Best Friends with Nicole Byer and Sasheer Zamata - Sasheer Wants An Update On Your Coldness

Episode Date: November 20, 2024

S! H! Wait…  Nicole's having issues with spelling today! This week Nicole breaks down the beats in the movie Curly Sue, Sasheer shares about getting better at skating, Nicole gets a new indoor pole, Sasheer shares that she is a morning person, Nicole has weak snaps and cute sneezes, Sasheer teaches us what a housecoat is, Nicole opens up about her tambourine dreams, and more. They take a quiz to find out what their chronotype is, and answer listener questions on how to influence your roommates towards good interior design as well as gift ideas for best friends who live far away. Here is the quiz we took: https://www.purewow.com/wellness/chronotype-quizEmail or call Nicole & Sasheer with your friendship questions at:[e-mail]424-645-7003  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.

MUSIC S-H-N, wait no, S-H-N. LAUGHS I hope you weren't trying to spell my name. Um, uh, no, I was spelling, she's here. OK. LAUGHS No, I was spelling she's here. OK. S-H-E space H-E-R-E. She's here.

It's a sheer issue here. What did I spell here wrong? You only spelled she here. You didn't say she's here. You spelled S-H-E space here. OK, here's a secret. I was trying to spell your name. And then I said the H and then I panicked and then I lied. And I said I was trying to spell something else.

And then my brain couldn't compute. I know. I know how to spell your name. S-A-S-H-E-E-R. So she. Correct. Yes. How did you spell it in your phone when you first met me? You spelled it a wild way in your phone. I think it was S-H-S-H-E-E-A-R or something wild. Hold on, let me see. Sh-Share?

Well, I was, that's why I didn't say your name out loud for a very long time, because I was like, that can't be it, that's no way to live. There's too many letters that don't belong together. There's too many letters that don't belong together. BOTH LAUGH Oh, yeah. I think I spelled it S-H-A-S-H-E-A-R.

Ooh. Yeah, it's a lot. But now that I'm writing it, that looks pretty right to how it was on my phone. How'd you spell my name when you initially put it in? F-R-E-A-K. BOTH LAUGH Freak? Oh,R-E-A-K. Hahahaha. Freak?

Oh, that's a... Wait, freak. Did I spell that right? Oh, freak. No, you did. You did. Oh, boy. I'm having issues with spelling today. Never take me to the B. Hahahaha. I was on my spelling team. Did I tell you that? In high school? What the fuck? What? I don't think I do. You were on my spelling team, did I tell you that? In high school? What the fuck? What?

I don't think I do. You were on the spelling bay too? Yeah. Yeah. I was pretty good at it. I think we were like... Truly incredible. Semi-finalists in like some national competition or something. Do you remember any of the words they asked you to spell? I sure don't.

No, she did. Who... Who... Who came up with spelling bees? Hmm. And why are they called the bee? Hmm. That I don't know. Yeah, what's the bee part of it?

Yeah, I don't know. But also,'s the B part of it? Yeah, I don't know. But also who was like, let's gather the children and see who's the one who can memorize the most. That's all it is. Yeah, it's definitely nothing to do with intelligence. It's just, can you remember how things are spelled? Or can you guess? Are you a good guesstimator? Mm-hmm.

But not... Yeah, you don't have to be smart to spell. No, you could be dumb as bricks and just, like, remember how to spell. Or you could, like, okay, have you ever seen Curly Sue? Mm-mm. Okay, well, in Curly Sue, um, I can't remember the guy who plays her dad, but, like, it's not really her dad. Maybe it's, like, her adoptive dad, but then, like, he keeps Curly Sue, and then, then like one of the tricks they do to get money is like, she'll spell things to be like,

oh yeah, I'm definitely in school. I can spell. And the lady, Gray, I think her name is, or Grayson or something, whatever. So like this lady accidentally hits her adoptive dad with a car. And then, or not accidentally, they like pretend that he's hit by a car. And then she like takes them to dinner. And she's like, I can spell, I go to school, cat, C-A-T.

And then she actually hits him for real. And then she takes them home with her. And then like they're in her house, and then her boyfriend comes home, and he like freaks out or whatever. But then like she's talking to Curly Sue alone, and she was like, are you in school? She's like, no, don't need it, I'm smart, don't worry.

And then she's like, yeah, I can spell anything, cat, C-A-T. And she's like, spell plastic. And she's like, I don't worry. And then she's like, yeah, I can spell anything. Cat. C-A-T. And she's like, spell plastic. And she's like, I don't know. And then it's revealed that she doesn't go to school, but then she keeps them and loves them. Uh, it's a good movie. And I didn't describe it super well, but like, yeah, you could just memorize how spell words.

Okay. That's a lot. That's a wild movie. I don't think I knew anything about it. She keeps the family in her house? Yeah, kind of like that. Like, they stay in, yeah. And does the boyfriend stay too, or does the woman fall in love with Curly Sue's dad?

No, so the woman falls in love with Curly Sue's stepdad, whatever he is. I don't really know what he is. She calls him, uh, Phil. No, that's not his name. Mike. No, no, no. Peter. She calls him something other than dad. I don't... It's a man's name. So the boyfriend calls Diphys, or Child Protective Services, CPS on Bill. Yeah, it is Bill. Bill!

