Brendan Scannell, Clare Ruddy, and Eunji Kim Disobey Bridger While a Crowd of Bystanders Does Nothing (Live in Chicago)

Summary

Podcast Summary: I Said No Gifts! Episode Featuring Brendan Scannell, Clare Ruddy, and Eunji Kim (Live in Chicago)

Introduction of Guests Bridger Weiniger kicks off the live episode by welcoming Julia Steiner to his backyard for the comedic interview podcast "I Said No Gifts!" hosted by Exactly Right and iHeartPodcasts. Despite Bridger's explicit request for guests to arrive empty-handed, Brendan Scannell, Clare Ruddy, and Eunji Kim bring delightful yet unexpected gifts, setting the stage for an engaging and humorous conversation.

Disheveling Gifts and Initial Reactions Julia Steiner humorously laments the disobedience of her guests:

• Julia Steiner ([03:04]): "I have to stop letting a more talented person start the show."
• Bridger Weiniger ([05:00]): "I thought I made myself perfectly clear. I said no gifts!"

The guests present various gifts, ranging from quirky items like "baby Beetles for babies" to practical yet amusing presents such as a pair of socks from Ben Schwartz.

Playing "Gift or a Curse" To navigate the unexpected gifts, Bridger introduces a segment called "Gift or a Curse," where guests must determine whether certain items or scenarios are beneficial or detrimental.

1. Push Notifications for Local Warnings

   • Brendan Scannel ([13:40]): "Curse."
   • Julia Steiner ([14:00]): "All push notifications are a curse at all times."

2. Clearance Sections in Grocery Stores

   • Brendan Scannel ([15:36]): "Curse."
   • Julia Steiner ([15:50]): "It's a gift. I love the clearance section."

The game continues with items like driving gloves and couches with cup holders, leading to playful debates and laughter:

• Brigder Weiniger ([16:29]): "It's a fun accessory."
• Julia Steiner ([22:29]): "Couches with cup holders—how chic could you possibly get?"

Humorous Discussions and Personal Anecdotes The conversation naturally flows into various topics, including:

• Travel Woes: Bridger shares his frustrations with Chicago's Jewel Osco and experiences with airport refills, eliciting relatable laughs.

  • Bridger Weiniger ([05:30]): "Chicago is a free refill desert."

• Neti Pots and Health Habits: Julia Steiner and Bridger discuss the intricacies of using neti pots, sharing personal health routines with comedic undertones.

  • Bridger Weiniger ([54:04]): "It's fantastic. I am addicted to it now."

• Cultural Stereotypes: The guests delve into humorous stereotypes about Mormons, weaving in playful jabs and cultural observations.

  • Brendan Scannel ([07:56]): "What are you doing with all that footage?"

Interactive Audience Engagement Throughout the episode, Bridger and Julia engage with the live audience, inviting members to come on stage and participate in the "Gift or a Curse" game. This interactive segment brings spontaneity and real-time humor as guests assess whether certain everyday items are blessings or nuisances.

Pet Groomer Gift Segment Addressing a listener's question about unique gifts for pet groomers, the guests brainstorm creative and humorous ideas, further highlighting their comedic chemistry.

• Julia Steiner ([95:35]): "This pair would really take off."

Final Remarks and Audience Interaction As the episode progresses towards its conclusion, the guests open the various gifts presented, leading to a series of comedic moments:

• Brendan Scannel ([48:22]): "Careful. I double bagged it and I'm..."
• Julia Steiner ([49:22]): "This is a very fun thing. Speaking of pranks."

The episode wraps up with heartfelt yet humorous acknowledgments of the gifts received, bridging the gap between Bridger's original premise and the delightful chaos that ensued:

• Julia Steiner ([99:10]): "I hope your presence is presents enough."

Notable Quotes with Timestamps

• Julia Steiner ([02:15]): "I made myself perfectly clear. When you're a guest in my home, you gotta come to me empty-handed."
• Bridger Weiniger ([05:00]): "I keep hinting at business, and it's like, well, first, let's see. I'm trying to decide what order we should do this business."
• Brendan Scannel ([83:08]): "I love learning about all the different eras."
• Eunji Kim ([92:11]): "I seek out products and the ability of products to bring you fulfillment."

Conclusion This live episode of "I Said No Gifts!" masterfully blends comedy with genuine interactions, as Bridger Weiniger navigates the hilarity of unruly gifts and impromptu games with his disobedient guests. The chemistry among Bridger, Brendan, Clare, and Eunji keeps the audience entertained, providing laughs and memorable moments that encapsulate the show's unique charm. For those who missed the live experience, this episode offers a delightful glimpse into the unpredictable and humorous dynamics that define "I Said No Gifts!"

Transcript

[Bridger Weiniger]

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[Brendan Scannel]

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[Julia Steiner]

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[Brendan Scannel]

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[Anneliese Nelson]

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[Julia Steiner]

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[Anneliese Nelson]

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[Julia Steiner]

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[Brendan Scannel]

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[Julia Steiner]

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[Brendan Scannel]

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[Julia Steiner]

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[Brendan Scannel]

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[Julia Steiner]

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[Bridger Weiniger]

Please welcome Julia Steiner.

[Julia Steiner]

As that beautiful voice just said, my name is Julia. I live here in Chicago.

[Bridger Weiniger]

I play in a band called Rat.

[Julia Steiner]

Boys, and I am here to welcome you tonight to the one and only. I said no gifts. When I invited you here.

[Bridger Weiniger]

I thought.

[Julia Steiner]

I made myself perfectly clear. When you're a guest in my home, you gotta come to me empty handed. I said no gifts. Your presence is presents enough. And I already have too much stuff. So how do you dare disobey me?

[Bridger Weiniger]

Thank you. And now your host, Bridger Weiniger.

[Julia Steiner]

Julia Steiner. Oh, my God. Ah. Oh. I have to stop letting a more talented person start the show. Everybody's just gonna be miserable for the next hour. Julia Steiner. One more. Oh, my Lord. So good. I don't deserve that. Oh. Oh, excuse me. I've got business. You know, this is my job. You guys all get to have a nice time. I'm working. Welcome to I said no gifts. I'm Bridger Weiniger. We are in walking distance of a Jewel Osco. I've just learned what Jewel Osco is. I thought I knew every grocery store. This is the most beautiful name I've ever heard for a grocery store. Thrilled. And then I went in and it was just a Ralph's, but I was excited. I'd like to go to a grocery store. And now I. Let's see. I just have to look at my business because there's some actual business I have to do tonight, so I want to keep track of the business. Well, first of all, I should mention Anneliese Nelson. Although their voice was all of that, they weren't able to be here tonight. I had to have them stay home and feed my snakes. So you're looking at some. Look, I spent most of the day trying to find a business that had free refills. Chicago is a free refill desert. I couldn't believe what. What was happening. And I'm not exaggerating. It was the better half of my day. So I've been kind of. My caffeine consumption has been very all over the place. Oh, this is homophobic cis. Oh, God. Weirdly, seeing that a bunch of listeners have actually sent me pictures, Diet Coke has been putting Bridger on the side of cans. I have never in my entire life. Little souvenir keychains, anything. That's never a Bridger. I don't know how they got hold of the name, but I finally feel a little seen. But okay, now we've got to get to the real business. I keep hinting at business, and it's like, well, first, let's see. I'm trying to decide what order we should do this business. Okay, I've got to take this off. To be honest, in New York, in New York, I left this on for. I forgot to take it off, and I was sweating. I was so close to passing out. So I'm going to take this off now. If you've paid any attention to the podcast or these live shows, you probably aren't going to be that surprised by what's underneath this robe. But I will say you're going to see it in what I think is its final form. So let's just. Let's reveal now. Everybody, be careful about how you're looking at me. Okay? We've gone day to night. This started out as a white Kiki Soleil tunic. Oh, God. It feels like it's shorter and shorter all the time. But I dyed this. I put it in the black dye bath. And while it was dyeing. I truly thought this is going to come out like black velvet. People are going to think I bought a little black dress and then I pulled it out and it's kind of a dark green, I don't know, kind of Miami night. I don't know. Okay, now the business. I keep hinting at the business. Last night I got a message from a listener named Mike. He said he was going to be here tonight with his wife, Hannah, and he wanted me to deliver a message to Hannah. Hannah. He wants a divorce. No, it's her birthday. So, you know, I couldn't resist. Happy birthday, Hannah, wherever you are. And I heard through the grapevine that somebody else's birthday was someone else had a birthday. But this is not the birthday podcast. So happy birthday to all of us. We'll have each. Everybody has one this year. Good for you. Okay, now we're getting back to the business. Just to make sure we're on track here, we got Happy birthday. Let's see. I think we've basically talked about everything we. I did. I was recently alerted that this is the. There's a gay porn awards going on tonight, which.

[Bridger Weiniger]

The grabbies.

[Julia Steiner]

The grabbies. And it's. I said no gifts. Locked out again. It's a tough. I mean, what more do I need to do for these people? Look at this. The podcast has an explicit rating. Maybe next year. Let's have Julia come back out just for another minute or two. Julia, are you there? Oh, my God. Do you have something. Oh, no. Oh, this is embarrassing for her. After the big performance falls on her face. Should I open this here on the podcast? Please do. Ooh, I love this teal green. Just littering. Littering all over the stage. Look what you've done to me. You're embarrassing me in front of listeners. Oh, my God. It's the Beatles for babies. Tell me what's going on here. It's a small gift. Small but powerful Babies. This is Happy Baby Beetles for babies. Where did you get this? I got that at a community wide garage sale.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Oh.

[Julia Steiner]

As you do. And it's very soothing. Is it just. Is it like xylophone beetles? What are they doing? You'll just have to listen to find out. I hate the picture on this.

[Eunji Kim]

Do ya?

[Julia Steiner]

One of the babies has sunglasses on like a John Lennon type sunglass, which will make you dislike any baby.

[Bridger Weiniger]

That might be John.

[Julia Steiner]

Oh, what did I say? It might be John.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Yeah.

[Julia Steiner]

Oh, yeah. I think that is John. Right? John had those kind of annoying, let's be honest, annoying sunglasses.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Right.

[Julia Steiner]

From a young age. Yeah, at a young age. Well, I'm excited to listen to this. Please enjoy. Yeah, It'll bring you much peace and joy. Oh, I can't. I mean, I've been using a white noise machine at the hotel. We're across the street from a club.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Yeah.

[Julia Steiner]

No, no, no.

[Bridger Weiniger]

This will drown it out.

[Julia Steiner]

Okay, fantastic. Happy baby. Beatles for babies. Well, I look forward to listening to this. Thank you. And thank you again for the song. Thank you for having me. Julia Seiner, everybody. Now I have to go out into the audience and bother people. Thank you. Okay, so now this is the part and I think we're on track. I'm here completely alone. Look at this. I'm doing this all on my own. I finally grew up. I think it's time for audience gift or a curse. Unless I'm missing something and anyone can tell me if I've missed something. I've got to go and I've got to collect people from the audience. But tonight, to kind of assuage my guilt of not being able to pick every single person, I'll hand out some of these things while I go, some gift wrap and T shirts. Let's see here. Okay. Oh, this is a bad thing. Woo. I'm gonna go. Whoop. Would you like to come up? What's your name? Kristen. Kristen, enter stage. Here's a T shirt. Okay, let's see here. Just prowling the audience. Prowling, prowling, prowling. Let's see here. You can have a T shirt. Let's see here. Now this is where people love this. People love to just feel like they're being hunted. Here's some gift wrap. Would you like to come up? Sure. Okay. What's your name?

[Brendan Scannel]

Rick.

[Julia Steiner]

Get on stage, Rick. Okay, now we've got to get into the. Let's see here, let's see here. I want to, you know, you got to dig. You got to dig and dig into the audience. You never know who you're going to find. You can have some gift wrap. You can have a gift. You asked politely. Would you like to come up? What's your name?

[Bridger Weiniger]

Susie.

