The Nikki Glaser Podcast - #164 I'm A Fistie, Fanthrax Only w/ Carlisle Forrester

Episode Date: January 21, 2022

Nikki, Andrew and Carlisle are checking in with Besties in this Fanthrax Only edition of the show. Nikki and Carlisle delve into their relationship as Nikki tells a story from the Dancing with The Sta...rs day that solidified their friendship. They also discuss why some very talented people don't achieve a high level of fame. Next they respond to messages left by Besties about mourning, co'uhls, body positivity, a fun romp, a several explanation, vultures, fist pumps and a podcast opener. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Starting point is 00:00:43 Here's Nikki. Hey, everyone. The Nikki Glaser Podcast. Here's Nikki. Hey, everyone. The Nikki Glaser Podcast. It is Thursday. It's an all-Fran-Fanthrax episode. We'll get to that in just a little bit. It's an all-Fran Lebowitz. Oh, my God.
Starting point is 00:01:01 Anya does the best impression of Fran Lebowitz I've ever heard. And she was talking about going through COVID. She was talking about being in a relationship and someone was interviewing Fran Lebowitz and said, you know, you're going through COVID alone. She was like, I can't imagine going through COVID with someone. I am so lucky to be alone. And it was just like,
Starting point is 00:01:19 and Anya was talking about how she never gets lonely. Like she loves being alone. She loves being in a relationship with Matt, but that if matt's ever gone anya's never felt loneliness which is hilarious because i'm here with carl alforster and andrew collin of course but carl alforster is staying with me for a week tomorrow she's leaving i'm leaving as well we're going back to la but um three days into this uh one day i walked out into the living room and she was here and she was just looking a little sad and i was like hey girl what's up and she was just like i'm just like really homesick and i was just like what is happening she was like i just feel like really like just i miss home you i'm scared to leave you
Starting point is 00:02:02 alone i know you get been gone a long time. I went home way too long for Christmas. You look so pretty right now, by the way. Thank you. You look pretty in yellow. I just see a floating head. Why? Oh, because of the yellow background? Yeah. It's like a green screen for y'all. You guys gotta check it out on the YouTube. You look like a fat head that's skinny.
Starting point is 00:02:19 I took too long for the holidays, in my opinion. And then I basically came straight here. So I just missed my dog. And you were sick with Coco in between those times. And you were sick with your boyfriend. And you said that you really bonded with Chase in that time. Yes.
Starting point is 00:02:37 And then I had to immediately leave him. And I just feel like I haven't done comedy in a long time. Because I was gone. So I'm missing. Even though you killed the other night. We went to the Funny Bone. Stuart Huff, who you got to go see. He's hilarious.
Starting point is 00:02:49 He's a road comic that no one's ever heard of, but it's criminal that there are some people out there that are this funny that you're just like, why has no one heard of him? So Stuart Huff, see where he's going if he's coming to a local comedy club because he plays the comedy club circuit. Got to go see him.
Starting point is 00:03:02 Got to go check him out. So, so funny. My face hurt from laughing. My lungs hurt. It's crazy how funny there are people. I'm thinking about pitching a standup series called Nikki Glaser's Favorite Comics You Haven't Heard Of that is just like,
Starting point is 00:03:18 I think that would be a cool thing where it's like these are names that you can, giving people something where it's like you will know this person before everyone does and they're not necessarily like young people but they're people that have like that are fucking great kevin hart did something similar to that i'm not saying it called that yeah it was called nikki glazer finds kevin hart's favorite comedian that is so funny yeah no i i think a lot of comedians i'm that. I'm not saying, I'm not shitting on the idea. I'm saying, no, it was good.
Starting point is 00:03:46 But, you know, it was like, it's cool. You find like local talent. Well, just like talent that is just, that is waiting to be seen. There's so many comics. I'm like, this person should be so much more famous than I am. So many people were coming up to him after the show and being like, yeah, I've never heard of you before, but that was great. It's like, that's not really a compliment.
Starting point is 00:04:05 You know what the problem is? Stop saying that. You know, it's because we leave the show and we go, why isn't he famous? Like me, Chris, and Carlisle, we're all like, what is the deal here? And, you know, it's more than just like, oh, no one likes white men anymore.
Starting point is 00:04:19 Or, you know, there can be like, he has a kid that he has to be accountable for. Does he live in la or he lives in athens georgia he at one time probably did and i think he's gonna be the atlanta punch line soon yeah he's so funny but um you know there's there's a lot of things and this isn't to say of him but in certain there's certain people out there that are so fucking talented and i and they're so much funnier than i will ever dream of being like they're some of the funniest people that you'll truly never know about
Starting point is 00:04:46 because they self-sabotage with drinking, drugs. Kids. I mean, my ex-boyfriend. Exactly. Yeah, kids. Well, I mean, sure, marrying someone who is going to keep them out of it, and so they'll always have an excuse for why they didn't make it. And some people are truly scared
Starting point is 00:05:05 to get the recognition and what what fame is is love like we're all going after this love that we want that we didn't get as kids that's what my you know diagnosis is for most comedians and i would say comedians more so than actors but and then when you when you start getting famous you start to feel that love and it's fucking terrifying because you don't think you deserve it and so you do something to keep it away because it it isn't real love but it starts to feel like it like even i self when i started getting a little bit more notoriety i started smoking a lot more weed because i'm like i want to fuck this up i want to i this is getting too easy for me people seem to like me too much and i need to
Starting point is 00:05:45 make them realize they shouldn't like use self-sabotage so i think that's what happens to some people is they do something that'll make it so they don't succeed my ex-boyfriend is one of the best uh like the my first boyfriend one of the best comedy writers i'll ever know one of the best joke writers ever. Whenever I do roasts, it's the only time I talk to him now. I just write to him and he now doesn't even, I don't think he does comedy anymore. But I'll write to him and say, hey, I'm doing a roast.
Starting point is 00:06:15 Can you write me jokes? And I use more of his jokes than anyone's jokes that I have ever used. And his name is Jeff Wesselschmidt. And he's, you can find his clips online, but he, for some reason, isn't as famous. He never made,
Starting point is 00:06:31 and I don't know what it was, but I think there was something in him that was like, I don't deserve, because he would always, he would do a set for a showcase and then he would do jokes that were just alienating
Starting point is 00:06:41 that would like make the back of the room laugh and he would throw a set under the bus when he really just, I knew he has the potential to be as good as anyone he has his look is a little like um i don't know exactly how to explain it yeah like school shooter-ish yeah but and then on top of that he has very dark jokes so it's like it's it's hard as a regular like yeah as like a regular audience member to like wrap your head around. But when I'd be at open mics, I mean, he was like a legend. Like, I mean, it just.