So the boyfriend calls CPS on Bill and Curly Sue, and then she gets taken away into foster care. And then they cut her hair when she comes back. She goes, they cut my hair! And it's really sad. But then there's like a really good makeover scene with this like, black assistant that Grayson has. Her name's Gray? I don't know. It's a great movie.

It sounds like a dark version of Annie. Oh, yeah, it is. I would say the seedier version of Annie. -♪ CHUCKLES, LAUGHS, SIGHS, SNEEZES, CHUCKLES, CHUCKLES, CHUCKLES, CHUCKLES, CHUCKLES, CHUCKLES, CHUCKLES, CHUCKLES, CHUCKLES, CHUCKLES, CHUCKLES, CHUCKLES, CHUCKLES, CHUCKLES, CHUCKLES, CHUCKLES, CHUCKLES, CHUCKLES, CHUCKLES, CHUCKLES, CHUCKLES, CHUCKLES, CHUCKLES, CHUCKLES, CHUCKLES, CHUCKLES, CHUCKLES, CHUCKLES, CHUCKLES, CHUCKLES, CHUCKLES, CHUCKLES, CHUCKLES, CHUCKLES, CHUCKLES, CHUCKLES, CHUCKLES, CHUCKLES, CHUCKLES, CHUCKLES, CHUCKLES, CHUCKLES, CHUCKLES, CHUCKLES, CHUCKLES, CHUCKLES, CHUCKLES, CHUCKLES, CHUCKLES, CHUCKLES, CHUCKLES, CHUCKLES, CHUCKLES, CHUCKLES, CHUCKLES, CHUCKLES, CHUCKLES, CHUCKLES, CHUCKLES, CHUCKLES, CHUCKLES, CHUCKLES, CHUCKLES, CHUCKLES, CHUCKLES, CHUCKLES, CHUCKLES, CHUCKLES, CHUCKLES, CHUCKLES, CHUCKLES, CHUCKLES, CHUCKLES, CHUCKLES, CHUCKLES, CHUCKLES, CHUCKLES, CHUCKLES, CHUCKLES, CHUCKLES, CHUCKLES, CHUCKLES, CHUCKLES, CHUCKLES, CHUCKLES, CHUCKLES, CHUCKLES, CHUCKLES, CHUCKLES, CHUCKLES, CHUCKLES, CHUCKLES, CHUCKLES, CHUCKLES, CHUCKLES, CHUCKLES, CHUCKLES, CHUCKLES, CHUCKLES, CHUCKLES, CHUCK But it's a famous restaurant. It is Tad's Steakhouse. I don't know if it still exists. Kimmy, can you look up if Tad's Steakhouse in Times Square still exists? KITTY LAUGHS What, like, are you gonna go? You didn't even... It doesn't seem like you liked it. But maybe as an adult, I'll like Tad's Steakhouse more.

Hmm. Hmm. Kimmy, did you find anything? KITTY LAUGHS That's Tad's. Wait, what does this say? Say goodbye to nearly 60-year-old Times Square restaurant, Tad's Steaks. It closed in 2020. No, 2020 has taken too much from me.

Not Tad's Steakhouse. Tad's Steakhouse couldn't even survive COVID. I mean, this is terrible. Apparently, there's new fucking variants popping up everywhere. Still? Yeah, Hong Kong is in like their worst version of their pandemic. Good Lord. Since like 2020, like they're having a really bad outbreak. And I think what we don't seem to grasp is like people are traveling again. So like the same way it got here

is the same way it's gonna get here. It's a... -♪ The circle of life and it moves us all... -♪ Through despair... But we just started, uh, we just started taking our masks off and I like that. Yeah, well, buckle up, Betty. You're our masks off. And I like that. Yeah. Well, buckle up, Betty. You're going to have to put them right back on.

Damn it. Yeah. Sorry about it. I think it'll just be like a hybrid of shit since we're like vaccinated. So I think it's like the infection rate will go up, but maybe hospitalizations won't go. I don't know. I can't believe we're two years later still fucking talking about it. Yeah. Wait, what's the anniversary of our lockdown? We passed it, actually.

Oh, we did? How did you celebrate? Ha! I'm gonna go skate. Yes, queen! Are you going to that dancing skate? Uh-huh. Yeah. That's fun. It's been very fun to learn choreography while on skates. It's really hard.

It looks hard. Um, I mean, for me, just going forward is really hard. I think I need to get into a rink. I need a flat. I think I need un... un... undivided attention to the ground. That's not what I wanna say. I need...

Oh, ground, smooth ground. There we go. Smooth ground, yes. like, um, exercising, but now I'm doing stuff so I can build strength for skating. Like if I want to be on my toes, I'm like doing like calf raises and stuff like that. I'm trying to like get my balance better. Okay. Come through calf raises.

And then I put my skates on and I was like lifting my legs up so I can like be able to like carry the weight better. Oh, I love this for you. I love these skate drills, these skating exercises. You should get a skate coach. I should get a skate coach. Who like runs drills through you. Through me?

Like, that's an insane way to say something. Yeah, who runs drills right through you. Yeah, I could get a coach. It'd be fun. I think so. I think you will get good. I think you have it. I think you have it, kid. I think you have it.

I have what it takes. You have what it takes. You have the skills. You have the rhythm. You have it all, baby. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. I am putting a pole inside my house. Did I tell you about this, Plum? You did. Yes.

