Blair Socci Returns to Disobey Bridger Again

Summary

Podcast Summary: I Said No Gifts! — “Blair Socci Returns to Disobey Bridger Again”

Host: Bridger Winegar
Guest: Blair Socci
Release Date: January 29, 2026
Network: Exactly Right and iHeartPodcasts

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Main Theme and Purpose

This episode features comedian Blair Socci returning for her third appearance on "I Said No Gifts!" Despite Bridger’s “no gifts” rule, Blair once again brings a present, sparking another round of warm, hilarious conversation. Their discussion ranges from rotisserie chicken techniques to coffee shop rivalries, cozy living, aliens, brownies, horror movies, and more. Blair blends confessions, comedy, and comfort (with a Starbucks brownie in tow), making for an episode full of laughs and relatable moments.

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Key Discussion Points and Insights

Previous Gifts and Rotisserie Chicken Philosophy

• Recap of Gifts:

  • First appearance: Rotisserie chicken
  • Second appearance: Ramen noodles
  • This episode: Mystery gift (later revealed to be a Starbucks brownie)

• Rotisserie Chicken Debate:

  • Bridger admits Blair “changed the way” he eats rotisserie chicken; confesses to previously refrigerating whole, unshredded chickens.
  • Blair is adamant: eat the chicken hot and in one go for maximum enjoyment.
  • Quote:
    • Blair: "It congeals. It's like a carriage at midnight. It turns. All the magic is somehow lost." [06:16]
    • Bridger: "That's not true." [06:29]
    • Blair: "It's true." [06:30]

Costco and Protein Shake Obsession

• Both enjoy Fairlife protein shakes (42 grams of protein).
• Blair discloses buying protein shakes online in bulk; Bridger claims Costco is cheaper and invites her to join ("savings of at least $10!").
• Quote:
  • Bridger: “You gotta get in. Come with me to Costco.” [09:05]

Online Shopping Habits and Returns

• Blair confesses to a problematic online shopping habit: frequent purchases and returns, linked to a passion for clothes but a dislike of physical shopping.
• “I almost love an online return more than an online buy.” – Bridger [10:30]
• Blair shares a recent story about returning a cream coat she realized was impractical, despite romanticizing all-white outfits inspired by "Scandal."

Cozy Lifestyle and Favorite Fabrics

• Blair identifies as a “cozy gal” (in a platform Ugg and cozy sweater).
• Discuss warm versus cold at home: Blair prefers it warm, Bridger likes his bedroom at 62° at night.
• Discussion about sheets, blankets, and Utah’s “blanket war” billboards.
• Quote:
  • Blair: “There’s nothing more decadent (than all-cream outfits)… Or it’s sort of boldly saying I’m decadent and I’m not afraid of danger.” [12:31]

Alien Fascination and “Space Out” Podcast

• Blair discusses her new, lightly alien-themed podcast, “Space Out.”
• Her alien interest: Sparked by government disclosure in 2021, and the involvement of Tom DeLonge (Blink 182).
• They riff on AI’s depiction of aliens, skepticism of documentaries, and Spielberg’s new movie (“Disclosure”).
• Quote:
  • Blair: “If they [aliens] wanted to harm us, they would have blown our asses up years ago.” [26:32]

The Starbucks Brownie Gift, Coffee Culture & Loyalty

• Timestamp: Unwrapping the Gift [32:16]
• Blair presents a Starbucks brownie, advocating for its quality and the friendliness of her local Starbucks staff.
• She contrasts this with her negative experiences at “baroque,” artisanal coffee shops in LA, especially the small sizes and “macadamia milk only” options.
• Bridger defends small coffee shops, especially “Found Coffee” in Eagle Rock.
• Quote:
  • Blair: “At my Starbucks…they act like I just returned home from war.” [34:02]
  • Bridger: “Every fifth episode of this podcast I advertise for Found Coffee…” [35:03]

Brownie Quality, Baking Upgrades, and Walks

• The Starbucks brownie is praised for its moistness and reliability.
• Bridger shares tips: swap water for coffee and oil for butter in brownie mixes.
• Blair recounts stopping for a brownie on her daily 4–5 mile walks, especially premenstrually ("a craving in my loins").
• Quote:
  • Blair: “I have long for many years said that their brownie is one of the best I’ve ever had.” [34:30]
  • Bridger: “I frequently make [brownies] from a mix… If you get a good brand, what I do is switch the water for coffee and sometimes the oil for butter. Unbelievable.” [38:44]

New Year’s Resolutions & Fun for the Sake of Fun

• Blair aims to prioritize “fun” and “new textures” (experiences) that aren’t means to an end.
• Both encourage each other to try new things in 2026.

Coffee Rivalry, Preferences, and Digestive Aftermath

• Extensive, good-natured argument between Starbucks-style and snobby independent coffee culture.
• They joke about the concept of a minimalist shop: “Would you like hot or cold gasoline?” – Blair [45:27]
• Blair admits to craving comfort: “I’m a fluffy gal, not a very hardcore gal… I need a lot of comforts.” [50:22]

Sleep, Phone Addiction, and Creative Frustrations

• Both lament modern tech/screen addiction, remembering the “72-hour summer days” of childhood.
• Blair reveals she originally wanted to be a novelist; now makes reading fiction a goal for 2026.

Game Segment: Gift or a Curse [62:16–70:38]

• Bridger and Blair play “Gift or a Curse”:

  • Returning Tupperware: Bridger rules it’s a gift (“That’s family heirloom!”) [62:57].
  • PG-13 horror movies: Both agree they can be scarier than R-rated (“more in control of themselves,” “confident in being scary”) [65:14].
  • Ads in non-native language: Both find this a gift as it decreases ad effectiveness [67:15].

• Blair scores 2 out of 3 (she insists she got all correct).

Listener Advice: The $300 Birthday Transfer Problem [71:03]

• Dilemma: Listener Jelena's mother-in-law stopped sending her annual $300.
• Blair votes for not mentioning it directly.
• Bridger suggests sending a thank-you card as a gentle reminder, calling to check on her MIL’s finances, or even taking it to small claims court (in jest).
• Quote:
  • Blair: “I don't think you can mention it...you can't just be like, where's my money?” [72:05]

Housewives, Horror Movies, & Coffee Shop Snobbery

• Conversation veers into Real Housewives of Salt Lake City, their finale, and inside jokes about "Maru Coffee" versus mainstream shops.

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

| Timestamp | Speaker | Quote | |-----------|--------------|-------------------------------------------------------------| | 06:16 | Blair Socci | "It congeals. It's like a carriage at midnight..." | | 12:31 | Blair Socci | "There's nothing more decadent...I'm not afraid of danger." | | 26:32 | Blair Socci | “If they [aliens] wanted to harm us, they would have blown our asses up years ago.” | | 34:02 | Blair Socci | "At my Starbucks…they act like I just returned home from war." | | 35:03 | Bridger W. | “Every fifth episode...I advertise for Found Coffee…” | | 38:44 | Bridger W. | “If you get a good brand, what I do is switch the water for coffee and sometimes the oil for butter. Unbelievable.”| | 45:27 | Blair Socci | “Would you like hot or cold gasoline on your way to work to shit your pants faster than you can make it to a bathroom?” | | 50:22 | Blair Socci | “I’m a fluffy gal. I’m not a very hardcore gal. … I need a lot of comforts.” | | 62:57 | Bridger W. | “That is essentially a piece of furniture, essentially...I didn’t bring you plastic wear.” (on Tupperware) | | 65:14 | Bridger W. | “I think horror movies that are PG13 are often more scary because they’re more restrained.” | | 72:05 | Blair Socci | “I don’t think you can mention it… you can’t just be like, where’s my money?” |

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Timestamps for Key Segments

• 03:02 — Bridger’s intro, rotisserie chicken callback
• 05:00 — Blair enters, gift banter
• 06:00–09:11 — Rotisserie chicken, Costco, protein shakes
• 10:00–13:10 — Online shopping confessions, fashion woes
• 16:36–20:41 — Cozy lifestyle, heating habits, sheet talk
• 21:27–26:27 — Utah, Lake Powell, alien interest
• 32:16–39:00 — Gift reveal: Starbucks brownie, coffee shop loyalty, baking tips
• 40:45–43:46 — Coffee culture debate; reconciling Starbucks and indie cafes
• 51:03–56:04 — Sleep/phone addiction, childhood nostalgia, reading intentions
• 62:16–70:38 — Game: Gift or a Curse
• 71:03–76:36 — Listener question: missing $300 birthday transfer

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Tone & Style

Conversational, energetic, silly but sincere, and honest. Plenty of teasing, good-natured ribbing, and self-deprecating humor from both host and guest. Even debates (over coffee, snacks, and horror movies) are light-hearted.

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Conclusion

This episode continues the warm, offbeat back-and-forth between Bridger and Blair—full of jokes, sincere opinions, childhood nostalgia, and a surprising amount of edible product analysis. Fans of comedic banter, relatable “grown-up” problems, and community-building through food and coffee will find lots to enjoy.

Blair plugs her new podcast “Space Out” (about womanhood, mental health, pop culture, and a bit of aliens), and Bridger hopes she’ll return for another round of gift-giving defiance soon.

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For fans seeking the funniest parts:

• Rotisserie chicken technique (06:00–07:33)
• Starbucks brownie defense vs. artisanal coffee snobbery (32:16–36:46)
• “Hot or cold gasoline” minimalist coffee joint (45:22–46:14)
• Listener question about the missing $300 transfer (71:03–75:47)

Transcript

[Blair Socci]

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[Intro/Outro Narrator]

When I invited you here, I thought I made myself perfectly clear. When you're a guest in you gotta 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?

