You want to know the one gift I gave in my life that almost cost me my life? It’s the gift of my presence. I’m sorry. That was a really dramatic intro into the story that I’ve been wanting to tell for a long time. Welcome to Trevor Talks Too Much: the show where, you guessed it, I talk. Get it? It’s the show. It’s the name of the show. I talk too much. I’m your host, Trevor Evarts, master baker, musical soft boy, staunch supporter and celebrator of Arbor Day. Why are you looking at me like you’re about to laugh, Jamie? It’s an important holiday. Yeah, it’s a great holiday. I love trees. Go hug a tree. Dude. Do it. I used to climb trees all the time. Dude, me too. Okay, hold on. Well, today we’re talking about, because it all ties together. It’s all one big nice, neat little gift wrapped up in a bow, because today we’re talking about some of the best and worst gifts that we’ve ever received. We’re just doing a fun little holiday, something easy. I’m gonna stop talking about my mental illness for a week, and give y’all a rest. But yeah, we’re just gonna be talking about whatever. Gifts we received, memorable holiday stories, stuff like that. Back to the tree climbing thing: at the house that I spent most of my formative years growing up in, in Idaho, there was a corkscrew willow tree in the front yard. If you don’t know what that looks like, look it up on Google Images. It’s a great tree. Probably one of my favorite trees. But I climbed that tree so much. It was the best tree for climbing, because corkscrew willow, it’s right there in the name, “Corkscrew.” It’s a thick tree, but it has these very winding, corkscrewed branches and stuff. So, a lot of great handholds and ways to climb. I spent many a day up in that tree. I would read books in trees. How weird is that? To think that there was a time in my life when, for fun, I used to go outside, climb a tree and read a book. And now, I sit in my room and scroll through Twitter and get depressed. That’s what I do for fun now. But the thing is- But no, but the thing. Okay, go ahead. Sorry. The thing is that if there were more climbable trees, and you as an adult went to a park and climbed a tree and read a book, either people would be like, “Cool,” or people would be like, why the is that guy in a tree? “What’s that dude doing in a tree?” Because I do feel like there is a certain age that you being in a tree is looked at poorly. Yeah, I think so. I would say 14. I have an Eno, which if you don’t know, probably not, because you’re not a hipster from the Pacific Northwest. Eno, it was very big at my high school. If you went to a high school with a lot of outdoorsy people that wore Chacos, you know what I’m talking about? An Eno is like this hangable hammock. Well, I guess all hammocks should be hangable. Otherwise, that defeats the purpose of the hammock. Anyway, it’s a hammock, but it’s a neoprene style material. Kind of like parachute style material. But it’s portable and it fits up in this nice little package. You take it with you and hang it wherever. So, I feel like when I was in high school, my friends and I would go and hang up our Enos and sit in parks and hang. I don’t know. It’s weird to think about the intersection that I grew up at and probably a lot of people my age grew up at, where it’s like, for the first 10, 11 years of my life, cell phones were still just Razrs and Motorolas and Blackberries and stuff. And the gaming consoles that we had were Xboxes and PlayStations, and an Nintendo DS and stuff like that. And so much of my younger life was just spent outside doing stuff. And then, to go so quickly from that into just the world of iPhones and tablets, it literally felt just like a snap in time. And then, all of a sudden, everybody had an iPhone and a tablet and a laptop and all these other things. I remember when Netflix, they sent DVDs to your door. Yeah. God, that makes me sound so old. I’m 23 and I’m like, “I remember, back in my days, Netflix used to send you DVDs to your doorstep.” You’re making me feel old, because you’re like, “For the first 10 years of my life, cell phones were Razrs.” And I’m like, I remember when the Razr came out. Before time to the Razr. Yeah, but just all this stuff, that weird nostalgic stuff, like Netflix, or going to a Blockbuster, renting a movie. I remember having those nights as a family. We’d be like, “Right, let’s hit Blockbuster on the way home.” It makes you think now too, how many times on my gift lists where I was like, “I want this DVD. And I want this CD. I want this.” And it’s like, everything’s online now. One, I’m not good at asking for gifts. I find that I’m pretty content, and the things that I like to spend money on. The things that I like to spend money on that I haven’t already spent money on is usually because they’re expensive, and I don’t know, it feels weird to ask. I don’t like asking my parents for gifts. I don’t like asking them for help or money. My parents are extremely generous. And I know that if I ever did did need help, they would be there, right there to help