[Julia Steiner]

Suzy, enter stage and we're going to get one more. Let's see here. Let's go. Let's stop over here. Let's see here. Ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba. Some people look really scared and if you don't want to do the show, I mean, it's totally fine. Let's see here. Would you like to do it? What's your name? Nate. Okay, Nate. Enter stage. Here's some gift wrap. Okay, I've got one more. Let's see. I have to go to the other side to give this away because I feel like I neglected all of you and it's terrible. It's really. I don't want people mad at me, but here's some gift wrap. You're welcome. Okay, so everyone's going to be behind me. We're going to play gift or a curse. And I got these earlier today. I got on Instagram Live and I should not be allowed on that. No one has ever known less how to do Instagram Live. It's mortifying every time. But listeners gave some suggestions and people are. I don't know. I think I just underestimate. I think I'm stupid. People are like. They just immediately have all of these great suggestions that feel for me. I'm like, that would have taken me months to think of that. But we're going to go through these four people. I'm going to give each of you two things. You're going to 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. You can lose the game in front of everybody. Mortifying. All right, let's start with you. Number one. Gift or a curse? Real life celebrity couples in commercials being domestic. Can you explain domestic? I don't know what the word means, but these. We'll save this one for somebody else. All right, gift or curse? Push notifications for local warnings.

[Brendan Scannel]

Curse.

[Julia Steiner]

All push notifications are a curse at all times. I don't want to look at my phone ever. Correct. Curse for me. Spoiler alert. Let me find out about the tragedy or the thing on my own terms. Let me experience the earthquake or storm. You know, it's an unfair thing. So you've gotten one so far. Number two, gifter curse. Clearance sections in grocery stores. Let's go. Curse. Why? I'm. I grew up kind of bougie. I'm a coastal elite. Oh, boy. The audience is turning on the sky. My mom would never let us shop there. I don't know. Oh, so it was like a self curse. Okay, wrong gift. I love the clearance section. It's really where the freaks of the grocery store end up. You go over there and you're like, I've never heard of any of these items. And there's probably a reason. And then it's discounted. It's a little experimental. It's the grocery store lab. So it's A gift. But you still win something. Let's see here. Oh, there's a. Oh, it looks like there's another gift for me. Oh, my God. This podcast. Okay, this. Unfortunately, the seam burst on the wrapping paper, but is there anything from the clearance rack? What's that? Is there anything from the clearance rack? Well, actually, kind of. This was given to me by David Desmalchen. He bought all of these things at Goodwill. This is a potato express. This you put up to four potatoes at a time and then microwave them. It's like a little sleeping bag for potatoes. So there's that. What else? We've got a T shirt. That's merch. Gotta love merch. Oh, and the card game. Gift or a curse. There we go. Okay, now, okay. Remind me your name.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Suzy.

[Julia Steiner]

Suzy. Okay, let's. We're going back to the first one. Gift or a curse? Real life. Celebrity couples in commercials being domestic.

[Bridger Weiniger]

This is an obvious curse because they're rich, they're fancy.

[Julia Steiner]

I don't need to see them being normal.

[Bridger Weiniger]

I know they're not being domestic.

[Julia Steiner]

In real life, everybody's doing all the.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Domestic things for them.

[Julia Steiner]

It's all a lie. So.

[Bridger Weiniger]

So it's a curse.

[Julia Steiner]

Wrong, wrong, wrong. It's a gift. I love to get a little peek into, you know, Dax and Kristen's life as they're selling their cars. They have so many cars they're selling. I love it. You know, and I know it's true. It's documentary. It's a slice of life gift. So you got one wrong. Let's see if you can get at least one. Dig yourself out of this hole. Gift or a curse? Driving gloves.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Ooh, driving gloves. Okay. This is a gift. It's eccentric.

[Julia Steiner]

Okay.

[Bridger Weiniger]

It's a fun accessory.

[Julia Steiner]

You know, you're dealing with somebody who's.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Maybe a little crazy when you see them. Also, fancy, eccentric, like, kind of Grey Gardens vibes is what I would get from somebody like that. And that's a gift for sure.

[Julia Steiner]

Correct. Yay.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Okay. I was gonna say.

[Julia Steiner]

I mean, how could I say that they're a curse? I mean, I would love to have a pair of my own. That's a bit of a problem, but I guess the problem is I should just spend $20 on a pair of driving gloves. Maybe that's in the future for me. I don't know. But gift. You got one out of the. So you get to win something. Let's grab. Let's see what's in here. Okay. And by the way, these are all bags from previous guests as well, okay. So it looks like. Oh, this is an early gift. This is DJ Ca. The keys. The wonderful Lamar woods gave me to this in, like, episode four or five. And this has changed everything for me. This is. I'm the man I am today because of this book. So there's that.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Thank you.

[Julia Steiner]

And then, let's see, we've got. Oh, these are. It's a pair of socks from Ben Schwartz. It's Milhouse socks. That's an exciting. There we go. And let's see. Oh, and the card game. Yay. Thank you. I don't know why I acted. Look at this pile of trash. Okay. Oh, yeah. We're not ready for the next thing. Okay, remind me your name. Kristen. Kristen, are you ready for gift or a curse? I am. Okay, number one, gift or a curse? Full English breakfast. Oh, yeah. Curse. Why? Who wants beans and sausage for breakfast? That's just super. Okay, Caitlin, good for you.

[Brendan Scannel]

Don't forget the tomato.

[Julia Steiner]

Tomatoes. And what is blood sausage like? Why are anybody eating that? It's not good. No, it's a curse. Correct. No one's on board with this breakfast. And if you are, there's the exit tomato. There are, like, nine different sausages. I mean, the beans alone, no one will ever convince me that's a good breakfast. No one wants beans for breakfast. I don't even know how that thing came together. Poverty. To me, it's an abundance. We've got too many beans, we have too many tomatoes. We have too many different types of sausage. It's a bad thing. We really like casein meat. Oh, right, right. Okay, we got one. Right so far. Number two, gift her a curse. When a restaurant gives you a birthday or anniversary treat after you've already ordered and eaten dessert. So for your New York show. That happened to me. We went to a really fancy place, and then they sent us over some dessert because I said it was an anniversary. Though it wasn't just so that I would get better service. I was so full. It was so hard to get through. No, it's a gift. Because I like free stuff. Wrong. I'm sorry, but this is a scam. And you're probably getting the worst dessert. They're just waiting for you to order the more expensive one. And then my Yelp review is going off, and I've got a very. You've got a whole library of Yelp reviews. These people. It's not fair. And then you have to eat it. No one's taking it to go. It was really hard to get through. Oh, it's Deeply unfair. Well, you. I've already forgotten. You've gotten. You got two, one. Right. It doesn't matter. I'm a winner in my mind. All right, let's see here. See, this is. The tunic is so hard to do anything in. Okay. This is in a box. I made this myself.

[Bridger Weiniger]

It's beautiful.

[Julia Steiner]

It says gift wrap. Gift wrap. Okay, open that up. Oh, I've been telling every. Okay. You open it for me and I'll say, okay. So there's some gift wrap and a T shirt, and then this is a pair of socks which were purchased at a liquor store by Mary Lynn Rice Cup. I remember. I actually am keeping a few pairs of them because I'm going to try to integrate them into an outfit at some point. Didn't you like the length of them? I'm trying to figure out if I do, where do they hit? They hit about. What does everyone think about a sock? That hits about here. People are on board with this. I think it's gonna be nice for my boots because I like them to go above the boot. Oh, very good. But I don't like them to go high up because I get sausage legs. Okay. Right, right. Well, I don't know. Try them. We'll both try them together. Perfect. We're connected through liquor store socks. All right, remind me your name. Rick. Rick, are you ready for gift or curse?

[Brendan Scannel]

Absolutely.

[Julia Steiner]

Okay, number one. Gift or curse? Gummy vitamins.

[Brendan Scannel]

I suspect I know how you're going to answer this, but I'm sure you do. But here's what I think.

[Julia Steiner]

They're a curse.

[Brendan Scannel]

The vitamin game is a scam. You're not getting anything. You are peeing that out immediately. Just have gummy bears. Why don't you just do that instead? So it is absolutely a curse.

[Julia Steiner]

Correct. Curse. I do believe in the power of vitamins, but when they turn into a gummy, I'm like, okay, now it is a scam. I know it is a scam. But then when it's a gummy, it's a scam. And you only get to eat one. Yeah.

[Brendan Scannel]

And also, you are just, like, urinating that out. I assure you, it's not.

[Julia Steiner]

There's nothing wrong with urinating things out. Let's, you know, let's avoid our UTIs.

[Brendan Scannel]

Well, you've come to the right weekend in Chicago, so.

[Julia Steiner]

Okay, you've gotten one right so far. And finally, gift or a curse? Couches with cup holders. Ooh.

[Brendan Scannel]

So I can see it. Like, I can see the benefits. Very utilitarian. You're, like, set For a really comfy experience. But I will say it's a curse because it's my God. Like, figure. Get a grip with your life. Look at what has happened. I mean, right? You need someone. This is a wake up call. If you are buying one of those couches, like, get outside and get some fresh air. So it's a curse, Rick.

[Eunji Kim]

Wrong.

[Julia Steiner]

How chic could you possibly get? You put one of these in the basement. People are coming over there wondering, oh, when did he get a raise? You've got access to your drink. You're not. The kids aren't spilling. It's black leather that's probably falling apart as soon as you get into the house. Gorgeous. And I have recently become a secret lives of Mormon wives recapper. And so I'm always thinking, where can we get the sodas? Where can we put the sodas? I'm always worried. But you. You got one. Correct. So you win something. And here we go. There's a. Now I've revealed another. Oh, another gift from me. What's happening on this podcast? Okay, let's see here. Okay.

[Brendan Scannel]

It's a nice bag.

[Julia Steiner]

T shirt. Yeah. This is a nice one. Right? Okay. Oh, God. Okay.

[Anneliese Nelson]

Oh.

[Julia Steiner]

Rachel Ray 30 Minute Meals. Give it up for Rachael Ray 30 Minute Meals. This is from Jocastle Baker. And I've made several of the recipes.

[Brendan Scannel]

Oh, my God.

[Julia Steiner]

To wow a crowd.

[Brendan Scannel]

This is when she had a lot of hope.

[Julia Steiner]

We're rooting for Rachel. We're rooting for Rachel and the card game.

[Brendan Scannel]

Oh, well, thank you.

[Julia Steiner]

Let's give him a hand, everybody. Let's give him a hand. Okay, now get off the stage. Get off the stage. Let's see here. Oh, yeah, Go. Exit that way. Just making sure everyone gets out carefully. Okay, great. Now should I open these tiny things here real quick? See, this is. The podcast gets out of control so quickly. What's that? Oh, there's something under the chair. Oh, my. How did this get here? Did a mouse bring it? Okay, but let's open this one first. Let's see here. Ooh, look at this. It's a stocking. Oh, it's a McDonald's stocking. Where did this come from? And I don't think I'm able to reach inside, but there's a little mouse. Whoa. This looks like it was like an 80s McDonald's thing. Okay, I'll have to look at this later. There's a Norman Rockwell thing. This is incredible. I'll put some pictures on Instagram. Nobody. I mean, this part of the podcast. I'M getting things I actually am excited about. I think people are like, come on. Okay. This is a lovely card. Maybe this will give some hint to what's happening. Maya, I'm actually very sorry. Okay, let's see. I hope it's a threat. There's a bomb under someone's seat. Oh, this is Cheers to another live show. We love you. Goodbye, Mandy and Karma. Thank you, Mandy and Karma. And we'll just open. Oh, look what you're doing to me. Oh, my God. Diet Coke. Oh, and a lime. How classy. That is pure class.

[Brendan Scannel]

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[Anneliese Nelson]

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[Brendan Scannel]

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[Julia Steiner]

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[Anneliese Nelson]

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[Anneliese Nelson]

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[Bridger Weiniger]

It's Megan.

[Julia Steiner]

Are you ready for megansummer? Megan. Megan. Megan.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Megan.

[Julia Steiner]

Megan.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Would you prefer that I give you.

[Julia Steiner]

A printout that you can read at your own pace? Megan, yes, it's me. What a shock. Etc. On June 27.

[Bridger Weiniger]

She is a smoking hot warrior princess. All right, me next.

[Julia Steiner]

Let's get to work.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Are you going to stand in my way?

[Julia Steiner]

The bee is back. You think you learned your lesson the first time? Megan. Megan 2.0. Only in theaters June 27th with Apt 13. Oh, my God. Is somebody who's here? Who's. Is somebody on their way in or is. Oh, it's Brendan Scannel. Brendan. Oh, bring. Bring your shoe out a little.

[Brendan Scannel]

I didn't know you were getting dressed up just for me?

[Julia Steiner]

Of course. You're wearing town and I went shopping.

[Brendan Scannel]

You look like you are a squire for a fister. You look like you are.

[Julia Steiner]

How do you know I'm not?

[Brendan Scannel]

You look like there is a fisting going on and you are running around picking up trash around it.

