Best Friends with Nicole Byer and Sasheer Zamata - Sasheer Is Recovering From Their Vegas Trip!

Episode Date: July 5, 2023

A harmonious hi to you! Nicole and Sasheer are recovering from their Vegas trip. Sasheer hasn’t finished unpacking her six months of stuff yet. Nicole is having trouble with her S’s. Sasheer and Jordan got frenectomies. Nicole’s top one favorite thing to do is giggle. Sasheer gets bored on walks. Now, Nicole wipes Clyde’s feet after a walk. Also, Sasheer pointed out some cute otters in Vegas while Nicole wants to touch birds. They do a Buzzfeed quiz that promises to know your soulmate’s name based on your favorite meals. Plus, we got a voice memo  from a psychic healer who shares a dream she had of Nicole. Finally,  they both answer a listener letter about how the writer’s partner is not happy that she bleached her eyebrows. Here is the quiz we took: https://www.buzzfeed.com/princessjoy123/soulmate-name-food-choices-quiz Email or call Nicole & Sasheer with your friendship questions and  “Is this weird” suggestion at: [e-mail] Get access to all the podcasts you love, music channels and radio shows with the SiriusXM App! Get 3 months free using this show link https://siriusxm.com/friends and code FRIENDS.

🎵 Hi! Wow! Harmony! Yes! Was it? Yeah! Okay.

I'm a little scratchy. Why? I think it's because from when we went to Vegas. Yes. Was it? Yeah. Okay. I'm a little scratchy. Why? I think it's because from when we went to Vegas. And I'm still a little hoarse. A little hoarse. Just a little hoarse. Yeah. Yeah. We do so much. So much. I haven't

recovered. I woke up exhausted. I'm still exhausted. Yeah. I'm so tired tired i slept in pretty late today i slept pretty late today also when we got back from vegas that day i had to so i have a spare bedroom that i have kind of turned into a closet because i only live with clyde just the two of us the only a man in my life who hasn't left me. Oh, my God. And I say that to him often. You got to let Clyde know you appreciate him.

Yeah, he just cocks his head at me. He's like, I don't know what to say. I don't have a choice. She seems sad. But I had to move. So I have like a bookshelf of wigs and then a bookshelf of purses. So I had to put all of those in my room. So I was just walking back and forth and that was tiresome. And then I showed you the picture.

Wow. Words are hard. I showed you the picture and there's just a mound of shit next to my bed. Yeah. And I woke up today and looked at it and it made me tireder. Is that a word? More tired? More tired? More tired.

Yeah, I can imagine because you're like, I have to do that. I have to do that. I still haven't unpacked all six months of my stuff from my suitcases and they're next to my bed. And that makes me tired looking at it too because I'm like, I've got to put this away. I've got to put it away. Yeah. I mean, six months of... I'm having trouble with my S's.

Oh, man. Six months of stuff. There we go. Can you say that fast? Six months of stuff. Six months of stuff. Six months of stuff. So it's just me.

Well, I can see why it'd be tricky. There's a lot of S's in there. Judith! Six months of stuff. Uh-oh. Six months S's in there. Judith! Six months of stuff. Uh-oh. Six months of... Six months of stuff. Six months of stuff.

Six months of stuff. Jordan. Six months of stuff. Six months of stuff. Six months of stuff. It did get... I did get twisted. Okay, good.

The last part was getting hard. Okay. Good. It's kind of like a vocal warm-up. Like, the lips, the teeth, the tongue. Six months of stuff. Six months of stuff. Six months of stuff. Six months of stuff. Your face did

an incredible thing that I don't know. Your mouth just was on a mission. Six months of stuff. That's what you're supposed to do when you're trying to warm up your mouth. Six months of stuff. Six months of stuff. Your face is so funny right now. Gotta warm up those facial

muscles. Six months of stuff. Six months of stuff. Red leather, yellow leather. Red leather, yellow leather. Rubber baby buggy bumpers. I think sometimes it's hard for me to talk because I have a little tongue. Oh, interesting.

I can see that. The tongue is a big part of talking. Yeah. I think it was supposed to be clipped when I was a baby. The tongue is a big part of talking. Yeah, I think it was supposed to be clipped when I was a baby. Because underneath is attached closer to the tip of my tongue. And I think you're supposed to clip it so your tongue gets longer and you have an easier time talking.

I could be making this up, but I feel like I read that somewhere. I've never heard of this. Judith! I'm looking it up, but Kimmy is nodding her head yes. Okay. As someone who's about to have a baby, you hear a lot about tongue ties, and that is a thing. And it can affect babies, and it can affect speech, and it can affect feeding. So if you think you have a tongue tie, you might.

Oh, my God. And my parents just didn't care about me. It's a newer thing that people deal with. It's like it's something that wasn't dealt with when all of us were little.'s like the new thing in the past five ten years oh wow could you get your tongue clipped now was that not safe yeah can you yeah it's a procedure so you could do it if it was affecting your speech you could talk to a speech therapist and see if they think it's important but if it's not getting in the way of anything, they probably won't do it. Just when I'm like tired. Like right now, I'm really like I feel me really moving my tongue to try to enunciate. It's just so little.

