Pod Meets Gift Guide w/ Bill Daniels and Bonnie Bartlett

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Speaker 1: So we have talked many times on this podcast to our dear listeners about how traveling with Danielle is an interesting experience because she gets recognized everywhere. It's like you're traveling with Lady Gaga or somebody like that.

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Speaker 2: I mean, it's just recognized everywhere you go.

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Speaker 1: And you know, with that, along with that, this beautiful symbiotic relationship of I don't get recognized ever anywhere, no matter what it takes, you know, my friends two or three glances before they realize.

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Speaker 3: It may stop.

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Speaker 1: And so we're we're up at the Shire this weekend, which I'm sure we will also talk about, and as we were on the plane yesterday, we land and it's the three of us lining up in a line.

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Speaker 4: In a row to edit the aircraft.

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Speaker 1: I'm sorry, Danielle, myself and Jensen's husband of us all uh, And so it goes Danielle, Jensen, then myself and we're all waiting to open.

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Speaker 4: The doors finally open.

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Speaker 1: There's this very nice young steward there and the door opens, flight attendant.

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Speaker 4: The door opens, and I hear, Oh, Danielle, I just.

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Speaker 1: Want to thank you so much for my entire high school journey, just and Daniel's like.

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Speaker 2: Oh my god, that's so sweet.

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Speaker 3: Thank you, Danielle. I may I shake your hand.

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Speaker 5: I just want to thank you for all of my high school years.

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Speaker 4: And it was like, oh, thank you.

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Speaker 3: So much sweet.

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Speaker 1: And then I hear Jensen step up and Jensen, I want to thank you so much for the podcast. That was Jensen's like, oh, well, that's really sweet. And then I step up and he goes, thank you. I was just the third guy on the plane. It was like goodbye, thanks for being on the flight.

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Speaker 3: A podcast and those Gensen.

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Speaker 2: He turned to Jensen turned to me. He's like, no, I'm getting recognized more than you.

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Speaker 6: So they ask you to hold the camera to take a picturel there he is speaking of the.

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Speaker 7: Famous Listen, it's not my fault that there's lesions of fans of mine. You do travel with basically a human Teddy rucksman. Everyone who sees her is like, oh my god, she's out and about. She's my childhood. But you know, if I get some of the runoff, I'm sorry, Will.

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Speaker 4: That's that's fine. It's fine.

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Speaker 1: I am apparently not doing this for fame or fortune.

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Speaker 4: I am doing it because of your friends.

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Speaker 2: All is I want to make sure everyone recognizes.

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Speaker 1: You, y'all, and you're having a great time, so choose that flight attendant.

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Speaker 2: I am never flying the last Airlines.

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Speaker 1: Again, that's not true. It was actually a wonderful flight, and it was a perfectly nice guy. But it was like, yeah, nice, thanks.

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Speaker 5: My favorite part of the whole of the whole flight home was that then when we landed and the pilot came out, Will.

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Speaker 3: Goes, Oh my gosh, the pilot looks seventeen.

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Speaker 5: I looked up at him and he was so young, and the flight attendant was so young, and we were like, are we really that old?

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Speaker 3: Yet everyone else looks so young.

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Speaker 4: Let the kids fly the plane.

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Speaker 3: I can't believe your children.

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Speaker 1: I also didn't want to scare you and Jensen yesterday because I definitely didn't want to tell you this because you might not have been able to get on the flight.

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Speaker 4: Oh my god, where their spider I forgot.

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Speaker 1: My Spider Man underwear. I was in regular underwear on the flight yesterday.

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Speaker 4: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: I don't know how the plane even got off the ground.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, but we're safe, we're here.

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Speaker 5: Were you were you in your proper undipants for when we landed and had to go back up in the air.

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Speaker 3: Yes, oh okay, so honestly you had a better flight.

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Speaker 2: Without to think about that.

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Speaker 1: Now I'm trying to think about how the flight there wasn't that great. Captain America didn't help too much.

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Speaker 3: But regular Hanes, Yeah, not a bomb, not a bum. I think you should just attach a cape to your Hanes.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I guess so.

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Speaker 1: I also, can anybody else explain to me why the flight there was two and a half hours but the flight home took twelve minutes.

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Speaker 2: Can anybody and we figured that one out?

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Speaker 4: Please?

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Speaker 3: It was a very fast flight.

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Speaker 4: It was super quick.

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Speaker 6: We guys were flying in during the cyclone bomb store, so.

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Speaker 3: That is true.

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Speaker 5: We flew during a storm that was described by the.

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Speaker 3: New York Times as a bomb hitting the West coast. We had all seen it. We were like, let's talk about it till we're on the ground.

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Speaker 1: And then I took a couple of tries to get on the ground.

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Speaker 4: Yes, it is, Yeah, it was.

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Speaker 2: It was a little sporty flying in, but flying back was the best part about the flight back. Nobody recognized me.

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Speaker 4: It was nice and quiet. It was just really wonderful.

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Speaker 3: Anonymous will I was just.

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Speaker 2: Seat four c Yeah, thanks for joining us.

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Speaker 8: Bo.

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Speaker 7: Also, while we were in Uh in Writer's hometown, we ended up walking by this bar uh and they have like arcade games in it, and everyone walked in and it felt like a group of kind of famous people in a weird way. There was like a camera following us, and the woman goes, oh, look at you guys, what are you some type of band? Are you here on tour? And everyone's like in Writer and we are like no, no, and she's like, you know, okay, and the kind of leave and then they take off and then Danielle walks by just the door and she goes, bang, don't.

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Speaker 4: Really once again she's like are you guys? What did you say? You were like, well, what would our band name be?

