Best Friends with Nicole Byer and Sasheer Zamata - Nicole Imagines A Life Without Peanuts

Episode Date: October 8, 2025

Nicole and Sasheer finally take their first Buzzfeed quiz since the hiatus to figure out what fruit they are... but fair warning, it doesn’t go as expected. Also discussed are the many interpretations of the hugging emoji, going to the beach in New York, and ways to stay connected to friends while being in different life phases. Episode Quiz: https://www.buzzfeed.com/itztocaviolet/fruit-personality-quizWatch this full video on YouTube and follow below!Follow Nicole: Twitter, Instagram, TikTokFollow Sasheer: Instagram, TikTokLike the show? Rate Best Friends 5 stars on Spotify and Apple Podcasts!Have a friendship question for Nicole and Sasheer to solve? Leave us a voicemail at [phone]‬ or write in at [e-mail] Friends is a production of Headgum Studios. Our producer is Allie Kahan. Our executive producer is Anya Kanevskaya. The show is edited, mixed, and engineered by Richelle Chen.This is a Headgum podcast. Follow Headgum on Twitter, Instagram, and Tiktok. Advertise on Best Friends via Gumball.fm.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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You? How did you get here? I've been here. I've been here. Hmm? Me? I've been here. I was immediately going to ask you something, but I simply can't remember. Oh, come on.

Have you been to the beach this summer? Yes. Yeah, I have. Have you not? No, I've been to the beach this summer, but on vacation. I've not been to the beach here in California. We went to the beach. together.

Yes, that was on vacation. Oh, okay. But I've not been to the beach in California. Oh, I'm never at the beach in California. The water is cold. Yeah. Yeah, I guess, yeah, I could go to the beach. I just, yeah, I don't know why I haven't.

It's because the water's just so dang cold. Yeah. And then for my birthday, I wanted to go to San Diego. But then I was like, I just want to be at home. I've been traveling so much. It is funny that, like, I feel like there's definitely more beaches to go to in L.A., but when we were in New York, I

would keep trying to go to the beach. But I guess because it was like, it's so different than where, like, the concrete jungle was. Yeah, where dreams are made of. It's so different from Brooklyn. I think it probably was part of Rockaway, but it was like, you know, it's like, like

East Williamsburg. Like, it doesn't exist. Yes. Yes, they created a different part of Williamsburg. Mm-hmm. Interesting. And you went to that beach often? Yeah. I mean, I guess like every so often. I don't think I was there all the time, but like me. Because you didn't want to come to Brooklyn. Yeah.

Yeah, it's like, why would I leave Manhattan? Everything I need is right here. Yeah. And it wasn't an easy way to get there. You had to take, I mean, I guess none of the beaches were easy to get to, but you to a train to a ferry or people could bike there. I think I did bike there one time, which I hate it. But I'm pretty sure to get to. Coney Island, you just take the train. That's true. It's right off the stop. And I love that there's a boardwalk there. Yeah, that's cute. I was so confused, like, coming to the beaches here where there was no boardwalk. I was like, what the fuck? Where do you get cotton candy? Where do you walk? Yeah, where do you walk? You just walk on the sand? What are we doing? Because the Jersey Shore, where I grew up, there's, you know, boardwalk. Yeah. And people are shit-faced by 3 p.m.

In Santa Monica, there's a pier. Yeah, but that's a pier over the beach. There's no, like, bored. Oh, wait, I don't know if I know the difference. So, like, there's, there isn't really beach access from that pier. Oh, so boardwalk is, like, along the beach? Yeah, so beach is here, and then beach ends, and then there's sidewalk along the beach, and then on that side is, like, food. I see, got it.

And then sometimes, like, in Asbury, where I like to go, there's also, like, a bar over here, and you're technically not supposed to bring your drinks onto the beach. but I watched a woman pour her drink into her backpack, which I assumed she had some sort of canister. And I watched her with an open mouth, and then she looked at me, she went, That's fun. And then we watched her like, walk the sloppy,

like, she was so sloppily walking across the sand in a way that I was like, I don't think you needed the to-go cup, and I think it's all over your bag now. That's really funny. She's like, I will definitely have this later. Everything's destroyed. Just sloshed. around you yeah so and then yeah the santa monica pier it's too far up from the beach for it to be

good for me mm-hmm i get that yeah but i do like it it's a nice time have you been to long beach i have been to long beach and the beach is there i don't think they have a boardwalk and i i just remember not enjoying my time yeah there you go there you go there you go there's no beaches here there's no there's yeah there's no beaches here this coastal state there are no beaches here we went to one in um malibu that was pretty nice although there was the steps yeah it had a million stairs that was not great tess took me to a beach once where it took two hours to get there not her fault traffic and the minute we set up our chairs an overcast happened oh no and it was so dark and then the

waves were so high and we watched several people almost drowned oh my gosh I was like this is not relaxing no but then we got soft serve which made up for it okay oh my god that soft serve was so good I'm still thinking about the sizzler it sounded great yeah last night I was like should we go back to the sizzler because you just get a different entree you get different food I could just get the salad bar for 1799 and have two cups of ice cream What? Are they paying you? For $17.99, you can get the cellar and the ice cream.

