I am.

[Anna Dresden]

No, a lot of that is true.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Oh, I see. Oh, yeah. You're just being nice.

[Anna Dresden]

I'm trying to just butter you up. Trying to get you in a good place mentally. But most people.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Good luck.

[Anna Dresden]

Despise you.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Thank you. Thank you.

[Anna Dresden]

All of your suspicions are true, the paranoia. I'm confirming it now.

[Bridger Weiniger]

It's amazing. I actually feel nice right now. Like, normally I think I would have spun myself out and tricked you into thinking that it would be fun to do a bit where I hate myself. But then it Would actually hurt my feelings, but actually, I feel great.

[Anna Dresden]

Good. Then we've got you in the perfect spot. And I'm also noticing this water is in between us. This is your water.

[Bridger Weiniger]

No. What? Okay. I'm so glad you called it out, because I was not gonna touch it, but I was gonna want it this whole time.

[Anna Dresden]

Just let that be tense between the.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Why don't you have water?

[Anna Dresden]

Well, I have this Lacroix right here, but it's a nice little. Is it a cozy? A koozie. And now that I've said the name of the drink, I think it's fine for me to say that behind this.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Don't bleep it. I have a.

[Anna Dresden]

That's something I've been complaining about. The secret lives of Mormon wives. They're blurring out every soda on the show. And I know they're Diet Cokes.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Why are they so n. Yeah, they're clearly Diet Cokes. They should put the. Bring back the black box that goes over.

[Anna Dresden]

Oh, that. I love that blurring.

[Bridger Weiniger]

I'm not fooled by a blur.

[Anna Dresden]

The tasteful blur.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Give us the Girls Gone Wild blur.

[Anna Dresden]

I mean, the black box or the mosaic. The, like, America's Most Wanted or crime footage. Yeah, the squares.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Why aren't they doing squares anymore?

[Anna Dresden]

They should be.

[Bridger Weiniger]

They think that we're so slick, we're so marvel blind that we need a blur.

[Anna Dresden]

We need a nice little smooth blur. The black box, I think, is a very good idea.

[Bridger Weiniger]

It just. Everybody say, go home to your wives. You know, like, have a good day.

[Anna Dresden]

And you're just panicking that it could fly off at any moment.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Yeah.

[Anna Dresden]

You know, it's like the editor could have dropped the ball. And then the black box gets too far off of whatever's being blurred. And then you get a peek at whatever you want to take a peek at.

[Bridger Weiniger]

It's compelling.

[Anna Dresden]

It's very compelling.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Well, I have two mugs now. I asked for a mug because the travel mug that I brought my coffee in is the mug I don't like. Cause of the sound that the ice makes when it's.

[Anna Dresden]

Oh, it's the sound of the ice that's causing the sound of the ice.

[Bridger Weiniger]

The ice clonking against the leeching plastic black lid is like. And I don't want that. But I wanted it. I saw this mug and I was like, I would like a mug, too, because that's clearly Bridger's water.

[Anna Dresden]

And you were so wrong.

[Bridger Weiniger]

And I was like, what's wrong with them that they didn't bring me water? But Now, I have two beverages, which is at least. That's my minimum.

[Anna Dresden]

You should start with two. One should be a water at all times.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Yes.

[Anna Dresden]

Just a neutral thing.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Yeah.

[Anna Dresden]

And then whatever you want.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Oh, this is my fun coffee.

[Anna Dresden]

And then maybe a third thing that you're experimenting with. And look at me. I've just got, you know, like, you could have a new flavor of Lacroix that you, like, just grabbed out of the fridge, and you think, oh, I might not actually like that. So I'll have these two backups.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Right.

[Anna Dresden]

But you only have two, and I only have one, so I'm a hypocrite.

[Bridger Weiniger]

You are. But it's okay.

[Anna Dresden]

Did you make that coffee at home?

[Bridger Weiniger]

My. Oh, this is bad. My husband put it in the tumbler for me, and I took it out the door.

[Anna Dresden]

That's very nice.

[Bridger Weiniger]

It's very Betty Draper.

[Anna Dresden]

Betty Draper on the go.

[Bridger Weiniger]

He's Betty Draper.

[Anna Dresden]

Oh. Oh, interesting. He's Betty.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Yeah. I guess he gave me my coffee, and I went to my car.

[Anna Dresden]

Lit your cigarette as you drove away.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Yeah. An expensive song plays.

[Anna Dresden]

Oh. I mean, it's a little spoiler here, but RIP Betty Draper.

[Bridger Weiniger]

RIP Betty Draper.

[Anna Dresden]

Tragic.

[Bridger Weiniger]

I thought this was how I was finding out that January Jones died.

[Anna Dresden]

I was like, I will spoil the celebrity. Spoiler alert of celebrity death.

[Bridger Weiniger]

We're getting news. January Jones has been apprehended by federal agents, and she did not survive in.

[Anna Dresden]

A shootout with the FBI. Okay, so your husband, but did he make the coffee at home, or did he buy the coffee?

[Bridger Weiniger]

We had leftover cold brew from a shoot.

[Anna Dresden]

Wow. Interesting.

[Bridger Weiniger]

That was exciting.

[Anna Dresden]

I love a leftover. I drink leftover cold brew this morning.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Oh, really?

[Anna Dresden]

Yes.

[Bridger Weiniger]

That's. I would ask you your brand, but now I'm worried about having to bleep it.

[Anna Dresden]

Well, we won't have to bleep it. Well, this is. If you want a whole explanation. I usually make mine, but we've started ordering the grounds from a thing which I've recently canceled. But we were waiting for the latest batch, so I hadn't made any. So I went to Starbucks and bought a giant thing of cold brew just because I knew in the morning, yeah, I'm going to need some sort of coffee, and I don't drink hot coffee.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Really? In the afternoon, when you're looking at Pinterest, you're like, I'm gonna only ever use cheesecloth and ground beans. I will never buy a bottle of coffee again. And in the morning, when you know you have the Starbucks cold brew bottle in your fridge.

[Anna Dresden]

Oh, My God, it's so much easier.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Well, it's a thrill. It's a birthday feeling.

[Anna Dresden]

But the ice cubes in that are beautiful. I noticed when you pour. Okay. And full disclosure, you did dump part of it on.

[Bridger Weiniger]

I did pour it all. I said, can I have a mug? And poronalise went out. It took 1 minute and 30 seconds at least to find the mug, which made me feel guilty. And then I tried to quickly pour it in here, and it spilled all over the white marble table that I'm realizing isn't real marble. I felt so guilty, it actually.

[Anna Dresden]

Oh, wow. I haven't ever thought about this.

[Bridger Weiniger]

It's veneer.

[Anna Dresden]

It's too warm to be marble.

[Bridger Weiniger]

It's too warm to be. Yeah. Oh, ice cold.

[Anna Dresden]

I would love a cold.

[Bridger Weiniger]

A church temperature.

[Anna Dresden]

I'd love to be able to chop meat on this.

[Bridger Weiniger]

You should. I think if you chop meat on this, you'd immediately make a new salmonella. This is not.

[Anna Dresden]

No, no, no. This. It's too porous.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Yeah. Well, I am glad. I was feeling guilty about that. But then. Yeah. So these ice cubes are big, square guys. Should I pour it out towards camera like a. Like a stupid idiot?

[Anna Dresden]

It's almost impossible to show that off to camera, I think. But I. Yeah.

[Bridger Weiniger]

So these are huge ice cubes because I live with a man who's my husband, and husbands, like, all have big, square ice cube tray.

[Anna Dresden]

Right.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Every husband comes with one. That's his dowry.

[Anna Dresden]

That's what you get from the family.

[Bridger Weiniger]

And then slowly, the white plastic ice cube trays disappear the longer you've been married. And then we now have two of these. And I don't know where the second one came from.

[Anna Dresden]

Oh, interesting. He snuck out.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Yeah. And then he's like, I actually don't like this one. I'm like, no one likes it. Then why are they here? But you need ice so you're not picky.

[Anna Dresden]

Is this like a, like, whiskey thing? Is it like he's got a tumbler?

[Bridger Weiniger]

That's probably what they're for. We're not whiskey guys. Okay. But we both have siblings and siblings in law who don't quite know us, so we get a lot of whiskey stones, a lot of wine openers.

[Anna Dresden]

I think that's the key to getting nice things is people not knowing you.

[Bridger Weiniger]

That well at all. Well, you know, no spoilers, but that'll come back.

[Anna Dresden]

Sure, sure.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Yeah.

[Anna Dresden]

Okay, Great. Interesting. Well, yeah, I think it's a beautiful ice cube, and I'm jealous of it. I'm looking at so gorgeous I think that's an inconvenient type of ice cube.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Do you want me to slide it towards you so you can see it more?

[Anna Dresden]

Cause it looks also very clear. You know, it's not, like, foggy like this is. Let me take a picture. If you don't mind. I'll post this, please, somewhere.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Yeah, that's fine. Just make sure to tag all your socials. Big husband ice.

[Anna Dresden]

Look at that. There's like an explosion in it. This is the most beautiful ice cube I've ever seen.

[Bridger Weiniger]

You gotta come and take them out of our house. I can't see them anymore. I need to just commit to a new ice cube. But, yeah, it is like a big square cube, which is what a cube is. But it reminds me of, like, when you'd order ice in, like, the early 1900s, and they'd, like, cut it out of a lake and it would just.

[Anna Dresden]

They brought it from the mountain.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Yeah, right. We're historians.

[Anna Dresden]

They had it in the wagon and they brought it down from the creek.

[Bridger Weiniger]

And everyone stood on both sides of the road entering town and clapped.

[Anna Dresden]

This is all very relevant to me, and this is something I talk about too much on this podcast, but I'm watching Little House on the Prairie for the first time.

[Bridger Weiniger]

That's the show, and it's from the 50s or something.

[Anna Dresden]

70S, 70s. About the 1800s.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Tell me all about it.

[Anna Dresden]

You don't know anything about it.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Well, I'm aware. I can picture the color.

[Anna Dresden]

Picture the 1800s as funneled through the 1970s. Last night, I was watching the plague episode, and it's dark. It truly is. Like, there are some haunting images. There's a wagon that's being dragged by two horses with no rider because the two people have died of typhus.

[Bridger Weiniger]

And the horses are dumb. They're like, I guess we're still. We'll go till someone says stop. That's the takeaway that I.

[Anna Dresden]

That's a good question. Would the horses continue?

[Bridger Weiniger]

What are we doing? I feel so. Did they get lighter or am I stronger?

[Anna Dresden]

They haven't said anything in a while. But would the horses just keep moving without direction?

[Bridger Weiniger]

What's your gut?

[Anna Dresden]

I think they would. Hard workers, commitment. And they love the job.

[Bridger Weiniger]

I mean, horses are Virgos.

[Anna Dresden]

They're absolutely Virgos. Every horse is a Virgo. Yeah, I think that's probably true.

[Bridger Weiniger]

That's why they call it horse season.

[Anna Dresden]

Horse season.

[Bridger Weiniger]

September.

[Anna Dresden]

But yeah, that episode in particular was very haunting. The one before it dealt with an age gap relationship.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Oh. And the direction is what we could guess It's.

[Anna Dresden]

Well, now I fall asleep a lot, so I can't remember exactly.

[Bridger Weiniger]

You don't know who was older? Oh. Oh.

[Anna Dresden]

Who was older? I thought you were gonna say if it worked out or not. No, no, because it doesn't work. I feel like they eventually acknowledge and say, this isn't gonna work.

[Bridger Weiniger]

They part as friends.

[Anna Dresden]

They part as friends. And this guy is not old. And it's just like, how did this happen? In any situation? It's a bad matchup.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Well, it's the prairie.

[Anna Dresden]

It's the prairie. He's the town doctor. But the gal is head over heels for this guy.

[Bridger Weiniger]

A town doctor. Imagine a town doctor.

[Anna Dresden]

Well, town doctor who lets everyone in the next episode die of typhus.

[Bridger Weiniger]

I know. He's so broken up about his breakup.

[Anna Dresden]

Yeah, that's probably true. She's to blame. It's always the younger woman is to blame.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Is she a guest star or does she.

[Anna Dresden]

A guest star?

[Bridger Weiniger]

So she's just gone after the relationship?

[Anna Dresden]

She vanishes. She's. She's in town visiting her. Maybe her aunt, I think.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Okay.