[Julia Steiner]

Several uncomfortable.

[Brendan Scannel]

Is this skims?

[Julia Steiner]

I did. How are you?

[Brendan Scannel]

Oh, here's your gift.

[Julia Steiner]

Oh, fantastic. Well, we'll get to this.

[Brendan Scannel]

I wrapped it like a straight guy. Do I sit here?

[Julia Steiner]

What do you think? Take whatever stool you like, sit here and put it wherever you want. Oh, God, I've got to find a new outfit. Welcome to the show.

[Brendan Scannel]

I'm so happy to be here. Hi, Chicago.

[Julia Steiner]

Do you know what something I always forget about doing at a live show is? Simply asking the audience how they're doing. Where are we?

[Brendan Scannel]

This is fun. This is the first time we've ever been on stage together.

[Julia Steiner]

This is the first time we've done the podcast live together. Oh, yeah, we did it. We did a zoom pandemic podcast.

[Brendan Scannel]

Who can forget who could? I was in a wework because I was pretending I had a job and I did your podcast.

[Julia Steiner]

Were you really broadcasting from a wework?

[Brendan Scannel]

I was broadcast from a wework.

[Julia Steiner]

Oh, my God. And you gave me the most beautiful hat. I almost brought it tonight to give away, and then I thought, that's.

[Brendan Scannel]

Well, your suitcase got lost, right? You're wearing what was only on your person.

[Julia Steiner]

I wore this on the plane.

[Brendan Scannel]

Is this what Gen Z is doing now? First big pants, now no pants?

[Julia Steiner]

What are you doing in Chicago? Brendan is the only person here who I lives in Los Angeles, and I'm.

[Brendan Scannel]

Here for the grabbies.

[Julia Steiner]

You're here?

[Brendan Scannel]

Yeah.

[Julia Steiner]

You're gonna sweep?

[Brendan Scannel]

Yeah, I'm gonna sweep the stage. I'm accepting the award for most plants in the background. Everyone's watching my material, like, wow, his ZZ plant is so healthy.

[Julia Steiner]

He's really making good use of that wework.

[Brendan Scannel]

I feel like there's stuff in the way from this audience member can't see.

[Julia Steiner]

Very true. This is. This is him taking care of the.

[Brendan Scannel]

Audience, do podcasts and then want to do live stuff. They don't understand that parties can't see this mic.

[Julia Steiner]

I'll pay extra attention for a few minutes. Just lean back and just look at you while we're all talking. This is. If it is unfair, maybe we'll move the thing.

[Brendan Scannel]

Move the Fiji water. Move the Fiji water.

[Julia Steiner]

No, they're paying me. No, we'll get rid of the fine. Look at him. Stage directing. This is so no. What are you doing?

[Brendan Scannel]

I do feel like we're like twins and I'm the stinker. Like, you're. Like. You got straight A's and I went to rehab.

[Julia Steiner]

Tell me why you're in Chicago.

[Brendan Scannel]

I'm in Chicago. My family lives here. I'm from the south side. I grew up in Beverly. Everyone I knew was Irish Catholic. When I was a kid, my mom had three. Three best friends, and they were all named Peggy.

[Julia Steiner]

That's incredible.

[Brendan Scannel]

Before I was five, I thought Peggy meant woman.

[Julia Steiner]

Does your family have Pope fever?

[Brendan Scannel]

Does my family have what?

[Julia Steiner]

Pope fever.

[Brendan Scannel]

Pope fever. Oh, guess you'll like this. My mom, she goes, the Pope used to teach at St Rita. Not a good school. Guess he's not smart. Cause he didn't teach at Mother McCauley. Okay, pandering. See, you can't do that because you're not from here. You're from.

[Julia Steiner]

I can't do that.

[Brendan Scannel]

You're from the weirdest place in America. You're from the place where when people find out they're from there, they go.

[Julia Steiner]

People's reaction to Utah is either that or there's like a, oh, I can't ask anything. Or they go way too far with it immediately.

[Brendan Scannel]

Well, the gloves are. That's your Mormon underwear, right? Oh, no, that's not sanitary, babe.

[Julia Steiner]

I actually am wondering what I'll do with these once they actually fully fall apart. We should start brainstorming future glove situations because they are rapidly falling apart. It's crazy.

[Brendan Scannel]

I love that you have all these inside jokes with your audience, and I have no idea what they are. All right, Pritchard's got a podcast, and he's got gloves.

[Julia Steiner]

That's it. I do feel like I'm pigeonholing myself a little bit into an outfit. I'm starting to feel like. Who's the guy that just never wears a shirt on stage?

[Brendan Scannel]

Bert Kreischer.

[Julia Steiner]

Yes.

[Brendan Scannel]

I'm kind of the Bert Kreischer great friend of mine.

[Julia Steiner]

He says, hey, faggot, I love you.

[Brendan Scannel]

He's never said that. I never spoke it. I'm not successful.

[Julia Steiner]

No. But I do feel like I'm falling into that. So that's why I'm hoping that.

[Brendan Scannel]

I'm guessing you can always change it up.

[Julia Steiner]

Well, I have to wait for someone to give me an item. I got this on the podcast.

[Brendan Scannel]

You got that on the podcast? Can someone get this man some shorts?

[Julia Steiner]

Oh, my God. Oh, somebody else here. They must be. Oh, it's Claire Ruddy. Hi, Claire. Woo. Bring up a stool. The Stool situation I feel like is out of control. Troll. Oh, Claire. Welcome to. I said no gifts. I love those shoes, by the way.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Thank you. Thank you so much for having me.

[Julia Steiner]

Where's my.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Where shall I put this?

[Julia Steiner]

I'll put this over. Oh, God. What is this? Okay, show off here. Put this here. Claire, we're talking about Pope fever. Do you have Pope fever?

[Bridger Weiniger]

Oh, I was excited living here. I live in Chicago. And I think we can all say that when that happened, it was like I got 50 fucking texts.

[Julia Steiner]

Did you read?

[Bridger Weiniger]

Just being like, from people here and from people elsewhere being like, chicago Pope.

[Julia Steiner]

Chicago Pope.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Chicago Pope. I found out from my notifications, Dick Wolf's Chicago Pope.

[Julia Steiner]

Oh, my God, here we go. This is an ideas podcast, first and foremost. Wow, that's a really good idea. The thing about this, like, I've been learning that the Pope's from Chicago. We all know this, but I was wondering, like, he's young enough probably to have had an email address. That seems very odd to me that people are probably like, oh, I now have the Pope's email. Right?

[Bridger Weiniger]

Are you suggest that the last Pope didn't have an email?

[Brendan Scannel]

What are you suggesting?

[Bridger Weiniger]

What are you suggesting?

[Julia Steiner]

I'm suggesting conspiracy. This is a new Dan Brown novel. The Pope didn't have an email address.

[Brendan Scannel]

Do you think when you become pope, they strip you of all your old data and you get, like, a new phone, new email address, popmail.com.

[Julia Steiner]

I really do feel like they have to kill your family. It's like, it's weird that normal people know him. It doesn't make any sense that, like, he probably, like, went to a fast food restaurant in Chicago at some point.

[Bridger Weiniger]

His brother, maybe. Maybe we've all seen this. His brother is fucking defending his name on the news, being like, he was not a Cubs fan, he was a White Sox fan. What? His brother keeps going. I don't know if he keeps going on the news or if I'm just getting the clip a lot, but his brother keeps going. I don't know who said this about the Cubs thing.

[Brendan Scannel]

We gotta stop putting brothers on tv. Remember when Obama was president, they would occasionally be like, and here's his brother. And he would say the wackiest shit.

[Julia Steiner]

I wonder if he got any warning that his brother was going to be on tv or if it was just like, oh, oh, I should have, because it was not. If my brother was suddenly on TV like that, I'd kill myself.

[Brendan Scannel]

That's why you gotta keep your podcast really not successful.

[Julia Steiner]

This is enough.

[Brendan Scannel]

This is plenty I never wanna fly too close to the sun.

[Julia Steiner]

Well, you've tried.

[Brendan Scannel]

You've tried jumped out that building.

[Julia Steiner]

You have another show tonight.

[Brendan Scannel]

I do have a show at 10 at Lincoln Lodge.

[Julia Steiner]

What? I'll be in bed by then.

[Brendan Scannel]

You'll be in bed?

[Julia Steiner]

You people should follow him there. Wouldn't that be fun?

[Brendan Scannel]

Yeah, like the Pied Piper.

[Julia Steiner]

Claire, are you from Chicago?

[Bridger Weiniger]

I am. I live here. I do comedy here as well. He'll be at the Lodge tonight, plugging him.

[Julia Steiner]

Where you be?

[Brendan Scannel]

Where are you?

[Bridger Weiniger]

I be at the Lodge. Also, not tonight, but in June. I run a show there. But, yes, I live in Lincoln Park.

[Julia Steiner]

Okay. I should be learning about Chicago, but then again, I just spent the day looking for free refills and experienced none of the local culture. My life is such a waste. I just.

[Brendan Scannel]

Grandma. No.

[Julia Steiner]

Is there, like, a quick thing I could see tomorrow before my flight?

[Bridger Weiniger]

When's your flight?

[Julia Steiner]

2:30.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Okay, so when do you get there?

[Julia Steiner]

That's another question. And I am seeing both airports. I saw the one, and now tomorrow I'm seeing o' Hare. And I feel like o' Hare is going to be better. Is that correct?

[Bridger Weiniger]

Yes. By a month.

[Julia Steiner]

People. Well, we'll let these two people speak.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Midway is just a strange experience. I think sometimes it's better because it's like less people are there, but I just feel like I'm walking in a school classroom hallway, right?

[Julia Steiner]

Kind of liminal space type experience.

[Bridger Weiniger]

And then o' Hare has fucking like, shit on the ceiling. And you're like, whoa. Walking through o' Hare is like, whoa. There's just so much shit on the ceiling.

[Julia Steiner]

Like, purposeful shit on the ceiling.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Yeah. Art. Beautiful art.

[Julia Steiner]

Wow. Gorgeous art.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Yeah.

[Julia Steiner]

I can't wait.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Don't look down.

[Brendan Scannel]

Well, the grabbies flew me here on a dildo, so the only airport I saw was Cade Maddox's hole with the one gay guy in here.

[Julia Steiner]

I got to. What's the other one? What's not o' Hare?

[Bridger Weiniger]

Midway.

[Brendan Scannel]

Midway.

[Julia Steiner]

I got there from Long Beach Airport and I'd never been through this airport. They have giant sandpits. What?

[Brendan Scannel]

Long beach to Midway.

[Julia Steiner]

It's a crazy experience.

[Brendan Scannel]

How little money are you making?

[Julia Steiner]

The abuse I put myself through on flights is.

[Brendan Scannel]

You take a Pony Express. Like, what are you talking about?

[Julia Steiner]

My car broke down in front of the theater. Barely made it. Tonight? No, I. Everyone knows I love a connecting flight. But this time I thought, I'll spoil myself. I'll have a direct flight. But in order to do that, I had to go out because I won't fly out of lax. Hell on earth. LAX is the reason Americans hate Los Angeles. You go to that airport and it's children of men. It is absolute misery. So I'm avoiding it at all costs. And now I'm at Long beach where they have these giant sand pits for people to play in. I've never seen something like this at an airport.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Who is in it?

[Julia Steiner]

Passengers. They must be dragging the sand on the planes.

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[Bridger Weiniger]

It's Megan.

[Julia Steiner]

Are you ready for megansummer? Megan. Megan. Megan. Megan. Megan.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Would you prefer that I give you a printout that you can read at your own pace?

[Julia Steiner]

Megan?

[Bridger Weiniger]

Yes, it's me.

[Julia Steiner]

What a shock. Et cetera on June 27.

[Bridger Weiniger]

She is a smoking hot warrior princess. All right, meat sacks, let's get to work. Are you going to stand in my way?

[Julia Steiner]

The bee is back. You think you learned your lesson the first time? Megan. Megan 2.0. Only in theaters June 27th for DPT 13.

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[Bridger Weiniger]

Oh.

[Julia Steiner]

Oh, my God. Oh, my God. Let's put this. Here. Let's put this.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Hello.

[Eunji Kim]

Hi.

[Julia Steiner]

Welcome to. I said no gimmick.

[Eunji Kim]

Yes, I know I'd love to disobey.

[Julia Steiner]

Okay. Gosh, we'll find out. We were talking about Long Beach Airport. It's all over the news on everyone's.

