Best Friends with Nicole Byer and Sasheer Zamata - Sasheer Considers Body Swapping

Episode Date: April 8, 2026

Nicole and Sasheer have a LOT of fun topics to debrief this week, covering everything from Vin Diesel’s passion for playing Groot to all of the 65+ cuties that could potentially join their ...hypothetical sexy stable. Nicole and Sasheer also discuss the evolution of a smoker’s voice, the wonder that is Donna Summers, and take a Buzzfeed quiz about prehistoric species.QUIZ: https://www.buzzfeed.com/adrianaguilarmoore/we-know-which-prehistoric-animal-you-are-based-onWatch 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 (323) 238-6554‬ or write in at nicoleandsasheer@gmail.com.Best 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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Starting point is 00:01:50 Did I give you that? No, but you may have been with me when I got it. I got from a flea market in New York, but I don't remember a long time ago. Long time ago? Yeah. I wonder if it was the Chelsea flea. Maybe. There was this little Chelsea flea market that I loved going to. Because when I worked at UCB that was like 30th and 7th and it was on like 28th and 6 or something. And I would like make my way over and have a lovely time. I wonder if it's from there. I wonder. I have like a visual of it hanging from one of those like pop up white tents. Okay. Was it, it was outside? It was outside. I think it was the Chelsea. I mean, I wonder if it's a still, if it's a still, if it. If it's a still a going. If it's a still a going. If it's a still a go on. If it. If it's a still a going. I do. wonder if it's still a goal. I hope so. I wonder. I do feel like flea markets are like having a moment.
Starting point is 00:02:48 I think so too, because everyone has no money. Like, how can I have something for cheap and new, new to me? Yeah, yeah. But also, flea markets aren't necessarily cheap. You are very, very correct. I was at a flea. I won't say where. And there was a table full of jewelry. And they were like all bracelets, $5. And I wanted to say, no, no, these are a dollar. Oh. These are 50 cents.
Starting point is 00:03:18 Were they like cheaply made? They were very, very cheap. Yeah. They were bought, I think, like wholesale from like a five below or something. Yeah. And I was like, I don't like this. Yeah. I don't like this one bit.
Starting point is 00:03:33 Did you let them know? No, I bought a bracelet. I will give you my $5. But I will not like it. I didn't like it. I frown the whole time. Yeah. I was really upset about it.
Starting point is 00:03:45 Yeah. But I do love a fleet. And I found two new thrift stores. Oh. There's two on Virgil Avenue. Okay. That I've heard or good. Okay.
Starting point is 00:03:55 One's called Rat Star. Isn't that a really fun name? It's a very fun name. Yes. And then I think the other one is called 791. 719. I haven't heard of any of these. Me either, but I was driving.
Starting point is 00:04:07 It was raining. I should have been paying attention. And I was like, what's that? Let's check it out. And I pulled out my phone and I was like, it's very dangerous. I needed to know what it was. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:04:19 But you can, you know, you can just remember the name and then Google it later. Girl, you know that's not a possibility. That's true. It's hard. If I don't look it up in the moment, poof, it's gone. It's disappeared. It's gone, disappeared. Do you remember?
Starting point is 00:04:35 I don't know if the episode came out yet. but I asked you who your old orgy would be. Oh, yes. You wimped out and only said Patrick Stewart, which is not an orgy, that's an encounter. I have now added Sam Elliott to my staple of old men because I watched 40 minutes of Ghost Rider with Nicholas Cage. Uh-huh.
Starting point is 00:05:02 I've never seen it. You don't need to, but it's really fun. Okay. So maybe you do. Okay. So now my query to you is, you got to give me more than Patrick Stewart. Okay. I made that nice man do it.
Starting point is 00:05:18 Make a stable of old women. Oh. Who was in there? Tilda Swinton. A woman named Shura something. She's in the penguin currently. And I believe I'm saying her name right, but I might be butchering it. I tried really hard to pronounce it well last night.
Starting point is 00:05:37 Yeah. in the privacy of my own home. I was like, I will pronounce her name right. I believe she's an Iranian actress, but she sounds like this. And I love it. She has such a fun voice. He was trying to put Viola Davis in there, but she's not 65. And I said 65 and up.
Starting point is 00:05:57 Okay, we're going retirement age. Yes. I think her name is Shoreh Agdashlu. Yes. And you have to hear her voice. Okay. Allie, would you mind playing her voice? Yeah. It's so rich and so deep. It's so deep. Yeah. And then I think he put Susan Sarandon in there. Shora, Susan Sarandon, Tildy Switten. Oh, and I said that was enough because that's that's altogether four people. And that's that's an orgy. That's an orgy. That's a threesome. Okay. How old is mini driver?
Starting point is 00:06:41 Oh, I don't know. Poor Allie. You got a lot to do. No, I'm ready. Because she looks great right now. Mini driver is 56. So sorry. She can't be in the stable.
Starting point is 00:06:54 Okay. It's tough. It is tough. Not for me, though. Is Angela Bassett 65? I think she's 6. I think not quite. She's 67.
Starting point is 00:07:11 Oh, she's 67. Okay, we got Angela Bassett. Oh, I think he also had Angela Bassett. Yes, after I beat to Viola Davis, he said Angela Bassett. Got it. And I'm really not scoping out people above... You just need one more! Is that your...
Starting point is 00:07:37 Okay. Well, you said Patrick Stewart. Yes. Mini Driver. Yeah. Oh, Mini Driver doesn't count because she's a... Oh, sorry. You said Angela Bassel.
Starting point is 00:07:47 Yeah. Okay. Just one more. Just one more. Okay. Hmm. Because your lust will keep them alive. That's really...
Starting point is 00:08:03 Because my lust will keep them alive. Yeah. Don't you know? Lust keeps old people alive? And so this is like a community service situation? Yes. This is community services. fellowship for the elderly.