Starting point is 00:07:14 That's why I fell in love with, like, that's why I was like, when I saw him in the St. Louis scene, I'm like, that guy is the funniest person I've ever heard. He's so funny. Just a genius. You know, just the best joke writer there is and um it was so envious of his mind and the fact that he thought i was funny just was such like a fucking badge yeah and so but there's certain people that you just have never heard of and i think and i relate to it and i think i could be more successful than i am but i've just there's a part of me that doesn't i maybe it's an excuse but i there's a part of me that doesn't
Starting point is 00:07:45 maybe it's an excuse but there's a part of me that's holding back a little bit because I don't feel like I deserve it or something I think there's that but anyway I want to do something like that and I think it's the job of a comedian if you've had success it's the job of yours to introduce new people
Starting point is 00:08:02 I mean that's how I found you that's how I became your super fan is because I saw you on that Amy Schumer thing. Oh, yeah. Women Who Kill. Oh, right. And you're a woman that kills people. And you're related a lot.
Starting point is 00:08:15 Who dreams of killing. Oh, my God. I have so many good stories about Carlisle that I've written them into shows, but the other night I brought her on stage by the way you killed the other night that's funny
Starting point is 00:08:27 Carlisle has gotten so good at comedy because she is working at Supernova which is the show in LA that you should absolutely go check out and support that place
Starting point is 00:08:35 because that place pays the comics yes they pay the comics oh yeah and tell the besties what you said if you're a bestie please DM me
Starting point is 00:08:42 and if you're gonna be in the LA area or if you live in the LA area you can come to a show for free if you're a bestie, please DM me and if you're gonna be in the LA area or if you live in the LA area, you can come to a show for free if you're a Bestie. Just hit me up. I'll put you on my guest list and you don't have to pay
Starting point is 00:08:50 for tickets. And you get amazing headliners on every show. There's a good headliner because they pay their comedians really, really well. Several.
Starting point is 00:08:58 Call back. Thousands. That could be upwards of thousands. It's a long show. It's a long show. But it's a really cool show and especially in the warmer, even in the winter. No, we have heaters now. Yeah, it's a long show but it's a really cool show and especially in the warmer
Starting point is 00:09:05 even in the winter no we have heaters now yeah it's great whenever I go up on stage I'm like hot it's my favorite place to perform and in LA no offense to the store
Starting point is 00:09:14 and the improv but it just is it's the only place I like call in spots to really when I'm in town now but you had a set the other night it was so fucking good I'm so excited
Starting point is 00:09:23 to possibly do a show where I get to curate the talent because introducing the world to Carlisle will be like, I mean, I've already done it on the podcast and stuff. You're welcome. But you were so funny the other night. I'm really proud of how good at comedy you've gotten
Starting point is 00:09:39 because you used to get up just sporadically and you would come out really hot and be like, hey, y'all. And scream. Nikki broke me of this habit where I would just be so loud. And it's like, girl, you have a mic in your hand.
Starting point is 00:09:55 Like you're good. Well, you were trying to be someone other than yourself. You were trying to be an emcee. You're trying to be. Well, I hosted open mics for my first two years. And it gave me these bad habits of like keeping the energy up and like keep you know
Starting point is 00:10:10 what I mean so now I can just go up and do the trick to comedy and everything and if you're starting out skip that whole thing of trying to be someone else like just say whatever's true in that moment and like yeah if if you're not excited to host a show
Starting point is 00:10:25 and you gotta host a show, you gotta kind of bring it and just pretend you are. But you're already an excitable person. And so when you go on stage, you just were so loud and your energy was manic in a way that, and I'm not,
Starting point is 00:10:39 I used to do the same fucking thing where I pretended to be Sarah Silverman for years and then I pretended to be Amy Schumer and then I'm all over the place place and some of that still remains in my act but um i was so impressed with you the other night and that's awesome it was really good she had new jokes that i was like i didn't even know these jokes i'm gonna put that whole setup on tiktok i think if anybody wants to the whole set yeah follow her on tiktok i mean it's only it's only uh you know what was i saying about this um yeah you were holy oh yeah so i brought her up or she brought me no she went up
Starting point is 00:11:10 and then tim convey who's also fucking hilarious and gotten so good uh my quasi boyfriend's brother tim convey uh he brought me up and then i got to tell a couple carlisle stories and it was nice because they like already knew her and I got to tell the handful of ones. I'm always reluctant to tell them because they kind of reveal some dark things about you, but I think those are the things that are best about you is that you are a dark bitch. What's the best one
Starting point is 00:11:36 you think? The best one that I've told... The suicide one? Yes. This goes hand in hand with one. We were at this festival called Caboo. Yep. And it was awesome. It was during Dancing with the Stars
Starting point is 00:11:49 and Carlisle and I got real close during Dancing with the Stars. She was my assistant. She lived with me. We were like in it to win it, in it to lose it. And it was just such a good time. And she was so supportive.
Starting point is 00:12:01 It's such a wonderful friend. So supportive that I didn't have your bag packed whenever you were voted off which was my one job i was gonna succeed no she really amazing she was always there with a nice coffee at my practice it she was just the best you dressed me one day when i was injured and i couldn't put on a shirt and i couldn't take off a bra like she was awesome and i wish i could have gone on longer. Go back to that. It was pretty sexual. I was crying because it was so romantic. I couldn't put on my panties and Carlisle. You were there for me.
Starting point is 00:12:33 And it was like the way you plucked my vagina hairs. Carlisle was just with your teeth. It's so amazing. That's the way I like it done. And she, yeah, she's willing to, I like all green M&M's
Starting point is 00:12:45 and my pubes plucked I just that's just the way I like it I'm not being a diva no one said you are so we are backstage
Starting point is 00:12:54 at this music festival and we drove down there we saw I saw Blondie in a we saw Halsey yeah we saw Halsey
Starting point is 00:13:02 perform I saw Blondie in a hotel nearby when we were trying to find the festival and I stopped to go perform. All the E's. I saw Blondie in a hotel nearby when we were trying to find the festival and I stopped to go to the bathroom in a hotel and I saw Blondie and Debbie Harry in the lobby. But we get to the thing.
Starting point is 00:13:13 I perform. It was the first time I didn't stand up in a while because I was so immersed in Dancing with the Stars. And it was a big show. And it was really good. There was a tent of people. Usually music festival shows, not fun. I had a great time.
Starting point is 00:13:24 Earlier that day, I had gone to practice at 7 in the morning with Gleb for four hours. Then we drove down. I had a show at 2, something like that. And then get done with my set. And I'm in this trailer. And we're supposed to – we go to Halsey. And we're dancing, having the best time. It's like my day off from Dancing with the Stars.