[Eunji Kim]

From Long beach to Midway is a kind of a crazy cultural. I don't want to hear this because, like, Midway is also to me, like the essence of Chicago. While o' Hare is sort of like the public face, you know, like, o' Hare is like kind of like, oh, look, we're important too, you know, we could possibly be the, you know, the target of a terrorist attack. And then I just, I just remember during 9 11, Chicago was like, we're next.

[Julia Steiner]

Well, I will say so was South Jordan, Utah.

[Eunji Kim]

Yeah, but you know, it was just. Yeah, it was. But Midway is just much more authentico. Yes. You're gonna have a good sausage there.

[Julia Steiner]

Oh, at Midway. I missed the sausage.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Okay.

[Julia Steiner]

I will tell you. I got a recommendation for tortoise at the airport at o' Hare.

[Eunji Kim]

Tortas.

[Julia Steiner]

Yeah. Rick Bayless.

[Eunji Kim]

Oh, no.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Oh, my mom was talking about that.

[Brendan Scannel]

Feel like something a mom would talk about. And they got a frontera at Midway now.

[Eunji Kim]

Yeah, exactly.

[Brendan Scannel]

It's fancy.

[Julia Steiner]

I looked into it and look, looks good. I'm so excited. Don't harm my dream.

[Brendan Scannel]

You guys are having like a leg off.

[Julia Steiner]

Look at this. Yeah, look at this.

[Brendan Scannel]

Here's one thing about Bridger. Bridger secret buff. Secret buff is a secret. I don't know what he's wearing. Shapewear. The man is ripped.

[Julia Steiner]

That is not true.

[Brendan Scannel]

Show us. Show us. Show us.

[Julia Steiner]

Show us.

[Brendan Scannel]

Show us.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Show us, show us.

[Julia Steiner]

I don't know how I would even begin. I can barely undress when I'm alone. But I will. What I did want to bring up because everyone, I feel like I'm becoming such a nervous flyer and it feels like everyone is in cahoots to make me as scared as possible. First it was, I don't know if you were watching the rehearsal with the plane crashes nonstop. And now did we hear the news about the person going into the airplane bathroom out of Honolulu and someone had written on the mirror, there's a bomb on the plane? No. Ah. Can you imagine? How would you react to that?

[Bridger Weiniger]

Well, I have some follow ups.

[Julia Steiner]

I'm not gonna have any answers.

[Bridger Weiniger]

They wrote. When you say they wrote on the mirror, I'm thinking lipstick.

[Julia Steiner]

I'm thinking lipstick, silly phone.

[Brendan Scannel]

Because if it was the bomb, is this ass.

[Julia Steiner]

They kiss the mirror?

[Eunji Kim]

Yeah, because if it was in lipstick, I wouldn't worry.

[Bridger Weiniger]

I'd be like, yeah.

[Eunji Kim]

Queen going aww.

[Brendan Scannel]

Women in stem.

[Julia Steiner]

I know nothing about it and I'm so curious. Yet I look didn't look into it, but all I thought was like, what would if I went in there. What would. Because you need to be quiet. You need to just tell somebody. But I think I would just Be quiet.

[Eunji Kim]

My first impulsive would be to tell everyone.

[Julia Steiner]

Of course. I would be sobbing and screaming.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Yes.

[Eunji Kim]

I would open the door and be like, gah. Like that.

[Brendan Scannel]

Here's what I feel like. I wouldn't tell anyone because I wouldn't want it to get diverted. There's nothing than being in the air. Nothing worse than being on the air halfway across the country. And they're like, we have to make an allergic to landing in Denver. And you're like, ah, I've got a reservation at Portillo's.

[Julia Steiner]

Yeah. They fully had to turn around. I mean, of course they had to turn around. A nightmare.

[Bridger Weiniger]

So it said in the bathroom. Oh, of the airplane.

[Julia Steiner]

Of the airplane. Oh.

[Bridger Weiniger]

I was thinking the airport, and I was like, how would they know even which plane?

[Julia Steiner]

We've got to check every single plane.

[Bridger Weiniger]

There's so many questions. Yeah. This person was like, not that well thought out in their bombing ness, apparently on the plane.

[Julia Steiner]

And am I spreading misinformation? Does this feel true? Does this a real news story?

[Eunji Kim]

Did they discover who it was on the plane? Who did it? Was it a joke?

[Julia Steiner]

Ha ha. Yeah. So that's the. I guess that's a big mystery. Somebody on the plane must have done it.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Right? That's the thing.

[Julia Steiner]

What a fun game.

[Bridger Weiniger]

It could have all been a prank.

[Julia Steiner]

Yeah, it could have been, because I.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Do love a good prank. Ah. So that's my next question. Was, is somebody on the side playing a prankster?

[Julia Steiner]

They find George Clooney. Gotcha.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Famous prankster, impractical joker, Clooney. He's one of the four lifelong friends.

[Eunji Kim]

Yes.

[Julia Steiner]

No, I would. Yeah, that's just. I. I don't know that I can keep getting on planes. I don't know. You think it would get easier? Is this true for other people? Like, it gets. Every time I'm on a plane, it's somehow harder.

[Eunji Kim]

I mean, honestly, it's. I am just as worried, but my will to live diminishes every day.

[Julia Steiner]

Yes, yes, that's true.

[Eunji Kim]

So I'm willing to gamble.

[Julia Steiner]

This is. I've said this, but, like, anytime there's serious turbulence, the way I comfort myself is thinking, well, at least I won't have to be on the plane anymore. Yes. It's like, well, the flight was a shorter flight than I expected.

[Brendan Scannel]

And what a relief to not have to keep a podcast going.

[Julia Steiner]

Oh, my God, it's over. You have to stop with whatever this is. Well, I think, you know, as much as I'd like to keep talking about planes exploding, I think we should get into. You guys obviously brought something. The podcast is called I said no gifts. I don't know if you were clear on that or what. I'm sure at least one email was sent. Brendan's been on the podcast before. No excuses there. It seems like you brought gifts for me. Yes. Okay. Should we open them here on the podcast?

[Eunji Kim]

Can we.

[Julia Steiner]

Should we open them here on the podcast? What a crinkle. Boo. Okay. Okay. Brendan, is this one yours?

[Brendan Scannel]

No.

[Julia Steiner]

Of course, of course. Let's open this one first.

[Brendan Scannel]

Careful. I double bagged it and I'm.

[Julia Steiner]

I'm smelling something.

[Eunji Kim]

Yes. It's alive.

[Brendan Scannel]

You won't believe it. I went to this great restaurant, the Athenian Room, and I had some leftover food, and I just. I thought, Bridger, with all that working out you're doing, you're gonna need some protein.

[Eunji Kim]

Yes.

[Julia Steiner]

Oh, my God.

[Brendan Scannel]

And there's some feta in there.

[Julia Steiner]

It's a chicken and chicken.

[Brendan Scannel]

There's gravy in the bottom.

[Eunji Kim]

That's the juice. That's the juice.

[Bridger Weiniger]

The way you are handling that is crazy. You had a one thumb on that thing.

[Brendan Scannel]

It's like you've never seen leftovers before.

[Julia Steiner]

Wait, what was the restaurant?

[Brendan Scannel]

The Athenian Room.

[Julia Steiner]

Oh, okay.

[Brendan Scannel]

Chicago Classic. Cash only.

[Julia Steiner]

Cash only. Love to hear it.

[Eunji Kim]

Famous place.

[Julia Steiner]

Do you feel like this is going to give me food poisoning?

[Eunji Kim]

Yes.

[Julia Steiner]

How long has it been in the dance room?

[Brendan Scannel]

Racist against Greek people.

[Eunji Kim]

Okay.

[Julia Steiner]

I love the Greek population. I complain about not having Greek restaurants in LA all the time, and then I get here and there's so many Greek restaurants, and then I look for refills. But the chicken, the concern here. How long has it been out? You know, in the. The. Has it grown bacteria is the big question.

[Brendan Scannel]

I was eating at the Athenian room 90 minutes ago. Sorry, I'm just going to check my phone.

[Julia Steiner]

Okay. Should I. I guess I'll have a bite of the chicken then.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Oh, the gloves touching it. Oh, my God.

[Brendan Scannel]

With the gloves on, I think I.

[Julia Steiner]

Should eat the chicken.

[Brendan Scannel]

Eat it, Eat it, eat it, eat it, eat it, eat it.

[Julia Steiner]

Yay.

[Brendan Scannel]

You know, I'm gonna have some feta. As long as we're here.

[Julia Steiner]

Have some. Oh, it's a little dry.

[Brendan Scannel]

Gosh, put it on Yelp. Okay.

[Julia Steiner]

I'll be right back. I'll be right.

[Brendan Scannel]

You are not spitting out the food I brought.

[Eunji Kim]

Oh, my God.

[Brendan Scannel]

Are you fucking kidding me? I bring you my leftovers and you spit them out, you Mormon piece of shit.

[Julia Steiner]

Bring a better chicken next time. I'll have some. A little feta, too. Why not?

[Eunji Kim]

Do Mormons have a food?

[Julia Steiner]

Oh, like a certain type of food?

[Eunji Kim]

No, I mean, like, is it. Do our. Is there a dish that Mormons are famous for? What?

[Julia Steiner]

Jello? But number one.

[Eunji Kim]

Are you serious?

[Julia Steiner]

Above Jell? O. Funeral potatoes.

[Eunji Kim]

Funeral potatoes.

[Julia Steiner]

Funeral potatoes are delicious. But the saddest sounding thing that you could possibly imagine, it's potatoes, sour cream cheese and corn flakes.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Oh, oh.

[Julia Steiner]

And again, it sounds okay. Okay. I didn't sell it very well, but it's just, you know, like a very good casserole. That's their number one Jello fry sauce, which is ketchup and mayonnaise mixed together. You can get that. Ooh, ooh, you. It's delicious. I think those are the numbers, the top three.

[Eunji Kim]

And then jello is like the famous thing that Mormons make.

[Julia Steiner]

It's like kind of almost a stereotype, I feel like, I don't know.

[Eunji Kim]

Stereotype. I did not know this.

[Julia Steiner]

It's very offensive.

[Eunji Kim]

Yes.

[Brendan Scannel]

You jello eating.

[Eunji Kim]

Yes, exactly. I would call you guys jello heads or something like that.

[Julia Steiner]

Let's get it started.

[Eunji Kim]

Jello mouth.

[Bridger Weiniger]

To have the. To have one of the. Of the three top foods in your culture be a sauce.

[Eunji Kim]

Yeah.

[Bridger Weiniger]

I am sorry.

[Eunji Kim]

It's not like, derived from, like, anything French.

[Bridger Weiniger]

It's just two squirts, two other sauces.

[Brendan Scannel]

Two sauces.

[Eunji Kim]

Two squirts towards each other.

[Brendan Scannel]

Like, you gotta have my mom's recipe for fry sauce.

[Eunji Kim]

It's one part ketchup, one part mayonnaise.

[Julia Steiner]

Like, what do you think of the top three Chicago foods?

[Eunji Kim]

Hot dog. Yeah, hot dog.

[Brendan Scannel]

Al's Italian beef and deep dish pizza, right?

[Eunji Kim]

Oh, no, actually, what do you guys think about elotes? Yeah. Oh, the taco.

[Julia Steiner]

No, there's like competing pizzerias.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Oh, yeah. Well, like for deep dish, I've heard the argument of Lumel, Natti's versus Giordano's.

[Julia Steiner]

Okay. And.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Oh, peds.

[Julia Steiner]

Sure.

[Bridger Weiniger]

There's also peas.

[Julia Steiner]

Oh, I think I've actually been there.

[Bridger Weiniger]

I'm sorry. I'm very sorry. I'm very sorry.

[Brendan Scannel]

Don't be a Jello head.

[Julia Steiner]

It's pequots is Pequods number one. The one I've been to is not number one.

[Eunji Kim]

I like a pan lose with giardiniera and sausage. You know giardiniera.

[Julia Steiner]

No, no.

[Eunji Kim]

Your butt couldn't handle that. Not your Jello head.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Ass.

[Julia Steiner]

Yeah.

[Brendan Scannel]

You're gonna need some jello after eating some yardnaire.

[Eunji Kim]

I will also say jello to me is such a neurotic food.

[Julia Steiner]

Oh, it's very Like, I mean, it's always like this. It's moving.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Yes.

[Eunji Kim]

And it's gelatin. Like anything gelatinous like that is horse hooves in it. Yes.