[Bridger Weiniger]

Welcome to I said no gifts. I'm Bridger Weiniger. I have to pick up flea medication after this recording. What can I say? I love to shop flea medication for the dog. Not for me, if that was of any concern. I'm not covered in fleas. And the dog's not covered in fleas either. It's a preventative. You know, if you haven't had a dog before, you've got to do this monthly. Or the dog, I guess, could get fleas. I don't know. I don't know where she would get fleas from, but it's the Simparica Trio, if you've ever seen the commercials. Dog owners everywhere are getting this flea medication. So that's what I'll be doing after this. And I forget Jim's going to burn me to the ground. Why else would I have come to Burbank? What else is going on? Let's see. I'm just kind of sitting here thinking about who's going to wrong me today. I've got a few ideas already, and I don't think that there's any other real business. I mean, we're very far into the first month of the new year, and not all of my problems are solved yet. So maybe we just skip till next year and see if that one works. Otherwise, let's see. Little House on the Prairie last night, what was happening? Nelly faked a spinal injury. Just kind of tricked the whole town. And, oh, and we also watch an episode where Johnny Cash teams up with Mary to scam the town. He and a child accomplice steal a lot of money from everyone in the town, and then he learns his lesson. Okay, I think. Oh, and he's also impersonating a church official. Unbelievable. Let's get into the podcast. I today's guest has already been on the show twice. She's back for the third time. I can't get enough. It's Blair Saucki. Blair, welcome back to I said no gifts.

[Blair Socci]

Richard. Can I say, I woke up this morning with a little pep in my step? I said, I'm going to see my friend today. And will I defy him by bringing a gift?

[Bridger Weiniger]

Yeah.

[Blair Socci]

Yeah, you can know I'm gonna do that. Okay.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Wow, Blair. Wow.

[Blair Socci]

I know.

[Bridger Weiniger]

I've been looking forward to this for weeks.

[Blair Socci]

I've been looking forward to it for weeks.

[Bridger Weiniger]

You were on twice, I think, in 2024.

[Blair Socci]

Yes.

[Bridger Weiniger]

And, I mean, we'll get into whatever the hell you're talking about with this gift later. But in the last two episodes, you've brought me a rotisserie chicken.

[Blair Socci]

Yeah.

[Bridger Weiniger]

And then ramen noodles.

[Blair Socci]

Right.

[Bridger Weiniger]

You were on the live show and you brought ramen noodles. Those are still in my cabinet.

[Blair Socci]

Oh, I love that. Thank you. And that really means a lot to me because I know that a lot of people sort of like to ruffle you and give you gifts. And so I know you're just getting gifts up the wazoo. And for you to keep, you know, my lowly items means a lot.

[Bridger Weiniger]

The beef ramen noodles. I haven't. I don't still have the rotisserie chicken, obviously.

[Blair Socci]

Oh, I believe, too.

[Bridger Weiniger]

But you did kind of change the way I eat rotisserie chicken because you've kind of shamed me about how I was eating it because I had refrigerated it without shredding at first.

[Blair Socci]

Oh, my God, Bridger. No, no, no, no. You can't even eat it after it's been refrigerated. It changes into a completely different. It congeals. It's like a. It's like a carriage at midnight. It turns. All the magic is somehow lost.

[Bridger Weiniger]

That is not true.

[Blair Socci]

It's true.

[Bridger Weiniger]

That is absolutely not true.

[Blair Socci]

I mean, you could. It is edible. Truly, it is. If you've pre shred before refrigerating, you could theoretically eat it in the coming days. But I mean, to even insinuate that it's anything like when you pull it out the hot thing at Ralph's.

[Bridger Weiniger]

So when I think we've probably discussed this, but when you buy the chicken, you just wolf it down and then it's out of your life.

[Blair Socci]

Absolutely. There is no other way. There is no other way. And I know, Bridget, that I am not alone in this. I know that.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Well, you're alone in this room because I'm bought. You know, I occasionally will now buy one at Costco because you have convinced me to buy these chickens.

[Blair Socci]

Oh, you're going to Costco.

[Bridger Weiniger]

I'm going to Costco.

[Blair Socci]

I love that. That means you're really mature. I hope to get to my Costco.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Era, but I'm in a weird Costco era because, you know, you go in there and people have grocery carts just piled with months of food.

[Blair Socci]

Right.

[Bridger Weiniger]

And I essentially buy a chicken, a bag of Babybel cheese.

[Blair Socci]

Sure.

[Bridger Weiniger]

And some protein shakes, and then I'm out of there.

[Blair Socci]

Which protein shakes are you getting?

[Bridger Weiniger]

I'm getting the Fair Life.

[Blair Socci]

That's what I. I drink that every morning.

[Bridger Weiniger]

I drink it every day for lunch.

[Blair Socci]

42 grams. Because I can't. 42 grams of protein, baby. And it tastes. Right. Like chocolate milk.

[Bridger Weiniger]

I feel like. I mean. And this is not a paid promotion. It feels like a magic trick to me. Because it's not disgusting.

[Blair Socci]

No, it genuinely tastes so good. Because I'm a chocolate milk freak.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Oh, me too.

[Blair Socci]

I was as a child, anyways. And then you become a woman. In entertainment. They don't even let you have any chocolate milk in your adulthood. But the Fairlife protein shake.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Yeah, I think it tastes better than chocolate milk. My problem with a lot of chocolate milk is it doesn't taste that much like chocolate. You know, it's more just like sweet milk.

[Blair Socci]

Sure.

[Bridger Weiniger]

This thing. I'm having one a day, at least.

[Blair Socci]

So am I. I didn't think we could have more in common. And then we hit on this about just. I don't know, what are we at minute three.

[Bridger Weiniger]

And we're essentially the same person.

[Blair Socci]

It's crazy.

[Bridger Weiniger]

It's unbelievable.

[Blair Socci]

I know.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Are you getting yours at Costco or are you going and buying them? Way too much money.

[Blair Socci]

No, I'm not. I can't say that I'm buying them one by one, but the way in which I am procuring them, I'm not proud to say. Please tell me I'm buying them in flats online. Getting them delivered to my doorstep, because I'm having one every morning.

[Bridger Weiniger]

How much are you paying for a flat?

[Blair Socci]

I think they're around $40.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Okay, you gotta get in. Come with me to Costco.

[Blair Socci]

I will. I'd love to.

[Bridger Weiniger]

I think I'm paying 30 bucks.

[Blair Socci]

Really?

[Bridger Weiniger]

That's savings of at least $10.

[Blair Socci]

That's much better. And all I would have to do is get a little exercise. Squat. Bring it up to the stairs from the. No, I wouldn't mind that.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Okay, you do want that.

[Blair Socci]

I wouldn't mind that.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Okay.

[Blair Socci]

Yeah.

[Bridger Weiniger]

But right now they're just being thrown at your door.

[Blair Socci]

I just wouldn't even know where else to get them in bulk.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Well, I mean, outside of a Costco, I feel like they're twice as much money.

[Blair Socci]

They are everywhere.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Yeah. I would be financially ruined if I was buying them elsewhere.

[Blair Socci]

I'm already on the precipice with my online.

[Bridger Weiniger]

What else are you having shipped to your house from the Internet? Any other frequent things?

[Blair Socci]

This had to be the beginning question. So, you know, I'll out myself here. I feel sort of like your listeners, and you are my family at this point. Yes, online shopping is something I really struggle with.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Okay.

[Blair Socci]

I love it.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Do you buy something online every day?

[Blair Socci]

Would you say that's on it? That might be a little too personal of a question, but it is often. And sometimes I forget, you know, I do a lot of returns as well, because I'm like, no, no, no, no, no, no past me. That was too far. You don't need that. We need to sort of save some money, right?

[Bridger Weiniger]

I almost love an online return more than an online buy.

[Blair Socci]

It's so satisfying.

[Bridger Weiniger]

It's so satisfying.

[Blair Socci]

It's so satisfying. Sometimes I get embarrassed at my local ups. They're so kind in there. And, you know, you have the barcode sc no label for free. And I'm just scanning. Hello, hello. Hello. How are you? Please don't look at what I'm doing. I'm humiliated. And every time they say, why are you humiliated? I said, because things just get out of control, you know? And that's why I'm here.

[Bridger Weiniger]

That's part of the thing. If I can't look at it or feel it before I purchase it, there's a 99% chance I'm going to have.

[Blair Socci]

To send it back 100%. And when I find a brand or when I find a fit, that works for me. Because here's the thing about me. I love clothes. I'm very into clothes and fashion, but I hate shopping.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Oh, that's a really real curse, some could say.

[Blair Socci]

I mean, maybe not in today's world, but yeah. So I'm doing a lot of returns, right? And if. And I am pretty good. Like, if I know I'm not going to use something, I absolutely return it. I try to be quite militant about that.

[Bridger Weiniger]

What was the last big return you made? Was there something where you're like, this just is too much?

[Blair Socci]

I tried to buy this, like, beautiful cream coat, and then I was like, blair, you got enough coat? What, you're gonna let that thing fall on the ground at the Comedy Store? No. You don't need a cream coat that'll.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Be filthy when you walk out of the house.

[Blair Socci]

I know, but I had it in my head to wear with this cream satin dress.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Oh, sounds like something to get baptized in.

[Blair Socci]

I know. There's some. I love wearing all white and all cream. I do it all the time.

[Bridger Weiniger]

But aren't you just constantly nervous of getting dirty?

[Blair Socci]

Yes, but there's something so powerful. I think I first noticed it when I was in my scandal watching years with Kerry Washington.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Was she always in all cream?

[Blair Socci]

She was in so much cream. And there's nothing more luxurious looking. Even though I'M like, it's, you know, the little skater brat version of it.

[Bridger Weiniger]

You know, it's very decadent.

[Blair Socci]

I think it's so there's nothing more decadent, right?

[Bridger Weiniger]

Because it's like, well, I don't care if my clothes get ruined, I'll have more.

[Blair Socci]

Or it's sort of boldly saying I'm decadent and I'm not afraid of danger.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Right. Throw ketchup at me.

[Blair Socci]

But then you can forget. Like one time I wore all white without thinking it to my best friend's child's one year birthday party. And then I was like, oh, why did I have any pictures with her after? I was like, oh yeah, I was wearing all white. I didn't want any sticky shit on me, you know what I mean? And then I was like, that was the wrong outfit because I would like. I want the pictures.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Right.

[Blair Socci]

I want to hold.

[Bridger Weiniger]

But that's a great outfit. I think that's a good tip. If you don't want to be interacting with children, dress in all white.