me out. But I’ve always felt weird about asking for stuff. My brother, opposite. He will ask for anything without shame. He will just take stuff. My brother will just grab an $80 bottle of scotch from our house and he’ll be like, “Hey dad, I’m taking this back up to Lewiston. Is that cool?” And my dad’s like, “What? No. What?” And he’s like, “Oh come on, dad, you have so much. You have three bottles of this. Why can’t I have one?” Meanwhile, I’m like, “Yeah. So, for Christmas, I don’t know, there’s these socks that I like. But they’re like $20 for a pack of three, so if that’s too expensive, then don’t worry about it.” I don’t know. My parents are very good gift givers. They’re terrible to shop for, though. Yeah. Isn’t that just the case, all the time? My dad, I feel like I can buy for. My mom, “I just wanna hang out with you guys. That’s my gift.” I’m like, “But I wanna buy you something.” My parents say the same thing, and I know it’s true. Because also, if there’s something that they want, they just get it. Which I’m very happy that they’re in a position where they’re able to do that. But it makes gift giving really damn hard, Dad. My mom is a lot easier to shop for, because, as the fashionable one in the family, I would say that my mother is also a fashionable one. My dad and my brother are lost causes. My brother’s wife, also fashionable. For them, I love shopping clothes for people. Last Christmas I got my mom this nice jacket that I saw from Anthropologie. It was a expensive-ish jacket. It was 250 bucks or something like that. I don’t know. But it was just this nice faux fur white jacket. And as soon as I saw it I was like, “Oh my god, my mom would love that. That’s perfect.” And it’s a nice gift, because I know that my mom doesn’t go shopping a lot, because my dad hates shopping. It’s also probably not a store that she would normally go into. So I’m like, “Oh, that’s a good gift. I know that my mom would like this. It would look good on her.” Same with my brother’s wife. I can see anything and be like, “Oh yeah, that’s something that Sierra would totally wear.” My brother is very easy to shop for. He’s a simple man. All you have to do is buy a nice bottle of liquor that he likes, or give him a video game. And he’s like, “That’s epic. Like awesome.” My father is an enigma, because he has no want. Yeah. Shopping clothes for him, impossible, because he’s not someone that wears nice clothes. I thought you were gonna be like, “He doesn’t wear them.” No. In general. He doesn’t wear clothes. He wears shorts and T-shirts everywhere. Yeah. And then, I don’t know, he doesn’t have the same fashion sense as me. And so I’m like, “Well, I don’t know.” I don’t know what to get from him. So, I don’t buy him clothes. And then, he owns a cigar lounge, so I can’t buy him cigars, because he already has all of them. Every single cigar, he has. He also has every single bottle of liquor. Can’t even buy that for him. I used to, when I was a kid, I would just get him golf balls, because I was like, “Racket Titleist Pro V1s.” Nothing can go wrong. But he doesn’t golf enough for me to buy him that many golf balls. It also feels like such a cheap gift. I just feel like I’m copping out. Can you buy him a gift certificate to a golf course that he could go and get tee times with? I don’t know. I could, but again, I want it to be something cool and thoughtful, you know? I know when I buy my mom a nice jacket, she’s gonna be like, “Oh, I really like that jacket. That’s really cute.” And she’ll wear it, and it’s something that, even though it’s just a piece of clothing, it does have a little bit of meaning. But I don’t wanna give my family, “Here’s these things that I really thought that you would like, and that fit you and your personality.” I’m like, “Here’s your certificate to Banbury Golf Club in Eagle, Idaho.” Sorry, I was trying to remember the name of a golf course. And so, yeah. It’s hard. So I feel like I’ve resorted to trying to find him gag gifts. Those could work. But that are thoughtful. Like, this is a good one. One year, I think for Father’s Day, I got him a driver cover. I feel like we’re talking a lot about golf today. I got him a driver head cover for his club that had a photo printed of me on it. That’s awesome. But it was this really funny old picture from when I was a kid, but I’m wearing aviators, and I’m wearing a white button up shirt, but it’s fully unbuttoned. The collar’s flared up. I’m wearing fingerless leather gloves, and I’ve got drumsticks in my hands and I’m holding them crossways and I look so freaking metal. Oh man. But that was something. Would you say that, overall, so let’s take your dad outta the equation for a sec, overall, would you say you’re a good gift giver? Oh yeah. That’s where I find a lot of the joy in the holiday. I love giving people gifts, and I love that I’m now in a place financially, over the last couple years, where I’ve been able to. Because back in the day it was like, “I wanna buy stuff for people, but I don’t have any money.” Yeah. When I was fresh, before