[Anna Dresden]

And so then when the relationship falls apart, why stick around?

[Bridger Weiniger]

She walks out of town and throws a vial over her shoulder that explodes and releases diaphys.

[Anna Dresden]

It's her rat that gets into the corn feed.

[Bridger Weiniger]

The rat in the corn feed.

[Anna Dresden]

Rat in the corn feed. Classic episode.

[Bridger Weiniger]

I love that show.

[Anna Dresden]

You've got to watch it. Everybody's got to watch it.

[Bridger Weiniger]

It's mostly sounds.

[Anna Dresden]

It's a lot.

[Bridger Weiniger]

It's really dark.

[Anna Dresden]

This episode, honestly, is largely sound. You see that? It opens with people.

[Bridger Weiniger]

I thought you were talking about this podcast episode.

[Anna Dresden]

This episode. This particular podcast episode. We're relying on sound for this one.

[Bridger Weiniger]

This is the sound episode of the book.

[Anna Dresden]

Mostly purely visual in action, kind of a Buster Keaton type show. But this one, we're entering the sound era. And so.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Okay, great.

[Anna Dresden]

This episode will be two voices. A voice of at least two people talking to each other.

[Bridger Weiniger]

We're trying it out.

[Anna Dresden]

We're trying it out. It's experimental. It's an idea show.

[Bridger Weiniger]

It's an ideas. No wrong answers.

[Anna Dresden]

No wrong answers.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Yeah.

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[Anna Dresden]

What's going on in your life?

[Bridger Weiniger]

Oh, my God. It sucks that you asked that, because the answer is something I would normally avoid. Like someone who. Okay, I shot a short film the last two days.

[Anna Dresden]

Ooh. Directed it.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Yeah.

[Anna Dresden]

Acted in it. No, no.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Thank God.

[Anna Dresden]

Okay. That would be a lot.

[Bridger Weiniger]

It's just so to walk back and forth and look at yourself on camera. Why?

[Anna Dresden]

No, no, no, no.

[Bridger Weiniger]

I don't ever need to see a picture of myself ever again. Not that it's bad. It's just I think that humans weren't supposed to see what their faces look like.

[Anna Dresden]

I really don't think that we were meant to do that.

[Bridger Weiniger]

I think that's why we're all mentally ill. That's because we can see. It used to just be like the stream.

[Anna Dresden]

Yeah. Or a.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Cool.

[Anna Dresden]

Yeah. Like a glimpse. And you would think it was another realm.

[Bridger Weiniger]

It's another realm. It's not what God wanted.

[Anna Dresden]

No.

[Bridger Weiniger]

If God wanted us to see our faces, he wouldn't have put our eyes on them.

[Anna Dresden]

Wow.

[Bridger Weiniger]

I'll say it again.

[Anna Dresden]

You brought up a good point.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Yeah.

[Anna Dresden]

But you were directing and wrote.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Directing. Wrote. Yeah. So it was. It was. I'm sleepy now. But it was so cool. It was so fun. We shot it in this beautiful old. It was a church campus.

[Anna Dresden]

Okay. Church campus.

[Bridger Weiniger]

We were in a building that wasn't the church building.

[Anna Dresden]

Okay.

[Bridger Weiniger]

It was like a big old house with, like, a massive.

[Anna Dresden]

What is the rectory?

[Bridger Weiniger]

The rectory is, like, where the priests shoot pool, I think. I don't really know.

[Anna Dresden]

Hey, welcome back. It's the game room of the church.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Let me in. I know the guys. Get out of here. But.

[Anna Dresden]

Was.

[Bridger Weiniger]

It's called Hamilton. The house itself was called Hamilton House. It was at the Congregational Church of the Chimes in Sherman Oaks.

[Anna Dresden]

Ooh.

[Bridger Weiniger]

And it was. It just. It almost felt like a summer camp.

[Anna Dresden]

Right.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Because they also had a summer camp going on.

[Anna Dresden]

Okay.

[Bridger Weiniger]

So we were shooting in this beautiful house that had multiple rooms. It was massive, which was great. But right outside of it was a swimming pool where they taught preschoolers swim lessons.

[Anna Dresden]

Okay. And probably baptisms.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Wow. I didn't even think about that.

[Anna Dresden]

Might as well if you just bless the water.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Like, bloop.

[Anna Dresden]

Little bit of summer fun. What the hell?

[Bridger Weiniger]

I took my kid to go swimming, and now he's saved. What the hell happened?

[Anna Dresden]

That's a great idea.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Wow.

[Anna Dresden]

You can teach your child to swim and have them be born again secretly.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Secretly.

[Anna Dresden]

No one needs to know.

[Bridger Weiniger]

No one's doing this.

[Anna Dresden]

No one needs to know.

[Bridger Weiniger]

No one needs to know that you're baptized. Except for Guard. But it was great that anytime we were in the middle of. I was like, this is it. This is the take. Oh, my God. I'm picturing the laurels. Here they come. You'd hear, kick, kick, kick, kick, kick. Good job. And it was great because people kept saying, kids are screaming outside. And then my idea was like, it's actually the adults teaching the kids. The kids are. They have their faces in the water, and the adults are screaming like they're kids.

[Anna Dresden]

Were you not warned that there was gonna be all this noise?

[Bridger Weiniger]

They said sometimes they teach swim lessons, but only from 3pm to 7pm every day. We were like, well, that's sort of when tough times movies happen. And they were like, we can just tell them not to come if you want. And we were like, that'd be good. But. So neither of us were really committing to saying, like, yeah, go tell the kids that they can't swim in a pool in the summertime. I think I was just like, God's on my side. There's wind in my sails. It won't be a problem. Actually, the sound person was like, it's fine. Like, it's really thick glass windows. So she was. It was the opposite where, like, everyone in the room could hear screaming. And then on the boom mic, she was like, no, it's fine.

[Anna Dresden]

That, to me, sounds wrong. I think your audio's ruined. I'm always like, if I can hear it. Absolutely. If a microphone can't pick up something, I can hear the microphone's broken.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Do you hear a suggestible I am where I'm like, I don't know how film works and I'm gonna be a good collaborator. I'm just gonna say, oh, crossing 180. I'll never understand that a day in my life, ever. I'm committed to not knowing it. So you tell me then if we can hear it with our ears but the mic can't. I'll go, that's just another thing that I don't get. And okay. And thumbs up.

[Anna Dresden]

That's like if I can something. I'm like, my sense of smell is so bad. I'm like, certainly. This is like a statewide issue. Everyone can smell this.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Yeah. Well, we're in Burbank near the beautiful wastewater treatment plant over on the five. And can you smell that when you drive past it? It's crazy. Certain times of day. It's by the AMC. The like, three AMCs?

[Anna Dresden]

Oh, yeah, they're at least it's on the five.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Yeah.

[Anna Dresden]

I've never smelled it.

[Bridger Weiniger]

You just haven't been over there at rush hour. I guess they release all the fart smells at rush hour.

[Anna Dresden]

They just open a ve and it.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Just pipes into the city as bad as possible. They're like, what if we created a bad moment for people?

[Anna Dresden]

There's also kind of a secret jail right there. Oh, are you aware of this?

[Bridger Weiniger]

No.

[Anna Dresden]

It's right by those theaters.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Oh, no.

[Anna Dresden]

Yeah, I park by it because it's the easiest parking over there because it's notoriously near the worst parking in the world, which is dominated by Ross Dress for less. I don't know if you've been in that parking garage.

[Bridger Weiniger]

I have, and it's. It doesn't feel good.

[Anna Dresden]

It feels baffling. I go in there and I think, how is Ross just always just overrun with customers? How are there this many Ross cars?

[Bridger Weiniger]

It also. There's something about that parking garage that makes me feel like I'm about to accidentally drive into the store where it's.

[Anna Dresden]

Like, keep going middle of the road. More parking this way.

[Bridger Weiniger]

And it points you towards the door. Really? This isn't right.

[Anna Dresden]

They also have a valet for the Ross.

[Bridger Weiniger]

No, they don't.

[Anna Dresden]

I'm pretty sure they do. I might just be in a state when I'm in there, but I'm pretty sure you can have your car valeted at Ross.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Who's valeting their car at Ross?

[Anna Dresden]

I guess if there was one place in the world where I would valet, it would be at a Ross.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Why?

[Anna Dresden]

Because I refuse to valet Anywhere else I think it's too expensive. But I feel like at Ross they must have a good deal.

[Bridger Weiniger]

You know that it's the opposite. You know, at Ross they're weirdly like it's 70 bucks and then they park.

[Anna Dresden]

You just like in a tow zone somewhere outside.

[Bridger Weiniger]

They just drive you into the Ross.

[Anna Dresden]

A.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Valet. Oh my God. Now there is a one man show if I've ever heard it.

[Anna Dresden]

Oh, the Ross valet guy.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Oh, come on.

[Anna Dresden]

Okay, what is the short about? Can you say?

[Bridger Weiniger]

It's about two sisters and their mom just died and they're at the funeral and they're about, about to go to the cemetery and close the coffin and go. But they realize that they haven't decided if their mom would have wanted to be buried wearing the necklace that she's wearing or if she would have wanted them to take it off and like give it a new life.

[Anna Dresden]

Right?

[Bridger Weiniger]

And it's them having that conversation and then the mom comes back to get it back at night.

[Anna Dresden]

Zombie. Oh, I love this. Yeah, this also reminds me, I just watched the mortician. I don't know if you watched that doctor.

[Bridger Weiniger]

I watched it. I have a friend who lives near that place.

[Anna Dresden]

No, we have you driven past.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Yeah.

[Anna Dresden]

What's left?

[Bridger Weiniger]

It's a lamp store now.

[Anna Dresden]

Oh, good lamps. Expensive.

[Bridger Weiniger]

I imagine the lamp industry is not romanticized about anything. No, they're like we don't care. What. Whose teeth got pulled out to be sold.

[Anna Dresden]

What jewelry got dragged off a body at Frost.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Do you think you'd be a good cremation worker?

[Anna Dresden]

No.

[Bridger Weiniger]

What job would you want in a crooked funeral home?

[Anna Dresden]

In a crooked funeral home?

[Bridger Weiniger]

Yes.

[Anna Dresden]

I would probably want to be. I would want to be doing the flowers and overcharging for flowers. That's the easiest, cleanest job. You know, everybody overcharges for flowers. So you don't feel as bad about it.

[Bridger Weiniger]

You're just in your shop.

[Anna Dresden]

Just in my shop.

[Bridger Weiniger]

You're not going where they're doing it.

[Anna Dresden]

Not smelling the various things, not seeing. I couldn't deal with the bodies. What would you do?

[Bridger Weiniger]

Is there a job that you clean up little trash that's been left in the chapels?

[Anna Dresden]

Oh, like various Doritos bags and cigarettes.

[Bridger Weiniger]

No, like indoor trash. Like a little Dixie cup.

[Anna Dresden]

That's what I'm talking about. Funeral goers like popcorn buckets, nacho trucks.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Hi, grandma.

[Anna Dresden]

Yeah, sweeping up the chapel. I think that's a job.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Big Gulp cups. Yeah, a sweeper. This is the problem though is I don't think there's any Good jobs.

[Anna Dresden]

I think if you're at a funeral home, you make.

[Bridger Weiniger]

If you're the flowers person, you're also.

[Anna Dresden]

You're in on it. You're in on it, you're experiencing it. I would mind being.

[Bridger Weiniger]

You're getting paid too much.

[Anna Dresden]

At least the mom who's pulling all the strings, you know. Cause she was so heavily involved. They loved her, everyone loved her. And she was a villain, an absolute devil.

[Bridger Weiniger]

She's the devil. But everyone talked about her just so rapturously.

[Anna Dresden]

Well, I guess she was a really sweet gal. Outside of just robbing the. And kind of orchestrating all these bodies being burned at once. She had a lot of good ideas.

[Bridger Weiniger]

It's bad. And then when her son got caught and went to prison, her son's wife was like, I can't feed my children. And this beautiful lovely woman told her to go on food stamps instead of giving her money from the grave robbing business that she profited off of.

[Anna Dresden]

Well, she put a lot of hard work into that.

[Bridger Weiniger]

She, you know what?

[Anna Dresden]

She earned it.

[Bridger Weiniger]

This is why people with money have money is cause they save their money.

[Anna Dresden]

Yes, they save and earn.

[Bridger Weiniger]

They do.