Yeah. I had a burnectomy. I did too. What is that? There was skin inside my upper lip that was attached to my gum. Like, I guess it was kind of like what's under your tongue. It's just like a little

string of skin. I don't know. And it was I'm trying to remember what the issue was. I guess my lip wasn't able to like disconnect that much from my teeth and my gums why did you get it jordan do you remember um so i got it when i was getting my wisdom teeth out um and it was i was just told that if i didn't get the surgery that my two front teeth teeth would constantly push each other out again. Because I had like a tiny gap.

And so they told me that not only was it skin, but it's also like a tiny bit of muscle that they also removed. So that's why there's like an actual space. When I was younger, there wasn't a space like when my teeth were together. But now you can see a space. Maybe it's the same thing because I also had a gap between my two front teeth. there wasn't a space like when my teeth were together but now you can see a space oh maybe it's the same thing because i also had a gap between my two front teeth it's your muscle naturally wanting to pull those front teeth apart wow we're really learning about mouths today that surgery sucks because like you guys know how often I smiled and laughed. And I had to go like this and hold my lip down for like two weeks while it healed.

I got sent to school after that surgery. I don't know why. Yeah, they like put gauze under my lip and just sent me to class. And I was like bloody. Ew. I don't know why that was the decision. I would have been like, send her home. She's bleeding all over us.

I mean, someone should have sent me home. That's wild. After I got my wisdom teeth taken out, I couldn't laugh just because it hurt. And every time I laughed, I'd be like, ha! Ow! Ha! And then the fact that it hurt would make me laugh harder. That's funny.

And then I learned if I just held my face, I could go, ha ha ha! And it wouldn't hurt as much. But boy, I love to giggle. I think it's maybe my favorite top one pastime. Top one of all one things. I guess that's not how people phrase it. They say like top five, top three. Top one.

One out of one, baby. Let me giggle I can't get over how there was no hot people in Las Vegas yeah that was really unfortunate where were they hiding I have no idea we didn't find I was so mad because over three days not one person hit on me but then I was you, you brought it up. You were like, but would you have wanted any of these people to hit on you? The answer is simply no. Yeah. No lookers. No.

It's really unfortunate. Truly wild. I did get body slammed by a man. Yes. Yes. A man walked by you and I guess his shoulder. This man was swinging his arms like he wasn't the Jolly Green fucking giant. And he swung one of his 200-pound arms into me.

And his shoulder also hit me. And it was as if I was being tackled by a linebacker. And he was just like, sorry. What did I do? I just screamed? You screamed and it crescendoed so that he knew his transgressions. He went, ow! Like screamed it at him.

I needed him to know so he didn't hurt other people. I don't think that was his takeaway. He's probably like, that woman's crazy. He had a weapon of mass destruction. His big fucking arms. I also feel like in Vegas in general, maybe it's because there's so much to look at. No one knew where they were going.

No. He was wandering, like weaving and like almost running into me. It was annoying. It was very annoying. And it very much felt like Disney. Like there was just big babies in strollers. Like there were so many children. I was like, that baby's too big for that stroller. You got to take that big child out and let it walk. Yeah.

Too big. But I wanted to be pushing a stroller too. We walked so much. Yeah, we did. Hold on. I know how many steps we did. Oh, yes, please. Because my phone tells me. Okay. Steps. Let's get into it.

So we were there. So Friday, we did 7,995 steps. That's the first day we got there. That's the very first day. Second day, 10,645. That's even more. And then 8,805. Good Lord. Isn't that wild? And then yesterday, 6,000 steps. Damn.

We stepped everywhere. We stepped everywhere. And here's my, I think I've asked this before, but how are you supposed to get 10,000 steps every day if you're not at Vegas or an auto show? How? How are people doing it? I don't know. I mean, I guess they're consciously being like, I'm going to take a walk. How long is that walk? I don't know. We walked guess they're consciously being like i'm gonna take a walk how long is that walk i don't know we walked all day to get 10 000 steps are people walking all day do they have jobs i think maybe they're or maybe like they walk their dog or like a nighttime walk i don't know

lots of people walk in my neighborhood because they're all old and they're like i'm just gonna take a stroll and i have a nice neighborhood to walk in. You do. And I think I took a walk one time and I was like, I'm so bored. And then like, there's not a lot of good reception in the area. So like, I couldn't like do anything on my phone. I was like, oh God, I want to go home. I want to go home.

I hate this walk. So boring. I think walking is boring as well. Like, I'm just walking with no destination. Yeah. Just aimlessly walking for what? My cardiovascular system? For my health?

This dumb shit for my health? Yeah, I hate walking. It's so dumb. Yeah, pretty dumb. But I got to take Clyde on his walks, and he tells me what kind of walk he wants to go on. So there's three different directions we can go in. And one is, like, to the cul-de-sac. One is around the block.

One is the other way around the block where I'll take him down a different path. And then he kind of, like, when we go outside, is really excited. And he'll pull three different ways, and then he chooses. He chooses his own adventure. That's fun. Yeah. Can I tell you something about Clyde? Please.

He's changed our life. Oh. I now wipe his feet. Oh. After we get him from the walk. Because I take off my shoes in my house. I make my guests take off their shoes. He doesn't have shoes.

