The Nikki Glaser Podcast - #300 A Freezing Night of Comedy w/ Bobby Jaycox

Episode Date: November 30, 2022

Nikki is back from being the honorary Grand Marshal at the STL Thanksgiving Day Parade and her mom Julie is relieved. They are joined by the hilarious Bobby Jaycox who is a long time friend of Nikki's from the local comedy scene. He will be opening for Nikki on the Good Girl Tour Dec 8-10th. Nikki went to her High School reunion and shares the realization she walked away with. While Bobby agrees, Julie doesn't. Nikki's nephew Arlo has a cute dark side and likes to draw something that kids shouldn't play with. Also, Nikki covers her experience as Snowstorm on the latest season of The Masked Singer. Watch Bobby's Full Special from Helium Comedy Studios: Fast Food Fireworks. ------- Watch this episode on our Youtube Channel: The Nikki Glaser Podcast Follow the pod on Instagram for bonus content: @NikkiGlaserPod Leave us your voicemail: Click Here To Record Get Pod Merch: Podshop.NikkiGlaser.com Nikki's Tour Dates: nikkiglaser.com/tour ------ More Nikki: IG More Bobby Jaycox: IG More producer Noa: IGSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Catch Jon Stewart back in action on The Daily Show and in your ears with The Daily Show Ears Edition podcast. From his hilarious satirical takes on today's politics and entertainment to the unique voices of correspondents and contributors, it's your perfect companion to stay on top of what's happening now. Plus, you'll get special content just for podcast listeners, like in-depth interviews and a roundup of the week's top headlines. Listen on the iHeartRad surrounding dating, sex, and love. Every Monday and Wednesday, we both invite you to unlearn the outdated narratives dictated by traditional patriarchal norms.

Tune in and join the conversation. Listen to Decisions Decisions on the Black Effect Podcast Network, iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. I'm Tomer Cohen, LinkedIn's Chief Product Officer. If you're just as curious as I am about the way things are built, then tune in to my podcast, Building One. I speak with some of the best product builders out there. I've always been inspired by frustration. It came back to my own personal pinpoint. So we had to go out to farmers and convince them. Following that curiosity is a

superpower. You have to be obsessed with the human condition. Listen to Building One on the iHeart Radio app, Apple, or wherever you get your podcasts. We want to speak out and we want this to stop. Wow, very powerful. I'm Ellie Flynn, an investigative journalist, and this is my journey deep into the adult entertainment industry. I really wanted to be a player boy in my adult. He was like, I'll take you to the top, I'll make you a star. To expose an alleged predator and the rotten industry he works in. It's honestly so much worse than I had anticipated.

We're an army in comparison to him. From novel, listen to The Bunny Trap on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. The OGs of uncensored motherhood are back and badder than ever. I'm Erica. And I'm Mila. And we're the hosts of the Good Moms, Bad Choices podcast, brought to you by the Black Effect Podcast Network every Wednesday. Yeah, we're moms. But not your mommy. Historically, men talk too much.

And women have quietly listened. And all that stops here. If you like witty women,, but not your mommy. Historically, men talk too much. And women have quietly listened. And all that stops here. If you like witty women, then this is your tribe. Listen to the Good Moms, Bad Choices podcast every Wednesday on the Black Effect Podcast Network, the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you go to find your podcast. The Nikki Glaser Podcast. Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh. The Nikki Glaser Podcast. Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh.

Nikki Glaser Podcast. Here's Nikki. Hello, here I am. It's the Nikki Glaser Podcast. Welcome to the show. I'm Nikki Glaser. I'm in St. Louis. Noah is in Arizona.

My mom is here today again. What's up, Julie Glaser? Hi, Nikki. Thanks for having me. You want to look at me when you say that? You're just looking Hi, Nikki. My mom's just looking straight for what she said in her house.

Listen, I can't move. Oh yeah, you're a broken woman. I'm a broken woman. I forgot that you really did look like a broken woman for a second. Like you can only face forward. Does that hurt? Do you tilt that way? I can only Move this way. How are you pain wise lately?

I'm so much better. Oh my God. That's such good news. Except for what I did last week. Oh, well, we'll get to that in a second, but let's bring in our,

um, second guest on the show today. Uh, been wanting to get him in for a long time. He is a longtime friend of mine. Started out on the St. Louis comedy scene, um,

many years after I was on it but he's a to me always like you'll always see you as like a youngin kind of so sorry i'll never like fully respect you i totally understand that and can tell i'm just kidding um no he's just turned he's blossomed into quite a a good a great comedian actually and he was always good that's why i liked you in the beginning because i just thought like I was like, this kid's so fucking funny. He's my mom's favorite comedian. Early when she used to come to my open mic nights, she would always just be like,

Bobby J. Cox is the funniest. And I would feel a little tinge of jealousy. That you were taking something from me. Well, my dad liked you more than he liked me. So it's like, it just goes back and forth. That is true. I remember that. It's just like when you see him all the time. Yeah. Well So it's like it just goes back and forth That is true I remember that It's just like when you see him all the time

Wow Yeah Well it's Bobby J. Cox everyone Bobby J. Cox Bobby J. Cox Thanks for having me Nikki I literally just Oh listen to the applause

Oh man That's so nice So nice everybody Sorry studio audience J. Cox is your last name J. Cox is my last name How many people think Your name is Bobby J So many people

And people will be like That's a cool stage name I'm like You thought that's what I picked For my stage name I think it's actually That would be good It's what your parents picked

Yes Did they have big plans for you They did not They wanted me to do Pretty much anything else But this But now Oh really

Yeah anytime I get like Something like good When I'm like I'm going on the road with Nikki Or like whenever I first started That was when they were like, okay, maybe this could be something. That's what always happens. Yeah, it takes a long time for them to understand.

Yes. And now my mom, just when she wants to talk about stand-up, she'll be like, Bobby, I've been watching more stand-up. And I go, oh, really? She goes, what do you think about Pete Davidson's hair? You like it earlier or now? And I'm like, mom, that's the last thing I think about with stand-up. She's like, let's talk about comedy. And I'm like, let's like the last thing i think about with stand-up she's like let's talk about comedy and let's talk about hair your hair is grown out oh yeah i grew it out during

covid and i just i can't i don't want to cut it and people are not nice about it people like i because i'll like i would hand out like a business card her length yeah and i'll like show them a picture i had before like at a club they'll put up my old photo and people will look at that and they'll be like you look like a model here and i go thanks they go no no no not but there you look like a model like don't take it now i'm not giving this to you now yeah people do that yeah i think i look better with short hair but i feel better with long hair like i like i like the feeling of it like it's just interesting usually those two kind of go together the way you look and the way you feel. We are so tied together in our society.

Not for this guy. Not for this gal. Not for this girl. You do have beautiful hair. It's almost like you have the Rachel going on. There's like intentional like layers there.

I mean, his hair is almost like yours. I mean, no, he's got more hair than I do. Well, here's the problem. I had my ex cut my hair

and so she actually left, she tried to like do framing around my face. So when I put it up in a ponytail, I look like a, like just like any woman going on a jog. Like I have like these two like little things that go around my face. Oh, little like framing.

She made me look real cute after the breakup. Yeah. I just read something recently that was like, don't take good pictures of your boyfriend girls because he's going to use those on his Tinder profile in six months. It is so true i i my boyfriend would never do that to me he's he's almost too conscious conscious of like doing anything like he's almost we've been together off and on for nine years and he's still like paying respect to his exes before me of like i don't want to post

too much like i just want to make sure they're okay i'm like they have kids and families he's the sweetest you can post about me now i love chris i love seeing how sweet he is i love seeing him on the podcast with you he'll just be sitting there and be like and nikki like how he talks to you is you have like the guy like really yes oh i mean like i feel that way too but that's really nice yes it's palpable people notice it for sure and he's he always makes else, like when I show up and see you guys, he always makes me feel included. Like Chris is the sweetest. He's a very sweet person.

There's something in the Convy family. They're all the sweethearts. Yeah, they're all really nice. And I do like that about him so much where he makes everyone feel good. He's never too cool for literally anyone. If he ever is, it's just because he's tired or something what was it like spending thanksgiving with them with his family um well we didn't spend

thanksgiving the meal together but he did come to um see he went to the parade like he went to see me sing like we we spent the night i haven't like been been around him at all because he's been working on beauty and the beast which airs December 15th. Definitely check that out on ABC. And so I haven't seen him at all but he, we spent Thanksgiving Eve together. Remember,

you were there too, mom. I was there. So his family does this thing at a country club where they rent out a, what is it called? Paddle ball. Paddle ball.

Paddle tennis court. Paddle ball tennis. Which is like outdoor paddle tennis. Yeah. And then there's like a little hut where you have all this like, they had it catered with all this food and then they had like friends of the family

and their family there. And it was nice because I go to that every single year. They do it every year before Thanksgiving night before. But I've never gotten to bring my family before and it was really fun to bring my family into this

and merge the families because my family is a little bit more out there than the Conve a little bit more brazen we just like talk about we say things sometimes that people kind of look at us and go oh that was that story was not really appropriate for the set you know like we just talk about is that what they talk about those glazers are a little bit more out there i think they that would be a polite way of saying it. We're just a little bit sillier. But I think we bring a lot of fun to it. It was so fun.

It was really fun. You sang a song probably seven different times to soothe a baby. So Tim, Chris's brother, just had a baby. The baby soother is what they call me. And my mom has a secret song that she sings. And the baby just is hypnotized by it. I saw that. It was insane.

Yeah. Wait, really? Yeah, I saw that. I put it on my stories. Oh, you did? I know you don't look at my Instagram stories, but you were on them most of the time. I can't see everything. You can't see everything.

Literally. That's true. I'm blind. You don't have the glasses to do it. Exactly. But you played paddle tennis. You soothed this baby with a song that's called i am a little dutch girl my home is far away i fell in love with a rub-a-dub-dub

all over and then we got into like the etymology of it and we're like where does this song come from and it was my grandmother's song passed down and we sang it over and over and then this other little girl caught on to it and was like i really really like it. She was like four. And she was like, I love that song. And then I had to sing it for her a bunch of times. And it was torturous for people to listen to. But then we also ate good food. We played paddle tennis. My mom ran into a fence.

I'm very competitive. Yeah. Thank God you play sports. You were out there holding down the court, literally, for me. Because I played once and I was like, that's enough, right? They're like, you want to play again? And I'm like, no, I did once. Aren't you proud that I partook?

And you're really good, actually. You kept saying that every time I would do anything. Every hit she did, I'd go, oh, my God, Nikki. Nikki, you are good. And it would like accidentally hit my racket when I would be like looking at something. Like the ball would accidentally hit my. That's would be looking at something. The ball would accidentally hit my paddle. That's a blessing and a skill. You're such a supportive mom.