[Julia Steiner]

They serve it at hospitals. It's very sexy. I'm not a jello person, but I feel like people do enjoy it, and it's. Drives me crazy because I think it's objectively disgusting.

[Bridger Weiniger]

My mother does a lovely pretzel jello salad. Have we heard about this?

[Julia Steiner]

Oh, this is a good thing.

[Bridger Weiniger]

This is a good thing. This is a good thing. We should. We should all say what are good and bad things we should be determining.

[Brendan Scannel]

Firstly, I love the Great Depression. Such a lovely era.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Yes. Pretzel jello salad is like jello with strawberries in it on the top, cream cheese slash whipped cream in the middle.

[Eunji Kim]

And, like, both cream cheese and whipped cream.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Yeah, you whip them together. I'm kind of doing a recipe style, like, in case anyone wants to make it right now. And then on the bottom is, like, a crushed pretzel crust.

[Julia Steiner]

That's what saves it. The pretzels. Save it because, thank God, there's a texture and salt here.

[Eunji Kim]

I need a texture.

[Julia Steiner]

Yes, that. That kind of feels like it's an English breakfast territory where it's just like, we've got to empty the fridge. Just put it.

[Brendan Scannel]

Let's make that tomato hot.

[Julia Steiner]

Should I open the next thing? Let's see here. Let's see, Claire.

[Bridger Weiniger]

What is mine is the bowed one right there.

[Eunji Kim]

Okay.

[Julia Steiner]

Let's get into this. And we've got plenty of chicken to go around. I don't know. Does anybody here want chicken? Chicken. Okay. It doesn't seem like anyone wants chicken. Okay.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Can the thread, the loose thread on your glove. Touch that.

[Eunji Kim]

It's really catching the light. It's really catching the light.

[Bridger Weiniger]

I wish you could all see how fucking disgusting that is. I'm sorry. It's like a texture thing. It's a texture thing.

[Julia Steiner]

This saves me at salad bars. I don't have to use the tongs. I just. Okay, let's. Oh, this is a tricky one.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Oh, careful. Lift it from the top. There's two things. There's two things in there.

[Julia Steiner]

Okay.

[Bridger Weiniger]

There you go. I just want. Yeah. Oh, okay. A little disrespectful. Never met you in my life, but whatever.

[Julia Steiner]

Oh, look how cute that is. It's a little teapot.

[Bridger Weiniger]

This is a neti pot.

[Julia Steiner]

Oh, it's a neti pot.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Are you familiar with the neti pot?

[Julia Steiner]

I wanted to try one for such a long time, but it scares me. To death.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Yes, it should. You're putting water directly into your brain and then it comes out of the other side of your nose. I used to be very scared of these. And in February I got a surgery on my nose. And so I had to go from doing zero a day for my whole life, which is all of our baselines, to four neti pots a day. Four, which is borderline an addiction, of course. So I was doing four nutty pots a day for a month and then he weaned me down to two a day. And I thought that after three months of recovery, he would say, you don't need any more. But I found out recently that I'm just stuck to that for life.

[Julia Steiner]

You just have to keep doing two.

[Bridger Weiniger]

A day for life. But here's the thing.

[Eunji Kim]

Here's why I've given it eventually start to feel good.

[Bridger Weiniger]

It's fantastic.

[Eunji Kim]

Yeah.

[Bridger Weiniger]

I am addicted to it now. It's like when the dentist tells you, like, if you keep flossing real fucking hard, it'll feel good.

[Eunji Kim]

Yes.

[Bridger Weiniger]

It's like that for your nose.

[Julia Steiner]

Wow. But the initial time is not fun.

[Bridger Weiniger]

No. It feels like you're drowning. It's never really fun. But it's.

[Julia Steiner]

How do you.

[Eunji Kim]

Because you can't prepare yourself for the sensation.

[Julia Steiner]

Right.

[Eunji Kim]

It is unlike anything.

[Julia Steiner]

Is there any way for it to go wrong? That's my concern.

[Eunji Kim]

Yes, there are certainly.

[Julia Steiner]

How do you know between going wrong and it just not being comfortable? That's.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Well, okay. So here's the main thing. And people are on one of two camps about this. You need to use distilled water.

[Julia Steiner]

Correct.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Because if you use tap water, there was a woman who got a brain eating amoeba because brain eating amoeba went into her brain via the nutty pot. Listen, I'm warning you. I'm letting you know you don't have to be that woman.

[Julia Steiner]

Did you get it from a lake?

[Eunji Kim]

But that's where water comes from. Yeah.

[Julia Steiner]

Okay, so I have to go buy distilled water.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Or you can boil water and you need to boil it for five minutes.

[Eunji Kim]

Yes.

[Julia Steiner]

And then chill.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Yes, of course, of course.

[Julia Steiner]

I'm writing this down.

[Eunji Kim]

Classic jello head behavior, Right?

[Bridger Weiniger]

This is very similar to. To making a jello.

[Brendan Scannel]

Here's the thing. If it makes you more comfortable, you could use it as a douche.

[Julia Steiner]

Why not both? And there's like a little thing inside.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Yes. So those are your saline packets.

[Julia Steiner]

Okay.

[Bridger Weiniger]

You're going to have to mix those in. Otherwise you're just putting fucking water in your. The saline will Sort of break down the mucus in your sinuses. And then if you're lucky, you can see the boogers come out of your face. Real time.

[Julia Steiner]

Yes.

[Eunji Kim]

It's very satisfying.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Yeah.

[Julia Steiner]

Yeah. Have you done it before, Brendan?

[Brendan Scannel]

Yes.

[Julia Steiner]

Okay, well, how am I the only person on stage? I feel so left out.

[Brendan Scannel]

You've never had a cocaine problem?

[Eunji Kim]

Wait, can I. Can I ask, is this an officially sanctioned neti pot?

[Bridger Weiniger]

This is. This is Dr. Gupta. Yes.

[Julia Steiner]

Oh, wow. So they're like off brand?

[Eunji Kim]

Well, no, I only ask because my friend did get caught selling unlicensed neti pots.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Oh, wow.

[Eunji Kim]

Out of his garage. And let me just tell you, Dr. Koopa. Very litigious.

[Julia Steiner]

Oh, my gosh.

[Eunji Kim]

Sure, though.

[Julia Steiner]

Whoa. So they. There's only one that you're actually supposed to use, and it says Neil. Me?

[Eunji Kim]

The Nettie Neil?

[Bridger Weiniger]

Yes, Neil Gupta. Oh, my God.

[Julia Steiner]

Oh, Neil Gupta.

[Bridger Weiniger]

I just fucking realized his name is Neil Gupta. That's such a beautiful fucking name. I don't know why, though. I feel like you could use any. Any thing.

[Julia Steiner]

It feels like you could just crazy straw and faucet or something.

[Eunji Kim]

No, the goop does are doing something special.

[Julia Steiner]

I believe it is like a pretty recent product to market.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Maybe the past 30 years, I want to say.

[Julia Steiner]

30 years. Okay.

[Brendan Scannel]

Well, they've like.

[Julia Steiner]

They have held on to that for 30 years. That's impressive.

[Bridger Weiniger]

I want to say there's also a squeeze bottle, which is what I use every day.

[Julia Steiner]

Okay. So you gave me kind of.

[Bridger Weiniger]

I gave you what I did not want for my ent doctor, so.

[Julia Steiner]

But just for my knowledge, it has not been used.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Correct.

[Julia Steiner]

Can't wait to use this on video. People are gonna be disgusting.

[Bridger Weiniger]

There is also. Okay, so I brought that and I was like, I'll tell my little sob sinus story. But I did bring you a fun gift beneath this.

[Julia Steiner]

Oh, is it in here?

[Bridger Weiniger]

Yes.

[Julia Steiner]

Okay. That's okay.

[Brendan Scannel]

There were some cucumbers in mine too. Just take that.

[Julia Steiner]

That's all yours.

[Brendan Scannel]

Kind of multiple gifts there as well.

[Julia Steiner]

Oh, look. This is a very fun thing. Speaking of pranks.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Yes. This is a dice trick dice.

[Julia Steiner]

This is on the level of writing there's a bomb on the plane.

[Bridger Weiniger]

It's kind of. Yeah, more lower stakes version of bombing a plane.

[Julia Steiner]

Why did you bring trick dice?

[Bridger Weiniger]

I just thought that was so fun. I just think that's so fun. My best friend did get me tricked. Ice from Vegas. And I, like cried when she got me it because I was like, that's just so fucking sweet.

[Julia Steiner]

I never used them before. Should I Try them now.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Yes.

[Julia Steiner]

Let's see if they actually work. Embarrassing.

[Eunji Kim]

In what instance are you using these dice?

[Bridger Weiniger]

Okay, so that's the great thing about the trick dice is that if you're not a magician or someone in a casino, it's so much more fun because no one expects you to have them. So I will say I didn't. Okay. I will say I plan to use this as a pickup line.

[Eunji Kim]

Oh, oh, you're seeing.

[Brendan Scannel]

Going for you.

[Bridger Weiniger]

I planned to use this as a last ditch resort of like to be extra forward. If you're talking to someone and you don't know how to seal the deal.

[Julia Steiner]

This is the perfect way to find your account.

[Eunji Kim]

Is this how you're gonna do it?

[Bridger Weiniger]

Just listen. Just listen. You say. This is what I was going to say. I was going to say the trick dice that I had, it was like one was a loaded die. It was all ones and one was all sixes. Oh, I forget how I was going to do it, but I was. I was.

[Brendan Scannel]

I'll you.

[Bridger Weiniger]

If you roll a seven.

[Brendan Scannel]

I suck.

[Julia Steiner]

My dick for a seven.

[Eunji Kim]

Is that pretty much.

[Bridger Weiniger]

I was going to say something like, oh, if I roll a six, you have to. To come home with me.

[Eunji Kim]

Oh, you're feeling lucky.

[Julia Steiner]

Okay, sure.

[Eunji Kim]

Are you feeling lucky?

[Bridger Weiniger]

I didn't even think that.

[Eunji Kim]

Oh, my God.

[Bridger Weiniger]

I did not think it out that hard.

[Eunji Kim]

Okay.

[Bridger Weiniger]

But you can do that.

[Julia Steiner]

Okay, let's roll it. Should we. What do we think? 7 or 11. Scream for 7.

[Eunji Kim]

7.

[Julia Steiner]

11. Seems like people think it's gonna be a 7. This could be embarrassing. Okay.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Oh, that one's spinning. That's kind of a fun trick. Center.

[Julia Steiner]

Truly. How does that work? I'm dazzled. That's like a computer did it. This is so impressive. Now we're gonna just kind of.

[Eunji Kim]

I like everything like this. I always think it's magnets. Oh, yeah.

[Julia Steiner]

That's connected to the earth's core.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Well, no. You guys know the combination of the numbers can only add up to 7 or 11. It's not magnets.

[Brendan Scannel]

But wait, so that dice don't even have all the numbers on them? The numbers on these.

[Julia Steiner]

Oh, six and twos. Okay. I was like, how does the one dice know how the other one works?

[Eunji Kim]

Wow.

[Bridger Weiniger]

How would magnets possibly.

[Julia Steiner]

We would all be going home with you.

[Brendan Scannel]

You guys, I don't know about this.

[Eunji Kim]

But I did say magnets with a lot of confidence.

[Bridger Weiniger]

I don't even know how that.

[Brendan Scannel]

Women in stem. Women in magic.

[Eunji Kim]

Thank you.

[Julia Steiner]

If you want people to know how stupid you are, just start A podcast. It will quickly be revealed. Okay, well, that's a very fun little thing. I'm gonna be picking up people all over Chicago tonight.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Yes, you can just fuck the city.

[Julia Steiner]

Yes. Okay.

[Eunji Kim]

It's. It is that box and the thing underneath it.

[Julia Steiner]

Okay, so which one should I open first?

[Eunji Kim]

Let's do the first. The top one first.

[Julia Steiner]

Okay. Look at this beautiful blue La Mer box. It's not.

[Eunji Kim]

That's not what's inside. Okay, well, sorry.

[Julia Steiner]

Let's see here. Okay. Opening.

[Eunji Kim]

These are samples. Oh, and also this thing.

[Julia Steiner]

Hypoallergenic tape.

[Eunji Kim]

It's for. It's for you to cover your mouth while you sleep.

[Brendan Scannel]

Because you won't shut up.

[Eunji Kim]

Do you guys know about this? It's like, it's. It's supposed to help you force your breathing to. Oh, my God. This is kind of a thing. But I only. I TikTok for a while thought that I was, like, an Asian incel. And so. So I was getting a lot of, like, biohacking stuff.