No. He has feet. Yeah. And he goes outside in his feet and then comes right inside and then jumps on the couch that would be like me jumping on my couch like Tom Cruise and I'm not Tom so now I have these little like pads where I wipe his feet that's very smart yeah and I really like it would you ever get shoes for Clyde? See, the thought is yes, but the actionable part of me is like, no. We're going to stop before every walk to strap him in?

I mean, I guess so. Clyde barely stays still for the leash. I can't imagine him being like, now put the right front one on and then the left. Give it back. He also doesn't like clothes. Yeah. Which is like, come on, you don't want to be a fashionista? Mm-hmm.

You have a purple tail. People are already staring at you. Yeah. You don't want to put on a cute little striped shirt to match me? No. And he's like, no, I certainly do not. He's like, I came with clothes. This is my clothing.

He did. He came with clothes and shoes. Mm-hmm. He's like, this is I certainly do not. He's like, I came with clothes. This is my clothing. He did. He came with clothes and shoes. Like, this is enough. I am enough. Take me for what I am. Stop trying to change me. Don't change me. I'm a dog.

I do think those videos are funny of dogs in shoes and they, like, don't know how to walk in them. And they're just, like, stomping really high. Those are fun. That is fun. I do love a dog video. Love a dog video. I love animals. The older I get, the more I love an animal.

I was in a bar, and there was- When? Maybe two weeks ago? Okay. It was actually a bar of a movie theater because I had that screening. Oh, okay. And then we were like, let's go find a place to sit down and have a drink. And there's a bar in the theater.

And we're like, we're never leaving this theater. And on the TV, there was something called Happy TV. And it was just like cute dog videos. It was really like my For You page on Instagram. It was like dog videos, cat videos, people falling. And I was like, I love this. I got to get Happy TV. I got to get Happy TV.

I hope it's an app. I hope so. I want you to get Happy TV. I really want it. Do you remember when we were walking in Vegas? I won't stop talking about it. And you went, otters! And I looked over

and there's just a TV at a bar. Nobody's sitting at this bar with just like the Discovery Channel of otters having a nice time. Yeah. I was like, ooh! Cute! Otters! Otters! I had to let you know there was some cute stuff happening.

I know. It was nice that you told me. Yeah. I'll always be on alert for cute stuff. Yeah. I love cute stuff. Mm-hmm. Sometimes I'm like, should I get more animals?

But then it's like, you go away. You got to find animal care. Yeah. It's a lot. It seems like a lot. I do want a bird, though. But on my to-do list is go touch a bird. Oh, go touch a bird.

Yeah, like go to a pet store and touch a bird. Because I think that's the only way I can touch a bird. I guess so. Or I think we have had this conversation. I was like, also, maybe like a habitat? Is there a bird sanctuary you can go to? I don't think I wrote that down in my to-do list. Okay.

Can you look up bird sanctuaries in L.A.? Because there probably is a place where you can, like, hold one. There's one in Griffith Park. Oh. In the park? Oh, yes. Bird Sanctuary, Griffith Park. And can I hold a bird?

It doesn't look like anyone runs that one. Maybe that's just, like, you go look at them. Okay. But I'm trying to touch one. I'm trying to touch some birds. I don't think think you definitely shouldn't phrase it like that when you show up because it sounds inappropriate let me touch that bird come on let me touch that bird i want to be like the lady in uh home alone 2 where she's got all

the pigeons on her but i want parrots exotic animals when i lived in uh brooklyn there was this guy who came to the park every day with a bunch of parrots. And he'd bring his own tree. Like it was like a staff. A B-Y-O-T. Yeah. Yes. It was like a little like fake stand that looked like a tree.

And he just kind of like set it up. And then the parrots could fly around the park but they always come back to that little tree wow the power oh my god yeah i just want to pair it and i would train it to go i love you yeah it'd be nice to hear it every day you know somebody loves me you can get those buttons that dogs push and get Clyde to say I love you all the time oh yeah maybe that'll be the only thing I teach him he's just like this is the only option I love you I want to tell her I'm hungry and then he just stops pressing it I mean Clyde you don't love me anymore no i um i think i've talked about this i have like a lot of crows

in my yard i feel like i should befriend them i think you should and like i don't know i think you can make them get you stuff like this i've seen articles i don't know i've seen people be like oh yeah my my crows get me money. They'll, like, go. I don't think they're pickpocketing, but I think if there's, like, loose money on the street or something, they'll, like, pick it up and bring it. I want them to be pickpocketing. I would love to be pickpocketed by a crow. That would be so funny. Yeah.

I told you, leave them gifts. Yes. Because they were taking the stuffing out of your thing, right? Yeah, out of my furniture. I think you should, like, go to the, like, Michael's and get, like, stuffing. Yeah. Furn, right? Yeah, out of my furniture. I think you should go to the Michaels and get furniture stuffing and leave it for them. Yeah. Maybe some berries? Do crows like berries, Judith? I should look up what they like.

Oh, Jordan, what's going on? It says you should offer them healthy foods, and since you want to gain their trust, out what they're supposed this these crows prefer you can give them drier wet cat or dog food unsalted peanuts boiled eggs scraps from your kitchen fruits vegetables and meat whoa and yeah i am surprised that they eat meat i definitely saw one not in my yard thank god um trying to pick up like i think a mouse carcass or something on the street. And I was like, oh, oh, yeah. OK. I thought you guys were maybe like you ate like bugs and stuff. Are you eating rodents?