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Speaker 6: And she was just like the strokes stroke right, Okay, they're really old. I was like, we just I was like, I guess I looked around. I was like yeah, because you were wearing like your trench coat and I like a beanie and I was like, oh, yeah, we totally do we look like a sad dad.

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Speaker 1: Band or we look like a bunch of guys about to have strokes, which.

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Speaker 9: Anyone toast.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, welcome to pod Meets World.

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Speaker 3: I'm Daniel Fischel, I'm right strong.

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Speaker 2: And I'm seat four C.

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Speaker 4: I'm Wilfredell.

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Speaker 5: So, whether it has been a natural deodorant, or fantasy book trilogies or foreign film endorsements, over the past two and a half years, we have dropped little gems here and there about some of our favorite things, and you have responded positively, even asked for more.

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Speaker 3: And so this holiday shopping season.

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Speaker 5: Your friends at pod Meets World have decided to release a little bonus gift guide worth noting. None of our picks are involved in a sponsorship of the podcast. I even avoided talking about tile Track, even though I bought them for everyone in my family.

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Speaker 2: By way, they weren't supposed to be sponsors.

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Speaker 3: They cannot be sponsors.

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Speaker 1: Oh god, okay, well then all right, it was just two different kinds of dais okay, all right, no problem.

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Speaker 3: I had Hundais and see Candy Seebler. Why can't I say, Keeler Sandler.

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Speaker 2: Sandy days and Keeler Sandy's are what I was going to do?

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Speaker 4: I don't know.

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Speaker 5: Okay, stop, now we've turned to this is not an ad into an ad.

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Speaker 3: Okay, So these.

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Speaker 5: Are all selections we have earnestly made and maybe one or more can help you find something for a loved one or even just yourself who cares.

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Speaker 3: Wrap it, put it under the tree. You deserve it.

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Speaker 5: So we will each pick two things, even Producer Jensen, and then briefly chat about them. And then we have a very special guest joining us to give us one more recommendation. You will not want to miss that, And so here we go with the first annual Pod meets World Gift Guide. Now, writer, I'm gonna let you go first, because now that I know Will was just going to recommend two different Hyundais, he needs some more time.

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Speaker 4: I'll take some time. I'll take some time. Gift okay, Okay, Well, so this is hard. You know, I'm not a big fan of stuff.

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Speaker 6: I don't and I always try and buy, you know, gifts for people that are as much catered to them and their personality as possible. And then I also like to give experiences if I can, like y you know. Okay, So taking all that into account, I have two book recommendations. I figured it'd be good to offer up book thoughts, okay for people who either are a reader or have that reader in their life. So I have two recommendations based on what type of reader you might be giving a gift to, and then I have one that's more of an experienced gift.

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Speaker 4: So the books i'd recommend.

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Speaker 6: First up for if you have a true crime fan in your life or somebody who's like you know, and I figure we have podcast listeners. It's a lot of true crime podcast listeners among our listeners too.

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Speaker 4: I am definitely one.

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Speaker 6: Of those people. I devour all of that stuff. I love mysteries. This isn't true crime, but it's a great novel that came out this year, so I wanted to recommend something contemporary and popular.

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Speaker 4: This book is.

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Speaker 6: Called God of the Woods by Liz Moore. It came out I think this summer, maybe the spring. I read it this summer, and it's just it's a really it's big. It's long, but it's actually very quick reading. And so if you like true crime stuff, it's sort of true crime adjacent. It's set in the nineteen seventies and the nineteen fifties. It kind of jumps through time periods, so it has like this really propulsive mystery. It's a summer camp it's nineteen seventy five, we talked about one of these campers were racing, and so it starts within the mind of one of the counselors who discovers the missing camper and is responsible for that camper, and then it starts jumping through time to when the missing camper actually had a brother who also disappeared ten years before, so it becomes this whole and then her family who lives on the property. It's this wealthy family that lives on the property next door as part of the actually owns the property that is on the camp So there's like.

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Speaker 4: Such deep history.

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Speaker 6: So it starts as this sort of pretty straightforward great crime of you know, solving the mystery of where she is, becomes a deep dive into these characters. And what I really love about this book as opposed to a lot of other crime books that I've read recently, it really gets into the issue of class. You know, I think a lot of times in crime, classes just gets erased. You know, it's just like, oh, it's it's a parlor game of who did it?

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Speaker 4: Where's this? This book?

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Speaker 6: And also gender, this book primarily only centers on female characters, including the detective who's hired to or who's charged with investigating the case. She's like a young female detective, first time taking on a case, so she's trying to figure out how to.

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Speaker 4: Be a good detective. It's so fun.

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Speaker 6: It's yeah, it's dark, of course because it's a crime thing. But highly recommend and of course you know, I'm a big fan of summer camps and.

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Speaker 4: The woods, so it has lots of that, lots.

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Speaker 6: Of history and yeah, so big recommendation for anybody who you know who likes crime.

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Speaker 4: That's a great one to give them.

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Speaker 5: Before you move on to your second book recommendation, give us the name of that book one more time.

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Speaker 4: God of the Woods by Liz Moore.

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Speaker 5: God of the Woods by Liz Moore, great suggestion. I'm going to pick that up.

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Speaker 4: I to Sue will love that. She loves that crime stuff.