No, Sizzler's not paying me, but they did thank me for posting on Instagram. That's true. They didn't do that. Oh, boy. I want soft serve so bad, and there's the window right near here. I think I've mentioned this before. But, like, it takes everything in me not to stop there every time I'm here and just getting a big, nasty peanut buddy. is it like a peanut butter ice cream or is it like vanilla ice cream with peanut butter on top of it

there is no peanut butter involved it's a peanut buddy so not peanut butter buddy it's a peanut butter buddy it's a peanut buddy so peanuts are on it okay so it's a cone and then they go and they put the ice cream on top the soft syrup and then they dip it in the chocolate and then before it's fully dry they like roll it around in peanuts and then they give it to you nice and that's really nice. What would happen if you found out one day that you were allergic to peanuts? No. I don't want that. I don't. No. I don't. It's not going to happen. Oh, no. I don't wish that on you. They do. It won't happen. It won't happen. My life flashed before my eyes. The thought of not having any more nuts for nuts

the idea of not having another peanut buddy the idea I'm not eating peanuts out of the shell with like a Welsh's gummy fruit snack to mimic a PB&J before my life oh my God I didn't know you were doing microdose

PB&Js I love peanuts you do I'm sorry I even brought it up it won't happen it was so mean I came here for a ice time. But it happened to me I used to eat shrimp all the time and I couldn't even more. And I feel for you

because you loved shrimp. I loved shrimp. You would get shrimp all the time. All the time. And my pasta popcorn. We would go to the Triple Crown, which was a disgusting Irish pubby restaurant, kind of a dive. Very dark because they didn't want you to see things in there.

And you would get shrimp there. And I was always like, she is brave. Brave. It didn't discriminate. I don't care where you got your shrimp. It could be from the sewer. I'll eat it. From the sewer. I mean, one of the times that I had an allergic reaction was at a diner that was sketched that I should, like near time square.

And I was like, I'll have the shrimp ball freight out. And Mateo's like, why? That is very funny that you would just eat shrimp from any old place. And then what led to the diagnosis that you couldn't have seafood anymore? Or shellfish, sorry. The welts on my face. Oh. Because my face would just blow up.

It really happened like all of a sudden. It wasn't, there's no gradual thing just all, like I had surf and turf, had lobster, welts on my face. And I was like, that was weird and took Benadryl on the way down. And then had shrimp again. And then it happened again. I think I had shrimp two more times. And I was like, all right, well, I guess I have to stop.

And then I did take an allergy test with the doctor and shellfish was blaring on there. Oh, my God. Yeah. I honestly don't know what I would do if I was allergic to peanuts Yeah I'm eating them all the time All the time

You really put that I'm so sorry I'm gonna think about that all day Like what if What if I have a peanut buddy And then my face blows up Yeah Here's the thing

I wouldn't stop eating them I would just take Benadryl I wonder if there's a way to Like I guess how would you know how would you prevent something from becoming an allergy but I guess it's like your body just does what it does

yeah because it's like people develop gluten intolerances I didn't know how bad gluten intolerance was what do you mean like how prevalent it is or like no no like our we have a friend who's gluten intolerant and they're like out of commission for a week if they have gluten

or they be pooping bad yeah it's not great yeah rude poos rude poos Don't want those. Yeah. I don't want to become allergic to gluten. I'm like kind of allergic to gluten, but I still, I still eat it. It's not bad for me.

I don't want to be allergic to anything. I want my body to be strong. Endore everything. Yeah, I just want to be able to eat everything. And so far, so good. Yeah. Except for cheese and dairy. Okay.

That makes me ratat-ta-ta-ta. Yeah. But if I take lactate? Yeah, it's okay. Great. Or emodium. Have you ever had an emotium? I haven't.

Girl, if you are shitting and uncontrollably and you take an emodium, somehow it stops it up, but you don't get a tummy ache. Oh. It stops, like, I guess it like is like if you could turn off a waterfall. Mm. So it's still in there. I think. And is it like now the poops are formed or is it still like?

I don't think it's like shaping your shit. Well, like, because if you have diarrhea, it's like runny, right? Yeah. but is the emodium right like you've never had diarrhea you're like so like i've heard i'm that like diarrhea's runny you know bitch you know you've had the runs i mean i know that's how my diarrhea works i don't know how other people's diarrhea works everyone's diarrhea is loose tools i'm not taking poles out of people's stool that's just diarrhea that's what i assume that's why i was confirming but you said right like you'd never had diarrhea rarely do i have diarrhea but i have had diarrhea and it is

running. I'm just making sure that's consistent with your diarrhea. Yes, my diarrhea is running. Nice. And emotium stops it. But does, when you poop again, is the poop runny or formed? See, that I don't know. I didn't

like take an observation. I just took it and was like, whoa. Yeah. I don't feel bad. I don't feel great. But it's stopped. Is it immediate? Or does it have to like? I think It took like 15, 20 minutes.

That's great. Yeah, it was nice. And then I was able to, like, go out in the world and live. I felt like one of those commercials. I was like, I can canoe. I'm not controlled by my diarrhea. I'm not going to let diarrhea ruin my fun time. I mean, yes, that's what happened.

Great. Oh, boy. I'm so glad. Thank you. Thank you so much. I can't believe. Diarria is running, right? I can't, because I'm not often talking to people about the consistency of their day.

So I'm like, are there some people who have diarrhea that's not runny? Is it just logs, a lot of logs coming out of them? It's like sausage lengths. Yeah, just like coming down row by row. I also hate that you did that initially. That was really upsetting for me. Diarrhea? It's so funny.