I moved to LA, back in those days I was like, “I really love giving gifts to people,” ’cause I think it’s nice. I think that when you put thought into something and when you specifically shop for a person, when you’re like, “I’m looking for a gift for my mom,” and I see something and I’m like, “That is something that my mom would like.” And you put thought into it, because I know my mom and I know who she is and what she likes, and then, that’s really special to me. And then, to see them smile when they open it up and they see it and they’re like, “Oh,” and they really love it. And you’re like, “I know you love it, because I spent a lot of time putting thought into this and thinking about what you would like.” That’s really special to me. I love giving gifts. I’m not great at receiving gifts, but I love giving them. And so, I would consider myself a good gift giver, but it’s really hard with my dad. I can only buy him so many joke things with pictures of my face on it. I also feel that I love giving gifts. I feel like I do try to put a lot of thought into things that I buy people. Have you ever given a gift that you were like, “I nailed it.” And then when you gave it to them, they were like, “Thanks”? No, not that I know of. It’s happened to me with only one particular friend, and I was kind of shocked, and it made me feel terrible because I was like, “She loves pillows and comfy things and fuzzy things.” Yeah. And she also loves plants. A lot. Yeah. So, I got her this really dope looking fluffy, big, succulent pillow. It looks like a succulent. I think I’ve seen those. Those are sick. And I gave it to her. She’s like, “Oh cool, thank you.” It was a $40 pillow. Yeah. And then I gave her this, as an extra gift, just this $5 shirt that had something on it. And she loved that so much more. So I’m like, “Okay, well at least I got one thing right.” But I wanted to ask her. I’m like, “You like pillows and you like plants, but you don’t like them together?” I was stuck on it. Don’t mix the hobbies. I was like, “I don’t know what to do.” No, I get that. It’s hard to say something bad about a gift. I don’t know. I mean, when I was a kid, I don’t remember most Christmases or gifts that I got. I don’t have a lot of vivid memories of gifts that I got. There are obviously a couple. But I would say that genuinely, the gifts that I remember the most are the things that had more meaning behind them. Yeah. Getting video games as a kid was awesome, but those aren’t the gifts that I really remember and treasure, you know? But one of my favorite gifts that I’ve received in recent memory: it was a blanket that my grandma crocheted me. Oh nice. Yeah. This is my grandmother on my mom’s side, but she crocheted me and my brother both blankets. But if you know anything about crocheting: one, it takes a long time, and it takes a lot longer, also, if you’re using smaller threads. The knots aren’t getting as big. You see people in TikTok, crocheting these big, chunky blankets, but they’re using a really thick thread, so it doesn’t take as long. When I saw this blanket, for how big it was and how small the thread was, I immediately was just like, “Nana, how long did this take you to crochet?” She’s like, “Oh, I’ve been working on it for a little over a year.” And I was like, “What?” She’s like, “Yeah. Just a little bit here and there over year.” And I was like, “Oh my god.” And it’s one of my favorite blankets, and it’s so soft, but it’s- That’s awesome. That was such a special gift. But I really do treasure just being able to spend time with family. I do. Especially since I moved away, I’m sure. I remember the first time that I spent Christmas away from my family. It was so hard. I was like, “I just miss being with them and spending time with them.” So, I definitely value that a lot. And I like giving gifts. I don’t think I can ever buy my dad a gift again though, because of the gift that I bought him last year. What did you buy him last year? Jamie, last year I went a little crazy. I went a little crazy with the retail therapy, even though none of the retail was for me. And I got some stuff for my family members and people. And I was like, “All right, I spent a little bit of money,” but I was stuck. I was like, “I don’t know what to buy my dad.” And I feel bad, because I just bought my family fairly nice gifts and I don’t want to show up and be like, “Dad, here’s a $20 pack of Titleist Pro V1s.” It was that situation. Yeah. I was like, “I gotta get something nice for him, but I don’t know what to get him.” My dad, he’s not a designer guy. Almost as a joke, he loves Gucci. But every time, he’s like, “Oh, it’s Gucci.” He’s like, “I got my Gucci on.” I think it’s an inside joke between him, my mom and two of their best friends. My mom has just a nice Gucci purse. And so, I was at the mall in Glendale, Galleria. I go up to the Bloomingdale’s area and there’s a Gucci store in the Bloomingdale’s. I was like, “I have to at least look.” I start looking and I find this bag, and it’s like a fanny pack style bag, but