[Anna Dresden]

No one has ever gotten money dishonestly. When you earn it, you deserve it. And you shouldn't give it to other people. Most of all your daughter in law and grandchildren.

[Bridger Weiniger]

What are kids gonna do with money?

[Anna Dresden]

Yes.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Why? Everyone's like child support. Why does a kid. They don't even have wallets. What is a kid using money for?

[Anna Dresden]

Yeah, there's something. You just had a huge problem in the system.

[Bridger Weiniger]

I don't get it.

[Anna Dresden]

Can someone explain to me child support?

[Bridger Weiniger]

Explain it like I'm five. For what?

[Anna Dresden]

Well, yeah, I think I probably would either be the mom or the flower.

[Bridger Weiniger]

I think those are great answers. I honestly, I had a phase where I wanted to become a funeral director.

[Anna Dresden]

Really?

[Bridger Weiniger]

Yeah.

[Anna Dresden]

At what age?

[Bridger Weiniger]

34. So recently I looked into it. There's a college nearby you can get in Pasadena? Yeah, Pasadena. Like invented.

[Anna Dresden]

What's going on? Death or something.

[Bridger Weiniger]

What's going on in Pasadena?

[Anna Dresden]

There's a lot of the occults. There's a lot of things happening there.

[Bridger Weiniger]

You're right. There is the. Called the jpl.

[Anna Dresden]

There's the JPL cult. And how did that happen? Because it was kind of sci fi cult. The devil.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Yeah. It was like the scientists were also sort of. Aleister Crowley.

[Anna Dresden]

Yeah, I was gonna say number one Satanist. Aleister Crowley.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Yeah. I don't know. It's beautiful there.

[Anna Dresden]

It's gorgeous.

[Bridger Weiniger]

You need to invent something that's darker.

[Anna Dresden]

People have big houses, they're bored.

[Bridger Weiniger]

The houses are scary there. Yeah.

[Anna Dresden]

People are like, oh, my house is scary. What should I do?

[Bridger Weiniger]

I will worship Satan. Yeah. What were we talking about? Oh, that. I. I honestly, unfortunately do think that I would want to be down there mixing it up with the tooth pluckers.

[Anna Dresden]

You would what?

[Bridger Weiniger]

Not because I want to, but because that seems like the hardest, worst job. And that is sort of what I gravitate towards.

[Anna Dresden]

You want the just miserable work?

[Bridger Weiniger]

Yeah, sure. I want to be squeezed hard.

[Anna Dresden]

What's the most miserable job you've ever had?

[Bridger Weiniger]

That's such a good question. Miserable. I had a job after college working for a fabric manufacturer or fabric importer.

[Anna Dresden]

Okay, okay.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Which was a woman. It was a business run by a woman who lived in Chelsea. And it was like she would have an assistant that rotated around different UCB people.

[Anna Dresden]

Sure.

[Bridger Weiniger]

And the job was cold. Calling fabric wholesalers to try to get them to buy like bulk orders of fabric.

[Anna Dresden]

What? How successful could that possibly be?

[Bridger Weiniger]

I don't know. I'll tell you something. They were not successful when I was working there because I didn't. The only words I remember are ponty knit. So I was calling places that I didn't know I don't like talking to people I don't know and trying to sell them something that I didn't understand and had never seen. And I also was in charge of logging my own hours. And because I didn't understand it at all, I spent a lot of time trying. Being shy.

[Anna Dresden]

Right.

[Bridger Weiniger]

I guess I'd pad my hours cause I spent so little time working. Does that make sense?

[Anna Dresden]

A lot of it was just spent stuttering and being quiet.

[Bridger Weiniger]

If you have a pit in your stomach that's actually working. Oh, that's so good. Regardless of if you're working or not.

[Anna Dresden]

I would argue that's more than working.

[Bridger Weiniger]

That's double time.

[Anna Dresden]

That's double time.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Yeah. So then she. I made no sales for her. And after like a month, she was looking at my timesheets like, how is this possible? You work 10 hours this whole week and you sold nothing.

[Anna Dresden]

Did she pay you for it, though?

[Bridger Weiniger]

She paid me out and then fired me.

[Anna Dresden]

But she continued to hire UCB people.

[Bridger Weiniger]

I don't know what she did.

[Anna Dresden]

Number one, comedy nerd, this fabric saleswoman.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Do you want to buy Ponti Knit? Sure. Tell me about it. No, I can't. And I don't want to be talking to you at all right now. A shy door to door salesman.

[Anna Dresden]

That's what I would be.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Yeah. Well, I think you'd be a great door to door salesman.

[Anna Dresden]

That is so insulting.

[Bridger Weiniger]

That is insulting. I'm sorry. You're friendly and you have a nice voice.

[Anna Dresden]

I would be horrible. I would crumble.

[Bridger Weiniger]

What kind of horrible would you be?

[Anna Dresden]

I don't like talking to people I don't know.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Really.

[Anna Dresden]

I don't like imposing.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Okay.

[Anna Dresden]

Yeah, I'm just a bad salesperson, to be honest. I've been in sales ish jobs and been so bad at it.

[Bridger Weiniger]

What? Describe to me a sales ish job.

[Anna Dresden]

Let's see, the first one that comes to mind. Both were kind of retailish. One was Apple Store.

[Bridger Weiniger]

That is a social nightmare.

[Anna Dresden]

And I didn't own an Apple Computer at the time. So I was not only trying to sell these things. I didn't know anything about them because I didn't. I owned an ipod.

[Bridger Weiniger]

No title genius.

[Anna Dresden]

Thank God they didn't let me say I was a genius. I'm a genius.

[Bridger Weiniger]

I don't know anything. Please God, let no one ask me a question today. Cause I don't know anything.

[Anna Dresden]

That's how I felt. I was like, I would just kind of like not make eye contact with customers and kind of just buzz around and try to stay near music stuff so I could answer questions about ipods.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Oh, no.

[Anna Dresden]

I think it was probably like six months before I actually. Because then they give you a discount on a computer because I think they're like, please God, buy one of our products. So I bought I think six months in, but then I think I worked for eight months total or something. And then I went back to work, but whatever that one. And then I worked at Best Buy selling. And as a cashier, the thing you have to sell is product replacement plans.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Oh, no.

[Anna Dresden]

Which is like insurance on your CD player or whatever. And then free subscriptions to Entertainment Weekly or Sports Illustrated.

[Bridger Weiniger]

That's the scammiest shit you were.

[Anna Dresden]

Ultimate scam.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Pitch it to them at the register.

[Anna Dresden]

Yes.

[Bridger Weiniger]

What would you say?

[Anna Dresden]

Would you like to sign up for 8 free weeks of Entertainment Weekly or Sports Illustrated today?

[Bridger Weiniger]

I'm like, what the fuck? I'm buying headphones that I'm gonna return. What are you talking. Why are we talking?

[Anna Dresden]

Yeah. And then you had to. Then you would hope that the manager wasn't nearby because you could be like, you can just give me your credit card number and then cancel right here. Because you know, you're like just trying to get people to sign up for these things.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Did you have a quota?

[Anna Dresden]

Of course. There was a whole Thing. And then, fuck. You didn't make commission. So it was like, why am I doing it?

[Bridger Weiniger]

It's pressure. I worked at Victoria's Secret for a little bit, and they tried to get us to get people to sign up for the bullshit in store credit cards. And they were like, you need to do one per shift, at least.

[Anna Dresden]

Oh, that's a lot.

[Bridger Weiniger]

And I was like, I will not. I think I worked there for a few months, and I almost got one person to do it. And then she couldn't find her driver's license. We were so close.

[Anna Dresden]

Can you pitch me on a Victoria's Secret credit card?

[Bridger Weiniger]

Did you know. Did you know that you.

[Anna Dresden]

20%.

[Bridger Weiniger]

An underwear card?

[Anna Dresden]

Sure. That sounds good.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Oh, no. Oh, no, no.

[Anna Dresden]

It's horrible.

[Bridger Weiniger]

And you're interested in signing up for an Angels card?

[Anna Dresden]

Oh, that's what they're called.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Angels. My mouth remembered it. My brain did.

[Anna Dresden]

Angels card.

[Bridger Weiniger]

You seem to really easily remember. Would you like to see?

[Anna Dresden]

That came out of me. I mean, this was such a long time ago.

[Bridger Weiniger]

This is brainwashing.

[Anna Dresden]

Brainwashing?

[Bridger Weiniger]

Yeah.

[Anna Dresden]

I've been brainwashed.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Yeah.

[Anna Dresden]

And people don't talk about that. Enough about me, what I've been through.

[Bridger Weiniger]

What do you want them to say in your fantasy? What do they say?

[Anna Dresden]

He was brainwashed. I think that's easy. Spread the word.

[Bridger Weiniger]

He was brainwashed.

[Anna Dresden]

And look at him now.

[Bridger Weiniger]

And look at him now. He's doing so good. That's so sweet.

[Anna Dresden]

Spread the word. Well, I think. Look, there's something else we have to talk about.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Yes.

[Anna Dresden]

Another thing I'm not that comfortable talking about. I was so happy you would be on the podcast. I was really excited you would come and do the show. Thought Anna will come by, we'll have a nice conversation, we'll share secrets, we'll get into it and have a nice time. And then our lives will move on. The podcast is called I said no gifts. I don't know if you got an email or a call or anything. Okay, interesting. Because you did kind of walk into the studio. I would say kind of stride into the studio today holding what's obviously a gift. Yeah, okay. Is that for me?

[Bridger Weiniger]

Well, yeah.

[Anna Dresden]

Okay.

[Bridger Weiniger]

I skimmed the email.

[Anna Dresden]

Oh, you're a skimmer.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Yeah. It did say, please bring a gift.

[Anna Dresden]

Oh, interesting.

[Bridger Weiniger]

On the podcast, make sure it's wrapped. Cause that's part of it. It's funny that it's called I said no gifts. And the joke will be that you bring one and then he'll act offended.

[Anna Dresden]

That is not in the email. Yes, it is that is absolutely not in the email.

[Bridger Weiniger]

And the email went like this. It was moving its head all around.

[Anna Dresden]

Well, okay, so you've come here to lie to my face.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Lie in your face.

[Anna Dresden]

Lie in my face. Lie in my arms as I whisper.

[Bridger Weiniger]

In your ear that I'm ready. Yeah.

[Anna Dresden]

Should I open it here on the podcast?

[Bridger Weiniger]

Yes.

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[Bridger Weiniger]

Okay, I'm giving you a gift that's a classic me gift, which is you're so tall. An insecure gift. That's a bunch of stuff. A grab bag. Is this not okay here? If it's not okay, I have a thing that I want you to pull out from it.

[Anna Dresden]

It's okay. It's okay.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Okay.

[Anna Dresden]

It's okay.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Cause I know that that's cheating, but this is the way that I give gifts with friends is I feel insecure and I put too much stuff in and I put it in like an ironic leftover bag. This is an Edible Arrangements bouquet bag I wrote on an awards show. And Edible Arrangements sent three arrangements that were my size and a big, beautiful bouquet of like 80 flowers.

[Anna Dresden]

Oh, my God.

[Bridger Weiniger]

And no one touched any of it, of course. I ate so much fruit I almost died. And then I took home the flowers, which were all dead.

[Anna Dresden]

What were the arrangements?

[Bridger Weiniger]

Fruit.

[Anna Dresden]

Like, what was the shape, like.

[Bridger Weiniger]

The shape was like a hot air balloon, but all of it was like the wedges of it. It wasn't like a little chunk of melon. It was like an entire crescent of honeydew, but naked.

[Anna Dresden]

Oh, interesting.

[Bridger Weiniger]

I love honeydew.

[Anna Dresden]

You love honeydew.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Oh, my God. I was stressed. I was like, these all have to get eaten.

[Anna Dresden]

Does Edible Arrangements do funerals?

[Bridger Weiniger]

God, I bet they do have a.

[Anna Dresden]

Nice fruit wreath in front of the basket. That's casket. Look how tall this is.

[Bridger Weiniger]

It's a tall bath.

[Anna Dresden]

I can take a bath in this. I could wear this out on the towel.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Yeah. And it's great for a bouquet because you can put water in the bottom of the bathroom.

[Anna Dresden]

Oh, yeah, of course.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Yeah.

[Anna Dresden]

Okay, so we're opening. It's a very tall, kind of transparent bag from Edible Arrangements and with this gorgeous sage ribbon that I'm struggling with. All right, here we go. Okay, so does it matter?