Just so much diarrhea. For those who are just listening and not watching, watching the video, I would guess I hop to YouTube. Hop to YouTube to see me do a hand job motion. This is probably a minute 14 of the podcast. Yuck. Oh, Lord. I've been having trouble remembering.

I was going to say something else, and then I can't remember. Do you feel like it's getting worse, or is it, like, consistent? No, I think my body's just catching up to being super busy, because I haven't been this busy in a minute. And I think my body's like, bitch, what's happening? Is your period coming? Or are you on your period? I feel like I get foggy when I'm on my period.

It might be coming. Yeah. I never check. I'm always constantly surprised. I am 76 years old. I should just look at my little fucking app to see if it's coming. Because I guess, yeah, I do get like a little brain foggy beforehand, but then my emotions are wild. Yeah.

The older I get, the more I'm like. like, everyone's out to get me. The Lady of Gelson's hates me. That man who hangs out with me, he's going to kill me. Oh, no. Sounds like you're paranoid. So shear's going to stab me in the eye. What?

This happens every month. This sucks. It does. It does. And I did look into getting a hysterectomy. And they were like, that is invasive surgery. You can't. Also, you might want to have children.

And I was like, well, don't tack that on. Just tell me it's invasive and I can't have it as an elective surgery. Yeah, like that shouldn't be a factory. You're already at the doctor. You know the wrist. Yeah. And I don't want kids. Yeah.

Get rid of it. Fuck. Pee you. Pee, you. Kids are stinky. But if you have a kid, like, good on you. Yeah, they're already here. What are you going to do?

Yeah, the people who are planning on having kids. Fuck you. You guys are idiots. But I do love a baby. I love a baby so much. Yeah. You don't love babies. I don't, I, like, I could take them or leave them.

They smell so good. Yeah. I guess. They smell like babies, yeah. You don't, you've never smelled like a baby head and been like, whoa. That's nice. I'm not often that close to their heads or to them at all. I don't like, I feel like they're too fragile.

I don't want to have them actually in my arms. Fair. Whenever a friend has a baby, I'm always like, let me hold your baby. And then once that baby hits a one and a half, You'll never hear from me again. Because then they start, like, moving and, like, grooving, and then they want the person that they love. They don't want me.

They don't know me. That makes sense, yeah. And I want somebody who doesn't know me. I want them fresh. They haven't been attached to anybody yet. Kind of. And they're just little beans, and you're like, oh, my God. That is nice.

And then you get to do, like, they appreciate voices the way that adults don't. You've seen it happen in restaurants where, like, I'll be like, I'm going to have a burger. And they're like, sure. But babies, they like that. Yeah, they still have whimsy in them. Yes. Adults don't.

They don't. And I don't understand why. Where do you think adults lose their whimsy? Ooh. Any middle school? High school? I think you're right with middle school. Right?

It feels like that's one of the kids are the meanest. Yeah. Or like when we're trying to like make rules and boundaries for people of like what's, socially acceptable, what's cool, what we don't like. And then, like, we haven't gotten to a place where we feel like, I mean, I don't know about we. Not everybody feels this way, but some people feel like not self-assured enough

to say, that's bullshit. I'm not going to follow these rules that you just made up. I can just do my thing. Some people do, and that's beautiful. And I'm so glad that there are people who can do that. But I do think a lot of people want approval. Yeah.

Yeah. But it's also funny, like, as an adult, people don't, like, re-fine the whimsy. And, like, they don't do the things they want to do. They just, like, work a sad job that they don't like. Yeah. And then, like, live in a town that they hate and friends that they don't like. And it's, like, you can dress in a tutu and twirl. In a different state.

In a different state. If you don't want to do that. Different friends. I think it's fair. based it's like because maybe they haven't seen anyone do that so they're like well why would i do that you know yeah or they have seen someone do that and they got made fun of or something and they're like well i don't want to be the person that's getting made fun of or made to feel different or weird and a lot of people don't like attention either so that they look different

in some way or they're acting different in some way they're like well people are going to notice it is funny that people don't i love attention but then sometimes i don't love attention because my little airplane outfit is either a black sweatsuit when i don't want attention or it is the loudest most colorful sweatsuit and whenever I wear it and I don't get compliments I'm furious I'm like I look different than everybody else and you don't want to say something someone comment on it please someone tell me I look beautiful I wear it to the Delta One lounge and everyone kept telling me how beautiful I was that's and then she sweeps her hair oh I'm so glad you got that thank you Sometimes, you've never just, like, put on an outfit and been like, I want to be told I'm beautiful? Hmm. I have put outfits together and been like, I think I look great.

And I hope other people do, too. But I guess I don't do it because I don't do it intending to get compliments. If that makes sense. I mean, I don't do it with the intention to get compliments. I'll just, like, complete the look at the mirror and be like, if I don't get compliments tonight, I'm going to pull. lot of gun. Okay, well, yeah, I'm definitely not doing that. Really? You don't like, you're not mad when you get home if you don't get a single, like, like if somebody doesn't compliment you,

you're not like, I can't believe. Heaven's the betcha you I'm mad. I mean, if I'm trying something new, it's like I got a new hat or like I'm wearing something in a new way. I've got a scarf around my neck or something and I'm like, I want somebody notice. And then I see people and no one says anything. I'll be like, do you like my hat? What do you think of this? What do you think of his luck? That is funny, because I have heard you do that. What do you think? Like, it'll just be, like, in the middle of a calm room.