it could also go cross body. I see it and it’s black. It’s got a dark blue strap with a red line in the middle. And I was like, “That is the coolest. One of the coolest bags I’ve ever seen.” I would buy that for myself and wear it. But I was like, “How sick would it be if I showed up to Christmas and gave my dad a Gucci fanny pack?” And then I did it, because I’m irresponsible with money. So I ended up dropping a grand on my dad’s Christmas gift and afterward I was like, “That was one of the most irresponsible purchases I’ve ever made. Why did I do that?” There’s no reason to do that. But yeah, my dad loved it. He thought it was amazing- Well, good. He wears it all the time. But now, I’m like, “I can’t top that.” What do I do? That was such a great gift, and I can’t buy another Gucci bag for him. I don’t have it within me. Maybe you just need to just go to the Galleria and let opportunity strike. No, no. I need to not do that. This year, I’m taking it easy. I’m taking it easy on the gifts this year. Maybe that’s what you gotta do. You’re all out one year, and the next couple years, don’t expect much. And then go all out again. I go to Christmas, and I’m like, “Actually, your gifts last year were so expensive. Could you give me cash to recoup my losses?” No, I’m kidding. But I realize now that this podcast has just turned into the how hard it is to shop for my dad podcast. Some other favorite gifts that I have had throughout the years. I wanna go quick. I’ll do rapid fire. My sister every year gets everyone in the family, and by everyone I mean me, my brother and his wife, my mom and my dad and a couple other people, one pair of Lululemon underwear. That’s amazing. And it’s the greatest thing ever. ‘Cause Lululemon underwear, they’re super soft. They’re so nice. But they’re $14 a pair or something like that. Which for underwear is like- It’s pretty expensive. And so, every year she’ll just send a joking text to our family group chat, like, “Everyone’s still the same size from last year?” Asking about the underwear. Yeah, it’s great. Another of my favorite gifts that I’ve received: my dad’s best friend Steve from college, who he’s known for ages. He was one of those people in my life, he was Uncle Steve growing up. And he’s one of my favorite people. He’s hilarious. Very eccentric, weird guy. Love him to death. One year, he wrapped a taxidermied rat. I don’t know if it was actual taxidermy, or if it was faux taxidermy, but I just opened it up and it was just this rat, and it was stuffed and sitting up on its hind legs with its little arms out. I kept that thing for so long. I would have it just sitting next to my bed or on my desk. I think it might still be in my room at home, just sitting on a shelf. But it is one of the greatest gifts. And no context? No. You guys have never had a conversation about rats? No, nothing. He just hit it, and it was along with another gift that he got me, ’cause he would do that. He would always cobble together a few different things and wrap them all together. But one of the things was just a taxidermied rat, which is hilarious to me. That is great. I freaking love that. Yeah. It’s one of the best gifts I’ve ever received. You want to know the one gift I gave in my life that almost cost me my life? It’s the gift of my presence. I’m sorry. That was a really dramatic intro into the story that I’ve been wanting to tell for a long time. The story about how I almost died. Christmas Eve 2018. I was working at a bakery in West Hollywood at this time. We were open Christmas Eve. I had told my parents. I was like, “Hey, I’m not gonna be able to make it home for Christmas. I’m working Christmas Eve.” They were like, “That’s totally okay. We won’t book you a flight or anything.” At this time, I was driving a Mini Cooper. That’s gonna be important later. I checked my work schedule and I’m looking, and I’m like, “Okay, Christmas Eve we close early.” And then, Christmas day we had off. The bakery was closed. The following two days after Christmas, I also happened to have off. So I was like, “I have three days off in a row.” Plans started brewing in my head. I’m like, “What if I leave the bakery, pack all my stuff, I drive to work, get off work, immediately shoot out?” 5:00 PM I get off work, I start zooming. And I told my grandpa. My grandpa lives here in California. So I told him about my plans. Anyway, I get a text from him that day. He’s like, “Hey, be careful driving out up through Bishop.” ‘Cause the fastest way to drive from LA to Idaho is to take a straight shot through the middle of nowhere, Nevada. The one town that you drive through Nevada is called Hawthorne. Anyway. I’m like on the road, I’m driving. Get a text from my grandpa and he’s like, “Hey, be careful driving out of Bishop, California, ’cause it’s on the border of California, Nevada.” He’s like, “Apparently there’s some snowstorm warnings.” I forgot that snow existed. I’ve been living in LA for six months, and I forgot that snow existed- Already, “Snow, what is that?” I’m from places that have four