And a skill to have that ball come straight to you. But it became like I was a child. It was like, wow, you're really good. Well, you kind of would go, I hate this game. And then your dad's like, you're so beautiful when you paddle. Yes. And you're beautiful, too. It was Hey babe

Exactly One time we called dad And he said hey babe And it's been a long running joke He's allowed to say hey babe Isn't he It just Andrew just teased me for it

It just sounded a little bit too Like he was my boyfriend Hey babe Even though I've been trying To get Chris to say babe For years Yeah he does call me babe He won't call me babe

Does he not say I accidentally called my roommate She's a girl I called her baby I I go, hey babe. I'm like, I'm so sorry. Like, I feel like it's a term of phrase that comes out. It just is. I say it to my friends, my girlfriends. And if you are on a girlfriend level

with your friend, I think babe is fine. And I'll say it sometimes. Why won't he say it? Does he think it's like weird? I think he's just, I don't know that he's actually giving me a reason. Oh yeah, he's respecting his babe. Are we calling her a pig? I don't know if that's nice. Like a reason. Oh yeah, he's respecting his babe. Are we calling her a pig? I don't know if that's nice.

Like babe like that babe or just any babe. Yeah, maybe that's what it is. He thinks it's animal cruelty to what's the word for when you take over somethings? Oh, what do they call it when you wear like dreadlocks

as a white person? Appropriating. Pig culture. Yes, appropriating. So that's why you won't call me babe. But I don't know. I've never really gotten an answer. I call him babe, but it won't get rubbed back at me.

It's just too embarrassing to be like, hey, will you call me babe? Yeah. I think he had heard you said this. You've said this already. Well, loud and clear, Chris, if you're listening, would really like a babe. And he doesn't listen to the show either. No, he doesn't. Which makes me feel free and also like, I don't expect him to.

That's kind of why I don't listen to the show all the time. Oh, don't make excuses. Are you kidding? So I feel free? I'm free. Or because you're just, I mean, I don't expect you to. We used to do it four days a week. It's a lot to listen to.

It was. But now that I've been on it the last couple of times. I once called Andrew, I've called Andrew babe a couple of times. Because I'm just so used to last couple of times. I once called Andrew, I've called Andrew babe a couple of times because I'm just so used to calling my girlfriends babe that, you know, it's just to anyone I feel that platonic love for, I say babe. And so it was like, it just came out. But it's so weird to call.

It is feels weird to call a guy that because you're like, oh, that's romantic. Well, I do. I still tell I do tell my guy friends that I love him when I get off the phone. I think it infuriates them. I heard you on the way in here. Well, that was my little brother. I mean, obviously, I love my little brother. I always tell him I get off the phone. I think it infuriates them. I heard you on the way in here. Well, that was my little brother. I mean, obviously, I love my little brother. I always tell him.

But all my friends are like, yeah, yeah, just for right now. I need to talk to Ed. But yeah, I don't know what it is. I think I like using those terms of endearment, being like, hey, babe, or something. Or being like, I love you. My guy friends would be like, OK. And then you get off the phone. But I'm like, who knows?

I love those TikToks of guys calling their dads and just being like i just want to say i love you and just like the dad being like okay is everything okay are you in an accident it's so great yeah men like sharing their feelings more but it is weird with like female and male friendships there's just like certain things you can't do that you would do with your girlfriends and and vice vice versa. Like it's just, it is going to be different unless you're both gay, I guess. True.

But I don't think lesbians and gay men really hang out that much. Even though you would think they would. Yeah. You would think, yeah, but they have like, they have a lot in common, but yeah,

it's a stereotype for sure that gay men and lesbians don't get along. But in a gay club, isn't it mixed? No. Some, I've been to like one in Minneapolis. There was one I went to where it was like

totally mixed. Like it was mixed but usually it's more like male dominated or female dominated and then they also hate when like straight people like get

like this is kind of What are you people doing here? We're just trying not to go to bars where they fight all the time. But like this is like I love anytime we go to a city I'm like where's the gay bar?

And they're like oh you're I'm like no I just like to not have guys getting bump into me and be like you talking to my girl? I'm like, where's the gay bar? And they're like, oh, you're, I'm like, no, I just like to not have guys getting, like, bump into me and be like, you talking to my girl?

I'm like, I'm just standing here. Like, it happens. Does that happen a lot? Not like, not all the time, but guys get energy.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. They're like, they think, they're like, hey, that girl's hot.

Excuse me. Yeah. That's interesting. Like, having to navigate, even think about that and navigate, like,

when I go places, I'm not, I do hate fighting and I hate when something would break out at a bar but I don't go to bars that often anymore

but yeah I guess thinking just avoiding conflict because you get pulled into that stuff quickly it's yeah and it sucks and once a guy like

decides he's in that realm that's like what's gonna happen it happens on Thanksgiving it happens all the time did you go out the night before Thanksgiving I did I did go out

and just like hang out for like a little bit with some friends and stuff like that. What's it called again? It's like Skanksgiving. Yeah, that's what they call it in St. Louis. I don't know if that's acceptable everywhere. I went into the radio station on Wednesday and everyone's like, happy Skanksgiving. And I was like, this is the first I've heard that term.

I don't know what that is. I've never heard that. Well, now you have. So it's the night before Thanksgiving where everyone gets rowdy as fuck. No, I get it. Yeah. It's the biggest party night of the year. Yes.

Supposedly. That's right. Well, I did not party that hard. So yeah, it was nice to see Chris that night. But then we, the next, he spent the night that night. And then the next morning I had to wake up at like 5.45 to go do the parade. And I had my mic check at 7.30. So I was like up like curling my hair and putting on like fake eyelashes at like 6 in the morning on

Thursday it was just like a lot and then drove down there drove down there in the rain it was fucking pouring down rain right before we started and then it let up for the entire parade and then as soon as the parade was over started spitting again it was

awesome it was a miracle so it was a miracle but um it really was chris came down so i was there down there from like you know 7 30 doing the mic check until you know 905 when the parade i guess officially started but yeah um just walking around kind of by myself like singing to myself i was walking by the ferris wheel down there by union station and i was just walking around just like singing at the top of my lungs, like doing vocal warmups and looking like a real fool. And people kept coming up to me being like, do you need anything?

And I'm just like, stop talking to me. I'm trying to sing. I'm literally going. Like, why would you think I want to talk to you right now? If I'm doing that in the corner, like, yeah, you think I'm like at a party and no one's talking to me or something and I'm feeling sad? You could look crazy too. Well, no.

Anyway, it was nervous as fuck, dude. I was so nervous. Well, not nervous because here's the thing I realized and I've talked about this before. The only thing that I do is I sign up for things. I say I'm going to do them. You sign up for so many things.

And then I have to do it. If you want i'm going to do that so many things and then i have to do it and then it if you want to push yourself to do things that are out of your comfort zone sign up yeah yes for something far away yes that you can convince yourself you'll be good enough when the time comes you won't be yes because you're not going to do the preparation you need to do the preparation that is in your mind you're like oh i have so much time you're not going to do it you won't be ready you'll want to cancel the day before which i i wanted to cancel up and do a week before and then i went to a voice lesson i was like oh i kind of got this and then i went to a voice lesson the day before on wednesday before i went to the racket thing

and i was like this is bad like i'm bad like i haven't sang for a week i was supposed to be practicing i didn't and i was like i they need to find someone they can find someone don't you think i feel like i feel like i've said this someone. They can find someone else to sing this thing. I feel like I've said this because I've also been trying to sing and play music on stage. I did it. I ended a show in a theater

and I was like, I'm going to play a song even though no one wants this. And just to do the same thing, I'm like, I'm going to sign up for it. But I would be way less nervous if I was like,

you're going to go in that room in front of so many people and bomb doing standup. That makes me less nervous than singing in front of people. That's hard to say. Do you get more nervous when you sing okay well that's not so i got i get nervous about singing because i felt like like i said when i when i was on the mass singer and we'll get to that in a second i kind of said that it was great because i did it all the everything about myself that was like you can't do this you're a comedian you're nikki glazer you're 38

you're like no one knows of you as a singer no one you don't like if you take if you shed all that away and you put on a big snow snow person cost snowstorm costume i could be anyone under there and so then i can convince myself this is fine and that i should be doing this i got asked to do the show the rule of the show is that you're a celebrity that's supposed to be singing so everything's like i have to it's like my joke about bondage i like bondage because it like forces you to do the thing that you want to do anyway which is be lazy like it's forced laziness so this is forcing me to sing like this show it's like well i gotta do it that's the rules of the show but me at me being asked to sing the national anthem i didn't ask to sing i did ask to sing it at the cardinals game when i did the first

pitch but they didn't let me so this time they did ask me i didn't ask them so i felt okay they asked me i said yes and then i'm like you know singing doesn't make me nervous i like love doing it uh i don't ever get nervous while i'm performing but leading up to it i was just like it was just all the thoughts of this is ridiculous people at home are gonna be like why didn't they get someone from like the gospel choir? Yeah. Like down the street. Like there's a thousand people within a quarter mile of her right now that could sing better than her.

Why are we listening to this? Well, the truth is because I'm a comedian, I'm kind of famous. And I love your honesty. Like B minus. Like, that's nice to be honest that afterwards you're just like,

it's, I had, you're like, it was a solid B minus. Like there's no way that anyone would say that it was no but for a comedian it was an a you know like if you low if you consider the variables yeah it was an a for me um and it wasn't as good as i've done in a private room with like coaching and when i'm relaxed but standing in the middle of the street with my family just like literally eight feet away from me

and then a big camera on a jib like, you know, following me. That's the best I could do. And so afterwards I was just like, oh, good. It's over. And then I'm good to go. You did fabulous. My mom was like crying. I was sobbing.

I couldn't stop the tears coming out of my eyes. I'm like. Because you love America? Like was the bomb touching to you? I don't even. The bomb bursting in your ear? It was the bomb. You were the one. It of my eyes. I'm like, Because you love America? Like, was the bomb touching to you? I don't even see it bursting in air. It was the bomb. You were the one she loves. It was so emotional.

I just couldn't even. Did you cry when I did, like, plays in high school? No, I was always so excited, but I never cried. That was just this big relief or something. It was really. You're so sweet.

You were so freaking sweet. Did you hear the word relief? It's like that she didn't bomb. Well, of course it makes you nervous. I knew it. The whole time. Remember last week I said my mom is going to be so worried the whole time about those notes.

Maybe that was part of it. But it was just. You just said it. You said it was a relief. And I'm still touched by it. It was a relief that you got it. You did it. You did it.

Yes. And it was just emotional. She wanted to see you do your best. And she was very happy and proud to see you. Oh my God. I thought you were fabulous. No, no, no. It was so nice.

It was so nice. But I could tell that you were, I could tell Lauren and you were both like, are you like, you're just going to go do this? Like, it's so weird. They're like 30 seconds and you guys are just like, is this really happening? Like, it was weird of like is this really happening like it was weird of like no it was amazing

I didn't think it would air on TV oh I knew it was gonna air I thought it was gonna be like the floor yeah it's so important you're the grand I've never cared about

the grand marshal until this year I never are you just that person that comes by in a car yeah do they do well there's actually

a grand marshal I met him and I'm the honorary grand marshal so the grand marshal is actually a thing that he I go Yeah do they do Well there's actually A grand marshal I met him And I'm the honorary Grand marshal So the grand marshal Is actually a thing That he I go what do you do

And he goes I just go to meetings All the time And I'm like okay Well thank you for your service I don't know what that is He's like god bless Like he sings to everybody

Every time That's all he did He's like thanks for taking one I don't think that's the role Of the grand marshal to sing I think they just gave me that Yeah But right after

What's the role of the grand marshal Just to wait Just to go to meetings And just to go to things And be like thanks for Somebody's gotta be in charge Thanks for being grand. Somebody's got to be in charge. I don't know what they do actually within the government system, but with parades, you just sit in the back of a car like

Kennedy before things went wrong and you wave to people. And I got to sit with Chris and just like wave to people. And it was just like a, what is it? A third of a mile? No, it's two miles. That was two miles? Well, you didn't go two miles, but the whole parade

is two miles. You dipped out? No, I didn't dip out. Yeah, you dipped out. Really? She's like, I make a left up here on Arsenal.