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Speaker 6: And then my other book recommendation is for the reader in your life who has probably read everything, For the person who you know likes books and likes literature but you just have no idea what to get them. This is a book that I only read five years ago or so, and I've been singing it to praises ever since because I think it's a missed masterpiece. It's called A High Wind in Jamaica by Richard Hughes. It came out in nineteen twenty nine, so it is more classical. It has like an it's set in the nineteenth century. It has an adventure quality to it. It also has a childlike quality to it. It's sort of in the vein of like Peter Pan and Huck Finn, but much darker. So it's about a family in Jamaica right after it's gotten independence, and it's an English family and they decide because the storm comes through and you know, ruins their house, they decide to send their children.

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Speaker 4: There's like four kids. They decide to send them on a boat back home to England.

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Speaker 6: And when that boat departs and the parents go back to their plantation in Jamaica, they find out that the boat was actually captured by pirates. And then the rest of the book is these kids on this boat, their parents think they're dead, and it's their journey with these pirates. And so it has this sense of like like like Peter Panny, sort of like.

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Speaker 4: Oh, this is exciting, what's it like to be a kid on a pirate ship?

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Speaker 6: But it quickly gets dark and interesting and complicated, but always maintains this level of fun.

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Speaker 4: So and like I said, it's it's one of these books that I can't believe I.

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Speaker 6: Never encountered all through my college, you know, literature education or postgraduate like all of it. I never And when I found this, I was like, oh, this is the book that like needs needs recognition again. So if you have a reader in your life who likes classic literature and good adventure stories, they probably haven't read this book.

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Speaker 4: And I would highly recommend it.

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Speaker 3: I love that.

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Speaker 5: Thank you for two great book recommendations. That's not your total recommendation. You have a second recommendation, but we are going to do it a little like draft style. So now we're going to move to Will for his first gift recommendation.

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Speaker 2: All right, So Hyundai six is out ionic.

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Speaker 4: No, so I have gone kind of theme this year.

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Speaker 3: Okay, So the.

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Speaker 1: First one I'm going to do is a wonderful addition to any kitchen for anybody who loves to cook, especially loves to cook in the oven, or loves to cook on usmoker or a grill.

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Speaker 4: And it is called a meter thermometer.

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, they are wonderful So the cool thing about the meter is it can hook right to your phone and you put it in the turkey, put it in the hand, put it in the brisket, whatever you want, throw it on the grill, and then your phone tracks the temperature the entire time, so it'll say like it's time to pull your whatever, it's time to take it out. They're really really great. They're like little probes like that big it's bluetooth, right, it is bluetooth and wireless and all the other thing, and it's just it is such a cool addition to anybody who likes to cook in any kitchen because it is accurate, it's easy to use, which is important because you get some of these things that are wireless or bluetooth where I don't know how to do half this stuff, but this one.

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Speaker 4: Is very simple.

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Speaker 3: Can spell the meter.

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Speaker 4: It is spelled m e A T. Let me make sure I have it right.

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Speaker 3: So meat like meat e emy M.

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Speaker 2: It is eat e r t er.

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Speaker 4: And they're actually on sale right now.

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Speaker 1: They're again not super cheap, but you're not gonna spend thousands of dollars, but it's they're great. So the anybody who likes cooking especially meat. This is a good addition to.

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Speaker 3: Your kitchen, a way to make sure your meat is never overdone or underdone.

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Speaker 4: Correct.

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Speaker 1: And and one that you don't you know, as long as you have your phone with you, which everybody does, or my watch right then you're I'm walking around and it's like, oh, hey, that's what the temperature is in the oven right now, I gotta go check whatever.

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Speaker 4: So it's really really great. Yeah, I love that.

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Speaker 5: Okay, great idea. Now let's go to Jensen for his first gift idea.

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Speaker 7: Hi everybody, Hey, Hi, I recognize you. Yeah, I do you need some help with you? And fortunately, my first pick is something for our listeners who I know. We have a really big kind of vendiagram transition with Disney parks, whether it's the La Disneyland or Orlando's disney World. And so I think, and I think you guys might agree with me, that the official shirts that they sell at Disney parks are pretty bad. They're the ones that say like spoiled but the s has like the Disney Fonte.

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Speaker 4: Do you know what I'm talking about? Yeah, Okay, So.

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Speaker 7: I think those are all pretty corny. So there's an entire subgenre of quote unquote bootleg Disney Park merch that you can wear when you go to the parks and not feel like you're wearing something that everyone is wearing, something that's like a little more artsy and a little more obscure. Does that clock with you guys at all?

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Speaker 3: Wow?

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Speaker 4: Yeah?

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Speaker 7: Okay, So there are three different companies that I'm going to suggest all three of them do them in very limited times, Like you won't see all of their stuff on their website or their Instagram. You just have to kind of follow along and when the shirts become available, you just have to jump on them at the time. So the first company is called Single Writer and the instagram is SI n G L e R I d e R nineteen seventy four. You'll see their website there when you go to the Instagram. And like, these shirts are not your typical Haunted Mansion type of shirts. For example, Single Writer has shirts for the Bugs Life three D show, also for Alien Encounter.

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Speaker 4: They have a shirt for the People Mover.

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Speaker 7: They have a shirt for Rafiki's Planet Watch, which is so obscure I didn't know what it was. And so they have like different ones every month. But in this way, you go to the park, and you're not just kind of like a weird billboard. You actually have like artsy, kind of hip T shirts that revolve around things that like, if you know, you know, kind of fan things. So one of the other companies is Fantasy Feelings. This one's a little harder to send you to on Instagram, but it's at Fantasy and then a bunch of underscores together Feelings. I don't know how many underscores, but their website is just Fantasy Feelings dot com. They have shirts for the Enchanted Tiki Bar, the Indiana Jones, Stunt Spectacular yea, and a couple of these sites also have shirts for Universal Studios, so you'll see like Horror Nights or the Jaws Ride. Those things like that might pop up as well. And then lastly is Magic Kingdom. And this one's spelled very Strange, which is at Magic Kingdom magic dot Kingdom, but Magic is spelled m A g I c K dot Kingdom, so m A g I c K. Their website will be there on the Instagram and for example, they just put up a big thunder Mountain shirt where do you knows?

