This is exactly right.

Welcome to I said no gifts. I'm Bridger Winegur.

We're in the backyard, of course. I don't know. There's no easy way to say this. I'm in an incredible mode. I feel great. I'm ready to podcast.

We're just going to do it. It's freezing cold. It's absolutely ice cold right now. The microphone is ice cold in my hand. Let's get into the podcast.

I love today's guest. He's so funny. It's Dan Klein. Hello. Dan, welcome to I said no gifts. Thank you so much for having me, Bridger. I was trying to you said I was funny and I was going to try to be funny immediately. And I couldn't do it. I was like, I better introduce myself and say hi first.

No, I think putting that pressure on yourself always leads to a big. It's good and healthy. Having that pressure immediately. You must be funny. You're just sweating, sweating, sweating.

You're here. I am. You were basically forgot about the podcast. Yeah. I guess we have to talk about that. I hope it doesn't put a damper on because I recognize people listening to this. Who is this guy?

And then the first thing they learn about me is that I was so careless that I did forget that this was happening. I sped here. I did some questionable driving really not even that necessary because we don't live that far away.

What part of town are you in? Beautiful Glendale, California. I love Glendale. I have a love hate relationship with it.

It's a little bit more suburban, a little bit, you know, it's a great place to raise a family, which I'm doing. I'm trying to do. We'll see how successful we are. And we'll check that in in 18 years.

You and I so far so good. But I don't know what we're putting into the children. Right. That's going to haunt us. And then later. But there will be something. But yeah, we're not far away. But yeah, different, different vibes.

So what do you like about it? The suburban aspect of it? Yeah. And then like you do get into your own little world, I think. Like you don't have to leave it so much, especially after the pandemic. Right.

And so I've done a great job of isolating myself in many ways. That now when I have obligations or things to do, which I should be excited about, it instead like spins me out of control.

And I'm like, oh my god, I have to interact with a human. What do I do? So maybe it's not Glendale as much as it is me. No, I think that's a lot of people. I mean, I think I'm a very or at least up until the last two years was a very punctual person. And I feel that slipping.

Because I'm not used to getting to places at the right time. I mean, speaking of being rushing to the podcast and driving through traffic at high speeds, when your wife Kelly was on a few months ago, I did the exact I got she got to the podcast before I did. And it's in my backyard. Okay. So I was speeding through town. Well, then I should reveal this was all a revenge.

Kelly was like, do not show up on time. Make him wait four minutes. It's time to teach this person. Yes. Finally, this is the time of his life. By the way, I mean, I know no one can see. I'm sure you've talked about the beautiful like plants that you have back.

Actually, it makes it seem like and like with your sort of, you know, Southern accent, I feel like it should be hot. I should be standing my sex. That's what it almost sounds like you sound like you could be like a, you know, Southern lawyer.

So I sound Southern to you almost. Yeah. But what is going on with my voice? Nobody nobody can pinpoint what my accent is. You have like what I would assume is like a what was it called transatlantic.

Like what movie stars did in the 40s to like hide their disgusting accents? Where is any of this coming from? I don't understand what it's just a lovely. The way I communicate is it's such a I need to elevated.

I need to see see can experts. I need to find like a voice expert and accent expert. Yes. To just sit and they'll tell you where it's like a DNA test. Yeah. But for your speech patterns.

And then my spit and they tell me where it comes from. That's what it sounds like to other people. Right. And as and I've talked about this on the podcast before. But I as far as I know, no one else in my family speaks this way.

I don't know what's going on. Maybe there's something they say any. Does the family ever say like Bridger. What was that? Like you're speaking like a Louisiana lawyer. Like it's again, it's very elevated.

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