Starting point is 00:13:42 I'm just like, things are going great. I had a good practice, even though Genn ripped out some of my hair and i cried um it was all good and um i was trying to convince you to go to food fighters so food fighters are my favorite live performers ever it's how i became a fan was going to their show reluctantly and then i was like this is the best man i've ever seen in my life and so i was so excited um so we're in this trailer and before the food fighter show and i we're not talking family live yeah we're in uh no this is where uh noah's uh step-by-step crush cody's we were in the step-by-step trailer call back if you heard uh ham drip yesterday um and i got an alert for my
Starting point is 00:14:23 name and i was in the daily mail for the first time, which if you're a regular listener to the show, you know that that's like the only news source that I read and it's all the best celebrity like encounters and they don't, they're not really fans of me. They've been, there've been so many chances for them to talk about me. They don't care about me,
Starting point is 00:14:37 but I'm in the daily mail because grocery store Joe and I went to Starbucks together, which was right down the street from our dancing with the stars rehearsal space. And he was on my season two and we went to go get a coffee no we didn't even go together i ran into him there and i saw the paparazzi taking pictures of us so i just started like smiling like kind of not smiling but i knew they were photographing us and i knew they'd be like are they together whatever we were just we're just friends and we he was dating my friend at the time kendall so i go back and i'm like in the paparazzi we're always at dancing with the stars
Starting point is 00:15:09 outside and they always are daily mail like they're they pay daily mail to put ads in so i walked back to dancing with the stars and they're snapping pictures of me and i'm confident and i'm wearing like this cute little i look adorable i'm tanned up in the right way my hair's back and i'm having fun with them talking to them and I go in for practice and then these pictures come out when I'm in my trailer and there's a picture of my neck that I'll send to Noah that I remember this yes I've told this on other things that we've done before so I apologize if this is so redundant to you but um or my neck looked like a raptor like it looked like uh like a raptor's like when they're
Starting point is 00:15:46 in the kitchen and they're like they hear a pot clang and they like a crocodile's tail yeah yes where it's like it's just all bunches up and it's like line line line line line it looked like barbara corcoran from shark tank like i looked like the tree you'd be like 80 000 years old yeah dude it it was it's just such a bad angle and it was because i was too skinny and i i was dehydrated do you know how dehydrated skinny people get like that iggy pop but also tanning will do it too i've noticed it brings out creases sometimes spray tan will give you those lines on your neck sometimes because it beads up it's just the worst angle and i was already depressed and tired and everything and so I just went into a fucking spiral.
Starting point is 00:16:26 And you've seen me spiral like this. This was at a time in my life when I wasn't. That was a dance move I did. Yeah. Yeah. My signature move on Dancing with the Stars was the downward spiral. That's so funny. That's when you spun around.
Starting point is 00:16:42 I would write that down. When you would spin around and and hate yourself oh my god write that down i want to put that in my act when i talk about dancing with stars someday my signature dance move was the downward spiral um that's really good thank you guys um so i cried and i was like you know i tend to or I used to tend to say things about myself that around other friends that loved me that they would negate and be like, no, Nick, you're beautiful. Or no, that's not right. I remember I sent the screenshot to Anya because Anya's very like nose body stuff and like analyzes. And I'm like, there's no way around this.
Starting point is 00:17:21 Like my neck is disgusting. And Anya was like, it's because you're too skinny disgusting and anya was like it's because you're too skinny dude it's like it's because you're thin that's what skin does when it's thin and it doesn't have any fat to like not make it wrinkle up like that it's like that would be like on a 12 year old that was that skinny and i was just like no you're wrong and um i'm crying and and i'm just like carla like my neck is so disgusting i'm zooming in on it and she's like there are things you can do to fix it. There are lasers. You can get surgery.
Starting point is 00:17:48 Nikki, you are making so much money on this season. If you think about it, we can go immediately. As soon as you're done with the show, babe, you can fix it. And I'm just like, that's not what the advice. I was trying to offer solution. But that's why you're like my mom to me in some ways. I love that. When I used to say that I was fat and ugly to my mom, my mom would me in some ways i love that when my mom when i used
Starting point is 00:18:05 to say that i was like fat and ugly to my mom my mom would be like just be happy with what god gave you yeah or like go on a diet that like it wouldn't be like you're crazy you're there's something beautiful in that rather than just lie to you no i well it's not a lie to say you're beautiful and that that is a bad angle but carlisle just her truth was just fix it you've got money to me that's my truth because you're so lucky you can do the thing that, her truth was just fix it. You've got money. Yeah, because to me, that's my truth because you're so lucky you can do the things. That's what she was just saying. You have the money.
Starting point is 00:18:30 If I had your money, you know what I would do. And so that's why right after Dancing with the Stars, I went to Simon Norian and I spent $30,000 on injections. Couldn't believe it. Yeah, right. You were like, just do it. Yeah. Just for your decolletageage is it an extra 10 grand just
Starting point is 00:18:47 do it and my my business manager's calling being like what are you doing in beverly hills right now i'm like i'm just like i'm just this is for myself i need to do this carlisle's like in my head so but the the real kicker of this so then i'm like trying i'm like okay i guess this isn't gonna get carlisle to give me sympathy i'll just say the worst thing she doubled down on it and so then i remember just like being so depressed and i was like carlisle i seriously like aging is like awful like if this is the way i am now at the age of 34 whatever i was i was like i just think i'm like i'm probably just gonna have to kill myself someday i just like feel like that's how i'm gonna go like i'm just gonna have to kill myself one day and i kind of just's how I'm going to go. I'm just going to have to kill myself one day.
Starting point is 00:19:26 And I kind of just looked over at her to be like, what are you going to do with that? And she just goes, me too. And I'm like, what? And she goes, except mine's going to be murder-suicide. And I was like, oh my god. And it made me laugh so hard that it sat me out of it. And we left and went to the Foo Fighters concert.
Starting point is 00:19:45 She's like, Nikki, you got so much money, you could just kill a man and then kill yourself. Or get a man killed, Nikki. We never explained the murder-suicide. It wasn't that I was going to murder her. It was because I was dating a guy at the time. She's going to murder someone else. I was fantasizing about murdering him.