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Speaker 4: Right?

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Speaker 7: And then they have a T shirt for Muppet Vision, which is in the news this week because they've decided to remove the Muppet ip from the three D show and they're gonna put I think Monsters inc In and then now Muppet Vision gets the or the Muppets get the roller coaster. But like these, they'll do T shirts for Tower of Terror, which is obviously dated from Disneyland. They'll do things for old rides and old movies, things you just won't see in the parks. And I think that Disney Parks Merches is very much lacking in individuality and any sort of true fan service. And so these are companies that deliver limited edition. I think they're in between somewhere like thirty and forty five dollars. And it's a fun follow at least on Instagram to check it out.

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Speaker 5: Wow, I love that you much are the king of T shirts. If anyone who doesn't know Jensen gets stopped for his T shirts all.

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Speaker 7: The time, yeah, correct, Yeah, I'm a big T shirt guy. I think it's one of the last true possibilities for individuality. Like, you know, you walk up to someone and the first thing they see in a lot of cases is your graphic T shirt. And so I think why would you wear something that just everyone has, and so this really falls into that, into that mind frame.

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Speaker 4: Great, it's really cool.

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Speaker 7: I was at writers for obviously we all hung out recently and I wore a very obscure T shirt that a couple of people realized and said something about, which was theme park related as well, which was a T shirt of the commercial from six Flags Magic Mountain of the old man who did.

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Speaker 4: So.

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Speaker 7: I found a shirt of that guy that they used to sell at Magic Mountain, and I just like that kind of feeling of I can't believe they made a shirt for that guy. So that's that's my that's my run, that's your vibe.

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Speaker 3: All right, that's a good first gift.

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Speaker 5: Okay, So my first gift is something that is I highly recommend for both men and and I don't know that I've stressed it properly enough to my two dear friends and co hosts here the importance of two things, sunscreen and properly cleaning your face.

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Speaker 3: Sunscreen.

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Speaker 5: We should all know by now sunscreen you should be wearing if you're not gonna wear it all over your entire body, because you're wearing clothes most of the time and you don't let your body see the sun that much, Okay, but please wear sunscreen on your face at the very least.

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Speaker 3: I don't think either of my co hosts, no nor my husband wear sunscreen.

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Speaker 10: No.

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Speaker 5: If you do, though, wear sunscreen, it can be one of the hardest things to wash off.

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Speaker 3: And you don't necessarily know that it's hard to wash off, but it just it is. So if you're just washing your face, or you're not even really washing your face.

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Speaker 5: Like I suspect two of my co hosts here regularly go to bed, maybe without even splashing water on their face, removing sunscreen can be difficult. I wear sunscreen religiously, and I also wear at least a little bit of makeup almost every day, whether that's a tinted moisturizer or a CCA cream or something. And I started about two years ago. Double cleansing my face sounds odd, but what is it. You start with one type of cleanser, an oil cleanser. Again, most people hear what you're going to wash your face with oil, and it sounds weird, and it is a little weird the first time you do it, But after you do it and you feel the difference and you see the difference in your skin after double cleansing and using an oil wash an oil cleanser.

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Speaker 3: You will not be able to go back.

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Speaker 5: So my first recommendation for you is an oil cleanser called DHC. It's actually DHC Deep cleansing oil and it comes in a pump, which is amazing because that's very easy to use at your sink. You start with dry skin and dry hands, so fully dry face, sunscreen, on makeup, on whatever. If I'm wearing mascara, I use two full pumps of the oil. If I'm not wearing mascara, I only need to use one. But you pump it into your hand, rub it in between your hands, rub it together, get it nice and warm, and then massage your face. You don't have to rub aggressively, you don't have to pull and tug at your skin. You just rub it onto your skin, ideally for thirty seconds to a minute, and then put your hands under warm water and rinse the oil off with warm water. It strips all the sunscreen off your face, all the makeup off your face, and you are now kind of starting with a blank slate. And then you can use your second normal face wash, whatever that is. I cannot recommend this enough. I recently did a picture with Dan Housen that I put on my social media where I painted my face in Dan Housen, the wrestler's makeup. It was all white makeup all over my face, tons of black in the sockets of my eyes. And after I did the makeup application and Dan Housen and I took our picture together, he said, well, good luck taking that off. He said, it's truly a nightmare. I cannot stand taking it off. It takes me forever. It's multiple washes. And I said, huh, I don't think it's going to be a problem. I've got this oil cleanser. I bet it's going to come right off. Sure enough, it took me no more than two minutes to fully wash all that makeup off my face.

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Speaker 3: So the next day I did. The next day, I went to him and I said, listen, I'm about to change your life. And I showed it to him.

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Speaker 5: And the greatest thing about it to me is that it is not expensive, will last you a very long time. Your skin will feel good after, it will be healthier. It's moisturizing, especially if you've dry skin or during this time of year, where everything is just so dry. Highly highly highly recommend starting a double cleans and starting it with DHC Cleansing Oil. So that's my first pick. Great, now we can go back to writer. It's Writer's turn for his second pick.

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Speaker 4: Yeah.

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Speaker 6: So I, like I said, I like giving experiences or things that you can enjoy together or you know, hopefully they somebody will go on to have great experiences with what.

00:25:09
Speaker 4: You give them.