You dipped. Why did I dip then? Because you were going to be interviewed up in the... Well, then I went and sat for the interview and waited an hour

until they interviewed me. That parade was not finished by the time you got interviewed. Well, you know what is finished? This segment. We've got to go to a commercial.

We'll be right back with more after this. Jon Stewart is back at The Daily Show, and he's bringing his signature wit and insight straight to your ears with The Daily Show Ears Edition Podcast. Dive into Jon's unique take on the biggest topics in politics, entertainment, sports, and more. Joined by the sharp voices of the show's correspondents and contributors. And with extended interviews and exclusive weekly headline roundups,

this podcast gives you content you won't find anywhere else. Ready to laugh and stay informed? Listen on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. What if you asked two different people the same set of questions? Even if the questions are the same, our experiences can lead us to drastically different answers. I'm Minnie Driver, and I set out to explore this idea in my podcast, Minnie Questions.

Over the years, we've had some incredible guests, people like Courtney Cox, star of the infinitely beloved sitcom Friends, EGOT winner Viola Davis, and former Prime Minister of the UK, Tony Blair. And now, Mini Questions is returning for another season. We've asked an entirely new set of guests our seven questions, including Jane Lynch, Delaney Rowe, and Cord Jefferson. Each episode is a new person's story with new lessons, new memories, and new connections to show us how we're both similar and unique. Listen to mini questions on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Seven questions, limitless answers. I started to live a double life when I was a teenager. Responsible and driven,

and wild and out of control. My head is pounding. I'm confused. I don't know why I'm in jail. It's hard to understand what hope is when you're trapped in a cycle of addiction. Addiction took me to the darkest places. I had an AK-47 pointed at my head. But one night, a new door opened, and I made it into the rooms of recovery. The path would have roadblocks and detours, stalls and relapses. But when I was feeling the most lost, I found hope with community. And I made my way back.

This season, join me on my journey through addiction and recovery. A story told in 12 steps. Listen to Crems as part of the Michael Lura Podcast Network. Available on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. When I smoke weed, I get lost in the music. I like to isolate each instrument. The rhythmic bass, the harmonies on the piano, the sticky melody.

Hey, hey, hey, hey. Careful, babe. That's a sticky melody. Hey. Hey. Hey. Hey. Careful, babe. There's someone crossing the street. Sorry, I didn't see him there. If you feel different, you drive different. Don't drive high. It's dangerous and illegal everywhere.

A message from NHTSA and the Ad Council. Hey, you guys. I'm Catherine Legg. I'm a racing driver who's literally driven everything with four wheels across the planet. And I've got a new podcast. It's called Throttle Therapy. This season, I'm gearing up to make history, competing in some of the world's most notorious racing events,

starting at the Indy 500. Join me as I travel from racetrack to racetrack in my quest to continue a memorable career in racing. I'm also going to bring you inside stories with legends of sports, new faces from the next generation of auto racing, and conversations with the people who've supported me throughout my career.

We'll be getting into everything from karting to NASCAR, even Formula One. Whether you dream about being a pro athlete or an astronaut, we're talking about what it takes to make it. Listen to Throttle Therapy with Catherine Legg, an iHeart Women's Sports production in partnership with Deep Blue Sports and Entertainment.

You can find us on the iHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Presented by Elf Beauty, founding partner of iHeart Women's Sports. All right, we're back. So we talked about the parade. Anything other things we want to say about that oh i did see someone at the parade that i knew from high school alex schwartz shout out to him um all of a sudden i just heard like nikki and like i turned and i was he sounded much more masculine than that but i turned and it was alex and i was like alex it was this guy that i like

knew very well in high school. We called him Bona for some reason. Not because he got bonas but we were just like, Bona! We just always used to call him Bona. I don't know why. He does,

there's no reason. Kirsten made that up. He didn't get bonas. There was nothing about like, we just called him Bona. B-O-N-A-H. And so I saw him and he looked amazing.

Like he looked, I was so proud of myself to identify him because he looked exact, I mean this is 20 years after he looked amazing like he looked i was so proud of myself to identify him because he looked exact i mean this is 20 years after he looked exactly the same yeah and i was like alex are you going on saturday because my 20-year reunion was saturday and this was on you know this is thanksgiving day and i go are you going on saturday and he's like i don't know he's there with his family and i was like you gotta go got to go. You look great. You got to show that off. Like, I was like trying.

Because everyone doesn't want to go to their 20 year because they don't look like they want to. They aren't in a place in life where they should be. But, and I'm shocked to say he did show up. I bullied him into going. And he did go. And I'm so glad. And I think he had fun. Was he not going to go if you didn't say anything?

He said, no, he was not going to go. I thought for sure he wasn't going to go. He needs encouragement to go. Even after I yelled so glad. And I think he had fun. Was he not going to go if you didn't say anything? He said no. He was not going to go. I thought for sure he wasn't going to go. He needs encouragement to go. Even after I yelled at him. Especially tenure, I think, is dumb. We have Facebook and stuff. But 20-year, I'm so excited to hear about. Did you see anybody that you were like, you are so mean to me in high school?

Did you see anybody that you got? Not gloat, but you got to be a little bit like. You know what was really mean to me in high school? You're doing pretty good. That's cool. Did you see anybody that you got like that? You did not gloat, but you got to be a little bit like mean to me in high school. Um, you know, it was someone, Louisa Lang wrote to me and was like,

cause she saw the, she's comedian, New York, younger comic, really funny. And she wrote, saw me like post of me standing next to the 20 year reunion sign. And she was like,

this is my life goal is to go back to my 20 year reunion as a famous comedian. She was like, this is the greatest thing I've ever seen. And I was it was it was pretty great there's i you know i really appreciate where i am in life and like i'm proud of myself and all my accomplishments but there is something about that night that i wanted it not to be a thing yeah like i wanted to not feel like she's here or like i didn't i didn't want to talk about myself i didn't want it to be a big deal i just wanted to be i feel the same i love being on stage but as soon as you're off like you like

talking people but i don't want i would not want everyone to swarm around it's i don't know how it's just different i totally feel the same way yeah and i used to always not think that way because i used to like desperately want to be famous and have people go is that nikki glaser like that was my dream in high school. But then once you get it, you can kind of tone it down like in the real world. Like you can turn it on stage and then afterwards you're like, I don't have to bother.

People think that they don't know because I wouldn't know either, but people are always like, you must get recognized everywhere. Like it must be a lot for you because I'm fairly recognizable now. You know, like I've done enough stuff where it happens. And I think people recognize me more than I know that they do because they don't always say something.

But I love that I do not walk around being like, oh my God, people know who I am. Like I don't, today I walked into Starbucks, I spilled. I went to Starbucks to journal this morning. I got my venti latte extra hot.

I put it on the table. I sat down, my leg bumped it and the entire thing, venti extra hot, the I put it on the table. I sat down, my leg bumped it and the entire thing, venti extra hot. The entire latte spilled on my lap. These pants too. They're in good shape. Even the flowers didn't get coffee.

Wow. Scalded my legs. And I'm just like, and all these people are looking at me. And there was that one part of me that was like, they're going to think Nikki glazed. Like, it was just like,

I was just a dumb girl, you know? Like I, and I think that i would have thought that at this level i would always be thinking people know who i am yeah but i don't think about that at all yeah apologies i kept and she goes seriously stop apologizing it happens all the time and i'm like i know but i'm apologizing for the people that don't apologize this is really annoying and you are already busy enough here and i and i have so much empathy for starbucks workers because i read on you know reddit like how poorly they're treated by customers oh yeah my aunt one time like bragged she goes i was so mean to this lady starbucks i'm like why is that cool she was like because she was so rude i I go, I bet she wasn't. I bet she wasn't. And some people, yeah, it's

disgusting. It's really gross. Is your aunt trouble? You're kind of trouble. Yeah, she's a Karen for sure. Yeah, she is definitely a Karen. Absolutely. Have you seen her lay it down? Yeah, she lays it down in front of everybody. She yells at everybody. She's like someone who yells at everybody. And then once I

turned 30, she yelled at me once and I pulled her aside and I go, hey, just so you know, I am a full-fledged adult and I would never talk to you or your kids when they grow up like that. So don't do that. And she goes, got it. And then one time she texted me something and I was like, I'm just going to ignore it. Yeah, I have a couple Karens in my family. Yeah, I've gotten some texts before from people that you go, oh, I used to like, you know, just like family stuff where you're like your aunts or something take a tone with you you should think about it like this and i'm like i don't used to be scared of my aunts

let me just say i'm like i revere my aunts i look up to them i love them but now if i get any kind of toad from family i'm just like you're just a person to me man like you just like yeah i don't really subscribe to like but their blood it's well, I could have been adopted then. And then would you still say blood? Yes. No. You know, like, it's just you. I think I'm not, my parents are definitely not on board.

And I'm not saying about any, I love all my family. I have no beef with literally any of them. I'm very lucky about that. But there are times where I'm like, you have to go see them that you're there in town. I'm like, no to go see them that you're there in town i'm like no i don't because they're i literally don't this person i don't see them except once every 10 years and just because i'm in their town i have to go waste my time yeah going to see them yes and isn't it crazy well here and here's their blood nikki their blood nikki and this is literally what she did she came up to me one day and this was like this was a while

ago but she was like bobby i saw these people and they were at a pro choice rally and she was like crying and i was like oh my god and she was like i just can't believe what they do to pay and i was like okay and then she literally that's when she went to the starbucks she goes and then i went in there and yelled and i literally go that used to be a baby i was like you can't just like want babies to be here and then yell at the people that are here like a few she's a future baby. It's crazy. She's like that where she doesn't see both sides. And I would tell her that and she'd be like, I just don't see it that way. And you're like, that's crazy.

To not have empathy for people in the world working for you. Well, that's the easiest answer. I just don't see it that way. That's just the answer. It's like, that's not a good enough answer. I just see it that way. Agree to disagree, that kind of thing. Yeah. Like, oh, please, that's not a good enough answer. I just see it that way. Well, I guess agree to disagree, that kind of thing. Yeah.

Like, oh, please, let's finish this. But you know, Sarah Silverman had a joke about people who are pro-life and how they get so upset about, like little girls especially, you see little kids on the picket line, their parents have brought them there and they're like screaming,

like, don't kill these babies. They literally think babies are being murdered in there. Like fetuses are just being stabbed in the eyeballs. And so of course these little girls are going to be like, they're killing babies. Like you would be fucking traumatized if you thought that. So it sounds like your aunt kind of has a misconception

about what it is. And so, because if she's able to elicit tears over the lives of these, then she obviously thinks something horrible is happening in there yes but then not crying about yelling at a person in real life well that's the thing is like well because people are so people like your aunt no offense to your aunt but also offense come at me bitch um is that you think you you think you're better than the starbucks employee you think that you made different decisions in life that didn't make you.

