Bad Dates with Jameela Jamil - INTRODUCING: I Need You Guys with Jenny Slate, Gabe Liedman, and Max Silvestri!

Episode Date: October 29, 2025

Say hello to the new show from SmartLess Media, I Need You Guys! Jenny Slate, Gabe Liedman, and Max Silvestri are comedians who have been best friends for over 20 years, and on I Need You Guys, their group chat has been made public; they’ll catch up, ask each other for advice, answer listener questions, and welcome a special guest into the chat every episode! Please enjoy this clip featuring the fabulous Jessi Klein, as Jenny needs the group’s help making sense of a very strange and very worrisome present that she received. You can call us with your etiquette question and leave a voicemail at 949-441-1231, or email us at [e-mail]! Follow us on Instagram and TikTok @ineedyouguysshow Subscribe to our YouTube channel to watch full video episodes. I Need You Guys with Gabe Liedman, Jenny Slate and Max Silvestri is a production of SmartLess Media. Produced by Anne Harris, Josh Richmond and Devon Torrey Bryant. Edited by Josh, with music by Devon. Executive Producers are Gabe, Jenny and Max. Executive Producers for SmartLess Media are Will Arnett, Jason Bateman, Sean Hayes, Richard Korson and Bernie Kaminski. Subscribe to SiriusXM Podcasts+ to listen to new episodes of Bad Dates ad-free. Start a free trial now on Apple Podcasts or by visiting siriusxm.com/podcastsplus. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

I need you guys. Hi, friends. I'm Jenny Slate. I'm Gabe Liebman. And I'm Max Silvestri. Here to tell you about our brand new smartless media podcast. I need you guys. We're comedians who've been best friends for over 20 years, and we need each other's advice on a regular basis just to navigate life.

Now we're asking our funniest friends and even podcast listeners to help solve our problems, while maybe offering a little advice of our own along. the way. We've already talked to guests like John Malaney, Sean Hayes, Nick Kroll, and Michelle Puto. I need you guys as new episodes every Tuesday. Check out this clip from one of our very first episodes. I might have maybe brought this up with Max, so I'm sorry if I kind of feel like I might have, but I can't remember. Okay, my husband owns the general store in our town. And we go there every day, and it is very cute. And sometimes people will like leave me stuff. there. So I get a package at the store. It has been not sent through the mail. It has been

dropped off. Okay. And honestly, I don't even know. Everyone's face just got a little gray. So, no, it's not, it's not scary, but it's not great. And they didn't know what you did last summer. Is that, that's what their note said? It was Ryan Felipe with it covered in crabs. It's a package. It's been hand delivered. It's like, it's like, kind of like a manila envelope. I'm like, oh, what's this? There's a letter inside. It's like, Like, hi, and also I've asked permission to tell this story. Okay. As my husband, if I could.

It's like, hi, Jenny. I am a friend of your in-laws. And I... I'm already drawn closer. Yeah. Okay, so it's like, okay, all right, okay. I'm a friend of your in-laws, and I love your husband's work. You know, he's a writer, love his work, and I wrote this novel, and I want you to

read it and let me know what you think because I think you first of all it's a novel okay sure yeah but it's a it's a it's a 12 hours it's a printout by the way it's like it's like also not a novel it's like not to be a shithead it's like 94 pages or something it's like how is it how is it about is it stapled is it you know those thing those fucking bracket brads man I would love a brat I hate to say this but I was worried it was brads go on it was brats yeah it was brads i'm like no it wasn't yeah it was brad single space double space what we're talking oh we're talking weird font like oh yeah courier courier oh courier oh courier's huge yeah yeah yeah it's like a typewriter yeah and it's just

like uh god and so he's like i'm thinking of you in the main role and the book of the book i guess for the very for the short book and pete davidson for the role of the The other person in the book That I've already written I'm like, what is this exactly? I'm thinking you could play the capital letters And he could play the little ones

Is it a screenplay or is it what is this? I but I'm like interesting interesting He says he knows my in-laws Yeah, a friend I proceed to read this First of all Yeah, you have to You have to at least start

You have to, yeah go on I was like I'm interested I mean what does he think I'm doing A good part is a good part I'm doing. Here's what he thinks I'm doing. There's no small scripts, only weird packages. Only books.

It's a book. It starts with the main character played by me. Who is? I don't know if I like it or don't like it. 19 years old. Oh. Nice. Well, Jenny, can I be honest?

I mean, I'm 43, but yeah. I love it. Go on. By the way, I'm like, I'm 43 and this character. through the next 94 pages you get just this man

let me tell you this man is like I know you're in-laws Okay I'm so scared right now I'm thinking of you for this character I'm so scared

proceeds to get fingered constantly for pages constantly for pages She gets fingered like a thousand times Does she like it?