Starting point is 00:08:14 It's like adopt a grandpa, but just fuck a grandpa. Yes. Yes. It's evolved. Oh, no. And, hmm. I don't know. I have a video of show, sure, show, yes, please.
Starting point is 00:08:35 Give me time to think. It's incredible. You know that moment when you realize you've been doing weight. And that's an ad. I love her voice. It sounds like, I don't know who this person was, but they had a video, like, maybe her clips from a documentary for a while online.
Starting point is 00:09:02 That was like, well, my father came in and he, a baby, be, be, me in there. The Queen of Melrose. Oh. She has stores on Melrose. And very, very funny. I don't know what their full name is, though.
Starting point is 00:09:20 Charlie? No. That can't be. My father's father came from Sicily. Her full name is Cosmo. Yes, Cosmo. Ooh, that's funny. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:09:34 And if I keep smoking, that's what I'm going to sound like. Hello, sis' year. It's actually impressive that you smoke so long, but it actually hasn't affected your voice. Well, soon probably. Maybe. But maybe your voice is so, like, high-pitched that, it'll take a while for it to get gravelly. That's wild.
Starting point is 00:09:56 I don't think my voice is high-pitched. Is it? It's not like high, not like high in an octave, but it's like, um, light. Wow. It's crazy. None of us know what we actually sound like. Or look like. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:10:14 Hmm. And we'll never know. We won't. Unless you body swap. Oh, my God. Who would you body swap with and why? Who would I body swap with and why? Mm.
Starting point is 00:10:30 Duolipa seems like she's having a great time. Dupy Loops does think, does think, does seem like she's having a good time. What do Wendy Williams call her? Dula peep. Dula peeps, yeah. Dula peeps. Mm-hmm. Wendy needs to come back.
Starting point is 00:10:43 We need her more than ever. She seems like she's doing better, right? She does. And I think she's kind of flirt, like floated the idea of a podcast or something out. But I don't know if it's happening officially. Somebody scoop her up. Let her do it. I miss her so much.
Starting point is 00:10:59 Yeah. I think I would body swap with Michelle Rodriguez or Angela Bassett. Those arms. Yeah. Now are you body swapping for their life or for their body? Oh. Hmm. Because I was doing for like the lifestyle.
Starting point is 00:11:19 Because do is always on vacation. just being a pop star, having a great time. Well, Angela Bassett keeps popping up in really fun movies. So I think it would be really fun to body swap and be in really fun movies for a little bit. Definitely. And then Michelle Rodriguez has a very close of proximity to Vin Diesel. So I'm just like cultivating more friendship with Vin Diesel.
Starting point is 00:11:42 I see. You could also swap with Vin Diesel. What? Oh my God, I could be Vin Diesel. You could. This imaginary scenario, yes. Oh my God Dream big, girl The thought never occurred to me that I could be
Starting point is 00:11:59 Vin Diesel You could I don't know if I'll come back from that That's too high of like The thought of being Vin Diesel is so wild to me What a true treat that would be Yeah I'm the star of Fast and the Furious
Starting point is 00:12:14 All of them I love him Yeah The thought is so wild to me. And you'd be Groot. I get to walk on stilts. And for no reason. Sashir, he's method.
Starting point is 00:12:41 For sure. Yeah, he had to be a tree. Grute was so tall. Mm-hmm. And your voice sounds different up there. It does. I feel like you're trying to appease me. But it does.
Starting point is 00:12:51 I can't believe you... You're passing judgment on a... I was just surprised. Because it's, you know, it's voiceover. You're in a booth. It wasn't motion capture. It wasn't like they were recording his body for any reason. So for his recording sessions, he wanted to be on stilts to be as tall as Groot.
Starting point is 00:13:10 And that's what they allowed to happen. But that's the genius of Vindiesel. All he had to say is three words. I am Groot. And I'm sure different kinds of grutes, too. Yeah. Oh, no. He had to say it in so many different ways.
Starting point is 00:13:27 And I believe he did his own dubbing. Oh, okay. You're a Groot. Nice. But I'm not sure about that. That could just be a straight-up lie. You know, I don't know either, but TV went on. Oh, I did that.
Starting point is 00:13:43 We're going to show us. I have pictures of him at the premiere that's really funny. Oh, great. I'm dying. Chris Pratt showed up in a suit. Mm-hmm. Vin Diesel showed up in fun stilts in a shirt that says, I am Groot, in case you didn't know, he was voicing Groot.
Starting point is 00:14:04 Which, you know, it's possible people didn't. Look at how he's walking. He looks so cool. He looks like, look at that smile. I think Vin Diesel's always having a good time. I'm sure he is. Yeah, what a good life. You've seen the video where he's singing Rihanna, right?
Starting point is 00:14:19 Mm-hmm. He's a gift that truly keeps on giving. Yeah. I love him so. Look at how happy he is. I want to meet him so I can tell him how happy he's made me. But honestly, he's probably heard it before. But I'm sure he likes it.
Starting point is 00:14:42 I would guess. Yeah, but I think it was Oprah who said something to the effect of like, yes, I raised you. Yes, you grew up with me. She's like, I don't hear different, like, nobody has different things to say. Oh, interesting. I mean, that's true, but also, who cares? I mean, like, why would that matter if it was different or not?
Starting point is 00:15:03 Like, it's also very cool how many people you have inspired or raised or whatever. No, you're right. I don't know if she was complaining about it or if she was just saying it. I said it like she was complaining about it, but I think it was just like a conversation she was having. I see. But I don't want to be a basic Vin Diesel fan. I'm sure you can come up with a really creative compliment. I'm sure if I really worked hard at it.
Starting point is 00:15:27 Yeah. Like, I really love how you just are willing to sing when you have a song on your heart. Willing to sing sounds bad. And you don't even care who's listening. You just go for it. You don't care if you're hitting the right notes or anything. You're just singing. I really love how fast you go.