Are you gonna keep the one that's outside? No, apparently it's an eyesore. Apparently? To who? Did someone tell you that? Someone did tell me they thought it was an eyesore. I might keep it outside. I don't know. But the problem I've had with it is the birds. The birds be shitting. The birds be saying,

oh, we hang out here. And I don't want them to hang out there. So then I have to, like, constantly be cleaning it. And that's getting to me a little bit. I could say that, yeah. And the elements? Yeah, it's just like outside. You need to be under a cover or something.

Yeah. But, you know, she's bringing it inside or just get one inside. I'm very excited about it. I'm excited about that too. Really fucking good. Yeah. And then you can pull rain or shine or sleep in any, any temperament of the weather. Yes.

Now I am the post office of Polk. Through rain, sleet and snow, she will pull. Right. Isn't it a post office saying through like rain, sleet, and snow, she will pull! Right? Isn't that a post office saying through like rain, sleet, and snow, they'll do it? Something like that, yeah. Yeah. You know, I've worn a post office workers outfit twice now. I'm not sure why they don't put some spandex in those outfits. Just so you can move a little bit more. The whole job is moving.

This is true. Yeah. What? I mean, really, it should be like workout gear. I think so. Athlete. Some Lululemon's. Yes, give me that athleisure. Come through, athleisure. Do you take a quiz? I mean, if that's what you're feeling.

Yes, I would love to quiz. Let's quiz. Let's quiz. What chronotype are you? Kind of sleeper or morning person stuff. Oh. Do you want to figure out your chronotype are you? Kind of sleeper or morning person stuff. Oh. Do you want to figure out your chronotype? I would love to know what my chronotype is.

Yeah. We love your laugh. Oh, wow. Chronobiology is a field of biology that studies the internal clocks of living organisms. A chronotype is a biological predisposition to be a morning person, an evening person, or somewhere in between.

According to Michael J. Bruce, PhD, and sleep doctor to the stars, like Oprah, in this book, The Power of When, there are four types of chronotypes. Lions, dolphins, wolves, and bears. Take this quiz to find out which one are you. If I'm not a fucking dolphin, I'm gonna riot. Mm-hmm.

I'm gonna be so mad. Okay, do you wake up to an alarm? Ooh, interesting. Um, must say no, because I've actually been waking up before my alarm, which is really crazy. That's insane! I wake up to an alarm. Yes, hallelujah.

She don't get up if there's no ring-a-ding-ding. Hallelujah. BOTH LAUGH What's the first thing you drink in the morning? Coffee. Water. Tea. A triple espresso.

I drink a quadruple espresso in iced coffee. Uh, so that's what I drink. It's not even there. So a triple espresso. I drink water. Yeah, you're probably more hydrated than I. Yeah, if you start drinking as soon as you get up, it's, you don't have to catch up later in the day. Mm. If you stay hydrated, you don't gotta get hydrated.

Mm. BOTH LAUGH Do you ever have trouble falling asleep? Oh, yes, baby. All the time. No, I fall asleep standing. Yeah, yeah. Which is, I fall asleep standing. Yeah. Yeah. Which is, I would love that. Like I've seen you fall asleep at tables outside your home, in cars and bars, hot tubs.

Which emoji represents you at 8 a.m.? There's a skull and crossbones. There's a happy face. There's a neutral, straight line face. And then there's a happy face where it's like, I gotta show off my dang teeth. 8 a.m. 8 a.m. is not 6 a.m.

So 6 a.m. I'm skull and crossbones, she's dead. Um, but I'm gonna say just the... the neutral face. The neutral face. I'm gonna say... I got up around 8 a.m. and I would say I was pretty happy. Someone said a smiley face.

Wow. She's changing. She really is. What about 8 p.m.? Say emojis. Yeah. 8 p.m. That's almost 9, 10, 11, 12, and I hit my stride at about 1 a.m. So I'm gonna say smiley face. Um...

I guess it, um... Hmm. I think I'm gonna show them teeth too. Yeah, when did the teeth come out? I think that's when you're really happy. I'm gonna say, yeah, 8 p.m. on, my teeth are out. Ha ha ha ha. She's baring those pearly whites.

I... I'm gonna say the non-teeth smile. Because I'm like, I'm all right, but I could go home at any moment. I could go home at any moment. Choose a meal. Breakfast. Lunch. Dinner. Lunch. Dinner. Snacks.

I feel like you're gonna choose snacks. Um, well, you know, I eat all these meals every day. You do. You really do eat, like, a well-rounded, uh, amount of food. I truly only eat dinner and maybe some snacks. So I'm gonna say dinner. I love dinner. I'm a breakfast person. I love starting the day with a full stomach. Whoa.

This is Nicole. I'm not a dolphin! I'm a wolf! You're a wolf. Morning person, not you. According to Dr. Bruce's, who's no relation to Dr. Seuss's, Guy likes... Why would there be relation?

From Bruce to Seuss. Clearly different letters. I mean, I just really liked how they rhymed and I wasn't sure how to bring it in. No, but thank you for clarifying. No worries, that's what I'm here for. Wolves at a hard... They have a hard time waking up early, okay,

and have most energy at night. Try to spend your morning planning out your day before taking on meteor tasks after lunch. After an 8 p.m. dinner, aim to meditate for a while, a shower and spend some time chilling before hitting the sheets at midnight. Oh, if only I could go to sleep at midnight. Yeah. Whoa. Damn, I'm a lion. I think you are a lion. Roar.