[Julia Steiner]

Right, right.

[Eunji Kim]

And so this is. Listen, I'm a big believer of in, like, products and. And, like, in the ability of products to bring you, you know, fulfillment.

[Julia Steiner]

Sure, sure.

[Eunji Kim]

And so I seek it out. Like, this is one I also bought, you know, and you guys get the things where, like, are you. Do you have adhd? Take all these vitamins? Yeah, I bought that, too. That's in there.

[Julia Steiner]

Okay, what's. This is just a card.

[Eunji Kim]

This is blue mercury. That's just the thing. So I.

[Julia Steiner]

Okay. Creativity. Yes.

[Eunji Kim]

This is a packet that they give you.

[Julia Steiner]

These are pills. This is like the Bradley Cooper movie.

[Eunji Kim]

The. The vitamins. They're vitamins. But this is like, these are all samples. So I. So this is just a tip for you guys. If you guys are brave enough to ask, people will give you that special. These, like, these little samples.

[Julia Steiner]

This is from Kiehl's. They're very. They're big sample people.

[Eunji Kim]

Yes. They're big samples. Because I just ask. I insist, and.

[Julia Steiner]

Well, those are two different things.

[Eunji Kim]

But if you just stand there for a while, give you. So I'm just like. I just do. Yes.

[Julia Steiner]

Bliss Body butter. Where do you get this? Is there a store called Bliss Blue Mercury, babe.

[Eunji Kim]

Yeah. Blue Mercury. I know nothing, but you have to just insist. Like, you gotta go in there and you gotta be like, I want that. Can you give me a sample of this? I want a sample of that. And they'll be like, that's a lot. I was like, yes. This is a conditioner.

[Julia Steiner]

Oh, conditioner.

[Eunji Kim]

Augustine is a Baiter. This is very expensive.

[Julia Steiner]

Oh, my God.

[Eunji Kim]

This is like. Yeah, this is like, $20 value.

[Julia Steiner]

Oh, my God. I'm gonna verbally be a new person. And then this.

[Eunji Kim]

This is from Korea. This is. This will feel like needles on your face.

[Julia Steiner]

You have to stick them in your face.

[Eunji Kim]

No, no, no. It's a topical solution where it will feel like there are needles in your face. That's K beauty right there.

[Julia Steiner]

What does that feel like?

[Eunji Kim]

Like needles going into your face.

[Brendan Scannel]

Bridger, I'm so excited for you to look like a Korean woman.

[Eunji Kim]

I got back from Korea, and it's like. It is. The beauty standard there is so insane.

[Julia Steiner]

Oh, well, the SPF alone, truly.

[Eunji Kim]

I've read these gloves are very popular.

[Julia Steiner]

Oh, this pair, in particular, I think would really take off.

[Brendan Scannel]

You look like a woman driving a convertible Isadora Duncan. Not like that.

[Julia Steiner]

The only free sample I am aware of, that I should get the word out is See's Candy. If you go to See's Candies, they have to give you a free sample, and you can select any type you want. Don't let them push the raspberry fudge on you. Get whatever you want. They have to give it to you.

[Eunji Kim]

I would say that any store, you can get a free sample if you have a gun. I'm just saying, like, any sort of situation like that where it's sort of like there's things in bulk, of course you have to sample. Excuse me, guys. In this economy. Come on, ask.

[Bridger Weiniger]

I love that justification. Just like that's in bulk. You have to give to me.

[Julia Steiner]

There's so many of them.

[Bridger Weiniger]

I see the bulk before for me. Give me one.

[Eunji Kim]

Just share.

[Brendan Scannel]

I have a friend who works in PR and fashion. Sorry, brag.

[Julia Steiner]

Oh, God.

[Brendan Scannel]

And back when I used to have an acting career, he used to send me Abercrombie and Fitch stuff. And now I still sometimes will be like, hey, can I get some more Abercrombie and Fitch? And I. I get a package of AB Fish every six months.

[Eunji Kim]

Yes.

[Julia Steiner]

Everything I own is ab.

[Eunji Kim]

This. This is the Obama said the audacity to hope. Right? I'm talking about the audacity to ask. Just ask. You'd be surprised.

[Julia Steiner]

Guys, I feel like people, especially with ice cream samples, get really sensitive about. They're like, you shouldn't do that.

[Eunji Kim]

Yes. I don't understand. I think you should.

[Julia Steiner]

Yes. Why not?

[Brendan Scannel]

You know what? Let them.

[Julia Steiner]

Let them. Thank you. Thank you.

[Brendan Scannel]

Let them.

[Julia Steiner]

That's kind of my philosophy. I thought of that. Let's get this podcast up on the charts. If someone is having a problem, let them. Yeah, ingenious advice.

[Brendan Scannel]

If someone hates your guts, let them.

[Julia Steiner]

If somebody's bleeding, go ahead and let them. Their problem.

[Brendan Scannel]

Two gay men make fun of Mel Rob. Glenn and Doyle are Glennon Doyle. Right. Okay, we can cut this part of the pot. I'm more of a Renee Brown.

[Julia Steiner]

Stan, it shows. It really shows. Okay, I've got all my samples here. And now should I open this?

[Eunji Kim]

Yes, please, please, please. I wrote on the outside.

[Julia Steiner]

Okay, let's see. It says, to Bridger, may every neck. Every neck you step on be a hater.

[Eunji Kim]

Yes.

[Julia Steiner]

Oh, I like that. I like that a lot. Happy to do it.

[Eunji Kim]

That's okay. Sorry.

[Julia Steiner]

Okay.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Did you think of that?

[Julia Steiner]

Oh, this is tough dancing.

[Eunji Kim]

That's so beautiful. Yes, thank you. Oh, yes.

[Julia Steiner]

The American Mirage. Wait, this is your book?

[Eunji Kim]

Okay.

[Julia Steiner]

What?

[Eunji Kim]

I didn't know you had a book. It says Eunjie Kim, right? This is not me.

[Julia Steiner]

Oh, it's like. I thought I knew. It's like. This is so embarrassing for me.

[Eunji Kim]

No, this is what's crazy. So this is Eunji Kim, my doppelganger on the Internet.

[Julia Steiner]

Yes.

[Eunji Kim]

She's a sociologist. So she started going to Harvard when I started doing improv.

[Julia Steiner]

That's a tough. That's tough.

[Eunji Kim]

And so I've really watched both of our careers. Not that one is better than the other. I got a commercial. She got into the Annenberg School of Communication. She graduated from Harvard. I made a house team at IO. She. Yeah. Now she teaches at Columbia. And all this stuff, it's like. It's really, really wonderful. And the thing is, she. Because I started doing improv, I started. I have a. I'm on a database of improvisers.

[Julia Steiner]

Sure.

[Eunji Kim]

It's called chicago.inprov. whatever.

[Julia Steiner]

Right. And check it out.

[Eunji Kim]

Because my name. Because my name is in there. My. I. I am the first Eunjie Kim to show up.

[Julia Steiner]

Wow.

[Eunji Kim]

On Google.

[Julia Steiner]

Oh, this is. She must be so mad. Oh, my God, the work. This woman's point.

[Eunji Kim]

She is furious. Furious. She started paying someone to push her up. And you know what? I don't blame her. I don't blame her. She is the better Angie.

[Julia Steiner]

But she's still losing until she gets number one, who cares?

[Eunji Kim]

I mean, she's very close with this book. I hope so. I mean, this is why I think I initially kind of was like a hater. Like, she was like a no nemesis of mine, you know?

[Julia Steiner]

Right.

[Eunji Kim]

And now, because she's doing so well, I'm realizing I should really be a Bigger person and.

[Julia Steiner]

No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. Keep me. Attack, attack, attack. Have you read the book?

[Bridger Weiniger]

No.

[Brendan Scannel]

It sounds like. No.

[Julia Steiner]

This is a deeply jealous person.

[Brendan Scannel]

Here's a book I didn't read.

[Julia Steiner]

But you, I mean, you put some money in her pocket.

[Eunji Kim]

I, I did. I. This is the recent. This is so psychotic. Okay. I pre ordered the book because she said that she was going to sign it.

[Julia Steiner]

Oh.

[Eunji Kim]

And I wanted her to write my name. I.

[Julia Steiner]

Did she do it?

[Eunji Kim]

No.

[Julia Steiner]

Oh, she can't be trusted. Oh, we don't like to hear steps ahead.

[Eunji Kim]

This is what I mean. Like, she's smart. That's why she went to Harvard.

[Julia Steiner]

That's crafty.

[Eunji Kim]

That's why I'm doing this.

[Julia Steiner]

But this actually is something that I might want to read.

[Eunji Kim]

It is very fascinating. I read the back of it.

[Julia Steiner]

The back is just praise for the book. It's not even.

[Eunji Kim]

And it's just fuel for me.

[Julia Steiner]

Oh. What reality shows are you three watching right now?

[Bridger Weiniger]

I am watch. I did just begin Mormon Lives of Mormon Wives.

[Julia Steiner]

This is the eternal problem for this show that was bad producing on their part. No one will ever really know the name of the show. Secret Lives of Mormon Wives. Let's all say it together.

[Eunji Kim]

The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives.

[Julia Steiner]

There we go.

[Bridger Weiniger]

We got it. I think we got it.

[Julia Steiner]

Oh, so you started it though.

[Bridger Weiniger]

I did. I got to.

[Julia Steiner]

Episode two, I think, of season two.

[Brendan Scannel]

What?

[Bridger Weiniger]

There's a second.

[Julia Steiner]

You've got a very, very long road ahead.

[Bridger Weiniger]

I am blown away. The pacing of the first episode, I could not believe.

[Julia Steiner]

Well, Buck, live.

[Brendan Scannel]

Bridger. I'm so maxed out on Salt Lake City on my television. Like, they're always like, we're hosting this cute event at this event space in Salt Lake and I'm like, this is fucking Benihana. Thank you, motherfucker. Like, this is Bennigan, you idiots.

[Julia Steiner]

They really are going to like the skating rink I went to in middle school, right? Yes. It's not impressive.

[Brendan Scannel]

Like, you're in a buga di beppo, babe. Like, this is not some cool restaurant.

[Eunji Kim]

But. But they all look incredible.

[Julia Steiner]

They look so.

[Eunji Kim]

I know I. When I was, I visited my friend out in Salt Lake and I couldn't help but notice, like, all the medi spas, bow ties, kind of the South.

[Julia Steiner]

Korea of the United States.

[Eunji Kim]

I thought it was strange. I thought I. I thought it was strange and I looked it up. It is the place. It's even more than South Korea.

[Julia Steiner]

Really?

[Eunji Kim]

With passive surgery?

[Julia Steiner]

Absolutely.

[Eunji Kim]

Yeah. Per capita. Per capita. Not Overall, you know, but because it's like, it's. It's every street strip mall.

[Julia Steiner]

You always have. Everywhere. It's everywhere.

[Eunji Kim]

But it was really fascinating.

[Julia Steiner]

Beauty lab and laser most of all. This is truly like, I've been there a number of times and never gotten a treatment.

[Eunji Kim]

Really.

[Julia Steiner]

I just go and get my picture taken. For those of you who don't know, one of the Salt Lake City housewives owns a chain of beauty lamps. What would we call them?

[Eunji Kim]

Medispas?

[Julia Steiner]

Med spas. You've just said med spas. And I've been there over and over. They have kind of a Soviet feel. If you go in them, it's a little like, this is medical care. What's going on? But Heather Gay reach out.

[Eunji Kim]

I love it, though. I love it. Because all the mommy bloggers are Mormons.

[Julia Steiner]

There's a very weird. Utah has a secret shadow grip on the country.

[Eunji Kim]

It's true.

[Julia Steiner]

Through mommy blogger.

[Eunji Kim]

Any mommy blogger that you follow that has more than three children. Investigate, Investigate. I did it. And I just uncovered a lot of Mormons. I'm just saying. I'm just like, how are they having six kids in New York City? Wow. Yeah. The Mormon.

[Julia Steiner]

I do think I was just telling somebody we need to launch a streaming platform for purely Utah content. There is so much at this point. And everybody's loving it. Good for us. Finally we do something right. Everyone's shaking their heads.

[Eunji Kim]

I'm just saying I'm gonna start this jello head slander that's gonna destroy all of the goodwill.

[Brendan Scannel]

You just went like, full fade Dunawayan network. You're like, we'll get a 5 share.