seasons, but as soon as it hits October, my sense of time was all screwed up, because I was like, “It’s October and it’s warm outside.” So I’m like, “Oh yeah, it’ll be easy peasy. Drive right through the middle of nowhere, Nevada. Just shoot up into Idaho. I can do that drive in 11 and a half hours, and I’ll show up Christmas morning bright and early. It’ll be A-Okay, and I’ll surprise everyone.” So then, I’m like, “Oh shoot, snow exists.” But by this time, I was two hours on the road already, driving up, and I was like, “I can’t turn back now.” I’m on the road, it’s getting darkish, fall back and whatnot. Daylight savings. I’m driving up, I get to Bishop, California, and I see this big sign that says, “If continuing on the 365,” which is the highway, “Snow chains or snow tires required.” And I was like, “Oh shoot.” Thankfully, I wasn’t continuing on the 365, because I was taking the more direct route, which goes through the desert. Anyway, I drive out of Bishop and I am on now, what is the 360, I think, which is a two lane road that winds through these hills in Nevada that are on the right side of the Sierra Nevada mountains. That big mountain range runs through California. I’m just in the foothills area. I start driving them, look at the temperature gauge on my dash, and it’s dropping. Then it gets below freezing, and I was like, “Oh God.” Oh no. I was like, “It might snow.” All of a sudden, I’m tense, and I drive into these foothills. Immediately, snow. Oh no. And I’m the only car. And so, I’m driving 30 miles per hour- Oh my gosh, Trevor. Through these winding roads. I’m stressed. In snow. And I’m sitting there like, “I’m in the middle of nowhere. If my car gets stuck, I’m in the middle of nowhere.” There’s no cell service. I kept looking at my phone. I had no service. I’m by myself. In my Mini Cooper. I’m ill prepared. No snow chains. My saving grace was that I happened to, by chance, get my tires changed on my mini Cooper three days before I left. So, if I’d had my old tires, probably would’ve died. Oh my god, Trevor. I’m driving through these hills. It is snowing. I am so tense. The adrenaline’s pumping in me, ’cause I’m like, “I just have to keep going. I can’t stop. If I stop, I won’t be able to get going again.” I’m driving, and it felt so long. It felt so long. So then, I drop outta the hills and I start driving into Hawthorne. Snow clears up and I’m like, “All right, the worst of it is behind me.” “We’re chilling.” I was like, “I’m good.” I get through Hawthorne, I gas up. And at that point, it was probably one or two in the morning, or maybe midnight-ish. I called my friend Nick from back home in Idaho. ‘Cause I was like, “Dude, you can’t tell anyone, ’cause this is a surprise.” Also, I still didn’t let my parents know where I was. I didn’t even think to be like, “Yeah, I should call them and tell them what I’m doing. That would ruin the surprise.” The only person that knew where I was was my grandpa and my friend Nick, ’cause I called him and was like, “Dude, you can’t tell anyone, but I’m in the middle of nowhere right now, and I’m scared for my life, and I just wanted to call and talk to someone while I have cell service.” So I was talking to him, shooting the breeze or whatever. And then, I start to hit no service again. I’m like, “All right, right Nick, bye.” And then I hit the 80. Just hit a whiteout blizzard. Oh no. Oh no. I’m in my mini Cooper, and mind you, again, it’s four in the morning. So, I’m exhausted. I’ve been up for like almost 24 hours at this point. I rolled down my window and was blasting music, ’cause I’m like, “I gotta stay awake.” I’m trudging along 40 miles per hour, just rolling along this interstate, maybe saw a couple semis drive by me. Oh my God. I’m just in this blizzard for hours, until I made it to Winnemucca. I would’ve started crying. Winnemucca, Nevada. If you’ve never been there, don’t go. It’s great. I roll into Winnemucca at first light, and I’m like, “Oh my God, I made it to Winnemucca. I’ve actually put the worst of it behind me.” Trucking right along, and by this point I start to see some snow removal equipment and I’m like, “Oh I’m really in the clear.” There’s snow plows clearing the roads. I’m good.” So then, on the drive back to Idaho, there’s this stretch where you cut through the corner of Oregon to then come back around into Idaho. So, you’re in Nevada, you’re up in the corner of Nevada. You cut into Oregon. I cut into Oregon, and there’s some hilly roads that go through some hill areas. Straight fog. Oh, so now you can’t see? Just fog as thick as I’ve seen it, and ice on the roads. So then I’m like, “God, when will these trials end?” I felt like freaking Frodo taking the ring to Mordor. I swear, it was like one thing after another. I was like, “I can’t get out of this.” Out of the frying pan into the fire. I start driving, and I’m just sitting there. I turn my lights off, ’cause I was like, “I actually can see better in the fog.” I couldn’t see three feet in front of my car. Yeah. I was like, “I see better if my lights are