They're eating rodents and berries. Just like us. Just kidding. I would never eat a rodent. I'm like, I would never eat a berry. You know, the thought of like a barbecued rat is upsetting. Why barbecue? I don't know.

Because, I don't know, I feel... That's just when it first came to put them on a skewer and rotate them like a chicken? No, yeah, I wouldn't want any version of a rat. No, I don't think they're meaty enough, one. Mm-hmm. Two, those tiny little bones. It's like a fish bone. It's tough.

What if they get caught in your mouth? Yeah. Then I'm like, there's a mouse bone in my mouth. Ew. I think I'd just be thinking about all the, like, just how nasty they are. Yeah, they are gross. Yeah. Did you ever have to go to Porcy Park?

No, maybe that's me specific. Growing up, it was in Jersey, so I don't think you ever went. Did I ever have to go to Porcy Park in Jersey? No one ever made me. There was this weird park that we had to take field trips to, and you took, like, owl pellets and then took them apart and I was like why you mean their poop I guess like their poop or their I don't what I don't know what an owl pellet is to this day but we'd have to like take out mouse bones and stuff

oh that's their poop yeah and I don't know why we did that poor Park. Is it in New Jersey? Oh, I remember that red barn. In that red barn, we would have to dissect fucking owl pellets. And I don't know why. Like, was that the zoology track and that's all we got? Maybe. And like all the little freak kids who were into that became zoo people? Maybe. Maybe. Yeah. I don't know what the lesson would be. Freak kids who were into that became zoo people? Maybe. Maybe.

Yeah. I don't know what the lesson would be. Just like the cycle of life? Maybe. Is there like a thing that tells you what they do at Port Sea Park? They have the mission. The mission of Port Sea Park Conservatory is to preserve and enrich the park as a nature preserve and educate the community about its historic and recreational resources. And then about the Conservancy.

So it's a nonprofit organization that depends primarily on members for financial support to keep the Conservancy at the pinnacle of environmental education, historical preservation and natural beauty. Is there anything about owl pellets? Let's see. I feel like we went there like twice. I don't, and I really did not enjoy my time. Hmm. It was so gross. And I don't think we got gloves.

Oh no. And I was like, I know I'm a kid. We play in dirt, but like this is a lot. Yeah. That's the same thing. It's not for me. Unsanitary. Maybe the person who ran it like has, has, like, a weird collection.

It's like, I just can't go through all these owl pellets by myself. I need little kid hands to dissect them. Give me them mouse bones. Give me them bones. So gross. So they have guided hikes for owls. So get out and stretch your legs. Great for all ages.

Each week's a new topic. We will be discussed along with the trails. This week we'll look at the owls and examine owl pellets. Pre-registration is recommended, but walk-ins are also welcome in spaces and permits. So they do this. They do this. But I believe an owl pellet is the things that their body can't digest they actually puke up so it's so it's actually like a ball that's fucking playing an owl puke well i think it's more from

a scientific standpoint because you have to dig through you have to find the bones i also did it in school but not at a park i didn't go to a random park to go through a pellet but it's kind of like if you dissect a frog instead of doing the frog i think you're doing this owl pellet. But it's kind of like if you dissect a frog, instead of doing the frog, I think you're doing this owl pellet so you can be like, oh, cool, I see this bone

and that bone. Oh. But yeah. And what is the purpose of dissecting a frog? You'll learn about internal organs. But they don't even

have our organs, do they? No. They got frog shit. Yeah. Why do I need to know the ins and outs of a frog?

I don't know, for the little freak kids who are like, let me cut something up. Yeah. I don't need to know the ins and outs of a frog? I don't know. For the little freak kids who are like, let me cut something up. Yeah. I don't know. Those poor frogs. Yeah. Some people have done pigs also. That's terrible. In high school? Yeah. I think I've

done a pig heart. What? Very specific, yeah. This is, what are we doing in education? Sending kids to play with owl pellets? Dissecting frogs? This is, what are we doing in education? Sending kids to play with owl pellets? Dissecting frogs? This is sick. Teach me about taxes. Truly.

I can confidently say there's nothing in my life as an adult that required me to know how to dissect an animal. No. Nothing at all. No audition I've ever been to is like, what have you dissected? And I'm like, I memorized these lines. You know what? Maybe it would be helpful for CSI.

Maybe. But yeah, I have never used that skill. No. I think I opted out of dissecting the frog. I don't remember that being an option in my school. I know it happened. I just didn't, I didn't go to class that day. Yeah.

I didn't go to class a lot today. You're like, I'm not comfortable with this. There's no frogs today. And I was like, yeah, I'm just, I'm not comfortable with class. I truly, I came to school to make friends. Yeah. You know, I was there to make friends. I wasn't there for learning.

Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. And I came out fine. You came out great. Thank you. God, I love this jumpsuit that you're wearing. Thank you. People listening,

you can't see it. Do you want to describe it? No. It's a black base, and then we got mushrooms, purple, some pink, some green, orangey, like a, yeah, it's cute.

Where is it from? Farm Rio. God, I love Farm Rio. I wish they would make plus sizes. Yeah. Do you want to do a quiz? Nope. I want to talk more about Farm Rio and their size problem.

