This is exactly right.

When I invited you here, I thought 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 had too much stuff

So how do you dare disobey me?

Welcome to I said no gifts. I'm Bridger Weiner. We're here in the studio, as I guess,

kind of usual at this point. If you're a current listener, it'll almost be Valentine's Day,

so romances in the air, this is a passionate podcast, this is an erotic podcast. So you've come to the right place. What's new in my life? Last night I went and saw the movie

Primate. What happens is it's about a group of gals. They go to Hawaii for summer vacation, but then the pet chimp gets rabies from

a mongoose and kills all of them. And I guess that kind of ruins the summer vacation.

And this is all while the father's out signing books. I mean, if me spoiling it doesn't ruin the

movie for you, go ahead and see it. Excellent work by whoever's in the chimp costume, by the way. There were points when I thought it was really a chimp, because we've obviously moved on from actual chimps being in professional productions. They've got great chimp tech. You know, I've complained about C.G. I deer on this show, probably at least twice. They've got to get whoever did the chimp on this to do deer in other movies because it was excellent. That's essentially my life. Go to exactly right store.com to get the t-shirt. The t-shirt's so beautiful. The new one's so gorgeous. You've got to be in it. You've got to be impressing coworkers, attracting mates, do whatever you want. Happy Valentine's Day. Let's get into it. I love today's guest. It's Gareth, welcome to I said no gifts. Thank you, Bridger. And am I your podcast Valentine? You are absolutely my podcast, Valentine. Thank you. Be my Valentine Valentine. Hello Valentine. Are you a big Valentine's person? I'm a terrible all-holiday person. I just don't give a shit. Even my birthday. So I think that it's okay for me to broadly say I have no interest in any of it. Right. And that's how I've become, and I don't know if it's because I've just had so many holidays

or if it's because of depression.

It's, you know, I think it's very interesting to watch as society completely collapses.

How, like the Christmas shopping, I always wondered that about Christmas because I used to love Christmas as a kid.

Right. And then, and the magic and the, all the things that go along. I used to listen to Christmas songs.

Oh. Two, three weeks leading up, two weeks after. I would find a great issue with January 2nd where I'd go, it's all over. I mean,

this, and we're not talking. You're a real holiday person. And then over the last five or six

years, I just kind of keep going, what are we doing? What the hell is this? No. What,

what, like, when they talk about shopping time and how, I just, it's all just kind of a weird little thing.

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