Well, I can talk down to waitstaff because I, I, I'm not, I'm not a waiter. Why aren't you a waiter? Oh, because I worked hard in life and I didn't,

I, you know, you think somehow you're smarter or better. You didn't choose your brain. You didn't choose your parents. You didn't choose the world, the city in which you were born. You didn't choose any of it.

You got lucky. So for you to think you're better than anyone if you were that woman at starbucks and born into her life with her brain and her parents you would be in the same position and you'd be getting yelled at by someone like you so i have empathy for even you aunt crazy who can't contain your anger and you i have empathy for you. You didn't choose your insane brain that thinks you're better than people. And you didn't choose to be a person with a brain that is so closed off to the idea that you are the same as everyone. And that you're just lucky that you don't have to maybe take a job that you wouldn't want to take. Or that you're not a drug addict. Or you're not homeless.

You're lucky. You're not better. You're not smarter. And you might be smarter. But you're lucky that you're not homeless, you're lucky. You're not better. You're not smarter. And you might be smarter, but you're lucky that you're smarter. You're lucky you were born with a brain that has the ability to maybe not have a learning disability in school

and study harder. But anyone who thinks they're better than homeless people or, oh, if I was in that, I wouldn't do that. Yes, you would. You'd do everything they did if you had the same brain as them. You just got lucky with yours, bitch. A hundred percent, Nick.

Right? Aunt Crazy, are you watching this i bet she's still like i don't bet nikki i'm like you'll never talk yeah you can't you it's great and that's i've and this will cause so much drama in your family this will get back to no they no no no it won't they could not support me no i'm just kidding no that's what you think she'll think when she thinks i'm talking about her all's have to do is like no i was talking about this one she's like she's the bad one right like even now when you say that you're gonna be like even when i said that i it was talking about someone else yeah okay yeah

it's okay i don't care but it's funny even when you think your family is tapped out and have no interest in your life the times where you think you're gonna be doing something and no one will hear it and you go they don't even listen to they don't care about anything I do. They'll hear that one. Yeah. That will get back to them. Yeah. So always beware. I appreciate that.

Because I always get that in my head of like, I can say this. I know they don't listen to this. Yes. No, I don't even use their name. No one will know it's them to tell them it gets back to them.

Always. Because someone hears it and then goes, I heard this. And then someone tells someone, yes. Maybe Anne Crazy can go see Bobby Open for you on the Good Girl Tour. Oh, yeah.

Would she ever support your comedy tour? She does. She has come out to see me before. Oh, that's nice. She has come out to see me before. I don't need her at our shows particularly. She's a good person. But yeah, you're right.

Yeah, she's not the worst person. She just like, there are moments where you see her be like, I'm like, but you can't talk her off the ledge. But if she told me something, I'd be like, you know, I guess I could try to understand that or whatever. But you tell her something, she's just like, no,

that's how, that's like how that whole side of the family is. They can all watch. That's why I love doing comedy because those people have to shut the fuck up when they get kicked out. And they're like, please don't talk about me on stage.

And I'm like, well, didn't be a different. It is funny. People like that, that don't want to be told what's what, they're the ones that like walk out of shows

or heckle and they don't that's the best place for them because they just have to shut their trap I sold out a show at Helium and I told her to get tickets

I go it's going to sell out and she goes okay I'll get them it sold out and she called up and she's like I kept telling them I'm your aunt

and they didn't care I go yeah they don't care at all this isn't my communion they barely know who I am yeah I'm just a name on their paper oh my god they go who are you how many times have you walked into your own show and been like excuse me sir you can't just walk

and you go my face is on the thing yes it happens all the time yes i remember a very famous comedian that people know that i don't care for she once walked into a show that had her name on the poster. It was like at an improv or something. Yes. And the guy was like, excuse me, ma'am. And she goes, sorry, look at the fucking post. And she got so mad. And she had him fired.

Anytime anyone doesn't recognize me, I walk into theaters sometimes backstage and people are like, ma'am, you can't come back. And I'm like, oh, I'm on the show. Sorry. This is my face. I know I look like faces of't come back. And I'm like, oh, I'm on the show. Sorry. This is my face. I know I look like faces of meth right now. When I opened up

for Dave Chappelle at the pageant, this was years ago, I was walking back and afterwards, they were like, if you want, you can go say hi to him.

And I guess, dude, there was a bouncer at the door that I walked in. I was like, hey, Dave. And he's like, hey, what are you doing? I go, I was just on stage. Like, I was on the show.

Like, it was crazy. Yeah, but no one pays attention to openers. No offense. That's what I'm saying. No, no, no. And I could not have cared anymore at all, for sure. Yeah, you don't take it personally. on stage like i was on the show yeah but no one pays attention and that's why and i openers and i didn't that's what i'm saying no no and i could not have cared anymore at all yeah you don't take it personally was dave nice to you unbelievably nice yeah he's a nice guy he was very very nice to me like i walked in the room and he's he remembered me and he was like he came over and he was like how's it going man were you doing this hair because he was thought maybe you were

transitioning he might not have been as nice. Actually, no. I think he's nice to trans people in person. He just has judgments about them on stage. Yeah, that's what I say. I'll be like, I like Chappelle. And they're like, I'm like, I like his stand-up. You know what I mean?

Yeah. Yeah, there's certain things that I like. I disagree with Chappelle. You can disagree with people for sure. Of course. If you come to my show, which the Good Girl Tour is happening now, I'm in Memphis this Friday. Please. I just put out a video on my Instagram about my Memphis show. if you come to my show which is the good girl tour is happening now I'm in Memphis this Friday please I just put out a video

on my Instagram about my Memphis show the ticket sales are low as hell and so and I'm not afraid to admit that people are like

you're gonna admit that and I'm like yeah I don't care that I'm not selling well in Memphis I mean I would like to sell better I'm selling well

literally everywhere else so it's not it's not like an ego thing I can admit hey we need to get more people because people don't know yeah people would come out they just don't know the marketing hasn't been good enough so i released a song today about memphis on instagram trying to get my ticket sales up so memphis is the one i'm really wanting you to go to if you live around there if you know anyone there please come out to the show it's going to

be very special because it might be just 20 people and then and a very intimate evening and then also um we have next week in what bobby uh jay cox will be sorry opening for me in waterloo new york on uh thursday next thursday and then on friday i will be in hershey pennsylvania and saturday i will be in atlantic city and uh we will be doing those three dates together along with Anya Marina on the Good Girl Tour. So those are all dates you can check out now. And then I'm doing New Year's Eve in St. Louis, Missouri. And that's going to be good too at the Stiefel Center. Have you performed there?

No, I've never even been there. I did a guest spot opening for Brian Regan there. And it was the first time where I came out. And even the pageant's big, but you come out there and you're like, wow. Really? It's beautiful. It's beautiful. it's just beautiful yeah it's just beautiful inside and out it is beautiful on the outside on the courthouse yeah the parade and i'm like greek courthouse where nicky's kind of yeah it's huge it's incredible so big it's the old opera house someone the other day was like i looked up your tickets they. They're expensive. And I was like, I know.

I'm sorry. I'm embarrassed. I'm not like Taylor Swift and out here. But how many years did you go without making that much money? I remember when we did Kansas City, you would walk from the hotel across two parking lots to the show. You're like, with all those tickets. You know what I'm saying?

You would still walk a couple parking lots to the show. That's what I'm saying. But I feel like now, you do all that work. So now, you get to reap the benefits. The reason tickets are so much is because fucking ticket master you guys and all the other like everyone that has to be paid the guys working the lights the guys working the sound like like it's not just me I'm believe me I'm not walking away with as much as you think I am at the end of the day I have openers I have agents I have managers like you really get to the nitty-gritty of it and you that's why I have to work so have agents i have managers like you really get to the nitty-gritty

of it and you that's why i have to work so much is because it seems like they're and i'm not complaining my i'm very uh fortunate and grateful for the money that i make but um you spend a lot of money to make it i mean i've told people before a publicist that you hire it's like six thousand dollars a month now and then people to do your social media um to like run your social media make clips for you and stuff that can run you you know three or four grand a month easy i'm gonna become a publicist that's crazy and it's it's crazy it's a flat rate too so if you want a publicist it's gonna be like i think it's like used to be three back in like 2013.

I think it's six now. Five or six. And it is Brad Pitt pays $5,000. You pay $5,000. At any level, it's a flat. It's the only thing I know of that is a flat rate. Across the board. Yeah.

That's wild. I had no idea it'd be that much. I had no idea. It's a lot. Look at the stiff one. That's a huge place. They got to heat that place and keep the lights on. They got to heat it. Except my shows bring your park up because ticket sales, we're going to chop off some dollars.

But it's going to be a freezing night of comedy over in Memphis. But yeah, so Memphis. But anyway, my 20-year reunion was so freaking fun. And it was just, there wasn't anyone I would say that I was like, oh my, I had no enemies in high school, really. Yeah. It was more like. Did you ever have a, you didn't have bullies or, you didn't have anyone who was like mean

to you or anything like that? I mean, it was in fourth grade. I had bullies. Oh, okay. And then that kind of like went away as soon as I got my own friends. And I never had bullies after that. Oh, that's good. I was very lucky. Okay.

But I did have people that I was super jealous of. And like, there was one girl I think that I had talked about on my Instagram when I was living during COVID at home in St. Louis. I had my yearbooks and one night I was just going through them on my Instagram stories. And there was one girl I was like,

I wanted to be her. Everyone wanted to be her. She was the most popular girl. She's so hot. And it got through the grapevine to me, like through texting girl I was like I wanted to be her everyone wanted to be her she was the most popular girl she's so hot and it got through the grapevine to me like through texting that was like she's fucking pissed

take her off your Instagram I'm like I didn't say anything bad I just said she was hot and we all wanted to be her and like look how pretty she is was she there? and so I was kind of scared

if she showed up no thank god I thought I saw her and I like freaked out and I was like why am I scared? I didn't do anything wrong I took it down as soon as I heard she didn't like it so it wasn't like but i felt really scared

that she was like mad at me and i felt like yeah i know i know that i've said so much about popular kids over the years in different things and i know the way this works where it's like it the one thing you've said about someone will get back to them and i've been at this for 20 years so i have said i probably name dropped all of those people at times either saying they were so hot or like i hated them secretly wanted to be them wanted to liked that you know whatever it was guys like had crushes on them so every single person i knew i just heard some podcast clip where i've said their name or their friend's name or something so there was that kind of it was funny because like the popular kids were still

kind of hanging with each other and they were still cliques in the room always at hacienda mexican restaurant on manchester road um near rock hill and it was but it was weird because i felt like this is going to come back to bite me but but I guess I don't have another reunion for another five years or something. So I will say that there was certain people, everyone, sorry, everyone knew that I am a person that's on TV now. I think so. It would be hard in the 20 years.