Starting point is 00:15:57 Let's see. You've taken those movies to new heights. Literally, space. So sure. Huh. I don't think you're taking this seriously. Am I supposed to? Yes.
Starting point is 00:16:15 Because I was to give, like, real earnest ones. I love... I love how Dom Terretto loves family so much because I do think chosen family is important. Yes, you have your sister. but like the rest of the gang isn't your blood. You actually had it. You like added one extra sentence that wasn't really necessary.
Starting point is 00:16:37 The rest of your game is not your kid. And I know you have one sister and then the other people are not your siblings or your cousins or your family. Except for your half brother. Played by John Sina. In fact, can I ask you about that? How did that come about? How are you half-brothers, but I don't think y'all have the same ethnicity. It would be more believable if The Rock was his half-brother.
Starting point is 00:17:05 Yeah, but he's not. He's his arch-nemesis. It is such a choice, and I really like it. I really like that Vin Diesel goes, go ahead, ask a question. We won't answer it. You'll watch these movies. You'll slop it up. And I do each and every time. Yeah. Oh, my goodness.
Starting point is 00:17:26 Oh, wait. Alan sent us a video that I want to talk about. It's Kevin Bacon and Kira Sedgwick. Did you watch this video? I think I sent that one. Oh. Where they're like going to the movies and they're in love. Strike that from the record.
Starting point is 00:17:38 Alan has sent us shit. Alan, if you're listening, step it up. I'm, they're my new obsession. Yeah. I am fully into it. They're like so in love. They look like a bit post-coital in each. They're just like, we just...
Starting point is 00:17:58 Also, you keep saying post-coital, and it's pretty wild. Because I don't... Because what I want to say is like, like, just fucked. Yeah. But that feels like really vulgar. So, like, post-coidal. Feels too vulgar to say about Girozeg and Kevin Bacon. Especially them.
Starting point is 00:18:16 And then they had like a little chant that I guess they do. What's the chance? It was just like, movies need... Movies are magic and movies need you or something. Oh, yeah. Yes, yes, yes. And I was like, yes. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:18:29 We need more people being like, we go to the movies. We have to keep the movies alive. Yeah. It can't just be Tom Cruise. No. Everyone needs to talk about it. Everybody. And Curis Cedric and Kevin Bacon were like, we are here to do it.
Starting point is 00:18:42 Maybe I would add Kevin Bacon to the orgy. Yes. We did it. If I keep bringing up old people, you'll keep adding them to the stable. That's what happened with Sam Elliott last night. was watching ghost riding and I was like Got to get him in the table. Is we think of like a horse table?
Starting point is 00:19:03 And they're just all waiting. They're old. What else do they have to do? Hang out with grandkids. Get in the stable? Just bleached up. When will Nicole come for me? And I kind of wanted to add Nicholas Cage to it.
Starting point is 00:19:19 But he's like a little too weird. I know too much about his personal life. Yeah. But it might be like wild. He might show you said that you've never even seen or heard of. How old's Nicholas Cage? 62. Oh, doesn't mean a cut.
Starting point is 00:19:33 Whoa. I could have sworn he was older. No. Mm-mm. He's been working for a long time. He has been. He's been working hard for the money. He's working hard for a hundred.
Starting point is 00:19:47 Because when you work all hard, it comes on to you. I don't know. Yes. What are the next lyrics? She works hard for the money So hard for $800 She works hard for the money And you better treat her right
Starting point is 00:20:07 I think that's it Oh Is that about a sex worker? It might be I actually never really thought about it I mean You know me I'm never thinking about lyrics
Starting point is 00:20:18 But then I found out a couple years ago Lyrics have meaning So now I'm thinking about lyrics And it's like she works hard for the money and then you better treat her right. Yeah. Which really, anyone who's working hard would be nice to treat them right.
Starting point is 00:20:34 Not if they work at Enron. Okay. Fair point? They were nefarious. They were nefarious, yes. Actually, I have no idea what Enron did. I just know the company end. I think it was like a bunch of fraud.
Starting point is 00:20:51 Oh, okay. Yeah, they're bad. Don't treat them right. Don't treat them right. Donna Summer really is that pop diva. For real. Her songs are so fucking good. So good. On my way to get my tooth extracted,
Starting point is 00:21:06 that nice man was like, what do you want to listen to? And I was like Donna Summer. Nice. And then we just jammed. Yeah. Had a really nice time. Really fun music.
Starting point is 00:21:13 Mm-hmm. And that song is about a hardworking blue collar woman. It doesn't say if she's a sex worker. Okay. All right. Fill in the blank. Yeah. Whoever you interpret to be a hardworking woman,
Starting point is 00:21:23 that's who she is. A hooker. Isn't it crazy that they called prostitutes hookers? Oh, I guess you hook a man. Never mind, not crazy. That was pretty fast. You got to... Right after the other.
Starting point is 00:21:39 Well, you ever say something? And then you go, well, no, I get it. It's probably just as simple as that. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. When did you get back in town? Yesterday. Last night.
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Starting point is 00:28:14 And then I lock the door and I was like, I'm late. I have to suffer. This is my life now. And then I was like shivering in the car. And then I turned on the heat and I was like, this is, this is winter. Yeah. I guess it is winter. This is winter.
Starting point is 00:28:30 But it was summer. I swear to you, you were gone. But it was summer. Yeah. For like four days. It was so beautiful. And now it's cold. It's raining.
Starting point is 00:28:42 Don't like that. And the only good thing about the rain is I propagate. I propagated a plant. Oh, I wish I could remember what kind of plant it is. But it's like a really colorful leaf. It's really fun. Nice. So I propagated just one.
Starting point is 00:28:58 And then I was like, it's got roots. So then I stuck it in the ground. And it rooted and it's growing. Ooh, I like that. Just one little branch of it. Nice. It's really cute. Okay.