off.” Because the fog was just glaring the light back into my eyes. Oh my God. That’s how thick it was. So I turned my lights off, turned my fog lights on, just the little orange ones. I could barely see the road. There was this one truck in front of me with a trailer, and I swear I was just trying to stay behind them the whole time, in my mini Cooper. I’m like, “I just gotta stay behind them, and then I’ll know that I’m on the road, and I hope that they don’t pull off the road for any reason.” Right. They just go into some random dirt road? Who knows? Yeah, I would’ve followed them anywhere. They took you right back down to LA. So somehow, I made it through that. I dropped down back into Idaho. If you’re familiar at all with southwestern Idaho, I went through Jordan Valley, which is the way to get into Boise. And from there, there was a little bit of snow on the ground, but I mean it was smooth sailing from there. I was like, “Wow, I actually did it.” So then, I show up and I’ve been up for over 24 hours at this point, because the drive that normally takes me 12 hours in good conditions took me probably 14, 15 in the snow, just because I was driving so slow at some parts. Yeah. So I show up. I’ve been up for over 24 hours. I’ve been driving for 15 and I just am so haggard. I just could feel it in my face. I was like, “I’m dead.” And I go up and I knock on my parents’ door and my mom opens the door and she’s like, “Trevor, what?” And I was like, “Merry Christmas.” I go in, and my dad’s cooking breakfast, and he’s like, “What’s up, Tony?” I mean, you survived- I did. So that’s very, very good. And I’m sure your parents were really happy to have you. Yeah. No they were, it was a great surprise. My mom cried when I showed up. Then I told her the story and she was like, “Wow, you’re a dumbass, Trevor.” And my dad was like, “I’ve been there man. I get it. Sometimes, you just gotta drive and keep on driving.” Sounds like my nightmare. I would’ve been crying the whole time. I cried last Christmas, day after I met my boyfriend and his family up in Tahoe. Yeah. I’ve been in the snow before. I’ve gone plenty of times. But I personally don’t like to drive in it. Anyways, I’m hungover. Yeah. ‘Cause Christmas is a big ordeal at my house. Classic case. Yeah. Barely slept, because I needed to be at the airport at like five in the morning to catch this flight out to Tahoe, ’cause they all drove up- Yeah. Before. So then I was like, “Right, I’ll just meet you there.” So, I’m sleep deprived, hungry, hungover, by myself. Get to the airport and they’re like, “Tahoe’s a turbulent airport. And I’m like, “Wonderful.” So, I land and then, no service anywhere. I’m trying to call my boyfriend, can’t get ahold of him. Trying to text his brother and be like, “Are you with Casey? What’s good?” No one knows where Casey is, but he left to go get me two hours ago, so he’s stuck on the road somewhere. I’m just crying, ’cause I’m in the airport by myself. I was in toddler mode. Full toddler meltdown mode. Silently. Literally, I asked three taxis. I’m like, “Can you take me to Tahoe?” And they all started laughing at me. They were like, “No, we’re not gonna Tahoe.” I was like “Great. Wonderful.” I was about to literally catch a flight home. I was like, “I’m not going. No one can take me there.” Finally this one taxi driver. Halal. He was the nicest man ever. He’s like, “You wanna go to Tahoe?” And I was like, “Yeah.” He’s like, “I can take you there. I have all the whole shebang on my car.” And I was like, “All right, great.” Get in the car. We’re going and almost immediately, we are going three miles per hour. It’s like noon at this point. Yeah. It’s just white. You don’t see anything. You don’t see anything at all. When I do pass by cars, there’s a semi truck that’s turned over on one side. There’s all these people are stuck on the side of the road. I was like, “This is the apocalypse. This is the snow apocalypse.” And I am here with Halal, by myself. I don’t know what to do. And my boyfriend’s trying to call me, and he’s calling me and I’ve been in the car for so long at this point too. I was like, “We’re not moving anywhere.” I was crying. I was like, “Why did you tell me to come here? I know you can’t do anything.” I just feel like I wasn’t even scared that we were gonna get an accident. I was like, “I’m just scared that he’s gonna be like, this is as far as I can take you.” Yeah. And we’re in the middle of nowhere. Yeah. So finally, after so long we get past that, and we’re getting up to where the cabin is. You can’t even drive up to the cabin, so my boyfriend had to drive down. This poor man. Also, he’s like, “Don’t worry, we’re gonna get there. You could take a nap? I’ll wake you up. Or here’s some Red Bull. I have two. Here’s some tissues.” I was like, “You’re a very nice man, thank you.” I finally get there, and when I finally get there, we tip this guy so much money. Yeah. When I get out he’s like, “Okay. I have a ham sandwich and a White Claw ready for you.” I was like, “Thank you.” And everyone hugged