[Blair Socci]

Sure. Yes. You heard it here first. If you're a children hater, you can absolutely use that. For me, it was accidental and I'm a children lover.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Right. That's a tough pill to swallow. I have fallen into just always wanting to wear a white shoe, a cream shoe.

[Blair Socci]

Right.

[Bridger Weiniger]

And they're dirty. I mean they get dirty pretty quickly, but I don't know what else to do. It's the only sort of shoe I like to wear at this point.

[Blair Socci]

I know what you're saying. I'm a big Chuck Taylor's gal. Always sort of have maintained that all the way through from kindergarten.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Oh, from kindergarten, yes. Wow.

[Blair Socci]

And I have many like white pairs and they get dirty easy. Just, you know.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Yeah. I think you just kind of have to let go.

[Blair Socci]

I was in a phase, I don't remember when it was where I thought like dirty Converse were really cool when I was young.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Very punk.

[Blair Socci]

Yes. And now I like them very clean.

[Bridger Weiniger]

You like a pristine shoe.

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[Bridger Weiniger]

What sort of shoe are you wearing?

[Blair Socci]

I am wearing a platform hug right now.

[Bridger Weiniger]

It looks really cozy.

[Blair Socci]

It is cozy and if I can say anything about me, it's cozy.

[Bridger Weiniger]

You are a cozy person.

[Blair Socci]

I am a cozy, cozy gal.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Right now you're in a very cozy sweater.

[Blair Socci]

It's very. It's very frigid out. It's 42 degrees out.

[Bridger Weiniger]

I think this is the coldest day in the last year for sure.

[Blair Socci]

Oh my gosh, it's so, so cold. And last night too. Oh my God.

[Bridger Weiniger]

I was running to the car.

[Blair Socci]

I was running to the car. I had my heat blasting was still on this morning in the Prius cruising over here and I said, thank God I'm on the right setting. You know, it's very frigid out.

[Bridger Weiniger]

What temperature do you keep your place at?

[Blair Socci]

Hmm. Well, I do live in an old, old building and it has one of those pilot type of old heaters.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Oh, sure, sure.

[Blair Socci]

And that thing works like you wouldn't even believe. It's incredible. And I. Cause there's no insulation in the walls. So it really. So like sometimes I'm firing that thing up and it's just. I heat the, like an oven. That was last night, but I don't know in the win. And then, you know, because there's no insulation when it's hot out. It's so hot up there too.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Right. There's no winning.

[Blair Socci]

What about you?

[Bridger Weiniger]

At night I liked. I will turn the thermostat down to like 62.

[Blair Socci]

62.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Yeah. Essentially because I wanted to. I hate being hot at night.

[Blair Socci]

Yeah, but you're like being cryogenically frozen.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Yeah, no, I'm very warm under all of my covers.

[Blair Socci]

Are you. Do you run hot or you run cold?

[Bridger Weiniger]

I think I. That's a good question. I think I. I think I have a perfectly tuned system that's. I run just normal.

[Blair Socci]

I think I run a little cold.

[Bridger Weiniger]

You're cold?

[Blair Socci]

Yeah.

[Bridger Weiniger]

So you need to. I feel like. And I don't want to generalize. I feel like a lot of the women I know run cold.

[Blair Socci]

Yeah. And you know what's funny is I. It's not funny. It's deeply sick. I grew up in 90s Orange county when like skinny girl, like was all that mattered, you know. And. And I had the natural God given physique of sort of a shot putter, you know. And so I always dreamed of being one of those fragile, cold girls.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Is that a thing?

[Blair Socci]

I guess. So sad. I mean that, that's sad to that. That could even be a dream of mine. My dream. My dreams are much. Rest assured listeners, my dreams are much, much, much different now that I've lived 20 lives since that sad, sad, deeply programmed age. But yeah, now I'm just, you know, an aging. God willing. Thank you, woman who's chilled.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Chilled. You're a chilled woman. Rather than a cold Girl.

[Blair Socci]

Yes. And I love soft materials. I love soft fabrics.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Do you love, like, high quality?

[Blair Socci]

Yes. I wouldn't classify them as like, it. I. I mean, of course I love a high quality sheet, but it's not about them being high quality. It's. I mean, like, I like a flannel sheet.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Oh, I love a flannel.

[Blair Socci]

Yeah. Like a. You know, I like a Jersey soft.

[Bridger Weiniger]

I. I don't really, like. I can't. I don't think I can really tell a difference between a. I mean, a sheet has to be horrible for me to feel like this is not a good sheet.

[Blair Socci]

Yeah. Or it's more like you just really know when you're just like, wow. When you get hit with a fancy one.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Right. And it's so infrequent that you don't even get used to it.

[Blair Socci]

Right.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Because you have to be in a really nice place to be like, this is a good sheet. And you have to be in essentially jail to be on a bad sheet.

[Blair Socci]

Yes.

[Bridger Weiniger]

So I feel like middle of the road sheets will be my intent.

[Blair Socci]

She built that so beautifully.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Thank you.

[Blair Socci]

Yeah, thank you.

[Bridger Weiniger]

I should talk to more people about sheets.

[Blair Socci]

You know, I could talk to you about anything. I could really get. I feel. I just feel. I get lost in my conversations with you. It's so beautiful.

[Bridger Weiniger]

You know, speaking of cozy, I was in Utah recently, and for whatever reason, there's been a blanket craze in Utah. Like, every billboard is about blankets. It's so crazy. There's just, like, a blanket war going on in Utah, and I don't know why they're all so crazy about blankets.

[Blair Socci]

Oh, my God.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Several companies are fighting.

[Blair Socci]

Wow. You're making my autistic ass want to get on a plane right now and tell me, are you in Utah? Doing research on your deep interest in the Mormon wives secret lies.

[Bridger Weiniger]

It goes hand in hand with being from Utah.

[Blair Socci]

Are you from Utah?

[Bridger Weiniger]

I'm from Utah.

[Blair Socci]

Which part?

[Bridger Weiniger]

Right outside of Salt Lake City.

[Blair Socci]

Oh, okay.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Have you done shows there?

[Blair Socci]

I have not, actually.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Have you been there?

[Blair Socci]

I have many times. I'm looking to go, actually, if Wise guys, the bookers are listening.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Wise guys should be booking Blair Psaki.

[Blair Socci]

Thank you.

[Bridger Weiniger]

The fact that they haven't is ridiculous.

[Blair Socci]

I appreciate that. That's a huge. That is a huge cosign.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Yeah.

[Blair Socci]

For me, I have the hard time.

[Bridger Weiniger]

That's ridiculous. Wise guys reach out. Wise guys. I believe in West Valley, Utah, and West Jordan, Utah.

[Blair Socci]

Sure.

[Bridger Weiniger]

The fact that, I mean, just shut down if you're not gonna book Blair. Psaki.

[Blair Socci]

I've heard. I've actually spent been to many places in Utah.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Why?

[Blair Socci]

Because growing up, one of our big family trips every year was Lake Powell.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Oh, I love Lake Powell. It's so beautiful.

[Blair Socci]

It's majestic. There's nothing like it, really.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Yeah, I don't. It does feel like a completely different category of lake compared to any other type of lake.

[Blair Socci]

I mean, it really is, if you've spent any time there. Well, because the Grand Canyon is one of the seven wonders of the world, right? Isn't it? Is that a lie?

[Bridger Weiniger]

Let's assume.

[Blair Socci]

Okay, I don't know, Whatever. But the rock formations and the sunsets, what you see there is unlike, I think, anything in the world.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Oh, it's stunning.

[Blair Socci]

It looks like AI before we knew what AI was. I hate AI.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Yeah, take that back. AI looks like garbage. It does not look like AI.

[Blair Socci]

Fuck you, AI.

[Bridger Weiniger]

It looks like beautiful, real nature.

[Blair Socci]

I'm going to be the first to get capped when they become alive and sentient. You know, I'm so analog. I not for you.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Kill me if AI takes over. I don't want to be part of it anyway.

[Blair Socci]

That's true.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Just the robots can come for me, eat me, tear me to pieces, shred me like a chicken.

[Blair Socci]

Do you think that they're studying the fictional movies like her and Ex Machina?

[Bridger Weiniger]

Oh, interesting. I feel like if they are. If they are, I feel like that's embarrassing for us because they're probably like, this is nothing like us. That's how I feel about aliens. Like, I feel like if aliens came here and saw the movies we made, they'd be like, we would all be so humiliated because they'd be like, this is what you thought we were?

[Blair Socci]

Funny that you bring up aliens, Bridger.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Why is that, Blair?

[Blair Socci]

Well, you know my new podcast called Space out, and I do have an interest in aliens.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Where did the interest come from?

[Blair Socci]

Well, it started in 2021 when the government sort of slipped in, along with one member from Blink 182, a formative band of my youth in Orange County, Warped Tour, decided to devote his life to, you know, aliens. And then the government was like, they're real. And I was like, what? I'm not some freak. I never thought about aliens in my life. I'm not a conspiracy theorist, you know, I'm a regular girl. I've read a lot of.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Literally, you're a chill woman.

[Blair Socci]

Chill, Chill.

[Bridger Weiniger]

I'm a chilled, chilled woman.

[Blair Socci]

Chilled woman. And then when in 2021, when our government was like, oh, they're Real and literally because of COVID and the whole world falling apart, like no one cared. But I was like, what are you talking about? This is insane. Cause I'd never thought about it before that moment.

[Bridger Weiniger]

You had never thought about it? Just probably not a deep interest.

[Blair Socci]

It was crazy. I was like, I don't know. I can't think about that. I got other shit to worry about.

[Bridger Weiniger]

And now you're really getting into it.

[Blair Socci]

Sort of, you know, it's a light interest. But yeah, I think it's interesting that the government would. They have reasoning to tell us that it's real. Now, why they would choose to disclose that?

[Bridger Weiniger]

What have you learned about aliens?

[Blair Socci]

Well, I'm pretty sure they're realists at this point. You know, I don't think that they would want to tell us if there wasn't a need to. I am starting to watch the documentaries now.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Oh boy. Yeah, well, so many of those are so bad.