And this is the first one in lion. Roar. That's the first word in the... Roar. Per Dr. Bruce's guidelines, lions tend to wake up early with lots of energy. By the early evening, you're probably pretty damn tired. That is true. According to Dr. Bruce's ideal lion schedule, aim to get up at the crack of dawn at 530.

Oh, no. Whoa. From there, try to tackle your biggest task before the sun goes down. After an early-ish 6 p.m. dinner, head to bed around 1030 p.m. before doing it all again tomorrow. I mean, as soon as the sun goes down, I'm useless. Yes, you really are, which is interesting. I'm like, sorry, my brain don't work no more.

I can do shows, but I can't create. I can't start a new project. No, I'm done. I wish I could, like, wrap up life a little earlier. Mm-hmm. But that's really hard for me. Yeah. It's not because, like, I shifted. Like, I used to be...

Well, I guess I still kind of am a night person, but I'm now able to get up earlier like it was so hard for me to get up early. And then I like was watching this. There's like a sleep masterclass on the masterclass app. And and I was asking like, are you a morning lark or a night owl? And then I like took some quiz and I was like, wait, are you a morning lark or a night owl? And then I like took some quiz and I was like, wait, am I a morning lark? That seems crazy. I think I am.

I think you're a morning lark. I think your body naturally wants to be awake earlier and then rest earlier. Yeah, I set my alarm for 730 this morning. Or no, for seven. I think I woke up at 645. On my own. And then that's... That's crazy.

Why were you trying to wake up so early? What are you trying to do? I was trying to get, um, my TSA pre-check. Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh. It took over your whole body. It really did. You're trying to get your TSA pre check. Yeah, because I told you I had global injury and then I reapplied.

And they were like, it could take months for us to approve you. And it has been months. And I'm like, fuck this. I'm going to go on a bunch of flights. But to go on tour, I want my TSA pre check. So I just applied for regular TSA pre-check without the global entry. And I think I applied yesterday. And then I was like, I'm going today.

And I did that. And the walk-in started at 730. So I was like, let me try to go early so I can knock it out. Wow. And you knocked it out? I knocked it out. Congratulations. You're getting through security fastest. Yeah, I don't want to take my shoes off anymore.

I mean, it's insane. Well, for you, you're strapped in, you're strapped up, they're sturdy, it's tough to get them off. It's a whole ordeal. But it is wild, but like you pay a little bit of money, you go to a cubicle, you meet someone and they go, we trust you more than everybody else. I mean, yeah, that's it.

All I'm doing is paying a little bit more money. Yeah, and then they take your fingerprints, right? Yeah. Yep. I think it's $30 for five years or something. I don't understand why we all don't have pre-check. I also don't understand that. It's like so easy to get. And also, once you pay it, you're good for five years.

For five years. $30 for five years. That breaks down to good. I don't know what it used to be, but it's actually $85 now. Oh, maybe it was $85. That sounds right. I don't know where I got $30 from. I mean, $30 is a steal. $30 is an absolute steal.

Maybe $85 is just slightly expensive enough for people to go, I don't know where I got 30 from. I mean, 30 is a steal. 30 is an absolute steal. Maybe 85 is just slightly expensive enough for people to go, uh, I'll just wait in the fucking line. Yeah. But if you fly a lot, it's worth it. Really fucking helpful. Um, it's funny because every time I leave the country, I'm like, where's Pre-Check? And I'm like, oh yeah, they don't have Pre-Check. You just go through faster because they don't make you take off your shoes.

Well, that's what global entry is good for when you go to different countries. Oh, yes, because then you zoom-zoom through customs. Yeah. Mm-hmm. Yeah, last time I, when we flew back from Italy, we were in customs for so long. So freaking long.

It was awful. I really didn't like it. But when we came back from Mexico, it was like that. It truly was. It was like... It was like... Yeah, it was truly just like... (*both laugh*) I feel like your snaps were better than mine. Mine were pretty flims.

It's a good snap. That was good. My snaps are bad! I wish my snaps were better, thank you. I can't remember who even taught me to snap. My dad? Oh. Who taught you to snap?

Do you remember? That's not an unlocked memory. I have no idea who taught me how to snap. Hey, sit down, baby. Let me teach you. It was my dad. Nicole. I don't think it was my mom either. I don't think anyone's so happy Dad taught me.

It's also funny because like... kind of a useless skill, like, but someone has to teach you how to do it. Someone does have to teach you it is not useless. That's how you get server's attention. No. That's how you get server's attention. No. That's how you get any bartender's attention.

Anybody in the service industry, that's how you get their attention. And if you see a young woman that you think is attractive. Hey, hey, come here. So you got how ladies come over to you. Now snap at them. I guess. No, it's it's like it's useless unless you're like snapping to music. Oh, it's unless you're at a jazz club and you're like, I got a. Oh, yeah. That's a phone.

Or like slam poetry or one of my shows. Yes. And just snap. Oh, yes, you did that joke. Yeah, so I guess it is useful for the arts. For the arts. Yes. We've got to keep it for the arts.

Wish I had a tambourine. Speaking of making noise with your hands. I think I would have bought one, but like, it feels weird to play a tambourine alone in my home. Oh! Maybe I should invite people over for my tambourine performances. I feel like a tambourine is like... Like, it's enhancing other music.