Because they make oversized things that do fit me. Yeah. And if you can make something oversized, just make a couple sizes bigger. Just do it. It does make sense. Farm Rio, please. Please. Please.

Also, reissue this mushroom jumpsuit and do it in plus size. Now we can do a quiz. I've said my piece. Great. You know what I really want? What do you want? Shiny leggings. Purple shiny leggings.

I'm surprised you don't already have some. Me too. I can't find the perfect shade of purple. What kind of purple do you want? Maybe a lilac. Or maybe like, not like a dark dark purple but like in the middle. Like a deep lav. A deep lav.

You know. Yeah, I like that. Thank you. All right. So in terms of quizzes we have I can actually guess your zodiac

based on the ingredients you use to bake your cake. Create your dream life using unlimited funds and we'll give you a Disney animal to adopt as a pet. I'll guess if you prefer hot weather or cold weather based on what animals you choose

what's your party personality it's long i know your soulmate's name pick your favorite meals and i'll review that one okay i like this it starts with Psst Hey kid Hey kid Come here Got a bunch of soulmate names over here I wonder Cause I went and saw Or I had an appointment with

The Reverend Justin Terry Who was featured on Real Housewives of potomac and i was i think i was going through the whole season and uh i couldn't walk because of my anki and i was like i must do a session with him he's great but he told me the first letter of the person i'm supposed to be dating and i wonder wonder if this matches up. I wonder if BuzzFeed knows the same thing. Okay. The Reverend is a...

He's a medium. Oh, okay. Great. He was really great. I can't recommend him enough. Okay, choose. Ah, breakfast! Pancakes.

Avocado toast with egg. Yogurt with granola. Breakfast sandwich. Waffles. Smoothie bowl. Muffins. Who eats just muffins? Toast.

Who eats just toast? Yeah, like I'm just going to be sad. Pop that in the toaster oven. Some dry toast. No jam, no butter. Listen, I always want to go for waffle. Always. I love a waffle.

But when I get me a waffle by myself, always disappointed. Oh. And I think it's because there's nothing really savory about a waffle. It's all sweet. So when I go out with people, table waffle. Oh, waffle for the table. Yeah. I love a table waffle or table cakes.

Yeah. I don't know. I guess because I keep clicking on these Instagram videos, but I've been fed a lot of Instagram videos of like different things you can do with a waffle iron. They'll just like put like other things other than like waffle mix in there. I saw one where someone put rice in there and they made a little rice cake and then they put sushi in the little holes

in avocado. And I was like, this looks delicious. Maybe Instagram's trying to inspire you to cook. They can't get me. They'll never get you. I'll never cook. You'll never ever cook. You're like... So Carrie Bradshaw on Sex and the City also famously doesn't cook and she would store things in her oven.

Maybe you should store stuff in your oven. Maybe I could. But you think I have pots and pans to store? I got, I don't really have anything in my kitchen. No, she would put like shoes in there. Oh, that's, I think that's strange. Oh, okay. No, no.

No waffles. No, the waffles are for the table, not for No, no. No waffles. No, the waffles are for the table, not for herself. And then a smoothie bowl. I just started getting into them. Yogurt with granola. Just discovered granola about four years ago. It's good. Breakfast sandwich.

Can you scroll up a little? You know, I think I might have to go with the breakfast sandwich. That's what I was going to say. You can say it. I'm going to say it. Yes. We are savory queens in the house. We said, give me an egg and give me some bread.

Give me some meat and slap on some cheese. That's a breakfast sandwich. Yum, yum, yum. There was no way you could follow that because I surprised myself. Choose something to drink with your breakfast. Ew, orange juice. You don't like orange juice? No.

Well, okay. Okay. There is an addendum. It has to be freshly squeezed that makes sense i cannot do it out of a jug or a carton or from a grocery store that shit's nasty yeah especially like when it's pulpy what the fuck are we all doing who who why i have oranges in my yard you do yeah i never knew they don't come around all the time. It's only like part of the year.

And I picked them and I think I picked them too early. But I still you can still drink it. But I bought like an orange juicer. And you have to squeeze so many oranges for any juice. I had like, I don't know, 15

oranges. And I got like half a cup. Yeah, it's pretty wild. It's wild. I was like, ooh, this is going to last me a while. No, no. I had one serving. But was it sweet and yummy? It was a little tart because they were like a little early. Perfect, yeah.

But still really good. Ugh, I love freshly squeezed orange juice. You just never get it. You just never get it. People are always putting stuff in it and claiming it's freshly squeezed when I know it's Minute Maid. Nothing against the Minute Maid Corporation, but they made it in a minute. Yeah. I want someone to take their time.

I want an hour made. That seems too long. What are you guys doing? All you have to do is squeeze it. Also, I heard that they put them in big vats and then they dye it orange because it like sits for so long. It doesn't go bad or anything because it's in like airtight vats. But then it loses its color the longer it's in there and then they dye it. Judith, can you look that up real quick to make sure I'm not lying to everyone?

Don't be lying to everyone. I don't want to lie to everyone. It's okay if I lie to myself a little bit. I wouldn't be surprised. I feel like I'm sure they're like, well, people aren't going to believe it's orange juice, but it's not actually orange. Yeah. Can cats drink orange juice?

