In February 2020, Bridger Winegar decided to tease his forthcoming podcast on Instagram with what he thought was an innocent enough caption: “On March 12th, all hell breaks loose.” His podcast launch, as he soon learned, would not rank among that week’s more significant events. “Everyone else is acknowledging that the world is essentially over, and I’m online doing self-promotion,” says Winegar. “It was such a strange thing, but it kind of helped that the first 16 episodes were already recorded and not just me and a guest talking [about] what was still left on the store shelves.” His podcast, I Said No Gifts, has a simple enough conceit. Despite the title, each guest is compelled to bring Winegar some token to be opened and discussed. In an ideal scenario, the object says something about the guest. Quite often, it’s “something that somebody grabbed on their way out of the house or found in their car.” The quality of the present ultimately does not matter, thanks to Winegar’s day job as a comedy writer and …