[Bridger Weiniger]

No. I thought we'd just play.

[Anna Dresden]

My arm isn't long enough to get to the bottom of the swig, put.

[Bridger Weiniger]

It on the floor, and then reach.

[Anna Dresden]

In even further away from my body.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Yeah.

[Anna Dresden]

Does it matter which thing I bring up first?

[Bridger Weiniger]

No. It's gonna be like jazz.

[Anna Dresden]

Okay. Of course. Kind of a jazz guy. Okay. Oh, this is great. Already we've got a beautiful slinky rainbow.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Slinky rainbow, slinky. I don't know when I got that, but it is unopened in a brand new, new in box, mint condition nib. And I keep it in a little pile of things for if I have a friend with a kid who comes over. This is my pile of. Do children like this?

[Anna Dresden]

What a fun person you are. It's like a dentist's office treasure box.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Well, this is. I think this is the last one of two things.

[Anna Dresden]

Oh, there were two objects.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Yeah. But I've lost confidence in a kid being interested in overtime.

[Anna Dresden]

Now. I've never seen a slinky. Is this a. I have to pull it apart.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Yeah, it's stuck together a little bit. Oh, it's also quite old.

[Anna Dresden]

Yeah, like, it's, like, sealed.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Oh, no. Yeah.

[Anna Dresden]

Oh, we have to do this.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Isn't that fun? Ooh, yeah. Crack the spine on that baby. Ooh, careful. Be careful.

[Anna Dresden]

Snatch it out of my hands. Okay, now it's tied into the.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Oh, he likes you. That's funny.

[Anna Dresden]

This could be the rest of the episode is me now being.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Wait. Okay. Yeah, just. Okay, now push the part that you have in your right hand. Yeah, there you go.

[Anna Dresden]

Stressful.

[Bridger Weiniger]

See Directing.

[Anna Dresden]

Wow. Where did you.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Oh, did you kink it?

[Anna Dresden]

Where did you get this?

[Bridger Weiniger]

I don't know. It's been in the do children like this pile for so long? I think I got it as, like, there were leftover prizes at a dunk tank or something. I have no idea.

[Anna Dresden]

It's beautiful. I've never seen a rainbow Slinky like this before. I only ever see the metal ones.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Wow. Those are like the historic ones. What did you do?

[Anna Dresden]

I broke it.

[Bridger Weiniger]

No, it's just.

[Anna Dresden]

I didn't break it. Don't you try to.

[Bridger Weiniger]

No, I just. This is amazing.

[Anna Dresden]

It is a little ruined here.

[Bridger Weiniger]

You can go like this. Go like this. It's good for, like, a phone call. I like to have a thing on a phone call that I can play with.

[Anna Dresden]

Like a fidget spinner.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Like a fidget spinner. You can go like that. You can try to get it to go downstairs, but the small ones just do that.

[Anna Dresden]

They kind of just die.

[Bridger Weiniger]

They fall diagonally.

[Anna Dresden]

It looks like it has lost its skeleton or something. Let's see if we can do it off. I think it's closed.

[Bridger Weiniger]

That's the cool thing about Slinkys is if you drop them off a table, they fall down.

[Anna Dresden]

That's why they called it that. I honestly, without stairs, I don't really see the point of a Slinky.

[Bridger Weiniger]

It's to do exactly what you're doing right now.

[Anna Dresden]

This is like, the reason you have a Slinky is to kind of just accordion style.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Oh. And you can also hold it actually a little closer to the mic so we can get that asmr. Oh, yeah.

[Anna Dresden]

Like that.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Yeah. And also. Yeah, like, back and forth. Like, go like that. Well, when there's a kink in it, it doesn't slink as much.

[Anna Dresden]

There's no kink in it.

[Bridger Weiniger]

The kink in it. Oh, see, I like that you're smiling now.

[Anna Dresden]

I feel I've never done this with the slinky before.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Really? That's the whole thing I've done with Slinkys.

[Anna Dresden]

Evidently, the one thing you're supposed to do with it.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Yeah.

[Anna Dresden]

Oh, I like it a lot.

[Bridger Weiniger]

The Slinkies that can go downstairs, you need the metal heft to do.

[Anna Dresden]

The plastic's not going through.

[Bridger Weiniger]

It can try, but it will. It'll fall.

[Anna Dresden]

How often are you having, like, a long phone call?

[Bridger Weiniger]

I'm a verbal thinker, so all the time.

[Anna Dresden]

Really.

[Bridger Weiniger]

It takes a while.

[Anna Dresden]

Like daily you'll have multiple long phones or not phone.

[Bridger Weiniger]

I mean. No, I would say a long phone call. Is like an 11 minute phone call.

[Anna Dresden]

Oh, okay, Interesting.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Where I need to have my hands doing something.

[Anna Dresden]

Right.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Do you ever get off a phone call and look down and you've made a hereditary weird haunted doll out of paper clips and bobby pins and stuff?

[Anna Dresden]

Constantly.

[Bridger Weiniger]

I hang up and I'm like, what did I make?

[Anna Dresden]

I wonder. It's kind of like automatic writing or something where your brain is one place and your hand is doing something else.

[Bridger Weiniger]

It's fucked up. The devil is working through my hands.

[Anna Dresden]

The devil. The dev.

[Bridger Weiniger]

And I'm going, right, okay, yeah, yeah, yeah, that sounds good.

[Anna Dresden]

I like to doodle while I'm on a long phone call.

[Bridger Weiniger]

What kind of doodle? What are your classic.

[Anna Dresden]

Go to witch. I love a little witch.

[Bridger Weiniger]

You draw a little witch?

[Anna Dresden]

Yeah, little people. Various small people.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Whole body or face?

[Anna Dresden]

I start with face and then I'm not as good with body and arms and hands. It gets harder as you go down. But with a witch, you kind of have a, like, you know, a dress is not hard to draw. Little striped legs are not hard to draw.

[Bridger Weiniger]

And the curly shoe, that's.

[Anna Dresden]

The curly shoe's so fun. The little boot with a heel. A wizard. That's an easy one to draw.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Oh, you can do that too. That's another thing. You can go like, what the hell? And you can also put it on your wrist like a bracelet.

[Anna Dresden]

I wonder if that'll fit over my hand. Oh, that looks good.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Actually, I was really scared. That was the feeling of getting in a roller coaster seat where you're like, am I gonna fit? This is gonna look so embarrassing.

[Anna Dresden]

I wonder if my hands are. I'm putting. For the listener.

[Bridger Weiniger]

He's trying to put it on his face.

[Anna Dresden]

I'm pulling this over. We're gonna have to butter up my.

[Bridger Weiniger]

A thick thumb joint.

[Anna Dresden]

Yeah.

[Bridger Weiniger]

I've got such a handsome feature. Go.

[Anna Dresden]

Oh, I guess you can kind of just cheat it.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Yeah, exactly.

[Anna Dresden]

Oh, well, this can fit on anyone's wrist then. That's not. I'm not very good at it.

[Bridger Weiniger]

If you've got the time.

[Anna Dresden]

If you got the time and it.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Feels nice to go like this when it's on your wrist. Like, move your hand back and forth.

[Anna Dresden]

Because it'll go like, get this on completely. This is really for.

[Bridger Weiniger]

You look like you're from the future now.

[Anna Dresden]

Oh, my God, I look so good. Oh, look at that. It looks good. Everyone loves it on me.

[Bridger Weiniger]

They do.

[Anna Dresden]

Okay. And I'm gonna use it to reach into the bag again.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Oh, my God. Okay, great.

[Anna Dresden]

There's so many Objects in here. I love this.

[Bridger Weiniger]

I'm insecure.

[Anna Dresden]

A bad. I was gonna say a bad game. The game is called Bad Choices.

[Bridger Weiniger]

This is a. A type of. What's it called? Cards Against Humanity type game. That is a spinoff. That's a different company.

[Anna Dresden]

Okay. Different company.

[Bridger Weiniger]

In bookstores or Target, there is an entire half of an aisle that's this kind of thing.

[Anna Dresden]

Right.

[Bridger Weiniger]

And this is like. Just pull out a card. It's called Bad Choices. This was given to us by 17 plus. It's given to us by people who love Cards Against Humanity, which I'm trying to remain neutral. Okay, great.

[Anna Dresden]

And you keep the party going. Okay, let's pull a card out. It says, would you ever lie about a person to get them fired? Sure.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Yeah. The conversation ends after, are you a piece of shit? Keep going.

[Anna Dresden]

I do it constantly. I've gotten so many people.

[Bridger Weiniger]

I need more context.

[Anna Dresden]

Okay, let's see here. Would you spend the night in a full porta potty for $10,000? See, this is where, you know, my attitude towards the game is getting worse and worse.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Would you.

[Anna Dresden]

I would spend the night, like, buried, like, in a coffin for $20. What are we talking about?

[Bridger Weiniger]

Sounds nice.

[Anna Dresden]

So peace and quiet.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Just a little float tank.

[Anna Dresden]

$10,000. Yeah, of course.

[Bridger Weiniger]

How long is a night?

[Anna Dresden]

That's nothing. Which you would.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Yeah. My superpower is I don't mind Porta Potties.

[Anna Dresden]

Oh, interesting.

[Bridger Weiniger]

I can hang with it. I think it's the same part of me that would want to be ripping out teeth.

[Anna Dresden]

Oh, right.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Most people would hate this. And I can put up with anything.

[Anna Dresden]

I almost feel like it's the cleaner smell in a Porta Potty that's the real problem.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Yeah.

[Anna Dresden]

That stuff is.

[Bridger Weiniger]

How would you describe that smell?

[Anna Dresden]

Like the smell of a gag. Do you know what I mean?

[Bridger Weiniger]

Yes.

[Anna Dresden]

It's like, so. I mean, it's just horrible.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Industrial.

[Anna Dresden]

Okay, let's get one more out of here. Out of Bad Choices, the game now, this is like a wild card. Have you ever had more than eight shots in one night?

[Bridger Weiniger]

Um, yeah.

[Anna Dresden]

I love. These are yes or no questions.

[Bridger Weiniger]

It really is just people contending with, am I a piece of shit? And then I guess at some point, the box just goes to the side. And then people continue trying to make everyone looks at their feet.

[Anna Dresden]

Yeah. I don't know if this is how you feel about this style of game, Cards Against Humanity, whatever, where it kind of is like, trying to make you feel like a naughty person or whatever.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Yes.

[Anna Dresden]

It's very like morning radio.

[Bridger Weiniger]

It's like, it's for religious people to be like, I can't believe I did a crazy thing last night.

[Anna Dresden]

Right.

[Bridger Weiniger]

And the crazy thing was, would you kiss an aunt for 100 donuts? You're like, that was crazy.

[Anna Dresden]

Yeah. They. And sometimes you get drawn into these. You know, like you'll go to an event or a party or something and someone's playing it. And then the feeling for me couldn't be worse.

[Bridger Weiniger]

The feeling for me couldn't be worse, too. And the worst part of it, the feeling is the worst when you see the game. Like, the game's already on the table and then the hand is taking the lid off of the box. Cause then you know you're in.

[Anna Dresden]

You're in for at least like, six rounds. And then you have to. You can't be like a. Like a sore party. What is sourpuss?

[Bridger Weiniger]

A sore participant.

[Anna Dresden]

Sore participant. You don't want to be like the drag at the party. But it's like, what are you. Look at you're doing to me. This isn't who I am.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Yeah.

[Anna Dresden]

And I have to, like, throw myself in because I am competitive and I'll feel bad if I lose.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Yeah. Would you ever fuck a chair or kiss Hitler? I'm like, what?

[Anna Dresden]

It's always the most obvious. Yeah.

[Bridger Weiniger]

It's your birthday. What are we talking about? This is horrible.

[Anna Dresden]

And I would do both.

[Bridger Weiniger]

I would. Do I have to pick only one?

[Anna Dresden]

Yeah. There's another game that kind of walks the line of this. I don't know if you've ever played Quiplash.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Yes.

[Anna Dresden]

Which was kind of my hell through the pandemic.

[Bridger Weiniger]

That's hard. Oh, no.

[Anna Dresden]

You know, people would be like, let's have a game night on Zoom.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Yeah. And it's the only way you can get social interaction with your friends. But. Oh, that's really. I happen to enjoy those games.

[Anna Dresden]

You do.