Especially after the Masked Singer. 18 years. Yes. Yeah, Masked Singer. Masked Singer, yeah, it already aired too, yes. So that was like, well, there was just like so, I'm sounding cocked already.

I'm like picturing people rolling their eyes at me saying this, but there's just no way you don't know me. Someone from your high school that has been mega, in the rows, like doing so many things from your school. I'm just saying like, you might not have known me in high school and if I showed up and I just was like,

you know, a normal lady that had a normal job, you might go, oh, I don't remember you from high school school but you've since jogged your memory and been like that's Nikki Glaser she was in my graduating class there's just no way that they don't know that of course and I will say and they even knew me in high school I mean these people and they just didn't want to look at me I kept trying to make you know you make eye contact across the room and then you wave and then you you cross the room to talk to each other that's kind of how it goes instead of just like going up to each other so i would try to make eye contact and i was getting nothing from just people looking away from you yeah i kept saying to my friend taylor who went with me i'm like it's so weird like the popular kids are kind of like acting like they don't know

you like i keep trying to make eye contact with them and it's like they haven't even looked at me one and it's not like how weird it but then I realized it's because they are trying to be care they're trying to act like they don't care yes which I probably would have done too like I want to either they want to make me feel comfortable like I don't need to make a big deal of it or she already thinks she's such a big deal so I'm not going to give her anything because she thinks she's such a fucking hot shit even though i didn't at all but they don't know that and maybe i do and maybe i'm just subconsciously i i i do think i'm hot i don't know but i just could tell that like but i i knew what it was like to see anyone else and they'd be like yeah hey and like make i could like it was happening all over the place but there was a certain popular crew i only didn't talk to two

people there the whole night and didn't talk to them at all or even like wave across the room really that i i that i know knew me and knew me there were some people i didn't talk to because i just didn't know them at all yeah um there are only two people and i swear to god they like the person the guy would be like walking towards me like like towards a group that i was with and then see me and then just like turn around on a dime and i was like this person has not changed in seventh grade he still has the same energy as he did in seventh grade when i like he hasn't it hadn't changed at all and then there were other people that were like so nice and so cool yeah there's you know a couple people that are so hot

it's so funny because you still get like nervous around the same guys yeah like i was gonna ask my school stuff i see i'm like hey yeah a hundred people it never leaves you high school is always kind of with you it doesn't leave you that's what i've said growing up i'm always like i thought when you were done with high school it was done but it always kind of keeps coming back whether it's clicks or everything's high school like if we were going through my yearbook the other day and my buddy was like, do you remember? I was like, how could you forget?

Like, yeah, we all still remember the cute people or all that stuff. Yes. I still remember too. And some of them are looking real good. Still. Did Chris go with you?

You're like, Hey Chris, I wish he would have gone with me. It would have been nice to have that handsome gent on my arm. Um, yeah, I would have loved for him to be there, but Taylor was my date and she was,

she was in the grade above me. So it was kind of fun to have her there. I'm glad someone hot. Yeah, I would have loved for him to be there, but Taylor was my date and she was in the grade above me, so it was kind of fun to have her there. I'm glad someone went with me. I would have gone alone, but Taylor came through and came home from her trip early to go with me. But you know,

these people that don't come up to you, maybe they feel insecure. Of course they do, yes. It's not that they think you're too cool. I think, give them the benefit of it. Because you don't put off that vibe. I've never seen you in a room put not that they think you're too cool I think give them the benefit because you don't put off

that vibe I've never seen you in a room put off that vibe where you're like I'm too cool like ever since I've known you

truly yeah well that's very nice of you but I think that sometimes I can even think even me saying this I think those people thought they were too cool

when my mom's like maybe they were insecure I hadn't even considered that and they might think the same about me she thinks she's really cool even though I'm insecure or like I was in the corner in a booth and they were too cool when my mom's like maybe they were insecure I hadn't even considered that and they might think the same about me she thinks she's really cool even though I'm insecure or like was

I was in the corner in a booth and they were probably like she's over there just being like come to me but I'm really like I just want to

pound this impossible burger meat into my head I think you're having empathy but I do think sometimes there are people that don't change and sometimes

if you remember them from high school and if they're putting off that same vibe sometimes maybe they're just trying to be too cool but I think also maybe that's just who they are yeah they were you know there was

kindness going on a little bit from just a couple people that were like yeah but then there were um it was nice i was so i was really mad that so many people didn't come that should have so it was a good turnout but it wasn't a great turnout and um it was how many people were in your high school at kirkwood how many people were in your graduating class 500 and something okay everyone and i'm not joking you everyone has three kids everyone three children i'm not joking you you either have no children which was maybe me like Like I, there was one other person, pH balance.

Shout out to you. His name is Paul Holleran, but we called him pH balance back in high school, pH balance and his wife. They have no kids. Um, I have no kids. Um,

I think Rob Eiselhardt has no kids, but everyone else, not one kid, not two kids, three kids. Oh my God. And it's like, and they, they all kids, three kids. Oh, my God. And it's like, and they all say the same thing. It's a lot.

I couldn't imagine. That's what I said to all of them. That third child. I know. They don't like that, though. I said, I have so much. Sympathy. I was like, I think you should board planes before veterans.

Like, you got, and they do sometimes. And they do. They do. Yeah. Thank you for your cervix. Yeah. Exactly. But no, people have two, and they're like,, oh my God, I want another one of these.

Don't have a third. And then their life changes because the third child adds a new dimension. Oh my God. It's like you can't get- Yeah, because you can't focus on the other two that are beating each other up because they're so close in age and they're growing up. And you got to buy a bigger car because they- Oh yeah, you need more.

But you can't go to restaurants because they only have four tops. And then your car gets stolen twice. And you have to buy a bigger car because they- Oh, yeah. You need more. But you can't go to restaurants because they only have four cars. And then your car gets stolen twice. And you have to wait longer. My sister's car got stolen twice. I'm getting stressed just talking about this. This is crazy. Well, I saw this weekend on Thanksgiving, we spent, speaking of family, I spent it with my sister, brother-in-law, and their three kids, and then my parents.

Right after the parade, which ended at 11, I went over to my parents' house at noon, and then all the kids were over there and we were there from noon until 10 o'clock at night so 10 hours

the kids did not take well I left at 10 I guess they did they did not take naps so this is 10 hours of three kids you know a bait Forrest is one

Poppy's three Arlo is four or five four he's five five okay um news to me and uh he's been five for a while since april uh but it was chaos it was and they're they're my mom dad me lauren and matt and there were five people to take care of these three kids and it was still like so overwhelming. It never ends. My mom gave Arlo a gun. My mom gave Arlo a toy gun. It was a gun that shoots

like an AK. Dinosaurs. So it came with a dinosaur. It came with a dinosaur. And the gun, it's like a big orange gun but it looks like a- No, it's a little pistol.

It looks like a little pistol but it's substantial. It's the size of a pistol and it goes like it has a sound effect it's substantial. It's the size of a pistol. And it goes, like it has a sound effect. Big mistake. He was shooting me in the head. In the temple. Constantly putting it up to my temple and just being like,

you're dead. It was so crazy. That gun is gone. The gun is gone. We did a buyback program with Toys R Us. No, it was a little bit like, we kept telling him, you can't shoot at people.

I've never seen that side of him with a gun. So I was like, why did I do this? When you're a little boy with a gun, you can't, it's like when you shoot each other, you can't get over it. No, he wants to stab. That's impossible. He likes the blood stabbing.

All these things are coming out of his brain. Oh my God, he draws pictures. We were drawing together and all he draws is knives. And then people with X's for eyes. He's five. And blood. There's a lot of blood too.

A lot of blood. A lot of red. What? A lot of crayons. What? I never did that. That's like some Damien Ullman. That's crazy.

But he's not like a really dark child. He's not like a kid that... He's always lighthearted about it. He's like, and then there's blood. then they all die and then they're dead like he he's like happy about it's not like yeah and he doesn't understand what it all means i don't know where it came from he doesn't but at the end of the night so we get to thanksgiving dinner and by the way he like my mom sets the table and like puts out the food he's like this is all disgusting to me like what did he say my mom goes i just heard my mom go well that hurts my feelings arlo oh did i oh my god it's so cute when kids are

like that when they're like dark i saw a tiktok i'm not eating any of this he says i'm like oh that's fine i don't give a oh that little girl that was like because i'm evil no oh that one too but there's this little girl she's like and she's sitting there she goes what did you say she goes kill me she goes what she goes just kill me like that move and you're like what but it's just like funny because they they're like practicing talk they don't even know what they're saying same thing with a gun they're like they're just coloring they're doing all that stuff and then we laugh and then they keep doing it yes and i can't stop laughing when all he's drawing and i keep going is that a christmas tree and he's like no it's a knife he like keeps drawing these things that the knives get bigger

so they look like christmas trees and they have the handle at the bottom and i was like that's gotta be a christmas tree he's like no there's blood at the top of it i'm like that's tinsel but he um so then we're going around the table playing like as we're eating thanksgiving like not before we ate but after as we're like eating like what are you thankful for we all go around and it gets to arlo and he said and i wrote it down in my phone. He said, I'm thankful for dead persons in jail. And then he goes,

and mommy. But he's thankful for dead persons in jail, which doesn't make any sense. No sense. Dahmer, I guess. He was a big Dahmer fan.

And Epstein, yeah. And soon to be, what's her name? Giselle who just yeah G-Lane G-Lane yeah so Thanksgiving

but I did write Chris on Thanksgiving and I said I know that I don't want kids I just I don't we haven't had to have

there's not a single conversation that has been able to take place that has gone anywhere past I'm the same the introductory stage yeah I'm not plagating to that.

I literally like, I love, I would wish my brother, I'm like, I'll be an uncle. That'll be tight. Don't you love being an aunt? I feel like that's fun.

Barely. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Even that is a lot of work. No, I do. Yeah, but you know what I'm saying? I don't, it's so stressful. But it's stressful

if you're not used to it. I'm gonna turn into aunt crazy. You're not used to it. Nikki comes over and she goes, oh my God. I go, Mom, why would you want this for me? Because my mom's always like, just freeze your eggs. And I go, why would you want this for me? Why would you want me to even put this on?

Because I know that they bring a lot of joy. I mean, they bring so much joy to my life and to my sisters. And it's all going to pay off when they become tiny adults and they start being able to take care of themselves. It all pays off. But I do not want to give away 10 years of my life and to my sisters and it's all gonna pay off when they become like tiny adults and they start like being able to take care of themselves. It all pays off but I do not wanna give away 10 years of my life. No. And I know that,

and talking to all these- 10? Well, 10 years of like when it's really- I know, but seriously. Oh, they're not done it. I thought it was just 10. No, it's 22 because you throw college in there.

Honestly, in the world we live in now, it's like 33. Like I feel like, you know what I mean? I feel like everyone's- So do you think that I should have kids? Do you think based on what- No, I think that maybe feel like, you know what I mean? I feel like everyone's getting. Do you think that I should have kids? Do you think based on what?

I think that maybe if you froze your eggs, I mean, maybe you would consider it later or you'd want to. Why would I want that later?