I feel like other music has to happen in order for a tambourine to be effective. Otherwise, it's just... Just like shaking bells. Okay, so I shouldn't get a tambourine. You can get a tambourine, but maybe get some other instruments to join it. Okay, I do have a recorder. Okay.

Yeah, invite a third grade class over so that they can play and then you can join them with your tambourine. Imagine, I'm like, gather children, I have a tambourine and a recorder. I think that would be really, I don't know, like, I don't want kids in my recorder. I think that would be really, I don't know, like... I don't like kids in my house. No, that'd be strange. Don't invite a bunch of kids. I'll invite them to the park. A nice neutral territory.

I'll drop a pin, I'll say, meet me here, kids. (*both laugh*) Bring your instruments. Bring, we're having band practice. Isn't that what School of rock's about? They do play music, yeah. With an adult, like a bunch of kids play music with an adult? With their teacher. Mm.

But yeah, yes, yeah, they do play with him in a band. So you can recreate it. Okay, well, I don't know, I don't want to go to school to become a teacher to get the kids. I don't know, I don't want to go to school to become a teacher to get the kids. I actually don't think he did. Oh, he lied?

Yeah, he lied to get the job. So, you could do the same thing. Imagine that's what I did. Imagine people were like, Nicole, quick, how did you do what? To lie to become a teacher, to play a tambourine with some kids? What a twist. (*both laugh*) What a turn of events.

I would never do that. Um, can I just tell you, I got a Farm Rio sweater in the mail yesterday, and I'm so pleased with it. It is so big, so drapey, so comfy, cozy. I was wearing it on my walk with Clyde. I got a little warm, so I took it off. But I might slide that bad boy right on soon. Oh, good. Oh, good.

I just thought you wanted an update on my coldness. She's getting cold. I care about people's temperature, because I'm always cold. You are always cold. I'm currently wearing a coat. Oh, my goodness. I thought this was a blanket. This is a coat?

It's like a house coat. A house coat. With like, fleece on the inside. Mm-hmm. It's interesting. You find a lot of wears that I'm not aware of. I thought I didn't know a house coat was a literal coat you wear in your house.

Mm-hmm. I don't know what I thought a house coat was. Oh, maybe like a robe. A robe? Yeah. No, but I wear actual coat. But like a comfy coat that I can lounge in. Oh, fair.

I love it. Should we help the people of the world or is it too early? I think we have people of the world. Yeah. Okay. Let's help them. Let's help them. Let's help. Do do do do.

You have to show me what sweater you have from Farmerio, because maybe I have the same one. Hold on, let me lean back like Fat Joe says. Oh, she's really leaning. That arm went flying. Okay, so it has... strawberries, strawberries on the arm. Ooh.

And a little bit of like, cheetah print. Yeah, yeah. Oh, she's putting it on. Oh, oh, oh. I do not have that one, but I love that one. Oh, it's fun, right? Mm-hmm. It's a good one. Yeah, I really like it.

It's got billowy arms. Look at that. That's not my arm, that's sleeve. BOTH LAUGH That's a sleevin' air. Sleeve, air, wishes and dreams. BOTH LAUGH I'm into it. Me too, and I'm wearing my bangs today. Um, I think I'm, like, I'm doing a whole look.

It's a good look. Okay, we got an email. Hello, Nicole and Sashir. I'm a huge fan of the podcast and I love listening to all your banter and genuine good laughs, laughing fits. It makes my day. I am 23. I'm moving in with my best friend and her roommate.

They have been living together for two years and their third roommate is leaving. So I'm replacing them in September. Yay. I think we will live together peacefully, but my only concern about this apartment is the interior design of it. If we could even call it that... Dude!

This is the epitome of a college apartment because of the lack of decoration and furniture. The apartment has enough space for a dining room, table, and chairs, but instead they left that space empty and just have a foldable TV tray and eat their food on the couch. Yeah. They have a painted beer pong table that stays in the hallway when not in use and string lights up.

Oh, boy, I am unsure why they decided to live like that. Because we wouldn't be throwing so many parties that we would need to have a dance floor ready at any moment. Mm-hmm. I have plenty of art that I can hang up to decorate, uh, to decorate the space, and ceramic dinnerware, uh, set to replace the plastics that they have currently. However, I don't wanna overstep on everything they got going on

because obviously they spent money on those things, they don't wanna throw them out, which is understandable. However, as Beyoncé once said, let me up-grade you. I think we could be living a better life if we buy a dining room table, even if it's from Facebook Market or IKEA. I would appreciate a good chair to sit in. So, Sheree, you have my back on this one.

How should I go about talking about maybe replacing some of the items they have or buying some new stuff? Should I wait until I'm fully moved in or do it beforehand? Since we're all friends, I appreciate any advice you have for me. I hope you ladies have a wonderful rest of your day. Smiley face, your friend. Well, I mean, I definitely think there's room for chairs. Oh, absolutely. You think that?

Yes, of course, you think there is room for chairs. There's always room for chairs. So, okay, I had this issue when I lived in New York City, city of dreams, concrete jungle. The city the devil sleeps, have heard of it. And I lived in the- The Big Apple. Yep, so I-

I ran out. The island, the zone has never been called. The island. I lived on the- The Big Cheese. The island. The island. The island. The island. The island. The island. The island. The island.