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Speaker 6: And so I was trying to think what the best game, the best board game that I have discovered to play with my son and my wife and friends or whatever.

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Speaker 4: And there's a series of games.

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Speaker 6: There's two that I will directly recommend, but in general, this whole Funko Games makes a series of games based on movies, like classic movies, and they pick some obscure ones like Rear Window, you know movies that you were like, what, there's a game, a board game, but they do so much good research. And the one that I would recommend that I've played a lot is the Back to the Future board game.

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Speaker 4: It is so much fun.

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Speaker 6: It is basically the board is Hill Valley and then it's a cooperative game, so you either play Marty or Doc or Einstein. The dog and Jennifer, Marty's girlfriend, and then you you end up back in time and you basically have to recreate the plot of the movie. But the game has made it so like there's a there's a board on one side that is the photograph of Marty as he disappears.

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Speaker 4: And so like that's the time clock, like as you're running out of time.

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Speaker 6: If you don't get things right, you have to get Georgian Elaine to kiss at the dance at the right time, otherwise you disappear.

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Speaker 4: It is so much fun.

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Speaker 6: It's basically a way to be inside the movie with your family and like, you know, if you've already watched the movie, it's a way to like re enjoy it again together and like you know, fail or succeed. It's so much fun. And then the other one that I would recommend is actually not made by Funko Games. It's made by Ravensburg Rabsburger.

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Speaker 4: What's that's a word, Ravensburger.

00:26:42
Speaker 6: Ravensburger. Okay, they make a Jaws board game that is so much fun. It's divided into two acts. The first act is the island, and one of you is the shark and the other the other two or three of you are people on characters from the movie in the on the island, and it's basically like battleship, Like the person who's the shark is going around trying to eat swimmers around Amityville or Amity Ambity Island, and then there's all the other players are trying to catch the shark. That's act one. So one of you wins are lose is based on and then you flip the board over and then you are on the boat like at the end of the movie and you're trying to do with the shark.

00:27:19
Speaker 4: Yeah, it is so much fun. You don't even have to play both both acts.

00:27:23
Speaker 6: You could just play the first act as like a standoff game, a standalone game. It is so much fun and it's just been a great way. Like you know, obviously, if you're a listener of Podmeets World, if you like things from your childhood or movies or TV shows and you want to find a way to engage with those, like fictional universes, you can't get better than these board games.

00:27:42
Speaker 3: Do you have to be to play?

00:27:44
Speaker 6: I started playing the Back to the Future one with Indy when he was like eight seven or eight, but maybe that was a little too early. I think they're mostly ten plus around, but yeah, it's more and because they're retro, a lot of them are based on like eighties movies. There's one that's more of a role play game based on the Goonies, which is really good, but it's a little more like actual dungeons and Dragons, So I would because you know, the hard thing with board games I find is like, because I'm like a geek, I love like complicated board games, but in getting people who don't normally geek out on board games to play complicated board games can be so a lot because it's like, oh, that's twenty minutes, we got to read the rules, we got to watch a video on how to play. And I find that with these games, because they're based in movies that everybody already kind of knows. You kind of know what your goals are, you know what the story is, and that story will pull people through the complicated rules to get.

00:28:33
Speaker 4: Started, you know what I mean. They're like, oh, we'll get to be the shark, so how do I do that?

00:28:37
Speaker 6: And it's like so these That's why I think these are sort of like gateway board games because they're not, you know, because you recommend Settlers of Catan and people are like, wait, what you know? But if you say, well, well let's play this Jaws based board game, it can be.

00:28:50
Speaker 4: So much fun. So highly recommend as a gift.

00:28:53
Speaker 3: I love an idea for the whole family. Yeah, Will, what's your second pick?

00:29:00
Speaker 2: It's a vacation away from your family.

00:29:02
Speaker 3: Oh no, I always to that.

00:29:04
Speaker 1: Actually mine is family based as well, kind of because it's fun for the whole family. And we're staying on theme because I bought myself one and have just been loving it. But there's different versions of it, so if you don't want to spend a ton of money, you can spend less money and get a smaller version. So I am, of course talking about the Blackstone grill, which is a flat top Hibachi grill. You can get one like a camping size one that's twenty two inches. That's only it's like under one hundred bucks. You can get then all the way up to you know, the giant mac Daddy's, which are still only like two hundred and forty five bucks, So it's not like you're spending one thousand dollars on a grill. There, it's your you have your own straight uphibachi at your house. It's the best smash burgers. You're making great for breakfasts. I was doing great breakfast. Breakfast is huge, fried rice like all the kind of like straight.

00:30:01
Speaker 4: So they make camping versions.

00:30:03
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a twenty two inch camping version. It's all obviously hooked up to get to gas. But it is just it so much fun. We cook on it all the time.

00:30:13
Speaker 3: How long do you think it'll take me to learn how to do the volcano?

00:30:17
Speaker 2: You could do the volcano pretty quick in volcano, Yeah, you could do the volcano.

00:30:20
Speaker 1: What's going to be harder is me learning the rest of the show, like juggling the fire and flipping the strip.

00:30:24
Speaker 4: Into my hat and all this stuff.

00:30:25
Speaker 2: That's the longest part because they make it all the hibachi tricks.

00:30:30
Speaker 1: I could do all the hibachi tricks. I want to get there, but it is it is so much. The first night we came home, you have to like you have to season the grills. You know, it's turning it on in fifteen minute increments and then putting all this oil on it. And so we just wanted to make our first smash burgers and we couldn't believe just the crispy, nutty, amazing awesomeness that it was.