Starting point is 00:29:13 Can't wait to see what happens to it after the rainy season. I think she's going to thrive and hopefully turn into more than just one little thing. Yeah. But I was pruning. I don't know if I prune correctly.
Starting point is 00:29:27 Okay. But I was cutting away dead stuff and then I was like, well, I might as well try to propagate. They're really easy. My friend Nick was like, they're really easy to propagate. So have fun.
Starting point is 00:29:35 And I said, okay. So I cut up a whole bunch. Yeah. And then like do, do, do, do. So now I'm trying to propagate like eight of them. Yeah. I'm having a good time. Are you putting them in water
Starting point is 00:29:47 so the roots come out first and then putting them in the dirt? Yes. Okay, nice. Yes, that's how you propagate. Okay, yes. It's really easy. You just put it in water. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:29:56 But I know that there's like other, there's harder. Some things are really easy to propagate and others are really hard. Yeah. And I keep stealing from Home Depot and I'm not stealing the right things because I'm having a hard time propagating them. Okay. I try to do that with succulents and I don't know what. I don't know if they didn't like the soil or, I don't know. They just kind of like withered away.
Starting point is 00:30:21 Oh. Yeah. I think, because you propagated them inside and then took them outside, I think you have to find something that's like easy. Like that is okay with different temperatures. This is, I think it begins with a sea. They're really, really easy. Do you, Allie, sorry. Do you mind looking up?
Starting point is 00:30:40 Yeah. Is it Croden? No. Or a coelius? Yes. It's a coliose. plant. Okay. And it's like a greenish leaf with like purples in it and they're really pretty. Nice.
Starting point is 00:30:54 Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. I bit my lip too. I went, mm-hmm. When I came home to my yard, there was destruction. Oh, no. Carnage. Carnage. My hose was like flailed about on the lawn. And, And then I had these little like twinkle solar lights that were ripped to shreds. And I was like, does someone come into my yard and vandalize things? And I looked at my camera footage. And it was coyotes. Like a pack.
Starting point is 00:31:33 Like four or five of them were just roaming around. Whoa. Be a little damaging vagrants. Oh my God. You have a gang on your hands. There's a gang in the streets in my yard. Oh, my goodness. And it was like, they just did that for fun because they know they can't eat any of that stuff.
Starting point is 00:31:49 It wasn't like, oh, these lights are going to provide food. They just tore them up. Wow. Rude. That is rude. And it's like, how do you stop coyotes? I don't think I can. I don't think you can either.
Starting point is 00:32:02 There was a coyote in my front yard. I was walking Clyde and Clyde stopped and, like, stared. And I was like, huh? And, you know, those like weird little benches in the front that, like, you're not going to ever sit him. It was sitting there. And I was like, am I disturbing you? He's like, got a book. But he looked at us and ran away.
Starting point is 00:32:22 So fast. Good. Yeah. I mean, I don't want the coyotes to not come in my yard because maybe if they find any rodents, they can eat that. Please. But don't mess up my stuff. Yeah. Don't do that.
Starting point is 00:32:40 Don't do that. Rude. It's so rude. If you think about rats and stuff, they're kind of crazy. Why? Because rats were all like, ew, bad, we hate you. Hamsters, come inside. Durables, let's go.
Starting point is 00:32:57 Like, it's just so funny that we like, like coyotes. Yeah. Bad, stay outside. Wolves, stay outside. Dogs, come on in. Isn't that kind of crazy? Yeah, I wonder who made that distinction. Or, like, I mean, rats don't look aesthetically pleasing.
Starting point is 00:33:12 But then again, when people have a pet rat and it's clean, they're like fine. They look kind of like hamsters are like on the same level, except they have like a really tiny, thin tail. But yeah, they're like nasty, dirty. Right? But like if a hamster was outside, it'd probably be a scavenger too. It would probably be disgusting. Madded hair. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:33:35 One big tooth. Dirty fur. Neal, me, you know, boss. It's crazy. It's crazy. Just crazy. And then, okay. Like, Columbus, bad man.
Starting point is 00:33:51 But, like, isn't it a while that he chose to be bad after seeing all that new stuff? What do you mean? Like, he left whatever country he was from. I don't remember where he's from. Spain. It's because I don't acknowledge him as a real human. Or I guess he was exploring for Spain, but I think he's from Italy. Oh, really?
Starting point is 00:34:10 I think so. Is that right? He's from Genoa, Italy. Yeah. Oh. Isn't it crazy that he left Italy? Mm-hmm. And then, like, saw all these, like, cool, new things.
Starting point is 00:34:20 Uh-huh. And instead of, like, being friends with people and, like, being, like, teach me your language, teach me about this. He was like, no, I'm going to be bad. Yeah. I mean, that's a colonizer mentality that, like, this is here for me as opposed to, like, wow, I could really learn from these people or, like, that could just exist on its own without me. Yeah. But, like, it's so crazy that, like, he probably saw a guinea pig for the first time. I was like, I'm going to take it.
Starting point is 00:34:51 Maybe? I don't know. I have no idea if he, like, took animals. Yeah, he saw guinea pigs. He's like, these are mine. He saw lizards. He's like, cage him up. We've got to take him back to Italy.
Starting point is 00:35:05 It's a bad Noah's Ark. That's, but, like, yeah, when you see new things, like, don't. Don't they take them? I don't know. He definitely did take a lot of stuff, yes. I don't know. I don't know if animals were part of it, though. Maybe.
Starting point is 00:35:24 I don't know. Like when I see new things and go to, like, different countries, my first initial thing isn't like, I'm going to take them over. That's so crazy. Yeah. You're right. Bad man. Bad man.
Starting point is 00:35:39 Mm-mm. Should we take a quiz? Take a quiz. Yeah. Let's do it. Sorry, I've been all over the place. I haven't noticed a difference. Oh, really?