[Bridger Weiniger]

But I like playing it with other comedy people. Cause then it's us just writing, like, poo, poo, pee, pee and stuff and that. Like, seeing the game, like, flip a thing around and it says, like, doo, doo diarrhea. Like, really. That's the appeal for me. But when I'm playing with non comedians and it's like the way that it's supposed to be played.

[Anna Dresden]

Tough.

[Bridger Weiniger]

I feel so competitive and insane. I'm like, I don't like who I am right now.

[Anna Dresden]

Right. I'm fine with them if. Yeah. Everybody's on board from the beginning of just like, we're destroying the game. We know what this is.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Yeah.

[Anna Dresden]

I Also, don't mind one that's. Mind one that's more like neutral. Like an apples to apples.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Yeah.

[Anna Dresden]

Where it's like. It's just very neutral words on cards.

[Bridger Weiniger]

I also. I have. I don't like apples to apples.

[Anna Dresden]

You don't like apples to apples?

[Bridger Weiniger]

Because I'm not good at it. I always get bad cards.

[Anna Dresden]

Every card's fine.

[Bridger Weiniger]

No, I'll get a full hand of, like, a truck. A dog.

[Anna Dresden]

Those are good.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Oh, you know what I'm realizing now? I'm blaming my cards. I'm the problem.

[Anna Dresden]

You're the problem.

[Bridger Weiniger]

It's what you do with them, with the cards you're dealt.

[Anna Dresden]

This is life.

[Bridger Weiniger]

This is life.

[Anna Dresden]

This is life. Okay, well, should we keep going? Let's ask one more. Let's just see. Why is every one of them yes or no? I guess that must play into the game.

[Bridger Weiniger]

It's an end of a conversation. What does it say?

[Anna Dresden]

Would you drink a glass full of someone else's piss for $5,000? I hate this.

[Bridger Weiniger]

No, again, I would do it for 20.

[Anna Dresden]

I'm very hard. I forget.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Stop overpaying me for things I would.

[Anna Dresden]

Do anyway that I'm doing for free. Constantly.

[Bridger Weiniger]

I'm annoying because my answer to all of this is like, who's pissed?

[Anna Dresden]

Right. Which I think you're actually kind of fixing the game for them.

[Bridger Weiniger]

How big is the glass? What's the temperature of the piss?

[Anna Dresden]

Right. Whereas the game is just asking. Yes or no. You need more information.

[Bridger Weiniger]

This is a negotiation.

[Anna Dresden]

But it is. 17.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Ooh. Yeah. That's why it's fun.

[Anna Dresden]

Okay. We're reaching back in. Oh, this is tasteful. This is a sticky note folio from the Rifle paper Company.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Yeah. Give it an open.

[Anna Dresden]

Oh, I like this.

[Bridger Weiniger]

This is really good.

[Anna Dresden]

Little labels and stuff with that kind of a floral.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Little sticky notes.

[Anna Dresden]

Sticky notes.

[Bridger Weiniger]

You can see it's still mint still.

[Anna Dresden]

In the slip cover. Brand new. Where did this come from?

[Bridger Weiniger]

I think I bought three of them with the idea that I would give them as gifts to my aunts for Mother's Day. And then I realized that I can't follow through on anything.

[Anna Dresden]

Did you give away any of them?

[Bridger Weiniger]

Maybe.

[Anna Dresden]

Okay. I feel like my ability to schedule and remember things has absolutely been decimated in the last year.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Yeah.

[Anna Dresden]

Where I have things fully scheduled, and I'll look at my calendar in the morning and then do none of them. Can you give me a fully missed therapy?

[Bridger Weiniger]

Fully. Oh, you forget.

[Anna Dresden]

Yeah. I think it's just, like, I have so much free time at this point. That it's just nothing.

[Bridger Weiniger]

When there's something to do, you forget.

[Anna Dresden]

Yeah. It doesn't make any sense that I would have something to do.

[Bridger Weiniger]

That doesn't sound like me. Therapy. I'm fine. Do you use like a Google, Like a Google Calendar, yo.

[Anna Dresden]

Yeah, of course.

[Bridger Weiniger]

And do you put any alerts on there?

[Anna Dresden]

Well, here's my big problem. I don't like an alert. I don't like to be bothered. I have my phone on do not disturb at all times. So it's kind of luck that I am in touch with anyone that I remember anything. It's all kind of on my schedule. Even my own calendar is on my schedule. It's up to me whether I look at it. And so it's kind of luck if I get something done.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Is that exciting, though? Do you like the excitement?

[Anna Dresden]

No.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Okay. It feels bad.

[Anna Dresden]

Yeah. It feels horrible.

[Bridger Weiniger]

This is a problem you're creating.

[Anna Dresden]

Oh, absolutely.

[Bridger Weiniger]

And you're aware of it?

[Anna Dresden]

Yes. And this is something I really don't like in other people when I'm like, I know you're aware of the problem. Why aren't you just working on it?

[Bridger Weiniger]

I know. It is like when someone says, I'm having such a hard time with this thing. And then they say, or if it's like, I'm having a hell of a time finding an apartment and you say, I can help. They're like, okay, because I need it to be a two bedroom. I need it to be on the Hollywood side and it has to have a butler.

[Anna Dresden]

And if it could be in San Diego.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Yeah. And also there you're like, oh, no, the problem is the goal.

[Anna Dresden]

Yes. And I do all of these things and yet I. Oh, yeah. I don't try to fix them. Are you good with scheduling?

[Bridger Weiniger]

I am not. And I'm one of those people who's bad with scheduling. And so I put everything in the Google Calendar.

[Anna Dresden]

Right.

[Bridger Weiniger]

But that then means that if I don't put it in, it doesn't exist.

[Anna Dresden]

Right. That's how I used to be. And now I've kind of become both. Where nothing ever exists, apparently.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Nothing ever exists, apparently.

[Anna Dresden]

It's a tough thing.

[Bridger Weiniger]

That's a good podcast.

[Anna Dresden]

Nothing ever exists, apparently. That could be a good, like, not true crime, but mystery genre mystery poetry. Mystery poetry podcast.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Wow.

[Anna Dresden]

This is very good though. I think little reminders, maybe it'll help you. Physical reminders is a good way back, I think, to schedule.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Oh, yeah, right. Big time. Big time. A notebook. A notebook with two things written on the first two pages and Then completely empty.

[Anna Dresden]

Is that how you journal?

[Bridger Weiniger]

Do you journal the amount? I do and it is shameful. I'll go through eight months of doing it and then five years.

[Anna Dresden]

Not right.

[Bridger Weiniger]

But the shame of having a planner or a notebook where it's like the first two pages are filled in and the rest is blank.

[Anna Dresden]

Oh, yeah. It's like, what happened to my life sucks? Have you missed any big events because of scheduling?

[Bridger Weiniger]

All the time. I will say there was one example where it wasn't my fault. Where my agent asked me, this was years ago, if I would do a college show in Maine.

[Anna Dresden]

Okay.

[Bridger Weiniger]

And I said, yeah, I'm available. And then I didn't hear back. And then on the day, the agent assistant called me and was like, hey, just wanted to check and make sure you're on your way to rural Maine.

[Anna Dresden]

Oh, no.

[Bridger Weiniger]

I was like, what the fuck is up? Just in my house. And then I had to fly into a different city in Maine. I guess I didn't have to, but I wanted to. I was in such a panic that I didn't realize that it was not my fault. Cause I just, like, I'm always confused. So I had to fly into a different city in Maine. Cause there were no other flights available at that time to get there for the flight. And then I took a two hour Uber.

[Anna Dresden]

How much did it cost to get there?

[Bridger Weiniger]

I think the flight was like $200. And then the Uber was 180 or something. And then I probably got like maybe $1,500 for the show.

[Anna Dresden]

Well, then you made it out a little bit.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Yeah, it wasn't a good deal. But the woman who drove me told me that she used to work in nursing homes and she quit because the staff at all nursing homes are very abusive to the patients.

[Anna Dresden]

Oh, I think that happens more often than you think.

[Bridger Weiniger]

I was like, I'm so glad that we have two hours to really dig into this.

[Anna Dresden]

I worked at a retirement home in their dining room.

[Bridger Weiniger]

What did you do there?

[Anna Dresden]

I was a waiter. And a lot of the residents would lie about having diabetes in order to get the diabetic ice cream. That was the big secret.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Why did they want that?

[Anna Dresden]

Because they didn't want the dessert of the day because it was usually worse than diabetic ice cream.

[Bridger Weiniger]

That sounds bad.

[Anna Dresden]

It's a tough situation.

[Bridger Weiniger]

They must have loved you. Imagine being an old person and you're the waiter.

[Anna Dresden]

I can't say one way or the other. I will say at the time I had pretty long hair and a lot of them just thought I was a woman. And for probably the first two weeks, they're like, who's this sweet young lady? And then we slowly learned, and then some of them didn't. And we just worked through it.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Most people, I think, probably like talking to you.

[Anna Dresden]

That's very nice.

[Bridger Weiniger]

I think it's true. It's calming.

[Anna Dresden]

That's very sweet. I don't know.

[Bridger Weiniger]

If I were a rehabbed owl and you came towards my crate, I wouldn't go in the corner. I'd just.

[Anna Dresden]

Maybe I'll start an owl rescue.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Maybe. Maybe keep going back in here.

[Anna Dresden]

This is a fully destroyed book. I've never heard of this.

[Bridger Weiniger]

The Stanislavski system.

[Anna Dresden]

Yeah. This is a system of acting.

[Bridger Weiniger]

It is. Yeah. This is like the big one.

[Anna Dresden]

How have I never heard of this one?

[Bridger Weiniger]

Stanislavski. I don't know.

[Anna Dresden]

That's so odd.

[Bridger Weiniger]

It's the main one. This is from college. We had to get it.

[Anna Dresden]

Where did you go to school?

[Bridger Weiniger]

Nyu.

[Anna Dresden]

Okay.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Well, I mean, the Harvard of the South. Yeah. This is a must have acting book.

[Anna Dresden]

And you've really gotten into it.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Yeah. It's water damaged. I hope nothing's highlighted. I just wanted you to have it in case you wanted to.

[Anna Dresden]

I want to see if you highlighted anything.

[Bridger Weiniger]

No. Did I write my name and phone number in the front?

[Anna Dresden]

Let's see. No, you didn't do that.

[Bridger Weiniger]

No. See, I've been through it. Yeah. It's a lot of acting. As if. Like, what's your character motivation? I actually, I was like, I don't know if I can give this away, because what if I become.

[Anna Dresden]

What if you forget about acting really.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Hot and they need me?

[Anna Dresden]

Let's see. You didn't highlight anything, so I don't think you really cared to learn. Oh, let's see. More just, like, kind of facts. These aren't that interesting things.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Can you read one?

[Anna Dresden]

Let's see. On stage, an actor's senses are often prone to paralysis because of the break in natural psychophysical behavior. The actor then loses the feeling of real life and forgets how to. To do the simplest things that he does not naturally and spontaneously do in life. Hmm. Ring any bells?

[Bridger Weiniger]

Remind you of anyone?

[Anna Dresden]

Did you major in acting?

[Bridger Weiniger]

I did.

[Anna Dresden]

Oh, I didn't know that.

[Bridger Weiniger]

I have a college degree in acting.

[Anna Dresden]

And it can be applied to almost anything.

[Bridger Weiniger]

It can?

[Anna Dresden]

Yeah, sort of.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Actually, it could. It's always shocking when something from the acting degree is helpful in other areas. You mean like in, like, writing or whatever?

[Anna Dresden]

Oh, sure, sure.

[Bridger Weiniger]

It's like, huh, I went to goofball School. I can't believe.

[Anna Dresden]

Can you think of anything specifically, like.

[Bridger Weiniger]

No, no. I guess like character. Like the idea of having a character biography.

[Anna Dresden]

Oh, sure, sure.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Where it's like, oh, yeah, I spent three weeks building out, like, I'm an abusive old woman who lives in an attic and I'm gonna write my favorite food where I grew up. Yeah, that's a bad example, but I guess it's never happened. I just wanted you to have it. I'm worried that there's too much stuff in the bag.

[Anna Dresden]

No, I feel like we're almost done.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Okay.

[Anna Dresden]

And we've actually received more items on this podcast.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Oh, good. Okay.

[Anna Dresden]

I think not. Well, actually, now that I'm seeing, maybe not.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Yeah, no.