00:30:49
Speaker 3: Is that your favorite thing that you've made on it so far? Smash burger?

00:30:52
Speaker 2: The smash burgers were great.

00:30:53
Speaker 1: The first one wasn't great only because it was our fault, like we didn't season the meat the right way.

00:30:58
Speaker 2: We're still like learning our meat and should you use butter?

00:31:01
Speaker 4: Should you not use butter?

00:31:02
Speaker 1: So the second one that we did was phenomenally good, but the fried rice was great. We had our had our day old rice and Susan had made pork tenderloin the night before, so we still had half a pork tenderloin left, so we cut.

00:31:16
Speaker 4: All that up.

00:31:16
Speaker 2: That's back on the in the day old rice with all the tariaki sauce.

00:31:20
Speaker 8: Never.

00:31:20
Speaker 1: I mean, it was really good, and you feel like a grill master because you when you get the kit that comes with it, You've got the giant smash burger thing like the professional one, and then you've got the two big spatula things that they use at this so you're like, yeah, making all the sounds and you're doing, you know, moving all the stuff around.

00:31:38
Speaker 4: Okay, let's start a YouTube channel.

00:31:40
Speaker 6: Go get a YouTube channel right now, Grillfordell and start the videos. Great, I want to see you learning how to do hobo, so I want you to I want to see all the like where you toss it up, spin and grab it.

00:31:53
Speaker 1: And I told you about the cooking show that I wanted to do that I actually pitched somewhere and they're like, I don't know. It was called Will meets Grill, And what it is is there's all these grilling shows out there, but none that really teach you how to do it. So the concept of the show, which people liked at the time they were like, yeah, we're not doing this, is I would put every season, I'd pick one meet, so like the first season it was Ribs, and you'd start in Connecticut or Massachusetts or California, wherever it is. And I had six weeks to get to an actual grilling competition.

00:32:26
Speaker 4: And from Connecticut that's a long horseback ride.

00:32:31
Speaker 1: Six weeks to get there, but on the drive down, I'd be stopping at every pitmaster along the way to teach me how to make them. So by the time I made I got to the competition, I would at least have a chance of figuring out how to do it. So, yeah, the first season's ribs, the second season's brisket, all that stuff. But maybe I'll just do it Habachi style. And I got to put the show together, though. I got to put a great show, because again, the last one we saw.

00:32:55
Speaker 6: Watching you trying to learn habai is the show you actually failing at habachi.

00:33:01
Speaker 4: You would be way more fun.

00:33:03
Speaker 3: No fired, fail with no fire for us.

00:33:05
Speaker 4: That's got Grilfordell.

00:33:06
Speaker 1: Those grills a trademark that now TM Grilfordell.

00:33:11
Speaker 4: So that's it.

00:33:11
Speaker 2: Go check out the Blackstone products. They're really good.

00:33:13
Speaker 1: You don't have to spend a ton, and I promise you you are going to be so happy with the product.

00:33:17
Speaker 3: Amazing. All right, let's go to Jensen for his second pick.

00:33:20
Speaker 7: So my second pick here is someone that I think Danielle and I both stumbled upon during the pandemic and I've still stayed a fan. It's called Mexic Kitsch Art by l rod Uh and it's awesome. It's spelled m e x a k I T s c H on Instagram and the same for their website, which is just Mexic kitch dot com and it's uh. The artist's name is Leanne L. Rod Rodriguez. She was born in Riverside, now lives in this Sacramento area, and she creates these resin sculptures that resemble your grandma's favorite like church pot luck jello dish, so it'll be like cool, yeah, and she'll do them for other vintage foods like TV dinners. She'll make sculptures and lamps. Lamps are kind of the coolest thing she does of these intricate jello molds and Fiesta gelatins. Fiesta gelatins are like almost like a jello cake and you can see inside the jello, so like inside the jello or little pieces of marshmallow or whatever, and they're so good. And she is well known for her Deviled Egg clocks, which are like these clocks and every hour has a sculpture devil egg on them. And then she also recently started doing tiki drinks sculptures of tiki drinks and they all look very real and very cool. And if you're into like campy stuff for the holidays a gift for someone, these are just perfect Christmas parfe sculptures and the range of price and these are all basically kind of one of a kind. Some are small runs, but sixty five dollars is the lowest I found for a mini sculpture, and all the way up to four hundred for the more intricate stuff. But it's awesome, and she sends out emails to tell you when she's doing drops, and uh, if you've ever had a grandma who made jell o, man, this is probably the most nostalgia you'll ever have.

00:35:15
Speaker 6: Thank Yeah, while we've been talking, I ordered a big thunder Mountain Railroad.

00:35:22
Speaker 4: Did you. Oh my god, Yes, it's so cool.

00:35:26
Speaker 3: Oh my god, that's so great.

00:35:29
Speaker 5: Okay, so my second pick I was also after you guys know how I feel about art, But I was going to recommend and I'm still going to drop a plug for a very cute little idea. An artist named oh so Nerdy O H S E W N E r d Y. That's his website is OsO nerdy dot com. He does little cross stitch and he takes orders and you can customize a little cross stitch for a person in your life. We have several of them to commemorate fun moments in our life Jensen.

00:36:07
Speaker 3: And I have made.

00:36:08
Speaker 5: We have a drop the mic cross stitch back from when Jensen was the executive producer of Dropped the mic. We have a cross stitch that says meat and pee that's based on a funny conversation we had about Pistizzi. It's a really cute, very personalized gift that you can give to somebody and they're not very expensive. But that's not my gift idea. My gift idea is, actually, I kind of had to.