I mean, good question. Can they? Can cats drink orange juice? I mean, good question. Can they? In, I think it's Russia, they have made it, if you are a company that genetically modifies food, you are considered a terrorist. Whoa. I know, it's pretty harsh.

That is really harsh because there's a lot more terrorism you could do than GMOs. Yes, this is true. But I guess it's like, it's kind of an attack on the human body. Oh, interesting. And we let it happen here. It would be nice if things were labeled. Do you know what I mean? Because like organic is so loosey-goosey or like free range is also very loosey-goosey. But like, yeah, tell me if you engineered this in a lap, please.

Yeah. And I learned about cuts of meat that you get in restaurants sometimes. They'll smush different cuts together, and it's like meat glue, and they glue it together. Have you ever cut a steak and been like, well, that came apart in a weird way? Yeah. It's because it was glued together. Oh, no. Again, I might be lying.

So, I mean, you might be correct. To further enhance color, manufacturers add up to 10% vividly colored mandarin orange juice as well as pigment from orange peels. Wow. I guess at least it's from orange. Yes.

That's nice. And not just, like, dye. Yeah. Okay. Now, can you look up meat glue? Yes. Are you talking about a binder? So, like, deli meats like when you slice a piece of deli i worked at a deli for like years there's a there's binders in the deli meat to hold the

meat together if you were to get like a natural deli meat when you go to slice it it would just just shred oh yeah no i'm talking about steaks being glued together with meat glue. Oh. It says, meat glue is the rather unappetizing nickname of a product containing the naturally occurring enzyme transglutaminism. This enzyme has the power to link protein molecules to each other.

Our bodies manufacture and use this trans... So you're talking about something where they keep the meat together. Oh, my God. Yeah. Like meat glue on a steak. We got to get to the bottom of food today. We gotta.

Food's crazy. Yo, food's crazy. It's wild. Meat glue is the industry standard. And chances are if you eat meat or even tofu, you're consuming this binding agent on a monthly, if not weekly basis. Yikes. Wow. Yeah, they keep saying that it's an enzyme that binds it together.

So, yeah, it binds the meat together. How it's made. So, yeah, it binds the meat together, how it's made. Most TG is made from the correlation of bacteria using the blood enzyme from cows and pigs. Some TG is also made by cultivating bacteria using vegetable and plant extracts. Most TG are mixed with other ingredients, including gelatin and castatine. Or castanate. Milk derivative. Yikes. That's a lot of information.

I feel like I just stopped eating meat. Which isn't gelatin made out of horse hooves? What? Am I incorrect? Jello is made out of horse hooves? I'm pretty sure. Yeah. J-E-L-L.

Hell no. Yikes. Why is everything nasty? Also also who the fuck was like give me that hoof yeah who would have thought I got a treat I got a treat for us later gelatin is a protein

obtained by boiling skin tendons ligaments and or bones with water it's usually contained from cows or pigs this is worse than a hub.

It's just like bones and skin. Ew. They did say that if you, instead of like putting collagen or injecting collagen, you could eat jello. Ew. That's really funny. Just like pounding jello. Well, it's good for my skin.

It's good for my skin. Your tongue is always red. All right, let's get back to the quiz. Yeah, we learned too much. Too much. I regret it. Green juice. Oh, yeah.

Choose what juice you want. Orange juice. Green juice. Coffee. Milk. Water. Tea. Chocolate milk.

I don't feel like anything. I don't feel like anything. I don't feel like anything is a very funny. I don't feel like anything. I don't feel like anything. It's like, I think you need a therapist and not a drink. Yeah. I was like, are you okay? Yeah.

What's happening? Can I guess what I think you're going to do? It's one of two. I think you're going to say either tea or water. Those are really good guesses. I'm going to say tea. Wow. And I'm going to say tea. Wow. And I'm going to say coffee.

I am trying to get into juice. Yeah? Yeah. You saw me try. I asked if there was any added sugar in this juice. And I got it and it was so sweet. And I was like, there was added sugar in this. And I asked.

Yeah. And she lied to me. She didn't understand the question. And I still tipped her. Now lunch! PB&J. U didn't understand the question. And I still tipped her. Now lunch! PB&J. Udon. Salad. Panini.

Sub sandwich. It's not a sub sandwich in that picture, but avocado toast. Sushi. Smoothie. I want to do a panini. Ooh, yes! Yeah. Okay, I think I'm going to do a saladini. Ooh, yes. Yeah. Okay.

I think I'm going to do a salad. I love a salad. You love a salad. Lettuce. Yeah. Tomatoes. Yeah. Cucumbers.

Yes. Avocado. Mm-hmm. Sometimes quinoa. Mm-hmm. Chicken. Yes. A little bit of ranch.

That sounds good. That sounds good. So it's maybe my favorite salad. Nice. Not maybe. It is. Did I say bacon? No, you didn't. Yes. A little bit of ranch. That sounds good. So it's maybe my favorite salad. Nice. Not maybe. It is. Did I say bacon? No, you didn't.

Bacon. Nice. Now eat dinner. Salmon. I know what you're choosing. Tacos. Spaghetti and a meatball. Pasta salad.