Why do you think, do you think I'm going to get to a place where I'm going to want it? Well, you may marry someone who wants children

that desperately. Nikki, you're not going to like this, but what about like last week or the week before you were talking about what a great time you had in Santa Barbara with your mom

and going to the hotel, having your parents there for the Masked Singer, all those experiences that you have with your parents more in like adult age. What about that? Forget about like the, you know. Yeah, if I could have an adult child, I would. I don't, I'm not kidding you.

If I could skip the childhood and we could start at 10 which i know you could but like it's not the same adopting a 10 year old you're not going to get the same bond that you have if you have them from a so i'm sacrificing all those things that are good later on because i don't want to give up the first 10 years like if i could get a 10 i think that's the age that i start to like really think kids are cool it's like 10 and all my friends who have kids, they're like, it's so good. Dylan, sit up. Like it's like, you know what I mean? They're like, it's the most, I can't even imagine.

Dylan, are you kidding me right now? Like it's just insane. It is like that. It's insane. You know what I mean? So I get that there's both sides. I bet it is beautiful, but so is sleeping in. Everyone was just at the reunion to avoid being with their kids.

Most of them were like, I didn't want to come, but it was an excuse to get out of the house. But you know, Lauren never complains about it. Never, ever complains. And neither does Matt. Her and Matt seem so chill.

Well, they're very chill, but they just don't. I would complain all the time if I were them. Because I always say to her, I know this is what you signed up for, because she kind of goes, I'm not going to complain about what I signed up for. I'm not going to be one of those would. Because I always say to her, like, I know this is what you signed up for. Cause she kind of goes, this is, you know,

I'm not going to complain about what I signed up for. I'm not going to be one of those moms, but you're allowed to, like, it's not exactly what you signed up for. You didn't know it was going to be this hard. They're so patient. Oh my gosh.

But I, I just think. You probably would feel like you wouldn't have that patience in you. I just, no, I just really like my life. I like being able to do what I want to do. And maybe it's selfish, but I really, I'm not, I just, no, I just really like my life. I like being able to do what I want to do. And maybe it's selfish, but I really, I'm not, I'm, I already feel very stunted in terms of like,

you know, learning that I like to play guitar and like, I like to sing and that I like, you know, I have so much more I want to accomplish in life. And kids take you out for many years where you can't get stuff done. And I know that there are people that can't, I know I wouldn't, I don't have enough bandwidth to get it all done. I love that you know that. And I would end up feeling guilty. I love that.

And I like napping. I like, you know, I like watching Veep all day. I like, I like doing, I like, I like doing nothing

and I just, it's selfish because I do know I am going to miss out when you guys are gone. If when my parents are gone, that's when you go, I wish I had something else, but I'm going to get birds and When you guys are gone, when my parents are gone, that's when you go, I wish I had something else,

but I'm going to get birds. And I think that I really, and I know that sounds ridiculous, but birds, you can't. We're going to be replaced by birds. Well, birds, I mean, birds can't replace a Julie. Yeah.

What kind of a bird? I like parrots and stuff. I really love parrots. And I really want them, and I just feel like I'm wasting my life not having them like I'm going to at some point go

every day that you had no bird in your life was a waste of your life because it's like the happiest that it can make me and so I feel like with I can't do kids and birds are a huge responsibility

also something that takes a lot of time and a lot of like effort it's not 18 years it's like 102 years it's like they live so long they live much longer than humans. Yeah.

But you can leave and you can go on a trip and stuff. So I can't wait for my Santa Barbara trip with my birds someday. I'll get the same thing out of that. And I'll watch them on the masked squawker. Maybe you could start a bird sanctuary in Santa Barbara. There you go. Would you go on stage with it on your shoulder? I think it would be too distracting, but I think people could get over it yeah yeah so he says a couple punch lines for you yeah i think

i think i would have it because i brought marion on stage before my dogs and people at first are like you got to make jokes about it but then they just get relaxed because the dog's just like and it's just something because when you're on stage talking for so long you want to give people something to look at yeah because they get kind of bored there's not a lot to look at it's just someone monologizing on stage. So I like to wear outfits where people can kind of dissect the outfit because I know that they're going to fucking tune me out at some point. So a bird on my shoulder?

Hell yeah, I'd bring a bird on stage. We'll take a quick break and get right back to the show right after this. Jon Stewart is back at The Daily Show, and he's bringing his signature wit and insight straight to your ears with The Daily Show Ears Edition podcast. Dive into John's unique take on the biggest topics in politics, entertainment, sports, and more. Joined by the sharp voices of the show's correspondents and contributors. And with extended interviews and exclusive weekly headline roundups, this podcast gives you content you won't find anywhere else. Ready to laugh and stay informed?

Listen on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. What if you asked two different people the same set of questions? Even if the questions are the same, our experiences can lead us to drastically different answers. I'm Minnie Driver, and I set out to explore this idea in my podcast, Minnie Questions. Over the years, we've had some incredible guests. People like Courtney Cox, star of the infinitely beloved sitcom Friends, EGOT winner Viola Davis, and former Prime Minister of the UK,

Tony Blair. And now, Mini Questions is returning for another season. We've asked an entirely new set of guests our seven questions, including Jane Lynch, Delaney Rowe, and Cord Jefferson. Each episode is a new person's story with new lessons, new memories, and new connections to show us how we're both similar and unique. Listen to Mini Questions on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Seven questions, limitless answers. I started to live a double life when I was a teenager. Responsible and driven and wild and out of control. My head is pounding. I'm confused. I don't know why I'm in jail. It's hard to understand what hope is when you're trapped in a cycle of addiction.

Addiction took me to the darkest places. I had an AK-47 pointed at my head. But one night, a new door opened and I made it into the rooms of recovery. The path would have roadblocks and detours, stalls and relapses. But when I was feeling the most lost, I found hope with community and I made my way back.

This season, join me on my journey through addiction and recovery. A story told in 12 steps. Listen to Crumbs as part of the Michael Lura Podcast Network, available on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. When I smoke weed, I get lost in the music. I like to in the music.

I like to isolate each instrument. The rhythmic bass, the harmonies on the piano, the sticky melody. Hey, hey, hey, hey. Careful, babe. There's someone crossing the street. Sorry, I didn't see him there. If you feel different, you drive different. Don't drive high. It's dangerous and illegal everywhere.

A message from NHTSA and the Ad Council. Hey, you guys. I'm Catherine Legg. I'm a racing driver who's literally driven everything with four wheels across the planet. And I've got a new podcast. It's called Throttle Therapy. This season, I'm gearing up to make history, competing in some of the world's most notorious racing events, starting at the Indy 500. Join me as I travel from racetrack to racetrack in my quest to continue a memorable career in racing. I'm also going to bring you inside stories with legends of sports, new faces from the next generation of auto racing,

and conversations with the people who who supported me throughout my career. We'll be getting into everything from karting to NASCAR, even Formula One. Whether you dream about being a pro athlete or an astronaut, we're talking about what it takes to make it. Listen to Throttle Therapy with Catherine Legg, an iHeart women's sports production in partnership with Deep Blue Sports and Entertainment. You can find us on the iHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast presented by elf beauty founding partner of iHeart women's sports we're back yeah so the reunion was great and um what else happened and i decided i don't want kids because everyone has three kids and everyone seemed to be burdened by that and they all said that like the third kid was a mistake.

Yeah. No one says those words. But it was like a mistake in like, we shouldn't have done this. It's an imprivate, for sure. We didn't mean for this to happen. And I go, have you never heard of a schmushmorshman? But I guess.

A what? Sorry, Aunt Crazy. People can't. Oh, that. Yeah, that thing that you can do. But people just go, people do that all the time. They go, we didn't want her, but it was a mistake. oh that yeah that thing that you can do but people just go people do that all the time they go they we didn't want her but they were it was a mistake and i go are we living that is pretty

interesting people yeah who have children they're like 1700s what's up i'm gonna just have to i guess i have to keep this yeah i i sometimes just go like do you not know about the options people don't think like that but they don't know They're like, this is, look at my other two beauties. I have a lot of friends who are pro-choice and are still like, I would never, ever do that. And I gotta say, I don't think it would be a big issue for me to do. It's not something I want to do. I've never had to do it, thank God. But I don't think it would be something for me that i would and i don't know because i think a lot of people maybe do have that done and then they go that was way more of a big deal to me than i thought it was and i'm someone who like i mean i get sad when i pull a

booger out of my nose because i'm like this was a part of me or like i lose a piece of hair and i'm like this was on my head for like i don't know i just like it's a part of and not that i want to keep it but like i get sad like a scab like the other day i shaved it like i have this like scalpel that i cut down my calluses on my feet with and even that that i was like looking at this callus and i was like oh my god this has been through so much with me like this was this was on my foot when i sang the national anthem this was on my foot when i did the best singer this was on my foot like this was building up this is like been through a lot part of you and i got sad we should hang those on the wall behind you a little bit whimsical what was that noah we should hang them on the wall behind you i'm not gonna tell you what i do you have like

jars of like your fingernails are you like you're like i kind of i'm just like get those out of there but there is a part of me that i i yeah there it's a little there's just like i worked my body worked to make that and now i'm just tossing it away so there is something of that but for whatever reason i just when you blow your nose oh no i'm not sad about that and i was joking about the booger thing i don't feel bad about boogers teeth i miss my teeth i really wish the doctor wouldn't take an eight out of my fucking face because now when i smile wide i have big gaps here i'm thinking about getting my smile boogers teeth i miss my teeth i really wish the doctor wouldn't take an eight out of my fucking face because now when i smile wide i have big gaps here i'm thinking about getting my smile widened wait he took what out of your teeth it was a fad back in st louis in the 90s where they

took out too many teeth and there's this other guy that has it too lewis house he's a um very famous influencer lewis house is also from St. Louis and he had the same thing he just recently had to get veneers because let me see how far your teeth go back the orthodontist

the orthodontist they go farther back than mine I have less teeth than Andrew and Andrew has no teeth do you have 32 teeth? I think I have like 21 teeth or something like it's like a really low number

but the but back in the 90s that's an uneven number well I've just made up a number but they're usually even I just wanted my teeth to be able to drink

in their number so yeah but anyway when do we get to talk about the mouse singer yeah let's talk about it yeah Nikki

the mouse singer I was on that show everyone I watched it last night I watched all the episodes I watched all the episodes you were on yeah the episodes

are so long I loved the you talking about Bob Saget and Bray. That was so sincere and so sweet. That was really beautiful. I thought that was really nice. But the whole story there was that, what was that, Noah?

But a total giveaway. Like if anyone had their doubts of who it was. I mean, it was like, they kept doing things that I'm like, and then they wouldn't let me sing a Taylor Swift song because they're like, that'll be too, I don't even know why they didn't let me sing a Taylor Swift song because they're like, that'll be too, I don't even know why they didn't let me do a Taylor Swift song. I fought for it so fucking hard, everyone.