[Anna Dresden]

Wonderful. Out of Comfort of the grab.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Oh, yeah. So there's a couple.

[Anna Dresden]

So there's press on nails.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Press on nails. Never have I. It's called never have I Ever. Look at that. And you can stick your finger in it just to try.

[Anna Dresden]

Try that.

[Bridger Weiniger]

I bought a bunch of press on nails for a thing, and then I started to panic. I was like, which one is right? And then I didn't return them.

[Anna Dresden]

Oh, sure.

[Bridger Weiniger]

And when I see them in my house, I feel like a stupid idiot.

[Anna Dresden]

Where are you storing all of this stuff?

[Bridger Weiniger]

In little plastic bins in the only closet in the house. And a bin that's labeled Travel.

[Anna Dresden]

The press on nails were in Travel.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Travel has a lot of room in it.

[Anna Dresden]

Sure. And this is technically weddings, corporate events.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Let me show you what it would look like. Does this look right?

[Anna Dresden]

Yes.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Does this look like my hand?

[Anna Dresden]

Absolutely. If you had shown up today with those nails, I wouldn't have had an eye.

[Bridger Weiniger]

I panic and go, who am I? Before I get dressed every time. And this day was a bad one. There's three more in there.

[Anna Dresden]

And then we've got some multi action super cspf, which expired February of last year.

[Bridger Weiniger]

I bought that at Costco in a two pack. Never used it once.

[Anna Dresden]

Neither of them.

[Bridger Weiniger]

The other one is used, but I think it's. Let's see.

[Anna Dresden]

New in box. New in box, expired.

[Bridger Weiniger]

That's also from the travel box because there is room in travel.

[Anna Dresden]

What is. I've never used a vitamin C moisturizer. Is that supposed to, like, burn your skin off?

[Bridger Weiniger]

No, it puts it on. It puts more on.

[Anna Dresden]

What is vitamin C supposed to do to your skin?

[Bridger Weiniger]

Make it good. Keep digging. Come on. People are almost done folding their laundry.

[Anna Dresden]

There are so many things.

[Bridger Weiniger]

This is.

[Anna Dresden]

Look at this.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Okay. Eyelashes.

[Anna Dresden]

Eyelashes.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Yep. Those I put in my suitcase every time I travel Just in case.

[Anna Dresden]

Okay.

[Bridger Weiniger]

And they're old.

[Anna Dresden]

Have they been used?

[Bridger Weiniger]

No.

[Anna Dresden]

I guess you can only use these once. People, you know, take them off and put them back on.

[Bridger Weiniger]

People are resourceful.

[Anna Dresden]

From the Sephora collection.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Yep.

[Anna Dresden]

Then we've got a iodine.

[Bridger Weiniger]

When I thought there might be nuclear war, I bought in a five pack.

[Anna Dresden]

Did these expire?

[Bridger Weiniger]

They better not expired. No, I bought them, like, five months ago. Oh.

[Anna Dresden]

Expires in 2034.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Oh, thank God.

[Anna Dresden]

So we definitely have to have a nuclear war before then, or this is gonna go to waste.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Oh, that's silly.

[Anna Dresden]

Yeah. What a waste of money.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Then I have to eat them all at once.

[Anna Dresden]

If there isn't some level of nuclear winter in the next, what, nine years? We can do it. I feel like we have. We've got the.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Come on.

[Anna Dresden]

The power and the beliefs.

[Bridger Weiniger]

It's also like, I realize, like, what's the plan when I run out? Just turn into goo.

[Anna Dresden]

You had a great time.

[Bridger Weiniger]

What's the point of extending by the.

[Anna Dresden]

Point by like, two weeks or something?

[Bridger Weiniger]

Nuclear famously doesn't go away by that amount of bottles.

[Anna Dresden]

Yeah, These bottles should be huge.

[Bridger Weiniger]

It came in a five pack on Amazon. It made it look huge. And then they showed up and were tiny.

[Anna Dresden]

I was like, I'm stupid. Yeah, that's like, for like, a quick, like, nuclear weekend. That's not.

[Bridger Weiniger]

That's for like, I shouldn't.

[Anna Dresden]

But I will.

[Bridger Weiniger]

I'm gonna. Yeah. And that also was in the travel bin.

[Anna Dresden]

That's travel worthy, I would say.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Yeah. Just in case.

[Anna Dresden]

More fingerprints, more chill tips. These are. Oh, I hate the same brand chill tips.

[Bridger Weiniger]

I'm sorry. So. No, so the chill tips were the ones I ended up wearing.

[Anna Dresden]

Oh, right.

[Bridger Weiniger]

And they were the yellow ones. And that's a chill tips brand. I don't like those brand chill tips.

[Anna Dresden]

Chill tips. And this one's called a Never have I ever.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Yeah, they're both kind of like. Want you to think about hand jobs. Yep. Keep going.

[Anna Dresden]

Okay. Setting this all up.

[Bridger Weiniger]

More from the travel bin.

[Anna Dresden]

More press on.

[Bridger Weiniger]

More press on. Does that never have I ever.

[Anna Dresden]

Yep. These are Never have I ever with a. It's like a pink with a cheetah print or something.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Yeah, don't worry, it's cheetah print. I was panicking. I was like, what was the plan? Am I. Who do I. Whose hands are these going on?

[Anna Dresden]

And you had. I mean, they're all over the place. You really had no idea.

[Bridger Weiniger]

It was for the SNL 50th.

[Anna Dresden]

Okay. That's a confusing situation.

[Bridger Weiniger]

I Never know how to be in a room with other people in general. And that was like.

[Anna Dresden]

The stakes are kind of high.

[Bridger Weiniger]

I have to just become a different person in order to get through. Whatever.

[Anna Dresden]

What did you end up wearing?

[Bridger Weiniger]

I wore a bridesmaid's dress with a leather jacket.

[Anna Dresden]

Great.

[Bridger Weiniger]

And yellow press on nails that I glued on my fingers. In 30 Rock.

[Anna Dresden]

While watching the show, did you get any compliments?

[Bridger Weiniger]

I don't think so. And I just kept hurting myself. If you hit the tip of the back of it on something, it like hurts. It pulls up your little guy.

[Anna Dresden]

These.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Yes.

[Anna Dresden]

That feels like if you got them done professionally, it would be on so much.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Well, it's not gonna. It's just like a little yank. It wouldn't pull your finger off.

[Anna Dresden]

Well, maybe depending on your diet and.

[Bridger Weiniger]

General health, it comes back to. Whose piss is this?

[Anna Dresden]

Yeah, whose piss is this?

[Bridger Weiniger]

Keep going. Come on. Also from the travel bin.

[Anna Dresden]

Tissue. Tissue. There's only one thing left.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Throw the tissue on there. Really? Oh, my God. I'm excited for this.

[Anna Dresden]

Pour it into my mouth.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Woo.

[Anna Dresden]

Let's see here. It says I need attention. It's a button that says I need attention.

[Bridger Weiniger]

It's a button that says I need attention.

[Anna Dresden]

State mutual savings.

[Bridger Weiniger]

I got that at an estate sale a few years ago. And I was like, I need to give this to someone who's funny and stylish. Cause I think it's actually nice.

[Anna Dresden]

This is. There was. I feel like a period probably between 1969 and 1987, I would say that feels like the period when buttons like this were getting made and they looked good and they had things that were like, kind of funny but not trying too hard.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Yes.

[Anna Dresden]

And anyone could wear them.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Any. You're so.

[Anna Dresden]

Almost anyone could wear a button during that period.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Almost anyone.

[Anna Dresden]

These days.

[Bridger Weiniger]

These days, you really. It's like. It's just the down. Doctor.

[Anna Dresden]

One in a million is able to wear a button.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Yeah. So this is an assembly of things from the travel bin. Things that I bought with the idea of I'll give it to someone and then kept not doing it. And I somehow see that button eight times a day.

[Anna Dresden]

I love this button.

[Bridger Weiniger]

And things that it's stuff I don't use that I feel I can't throw away.

[Anna Dresden]

Right. That's almost everything for me. If I spent money on it, it does not matter if it has any value in my life. If it's getting in the way, I'm keeping it.

[Bridger Weiniger]

I will carry it around like Jacob Marley with the chains that he built in life. Link By Link, I'm like, this is my bird. I bought this. Chill tips and I will carry it for the rest of my life as punishment.

[Anna Dresden]

Right now. Something I didn't even buy myself. My dad accidentally sent me two massive boxes of industrial sized garbage bags from Costco. He was trying to send them to himself and they've been in my car for. Well, I bet I've talked about on this podcast probably over a year ago.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Industrial size meaning like a big barrel, like a big cafeteria.

[Anna Dresden]

It's big enough probably to fit inside a like, you know, like your LA garbage can. So it can't be used in the home. You know, I can't just put it in my kitchen garbage.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Wow. Who's lining their outdoor trash bin? That's impressive.

[Anna Dresden]

Somebody who doesn't like smell.

[Bridger Weiniger]

I guess they respect themselves a lot.

[Anna Dresden]

Yeah. But yeah, I'm holding onto everything. Do you go to estate sales a lot?

[Bridger Weiniger]

No. My friend Amy is an estate sale queen and she finds great stuff whenever I. I went into a phase and really liked it. Cause I like little doodads and knickknacks.

[Anna Dresden]

Sure.

[Bridger Weiniger]

The issue is I now have buckets of, of little craps. Like I need attention that I do love. That should go to someone as a gift.

[Anna Dresden]

Right.

[Bridger Weiniger]

And today was your turn. It's like a people museum. It's like a museum of high. Yeah.

[Anna Dresden]

I love going into a house that I wouldn't be allowed in in any other circumstances.

[Bridger Weiniger]

1000%.

[Anna Dresden]

I rarely buy anything. I'll buy like a trinket.

[Bridger Weiniger]

I now enjoy thrift stores and estate sales way more knowing that I don't have to buy anything.

[Anna Dresden]

Oh, interesting. It's just observation.

[Bridger Weiniger]

You can just go. It's a thing to go and do.

[Anna Dresden]

This is me completely. This is literally me with the grocery store.

[Bridger Weiniger]

You like to go and visit the food.

[Anna Dresden]

I love to just walk around and visit the food, my friend. The food.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Hi, food. Do you have a favorite aisle? What do you like to look at?

[Anna Dresden]

I don't have a favorite aisle. Every aisle has something new for me to look at. I would say the things that have the most turnover are like the snacks and cookies for sure. Because Oreo has a new flavor every 30 to 40 seconds.

[Bridger Weiniger]

They're very attention grabby.

[Anna Dresden]

I mean, give them this button. I mean, they're desperate. The Oreo people are. It's sad.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Calm down. We already like you.

[Anna Dresden]

We liked the first one.

[Bridger Weiniger]

You don't have to do any of this.

[Anna Dresden]

I mean like truly. 70 flavors ago they were out of good flavors and now it Just feels like somebody that's like, oh, what's next for your life? You're in a bad place. Banana. No one likes a banana candy. I think there's a Selena Gomez. Oh, you like a banana candy?

[Bridger Weiniger]

I do, but, yeah, I was like, who is it? Demi Moore? I'm a hundred years old.

[Anna Dresden]

You like a banana runt?

[Bridger Weiniger]

I like a banana runt. That's the one I save. I like a banana. Laffy Taffy comes with a smile.

[Anna Dresden]

It's nice to know that there is somebody that they're making them for.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Yeah, I'm the one.

[Anna Dresden]

You're the person.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Sorry.

[Anna Dresden]

I haven't had a runt in a long time. And I love that texture.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Oh, yeah.

[Anna Dresden]

It's like eating a bead.

[Bridger Weiniger]

I love putting beads in my mouth. I love plastic in my mouth. And then I found out about microplastic. It is like eating a bead.

[Anna Dresden]

It's very much like eating a little bead.

[Bridger Weiniger]

And it's an exciting moment because it's like there's a chance if I bite down hard enough, I'll split my skull open. This could be it.

[Anna Dresden]

For a split second of banana. That's what you're putting on the line.

[Bridger Weiniger]

It's a rush.

[Anna Dresden]

Yeah. It's an absolute rush. I don't even know if they sell runts anymore. I should look into it. Well, is there anything left to say about this enormous pile of goods?

[Bridger Weiniger]

It's a relief to have it out of the house.