[Blair Socci]

Yes, fine. That means you're watching them too, Bridger. Huh?

[Bridger Weiniger]

I feel like I've tried and every time I'm like, there must be a really good one and I haven't found it yet.

[Blair Socci]

Well, the new one that just came out called Age of Disclosure, and it's pretty disturbing actually because it features a lot of ex special teams people where, you know, the top secret government coalitions that have been studying all this and high, high up ex military that have all this experience and have been studying.

[Bridger Weiniger]

It for years and they're revealing all of it. Well, what are they revealing?

[Blair Socci]

So my. And if you do choose to listen to my podcast, it's about womanhood, mental.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Health, there'll be a chance to promote.

[Blair Socci]

Pop culture and then the very end of it. And I say, and a little bit of aliens. So I don't want you to think there's just one tiny segment at the end called Galactic Gossip. My point in saying that is I don't want you to think the, the podcast is just about aliens. Yeah, it's just tiny, tiny part.

[Bridger Weiniger]

I'm gonna do a podcast called Strictly Aliens.

[Blair Socci]

Oh, please. I'd love to be a guest when you have time.

[Bridger Weiniger]

I'll book you.

[Blair Socci]

No, but the thing is that scared me on that thing is because my idea and I do have a long bit about this was that aliens are benevolent because otherwise they look at us like dogs, you know, like we're like much more rudimentary compared to them. And if they wanted to harm us, they would have blown our asses up, up years ago. And I think that they're just like Patrolling around to make sure we don't blow ourselves up.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Maybe they're just biting their time like a cat playing with its prey.

[Blair Socci]

Well, that's a little more disturbing thought.

[Bridger Weiniger]

I'm sorry, that's a possibility.

[Blair Socci]

Well, you know, I am an optimist and. But then Age of Disclosure caused some concern.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Is Age of Disclosure. There's this new Spielberg movie called Disclosure about aliens. It must be based on that.

[Blair Socci]

I don't think it is. But that's.

[Bridger Weiniger]

I mean, because of such confidence.

[Blair Socci]

I don't think it is because I think this was probably being made while that.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Well, yeah. Interest.

[Blair Socci]

But. But who knows? Maybe. I don't know.

[Bridger Weiniger]

All I know, I saw the trailer. There were a lot of very fake CGI deer. This is a big problem in Hollywood, I think, is CGI deer. I feel. I feel like there's some sort of CGI house that's tricking every director and saying, no, they'll look real this time. And then they never look real.

[Blair Socci]

Well, I think this is a very important idea that you're raising is that we are not being scrupulous enough with the deer.

[Bridger Weiniger]

With the deer.

[Blair Socci]

People are overlooking deer as if it's something simple and it's really not. It could ruin the whole movie for people with a trained eye.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Yeah. It takes me a while, Bridger. Wendy. Yeah. If I see a CGI deer, I might as well just get up and leave the theater.

[Blair Socci]

Right?

[Bridger Weiniger]

Because, you know, it's so disruptive. The first one I ever really noticed was in that Three Billboards movie with Frances McDormand.

[Blair Socci]

I know it well.

[Bridger Weiniger]

She meets a deer in it. Clearly a fake deer.

[Blair Socci]

Right.

[Bridger Weiniger]

I'm out.

[Blair Socci]

Right.

[Bridger Weiniger]

I mean, I had a lot of problems with that movie, but so did everyone.

[Blair Socci]

Except for me, apparently. I thought it was exquisite. I don't know, though. I could have had a gummy, which my friends like to remind me sometimes could affect how might appreciate a film.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Yeah, sure.

[Blair Socci]

Greta likes to say this to me.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Sometimes she just reminds you of.

[Blair Socci]

I trust my reviews.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Right?

[Blair Socci]

Right.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Did you see the new Avatar?

[Blair Socci]

I haven't. Did you?

[Bridger Weiniger]

I saw the first 45 minutes.

[Blair Socci]

Oh, Bridger.

[Bridger Weiniger]

That's all I need. That's all I need.

[Blair Socci]

Look, I will say I saw the first one in theater. I thought it was majestic. I did watch the second one. I still think it's cool. I'll probably watch it, like when it gets to my house, when it arrives at my home.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Just like James Cameron wants you to.

[Blair Socci]

See that along with My Fair Life.

[Bridger Weiniger]

That movie was meant to be seen on a 30 inch screen with a fair life in hand.

[Blair Socci]

Sounds exquisite.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Well, I feel like there's something else we need to talk about. You brought it up at the beginning of the podcast. You brought a gift for the third time.

[Blair Socci]

Look, I'm my own person. Just because you tell me not to do something doesn't necessarily mean that I'm not gonna do it, baby. Okay, Women have credit cards now we can have property.

[Bridger Weiniger]

It's news to me.

[Blair Socci]

For now. For now we have.

[Bridger Weiniger]

I'm fighting against that.

[Blair Socci]

Well, that sounds like you, Mr. 45 Minutes of Avatar. Okay, so I decided, you know. Cause I have manners.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Okay.

[Blair Socci]

To bring a little something.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Well, should we open it here on the podcast?

[Blair Socci]

Yeah.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Okay.

[Blair Socci]

I'd love it if you did that.

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All right. It's in this gorgeous brown bag.

[Blair Socci]

Yeah. Natural textures and fibers.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Very nice paper bag. Listen to that crinkle. I haven't even brought it out yet, okay? There's nothing. Okay. Is this. Is this a brownie from Starbucks?

[Blair Socci]

It is. And here's the thing I have to tell you about this, okay?

[Bridger Weiniger]

Let's put it here for now.

[Blair Socci]

I sensed, I have pretty heightened intuition that you are a fancy coffee guy.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Oh, interesting.

[Blair Socci]

And as a lot of our peers are in the arts, I cannot count myself amongst you. I have a lot of issues with these baroque coffee shops, okay? Because you know, I like my jumbo. I like my jumbo 40 ounce iced coffee with sugar free vanilla, whatever. And I don't like when I go usually with a friend to these coffee shops, the rudeness. They act like I am. I'm committing a crime by walking into their small business. They're upset. The large is an 8 ounce. They only have macadamia nut milk and a whole milk. And they look like I'm crazy for act. I know it took me forever to adapt to almond milk. I'm not. I can't do another one, you know. So anyways, I stick to the Starbucks. And here's the thing. At my Starbucks, my local Starbucks, I won't say which one. I'm not trying to dox myself. They all know my name. Theirs couldn't be more friendly no matter how busy that place is. They act like I just returned home from war and I. And look, I know it turns my frown right upside down. And look, I know there are problems with large corporations. The people there are too nice. They are my family.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Keep talking. Blair. I've got. I'm. I have a rebuttal.

[Blair Socci]

And this is where we land the plane. I have long, for many years said that their brownie is like one of the best brownies I've ever had.

[Bridger Weiniger]

These are two issues I can really speak to. And I'm just going to take the floor for a moment. I Love very good coffee. And I love going to a local small place. And now I'm going to, I would say every fifth episode of this podcast. I advertise for Found Coffee in Eagle Rock, California, which is none of the things you've just described.

[Blair Socci]

No, I anticipated all of this, so don't worry. I am ready.

[Bridger Weiniger]

The coffee I'm currently drinking is from Found Coffee, the nicest crew of people in the world. This is going to change your mind about small coffee shops. Every one of them is an absolute angel. The prices are perfect.

[Blair Socci]

Oh, they're not $17 for six ounces. And some sort of just angry, just hateful.

[Bridger Weiniger]

No. You will be frequently greeted by the owner, Annie, or the general manager, Arven. I've gotten to a point I kind of black out when I go in because they know exactly what I want. I'll walk up to the counter and I won't even say what I want. And sometimes I'm like, oh, I should probably say what I want. They might not. The employee might not know. But we're just kind of in sync there in such a way that sometimes they'll have the coffee ready for me before I even come in the door.

[Blair Socci]

Okay, I love this. I think this is spectacular.

[Bridger Weiniger]

And I have to just balance out because the advertisement for Starbucks is good.

[Blair Socci]

And look, I'm not trying to advertise for Starbucks. I wish I didn't even have to say the name. Okay, I'm not proud of this. Look, I like, you know, in many, in almost all facets of my life, I'm a quite a complicated, layered individual in this one. I'm a simple gal.

[Bridger Weiniger]

This is what I'll say. I will go to foundation six days a week, sometimes seven days a week. I've been going there for years. At this point. I'm not such a snob that I won't go to Starbucks. I think Starbucks has its purpose. I'll go there and get a massive cold brew sometimes. Sometimes I'll ask no ice. And so it'll just be pure cold brew.

[Blair Socci]

That is incredible.

[Bridger Weiniger]

That's only when those are some very circumstances. And I've always had good service at Starbucks. The employees are always very nice to me and I'm always very nice to them. But we live in a city that is truly especially. I live in Highland Park. There is a coffee shop probably every half a block. It's the exact opposite of where I grew up in Utah. There's essentially two good coffee shops in the entire state.

[Blair Socci]

Great sunsets, though.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Gorgeous sunsets in the Mountains are beautiful, right? Coffee. It's a slightly tough situation.

[Blair Socci]

Yeah.

[Bridger Weiniger]

But I love found coffee. So I just, like, I. I'm using my platform for good to fight you.

[Blair Socci]

Right.

[Bridger Weiniger]

My boyfriend is a. He's a big Starbucks person.

[Blair Socci]

Right. And. And here's the thing, and I will make this distinction in the few times that I have been lucky enough to go overseas and stuff. And you're, like, at a restaurant in, I don't know, Italy or something, and they give you a coffee and you're like, okay, wow, this tastes great. I love that. But I'm not, like, a huge coffee person.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Oh, I'm not, obviously.

[Blair Socci]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm not drinking the coffee hot. I don't really drink a hot coffee very often. It's more, you know, means to an end for me was the jumbo. I need the caffeine, and I like the straw, all this stuff. So I completely understand that. If I were like, a real coffee drinker and the way that I like food, I fully understand. But this is somehow formulated to be a perfect brownie.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Okay. And this is the next thing I want to speak to, which is brownies people, I don't think they realize how easy it is to make a good brownie. I frequently make them from a mix.