But, like, the sun is really hot. Do you like my hat? Which is very funny. Maybe I, because also, maybe if I don't do that, I will get a gun. Like, I need to have, I need, it's, like, brewing in me. And I'm like, I can't believe you know I was to put my hat yet. Do you like it or what? Okay, great.

Now you move on and talk about the sun. Yes, that's how I am. Mm-hmm. But I don't do, I won't say, do you like it? But maybe I'll get into that. Maybe that's how I'll get my compliment. Yeah. Ask for them.

Yeah. Just ask for them. Mm-hmm. I'm going to start asking after this break. And we're back. Speaking of organic, I was actually talking to Susie Barrett for her podcast. I'm at improv. Mm-hmm.

And we were talking about a doppelganger, our old improv group. And how we used to do organic transitions. And I was like, I cannot believe we did that for so long. No, I can't believe we did that either. It's so labor-intensive. It's a lot of movement. Yeah, if you don't know an organic, like, opening to improv or, like, organic scene changes is, like, you move your body and you use your voice.

That informs what the scene is. And that let us, we would roll around on the floor so much. And, like, run around the theater. We would be so sweat. We had to, like, when we were performing at UCB, we'd go to Mercedes, the grocery store upstairs, open the freezer and, like, stick our faces in there. Because we were so hot from, like, the workout of performing. And then there was a group called Bass Prove. There was two people pretending to be on a boat, fishing, just talking.

And I remember when I first saw it, I was like, this is so boring. I can't believe they were just sitting there. And now I get it. I just want to sit. Yeah, we'll be hot air balloon proff. Sit it. Sit it? Seated.

I will be seated. I will be seated and I will do the improv. But yeah, we would just be so tired. Like, just sweating, drenched and sweat. Oh my God. Those were the days. We were so young. We were so young.

So full of life. Yeah. Promise and hope. When you said organic, it reminded me. I found a website that gives you fruits you've never heard. heard of. And by gives, you have to buy them. But I just learned the strain of bananas we eat is not the original strain of banana.

I heard that recently, too. And runts, the runt flavor of banana. Is what they're supposed to taste like? Is what they're supposed to taste. That's based on the, I think it's called a Mara Elizabeth. That's wrong. Mara Liz. Mary Elizabeth.

Mary Elizabeth. Winston. Winston. I'm sorry. Allie, do you mind looking up what the original banana is? What is the original?

What answer are you looking for? Like, where does it come from? No, the name of the strain of banana. Oh, okay. Because apparently a fungus took out that banana. So then the bananas that we eat, whatever they're called,

they're more resistant to that fungus. But I found a website that will give me the bananas that I want. Where do they come from? Oh, she's getting her phone. Did I tell you that I had a sweet banana in Japan? Yes. And I think you had maybe this strain.

This strain of banana. The original banana was known as the gross Michelle, also known as Big Mike. Yes. Which was a popular commercial banana variety until the mid-20th century, and it was nearly wiped out by a fungal disease called Panama disease. which is why it's no longer commercially available in many places. The cavend dish banana is a different variety, and that was introduced as the replacement because it's resistant to Panama disease.

Oh, wow. Yeah. So this website is called Miami Fruit.org, and they have things like a goldenberry Peruvian ground cherry or a gold nugget Mandarin orange or a gamboosh lemon mangagouche. I don't know. There's so many weird fruits.

So what I'm going to do is I'm going to order a bunch of fruits and I'm going to have a fruit party. I like that. I want to try these fruits. Right? Don't they look cool as hell? They do look cool as hell. I don't get on a desktop though because they're not showing me

enough fruits. I want to see more per page. I need this on a wider screen. But they have like a bunch of fun-looking cherries and stuff. Yeah. And what I've learned is I love, organic fruit like not to be like you know like uppity about it i mean we should all be eating organic fruit the fact that we have fruit that's not is crazy it is crazy um but like i thought i

didn't like uh tomatoes until i went to italy and was like oh my god i fucking love tomatoes so now i know i got to look for like heirloom tomatoes or uh on the vine tomatoes those are like kind of the sweetest ones um but i had strawberries that were so delicious from a farmer market recently that I was like I love fruit I love fruit and I and then at the sizzler I had watermelon that's so good I don't know where they're sourcing it from but I was like it's really good apparently so good yeah and I'm like I think I want to have like a fruit time yeah I want a fruit time I love fruit okay you're invited to the fruit party great thank you I don't know when it's all gonna come though does it come at different times or yeah I haven't really investigated their shipping

schedule mm-hmm they just discovered it last night okay well Get on the horn. But it also blew my mind that runts are based on the flavor of the gross Michelle banana because I love banana runts and I hate bananas. I just assumed, yeah, it was like artificial flavoring. Like they just, I mean, it is artificial flavoring, but just like enhanced it to be like super sweet. Mm-hmm. But apparently it's...

Did the banana you eat in Japan taste like a runt? No, it wasn't that sweet. It was sweeter than what we have in the States. Isn't that sick that we have robbed? people of sweet bananas? Yeah, I just thought, I just assumed they were bland. It's wild.

It's just simply wild. Wild. The strawberries I grow are pretty sweet, but I got this other variety of strawberry that's even sweeter. I got them from Etsy when I was a farmer years ago right before the pandemic. And I don't, oh, I guess I could go through my email.