Starting point is 00:20:02 She had a homicidal fantasy. Not that I would ever, but she definitely could have. I was fantasizing about murdering him. She had homicidal fantasies. Not that I would ever, but she definitely could have. I was so angry. One time I told Carlisle. If my neck was like yours, Nikki, I would have killed my boyfriend a long time ago. If I had your neck all wrinkly and crocodile-y. Just use a laser to kill yourself. It's just an extra 20 grand i once told carlisle and this is all out of love that i was like because she was she's been just as much as i've
Starting point is 00:20:32 been crazy she's been crazy and we've both seen each other at like bad moments and i once told carlisle like you know sometimes i feel a little scared that you like will kill me or something like if i hurt you in a bad if i like if some if i fire you because i told her about the guy and this fantasy that i had who had blonde hair and blue eyes but you're allowed to have if you have homicidal fantasies which a lot of people do by the way no one talks about it but people do think about killing people all the time only about this one guy i did no there's been two and um but it was so cute because i go carlisle, like sometimes I feel like you will Selena me, you know,
Starting point is 00:21:06 like you are like, I see that. If I, if I, if I decide I don't want to be friends with you because you, you know, you're a drug at like whatever. If I've disguised to make space,
Starting point is 00:21:14 she was a drug. You were addicted to pot and it was not good for our relationship or any relationship. At some point when your friend is suffering, you being there for them is not helping them. You have to pull away. So I was kind of scared. Like if I pull away from you at some point when your friend is suffering you being there for them is not helping them you have to pull away so i was kind of scared like if i pull away from you at any point could you murder me and and that was a serious mr ripley the fact that i was able to ask her that shows you that i'm not actually that scared of her but i wanted reassurance and she goes oh my god no i only i only dream about killing people that i've slept with nikki it's always a romantic thing it's
Starting point is 00:21:44 never friendship. And I was like, oh, okay, then we're fine. I literally was like, okay, I'll just never hook up with you. There was a time, too, whenever we were doing UF. I'm sure Selena's manager told her that she was going to kill her, too. You know what I mean? I'm pretty sure she was like, no, oh, no. I bet it wasn't talked about.
Starting point is 00:22:02 In that accent. Yeah, no, Abloh. Listen, I would not be friends with someone who I thought but there was a moment where I was like there's a little part of me that since you've told me this thing and I'm not trying to rub it in your face like don't tell me these things anymore but I just want to be honest with you
Starting point is 00:22:17 will you just assure me and she goes no I'll get laser she did give me the assurance I needed for that because I don't think you're alone if you've also had homicidal fantasies out there because it's okay to talk about suicide because it's yourself right it's more palatable for people but a lot of people have homicidal fantasies including um Ricky Gervais's character in Afterlife well I saw a Jennifer Lawrence interview where she was on a lie detector and for no reason she just threw out
Starting point is 00:22:46 like sometimes when I'm near a subway I think about throwing people on the tracks yeah and then the lie detector said yeah yeah and uh that's the thought that she's like that's a horrible thought but these are real thoughts but if you're honest about them and in a in a you know constructive way I think that it frees you. Like Harlow has said to me before, like, oh my God, I'm really upset that I told all this stuff to this one person
Starting point is 00:23:11 because they have it on me now. And like, if I ever fuck up, they can use it against me. And I go, the things that you have told this person that you think could ruin you, I think I know all of those things. And to me,
Starting point is 00:23:23 if you own them in a way that you can on stage or on a podcast they have nothing on you and nothing that you thought in your head is wrong your actions might have been like wrong but as long as you can atone for them and say I don't want to do those anymore or like spin it into like that was funny and by the way the things
Starting point is 00:23:40 you've done none of it's been like morally deplorable or like something that you would be in prison for so like right i just think that's your superpower you you have an excuse you were raised inside just to button up the dancing with the stars thing though there was a time on you up whenever uh you were about to you couldn't be on the show because you were on dancing with the stars and i just kept being like y'all need to vote the number is this and i kept saying the number over and over and ben glebe was the guest and he was like carlisle why do i feel like you're gonna kill nikki and
Starting point is 00:24:13 like wear her skin you wouldn't wear her neck skin i would because i would just get lasers i could get lasers on it. I would. I would. Give us an Andrew, Carlisle. Andrew! Jon Stewart is back in the host chair at The Daily Show, which means he's also back in our ears on The Daily Show Ears Edition podcast. The Daily Show podcast has everything you need to stay on top of today's news and pop culture you get hilarious satirical takes on entertainment politics sports and more from john and the team
Starting point is 00:24:51 of correspondents and contributors the podcast also has content you can't get anywhere else like extended interviews and a roundup of the weekly headlines listen to the daily show ears edition on the iheart radio apps, or wherever you get your podcasts. Welcome back to the show. This is a fun one. We're doing all fan threats today. Noah, I'm sure you have a ton for us. i start with the one that i got yes and then we can go to the voice memos um by the way everyone that's been tuning into the instagram lives we've had so much fun with you
Starting point is 00:25:35 the besties are fucking awesome i can't even stand how cool you guys are you just keep getting better and better um that's not me you know kissing your ass you're just so supportive and sweet and i'm so grateful for you um this is from delaney hi bestie this is lame but i just wanted to reach out and say how sorry i am for your loss it's very clear how much bob saget meant to you i just wanted to additionally say and this is this is not me just getting a bunch of accolades for how much bob liked me or whatever i want everyone to listen up because this is really important and i think we can all learn from this. I just wanted to say additional, I just wanted to additionally say you should never feel bad for grieving a death
Starting point is 00:26:09 of an acquaintance or even a celebrity you've never met. A few years ago, my dad died at only 55 and after that, I would be filled with rage when people were upset when someone they didn't know or barely knew died because there was no way it could be as bad as losing your dad
Starting point is 00:26:25 when you're 21 then my favorite musical artist mac miller died and i was devastated i never met him never even had the pleasure of seeing him in concert but the grief i felt over his death was similar to my dad's death it really showed me that grief can hit people in different ways and just because you didn't personally know someone doesn't mean you can't be affected by their death in a big way. Anyways, I am now rambling. I appreciate you and the podcast. It's really helped me every day. Jackie Chan.
Starting point is 00:26:54 That was awesome to read because that was from someone who used to – I love a change of heart. I love a bestie that could share a change of heart where they thought some way and and then thought the other way and um i just loved hearing that thank you so much delaney um i want to share one more real quick that i got no one ever says like oh you're grieving over your dad you're making it about you like no one ever says that you know what i mean it's like it's someone that they don't think you're connected you weren You weren't as close to dad as I was. And it's like your mom. Yeah. I knew him longer. I had sex with him. Did you?
Starting point is 00:27:29 Yes. Oh, wait, what? Oh, the truth comes out. Okay, so this is from Felina. And she goes by, oh, it's just fee. Hey, you cured my crippling chronic sciatic pain with your recommendation. I appreciate that about you. I spent thousands on physical therapy, inversion tables, TENS units, TNS, it's like a acronym, et cetera, over the past four years.