[Blair Socci]

I used to do the mix a lot as a child. It was really one of the only things that my mother let me do alone. All you needed was an egg or one in water or something else.

[Bridger Weiniger]

I think that a mix usually requires, like, one egg, some water and oil, and then the mix.

[Blair Socci]

Perfection.

[Bridger Weiniger]

And if you get a good brand, what I do is I switch the water for coffee and sometimes the oil for butter. Unbelievable.

[Blair Socci]

They're genius.

[Bridger Weiniger]

They're so good, right? And so I have to imagine Starbucks has a good brownie. Can I try it, Please?

[Blair Socci]

It's very good.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Okay. It looks like a good brownie. It looks like a good texture for years.

[Blair Socci]

Because, you know, I walk every day. That's what I like to do for exercise. I just, you know, I'm sort of known on the east side to just be seen walking, traipsing, shuffling around, and sometimes over the many years, the week before my period.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Mm.

[Blair Socci]

Anyone talk about menstruation on this podcast?

[Bridger Weiniger]

I do constantly.

[Blair Socci]

I stop in on my walk, pick myself up a brownie, the Starbucks brownie. I say hello to Will, I say hello to Rickchen and said, this is the time of the month I'm picking up a brownie, boys. And do I enjoy every bite of that.

[Bridger Weiniger]

It's really good. I want to try something because there's also some, like, chocolate pieces in it that I feel like are going to be part of the experience.

[Blair Socci]

Yes.

[Bridger Weiniger]

How much are you walking each day?

[Blair Socci]

I walk between four and five miles.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Wow.

[Blair Socci]

Yes.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Do you ever have a destination or is it just aimless walking?

[Blair Socci]

Oh, no, it's a route. I have a route.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Wow.

[Blair Socci]

Yeah.

[Bridger Weiniger]

That seems dangerous to me. Somebody could catch on and start following you.

[Blair Socci]

Yeah. If you're listening to this and looking to catch me or follow me, please don't do that because I'd like to just continue on my route.

[Bridger Weiniger]

How long have you had this route?

[Blair Socci]

Many years, several years.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Is there ever a temptation to go off the route?

[Blair Socci]

Yeah, sometimes I do. Like, sometimes I get me these girlfriends and they go, well, like, let's go on my route. And, you know, the. The autism starts twitching.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Right.

[Blair Socci]

And then I say, okay. But I did it the other day, and it was quite nice. I let my friend take me on another route because I'm trying to do that a little bit in 2026. Have new experiences.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Right. Me too.

[Blair Socci]

You are?

[Bridger Weiniger]

Oh, yeah.

[Blair Socci]

I love the new year. Go and like, mantras and ideas and intentions.

[Bridger Weiniger]

I feel like I'm pretty good at sticking to. I give myself a very loose resolution. I'm usually pretty good at, like, integrating it into my life and then it's just my life.

[Blair Socci]

Me too.

[Bridger Weiniger]

And I feel like new experiences is a very easy thing to accomplish.

[Blair Socci]

Yes. Well, I want to target fun more.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Yes. And just add new textures. New texture.

[Blair Socci]

New texture. That's precisely it. And I just want things. I need to add more things to my life that don't have means to an end.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Oh, yes. That's almost my entire life is just means to an end at this point.

[Blair Socci]

I know. Well, that's what it means. I mean, to make a living as an artist, like. Yeah. It's difficult.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Yeah.

[Blair Socci]

Especially if you have an online shopping problem. It's. Yeah.

[Bridger Weiniger]

It takes up your entire day.

[Blair Socci]

I know.

[Bridger Weiniger]

You wake up and you're just means to an end.

[Blair Socci]

Yeah.

[Bridger Weiniger]

All the way through. And it's rarely a new experience.

[Blair Socci]

Right. So I guess I have to go to Founders Coffee in Highland Park.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Found Coffee in Eagle Rock, California.

[Blair Socci]

Whoopsies. Whoopsie daisies.

[Bridger Weiniger]

I want you to go there. We're gonna meet there.

[Blair Socci]

Well, I mean, I've been waiting for this invitation to see you for years, actually, so this is great.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Well, you're going to get the invitation, and we're going to get a coffee and you're going to love it.

[Blair Socci]

I would love it.

[Bridger Weiniger]

When you order an iced coffee at Starbucks, do you get cold brew or iced coffee?

[Blair Socci]

It depends on the day.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Because I personally think their iced coffee is the worst liquid on earth. I honestly think it's like, I cannot believe that they have the gall to charge money for this. It feels like it's coming out of a dirt. Just like dirty tap water or something.

[Blair Socci]

I do get the cold brew sometimes I switch off like depending on how to. But like, you know, this morning when I went to go procure your perfect brownie. Perfectly formulated brownie made with love and care by who? In the home kitchen over there in Los Vilas, I got one of their, like, refreshers. Cause I was like, oh, I just don't feel like coffee today.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Right? You brought that on and you were actually asked to take it off camera. Which is very funny because we're now just advertising. I know.

[Blair Socci]

And I was concerned about this and I was like, I don't want to. I don't know if I should say the name. You know, I'm not trying to advertise for corporations. But I will say, like earlier this year I was dating this guy from my past and he. And he lived in Orange county and he took me to all his like neighborhood, like fancy ass coffee shops. And I kept getting humiliated. Like every time we'd go how. They'd just be. They'd. I would just like ask for a large iced coffee and they'd be like, we don't have that. And I'd be like, can I have that? And they'd be like, we don't have that. And they would be like. Like, I was just like, okay, I'm not supposed to be here. I am not as erudite as your clientele who. Okay. Who has PhDs and AS fits into your.

[Bridger Weiniger]

That's so irritating.

[Blair Socci]

But it was like four different places and each times like he. He was. And I'm not used to being met. Like, I'm very friendly person, right. So I'd be shocked every time too. Like, I was just, you know, that's.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Really unfair of the employee. I think the most you can do in that situation is say we don't have iced coffee. We do have cold brew or an iced Americano. Would that work and be nice about it?

[Blair Socci]

Yeah.

[Bridger Weiniger]

See, this is why I should be working in the coffee business. I know exactly how to handle a customer.

[Blair Socci]

If I same. If I ever start. If I ever become super into coffee, start my own coffee shop, then I will be very kind. I'll probably have a lot of very clear signs. I'll probably say, like, look, if you are, like, a more mainstream coffee person, you're welcome here too. We won't, you know, discriminate against you. And here are maybe some possible orders if you're not deep, deep in. To local artisanal coffee lore.

[Bridger Weiniger]

I've dreamed about opening a coffee shop that is literally just one. You either have hot or cold coffee. And there's no other option where the store may be just called. This is all we have. And then you go in and there's. You don't even have an option.

[Blair Socci]

But what's the option between hot and cold?

[Bridger Weiniger]

The coffee's hot or cold. That's all you get to say.

[Blair Socci]

Oh, you don't get to add anything.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Nothing.

[Blair Socci]

Oh, you're nasty. Oh, you're a nasty boy. You're a nasty, nasty boy. Bridger, what do you think this is, like, what we're panning for gold in the 1800s? You can't do that. That's twisted. Would you like hot or cold gasoline on your way to work to shit your pants faster than you can make it to a bathroom? The Bridger Windinger. Do you have the digestive system of sort of Thor or what?

[Bridger Weiniger]

Yes, apparently. Look what I'm drinking.

[Blair Socci]

I know.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Well, no, straight black coffee.

[Blair Socci]

Don't think I didn't notice. I noticed I was a straight black coffee, and I knew what was coming next, and I knew we were gonna have a whole tussle, but I knew, you know, it would provide for many different. We can. This would be like, as the Republicans love to say, reaching across the aisle.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Yes. This is.

[Blair Socci]

This is the Charlie Kirk episode of coffee. And so. And someone who has the balls to go into a space where they disagree and reach across the aisle is so they should be celebrated.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Absolutely. Absolutely. No. I've had a weird coffee journey because I first started drinking coffee when I was interning in New York, and my bosses would order the coffee and they had terrible taste, and they would order all of us these massive, like, hazelnut flavored.

[Blair Socci]

The girl in front of me was doing nightmares. Some poor pa, like, probably. Yeah.

[Bridger Weiniger]

And so I would drink all of it, but I would always just think, this is terrible. But I was too afraid to ask for anything else. And then as a response to that, I started drinking black coffee just to be like, well, maybe what does this taste like? And now that's all I can drink. Occasionally I tried to spoil myself. I'll say, oh, maybe I'll try a fancy coffee drink.

[Blair Socci]

Like a Cappuccino. I like a cappuccino like that. To me.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Yeah, that's totally fine.

[Blair Socci]

A cappuccino to me is chic. Tastes great. I don't need to put anything in it.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Right. Just milk and coffee.

[Blair Socci]

It just. It tastes right.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Yeah.

[Blair Socci]

Black coffee. I'm like this. This is a kerosene, you know, this is petrol.

[Bridger Weiniger]

That's. See, that is when Starbucks first got cold brew on their menu, they weren't like, diluting it or something, and so you would get it. And I honestly thought I was like. My bones were burning when I would drink. It was gas. They were serving gasoline. But this cold brew, for example, tastes wonderful, has actual flavor to it.

[Blair Socci]

That's still so crazy that you drink cold brew without cutting it. Wait, so if you grew up in Utah, famously, you know, not high up.

[Bridger Weiniger]

On the coffee, really low bottom of the barrel.

[Blair Socci]

Was it gay hood that initiated you? Or how did you get into being such, you know, a master of the coffee?

[Bridger Weiniger]

I think I just. Well, I think just my body chemistry kind of demanded it. I need a lot of caffeine in my body to operate.

[Blair Socci]

How many cups a day are we doing?

[Bridger Weiniger]

I will do probably two cold brews.

[Blair Socci]

Okay. But that's the largest size they carry, so. Really, two largest for you is actually too thin. Thirds of one of my largest.

[Bridger Weiniger]

But this is stronger than a Starbucks cold brew.