me. They’re like, “You made it.” I literally was like, “I never wanna experience that again.” This is like the movie Everest. Yeah, and I was like, “I’m not even driving.” It was a factor of things. Maybe if I had slept more, whatever. But I was like, “This is terrifying.” Come to find out, after that weekend, ’cause I had a great time once I was there. Worst snowstorm Tahoe has seen in 50 years. Yeah. Great weekend to come up. Right? The guy even was like, “I’ve been driving up here for 18 years. I’ve never seen it this bad.” And I was like, “Halal, go back to the other stuff you were saying, ’cause that does not make me feel better.” So, the fact that you did that alone in a Mini Cooper. Yeah. Christmas Eve. I would’ve passed away in your car. No, it was insane. I think there was something primal within me. Some survival instincts, where I just turned into this predator, that was, “My mission is to get home.” ‘Cause there were times when I was literally driving and I was like, “I could pull off to the road, to the side of the road and just sleep for an hour. I’m so tired. And just get rejuvenated, and then pick back up. I’ll still make it in the morning.” And then I remember just thinking to myself, “If I stop this car, I’m not gonna make it there. I won’t make it.” I was like, “I have to keep going.” And literally, half the drive I swear was just spent with the windows down, snow blowing into my face, because, “I gotta stay awake, and I gotta keep pushing.” I think I stopped for gas three times on the whole 14, 15 hour drive. That’s crazy. I just pushed through. My dad was like, “Dude, I get it.” He calls it a bubblegum run, ’cause you’re chewing bubblegum the whole time to stay awake. He was like, “Hey Trevor, I’ve been there, man.” I think it was a proud dad moment for him. He’s like, “You did something stupid that you shouldn’t have done, that I probably also would’ve done, but you came through it unscathed, because you’re a champ.” We didn’t really get to gifts too much. No, but it was great holiday stories. I loved it. I love great holidays stories. I really wanted to tell that story. Everybody, I asked you for tweets about what are the best slash worst slash most memorable gifts that you’ve received. Hold on. This is Austin. “One time, a couple that I would babysit for gave me a bootleg He-Man action figure for Christmas. Had never spoken about He-Man at any point in my life before then. 15 plus years later, I still don’t understand why they chose that of all things.” Hey, don’t look a gift horse in the mouth. Sounds like a good gift to me. He-Man is sick, dude. You’re ungrateful. This one’s good. “I grew up a Jehovah Witness, so we didn’t do Christmas, but one year my dad got me this weird collectible DC,” the clothing brand DC, which is hilarious to me, “Action figure. It was effing weird but I loved it still. I found it. Look at this funky guy.” And then posted a picture. I will post the picture in the video. What a weird action figure to make, and for someone to buy. Yeah. 100%. So, Alex said, “Two years ago, my dad was excited to give me anime car seat covers for Christmas. He accidentally bought the hentai ones.” That is absolutely- That’s so funny. Hilarious. That is so funny. If you don’t know what we’re talking about when we say the hentai ones, it’s the one with all the anime girls doing the ahegao face or whatever, where their tongue is out and they’re drooling. That is so funny. The video that Jamie will put in the video version of the show. Very funny. “My uncle liked to give us money hidden in everyday objects. So, when he gave me a tube of toothpaste, I legit sat there and squeezed it all out. He forgot to put the money in that year.” There’s so many layers to this that make it so funny. Thank you, Lauren. One; that an uncle likes to hide money in random objects for kids to find. It’s like a little game, which is great. Two; the uncle got Lauren a tube of toothpaste for Christmas. Yeah. What’s that trying to say? Which is so funny, because he didn’t have any money, so it literally was just a tube of toothpaste, which is hilarious. Three; that, as a child, you could bring yourself to believe that someone would’ve shoved dollar bills, rolled up dollar bills inside a tube of toothpaste, and that you’d be able to then squeeze them out. That is so funny to me. ‘Cause if you put a dollar in a tube of toothpaste, you’re never getting that dollar back. No. Well first- You’d have to cut into the tube. Yeah. You would have to roll it up so tightly and small-ly, and you would have to probably squeeze out a little bit of toothpaste to create space. Yeah. No, that’s hilarious. That is a fricking good one. This one was so sweet. Okay. “Growing up, I loved the Lilo and Stitch TV show and wanted a book of all the experiments from the show. But a book like that didn’t exist. My brother made me an entire guide of over 100 pages that had a photo of the experiment description, first appearance, et cetera.” That is so sweet. That’s so sweet. I’m not crying. I swear I’m not crying. All