Starting point is 00:35:49 Yeah. It's all right. Usually I take my medicine a little bit earlier before I leave the house. But I was, like, really running around. And then it was, like, popping pills. And then I left the house. And then I was like, bur, I'm cold. A lot's happened, yeah.
Starting point is 00:36:04 A lot. And Clyde is still in his cone. Aw. He's healing, but not fast. Yeah. But his biopsy came back. and they don't, it's not cancerous. That's amazing.
Starting point is 00:36:18 But he still has to have radiation to make sure that the tumor doesn't spread. Just on that one part? Mm-hmm. Okay. And they don't think it's going to spread at all after the radiation. Great. Is there something you can give him that, like, is he taking medications? Yeah, he's on gamapin.
Starting point is 00:36:39 I don't know it. Trazidone. Okay. I know that one. Coding. Yes. That's strong stuff. Yeah, he stoned every fucking night.
Starting point is 00:36:49 No, during the day, we don't give it to him the Trasidon, really, unless he's getting very, very antsy because he doesn't like his cone and he doesn't like his little bandage. Yeah. But other than that, he's like, he really wants to play and he can't. He, like, has to take it easy, and he gets so frustrated. And, like, last night he got so wound up that he, like, passed out on his, on his back and his little paws were like the...
Starting point is 00:37:16 No, no. Because he was like... Can he like... Could you play with him by like... Like, he grabs the end of a rope or something and you like tug on it? No. It's too much. Because it's his back leg.
Starting point is 00:37:29 So he needs his back leg to like move around. Mm-hmm. Like he has trouble... Because he's in a cone. Yeah. And I keep telling him you can't jump on the couch. But he'll get excited and then he'll try to jump on the couch.
Starting point is 00:37:42 But then it's like... Like, aerodynamically, he doesn't understand that the cone is going to catch wind? I guess. But, like, he'll make it halfway, but then the cone will get stuck on the couch. And then he'll be, like, stuck. And then I'll be like, no, Klein, no. Poor guy. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:38:04 But he's a sweetie. Yeah. Okay. Your movie preferences will reveal which extinct creature matches your personality. Ooh. Okay. Pick a really good crime movie. Sound of freedom.
Starting point is 00:38:17 Just mercy. Oh, the Godfather. The Godfather, too. I thought that was good, fellas. I get them confused, even though I'm reading and see them. Well, that's when we were like, I thought Hamnet was Wuthering Heights. I was like, no, Wuthering Heights is Wuthering Heights. That rocked me in a way that was so confusing.
Starting point is 00:38:39 I was like, where's Jacob Allure? I was like, this doesn't, this doesn't feel horny. It's just a different movie. Oh, boy. Okay. I don't know. Any of them. Yeah, I don't know any of them.
Starting point is 00:38:58 I guess I'll say Godfather too, because that's, I heard good things about it. I'm going to say sound of freedom because I love freedom. Nice. I like the sound of that. We got to pick a new date to get hot dogs and soft serve. We do. Okay.
Starting point is 00:39:25 I don't know why I said it like you were going to argue with me. Yeah, no arguments here. We just had to pick a date. Pick a really good sports movie. The Blind Side. The Karate Kid. Happy Gilmore. Ford versus Ferrari.
Starting point is 00:39:41 I'm going to pick the Karate Kid. Because I like when kids accomplish things. I do too. But for the sake of being different, I'm going to pick Ford versus Ferrari even though I haven't seen it. But I know it's about cars. And you love cars. I do.
Starting point is 00:40:01 There you go. Maybe I'll watch it. I think what's his name's in it? Batman. I think so too. Which Batman? There's so many. Batman.
Starting point is 00:40:11 Ben Affleck? Michael Keaton? Uh, uh, Robert Patterson? Wow, you skipped, you skipped Christian Bale. I guess he's not your Batman. Not my Batman. Have you seen Daredevil? The show?
Starting point is 00:40:25 No. The movie. No. You gotta. Oh. Okay, I watched it the other night. You are watching things. I am watching things.
Starting point is 00:40:36 It's because that nice man likes movies. Okay. And it's wild that as an actor, I've seen nothing. Yeah. I've never seen a movie. It's because I watch the same things over and over again. That's true. Okay.
Starting point is 00:40:48 Daredevil was ahead of its time. When did they come out? People did not like it. 2003, I think. Okay. It is so fun. At one point, Ben Affleck eats percassets, not takes it with water.
Starting point is 00:41:02 He puts a perkisson in his mouth and goes, I don't know. There's a close upon it. Oh, my God. Because he's fighting crime and he's blind. Oh, he's Daredevil? Yes. Oh.
Starting point is 00:41:12 And Jennifer Gardner, I think they met on this. Oh. Plays Elektra. Yeah. A Greek woman. I'll let that sit with you. I don't think Jennifer Gardner's Greek at all.
Starting point is 00:41:24 Yeah. She, probably not. They also put these weird teal contact lenses on that I was a fan of. Colin Farrell plays a man called bullseye. Okay. And he's got a bullseye imprinted on his head. And he's crazy.
Starting point is 00:41:38 He kills a woman on a plane. Oh, no. Just an old lady that was bothering him. No. And there's not one, but two scenes where Evanescence is featured. The band or just the song? The songs, not the band. And I really liked it.
Starting point is 00:42:00 I think it's so fun. And Joey Pants is in it. Nice. The man from The Matrix, he says, Ignorances Bliss. And from Baby's Day Out, a movie I thought was. fake, but apparently is not. And part of my stable.
Starting point is 00:42:22 And waiting in the stable. Most notably part of the stable. I had such a blast watching this movie. Okay. And then I was like, I want to see more superhero movies because I like Spider-Man's. Yeah. But apparently, I watched the trailer for Green Lantern. That does not look like fun.
Starting point is 00:42:39 The Ryan Reynolds one? Yeah. Oh, boy. Yeah, I think that's like famously bad. Everyone has big heads. The actors? Bigger. Ellie, I'm so sorry, would you mind playing the trailer?