So you couldn't choose the songs? It felt like I betrayed myself not singing one. Yeah. They've done them before on the show and I tried to get them to do Babe by like other songs that she's written for other artists. So it wouldn't have to be, we don't have to pay her publisher or whatever it was. And they still wouldn't let me do those songs. better man i tried to get to do that song i tried to do babe i tried to do um just any anything i was like i will do that midnight rain song

that's like she wanted a comfortable i wanted that pain like it's not even her voice like i would have done anything it was before midnights came came out. So I taped it in July, August. So it was before my surgery. It was the reason I got my surgery. So, you know, I talked about getting my vocal cord surgery and how the person who talked me into doing it was my vocal teacher. And I knew that you guys assumed that was probably the one that I'd been going to before. But what you didn't know, it was a new one that I met on the show. So I lied by omission, but I didn't quite lie because it was my vocal teacher

who said i should get it and it was that's how it happened but on the bass singer i discovered that i had hemorrhaging on my chords and so i sang with broken chords um but it still did pretty good i had to take every song down like 18 octaves, but it still worked. And then the show ended, but it was some questions that came through were, did I get to keep the costume? No. I don't know why, but they didn't let me keep any part of it.

I did keep the bra from it. How heavy was it? My boobs were also masked on the show. Your boobs were great. I should show you the bra. I felt it the other day. It's an inch thick of padding. An inch thick.

Because it just needed that. Yeah, I wear it around Arlo in case he gets stabby. And then- How heavy was your costume? It was so heavy. It was the heavy, the guy who was like operating my, because there was like lights inside the mask and they had to like rig it every single time I put it on.

The guy that made it and was like an engineer on the costumes said that my mask was the heaviest mask that he had dealt with. So I don't know how long he had been on the show, but he was like, this is by far the heaviest mask. It was so heavy. It was probably, I'm guessing, 12 pounds or 15 pounds, something like that. And then the actual snowflake which was a backpack

that i wore it had like these little prongs coming off it and then it would latch on like a backpack over my shoulders that was at least 35 pounds at least and the wingspan of that was beyond my own wingspan so it was like i was constantly bumping into things and also inside my mask i couldn't see anything it was all it was really hard to see. I kind of just had to go by lights, like bright lights. Oh my God, you couldn't see through the eyes? Not really, no. Because sometimes they would have the lyrics up on the thing and I go, that's worthless.

There's no way I could ever see that. Oh my God, you didn't even have backup lyrics up there. No. And that's why I messed up some of the lyrics. You can definitely hear I messed up some of the lyrics. But the best part about the mask is that, first of all, no one knows it's you. And so you don't have to have this like, oh, my God, I feel so stupid singing. Like people are going to judge me.

That's all gone. It's so fun to be in like you can be anyone you want to be. I could have been Tom Cruise. If it was so cool to just be singing and not feel like how you look or anything nothing I didn't have makeup on it was the only time on TV I went on

like you know when I was unmasked they knew that I when you get unmasked behind the scenes information here you get unmasked they know you're eliminated

and then they take you back they whisk it makes it look like it doesn't it just is all in one swoop where it's like take it off so they shout

take it off take it off and then you act like you're struggling with it and then they usher you backstage and then you get hair and makeup and then they put you back out there and they go take it off and then you take it off and you have full hair and makeup but before that you were like a sweaty mess and i'm in a little skull cap to protect my hair from all the stuff inside and um and i have a big dent on my forehead from part of the thing. Like it was a big, but the coolest part about the costume was that inside you're like,

it's almost like, it felt like I'm in a cryogenic chamber or something or it felt like I, it felt like when you meditate and you're like looking for yourself, like who, is there a person inside you that's operating things

or are you just like consciousness or whatever i don't know it got me many but it felt like i was something inside it felt like the thing that is the illusion that you like like a deprivation tank or where you're just like you just get to focus on sensory deprivation yeah i was alone in there so i could sing as if i was alone yeah and when you don't have but usually we have that all the time you can always kind of pretend to be that where it's like you're alone in you and we all we all have that illusion that we're inside ourselves like controlling things when really there's no free will and you can't control anything and it's kind of all just happening and you don't it's hard to figure that out but it's true but we all have

that illusion of we're like operating our hands and our thoughts and our things but it's true but we all have that illusion of we're like operating our hands and our thoughts and our things but it's at tech we actually have no up but this was the first time i felt like i really was and i could be alone in there and just like i was kind of like singing in the shower or i was underneath my covers or something like you were alone with yourself so i could kind of talk to myself and be like like i was a it it felt very lonely in there but in like a good way yeah hear yourself breathe yes Yes. Okay. Yes. And you sang with a real microphone.

Like you put it up to your mouth. You weren't like mic'd inside it, um, which I was surprised by, but don't they have a cover on your mouth? Yeah. It was around my chin. Oh,

that's as far as it goes. Yeah. I would go. I wonder mine kept slipping off because I would open my mouth to wide and then they would be like, cover it up because they couldn't, they didn't want to tell you your skin tone. Like they don't want to see anything yeah so when you're backstage at the show my parents came to the show yeah and if you saw some of the pictures we're all wearing

these hoodies that say don't talk to me which is one that they put you in so when i first got to the mass singer i pull up on the lot in in the my you know black car and this guy opens cracks open the door and is like hey snowstorm and they called me snowstorm there was no Nikki no one ever calls you Nikki within the show

except from the first meeting they go hi Nikki we're picking out your character and then you're that character that's what I was gonna ask so you didn't did you not get

you didn't pick ice storm they presented it to me and I was like I love it like it was they were like if you don't like it it's fine

I was like I thought they were gonna pick like you know the shaved beaver or something I thought they were gonna do some kind, you know, the shaved beaver or something. I thought they were going to do some kind of like gross joke. I was going to be something like gross. You had the best costume.

The best. It was awesome. I got to be a princess. Yeah. A snow princess. And so I was, I did though, from the very get go, it was like, it had a skirt with it. It had this big, heavy blouse thing. It had this long, like flowy skirt.

And I was like like let's do total spandex and just the head and then the snow like we don't need let's like make it pretty sexy like let's make her like because i because i got to lean into that because i got to do whatever i want and then i was like let's pick out a huge bra that makes it look like i have dolly part and boobs that was your idea yeah because i don't want anyone to be able to like get yeah so i gained 20 pounds to really throw people off no i didn't do that but i did actually do that but it wasn't to throw people off it just was naturally happened that way but um and um uh so when we get to the studio this guy greets you and he throws you in a duffel bag and he's like so put on all these things and you're i'm in the car about to and it's 100 degrees

outside and i have to put on sweatpants and then socks and then put on my shoes and make sure all my skin's covered up. This long sweatshirt that says don't talk to me. Zip it up. Put the hood over my head. Pull my hair back. Put on this gigantic visor that covers my entire face. Dark fader kind of visor. Yeah. Daft punk style. Yeah. And then you walk out and then you walk around

the lot and there's only two people. There's like three people on the show who know it's you. Yeah. And the rest of the people, you know, there's hundreds of people working on this show and you're just walking by and everyone's just like and it says don't talk to me because no one can talk you can't you can't they don't want to know your voice they don't want anyone because it's so top secret so there's only about besides executives there's only three people that you really work with and you just get shuttled from one place to the next and you have to get dressed so i would go in for my voice lesson i could take it off and like relax and then i'd have to put it back on

so i could go to the bathroom and i'd have to take it off so it really is an isolating show where you you don't get to tell anyone you're doing it yeah i mean i told noah and andrew because it was just you know conflicting with schedules and i knew that they are would keep it a secret and then i told my parents and my boyfriend but beyond that like no one the mess singer, like the metaverse. It's like literally like you get to be in a world where people are like, I don't know. That's wild.

And you don't get to promote it at all. It's the biggest show I've ever been on. Arguably. Yeah. The biggest platform that I've ever been on. And I don't get to, I didn't get to talk about it until my face came off. It was kind of nice.

Well, usually we brag about everything before. I know my parents were just like, we can't tell anyone. I'm like, you can tell people that it's a show you like to watch and that this season is particularly good. It was,

there was the hardest. And then I was getting grief. Like you didn't tell me Nick, he was on the, I'm like, I, we signed NDAs. We couldn't say anything.

And what happens if you did, if you like, you could be sued. If they found out that you got exposed, I would never think it was such extremes to Because they go to such extremes to keep it quiet and a secret. We even got dressed in the black outfits. Yeah, my parents even got don't talk to me hoodies. And my dad was like, they got to keep them.

My dad goes, I don't want this. It makes me antisocial. I'm like, I'll keep it. I love that. I want to wear them on planes. It is kind of aggressive, but i couldn't wear that after the show i wanted to wear it after the show because i was still i was on i had to get vocal cord surgery and i was like oh this is perfect but they were like no that's associated with some

people know that's the show so um but a lot of besties wrote to me being like i know you're snowstorm you're great congratulations um but i could not write i couldn't write back to it i couldn't confirm it i couldn't deny it i couldn do any. I would just go to a couple people. I'd go, oh, I'd have to check it out. I'll see. Yeah. Because that wasn't a lie. I did have to check it out.

Or I'd say, I haven't seen it yet because I hadn't seen it. That had to feel pretty cool that fans were like, that's Nick. That people knew. People knew. Yeah. There was one person. I believe it was Karen Sanchez. Karen knew.

She's a bestie who lives in Des Moines. She knew from the joke that they played on the preview where I was like I don't want to stand too close to you Nick because I don't want

to get pregnant that was my favorite she knew that was me she goes I knew it was you from that a lot of besties messaged like oh my god

Nikki is on the Masked Singer and they cited that joke as the proof yeah yes that's so that means so much to me that like

they know your humor or my humor yeah you know what was nice though i was watching the show and this happens to me often i i totally dumped everything i did on that show out of my brain as soon as it happened like i didn't remember any of the jokes i made i don't remember anything i said like i remember the songs i sang but any of the interactions like none of it was planned like i didn't plan on saying that to nick i didn't play like it was just you Like I didn't plan on saying that to Nick. I didn't play it. Like it was just, you know, I was just rolling with it.

But then when I was watching it back every single time, there would be, I would go, Oh my God, I wish I would have made this joke. And then I would make it. And I was like, Oh,

it's so funny. Like I am the same person. I am there. Like any joke that like, there was so many times. It just rattled off your tongue. Every single time when, you know, Jenny goes, Oh, one of the clues is a doormat. And I was like, Oh, that rattled off your tongue. Every single time when, you know,

Jenny goes, Oh, one of the clues is a doormat. And I was like, Oh, that's because I get treated like that in relationships a lot or whatever. I thought of that and I go, Oh,

you should have said that. And then I said it and I was like, Oh, I forgot I even said that. So it was nice that I stood up to my own, you know, potential. Wait,

do you think Nick thought it was funny? Final thought. Do I think Nick Cannon thought it was funny final thought do i think nick cannon thought it was funny that i kept making fun of all of his babies yeah i don't think that he like didn't think it was funny i think he was just like oh isn't he a comedian she got jokes um yes he is a yeah comedian with like quotes around it but yeah he he does like he does comedy like wild and out yeah he started that i mean he's he's he's great i mean he's a talented guy um i don't necessarily agree with like making as many kids as possible with as many different

mothers and i know people are like he's gonna be a good dad but it's like he can't be in all of those places at once you cannot be a good he can get the money but he's not gonna be giving him his self how many kids does he have i think it's 15 at this point. Oh my God. No, I heard he doesn't. I'm not even joking you. When I made that joke on the show. He wasn't wearing protection

because he loves to make love to a woman naturally. Yeah, because it feels better. He said that on Stern or something. Everyone feels that way about condoms. What a lazy ass.