Burger. Pizza. Pork chop. Thai curry. Ooh, Thai curry is good. Oh my God, what am I choosing? It's going to be really hard for me, but I think I'm going to choose maybe the salmon. It's incredible how much salmon you eat.

I ate a lot of salmon. I ate last night. You love salmon. I need to pivot to eat more fish, I think. I think it would do good for skin, me. I think it would do good for my skin. What a wild way. Skin me.

Skin me. Also, I think it's like supposed to be less, or maybe it's like a good fat or something. Yeah, I think so. And I think I need to introduce more good fats in my life. Yeah. As opposed to saturated fat. I don't know.

Listen, I'm trying to like be healthy and live. I think that's great. It's really exhausting. Yeah. Because I didn't used to live like that. I used to live with wild abandon. Yes. I said, I'll eat fucking dirt.

And it was really problematic. I was like, get out of the dirt, Nicole. And I was like, yum, yum, yum. The flowers don't need it. I do. I think I'm going to say a burger. I really do love a burger. I need to eat lots of them.

They're so good, though. They're so good, though. Yummy, yummy. How about a dessert? Ice cream. Pie. Fruit tart. Chocolate chip cookie brownies.

Berries and cream cake. Cupcakes. Crepes. No. Thanks. Ice cream. You scream. We all scream. Ice cream. You scream. We all scream for ice cream.

I love ice cream. You love ice cream. Oh, my God. It brings me joy. I regret not getting TCBY at the airport. I really think I should have just treated myself. Yeah. Yeah.

It was like morning time. It was. Morning ice cream is always strange because you're like, am I living a good life? Am I making good choices? I don't know. But I love soft serve. Yeah. Oh, my God.

I think I'm going to do that brownie. What was it? The chocolate chip cookie brownie. Sounds delicious. It does sound good. I love chocolate chip cookies But in brownie form it's like soft and thicker Count me in Soft thick desserts are good

Finally Would you care for a midnight snack? Chocolate bars Gummy candy Cookies Fruit Pretzels Lollipop

A lollipop Chips No but thanks for asking Who's sucking on lollipops at midnight? That's a minute Like that's You're You made a choice

Yeah you're committed to this for a while Yeah unless you're like a cruncher But then Why a lolly? I want to enjoy my lolly How often are you enjoying lollies? But then, why a lolly? I want to enjoy my lolly. How often are you enjoying lollies? Every now and again I really indulge and I say, Mmm, this lolly.

I'm going to say cookies. I'm going to say chips. Yeah. Right. This is sashier's. Yeah. Right. This is Sashir's. Okay. Soulmate.

Pick the... This is the name of my soulmate. Iza, which I've never heard before. Or Isaac, because I guess they're like,

let's find the feminine version of Isaac. Iza. This person is very fun to be around. When you're sad, this person will do everything to make you feel better. That's nice.

That is nice. Oh, my God. This is Nicole's. Maria or Marcus. They're very romantic. They'll love showing you that they love you. This person would do anything for you to make sure that you're happy. Wow. That's nice. Oh, my God. Maria or Marcus. make sure that you're happy. Wow.

That's nice. Oh my God. Maria or Marcus. Did that medium start? No. Okay. Different letter. But you know,

one of them's right. A medium or BuzzFeed. One of them. Hard to say. Hard to say. Who knows? Who knows? Who knows? Should we help the people?

Let's help the people. Yes. Well, speaking of medium, you had someone, a medium, come through on the show. Oh, yes. Yes. I would love to hear about it all right hi nicole and shashir and everyone who makes this awesome podcast um sorry if i sound tired i just woke up um so i'm a psychic energy healer and i had a dream that i did an energy healing with nicole and I would normally only ever do an energy healing when given permission.

But it felt really intense, and it felt like something might have been accomplished. So I just wanted to put it out there so that you could stop it if you didn't like it. But I had a dream, Nicole, that we met, and you told me about wanting to find love, and I asked you to imagine what it would feel like to have that love in your life and have, you know, that relationship and then I asked you to point to where the cord was where your heart was connected to theirs and I pulled on the cord to bring him closer to you

and you tried to pull on the cord with me but I stopped you because right now you're just supposed to feel good and enjoy your fucking life because your life is awesome. So anyways, I'm sorry for accidentally doing that. But I hope that it yields the results that you want. And if you've changed your mind and you don't want that love right now, that's fine. You can just walk away and you can just keep missing him. But I feel that they are nearby.

I don't know if it's a him, honestly. But yeah, I felt like they were nearby. And I hope that the dream work I accidentally did on you really did help. And I hope that you guys are all great and have a wonderful day. And thank you for the podcast. Bye. Wait, she said I tried to pull them closer to me and she wouldn't let me?

Yes. Why? Because she was doing the work and all you have to do is sit back and let it happen. Oh, okay. Wow, I interpret that really differently. I was like, just enjoy my life, but I want love.

I want someone to love me. So I'm supposed to just enjoy my life and then she's going to pull me somebody? I think so. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. Or I think mostly it's like, yeah, you sit back and like let it happen as opposed to, I guess, being active.

Okay. Yeah. All right. That was nice. Yeah, it was nice. Thank you. Maybe it'll work. Who knows?