Starting point is 00:27:54 And it turns out I was psychosomatically giving myself piriformis syndrome by subconsciously clenching muscles after trauma. Quite odd that my body did that. Anyway, you rock. Thank you. Love, love that message. So again, check out the book Healing Back Pain if you want to look into not just back pain,
Starting point is 00:28:11 any kind of chronic pain you have that might be exacerbated by a syndrome called TMS, which is an actual thing that makes your brain circuit trauma and anxiety to different nerves to give you pain that you shouldn't be experiencing noah what do you have ms doesn't sound like it just sounds like it sounds like another too much sarcasm too much sciatic pain too much of this okay first message comes from rihanna whoa first ever rihanna i've heard wow hey nikki noah and andrew i'm so excited to be calling in right now um nikki you asked me to share my experience with body positivity and shrooms and lsd yes um i just remember on my first trip this epiphany
Starting point is 00:29:01 of looking down at my legs and thinking they don't look like much, but they do so much. So I've had this major mindset shift from aesthetics to function that's really sustained throughout the years over all my trips. I don't do it anymore, but it's an amazing epiphany that I had that's just seared into my brain. It just seems so silly to be worrying about cellulite and dimples when my legs can still get me up mountains. I'm wondering if anyone else has had that experience of body acceptance with those substances, if that's maybe one of those shared experiences people have with those. Real quick, Nikki, I just wanted to say I've been listening to you since the You Up days. I got to see you in Denver for your taping, and I just felt like the biggest proud little sister in the crowd that night.
Starting point is 00:29:51 I had no idea that was for your special. It was just awesome. Thank you three for what you do for a bunch of strangers every day. You're all awesome. Squirt, squirt. Oh, my God. Squirt, squirt. Squirt, squirt.
Starting point is 00:30:02 We got the queen of squirt nation right here. Cut off Forrester. Rihanna, thank you so much. She was – I i believe she was on that was from last night right yeah okay so she was on my instagram live and we were really having a discussion on there about body positivity and like fat acceptance and there were a lot of fat besties in there talking about their experience as a fat person and it was really awesome we were just it was it was like a jam sesh about uh our bodies and like how we feel addiction carla was talking about being uh 80 83 today well by the time they hear this it'll be 84 84 days sober well god
Starting point is 00:30:39 willing uh tonight who knows after we've admitted that you're homicidal doesn't who knows what's gonna happen after this but um from pot and from pot and alcohol yes and all the things yeah congrats and um it was just great and and i think rihanna had shared in the chat that she had a moment with mushrooms or lsd that where she had body acceptance and i was like please call into the podcast and share that that's i really do think that sometimes even when I see people who when I look at obese people that are really struggling to walk I just marvel at how they are able to carry all of that around you've carried you've had a backpack on before that's really heavy and like how much different it is to walk around with that than not that their bodies are so strong
Starting point is 00:31:27 to be carrying that around and to be carrying it around knowing that people are judging them like fat people really are so strong both physically and emotionally and i i heard so much yesterday that made me so happy from people who you know struggle being fat and struggle with how people interpret it but who still love themselves and I definitely like whenever I get into a negative place about a body part or feeling like it's fat or pale or flat whatever the fuck um yeah remember that remembering that it's functioning and is such a a gift and that's such a good epiphany to have and um yeah i just want to i want to talk more about that stuff in in our instagram lives it was just such a great like it was almost like a 12 step yeah yeah like
Starting point is 00:32:21 a lot of people take things for granted until it's removed you know like let's say you you're mad about your legs being a little chubby and then next day you get in a car wreck and you can't use your legs and you're like what if like that's when you would have the realization like have it now you know before you know i think about my like my mom with her stuff and like she has like oxygen in her nose and she couldn't be any – she walks around with an oxygen tank. She has a stroller for it. And I think about, oh, she's weak physically, but God, it gives me a new appreciation for her to go out in public like that, knowing people who are – Yes.
Starting point is 00:33:03 Or even if they're not talking. Yes. It's kind of like the thing what you're saying i really think we need to start seeing people that you know are especially fat people like it changed my mindset one day when i was just like i saw a really obese person struggling to walk like you know just very slow the purposeful steps like every step was like effort. And I was like, and you can say all you want. Like they chose to get that way. No one chooses to get that way.
Starting point is 00:33:32 No one wants to be that way. So shut up with your, you stop eating or whatever it is. Shut the fuck up. It's the one thing you can change. If you, if you, it isn't. And food is a real,
Starting point is 00:33:41 no, I know. And food is a real addiction. And anyone who says otherwise is so stupid and you should feel sorry for them for being so dumb um but when i see a fat person i don't feel so you know there is a part of me that's like oh that's an addict because i've been there and and a lot of times they're not but if you're morbidly obese and i know that they don't even like that word but if you're in a be obese in a way that you might be confined to a wheelchair
Starting point is 00:34:04 not be able to walk really well um you didn't choose to be that way you are addicted to a substance that is not regulated that is completely you know uh everyone it's advertised to you constantly it's not illegal and you have to do it everybody has to eat yeah that's the difficult thing and if you relate to anything i'm saying i I always extend this. Please write to me in my DMs and capitalize. Don't share your whole story, but say, you know, just write ATTENTION NICKI in all caps, right? And that'll get my attention. And I'll gear you towards something that might help but i really think that everyone out there needs to start seeing people that are walking around lumbering around with a lot of added weight a the ability to go out knowing that kids and people are going to snicker and laugh at you is is hard and they're carrying they're doing they're so strong to be carrying all of that and they don't and we shouldn't be like yeah you should do the iron man but it's you got to give them some credit for carrying all that weight it is a fucking lot
Starting point is 00:35:05 and they have just the same amount of muscles you do on an airplane you know when they will you know anytime I see like an overweight person
Starting point is 00:35:11 sitting on an airplane they're tight they're tight seats and it's like they fucking know that they're the one dealing with it like I hate when people
Starting point is 00:35:19 are like I gotta share if you ever witness someone get like cause I don't know besties would do this but if you ever witness someone, because I don't know besties would do this, but if you ever witness someone being a bitch about someone being fat on an airplane
Starting point is 00:35:31 and having to sit next to them, you kick that person's chair all through the flight. Fuck that person. And granted, the fat person probably will be in a part of that chair too. Yes, that's true. But let's be honest. But that person is so disgusting to me that's
Starting point is 00:35:48 how they'll know you support them they'll feel the vibrations of you kicking the seat well that you're just despicable if you ever make anyone feel bad about their physical uh presence it does make me like think like why i have small hands like why do i have i'm not why why what's good about that you know what i mean like where my alien thumbs like maybe if i'm hitchhiking someone will stop well guess more because they're alien like or my thick eyebrows your alien thumbs are good because it keeps thing out of my eyes your thumbs are funny and it's made you feel less than in the in the past which has made you feel be funny and cooler yeah it's just yeah no i know it's just interesting to look at you not just with
Starting point is 00:36:25 a functionality but like what does it give why yeah what is it giving you you know because we're all in the bodies that we have because those are the bodies that we were meant to have and you know why that's true because you have that body well wait a second carl out then how do i get you to stop saying we were watching paris hilton show last night i'm like god you look like paris so much like carla's so so gorgeous and recently has been just like popping i think it's just like not smoking weed and just you just like look stunning to me and i'm never gonna have a sexual relationship with you because you might murder me but what i'm trying to say is that what about you when you say yeah except my dark circles under my eyes. She would look the same except that. I do think that's the weed fading out of me.