The island. The island. The island. The island. The island. The island. The island. The island.

The island. The island. The island. The island. The island. The island. The island. The island. The island. The island. The island. The island. two futons as two couches. And then we had a massage table found on the street

that we used as a dinner table. And then we lived, and then we had a TV on a suitcase because we didn't have a TV stand. And then we just like kept having conversations to be like, we can't live like this. So, and I would lead the charge. I'd be like, guys, we have to get a dining room table. So then we found a used one on Craigslist for like $50,

went and picked it up, put it in a cab, put it in the house. And then I was like, we need another chair. We only have one. So then we found, it was just like steps at a time, and everyone was in agreeance. And then it was like, we all pooled our money to make, you know, we all put 10 bucks down for it to be even for the cheap shit we put in there. We all pooled our money to make, you know, we all put ten bucks down for it to be even

for the cheap shit we put in there. I wouldn't spend too, too much money, though, to try to make it nice. You can spend a little bit of a little bit of money goes a long way. You can always paint things. We painted our dining room table to make it cuter. We painted the chairs. We added fabric to the seats. In hindsight, not great, but like good for what we needed. Also, rugs go a long way.

You can get a used rug somewhere, buy it from somebody. We bought a couch, but we were treating it the same way we were treating the futon, and we immediately broke it. So it's like, if you're gonna invest in things, like be nice, treat it nicely. But yeah, just talk to your friends. Be like, let's do something cute. Let's live cutely.

Yeah. And it can be like maybe a fun activity for you guys to maybe go shopping. Or if they're not into shopping, you can like text some things when you go to the stores and be like, do you like this? Like, and I love getting used to stuff. A lot of my furniture is used. Go to Goodwill, you can go to St. Vincent de Paul, Salvation Army, Habitat for Humanity has stores called Restore. Um, or Craigslist.

Um, or the street. Like Jay said, I'm leery of the street just now as an adult. Because of, you know, the bugs that live of the street just now as an adult because of, you know, the bugs that live in the bed. The bugs, the bugs, yeah. Yuck, yuck, yuck. If anything has fabric on it, no. But- Yes.

But if you find chairs with fabric on the street, you can rip the seat out and then redo the seat. It's a lot of DIY. I did a lot of DIY shit in my early 20s. And I liked it. Like I would finish a project and be like, I did that. That's like really fucking cute. Yeah, we were really proud of ourselves

with that kitchen table. And in hindsight, we did a bad job. And when I moved out to LA, I was like, I don't want to spend money on a dresser that I have to put together that's not gonna last a long time. So I went to St. Vincent de Paul, I found a pretty sturdy dresser, and then I spray painted it and then sealed it

and then sanded it down a little bit so it wasn't as like sticky or whatever because I didn't use like furniture paint. And that lasted me for like two years and it was like really cute. And it was in my room and I made it purple with a glitter top and some gold handles and I loved her. I loved her till I sold her.

So, yeah, it's it's also fun to like look around your room like I did that. Yeah. And I also say maybe before you get new stuff, maybe go with the roommates and kind of analyze what is still needed. Like, do we need the beer pong table or does it... Or can we... Is there a better place to store it or... Yeah, that could go like behind a couch and hold out for beer ponging. Yeah. Or you can use your like dining room table to beer pong. You don't need a for beer ponging. Yeah. Or you can use your, like, dining room table to beer pong. You don't need a whole beer pong table.

Yeah. Yeah. Or is there a cute, um, like, uh, table cover that they could put over the beer pong table and then they can take it off whenever they want beer pong? I mean, that is an option. And also, if these are, uh, uh, male identifying people, I feel like it's easy to sway them cuter. Yeah, they won't have any. Oh, I don't I don't want to say that. I don't want to say they won't have any opinions, but it's possible if they haven't already tried to decorate their home. Maybe they don't have

opinions about this. Yeah. Many bedrooms I've been in where there's no bed frame and it's okay. Or a chair and a couch, like a couch and a TV, and you're like, oh, you don't want a coffee table or a rug? And then you never heard of a curtain? That's not part of the vocabulary. A curtain. You don't want that? So, yeah. Many a gentleman. I once went to this man's house where he didn't have a bed frame.

He had a rocking chair in the corner and a big bottle of Juergens next to the bed. And I stayed. Oh, God, of course. Wow. That was like a real memory. When take it easy. I was like, I'm not gonna do this. I'm not gonna do this. I'm not gonna do this. I'm not gonna do this. I'm not gonna do this.

I'm not gonna do this. I'm not gonna do this. I'm not gonna do this. I'm not gonna do this. I'm not gonna do this. I'm not gonna do this. I'm not gonna do this. I'm not gonna do this.

I'm not gonna do this. I'm not gonna do this. I'm not gonna do this. I'm not gonna do this. I'm not gonna do this. I'm not gonna do this. I'm not gonna do this. I'm not gonna do this. I'm not gonna do this. I'm not gonna do this. I'm not gonna do this. I'm not gonna do this. And I was like, is there a reason it's still here? Like, are you going to fix it? He's like, um, no, we're just going to put it there for a minute until we figure out what to do with it.