Starting point is 00:43:01 I can't explain it. Peter Sarisgaard's in it, and he looks like Peter Sarasgard. By the end of the trailer, his head is so big. Like it was part of the storyline? But their heads get big? I didn't realize, but there's aliens and stuff. and it really like it blew me away in a way that I was like I don't think I hey that could be left to history I don't need to see that
Starting point is 00:43:24 I don't need to be a part of that it blew me away and okay and at first I thought that was the Joker the riddler oh yeah it's okay oh yeah yeah of course to fight this enemy the ring chose a human Okay, so his head's like kind of big.
Starting point is 00:43:55 Mm-hmm. Kind of big. Take it. Okay, the heads are going to start grow in any minute. I pledge allegiance to a lantern that I got from a dying purple alien. Okay, what is that? Okay, look, his head is like slightly too big. But just wait for Peter Sarsgaard.
Starting point is 00:44:45 Okay, looks normal. Is it Angela Bassett? She's in everything his head's getting bigger. The head's getting bigger. And Tim, Tim Robbins. The head's getting real big. Okay, I think because he's turning into an alien? There's Blake Lively.
Starting point is 00:45:08 I think that's where they met. Guys got a big head. And that's a really big head. Look at that head! Look at the real big head! You're right, it's a lot of big heads. Everyone has huge heads in this movie. A really big head.
Starting point is 00:45:34 They should have called it the big head is. head is such a big head. Maybe the lanterns so that they can see how big their heads are. That's wild. You probably never thought that movie was going to be like that. Never have guessed. Never in my whole life did I think there were so many big heads in that movie.
Starting point is 00:46:10 And you haven't seen it? No. Not my whole life, not one time. I haven't either. But we need to figure out why those heads are so big. I kind of want to know but I don't think it's going to be a good movie. Yeah. It blew me away.
Starting point is 00:46:28 shot is just a bigger forehead. Like, just big foreheads. Really big foreheads. I finished Wonder Man. Fucking finally. Well, we can't talk about it now. We're taking a quiz. Oh, yes. To watch Green Lantern. That's not my fault. Yes, it is. You literally brought it up.
Starting point is 00:46:47 It's not my fault. I don't know. Pick a really good comedy movie. Ferris Bueller's Day on. This is the end. Back to the Future. The Truman Show. Is Truman Show a comedy? I don't think so. I don't think so.
Starting point is 00:47:01 Yeah. Interesting. I'm going to say back to the future. Oh, yeah, you love that movie. I love that movie. I'm going to say The Truman Show, even though I don't think it's a comedy, but I do love that movie. It is a good movie. Well, back to Wonder Man.
Starting point is 00:47:18 You had texted me that, I'm Wonder Man and you're Trevor. I'm Sir Ben Kingsley. You're Serbensely. And I was like, I think I know why, because Wonder Man and the show. is like very anxious and Trevor, the character, feels, is very like in the moment. Is that why you think that? Yes. And that's it?
Starting point is 00:47:43 Uh-huh. Okay, great. Didn't know there was more to it. No. And I feel like Trevor kind of like helps. What's Wonder Man's name in it? Simon. Simon.
Starting point is 00:47:53 Simon. I feel like Trevor helps Simon, like, get loose a little bit. Mm-hmm. And Trevor also, like, helps Simon communicate. better with his family? Yeah. And, oh, this might be too personal,
Starting point is 00:48:08 but, like, I feel like sometimes when it's like you, me, and your mom, you guys communicate just slightly better until your mom decides to say something fun.
Starting point is 00:48:16 Yeah, or my mom says something, and you're like, you can kind of translate. You're like, oh, she probably means this. And I'm like, oh, but I'm like,
Starting point is 00:48:22 you know, because she's my mom. There's like other things. There's like a little block because that's your people. Exactly. And I don't have a mom. You're like,
Starting point is 00:48:28 no stakes here. Yeah, I can figure it out. Sure, why not? Yeah. Did you love the ending of it? I did, yes. Don't you want more? I really hope there's more.
Starting point is 00:48:40 I really hope there's more. I also really hope there's more. Yeah. And I don't know if we're going to get more. It's hard to say. But I feel like I've only heard good things about the show. Yes, it is like 90% of rotten tomatoes. Mm-hmm.
Starting point is 00:48:52 Yeah. Which is, why did they call that website that instead of like movierating.com? Because no one will remember it. Movie rating.com Very forgettable. I guess you're right, but like, why rotten tomatoes? Because when people would go to the theater, they'd bring rotten tomatoes or other kinds of fruits that was rotting
Starting point is 00:49:16 and they didn't like what was happening on stage. They would throw it at the actors. You got to bring that back. No, we don't. That's so rude. They're trying their best. Imagine going to Juilliard, and then the opening night of your first play,
Starting point is 00:49:28 you get hit in the face with an old plum. It's so rude. And also it's like, don't, like, throw it out the writers. You're mad at the actors? They're just executing someone else's visions. That's so rude. You're right. Because there was a lot of choices made in Ghostwriter that I was like, what the fuck?
Starting point is 00:49:45 But then I was like, there was a director. A director told them to do that. That's like Jesse Spano and Showgirls. Like, her performance was critically planned, which, again, ahead of its time, before it's time. But she didn't make those choices. A director told her to do that. That's true. Okay.
Starting point is 00:50:04 Pick a really good coming of age movie. Boyhood. The hate you give. Are you there, God? It's me, Margaret. Wonder. Have you seen? Are you There God?
Starting point is 00:50:16 It's me, Margaret? I think I did, yeah. I didn't see it. But I read the book so many times as a child. Oh, nice. I loved Are You There God, It's Me, Margaret. Yeah. Mm-mm, mm-mm.
Starting point is 00:50:27 Judy Blume. Mm-mm. And Judy Blume. I love Judy Blume. I think, I guess I really liked boyhood. That's the richer link later one. Yeah, where nothing happens. But it's fun.