Starting point is 00:37:09 I think that's still my disdain for being a pothead for so long. So maybe I'll learn to work with that. I haven't heard you cough once. Yeah, the cough is gone. I had COVID and I didn't cough. Yes. I mean, that's wild. You had a cough that was like sounding like a seal being beaten.
Starting point is 00:37:25 Yes, we need to get to the next. Bonk off. Yeah, bonk off. What was it called again? Bonk off. Okay, let's get to our first or our second message. Yeah, okay. So on the topic of your IG Live, here's an anonymous message.
Starting point is 00:37:41 Hi, guys. So I'm going to keep this anonymous. I love when you guys go live on your Instagram. I try to catch it as often as possible. Um, and a few days ago, Nikki was playing guitar and I had my air pod in, I was watching on my iPad and I kind of had it away from me, but I was scrolling through whatever on my phone and my husband came up behind me and got a little handsy one thing led to another i still had one airpod in and my husband has no idea that we did things while i had an airpod in i did eventually take it out but oh my god i just
Starting point is 00:38:20 thought it was so funny i had to tell you guys. And yeah. That's awesome. Why am I telling you? I don't know. I love you. That's it. I love you guys. I'll talk to you later.
Starting point is 00:38:33 Jack and Jill. Jack and Jill. That's a good one. Pretty good. Pretty, pretty. Anonymous, thank you so much. I love that someone had sex to me struggling to play Dave Matthews. Sex music. So cute.
Starting point is 00:38:48 Aw, thanks for that. That's so awesome. Anonymous. And I love, like, please feel free to leave us a message anytime like that about anything. And it's so adorable. And if she was laughing, it was your husband's penis. It was not Nikki. Nikki was not being funny. It was definitely his penis. I'm never funny
Starting point is 00:39:03 on those. I'm so sincere. It's uncomfortable. All right, Noah, what's the next one? Okay, next one comes from Kristen. Hey, Nikki, Noah, and Andrew. This is your bestie Kristen from Chicago. And I wanted to call myself Anna Kerr. I was flying back home and before my flight, I downloaded the latest season of the standups to watch on my iPad.
Starting point is 00:39:30 And Nikki, I know that you're on season one. You were great. Nikki, you were describing a girl reading her book on the train and just like laughing to herself at, you know, something she just read. And I was kind of doing that too on the plane when I was watching the standups me who just had to hear me giggle. And I know that's annoying, but it's what I wanted to watch on the flight home. And yeah, just wanted to share that with y'all. Jack Skellington. Jack Skellington. Wait, what was, her name is Kristen.
Starting point is 00:40:21 Kristen, I delight when people are laughing on a plane. I don't think that's coo at all. It's not coo. I think it's only coo if she was watching like. If you're reading a book and you want people to like know that you're getting like, oh my God, I'm enjoying this book so much. It's making me laugh. Jane Austen, her wry wit.
Starting point is 00:40:39 Oh, she was ahead of her time. That bothers me. But if it's like you're watching standup, I love when people on a plane are laughing to themselves and they're trying not to. They're trying to keep it cool. I think it's adorable and it makes me laugh.
Starting point is 00:40:52 Have you ever seen those videos where people start laughing and then everyone on the train is laughing by the end of it? Because laughter is contagious for no reason. So keep doing that. I love it.
Starting point is 00:41:02 It is like, it depends on what show you're watching too. If you're watching like, I don't know what's like a a comedy that's like only high brow like if you're watching like i don't know i can't really think of one right now that just shows you like how much i don't know if you're laughing at like um you know uh a wes anderson yeah yeah yeah and you're like showing everyone holding it up being like have you seen this one from his odd collection from yeah if you're watching it anything from college anything
Starting point is 00:41:30 from the criterion collection dvd like you're watching like a true foe or a fucking then it's but if you're watching the start you know the stand-ups whatever which is yeah and i want to know who you were laughing at who you liked most on there and you don't need to include me i feel bad about the latest i watched some of it the crowd was like shit it was it was they need the energy in the room was like you can always pump it up yeah i know they should especially at the denver one the first taping was like low end and then um the second the second nrg is my is my initials. Oh, my manager's calling me. That's either bad or good news.
Starting point is 00:42:09 No, no, no, no, no. Why? I'll be fine. Pick it up. Because he's not going to tell me anything. He's not the type of... No, he's not. No, he's not. Alex?
Starting point is 00:42:15 No, he's not. My new friend Alex? You booked it. No, it's either bad news or good news. You are the lead in the new Ben Affleck movie. What if he was like, I'm letting you go like i'm letting you go
Starting point is 00:42:25 that would be hilarious um but anyway yeah the second crowd was great energy and you watch you watch it and my special and there's just a desperate we you you need more laughter and it'll sound like i'm it'll sound so much better even though my part will be the same laughter really does convince you changes everything in that book I was reading about psychology of influence, canned laughter is everything in TV shows. Everything. And it's really necessary. Shows are not, Big Bang Theory would not exist if it were shot like The Office.
Starting point is 00:42:59 Yes. Probably. It needs that laugh track and it teaches people where to laugh. And we all fall for it. No one can out for it no one's no one's uh can out trick it it's subconscious let's get to the next one so i can get this call from my manager yeah let me know my life is about to change yeah okay we'll do this one and then we'll go to break great okay so here's one cabo's gone in a tsunami all right uh this next one comes from jay ah jay hey nikki fam jay here and i'm listening to
Starting point is 00:43:29 the episode with anya marina which i love it reminds me back in the u-up serious days i literally leased a new car started listening to your radio show and when the least the serious three-month trial was up i got it just to keep listening um and i wanted to talk about andrew's um several discussion and i think i understand what he's saying i think he means that when you say a small amount of something in a smaller unit it's a large amount so if you say like several hours that's a lot of minutes but nobody uses it that way like several hours is interchangeable with a lot of minutes but nobody would say a lot of minutes they would just say several hours so in honor of andrew i think the next time somebody texts you and says how far far away are you? And you're like five minutes away.
Starting point is 00:44:25 Just text back and say, oh, I'm a lot of seconds away. I'm a lot. Yes. Is that what you mean? That's definitely on par with what I was trying to address. If you're saying he was in space for several minutes, that still doesn't help the space thing that got us started. I went there kind of the other day of what he was saying, and that makes more sense.
Starting point is 00:44:48 But originally, I did think several just meant a lot, no matter what it was. No matter what, you were wrong. But then I was very wrong up top. He has a good point. I love the way he just phrased it. Someone roaming several thousand miles away, that's a lot of miles because it's several thousand.