00:36:33
Speaker 3: I would have done art. I mean I would have done it if had Jensen's other one not been art related. I wasn't going to give you two art suggestions. That's enough art.

00:36:42
Speaker 5: So my second gift idea is the Ember mug. And the Ember mug is perfect for any hot beverage drinker in your life, especially a hot beverageker who has children, because if you have children and you wake up in the morning and you like a hot beverage, you know what it's like and how many times you have to reheat that same beverage because you put it down, you're helping them get dressed, you're doing something else, you get distracted. That thing's in and out of the microwave a million times. With the Ember mug, it will keep your beverage the exact perfect temperature to your liking for hours. It comes with a little tray. You charge your Ember mug on the tray. Then when you wake up and you make your beverage you use, you take the mug off the charger. You can set it to the temperature that you like, so not too hot, not too cold. You pour your coffee or your tea into it and you do not have to worry about reheating it for the rest of the morning.

00:37:50
Speaker 3: They make travel sizes, they make home mugs. I have the home mug. I don't usually take my beverages to go, so I just have one that I use at home, and I absolutely love it.

00:38:01
Speaker 5: They are currently on sale twenty five percent off, but their regular price is one for ninety five for the fourteen ounce Ember mug and uh yeah, highly recommend it. My dad got it for me a couple of years ago and it is it just doesn't miss so awesome. Right, Well, that concludes our gift recommendations, but we do have a very special guest coming to give us a tip about where we should also go for some holiday shopping. So let's please welcome to the podcast. Bonnie and Bill daniels.

00:38:44
Speaker 8: I can't say are we Oh there we are.

00:38:48
Speaker 3: You look wonderful.

00:38:50
Speaker 4: So good to see you, guys, Well, so good to see you.

00:38:58
Speaker 3: Listen, I are.

00:39:00
Speaker 5: We are doing a wonderful gift guide for every one of our listeners of places they could go, thoughtful gifts they could get the people in their lives. And so we wanted to have you on because I understand that you guys have opened the Bill and Bonnie Daniels shop, which is available on Etsy, and it is filled with some incredible gift ideas for the boy meets.

00:39:24
Speaker 3: World fan in your life.

00:39:25
Speaker 2: Now.

00:39:26
Speaker 3: Bill is ninety seven, Bonnie is ninety five.

00:39:29
Speaker 5: Tell us about where this idea came from for you guys to start an Etsy shop.

00:39:35
Speaker 11: Well, I think it was actually my son Rob is running the shop in New York. Great, but it was really his idea, and I thought it was a great idea because we get so many requests and we're pestered and that's okay, you know, but it takes a lot of time and we're not that good efficient anymore, and so we thought we'd put it all in one place because we don't.

00:40:01
Speaker 3: Do so many of the conventions conventions anymore.

00:40:04
Speaker 11: We haven't been doing them for a while and we will go back to them when we feel up to it. But I thought that was a great idea. So we signed a lot of pictures and books and stuff and he's got them and then he'll send them.

00:40:21
Speaker 3: Out to people wonderful well to put it on.

00:40:25
Speaker 8: He's the one that wanted to put it on the st as a store.

00:40:29
Speaker 3: I love it well to give people a little bit of an idea.

00:40:32
Speaker 5: There is an autographed copy of Bill's memoir available for sixty dollars. Also, Bonnie's memoir is available on there as well. There are autographed pictures of mister Feenie and Dean Bolander, and you can get a William Daniels autographed seventeen seventy six playbook. Plus there is also an adorable shirt of Bill and Bonnie in a drawing that says for better or Worse and.

00:40:59
Speaker 3: The art was done by their granddaughter Shanas.

00:41:02
Speaker 8: Yes, Shana's does the t shirts. And there's that fun one from Golden Girls.

00:41:09
Speaker 3: Oh yes, your Golden Girls shirt too.

00:41:12
Speaker 8: That's that you can get. That you can get, And we're putting a lot of special things, like I found a lot of ties, you know that Bill.

00:41:20
Speaker 4: Moore on the show.

00:41:23
Speaker 9: On the one before that, elsewhere and elsewhere and from the lou Ritter store, which is and they all that was a men's store that had a lot of catered to all the biggies.

00:41:39
Speaker 4: I get to own history.

00:41:41
Speaker 8: I'm going to.

00:41:44
Speaker 4: In my collection. That's too cool, the tie that.

00:41:48
Speaker 8: He wore on a certain show. But I don't know that. I would be too much research for me.

00:41:55
Speaker 4: A lot of research, for sure.

00:41:56
Speaker 8: That's a lot of research.

00:41:58
Speaker 5: So Bill and Bonnie, do you guys still exchange gifts at Christmas?

00:42:03
Speaker 10: What?

00:42:03
Speaker 3: What are your what are your holiday traditions as far as gifts go?

00:42:07
Speaker 8: How long since you've given me a gift?

00:42:12
Speaker 10: Give me a second?

00:42:16
Speaker 8: No. But what we do is we'll we'll say, Uh, for instance, I bought an expensive.

00:42:25
Speaker 11: Bike that I've put in the bedroom. Okay bedroom, I can just put whatever I can and I do that, and that's my Christmas that's Christmas Christmas present. So we tend to do that sort of thing.

00:42:38
Speaker 3: Yeah, perfect, I love that.

00:42:43
Speaker 8: Oh and you know what else Bill has done just recently? Do you remember what we did? You did?

00:42:49
Speaker 11: It's he is the advocate for Fight child Abuse dot org and he just did it was for him. But he did some really about six spots and they're going to be on the movie and the movies in the movie theaters.