[Blair Socci]

Okay, I agree with you there.

[Bridger Weiniger]

It's a more intense cold brew and then the other one I make at home.

[Blair Socci]

So basically your coffee equivalent is like drinking vodka on the rocks.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Yeah, it's a little bit that I would say.

[Blair Socci]

You are hardcore. You are hardcore.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Yeah, I just like the. I like coffee.

[Blair Socci]

I know. Yeah.

[Bridger Weiniger]

I think a lot of people don't like coffee. They drink it. Yeah, I mean, I guess you're a good example of this.

[Blair Socci]

And it's the same thing with sheets, you know.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Right.

[Blair Socci]

Like, if I go to. When you're getting your car service and they have that shitty coffee there, like, I'm not drinking.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Oh, no. Why even serve that?

[Blair Socci]

But I'm not gonna drink it, you.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Know, I don't think anyone is.

[Blair Socci]

No, I think people do. They don't care. You know, I like the office. I'm not doing that. I don't have interest. But, yeah, it started when I lived in New York is when I started drinking the ice, the huge iced coffee, because I'd never slept. I had like 15 jobs and 80 shows a night and.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Right. You had no choice.

[Blair Socci]

Yeah. And, you know, was drinking so much beer at night, my Cheeks looked like I was storing acorns in there.

[Bridger Weiniger]

So it was just something you had to get used to then.

[Blair Socci]

But yeah, like. But if I do, it's the same thing as sheets for me. Like, if I do taste a nice coffee like a cappuccino, I'm not drinking black coffee ever. That's never gonna be.

[Bridger Weiniger]

I'm gonna get you to drink some.

[Blair Socci]

I don't wanna drink a black coffee. Yeah, there's no. There's not enough soul to me. It's too Ernest Hemingway. Okay. I need, you know, I'm a fluffy gal. I'm not a very hardcore gal.

[Bridger Weiniger]

You're in Uggs right now.

[Blair Socci]

No, I need, you know, I need a lot of comforts.

[Bridger Weiniger]

You just need a plush.

[Blair Socci]

I need a softness.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Yeah, I get that.

[Blair Socci]

I need a softer, like, so. Yeah, I like a nice cappuccino. I really enjoy that. Like, after an after dinner cappuccino, I get so Italian.

[Bridger Weiniger]

I can't do that.

[Blair Socci]

Oh, I'm getting decaf.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Oh, you're getting decaf.

[Blair Socci]

Or they're lying to me. I probably won't be able to sleep. Are you a good sleeper?

[Bridger Weiniger]

No.

[Blair Socci]

Okay.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Right. I would say I'm a fine sleeper, but I feel like I frequently just don't actually get any rest.

[Blair Socci]

Yeah, same.

[Bridger Weiniger]

I'm unconscious on a mattress, but then I wake up up at probably worse off.

[Blair Socci]

I do dream, and I know this isn't a unique subject. I do dream of going back to childhood without the phones, the smartphones. And I did hold myself back considerably in this career by only starting to post clips a year and a half ago.

[Bridger Weiniger]

So many of them.

[Blair Socci]

Yeah. Because I was like, oh, I'm gonna do it a different way. This isn't. This doesn't feel.

[Bridger Weiniger]

You didn't feel like being in imovie all the time.

[Blair Socci]

It just didn't feel authentic to me. And now I've just realized, you know, other people who I found to be, you know, whatever, less talented or less experienced were lapping me, and I was like, this is just the way of the world.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Oh, it's absolutely terrible.

[Blair Socci]

Yeah.

[Bridger Weiniger]

So, yeah, there's kind of no choice at this point. You have to make a clip.

[Blair Socci]

But I want to. I remember, like, don't you remember when you were a kid? And sadly, anyone Gen Z listening to this will not understand, but, like, having a summer day that felt like it was 72 hours.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Oh, the best.

[Blair Socci]

Like being bored.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Yeah.

[Blair Socci]

And just like going outside and just like, wow, this day's, like, never ending. And I read so much My whole life. Like, before I was gonna be a comedian, I originally was gonna be a novelist. Like I went to grad school to become a novelist.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Oh, I had no idea.

[Blair Socci]

Yeah, that's why I moved to New York. And then I accidentally started comedy and.

[Bridger Weiniger]

That'S how I go, forget it. Do you write long form at all anymore?

[Blair Socci]

No, I started comedy during grad school and I was like, this is way easier.

[Bridger Weiniger]

This kind of happened to me.

[Blair Socci]

Yeah. And so. But I mean, like the sadness of how nourishing, reading a book, it feels like truly meditation in like, you know, some dark floating tank. Now it's sad because our brains are ruined. Yeah, like my brain is ruined. I should speak for myself.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Do you still read?

[Blair Socci]

Yes, but not like. I mean, that's one of my things this year that I will be focusing on is reading fiction.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Oh, sure, sure.

[Blair Socci]

Because again, I had many years where I was reading every psychological. This was before I got tested for my all my neurodivergency. But I was like. I realized I'd been like reading psych. I'd read like every psychology book for like 20 years. And then I was like, okay, good. Think I got to the bottom of it. I don't want. I need to read books that are like art and not just to like constantly be trying to improve myself.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Right. Have you picked a book you're going to read first?

[Blair Socci]

I just purchased two books. One is I already forgot the names.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Oh, I'm so terrible with what I'm reading.

[Blair Socci]

I forget titles of everything. It's actually part of Anthony Jeselnik's.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Oh, the service he's doing with his book club I think is really admirable. It is.

[Blair Socci]

And he really does read like that Now I'm just trying to find the name.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Apparently it seems like he reads a book a day.

[Blair Socci]

Well, I tour it with him and he has someone handle like his social media. So what the hell is the name of this book? It is called the Getaway by Jim Thompson. And I was like asking him and then I bought Tomorrow. Tomorrow. Tomorrow before that.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Right.

[Blair Socci]

I was asking him, I was like, oh, are these books only for men? He's like, no, bad bitches can read them too. But I am gonna be reading that one and trying to keep up with that. Cause he's like, oh, you'll love all the books I chose. It's designed for people who may have not been reading or have been taken a break from reading or never been readers to get back in.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Yeah. From what I've seen of his selections they seem like artful, interesting things, but not super difficult to get into.

[Blair Socci]

Yeah. And I mean, he does read really difficult ones, but like, when I spent a year on the road with him traveling every week, like, that's all he does is read.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Because he's not on social media.

[Blair Socci]

No, he doesn't spend his time on that.

[Bridger Weiniger]

It's a dream.

[Blair Socci]

It's incredible.

[Bridger Weiniger]

I wonder.

[Blair Socci]

It's like back to yesteryear.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Right.

[Blair Socci]

And he buys physical books.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Yeah. Are you Kindle or physical books?

[Blair Socci]

I go back and forth.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Me too.

[Blair Socci]

I'm more physical, though. Unless it's like a gigantic book, I don't want to carry that around.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Right. I need to get more into physical books. I do think I, like, take more out of it. When I'm reading from a physical book.

[Blair Socci]

It makes me feel more like I did as a kid or like I'm connecting with something tangible. Like, I just want to completely divorce myself from digital life.

[Bridger Weiniger]

And there's a real feeling of progress when you're reading a physical novel.

[Blair Socci]

That's so true.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Where you feel like you're accomplishing something with a Kindle. It's just like, well, this I know.

[Blair Socci]

And you read 700 pages and you're like, yeah, exactly.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Well, is there anything left to say about this brownie? Do you want some?

[Blair Socci]

No, thank you. Actually, I do. I changed my mind.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Please. I mean, it's a very good brownie and I don't want to eat the entire thing.

[Blair Socci]

No, I mean, it's an exquisite brownie.

[Bridger Weiniger]

This is going to be my treat.

[Blair Socci]

Tonight, like for the viewers. The way that pulled and it's soft in the center, in the perfectly amount of soft. It's just, it's not too gooey, but it's very moist and it's just so reliable because they make it with such home loving care over there.

[Bridger Weiniger]

And again, I'll say, if you can't get one of these, making one at home. The Ghirardelli mix. Unbelievable. It's so good.

[Blair Socci]

That is so true.

[Bridger Weiniger]

It's really a good brownie mix. And whenever I make it, I'm like, this is not that much easier than just making them yourself. But it does eliminate, like, one step.

[Blair Socci]

Well, if you're out and you need a treat and you're on your walk once a month, and then you're like, I have a. I have a craving in my loins. I cannot be satisfied by anything else right now. Will said, will, hand it over, pal. We're going in today. And then you have that bite and you're like, it's everything I remembered it to be.

[Bridger Weiniger]

I love a Brownie. Oh, wait, we didn't talk at all about Australia.

[Blair Socci]

True. I have a question for you, though. Do you never do an energy drink under any circumstances?

[Bridger Weiniger]

No, I don't really like if I'm offered, like a Red Bull or something.

[Blair Socci]

Red Bull's disgusting.

[Bridger Weiniger]

I don't mind a Red Bull. Sugar free.

[Blair Socci]

I'll do it.

[Bridger Weiniger]

What are you drinking as an energy drink? Celsius.

[Blair Socci]

Well, I'm off them now because I really care about my health. But I had a couple years there where I was also buying the flats online of the Celsius, and I had it every day for two years, and then I got off them, thank God. God willing.

[Bridger Weiniger]

You know who's a huge advocate of those is Zach Noe Towers.

[Blair Socci]

I love Zach Noy Towers.

[Bridger Weiniger]

He's obsessed with Celsius.

[Blair Socci]

I will say that all my sober friends, which is 70% of comedians at this point, especially if you're a new comedian, when you get into your 30s, all your friends will become sober. Sober. They love it because that's their partying.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Right.

[Blair Socci]

They also love horror movies and roller coasters.

[Bridger Weiniger]

All of your sober friends.

[Blair Socci]

Yeah, because they're addicts and they need the. They need their acceptable thrills.

[Bridger Weiniger]

This is interesting because I have never really drank and I love all those things. So maybe I'm secretly, you know, some sort of alcoholism could be unlocked.