Starting point is 00:45:07 Right, but the several is what it's like a couple thousand miles away is a lot too, but it's still 2,000 miles. Yes. So in my mind, several didn't, in that case, if it's several thousand miles away, it could be four or five because that's still a ton. Right. That's still a ton. Right. What are you doing i'm trying to flatten out my eye bags and it looked like i was doing something the thing is several we've we could talk all day about this but you're right like
Starting point is 00:45:40 but that's hilarious to go you know one of something is small unless you say one million. Then, of course, it's big. But the argument is not if one is a big amount or not. One is a small amount because it's one. But if you're talking about one and then an amount of something, of course, it's going to be a lot in sum. Okay, let's take a break and we'll not get back to this when we come back. Jon Stewart is back in the host chair at The Daily Show,
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Starting point is 00:46:41 you get your podcasts. Alright, we're back. Let's get to more Fan Thrax. Did you think I'd be able to do that? Poma basketball? No, I would not think you were able to do that. See, that's what your little hands are good for. Because they get right in the crease.
Starting point is 00:47:00 Ah, that's a trick. Okay, here's a story from Callie Callie From California Hi Nikki it's your girl Callie from Mississippi Southern Yeehaw You were talking about In this latest episode the birds
Starting point is 00:47:16 The shoe bird the shoe box bird This triggered like literally a suppressed Memory in my brain about vultures And if you have not heard of vultures Please god look it up horrifying um i was a sophomore in college i went to kroger and got a rotisserie chicken to try the new new little recipe i was trying to be domestic i had to pull all the chicken off the bone then i didn't know what to do with the bone besides you know risk missing garbage day so i threw the uh chicken off, like this entire ass chicken bone, off of my balcony.
Starting point is 00:47:49 I lived in an apartment that faced the woods. Threw it off there. No big deal. Next day, I was on the phone and noticed that like 10 demonic ass looking vultures, vulture birds, were like gnawing at this bone. It literally triggered a panic attack. I went to hide in my closet and was like crying like a five-year-old and ever since then i've had a horror like a an autonomic response to birds please look up a vulture it is definitely scarier than the
Starting point is 00:48:20 whatever you did not in mississippi you don't talked about but god i related so much to that and love you it was traumatizing and she's so cute maybe i need to talk about in therapy i'm just so grateful for your freaking podcast and i love you and andrew and everyone so much so much oh my god that is so funny I love a story that involves a balcony The woods An ass chicken bone And some vultures in a closet An atomic This reminds me of my birth story Well you were thrown off a balcony
Starting point is 00:48:55 And eaten by vultures It's so funny that she thinks we don't know what vultures are Is anyone struggling to conjure a vulture In their mind We're growing big in the south I think you don't like i think she how many vultures have you seen in your life in a group because i've seen a lot i could draw one right now it has a turkey bird and it arches over it has like a white tuft
Starting point is 00:49:17 around it's like the base of its giraffe neck and it has like a brown body and yeah they prey on like corpses that's the thing they'll fly around something that might die i know so then that's why they're scary that's why it's scary because then you're like they portend death am i dying yeah so then it makes you think of death and morbidity well we've got another person on this show who is uh has a aviophobia um i i don't know a birdophobia. And that's Noah. Noah hates birds too. Her last name's Aviar. I know. It's so ironic.
Starting point is 00:49:50 I hate a specific bird just like Callie does. Pigeons. And like New York City pigeons. Well, I guess like city pigeons because they have pigeons here in Tucson and they're way less gross. It's a similar vulture-esque pigeon. is like what is it about
Starting point is 00:50:07 the pigeon though you scared it's gonna it's like flying rats in new york right well it comes so many it stems from a dream that i had where a pigeon was attacking me on king's highway and then i was walking to junior high school i was walking under the carvel awning and a pigeon came down and i had to swat it away and after that i was walking under the carvel awning and a pigeon came down and i had to swat it away and after that i was terrified of them and it was a dream at first it was a dream and then it became reality okay okay that makes no sense but they creep me out i get it i get it you touched it you felt it like there's a different you don't hate birds in general but i think some people do i have bird feeders all over in the yard because I love them.
Starting point is 00:50:47 Oh, good. I'm not afraid of birds, and I've been flogged by a chicken before. What does that mean? It means whenever they get on top of your head and they flap their wings and flog you. Don't tell this to Noah and our listener. No, Noah, you would freak out. I would. My aunt and uncle had a bunch of chickens out in the yard one time,
Starting point is 00:51:05 and I was like, I want to take one home. And my uncle Mike said, he goes, if you can catch one, you can take it home. And I got out there, and I started running around, and I did catch one, and we did take it home. Is it called flogging? It's called flogging. So when you were trying to catch one, his buddy flogged your ass? His buddy came and flogged his buddy yeah came and
Starting point is 00:51:25 flogged me but i didn't care i kept right on did you kill it i brought it home i didn't kill it we brought it home we put it in a cage in the backyard we named it rebel um not after the confederacy after the australian comedian comedian yeah reuben whoever wilson after the almost football team before i get canceled um and then we kept it in a cage for a while, but it was like an open cage and the neighbor's dog ate it eventually. Luigi killed a chicken once too. And my sister had a coop and he killed a chicken.
Starting point is 00:51:52 Didn't you, Luigi? You dumb, dumb. All right, let's get to a couple more fan facts. No. Wow. The dog ate him. Okay, here's one from Constance. That's an amazing story.
Starting point is 00:52:08 Hey, guys. I just wanted to say that I finally got to finish the episode on Monday called Too Much Rain. I was super excited about that episode because it was me. I was the somebody who asked you live the other night to say Jack Skellington, and it was so hopeful that you would. Well, I listened to the episode, and I wanted to connect also because I have tinnitus. I woke up a couple of years ago without any hearing in my left ear and now I constantly hear a constant screechy sound and I have to listen to what I like brown or pink noise it really helps well anyway as I was driving and I heard you say Jack Skellington I had to look so cool because I started fist pumping as I drove.
Starting point is 00:53:05 Yes. Fist pumping. Seriously. I have no idea where that came from. Anyway, I just want to end by saying I love all three of you. And despite the fact that I used to hate when I heard grown women call their friends besties, I am now beyond proud to say that I am one anyway thanks for all the swells thanks girl oh my god constance that's so funny i used to hate besties too
Starting point is 00:53:32 that's kind of why we did that i know but i don't think anyone i don't know if we ever really discussed that on the pod but we chose besties because it's everywhere and then it was ironic to and because we talk about we talk like it was ironic to make it specific. And because we talk like we're to our best friends. And it might have started as best friends and then went to besties. No, it was always besties. It was always besties. Noah, do you remember the origin? Yeah.