00:43:09
Speaker 8: You know, the movie comes on, they have all this stuff and they'll be showing that on the movies. Wow, it's really a good.

00:43:19
Speaker 3: Good project, wonderful. We look forward to seeing that we're doing that.

00:43:24
Speaker 8: Yes, Yes, it was tough, wasn't it.

00:43:27
Speaker 10: Well, it were a pain in the that I wanted it this way, that way. I want to try it this way and that way, as if there's only one way to do it.

00:43:39
Speaker 4: Right.

00:43:40
Speaker 8: He was good.

00:43:41
Speaker 4: It was hard work for him, it was I'm sure, I bet.

00:43:45
Speaker 8: Because you have to get it it's right. It's like doing a long commercial and everything had to be just right, you know. Sure?

00:43:51
Speaker 5: Is Bill still working out regularly? We're always so inspired by Bill's fitness journey.

00:43:57
Speaker 10: Am I still working out?

00:43:59
Speaker 1: Oh?

00:44:00
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah.

00:44:01
Speaker 10: We have a lady that comes and she supervised exercise and we work for about an Hour's amazing.

00:44:16
Speaker 8: You miss the kids? You missed them all?

00:44:21
Speaker 3: Actually I do.

00:44:23
Speaker 10: I find that surprising.

00:44:29
Speaker 3: Well, we miss you too.

00:44:30
Speaker 4: We'd love to we'd love to see you.

00:44:32
Speaker 8: So it was doing something. What are you doing?

00:44:35
Speaker 11: Have practicing my lines. I said, what lines? And he was doing that whole last scene again, you line. They're doing that with those lines.

00:44:44
Speaker 3: Because they have seen a boy meets world yep.

00:44:48
Speaker 1: Wow.

00:44:48
Speaker 8: And he was just sitting there. I said, he's practice my lines.

00:44:54
Speaker 4: You know.

00:44:55
Speaker 8: I love you all all.

00:44:56
Speaker 3: Yes, we need to come see you, so he does. He love you well, and we love you so much. We would love to come by and see you. So let's let's figure out a time that we can just come over.

00:45:08
Speaker 5: And have a cup of tea and give you guys a squeeze because I know, like you said, we're all taking a little bit of a break from the conventions for right now, so we don't we don't have those opportunities to see each.

00:45:17
Speaker 3: Other as much.

00:45:17
Speaker 5: So we have you, yes, okay, yes, so we we need to find the opportunities to get together on purpose.

00:45:28
Speaker 8: Yes, that would be good. You look great, You all look wonderful. We think about you all the time.

00:45:33
Speaker 3: Likewise, we love you both so much so for everyone listening. Our number one.

00:45:38
Speaker 5: Gift pick for this year is the Bill and Bonnie Daniels Shop, available on Etsy. It is etsy dot com slash Bill and Bonnie Daniels.

00:45:49
Speaker 3: So go check that out.

00:45:50
Speaker 5: If you're a Boy meets World lover, or a Saint Elsewhere lover, or just a Bill and Bonnie lover like we all are, go there. Check it out. Perfect gifts for the holidays. It's always so wonder ful to see you. Thank you both for joining us. We love you very much and we will see you again soon.

00:46:08
Speaker 3: I love you. Bye. Oh am. I the only one who teared up when she no, I didn't stopped talking because because you got tearious.

00:46:17
Speaker 4: So we're practicing the lines from Yeah the last oh Man.

00:46:21
Speaker 3: And one thing I know about Bill, it is impossible for him to be dishonest.

00:46:28
Speaker 5: When when she asks do you miss them? I was expecting in a joke format. Yes, I was expecting, but it would have been the truth of you know, No, I don't. I haven't thought about them in ages.

00:46:41
Speaker 3: Why would I?

00:46:43
Speaker 1: Uh?

00:46:43
Speaker 3: And instead he said, I do, and I find it surprising.

00:46:46
Speaker 4: Oh, it's really amazing.

00:46:49
Speaker 3: Makes me tear up love them.

00:46:50
Speaker 2: So they're almost two hundred years old, like I mean, but it's true, it's amazing.

00:46:57
Speaker 3: It's amazing and still working out in.

00:46:59
Speaker 4: Our it doesn't work.

00:47:03
Speaker 2: At this point, Yes you can, They've been.

00:47:07
Speaker 4: Years of life experience. Yeah, that's years old together.

00:47:11
Speaker 2: I'm telling you I don't work out an hour a day much.

00:47:14
Speaker 3: I mean, come on, I know, I know.

00:47:16
Speaker 2: Serious, amazing, just amazing.

00:47:18
Speaker 5: Thank you all for listening to this episode of Podmeets World. As always, you can follow us on Instagram pod Meets World Show. You can send us your emails Podmeets World Show at gmail dot com and we have merch we do, but.

00:47:31
Speaker 1: Check out Bill and Bonnie's merch because that's what I want. I want a Foenie tie and we wish you a Mary merch.

00:47:38
Speaker 5: Miss Will podmeets worldshow dot com but also etsy dot com, slash Bill and Bonnie Daniels Well send us out.

00:47:48
Speaker 4: We love you all. Pod dismissed.

00:47:52
Speaker 1: Pod Meets World isnheart podcast produced and hosted by Daniel Fischel, Wilfredell and Ryder Strong executive producers, Jensen Carp and Amy Sugarman, Executive in charge of production, Danielle Romo, producer and editor, Tara Sudbaksh producer, Maddy Moore, engineer and Boy Meets World superfan Easton Allen. Our theme song is by Kyle Morton of Typhoon, and you can follow us on Instagram at Podmeets World Show, or email us at Podmetsworldshow at gmail dot com.