[Blair Socci]

Maybe. I don't know. Like, I. And me, a deeply sensitive individual. My nervous system so fragile.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Just a delicate.

[Blair Socci]

That's why I love the soft fabrics. And that's why I need, you know, a nice little milk in my coffees. You know, I'm not. I don't quite have the same power as you guys, but a horror movie will absolutely ravage my nervous system.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Really.

[Blair Socci]

I don't watch any scary movie.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Okay.

[Blair Socci]

I like a psychological thriller that's nonviolent. I do like that.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Is that what the. What's that new thing that just came out? The Housemaid. Is that what it's called?

[Blair Socci]

I don't know, because I can never remember a title ever in my life.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Yeah, I feel like that's kind of a psychological thriller.

[Blair Socci]

Well, it was the one, you know, like all these, like, All Her Fault and the one with Claire Danes and Matthew Rhys. Incredible. There was a few moments of extreme violence. The Beast in Me.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Oh, I wanted to see you. Yeah, look at you.

[Blair Socci]

That brownie must have turned on some synapses.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Yeah, there you go.

[Blair Socci]

I love all the Apple TV ones. Like the Girl. The girl that are from the Girls.

[Bridger Weiniger]

The girl from the Girls.

[Blair Socci]

No. You know, it's like the Thriller series. The Octavia Spencer one. The Jennifer Garner one.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Does Jennifer Garner go missing?

[Blair Socci]

No, her husband does.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Okay. Okay.

[Blair Socci]

Yeah.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Well, I think we should play a game.

[Blair Socci]

Oh, I'd love to. Thank you.

[Bridger Weiniger]

We're going to play Gift or a curse, but I need a number between one and 10 from you.

[Blair Socci]

Nine.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Okay. I have to go do my, like calculating. So right now you can promote, recommend, do whatever you want.

[Blair Socci]

I love the I said no. Give listeners you can find me at blairsocki. B L A I R S O C C I On all platforms. All my shows are listed there. Punchup Live blairsocki. And my new podcast called Space Dab is out now on all platforms and on my YouTube and I'd love to see you guys there. It's really fun and I'm having a great time.

[Bowen Yang]

Beautiful.

[Blair Socci]

Yep.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Everybody find Blair. Go listen to that podcast.

[Blair Socci]

Yeah, Blair's the best. I can't wait to have you on.

[Bridger Weiniger]

I would love to.

[Blair Socci]

Come on, we have so much to discuss.

[Bridger Weiniger]

There's gonna be a big fight on that episode.

[Blair Socci]

Well, yeah, we always do fight.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Yeah, I mean, we can't help it.

[Blair Socci]

And we're gonna have another one at Found Coffee.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Yes.

[Blair Socci]

Huge.

[Bridger Weiniger]

I'm going to be banned from that coffee shop. They're probably going to ban me just for talking about them so much. They're gonna be like, you came on too strong.

[Blair Socci]

What if I brought a gigantic bucket and a straw? How many of your large coffees would.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Fit into the bucket? Yeah, that's a good question. I'm not good with spatial.

[Blair Socci]

Oh, me neither. I don't involved myself with mathematical issues.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Okay, let's play Gift or a Curse. I'm gonna name three things. You're gonna tell me if they're a gift or a curse, and why. And then I'll tell you if you're right or wrong. Because there are correct answers. All right, this first one is from a listener named Aaron. Gift or a curse? People who go out of their way to return cheap Tupperware to you.

[Blair Socci]

I really think it depends on the person. And I know that this question doesn't allow for nuance. No. Except I have the sweetest neighbor. His name's Camilo and I love him. And anytime he finds gets wind from my 93 year old neighbor Maria, that I have come and fallen down with illness, all of a sudden he arrives with a freshly homemade soup. I can't even believe it. And then it's so sweet. And so I don't want to be rude to assume that he doesn't want his Tupperware back, but he always tells me I don't have to bring it back. So I've gone back and forth.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Right gift, her.

[Blair Socci]

Cursed Blair, to answer the goddamn question.

[Bridger Weiniger]

I have to answer the question. I guess curse, curse, wrong gift. Oh, I need all of my Tupperware back.

[Blair Socci]

That is the same.

[Bridger Weiniger]

A piece of furniture, essentially. And when I give it to you, I'm not giving it away.

[Blair Socci]

Right.

[Bridger Weiniger]

That's family heirloom. That's something that I will put other food in. What are they doing with it?

[Blair Socci]

I respect your opinion.

[Bridger Weiniger]

I brought you food. I didn't bring you plastic wear.

[Blair Socci]

Right. But Tupperware is different than the, you know, the business you're buying at the grocery store, you know?

[Bridger Weiniger]

You mean like the crummy brands?

[Blair Socci]

Yeah, the ones that are meant to be, like, single use, which is quite bad for our environment.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Right. No, it's an absolute gift. You're wrong.

[Blair Socci]

But I was on your side also.

[Bridger Weiniger]

I don't care if you're on my side. You're wrong.

[Blair Socci]

Okay, that's fine. I accept that in private. I am. I have to say, I have been returning the Tupperware.

[Bridger Weiniger]

So you have been returning. So you're a good person, ultimately, you're a good person.

[Blair Socci]

I agree. Thank you.

[Bridger Weiniger]

All right. The second one is from a listener named John. And this is interesting because we were just kind of talking about this gift or a curse. Horror movies that have a PG13 rating.

[Blair Socci]

Well, anything slightly scary as a horror movie to me. So I have a different idea of the genre. I will say I don't watch most horror movies. Like, mostly all of them. But I did watch Sinner.

[Public Podcast Sponsor]

Oh, sure.

[Blair Socci]

And that's because people told me that I would like it, and they were correct. People who knew me well. Incredible movie. I don't know where I'm going with this, because I just realized I don't think that's PG 13.

[Bridger Weiniger]

No, it's R. Yeah.

[Blair Socci]

So what is rated PG 13? That's a horror movie.

[Bridger Weiniger]

A lot of movies. Sixth Sense, the others.

[Blair Socci]

Oh, really? I've never seen others. I have seen the Sixth Sense.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Sense.

[Blair Socci]

And that's considered a horror movie?

[Bridger Weiniger]

Oh, yeah, I would say so. I mean, it's got a lot of scary things in it.

[Blair Socci]

I have to rewatch it. I watched it once when I was a child when it came out.

[Bridger Weiniger]

And it didn't scare you?

[Blair Socci]

No, it scared the shit out of me. But I didn't know if that was because it was my age or my sensitive constitution. I have to have a re watch. Maybe we can do that after Found coffee.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Oh, great.

[Blair Socci]

Also the ring.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Classic one. The ring.

[Blair Socci]

Absolutely. Oh, that's a PG 13. And that's because it's not like obvious.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Gore or gore head chop offs. Yeah. It's not as gratuitous, I guess.

[Blair Socci]

Right. Okay, well, I actually, I guess have to go. Gift. Cause I like that. That's what I'm looking for.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Right, Correct.

[Blair Socci]

Yeah.

[Bridger Weiniger]

I think this is a real gift. I think this is an underrated thing. I think horror movies that are PG13 are often more scary because they're more restrained.

[Blair Socci]

Well, that's what I would have called, I guess a psychological thriller. But it's not, right?

[Bridger Weiniger]

No. Because kind of what we've just been like. The Others is like a ghost movie.

[Blair Socci]

I've never seen others.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Oh, it's so good. You would like the Others.

[Blair Socci]

I like ghosts.

[Bridger Weiniger]

You would love the Others.

[Blair Socci]

Supernatural.

[Bridger Weiniger]

That's a very good one. Sixth Sense. The Ring. Are there any other? I feel like there are a whole bunch that like they're much more in control of themselves.

[Blair Socci]

Right.

[Bridger Weiniger]

They're confident in being scary. They don't need to show you as much gore.

[Blair Socci]

Okay.

[Bridger Weiniger]

And I think part of a scary thing in a horror movie is seeing less.

[Blair Socci]

Right.

[Bridger Weiniger]

So you can imagine how scary it is.

[Blair Socci]

Right.

[Bridger Weiniger]

I think it's an absolute gift. So I got that right.

[Blair Socci]

That is true. It's like when you're around someone and they don't talk that much, they are like kind of scarier because you're like, what the fuck are they thinking? Why are they being so. What are they up to?

[Bridger Weiniger]

What game are they playing? Okay, this is the. Okay, you've gotten one right so far. This is from a listener named Meg. Gift or a curse? Receiving ads in your non native language?

[Blair Socci]

When has this happened?

[Bridger Weiniger]

Oh, it happens more and more.

[Blair Socci]

Okay, well that was probably like really colonial of me to make that assumption. Probably a lot of non English speaking people. Oh my God. I just checked myself and I've made a lot of mishaps. I promoted a large corporation and I just acknowledge that and apologize to everyone I've let down. For me it would be a gift because I don't like the ads. But I understand that artists like ourselves, we need to have the ads to support our artistic ventures. It's the only way that we can exist subsist. So for me it's a gift. But I guess for the, I don't know As a listener, it's a gift. As a. As a proprietor, probably not.

[Bridger Weiniger]

You're correct. I think this is an absolute gift. I love to receive an ad in a different language. First of all, I think I love to watch an ad. I just think that. How exciting. I get to see this stupid little movie. Second of all, when it's in another language, it's not as effective on me. So now I get to just watch the ad and really focus on the art of the commercial.

[Blair Socci]

Right. That is a problem for me. I am an extremely easily moved consumer. And because, you know, it's a dopamine thing, deficiency issue.

[Bridger Weiniger]

But it's very nice to get one. And, you know, I'll occasionally get one in Spanish. It's like a little lesson.

[Blair Socci]

Well, I love the Spanish ones because I like to see how much I can understand in, like, Italian.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Oh, it's almost a test for you.

[Blair Socci]

Yeah, like, I do enjoy that. But, yeah, like, I was. I mean, I don't think I've actually been in unless the traveling or something. I'm not in many, many scenarios where I'm hearing them in other languages, but I would like to feel a little bit impervious to me buying something for one second.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Yeah, it'll put a wall between you and the perchance.

[Blair Socci]

Right.