I was like, take it to the curb. No, get rid of it. You don't need this broken chair here. I've heard this story so many times, and I think it's like it's like a an implanted memory because it was a chair. You thought you could sit and you picked it up and it crumbled and you were like, this chair doth forsake me. You need to give it a proper burial.

You can't just have a dead chair in the corner. Are you kidding me? This is disrespectful. That's so funny. (*laughter*) Just a corpse, a skeleton of a chair. Jack Charrington. Wait, what was that? What was that?

A Nightmare Before Christmas? Okay, yes, okay. Wow. From someone who knew nothing about that movie. It's a ghoulish movie. It's so scary. I couldn't believe there was children at that screening. It's spooky.

It's spooky. It's spooky. It's spooky. It's spooky. It's spooky. It's spooky. It's spooky. It's spooky. It's spooky. It's a ghoulish movie. It's so scary. I couldn't believe there was children at that screening. It's spooky. Yeah, but there are scary parts to it. It's terrifying.

A man, I think, took his skin off and was filled with bugs. He was filled with bugs, yeah. The buggy man. And children were like, yes! I couldn't believe it. But I did love that big black man, which is a wild way to describe somebody, but I cannot remember his character's name. Ken Page. Yes, Ken Page.

I think we've talked about Ken Page before. I think about him often. Yeah, I do too, actually. Who's so talented? Yeah, who's he talking to? Are they enjoying his voice as much as they should be? He's such a great voice. Very great voice, yeah. Should we answer a great voice. Very great voice. Yeah.

Should we answer another question? Hell yeah, dude. Yeah. Hi, Nicole. Hi, Sashir. Nicole. This is a super side note, but I told my friend, I would see if you could recall this meet and greet. My friend, Alyssa, actually got to meet you after a show in Moscow, Idaho.

I've never been to Idaho. And she, oh, maybe I went to Idaho for after a show in Moscow, Idaho. I've never been to Idaho. And she, oh, maybe I went to Idaho for a college show with tour coach in UCB. She was the weird girl who cried when she met you. If this helps, she kind of laughed, cries or wails in a way. Anyway, she loves you both. And she's now going to listen to this podcast per my recommendation. I would guess you get a lot of people crying when they meet you. Yes. And I asked them pointedly to stop. Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha It's hard for me. Yeah. Too many emotions. Don't know how to deal with it. Yeah, too many. But it is nice.

It is nice that people like me and I do appreciate it. Yeah. I have a fun little query for you both. She lives in Idaho and I am in Washington state. I loved your idea from a couple episodes ago of sending someone care packages to long distance friends. To make her day brighter or to get her to giggle, what are some fun items or gag gift ideas to send to her, if you have any?

Not rude or messy gag gifts, but maybe like a miniature figure of a toilet? Help. Ha ha. Yeah, I think a miniature, anything that they like is fun. Yeah, you give me mini chairs and I almost cry every time. Uh-huh, gave you that little car. And my favorite thing about giving you that itty bitty little RAV4 is you went, oh!

And then you bent over and immediately knew how to play with it. I didn't know it wound up at all. But you just like instinctively were like, that's how you play! And your man was like, whoa! It's fun to watch this happen. So it's funny sometimes. I really love when he's around for moments like that because he's like, and he'll say it out loud,

he's like, it's wild to watch this in action. Me throwing my head back and laughing as you're playing with a toy car that I found in Rite Aid, and we're both elated to do so. that I found in Rite Aid, and we're both elated to do so. I mean, maybe something mentioned in passing, like, Sashir bought me a Hess truck, which is now in my... I saved the box. I don't know why.

I don't think I'm gonna use the box for anything, but it's on display in my glass case... of things I value and my books. Um, I sobbed when I opened that because it was just like this off-the-head thing that I said that I wanted and never got. Um, but then she knew I love flames, so it has flames on it, and I love motorcycles, and it has motorcycles just like in the back, man.

I get... I get so excited. So like things, things like that. Like I'm trying to think, what do people, okay Kimmy, what is one of your favorite things? Oh goodness, this is... Jordan, you're next. I like plants a lot. Flowers, I love flowers.

I know a lot of people don't like them, but flowers are my favorite. So I would find like a little miniature flower thing. Like a little, uh, like plastic thing of flowers. Like maybe like, uh, like Lego flowers or something. Or like Barbie flowers, like a Barbie bouquet. Uh, and like maybe, like make a little, and get like a little basket from Michael's

and make like a little bouquet and be like, thought of you! Um, because that's like a little teeny thing that you could put on your nightstand and then like you'll smile every morning and be like, my friend got me flowers that I always have. And I love it.

I sent someone a tiny, tiny cactus. And it's a real cactus. Ooh, that's fun. Mm-hmm. I like that. Okay, Jordan, what is your favorite thing? I don't know if I can say my favorite thing, but what I personally would do for a care package

is go to a thrift store and see what little knickknacks would be on the shelf that you could include. Like, you're talking about the little furniture. Like, I can't imagine what people could find in a thrift store. Um, and then the other thing I wanted to suggest is if it's Target, if it's wherever you're shopping, Home Goods, Kmart, if Kmart's still around, in the office section to tie in with the plants, I recently bought my best

friends their pushpins, but they're cute little plants that like are in a planter. And then there's also there was a magnet version. So I really like cute, useful things. I don't, I never want to get my friends something that's not useful. Like of course a bouquet of flowers is really nice. I always splurge on my friends and buy them chocolate dipped strawberries and we'll send them to their house from time to time.