[Julia Steiner]

Okay. Was there anything left to say about the gifts? I've had some chicken. It was. It's backstage. I've got the neti pot. For the future. I will experiment some samples. I'm starting my life over.

[Eunji Kim]

Yes. I mean, don't you. I love buying stuff and thinking you're gonna be like a different person.

[Julia Steiner]

Oh, yeah. That illusion. At least on the drive home.

[Eunji Kim]

I bought a book once called Healing trauma through writing. And it was. How far did you get? You know, again, I read the back of it. I guess I'm kind of revealing myself to not be able to read.

[Julia Steiner]

But you can hope. And that's important. Well, I think we should play a game. We're gonna play Gift or a curse. Let me get my computer open here. And this is. I'll probably have to take the glove off in order to access my computer. Oh, God. I set the mic down. This is why you need a producer. You can't travel alone.

[Brendan Scannel]

Like, 45 minutes later, Bridger opens up his.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Oh, you got the touch id? Motherfucker got the touch id.

[Brendan Scannel]

This is like when you give a kid a controller and you're like, you're playing the game. There's no computer there. Bridger, he's staring at a blank screen.

[Julia Steiner]

Okay, could we get the slides? If that is an option. This is how we play Gift or a curse. I don't know how this is even gonna play out.

[Bridger Weiniger]

What could he mean by that?

[Julia Steiner]

Oh, they're over here. Oh, well, the technology.

[Brendan Scannel]

What?

[Eunji Kim]

Oh, wait, wait.

[Bridger Weiniger]

We have to mop.

[Julia Steiner]

We don't need to see these. Don't look at that. You're getting too much information. You're getting too much information.

[Brendan Scannel]

Oh, God.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Are you okay? What is this?

[Brendan Scannel]

So I had a few drinks.

[Julia Steiner]

Take it to go. No, this is how we play. Gift or a curse. I'm going to name some things, and you're going to tell me if they're a gift or a curse and why. Then I'll tell you if you're right or wrong and you're competing against each other. So be as bloodthirsty as possible. Number one. And you've already seen the picture, which is such a shame. Gift or a curse? Watching a stranger's car get towed. Eunji, you can go first.

[Eunji Kim]

Gift.

[Brendan Scannel]

Why?

[Eunji Kim]

It's a gift, right?

[Julia Steiner]

Tell me why. Oh, well, you don't tell me why.

[Eunji Kim]

Well, I, at a point in my life, got a parking ticket every day.

[Bridger Weiniger]

And.

[Eunji Kim]

I was working at a. Like a telephone, like, call center.

[Julia Steiner]

Sure.

[Eunji Kim]

And I was late every day, and I parked in a spot I wasn't supposed to every day, and I got a $50 ticket every day, and I didn't pay it every time. So I got my car towed pretty regularly.

[Julia Steiner]

Right.

[Eunji Kim]

And so I've experienced this and I've seen people and the way that they, like the sort of, like, pity and like the contempt is all mixed in as they watch me kind of like frantically, you know, beg the drivers, please stop, you know, and, you know, I'm just. I'm just a little girl, you know? So I. I think it just, like, it would be a gift for me to see that live. I'm gonna be on the other side of the bars, but I don't have schadenfreude. It's just, you know, just. That's a more personal thing.

[Julia Steiner]

Claire, what do you think?

[Bridger Weiniger]

Oh, I'm answering about the same one.

[Julia Steiner]

I would hope so.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Okay.

[Julia Steiner]

I'm Gonna start stalking the stage, by the way, just to make this a little more high stakes.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Oh, God. This is really bizarre.

[Eunji Kim]

Oh, it's so menacing.

[Bridger Weiniger]

I would say.

[Eunji Kim]

The tunic. This looks like you're about to ask us to, like, drink Kool Aid.

[Brendan Scannel]

Bridget, you legitimately look like you've been institutionalized.

[Julia Steiner]

Claire, quit dodging.

[Bridger Weiniger]

So sorry. So sorry. I guess I would say, say a curse just because I feel bad for them. I don't drive. I never got my license because I'm scared of it. Thank you. Thank you.

[Brendan Scannel]

I'm not gonna be a little too proud, y' all.

[Bridger Weiniger]

42, never drove.

[Eunji Kim]

We're two bitches because you're afraid.

[Bridger Weiniger]

I'm scared of it. Yeah. I took the driver's test and everything, but when I got behind the wheel, it just scares the fuck out of me.

[Julia Steiner]

It's a very scary thing.

[Eunji Kim]

I will say this. I've been in a lot of accidents.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Okay? That's why I'm scared.

[Eunji Kim]

Let me just say this. All of them, my fault. It's okay. It's fine. It's crazy. Cars now are very safe.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Okay? Thank you. This will persist.

[Brendan Scannel]

Cars now basically drive themselves. It's true.

[Bridger Weiniger]

So I guess I think. I don't know. When I hear anything about cars, I turn off and I'm like, I don't drive. I don't know that shit. So I don't really know what to think about this. But I'll say curse because I guess that makes me feel bad.

[Julia Steiner]

Okay, okay, okay, Brendan.

[Brendan Scannel]

I'm gonna say curse, and here's why. I have studied Buddhism, and I only bring it up to brag. And in Buddhism, you want no harm to do it throughout the day, to do no harm on yourself and no harm on others. And if someone is getting towed, that is a harmful day for them. And I. I have too much empathy to witness something like that.

[Julia Steiner]

It's like, absolutely not true.

[Brendan Scannel]

I refuse to read the news. I am. I'm completely oblivious to what's going on. People are like, have you seen the markets? And I'm like, are peaches in season? And that's because my empathy is too deep.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Okay, but, like, what if the tow truck driver was gonna lose his job if he didn't tow that car, though?

[Brendan Scannel]

It's so real. That's why I can't see it. I get to. Just a man trying to do his job in America.

[Julia Steiner]

The answer is curse.

[Eunji Kim]

Oh, good.

[Julia Steiner]

Curse. I genuinely think towing a car is maybe top three worst things humans have learned to do to each other. What an evil Concept this when I'm.

[Brendan Scannel]

Driving and there's a car. I don't know if it's like this in Chicago, but there are lanes during traffic time, high traffic times that are for no parking. And when somebody leaves their car in them and we have to all go around it, I'm like, tow the car.

[Julia Steiner]

Tow it.

[Brendan Scannel]

Or if somebody parks in a handicap, can you still say that? If someone parks in a differently abled spot, toe it. If somebody parks.

[Julia Steiner]

I get it. I get it.

[Brendan Scannel]

Oh, I like the pacing too.

[Julia Steiner]

Keep the audience on their toes. I understand this, but there should be a sign they put in the car to let us know this is why it wasn't just that somebody was having a hard day.

[Eunji Kim]

There are signs.

[Julia Steiner]

What?

[Brendan Scannel]

Let's go diva.

[Julia Steiner]

What are they? There are signs in the car as they're towing it.

[Eunji Kim]

There are signs where to park.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Oh, shit.

[Brendan Scannel]

I am obsessed with you. There are signs.

[Julia Steiner]

Are you a tow truck driver?

[Brendan Scannel]

There are signs where to park.

[Julia Steiner]

It's happening. We have the tow truck lobby in the audience tonight. Okay, well, undu. You got that wrong. So you've fallen behind. Okay. Number two, gift or a curse? Concert footage on phones.

[Eunji Kim]

Concert. Oh, curse. This is a curse. This is the curse.

[Julia Steiner]

Oh, this is the curse.

[Brendan Scannel]

What are you doing with all that footage? How much data do you have? Is it in the cloud? How are you get. You're getting screwed over by big data if you're paying to back up all that concert.

[Bridger Weiniger]

I just want to meet the person who's going home and watching it. Like, who's like, I can't wait to get back into that T. Swift concert. I mean, I guess she made a movie of hers, but.

[Julia Steiner]

Okay, Andrew.

[Eunji Kim]

Oh, I just. I will say this. The etiquette at a concert, when they're doing that. Right. It's just like you're fucking it up for the rest of us. Yes. And also.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Yeah, yeah, she's filming the rest of us.

[Brendan Scannel]

I feel like we're at like a town hall. We're getting people riled up.

[Julia Steiner]

One of these people will be president.

[Eunji Kim]

And I will also say this, like there's something about experiencing music like that live. You know, that it can be very spiritual.

[Julia Steiner]

Sure.

[Eunji Kim]

For me, I went to go see New Kids on the Block and. And I am not a religious person. And to be in en masse like that in community with a bunch of other middle aged women and their upset daughters, it's just really incredible. And like the thing is like they're missing out on it.

[Julia Steiner]

Right?

[Eunji Kim]

Just cause they're looking at their phone. I will say I think they should lock it up. Lock it up.

[Brendan Scannel]

There are some concerts where people aren't doing it. Like I went to a Regina Spector concert recently. Everyone sat. The whole concert, big arena, everyone's sitting. I was like, I'm obsessed with the Regina Spectra's fans being like, we're not standing, we're sitting.

[Eunji Kim]

Wait, did she, did she, did she stop all like bar service as well during the show?

[Brendan Scannel]

I don't, I don't drink.

[Eunji Kim]

Okay, well.

[Julia Steiner]

Okay, it's not. We've got.

[Brendan Scannel]

Cause I was too fun.

[Eunji Kim]

Wrong. Gift.

[Julia Steiner]

It's a gift. This is what I'm going to say. I understand, but I think everybody should be allowed 20 seconds to just film. If it's your favorite song, get your little bit and then put your phone away. I. I think there's nothing wrong with that. If you want, you get to take one picture, 20 seconds of footage, and then you've got a little gift for later. People standing there and doing a. No, I need. You're the ones that have to learn. These people agree with me. No, absolutely not. I want to look you both, all three of you in the eyes. Gift, gift, gift. Wrong. It's a gift. Okay, so I guess when I went.

[Bridger Weiniger]

I saw a concert recently, I did feel so guilty that I just like tried to like sneak a pic so I only have blurry fucking photos of the concert.

[Julia Steiner]

That's okay. That's all you need.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Thank you.

[Julia Steiner]

That's all. Yes, you need.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Oh my fucking God, thank you.

[Eunji Kim]

I mean, I. I know. I think. I don't even. I don't have pictures of my children's birthdays because I'm so present.

[Julia Steiner]

Jk. Jj but okay, let's get to the next one. This is the final one. Gift or a curse? The unexplored depths of the ocean.

[Eunji Kim]

Curse. Curse.

[Julia Steiner]

Why curse?

[Eunji Kim]

Well, I mean, we all know it's. We all know that's where.

[Bridger Weiniger]

That's.

[Eunji Kim]

That's where the evil is, Right?

[Julia Steiner]

Right.

[Eunji Kim]

We know like that's like. It's like it's very hot and I think, I mean the way that. That's the primordial soup, right? That's like out of which a dinosaur come. Like, I don't know. Don't think you. It's very dangerous. It's like to me, the vastness of space is. I would prefer to explode into like a million pieces into the atmosphere versus being slowly crushed as I get into the darkness. You know what I mean? Like James Cameron shit.

[Brendan Scannel]

No, it's actually also not slow. It happens really quickly. Remember when we were trying to find. Trying to find those people?

[Julia Steiner]

The video game, the PlayStation controller to the old.

[Brendan Scannel]

It was like my butthole at the grabbies.

[Julia Steiner]

Do you two have answers?

[Bridger Weiniger]

I will say gift just because imagine the screensavers. Way so cute and beautiful. The screensavers that we're getting with current ocean shit that we found. Gorgeous. Imagine if we get a camera down there. Screensaver. Bridger. Screensaver. Put it on your computer. Screensaver.

[Julia Steiner]

So get this woman on a bad submarine.

[Brendan Scannel]

I'm going to say it's a gift. And here's why. I am a history buff and I love history. I love learning about all the different eras. And there were so many shipwrecks. And when we explore the depths of the ocean, we find the shipwrecks. And we learn so much about how humans used to live.

[Eunji Kim]

Oh my God.

[Julia Steiner]

The way you've come to show off. Let em.

[Eunji Kim]

But that. Okay, but that. What you're describing is not the depths. It's not the Mariana Trench. It's not. You're describing sort of like the lighter side, right? It's the LA of oceans.

[Bridger Weiniger]

If a boat got that deep. It was trying to go that deep. It was aiming to get down there.

[Julia Steiner]

Well, the correct answer. Gifts. I love the unexplored depths of the ocean. The mystery, the intrigue, the romance. Who knows what's down there? It could be really fun.