Starting point is 00:50:46 But that's how I feel about Are You There, God? Oh, nothing happens. Oh, yeah, it's kind of like a slice of life. Yeah. I'll pick that one even though I haven't seen it. Great. But I have read it. Pick a really good horror movie.
Starting point is 00:50:59 Get out. Us. Jaws. Halloween, the 1978 one. No other version. I loved Get Out. My favorite part of Get Out was after the movie, watching interracial couples interact with one another.
Starting point is 00:51:16 Because it was a little tense. I think I saw it twice in theaters. Oh, no. I was like, oh, oh, oh. I'm also going to say Get Out. I would like to rewatch us. Yeah. That's the Tethers one, right?
Starting point is 00:51:34 Yes. Okay. Mm-hmm. I mean, I was only talking about it for weeks after, but I still had a lot of questions. Mm-hmm. Yeah, and I think so much time has passed that I'd have a different perspective of it, because I recently just watched Get Out. Yeah. And I was like, dang, hold up.
Starting point is 00:51:51 Of course. Yeah. Finally, pick a really good Quentin Tarantino movie. Pulp Fiction. De Jango Unchained. Kill Bill. In glorious bastard. Well, I'm got to say Kill Bill.
Starting point is 00:52:04 That's my favorite movie. You love Kill Bill. I love it. Did you see the full length? I did, yeah. Was it fun? It was fun, yeah. And there was, like, new stuff.
Starting point is 00:52:14 There was, like, a new piece of animation in there. And then, like, there were parts in the original release where, like, there was, like, a fight scene that was black and white because I didn't know this at the time. But I guess, like, there was so much blood in it that they would have gotten an NC-17 rating. Oh, wow. So is that Uma Thurman with the crazy 88? Is that that scene? Yeah, yeah. So they made it black and white so you couldn't see the red.
Starting point is 00:52:43 Oh. But in the recent re-release where they put all the movies together, they made it in color. Did you like it better? I did. But honestly, yeah, I guess I did like it better. I like seeing it in color. But I don't know if I, like, remembered it in black and white that much. to be like, oh, this is a huge difference, yeah.
Starting point is 00:53:05 Kill Bill is such a fun movie. It's a really fun movie. And the only other Quentin Tarantino movie I've seen on that list is DeJango. So I guess I'll say DeJango. And I know it's Django, but I'm having fun. There's a be there. I'm having fun. This one's mine?
Starting point is 00:53:25 Yeah, this is your sister. T-Rex, Tyrannosaurus. What was the question? I don't know. Pick your favorite movie. And we'll tell you what extinct creature you are. I see. Tyrannosaurus rex is one of the most well-known and iconic dinosaurs.
Starting point is 00:53:41 It lived during the late Cretaceous. The late Cretaceous period, about 68 to 66 million years ago, adult T. rex measured, an adult T. rex measured about 40 to 43 feet in length. Stood about, there's so much fucking confetti. In the way of these words. Why? 13 feet tall at the hips and weighed between 14,000 to 18,000 pounds. Damn, bitch. You fat as hell. I'm big. It doesn't really give me qualities of a T-Rex.
Starting point is 00:54:15 No, it sure doesn't. It just gave you some facts about a T-Rex. Here's some Dino Facts. I will love, like, just like a quick cheat sheet of when things happened. Like, if someone just wrote down, like, here are dinosaurs the dinosaur time? and then here's where the Big Bang happened and then this one happened after. I would love that. I'm sure I exist.
Starting point is 00:54:37 Oh, okay. Probably online. Mm, on the Internet. Have you heard, there's a phrase going around. I thought you heard of say, have you heard of the Internet? I was going to be like, oh. No, but there's a phrase going around.
Starting point is 00:54:49 What is it called? It's like, I want to say Finger Princess, but I don't know if that's right. What did you call me? You fucking Fringer Princess? Mom. where there's like a person in a friend group who, like, will not look things up. And it's just like, where is this?
Starting point is 00:55:09 When is it? What is that? Where'd that come from? As opposed to, like, Googling anything? Have you heard of this, Sally? No. It's like a new term going around. I don't remember what it was called, though.
Starting point is 00:55:20 Can you look at Finger Princess? Wow, a real Finger Princess over here. I'm a little bit of a Finger Princess. Not even a little bit. You are a fingerprint. This is your result. I'm an Andrewsaurus? Whoa,
Starting point is 00:55:36 Andrewsaurus was an unusual and enormous prehistoric mammal that lived approximately 45 to 36 million years ago. This ignamic, is that the way I say that? Enigmatic. Oh, enigmatic creature is known mostly from a single skull fossil. But even this limited evidence has made it famous as one of the largest terrestrial mammalian predators of all. of its time. Whoa. Andrew Sarchus?
Starting point is 00:56:06 Oh, Andy Circus? And his hair kind of looks like Andy Circus's hair from Black Panther. That's really funny. Yes, that's true.
Starting point is 00:56:20 Fingerprint says derived from the Korean slang Pingpoo, a term for someone in a group chat or friend group who refuses to perform simple independent actions like using Google or scrolling up and instead expects others to provide information for them.
Starting point is 00:56:42 I'm feeling very attacked. Yeah. I mean, that's a harsher phrasing that I would have said. But yeah, you know. That doesn't feel good. You're also not the only one in our group chat that does that. You are. I don't think I'm the worst.
Starting point is 00:57:03 No. I think everyone has their moments. But yeah, there are times where it's just like, wait, what time is this thing? And you could just scroll up. It's two texts above. But no one, but the work is not being done. Yeah. I always get mad when the answer was just a scroll away. But you know what's not a scroll away? A break. Support for this podcast is brought to you by Chamberlain University. I have to tell you, any time I go to the hospital or a clinic, my anxiety is absolutely through the roof. It's just an overwhelming, scary place to be.