That's nice. Yeah. We haven't gotten any, Jordan. Yeah. Put it out there. It's interesting that you're on the list. I have. You sent me Sherry's berries. Someone sent me Sherry's berries. Oh, we sent that to you.

I probably suggested it, because that's what I do. Mmm. It was like something specific had happened. Oh, I think it's when you broke your leg. The earwool, i.e. me,, Colin and Jordan sent you sherry's berries. It was very nice. And I ate them right up. People kept bringing me food and I was like, yum.

I also would like to say, and I got this for my best friend for her birthday, which was on the seventh of this month. And I got her because I feel like it's really bougie and adult, is I got her like a Harry and David basket. Oh, yeah. So there's like, there's fruits in it, there's cheeses, there's a wine, there's like total bougie, like... I, it's, to me, it's such a adult gift to get.

It does feel very adult. Yeah. My man's parents send them out for Christmas, and we got one. And I'm like, it's just like good snacks. Yeah, yeah. I'm... Oh, this is a nice website. It's purple. I'm on the Harry and David website. Oh, yeah, I think their colors are purple and gold.

And brown. Their pears are very good. Yeah, that's what their famous pears are. They just send a box of nice pears. And man, it's a nice time. How does everybody know about, uh, about Harry and David? They have entrees they'll send you? Whoa.

They have an Italian food collection? Ham, turkey? Chicken pot pie? Yeah, send you a friend a chicken pot pie. Yeah, send your friend a chicken pot pie. You can send them a ham buffet gift basket. Wait, this is nuts. And it comes all cooked up? Whoa.

I think it, depending on what basket, I know the basket I personally got because my best friend loves cheeses and also meats. And so I think it was like a cured meat and cheese basket, along with like their pears and fruits. I wanted to pick something that she would enjoy, but I also didn't want to be like, I got you all this chocolate or all the sweets.

I wanted to like an array of things for her. Yeah. You get a deluxe ham brunch, Bankette, with wine. A Bankette? I don't know what that is. I don't either. This is really incredible. I'm gonna order a honey ham for myself.

You get one every week? Who's starting the subscription of a ham a week? I mean, my family need a ham a week. Who's running through hams every week? That's funny. I love honey baked hams. Great. So, have you had have you guys had a honey baked ham? Pretty sure I have. Yeah. OK, one, have you guys had a honey-baked ham? Pretty sure I have, yeah. Okay, I wanna hear something disgusting.

Okay. When I was little. So we would have ham for Thanksgiving. That was our treat. Because my dad, he didn't really eat pork or anything. So we would get ham as a treat on Thanksgiving, and we would also get ham. Wait, are you saying that your dad wouldn't eat it?

My dad didn't eat pork, so we didn't have pork in the house a lot. Oh, but you would, for a treat, have ham on holiday? Yes, Thanksgiving in particular. And when I was little, I was like, salty and sweet is... how you say it in my love language. So I would take some ham, some pound cake, and some vanilla ice cream and eat it all together.

Isn't that sick? Huh. But I'm like hurting for it right now. I was like... Yeah, you're like wiggling your shoulders. I looked at all those pictures of Honey Big Hands and I said, oh, what if I were to get one? It doesn't sound terrible.

Okay, thank you. I feel like... I feel really vulnerable saying that combo out loud. Thank you for sharing that with us. You're very brave. Thank you. Thank you. I try to be brave every day. Really quick, going back to your Thanksgiving one. Did you not eat turkey either? No, we ate turkey. So, okay, we would have turkey, a honey-bited ham,

sweet potatoes, but not the way that other people have them. We would have marshmallows on them. And then sometimes you would have sweet potatoes with just like the goopy sugar and the syrup-iness. But I like the ones with the marshmallows. And then you'd have like corn of sorts, and I'd be like, why? And then we would have the... the... what's it? The cranberry sauce or whatever.

We would have lasagna. My mom would make a lasagna. Oh, wow. Mashy potatoes. The green beans. And then greens. I think that's it. That's a lot of food. That's great.

That's a lot of food. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, I thought of another gift. Dried flowers. Oh, dried flowers are great.

Yeah, I have some and they're just like, you can get a pretty bouquet, and then they can keep it. And it's not like flowers are gonna go bad. Yeah, Tiffany Gabris has a floral company called Sweetser, The Sweetser Life. And she does dried arrangements that are just... She's taking a break right now, but like, hit up her Instagram.

She does some fabulous arrangements. And I have one that lives on my coffee table from Jess McKenna, who's very sweet and sent them to me. Oh, that's nice. Yeah, it's nice when friends send you shit. It's nice. It's nice. I do love opening a package from, that says my code name.

I won't say it out loud on the pod. And I know it's from you and I love it. It makes me so happy. I also like seeing my code name and being like, oh, Nicole, send me something. Oh, we're having fun. We're having fun. All right. Well, I feel like that's if you want to have fun. We're having fun.

All right. I feel like that's if you have fun, you want to have. You can email us or Nicole and Sashira Jamil dot com. Or if you have a phone or fingies for texting or you could dictate, you don't have to have fingers to text. The number is four to four, six, four, five, seven, zero, zero, three. We also have Merge at Podag.com slash best friends. Uh, lastly, please. Don't forget to rate, review, subscribe. That is the easiest way to support this show.

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