[Eunji Kim]

The romance.

[Julia Steiner]

The Roman.

[Eunji Kim]

How do you know the romance?

[Brendan Scannel]

The heart of the ocean.

[Eunji Kim]

I heard about the heart of Te Fiti. Yeah, I heard about it.

[Brendan Scannel]

Do you say Te Fiti?

[Eunji Kim]

Yeah, it's Moana, but I don't. It's just like. What? Who are you romancing in there?

[Julia Steiner]

We don't know. We gotta find out.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Bring the dice. Bring the trick dice. Try to fuck someone in the depths of the ocean. Oh my God. What if you tricked a fish into fucking you in the depths of the ocean? And then I got a screensaver of it. I can't wait.

[Julia Steiner]

Anju completely lost the game. But that's an elite group. Very small.

[Eunji Kim]

Listen. Every single one. Wrong.

[Julia Steiner]

Claire and Brendan, you kind of just did a wishy washy. So that's nothing to be proud of either.

[Brendan Scannel]

Shut up, you Mormon piece of shit.

[Julia Steiner]

It's a jello mouth. Thank you. Well, I don't. We're not answering a question. We had some beautiful in depth answers here. We've got some gorgeous gifts. We're gonna wrap this up. I can't drag you. I need to respect your time. I'll Go for another hour and a half. Let's see how you feel. I can't. I can't in good conscience as someone who will leave a three hour movie an hour and a half in. It's a good trick. You've got to try it. I can't go over an hour and a half. That's, you know, the bad ratings that would come in for the podcast. It would crush me. So this is, we're gonna. This is such a sad way to end.

[Eunji Kim]

Yeah, I was kinda like, what's happening the last episode?

[Brendan Scannel]

I'm like, he's trying to land the plan. I'm like, are you.

[Eunji Kim]

What kind of announcement is he about.

[Brendan Scannel]

Some sort of transitioning into an end?

[Bridger Weiniger]

He's the guy who left the bomb on the plane.

[Julia Steiner]

We're going to answer one listener question. We'll answer it quickly.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Oh, good.

[Julia Steiner]

Okay, let's get into the doc. Okay. Okay. This is a good, this is a good question. And we don't know who it's from. Okay. Hello, Bridger and conniving guests. I mean, the rudeness. I, 29, female, cannot stop thinking about and missing my ex. It's driving me crazy. How can I move on and get over him and to not put a name. This is a dangerous email.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Is this person here?

[Julia Steiner]

No. Well, we don't know. Suddenly there's like a target on my head.

[Brendan Scannel]

Sort of a universal feeling.

[Julia Steiner]

How do we help this person who is a danger to themselves and another person?

[Eunji Kim]

I mean, according to you, they should go to the depths of the ocean.

[Julia Steiner]

If they're a billionaire. If they're a billionaire, send them down and see what happens.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Did they say how long it had been?

[Julia Steiner]

No, they didn't give enough. They didn't, you know, they were tight with the email. They didn't have a lot to spend on this email. Oh, it felt like you were going to say something.

[Brendan Scannel]

I kind of feel like I have this philosophy. It's called let you. And basically it's like if you are fixated on your ex, let you be. Let you be. What's the worst that could happen? You think about them forever and then you don't meet somebody new. Let you. Let you.

[Eunji Kim]

I would agree. I would let yourself wallow and like really do the deep dive on insta. Like do all the stuff that you know is bad. Like get there, be there, depressed. Go dog.

[Brendan Scannel]

I still do. I still do checkups on my ex.

[Eunji Kim]

But I would say you put in a, like an event. You put in an alarm into your phone. A week, three days. What have you? And you. When it ding, ding, dings, you're done. I just. I would say that, like, truly, like, there's something about crossing something off on a task list that is so erotic that I think.

[Brendan Scannel]

You'Re so corny.

[Eunji Kim]

Yeah.

[Bridger Weiniger]

I'm trying to figure out how I would set an alarm on my phone for a week from today.

[Julia Steiner]

Oh, that's a great question.

[Eunji Kim]

You better put it in your G cow, honey. What are you talking about?

[Bridger Weiniger]

Oh, I'm young and stupid. I have my iPhone alarm, and that's all I have is my calendar.

[Julia Steiner]

But then the alarm will go off.

[Eunji Kim]

Yes, of course. Ding, dings. How are you doing this podcast?

[Julia Steiner]

Everyone wants to know. It's a good question if you're not.

[Eunji Kim]

Using gcal, but, yeah, I think you have to allow yourself, like, a week, whatever, for everyone. It's a little different, right? Yeah. But I think that allowing yourself to just be as gross as possible.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Yeah. I have heard that. That's a good method to purge it out.

[Eunji Kim]

Yeah.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Also, you could find somebody new to obsess over and.

[Julia Steiner]

Oh, that's a good paradise.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Somebody else. Yeah. Find a new target.

[Eunji Kim]

The X before this one.

[Brendan Scannel]

Oh, yeah, go back.

[Julia Steiner]

That's a scary move. I'm back.

[Bridger Weiniger]

She's thinking.

[Brendan Scannel]

I'm back.

[Julia Steiner]

Thinking about you.

[Eunji Kim]

I mean, you guys know this, right? Like, on your Instagram stories, when you start clocking that stuff, you're like, oh, something happened.

[Julia Steiner]

You know what I mean?

[Eunji Kim]

Like, when you see, like, an old ax, like, kind of, like, popping up again, and you know what I mean? You're like, oh, something happened, and I love it.

[Brendan Scannel]

What do you mean? Like, somebody's dead. What do you mean?

[Bridger Weiniger]

They logged into his Instagram to see who he knows?

[Eunji Kim]

No, I said just like, either they broke up. He, like, he's fallen on hard times, you know, like, he lost a job, like, something's not going good, and he's.

[Julia Steiner]

Returned to look at your stories.

[Eunji Kim]

Uhhuh. Just to see.

[Julia Steiner]

Oh, okay. That seems right.

[Eunji Kim]

Yeah.

[Julia Steiner]

It seems to engage with your content. That's good.

[Eunji Kim]

It's just.

[Julia Steiner]

It is.

[Eunji Kim]

Yeah. There's something about that. It feels really good, though.

[Bridger Weiniger]

To you. It feels good.

[Eunji Kim]

No, but, like, have you ever wound up on, like, the they're, like, mother in law's, like, Instagram page or whatever?

[Bridger Weiniger]

Yeah, sure. No. 100%. Yeah.

[Eunji Kim]

No, especially if they're old. They don't know how to make it private.

[Julia Steiner]

Angie, this is being recorded. This will be published to a wider audience.

[Eunji Kim]

Jk.

[Julia Steiner]

Yeah, I feel like. I feel like they got their answer get over him. Come on, psycho. On that note, everybody, I'm so glad you could come here. I'm so thrilled, and I wish there was another way to end a podcast other than to say it's over.

[Brendan Scannel]

Let's just do one more question.

[Julia Steiner]

Oh, my God. I'm just being conscious of your feelings, of your physical. I'm happy to answer.

[Brendan Scannel]

My next show's not till 10, so I have, like, a little bit of time.

[Eunji Kim]

One at 9:30.

[Julia Steiner]

Oh, yeah.

[Brendan Scannel]

Eunji's got a show at 9:30, so this will be the last one.

[Julia Steiner]

Okay. This will be the last one. And look at. He's an advocate for you and as am I. Just in a different way. A different way. Okay, this one. This is more gift oriented. And this is. It says, I am a dog groomer and like to give my clients small gifts during the holidays. I'm giving you and I. And guest and producer Anneliese is not here. Annelise doesn't get to help. Head start at brainstorming. Okay. So this person is lazy. I usually do a small ornament with a pick of their dog and a card. I feel like the pick of a dog gift is getting redundant. So I've seen groomers do. Oh, now they're copying people. So I've seen groomers do nose print or paw ornaments. Do you have any new and fun ideas for gifts for your specific that are specific to your love pet? Thank you. And that's from E. Yeah.

[Brendan Scannel]

We should have ended the show.

[Julia Steiner]

Now we have a chore.

[Brendan Scannel]

I'm so sorry about that.

[Julia Steiner]

We've got an absolute show.

[Brendan Scannel]

Now we're just giving advice to a small business owner. The tariffs are gonna kill ya, babe. Order the soap.

[Julia Steiner]

Now. This person is. What are we supposed to say? Those are all of the dog and pet things you could possibly. I mean, they are collecting the dog's fur around the place.

[Eunji Kim]

What do you want them to do with it?

[Julia Steiner]

Stick with me. It's all in the drain. Collecting. We're creating a gorgeous little personalized. This is all the dog hair I collected over the years of your dog. There we go. Clap. We're excited about this idea.

[Brendan Scannel]

Thank you all so much for coming to Bridger's little show.

[Eunji Kim]

Thank you for walking into Chicago. That was so gross.

[Julia Steiner]

Do you have any ideas? Like, you have a single. I didn't hear a single idea.

[Eunji Kim]

I know one listener gift you miss.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Oh, my God. This is like. This is what I always wish for on Christmas, that you would come home and there'd be like, Santa left one More gift. I can't believe you're Santa.

[Julia Steiner]

Santa came back. Okay, okay. Oh, let's see. This is great. Okay, this is. How did this get on stage? Okay, this says. Oh, sweetness. Anyone who struggles with you becoming your best self shouldn't get a front row seat to your glorious show. Oh. Oh, so I'm not. I hope for all hearing this, it says bridger. I don't struggle with you becoming your best self, which is why I'm front row for your glorious show. Oh, I'm sorry about the gift, but it's for your green bag. Oh, no. This is a big controversy. You three won't know about the.

[Brendan Scannel]

And I refuse to learn.

[Julia Steiner]

I'm being gaslit by my entire audience about the color of a bag, which is green. I'm sorry about the gift, but it's for your green bag. No need to worry about a leaky bottle from Rachel. So let's see what's happening.

[Bridger Weiniger]

I can't believe that.

[Julia Steiner]

Look at all of this hot sauce. This is probably 50 packs of cholula, which. Wow. If you have a bag and you. You don't have hot sauce in it, why do you have a bag? What a waste. What a lovely gift. Thank you, Rachel, wherever you are. Oh, God bless. Now I've got all my hot sauce. I wish I. I should have brought the bag. I should have brought the bag. What a shame. Wait, did I bring the bag?

[Brendan Scannel]

Yeah, throw that on some of the chicken.

[Eunji Kim]

Yeah.

[Julia Steiner]

I didn't bring the bag.

[Eunji Kim]

It'll make it wetter.

[Julia Steiner]

This is the end of the podcast. I love you all. Goodbye. Thank you all.

[Eunji Kim]

Thank you so much.

[Julia Steiner]

Thank you. Thank you. I said no. Gifts is an 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 @isaidnogifts. 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]

When I invited you here, I thought I made myself perfectly clear.

[Julia Steiner]

When you're a guest in my heart home.

[Brendan Scannel]

You got to come to me empty handed. I said no.

[Julia Steiner]

Guess your presence is presence enough.

[Bridger Weiniger]

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

[Anneliese Nelson]

Hey, it's me, your heart. Mind if I pick the next song? Listen, even though we're eating better people who've had one heart attack, are at higher risk of another. But Repatha Evolocumab plus a statin lowers LDL C, our bad cholesterol and our heart attack risk.

[Julia Steiner]

So let's talk to our doctor about Repatha. Do not take Repatha if you're allergic to it. Serious allergic reactions can occur. Get medical help right away if you have trouble breathing or swallowing swelling of the face, lips, tongue, throat or arms. Common side effects include runny nose, sore throat, common cold symptoms, flu or flu like symptoms, back pain, high blood sugar and redness pain or bruising at the injection site. View the important safety information in our banner. Listen to your heart. Ask your doctor about Repatha.

[Bridger Weiniger]

It's Megan.

[Julia Steiner]

Are you ready for Megan Summer? Megan. Megan.

[Brendan Scannel]

Megan.

[Julia Steiner]

Megan.

[Eunji Kim]

Megan.

[Bridger Weiniger]

Would you prefer that I give you.

[Julia Steiner]

A printout that you can read at your own pace? Megan, yes, it's me. What a shock. Etc on June 27. She is a smoking hot warrior princess.

[Bridger Weiniger]

All right, meat sacks, let's get to work. Are you going to start standing my way?

[Julia Steiner]

The bee is back. You think you learned your lesson the first time? Megan Megan 2.0 only in theaters June 27th with APT13.

[Anneliese Nelson]

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