[Anna Dresden]

Thank you so much for kind of pouring it on me.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Yeah, thank you so much. You helped me out. I keep being like, I'll put it on the curb and put a post on Buy Nothing Burbank. And then even that is hard.

[Anna Dresden]

Even that's hard.

[Bridger Weiniger]

You're not supposed to just do flash gives. You can, but.

[Anna Dresden]

Oh, I didn't know you couldn't do this.

[Bridger Weiniger]

You can.

[Anna Dresden]

Okay.

[Bridger Weiniger]

It's not the spirit of the group.

[Anna Dresden]

Right. It needs to be more intentional.

[Bridger Weiniger]

You should post it individually with photos.

[Anna Dresden]

It should be.

[Bridger Weiniger]

The admins are constantly tagging everyone in the group to add another role, and I'm scared of the group, so. Yeah. But I can't throw it out, and I can't really donate it.

[Anna Dresden]

The standards for Buy Nothing are way higher than I expected. Just getting into my group was a huge pain.

[Bridger Weiniger]

You have to say, like, who you are.

[Anna Dresden]

Almost felt like a background check.

[Bridger Weiniger]

1,000%. It's like, there's nothing in my neighborhood that's so awesome that people are trying to get in.

[Anna Dresden]

Right? Yeah. And, like, I feel like they knew better about where I live within Los Angeles than I do. I think I gave them the wrong information about where I live. And they're like, you don't live there. Find out where you live and come back.

[Bridger Weiniger]

What is your zone id?

[Anna Dresden]

Like?

[Bridger Weiniger]

What is. I have to look at a surveyor's map to get into this, and I.

[Anna Dresden]

Have not given away or taken anything from the group. So why am I in it?

[Bridger Weiniger]

I don't. You like to look?

[Anna Dresden]

No, I like to belong. I think I like to belong. It was ultimately looking to belong. Let's play a game. Okay. We're gonna play a game called Gift or Curse, But I need a number between one and 10 from you.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Nine.

[Anna Dresden]

Okay. I have to do some light calculating to get our game pieces. So right now you can promote, recommend, do whatever you want. I'll be right back.

[Bridger Weiniger]

I. I would like to say that you're doing great, all of you out there, and you should feel nice and give yourself a hug and bless you.

[Anna Dresden]

Excuse me. I don't think I've ever sneezed on this podcast. Interesting. What's in this bag?

[Bridger Weiniger]

Oh, big dust.

[Anna Dresden]

Yeah, probably a lot of dust.

[Bridger Weiniger]

The travel bin does not get rifled through often enough.

[Anna Dresden]

I wasn't listening. Did you promote or recommend?

[Bridger Weiniger]

No, I panicked.

[Anna Dresden]

What do you have to promote?

[Bridger Weiniger]

I think I said a prayer.

[Anna Dresden]

Do you have anything to promote right now?

[Bridger Weiniger]

Yourself, Myself, my brand.

[Anna Dresden]

You're on Instagram? Are you on anything else? Any of the other services?

[Bridger Weiniger]

Not really. My Instagram is pictures of my dogs.

[Anna Dresden]

Sure. Have you enjoyed anything recently?

[Bridger Weiniger]

Enjoyed?

[Anna Dresden]

Yeah. That's not of your own.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Like shows and stuff?

[Anna Dresden]

Whatever. A movie, food, music, movie, tv.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Why can't I think of one thing?

[Anna Dresden]

Cause it's a horrible question.

[Bridger Weiniger]

It is.

[Anna Dresden]

It will erase your mind.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Yeah. I rewatched Hereditary the other day to treat myself and I watched the last 30 minutes on mute.

[Anna Dresden]

Oh, sure.

[Bridger Weiniger]

To really take in the choices.

[Anna Dresden]

Did you see Bring Her Back?

[Bridger Weiniger]

No.

[Anna Dresden]

If you like Hereditary. I mean. Woo.

[Bridger Weiniger]

I'm going to race out of the studio, go home, close every window, and angled the TV away from any surface. It is noon. Not a good time to watch a horror movie. I cannot wait to get home and put it on.

[Anna Dresden]

Did you see Talk to Me?

[Bridger Weiniger]

I did.

[Anna Dresden]

You didn't like talk to me?

[Bridger Weiniger]

It didn't get me.

[Anna Dresden]

Okay.

[Bridger Weiniger]

It's not that I didn't get it. It didn't get me. No, I liked it. I liked. Yeah, it was a cool thing that I've never really seen a horror movie do where everyone immediately is like, cool, we're talking to ghosts. No one's like, that's not real. What are you doing? Everyone was immediately on board.

[Anna Dresden]

Okay. I wonder how you'll feel. This is the same people, the same director.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Yeah.

[Anna Dresden]

I'll have to look, but I think you'll probably like it better.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Was it as bleak as. Talk to me.

[Anna Dresden]

It's. I mean, I think it is the bleakest thing I've ever seen.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Was it mean? Mean Bleak? Mean Sad?

[Anna Dresden]

No, it's not mean.

[Bridger Weiniger]

I found Talk to me to be mean sad.

[Anna Dresden]

No, I would say this is like just sad. Just so darn sad.

[Bridger Weiniger]

That sounds great. Does a dog get hurt?

[Anna Dresden]

I can't remember if any animals get hurt. I don't.

[Bridger Weiniger]

This is the thing I wanna promote is I don't do anything with them. But there's a website and app called does the dog Die?

[Anna Dresden]

Oh, that's a good thing to know.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Download premium version, I think is $10 a year. And any movie or TV show. And it's not just dog dying, it's Does a dragon feel sad?

[Anna Dresden]

Sure.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Are fingernails ripped off. You can put in anything that's either triggering or upsetting. Cause if I see a movie where a dog is confused about being abandoned, I actually have to go to the hospital. It's debilitating. And I am now I've gotten a little bit better. But it's really nice. Cause you can see like. Okay, yeah. In this episode of Chernobyl from minutes 32, 40.

[Anna Dresden]

That was a rough episode of that show.

[Bridger Weiniger]

I just skipped that. That's another frequent rewatch for me because that's amazing. Explaining grave things. It's so cool.

[Anna Dresden]

Oh, I loved it.

[Bridger Weiniger]

It's perfect. But iodine is how they say it.

[Anna Dresden]

Those are British, right? And how do they say antibiotic? Antibiotic or something? There's like a. The way you say it with a British accent is. Anytime I've ever heard it, I've thought, wait, I don't know what you're saying to me.

[Bridger Weiniger]

We're gonna find out.

[Anna Dresden]

Doesn't matter.

[Bridger Weiniger]

I really like it. Iodine. Runtgen. Jared Harris saying, roentgen runkin fired up. It's a measure of radioactivity.

[Anna Dresden]

Right? Right.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Runtgen.

[Anna Dresden]

I love him. I loved him in Mad Men.

[Bridger Weiniger]

I love him and everything. Put him in all the things I'm here to promote. Jared Aaron.

[Anna Dresden]

I am too.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Who never stops working. He doesn't need it.

[Anna Dresden]

He needs the help. Jared, reach out.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Reach out.

[Anna Dresden]

This is how we play. Gift or a curse? I'm going to name three Things you'll tell me if they're a gift or a curse. And why. Then I'll tell you if you're right or wrong. Because there are correct answers.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Oh, great.

[Anna Dresden]

So you can lose.

[Bridger Weiniger]

I love that.

[Anna Dresden]

Look forward to it. Okay, the first one is from an unknown listener. Who knows where this came from, but it was a listener. And we do appreciate you, despite me either forgetting to put your name down or getting lost in in transaction. Lost in translation. Gift or a curse? Public Venmo transactions.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Gift.

[Anna Dresden]

Why?

[Bridger Weiniger]

Oh, it's so personal. It's like a girl I knew from Improv who married rich is paying her babysitter with a date. Saturday for Saturday. Oh, the ephemera. A man I dated for one moment paying utilities to a woman who has his same last name. His wife took his name, but he's chipping in for utilities.

[Anna Dresden]

Correct. Thank you. Gift. I don't participate. I refuse to participate. And I feel like it is an opt in, which is always a little confusing for me.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Interesting. Oh, I have it. So it's opt out. Like, you have to opt to make it private.

[Anna Dresden]

I feel like I've never been asked and I've always been private.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Oh, maybe it's a setting because it.

[Anna Dresden]

Feels like it should be backwards, don't you think? Like, it should be private. It should be public, and you turn on private.

[Bridger Weiniger]

I feel that that's what I have.

[Anna Dresden]

And you're currently public or you've turned private?

[Bridger Weiniger]

I actually don't know. I think sometimes it's public and sometimes it's private.

[Anna Dresden]

And I don't understand. This is a worry for me. I'm like. I think I'm private, but am I like this loser from high school that's paying his mom for pizza or whatever? Do you know what I mean? I don't wanna be my name. Like people seeing my petty transactions.

[Bridger Weiniger]

I love seeing them. And not even in a mean way. I'm like, it's beautiful. It's like ephemera. It's a torn corner of a birthday card from the 1800s.

[Anna Dresden]

Well, I don't mind seeing them. I just don't want anyone. I mean, I'm very nosy.

[Bridger Weiniger]

There are times where I feel a little bit exhibitionist. And I'm like, I want them to see that. I went to dinner with one of.

[Anna Dresden]

My closest friends and they demanded $18.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Anna Dresden]

Okay. You got one right so far.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Thank you.

[Anna Dresden]

The second one is from two different Patreon listeners. They both submitted a similar thing. Patricia and Sophia. Thank you. Gift or a curse? When Watching a cooking show video, and the person says, jarlic for jarred garlic curse. Why?

[Bridger Weiniger]

I've never heard of that. And I don't like the way it sounds.

[Anna Dresden]

And apparently it's happening a lot because it's getting submitted by multiple people.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Jarlic.

[Anna Dresden]

Jarlic.

[Bridger Weiniger]

And this is a cooking video. So we're looking at sort of like, what are the bon appetit stuff. And someone says, jarlic, a jar of garlic is a curse.

[Anna Dresden]

You think so?

[Bridger Weiniger]

Yeah. Cause it's a bad color.

[Anna Dresden]

The color's bad.

[Bridger Weiniger]

The color's so different from regular. When you open a garlic. And I don't like the way that the word garlic sounds. We do have frozen garlic. Like, Trader Joe's will sell those little tiny ice cube trays.

[Anna Dresden]

Frarlic.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Fra.

[Anna Dresden]

Lick, Frolick.

[Bridger Weiniger]

That sounds wonderful. That sounds like a folk character. Did I get it right?

[Anna Dresden]

The answer. It's a curse.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Okay, good. I would have been so confused.

[Anna Dresden]

I don't think Jarlic. It's not necessary, actually. It's more confusing because now we have to learn a new word for a thing that is very. When you say jarred garlic, you know what that is?

[Bridger Weiniger]

Jarred garlic.

[Anna Dresden]

Now that we're even saying it, I don't. I feel like I'm losing grasp of the English language.

[Bridger Weiniger]

I feel like I've never heard a word before.

[Anna Dresden]

Jarred garlic.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Hearing the two people said that. That thing where jarlic makes me feel out of touch, like a loser. Like, I've been in a coma for three years. What's happening with culture that I don't know that. Sophia and Patricia, they're in a group that's most people. And I'm all the way over here.

[Anna Dresden]

This is my entire experience. I was just talking about this. I feel like there's a newsletter that goes out to 99% of the population that I just didn't get signed up for, and I'm. Wait. Everyone knows this, and they knew it immediately, and they're acting like I should have known about it six months ago.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Well, you have your phone on. Do not disturb. You're free.

[Anna Dresden]

But I don't feel free.

[Bridger Weiniger]

All right?

[Anna Dresden]

I want to be. I'm desperate for attention. I want to be.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Maybe. Maybe you and I will hold hands and pray out at the end of this, and we'll try to become included.

[Anna Dresden]

More so we'll know about the next jar.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Like, yeah, I want to see it coming. I don't want to get hit in the side of the head by turning it.

[Anna Dresden]

No, not with another jar. I couldn't handle it.

[Bridger Weiniger]

No, I'm one jar lick away from a rubber room. We'll say that much.

[Anna Dresden]

All right, this third one is from another Patreon person. Annie, gift or a curse? Salt Life car stickers.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Oh. Like a bumper sticker that says Salt Life. And it's like, surf people saying that.

[Anna Dresden]

I guess that's always been my assumption. That's what it is.