Starting point is 00:53:55 We wanted to have an audience name. And we did come up with best friends. And then you change it to besties. And I think it's just like a tribute to Swifties, best oh that's right okay jammed into yeah okay cool and i liked it because i to be honest i like best friends more than besties because besties does have like that like weird like besties yeah but i mean but it is so fun because everyone's like the glazier heads the the you know the turkey faces it's always so specific yeah and it is fun funny because everyone's like the glazier heads, the turkey faces. It's always so specific.
Starting point is 00:54:28 And it is fun because it's your own thing. And besties is the most. Yeah, people at meet and greets when they're like, I'm a bestie. And I'm like, Andrew, she's a bestie. Like people who don't know what we're talking about must be like, what the fuck? Yeah, everyone's a fucking bestie now. Like everyone's a bestie. That's why it's funny.
Starting point is 00:54:42 But we're our own kind of. And to say I'm a bestie is different than saying I'm a bestie that's why it's funny but we're our own kind of and to say i'm a bestie is different than saying i'm your bestie or you know like a it makes it different i think enough it does it's still very but constant did you also just hear that someone else said jack skellington yeah that was when they signed off i thought that was i literally thought of you because i was like oh i bet that was the girl who told me to say Jack Skellington. But it was actually you. That is so ironic.
Starting point is 00:55:07 Oh, my God. I hope you fist pounded in your car doubly. El Mano yourself. Yeah. What? Callback to getting fisted. El Mano. Remember we changed it up because fist sounds too strong.
Starting point is 00:55:19 Tuesday's show. What was that? Did we change it to El Mano? Yeah. Oh, I don't remember that. That was yesterday. Well, I remember the fisting conversation, but I don't remember the El Mano part. Because we wanted it to Mano? Yeah. Oh, I don't remember that. That was yesterday. Well, I remember the fisting conversation, but I don't remember the El Mano part.
Starting point is 00:55:26 Because we wanted it to not sound so harsh. Oh, I didn't remember. What does El Mano mean? It's hand in Spanish. Oh, got it. Oh, hermano. That's brother. Arrested development.
Starting point is 00:55:37 Fisty sounds kind of cute. Oh, a fisty. I'm a fisty. Yeah. Let's think about it I think it sounds too sexual the word fist no not as like as our fans I'm just saying oh I got a fisty last night
Starting point is 00:55:51 oh a fisty that sounds cute yeah I like that okay let's change that final thought alright so here's one from Ben and he'll probably love that we're playing this what's up nojookie my name is Ben I'm from Arkansas and he'll probably love that we're playing this. What's up, NoJookie? My name is Ben.
Starting point is 00:56:07 I'm from Arkansas. And I love the podcast so much. I show people constantly and listen all the time. But you guys actually inspired me to create a podcast of my own. And I sing for like a rock slash metal band or whatever. And so I started a podcast with one of my bandmates. And we just recorded our first episode. And we also just got our intro back. I knew we had to have a sick intro.
Starting point is 00:56:37 Because when I listen to like the Nikki Glaser podcast, I'm so in love with the... And I was like, we we gotta have something that like catches people at the beginning that's super sick and catchy and so I just wanted to play this for you guys real quick and just express my appreciation for the podcast and everything that you guys have helped me with welcome to the first ever episode of bandmates we've been wanting i mean that guy got up there, man. That was incredible. Bandmates. Bandmates.
Starting point is 00:57:27 I mean, that's like. It's very, it's great. Oh, I love it. And I like a one, like a two word, just get into it. Give Ben and Bandmates a subscribe. Yeah. To support a new podcast. And if you don't like it, you can always unsubscribe. But why not just try it out?
Starting point is 00:57:42 Yeah, check them out. Nice, Ben. Thank you so much. That was so sweet. I'm so glad you're doing a podcast. It's cool. Last night I went live on Instagram after we did our body positive one, and I was playing guitar a little bit to practice.
Starting point is 00:57:54 And Tanner Wally, my friend who's been on You Up and is a big fan of the show and you, he even wrote me early on the day when you were on our Instagram live. He wrote me, texted me and was like, does Andrew need more besties? Because I'm obsessed with him. And I was like, oh, he would love to be friends with you. Tanner's awesome. But Tanner said to me, oh, I'm about to go live on my Instagram.
Starting point is 00:58:13 You inspired me. And he is a great musician, singer, songwriter. And I was like, and it was funny because I was about to go live with guitar, but I was worried that Tanner would be watching. And I'm so nervous to perform in front of people that are better than me at guitar, especially guitar singing, whatever.
Starting point is 00:58:29 And he is at both. But I said, funny, I'm about to go live too. And I was thinking how much I didn't, I was almost going to block you because I didn't want you watching me. So why don't you go live and we save it so I can watch it later and we'll go live at the same time.
Starting point is 00:58:42 And that way you can't watch mine. And he's like, no, I'll wait to do it. I'll watch yours. I'm like, no, you didn't hear me. Don't watch mine. And he's like, no, I'll wait to do it. I'll watch yours. I'm like, no, you didn't hear me. Don't watch mine. And he's like, but I love it.
Starting point is 00:58:48 You're so good. And I'm like, no, it's. And then he ended up going on mine, but it's cool because he's going to start doing lives because he was inspired by me doing it. I think anyone that has a musical talent or any talent, my dad, I'm always like, dad, you love performing. You can't do shows all the time.
Starting point is 00:59:03 You're mostly performing at nursing homes. Go live on Instagram and get a little bit of a following. Plus, you have to practice anyway, so you might as well practice. It's great to practice. You should go over there maybe once a week and go live with him on yours, and then he'll feel like it's an actual real crowd. Well, the thing is, no, I did that. We went live last night and he played,
Starting point is 00:59:21 but it was such bad Wi-Fi that it didn't work out, but we're going to do it. I'm going to have him play. There's a singer that's, I don't know how I, probably just stalking Instagram somehow, but figured out he's a big fan of yours. Who? Because maybe he tagged the pod or something. I can't.
Starting point is 00:59:38 He was on American Idol. Oh, yeah. Constantine. No, Casey something. Oh, really? It it's a guy and i was obsessed with him on the show it was like back casey like c-a-s-e-y i think it's casey c-a-s-e-y casey um american idol let's look um casey bishop no that's a girl um maybe it's not casey then i don't know there's a guy named constantine who is a who is american idol big and who's a big fan big fan i'll look it up i'll figure it out and i'll bring them up on the tomorrow maybe oh that's cool it's so fun to
Starting point is 01:00:18 find out when people it's just wild because i was like obsessed with this dude like on the show because he was very quirky he didn't really belong he was like obsessed with this dude like on the show because he was very quirky. He didn't really belong. He was like more like jazz, like like he just didn't belong on that show. Like he seemed like an old soul kind of singer. Like anyways. But yeah. So shout out to that guy that maybe if anyone knows who we're talking about, DM Andrew and
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