[Bridger Weiniger]

I'm receiving them more and more. I don't know if it's like a mistake by whatever app I'm using that they don't realize that I don't speak any other languages or if this is just like they just send out language or ads in all languages at this point and just hope they hit the right target.

[Blair Socci]

Are you watching a lot of foreign films? That sounds like something you would do after that.

[Bridger Weiniger]

No, I'm watching a lot of Housewives.

[Blair Socci]

Oh, do you watch the Salt Lake?

[Bridger Weiniger]

Yeah, of course. That's the only one I watch. Do you love it?

[Blair Socci]

That finale was really good.

[Bridger Weiniger]

I thought the finale was terrible. I know that Greek play that you had to watch.

[Blair Socci]

Well, I mean, it's sheer brutality at this point. I mean, that was like. That was, like, worse than the Comedy Central roast. Like. Like it was. Every second was cruel and brutal, like psychological torture warfare.

[Bridger Weiniger]

But I want to watch them saying those things to each other. I don't want it acted out by Greek actors. I thought it was exhausting.

[Blair Socci]

I thought it was interesting.

[Bridger Weiniger]

I thought it was so bad.

[Blair Socci]

I just had a gummy, though, so who can say?

[Bridger Weiniger]

Oh, that would have help for sure. No, I was really let down by that. That episode.

[Blair Socci]

I thought it was interesting. I did. You know, it is. I do think that Heather's like always trying to like recreate her, you know, receipts, proof.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Oh, I know. She's kind of gotten into this thing where she's like. That worked. And now I'm going to keep trying.

[Blair Socci]

Yeah. But I, I, I thought it was good.

[Bridger Weiniger]

I don't know. I liked it. Do you think something happened on the plane with Mary?

[Blair Socci]

Yeah. Do you?

[Bridger Weiniger]

I would say 99%. But the only weird thing is there's no cell phone footage of it. Which you think if there was like somebody acting out on a plane, somebody would have been covertly filming it. But I guess maybe if she was surrounded by. And also especially Britney, who has a past of recording them on her phone.

[Blair Socci]

Yeah, but I think there's ways around that.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Right.

[Blair Socci]

Buying footage. What? I mean, I just don't think there's any way at this point.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Right. Maybe Andy could and I don't.

[Blair Socci]

And I do think that it will come about later.

[Bridger Weiniger]

I think probably as well. Unless they kick her off the show.

[Blair Socci]

Yeah.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Well, you got two out of three.

[Blair Socci]

That's incredibly score.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Pretty good. That's a very good score.

[Blair Socci]

And I mean, I know that it's not open to interpretation, but I also think that I got the first one right as well.

[Bridger Weiniger]

So gorgeous. Well, I think we should answer a listener question. People are writing into. I saidnowgiftsmail.com let's answer a question.

[Blair Socci]

I have to write that down in my phone so I can email.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Yeah, please, email constantly. All right. This is. Hi, Bridger. I'm writing to see if you can help me. I'll answer it right now. Yes, I can. My mother in law used to e transfer me $300 for my birthday every year and suddenly she stopped. No $300 this year. What do I do? Doubt I can find a way to bring it up. Take care. And that's from Jelena. Jelena. Jelena. J E L E N A. How would you say that, Helena?

[Blair Socci]

Oh, Jelena. I'm guessing Jelena. I'm just taking a stab in the dark.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Jelena. I think that makes the most sense.

[Blair Socci]

Yeah.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Jelena's mother in law has been sending her $300 for probably decades at this point. E transferring it and suddenly that's no longer a thing. How is she supposed to solve this issue? She apparently lives or dies on this $300 every year. She's been counting on it. Now she's been cut off.

[Blair Socci]

I don't think you can mention it. Just my personal, you know, people giving money you don't know the situation. And it is tricky because there is a chance something happened with her online banking mistake. And then you're worried, like, oh, I didn't thank her or something.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Right.

[Blair Socci]

But I had this happen. A family member, first time ever, not sent a gift this year or like a. A card or whatever. And it's like, you can't just be like, where's my morning?

[Bridger Weiniger]

You know, like, Where's my money? But there are more subtle ways to do it.

[Blair Socci]

What do you propose?

[Bridger Weiniger]

I mean, you could send, for example, your family member a thank you card. And then he'll be like, wait, did I send her something? I can't remember if I sent her something. And then it becomes a whole thing for him that he has to deal with. And this is what Jelena could be doing. Or I mean, she could thank mother in law for the $300. And the thank you says, thank you so much for the $300 that you always send me every year. And then maybe that sparks something in the mother in law's mind. Oh, I forgot.

[Blair Socci]

Right.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Or the other way around. This is to call her right now and say, do you need $300? Maybe the mother in law needs the $300. And if she doesn't, that will also click something in her brain. She'll think, I don't. But you do. Let me e transfer it to you right now.

[Blair Socci]

Right, right. See? Wow. You had a lot of solutions at the top of your. And I like that you're not afraid to get confrontational.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Right. When money comes into play, you just have to confront.

[Blair Socci]

Like a freelancer.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Yes. Consider yourself a freelancer with your mother in law. The other way is you can cut off your gift for her. You could have a summons, something like this. Just slam, slam this lady for 300 bucks.

[Blair Socci]

Small claim score.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Yeah, exactly. Sue her for the birthday gift that she didn't send you. That feels like the people's court. My mother in law used to send me $300 and I didn't get it this year. So now I'm suing her for it. That could be an option.

[Blair Socci]

And then what if they went to the court and the mother in law was like, wow, yeah, actually, I wasn't asked to the children school play. And so I feel it was an appropriate response.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Well, then we're getting into the real communication that needed to happen anyway. You know, this family's not being honest with each other.

[Blair Socci]

Right.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Everyone's hiding something. Obviously, the mother is in deep financial trouble, and so she can't send the money. And she's also mad about the recital. Everything's falling apart for everyone and if they were just honest to each other, I think everything would be fine.

[Blair Socci]

Right. Or maybe the mother in law just decided to buy one coffee at Maru Coffee so she was unable to.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Eat drinks. You've really come for Maru Coffee here?

[Blair Socci]

Well, my local watering hole is only two blocks up from Maru Coffee in which I see a 40 person line and I think, oh these pretentious people, they think they've read more than me.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Okay, this sounds like a you problem.

[Blair Socci]

I have read more than them. That's just something I know.

[Bridger Weiniger]

This sounds like you're just assuming the way they think about you.

[Blair Socci]

If they saw my platform uggs right now, they would throw up their gasoline. Their 4 ounce gasoline coffee.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Happily they'd say, Excuse me Ms. Starbucks is up the street.

[Blair Socci]

Yeah, and I'd say, I know honey, I'm on my way. Okay.

[Bridger Weiniger]

I haven't been to Maru Coffee in a long time, but I remember it being good.

[Blair Socci]

Yeah. You know when the New York comedians come into town they want Todd Berry. Fine, I'll go to the Maru.

[Bridger Weiniger]

The line is too long, give me a break.

[Blair Socci]

And then I just say I'll have an Arnold Palmer please. I'll have your finest 4 ounce Arnold Palmer.

[Bridger Weiniger]

You're getting an Arnold Palmer at Maru?

[Blair Socci]

Yeah, well I mean it was at 4pm what do they think I'm gonna get that? I didn't know they served that 4pm coffee. I'm not gonna be able to sleep that night.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Right? You know, whatever.

[Blair Socci]

I might get too crazy online shopping.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Well, we answered Jelena's question perfectly.

[Blair Socci]

Jelena, you just go grab your mother in law, buy this shirt.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Burst through her window, pop up in the backseat of her car.

[Blair Socci]

But don't you think like extended families, especially like if you don't like your mother in law, everything is predicated on a lack of honesty. It's like just politeness.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Totally.

[Blair Socci]

Yeah.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Because there's no real communication between the two of you ever. And so something has just like gone slightly wrong and neither of them will ever say it.

[Blair Socci]

I've never dated someone whose mother I didn't like.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Oh, that's great.

[Blair Socci]

Yeah, I mean I'm sure there are some mean ones out there, of course.

[Bridger Weiniger]

But you probably picked decent people to date.

[Blair Socci]

But I don't think so no more so recently.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Okay, but they've always had at least a decent mom around.

[Blair Socci]

I just like them. Yeah.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Interesting.

[Blair Socci]

Yeah.

[Bridger Weiniger]

I mean, I wonder if at some point you kind of side with the mom against the son that you're dating.

[Blair Socci]

Yeah. Who can say?

[Bridger Weiniger]

Who can say? Well, Jelena, don't write back in. We answered the question perfectly. I still have some brownie left. I'm so excited to take this home with me.

[Blair Socci]

The finest.

[Bridger Weiniger]

The finest brownie.

[Blair Socci]

Yes. Please feel free, with my sanctioned approval to share with your husband so that. Oh, no, actually, he already goes.

[Bridger Weiniger]

He goes to Starbucks. Const.

[Blair Socci]

But he might not be familiar with their eighth brand.

[Bridger Weiniger]

No, he recently had a new brand breakfast sandwich there and had a lot of complaints about it, actually. What can I say? Well, Blair, I'm so glad you could be back. You keep bringing me food.

[Blair Socci]

Well, that's my main interest, so. So that's what I like to share. I'm you.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Look.

[Blair Socci]

I'm Italian.

[Bridger Weiniger]

You're Italian.

[Blair Socci]

I'm very Italian. And the way that I commune and share love and break bread with people is through food. Really? That's how I connect. It's definitely not over Coffee Hunter.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Italians love coffee.

[Blair Socci]

Only after dinner, after a nice languorous pasta and red wine.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Thank you for being here.

[Blair Socci]

Thanks for having me. I mean, even to be invited back, it's a thrill.

[Bridger Weiniger]

You will again, I'm sure. But listener, the podcast is obviously over. I'm going to walk away. You're going to walk away. But we'll return and meet again. Take care of yourself. I love you. Goodbye. I said no Gifts is an exactly right production. Our senior producer is Ellis 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 Ice said no gifts. That's where you're going to see pictures of all these wonderful gifts I'm getting. And don't you want to see the gifts?

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