that was in this mug was Vanilla Dr. Pepper zero sugar. And it was only half full, and my throat got really dry when I was telling my big long story. Oh, I’m sorry. I shouldn’t- So, my throat’s dry and it’s causing me to tear up. But this is very sweet. Wow. What a brother. Literally. My brother would never do anything like that. Neither would mine. I mean, he would do thoughtful things, but not that. Over 100 pages. That’s so awesome. That is so sweet. “Worst, but funniest in hindsight gift I got was from my grandma on my father’s side. A T-shirt with a text, “The man, the myth, the legend.” And under the legend text was an arrow pointing down towards your crotch. I was 13.” Oh no. She doesn’t understand English very well. That is so sweet. That is endearing. That’s so funny and innocent. And just what a hilarious moment. Because she’s trying to build up her grandson. She’s like, “I do think that you’re a legend. You’re awesome. And then, maybe she’s like, “I don’t know, maybe in English, they point arrows down instead of up.” No, that is so funny. And as a 13 year old, to be be like, “Yeah, this wiener.” Then, it’s funny because then, too, if he were ever to wear that shirt, and his friends would probably think it’s funny. “Where’d you get it?” And to be like, “My grandma got it.” “My grandma got it for me.” No, that is hilarious. Lily Neal, aka Link’s daughter, said, “One time, my friend gave me a vinegar bottle full of maple syrup.” I mean- Why? Why? But also maybe it was really good maple syrup. Maybe they have a pancake thing that they do. There’s no context. But why? I don’t know. Why in a vinegar bottle? Why did you empty the vinegar? Do you think they put the vinegar in the maple syrup bottle? ‘Cause it’s just some part of an elaborate joke that I don’t get, or that I didn’t get to hear the second part of. Gonna need some context there, Lily. “Best gift, but worst delivery. My parents got me a 3DS one year, and forgot about it and gave it to me three months later when they found it.” That’s good. That’s funny. That’s a good one. Man, the Christmas gifts were a little light this year, and then three months later they’re like, “Oh, we forgot to give you one.” This one’s good. “Not mine, but I will never forget the year my dad got nothing but underwear. Everybody got him underwear. Even the person who drew his name at work got him underwear, lol.” That’s a great prank to pull on someone. That is a really funny, if you know that you’re gonna be at a family gathering and everyone’s good spirited and stuff, for you to plan something like, “Hey, this year we’re all gonna get dad underwear,” and everybody gets him underwear. That’s funny. That’s a good practical joke. But then, pretend like you didn’t know about it. Be like, “Oh my god, you got him underwear too?” That’s funny. I wanna do that. Maybe I’ll talk to the fam this year. Do that. Dad, don’t listen to that part. I don’t know if you listen to my show. “My mother bought me a printer for my birthday in elementary school. I was not allowed to use this printer.” I don’t think that that counts as a gift to you, then. Yeah. I don’t understand. She’s like, “Here you go honey.” I don’t know. How would that work? How would the giving part work? The unwrapping of. Yeah, I don’t know. That’s weird. “Hey, check out that thing over there on the desk that’s all wrapped up. Open it up.” And the kid just opens it. “What’s a Xerox?” Yeah. I always wonder what goes through people’s heads when they buy gifts. They’re like, “I would like this.” And it’s like, “Yeah, you. But you are not buying for you.” Yeah. I don’t know. Well, this was a fun little holiday episode. Pretty lighthearted. Kept it fun, which is pretty big for me. Trevor didn’t die on his ways to Idaho. I got to tell my epic tale that I hope to adapt into a seven film movie franchise someday. I hope that everyone has a great holiday season. I know that the holidays can be tough for some people, and for others they’re really great. Whatever holidays you’re celebrating, I hope that they’re filled with joy and love and the holidays are tougher for you. Just wish me a merry whatever holiday you want in my Twitter DMs and I’ll respond and be like, “Merry Hanukkah, Merry Kwanza, Merry Christmas.” What’s another? Arbor Day. “Merry Arbor Day.” That’s not soon, but still, send me a happy Abor Day. Don’t drive through the middle of nowhere at three in the morning in the snow to surprise your family. Just be safe. Be safe when you travel. It’s a good rule of thumb. Don’t follow in my footsteps. I’m stupid. No, but seriously, thank you everyone for listening to Trevor Talks Too Much. Check us out every Tuesday. We got new episode coming at ya. Check the video version out following Monday. Leave a review, leave a comment, leave a winky face in the Apple reviews and say, “Hey Trevor, nice socks,” ’cause I’ve got nice socks on today and I want everyone to know. I will be snuggled up in about 30 minutes with a nice mug of cocoa on my couch, reading a book. That’s how I’m gonna spend my evening. Bye.