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Starting point is 01:00:44 Yeah. Sometimes it's hard in like a big, big group chat when there's like 10 people. Oh, then things get lost, yeah. There was one group chat that we were a part of that we actively ignored and that it got restarted. That had a lot of information. Like, there was just, I couldn't decide in my heart whether or. any of the information was important. I would hope, I guess not everyone views group chats the same way, which boggles my mind.
Starting point is 01:01:13 Because some people think, yeah, there should be all 15 people on this group chat. And I'm like, why would you want that? Why would you, who's putting this group chat together, want that? And then people are like, yes, the best way. Like, if a group chat's that big, even if it's not that big, even if it's like six people or something, It's like, okay, well, this is for jokes. This cannot be for pertinent information because it's going to get lost. Mm-hmm.
Starting point is 01:01:40 But some people don't think like that. I think group chats for he-he-ha-ha. Send an email. Yes. If you want to give me actual information, send an email. That's just me. That's just me? Especially like 15 people.
Starting point is 01:01:57 Yeah. A group chat's crazy. Yeah. Do you answer questions? Yes. A couple questions? That's exactly what I was going to say. We got our first text message.
Starting point is 01:02:07 Okay. Yes. So it's working. Okay. Hi, Nicole Sashir and Bestie Friends fam. Hope you're doing well. I've been slowly moving away from social media and trying to go outside more. A part of that journey has been shutting off my Instagram and Twitter notifications and deleting TikTok.
Starting point is 01:02:25 I've informed my friends of this so they aren't confused as to why I'm taking a long time to answer DMs. I actually don't like going into Instagram. Instagram and seeing a bunch of notifications. It stresses me out. So I often leave messages unread for days before viewing and replying to reels or posts. Is there a polite way to ask my friends to stop sending me reels on social media? Honestly, it's often things I've already seen thanks to Instagram's new repost feature. Or is this an example of everyone wants a village but no one wants to be a villager? Please help. Thank you. This one's a little tough for me because I love. like when friends see something and think of me, even if I've seen it already. Yeah. I've, I feel like I've seen this on Instagram that like sending memes can be seen as like pebbling or being like. I don't know what pebbling is.
Starting point is 01:03:21 Your face dropped. Any expression on your face just fell loose. Well, you said something I didn't know about. And I was like, uh-oh, does everyone know what a pebble is? penguins will collect pebbles and give them to each other and they're like, I saw this thing that looked cool. Do you want that? So it's like that.
Starting point is 01:03:42 I saw this thing. Do you want this? Like a little offering, like a bid for affection. Like I saw this thing. It made me think of you. Do you want? And so, and sometimes like people are just bored and they're like scrolling, scrolling, scrolling, and they're like, ha ha.
Starting point is 01:03:57 But it is kind of like, I want to share this with my friend. I want them to also laugh the way I laughed at this thing. So it is kind of like a little bit of like the village. Like they're trying, even though being on social media can be a very singular experience. Yeah. They're trying to share it with you. So, but I also understand wanting to not be online so much. Yes.
Starting point is 01:04:24 You know, maybe. Maybe. Okay. Stay with me. Maybe a happy medium is a reframe. Uh-huh. Instead of saying or like having the mindset that like the notifications give you anxiety, maybe you wait till Fridays to open it.
Starting point is 01:04:46 In Fridays you go, I know I'm going to have these notifications. On Fridays, that's where I see that my friends thought of me, cared about me, and sent me something. Yeah. So I'll take an hour on Friday to look at them and send, you know, he-he-haha's back to my friends. and that's how I connect with them on the social media that they want to connect with me on. But the rest of the week, I don't go on it.
Starting point is 01:05:07 Yeah. I think that's good. And I think it sounds like they already told their friends. I'm not on it as much. And also, like, their friends probably notice they're not being responded to as much. So hopefully it just dies down naturally. And they're like, okay, I don't want to send, I want to overload this person because you also want to be like, that doesn't feel good also to have like all of your side. I'm like, wow, so you'll never look at it.
Starting point is 01:05:29 Exactly. So, yeah. But you also say that. Like, I'll look up this on Friday, but not throughout the week. And maybe it'll just die down. Yeah. Because also I can, I also have folders where I save things to send later because I don't want to overwhelm people so much. I have a cold folder.
Starting point is 01:05:53 Lots of stuff. Send it. I do. But I'll, like, piece it out. And then save them. This is a level of organization that simply does not exist to me. That's wild. I love it.
Starting point is 01:06:08 Yeah, because I'm like, well, she might be busy or you're traveling or whatever. And I'm like, oh, you may not be able to look at all of these. And so I save it. But then I don't know if I forget to save it or to send it. And then I see other things in the world. And I send that. And then I just have a back pile of hundreds of memes. That's very funny.
Starting point is 01:06:27 I sometimes will send you 20 at a time. I'll go. Not for me to ever look at again. I also saw an Instagram video where people were like casting their phone to the screen and showing memes in real time to their friends on the couch.
Starting point is 01:06:47 I was like, I would love to do that, actually. Get together with your friends. Be like, I saw this and now you watch it. I think that is fun. Yeah. Tested the other day. She was showing us she likes these... They're, oh, God, what is, it's Irish, Irish step dancing.
Starting point is 01:07:06 River dance? Oh, no, it's Irish. Kind of, kind of like river dance. But it was, uh, it sounds bad when I say it's like young girls in their new flashy outfits. And they do like a reveal of their outfits. So they're wearing a cape and they're like, allay, I'm shawshi. I'm from Ireland. And then the cape goes away.
Starting point is 01:07:26 That is just this, like, sparkly, sparkly outfit. And we couldn't stop. laughing. It was really funny. And then their hair's like very, very big. That's fun. So I'm, I'm, that's all that to say. That's all that to say. I'm having trouble talking. That's all that to say. Good idea.
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