I hope so. Maybe this person will pull a Maria was nice. Thank you. Maybe it'll work. Who knows? I hope so. Maybe this person will pull a Maria or a Marcus towards you. And I'm ready for a Maria or a Marcus. Hey, Marcus. Hey, Maria. Yeah, how's that feel? How's that feel rolling off your tongue? Could you see yourself doing that every day? Marcus, I'm hungry. Marky. Maria, can we please leave? People are waiting on us. Now you're starting fights with them. Marcus, I can't believe you did that.

Oh, my God. No, Marcus, I don't want to see your mother today. Maria, your sister really made me upset. Yeah, these are good. I like them. Nice. Bigger, please. Can you make it the whole screen?

Yeah, stretch out those sides. That sounded nasty. Yeah. Stretch out those sides. That's what you say when you touch a bird. Yes. People will really be concerned. They'll be like, what? What are you doing uh hayden colins this year love you both and the whole crew my query is about a relationship for a while now i've been wanting to try the bleach brow look. I've gone back and forth about the decision, asked friends, asked my esthetician.

How do you say that word? Esthetician? Oh. Asked random people and also asked my boyfriend's opinion. Most say, hell yes, go off. But my boyfriend had a pretty strong stance that he does not like it. There are most things he can understand. The bleach brows is not one of them, to quote him. I repeatedly would ask him, what if I bleached my brows, hoping he would eventually

respond with, do what you want to do. You'll look good no matter what. Anyways, it's brows. It's not that deep, and I bleached them. And I have to say, I live, I love. But also, it's definitely taking some getting used to. When I got home, he was so upset by the bleached brows, he left the house. Came back three hours later, and he said he needed some time to process because he was bummed that his opinion was not taken into consideration. And he is bummed I didn't give him a heads up that I was actually following through with this. I didn't give him a heads up that I was actually following through with this. Also, when I was in that chair getting my hair colored, it was a game time decision. I said, fuck it, let's do it.

I don't know. So my query is this. Would you have let your partner know you did this appearance change? Would you be mad at a partner who did an appearance change that you didn't like. I truly can't imagine anyone in my life doing an appearance change that I would 100% support. I love experimenting and gassing up my friends up to do something unique and fun, and I'm feeling really shocked, bewildered, and offended by his reaction. Thoughts? I don't love the reaction. I don't love the reaction. I don't love that reaction either.

Because it's not his body. And, like, she did consider the opinion of her boyfriend, but doesn't have to take it. No. It's like, okay, here's one opinion of many, including my own, and I wanted to bleach my brows, so I went and bleached my brows. Yeah. I think I would prefer my partner to, like, roast me, like, fun roasts me, like, why do

you look like that? I don't know, like, something silly, and then if it, like, bothered me, I'd be like, hey, I like it. Can you, like, cool off with it? But, like, leaving for three hours seems so dramatic. Pretty dramatic, yeah. And I can't imagine anyone in my life having that much like thoughts about my appearance. Because then that would make me feel some type of way to be like, well, if I changed, if like something out of my control changed about my appearance, how would you react? Yeah.

If something out of my control changed about my appearance, how would you react? Yeah. Like, say, maybe I had a thyroid problem and I started gaining weight or losing weight or something that changed my appearance. Are you going to get mad at me over that? That's a good point because people, you know, we get older, we change, you change your mind. Like, our appearance is fleeting. So if this is how this person's reacting now over eyebrows, I don't know. That's not a good sign.

Yeah. I don't love it. And I think you deserve to be with someone who is easy breezy and supports your decisions. They don't have to like everything you do, but I think being supportive is important. Yeah. Yeah. Maybe you can express that like, hey, this actually makes me feel good. It's a fun experiment. I might change the color of the brows. I or dye your hair I would be supportive you want to start wearing nail polish I would support you yeah yeah I think it's like I would like to support you and I would like you to support me I think it'd be a nice conversation to have yeah or maybe ask is it just the fact that I did it and you didn't want me to or is there something else oh yeah there might be something else underneath that and also me, it dips into a bit of control. Yeah.

Like, he said no about your appearance, and you did it anyway, and he's mad that you defied him? Mm. Maybe I'm reading too much into it. Yeah. Because it's like, maybe also take a deep dive and see if there's anything else

in your relationship like that. Yeah. Like, you're like, I'm thinking about getting this steak, and he's like, no, you should get chicken'm thinking about getting the steak and he's like no you should get chicken do you get the chicken or do you get the steak and does he get mad yeah yeah yeah i did have a boyfriend who uh shaved his beard and didn't tell me and then showed up with with a hairless face and i was like oh oh because we met under the pretenses that this is a bearded face and then there was no beard and i was like well well well look at that and we'll look at that and it was it honestly was a bit like i had to like analyze my own feelings because I was like, am I OK with this face without a beard?

I should be. I love this face. But also, this is the face I signed up for. So I don't know. And yeah, I didn't get a heads up or a warning. It's just the face was just in my face. All of a sudden, I was like, huh. OK.

And he was like, I could tell you don't like it i was like it is different it is different i think it's because it made him look younger or something i don't know it was just like not it was just different that's very funny huh look at that huh well all right there's a. Never thought I'd see that. Beards are like makeup for men. Yeah. Because it can really change a man's face. And I, dare I say, a beard improves a lot of men.

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