Let's see what's up. Like the seeds are from Etsy? The starter plant was from Etsy. I am not a seed farmer. I see. I don't know how to do that. All right. But there was a little,

he wasn't a caterpillar. I think he's called a tobacco moth, but he was a tobacco moth caterpillar. Maybe that's a, I don't know. He was a big green guy that I thought was a branch until I was like, you've been munching? So I took the tomatoes, he munched, and I planted them. And they were sprouting.

Nice. So you do work with seeds. I am a seed worker. Wow. Never sell yourself short. Look at that. I like that. Hey, thanks.

I also want to do my library club. I have so many grand plans for me. What's the library club? Oh, going to the library. You did describe this, yes. I do want to do that. We all enjoy physical media. I would love to.

Should we do a quiz? Let's do a quiz. Yeah. A specific fruit. Everyone embodies a specific fruit, and you can't go another day without finding out yours. Ooh, what's your favorite season? Summer.

Winter. fall spring I like more than one I don't really have a favorite my favorite season spring I do love spring but I love swimming

so I think I'm going to have to say summer I can see that you also love the sun the sun is good the sun is good the sun makes your skin my skin is thriving yeah thriving thriving the sun and the medication I'm and your favorite dessert pie

gummies sugar cookies who the fuck's going to say gummies as a dessert yeah it's a snack I would be so mad if I went to someone's home for dinner and I have dessert a plate of gummies

what if they made the gummies so with what it's a big gummy or they may be like chopped up in little pieces no we're not friends anymore and I'm talking about you I'm going to talk about you to everybody who will listen and don't go.

Mm-hmm. Don't go. They have gummies. Ugh. Sugar cookies. Cupcakes. I don't like dessert, or at least not any of these. I'll take them all.

I mean, at a dinner party? Well, did it say dinner party or just a dessert? It just said dessert. It didn't specify where we were. I sure didn't. I mean, a dinner party? I think sugar cookies for me. I wish they were chocolate chip cookies, but I would.

I would do a short cookie. I think I'm going to do Cupcake. Mm-hmm. Although I do have to take you to this place that has a great cobbler. It's called Lingua Franca. Okay. And it's in Atwater? No, it's in Frogtown.

Mm-hmm. And they won't let you order it if it's just two of you. And it's because it's big. Oh. But it was the best cobbler I have ever had in my whole life. I like that. I was sliding out of my chair, wet with half of it. Damn.

Let's have a dessert party. Pick a video game. Animal Crossing. You have feelings about that. Animal Crossing. I played for months. Everyone had a house. I couldn't have a house.

I couldn't figure out how to get a house. And then you start in debt to Tim Nook. And then I would go fishing and catch boots. Animal Crossing was so mean to me. I'm so sorry. Hey, thanks. Fortnite. Anything Mario.

Roblox. I don't know what Roblox is. Anything Sonic! Oh, I don't like video games. I'm judging you. Wow. I'm picking anything Sonic. Yeah.

I think I'm going to pick Anything Sonic, too. That's really, like, the... That's nice. Only one I played it when I was younger. When I played Topgolf, they had a Sonic thing. Like, a theme? Yeah, Topgolf is hard. Do you get it?

Yeah, it is hard, because they, like, yeah, they have, like, sections lit up that you're supposed to, like, aim for. And then you're supposed to aim for... the things that they tells you on the screen but i'm like the screen's not in front of me right is that it's not easy no it's tough pick a game monopoly i prefer puzzles ugh what an asshole uno katan anything with a standard deck oh i don't games i think it's i don't like games or i don't game i don't games get out of here well i'm picking u no yeah apparently uno is going to be a casino's And I'm like, how?

They're trying to get black people to get there. They truly are. But I'm like, but what rules will it be the Uno standard rules? I know, that's pretty hard. Because that will cause fights. I thought, I think I saw a post from Uno that was like, we actually are delaying this to figure out which rules are going to be the casino rules, I think. Wow, you'll love to see it because I think Uno tells you you can't do like, so I play

where if you have like a draw four, it's still on you. Or it skips the next person. Wait, what is it? Oh, I play where you can put down like a draw, like two draw fours. Uh-huh. Or like two draw twos. Uh-huh.

Or like two reverses. And I think in the official rules, you can't do that. Oh. Damn. I... Wow, you don't want to be an Uno head? There's too many rules. There is a lot of rules, too, no. Um, I'm not an Uno head.

Anything with the standard deck, I do like card games. Poker? Poker's hard. Poker's hard. I like speed or spoons or spades or kemps or, um, yeah. The only one I know is spades. Okay. I like spades.

I haven't played spades in forever. I haven't played a long time either. I need a repression. Mm-hmm. Pick an emoji. Crying laughing phase? crying so much hugging

that's hugging just to people hugging what did you think it was choking I think it was like a recorder like a like a like a camcorder

oh wow okay uh oh are your contacts in wait a minute I could have sworn there is a like film like camp

camera emoji. It doesn't, it's not that. I can only see two blue people hugging. Well, now I see it, but I thought the camera was, the camera's not blue. No, it's like black and gray. Oh, shit. Oh, shit. We've been sending people hugs when you thought there was a camera. This is wild, because to me this looks like a camera. Oh, yeah, the shape of it. Yeah, and it's so little. Did you find the film one, though? I did, and it's black.

Yeah. Why they blue? To make it like... Ambiguous. Yeah, ambiguous. Any people? A punch. A heart.