It feels better. Just wear a condom. Well, no. Now it's become like a numbers thing. I made that joke when he had only 11 kids and since then it's gone up to 15. I'm not kidding you. It was 11

or 12 when that happened. When the show happened. And he's had four since the summer? Yeah, four on the way. You know, now there's a 15th on the way I think is the last number. Whoa. Yeah. That guy is a canon. That's crazy. That's crazy. Well, Bobby,

where can people find your special, your comedy special? You can find it. It's free on YouTube under Helium Studios. It's called Fast Food Fireworks. Please check it out. Why is it called Fast Food Fireworks? Because of one of the jokes in there. I talk about Fast Food Fireworks is like whenever you are done eating your food in bed, which

is my favorite place to eat, and all the crumbs and trash and ketchup packets that are on your, you fling them into the ceiling fan and they go around. Oh, that's funny funny it's just fun and i was i like the alliteration and because i do a joke about like being called like uh like a lady firefighter or whatever and this guy's like you should call it lady firefighter and i was like i don't think that that sounds good and picking a title for something i don't even have a title for my jokes yeah and i did that and i was like but then i started thinking of titles and like even when i think of jokes like it doesn't have like an official title so all of a sudden he's like what do you want your special to be called i'm like i don't you know what i mean like it's a weird thing picking it it's so hard it's so there's so many little things that when

you start comedy you're like i just want to be funny and then all the other things you're like i don't know it's not no no it's the best like it's so hard it's so hard to pick a name i'm famous just talking about it. I just want to name my next special whatever I would name a child. Sheila. Whatever I would have named my baby. Everyone has three kids,

but I have three specials, hour-long specials. I was like, oh, that's kind of the same thing. It's about as much work goes into making them, about nine months of just walking around like, yeah like being in pain yeah being uncomfortable and uh yeah clothes aren't fitting yeah you have to buy new clothes shopping yeah that's that's it you get fucked yeah um but so you have a special out um you also yeah you and i played guitar during the pandemic

yeah once we we both are just like picking up trying to be like so you sing and and you could do open mics right yeah i've done a couple open mics music open mics yeah yeah and it makes me so like the last time i did it my leg it was like my first time doing stand-up like my leg was shaking and i haven't been that nervous in forever. It was so, I like it though. Like I hate when people are like, I just want to do standup and I'm like,

then do it. And they're like, it makes me too, I'm like, just show yourself that you can do it. Like that's, you do so much. I can't,

I don't even have room to talk. When people say they're nervous. Yeah. When they say that they're nervous, they're like, I just can't do it. I'm like, well,

just try, just go up and try. And they're like, I just couldn't get over my nerves. And I go, you could, if you just have to do it. Yes. But some people are like, I truly can't do it. You just have to Just go up and try. And they're like, I just couldn't get over my nerves. And I go, you could. You just have to do it. But some people are like,

I truly can't do it. You just have to set the date. And then you can always bail and you'll feel bad or whatever. But at least setting the date, that's always been my secret to overcoming everything. I used to have terrible stage fright,

but I just signed up for a play that I could not get out of. I didn't even know you could get out of things back in seventh grade when I signed up for it. I didn't know you could bail on everything in life. So felt like I just have to do this and so it's like and you really you nerves have never killed anyone no and I like you're not gonna die it could yeah it could give you a heart attack it's not going to not like that not from doing

you're not gonna go on stage for doing stand-up why are you having sex why do you go for a run like it's the same amount of good I almost had a heart attack when i did it when when you did stand up oh yeah my mom did stand up one time i'm so mad i didn't get to see that i did it oh i was really nervous but i don't even remember like doing it it's that kind of thing yeah adrenaline makes you kind of black out yeahrenaline. But I got through it. Now I just wanted to do something out of my comfort zone for my 60th birthday. It did help you a lot.

Overcome so much stuff. You used to be so nervous about doing the podcast or being on TV. Not nervous anymore. Not nervous at all. I probably should be nervous. I wanted you to get some of those nerves back. Step it up a little bit. Yeah.

I'd be stepping it up. No, I love that you are not nervous anymore. I just, it's nerves are, you know, you can't help them, but they do go away. Yeah. If people have nerves about stuff out there, like, you know, I always think about sex. I'm always like, I was so nervous to have sex. So was everyone, wasn't everyone nervous? And then you have it and then you're like, you get, I mean, my mom doesn't, you probably

never got used to it, but you don't care for it that much. But you eventually are just like, oh, this is the easiest thing to do in the world. Like anything is going to be difficult at first. It's always rewarding though too. But you write your own songs? Yes, I do.

I write my own songs. I went through a breakup and it's weird how much like pours out of you because people are like, do you write funny songs? I'm like, none of, like, no. Like all of them are like depressing or sad but it's fun

it's like another side of me like I get to be funny on stage yeah and then writing music I still haven't been able to do that though I would love to sit down and you can look at

my juvenile songs and be like these are terrible but at least it'll give us both confidence to like try it more because here's what I'm bad about I can't sing and play guitar

like I try like I'm gonna that's hard it's so I try so hard i try just like doing it at the same time doing it at the same time is so hard but why also even when i just sing i can't do it well so doing it at the same time like when we played together you're like go ahead and try and i was like all right nikki said it and i'll do it and after i did i remember even like going home and i was like she probably really hated that like it may i get so i know know, but that's what I'm saying. Like in my, in your mind,

you blow it up. So yeah, singing to me is the scariest thing in the world. I don't know why. Well, yeah, it's embarrassing. You're like howling from your head.

Like you're like crying. I mean like, cause it's like, is it because you don't think you're a good singer or because it's just too emotionally vulnerable? No, I'll be emotionally vulnerable. That's not a problem, but it's hard for me to like try to sing and then like try to hit the notes and then it's like you miss them and then just go to a voice teacher

you can learn how to sing i should i mean i went to a guitar teacher i should go to a vocal coach this is the thing people think that and i used to think this way too you think your voice is just your voice and that you either got it or you don't why does everything else we take lessons for but your voice people are like you're either a singer or you're not yeah you can you can learn how to use it i've improved so much just from simple instruction learning how to breathe differently learning how to just position my body and i still have so much more to learn like i still listen to my voice and i'm like god because you hear good singers and i know they're doing something different with their mouth and with their breathing and with their diaphragm. I have all the same components in my body.

I have healthy cords. Now there's nothing holding me back except some, I'm not using my instrument the same way. Right, right, right. We all have the same instrument. And then, yeah, there's some people that are like truly tone deaf, but if you are not tone deaf, you have an instrument you can learn how to use much better. And I'll practice more. I do want to practice more because i mean i play guitar i've gotten way during the pandemic i got monumentally better at guitar and that's fun to express yourself

with something beyond yourself is so fun but it doing it together for me is the only way i get good at anything and like i don't like to practice alone i need to like show it immediately to someone and so practicing on my Instagram Live, shout out to everyone who watches those, the besties. Dude, that clean version you did, I love that version of you. I literally went and listened to Taylor Swift's version.

I was like, I like this, but I liked your acoustic version so much. That was the first time I had played it too. So that's really nice. I love going, it's my favorite thing to do besides the podcast is going on Instagram live and playing guitar poorly and singing a little bit better than that um and it's just like it's made me get so good because some people sometimes tune in and are

like whoa she's gotten a lot better i'm like all i've done is this yeah but when you are expected to perform and yes when there's people watching the same when i go to to perform and when there's people watching, the same way I go to Starbucks to write. There's people around me and I feel like I have to look like a writer. Yes. If I'm writing in my apartment, I'm going to get distracted. I need to perform. Yeah.

It makes me, you know, even sex. I pull up the curtains. I'm like, maybe someone will be watching this. Maybe someone will tune in from across the street. I swear to God, it would probably make me better. Anyway, if I thought maybe there was someone that had a hidden camera or something. If I just was scared that maybe there was a hidden camera, I might perform better. Have you ever watched a video of yourself having sex?

No. I have. And it's immediately, you're like, oh. It's like that episode of Frey. You're kind of like, huh. Like for a second, you're like, this will be cool. And then later, you and the person are like, let's burn our phones. I have to say, one time I did are like, let's burn our phones.

I have to say one time I did say there was someone that took some footage and they showed it to me and I did not want to see it. I would have been like, no, I don't want to see it. But he showed it to me like, hey, look at this. And I thought it was someone else. And I was like, holy shit, that's really hot. Who is that? And it was me. And I was like, yeah, OK. I'm working it.

I was like, I was because I would never. I know that's not gonna be Something I wanna see Yeah yeah yeah You know I But I can't even watch my stand up So this is not Nothing new to me

Anything I'm good at I don't wanna watch So sex is no different Okay mom's here Gotta go Thank you guys so much For listening to the podcast Bobby J Cox

Thank you for being on You can watch him Open for me on the road Dates coming up next weekend In Waterloo Hershey Pennsylvania And, and Atlantic City. I got Memphis this Friday. Tell your friends that live in Memphis.

It would mean so much to me. As always, meet and greets are free if you go alone to the show. And they're always for purchase at the merch booth too or with a VIP ticket. Thank you guys so much for listening. We will see you next week. Don't be cut and jackpot. Jon Stewart is back at The Daily Show. Topeka and Jackpot! correspondents, and contributors. And with extended interviews and exclusive weekly headline roundups, this podcast gives you content you won't find anywhere else.

Ready to laugh and stay informed? Listen on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Welcome to Decisions Decisions, the podcast where boundaries are pushed and conversations get candid. Join your favorite hosts, me, Weezy WTF, and me, Mandy B, as we dive deep into the world of non-traditional relationships and explore the often taboo topics surrounding dating, sex, and love. Every Monday and Wednesday, we both invite you to unlearn the outdated narratives dictated by traditional patriarchal norms. Tune in and join in the conversation. Listen to Decisions Decisions on the Black Effect Podcast Network, iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. I'm Tomer Cohen, LinkedIn's Chief Product Officer. If you're just as curious as I am

about the way things are built, then tune in to my podcast, Building One. I speak with some of the best product builders out there. I've always been inspired by frustration. It came back to my own personal pinpoint. So we had to go out to farmers and convince them. Following that curiosity is a superpower. You have to be obsessed with the human condition. Listen to Building One on the iHeartRadio app, Apple, or wherever you get your podcasts.

The OGs of uncensored motherhood are back and badder than ever. I'm Erica. And I'm Mila. And we're the hosts of the Good Moms, Bad Choices podcast, brought to you by the Black Effect Podcast Network every Wednesday. Yeah, we're moms. But not your mommy. Historically, men talk too much.

And women have quietly listened. And all that stops here. If you like witty women, then this is your tribe. Listen to the Good Moms, Bad Choices podcast every Wednesday on the Black Effect Podcast Network, the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you go to find your podcast. Get Hired at companies where they already have a connection? I'm Andrew Seaman, LinkedIn's Editor-at-Large for Jobs and Career Development. And on my podcast, Get Hired, I bring you all the information you need to, well, get hired. Landing a job may be tough, but Get Hired is here for you every step of the way with advice on resumes, networking, negotiation, and so much more. Listen to Get Hired with Andrew Seaman on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you like to listen.