[Bridger Weiniger]

I'm smiling. I think it's a gift. I like knowing that people surf. Cause that's so involved. I never. We occupy completely different areas, and they like their hobby so much that they put a sticker on their car about it, and it's Salt Life. Those are two nice words. I love to see it. I love seeing the back of a car and being like, that's. They did a diorama of themselves, right?

[Anna Dresden]

Like a little, like, school project. Yes. The trifold cardboard.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Yeah.

[Anna Dresden]

Wrong curse.

[Bridger Weiniger]

That just. That seems mean. Explain.

[Anna Dresden]

This has nothing to do with mean. First of all, until you said the surf thing, I was still wondering what it even meant.

[Bridger Weiniger]

So first of all, maybe I'm wrong.

[Anna Dresden]

See? Well, you don't even know. What does it mean? We could be committing to something that's bad right now.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Can you have a laptop?

[Anna Dresden]

This could be a group that, you know, bombs, clinics. I don't know what Salt Life is. I need a more clear.

[Bridger Weiniger]

It could be. Salt stands for Save Abortion. Let me talk. No, it's the opposite.

[Anna Dresden]

Yeah. I think it would be Stop Abortion.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Stop.

[Anna Dresden]

Yes.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Literally today. Stop Abortion Literally today. Like, yeah.

[Anna Dresden]

Who knows? And most of these bumper stickers are always so vague. And I can't commit to what I don't want to know about your life. Okay, Keep it to yourself.

[Bridger Weiniger]

You're telling me you're at a red light and there's an empty car butt in front of you and you aren't feeling left out of having a little thing to read?

[Anna Dresden]

I'm glad to have a moment of peace.

[Bridger Weiniger]

All right.

[Anna Dresden]

Salt Life. Anneliese, do we know what Salt Life is?

[Bridger Weiniger]

Well, I think it's a company. It's a company.

[Anna Dresden]

Oh, it's a company.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Why did I think it was surfing? No, but it's connected to celebrating the ocean and coastal activities. Oh, cool. Okay. Oh, my God.

[Anna Dresden]

Okay, so they are okay, then. Thank God.

[Bridger Weiniger]

I think it's a gift. I love to know that there are people who do the ocean and water activities and that they also have cars. They're not always in the water. It's not just a boat. It's a car. They contain multitudes. Also I will say, as an olive branch, too, this idea. I think the 26.2-oval bumper sticker is a curse.

[Anna Dresden]

Oh, and there are.

[Bridger Weiniger]

There's just so many of them.

[Anna Dresden]

It's.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Yeah.

[Anna Dresden]

I can't keep up with the math. And what does this one mean? And, like, the ones that are really small, I'm like, oh, now I'm just sad. Like, what's the smallest number you can have of one of those things?

[Bridger Weiniger]

That's. I think it's 10.2 or 13.1 is a half marathon.

[Anna Dresden]

Get back to me when you got to the. I don't want to know.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Don't stop at the sticker. You put the sticker on at 13.1. That makes me sad.

[Anna Dresden]

The energy you spent buying and putting that on your car could have been spent training.

[Bridger Weiniger]

You shouldn't be driving. You should be running to work.

[Anna Dresden]

You should be running.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Maybe it would be a different number.

[Anna Dresden]

Absolutely. Well, you got two out of three.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Okay. That's not good.

[Anna Dresden]

Pretty good.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Thank you.

[Anna Dresden]

Not horrible.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Thank you.

[Anna Dresden]

This is the final segment of the podcast. It's called I said no Emails. People are writing into isaidnowgiftsmail.com. they're also sending voice notes. People send voice notes?

[Bridger Weiniger]

We prefer.

[Anna Dresden]

It's easier. And they need to be 60 seconds long and recorded in a quiet room. That's easy.

[Bridger Weiniger]

This is so fun.

[Anna Dresden]

But we're gonna read one.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Okay.

[Anna Dresden]

Will you help me answer a question?

[Bridger Weiniger]

Yeah.

[Anna Dresden]

Okay, let's get into the doc here. This is Bridger and guest. Very clean, very cold greeting. I'll say. Please, I need your help with a social dilemma. I have a work event coming up soon, and while I normally feel comfortable chatting with people, I always find myself second guessing how to leave conversations without being awkward. Okay. You know those moments when the conversation has naturally quieted down and you're unsure of what's supposed to happen next? I tend to linger too long out of politeness or leave out of panic. I know both of those feelings. How do you wrap things up and move along at parties? Especially when it's someone more senior or somebody. I don't know. Well, I never know what to do. Would love any advice or phrases you have to navigate. I imagine you're much better at this. I can't imagine where this person got that idea. Benjamin. Benjamin is having the problem of leaving a conversation.

[Bridger Weiniger]

This is a problem that I also have.

[Anna Dresden]

I don't know how to handle this at all.

[Bridger Weiniger]

You have dysmorphia about the way that you come across.

[Anna Dresden]

No, I think you just don't know me very well.

[Bridger Weiniger]

You're very polished and lovely, like straight up. And also. Yeah, I don't. I don't have an answer. This also. The question itself would be like writing in how do I become a prima ballerina with verbal advice. It's like, you gotta put in the years, years.

[Anna Dresden]

There's no shortcut.

[Bridger Weiniger]

There's nothing I'm gonna tell you. Although I will say, Matt, was it Benjamin? Benjamin. Benjamin did ask a good question in this big existential one, which is, do you have suggestions or phrases? Which is incredible.

[Anna Dresden]

Right? Gives us an opportunity to at least throw out a few. I mean, my two go tos are always, I'm going to get a drink, I need to use the bathroom. But, you know, both of those, you kind of have a small amount of them for each party. Because then eventually people are like, you've gone to get 19 drinks. How could you possibly.

[Bridger Weiniger]

I know. I also think at this point, I'm gonna go get a drink has become not even euphemistic anymore.

[Anna Dresden]

People know what's going on.

[Bridger Weiniger]

People know exactly what it is. And it's almost like the version of looking at your watch going, well, it's getting late. It's just so used. The first thing I thought of was turning it around to the party, saying, like, do you know anyone else here? Or like, have you been here before? Or like, bring it out to the space. So that way your body language kind of opens up. You're half leaving, and you've made their eyes move away from you. Cause I find getting stuck in eye contact to be. It's sticky, right?

[Anna Dresden]

It's very. And it's. My problem is like, I'll run into a. I'll say, well, I'll just. I'll let you enjoy, or I'll leave you alone is what I'll say. And that's not. No one wants to be like, oh, now he thinks I'm bothering them. That's not a good way out of it.

[Bridger Weiniger]

I unfortunately do have this dynamic with one of my closest friends, or I had it before, and my husband overheard us doing exactly what you're saying. I was saying to her, I don't want to take up too much of your time. Sorry, you probably have to go. And she was saying, I'm so sorry, I'll get out of your hair. I just need to charge my phone. I'll be out of here. And he saw. We are very close friends. We worked together for years. She officiated my wedding. He was watching it happen. And Stopped us and said, I just need to say something. Neither of you has plans and both of you want to be with each other. You like each other. You are friends. You are being friends right now. And you're not mad at her, she's not mad at you. You both want her to sit on your couch and watch Celtic Woman music videos.

[Anna Dresden]

Oh, I like the sound of this.

[Bridger Weiniger]

We do it and then that was like a turning point in our friendship. We needed to be like manually reset.

[Anna Dresden]

No, I think you get into rhythms like that.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Yeah, yeah. But yeah, the saying like, I'll get out of your hair, I think, oh, they wanna get away.

[Anna Dresden]

Yeah.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Other phrases. This is great. I feel like I don't wanna tell you how to run your show, but I would love to hear people write in with phrases that.

[Anna Dresden]

Oh, that's a great. How you get out of a conversation.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Polite things. Yeah, polite things. Oh, it's great.

[Anna Dresden]

I would love to hear some for my own well being.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Yeah.

[Anna Dresden]

Do you know what I mean? This is kind of in the same territory. I wonder how you feel about nice to see you. Because people have started cheating with saying that instead of saying nice to meet you. And I see right through it.

[Bridger Weiniger]

And I just think, nice to see you is a weird fucking thing to say.

[Anna Dresden]

If you've ever.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Regardless, if you're meeting someone for the first time and they say, nice to see you, I know that they're doing the thing where they don't know if they met me or not.

[Anna Dresden]

Nobody is being fooled by that anymore.

[Bridger Weiniger]

No, wait, I just thought of one. It's. I'm gonna take a lap. I'm gonna circulate a little.

[Anna Dresden]

And you think that's good?

[Bridger Weiniger]

Well, you do it like in a tongue in cheek way where it's like, all right, let me just do a lap. Where you're like, I'm gonna. Let me just circulate. I'm gonna have to hobnob. It takes the pressure out of it.

[Anna Dresden]

I can't imagine myself saying that. I'm gonna take a lap. Does that sound natural coming out of my mouth?

[Bridger Weiniger]

No, not in your Jimmy Stewart affect. No, not at all.

[Anna Dresden]

I don't know what to say. I'm trapped.

[Bridger Weiniger]

I'm an earthy, brassy, sort of broad type. I can get away with it.

[Anna Dresden]

I'm gonna take a lap. I'm going to see what's on the.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Let me just. I have to say hi to a few people.

[Anna Dresden]

Oh, I have to say hi to a few again. That seems mean.

[Bridger Weiniger]

I want to make sure I say.

[Anna Dresden]

Hi I've talked to you enough.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Well, this has gone far enough. I feel trapped. I'm gonna say I can barely breathe. I can barely breathe as a great.

[Anna Dresden]

And then just walk away.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Yeah. I think also, like, calling attention to it. Like, wow, did you feel the conversation just go away crazy hard right now? Holy shit. I'm scared. Are you scared?

[Anna Dresden]

I think that's fair.

[Bridger Weiniger]

I feel sick.

[Anna Dresden]

And maybe blame them for it.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Yeah. And then say, I gotta go get a drink.

[Anna Dresden]

Perfect.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Because of how horrible this was, I need to take the edge off.

[Anna Dresden]

I hope that we don't cross paths again.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Wow. I'm gonna be watching out for you.

[Anna Dresden]

This was hard for me.

[Bridger Weiniger]

This sucked.

[Anna Dresden]

Well, we answered the question perfectly.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Yeah, but people should still write in with phrases.

[Anna Dresden]

If people send them in, I think maybe we could next episode or whenever we get these phrases, we'll update, let people know just in order to help in situations.

[Bridger Weiniger]

This is great.

[Anna Dresden]

Again, it's a utility podcast. People come here for life help.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Ultimately, this is the. This old house of talking.

[Anna Dresden]

Exactly. Well, I have so many things to deal with that you've brought today.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Yeah. Good luck.

[Anna Dresden]

This could change everything for me.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Walking in, I felt worried for you that you display the gifts, and I hope that you don't feel the pressure to put them all up.

[Anna Dresden]

We'll put up whatever we want. It's kind of rotating.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Okay, great. Oh, rotate. Okay. It's cute. It's a gallery.

[Anna Dresden]

It's a gallery. I mean, like.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Yeah. If you had to pick, what would you do?

[Anna Dresden]

This could easily. This.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Yeah, that really. That goes.

[Anna Dresden]

It goes matches with the dinosaur and the unicorn.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Oh, my God. Imagine you just hit your hand on the table while unspooling the slinky. Imagine if this table were marble. You'd be bleeding.

[Anna Dresden]

I'd be bleeding and cold.

[Bridger Weiniger]

You'd be so Chilly willy.

[Anna Dresden]

I can't believe how long this takes to get off. Okay, there we go. It's going right onto the table. Look at that. Beautiful. Right there.

[Bridger Weiniger]

She matches the cactus candy perfectly.

[Anna Dresden]

It's gorgeous. Oh, I've had such a nice time with you.

[Bridger Weiniger]

This was lovely.

[Anna Dresden]

Thank you for bringing all of these objects.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Thank you for taking them off my hands.

[Anna Dresden]

Of course.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Really?

[Anna Dresden]

This rocked, listener. The podcast is over. We're closing it down for the day. Do whatever you want to do. I don't want anything to do with it. I love you. Goodbye. I said no gifts is an example. Exactly right. Production. Our senior producer is Annelise Nelson, and our 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]

Here? I thought I made myself perfectly clear. When you're a guest in my home, you got to come to me empty handed. I said no. Guess your presence is present enough. And I already had too much stuff, so how do you dare disobey me?

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