Is that chicken or turkey? I have questions about everything now. Oh, no. Is that chicken or turkey? I assumed it was a chicken drumstick. It could be turkey. I guess now it could be turkey, yeah. But I don't think all...

I don't think they're that... ridiculous. Could be chicken or could be turkey. Yeah, I guess it could be anything, really. Could be pigeon. Poultry. Yeah, poultry. Okay.

The emoji I'm picking is a heart. I think I use the heart the most. I use the crying, the like real sobbing with like the, oh, little teeth. Yeah. Which do you post on the most? Twitter. This feels like a survey now. It does.

Facebook. YouTube. Instagram depends on what I'm posting I don't post on any of these and I don't plan on it Wow there is one Sassy person This quiz

Well I only really post on Instagram same also only on Instagram But I do have a Facebook Oh But it's a faux book Because I'm not friends with anybody She's creeping I'm just a part of Geotracker groups

And going on Facebook Marketplace Wait what are Geotracker groups The car, the Geotracker Facebook groups With other Geotracker lovers How would you like to spend your vacation Hanging out on the beach Doing something spontaneous

Spending quality time with family and friends Yuck Visiting famous sites At home On vacation I guess we have time off from work That's on a vacation Yeah, that's just living

Camping Um Beach Yeah I would say Also beach The picture of doing something spontaneous Is just someone's feet outside the car

They're so crazy Have you seen them It's like a meme with a girl The Bag of P's on her hand It's like Casey's crazy It's one of my favorite picture I do love it She's so crazy

How old are you Be honest Twelve or under 13 to 15? 16 to 18. 19 to 21. 21 to 30? Older than 30.

Well, that's nice. Just anything older than 30. Not 40s, 50, 60, 70s, 80s. Nope. Just older than 30. We're all grouped together. I'm also, we're both older than 30. Be honest.

21. No one would believe we're 21. No, but someone did think it was 30 last night. Where were you? at the Long Story Short party. Oh, yeah. Mm-hmm. I couldn't make it.

No, I understand. Did you roller skate? I didn't. Oh. Hardly anyone did. Oh. And the floor wasn't that great. Oh.

Yeah. Your friends would describe you as complex. Hilarious. Outgoing. Smart. Quiet. Serious. I think my friends would describe me as quiet or serious.

Just kidding. I'm so good. crazy. I'm so crazy. I think outgoing. Yeah. Um, I don't know how my friends would describe me. Hmm. Are you smart? Yeah. Okay. Because you're not serious. Yeah, I'm not serious. Maybe some people would think I'm serious, but I feel like my friends would not think that. I think strangers would think you're serious. Mm-hmm. And then outgoing, sometimes, but not really. not like a very specific window I can be outgoing

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Other. Other. Oh, yeah, other. I'm going to say art. I loved drawing. Yeah. I did too. Yeah, maybe.

I was really good at math and I was really good at art. And that's why I thought I was going to be an architect. Whoa. Did you know a woman built the Brooklyn Bridge? I did not know that. Yeah. So I learned this from the Gilded Age. But then I had to do further, you know, wrestling.

Yes, digging. Her husband was in charge, like the head architect. and then he got sick so then he was only relaying information through her and then in that she learned architecture and then helped with some of the design. I love that.

They didn't want to tell anybody because they were like, men won't walk across the bridge if they know a woman made it. That's so funny. Not funny. Well, I'm gonna die. Grow up. Grow up. Yeah, I guess I was...

What happened? It needs a sight. My thing just, like, reboot it all by itself. Oh, no. Good Lord. Mine's doing great. Isn't that nice? Mine's doing great.

Choose a paper, hobby. Oh, no. Wait, hold on. I have to redo a whole damn thing again. All right, spring. Cards. Will this even be worth it? I know.

This is better. I better really love the fruit it gives me. Truly. If it doesn't give me a strawberry, I'm getting a gun. I love strawberries. what is happening a problem occurred with BuzzFeed blah blah blah quiz

all right I'll persevere choose a paper hobby origami is that mean to leave you behind no no it's fine I'll figure out I won't George Bush you no I will George Bush you no one's left behind

that's that's his lasting impression on me and his presidency is no children left behind, which I think is so silly because some of the children do need to be left behind. Yeah, it needs an extra time. A little extra cooking. All right, I'm waiting on you.

Thank you. You're welcome. Ooh. Choose a paper hobby origami drawing or sketching, doodling, coloring, writing, paper collages. I'm going to say, drawing. Including yourself, how many friends are in your friend group? Five plus five plus. but I'm not close with them?

What? No, that's a friend group. Three to five, but I'm not close with them. What? Five plus, and I'm close with most of them. Three to five, and I'm close with most of them. I don't have a friend group. It's just me and my bestie.

My friends don't really know each other. Hmm, interesting. I have different friend groups. Mm-hmm. But I guess I would say three to five, and I'm close with most of them in the different groups. Yeah, that sounds right. Okay.

Choose a movie genre, action, comedy, anime, science fiction. Science fiction, fantasy, other. I'm going to say action. I love action movies. Yeah. This is long. Choose a book genre and don't fiction. Commentary?

What's a commentary book? Graphic novels, romance, science fiction, and or fantasy. I don't really read books. I like romance. Mm-hmm. And finally, which fruit do you think you'll get? Is it just, are they just giving you that fruit? Probably.