Oh, she freaking loves me. Okay, then you're safe. That this Pete Davidson's her. Dave! Is fingering her. Like who's? Oh, Pete Davidson is finger. Yes, he is.

And then, I mean, I mean. Long, slender man, hands. Oh, my God. Like, I'm just like reading this being like, whoa, man, this is really, really not okay that this man sent this. He delivered it. He really wanted me to have it. And he's saying to me, I know your in-laws and I'm imagining you. And I have hands, which have fingers.

It's just so weird. And then at the end of the book, script or whatever, there's a scene in which the man, the male, grabs onto the boobs of my character, and he uses them to hoist himself up onto her body. Jen, I know. Like a climbing gym? Yeah, where? Was he on the floor? I'm sweating.

I don't know. It's like a rock climbing gym. Like just rah! Like he uses them for leverage to pull himself up onto her body, at which point he, quote, unquote, cocks the pistol and fires. I know. Does that mean jerk off once and then come? Like you just pull down a single...

Insert come. He kills her. No, Jenny! No! This is not a badly as it could have gone. Unrelated? Okay. Here's my question. Do we keep it?

Do we throw it out? Do we mention it to my in-laws? And what do I do if he comes to the store? Because he obviously has, does, and will. Okay, so do you know this person? Yeah, you definitely tell your in-laws. You definitely blow up his spot and make it weird for everyone. I'm like, so-and-so left this incredibly graphic novel.

Novel. Can you ask them not to kill me? Does your husband know him? He was like, oh, yeah, I know that guy's my parents' friend, but he hadn't, like, seen him in, like, a really, really long time. I actually think, by the way, that it's the Pete Davidson casting choice or whatever that might get killed. I can't remember now, actually.

Wait. Well, that's a big difference. Like, because the book sounds amazing up until the woman's murder. I thought the rest sounded good. The tits are, it's like, do you know how, like, a woman's body works? Like, yeah, it's not usually like a toe. hold. Yeah.

Maybe like the woman in Barbarian or something like that. If she's very tall and has, you know, long danglies or something and she's got mutant strength. Right, because you're thinking about long danglies, but I'm thinking about like bricks. Yeah, like a 19-year-old freshman's breasts. Absolutely. Totally. Like, she can't even get a mammogram because the machine would crack. She took a year off between high school and college because her boobs were so hard.

She just needed to lay down. I mean, I guess if you had some implants that were troublesome, but. But I, you know. How old, what, how old is he? He's a boomer. He's a boomer. Are you at all concerned about disrupting your in-law's friendship? Is that same worth protecting?

Well, lightly, Ben and I were like, to my father-in-law, like, hey, do you know, like this guy? And he was like, oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, he's a fucking pervert killer. He was very neutral about it. And I was like, huh, like, I don't know how to. Her killer, I know. Bobby Durst, of course I know. Yeah.

End up burping. Yeah, infamous stick man with a temper. Yeah. Had a lot of girlfriends that disappeared. Yeah. The man who originated slender man? Oh, yeah. He was a friend.

I don't know. Wouldn't want to be one of his murder victims, but otherwise, very nice. Killed them all, of course. Yeah. He used to have that camp for girls until he didn't. Absolutely. Oh, no. Yeah.

That guy? Oh, he burned down 50 years ago. Let me ask you in specific. If I see this person. Yeah. And he's like, hey, how you do? And I'm so and so. Because we've never met in person.

Right. Do I say, I didn't like that, but you, I don't know. Don't throw it out. And I need to say this. But it is evidence. Don't throw out the evidence. Right. I think don't, I would do some more digging about, like, with your in-laws, even if it puts

at risk, their very close friendship with the serial killer. Yeah. I don't think they're close. I don't think they're close, I'll say. I think, like, you ignore, like, get as much information as you can. See if there's anything troubling. And then my guess is that this will probably just fade away. And or he's going to write some Oscar-winning film based on this short story.

And you're going to feel like a real dipshit that you did not pursue. Totally. I don't think it's going to fade away. I think if you write a novel in a mania, and then have delusions of grandeur such that you get to expect it to be fast-tracked to being a movie with stars, you're not just like, hey, I shot my shot. Hey, I cocked my pistol. I got my pistol.

Shot my cum bullet and it didn't go. I think you may not hear about it again, but I bet he'll be thinking about it still. When you said you and your husband read it together, I'm imagining Julia Roberts and Denzel Washington in the Pelican brief up late. shirt sleeves rolled up going through five old so much Chinese food cars being like

a million half full warm Budwisers just like bridge of their nose glasses on the bridge of their nose just being like we got to keep going so much general soes

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