Banana, apple, pineapple. This pineapple has sunglasses on it. Strawberry. Watermelon, Kiwi. I either want watermelon or strawberry. I'm going to say strawberry. I'm a Kiwi. I hated this quiz.

You're introverted, sweet. I just, I told them I was out going. Yeah, how are you going? Okay, so you're introverted. superverted, sweet, reliable, and kind, and you often put up, put other people before yourself. Who knew a Kiwi was so complex? You kind of feel neutral about talking to strangers, but find it easy to open up to longtime friends. You probably find one-on-one friendships to be better or easier to manage them big friend groups. This might be the last BuzzFee,

quiz we do. Yeah. To fund BuzzFeed. I can't believe that. It was like, rebooting on my phone there's too many ads I was like the things were spinning in my eyeballs I couldn't complete it that's not

the description of you you're not Kiwi I'm a bold strawberry or a watermelon I believe that I say a pineapple little prickly but sweet on the inside

I like that too I don't any bus fee for this I'm living what do you think I actually I think I'm a kiwi Maybe you might be a Kiwi But I was thinking like a mango

Where it's like you have one thing on the outside But there's something different on the inside Okay Where it's like you don't know what you're going to get with Sashir It sounds like Like the intro to like A reality show or something It's like you never know what you're going to get this shit

And I'm okay I think of a watermelon Heart exterior Sweetness on the inside All right I was thinking about my tattoos the other day because I have a menagerie of fruit on my butt

or of like food on my butt and I have a watermelon a strawberry and a banana and it says juicy I feel like the artist should have said you know bananas aren't juicy right

I was looking at it the other day and I was like what? What was I thinking? And how long have you had that tattoo? at least a decade but I was just like looking at my butt and I was like why did I get a banana that's juicy bananas famously not juicy creamy not even sweet anymore

nope not with the strain we get did you was it because it was phallic you just wanted something like probably phallic on your body probably yeah but I also have a lemon that says when life gives you lemons suck a dick so like I've already covered the phallic part of fruit. You literally spelled it. You didn't even have

to have a, like, implication. She was like, are you sure you want Dick written on your body? And I was like, tat me up. But I really do think she could have asked about the banana. Like, as far as as I know, bananas are not choosing. That's very funny.

Do we answer some questions? Yeah. Yeah. Hi, Nicole and Sashir. I'm looking for advice on whether or not to talk to one of my best friends about how I'm worried she's moving too fast in her current relationship. She's been with this guy for about nine months and they've been talking about getting married for a while and last week she told me he's picked out a ring. Her boyfriend is devoutly Christian. She's much more casually religious and they've decided not to have sex or live together until they're

married, which are preferences she did not have before she met him. They also have a small age gap. She's 27 and he's 21 and he's still in college. She seems really happy. I don't want to cross any lines, but these things seem like signs of rushing to me. But I'm also a lesbian who's had bad experiences with religion and no personal desire to get married, so I'm probably biased. Do you think there's a good way to tell her I'm worried she's rushing into getting married? Or am I being paranoid and should just let it be? Thank you guys for the awesome stuff you do. I'm obsessed with sitcoms and I adore home economics and grand crew. Rest in peace to those two years. I'm glad you liked it. Thanks for watching. You didn't watch hard enough.

um this one's tough for me because at the end of it i was like oh i do actually think you're projecting like you've had bad experiences with religion she's with a religious person and is kind of following their religion things i honestly think nine months that's almost a year sure it's moving fast but if two people want to do it two people are going to do it i guess the only thing that's screaming at me is the age he's 21 yes that's really young for anybody like even if she was also 21 if the both of them are 21 that's a really young group of people to make a big decision like that and yeah I guess I yeah even aside from like the religious factor of it, but also part of me is like, they're horny. Of course they want to get married

fast. If that's the only thing keeping them from having sex, they're like, let's do it tomorrow. Yeah. Let's get married. Yeah. So, yeah, I think I would be worried, or not worry, but I would question it. I'd be like, I don't know, this kid's young. And it's still, you know, you haven't reached a year. Nine months, I do believe someone in nine months can come to the conclusion that they do want to marry their partner. But I don't trust a 21-year-old. And, yeah, I would kind of want both of them to have some more life experience before they make a decision like that.

But also, it is their life. And they could work out. Like, some people do get married that young and stay married their whole lives. So a lot of people used to do that all the time. Yeah. I feel like the worst that happens is you get a divorce. Yeah. I would just, the only thing I would be worried about is finances.

Is this 21-year-old making money? Does this older lady have money? I would just, I would have your friend, like, I don't know, have the conversation. Like, do you really think, do you think you're rushing into it? I mean, that's an okay, you know, question to ask. But then if they go, no, that's the answer you have to accept. And then I think you could be like, well, I think you should protect yourself financially. I'm not like suggesting anything.

I'm just saying in the, like in the future, if it doesn't work out, you're protected and your money is your money. I like that. And it makes it specific. So it's not just like, you know, you're like I don't want you to get married because it seems too fast. It's like I'm worried about your finances.

Like that's a valid concern. And also, yeah, maybe you could, maybe for the person who's writing in too, for yourself, think of why this bothers you. Like is it really the speed or is it also like, like, what do you, is it also the guy? Like, do you, do you not even want this marriage to happen at all? Or would it feel okay if it happened in a year or two?

Like, what's, or if it was an older person? Yeah, like, what specifically is bugging you about it? And maybe when you get to that point where you can identify it, maybe bring that up. And if, you know, if it is like, this guy's really young, do you feel like this, this is a partner that can really, like, be in a secure relationship with you and, like, show up as an adult partner for you? And if the answer is yes, then that's the answer. Or whatever the thing is.

But yeah, I think making it specific and not being like, this feels fast is helpful. I think so, too. I think that's also, like, a very good point to bring up to be like, he is younger than you. Do you think he'll be able to show up emotionally as a partner or equal to you?

Can this person contribute even though they're still in college? But I'm very much like, protect y'all. money make sure you know what's going on with your money don't fund a 21 year old

startup I don't know I don't know what the kid does yeah I mean yeah also like if they just got out college will you be the first

like adult living situation this person's been in like did they go from their parents' house to college to your house or like what's the situation here

which is you know it's just like what are you comfortable with yeah I think those are all good things to you know raise to a friend because it's like we're just friends we're just we're just talking we're just talking these are just words you do whatever you want to do but i'm just putting it out there you're sorry you were talking and i was starting to say soft and it's like oh no it's okay

should we do one more yes uh hi nicole and sashir i have a friendship question i'm hoping you can help me with i'm a 34 year old single woman living in brooklyn and as you can imagine most of my friends have gotten married and are popping out their first and even second and third kids. I love my girlfriends and would truly jump in front of a bus to protect their babies. And I'm content with my life and don't have a problem being one of the only singles left. The problem is how boring all of our conversations have become, either about babies or husbands or wedding planning. My group chat is all about breast pumps and humidifier recommendations. I'm completely left out of conversations, even in person, and I feel so disconnected from even my

closest friends. I may not have a kid or an active love life, but I am still an interesting person, and I wish that I had a chance to share or at least talk about everything going on in the world. Actually, I recently sold a TV show. I know the two of you know how hard that is, but I haven't even told my friends. I admire your friendship so much and your ability to talk about anything and everything with each other, and I'd love your thoughts on how I can repair my friendships and insert myself back into the conversation. All my love and thank you. I wonder Yeah, congrats on that

That's huge And I'm sorry you feel like you can't tell your friends Or like that it's not going to be as celebrated as the kids I wonder if there are I don't know how big this friend group is But I wonder if there are a couple people in there Who feel like They're more

able to have conversations that aren't related to kids And stuff like that And maybe you could Make a smaller group chat you can still be a part of the large group chat but like maybe for more intimate conversations you can like break off and like have like a separate chat because sometimes when the group is large it's everything gets lost not just your stuff but like it's just hard for yes because everyone's like yeah so it might feel like oh everyone's talking about babies but they're not talking

about my stuff but like there's some probably somebody else in the chat that's also feeling like they didn't talk they didn't acknowledge the deck that I built like you're like or whatever um so maybe you can like for I guess more important things that feel like I actually do want to have a conversation about this or like have back and forth you can have a smaller chat and also like is it really possible that you have no other friends that have no kids like is it sure is it possible I'm getting very anxious I mean I guess it's possible but it's like you're really the only one like I do think that is pretty well maybe have like close close close friends maybe like there's some acquaintances out there

that are also still single. But I think that's good, like creating a smaller group chat. Or honestly, I would, like, if your friends are comfortable enough to be like, Gougu Gaga, he just ate something. I don't know why I named the child Gougu Gaga. That was the name? I thought you were quoting the baby. No, I named the baby Gugu Guga.

I said Guga ate something. Okay. Thomas ate. you were friends to be like and i sold a tv show yeah yeah like what do he eat i sold a tv show yeah i think like you can still throw it out there but i would want you to find another chat to actually get gratification because it might not be satisfying from this large group of moms I also find it so hard to believe that these people are only talking about their children.

Like they don't have anything else? I mean, children do consume a lot of time and energy and brain space when you're a parent. I do have friends who have kids and they have separate mom chats or it's just moms talking about mom stuff because they want to talk about mom's stuff. They probably need advice from other moms.

And that's great. I would die if I was in that chat. I don't be in that chat. never join that chat but then we have a separate chat where we talk about TV stuff or like you know like other things work or life or houses or whatever like and then when they go want mom stuff they go to the mom group so maybe yeah I think you really got to like make sure you're not in the mom group yeah and create a different group that maybe it also include everybody else but maybe you're like look I'm going to step out of this one yes and I'm going to create a different

one. It's just non-mom-related stuff, just life stuff. Yeah. That's kid light. Like, you can mention your kid, but, like, I don't need to hear about breast pumps and stuff. Yeah. Breast pumps are crazy. Mm-hmm. You, like, strap

them on, and then they milk you? Yeah. Do cows get those? I think a thing like... Suck, like a machine that sucks up the milk. Getting jobs away from people. People. should be milking cows and women.

I don't know if people ever milked women as a job. People. You should have to go to the milkery. And get milked. To feed your child? Yeah, you'd have to go to the milkery. That's like adding an extra step. You're already in your house with your child, with your boobs. You should just put the baby on the boobs. You have to leave... AI. I'm against technology.

You have to go to the milkery. yeah yeah ew solved go to the milkery all right that's it that's it if you have any questions or queries

you can call or text or leave a voice message at some place and it's coming oh you can email Nicole andes this year at gmail.com nice that's definitely the email

and you can call text or send a voice message at 323 two, three, eight, six, five, five, four. And that's it. Bye. Fun times. Fun times. Nice times.